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Maybe for gamers and tech people, but almost everyone at work was asking me about the iPhone 5 yesterday and didn't even know there was a Wii U.
Oh my fucking god, that story in off-topic about the 2 year old.
It's instances like these I support the death penalty, and nothing quick, something involving bamboo shoots, an incision and a rat.
Seriously fuck some people in this world, correction not people, fucking parasites.
It's instances like these I support the death penalty, and nothing quick, something involving bamboo shoots, an incision and a rat.
Seriously fuck some people in this world, correction not people, fucking parasites.
Sutton Dagger
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I don't know, nothing particularly exciting there for me personally. The main thing for me after becoming a PC gamer is going to be paying the ridiculous console game prices, though I'll make an exception for Pikmin 3.
lol. oh choc.
what im saying is usually apple gains huge amounts of hype. Today they do not have that and a lot of tech journos are writing that the ip5 is a let down.
Nintendo on the other hand is getting all sorts of FUCK YEAHs
Yeah, the "PCs are expensive" really doesn't hold much water. Especially when they do much more than consoles.
I'd rather upgrade my PC than buy another console again. No exceptions at all. Though it'd be more for photo work than games, but funnily enough, a good PC for that plays games rather nicely.
reptilescorpio
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I have zero confidence in that game being good. Will be happy to pick it up a few months down the track if it does end up being a LBP level game. I've found every LEGO game to be souless and boring as fuck. Can never force myself through them to the end yet I buy them every fucking time out of reasons of nostalgia. :/
DON'T OPEN THREADS IN OFF TOPIC THAT MAY LAY OUT HOW SHITTY A PLACE WE LIVE IN IS!
Yeah Pikmin 3 will be awesome (although online MP would be GODLY but I guess I can wait for the 3dWiiU+ version to include that). LttP would be cool using the Tablet too maybe. ZombiU could turn out to be a cool Red Steel-seque gimick game.
The reason is that it doesn't have GC ports or memory cards. When nintendo say "BC" they mean fully BC, accessories and all, apparently.
I'm going to keep my Wii after the U comes out, and use it as my gamecube. I expect down the line to see GC games wind up on the eshop, but not all of them and not the ones I managed to find with some trouble.
Sutton Dagger
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Don't you love it when an old friend of a friend 'likes' an 'Are Abos scum' page on facebook. The amount of likes and comments are disheartening...
reptilescorpio
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ALPHA PROTOCOL 2
The biggest announcement this week is only one day away.
Hrmmm D&D game? I might get excited!
Box of Bunnies
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So much salt. It's like they'dve preferred the game remain cancelled.
I'm hoping for a party based RPG with a complex non D&D ruleset. If it is a kickstarter, then they won't license anything like D&D. There is of course the possibility that it's Icewind Dale 3, or Wheel of Time based. Both of those would need publisher backing I think, and given that it's rumoured to be PC exclusive, that seems unlikely (one can dream though).
codswallop
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There's talk that the Obsidian game might be the Planescape spiritual successor that was talked about recently. Obsidian created a Kickstarter account (or maybe it's fake) in August so a Kickstarted Planescape spiritual successor seems logical to me.
Only thing there is that JE Sawyer has indicated his involvement and I don't think he had anything to do with Planescape.
Only thing there is that JE Sawyer has indicated his involvement and I don't think he had anything to do with Planescape.
Kickstarter or not, I'm pretty sure there will be waiting involved. Hurts so good.I hope it isn't a kickstarter... I don't think I could handle waiting for more RPGs.
They won't license Planescape I think, but yeah, a new IP along similar lines is the most likely given that it was the most popular option from Avellone's polling.
reptilescorpio
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BREAKING NEWS: My former co-worker just stopped in to give me a bottle of scotch for putting up with her for the last year! Weekend saved!
If anyone from my company is trawling my information I HAVE NOT OPENED IT ALRIGHT, there is only Pepsi Max cans in the office, I shall not mix the two :/
ALPHA PROTOCOL 2
When it is Planescape Torment 2 I will seriously rip my shirt/jumper off and scream pure joy to the heavens
You should also have 4 copies of the original Torchlight to gift.
Strange since Nintendo is the one funding/publishing so shit out of luck for a port guys! All they need to do is wait a year (I doubt Bayonetta 2 is even coming out this fucking year!) and pick up a WiiU for like $300 along with whatever Mario/Zelda/Party/Tennis retreads have hit the stores.
Yep I've got them, but my inventory only has two copies of Torchlight II.
I am looking at this through the browser, so I'll check the client when I get home.
codswallop
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They've already said they don't want to license Planescape because they don't want to have to abide by the D&D ruleset for that style of game.
If they can come up with a multi-dimensional plane shifting crazy RPG without getting the pants sued off them, I'm in.
Planet_JASE
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Finally got around to looking at the Double Fine Kickstarter incentive stuff. I liked the shirt... until I saw the huge BACKER! on the back.
Eh...
Eh...
That old trick.
Ha! I wish.
Also, legal people, is it legal for an employer to force annual leave over a certain period? It's not a case of I have heaps saved up (I don't at all), they just want us to make the upcoming 3 day weekend a four day weekend so they can match some targets.
But I don't want to do that :S
reptilescorpio
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Wouldn't be legal. I know they are recommended to give employees holidays in blocks of time, they get a slap on the wrist for letting employees take one day off every now and then since the time is meant to be to recouperate or something. I know my boss was saying at his last employer they got a huge fine for paying out annual leave and having most employees just take a Friday or Monday off rather than 3-5 days at a time.
no its legal.
Employees can demand leave and can restrict leave periods @ will. Unless you are in a unionised work force where unions would push against it.
I've been in that situation before.
I have rung IR lawyers and government departments about this before. Its entire legal. Annual leave is a privellege not ar ight under the law and the employer can deny and demand at will.
Reptile, that fine would have been for being in breach of a federal award if you are in an award based environment. Most people don't work under awards these days
Employees can demand leave and can restrict leave periods @ will. Unless you are in a unionised work force where unions would push against it.
I've been in that situation before.
I have rung IR lawyers and government departments about this before. Its entire legal. Annual leave is a privellege not ar ight under the law and the employer can deny and demand at will.
Reptile, that fine would have been for being in breach of a federal award if you are in an award based environment. Most people don't work under awards these days
http://www.fairwork.gov.au/faqs/leave/pages/default.aspx
Fairwork said:
More details: http://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave/pages/directing-an-employee-to-take-annual-leave.aspx
Basically, yeah, they probably can.
reptilescorpio
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Well that sucks.
Yeah! He isn't even directing it. I would be more pissed about that.So apparently Kamiya got death threats over bayonetta 2 on Wii U
What the fuck is wrong with people?!
shanshan310
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Open the Australian today to article about how gay marriage encourages little children to be gay. Specific reference to how hypocritical this is because we don't encourage smoking, which reduces your lifespan, but the 'lefties' are all for encouraging children to become gay, which obviously gives you a shorten lifespan because of HIV and stuff. Flip to article about how atheists are missing out on a 'sense of wonder and awe at the world'.
Oh Australian, never change.
Oh Australian, never change.
Thanks! The price is decent, some nice games there. I might just end up buying one!
Yeah :s I have a lot of old school mates on fb, and man, some of them would sure do that shire stereotype proud.
reptilescorpio
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They didn't attempt to take the recinded ACL chestnut of 'being gay kills more people than smoking'?
Funny, I thought we got over the stigma of hiv in the 80s. It's not just transmitted by gay sex, it used to be transmitted by blood transfusions (Asimov got it this way), drug use c/- used needles and - gasp - unprotected hetero sex.
I can't believe The Australian likes to put itself up as some intellectual newspaper when its seemingly being written by nothing more than a bunch of conservatives whose dads got them the job.
shanshan310
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I think they did actually. The article was full of Jim Wallace quotes.
Yeah, I Was the same. I think I voted on the t-shirt that didn't have that (there was one of those, wasn't there?). Sucks, because who would want that on their back? Alternative is, wear a jacket over it, or google to see if there's a way of removing parts of prints on clothing. I'm sure there's a method that involves lemon juice, baking soda, bubble gum and a teatowel soaked in marmalade.
Yeah, I don't really like the front of the Double Fine shirt either. Guess I'll just use it for bed or something.
#StopTheTrollsSo apparently Kamiya got death threats over bayonetta 2 on Wii U
What the fuck is wrong with people?!
Give it a month. Someone will have worked out emulation for WiiU (lol Wii x2/GC x4 amirite).
So, Bayonetta 2. Published by Ninty. Does it have *anything* to do with Platinum? It's all well and good to say that Ninty are publishing it so that's that, but I'm sure there have been instances of games that were published by, say, MS then released onto other consoles as a slightly different iteration (a la the Ninja Gaiden series). But I might just be talking shit.
reptilescorpio
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Different lead team to what worked on the original game but still Platinum. No Shibata, no Yamada, Kamiya is 'supervising'. Hashimoto produced on the first game but no idea what he actually did since his background was graphic effects on God Hand and UI on Devil May Cry. Inaba is a beast though.
SEGA are being paid for the IP and Nintendo will have rights to the game, don't expect it to hit 360/PS3 as well. Maybe if it sells gangbusters SEGA will put another sequel into production for 360/PS3/WiiU.
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