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Choc

Banned
Any word on whether games will actually be discounted during JB Hifi's thing tonight? Promos only say "awesome prices". Looking at you, Rez/EatChildren.

Batman 55
Gears 47
Wallabies 55
AFL 55
NBA 2k12 55
Sonic 63
Saints Row 3 71
LA Noire 39 (seriously, buy dat)
Dance Central 2 47
LOTR War of the north 47
 

Choc

Banned
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what the fuck is this

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Frawdder

Member
the lead up to the bit where you have to make a decision as to whether to kill someone or not in IV was nice
Even though you had murdered the whole city three times over before that point. One more person wasn't going to make a huge difference.
 
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Deleted member 30609

Unconfirmed Member
I haven't actually tried the Now beta yet, it seems kind of cool.
 

Stackboy

Member
I didn't see this posted anywhere.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/it-pro/business-it/studio-moves-south-for-next-stage-of-game-20111206-1ogxe.html

The Queensland Government has somehow allowed for Brisbane to lose almost the entirety of an industry. Five years ago Brisbane was the Australian gaming industry and now there's what? Creative Assembly left? Not that an LNP government would have done anything different mind you, but you'd think someone would have thought helping a whole industry stay in town would be a good idea.

That article only states that Halfbrick is expanding to Sydney, not leaving Brisbane.
 

jambo

Member

WA tennis legend Margaret Court has slammed the push to legalise gay marriage, saying she wants to "protect families".

The Rev. Court urged Australians to make a stand against gay marriage, saying no human law could ever change God's divine laws.

"Politically correct education has masterfully escorted homosexuality out from behind closed doors, into the community openly and now is aggressively demanding marriage rights that are not theirs to take," she said.

"To dismantle this sole definition of marriage and try to legitimise what God calls abominable sexual practices that include sodomy, reveals our ignorance as to the ills that come when society is forced to accept law that violates their very own God-given nature of what is right and what is wrong."

Fucking disgusting
 
I actually *do* have an xbox.com account it seems, which has been transfered over from Games for Windows (logged in this morning) and checked my contact settings, all the boxes for email from MS are unticked.
I don't get any emails from Microsoft either, but did get one about the new dashboard. I guess they're just emailing everyone with an account, regardless of their settings.
 
This thread is depressing. Also led to the reminder that you can walk into EBGames and buy Angry Birds on PC, the same game that has an iOS version for 99c, the same game that has been free as Crash The Castle for years, for $19. $19. Also Angry Birds Rio is another $19 on its own! DAT IP MILKING. Everybody do the BartBirdman!
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This computer is too shit to run paint well enough to paste an angry bird on that album cover

There was only 4-5 stores, but there were definitely more than 5 sets of clothes =P

I had various suits, tops, jeans, shoes, hats and sunnies.
I was being dramatic for effect of course :)
Just disappointing that they could have had ten times as much clothing for not much more effort.
 
Just disappointing that they could have had ten times as much clothing for not much more effort.
Gotta get people to design the clothing, then someone to implement it, then someone to test each combination of clothing in every possible scenario because who knows, the green pants with the pink hoodie might crash the game in the third chase sequence of the fourth mission.

And if they didn't test it, you'd be complaining that it was too buggy. Give me one outfit and a less buggy game released sooner, thanks.
 
Gotta get people to design the clothing, then someone to implement it, then someone to test each combination of clothing in every possible scenario because who knows, the green pants with the pink hoodie might crash the game in the third chase sequence of the fourth mission.

And if they didn't test it, you'd be complaining that it was too buggy. Give me one outfit and a less buggy game released sooner, thanks.

I played the fantastic PC port of GTA4. :(
 

Clipper

Member
Just spent 280 Play Coins on Find Mii 2 in the new StreetPass :O.

Just a few rooms left. I love the new features, adds so much strategy. Wish I had some more colours in my Mii line-up though...

Incidentally, and I'll spoil tag tag this, but it's not really a spoiler. Unless you have at least
one yellow
Mii in your Mii plaza, take the
top path at the three-way split
. Trying to get the combination of random cats/dogs you need to get through one of those rooms without hiring from your plaza would be very hard as you would need (two yellows in a row). I don't know if there's a similar room if you go the other way, but I'm very glad I had what I needed so the wasted coins remained fairly low.

Edit: One more thing... Our own Kirby102 happened to be the one to save my in-game daughter, the princess. She has stubble. I don't know why he would go for that, but whatevs...
 

jax (old)

Banned
does REZ work at jb hifi?

mate told me there was discounts - thought I'd go and score shadows of the damned; both children of eden (x+ps) but nada.

anyone know what's going on?


Blah:

It’s JB Hi-Fi’s GIFT GIVING FRENZY!
For just ONE NIGHT ONLY get great savings off JB’s famous low ticket prices.
Wednesday December 7th 2011 from 6pm till late. Available IN STORE ONLY.

The deals:
… - 20% Off All CDs, DVDs & Blu-Ray Movies, TV Shows & Box Sets
- 10% Off Apple Mac Computers (excludes iPad)
- 10% Off TVs (excludes Soniq & Okano)
- 15% Off Computers (excludes Apple, Sony Vaio & all Tablets)
- 30% Off All Car Sound
- 20% Off Navigation
- 25% Off Digital Radio
- 20% Off Micro & Mini Hifi Systems
- 30% Off Logitech Speaker Docks & Harmony Remotes
- 20% Off Telstra Cordless Phones
- 20% Off Selected Headphones (excludes Apple, Sony, Beats By Dr Dre & Aerial7)
- Get a Bonus $20 JB Gift Card with Beats By Dr Dre Headphones
- XBOX 360 4GB Console only $169
- Heaps of games at awesome prices!
 

Salazar

Member
can ever take out of the human heart the knowledge that in the beginning God created them male and female and provided each with a unique sexual function to bring forth new life.

This drool causes me mental pain.
 

giri

Member
This drool causes me mental pain.

That the margaret court thing?

Oddly enough, my mother is also anti-gay marriage. Dad doesn't care. She said "it ruins marriage". I asked her how it would effect her marriage, she had nothing. /me shrug

Both me and my brother couldn't care. It's a generational sort of thing i guess, much like racial discrimination.
 

Choc

Banned
Rumor has it CBA is going to announce a big fat zero cut to interest rates


GOOD JOB ARSEHOLES. SIX BILLION ISNT ENOUGH?

If the main lever the RBA has can be so easily ignored by the banks and have a detrimental effect on the economy, whats the point of having independantly controlled interest rates...

i know the reasons its independant, but seriously, the banks should be forced to come to the party somehow or at least publicly show their borrowing costs if they want to say No and keep going on about access to credit.

Put up or shut up CUNTS
 

giri

Member
Rumor has it CBA is going to announce a big fat zero cut to interest rates


GOOD JOB ARSEHOLES. SIX BILLION ISNT ENOUGH?

At the current rate, i'm probably moving from the CBA.

No fee applicable AFAIK, and i'm sort of sick of never getting an interest rate cut.
 

Fredescu

Member
Rumor has it CBA is going to announce a big fat zero cut to interest rates
I figured something was up when they all didn't immediately come out and say they were passing on the cuts like they did last month. It won't just be CBA, I'll bet you.
 

Choc

Banned
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heading should be which banks are greedy cunts

in a scenario where these loans control whether people have somewhere to live or not and are clearly an issue by which we do not want people on the street lest there by major fuckin riots like in the UK

the government/RBA should have some level of over it.
 

Agyar

Member
I figured something was up when they all didn't immediately come out and say they were passing on the cuts drops like they did last month. It won't just be CBA, I'll bet you.

It's the usual farce where they pretend not to be price signaling and wait for one of the other big four to take the plunge first. Meanwhile BoQ and other small lenders have already passed on the full cut.

Not to mention the only thing the mainstream media cares about is what the four big four are doing and how it affects people with mortgages while it ignoring the fact the banks will immediately slash rates on transactions, savings and term deposit accounts and probably never cut the rates on small loans and credit cards. Because the only people who deserve a mention are pseudo-homeowners and property up to their eyeballs in debt.
 

Fredescu

Member
Meanwhile BoQ and other small lenders have already passed on the full cut.
Which others?

Not to mention the only thing the mainstream media cares about is what the four big four are doing and how it affects people with mortgages while it ignoring the fact the banks will immediately slash rates on transactions, savings and term deposit accounts and probably never cut the rates on small loans and credit cards.
Savings accounts are a rip off anyway. Still, somehow, two thirds of the Big Four's lending comes from local deposits.
 

Choc

Banned
giving the full rate cut will cost the cba 10 million

oh boo fucking hoo

20 billion profit each year and 10 million is enough for you to cry poor over

and as someone said on a news site, teh fact we all need bank accounts and thus its pretty much a utility, although no where near as controlled as it should be, makes it even worse that the cunts can ignore the RBA
 

Agyar

Member
Which others?


Savings accounts are a rip off anyway. Still, somehow, two thirds of the Big Four's lending comes from local deposits.

Members Equity, NSW police credit union at least. Not that you can find much coverage.

Also term deposits are treated like some scabby cousin of other investments but I'd love to see some figures about how many Australians have term deposits vs mortgages and compare that to the media attention since they are essentially in conflict when it comes to rate changes.
 

Deeku

Member
I just used my Club Nintendo points to get the Zelda posters and Kirby pouch ^_^
Still waiting for my pouch to arrive!

Anyway, fedex dude just gave me Mario Kart and the manual is equally as crappy as the Mario 3D one. Doesn't even tell you how the drifting works! Do not like this at all.
 
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