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  1. I'll be there tonight too, kinda crazy that after 20 years of listening to them this is the first time I get to see all 3 members. I'd well and truly convinced myself it was likely never gonna happen.

    @Russel Coight No pressure at all mate but if you feel like grabbing a beer or something before the show I can be in the city by like 5:30

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  2. On 1/29/2024 at 5:09 PM, dildo69er said:

    Hitting up shows at melb/syd/bris. Anyone keen for a beer gimme a shout

     

    On 1/29/2024 at 9:34 PM, Russel Coight said:

    I’ll be at the 14th show solo so if you wanna ditch your wife on Valentine’s Day let me know.

    I've got a ticket to both Melbourne shows, still haven't fully decided if I'm actually gonna go to both but I'd be down for a beer

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  3. Good question!

    I've had a play with this, and it looks like if you use the "Quote" button underneath a post, if that post contains a quote it does seem to remove the inner quote. I'm assuming this is the default behaviour to prevent a huge series of nested quotes which could arguably be very hard to read.

    That said, I do see the value in nested quotes so I've had a look through the settings available to us and as far as I can tell this isn't something you can control.

    You can however force this behaviour by highlighting the contents of the post with the quote in it (including the quote) and clicking the little "Quote Selection" button that pops up underneath. Not super user friendly (especially on mobile I imagine) but it does give you a way to do it.

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  4. Sorry for the slow response! We got a puppy last weekend so I've been pretty distracted trying to keep various bodily functions from happening on my lounge room floor.

    I've not had the problems you've mentioned myself but I don't really use the boards on mobile so that could be it. I've been talking to Ghent about doing a bit of a server migration, I'm not happy with the current server configuration I've set up as Ghent needs to reboot the server once or twice a week when it shits the bed so there's something not right there. This is a work in progress and will probably take me a week or two to get done. Definitely a chance that the problems you're seeing are related, so we'll see how it behaves once I've got that done.

    It's also been quite a while since I did a proper update on the boards, but now that I've rebuilt the dark theme in a compatible way I can do this too which could help if these things are simply bugs with the version we're on.

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  5. Just now, High Value Coight said:

    Everyone thought the crowd was shit during I Miss You last week too until we saw the stage cam from Tom and EVERYONE was singing along. 

    Yeah any time they show the crowd it's pretty obvious they're getting in to it - they just don't have the crowd mixed in to the audio much if at all.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

    New Pokémon games are pretty sweet been playing the leak for about a week now. Open world is such an improvement for these games. Definitely needs some improvements buts it’s not a bad effort from gamefreak at all.

    I'm tempted to get it at some point, though I've not played a Pokemon game that hasn't disappointed me in some way since the old days. Sounds like there's a little more variation in these ones so might give them a go.

  7. 3 hours ago, Roux said:

    Quite disappointed in God of War: Ragnarok - about 15hrs in and it feels like I'm just playing the first game again. Nothing significantly new or ground breaking that some of these 10/10 reviews have been saying. 

    Maybe I'm just bored of these action-adventure games that all follow the same format and mechanics i.e 'go and collect 3 of these useless objects to unlock the door'. Hopefully it picks up a bit. 

     

    RDR2 is an absolute masterpiece - soundtrack, characters, graphics and storytelling is perfect.  

    I'm really enjoying Ragnarok so far (about 10 hours in) but I don't disagree with you, as far as game mechanics go there's nothing groundbreakingly new about it. It's been long enough since I played the 2018 game that I'm perfectly happy with just being thrust back into that world again but I do hope something new is introduced to change things up a bit soon.

    One thing that definitely bugs me is the hand-holding, you spend 30 seconds in a new area checking around to get your bearings and Atreus is already flat out telling you where you have to go or what you have to do. With the impressive number of settings available I was really hoping you could turn these comments off but haven't been able to find anything.

  8. 4 minutes ago, _Bagel said:

    Yeah - mission structure/shooting mechanics are the same, that's about it. I feel like the world was so much more reactive than any GTA game I played. 

    Ah man - sorry to hear. Have you got a Series X? I can see it on the Xbox store. Yeah, emulating shit is beyond me - tread carefully my friend

    Nah I was always a Playstation guy but switched to PC-only gaming years and years ago until I bought back into consoles with the PS5. Might just need to borrow my brothers PS3 some time.

  9. I think the problem I had and probably a lot of other people had was looking for "GTA with cowboys". While it has that Rockstar DNA throughout it's really nothing like GTA. Masterfully told story.

    I just wish there was a way I could play RDR1, never touched it and no way to play it on modern consoles. Could try emulating it I guess but I'd be surprised if that goes well.

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  10. On 9/18/2022 at 2:40 AM, _Bagel said:

    Only four years late to the party but playing through RDR2. In terms of a thoughtful game, these shit all over GTA. Rarely am I ever content to just exist in a game-world with no real plans. The views, nature, random events and NPC's - this game world is so vivid and alive. Not to mention Arthur Morgan, in spite of his tremendously high body count (maybe both ways) is a cute guy beneath the murdering and debt collecting.

    Man I only just got through RDR2 a month or so ago. Started it a couple of times over the last few years and gave up like 5-10 hours in since it was so slow, really glad I stuck with it this time 'cause it really is a masterpiece.

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  11. Just played through the FF7 remake and the Yuffie DLC. I never had much of a connection to the original but I really enjoyed the remake, I often struggle with the difficulty level of Final Fantasy games but it always felt fair and balanced, and the combat system was snappy and always fun.

    Probably not going to start anything new now since the new God of War comes out in like a week, definitely playing that release day.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Russel Coight said:

    Thanks man! I’ll definitely be getting tickets to the second Sydney show. Maybe Melbourne too if I can convince my mate.

    Come on over. I’ll buy you a ticket. You just get flights. Prob cheaper than what you’d pay over there.

    You heading to the first Melbourne show? I missed the fan presale so I'll be hoping to get lucky tomorrow, considering trying to get a ticket for both.

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  13. Hi everyone, just wanted to make a post to be transparent about the boards at the moment.

    We are unsurprisingly seeing a significant increase in traffic, so I have increased the resources on our hosting server which should keep things running a little better. Obviously increasing the resources is going to increase our costs, so to compensate I have made the ads across the boards a little more aggressive. When doing so I noticed that it placed a big nasty ad right up the top under the logo which I've since disabled, it might just take 30-60 minutes before it disappears for those of you who are still seeing it.

    I will do my best to manage the traffic over the coming days, if anybody has any questions or concerns just hit me up!

    Blink is back, baby!

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