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CMpunked

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

Ah here, why all the Gavin hate. Always makes me laugh, usually because he has a great ability to set up jokes from others. He tends to make the Minecraft LPs for me.

"Hey Gavin, how big of a drop is th....OH GOD!"

Cos i'm a michael lover.

GTR63

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

I'll recommend this again; GET THE WALKING DEAD GAME! Last part came out this morning, and from a story point of view, it's easily my game of the year right now....

Man I must get that game when its out. From a storyline pov ACIII is about as emotionally impactful as a dog licking itself. Picked up Hitman Absolution yesterday and won't have the time to play it until Friday. Anybody here being playing it?

jaykhunter

I finished WD : Ep 5 today as well. Really emotional stuff. Definitely required gaming!!

gnfnrhead

I hate American TV schedules. So much on during the Winter that I always end up falling behind but so little on during the Summer that I do be bored with nothing to watch. They should change it to suit me :pac:

Lord TSC

Telly Monster wrote: »

Cos i'm a michael lover.

One can be a Rage Quit guy AND a Slow Mo guy :P
I do adore the podcasts with Gav, Burnie and Michael though.

And so you know, I'm really hoping at least one person decides to check out their stuff as a result of our public convo and fall in love with them like I have :P

DEFTLEFTHAND

GTR63 wrote: »

Man I must get that game when its out. From a storyline pov ACIII is about as emotionally impactful as a dog licking itself. Picked up Hitman Absolution yesterday and won't have the time to play it until Friday. Anybody here being playing it?

Yeah I got it yesterday. To be honest I'm not really enjoying it so far, it's visually spectacular but the gameplay seems a bit foreign to the series. I suppose with a six year gap between releases and a different console there was always going to be change.

GTR63

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yeah I got it yesterday. To be honest I'm not really enjoying it so far, it's visually spectacular but the gameplay seems a bit foreign to the series. I suppose with a six year gap between releases and a different console there was always going to be change.

Been playing it for two hours earlier. I uh enjoyed the tutorial but the next few were a bit What do I do here? for me. The Chinatown level I just shot the King cause it felt easier to do so after following him for 10 minutes. Just stopped playing the level where you evade the cops but I ended up in a shootout just like when I had to get to the hotel room.....

DEFTLEFTHAND

GTR63 wrote: »

Been playing it for two hours earlier. I uh enjoyed the tutorial but the next few were a bit What do I do here? for me. The Chinatown level I just shot the King cause it felt easier to do so after following him for 10 minutes. Just stopped playing the level where you evade the cops but I ended up in a shootout just like when I had to get to the hotel room.....

I'm only that far as well, I

've got through the library after a shootout with cops and I'm now on the rooftops trying to evade a helicopter that's firing on me. It's actually quite difficult I gave up with frustration last night.

The whole silent assassin thing seems to be thrown out the window, the game actively encourages you to get into shootouts which I'm not happy about at all.

Stereomaniac

If anyone is stuck for something to do in Waterford tomorrow night, Jasper Rua is playing in Sal's and it's free. Should be a pretty good show. Met the guy about a month ago and have arranged for him to open for one of my own shows next year. Worth a listen.

Hashtag_HEEL

When is it acceptable to put up the Christmas decorations? I usually hold out until my birthday, which is 17 days before X-mas.

Lord TSC

We do ours on the Monday closest to the 7th December.

Angron

We usually do it one of the days near-ish my birthday, the 6th.

GTR63

Hashtag_HEEL wrote: »

When is it acceptable to put up the Christmas decorations? I usually hold out until my birthday, which is 17 days before X-mas.

Always Dec 8th in my house, wonder how many times my dog will knock the tree. We have an artificial and she always tries to pull off the decorations like some kinda fat magpie.

Diabhal Beag

Haha when I was living at home it was around the week before Christmas Day. In my place now we already have the tree up. I don't mind either if I'm honest.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Advent begins on the 8th, that's when I officially acknowledge Christmas.

Hashtag_HEEL

GTR63 wrote: »

Always Dec 8th in my house, wonder how many times my dog will knock the tree. We have an artificial and she always tries to pull off the decorations like some kinda fat magpie.

My dog tends to be very nice around the tree until it comes down. He tries to steal whatever ornaments he can on the 7TH of January! The only time he's really P###ed me off at Christmas was when he broke a very large musical snowglobe, because I wasn't paying attention to him at the time!

kksaints

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Advent begins on the 8th, that's when I officially acknowledge Christmas.

Advent actually begins on the 4th Sunday before Christmas.

DEFTLEFTHAND

kksaints wrote: »

Advent actually begins on the 4th Sunday before Christmas.

You're right actually I was mistaken, the 8th is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. I always associate this with the beginning of Christmas for some reason.

GTR63

Just been testing out the christmas tree lights there. They are quite dull in comparison to two years ago. Also watching Casino Royale. Hitting a man in the balls with the knot of a rope, at the risk of sounding like a cinema-goer prickishly narrating a movie but that HAS to hurt.

Penn

GTR63 wrote: »

Just been testing out the christmas tree lights there. They are quite dull in comparison to two years ago. Also watching Casino Royale. Hitting a man in the balls with the knot of a rope, at the risk of sounding like a cinema-goer prickishly narrating a movie but that HAS to hurt.

I don't think that's a knot of a rope, I always thought it was a steel weight on the end of the rope, which would definitely be worse

deisedude

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

You're right actually I was mistaken, the 8th is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. I always associate this with the beginning of Christmas for some reason.

Its also culchie shopping day where we all invade the big shmoke for a few hours for the Christmas shopping before going back home to milk the cows and have our tae!

CMpunked

deisedude wrote: »

Its also culchie shopping day where we all invade the big shmoke for a few hours for the Christmas shopping before going back home to milk the cows and have our tae!

And eat our onion and cucumber sandwiches!

Diabhal Beag

Telly Monster wrote: »

And ayte our onion and cucumber sangwidges!

FYP on behalf of all true boggers.

CMpunked

Had a long week this week so going to pick up 800 ms points and spend a few hours on the walking dead game ep 3 and 4 later.

Cherry_Cola

Telly Monster wrote: »

Had a long week this week so going to pick up 800 ms points and spend a few hours on the walking dead game ep 3 and 4 later.

Those are points well spent. I'm going to start ep 5 today, looking forward to it.

Picked up RE6 on Amazon for £15 too.

GTR63

Telly Monster wrote: »

And eat our hang and chayze sangwidges and drinking cold tea from an old bottle of TK lemonade making ang,ang,ang noises while eating.

Just me no?

gnfnrhead

Speaking of MS points, I hope Sony do something similar for the PS4. Trophies are worthless when you could be getting points that can be used for DLC instead.

gnfnrhead

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Speaking of MS points, I hope Sony do something similar for the PS4. Trophies are worthless when you could be getting points that can be used for DLC instead.

Are you sure you're not getting Microsoft points and Gamer points mixed up on Xbox?

You have to pay for MS points to buy DLC and when you complete achievements in games you get gamer points but these cant be used to buy DLC.

Penn

cactus mac88 wrote: »

Are you sure you're not getting Microsoft points and Gamer points mixed up on Xbox?

You have to pay for MS points to buy DLC and when you complete achievements in games you get gamer points but these cant be used to buy DLC.

Exactly. If anything, I'd prefer Microsoft to actually use monetary terms rather than MS Points because I can never think of how much something costs when I see it in MS points.

Though adding money to your account based on trophies or achievements would be brilliant though. Even just if it only gave you a discount or something

CMpunked

Penn wrote: »

Exactly. If anything, I'd prefer Microsoft to actually use monetary terms rather than MS Points because I can never think of how much something costs when I see it in MS points.

Though adding money to your account based on trophies or achievements would be brilliant though. Even just if it only gave you a discount or something

They have. Its 1% if your gs is above 15,000 and 2% if its above 25,000.
Not earth shattering by any accounts.

JP Liz V1

Just seen The Miz in an ad for Smyths toystore and my nephew just asked me to tell his parents he dont want him for Christmas

GTR63

Ah reminds me of my younger days. Now remember No Drozes, Dude Loves, Goldusts or D-Lo Browns but it's ok to get me Gangrel, Kurrgan, Bossman and Marc Mero if your stuck.

Tinie

gwan hitman!

Penn

Telly Monster wrote: »

They have. Its 1% if your gs is above 15,000 and 2% if its above 25,000.
Not earth shattering by any accounts.

Oh really? Never knew that. Yeah, not a huge discount.

CMpunked

Penn wrote: »

Oh really? Never knew that. Yeah, not a huge discount.

With the rewards points system (rewards.xbox.com) its not bad, you get a nice surprise after a few months when you get free points.



I traded in wwe 13 for the new family guy game. I needed something fun after my unbridled annoyance at the online mode.
Not a bad game so far, got great fg humor unlike the other game they brought out a few years ago.

jaykhunter

a faulty plug blew the fuse in a multi-plug adapter - it killed all the HDMI ports on my TV which means I have to connect the PS3/360 via component and my PC via VGA. Bought a long VGA cable and component hub and both have problems - the component hub shows interference, and the VGA cable makes my computer get really loud! I think some of the outputs on my graphics card are f**ked It's all a f**kin' bust! Needed to vent.

D2D

jaykhunter wrote: »

a faulty plug blew the fuse in a multi-plug adapter - it killed all the HDMI ports on my TV which means I have to connect the PS3/360 via component and my PC via VGA. Bought a long VGA cable and component hub and both have problems - the component hub shows interference, and the VGA cable makes my computer get really loud! I think some of the outputs on my graphics card are f**ked It's all a f**kin' bust! Needed to vent.

Ouch :(

Anyways, your Straight Edge Saviour has returned to the forums!!!:cool::pac:

jaykhunter

Hey D2D where you been?

The VGA cable works - tried it out on the monitor - but the HDMI makes my computer get really loud - so hopefully it's the €10 HDMI cable that's the problem and not my €200 graphics card!

D2D

jaykhunter wrote: »

Hey D2D where you been?

The VGA cable works - tried it out on the monitor - but the HDMI makes my computer get really loud - so hopefully it's the €10 HDMI cable that's the problem and not my €200 graphics card!

Hey JayK I had a bit of a sabbatical from wrestling on the whole for a while...... No watching shows/PPV's etc.... Only caught up on Survivor Series recently enough and decided to make a return! I'm not gonna be like Y2J and disappear after 8 months :pac:

I'd probably go with the HDMI cable as well with that. Can't see that there'd be a problem with a €200 graphic's card to cause that

gnfnrhead

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you sure you're not getting Microsoft points and Gamer points mixed up on Xbox?

You have to pay for MS points to buy DLC and when you complete achievements in games you get gamer points but these cant be used to buy DLC.

I thought they were the same thing

Have 1 point = 1 cent so they arent just giving stuff away, even 0.5 cent if they want to ensure you have to play a lot to get anything. Anything would be better than what they have now. Just got my 100% trophy in LA Noire and it means nothing. Even if it only got me a few cent, it would still be actually worth doing. Most of my games have the trophy count under 20% because they arent worth anything. If I got something in return, I'd be much more likely to try and get them.

jaykhunter

Cool bananas. It's pretty much the same as you left it!

kksaints

What a race in the formula 1 today! Delighted that Vettel won the championship.

Stereomaniac

Is anyone on here from Carlow? I'm playing a little studio gig on Wednesday if any are interested.

Tinie

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Is anyone on here from Carlow? I'm playing a little studio gig on Wednesday if any are interested.

nah but I know a few mates in CIT and do be up there the odd time. What type of stuff do you play?

gnfnrhead

Set up an email alert on a job site for England a few months ago. Get an email once a week giving me a run down of the newly added jobs within the peramiters i set out. Right now, I just ignore it because I'm not looking to go anywhere until the summer. Got this weeks email today. 196 new jobs!!!!! :eek: That's filtered down so I can only imagine what it would be like if I didn't put any filters on. Hopefully there are still that many during the summer!

DM_7

Dare_2_defy wrote: »

Hey JayK I had a bit of a sabbatical from wrestling on the whole for a while...... No watching shows/PPV's etc.... Only caught up on Survivor Series recently enough and decided to make a return! I'm not gonna be like Y2J and disappear after 8 months :pac:

Does that mean you missed Punk going heel by 'punking' out the Rock?

What do you think of Liverpool at the moment, seeing progess or making you pull your hair out?

hang on this isn't the in the spotlight thread. Nevermind the above.

Welcome back.

CMpunked

Called my car insurer this morning to change my address and he reminded me that my policy was up next month.
He told me that my renewal quote was down 500 quid from last year!
Then came the kicker when because i was changing address they would have to re-evaluate the cost and he'd put me on hold.
As I'm moving from the country to the town i assumed it'd be more than what it was but he told me it would be another 50ish off!

Happy days!


Hey D2D! Our wholesome savior makes his illustrious return to redeem the rest of you poison ridden scum.

(I love you, really. )

D2D

DM-ICE wrote: »

Does that mean you missed Punk going heel by 'punking' out the Rock?

Yep, pretty much had a fall off the wagon after Raw1000 and haven't really caught up on it fully

DM-ICE wrote: »

What do you think of Liverpool at the moment, seeing progess or making you pull your hair out?

8 unbeaten means there's progress being made but the January transfer window will tell a lot

DM-ICE wrote: »

hang on this isn't the in the spotlight thread. Nevermind the above.

Awww, I thought I was popular :(

DM-ICE wrote: »

Welcome back.

Feels good to be home again

Lord TSC

Telly Monster wrote: »

Called my car insurer this morning to change my address and he reminded me that my policy was up next month.
He told me that my renewal quote was down 500 quid from last year!
Then came the kicker when because i was changing address they would have to re-evaluate the cost and he'd put me on hold.
As I'm moving from the country to the town i assumed it'd be more than what it was but he told me it would be another 50ish off!

Happy days!
[/RIGHT]

Ha, awesome. Love when you expect a bill to be something and it works out far less. The exact same thing happened me last month. Thought the insurance would be 500€ more than it turned out to be. Well happy. Everyone is getting nicer presents this year for Xmas than they were prior to learning that

DM_7

Dare_2_defy wrote: »

Awww, I thought I was popular :(

You thought right.

still in college? At one point I thought you might have gone abroad when you were not posting much.