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http://www.adventuregamers.com/games/view_screenshots/22110
Screenshots for any one interested.
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The background world looks amazing but not sold on the character design. Will look again when not on the mobile
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I really like the look of the characters! I’m more concerned about stuff other than the visuals, but here’s hoping it’s good. 😀
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Good morning all!
Those of you who are going to pax, how many of you will definitely be going to the karaoke meat after pax and also, what day would you rather. Friday or Saturday?
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Jelly – Wish I could make it down there. Anyone going can help ease my pain by stealing any LoL skin codes they can for me and/or filming @tech_knight doing kareoke to Styx – ‘Domo Arigato Mr Roboto’
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I’m likely going but will be working there similar to what I was doing for EBExpo so not sure what my availability will be.. BUT if I am down there, my Birthday is actutlly the 21 July. Now I assume I’ll be driving home Sunday night but if you guys are getting together on Friday or Saturday, I might be able to hang around for a bit?
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I can probably go but don’t expect me to sing. 🙂 Either day, I’m taking some time off for it anyway.
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No one will be forced or expected to sing if they don’t want to.
I just want people to know that.
So 11 confirmed so far. I’ll have to ask twitter too
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Morning all!
Week early birthday party was this weekend, was awesome and now I have an abundance of MS Points to spend.
I already picked up I Am Alive on special for about 400 points, now I got some shoppings to do 🙂
So I want to buy some card games to play with friends (because there’s nothing for people to do at my place apart from video games, and I have no good split-screen multiplayer stuff), and I’m having a tough time deciding where the first piece of my card/board game budget should be allocated.
I’m interested in Space Cadets, Race for the Galaxy, and Arkham Horror. I’d appreciate any feedback on these games people have in terms of accessibility and general enjoyability and replay value.
Secondly, my wife seems interested in Cards Against Humanity. While it seems to be the darling of many people on Twitter, especially semi-famous nerds like Wil Wheaton and friends, I just feel like the concept is a little… repetitive. Is there more to it? Has anyone else tried it?
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I feel like Munchkin is something I will get to when card games are more established as an acceptable pastime. For that matter I have reservations about Arkham Horror too, but I feel like something with a creepy vibe will be easier to sell my wife on.
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Munchkin is really accessible though- I’ve had people learn it within two rounds.
If you’re looking slightly broader than card games, Zombie Dice can be taught in 1 minute. Caracassonne can be learnt very quickly, as can Ticket to Ride.
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I guess I was just overwhelmed by the fact Munchkin has about 50 million expansions. I feel like if I get started on Munchkin I won’t ever get to paly anything else. 😛
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Eh, just pick munchkin in a genre you and your friends like.
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I will add it to the list.
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I have a quick look at 7 Wonders and it looks kind of like Civ in board game format, which would probably appeal to my wife – then again there’s also a Civ game which I wonder about.
Can you tell me a little more about it?
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7 wonders is great, takes a couple of games to pick it up and understand it
Takes about 30-45 minutes to play i would estimate.Quick rundown of mechanics.
Each person gets a board which is their civilazation. Each of them have wonders that can affect your play style. Egypt has a focus on wonders, Rhodes has a focus on military, etc
The game is divided into 3 ages. You get given a starting hand of cards and each turn you play one card from you hand and then pass your hand to the next person.
The types of cards are resources (basic and modern), military, science, commerce, victory and in the final age guilds.
Cards have a gold and/or resource cost to play. At the end of each age you ‘fight’ the two people on either side of you. The winner gets points the loser gets a -1 point.
So basically you can choose to focus an area (eg science or military) or try and get a wide range of points across all the areas.It was in the first lot of games that we purchased, is quick, easy and fun. Would definitely recommend. The other card game we picked up was citadels. This is a bit more antagonistic, with the need to target other players and actively work to stop them.
A lot of it depends on if people want to come over to play strategic board games or just have something to do when they are there. Cards against humanity and munchkin are fun games but if you want strategy to feature higher than luck maybe not. But if you just want people round to have some fun then they are great-
Thanks for the rundown. I think to start with I want something relatively straightforward because it’s been awhile since I last played a card game (I think my friend brought over Fluxx one time) and before that it’d been a good three years since I’d played a CCG, which at the time was Vampire: the Eternal Struggle (my Magic cards vanished during a house move about a decade ago).
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A key point about 7 wonders is that it’s an approx. 30 min game no matter how many people are playing (2-7 off the top of my head), which is good for casual gaming. It is also fairly easy to pick up (my mum and my girlfriend’s mum both won their first games against us, and they are not big board gamers).
I would definitely recommend dominion as well.
I tend to go by boardgamegeek.com reviews and playthroughs on youtube when planning on buying games.
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What games would you recommend for somebody who likes 7 wonders, ticket to ride, acquire, citadels and pandemic
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We seem to share a large number of games, so I’m basing my recommendations purely on my favourites, rather than sharing a theme:
Smallworld: kind of like risk i guess, but with fantasy armies that are randomised each game. (By Days of Wonder, who I’m pretty sure made ticket to ride)
Dixit: a great casual party game, consists of a set of cards with amazing art, a must get i would say.
Telestrations: another good ‘party’ style of game, bit like pictionary but with a twist.
Carcassone: oldy but a goody.
Settlers of Catan: Great tactical game.As i mentioned before, i’d just look up their profiles on boardgamegeek.com for a better description of each. If in doubt, the site has yearly awards, which are a great source of ideas for the next purchase.
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Thanks
I backed the small world 2 kickstarter so should have the online version of that once they finish with it. Figured that was a nice cheap way to work out if I liked it or not
We picked up Carcassone for $4 (BARGIN!) the other day so will give that a try soon.I’ve started looking at the BGG lists and started tracking the ones I’m interested in buying. There is just so much there it can be good to ask for advice so you have a starting point.
The group that we have just started playing with went through the winners of one of the awards and just bought them all. The problem with that was that the person who owned them left the country and most of them went with him.
And since we have been holding the occasional board game meat recently figured we would start expanding the collection. Talking about amazing art I bought the missus the Collectors Edition discworld game, that is a very pretty looking game.
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Mansions of Madness does the creepy vibe better than Arkham Horror but you can’t really play it two-player without it feeling unfair (one player is basically the DM for the game) so I wouldn’t recommend it as a game to play with your wife only. Arkham Horror is very complex and is at its best with 4 players IMO. You’ll need to get a flowchart off boardgamegeek to play it because the rulebook sucks at explaining how to play.
Race for the Galaxy is 4 players in the base game, but the first two expansions each add a new player. The game’s very quick to set up and has a special two-player variant. It’s competitive but unless you play with specific optional rules from one expansion, competition with the other player is completely indirect – it’s a race to get your cards down before the opponent. This might make it a good one to play with your wife IMO, if you can get past the slightly nerdy space colonization theme. Very playable with just the base game as well so you don’t have to feel you need to rush into expansions.
Another card game you might want to look into is Dominion.
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Thanks. For the record I am looking for stuff we can do when we have friends over, not just stuff for my wife and I to do together.
After finishing Mass Effect 3, I checked the Foxtel guide for potential list movies to watch. There’s nothing. No list movies for about two weeks now. No Heat. No American History X. No Motorcycle Diaries. No Tree of Life. The one time they decide not to replay movies seven hundred times… :'(
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Ahem. I think I recall something about a movie related thing, possibly a meat, but I forget where and when.
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I remember where and when (D.C. remembers all!), but heard no details about it recently and didn’t want to assume it was still on. Haha!
(Also, hope your dad’s doing better.)
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Hola Tayberinos
Nueve Dia!
I went to my parents for the weekend, spent half a day fixing gutters ahead of the masses of water that we received down here on Sunday. Also played a chunk of Just Cause 2, which keeps getting more insane. Good fun.
A Monday Morning Question: Which video-game should get a Game of Thrones level TV adaptation? Not necessarily in the same milieu, but a similar level of budget and attention to detail. I’d love DX:HR as a series, although a Dishonored series would be pretty good too.
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BG&E could work really well as a mini series. Think it would be a bit much for a full show. Although I guess if you go right into it a resistance cell movie then maybe. A season of Jade running scared and working out what’s going on, then a guerrilla war style season followed but the climatic season/series ending
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Saints Row.
But seriously, even though it isn’t out, Watch Dogs looks perfect for this.
But even more seriously, Saints Row.
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Pokemon with $6million per episode would be interesting.
Not necessarily good but interesting.
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*intro with dramatic music, camera flying over the various cities with gyms, ending over the ominous victory road…*
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Psychonauts could be suckerpunch in 30 minute episodes. Throw in the humour and off the wall style of the game it could be a winner
I would love to see a classic high fantasy game get the full HBO treatment, something like Baldur’s Gate or even the elder scrolls. The traditional D&D games are probably better as they already have established characters while Skyrim and it’s predecessors are very solo focused. Although a solo focus witcher could work, the issue being with the moral choices which way does the show go.
Of course bioshock has a ready made story and world that could easily be picked up and slapped down.
In before loops but space marine or DoW with a full budget would be amazingI also think that potentially an XCOM game could work, a cross between X-files and SG1
The world that I found most involving in a shooter was metro 2033, but not sure how it would work. Maybe focus on one of the stations and their survival
Fire emblem is a pretty cool guy, I kept picking it up doing a few battles then remembering I should be saving it for my train ride! Stupid 3DS, WHY YOU HAVE GOOD GAEMS?
KotakUS has a new site design… and it’s kinda nifty!
In other news, I’m ultimately keen for Pokemon X and Y and may use it as an excuse to buy a 3ds. What are your thoughts? Yay or Nay?
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Yeah, I’m mainly keen for the pokemans, but I can see I’ll probably pick up the new 3ds zelda and a few others also.
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Fair enough, It really is a great game though. If you ever see it for cheap I would definitely say its worth picking up.
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Me too, will be buying a 3DS purely for Zelda and Pokemon (and also new Prof. Layton, weee! :D)
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It’s been like that for a while. Admittingly, the second I saw your post I was like “AWW DAMN IT AGAIN?”
X and Y look fantastic, the 3d models are really smooth. Otherwise, holding judgement for now.
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I actually hadn’t been to the site for a long while, so I suppose I hadn’t seen it. Still, I think it’s a vast improvement on the last “upgrade”
Pokemon X & Y look magnificent. I’m kinda worried about the transition from top-down to 3d, but we’ll see how it turns out!
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I think it’ll be normal but with a rotatey camera?
Dragon Quest V did a similar thing with its DS upgrade and that worked out well
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It’d make me happy if they’d made the WiiU able to play 3ds games…. kinda like the way the SNES could play gameboy games.
i know its completely stupid from a marketing point of view, but from a stinge point of view there are a few 3ds games (pokemon, fire emblem) i really wanna play….. but am a stinge 🙁
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Totally working right now! What is going on the other side of the bridge..? MYSTERYYYY! http://kramsdesign.com/misc/MYSTERYBG.jpg
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It had better be bacon. That’s all I’m saying.
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Holy damn, you gots skills to pay the bills. Can’t wait to play this game.
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Well you’re going to have to wait…
>:(
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It’s the best kind of fiction! 😀
Edit: Though I’m not a huge fan of fantasy and people can’t fathom that I don’t like Lord of the Rings. Peoples tastes are weird and complicated.
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Even in The Longest Journey I always preferred exploring Stark (the world of science) over Arcadia (the world of magic). All the other fans of the series seem to like it the other way around. D:
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Cyber punk looks like it will have boobs. Science fiction and boobs. Awww yeah the complete package. Looking forward to that.
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I WAS IN THE OLD TAY TALKING TO MYSELF
I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST QUIET
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU MONDAY
@sughly
new yeah yeah yeahs album
I have been a fan for quite a while of thEIR (happy tad gawd) style and the new album has some catchy hooks and its just really nice to listen to. Although sometimes its simplicity lets it down. All in All worth a listen if you want something a little more upbeat.
3 and a half out of 5 rocketships.
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I don’t even know who they are. Haha! Sughly would know, though. He watched the live Coachella stream all weekend too, I think.
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I’ve heard good things about Tame Impala. I think I need to make sure I catch their set at GTM this weekend.
Edit: They don’t clash with anyone! I’ll be sure to see them then!
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If you like untamed underarm hair, daisy chains, and head bands you will be right at home XD
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I.. Do not..
The other band on at that time is Midnight Juggernaughts. I know the name, but can’t think of who they are.
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Ooooo yeah they put on a good show too, very electronic if youre into that sort of thing. I love this one, which is one of their more popular ones I’d guess (so probs recognisable) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJ9XJ3lqPk
Personally though, I’d go with Tame Impala. Theyre a really talented bunch of lads, which really shines through seeing them live.
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I have been a fan for quite a while of there style and the new album has some catchy hooks and its just really nice to listen to. Although sometimes its simplicity lets it down. All in All worth a listen if you want something a little more upbeat.
been a fan for quite a while of there style
of there style
there style
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EVERYONE KNOWS I HAVE GRAMMAR MISTAKES> IN FACT THIS SENTENCE HAZ PRICISELY LOTS.
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I HAVE FLAWS I AM HUMAN
IM NOT SOME SORT OF GRAMMAR ROBOT
MUST DESTROY ALL CAPITILIZATION THAT ISNT USED FOR A PROPER NOUN
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(hm)
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Careful, once learning a HM it is hard to “unlearn” it!
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I caught a bit of their set at BDO this year and was a bit underwhelmed. Karen O isn’t fantastic live, unless she was just having a bad day.
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I have heard that their live stuff is a bit lacklustre but this is recorded live and it was great. one of my favourites so emotional.
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Yeah I like this. I get the impression they used to be a lot better. To be fair, she’s been touring for how many years now? Girl is probably singing wonkey and dressing up as popes and whatnot just to entertain herself 🙂
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I’m reaaaally not a fan of this new one. Feels so flat and uninspired for me, especially after It’s Blitz 🙁
Doesnt help that It’s Blitz is one of the best things known to man.
Also, while not so important, worst cover art EVER. 😐
http://www.gog.com/news/weekend_promo_telltale_crazy_sale
Telltale sale on GOG. If you’re a Monkey Island fan, Tales is definitely worth $5!
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Bought in a heartbeat. Played all the Telltale Sam and Max, plus Tales of Monkey Island before, but that was on PS3.
Was looking at them last week too, lamenting the price tags!
$20 odd for all of them! \o/
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Yeah I couldn’t even finish the first episode of BttF. I found ToMI and S&M infinitely more entertaining. I’m sure it’s got to do with growing up with Monkey Island and Sam and Max Hit the Road, but I like to think it was more than that. They were a lot of fun, and nailed the style and humour of the old games perfectly.
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Back to the Future felt like it stripped all the puzzles away, kind of like The Walking Dead. (Though that made up for it with writing and atmosphere.) Jurassic Park looked kind of bland too, but I never played. 😀
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Repost for retardation:
Started playing Foyarrr Eramblerlamb in Classic mode, and whenever anyone dies, I Home Screen and reload. A little painful when despite best planning, I occasionally get single shotted by an enemy that pulls off a lucky crit.
Loving the game so far. It feels like someone’s taken every SRPG I’ve ever loved and thrown it into a melting pot, then tickled my junk with the results. Brilliant game.
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The thought of restarting has crossed my mind, considering I’m not that far in, but gorrammit I’m going to keep going with Classic.
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I am Fire Emblem babeh. I did casual/normal 😀
And I still die a lot :'(
Is taking me a while to learn the intricacies. Mostly on the defence, since I’m trialling and erroring a lot of the attack, and as such dont really know who to keep in the front lines depending on whos about to attack back :'(
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I still have to do a few restarts.
First side mission spoilers
That stupid kid got ones shot by everyone. I had to pair him up and I couldn’t keep him out of combat because he would only join your army if he got a level up. So many restarts on the mission. /o\-
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So I probably shouldn’t be ignoring him. =P
Should I be trying to level all my army equally?
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Haha I dumped him like a sack of potatoes as soon as he joined XD
Is he really that good? He is rather useless atm :/
Also, totally ignoring Valkie or whatever his name is, the second he was introduced. Sticking his tongue out. I was nope, sidelines for you.
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He has the Underdog & Aptitude skills. Underdog gives him a hit/dodge + 15 if the enemy has a higher level, which is a pretty decent skill, but Aptitude adds 20% to level up in a stat every time he levels up, and combined with his unnaturally good stat growths, that means he basically levels up in all, if not most stats almost every level. Unless the RNG goddess hates you. So he’s pretty much your first character you’ll max out if you play with him even casually.
EDIT: Vaike is only amusing for his ‘tenure’ line. 😛
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Unlike past FE games, you don’t have to give a shit since reclassing and grinding are easily available, so feel free to use the characters you like the most. But if you really want to think ahead…
Start training the women who’ll have children (Time-travel, what can I say) available for recruitment later on in the game. Pretty much every woman encountered early-game’ll have a kid later on. -
How does one grind in this game?
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Once in a while, a enemy group will pop up on the map. Streetpasses transfers teams from one game to another, so you can use those when (if) you ever get them. Wireless- Bonus Box- Bonus Teams contains pre-made teams from every single game in the history of FE for you to fight.
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Or, you could go with the default “Everybody stand still for one turn so it’s easier to set up an attack.”
don’t worry Sugh, as you level up it’ll be a hell of a lot easier, then it’s just a matter of picking out the magic/bow users, the ones with with high def, etc. Also, pair up and keep units next to each as much as possible early game, as relationships level up they really become useful.
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My main character is becoming BFF’s with the OP character. \o/
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Ohhh yeah no kidding. I send him in first all the time 😀
By pairing do you mean how you can do the join option thingy? I’ve only ever used that to get pegasus woman to fly people about (because she is otherwise a bit useless :|). If you mean just having people stand next to each other then yeah I’m using that shiz like theres no tomorrow. My whole gang tends to move as one mob :3
hyep. Partnering people together increases stats of the character leading, and not just offering attack bonuses and dual attacks/blocks like with just people standing next to each other. Moving about in a mob is still a valid option, though. 😛
EDIT: Also, Pegasus Rider – level up to dark rider – get Galeforce, which allows a bonus turn to the character if they kill a enemy. Easily the best skill in the game.
Are crits really that normal? I really only get em on the enemy’s side if they’re wielding killing edges and the like. Hard/casual here.
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I don’t know about normal, but the last battle I did had to restart 3 times because of some of my people getting one shotted by enemy crits. Mind you it hadn’t happened once before that battle either. Not sure if it was some freak occurrence or what.
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What were the percentages, though? I’m pretty sure you can check their percentage of a crit when you head into a fight, and with a killing edge it can get to 20-30 percent pretty easily.
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I think one of my guys are using Lief’s Blade and although it only says 30% crit chance he crits on like 60% of his hits. I think Fire Emblem uses the Pokemon RNG.
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FE’s always been consistent in it’s RNG.. at least in lower difficulties. Plus, once your characters get enough speed for constant 2-hits, you begin to always feel like the RNG is skewered.
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Not sure what the percentages were, I’d have to go back and check. Still learning to read and factor in all the things like weapon advantages and whatnot.
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I was having massive issues with main characters dying. Everything would be travelling fine, then suddenly 5 enemies would target me or whats-his-face, die and lose everything. I restarted and changed my bonus to health which helped a lot, and got 4 hours into the game before losing someone and realising I wasn’t on classic anymore…oh well.
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It did kinda spoil things a little when I realised I can now do successful suicide runs for some attacks with no long-term repercussions…but it’s also really satisfying to send that jerk-face with the bow to his death every fight.
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Yeah I know what you mean, Classic mode appeals to me because every battle is something I’m going to have to really think about and not just rambo it. I’m sure it’s going to be equally as frustrating too.
Then again, as long as I save before each battle I can just home screen and reload I guess so it’s probably not going to be that dire.
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use soft reset L+R+start.
I wasn’t sure either, i started on hard / classic, got irritated and put it on normal classic, but now it’s too easy, sigh, maybe I’ll start a third time on hard / casual.
Morning all.
Still hurting from the fun 100km walk on the weekend.
Looking forward to moving in 2 weeks, more street passes, monster hunter / fire emblem time on the train coming up.
Just ordered the Dragon’s Dogma expandalone (PS3), looking forward to checking that out.
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Yeah, actually, it really wasn’t. But we raised about $4000 for Oxfam so I guess that made it worthwhile.
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So I finished watching all of the US Whose Line episodes again over the weekend. Started at the start and reached the final episode (for now! :D) on Saturday. 219 episodes I think!
I was at a lost to what would be my new derp show that I could watch while eating, browsing TAY etc. and I’m glad I found QI 😀
Letters for seasons? Interesting concept!
@powalen
Last night I saw District 9 for the first time. I heard it was good, so expectations were reasonably high. It definitely surpassed my expectations. What an amazing movie.
YES PAGE GET!!!! I declare this page dedicated to District 9!
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Mmm, particularly for the sci fi angle. Pretty much the most original sci fi to come along in years.
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I see what you did there
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Er, why wouldn’t it be?
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I think it was only mentioned once and then I disappeared for four days and wasn’t certain if it was a solid plan and then… *shrugs* I dunno! 😛
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Fookin’ prawns.
I was blown away by that movie. It was entirely not what I expected. It starts off as something and evolves as the movie goes on. I swear I almost teared up at one or two points. Got pretty powerful towards the end.
Bring on Elysium, I cannot wait for that.
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Yeah, I’d heard a LOT about the movie but it doesn’t really get put into perspective until you see it yourself.
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I was most impressed by it being not only not what I expected, and being awesome, but turning out to be quite a powerful film along the way. I took so long to see it too, I only watched it for the first time a few months back.
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I’m from South Africa and love Sci fi, kind of felt obligated so I saw it at cinema, Fantastic movie, I hears there is a prequel in the works.
which is odd cause a they set up a sequel
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“You know what Science Fiction needs more of? Robot Suits with Awesome Weapons.”
*halfway through District 9*
“Fuck yeah.”
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Man, I imagine it would cost an arm and a leg to pilot something like that
.. We are going for puns, right? Because now we are, deal with it
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I was going to contribue a pun but I had nothing at hand.
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Sitting here at my desk mourning Monday when the receptionist brings me a package. Wait. I’m not expecting anything, haven’t ordered anything online I’m expecti…………………
HOLY SHIT IT’S MY FREE SHANEWSMITH GAEM HE SENT ME ZONE OF THE ENDERS ONE AND TWO FUCK ME HOLY SHIT THIS AWESOME SHANEWSMITH IS LIKE THE BEST FUCKING DICKMAN EVER WE SHOULD ALL FIND WHERE HE LIVES AND SPOON HIM WHILE HE SLEEPS IT’S ONLY THE RIGHT THING TO DO I GET TO BE BIG SPOON THOUGH THATS THE DEAL HE’LL WAKE UP AND BE ALL LIKE THE FUCK YOU GUYS DOING OH NOT MUCH MAN IT’S A BIT OF THANK YOU SPOONING DON’T FIGHT IT IT’S SCIENCE
In other news, many thanks Shane, your generosity is appreciated as always.
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Maybe he’s gotten used to it. I’m certain if everyone paid him a mystery midnight spoon whenever he sent a game, he’d got a lot lovin’. Not sure how Mrs. Smith feels about this, but she’d have to be aware of such pending repercussions. Generosity equals spooning, like I said – it’s science.
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Searched JB and EB for Ico/SotC collection, no dice. :'( They’ve got plenty of Tomb Raider collections, though. What’s the deal?!) Probably can’t justifty buying it, but I’ll *shake fist* at them anyways.
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I may have possibly only played like 20 minutes of Ico before deciding I was done with it and gave them away. Shame /o\
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You didn’t like it?
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Not really, I don’t really remember why though. I think maybe it controlled horribly or something. It was a while ago now.
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No thanks, man. Appreciated though. My PS2’s a relic of a by-gone age that I can’t even find any more. XD
There is this new series of interconnected computers known as the Internet with online stores and everything 🙂
Try Ozgameshop, zavvi and Ebay.
Good to hear you’re looking for the game though. Means you’re closer to playing it. Let me know and we can start Ico together. 🙂
So @dc can stop stressing:
Movie Meat at the Frozen Abode
Saturday Night
Still debating on whether should order something in or inflict my cooking upon you guys
Sleeping arrangements are available
No idea who’s coming and I’m not worried, I’m that crazy
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Me, I will be there, me me!
p.s. @dc want a lift again? / anyone else in Bris that wants to go
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Oh, I will. >:|
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I’d love to book a spot in your car if that’s okay Sughly. Not sure yet if I can go,but being able to get a lift would make it way more likely.
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Gentleman What? offered it to me to play on Saturday. I declined. Something’s definitely wrong with me. 😛
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That’s fair enough. It takes a little bit of time to figure it all out, so you probably wouldn’t have enjoyed the full experience.
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Thoughts? It’s one of two games I’m interested in on the Vita (other is Tearaway)
I heard about the demo being a decent length and you can play online as well as transfer your save over to the full game, sounds like a pretty nifty idea.
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Yeah, it’s a pretty substantial demo, especially considering that the game encourages you to replay levels.
Your progress carries over and, if you complete the demo beforehand, you unlock a special item for use in the full game.
Very clever use of a demo. I wonder if we’ll see more of it (Unit 13 did something similar).The one drawback is that the intro is pretty rubbish and the voice acting doesn’t do it any favours. So if people don’t push past that and just judge a book by it’s cover (Soul Sacrifice joke) then they might toss it aside and miss out on a great game.
The other issue I had was that it’s a little vague on some details relating to gameplay mechanics. Might just be me. I just find that, in a game where my choices and play style have an affect on your character, I prefer things to be a little clearer.
Apart from that it’s awesome.
I’ve only completed around 4 of the missions, but I’ve spent a lot of time replaying them to try and get my score up.
Pretty addictive.
Lacks the exploration and inventory management of Monster Hunter.
Can look a little grimy at times.
Once you get the hang of the gameplay it’s just the right level of challenge.
Story is hammy, but the core concepts are groovy.
Interesting UI.
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Cheers. I don’t know too much about it but I know it’s something I’m interested in. Would you say the gameplay is a sort of Monster Hunter and Dark Souls type of thing?
What’s the multiplayer actually like? Sort of co-operative helping like the two games mentioned above?
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It’s like Monster Hunter in a way, but also quite different.
It’s like a series of arena battles.
Your “weapons” are offerings (spells) which you have to manage during battle due to their finite number of uses.
You earn spells at the end of each mission, depending on your score. Multiples of the same spell can be combined to level it up in a way. Plus you can level up your attack or defence by sacrificing or saving downed foes.
There are other bonuses and spell top ups scattered around the arena (some more difficult to find than others).
I think there are more intricacies with the use of different types of spells and their effect on your character but I haven’t figured that out yet. Plus I haven’t gained access to all the options/abilities yet.I haven’t unlocked MP yet.
It’s cooperative, but with some interesting twists.
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HOLY DAMN, VIOLINS.
Part of it reminds me of Battlestar Galactica music. That’s a good thing. 😀
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Playing Fire Emblem on Hard/Classic.
Don’t know if I’ll be able to get past Chapter 5.
I’ve only succeeded at it once, but lost Virion. I put that save in a separate slot and I’m going back and going to see if I can complete it with everyone alive. I’ve probably been soft resetting that level for ~4 hours so far.
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NOT VIRION
He’s actually a pretty cool dude, his rather.. eccentric personality is played quite straight with everybody else so I like him.
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Yeah, that’s why I’ve gone back to try and clear it and not lose anyone.
It just took nearly 3 hours to not have my entire squad wiped out, so I wanted to at least save that “progress”, but yeah, no rest until everyone survives.-
I found chapter 5 difficult only if you didn’t have a sufficient magic user with the rescue staff, otherwise it was the regular ‘hunker down and pray for the best’ dealio. I remember a few wyvern fliers being a pain in the ass, though.
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@bdkiaf I just listened to that Before Ciada song you linked earlier…but I forgot I had the volume pretty much on full and it scared the crap out of me. 😛
They were actually kind of good. Not something that’s really my thing, but yeah they definitely are skilled.
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I was genuinely expecting them to be terrible, because those are the kind of shows we usually get offered, so my expectations were definitely exceeded.
The riffs remind me of Lamb of God a bit, which is definitely a good thing.
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Ah, that’s who I was thinking of! I was trying to figure out what the music was reminding me of and I only got as far as “something I played in Guitar Hero”. 😛
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I’m hoping this Star Trek game will be good. The fact it’s release week and there’s no review or any press makes me nervous. I remember exploring Voyager in Elite Force for ages, looking at all the details and the like — setting off the self-destruct on the bridge, etc. I’d love to do that here too with the Enterprise. Oh man, I’m a nerd. :'(
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Hey everyone! Look at this nerd talking about video games as if he likes them! What a loser!
Seriously dude, relax. I’d geek the fuck out if there was a game where I could explore the Serenity.
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That’d be all kinds of awesome, Mass Effect-style.
I forget that Star Trek is pretty popular these days. I was a fan in the dark times when only nerds would watch and people would shun us. XD
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@strange: I wonder if your son would like the Elite Force theme. SPACE MUSIC! I don’t think they had the rights to Jerry Goldsmith’s theme so made their own… which is awesome! 😀
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I’ll have to play it for him later.
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Haha! Aw man, that’s so damn awesome! 😀
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Yeah, the whole no real previews or early reviews usually means the publisher is trying to hide something before release day.
I was kind of interested too but thinking I’m going to hold off and see what people say.
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I’m always suspicious of something I don’t hear anything about until right before release. I hope it’s good for the Trekkies among us, but got this awful feeling it’s going to be a shitty movie tie-in. =(
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That is a bit odd. I hadn’t heard anything. Oh well, remain optimistic!
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http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/04/15/star-trek-watch-30-minutes-of-gameplay#1
Edit: sorry, man, doesn’t look like what you want. Third person shooter, some on-rails stuff… :\
You are making me want to play Elite force again. But I’m very worried it will not hold up after all this time and I might ruin the best Star Trek game memories I have
Maybe i’ll just give the MMO a try and keep those memories in the rose coloured box were they belong
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Did you end up playing Elite Force 2? That’s still pretty polished I think… (Although I haven’t played it since it was released. D:)
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Deep Space Nine: The Fallen wasn’t too bad either, I liked exploring the station but it didn’t have all the little touches of detail like the Elite Force games.
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Last song played: Get Lucky by Daft Punk.
Actually, it’s the only song I’ve played all weekend. Over. And over. And over. And over. And over.
@dc
I have a copy of ICO & SotC HD Collection sitting on my shelf not being used. If you can’t track down a copy I will gladly send you mine!
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Aw, thanks man. I don’t like to borrow games though, I get frightened I’ll break them/lose them. Haha! So damn kind. You’re awesome!
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All it takes is one slip. You let any person know your address. Like, say, @puppylicks, and the floodgates will open. I have an image of @dc’s hand desperately thrust above the surface as he drowns in a sea of well-meaning gifts.
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Every day I have Omikron I feel this pressing sense of guilt that I still have it. D.C. doesn’t like to borrow things. Haha!
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I also brought along a collection of American comic books written and/or drawn by folk from the UK!
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Right? A lot of the time I find myself thinking of The Secret. So much pseudoscience bullshit.
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Some people would prefer to pull something apart and see the negatives rather than actually enjoy something.
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That’s kind of the impression I got. Feels kind of negative and unnecessary?
I try to remain objective with most media – even if I think it’s the worst kind of trash ever inflicted on the world, there’s a good chance someone, somewhere will love it.-
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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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Can’t spell internet without a negative symbol – you wouldn’t be able to cross the t’s, and then it’d be inlernel.
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For me, that’s an occupational hazard. I have to figure out why things don’t work so I can put things together that don’t have those flaws. Often makes me come across as quite negative whenever I discuss something.
But I’m sure that most of the internet is just full of dickweeds.
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Pretty sure there’s a difference between a critic and someone just being picky for the sake of it, but then again, how do you define the difference?
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There is no difference, in deportment anyways 😛
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Needs more boobs and butts.
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Everything does. What’s your point?
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I’m telling Hernandez.
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I really don’t think it’s going to be news to her that Kotaku commenters are sexist.
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@mawt @sernobulus @shiggyninty @beardymcmuttonchops @novacascade @rize @mythamphetamine @otherpeople
D&D talk
I’d be happy to DM 4th ed D&D using an online tool when I get back from South America. If you can wait til June, I’ll lead you through the mechanics. That said, in that time you may want to start anyway, in which case I’d advise you to use the Quickstart rules and pre-gen characters here: http://wizards.com/dnd/files/QuickStartRules.pdf
There are some sample adventures on the Wizards site. I’d also advise looking at the Penny Arcade/PVP podcasts/videos where they play D&D. Someone will need to DM, although the advantage of 4e is it’s dead simple to run encounters.
Other option would be to use another system- I’ve heard good things about the Dragon Age RPG, it’s apparently a lot simpler. Either way, let us know.
I also have a bunch of one-shot delves that I can forward to someone in my absence.
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I agree that 4e has to be the way to go for starting out.
I only have rulebooks for a bunch of d20 stuff from around D&D 3 era.Edit: To clarify, I actually have 4e core books and 4e essentials core books and a bunch of other 4e material. I have a bunch of 3 & 3.5 D&D stuff, but outside of that its all still d20.
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i started off on 4E, it’s really easy for video game fans to get into as it’s rules are a bit more solid (which some people like and some people don’t like).
good thing about D&D is that the DM can ignore rules if they wish, so that stuff really doesn’t matter.
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At the moment I think our DM options are fairly limited. I can throw out some source material (core 4e pdf’s and such) and run people through stuff in the mean time so people can get their head around the way things are run.
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Watched!
Poor mums! Least it was non elimination. So sucky how the guys knew they would beat them so long as they stayed with them until the pitstop. Also, dont think Id like that haunted house place much. Eurgh. So harsh on the senses D:Crap, Hope noone saw that before I put the spoilers on 🙁
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You watched already? Damn, that must’ve downloaded fast!
Also, I clicked thinking you were talking about last weeks. You weren’t. XD
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Oh yeah, not your fault. I just thought it wasn’t possible to download an ep in like two hours. Now I know. Haha! Still, it’s never the result that makes the episodes interesting. The antics along the way will be good! 😀
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Sorry deecee, I feel so bad 🙁
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Haha! Don’t, man. It was my fault. Your fast internet makes me feel bad though. 😀 Mine’s only up to 38%. :S
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I mustve jumped in before a lot of the other leechers I guess?
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Dammit I clicked your spoiler without thinking! Argh.
Oh well. Knowing who goes home in The Amazing Race isn’t that big of a deal 😛 (Could’ve been Survivor!)
DOWNLOADING NOW
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Survivor is the best! …The worst when having it spoiled though :/
When I went on my Survivor craze a couple of years ago (where I was catching up on like 10 seasons) I had the winner of some of them spoiled :(. It was kind of annoying too for one season since it showed the winner in the thumbnail of the video file 😛
Mad Men is an amazing show. We are about 3/4 through season 3.
Used to feel sorry for Betty, and I guess in some sense I still do. But now I’m really starting to see that the problems in their marriage extend beyond Don’s dissatisfaction. She is indeed the petulant child that the shrink said she was in season 1.
Conrad Hilton is a nutjob. They’ve been tiptoeing around it for a few episodes, and then in the latest ep, he rocked up to a meeting in a cowboy hat and demanded ads with Hilton on the moon! XD
Poor Sal just got fired. Don’t tell me what happens 🙁
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Haha, this is our third attempt to watch it. Best previous effort was three eps into season 1. Can’t figure out what went wrong those times, because we love the almighty shazbot out of it now.
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I think I need to take another run at it. I only made it about 2-3 episodes in last time, but everyone says it’s fantastic.
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Just checked to see what episode one of fave scenes is… 6. Good. You’re ok then. Had you seen it and not wanted to watch more, I would have been confused.
Posted it before but whatevs, just sums up so many of the themes that I love about the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0voSWdX4jo That closing shot is just so incredibly perfect, gah!
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Season one basically sums up the show, if you don’t like that there’s no point pressing on, alas.
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This is true, at least so far as I’ve seen 🙂
Oh man, that scene at the end of season one. Getting all heartsick again just thinking of it! 😛
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From my experience (I think I saw 4 seasons?) it started off good then went downhill. I hear Season 5 is better but eh, I’m not expecting much from it.
There’s much better things out there such as… The Wire!
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I think Betty’s got all kinds of problems, but there’s something sympathetic about her… to me atleast.-
This season, I’m really struggling to sympathise. I was mostly on her side before (except for the weirdness with that kid Glen), but this season, she’s really changed, I think. She’s not much of a parent at all.-
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I had no idea. Thanks for the trivia! 😀
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Oh man, that lawnmower scene. Didn’t see it coming, and the violence felt so intense because of that 😛 Hit way harder than anything I’ve seen in The Walking Dead and almost as hard as some of the worst of Oz!Wife and I were discussing this scene. It didn’t bother her too much. I think where we landed was:
She is terrified of supernatural stuff. Vampires, ghosts, etc. Me, I’m scared of stuff that disrupts everyday life. The lawnmower accident in the office is as terrifying to me as an apocalyptic plague of zombies that wipes out all aspects of modern society, because it represents an intrusion into the safety of the everyday. (Whereas with vamps and ghosts, there’s kind of a comfort underneath that at least the world at large continues on.)-
I loved the scene with Joan and Don in the hospital. XD When I first saw that ep I rewatched that lawnmower scene about five times in disbelief.
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Oh man, Mass Effect 3 stole last week from me. Haha. Got two new Game of Thrones to watch. Two Top of the Lakes to watch. One ep of The Americans. One ep of Gravity Falls. And then new shows today. D:
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Are you on holidays?
Wow, that’s cool. I hope you are having a good time.
Anyway my address is 1 station st, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
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SHEESH DC I WAS JOKING. ZETROX2K WATCH YOUR STEP BECAUSE I TOTALLY WILL BUY THIS GAME FOR YOU.
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I got a feeelliiiing, I’m not the ooonlyyy oooone
Sorry I should clarify my obscure comment by saying I just had this pop in my head as I read that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAEpLMTjCC8
(groovy double bass player is groovy)
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Can always rely on you dc to save me haha XD
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That is obscure. Haha!
Speaking of Sheryl Crow. I love this song. (Johnny Cash’s cover is amazing too.) I also like the Tomorrow Never Dies theme.
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Amazon and GMG say $39.99 at the moment.
Steam says $69.99 :\Wait around a week or two. It’s pretty much always on special somewhere. It was $20 only last week on GMG, and it was only $12 on Amazon when I bought it for greenius.
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Heads up: Play-Asia are having a sale on US PSN point cards, selling them without markup i.e. face value i.e. $50 US for $50 cards. If you don’t want to deal with Amazon then now’s the time…
Sometimes I look at my little pile of ‘special’ games and it makes me smile. Stuff like FF4-FF9 on PSX, all PAL, all black/non-platinum, MGS, Front Mission 3, etc.
My special pile mostly comprises PSX and PS2, but what other stuff do people collect? I’m not talking CE’s of 360/PS3 games or somesuch, I mean genuine, hard to get or valuable classics. PSX, SNES, GCN, you know what I mean.
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Probably a fair few in my collection but I’ve been keeping basically everything I buy since I learned the folly of trading in, so I don’t really know what’s rare and what isn’t.
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I have some PSX games that can’t be had for love, but my most prized collection is a complete set of the Legends of Lone Wolf book series 😛
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All Final Fantasy originals, unfortunately one or two are silver strip ones.
Bunch of 64 games that remind me of such a personally brilliant time in gaming (OoT! Jet Force Gemini! Goldeneye! Rare [the company] games!) that I still play every so often.
Some old computer games that were heavily involved in my shift towards PC. I still have my CD copy of Baldur’s Gate sitting in its giant box above my computer.-
Nice. The 64 had some pretty freakin’ special games. I had a few platinum FF games on PSX, but slowly purchased black ones when they popped up in acceptable condition for a fair price on eBay.
I also own all the Armored Core games on PS2. Of which there’s like 10 or something.Oh oh, and my MGS3 : Subsistence PAL is pretty special, in it’s fantastic condition as well.
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I traded in most of my 64 and PSX stuff, which I regret. I might have some rare GCN games cause i had steady work and went mad buying GCN games and i didn’t trade many in. Did anyone play Lost Kingdoms on the GCN 1 or 2 they were great little games, loved the “card” system in it, build deck, throw card, monster appears. whoot
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Atari 2600 – very nice. Was my first console!
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Lots of talk about Fringe lately has made me watch clips on YouTube.
Season five spoilers. Will ruin the season if you read, so be ware.
One of my favourite moments was in the season five premiere. Walter’s stranded in a bleak, dystopian future. A broken man. Hasn’t heard music for a long time. This scene is amazing. John Noble’s a damn good actor. I hate ’80s synth, but it made the episode! 😀
Why do I do meat write ups on a Sunday afternoon… wasted effort
Stargazers Launch Party Meat Write Up
– Of course it would be raining and of course there would be track work everywhere. I think Cityrail and Mother Nature just don’t like us having Meats.
– Arrived at Central where the trains were terminating and wandered down George St to Town Hall and Kinokuniya
– Met @doc_what at the bottom of the elevators, where we were soon joined by @shiggyninty and @platinum-urchin
– Like the irresponsible youths we are, we wandered the street causing chaos and destruction wherever we went… or rather, Shiggy and Doc were supremely tempted by some Go Pro cameras, and I fell to temptation and bought Fire Emblem (@powalen).
– @effluvium-boy met up with and we headed over to Galaxy World, or as they are known now “City Amusements”. Why do things always change? I don’t like change /o\
– I lost to Shiggy “Hammer King” Ninty at the King of Hammer. I lost to Shiggy “Air” Ninty at the basketball game. I lost to Doc “HippoBarry” What at Animal Kaiser. But all that doesn’t matter because I came second at Laser tag 🙂 Oh yeah, theres a laser tag at Galaxy World now. First place went to one of two random strangers who joined our game.
– @alexpants @cakesmith and @masha2932 had also joined us by this point. Once we had our fill of games we headed over to the Pizza Hut for all you can eat!!! I had no idea that these still existed, it has been at least 12 years since I had been to one, probably longer.
– Platinum told the lady behind the counter as we walked in that it was Shiggy’s birthday, and while there was no cake brought out for him (which would have been amazing), he did receive a copy of the Scene It movie triva game.
– @strange arrived was immediately confused by the fact that Platinum didn’t have much hair 😛
– I received a patented Strange Hug \o/
– @batguy also dropped by for some food before heading out with @35 to see Ross Noble
– We headed back to Central to bus over to Lewisham (back seat bandits), Shiggy, Doc, Pants and Cakesmith ditched the rest of us at Stanmore, something about getting Shiggys car and not wanting to be murdered if they had to get it later. Poor excuse if you ask me.
– Arrived at the Lewisham hotel, where @harli @cj @gingerchris86 DAN! @fatshadylive others I’m no doubt forgetting and of course the man of the hour, @anonymous_pessimist were all there.
– Drinks were had, words were spoke, and music was played.
– Pez’s set went for about half an hour and included approx half the songs on the album. It was a great set, nice work man. Once it was done we all said “shut up and take my money” and received a physical copy of the Album, all with individual messages and autographs.
– Harli and I headed off about midnight and caught a cab back to Strathfield station to part ways and head home.
It was great to see everyone again, and to meat Strange and Platinum for the first time. Congratulations to Pez on a successful launch. Take a break and put your feet up, you’ve earned it.
PS I can neither confirm nor deny the rumours that while trying to wave down a cab, Harli may or may not have tried to hail a police car
PPS 23 total Streetpass hits
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I read it then, and was disappointed to find that it was the same thing again. Boo-urns! Also, you forgot to mentions that @35 and I turned up again just after the set finished. Awkward timing…
PS: Only 10 streetpass hits 🙁
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@shane – postie came by just now bearing gifts!!!! though i think someone is going to be looking for his copy of battle for middle earth, and instead gets the dawn of the dead remake!
thanks mate your a champ! if you can tell me who was meant to get it, i can organise to repost it tomorrow!
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Hmmm… that somebody will probably be me.
Haven’t seen the movie so I guess that’s still a win?
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sorry /o\
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So you should be, you horrible generous jerk. I demand a full refund.
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Okay. It’s done… But I might have just sent it to zetrox by mistake.
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you have now made a bunny cry… rumour has it @batguy beats up bunnies when he’s angry.
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Oh man. Sorry @batguy, sorry @zetrox2k
Wonder who’s going to end up with the…? No, actually, I think I’d rather keep that one secret till I learn its fate.
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Anthrax?
Mailbomb?
Vial of Ebola?
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Someone posted this on Facebook. Hilariously, the majority of the comments are cranky Between the Buried and Me fans angrily explaining how the band are geniuses and better than every other band that has ever existed, everyone just doesn’t get them. Which kind of turns it from a silly joke and validates it as truth. They’re shooting themselves in the foot.
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Not consistently but it’s a hell of a lot better than it was.
Keen to give it a go tomorrow night?
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@dc – Apparently National have confirmed already they will be doing Splendour inthe grass! Not sure about sideshows yet… http://www.thevine.com.au/music/news/splendour-in-the-grass-lineup-rumours-for-2013/
The ‘leak’ in an interview says something about later dates in 2013, sooo probably sideshows woo!
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If its like most festival sideshows though, theres a good chance theyre only in Sydney and Melbourne, and sometimes Perth. Sooo, could be either fork out lots for Splendour (which I might do myself, depending on the lineup), or take a trip!
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If Arcade Fire ever tour, though. I’ll sell a kidney on the black market and go FOR SURE! 😛
(Though I’m not sure they’re going to tour Aus with their next album, with two of the band members pregnant.)
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Pssst, or you could, you know, get a job 😛
You’re not unemployable and to keep thinking you are is pretty damn stupid! >:(
SELF ESTEEM
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Ha, that description of Mumford & Sons is fantastic.
Sing songs: that sound like a suitcase of washboards rolling through the desert, earnestly trying to remind that lonely cactus that, once, they were in love and perhaps read a love poem on a pencil case. Also; banjos.
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Also, why have I never heard of Deap Vally? They’re super rad. How long have they been a thing?
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Totally learnt about Deep Vally today :3
Also chose to not bother looking them up until you just said that. This really is super rad though…
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Ooooooooo.
I have a massive soft spot for blues rock.
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Ah yah? You like Kills? I love Kills. This kinda reminds me of Kills…
This is pretty darn awesome. No album it seems? Coming 2013… vague date is vague…
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It’s June 24th on the website. So still a while away, have to keep them in mind.
I will go and listen to (The?) Kills now. Will report back.
Edit: Oh man! So good! Which album do I buy?
Edit 2: I ended up just buying Blood Pressures. Pretty sure Future Starts Slow has been used in everything ever.
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@bdkiaf Yesss! Fine choice sir! The earlier stuff is a little too garage-ey for my likings really, but Blood Pressures is a great great album 😀 Loooove DNA especially
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It has a very Jack White feel to it, super fuzzy guitars playing blues rock. So cool.
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@bdkiaf Yup yup! Her voice is so gorgeous to boot. Totally listening to it now in celebration XD And then I will follow with White Stripes. Today is a good day.
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Ohhhhhhh! She was in The Dead Weather before this album. Well that explains the Jack White thing.
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Still thinking about how awesome it was to see Epica again. Been kind of a big week for me though, my old lady body isn’t really holding up well. Sorry to all the Sydfolk for being so tired and unfun!
Been watching the videos Mr. Strange took from the two shows.
This is just a snippet of the second last song they played but you can see how close we were, and it brings back the incredible memories of Wednesday night.
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And then there’s this one from Friday night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3WzAvw9l_gs . The picture’s not the greatest and that’s partly due to the camera and partly due to the overzealousness of whoever was working the smoke-machine that night, but the sound is great. One of my favourite Epica songs so I’m really happy my husband chose to record it.
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Who was it that was talking about the Singapore F1 Grand Prix, @cj maybe? Just had an email come through work
Packages include:
– Four nights accommodation
– Breakfast included
– Three day Bay Grandstand Ticket
– Access to the Padang Main Stage on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday for post race concerts and live entertainment featuring ‘The Killers’
For Just over $1000 per person, twin share (Take @greenius :P). Airfares would be on top of that, but let me know if you’re interested
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Brandon Flower’s the definition of a d-bag, but I really like the band!
Edit: Sam’s Town reminds me of a very specific time.
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But oh my lordy was his solo stuff terrible. Terribly terrible.
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Saaaame. I quite like Andy youre a star from dese gais
Actually come to think of it, these guys are HEAV-VEEY on the old synths. Deecee likes synths after all!
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This changes every thing!
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I think D.C. is in a constant state of liking and not liking everything at once.
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Some times you’ve got to put up with a little synth in an otherwise great song. 😛
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Though could be so much better acoustic. 😀
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Haha, ahhhh yes, now I get why you always link this acoustic version XD
(totally not better imo, but I get it)
‘In an otherwise great song’, grrrr!
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@sughly: No, I actually really like the album version too now. Just took a long time to grow on me. Suppose I need to get used to it if James Murphy is producing their new album. 😀
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edit: I’m sitting in a dead silent class trying unsuccessfully to stop myself cracking up
Access to the Padang Main Stage on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday for post race concerts and live entertainment featuring ‘The Killers’
Featuring the who? #punny
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*StarTrekHeadToHand.jpeg*
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That would be awesome 😛 Come on @greenius!
I have the money, I just don’t have anyone to go with who’s the slightest bit interested in F1 🙁
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There’s singles packages from around $1450 plus airfares if you cant find anyone. Shoot me an email – peter(dot)orange(at)harveyworld(dot) com (dot) au
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People who might not be interested in F1 might be interested in travelling with a pal, ask your uni friends!
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I know people who want to go to Singapore not for F1 (Oliver and another friend of mine, Toby), but money is an issue 😛 Oliver has a wedding to pay for, and Toby… Well he’s Toby. His money’s gone before he gets it.
Maybe next year, we’ll see.
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This probably won’t garner much attention, seeing as the game seems to have faded amongst TAYbies, but:
I’ve started playing Guild Wars 2 again. Well, again meaning “I played 5 hours total a few months ago and just never got into it, but suddenly I’m really keen to play”. I’m only level 10 with my Sylvari Ranger, so still far below others, but eventually if anyone is keen to group up for stuff give me a shout.
@dc
What’s Fringe? Should I watch it? I think it’s meant to be good, isn’t it? I’ve got a craving for some sci-fi.
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It’s about fringe science and a department of the FBI that’s tasked with investigating cases involving them. They recruit the help of Walter Bishop, an institutionalized scientist played by John Noble, who will only cooperate if his estranged son joins the team. What starts off as a weird scifi procedural show eventually turns into one of the best damn character dramas on TV with its own mythology and serialized arcs…
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It’s one of those shows that takes a lot of creative risks too, reinventing itself from season to season. Really good. Just give it a few episodes to kick in, because it’s all standalone monster of the week-like at first.
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In Which We Meet Mr Jones is probably the first great Fringe arc episode, episode 7
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That’s the next episode I’m watching! \o/
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My wife liked that show, I never really got into it, but there was the occasional cool episode that hooked me in.
Preferred Sanctuary though.
For whilst there may
be those that scorn
and ridicule me,
I shall remain vigilant.
I shall maintain incorrigible.
I shall keep linking TAY.
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Nope.
The guy went crazy and masturbated in the streets (not even joking).
The whole movement became a joke after that.
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#Kony2012
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At first, I wanted to point out that I hadn’t typed that…
…then I saw what a wonderful, magnificent pun you’d made, and I upvoted you instead.
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…then I realised I actually had typed it and you weren’t, in fact, making a pun…
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I’m too afraid to click…
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South Park’s take on it.
Was actually a great episode.
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Okay, I clicked. It’s actually hilarious. 😛
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Dammit! I dont know whether to listen to the kills, white stripes, or flo and the machine now…
Game of Thrones spoilers: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
I dunno, ask Jaime Lannister.
Edit: Probably a bit late. Sorry.
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That’s all I have to do? I mean, not that I would, because I’d be seriously pissed if I had it spoiled, but it’s good to know there’s a line.
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I feel bad about the downvote, but I’ve committed now.
Edit: 🙁 I’m a little pissed off, but I know he’s a good guy who (probably) wouldn’t spoil things on purpose. Still annoying though. :S
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Decent joke, but yeah, as others have pointed out, Game of Thrones spoilers.
On the other hand, you should all have read the books first. No excuses 😛
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Hearing the tv series was coming out made me want to read the books first. I kind of wish I hadn’t so I didn’t know what was coming.
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TAYlist for the 22th of April 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by I was too tired this morning
Dragon – April Sun In Cuba
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
Tenacious D – Tribute
Cold Chisel – You Got Nothing I Want
Matchbox 20 – She’s So Mean
Short Stack – Heartbreak Made Me A Killer
Billy Joel – You May Be Right
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
Russell Morris – The Real Thing
Ben Folds – Rockin’ The Suburbs
Daniel Bedingfield – James Dean (I Wanna Know)
Kim Wilde – Kids In America
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If I ran the playlist I’d just have that one Arcade Fire song he’s got available and play it all the time.
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I only know four of them. I mean I kind of recognise some, but only 4 could I actually hear the music in my head and know at least 50% of the lyrics to.
And one of those is Kids in America, which probably means I’m at least 25% gay.
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Would have upvoted but Daniel Bedingfield manages to cancel out every other choice.
So no vote for you.
I have this funny feeling we need to curb spoiler tag usage. They appear to have lost significance. I know I don’t use spoiler tags for anything but spoilers, but some people tend to use them a little much, I think.
While not labeling a spoiler specifically might be a little thoughtless, you can’t get too mad for clocking on the ‘spoiler’ button, and lo and behold, receiving a spoiler.
Sorta works both ways.
Thoughts?
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I think spoiler tags when it’s not clear what the context is should be a risky click.
I think the decorum should be that if it is a spoiler even if it’s behind a tag it should be marked what it’s a spoiler for.
For example (Star Wars Spoiler)
Han is Luke’s Uncle-
Yeah, this is pretty much how I feel. We had much the same discussion a couple of weeks ago when GoT book spoilers were inserted into show conversation. I feel like if it’s not obvious what the spoiler is regarding based on context it should be labelled.
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So a combination of toning down on frivolous spoiler tag usage along with more thoughtful labeling then?
Just seems spoiler angries are becoming more frequent. Considering the minefield of spoiler material we toe with our favorite TV shows, games and movies I guess I’m not surprised, it’s easy enough to do.
Just wondering how to cut down on incidents.
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I don’t know, you kind of decide based on the context and tone of the post. I thought ontarget was just putting emphasis on the punchline. If I had’ve known it was a legit spoiler, I wouldn’t have clicked. :S rot13 for all!
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I think people are using them too much. If it’s a spoiler, use them, and let people know what it’s a spoiler for beforehand, but if it’s just you telling a joke or making a stupid observation, don’t bother. If you’re going to call someone a “dickman” for example, you don’t need to put spoiler tags on it.
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DICKMASTER
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DICKLORD
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Oh man, it didn’t do bold as well.
Robbed.
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DICKDEITY
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The funniest part is, I pondered the exact same thing. I went Dickgod, Dickdeity, but DICKLORD sounds more impressive.
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Omnidick
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Yeah labeling what’s being spoiled is always handy. Using it for a joke where you spoilertag the punchline is probably not the greatest use but still makes sense. But if you combine it with an actual spoiler it just makes sense to give people a heads up.
I think curbing the funny uses of the tags will just make people feel too restricted, because we all love to use all the toys available to us.
I guess the guidelines are just the same as with anything: think about it, and don’t be a dick(man 😛 ).
..you can’t get too mad for clocking on the ‘spoiler’ button, and lo and behold, receiving a spoiler
Knock knock
Snape kills Dumbledore
We need 2 spoiler tags. Spoiler and super cereal spoiler I think.
Have fun figuring out which one’s the serious one
One of our company’s software packages includes Adobe Reader as part of the install, except one of our developers made it so installs in Spanish. I keep finding Adobe notifications on various servers coming from the system tray in Spanish. It shouldn’t be as amusing as it is.
The guy’s never going to live it down.
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No drink on the man’s penis of… whatever trabajo means. travel?
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It’s Google translate’s version of “No drinking on the job dick man.”
I swear they hired the same guy who did the Belgian phrase book in Monty Python.
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It’s because you missed a comma. Put in a comma before “Dick Man” and plug it in to translate you get No beber en el trabajo, el hombre polla
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That’s a relief, I thought you were going for something more along the lines of “no drinking from the man’s dick in your travels”. Which could be a reference to “try not to suck any dick on the way to the parking lot” like in Clerks.
Like I said, I don’t actually know Spanish.
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Trabajo is job. For example, Mi Trabajo es Funcionario, Mas o menos.
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Yeah, “My job” is as far as I get. I could make up a comedy response, but now I feel too invested in my accomplishments so far.
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That costs five new suns, thanks.
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Close. The Nuevo Sol is the currency of Peru
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Well, at least I learned something today.
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Correct.
As someone who does not actually know any Spanish, I am going to take it upon myself to post my best guesses at meaning without cheating by using a translator. Because, that’s why.
“Hello! The Adobe Software of the computer is obsolete. Ok?”
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Well, most of it was in English. If proper nouns like “adobe” even count as “english”.
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Hi guys! Feels like ages since I’ve had Internet, but it’s only been less than 24 hours 😛
I’ve been doing stuff and things. Who knows whether it’s good or bad yet!
Anyway, how about that FIRE EMBLEM! So good! I love all the small littles changes to make everything so streamlined and convenient. It’s also great seeing so many newcomers enjoying the game! I lost my first guy the other night, too. Poor Vaike! Struck down too soon (poor thing got surrounded!) He seemed pretty funny, too… Ah well. I don’t know what it is about Fire Emblem characters but I really like them all! And knowing there’s character relationships in this game has started me mentally pairing up husbands/wives already even though that stuff hasn’t unlocked yet haha
EDIT: I tried playing Fire Emblem on my train ride home today, but quit after a few minutes because I couldn’t focus on it as much as I would’ve liked 😛 Need silence and concentration!
EDIT2: Aw man, there was a Fire Emblem discussion on the first page that I missed D:
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it’s pretty great, I’m doing the same, sorta deciding who I’d like to end up together and then taking unecessary risks to make them fight together. On that note time for me to pack up and head home for some Fire Emberlerem
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I just use pair-up in battle. As they get more support, it makes one character way OP in the pair. Example, I have Sully and Virion as wife/husband, and pairing them up makes the ‘main’ way way more powerful. Virion as a mounted archer with Sully supporting is rather terrifying to behold.
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Finished Bioshock Infinite. Holy shit, that ending. Makes up for all the fucking terrible bullshit gameplay you have to go through over and over and over to get there.
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I didn’t find the BSI gameplay too laborious but I did only play on normal. If I’d become even remotely frustrated I would have bumped it to easy.
From what I hear though, 1999 mode can suck dicks in hell.
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I was playing on normal. Too many annoying arenas with a ton of damage sponge guys toward the end. No alternative strategies to take them out, just murder everyone and on to the next kill room. Not fun, especially when the game and the narrative feel so opposed to each other. The final arena bit in the game sucked terribly as well, I had to have four attempts at it – they expect you to play it exactly the way they designed with no room for error and that involved charging in like a maniac.
Also being restricted to 2 guns when there’s very poor differentiation between them and they all use different ammo is just annoying.
Bioshock played better in every way. More exploration, more options, more problem solving with your powers, less feeling weird because you’re slaughtering dudes who are doing their job rather than insane mutants. But Infinite’s narrative is far more interesting. Amazing game stuck inside a mediocre one.
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During the second half of the game I used nothing but the hand cannon, and only switched to something else when I ran out of ammo. That last arena was a pain for me, but mainly because I wasn’t able to clearly see the targets I needed to highlight, so I kept all my attention on the deck and wondered why I was facing an infinite horde of enemies. Silly me wasn’t paying attention to where those enemies were coming from, so I probably endured about eight more waves than I needed to.
I guess I did kind of run into the same issues but pretty much everything except Handymen were falling from 1-2 shots from the hand cannon.
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The gameplay wasn’t THAT bad. Sure it gets slow and bland in the middle, but it’s not completely terrible.
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There’s nothing interesting or remarkable about it. I guess it’s serviceable at least.
In a different game with less storytelling ambition it would probably have been fine, but I felt like the actual game part lets the rest of the production down.
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They only become Space Pyrates as a means to pay the rent! 😛
Edit: I think their band name is also Space Pyrates in the book. Either way, it’s been a long time since I read the first issue. Haha!
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They called you buddy and even gave you a <3. They like you. You should feel bad for not hanging out them with them more. 😛
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Just watched Game of Thrones.
Episode thoughts:
Oh man, that was a great ep. I mean, it covered some of my favourite parts of the books (basically anything with The Queen of Thorns is fantastic). It seems like they’re really pacing their budget this season as well, whereas the last season it all seemed to go into The Battle of the Blackwater.
Episode thoughts relating to the books:
Wowzers. There’s just a few teensy weensy- IS HALF OF THIS EPISODE MADE UP? I DON’T REMEMBER THIS? IS MY MEMORY THAT BAD? WHY CAN I REMEMBER THE SCENE WHERE THE FOOL GUY SINGS THE BEAR AND THE MAIDEN FAIR WHILE SANSA TALKS WITH THE TYRELL’S PERFECTLY, BUT NOT ANYTHING IMPORTANT? *Cough* Also, I’m glad they managed to tie up my question about how The Bastard of Bolton would know about the Stark Boys. I’m sure I had a question here about the episode, but I can’t remember what it was. C’est la vie.
Book spoilers relating to the last episode(this one’s basically just here because it means that someone might be able to reply to me):
In the books, Sam killed The Other while they were on their way back to Craster, didn’t he? I think I’m remembering that right. Another question: Was the bag of obsidian stuff actually found in the show? I can’t remember it happening, but that doesn’t necessarily mean much, since my memory, as stated previously, is hella flawed. So, if they were found, I feel like Sam still needs to kill The Other, as it’s kind of important to his character, but this means that he’ll likely do it to protect Gilly, as opposed to just protect himself/out of fear. So if they do have it, that I guess, accelerates his arc? I’m not sure. I don’t necessarily think that it’s a bad thing, just seems interesting. Maybe I’m overthinking, and they’ll just ignore that point.
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Coolcoolcool. When I started thinking about it, I started to remember it, but yeah, my memory’s hazy, so better to check. Did it have the connotations of being Benjen’s stuff in the show as well? I really should just rewatch it, but I’m super lazy, and it’s way easier to crowd-source my answers. Actually, it would be easiest to look it up on the wikis, but shh, don’t you bring your logic here, Red. DON’T YOU DO THAT! -
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Ok. I apologise for any spoilage caused by my post. I feel like a real dickman.
Edit: That had to be a pageget.
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All is forgiven, but don’t do it again, lest you once again wear the wrath of the @dc downvote.
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Well I dunno, bout anybody else
But when I think about her I
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Is The Witcher 2 worth buying from Steam for $8? I ask because it would be the bastardized Australian version, which only removes one choice, but still, it’s censored.
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Fuck. Yes.
Hell, I’ve already beat it on 360 and just bought it on Steam for that price.
The game is an amazing RPG, with a great story, fun (yet challenging) gameplay, choices that aren’t insignificant, and the developers are awesome.
For $8, you won’t be disappointed.
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Yes, do it. One my favourite games of the year. The story and environment really drive it well and it’s constant avoidance of babying you made it feel fresh.
Four pages on a Monday? It’s not a race guys.
*something is whispered from off-screen*
What? It is a race?! Quick, get posting!
We had an impromptu board games meat last night after going to the pub. Well, we came back to our apartment and played Dominion.
35 won. He was drunk. He didn’t know what he was doing.
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I’m still thinking that it’s a Drunken Master style thing going on. He’s absolutely shit sober but once inebriated, unstoppable and with a strategy that nobody else could dare figure out.
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Regarding spoilers this is how it should be. If you disagree… YOU’RE WRONG
State what the spoilers are for and when it occurs.
“This week’s episode of Game of Thrones”
“Dark Souls DLC”
“Chapter 4 of Fire Emblem”
It’s easy enough to say something like “Game of Thrones” but it could mean anything, show spoiler? Book spoiler? Where? When?
Exceptions? I reckon if it’s really small ie. Survivor/Strip Search, it’s probably enough to just say “Survivor” (spoilahs) and it’s safe to assume any spoilers in the reply to that thread would have… you’ve guessed it! Survivor spoilers. But if you deviate from it and mention spoilers for a previous season rather than the most current stuff, or whatever is being talked about. Just say it!
@saturday you’ve been pretty slack with Fire Emblem spoilahs (and other spoilers in the past :P). They’re tiny things but they’re things I didn’t know or want to know about so please tag em brah. thx
And of course the “joke spoilers”. I’m not too fond of the ones that are actually spoilers but used jokingly. If you want to do the whole spoiler tag an irrelevant non-spoiler thing then go ahead but make it pretty damn obvious it isn’t a spoiler.
If you follow the handy Greenius Spoiler System (GSS) then anything that isn’t necessarily marked, or following a marked thread that doesn’t look like a spoiler SHOULDN’T BE A SPOILER.
PUT A SPOILER IN HERE? You’re a dick.
OKAY?
Everyone go buy Xenoblade! This is acceptable because it doesn’t relate to anything
Now obviously this is all just my opinion and y’all don’t have to follow it but I think it’s a pretty awesome way of handling things. If you disagree? Well there’s my opinions and then there’s WRONG OPINIONS
But n’aw I guess you could suggest stuff…
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How much html can we actually use in our comments?
Apparently not enough for DIY “Highlight-To-Read” style spoilers.
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Although now I’m curious to what I spoiled. I mostly talked about the gameplay itself, and the other stuff is mostly just character shoutouts. Either way, your words are noted.
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General Fire Emblem stuff:
Again not exactly huge things like “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY” but just things like saying “this character and her kid sucks” (reference to Sully). I think you did spoil tag that but it didn’t really related to what Sughly said and you pretty much said she sucked, making me less likely to use her and saying her kid sucked when I didn’t even know she had a kid (or could). You also said Donnel was a beast and well, similar sort of thing, this is not something I would’ve known unless I played a bit more but now that I know it, it definitely changes things. It would’ve been better going in knowing nothing about the characters, whether they’re good or not.-
I did spoiler tag Donnel. 😛 I should’a spoiler tagged Sully, though, although my words are more preference than actual fact.
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So what you’re saying is like this:
Spoilers for Star Wars about the part where Darth Vader is Lukes father
He is.
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
XENOBLADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ZELDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS
DICKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKMEN
Happy 20,000th comment to me!
😛
I hope you’ve enjoyed your daily dose of Green Eggs & Spam!
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My internet was slightly slow so only a part of that loaded up, and it looked inappropiate.
Then the whole thing loaded and it was actually MORE inappropriate than before. So props for that, man.
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So everyone here seems to have decided they like The Daily Show now after John Oliver’s whoopdi-fucking-do interview with John Howard has started showing up everywhere. I wonder if that means people would be happy to watch that in the common room instead of sport now 😛
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There was something about Tuesday night but I can’t remember.
Eh, probably wasn’t important.
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Thanks @shane , got home and was sad to not find Dead Island Riptide waiting for me, but upon checking my mailbox all sadness washed away and I was immediately elated to discover treasure lay within. Your package has arrived in good order. Thank you so much again, Three Cheers for Shane.
Hip Hip………….
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I did think about the wording on that one, glad someone seized the opportunity like I seized Shane’s package… : /
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Downloading The Witcher 2. This will probably take around 20 hours. Curse my slow internet.
#firstworldproblems #hashtagsforharli
@gutsoup while you’re here, Movie meat at my place Saturday night where we all force @dc to watch movies we want him to watch.
Oh man, great Game of Thrones ep! Woo!
Yaaay dragons woo! Yeah I like how they are handling her character now, really great stuff. I gotta say though, the scene with Lena Headey (whatever her name is) and her father… so good. Far out, she plays that character so damn well. So much nuance and subtlety and conviction. It really shone in that scene. And his responses were just as awesome. TLDR: scene of the day goes to Lena and her show dad, because I dont remember anyones names.
Dammit, second time I forgot spoiler tags today! Reaaaally hope noone saw it in that second before I edited :'(
So.. I have a dilemma. I’ve gone from having to find a place to live, to having to decide between 3 places. :\ Each of course have their good and bad points, but none really makes them stand out as a clear winner. The 3 are priced at 275, 290, and 315 a week. That’s part one of the problem. Paying 275 would be great, as I’m currently paying 300, so I know I’d be better off, but the place is a bit.. meh.. creaky stairs, old and kind of out of the way from where I want to be.
The 290 one wouldn’t be as big a saving, but still helpful, but it’s in woodridge.. and well.. if you live in qld, well.. nuff said! (It is a reasonable quality place in a gated community, but not perfect by any means. Bonus is it has air con in both bedrooms.
The 315 place is really nice as one might expect (compared to the others anyway), and it’s not quite as out of the way as the others, but I dunno if I wanna commit to that much per week. Bonus for this place, is air con downstairs, dishwasher, and all yard maintenance is included.
There’s no yard at all in the 275 one, so that’s not an issue, but it will cost me more to move there as it’s further away (Underwood – Almost Roachedale). The woodridge one is a little closer, but.. it’s Woodridge 😐 Dunno if I’m entirely comfortable with that.
BLARG! WHAT DO?!
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Flip a three-sided coin. Edit: they all sound like decent options tbh. Don’t know what it’s like there, but you can’t rent a place for under 350 in Canberra and a place going for that little would have a hundred applicants. Good luck!
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I like charnwood. It’s a really nice area and the community is great. If we move, it’ll probably be there.
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The internet tells me that’s where you go to get stabbed and the internet has not lied ever, not once,
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Oh, I got your package today too! Picked it up from mums house this evening! Thanks a million! 🙂
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I’m not really savvy with this kind of stuff but don’t take the Woodridge one because … Woodridge
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Oh man, based on your descriptions I would’ve thought it would be 290 > 275 > 315 since I don’t know what Woodridge is. But after reading some comments I decided to Google it and the first few results are all “Racial Tensions, Brawls, Murder” 😛
Don’t go there!
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well the only reason it’s an option, is cos it’s right on the border of woodridge and underwood, and it’s a gated community, so should be more secure compared to most of woodridge. But that said, if people hear you live at woodridge, it can change their opinions of you entirely!
The place I looked at is probably the ONLY place in the whole suburb I would ever even consider. Most of the places there are terrible old weatherboard places that have been trashed by druggos and bogans. When you are in this place, you wouldn’t even think it was in woodridge cos it’s like a million times better than the other places around there. But it is what it is.
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Sounds like the middle place is not an attractive option, which leaves 2 options. One sounds pretty good, the other is $2000 a year cheaper. What $2000/year would mean for you, only you can answer.
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If I still had my old full time job at the school, I’d go for the 315 one in a heartbeat. Now I’m working 2 part time jobs, so it’s a little uncertain. The Dr PC job is 3 days a week atm, and would be enough to cover the rent every week, but if I don’t get much else out of my other work, I might end up starving. It’s potentially workable, but it could be a struggle at times, which worries me, but then at least if I have a shit time, I’d have a nice cosy quiet and secure place in which to cry myself to sleep to at night!
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Of course only you can make the decision, but given your situation, it may be better to be financially cautious for now. If push comes to shove, the extra $40 a week in you pocket could make a big difference. (You can definitely eat well on $40 a week if you use your imagination) You can always move again when things are more secure.
Good luck mate 🙂
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Latest The Amazing Race ep:
That place is scary as hell :/. Losing respect for Hockey Brothers. Still dislike YouTubers 😛
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Today, Canberra enjoys a status unique it, being the only city in the world considered by all world governments, including al Qaeda and newly formed fascist state of Costa Del Pom to be completly devoid of any reason for existence.
Ahahahaha
edit:
Yell at the Asian McDonalds Worker Who is 5th Generation Drive Thru.
LOL
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The Townsville one is fantastic, but IIRC it’s full of in-jokes, so may only apply to a very narrow audience. Perhaps worth a look though 😛
@rocketman would appreciate it!
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Fire Emblem
I managed to finish Chapter 5 on Hard/Classic with no losses!
I changed up my line up so to get slightly different starting positions. I had the party strengths split in not quite the right way for the strategy I was using.
Hey all. Cause I preorderd CoH2 I’ve been gifted a copy of Dawn of War 2 Retribution and Dawn of War 2 Last Standalone (which is just the DoW2 Last Stand game mode)
I already own these so if anyone would like them contact me however you see fit. First come first serve though.
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Oh I also have a copy of Frozen Synapse if anyones interested and 23 odd copies of DOTA 2. So yeah…
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I’ll take DOTA2 please.
Just kidding… every one has that game 😛
Good luck finding someone who’ll take it 🙂
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@shane
I got home and got a shock when I discovered your package crammed into my box. It was a tight fit and it must have been a struggle to get it in there but I’ve never been so happy in my life.
Thank you.
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I’m very glad that my package was able to make you happy in a way that your wife never could. I hope my service was of satisfaction.
Today will be the first day in about a month that I haven’t played Monster Hunter 🙂 (@powalen)
I’ve got just over 200 hours in it and the only other person who’s at my level is in Sydney. What a jerk (@platinum-urchin :P)!
I have a feeling most probably won’t play much of it anymore :'( but I have hope in @thecracks and @hindenlagen although at their pace it might be a very long time until they hit G rank :'(
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Hear ye hear ye!
No rush though (I lied, there is) but get to G rank ASAP! Too many people just want to do key quests so I’m left all on my lonesome wanting to do the other quests :'(
@thecracks
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See below.
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And I should be moved in to new house this week. School holidays ^_^
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Just do the key quests and you’ll be G rank in no time! I’m keen to do HR7 key quests so if you ever get around there (HR6) let me know 😛
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I have decided to actually play Pokemon Black. I think I bought it when it first came out and made it to the first gym (maybe). Haven’t played it since. Hooray!
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Silly greenius, Phoenix said Black, not Black 2. There are no sewers in the first Black version
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Another TAYbie gave up at the Sewers in Black/White 2 so I was just making fun of them 😛
I thought you were playing 2 instead of the first! 😛
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I’ll try not to.
I’ll also try to remember you said this so that when I figure out what it means I’ll let you know 🙂
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Won’t be long, man. We’re watching 2 per day to catch up! That’s a season a week, roughly! Nearly finished S3!
Betty just got Don’s abridged life history while his latest conquest waited for him in the car outside 😛
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@35
@Aidan
@mythamphetamine
@AlexPants
@AnonymousPessimist
@Batgirl
@Batguy
@BDKIAF
@BearBlaster
@Beavwa
@Becaroonie
@BenJ
@Benny
@Bish
@Blaghman
@Blood Apathy
@Brenton
@Cakesmith
@Chuloopa
@CJ
@CrabJiffy
@Bawble
@Crazyguy1990
@dc
@dkzeitgeist
@Dawdle
@Di11enger
@Dire_Wolf
@DistantDrop
@Doc_What
@Edward
@Effluvium_Boy
@El_Kapitan
@f4ction
@FatShady
@fled
@FreezeSPreston
@Freyr
@Gingerchris86
@Gorzilla
@grabda
@Grandmaster_B-Funk
@Greenius
@Harli
@jacksonwryan
@HindenLagen
@Hugo_the_Hungarian_Barbarian
@Hyperthx
@Inquisitorsz
@JamesMac
@JamesMacUsedMyHandle
@jamiedeecee
@Jeremy
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@Link
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@Lucifer9783
@Masha2932
@kermitron
@Mawt
@McGarnical
@N0NEoftheAB0VE
@NegativeZero
@Nomad
@Non-Ginger_Steve
@SerNobulus
@NotoriousR
@NovaCascade
@ontargett
@Phoenix
@Pixel_the_Ferret_Viking
@Powalen
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@SmurfyDog
@Spaghett
@Splicer
@Steve-O_The_Deve-O
@Strange
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@That_Teemo
@The_Cracks
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I love all you glorious dickmen.
Every single last one of you.
Especially the ones who have different handles that I got wrong.
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It’s from TAYnames so I assume he copied them then added the @’s in front and guessed what went in the spaces 😛
That’s precious Xenoblade time he’s wasted too!
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Not true. Some had to be changed completely.
But it’s like a family reunion.
Of Dickmen.
And Uncle Freeze has been drinking again. *sigh*
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I’m drinking right now 😀
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I WAS NOT TAGGED PROPERLY
THEREFORE I AM NOT DICKMEN
Y’ALL LAUGHED AT ME (and by all mostly @greenius)
BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?
SOMEONE WHO ISN’T A DICKMEN!-
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PAX North! It’s a thing, man! 😀
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Don’t know what you’re talking about.
Dickman.
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I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for it to end this way.
I’m seeing someone else… I meant to tell you sooner, really.It’s not you, it’s me. Well, I suppose it’s kinda you, in a way. Perhaps it’s all you, come to think of it.
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1 V 1 DESERTED ISLAND NO POTIONS SHADOWBOX ONLY
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Man, wireless speakers. I suddenly want some. Setting up these ridiculously short corded speakers I have makes me appreciate the adoption of wireless everything.
I have a shopping list ready for when I get my new debit card. It’s 100% centered around audio! My neighbours will love me.
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I haven’t really looked into it that deeply, but sound quality is apparently pretty much on par with wired ones of equivalent spec. Delay… I dunno. There’s probably a delay about as big as the delay between a bluetooth mouse and its receiver I’m guessing.
Anywho, for good ones they’re too expensive for what you get, so these are on the shopping list instead. http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/hi-fi-home-audio/dj-and-pro-audio-gear/jbl-lsr2325p-5-2-way-shielded-monitors-pair/679731
Probably not this year, but if I move out next year definitely then. For now I’ll have to make the way-too-short cords work!
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Sound quality? What are you talking about? Volume? Who needs loud noise?
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What does pressing B at the right time after initiating battle do? Everyone makes a lot if noise but nothing really seems to happen.
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I think it makes them start the battle in ‘angry’ mode (I can’t remember what it’s called but their portraits will look angrier) and I believe it increases their attack or something? It’s good to go for!
I know in battle ones increase the friendship between em (the love hearts) so go for them!
@negativezero might provide a better answer since I haven’t played it in over a year 😛
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Xenoblade? It raises tension, which gives you a boost to crits (very useful if your opening thing is to smash a dude in the back with Shulk) and also gives a bonus to chain attack damage. It goes up and down as you play. It’s also what that ‘encourage’ thing if you’re standing next to a dude sometimes is – they’re low tension and you’re helping them perk up (also raises affinity with that character)
EDIT: @freezespreston
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http://25.media.tumblr.com/249e22f827242afc6d14f48692e67314/tumblr_mlmt5sTeUm1qdbhwwo1_1280.jpg
^If this is what I think/hope it is, I’ll fangirl everywhere.
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you’ll be surprised how early they give out promotional stuff to cinemas.
we had teaser posters for wreck it ralph about 9 months before it came out.
Source: i am cinema man
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Dear strange 1L bottle of Boysenberry cider I found at the bottle shop,
Thank you for letting me know you were 14% instead of the assumed 5% AFTER I had consumed you. That was certainly a surprise.
Unstably Yours
Freeze
DARK.SOULS.
Bed of Chaos is dead or whatever. Thought I’d got my last pyromancy, but apparently I am still missing at least one. I think I must have missed Acid Surge in the Painted World. Le sigh. Still, ticking off items on the checklist.
Where to go next? Duke’s Archives or Catacombs? I’m thinking Archives, because that looks wicked fun.
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Catacombs I find a bit easier mostly because the enemies don’t hit as hard or
Take as much punishment. Also have a much smaller detection range. Plus the sunlight maggot will make Tomb of Giants a cakewalk.-
Coolo. Maybe I’ll do that, then.
Rescue Rhea and find Patches. Learn how to kindle bonfires. That’s the ticket.
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Also slightly related
I assume Belconnen was your closest store and you wanted the 360 version? Also it’s the base version so if you want whatever schmexy collectors edition you can upgrade that.-
You assume correctly across the board, good sir. Although there’s one EB closer to my work, I change buses near the Belconnen store every day, so can run in there on my way home \o/ (or, you know, take the day/week off from work, and be waiting outside the store at 8:45am)
I’m hoping FROM do the same thing they did with DeS and DaS, and automatically upgrade all pre-orders, but I’ll be ready with wallet in hand if they don’t! 😀
Thank you again – you’re awesome!
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*ahem* Here we go. This is a hell of a thing for me to write…
I guess a few of you have noticed a shift in tone from me lately. I’ve gone from being an overly anxious, overly reactive dickhead, to a more thoughtful, considerate person in the last two months. I’m hoping that’s how I’m coming across in more recent times. I’m trying.
I’ll lay it all out in black and white. I have epilepsy and I don’t want pity, it’s been with me since I was a teen. My medication I’ve been on for the last three years worked magnificently, better than any before. No seizures for years. However, it left me agitated, angry, moody and stressed all the damn time. This was reflected *everywhere* in my life. Recently, I started on Anti-depressants to balance that out, not for depression but to bring down the aggression, make me more manageable.
My family complimented me the other day saying its the first time in years they’ve ‘had me around’. That was pretty impacting on me. My son and I are getting along a lot better now, I no longer growl at him, he’s happier around me and we laugh together a lot more. Plus, he can guarantee now, if he gets growled at, he’s definitely done something to deserve it. (Its happened once in the last six weeks lol).
So what I’m saying is if I have offended, argued or annoyed anyone here over the last few years, I am sorry. I am very, honestly sorry. I have taken extreme steps to change myself and it’s working grandly. I had a conversation about religion recently which went haywire, someone was what I’d term 50% at fault, me more than contributing my 50% and I realised how stupid it was so I deleted the whole damn thing rather than have it carry on.
So again, I am sorry if I’ve been that way in the past, I’ve been bettering myself and it’s been fantastic being part of the Kotaku community, I’m not going anywhere and this isn’t me saying I want to start again with you all, as that would mean ignoring who I was before. But it’s me saying I’ll be a lot better to have around from now on 🙂
Thanks for your time and if you bothered reading this Snape killed Dumbledore, Rosebud is a sled, Vader is Lukes father and Bruce Willis is a ghost…
Cya guys.
Steve.
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Really? You’re one of the few outside the TAY norm I’ve always had time for. Only think we’ve had the one altercation before that wasn’t that serious.
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Hey man, thanks for sharing that story.
But I don’t think your apology is for me. As far as I know, you and I have no beef – we must be vegetarians. We should definitely rectify that shortcoming.
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It’s all good, noone may read it who its intended for or they may, it’s just my little way of setting things ‘right’ in a little way.
I couldn’t be a vegetarian… I like my food to have had a heartbeat at one stage… lol
Oh and here we go…
The Dig sucks. 😛
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I loved The Dig 😛Made you look!
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Hey @weresmurf. As Freeze said, you’re one of the regular commenters I respect. I even nominated you for Kudos last week. Keep up the good work 🙂
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@freezespreston (and all other Dark Souls peeps who I didn’t tag because you don’t seem to be around at this particular moment, not because of any deliberate shun), what do you think? Genuine? http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/13766/article/here-s-what-a-dark-souls-2-collector-s-edition-chess-piece-looks-like/
Honestly I don’t know what to make of it, but I’m already foaming at the mouth (and possibly elsewhere too).
A Dark Souls chess set. I would sell both my kidneys and one of my livers for it.
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Yeah, I know 😛
but we both have also fallen prey to the not knowing everyone’s name bug. Still, it does affect the credibility of the rumour a tad…-
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Ah right…
Me… me too.
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Looks like this year may finally be my year for that tattoo, as well. Mr. Strange is going to just give me money towards it for Mother’s Day, my birthday and our Anniversary. So exciting! 😀
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If they are all meant to be pieces then the dimensions look wrong. Spider boobie lady seems far too wide to fit properly on the board.
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I thought that too but then went and reread the story. Those pictures are just of standalone figures, he hasn’t released pics of the chess pieces yet.
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I think you misunderstand the point of tagging. Shouldn’t Freeze have been the only one you didn’t tag seeing as he was already around? 😛
As for your link…I wish I played chess so I could justify getting that special edition if it’s true. I think I need his Titanite Demon and Elite Knight with Bonfire statues though. So awesome.
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3DS Friends
I don’t think this has been posted yet: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/402414/nintendos-new-3ds-deal-register-3-games-get-1-free/#
Gree Fames!
I have 2 of the listed games, and at least 3 of the remaining are high on my wanted list, so that’s pretty neato. I believe the last “register and get stuff” promotion required that you register the games within the promo period – games registered previously didn’t count towards the total – so if you’ve got any from that list and haven’t registered them yet, it might be worth holding out a little.
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The promotion will be available to residents of the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and Russia.
I don’t see Australia. =(
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I hadn’t actually bothered to read what countries are involved – having been successfully brainwashed into thinking that Australia was part of the UK after the last 30 years of Nintendo regioning.
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Oh man, the one time I try to buy locally too! >:(
What’s the bet that it doesn’t come here? UK got the best promotions, I’m still sad we never got the “register an XL for a free game” the UK and US got.
I’ll have 1/3 and would love anyone forever if they spared some points :P. I can swapsies for other point cards.
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WHY AM I CONSCIOUS WHAT IS GOING ON?!
Something something late night existential crisis stemming from menial thoughts on lack of sleep something something.
*refresh*
Nearly 4am and can’t sleep because sickness 🙁
So I’m reading Siliconera and the emotional rollercoaster…
– New Corpse Party for Vita \o/
– Mana Khemia 2 getting re-release on PS3 \o/ in Japan /o\
– Nintendo Europe will give me Animal Crossing if I register MH3U, Luigi’s Mansion & Fire Emblem. All of which I have just purchased. \o/ (there’s other games on the list too but they’re shittier)
– Falcom is porting Zero no Kiseki to PC \o/ But we still don’t have Trails in the Sky’s other two games in English /o\
– Tears to Tiara sequel on PS3 \o/ In Japan /o\
– An Idolm@ster game is finally getting a localized release \o/ \o/ \o/ It’s… the Shiny Festa games /o\. For iOS /o\ /o\ /o\. It’s still split over 3 games /o\ And each one is $55 USD (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻). And they’ve got additional DLC. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
(terrible secret: I probably would have paid that for the one with Yayoi and Iori if it were on Vita or PSN)
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Capping it off nicely: apparently that 3DS promo is only for parts of Europe and because it wouldn’t be convenient, Australia isn’t in Europe for this one. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
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Doesn’t matter. Register a UK account, use the UK Club Ninty codes and you should just get an email with a redeemable code that’ll work in eithet eShop.
That’s what I did when they had a similar promotion for Kid Icarus 3D (NES one).
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No, I said UK Club Ninty codes (so UK versions). However, some really niche and smaller titles share the same codes but pretty much ALL first party Nintendo (so everything in the promotion) is region locked.
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I bought MH3U and Fire Emblem from OGS, that means I’m in with a chance, right?
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Yup!
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Unfortunately my MH3U is probably an AU release since I got it through Mightyape. 🙁
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It’ll probably be UK
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If it is, \o/
If it isn’t, I’ll probably buy Animal Crossing anyway and then get something else off the list for free.
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I guess they’re just PAL games.
I like the sound of this – I buy Luigi’s Mansion and I can have Animal Crossing that I was going to buy anyway?
If only there was a less dodgy, yes I actually live in Australia way to do it.
Just watched latest game of thrones.
Not really a spoiler but just in case
The music ending this week fit sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than last week’s music.
I’m tempted to play through Diablo 3 again, just to see how it’s changed. The question is, do I do it as a Monk (again) or try something else?
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I mained a Monk and actually wished I’d picked something more interesting by the time I started my second playthrough.
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I enjoyed the Monk but things sucked pretty hard in the end game, where I had to pick between tankiness or damage output. Couldn’t get the right balance and buying the right gear was damned expensive.
EDIT: I also had a Witch Doctor. So I managed to pick the two worst classes. Go me!
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Yeah it just becomes a kite session in endgame. Stand still, you get swamped and die. So you end up running around in circles, stopping, getting a few hits in, smashing potions, running in circles again, rinse, repeat.
Fucking killed me by the end and was probably the main reason I stopped playing. Especially in second playthrough (forget the difficulty names now) where you start getting special mobs with two attributes instead of one. Some of them are just insane, they can drop in like 1.5 seconds if you stand still.
Not sure how much they’ve changed – basically was it the way the game was designed? Did the monk just suck nuts? Or was I terribad?
Haven’t played it since just after launch though, so hoping it’s changed. I’ve been tempted to do another playthrough with a sorcerer/wizard, forget what they’re called.
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My monk was mostly geared towards damage and had a shittone of lifesteal (mostly from item luck), and abilities were aimed at survival. It seemed to be a good mix for me, cause as long as I remained on the offensive I couldn’t get taken down, and potions were available for a retreat,
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Maybe I had the gear or spec wrong, I pretty much tried to make him a dodge tank, basically.
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You mean Nightmare difficulty?
I maxed out two characters and got up to act 2 of Inferno difficulty :p The early levels were plenty of fun as a Monk.
EDIT: For most of the game, it’s just a matter of having the right gear and for everything up to Inferno, that just means vitality and damage.
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I still need to start it pretty much.
Hilariously I keep getting emails about someone trying to sell my account. Not sure what a Level 4 Barbarian goes for these days but they’d be welcome to it.
Last night I went to see David O’Doherty live.
My God that man is funny. I don’t remember laughing so hard for so long. SUCH a good show. I definitely recommend him for when he next tours Australia!
Game of thrones episode:
I feel like no-one has mentioned how awesome Lord Beric Dondarrion was.
I have this sudden urge to buy DI Riptide.
I haven’t even finished the first one yet, but riptide looks so damn tempting.
Especially with a friday flex, meaning I get an extra long weekend.
Hmm, maybe if I can lay of the booze this weekend, I can justify buying it.
Screw it, booze + riptide = best idea.
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Do it, although you should finish the original cause you can transfer your character and items into Riptide, so hoping it’s waiting for me when i get home, been really anticipating this one.
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You can transfer items over? well I have a hacked gun on the Xbox should be interesting if it xfer’s
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That’s what I’ve read, they reckon the level cap has been bumped up, so we can keep leveling our old characters and items are transferable, also heard (can’t confirm, too lazy to research) that cause they added a fifth character to make it even they’ve said that a level 50 player will see a zombie as level 50 while a lvl 1 will see the same zombie as lvl 1, don’t know if i like that idea, how can i power level.
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Hmm I don’t think you can transfer items over, though that is just according to IGN.
Though with a new level cap of 61, transferring character level sounds pretty damn nifty.
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Oh cool, didn’t know about character xfers! I have a level 47 character from DI, so should be awesome. Was going to start a fresh character on DIR as well. I played the firearms lady in DI, but realised too late firearms were crap, and she ended up being melee anyway.
Will likely start a new OP voodoo man or the latino blades guy.
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Morning folks. Hope this day finds you well. I can’t wait to play Ico/SotC! 😀
@spaghett’s Last Played Song Game:
God Gave Rock and Roll to You (Bill & Ted version. XD)
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Shadow of the colossus is amazing, although collecting fruit and tails drove me insane…..<<<<< this is not a song 😛
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Now I’ve got the Mr. Ed theme in my head anyways, so good enough.
I haven’t played Ico/SotC before, but I’m pretty psyched. After playing Tomb Raider/BioShock/Mass Effect 3 back-to-back, I’m in the mood for something a little slower paced.
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I love how Clem turns into Alduin and kills all the zombies by igniting the master sword with her falcon punch.
It’s a really cathartic moment in the game.
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THANKS FOR RUINING HARRY POTTER AND THE REVENGE OF THE SITH, MAN
Jesus I thought we learned about spoilers by now
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Dumbledore kills snape who is his father who once owned a sled named “Bruce Willis sees dead people”.
Oh, btw, spoilers above.
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Oh really? Damn! Everything I’ve seen in trailers and the like have just been exploring. I was looking forward to that. Haha! Still can’t wait to play though. 😀
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The best thing about Shadow of the Colossus is that 90% of it is exploration though. So you can still look forward to that.
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Not at all! Just hand holding and running. Haha!
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Ideal date?
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My ideal date doesn’t involve running and showing my lack of fitness. 😛
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D: Sounds like a Dark Soulsy kind of game. 😛
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You often find yourself trying to protect your escort from shadow creatures, so yes I would say their is some fighting involved.
Just picked up Professor Layton and the Unwound Future for $10. Might end up re-selling it.
Yay!
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Are you actually in Canada?
If so, mind if I ask you a small* amount of questions?
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Yeah, I joined KotakuTAY when I ended up chilling for a few months in aus. I’m back in my homeland now, so feel free to ask anything and I will answer to the best of my ability.
also @bish can answer all your questions about canada*
*Every answer involves Canada being cold as all hell and/or the dirty french
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I want to go on a trip to Canada (and potentially move there later):
1 – Where should I visit?
Currently I’m interested in seeing Montreal, Quebec, Toronto and Vancouver. Any of those worth skipping? Anything I should add to the list? Anywhere I should avoid like the plague?2 – Skiing – where’s the best place to go? I’ve looked around and Whistler looks pretty ace. Is there anything less “touristy” though? As it may be cheaper, better, funnerer.
3 – Customs – What, apart from tipping after meals, should I need to know? I’ll hopefully have a beginners handle on French by the time I go, but I’d like to know whether there’s anything else I should know.
4 – Events – What sites do Canadians use to see what kind of events are on. In Australia we have ticketmaster and ticketek which sell tickets for concerts, comedy shows, sport, etc… Are there Canadian equivalents?
Thanks in advance!
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I SUMMON THEE @Bish to help out and all that jazz.
1) I live in Vancouver, but I can confidently say that Montreal/Quebec (Basically the french places :P) has the better attractions, the better nightclubs/bars, more culture, etc. Vancouver also has a decent night-life, but it’s no comparison between the two areas. What Vancouver (The west coast, basically) has in spades is nature. Hiking, Biking, and Skiing, as it will be touched on later, is prominent everywhere, as well as fishing, camping, etc. I believe Vancouver is the most accessible when it comes to nature; it’s only a hour or two’s drive into the mountains. Toronto, depending on where you live, is either nice.. or barren as all hell, so it’s a hit and miss situation there. Keep in mind that Toronto/Vancouver are infinitely less crowded than Montreal/Quebec. So if you enjoy peace and quiet..
2) Guaranteed Whistler is one of the greatest places in Canadia to go Skiing. Expensive, for sure, and there are most certainly touristy places (Whistler Blackcomb, the most prominent of our resorts, is a giant gaping black hole of expenses example) but there is a very large number of other ski resorts and mountains dotted around Whistler to go on. Quebec and Montreal, both larger cities, have dedicated Ski resorts (Mont Tremblant is a popular example) geared towards tourists, but that doesn’t make them any worse. I’m afraid it’s merely preference for this one.
Also, be prepared to smell pot as you ski down the mountains. It happens far too much.
3) Remember, French is our second language, and it’s only spoken heavily in the main parts of Quebec/Montreal, and therefore mostly unnecessary. Still wise to pick up on the language, though. Honestly, if you’re Australian or British, we’ll take a shine to you (especially if you have an accent), so there isn’t any specific customs you should memorize, just be polite whenever possible and all that. But keep in mind a lot of stereotypes of Canada are either 100% wrong or right, so best to assume not at all. Except Poutine, goddamn Poutine is great.
4) We use Ticketmaster as well, you’re cool.
BONUS: The west coast’s weather (Vancouver) is quite mild compared to.. er.. the rest of Canada. No, seriously, it’s really fucking cold in the rest of Canada, so much so that you HAVE to consider it when you decide where to go.
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Legend!
I’ll keep this all in mind!
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If you’re thinking about moving, it’s a whole other matter, but a step at a time, yeah?
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Sorry, I couldn’t get past the first question.
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1. “Toronto”
AHAHAHAHHAHHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAomg
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That’s all I expected you to contribute, Bish. And you delivered splendidly.
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Would you like to elaborate? 😛
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@tadmod
Toronto, nice enough place to live (apart from the damned cold, but Canada I guess), but holy cow is there nothing to do here for 10 months out of 12. The touristy stuff here is extremely limited. Maybe it’s because I grew up in Sydney where we’re all “SUNSHINE! HARBOUR BRIDGE! OPERA HOUSE! BEACHES!” etc etc, but yeah, kind of a boring place.
Niagara Falls? That’s neat. Border of America is novel too.
Ottawa has all the fancy government stuff (oooohhhh, pretty buildings) and borders Quebec which has some novelty. The little canal by Colonel By Drive (or somewhere) is absolutely lovely in winter, I hear, because it freezes over and people ice skate. Also lovely in Summer.
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@Bish
Hahaha, fair enough then!
All it means is that I’ll be saving money! 😀
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Anyone know why Live is refusing to allow me to sign in unless I supply them with 2 different phone numbers and emails? Kind of frustrating when I only have one of each.
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Yeah, I had that the other day. It’s getting easier and easier to just go with a PS4 next gen.
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i saw the light right after my launch 360 pro got its RROD 18 months after launch… sold it the moment i got it back from microsoft for about $650 and bought a PS3
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morning all!
so i bought a cd key for dark souls yesterday… i also received a scan of the key…..
dodgiest thing i have ever seen in my life
http://i.imgur.com/fhKLXgy.jpg
in saying that, i got my key within an hour,and it activated without any hassles. and all for the low price of $17…
didnt get much time with it yesterday.
Just got past the first boss. idiot me died the first time because i didnt give him that critical hit when falling off the ledge. I learnt my lesson the second time around… also, i received a decent blow from that trap as t=you go upstairs near the boss (where the ball comes slamming down on you).
Good times…
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No nono no, man, that’s good! Except, no, technically it’s the tutorial boss and the next 2 or so bosses might really disrupt your pace.
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First time I fought the asylum demon, me and my roommate were laughing how it was waiting patiently for me to drop from that ledge. The. The bastard swung at me and took the ledge out from underneath me! Hilarious, but I also learnt to not underestimate the game.
I wish there was a way to control the ACTUAL volume of sound coming from my tv. I hate it when I switch channels and some channel decides it wants to be 5 times louder than everyone else. That and playing movies/tv series files is a pain as I always have to adjust the volume.
OH GOD YES I AM ON A PAGE GET ROLL! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Yeah, that stuff is weird. My PS3 I’ve got to turn the volume down for games and up for blu-rays, 360 I’ve got to turn the volume up. :S Inconsistent!
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It’s a loudness thing.
There’s a set of rules for audio levels, ie decibel level, but there’s not a strict set of instructions for what’s called “Perceived Loudness”.
A draft set of guidelines is being tested now in Australian broadcast.
It’s all very interesting if you’re into that sort of that thing.
Which I am.
I’m also into debating social tropes.
Also hypothetical scenarios that usually revolve around putting something in my mouth.
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Call me old fashioned, but I think reading from an e-reader is NOT the same as reading a book. I’ve heard all the arguments (It’s smaller! You can store a gazillion books on it! You can download illegal books! Digital books are cheaper!) but I have a few counterpoints:
1 – A physical book cannot be removed without your permission
2 – The “New Book Smell”
3 – The fact that a tangible book doesn’t need to be recharged
4 – The fact that I can get authors to sign a physical book… not so much with a kindle/kobo/nook/whatever.
5 – Looking at a bookshelf filled with books you love is one of the most satisfying feelings known to me.
Case closed – Real, physical books are better than their digital counterparts.
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I like physical books as much as the next guy, but if I can decide I want to read something and then be reading it in 5 minutes, regardless of where I am, I’m going to take that option. Same reason I purchase most of my music through my phone.
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I buy physical copies of books and pirate them on my Kindle. It’s the best of both worlds as far as I’m concerned. Recharging is rarely an issue and being able to swap between books while out and about with carrying about hefty tomes is a nice bonus.
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agreed, much preffer physical books… i have a library at home…. think my wifey and i are probably around the 1000 book mark. i do think however it is sometimes convenient for me to carry around an ebook on my ipad or something
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I have a Kobo ereader, but it’s more for convenience in certain scenarios. It has probably 100+ books loaded on it, but I also have a large bookshelf in my room as well with, I don’t know – maybe 100 odd books again?
Physical books are far superior and always will be. The smell of a new book, everything – it’s brilliant. I still buy certain books in physical form, but I’ll stress the Kobo has a place in my life as well.
Balancing the two can be interesting, but basically books that I’m super excited about will be bought in physical form, and ones I just feel like reading generally will be in ebook form.
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I love my books, I have hundreds of them. I even have first edition Dickens.
But I have just made a transition to reading my first book on my nexus, it is so much more convenient. Carrying around a gigantic book around everywhere is a pain in the ass if you want to read away from home. I also find it more comfortable holding the nexus rather than a book, especially in bed.-
Bed reading is a massive convenience with an eReader. No page turning or holding up a potentially heavy book.
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I bought a whole set of them in a sale at a monastery for $25.
Was originally there to grab first edition oxford dictionary but somebody already got to it.
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This will upset you: They sit in a box in a closet as I am renting and don’t have space to display them. Next to my 200+ year old gold inlayed vases.
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I buy fun things and play with them.
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I will legitimately buy them off you if you are interested in selling them?
I’ve got a bookshelf that would proudly display them!
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I am in the middle of getting a bunch of things valued, so I’ll you an idea price wise in the future.
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I just googled one of the books that came with it, “Sketches by Boz”.
This is what came up: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1127930122&searchurl=bsi%3D0%26ds%3D30%26fe%3Don%26sortby%3D1%26tn%3Dsketches%2Bby%2Bboz
I nearly threw up.
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Yeah, slightly out of my price-range. I was thinking about the $1k mark, lol.
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Haha sorry man. Had no idea what sort of value I was looking at. I just looked up some of the prices of the others and they’re getting so big I’m thinking its too good to be true. When I get home tonight I’m gonna have to give them a good look and make sure they aren’t some dodgy fakes.
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fo reals?
FUCK YEAH ALEX! WHOS WEARING THE BIG BOY PANTS?! YOU ARE!
Wait that doesn’t seem well-worded
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@sughly: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/995134339/the-realm-game
This looks pretty damn awesome!
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Ohhhh I know that girl, Charlie Bowater! Her art style is amazing! I’m not so sure about the game… I mean, the only bit of game that we saw that wasnt just concept art was in 3d. I dun like much adventure 3d 🙁 But yeah… promising.
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“I know you’ve shut our network down to do some upgrades, and I know you gave us 5 weeks notice of this work but I really need to access my files on the server so can you please start it back up for a few hours?”
Apparently looking incredulous and saying “…what? No!”, then walking off can offend idiots.
Decision made. 360 is being unplugged from the Internet. You want to make it difficult for me to use your service, I won’t use it and refuse to see any of your ads. Machine is purely to play the game I put in now.
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The only problem is without an internet connection, most of your XBLA titles don’t work – they get put into trial mode. Or that’s how it used to work, anyway – haven’t had a 360 for a few years now.
Fucking stupid.
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They get put on trial mode if you’re playing them on a different Xbox than the one your originally purchased them on. All DLC etc should work offline if you’re on the Xbox you bought it on.
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I didn’t know that. My original 360 did die and was replaced. I’m guessing there’s some convoluted license transfer tool you have to use to rectify it.
Doesn’t happen on PSN though. They have limited system activations to counter that though, I guess.
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Don’t get me wrong, it’s dumb just not as dumb as you thought.
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Yeah, I assumed it was MS imposing some ridiculous DRM for not being being logged onto XBL. Happy that’s not the case. Always thought it odd no one had kicked up a stink about it, and that would be why.
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http://support.xbox.com/en-AU/xbox-live/marketplace-and-purchasing/download-content
Yeah, wasn’t too bad trasferring licences, still annoying though.
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Really? I’ve never had that problem. Can still play Walking Dead and Super Meat Boy regardless of connection. \o/
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Luckily I have none of those. PS3 is my primary platform. 360 is more just to pick up the occasional exclusive that may pique my interest (only about 5 so far).
I decided to spend the remaining Xbox credit I had on DLC for Mass Effect 3 and not top it up again too. From now on if I have a choice, I’ll be buying PS3 versions of multiplatform games as well. :S
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I been wanting to get the Citadel DLC, I have all the others seems silly not to.
Damn you consumerism, gets me every time.
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After Lair of the Shadowbroker, it’s probably the best DLC BioWare’s ever done. Lots of fan service plus a genuinely awesome story too. I really liked Omega and Leviathan as well.
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I say Citadel is even BETTER, since it’s simply catered towards a genuinely fun, fan-pleasing experience rather than a serious but well-crafted one like LOTSD.
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That’s true, also gave some much needed ‘lightness’ in an otherwise dark game. I think I loved Shadowbroker so much because it advanced the story between games with lasting decisions and the like. The story in Citadel isn’t as essential, but the time spent with party members was awesome. 😀
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Shadowbroker felt like an actual self-contained story, which the rest of ME’s DLC didn’t feel like (without being rushed, anyway.) Citadel just said ‘Fuck it, give ’em batshit crazy.’
and so they did.
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Fire Emblem, you know you have to! 😀
3DS definitely has a impressive 2013 lineup if I didn’t already have one this would be the year I would impulse buy one.
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If you like RPGS, well,
FUCKING RAM THE NEAREST 3DS DOWN YOUR THROA-the 3DS is pretty good. Otherwise, It’s actually kinda lacking.
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Disagree. If you like RPGs then the 3DS has one good SRPG and a port of one good JRPG, otherwise it’s very bare.
Even counting back catalogues, the Vita’s going to be the RPG portable, just like the PSP was.
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Hyep, the PSP had far better RPGs than the DS, and honestly the Vita is far better in backwards compatibility because of it’s back catalogues. But you can’t compare the current 3DS rpg titles to the Vitas, because both are severely lacking. 😛 Which leads us to preference, and preference’s a bitch.
Also no love for Etrian Odyssey mang? Sadness.
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I guess there’s a few Wizardry clones like Etrian Odyssey on the DS/3DS too, yeah. I honestly had forgotten about them.
Vita has Persona 4, your argument is invalid.
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the fact that you write off EO as mere wizardry clones disheartens me so, man. Enough so that I can’t even make a witty retort about P4. Something something SMT 4. Just, I’m bummed out now.
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When did you last play? I abandoned the series about 2/3 of the way through Pearl, after Blue, Silver, Sapphire, Leaf Green.
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The last game I played was HeartGold (on an emulator). It was good, but I drifted away from the games for some reason.
I recently saw someone playing pokemon on the bus and it re-ignited that childish love for the series. Pretty keen to get back into it!
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Have you played Ni No Kuni? That seemed to tick a few boxes for me for things I’ve missed from when I used to play Pokémon.
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That game was so damn awesome. I don’t like JRPGs, but I loved this!
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Yeah, but I don’t want to buy a home console!
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Pearl
Man, Diamond/Pearl might have turned off Pokemon to a crapton of people.
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Interesting. I beat the Elite However Many, then just couldn’t be bothered with it any more. Like, traded away my pure unused Legendaries from several generations level of couldn’t be bothered any more.
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Well, I was referring to the fact that Diamond/Pearl finally hit people with the ‘Nintendo Redundancy Technique tm,’ and odd pokemon designs, a unremarkable world and quite frankly even less remarkable characters (bar Cynthia) only increased the feeling of stagnancy.
But yeah there’s always the fact that there are a metric shitton of pokemon now. Which compared to a imperial shitton is actually quite large.
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You just summed it up perfectly. That’s exactly what it felt like.
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Yeah, I’ll likely roam around the city and see what’s available. If there aren’t any good deals, I’m more than happy waiting until October to get a bundle with pokemon X/Y
Fire Emblem, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Kingdom Hearts BBS, Resident Evil Revelations, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and MGS3D are my best recommendations.
They’re the standouts (for me), but even those games aside, there’s still some great stuff going on the 3DS! Zelda OoT 3D, Starfox 64 3D, Super Mario 3D Land, New Super Mario Brothers 2 and Heroes of Ruin all warrant an honorable mention.
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So you recommend BBS? I have DDD and its doing my head in with the 5 new mechanics introduced every 30 seconds.
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It’s pretty hectic, I won’t lie. I didn’t play Dream Drop Distance much, but I’m fairly sure there are similarities – maybe if you didn’t like DDD you won’t like BBS? Can’t be certain, but I’d remain wary.
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Me and my friend have both agreed that BBS has the best gameplay of all of the kingdom hearts series.
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James Noire’s Hollywood Crimes has a sequel!?
Make sure you play the first so your not lost in the overarching storyline.
Y’all see the deals?
Best I’ve seen is a pre-order for the Limited Edition Animal Crossing one at $180. Friggen bargainnnn
Pretty sure it’s around $200 at JB for a plain one.
Give It All by Rise Against just started playing on my iPod, and I have the sudden desperate urge to ditch work, go home, and fire up NFS Underground 2.
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this song is on heavy rotation on my ipod. until like a month ago i didnt realize it was about kids who commited suicide. I thought it was just catchy. Still i do like rise against.
Yes lady. I’m more than happy to do all the work for you “just so I can see what it is” so you can just buy the one fifty cent item and not pay me anything for my work.
Go jump off a cliff you cheap idiot.
My favourite RPG of all time: Breath of Fire II.
There is a man that yells at you “I WANT TO SELL FISH”.
You can build your own town and invite people to open shops. I made that man’s dream come true.
Never finished the game though.
WHO MISSED ME!?
No one, right? Because you all saw me on Saturday.
If you didn’t see me with your eye balls, hear me with your ear holes.
In which I discuss copulation as Nicholas Cage.
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Did you hear? We’re having a night where we force DC to watch movies and other fun stuff at my place Saturday night. Don’t be a Dan and come along for fun times.
Or are we not as cool as your new Sydney buddies :'(
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You’re not as cool as a lot of things.
Not sure about Sat, I’m well strapped (not as in with guns as in no cash) but I’ll see if I can make it. Would be cool to whisper sweet nothings* in all of your ears.
*Yell crass jokes
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Can I simulate the experience by listening to http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/04/19/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e02-4-sale-one-mattress-see-dan/ with my headphones on?
Also, ouch. That hurts man. Way down there *vague gesture*
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Just read a few more reviews of riptide… ouch.
My desire for this game seems to be wavering a little, however most of the reviewers sound like pompous windbags, so I don’t have much faith in their (lack of) appreciation of mass zombie killing.
I shall sit and think on this situation for a while.
Then probably end up buying it anyway.
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After seeing TotalBiscuit’s WTF Is… on it, I can only come to the conclusion that is astand-alone expansion pack for Dead Island.
If you liked Dead Island and want more of it, it seems like a good idea. If you didn’t like it, didn’t play it or were just indifferent, then what’s the point?
Really, I’m just surprised we’re seeing a real damned expansion pack from a company that isn’t Blizzard. It does seem appropriate for Dead Island, what with it just being an RPG where you kill zombies.
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I find it interesting that a lot of the negative reviews often say it is much like the first, yet then give it a score of almost half of what the original game was given. Is this simply a case of it did not live up to their expectations and there is no vast differences to the first, therefore we much loathe and ridicule it?
I think you may have the right idea of treating this game as you would an expansion… or a new edition assassins creed 😛
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It’s weird, Riptide is even sold at a reduced price (just like Super Street Fighter and Heart of the Swarm, two well known expansion pack releases). I wonder if they had advertised it as an expansion, people would be less critical?
In general though, the second game in a series has to be an improvement on the original to rate as high. We’ve had expectations that sequels won’t just be “more of the same” for most series for a long time.
How Assassin’s Creed has managed to get away with this is beyond me.
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Cause you got to collect feathers and other fun things.
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Dead Island got shitcanned as well, and I loved that game. It’s going to go one of two ways – the game will have quirks and quibbles you’ll either be able to get past, or you won’t.
I mean I haven’t played Riptide, it’s preloading on Steam right now for me, and I’ll be playing it after work – but I reckon it’ll be more of the same again.
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“I got a Zombie army and you can’t harm me, WHO DO YOU VOODOO, BITCH”
My girlfriend told me at 9 am that my copy is waiting at home HOWAMISUPPOSEDTOWORKNOWCOMEONEHOMETIME, so hyped for this one, had so much fun co oping the last one, my main co op buddy couldn’t afford it and I’m that keen to play it with him I bought 2 copies and am giving him one,
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Might be worth checking what the same reviewer thought of the first game.
From what I can see, if you liked the first one, this one ain’t bad. If you’re expecting something better, don’t bother.
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Simple solution, buy game, play for a few days, don’t like it? return it.
EB Games has its uses, as long as no DLC codes or online passes are involved it should be hassle free.
Just wanted to get an idea from everyone regarding the next gen consoles.
will peeps be going for a PS4 or X-Box?
i know its still early days, with no official announcement from MS as of yet, but personally, from what ive seen and heard, MS look like theyd need to work some serious miracles to get my attention…. it just seems to me that they are pushing forward a completely closed platform, completely alienating indie developers, taking the emphasis away from the games, and placing the focus on a generic multimedia system…
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I’m not sold on either and we don’t know anything about the new Xbox. The 360 is really dragging behind right now and the direction they’ve been going for the last few years hasn’t been what I want. A change of direction and the right list of new games will be enough for me to buy the new one, eventually.
Nothing said so far has got me interested in picking either up day 1 though.
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So far PS4. Pretty much based purely on the PS3 and 360 and where they are at currently. Sony seem to offer a lot more of what I want.
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PS4: Will cost an arm and leg, still too many unknowns
Xbox: At this point it could be a hybrid cat/video game console for all we know.*shrugs*
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I miss the days when DAN! did more than show up on TAY to spam links to his podcast.
DAN! WE MISS YOU.
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DAN! is now a shameless commercial whore.
DAN! sold out, man.
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It’s craxy how many situations that “Shameless Whore” aptly describes me.
Find out how many!
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Like.. Two?
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That’s being generous.
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Misspell a word or use incorrect grammar, he will literally sprint to the computer to do this:
* Rocketman is A douche -
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I would say
“I love you, don’t ever change”
but that’s a lie. I want you to change, and i will facilitate that change by force. No more Mr nice guy. The monster you have brought forward shall consume all your hopes and dreams. It shall take from you everything that you love and desire. It will eat away at your mind until finally you are nothing more than a shell of your former self. A man so broken that not a single person could find it in their hearts to love you.P.S I fucking hope this rant has no mistakes.
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@rocketman
It does.
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If y’all would do like I said and pimped it for me I wouldn’t have to show up and be this radical.
I’d just be normal radical.
I say radical. That’s my thing that I say!
Information is still far from complete, so lots to go yet, but as it stands, PS4 is leading for me. But I’m also wondering if this is the first console generation I might pass on altogether, or at least wait and see.
I’ve really enjoyed my Xbox 360 and haven’t gotten frustrated with it, so I already consider myself invested in the next Xbox, which would have to produce a truly awful experience to throw me off. I’m just a dude that wants to play games, so as long as the Xbox does that, we’re cool.
I don’t mind that they’re moving towards a “generic multimedia system” because as long as that doesn’t detract from the ability of the device to play games, I don’t see why this is a problem. It’s the future for consoles, and if Sony doesn’t see this too then they will fall out of the race.
That and I hate dualshock controllers. I don’t think I’ll be getting a PS4 until they’re ridonkulously cheap, because all I want to play is whatever platform exclusives are produced by Quantic Dreams.
Seems to be quite a bit of Xbox disgruntlement around the place.
Was speaking to my mates at a games night shindig, all of whom have 360’s and don’t keep up on any industry news or whatever – they just buy games and play them.
And almost all of them basically said “f**K MS, I’ll be buying a PS4.” simply for all the BS they have had to deal with as a 360 gamer.
I’ll most likely get both, as to my preferred system it all depends whether or not multi platform releases cater to consoles differently or not, because if they don’t I’ll probably stick to the Xbox.
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The proof i need a job.
I sung the words to the wikipedia page on Udders.
halfway through the proccess of finding a song to mix it with i had a idea.
The idea is that i am a idiot and have way to much free time.
Bring back Vampire the Masquerade, FPS, 3PS and a great balance of dialogue and choices. Like a supernatural Deus Ex with vampires and werewolves 🙂 Give it a Next-Gen Remake 🙂
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:O Them Vampire games were excellent, I loved Vampire the Masquerade redemption i think it was called, I got it as a free bonus with Return to Castle Wolfenstein and ended up playing that way more. Loved how it spanned from like medieval prague up to modern London and New York (was it new york?) Great how you could choose to be good/evil and had multiple endings depending on choices, thanks @socialitegamer , you’ve brought back fond memories.
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Vampire – The Masquerade Bloodlines was the game that I most remember, newly blooded, discovering your new powers, the many different types of vampires you could be……..I couldn’t bring myself to be a Nosferatu however, you couldn’t show your face on the surface and more or less had to feed on rats in the sewers. The ‘Haunted House’ mission brings back memories for me, I remember vases flying at your face, paintings would suddenly move and a ghostly figure was always around the corner…..
I’m sure it was this game @gutsoup, that near the end you were fighting a few incredibly large werewolves…..quite difficult it was. The most memorable mission however was infiltrating a ‘formal party’ and passing off as a human guest to get to someone. You could persuade your way in or infiltrate from the back. Oh how I wish this was a remake. Perhaps I can buy it again on steam…
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I actually bought Redemption when it was new, in a pack with an Anne Rice novel. I loved that game, but I remember thinking it was ridiculously hard because I didn’t realise you had to sleep to allocate your experience points to stats. I finished the entire old-Prague sequence without levelling up once.
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Bloodlines was a pretty cool game, especially if you add in the mods and fixes to make it not a buggy horrible mess. Shame the developer folded 🙁
Oh good. Just got a call from head office. Cheapskate lady called them demanding my job. Good to know $10 is worth more than a families welfare to some people.
Thankfully head office were good enough to realise what it was and just called to let me know and have a giggle about it.
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I sometimes think more people need anxiety issues. Anxiety stops me from being a ass most days.
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Not even a little bit. Except me not speaking up for fear of getting punched in the face. That part is true.
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This guy gets it.
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I think I know the type, they arc up in store, than go above your head and try and get you fired with a over-embellished story.
I guess when you work retail you realize how rampant mental illness is.
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Ha, yeah, I know. She has a couple of EPs and got a heap of attention from a track she did with Illy. Though, if you really want to go back, she was on Australian Idol years ago.
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I think myself, you and sughly should go somewhere and just hold hands and listen to music.
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Oh man, they’re playing at Groovin the Moo this weekend! Can’t wait. As well as The Temper Trap, The Kooks, Tegan and Sara, Regurgitator, Seth Sentry and heaps of others. Keen.
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Ohh i wonder if i can get tickets to the townsville one. I would love to see temper trap and tame impala. I think staying out of the mosh pit at the amity affliction stage is a good idea. although im big, i have as much strength as a bean.
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I think I’m starting to enjoy Fire Emblem a little more, now that my character has enough health to avoid just instantly dying all the time.
Still making me laugh every time I use Frederick in a fight. Even without the silver lance he’s still instakilling all over the place.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend doing that.
You’ve fallen into the trap of using the promoted unit at the start of the game.
He’s sucking away the experience from your other units, who have so much more potential.-
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I liked to pair him up, but not give him any weapons.
No risk of him kill stealing.
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Heh, yeah. The unspoken rule of Fire Emblem! Initially strong characters end up weak, initially weak characters end up strong!
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That seems like the rule of every RPG though. Weak characters have better growth rates whereas strong characters have lower stat growth.
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To anyone who is or may be attending on Saturday night.
We have two options as food goes:
A) a crazy good Japanese restaurant we can get takeaway from. It is a bit on the pricey side though.
B) I’m more than happy to make something myself and expose myself as the culinary fraud that I am 😛
If option B does anyone have any suggestions as to what they would like or like to try?
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I don’t mind paying a little bit for a good meal. Depends if everyone can afford it though. Also everyone take your 3DS!
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David Cage strikes me as a filmmaker who is bitter he couldn’t get into the film industry and compensates for it by remaking Dragon’s Lair.
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I’m glad that David Cage is in games so that we’ve got someone to point at and say ‘that guy is an absolute wanker and we shouldn’t make games like he does’.
And I’m the first person who would argue we need to come up with ways of interacting with our games that don’t involve murdering everyone with firearms all the time. QTEs are not how you do it though.
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It’s even better with 3!
StreetPass quest becomes something of a breeze. Need a Mii with a particular shirt color? Change one of your Miis!
Also your Miis become crazy levelled for meeting each other every single day.
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Hey gang,
Just got back from giving blood. Love getting paid to do that – beats almost anything I’d be doing around here (except for TAY). Apparently, except for the bone marrow donor tests I was asked to do last year, I haven’t donated in over two years :\ Big surprise, and a bit disappointing. Want to get back into the routine of donating as regularly as possible.
How’re you?
Sincerely,
Shane
PS: Thanks for the reminder, @dc
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Dear Shane,
I’ve missed you.
Remember when letter writing page 7 was a thing?
Your friend,
D.C.
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A regular routine is great!
Plasma is good for that since it can happen every 2 weeks.
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Dear @Shane
After I come back from my trip, I’m not allowed to give whole blood for 3 months. I’m switching over to Plasma donations though.
Yours,
Red-Blooded.
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I’d love to start donating again, but I would need to have a day off work and get my finacee to drive me home after. My veins are apparently “very healthy and therefore fantastic at…um…moving blood around”… i.e. I always faint and usually feel sick for a few hours afterwards.
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I get donor leave, and work organised the courtesy bus. Also, I am lucky that I don’t react badly to it at all, so can come back to work (if I have to) :\
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Dear Shane,
I sincerely respect your capacity to give blood. My overwhelming fear of needles typically causes my veins to constrict in terror. One time when I was 9 I needed to be injected with an isotope for a bone scan and the doctor botched the injection so many times that I was no longer able to control my panic-induced fit and had to be forcibly restrained.
The next time I am faced with the prospect of receiving a hypodermic syringe, it will be a life or death situation, and I may not necesarily choose to live. That is the completeness of my terror.
Nakedly yours,
Kermitron
So apparently there’s an in class accounting test in a couple of weeks. Oh boy, that’ll be good.
I got to show off all my project management skills today in info systems though! Finally, something I recognise in that class.
Dear @tadmod
I echo some of your sentiment on ebooks- wrote a thing about it on my blog a month or two ago: http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/an-issue-i-have-with-ebooks/
Yours in Reference
Red.
PS: LETTER WRITING PAGE 7 YEAH
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Fair call, I also like that feeling of going into an antique book store and picking out something that I would never have otherwise.
It’s magnificent.
April 23, 2013
From the desk of one Sir. Dr. Saturday Daniels Greene, Esq.
To whomever reads this letter
Titty Sprinkles
Best Regards.
Sincerely, Sir. Dr. Saturday Daniels Greene, Esq.
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I cannot make judgement on the post because I am yet to ascertain whether it has a more profound meaning.
I will discuss this in detail with my colleagues and come back to respond properly once we have reached consensus.
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Dear Zombies of Dead Island Riptide
I have a level 50 Tesla Gabriel’s Sledgehammer I’d like you to meet. Please form an orderly queue and present your skulls when requested.
Yours Sincerely
Sam B
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Not better. Best. Fawlty Towers is always best.
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Dead Island end-game:
I was playing as Sam B and had a magic wand sledgehammer when I confronted the end boss…er…whatever his name was. I hit him once and nearly knocked him clean off the top of the skyscraper…like, he was half on, half off the edge. I was so surprised and disappointed I let him get up so it could be a proper fight, and it nearly happened again. So I stomped his head, killing him, and won the game.-
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yeah wasn’t much of a boss fight, i hear riptide has proper bosses, can’t wait to build up a base and put up mini guns fences etc, whoo
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Dear Nintendo Europe,
My US 3DS XL came with a power charger and a spare stylus. Why doesn’t the UK one? 🙁
Regards,
NZ
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P.S. The circle pad pro’s battery slot (it takes a battery?!) has to be screwed close? Really?
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It still makes me annoyed they didn’t just put the second circle pad into the XL. There’s heaps of room for it.
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With a credit card? :rimshot:
You buy a charger separately. I already did this because I have a US one and needed an AU charger anyway.
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No charger is fairly common when importing from UK. The one I imported had no charger (they usually tell you in the item description).
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I wasn’t expecting there to be one, I knew it didn’t have one when I ordered. I was actually more surprised at the lack of a spare stylus.
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LETTER WRITING PAGE 7 STOP GET WITH THE TIMES STOP NO ONE SENDS LETTERS ANYMORE STOP WELCOME TO THE FUTURE STOP END TRANSMISSION
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Dear @freezepreston
Your transmission has been intercepted by Nazi spies, a squadron of Luftwaffe has been deployed to your location.
Yours Truly
1944
Dear Nintendo Club AU,
Shoelaces don’t help fill the void of a meager amount of options.
Regards,
DistantDrop
Something I really appreciate about Nintendo’s packaging design: all the spines are consistent. Platform logo, icon, Name of the game (centered, all the same sans-serif font), nintendo logo.
A shelf with the spines facing out looks very clean and nice. Like the awesome way the PAL PS1 and PS2 games used to look. Everyone else has free reign to do whatever they want on the spine and it makes everything look all inconsistent. Especially the bullshit that Sony did when they decided to change a couple of years into the PS3’s life.
I periodically get tempted to start printing my own slicks to make everything in my collection uniform, but then I remember that I’m not quite that anal (and that most printing places would raise eyebrows at me printing a ton of video game slicks)
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The worst is when you get a collectors PS3 edition and it comes in a DVD sized steel book. Crankiness ensues.
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Fucking steelbooks. They’re like an anti-bonus for me. “Preorder now and get a steelbook” NO I DON’T WANT YOUR FUCKING STEELBOOK GIVE ME A NORMAL CASE. 🙁
That said, Steelbooks are pretty nice and if I could have *all* my games in Steelbook I’d do it.
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I love em, but I hate seeing them toted as a huge advantage to buying a collector’s edition. They’re nice, but they’re not a big deal for a lot of people.
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Yeah, I understand if people dig it, but it’s just a normal case, but with a metal layer, that doesn’t fit with anything else.
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I normally don’t mind steelbooks, but I didn’t like the one that came with the ME3 collectors edition because it meant I couldn’t flip the cover around to have femShep on front. Yes, the steelbook does have femShep printed on the back of it, but that means I have to have the steelbook facing backwards with it opening from the left instead of the right and I don’t like that at all.
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Dear Hugo’s wallet,
Why you no have the monies for riptide.
You make Hugo sad.
That makes the Clubby angry.
You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
Condolences for the upcoming clubbing,
Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian
p.s. gives me the perfect motivation to finish the first game before payday anyway,
so *sticks tongue out at wallet* that’ll learn ya.
Dear TAY,
I fear that I may need help. After getting Persona 4 on Friday evening, I have proceeded to put over 30 hours into it, while still having time to feed horribly in games of DotA 2. I think an intervention may be in order.
Trulies,
Blaghs.
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Dear Blaghman,
This is an intervention. Everybody here really cares about you, and that’s why we felt the need to have this intervention. At your own insistence. We want you to get better.If anyone has anything they’d like to say to Blaghs, feel free to speak up now.
Regards,
Panties-
Thank you Pants.
Blaghman, you smell bad and the sight of you makes me drive heave. Where are the snacks?
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Dear Blaghman,
We will be staging an intervention immediately. Your DotA playing has gone too far and it’s stealing valuable time which you should be devoting to Persona.
Regards,
NZ“You spent all weekend playing video games…
Your diligence has increased!”
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Chie, Rise, Yukiko, Other
WELL.
WELL.
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Also it’s probably canon about Kanji/Naoto, so FUCK IT I’M CLAIMING HER EVERY PLAYTHROUGH
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Dear @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
I hope that this finds you well, but I am afraid that i am going to disappoint you.
I played a significant amount of Skyrim over the weekend and I’m afraid to say that it failed to deliver
Dub Dub is heart broken, it has been discovered that I am unable to marry the love of my life. I destroyed an army for her, but alas she is married to the legion.
I am destined to spend the rest of my days hunting down storm-cloak encampments, hoping to win her favour.
Yours in miserable loneliness
Dub Dub
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Dear Dub Dub
You just reminded me that although i Platinumed Skyrim I never got Married, I had my eye on several suiters but completely forgot.
Yours regretfully
Gutsoup
The Eternally Single Argonian-
I married that Huntress chick because she was awesome but as soon as I did she became a subservient doormat so I never saw her again.
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Dear Gutsoup
I am glad you have several suitors, but that isn’t an option for me. My heart belongs to only one. I have considered finding another but how can they compare to my Rikke.
Perhaps if I build a house for us, and destroy the last of the stormcloaks she will come to meWith thanks for your concern
Dub Dub
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I thought you’d like Skyrim, they dump you in a world and say EXPLORE! But each to his own, I jumped from Zelda : Skyward Sword to Skyrim so it seemed like it was teaming with life after the very deserted Zelda entry
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I can see the appeal of the world and exploring, I just find the writing and characters and dialogue bland. Even their Fallout game I found a lot more bland than New Vegas which I loved. (Though this is all opinion, obviously. :D)
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Aw man, now I feel bad!
You know I can only joke about it because your face isn’t bland, right? Otherwise it’s not a joke, it’s just being mean. 😛
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I know you were joking! XD (Atleast I hoped so! D:)
(Although you did say on the weekend that you would tell me if I looked terrible! :P)
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Strange is mean. Grumpy old lady mean 😛
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crazy* mustn’t forget crazy!
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I loved New Vegas, such an awesome game.
I should play that again.
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I loved that world so much and didn’t want to miss any of the details that I barely used the fast travel system. I routinely would walk from one side of the map to the other. Haha!
I barely spent any time in NV compared to 3. I absolutely adored 3.
I was the same at first, but eventually revisited it after a lengthy holiday from Fallout games and it was waaay more fun.
Yup, same here. New Vegas was such a great game. I preferred it compared to FO3 in basically every way. The only reason why I liked FO3 more for a while was because it came out before NV.
I agree with you, man. Tried so hard to like their games, but found them profoundly uninteresting :\
I found Morrowind and Fallout 3 really grabbed me, obsessed me even. But I haven’t really missed Skyrim since I stopped playing even though I’m nowhere near finished it, and Oblivion was kind of boring.
And New Vegas wasn’t a Bethesda game (it was Obsidian and they’re awesome) so your point carries. I’ve always found Bethesda’s stuff to be dull and bland and lifeless too.
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Don’t psyche yourself up too much. They’re good games but they haven’t held up all that great.
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I never said they were bad. Just very obviously PS2 era 3D platformer type games and all that comes with it.
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I appreciate that, don’t get me wrong. I remember last gen alternated crazy between PC like games (KotOR and Jade Empire) and console kind of games that were significantly different. That gap has gone away this gen a little bit, but I’m expecting to see some of that. 😀
Either way, these are classics I probably should atleast try. Haha!
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I think after the Sands of Times collection, my expectations are adjusted a bit. (Those games didn’t hold up all that well at all, alas.)
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You can’t vanish, you need to talk about them with us. Why else would we want you to play stuff, if not so we could talk to you about it.
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It’s not a choice, though. Once I started playing Mass Effect 3 last week I became obsessed. It even kept me awake at night thinking about the story. I missed you guys heaps, but couldn’t stop playing that game. 😀 I think I might play these games differently, though — an hour or so at a time maybe…
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Stop it! There’s no need to watch it, you’ll just spoil the impact it will have when you begin the game. 🙁
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Patience, my friend. Not long to wait now.
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Holy crap.
Can someone please remind me that I have no money? I have already emailed the guy to see if he has anything left in stock – kind of half-hoping the answer is no /o\
Edit @strange I think would be particularly interested. It’s not a bonfire by itself, but still…
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It might just be the fact that I don’t care about Dark Souls, but that looks a bit cheap to me. Certainly not worth $300.
P.S. You have no money.
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Definitely. I don’t know, I just don’t think I could justify spending $300 on that. I mean, that’s not to say it isn’t well made, it is, it just doesn’t look $300 worth of well made.
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Indeed. Neither do I, actually.
It’s the kind of thing I would constantly spam my family with links to, in the hopes they would band together and buy it for my birthday though. :D.
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You have no money. And if he has any left it’s mine because I mentioned it first this morning.
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-221/comment-page-5/#comment-1215759
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@strange while you’re here.
Foodwise would you prefer some pricey but awesome Japanese or me to attempt to make something and if so any preference?
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I love Japanese food! And if it’s pricey it won’t matter because Saturday is payday for me. 😛
I am also not opposed in the slightest to you cooking, but if that was the case I’d recommend something supereasy so you’re not stuck in the kitchen missing all the fun.
Street passes enabled properly this time! I’ve learned my lesson. Now to see who my first streetpass hit is!
It’s probably going to be me 🙁
Dear TAY.
Is letter writing still a thing? anyway, I bring choices for what I should be playing throughout the remainder of the week from my pile of shame. Before anyone brings it up … Dark Souls is not an option, I loathe that game and will never play it of my own free will, I am open to bribery though.
– Doom 3
– Sleeping Dogs
– Dishonoured
– Shadow of the Colossus
– Dead Rising 2
– The Walking Dead
Kind regards,
Tofu
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The Walking Dead or Dishonored! (I loved Sleeping Dogs too, but open world games tend to be more of a time sink.) If you hold off with Shadow of the Colossus we can play it at the same time! 😀
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Sleeping Dogs, good fun,
Dead Rising 2 if you have someone to co op with then yes if not maybe not, I found this game more fun co op, plus you can split up and not miss as many events, (plus if you put your mind to it you can finish it really quick as it’s a time limited game)Edit: Hometime I’m coming DEAD ISLAND
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Dead Rising 2 keeps coming up in unrelated conversations…I think there’s going to be a few people revisiting it soon.
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Well, I’ve been going co-op with my housemate … there’s something satisfying about dressing up as the love child of Jason Voorhees and Leatherface, delimbing zombies with the Defiler while a ninja throws meat at a tiger called snowflake.
Curse you for being able to afford Dead Island and I can’t. CURSE YOOOOOOOU!
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Curse you and your curse, every time I tried to play this last night something would stop me, all night, didn’t even get to load the damn thing up, really irritating, the only thing that kept me going through work yesterday was the prospect of playing. now today I’m sad and annoyed 🙁
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– Doom 3 was fun
– Sleep Dogs I haven’t played yet
– Dishonoured? Never heard of it but Dishonored was FUCKING AMAZING! In my top 5 gaems for last year
– Shadow of the Colossus is fun but pretty frustrating and doesn’t really hold up
– Dead Rising 2 good derpy fun
– The Walking Dead – awesomes! Was also in my top 5 last yearTherefore based on how the game’s are, I recommend doing something like one Colossi a day, a chapter of The Walking Dead a day and just play Dishonored or something. SotC and TWD are easy to spread over a long time or you can just burn through them quickly.
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Dear Tofu
I also possess the game titled Dead rising 2
I have received tidings from my advisers that the game is most enjoyable when played in what the it the business call “co-op mode”
If you would like to experience the game in this manner and would like for me to partake in said game, please let me know
Regards,
Tigerion-
Sir >STOP<
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Might I enquire on which system you have this game? >STOP<
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Tofu >STOP-
Dear Tofu
Thank you for the prompt reply and I hope this carrier pigeon relays my response quickly
The game is contained within my Personal Computer and executed upon the architecture know as steam
Kind regards
Tigerion
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I mentioned the Kickstarter for the point-and-click adventure game The Realm earlier, but here’s an interesting write-up for any one interested. The art direction is insanely beautiful. (Especially the actual gameplay stuff shown on the monitor later on in the pitch video.) Over grown, colourful post apocalyptic setting. Girl with a golem sidekick. Inspired by Ico too, apparently!
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I understand you’re excited, and the art is absolutely beautiful, but as far as I can tell this is coming from a design studio. This will be their first game. Even the programmer they have featured on the page hasn’t done a lot of game stuff. I think I’ll remain reserved, but I’m curious to see how it turns out.
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Perhaps you guys can help me out.
I don’t know if it’s a problem with my work PC or something wrong with the website, but when I trawl through TAY I can’t seem to find any conversations about Soul Sacrifice (apart from yesterday’s brief exchange).
I don’t get it. I tried turning it off and on again, but there’s still no sign of hype.
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Well yeah, not much point writing stories for the 5 people with Vitas on this site.
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I’d talk about it if I had space for the demo 🙁 I’d have to delete stuff off my memory card to get it. But I’m importing the US release when it appears!
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I’ve used them twice, first time was for Strange’s Ni No Kuni and that took ages to process but arrived within a couple of days or so when it finally shipped. Ico/SotC shipped today after I ordered it yesterday, so I’ll let you know when that arrives.
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Easy! Australian rating on the front? (PG) or a PEGI 7/12? (not a sticker though)
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I got mine from the store, not sure about Mighty Apes… you’ll have to ask Strange! 😀
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But you said it arrived! So I assumed you ordered a copy for her then gave it to her but now it sounds like you ordered a copy but sent it to her address?
Or you did the former but didn’t open it 😛
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I sent it to her address, got the ‘your order has shipped’ e-mail and had lunch with her on Feb 6 I think it was where she said it arrived that morning. 😀
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@dc – Ah fair enough!
@strange – ANSWERS!?!?!
I’m curious since @negativezero ordered Monster Hunter from them and I’m leaning towards it being a UK copy rather than Australian. I’ve ordered from MightyApe before and got New Zealand copies (but that was before they had .com.au) and UK so eh, who knows! 😛
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I answered you 10 minutes ago.
Australian.
Most of the time MA will give you AU versions.
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My Ico/SotC is a U.S. import though!
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I never know whether to believe those though. But it sounds like I might get Monster Hunter by the weekend if I’m lucky. Then I can find out if Nintendo UK will give me a free game or not.
Welp, I just got a package from @shane … whatever could it be?!?
CUE ZELDA CHEST OPEN NOISE!
it is Assassins creed III and more importantly his business card. Thank you oh greatest of sirs.
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I got one. *smug look*
I liked how the return address on the back of a physical object was an email.
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So do I. I’m literally 20 minutes from his house right now. Take that, stalker D.C.
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You Canberra TAYbies should hang out more.
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Hey @shane,
I received my goodies yesterday. Thanks! But as predicted, one of them was wrong. On the plus side, I haven’t actually seen Dawn of the Dead.
Hey @zetrox2k,
I have your DVD. If you ever want to see it alive then send me your address details at [my username].[this site] at gmail. Be warned that I will probably watch it first. And really, threatening to kill a movie about the undead? That probably doesn’t make very much sense any way that you look at it.
EDIT: Stupid HTML
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That must be it. Haha! Best case scenario, it’s dodgy Enslaved: Odyssey to the West style marketing by Namco Bandai and that isn’t good. Otherwise, it seems a lot like that incident with Gearbox and that other scifi licensed game. D:
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What are you referring too by the Enslaved thing? They did advertise it quite a bit and I don’t think reception was TOO bad.
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Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!
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I was going to say that “game x”* got way less marketing, as an example, but as a kind of joke because it got like, no marketing, but for the life of me, I can’t remember what it was called.
*Game which had like, a kid(teenagery guy, really), and a big creature, and it was like, a platformer, and it looked pretty decent, and reviews weren’t terrible, and it wasn’t The Last Guardian before anyone suggests that and it is really bugging me that I can’t remember its name, and I think maybe Strange might have played it, or seen it, or something, but I may well be completely wrong.
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Like the Legend of the Phoenix, ah-hah
It’s @Spaghett’s Last song played game!
Get Lucky (radio edit) – Daft Punk ft Pharrell Williams
Edit: DAFT PUNK PAGE GET YEAH
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Man, I have the wanties hard right now
http://io9.com/watch-a-gamer-combine-a-vr-headset-with-an-omnidirectio-476999106
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Oh god, I nearly signed off an email with “Greenius”
Which made me think… “did I sign off any other ones with Greenius without realising!?” specifically job related ones :/
Damn @shane and not having that problem! >:(
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Can you come to my house, and play through it while I watch? I’m way too lazy to actually play it…
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No, because I know I’m conveniently forgetting all the stuff I didn’t like about the game too. 😛 (Also hermit! :D)
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He said he isn’t giving up on Dark Souls
See that @shane @strange @sernobulus @greenius
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I spent the past minute trying to reply to that but Kotaku was being screwy 😛
My thoughts were something like “Why would you want him to give up on Dark S… OH EDIT 😉 I getcha”
But now this is going to lead into a huge edit war >:P
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No it’s not.
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I don’t believe in unnecessary edits. 😛
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That’s deceptive. 😛
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All’s fair in love and Dark Souls.
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FIRE EMBLEM QUESTION:
(@SATURDAY)
Do Side Stories stay there forever (until I do them) or do they go away if I progress the story more?
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I think they stay for a while – not sure how long, though. I always complete them within one story mission.
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They stay there as far as I can tell. I find it good to do them as they come up though for some cool items/new recruits/bit of extra EXP!
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There’s just a certain one I know would be easier if I tackled it later on but I’m scared I’ll lose it 😛
The third one with the villagers
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Does anyone know what the weird secret text box hidden behind the page above the usual on on mobile TAY on iOS is? It kind of both scares and intrigues me. Never been game to start posting stuff in it on case I go all @lambomann007 on everything.
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I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
I guess I’m not part of the cool exclusive text box club :'(
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Occasionally through some arcane black magic (I’m assuming) the text cursor positions itself higher up the page and moves across as you type.
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I knew this would happen. Bought Fire Emblem on the weekend, heading home for sister’s wedding prep tomorrow and what arrives on my doorstep today but Radiant Historia. All the games, none of the time.
Oh, ballsacks.
I decided to take a break from Persona 4. So I put it in standby, hopped on TS, and started doing whatever I do.
I just decided to take another crack at it, only to find that my Vita is unresponsive. I’ve plugged it in now, and it’s giving me a flashing light, which means that its battery is so low that it won’t even turn itself on, despite being plugged in(Having battery issues like this, what does my Vita think it is, a 3DS?).
I don’t remember the last time P4G told me to save. I think it was something like 5 hours ago.
Bother, blast, and blow.
Edit: Crisis averted, it didn’t completely lose power, so it kept the game state saved. Phew. *Wipes fictional sweat from brow*
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Plugged in how?
If it’s through USB (just USB) it uses more power than it gains (or something) so the console has to be turned completely off to charge.
If it’s plugged into the wall normally (I am best with terms) then I don’t know what’s going on :'(
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It’s plugged into the computer, but I’ve had it gain power while it’s been plugged in to the comp. and I’ve been playing on it, so I think that it’s just a little bit stupid.
Also, I hate how the light flashes less quickly as it gains more charge, because I keep glancing at it, seeing the light on for 2 seconds and getting excited, only to have it blink off again.
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Mine’s never charged when connected to the computer and turned on. It had to be completely turned off before it charged 😛
Did you plug in into the wall and save? 😛
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Nope. The best part about being me is that I don’t learn from what I experience.
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I had that with my most recent replay of Pokemon HG. Left my 3DS in sleep mode overnight, which turned into a couple of days. Went to play some more and it had run flat. 3 gyms and about 10 levels for each of my 6 pokemon had been lost 🙁
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I’m just really confused, because I left my Vita in stand-by for 2 weeks a while back, and it lost maybe 15% of its power, but it dies after an hour from about 25%? I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU, TECHNOLOGY!
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SHUSH WITH YOUR LOGIC
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I SHOULDN’T NEED TO SAVE MY GAMES, THIS IS 2013 NOT 2003!
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My phone does that when it’s really dead. If I plug in to usb on my computer, it doesn’t work, but if I plug in to the wall direct, give it 10-15 seconds, and then it’ll power back up
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Ssssh, that’s kind of spoilery. Haha! (Not really, but I’m being extra cautious after ontarget’s joke. :P) -
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Stupid review embargos. A lack of reviews isn’t going to trick me into buying a game, Namco Bandai! *shakes fist*
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Also if you’re willing to contribute to an article like this last month, what’s changed? Bah!
(Haha! I might be riled up. :D)
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Hey DC. How’s things with you?
I saw you saying Peace Out the other night, you hackey sack playing hippie 😛-
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All good, man, all good. Was just saying your secret’s out – you’re really one of us 😛
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*strums guitar*
Come on people now,
Smile on your brother,
Everybody get together,
Try to love one another right now… -
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Now I’m scared D:
@dc what did I dooooooooo
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This is definitely what you meant.
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Daenerys* Also, hers was the part of the episode that I cared least about, funnily enough. I mean, I knew it was coming, but yeah. Armies and jazz are meh.-
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I can forgive you for this, since you haven’t read the books.
I can’t forgive you for not reading the books, but that’s okay.
While I’m here, I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=57ta7mkgrOU
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Screw the books, I likes me the TV show and not knowing what’s going to happen! 😀
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But sometimes it’s hard to avoid those pesky spoilers :'(
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*glares at OnTargett* 😛
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I also like not knowing what’s changed from the books. You can’t dwell on that stuff if you don’t know any better. 😀
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I find the differences fascinating. Some of them are clearly budget related, some are to promote more boobs, but there’s enough in their own category that I know they’re trying to do their own thing.
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Yeah, I love the effort that people go to to create fictional languages these days. Probably best to blame Lord of the Rings for that. I… didn’t notice the music, will have a re-listen.
I was saying how much I love Daenerys, but would like her to do something instead of thinking about doing stuff… then she did stuff. It was awesome! 😀
So did Beric. And ‘Yarp’ man. And Varys. And the Queen of Thornes. And Tywin.
Goddamn this show is good.
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Been playing Mass Effect, okay. I’ve been talking to Omega lady. 😛
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Yup and yup.
Characters:
Beric is eyepatch man, Yarp man is the Hound/Sandor Clegane, but also played the guy in Hot Fuzz who only ever said Yarp therefore he is Yarp man. And queen of thornes is the sarcasticly shrewd old lady-
As in awesome golden flower poopy grandma? I really like her attitude 😀
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Holy crap, the 3D in Fire Emblem looks great. This is the first game where I’ve really felt like it adds something to the whole experience that isn’t there playing in 2D.
It makes my eyes tire out really fast though 🙁
I feel like my 3DS ownership blues may have finally turned a corner.
Oh. Well it looks like my comments aren’t being auto-moderated any more.
And here I was preparing to leave TAY, looks like ya’ll gonna have to put up with me a bit longer 😛
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How long were you being moderated for? You’ve been posting all day. Remember that time I couldn’t post for a day and a half. :'(
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Since 8:59pm! I replied to you with “DARK SOULS”, so I blame you for this.
I just logged out and came back later and it worked :P. Aren’t you guys lucky.
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You only said that because you can’t upvote your own comment.
It’s okay, we’re still best friends. We’ll always have our Draw Something moment <3
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Going to check out the pilot of Hemlock Grove. Looks interesting but I find Eli Roth to be a bit hit and miss.
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Given that all you Persona people talk about is the girlfriends in it, that doesn’t sound good at all.
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If only he wasn’t on the moon.
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Hey! Don’t knock the waifus! TAY is a place we come come and be sad (in the British way, I mean, a bit rubbish) :p
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In semi-related news I decided to end my month or so long Persona 4 hiatus and play the game again.
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Score = 14,442… I don’t think i’m going to win 🙁
Also, I’m replaying Catherine to get some more endings (got Katherine’s true ending this morning – so freaking awesome for an old romantic like me 😛 ). Anyway, there is a stuffed Teddie in the bar, whihc i didn’t notice on my first playthrough….
Um, @jimu too
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Yeah, I never noticed a teddy.
I got that romantic ending first playthrough, Im shithouse at the puzzles, but I excel at the virtual relationships! 😀
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http://www.gog.com/gamecard/fez
I knew it was being released on PC, but weird to see it on GOG for pre-order!
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Man, that game.
It’s really really clever.
But man, that Phil Fish.
He’s really really dickish.
I only ever played a bit of it. It hurt my brain, and not in that good way that Antichamber did. Actually, it was the same way, but I’d need to boot up my 360 to play it, so it goes unplayed.
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As I said, it is a ridiculously clever game, like, it makes me a little jealous, kind of clever. Unfortunately, it knows it, which ruined it a bit for me. Also, it relies a bit on nostalgia for like, old games (It straddles a weird line, a lot of its stuff is primitive enough to pretend to be 8 bit, some of it is definitely 16 bit, I’m not really sure though), which I don’t have, so I feel like that was all lost on me.
I’d recommend it, despite my intense dislike of Phil Fish (he beats David Cage, which is saying a lot :P).
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Same for me.
And when I did decide to go back to it they released that save erasing ‘patch’ or something so I didn’t want to risk it and just never played it again…
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Wait wait wait. Fez is coming to PC? You mean I’ll actually be able to play it now? AWESOME \o/
Oh god help, I want a ridiculous haircut /o\
Better yet, I’m contemplating doing it myself because I’m not going to get a chance to see a hairdresser for a few months yet…
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The last few times I had any hair cut was by my own doing, and look how I turned out!
*Aleph starts crying, removes all scissors from his house, promises to never touch his own hair again*
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I saw a kid with three rattails the other day.
EDIT: His hair style was pretty bad too hur hur hur (There, I made the most obvious joke for you all)
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Or D.C. could probably buy the original and play it on his Wii!
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Nah, wouldn’t be able to buy it new and I don’t like pre-owned games. 😀
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Nothing wrong with pre-owned games!
There’s a guy who sells some excellent condition GameCube games (scratch free discs!) for a decent price ($40ish I think?). It just depends on the condition and the game itself. I think Eternal Darkness was 30-40 whereas Twin Snakes was 80 or so. Both are still unplayed :/
Sudden urge to get Luigi’s Mansion now 😀
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No. Pre-owned. Games. >:|
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Urgh. I always wanted Twin Snakes.
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Bargain!
And don’t bother buying pre-owned… yet… (let me win the current auctions :D)
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:O Forget that…
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I know you’ll say no, but I’m pretty sure I have a copy laying around that doesn’t get played anymore. You’re welcome to it if you want it
No thanks, man. Means a lot, though. You’re awesome! 😀
*ahem*
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I have it. Unfortunately I’m not at home at the moment 🙂 We can play it in the next few days though.
Did you finally decide what to play?
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Oh, so I see masha has found a new game buddy :'(
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Game buddy? It hasn’t happened yet 🙂
Also, the game has 3 player co-op so you could join in.
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😀 friendssss
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Ugh @dc…
I just spent like 30 mins looking Luigi’s Mansion eBay listings and bookmarking and setting reminders! >:P
@freezespreston Gameholio was the guy I bought from. I saw he had a mint condition one for like $140 but if you go for like “8/10” ones (which is something like I got) for $80ish a couple of years back then you’ll be fine!
I justify it by saying it was probably about that price back then as well :P. The only ‘downside’ is that most of his games are UK rather than Australian. No biggie but still worth mentioning.
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Haha! Blame SerNobs, I’ll probably just get a 3DS and LM2 if I have enough left over from selling a kidney on the blackmarket to get Arcade Fire tickets! 😛
On that note, I’m going to sleep. Peace out, home slices.
And so begins the epic tale of Pimpingest Shepard.
It’s REALLY weird seeing a Shepard that doesn’t look anything like my old one. In my mind he was Shepard. That’s what he looked like.
Not a bright blonde flat top and handle bar moustache that’s for sure. Hulkamania.
Hey guys, any thoughts on selling vidya gaems? eBay/Gumtree/TAY?
I’ve got some old games lying around that I wouldn’t mind selling, don’t play them any more and now that I’m a poor student again some extra cash wouldn’t go astray.
All opinions welcome!
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We have a hard enough time giving games away for free on here. Still TAYbies are kind enough that they would likely offer you money for them anyway (not me though, I’m the worst :P). Some of my friends have managed to sell a bunch of stuff through Gumtree with some success. Ebay I dont know anyone who’s sold through it, mum buys plenty of stuff, but never sold
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I’ve sold games. It’s easy enough but since I’m no postage wizard like @shane I just set postage to the standard $7ish and since eBay also takes a cut you’re going to earn considerably less than you would in other places.
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Fair call, thanks for the tips. I’ll see what I’ve got and apparently you can search eBay just for auctions that have ended? I might do that. I’ll also let you guys know what I find, if anyone wants something 🙂
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Yeah, you can look at the Completed Listings and I do that whenever I want to sell stuff or buy something as it gives me a general price range.
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I’ll give you half of them for a buck, and give the other half to @greenius for another buck. Everybody wins! \o/
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@scree
Hi 🙂
Is it possible for you to please obtain a bunch of Club Nintendo UK codes from GameTraders?
Nintendo UK have a register 3 games get 1 free promotion and I’d love to get my grubby hands on some games :D. I know last time you had a whole heap of spare codes from them and since this is currently Europe/UK only we’ll still be able to make use of it if we had the codes 😀
Thanks!
– Greedius
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You are an amazing person <3
Thank you ! 😀
Did you see the list of eligible titles? Those are the only ones I’m interested in since they’re the only ones that count towards the promotion. If you didn’t read about it, basically you register 3 of the titles between now and July 31st and you can get a code for one of the others.
The games are:
– Castlevania: Mirror of Fate
– Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
– Luigi’s Mansion 2
– Fire Emblem Awakening
– Lego City Undercover
– Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
– Donkey Kong Country Returns
– Animal Crossing-
Should be bale to get most of them except Animal crossing.
…I might take advantage of this promotion as well. =P
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What? A Ratchet and Clank film?
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/04/23/ratchet-clank-movie-coming-to-cinemas-in-2015-see-the-first-trailer/
I’m not 100% sure about it but we’ll see. It’s a video game movie after all, so who knowns if it will even cone out 🙂 Hopefully there is a decent standalone game released with the film too. After the disappointing All 4 one and Q force we need a good R&C game.
I have such a big backlog I don’t know when I’ll get to my Ratchet and clank: A crack in time replay. Such an awesome game.
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Apparently a direct-to-video Heavenly Sword movie was announced as well. It will be an animated film. Weird.
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I saw that when I was on Anna Torv’s IMDb page, looks like they’ve got the core cast back too.
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I’m scared of what’s going to happen to my room… Yesterday they wrote “Welcome to week 8 :)” on everybody’s doors, and today they’ve started trashing them 😛 Apparently fucking shit up during week 8 is a tradition.
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Yeah, there’s some really weird ones. Some of them are all in good fun, but others are just stupid.
This years new tradition seems to be transporting people in the boots of cars. I guess it’s not that much of a big deal if it’s just going from Uni up to the college which is about 800m up a hill, but going 10km from the city to here is a little bit dangerous.
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Which uni?
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UTAS (so much prestige!)
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That’s the stupidest damn thing you can ever do. You guys are idiots.
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For the record I’ve never taken a ride in the boot, but yeah it does happen and I think it’s pretty idiotic too.
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Sorry man, you’re not an idiot then. 😀
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Never. Just gotta keep you on your toes
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Apparently not! The “executive committee” is made up of a bunch of wankers who only care about keeping up appearances anyway, so it doesn’t surprise me.
Sometimes I feel like I missed out on something by not living on campus when I was a student.
Then I read stuff like this. Definitely not my scene. 😛
So I got a missed delivery notice so need to get it resent to work
But not feeling well so going to have to get it sent on Friday
So an extra 2 days wait
but on the plus side bioshock \o/
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Thanks D.C
Didn’t come down with gastro which was the concern last night
Not 100% but wouldn’t say I am sick, decided to sleep in a bit longer and work from home
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Cracked have an article about the worst colouring in books and included are Terrorist cards.
Apparently Julian Assange is on the same level as the Washington Snipers.
@strange, @freezespreston, and Dark Souls peeps:
Hi Shane!
Are you interested in the Dark Souls 2 chess piece? I have them available for $50 + shipping ($10 to Australia). The article is not accurate- the chess piece isn’t part of the video game collector’s edition; it’s a preview piece of a potential Dark Souls & Demon’s Souls chess set. Let me know if you would like to order one and/or any of my other statues available. I also have a facebook art fan page, if you are interested in following my new work there.
Thanks so much!
Peter
Today is pay day, and I said to myself “Fuck it, I’m getting one.” Anyone else want one? Happy to get them sent to me and disperse them to you. Might save something on postage (although $10 is pretty reasonable for overseas post!).
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… two links. No moderation.
I think I win TAY today. Thanks all. It’s been fun. *bows out*Edit: … damn it.
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When I went back to edit my comment, it went into moderation because of the two links 😛
And I was all set to do a “I don’t know what you’re talking about” thing. Thanks.-
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Want a chess piece? My treat – payback for Dark Souls 2
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Neh. I can keep a lot of things safe at home but small figures hold no chance (my 12″ Predator bobble head 🙁 You’ll be missed.)
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I love the elite knight at the bonfire. It’s sooo pretty. $300 is more than I can afford though 😛
I’m thinking of emailing him back, and seeing if he’ll do just a bonfire. @strange, you want a piece of that?
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You see, the thing about being forever alone means I could probably afford it. Also Artorias was such a bad-arse in Dark Souls
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Ooh, yes…I would definitely pay for just a bonfire, especially if it’s smaller and ends up the same price as the chess piece. I probably couldn’t justify anything more than $100 though.
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All right!
I’ve emailed him about this, and we’ll see what he comes back with \o/
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Awwww man… I’m in the office and the sun is glaring in my eyes (reflected off another building in the city)
#FirstWorldProblems
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At like 8:30am the sun ALWAYS shines through a tiny gap in my blind and right into my eyes.
Also an Indian Minor likes to sit on the outside of my bedroom window and chirp like crazy while pooping everywhere and pecking stuff.
Quick note: @cj is a pretty cool guy. He gives out free 40k related stuff like the exemplary specimen of a man he is. What a stud.
Hump Day Hilarity
Kevin Bridges:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn6_zxco1nw
John Bishop:
You’re welcome.
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Eluveitie’s Uxellodonon
I keep listening to them, thinking they’re my next big concert but I’ve just realised Tool is. Guess I’d better listen to Tool again. -
One – Rockabye baby instrumental lullaby version
Been going through all their albums, some are really well done. We just bought the queen version and it’s pretty good. But the AC/DC one has great album art but dodgy music
Star Trek game is released in U.S. now, no reviews. Although I read that Namco Bandai sent out review copies incredibly late. :S No embargo, just nothing to review.
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Yep, same.
There’s still a big chance I’ll end up in Star Trek Online again before the week is out…
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Evangelion 4.0 teaser/preview’s out. Fair amount, and by fair amount I mean a lot of CGI. And a lot I mean I think the whole damn scene is CGI.
EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcC8dF7Rbl8 for those interested.
EDIT 2: Also, fair chance of spoilers in the trailer? Honestly, without watching 3.33 you won’t understand at all what the hell is going on, but spoilers nonetheless.
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Ohhhh lordy…
This is butt ugly. Butt. Ugly. Putting this side by side with Asuka’s fight in end of eva, which is one of the greatest pieces of 2d action animation ever? Ohhhh lordy…
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Was there any CG at all in End of Evangelion? IIRC FLCL was the first Gainax production to use any digital processes…
Animation really has lost something going digital. Traditional animation was a lot more expensive but when you put the budget in it really would show and those films still tend to stand up well against flashier digital productions too, eg. look at how amazing Macross: Do You Remember Love still looks.
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Hear hear. I was on the fence about it, because I understand the reasons, but far out… this just throws me off that fence completely. Blergh.
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Innocence CG looked wicked…didn’t it? @sughly
And the bits and pieces they did in Steam Boy?
I remember them looking good. Rose-tinted???-
Innocence looks great but have you seen the godawful butchering they did of Ghost in the Shell by replacing bits with bad CG? 🙁
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No and I never will.
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I still dont know :3
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Cos you aint seen it or can’t decide?
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Aint seen
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I’d say that that’s probably a stand-in unfinished animation, because almost all the Evangelion-related action in 2.22 and 3.33 is CG, and it looks far better than that.
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What’s so nervewracking about having hundreds, possibly thousands of people you don’t know at all listen to your opinion?
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Shane should do it, he’s a writer! 😀
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Yeah. I WRITE so I don’t have to talk 😛
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Like me on TeamSpeak! ZING!
#selfzingersonoldpagesthatnoonebutshanewillsee
Hi Shane!
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Hi man.
@dc will see this post, I’m sure.
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Awesome, I’ll be home by then, although if @dc really wants it so badly, I’m willing to step down
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He doesn’t. 😛
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Cool! All you need to do is add us on Skype. I think the account is just Potakupodcast, but @doc_what might have to confirm there.
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Yes! @Tofu If you search for “Potaku Podcast” You’ll find it
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SEE YOU TOMORROW! 7:30!
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so it’s not tonight, it’s tomorrow?
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SEE YOU TONIGHT! 7:30!
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Tomorrow? But you said tonight up above! *flails*
Uh… I was TROLLING! Yeah… That’s it…
Doc Trot
@greenius Too Doc to Trot!
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/04/23/beyond-two-souls-script-is-over-2000-pages-long
Hopefully that’s 2000 plot hole free pages of script. XD
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Just finished it! So good! Love the shot of Tim in front of the trailer at GDC. Nice to see little glimpses of more animation in there too, looks soooo goddang pretty.
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Dead Island Riptide Stuff:
Max level talent points is now 69, overwhelming how much that actually is, my story progression is at 75% I think I’m like 10 hours in, the game does have it’s problems but I’m okay with that.
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I imported my DI character, which is a level 47 Purna, but I decided to play through with a new character. I chose John, the hand-to-hand guy. Enjoying it so far, it’s more like a full sized expansion than a sequel I think, but that’s fine by me.
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I imported my SAM B at level 36, I think he is 46 now, noticed I made some poor choices in the talent tree, unsure if it’s worth reloading the chapter and losing 6 levels to fix it.
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Depends, I made some bad choices with Purna in DI, but I started a second playthrough with her after finishing it, and ended up getting enough levels I just made up for it anyway. Keep going, there’ll be enough in the game to basically end up with all skill points allocated anyway, I’m pretty sure.
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Won’t lie always wanted to play Purna as a character she has one of the best rages in game.. well the safest one atleast, how she do with survival? you use a lot of medikits? or does rage sustain you well enough?
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Honestly, I got 1/3 of the way through DI and regretted Purna severely. Firearms in DI were almost useless – ammo was far too sparse, and picking a character that specialised in firearms seemed a waste. I ended up using melee blade weapons for most of the game.
More interested to see if firearms are viable in DIR. I mean I know they had to tone firearms down a bit, because in a game like DI they could become overpowered very easily, but they were just useless in DI.
I’ll play Purna at some stage and check. I mean I’ll have to, it’s wasteful to leave a 47 character sitting there, but for now, enjoying John.
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@jimu: Dragon’s Crown confirmed for August 6th in the US. $40 on Vita, $50 on PS3. No cross-platform MP any more 🙁
Unsure which platforms to get it for, it’s a shame it’s not cross-buy and they don’t have a double-pack.
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Poofs never had cross-play cos they poofs (not homosexual, poofs)
I’m def goin Vita if anyone wants to join me ( @ash @greenius @gutsoup )
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I’ll try them all and a force other than gravity will pull me towards the Sorceress.
Or will I be pulling myself?
😛@ash
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I’ve almost finished WeeGee’s Mansion 2. On one hand I am sad that the awesome game is ending, on the other hand it means that I get to focus all my attention on Fire Emblem and do all the babby making! \o/
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You’re*
(an* – I’ll let this one slide)
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You only say that because you already have your underlings to do your bidding.
No that I’m interested in having underlings of my own any time soon.
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Then why did you comment huh huh huh
daddy bunny it is
or D-Bun
EVERYONE CALL HIM THAT IT IS HIS NEW TITLE.
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hard work & dedication…unless you’re a deadbeat.
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@strange ! (and @freezespreston so he doesn’t get snippy)
Hey Shane!
I can make you just the bonfire if you’d like- it would be $30+ shipping, but due to the size it would be about $15 to ship. I can ship it together with the chess piece for $20 total shipping, so it’d be $100 even for both (including shipping).
As for the chess set, not exactly sure how I’m going to do it yet. The original plan was to have it be dark souls vs demon’s souls, but I may want to incorporate dark souls 2 with it somehow. The plan isn’t to have the current piece as part of the main set, just an alternative piece that can be customized. I plan to have a lot of limited edition figures that can be bought separately and aren’t part of the normal set. But this won’t be for awhile! (way too busy right now).
Thanks!
Peter
TL;DR: BONFIRE \o/
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p[DOT]nordstrom[AT]yahoo[DOT]com
(For $15 postage, almost certainly cheaper to organise your own than to place a bulk order and distribute from here.)
Damn, I can’t decide how much I’m gonna spend. I think the bonfire would be best, but that chess piece is so damn pretty as well 😛
Edit: Bonfire only. I’ll think about the chess thing.
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I already told him that I’ve told one of my friends about the bonfire-only piece, and that you might be getting in contact shortly. So yes, you can pretty much just say that 😛
Edit: I’ve paid the man money. Bonfire locked in.
Wonder if it’s too late to ask for a kindled one? -
Maybe I should ask fora kindled one so min ewill be better than yours….:P
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I have a bonfire with small flames at the base, would you prefer this or unlit? Also, I have this as your mailing address, correct me if I’m wrong-
[redacted]
thanks!
PeterEdit: I am stupidly excited about this. Stupidly excited.
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Dammit! Guess I’m sending poor Peter some topless photos then…. 😛
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You know who is awesome @faction or @f4ction i cant rember if he has it different for his handle here.
I miss you buddy. with all my heart.
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He is pretty great, he is like the nicest person to me. He is a really good friend
and i miss his beard.
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I’m downvoting these because I don’t approve. Even if “GAY!” is a joke thing with you guys I think you’re above that and smart enough to come up with something better/more mature.
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But I’m calling him happy. He’s a super happy bundle of sticks.
Do you not like Rocketman being happy? Why would you be so mean?
(Additionally, if you really think we’re better than that, then whoo boy, you have misjudged us as a pair.)
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Hey I am super mature. Don’t bring me into this. Im just a nice normal boy.
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As a mother, it’s my job to see and encourage the potential in you guys even if you can’t see it in yourselves. 😛
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she wants us to be better then we are. that sounds like change
I DONT LIKE IT.
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Hey Rocketman!
I asked about you on teamspeak because I wondered where you were. Then Gorzy explained it a bit and then you explained on TAY.
TL:DR
You are missed
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I think your post was small enough to read without the TL;DR to be honest i always read everyones stuff.
I shouldn’t be missed, I didn’t die. You can reach me in about 4 billion ways and i will always reply. Why? because unemployment is dope.
Seriously though if i dont find a job soon i may actually have to start playing games.
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Hi Pow
TS:NC
hi pow i have been a big fan of your pokemon knowledge and dinosaur t-shirts for a long while. You are a lovely gentlemen who is friendly and easy to talk to. I appreciate those things about you.
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I need some new gimmicks!
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I barely use twitter and you just weren’t on teamspeak so I was all, “where’s Rocketman?” And then we started talking about “Oh, Rocketman” stories because you weren’t there.
Unemployment is shit, I agree. Best thing you can do is find a project to keep you occupied while searching.
The tldr is because I wanted to fit in, do you really want to deny me that? Do you, you monster? =P
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HOly shit you use sarcasm now?
Im so proud. Look at you, i am actually legit impressed. -
Scree got all sassy at me a week or two back. I was so proud.
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“sassy” is such a great word!
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If I remember right I apologised afterwards though.
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Yeah I see you on but you never invite me to anything, why? 🙁
Oh yeah, also had my first two ranked games with my work colleague, won both! \o/-
Im a horrible person 🙂
Yay for ranked
i have been playing ranked pretty exclusively. I think i am just destined to be bronze 3 forever. -
You’ll get better, just remember it’s about bettering your own play more than anything else. You can’t help if other players feed, the best you can do is give advice, if they don’t like it, then shrug it off and move on to the next game.
My first game was support Janna, they had an AFKer (Most likely due to the Jayce doing “Top or AFK”, so the latter happened cuz he didn’t get the lane he wanted), and my second game was mid Cho’gath, I destroyed anything that came at me, held off ganks even when I didn’t have wards. I’ve been the team leader in both games (Responsibility overload! /o\) and I banned pretty much the same three. I couldn’t do ranked last night cuz my ping was consistently horrible during the bot game I did testing out Garen, my next champion, whom will be my AD top. -
fair enough, i usually just do whatever is missing. if i fail i dont mind. i am just after more structured play
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Yeah I do the same thing, try to fill what’s missing, as you should, just remember to try to fill with a champion you know and have played before recently so you remember clearly how to use them, item builds etc. For example I’d pick Cho’gath over say Orianna because I haven’t done an SR match with Orianna for a long long time. Orianna may fit the team a bit better, or is a better counter to something on the opposing side but that doesn’t mean I should try to do a ranked match with a champion i have not practised on.
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eggs?
Muffin?
Juice?
Tea?
if the mystery question is what do you want for breakfast i say eggs.
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Extremely scary metal band
More scary metal band
Just wait until you hear how scary this band is
The scariest band you did ever hear-
Its not that bad. At worse they yell a little too loud to a nice instrumental backing. Not my thing but i understand why people like it.
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I don’t like most of the yell-y bands anyway.
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Oh I don’t mind it, I was just making fun of @dc and how he thinks all of Strange’s music is the most frightening stuff ever :P.
There’s A LOT more scarier stuff out there (unless Strange is into that too D: ?!)
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I am disturbed that not one of these letters appears anywhere in “Dark Souls.”
I refuse to play.
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Man, you guys are no help. One vote for Eggs and one for Jet. I just need to know which project to work on today seeing as the silly lady sent me less fabric than I ordered so I can’t keep working on my Mum’s birthday present.
And @shane, if you knew what ‘M’ was, you’d probably vote for that.:P
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You’re the only person who’s voted properly so far…looks like I’m working on completing my Metal Gear Solid shirt. 😀
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*Remembers toxic dart people*
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I think we need a Blighttown survivors support group.
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Pfft, Blighttown’s not that bad.
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I’m glad I had my spider shield but even with that it was pretty horrible
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Im playing ranked LoL and i think you have the worse idea.
someone called my mum several unappealing things this morning in game chat because i took a minion.
Oh god, you’ve been jobless for a fortnight and you are already going insane!
Also let us know if much has changed since you quit. I think I quit the same time as you (if not then earlier).
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Haha for a second there I thought you meant how he was going since he quit his job 😛
Ugh, MoreConcernedAboutDiablo3ThanTheWellbeingOfHisFriendulus
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I started a new character so it’s pretty much impossible to tell how much has changed at the bits that matter. So far, it seems like I’m leveling up very quickly compared to near the launch. Other than that, I’m not too sure.
I am about to become $300 poorer, all blame lies with @shane and not with my poor willpower / impulse buying.
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Wow. Respect, dude 🙂
Edit: Wonder if I’ll get a commission for all this extra business I’m sending this bloke! 😛
Edit 2: If you ever get sick of it, I want you to contact me immediately, and I’ll take it off your hands for a fraction of what you paid for it! \o/
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I asked him about the elite knight & bonfire just to find out how long it takes to make one and he said he was working on one and would finish it this week and offered to sell it to me!
\o/
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Meat at Ser Nobulus’ place!
What? No…I certainly don’t have any ulterior motives for wanting to visit…. 😛
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My son is watching Fantastic Mr. Fox which was recorded off TV on the weekend. He’s watched it about 5 times this week and he’s now even getting excited about the ads: “Combat Creatures! Grumpy Cat! Vanish powder!” 😛
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Y’all remember the James & The Giant Peach movie?
I wore out my VHS of it when I was like 8. Sooooooo good.
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I’m having one of those horrible days where I’m staring at a near-empty Word document and just can’t get any writing done. It’s bad, guys. D:
Oh, what a page get.
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Our incident management system has been down all morning. I’ve done literally no work in the 3 hours I’ve been here.
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@mcgarnical dunno what area of law is your thing, but given that anything is better than what I have, I had a hypothetical question for you (and anyone else that would know) :
if a politician is making links between the arrival of refugees and an increase in crime rates as part of their campaign, is making those sort of allegations about a whole group of people with no evidence (and according to ABS, the whole refugees=crime thing is completely unfounded), is this opening the politician to the possibility of legal action against him for misrepresenting a whole social group? slander or some such thing? especially when these false allegations would be making it difficult to get jobs / integrate into communities etc?
Edit: also, HI EVERYONE ELSE! *waves*
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From a non-legal (but non-strayacant) perspective, I’ve always seen it as racism/discrimination.
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I wouldn’t think so
It can’t be classed as racism or discrimination based on religion as you have a wide range of both within the group they are talking about. Unless there was a specific profile they were targeting. And by targeting it would need to be specific, not just dog whistling.It is the same as when people talk about ‘the rich’ not paying their share of taxes. Also I think you would find they could pull some data from somewhere that supports the statement they are making. Select the right area and the right time frame and data will show whatever you want. So if it came to legal action he could just say I was referring to document 456723 that showed this was the case.
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I have no idea.
But some thoughts are that generally a politician can say what they damned well like from a legal perspective. There are plenty of laws to protect the individual involved from discrimination by an employer though. It is unlawful for someone to refuse to employ someone because of their race for example.
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lol not sure which day yet! but one of them will likely see me spending the day with a cute Japanese girl!! I am excite!
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Gather round younglings, it’s story time … this one’s going to be quick because I’m fairly sure my team lead is going to beat me to death with something.
Most of the people who work here get mail and stuff delivered here because it’s easier and all that jazz. My team lead just got a package and decided to show it’s contents off to all the other women in the office … it was one of those shirts with gaps on the elbows and stuff, not my style but she bought it and she has to live with it. While she was showing it off to everyone she was kind of glancing around to make sure no one was looking before showing the rest of the shirt to select people. Now my interest is piqued and I manage to catch a glance before cackling like a mad man and she knows why. The shirt has more of those gaps on the front … specifically around the upper breast. She goes ash white before stuffing it back into the bag and glaring at me “It goes over another shirt, Damo” she says as I continue to laugh and get other people interested in seeing the shirt. So she shows it to everyone and everyone’s laughing, she’s still glaring at me as I type this and kind of reaching for either the stress ball of a pewter dragon to throw at me … If something happens, destroy my computer
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That’d be interesting … I don’t really keep a copy of them anywhere, just kind of post them here or randomly on my tumblr if I think it’s worth it and it’s far too much work to find them all.
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I have a similar story, but it lacks the punchline.
My boss walked up to me and asked “Working hard or hardly working?”
I respond: “Hardly working. I’m waiting on people to review the work I’ve done.”
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Remember Knights of the Old Republic 2? @novacascade remembers.
Potaku needs more of these RAM things. Join us people! JOIN UUUUUUUUS.
Yeah that doesn’t sound desperate or anything.
Now, Dark Souls! To the Duke’s Archives!
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Imma gonna beat you to the end! Tonight, grinding, probably. Tomorrow, the Catacombs. The day after, Tomb of Giants! Day after that, probably Tomb of Giants. Day after that, Tomb of Giants WHYYYY
Okay, you might still win 😛
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I’m not sure if that inspires me or just fills me with dread.
Here’s my checklist of things to do!
Kill that stupid Seath jerk. Bed of Chaos (ugh all those bosses just to get there). Probably need a sunlight maggot for the Tomb, and Nito. Might check out the Painted World. Then Gwyn?-
I’m just assuming it will be tear-your-hair-out-difficult. I don’t know for sure – haven’t been there yet! 😛
Your checklist:
Open the Demon Ruins shortcut, my friend. Only 30 humanity to a grotesque looking spider thing. Also, that’s how you get the Sunlight Maggot without having to kill Sunbro for it. What’s to lose? 😛My checklist:
Go to Depths. Get some Eyes of Death from Curse Frogs, and maybe some humanity from rats. Go to Painted World. Get some Souvenirs of Reprisal from Flying Crow Things. Go to Catacombs. Find all items and blacksmith. Start upgrading shit. Join the Gravelord covenant and level up with Eyes of Death to get the miracle. Push through Pinwheel and into Tomb of Giants. Rescue Rhea and visit her in Undead Parish. Kill Petrus and buy all of Rhea’s spells. Return to Tomb of Giants, become human to encourage the Paladin invasion. Collect all items. Kill Nito to betray my covenant. Go to Anor Londo, and join the Darkmoons. Level up with Souvenirs of Reprisal for miracles. Betray covenant and kill Gwyndolin for his delicious soul. Venture into Duke’s Archives to free Siegliende and get the key to the DLC areas. Return to Firelink Shrine, talk to Sieglinde, then head through Great Hollow (including a lengthy hunt for Crystal Lizards) down to Ash Lake to chill out with Siegmeyer and Siegliende and kill a giant Hydra. Locate Dragon covenant and get tail weapon. Return to Duke’s Archives, get all items, rescue Big Hat Logan. Buy all his spells. Kill Seath. Upgrade as many weapons as I can for achievements, grinding the Kiln if I have to for chunks. Kill all NPCs and suck out their humanity. Finish the game with Sunbro at my side. Blitz through NG+ as fast as possible, taking on only the bosses I have to. Also, Sunbro covenant – incl level up with Gwyn’s soul for miracles. In NG++, get to Anor Londo with a third Sif soul and make the final weapon. Platinum. Realise that I’m suddenly three hundred years old, and I’ve burned through eighty xBoxes chasing these achievements, and promptly die of shock.-
…wow.
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Gonna take a bit of time. But most of this stuff is just preparation and doing things in the right order. I’m still under 40 hours in my playthrough so far, and the above shouldn’t take more than another 15-20 (unless huge difficulty spike).
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Maybe I can extend my playthrough a bit to get some of this done…
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I wouldn’t recommend it 😛
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Looking at new phones, and I have no idea what to get any more…it’s going to be Android or WP8, but other than that I can’t decide.
Originally considered the Note 2, especially cause I used my phone for data way more than calls, but lugging it around will get annoying…and most other handsets I hate for various reasons. Also, now that I have tonnes of game options for my 3DS, gaming seems far less likely on my phone.
Anyone have any advice? Excluding the S4, cause it’s too new for me to get a decent deal.
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I just want to say, I love my note II and now when I see people with their small iPhones, I just laugh.
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I went from a Galaxy S2 to a Note 2, and I had reservations about the size, but to be honest it’s not that big of a difference. The Note 2 looks huge, especially when you’re used to a 4 odd inch phone, but it passes very quickly. It’s not to say the Note 2 isn’t substantially bigger, because it is – it’s just it’s not as much an issue as you’d initially think.
Although I picked up my S2 the other week and was mortified at how small it looks to me now. It’s what you’re used to I guess.
Incidentally, the Note 2 is a brilliant phone.
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Day to day it’s in my front pocket. Shares a pocket with my wallet, which is leather with nothing on it so it doesn’t get scratched. Other pocket is where my other things go like car keys.
I don’t actually keep mine in a case – just got a screen protector on it and that does the job for me. I don’t usually get scratches on my phones because I’m always mindful where I put it. Like if it’s on the desk, I don’t slide it around, I actually pick it up. If it’s going in a pocket, it never shares a pocket with anything sharp or something that might scratch it.
Had it for 4 or 5 months and it’s barely got a mark on it.
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Cheers, I think you’ve allayed most of my fears about it.
Also, apparently you can get Note 2s from online retailers up front for $450…that’s way cheaper than I was expecting.
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I really like my WP7 phone, and would probably go for a WP8 when I upgrade. I just like how clean and user-friendly the interface is compared to the other operating systems. The only real downside to WP8 is the relative lack of apps.
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I like most of the 920, but the lack of external media confused the crap out of me. They sacrificed functionality for design.
I know the average person doesn’t need more than 32GB, but my entire music library lives on my phone, and it’s somewhere between 40-50GB.-
I don’t understand why people need to have their whole collection on a portable personally. But then again, my collection is way too big to ever fit onto a phone as it is.
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I’ve got a Nokia the approx size of a weetbix. It does the job, and the battery lasts over a week. It’s not very smart though.
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The weetbix would probably survive the nuclear holocaust better though
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My brother had an old Nokia and ran over it accidentally with a forklift. The phone was perfectly fine.
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Because it was the same size as the forklift. 😛
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Bioshock semi get \o/
Apparently after arranging for my package to get delivered on Friday when I would be there (and they specified that I had to be there to sign), it was delivered today.
Insert package coming early in your endo here
However they were happy to leave it at reception. So luckily Mrs Tigs is in the office today and can bring it home for me. Looking forward to checking out what it looks like
@shane
Your package sure was a tight fit, but after a bit of grunting I managed to remove it from the hole the postman unceremoniously shoved it through.
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Me too, man. Me too.
He’s planning a possible chess set, funded through Kickstarter. My guess: it’ll be the most affordable way to get as complete a set as exists (albeit in smaller pieces). I’m gonna wait for that.
(Assuming we’re talking about Dark Souls sculpture fellow.)
@shane
I now remember why I stopped work on the MGS shirt. I can’t figure out how to make it work without sacrificing some of the awesome print. 🙁
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Urk. I’m over trying to be productive. I’m just gonna send my son to his room to watch a movie and play some Bioshock Infinite.
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I bought a kickass chair from IKEA that I’ve been using ever since I moved down here. The only problem with it is that I’m somewhat forced to sit up straight. This is a problem because I’m not used to sitting up straight. Years of slouching have conditioned my back muscles into misbehaving.
Now that they’re forced into doing as they should, they’re rebelling /o\
Old man Bunny.
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When they brought out the ergonomic chairs in my office, I thought my life was over. But I managed to find one with a weak spring in the backrest, and can continue my slouchy ways. \o/
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Proper ergo chairs are designed so that you don’t sit bolt upright in them, but instead roll the chair in and lean back into them to take the strain off your lower back.
We have Aerons at work and they’re quite nice. The shitty officeworks one I have at home with cracked up pleather and stuff makes my buttocks sad every time they are placed upon it 🙁
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I’m actually finding it really comfortable while I’m sitting there. It’s just that there are muscles working to keep me upright that haven’t been used in years.
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Which Ikea chair did you buy out of interest? I need to replace my crappy old chair that I use at home.
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This one after using one of those Office Works ones for a long while (and an incredibly terrible chair at work that I would have liked to set on fire on my last day).
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That is the Ikea one I was considering. How is it overall?
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Well, like I said, I have a sore back but that’s because I’m used to slouching and you can’t really pull that off so well with this chair.
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I might go see if I can find one to park my anus on for a few minutes in the store. Though that means entering their rat maze… 🙁
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Hey @shane I haven’t heard from you how much you want for postage on Dragon Age. Are you still getting numbers together or have I missed your email?
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Uh… I might have been extraordinarily lazy (and/or completely forgot). Sorry man.
(cc @masha2932)
I just did some searching online, and it seems that Australia Post is, sadly, the cheapest of the options. A prepaid satchel costs $8.25. Is that okay?
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Fine with me, unless you’re in Sydney and want to meet me in the CBD one day. Otherwise, let me know how I can pay you back.
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Haha, the cost of these things, it’d almost cost less to bus up and deliver the damn things in person. How can Australia Post possibly justify these costs?
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My wife’s aunt is a manager at Auspost and constantly stresses the entire organisation will fold overnight and leave her penniless in a gutter.
I’m going to assume that the alarming increases in postage in recent years directly correspond to the fact that no one sends letters anymore.
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Yep, that’s the excuse they trot out.
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Durn internets took ‘r jerbs.
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That’s OK. Just send it and I’ll send you the money. Do you want to split the cost or I pay the full amount. Either option is fine.
Sorry I know I asked this before but just to confirm for the last time before you send it, it’s everything in the collectors edition except the game right?
http://www.computergame.com.au/images/far-cry-2-release-date-collectors-edition1.jpg
I always wanted the map 🙂
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I will double-triple-super-mega check when I get home. It was new when I bought it, and I haven’t removed anything from it except the game itself!
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Double-triple-super-mega thank you 🙂
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This conversation happened on TS a couple of nights ago.we were talking about Persona 3 and it’s rereleases.
AEF (CJ): Who would buy the same game on a different console.
Me: I bought Dark Souls on 3 different platforms.
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Dark Souls (PS3 & PC), Arkham Asylum (PS3 & PC), Arkham City (360 & PC), Mirror’s Edge (360 & PC like 10 times), Space Marine (PS3 & PC)… there’s probably more. I really don’t want to check.
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I have FIFA 11 on PC, 360 and Vita…
I’m not even much of a fan of the series.
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I wish there was the option to buy the DLC separately. I’ve already got DA:O, DA:A and some of the DLC, but not all of it.
Music suggestions i am in a garage, meleodic rock sort of mood.
Think this song and suggest away
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I’ve no doubt most of the bands are fantastic, I’ve just never heard of them. I don’t think Splendour is for me.
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I’ll share a few tracks I think are gems from here, because why not
Klaxons – Echoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJgOLu5iAFs
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James Blake – Wilhelm Scream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCmhPydD7zw
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Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWS921qH-c
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Haim – Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwM6ERq0gc
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Portugal the man – Lay me back down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggZ6m1JxQEo&feature=player_detailpage#t=16s
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MS MR – Bones (these guys are really really good, album out soon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcmQQT0b-Hk
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Daughter – Still https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUWrcFpmI5U
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Alpine – Hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzHeNVMqKqg
(that’ll do. Imagine you know the others I’d recommend. Unless one doesnt include Laura Marling, in which case I’d recommend the whole album of I speak because I can)
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Two things caught my eye:
THE NATIONAL (Only Australian show)
and POLYPHONIC SPREE (Performing Rocky Horror Picture Show) D:
I have a soft spot for Polyphonic Spree. They’re kind of a hippy band, I think @smurfydog would approve.
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Yeah but the national did say they would do more shows later in the year in an interview, so at least if I dont go theres that
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Good point! You’re the voice of reason! 😀
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DC \o/
What’s new my friend?
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Nothing.
Now we’re caught up! What’s new with you?
Saw Matt and Caitlin’s radio interview is up in full if you wanted to listen. 😀
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It’s on FAcebook. Saw it already. But thanks, man.
I bought a bonfire today \o/ and so did @strange! and @sernobulus decided to outdo us and bought an Elite Knight/bonfire combo. But I’ll get it off him somehow.
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I’ve been reading TAY and the bonfire predicament. Just couldn’t interact. Haha!
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I have a new money saving policy
I can’t buy the statues until i finish the game. Never spend the monies \o/
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Oh, also, I’m trying to lay my hands on season 5 of Mad Men, but it’s quite ‘spensive… and hard to find 😐
Can’t even find a torrent file for the season :\ -
Individual episode torrent files might still be working?
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I got an email telling me you’d responded to me at 1:57pm, but when I looked at the comment, you’d actually posted it at 10:46am. Guess someone was nice enough to take it out of moderation. I wonder how many more random DC comments will be appearing? 😛
Ok I’ve spoiler tagged this as it got a little lengthier than i thought. Sorry but it is a rant about parents and ratings of games, no actual spoilers just hidden so that those who aren’t interested don’t have to put up with the giant post.
What is wrong with some people? I’m not a parent so my views may be skewed but, I get asked a bit by people whether games are appropriate for their kids, without trying to sound like a dick….man but ratings aren’t decorations, i know when i was a kid I’d get my hands on anything but games weren’t as graphic back in my day (holds back and hobbles around with walking stick). Worst I’ve heard was a mom giving her 8 year old a copy of Manhunt back when that came out, recently someone asked me if Call of Duty is ok for a 9 year old (they want to play online too). The other day I saw one of my mate’s kid (I’m ps friends with the kid and dad) playing God Of War HD so i sent my friend a message asking if his kid had reached the sex mini game yet and he was all “What I didn’t think God of War would be bad for my 11 year old”.
Sorry to rant but I’ve always said all the current consoles have parental lock features, how about you use those, or maybe look at the Rating for once. guh people
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I think it’s up to the parents to decide what’s okay for their kids to view. If someone wants their kid playing God of War, that’s their choice. You might not agree with it, but it’s their choice.
I also think that ratings aren’t always a good way to determine whether a game is suitable or not because there can be a pretty large disparity between games that are rated in the same classification. One game may be rated MA because it’s got heavy graphical content with heaps of gore and nudity, while another game may be rated MA because it has some heavy swearing, but doesn’t feature graphic violence or sex. Some parents may be okay with their child seeing one, but not the other, and it’s understandable they’d ask the opinion of people who have played or know about those games.
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there’s definite legal stuff involved. if a game is rated R (like the recent God of War), its illegal for it to be sold to, or viewed by, a person under 18 years of age. there’s no parental decisions to be made there if they wanna stay within the boundaries of the law.
MA stuff, sure, thats up to parents’ but the thing is that 99% of parents arent well-informed enough about the content of games to be making these decisions.
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Totally this.
But then, this is just a new spin on an old problem. Kids have been watching R-rated movies at sleepovers since the days of VHS (and possibly earlier, but I can only vouch for VHS personally)
You’re right, though – there are new automatic controls in place that never existed before. Parents don’t even have to do direct monitoring anymore, and they’re still falling short :\
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should have mentioned that all of the parents I’m speaking about have previously said that Red Dead Redemption wasn’t suitable for their kids as they played through it themselves, and In my opinion all the examples i mentioned are worse than red dead. So it’s not like they are ok with the kids seeing graphic stuff. Personally my parents never restricted me much because i grew up in a horribly violent place and saw worse in real life. So i agree totally that it’s a matter of context/ parents choice.
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It’s kinda hard when most of the best/most popular/big budget AAA games are rated MA or higher I guess. If you ignore those ones you’re left with what, a few Halo games, Skylanders, LEGO, sports games, music games, and every Nintendo game out there (which is zero if you don’t have a Nintendo console or you are a prepubescent boy who doesn’t want to be seen as a kid)?
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That’s more than existed when I was a kid. And I thought games were the best thing ever then. Kids these days…
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NOPE!
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The oldest.
Geezer.
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Thanks Uncle Freeze.
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Trust me, you’ll need to face it sooner rather than later. OLD! 😛
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No, I’m still young, I’m still cool. Hip and happening. I’m down (or is that up?) with all the kids’ lingo and today’s jingles, dagnabbit.
Edit: I expected the elders to rally around and defend the near-thirties as still young, but they seem to prefer inflicting misery in true old-person style 😛
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I don’t think you were ever down with the kids’ lingo. (Don’t worry, same here man. :P)
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Radical, mondo, tubular; kids still use those words, right?
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Cowabunga!
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Face it. You’re a fart most ancient.
@dire_wolf Grody.
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ahhhh dagnabbit, such a glorious word
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Forever young, Shane wants to be foreeeever young…
(Oh man, that song takes me back to ’06. :D)
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There once was a man named Tad,
Who was rather tired (thusly feeling quite bad).
At work he was bored,
and so he pawed,
through kotaku to see all the fad’s.
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@tadmod, read this: http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
It won’t decrease your boredom, but will at least protect us from SpamTad.-
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Damnit, I wrote SpamTod and then edited it because of @lambomann007’s post. Should have known…
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I edited mine because of your post…
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Dear Tad, don’t try to compete
For in limericks I have you beat
No matter the time
I’ll spin you a rhyme
The limerick champion you’ll never unseat-
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BDKIAF, you are such a fool,
limericks like yours are in no way cool.
Your rhymes are so dull,
and I hope you will mull,
on the reasons your limericks drool.Your last line should have been
‘A better limericist you’ll never meet’-
Tad you’d best learn punctuation
Here, take this knowledge donation
You’ve got an apostrophe
Right where it shouldn’t be
Plurals don’t need your molestationDamn, that’s a good last line. Shit.-
BDKIAF, I swear you saw nothing,
In fact, I think you were bluffing!
Just go away,
and I won’t say
a word about the lies you’ve been stuffing! -
Tad, take a quick look at upvotes
Compared to your rhymes, my rhymes have fuckloads
My rhyming perfection
Gives people erections
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Sorry Tad, BD is spitting out rhymes more appropriate to a rap battle to a Limerick battle.
Just, he wins, man. Drop it.
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You have a few too many apostrophes in that last line. Two too many, to be precise.
Unless you meant to say that the limerick itself is drool. In which case it’s simple one too many.
Edit: Second time today I’ve been beaten by BDKIAF.
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Play your cards right and there could be a third 😉
KnowwhatI’msaying?
I’m talking about touching your willy. -
I’m excited already!
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Though this might work best as song
Why can’t we all just get along?
There’s room for us all
We can be ten feet tall
Not that you’d want to; that would be wrong
@bdkiaf Streeeep Search!
Ding dong, the witch is etc etc. Nooo thats mean, shes not that bad. But its a good result.
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She seemed the most human she had the whole time after she was eliminated, I almost felt bad. But then I remembered what she was like when she was “playing the game”. Ugh. Maki’s comic was good, the art was great compared to Amy’s half coloured mess.
So the department I work in provides support for software and hardware solutions our company makes, sells and supports. Our job role also includes internal support when the need arises, which is thankfully infrequently.
That one coworker that thinks he knows all about computers, and whenever a coworker is having issues, he leaps to the rescue. Problem is, he wouldn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground as far as general Windows troubleshooting goes.
So, whenever issues arise, he dives in headfirst, spends half the day installing an abundance of those useless ‘magic’ fix programs like ‘Windows turbo mega recovery’ or ‘YourRegistryIsFucked,TrustUsWeCanFixIt’, and makes the issue fifteen times worse. Then he steps away, proclaiming his expertise was not enough to rectify the issue, an abundance of viruses were the cause, and the PC will likely need to be reformatted.
His conclusion the PC was riddled with viruses was relayed to him by the oh-so reliable and ever so legit programs he loaded to fix the problem.
These are the potatoheads that make me a grumpy prick most days. Dribbling shitstain.
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I used to have to work with a guy just like that. One day I just went to the boss and in (seriously, I actually mean it this time) polite terms explained that if I keep getting paired with him they can expect me to never meet any deadlines because I’ll have too much to clean up.
I think that was the first time I got that particular boss to say something completely honest (with a swear!), which was “I know, you’re up shit creek with this guy and I can’t help you. Keep suffering and he’ll go away soon”. -
Hola Tay
UNA SEMANA!
I’ve been on industry visits all day and have a bunch of stuff to do this arvo, but I just thought I’d come in here and say hi.
Hi!
Oh man, look what Oliver found in JB today. http://i.imgur.com/2hSqGAX.jpg
I had no idea it existed, and it’s almost $100 for a DVD set, but I want it bad.
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aww, boo, is that all the seasons? I have 1-5 and Aqua Unit Patrol Squad. Always had trouble finding 6 & 7 and i can’t import cause they divided them up differently for different regions.
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It’ll be worth the wait, hopefully. It only shipped yesterday too, so I’m just being a little impatient. 😀
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Gizmodo have a Star Trek Into Darkness review. It’s not out in the cinema until next month. There’s no Star Trek game reviews yet. It’s out today in the US. 😀
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That’s because the game didn’t have a star-studded Australian premiere last night. #KarlUrban #swoon 😛
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I don’t like confrontations. 😛
Remember Wednesday when we had cheese steak dealies? That was fun! 😀
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I know you don’t like confrontations. That’s why I confront you, because I know I’ll win. 😛
And yeah, hard to believe that was only a week ago. Need moar cheesesteaks!
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That was the last time I left the house. 😛
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D:
Probably the last time you ate proper-like food, too!
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Or Caesar in Xena. *swoons some more*
Wowowow! Go Fire Emblem! What a great chapter! All the map effects and the 3D and the spectacular music and the characters! So good!
(Spoilers for the Chapter number. Just in case you don’t want to know ahead of time or something? I dunno. Just in case!) Chapter 10!
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I have no idea what happened in what chapter caus I paid zero attention to that, but I’m pretty sure I know which one it is… and if it is that one…
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Hahahaha you might actually pass me in the storyline
.. I’m not kidding. :/
MASSIVE SPOILAH
Emm comes back in a side mission, albeit suffering from amnesia and what appears to be actual brain damage! Horray? Horray!-
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See Sattie-boy, gotta be specific!
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It’s a spotpass mission, so it doesn’t have any bearing on the regular plot.
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@sughly
Whaaaaaat?! Laura Marling is amazing!
I’ll get to the links you posted when I’m home, but I thought I’d check her out now.
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Inorite! She’s one of the many girls I plan to marry. I speak because I can, oh man, dat record…. couldnt stop playing it on repeat for months. Amazingly good, from start to finish. And she has an epic one on the way, has something like 18 or 19 tracks with a 12 minute (I believe) intro song. Can… not… wait.
Putting it on now… Devil’s Spoke. What an intro <3
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Laura Marling, Kate Miller-Heidke, Regina Spektor, Lisa Mitchell.
Also Brody Dalle and Ellen Page, but they’re a league unto themselves 😛
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3DS peeps: The Guild01 games. Worth it? I’ll probably give Aero Porter a miss but looking at both Liberation Maiden and Crimson Shroud. How long are they approx? Mainly wondering if it’s worth tearing myself away from Fire Emblem for them.
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Liberation Maiden keeps intriguing me, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I heard it was great, but a little short.
Crimson Shroud is cool, although I haven’t had much time for it as yet. It’s an interesting idea for a 3DS game.
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a good 2-3 hours worth of gameplay, I believe. There should be a sale on for them, so go for it- there’s plenty of replay value in both of them as well.
😀 SuperHappyMegaEnjoymentWeekendForPleasureOfGutsoup
4 day weekend of Fire Emblem and Dead Island Riptide kicks off in 15 minutes, I’m going to drink all the coffee and not sleep for 4 days, whoo
Ugh, I decided I don’t like doing the games unit at Uni now just because other people in the class are so god damn creepy :S We were talking about games controversy and I knew people would get pretty vocal, but when it got to the hot chocolate GTA mod and that Japanese rape game, i felt disgusting just being there with some of the things people were yelling out. People passionately arguing that the majority is consensual and that it’s “a part of the Japanese culture” so it’s fine. Not to mention the typical religion bashing that’s just as bad as what you see on Reddit. Then the guy behind me explaining to the class what’s okay and what’s not okay in Japanese porn.
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aww, dude. Just become the loner of the class, that’s what i did when i realised i was surrounded by creeps
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They all creep in a group here it seems, and I know this is playing the stereotype card but if I described one I’ve described them all.
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If I’m near a computer, I’m on Reddit.
I’m also slowly unsubscribing from the defaults and finding better, smaller subreddits to spend my time on. The ones where reposts aren’t met with “OP is a fag”.
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I mostly only visit RoosterTeeth and AskReddit, but I recommend everyone visit wheredidthesodago at least once.
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I like AskReddit when it’s not topics that begin with “Men of Reddit” or “Women of Reddit”
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Well obviously not every thread is a winner.
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/r/wheredidthesodago is almost as good as /r/thanksobama
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I think my favourite thanksobama submission is the woman pouring the cereal into her purse, but admittedly I don’t lurk there often.
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Fap.
Or continually complain about being “friendzoned,” which is one of the most insidious terms ever.
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I guarantee both of those things occur at the same time as Reddit.
Also, fuck “friendzoned”. Seriously, not everyone will want to fuck you. Jesus christ.
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I love you guys. I’d have you in my friend zone any day. 😛
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BUT SHE WAS BEING NICE TO ME AND MADE ME THINK WE MIGHT FUCK ONE DAY AND THAT’S THE ONLY REASON I KEPT BEING HER FRIEND. I’M NOT THE BAD GUY HERE.
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Plus, I look good in a Fedora.
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You can afford a fedora? Those are almost $5 at Woolworths! I’d love to come stay the night in your parents basement and sleep on Star Wars sheets you haven’t washed since you were 14.
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Can’t, too busy trying to figure out what’s in this safe.
Or profiling arabs online in the belief that crowdsourcing is the best way to investigate.
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Damned good, and so do the three friends you hang out with in meatspace occasionally.
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I used to hang out in meatspace, but then I self-diagnosed with Aspergers so I use that as my excuse.
Unless you look like this in a fedora, fucking stop.
I was about to say noone looks good in one, but you proved me wrong
I like fedoras. I hate that they have such an unsexy reputation now. Damn kids…. 😛
@bdkiaf My mum says I do.
As Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show last night, every guy wanted to be Don Draper in season one and now everyone just finds him creepy and sad. 😀
I know exactly what you’re talking about…
EDIT: Also there was a shocking amount of loud Apple/OSX bashing 😛
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We got the OS warzzzz over with in the first couple of weeks 😛 But that was pretty effed up as well.
Fire Emblem Fronds: this is my first Fire Emblem. Is the convention to make your unit a reflection of yourself?
Because I made mine a little girl with pink pigtails…
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I made cool dude with purple hair. Just because.
I kind of want a real-life version of the coat the player character wears. Looks rather awesome.
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Would totally wear an outfit like that.
Probably wouldn’t go as far as the pink hair and pigtails though 😛
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Hell, I’d just go denim jeans and plain white shirt with the coat. Because lazy.
Purple hair sounds hilarious, though.
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Aww man… that art looks way better than my guy :'(
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Possible Fire Emblem character/story spoilers (concept art).
Be warned.
http://images.wikia.com/fireemblem/images/1/12/Avatar-Lucina-Concept.jpg
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I could make that. Actually, I’ll rephrase: I am inspired and want to make that for you. By real-life version do you mean adapted to be able to wear in real life, or just an actual one youcan wear for reals insteadof just ingame? Although I’m not super sure how accurate a copy I could make having not played the game,and I wouldn’t even be able to start for at least a few months but do you want me to make you one? It would be fun. 😀
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Oh, and just so you know…I come at these things from a sewing point of view so I won’t be painting any of those designs on, I’ll work them into the fabric. I’m way better with needle and thread than paint. 😛
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I think I’ve found the perfect pattern to adapt, as well.
http://jas-townsend.com/product_info.php?products_id=416
Yup. I’m gonna do this, whether you want me to or not.So, ah…what’s your chest size? I’m err…asking for a friend. 😛
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Possibly not obvious from the pics but I’m not sure that pattern is quite right as in addition to the collar, the coat needs to have a hood.
Also I seem to recall the in-game model having some kind of tassel arrangement or similar along the bottom of the hem.
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Yes, hood indeed.
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Oh man, not you too? How silly does everyone think I am?! Do you really think I’d make an unhooded coat when all the pictures you showed me clearly have a hood?!
That’s it, I’m not making one for you anymore, I’ll make one for me instead. At least then the person I’m making it for won’t assume I’m blind and have lost my marbles. 😛
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Err…just so we’re clear…the preceding post was not a serious post. 🙂
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I was just confirming my appreciation of the hood. I’m sure you’re very capable, but pointing out hoods is what we do in the hood. Chickin’ & gravy.
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I’m well aware it needs a hood, it’s certainly obvious from the pictures. 🙂 Hence my use of the word “adapt”. It’s the perfect starting-point, but obviously I’d have to make loads of changes. I just needed a basic pattern to work from as I’m not quite confident enough to draft my own pattern completely from scratch yet. Not entirely sure the collar’s a part of the coat, or part of the top underneath, either. Definitely requires more research.
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Also the inner lining of the hood in-game is a much lighter purple than in the concept art. And I was wrong about the tassels, it’s that the gold parts tend to blend into the backgrounds a lot and make it look like there’s chunks missing so the bottom has a /\/\/\/\/\ sort of effect…
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@negativezero Good to know, thanks. If the game wasn’t so rare I’d buy a copy on the weekend, but I seriously doubt I could find a copy.
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Hahaha!
Ask again when you get around to it.
And let me know of any costs, if you ever do get around to it.
Before I can get around to it, I need your chest measurement…. 😛
Grumpy long-faced slanty-eyed Saturday reporting in!
I love the grumpy face, though. I’m a perfect asian stereotype in the game.
I’m sick of this beeswax.
I’m sick of these second-story Sleestaks.
Breathing on my dice
Giving me back rubs.
When I’m deep in concentration.
You start getting all conversatin’
Sleestak.
What’s a Sleestak?
No really, who actually knows what a Sleestak is (without resorting to Google?)
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Also, feel free to post your own “Random nonsensical lyric from awesome band that I’m really looking forward to seeing tonight” as you see fit.
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When are you in Brisbane for TMBG/Welbot? Meat potential?
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All day 8th of May. Definite meat potential. It’s in Strange’s diary!
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I assume this is They Might Be Giants? They’re playing Groovin the Moo, right? I think so, which means I might see them this weekend.
Which reminds me, @sughly, is there anyone at GTM I might be overlooking?
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It is, and apparently you will!
They’re the most fun band I’ve ever seen live – lighthearted and don’t take themselves too seriously, but still totally rocking. So make sure you check them out and let us know what you thought!
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Ooo, I dont know… I actually hadnt thought to look up that festival until you mentioned it, and even then you mentioned the acts that caught my interest ^_^
edit: alpine, who I linked a song by on the other page. Of bands I dont believe you mentioned I’d recommend them, Frightened Rabbit (who have one kind of sound through all songs- if you dont like one, you wont like any), Last Dinosaurs (very cool guys, seen them before and they do a good show), and Matt & Kim if nothing else is on (touch and go on a lot of songs, but theyre fun peoples, I reckon it’d be a pretty upbeat set).
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It’s worth noting that Alpine and The Amity Affliction are on at the same time, so, yeah.. Sorry.. That one might be a loss.
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Haha, fair enough
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bleh … I have finished all the work and now have nothing to do for an hour. ENTERTAYN ME TAYBIES!
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I finished my work for the week like an hour ago, having pre-prepared for my super long weekend since last week.
I started doodling on scrap paper. Now I’m depressed because all my drawings are terrible, even for dinky little sketches that would take anyone else 30 seconds.
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Did you hear the one about the … Oh, time for me to go home.
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*strums guitar again*
Come on people now,
Smile on your brother,
Everybody get together,
Try to love one another right now……
I got three upvotes last night, that’s crowd pleasing, right? 😛 Are you not entertained?
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boo, you whore
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Been playing The Witcher 2 and so far it’s pretty good. I sort of wish I had of finished the first game so I could import saves, but I know deep down I was never going to finish the first one. TW2’s improved one of the biggest issues I had with the original game, the combat system. It’s actually fun to fight people now. I was a bit apprehensive about TW2’s combat because when the game first came out I heard a lot of people complaining about it and feared it would be another odd, clunky system like the first one, but the system’s fine.
One thing I don’t like about the game though is how some of the dialogue choices are timed. I just had the timer run down and auto select a choice for me before I’d even had a chance to read all the choices available, so that was rather annoying.
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TW1 wasn’t bad, definitely not the best or worst, but I like it way more.-
I’m not an enormous fan of the combat either. I’m hoping they improve on it a bit for the next one.
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I’m starving. I didn’t have any lunch after using the last of the bread for my son. So I sent my daughter for a walk to McDonald’s. My husband just got home, would have been quicker to get him to grab me something as my daughter only just left. 😛
@shane
Thanks for the Zelda CD case man 😀 Oh and the business card 😛 The case looks awesome. (Don’t worry, the business card does too!)
SYDNEY PEOPLE :
Mojo’s this friday evening!
TURN UP!
cc: @cakesmith @alexpants @platinum-urchin @batgirl @doc_what @shiggyninty @freyr @trjn @cj @ anyone else who feels like turning up.
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yeah. that. & @greenius reckons I’ve got too many variations on my handle :p
Edit: also, how do you keep doing that? I honestly think you have a giant spreadsheet of everyone’s details.
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Oh and apparently I have this Minecraft thing with @alexpants that I definitely didn’t forget about until right now… :\
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I didn’t include you coz I’m a jerk that forgot. Sorry.
ven though you can’t make it, you’re invited.
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Just preordered Poker Night at the Inventory 2 and bought DLC Quest, plus free copy of Poker Night at the Inventory. Not bad for under 10 bucks.
A modern remake of road rash 😀
I’ve got my credit card in the drive but nothing seems to be happening 🙁
One of the computers at work has a 3.5″ floppy drive.
…anyone know if Commander Keen is compatible with XP?
I watched the movie Chronicle today, It was pretty damn good, despite having one of the main characters turning evil spoiled by trailers back when it came out.
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He looked like this dweeby guy we used to make fun of in school 😛
Let’s hope it doesn’t happen in real life!
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User reviews for Star Trek game are appearing. Averaged about an 8/10 on IGN and 7.3/10 on Metacritic. (Going to that site makes me feel dirty.) I still want to see some press reviews. :S
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Going to IGN makes me feel worse than Metacritic.
I don’t know why, I just…really dislike that site.
EDIT: Forgot to say, those are some pretty decent reviews, if only user ones.
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Went to IGN. Got halfway through the review before I realised I was reading the film review :S
What a dickman.
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Deponia’s also 66% off on Steam today. I’ve seen it cheaper before, but it’s a damn good game. 😀
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http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/04/why-doesnt-chicken-have-a-food-name/
That picture of the chicken. *drool*
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If I could telepathically beam you some leftover chicken, I totally would.
But I can’t.
So I’ll eat it instead.
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You earned that one.
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Howdy everyone thought i would get involved in the community again, has anyone else played Stardrive on PC ?, just bought it off steam, its still in beta and can’t get enough of it hands down on the of the best RTS Space games I’ve played.
Hngh to starting Dark Souls again. I miss my PS3 save. Barrelled through to the fucking bell gargoyles in record time and proceeded to get my ass handed to me. Even dropped the first one, but made a stupid mistake and caught in the second one’s fire breath.
@shane re: your checklist
Have fun with the Souvenirs of Reprisals. The drop rate in my experience is like 1 in 100 even with 410 Item Discovery and there’s only 4-5 each run. And they have a nasty grab which kills almost anything. Far far far far far far easier to bite the bullet and go online to fight for them by invading.
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Thanks, yeah, just gonna try, see how I go. Not expecting too much though. Apparently the drop rate was increased in recent patches.
Bipolar post:
🙁 All my friends are out at their own little events and now I’m bored and hungry.
🙂 Making plans with old friends from year 12 for them to either come down here and meet up or go out when I’m back in Launceston! Apparently Daniel, who was one of my best friends until he dropped out and became a pothead has turned a new leaf. That’ll be interesting. He’s definitely the wildest friend I’ve ever had but I do kinda miss him. So now I’m gonna try and get the entire gang back together!
D: I’M BORED
😀 RUSSELL HOWARD IS TOURING AUSTRALIA! (next year)
edit: oh jeez, it would be a page get
@dc: As Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show last night, every guy wanted to be Don Draper in season one and now everyone just finds him creepy and sad. 😀
I’d still go there
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No no, that’s this: http://www.destructoid.com//ul/246157-oldbastard.jpg
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You leave Quantic Dream out of this! 😛
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You and your gifs! 😀
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@jimu: Been listening to Neon Genesis music for the past hour and I blame you. The theme song has grown on me. 😀
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Remember that time when I was going to learn how to play the piano.
:'(
Although I think I’d like to play the violin too. That’d be awesome. (Been listening to the original BioShock theme. Haha!) And the guitar…
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Merci beaucoup!
Edit: Let’s get through the movie list before thinking about anime list. 😛
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Psssst
Why not both?
😀
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GHIBLI MEAT?
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NOT SOMEWHERE WHERE I CAN’T GO
:'(
JELLY
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@greenius: maybe we can have our own Ghibli meat.
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We own 2 or 3! ( @gutsoup owns a bunch! ) NORTHSIDERZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
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@jimu: It was awesome hanging with you and Gutsoup and having company on the long train ride home! 😀
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I listened. They need to tone it down, Team YouTube style. 😛
I like the saxaphone part in the second half of the song though. (I think that was a saxaphone. Maybe it’s a trumpet? Haha!)
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Whatever it is, it’s AWESOME.
And you know (few beers rant) I wouldn’t call myself a fan of “funky” either.
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I understand! 😀
I watch a show called Treme that’s got heaps of jazz music. Wouldn’t say I’m a fan of that kind of style, but there’s plenty of stuff that I’ve really liked… like this! (Treme season one finale spoilers!)
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I dunno, I used to love Metal & Rock above all else but came to realise there is no one better genre. It’s no different to TV shows, sometimes you’re in th emood for action…sometimes romance.
Blah blah, you already understood me blehhhhh
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Pretty raaaad! There’s bits I prefer over the first, but the electric guitar on the melody bit is wonky, prefer the original there. Mostly… prefer the original XD Thought it was going to be the orchestra rendition of something actually
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The TV rendition has guitar in the same place though:
(There’s multiple versions of the tune used in the TV series but in terms of scene usage these line up
Eva-03 / Bardiel torn into little bits)
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Oh dude!
Listen to Cowboy Bebop music!
It’s not all JAPANESE-Y but Bebop and Jazzy and AWESOME
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So overdone. 🙁 Everyone goes on and on about that soundtrack and while good, Kanno’s work on Ghost in the Shell is better. And I’d rather listen to the stuff from Macross Plus as well.
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Of course this is forgetting that the single best piece of music she’s ever written was in Turn-A Gundam:
EDIT: Wait, not the Origa version, this one:
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That sounds suspiciously not like After, in the Dark/Torch Song:
(cc @dc : 2 reasons, DAT SONG and the above Moon themed song…coincidence?)
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After in the Dark / Torch Song is also amazing but Moon edges it out. Especially if you’ve seen Turn-A, because it’s first used in an extremely important scene and comes in perfectly.
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Also, that said, if I was going to just pick one soundtrack to listen to, it would be the first Ghost in the Shell: SAC OST, not Turn-A or Macross or Cowboy Bebop. It’s so varied but thematically consistent despite that.
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I like that!
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That said, there’s a recording out there of a live performance with The Seatbelts playing a bunch of Bebop stuff which is amazing. Kanno herself comes out and plays an epic piano medley at the end:
as NZ said, while good, there are better soundtracks.
Natural progression if you like jazz
Cowboy Bebop- Kids on the Slope- Actual Jazz 😛 (A fair amount of Lupin the 3rd may be interjected in-between.)
Also, the fact that nobody has mentioned the whole entity of the FLCL soundtrack is disappointing.
I’m looking forward to this meat on the weekend. Haven’t crossed a movie off ‘the list’ in ages too!
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Mrs Freeze says she is looking forward to kicking your ass for shaving your head. (She really doesn’t like shaved heads on men.)
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It’s bad either way, you both beat me at the strength tester. 😀 (I wore a beanie every day I was in London/Paris. Haha!)
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Move closer :p
WE just got back from Island Far away, pretty tired, need to give the boy a rest. Will make it out your way one day…I promise.
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You came here, and didn’t even think to stop by for a hello and a drink?
MONSTER.
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nope 🙂
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@bdkiaf: Watched the first couple of minutes of Defiance and the CGI. All kinds of terrible. D:
Edit: Reminds me of Babylon 5 era CGI and that was a long time ago. Haha!
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If they know they can’t pull off the elaborate CGI set pieces, they shouldn’t write them into the episode. Haha! The premise was pretty cool though.
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It takes the focus off the wooden acting. 😛
Also the CGI was amazing for when it aired, just looked all kinds of fake compared to the practical effects Star Trek were still using at the time.
Pretty forward thinking show, though. Filmed in 16:9 when 4:3 was the standard!
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I really like it, but yeah, it had not aged well, and it’s definitely not to everyone’s taste.
First episode has Ducky though, so it’s immediately rad.
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Upcoming record release dates:
May 10th VAMPIRE WEEKEND – Modern Vampires of The City
May 17th THE NATIONAL – Trouble Will Find Me
May 31st QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – Like Clockwork
Errr…. mah… geeerd
Also May 10th MS MR – Secondhand Rapture. Sheeeeeeeeit.
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Yeaaaah… not really sold on this new one yet, but its only one song. I like Daft Punk, but… I was always a little bewildered by the amount of love they do get. I can take them in doses.
But for the new single, its funky man… whyd they ruin it with some douche rapping over it 🙁
“I’m up all night to get some, she’s up all night for good fun, I’m up all night to get lucky” … really?
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You got a fair point. It’s easily the most vocal song they’ve ever done (In their defense, Ferrell’s voice is very smooth and not rap-like at all; it blends in easy with the song) and the song as a whole is slightly repetetive (as least, I’m playing this by ear, and I’m not counting that sexy solo at the end.) A perfect ‘beginning’ track, but I’m betting not definitely the best they can show off.
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I would totally be giving the song so many more listens if I didnt have to hear him talking about getting lucky over, and over, and over. Blergh. But yeah, besides him it is rather great.
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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/22/metal-gear-solid-the-legacy-collection/
Gee, I really hope this comes in a nice collectible case so I can BUY THEM ALL AGAIN!
Goddammit…
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I recently bout em all after HD collection because even though I played them all as they came out I never bought my own copies.
Used to have a MGS obsessed mate who claims 4 isn’t MGS. I believe he was tainted by CoD and doesn’t know what balls he speaks.
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And he meets a girl it would be Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con-Rom.
And if she happened to be a zombie: Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con-Zom-Rom
And if it was turned into a sit com: Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con-Zom-Rom-Com.
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http://www.atlus.com/dragonscrown/
My computer is loading websites at the speed of treacle but this music is awesome!
Getting Elder Scrolls, Loerd of the Rings and Zelda Ocarina of Time vibes ALL OVER THE PLACE.
By the guy who did Vagrant Story etc!
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I get the impression it’s hard to go back to now though, if you didn’t play it back then? I couldn’t afford it personally at the time (I had a choice between it or FF8 and I made the right choice) but it’s one I always wished I’d played back then.
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I’m pretty sure McGarnical only played it recently and he loved it. I haven’t played it myself but I’m sure it’ll hold up fairly well.
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Hard to say since I played to beschizzle out if it back then and can quite happily and still do play it now.
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Hitoshi Sakimoto does everything nowadays though. 🙁 FF Tactics, FF XII, Valkyria Chronicles, Tactics Ogre… he was one of the composers on Muramasa, did Odin Sphere and GrimGrimoire and it would have honestly been more surprising not to hear him in Dragon’s Crown.
Not that his stuff is bad – at least it’s not a sea of samey mediocrity like Motoi Sakuraba – but his stuff tends to blend together a lot for me. Especially that fake brass he likes to use.
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fuck I love it. Did Crimson Shroud too! 😀
He’s got his own thing going. Some composer blend into the pack.
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Yeah, you can hear it and generally know immediately it’s his work. The Muramasa stuff is a bit different though but I think he only co-wrote it.
Took a break from the deep well of Yoko Kanno stuff you got me on further up the page and loaded the site up, it’s pretty good. Very D&D-ish, fits the game nicely.
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I can’t load the site 🙁 Internet’s being absolute shit tonight
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Aww, I liked the tunes from Golden Sun.
(Not that I really listened to them for the music, just liked them in the game)
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So I told my wife about the bonfire purchase today. I opened by describing the $300 statue. Now it sounds like I saved 90%.
I’m good at marriage.
@jimu @dc thanks to you guys I’ve been listening to all the anime music I used to listen to years ago all evening instead of playing Fire Emblem.
Just moved from Yoko Kanno to Yuki Kajiura and I don’t think I’ll be playing anything tonight 🙁
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And that has just reminded me I never got around to ordering the second Fate/Zero Bluray set. Which I have now done. I blame you for this 🙁
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The JP Fate/Zero Bluray sets are like $250 each 🙁 Worth it though. Loved that series.
EDIT: Also not the most I’ve paid for a BD set. I have the limited edition Kara no Kyoukai / Garden of Sinners BD set, it was about $400 at the time and new they go for upwards of $1000 now.
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i saw fate/zero but got a little put off as i haven’t seen any of the other “fate” series, it’s a prequel right?
if you reccomend it i may have to have a look
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In fact it’s more recommended to watch zero more than play through stay/night. It’s a prequel but intended to stand out on it’s own, so GET TO WATCHING IT GUY.
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It’s extremely well made. I don’t know if you need a grounding in the universe to appreciate it or not though. Unfortunately once you see it’s not worth seeing the original Fate anime as it’s a turd (Ufotable, the studio that did Fate/Zero and Kara no Kyoukai, are the only ones to have gotten Type-moon’s stuff right), you’re better off playing the Visual Novel.
All of Type-Moon’s stuff (Tsukihime, Kara no Kyoukai, Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru) exists in the same universe. The stuff like Fate/Extra isn’t canon I think. But the only animated material worth watching is Fate/Zero, KnK and the Unlimited Blade Works film.
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Fire Emblem is pretty rad and also isn’t something I’ve played / heard before. I ended up clocking another 2 hours anyway 😛
*skims TAY*
Dark Souls?
This afternoon I knocked out the Duke’s Archives and the Crystal Caves (Seath died on my first try *bragging*), went for a romp in the Painted World because why not? (didn’t kill Priscilla though), and took down Ceaseless Discharge using that I’m not sure if this is exploiting the game trick.
Delicious progress.
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Nice work, man.
I felt kind of bad killing Priscilla, but it was a wicked cool battle. Tonnes of fun, fighting an invisible enemy. Got her tail knife thing too! -
Anyone other than @redartifice, bought or is planning to buy Monaco tomorrow (or sometime soon)?
I remember Puppy-Lix linking some in-depth GameSpot video agesss ago and it looked awesome. I just saw that Eurogamer gave it a 9 and it’s pretty high up on my list 😀
I still don’t know too much about it though so I’d love to hear some thoughts!
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I’ve been really excited for this game!(but only got around to putting credit in my steam wallet to buy it yesterday) will post thoughts later today.
Watching JACK REACHER right now… not a bad movie? Is it possible Tom Cruise is back to being an appealing actor?
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I’m getting mixed messages on this one. Strong voices on both sides of the fence. My first reaction was to stay well away. Sell me on what you like about it!
Also, people can say what they want about Cruise, but only after seeing him in Magnolia. He is downright amazing in that film.
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Actually he was about the only appealing person in it.
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Cruise is a perfectly good actor, but he’s been in many a bad film, and has acted badly in many a bad film,
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Cruises performance was strong but the movie itself in the end was tired, cliche ridden and poor :/
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Cruise is a great actor, but he’s also done some shitty films. I find that a lot of the time it’s just cool to hate on Tom Cruise since the media started making him out to be a crazy person. Pretty much solely because of couch jumping and scientology. The legend has kind of grown from there.
He’s not my favorite actor in the world, but he’s also done some fantastic films. The Last Samurai and Interview with the Vampire would top my list. Being a fan of the Anne Rice books, his Lestat was absolutely perfect, and I thought The Last Samurai was actually a really powerful film. Also because Ken Watanabe is a fucking champ.
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I haven’t seen it – don’t think I’d even heard of it until you mentioned it. I’ll look into it!
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I can’t play as Pimpingest Shepard any more. First playthrough of ME1 and all these important moments and I stead of the Shepard I know and love I have this belligerent dickhead stealing all the glory.
Sigh. Going to have to start again and throw out the last few hours of play. But it has to be done.
Guess who’s been playing the refreshing game all day so far in vain since probably nobody is awake?!
….. Uh,it’s @dc. yeah, that guy.
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I’m pretty sure I am no fun.
#NoFunNob
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Morning!
So I was just reading the real problem with that controversial etc. article and found myself reading a blog that it linked to. I was disgusted to find that someone at PAX claimed that if someone is dressed sexy then they deserve to be leered at.
I was planing to go as Elizabeth, but if that’s going to happen, I think I might go in a snuggy instead. ;_;
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If that’s their perception, then I feel sorry them. I daresay a lot of people feel that way. If I was a woman, there’s no chance in hell I’d go cosplay as something that could be construed as sexy, because I know how fucking creepy most men are. That’s actually kind of sad.
I don’t think such perceptions are helped by the few cosplayers that seem to aim for the most skin and boob possible, where it becomes questionable if they’re cosplaying or just trying to get attention.
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or most just genuinely like the character they are cosplaying. Why the fuck should people be forced to not cosplay as someone just because there are a few creepy dicks.
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Wow, that’s horrible and completely bullshit. Unfortunately there are still dick(men?) that think like that.
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I assume that the person that wrote the blog believes rape is okay if the victim was wearing “sexy” clothes.
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I won’t lie, if a girl walks past me with her boobs and butt falling out, I would be 99.9% guaranteed of having a look.
I’m only human.
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That said I do believe there’s a line where it goes from an appreciative look (let’s be honest, quick ogle) to creepy leering.
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It’s fine. If someone is wearing something like that, most women will look too. But as I said before, these were girls dressed up as Lara croft. But I understand what you’re talking about. My friend and I saw someone who was wearing a corset that wasn’t actually her size. We didn’t want to look but we couldn’t look away because we knew an accident was bound to happen.
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I think you’ll be safe as Elizabeth, though. She’s dressed pretty conservatively and isn’t really known for her sex appeal. (That’d be a little creepy if she was, considering I get the impression she’s really young. Haha.)
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Oh true? Even so, the way she carried herself seemed much younger. Product of a sheltered childhood and all that, I suppose.
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It’s probably because she was suddenly free. So everything was new to her, like someone experiencing everything for the first time.
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Are you sure they’re not referring to some of the cosplayers Ashcraft writes about from time-to-time, the half naked ones?
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Sure it can be sexy, however, it might not be “revealing” (which seems to be what this is mainly about)
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This is the blog
http://meagan-marie.tumblr.com/post/46396481491/what-would-you-do-if-you-werent-afraid
She got angry with someone who asked a group of girls a lewd question.
Haha, holy crap… after this I doubt they will even include the song on any more future setlists XD (@dc) http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/04/the-national-will-perform-sorrow-for-six-hours-straight-at-nycs-moma/
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Haha! Aw man, I think you’re right. One of my favourite songs too. Though I did play it on loop for six hours straight a couple of weeks back and love it still. 😀
FLAH EMBLAH QUESTION:
I can’t remember the names and stuff, but does that non-permadeath mode actually affect in-game difficulty? If I recall there was three difficulty choices AND then the option to turn on permadeath mode or not.
I think I chose the easiest difficulty (it said series newcomers! :P) and non-permadeath, what I really like about non-peramdeath mode is the ability to save mid-battle. I’ve actually been restarting if I had someone ‘die’ in battle even though they aren’t gone for good but saving mid-battle makes replaying the level a lot easier and also makes it easier when playing on the bus (I know I can stop playing whenever).
If non-permadeath doesn’t affect in-game difficulty then I’ll probably just leave it on for harder difficulties if I ever replay the game :D.
FUNSIES
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Seems like it?
Also whenever you Streetpass another Fire Emblemer, but only updates with their Avatar/party.
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I live in a city sorrow built…
Edit: The National page 13! 😀
@spaghett’s Last Played Song Game:
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Get Fucked you Fucking Fuckwit (No You Can’t Move Into My House) – Frenzal Rhomb
I blame @welbot for sending me on a Frenzal youtube journey.
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I’m a fuck up I’m a joke, I’m a clown pull my pants down
I been called a fuckwit at least once in the last 12 mmmminutes
‘s why I think like a cynic
I live my life
by Frenzal Rhomb lyrics
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Lemonworld – The National. It’s probably my second favourite National song (Exile Vilify being the first)
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Afraid of Everyone is my favourite by far, the one I’m listening to constantly right now is England.
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Ahhh England, so good. This was a highlight of the show I saw. It’s hard to tell but, he’s singing up into the rain, and with all those lights behind him it looked incredible, was a great moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OMFkDdUjT2o#t=270s
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Reverse photo of said moment, *siiiiigh* http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Matt+Berninger+Sunset+Sounds+2011+Festival+cT9oG67GiJfl.jpg
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More squealing girls in the crowd than I would’ve thought at a National show. XD You said Terrible Love was the one where he got close to you, right? I still would be freaked out being that close to a singer. Haha!
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Yeah, I actually skipped the beginning of that song because it exemplifies all the ignorants too that decide their screaming conversation is more important than seeing The National -_-
But yeah, Terrible Love, in the rain amongst the crowd. We all were putting arms around his shoulders, singing along with him. So amazing. It might sound a bit confronting, but when its in that moment and everyone’s just a part of it, it’s hard not to get swept up in it all
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@freezespreston: First time I played Mass Effect I must’ve finished the Eden Prime mission four or five times, never satisfied with my Shep. 😀 Small price to pay if you’re going to see ’em for three games, back-to-back.
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One of the coolest things was to take your character with your decisions across all three games, why just go with the standard one? 😛
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Because he’s the guy on the cover 😛
It also makes it 100% easier to keep his face consistent. I heard things got pretty messed up between 2-3 and Default Fem Shep looks terrible compared to before (I use Bro Shep).
I played 1 on Xbox, played 2 on Xbox years later (didn’t import) and now I have 3 on PS3 :/ (haven’t played it though). Still holding out for a trilogy edition with DLC!
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Odd… that went into insta-moderation but then I added “with DLC” at the end and it’s out…
EDIT: same with this!?
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There was an import bug between 2 and 3, that’s true. I just put off playing the game until it was patched. Haha!
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Some of us like to strive to be average at everything we do, okay?
Even if it is saving the galaxy.-
Hooray for being unremarkable! \o/
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I made my Shepherd look kinda like a schlub. Figured that the hero who saved the galaxy should just look like an ordinary dude.
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http://www.gog.com/gamecard/stacking
Stacking is 66% off on GOG today. One of the best things Double Fine’s done! 😀
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Tim had an awesome go at Lee for naming that game that way. In the last ep he’s struggling to come up with Broken Age, and says “We’re going to have some terrible name, like ‘Stacking’” XD
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Haha! I thought Trenched was a much worse name than Stacking. 😀 Even the name Costume Quest is kind of generic when you think about it.
Edit: I needs to watch me these episodes… after I play the game.
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But there reaaaally isnt any spoilers, at all. Just as an fyi. At most you see a second or two of gameplay, and it’s always of the same bits of the game near the beginning.
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Ssssh, this is how I justify not backing it. Haha!
Edit: That and being so damn poor. 😀
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Sugs is wrong. There are some general things you may consider spoilers since you have the whole “I WANT TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE GAME” thing going on :P. But there’s nothing big.
Stuff like the main premise of the game, some of the areas were discussed, characters.
Again, nothing HUGE but all spoilers for you since you have your crazy system >:(
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I read an Adventure Gamers article on the game in a moment of weakness. 😀 I know the name and basic premise now, alas.
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Both of which you could’ve found out in a much better way by watching the doco >:(
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If only I was a backer. 😛
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DARK SOULS
Lots of things ticked off my checklist. Depths, yep. Painted World, not so much (@freezespreston, I got a Souvenir of Reprisal on my first run, and was looking forward to doing some YAY NYAH NYAH etc, but then got nothing for the next twenty minutes :P), but I can do that later. Hit up the Catacombs, picked up all the items, found the blacksmith, took down the Black Knight, found the Darkmoon Séance Ring and the Gravelord covenant (which I joined and levelled up in for the miracles). Pinwheel was laughable. Ventured far enough into Tomb of the Giants to find a bonfire and Patches and Rhea. Rescued her and warped back to Firelink to kill Petrus. Bought all of Rhea’s spells, leeched all her humanity, and now I’m gonna world-trot to kindle some bonfires. Started in Sen’s Fortress, and remembered that I hadn’t defeated all the titanite demons below, so did that … with 19 humanity in hand. Almost got killed once in the room with two of them, but managed to survive. Next step, world-trotting, and joining the Darkmoon Covenant. Then, I’ll be heading on back to Tomb of the Giants to finish it off, and get the Paladin invasion.
TL;DR: Did stuff. Was fun.
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Man you guys progress way faster through it than I do. But then I guess that you don’t spend a few nights in a row just co-oping bosses and protecting the Forest from invaders every so often.
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The above took about 90 minutes this morning.
Wish I could, but I have no Gold account, and my internet is not great at the best of times (patchy ADSL 1). That said, I’ve just redeemed a 2 week trial of gold, so gonna give the covenant PvP a go tonight! 🙂
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Dark wraith covenant, get the Dark Hand. If I recall you already defeated the Four Kings so its too late for your current playthrough.-
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This.
It might take an hour or two, but you’ll probably get 30-40 humanity in that time, especially if you’re carrying 10 on you to boost discovery. If you farm the ceiling leeches too, they drop green titanite shards and large titanite shards too. Also, if you have Homeward miracle, follow the path around and keep killing rats all the way through to the room where the channeler was, then Homeward home. Or keep going and drop down to the basilisk tunnels and farm eyes of death, and you’ll eventually end up back at the bonfire (one big circle). -
I’ll give that a try once I’m done with Lost Izalith, then.
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This Morning, I did not know what RSL meant, what Two-Up was, and why ANZAC day ends at 1PM.
And now I do.
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So Canadian.
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Is there an actual reason for the 1pm finish or is it just because everyone is pretty written off by that point?
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I bought a case of beer last night, and the cashier was in the middle of talking about how they will be rished for anzac day. Then he was like “look at this guy, he’s planning a party!”, and I was like “No this is just for me”. Then there was an awkward silence and a pitiful look given.
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Haha. Sad sad man. 😛
I got a case last night too. Then I realised its just you and me that drink 🙁
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You crazy drunks! Intervention meat!
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It’s a stay-over from NZ’s ANZAC day celebrations, they had a half day celebration, and it stuck when it came to Australia
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The two-up games at the club near me goes from 12pm-4pm 😛
We’re pretty rebellious around here.
Oh man, I keep watching Ico trailers even though I know it’ll arrive tomorrow most likely. I want to play NOW. :'(
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What did you decide to do about the Star Trek game? There are a bunch of gameplay videos out now which I’m sure you’ve watched.
Looks really mediocre, not worth it at full price or any price depending on who you ask. Maybe wait for steam sales or a bargain bin copy 🙂
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Yeah, all enthusiasm is kind of gone for that game now. I think unless it gets some amazing reviews I just won’t play it or will wait until it’s cheap.
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The Miiverse is on the internet. Go check it out.
For some reason my region is set to Europe/Oceania. Crazy Nintendo, I ain’t in australia anymore!
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NO.
Remember that time we played locally (no lag for me) and we used to the same gear? (NO TOAD)
I R WIENER
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I race best when I can use my cheating implements in private.
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http://collider.com/guillermo-del-toro-monster-series/
With this and his new FX series The Strain (Not to mention movie stuff like Crimson Peak), good time to be del Toro fan!
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This just makes me sad that his Lovecraftian thing never went through. I would have loved a big budget, R rated, Lovecraftian horror film.
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http://kotaku.com/nintendo-wont-be-having-an-e3-press-conference-this-ye-480309870
Well this is kinda depressing
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Unfortunately it does. And I bet in the coming years MS and Sony will do the same, because there’s so many more effective ways of getting information out now.
Plus Nintendo Direct’s are awesome. It’s still depressing though, because E3 time has always been exciting!
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They’re good some of the time 😛 Just not most of the time!
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E3 as a whole has been kinda odd. These years it’s more a media circus and fodder for memes and gifs than actual hype for games, so it looks like E3 is dropping in quality. But yeah, the wisest choice, considering Sony and Microsoft will probably go all-out. What Ninty needs to do is to just quietly announce a few new games and let everybody else duke it out.
Also, this means less exposure for Ninty, which is a bad thing. Media Circuses are circuses, but damn if they don’t attract crowds willing to pay.
Kind of a big deal
@negativezero @sughly @gutsoup
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Man, that god warrior. Compared to the manga, it didn’t get nearly as much attention or development as it did in the movie. Still, that woulda meant Nausicaa woulda been two movies if that wasn’t the case..
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IIRC It’s on the 3.33 BD. It was shown in cinemas as a lead-in short before the film itself.
(Evangelion’s Hideaki Anno was one of the animators on Nausicaa)
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I really want to watch Wreck-It-Ralph, but I have to wait til tomorrow… 🙁
AFL fans, who’s your picks for today?
Essendon Vs Collingwood?
St.Kilda Vs Sydney?
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Watching The Amazing Race…
Team YouTube need to tone it down. What’s wrong with the country singers too, Hockey guys are d-bags.
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It was like this for me too as soon as they expressed their hatred for another team 😀 (I think Max said something like they’d rather go with any other team than the YouTubers in some plane flight in Africa)
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Oh man, I think I only turn on my PS3 about once a month to download that month’s PS+ content. I’m always like “AWESOME! I’M TOTALLY GOING TO PLAY ALL THOSE GAMES” and then I don’t…
They had some seriously good line-ups recently but that’s mainly because I didn’t already have a majority of the games 😛
I’m keen to check out Thomas was Alone. I don’t know anything about it except SQUARES AND SHAPES. GOTY. (@notoriousr). Catherine is being offered next month and I’ve been interested in that game since it came out so I’m happy for that, same with Hitman Absolution!
@masha2932 – I bought Sound Shapes, we’ll discuss stuff later 😉
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@sughly @powalen @strange @phoenix @dc – Survivor is downloading and I should be able to watch it before it airs tonight :D. WOOOO GET HYPE!
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THOMAS WAS ALONE IS AWESOME AND ITS FREE FOR PS+ AND ONLY TAKES 3-4 HOURS SO YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
Seriously, it’s charming, has excellent narration and excellent music.
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I’ll definitely be checking it out once we get a bigger hard-drive for our PS3. When we bought it the harddrive was borked within days so we tried to get the whole PS3 exchanged but there were no more PS3s in the country at that point because they were transitioning to the newer, uglier Slims. So we put an old 40G hardrive in. It’s kind of useless when you have PS+ though. 🙁
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I think Thomas Was Alone is only 400-500mb? That is a really useful thing about the PS3 though, any 2.5 inch HDD works with it. I don’t know how I’d manage on only 40gb though =\
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It’s almost finished downloading, but I’m about to go out 🙁
Will tag you when I’ve watched it, which may be tomorrow now. We can talk about it together @strange
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I do? 😛 (I don’t.)
I thought you didn’t commit to PS+ because there wasn’t enough games you’re interested in.
Like I said, as long as I can find enough games to justify $70 (I paid $120ish for two years) then it’s good for me, and I’ve found plenty of value already.
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Well, there was enough to justify the price tag, had I found the time (I may not care much for Drake but I’d play the game). But yeah, I’d rather just buy what I want as I find the time. PSN keeps having specials on awesome shit. I just got Resi 3 for $3 and Persona 3 for $10 the other week.
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Mr. Strange wasn’t paying attention and accidentally cut the extension cord while using his hedge trimmer thingy. It tripped the main power switch and the TV went off, which brought the kids to tell me which made me investigate which made me find out what Mr. Strange did. He wasn’t going to tell me. 😛
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Oh, you mean an electric hedge trimmer thingo! I thought you meant the scissor-like version and was trying to imagine a scenario where they would be used anywhere near an extension cord haha
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Just got back from the club where two-up was being played. I’ve never been to it before so it was a bit of a spectacle for me 😛 Hundreds of people standing in a big circle screaming at each other with a few people facilitating bets running around the middle. It was crazy.
Also a near perfect cross-section of the bogan community. Classic beer-brand singlet wearing bogan, middle-aged cashed-up bogan, shorts-and-uggs bogan, southern cross tattoo bogan. All gathered around the watering hole that is gambling!
@negativezero
Radiant Historia, you play it much?
Is the combat full turn-based?
I ask because it’s on special at Playsia
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I’d get it quick. I ordered it a few weeks ago. And it was only available for about 2 days. Haven’t played it yet, but I believe its fully turn based
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Yup.
It was a fun game but apart from the whole Time thing it didn’t seem like anything special. I played it for an okay amount, maybe 10 hours or so?
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DARk. SoULS!
@freezespreston, I’ve started invading people in the Painted World. Picked up 3 Souvenirs from victories, and two from harpie drops. Thanks for the advice – it’s crazy fun invading the guilty. They must all be punished. Pretty sure I invaded a glitched-up mega-character twice, though. He has something like 20,000 HP (or my HUD was glitchy). But I nearly took him down once, and sat back while he destroyed himself once. All in all, have won three, lost one. Feeling awesome. Can’t wait to go back tonight and invade some more. Then might try some co-op! \o/
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Ooh ooh Dark Souls!
All I have left is Gwyn, but I’m wondering what else I should do beforehand. Kindling some bonfires around the world seems like a good idea. Any suggestions, anyone?-
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It’s an encouragement. You can do it Blaghs! I believe in you!
Although I don’t have the DLC so that might be a part of it, too.
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Dude, really? You’ve barrelled through it! If you’re going through with NG+ kindling bonfires for sure, upgrading weapons (because in NG+ you’ll need to find the blacksmiths and embers all over again), and getting all unique items, spells and miracles from NPCs, before killing them for humanity and souls. Enjoy!-
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MONSTER! D:
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I know. :'(
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I thought you had finished the game, then I thought you didn’t and then I did and now I don’t 😛
What’s the story with your and Dark Souls? Where’d you get up to last time? 😀
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I’ve never been further than Sen’s Fortress. So I’ve barely started, really. I did watch Mr. Strange complete it though. And I was going well until our old TV broke and got that delamination line which happened around the time I died just before making it to the Sen’s Bonfire. Not the greatest place to stop. 😛
And then after we got our new TV and I finally started to play again I was out of practice and just kept getting slaughtered so I started again. I got up to opening the door to Blightown, but now I want to start again because I threw a tantrum and killed an NPC. 🙁
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Unrelated, I just got invaded for the first time. What a load of crap. Not a system I enjoy at all.
Kill everyone. Especially the Bonfire Keeper peoples (but leave one or something so you can upgrade). I believe the limit is +7? I can’t remember if the Fire Keeper Souls carried over or not (I think they do) but yeah, pretty much go on a killing spree because it’s going to reset. Probably best to look up and double check on what actually carries over and what doesn’t 🙂
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I killed the Anor one in my current playthrough and I’ve still got a couple more Lord Souls to get :D, but the extra healing is nice!
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Okay, so I remade my Eluveitie boys shirt into a lovely girl shirt today. From start to finish. Pretty happy with that but now I feel like I need to take advantage of this productivity momentum and do something else.
I just wish I could figure out how to make the Metal Gear Solid shirt work. It’s really bugging me.
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@shane https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/327345483188142080/photo/1
Yay! I can finally finish the shirt you voted for me to start all the way back in February. 😀
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@shane
I was going to make a crude, boys club comment here about your package arriving, but since I’ve received two things, and my mother was the one who handed them to me, I just couldn’t find a way that didn’t either break the limits of grammar, or sound really freaking weird.
Guys. Guys. GUYS
Monaco is really fun. Especially in co-op.
Austin Wintory’s soundtrack for it is also delightful.
I also really hope it comes to Vita, it seems like it’d work well on that.
Tangent: I’m really digging all these indie games coming to Vita. Thomas Was Alone, Spelunky, Binding of Isaac, Hotline Miami, Stealth Bastards. If Minecraft or XCOM came to Vita, I would get one straight away, because all these types of games work well by playing them in short bursts and have heaps of replay value.
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Well it’s already out, I’ve sunk 90 hours into it and I prefer using my 360 gamepad on PC over the vita controls. I can’t play it any other way now.
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I know it was meant to be a 3DS thing, but conservative Nintendo said no because of potential religious offenseivenessness.
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Yup! He’s remaking it and it’s due out sometime this year:
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/29/binding-of-isaac-rebirth-in-process-of-ps3-vita-pc-ports-mor/
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You traded yours in right when it was really starting to improve as a platform IMO.
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I don’t believe so. I’ve been without it for close to 4 months and still don’t have a good reason to own one. I’m waiting for MH4, God Eater 2, and PSO2 2. As well as stuff like Binding of Isaac. When those things come, I’ll revisit it. I also sold my Vita while it was still worth good money, so didn’t really lose out on it.
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ALEPH’S TOTALLY NOT CHEAPSKATE GAME GIVEAWAY!!!
First in, best dressed. One item per person please.
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Finally purchased a wired X360 controller for my PC.
Hopefully now I’ll be able to give my hands a bit of a rest when playing less intensive games \o/
In other news… DotA 2. I need to play more of it. Lots of people do.
Anyone else got Dyad on either ps3 or pc? I just bought it on pc. Looks pretty cool. There’s not enough music games!
The video on Steam for it has such a Tim and Eric vibe too.
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I may have impulse-bought the minute Steam announced it on twitter.
Put about an hour into it today, it’s OK in small sittings. Got a very zen vibe going on 😀
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I keep thinking it’s Sunday. I don’t know why I’ve leapt straight to Sunday, but I keep thinking things like “sweet, new Game of Thrones episode tomorrow!” and “Ooh, the new Doctor Who should be ready soon!”
Edit: And yes, it’s probably sad that I live my weeks in anticipation of 2 shows.
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Saturday means meats. Saturday means non-weekday TV shows. Saturday means tomorrows Sunday. Nothing to do with the day off. 😛
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“should be Saturday” was a sort of feeling I had because it was a day off when that usually comes on the weekend. But I know when you’re on holidays for ages all the days just meshed together for me since every day was a day off 😀
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When I was in Sydney, we (@blaghman and @mythamphetmine as far as I recall) went to a random little Indian place near Pez’s, where we were the only non-Indians eating there. Had this Goat curry that was mind blowingly good as far as I was concerned.
But yes, Indian food is ace. Wifey hates it so it’s pretty rare I get it.
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MMMmmm, a good goat curry is so very good. It doesn’t really work as a meat on its own, but it’s so perfect for curry.
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Going to a restaurant serving foreign cuisine and finding yourself a minority is usually a good sign.
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MORE DARK SOULS \o/
PVP. We bowed to each other, and then promptly managed to kill each other simultaneously! My favourite battle so far. Ultimately, worked out worse for him, because I lost nothing and got the Souvenir and his souls 😛
now have all the souvenirs I need. Four from PvP, five from farming. Thanks for the advice @freezespreston! Next, gonna try a little gwyndolin murder.
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Reading all of these makes me want to play it again and finish off my playthroughs! But so many other games to play D: -
So Oliver, Toby and I have been working on songs for our band that we’ve been trying to put together. So far we have 2 songs underway. Kungpoon and Doris. Yup, we’re gonna be superstars.
Survivor! @sughly @strange @phoenix @greenius
Latest episode spoilers
Not as blowing-my-mind amazing as the last few eps, but it’s good to see Cochran winning! The vote was pretty cool though, three way tie! It’s weird to see that Eddie voted for Malcolm in the revote though. Is his fake little romance with Andrea still going on? 😛 It’ll be funny if Andrea now goes back and starts digging around where she caught Malcolm too.
Also haha, poor Brenda spending most of her money on pigs brains (and Sherri spending all her money on a pizza :P). I love the auction challenges. The immunity challenge was funny too because of Eddie’s little “Cochran is no threat at all even with an advantage” speech and then he goes on to win it haha ps. I’m sorry your eye candy got voted off, Strange!
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Yeah, still a good one though! I thought they would’ve flipped but NO ONE likes flippers! (except me when doing PE in high school since I couldn’t swim – everyone did laps and I derped around in my own lane :D, killed my triathalon times though…)
Felt so bad for Brenda :'(. Sherri is getting really annoying but so glad she didn’t flip flop or she would’ve pissed everyone off even more. I would’ve thought Eddie would win since they reveal the advantage in the immunity challenge and he’s mysteriously talking about it at a different location 😛
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BEST EPISODE! Oh man, hes gone! Yissss!! When they were talking to Sherri and Erik – wasnt sure if they had Erik or not, but I thought FOR SURE they had Sherri. And then they were all yeah we gotta get Cochran next, I was so sad :'( Then he won immunity! And I was so happy! Then I thought oh noes, Andrea’s going to go! And then out of nowhere Sherri and Erik stick with them. Phew! Big relief.Also totally just had a debate with Mum on why Malcolm needed to go. Mums only retort – “but he is good looking”. Did not need to hear that :/ -
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Just found out the most hilarious fuck you to the complainers about the Mass Effect 3 endings. (MAJOR endgame spoilers btw)
So I’ve been slowly doing an insanity run, and in the last week I’ve gone from the Citadel attack mission through to the end. 10mins ago I was talking to the Catalyst, and he gives me the 2 options(not enough military strength for 3rd).
I was screwing around on my way to the control ending, and I shot the holo, which apparently triggers the extra ending that was added by the extended cut. Credits roll, and I didn’t get either insanity achievements. So the fourth ending doesn’t count as an ending. I’m currently replaying the final part to try and get them.
Also, I’m thinking of following @freezespreston, and beginning a trilogy run again, might even keep Kaiden around instead of Ash.
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Big ME3 ending spoilers.
Interestingly enough, I got the same thing when I finished the game the first time. Entirely unintentional and entirely confusing. It took me to 10 minutes to figure out if I’d actually finished the game. I refused to make a choice. Then I got that weird ‘easter egg’ ending.-
I first finished it near release, chose the Symbiosis ending. Just picked control, got both insanity cheevos, 100%. But oh man, just got punched in the feel glands by Shepards extended cut speech.-
Massive ME3 ending spoilers, obviously.
After researching and realising I got the short easter egg ending, I went and finished it again. I forget what ending I chose now, but my FemShep was dead. This did not please me. Then I found out if you had your galactic readiness high enough, you could get the extra bit at the end showing she lived. I think her hand moves from underneath rubble or somesuch, I forget. So, I went back, played multi and did everything I could and got the ending where Shep survives, then i left happy.-
Shep living was actually the worst part of the “complete” ending to me. I haven’t played the extended ending, just played through once near release and got high enough readiness to get the full cinematic. Shepard dying just felt a lot more final, having them live cheapened it for me and seemed pointless. -
Yeah I know exactly what you mean – it would seem ‘right’ for her to lay down her life at the end of it all, but for some reason I felt really invested in my Shepard. I didn’t want her to die. I’d spent all that time and effort getting her to that moment, and I didn’t want her to lay down her life. It’s weird, because it’s been an extremely long time since a game made me feel so attached to a main character. For some reason I couldn’t let it go until I went back and got my galactic readiness up, just so I could see that final shot that implied she’d survived. Then I was happy. I like that they made that option available to me.
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The bullshit part is you basically have to play MP to get that.
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Just finished Dead Island Riptide Campaign I would definitely say it’s a below average game and don’t think I enjoyed any of it, but was still motivated enough to finish it so I guess it is a good time sink.
Now to go download ME3 Citadel DLC.
Play Bio infinite to see this amazing ending people claim it has, or Fire Emblem…. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
Fire Emblem.
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That’s following Fire Emblem! Fire Emblem is too good to peel away from at the moment, plus gives me the ability to lay in my brand new bed whilst gaming 😀
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It would probably be a different story if all the excitement was around Tomb Raider having just come out. Alas, its the other way, and I’ve started something I dont want to stop in FE 😀
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You’ve won this round. 🙁
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It does the action better, but a lot of the politics are better in the books I reckon, partly because you can experience the thought processes of characters. I definitely enjoy both though.
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I prefer the pacing and the interaction between the characters is a bit more lively in the show.
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And Strong Belwas. And lots and lots of scenes with direwolves.
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Is queen of the thorns the old lass? Who’s telling everyone her mind and whatnot? If so, yeah… she’s cool.
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I must read them now…
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http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=201046
I need help. Do I get massively excited only the bet let down that it’s not true/what I want it to be, or forget I ever read this?
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I hope it’s something big but like Freeze says it’s probably a Wii U version or a VITA version. Which is good for those who own those platforms. Also Clover studio has really changed since most people went to platinum games so who knows if a sequel will be as good.
Anyway, I’m hoping to be proven wrong 🙂
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Clover shut 😛
I loved Okamiden, almost as much as Okami, so I’m happy with it being in somebody else’s hands, although Platinum taking it on would be even more amazing. Apparently one of the guys who is still at Platinum has a script for another Okami game, but doesn’t want to work with Capcom again :S
Hurry up next week.
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Yes it did. I forgot that. 🙂
Next week might also be the re-reveal of the XCOM FPS after its long hiatus. I was always more excited for that compared to last year’s game. I hope it is still good.
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“Really Changed”
Clover doesn’t exist any more. It was shut down by Crapcom after every game they made was a commercial flop. That’s why all the key staff are at Platinum – most of them were laid off.
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Just watched Paranorman, was going to say that it was surprisingly excellent, but it wasn’t really surprising how good it was. Laika (the studio) are so very very good. A lot of the time I was unsure whether something was stop motion or CG. And yes, I know, I’m kinda behind with seeing this movie. Shush now.
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I didn’t even know it was stop motion until D.C. was all “it’s stop motion” 😛
I thought it was just CG made to look like stop motion 😀
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There’s a coupla giveaways. Particularly, there’s some odd flickering on some characters when they change their expressions, as the painting wasn’t quite perfect.
Have you seen their behind the scenes stuff? It’s pretty cool.
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You should’ve gone to the ParaNommin’ meat! Freeze was there! Mrs. Freeze was there! Ser Nobs was there! Trjn was there! What’s your excuse? :'(
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That I’m a bum who lives in Canberra!
Why don’t you organise more meats down here, huh, D.C.? WHY?
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I’m prejudiced against Canberra. >:|
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One of the most reasonable prejudices around.
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Yeah, Vooks attempted to put in me in my place with a swift ‘derr its not stop motion’ tweet when I was all excited about it. Love it when a put-someone-in-their-place comment falls through 😀
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Oh no. DC is broken. Time to Old Yella him, as much as it breaks my heart.
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It’s for the best!
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It’s for your own good*
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Oh man, what a film right!
The whole ending sequence is so so incredible. I open the film every so often just watch the climax with Norman’s efforts to talk to Aggie as she goes crazy. And with Brion’s music, gah! So perfect. I really loved the character design in particular, so good, especially Aggie. That scene that dives back into the past with the court, so heartbreaking.
I started watching The Beach earlier, remembered how good it was and decided to save it for when my mind was less scattered. (2014! :P)
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I was turned off from watching it when I was younger because of DiCaprio (I judged him harshly for a movie I had never seen).
Also, because I was like, 9. Probably that one (Now that I’ve said this, someone in my year at school did an oral about it, so I don’t really have an excuse on the “forgetting about it” front).
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9? D:
I was 15 when it was released. Also, nothing wrong with DiCaprio. The Aviator’s one of my favourite movies of all time. I admit, I watched The Beach because of Danny Boyle/Alex Garland after I saw 28 Days Later.
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These days, I like him. Back then, he was judged for Titanic, a movie that was released when I was six (I’m not actually sure what months these movies were released in, so I’m just assuming the latter half of the year).
God I’m such a babby.
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I saw Titanic when I was 12 and loved it. *folds arms stubbornly*
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I can’t sit through it.
Something about 3 hours of sloshing water.
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Bah, I was a James Cameron fanboy. Terminator 2 and True Lies were on constant rotation at my house. Haha!
(Still am a James Cameron fan and don’t care who knows it! :P)
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Both fantastic movies.
Doesn’t excuse Titanic.
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I saw a documentary about the Titanic at the Dreamworld IMAX when I was really young and it captured my attention — was amazing to see it come to life later in this movie. (Also, the Titanic adventure game was all kinds of creepy.) Half the battle is wanting to see the movie. XD
Edit: Also, didn’t you say a while back that you’d never seen it? 😛
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Never seen the whole thing in one sitting and never plan to. Doesn’t interest me in the slightest.
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worst ending ever. DiCaprio and Winslet spend eternity dancing together in the afterlife? What? While her husband who she eventually marries, who loved her for the rest of her life just watches? Bah I say. Bah! -
I saw one of the ones at IMAX, I think it was Ghosts of the Abyss, which was the one made by Cameron because if you’ve already sent things down there to make your movie movie more realistic, why not make a documentary about it?
It was pretty cool.
Doesn’t make me like Titanic any more though. 😛
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BAH! I rewatched Titanic in 3D last year too.
*folds arms stubbornly again*
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Wait, you unfolded them? I was running under the assumption that you were typing either with your nose, or with your body at a 90 degree angle, awkwardly squashed over the keyboard.
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@freezespreston, no one ever thinks about the long-suffering devoted husbands. Le sigh.
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I watched Iron Man 3! In 3D! And I tried the new Green Frozen Fanta at Macca’s! And the Storm won!!!!! All in all, pretty good evening!
@sernobulus (semobulus) @cj
uhh, sorry about the passive-ragequit guys. Dick move. I’m going to blame it on being sick.
Once again, sorry :S
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You missed out on what sounded like a fun game. They just started derping super hard, and had a blast.
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Dark Souls co-op for bosses is bloody fantastic fun. Might even trump the main campaign.
Sunbro convenant 4Lyf!
Got summoned twice in Anor Londo. Once to take down O&S with one other phantom + host, and once to take down Gwyndolin in dark Anor Londo (which I’ve never done, nor seen before). I am quite proud to say that I did the lion’s share of damage in both battles, and ALL the damage in Gwyndolin battle. I think my host was trying to attack from a distance; I just ran straight up (with appropriate dodging) and pyromancied 😛
I now have thirteen days until my Xbox Gold trial expires; guess I should make the most of it! \o/
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It’s one of the best things ever. I’ll spend entire nights just dropping summon signs at the one bonfire.
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What I’ve been missing out on. I feel like I’ve only been playing half a game… (and it was still the best game!)
(Edit: Though until today, I thought that your claims of 300 hours seemed like an excessive investment of time, even for Dark Souls :P)
Dear TAY, if you see 12 month Xbox Live subscriptions for cheap, I guess I’ve just been convinced :\
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I think 300 is long past. The character select screen tells me nearly 250 with the current set. I originally started on the old ps3 before it died and had a 150 and a 80 hour character on that.
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I’m pretty sure these work for Aussie accounts, though I’m not 100% sure, but uhh, forty-nine dollars at OGS (an emailed code, too). http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-accessories/xbox-live-gold-12-months-membership-card-email-code-only-xbox-360
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Thanks man. I will think about this. They’re the same price on eBay too, so plenty of options at this pricepoint.
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I got my last sub from http://www.ozsave.com/xbox-360/accessories/12-month-xbox-live-gold-membership-subscription-xbox-360
40 bucks, they emailed me a photo of the code.Also I have a 14 day trial from tomb raider if you’re interested. I’m unlikely to use it ever.
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Thanks man, I still have three unused 14 day codes, so will be right for about two months. By then, I’ll probably have finished the game, and cooled on the whole paying-to-go-online thing. Will remember your offer though – thanks!
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@shane
Didn’t you stockpile those Gold Trials from that promotion? I still have one if you want it (and if it still works)
Just holla!
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Yes, I did. I got four of them and redeemed the first of these yesterday. So I’m set for two months. \o/
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I’m assuming that when one expires, I can then redeem the next. Will find out in 12 days
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But do they work now while you’re on it? I’m also assuming the codes will have an expiry date so you might as well try them before they’re gone!
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BioShock Infinite OST spoilers:
I’ve had Will the Circle be Unbroken stuck in my head for weeks now! D:
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I have a copy of its piano sheet music here (not their version, specifically, just a version), and I keep considering trying to play it, but I am super super rusty (and I had a crack at it a while back, and I’m terrible). -
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Some people like to know nothing and…
Genuine BioShock Infinite spoilers here:
The lyrics kind of relate to the story in a major way! 😀-
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Nope, pretty sure they do.
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I’m not sure why it’s spoiled, but OK 😛
I suppose if you stop singing it, the circle will be broken. Otherwise, it may just be a self-fulfilling prophecy in more ways than one. BWAAAAAM
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Typical. I can’t sleep so I get up…just as everyone else starts going to bed. 😛
Which reminds me, last night I was woken up by a facebook notification on my phone (I still can’t figure out how to stop them! I thought I had them turned off but they’re still going, and I’ve definitely turned Twitter ones ON but they never happen. 😛 ) and it was Thorbjorn Englund “inviting” me to Sabaton Open-Air Festival(formerly Rockstad:Falun). That means I have to go to it now, right? 😛
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Holy crap guys… first screenshot from the new ET Sequel starring Nic Cage!!!!
http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/znKz_J6Mg2E/hqdefault.jpg
Edit 2nd pic from the movie set!!! Clearer and fuller body shot
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/nic-cage-everyone-1.jpg
:O Unreal!!!!
Hehehehehehehehehehe 😉
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What is wrong with me?! Even guessing what it was I still clicked on it. Nightmare material for sure! D:
Apparently, This is the last year of Futurama:
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/04/22/futurama-not-renewed-comedy-central/
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Getting locked in a wet supply cupboard with like 10 other people. Yeah cool beans. At least my room wasn’t trashed I guess?
Fucking Capra Demon. Got him first go this run, but that thing never fails to get my heart going.
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Fuck that guy. Right in his stupid face. Actually he wouldn’t be so bad without the dogs. They rarely kill me or damage me, but they just get in the fucking way. I’ve had them box me in long enough for Capra man to hit me with one of his huge attacks. Anyhoo, fuck that guy, he’s dead.
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So I was just chatting with one of my mates. Catching up on how he’s been doing etc, when he says “Yeah we just wrapped up doing VFX for Game of Thrones Season 3”
I had a total Chris Griffin moment. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!
Does anyone want to go to my work for me in my place while I stay home playing games?
I’ll be your best friend.
http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/4/25/4261002/the-longest-journey-of-ragnar-tornquist
Ragnar Tornquist talks about Red Thread Games, The Secret World, The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.
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This guy is kind of like bizarro David Cage, really strong unique voice but much less abrasive. 😀
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Helps that he actually knows how to write interesting games. Unlike David Cage. He also actually wants to be a game developer not a filmmaker. Unlike David Cage. And isn’t a hack. Unlike David Cage.
In fact I’m not even sure why you’re comparing the two.
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I had a dream that I was being interviewed by Tim Schafer for a job at Double Fine and he really liked me and told me I was one of 3 candidates to be considered
…and then I woke up… AND WORST DREAM EVER :'(
But Double Fine seems like a rad place to work at :). I feel like I know most of the employees too since they have so many docos and behind the scenes stuff. It’s cool when you can recognise someone and their work rather than them just being EMPLOYEE X at COMPANY Y
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It was cool finding out that he did the music for Thirty Flights of Loving (@notoriousr) which I loved 😀
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And Sughly!
(maybe? or was it another forum?)
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No, you’re right! Some of our earliest conversations were sparring over Heavy Rain and talking about Moon in the last watched movie thread. XD
Agustin Cordes who makes Scratches/Asylum posts there too!
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And he’s friends with Sughly!
That connection is still not going to make me play his game though D.C. :P. NO. HORROR. >:|
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Boooooo! Agustin deserves your moneys
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@sughly
But I don’t like horror! And you totally spoiled Scratches when you forgot to spoil tag it.
GOOD ONE SUGHLY
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Scratches!
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We talked about Moon? That’s kinda neat!
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Just checked. You responded to my response and I didn’t respond to yours. Haha. I only remember because it was very rare that any one would reply to me there. XD
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@dc Dickman!
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That new Rayman Legends demo app is out today. Looks to be a few challenge levels that will apparently get updated periodically? With leaderboards and such. Could be cool. I’m downloading it now (It’s about 800MB)
EDIT: Ah, so it’s new levels with daily challenges applied to them. You get ranked on a leaderboard (friendslist, country and global) on your best times/most points/whatever the current challenge is. Sounds pretty cool, actually. Maybe WiiUTAY is about to get a little more competitive 😛
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I was convinced with the original demo. I think I’m just going to forget this game exists until release day and then vanish for a week. 😀
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Didn’t they say these levels wouldn’t be part of the actual release? It’s described as an ‘app’, not a demo.
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Coolio, will check it out now.
I’m still on the fence about cancelling my pre-order. There’s nothing about the Wii U version I liked (ugh, gimmicky touch screen shit) so I might as well pick it up on another platform, but I’m not sure how they’ll do that touch screen stuff for them (ugh, in-game cursors).
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Ze National – dont swallow le cap
PRAYING to the music gods for a leak. Wait no, wrong gods! Should be praying to the pirate gods…
Yarrrr…
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Firefly – Childish Gambino
I don’t really even want to listen to this right now, I just couldn’t pick anything else on my phone. Spoilt for choice or something.
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Because apparently podcasts now need an app on iOS. And as much as I want you inside me, I’m not downloading an app for it.
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(haha, kinda looks like a push pop)
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Cliffs of Gallipoli by Sabaton.
That was yesterday, just realised I haven’t listened to anything today yet. D: -
Morning all.
Used the public holiday to play Spec Ops: The Line from start to finish.
I think I would have enjoyed the game a great deal more if I didn’t see an absolute shittonne of people telling me how fantastic it is, and the choice you have to make and so on and so forth. Overall it was fun, but some of the scenarios that played out made me feel so detached from the game and the impact was basically entirely removed. For example, I spent 30 minutes trying to not use the white phosphorus, ended up realising I had to, then DIDN’T shoot the people trying to flee (and turned out I was right in that choice, civvies etc.). The game decided they were hit anyway, then lectured me on my choices and actions. Yeah, piss off, I didn’t do it, I didn’t choose it, and I felt no remorse for my actions because IT WASN’T ME. It was still pretty grim, and was definitely confronting, but it really didn’t work the way it should/could have.
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Yeah, I think it’s one of those games that just works better going in blindly. I went in knowing too much too, had my expectations too high and probably didn’t like it as much as I should’ve.
I blame @dc.-
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Spec Ops is different though. Honestly one of my favourite games of last year. (And possibly this generation of games!)
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I’m playing it now and enjoying it so far.
I’ll report back.
(THAT SHOT OF THEM WALKING ACROSS THE DUNES AT THE START!? Magnificent.)
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The setting alone is so damn cool. Really interesting to explore!
Must. Stop. Overhyping. 😀
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That’s next on my list after Dark Souls. It better measure up, or I’m blaming you.
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It’s only fair if you don’t like it, since I don’t like Dark Souls. 😛
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Glorious.
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The highway scene afterwards was awesome too, seeing the skyline in the distance.
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Don’t get me wrong, it was still a good game, but there’s others I liked a great deal more.
Mad Men (early season 4 spoilers)
Two hard-hitting eps in a row. Where Don slept with his secretary and then pretended not to remember. Oh man, that was so sad. And then the very next episode, we learn that Anna (California bereaved wife of the real Don) has terminal cancer. And Don said nothing. Not sure I’d have done the same… but that’s probably the point. That whole part of the episode was just devastating (and then went weird structurally and seemed to have a second episode tacked on the end, where Don and Lane went and got prostitutes together, offsetting the simmering tear ducts a bit)
And yes, DAN! I will listen to your podcast.
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Not sure yet.
I love that they’re not playing it safe, and effectively jettisoned half the cast to start this season off. Gotta appreciate any show that’s game to mess with the structure of the show so radically between seasons. It remains to be seen whether the loss of the ‘safety’ they had in the first three seasons will pay off interestingly, but it adds a layer of professional tension that wasn’t there before.Also, Don is totally down and out this season (his personal life and career are neither strong), and they’re really getting that mood across. Looking forward to seeing where it goes, for sure!
Edit:
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Half the Mad Men cast was in L.A. Noire! XD
And Walter Bishop from Fringe. 😀
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Awww sheet, son.
Some saaaaaaad episodes coming your way.
Also Peggy’s character arc is great.
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YES!!! But she seems to be aware of Don’s weaknesses and tries to only replicate the successful parts of him. But will it work!?-
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I liked that line she said to Heinz about changing the conversation and Don’s reaction from outside the door. XD And that weird smile she had on her face at the bar afterwards. -
Yeah thats the thing that makes her different now huh? Like, earlier she would have been all afraid of Don, but now shes just proud of herself. She’s really heading in that ‘Don’s nemesis’ kind of direction, which is pretty rad. Lowly secretary becoming Don’s competition.edit: Makes you wonder about how things could have been different in that time Peggy was after his respect, and he gave her shit instead. He basically pushed her to be where she is now, otherwise she’d still be feeding off the Don scraps under the table and loving it. -
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Yeah exactly, its a huge void. He hasnt been the same at his job for a long time, not since he kind of gave up on it for a time to be a dickman. It’s interesting to see him losing that tight tight grip he had on the industry, he was untouchable at one point. Though to be fair that has been Peggy’s doing for a long while before she left, such as the award he claimed for himself.
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That stuff with Anna easily offers the most insight into Don, which is just so so great. Some of the most interesting scenes with Don are about Anna. Is that her name? I am bad with names 😐 Also I refrain from replying to a lot of your Mad Men related posts since I dont remember a lot of details about the things youre bringing up XD (it was a time ago)
edit: Hahaha, I loved that bit with Don and Lane getting prostitutes, haha! Ahhh Lane, you old dog you.
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I’m catching up fast. Then we can talk! \o/
Edit:
It was such a jarring thing. If it was any other show, I’d have said that the episode was a structural mess (Anna story first half/Lane story second half, with limited thematic links that I can see). But because it’s Mad Men, I’m assuming it’s something clever I didn’t pick up on.-
You’re lucky you can watch ’em like this, there was network contract negotiations between season four and five and the show was off the air for 18 months. :S
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Episodes of Mad Men that dont follow a structural norm are often the most interesting I find. It’s like 50 minutes of curve balls, I love that shit.
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Ahoi hoi @bdkiaf! While youre now dipping the toes in the cool cool sea of Laura Marling, have a refreshing live rendition of Night Terror, one of my fave songs (from her first record). And yes thats Mumford and sons as her band – they were her touring band until they wanted to do their own shiz. And they still jump out and play with her at festivals and such, which is cool. Except maybe not now that they dated and broke up. *shrugs* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuEzCrOZKaM
edit: violins @dc, violins!
edit2: come to think of it, Laura uses lots of violins. There you go. Incentive.
edit3: Sarah Blasko also uses a tonne of strings in her second album, what the sea wants the sea will have. Which is also amazing. Ummm… I’ll stop editing this now. Maybe.
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Wooooooooowwww. So good.
I resolved this morning’s music issues by just buying I Speak Because I Can on my phone. It’s really strange seeing Mumford and Sons as a backing band. Though I can’t say I’m upset at the lack of banjos and harmonised wailing.
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Following YouTube link after YouTube link led to this. The lady knows how to sing! 😀
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Oooo havent seen this before, very fitting haha. Yeah shes got an incredible voice. Seen her twice now, plan on seeing her plenty more. She did her first album at 19 or something too, which is just insane. Especially when you hear the lyrics, seems like theyre from someone way beyond those years.
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Good morning!
So the western black rhino is extinct. =( I really hate it when we lose a species.
Not only do we dissect Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers & masturbation, we conduct a hard hitting interview!
A WORLD EXCLUSIVE interview with James Flamestar about the launch of his début album “Stargazers”
Slip it on, gang.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/04/26/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e03-jerkin/
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I don’t do podcasts.
I demand a transcript.
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Love the interview. Completely different from every other promotional interview I’ve ever heard.
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Zach Braff is kickstarting his next movie. I kind of love Garden State, so am going to back this one. Who else?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869987317/wish-i-was-here-1
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I’m sure it will be backed and am looking forward to it. Not liking the amount of people screaming that he’s too rich to do a Kickstarter though. Don’t people have enough other things to complain about? 😛
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This. Garden State is a pretty great film, and it’s got the best compilation soundtrack I’ve ever heard.
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I do like New Slang by The Shins. 😀
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Didn’t you like Jersey Girl?
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Yeah, I think Jersey Girl is a good film. Much unfairly-maligned. It’s not perfect, but it’s one of Kevin Smith’s best, and deserved much more praise than it got.
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Kevin Smith annoys me. A whole lot.
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You do know that Kevin Smith had actually apologised on numerous occasions for that movie?
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Yeah, Smith isn’t a fan of Jersey Girl. I went and saw him and Jay Mewes and he cracked a bunch of jokes about it. Also Cop Out.
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@freezespreston, did you know that when someone came up to him in public and said that Jersey Girl was his best film, he almost cried with gratitude? (This was several years ago, and I can’t find anyting about it now :\) I wonder if ragging on it is a defence mechanism.
PS: Don’t care. Still like it. 🙂
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Drive called, they want their title back
Also anything Tarantino, and for some reason Twilight Saga New Moon – I have no idea if any of the songs are even in the film, but I have the soundtrack because Thom Yorke, Lykke Li, Killers, Muse, Bon Iver, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sea Wolf, Grizzly Bear. I dont get it either.
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Oh man, the Twilight soundtracks are way better than they deserve to be.
Drive is where it’s at though.
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Kavinskyyyy. I am tempted to link to youtube yet again, but I wont XD But hot damn, I remember that credit sequence at the beginning starting at the cinema, and me sitting in the cinema just in utter awe. I was like yep, this film cannot possibly be bad.
But its true, I honestly cant think of any film thats made better use of a compilation of existing music.
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@sughly
Dat synth (@dc)
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Aw synth? Can we change movies, Freeze? 😛
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Yeah, not a fan of that. He explains very patiently in the too-long description that he is investing a great deal of personal money into the project, but can’t afford to fund the whole thing.
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Hmmm, odd.
Perhaps @benwhite or @markserrels could help us sort out this conundrum?
EDIT: I think editing automagically approves comments?
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Hey Tay
Went to the ANZAC Day parade yesterday. COMMEMORATION!
Then played a bit of Monaco. CRIMINALISATION!
Then I went to a Board Games afternoon and played 7 Wonders and Alhambra. COMPETITION!
Finally, went and saw Iron Man 3. It definitiely follows the first two films in tone but I reckon the plot’s better and it’s funnier. CODIFICATION!
Currently a third of the way through “Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss. What a fantastic book.
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It is literally my favourite book of all time. The sequel lacks a tiny bit of the lustre that NoTW has, but is brilliant nonetheless. Book 3 will be coming out this year or next and I am SOOOO PUMPED!
Also, for when you finish the book and its’ sequel:
http://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/-
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Except in this case it’s not a hyperbole. Name of the Wind is literally my favourite book of all time.
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Literally!
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Rob Lowe, huh? I wonder when he’s going to quit and complain that he doesn’t get enough screen time in an ensemble drama. (Yeah, I’m still bitter at West Wing and Brothers & Sisters. :P)
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O relly? Haha! He gets a lot of screen time on Parks and Rec though, so there you go. Probably never.
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He’s a talented man. He’s been in a few eps of Californication, and is a total scene-stealer. (Recent season not so much, but he is usually hysterically funny)
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I went to grab Thomas Was Alone on PS+ yesterday. I figured it would be fine seeing as it as it was only 250mb. Turns out I was wrong, I don’t even have that much space left on the PS3’s miniscule harddrive.
So who can recommend a good place to buy a new HDD for my PS3? How much money should I expect to pay, and I think the PS3 has a max gb it can cope with so anyone know what that is?
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http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/ps3_hdd
I don’t think there’s a maximum capacity- the constraint seems to be the volume of the HDD caddy in the actual console.
For HDDs, someone else might have a better option, but MSY is usually a pretty good bet as long as you go in knowing what you’re looking for.
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I think the only constraint is the file system? I could be wrong, but I remember hearing that it didn’t work well/at all with NTFS, which would put limits on on individual file size but that’d be it.
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MSY are good and cheap, just don’t expect anything decent with regards to warranty or returns. They’re notoriously dodgy on that front.
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UMART!!!
That’s where I got mine from. It was about $60 for a 500gb.
Pick up from Milton or delivery.
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Be aware that the earlier PS3’s have really, really tight screws on the caddy, and they’re made of extremely soft metal. I ended up stripping one 🙁 Had to get it out with a drill when I upgraded my 40gb to a 120gb back ages ago.
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I don’t know of any limitations, but I’ve had a friend who had serious problems using a 750gb HD for his PS3. Could never get it to work or format properly. He stepped back to 500gb and had no issues at all. I use a 320gb in mine, and that’s fine.
Any 2.5″ SATA hard drive should do the trick. Sony’s even made it easy for you! There’s a little cover you unscrew on the base (on my old 40gb fat model, anyway) and you slide the HD out, replace it with the new one, then put it back in.
Not sure of any easy way to xfer your data over though. I wasn’t too fussed when I did mine as I had bugger all on it, and all my important saves were in the PS+ cloud save.
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I have a 1TB drive in my PS3 and it works fine. I had some issues with a 250GB one though. One of those weird things 🙂
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Thanks for your patience 😛
Also, @jimu Teddie on a poster in the bathroom of the Stray Sheep as well as Rise sticker
yes I did take this pictures off my TV using my phone camera :S
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Random? That’s Teddie you plebe!
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Heh, Spice Gurls 😀
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@shane
Not sure if you have yet but if not, you should listen to Hollywood Babbleon. The combination of Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman is perfect. And when Smith is away they usually have Katherine Reitmann or John Lovitz filling in. Both of whom are hilarious.
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Agreed, I’ve started just listening to Hollywood BabbleOn instead of Jay & Silent Bob. It’s damn funny and a non-guilty way of consuming pop-news.
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Oh man, Kevin Smith has approximately a million podcasts you could be distracting yourself with.
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I’m listening to Dan talk about fucking his girlfriend as Ryan Gosling, Nic Cage, and Karl right now. I think you might be right.
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Things!
…none of them are happening.
Hi!
Also, check this out:
http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/106694.html?CMP=chrome
I don’t like that the diviynls most well known song is “i touch myself”
literally 15 songs they have made are better.
also i have been listening to the diviynls alot.
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I was being serious 15 songs that the divinyls made which are better than i touch myself.
1.boys in town
2. science fiction
3.Pleasure and pain
4. Only Lonely
5. Back to the wall
6. Casual Encounter
7. Sleeping beauty
8. Hey Little Boy
9.Punxsie
10.Temperamental
11. aint gonna eat out my heart
12. If love was a gun
13. Need a lover
14. siren
15. Elsiethose are just the songs that i have from them. But seriously all better then i touch myself, which is a gimmicky song to get listens.
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I have also been listening to alot of vampire weekend.
She was criticising my taste in music as hipster and i only like stuff because its not popular. She asked me to point out a band who is non mainstream but still as catchy and feel good as modern top 40 pop. I gave her the album Contra to listen to.Boom. i win.
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She..?
Vampire Weekend are fucking rad. I want to see them again so bad. Last time I saw them they had chandelier’s on stage.
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I hasnt seen them yet :'(
They would be such an amazing live band, I just know it. Their music screams ‘we are amazing live’.
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It hurts that i havent seen so many of my favourites despite them playing near me.
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Groovin the Moo has been a goldmine for those kinds of bands. Seen The Wombats and Vampire Weekend there.
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Yeah… folks can be pricey yo. Its why I havent got to see Vampire yet, didnt have the moneys when they rolled on through. They knew how liked they were from the get go, there was never any $30 dollar concert point in time, sadly.
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My sister calling my music taste hipster.
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Ohhhhhh. Nah, not really, not with Sughly around.
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I had a hissy over the hipster labelling business last week rockets. You missed out.
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Yeah, he already did it before it was cool, Rocketman. 😛
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oh silly sughly.
Oh man, new Vampiiiire is gonna be so gooooood!! Such a solid solid band. They never seem to put a foot wrong anywhere.
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Deckard is both and neither at the same time. Schrödinger’s Ford.
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My mum just randomly dropped by with KFC and cheese cake then left straight away. Best visit evah. 😀
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Awwww… *looks around, sees his mum that is visiting is watching tv. She does not have kfc, nor does she have cheese cake*
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It’s not all good, though. I usually get stories about stuff my brothers doing wrong that makes me certain my brother is getting stories of stuff I do wrong. 😀
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I’ve been trying that for years now! 😛
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@greenius totally isnt a spoiler what you read. Is stuff you learn in the first day in the game. Play Scratches!
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I know, I was just playin witchu
Nah man, I’m a pansy who hates horror stuff (mainly the cheap scares) but I don’t mind if it’s done properly (The Shining, The Cabin in the Woods).
I’ve got more than enough games to play at the moment though 🙂
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I will admit that Scratches made me shriek and jump away from the keyboard, twice. I dont think anything else has done that to me, not even Amnesia. So there you go. Its a little bit scawey.
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Yeah, to back up what I was saying, they are scares based on a lot of build up. and scares based on everything theyve built before they arrive. But there are scares, nonetheless.
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@ Everybody who plays Fire Emblem
go buy the Scramble Pack DLC. Or.. all the DLC. Whichever is easier.
EDIT: Hello CJ!
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The scramble pack, made up of the Harvest, Summer, and Hot Spring scramble maps, are pretty much gateways for a LOT of conversation between characters and seeing fan favourites in swim suits and the such. Simply put, you like banter, you buy this.
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I haven’t been able to find *any* DLC in the game. I think I unlocked the DLC Island but when I go to download / buy maps it just dumps me back to the initial menu?
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Concerning. You went to the island itself to buy the maps, right? And not the E-shop? Because, y’know, Nintendo’s like that.
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Yes. It might be that PAL has no DLC yet? I did get some Pegasus Knight chick who is apparently from the original Fire Emblem but dunno if she was DLC or built in.
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PAL has DLC. I can go to the Island and view/download those three Champion packs. Haven’t played any of them yet but I’m sure they’re all there.
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I looked earlier and they were there, grabbed them all. Which involved forking over $40 to Nintendo because they’re buttes who priced the three DLC packs such that you need an extra 15c on top of $20. 😐 Thinking I’ll grab Crimson Shroud and Liberation Maiden while I’ve got the cashes.
EDIT: I think the eStore was down last night or something. Maybe I checked while they were updating it with new stuff.
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@bdkiaf – Impossible to not hear that Kavinsky song while driving and not think you are Ryan Gosling.
Or maybe thats just me. But I doubt it.
Except that I’m driving this and I’m not actually Ryan :'( http://www.mynrma.com.au/media/ancap_mazda_121_metro.jpg
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The image of Ryan Gosling in Drive driving that car is pretty damn hilarious.
Edit: Also, where the fuck is The Place Beyond the Pines? How is that not out here yet?
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Oh I didnt realise it was released oseas already, what a bummer 🙁
Soonish, I think? WHOA! My local has it down for May 9th, woooooo!!
Also, you seen Blue Valentine? Same director, with Ryan as well. And Michelle Williams, who is incredible and always amazing and I will marry her. So so good.
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I have it, but I haven’t watched it yet. You’ve recommended it before though. I just need to find time to watch it without the gf around, because from what I understand it isn’t a good times movie.
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Haha, yeaaaahhhh… Kind of contrasts the good and bad in relationships though, for what its worth.
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Just pretend that the weird squealing your car makes is a mega turbo winding up for a super boost as you escape from a hairy situation.
Kind of fun arguing with people in the Game of Thrones comment section. Where entitlement meets intransigence! \o/
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Nah man, right here in the Big K.
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Hey @strange, youre going to Freeze’s thingy tomorrow right? Need a lift? I’m assuming yes, what time do I pick you up?
edit: Oh page get, rah rah rah. Apparently I have to say something whenever I get one, so there it is.
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I’m so damn psyched for this meet. Seems like ages since we all hung out. (When it was just two weeks. One week for Strange. XD)
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Sorry! Been busy watching Survivor.
BAH! 😛Looks like I won’t be able to go. 🙁 Been a few weeks since we’ve been able to hang out with the kids so we need to do that. Mr. Strange didn’t want to drive all the way to Freeze’s so I couldn’t even convince him to do it and bring the kids. So yeah. No Meat for me. :'(
I am super-appreciative of your lift offer though. Thanks! 🙂
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Sounds good. But only if we do it on Pretzel Day (aka Wednesday). We also need to do something the following Wednesday when @batguy is around.
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Oh, that’s right! Might be worth pushing it back until then, maybe?
Either way, more meats more of the time! 😀
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@sughly
Listening to the bands you linked the other day now, will update this post with thoughts.
Klaxons – Really cool, I’ll probably check out more of their stuff when I make it through everyone else.
James Blake – Ooooooo. I finally get the hype for this guy now! Really interesting stuff going on there. The song you linked sort of devolved into noise at one point though, might just be the live version.
Cold War Kids – I’m getting the feeling I might not have anything bad to say about any of these bands now. These guys are good, I can definitely see myself picking up some of their stuff soon.
Haim – How have I never heard these guys before?! They’re so great! Getting more immediately.
Portugal. The Man – Eh. Wasn’t really a huge fan of this. I can see the appeal, but they’re not for me.
MS MR – Oh man, that song is huge. Powerful voice. Good stuff.
Daughter – Holy shit, what a song. Still has absolutely incredible lyrics. I want more.
Alpine – I totally already knew these guys, I just didn’t know it until the song started. Pretty rad, I don’t think I’ll be missing The Amity Affliction for them this weekend though 😛
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Ah glad you like em! I love how self aware and kinda of silly they are, in lyrics and such, and they just run with it. Turn it into epic tracks about “echoes from the other world” and whatnot. They have a freakin cat dressed as an astronaut for their album cover, which is just all kinds of awesome.
James! Yeah, I really like watching him live, probably more than albums. Its something extra special seeing how tight everything he does is, how kind of calculated. And he just nails it.
Haha, yaaaay you like them! That’s cool, I’m glad 😀 CWK and Haim are just solid rock bands, though Haim are still quite new, not a lot out yet sadly, an ep and a few tracks. Haim are really promising though, have a great lead singer and a really interesting sound.
Portugal, yaaah thats cool ^_^
MS MR – I have lotsa love for these guys, really excited for their new album coming out next month. I think theyre one of the most promising new bands around. They only have an ep, but its reaaaally good. Every song from the ep is on the album though, dang cheats!
Pretty new to Daughter myself, but falling for them quickly. Their album is like, 2 or 3 weeks old. Really nice stuff though.
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WHy you no include me, weeps
good thing you didnt cause i already like all of these peeps. except daughter i cant remember if i have heard of them or not. to spotify.
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Its only caus we were talkin Splendour lineup, so I thought Id throw around a few names I thought people might not know, who I thought were rather exciting to see on the announcement.
You my music homeboy rockets, we still cool.
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So because I’m terrible at focussing on any one task, I’ve decided I should add “catching up on anime from 2002” to my list, and I’ve started watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. I’ve seen bits of it before, as well as some of the first movie, and the second movie, but it’s nice to try and watch the whole lot. After the first two episodes though, I have two main thoughts.
1: OH GOD I NEED A TACHIKOMA. THEY ARE SOOOO CUUUUUTTTEEEE.
2: Why do people in the future seem to have like, pseudo mullet things? Is this a thing? Because I do not like it.
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People finally realised the magnificence of MacGyver, but the true perfection of the mullet was lost to the ages, so though they try their best, it is only a pale imitation of the true thing.
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SAC’s second season is way better than the first one (more story-oriented, less episodic) so look forward to it.
Also Tachikomas are awesome. Do you have the extra Tachikoma theater bits? They were DVD specials I think, little CG things.
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I am… acquiring a copy, piece by piece, and I think it does have the little Tachikoma thing, but I’m not sure. Will need to check.
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Also: http://www.goodsmile.info/product/en/618/Nendoroid+Tachikoma.html
Discontinued years ago sadly, good luck finding one for a sane price (out of print Nendoroid stuff can go for insane prices)
No community kudos today, but I nominate @strange, @sughly and @freezespreston anyway. Awesome in a sea of awesome. That is all. 😀 Anti-nom? Still @greenius.
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DC never nominates anyone else. D: What a jerk.
I NOMINATE YOU BLAGHMAN FOR BEING SPECTACULAR.
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Also, twitter: https://twitter.com/RealBatguy/status/327410784227438594
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You kids throw anti-noms around like a person that plays a sportsball game that requires someone to throw some kind of object around alot.
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@trjn Sydney are playing Brisbane next Sunday, yeah? Did you want to start thinking about a meat? Either of us can try to organise, but I feel that your enthusiasm for AFL will have much more drawing power than my apathy 🙂
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I probably should do the organising but I also have this slight issue where I know absolute nothing about Sydney. Hows about we just try to get people to show up and consider getting drinks afterwards somewhere nearby?
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OK, I’ll get the ball rolling then. There’s not much Sydney-specific about it, though, other than it’s at the SCG.
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Haha, Dr Worm and Particle Man! Nice
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Alice in Chains – Stone.
Apparently they have a new album out next month and I’ve been living under a rock or something because I didn’t even know they’d reformed a few years back.
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Echooooes from the other world! 😀 Yah I listen to this one on repeat when I’m writing out ideas for a sci fi story XD
Er, I know the lyrics. honest.
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One of the catchiest songs I’ve heard in ages. Usually takes a long time for a song to become catchy for me, but this was instant! D:
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Still – Daughter is my pick of the lot, especially for you.
Also, this is my last played song.
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I kind of knew you would, since you put me onto Zola Jesus like 2 years ago.
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Ohhh Zola! Sheeeit, Zola. How amazing is that lady. SO amazing.
Also youre probably all over it already, but I quite like this one from Daughter’s album too – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1p_sXflQQ
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SO amazing.
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That song, chills. it reminds me of something that i cant remember. and man she has a really awesome voice.
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This new album is sounding soooo good, oh god. Honestly, so far its shaping up to be their most impressive since the untitled album, imo.
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Haha! Ahhh I dunno, Popplagid is probably my favouritest song evar.
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SNED ME ALL THE GOOD LUCKS!!! YES I SAID SNED! SO WHAT? WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?!
Applying for the $275 a week property after the 315 one fell through.. sounds like someone beat me to getting the paperwork in :\
I need to move this weekend! I NEED ALL TEH LUCKS!
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Good luck Sir Welbot!
Arming Good Luck Cannon… Good Luck Cannon armed…
Targetting Welbot… Target acquired…
Firing… *BLAM!*
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Well I think I stuffed up and forgot to specify which system I wanted Bioshock on so I received the 360 version instead of the PC version
I’ve emailed Serrels but since he is away I don’t think he will get it until Monday. Not sure he will be able to do anything though. In the meantime I’m holding off opening to see the goods inside in case they want a full swap.
I suppose I can always open it and keep the goodies and see if anybody wants to trade the disk for a PC version.
Looking forward to Pikmin 3 on August 4. This will almost certainly be the next Wii game I play. It will be eight months after finishing Zombi U. :S
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Is that the official date now? So far :'(
Quality can wait though. Or at least I can keep telling myself that XD (I just want pikmins in my life again dammit)
I dunno though, I mean in terms of Wii U being a bit boring. I keep remembering how there was nothing that interested me on the DS for aaaaages, and now I look back and realise its one of my fave consoles. Time will tell.
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July 13 in Japan and Aug. 4 in North America.
Yeah, I’m glad they’re not rushing Pikmin 3, but at the same time it’d be nice to have a great first party game to play in the first ten months of the systems life. XD
http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/17/4234624/pikmin-3-coming-to-wii-u-on-august-4
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They still have Rayman
OriginsLegends on the stands in EB, and it makes me cry a little on the inside when I see it :'(Such a dickman move though. Having that as an exclusive would have put the Wii U in such a different light.
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Yeah, I agree. I’ve played the demo so many times too and that’s still the best thing I’ve done on the system since launch. (You can only play 30 times or something like that and that number’s getting low. XD)
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There’s a limit on how many times you can play a demo..? Wut?
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Just played the demo again. AMAZING. Castle Rock makes me laugh every time.
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I really cant do it… I dont want to know what I’m missing :'(
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You haven’t played it?!
So. Damn. Good.
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I’m sure it is, but I just dont really like demos. Means I have to go back and replay a bit I’ve already played to death when the game comes out. In this instance, it means I will be that much more upset about it not coming out sooner.
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SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS!
Edit: I like that song too, though. Also Will Butler’s antics aren’t as batshit crazy as when he’s performing with Arcade Fire. 😛
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Stupid game
Can I get some advice on how to deal with the archers that fire god damn tree trunks in Anor Londor. I’ve worked out pretty much how to easily get from the bonfire to the base of the walkways. But seem to get killed by those guys every time.
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Sprint up the ramp (they shouldn’t hit you if you’re sprinting the whole way). Go as fast as you can around the pillar, and then keep sprinting. Head for the one on the right as fast as you can with your shield up. When you get close, you’ll engage in some desperate melee with terrible camera, and he should plunge to his death. You can then continue around to the right, or go back and kill the other one if you want. -
OK, I can’t remember which side it is, but if you go around the pillar thingy at the bottom from one side, it makes it slightly easier (supposedly). Then you just want to sprint up, go left, and hug into the wall, and try to dodge the spear-arrow that will probably ram you from behind(I failed at this), then run down to the guy, raise your shield, and he should hopefully attack you, and fall off the ledge. I like to then stop, catch my breath somewhere that other jerk can’t hit (there’s some pillars in the way) and then just run straight up to him. He will probably also attack you, and then fall off the ledge, though you may have to actually fight him. -
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Thought you were talking about Ace Attorney. I was all https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4400436224/h1CF37878/
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Can I get a sanity check on this – current EB site – borderline NSFW?
I have to admit I was slightly uncomfortable with that open at work if the wrong person walked past.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t want to admit to shopping there either 😛
Edit: and yeah, I get they want to advertise the big games, but ultimately a site like this should be kind of family friendly :\
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Yeah, Dead Island banner / sides of page ads. Takes up more space than the functional parts of the website.
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Yeah you said borderline NSFW so I opened it in a tiny window, didn’t notice but i did see a fair bit of dead island decorations. I then assumed there was the bikini torso thing somewhere but couldn’t see it. I still just smh at that whole thing btw.
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No torso, just the blood, rotting flesh, general zombie stuff.
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I don’t have an issue with it, but I didn’t have an issue with the special edition torso they had planned either.
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Interestingly I have the same objection to it that I had to the statue – it doesn’t faze me, but it upsets me that kids could be exposed to it quite easily 😛
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I personally don’t have an issue, but it seems a little excessive. Would they put it on the side of a bus? Would the same standards apply to their front (and every) page of the website?
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That’s an interesting way of looking at it. I’m sure there are some kind of standards they have to follow, and I’m assuming that this doesn’t breach them.
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It could be like the Game cards with the holes and you put your finger through etc. They were all controversial and not family friendly, and theyve come out and said they knew it would get them attention, thats why they did it. Could be the same dealio. EB knew it had controversy around it I’m sure, they’re probably hoping everyone goes over to have a look and complain, because in the end they got them to their site.
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I don’t really have any objection to it myself. I’ll also add, since it seems to be the topic of the conversation, I don’t have any objection to children of any age seeing it either. I’ve seen far more violent situations depicted in Saturday morning cartoons than what’s on that banner, and heck, even the Simpsons has had a couple zombie episodes before where the characters have had rotting flesh.
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Thank you. I’m curious to hear a wider range of viewpoints on this one beyond the voices in my head.
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It’s not the greatest idea. If a game is rated R18+ then you probably shouldn’t be allowed to wrap your presumably PG website with it. Especially considering the fight we went through to get that rating and now they seem to be a bit disrespectful of what the rating represents and giving fuel to people who still want to complain about it.
MONACO TALK
@NotoriousR and @Mcgarnical were going to jump on at some point tonight and play co-op. Anyone else in? @Greenius?
Also, it’s great.
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Well I was waiting for it to drop in price but now it’s increased so buying it now would be even worse! 😛
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A WiiU system update is out today that actually does make the system run noticeably faster. It’s pretty cool! Shame that it doesn’t seem to affect in-game loading times much though (LEGO still has a pretty long startup load time). But system functions open a lot faster which is pretty good. Still not lightning fast, but better 😛
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I bet you kick Santa and don’t believe in kittens, too.
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There was a time I loved Nintendo. And 360 too. D.C.’s just riled up at the consoles in general at the moment. (Except for the PS3. *nods approvingly*) Patching now, though! Nintendo’s patented download music playing on loop! 😛
Sounds like the 3DS is where the fun’s at!
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And you never had a DS, did you? There is eons of Nintendo fun you have waltzed right by my friend!
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Never had any form of handheld console. D:
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I would quite easily catagorise Ace Attorney as an adventure, and that series alone is easily worth the price of a DS. EASILY. Then Hotel Dusk and 999. Adventures deecee! Adventures! Albeit Japanese styled XD
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I don’t mind Japanese styled adventures, I remember reading the Hotel Dusk review on Adventure Gamers and being jealous I couldn’t play! 😀
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Yeah, 3DS is getting a lot of love lately.
I’m really biased on the topic of consoles (being a PC gamer), but I doubt I’ll be getting anything from Microsoft or Sony from their next generation of stuff. Not so much because of the negative news (a lot of that stuff is already in place on PC), I’m just incredibly underwhelmed by what I’ve seen and heard. -
I prefer the PC, but there’s times I like to sit on a couch, controller in hand in front of a HDTV. There’s always Steambox and the like, but so much easier to put a disc in and not worry about it working too. I’m psyched for the PS4! 😀
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@dc
One of the big things I’m seeing with the next iteration of Sony/Microsoft consoles is that they’re stripping away the “insert game, play game” idea of consoles (from my perspective, much more of this is on MS than Sony).
I agree with being able to relax on the lounge being a big advantage, though it doesn’t help that my office chair is crap and my lounge is awesome 😛
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Download management said there wasn’t any updates and going through System Settings -> Update came up with an error twice 😀
Will try the eShop thing now
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Couldn’t even do it manually via the System Settings? That’s weird 😛
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HI POWALEN
Turns out my internet was being lame and my Wii U wasn’t connecting despite my pic having a blue background (rather than the “can’t connect orange”). It wouldn’t let me access the eShop or friend’s list either but now it’s working 😀
It’s just been like 2 hours and it’s still downloading 😛
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Just some curious musing I’ve been doing today:
I wonder what Tay is worth to Allure. The number of hits it gets would be pretty up there I’d imagine.
And on that thought, what would happen if Allure decided to do away with the Tay posting? Worlds come crashing down?
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I too have thought on this. We hold the power. THA POWERRRRR
And we use it to call people dickmen
If my maths is correct. Dickman = profits
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It’s popularity is probably why they haven’t replaced it with a forum type system, which would be much easier to deal with.
Constant refreshes and reloading of pages = more page views = more advertising revenue.
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I kind of feel guilty (and wary) of reading anything around this guy and his games. Since I didnt finish them :'(
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You own them, though. That’s good enough! 😀
After Gabriel Knight, I was a huge fanboy for this series for a long time. I was a regular on his blog back in the day and he’d answer my questions from time-to-time. Was AWESOME. Nice guy too. Then he deleted it and got Twitter.
Edit: Also, you should play Dreamfall even if you don’t end up finishing TLJ.
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Had some atmospheric licensed songs too.
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SURVIVOR.
Dammit! What’s the point of watching anymore? 😛
I was okay with them gunning for Cochrane because it meant someone was being smart for once. Happy when Cochrane won immunity though. 😀
Good to see Eric talking about the game for once. Proves he’s not entirely just coasting.
Looking forward to seeing the next episode where we may see more of what happens when a majority alliance becomes complacent and starts talking pecking order too soon. Shame there’ll be no breathtakingly beautiful man-candy though. 😛
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He is certainly swoonworthy but not breathtakingly beautiful. Tribal Council when they bring out the Jury’s going to be the best part of any remaining Survivor eps. 😀
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If it’s not complicated for a married woman, I see no reason why there’d be a a problem for a married man. 😛
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Usually at this stage though, they are silly to just do the pickings. It may very well be that they use the majority alilance thing to blindside some of the stronger people in the alliance, ie Andrea. Depends though. Probably not in this instance though since Reynold and Eddie or whatever dudebros name is are physical threats in the challenges. So yeah… guess theyll probably want them out quick and pick them off. TLDR youre probably right XDBut ooooooh lordy was I happy to see Cochrane win immunity when his name was brought up. LORDY! Also so much love for Andrea doing a sitdown right in front of malcolms idol looking efforts XD So good!‘Magine if Cochrane wins. ‘MAGINE!! Whoooaaa.. so good…
Fiancée has just discovered the dress she wants (and gave up on due to cost/time constraints from shipping from the US) is currently in stock, in her size, and in Newcastle, and the store is one suburb away from where one of her bridesmaids lives.
In other news I totally have the house to myself this weekend. All it cost me was a grand…
I need a better paying job. It’s either that or I’m only doing this wedding shit once.
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Once is enough. Wife #2 can be happy with a trip to the registry and a meat pie afterwards.
Also, I feel compelled to tell you that $1000 for a wedding dress is so far below the average, you are doing well.
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Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaan, we got married at the registry…but then we had a swank reception somewhere better.
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I was thinking more consecutive
So was I! Once on this roller coaster is enough for me.
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A grand is pretty great for a wedding dress. The average price is around $3000. 🙂
(Mine cost $1500 and was the second most expensive thing in our $10000-ish wedding. The most expensive thing was the $3000 I payed for my husband’s wedding ring. Those were the two most important things for me, a dress fit for a once-in-a-lifetime day, and a ring fit for him to wear every day for the rest of his life. )
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Yeah, overall happy with the price. She was looking for something much cheaper, and I kept encouraging her to choose what she wanted and we could make a decision on money after.
…I also didn’t tell her I had two grand sitting in my bank waiting for her to pick something much more expensive than her budget allowed 😛
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My wife bought two dresses and spent a grand total of $750. Feel pretty lucky (her being a student at the time was good for the ‘poor’ mindset). Everything engagement/wedding-related (including suits and dresses, all rings, photography, videography, cars, cake, reception, everything) came to about $13,000 for about 80 guests. We’re happy with that.
What on earth is Mr Strange’s ring made of? $3000? Mine cost 9% of that and is engraved white gold! 😛
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It’s made of palladium which is tougher than white gold. And it has my fingerprint engraved on it….
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Oh cool! That’s really wicked.
Wife and I are hoping to have a Vegas-rewedding for our tenth anniversary (though we need to start saving about four years ago :P). A ring like this needs to be part of it!
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I used this guy and he was great. Packed the ring into a hamper with gourmet foods and luxury bath products. Was very romantic. http://www.petergordonjeweller.com.au/fingerprint-rings.php
There are cheaper options than the one I went with, by the way. 😛
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I can organise that trip for you 🙂
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The most expensive thing was the $3000 I payed for my husband’s wedding ring.
Whooooaaaaaa!! Note to self – bring finger cutting off device to next Strange meat.
Stealing is not enough! I must have the whole finger.
My wife and I spent a grand total of $50 on our wedding, and that was for the marriage license. We only planned it a week before it happened. Five years later, can’t complain with the results 🙂
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If it wasn’t for wanting to be able to wear an incredible dress I’d have been extremely happy if my wedding was like that.
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Definitely. We’d been acting as though we were married since before we actually physically met each other, so the rings and the ceremony and the marriage license were really all just… things. It didn’t change anything about how we felt about each other, except for making the whole legal side of things for immigration easier.
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I have no idea what my wife’s cost
Originally it was going to be made but then she found one she liked so she bought it
I think Mrs Freeze’s dress was about $1000 out of a $25000 wedding. $4500 of that was alcohol. (Who the heck are all these relatives and why are they upset about not being invited. Freaking family.)
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That was the great advantage about 90% of my family being non-drinkers. That coupled with having high tea instead of dinner meant there was next to no money spent on alcohol. We bought a few bottles of Brown Brothers’ Zibbibo to put on each table and that was it. I don’t even think they all got opened.
My playlist of The Kovenant, Coheed and Cambria and Symphony of Science are getting a little old. I’m now at the very last push towards the end of writing Metro 7, and I’m looking for some spacey, cosmic tunes to power my way through the end. I like the heavier stuff, as you’re probably already aware, so long as it’s got a bit of a melody.
But yeah, got any suggestions?
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Something that’ll make you space out, trancey, but with a bit of a kick?
Try Fuck Buttons (Hey, I didn’t name them!)
Very much an acquired taste, but listen through headphones. great.
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OK peoples, time for another Sydney meat of sorts: The state vs state AFL grudge match o-thon meat with football and pies and stuff
What: Sydney Swans (reigning premiers and home town heroes) vs Brisbane Lions (the crappy out-of-town team that the other guy loves or something)
Starring: Me! @trjn! I don’t know who else! But even if you know nothing about sport or AFL, come along if you’re willing to embrace the occasion.
When: Sunday 5th of May, 1:10PM
Where: SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground)
How much: Varies, but probably $25/$16.50 concession
What to bring: Yourself, some kind of football supporting paraphernalia if you have it
What not to bring: Your “hilarious” “I don’t understand sportsball” jokes.
Let us know if you’re interested now or in the next few days by TAY, twitter, email, whatever, and we’ll buy the tickets later in the week (although ssh, if nobody else is coming, I may be able to get @trjn into the members’ for free… but more people == more fun!)
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I have some completely non-hilarious “I don’t understand sportsball” jokes to send along in my absence.
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Members at the SCG does seem like a fun alternative if people don’t show up.
Apparently there’s something going on tonight at Mojo’s, so we can attempt to rope people in there too.
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I’m not going to be there, as I am going to watch Manly play Souths at my spiritual football home, Brookvale Oval. But you have all the details now, go forth!
And I just looked it up: “Please note that Gold and SCG Club cards (both red and blue) do not admit to this fixture”. Short explanation of this is that I could go for free, but can’t bring anybody else 🙁 Unless you can find somebody else with a free guest pass, we’re both going to be paying (or I’ll be waving at you from the other side of the ground)
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Haha! Tempting. 😀 It’ll be worth the wait, though. (I hope. :S)
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D.C.. Doesn’t. Borrow. >:|
I assume by now he’s already replied but I’m too lazy to refresh
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Does he lend? (@dc)
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That sucks.
But at least you have plans for the weekend so it didn’t completely ruin your weekend.
Cheer up! The guys who deliver your larger parcels (not letters) are contractors that don’t have a strict day plan(they prolly do but they don’t stick to it).
I’ve had games turn up late at night and on the weekend!!! 😀
And I don’ know why you expected it so quickly either 😛
Give everything that’s not local 7-12 working days! I don’t even know if mightyape.com.au ship locally but they’ve been slow for me 😛
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Party animal!
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No, I mean I never went to any parties because of Star Trek. 😛
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I know what you meant (what did you think I meant? :P), I just like that phrase 😀
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I entered that Design Your Ultimate Cap’s Chair comp and my photo of a beanbag was rejected.
I actually received a rejection letter from Allure.
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That’s madness. It’d be comfortable in a fire fight. Plus when not in battle you can watch movies on the view screen. Allure’s become corrupt with power. 😛
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Just draw said beanbag in paint.
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Yep, jsut did. Thanks everyone.
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I even wrote bean bag down in the corner so they wouldn’t think it was a Grimace
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I got a good laugh from this jimjim
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Yaaaaaaaaaaay!
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I’d enter my beanbag, but I don’t think it’d be appropriate, given it’s got a picture of Darth Vader on it!
What? Got a pic of the rejection letter?
Because I entered with quite a horrid entry and I received no such thing 😛
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I wish he just said *that*
I thought he meant a bean bag was incorrect.
I re-submitted using an MS paint I did. Just then. Reeeeeal quick-like.Hope he approves 😀
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Ah, I guess the competition was for DRAWING/CREATING it or something, rather than just taking a photo of something. But usually they won’t care and they’ll just disqualify or ignore it when judging, never heard of them saying something about it early on 😛 (although I guess that gives you another chance to enter properly)
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Yeah, now that I understand…it’s kinda nice.
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And you wasted that opportunity on Grimace! 😀
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You press the Print Screen button 😛
Then just paste it into paint or something and upload using something like imgur.
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too hard :p
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If you’ve got windows 7/8/vista you can use the snipping tool in the start menu
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no, I use that one with the penguin
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gorram it @jimu … you just have to be difficult, don’t you?
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:p
Fronds, I am the bored. On the plus side, I get to spend the night drinking and playing dead island riptide with some friends in Canadia. It shall be fun.
Ahhh man, dose synths that come in towards the end of Boy by Emma Louise are to die for. Dont you reckon @dc? Deecee? Dont you reckon? Them synths dc?
edit: whoa – totally just realised an old friend of mine from film school shot that. Shit. Jealous of him, he got to meet Emma :'(
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STAR TREK!!!
ADVENTURE GAMES!!!!
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TELEVISION!!! 😀
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I think you forgot to tag @dc. Don’t worry though, I’ve got this.
@dc, Greenius wanted you.
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COLOBUS MONKEYS
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Well that’s conclusive evidence that D.C. is alive and everything is as normal 😛
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Actually that’s not bad as far as synth goes. I’m not a fan of the kind that over powers a song.
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Oh hi @dc! ^_^
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Hey, it’s that guy from Adventure Gamers!
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Nooo dont say stuff like that, I want to pretend there are no lost opportunities and lets just leave it at that, ok? ok. Good.
It’s just going to be a little trickier marrying her now, thats all.
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Sughly, you’re making games. You’ve got a publisher. Things are good. You’ve made your own opportunities. Relax! 😀
Edit: Only now I realize missed opportunies involved marrying singers. 😛
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Bingo.
It will be ok if I get to marry one of the girls from the dev world I want to marry.
Sadly, the number of girls in the music industry far outweigh these girls.
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No, it’s going to be less tricky because you know someone who knows her. The main tricky part is leaving it too long because the longer you leave it, the more other girls you discover that you want to marry. 😛
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The answer to that is already SO many
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I’m listening to Earthbound Papas…
I think I heard of this a while ago and forgot. Not baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
DARK.SOULS.
I had to do a re-install of windows on my PC so I lost my punchy punch punch save. /o\
Oh well guess I have to play it again.
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Thats not a spoiler! THIS is a spoiler!
I lied, there’s none here either.Ohhhh man, wtf am I doing with my life
@dc I dont know if you noticed but we were trying to ask you something before. Just above. Did you see it @dc?
…@dc?
Speaking of adventuregamers, you guys wanna see something funny? the first Anna’s Quest stuff I posted #lolololol
http://archive.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26669
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Haha! I remember seeing that and thinking it looked ten times better than other indie games there. XD
http://archive.adventuregamers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=546630&postcount=3835
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Installing GTA 4! Thanks Shane! Kudos for you this week! Didn’t realize Serrels was away, so letting you know here! Noms for you!!!
I probably should still be packing, but I’ve run out of boxes and stuff, so I dunno what to do. Maybe just garbage bags :0
Not much to go though. Just consoles and comp and stuff. Luckily more than half my stuff is still packed from when I moved last year!
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haha nah.. the stuff that’s still packed is all the things i really wanna keep, but didn’t have anywhere to put.. like photo albums and books and stuff
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Thanks man. Hope you enjoy. Good luck finding a place. PS: kudos last week is sufficient (more than)
Just realised I’m 2 achievements away from platinuming Dark Souls. I could do it in 1.25 playthroughs.
Should I go for it?
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More or less. the ridiculous amount of time I’ve put into it without ever getting the platinum says something I think.
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Will wait and see. My first risky tip of the Tigers over Freo should be starting soon. If the black and gold prevail it will do a lot to improve the day
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It’s not that difficult! Use a Master Seal when a unit reaches level 20 to promote, use a Second Seal if you want a unit to completely change classes (or to demote).
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YES IT IS!
I was reading stuff like it’s better to use the Seconds at level 10 and get all the skills then do Master at 20 because Advanced classes get less experience and then blah blah better to do this, better to do that
D:
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Yeah, I just figured SCREW IT I’M PLAYING ON THE EASIEST SETTING ANYWAY 😛
The whole kids/pairing thing would just complicate thing a lot more but screw it!
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YES!
That’s why it’s complicated :'(
Well they get better stats if you promote them at 20 but eh, screw it!
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Well the only reason people promote at level 20 is to make the most of your EXP. It’s not hugely important in this game because of Second Seals (that reset levels) and unlimited EXP grinding.
Just do what you want! No wrong way to play!
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Looks like you need to read Beardy’s handy tips and tricks guide for Fire Emblem: Awakening! Guaranteed to make you play better! By heaps!
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Who’s Beardy? I thought you were Hellscream! 😀
– It’s actually better to use Second Seals when you’re level 10 to get the skills. I can’t elaborate on this too much but I read a bit about it on forums and it’s something to do with the rate you get EXP and skills
– I actually play on Casual/non-permadeath mode but reset anyway :P. One thing I really like about it, is that you can save mid-battle and it just makes things a whole lot easier when restarting the level or if you are on a bus and have reached your destination… 😀
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Had a quick read, but honestly I’m playing on babeh mode, I’m not overly fussed about not getting full potentials and whatnot. Just enjoying the game on a pretty straight forward simple basis first play, none of this perfection business
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😀 ME TOO!
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The first Potaku Cup starts in one hour, folks! Come on over to the Potaku Minecraft server then for some fun times!
Good lord. The Project is running a story about a new strain of Bird Flu that “has the potential to wipe out nearly half the world’s population”, hyping it up as a new Black Death.
I think I’d almost rather contract some horrible lethal disease then listen to the Project anymore.
Ugh*
*Disgustedius.
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I stand by my statement.
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Whatever it takes. It needs to be done.
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I’ll come visit you all in prison. Conjugal visit! \o/
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I’ve been playing Diablo 3 over the last week or so, to see if I still enjoy the game now that they’ve “fixed” most of it. Made my way about a third of the way through act 3 before getting my first disconnect. Yay.
Overall, it’s pretty much the same but Barbarians are just crazy good. You hit things and they just fall down. You can tank everything and because you have JUGGERNAUT’S spin to win, it’s ridiculously easy to dodge enemy attacks while still doing tons of damage.
Might play through a bit further, at least into the start of Nightmare, maybe go whole-hog and try to get into Inferno and then I’ll write up a review.
Quick preview: breaking shit is fun. You break a lot of shit. This game should be fun.
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I’m halfway through a Nightmare playthrough with my Monk – haven’t played D3 since about a month after launch, and have only used the Monk. Should I reroll a new char, or keep going with the Monk? Funny you mentioned it, I just finished reinstalling it not an hour or so ago.
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I got up to act 2 of Inferno difficulty with a monk and they were pretty underpowered back then. I don’t think it matters what you roll until you get right to the endgame stuff, you should be able handle anything with anyone up to that point.
I just killed Diablo with my barbarian, not sure if I’m going to keep going but the real game hasn’t even started yet.
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I might keep rolling with the monk. He’s level 43 odd, and I probably should see how they play after all the tweaks. Not sure if I could be arsed levelling a new toon anyway. Cheers!
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*pretends to play Ico*
Started watching The Beach again, still not in the right mood. Good movie, though.
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DAMN good movie.
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It’s like Survivor without the game show stuff. (Maybe. :P)
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Also forgot that Tilda Swinton played Sal. Really strong presence…
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Also, whoa… cast looks crazy young! Thirteen years will age a person, I guess. XD
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Havent had a chance to watch them yet, but here we go – two more National tracks! LIVE! http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/04/watch-the-national-debut-two-new-songs-on-jimmy-fallon/
edit: Dat first song… oh lordy… OHHHH LORDY…
edit2: Are you freakin kidding me. Are you freakin kidding me. Thats just… gah! Are you FREAKIN kidding me! XD
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I love seeing you so excited about this. So refreshing amidst the loud background of negativity and “meh”s I’m seeing everywhere else about everything. It’s like it’s not even fashionable to like anything anymore. 🙁
#damnkids
#gitoffmalawn
#oldladystrange-
Hey, hey, hey. I’ll have you know that I am a mothafuggin’ ray of sunshine, and that not everyone is a depressing sod!
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Yeah, I’ve noticed this as well. I’ve noticed myself being riled up about stuff too lately, even though I try to be optimistic and upbeat. You make an excellent point.
THE NATIONAL. WOOOOOO!
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Whatd you thiiiink?? I’m so in love with both these songs, my god. These guys man. So in love…
Already made webrips of them, so they will be on a cd on the way to freezes tomorrow XD
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I haven’t listened yet. Just watched The Beach and not in a National mood. 😀 I will listen though. (And get Boxer any day now… :P)
Edit: Also where should we meet tomorrow? South Bank station? What time? 😀
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Under the shady bridge at the witching hour. Eagle echo out
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Nawww, thanks Strange! I nearly didnt post because I thought I overdid the music the thing today, but… The National! XD Cannot stop listening 😀
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Meh.
cc @strange
Actually I quite liked these songs (and I don’t usually like new stuff the first time I hear it). Nice easy listening music!
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Nope, The Lesser Evil has a Space Pyrates friend on the shelf though! 😀
Nothings new with me, my friend. You?
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Got this thing tomorrow. A table at a sci-fi convention. No idea how it’ll all go. I guess I’m prepared, but I don’t feel like I am. Not nervous, just kind of… flat… about it. Guess I’m not expecting too much.
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Hope it goes well and is fun too! Just a one day thing?
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Thanks. I’m taking along Books 7 and 8 of The Wheel of Time in case it’s a dead day. I genuinely don’t know what to expect from it. Fun, though, is unlikely. 😛
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BAH!
(Dark Souls)
Went back to my original character and after a few tries managed to kill the first four guys in Sen’s which is the trickiest part for me. But then I died due to my own stupidity. 😛
I feel so far behind everyone, I just want to get to where everyone else is. 🙁
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Tell that to @mythamphetamine … >:(
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But he implied that that’s the tactic he tried to employ. So: #DOINGITWRONGOKGREENIUSSHEESH
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When I was in Sen’s…
I was so tense until I made it to the bonfire up top. Everything after that is all downhill 🙂
Sorry to hear about the difficulties. Which bit in particular is giving grief?-
I’m kind of weak and there’s no room for dodging so I’m having trouble even getting past the first two guys at the entrance. 😛 But when I get past them, the guy on the bridge and the guy above on the next bridge who hurls lightning at me while fighting the first guy on the bridge tend to take away all my health pretty quickly. I remember the first time around having trouble at this point as well.-
Think I’ll study the guide for this part before playing again. It might help put me in the right headspace for accomplishing stuff.
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One of those guys can be hit by the arrow trap if you time it right. And once you’re inside, you can lure the guy across the bridge with an arrow and he’ll fall into the pit almost every time. Then he’ll climb back out on your side of the bridge, but he’ll be half dead by the time he gets to you. And the lightning chap can be taken down by arrows as well. A few arrows will knock him off his narrow ledge to his death. The swinging pendulums on the first bridge, take them individually. The wikis have advice for each set of them – some you need to sprint all the way through, some two by two. Good luck!-
I kind of have no arrows. 😛 The pendulums I’m fine with, because there’s a worn bit of ground where they go across so you can avoid them that way and make sure you go close enough to the next blade to avoid being knocked back by the magic into the previous one. But yeah, that magic guy always scares me so I think I’m too timid where I need to be proactive and just kind of race up to him.
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I found that is you dash a little after you get through the swinging axes then the bolt misses you. But I take him down in a couple of hits so not sure if it’s taking you longer and you get hit then
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Yeah, it takes me at least four hits. I have no idea why my guy is so weak, I remember him being way stronger than this.
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Oh man, the absolute worst part of Sen’s was (tagging in case you don’t wanna know it yet)
the last set of swinging blades before emerging on the roof. So close to a bonfire, and getting pushed off the edge…argh!I don’t think that helps you in any way. I just wanted to mention it. 😛
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I’m at the first boss. I killed some zombie dudes and found a sword in the ground then some fat turd killed me. And also I have no UI or anything and I have no idea at all what’s going on.
PC port is fucked 🙁
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Are you playing with a controller?
You really get thrown in at the deep end, it actually never explains anything beyond the basics
I can really see why people go straight to the wiki
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I found the PC port a bit rough, but was more than playable off the bat for me. DSFix just tidied it up a bunch, and it’s perfect now. The DSFix.ini took some trial and error to get it right where I want it, but it’s done a great job. I’m using a Razer Onza TE to play as well, and that’s been great.
But that’s me, I’ve heard a lot of people having worse trouble than I did.
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I know I had to trial and error a few time with various settings, and most notably the antialiasing – if you enable it in DSFix, you need to kill it from Dark Soul’s ingame settings. But yeah, trial and error is all I can suggest.
Sucks. =(
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1 point, oh that was close
And the 2 guys that are close to me in the tipping comp both went Freo /o\
Enjoy your weekend crazyguy
Guys I’ve got some incredible news…
SO MANY VITA GAMES!
Yes, believe it or not, the Vita does indeed have games! My 32GB memory card is practically full and I’ve still only ever really played 3 games 😛
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It’s been getting a lot of support lately. It’s good to see! I think the Vita and the 3DS are both really coming into their own right now.
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I still think the 3DS is doing a lot better.
I said Vita games not good Vita games :P. A lot of them are just ports of stuff on other platforms or feel like inferior console versions. At the moment I still very strongly believe the Vita has Persona 4: Golden and… well… not much else REALLY stands out and even P4G is just an enhanced port, rather than something entirely new.
And a lot of Vita use probably comes from people playing PS1/PSP games.
It’s an excellent piece of hardware though and everyone pretty much agrees on this point. Just needs more unique and good games… 🙁
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My 3DS has seen a lot of love lately, courtesy of stuff like Fire Emblem, Luigi’s Mansion 2 and MH3U. All fantastic games.
I keep being tempted by Virtue’s Last Reward, but am unsure of such a game. I heard it was a sort of interactive graphic novel (or whatever they’re called) but I keep hearing good things about it.
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I’ve never played VLR but I assume it plays like 999 which plays a bit like Phoenix Wright (‘first person’ graphic novel adventure sort of thing).
I have two copies of the game :/. Bought it on 3DS at launch and now have it on Vita because of PS+ and still don’t know which version to play 😛
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Yeah, kinda like Phoenix. Not a big stretch to make, it has a lot of similarities. I’m not far in VLR, but 999 was firmly in the horror catagory, with some fairly friendly puzzle design to boot (lots of kind of observational stuff – look at this, turn that handle, talk to character in room, turn other handle, etc). But a lot of 999 was based on decisions youd make, with keeping certain characters with you, and sending other characters off, sometimes with volatile people and deciding who would be stuck with them. That sort of stuff.
TLDR 999 and VLR by relation are very interesting and worth playing 😀
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Well 999 is a visual novel with ‘escape’ puzzle rooms. VLR is the same I think but it fixes a lot of the first game’s technical issues eg you can jump forward over scenes you’ve already seen before and skip puzzles you’ve done before (999 you can fast-forward through dialogue but have to re-do puzzles, sucks)
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@crazyguy1990 hey man, just wanted to say double thanks for gifting my ArtRage Studio Pro back during the Steam sales. I’m finally spending a bunch of time with it, and I’m loving it. Thanks again!!
Thought: I wonder how Fire Emblem’s dynamic would be changed if instead of a unit being immediately killed when they hit 0 HP, they stole the system from Valkyria Chronicles where a downed team member would bleed to death after a turn or two if you didn’t get another team member to them to stabilize them.
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Sega had to go fuck it up. That particular team never could catch a break. Their staff is made up of people who worked on Skies of Arcadia (amazing game forgotten by time, no sequels or even an upgraded HD port 🙁 ) and Sakura Taisen (powerhouse SRPG series of the 90s, and the only one we ever got localized was a PS2 port of the worst game in the series, released well after the platform had died)
I get angry at Sega whenever I think about Valkyria Chronicles 3.
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I would bother actually playing the first one if I knew there were more on PS3 but two PSP titles and one of them isn’t localised :'(
NOT HAPPY JAN
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Play it anyway. One of the PS3’s best games!
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It’s been on my shelf unplayed for years 😛
Borrowed it from a friend close to whenever it came out and put about an hour into it. I liked it but stopped playing for some reason (can’t remember) 😀
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The first game is self-contained and you can just pretend the second and third never happened. The second one is a terrible generic anime battle high school plot (guy becomes head of worst class in a school where they all fight other classes and he has to whip them up to shape so they can become the top class in the school – done to death in manga) and 3, while apparently fairly good, is a side story about a small brigade of former criminals pressed into military service that occurs during and within the events of the main game’s storyline.
Also you’re missing out on what is easily one of the top 5 PS3 exclusives by not playing it.
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It’s on my “play eventually” pile 😛
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Your reasoning for not playing the first one is stoopid at best and I am disappoint son >:|
Srsly, such an incredibly good game. Picked it up again just this week caus my brother hijacked the other copy, will be doing my 4th playthrough of it as soon as I get a break from all these new games. Kind of tempted to start earlier XD
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@sughly
Very pretty game to boot! I have the Udon Art of Valkyria Chronicles book I picked up in Hong Kong and it’s glorious.
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@sughly it’s not so much a reason/excuse for not playing it but I don’t really want to get invested in the series, knowing that there’s more awesomeness in it that I won’t be able to play :'(
I still have the first one and like I said, it’s on the play eventually pile 😛
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I took Valkyria Chronicles 2 at face value and basically disregarded the cliched anime and manga story and character mechanics. There was an amazingly enjoyable game in there at the end of the day. Not as good as VC1, but a solid game.
Never knew too much about VC3, but I always put it in my ‘angry-at-Japanese-publishers-because-they-clearly-hate-westerners’ pile along with FF Type-0 and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.
MHP3rd remains my biggest disappointment for the PSP – I played a semi-translated ISO and the game was brilliant. It built on everything that made MHFU good and gave it a splash of feudal Japan-type settings – weapons, armor, home village, etc. Y U NO LOCALISE?
FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU CAPCOM FOR MHP3RD
FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SQUENIX FOR FF TYPE-0
FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SEGA FOR VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 3
I still hold on to that vague rumour FF Type-0 was meant to be getting a Vita port. I played the Japanese demo when it came out, but couldn’t get much out of it. It felt like they’d taken something like Crisis Core, but added squad elements. And Crisis Core is one of, if not my favorite PSP game.
Cripes I suddenly want to play my PSP now.
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YES I RANTED
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Rant justified because FUCK CRAPCOM AND SQUENIX AND THOSE HEDGEHOG FUCKERS TOO. >:(
I will never forgive Sega. Yakuza Kenzan, Sakura Taisen, Valkyria… they sit on the good stuff or run it into the ground. The only consolation I have right now is that mai waifu is in Project X Zone and that’s getting a western release. Though that said, if it’s dub-only I will personally fly to Japan and shank some bitches.
Yes, the core gameplay of VC2 is very good. Not as good as the first game mainly because of the small areas because PSP sucks, but it’s still very solid. The story is bad anime schlock and it’s not pretty any more, but the game parts are solid.
Have you looked at Toukiden on Vita at all? It looks to be a Hunter game with a feudal Japan-ish skin. I dunno if it will be localized but Tecmo Koei has been pretty good with Vita so far…
The latest rumors regarding Type-0 is a 3DS port. Which I guess would be okay. At least we’re getting Bravely Default! Also with Nintendo handling the localization of that I wonder if that’ll mean dual audio. Hope so. Should be a well-produced localization either way, though 8-4 (the Fire Emblem guys, also Tales, Nier and a bunch of others) confirmed they’re not translating it. 🙁
Thought: Furthermore if they took a XCOM/Gears of War mechanic where the way they died determines if they enter a bleed or death state.
As to how it would change the game.. it would obviously be a less punishing game and may also effect replayability and honestly having a stabilize option might be counter-productive as you can have dozens of characters that can do it you might aswell just have them respawn after the battle, however if only certain classes could stabilize than that’s a whole other scenario.
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Steal AD&D. Character drops below 0 HP, they continue to bleed until they hit -10 and then are permanently dead. If they’re taken below -10 with a killing blow they’re instantly killed so a bad crit can still make a difference. I wouldn’t want the enemy to be able to finish them off though. Maybe if there’s no friendly units within a certain range?
One potential extension to it is a system like is used in Call of Cthulhu RPGs, where if the character goes into a near-death state but is revived by a teammate they end up with permanent wounds that affects their abilities forever. I think X-COM had something similar too?
The reason I’m thinking about this mainly is that Fire Emblem’s spiky difficulty and permadeath means you end up with a broken design where players will re-load and start over repeatedly if they lose important characters, but I’m playing it on casual mode and I’m finding the lack any major risk most of the time makes me sloppy and I’ll make stupid mistakes or take major risks with characters knowing that it won’t matter if they’re taken out. I basically want some death penalty risk to keep it interesting, but not the frustration of losing characters I’ve invested time into because of a bad roll.
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Also the epic romance story between the knight who lost an eye, a leg, seven fingers and his spleen to poor tactical planning and the thousand-year-old dragon with the body of a ten year old. 😛
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Very insightful, in regards to your last paragraph I think it’s just a unfortunate downside to preferences, their are players that enjoy hardcore ‘High Risk, High Reward’ accomplishment type of gameplay their is also the casuals and the in-betweeners which is probably why the stabilize feature was first coined, the best of both worlds mechanic.|
Unfortunately developers have to make these choices and their game suffers for it and if they add options for every type of gameplay I believe the game loses its personality or identity or perhaps I’m speaking in platitudes.
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Loved that mechanic in Valkyria.
Hesitate to recommend it for Fire Emblem because it’s easier to plan your turns (no enemies shooting while you move, seeing damage numbers before you commit a move, etc) but still it would be interesting to see! Especially as an mid-level difficulty between casual no-death and classic permadeath.
What if there was a chance that a character could have a ‘last stand’ sort of moment? Like, they’re killed but stay on the field until the start of your next turn. Maybe it could activate on a percentage? Play up the whole relationships angle, perhaps – enemy kills them, turns on their lover or whatever and they somehow get back up and take the hit. Or guy takes a killing blow, goes berserk and sticks around to the end of the turn, killing dudes but then dies at the end of it.
Why don’t units with high affinity for each other suffer any status ailments or anything from watching their friends die? I feel like if you’re going to have hardcore permadeath there needs to be some kind of morale system as well.
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I’m playing on Casual actually. Sumia dies every fucking time I deploy her and the axe dickhead carks it most battles too. I can’t play on proper difficulty though, I don’t cope with frustration well.
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HAHAHA! Oh thank christ someone is in the same boat as me XD
I laughed with capitals by the way because I know EXACTLY what youre saying. Freakin Sumia man! Freakin weak weak Sumia, constantly trying to hide her away, the second I use her some sneaky so and so and then I just regret IT ALL! Get back to the back Sumia, you goddamn *mumble mumble*
I’m also causalling it. Cant stand the idea of replaying missions over and over and over because one guy gets sniped right at the end or something. At least not on the first playthrough. I want to actually have fun, that dont sound too fun
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I must’ve been lucky and got a good Sumia or something, she’s one of my better units! I was actually surprised how effective she was because usually early-game Pegasus Knights are very frail. She’s one of my main-stays!
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She was sucky for me so I just didn’t use her 😛
My Vaike (I assume axe dickhead is him?) is a beast.
I think I might’ve selected the lowest difficulty but eh, 😀 I’m having fun!
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Vaike hits like a little girl for me and his armor is like tissue paper, he goes down in one hit sometimes (I’m at around chapter 10).
My avatar is my best character by far. First to level 10 & promoted her to Grandmaster, and she’s now outlevelled Frederick (since he starts as an advanced class). Her, Chrom, Lon’qu and Frederick are my main backbone, with Lissa as main healer. Stahl started pretty average but I’ve upped him into a Paladin and he’s kicking ass now.
I think the problem with the Pegasus girls is they’re enormously weak early on and they’re basically one-hit kills for archers. When I got Cordelia she started about level 7 or so and even then it took 3-4 levels (I’m using her instead of Sumia) before she stopped dying all the time. Still hits pretty limply but is good for mobility and picking off damaged units. Wish she could have a bow though.
My main problem is that playing Casual you get so many new troops you can’t fit them into a team, and the game doesn’t give you any real way to grind your b-team up to be able to join in on story missions without getting murdered. 🙁 I managed to slot Nowi in because despite starting low, she’s progressively getting stronger, and like my avatar has the benefit of attacking at close range and at range without the risk of being one-hit like the mages. But now I just got Anna and she’s pretty awesome and I don’t really have room for her 🙁
Not sure if any of this is spoilery, will add tags if needed.
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Not really, but I guess names could be considered spoilery.
I started using Cordelia and I’m liking her. I think you can grind using DLC or those boxes that summon Risen (can’t remember their name)
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@greenius: Reeking Box? I’ll investigate that.
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@negativezero
That’s the one! Never used it myself but I read about it online when people were talking about level and gold farming
Something about it being cheap to buy on lower difficulties and you always get Bullions (which you can sell for gold) in it so you’ll get a profit. I think for level farming people have found the DLC stuff to be the best.
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@greenius: yeah when you mentioned it I tried a few. 500g each, one enemy on the map (sometimes two) always carries a 1000g bullion item. Downside is that you use up a fair number of charges on your gear while grinding. Also I can’t get any of the seals that move your characters to advanced classes and it’s very annoying because I have multiple characters ready to move up. Also I’ve just about exchausted Nowi’s Dragonstone and can’t buy more of them. 🙁
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@negativezero
Where to get more Master/Second Seals
Not really a spoiler but in case you didn’t want to know:
I believe you can buy Master Seals at Chapter 13 and Second Seals at 15I think I’m on Chapter 8 myself but that’s just what I read online.
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@greenius: thanks for the tip. i’ve seen them with the special shopkeeper periodically but never for sale normally. Would have gotten heaps back then if I could have but at the time I had no gold due to not knowing about the reeking box.
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Just realised this will be my last year of messing around in here all day with you guys.
Next year my son will start school and I’ll have to start working every day on what will hopefully end up being my sewing business. I’ll become one of those elusive night-TAYers. 😛
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:'(
Hey wait, I’m meant to be running a full time business!
Meant to be…
With that said, kudos for doing the entrepreneurial (spelling?) angle! I diggit. Being an entrepreneur is such a great thing to go for – not only is it very much feasible, but if it gets legs then your set to spend your working days doing something you love. Sughly gives entrepreneur..ing, his seal of approval! Two thumbs up!
p.s. you should totally do what I did on go on the government’s NEIS thing – new
entrepreneurenterprise initiative scheme. It’s fairly straight forward to get in (they help you write a business plan, and then they process to see if its feasible), and then you get a year of payments from them, and whatever money you make, the payments are unaffected. I barely made any money in the year I was with them, and needed it BIG time. They were very supportive, basically let me make game design a reality.edit: I never want to write entrepreneur again
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This comment is all kinds of inspiring, man.
I’m not one for creating things, but… thanks, truly 🙂-
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And actually work on it! 😀
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Usually social media managers are employed to represent someone and not make any opinion or statements on their behalf so you’ll be stuck here on TAY posting ‘Nice’ ‘Good Job’ ‘I need to check in on front office on that one’.
But than again if you’re getting paid to do it…
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Night Friday/weekend TAY is proper crazy! It’s off da hook.
But best of all is Night Public Holiday TAY. So much activity!
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It’s important to be able to take a break, lord knows if you are going to be doing full time in a new business there will be enough going on. If it become to much then it is always good to have an outlet
On another note when you do get around to setting up your business let me know and I’ll be happy to offer some advice. I also have some contacts down here through my sis in law that could be helpful. The lady with the long arm quilting machine for instance.tldr: please don’t leave us
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The XCOM FPS has been re-announced as a Third person shooter and it’s called:
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Eurogamer have some screens and a new live action trailer. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-26-third-person-tactical-shooter-the-bureau-xcom-declassified-announced
The aliens in one of the screens don’t look as gooey as they did in the original FPS trailer but I’m hoping it’s just that specific screenshot.
I’m cautiously optimistic and I’m hoping the game turns out well. I really liked the original concept.
The guys at 2K Marin can’t seem to catch a break 🙂 First they had to follow up Bioshock 1 with Bioshcok 2 and now this game is following XCOM: Enemy Unknown. I personally really enjoyed Bioshock 2 so I’m willing to give this studio a chance, they are really talented.
August 20th release date, 🙂 This joins Rayman Legends in August as well then GTA V the next month woooo.
PS:
The game’s tagline is Erase the truth. It would have been clever if I could figure out a way to have my comment stay but edit it at the same time. Something like that. I don’t even know what I mean.
Truth erased
There’s a bright orange huntsman – terracotta color, like WARNING WARNING color – on the roof literally right outside my bedroom door. It’s waiting for me to sleep and then it’s going to infiltrate and eat me, I just know it 🙁
If no one hears from me tomorrow, take off and nuke the site from orbit.
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I had to get up to go pee and it was still there. Lurking. Watching. Waiting for its chance.
Normally the doorframe would stop most insects but spiders can fit through tiny cracks. It knows it can get in here and finish me off any time. And it knows I know. 🙁
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I see it– coming here– hell-wind– titan-blur– orange-legs– Yog-Sothoth save me– the eight-lobed burning eye…
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I’m imagining a negative zero and spider version of this 🙂
http://cdn01.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/03/03/spiderman-kiss-600×450.jpg
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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/26/hatsune-miku-project-mirai-2-screenshots-debut-the-first-three-songs/ god dammit, I’m going to need a Japanese 3DS 🙁
I’d be angry but looking at those screens makes me melt~
Aw, FE discussion and I wasn’t involved.
All I can say to the Pegasus Rider haters is 1) Relief is pretty good 2) GALE-FUCKING-FORCE.
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Ugh I’m still on the edge about Arena!
I guess I’ll buy the art book and the game much later when it’s cheapy cheap
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I actually charged up my PSP and 3DS a few nights ago. Haven’t done anything with them yet but they’re charged and ready to go.
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I was planning on playing Ultimate Alliance on the PSP and Poogiemun White in the 3DS but I had not time to play any games recently.
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I lurve Poogiemun, Ultimate Alliance…not so much. It was OK.
Funny, I was using my 3DS for quite a while before I bought a second game. And then I did again.
I love BC! 😀
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I just crossed the final ring in a ring race in Sonic Racing Transformed with zero seconds on the clock and lost.
I laughed for some reason.
Those Earthbound games look awesome. I hear they were one of the major influences for Double Fine’s Costume Quest.
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Last time I heard from him he said we should all bring our 3DSes and he was keen for Japanese takeaway. A lot can change, though. What’s the deal, Nobs?
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Ugh Can’tDecideulus
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@sughly: Hey man, will be in the city any time after three, just moseying about. (ie. JB/EB/random wanderings. :D) Text me whenever you wanna meet up and I’ll be at most fifteen minutes away!
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So to make myself feel a little better for not going to Freeze’s tonight I just paid for my Bonfire statue from that guy.
Edit:
DARK. SOULS!
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Related: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/the-journey-to-kill-everyone-in-dark-souls-yes-everyone/
Pretty good read.
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Related? You were planning on making the journey to my place to kill everyone?
I think I’ve decided on D:
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Except for D.C., he lost at a strength tester… to everyone…
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Don’t worry D.C., if I was at the meat I would have given you a run for your money.
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Your lies help ease the shame. :’)
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Oh, believe me, I am not joking. My upper body strength is, quite frankly, laughable.
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When the inevitable Blaghs/D.C. meat happens, we’ll have to make a point of finding a strength tester. 😀
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This ‘Alex’ person stole my motivation for choosing my ending. That was my motivation! What a jerk.
Man, Persona 4: Golden is such an awesome game 😀
Just finished it and really liked the proper Ending 😀 (which I assume was added in Golden)
I love how everyone changed!
I think I’ll have to order Arena now 😛
Next up: either the anime or art book!
EDIT: errr maybe not, I don’t even like fighters that much 😀
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ARENA YEAH
ANIME: ehhhhhhhhhh
i think i’ve already mentioned my problems with the anime… and my feelings for it have gotten worse after watching some of the SMT Devil Survivor 2 anime, which so far has done a great job of making the silent protagonist a character, which i don’t think the P4 anime did that well…-
It’s acquired so no real loss other than time (which I have plenty of :P). I probably won’t watch it straight away since it just has the same story as the game anyway, right?
I just want to find out what happens to my Inaba friends! 😀
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I dunno if it was or not, the ending I mean.
Content related spoiler
I was under the impression that it was more a graphical upgrade plus the chick in blue.
And adachi as a social link.Also, some voice actors.
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Now I’m confused.
Which is the extra one?
And how did it open?There may be more for me to do than I thought! 😀
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There you go. Nope, will get on that…maybe after P3P
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How to get the “True Ending”:
Head Back to Junes on the last day, speak with everyone again and then solve the mystery
Fight the real final boss-
I did that months ago. Proper ending = true ending, I just never bothered to play the final dungeon until a few days ago.
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Wait, what?
You can’t see the true ending unless you do that dungeon.I don’t understand
You mean you maxed out the Marie social link? And that gave even more ending?
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I still don’t know why you’re confused 😛
I’m saying that I already know how to unlock it (the True Ending) as I just viewed it. I unlocked it before you even had the game. Remember how I was saying there was more endings and they were really hard to unlock without knowing how? I had everything up to that part unlocked but didn’t actually play it until a few days ago (there’s no real reason for this other than I just didn’t play the game).
When I said “proper ending” in my original comment I was referring to the True and Final Ending. I’ve seen two other endings before that but now I’ve finally completed the game.
And with the Marie stuff I was saying that it can’t have been in the original game since Marie is a new character added in Golden. I know certain scenes were from the Original but I wasn’t sure what
specifically the part where everyone looks different in the final scenes before the credits rollClearer?
I replied to that Marie Social Link part above but doing that unlocks more scenes with her, maybe the ending I viewed was because of it? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t actually unlock any extra ending stuff but there are more in-game cutscenes leading up to the final moments.
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@jimu – apparently there’s a new Epilogue/Golden Ending which plays after the True Ending (this is the one with Marie stuff I was referring too)
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I got the normal good ending then went back and got the bad end (threw old mate in the TV) then went back and returned to Junes and opened up, what I now presume is the original “True” end. The fog completely dissapeared and the TV world became a paradise.Does the Marie thing actually give another anime custscene or more ingame stuff?
I’ll go back and do it regardless.
I think my attempts at avoiding spoilers somehow had me overlook this whole Marie thing.
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I intend to do a new game + following the strict timetable on GameFaqs so I can earn the Social Link Trophy by maxing everyone.
I had real trouble with Adachi, often I’d see him & he’d say he was busyI think I got him to 3 or so but it needs to be six before the shit goes down appaz.
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@dc – Have you even seen the Broken Age teaser?
@sughly – OMG these updates are so good! I’m still watching the pre-update one about the announcement of Broken Age and seeing how the teaser got made is so awesome :D. Those lighting effects are rad!
D.C.!!!!!!!!!! Back this game NOW. Watch the docos NOW, you will regret nothing!
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Haha, I know I’d regret nothing. I’m just poor. Haha. Plus someone will have to buy it on release. Haven’t watched the trailer and don’t think I will! Will hold out for a retail collector’s edition. (Even though I know you said it’s not likely. :P)
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I haven’t seen the most recent update yet but if I recall they mentioned it last time and said they had some extra investors (@sughly can you confirm this?)
I’ll donate $10 to the cause :-), now we just need others to chip into the D.C. Broken Age fund!
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I’ll buy Broken Age on retail for certain. Just the idea of paying for it now when I can’t play it for months anyway doesn’t make sense. I’d prefer to have the cash set aside for going to meats and hanging with my pals. 😀
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The way I see it is that I’m not paying for the game, I’m helping it to get funded and I’m paying for the behind the scenes documentaries which ARE AWESOME!
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My net keeps dropping out during the system update and I can’t go onto the eShop until it updates. *shakes fist*
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Really? The one yesterday was you just ran. I found it REALLY boring.
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How often do challenges get updated? Do they stay there forever?
I don’t want to miss out on stuff by not playing it now 😛
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4 new levels in the app. There’s a weekly challenge and a daily challenge (that get updated weekly and daily, obviously :P) within those new levels. Not all the new levels are available at the same time. Scores are recorded on an online leaderboard (friendslist, country and global). Challenges are things like collect 50 lums in the least amount of time, run the greatest distance without dying, etc.
It’s free so there’s really no reason not to at least try it 😛 (Plus the original demo levels have been updated with new collectibles/trophies and no demo playcount limit)
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They’re fun, but I’m not sure I want to put myself through the stress of the daily challenges. Especially when you guys have MUCH better scores than me. 😀
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I prefer the weekly challenge to the daily one. There’s not as much time to try and one-up each other in a single day (I doubt I would check it more than once a day :P)
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Nope! I was waiting for D.C. to express his opinions for me 😀
You said it was like the demo but had more levels, didn’t you?
@freezespreston
I should be going to the meat tonight, I do need your address though!
Can you PM it to me through steam.
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Is this the movie meat?
So… exactly how many times are you going to force DC to watch Spirited Away?
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Hey, I’ve been suggesting Ghibli movies for months. I’d be happy if they ‘forced’ me to watch them. 😛
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Even if it was Tales from Earthsea?
trollface
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Can’t be prejudiced about something I know nothing about. Is it supposed to be bad?
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It’s just my least favourite Ghibli film I’ve seen. I was genuinely bored when watching it :P. Negative Zero will defend it as a whole but still agrees it’s not a great Ghibli film.
Based on the story behind it, it makes sense that it isn’t going to be spectacular but I legitimately found it a waste of my time when there’s better Ghibli things I could’ve watched!
And as a humanoid pig fan, you’d LOVE Porco Rosso! 😀
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Worst Ghibli film. Or second worst depending on how you feel about Pom Poko. It’s just… kind of average. And the villain is Michael Jackson.
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I’m going to move tomorrow! w00t! Accepted for the cheapest place, which while not ideal in some ways, is gonna be great to help me catch up on the massive loads of debt I’m in. Loooooong way to go, but a step in the right direction at least!
Tomb Raider is $25 on Greenman Gaming right now, $20 if you use this voucher: GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA
I have no self-restraint, now I have another damned game to finish.
So here is the main reason I’ve been only around sporadically for the last month or so: http://www.craftsy.com/project/view/basic-jacket/102718
Going to make a fully embroidered version next. These skills I’m learning are going to make me loads of money because handmade things like this sell for thousands of dollars. \o/
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Can you make me awesome clothes? 😀
I’ll model them for you and with my dashingly handsomeness I’m sure you’ll make MILLIONS!
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Rayman Challenge App impressions:
Awesome! It’s free so EVERYONE with a Wii U should get it.
I like how they show you the people right next to you on the leaderboards so you can learn what they’re doing to justttt get a little bit better times. Would’ve loved to have seen the top times’ runs though.
And they’re actually challenging!
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I played it too. So damn fun. Why’s Batguy so good, though? His times are so much better than mine. Haha!
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I think you were about 28 seconds? I’m at 23 (couldn’t be bothered shaving off more seconds but I was getting better reach run) but spinning and immediately jumping will send you flying further and faster. You’ve just gotta work out little tricks like that and when to use them, as well as which paths to take! Good fun, really reminds me of Trials 😀
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Yeah, you mentioned it above as well but I hate losing them, especially daily. It means we barely have enough time to compete and they’re gone after a day :/
I hardly use my Wii U so I probably won’t go back to it on a daily/weekly basis but it’s a decent idea. Would’ve been better if we got a new challenge (to keep) every week or something though!
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‘Select the clothes that will look best on you with the style pyramid’
Oh, Lifehacker, you so cray-cray.
Strippers and searchers @bdkiaf
Bit of a nothing ep huh. Kind of… fun. I guess. Couldnt really tell what was going on half the time though. Yay ok next ep now pls.
I assume Darkness 2 is doing bad in sales? just picked up a brand new copy for $15 at JB HiFi, last time I saw a game go this low this fast was Brink =/
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OoooOOOooo!
OHHHHH wait wait – I had Darksiders and Darkness mixed up heh. No I dont want that game ^_^
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Don’t you have somewhere you need to be? 😛
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And I’m pretty sure Darksiders 2 is like $15 on PSN
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I remember when I had a job as a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman. That job sucked.
I actually did do that for about a week. And it actually did suck. Worth it for the pun alone.
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Were you one of them vacuum salesmen that tried to weasel your way into the house for a ‘demonstration cleaning’ in order to guilt trip into a sale.
I would quit after a week from doing that type of dishonest salesmanship, thats one step away from aluminium siding sales tactics.
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That’s the one. I had 5 days of “product training” and one day on the streets before I said screw it and quit.
Never hated a job more.
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So last night there was a “moonlight cinema” thing at UTAS and they were showing Spirited Away. I’m not usually into anime and that but it was a damn good movie.
And it’s so windy today :S Salamanca market was closed for the first time in its history because of the wind. Monsoonal rain = not a problem, wind = apparently is a big problem.
Evangelion 3.33 Impressions:
I read the spoilers on the internets. Read the Kotaku review. For all intents and purposes I knew what I was going into. I thought I was prepared.
SPOILERS:
I wasn’t.
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Four was what they announced but the films make crazy, crazy money for Gainax (3.0 grossed just shy of 60 million US) so i guess maybe they might consider doing a fifth?
However they originally announced it as four, and the naming of the films has been using references to Noh plays. Lost in translation a bit – the films in Japanese are named Jo, Ha, Kyu (stylized as ‘Q’), and the final one was announced as Evangelion:||, which is clever because ‘||’ can denote the final bar line in music, but :|| is the repeat sign.
If they add a fifth I think it would break everything.
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My initial reaction immediately upon finishing was intense dislike. But now I think my brain is pulling itself back together and trying to make sense of it and I’m thinking maybe it’s not that bad. May need to rewatch a few times to get the most out of it?
The wait for the final part will be excruciating. 🙁 I hope it doesn’t look like crap like that teaser video.
EDIT: I should probably point out I went in completely blind, all I’d seen was the first ten minutes or so that were put up on youtube etc when the film opened in cinemas last year.
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Well, yeah, to even get a inkling of what’s going on requires one to rewatch it (and this counts for.. all of Evangelion, actually,) 2, 3 times. But that was back when Evangelion had meaning, albeit twisted, behind it’s crazy actions. 3.33? It makes coherent sense in the barest of ways.
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Coherent sense in the barest of ways? That sounds like it’s true to the second half of the original series alright.
I haven’t watched yet. I’ll get around to it soon.
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Perhaps a rewording is in order. Second half of the original series was just bullshit pretending to be actual planning. 3.33 appears to be a planned train wreck.
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I’ve seen it argued that the end of the original series was unplanned but I’ve never seen that myself. It seemed very deliberate, and honestly it was the second half of the show where it elevated itself beyong being a run-of-the-mill mecha anime as well.
That they cut a whole lot of stuff and scaled back their original plans for the show due to budget and censorship is absolutely true though.
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So did anyone go out and get the Lego City Undercover: The chase begins 3DS game today? I would love to hear how well it stacks up to Lego City.
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Oh sorry I confused your ‘heh’ for a ‘huh’.
Cute pun indeed.
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I’ve been hearing some good things. From the reviews I’ve seen it looks like a pretty big downgrade from the WiiU one though (more linear, short draw-distance, city is divided into sections that require loading, etc). But I like that they made an entirely new story/changed the mechanics for the game, not just a down-port.
@greenius
Ha! Confusion aside. P4G is so cool for having so many hidden extras.
Every time I think I’m done, there’s reason to go back 😀
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Can you describe your True Ending? There’s stuff I want to say but not sure whether you would’ve seen it or not 😛
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Let me think…
No Marie, she pissed off at a certain point, cam and said goodbye, so I wasn’t able to raise shit anymore.Mainly, it’s as I said on the last page: all the fog left everywhere, TV & Real world. Inside TV was turned into a paradise, nice trees, flowing water etc, Teddie said some crap about it being just as he remembered.
And before all that, I confronted the kid at the Gas Station who admitted to giving the power to the hero, the delivery nutter & Adachi. Then I was able to enter his level and fight him. He killed us all one by one but the power of butthole love brought me back to life and my powered up Persona killed him/her but-good.
Can’t remember what else.
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So after it was all paradisey and you leave on the train, that was it? Mine had extra awesome scenes afterwards (in-game and animated)-
Oh cool, Can you woo Marie after the big turn?
I can’t remember when she pissed off.I’ll check ! 😀
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Hardly touched the game since the Aussie release, damn March titles taking up to much of my time, gotta find some time to sink into it.
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Oh rilly?
This game took over my life. I have to force myself to not just jump back in and do a new game + instead of finishing the pile.I got lucky and grabbed P3P for a tenner a few days after finishing too. So good 😀
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@Blaghman
Really cool presentation about how Guerrilla games is using lighting in KZ:SF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_29M8F-sRsU
@negativezero
So some champs are working on a Type-0 Fanslation 😀
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Final%20Fantasy%20Type%200
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I remember seeing something about this ages ago. Hope they finish it but I doubt they will.
At least it’s got a chance of happening unlike eg the rest of Trails in the Sky
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I’d actually prefer Squeenix pull their fingers outta their butts and do an Enhanced Vita Port
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Looks like the Wii U virtual console came out today, thank god I got those titles for 30 cents lol, debating now if I should get Super Mario Word but chances are I’ll decide against it.
Just watched Robert Downey Jr pimp slap Guy Pierce.
Also Iron Man was awesome, unfortunately me and my mate were able to predict most plot points during the movie. Still excellent regardless.
So. Chronicle. I wish I could go back and find the discussions people kept having about it. We just watched it. I had no idea it was so dark and I let my 12yo watch it. :S
Ooooooooooh! New Ace Attorney 5 trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr7nSXrm7gU (Make sure annotations are turned on for English subtitles)
Thoughts: (in case people don’t want to know or something :P) The investigation sections look pretty cool now! Full 3D rooms to investigate from different angles, awesome. It’ll be interesting to see exactly how this Heart Scope works too.
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Looking good, seems like such a large gap between the last Australian release of Ace Attorney, I think it was that Miles Edgeworth one, any news if this is going to hit Australian shores?
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Hey gang. Big day.
Conflux (What does that mean?) Write-up
Early start. First one there. Tables aren’t even set up. Nice lady at the Conflux registration desk lets me have a hotel buffet breakfast while I wait for my table. I’m a little nervous and only get a small plate, which pretty much makes me the worst hotel breakfast eater ever.
Saw a few people I knew and a few I knew by reputation. Some bought books. Some did not. One, whom I went to uni with, seemed keen to avoid me. Not entirely sure why. :\ Also ran into Katie’s first share house housemate, one of her friend’s dads, a couple of folks who got published in the Beginnings Anthology alongside me
So Sean Williams was here. Not at Adelaide Oz Comic-Con, when I was ready to meet him, but he crashed my hometown with no warning (well, he was in the programme, but I DIDN’T READ THAT OKAY. There was no message saying “Hey Shane, you should check this.” He walked past me three times, but I didn’t say hi (he was busy).
Three book launches took place near me. If I’m honest (false modesty aside), I think my work is on par or better than what was read out as sample snippets, and I wondered what I have to do to graduate from paying exhibitor to honoured guest in that way. Still wondering. Happy to pay my dues, but if I can do better, why shouldn’t I go for it?
Oh yeah, and I sold all the books that I had with me, and turned my first con profit ever. Not enough profit to cover a McDonald’s dinner, but out of the red regardless. \o/
It’s now 8:30, I’m goddamn exhausted (too tired to make this a longer wall of text, or to make it interesting/witty), and even though grandpas are still awake, I’m going to sleep. Night all!
DARK SOULS!
I made it to the last set of swinging blades before the bonfire. Got hit once and managed to get up but panicked and got sent flying. Down, down, down right onto a waiting Titanite Demon. 😛
/o\
Thanks for the arrow tip though, guys. I bought a crapton from Grandpa Blacksmith and it certainly made the first bit much easier. 🙂
Am I the only one who wishes that Gamepads/Joysticks can be disabled by default when starting a game?
Sleeping Dogs is giving me headaches control-wise, but other than that, it’s fantastic.
Something tells me Oliver’s gf thinks it’s a bit weird when she gets back to their room at 12:20 and I’m on his computer playing Counter Strike while he’s laying in bed watching rage… Little bit awkward haha.
Definitely just stood on top of a wall mount bracket while walking around my bedroom, wasn’t a pleasant experience, on the plus side it worked as a perfect motivation to clean the fallen drawer of spare fittings.
I’m fine though, the sheer stupidity hurt more.
Evangelion 3.33 possibly minor spoilers I guess
What the shit just happened?
4.44 better be the most conclusive film in the history of multi-part films or I’m flying to Japan to shank some people.
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I think, simply put, worst case scenario, in all possible ways, be it plot, character development, or theme. It’s really damn weird, considering the fact that 2.22 began to change Shinji for the better.-
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That is a lot of commas. I type worse than I speak, and whatever comes out of my mouth is barely understandable at best. Also, I’m pretty sure ‘I type worse than I speak’ is grammatically wrong, so that further lends proof.-
I think simply put: worst case scenario in all possible ways. Be it plot, character development or theme. It’s really damn weird, considering the fact that 2.22 began to change Shinji for the better. -
Aside from being horrible at punctuation, another major flaw I have is that I’m far too lazy to correct my mistakes. Also, I find it funny we’ve extended this conversation while keeping it all in spoiler tags.
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http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Final%20Fantasy%20Type%200
Final Fantasy fans take a look at this and get depressed.
The PSP game we never got 🙁
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Trust me, I’ve been aware of FF Type-0 for years, and been depressed about lack of localisation for just as long.
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Yeah, I knew about it back in the day but had forgotten. It was only recentley when Neg mentioned it that I realised it wasn’t happening.
Seems they blame it on low PSP sales in the West. Here’s hoping Vita gets a bunch more games, sales pick up and they do an enhanced port.
Otherwise we’ll be stuck with a fanslation…anyone who has a hacked PSP that is. :-/
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Lately I’ve been dreaming some really mundane shit, and it’s scaring the crap out of me. Not because I fear for a waning creative streak, but because it’s becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between dream and reality. It’s doing my fucking head in /o\
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Sometimes I dream about sitting at my desk at work, then I wake up and go to work to sit at my desk.
It’s pretty thrilling being me.-
I’ve been dreaming of having disagreements with people… not even arguments, just enough for me to feel that people are upset/disappointed with me. Onset of paranoid delusions, eh?
I gotta get off this eylandt again.
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Thanks, Strange :3
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Reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin dreams of counting a mountain of pebbles and bores himself awake.
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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.”
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Nintendo not having a press conference at E3 this year doesn’t really surprise me, seeing as it’ll all be focused on PS4/Durango, and they’ve been announcing a lot of stuff with their Nintendo Direct feeds.
BUT: kinda surprised to see that 2K is not even appearing on E3’s floor. The Bureau/XCOM Shooter just get reunveiled and is coming out in August, wouldn’t they want to make a splash after it being in the dark for so long?
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Yeah, when I heard about 2K not being there I was disappointed since I want to see some gameplay of the Bureau. Hopefully the game still gets some media previews and the developers release some gameplay walkthroughs.
I hope they support the game and it turns out good. My fingers are crossed 🙂
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I am very interested to see what it’s become, especially after the lengthy period of it going dark. But them re-announcing it, saying its coming out in 4 months and then not appearing at E3 is kinda concerning.
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Mirror’s Edge truly has one of the strongest art styles of games from this generation:
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Yeam, dood, that game looked so good. I wasn’t a fan of the flash animated cut scenes though. I found them really jarring and they pulled me out of the game :-/
Good weekend! 😀
*crosses Drive and District 9 off the list*
Haven’t eaten this well in a long time too. Avacado Chicken for dinner, turkey and cranberry sandwich for breakfast.
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I don’t think “:P” can really be classed as talking about it…. 😛
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I liked the way that they got around all the normal issues with the whole hand-held camera shakey cam thing, by using the telekinesis. Was smart. I enjoyed that movie more than I expected (based off the trailers and jazz, word of mouth had been pretty good). -
I had feels.
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Anyone heard of the show Nathan For You? It’s a Comedy Central show (that probably rings alarm bells for some people, but it’s nothing like the other CC shows I watch), and I’ve been spending the day watching the entire series. Basically he goes around local businesses trying to help them bring customers in, but it’s really funny. Plus it’s made by Tim and Eric’s production studio and they’re both executive producers!
If anyone remembers that viral video from last year with the pig saving the goat in the water, that was made for the show. Seeing how that came to be was amazing.
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Sounds good. I’ll try an episode tomorrow after work.
I also saw this on Gizmodo as I was reading about the show. Kind of funny and sad at the same time 🙂
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@masha2932
Linked me to his Twitter pranks 🙂
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@ash
I ordered Persona 4 Arena, this means we can chat chat chat about it(since we’ll have it on different systems.
@sughly will be underwhelmed to know I ordered DKCR 3D 😀
@negativezero will be disapointed to know I ordered Devil Survivor Overclocked. The patch is on it’s way so everywhere restocked 😀
Also, did you see Dragon’s Crown came in a dual pack (PS3&Vita) in Japan that included a hardcover artbook? Hope we see something similar (Prolly not *grooooooooooooooooooooan*)
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d00d I think the release date is 10 May… do you think they will deliver a bit earlier? I’d love to get it b4 for the WE. I’m going away for a few days from the 14th so knowing my luck it will rock up whilst I’m gone 🙁
Ps I’m playing Disgaea DS atm DOOD!
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Didn’t you order it from Ozgameshop?
Not a chance. 7-12 working days! Although I did get something in a week (5 working days) once 😛
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Yeah but I’ve heard of them sending pre orders early so you get it close to launch date.
ah but yeah I see what u r getting at – I’ll get it after I’m back from holidays, which is fine – I just don’t want to fall too far behind @jimu otherwise when I try and talk about it he’ll be all “that’s old news dood”
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Jimu will respond to your comments on previous pages for days 🙂
So many Jimu notifications!
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suck. my balls :p
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no thanks :p
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Playing hard to get again?
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Don’t worry. It’s on home console. You’ll have finished it before I beat it with one character.
Why would I be disappointed? I really didn’t like it but you’re free to make your own decisions.
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Is a joke, mon! Must I colon pee everything?
What about that DC special edition? What you reckon?
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Snowball’s chance.
I’d love to own an artbook with Kamitani’s work though. Not just Dragon’s Crown, give me Muramasa and Odin Sphere and GrimGrimoire as well.
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We need to harras him on for one on Facebook 😀
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So, Doctor Who:
I enjoyed it. I feel like the “using a crack in time to remove memories” thing was a bit of a shame. They’re just retreading ground here (even if the exact mechanics were different (err, it occurs to me, in case it wasn’t obvious, I mean it was similar to when Rory got nommed by the crack)). Again, this episode was neither a big disappointment, or a fantastic episode, but I enjoyed it (what can I say, I’m easy to please). Additionally, I picked every story beat before they were revealed, except for the bit with Clara grabbing the thing, and that jazz happening, because I was eating dinner, and not paying attention. Oh, also, when your skin is liquefied, why do you suddenly become a villain? Is this a thing? Are ugly people villains now? If so, I should probably go and eat a baby.
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I liked it! I don’t think there’s been a truly FANTASTIC episode yet, but this one is probably my favourite Clara episode so far.
Spoilers!
I agree about the time crack thing. Felt a bit like a retread. But seeing some new Tardis bits was cool! Didn’t like that captain dude (though that was kinda the point…). And the reason why they turned evil when they got all toasted is because of reasons! Space reasons! Duh.Next weeks episode looks pretty good though! Hooray, the sontaran and the lesbian lizard lady are back! (I’m assuming it was them anyway :P) They’re always good value.
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Yeah, next weeks looks super fun! It’s weird, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen at least 4 variations of that concept in the reboot of Doctor Who (Just the whole “Idyllic place which is evil” thing), yet I’m still excited! Also, also, while I remember, I did enjoy the bit where she’s exploring, and there was a swimming pool, and I thought to myself “Isn’t the Library supposed to be next to the swimming pool?” And lo and behold, there it was. That made me happy.
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I hated it.
I was watching and thinking “If this was anything but Doctor Who I’d have turned it off by now, And then I got mad. Why have they made Doctor Who become such a crap show? How did we let them get them get away with it? Has all the Moffat hero-worship gone to his head? This Clara thing had so much potential but all the episodes were weak and this one was really terrible.-
Moffat didn’t write that episode. He only writes the episodes where things happen. Like important changes I mean.
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I thought, when Moffat was just one of the writers he was writing most of the better episodes that old-mate didn’t (last head-writer forget his name) but now that Moffat is head-writer his ideas are getting spread a bit thin.
It’s a pity really.
I still like this season better than any of the first series, Eccleston didn’t do it for me at all and I really didn’t like Billy Piper so no matter how good the writing was I never really fell in love.
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Yeah, Russell T Davies was a great showrunner, but an average writer. Moffat is the opposite. I think they need to get some new blood in.
Oh, and make Neil Gaiman write more episodes, since his last one was fantastic.
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NEIL GAIMAN HAS A CYBERMAN EPISODE COMING OUT IN A FORTNIGHT(?)
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SILVER SOMETHING SOMETHING 😀 😀 😀
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I hated Billie but loved Eccles. He’s still my favourite new Doctor.
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Ah, cool.
So Doc said they should keep apart or the timeline will try to fix itself again, but they touched and so the timeline fixed itself again, yeah? He says it.
Doctor Who is full of mumbo-jumbo, made up, bullshit science. That’s all part of the fun.
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But that’s the thing. there shouldn’t be “filler” epsiodes. Feels like every episode since it returned has been like that and it’s not good.
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I don’t agree.
Every TV show I ever watch has filler episodes.I think the problem with the way Moffat is doing things, is he keeps all the important bits for himself and only lets the other writers hint at stuff.
I think Davies let bigger hints get dropped by other writers along the way, but there was still planty of filler episodes.
I’m not totally against filler episodes, but they’re only as good as they are, so if you don’t like the writing, concept or whatever then they can be totally pointless.
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It basically had a reset button at the end. I’m not a fan of those. Events leading up to it were enjoyable – the Doctor and Clara are being super honest with each other! – and then that gets wiped. I mean sure we get to remember everything but the whole episode feels so cheapened as a result.
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There was no room to make. It’s taken up with game data and saves. I have nothing besides that on the hard drive. We bought a new HDD on Saturday but Mr. Strange is picking it up tomorrow. So then I’ll be able to play ALL the games.
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Saves are in the PS+ cloud. I’m looking forward to every game I play having to be installed and updated again though. 😛
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You’re outta luck on installs but I think if you play the game at least once on the console it’ll know and then automatically download the updates for that game 😀
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Fire Emblem more like pairing everyone off so I can conscript their babbies to serve in my army
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Also, Nowi is imba. She raced up to level 30 then I used a second seal to make her back into the same class again at level 1. Kept all her stats. Already up to 15 again so 45 total and most enemies can’t even scratch her and go down in one attack.
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I just figured out that getting to S means makin babehs.
I spent all last night making pairs/babehs.
edit: I made babeh with my main and Anna. It is by far my best character, holy shit. So good. High high luck, can cover massive parts of the map no matter the terrain, high magic, high strength. I have created a beast, and I lub it
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I didn’t get much of a choice in the matter because of the story.
Once you defeat the Plegian army Chrom marries the female character with the highest support value, and that was my Avatar, so Morgan inherited Chrom and the Avatar’s abilities. He’s okay but the avatar is miles stronger, probably my best character.I kind of rushed into getting S-ranks and now I’m running out of dudes for the ladies, because I just assumed that anything would work, but there are some characters e.g. Sumia who are only interested in specific characters. Expecting later on that I’m going to run into an issue where one or two of the female characters has no viable pair because I rushed… 🙁
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I just watched the latest Elementary. We watch it because it’s easy to watch and shows we don’t care about are great for winding down at the end of the night.
It really says something when Elementary was the best thing we watched all night on a night we also watched Doctor Who….
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Hey man, did you see this http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/beyond-two-souls-wants-you-to-know-its-a-film-with-exclusive-dlc/
Looks pretty amazing to me.
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Nope, complete media blackout for this game now. They had me at Quantic Dream. (Fanboy! Haha!) Thanks for the heads up, my friend!
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In the middle of having an amazing deep sleep, catching up from the night before, I get woken up at 4am because mums let the neighbours cat stay indoors and said cat has decided to pee all over ash’s bed and poop underneath it on the carpet.
FML.
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Actually no, mum worked miracles on those cases. I dont know how she did it.
But fuck that cat.
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Meat Write-up thingie!
-I arrived just in time for dinner (best timing)
– The dinner was amazing, I got some Garlic stake, haven’t eat anything that good in ages!
– I (Finally) learnt how to use chopsticks properly. (DC gave up on trying to use them, I can sympathise)
– After dinner we decided to play that D&D board game.
– I started the adventure off with running in a random direction everyone (except me!) taking one damage.
– @dc ran the opposite way and got everyone in the party poisoned by spiders.
– @dc gave up pretty early into the game.
– Mrs Freeze decided she would be better off running away from the party and summoned a spider queen and some kind of giant troll thingie..
– I summoned a dragon and then rand away!
– @sughly and @freeze died heroically battling the dragon, then I ran in and killed it with an arrow.
– After D&D we watched some movies!
– First up was Drive, great movie (I had already seen it)
– Next up was District 9. Man, that was such an amazing movie. SO.DAMN.GOOD
– The following morning @dc and I talked about Fallout New Vegas and how damn better then Fallout 3 it was (HINT: it is heaps better)
– Eventually everyone woke up so we went out for some awesome breakfast and looked around at EBGames (Their was no EBGirl for @dc).
– We headed back to @freezesperston’s place and he showed me Retro/Grade. Such an awesome rhythm game, I completely fell in love with it.
– After we all decided to head off!
TL:DR: (You monster!) @freezespreston threw an awesome meat. \o/
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Was awesome to have you along for an overnight meat finally nobs! I had a great great night 😀 More D&D in the future I say, I loved that shiz
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I just don’t understand why anyone thinks 3 was better than Vegas.
Someone actually mentioned (maybe on TAY, no offence chum) that they preferred how sparse it was in 3.For me Vegas looked better, played better, was written better and felt more fun overall.
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New vegas bugs were discussed. I cried on the inside for @freezespreston who lost a 70 hour save game from a bug
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I watched District 9 last night then jhad an Alien Invasion dream.
It was wierd and scary and fun and there was a time-jkump which my brain explained to me be showing me the PS4 was out.
It was interesting though, cos I went on my usual walk home after the invasion and saw all the changes that happened.
I blame @dc for mentioning he watched it, thus reminding me I hadn’t :p
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