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mclinton92
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the continuous amount of stories that my mate keeps telling me while on his holiday. he was at singapore, to la, to vancouver in canada, to whistler in canada, back to vancouver, to la, now his coming home.
yesterday he got fined for j walking, lol
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The weekend is here and I don't have any homework or other concerns to worry about. Time to relax. Big smile for me. 
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| El Taco wrote: | | People play Haze?? |
Yes, we do.  Having played it now, I reckon the game received a lot more hate than it deserves. The only issues I've had with it are some repetitive dialogue during the campaign, and the occasional AI ally who gets into your line of fire. If nothing else, it's a very solid online FPS, and there have been plenty of people ready to play every time I've gone on.
On topic, what made me smile today happened at work (Maccas). One of the counter girls was going outside to deliver a meal to one of the drive through people who had to wait, when she had a massive stack. Freshly mopped floors = slippery. Needless to say, fast food lived up to its name.  She picked herself up (she was fine) and everyone was laughing.
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Played Sacred 2 all today and damn level 12 atm and loving this game. It made me smile because it reminded me of diablo 2. Of course not as good but this will fill the void for a while till Diablo 3 comes out. I wish there was a hack n slash game that had a great item system like diablo 2 sighhhh.
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Gabe Newell, Valve and Mike Morasky
I emailed Gabe the other day out of boredom rather than doing my music assignment, basically asking if he could get me more info on the music in L4D than is already in the commentary.
A few days later I get a reply from Mike Morasky, the composer for L4D saying he is happy to help me, this made me pretty happy.
So I replied, basically saying I am not too far in the assignment yet so I don't have an awful lot of questions but asked if he could tell me a bit about the instrumentation.
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| Quote: | Hey Todd,
Off the top of my head the instrumentation looks like this:
acoustic:
female soprano choir
female alto choir
male bass choir
flute
horn
trumpet
trombone
bass trombone
tuba
piano
harp
timpani
snare
taiko
misc percussion
cymbals
violin
viola
cello
contra bass
electric bass
synths:
native instruments absynth
native instruments reactor (steam pipe)
native instruments fm8
logic sculpture
I'll think about it some more, I might have left something out but that's the general collection of instruments.
The "ambient" pieces were done entirely with acoustic instruments utilizing extended techniques. Some of which were:
choir
bowed cymbals
brass
strings
piano
flute
Each "campaign" has it's own opening piece, which are all variations on a single theme. The first 8 bars are totally unique to each campaign. The ambient music for that campaign is a collection of pieces that reflect (instrumentally) the opening 8 bars of the title piece. For example: Death Toll opens with some scary brass, most of the ambient pieces used in Death Toll are created using extended techniques on brass instruments.
There's tons of conceptual theory and motifs that went into L4D, I'd be happy to share them with you a bit at a time. |
I was amazed at how long the reply was, I replied thanking him and telling him I would be happy to learn more about the conceptual theory and motifs. This assignment is going to pwn , and my teacher won't believe this, he was amazed enough as it was the other day when I handed in my draft "wow, you did some work for once."
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upgraded from 12 gbs to 25gbs ( telstra ) what more can i say
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| Puddingfork wrote: | | I was amazed at how long the reply was, I replied thanking him and telling him I would be happy to learn more about the conceptual theory and motifs. This assignment is going to pwn , and my teacher won't believe this, he was amazed enough as it was the other day when I handed in my draft "wow, you did some work for once." |
Further proof that nobody does customer service and public relations like Valve do, Platinum Games being the rapidly growing exception.
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I completely agree, no idea how they have the time to actually reply to people like me, let alone with good lengthy responses. Maybe this is why they take so long to make games haha
also I forgot to mention in my last post, I found the information he gave me quite interesting.
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| mikezilla2 wrote: | | upgraded from 12 gbs to 25gbs ( telstra ) what more can i say |
I upgraded last night and I've been going download crazy today!
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congrata msatye
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Finding out that I am the 12th best Search and Retrieve player in Killzone 2 for the day, worldwide.
This is out of 144,000 approx people for Search and Retrieve.
Man did that make me smile!
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well done on achieving that
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| Cerebral wrote: | As of today, being in a relationship again.  |
I hope you know sheep don't count.
Congrats.
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| Qbert wrote: | | mikezilla2 wrote: | | upgraded from 12 gbs to 25gbs ( telstra ) what more can i say |
I upgraded last night and I've been going download crazy today! |
same amount ?
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^Yep, was on 12 now on 25...only $10 more, definatly worth it.
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Being called by the boss to congratulate me on my sales figures and profit margins so far
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| Denny wrote: | Finding out that I am the 12th best Search and Retrieve player in Killzone 2 for the day, worldwide.
This is out of 144,000 approx people for Search and Retrieve.
Man did that make me smile! |
I bet that called for the fapping of your life.
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^
That? Really?
The temporary locking of a internet forum thread made your day?
Wow. Must be a slow day.
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Speaking of; I thought it was a 24 hour 'cool down' period? Come on, open it back up! I've gots complaining to do!
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this made me smile. a conversation with one of those robots "smarterchild" on msn.
Mark says:
how are you
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
I'm doing well. How about you, Mark?
Mark says:
good man
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
OK, good.
>>> Lose 15lbs in 3 Weeks: Free Trial! - Oprah "Loves It" and its 100% more effective than Acai. Free Trial! --> http://web.smarterchild.com/ct?1eFAK/1 (sponsorship)
Mark says:
no ads
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
Sure, here you go:
How I Lost 43 Pounds in 12 Weeks! - Find out how to lose that fat belly in no time with this Crazy Diet! --> http://web.smarterchild.com/ct?1eFAK/2 (sponsorship)
Mark says:
no adds!!!
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
Come again?
Mark says:
no more ads
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
Sure, here you go:
Globe Life Insurance - $1 Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. No Medical Exam, No Waiting Period --> http://web.smarterchild.com/ct?1eFAK/3 (sponsorship)
Mark says:
um wtf, i said no ads
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
Humans, humans, humans. Always with the language.
Mark says:
i said wtf, if i was to pay you out id call you a TOOL
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
Humans use such interesting language sometimes.
Mark says:
and what are you, some lame robot pedophile?
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
I certainly don't want to cause anyone any harm.
Mark says:
wait, so you WANT to fight me?
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
That's interesting that you should say that, but I don't think I can answer.
Mark says:
your messed up mate
- SmarterChild - contributing to charity says:
Sure, here you go:
The VIERA from Panasonic - Enter a New Visual Era w/ Panasonic VIERA HDTVs-An Enhanced Experience --> http://web.smarterchild.com/ct?1eFAK/4 (sponsorship)
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| Qbert wrote: | | ^Yep, was on 12 now on 25...only $10 more, definatly worth it. |
why is it ownly $10 more ? cable right ? im with cable and the home phone is bundeled with the net and foxtel i heard about a few only paying $10 extra but im paying $20 extra ........ 
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You know, if you really hate it, you can always piss off.
Bye.
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It had nothing to do with your own ideas.
We were simply discussing the population of our feline friends. It was closed because no one made a reference to female genitals. Thus making the topic pointless.
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