fappenmeister
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I had coffee tequila last night.
I usually hate tequila.
THIS WAS AWESOME. It taste like Kopiko lollies.
I usually hate tequila.
THIS WAS AWESOME. It taste like Kopiko lollies.
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AusGAF 6 - Ricki Lee is awful. Everything else about Australia is AMAZING [Free hugs]
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Damnit, that's a bit shit. Maybe there's a hack or something for the PC one so I don't have to. I just want to play games for 8-year-olds without having to buy toys. FFS.
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Yeah, but the completionist in me means I'd have to buy all the figurines... which is a lot of money for something I'd probably only play for a few hours. And yes, despite only playing for a few hours, I'd still *need* all those toys :/
reptilescorpio
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EDIT: OMG there are still chips in the bottom of this week old Red Rock Deli packet! Yes!
$20 a pop, even from LOGS...
<_> I need one of these!
Pretty cool. They made a TRUCKLOAD of money from selling the additional characters as little figurines. I enjoyed it. Kind of like a kiddie Diablo. You don't need to buy new figures but they do throw it in your face that if you had STEALTH ELF you could do something cool in this spot.
$20 a pop, even from LOGS...
FallbackPants
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Well that was a crazy night. So much for Labor in Queensland.
Planet_JASE
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I heard they recycled old Rockband technology and parts. Even going as far as converting old unsold stock in the toys, furthering their profitability.
I hear there is now a reward for spotting a Labour Party Member in their natural habitat in Queensland.
FallbackPants
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Haha, get ready for the BBC documentary on them.
I was up half the night doing updates for the website (although I don't know why you'd be looking there instead of on the amazing ABC site). I am still shocked Rachel Nolan (who was my MP) lost. 15% margin absolutely destroyed.
She did cop the blame for selling off QR though. That never played well in Ipswich.
Jo-Ann Miller went from a 20% margin to I think around 5% now? Just a ridiculous result.
roosters93
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It's a lot easier to catch 'em all now.
Just how terrible is he?
fappenmeister
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Terrible.
I imagine the party forced her hand somewhat to stick their prefered leader into her seat.
Planet_JASE
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I'm not sure who that would be but they have a 1 in 5 shot with her out of the picture. Mmmmmmmm, mmm. Thems good odds!
I know :/ Having said that, if they did something similar with Star Control 2 and ships, I'd be all over that shit like a fat kid on cake.
I rejoice at that more often than I'd like to admit :/
Yeah, I've never looked into them properly but I knew the tech was more accessible than it seemed a year or two ago. I have a feeling you can get them even cheaper than that.
You played it? Hm. Maybe there are pre-loved packs on eBay I
$20 a pop, even from LOGS...[/QUOTE]
*sigh* yeah. Shame it seems like such a rip. If there was a way to even "buy" the characters online as IAP for a quarter of the cost I wouldn't mind, but if I'm playing it, find out I need a specific character for a part I really want (note: not "need") to access but it's two weeks away or impossible to find, I'd be pissed. Hopefully there'll be some kind of IAP patch or rerelease down the track.
One of the TfB guys said on his Twitter something along the lines of "So, did you guys notice anything familiar about Skylander? #starcontrol2". Kinda cool.
Seriously? I'd just love to see some of the tech be interchangeable between games or something. Like, put my Master Chief figurine or an army man plastic thing onto the portal and have them run around in the game world. Shit, my Bender keychain would be perfect!
True, but with what you would assume are greens prefs, you imagine they should win handily in South Brisbane - http://virtualtallyroom.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/State2012/results/district73.html
You know what really aggravazes me? It's them immigants. They wants all the benefits of living in Community, but they ain't even bother to learn themselves the language.
shanshan310
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Well, that election was pretty hilarious. I feel kinda bad for kate jones though. She worked so hard...
Yeah, and they jus' hole up in the sports threads, not intergratin' and stuff.
Yeah, and they jus' hole up in the sports threads, not intergratin' and stuff.
codswallop
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XBMC 11 final is out today for those interested. Got mine up and running this morning, going to have a look at moving the library to MySQL in the next couple of weeks (did last year but some things that didn't work how I wanted have been improved since then).
Does XBMC run on it's own OS at all? I'd love to make something on my Windpad to multiboot, say, Win8, ICS and XBMC (as a media center device).
I made a new diffuser for my 430EX flash, to use as a macro flash. Because the surface area of the custom flash is bigger, the light is softer and gives the image more depth; so the images are meant to look a lot better than with my (considerably more expensive) MR-14EX macro ring flash.
Now that it was built, I went on the hunt for some bugs to photograph. It seems my yard now has a lot of leaf-curling spiders (I'd say about 15-20 or so that I could see). The problem with photographing them is that because they're usually hovering in between leaves and branches with a lot of space around them, you end up with an image of them with a pitch-black background: not ideal.
Whilst I continued looking, I saw a leaf-curling spider in action. A bug flew past it and only just touched its web, not enough to get snagged. This didn't stop the spider coming flying out of its leaf at a ridiculous speed. Incredible. Unfortunately, it immediately scuttled back into its web after realising there was no meal to be had.
Still in the same position, I looked up to see a fly hanging around under a leaf. Since it was on a lovely green leaf, I thought I'd grab a shot. Sure flies aren't that exciting, but this was mostly to test out my new flash diffuser.
Upon closer inspection, something wasn't right with this particular fly. If you look at it's abdomen, you'll see a bunch of tiny bugs all over it. Let's have a closer look at it.
Now, I'm not fly expert, but I believe they deposit their young in dead or dying flesh, which they then eat and grow from maggots into an adult fly. This would indicate that what is on that fly's abdomen is not offspring, but parasites, namely mites. The fly can't be enjoying having those things hanging off him, though I'm not sure how they affect the fly itself.
My backyard adventures didn't end there. I did find a leaf-curling spider in action, feasting on a captured wasp. I had to photograph that. As you'll see, the background doesn't have the most pleasing look since it's so dark, which I described earlier. Most of you won't be looking at the background, but staring in horror at that spider and it's lunch.
I know there are wasps around where I live, I had to smash one of their nests last year since it was right outside my back door. I can't say I have seen one with as much colour on it. Nice catch Mr. Spider, enjoy your meal!
I know most of AusGAF hates spiders, but I wanted to share this anyway.
Edit: In case anyone is interested, here's the macro rig I used.
Now that it was built, I went on the hunt for some bugs to photograph. It seems my yard now has a lot of leaf-curling spiders (I'd say about 15-20 or so that I could see). The problem with photographing them is that because they're usually hovering in between leaves and branches with a lot of space around them, you end up with an image of them with a pitch-black background: not ideal.
Whilst I continued looking, I saw a leaf-curling spider in action. A bug flew past it and only just touched its web, not enough to get snagged. This didn't stop the spider coming flying out of its leaf at a ridiculous speed. Incredible. Unfortunately, it immediately scuttled back into its web after realising there was no meal to be had.
Still in the same position, I looked up to see a fly hanging around under a leaf. Since it was on a lovely green leaf, I thought I'd grab a shot. Sure flies aren't that exciting, but this was mostly to test out my new flash diffuser.
Upon closer inspection, something wasn't right with this particular fly. If you look at it's abdomen, you'll see a bunch of tiny bugs all over it. Let's have a closer look at it.
Now, I'm not fly expert, but I believe they deposit their young in dead or dying flesh, which they then eat and grow from maggots into an adult fly. This would indicate that what is on that fly's abdomen is not offspring, but parasites, namely mites. The fly can't be enjoying having those things hanging off him, though I'm not sure how they affect the fly itself.
My backyard adventures didn't end there. I did find a leaf-curling spider in action, feasting on a captured wasp. I had to photograph that. As you'll see, the background doesn't have the most pleasing look since it's so dark, which I described earlier. Most of you won't be looking at the background, but staring in horror at that spider and it's lunch.
I know there are wasps around where I live, I had to smash one of their nests last year since it was right outside my back door. I can't say I have seen one with as much colour on it. Nice catch Mr. Spider, enjoy your meal!
I know most of AusGAF hates spiders, but I wanted to share this anyway.
Edit: In case anyone is interested, here's the macro rig I used.
codswallop
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It can, but in your case you're probably better off just installing it in Windows 8.
Danoss, if the diffuser is paper towel (it looks like it), be careful that it doesn't scorch or otherwise catch on fire.
The flash head doesn't get anywhere near hot enough for that to happen. Everyone tells me not to use paper towel because of the fire risk, but I would think that it would have to get at least slightly warm before ever worrying about it. A number of macro shooters use this setup and have had zero issues.
codswallop
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I've never seen anything catch fire but I have scorched paper and had smoke appear from using a piece of paper in front of a compact camera flash (held much too close), so fire isn't outside the realm of possibility when using a bigger flash. Unlikely if there's a delay between shots but hey, be careful.
It's only little, maybe the size of a 10c piece at most.
Planet_JASE
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Fixed.
My eyes cannot roll far enough back into my head.
codswallop
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Just created a Smart Playlist in XBMC that automatically plays any TV episodes I've already watched (but not watched in the past 4 weeks), which are from the comedy (but not children) genre, have an IMDB rating of 7.5 or higher and are less than 35 minutes.
It's glorious.
It's glorious.
boo this man
codswallop
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I call it 'Repeat TV'! It's basically TV1 but only with shows I like.
You want laziness, you should look into the Pseudo TV add on for XBMC.
I don't know a female that likes abbott. Not one. The hate however is strong.
If Abbott is elected I'll be utterly disgusted with the people of this country, but ultimately I have enough faith in our civil systems and political model to think he won't be able to fuck that much up in his (hopefully brief) term. I despise social conservatism but time is on my side: Abbott's positions grow less tenable by the day.
shanshan310
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He's not great, but I don't think he's the sexist pig a lot of women are making him out to be *shrugs*
If Gillard and Abbott are the choices for the election, I will be so disappointed. Seriously, they are both terrible leaders and public speakers, both can only think of horrible smear campaigns against the other (its getting boring) and both get horribly fixated on shit they shouldn't be (stopping the boats etc). I refuse to vote for either of those morons.
The Liberals need Turnbull again. I'd vote for him, or someone like Julie Bishop, I guess.
wtfffffffffffff she is the most awful woman in australia politics since the other bishop >.>
My parents love the libs! I'm not too sure why but I think dad liked the small business stuff that little jonny bought in? I dunno, I try not to talk about politics with family.
Have you looked into getting Maraschino or HTPC-Manager running?
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