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AusGAF 11 - Twice the price, a year late but still moving forward
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ThoseDeafMutes
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And now my reign of Ausgaf is unchallenged.
fair enough hey.
we need a new one,
those deaf mutes can't be trusted. he doesn't like the 5th element.
edit L oh god hes here
edit: holy shit quick edit finally works! no need to go advanced!
reptilescorpio
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Thanks for the good times EatChildren!
I've had no issue on Chrome using quick edit.
I've had no issue on Chrome using quick edit.
reptilescorpio
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That's what the fans voted for.
No it was complete garbage shit because his favourite songs weren't in it.
Don't you understand how polls work?!
i'm a bit more jaded than that. It's what Richard Kingsmill was pushing and after hearing some things about getting music on triplej ......
I'd like to see him put out to pasture and have some one else teleport into the music director role or a committee of people or just give the presenters a list of stuff thats playable and let them at it. he's stale and holds too much sway over what is heard.
Well thats bloody weird.
So over the weekend I decided to try and reduce the space my media collection was taking up, so I'm been running my bluray rips through Handbreak to make smaller files.
Anyway, alone of those files, Aliens, the handbreak compressed version turned out bigger (by about 8 GB) than the rip. WTF. meanwhile everything else turned out 30-50% smaller.
So over the weekend I decided to try and reduce the space my media collection was taking up, so I'm been running my bluray rips through Handbreak to make smaller files.
Anyway, alone of those files, Aliens, the handbreak compressed version turned out bigger (by about 8 GB) than the rip. WTF. meanwhile everything else turned out 30-50% smaller.
reptilescorpio
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I'm happy with the work he's doing. Allows plenty of variety while still staying ahead of the curve with some stuff (alt-pop, electronic, etc).
I've read a lot of salty bands bitching about their music not getting played, haven't come across any that are putting out solid efforts still tbh. Link some if you can, I'm all for expanding my listening into stuff I'm not hearing.
roosters93
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Looked at the past few years Hottest 100s on wiki last night, feel like 2014 is the worst one since 2011.
Wish Peking Duk got no.1. I liked Chet Faker's EP Thinking In Textures from a couple years ago but found his album to be pretty balls.
Had the same experience as Holy. Never used to work for me on Chrome.
Yeah I'd be up for a new person to freshen things up, change direction slightly.
Kingsmill's been in charge for so long.
Wish Peking Duk got no.1. I liked Chet Faker's EP Thinking In Textures from a couple years ago but found his album to be pretty balls.
Had the same experience as Holy. Never used to work for me on Chrome.
Yeah I'd be up for a new person to freshen things up, change direction slightly.
Kingsmill's been in charge for so long.
I've never had to "go advanced" to edit. The problem I had was that after clicking save on the edit, the page would never load, it would just sit there spinning it's wheels. The edit does actually go through, I would just have to manually reload the page to see it.
Edit: test. Now it works!
Edit: test. Now it works!
Poimandres
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Yeah, Hottest 100 was balls. So many songs from the same artists, often lumped closely together, shows that many people were voting for their favourite artists as opposed to putting effort into really trying to determine which were the best songs of the year.
Doesn't help that no 1 is a super boring song! I'm fine with a song I dislike winning, but there's nothing more frustrating than an utterly bland filler track getting the top spot.
Doesn't help that no 1 is a super boring song! I'm fine with a song I dislike winning, but there's nothing more frustrating than an utterly bland filler track getting the top spot.
So a couple of months back I bought this from Amazon UK:
We meant to get around to watching it on the Christmas break, but a trip to Melbourne got in the way and it wasn't until the long weekend we got time to watch it.
Popped it into the PS3. PROBLEM: The discs are Region 2. The PS3 only plays Region 4. I can't recall this being an issue with previous seasons of this show, but I figure hey I am surrounded by gadgets, I can work around this.
OK, let me pop it into my generic Blu-ray player that plays all DVD region discs. PROBLEM: The Blu-ray player only has HDMI out. The HDMI port on the lounge room TV is busted and has been for ages, which is why I haven't used that player in ages either.
Alright, lemme just pop up to the shops to get a super cheap DVD player. PROBLEM: It doesn't actually, er, work. Dodgy power supply. So I take it back and get it replaced. That one doesn't work either, as it has a broken remote. It's $20 so whatever but STILL.
OK, let's just rip the DVDs. PROBLEM: I have no computers with an optical drive any more.
Maybe I can just download some rips of the show? PROBLEM: I have no computers with any of that stuff on it any more. That was the job of the old desktop / media server machine which died a few weeks back.
OK, let me just install all that uTorrent stuff on the Surface Pro. PROBLEM: The Surface Pro keyboard was accidentally left at the office. Doing that kind of stuff with a touch screen was going to be a massive pain in the ass. I could plug in a USB keyboard...if I had any USB keyboards, which I didn't.
OK, how about I just use this old netbook we have lying around the house? PROBLEM: It is like five years old and slow as fucking molasses. Even just getting to desktop takes 20 minutes, let alone the time required to open Chrome or god forbid install software uTorrent.
A day later I get the episodes downloaded. PROBLEM: I have no USB flash drives to copy the files to. Where the fuck did I put them all? Oh yeah I haven't used any in years thanks to Dropbox. So a trip to the shops to get a USB drive.
OK, now I can copy the files to a USB drive (again, taking ages) and plug it into the PS3. PROBLEM: The PS3 doesn't natively play .mkv files. I mean why the FUCK would it want to do that. The Xbox 360 doesn't, either.
Maybe I can download .mp4 versions? Yeah, no, not really. A search online shows mkv versions of every episode, and only a few episodes are available in mp4 format. So I need to find a way around this.
OK, so I'll just put PS3 Media Server on the Netbook and stream them from the Netbook to the PS3. PROBLEM: The Netbook is a fucking piece of shit that can't actually stream video fast enough to the PS3 in order to play it smoothly. You have to let it buffer for about five minutes in order to watch 10 minutes of video. Buffer. Watch until the buffer runs out. Buffer. Watch until the buffer runs out.
So...at the end of the day, a 48 minute episode takes 2+ hours to watch, and I just spend the whole time watching the buffer go down so I knew when to hit pause. Really great way to spend my long weekend.
All because of one fucking region code, and that the DVD wasn't available locally. FFS.
We meant to get around to watching it on the Christmas break, but a trip to Melbourne got in the way and it wasn't until the long weekend we got time to watch it.
Popped it into the PS3. PROBLEM: The discs are Region 2. The PS3 only plays Region 4. I can't recall this being an issue with previous seasons of this show, but I figure hey I am surrounded by gadgets, I can work around this.
OK, let me pop it into my generic Blu-ray player that plays all DVD region discs. PROBLEM: The Blu-ray player only has HDMI out. The HDMI port on the lounge room TV is busted and has been for ages, which is why I haven't used that player in ages either.
Alright, lemme just pop up to the shops to get a super cheap DVD player. PROBLEM: It doesn't actually, er, work. Dodgy power supply. So I take it back and get it replaced. That one doesn't work either, as it has a broken remote. It's $20 so whatever but STILL.
OK, let's just rip the DVDs. PROBLEM: I have no computers with an optical drive any more.
Maybe I can just download some rips of the show? PROBLEM: I have no computers with any of that stuff on it any more. That was the job of the old desktop / media server machine which died a few weeks back.
OK, let me just install all that uTorrent stuff on the Surface Pro. PROBLEM: The Surface Pro keyboard was accidentally left at the office. Doing that kind of stuff with a touch screen was going to be a massive pain in the ass. I could plug in a USB keyboard...if I had any USB keyboards, which I didn't.
OK, how about I just use this old netbook we have lying around the house? PROBLEM: It is like five years old and slow as fucking molasses. Even just getting to desktop takes 20 minutes, let alone the time required to open Chrome or god forbid install software uTorrent.
A day later I get the episodes downloaded. PROBLEM: I have no USB flash drives to copy the files to. Where the fuck did I put them all? Oh yeah I haven't used any in years thanks to Dropbox. So a trip to the shops to get a USB drive.
OK, now I can copy the files to a USB drive (again, taking ages) and plug it into the PS3. PROBLEM: The PS3 doesn't natively play .mkv files. I mean why the FUCK would it want to do that. The Xbox 360 doesn't, either.
Maybe I can download .mp4 versions? Yeah, no, not really. A search online shows mkv versions of every episode, and only a few episodes are available in mp4 format. So I need to find a way around this.
OK, so I'll just put PS3 Media Server on the Netbook and stream them from the Netbook to the PS3. PROBLEM: The Netbook is a fucking piece of shit that can't actually stream video fast enough to the PS3 in order to play it smoothly. You have to let it buffer for about five minutes in order to watch 10 minutes of video. Buffer. Watch until the buffer runs out. Buffer. Watch until the buffer runs out.
So...at the end of the day, a 48 minute episode takes 2+ hours to watch, and I just spend the whole time watching the buffer go down so I knew when to hit pause. Really great way to spend my long weekend.
All because of one fucking region code, and that the DVD wasn't available locally. FFS.
Mm, quick edit never worked for me on Chrome. I've been using Safari now since I got my new laptop, and it's always worked.
an article about News Corp themselves?
an article about News Corp themselves?
roosters93
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Oh yeah that was my problem too, not sure anymore if Holy was talking about that.
I hold myself to one song one artist rule (but I don't really have to hold myself to it anyway)
ClivePwned
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So, in your exact same place, i would have:
pop to Harvey Norman or JB, pick up external USB DVD drive to hook up to your new imac, DL Handbrake, and rip and convert the episodes that way. Would still have take a few hours to do the whole season. You could still have burned them to a DVD that would play in the PS3 if you had no better way to stream from your computer. You could have also just watched them on the imac screen playing through the DVD drive.
Incidentally, I started watching series 5 last night.
they say wirelesses are so much more reliable these days
reptilescorpio
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Don't get torrents going on the Surface Gaz, leave that thing clean! Would hate for it to get shit clogging it up.
Had no idea UK DVD's didn't work here. Although I haven't bought one in years tbh, not since I got the PS3 and started grabbing Blu Rays.
Yeah it's been that way for months/years I assumed. Would work properly every now and then but it was really rare, seemed to pop if you edited quickly.
Had no idea UK DVD's didn't work here. Although I haven't bought one in years tbh, not since I got the PS3 and started grabbing Blu Rays.
Yeah it's been that way for months/years I assumed. Would work properly every now and then but it was really rare, seemed to pop if you edited quickly.
Yeah, spot on Clive. I didn't even think of a USB DVD drive as an option! Feel like a bit of a fool now 
And absolutely Rep. I hate the idea of installing ANYthing on the Surface Pro, especially dodgy downloading shit. I feel like that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine has to judge guys on being 'sponge-worthy'. IS THIS SOFTWARE WORTHY OF BEING INSIDE MY SURFACE?!
And absolutely Rep. I hate the idea of installing ANYthing on the Surface Pro, especially dodgy downloading shit. I feel like that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine has to judge guys on being 'sponge-worthy'. IS THIS SOFTWARE WORTHY OF BEING INSIDE MY SURFACE?!
ClivePwned
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Most UK DVDs are dual coded for Regions 2 and 4 (like BBC stuff, Big studios) but there are cases with some smaller distributors, particularly the ones that don't operate outside of Europe, make their discs R2 only- lots of ITV and channel 4 shows.
Also- Sony Bluray players tend to be region free for DVD, but for Gazunta's purposes, they have gone HDMI only as well.
Also- Sony Bluray players tend to be region free for DVD, but for Gazunta's purposes, they have gone HDMI only as well.
reptilescorpio
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ThoseDeafMutes
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We ended up getting a ridiculously expensive panasonic 3D BR player + triple tuner combo.
That'll come in handy when you want to record all those extra F2A shopping channels!
Can we just permanently reserve #3 for the Hilltops at this point?
FormallyMegadrive
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its always like this, i dont know why youre surprised. chet faker fucking sucks though, he ruined such a great song with a shitty cover. (lover lover)
BananaArnie
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haha fuck you try ban me now
BananaArnie
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nah for reals i liked having someone who wasn't tdm modding ausgaf.
rip ec
rip ec
I think that dude has some interesting instrumentation on a few songs, but he can't sing and his lyrics suck.
He is like an inferior Caribou.
Damn Gaz, how did you make your life so hard? Serious question.
I think I got like 5 or 6 songs I voted for in the hottest 100. Previous years I was lucky to get 1 or 2. I thought I was out of the jjj demographic, but maybe I'm falling back into it.
Got that sweet Optus unlimited bundle installed yesterday, no worries. I think my internet is actually running faster now.
Still really enjoying Stan. Check out Transparent. There's only one season so far, but it's pretty funny.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I'll soon be with you guys. I got a working holiday visa and will be arriving in about two weeks.
Questions:
1) Is is possible to get an affordable sim-card-only deal with unlimited or 10GB+ internet usage?
2) What is the Australian equivalent of Tesco/Wallmart/Carrefour/where can I buy cheap stuff/etc?
3) Is anyone wanting to hire me to do some working holiday shit?
Questions:
1) Is is possible to get an affordable sim-card-only deal with unlimited or 10GB+ internet usage?
2) What is the Australian equivalent of Tesco/Wallmart/Carrefour/where can I buy cheap stuff/etc?
3) Is anyone wanting to hire me to do some working holiday shit?
hahaha you're funny.
Stack, it is a question I would pay good money to find an answer to.
industrian HOO BOY
1) You can't. Some places like Virgin Mobile will let you go on a 2 year contract and get 4GB of data for like $80 a month. Expect most places to give you a quarter of that. Internet is a precious resource here that can't be used willy-nilly!
2) You're probably just best off going to your local Westfield shopping mall and hitting Target / Big W / K-Mart and whatever grocery story is in there (Usually Woolworths and / or Coles)
3) Good luck. What kind of stuff do you do?
industrian HOO BOY
1) You can't. Some places like Virgin Mobile will let you go on a 2 year contract and get 4GB of data for like $80 a month. Expect most places to give you a quarter of that. Internet is a precious resource here that can't be used willy-nilly!
2) You're probably just best off going to your local Westfield shopping mall and hitting Target / Big W / K-Mart and whatever grocery story is in there (Usually Woolworths and / or Coles)
3) Good luck. What kind of stuff do you do?
teacupcopter
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1. I don't think so but maybe look at amaysim they seem the cheapest
2. We don't really have one that is exactly the same but Coles/Woolworths are our supermarket grocery places, and Kmart/Big W/Target are like the "other" stuff, like clothes, electronics, etc. But it's not as good as what I understand it's like in the US/UK
3. Good luck
Not 10GB. There are a few decent plans that give 5GB, like: http://www.amaysim.com.au/mobile-plans/amaysim-unlimited
All the little providers will be reselling access to either Telstra, Optus, or Vodafone. Some will have 4G, some will just be 3G. The Whirlpool forums are the best place to find discussion on the ins and outs of all of them: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/114
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I'd be good with just an internet option. Virgin seem to have a $40 monthly deal with a 12GB cap, and that should be enough (I plan just to use this internet purely for my current job as below.)
Your latter statement seems to be the accurate description, Gazunta. What I've seen so far makes my parent's 1Mb connection with a 10GB cap look like value for money.
I'll look into amaysim as well, teacupcopter.
Thanks. All I'll need is a place for instant noodles and/or beans. As long as I don't starve.
Thanks. I work from home for a Taiwanese company and that pays around AU$2000 a month. Which is good in Taiwan, "liveable" in Scotland and I assume is very little in Australia. I'd prefer to work while in Australia in order to save as much as I can.
I'd be up for doing some farm work or something where I'm on my feet. Which is funny because I've got a software development degree and all and my last three jobs were marketing for IT companies. But I'd prefer to not be sitting behind a desk in a place like Australia.
roosters93
Member
haha oh yeah I know what you're talking about
Looking back the show is bit of a mess lol, is all over the place. Barely even uses its title concept. But despite all that it still's so damn watchable.
Watched Healer yet?
reptilescorpio
Member
Trick question, it's always yes.
Aldi is a supermarket that has good quality, super low price foods. Kmart can furnish most of your house and yourself for super cheap too.
$500 a week should be fine solo, depends a LOT on how much your rent/board is though. That and utilities are painful, food is cheap.
Nah, not yet, got a few episodes queued up though!
Any Earthbound / Mother fans here with some spare $?
Mother 3 hardback book was just reprinted:
http://www.fangamer.com/products/m3-handbook
Earthbound hardback about to be printed for the first time:
http://www.fangamer.com/products/you-are-now-earthbound
Both look very nice. Will cost about US$37 each delivered to Aus.
Mother 3 hardback book was just reprinted:
http://www.fangamer.com/products/m3-handbook
Earthbound hardback about to be printed for the first time:
http://www.fangamer.com/products/you-are-now-earthbound
Both look very nice. Will cost about US$37 each delivered to Aus.
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