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Got over 50 streetpasses today at supenova!!!

Also got a ton of people with streetfighter and nintendogs data.
Only thing is I dont think alot of people bother to set up the sharing properly in game.

Alot of street fighter teams were all level one starting trophies and most people had not set up to share a gift, photo and message in nintendogs.

 

[Ydahs]

<rant>

The AFL website is run by a bunch of monkeys.

It takes forever to load and is bloated with useless crap.

Their new match centre lags like hell (and also takes forever to load).

They removed their HTML match viewer which runs perfectly in comparison, probably because a lot more people were switching over to that than their crappy new version. Gotta please Carlton Draught with their page wide ads. Wonder how many kids use that site?

My website now uses their other stats feed, which is unreliable. It sometimes updates every minute, sometimes two or three. Their HTML feed update every 30 seconds without fail.

</rant>

 

[Yagharek]

Fucking channel 10. Delayed qualy for the F1 for SA, live for everyone else. Fuckers. Not even a notice that it is delayed coverage wither, they are talking as if they are live. Only clue if you don't know is the lack of the love logo. Absolute fuckery.

Almost ruined myself by clicking in the F1 thread.

Fuck.

Australian TV sucks soooooo much.

This post reads like a choc post

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

So I've been drifting in and out of a fever for the past three days and now I can't get to sleep

 

[justin.au]

So what exactly is a streetpass? That is, what do you get from one?

And yes, the AFL site is, and always has been shit. At least it isn't 95% Flash these days.

 

[Ydahs]

And yes, the AFL site is, and always has been shit. At least it isn't 95% Flash these days.

Their flash match centre was also better than their new match centre. They are going backwards.

 

[Yagharek]

Their flash match centre was also better than their new match centre. They are going backwards.

Just like the whole game. Too many rule changes, too much demetrio.

 

[Mar]

So I've been drifting in and out of a fever for the past three days and now I can't get to sleep

Nasty dude. Do you know what's wrong?

Also, I cleaned up my xbox live friends list. If anyone notices I've deleted them then send through another request. I just deleted every name I couldn't immediately recognise.

 

[Gazunta]

Spending my Saturday night working and redoing up on of my sites. Who knows how to party? THIS GUY

 

[legend166]

Can't believe how crap we're playing against West Coast. Sigh.

 

[Mar]

Spending my Saturday night working and redoing up on of my sites. Who knows how to party? THIS GUY

As much as our gaming tastes align, it seems we couldn't be more opposed in other areas. You're very motivated toward your creative efforts, whereas I'm more likely to just go out and drink a beer.

To be honest, I don't think either option is better or worse. Yay us?

 

[Frawdder]

Fucking channel 10. Delayed qualy for the F1 for SA, live for everyone else. Fuckers. Not even a notice that it is delayed coverage wither, they are talking as if they are live. Only clue if you don't know is the lack of the love logo. Absolute fuckery.

Almost ruined myself by clicking in the F1 thread.

Fuck.

Australian TV sucks soooooo much.

Yeah, pathetic.

Unfortunately I had a minor brain collapse 50 minutes before the start of the telecast and decided to check my RSS feed...



...shit

 

[AdventureRacing]

<rant>

The AFL website is run by a bunch of monkeys.

It takes forever to load and is bloated with useless crap.

Their new match centre lags like hell (and also takes forever to load).

They removed their HTML match viewer which runs perfectly in comparison, probably because a lot more people were switching over to that than their crappy new version. Gotta please Carlton Draught with their page wide ads. Wonder how many kids use that site?

My website now uses their other stats feed, which is unreliable. It sometimes updates every minute, sometimes two or three. Their HTML feed update every 30 seconds without fail.

</rant>

The NRL site is the same. It's great how whenever there is a game on the site slows to a crawl and often crashes.

 

[Dead Man]

This post reads like a choc post

Aw. Don't say that. That hurts, man. I think my gripe is legitimate. Sports coverage that is not live should not be presented as such. It wasn't even announced that it was delayed.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Just like the whole game. Too many rule changes, too much demetrio.

Agree, can't watch for more than 10 minutes without rage quiting. Worst fucking umpiring in a professional sport. I can watch NBA, NFL, Soccer without getting too annoyed but AFL is just a joke with how inconsistent every umpiring decision is. Not even going to get into how annoying it is that bottom rung team players are paid $80,000+ to play 5 years of shit football. You are a professional sportsperson, how can you not kick a ball to another dude 20 metres away more than 30% of the time? This is you job for fucksake!

Also was I dreaming or did a bunch of swimmers come out and complain that tax payers don't pay them enough money to spend all day swimming in a damn pool? First World Goddamn Problems.
/end rant

Can't believe how crap we're playing against West Coast. Sigh.

At least you aren't Richmond. Absolute joke.

This post reads like a choc post

All drunken late night posts read like a choc post.

 

[mandiller]

So I've been drifting in and out of a fever for the past three days and now I can't get to sleep

Damn that sucks! I've had a cold since the start of this week, but it's just abating now finally. Trying to sleep at night is the worst because your body is trying to suffocate you by clogging your nose.

Perhaps a few alcoholic beverages at the BrisGAF meeting tomorrow will get rid of your flu?

 

[legend166]

YES

YES

YES YES YES

 

[Ydahs]

YES

YES

YES YES YES

What a great game. West Coast and Swanns have both been really impressive this year.

Gotta love Goodes.

 

[legend166]

Goodes is my man crush.

 

[Dead Man]

All drunken late night posts read like a choc post.

I'm sober.

 

[Yagharek]

Aw. Don't say that. That hurts, man. I think my gripe is legitimate. Sports coverage that is not live should not be presented as such. It wasn't even announced that it was delayed.

I was just referring to the text formatting and flow of the sentences. Not the content.

 

[Dead Man]

I was just referring to the text formatting and flow of the sentences. Not the content.

I feel better now, thanks.

 

[Planet_JASE]

For the people that have asked about StreetPass on the last couple of pages, here are a couple of answers that Clipper gave me a while back:

Mii Plaza, one of the built in games, comes with a neat little RPG that lets you battle with other people's Miis if you StreetPass them. The game is extremely slow-paced but quite addicting. There's also a puzzle game where you trade pieces with other people to complete some 3D images.

And certain games have other stuff to, like the figure collecting and battling in Street Fighter.

You can also use the Play Coins that you earn from walking (max 10 each day) to buy puzzle pieces or to hire cat/dog heroes (each costing 2 Play Coins) to use in those particular two games in the Mii Plaza. Of course, other games use the coins too (hence my outburst about Lego Star Wars II earlier) and given that you are limited in the coins you can earn each day (unless you cheat and change the calendar date), you have to spread them around a bit, making StreetPass the best way to get heroes and pieces.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Damn that sucks! I've had a cold since the start of this week, but it's just abating now finally. Trying to sleep at night is the worst because your body is trying to suffocate you by clogging your nose.

Perhaps a few alcoholic beverages at the BrisGAF meeting tomorrow will get rid of your flu?

It's a reaction to the flu vaccine, I think. As for the BrisGAF meetup, I can't go due to a prior arrangement. My fiancé is trying on her wedding dress this afternoon and I'm driving her there.

Also, I'm getting fitted for a matching vest. Have fun, guys.

 

[edotherocket]

Well the Reds beat the Stormers last night leaving them top of the Australian Super 15 conference so I consider it a successful weekend.

Today I have nothing planned so I can sit my ass in front of the tv and spend the afternoon playing Yakuza 4.

 

[Danoss]

It's a reaction to the flu vaccine, I think.

That sucks if so.

Occasionally, previous vaccines had given me the sniffles at most, but this recent one gave no ill effects. Sorry to hear you've had a nasty reaction, if that's the case. Feel better man.

 

[Bernbaum]

Sucks you can't make it VKS.

BrisGAF is indeed otherwise looking good for 3pm this arvo. Sounds like there'll be a few people who didn't come to the first couple. To help you out, I'll be the tall guy wearing this here Pacman wristband. If you see a TALL tall guy, like, scraping the ceiling with his head, that'll be Ventron, who is descended from mythical giants.

 

[Agyar]

Sucks you can't make it VKS.

BrisGAF is indeed otherwise looking good for 3pm this arvo. Sounds like there'll be a few people who didn't come to the first couple. To help you out, I'll be the tall guy wearing this here Pacman wristband. If you see a TALL tall guy, like, scraping the ceiling with his head, that'll be Ventron, who is descended from mythical giants.

I'll be the guy that's late. Probably.

 

[evlcookie]

Sigh steam.

It seems like my account has been re-enabled but steam support hasn't even noticed this is the case. I just got an email saying they couldn't use what i provided them to open an enquiry with the bank as they need some sort of real documentation and not computer text.

I think i'm just going to ignore it at this point since my account is back and working. It still boggles my mind that i never got a email saying my account was banned for xyz and i haven't gotten an email saying it's now been enabled again on top of the fact steam support seems to have no idea about it.

Valve, You so good or maybe not.

 

[Ydahs]

Wow. No wonder the AFL website is so inefficient

Everyone, please take a look at this main xml file being loaded for the AFL Match Centre and proceed in laughing at the worst xml design in modern history.

Okay, it's actually designed well except for one key issue. There is data that is begin repeated over 100 times for no reason. How the AFL can overlook such a bug is beyond me (unless I'm reading it wrong that is).

 

[Ventron]

Sucks you can't make it VKS.

BrisGAF is indeed otherwise looking good for 3pm this arvo. Sounds like there'll be a few people who didn't come to the first couple. To help you out, I'll be the tall guy wearing this here Pacman wristband. If you see a TALL tall guy, like, scraping the ceiling with his head, that'll be Ventron, who is descended from mythical giants.

Sometimes I cosplay as Cthulhu and use my powers for good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I729dOnDZEk

 

[Yagharek]

I feel better now, thanks.

No problem.

 

[reptilescorpio]

How the AFL can overlook such a bug is beyond me (unless I'm reading it wrong that is).

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Spoiler

The whole site is a piece of shit design-wise, they probably used whoever was cheapest to get it up and running.

 

[Rezbit]

Uhhhhnnnn drank way too many Cascade Draughts last night. One of the burdens of visiting my home state. The AGB was NOT good.

Also yes, the AFL design is a POS. We were trying to get updates last night during Swans/Eagles and the crappy site just hung and wouldn't load.

 

[Yagharek]

Also was I dreaming or did a bunch of swimmers come out and complain that tax payers don't pay them enough money to spend all day swimming in a damn pool? First World Goddamn Problems.
/end rant

I want to see this rant keep going. Swimmers are the most narcissistic sports "stars" this country produces. And the media give them complementary blowjobs just for turning up. Anyone of those racist homophobes (no matter how hot, stephanie rice) should shut the fuck up, get back in the pool and stick to hawking uncle tobys cereals instead of crying poor.

Compare their whinging attitude to two of the best australian sports stars these days: mark webber and tim cahill. Self made, charitable and eminently likeable. Without all the bullshit that goes with the swimmers and the cheaters/rapists in the afl and nrl.

 

[giri]

I want to see this rant keep going. Swimmers are the most narcissistic sports "stars" this country produces. And the media give them complementary blowjobs just for turning up. Anyone of those racist homophobes (no matter how hot, stephanie rice) should shut the fuck up, get back in the pool and stick to hawking uncle tobys cereals instead of crying poor.

Compare their whinging attitude to two of the best australian sports stars these days: mark webber and tim cahill. Self made, charitable and eminently likeable. Without all the bullshit that goes with the swimmers and the cheaters/rapists in the afl and nrl.

not defending the swimmers, but cahil and webber make just a little bit more, a TINY bit more, than the swimmers.

 

[Yagharek]

They dont get years and years of scholarships to get there.

 

[reptilescorpio]

not defending the swimmers, but cahil and webber make just a little bit more, a TINY bit more, than the swimmers.

They are the exception, not the rule when it comes to sportspeople. We pay for a ton of swimmers in Australia. How many F1 drivers have we had?

 

[Frawdder]

They are the exception, not the rule when it comes to sportspeople. We pay for a ton of swimmers in Australia. How many F1 drivers have we had?

16.

17 if you want to include Daniel Ricciardo, because let's face it, he's at most 12 months away from a drive.

 

[Dead Man]

not defending the swimmers, but cahil and webber make just a little bit more, a TINY bit more, than the swimmers.

That is true now, but Webber was poor as fuck before he got into F1, Campese had to help pay the bills:

"We really struggled with the budget early in the year. Between Dad and [sponsor] Yellow Pages we bought the car but we simply didn't have the money to run it. At one point, we were so behind on payments that we decided to ask David Campese for help. He played union with Dad for the Queanbeyan Whites, so he knew our family well, and if anyone was going to buy into what I was trying to do, we thought it would be him. In the end, he paid something like £50,000, which was just unbelievable, and it meant that we could keep going."

No scholarships for him.

 

[Yagharek]

And the charity work Webber has done since more than makes up for it. He really is a top bloke.

 

[Bernbaum]

BrisGAF Imma be late...

 

[reptilescorpio]

16.

17 if you want to include Daniel Ricciardo, because let's face it, he's at most 12 months away from a drive.

Shows how much I follow F1, only knew of Alan Jones and Webber making any waves in F1.

Edit: And Brabham of course back in the 60's. My Dad would have a fit if I forgot Brabham.

 

[Shaneus]

And the charity work Webber has done since more than makes up for it. He really is a top bloke.

He really does show Aussie Grit, doesn't he?

 

[Yagharek]

He really does show Aussie Grit, doesn't he?

I was hoping you would see that post

 

[reptilescorpio]

He really does show Aussie Grit, doesn't he?

So did Harvey Norman have anything to add to the Backlogathon? Still got the twitch in the back of my spine to run down and check if they have any bargains (even though I know they won't).

 

[Rezbit]

I'm looking for an xbox game to play (haven't played in 4 or 5 months). Anything good come out recently?

Also, those shitty 3DS ads seem to be pretty accurate. Took it to a party last night, and people do make those silly faces!

 

[reptilescorpio]

I'm looking for an xbox game to play (haven't played in 4 or 5 months). Anything good come out recently?

Also, those shitty 3DS ads seem to be pretty accurate. Took it to a party last night, and people do make those silly faces!

Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Dead Space 2, AC: Brotherhood?

 

[Rezbit]

Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Dead Space 2, AC: Brotherhood?

Ohhh some pretty decent stuff there. I think I might have to check out ACB. Loved ACII.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Ohhh some pretty decent stuff there. I think I might have to check out ACB. Loved ACII.

Are you looking to pick up local or able to wait 2 weeks for an import? $39 at OzGameShop. It is a fantastic game, especially if you loved AC2. JB has it for $69 if you want to pick it up today.

Also I am having problems watching avi files on my PS3. Works fine most of the time with TV shows but the last 2 movies I've tried to watch haven't had the sound playing. Is the sound encoded to low or something? Works fine on the 360 but looks a lot worse than on the PS3.