Talk Amongst Yourselves
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How dare you rubbish Goldeneye. I still play that every few months with friends!
All in all though, this should be an article in it’s own right 🙂 Quite wordy, you’re a lyrical genius!
I need to know your scores so I can add them to my Con column for keeping this haircut/glasses/copy of Canterbury Tales permanently in my hand wherever I go.
Button mashing & muffins FTW!
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If only all of us TAYbies lived in a centralised location so that we could all enjoy the delicious meats.
I think we forgot how blurry Goldeneye was. My eyeballs are slowly recovering. It was a great day Jamie, thanks alot for organising! Can’t wait for the next one!
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I suspect N64 is more eyeball-damaging than 3D.
IS THAT BLUR IN THE SEMI-FOREGROUND ANOTHER PLAYER? *pew pew pew*
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Oddjob still is the best. Me trying to convince anyone to pick Jaws so i can slap their knees. Epic crouch strafing laser fights were a highlight for me too!
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Not to mention the horrible realization I couldn’t actually jump off ledges.
So much random strafing/mashing of fire button. Where would consoles be without auto-aim?
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I glanced over to watch you guys play for a few moments… and laughed my ass off. Blaghman was probably the most entertaining to watch 😀
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It sucks I couldn’t make it T_T
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tsk tsk, was very disappointed in you!
hahaha very very nice guys 🙂
Can’t wait to come up and be the n00b! 😀
You remembered to eat?
And a fish?
Niiiice
I noticed all the DKR goin ons and was tres jealous. Next Bris meet needs to get some N64 happenin fo sho.
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I own the game on DS, I brought it last time.
Next time BRING YOUR DS and while everyone else plays those rythym games we can hide in the corner!-
I has it on 64, so all we need is 2 more controllers and we’ll be set.
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I think I have snowboard kids somewhere…will have to ask me friends if they borrowed…
Maybe I know someone with ‘trollers too, maybe.
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ME! ME! I have about… 7. I have no idea why, I just do.
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A solid effort by all! Special props to Jamie What? for organising it in such a grand fashion and bringing all his consoles.
Props to AP for bringing his netbook and games and beating me in worms *shakes fist*
Bish and Effluvium, I had much fun playing TMNT with you guys. Many lol-worthy moments for me xD We’re HARDC0RE!
MvC3 was fun, maybe I should pick up this game too.. mwahahahhaa
Sounds like much fun was had by all. Unfortunately there is only a 50:50 chance I can make these things as I generally work every second weekend, last weekend was the second.
So… Mr. WHAT!? and I were talking last night.
We’ve (He) have decided that CrabJiffy shall hereby be renamed to Bawble! to fit in with naming conventions around here, given that he is Dawdle!’s BF.
*nods*
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I like it. It also implies he is arm candy.
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Let’s not even give him a say in it.
Tad just has to automaticaly change his username whenever he posts.
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To be fair, it was suggested by someone other than I in a previous TAY. Not my creation.
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Steal the glory. Do it!
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IT WAS MEEEEE! 😀
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Ok ok, so as long as he writes his name like this:
Bawble!™*
And ends every post in this:
*Copyright Sughly 2011
It will be ok?
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I would prefer this, yes.
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IT WAS the glory of SUGHLY(apparently he’s a mail man or someting).
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Someone remembered me! Its always you brudda… always you…
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***brudderly hug***
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I thought it was you, but I didn’t want to say incase I was wrong. Major faux pas.
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Oh, so you talk to the What, but you don’t talk to me? That’s how it is, is it?
*sob*-
You keep turning off all the lights and hiding under the sofa until I go away.
You make me feel like a Jehovah’s witness 🙁
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So my home internet is capped until Friday 🙁 absolutely crawling.
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I feel for you.
At least you’ve only gotta make it through to Friday – I’ve managed to cap it halfway through the month once.
That was a memorable month. There was a lot of crying.
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Yeah, when I first got my cable connection I went over the limit in the first week. That sucked!
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So, so much porn.
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Dude.. that sucks sooooo bad 🙁 i feel for you!
We really need to up our cap.. i’m pretty sure we’re going to go over this month as well..
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I still have no home internet…
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Hey, think of it as a good opportunity to knock anything off your pile of shame! 😀
But it’s bad for us, because who’s going to kick arse in L4D/TF2 now?! 🙁
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Oh you! I’m sure you’ll manage without me.
My pile of shame shall remain as pile-ish and shameful as ever, however, as I pretty much don’t want to play my PS3 during the week and have none of my other games installed on my PC.
SHAME!
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Don’t worry, there’s all of July to defeat your pile of shame!
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Well my car battery had to get replaced over the weekend, another $144 dollars down the drain, but that battery that died lasted 5+ years so not bad.
Finally got more League of Legends time over the weekend and getting a lot better with one of my alternates, Master Yi :D, had the most creep kills by 100+ kills in front of second, though my kill score on players needed work, the fights were mainly over before I could get in to lend a hand xD
In other news I hate Steam more than ever, twice I’ve tried to leave the PC on overnight to download the TF2 massive update and twice it autopaused quickly after I went to bed URGH! -.- I’m also almost capped on my internet for the month so no more totalbiscuit/Yogscast at home until the new month, ah well.
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Unlucky. techy. But i do this thing thats pretty unbelievable and turn my computer off when i go to bed. It’s pretty rad, just shut it down when you power down.
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I leave it on to try and get off peak downloading, that’s the only reason I’d leave the computer on
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The more you guys talk about LoL, the more i want to try it
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Way more enjoyable than HoN will ever be if you’re new to the whole DoTA thing, or just not an “elite player” yet like myself.
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What I meant by that was I’m not an “elite player” either, hence why I hate playing on HoN, they treat you brutally if you don’t meet their meta standards 😛
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Oh yeah to add to this, it’s 100% free to try for as long as you want. You need real money if you want to permabuy champions/runes early or get in-game skins for your champions.
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Hey Tech, I had the same problem with TF2. Make sure your Steam folder isn’t set to “read-only”. That fixed it for me.
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Huh… an interesting thing to happen under my nose part for the TechStation. I will look into this tonight, thank you for your input human. 🙂
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Thanks to that SFII tournament last week, I finally got my hands of a copy of SSF4 😛
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lol – does that mean you won?
Also, super or regular?
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I came equal 3rd lol. Super arcade ed.
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Grats!
Did a fair bit of gaming on the weekend.
Friday night I was hanging out with friends and we ended up playing a few games of DotA at a net cafe. None of us who had played before have played in a long while, but my team won both times because I was the only one that remembered that you’re meant to try and push your creeps into their base. So while one friend was going around amassing kills, my paltry 2 kills for 8 deaths was enough to win the day compared to his 15+ kills.
Playing DotA made me break down and buy Starcraft 2, although I haven’t played more than the first few campaign missions to get a taste of it. Instead I went and finished Infamous, which I enjoyed although there were some extremely frustrating missions (as those on TeamSpeak know all to well).
i know how to beat piracy, give all of the pirates a job, because as soon as i got a job, i stopped pirating games and starting buying them…
Morning Ladies and Gents! 😀
So i didn’t have internet for all of Sunday… and when i got back on i found out that the deadline for the Shadows of the Damned comp was last night!!!
So i went hard at work to get my entry done, which looks awful, but is hopefully funny enough to at least get a runners up prize…
I say runners up because in my mind arabel (page two) has won it. Her entry is AMAZING and HILARIOUS!
Why am i saying this?
Because i am perplexed.
There have been some really awesome entries, and most of the awesome is coming from people who just don’t post, or very rarely post here on Kotaku.
These people look like they have a great sense of humor, and perhaps even somehting great to contribute, but for some reason they just don’t until Competition time rolls around.
If you go through TAY there may be 3000 comments, but those comments will be from the same 20 people.
When a competition rolls around, we can get up to 400 comments from 300 different people..
And you know what? That kind of bothers me. t makes me wonder why they don’t want to join the community unless Mark is giving something away.
I mean sure, i first joined the community because of a comp, but i stuck around and really dug myself in a grew to love you guys.. i just wonder why other people don’t?
For one, we’re not haters. Everyone here has varying opinions that live in harmony, and even if there is something strongly dissagreed on, it’s usually with respect..
Anyway.. i urge you guys to check out the entries.. they’re pretty rad. Especially the meatier page 2 ones…
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So I guess the question is, how do we entice these people to post on TAY?
Lure them in with cash prizes and lock the doors?
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Because most humans never bother getting involved unless they get something out of it in return more than just friendship (Which means little to them on the internet). I get that a lot with humans I know locally that are non-Kotaku. They never speak to me unless they want something from me or they’re bored out of their mind and they got nobody else to talk to.
This is why I enjoy it here and on Teamspeak especially. There are people here that ask little in return for contributing to others, from gifts to others to just cheering people up and your occasional humour of course.
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Aw im one of the ‘rubbish’ page 1 entries am i?… lol
I agree and I think we just need to make more of an effort of recruiting others. I think comps are a good way to get people on the site and the regular posts will keep them coming back.
I have spoken to a few lurkers around here that i know and TAY is just so damn scary for a new entrant. Imagine if you didnt know anyoe and you see 3400 comments. There is no forum, no introduce yourself and no organisation to speak of. It is just a little daunting.
We know that it isnt that bad but for an outsider, it is a bit much.
Perhaps we (read – Mark) could do a small write up of the meat, highlight that this is a community run thingy that is based around TAY and that others should join in… (and make sure that spam is kept to a minimum…)
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There’s a lot of people who read Kotaku, even TAY but don’t post. Before I began posting regularly(the first one is the most difficult, which is why I’ll often try and respond to new people lest they think we don’t want newcomers)I’d been reading TAY since it started and felt like I knew everyone already. It’s actually a bit scary realising people you don’t know or talk to yet are reading everything you write on here!
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I have often wondered this.
I think people find TAY hard to read. When there is more than a page of comments a day, most of which have to be read before the latter pages in order to make sense, well a lot of people don’t have the time. I know I almost dropped out of TAY last week because it was getting hard to keep up. I think a few regulars stopped trying… well, for a little bit. Then came back for their TAY fix. I easily missed 30% of the week’s happenings because there was just so much to read. So, if people who are already part of th ecommunity are being discouraged from posting, what would it be like for new peeps?
Also, intigrating yourself in to a pretty well established group can be hard. I had trouble with it at first. I’d say I didn’t become a proper member of the ‘group’ till the first Sydney Meat.
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We’re trying to find methods to combat this in our redesign!
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Actually come to think of it this is also true. I don’t think it was until Jimu claimed me as his brudda that people actually really realised I was hanging around.
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If I’m not at work, I don’t have time to TAY properly.
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Yeah I totes agree. I did the same thing, came to kotaku for a comp. But then I stayed because it was awesome. It bothers me to see so many people pop their heads in for free stuff then run away. Don’t know why… just does. It’s unfwendly :'(
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I think I’m the opposite – I haven’t entered a comp yet (I’m no-where near clever enough) but found the site through an in google news and stayed because of the awesome community.
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I’ve started going through the entries and responding to people in them.
I think I’ll make this a point from now on – I feel a lot of the time my posts are generally restricted to TAY.
Maybe if all us TAYbies get out and make an effort to integrate the posters into our little community we’ll have more luck with people hanging around?
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I definetly agree with people finding it hard to comment at first. I stalked TAY for 2 months before i commented just trying to find a opening. It’s like a normal group of people. Unless your rely outgoing you don’t just walk up to a bunch of strangers and say how do you do. It’s like getting into a cold pool. You gotta ease into it.
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From my experience, it is definitely just an issue of time. All the articles appear while I’m at work, so it’s hard enough to find time to read all the content, as well as the plentiful comments. If I want to post, I can only really do that after work, and by that time the discussion has largely come to a close. If people only knew the number of times that I have replied to them, but many hours after the fact.
TAY has those same issues, but multiplied by a million. Discussions only really last while they are located on the last (or second to last) page. And considering how many posts there are, it’s hard to cover it all.
Last week, my Monday through Wednesday was lost to travel. When I examined TAY on Thursday, the shear volume of content (and the number of those comments that referred to previous discussions and pages), made it impossible for me to catch up, so I abandoned any thought of doing so.
You guys are also a tonne funnier than myself, and lightning fast. How can I compete?
*back to skulking*
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I think a lot of people don’t regularly post on TAY because of the overwhelming community… It’s like walking into a room where there is already a clique formed and everyone but you knows the in-jokes…
Definitely don’t think that is a bad thing – I read the comments and think the community is amazing. I think it might just be a bit daunting for some – cyber-shyness maybe?
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I’m the opposite. When I first moved to Brissy I moved in with a Dev who used to float here all the time (He was the dude who won the 3Dtv from Giz like a year or so ago)
He introduced me to the wonderful world of Kotaku and not a day has gone by that I haven’t floated or posted somewhere here.
As for TAY, I have faint memories of randomly posting here and there but I reckon it’s only in the last 6-12months (really ever since Mark took over) that the community has really come into it’s own.
I also try to post on stories that are interesting to me, but it’s usually hard to get a conversation going on individual articles.
Anyway, I’ve got work to do.
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TAY is just daunting, I post a lot on the news posts because I can usually think of something interesting or relevant to say.
Here its butting in on the world’s longest conversation and keeping up with everything that’s getting posted here is probably a full time job!
As for competitions, I mainly come here for the news and the occassional thought-provoking article. I suspect most others do too.
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I don’t think many of the regulars keep up with all the in-jokes and extensive conversations. The trick is to just jump in with a zinger and hold on tight!
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SERIOUSLY guys? You think TAY is daunting? I really don’t get that vibe at all.. this is the interwebz after all. Forums make for awesome trolling fun.
I remember when i first started posting around the Wildgoose era. It wasn’t hard.
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Ah, way back when we had less than 300 comments per week…
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I remember when we were happy we got 1000 comments in a week… how foolish we were. 😛
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I only comment occasionally, as it is a time thing.
I do try and read most of TAY, but most of the time when you’ve read something. There are heaps of comments afterwards, and no one will go back to read earlier replies once they’re approved.
Also timezones!!
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I think it’s hard to keep up with the NEW comments on TAY, especially if they’re replies to things on something pages back…there’s no ability to know which page has updated.
Unless I’m missing something. Which is highly likely.And then there’s just the general volume which everyone else talked about
What an awesome birthday weekend – caught up with some great mates, enjoyed an hour or two (or four, things got a bit blurry) of 2$ cocktails courtesy of some mates-rates and a halo session on a 65-inch tv followed by some good old dota lannage action.
I allowed myself some cash to splurge on a new vidya game, but instead of EB I accidentally ended up in the Bottle-O next door. DotA still remains my favorite lan game however so all was not lost, plus I see that Team Fortress 2 is going free-2-play so my new-game cravings will still be satiated. Any chance there will be a TF2 night for kotakians sometime?
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Twas your day of birthing?!?!
HAPPY BIRTHING DAY!!!!
*man hugs*
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Nawww, thanks Chuloopa.
Man hug, this is nice.
Yep, nothin beats a nice hug…
Ok you can let go now…
Loops?
Also thought I’d share a birthday message I recieved from a mate: “Happy birthday you hideous chud of a human, I hope you die in a fire.”
He always finds the right words 🙂
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A repeat of the sentance secundus!
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HAPPY B’DAY!
*gets party hats and noisemakers*
*FWEEEEEEE*
Sounds like you gave your liver a good crystallizing. I approve.
I imagine there will be plenty of TF2 in the near future… are you on the Kotaku AU steam group? Might have to get one of the admins to set up some matches over the next week or two.
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w00! Happy belated birthday sire! sounds like mucho fun was had! Great to hear!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
YOU PLAY DOTA!?!?! ZOMG
Aah sadly I missed the MEAT! I was out to see Downlink at the Manning Bar on Saturday night and didn’t get home til 6.. Planned to get a few hours sleep and wander down, but my weary mortal shell needed much rest so I piked it!! Glad you all had a great time, will trty and make the next one!
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Try?! Just not good enough!! I demand your presence with us next time.
weee! a new week and I’m feeling a bit better now! Cept the stichtes in my back are killing me atm :\ But still.. nice to start the week on a positive note for a change!
I watched Sucker Punch yesterday….. I might have possibly had a little more than the standard dose of cough syrup.. but damn.. that movie was weeeeeeeeeeeeird!!! I loved it!!!! Anyone else seen it? Thoughts?
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The robot-nazi war scene gave me goosebumps. Was kinda annoying sitting next to my girlfriend who was trying to analyse it though. Just a great movie to kick back and be entertained by in my opinion.
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I was totally wiggin out at the scene with the 3 samurai.. just totally didn’t see that coming.. blew me away!
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Stitches? What happened?
Were we too funny for you?
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I had a cyst cut off my spine!
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OUCH!
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Fcking… ouch!
I hope they at least gave you some awesome drugs.
Any chewable morphine to share with the class?
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They didn’t give me anything for that, but I normally have morphine tabs for my migraines anyway, so it’s all good 😉 Gotta restock supply on wednesday, so shall be a happy day for me then hehehe
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This
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haha i thought it was rad too, if not a major buzz-kill at the end…
I LOVED the first samurai robot scene and CREAMED for the steampunk nazi zombie scene, but the dragon scene left me a little cold… especially when she slit the baby dragons throat.. that just made me feel sad… i didn’t like that at all
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OH! and sorry dude, i totally didn’t even realise you were going under the knife (that’s what happened, yeah?)…
*extra tender man hugs*
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Thanks for all the kind words guys 🙂 Really nice to have friends like y’all! I’ve had a pretty rough couple of weeks, and that slicing was just the icing on the cake. Things are definitly looking up now. Just have to take it easy for a while. Nice relaxing weekend of muffins and MTG with Sughly will no doubt aid my recovery wonderfully 🙂
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Ouch about the stitches but good to hear that you’re feeling better fellow robot!
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Good to see that the bot of well is doing well.
Or less unwell.
Whichever it is, huzzah and hoorah!
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I watched it on Saturday night. Was OK, but it never quite hit the level I hoped it would. It just felt a little flat – which is weird for a movie with so many fights and explosions!
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I was just bout to be all heeeey wheres my tweet reply? And then I noticed it. So ah… now I dont know what to talk about…. awkwaaard!
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lolol we can always talk about how awesome this weekend will be!! 😉 I told LittleJJ last night and she’s cool with it, so it’s all good to go if you are 🙂
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So this TF2 going free to play thing sucks. I can’t get onto any of my old servers and am stuck with lame 24/7 egypt or insta-spawn etc.
GO AWAY, SWARM OF NEW TF2 PLAYERS 🙁
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They’ll lose interest soon enough, then you will have your servers back – it is the way of the world..
…i mean especially when they realise there’s no blood
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If my Steam ever decides to download my TF2 update instead of trolling me with autopausing while I leave it to download overnight, I’ll be joining you guys for TF2 madness
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It’s like a free weekend that never ends!
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I kind of always treated it as F2P since I got it in the Orange Box. And played like 3 rounds before going back to HL:2.
I on the other hand love that Killing Floor and MONDAY NIGHT COMBAT were on special recently because it means there’s actually people on the servers now.
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Haaaaah, yeah, it’s kind of like the Class Updates when they were coming out.
Everyone’s focused on getting new items for whatever class they’re playing, rather than just… playing the game.
Sniping other snipers does not poosh littuhl kart, people.-
I swear, the worst one was the Engineer update. A billion sentry guns everywhere!
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Best was Sniper.
So long as you managed to get by the ten million sniper dots hovering around the main entrance, you pretty much had a free pass to melee some good ‘ole sitting ducks.
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NO, I quite like it here. I stumbled across a server that only lets premium users play in it though, so maybe you can contact your old servers to deny us newbies who decided to freeload on Valve’s goodwill. :3
I has a cold
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I has a lemsip for you.
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My body is warm – here, let me help
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I’ll take the Lemsip for now, thanks anyway.
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The lemsip is down my pants.
Lesser of two evils?
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I discreetly took a few candid snaps at yesterdays Meat. So you guys can put faces to names:
http://bit.ly/j1uMG3
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Gold!
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That finger poking between his legs gave me a fright!
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I’VE BEEN MUTTROLLED
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nice
IMREDIMREDIMREDIMREDIMREDIMREDIMREDIMREDIMRED!
You know, the more I play Tekken the more I seem to like it in comparison to the other fighting games on the market at the moment. It feels more tactical, like an actual fight is involved instead of knowledge around special moves or insane button mashing.
When playing street fighter, I look retarded (moreso than usual). Not knowing any special moves means I jump around like a frenzied crack monkey that’s about to go on a fecal flinging rampage.
When playing marvel vs capcom, I get seizures (although mashing the buttons gives pleasing results). While I can see some semblance of tactics most of the time it seems to devolve to ‘hit these buttons quick enough then get the super special move in at the right time’.
I am hoping this kudos arcade stick is PS3 so I can practice up my skillz!
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You won? Congratzes!
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Mokujin vs Mokujin is where it’s at.
I’ve got to ask, did anyone else try out the Sonic Generations demo they released?
did anyone else think like I did that its an absolute rip off?
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Of what?
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Man, it’s totally like that other game from those other guys. Them Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 games.
Totally not like the awesome Werehog game
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well I think its just a rip off in general. . .
for one the file is 600+MB which might not sound like much but when you realise you’ve downloaded that much for a Demo which consists of only a single act played by only one character (Classic Sonic thank god) which at most would take a person only about 2 minutes to complete, I felt a little ripped off.
To make matters worse, you can only play the demo for 20 days from the moment it was released(about 14 days remain now I think) so you use over half a GB for a single act demo that you can’t play after an allotted time, which lead me to believe I was ripped off
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I agree with Jimu, a rip-off of what/how?
It’s pretty crap, but it’s free. And it is exactly what people keep asking for (2D side-scrolling Sonic) so, I’m not sure that rip-off applies.
It is lame though. Only one level and it’s only active for 2 weeks.
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Maybe rip-off wasn’t the best word, but I stand by my point.
As you noted the Demo is only one act and only available for 20 days (as already noted 20 days from becoming available, not 20 days from download) before becoming unusable.
While it is free and I’d admit fun to play, The lack of substance plus the fleeting nature of the demo itself make it not worth the download, especially since the United States is heading into the introduction of data caps for their internet it would be very hard to try to justify this download
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I get unmetered data from XBL thanks to iiNet so that doesn’t worry me.
The game itself though was pretty fun – much better than the recent Sonic attempts, it seemed to have much tighter controls than the Sonic 4 tragedy… whilst the demo was limited it’s piqued my interest for the full game.
ALP (WA) passed a motion supporting marriage equality (ie: gay marriage rights) over the weekend. That’s pretty much every state ALP branch excluding Vic and NSW I think – pressure will be on at this year’s Federal conference to endorse it at a Fed level.
How awesome is that?
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Federal Labor won’t do it when it is still a vote loser in key swing seats. Of course, should they get kicked out at the next election (which seems pretty likely), odds are they’ll change leaders and their position on gay marriage.
Shame it won’t happen sooner.
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Not so sure – they’ve lost the ultra conservative vote anyway, so supporting this might mean that they’ll reclaim the socialist/progressive vote, at least in the lower house.
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I’m not confident when the leader of the Federal party is being so ridiculous about it.
Then again, if it’s adopted as part of the Federal Labor policy platform she might have to at least take it to a vote.
I suspect though, that it might take at least a few years. The current ALP is way too risk-averse and the Coalition is full of a fair number of the hard Right.
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Pretty rad, i say!
Happy MONDAY everyone!
You know what MONDAY means, right? That toNIGHT, is the MONDAY NIGHT COMBAT playdate! I hope the practice COMBAT last week prepared you for toNIGHT! I may or may not have played some games last NIGHT too 😛
P.S. I really like MONDAY NIGHT COMBAT
P.P.S. HoN’s still broken. I think I broke it, since I bought it a week before the big crash
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Might join you for that tonight
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What about our Pokemeat??
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That makes me think of like a Pikaburger. Maybe because I’m hungry.
Don’t think I’m too busy this weekend, what about you?
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I will check….
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Sorta makes me wish I joined the practice match last week, though remix duties had my attention at the time.
I shall make a concerted effort to engage in pewpewpew. That is, as long as Ms. Imogen Heap and my latest musical project doesn’t hog all the attention again.
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Hey baby, you doing anything tonight? 😉
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I’m notch-eq’ing your tracks while I slow down the bpm to something a little more suitable, if you know what I mean 😉
…I’m not really sure what I mean, so if you do please let me know.
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Is that MNC on Steam or XBLA?
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Steam
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Games on the weekend! Who played them? I did! After sitting on 120 stars with Mario and 116 stars with Luigi in Mario Galaxy I finally decided to get the last few and the fabled 121st star. That occupied most of my Sunday.
Also threw in some Infamous 2 and Dungeon Seige 3.
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Why do you never talk to me on steam 🙁
All I want is a cake!
My daughter is playing Assassin’s Creed for the first time. Her favourite thing to do is hide in haystacks. She’s hopping into every haystack she finds. “No-one can see me. Hehehee”.
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That’s gonna be a long game o creed!
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Hahaha!
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I’m allergic to Hay 🙁
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My brother and I did that just for laughs, just jumping into hay with the “Hey, cuz I can!” attitude while the people around you just don’t care about a guy cloaked in white jumping in and out of hay having the time of his life xD
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Very cute.
I wish I could have played Assassin’s Creed as a child. It was always my dream to become an assassin but with no early training I was destined for a simple, mundane job.
remember to celebrate her first kill!
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It’s great to watch other people play a game they may not completely ‘understand’ and see them end up having way more fun doing random stuff than perhaps, even you did.
Examples from my life include watching someone race a Mario Kart race backwards (because that way, ‘it never has to end!’)… etc
Makes me wonder if somewhere along the way we began to prioritise progress (through a game) to the detriment of enjoyment, and just revelling in a game world…
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I had a mate who would “drive” everywhere in Pilotwings.
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Don’t you just hate it when you are trying to get the plat trophy in one playthrough. You get to the end of the game on the hardest difficulty only to find that you have missed only one collectable somewhere along the line and have to spend hours backtracking every room to find it? I hate that.
I hate you Darksiders
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I have never NOT ONCE got all the trophies/Acheivements in a game.
I find it hard enough just finding the time to play a game through before the next TEN blockbusters come out.
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I usually don’t bother either. But for some reason i decided to do it with Darksiders.
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I spend all weekend playing LA Noire. Well not ALL weekend. I did sleep, eat, and… sigh… let my wife play LA Noire too.
She’s actually impressed by how well I’ve kept up with her… normally I seem to get distracted and she finishes a game well ahead of me but I’ve stuck with LA Noire and I’m only a few cases behind her. We’ve bought a Rockstar pass and picked up the DLC too, and are only just now getting into the arson cases.
We’re definitely getting our moeny’s worth out of this one, and I really hope we see more of this in the future.
It’s also the game that has convinced me, moreso than Duke Nukem Forever, to quit paying attention to game reviews. I don’t know why but after the first few days there was a huge backlash against LA Noire and suddenly people were crapping on it like it personally offended them. I don’t get it – the timing was just bizarre. I have seen the tide of public opinion turn against games before, but LA Noire was particularly jarring.
Then there’s the Duke… look, we all knew this game was going to suck, even if we didn’t want to admit it. But I’m gonig to buy it, and play it, and like every person on my XBox Live friendslist I will probably enjoy it.
Everyone I have asked says it’s fun. The only people who say it sucks are reviewers, and people who read those reviews and haven’t actually played it.
Gamespot once fired a reviewer for giving a game a 6.0 when the developer had bought advertising space on their site. They gave Duke a 3.0, putting it between Big Rigs 2 and Pimp My Ride.
So… I’m pretty much done with professional game reviews. Seems like they only write what they think people want to read.
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Your wife is a gaming machine.
I tend to ignore reviews. Most of them seem to focus too much on technical issues, which doesn’t give an indication if the game is enjoyable or not.
Something might be buggy with poor graphics but still ridiculously run, whilst another might be a technical masterpiece that is simply boring as hell.
Really, community response is a lot more reliable than reviews.
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Another thing that I find pretty reliable is Giant Bomb’s Quick Looks.
Half an hour to an hour of gameplay, typically with a person who has played the game and someone who has not, gives a pretty good idea of what it is like and if there is fun to be had.
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Actually that sounds kind of reasonable, as long as the reviews are generally fairly spoiler-free. Usually my first chance to see what a game is actually like is when my wife plays it, and at that point I have already been parted from my money.
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You know what? Lately I’ve been having more luck going by metacritic user reviews than the actual site reviews themselves.
Lately there seems to be such a disparity between the two that it’s becoming ridiculous. You can’t trust reviewers these days and it’s getting really annoying.
I find game previews to be particularly annoying – game journalists spend months and months hyping up games over the preview builds, then the games themselves come out and are universally panned. FRUSTRATING.
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While I could (and probably should) go by Metacritic/community reviews, I think I want to stop entirely. Remember the old days when friends just told you to try a game because they did and that was a positive experience, or you bought a game based on an advertisement or the cover art?
I think I might just do that for awhile. I mean I pretty much already know what games I want this year anyway, so I don’t really care if they review poorly. And if I don’t get a game at launch, I can always wait and see what my friends liked and didn’t like.
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I’ll generally look at the Metacritic average as well as looking at other discussion forums to get a feel for how people like it.
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Yeah! Those darned games journalists who do poor reviews 😉
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Yeah, especially this one journalist… whatsherface…
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Maude Garrett?
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I lol’d ;D
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I’ve been wanting to get into the Akira manga for ages.
This looks like it will be a good place to start!
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Apparently they are doing the live action film with Keanu “literally any other actor would have been a better casting choice” Reeves signed on to play Kaneda.
Some things are sacred, this movie is one of them.
Don’t do it Canoe!
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I thought even canoe had the common sense to say “piss orf!”
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What about Zac Effron?
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You’re kidding me, right?
Is Shia LaBeouf playing Tetsuo?
The cast are meant to be in high school. How is Mr. “Whoa” going to pull off the teen look?
This makes me very sadpanda.
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nah, rumour was that Keanu was offered the part but turned it down. Zac efforn was also offered the role (And for a while, the main candidate) and Rob Pattinson was rumoured to be involved, but he himself denied it.
the director, Albert Hughes, has since left the project and the whole thing is in turaround.
With any luck, the next guy to step up to he helm doesn’t want to whitewash it.
Key point here: Keanu is NOT playing Kaneda.
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The local library has the mangas and I’ve read up to vol 5…one more to go but hasn’t been reprinted yet so the Library doesn’t have it…
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They is so good 😀
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I have a nosebleed. This is the first time I can ever remember this happening. Not goodly.
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Oh bugger a leak? Not good
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Any chance you have some searing hot resin?
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I’m afraid it’ll only aggravate it further by very bad burns on your human skin
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Just to live to my title of King Nerd I used to get blood noses all the time. I passed out due to blood loss a few times and spent many a school day getting my nose filled with liquid nitrogen to freeze bad veins.
I am sorry for your lots.
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Were your parents ever concerned you were snorting ice?
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Also, could you sneeze iceblocks?
Not tasty, but definitely a party trick you could have used to get in with the ‘cool’ kids.
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The doctor did once ask me if I was doing various drugs…
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You need more coffee. Or less.
Not sure which. But definitely one of the two.
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Whatever it is, I’m not getting exactly the right amount.
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LESS!
Caffeine and panadol thin your blood. My mate in highschool was a fiend for both and would nose bleed all the time.And when it happened it took him a good hour or so before it stopped.
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Dislike.
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According to my google medical degree, Vitamin K helps thicken the blood.
Among other things, Broccoli is high in Vitamin K.
Do pourboy do some sort of Broccoli Coffee specialty? I’m sure if you combine the two into one tasty beverage they will even each other out.
\o/ BROCCOLI COFFEE IS GOOD FOR YOU.
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Winter has wreaked havoc with my sinuses this year. It seems I have to start each morning with a sneezing fit to clear the pipes. Sometimes there is blood. However I am not concerned as I have not noticed any imparblement of my brain ferntoning.
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Two words:
Netty Pot.
Sounds terrible, but it will do wonders for your sinuses.
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My wife actually has a variant of the netti pot, it’s basically the same thing except it’s a squeeze bottle. She uses it in Summer because her sinuses dry out something wicked and she gets nosebleeds. Sometimes when I am congested she’ll urge me to try it but I did it once but… well, it went poorly.
I think a few sneezes in the morning is a small price to pay to never have to rinse my sinuses again.
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The first few days you use it sucks until you clear things up enough, then it’s smooth sailing from that point onwards (and there’s way less… how do I say this… gunk of a morning?)
I can’t live without mine.
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If you don’t have time in the morning Vicks Vapordrops are a life saver!!
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Hayfever o/
This one time I sneezed so hard I had a full on nosebleed.
That was pretty cool.
Not really.-
Oh yeah?
One time I sneezed so much I couldn’t open my eyes. Then I walked into things. I had bruises for a week.
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OH YEAH???
ONE TIME I SNEEZED SO HARD I FLEW TO THE MOONIt was the creepy moon from Majora’s Mask too.
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On March 11th 2011, Japan felt my sneeze.
Your move, Bishman.
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Too soon bro.
🙁
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If the above offends you… please ignore.
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A few weeks ago, I was sight seeing some volcanoes in Chile, and I sneezed.
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And as I feign outrage, I think of Princess Diana and September 11 jokes.
ಠ_ಠ
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Did you happen to see bewb? Apparently that’s a common cause.
(Watches too much anime)
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haha! That was the first thing I thought as well when I read his post.
Possible cause #357: Did you eat any liver recently?
The only time I’ve ever had a nosebleed was the day after I had sheep insides soup for Greek Orthodox Easter. Live is high in iron and too much iron can cause nosebleeds.
Also, Zulua has lethally high ferritin levels, and whenever her body needs them to drop, she gets a nosebleed. Except for that time when blood just seeped out of her hands. Be glad you don’t have that.
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That sounds rather unpleasant.
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lol, they totally modelled two-face after Dan in Street Fighter Alpha 3.
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I was laughing at all the praise it was getting for “original sprites” when it’s obvious this whole thing is a “TRACE”.
Still, looks fun!
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Spent the entire weekend gaming and streaming Shadowloo Showdown 2K11, some great matches, often going down to the wire
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Poongko the Awesome Factory!
Shame ToxY and Human Bomb didn’t get further, but there were a ridiculous amount of top tier Asian opponents. Xian, Gamerbee, half of Japan including Tokido, Mago and Momochi… that’s a hell of a field. I think it might have been a tougher top 8 for Arcade Edition than some of the recent American tournaments, just because of the international turn out.
Made for great viewing as I lay in bed trying to not feel sick.
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With the fact that matches often went down to the wire, it wasn’t a surprise that there were issues with the schedule. Was also glad to see not many Yun and Yang players *cough*SydneyTeam*cough*. All in all there were some great moments in Shadowloo 2K11
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Those bloody twins. It was so great to see Momochi get bodied by Poongko simply because of their character choices. If Momochi had just used Ken, I think the crowd wouldn’t have been so one sided (even if the match might still have been one sided).
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I am truly getting sick and tired of completing the requirements of an achievement, only for nothing to happen.
*glares at dragon age 2*
Having experienced this several times on different games, it only ever seems to be when it is a multiple objective achievement and to try it again would mean basically having to start the entire game over again. Grrr.
Most of the time this isn’t such a hassle as I often run multiple playthroughs of my games, but having completed DA2 twice now, I don’t think I have the heart to start again, only to try and get a couple of achievements I know I should have already unlocked.
*sigh*
However knowing that I have unlocked everything from DA:O I am sure I will become obsessed with try to do the same with DA2.
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Can you come round my house and complete the hard boss fight acheivements for me in DA:O?
I’m useless, or I don’t have the time to keep trying…
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Not sure of the requirements for the chevos as I only played it on PC but I do know that every fight in DA:O an be easily won with the proper application of Force Field.
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Teach me OH MASTER SAGE!
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Step 1: Send in your tank alone, get as much agro as possible.
Step 2: Heal tank.
Step 3: Cast Force Field on tank.
Step 4: Beat the crap out of all the stupid mobs who are now trying to kill your invincible tank.
Step 5: When FF wears off, stop attacking, repeat steps 1-4. (having two mages with FF is often needed as the cooldown exceeds the spell length.)
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Step 7: Cut a hole in a box.
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I won a copy of infamous 2 and it arrived today. Yay! (as well as a shirt and poster) now to see if this game is as good as the first one.
The mandatory install is considerably smaller
+1 infamous 2
For those of you still waiting on a Kotaku podcast you can check out the pixelcast podcast episode 35 to listen to Mark’s sultry Scottish accent.
http://www.pixelhunt.com.au/2011/03/featured/pixelcast-35-%E2%80%93-pixelate/
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Them Scottish folks is sure the best. I only wish I could sound as pant wettingly awesome. 😉
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oiseewattyoudidthere…
…useewattididthere? twice?
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Belfast a part of Scotland now is it?
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So i noticed a few of the Taybies here are/were DoTA players!!
Because it’s one of my favourite games of all time I demand we get a kotaku team together and play!!!!!!!!
Who’s with me?!
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I need to buy Warcraft 3 first though lol, which I might actually do one day xD
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I’m in the same boat there. If I have a legitimate copy of War3 floating around, I definitely don’t know where it is or even where to begin looking.
I would be up from some SC2 Tower Defense or something though.
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If you’re lucky, you might be able to get to an EB Games and they might have the battlechest for $25. Although apparently they have it on ‘sale’ for $40 right now.
Stupid year 7 kid who borrowed my copy and never returned it all those years ago. If you read Kotaku, I want that back, dangit. *shakes fist*-
I too, have lost my original cds. I found the frozen throne case a few weeks back but it had my Titan Quest DVD in there; where the warcraft cds are remains a mystery. Perhaps we could bypass battle.net and use a vpn such as hamachi?
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Bored Aussie? That’s still around?
Boy do I feel old.
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agreed… We used that in Year 7! 😐
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Wow you guys are sooo old! 😛
I jest. Yeah it’s still kicking, and still reliable. I get very little lag on the occasion I do play.
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I remember it used to be unreliable as all hell. It was a shocker. But we didn’t complain because you could only get a slot if invited. And being invited meant you were special…
…My year 6 teacher also thought I was special. 😛
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My net was horrible back when I tried to use Bored Aussie. To the point it was virtually unplayable.
Is it still an invite only service?
Back in my day, it was. Also, we wore onions on our belt, as was the style at the time.
Now git offa my lawn.
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It’s never been laggy for me. Unfortunately it is still only an invite service. I have 1 invite left.
Otherwise you can post in their forum requesting an invite and you should be able to get one if you’re able to prove you can spell. Failing that, there’s always gamearena!
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Pfft… I used that in Year 4 =D
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Ahhh bored aussie – I remember a mate from uni telling me about it. I shall check it out tonight after work.
Lololol. My brother and I just decided to be cool and we copied all the game files in C:\Program Files\Warcraft 3. It’smart because we still have the files 9 years on 😀
In high school, we had one installation of Diablo 2 that was passed around the same way. We lost count of how many different PCs it ended up on.
Similarly, we all used the same CD key for Windows XP and those of us that were tasked with doing friendly tech support damned near knew that thing by heart.
Oh to be young again, and also a robot.
Never!
Also, I’m grown up now.
It’s in the past man. Let it go.
DONT YOU MAKE ME SHAKE MY FIST HARDER
Well we’ve got a faulty evac system at work now, it’s going off every few minutes, the beeping… why won’t it stop!?
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Either that or your building is just about to explode.
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Shott a laser at it, robot!
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Must be an alien invasion, go show everyone your Halo skills =D
NEW WEEK! NEW WARES TO BE PIMPED! (no new YouTube vid… yet…)
Hey Brisbane/Gold Coast/Northern NSWites!
D’you like flims? Silly flims? Dramatic flims? FREE Flims?
If you answered yes to any of these get your flim-loving ass to Surfers Paradise this weekend for Shorts On The Green. S’free, s’shorts, s’gonna be fun.
PLUS! A short I worked on is in the program! (If you went last year, don’t worry this years film doesn’t have any Dan nudity in it [this is true btw]) The film is -huge breath-
The Secret To Being A Super Cool High School Sex Machine.
-passes out from over exertion, regains consciousness sans shoes [this also happened once when I passed out at a friends house]-
It was on this shoot that we had the idea for Manpaccas and subsequently our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/awesomelyawesomeprod) [like that will in anyway influence your decision]
So come on down and support this ridiculous career choice I regret every single time a moth flies from my wallet while family members tell me their movie ideas.
Website for deets
http://www.shortsonthegreen.com/
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I shall watch this on my return home and offer adoration or derision depending on how many lols are experienced.
Probably adoration, because we ban unfunny people here in TAY.
Right?
If you want to pick me up from Sydney I’m more than happy to attend the event! I’ll even wear clean clothing!
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Was scrolling downe th page quickly, and thought that said “I’ll even wear nothing!”.
Thought you should know.-
whoa whoa whoa…
…let’s not rule anything out here.
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I can pick you up Saturday morning in my RAMJet 😉
Don’t worry it’s just a name, it’s more of a blimp.
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I will wear my monocle, bowler hat and some semblance of a handlebar moustache to fit in with the blimp theme.
Do I need to hire a biplane once you have positioned yourself over my house or will you release a ladder?
Jolly good, I must say…
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The ladder! Grab on quickly! Hurry! He’s slowly floating away!
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I WISH I could watch yer vids, can’t toob at wurk and never have the time after…one day, ONE DAY!
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Ah thats pretty cool! When you say you worked on it, what was your role? Director? Editor? …Runner?
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Sound Designer & Recordist.
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Ah thats cool, thats cool. I wouldnt do sound again if someone paid me. I still have nightmare recollections of being locked away in a glass booth at uni… working on sound design day and night… sleeping under the table… to wake up and do more sound design… *shudders*
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Oh man, I have to be civil about this film. But, this was totally one of those moments where I was like “As soon as I’m done, that’s it. No more sound. Ever”
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Oh yeah, got some of the base outline done for my tattoo. Shading commencing on Friday. Brotherhood of Steel soldier looking stylish. I’m trying not to show anyone yet as you can’t really see much and it looks all disconnected etc.
Thankfully they’re able to cover up my first tattoo which I haven’t really liked for some time (I was young and immature).
Makes me want to go home and play Fallout again. Darn work.
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I’m looking forward to seeing this.
Has the guy given any indication of how much it’s going to set you back?
Is it in colour or black and white?
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It’s an ongoing process. Most of the outline being done cost $220 for about three hours.
And yes, colour! American inks too, not like the crummy stuff floating around some places.
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I don’t like tattoos on myself, but I love seeing awesome ones on other people. Can’t wait to see it finished.
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I actually really want to see this, I’m kind of a sucker for sweet tattoos.
I really need to go back for some more, I just wish my tattooist wasn’t so damn popular.
Sooooo,
Who’s played overgrowth?
http://www.wolfire.com/overgrowth
At $30 US it is perhaps a little pricey for a pre-order (but you can play the alpha right away!). I picked it up a few months back and I’ve been watching it grow week by week. It’s a really cool redwall-meets-beat’em’up sort of deal with physics and weapons and parkour and that sort of thing.
It’s pretty barebones at the moment and it’s really just a sandbox for kicking ass at this point in time, but man I am having a blast. The ragdolls alone make for some ‘oooh that’s gotta hurt’ moments when you roundhouse kick someone in the head.
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It’s awesome. Period.
When they finish, it will be awesomer. Period.
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Yes!
I’ve been watching some of the things they’ve been implementing (locational damage, blood, the limb positioning on uneven surfaces, enemies tracking you by sound etc), and it’s like ‘why can’t the big budget games do this?’
I haven’t checked out the more recent updates but I’m going to grab the latest alpha over the next few days and go nuts. It really is phenomenal what indie game devs can come up with.
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Why would big games need to do this?
What more do you need than UNLOCKABLE GUN SCOPES
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Until you’ve played Overgrowth, you will never know the unique joy of round-house kicking a rabbit in the head and watching his limp body crumple and roll down a hill.
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No, it makes you an awesome person for helping the indie game community.
Think of it as your good deed for the day.
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Looks like Lugaru +
AWESOME!-
It’s the sequel 😉
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Hehe, furries.
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You can’t say TAY hasn’t been an educational experience for you 😉
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I think you’re getting “TAY” mixed up with you “Anonymous Pessimist” and “educational” mixed up with “tainting-of-my-innocence”.
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Innocence is overrated. A little bit of taint can lead to a lot of fun.
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This!
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Bawble!™ at your service!
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Win.
Welcome to TAY. Initiation successful.
One of us… one of us…!
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WOO HOOOOOOO!!!
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Haha, yes! I approve of this nick! WELCOME! I LIKE CAPS AND EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!
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nick? OH NO, that won’t do.
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I dun getit
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Oh btw Tech Knight I play LoL too!
but i am just a noob that ruins your game!
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Well I’m always up for helping newbies find their true champion in LoL, add me up! Summoner Name: TechKnight. My primary is Warwick and my alternates are Master Yi and Kennen (which I need to buy still but about 2/3s the way there)
Also, welcome to TAY and to the KotakuAU community human!
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N00bs for the win!
Add Jocon89 if you want and we can suck together!Or something less suss.
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I will add you guys asap!
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Chat is down right now. My id is CrabJiffy, you can add me back later.
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I feel lazy I’m lying in bed past noon.
Only making myself constructive by reading TAY. Winter break! 😀
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I thought to myself “Today’s a nice day; warm and sunny.”
To take advantage of this, I am playing my DS outside. On the deck. Like, in the sunlight. Direct sunlight. I’m getting a few months worth of Vitamin D/skin cancer right now.-
Damn kids,
Get off the porch and do some work!
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Hey Bish, bawble/crabJIFFY is doing civil engineering year 3 at UnSW, and I remember you’re in some form of engineering degree final year?
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HI
Yes.
Electrical.
I once had lectures in Civil Eng.
YOU GUYS HAVE SLIDING GLASS DOORS AND STUFF
:<-
SO do you still go to school now?
I would be soooo happy if i see you in school! BROMANCE*-
I just need to pop in to ask some stuff, but nah, I’m done now.
BROMANCE DENIED
🙁
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I found this on one of the “top lists of lists” articles.
Made me LOL muchly.
**WARNING: NSFW LANGUAGE, STRONG POKEMON REFRENCES**
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That was awesome to the power of rad.
Occasionally, my Gmail account presents me with hilarious adverts.
Apparently I have a lot of spam, because today Gmail has suggested I cook a delicious spam hashbrown bake:
http://www.recipesource.com/main-dishes/meat/pork/spam/00/rec0030.html
WTH, Google.
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So like, you’re cooking for the next Meat? *nods*
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I have so many spam e-mails, but I’m not sure how they will factor into a baked meal.
Do I print them out first? Or do I just put the whole computer in the baking dish?
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Busy day today. TAY will have to wait.
But first… A rant.
Scrap that. I just typed out a rant but there’s no point in posting it.
TL;DR – My j♥b is doing my F***ING head ♥n, and I think it m♥ght be time to r♥sign.
HELL DAMN F♥RT! F*** THIS GODDAMN JOB! F*** IT RIGHT ♥N THE EYE-S♥CKET!
Tad Edit: Please try to control your language. Kids read this site.
PS: I’m Sorry, I couldn’t resist!
PPS: Don’t ever hesitate to quit your job. Statistics show you’ll find a much better one in less than 2 months! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
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Whooaa. What’s your job, Effluvium?
Tad – the love hearts… why… /facepalm
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Lame jokes help people ease up. I was trying to help!
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Aww, okay. Your earnestness has won me over.
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OBAMA-SWOON
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There’s a man who got the unedited version of ‘The Witcher 2’.
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Statistics LIE!
That’s it, New game.
I’m suggesting that when we hit page three TadMod goes picks any post with 10 or my replies and adds unnecessary censorship to them to try and change meaning.
Or possibly the same but with the first comment thread on page 3 after it’s built up some steam.
PS: sorry for misspelling your name but I’ve no idea how to do the spades. Well I’ve an idea but I’m not willing to pursue the idea.
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I’ll DO IT!
It might be worth shopping your resume around.
That way if things go well, you can leave in a blaze of glory and not have to worry.
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^This is true.
Also, use Linkedin. It’s amazing. Especially if you work in the ENG or IT fields.
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I approve of this strategy. Gives you an idea of just what is out there with out having to risk being jobless long enough to burn through your savings.
There is a small chance your current employer may get agro if they find out you are considering other jobs but if you already hate it there what have you got to lose? Also you can always say stop treating me like excrement and maybe I wouldn’t be looking at my options! (or words to that effect.)
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In addition to watch Trjn said, if you work in IT *do not* leave in a blaze of glory.
IT is a very small industry and people switch companies all the time. Even though you may not piss off someone you work with in the future, word spreads fast and if someone hears bad stories about you it may bite you in the behind further down the track.
It’s happened to a few people I know in the industry. Leave on amicable terms if friendly terms are not possible.
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Agreed. At the very least, try to get some recommendations from co-workers to ensure that, even if you boss is a twat, you still have some proof that you did your job.
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By blaze of glory, I meant your co-workers cheering you out the door as you relish your new found freedom.
Not pooping on the boss’s desk.
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Poop in their PC case.
We call it a brownbyte.
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I hope nobody ever tried for a brown megabyte…or terabyte.
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Or poop, then freeze it. Plant it in the case during early morning/just before they get in, and as teh day goes on, it will slowly defrost and become more… fragrant, giving you a headstart of a few hours.
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/hi5
In the same position you are in.
Following your attendance at the meat, I think you would have great success as the baritone in a barber shop quartet.
I understand you have vests. Your outfit is already partway there.
I know what will help, you need to do something like this: http://i.imgur.com/x0enx.jpg
AnonPess: Did the band accept your remix? If so, they are smart. It was awesome.
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SLIMY FREEWAY!!
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lolwut?
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*dances up to the mic stand*
It’s a hot night, fever
Bodies on the dance floor
Our heartbeats and kick drums blur in the heat waves
We might never get this chaaaaaaaaaaaance again!
All the bright lights, and hot sweats
Come a little closer don’t stop yetI’ve never seen you like this before
I can hardly breaaaathhhe tonight
I can hardly breathe
And I can hardly breaaaaaaaaaaaaaathhe tonight
I can hardly breathe
tonight I’ll make you mineYoung lust, fast hugs(?)
SLIMY ON THE FREEWAY!!*bows off stage*
I hope we’re talking about the same song.
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/Hi5!
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The opening of the second verse… it sounds like he’s singing ‘slimy highway’
I’ve listened to it with the vocals, sans backing track… still sounds like ‘slimy highway’.
It will be one of the great mysteries of the universe.
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I cannot proof-check this while at work. I’ll take your word for it. 😛
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AnonPess, I’m curious as to what you do for a living with all these tales of bro squad approved foam-nonfoam-specialfoam and enough keyboards to supply an army (band).
Are you being paid to compose the emperors march for the trilogy’s prequel’s Annexed spin-off movie of the sires based on the cartoon’s comic or is that purely a passionate hobby (possibly forming an elite unit of keyboard cats as has been previously suggested?)
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Haha… I am an unfortunate IT peon (currently acquiring a new job as I have resigned from my current one). It pays the bills, most of which goes on music and/or gaming gear (I have a fetish for exotic musical instruments… and I do mean exotic).
I’ve been writing music since I was a kid. I went to the conservatorium of music with two scholarships after high school, but hated it and realized there wasn’t much of a market out there for what I was wanting to do.
Ever since then I’ve been writing a lot of music, trying to find like-minded people to start groups with and work on tracks.
I’ve been on a little bit of a hiatus recently following some personal life stuff but I’m really starting to get back into it – I’d love it if I could use my skills to become a superstar producer one day but it’s an extremely difficult thing to make happen.
So right now, I’m just happy to make music that people really like and get a huge kick out of it myself.
For me, music is sort of like breathing – I can’t live without it. I sometimes think I express myself better through music than I do in words!-
“For me, music is sort of like breathing – I can’t live without it. I sometimes think I express myself better through music than I do in words!”
Agreed. And beautifully put. I may not be great at piano/guitar, but I feel so good when I play, even when mucking about.
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+1, nothing makes me feel as good as doing vocals for my band. It’s just such a rush, I really can’t explain it.
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He’s being a bit modest here, so I’d just like to add that he’s DAMN GOOD at what he does! -
When I was younger I never found myself into in a big way as my Dad’s obsession with Elvis and my sisters obsession with Michael Jackson left little room for me.
I’ve found myself getting much more into it in recent years as I’ve developed my own tastes which are varied and often times a little bizarre (Is it weird that Aqua is still one of my fave bands? Showing my age, I know). I’ve started learning the bagpipes and teaching myself guitar.
I still suck at both though I’m starting get there on the bagpipes. I’d also like to learn piano if I can ever make the time but that’ll probably have to be either when I win lotto or retire in 50 years or whatever age you retire at these days. I think Pianos are the most amazing musical instrument in that just one person can make ridiculously interesting and complete sounding music. I don’t think anything else sounds as good by itself.
Speaking of exotic instruments, have you seen this thingy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyv6t3OS3c&feature=player_embeddedNote: Not a video of my genitalia.
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Oh yeah! I’ve got a soundbank of that, it has some truly unreal sounds.
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They not only accepted it, but they are now performing it as the opener at their next gig.
I may also be getting a fancy plugin in compensation!
This has inspired me to embark on a DnB remix album. Currently acquiring vocals as we speak.
I really want to be pessimistic about it… BUT IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME.
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DnB? Is that Dubstep, or am I missing something?
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I’m guessing it’s for Drumm and Bass or Dungeons and Big scary dragons!
Each one can be made better with the additon of the other.
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Drum and bass, bru.
Think Pendulum stylez.
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I loves pendulum
and Pessimist your song is quite the bomb. I have listened to it like 200 times in the past week. I can’t get enough drum and bass. -
Plenty more to come – I am working my way through an Imogen Heap remix right now (thanks QBo!)
If you want to keep updated on progress, keep an eye on tay or my twitter. The July month of shame will also mark my resolution to get a proper ‘album’ done (even if it’s all remix vocals).
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Congrats man! and also congrats on the band for accepting it 😛
Any chance someone could post the link again? I missed it last week because I couldn’t listen at work, but I’m pretty keen to check it out.
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/vgqt63
There you go good sir!
Well here I am, working at home now, the alarms wouldn’t stop so manager sent us home, when we went to exit we saw a whole bunch of humans crowded around the alarm system trying to fix it. The hilarious thing was this all happened after the evacuation exercise. It’s a bloody old building, what can I say xD
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Well here I am,
working at home now,
the alarms wouldn’t stop
so manager sent us home,when we went to exit we saw
a whole bunch of humans
crowded around the alarm system
trying to fix it.What can I say!
What can I say!
It’s a bloody old building!What can I say!
What can I say!
It’s a bloody oooooooold building!The hilarious thing was
this all happened
after the evacuation exercise.
It’s a bloody oooooooold building!What can I say!
What can I say!
It’s a bloody old building!What can I say!
What can I say!
It’s a bloody oooooooold building!-
*robotic clap(tm)*
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“”If you want a vision of the future, imagine SecuROM slapping your face with its dick — forever.” -George Orwell”
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-most-ominous-trends-in-video-games/
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Lol. I’d seen that article before but somehow managed to miss that quote.
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Yeah, this was a great article.
I think it has a lot of truth about it, especially the “endless subscription fees” bit and the fact that games are pretty much recycling the same five narratives.
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I actually don’t mind games as services. I never have to keep my save files, hackers are kept to a minimum, there’s someone to report griefers/bots to and usually you get content bundled in (ala WoW, Hellgate: London).
Besides, eventually, all games end up living in boxes in my cupboard.
That said though, for a singleplayer experience, I can’t really see the sense in games as a service.
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I don’t necessarily mind paying extra for single-player content (some DLC packs are worth it, for example) but I’m wary that it’s a wider symptom of publishers, and to a lesser extent developers, trying to squeeze money out of their fanbase with gimmicky add-ons.
Buying a (single player) game in a single package without the layers of online services, memberships, accounts and so on is a much simpler experience.
Although I do agree that ‘games as services’ is incredibly useful and probably necessary for multiplayer games.
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I’m all about the single player experience. There are a few exceptions such as MarioKart, Tekken/SF, Perfik Dahk and such.
For me, gaming is just another excuse to read a story. For some reason I’d rather read a shoddilly written story via a video game than the world’s greatest novel.
It’s comics, games, cartoons, films and then books.
There is also games like Pokemans that suck me in with their awesome single player experience and then force me to be social*shaking fist*.
So accounts hold little value to me.
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“We hope you like looking down gun sights”
Absolute gold.
Dayum… Very NSFW
BUT…
100 GREATEST MOVIE INSULTS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i93kIXEzHCI&NR=1
This is the highlight of my day! 😀
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i have seen that before . It’s really good. I especially like the fact that there is all this mad swearing then buzz calls woody a sad strange little man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4&feature=related
safe for work.. 😛
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o_O
Don’t really like it…
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Yeah.. it’s pretty meh.. i mean it’s ok.. but nothing too special..
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That’s a pretty dismissive attitude toward competition! 😛
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Yeah… I’m with Aidan and Chuie. Don’t know, it’s just a bit flat. Maybe they should have mixed one real thing and one fantasy rather than two unconnected fantasy things.
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Is poo for me, never been able to sit through Top Gun. Hot Shots on the other hand…
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Hot Rod on the other hand…
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Soooo. Slow news day.
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Mark isn’t in the office. I think he’s still on his anniversary holiday.
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So you go make some news then. Even if it means telling us the plot for Activision’s new innovative game, Killabunchofevilguys 10. I would like some spoiler alerts though.
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Modern Warfare 4 to feature locations such as Italy, Australia, and China, just because the ‘a’ can be substituted with ‘4’.
How are they still doing this? Have we not established this is stupid? Like swapping ‘s’ with ‘z’ or spelling things ‘Xtreme’?
And Thief 4? Oh, wait, sorry, ‘Thi4f’? WHAT IS THAT
WHAT THE **** IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE
[/rant]-
Ploise Explaynne.
/Pauline
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Shows with an X in them get higher raitngs, hence Wormhole Xtream /stragaterefrence
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[Robotic Clap]tm
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And Modern Warfare 5 will be set in Sealand, de_dust2, Super Mario Land and SPACE!
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I damned near cried when I read de_dust2. That, sir, was perfect joke execution.
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LOL ME TOO
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Monday is always slow. It is still Sunday in the rest of the world.
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Yeah, the future sucks!
Hye guys – idea for attracting n00bs!
what if we all got together and wrote up a very brief bit about ourselves and why we think n00bs should get involved with the community, then mark or tad posts it on the main page with something like “New to Kotaku?” or somthing along those lines.. it can be a sort of official meet and greet where da new guyz introduce themselves and get to know us a bit too???
yeah??
no???
stop licking my cheese, chuloopa?!
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I’d do it. But, it might be better once we have a proper forum, the aesthetics and logistics of TAY can be overwhelming
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that’s why i was thinking in a post outside of TAY
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Yeah. The Sydney Tekken Community has done something very, very similar to this.
I can’t wait for a proper kotaku forum. zomgooglies.
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I’m scared this “proper” forum of which you speak may get this site on the banned list at my wurk.
Also, when it becomes easy to navigate we will lose the natural filter that stops non-loonies gathering.
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I’m pretty sure Kotaku gets a lot of odd posts anyway, and Tad/Mark/Elly/the lizard people just junk them or edit the worst parts out.
Don’t they?
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I think I am living (posting?) proof that this definitely doesn’t happen.
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I’m afraid that with my horrible alignment towards humans in general, I doubt I would make a very good welcoming committee 😛
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but…but you like me…
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Yes, but you’re one human, one human that I know is a good human and therefore my friend. I speak of humans in general 😛
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Sounds like a good idea. It’s a bit daunting entering an established community, I myself was lurking for many months before given the confidence to introduce myself by an “Introduce Yourself” post by Rocketman? a few TAYs ago.
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who the frak is this guy and why’s he posting on OUR thread!?!?
😛
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*glances around nervously*
*talking to self*
“Sh♥t. They’ve noticed me. Say something clever dammit! They’ll never accept you unless you can say something clever now! Ahhh so much pressure – just do something!”
Narf?
*wets self*
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HE SAID NARF AND WET HIMSELF…
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
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I’m not sure how well this would attract newcomers, other than possibly alerting them to the fact that TAY exists. I mean, I lurked TAY since the Wildgoose days and only got around to posting a few weeks ago. I’m really not sure where the barrier lies, but it definitely wasn’t in the fact that I didn’t know what you guys were like.
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And you still dont! For instance – I am planning on killing you all in your sleep! Bet you didnt know that…
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The more you know.
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I’m not talking about just TAY, though.
I mean to help get people involved all over the site.
So that maybe when they see a comment about something they will feel more obliged to join in the discussion…If there’s anything TAY doesn’t need, it’s more posts. lol
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But if you alert more people to the fact that TAY and the site exist, don’t you run the risk of inviting more trolls to comment too?
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That’s not my cheese, but yes – stop licking it.
I think your idea is wonderful.
Tongue-work needs improvement though.
I must preserve anonimity so I don’t gets fireds…
I comment quite frequently on other posts but I’ve never commented in TAY. The hundreds of comments on a single page is just @_@ but I’m posting now because…
Wait why am I here D=
So after last week’s roaring success with finally watching Up, I decided to cross off one of the two remaining Pixar films I’ve not seen. I’m not counting Cars 2 as it only just came out.
So, Cars. I’m aware that being the kind of movie it is this undoubtedly changes towards the end, but about an hour in all I can think is “Lightning McQueen is a massive dick.” I don’t know that I’m okay with only half watching it, and I definitely don’t want to hate it due to my love for Pixar, but I would probably say it’s easily the worst of the Pixar films.
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Cars definitely isn’t the best thing Pixar has ever done. Especially when there’s an actor I don’t particularly like in the lead role (damn you Owen Wilson).
Still, it takes the Doc Hollywood formula of having a high flying elitist dude stuck in a hick town and having to learn himself some humility.
It took several watchings for me to actually appreciate that movie.
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I love Owen Wilson because he must be the most unconvincing actor in hollywwod today.
He just seems to have no conviction and I always think he’s lying to everyone and the end of every movie he’s in will be him riding off into the sunset with the golf yelling “HA, HA, GOTCHA!”
Makes him perfect for any roles where he plays a conman or something.
He’s like the Marx Bros. only with no talent.
He cracks me up every time!!!
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golf?
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Buggered if I know what you were going for.
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He drives a VW?
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He does, but I meant to type “GOLD”.
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He screwed everyone?
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Yes, he was the perfect choice for wedding crashers in more ways than one. If you catch my drift *wink wink*.
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The pixar following Cars 2 though sounds EXTREMELY promising.
‘The film [Brave], Pixar’s first fairy tale, is a combination of Brenda Chapman’s love of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, as well as a reflection on raising her daughter.’ OMG yes please!
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You didn’t like cars?
My fave was The Incredibles(for obvious reasons) but I have a soft spot for cars. Anything that can make me care about that which I care nothing about earns extra brownie points.
Top Gear, I’m looking at you!
Also, your thoughts on Rattattouie(spelling?)?
Bored me mostly except the scene where the critique eats the said dish and reverts to his childhood, THAT was AWESOME!-
Ratatouille is a great movie. Less with the funny, more with the heartwarming.
Fun fact: In some versions (I think the UK one, maybe others) of Cars, Jeremy Clarkson plays the voice of Lightning McQueen’s agent.
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Did you google the spelling or remember?
I spent a lot of time having to explain to people what it was and how to pronounce it.
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I struggle with if it has one L or two, but my in browser spell check takes care of that.
Don’t forget, I am a Pixar fanboy.
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Dman our poofy wurk puters and the running of Windows XP and internet explorer -infinity.
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How many bad spells can I count in that reply?
OUCH!What was Toy Story 3 like??
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Toy Story 3 was amazing.
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It was the glorious conclusion of my childhood wrapped in cuddly feelings and a furnace.
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An er, heartwarming doesn’t work when you think the hero is a doosche and your rooting for the villain.
Ratatouille has the problem of having two less than brilliant heroes with different stories that happen to overlap. Remy and his quest to be a chef and then Linguini and his rise to fame.
So the conflict is actually how the two deal with each other in that situation and the critic just serves as a catalyst and resolution point.
The villain is actually the former head chef who tries to sabotage the two main characters.
I spend far too much time watching and thinking about movies.
You knew what I meant, guntknuckle(this is in fact NOT an insult because I’m sure you’d be quite happy placing your knuckle in said gunt if the appropriate person/moment arrived).
I knew what you were going for, but I like to show off my knowledge of films every once in a while. This sort of thing doesn’t show up in conversation as much as I’d like, so I have to jump on whatever chance I can take.
I’ve only seen it once and a half and enjoyed it more the second time.
Was shorter and I wasn’t expecting much.
THAT’S WHAT
SHE SAID
\o/
Also, douche* you’re* :p
I accept the youring, but I will remain spelling doosche thusly as…I just like to, OK?
No. Not ok.
The correct way is the only way because I demand it!
Hmm, there aren’t enough exclamation marks there!!!
Nope, still not right! I know!!!!! I! Can! Just! Add! One! After! Every! Word!
Wait, what was I trying to say here‽
Alas poor your-ick… I knew of him.
Ratatouille is the other one I am yet to see, I will be remedying that after Cars.
Nah no ways, Ratatatatooe was amazing. Was such a great love letter to Paris, I just lapped it all up. All those little moments, like when hes running through the walls and the couple arguing then making out. So good. And the head chef going crazy over the rat. And the way they visualised flavour. OMG! One of my fave Pixars for sure.
Yeah Cars was lame. Did nothing new or interesting. A tired old cliched story done with cars instead of people. Woop de doo.
Following your link I found this little gem.
Sounds classy, GO DISNEY!
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I’m already on my way down to the patent office cos I’ve had this great idea for a 3D animated motion feature called “BOATS”.
IT WILL BE AWESOME!!!
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Sounds like it’s going to make waves.
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Maybe you should float your proposal with one of the studios?
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It really seems to fit with the current market
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You could be buoyed with success after this.
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What is this?
What is it.
An explanation – I demand one.
I go for ONE jog around the block and people decide it’s ok to ninja my one liner schtick?
Really? I’LL FIGHT YAS. I’LL FIGHT YAS ALL.
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I knew there was at least one more.
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I saw something on this the other day and it makes me very excited.
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WHAT? Someone else already came up with BOATS? NOOO, and I thought I had an original idead, dammit!
Hey Jimu, I replied to your DO:A post on the last page.
Also, the Mass Paralyze Glyph combo is king in the start of fights against lots of enemies.
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Didn’t I reply to your reply?
Or have you replied to my reply to your reply??I’ll go check!
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Ok I read this:
Step 1: Send in your tank alone, get as much agro as possible.
Step 2: Heal tank.
Step 3: Cast Force Field on tank.
Step 4: Beat the crap out of all the stupid mobs who are now trying to kill your invincible tank.
Step 5: When FF wears off, stop attacking, repeat steps 1-4. (having two mages with FF is often needed as the cooldown exceeds the spell length.)
Step 6: Claim loot.The one I was trying was in the DLC with the dwarves and we have no mages AT ALL.
Am I better off coming back with my Mage instead??-
One other Question (bear with me here, I may have beaten all the optional bosses on FF 7, 8. 9 and 10 but I’m new to the WRPGS scene).
Is there a way of guaging this “aggro” of which you speak? Or do I just spam those moves which aggravate?
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GWARGING!
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Not really, if mobs start attacking squishies then your tank doesn’t have enough!
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And yes, spam them, spam them like Tadmod.
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Ah, the epic battle with the harvester in golems of amgarrak, are you going for the Grim Reaper achievement where you have to defeat it either on hard or nightmare? If so, you have my sympathy and the advice that most definetly pick a mage.
More specifically, a mage you have levelled up to the max that you can import, as a new mage will not cut it, well at least it didn’t for me.
That damn harvester battle was insane the first couple of times I tried it with a fighter and rogue. However the next time I tried it with a mage I managed to blast through it while one of my companions was stuck in a wall, of course by this stage my mage had finished both the main game and awakening.
So in short, mage good.-
I am part way through Awakening with my Mage -Malice. Who is a goody.
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Then verily good Jimu, upon completion of Awakening thy mage shall then be able to perform a blitzkrieg upon the flabby arse of the Harvester.
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WOOOOOP!
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DO:A?
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/facepalm. I do that every time.
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Dont Ogle: Arses.
Or more commonly:
Dragon Age: Origins
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Wait, wait. I see the problem now. It should be:
A:OD
Arses: Ogle Denial.
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Dull Orgasm: Apathy
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Dirty Optimists: Assholes.
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Hey guys… check it out…
http://cubeecraft.deviantart.com/gallery/
You can thank me later.
Or thank me now… now is also good
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Thanks
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Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing
My name is Optimist Prime. I am autonomous robotic organism, specialising in tasks of encouragement and positivity.
It has come to my attention that one Anonymous Pessimist has slowly come to the forefront with his aura of cynicism and discouragement, going so far as to rise to being the leader of the Northern faction of Kotaku last week, spreading propaganda that pessimism will rule the day.
I fear there are darker forces at work here, namely Negatron, a fearsome leader forged in battle, convinced that his way, the way of negativity is the only way, and treats those who do not agree with contempt.
Rise up humans, you must not let this wave despair consume your thoughts. You must think of things that bring you joy, be that unicorns or muffins or punching Bobby Kotick.
We cannot let them win.
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EPIC, incoming.
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Oh for the love of….
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Me am call bagsies on GRIMLOCK!!!
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*gasp*
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Dangit, you’ve stolen a joke that was going to appear in a future Asinine Circus strip.
Now I’ll have to put in a little effort into thinking of something else. Or just pretend you don’t exist :p
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How do I get to AC from your main page??
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Trjn.net and Asinine Circus don’t link to each other. I’ll drop a link to AC in the about box on the right of the Trjn.net page when I get home.
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can I get a now link on Kotaku??
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Ta
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^ Like that? ^
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Only one new one?
Cheers!
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Oh wow…. YOU MAKE ASININE CIRCUS?!
I got linked by a mate a while back, and it’s been on my “watch-this-webcomic” list ever since.
This is an awesome, serendipitous occasion.
FREE AIR FOR EVERYONE!
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Wait… people are referring others to read it? YAY!
Still, I’ve been spamming it here every time a new one goes up. It’s your own fault for not linking me and it :p
We are working on new stuff. More specifically an actual story arc. The problem is that I want to do something that Carlos thinks is a little too complex, so I have to draft it up and see if I can sell it to him once the whole thing is a little more solid. That might not go well.
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Can’t wait! 😀
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It may take some time.
Actually, I should really talk to Carlos about working on a few more three panel strips in the mean time. The problem is that he works late, so normally the best time for him to chat is when I’m about to go to sleep and for whatever reason we just haven’t been hanging out much on the weekends. Makes organising all this rather difficult.
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lol – n00b
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Nice website, nub!
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HAX!!!
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This guy just wunn the intarnets!!!
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Doh, it’s choopsipoo…you still win!!!
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Pfft. Prime dies almost as many times as X-Men characters…
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Once?
You’re just the sort of ‘person’ the Grand Army of the South Kotaku Empire needs! Consider yourself hired!
so… Zelda is back..
*cough* http://www.chuloopaoverload.toctopus.com/shop/product/1685108 *cough*
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Nice,
do you do a purple shirt for the one from Majora’s Mask?-
You mean Tatl and Tael?
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Which one stays?
Doesn’t matter, too obscure!
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Tatl is the companion fairy, Tael is her brother (who must be rescued).
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What a game! I almost feel like going home and unpacking the game and the gamecube…almost.
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You ALMOST feel like going home?
Wow, you must have an EPIC job!
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D’oh!
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I haven’t even LOOKED at MM before
I only know navi from watching an ex play through ocarina a long long time ago.
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For shame. For shame.
Rendering 3D while reading TAY/browsin’ the net, is painful. I’m in need of a new computer, but I has no monies yet. *sadface*
Anyways, I’m am jelly of you Sydney peoples and your delicious meats, mmmmm meat.
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I feel your pain. I’ve been trying to render the same scene for over 3 months now… My computer just doesn’t have enough juice 🙁
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Whoa, unlucky. Well 3DS Max just crashed, so I’m gonna render a smaller image. I don’t usually do “renders” since I work with realtime engines (aka games) but I’m trying something different and this stupid hair is the only thing making the computer work hard for lol. Having a render farm would be awesome though.
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I too would like a render farm. Unfortunately, my salary wont be able to cover the cost 😛
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hehe *hint hint* Tad needs a raise 😛
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Unfortunately not.
I’m dealing with some pretty heavy Depth of Field and Bokeh, and the slices just wouldn’t stich together properly 🙁
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I don’t understand rendering… I didn’t even know that was possible.
Most I’ve done is some work in Wings3D.
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Rendering, is, in essence, making things prettyful. You have your models, animate them, chuck on a couple of effects, and then render it.
I know. I think I should write reference books too.
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Could have been worse, at least you didn’t go into an aside about how we use rasterisation for everything, which is an inefficient by-product of the transition from sprite based graphics to 3d technology…
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What are you rendering it in, what effects are you using, and what’s your current setup?
I’ve got a fairly weak computer that I just use sometimes for rendering, it’s pathetic, and can’t handle anything above DX9 effects, but if your main problem is that stuff is taking too long, I can give it a shot.
I really need to get a DX10 or 11 capable computer…
Just got Lamboman007’s parcel containing Zoombinis.
I’M FRACKING PUMPED!!!!
30 mins ’till I go home!!! I can’t wait! 😀 😀 😀
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Also, THANKS LAMBO! You are awesome. Epicly Awesome.
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Your welcome 😀
I hope it installs and works fine for you. 🙂
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Well, I’m back.
Less bad than last week in terms of stuff to read, but only just.
The epic meat was great, was good to see everyone who was there, hopefully I can make it up for the next, not hastily planned (thanks Doc) Meat.
Welbot, good to see you’re all good.
Someone who had a birthday recently: Congratulations on surviving 525,600 minutes(sorry, I’m too slack to look bad and find out who it was).
I’d love for a way to introduce all the lurkers in, and get people to talk, maybe if AP SHUT UP for a bit they wouldn’t be so daunted.
Trjn: At least you’re not getting repeated nosebleeds, because then you get your nose cauterised to fix it! My sister had that, the only upside was that they gave her medicinal cocaine. I also get them when I go skiing, which is annoying.
There was other stuff I meant to comment on…
Oh yeah, everyone be disappointed, I didn’t sing at the Meat. I am sorry to everyone. I am still however a king at dodging photos.
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Oh yeah, Tad.
Overgrowth.
LOVE IT SO MUCH!
I read that blog back when it was called Lugaru 2, and it only had 3 posts…
I am such a terrible lurker. Of lurkingness.
I also told everyone to buy it when I did cheapskate…
And now I’ll tell you all now.
David, the head programmer, is amazing.
AMAZEBALLS!
I think to myself “he should implement this,” then I’ll check the weekly update, and he’ll have done it! Like the recent shadow fix. To make them not look silly.
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*roundhouse kick*
That was ME who posted that.
MEEEEEEEEEE.
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You’re right, sorry about that, I even said aloud “Wow, AP knows about Overgrowth, I love that game!” as I read it.
Unfortunately, I’m an idiot, and am too lazy to check through previous pages, so now I look like an ass. Sorry about that.
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You are forgiven – but only because you introduced me to Foul Bachelor Frog.
I love that disgusting little bastard.
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Mass Effect wooo.
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But Bioware was bought by EA!
RABBLERABBLERABBLE
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Gripe all you want, but under EA, they still made IPs like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
Mass Effect 1 was the superior Role Playing Game, Mass Effect 2 was a great third person shooter. Dragon Age Origins was new, awesome Neverwinter Nights, and I didn’t think Dragon Age 2 was that bad! It was still fun!
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wooooooooooo I finally met Blaghman I was quite honoured and zomg I can’t believe you came down here just for that one day just to meet us (shhh let me keep believe) and yeah it was awesome and stuffffffffffff
Tad, I bet Milla Jovovich will never tweet you, unless it’s to tell you to shut up 🙂
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Any tweet, even one telling me to shut up, is a tweet.
And GEEZE! YOU should be called Anonymous Pessimist! :p
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I hope she tweets you Tad! Chin up, hang in there, wot wot!
(What a twist!)
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I know someone who worked with Milla, and apparently she is a MASS coke junkie.
Not a shock really.-
Maybe her and f4ction can get together and fill their noses with liquid nitrogen while reminiscing?
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YES PLEASE!
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f4ction did what?!
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He did liquid nitrogen! In the nostrils!
Our F4ction… he’s hardcore.
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I am a bad egg.
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See Tad, she’s only gonna tweet you for your coke.
AnonymousPessimist: I actually went back into last week’s TAY so I could dig up the link to your remix. You should be proud of this man, it’s some really solid stuff, nice work.
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Haha, thanks! I went back and posted the final link to you on page 2 anyway :p
Stay tuned as I get this album sorted over the next few months, trying to line up vocals as we speak to make it a bit more cohesive.
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Play count is sitting around 20. Would be significantly more but I had to stop it to get some lyrics done.
I need more AP.
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Some big specials coming up!
You can check out the first lots of deals here:
http://www.vgprices.com/specials_bigw.php
http://www.vgprices.com/specials_kmart.php
OK, guys, this is probably going to get lost, but:
For when I have free time, once I quit my job (soon), I plan to do a new song, so, I would like your opinion on what I should do, there are three options:
1. Chuloopa’s song.
2. New A Capella thing that I’m actually going to work hard for.
3. Blaggy Blag and the Piggy bunch performing Good Vibrations.
So, uhhh, post what you want me to do below… Or not…
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All of the above?!
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Number 3 with production by timbaland plz.
so, twas supanova in perth last weekend, and i had quite an enjoyable time, bought some dvd’s (red vs blue seasons 6-8, NOW MY COLLECTION IS COMPLETE!) got a shirt (A red vs blue one), aaaaaaaaaaand saw a sneak preview of darkness 2, which i felt very special about watching, because nothing cool like that happens at perth events xD, but yeah, it looked interesting, i’m not sure how the ESRB is going to like the idea that you get more points by brutally murdering people in graphic ways, but it should get in…
but yeah, was super fun, and i now have post-supanova depression syndrome…
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I’m not really sure what I was expecting, but supanova was a let down. It was pretty much just a marketplace, with stalls hawking overpriced novelty items or comics for the most part. And it was so packed with people you could barely move. And most of them were only there to see Draco Malfoy anyway.
I couldn’t even be bothered waiting the extra half hour or so to see Sean Maher (Dr Simon Tam from Firefly/Serenity).
AND ALL MY 3DS STREETPASS DATA ERASED WHEN MY CONSOLE LOCKED UP! RAAAAAAGGGEEEE!!!!!
What colour iPad should I get? Black, White or Gold?
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It would probably help if I had a link What colour iPad should I get? Black, White or Gold?
Hey Tad!
the ♥s are fun and all, but some words used to be okay. Is there some sort policy change?
I can get why some words are edited but words like ‘shit’ used to be okay (depending on the context).
I understand that young people might come to the site but ‘shit’ and ‘bitch’ appear in PG rated movies. Even F**k can appear in an M rated film.
Personally I try to watch what I type here anyway and I don’t swear excessively in real life, but I’m also not a fan of censorship.
(I do get that some of the ♥s are added for purely comedic value)
Also, I’m not having a go! Just wondering is all.
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Good point. I’ll stay away from the “Sh!t”s and “B!tch”es.
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Sage life advice.
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troo dat
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For what it’s worth, personally I support the inclusion of the “♥” … though I will say it’s all a bit moot when the content of the US articles makes a bit of Aussie cussing seem as innocent as a fluffy lamb frolicking in pure white snow…
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The hearts are fun, but it’s the censorship that gets me.
I hate it when anyone tries to tell someone else what they can or can’t see/do/say/believe.
I don’t by censored material for that same reason. Even if the change is slight, I will go out of my way to get the unedited version.
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I understand and respect your position, definitely. I’m wired a bit differently, however.
I believe that meaning-altering content and useful information should not be censored, but in all other respects, I’m a little bit of a prude, and I’d rather said useful information be presented as cleanly as possible.
(As a sidebar, I would add that the best way to combat the stereotypes currently surrounding gamers is to conduct one’s self as professionally and maturely as possible in any kind of public arena, but that’s really not here or there at this point)
My opinions are fluid based on the circumstances (for example, I wouldn’t want to tone down the language in The Sopranos or in GTA), but I don’t feel that excessive profanity on a public website does anyone any favours…
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I’m not a fan of the idea of “clean” language.
More importantly, I think the idea of dropping an asterisk (or heart) in place of a vowel does anything at all. Everyone just fills in the blank anyhow.
Like blurring an image of Eminem’s hands in a film clip, you know that the only reason to do that is because he is flipping the bird.
We fill in the blanks so much that this becomes hilarious.
I’m also against minced oaths, unless they’re particularly funny or quaint. Like saying “dang”. I like that word, it’s fun to say.
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Well, it’s not only that. I mainly do it because I think it looks a bit nicer, but also, we have to worry about SEO. We don’t want our articles (especially the more contraversial ones) coming up with swears as search terms in google.
I know there’s a double-standard because the US don’t adhere to any journalistic guidelines, but I’m doing what’s in my power to make things just a tiny bit nicer (even if it doesn’t really change anything).
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I’m sure that counts as a legitimate reason, but I don’t have to like it :p
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You’ll accept it and you’ll LIKE IT!
Now eat that cold porridge I made for you! Children in Africa would KILL for food like that! Stop being so ungrateful!
😛
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It’s idea editing that irks me. Like when they remove an entire subplot from a movie because someone thinks someone can’t handle it.
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I agree that the information should be presented as tastefully as possible, but at the end of the day if I type ‘F**k’ you don’t read that as ‘Eff asterisk asterisk kay.’ You know exactly what that word is and read it as such, so the censorship was pretty moot anyway.
If a post is bad enough to require censoring, it shouldn’t be approved.
At the end of the day who decides what is and isn’t acceptable? Who decides where the moral line is?
I can’t even remember where I was going with this anymore!
If I ever see something that I think offends me, I stop looking at it. I don’t expect some moral guardian to defend me and I don’t get why other people do. (I should say that besides discriminatory remarks, very little offends me.)
…what the hell is going on – I leave for a month (or two) and everyone’s posting like crazy?! D:
I will never catch up at this rate ;_;
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It’s all your fault! When you left there was a void that needed to be filled so we tried to fill it with comments.
Tired. I bet my son will wake me up in 5 or so hours again, yelling at me that he wants to watch Wall-E.
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EEEEEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
One of the best films I’ve ever seen. “Put on your Sunday Clothes” in the early bit made me shed manly tears.
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As someone who is not rearing young’uns, I see no problem with being forced to watch Wall-E.
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I really liked Up but Wall-E just doesn’t do it for me. It looks like I’m in for a whole week of Wall-E though so I’ll probably move from being indifferent to hating it in a few days. Some movies just don’t stand up to constant repeat viewings.
Think I’ll try and get him to watch ‘Dragon Hunters’ instead. I love that movie.
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So shouldn’t the Steam mid-year sale be starting about now? Wherefore art thou, Steam sale?
My body is ready.
My wallet is not.
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If you listen carefully, you can hear my pile of shame screaming in terror.
still trying to get my feet wet here but I thought I might mention the outcome of the whole Supreme Court case in regards to video games as mentioned earlier in the week:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/06/us-supreme-court-decision-will-tell-america-how-much-free-speech-protection-video-games-deserve/
Thankfully it was a good outcome but ffff these cases irritate me: http://cbldf.org/homepage/breaking-cbldf-cheers-free-speech-victory-in-brown-v-ema/
*scurries back to the tiny hole in wall*
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A victory for justice!
Captain America will be pleased this day!
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I’m sure there will be ballads of “AHMERUKA FYEAH” all day :3
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I’m actually picturing you as a baby for some reason. Either that or Dawdle!, who is the epitome of ‘petite’.
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I thought you were shorter than her! 😛
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Well I’m sure we all look like ants to you anyway….
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since I have no way of finding out how big people are in comparison to myself, I am quite small so maybe you’re not too far off with the ‘baby’ statement. I’m all of 4’9”/144.78cm
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Wow. I’m 6’7″ to put that in perspective.
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I have heard of your kind only in legends! -
We are truly a great and legendary species, though we are rare.
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I have a great idea for a sitcom…
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But where would we find a talking ferret and crotchety old Argentinian man?
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if we can teach a cat to say ‘hello’,’I love you’ and “Yum yum”/”Nomnomnom” teaching a ferret to talk will be a cake walk.
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If we can teach a ferret to say ‘omnomnom’ I can die a happy man.
Teaching one to Moonwalk would also be acceptable.
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will we be portraying ourselves or do we have the budget to get actors?
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Also, I feel very tall right about now.
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I have that effect on a lot of people, especially people who aren’t that much taller than myself.
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We need to import you to Aus so Blaghs and I can feel better at the meats.
So far only dawdle is shorter. Need to bring stilts to the next event.
I suppose this is why Tad never shows… he’s afraid I’ll kneecap him.
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next time I’m planning to head to Sydney I’ll be sure to let people know
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Bring muffins.
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I don’t do muffins sadly, But I do cakes, cookies and savory goods
Hiya Petite!
*waves*
Damn, seen this news all over the interwebs this morning. Makes us Aussies look like proper retards.
I can’t believe they made a reasonable, well thought out decision. I’m a little surprised.
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you and me both, especially when you hear some of the news that comes out of here. Like this gem
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln9aa10UAg1qzqlvro1_500.png
Never fear it’s SFW-
Lol… seems pretty easy to get by in America as long as you have moneys.
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I think the correlation between having money and getting away with anything is nearly universal
just probably more glamorized/media-hyped here in the states
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Yeah, I suppose we have a modicum more of common sense (only slightly though) in Aus.
Mostly because we’re all “WHATHEBLOODYHELLISGOINON” when shenanigans occur.
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We now dub you… Reet Petite.
And so it was that from that post on, all comments from Petite were accompanied with Jackie Wilson music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ3-NnNx6Zs
Re the US supreme court:
I aprove that their statement declared that video games have no greater an impact on childhood violence than saturday morning cartoons.
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I’ll just boogie away to that song in my wee basket
Welcome back Mr Serrels! We missed you yesterday! Please promise us more entertainment today! from 1pm yesterday it was like a ghost town!!
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It was super quiet… Bish made me tapdance for 3 hours to keep him amused 🙁
It is approaching.
The Month of Shameless Gaming.
Make note of the games in your pile of shame and try to use the month of July to remove as many games from that pile as possible.
Let’s do this thing.
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Nice title!
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I honestly couldn’t think of anything better so just went with the “good enough” approach. Now I know that works :p
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It works, to my mind, on two levels.
1. it implys we will be shamelessly gaming at a hardcore level to whitle down the pile.
2. That we will be decreasing our pile of shame till we are, hopefully, shameless.
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I agree, great title.
Also, you have Fallout 3 in your pile?
You’re dead to me.
So, everyone else – I plan to beat DA:O and Bioshock. Wish me luck!
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In my defense, that was one of those games where real life got in the way. I was playing it, enjoying it and then was distracted by having to do things that weren’t video game related.
When I got around to playing again, it felt weird picking it up in the middle of the game. So I knew I had to start again, which seemed a little intimidating simply because it’s a rather long game.
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I also have Fallout 3 in my pile.
If I’m dead to you, then I post and you see it, am I undead to you?
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JUlyyyyyyyyyyy???
That has to be the worst month for me.
It’s mine and my son’s birthdays(his first) and no I don’t get to do what I want on my birthday.And because of the above it means my parents will be visiting…
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I couldn’t find a way to please everyone here, so I went with the option that pleased me.
Doesn’t mean you can’t make an attempt. This isn’t a competition. Except for those that want to make it a competition, in which case it is.
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I like your title too.
I’m not too sure how much I’ll be able to participate in this, all the games I’ve played this year up until a couple of weeks ago have actually been from my pile of shame anyway.
Also, the first third of the month will be school holidays and I doubt I’ll get much chance to play anything.-
Oh yes. Parental responsibilities. Those are a little bit of a hindrance to shamelessly abandoning reality for the sake of completing a few video games.
Still, you made a comment on my site and mentioned a few games you have to play. Even taking one or two off of your list probably counts as something.
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I wholeheartedly endorse this idea, and will be making headway on an ‘album’ during that month as well. Going to be making super solid headway on both.
I think I’ll need an afternoon just to get my list of shame together… *sigh*
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My pile of shame is actually stacked up on the windowsill near my desk, simply because I had to put them all together for that photo.
Physical piles do seem to make it easier to keep track. Which might be a nuisance for those with many Steam games.
Good luck with the album.
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I’m ready to burn through some shame!
But, my pile is much too big… Tonight, I might go home and pick out the ten games that I most want to finish.
So apparently there’s this thing in TF2 that let’s you custom name items:
http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/940/jgill.png
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I’m not sure I want to click that link at work. For some reason I’m expecting everything to be renamed “penis”.
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Good sir, I am shocked and appalled that you think I would ever post anything so crude or crass!
I am a gentleman, sir, and I take offence at your judgement of my character.And this is where I post the text face of the dude with tophat and monocle, but I can’t find it.
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Just rename everything spud.
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yerr, it’s been around for a while now. I first discovered this when somebody had named their gun “My shlong” or something similar.
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Pretty well named, gotta say xD
Hey Mark, did you get cheapskate last week, or has Mr. Harvey taken control of your spam filter? 😛
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Will check now old bean.
Chuloopa!
I tried burning the L4D2 files last night.. little did I know the entire folder is 12GB worth of goodness.
“No problem,” I thought to myself, “I’ll just split them over 2 DVD’s”
Then I realised I’m out of dual layer DVD’s. Gah. I plan to grab some today.
Sorry to keep you waiting!!
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bahahha – it’s ok mate – if it’s really that much trouble i’ll wait and download it next month in off-peak times 😛
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I could bring my portable drive to your place if you want, being a fellow Geelong-ian. Or burn them to DVD if required etc. Much better than waiting a month.
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This sounds like a better idea. Chuloopa, what do you reckon?
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Either way, as this page is getting on, feel free to message me on 0421 596 344 if you want, I’m not doing anything after work until Friday.
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Oh no, a new page! All the old discussions will be lost to the ages.
Alien Swarm Play Date scheduled for Wednesday 29th June at 8:00pm AEST.
Alien Swarm is a completely Free game on steam.
Join the Kotaku AU steam group to get involved.
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That’s like, tomorrow night!
Gadzooks!
*whips out heavy class*
It’s on biatches. My minigun… ph34r it.
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I’mma set fire to you!
Accidentally, of course.-
I see you have been taking lessons from Q-bo!
So as long as I stay behind you I shouldn’t have any trouble. This is the good thing about my gun having inbuilt auto-aim 😉
Should be really cool to see how many people turn up. Is everyone familiar with the maps? My bro and I used to speed-run these on hard mode so I have a good understanding of the campaign.
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Depends on what I play, I guess.
I usually end up being Medic because everyone else snags the other classes and then complains when we all die horribly but no one else is willing to change class.
So I set you on fire, I heal you right after (well, depending on how much I like the person ;D), it’s fine.
I’m just used to following everyone else and hanging round the back, so I get lost easily. -
Cool, so we’ve got a medic and support class lined up!
I hope you’re handy on that heal button if any of us get infected with those little bastard aliens (cause of many a nerd rage).
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Not really!
Unless someone goes “OH GAWD MY FACE MY BEAUTIFUL FACE” and immediately runs to me, I’m usually too slow to respond. Although the guys I usually play with like to run ahead, so when they do get infected they’re one screen away from me and don’t know where I am and die a horrible, horrible death.Also, best time to get a parasite in the face? On the run back to the ship on the last level.
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That is the most awesome time for everything to fall apart.
Ok, Mini-AP will be joining us for Alien Swarm tomorrow night (my brother). Gonna be EPIC!
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I’d be all up for it, but for some reason it lags like a biatch on my crummy laptop 🙁
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It seems to me that source games are very badly optimised for lower-end computers
TF2 on high – 35 fps
TF2 on low – 35 fps >.>
And Alien Swarm runs worse at 640×480 all set to low than StarCraft 2 at 1024×768 all set to low on my 6 year old computer (Radeon 9600XT).-
Really? Thats weird.. thanks for the info, though! 😀
Rad help!!Maybe SC2 would be worth picking up…
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I’d like to personally thank Blaghman the Magnificent for coming to the Monday Night Combat Monday Night Playdate. I reckon you might have something with that Assassin, man!
To everyone else (ie. all those who didn’t show up): We had so much fun. And there was cake. It was delicious and moist.
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The Monday Night Combat is a lie!
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Yes apologies for not making it human, the other humans of my household have snapped at me for nearing our cap for the month so I will not be so active on Steam for the rest of the week
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I don’t even own the game yet – so i’m sorry for letting you down…
Let me make it up to you with FRUIT CAKE!!
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*hangs head in shame*
Next time gadget… next time.
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But was there Epona?
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I sat there for a while waiting for the server to get an open slot, but nobody was leaving.
Maybe next time we’ll target an empty server and all join together.
*looks at watch*
Looks like it’s about that time again…
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TIME FOR ME TO APPEAR?!
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BLOOD BROTHERS TIME!!
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Or disappear *cocks gun*
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Ohhh burn
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Sounds like somebody needs a hug!
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OR TO DIE!… No not really that just thought I’d make it a little dramatic
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So I got my interview done last night for the Trials HD Riddle post. Interesting stuff. I have finished up my draft and am just getting it reviewed.
My main concern is that there is just so much information in there, I don’t want to scare people off at first glance..
I really hope you all give it a good read and hope that some of you will join in and try and solve it with us.
Also TAY is getting so crazy im actually finding myself come here less and less. Perhaps when work slows down a bit I can be here more often.
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HAHA yeah it is getting a bit much…
I, for one, am looking forward to you piece.
🙂
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I await your article with great anticipation!
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I hope my TL;DR process doesn’t activate during reading it. You definitely have put a lot of work into this and I want to make the effort to see what you’ve discovered to appreciate your efforts at least
I’ve been talking about this on Twitter, but for those TAYbies who aren’t hip with the twit, I’ll post this here as well.
To kick off the Month of Shameless Gaming, I’m going to play a game from my pile of shame to completion in a single sitting.
Here’s a rough idea of what my pile of shame looks like.
Obviously, the longer games in there like DA:O and Fallout 3 aren’t really viable options. My preferred choices are: Dead Space, Darksiders, Uncharted 2 and Trauma Center: Second Opinion.
Popular opinion seems to be that I should play me some Dude Raider.
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Think I might join you on darksiders, devil may cry and deadspace.
I am going to attempt to finish fallout 3 + all the expansions in June as well, to attain boss-like status.
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It would be rather boss like of you to complete Fallout 3 + DLC in June, especially if you haven’t started just yet :p
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Much like yourself I started playing it, then ended up stopping due to real life getting in the way.
Now I feel like I have to start all over again. Not even sure if I have my old saves. Frustration!
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Here is my pile of shame (There could be more)
Operation flashpoint red river (2 missions in)
LA Noire (19 missions completed)
Infamous (not started)
Unchartered 2 (not started)
Little big planet (does this even end?)
Fable 2 (about 1 hour in)
Hydrophobia (not started)
Masters golf 2012 (only 9 holes in)
Motostorm (1 race in)
Fallout new vegas (over 75% through main story)
BFBC2 (3 missions in)
L4D2 (completed 3 stories, want to finish in co-op)
Kinect adventures (half way through)
NFS Shift (not started)Im thinking of finishing LA Noire (only 2 missions left). what order would you do it in?
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I’d definitely finish Alien Water first, just because you’re right at the end.
The rest is a little harder to sort through.
You could hurl the games at your console and the first one to land in the disc tray is the first one you play.
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L4D2 shouldn’t take too much longer to complete if all you’re doing are coop missions – it usually takes me about 50mins-1 hour on Normal to do a full mission. So I recommend that one so you feel like you’re getting towards your goal faster.
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That pile of shame is small as. I couldn’t even list quarter of mine. That’d be just achievable with a sold months gaming.
I’d drop everything else and play Uncharted2, that game is beyond good.
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Do alien water then pick 2 or 3 to do at a time (with different playstyles so you can switch between when you get bored)
Shift is awesome (but not the sequel), so maybe L4D2, Shift and Infamous? There’s some variety and diversity to keep you entertained.
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I shall join you by eradicating my pile of shame. I don’t have as many games to finish as you do.
Assassin’s Creed 2, Resonance of Fate, Persona 4, Xenosaga (thanks again loops :P) and other PC games I can’t be bothered remembering.
Soon as I finish my 3d project, I’ll finish these games in the Month of Shameless Gaming.
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Dem some good RPGs you there.
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There sure is GUY! 😛
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There may not be many games in that pile of shame, but some of them might take a little while to beat. Either way, looks like there is fun to be hd.
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Yeah, I love my RPGs. I’m already half way through Persona 4 and Resonance of Fate, but other stuff made me stop playing and keep putting them off for some reason, but not this month! I shall finish them.
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My ‘short’ games to knock off include:
Last 1/3 of Bully
Second 1/2 of Darksiders
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake
Max Payne 1, 2
God of War 1, 2, 3
Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3, 4
Beyond Good and EvilMy longer games may not get a look in for a while, but they are:
Final Fantasy 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, Tactics
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Age Origins (restart due to save corruption – GAH)
Dragon Age AwakeningI’m sure there’s more too… I can never remember.
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Looks like someone has their work cut out for them!
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You’re just teasing!
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I wish I was. (Actually, NO I DON’T)
But I’m not. I went on a big spending splurge when I got a cheap PS3, and landed this little beauty:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200611489878Also got the GOW trilogy and Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection for a song 🙂
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You gotta get the good FF’s done man (my opinion: FF7,8,9,10). I FFX is my favourite, I wish I could experience it for the first time again.
Also the Max Payne games are great.
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Is 3 missing from the list on purpose, or was that a typo??
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Maybe FF3 is the only one that has been finished.
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I’ve been trying to get through my pile of Shame anyway, but I think I need this month too.
My top ten in my pile of shame that I just need to finish before I can justify further game purchases:
Assassin’s Creed
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bioshock
Borderlands
Dragon Age II
Hitman: Codename 47
Magicka
Portal
Monkey Island 5
The Witcher
Dude Raider is a good choice. Also, No More Heroes should be a fairly quick one to take care of.
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Urrgh. Obviously a reply to Bunny.
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No More Heroes definitely shouldn’t take that long. I played through half of the game a while ago and then just stopped playing. As long as the save still works.
But because of that, I don’t think it should play it as the single sitting marathon dohickey.
My god… this is the best singing since Blaghman.
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haha that’s awesome!
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When I sing that’s what I sound like in my head. Funny it never seems that way if it’s recorded and played back.
Can-Not-Wait
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/earth-defence-force-insect-armageddon-game-xbox-360
hahaha – so rad!
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I still have not finished the 2017. Since I need to find someone who can couch split-screen coop with me. As it is pretty boring in single player.
Who just broke Kotaku (again)?
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Somebody rebooted our database without telling (or rather, asking) me. I’m emailing our ISP atm to tell them that it isn’t cool.
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Who randomly reboots databases in the middle of the day? What sort of ship do these people run?
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You should dress up as a lumberjack* and go down to their offices and tell them in person.
*I don’t know why a lumberjack specifically came to mind, but if a 6′ 7″ axe wielding dude in flannel and suspenders told me he wasn’t happy, I’d probably listen. Or be absolutely petrified.
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Next time, I will take this advice.
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Mr Marky Mark, did you get my email about the Shameless Gaming?
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You’ll probably need to email him about this. He isn’t in atm.
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Send an email to see if my email to the tips address is being caught by the spam filter?
I can see this going well.
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Nonono, Try sending one directly to mark (dot) serrels (at) alluremedia (dot) com (dot) au. Tips should be redirecting there anyways.
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I think I sent it to mark dot serrels at kotaku instead. That address was in my address book, so I assume that also works.
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That should also redirect. The issue may also be that our exchange server has been messing up the last few days, so it may not have even been processed yet!
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I might avoid sending a fourth email about the same thing. Might just wait it out for now.
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Pestering Mark on Twitter revealed that he didn’t get it 🙁
New email sent to the Allure address.
This will be a thing dangit!
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Harli, I think i just broke into one of your mine tunnels in Minecraft. My Cavernous Cavern is expanding!
may also belong to AnonnPes, it’s sorta between both your work sites though closer to Harli’s.
Protip: torches on the right.
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Additional Protip: don’t AFK to type in tay whist on the surface with a full inventory near susnet. Creeper alert!
Time to go find my stuff.
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“That’s a very nice inventory you have there… it would be a shame if something were to happen to it… SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!” says Creeper
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Ssssssssssssss…..
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I BUILD IN TREES WHERE THE CREEPERS CAN’T GET ME
Except when they climb up the stairs.
Then I run and cry.
And swear.-
Make ladders, simple, and for spider trouble, make lip edges on the ground level of your treehouse area, it stops them climbing any higher
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I have no use for your sensible and logical and helpful suggestions!
Be gone!
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I think our mines are interconnected like some horrendous siamese twin.
I think she’s also found a dungeon or dark area somewhere because the bottom of my mine is now inhabited by mobs who like to wait until I’m really engrossed with mining then they’re all HEY HOW ARE YOU GOING I’M RIGHT BEHIND YOU IN YOUR GRILL DID YOU WET YOURSELF OH THAT’S UNFORTUNATE.
Also, your protip is noted. I also have a bad habit of doing this, then running and crying towards the nearest house when I hear a lit fuse.
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Too bad we can’t have signs down saying “This dungeon was conquered by: ….” on it 😛
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Yes, because half of them would have your name on it you dungeon whore :p
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NOOOOOO. I solved the last monsters spawning in the caves connected to my cavern.
Oh gwad!!!!
whilst i was typing this i had to alt tab to kill a skelleton that was shooting me!!! make it stop!!!
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Ahh yes. I was tunneling happily when I saw some coal.
“Oooo, coal!” I exclaimed cheerfully to myself and went over to mine it up. I dug downwards…
… and fell right into Gorzilla’s cavern!
I couldn’t get back up with leaving some dirt blocks in your room, and for that I apologise.
AnonymousPessimist – I don’t know if it was me, but if it was, I’m sorry! I just like to live life on the edge, is that such a crime?!
My mine has now connected up with yours and somebody else’s.
Anyway, what is a full list of UK online game stores. I’m trying to find Silent Hill Shattered Memories (Wii). Obviously I can get it easily for PSP from any country, but with the Vita not having a UMD drive I’m trying to stop getting PSP games on UMD.
The stores I can currently think of (and are sold out)
ozgameshop/356Games
TheHut/Zavvi
Sendit
game.co.uk
Are there any other UK stores that I’m missing?
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Pretty sure that’s all of them… the almighty VGP may know more?
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CD Wow
Shopto.netThough compared to the ones you’ve listed, I wouldn’t recommend them. But they’re still UK.
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Gamestation was an awesome brick and mortar store that was eventually bought by GAME yet still exists as a seperate entity. They usually have older stock and, on occasion, lower prices.
It was a great place to go and pick up retro games (NES, SNES, Megadrive ETC).
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I have never heard of Gamestation, just checked, reasonable price. But out of stock. I’ll keep them in mind in the future when I’m looking across UK pricing.
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That game is fun, I want one!
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My local JB had a few copies the other week.
I’m heading there on Thursday so I’ll take a look and let you know. If it’s there do you want me to pick it up for you?
BTW It’s great. Such a good game.
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Nah, don’t worry about picking up. But thanks for the offer.
Which JB is this? As I’ve had some brief looks in the Perth CBD JBs, but had no luck. This might mean I have a more thorough look myself.
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Indooroopilly. Bit of a drive for you I reckon.
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Bless you!
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Yeah, don’t think I’ll be getting to your local soon.
Well I can pretty easily visit half a dozen JB out west, and stock is usually similar across them nationwide. I’ll chance my luck.
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Hey guys – if anyone is interested – Vanquish for 360 is not just $18 at games webshop
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It’s not just $18?
Then what is it? Do I get more if I call in the next 20 minutes?!
WHY MUST YOU KEEP ME ON THE EDGE LIKE THIS.
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It comes with George Foreman brand yoga unitards!
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damn it… now… it is NOW $18…
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Damn! You missed the yoga unitards Pessimist!
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They leave nothing to the imagination.
This is not so bad from the waist up.
Waist down? Different story.
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I keep changing colours more than I change underwear.
Why do I keep having to re-type my details? can’t it like, save them using the power of technology? This is very counterproductive to spamming.
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Sweet! been meaning to get this for a while, cheers for the heads up.
Just got it!
Thank you!
So, my laptop decided to rebel yesterday. The screen suddenly went ber dark, yet you can still see what’s on it with some difficulty. Looks like the backlight is bust. Called up JB for my extended warranty support. I don’t mind too much if I have to pay (though I’m hoping the repairs do fall under the extended warranty), but it’s going to be many days before the thing is repaired – 3 working days (max) until I get consignment info to send my laptop somewhere (possibly eastern states (I live in Perth)), then they repair it and send it back. Sigh.
I know just enough about computer hardware to know that I don’t know enough to fix it without breaking other stuff. Sigh.
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Yeah, they’ll probably have to replace the entire screen panel assuming it’s not something simple like the inverter that’s broken.
It’s not the most difficult of repairs if you know how to fix a laptop (just need to take the screen panel off and get under the keyboard to remove the cable from the mobo), but if you haven’t done it before I’d suggest against it.
Just make sure you clear your adult material off unless you feel like sharing!
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mobo, MOBO, BRING BACK SHERRIFF MOBO!!!
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Plug in an external monitor?
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I mean… sssssssssss
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Smoothest. recovery. ever.
Thisssss isssss creeper IT. Firssssstly…. is your monitor plugged in?
NO?!
>:(
*BOOM*
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Just wondering why Kotaku aren’t reporting about all the BlueTongue redundancies happening? Are the ed’s in someone’s pocket?
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You’d need a pretty big pocket to fit Serrels in it. It would also be very hard to walk in those pants. I don’t even think they would sell a belt that could keep these gigantic pocket-pants around your waist.
I imagine he’d be pretty good company though if you got bored though. Maybe he could hug your leg (no, not that leg) seeing as it’s winter to keep you warm if you’re outside.Maybe you should send them a tip? Maybe they are unaware? (tips@kotaku.com.au)
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No, they know about it. Have know about it for some time. That’s why I thought it was suss.
@JamesMac
Totally agree. Especially sucky for those bought on for crunch and then told to fuck off at the end with a ‘thanks’ credit if they are lucky.
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I was refering to fruit pickers.
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lolol! Marks taking the secret pay to cover the cost of his pepsi addiction.
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If Bluetongue had pockets… would they still be laying people off?
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Y’know who no one talks about?
The horrendous amounts of seasonal labourers who get laid off at the end of every season.
When ever the work’s done, they get sent off with a thanks and a handshake…
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I think Mark is still on holiday, which would be why
Screw this darned Rule of Two! I want my own Sith Army!
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That was awfully negative of you.
So I’m at home for lunch and it hits me. Most women’s sport is extremely sexist, “but Ross,” you say” this is the 21st century they can’t be sexist it’s against the law.” let’s look at some examples
Tennis- no pro female tennis players ever wear pants or long sleeves. Why sexism
Beach volleyball- there uniform has to be a bikini
Golf- all get paid crap.
There are more I just can’t think of any more. Thoughts? Feelings?
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Wearing long sleeves or pants when playing tennis would be mental.
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Female tennis players get paid proportionally more than male tennis players.
They play shorter sets but receive the same level of prize money (or they receive less prize money, but more than three fifths). The shorter sets means that they can also compete in the doubles tournament, which the top male players cannot do as the longer male version of the sport makes it impossible to do so.
All that comes from a vague memory of something that was mentioned in an episode of QI, but it sounds right.
The rest of it is right. Female athletes tend to get paid less. It primarily comes down to lack of interest. More people want to watch male sports, so there is more ad revenue and more money to pay the players with.
How much of that is sexism and how much of that comes down to skill disparity is another issue entirely. Not to say that sexism doesn’t play a huge part, especially when there are sports where everyone is on a level playing field regardless of gender yet there is gender based segregation, but there is more to it than just that.
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Shorter matches.
My brain clearly wasn’t focusing on this when I wrote it.
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Hehe, I’m not sure why some people would rather watch men’s tennis over women’s tennis 😉
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Yeah, all those male bodybuilders in tight underwear… whats up with that? Super sexist.
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Also the rasslers.
The men tend to wear less than the women. Although they don’t have those matches where the goal is to strip their opponents, unless mask vs mask counts.
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I believe female tennis players can wear shorts if they wish, but I could be wrong.
the pay difference is hardly limited to golf. Females in almost every field of employment get paid less than their male counterparts.
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Same with short people.
Apparently the pay disparity between men and women is comparable to the pay disparity between tall people and short people. That’s probably more true amongst professional basketball players, but it apparently holds for high level executives.
This was another fact I gleaned from QI, which I should point out is hosted by a remarkably tall man.
Why do I have all this pointless trivia and why must I mention it at every opportunity?
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Shit. Does this mean I need to buy stilts, or get extra height from crazy shin implant surgeries like in Gattaca?
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Go the Gattaca route.
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That really shits me.
I’m in recruitment, everyone is employed under awards and agreements… everyone.When I hear some ‘social commentator’ who wants everything without sacrifice complaining that the average woman makes 80c to every male dollar I want to know where this specific instance is.
There is no HR manager anywhere… anywhere at all, who is looking at two employees and choosing to pay one more than the other for the same job.
It is possible that the difference comes in overtime and working during maturnity leave periods, but that wouldn’t impact on everyone.
If you want to talk about workplace discrimination… start with the single people. No leave in liu of maturnity / paternity leave, and in some large retail chains no leave during school holiday periods. Non smokers who keep working during ‘smoko’ breaks are another group.
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I don’t think I’ve ever called you “Ross”.
This retelling of how I ask you questions even though we’re two thousand kilometres away from each other is factually inaccurate.-
thats because you know be by my secret identity.
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Jimu! I sent off the wireless adapter today, hopefully it will be there this week.
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WOOOOOOP!
*Platonic man kisses!
FatShady or anyone who happens to know about the mincraft server,
There was jsut a server message (the purple ones) come up in chat that read something along the lines “Molten is looking for staff to check out website out…”
Is molten the company that physically runs the servers or was that some sort of spman hack?
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SPMan does the worst hacks. I hope the FBI finds him and takes him down.
Also Relevant:
http://site.moltenhosting.net.au/node/38-
Sorry man, didnt see your link… thanks.
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Yup Molten Servers is the company that hosts the server so nothing to see here *Police Chief Wiggum voice – Ehh*
Its should be all good – didnt know the freaking advertised though.. lol..
Here is their linky FYI
http://site.moltenhosting.net.au/They have been easy to deal with and very responsive overall.
Not if I have anything to do with it!
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This was meant to be for BDKIAF. But the same goes for ALL OF YOU!
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Hi there Australia Post!
I know you have trouble doing things on time and being competent in general, so let me take a little time aside from your relaxed schedule to introduce myself!
I’m the reply button! You should click on me whenever you want to reply to somebody so that your post doesn’t appear out of place (much like your customer’s posts that always seem to end up at the wrong address!). I love to be clicked on, so don’t be shy – next time you want to write something back to one of our friendly posters just click me!
Thanks for your time! I suppose you better get back to work – you’ve got mail to mismanage!
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I like to run in front of the player’s gun and get trapped in corners.
I like beating human players for no real reason other than the fact that I WON!
I have an invisible rope that ties to the back of your car, so no matter how good you do in a race, I am always just behind you!!! -
The Reply Button and I go way back. We have a history, don’t we, The Reply Button?
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We sure do Harli!
The best thing is, you don’t even judge me for not having eyes. We’re the best of pals, that’s for sure!
You could click me all day long!
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Where the HELL is my package!?
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In your pants!
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That’s what she said! only she was talking about your’s not hers and it’s in your pants ! HA HAHAHAH!!!
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I hear ya. I know you’ve been waiting longer for yours, but my copy of Zelda shipped 11 days ago and still isn’t here 🙁
It’s a shame that you already ordered your UK copy of OoT, otherwise I had a crazy scheme that would have been mutually beneficial – I’d buy a local copy for about $50 and get it now, then you could buy my UK one for $45. Alas, it’s too late now.
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That was clearly intentional, to display the ineptitude of Australia Post. Well played.
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Where’s my bagpipe stuff from Scotland, ye great big jesse!
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I just realised that if I do a Let’s Play of Dude Raider to kick of Shameless Gaming month, I’ll be doing three LPs at once.
I’m an idiot who should start finishing things before starting other things.
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Are we canning last nights one?
We should can last nights one.-
I haven’t listened to it yet, going to do that tonight. But there is a high percentage chance that we will can last night’s recording.
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And put it in a Warhol exhibition.
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Hey Mark, I’ve uploaded this week’s cheapskate onto dropbox, so if you’re still having problems with your emails you can get it from here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12860924/28-06-2011.docx
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It was my stupid email! Fixed now! Thanks for the effort though mate – much appreciated,.
Did anyone else take any pictures at the Sydney Meat?
Also, what happened to AP’s Vlog?
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That’s a good question… *stares at Harli*
I took the worst vlogs ever. But they have an oyster in them. This makes it ok.
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*dodges AP’s stare* Well I have them all but I’m not sure what I want to do with them. I don’t want to upload them onto my youtube channel, perhaps I should palm the footage off to AP to do so?
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Oh, I see how it is!
That’s right, you just don’t want to be associated with us non-competitive gamers. Right? RIGHT?!
*hmph*
*storms off, ps3 controller in hand*
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Aww c’mon now don’t be like that… I didn’t mean it that way!
I just don’t wanna come across as one of those people who vlog and chuck it up on youtube.. stuff.. er… I think I’ve said too much.
Point is, I’ll give ’em to you next time I see you!
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Just stirring 😉
Send them my way when you get the chance!
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I have one sitting on my computer at home. I’ll upload it tonight if I think about it.
I took a few photos, but this is probably the only decent one:
http://i54.tinypic.com/20zwtwz.jpg
You can probably imagine what the rest look like.
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That’s the best video-in plug I ever saw!
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I like the way you captured the yellow.
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It’s very ‘Clive – Age 5’.
…Damn you Canon.
I’m even using a Pixma right now.
/o\
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Now thats a highlight!
Hey Tay-fiends that have too much time on their hands.. i have a special quest.
Whomever has the most amount of time on their hands, i need you to go through the old TAY’s and find my 2 Kotaku Chronicles posts!!
I think need you to permalink them here. I’ve forgotten a couple of things seeing as i’ve been on hiatus so long!
Think any of you are up to that? 🙂
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Here’s one:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-126/comment-page-4/#comment-272472
I’ll try and find the other.
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2nd:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-119/comment-page-4/#comment-282883
Sooo…..what did I win?
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An awkwardly long hug from loops.
Step right up!
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I have a two day old Orange and Poppyseed muffin leftover.
Nobody ate it because it fell on the floor, but you’re welcome to it. -
People are going to have to start reffering to you as Ace Rimmer with how much i’m going to be saying “what a guy”
I might be able to dig something up for you if i look around the house tonight 😀
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haha don’t worry loops, you don’t need to get me anything. I just used my google skillz and logic to find them.
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NO nightFlarer! This is when you must demand compensation, specifically in the form of Kotaku Chronicles Part III.
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Excuse my whinge yesterday.
Tad – I had a good chuckle at your censorship efforts. Hit the spot, thanks. (Note to others – The actual profanity was self censored, Tad just gave the rest his own special touch)
Everyone else – Thanks for the advice, I’m definitely going to have a look around. Problem is, I don’t have any proper qualifications (apart from an old business diploma) and my job/experience is somewhat obscure (My title “Procurement Manager” is not obscure, but it’s also not a very accurate description of my job). So I’m a bit clueless as to where I’d actually be useful…
The company will be restructuring at the end of next year, so that’s a clear opportunity to pull the cord, but I’m not sure if I can last that long. We’ll see. Either way, I’m pretty keen to do a bit of travelling (done plenty already, but once you pop…). Have a few things I want to see/do before I reach a certain age, and I’m running out of time.
Ramble, ramble, ramble.
Anyone know a barbershop trio who are looking to break into the more popular quartet market?
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Pingu and pals are looking for a baritone:
They are holding auditions this weekend.
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First audition. Wish me luck.
http://bit.ly/mD5gOZ-
Should have worn a tux.
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Whoever drew that captured your likeness perfectly.
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So, I’d like to point out to all that missed it that I’ve successfully managed to get my long suffering other half to post in TAY (back on page 3).
She’s posting under the handle ‘Petite’.
I guess this means I have to behave now ._.
Also, check out her awesum art blog! http://illukyuu.blogspot.com/
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Yeah I checked out her blog when she posted.
Very good stuff!
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You could also use it as an excuse to misbehave more because she should be putting in an effort to stop you.
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Nowai!
This is most epic. TAY is turning into a doubles affair at this rate!
Dawdle/Bawble, Harli/Gusman, Bish/Blaghman, and now WHAT?/Petite
All the TAYers are paired up… brings a tear to my eye. Nerd love is so beautiful!
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Forever alone 🙁
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Forever alone robot 🙁
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You will NEVER see my Wifey anywhere near this site. I will be a single man (unpaired at least!) in here forever!
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So SlimWifey won’t be posting anytime soon?
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This is my place! I’m not letting the husband anywhere near it!
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Ditto! lol
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STOP RIGHT THERE
GUSMAN IS NOT MY BOYFRIEND!!
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Also, he mentioned his fiancee, remember?!
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Ah… Forbidden Fruit 😉
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Oh…
*shuffles feet*
Awkward…
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I am feeling a tad sheepish… wish TAY had an edit button now!
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i second the edit button as well, though not just for tay but I’ll just do my best to word things better
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I’m happy with the lack of edit button. It has provided more amusement than displeasure for me.
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rjsxrj
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It has been said on the interwebs, therefore it is undeniable truth.
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The bold is the knife to my heart! T_T
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lolol!
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WOH!
Slightly NSFW!!!
Let’s just call it; PROVOCATIVE ATTIRE.
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I call it “awesome”
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Yeah, I was like hey this is pretty cool… scrollscrollOHGODSCROLLSCROLLSCROLL
*checks nobody is watching*
…scroll…scroll.
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if you mean my blog then I apologize Jimu, I’ll try and figure out how to hide certain entries behind a “click to read more” link
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Maybe a ‘click for bust’ one.
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Beware of Busts
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Beware Of Outrageous Busts?
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Beware the outrageous horror known as
NIGHT OF THE LIVING BUSTS
*cue 1950 shock/horror music and stock footage of a woman screaming and fainting* -
I could think of worse ways to go…
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theres -always- worse ways anything can go
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So THAT’S who that is!
She’s quite the artist! 😀
*THIS SPACE IS THE VIP AREA FOR THE SHADOWS OF THE DAMNED CONTEST ARTISTS*
*sips lemonade and eats lammingtons*
So… sup?
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Invasion!
SHI-SHAW!
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Jeeves will see to your ruffian self, good sir!
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*sips lamingtons*
I feel pretty VIP right now! Although it did end up with me trying to explain the jokes in the comic to my non-game-playing colleague, which was entertaining.
Also I promise I am totally going to wear the jacket while riding my yellow Vespa, for the maximum amusement of motorists passing me.
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One does not simply sip a lamington.
Will this jacket be left unattended in any open areas once you have completed your vespa travels? This information is for our confidential Kotaku survey, of course…
>.>
<.<
…what?
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Uh…
brb, organising an armed convoy for the jacket at all times. Getting home in peak hour is going to be such a pain now.
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Damn you and your jacket winning humour!
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Congratulations!
So jealous! I forgot to put my entry in. My daughter drew up an awesome picture based on my crappy drawn with my laptop’s track pad thingy concept and I forgot to scan it. In fact I don’t even know where it is right now.Here’s the link to my scratchings if anyone wants to feel superior to me. 😛
http://flic.kr/p/9XyL4v-
is too little 4 me 2 reed.
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*sigh* she draws better than me too!
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I checked you blog and your artz is awesome. I really wish I could digital paint, but I think my wacom will stick to sculpting and quick crappy concepts.
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Aww, anyone can learn to paint digitally, given enough time and pig-headedness. At least that’s how I learnt? Although Adobe keep changing the way the photoshop brushes behave (very subtly) all the time. Jerks.
Thanks on the compliment, though!
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Yellow Vespa?
As in FLCL Yellow Vespa?
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Well, not exactly the same model as the Vespa in FLCL, (mine’s much newer), but it’s the same colour. One of my friends was even going to make me a vinyl P! sticker to go with it, but he hasn’t had a chance. Sad…
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But without the sticker, surely your scooter must feel… incomplete?
This has saddened me greatly.
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I wanna VESPA, I am EFFIN JELLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
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just did a quick update of my blog and gonna boogie about to “Reet Petite”
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I keep reading ‘Reeces Pieces’ instead of Reet Petite. I now have a craving for peanut butter and chocolate.
How close is peanut butter and nutella on toast? I’m desperate for a fix and this is the closest I’ll get.
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So get some Lindt from Woolies (since they’re usually in thin-ish slab-like pieces), and smear some PB on it.
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That’s just crazy enough to work.
Lindt sammich, here I come!
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much closer then not having nutella and penutbutter together at all :p
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You read reeces peices? Personally I like nomming them. Then again, I also nom books, so maybe I AM doing it wrong.
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The creation of e-readers and e-books must have been… hard to swallow.
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That’s it, now I’m doing it.
Mark cleverly timed that comp to appear after I left the internet and finish before I returned.
I swear that guy hats my guts, seriously.
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Possibly a tophat, maybe a bowler.
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I multicolor with propeller hat you, actually
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You sir, are hilarious.
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Hey guys.
I bought Charlie Sheen – i hope you don’t mind
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ONLY IF THEY DON’T MIND WINNING!!
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BI-WINNING!
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GET OUT OF MY BRAIN, ESTEVEZ!
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Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! QUACK! QUACK! QUACK! QUACKQUACKQUACK GOOOOOOOOOOOOO DUCKS!
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I will pull this damn car over, I swear it!
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I’m not sure why I’m even in this car! Let me out! I have to play Tony Blair in another biopic!
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You kids today! So dirty! Charlie! Are you drooling? Oh god… Must… Clean…
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Must stop refreshing the page that shows pages views on my website…
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refresh now, I just clicked on all the links in your site.
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I was wondering who did that.
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The Exciting Gaming Shenanigans of Bish, Entry #6732
*Turns on PS3*
*Attempts to sign into PSN to redeem free PSN+*
“There is a system update. Do you want to install it now?”
> Nothankyou.png (I’m a lossless kind of guy)
*Turns off PS3*
Poor thing, I only play it when there’s some crazy exciting console-exclusive game out, so now it’s going to sit there for another 3 or 4 months gathering dust. Funny how a firmware update can completely sap my enthusiasm to game.
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This is a problem that I have had many times in the past. Now that my PS3 gets more love, it is less of a hassle.
Still annoying though.
I’m gone for a few days and come back to find a million stories to catch up on and this weeks TAY already has over 800 comments. Slow down guys.
Spent most of my weekend asleep or watching movies.
Finally got round to seeing Resident Evil Afterlife. I liked it. While watching it I realised that the Resident Evil films seem to be following the same path as the Alien films. Both had a good first film that are heavy on horror elements. Both had sequels that were better then the original and were more action oriented. Both had terrible third films that stuffed up the ending of the second film.
Both had fourth films that while not as good as the first two were a lot better then the third. Keeping with the Alien pattern I expect the next RE film to be an awesome crossover with another franchise followed by a terrible sequel to that crossover. I’d like to suggest F.E.A.R as the crossover franchise. Alma vs Alice. Zombies vs Replica Soldiers. Umbrella vs Armacham. It has the potential to be extremely awesome
Also watched Black Swan on the weekend. Great movie that left me with mixed emotions. Several times during the film I threw my hands into the air and loudly proclaimed “Best movie ever!”.
After watching Monsters and then Skyline I felt like I’d just seen a Crysis movie minus the nano suit.
I don’t expect I’m going to be very active on Kotaku for the rest of the week or next week. I’m going to spend this week catching up on my gaming, movie watching and reading and then next week it’s off to New Zealand for 5 days. I know you’ll all miss me terribly (/friendly sarcasm) but try and not cry too much while I’m gone. Cry a bit though.
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eVEN THOUGH i HARD-HAT YOU (aLIEN DISAGREEMENT) YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED.
So the light has died on the caps lock button….great.
Btw Tad, I also tweeted Julia Gillard with the #GetMillaToTweetTad hashtag. I can has free stuff now?
I am so proud of myself, I just lost hours of my Zelda progress, because I knocked the cartridge out while it was in my pocket. I’m like a little version of Jamie What? but without an awesome accent. As well as that, I still haven’t managed to quit yet…
So for today’s comment wrap-up that nobody cares about, I decided to take notes as I read! And I’ve still forgotten things! So, with a little bit of further ado. Shawoo wabba wap badam.
Ambrose: Welcome back! You have been missed. You’ll never catch up, but don’t worry, it will all be SQUIRREL!
Petite: Please come to a meat, when 50% of the girls at a meet-up are taller than you it’s kind of embarrassing… (And as an addendum, welcome, and good work to Doc What? for getting you to post)
Alien Swarm thing: Maybe, depending on whether or not I’m unconscious.
Endu: I just kind of mashed buttons, and hoped for the best… But thank you, I had a blast.
Trjn: Good luck finishing Darksiders in one sitting *sniggers.* But I vote Uncharted 2, tis a great game.
Endu Again: That song was fantastic (definitely better than my singing). I wish I had a good Falsetto…
James Mac: The Smoko break smokers thing is so true. Also, people who take five minute lunch breaks when everyone else has at least half an hour, and two smoko’s are getting ripped off. Or is that just me?
Pessimist: Any chance I could join those penguins? I can pull off a beautiful Bowie style Baritone.
And as a final point, Bish and I are not in a relationship, as he refuses to touch my hand thanks to a little misunderstanding(there was no misunderstanding, I’m just a dirty old man).
And as an even more final note (this would typically be the post-post script, but screw English norms), Looks like option 3 won out, with a total of one and a third votes. So yet another tune for me to start and never finish!
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Have you tried serenading Bish on his balcony with a boombox held aloft from his front lawn?
According to my thorough knowledge of chick flicks (read: I’ve been forced to see a few following lies of reparations), it never fails!
And by never, I mean roughly 75% of the time.
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The only real problem is that I don’t know where Bish lives. Oh, and also that I’m not gay.
I’ve actually always wanted to do that, is that weird? I think it’s weird. I want to sing a song up to someone…
I am a little weird.
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I know where Bish lives.
I sometimes watch him, late at night.
His hair smells like lavender, and he sometimes blows bubbles from his nose while sleeping.
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Just kidding!
I sniffed again. His hair smells like old milk.
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thank you for the warm welcome Blaghman, as I mentioned to Anon Pessimist, when I know I’ll be in Sydney I’ll let everyone know we we can have a meat
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in Sydney again^
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Well, given the speed that Mr. What managed to organise the special Blaghman Meat of Meaty gaming (or the hastily cooked meat, as I call it), I’m sure he’ll be able to do something quickly or something… I’ve forgotten where I was going…
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Hey petite, You and Watt should come to Brisbane, we have …me?
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You and Pokemons!
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I love being tall. I love being able to walk up to men and look them in the eye. This works especially well during tournaments. /snigger
It was lovely meeting you Blagh’s but I wish we could have chatted more. Specifically, I wish you, Anonymous Pessimist and I could have sat down properly and had a proper three musketeers meeting for the FIRST TIME in REAL LIFE!
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For some reason that reminds me of something that I heard on a Street Fighter stream lately.
There are two types of players most tournament goers hate going up against.
First is the young kid. They don’t want to lose to the kid, but if they simply body the brat, they look like an asshole.
The other one they don’t like going up against is the type of gamer with two X chromosomes. Is there really any shame in being beaten by a girl in a video game? It’s not like testicles grant you magical gaming powers that are forfeited should you lose to someone who lacks them.
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Yeah. Sadly, its something that does happen. I don’t know about other people but in my own personal experiences I have encountered this a lot. It’s annoying because as far as I’m concerned I’m not handicapped in any way.
There’s not really much I can do about it unfortunately. I try not make a big deal out of it and most of the time, my focus is elsewhere anyway.
I could go on about this but I’ll refrain from doing so for all of the TAY readership’s sake.
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There’s probably a way to turn it into an advantage.
I liked watching Shadowloo Showdown whenever ChocoBlanka was on stream simply because her opponents were always incredibly awkward.
Admittedly, I’d feel a little awkward if I played her. Mainly because she would completely destroy me at any fighting game you care to name.
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Gender means little to me, a human is a human. If they beat me, they deserve the congratulations from me, whether it be a boy or a girl. One of the many aspects of honour I bring to the gaming world
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YEAH! I cry just the same no matter who it beating me!
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C wot time it is? Know where I am?
I’m back , BABY!
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No! It can’t be; I just sent you back to the future!
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Groovy!
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IT’S DIAMONDS!
At work all I can see are two empty boxes!!!
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D’oh! Two empty boxes again…
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Anyone watch the new True Blood yet?
It was good, but not great.
If they got rid of half of the story lines it would rock.
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Hang on.
*checks*
Nope, no Vajayjay. Didn’t watch it. 😉
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You don’t need a “Vajayjay”(wait, didn’t Oprah coin that phrase? You should check again. 😛 ), it’s full of bewbs and sex. I hear boys like that stuff.
And no, I haven’t watched it yet because of the stupid school holidays. Can’t watch it with the kids around.
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I’m a boy and that trick never works. It’s either a good show or it isn’t, bewbz and secks don’t factor in.
Quality* writing…I love you!
*My quality may not be your quality.
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I think, maybe…? Oh no, wait… no definately not.
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Okay so I sent the 2-year-old to bed for his nap and banished the 10-year-old to her bedroom.
I watched it. I was less than impressed. Not enough Eric and WHY THE HELL ISN’T BILL FRAKKING GONE YET?!!!
I’ve read the books and I agree with you, there’s way too much going on. It seems like 85% is now stuff that never happened in the book.
I dislike Homefront.
After spending a night playing it and finding myself not quite enjoying myself, I’ve forced myself to relive the memory multiple times in order to edit together the Let’s Play of it.
Oh well, at least I had fun with subtitles.
You can see the latest video over here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEHJHM7hXs
here is my review of GameTV
episode 1: this isn’t funny, it looks like they have basicly ripped off waynes world, except made it about games, i’ll give this another chance though
Episode 2: stopped watching after one guy said his favorite game was black ops, didn’t make me laugh once…
so yeah,
Loved
ummmm, the website design was sorta nice?
Hated
the severe lack of it being funny at all…
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Good review.
I’m sweepy.
Gone out for the whole day and there are 3 more pages.
Going to Blue Mountains tomorrow (if I can wake up early enough) with CrabJiffy/bawble.
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Gonna be coooold. So cold.
Apart from that though, place is amazing. Especially sunrise. Although I guess you might have to wake up early for that…
Looks like the latest recording of the Batman LP will have to be scrapped and redone. This time, methinks we might try talking about the game, even just a little :p
In other news, I started playing Darksiders. Not sure what to think so far, but it was hard not to notice just how many different games it ripped off. Gorzilla pointed out that he even has the same wall running with claw animation as Prince of Persia.
Weird game, but potentially enjoyable.
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Everytime you type “LP” I think vinyl.
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Given the issues I’ve been having with the audio in my Homefront LP, I think it might be easier for me if I start recording on vinyl :p
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Better sound quality.
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This is for Chuloopa and any other Warhammer 40K/collector’s edition fans!
http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?title=Warhammer+40.000:+Space+Marine+Bolter+Edition
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When is this Brisbane Meat? Because jetstar are doing $39 flights from Sydney to the Gold Coast.
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First time I ever accidentally replied.
Maybe The Reply Button can explain how NOT to click it.
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Nothings been officially organised as far as I’m aware, just theorised… but now’s a better time than ever to make a date!
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Isn’t Strange doin’ a thing?
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Nothings been officially organised as far as I’m aware, just theorised. Well… I guess now’s a better time than ever to make a date!
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Isn’t Strange doin’ a thing ?
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*huff puff huff*
Hi… everybody…!
Little… late… had to jog all the way… down the *huff* page.
Hi Jamie! If you don’t want to reply to someone, it’s pretty easy! All you need to do is not click on me! I know people love click on me, and gosh darn it, I love it too. But maybe give me a little bit of time out every once in a while so you can make your own post! This way, other people also get the opportunity to click on me and together we can spread the reply button love!
Just remember, don’t click me if you don’t need to! It’s ok, I’m a big reply button, I can take it!
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Thanks reply button!
Sorry I clicked you to reply to your reply, but if I didn’t click ‘reply’ to reply, you’d tell me how to reply again, and I know how to reply.
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My place, July 23rd.
And those are indeed insanely good prices.-
I’m pretty sure you can count me in for that!
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I’m gonna try and make it. I think my stoopid dad may still be here then…
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Oh woah, what? When did this happen? Am I… invited…?
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I saw “Bolter Edition” and started freaking the frak out, because i thought it actually came with a replica bolter… i actually almost creamed my jeans..
Then i just realised it was DLC and a Metal Postcard thingy…
I’ll still be getting the collectors edition:
http://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-154175-Warhammer-40000-Space-Marine-Collectors-Edition-Xbox-360It comes with a purity seal, artbook, soundtrack and cards! so so sexy!
Thanks for the spot though, mate! Didn’t even know that edition existed.. lol
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Oh wow! There’s one for PC too! Gonna be really hard to resist getting this… though the price makes it easier.
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No it doesn’t… not when you can import it for around $85 😛
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Ouch… yes well played human..
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So a couple of things – 1 good, 1 bad
Bad First – Spent AGES the other night working on a rad new DBZ themed tee… but forgot to save it.. and my computer restarted itself… now it’s gone and i have to start over… I hate computers
Good Second – All the talk of LoL prompted me to get a copy off a friend, and now it’s all installed… i’m actually looking forward to having a bash at it. I love computers
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You kept talking this tee up! Hurry up and not be affected by computer shenanigans so I can gaze apon it in awe!
Apparently GAME’s website is having an “Insane” sale…
http://www.game.com.au/insanesale28
Personally i don’t see what’s so insane… I’d call it the “barely rational but why do you still want me to pay $28 for midnight club sale”
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Ignoring that though, Arkham Asylum PC for $8 and ME2 for PS3 for $28 is pretty rad.
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meh, still not as good as their last year sale. Bought around 7 of games ranging from $8 and $12, picked up a few figurines and a battery pack.
I had to go to multiple stores though to find all the good stuff.-
During this sale all my local games had none of the games I wanted at good prices. I kept hearing stories about all the insane prices on my wanted games interstate.
All those shops closed, weren’t making enough sales? I wonder why…
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I’m planning on going and seeing Transformers 3 in cinemas sometime soon. I just finished watching Inception for the first time last night. #SettingMyselfUpForDissapointment
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Yuk… why would you even bother…
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Every ticket sold contributes to the expanding of Michael Bay’s ego. And it’s getting dangerously big.
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This.
He sent instructions on how to play the film to projectionists at the cinemas!
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*Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*
Hopefully the directions were please burn all the film before anyone has a chance to see it.
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that movie was meaningful, radical & artistic when it was Transformers + Megan Fox and her magical butt.
Now it’s just Transformers . . . and the magic has gone; it’s just the end and things will never be the same again.
Megan Fox forever,
Plainview.
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She was a highlight.
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Somewhere, somehow, they forgot Megan Fox is the reason for the season (so to speak).
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I don’t like Megan Fox. She seems like a bit of a skank. And I mean that in a most negative way.
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I don’t think he was talking about dating her, or even bonking her.
Just takin’ a look, enjoying what he saw.
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Oh, I know.
I mean, I guess the looks are there, it’s just the difference between being good looking and being actually attractive, if that makes sense.
She doesn’t do it for me, personally.
Plus the whole unnecessary focus on her and Shia lewhatshisface as some of the ‘main’ humans was offputting.
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You take that back, Bish!!! Megan Fox is a saint!!! Take it back at once!
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A Megan Fox inspired moment of brevity?
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Well clearly this is some serious business I’ve stepped into.
My apologies for any offence, good sir.
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you know i can never stay mad at you, Bish!! Keep up the good work and continue to remain suspicious of anyone with M. Fox written on their business card – this of the utmost importance!!
: )
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Because I care:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/06/28/the-goon-comic-best/
Well just finished Kingdom Hearts 2 on Standard difficulty as part of my trial of the keyblade. Bloody hell the Nobody bosses are getting a lot harder, even managed to die while facing two of them, one of them being the final boss (He took me down a lot). Next will be expert mode on KH1 while I’m playing Proud Mode on 358/2 days on my DS. 358/2 days caught me by surprise on a few missions, it’s possible to get killed from max HP within seconds/can’t escape damage combos so you gotta be extra careful not to get caught out.
This info is for all the humans who’ve been wondering where I have been since disappearing from our daily Teamspeak meetups. I’m currently close to being capped so mainly just on the PS2 catching up on challenges I never done yet, after the trial of the keyblade (Or once the new month hits and my cap gets reset), I’ll be focusing on my pile of shame for my PS3 and League of Legends on the PC.
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Maaaaaaaaaaaaan, I loved KH1. Also loved the begining and end of KH2, wasn’t so chuffed by the inbetween stuff.
Tried to play the portable games, seems I’m bored of that style of gameplay…
Still doin’ it for you I see.
Is part 3 ever happening? I heard FF13Versus was like Kh Advanced(if it ever comes out).
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Hurrr, I’m the opposite.
I like the in-between stuff, but the main games just don’t do it for me.
Chain of Memories was rad. Also my first KH game. Imagine my confusion as to what the hell was going on.
358/2 was okay (although considering it was recycled stuff from the 2 main games, this makes the whole not-getting-into-1-and-2 confusing).
I’ve just started Birth By Sleep but got distracted with shiny things. Looks pretty good though.-
Birth By Sleep is pretty much the latest game and the very first chapter to the whole story. Chain of Memories was directly wedged between KH1 and 2 😛
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I really dug the card system.
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It was very interesting, it also encouraged using card combos for more damage, since attacks are now finite and need to be recharged if you run out. I liked it but I never got the chance to try and master it
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So far it’s just been prequels to KH2, such as 358/2 days = Roxas’ story = AWESOME, Re:coded which kinda sucked but the secret ending had some twists, both were on DS, and the PS2 game I never saw on the shelves, Chain of Memories which had a very different combat style (pretty much full of cards being used in battle even cards for attack… yeah…) but there were a few plusses: it was pretty much as full filler of Sora’s journey between KH1 and 2 (Which ended up explaining a LOT in terms of story prior to KH2), Riku is a playable character and has his own journey in this which is just fricken AWESOME! Riku being my favourite character and all… anyways.
The latest one of the franchise was Birth By Sleep, a PSP (Don’t ask why they switched platforms AGAIN!) prequel to KH1, which explains even more in the story, and you get to see a lot of familiar faces which I thought was even cooler.
But in short, Re:coded and Birth By Sleep are both raising the hype for the final chapter, and I think the 3DS one coming out soon is just going to increase hype even more. You look at the trailer, they’re both young again and somehow working together (Which doesn’t match KH1), so… another spinoff which so far makes little sense. Watching the trailer I just go major “WTF is this?”. It’s probably another simulated one similar to Re:Coded or something, dunno yet.
Yeah… I love KH a lot if you haven’t noticed
So I finished Alien Water last night. (no spoilers)
While the gameplay was not the most amazingly fantastic thing in the world and the interrogations were difficult to actually know exactly what to do, the overall experience and story was worth it. I really enjoyed the story.
I think the thing holding it back was not the linear story, but the linear conversation path through the interrogations. Having only 1 right answer was a bad choice. In these days of RPG conversation trees, it should have had some more grey areas. I just found the gap between right and wrong was HUGE. I think in their next instalment, if they flesh this dialogie out and make the conversations more varied (more ways through the questions with more flexibility in how you use the evidence) this would have been amazing.
You get what I mean?
Pile of shame -1.
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You know, as much as I have bagged this game out, I keep playing it. I’m quite close to the end I think. On Arson.
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I stopped playing it and I don’t miss it. I have a mild curiosity about the greater story and seeing if my hunches are correct, but that’s it. I feel bad because I was looking forward to the game so much. 🙁
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I stopped playing at the start of disk2 , no internet so the Mrs took over the TV.
Hoping I can jump straight back in, I was having a lot of fun. Wasn’t the best game ever but didn’t stop me enjoying it.
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Any chance you’re looking to sell/rent/lend, First Lady? 🙂
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If it’s any incentive, I can promise to do a write up of the salient story points and pivotal character moments….
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Not all marriages work that way. My wife is just a tad too pleased every time I offload one of my games 🙂
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360 or PS3?
I’ve stopped at the start of disc 2…
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I have both systems.
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Email me:
James-mac at live dot com dot au
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I haven’t played it yet, but my friend said the gap between right and wrong is what he liked about the game. The interrogations gave you one shot at getting it right. He felt that their was more at stake each time. Thou it didn’t end the game if you are wrong.
I read a good extra punctuation article about Yathzee’s idea of how to do a detective game. It sort of falls somewhere in between, one shot to get it right and multiple chances.
i played LA Noire almost cover to cover, could not put it down.
The 1940’s aesthetic was pitch perfect and I think that’s what really hooked me in from the very beginning.
I just enjoyed being in 1940’s LA, and that’s all the hook I needed.
Cole Phelps wasn’t the strong lead character the game needed.
But the actor who plays Cole Phelps also plays Kenny Cosgrove in Mad Men, and Kenny Cosgrove is like my favourite character in Mad Men! What happened?
They should’ve made Cole Phelps more like Kenny Cosgrove,
Plainview.
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Word. Ken Cosgrove>Everyone except Don Draper.
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Don Draper really is the king of men.
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Was that a… did you just…
a one line Plainview post?
Is the world going to end?
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i’m feeling a little bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive?
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You know, as an Adventure game, I think it’s pretty compelling stuff. Some of the individual cases are really quite satisfying upon completion, and the overarching story mostly gels well together.
The linearity? Yeah. It is somewhat multi-pathed as how you reach your suspects (you might fail an interogation and might need to follow a new lead), but the fact that it does ultimately converge is a bit of a let down. Although again, in Adventure gaming style, this isn’t much of an issue.
So the problem to me is, basically, everything else. They give you an open world, but I feel there’s no real incentive to explore it or learn the roads. I can’t drive in this game (though I’m not sure if that’s just me being crap, or the cars designed to feel like driving a train with no rails). I have issues with cover systems, specifically some of the weird places you’d stick to and my inability to control that very well. And fluff that guy who programmed in that balancing crap.
I like it, I really do. Just some of the actual traditional game parts of the game do not sit well with me.
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I think they made it more “GTA” for fear of failing.
Also, what’s everyones problem with linear games?
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I like a good linear game.
Except when it’s a Final Fantasy game. I’m looking at you, XIII!
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Wait, what?! If you didn’t mind the linearity what exactly did you think was wrong with it?
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linear games are my drug of choice.
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For me, it’s not so much the linearity but rather the fact that no matter how well or badly you do, you pretty much end up at the same point.
As I said, from an Adventure point of view, I certainly wouldn’t complain about it in Phoenix Wright, or Hotel Dusk which I’m going through right now.
But if you’re a cop in an open world game rolling around from place to place interviewing different people, I feel like there should be more consequences for your actions. This might sound a little weird, but your failures should be represented better.
Did the X-men mutant power contest ever get decided? Did I miss it?
Maybe that should have been my mutant power, not missing any interesting posts on Kotaku.
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Yeah!
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I too am wondering what happened to it. The prize is certainly cooler than a jacket 😛
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Dvds are cooler than a jacket worn by Suda 51 himself!?!?
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You must travel to the below location and ask the Grand Vizier Serrels:
so my day became significantly more awesome with freshly steamed char siu bao (BBQ pork buns) and finally seeing Boondock Saints
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Boondock Saints makes everything better, now for a truly gloriously awesomely magnificent day you need to immediately put on Boondock Saints II All Saints Day.
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I haven’t seen it, but I have seen clips and heard Billy Connolly’s awful ‘Irish’ accent.
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Boondock Saints isn’t the best movie ever made, but there is a quite hilarious moment with (I think) a cat.
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The sheer awesome awesomeness of these movies cannot be expressed by mere words, these movies are beyond must see, they are a required part of the human living experience, optional but highly recommended for robots.
As for crappy accents, I can now enjoy any terrible accent made by any actor, knowing that none can possible be worse then the atrocious vocal performance of Natalie Portman in V. I swear, every second line was done in a different accent to the one proceeding it. -
well Netflix had it there and I figured why not, since I was waiting for my headache to ebb away.
It still is quite good
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I think I’ve got this show but for some reason assumed it was animated.
I was distinctly disappointed when I found it was not animated, and was rather serious as well.
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You were probably thinking of The Boondocks. A cartoon about some black kids in a rich white neighbourhood.
It is hilarious and definitely worth the watch.
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Ahh, this!
I will acquire this and laugh heartily.
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I like it, but didn’t find it hilarious. Lost interest after a few episodes.
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Dear TAY. TL;DR
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Fair ’nuff.
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But we’re not even at 1000!
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We’re on the cusp though.
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We’re about 4 post away from it 😀
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If TAY ever gets over 9000 there has to be some kind of mega celebration.
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I don’t even want to contemplate that.
It fills me with dread.
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Dear Q-Bo,
Get your big boy pants on and read me. I’m gorram hilarious.
Sughly,
I swear you spent more time on TAY when you were “busy” making your game than now, when you’re supposed to be unemployed.
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lolol! Yeah but now I’m unemployed, there’s more pressure to get this thing finished 🙁
On a side note, I sent a new version of the game to the developer/publisher I mentioned a while back that was interested. *crosses fingers*
Now I’m working on the game design document. Which is booooooriiiiiing…
I watched The Human Centipede yesterday. I highly recommend NOT watching it, as not only do I now need counselling it is also a very bad film.
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I haven’t seen it personally, but I felt I needed counselling purely from listening to some friends talk about it.
I do however recommend the South Park: Human Cent-iPad episode
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FEEEEEEEEEEED HEEEEEEEEEEEEER!
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Who made this movie?
Who gave money for this movie to be made?
I would not invite the director to my house for a dinner meal. I imagine he would tell stories that would make me cry in terror.
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I think it really says something about the human race that not only did someone come up with that idea but a bunch of other people though it was good watching and produced it.
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I have the bluray. I enjoyed the film. But I love me my horrors, it’s interesting to see how twisted some people can think.
The sequel just sounds wrong though… it features ‘forced sex’ with barbed wire. I’ll leave it to you to google the rest. Or don’t, really.
On the way to Blue Mountains!
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w00! fun times to be had 🙂 How long you going for?
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we’ll be back in sydney end of the day. : )
not planning to stay there overnight.
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bawble/crabjiffy is complaining of terrible drivers.
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Still driving out of the city?
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heheh my pet hate too.. even LittleJJ bitches about bad drivers when she’s with me, and she doesn’t even drive! She especially hates asian drivers.. and given that she’s asian, I can’t help but lmao when she goes off at em 😉
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TadMod,
Do you and your friends have a full team for HoN? I’m trying to whip my team (and myself) into shape.
I am proposing a clan war. What you reckon?
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I would love to see that recorded and casted by you and TadMod! 😛
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*translation*
Hey TadMod!My friends and i haven’t brutally raped anoyone recently, and we were wondering if you and your friends might venture close enough to our van for some practice?
We won’t be using lube.
Harli.
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AHAHAHHAAHAH!!! Oh man Chuloopa, you always make me lol.
Hey there’s an idea… maybe we really could cast it! I’ll ask him, see what he thinks. Thanks Tech Knight!
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Glad to tickle your funny bone!
Also, yes, watching the rapeage would be Awesome to the power of Rad!
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The game is HoN, so this is very viable..
also.. BAHAHAHAHA!
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Bahaha!!
That is EXACTLY how i read it!
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I have a pretty big friends list (I have a LOT of randoms), but the ones I’d play with most often are rarely online at the same time!
One of my mates organised a HoN 8-8* for tomorrow night, out of 10 invited, only 3 can make it (such different schedules). Unfortunately, I’m working on Friday, so I can’t do it.
I can try to get them on at some specific time, but the chances aren’t high 🙁
*8-8 = At Intergate in the city, there’s a deal that you can play from 8pm until 8am for $10 (pretty much an all-night thing). It’s pretty awesome.
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Boo! I’m not free Fri nights generally. I was hoping some other time? I thought you had a clan?
Really would like to get a proper 5v5 happening though. I’ll tty on steam bout it.
Any other HoN players on TAY are more then welcome to join!
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Melbourne Bar opening in Fitzroy, Melbourne in July.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/06/the-mana-bar-melbourne-opens-this-july/
I reckon it’s about time for a Melbourne Meat.
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You suck (im jelly)
Also, good luck with that.
*goes off and cries like a spoilt Sydneysider who usually gets what he wants*
That should be awesome. I cant see myself getting to either one any time soon so hope there is a Sydney one coming.
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i’ve really been thinking about organizing one recently – but have been coming up with nada for which we could do! lol
Problem with manabar for initial meet would be noise and over-crowdage
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Well we could meet somewhere quieter first, have a few sneaky pints and a conversation, then head over to mana bar afterward.
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I’d be up for that 🙂
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Pre-game drinks are never a bad idea. I’m in.
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Could be an idea
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If my afternoon engagement ends early enough, and you lot start late enough, I would love to join in.
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Assuming you are talking about doing it ON the day it opens. I now realise that no-one said that specifically.
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Oh, I doubt it will be on the day it opens, the place will probably be too packed.
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Yeah.
My excitement got the better of me.
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I’m all up for a Melbourne meat…but I don’t drink, I’m like the most unfun person to be around with -.-“
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You and Tad should get together and have rousing games of backgammon like the rest of us drown our sorrows with alcohol.
LIKE REAL PEOPLE.
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I don’t drink either, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t come to the meat human, just have fruit juice or something, cuz that’s what I’ll be doing
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I raise. There is no way you could be less fun than me.
(I don’t drink either, so hoping to capitalise on the “conversation” aspects of this endeavour.)
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Your name begs to differ.
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hehe yeah, I’ll still go to the meat. At least I’m not the only guy who doesn’t drink.
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I’ll drink your share, don’t worry!
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Whiskey and orange juice. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
I also don’t drink so don’t feel like you’re no fun
How exciting for all you Melbournites! Can’t wait for the Sydney one 😀
I live in Brisbane and still haven’t been to ours.
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Yeah.. But you’re Strange
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I’m also old and married. Bars make me feel even more so. 😛
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BUT ITS SO SMAAAAALL! And because its so small everyone looks at you when you walk in. I dont like being looked at!
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When I looked at you, you smiled a little…
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Resi Merc 3DS just got pulled from the shelves due to the “game breaking” no delete save feature. Just as i tried to buy it. Boooooo.
Anyone checked out GAME today? I hear (from ecogamer) that they’re supposed to be having an ‘insane sale’ again this year.
There online offerings are worse then worse, but it is quite possible instore is better. Please report back if there are any good findings, as then I’ll ditch work early and check one out.
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I saw nothing of note at my store (Canberra City). Nothing you can’t get for cheaper from Zavvi or eBay or elsewhere.
Futurama fans… I just watched the first 2 eps of the new season. Even if they were bad I’d love them but they were pretty good.
Can everyone in here please watch them tonight so i can have a spoiler-filled discussion with you all..
Anyway, good times… I love Futurama.
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You watched them days late. Everyone should be dropping all Friday night plans every week, and just watch Futurama.
But yeah, they were not bad episodes. Gotta love Fry as a female.
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I know. I saw them and they were about 4 days old… 🙁
I was busy with other stuff (Trials HD Riddle article – shameless plug) so didnt even get to think about it til last night.
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I watched them the other day and enjoyed them. Like I always say, more Futurama is always better than less Futurama.
They’re definitely taking advantage of not being on Fox anymore.
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The first few episodes that were aired after they were bought by Comedy Central really were rubbish. But those last two episodes started to head back down the path of what I really liked about the original series. Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.
Anyone with a US PSN account want to be part of the Journey Beta?
http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/117/1179541p1.html#disqus_thread
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Sorry to chime in Doctor What? but I just wanted to say I FINALLY GOT MY PSN ACCOUNT BACK TODAY!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don’t get it my love
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Good thing I was not drinking anything, otherwise it would have ended up on my screen. Hardy har har ;P
Jamie What? is sometimes referred to as Doctor What?. I theorise that he is the long lost brother of Doctor Who.
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He’s actually my illegitimate son.
Good to see he’s taking in his father’s footsteps.
With the doctor thing that is, not fathering bastard children.
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Daddy? ;_;
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No no no! I mean you ‘finally’ got your account back?
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She accidentally swallowed her password while eating a lot.
Passwords, as any first year med student will tell you, take a while to make their way through the digestive tract, often becoming lodged as it traverses the sigmoid colon and restricting bowel movements.
Thankfully the patient made a full recovery (of the password) and after a quick wash, has once more gained entry to all the PSN has to offer.
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Thanks Doctor What 😀
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Ohh, remember how after the PSN downage Sony forced us all to change our passwords? I changed it to something so good I forgot it. Password reset only came back up a little while ago.
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YAY!
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Accept my friend request pls!
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Und ME!
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Also Zoidberg!
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Yes Friends! Add me, why not?
I will also give you medical advice. Perhaps for free!
Whoopwhoopwhoopwhoopwhoopwhoopwhoop
*scuttles off*
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So I really enjoyed Alice: Madness Returns. It wasn’t as creepy as I remember the first one, but I loved the combat. Anyone else share my ideals?
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I’m still trying to win a copy from Game… 🙁
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Please elaborate
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I am enjoying it a lot more than expected. I picked it up with OoT for 3DS cause I figured I’d get sick of Alice quite quickly. OoT hasn’t even come out of the case yet.
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Woah… that’s… that’s just fething awesome
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It’d go well with my LEGO Millennium Falcon (the best of all Star Wars ships).
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But how well does it do the Kessel run?
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It’s so fast it can swap units of time for units of distance.
As can I. Why, only today I made the run to work in 17.8 kilometres. I was 7 metres early.
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This is a common misconception.
George Lucas covered his ass by saying the area was filled with black holes (or somesuch), so a measurement of length (as opposed to distance) was used to denote how many jumps were required to clear the area.
A more skilled pilot could do it in less distance.
This is why I am single.
*bows*
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I actually knew that…
foreveralone.jpg
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That was an excuse he made much later.
We all know he fudged it initially.
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No wai! Excite!
For anyone interested *insert tumbleweed* backbreaker Vengeance comes out today on XBLA. If you are still reading this, watch this video before you pass judgement. It looks like a bunch of fun. 1200 points.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjOJKj_mtY
Sorry for the YT links while some of you are at work (like me) who cant actually watch them.
Did i tell you that I saw (actually saw) my first magic eye puzzle. They have never worked for me but the other day they did. I was amazed at them…
If anyone has not got them to work, and you have 2 eyes that work, then i suggest you give them another try, or was I the only guy that waited about 20 years to figure them out?
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I am very much in your boat… how do they work?
I’ve tried seeing past them. I’ve tried ‘relaxing my eyes’ (with a little barry white, a gentle massage and some candles), I’ve tried just about everything and it still looks like a gorram mess of colours.
How do I make them work?
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I just go cross-eyed and lose all focus on pretty much everything
Seems to work for me lol
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I think the trick for me was being massively tired. It was late one night and I was reading a book that had them in it (you can see what types of books i read!).. Anyway, I think I did exactly what you said. I went for Whale songs but apart from that you are spot on.
I do suggest looking past the picture, but leave it for a bit. It took me over 30 seconds to get it and normally i looked away after about 10… just give it time and it will happen. If it does not happen the first time, don’t worry, that happens to a lot of people and it is nothing to be embarassed about.
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I also like books with pictures.
Maybe I’ll have a few drinks tonight and see if that works.
I will report back with my findings.
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I’ve never once seen them. Tried all the tricks before, and it just never works.
And I’m someone who has decent enough eyesight, can see 3D films etc, with no issues.
So I’m pretty sure there is actually no image, and everyone else is just acting like they can see something.
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For years I couldn’t see them at all and came to believe it was just a massive practical joke the world was playing on me.
Then one day in highschool, my friends and I were filming some scenes for a movie we were making and I wasn’t appearing so I nestled down into a bean bag and grabbed a Magic Eye book and when I looked at it, I could see them all. It was a miracle! A Christmas Miracle!
Anyway, I do do it easily now.
I just relax my eyes and don’t focus on any part of the page and the image just jumps out.
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Now that 3ds is out this strikes me as ‘ye oldeskool’ way to play things in 3d.
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Oh yeah, I was drinking heavily… FYI
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Obviously the massage was not good enough. JEEVES!
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Actually, her name was Si Yueng Foo.
I’d rather not go into details…
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Happy ending?
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The best since little mermaid!
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Any ending that does not involve me massaging an unclothed young master is quite the joyful occasion indeed, sir.
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I had a towel, Jeeves!
Yeesh… it’s hardly as bad as Helicopter Wednesday. Stop being such a prude!
Oh… it’s Wednesday today? Awesome! Don’t forget to have the tassels waiting for me on my arrival home tonight!
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Fear not sir, I have successfully wired up small motors to those custom Swarovski Crystal nipple tassels as per your request. It is now, as you say, “like a helicopter beanie, but for your chest”.
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Awesome!
I’m going for the triple helicopter combo tonight. I shaved the top part to look like a Bell UH-1!
I do hope you’ve practiced “Entrance of the Gladiators” on piano to play along while I’m gyrating. Remember there’s only three more weeks until the talent contest!
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So.
Who’s playing Alien Swarm tonight? 2 spots free on the fearsome AP/Mini AP team.
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I’ll play next week, still waiting on uncappage. I’m a decent enough medic and a good sergeant if I remember correctly.
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Scratch that, my stats say I’m best as Tech 😛
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I am heavy allllll the way.
This pessimist is best with big guns.
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Sure, if you will have me.
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I will have you in a purely platonic way. Is this acceptable?
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I already bought the lube… but ok.
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We can be friends with benefits?
No dental plans though. That stuff costs a fortune.
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Lisa needs braces.
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Well you just succeeded in embarrassing me at work by causing me to LoL and reveal my true intentions of not working! HOW DO YOU FEEL?!
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Oh, be warned I have never played it before and only vaguely know what it is so don’t expect miracles.
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That’s cool, it is pretty straightforward once you get used to it.
The main thing to keep in mind is, much alike L4D, stick together and spread your fire. This becomes more and more important in the later levels when you come up against nastier aliens like the parasites.
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Fire!
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Maybe!
I’m keen. If we get enough we’ll have to form more than one game.
Can we please wait until there’s enough people involved till we start the games?
Also, if you’re interested and can’t get in the game, jump into steam chat (or Teamspeak?) so we can see how many people we have going.
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I imagine we’ll just start games as we get 4 people teams?
Agreed though, everyone jump on TeamSpeak. If you need the details drop me a line on steam.
So if Caphalxn and JWaters17 (and Batguy I assume) want to join the league im competing in for 1000 Heroz that would be awesome. Because you can only have one custom league, I dont come back tothe Kotaku one often enough. If anyone wants to join in the fun, just type TRIALS in the customer league field.
There are 27 people in that league and it is a good mix of skill levels.
Anyone else interested in getting this game should I have played it every day for 22 days now and im still enjoying it. Good for a dollar! (App store)
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But who will be left with me in ‘KOTAKU AU’?
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Sorry.. I got lazy and only looked at todays track. You must not have run it yet..
Also there is no issue with keeping this going. What i would rather is more people joining in. If there is only 3-4 people it may not be as much fun
I really want to compete with you guys also, but changing back and forth is no use.
If more people get it around here then it would be better… I’ll leave you alone, it was just another reminder that there are other leagues with a bunch more people..
you still liking the game?
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Oh wait, no. Everyone should join you! I was just being silly. I didn’t mean to troll your offer! 🙁 I ain’t no stick in the mud…
I’m enjoying the game. They’ve nailed the simplicity that is needed on this kind of platform, and yet the variable jump strength and level design add enough complexity to make the competition worthwhile. I’m not a fan of the floaty movement, but the level of control makes up for that. The visuals are well realised and aid the game play, even though I’m not in awe of the style.
In the end, I get sucked into the competition, and will restart OVER and OVER and OVER, for far too much of my night. Although over the last week, I’ve only had time to compete on a couple of the days.
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yeah that ‘one more time’ thing that they do so well is there for sure. very simple controls, very short levels (all have been under 20 seconds i think) and instant restart… it just gets you.
Im currently 29th for today.. slipping fast! I was 22nd only about 2-3 hours ago!
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Is TAY in a slightly different font???
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Nope, comics sans, as usual.
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Mine is in wingdings!
Star smileyface messagebox messagebox 🙂
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Holy crap!! CM Punk is the f*cking man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Word.
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For those curious…
http://au.tv.ign.com/articles/117/1179511p1.html-
Oh wow.
That’s just epic. Grats on him having the hutzpah *makes hand motion* to do something like that.
I wonder if he’ll end up on TNA like so many of the other ex-WWE stars?
WWE got so stale I stopped watching it many many moons ago. It’s like they’ve just stopped trying and are happy for the rednecks to throw money at them.
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Wr- wre- wrestling?
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I hear ya , buddy!
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Work or shoot?
Reeks of work to me.
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Well, they turned off his mic halfway through…
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A little from column A, a little from column B.
It looks like it started as a work and he went off the rails a little. Possibly a lot.
The stuff about the merchandise, attacking the fans, taking a shot at The Rock, that was probably all planned. But mentioning the rival companies by name seems like an odd thing to do and I think as he went on it deviated a little further from the script than the executives would have liked.
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I watched the video of that Mark tweeted last night. Punk was one of my favourites back when I was watching WWE (his rivalry with John Morrison over the ECW title was one of the first feuds I actually paid attention to) and he is still awesome.
Hey folks, apparently the uneducated at my workplace believe that Kotaku’s full page ads are games, and that I’m playing them. So – I’m going to have to do a B-man style summary post at home each day and be terribly lonely and cry and eat melting icecream at work 🙁
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Sorry to hear that you suffer at the hands of stupid humans Endu
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Booo, I change jobs Friday so prolly less me too. But you’ll be fine. I haven’t had anything interesting to say since …ever.
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We’re not sorry.
We are the worst ads ever and we’re proud of it.
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HIGH FIVE, BRO!
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I’ve been forced to use adblock because these things are so stupidly intrusive.
I’m fine with normal ads and happy to ‘do my thing’ to support the sites I like, but there is a line, and the recent spate of ads continue to cross them.
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Can’t you block the ads? or does your workplace use IE6 or something.
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SIX? I wish!!
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Strange
So have you finished Vagrant Story?
I played it wrong for hours and then found out how to play properly and restarted but didn’t get anywhere.
I still own it.
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I have on the PS1 and the PSN…
Never played more than a few minutes.
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I too played it wrong when I first got it, but a couple of years ago I picked it back up and played again, this time finishing it. It’s well worth completing. I love that game. When I used to comment on the US Kotaku, Ashley from VS was my avatar.
Thank god Zelda street date broke early. I’ve been sick for the past couple of days and bed ridden and it’s been the only thing keeping me sane!
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You tell em bro!
Me an the Elvis ostrich are off to build igloos in space. Lick the magic pine cone to come join us after the water temple!
Snargleflasam away!
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Wow!
Snargleflasam the Paisley Patterened Elephant has stolen my website address and used it as his own… How DARE he! I’m so angry!
>.>
<.<the perfect crime…
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Not if I’m on the case!
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Please consult this Wanted Poster
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Oh man, sketches like these are the reason you need to keep posting on TAY.
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Where’s your sidekick, WHATson?
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I honestly did a spit take
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Yo Snargleflasm.
I’m the website field, and I’m tight with the reply button.
Sometimes, it’s a bit wanky to leave in the website of your original alias when you want to do a sneaky-sneaky. Because then people are all like ‘oh yeah, I know this guy’ instead of wigging out at your crazy steez. Nahmean?
Probably a good idea to leave me empty when you do yo thang as another cat. ‘s ok, I can dig it. Streets is tough; I’ve been through worse.
Peace out.
Did anyone watch this show called Wilfred last night? My wife and I did and we fell about laughing – funniest half hour we’ve had in ages.
Anyone?
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Is that the SBS one where the dog is represented by a human – who binge drinks, smokes and likes setting up his owners boyfriend? Quite a good piece of Aussie comedy I reckon!
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He’s that guy that’s like Frank the rabbit from Donnie Darko isn’t he? It’s a good show, but I didn’t know it was back on tv.
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Wilfred’s been shown on SBS for ages. Sometimes I remember to watch it. It’s pretty decent, but not the kind of thing I obsessively watch.
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Is that the guy who dresses up as a dog or something? I’ve seen ads of it most of the time, but I’ve never ended up watching it.
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It was the first ep of the American adaptation (same Aussie actor though). I’d never heard of the Aussie version till I looked it up this morning. Will check out ASAP 🙂
Challenge! http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/
How many waves can you get?
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“To play this game you need a good browser, like Opera, Chrome, Firefox or Safari.”
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26 on my first try! That’s a pretty cool game. Reminds me of Typing of the Dead! That was sucha fun game 😉 LittleJJ loved it heaps.
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I got up to Wave 3.
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God thats hard! I got 23 and started shooting something i didnt want to :'( it was my downfall
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Level 31… 94.2% accuracy… dam that was hard towards the end.
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First go – wave 37 completed. 94.5% accuracy
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Final score: 25951
Accuracy: 94.1%Is it cheating if you pause to give your fingers a rest? Because I totally did that.
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Closed the game at wave 40. Should probably at least pretend to do some work this afternoon.
We’re on the way back to Sydney already.
Visitor comments of Blue Mountains:
MIST MIST MIST FOG MIST MIST MIST MIST FOG RAIN MIST MIST FOG GOG MIST RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN MIST FOG RAIN…
In the words of bawble/crabjiffy-
“can’t see sh*t”
Funny enough, we visited the EB Games in Katoomba. Games are still overpriced as usual 😉
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Wait, Good Old Games was there?
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Dirty weekend: you’re doing it wrong.
I’m loving some of the review comments for the new Transformers:
“Anyone hoping to engage even a single brain cell, however, is out of luck. Which is too bad, since popcorn blockbusters don’t actually have to be mind-numbingly stupid or soul-suckingly empty.”
“A work of ineffable soullessness and persistent moral idiocy.”
“The overwhelming sci-fi action spectacle is a merciless sensorial assault that leaves you with something akin to post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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90 minutes of explosions and Shia Labeouf doing a flailing Kermit the frog impression?
Sounds like a great movie.
Just thinking to head into Gametraders in either Blacktown or Parramatta on our way back. Can anyone go to their website and tell me their address(es) & opening hours today? The website is loading sooooo slow on my phone. Thanks!
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Blacktown? That’s near my hood.
If you see Ahmed, say hi!
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Parra
Shop 2160 Westfield Shopping Centre,159-175 Church Street,
02) 9633 2833Blacktown
Shop 2033 Level 2 Westpoint Shopping Centre,
BLACKTOWN 2148,
New South Wales
02 9676 1411both open til 5:30
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Mon-Wed: 9:00am to 5:30pm
Shop 2160 Westfield Shopping Centre,159-175 Church Street,
Parramatta 2150Same hours
Shop 2033 Level 2 Westpoint Shopping Centre,
BLACKTOWN 2148Probably too late… but oh well! Good intentions etc.
So I’ve owned Starcraft 2 for a few days now and am working my way through the single player campaign. There’s no way in hell I can compete with anyone in multiplayer just yet, but how about some Tower Defense?
Anyone know a good TD map? More importantly, anyone want to band together to play a good TD map?
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No idea but if you find something cool I’ll be up for it.
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I too would like to partake in the defending
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Yay! Participants!
I had a look last night and there seems to be a serious lack of good TD maps in SC2.
What happened to all the brilliant ones from Warcraft 3? Why haven’t those same mapmakers stepped up to the new game?
It makes me very sadface.
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‘Cuz Warcraft 3 is more awesome.
Yeah, I went there.
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After watching a WCG finals match of Warcraft 3 last night, I have to disagree.
Heroes are boring.
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You’ve now joined me on a certain person’s death list! Welcome!
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Unlike you, I probably live far enough from that certain person to not be entirely fussed about it.
Unless the grudge takes form in being destroyed in video game form. In which case, that was bound to happen anyway.
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Fear not Trjn, I believe Gusman was speaking to me, and referring to one of our friends who happens to be crazy good and devoted to SC2..
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And I was looking forward to being hunted like a wild animal.
Dang.
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Your belief…IS CORRECT. The Korean deity shall smite you down where you stand!
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yeahhhhh!
I recently just finished it. Very enjoyable from start to end.
Now to do it on hard?!
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I’m going to wait till Heart of the Swarm is almost released to complete it on Hard.
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I’m waiting until I can claim to be almost competent to try playing on Hard.
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Yeah, you guys are right, I do need to finish the last few maps on Brutal. Thanks guys!
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Sughly!! Of course you’re invited! I first mentioned it last week when you were asking when the next Brisbane Meat was. Jimu and I came up with the 23rd and all TAY is invited if they can get here. If not, I’ll be eating fairy bread and wearing a silly hat all by myself.
So. Brisbane Meat AKA I’m throwing myself a party.
July 23rd
My place, which is Southside but not as south as Welbot’s.
Significant others and children are welcome, but be warned, I’m a bad hostess and may very well ignore them in favour of playing games with you guys. 😛
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I’ll be there!
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Can you drive me?
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I’m taking the blimp – we can float there together!
Strange has given the ok for significant others – are you bringing Blaghs?
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According to him, we’re not a thing. 🙁
On the flip side, at least I can go back to dancing and singing ‘All the Single Ladies’. -
I love that song.
Extremely hard to find a leotard in my size though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxAu4U7wH50
Discalaimer: SFW but eye bleach may be required.
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I’m sorry Bish, I didn’t mean to hurt you, I didn’t mean to make you cry.
It’s just… I kissed a girl, and, I liked it! (I didn’t really kiss a girl, more a… uhhh… well, a statue)
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Your balled-up fist with lipstick smeared over it is not a girl, nor is it a statue.
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It wasn’t lipstick… It was a strawberry I smeared all over my hand…
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Then… I’ve never been kissed.
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Yessss! 😀
Man, I’d love to catch an aeroplane and see all youse Brisbane folks. Just not sure it can happen, awesome Jetstar flights aside.
This makes me sad 🙁
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Back when we first were talking about it I did make mention of the fact I have a spare room. I do have kids though so it’s not exactly relaxing to stay at my place, but you’re welcome regardless.
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If I line up a job I may be impulsive and actually fly or drive up for the weekend.
STAY TUNED. AP WILL MOW YOUR BLINDS.
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Hell, if you decided to drive up I would attempt to tag along!
I would of course be of no actual use though, as I cannot drive.
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Substitute radio/jukebox.
“Blaghman! Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet, Track 3, go!” -
This song title reminds me of Bill and Ted.
Beethoven(you know how I’m pronouncing it!) likes it.
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WOOP! ROADTRIP!
oooo Brisbane meat. I’m not sure if I’ll be free but I will try to be. How many Brisbane TAYbies are there?
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Welbot, me, Sughly, Endu, Jimu, DAN!, Trjn, ummm am I missing anyone? I feel like I am.
r u near a train station , lady?
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I am unfortunately not near a train station. I am right near a bus stop though.
Hopefully someone will be able to help you out. I’m fairly sure someone(Endu?) offered when we were discussing it last week.
I shall do my best to be there, if only for the fairy bread.
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You’d better be there! That’s actually why I’m mentioning a month before hand so people can hopefully plan for this before they have other plans.
For those playing AS tonight, here’s a helpful guide (provided by Mini AP) to make the game a bit more playable:
make this file Steam\SteamApps\common\alien swarm\swarm\cfg\autoexec.cfg
inside it put:
asw_camera_shake 0
asw_fast_reload_under_marine 1
asw_marine_labels_cursor_maxdist 1000
mat_grain_scale_override 0
save it and launch.
What it does:
No annoying camera shake when you get hit
Reload bar UNDERNEATH your marine
No annoying grain effect
Shows health bars under everyone
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Wait, what did I miss? Exactly who is Mini AP? Did you clone yourself or something?
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Mini AP is my brother.
He’s not heavy.
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My best friend the chocolate cake
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Hey guys. I’m back. Camping was pretty great, the weather was fantastic and the dam actually had water. I feel bad for only waking up a few hours ago, it’s already getting dark! Also, too much TAY to read. You guys are machines. Melbourne meat at the Mana bar would be kinda fun, or just a Melbourne Meat in general. And L.A Noire and Mass Effect 2 came in while I was gone. What to play first!?!?
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Mass Effect 2. There is really no contest.
One of the best. games. evar.
I would have its babies if fornication with a DVD wasn’t so painful.
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What happens if I’ve only played 1/3 – 1/2 of the original Mass Effect?
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Then you don’t get to xfer over your story to ME2.
Not the end of the world but it’s nice to see what you did in the first carry over to the second.
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Hm, it’s better if you finish the first one, honestly.
You can’t import a save that’s only 1/2 or 1/3rd done, and if you don’t import the game kinda decidse stuff for you (so it’s not really as epic, story wise).
Feel free to dive into ME2 and get a feel for the game (it’s really amazing) but it works beautifully if you finish the first game and then import that into ME2. All the decisions and characters you made or influenced pop up at some point and the connection is stronger.
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So, I’m not quite done with it… there’s absolutely nothing in the sidebars and there’s a good chance the code will wig out somewhere, but I present my new website! Woo!
http://www.procrastoonation.com
I only have one comic up so far, but from now on when I have my useless cartoons, they will be upped here rather than a random folder to be forgotten. Feedback would make me happy!
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A joy to behold.
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You’ve got one fan already 🙂 I’ll be a regular visitor for shizzle!
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“really just an excuse for me procrastinate”- From your ‘About’ page. Did you forget to put a ‘to’ in there?
Your comic made me laugh, even though I’ve never actually played Mario Kart.
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Oooooh man, already making typos. Thanks Strange >_<
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Who cares about your typos? They seem trivial in a world where there are people who haven’t played Mario Kart!?!
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I think I just pooped…WHAT!!!???
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Awesome! I love the design.
When will the next comic be up?
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*shrugs*
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Needs more unicorns/ponies/lions/etc!!!
Constructive criticism, feedback? Jeepers, I don’t know! Just put lots of your illustrations on there and it’ll be perfect!
Oh, more unicorns AND! more of the other animals you draw because I like them. And? Um? Yep, that’s about it. Just put lots of your drawings on here and I’ll visit lots!
Just have lots of characters and places like on your other website:
Those full colour ones you do are the best and I also really like the darker stuff like the Murder Sketches – so have all that too. Actually! – http://sughly.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0#/d33451i – you should turn Murder Sketches into a series! Maybe you have? Yes! So include that. And? Have it like so the key protagonist of Murder Sketches has a sidekick and that sidekick is like a Mr Ed talking horse or other animal of your choosing – this needs to happen! And I like the rabbits and sharks you draw – so have them as regular characters. And? I think the random three panel comics are gold, but have regular characters and running narratives too.Annnnnnnnd? I’m not to sure about the name yet? I don’t know if i like the name? Hmmmm? Leave it with me. But that’s just subjective personal taste anyhow. I’m not quite sold on the name yet. Maybe I will be. I’d like to see you use something more abstract. Something like Unicorn Disco and then you could draw a couple of unicorns before and after the text! That kind of thing, something with no paticular meaning or specific reference point. I think the name needs to stand out more, something more curious. Leave the name with me, maybe I’ll come to like it more.
Yes. That sounds good. And then what? Umm? That’s all I can think of for now, but I’ll visit this site all the time.
Looks good but needs more everything,
Plainview.
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Haha, merci Plainview. Yeah I wasn’t completely sold on my own name, I tossed a few around for ages but the others were much worse. I got fed up of waiting and just settled.
Thanks for perusing my goods elsewhere though! Even if they are mostly old and kind of… not good. Unicorns will come, I promise you that. My game Anna’s Room involves a puzzle with a unicorn, so maybe that will appeal to you when it’s out..? /shameless plug for game that isnt even finished
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one copy of Anna’s Room = sold!!
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I want to sex your funny!
I love you, man 🙂
Finally got my main gaming rig going again – was a bit of a mission involving a conflict between my graphics, onboard audio and raid controller drivers. The fix was just the order I had to install the drivers in :/ but more importantly, I am just starting to get games re-installed.
So far I have found a copy of WC3 and Garena for some DotA action, have installed League Of Legends to have another crack at it and Steam to take advantage of the newly free Team Fortress 2.
If anyone wants to take pity on me and be my friend or feels like taking a noob under their wing, my accounts are:
Steam: thisisdickhead
LoL: steveothedevo
Garena: thisIsDickHead
Apologies if anyone dislikes the language in dickhead, but thisIsRichardCranium didn’t fit and I only just started using Steve-O the Deve-O 🙂
Look forward to playing with you guys!
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LAWL WHAT IS WITH YOUR NICKNAMES???!!!
I guess this means I too have to get garena!
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The names are a bit of an inside joke I guess, and a mate set up the garena account for me and used it so it stuck.
Also Harli, next friday I have a mate visiting from out of town, which will be the catalyst for some other mates coming round for beers and DotA. This may be a good time for some DotA Garena time if you have a team or know some people who are keen for a friendly? We’re no-where near pro’s but we come up with some entertaining tactics!
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Sure I’d be up for it. Duno bout the rest of my friends though – DoTA has left ’em pretty traumatised.
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Will add you on LoL tonight human.
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Cheers Tech Knight – am having a hard time getting used to the difference between DotA and LoL but other than that am enjoying it so far.
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So, as all the cool peeps on twitter will no doubt be aware (what do you mean you don’t hang on every word of mine with baited breath?), while coming home today I missed my stop (because I was playing Zelda) and had to walk home further (while playing Zelda). I had no problems with this.
Also, today was far more reasonable in terms of posts. But…
Plainview: For what may be the first time ever, I disagree with you. I do not find Megan Fox at all attractive in the slightest. I genuinely find her repugnant. Whenever I see her on screen I feel a little sick. If it is at all possible to be allergic to the sight of someone, that is what I am.
Hugo: I think the worst accent of all time was Cate Blanchett in the movie that doesn’t exist (Indiana Jones 4), which is weird, because she can usually do accents really well.
Shane: You’re Canberran, right? Or have I got that completely wrong? If you want LA Noire, and don’t feel like waiting for whoever else offered, I have an American copy for the PS3, but the DLC may not work, I dunno… Also, on that note;
Strange: Would you like Yakuza 4? I’d be happy to lend it to you, as I have so many games to get through that it’s not even on my list of things to worry about. The main downside is that I have NO IDEA how our postal system works (apart from poorly).
Q-bo: I agree, this is ridiculous, but slightly less bad today.
Harli: In regards to Loopsies comment about your clan war, my SC2 clan once had a joke war with nGen. I’m sure you can imagine how that went. Also, yes, we should have met up better and done some stuff… I meant to be all social, and turn up, and sing a lot, and be outgoing, and all that at the meat, but the moment I realised that I’d be dealing with other people, you know, real people, I just went back into my shell…
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Clearly the next time you come up more alcohol needs to be involved. Alcohol solves all social inhibitions.
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Nah, next time I just need to be ready for people I’ve never met saying to me “I know who you are!” While not necessarily surprising, it was rather unexpected.
Or yeah, copious amounts of alcohol, the main problem there being that I’m an expensive drunk…
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When I attended the first Meat, back when they were just called Meets I pretty much inhaled my first alcoholic beverage just to calm my nerves which were worse than usual due to having had a nightmare of a morning.
There was no alcohol consumed at Welbot’s though which I was fine with because I felt like a Meat Pro and didn’t need it. Which is my overly long-winded way of saying you’ll most likely be fine next time.And thanks for the Yakuza 4 offer. I think I’ve got way too many games to play already though. In fact I should sort them out and take a picture for Bunny’s Shameless July.
Also, you and Shane should absolutely have a mega-mini-Meat in Canberra. you might even be able to persuade some of the Sydney people to attend, Field of Dreams style.
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Mini-Canberra-meet (I can’t write meat, sorry :P) sounds pretty okay to me. We should sort this out.
Any other secret Canberrans lurking around (don’t be ashamed)?
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I think there are like 3 or 4 of us?
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Ah yes, while terrible at least Cate managed to maintain that horror of an accent, Natalie on the other hand managed to warble out a different accent everytime she opened her mouth, all of which were vomit inducingly bad.
Blaghman, you are correct – I am indeed a Canberran. I have emailed James Mac (like two minutes ago, and he STILL hasn’t gotten back to me :P), though should investigate your offer too, I think.
Are you looking to lend, sell or buy (I am open to any of these options)?
((PS: re posting games to Strange in Brisbane, a standard game will fit in a C5 envelope (about 20c) and can be posted anywhere with 3x 60c stamps. *Sometimes* the cases will crack though, so it’s cheap but risky.))
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“I have emailed James Mac (like two minutes ago, and he STILL hasn’t gotten back to me)”
You know I actually panic like this if people don’t respond in an hour? I’m paranoid…
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Fear not,
I have taken actions of a reciprical nature.
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Bahahha. Next time we shall! Or maybe we should just roadtrip to Canberra sometime.. you can’t spell ACTION without ACT!
Clan war vs nGen? I can only imagine what ensued. But I do believe you are implying that the boys and I simply crush all that stand in our path… which is only half true.
Come back to Sydney again and stay longer next time!
i don’t even love Megan Fox!!! http://i.imgur.com/X76f1.jpg
Bawble/crabjiffy are back on the highways to Sydney, after randomly going into Blacktown (waves at AP) and got Assassin’s Creed 1 and Kane & Lynch 2 for $32 altogether, both for xbox 360. Jiffy said (while driving) that our “Pineapple of Shame” is too small. :p His friend is also getting more games for him from HK.
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“Pineapple of shame”?
Phrase stolen.
Here are the Target toy sale specials which star on July 21st!
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.. obviously that should say start
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And don’t forget Myer!
Also, if anyone wants to buy a Wii – Big W have the console + Mario Kart Wii for $138.
It really doesn’t get any better than that!
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That’s really tempting. Why is everyone after my money!
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Can I borrow a dollah?
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Can I borrow about tree fitty?
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Just Watched: A Good Man Goes to War.
Hell YES! Go Moffat!!!
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nice! GIVE US THE NEXT HALF SERIES!!!!!!!!!
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I love the last episode and the whole season. It was awesome.
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Word. He’s one of my favourite writers of all time.
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He’s definetly my fave TV writer.
Press Gang
Coupling
Dr. Who
Jekkyl
SherlockOH YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!
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And he’s had a part in the tin tin movie!
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YUP!
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I wish I could be in on this Moffat love, but he hasn’t impressed me since taking over Doctor Who. His work on Doctor Who prior to being the lead writer was solid, and you’ve listed plenty of great work that he has done. So I’m not sure what is going on. Maybe I’m laying the blame for unsatisfying content on the wrong person.
However, A Good Man Goes to War was fantastic! High hopes for the second half. Although, what is with this break? Is there a reason?!
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His reasoning was; that now you only have to ever wait 3 months for a piece of new doctor who e.g. Series first half ends, 3 month wait, series second half ends, 3 month wait, Christmas special, and so on…
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Ooooh, a reason! Thanks!
I guess I support that idea in theory. But in practice, seasons feel short enough. Cutting them in half is pretty painful.
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I’m watching tennis at the moment, Tomic seems like a good kid, I think a good career is coming to him. A perfect person to represent Australia in tennis.
(I shouldn’t really be calling him a kid, I’m only 2 years older)
The misanthropy is strong tonight.
Jamie What?: You asked for pictures of the Sydney Meat II. Here’s the only one I took.
Trjn: My pile of shame to work on during July. Some real vintage stuff in there. Also, I’m on the final mission of LA Noire so that probably doesn’t count. The 3 on the bottom right are ones that I would like to start, but have never got around to.
Also Qumulys, I agree that TAY has been a little TL;DR – what was the resolution with the visit from the lounge guy aka The Wolf?
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That’s an awesome pile of shame. You should have a fair bit of fun in July.
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If I hadn’t seen it in his videos I would be starting to think Blaghman doesn’t even HAVE a face.
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You’re doing PD on 360 right? The box is just for illastartive purposes??
Is the same game with updated controls and better sound/graphics.
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Spelling FAIL!
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Yeah. I made the mistake of playing the original on Perfect difficulty to get the full experience, then ended up rage quitting on one of the final levels. No idea how close I was to the end, but I was fighting aliens on a spaceship.
Might try it on a slightly easier difficulty on the xbox!
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Did you get a cart with a previous save?
It was my beleif that you had to unlock each level of diffuculty be completing the previous????
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No, I bought it new on launch day. You can play a level on any difficulty, provided that you’ve finished the preceding levels on an equal or higher difficulty. So if you start the first level on Perfect difficulty, like I did, you can play the whole game that way.
I could have dropped down a notch to play the level I was stuck on but, well, that would have been admitting defeat. So I just quit playing the entire game instead 😉
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Zack and Wiki was an awesome game! Though… it’s still technically in my pile too. Never di get past that pirate airplane level :'(
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I think I was up to the third stage of a giant space robot end-boss thing. Pretty sure I was minutes away from finishing! So it’s going to be one of the first things off the pile (as per my comments below).
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The Wolf, although skilled in what he does, was no match for the foul smelling fiend that is le` stench of de piss`devile. Once his fancy chemical smell had gone, I’m saddened to report the smell still lingers. Now, I’m destined to complete Trials HD tracks in the comforting fragrance of a piss trough.
Seriously considering cutting open the couch from underneath to try and clean the insides of it out.
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Just… wow. That’s horribly unbelievably unfair.
Maybe we should all get together to record a tribute album, then sell it to raise funds to replace Qumulys’ piss-stained lounge?
“We can’t get the stain out,
But we’ll do the next best thing.
We’ll all get together
and sing, sing sing!”-
Love it!
♫♫♫♫
#Verse
He got a stain on his couch,
Because some girl was a slouch,
He complained to the people of TAY,
and they came together today.#Chorus
To sing; Hey There Mate,
We don’t appreciate,
the piss stain that you left,
I’d rather have had a theft.
We sing; Hey There Mate,
I’d rather you were late.
I’d rather you were sick,
and not just such a d♥ick!#Verse
So he took a chill-pill and sat down,
Said “looks like I’m the clown”.
Realised he sat on the puddle,
Now he’s in a great muddle!#Chorus
So we sing; Hey There Mate,
We don’t appreciate,
the piss stain that you left,
I’d rather have had a theft.
We sing; Hey There Mate,
I’d rather you were late.
I’d rather you were sick,
and not just such a d♥ick!
♫♫♫♫This is, of course, a ballad in the style of Don MacLean’s “American Pie”.
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I lollllllled heartily, thanks guys! 😀
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So Bye, Bye, couch stench that brings a tear to your eye,
Kid slept with teddy, wet the beddy – the couch is no longer dry,
And good old kids, cover up the mess cus’ they’re shy,
Singing, this will be the day that Q-Bo cries,
this will be the day Q-Bo cries…..
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Where can I buy “Xenoblade Chronicles”?
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This. Zavvi don’t even have a preorder for it.
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Please email if you find it, lady!
I think I need this game, sounds awesooooome!
Also, Train station near your house??
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I haven’t found anything yet. Might have to wait a few weeks. 🙁
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*tear*
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Jamie
Did you get my yestrday email??
I need feedback, FEEDBACK!
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NAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
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Downloaded and replied, but not read yet. Will have to wait till after work to read it.
Damn work!
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Tonight, I’m writing up another blog post about the Shameless Gaming Month.
Going to list my pile of shame, the games I’ll be focusing my attention on and why I want to focus on those games.
If anyone else wants to do something similar (say list one or two games they want to focus on and why in a brief paragraph), please do. I’ll try to incorporate it in the post.
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OOOOH! ME , ME!
I’ll be focussing on Dragon Quest 6 cos I finally stopped Pokemon(for a while).
And
LA Noire, cos it was out of my control , why I stopped.And
Donkey kong Country returns.
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I will finish LA Noire tonight, so that willbe gone by the start of July.
So I will be starting the month with Zak and Wiki and Halo 3, because I’m on the final level for both. In fact, I think I was literally seconds from finishing Halo 3 – I was playing coop, driving round some disintegrating platforms, and was about to make a triumphant leap into the back of a dropship. My coop partner’s router chose that moment to reset and update its software. Haven’t gone back since.
Resident Evil 4 is next because I’m totally ashamed that I’ve completed RE5 multiple times, but have yet to focus on RE4 long enough to even make the second disc.
Then I’ll play Metroid Prime 3. I really enjoyed it while I was playing, but the position of the sun in my house at the time confused the Wii, so I was unable to play it during daylight hours. I think it was pushed out of the way by some 360 games and I never got back to it.
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I have to admit, the RE4 bit confuses me. How can you possibly complete RE5 multiple times without beating RE4 when RE4 is the vastly superior game?
Your actions baffle me!
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It is a little weird, I fully admit that. I mainly finished RE5 so many times because I was playing it cooperatively with my brother.
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I have Metroid 3 on a longterm borrow(until I am done).
I like it but there’s something missing that the last two had.
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Other than that lost odyssey and MGS4 are on my list to knock off in july. Got a fair way into MGS4 but then went away for a week on holidays and then didn’t get back into it after the break. Might have to restart it tho cause i’m sure i’ll have no idea what is going on otherwise.
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lost odyssey
DOOOO IIITT!!!!!
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I’ll prolly have to start that one again as well, but i don’t wanna cause i remember the first boss being an absolute bastard!
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Yeah, it’s weird the first boss actually killed me and then I didn’t die again until something like disc 3.
I got the Dlable content and the boss at the bottom is STUPID RICULOUS, I read online how to beat him and theres only one or two maove that actually do enough damge (he keeps healing at a VERY high amount) both of which I think I had missed somewhere…
Harsh.
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My primary focus will be Valkyria Chronicles. I’ve been singing praise about that game, to all who have bothered to listen, since launch, yet have never managed to play too far into it. Whenever I start the game, I’m soon interrupted by barrels of stress at work, and so I put the game down, thinking that my experience will otherwise suffer. But not this month. One of my favourite games must actually be played!
But first, this weekend will be dedicated to finishing off Final Fantasy XIII. I’m close enough to the end that I may as well claim the gimme during this shameless gaming month.
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I should do that with FF13, I think I’m over my fanboy rage now.
So, the trading forum on PalGN is going down. This makes me sad, as I have gotten some amazing deals on that forum over the last 12 months.
After both James Mac and Blaghman have indicated to me their desire to offload their copies of LA Noire, I decided that Kotaku could benefit from a game trading/lending/selling thread/board/forum of some description… or is it just me..?
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Yes i was thinking about this the other day. I have a few games that i wouldn’t touch for a while . I endorse this idea.
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Speaking of trades, if Mark will allow this, for today only, I can do some 2Tb iomega external hdd’s for $140, or 2Gb DDR3 for $32 if anyone’s interested!
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Also 12.2 Megapixel Samsung digital cameras for $85!
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You know what i’ve always wanted?
A cannon EOS.. so shiny and soooooo EXPENSIVE! lol -
Oooh, shiny! Could you give more details/link to the model?
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Sure thing man! Here’s the samsung page for it!
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/camera-camcorder/digital-still-camera/compact-cameras/EC-ES30ZZBABAU/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&subsubtype=es-series
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DDR2?
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Best I can do for 2Gb DDR2 atm is $40
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Could I partake in that Welbot? 😉
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Sorry, welbot, but Officeworks has 2TB drives for $95 at the moment 😛 I’m picking up two tonight!
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This is a good idea. I approve with goodness.
Some really good special offers from ozgameshop this week.. i will probably actually finally get Company of heroes after LOVING the demo to death 😛
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Also – $19 for golden eye is AWESOME.. pity it doesn’t have the controller, though 😛
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It would be, if it were the REAL goldeneye!!!
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That gamecube controller is tempting, since my dog decided to nom nom one of my controllers
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Ditto, except my old controller nomnoms came courtesy of my son when he was younger. He did it to not one but two of them.
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Well who could blame him? They are quite the delicious controller!
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YES!
Yes.
Company of Heroes is amazing. Tales of Valo(u)r falls a bit flat, but yes.
It was the last RTS to keep my interest before I got old man hands and became too lazy to keep up with everything happening.
Hey guys need some pre-order assistance.
Ok, so after asking game on facebook why they didn’t have a price for the space marine collectors edition, or a pre-order bonus – they replied to me and finally got it all up – RAD..
Now i need your opinion of which store to pre-order from – all are pretty much the exact same price but with different DLC.
1. EB – Golden relic Bolter and Chainsword for multiplayer use
2. JB – Space Wolves and Black Templar Skins for multiplayer
3. Game – Chaos Forces Iron Warriors and Emperors Children for multiplayer
So guys and gals – which one do YOU think?? 😛
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Black Templar!
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Game… because Chaos is supreme! 🙂
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Though that EB deal just make me rethink my pruchase of the game, really hate devs that do that, give privileged players the leg up against others online. Unless they’re just weapon skins, then that’s fine 🙂
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Yeah – i’m actually going to be asking the Space Marine team about that today..
Also – if you get Kill Team and finish the first level, it unlocks the power sword for Space Marine which is meant to be really useful against Chaos
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Yeah if it’s a weapon you can unlock in-game (meaning anyone can), then that’s not an issue. Good players can earn their right to use those weapons just like everybody else. But giving more powerful/useful weapons for players to use online that can’t be obtained anywhere else, just because that player had the extra money aside to pre-order it or get a “limited edition” which usually costs more as well, then that’s silly.
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That’s just terrible. You shouldn’t have to choose, all this crap should be available to you anyway! Stupid Pre-order DLC.
Having said that, and knowing nothing of Warhammer/Space Marines, having Chaotic warriors made of iron sound cool. And children of the emperor would be useful.
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Play Zelda instead!
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I will!
This is the order my games are to be played in at the moment:
Finish Mass Effect
Shadow of the colossus
Zelda (either occarina, twilight or cartoony dude)-
NOW GIVE ME SPACE MARINE OPINION! 😛
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Obviuosly the good one…
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*futuristic face palm*
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In space, can anyone hear you facepalm?
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I went with EB for my collectors edition – was picking up DNF and put some dosh down on a few collectors editions…
The weapon skins are okay, obviously not as cool as player skins, though. If they had a Dark Angels preorder skin, it would have overcome my laziness to go somewhere else to preorder 😛
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Yeah i was really hoping for some DA action too…
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Sughly! New webpage is AWESOMEEEEEEE!!!! Can I make one request tho? Can you put on all your past pics you’ve done for Kotaku on there (and the giz comp)??? Like, maybe in a ‘teh erlee dayz’ section or something!
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Co-signed.
We need a background history of the man before he became famous.
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Especially that amazing Plainview picture, and attach Plainview’s post as the description or something. ‘Twas amazing.
Seeing as lots of people are getting into LoL now I declare that we should have a night of Kotaku LoLs!
Anyone interested? Tomorrow night perhaps?
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Hells to the yes, currently can play Warwick or Yi 🙂
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Very keen for future LoL nights, but perhaps not immediately as I need the practice and don’t want to bring everyone else down.
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Nah that’s the thing, aside from Tech I think everyone is pretty new to it so it will be just fun and practice as a team.
We can start off with some VS ai to get into the swing of things.-
That’s pretty much what I did to practise before trying against other players. What I mainly recommend is this:
-Newbie = Play vs. AI games until you feel comfortable with your characters and the gameplay
-Go online Solo = What you’ll do a lot, the best you can do is keep a cool head and be sure not to let the enemy players catch you off guard (feeding), and as long as you know you did your best, even if you do get defeated in the end, no worries, just improve your build to match the situations you get put in, if you’re taking on melee, ranged, mage etc. The matchmaking when going in solo is awesome, you get put against people the same summoner level as you and (usually) close to your skill level.
-Team games = These can be risky, if your levels aren’t close together you could get pitted up against pros. For example I was level 9 and my friend was level 13 and we got pitted up in a game with level 20+ guys on the other side, best you can do is try to keep up as much as you can with your friends in summoner level so that doesn’t happen.
-Custom Games = Very good for practise, especially when you want to try out things like Jungling, team builds, or just a party game. This way you can experiment more freely without risking reputation damage 🙂
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😛 I don’t really mind if you guys are still newbies at it, I’m not that great at it either, I’ve only just started getting better with Master Yi, found a build that I really like and works wonders (Last game I had 100+ more creep kills than everybody else xD so I got to max level first)
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Please do!
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With Steve-O joining the fray we almost got a full team of 5, pretty cool
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Did you know that there’s a limit to nested replies? You can only go nine deep as I learned on page 5 of TAY when I attempted to reply to James Mac’s reply to my reply to Strange’s reply to my reply to my reply to Strange’s reply to Mark’s reply to FatShady’s post.
Interesting, but it kind of limits the conversation, don’t you think? 😉
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I’ve kept convos going by replying to wherevr the last reply let me.
Seems to work, no-one is rude enough to jump in and screw it up.
Possibly the greatest delivery of a One-Liner ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH2yqLXhMkQ
You have to love Danny Kaye.
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WHO??
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The guy in the video I linked?
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Sorry dood, no yootoob @ wurk.
If’n I ‘memebr 2nite I will cheeck
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Is there cheap component cables for PS2?
My PS2 games look SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET on my 1080p set.
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ebay, that’s where I went for mine, which ended up fixing the lag on the LCD TV as well 🙂
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PS3 and PS2 use the same cables, so just grab some cheap PS3 cables and you should be fine.
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Ooooh… this tempts me greatly and makes me want to play PS2 games all of a sudden…
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I threw on FF12 one night in a fit of nostalgia and was appalled at how shockin it looked.
PS: I can’t spell, not even a low level fire spell.
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Just wait for an HD edition of what ever you want to play 😛 Its all the craze these days
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I HATE repurchasing stuff I own.
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It uses th esame component cable as the PS#, so look for a cheap PS3 one.
Also, have the component and composite cables hooked up because you’ll have to swap em out quick. Hook it up with the standard compsite to change the seetings and the screen will go back. You’ll have to swap over quickly to confirm.
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That is the stupidest thing I have heard today…
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Thanks guys, cant actually see all these links at work but will check em 2nite.
Does anyone know if Dick Smith actually has these instore?
Money missing from my wallet gets lesee questions than money missing from the credit card…
MONTH OF SHAMELESS GAMING BEGINS TOMORROW!!
I will be opening with my first remix, bioshock, devil may cry and red wine. May not remember what I do by the following morning but as long as I’m making progress… WINNING!
Also, we had a nice run-through of the campaign in Alien Swarm last night with mini AP doing his normal Leeroy Jenkins ‘run ahead of the main group’ manuever. I’m happy to say 2/4 of us were able to clear the final level!
Good ol’ source engine keeps crashing like poo on me which resulted in my death 🙁 I need to find out how and why it keeps freezing up on me. Supremely frustrating.
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You just reminded me how much more fun I was having playing Bioshock after a few beers…
Hmm, idea sprouting.
Did I miss it? But did that X-Men competition from a while back get chosen yet? Just curious! 😀
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According to Mr. Serrels it should happen today.
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It happened! Once again, I flailed, gah! Why must the world be so clever and witty!??? Will I ever win a comp on kotaku??? One day I will, just like Powerball, then I’ll train a horde of bats spread with peanut-butter to lure in Meatloaf and get a titty hug.
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I’m just waiting for the next comp where I can do a video. I don’t need wit, I have terrible singing!
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There seems to be way more entries now in any comps than in the Goose era.
Or maybe I’m imagining stuff 😉
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SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION! New Procrastoonation toon up – http://www.procrastoonation.com/
I have to say, having the site in existence makes me even more prone to procrastinating now. I may have just started something that will eventually destroy me…
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OBLIGATORY CAT JOKE!
Why is he looking at his crotch in the first pane? Is he afraid of it becoming cancerous and falling off*?
*secret fear of mine.
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Yeah, I thoungh he was gonna look at porn or something…
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While that may be a fear all men (and women too I guess) share alike, it’s just me not knowing what to draw.
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That first one made me lolz xD
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3rd strip should be a copy+paste of the 2nd – BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS!
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Your art style makes me happy.
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lolol! Thanks for the love everyone. And for the Rod Stewarts. Man he’s dreamy.
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HOLY CARP.
Game of Thrones!
asdfghjkl;!
So good. Need more.
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Where are we all watching this series? I’ve started reading the book at a friend’s suggestion, and I can’t stop reading! Would love to get a hold of the series, too.
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There’s this place called “the interwebz” :p
Seriously though, I’ve been watching through Channel BT. Just contact your preferred illegal download provider thingy.
I don’t know if that was really necessary of me, but I’m bored.
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Wink wink.
Was always aware of *those* options, but I wasn’t sure if there was somewhere hosting them for free a bit more… legally.
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I think there’s something up with the commenting system!
You’ve got random bolded letters peppering your comment!-
Have I now?
How odd…
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TWAS ME!
AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA….
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For some bold enough to embolden another person’s comment, your own comment doesn’t seem so bold.
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*For someone
Stupid fingers.
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TAKE THAT!
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Have at yuo!
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These last two comments made me laugh out loud, for realz.
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It’s starting on Foxtel in a few weeks’ time, according to the side of the bus I saw on Sunday.
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Shibby! I’ve set Spielberg’s Falling Skies to record, will have to check whether I get the Game of Thrones channel.
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It’s an amazing show, the production values are amazing and the story was really scripted well for a 10-part TV series.
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League Of Legends players!
New page plug!
Half baked playedate! Friday?
New players welcome as we are all new really – excuses of noobness are not accepted!
Post your handles for great justice!
Exclamation marks optional!
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I’m in! For those that haven’t added me yet, handle is TechKnight
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Keen!, however I’m not completely sure I’m available between football training and relatives visiting. Handle is steveothedevo, will attempt to join you’s later in the night at the very least.
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Joining you guys with my crappy, laggish computer.
Name is Crabjiffy!-
Ahaha! I love that you’ve embraced Bawble.
Mad respect.
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*sulky look* I was hoping for doodle…
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That’s what she said, and gesticulated!
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If someone reminds me, I should be able to play.
I’m most probably Blaghman…
Slow TayDay eh?
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Yeah, I can see tumbleweeds rolling across my screen… 🙁
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Slow!
Grand plans for today:
– Going home.
– Mulling over buying alcohol.Though I did get this on it’s final day of sales after many days of agonizing over it:
http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/equalizers/psp_neon_hr/Rawr. Sexy EQ action. I love PSPAudioware stuff.
I played my first game of Magicka last night. It is a surprisingly fun game!
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I’m so dissapointed that wasn’t a Playstation portable.
(disclaimer: I love music. I love it so much that in highschool I seriously considered seriously taking it up as my art goal over comics. I was so seriously serious about it that I tried learning guitar and even spent time writing songs on computers.
Got to the point when I realised that time is SOOO important in music. I hate time, when I was unemployed I unplugged my clock, I never know what time it is, I don’t know how long it just took me to do that thing I just did and I have no idea what the date is. I could never find joy if while I was performing a song I was also counting. It would send me hysterically mad. As well while making songs on the compuetr I had to play back what I had just written to make sure it sounded the way I wanted. by the end of writing a song I HATED IT, I had no way of telling if it turned out the way I’d planned because it made me sick to the stomach hearing AGAIN.)I love music.
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I also love music.
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PSP… has no games?
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Funnily enough everyone I have showed this plugin to today has expressed disappointment in the fact that it’s not a Sony PSP.
Just you nerds wait until my remixes start coming out in July… *shakes fist*
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Hey, that’s in 8 hours and 16 minutes!
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Get your lawnmower and prepare your blinds!
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meh
I think we needed one.
Also, last day of the financial year. Some of us are actually a little busy.
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Sometimes I think the Foxtel people are incredibly depressed on the 1st of July, since they can no longer sing and dance about EOFYS. It’s probably the one highlight of their job.
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Then they all go back to watching repeats.
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Got my package inspected by Australian post today,lucky i didnt order Mortal Kombat, was planing to order it.Anyways does anyone know if there inspections are random? or do they think im gangsta or something.
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depends on what cultural background you are 😛
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Australia Post inspected your package? How much did it cost? You see I’ve got these lumps that need checking out…..
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Dammit! You beat me to the joke.
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Hahaha nice one
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It’s supposed to be random. I’ve never had my packages opened, but I’ve read a post on the Whirlpool forums where this dude from western sydney was raging all of his had been opened.
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LOL, must of been something secretive or private i guess.
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Is random, we’ve had it happen.
If anyone got a Google+ invite, can you please send one my way?
mrexplody (_at_) [gmail]
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I’ve just been sent an invite, will be setting my account up later tonight. I’ll see what I can do regarding your request.
Seriously though, what are people’s thoughts on it? The xkcd comic about it is a pretty damned good sales pitch.
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I think Tad has some if you wanna bug him about it.
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“how about that kiss now, explody?”
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I’m one of those people who doesn’t see the point. Twitter is probably as far as I’ll foray into this social media dealio, and that’s because I only have to express or view expressions in a limited number of characters.
Further human interaction than that is just terrifying.
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I thought I smelled pee when we first met!
According to my dog’s vet, it’s a sign of nervousness.
*nods to self*-
I wear rubber pants so it’s no longer a concern.
Plus it keeps me pretty warm in winter.
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I really just want to see what the difference is.
I have a Windows Phone 7 which has very close integration with Facebook and Windows Live, so unless Microsoft integrate Google+ into it, it’s unlikely I’ll use it to it’s full potential.
But there are some aspects of Google+ I’m interested in such as the Huddle function and being able to group people in a more meaningful manner. Having said that, I think it would be difficult to convince my entire social network to move from facebook to another platform.
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Most of my friends seem to have invites, at least, most of the friends I normally interact with. So I guess it’s just a matter of seeing how it pans out now.
It looks interesting, but I haven’t really done much other than login and add a few people.
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Makes me wonder how many times I’ve placed blame on the dog for making a racket:
So I may as well conform to this Shameless Gaming Month with:
Half-Life (yes, there are still unfortunates out there who haven’t finished it), Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Half-Life 2 if Steam download servers like me enough.
Maybe The Witcher, Dragon Age: Origins or Starcraft 2 if I decide to cheat and get a new game.
And Crysis or Sniper: Ghost Warrior or Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.
And I’ll be livetweeting some of it if someone is bored enough that they want their twitterfeed flooded.
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I’ve never even PLAYED Half-Life.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
That is simply NOT RIGHT.
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Lend me a copy on PS2 or xbox(if its on the compatability list) and I’ll play. Looks good.
When it came out though, baaaaaad timing. Too many sweet not that games.
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Have you never petted a headcrab before?
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Crabs on the head? Does petting a cat lady count?
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I think we’ve just identified your next comic!
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OBLIGATORY CAT JOKE!
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I’ve played Half Life and Half Life 2 but never got around to beating either of them. I thought the first game was ok but Half Life 2 is just terrible. I can’t really find anything about it to enjoy.
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Me too. Watched my brother play some, seems to me like more oh noes things coming through dimensions pew pew stuff to me. I appreciate other people like these things, but not I.
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DA: O is pretty great if you love ridiculously long story driven RPGs. If you pick up the Ultimate Edition it comes with all the expansions/DLC packs.
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The problem with playing ridiculously long story driven RPGs from your pile of shame is that by the time you get through them your pile of shame is bigger rather than smaller.
One step forwards and two steps back.
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This.
Plus, the companion AI in DA is utterly retarded.
And by retarded, I mean each of your companions has mittens pinned to its shirt.
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Unfortunately, yeah.
Setting tactics sorta helps but you really need to get deep into the stats and effects of all the spells/talents.
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I made the rules, so I can make an exception for those who want to keep buying stuff. Not that there is a rule against buying more games, it just seems slightly counter-productive.
Don’t forget to include the #ShamelessGaming tag in the live tweetingness.
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Oh great Shamless Gaming Month holiday God, please forgive me for I have sinned. No I haven’t played Black Ops recently, but I did just purchase SC2, thus being counter-productive. My justification is that it’s been in my Must Buy (hypothetical) Pile ever since release, as well as a few other games I have to get when I get a job (being a student I don’t have much moneys :/)
And yeah, I’ll remember to include the hashtag.
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Trjn, you should email me, I may have a small prize for some sort of “winner” or “best effort” or something if you want. Not much, but $100-$150 JB voucher or some such?
s.kaylerthomson@gmail.com if you’re interested.
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Can anyone recommed a decent 3DS game other then Zelda… I bought the damn thing and i have no decent games to play on it other then excitebike i downloaded for free.
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MGS3D. Mario Kart. Super Mario.
Oh wait. They’re not out yet. That’s why I haven’t bothered to get a 3DS yet. Seriously, the 3DS has a very poor launch lineup.
Not only does the nospam verification stop spam… it also stops idiots…
http://www.gameshampoo.com/34442/borderlands-developed-gearbox-software-developed-borderlands
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Even though it says it was posted by Anonymous… I don’t know the guy.
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WTH happened to my shifty eyes?
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They turned into a fat man rubbing his nipples.
#projecting
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The comments use HTML, so the greater than and less than symbols are not exactly the best choice of characters to use for emotes.
They tend to break stuffs.
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Bahahaha! Brilliant!
I posted this on twitter but it deserves a re-post below.
True story: Colleague at work has crabs for dinner tonight. In a plastic bag. Alive. Freaked a co-worker out. Thank god I’ve resigned. #FMJ
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Not the story I expected when I read “Colleague at work has crabs…”.
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Currently trying to convince her to allow us to borrow them for crab races.
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Dude a crab race would be awesome. Although then they’d need names.
I suggest “Snippy” and “Sir Crabinstein”
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I was thinking Shelly and Snipple. I’m pretty sure they are both girl crabs (crabettes?)
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females then, ‘Lady Craberella’?
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CrabJiffy?
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Yeahhhh, I’m not too keen on having my future food shown to me in a living state before being served. I’ve seen it plenty of times, like when dudes in restaurants show you the half-dead fish from their fish tanks asking if you’re happy with it, but really quite unnecessary.
Plus the whole cutting the crab behind the eyes that’s supposed to instantly kill it? Did… someone test this? Is there just a guy in a lab taking scissors to crabs?
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If you want an awkward meal (and a wide berth of other eaters around your table) declare “BRING ME ONE WITH MORE FEAR IN ITS EYES” when they ask you to inspect it.
Also, I would rather be stabbed in the brain than put into a pot of water while it’s brought to the boil (as per other methods).
At least this way, if I wasn’t killed outright, I’d be dribbling and thinking about furry blue circles when they put me into the boiling water. Ignorance is bliss, brain damage before death even moreso.
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Some people put them in the freezer to “put them to sleep”.
So I guess you have a third option of being frozen to death (slowly, not like Wesly Snipes in Demolition Man), then boiled.-
You could always encase it in carbonite.
Will probably work better than gladwrap. Should keep it fresh for longer, right?
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Everyone knows you need to climb on a crab’s back and hit the weak point for massive damage!
I saw Kung Fu Panda 2 last night. It was awesome. Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing, go to your nearest cinema and watch it.
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I don’t think my boss will be too pleased, but if you insist.
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You there!
Where are you going? Don’t answer that, I don’t care, you’re not going anywhere. I need you to watch over the place while I go see Kung Fu Panda 2! Apparently it’s great! Plus, Gary Oldman!
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Yay! I’ll be going soon! This is reassuring! Wait… let me ask you a few other questions first, and see how you respond:
– Is Michael Bay a good director?
– Why do people keep going to watch Transformer films?
– What is the best Michel Gondry film?If you just said ‘who is Michel Gondry’, this interview is over.
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1) Is Michael Bay a good director?? Sure!! Just ask him 😉 Have you heard that Transformers 3 is just a metaphor for Bays public image??
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/06/transformers-3-is-a-movie-about-how-wrong-you-were-to-hate-transformers-2/
2)Cos too many of us look at them with rose tinted glasses and think “Surely it can only get better…”
3) Dave Chappelles Block Party!!and just for fun!!
http://www.michelgondry.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=TP%2D001-
Haha, nice responses! Gondry TP… what the?
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1) I don’t understand the question
2) Regardless of how poor the writing/acting/directing/etc. may be, I like watching big robots fight on a big screen. Also, my rose-tinted glasses.
3) One Day or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-
BAM! Nicely done.
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1. I’m sure if Michael Bay ever directed anything it might be ok, but since all he’s done is put explosions everywhere, I would hardly call him a director.
2. Because people are stupid.
3. Eternal Sunshine is the only one I’ve seen. I tried to watch “Be Kind Rewind” but it just didn’t appeal to my adolescent brain.
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Oh Blagh… these responses are the best. You get my gold badge of being most like me (which is the only way to be). Be Kind Rewind was crap, nuf said. Eternal Sunshine is one of the best movies ever made. Possibly the best.
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One of the English classes in college at my school got to study Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I would have been jealous, but I was too busy weighing up between doing an oral on The Phantom of the Opera (which I chose in the end) or Beauty and the Beast.
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If anyone is interested…
I am Alive… game by Ubisoft… i think delayed sometime last year has been rated by the ACB…
Joystiq article…
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/29/i-am-alive-found-hiding-on-australian-game-classification-websit/
Just finished inFamous 2. Again. Platinumed it. It’s just so addictively fun! The game has problems, especially with the morality (the game makes plenty of sense if you play it the good way, but the evil ending was better.) and it felt more like a continuation, rather than a sequel. But nonetheless, the game is fantastic and is worth playing.
So, my pile of shame.
Xbox – ilomilo, limbo, ME1, ME2, Reach.
PS3 – L.A Noire (came in yesterday), sly collection. Also need to play Dead nation and Ratchet and Clank from the Welcome back package.
PC – HL2 second playthrough, HL2 episodes, Bioshock, Dead Space, Metro 2033, Amnesia.
Stuff I want to replay for sequels coming out later this year: Arkham Asylum, UC1 and UC2.
Big pile. What I really hope to finish are the Mass Effect games, Bioshock, L.A Noire, Amnesia and the HL2 games.
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Bioshock is up the top of my list as well, but I’m hoping to complete Dead Space and maybe Metro 2033 as well (now that my rig can handle it in high definition).
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Wooaaah I totes forgot bout ilomilo! Whats it like? And if the answer is positive, how many points might it be?
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I haven’t finished ilomilo. Played it a while ago, co-op is fun and I really like the art style! Pretty challenging : )
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Challenging is good, I like challenging!
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Yeah, you’ll love it. Amazing art style, in a similar vein to that of LittleBigPlanet, and the puzzles can get confusing and challenging. I think I stopped playing because something shiny came along and distracted me, and my head was confused from all the puzzle solving.
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Power through Reach and Limbo, they’re not that long.
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Already I know you’ll fail to complete this.
How, you may ask?
Because you listed Amnesia. Nobody finishes Amnesia. Even Chuck Norris wimped out.
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Chuck Norris does not wimp out.
I simply had something in my eye.
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You wimped out because you are inferior to the great Bruce Lee and it is well documented.
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This is simply to lull my future opponents into a false sense of superiority.
You have much to learn, young Trjn. You can start by waxing my car.
Remember – counter-clockwise. Always counter-clockwise. This is the way of the warrior.
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Challenge Accepted.
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Gusman finished amnesia. He earned the title “Conqueror of Amnesia” and deserved it!
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So the new Halo book is a continuation of the story from Ghosts of Onxy.
Commence your excitement.
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And from memory it is being written by Karen Traviss.
Excellent. /monty
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Really>
Excellent!
I loved Nylund’s characters (Halsey in particular was a great character), so I’d love to see their storyline continued.
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I read this on the Halo wiki:
“Traviss has clarified the term “sequel” in regards to the statement by saying: “It isn’t a sequel to Ghosts of Onyx in the sense that you mean a sequel, i.e. a continuation of the same story with the same cast—these novels are just set after it and follow the events of Halo 3. There’ll be new characters and new storylines.””
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I read the press release on Halo Waypoint that showed the cover art…
“Halo: Glasslands will foloow up the events and charecters from Ghosts of Onyx.”-
Ah, awesome. I must’ve read old info 🙂
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So Big W is selling the new Green Lantern Game plus the latest animated feature on DVD ( similar to Gotham Knights)applicable to all consoles.
With the DVD retaling for $25 + it’s not a bad deal if you can crack the game, keep the dvd and get a decent trade in…..
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Thoughts on the game?
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Will grab tonight and let you all know tomorrow….
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Despite being tied to Bayformers 3, I want one of these sexy mice:
http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.232463200/categoryId.56297300
I have a DeathAdder atm, and it works wonderfully, but it isn’t red and it doesn’t have the Autobot logo, so it is now worthless!
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I wonder if the coloured surfaces still retain that non-slip rubberized coasting (as found on the normal deathadders)?
If it’s glossy plastic, might be best to stay clear unless you enjoy playing slip’n’slide with your mouse.
Ahoy-hoy,
The Pineapple of Shame Month? Do I need take a photo of the end credits or something like that to satisfy the player haters? Because, the truth is, I lie like a fly with a booger in it’s eye (the fly was funny, but the booger was the icing on the cake, etc).
Is there a pineapple for the person who finishes the most games? I must warn you: I’m going cold turkey on everything for dry July . . . so I’m going to be awake all night, shivering somewhere in the corner, sleepless, playing the shit out of every game I can get my hands on.
I’m starting Bulletstorm? Bullet Storm? before midnight tonight to get an unfair advantage, tip the scales in my favour if you know what I mean – that’s just the way it is; I need a pineapple now more than ever.
Tally-ho,
Plainview.
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Oh Plainview, you will *always* be the pineapple on my plantation.
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It’s an honour system, but I’m sure we could stalk you on XBL, PSN and whatnot to try and keep you almost honest.
I started Starcraft 2 and Darksiders this week, both are games I’ll be playing for Shameless Gaming month, it isn’t cheating because I deliberately didn’t make a rule about that :p
Some sort of participation incentive does seem like a good idea though. Shame I haven’t thought that far ahead.
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sounds good to me!!
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Don’t worry about taking a picture Plainview, just regale us with a thousand words, describing the joy and adulation you feel after having completed something that has weighed down upon you.
Also, I will have magically finished hundreds of games tomorrow.
It’s what’s known as a blatant and obvious lie.
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Looks like you and me are about to win us some pineapples!!!
: )
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Hey, tried on the last “Ask Me Stuff” post to no avail, not sure if this will get answered, but figured I’d give it a whirl. If a person, sick of the local price mark-up, were to buy a 3DS from the US, keeping in mind the region-lock, would that 3DS be able to access the US Virtual Console store from Australia or would the VC functionality be rendered useless?
Cheers.
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I know someone who might be able to help answer this. I’ll get an answer to you soon, if no one beats me to it.
I think the console uses the country of residence specified in the user information to bring up the applicable store. I would assume that you could access the US eStore, even from an Australian IP address, if you specify your country of residence as being within America.
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I can pass on the results of some tests!
On an American 3DS, with the region set to a city within America, you can access the eStore from an Australian IP address. The eStore doesn’t seem to be the Australian store, as it shows a different set of new releases, news, etc.
A search for ‘Shantae’ will reveal Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, a DSiWare game that has not been available on the Australian DSiWare store. I can confirm that the search returns nothing on an Australian 3DS, with region set to Australia.
The game was already on the American device, so on the store it was specified as “downloaded”. The purchase wasn’t made in Australia, so there is a chance that it only appeared because it was already on the device, but I highly doubt this. And, considering the alternate set of new releases, I would assume it was the American eStore that was being accessed. I would also assume that you will be able to make future purchases.
In terms of future purchases, to add funds with a credit card you do have to give a billing address, and the device seemed to expect an American one. I’m not sure if there is a way around this. You can buy prepaid cards for the eStore though, so it is likely that you will be able to buy these codes online.
Sorry for the really dry language. I’m trying to report the results in such a way that you won’t blame me if things go wrong with your $300 purchase. I hope this has helped!
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Still at work 🙁 HALP!
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I’ll save you Gusman!
*swings dramatically down on a rope, rope snaps, falls to the ground and is knocked unconscious*
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web SWING!
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/shakes head at Sughly along with villainous boss
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lol!!!
Ahh Sughly. The lovable clumsy hero.
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Firing up Just Cause 2 as my contribution to Pineapple of Shame Month.
Then GTA IV, then RDR, then the GTA IV expansions, then the RDR expansion, then Oblivion.
Wew.
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One does not simply finish Just Cause 2.
No, one grapples until they can grapple no further.
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I have finished all of that except oblivion adn I think you are in for one awesome Pineapple.
Nice.
OK internet.. I need your help. I know, I know, you don’t like me and I don’t like you.. what?, You like me, I just always assumed, really?.. OK, Then I like you.
No, I’m not just saying that… I mean it. Im not just saying that because its what you want to hear.
Oh nevermind. I need your help anyway.
I watched a movie about a hospital about 10 years ago and I have always wanted to watch it again. I looked for years trying to even find what the name of it was. I mentioned it to my cousin one night and after about 5 minutes on Youtube we were watching a trailier for it.. Turned out the name of this hospital movie was ‘Hospital!’. (I may have admitted that I didn;t really look that hard for it, I may have just thought about looking?)
So now I have an issue. It turns out that the movie was made for the 1997 launch of Channel 5 in the UK. I saw it on the commedy channel (AUS)in 2002 but I can’t seem to find a DVD or (lets just say) other way to aquire it…
I wouldn’t mind getting a copy, but don’t know if it ever made a DVD release or is it elsewhere?
If anyone can find it please let me know.. It was funny for 2002. I hold this movie in high regard, like other classics like Top Secret. Cheers.
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ah Channel Five.
Home of Xena, Hercules and late night softcore porn.
Amazon.co.uk have a VHS listing, but no DVD I’m afraid.
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Ohh… I can convert those… I may investigate.. Thanks
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Hide your wallets gents, STEAM SALE!!!
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My wallet doesn’t hide. I do not let it out of my sight. Eyes of a hawk.
Curse you steam. Just when we all decide to eradicate our piles of shame. You have a massive sale. Now what am i meant to do.
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i know ill by ten games and finish them by the end of the month. ha this will be a good month i can tell.
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I like your logic.
Go do that.
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ATTENTION: Moths seeking new homes
Steam Sales have started, wallet now has vacancies. Internet included. 15 minute walk to shops, close to bus stops.
Daily Highlights include:
Borderlands GOTY $7.50, BttF Game $12.49, Oblivion $6.80, Bit.Trip Runner $2.50, Recettear $5
Other specials include: Terraria $7.50, Frozen Synapse 2 pack $16.74, L4D2 for… cheap (get someone from the US to gift it I guess).Aww yeahhh, time to build up a Pile of Shame.
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I have a friend who’s terrified of moths. It makes me laugh.
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I’m going to try and resist buying anything. However, the achievement gathering (for prizes), is going to have a serious impact on my #shamelessgaming time.
It’s almost as if Steam wants me to fail.
For those that are participating and might be interested in what I’m tackling and why, you might want to take a gander. For everyone else… take a gander anyhow, I can’t think of a reason why, just do it :p
I was going to include quotes from others, but that had to be cut for length. Sorry if anyone had their hopes up about that.
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You didn’t include my quote…
*sob*-
I didn’t include nobody’s quote.
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I- wait, double negative.
So, you… included quotes?
Or… you included anybody’s quotes?
I, I don’t know what- my brain can’t handle this word trickery, word trickery fiend guy!
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I’d like to wish everybody who is partaking in this month of shameless gaming good luck. /salutes
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hey Trjn anyone ever tell you that you are a good writer lol. But seriously i am gonna demolish some games. Last night i played Ocarina of time, I am in love with it already after only beating the inside of the tree. Such a beutiful soundtrack and graphically brilliant on the little 3ds screen. Bravo nintendo, Introducing this awesome game to a new generation and people who never played the original.
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My dreams of stardom… shattered.
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I still have them saved, so it wouldn’t be too hard to do a follow up with the “top responses” type thing.
Although if you really want stardom, being quoted on my blog is definitely not the way to go :p Try Australian Idol or see if Game TV is after some new hosting talent.
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A sudden and unexpected wave of popularity descending upon your website was a key aspect of my dream.
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Took a read! Good luck!! I’m gonna try and do Mass Effect if it starts to stop crashing, then might do Uncharted. Theres also RDR to do… and Test Drive… dang it, then theres a few things left in Dirt 3… hmmm, crap, Assasins Creed still awaits me… and there’s a dreary FF to look at… July is a chore!
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TEST DRIVE?!
I have both flavours. We must discuss.
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Mark – I sent a very important email to the tips address. Please tell me you’ve received it!
Thanks!
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hey mate – try mark.serrels@kotaku.com.au
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Done – thanks!
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Hiya Mark, Just sent you a email to that address also, don’t let the spam monster gobble it up please! 😀
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Boof! Got it!
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Hazzaaa! Thank you kindly!!!!
Hows that arm doing btw, all back to normal?
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MARION! MAAAARIIIOOOOON!
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*starts signing email up to every vore mailing list on the internet*
New weekly post to consider adding to Kotaku:
The “Mark – did you get my email?” thread.
I feel like sheet, someone nurture me!
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Aww, what’s wrong baby?
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I can always count on you my love
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I thought you said you and Gusman weren’t a couple. Aha. Detective big Nose strikes again. lol
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…/run
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You humans and your need for deception…
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Robots -> Transformers -> entire faction called ‘Decepticons’.
Just saying!
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Could be worse, you could be Qumulys’ couch!
Compared to that, a sheet ain’t so bad.-
Maybe I need to embrace the smell? Either that or super glue my nostrils shut…
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If you embrace it you’re beating the smell I say. DON’T LET IT WIN!
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You could try falling out of a tree – worked for my girlfriend, she hasnt had a sense of smell since she was 6!
Kinda takes the fun out of dutch ovens though :/
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So I guess the whole ‘pull my finger’ thing is completely lost on her?
Also, my personal favourite: Letting rip and asking if anyone in the room can smell petrol.
Cue big inhalation and squeals of terror.
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That is a fabulous practice
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My favorite is the Assasin – Sneak up behind your target, fart in your hands, cup them over the victims mouth, ala a chlorophyll rag, then drag them into the shadows.
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I always thought that was referred to as a ‘cupcake’?
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Cupcake is the less sneaky front on attack I thought.
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So. Shameless July.
Here is a portion of my colossus. The ones I didn’t have to go digging for. Quite a few of these I’ve started but for one reason or another never finished.
http://flic.kr/p/9YpSEJ
The ones in the centre are what I need you to help me decide between starting next.
http://flic.kr/p/9YpSQs
I’m leaning a bit towards Majin because it shouldn’t take too long and is suitable for playing while the kids are around.
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Alan wake was pretty good when you play it in chunks. I mainly played a new chapter each friday at my cousins place, and from what I recall, there were 6 chapters, that started off taking 1 hour each, eventually progressing to 1.5-2 hours each. So yeah, over 6 days, I reckon you could finish off Alan Wake.
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Sounds like it’ll be easy to finish off in the last half of July after school goes back, then.
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For shame – I sent you MGS4 when you got married! How long ago was that?? 😛
I think Majin is probably your best bet for a quick completion, with Alan Wake coming in second (though that one’s probably best for naptimes – not too bad, but definitely with the creepy audio atmosphere)
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I was so hoping you wouldn’t notice that! Actually, I think you sent it before K was born!
I really really wanted to play it and even started it a few times but each time I didn’t really have enough time to dedicate to it. Life just kept getting in the way. 🙁
Maybe I’ll start it again after Shameless July so I can dedicate the proper amount of attention to it.-
If you skip the cutscenes, you’ll be done in no time :p
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It’s all good, just amused 🙂
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Alan Wake i Vote Mrs Strange. Mostly cause New Vegas is way long and you won’t finish anything else this month if you start on it. Also i haven’t heard of the other two.
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Yeah, good point about New Vegas. Deadly Premonition could also be similarly time consuming from what I’ve heard.
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It’s not that long.
I rolled through most of a vanilla campaign (hit max level, then got bored of side quests) in 75 hours according to Steam.
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What is this, shameless, you speak of?
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http://www.trjn.net/?p=127
It’s all Bunny’s fault.-
How strange…As of last week I had made a promise to myself that I would not buy a new game until all my unfinished games were completed…Coincidence? Or something more…?
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You be the judge!
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you have a boy and his blob?!?!!??! JELLY!!!!!!!! DO WANT!!!
oh and I have confirmed with LittleJJ that we will be attending the gathering at your house!
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Yay!
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You can borrow my boy and blob if you want. I can bring it on the weekend? Also, Saturday is probably the better day for me if thats ok for you?
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I know I tweeted it, but just for extra clarity.. HELL YES!!!! Saturday is awesome! 🙂 Looking forward to it 🙂
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Boy and his Blob! Shadow of the Colossus! Oh wait… middle… ah… *shrugs*
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These would have been my votes too – also kid-friendly.
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It might be worth holding off on Shadow of the Colossus until the HD remakes!
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Does anyone know if you can have more than one save on Boy and His Blob? I went to play it but it just automatically brought up my husband’s game.
And I rented Shadow of the Colossus once, got about two thirds of the way through and had to take it back. When I finally got around to buying it, it had been so long that I had to start again but I think it was around the time of Final Fantasy XII or some other game that eats up your life.
Think I’ll just wait for the HD version now.-
Nope, just the one save 🙁
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That’s completely sucky. I HATE it when games do that. Grr. Both my daughter and I are going to miss out on playing A Boy And His Blob now.
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My internet is no longer capped! Huzzah!
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SAME!
STEVE HOLT! \o/That said though, apparently this is the start of the whole voluntary internet filter thing. Thanks for signing me up on my behalf, Optus!
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ho ho ho.
No more freaky pornography for you then? Does this mean you’ll have more free time to game with us?
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Drastically cuts down on Special Bish Time I guess.
Hahaha, I feel so dirty after making that joke.
*scrubs self in cold shower*Also, I guess anything but L4D2. L4D, TF2, AS, MNC are all updated/downloading, but L4D2 wants a 5GB update, and I’m all like ‘nawwwwww dawg’ except not really because I don’t speak like that.
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Hasn’t your quota reset anyway?
You need bettar internets. What are you on, a 28.8bps twine line?
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Don’t be silly, nothing that primitive.
I’ve got me some courier pigeons.But yeah, quota reset, but I need to try ration it out, what with the whole Steam sales and stuff. Portal 2 decided it wanted to download 8GBs too, even though I set it to not update. /o\
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GladOS obviously knows better than you.
Do you have magicka?
Mini-pez has been playing more alien swarm of late. Once I break him out of the leeroy jenkins mindset we should be good for more 4-man action.
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I’ll play Magicka! I’ve only got about 1 hour down in it.
Also, I’m going to download L4D tonight and MNC and whatever else people deem I should redownload.
My Visa card has been cancelled and I’m getting a new one (card skimmer on my most-used ATM) so I’m missing out on the Steam sale and it is KILLING ME.
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Awsm!
I’ve only just started playing magicka too but I’m really enjoying it. The combinations are heaps of fun and it’s hilarious to play in multiplayer.
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So my wife found that my xperia play had sims3 installed on it. I went to sleep but apparently she stayed up till 1:30 in the morning.
This is weird for her because she doesn’t play games much at all. I guess that is one reason why the sims is so popular.
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I actually do believe that 75% of the long-term Sims players migrated directly across from Solitaire.
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hahaha Well her trajectory since we have dated has been:
Zoo puzzle (ps2 bejewelled clone)
Wii sports
Guitar Hero
Singstar
Wii Fit
Order Up (Wii restaurant and cooking game)
And now maybe Sims3But none of these periods overlap and once her interest has finished she will not go back.
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Oh man, Steam sale. On the very first day! And I wanted to buy the Witcher 2! But it’s $50 for us, but $30 in the US. I sad now.
Also, I started Amnesia. Pretty good, but I got to a puzzle and kinda was feeling sleepy, so I went and watched Doctor Who. As you do.
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The steam version of the witcher 2 is censored, is it not?
Heeey Jo, where you gonna go with that gun in your hands?
League of Legends night still on? I was aiming to get on last night to check for adds/messages but ended up looking after a bunch of drunk girls.
What time are you guys aiming to be on tonight? I should be on around 8ish, to give me time to shower and eat after footy training.
Also does LoL have built-in teamspeak functionality? I don’t have a mike at home but can ‘borrow’ one from work if thats the preferred method of communication 😉
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It’s still on as far as I know, however the chat system was down when I checked yesterday and the Riot guys have come out with just an ETA time (no date), so hopefully it’ll be up when we go to play tonight otherwise we can’t tag up in a group for our practice.
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Oh yeah as for TeamSpeak functionality, we do have a TS server for KotakuAU that FatShady manages, you can ask him to send you an email about the credentials. Jo, Blaghman and I will be on it I’m sure, not sure about Bawble though, I haven’t seen him on TS yet.
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I can give him the TeamSpeak server details!
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What gun? Lies! I was never there…
I will be on from about 6 I reckon so just jump on whenever.
Not sure about the TS integration but TS might be a good plan since when I was on briefly last night the chat system was down and may still be.Ask FatShady or Pessimist or someone for TS server details, I probably don’t have the authoratah to give it out.
Steam Sale!
This is a long shot, but does anyone think Portal 2 will be reduced further? $33 is still a little steep for me, especially if on June 10 they make it $10…. Oh for a set of crystal balls.
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If it isn’t a daily deal, then don’t buy it until the final day of the sale! No point rushing into the purchase, when it might drop on another day. Hopefully it will!
STEAM SALE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Weeell, obviously we have a ‘Steam Sale’ in the internetz…
it’s climbin’ in your Windows
it’s snatchin’ your moneyz up
tryna take em so y’all need to
hide yo wallets, hide yo supplies
hide yo wallets, hide yo supplies
hide yo wallets, hide yo supplies
and hide yo credit cards
cuz they takin’ errymoney out here
you don’t have to come and confess
we lookin for you
we gon find you
we gon find you
so you can run and tell that,
run and tell that run and tell that,
steam-sale, steam, steam, steam-sale
we got yo address
you done left reciepts and all
you are so dumb
you are really dumb … for real
the sale got away leaving behind evidence
I was attacked by some sale on the internetz
so dumb, so dumb, so dumb, so
it’s climbin’ in your Windows
it’s snatchin’ your moneyz up
tryna take em so y’all need to
hide yo wallets, hide yo supplies
hide yo wallets, hide yo supplies
hide yo wallets, hide yo supplies
and hide yo credit cards
cuz they takin’ errymoney out here
you don’t have to come and confess
we lookin for you
we gon find you
we gon find you
so you can run and tell that,
run and tell that run and tell that,
steam-sale, steam, steam, steam-sale
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chk-chk-boom
Whoever doesn’t own borderlands GOTY:
FFS, buy it. Now. Then you can play with meeeeeee.
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Borderlands is on my pile of shame. I really need to finish it haha.
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I have Borderlands on mine as well. Sheeeet.
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My bro and I absolutely adore Borderlands.
If anyone wants some co-op assistance on the PC, give me a heads up and I’ll join on. My brother is also keen on playing so chances are we could have lots of 4-man-team action.
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On what?
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PC!
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I have it but… I dont know. I played it for like, one day. It’s so repetitive! Bored me to tears.
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The main campaign does get repetitive sometimes – once you get into the later levels + the expansions there’s more variety to keep you interested.
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I have Borderlands, but not GoTY.
So ha!
p.s. I haven’t even installed it since the day I got it.
p.p.s. Play TF2 instead
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You’re lame.
Go buy it, and stop being lame.
Are you still here?
LESS TALKY, MORE PURCHASEY.
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Also, it’s $7.50. You really have no excuse.
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what if my…
– Credit card limit had been maxed?
– I only have $5 left in my account?
– Interwebz is brokenz, preventing me from buying goods online?
– Steam account has been banned because I’ve been accused of ‘cheating’ when in fact i’m just pr0?You never know..
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I had it!
I played it.
Then I finished it.
Then I uininstalled it.
Then I came back later to install it, and it did not want to install (scratch on disc).
And now I can’t find the disc anywhere.
I’m not sure if I want to buy a game I had again just for the sake of owning it digitally. -
On the topic of Borderlands, I finished the game with some friends, but doubt they will return to the game to play the DLC with me. Anyone interested in playing through some of that content with meeeeeee?
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Yes! I’ll play the DLC with you!
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Thank you!
I go by this username on Steam, and should be in the Kotaku AU group. I might add you over the weekend, and hassle you about playing next week.
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\o/
STEVEHOLT
What level is your char? I’ll check for the toons around that level range tonight.
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I’m not sure, and it has been a while since I played. I’ll have to check that out when I get home tonight.
I’ve only played through the main campaign a single time. I would imagine that my character is around the 34-37 level range.
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Fun fact, Borderlands GOTY is only 1 cent more expensive than Borderlands Non-GOTY
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I know! What a deal, right?!
BUY IT.
So Trjn, you recently got a job with Hungry Jacks, right?
😛
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There’s some joke here I’m not fully understanding…
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Did you say your burgers were better?
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Well, they are but I didn’t think that needed to be said.
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I’m not the only one seeing the Hungry Jacks add on the side of Kotaku, am I?
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I forgot to turn AdBlock off after those ads that caused the ridiculous slowdown.
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Rabbits, man! RABBITS!
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Just made me remember something funny – My friend was recently fired from Hungry Jacks. It wasn’t for being slack or anything, but he received complaints for drawing ketchup penises on the burgers of customers who requested no pickles. As soon as they’d recieve their burgers, they’d normally lift the lid to check for pickles and find his ‘artwork’ instead 😛
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Bahahaha!
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LOL!
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That’s a… saucy tale!
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I bet his face was red following the firing!
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Maybe next time he won’t be so cocky!
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Maybe if he just kept away from the burgers he wouldn’t have been caught red-handed!
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He was being a bit of a dick
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I hope your friend will be able to ketchup on work!
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I believe “The Statue Of David” was the sauce of his inspiration
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Will your friend now move to making sausage and egg mcmuffins at mcdonalds?
Though if he does, he may get egg on his face.
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that is truly LOL!
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Lettuce take a moment and mourn how your friends buns were handed to him to takeaway to another job.
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Well even with-out the misshaps they were bound to get ‘Jack’ of him. His creativity sow-da’d the sesame-seeds of his downfall. I should give him an onion-ring this sundae night seeing as his self-esteem is fried and give him a patty on the back to encourage him.
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If he keeps applying himself for interviews he may even have a job as soon as Sundae!
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On closer inspection, you have already used Sundae.
Touche sir… you sunk my battleship.
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Man. I bought Lara Croft and the Guardian of whatever about 2 days ago. Pretty sure it went on sale yesterday. Just my luck. I’m gonna go drown my sorrows in the steam store…
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Need a co-op partner?
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Nah, I got it purely to entertain my son. He would be most displeased if I cheated on him.
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That’s fine… I much prefer playing with myself anyway.
*cries in the corner*
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It’s okay, I play with myself all the time!
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I don’t prefer it… but I do it anyway.
foreveralone.bmp
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Woo Hoo, quad xp for RDR this weekend!
I’ll be playing this on the 360 this weekend if anyone wants to join in on the mass xp grabbing.
GT: Rafor al Carr
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Quad xp? Ohhh, I havent played online before, but I’m assuming you can level up? What are the perks to this? And is it going to suck for me coming in if I’m lvl 0?
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I too am level 0… I too shall try to join you, but I had problems last time.
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Leveling up means new character models, titles, weapons, horses and challenges.
Don’t worry about being a starter, as with quad xp you will fly through the levels after just a couple of hours.
Highly recomend getting “outlaws to the end” dlc, this is free and only about 12 MB. This allows you to play co-op missions.
If your’e on the 360, I will be happy to join you on a few bang bang shoot-em-ups 😛-
oh but if you are new… I will shoot your donkey.. every time, without warning… dead..
I will always offer you my horse in return but you will never ride that ASS!
I HATE DONKEYS
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Ha, a few weeks ago I was in a posse with about 5 others, within ten minutes we were all riding donkeys. It was bloody hilarious, whenever we found another player we would all ride circles around them a couple of times shooting our guns in the air, then ride off into the sunset.
We were truly a sight to behold.
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Sweeeet! Sounds like a plan! What day/time? My gamertag thing whatever is Sughly
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I can only game from about 9pm onwards due to family n stuff.. but any night is good. Hit me up on the twitterz to organise if im offline
GT: FatShady Live
@fatshadyliveMan Im so cool now… I have twitterz.
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xbox 360… all weekend… add me
FatShady Live
I will be playing with Hugo!
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Is there a way of forming a posse?
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yep there is and the ingame one works better.. but party works also..
happy to walk you through it if im online
Dont you hate donkeys?
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Is there a posse limit? I have this game, but haven’t tried the multiplayer and would very much like to.
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16 players.. I think we just get a private free roam session going…
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Not that anyone cares, but the blog post about Shameless Gaming has now had more visitors than the main page of my website.
The Serrels bump is an effective one.
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I am looking to use this Serrels bump to my advantage with the Trials HD riddle… Glad to hear it is a good one.
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Linking on Reddit is a litle less successful. Five downvotes, no upvotes.
I probably should have made it about the Steam sales…
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Golden rule of Steam sales:
Don’t buy anything unless it’s part of the daily deal until the last day. Then, if what you wanted wasn’t part of the daily deals buy it then.
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Sage advice.
Given I now seem to own half of these games I just snipe the daily deals.
Most of the packs seem to repeat the same items over and over. A little annoying when you own 75% of the games in each pack.
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Indeed. Once upon a time my Steam account was about 8 games. It’s now 540+ thanks to those god damn packs.
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Haha, yeah. I have a massive massive pile of shame. July is going to be super busy for me.
Also, why do you never respond to me on steam? You make me feel so unloved 🙁
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My gaming PC is constantly on because I use it as a media server as well. I don’t actually think I’ve sat down in front of it for a couple of days now 🙁
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Are you busy baking me cakes?
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….no. To make up for lack of Steam love I’ll give you Twit love and follow your on The Twitters.
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Also, pistons.
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Hello there!
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‘Sup?
That was actually supposed to be a standalone comment.
I was going to say “Also, with all this Steam talk, I’d like to point out that Minecraft has updated with pistons.”, but, lazy.
Although I guess you just made me type it out in full, anyway.
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Hiya!
I’m context. It’s great to use me when you write things on the internet so people like the Reply Button don’t assume you jumped onto Kotaku with a crash helmet and propensity for dribbling on yourself!
Here’s a great example of how I can be used.
Instead of:
Also, pistons.
You could write:
The new update for minecraft will be out soon. It will bring pistons! I love pistons as they go up and down and are fun to watch. Pistons also has similar letters to the word pistol, which I tried to play with once. My uncle scolded me and then made me sit in the freezer for two hours as punishment. I was fairly optimistic that sitting in the freezer would slow down my aging process and allow me to be 8 years old forever, however this was not the case and I still can’t fing correctly with 3 of my fingers on my right hand. Oh well, pistons are great!
Don’t forget to use me whenever people may be confused as to what you are actually talking about!
Cheerio,
Context
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Ignore this guy. He’s full of shit. Just click me and go nuts!
ANARCHY!
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Who the hell is this guy?
He’s not even real. Like Santa Claus. Just ignore him.
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How ya’ll gonna ignore?
Gonna hafta click me! Only, like the Sumbit Content Button, I don’t exist.
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It’s out already?!
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Man, piston circuits are hard.
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She might have said that… Possibly something along those lines. I can’t remember. I was reading a book at the time.
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See… now that’s multitasking.
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I went into Big W this morning and got 4 Pokemon movies, 1 Bionicle movie, the entire first season of Wolverine&X-men and the Green Lantern Game/DVD combo all for just under $115. Works out to about $50 cheaper than amazon!!
FatShady or AnonymousPessimist,
Apparently you guys are the keepers of the Kotaku AU teamspeak server – could I humbly request some details as to how to join?
steveo.the.deveo( at )gmail.seeohem
cheers guys
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hehe.. I have the admin rights to the TS and MC servers.. send an e-mail to claimsboy [at] hotmail dot com… I’ll fill you in mate.
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Email sent good sir, let me know if you didn’t recieve
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I am but a humble peon.
Mr. Shady is the keeper of the keys.
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Has my reputation preceeded me or was I too quick for it?
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Are you saying that Fatshady is…The Keymaster!!!
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Qumulys!!!!!
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Bear Grylls would be most disappointed.
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*rubs eyes*
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First Milla, then this! What a day!
OK, Pineapple month…
Backbreaker vengeance comes out a few days ago.
RDR has quad XP
BFBC2 onslaught was on sale
Borderlands, which i have played through twice, own all DLC and have hit the level cap on 360… i then bought a PS3 copy to play against other friends has just been on sale on steam (I dont even really play games on PC)… so I bought another 4 copies… I own 6 copies of that game now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and where is my pineapple… ..?
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So many people getting Borderlands on Steam.
This pleases me.
Did I mention I like Borderlands and enjoy people playing it with me?
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I think my post clearly shows my feeling toward that game also.
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http://twitpic.com/5jbh3k
bawble/Crabjiffy’s & my collective pile of shame!
4 more games to be added later this month (friend is bringing them back in town).
FatShady – just letting you know I’ll give TeamSpeak server details to CrabJiffy so he can talk to other TAY LoL players : )
I’ve been sick since last night, woke up in the middle of the night feeling awful, went to the bathroom and threw up in the toilet bowl. Woke up today feeling sore everywhere (but that’s probably because I went swimming for 1.5 hrs yesterday too). On the better side, bawble/crabjiffy is getting me some nice plain congee for lunch now. <3
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thats cool… hope you feel better…
Shameless Gaming month needs a logo of some sort.
Preferably a pineapple.
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Here is my 10 minute while i should be working attempt.. you get the idea.
Whitenoise is nearly at 50 comments…
What the hell have you guys been playing at?
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AnonymousPessimist, you’re Gizmodo’s only hope!
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Hello!
What are we talking about? Do I need to be spammacious?
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Go Go Gadget… Spambot.
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If I’ve bought games but haven’t even once opened the box or taken them out… does that count towards this pile of shame? Caus I have lots of them…
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Yes.
Take a look at the picture for the Shameless Gaming article, there are two games still in shrink wrap :p
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LOL!
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I’m the king of page ten! And you’re the dirty… men? (and women)
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Your glory didn’t last long, now did it?
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How did that even happen?! I was, I swear!
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I know people who can… make things happen.
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So for Shameless Gaming Month, not that anyone cares, my list is now
– Half-Life, Blue Shift and Opposing Force
– Starcraft 2
– Half-Life 2, Ep 1 and Ep 2
– Crysis
– Sniper: Ghost Warrior
– Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
And probably whatever has a decent price in the Steam Sale, so far just Borderlands.
I’m aiming to finish at least 4, and I’ll be livetweeting it if someone doesn’t mind having their twitterfeed flooded.
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I care.
I was also planning on trying to work out what the most common games on the Piles of Shame were, but there has been a somewhat larger than anticipated response.
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Haha! I nearly got up to take a photo of my pile, but then I realised that involved getting up.
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I would take a photo, but then you can see that i’m nearly as bad as jamie WHAT!
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I’m going to take a screenshot of my steam list tonight 🙁
I think only one or two games on it are actually completed.
Not sure this will all fit on one page.
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I saw a lot of Darksiders.
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As did I. I’ll try to take a better look later on to see if there are other games that stand out.
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I’ve just started a new SP world in Minecraft, cause I haven’t done so since version 1.3
Those blasted sheep! They’re taunting me! I can almost hear them! “Hey you! Over there! Punch me! Nah-nah nah nah nah-nah :P”
Grrrr…
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I think you mean Bah Bah bah bah bah. I think i will do that to. I want a piston, To move walls. 🙂
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You know the piston video with the hidden passageway from the wall? About 2:30 in?
That thing is bloody hard to replicate.You need 6 pistons in an L shape over 2 levels, and powering the second level is a pain.
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I think I’m going to reinstall World of Tanks tonight. Shame I can’t find my old beta login info 🙁
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Man, every time I am on steam I see Endu playing WoT.
He plays it like a demon. I’ve still got the exe sitting on my drive waiting to be installed.
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Exactly why I’m going to reinstall it!
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Just Cause 2 is just about the most outrageous fun I think I’ve ever had in a game.
This is a pineapple worth pursuing.
Crazy over the top action is… pretty funny 😀
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I’m discounting ‘sandbox’ games from my pineapple… as they can never be finished.
The same applies to multiplayer only games like Brink and TF2.
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/hi5
I’ve spent hours just dicking around and grappling people to propane tanks.
That game is sheer awesome.
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It really hit me as I was riding on top of a car being driven by an NPC, shooting a machine gun at jeeps only to watch them flip over wildly. Bond-style.
It plays like an insanely over the top action movie, and it’s fantastic.
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Dead Island got rated at M15+?
What the hell?
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Maybe there were no 16 year old girl zombies?
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Because they were smart enough to say they were zombies, unlike Valve’s idiocy calling them infected humans.
What would happen if you could splice the skankiness from Ke$ha and the Pussycat Dolls, the social graces of Amy Winehouse and the can do attitude of Rebecca Black???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4
Sony just signed this travesty for a million dollars!!!!
Oh NSFW!!!
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OOOOOOOOOOOOooooohhhhhhhhhh maaaaan… I actually sat through half of it. Somehow. I’m not sure why. I think there was some kind of hypnosis trickery within the video or something.
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Sorry!!!! 🙂
I put this up as more of a warning.
Just waiting for my neighbours kids to pick this up…..-
It’s shit like this that thoroughly discourages music writers/producers (like myself) to ever pursue this industry.
The horrific crap that the big labels foist upon the mainstream is just terrible.
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See, sometimes I think the same thing. But then I remember that even though I could pump out what they play on the radio with ease, I don’t make music to become successful, I make music because I love making music.
Although she is making terrible music, I would think there’s a pretty good chance she is making it for the same reason.
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However, there is such a thing as ‘artistic integrity’.
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My nephew is learning guitar… his parents wouldn’t let him learn bagpipes (it’s a sore point)… and his dad remarked to me that the kid was learning ‘Stairway to Heaven’.
He put it to me that our generation has no such song… and when we pass on music it will be Britney Spears and Eminem.He was deeply remorseful about that.
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Can someone please send me some sand. It appears I need to gouge my eyes out.
Make it…..coarse.
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How does one gouge their eyes out with sand?
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Stirling Archer reference… nice.
Oh, just realised it’s StirFri-day.-
Oh James you naughty-nelly!
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What your looking for… right then, was Sammy Gayvis Junior.
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Bear claw… raawrgh!
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This is douchery of the highest level!! But set to music, it is kinda funny….
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-AU/Product/LA-Noire/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025454086c?noSplash=1
Rockstar Pass for LA NOIRE IS FREE if you do it here! I just did it. Haven’t DL’d yet, as I’m at work, but I ordered it and it was free. Have I missed something or is that awesome?
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oops. I got that a week or more ago.. should have posetd it i guess.
Interesting is that the paid version is also available and this has more in the description i think??
I still dont know what I DL’d. Can someone please explain the DLC for this pass thingy?? I got it for free but not sure what i got?
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Dunnoo…..but thankyou.
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Just went and added this to the download queue. Will be interested to see how it works, I thought this was supposed to cost.
So, I’m not sure if anyone remembers me mentioning weeks ago that my Ozgameshop order was late?
It still hasn’t arrived but they can’d do anything till after 27 working days or something. I have to wait till the 4th of July and they’ll send me a replacement.
Now, I’m not going to complain about Ozgameshop. I believe they posted it and they have to abide by the Royal Mail’s rules. Fair enough.
But it doesn’t end there. I assumed this was a one off problem and bought 2 other games from them. It’s now been well over a week. I also bought an item off ebay about 3 weeks ago and no sign of that either.
Now, I’m not one to cast aspersions on my mail man, but I’m begining to think he might be a theiving bastard.
I should point out that during this time I have recieved one package in the mail. Said package was registered and tracked.
There is much Wrath here, and Australia Post shall feel it!
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Ozgameshop generally takes 2 weeks to arrive, in my experience.
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GET A PO BOX!!!
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I had a friend who had the same problem.
Turned out her neighbour was stealing her packages when the postie would come around. The old “I’ll sign for it, she’s not home” routine.
That’s why I always get everything sent to my office. People are less likely to eff with a businesses post as they’re more likely to get caught… I assume.
What did you order, btw?
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I propose a stakeout at Mr. WHAT!s house to find the culprit.
I don’t have a gillie suit, but I imagine with some ingenuity, and some sticks and leaves, I could construct a replica without too much effort.
I just need some binoculars and coal to smear across my face to complete the camouflage process.
Who’s with me?
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Dan, I can’t believe somebody would be so low was to steal other people’s packages. WTF is this world coming to.
I’m always up for playing soldier, AP. You take point, check your six, and stay frosty.
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Roger that, Hotel Tango. Grease the first postie you see, and if things go fubar then radio the wingnuts to raze the entire AO while we fall back.
Squids are waiting for us at the local pond, over.
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I suddenly have the urge to draw a sort of Kotaku Task force
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In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the KotakAU-Team. -
and wingnuts! lots of ’em
10 MINUTES TO GOOO
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I’ll totally draw the Kotaku Team, everyone will have to give me a few days or so, I’ve just caught an awful bug and need to recover first.
If people have a certain way they want to be portrayed let me know. I can’t promise I’ll draw everyone but i’ll do my best
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i had to request people’s representations of themselves since I draw in a more pin-up/ero style and I know that it’s not eveyones cup of tea and I don’t want to make anyone upset
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I caught an awful bug once.
He was a stick insect called Barry, and spent all day insulting me and making sexual insinuations about my mother.
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Well, in all fairness… most of them were true.
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@petite.
If you’re really interested…
I’m a tall, kilt wearing bagpiper with peircing blue eyes that lassies get lost in. Hair like dancing flames, a beard that makes women swoon and men feel less than masculine and I’ve muscles like an angry bison.
This is roughly what I think I look like:
http://paintcoats.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/nap-british-09c-piper-mackay-rfarrugia.jpgThis is what I actually look like:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6mr3i_Vmz3c/STTeAoSE_AI/AAAAAAAABjc/5iPrQPqOcBI/s1600-h/P1100692cdp.jpg -
@JamesMac
You’re the guy in the dog suit, right? 😛
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@Blaghman.
That’s a fox… but yes.
In fact, that’s just my natural hair.
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I do believe you lost me at wingnuts.
Story of my life 🙁
AP – Who’s in as in who’s in the suit? I assume you. A girlfriend and I tried to wear the same hoodie once. She tried climbing up through the bottom while I had it on so her head would come out the neck hole. She got stuck halfway, had a panic attack and passed out. As she was coming around she freaked out and punched me in the nards. True Story.
If you can promise me this won’t happen, I’ll get in the ghillie suit with you.
Harli- I know, right? All worked out though, the friend is tattooed to high heaven and went around to her neighbour’s wearing a red bandana around her head. She politely explained that unexpected things happen in Logan, and enquired if she’d recently seen the news piece regarding the rumour that the Bloods had formed a gang in the area. She hasn’t lost a package since.
I laughed so hard at your hoodie story. If I had wind I would have passed it. Funniest thing I’ve read all week.
I award you today’s internets.
I just realised you never said, “Who’s In”.
Kinda like when I misread the exchange rate this morning at the bank as $1.80 USD and loudly said. “Amazon, here I come baby!”. I was alone.
what we need is an inside man or someone to go undercover and discover the sordid underbelly that is the postal service.
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Sounds like a job for Detective Petite and WHATson!
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well we know our jobs, when shall we all rendezvous?
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At the smoky lobster, tomorrow at sundown.
Order some anthrax. Problem = solved.
What is it with the mail these days? I have one outgoing parcel missing and one incoming one also missing… WTF??!
Alright y’all, got to head out so congrats to whomever takes out kudos!
why are people referring to pineapples when talking about the month of shameless gaming? I am feeling slow.
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I can’t believe you don’t see the link.
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I think Bawble/CrabJiffy coined the term.
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It is his legacy.
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Minecraft multiplayer server seems to be broken :S
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Will have a look.. The day of the release we always have issues. Usually for a few hours only..
Don’t fret.
Clearly Friday afternoon. We’ve all resorted to practical jokes at work.
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Did someone sneak fireworks in your cake mix so it exploded in the oven?
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You can ice my cake any day!
No really, I need icing on my cakes otherwise I just don’t like them as much. Story of my life.
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Like promising people cakes, then never following through?
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You have still not received your cake? I sent it via post last week!
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I received what I assumed to be a green frisbee.
I’m assuming this began life as a pancake?
Touche sir… touche.
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On 1st April I emailed my colleagues a picture of a whoopee cushion.
I IS RETURNED!
Eff that week, right hard. Dear end of financial year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXfiSU_wqE
What’d I miss? I hear us Brisbanians are going to Stranges soon? And Pessimist promised to come as well? Is this true or part of the semi lucid dreams I’ve been having because of the lack of sleep lately.
So, like, clients man. Wooooooo, so lame. Waiting until like 2 days before end of financial year and deciding they need a years worth of my time in 1 day so they can clear it with accounts on the 30th. Ugh.
I’m also working on 2 films at the mo’. So I’m not sure how often I’ll be TAYing but just know I’ll usually float and then drop some one liner here and there.
How rad is Dante’s Peak? Much better than Volcano. I watched the two recently. Volcano had too many villains and it decided it needed a racially motivated story line half way through. What a mess. Give me old-lady-melty-legs any day. And James Bond being a bad-ass geologist.
I ordered the Sly Cooper Collection as well. Can’t wait to smash through those with the GF.
Last thing, is the #shamelessgaming hash-tag a go? Cause I plan to contribute pretty hard over the next few days. I’ll also just tag random photos with this as well, so you might see me ala Rose in Titanic. I expect Sughly to draw me like his French girl. (If you’re on Twitter this line is extremely witty)
Last, last, thing. Anyone know any actors who look like hipsters in Brisbane?
K, that’s a weeks worth of real posts. My eye’s hurt and my fringe is sticking up. Time for some more coffee.
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DAN!
Brisbane people at my house July 23rd. This means you! The Pessimist may or may not be surprising us. Maybe you should flash him a nipple or two, for encouragement.Oh, and anyone wanting to be there can email me at smitemeisterathotmaildotcom.
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Nipples only feed my desire for Brisbanians.
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I bought ice cream.
Friday afternoon just took an upturn.
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I just turned around.
Friday afternoon just took a U-turn.
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I just turned into a DJ.
Friday afternoon just took a turntable.
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I just Sharted.. Friday afternoon took a turn for the worse. lol.
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I just stole a small sea bird.
Friday afternoon just took a tern.
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I found 10 cents!
Friday afternoon just turned on a dime.
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I’m listening to Bonnie Tyler.
Friday afternoon just turned around, bright eyes.
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I threw a boomerang.
Friday afternoon just took a return.
I wrote a speech.
Friday afternoon just took the lectern.
I grabbed a doorknob.
Friday afternoon just took a turn.
I just made an eclipse.
Friday afternoon just became nocturn.
I just said hi to a mute person.
Friday afternoon just became taciturn.
I went to the supreme court.
Friday just became overturned.
I spent the afternoon planting vegetables.
Friday just became turnip.
Was about to say:
I uprooted a vegetable.
Friday afternoon just got a turnip.
But it was crap. And now I want to play Harvest Moon. DAMN YOU TURNIPS!
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Pickled Turnips gets you more money, for minimal effort.
Just gonna say.
I just went to the comic shop.
Friday afternoon just got a Green Lantern.
I just met up with a prostitute.
Friday afternoon just got carpet burn.
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We have a winner!
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I’ll admit, coming up with that one was a bit of a strain.
Friday afternoon just got a hernia.
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I just wrote a piece of music in the structure of A B A.
Friday just became ternary.
…that’s a terrible joke. I’m sorry /o\
Awwwwww yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I managed to replicate the hidden passage mechanic in the piston preview video.
It only took 3 hours!
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Damn you non-working 9-5 people.
My Shameless Gaming Month is going rather swimmingly so far, I got the first two trophies in Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
It’s a cute, fun game and thank-you Bunny for motivating me to play it.
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I found the whole experience painful.
I walked away, like a white Craig David.
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lawl!!
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So you walked away rigidly, with no sense of rhythm?
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Yes.
But first I grew sexually questionable facial hair and autotuned my vocal cords.
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RED FROGS!
REDFROOOOOGS.
\o/
*jumps on chair*
FROGSFROGSFROGSFROGSFROGSFROGSFROGS
*jumps on ceiling*
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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I suppose this would explain why my email now looks like it’s had a rainbow vomit all over it? hahahha.
Oh, and good thing you like the red frogs, because i like the green ones better!! WE CAN BE FRIENDS!!!
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I got this.
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You WISH you had this.
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I do believe congrats are in order for TadMod.
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Why thankyou, good sir!
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Epic dude. Just epic.
Mind. Blown.
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OWAIT, I DID IT WRONG.
BLIND. MOWN.
bettar.
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Just been spying on people via Twitter again. I should probably get an account one day….
Anyway, apparently Milla hasn’t tweeted you yet Tad?! What a bitch!
Oh, and Pessimistic One? Your GrandPessimist name always makes me think of Zork: Grand Inquisitor. I loved that game. My sister and I used to quote it at each other all the time.
“Further violators of curfew will be threatened with smiting, then smitten.
Once smote, further smitation and subsequent resmitation will commence until the smitee is deemed to be sufficiently smit by the smitter.”
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I’ve never played Zork…
*is bashful*
Should I play it? I hear I need to type things. This scares me somewhat. I’m used to clicking.
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Well, if you search really far back (early december at a guess) in TAY you can find one of my CYOAG’s that I ran due to boredom. The probably first one was based on Zork. Actually, that might have been the second one… It ended with a poem.
Actually, now I feel like starting up my unfinished tale. Something to pass the time until Chuloopsipoop does the next of his thingy… No, not that thingy, get your mind out of the gutter, the other one.
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I beg to differ:
https://twitter.com/#!/MillaJovovich/status/86682922526064640
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Hahahaha!! I take it back Milla. 🙂
Oh and MadTod, you sir, are a legend.
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Haha, been following this on Twitter. Well done old chap, well done!
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I hear wedding bells.
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She’s clearly obsessed with me!
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Milla Tadmovich.
Just rolls off the tongue.
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THHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!
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Wow, the persistence paid off.
MILLA TWEETED TAD.
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😀
Tad gets hit by a bus, and is also tweeted by Milla Jovovich on the same day. It’s not even 5pm yet!
Srsly, give the man kudos. The fates demand it.
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Thank God she picked today to tweet me. I was having a REALLY sh!tty day!
Now I’m stupidly happy!
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Are you dissapointed that it didn’t trend first?
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Not at all. I achieved my goal! 😀
Impossible is nothing. #NikePaidMeToSayThat
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Technically, she tweeted me first… #stealingtadsglories
Qumulys, I may have found the answer for your smelly couch problems.
http://failblog.org/2011/06/28/epic-fail-photos-eating-disorder-fail/
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I really need to pay attention to my handle. I mustn’t of used this computer for ages as I can’t remember when I used that one.
Gahh… So I bought Mass Effect 1 at EB for some ridiculously low price because I want to support the gaming industry.
And I can’t get the frigging thing to install. Apparently this is a known problem and the most common work around seems to be to just pirate the game because it’s easier than the multistep program Bioware have recommended.
FRUSTRATION!
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I’m seriously thinking about cracking my Assassin’s Creed 2. It’s a bit annoying having to log in to uplay and I can’t play without internet.
For those that were paying attention, my plans for last night were to play Uncharted 2 from start to finish in a single night.
After just shy of ten hours, my PS3 froze.
Sigh.
According to an FAQ I’m right at the end but I’m going to sleep first. I took a decent shot at it, not decent enough but at least I can blame something other than me for my failure.
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As ai said last night, i respect your dedication to the cause… good effort mate.
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Oh man! How about those guys at the end, huh?
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I want to stab them in the eye. With their crossbows.
The whole crossbow, not just the bolts.
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Doesn’t it just auto save? I don’t think you would have lost much.
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It did. When I loaded it up again yesterday afternoon, I was right where it had frozen, so it took very little time to finish the game.
I’m just annoyed I didn’t get to finish it in a single marathon session.
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Just bought 49 games for $75 .. F$$K YEH!
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how? where?
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Well I got abit excited, it is technically 49 “items”. I bought all of the Square Enix games from the Steam sales. Ps, did you like my dollar signs $$?
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Immense thanks to syvRaen for the awesomely detailed and helpful response to my 3DS question!
You rock sir/ma’am!
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syvRaen is, in fact, a sentient vegetable.
Close sir, but no cigar.
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I wonder what I taste like…
No worries, Ryan W! Happy to help.
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I put out the call to the twitter TAYbies, but if you want to be one of the guinea pigs listening to my draft remixes and providing feedbacks/criticisms, drop me a line at:
the [dot] tsharp [at] gmail [dot] com
As of tonight I’ve got 3 fleshed out drafts ready to go. I think I’m going the wrong way about shameless gaming month but I’m happy for my productivity nonetheless!
Kotaku Minecraft server is still down(not letting me connect at anyway), I’m starting to go into fits of seweating, hot flushes and shakes. Think I should see a doctor?
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THIS IS 2000!
WELL DONE PEEPS! 😀
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Some free time tonight, Mr. Mac?
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I won’t lie… I’m really lonely, and it seemed a shame to get so close and not hit it.
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THAT’S WHAT
SHE SAID!
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Just in case…
I’d better post
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Whoa, I found this. It’s the TAY from exactly a year ago. 🙂
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-48/
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HAHAHAHA, Awesome! 😀
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Needs more pessimism.
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bold And all other things. Important quotes and words
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