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AusGAF 9 - F*** Off, We're Full (Of People With Different Ethnic Backgrounds)
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BananaArnie
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last i checked only people with hotels yet were cookie who doesnt really need one and clipper
Not that I know of. I have no idea where people are staying either, I do not that some haven't even sorted that out yet.
Hopefully we can get a list going so we have a good idea where everyone is situated for food and drinks.
shanshan310
Member
The PAX website is doing special offers on hotels, so you might be able to find some stuff there.
I'm bunking with boyfriend and another friend from AUSPAX at some hotel near Carlton. Location seems pretty sweet.
I've managed to finish 2 games over the past week, Those being Max Payne 3 and Mass Effect 3.
MP3 felt like a game that should have been 4 hours long but instead they decided to pad it towards the end with shooting 10000 more people so you got your 8 hours worth. It was more a this is your life TV episode than an actual video game as well, aside from the mass killings which is really all you did. Hell, Those parts could have just been the fucking adverts.
Still it wasn't an entirely shit game, It did a few things right but certainly not enough to warrant a full price tag.
Mass Effect 3 - I fucked up on this one. I didn't get to sleep with anyone, I mean, The fuck was I doing? Every girl I wanted to bang ended
. Life imitating art, sorta....
I skipped the majority of the side quests since I knew going into it that it was pretty much worthless, That the end was just going to be a choice of pretty colours.
My choice was red.
Not the greatest ME game in the trilogy series, It did seem more refined but that never felt like it was always a good thing. Shooting people with fire ammo still seemed like the best idea. Had I known before the 12 hour mark that you could upgrade weapons, I Probably would have done that sooner.
Overall. Medicore games but at a cheap price so that was nice. Good to get these off my backlog.
MP3 felt like a game that should have been 4 hours long but instead they decided to pad it towards the end with shooting 10000 more people so you got your 8 hours worth. It was more a this is your life TV episode than an actual video game as well, aside from the mass killings which is really all you did. Hell, Those parts could have just been the fucking adverts.
Still it wasn't an entirely shit game, It did a few things right but certainly not enough to warrant a full price tag.
Mass Effect 3 - I fucked up on this one. I didn't get to sleep with anyone, I mean, The fuck was I doing? Every girl I wanted to bang ended
Up Dead
I skipped the majority of the side quests since I knew going into it that it was pretty much worthless, That the end was just going to be a choice of pretty colours.
My choice was red.
Not the greatest ME game in the trilogy series, It did seem more refined but that never felt like it was always a good thing. Shooting people with fire ammo still seemed like the best idea. Had I known before the 12 hour mark that you could upgrade weapons, I Probably would have done that sooner.
Overall. Medicore games but at a cheap price so that was nice. Good to get these off my backlog.
reptilescorpio
Member
Hmm KMart here has a caseless NSMBU for $20. I should buy it and just print out a cover. Seems cheap. ZombiU is $36 at EB but I can't afford anything until next week so hopefully the EB sale is still on then. Lego Undercover is full price everywhere :/
It's been 12 months since the last time I had a child free weekend so fuck that!
Maybe in a few years time lol
Woo! Friday!
Was good but not great or anything. I really need to do a Hardcore playthrough the whole series.
It's been 12 months since the last time I had a child free weekend so fuck that!
Maybe in a few years time lol
Actually Friday night is the only night I have free! Forgot that I have an anniversary dinner with the wife planned that night, won't be seeing much PAX on Sunday either I think.
Woo! Friday!
Yeah felt like it inhabited a middle ground between the first two games all the way through.
Was good but not great or anything. I really need to do a Hardcore playthrough the whole series.
Me and three other friends are getting a room together at the, um, Southbank Lodge or something?
Was pretty much the cheapest place that didn't look like total shit.
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I really like Max Payne 3. I expected the game to be total horseshit, and as a Max Payne game with that series' legacy, it's disappointing. But as a raw shooter, the gunplay is fantastic. It's so much fun in MP3 to dive sideways and clear an entire room before you hit the ground. Max Payne 2's still probably the more fun to play, and has the best Max story, but MP3 does okay.
Mass Effect 3 had that cool Mordin moment and that was about it.
Was pretty much the cheapest place that didn't look like total shit.
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I really like Max Payne 3. I expected the game to be total horseshit, and as a Max Payne game with that series' legacy, it's disappointing. But as a raw shooter, the gunplay is fantastic. It's so much fun in MP3 to dive sideways and clear an entire room before you hit the ground. Max Payne 2's still probably the more fun to play, and has the best Max story, but MP3 does okay.
Mass Effect 3 had that cool Mordin moment and that was about it.
Hmm KMart here has a caseless NSMBU for $20. I should buy it and just print out a cover. Seems cheap. ZombiU is $36 at EB but I can't afford anything until next week so hopefully the EB sale is still on then. Lego Undercover is full price everywhere :/
It's been 12 months since the last time I had a child free weekend so fuck that!
Maybe in a few years time lol
Actually Friday night is the only night I have free! Forgot that I have an anniversary dinner with the wife planned that night, won't be seeing much PAX on Sunday either I think.
Woo! Friday!
Yeah felt like it inhabited a middle ground between the first two games all the way through.
Was good but not great or anything. I really need to do a Hardcore playthrough the whole series.
Zombi u is 39.95 on the eshop permanenetly
reptilescorpio
Member
I thought PAX was at the exhibition centre, which makes the fact it is at the racecourse annoying as fuck but I'll learn my way out there. Makes it tricky with the wife though. Why can't it just be all in the CBD!
32GB HDD. Nope. While the boy is still young I don't want to have to have a 1TB HDD hanging off the back, hard enough to stop him pressing the power button on the PC as it is >_<
32GB HDD. Nope. While the boy is still young I don't want to have to have a 1TB HDD hanging off the back, hard enough to stop him pressing the power button on the PC as it is >_<
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
My mother in law is currently staying with us and she's watching Sunday Night. The segment where they interview this radical Islamic cleric is race baiting at its absolute vilest and most reprehensible. Is there somewhere I can lodge a complaint? This amount of naked bigotry is something I've never seen on Australian television before.
shanshan310
Member
Wait, it's not just in southbank?
I saw the ads for it and was pretty disgusted. ACMA will take a complaint, they won't do anything about it though.
http://www.acma.gov.au/Citizen/Take-action/Complaints/Broadcast-complaints
Edit: No, apparently you can't. You need to complain to the station first.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
What's the point of that when they run these programmes with the express purpose of baiting?
Yeah, and it seems ACMA are utterly useless even when there has been a breach:
http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/News...eleases/win-tv-breached-for-vaccination-story
reptilescorpio
Member
lol ACMA. You guys! You so funny! TV is wild wild west. Misinformation is the name of the game and the game is going good.
Nope. Out Showgrounds. Is the Zoo near there? Maybe we can all meet at the Meerkats!
Nope. Out Showgrounds. Is the Zoo near there? Maybe we can all meet at the Meerkats!
shanshan310
Member
lol damn it. I would have been better off just staying with my grandparents than hotelling in the city. Oh well, I'm sure there will be buses out there for the day.
Gaf meet up at the zoo would be the best thing ever.
There's going to be regular trains to the showgrounds for PAX.
I'm not going to be staying anywhere fancy - I'm catching the train in from Ringwood every day.
something something phone while driving something something
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
Thanks. I lodged a complaint with Channel 7. Apparently, they'll respond to me directly. It's the first time I've ever made a complaint like this, but it was seriously rage inducing.
My complaint:
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
I made an igloo.
no i didn't
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
And now your watch begins.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Still have 3 spare rooms if anyone needs to crash during PAX. Though there is currently no public transport in Tarneit and the closest train station is Williams Landing (zone 1).
BananaArnie
Member
yeah shan its no where near southbank, which kinda means the meet was never going to be at BD but that said theres not much else near the showgrounds (probably i think) and the show finishes at 6 so the meet probably would be in the city
maybe i will see you on it
maybe i will see you on it
shanshan310
Member
Gah! This is awesome. You're my new favourite poster.I made an igloo.
no i didn't
Wait, scratch that. VKS is. Laughed way too hard at that.
roosters93
Member
Looking cool death.
Nice complaint vks.
Nice complaint vks.
All of the commercial media is like this. But remember when Labor tried to make media more accountable and how bad it backfired?
Labor has the worst PR and nobody's doing shit (or can do shit) about the terrible state of journalism and news reporting in Australia.
Connected my G75 laptop to my 42" LCD. Very seamless. The few FPS games I'd been playing recently looked great. Despite running at the same resolution as the native display on my laptop, the games looked like they were running at a smoother framerate. Aliasing is also far less noticeable. I'll probably play all of Spec Ops: The Line on my TV, just for shits and giggle,s but I don't think I prefer it to playing FPS games on my lap.
Gave an RTS game a crack - Anno 2070. It ran and looked fine, but running it through a TV just isn't conducive to an enjoyable RTS experience for me.
I've got a few ation/adventure gamepad titles that I'll likely play through the TV (The Batman Arkham games and Psychonauts), but overall, I'll stick to playing on the laptop monitor.
Gave an RTS game a crack - Anno 2070. It ran and looked fine, but running it through a TV just isn't conducive to an enjoyable RTS experience for me.
I've got a few ation/adventure gamepad titles that I'll likely play through the TV (The Batman Arkham games and Psychonauts), but overall, I'll stick to playing on the laptop monitor.
I really have to get up to speed on the AusGAFPAXAus organisationing some time soon. Unfortunately I have a conference a fortnight before that I've promised a ridiculously complex talk for and I'll be concentrating on that until then. Then I'll have a couple of weeks to catch up on AusGAFPAXAus planning. Oh yes.
Hell, maybe they'll release some sort of schedule for PAXAus soon... lol.
Edit: nice complaint there VKS. Did you cc Media Watch?
Hell, maybe they'll release some sort of schedule for PAXAus soon... lol.
Edit: nice complaint there VKS. Did you cc Media Watch?
I can't tell if you're going Inuit or out of it.I made an igloo.
no i didn't
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
I did it via a form on the website. Should I send it to them?
Spiderman. Wow, what a terrible film.
Sounds good.
Awesome regardless.I made an igloo.
no i didn't
*groan*
reptilescorpio
Member
Search for Spock. Terrible movie. 
Journey Home. Pretty awesome movie.
Journey Home. Pretty awesome movie.
Start charging rent!I made an igloo.
no i didn't
This is the system we deserve.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Damn you VKS.
Puns, puns everywhere.
First week of snow on mount buller, $5 unlimited ski lift was seriously awesome (normally $28). You should take the little one.
Planet_JASE
Member
If you're talking about the most recent one, yeah, I agree. However, it's not all the director's fault; the movie was cut to shit after it was finished.
Most of the weird plot holes, dangling plot threads and asinine character decisions and general weirdness were probably a result of interference after the film was finished.
That doesn't excuse it from some of the shittiest pseudo-film-science ever: "Peter, this displays all of the characterises of a symbiote; be careful with it". AND WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE CLASSICAL SIGNS THAT AN ANIMAL EXISTS IN A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP MR. SCIENTIST MAN?!? NO FUCK YOU!
Thankfully the cuts do explain one of the weirdest things that happened at the end: a policeman shooting and injuring Spider-Man with his gun after the chief of police explicitly telling everyone to hold their fire.
Sorry, no, the one that was just on TV. The first one, Willem Dafoe and all that. I agree with your science rant on the new on though
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Yeah, not really a fan. Didn't go much on the second one, either.
I hadn't seen it since it released, and it was just terrible. Wooden acting, terrible fight scenes with styrofoam bricks and fast forwarded actors, just utter rubbish.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
I liked it back when it was released, now can't watch it again.
reptilescorpio
Member
Avengers will be the same in ten years time, Avatar too.
The secret is that all of the Spider-man films are shit. Just some are slightly less shit than others.Sorry, no, the one that was just on TV. The first one, Willem Dafoe and all that. I agree with your science rant on the new on though
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Eh, it at least has the interplay between the characters going for it. I think it will hold up okay.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Avatar next day mate. Bought the bluray and couldn't watch it.
Avatar is there now for me. The effects looked pretty average on TV the other night too. Not bad, no way in hell would I say bad, just... meh. They are at the level I expect. And when the rest of the movie is so shit, the effects better be awesone.
And yeah I was not a fan of it like some people were, but at least Avengers will have some good dialogue to hold it up a bit.
True enough.
shanshan310
Member
Aww you guys are the worst Spiderman is great.
Spiderman is great.