Definitely, no argument here.
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AusGAF 10 - Node Country for Old Men
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Definitely, no argument here.
BananaArnie
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hack is a strong word though. all that happened was snapchat names got linked to phone numbers, which means nothing unless youre sending pictures to a bunch of people who you dont want to have your number. does that person even exist, also it was usa only.
Blizzard is extremely stingy and they know that the aussies will suffer through it, so why pay more for an aussie server if the idiots buy it anyway?
Theyre just bastards.
That's a much better analogy (or simile or whatever). I have a feeling an 80s non-DMD (as in, non-graphical display) machine would be more up your alley than anything more recent (as a general thing). Just going off how much you love retro crap, getting an 80s pinball is like double-retro Inception.
Pinball = retro + 80s machine = DOUBLE RETRO
I keep encouraging my mate to put his T2 machine in one of those geek/comics shops in Geelong. I reckon he'd make a mint, especially given they sell those stupid full-size statues of Aliens and Terminators and shit.
One of them, yes. FWIW The new AC/DC has one as well (it's by the same designer).
I think it's not meant to be as shit as the theme would make out. But it might not be great.
No problemo. There's another site which aggregates and averages eBay prices for machines in the US, but it's quite useless for comparing prices here (for the most part). The one I posted looks much more relevant (though I don't know how submissions work, so it could be missing out on a bit).
That's pretty goddamn badarse. I'd kill for a Psygnosis one... or Bizarre (though that's not *quite* as retro).In other news, I got this in the mail today:
Can't wait to crack it open during lunch. Gaming history books are tops. Can't wait to start writing mine
Rad. I aim to muster up the motivation to do a spring cleaning ASAP, so hopefully that happens before you're in town
I've been itching to know this for a while. I'm thinking of getting the Pinball Arcade DLC from the US store because there's a $14 difference (on top of $30 base price) which is the biggest regional discrepancy (that I care about) for a very long time. Good stuff!
the SEA servers are located in SOUTH EAST ASIA.
those are the sc2 australian servers.
unless they've moved them all since they set them up in 2010?
You wanna know the extent they go to for these servers? They change the time to match AEST. That's it!
dishwasherlove
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open-snaps broken already? It has been 5 mins and no pic.
My New Years nerd resolutions:
Play a game of Blood Bowl irl
Get some of my heavier boardgames to the table (Dominant Species, Sekigahara, Napoleons Triumph)
And as an addendum to that, finally play Vladaas Mage Knight (I have set it up twice now and put it away again because goddamn those rules are front loaded)
Maybe play some video games I bought for a change. Steam backlog is approaching epic proportions but I can't stop playing multiplayer games (DoTA, Payday 2)
My New Years nerd resolutions:
Play a game of Blood Bowl irl
Get some of my heavier boardgames to the table (Dominant Species, Sekigahara, Napoleons Triumph)
And as an addendum to that, finally play Vladaas Mage Knight (I have set it up twice now and put it away again because goddamn those rules are front loaded)
Maybe play some video games I bought for a change. Steam backlog is approaching epic proportions but I can't stop playing multiplayer games (DoTA, Payday 2)
To have servers that have an active population in the right time zone and to have a reboot and maintenance schedule that corresponds to the right peak times. I have no idea if the latter ever happened. The former always resulted in "Unofficial Australian servers" for every MMO. They're just formalising that I guess. There's nothing stopping anyone else connecting as far as I know. USA players on night shift etc play in our peak time too.
I always wondered. I mean obviously it would be cheaper, but i would have thought putting servers in say Japan would be a better idea as they would have just as good performance with better ping times.
Amusingly I've never tried a Australia MMO server as I prefer playing with US based friends.
codswallop
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Having servers located elsewhere means a ton of extra support considerations, not to mention if you have all your servers in one or two physical places it's a hell of a lot easier to manage.
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
So it looks like I'll be flying to Melbourne on Friday 7th and staying til the following Monday. Can't book anything until we know the bf can get Friday arvo off. So if anyone wants to say hi in that time they're more than welcome. Except on Saturday, I'll be busy at a wedding for most of the arvo and evening
I'm gradually working my way through the SA miniature painting thread and thought I saw a familiar name and avatar in there.
I'm looking forward to having a bash of DreadBall at some point. I don't know how similar it is to Blood Bowl, but I like how relatively simple it seems to be as a miniatures/board game hybrid. Just getting into miniature painting and having only assembled and partially painted some Hordes stuff, the DreadBall minis are comparatively tiny.
ThePhotoshop
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Oh hello, I work for GameSpot now. http://www.gamespot.com/profile/dhindes/blog/hello-from-the-new-gamespot-au-editor/26051125/
Early morning flights...never again!
Watched a new-ish japanese movie on the flight called Oshin. I looked it up and it's an adaptation of a popular 80s j-drama, which was based on the biography of a business Japanese business woman or something.
Pretty simple movie, Meiji period, had a lot of feels, I recommend it to our fellow j-movie watchers!
Watched a new-ish japanese movie on the flight called Oshin. I looked it up and it's an adaptation of a popular 80s j-drama, which was based on the biography of a business Japanese business woman or something.
Pretty simple movie, Meiji period, had a lot of feels, I recommend it to our fellow j-movie watchers!
i completely forgot you even have an account
ClivePwned
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Ruthless_Barbarian
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Friday is 10th. I hope you didn't mess up the dates and miss the wedding.
I'm sure if I put in enough time, money, effort and skill, I'll eventually be able to have a game nobody will play, too.
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
gottalovetheglove
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if you never associate a phone number with your account you're perfectly safe.
i mean i can't tell how their actual server backend is but besides that one thing the api is pretty secure all things considered, they banned an ip of mine while testing, messed everything up for a bit.
just uh, don't ever assume anything you send over snapchat is private. it'd be pretty easy to hook my a main account up and download and save locally or forward everything i get to another account.
and yeah open-snaps will break occasionally, i just need it to happen again and work around it.
you guys can take photos of your phones together <3
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
Maybe we will.
reptilescorpio
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DLC is region locked to the game, so you would need to download Pinball Arcade from the US store, pretty sure it's free anyway and you pay for the DLC tables? Should work in theory.
So they don't have a server marked Australia? Just SEA?
So what you're saying is they don't care about us
Also you playing Payday today? I'm keen to get back into it if you don't have a group!
Congrats! I assumed you landed somewhere large after PCPP.
Can you draw a penus on the notepad? If you can draw a penus I wouldn't call it entirely pointless.
No thanks, I bought those games ages ago before they were in bundles
#SteamHipster
codswallop
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I'd love Surgeon Simulator if no one else has asked it. I'm on the fence with this latest bundle, if I buy it I'll pay Surgeon Simulator forward...
(Joe Danger and Reus are the other games I don't have and I'm not that interested in them)
I do have a group but I reckon I can cheat on them! Not until the weekend though probably...
MelBoardGameGAF, there was talk about something maybe happening at Mitcham. Should we throw a date out there and see what sticks?
bodyboarder
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I'm thinking of building a gaming pc again. This could get expensive.
codswallop
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Ruthless_Barbarian
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AU PSN+ annual sub price has gone up to $73.95. At $69.99, it was already ridiculously overpriced compared to US price of $49.99,
Hah, that's what I thought too.
MelbGaf meetup anyone?
Hah, that's what I thought too.
MelbGaf meetup anyone?
LEDs in pinball machines woo!
Thinking of going solely US account soon. Well, keep my pleb AU PSN one and just go US secondary account for cheap PSN and PS+.
Shonky.
Edit: Just realised that'll make me lose access to all the stuff I already got through PS+. Fuck you, Sony.
Seriously? Fuck that for a joke. They already have me riled up with the price disparity of the season packs for Pinball Arcade ($30 vs $44) and now they've upped the price again?
Thinking of going solely US account soon. Well, keep my pleb AU PSN one and just go US secondary account for cheap PSN and PS+.
Shonky.
Edit: Just realised that'll make me lose access to all the stuff I already got through PS+. Fuck you, Sony.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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I may be mistaken. The email I got from playstation.eu says $73.95 but the au website still shows $69.99.
Probably an auto conversion of £39.99 into AUD.
Probably an auto conversion of £39.99 into AUD.
I'm totally getting a pinball machine when I have my own place + game room!
Also, yay I'm "home"!
And double yay my clothes didn't go all mouldy. I was totally stressing about that. Pro tip for you peeps going to live in japan (cos I'm pretty sure the same thing happens in jp), buy dehumidifying tubs for your closets! Especially the one with the rad elephant mascot
Also, yay I'm "home"!
And double yay my clothes didn't go all mouldy. I was totally stressing about that. Pro tip for you peeps going to live in japan (cos I'm pretty sure the same thing happens in jp), buy dehumidifying tubs for your closets! Especially the one with the rad elephant mascot
Still says 69.99 on PSN.
How does tomorrow night sound? #MitchamGAF
reptilescorpio
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Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
I'd be keen! Be cool to meet more gaffers
Morning all.
I wrote way, way, way too many words about the recently resurfaced 1982 Disney documentary "Computers Are People, Too!". The show was a really weird trip, maybe you'd like to read (and watch) it too.
Also! I made a comic about Mega Man 2. You kids like the old video games and stuff right?
And Clive: Yeah, every single one of them #wastedmylife #shouldabecomeadoctor
I wrote way, way, way too many words about the recently resurfaced 1982 Disney documentary "Computers Are People, Too!". The show was a really weird trip, maybe you'd like to read (and watch) it too.
Also! I made a comic about Mega Man 2. You kids like the old video games and stuff right?
And Clive: Yeah, every single one of them
#wastedmylife #shouldabecomeadoctorI don't :/ At least, not as often as I'd like... and because I follow too many people now, it's hard to know when to check for certain stuff. Is there something specific I should check out?
LEDs in pinball machines woo!
Wow, that looks incredible. The playfield looks in great shape too. Is it? Or, if you excuse the question, are the LEDs making it look better than it is? The reason I ask is, my BOP is pretty dirty, scuffed, yellowed around non-mylard areas, and has wear through to the wood at common ball drop areas. But as soon as I switch it on, BOOM, it looks amazing with all of the colour and LEDs. Those lights make a huge difference. Something I haven't yet been able to capture well in photos.
roosters93
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Boo-urns.
I wish I could say the same, but I'm a lager lout through and through.
I want to like IPAs..but I just haven't warmed to them yet. The taste of hops is way too strong.
bodyboarder
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