Gamasutra covers the company side pretty well. Do you think there is enough real news actually happening for a new "frank and fearless" article every other day? You can't really compare it to something like political reporting where you're reporting on stuff that is deliberately happening in public.
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Choc, I would have posted a video of me trying to play the 360 version on a PS3 and it not working and then i would give it zero out of ten.
Of course that's assuming I wrote for a PS3 only site. If I wrote for a multi site I would have written the review based on whatever version I was supplied believing in good faith that all versions are reasonably identical.
Edit: I should point out that I'm just speaking about what I would have done back in the day, not about a particular title.
And Clive is right. The moment one of my games got reviewed I realized what a horrible, horrible game reviewer I was back in the day. ugh. Makes me ashamed to remember some of the crap I wrote.
Of course that's assuming I wrote for a PS3 only site. If I wrote for a multi site I would have written the review based on whatever version I was supplied believing in good faith that all versions are reasonably identical.
Edit: I should point out that I'm just speaking about what I would have done back in the day, not about a particular title.
And Clive is right. The moment one of my games got reviewed I realized what a horrible, horrible game reviewer I was back in the day. ugh. Makes me ashamed to remember some of the crap I wrote.
I'd just be happy if instead of doing 'frank and fearless' daily, they just did it when appropriate. Most outlets ignored RROD for a good 6 months, for example. It would have been nice to see some more early concerns about that.
roosters93
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Pissing down in San Francisco and i didnt bring a brolly so i went to buy one from macy's. I saw a bunch of cool umbrellas with sword handles. There was a cutlass and broadsword style but i liked this one most.
I'll probably get shot by the cops.
Going up to Canada for a couple of days before coming back to Oz.
A guy here at uni has one of those and leaves it sticking out of his bag 24/7. He also tries to do parkour. I haven't seen him in action yet.
FallbackPants
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There aren't enough jobs in the media to be particularly picky, and I'm pretty happy at a newspaper. Plus all games media is in Sydney. Fuck that noise. And while I'd love to pretend I have the talent or
Again you're right. But this is a huge industry now. There is totally going to be stuff going on. It's just a matter of finding it. Which isn't as easy as it sounds. But if the bread and butter of an outlet keeps on being preview etc I think there would be room for a more regular hard news story.
Edit: Just like Vince was saying! We agree again!
And thinking about it, you do see stuff like the games media in Australia are doing with leading the charge for R18+. That's awesome. Do more of that.
I worked as a games journo from Brisbane for eight years without moving to Sydney. Fuck Sydney. If anything being in Sydney limits your range if work because you're just thinking about the local places. I wrote for tons of places around the world because I had to think out of the box do to speak.
OH GOD CLIVE I JUST REALISED YOU'RE GOING TO MAPLE SYRUP LAND
OH GOD CLIVE I JUST REALISED YOU'RE GOING TO MAPLE SYRUP LAND
I did that for a couple of months. I think it's a pretty good method, but yeah, it's not really useful until much later on when you start on the pronunciations in the second book. I didn't end up making it that far as I stopped doing it when I started working. Also, if you're studying at uni it can clash with trying to learn the kanji for exams and whatnot.
Think I've seen those at Kinokuniya.Pissing down in San Francisco and i didnt bring a brolly so i went to buy one from macy's. I saw a bunch of cool umbrellas with sword handles. There was a cutlass and broadsword style but i liked this one most.
I'll probably get shot by the cops.
Going up to Canada for a couple of days before coming back to Oz.
There's Brisbane and then there's Perth, where no one is. Joy!
Oh this article I have cooking, should be entertaining. Maybe.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Have any of you ever had the experience of feeling like a total badass expert in a work sense?
It's a bit quiet at work while the contract for the next project is sorted out, so I started writing some career episode reports for a professional accreditation I'm going for. Anyway, one of these reports just turned into this epic story about how I solved this potentially million dollar problem with the power of SCIENCE!
It was this little routine thing that I had forgotten about and nobody will ever give me credit for doing, but recounting it for the benefit of someone outside the little bubble I work in was line of an ego boost.
It's a bit quiet at work while the contract for the next project is sorted out, so I started writing some career episode reports for a professional accreditation I'm going for. Anyway, one of these reports just turned into this epic story about how I solved this potentially million dollar problem with the power of SCIENCE!
It was this little routine thing that I had forgotten about and nobody will ever give me credit for doing, but recounting it for the benefit of someone outside the little bubble I work in was line of an ego boost.
Solving a major problem that the company had been putting up with for 3 years, 3 weeks after starting, my first job out of uni that people couldn't solve who were more senior, and more experienced? Yep i sure have had that FUCK YEAH experience.
Through the power of science I demonstrated that a venture capital project was never going to work or be economical. Hooray for thermodynamics.
So I did myself out of a job that would have been a 10 month contract only. No big loss.
Much prefer what I'm doing now, and wouldnt be doing it if I had kept my mouth shut.
Could well have, might have been able to shoot the offending branch before it broke the window.
It got fixed just in time too, bucketed down monsoon style for 20 minutes just now. Crazy.
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reptilescorpio
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Paging Jintor. Should work out cheaper than Amazon when you factor in postage, unless there is some way to get free postage from Amazon by ordering in bulk?
Doncamatic
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Amazon UK got rid of their free postage on book orders over 25 pounds after they bought out book depository so book depo is the way to go for the time being. Postage fees add up too quickly. Why you got to weigh so much, books?
Sutton Dagger
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Holy shite GAF, the cauliflower pizza was incredible. You guys need to give it a go.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Was it a perpetual motion machine or something?
Got s performance appraisal coming up. I hate those. They're always like "So you're technically quite impressive, but you just lack that bit of extra spunk. Are you quite as committed to the team as you could be?"
But that doesn't matter. This year, I'll have a novella-sized portfolio of approved accreditation reports and an email from a supervisor praising my thorough work. Wee!!!
It involved cultivating some microorganisms with some funky byproduct that has some (real) value. But it costs more to produce an environment for them to breed in than you would ever make selling the end product.
I would use a knife.
Sutton Dagger
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Yep
Choc just cut the cauliflower in quarters and start grating away. I seriously can't get over how good it was, it's a great low carb meal.
Pfffft, fuck that. Just use a gun.
reptilescorpio
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Damn it, I can finally afford it and they sell out of the Dark Edition of The Witcher 2 on 360
bodyboarder
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Newzbin was working fine last night, not anymore
shanshan310
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Yeah, I never picked up heisig for those reasons. Plus I already know a fair amount of characters from previous study, so it'd feel weird starting from scratch again. If you've got a lot of time and a good memory it seems good, but I want to be able to read and say things now.
Is there one of those guys at every uni? Pretty sure we have a few in the Japanese club, but none of them can speak Japanese..
reptilescorpio
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THINK OF THE CHILDREN. PALMER JUST WANTS TO HELP THE POOR CHILDREN.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Four daredevils do a BASE jump from Rialto Towers after cocktails at Vue de monde bar.
Did anyone in Melbourne see this live?
Did anyone in Melbourne see this live?
His brilliant plan for media diversity is for him and his right-wing pals to take control of the remaining major non-right-wing media company. It's amazing.
I apologise on Queensland's behalf.
bodyboarder
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Watching Firefly makes me want to watch Cowboy Bebop which makes me want to redesign Mass Effect
I've always liked the idea of a relatively small space game... Mass Effect's ginormous setting and stakes always pale in comparison to the actual amount of people you can talk to or interact with.
548 characters in, not stopping now!
If I'm using flashcards, do you think I should put the hiirigana on them and focus on recognising that, or the english and trying to remember the japanese? :<
I've always liked the idea of a relatively small space game... Mass Effect's ginormous setting and stakes always pale in comparison to the actual amount of people you can talk to or interact with.
shanshan said:
548 characters in, not stopping now!
If I'm using flashcards, do you think I should put the hiirigana on them and focus on recognising that, or the english and trying to remember the japanese? :<
I'm watching Usagi Drop. It's lovely.
I have thought it should be for ages. Public land, public benefit. I know that makes me a dirty bolshie pinko, but infrastructure (including water and electricity supplies) and mining are the two things I think should always be nationalised.
It's on my to-do list
If you want to follow the Heisig method just focus on the English and writing/recognising the kanji. Once you commit them to long term memory you can move on to sentences and readings. It will be much easier to remember readings once you can recognise the kanji and understand meanings.
Also, check out this site if you haven't done so already: http://kanji.koohii.com
Anki is good, but this also keeps track of your progress and will stop you from doing rote memorisation, which will only commit kanji to your short-mid term memory.
ClivePwned
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Gazunta: 4 damn hours of panels. There better not be a maple syrup shortage.
They have those brollies in aus? Cool.
I have replied to your pm stackboy.
They have those brollies in aus? Cool.
I have replied to your pm stackboy.
codswallop
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Starting to get sick. Slept five hours. Drank far too much last night. Not necessarily in that order. Feel like crap.
Say hello to your new cider overlord:
Say hello to your new cider overlord:
bodyboarder
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Train delayed. Have to catch the bus instead. Off to a great start.
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