Bad battery, bad software, bad compatibility. And the marketplace is abysmal, overpriced and full of shit fake demos that don't work, like ilomilo.
Hell, it doesn't have a search function.
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Bad battery, bad software, bad compatibility. And the marketplace is abysmal, overpriced and full of shit fake demos that don't work, like ilomilo.
Hell, it doesn't have a search function.
codswallop
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I am, i just refuse to play against randoms online so i gavent been playing much
Aww. Not as exciting as I thought it would have been!
From memory there was 15 for the HolyCheck attempted Dota2 tournament. 3 groups of 5 I guess. A fourth would have made it nice but 3 groups should do the job.
Now holy just needs to figure out how he wants to create the system. How many points are to be awarded. How long it should go on for and so on.
go holy go!
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shanshan310
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And I've been busy with uni etc, so I haven't been playing much either.
We can start tonight, if we can get the teams ready. Team AvB and CvD or something.
I wish the game had Oceanic servers. I feel like i'm always at a disadvantage playing at 250 to 400 ping. Even playing on the South East Asian servers i still get the same ridiculous pings.
Even HoN had servers for every single country including Australia.
Aww. Not as exciting as I thought it would have been!
From memory there was 15 for the HolyCheck attempted Dota2 tournament. 3 groups of 5 I guess. A fourth would have made it nice but 3 groups should do the job.
Now holy just needs to figure out how he wants to create the system. How many points are to be awarded. How long it should go on for and so on.
go holy go!
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legend166, unmuted.
Marshymallow the reluctant carry.
Fogz, who leapt through time.
Aonshix Karst the Third, Prophet of the Dead.
Hamchan, the silent killer
Rahk, he is phone
Jintor, who knows Dark secrets in his Soul(s).
Shan Shan, whose boyfriend?!!?!?!?!
Wonzo the scholar.
HolyCheck the Earthshaking Leather Gracket.
Frawdder
Kritz
Rezbit, #1 fan of Channel 10s Offspring
Ridonk, PINGPINGPINGPINGPINGPING
Doncamatic - didnt sign up but doesnt get a choice
Marsh, Ridonk and Donc
from the above list take turns picking players
I'm going to flip some coins now and determine the order.
ok i flipped three coins, marsh beat ridonk, ridonk beat donc, donc beat marsh. we have a tie breaker
will flip more after lunch, but yes.
then we will have 3 teams and we will do a tournament of each team plays each team! and then from that ranking we will have i dont know but we will have teams and we can sort the rest out after
Marshmellow
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Yea i am super keen for this. Especially tonight.
Would be good to play some more AusGAF inhouses.
Just have 4 teams of 4.
He would actually have to get into the team first.
This girlfriend basher is a real piece of work.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/enterta...tel-receptionist/story-e6frf96o-1226336696471
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/enterta...tel-receptionist/story-e6frf96o-1226336696471
Because he is a joke and jokes are entertainment.
Okay, so with the successful backing of the Dinocalypse Trilogy on Kickstarter, I received PDF copies of the PnP RPG 'Spirit of the Century' and its supplement 'Spirit of the Season'.
Spirit of the Century is a pulp RPG which uses the FATE system. It's quite different from anything you may have played before. You use your imagination to create your character, it's not just numbers on a page, your back-story matters and you will have a partly shared back-story with some other players at your table. This back-story forms part of who your character is and also becomes what he/she can do in a very cool way. It's a great method to create your character that ultimately feels less contrived when your characters meet to begin your campaign. That's just chargen, the coolness goes way beyond that.
Why am I rambling on about this? Well, I already own this game and the supplement, so the additional PDFs don't do anything for me. I thought if anyone else would make use of them, I'd give them away. I did first get permission from the appropriate authority:
Instead of heading over to the PnP RPG thread, I thought I'd give AusGAF first crack at it. I know most of AusGAF aren't big RPers, I still can't get enough interest for the game I want to run, but more on that later. If you play RPGs with your friends and want to run this game, let me know and it's yours. If not, that's fine, I'm sure someone else over in the RPG thread would make use of it. If you're not going to use it, please don't take it. This offer isn't on the table long, since the lack of interest in my game indicates there isn't likely to be interest in this either.
Edit: Now taken to the RPG thread.
Spirit of the Century is a pulp RPG which uses the FATE system. It's quite different from anything you may have played before. You use your imagination to create your character, it's not just numbers on a page, your back-story matters and you will have a partly shared back-story with some other players at your table. This back-story forms part of who your character is and also becomes what he/she can do in a very cool way. It's a great method to create your character that ultimately feels less contrived when your characters meet to begin your campaign. That's just chargen, the coolness goes way beyond that.
Why am I rambling on about this? Well, I already own this game and the supplement, so the additional PDFs don't do anything for me. I thought if anyone else would make use of them, I'd give them away. I did first get permission from the appropriate authority:
Instead of heading over to the PnP RPG thread, I thought I'd give AusGAF first crack at it. I know most of AusGAF aren't big RPers, I still can't get enough interest for the game I want to run, but more on that later. If you play RPGs with your friends and want to run this game, let me know and it's yours. If not, that's fine, I'm sure someone else over in the RPG thread would make use of it. If you're not going to use it, please don't take it. This offer isn't on the table long, since the lack of interest in my game indicates there isn't likely to be interest in this either.
Edit: Now taken to the RPG thread.
Na that sorta breaks the lanes. 3 x 5 is good with maybe some subs if people can't turn up.
reptilescorpio
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I have seen some shops in my time Omi, I am not impressed.
I can agree with that. Everyone I know with either hate them.
I Left My Heart in Rubacava
The midnight screens are tonight. The movie opens tomorrow.
Meh, who cares. It would make for a better tournament and I'm sure the idea of teams of 4 was proposed once before.
Which is also irrelevant being that they rely on humans only for such calls. The linesman/ref made a bad call but that's football. Football is also about taking dives (something that really irks me about the sport). It would be nice if they could invent a system that used video to make calls but didn't slow the game down, or at least impose heavy penalties on players for doing dodgy shit /dream state.
Wait what
/edit doh you're right. Well, no matter, I'll just miss dota tonight and do it tommorrow
It is nice to want things.
FormallyMegadrive
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I like my htc aria, it's just not as powerful of a phone as I want. Samsung Galaxy S2 next prob.
The galaxy S3 gets announced may 3rd. Go for that one instead.
4v4 works fine. Doesn't really break the lanes, you'll often see someone soloing a side lane even in 5v5 games.
Sure, choosing your team's lord composition will be different and the game will play differently overall, but it's still fun.
FormallyMegadrive
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I'm not paying for the s2.
How was he offside if the defenders foot is in front of him?
trollface
Also SUPER KEEN for Dota tonight. Tomorrow arvo should be good too, but seeing Avengers tomorrow night I believe.
FormallyMegadrive
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What the hell :lol
I guess that bot is more sophisticated than I gave it credit for, but I did manage to get a bite! https://twitter.com/#!/DrKipple/status/194685962108944384
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.
A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk.
A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.
In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.
Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.
A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk.
A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.
In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.
Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
I don't think it's just "an unexpected context" but a context specifically about transit. We put ourselves in a certain frame of mind when we're travelling, we're focused on the goal we have in mind. The kids obviously aren't so focused, so they want to stop and see something they don't usually see. If it was somewhere where people are in a more relaxed mindset, I reckon the guy would have gotten more attention. Is the fact that we're more receptive to beauty in some moments rather than others necessarily a bad thing? I don't think so.
roosters93
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Could my shitty laptop handle dota? I can play LoL at like 15fps haha 
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TIL there's a australian sport called Trugo
I watched the trailer after seeing the GAF thread on it. I'll watch it.
I like the trumpets.
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TIL there's a australian sport called Trugo
I watched the trailer after seeing the GAF thread on it. I'll watch it.
I like the trumpets.
Me too! Funny presentation, but he has developed some strange association with trumpets that certainly doesn't apply to everyone.
the movie the series seems to be based on, Tiny Furniture, is also pretty funny if you can stand insufferable Gen Y'ers with entitlement complexes .
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