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AusGAF 5/5 - Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy, a rental at best
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shanshan310
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Is anyone making a new thread?
reptilescorpio
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It totally has chiptunes. That is Deadmau5 stuff right?
Started watching it the other month on ABC and it seemed like the kind of show I would get sucked into so I am saving it for a season run one weekend with the gf. Should be fun.
Good man. I bit on the $20 single Turntable/no mic deal from LOGS unfortunately.
roosters93
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Box of Bunnies
Banned
If I was whoever makes this thing, I'dve thrown in a microphone and called it the Where It's At Edition.
I think I got the last one, now listed as sold out :O (on X360 anyway)
reptilescorpio
Member
It DOES (did?) include a mic!
EDIT: Only Wii version left. DJ Hero 2 game, mic, 2 turntables and free delivery for $25.
codswallop
Member
CAN'T LOSE. HELL YEAH.
That's what we've been doing. Fantastic show to just inhale a huge amount of a short period of time.
HOLY SHIT IT'S D'ANGELO BARKSDALE FROM THE WIRE IN FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS YOU GUYS.
I vote for "AusGAF 6: The first rule of AusGAF is you DO NOT talk about video games" or "AusGAF: 6: Adrien's Revenge"
roosters93
Member
wait
what
edit: ohhhhhh
dude in the hood at the start of Season 4
totally forgot about that heh
totally forgot about that heh
Where's Wallace String?
shanshan310
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Yeah, the consistency is what really puts me off. I will eat most stuff, but I will politely turn down liver.
No u.
Yeah, and the way they cook it makes it rough too, they just take the hotplates off the barbecue and grill it on sticks over the flame on max, so half of it is burnt.
YOU REMEMBER WRONG!
reptilescorpio
Member
Why can't we all just eat bacon? :cries:
I did once, ox tongue, was not impressed.
Team Truth.
I have ethical issues with foie gras, but it is delicious.
FallbackPants
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Woah, we're beyond the looking glass.
We can't use Adrian's revenge yet, that's a VII joke.
more importantly suck it danoss. And this ODI is going to come down to the wire too
We can't use Adrian's revenge yet, that's a VII joke.
more importantly suck it danoss. And this ODI is going to come down to the wire too
reptilescorpio
Member
CAN I HAS YOUR TIME MACHINE? I NEED CHEAP BACON
shanshan310
Member
Truth. It is a bit chewy though, so I prefer bulgoli meat when it comes to Korean BBQ
Nobel Peace prize for this man, truly if people would follow him all strife would cease.
codswallop
Member
Ffffffffffffff.
How about:
AusGAF VI: Return of the AusGAF
AusGAF VI: We should have stopped at AusGAF II
AusGAF VI: I Can't Quit You
AusGAF VI: Still Refused Classification
FallbackPants
Member
Is the game over? Has channel 9 got things on delay again?
Could we do a return of the Jedi joke for vi?
Like cod's top suggestion, teach me for not reading
shanshan310
Member
What happened to all the other suggestions a few pages back?
AusGAF VI: Stuck in Committee.
They are from the before time, we don't talk about that until the captain comes back.
codswallop
Member
There were plenty, but stuffed if I was going to try to include them when using secondapps.
If someone wants to add them here go ahead.
Neverender
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Fuck Catherine! I didn't know that if I ran out of retries I'd have to go back to my last save. Fuck I was really enjoying it too, now I have like 2 hours of the game to retread. It could have told me i would have to do that. I probably won't go back to it now. Fuck.
reptilescorpio
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There was some weird swap over with GEM because of the rugby, same with during the innings switch. Game finished ages ago, don't forget that CricInfo is live.
I can't recall saying they should all be less than a dollar. But the $0 to $10 price range I'm paying for iOS games (mostly between $0 and $3, really) makes a $50 portable game seem like a weirder proposition than it did two or three years ago - at least, with the type of portable games I play. YMMV.
Shanshan, yeah I can totally see not wanting to do a 2 hour round trip. It'll be interesting to see how this experiment works with having two shows a year in QLD. Of course I hope it's a success because last year's show was the best part of 2011 for me
shanshan310
Member
Ah no >.<
I have mixed feelings about that game. Its kinda... warped when it comes to "good and bad" and how women work in general. Its kinda shallow. That being said it was fun to play. I won't say anymore till you finish, but come back and talk about it.
FallbackPants
Member
Oh we lost. Balls. I don't really care about ODIs anyway. Beating danoss' eels was the better viewing
codswallop
Member
I know about 80% of the places shown on that clip... Including the fish & chip place.
Anyone been Momofuku Seiobo in Sydney? Didn't know there was a Momofuku in Sydney. If it's as impressive as other Chang's restaurants I'd make a trip just for that. Tried getting Ko reservations every day we spent in NYC a couple of years back and failed miserably.
Neverender
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It's definitely interesting, can't say I've played anything like it before. I'll try it again tomorrow, just annoyed I lost so much progress
.I still don't know why this doesn't apply to console or pc games. Its an odd mindset to me to.assume a game should be worth less on a portable platform just because of that status.
CoD11 would be worth it at $15. Halo 4 at $0.99 might get me to buy it too.
Unsustainable! The audience growth would have to be incredible to even equal the profit margin, even with digital distribution in play!
Neverender
Member
Oh not sure if this is known yet, but it's kind of cool: AC3's RRP will be $89.95 when it comes out.
Unsustainable if done right now, but in 20 (or some number x) years games will be just as popular as movies, with no cinemas to spend money on (unless games get too cinematic) so their prices should be less than a movie purchase at that time. They won't be.
Market theory says games are priced fine, but that in terms of payment for effort, they are all over the place. Indie devs get shafted regulalry, Acti rakes in the CODbucks, and new IPs fail even though they are a good game. A semi fixed price point does not help the industry.
/late night waffling after liver...
shanshan310
Member
So much for the big count down eh.
Yeah, I heard Brisbane Snova is the biggest ^^ I just hope one of them doesn't flop. Twice the chance to buy nerdy things? I say yes.
I went to surfers using public transport a few weeks ago, three and a half hours each way. NEVER AGAIN. Especially now that there's a new mos burger opening next to top sushi~
I can't recall saying they should all be less than a dollar. But the $0 to $10 price range I'm paying for iOS games (mostly between $0 and $3, really) makes a $50 portable game seem like a weirder proposition than it did two or three years ago - at least, with the type of portable games I play. YMMV.
Shanshan, yeah I can totally see not wanting to do a 2 hour round trip. It'll be interesting to see how this experiment works with having two shows a year in QLD. Of course I hope it's a success because last year's show was the best part of 2011 for me
Yeah, I heard Brisbane Snova is the biggest ^^ I just hope one of them doesn't flop. Twice the chance to buy nerdy things? I say yes.
I went to surfers using public transport a few weeks ago, three and a half hours each way. NEVER AGAIN. Especially now that there's a new mos burger opening next to top sushi~
FallbackPants
Member
A mos burger just opened in Ipswich. Pretty keen to get amongst it. Hilariously they said they were opening here to test the Caucasian market. Apparently other Qld stores have been purposely set up in spots with high Asian populations or tourist numbers.
shanshan310
Member
lol, oh my. They have a very Japanese taste, but I hope people will like it. The world could always use more mos burgers.
OK, I'm definitely not explaining myself properly, sorry guys
Here's where I'm at right now. 95% of my home and portable gaming time is now on iOS. Most of the games I play cost me $0 to $3, and the amount of time I put into them make this platform a very attractive proposition in terms of value for money.
Previous to iOS, my gaming time was roughly split 50/50 between DS and 360, systems that I have bought a crazy amount of games for. These days the DS is all but forgotten about and the 360 is mainly the wife's video player. And now I look at the idea of buying a 3DS or Vita or even a PS3 or Wii U as something I'm not that excited about.
Cost is a huge part of this. I look at the cost of an average title (and I apologise for trying to demarcate this between portable and console, that wasn't my intention) on any console system and I think "huh, for the price of this one game I can buy $50 worth of iTunes credit and get 10 games that I'm interested in there".
I was going to buy NFS:HP on 360 for $60 until I saw it was coming to iPad where I bought it for a dollar. Is it the same game? No, hell no, of course not, I'm not going to pretend it's even remotely close, but for a buck it's good enough to get my fix and move onto the next thing. Similarly, the killer app of the early 3DS launch titles for me was Ghost Recon...which is now coming to iOS for, what, a couple of bucks? I'm willing to sacrifice the 3D for the cost savings.
I guess all I'm saying is that the idea of paying $0 to $3 for a game has gone from 'crazy' to 'increasingly common' and will soon be 'default' in the eyes of the next generation of game players. I'm talking about the generation that considers Angry Birds more important than Super Mario. Decry it all you like, but it's happening out there.
I just think if I could buy a device that has a wealth of new games every week that I could play on a portable screen or a television, and those games were a couple of bucks each, I would be very excited. Wouldn't you be? Wouldn't that make $50 console games seem overpriced to you?
Then again...a year ago charging more than $1 for an iOS game was considered horrific, and now we have Square charging $15 for Final Fantasy Tactics and a lot of people are OK with that. Perhaps as the quality of the average iOS (or Android, what have you!) game increases, the average price will too, and we'll have some kind of happy medium.
Edit: Sony and Nintendo opening up PSN and Estore to allow anyone to make games for it and set their own price point would be awesome. I would be totally on board for that. If I haven't mentioned it here yet I really like the form factor of the Vita.
Edit 2: The Wrath of Edit: I should totally point out that my own personal taste in games is...uh...somewhat odd. There are games I have gladly paid $100 for and gotten insane value for money and would do so again in a heartbeat and I would NEED to play on a 360 with a big TV. WHERE IS MY CRACKDOWN 3 MICROSOFT I WILL PAY ANY MONIES.
Edit 33 1/3: Maybe this is like where audio people yell at iPod buyers because they're listening to badly compressed music through the horrid iPod headphones and the iPod purchaser shrugs their shoulders and goes "meh, it's good enough for me" and now that's the standard.
Here's where I'm at right now. 95% of my home and portable gaming time is now on iOS. Most of the games I play cost me $0 to $3, and the amount of time I put into them make this platform a very attractive proposition in terms of value for money.
Previous to iOS, my gaming time was roughly split 50/50 between DS and 360, systems that I have bought a crazy amount of games for. These days the DS is all but forgotten about and the 360 is mainly the wife's video player. And now I look at the idea of buying a 3DS or Vita or even a PS3 or Wii U as something I'm not that excited about.
Cost is a huge part of this. I look at the cost of an average title (and I apologise for trying to demarcate this between portable and console, that wasn't my intention) on any console system and I think "huh, for the price of this one game I can buy $50 worth of iTunes credit and get 10 games that I'm interested in there".
I was going to buy NFS:HP on 360 for $60 until I saw it was coming to iPad where I bought it for a dollar. Is it the same game? No, hell no, of course not, I'm not going to pretend it's even remotely close, but for a buck it's good enough to get my fix and move onto the next thing. Similarly, the killer app of the early 3DS launch titles for me was Ghost Recon...which is now coming to iOS for, what, a couple of bucks? I'm willing to sacrifice the 3D for the cost savings.
I guess all I'm saying is that the idea of paying $0 to $3 for a game has gone from 'crazy' to 'increasingly common' and will soon be 'default' in the eyes of the next generation of game players. I'm talking about the generation that considers Angry Birds more important than Super Mario. Decry it all you like, but it's happening out there.
I just think if I could buy a device that has a wealth of new games every week that I could play on a portable screen or a television, and those games were a couple of bucks each, I would be very excited. Wouldn't you be? Wouldn't that make $50 console games seem overpriced to you?
Then again...a year ago charging more than $1 for an iOS game was considered horrific, and now we have Square charging $15 for Final Fantasy Tactics and a lot of people are OK with that. Perhaps as the quality of the average iOS (or Android, what have you!) game increases, the average price will too, and we'll have some kind of happy medium.
Edit: Sony and Nintendo opening up PSN and Estore to allow anyone to make games for it and set their own price point would be awesome. I would be totally on board for that. If I haven't mentioned it here yet I really like the form factor of the Vita.
Edit 2: The Wrath of Edit: I should totally point out that my own personal taste in games is...uh...somewhat odd. There are games I have gladly paid $100 for and gotten insane value for money and would do so again in a heartbeat and I would NEED to play on a 360 with a big TV. WHERE IS MY CRACKDOWN 3 MICROSOFT I WILL PAY ANY MONIES.
Edit 33 1/3: Maybe this is like where audio people yell at iPod buyers because they're listening to badly compressed music through the horrid iPod headphones and the iPod purchaser shrugs their shoulders and goes "meh, it's good enough for me" and now that's the standard.
codswallop
Member
OK, maybe the wrong crowd, but does anyone have any experience with a 'Thermomix'? Wife told me about it today saying it's all the rage with the shitty soccer mums on Facebook but to me it looks like yet another kitchen device that will do a less than ordinary job.
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