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AusGAF 5/5 - Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy, a rental at best
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Can anyone answer me this.
Why are less than mainstream, but still good quality 3DS games being killed at retail? Surely now with Mario 3DLand and Kart out, there would be more games being sat alongside them at the shelves.
Instead of seeing Ace Combat or Cave Story etc on shelves, there are still copies of puzzle bobble and asphalt 3d sitting there.
Who do I blame here? The local distributors and EB mainly. Both the two games I mentioned - Ace Combat and Cave Story were down for local release at EB. Both were silently moved to a "TBA" date in 2012. Meanwhile JB Hifi has got both games in stock, though not prominently.
I got AC there yesterday, and imported Cave Story before realising it was out locally after being delayed/not in stock when it was meant to be.
Now I hear PES 2012 is out in Europe, and its apparently not due here until Feb 24.
With DS importing was awesome due to region free. With 3DS it is not quite as awesome, though it is mitigated somewhat by European support for the system. Nintendo games seem to get a lot of quick conversions to PAL of late, so at least I'm not missing out on any choices yet.
But Australian third party distributors? Hang your heads in shame. You're all a bunch of Ozisofts.
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GBA Ambassador games
Goddamn Nintendo. What a fucking amazing lineup. <3 <3 <3
Why are less than mainstream, but still good quality 3DS games being killed at retail? Surely now with Mario 3DLand and Kart out, there would be more games being sat alongside them at the shelves.
Instead of seeing Ace Combat or Cave Story etc on shelves, there are still copies of puzzle bobble and asphalt 3d sitting there.
Who do I blame here? The local distributors and EB mainly. Both the two games I mentioned - Ace Combat and Cave Story were down for local release at EB. Both were silently moved to a "TBA" date in 2012. Meanwhile JB Hifi has got both games in stock, though not prominently.
I got AC there yesterday, and imported Cave Story before realising it was out locally after being delayed/not in stock when it was meant to be.
Now I hear PES 2012 is out in Europe, and its apparently not due here until Feb 24.
With DS importing was awesome due to region free. With 3DS it is not quite as awesome, though it is mitigated somewhat by European support for the system. Nintendo games seem to get a lot of quick conversions to PAL of late, so at least I'm not missing out on any choices yet.
But Australian third party distributors? Hang your heads in shame. You're all a bunch of Ozisofts.
edit:
GBA Ambassador games
Goddamn Nintendo. What a fucking amazing lineup. <3 <3 <3
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Deleted member 30609
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Legal AusGAF, answer me this:
I parked in a two hour zone for under two hours, got back in my car and left to go get lunch, returned fifteen minutes later and parked in the same parking area, but a different space (and different sign 'zone') on the opposite side of the area. I got fined for overstaying the two hour limit.
Surely I can successfully challenge that, right?
I parked in a two hour zone for under two hours, got back in my car and left to go get lunch, returned fifteen minutes later and parked in the same parking area, but a different space (and different sign 'zone') on the opposite side of the area. I got fined for overstaying the two hour limit.
Surely I can successfully challenge that, right?
Not legally educated, but some questions:
a) Do you have any proof? ie two separate tickets identifying different parking spots
b) Do the tickets have any conditions printed on the back of them?
c) Who is the issuing authority? Council or a private company?
d) What does the council's website say about parking fines?
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Deleted member 30609
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It's not a ticket park, it's a two hour city council zone. There website doesn't seem to have any mentions of a case like this in particular.
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Deleted member 30609
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Victoria. It's $61.
It's the principle of the matter that bothers me. I don't want to pay for an infringement I didn't... infringe.
It's the principle of the matter that bothers me. I don't want to pay for an infringement I didn't... infringe.
:O
Wow
I never played Wario Land 4!
And goddamn, I can't believe Fire Emblem is there. Amazing.
These are the games I havent played:
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Metroid Fusion
Wario Land 4
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
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Today has been an excellent day. Reasons:
1. Found a shop selling large packets of peanut butter m&m's.
2. Got up to an incredibly beautiful area in Skyward Sword
Fweep
3. GBA Ambassador games announced
4. Got approved for new rental property (which saves a mad rush vs uni madness come january and allows us to take feb holidays as planned)
5. I still have today, thursday and friday off
codswallop
Member
Yes, if you left the parking area, the definition of which can vary from place to place. Some parking areas are entire blocks, some are simply a row of bays (so exiting and reversing back in is counted as leaving).
You'd need to know which it is and be able to prove that you did indeed leave. They should have taken a photo of your car in the valid bay, if you can prove it was elsewhere beforehand you're right. No photo? You'll probably have a good chance.
Same here. Although my excuse is that I wasnt a portable gamer in gba times tbh. Only really got it for FF Tactics Advance and Final Fight. I have tracked down some good games though, like Advance Wars, Mario & Luigi, Rhythm Tengoku etc
Fire Emblem is a nice deal too because I honestly expected Advance Wars and seeing as I havent played much FE, it makes a damn good excuse to start again.
Loganholme, Qld: where people teach bearded dragons to play video games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpldq3myV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpldq3myV0
I like the "what the fuck is this" look a little way in.
Lizards are cool.
Is he? I was genuinely asking, but holycheck has not yet seen fit to elucidate us on the name of the player and the significance of his post.
Not yet. Mail is always slow to get out here and even more so at this time of year
Hmmm perhaps I require one of these frankensticks
Planet_JASE
Member
Far out i copied and pasted all the quotes.. then remmebered about multiquote.
Yes, properly asian, name is Lin Jong, born to Taiwanese and East Timorese parents.
Peter Bell was something like half asian adopted by white people.
He and Cameron Ling tied for most asian before now!
I've been doing... stufff...
I don't remember it being on the gba cart:/
I blame multiquote
10 posts are now often worth as one
also the expected influx of boatpeople didn't arise..... gaf is banned in christmas island
There has also been a lack of street date breaks recently
Choc has been camping outside EB and JB reoffending stores with a placard, no doubt.
"Occupy Bourke St"
I think that's partly council and partly Westfield, though. A mate had a good suggestion that they should make all the parking along that stretch of Moorabool absolutely free (and possibly down to the bay and up to the top of the hill). Get people parking there and force them to walk to Bay City, stores open so people don't have to walk (people are lazy) and bingo, stores.
To be fair though, Leading Edge was never going to last with JB. But it astounded me just how quickly Gloria Jeans shut up shop. I barely knew it was there before it closed.
Wow. Surely that's a bot? It looks like something Dr. Sbaitso would say.
AFAIK, he only wrote some of 5... I don't even think more than 60-70% of it. If it was edited to suit the tone that the finishing author set in the final chapters, that might explain it. But I never read the fifth book because for so long the first four were all that there were, that that's all I believed there were. Kinda like the eps 4-6 of Star Wars, I guess.
The new quote button happened.
For some reason, the giant APPS button on the main screen doesn't work for me, and the only apps that show up on the regular apps screen are Dailymotion, nineMSN, Facebook and Twitter. To get YT and SBS, I had to find the page that was "advertising" those and go through there. Even then, YT was slow and SBS dropped out on me several times. I can see it's impressive, but shit just ain't working for me.
Oh, and the first thing I watched was an episode of Housos. Surprisingly funny, but felt guilty as hell for enjoying it.
So, new PC is up and running. Is godly. But somewhere along the line one of my graphics cards decided to completely give up the ghost. Now whenever it's plugged in, it refuses to boot. Thankfully I have another card but gawd damn it's frustrating. At least it's only a short amount of time before the ATI 7000s (like I'm going to go down that path again, fucking shitty driver support) and nVidia 600s make an appearance. Also found out that I've owned the card for right-on a year but Asus have 3 year warranties on their cards. Whoop.
reptilescorpio
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I enjoy Uncharted on the same level as Indiana Jones. I think the writing is just as good as the first 3 movies (there was no fucking 4th okay). Whereas Gears is all over the shop, especially when it comes to characterisation.
Uncharted 3 was almost as good as The Crystal Skull.
Gear's story was about on par with Battlefield: Earth, or at least what BF:E was like if you watched it whilst drunk and had foam industrial noise earplugs in.
Obligatory LOOKATALLDATJOOCE*10000
roosters93
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reptilescorpio
Member
Have you wandered into this thread by chance? I hear it is related to some fine chaps who are tangentially related to Kojima getting depressed and my pantaloons becoming too tight for my opinion.
Dispute it. Lay out what you did and refuse to pay because you did the right thing. At the very worst they will eventually (like years down the track) serve a warrant for a Sheriff to ask you to pay the damn fine and some interest. My co-worker had a LOT of unpaid speeding fines (like $800) and it took them 6 years to bring her in front of the local court to tell her to pay them.
Also maybe someone with common sense will throw it out, especially if there is no proof that you did the wrong thing.
Work got busy and stressful. Also far less back and forth debating going on. Just relentless negativity.
Too much of a good idea. They tried to do it here in Warrnambool and the council said, "LOL! Fuck you guys, we just want that sweet, sweet parking meter coinage so we can swim in our Scrooge McDuck coin tanks. Fuck the local business economy!"
PS. The 360 TV apps make the make the PS3 channels look like fucking amateur hour. Which I guess they are, given how slapdash most of Sony's UI stuff tends to be.
Watching The Larry Sanders Show on the i7 viewer,and it's nowhere near full screen and the options all relate to the web browser, not playing movies. Zooming zooms in on the top left of the entire page and about a third of the video itself. What a load a frustrating piece of shit.
On that note, Larry Sanders Show looks like it might be a bit funny. Is it worth chasing up?
Edit: Jeffrey Tambor with a moustache? Damn, I have to get this show.
Watching The Larry Sanders Show on the i7 viewer,and it's nowhere near full screen and the options all relate to the web browser, not playing movies. Zooming zooms in on the top left of the entire page and about a third of the video itself. What a load a frustrating piece of shit.
On that note, Larry Sanders Show looks like it might be a bit funny. Is it worth chasing up?
Edit: Jeffrey Tambor with a moustache? Damn, I have to get this show.
reptilescorpio
Member
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bodyboarder
Member
Cheerio for the tip. Love you. PS. Tits?
PPS. This episode of Larry Sanders has a baby Haley-Joel Osment as a "network executive". Didn't realise Janeane Garofalo was in it too. Humna humna.
Edit: Ahahaha. After finishing an "ad" in this i7 thing, I got a "The (something) is out of memory. Taking you to a blank page.". Fucking bravo, Sony/i7. Cunts.
I'm still yet to go there. I usually hit up Flippers on the wharf for my fish and chip needs.
Sony's TV on demand (iView and Ch7) are essentially just web browsers through the default browser. But they work well. Or at least ABC does - ch7 has nothing worth watching at all.
That said, at least its possible to find stuff on the PS3 menu. Everything is organised nice and neatly and hierarchically. 360's UI looks like it was slapped together by advertisers instead of UI designers. Clean and simple > *
And I say that as someone who is generally quite enamoured with WP7 Metro.
Bes Mudi's was the best.
Mewyers is my usual fish joint, but is also about five tImes more sleezy. This place makes me feel a little bit berret-wearing hipstery, but the food's good and there's no screaming children.
And there's a legs and breasts across the road selling dr pepper!
I remember when I last had a firmware update (before 4.0) and somehow the icons for each of the channels had completely disappeared for no reason. Never did work out how the fuck they came back, but they did eventually reappear. Fucking Sony.
And I'm actually getting used to the new UI on the 360. You can always be fairly sure that if they've made a choice in design, there's usually a good reason. With Sony, it's more "Oh shit, we have to put a frontend on this thing?".
Aaaaand, "Not enough memory" again. If it can't handle a fucking browser, no wonder Skyrim has issues.
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