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viciouskillersquirrel
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My Mum went on a Tasmanian holiday earlier this year. Her itinerary was pretty packed and about the same length. I might get a list off her and post it.Salazar said:
Remind me if I forget.
Salazar said:
Well I am another Tasmanian on NeoGAF, so I have some suggestions for you!
Of course it depends on where abouts you are spending most of your time, because believe it or not, 10 days is NOT enough to see most of Tassie!
However, I will assemble a list of great things that you can possibly do/see:
Freycinet/Wineglass Bay/Coles Bay/Bicheno
Bay of Fires
Cradle Mountain
Port Arthur (convicts/ghost stuff etc...just don't go expecting to hear about the massacre, it is not mentioned at all down there)
Tasman Peninsula
The town of Ross, which was the inspiration for the setting of the Studio Ghibli film Kiki's Delivery Service
Hopefully those help
I highly recommend this but I haven't done anything else Rezbit mentioned. There is a lot of stuff to see, I was only there for 2 weeks.Rezbit said:
I went to visit my Dad who lives in Tassie and we checked out Port Arthur while I was there. It is amazing, all the convict stuff and stories to go along with it. The nighttime ghost tour is amazingly fun also. It was so packed when we went, we had a security guard give us the ghost tour. I have a feeling we probably got the better tour with him than if we had a proper tour guide. For me, the 2 days we had there was the hi-light of my visit.
Rezbit said:Well I am another Tasmanian on NeoGAF, so I have some suggestions for you!
Of course it depends on where abouts you are spending most of your time, because believe it or not, 10 days is NOT enough to see most of Tassie!
However, I will assemble a list of great things that you can possibly do/see:
Freycinet/Wineglass Bay/Coles Bay/Bicheno
Bay of Fires
Cradle Mountain
Port Arthur (convicts/ghost stuff etc...just don't go expecting to hear about the massacre, it is not mentioned at all down there)
Tasman Peninsula
The town of Ross, which was the inspiration for the setting of the Studio Ghibli film Kiki's Delivery Service
Hopefully those help
Seems like there are a few Tasmanians around... I escaped 6 years ago and miss it all the time.
Mostly agree with your suggestions, they should stick to the east coast for teh first trip down, from Bay of Fires down to the Huon Valley south of Hobart.
Edit: oh... no longer a junior... hah!
FormallyMegadrive
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Ydahs said:
Yes, but it requires a restart of Steam.
Lucky you. I got a deadly stare from my dad when I suggested putting a cable through the roof. I'm going to try one more time, but i've conceded in buying a WiFi dongle.rass said:
In other news, looks like Victoria is headed to a hung parliament. I guess this means a revoting? Boo.
Neverender
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Ydahs said:
I don't mind the voting spot for my area is across the road my house. I just look out the window and wait until the lines have shortened
Clipper - nothing wrong with the card, just with my brains haha.
MSY had a wireless PCI card on special for $20 so I grabbed that. I proceeded to try and destroy the inside of my computer while attempting to install it into the wrong slot - then cracked the shits when it didn't work haha. I fixed it now, I had to go clean up like a boss earlier so I needed to leave it.
cookie - I love that picture haha.
So, in my endeavor to learn programming I started to learn Maya scripting. I made a script that creates a sphere, modifies it into a flower petal then creates a shader network and flower from the pieces. Followed tutorials for most of it, embellished it with some of my own 'fancy' ideas too. During the next week I'm going to try and make a script that will create a bouncing ball animation without my input, and without following tutorials. I'll see how it goes.
It's very satisfying to see something you've written work though, I'll tell you that.
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Ydahs, my GF will put up with a bit thankfully, she wasn't too impressed but my PC needs to be connected to the internet so I can access digitaltutors.com (thanks work)
it's all away now anyway
wireless speed:
not too bad
MSY had a wireless PCI card on special for $20 so I grabbed that. I proceeded to try and destroy the inside of my computer while attempting to install it into the wrong slot - then cracked the shits when it didn't work haha. I fixed it now, I had to go clean up like a boss earlier so I needed to leave it.
cookie - I love that picture haha.
So, in my endeavor to learn programming I started to learn Maya scripting. I made a script that creates a sphere, modifies it into a flower petal then creates a shader network and flower from the pieces. Followed tutorials for most of it, embellished it with some of my own 'fancy' ideas too. During the next week I'm going to try and make a script that will create a bouncing ball animation without my input, and without following tutorials. I'll see how it goes.
It's very satisfying to see something you've written work though, I'll tell you that.
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Ydahs, my GF will put up with a bit thankfully, she wasn't too impressed but my PC needs to be connected to the internet so I can access digitaltutors.com (thanks work
)it's all away now anyway
wireless speed:
not too bad
omg old PC had wireless network card. Bro installs it into my new one, Bios resets, clock is set to 2002 and a bunch of items in my taskbar tray disappear. Oh and we found a dead worm in the case and the card didn't work. Restarted PC and clock reset back to 12 which might mean the internal battery is now dead :'(
Hopefully everything returns back to normal once we remove this POS card and proceed to placing it into the good for nothing Magic Blender we have.
Hopefully everything returns back to normal once we remove this POS card and proceed to placing it into the good for nothing Magic Blender we have.
haha my clock reset to 2002 as well when I first got this card installed. Though I didn't find a dead worm.Ydahs said:
It's stayed connected at least for a couple of hours now so I'm happy enough.
I bought the Pixar short films collection on Blu Ray today but won't get a chance to watch it until the end of the week :/ Dammit.
I have it on 360. And i don't recommend it at all. It has very cringe worthy dialogue and storytelling. (by j-rpg standards), and the combat is extremely simplistic and repetitive.:lolYdahs said:
If you are looking for a good j-rpg on PS3 - probably should look out for demon souls, resonance of fate, valkyria chronicles, disgaea 3. That is assuming you haven't played them already.
Hmm. I'm really looking for a traditional turn-based RPG which those four aren't... man this gen sucks for JRPGs. I do have Valkyria Chronicles though I haven't played it.Lafiel said:
I'll probably end up getting Eternal Sonata because my brothers want it but there isn't anything else which will scratch my JRPG itch? Any Wii games? Guess I'll check out some DS RPGs.
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fappenmeister
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JC2 8 pack made it $7.50 each.
Group buys rule.
Group buys rule.
FormallyMegadrive
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jesus. How much is it without going into a group pack?fappenmeister said:
Ydahs said:
The DQ games on DS might fit your traditional turn-based criteria. And they're very awesome games. (4 & 5 especially). There's also a lot of other awesome j-rpgs that don't fit your criteria like devil survivor, the world ends with you, mario and luigi 3, shin megami tensei : strange journey (traditional but hardcore). Still, golden sun comes out next month in europe / australia for DS which might be what you're looking for.
Also you should definitely play your copy of Valkyria chronicles. I'm not the biggest fan of s-rpgs, and i loved that game.
roosters93
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HolyCheck said:It takes about 6 days for my money to get into my paypal account
I was a fucking twat to not put money in it before this week.
ffs
You can do instant bank transfers if you have a credit card on your Paypal account. You don't ever need to use it, it just authorises you to do instant bank transfers.
sorry PC gaf, another question for you all
I have an Asus P6T mobo with 6gb (3x2) DDR3 ram (I don't know the speed of it haha). there are 3 more ram slots, would getting 12gb ram be as simple as buying another triple set? Or would I need some kind of magic 6 card matching set?
I want moar rams for some reason
I also want to get an SSD to put windows on, easy task? Everything on my system is backed up. All of this won't happen until the new year but I just want to make a plan.
Giri - I've had a cc linked to my PayPal for as long as I can remember, it's only used if there's not enough money in my savings account to pay for something. No problems that I recall.
I have an Asus P6T mobo with 6gb (3x2) DDR3 ram (I don't know the speed of it haha). there are 3 more ram slots, would getting 12gb ram be as simple as buying another triple set? Or would I need some kind of magic 6 card matching set?
I want moar rams for some reason
I also want to get an SSD to put windows on, easy task? Everything on my system is backed up. All of this won't happen until the new year but I just want to make a plan.
Giri - I've had a cc linked to my PayPal for as long as I can remember, it's only used if there's not enough money in my savings account to pay for something. No problems that I recall.
I would like to say that while New Vegas is an excellent game, geez it has some bugs...
Currently my 2 x companions have gone walkabouts somewhere in Vegas... they appear on the map as markers, but for the life of me I can not find them, nor are they in the Lucky 38 with the rest of them. Then there is the mysterious missing dog companion... sent him to Lucky 38, still hasn't arrived many game days later. Who knows.
Was reading up that a potential fix was some elevator in Vault 22... might have to go try it. Anyone else had this issue?
Also, seems achievements are a bit broken, I returned/found all the snowdomes but didn't get the achievement for it :lol
Currently my 2 x companions have gone walkabouts somewhere in Vegas... they appear on the map as markers, but for the life of me I can not find them, nor are they in the Lucky 38 with the rest of them. Then there is the mysterious missing dog companion... sent him to Lucky 38, still hasn't arrived many game days later. Who knows.
Was reading up that a potential fix was some elevator in Vault 22... might have to go try it. Anyone else had this issue?
Also, seems achievements are a bit broken, I returned/found all the snowdomes but didn't get the achievement for it :lol
Still haven't played a Dragon Quest game so it should be an good time to jump in the series. Heck, maybe I'll go straight to 9. Haven't played those other suggestions except for The World Ends With You (which is awesome).Lafiel said:
fappenmeister said:
Somehow I read that as $7.50 for the eight in bed while on my iPod. I immediately got up, logged on to my computer only to realize it was $7.50 each
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just started teaching myself some C++, it's nice to be exercising the mathematical/logical side of my brain again after being arty farty for most of this year. Learning stuff like this a weirdly enjoyable to me, it takes up all of my attention so I'm not actually stressing about anything else when I'm using that bit of my brain. It's nice and numbing. :3
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