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AusGAF 5/5 - Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy, a rental at best
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I know this sounds like a hollow statement. but EA give me very little reason to bother using Origin. Or any of their games. I wonder if they will soon start banning accounts for infringements done on other websites? It's not unfeasible given the fickleness of their current policy.
It certainly means if i ever bought another EA game i'd never ever use their official forums or any site where they have "mod" control of that relates to my account. Effectively killing a big slice of their "community" building attempts.
Oh lol. I just remembered Bioware's publisher is EA.
Well, that makes a move to SWTOR even less likely.
Just fanatically stupid. I believe just about every other platform like this separates the in game account from the forums accounts.
It certainly means if i ever bought another EA game i'd never ever use their official forums or any site where they have "mod" control of that relates to my account. Effectively killing a big slice of their "community" building attempts.
Oh lol. I just remembered Bioware's publisher is EA.
Well, that makes a move to SWTOR even less likely.
Just fanatically stupid. I believe just about every other platform like this separates the in game account from the forums accounts.
It can't get hacked, ownership is transferrable between systems, there is no chance of being banned from it and an online connection isn't required to play offline. All things that are an issue on xbl, psn, steam, origin and IOS.
It has shortfalls too, but I don't feel as subject to the whims of the publisher.
It has shortfalls too, but I don't feel as subject to the whims of the publisher.
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I had a customer waiting for like fifteen minutes and six pages when I tried to call Bourke Street JB DVDs yesterday to confirm Baywatch Season 3 was in. I blame this on EatChildren. After the first page anyone from software is supposed to get it. YOU GUYS.
codswallop
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Not being an owner of these devices, is this at all correct? Surely Nintendo's servers can be hacked if there is any storage of previous purchases and how the ownership relates to your specific device. You could hack in and transfer ownership to other devices.
And couldn't they ban you from re-downloading your content if you needed to?
The inability to transfer digitally purchased Wii games to a new system is pretty damned incompetent. Having to send your system to the manufacturer is as good as temporary account ban. This is why I've never bought anything on the Wii, despite there being many many games I'm interested in. Admittedly I haven't looked into the option of piracy if it happens. That may be a valid alternative now.
BanShunsaku
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I'm not quite sure how The Horses by Darryl Braithwaite (feat. Margaret Urlich) ended up on my iPhone but hey, I still know the words :/
I feel like I have some kind of obligation to now try and find a game to do a video game review on after that weird thing yesterday. I'm still not really sure what happened.
@dr_nic seemed to have tweeted kritz.net stuff at around 12:30, then there was a games.on.net article about it, then stuff kinda spiralled from nic's twitter, and now I have like 20 followers who are all mostly Australian journalists working on various magazines / games.on.net and also Leigh "775 million dollars" Alexander.
I think like a week ago serrels also tweeted the uncharted or skyrim review as well.
So that was a cool thing that happened. I guess I'll have to try and do something with RAGE as it's the only game I'm playing at the moment that doesn't have a review.
@dr_nic seemed to have tweeted kritz.net stuff at around 12:30, then there was a games.on.net article about it, then stuff kinda spiralled from nic's twitter, and now I have like 20 followers who are all mostly Australian journalists working on various magazines / games.on.net and also Leigh "775 million dollars" Alexander.
I think like a week ago serrels also tweeted the uncharted or skyrim review as well.
So that was a cool thing that happened. I guess I'll have to try and do something with RAGE as it's the only game I'm playing at the moment that doesn't have a review.
What do you mean? Once you get it back you can transfer at will?
Got my mum's Christmas Kindle in the mail and am now fully aware that it doesn't actually come in a box worth wrapped. Now to come up with ways to creatively wrap it without giving away that it's a tiny little thing.
I swear I had this conversation in a completely different context in regards to an ex once.
I swear I had this conversation in a completely different context in regards to an ex once.
ugh i need to order 2 of them today.
$99 refurb Kindles are still in stock by the looks: http://www.bigw.com.au/electronics/computers-office/ebook-readers/bpnBIGW_0000000292485/
I got mine last week. Was brand new as far as I could tell.
I got mine last week. Was brand new as far as I could tell.
I haven't read books for AGES, but that seems like a pretty sweet deal. Do average-arse PDFs work on it or do they have to be in a very specific format?
Marshmellow
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Going to assume im LTTP and this was posted yesterday but congrats on the feature kritz. i shall check it out at lunch
http://games.on.net/article/14395/The_Emergent_Reviews_of_Kritz
Hi everyone, back from weekend camping, windsurfing and sailing the catamaran on a lake.
Good times indeed.
http://games.on.net/article/14395/The_Emergent_Reviews_of_Kritz
Hi everyone, back from weekend camping, windsurfing and sailing the catamaran on a lake.
Good times indeed.
PDFs work. I tested a couple. They work natively, but they're much better if you use Calibre (free http://calibre-ebook.com/) to convert them to mobi format. This allows you to scale the font sizes etc like you can with regular Kindle books. I guess there must be some pdfs that don't seamlessly convert to mobi, but the couple I tried did.
Yeah, but all the e books you get from amazon are kindle only formatses >.<
Ummm. And Ghost recon for 3ds is like 18 bucks at GAME, so get it! I WILL!
Supposedly Calibre lets you strip the DRM and then convert to anything else. I haven't tried that yet.
Completely ridiculous as an acceptable solution.
Um cant you transfer 3ds stuff to other 3dses now? Or is it in the upcoming firmware thingy? or am I making it up.
Aslo, if you want to get into wow, GAME! has a free wotlk expansion if you get the expansion, and cata is like 20 bucks, so its only 40 for all of wow! instead of the usual 100ish.
Aslo, if you want to get into wow, GAME! has a free wotlk expansion if you get the expansion, and cata is like 20 bucks, so its only 40 for all of wow! instead of the usual 100ish.
BanShunsaku
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I hate myself, but not quite that much.
You're not really converting in that case, you're just viewing. It doesn't know how to scale fonts in pdf format, so you're going to be stuck zooming and panning around and such. If you convert it to mobi, and it works, you can scale it to your preference and it acts (as far as I can tell) like a regular kindle book.
If you send it in for repair you can get them to transfer it to a replacement system if its required. I think you can also be credited with points if your system is stolen and you have the credit card number and console serial.
Its better than other systems where your content can't be stolen by ea sports xbl hacks, psn outages, origin theft etc. Its worse in that it takes longer.
Personally I have more reason to trust Nintendo customer service than any other by a fucking mile. It also helps that Wii is a well built system with a better failure rate.
shanshan310
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I have made MOAR ART. This time it is of everyone's favourite Teifling Wizard, Banana Arnie's "Milky".
I will finish and colour it either today or tomorrow.
Um, I might art the rest of the dnd guys at some point to if y'all want. I just have no idea what races / classes people were.
Although Jintor's a way better artist than me so maybe he'd prefer to draw his own.
I still have no fucking idea how clothing works.
viciouskillersquirrel
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So I go to check the gaming headlines over lunch and it seems GAF is blocked at work by the new security software. Oh well.
neogaf.net y'all
To me, that is a failure. It is digitally distributed content and should be available to me on demand.
Yeah. So, hardware based DRM. I think you'll find that it's this way not because Nintendo care about your security, but because they're behind the times in terms of online technology. Making the Wii U open slather is admitting to this.
Content stolen? That's pretty rare. A perma Origin ban would be that, but XBL hacks and PSN outages are not. Perhaps you could have your personal details and space bucks stolen, but as Nintendo move towards an account based world, they're not going to be immune from that either.
On the subject of theft, whats happens to your VC games if your Wii gets stolen?
Why is that?
Oh, good. I should really do all that tonight before my long-ass flight.
Although Jintor's a way better artist than me so maybe he'd prefer to draw his own.
It's going to be celphone pictures of my sketches since I won't be at home for the next week or so.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Tried it. They're using a 3rd party web indexing service called Scansafe. Both the .com and .net URLs are blocked (site content: games).
On the mobile site right now.
Serrels did a great article about graduating after game-focused tertiary studies
I wonder if there's an inverse gamejournos.com somewhere out there that, instead of shitting on the crappy journalists, instead praises the good.
I wonder if there's an inverse gamejournos.com somewhere out there that, instead of shitting on the crappy journalists, instead praises the good.
Is that the keyboard kindle?
i'm getting 2 x touch. one for dad for xmas. one for giri for xmas.
Not the Keyboard or the Touch, just the "Kindle". Has no keyboard, page turning buttons down the side and a few small buttons for navigation underneath the screen. It's the front page model on Amazon.
I was planning to get a Touch but was swayed after trying out the page turning buttons on another Kindle. After using mine, touching the screen to turn pages seems awkward and unnecessary, not to mention that it's larger and heavier. The increased storage and battery life in the Touch seem pointless and both are more than adequate on the normal model.
I already addressed these issues. If its stolen, call them and get them to refund points via cc. Otherwise its an insurance issue I guess.
Ahh. I need to get the touch for my dads. He'll be buying exclusively through the amazon store over the 3g, doubt he'll be the sort of buy it online, and transfer via wifi.
AFAIK, you should be able to buy straight from the amazon website?
Even with a wifi model anything you buy from Amazon is delivered automatically to your Kindle (just via wifi instead of 3G).
Yeah... i don't trust his ability to manage a wifi network. Or know how to use one away from home.
I"ll ahve a look tonight.
They won't ship the touch, the fire, or any ad enabled devices to Australia.
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