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AusGAF 3.0 - Double the price, region locked and refused classification
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Hmm, seems Telstra (by either their own accord or TPG's request) have capped me at exactly 4Mbit; I can't get a sync speed higher than 4096000.
I'm not too annoyed as I tend to max out at 5~5.5Mbit with my dying 7404VGP-M, but it's still a dick move all the same.
I'm not too annoyed as I tend to max out at 5~5.5Mbit with my dying 7404VGP-M, but it's still a dick move all the same.
OneMoreQuestion
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Sooo Mortal Kombat is illegal in Australia, but are the bookends that come with the Kollectors Edition illegal?
reptilescorpio
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Yes they are. You should ship them to me and I will dispose of them correctly.OneMoreQuestion said:
Get on board with NCable!JaseC said:
You'll probably be on a RIM. I was, and I'd been getting up to 6Mbit then all of a sudden, BAM. Back to 4. or so. That will definitely be Telstra as that's a limit so as to not overload the RIM on your street.JaseC said:
If you're interested, there's plenty of info on Whirlpool.
OneMoreQuestion
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reptilescorpio said:
Har har.
I'm planning to put mine on eBay sometime... Just to see how it goes.
reptilescorpio said:
Unfortunately, the only fixed-line broadband available here is Telstra Wholesale-based ADSL. I'd still be with Internode if I didn't need to download around 1.2TB of data. (I'll be churning back to them once my TPG contract is up in October.)
Shaneus said:
Nope, no RIMs here. This is a very old town and it's serviced by an exchange in the neighbouring one (my line length is around 3.6KM).
If I'm still capped on Monday, I'll give TPG a call.
Worthintendo
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So does anyone know when the Xperia Play is coming out in Aus, I'm kinda interested in getting one but can't seem to find anything on when they are coming here or for how much.
Ah, okay. To find out (maybe) more information, check out http://yourbroadband.com.au/. That's pretty much the only way I could find out the specifics of my neighbourhood.JaseC said:
Of course, that doesn't matter now that I'm on 30Mbit cable
Just to drive home a point, neither is illegal to own. The game is just illegal to import and/or sell or gift. The whole fact that possession and use are not crimes is what makes the whole importation restriction ridiculous.OneMoreQuestion said:
As for the bookends, you can sell them if you like. You definitely can't legally sell the game within Australia, though.
OneMoreQuestion
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Clipper said:
Iiiinteresting, thanks for the info!
I know right. I didn't even mean to go looking for it. Put in some giftwrapping for Mother's day and had 40 minutes to burn so went for a little window shop, and there it was, nestled amongst a bunch of other crap.legend166 said:
Just watched it too. The story and pacing is, gulp, incredible. In a post-Toy Story 3 world, I do notice stilted animation and the lack of effects and flourishes here and there (for example - when Mr. Incredible fights the robot in the volcano for the first time, he drags one of the mechanical arms against the ground but the earth remains undisturbed) but the film is highly watchable regardless of the 7-year old visuals. It's a pointless discussion, but I think Wall-E might be the first Pixar film which will hold up visually in a decade because of the attention to detail.
The DVD for Incredibles supposedly had some of the best extras out there. Not sure if it's the same content on the BR, but I'll have to check it out. I very rarely watch extras these days. LotR special edition making-of's made sure of that.
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FormallyMegadrive
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Exactly how I have it.Dead Man said:
FormallyMegadrive
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didnt even realise the electronics boutique logo at the bottom. insane.Kirby102 said:Holy shit, EB has been around since then?
codswallop
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http://theperegrine.com/product/#gloveBernbaum said:
I remember EB ads in my early 90s EGMs and other mags, so I'm sure they've been around for ages.
endlessflood
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Never heard of those before, but for running shoes I'm suddenly very intrigued. My sister and I had talked about how we suddenly seem to have ITB syndrome all the time from running and didn't have those sorts of problems in the past, and how older runners have barely even heard of that as a running injury. We started talking about the extreme amounts of correction that shoes try to do these days, especially in comparison to the old sorts of running flats we used to wear and couldn't help but wonder if that wasn't a big part of the problem.codswallop said:
Looking at the PR on the Vivo page maybe there's some merit to our thoughts... might have to pick a pair up.
codswallop
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Yeah, I'm of the opinion that all shoes are doing nowadays is making things worse and causing us to use our feet incorrectly.endlessflood said:
I ordered a pair of the casual shoes from their site as the summer season shoes were like half price. I'm not one of those who walk around barefoot, but I think the idea's sound.
IIRC, the founder of Vivo is a descendant of the Clark's shoes company.
Oh yeah, there's also Vibram shoes. Noticed today that some Merrells (I'm a big fan of their shoes for urban walking) now have Vibram soles too.
I'm of the opinion that the shoe is never the problem; the person is. Cushioned shoes might make bad form running easier but it's pretty easy to correct. There's really no need to buy any type of expensive shoe. You can correct form without buying these trendy new "barefoot" shoes.
I run 50-100km a week in a pair of $50-something Aasics and have never had injury problems. I strike midfoot with good form and cover anywhere between 5 and 25 km per run.
I run 50-100km a week in a pair of $50-something Aasics and have never had injury problems. I strike midfoot with good form and cover anywhere between 5 and 25 km per run.
endlessflood
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My sister changed to a pair of running flats and her ITB issues disappeared instantly, which is what prompted our original conversation. So clearly, in at least some cases, the shoe is the problem, not the person.justin.au said:
As to the barefoot shoes being trendy, running flats are nothing new but can be tough to find these days unfortunately. Any new model is a point of interest (at least to me).
Shaneus said:
reptilescorpio said:
The Burke St store is still around although Troy and Mitch the guys who used to run it opened up there own store on Lonsdale st, All Star Comics. I moved my pull list from comics r us to them since they were the two who made me really get back into comics again.
reptilescorpio
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If you hung out in Steam chat you would have heard me raving about it. Best work since Hello Nasty (or the Futurama cameo). Also check out Icicle - Under The Ice. Great album.Shaneus said:
reptilescorpio
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Because you keep talking about this Lajoie guy I have decided to give watching The League a shot after reading its wiki page. Nice work, now I have to watch Chuck, The League AND play through The Witcher while trying to do an assignment by next Sunday. Nice.Shaneus said:I haven't idled in ages. I'm so sorry
PS. So, who's seeing Jon Lajoie when he comes to Australia? I have my ticket!
viciouskillersquirrel
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So I jumped back into Darksiders last night and I have to say that the FPS bit is... questionable at best. The combat in this game is OK, I guess, but there's waaaay too much of it, so it very quickly stops being fun.
The voice acting is still cheesy as hell, but it's growing on me.
The voice acting is still cheesy as hell, but it's growing on me.
viciouskillersquirrel said:
The FPS was fine for me but this was the PC version.
Combat is simple, I mostly stuck to the main weapon and just sliced people. I liked it because it had a meaty feel to it, you always felt like you were powerful and just cruising around smashing people in the face with a giant sword.
It's certainly one of my most enjoyed games so far this year. While it won't win anything for being fucking outstanding in specific aspects of game design, What it did was solid enough to be fun.
Its so repetitive... and I dont like the way it controls...
It just feels like another Burnout game with less crashing >.< (Which I should have been expecting given the dev!)
I dont know, I remember playing the old NFS games ages ago, they seemed... better. Like the really old ones.
It just feels like another Burnout game with less crashing >.< (Which I should have been expecting given the dev!)
I dont know, I remember playing the old NFS games ages ago, they seemed... better. Like the really old ones.
Wouldn't the really old ones be similar? It was a to b based racing with little crashing for the most part, it's the same as HP.
It's also an arcade racer so i guess it's repetitive by nature? You drive cars with a specific goal in mind, win a race, take out a bad guy etc.
Controls in the demo sucked but they were better in the actual game. Different cars do handle differently, you get used to it quickly.
It's also an arcade racer so i guess it's repetitive by nature? You drive cars with a specific goal in mind, win a race, take out a bad guy etc.
Controls in the demo sucked but they were better in the actual game. Different cars do handle differently, you get used to it quickly.
codswallop
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That's a good point (though I'm not a runner) and I've been trying to change the walk I step when I can, but some of my shoes make this more difficult than others.justin.au said:
Watch how other people step when they walk down the street, a large portion of people strike with their heel, so even though it's ultimately the person's fault it's the shoe causing them to step like that. People wearing thongs or flats usually step differently to people wearing 'regular' shoes.
If a good pair of flats trains me to walk properly even when in all my other shoes, it's worth it to me.