Also to the other potential players, contact me beforehand with shopping lists and stuff as well as to get your beta code to access the new app we'll be using for the maps.
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Also to the other potential players, contact me beforehand with shopping lists and stuff as well as to get your beta code to access the new app we'll be using for the maps.
reptilescorpio
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Shit. Can they fix it with firmware? That is like 216 days.
shanshan310
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Humid Queensland no like blu-tacked posters.
Has this just happened on the 64GB models or all of them?
Exactly why I don't support SSD tech yet.
said it to cookie in steam chat, the tech is just still too new.
shanshan310
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That explains a lot actually.
I spent up big on Tintin posters at the shop in Covent Garden. I wanted everything in that shop.
No! My friend skipped LotR co-op with me for them :<
BananaArnie
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NAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWShedding a layer of skin for Summer. Man it feels so fucking great to have someone wipe my back with a tshirt. Like scratching a mozzie bite times a thousand.
i hate/love you. i cannot stop looking at that.
i want one.
codswallop
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I read about that. The wife still wouldn't understand it ...
fappenmeister
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Fappen. GMG have space marine for $12.50 today only. That ain't too bad.
How much was it on the steam sale? $20 i think?
I doubt i will still buy it though. Might hold off until i clear out more of my backlog.
Tempting, but I've got it on 360 now. Thanks for the heads up!
roosters93
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Took me a sec to work out why the hell it was on a coin. Lisa Simpson explained everything.
FallbackPants
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Go to KMart/Target and find the frames there. Actual framing stores are a ridiculous con.
But then Santorum went ganbusters. That shit's not cool. Although ABC24 was saying this morning he pretty much put all his eggs in the Iowa barrel and hasn't spent much time anywhere else.
SANTORUM SURGE
Best caption in the history of man
Best caption in the history of man
codswallop
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ATO said:
Making tax deductible donations
And you can find all the DGRs here.
... wow, there are 17,864 DGRs in Australia.
FallbackPants
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What is peoples opinions on this? Should I get on this? Loved me some KOTOR (even 2!!) but the 20 minutes I played WOW were among the most boring I've ever played in my life.
FormallyMegadrive
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Yesterday I went to my girlfriend's house to move her room around to fit a wardrobe in her dad/stepmum got her. We went outside to feed her rabbit and she was feeling thin when we patted her and barely ate her food, if anything. We thought it was because of her cage being full and we pick her up and there is fucking HEAPS of dried shit on her ass so we take her out the front to clean her off and notice there a massive hole in her ass with maggots crawling around in there.
At this point I start calling vets around the area and none of them have an opening until 4:00-4:30. One says if we take her now for a checkup and they gauge it really bad they'll take her in straight away. We go, nurse takes her and they gauge it's bad but not bad enough that other appointments shouldn't go ahead of her. It was apparently the latter to them.
After like 30 minutes the vet sees her, looks at her and tells us they CAN operate to get all the shit out, fix up the edges of the wound to be clean and then dress her, but hey hey! It'll cost upwards of $500. So they recommend us to go to the Lort Smith animal hospital. We go, get checked in and wait. For at least an hour. Now my girlfriend lives in Epping/Lalor and this is in North Melbourne (which is the other side of town, for you non-Melbourne folk) so it took 30-40 to drive there through the city at 5pm and we initially discovered the problem at 3:30pm. And maggots have been eating her flesh all this time.
Finally see another vet (6pm) and she basically says we gotta put her down, can't do anything more. So we say our goodbyes and she takes her into a back room and I pay and we're out.
All in all a pretty shit day. We did end up moving her room around to keep busy, looks good.
edit: it's called a Flystrike. Look it up and be disgusted
At this point I start calling vets around the area and none of them have an opening until 4:00-4:30. One says if we take her now for a checkup and they gauge it really bad they'll take her in straight away. We go, nurse takes her and they gauge it's bad but not bad enough that other appointments shouldn't go ahead of her. It was apparently the latter to them.
After like 30 minutes the vet sees her, looks at her and tells us they CAN operate to get all the shit out, fix up the edges of the wound to be clean and then dress her, but hey hey! It'll cost upwards of $500. So they recommend us to go to the Lort Smith animal hospital. We go, get checked in and wait. For at least an hour. Now my girlfriend lives in Epping/Lalor and this is in North Melbourne (which is the other side of town, for you non-Melbourne folk) so it took 30-40 to drive there through the city at 5pm and we initially discovered the problem at 3:30pm. And maggots have been eating her flesh all this time.
Finally see another vet (6pm) and she basically says we gotta put her down, can't do anything more. So we say our goodbyes and she takes her into a back room and I pay and we're out.
All in all a pretty shit day. We did end up moving her room around to keep busy, looks good.
edit: it's called a Flystrike. Look it up and be disgusted
From the E-tax 2011 help pages:
So that would be a no, unless speeddemomarathon have been endorsed by the ATO, which I doubt. Perhaps if they provide proof that your donation is going to the appropriate charity in the receipt, then you could use it, but I doubt they'd have set that up through Paypal.
codswallop
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The Galaxy Nexus is pretty cool.
EA got this rated late 2011 so its legal
so EB are using EA's paid for classification rating to sell it here
if it wasnt rated yet they wouldn't be allowed to sell it
EA will be rather pissed off. Plus the fact that there is no local customer service, wait queues are 2-3 hours on the phone to the US right now (and thats obviously expensive) and everything is charged in USD on the site etc etc
Basically EB is creating EA a headache. EB isn't going to do the custoemr service etc. When a customer imports a game, its their risk. When a customer buys locally they are protected by consumer protection legislation so if things go pear shaped (aka a massive bill for a 3 hour call to the US) then EA could be held liable under fair trading as its their product.
This is not a simple, import and sell. This is a game that requires significant infrastructure to run including CS teams, servers etc. This is why they didn't do a worldwide release. Those who have started to play (myself included) realise there is a risk in that we will get bad pings, we will have a bad time with customer service and won't be able to call for at least a few months without getting charged $1000's, but we choose to do that.
Unwitting customer walking into EB does not know this. I believe there is a thing on the back of the SWTOR box that says it must not be sold outside the USA. When you are buying from Amazon/Origin you are buying it from within the USA and exporting it.
Buying it in AU, you are not buying it within the USA. So there is all sorts of issues this could lead to.
EA can't go after EB to much because EB is to big to fuck over in terms of revenue and the biggest issue is that EB knows it. EB is to big for the AU game industry now. We have a serious problem with their market share levels and what they can get away with because of it.
People just dont consider this. EB are creating a massive headache for EA, and quite frnakly they dont give a fuck. All about that important dollar
someone needs to stand up to them for once
also there has been reports that some of the retail keys weren't loaded into the server and thus won't register. EA has solved this by allocating new keys to origin accounts. its not available in AU so can't have a key allocated to it. Therefore, if you get a EB key and it doesn't work, you might be stuffed. EB probably won't take the game back, EA Aus will tell you to go away as its not an AU version and the CS queues are 3 hrs on the phone.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=72068
feel free to translate this mess of a post into some level of research serrels/jint
this is not as simple as X company imports and sells. its much bigger because this is a MMO
yeah mate im doing a bit of research for you at the mo, get you some more examples etc
just cross checking things against my cob documentation as well
I find all of this stuff extremely interesting. The sucky thing is that EB just won't comment on anything or any of this. It's barely even worth the effort of trying.
EA's official response was also pretty standard: "We are investigating."
I was not aware of all that stuff with regards to the keys -- I think that's a really interesting issue. I think I need to head into a store and check this. They have to be slapping the Aussie rating on, so a lot of consumers will think they're getting an Aussie version. That's what's interesting with a product like this. It's not a simple case of: here's the same game you wanted. It's far more complicated than that.
Gaz i doubt it. They see an opportunity to have a early release and make money. They don't give a rats arse about the CS level or anything like that.
They could have had it ready sure if they trained up an oceanic call centre team and had the servers ready. Perhaps it wasn't possible. I agree EA has somewhat made this situation.
EB doesn't give a shit there is no local CS, queue times are 3 hours etc.
EA has purposely restricted the sale of TOR as well on origin even though its digital only so they don't overload CS teams and the servers. Trying to manage load and only allow a few extra hundred a day rather then a massive flood.
The CS problems are already big enough without a major AU shop selling a game that can have many problems that require a phone call and not warning the customer of this
has anyone purchased it and if so has eb placed AU classification stickers on the box? because if they haven't they are breakign the law.
Or in my case where I wouldn't mind having a stuff around with it and then transfer to a local server in March.
here's a question mark that you could follow up.
Ring fair trading and ask who they would pin it on, EA or EB
edit: Bioware has NOT GUARANTEED server transfers to oceanic
they said they are going to look at it.
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