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[evlcookie]

Oh god, It's finally here. The KFC Double Down is coming down under.

Who is going to try this ghastly thing? I know i am!

 

[giri]

Oh god, It's finally here. The KFC Double Down is coming down under.

Who is going to try this ghastly thing? I know i am!

Pass.

The days of indulging in stupid fast food ideas only to end up feeling like ass afterwards are behind me

 

[Bernbaum]

Oh god, It's finally here. The KFC Double Down is coming down under.

Who is going to try this ghastly thing? I know i am!

Hilariously, the first place I saw it advertised was on the TV at the gym yesterday. Can't wait to scarf down one of those monstrosities. In fact, if I left my lunch at home like I think I did, I may indulge myself today.

 

[jambo]

Oh god, It's finally here. The KFC Double Down is coming down under.

Who is going to try this ghastly thing? I know i am!

Have a nice heart attack.

Saw a few in the flesh when I was in the US and Canada last year, looked disgusting. Why would you eat that when you could have beautiful roast chicken, or maybe satay chicken, or curry chicken?!

 

[Gazunta]

I'm a fat bastard and even I wouldn't eat that.

 

[Agyar]

Hilariously, the first place I saw it advertised was on the TV at the gym yesterday. Can't wait to scarf down one of those monstrosities. In fact, if I left my lunch at home like I think I did, I may indulge myself today.

I'll join you. Maybe with a buddy system, help will be at hand when one of us is crippled by heart disease on the spot.

 

[codswallop]

So, I finished Splinter Cell Conviction last night (Operation Backlog is off to a reasonable start: two games polished off in two weeks).

Took a bit to get back into the swing of things and I finished the last third of the game without using the Mark & Execute feature because I totally forgot about it, and only realised it when I started to get stuck after

Spoiler

"saving" the vice president in the White House

. After that, it was a ridiculously easy run to the finish.

When it's doing stupid shit like

Spoiler

forced stealth in the car park

or

Spoiler

annoying laser beam dodging... twice

it sucks, but when you're hiding in the shadows being a predatory badass, it's great fun. Much like Batman Arkham Asylum.

The days of indulging in stupid fast food ideas only to end up feeling like ass afterwards are behind me

I do love how it doesn't even pretend to be healthy. None of that lettuce crap!

 

[Bernbaum]

I'll join you. Maybe with a buddy system, help will be at hand when one of us is crippled by heart disease on the spot.

Fuck the buddy system. If you die from cardiac arrest mid-bite, I'm not above prying the half-eaten food item from your blue clammy twitching hands.

Alas my tuna lunch was indeed packed. No death by Colonel for me today.

 

[Agyar]

Fuck the buddy system. If you die from cardiac arrest mid-bite, I'm not above prying the half-eaten food item from your blue clammy twitching hands.

Alas my tuna lunch was indeed packed. No death by Colonel for me today.

Fine, be like that.

 

[codswallop]

Operation Backlog's rules allow me to purchase a game when I finish two. And now I see Enslaved is $32. And I still have Bioshock 2 unopened... it's a vicious cycle, people.

Edit: Actually, it's even cheaper at base.com. Anyone used these guys before? http://www.base.com/buy/product/enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west-xbox-360/dgc-enslaved360.htm

 

[Shaneus]

NBA Jam for 360 is dirt cheap at Zavvi, too. $15 or something?

 

[evlcookie]

Fuck the buddy system. If you die from cardiac arrest mid-bite, I'm not above prying the half-eaten food item from your blue clammy twitching hands.

Alas my tuna lunch was indeed packed. No death by Colonel for me today.

It's not out officially until tomorrow anyway, So you can eat your tuna lunch with pride!

 

[Tntnnbltn]

It's like the newspaper pre-emptively Garfield'ed their own photo.

 

[Bernbaum]

It's not out officially until tomorrow anyway, So you can eat your tuna lunch with pride!

Totally gonna day one perch the double down. Brisbane has its share of chubbies so we'll see if there's a lineup comparable to Friday's iPad launch.

 

[untoldhero]

Wow Mama did't like my post in the Geohot thread. Ausgaf backup via ham though.

 

[Shaneus]

Totally gonna day one perch the double down. Brisbane has its share of chubbies so we'll see if there's a lineup comparable to Friday's iPad launch.

Police out in force, blocking the streets? Perhaps you should preorder to avoid disappointment...

 

[codswallop]

Police out in force, blocking the streets? Perhaps you should preorder to avoid disappointment...

I think there will be disappointment regardless.

 

[hamchan]

Ponting stepping down!

At least he finished with a nice century.

 

[Choc]

now THIS is man yells @ cloud stuff

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/apple-fans-livid-as-ipad-2-sells-out-20110329-1cdvx.html

 

[codswallop]

now THIS is man yells @ cloud stuff

What whiny bitch. Oh boo hoo, he didn't get one. The launch was no different to any other recent iDevice launch. They all sell out. Apple can't make them fast enough. Blah blah blah.

Do you really think Apple would intentionally constrain their supply so badly it takes people a full month to get it if they could produce more in time for launch? Yes, it makes for some good publicity (OMG it's so popular people are waiting MONTHS for it!) but I don't imagine for a second if they could've fulfilled all orders day one they would have done so. Or at least week one.

 

[Planet_JASE]

Edit: Actually, it's even cheaper at base.com. Anyone used these guys before? http://www.base.com/buy/product/enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west-xbox-360/dgc-enslaved360.htm

It's the same people that own dvd.co.uk, which I have used multiple times. Proceed with Operation Rebacklog

Police out in force, blocking the streets? Perhaps you should preorder to avoid disappointment...

I wonder if the council will have to step in? You might have to order via the KFC website.

 

[legend166]

Ponting!

Goodnight, sweet prince.

 

[codswallop]

It's the same people that own dvd.co.uk, which I have used multiple times. Proceed with Operation Rebacklog

Thanks for that. Operation Backlog has taken a step back. Never fear, Dead Space and Mirror's Edge are next up on the chopping block.

 

[Choc]

Red Bull finally admits KERS was not fitted to Mark Webber's car after a weekend of speculation at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix

because you wankers continue to support Seb over Mark

 

[Deeku]

Yay 3ds shipped from Amazon, but probably won't get it until Friday.

Also, sad to see Ponting go. Wish there was someone else other than Clarke to take over, never liked that guy.

 

[evlcookie]

Already had our first iPad 2 come back due to hardware issues, Looks like some of the models have the backlight bleeding going on that i believe was reported back in the US.

 

[Jintor]

So apparently Labor did something really tricky with the NBN yesterday?

 

[Choc]

 

[Choc]

Already had our first iPad 2 come back due to hardware issues, Looks like [strikeout]some[/strikeout] of the models have the backlight bleeding going on that i believe was reported back in the US.

most cookie from what i read :|

 

[Bernbaum]

FUCK YES PIKMIN 3

FUCK, NO PIKMIN 3

Edit: Hang on. Choc, that's what you implied with your post right? I can't find anything else on it and there isn't a Gamingside thread.

I've gotten used to filling in the blanks with Chocposts as you're not big on providing a lot of context with your train-of-thought contributions.

Or punctuation.

Or grammar.

Spoiler

but please, never change

 

[Clipper]

Yay 3ds shipped from Amazon, but probably won't get it until Friday.

Also, sad to see Ponting go. Wish there was someone else other than Clarke to take over, never liked that guy.

I had a similar item ship at a similar time on a Tuesday there, and it arrived Friday afternoon. Thus I expect all of us (in the capital cities at least) to receive our 3DSes on Thursday arvo.

I'm interested to see when my 3DS catches up to the games. The games have a two and a half hour head start.

 

[Deeku]

I had a similar item ship at a similar time on a Tuesday there, and it arrived Friday afternoon. Thus I expect all of us (in the capital cities at least) to receive our 3DSes on Thursday arvo.

I'm interested to see when my 3DS catches up to the games. The games have a two and a half hour head start.

I hope it comes friday because no one is going to be at home on Thursday.

Also, I never knew choc would be a parish fan. The gamespite books are awesome.

 

[Choc]

no i ordered jeremy parish's gamespite book (well one of them )

 

[Fredescu]

I read this headline immediately after reading a Choc post and I had to double take.

Ah, no, it's "cuts".

 

[Choc]

only took 2 days to break the first promise


awesome start that!

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

I also got my notification email from Amazon. EXCITE.

As I said to a friend in an email asking if that was good:

Weeeeeeell...

It means that the order was processed at 7:23pm Pennsylvania time on Monday, which is something like 9:23am Tuesday here. Assuming it gets on a 9:00pm flight to the DHL hub in Cincinnati and leaves Cincinnati by a midnight domestic bound for LA, it can catch a 13-hour flight from LA to Brisbane or a 16-hour flight from LA to Sydney, probably around midday or so. That means it'll probably get to Brisbane on Wednesday morning Pennsylvania time (let's call that early Thursday morning local time), which means that it'll get to me by about lunchtime on Thursday at the earliest, more likely on Friday. Given that the 3DS launches here on Thursday, it'll mean that I'll take delivery of my unit at or near launch, but at a ~$75 discount thanks to the exchange rate.

So yeah, that's good.

 

[hamchan]

Yeah hopefully Ponting will keep playing for Australia.

 

[teekun]

Yeah hopefully Ponting will keep playing for Australia.

Watching the press conference now. He's sticking around, but I guess it's up to the selectors whether or not he actually gets to keep playing.

 

[Ydahs]

Day two sales even better. I'm rich!

Now, the 3DS... to buy or not to buy?

 

[Shaneus]

Red Bull finally admits KERS was not fitted to Mark Webber's car after a weekend of speculation at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix

because you wankers continue to support Seb over Mark

Pretty sure Vettel didn't have it, either. They had a different system which results in a one-shot of boost of the starting line, that's it.

 

[legend166]

Red Bull finally admits KERS was not fitted to Mark Webber's car after a weekend of speculation at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix

because you wankers continue to support Seb over Mark

Link?

 

[Bernbaum]

I also got my notification email from Amazon. EXCITE.

As I said to a friend in an email asking if that was good:

Mine got shipped by my contact yesterday, but I'm looking at next week before it shows up in the post.

Exciting to know that my very own personal 3DS is a real thing that exists -

 

[The Storyteller]

DID SOMEONE SAY PIKMIN 3?

Spoiler

 

[jambo]

Red Bull finally admits KERS was not fitted to Mark Webber's car after a weekend of speculation at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix

because you wankers continue to support Seb over Mark

Straight after the race they confirmed it wasn't on either car...

=\

 

[evlcookie]

Work wants me to go to sydney next week for a few days. Crows nest is the location.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING.

Help me NSW people, I totally need it! How far is that from the airport? How do i get around from airport to there etc etc.

 

[hamchan]

Work wants me to go to sydney next week for a few days. Crows nest is the location.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING.

Help me NSW people, I totally need it! How far is that from the airport? How do i get around from airport to there etc etc.

Wow, that's all the way up past North Sydney. Quite a while from the airport I think, you'd have to go through the city and over the bridge.

 

[Fredescu]

Help me NSW people, I totally need it! How far is that from the airport? How do i get around from airport to there etc etc.

Use the trip planner at http://www.131500.com/. Figure out which train station is closest, but it's probably St Leonards. There's a train station at the airport, but you may have to change trains to get to St Leonards.

 

[The Storyteller]

Work wants me to go to sydney next week for a few days. Crows nest is the location.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING.

Help me NSW people, I totally need it! How far is that from the airport? How do i get around from airport to there etc etc.

Crows nest is close to North Sydney, so it aint too far. By public transport it should take 40 mins or so, you'd have to catch a train to central, and then another train from central to north sydney, and then catch a bus to Crows Nest. you can check times and stuff here: http://www.cityrail.info/timetables/#landingPoint

Have fun with the BEST TRANSPORT IN THE WORLD.

EDIT: beaten. St leonards would work too, it's closer actually, and the place in Crow's Nest might be within walking distance from there.

 

[Deeku]

Work wants me to go to sydney next week for a few days. Crows nest is the location.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING.

Help me NSW people, I totally need it! How far is that from the airport? How do i get around from airport to there etc etc.

Crows Nest is north so you'll be near choc and legend. And yeah, as hamchan said, quite far but with taxi's and tunnels it'll only take like 30 mins or so.

 

[Bernbaum]

Work wants me to go to sydney next week for a few days. Crows nest is the location.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING.

Help me NSW people, I totally need it! How far is that from the airport? How do i get around from airport to there etc etc.

It's Sydney - you run in the direction opposite the knife wielding meth-addicted teenagers.