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Posted: 24th Feb 2017 06:50 Edited at: 24th Feb 2017 11:19
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Edit: PAGE!
EDIT 2: Made a new trailer

Whipped together a trailer for Na4

Old Trailer: http://youtu.be/oZV72a_okeA
New Trailer: http://youtu.be/oGd-FTcSOTc



Changes I'm definitely going to make:
Rerecord game footage without the mouse in it
Make the game the same size as the screen (not really sure how it ended up the way it is lol)
Add some text overlays (mentioning various features)

Things I'm not too sure about (feedback would be nice)
Is the intro text too long? I was going to try making it shorter, but it's synced to the music so I decided to leave it.
Have I overdone the glitch effect? Maybe I should use text screens to cut between scenes instead of crazy glitching
Should I include a full level from start to finish? I'm thinking the hexagonal level @0:18 would be a good level to use if I do that
Anything else?

Recording the footage for this was actually pretty difficult. I only have a rather slow laptop so Bandicam/OBS/Fraps etc all have a lot of lag recording on my laptop. I eventually used xbox game dvr (didn't realise it recorded the mouse on me until after I'd done all the recording I wanted too). DVR was still pretty laggy but I worked around that by setting the sync time in my game to half a frame (meaning the entire physics sim runs at half speed while maintaining 60 FPS). Game DVR would record this at a lower framerate, but I could just import it into AE and double the framerate and it would run smoothly and at the right speed

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One for the metalheads, I just chuckled. I was doing a raid on FFXIV and a guy called Zakk Wylde got me killed and then I was raised from the dead by Opeth (or a guy who called themselves Opeth), a death metal band.

Also, said fight might appeal to Dragon Ball Z fans, as Diabolos does a thing before his final form: https://youtu.be/_-E6SyHq-yo?t=3m2s
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Alrighty I got a question for all you people with experience at that thing they call "real life".
How do you make friends? legitimate question am I meant to just randomly sit next to people in lectures and strike up a conversation or something? It seems like every body either sits with their friends or sits alone. Should I just take the initiative and sit next to some stranger who's sitting alone? I genuinely need help here

Disclaimer: I don't actually know how close uni life is to real life

Edit: Seems like the library might be an alright place. Otherwise clubs and workshops/labs? I haven't done any workshops/labs yet. Otherwise I can always work at my Dota 2 MMR

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Posted: 1st Mar 2017 18:38 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2017 00:37
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The way I made friends at University was going out and drinking with flatmates first, socialising on a night out. Though I don't know what the legal drinking age is in Australia, or the night life of Australians, given the UK is a binge drinking culture, going out clubbing is one of the done things.

That was only one way. I used to also talk to people in my classes/lectures, you would initially be talking about work related things and then end up slipping other information about yourself (or themselves) and you start getting to know each other.

But the big one for me was clubs & societies, pick something you like and enjoy and you'll find people who are more like-minded. When I went to the "Freshers Fair" at our university, looking at the different clubs and societies, I think I picked a few that sounded interesting and ended up going to their meets. One of them being the radio society, I walked in and knew absolutely nobody and so many people knew each other, it was daunting at first, because I didn't think I'd make friends with these people. Then I ended up getting quite heavily involved with doing the radio society and dragging friends I knew from lectures into it and I ended up making lots of new friends with it. As well as other societies I joined. It was great fun and had lots of interesting personalities. I met one of my best through uni and they were a part of the radio society and were doing the same course as me, but the year above.

I was the shy/reserved type at first, so you can be in your shell a bit, but I decided I would take the opportunity to enjoy myself and get involved and that's how I ended up making friends there and taking over the world. Being on of the socially awkward types, I know it can be a pain in the butt. For some, the university experience becomes about finding yourself and understanding yourself because it coincides with your trip into adulthood and maturity. Although I've not really matured, I can just fake it well enough.


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Damn the crazy Finnish and their throwing out so many talented metal singers (I'll forgive them for HIM and The Rasmus ). I love Northern Kings, a Finnish Symphonic/Power metal band that covers popular songs to make them...epic, made up of big Finnish metal bands, but there was one singer in there that I did not previously check out (obviously knew of Marco Hietala from Nightwish/Tarot and Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica, who're both very talented) but I decided to check out Jarkko Ahola.

Here he is in Northern Kings, covering Lionel Richie's Hello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGn9RGx66uI
His own band (warning: partial nudity and Finnish language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thcVdvDl3GI
Okay, he did some Ronnie James Dio, kinda cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxC8tADZek8
His Nirvana ain't so bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw7UotHXFBY
Oh, he covered Adagio... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEf1b1Em2cA
And why not throw in some Nessun Dorma? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxVNOOi-ejs
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2017 17:44
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Quote: "One for the metalheads, I just chuckled. I was doing a raid on FFXIV and a guy called Zakk Wylde got me killed and then I was raised from the dead by Opeth (or a guy who called themselves Opeth), a death metal band. "

Hahahahhaaa, that's cool! Horns up! \m/

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I agree with what seppuku said. I have never been too into parties but joining clubs and societies is a great way to meet new people. Find a society that you find interesting and go to some of their "events". Like seppuku said, it's daunting being in a place where you know nobody and everyone seems to know everyone else but try to look past that and talk to some people. The nice thing about societies is that everyone there is probably interested in the same things.

Also, the feeling that everyone seems to know each other is probably not true either. A friend of mine told me about an event he went to where he saw a group of people who looked like they all knew each other. A while later he started talking to one of them and she said she also knew nobody there and had only been there for 10 minutes. Unless you talk to someone who looks super bussy, they will probably just be happy to talk to someone about something interesting
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Java's DataInputStream and DataOutputStream not supporting little-endian seems silly.
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Randomness I clicked on play on Doorbell. What the...

Quote: "Though I don't know what the legal drinking age is in Australia, or the night life of Australians, given the UK is a binge drinking culture, going out clubbing is one of the done things."


Legal age is 18, though from what I've seen most people that are going to drink at 18 are already drinking well before that, and simply use their 18th as an excuse to get totally hammered. As someone who sees no appeal in getting drunk it sounds rather dumb.

@EasterBunny: That trailer is cool, although not at all what I expected after that intro haha. I feel like you could add some particles when you launch and hit things to make it all a lot more interesting/less static. Otherwise it looks pretty cool.

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Posted: 5th Mar 2017 16:56 Edited at: 5th Mar 2017 16:58
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Quote: "Legal age is 18, though from what I've seen most people that are going to drink at 18 are already drinking well before that, and simply use their 18th as an excuse to get totally hammered. As someone who sees no appeal in getting drunk it sounds rather dumb.
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My argument is generally not to over do it. But as somebody who enjoys drinking, I can see the fun of getting drunk, I even do some of my online gaming drunk, which can be amusing, particularly those who join me on our Teamspeak and also get drunk. Playing FFXIV, we have a tradition of doing 24 man raids, filling the important roles, like healers or tanks and doing them drunk. We've yet to be the cause of fatality and in a couple of cases, carried the group. I recall one such raid, where I was completely on my game healing, dodging like a boss with excellent co-ordination. Then went to bed afterwards and could not even walk to my bed, instead it was falling around the room, with very little motor skills until I hit the bed. I didn't expect my sober games skills to carry through when drunk. But we avoid stuff like ARK, because bad decisions in ARK can give terrible results "I made a Giga enrage in our base and now everything is dead and destroy and can't get any of it back"

But my parents when letting us grow up didn't take the "no drinking approach", but a "have some, but not too much". It's why I've never even vomitted after getting extremely drunk or got myself in a state, even when I go the full mile, I know my limits. I don't even get hangovers, but I am blessed in that sense, instead I wake up really earlier, find I am completely on top of my game and then crash in the afternoon. But there is something also great when watching Rammstein live whilst very drunk with your own mother and being a nuisance to your own sister. The clubbing thing, I only did university and not too frequently, but as there were metal venues in our city, I found my places to go. It can also be nice if you're somebody with social anxiety issues, because it also helps let you get your hair down a bit and make a fool of yourself without caring, that is quite liberating That can also depend on the type of drunk you are.

But it's not for everybody, as people have different notions of what's enjoyable.
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More points for me. Oh...and who saw the new Deadpool trailer? I think it's soo hilarious, lol!
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I did, I got a giggle out of it and I enjoyed the first movie. Interesting I watched for the first time not long after George Michael died. Appropriate that I had Careless Whisper in my head for a few days because of the movie.

Also, anybody else annoyed that so many good games came out at once within a space of a few months? I need my money for other things...but so many games I want to buy, after so long of being very indifferent on new released. I still need to finish World of Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XV (nearly at the end, just wanna do more open world stuff before I finish it), Tales of Berseria and Last Guardian whilst I am on an ARK hike. I still need to get Kingdom Hearts 2.8, Resident Evil 7, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Torment and probably some others I cannot think of at the moment. Then we have Nier: Automata out this month and Prey and Rainbow Six Wildlands coming up too. Fortunately For Honour doesn't catch my attention.
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I'm not really the partying/drinking type, but I'll see about joining some clubs. They have a fencing one on Wednesdays which looks pretty interesting.

Quote: "Legal age is 18, though from what I've seen most people that are going to drink at 18 are already drinking well before that, and simply use their 18th as an excuse to get totally hammered. As someone who sees no appeal in getting drunk it sounds rather dumb."

This.
I mean I understand why people enjoy it, but yeah just aint something I'm interested in lol.

So yeah interesting thing, my Maths, Software Engineering and Computing courses are literally 95% male. Probably about 200 students in each and maybe 10 of those are girls. So after being at those lectures all week, on Friday I walk into my first Criminology lecture and there's like 70% girls so I literally thought I was in the wrong room at first lol. I was wondering where they were all hiding though
Whaddyallthink? Should there really be a 19:1 male-female ratio in STEM subjects? Any reasoning about why this might be?

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Quote: "But my parents when letting us grow up didn't take the "no drinking approach", but a "have some, but not too much"."


That's definitely the way to do it. I have nothing against drinking alcohol, I only disagree with getting very drunk. My parents also drink wine or beer over tea (as in dinner) sometimes, but never very much. They'd be totally fine with me joining in if I wanted, as long as I was careful to limit how much I drank. However I don't feel the need to seriously try alcohol just yet and I'm fine with going against the social norm and just not drinking at all.

Quote: "But we avoid stuff like ARK, because bad decisions in ARK can give terrible results "I made a Giga enrage in our base and now everything is dead and destroy and can't get any of it back""


Hahaha I can totally understand that!

Quote: "They have a fencing one on Wednesdays which looks pretty interesting."


I've always wanted to try fencing. Unfortunately the nearest place that does fencing is ~2hrs away. I could go after work and then it would only be 1hr away but it'd make it a long night :/

Quote: "Should there really be a 19:1 male-female ratio in STEM subjects? Any reasoning about why this might be?"


Interesting question. It could be purely cultural but it also could be a genetic thing that makes males more attracted to more technical/cold subjects. I wonder if females tend to be more attracted to subjects involving people/humans. I'd really love to know just how differently males' and females' minds work and how much of it is cultural.

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Yes, because, Apple was very concerned about iPhone charger sales in 2005... 2 years before the original iPhone was launched...
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lol I love that image but had never considered the date

EDIT: Anyone else utterly detest the new Chrome image viewer? Like if you go Open Image In New Tab? The one that centres the image on a black background? The one that is awful and horrible and should leave Earth forever? The solution is nigh! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-image-uncenterer/olobjnglnkpmiljkdlghinhnjcdoeicl

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Ah, wow, I didn't notice it was doing that. Just like Firefox it is, Firefox does that. I guess I don't mind personally. After all, to be fair, having the image centered and on a dark background is a more everyday-user-centric way of presenting the image... But yeah, I do prefer the old look if I had a choice.
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Quote: "Anyone else utterly detest the new Chrome image viewer? "

wut?
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Quote: "wut?"


What's wut?

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It means 'what', or rather...it sounds like what, at least that's what I think.
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Quote: "It means 'what', or rather...it sounds like what, at least that's what I think."
No no, you see, 'wut' stands for "why u turbulent", sort of shorthand for "Why u so turbulent, bro?". I guess he thinks your opinion about Chrome's new image viewer is too turbulent.
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Exactly this.

On an unrelated note, got the latest Kreator and Overkill albums. Both are great.
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They're all right, but I think one of them was just too much, kinda went a bit Overkill with it.*



*I've not actually listened to them, but worth the bad pun. Though I did get some random Savatage on the way to work this morning, as Spotify's started playing recommendations without asking me if it can.


I am actually excited for Ayreon's new album. I dig concept albums and I like prog. But I thought the track they've released was kinda fun.



I've also been on a Bathory trip again. I'll also being seeing Emperor again this year...and Mayhem, that one will be interesting, I've yet to see Mayhem.

Although I never got to see Bathory before Quorthorn died, but I got to see Emperor play Bathory, which is the next best thing I guess. Particularly as this is one of my favourite tracks.

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I know. I meant why did he say that.

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Quote: "Spotify's started playing recommendations without asking me if it can."

Spotify should not need to ask about playing savatage.

Quote: "I am actually excited for Ayreon's new album. I dig concept albums and I like prog. But I thought the track they've released was kinda fun."

I didn't know they (read: he) was releasing a new one. I still haven't got the live album, but was wanting to.

Quote: "but I got to see Emperor play Bathory, which is the next best thing I guess"

Seeing emperor at all is excellent.

Quote: " I know. I meant why did he say that."

Because I'm not sure what image viewer you are talking about.
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But I said...

Quote: "Like if you go Open Image In New Tab?"

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Pretty sure I'm gonna fail maths this semester lol.
Can anybody explain this to me?
I had this question for my online pre-test: Evaluate Log3(1/3)
As far as I can figure out, the answer is 1/9 right? Because 3^1/9=1/3. But the answer according to Google is actually -1. Now both those answers (1/9 and -1) seem to be correct and I don't get why. I entered 1/9 and it marked me as wrong. I can see now why 3^-1 is correct (since it's the same as 1/3^1), but I don't see why 1/9 is incorrect... Also I don't understand why there appear to be two answers

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Whoa guys... Turn down that turbulence!

WUT

On an unrelated note: Budokaiman, I simply can't figure out what you are like. Not in a bad way, of course. But most people here on the forums, I have a pretty good idea what type of person they are like. In no specific way, really, just in general. But for you, my brain comes to a halt. Like a book sliding across a desk, but when static friction takes over and kinetic friction ceases to exist. Actually pretty similar to Randomness 128, you two are very similar in forum demeanor.
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Sorry if that sounded annoyed, I was doing a confused voice in my head

Quote: "On an unrelated note: Budokaiman, I simply can't figure out what you are like."


"Nice guy" is the description that comes to mind for me.

Quote: "Because 3^1/9=1/3."


I never learned logarithms and have zero knowledge of what they are or do, however are you sure the above equation is correct? Maybe you're assuming that's right and it's throwing off the rest of your calculations... because 3^(1/9) is not the same as (3^1)/9.

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Quote: "I never learned logarithms and have zero knowledge of what they are or do, however are you sure the above equation is correct? Maybe you're assuming that's right and it's throwing off the rest of your calculations... because 3^(1/9) is not the same as (3^1)/9."

Welpppppppppppp [href=http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3^(1%2F9)&foo=bar] 3^(1/9) [/href] that explains a lot lol. Stupid mistake by me. I was never a fan of the order of operations (it makes far more sense to my programmer mind to place whatever you want to calculate first in brackets). I never ever rely on the order of operations in my code, so I guess it just isn't something I really think about hence my rookie mistake above lol.

Quote: "On an unrelated note: Budokaiman, I simply can't figure out what you are like. Not in a bad way, of course. But most people here on the forums, I have a pretty good idea what type of person they are like"


Ooh! Do me!!! What am I like??

Edit: I cant get this link to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3^(1%2F9)&foo=bar working... I'm using the text 3^(1/9). Maybe a forum bug? Cause the link to youtube is working fine. I think the forum might not be able to parse the ^ or ( or % properly

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Ahah! Well you seem to be a pretty dandy person. Probably very nice and generally friendly, maybe even funny! Hmm... But come to think of it you might be on the harder to figure out list as well. For a long time I thought you were a female, but your recent comments about the male to female ratios at your college threw me the other way. Me not sure!

I have always been surprised how many people here have been the type to enjoy all of that metal type of music. I never have myself, I generally prefer softer rock music (Christian rock, to be exact; yeah I'm one of those guys). Perhaps something about programming attracts that kind of mindset?

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Lol, I was just kidding too. No worries man!
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I've probably listened to metal since I was about...9? My brother brought home a Metallica album and a Marilyn Manson one, which eventually would lead me onto the path. Before that, I inherited my dad's music, which was mostly rock and blues. Oh and...the odd bit of pop music, because I was a kid.

But you being the Christian Rock guy, I figure I should admit to this fact, the first album I ever bought was a Creed album and I still own the first 3 Creed albums. Now when you consider the sort of person I am (generally Satan himself, given the Black Metal I posted above), it sometimes surprises.

Here, have some Creed.




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I am pretty certain that Easter Bunny is. But I have been wrong before.
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Hey guys...Im looking to create a website. I need advice on website builders you guys have had experience with. I know about wix but am not liking there plans.

Im looking to spend around $10-$15 a month. Shoot me all the advice you can please.
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Quote: "For a long time I thought you were a female, but your recent comments about the male to female ratios at your college threw me the other way"

Quote: "I am pretty certain that Easter Bunny is. But I have been wrong before"

Assuming my gender in 2017, *shakes head sadly* Don't you know people can be whatever they want these days? You're infringing on my rights y'know

Quote: "I have always been surprised how many people here have been the type to enjoy all of that metal type of music. I never have myself, I generally prefer softer rock music (Christian rock, to be exact; yeah I'm one of those guys). Perhaps something about programming attracts that kind of mindset"

Well I like love music like Hidden Citizens

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Reminds me of the joke:
Salesperson: Are you paying by cash or card?
Customer: Did you just assume my tender?


Quote: "Well I like love music like Hidden Citizens"


That's a pretty good version of the song. I know another epic version.




Quote: "Hey guys...Im looking to create a website. I need advice on website builders you guys have had experience with. I know about wix but am not liking there plans.

Im looking to spend around $10-$15 a month. Shoot me all the advice you can please"


It depends on how technical you want to get. You could find a Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal host, which is another option. They're pretty straightforward and flexible CMS's. But if you're looking for something with a Web Builder. Wix is a good one as you say. I believe Heart Internet has one, but I don't know what it's like, however the plans are reasonable. With the added advantage of, if you wanted a CMS like Joomla or Wordpress, you can set that up too and say if you were wanting to go further and develop your own site in PHP, ASP.NET or something else, they offer options there too. I also didn't mind their customer service, I found them helpful at least. I used them to set up an ASP.NET site, hence I recall seeing a Web Builder there. That said, just logging into my Heart Account, it looks like they have a new web builder (called Site Designer) has a special plan for it (£5.99 or £9.99) so I cannot load it up and see what it's like to give an opinion on it. But you do get Serif Web Plus for free (or at least I did).

But this is the pricing available:

https://www.heartinternet.uk/web-hosting/all-features
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Quote: "But I said..."

And you think I read past the first few words. Seriously though, I read the whole line and somehow missed that one sentence.

Quote: "On an unrelated note: Budokaiman, I simply can't figure out what you are like. Not in a bad way, of course. But most people here on the forums, I have a pretty good idea what type of person they are like. In no specific way, really, just in general. But for you, my brain comes to a halt. Like a book sliding across a desk, but when static friction takes over and kinetic friction ceases to exist."

My master plan is working.

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Petra?
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Mod Edit:

Edited to due the following:

Due to continuous problems the following subjects are also banned from discussion on all of our forums:
3.7 Debate about religious belief or any tangent of religion
3.8 Debate about any form of pro or anti government sentiments, irrespective of which government
3.9 Debate about any form of creationist / evolutionary theories
3.10 Debate about abortion


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imagine going to a wedding and farting on the corpse lol - Seditious, 2016
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Again ben?? Don't you remember that time we got the PC locked from talking about that sort of thing

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So I just realised, I have probably spent more time on my life writing code than I have writing English
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Hmm...
imagine going to a wedding and farting on the corpse lol - Seditious, 2016
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Disclaimer: I dont actually know what you posted before the mod edit

I'm not really sure how to interpret "hmm" either

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Just his usual type of bait
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I will hereby also post something, so I just did...I posted 'something', again. Let me do it again: something.
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Nah guys, see, that was Benjamin's original post. He just did it to attract our attention, which worked!
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It was me who edited Seditious' post, sorry, I got caught away after I had edited it to give an explanation, so I didn't post. What I edited out was a comic, whilst a piece of satire, I saw as breaking the part of the AUP I quoted. Another part of the AUP I didn't point to that's also relevant:

Quote: "3.11 We do not tolerate posts made for the purpose of putting down another forum member, group of members, religion, our company, our staff or any of our moderators, past or present."


To explain. These forums have long held a stance against political, irreligious and religious discussion and anything that skirts around those issues. I know I used to be a guilty culprit a long time ago, but came to terms with the way of the forum and how they're moderated.

It's a support forum for the products TGC sell. Whilst it has a loose off topic section, it isn't meant as a place for the more controversial topics.
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Does that include Genji mains?
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Given I am a Genji main, so that would be self defeating. That said I ain't played in ages.
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Isn't playing Genji already self-defeating?
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That said, I had a good streak of destroying D'va's on mine. But Genji is pretty squishy. I also use Reinhardt, Zenyatta and er...blue sniper chick. Reinhardt ended up being a lot of fun, I found I just crushed people, it felt like it speaks to me.

Genji was fun for just manoeuvrability and killing blows.
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I feel like writing a post, yet I have nothing post worthy to write. Is this post post worthy? Folks, be the judge!
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