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AusGAF 3.0 - Double the price, region locked and refused classification
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reptilescorpio
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Short version to omit details and namesShaneus said:
She is my best mates girlfriend and has told me stories about the old grannies who tell the same anecdote every day to her when they come in. And how they have never walked out smiling.
They get that way because a billion dollar industry researched how to get people that way. If you walked up to someone and offered them 83c in exchange for a dollar, they would laugh at you. But if you offer them a chance to win 100 for $1 they will think about it. Peoples intuition, in general, sucks at probability and statistics. It seems a glaring omission in our evolution that we have not developed a better intuition about these things, but maybe that would stop us taking enough risks. Any way, badly structured rant over.Shaneus said:
reptilescorpio
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You read the article didn't you? There are a lot of studies out there on gambling addiction. Even the Fev interview the other night may have talked about it. Most of my sporting mates do a lot of gambling. First it was Poker which included all night sessions at Crown. Then it was horse racing with lots of trips to Melbourne. Then it was Pokies with lots of in and out sessions at the pub. They find it a fun way to spend their money. You only ever hear when they have a decent win. I make a point of asking how they did the last 7 days just to rub in how much they have spent. Problem is that gambling is accepted strongly in the community. A few years back every pub had free poker nights, I had a friend who if he went out early at one pub knew to drive down to Torquay as they started later. The instant gratification of flashing lights or the thrill of pulling off a hand keeps you going while you are running cold. To be honest it is a little bit like the old Street Fighter arcade machines. You end up losing but you made it one more opponent than last time so you want to have another go to see how far you can end up. At least video games have evolved to have a story and to let you experience something you couldn't usually do in life, pokies still just light up and ask for more money. Even on the TV when you watch the footy you are bombarded by ads and constant figures during the game of what you can bet on. It is incredibly easy to set up a phone or internet banking account and you can chew through thousands of dollars really quickly. You will never come out a winner. You might do okay in the short term but you need to stop right there. If you do another bet in the future you are likely to lose. It is a billion dollar industry for a reason.Shaneus said:
Doncamatic
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Gazunta said:
Anger. Why not introduce similar limits for books or film?
Edit: so after catching up on what this is in reference to I'd say that gambling addiction (specifically pokies) is such a widespread problem that it should have some kind of limit placed upon it. If you were to look at the claims of internet addiction/gaming addiction and compare them to the number of gambling addictions you would see very different percentages. Dead Man brought up a good point that man does have a very sketchy view of statistics/probability in general, why else would we have the gambler's fallacy, and it could be partially to blame for widespread gambling addiction.
reptilescorpio
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Depends on how many studies say that 2 videogames a day will increase your chance of cancer.Gazunta said:
Also didn't they already do that with WOW?
reptilescorpio
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Do it. That or Sonic Racing. Nah go with Okami. Madworld is $8 on OzGameShop.legend166 said:
Serious though maybe one of the Rayman Rabbids? Or Just Dance? Or a Lego game.
FormallyMegadrive
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Deal with it, sure. Don't expect them to actually complete any objectives though.
reptilescorpio said:Do it. That or Sonic Racing. Nah go with Okami. Madworld is $8 on OzGameShop.
Serious though maybe one of the Rayman Rabbids? Or Just Dance? Or a Lego game.
It's a boy, so Just Dance is probably out. I was thinking Lego Batman. That way I could get him a decent video game AND introduce him to Batman. Kids still like Batman, right?
reptilescorpio
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EVERY kid should like Batman. It is a rule. Seems Harry Potter game is cheap too.legend166 said:
Shaneus said:
reptilescorpio
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Didn't you want a Martin avatar? Or did you already move on from it? I just liked resizing Martins butt really.Shaneus said:
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Deleted member 30609
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yep. it's that easy. you do that and get back to me when you're rich.VOOK said:
reptilescorpio
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Alright how about this one?Shaneus said:
Also popular music sucks. Zero creativity.
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Deleted member 30609
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i think any bitter person sitting in front of a computer screen can talking about how easy it is to influence people and make money
I'll always respect someone who creates something over the one who creates nothing and has the cheek to trivialise the process
I'll always respect someone who creates something over the one who creates nothing and has the cheek to trivialise the process
reptilescorpio
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And it always starts with the scorn of a woman.Rez said:
reptilescorpio
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Bern-baum! Bern-baum! Bern-baum!Bernbaum said:
All good, you are not Shaneus anymore anyway. You are inanimate carbon rod, saviour of the human race from enslavement by the giant space ants.Shaneus said:
I've always been curious about the Mana Bar trivia nights. Are the trivia questions mostly about Commodore 64 and Amiga games, or about UK video game magazines from 1985 - 1996? Because they're pretty much all I know.Bernbaum said:
PS: Yug if you're reading this plz reply to my email
It's on all sorts of stuff - there are even a few geography and history questions thrown in there for good measure. If you've spent time on GAF/Wikipedia reading about games you'll never play, then you'll do okay. The night is more about just having a laugh anyway, the prizes are ancillary.Gazunta said:I've always been curious about the Mana Bar trivia nights. Are the trivia questions mostly about Commodore 64 and Amiga games, or about UK video game magazines from 1985 - 1996? Because they're pretty much all I know.
PS: Yug if you're reading this plz reply to my email
We were behind on points but Yahtzee gave out bonus points for the best obituary written in haiku, so I wrote this one about Will and Kate and we won the day!
Gifts not listed on
Royal Wedding registry:
Passenger airbags.
Accompanied by a handrawn image of a gruesome car crash. Yay comedy!
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Deleted member 30609
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that's fantasticBernbaum said:
Its worth mentioning that the day of September 11 I was in my first year of University and was paying through the nose for minutes of internet access at the Uni Library and spent the day reading (not watching) the news as it came in across an internet that didnt know facebook, twitter or youtube.
I was out today and nowhere near a computer. I saw the news on twitter on my iPhone within minutes of the rumour breaking through; checked The Australian (which had a one-sentence placeholder article under a page that was still adorned by Royal Weddings Headlines; NeoGAF (when there were three threads active - all on their first pages); loaded up ABC iView on my iPad and watched the news in real time, all whilst I was playing board games with a bunch of mates.
10 fucking years. If you showed me a fully functional internet capable iPad 10 years ago, I would probably explode.
I was out today and nowhere near a computer. I saw the news on twitter on my iPhone within minutes of the rumour breaking through; checked The Australian (which had a one-sentence placeholder article under a page that was still adorned by Royal Weddings Headlines; NeoGAF (when there were three threads active - all on their first pages); loaded up ABC iView on my iPad and watched the news in real time, all whilst I was playing board games with a bunch of mates.
10 fucking years. If you showed me a fully functional internet capable iPad 10 years ago, I would probably explode.
Oh, and on 9/11, my racist liberal party voting private boarding school-reared jock room mate came bolting through my room and woke me up with the phrase "The towel heads have blown up the world trade centre". It was with that sentence that I learnt the news.
Fuck you, Brenden, you racist piece of shit. You thought you were fucking top shit with your fancy private school upbringing, toga parties with the Rugby boys and all the trappings of a 'Good Ole Boys' campus jock fuckhead culture whilst you were studying for an accounting degree. You didn't like accounting, but your tightass conservative father wanted you to do it just so you could be an overpaid moron just like him.
Ten years later and I make more money than you, you cunt.
Fuck you, Brenden, you racist piece of shit. You thought you were fucking top shit with your fancy private school upbringing, toga parties with the Rugby boys and all the trappings of a 'Good Ole Boys' campus jock fuckhead culture whilst you were studying for an accounting degree. You didn't like accounting, but your tightass conservative father wanted you to do it just so you could be an overpaid moron just like him.
Ten years later and I make more money than you, you cunt.
reptilescorpio
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Thanks dude. Made me feel real good about myself.Bernbaum said:
Bernbaum said:
You're a good person
I remember watching the televisions at before-school care, smoke billowing from the skies, the panic and terror still barely audible at the edges of the news anchor's constant river of information. I had a smart class, but that day, it was pretty damn silent.
roosters93
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I remember waking up and wondering what this strange show that had replaced CheezTV was.
pieatorium
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I was up playing Diablo 2 and my brother came in saying something like America just got bombed. He was talking about the first plain hit where no one really knew what was going on, we were watching live when the second plane came in.
I found out the next morning, probably when expecting to watch Cheez TV too. It seems I had turned off the TV and gone to bed less than 5 minutes before the first crash was reported on the night. It was certainly a weird day at Uni that day (my final year of undergrad). Everyone was just in shocked disbelief.