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[Choc]

Yeah I just saw that in the F1 thread Choc, good and bad could come of this.

On the one side, BBCs coverage is fucking awesome so it would suck if Sky's wasn't as good.

On the flip side, F1s being on Foxtel in HD would be awesome and Sky's coverage could turn out to be great.

one thing that may come out of it for Australians with Foxtel is Press Red.

In the UK they have it, you press red and you can bring up stats and all sorts of highlights etc from the race as its live

On sky i imagine you will be able to follow 1 car the whole race if you want.

 

[Shaneus]

On the flip side, F1s being on Foxtel in HD would be awesome and Sky's coverage could turn out to be great.

It's in HD on One. What would the difference be?

 

[Choc]

It's in HD on One. What would the difference be?

Sky broadcasts @ 1080p in the UK i think which means that Foxtel HD would get that

I believe that ONE HD is broadcasting F1 @ 720

All i know is when i saw F1 in the UK it fucking SHAT on what we see on ONE HD.

 

[Choc]

Also

LOL

The undaunted Tim Langdell has claimed a High Court ruling dismissing his trademark claims against Future was riddled with errors.

 

[jambo]

It's in HD on One. What would the difference be?

No ads and proper HD

 

[r1chard]

No gaming for a while. I appear to have gotten hooked on Lego Digital Designer.

 

[Choc]

No ads

Not true. Have you watched Foxtel lately

http://ldd.lego.com/

FARK that is awesome

 

[Clipper]

I had read it as down to 82% not down by 82%. That would be a lot worse, yes.

 

[codswallop]

looks like all doom and gloom for Nintendo. Shares down 20%.?

Definitely a big jump, but if you go back to 2008 their shares have been steadily going down. However they're about at the same level they were in 2001/2002. Things could be worse but I think they've underestimated not only the "casual" market with the 3DS but the "hardcore" market with the Wii U (if developers suggesting DS ports are anything to go by, at least).

Plenty of time to get the Wii U in shape before release, and this could just be a hiccup with the 3DS if everyone gets everything right from here on in.

 

[jambo]

Not true. Have you watched Foxtel lately

Foxtel is great for sport and movies, hardly any ads.

 

[Choc]

I had read it as down to 82% not down by 82%. That would be a lot worse, yes.

its down by 82%


http://ibankcoin.com/news/2011/07/28/nintendo-guides-profits-down-82/

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011...services-as-japan-earns-nintendo_8590777.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4392309...t/nintendo-posts-loss-cuts-forecast-ds-price/

 

[jambo]

Also I don't have free 2 air tv at home, so F1s on Foxtel would mean I could finally watch them live in HD on the couch!

 

[Dead Man]

F1 AUS GAF

The BBC and Sky Sports will broadcast Formula 1 in the UK between 2012 and 2018 under a new rights deal.
The BBC has been the exclusive broadcaster of F1 in the UK since 2009 but its contract with Formula One Management was due to expire after the 2013 season.
Sky Sports will show every race, qualifying session and practice live.
BBC Sport will broadcast half the races live, as well as the qualifying and practice sessions from those races.

does this mean for the Non Live we get shitty AU commentary or does Brundle and Coulthard do the sky feed as well and we can take that?

Also this opens up F1 to being on foxtel through sky (same company)

I think Ten have it pretty locked down for Australian broadcast rights. As for commentary, I hope we don't get those two monkeys on non BBC races.

 

[Choc]

I think Ten have it pretty locked down for Australian broadcast rights. As for commentary, I hope we don't get those two monkeys on non BBC races.

yeah but F1 is on the siphon list sure, but now that Sky has it, Foxtel can get it quite easily

Foxtel is allowed to have it, just not exclusively

Will be interesting. Given Murdochs perchant for fucking ONE up right now, he might put F1 back on Ten

However F1 is ONE's highest rating show by a long long way, so possibly not

 

[Clipper]

its down by 82%


http://ibankcoin.com/news/2011/07/28/nintendo-guides-profits-down-82/

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011...services-as-japan-earns-nintendo_8590777.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4392309...t/nintendo-posts-loss-cuts-forecast-ds-price/

Yeah, I know. I was admitting my error in that post, perhaps ambiguously.

 

[rass]

http://ldd.lego.com/

FARK that is awesome

it even makes instruction booklets for you

I need to buy some lego

 

[Dead Man]

yeah but F1 is on the siphon list sure, but now that Sky has it, Foxtel can get it quite easily

Foxtel is allowed to have it, just not exclusively

Will be interesting. Given Murdochs perchant for fucking ONE up right now, he might put F1 back on Ten

However F1 is ONE's highest rating show by a long long way, so possibly not

Ah, I always forget that.

 

[Deeku]

Yeah, I know. I was admitting my error in that post, perhaps ambiguously.

lol choc had to make sure you were wrong by giving 3 links;p

It's going to be interesting to see how Nintendo reacts to this in the next year or so. Maybe they won't be so confident when they start estimating demand for Wii U.

 

[Gazunta]

I'm pretty sure I've never been banned here. I think even during the great war on Australian users I was still able to log in just fine.

Today's been a good day.

Edit: still not buying a 3DS until they release all their games at iOS prices. Even the VC ones.

 

[Scrow]

ban stories... hmm i've gotten banned a handful of times. i can't remember the specific circumstances of each one, but i do remember that some were justified and some were not. sometimes i'm a dick, sometimes a mod is a dick. nobody is perfect. *shrug*

 

[roosters93]

I'm pretty sure I've never been banned here. I think even during the great war on Australian users I was still able to log in just fine.

What's this?

I've never been banned, but I'm one of those people who type out a long-winded bitter/angry post but then delete it lol

 

[HolyCheck]

What's this?

I've never been banned, but I'm one of those people who type out a long-winded bitter/angry post but then delete it lol

come boy, take a seat.

*puts a log on the camp fire, pulls out his guitar and starts a song*

 

[Choc]

Gaz pm

 

[codswallop]

come boy, take a seat.

*puts a log on the camp fire, pulls out his guitar and starts a song*

 

[r1chard]

http://ldd.lego.com/

FARK that is awesome

Oh yes. Yes it is.

My only gripe is it only has parts that are currently sold by Lego. Some older parts are easily available from bricklink, but there appears to be no way to get them into LDD.


You know what I hate? This kinda bait-n-switch:

http://www.techrific.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=1370&cPath=183#myshopping

"Acer Iconia Tab A500 32GB Android Smart Tablet (PREMIUM PACKAGE - FREE SHIPPING BOTH WAYS) AU$474.00 (FREE SHIPPING anywhere in Australia)"

... and down the bottom of the page is where you discover that to get FREE SHIPPING you have to pay $80.

 

[Gazunta]

Whoops thanks Choc. Seeing new PMs is tricky on the mobile site...also tricky with Live NeoGaf installed and never refreshing the page

The story goes that one day many years ago a silly NeoGAF Mod from Australia changed every thread on the first page of Gaming to be about Nintendogs. The country was then banned! Banned I tells you! Except for me and a few others I guess? So what an EPIC TALE.

Anyway, back to work

 

[trinest]

Whoops thanks Choc. Seeing new PMs is tricky on the mobile site...also tricky with Live NeoGaf installed and never refreshing the page

The story goes that one day many years ago a silly NeoGAF Mod from Australia changed every thread on the first page of Gaming to be about Nintendogs. The country was then banned! Banned I tells you! Except for me and a few others I guess? So what an EPIC TALE.

Anyway, back to work

Wow really thats what happend? I keep hearing different stories about the great Australian purge.

 

[Jintor]

Heard some dickhead from Oz hacked a mod's account (or guessed his password) and then proceeded to go crazy

 

[Kritz]

I made another comic! It's about racism!

 

[Dead Man]

LOL, that's gold. Cracked me up!

 

[Shaneus]

Bahahaha. That's amazing.

 

[Kritz]

Clearly I have found what I have been missing all these years.

Holocaust jokes.

 

[Dead Man]

Clearly I have found what I have been missing all these years.

Holocaust jokes.

It's funny because it happened to someone else.

 

[giri]

i've never been banned. i also never post on gaming-side. possibly related.

 

[Gazunta]

YES KRITZ THAT'S MY BOY

 

[Jintor]

Kritzs, that's legitimately hilarious

 

[legend166]

It's definitely funnier in comic form than it was in text form in Steam chat.


Anyway, just bought Civ 5 for $12 from greenmangaming.

FAREWELL, LIFE.

 

[HolyCheck]

i've never been banned. i also never post on gaming-side. possibly related.

probably because you're a boring fuck.

 

[Kritz]

It's definitely funnier in comic form than it was in text form in Steam chat.

Kritz:
"one day I want to dress up in those west asian lady covering sheets and go into an airport and try to catch a flight somewhere. See if I get scanned. If they request for me to reveal my face, I'll be all, I can't due to my religion. But if they press the issue, I'll take it off and show off my sweet, sweet hitler mustache. Because I also one day want to shave my mustache to be a hitler mustache and just keep it like that for a month or two
>_>
like, bringin' the hitler back."

Rahk:
"where do yo... what... wh..
just make a comic about it"

Kritz:
"I could probably make a fuckin' short film about it.
THE MAN WHAT DRESSED LIKE A LADY MUSLIM WHO HAD ALSO A HITLER MUSTACHE
... TMWDLALMWHAAHM"

Rahk:
"i'd watch that"

 

[Fredescu]

 

[codswallop]

Don't watch Priest, it's shit.

This has been a public service message brought to you by Codswallop.

 

[giri]

probably because you're a boring fuck.

ner, most of my posts are in the nba thread. It's a community unto it self at times. Ok, most of the time.

 

[Axiom]

The great Australian purge is what made me nervous about posting in the AusGAF thread for ages.

They wanted the names of all of us, I figured even Dragona would not save me

 

[EatChildren]

So maybe I've been watching too much Game of Thrones, but have you guys not considered rebelling and taking the head of the king?

Maybe we could construct a wall.

 

[Frawdder]

So maybe I've been watching too much Game of Thrones, but have you guys not considered rebelling and taking the head of the king?

Maybe we could construct a wall.

Well, we already have Bass Strait to guard us from the wildlings.

 

[Kritz]

TASMANIAN WINTER IS COMING

 

[Salazar]

I've just watched ep 3.

Waiting for iTunes on the next one. Pretty goddamn keen.

 

[Jintor]

By the way Kritz, I don't see you in the self-improvement 45 day draw-a-thon

where are you kritz

where are you

 

[Scrow]

The story goes that one day many years ago a silly NeoGAF Mod from Australia changed every thread on the first page of Gaming to be about Nintendogs. The country was then banned! Banned I tells you! Except for me and a few others I guess? So what an EPIC TALE.

that's not entirely correct. back then i don't think there were any australian mods. it was just a normal aussie poster called Grubdog who managed guess or somehow discover the password of one of the mods/admin. He then logged into their account and caused havoc for a little while before people like Evilore caught onto what was happening, disabled both accounts and started cleaning up the mess.

As a precautionary measure ALL account applications originating from Australia were rejected for a while.

I think it was shortly before or after those events that I did those aussie rollcall threads to pull the community back together in some small way (I had noticed a few hints of aussies posting around GAF). Ultimately it seems to have worked since it indirectly resulted in these AusGAF threads.

 

[jambo]

One of the reasons that I started posting after my account got activated instead of just continuing to lurk was the AusGAF thread.

I originally got an account because the Editor of one of the sites I was working for told me about how NeoGAF produced a lot of news and industry leaks and when I had a look through the Gaming section I was blown away by how much shit was going on. Some of the mega threads just blew my mind.

Prior to NeoGAF, most of the forums I posted on only had a few hundred active members at most and here was a site with 6000+ active users.

It was a little daunting when my account was first activated, but the AusGAF thread was a nice place to hide away whilst I double checked all of the FAQs and started taking my first baby steps.