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[FallbackPants]

I'm kind of annoyed at all the pre-emptive comments about "now all the racist Australians are going to hate more muslims" that have circulated the past few days.

To me that's almost akin to dragging a third party in and blaming them for a reaction that hasn't happened, minority report style.

Most people, in fact the vast majority of Australians are not racist and have responded to the scenes in sydney in a measured way.

There seems to be a lot of two-way tarring of the brush going on, and I dont like it.

I don't know man, I've seen a comments on news sites saying "the answer is banning people from the middle east from coming to Australia" and a jump in people on facebook 'friends' liking "ban the buqa" type pages.

I've seen all episodes of CSI, Miami and NY...so Dexter was nothing new for me.

Seems like it would be. Crappy TV being different to good TV

 

[Choc]

why do i get the feeling this picture is heading for memes

 

[midonnay]

ps: ausgaf needs their own weeping animal..... I haz bad ps skills though >_>

 

[senahorse]

Ahhh about time to leave the office, man I hate Monday's.

 

[FallbackPants]

So Wests Tigers are just throwing away any hope of winning the premiership in the next year or two are they?

 

[Jintor]

I love procedurals. I need to make time to watch more of them.

 

[Yagharek]

ps: ausgaf needs their own weeping animal..... I haz bad ps skills though >_>

I nominate a weeping funnelweb

 

[Fredescu]

So Wests Tigers are just throwing away any hope of winning the premiership in the next year or two are they?

You say that like they had any hope of winning the premiership in the next year or two.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

ps: ausgaf needs their own weeping animal..... I haz bad ps skills though >_>

Crying Koala?
Weeping Wombat?
Emo Emu?
Keening Kangaroo?
Cracking-up Kookaburra?
Bawling Bandicoot?
Blubbering Barramundi?
Yowling Yowie?
Wailing Wallaby?
Emoting Echidna?
Grieving Galah?
Pained Platypus?

I could go on.

 

[Fredescu]

Obligatory SA forum emoticon:

 

[HolyCheck]

here's my costume from the weekend

excuse the creeper.. she was drunk and put it on wrong.. but it's the only photo i have!

 

[Shaneus]

Yeah. You really should apologise for the fact that you have (what appears to be) a woman in the photo with you.

PS. The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning to not-Apple for my phone next year (or maybe this year or whatever). I'm curious about that Nokia Windows phone, but I remember how excited I got for WinPho7 before it appeared to lose favour with the public almost completely.

I'll say it again. Your city and state was founded by tasmanians.

That's not something to be proud of.

 

[Choc]

 

[Yagharek]

Crying Koala?
Weeping Wombat?
Emo Emu?
Keening Kangaroo?
Cracking-up Kookaburra?
Bawling Bandicoot?
Blubbering Barramundi?
Yowling Yowie?
Wailing Wallaby?
Emoting Echidna?
Grieving Galah?
Pained Platypus?

I could go on.

It really needs to be something deadly and iconic. Crocodile, spider, willy wagtail, snake, or something cool like tassie devils.

 

[VOOK]

Depressed Dropbear.

 

[FallbackPants]

You say that like they had any hope of winning the premiership in the next year or two.

Ha burn. But no Ryan and no Heighington? Even further behind then they were this year.

 

[Gazunta]

Co-worker just pointed this out to me

Symphony of Legends - Video Games Unplugged - presented by Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub - BRISBANE - NOVEMBER 23

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat OMG OMG OMG OMG

Two weeks AFTER Supanova Brisbane damn it

BTW how awesome is Supanova Brisbane gonna be. Me AND Felicia Day. It's gonna be fucking awesome.

 

[Choc]

Tigers are idiots for letting Ryan go. He gives them major exposure via Channel 9.


Now the sharks get that. Hopefully he continues to do stupid shit with Carney in the vein of what he did with Benji

 

[DualShadow]

Ha burn. But no Ryan and no Heighington? Even further behind then they were this year.

Should just get rid of Sheens.

Heighington hasn't done much this year I think but Ryan has probably had his best year and been moved around to several positions. Plus he's pretty popluar and has a fair few fans that would follow him to whatever clubs he plays at next.

 

[reptilescorpio]

When people think Australia they think of either a Kangaroo or a Koala bear. How about a Koala in a Kangaroo pouch. For authenticity. With a beer in each hand.

Co-worker just pointed this out to me

Symphony of Legends - Video Games Unplugged - presented by Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub - BRISBANE - NOVEMBER 23

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat OMG OMG OMG OMG

Two weeks AFTER Supanova Brisbane damn it

BTW how awesome is Supanova Brisbane gonna be. Me AND Felicia Day. It's gonna be fucking awesome.

Can you move it to Melbourne please?

 

[jambo]

PS. The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning to not-Apple for my phone next year (or maybe this year or whatever). I'm curious about that Nokia Windows phone, but I remember how excited I got for WinPho7 before it appeared to lose favour with the public almost completely.

I'm currently on an Optus BYO plan, so my next step is to sell my iPhone 4 and buy a HTC One XL 4G outright. After the contract finishes up I'll go to Telstra for 4G goodness.

First non Apple phone in over 4 years.

 

[Fredescu]

Ha burn. But no Ryan and no Heighington? Even further behind then they were this year.

It's seriously bizarre that they were considered anything close to favourites at the start of the year. That said, being a Bulldogs fan, it's also seriously bizarre that we ended up minor premiers.

Still, look down the ladder this year. It's just crazy how competitive this years competition was. Last years runner up came fourteenth, but were still looking good for a finals berth about two thirds of the way through. Knights, Titans, Dragons, all very competitive and unlucky to miss out. Even Penrith were showing flashes of fight towards the end of the season. Usually 30 points is required to make it into the 8, but 7 and 8 this year didn't have that and 30 points was good enough for 6th!

Any coach that wants to improve their position next year is going to have to do some serious work. I'm not sure that Sheens is making the right choices, but he definitely has to do something.

As an aside, I think Brisbane are fucked next year. My money would be on a bottom four finish for them.

 

[Choc]

The irony is Gaz now that you don't work in industry, you start working with people that give a shit about games

lol

edit: Dat Hasler Fred


Hasler is the greatest coach of the modern era

 

[DualShadow]

If Tigers get rid of any forwards it should be Blair, completely over rated and most likely over paid.

 

[Ydahs]

Currently on thehut.co.uk:

Standard WiiU $286
Premium WiiU bundle $342 AUD
ZombiU WiiU bundle $375 AUD
All games are roughly $50 AUD

To import or not to import...

 

[ClivePwned]

Can you move it to Melbourne please?

Only if you move Melbourne to Brisbane first

Deeper. We have to go deeper.

 

[Fredescu]

To import or not to import...

Launch hardware? I'd buy local. Import the games.

 

[Gazunta]

The irony is Gaz now that you don't work in industry, you start working with people that give a shit about games

Ha!

Spoiler

Still working in the industry...stay tuned

 

[Rezbit]

That's not something to be proud of.

You're just mad you're on the same land mass as Queensland. Ha-ha, you have to put up with Queensland!

 

[Fredescu]

edit: Dat Hasler Fred


Hasler is the greatest coach of the modern era

He's pretty good. Not sure about greatest just yet. We've been pretty lucky to have a trio of youngsters fire all at once in Reynolds, Kasiano, and Barba. Des definitely has them playing a certain way though, and made some pretty smart mid season buys. Even if we lose this weekend it's been an amazing season.

 

[FallbackPants]

It's seriously bizarre that they were considered anything close to favourites at the start of the year. That said, being a Bulldogs fan, it's also seriously bizarre that we ended up minor premiers.

Still, look down the ladder this year. It's just crazy how competitive this years competition was. Last years runner up came fourteenth, but were still looking good for a finals berth about two thirds of the way through. Knights, Titans, Dragons, all very competitive and unlucky to miss out. Even Penrith were showing flashes of fight towards the end of the season. Usually 30 points is required to make it into the 8, but 7 and 8 this year didn't have that and 30 points was good enough for 6th!

Any coach that wants to improve their position next year is going to have to do some serious work. I'm not sure that Sheens is making the right choices, but he definitely has to do something.

As an aside, I think Brisbane are fucked next year. My money would be on a bottom four finish for them.

The parity in the NRL is amazing. I doubt there is a competition like it.

As a Broncos fan I'm afraid you're right. They're missing good players at 1 and 6. Hoffman is reliable, and had a good season in 2011, but you pretty well need your best player at fullback. He's solid defensively and that's about it. If I was Griffin I'd be putting Hodges there.
We're boned 5/8 wise though. Norman is turd, Hunt is turd, Capewell can't get out of the Q. Boned.
Wallace is fine at halfback, but he needs someone to share the load with.
Forwards are fine, although losing Teo sucks. Outside backs will be good once Yow Yeh comes back.

All that said I think they'll compete, and a year older will be good for the kids to get through the Origin period. But I hope they spend some of that Lockyer and Petero money on a good play maker for 2014.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

Anyone else planning to unlock Borderlands 2 tomorrow? Don't think I can wait until Thursday.

 

[Yagharek]

Currently on thehut.co.uk:

Standard WiiU $286
Premium WiiU bundle $342 AUD
ZombiU WiiU bundle $375 AUD
All games are roughly $50 AUD

To import or not to import...

I've heard very bad things about the hut.

 

[VOOK]

That's the problem with all the UK shops they ALL have shitty shipping options. None of them offer any sort of tracking, accountability and they're all painfully fucking slow.

Get the hardware locally, wait closer to release when they start cutting the price due to competition, get the games from the UK. Simple.

 

[Yagharek]

Exactly what I'm doing vook. Buying local for obscure games, import for cheap the rest.

 

[CrazedProfessional]

Guy in Brisbane near King George Square, looked homeless.

Holding a sign "THE WAR WITH ISLAM IS COMING" neat.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

Ah. Well, you can't really approach them the same way as procedurals. You can skip an episode here and there and not miss anything. With serials you have to watch them in order or you just lose the story completely.

Ah ok that makes sense. After dexter I'm going to start with boardwalk empire.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Currently on thehut.co.uk:

Standard WiiU $286
Premium WiiU bundle $342 AUD
ZombiU WiiU bundle $375 AUD
All games are roughly $50 AUD

To import or not to import...

If that ZombiU bundle came with a special WiiU I would be all over that shit day one. I am a fiend for special edition consoles. Thankfully this generation has been sparse of decent ones (nearly died not buying a FF13 PS3) otherwise I would be homeless.

I've heard very bad things about the hut.

Never had an issue to be honest. Anytime a package has been in transit for more than 14 days I have shot them a message, they have said wait another week and if it doesn't turn up they will resend, then the package turns up 2-3 days later!

 

[Fredescu]

Ha burn. But no Ryan and no Heighington? Even further behind then they were this year.

The thing I keep forgetting about the Tigers: next year they will have Anasta! lolololol

 

[Kirby102]

So we're not getting Kirby's Dream Collection to celebrate his birthday in Australia. This makes me sad, so I decided to cheer myself up somehow:

The cupcake was delish~

 

[senahorse]

This just in, issue 6 and 7, plus crappy bag

Co-worker just pointed this out to me

Symphony of Legends - Video Games Unplugged - presented by Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub - BRISBANE - NOVEMBER 23

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat OMG OMG OMG OMG

Two weeks AFTER Supanova Brisbane damn it

BTW how awesome is Supanova Brisbane gonna be. Me AND Felicia Day. It's gonna be fucking awesome.

On the waiting list, cheers

 

[Choc]

Its fitting that you use the piece of hardware leading to the downfall of Nintendo to tell them they are fucking idiots

 

[Yagharek]

No pal version at all?

Also make sure your tablet doesn't get eaten too

 

[Yagharek]

Its fitting that you use the piece of hardware leading to the downfall of Nintendo to tell them they are fucking idiots

What downfall? Making money unlike others in the same business

 

[CryptiK]

I'll be herding the sheep and signing up so many people for the iPhone 5 on Friday >.>

 

[Fredescu]

What downfall? Making money unlike others in the same business

Haven't they been posting losses recently?

 

[Kirby102]

Its fitting that you use the piece of hardware leading to the downfall of Nintendo to tell them they are fucking idiots

I was being environmentally friendly rather than wasting paper. That's a good thing...... right?

 

[Choc]

I'll be herding the sheep and signing up so many people for the iPhone 5 on Friday >.>

Enjoy!

 

[Yagharek]

Haven't they been posting losses recently?

Last I heard they had gone back to black with 3ds

 

[shanshan310]

This just in, issue 6 and 7, plus crappy bag

What the hell they've only sent me up to 3.