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AusGAF 6 - Ricki Lee is awful. Everything else about Australia is AMAZING [Free hugs]
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Interesting piece on teh Drum
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-10/green-public-discussion/4002222
Would a politician ever do that these days?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-10/green-public-discussion/4002222
Would a politician ever do that these days?
I only started serious for reals full time work this year, so my corporate wardrobe is all just basic essentials (shirts, ties, and three suits). 3 piece/ vest probably wouldn't work for me, I don't look mature enough for it
Also,
Yeah, it's so hard to prioritse time between them since both need just as much time (or even more for jps) to do well. Best way is to do the jps subjects in winter or summer.Jintor said:
Also,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...rd-spurs-japan-stores-chase-1-4-trillion.html
what's in a name
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What are Danoss's passions?
Games and shit
Is there a niche forum for table games and RPGs in Aus? If not make it, you have a heap of talent in here to advise you! Then roll in all that ad revenue (please note i have no idea how much people make from ad revenue)
Have you contacted games places around where you live for jobs?
If you're sitting around at home doing nothing have you considering designing your own RPG guide? You don't have to do anything with it but it may just give you a bit of joy and passion in your life.
BTW where do you live
Games and shit
Is there a niche forum for table games and RPGs in Aus? If not make it, you have a heap of talent in here to advise you! Then roll in all that ad revenue (please note i have no idea how much people make from ad revenue)
Have you contacted games places around where you live for jobs?
If you're sitting around at home doing nothing have you considering designing your own RPG guide? You don't have to do anything with it but it may just give you a bit of joy and passion in your life.
BTW where do you live
FallbackPants
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Man, how awesome was that. We need a new Keating. Someone who is passionate, willing to speak their mind and not pander to people. But not mental like Joyce or Katter.
What a badass.
I was listening to yesterday's AM report and it had simultaneous interviews with Gillard and Abbott on the budget. I had a weird vision of an bizarrely existential play with Gillard and Abbott in the waiting room for a radio interview just nervously chatting like normal people in a waiting room for a dentist or something.
FallbackPants
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Could you imagine the awkward tension? Man, I would pay good money to watch that
I love board games and RPGs and I love photography (though I haven't had much chance to a lot of the latter). I've been great at retail because I enjoy talking to and helping people, but I'm unwanted in that area anymore (and earning commission ruins it an adds pressure I don't want or need).
Can't afford to try and do anything about these passions to make money on my own. Even if I could, I've been beaten to the punch on this anyway since Board Game Geek, RPG Geek, and RPG.net already exist an are successful. There was another RPG forum for Aussies only, and it was a failure.
Contacting a games place for a job is a waste of time as they're all run by the owners and that's it. There isn't much money in it because it's a niche market, many of them have had to close down because they can't stay afloat. Yay for me, if I like it and/or am good at it, I'm not wanted or needed.
I'm not a good writer by any stretch and those guides have already been written (and released for free). More experienced people than me write full-on games that people can play. Most of them have to work second jobs because it doesn't pay the bills.
AusGAF has tuned out my last post, so I'll stop my whining. It's been pointed out that this is all my fault, so there's no point continuing with this line of discussion. I've exhausted every avenue I can think of, and study is likely to lead to disaster if my Gran passes away and I can't afford to live elsewhere ony own, even if I could think of something worth studying.
I know people who are in a position to help me out getting a job but they won't. Seriously what's the point anymore when your life is like that? There is none, it's a waste of time. Anyway, carry on AusGAF...
Why on earth have herman miller chairs not dropped in price. Come on now, They have been out for years! Silly Aeron chair.
My Myki has a new phantom pass on it, Which is going to potentially screw me over tomorrow with getting to and from work. I'm thinking of calling up and seeing if they can resolve the issue instead of waiting for a reply from my complaint online. I hate phones though, Good chance I will be waiting for someone to answer for 15 minutes.
My Myki has a new phantom pass on it, Which is going to potentially screw me over tomorrow with getting to and from work. I'm thinking of calling up and seeing if they can resolve the issue instead of waiting for a reply from my complaint online. I hate phones though, Good chance I will be waiting for someone to answer for 15 minutes.
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I think you're harder on yourself than Ausgaf will ever be.
Have you considered something in security? They have jobs where you can sit in a chair monitoring video screens, sit in a toll booth etc.
Not glamorous but you can live on it.
How about immigration, my uncle couldn't find a job and ended up working in a job as a liaison officer with illegal migrants (not in a prison). He basically just chats to them, plays cards etc.
Comparatively? Yeah.
reptilescorpio
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Danoss, keep hanging in there. It sucks and things don't seem great. All you can do is hang in until something changes, and it will. There will always be a place for people.
So I took the advice of Sage Bernbaum and bought some running shoe pieces! $16 at KMart. Was quite a nicerunjog/walk last night, did 6km in just over 50 minutes. Feel okay today too which is good. Hoping to go 3 times a week.
Also I cried myself to sleep when the sexiest man alive revealed we won't be getting Bioshock Infinite this year
It shows that they have no interest in policies, only negative replies to what Labor say. I would much prefer Liberals to come out and say, "This is what WE think will be BETTER for everyone." Give me a reason to vote for you rather than just LABA GONNA GIVE IMEGANTS MA JOEB!
Should be fun to discuss at the dinner table!
We need some better speechwriters and bring back the good old days of what can I do for my country!
When half your wage goes to keeping a roof over your head, even before all the other utility bills, you know something is a bit off.
Great little indie title back before the big indie game wave hit!
So I took the advice of Sage Bernbaum and bought some running shoe pieces! $16 at KMart. Was quite a nice
Also I cried myself to sleep when the sexiest man alive revealed we won't be getting Bioshock Infinite this year
The electronica community is very interlinked, every artist you come across will be related to another artist you love and another one will have gone to High School with them, etc.
yeah I have varied between 60kg to 90kg and most people don't notice a HUGE change or anything, helps that I am 6 foot tall, moves it around a bit.
Our 39k a year family is doing okay, certainly not lashing out or buying fancy stuff but doing well enough to keep my son happy and slowly pay off a wedding.
My parents even got it twice, there were several different ways to qualify and the onus was on people to look into it and see what they were entitled to.
lol
It shows that they have no interest in policies, only negative replies to what Labor say. I would much prefer Liberals to come out and say, "This is what WE think will be BETTER for everyone." Give me a reason to vote for you rather than just LABA GONNA GIVE IMEGANTS MA JOEB!
Joe Hockey does kinda look like a grown up Martin Prince.
This is hilarious.
This is also hilarious lol
Should be fun to discuss at the dinner table!
Without a doubt. People care mostly about themselves and making sure they get every dollar they can possibly squeeze out of everyone else.
We need some better speechwriters and bring back the good old days of what can I do for my country!
LOGS can do no bad see! They just sent out the first batch to the golden children who put their kids through college.
Rental prices are fucking killing people at the moment. $300 a week for a rundown old 3 bedroom place 4 hours along the coast from Melbourne is insanity, especially when 5 years ago people in similar places were paying $120.
When half your wage goes to keeping a roof over your head, even before all the other utility bills, you know something is a bit off.
I found it pretty comfortable whereas I knew I didn't have the patience for SMB.
Great little indie title back before the big indie game wave hit!
When I worked at Dominos they used to get school kids to do it after school for like $5 an hour. Not much fun on an arterial road into Geelong.l
The best work they have done. Easily.
A mate of mine started out in a TM callcentre, hated it but it got him a job in a better, but similar callcentre handling support calls and signing up businesses for some kind of software system they sell. Earns much better money and the workload is a breeze. Spend most of their time on Fantasy Footy.
Mate of mine is the same, quit his Honours yesterday after wondering why he was bothering and has no idea what to do now. Looking to just travel around the world backpacking until he can come across something that takes his fancy enough to do full time. I guess I would be the same, since I haven't finished my Commerce degree and have no fucking interest in working at anything related to it aside from Marketing, which I see no way of getting my foot in the door of anyway. At least my current job is stable and pays the bills, I'm making enough contacts that something will surface in the future and the main thing is that I am improving my skills and gaining experience, making me much more employable if I make it to an interview.
There are cool piercings and uncool piercings. Have to see it to make a judgement call. We all know that your piercing was never cool though, even Draz from Heartbreak High wouldn't approve.Realised I have had my body piercing for over 10 years, before it was a cool thing to do.
Fuck yes. Best jacket ever. Love my black overcoat, makes me feel like a Blade Runner but comfy.
That is the coolest thing that should happen more often. If some clown makes a fool of themselves call them out, otherwise they will just keep spreading their stupid shit. We need to educate these fuckers.
Even if we are the last country left standing the current government will still be inept. Will be interesting to see if Labor will take the same negative tactic when they end up in opposition.
I guess I was talking from an overall perspective as well, not just the unemployment rate. You read constantly about overseas issues and then you look at all the major points here and you really do have to wonder why the Labor can't sell the current state of things.
Bizarre.
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Why not go back to uni and study, Danoss?
Got my bonus points which pushed me over the edge to a $10 voucher. Which I've already spent on a bagged PS3 controller
I think of all the statistics that get thrown around, the unemployment rate is the one that has most relevance to peoples everyday lives. It means job security, wage rises, and more opportunities. There's nothing worse than being uncertain about your job or your company's future during a period of high unemployment.
Okay, so Day Z is up and running and I've had about 2 hours getting used to the controls and learning how to actually do stuff (like eat, drink, equip weapons - thanks Donc and Arnie). In this time I managed to:
- Bump into another newly spawned character in the first 5 minutes and have a stare down with our pistols before he ran into the bush and I ran back toward the coast
- Wandered into a large town and found some extra bullets and beans in a building
- Got attacked by a zombie and got stuck on a chain link fence and accidentally attacked him with my flares. Survived the encounter with 4000 blood
- Watched a survivor getting chased down the road by 20 zombies. I didn't help.
- Looted a bandit's corpse for heaps of awesome shit like a map, flashlight which I somehow lost, a Lee Enfield, about 4 cans of food, pepsi, etc etc
- Went to the train station and found a compass
- Ran up a mountain to hide and log out
5/5 stars.
- Bump into another newly spawned character in the first 5 minutes and have a stare down with our pistols before he ran into the bush and I ran back toward the coast
- Wandered into a large town and found some extra bullets and beans in a building
- Got attacked by a zombie and got stuck on a chain link fence and accidentally attacked him with my flares. Survived the encounter with 4000 blood
- Watched a survivor getting chased down the road by 20 zombies. I didn't help.
- Looted a bandit's corpse for heaps of awesome shit like a map, flashlight which I somehow lost
, a Lee Enfield, about 4 cans of food, pepsi, etc etc- Went to the train station and found a compass
- Ran up a mountain to hide and log out
5/5 stars.
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Okay, so Day Z is up and running and I've had about 2 hours getting used to the controls and learning how to actually do stuff (like eat, drink, equip weapons - thanks Donc and Arnie). In this time I managed to:
- Bump into another newly spawned character in the first 5 minutes and have a stare down with our pistols before he ran into the bush and I ran back toward the coast
- Wandered into a large town and found some extra bullets and beans in a building
- Got attacked by a zombie and got stuck on a chain link fence and accidentally attacked him with my flares. Survived the encounter with 4000 blood
- Watched a survivor getting chased down the road by 20 zombies. I didn't help.
- Looted a bandit's corpse for heaps of awesome shit like a map, flashlight which I somehow lost
- Went to the train station and found a compass
- Ran up a mountain to hide and log out
5/5 stars.
This sounds very interesting, can you give me more info on how to get it?
If you have ARMA II and ARMA II Operation Arrowhead, download these files:
http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/
Then follow the below instructions
From the SA forums
Neverender
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So I'm going to buy Operation Arrowhead, and it says original Arma 2 not required to play. But it is required for DayZ?
Viral marketing for the Carmageddon Kickstarter?
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So I just watched some Day Z youtube clips. Quite simply it looks like the best thing ever.
With a 3 month old son don't know how much i could play but considering the average lifespan in the game is 4 hrs it doesn't sound like there's a huge amount of time investment needed.
With a 3 month old son don't know how much i could play but considering the average lifespan in the game is 4 hrs it doesn't sound like there's a huge amount of time investment needed.
It's more about joining up with fellow players, in ausgafs case, probably kritz / aon and everyone else who has jumped on board over the past few days. Sitting in mumble, talking to each other while trying to find each other in game and then attempting to do shit while surviving.
Living Edge were selling them for $990 recently, quite the bargain.
FormallyMegadrive
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My god this sounds amazing why is it so expensive.
It's hilariously brilliant.
The Mumble last night was basically
"Oh you're at that town, well we're north of place, we'll head this way and... wait, no we're not"
"You guys are near the airfield."
"No we're not"
"Yeah that's the fence"
"I'm at a fence"
"Guys I can't move"
"Shit I hear gunfire"
"Who's that guy?"
"Get in front!"
"I already am in front!"
"Head towards the moon"
"I'm bleeding, shit."
For 3 hours :lol
Ah. I was looking at that site today, No price was listed though. I thought about sending them an email asking what the price range was, Just a little too scared
Don't you have one at work or something? I know someone in here enjoys an Aeron chair.
Ah. I was looking at that site today, No price was listed though. I thought about sending them an email asking what the price range was, Just a little too scared
Don't you have one at work or something? I know someone in here enjoys an Aeron chair.
Not in my current office but I have used one before. We (gf and I) nearly bought a couple at that price at the start of the year but were about to move and wanted to limit what we had take with us. They are really great chairs, but, make sure you sit in one first as it may not be for you. I don't think they are on sale atm, they rarely are. Keep an eye on this whirlpool thread: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/838677
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So I'm watching this youtube clip on Day Z and it's great. The guy really makes the video with his girly screams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPIyJDSEQ
If it's still around after Diablo 3 I'm abandoning my family and jumping on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPIyJDSEQ
If it's still around after Diablo 3 I'm abandoning my family and jumping on
IT BEGINS
Danoss just a quick point about not wanting to start a RPG site because others have already done it. I'm hardly the first person to do a comic on the web. VOOK'S is hardly the first person to make a Nintendo fan site. People will come to you because you have a unique voice or opinion even if you don't think you do.
reptilescorpio
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I've got an old chair that my Uni wanted to throw out for an office chair.
Thanks for that. I could do it if I wanted to, but that would require skillful and thought-provoking writing. I can't do that, you've seen my posts, I can barely express the most basic of thoughts I have. Original ideas would be a good thing, but I don't think I've had one of those in a long time, even if i did, that would be restrained by the fact I couldn't express it anyway.
Even if all of the above weren't true, I would need to be able to pay for it. I had a website up before, I had to close it because I couldn't afford it any longer. It cost $5.95 a month.
I appreciate all the kind words and ideas people are throwing out, honestly. But it feels like life has thrown me down a deep pit with no way to climb out. Unless someone throws a rope down, I'll stay down here and rot.
FallbackPants
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Haha that guy is hilarious. I don't think he can separate real life from Day Z
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