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The good, the bad, and the ugly of the past week – 31 July 2015

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Bye everyone! Next week, I’m off for an epic trip to the land of beer with my fellow Porra, Alessandro ‘Wingardium’ Barbiosa! This weekend, I’ll be figuring out how to pack a cuddly animatronic bear into my suitcase. It’ll be the perfect way to keep Al awake in the wee hours of the morning when he’s meant to be pushing out articles for the next day. The productivity will be over 9000, and so will the nightmares…

Best Stories

Good news everybody, Fallout Shelter will be coming to Android in about two weeks! Prepare your non-hipster devices for some proper vault management and wasteland exploration – Fallout Shelter is a great time sink.

P.T being cancelled made me super sad. Kojima and del Toro are still looking to work together however, which makes me all kinds of happy!

People are playing games quick to raise money for charity? That sounds like a good story to me! The action isn’t over yet either – there will be loads of speedruns taking place over the course of the weekend.

Lastly, The Witcher 3 is finally getting a new game+ mode. Need an excuse to kill monsters as Geralt once more? Well, this is it! Here’s what will and won’t carry over.

Worst Stories

Geoff’s first impressions of the Street Fighter V beta qualify as one of the worst stories this week. Not because it was written poorly or anything mind you, but because our poor editor didn’t actually get to play the game. He’s been miserable all week!

Hoping to get your hands on a proper Fallout Pip-boy? Alas – Bethesda can’t manufacture any more. Guess it’s off to eBay with you, if you’re ok with spending millions of randelas.

Solitaire is back in Windows 10 – but it wants money to get rid of ads? GET IN THE SEA! Like I care that Windows 10 is free… Solitaire is a staple that should be included without intrusions. Am I alone in feeling this way?

Last, and most certainly not least – regular comment Admiral Chief EK was in a bike accident earlier this week. Get well soon buddy, we miss you!

Random Stories

He did tell say he’d be back… I just never expected it to be in this way. Arnie will be a pre-order bonus for WWE 2K16, which makes NO sense. Honestly, I’d much rather see these five other superstars enter the ring.

Darryn is a wiz when it comes to cosplay. Honestly, he works hard each year to put together something spectacular which he normally showcases at rAge. This year he is doing Deathstroke, and he’s documenting the whole thing. Here’s part one:

Hey, you know what will be funny? Getting me to play Five Nights at Freddy’s 4. OH THE MIRTH! Challenge accepted and completed!

Header of the Week

Mr-America

What an elegant header from Darryn. I don’t even know why it’s funny, but every time I see Hulk Hogan’s moustache eyebrows, I break into an endless fit of giggles!

Sleeping

Geoff’s header on Valve fixing a gaping Steam security flaw also made me chuckle. 10/10 for creativity by that guard!

ION of the Week

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How many windows are there in this picture? 10… HA! Well, I’m guessing, I never actually counted. Still, I approve of Zoe’s Windows 10 Wednesday ION.

Speaking of which, here’s How you can install Windows 10 right now

Most Comments

Most comments seemed to be aimed at Alessandro’s article on how Studios should learn from Bethesda’s reveal of Fallout 4. 85 comments were written that day!

Least Comments

NYU professor Frank Lantz discusses eSports? Literally nobody seems to care! A MAZE is returning to South Africa with even more African flavour? Literally the same amount of people don’t care! Come back admiral, we are lacking pity comments like you can’t believe!

Batman of the Week

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Geoff is Batman this week! I went out of my way to find the above image, which I know he will absolutely love! In unrelated news, I’m off to get into the sea!

Cabbage of the Week

Mmmm soup

It’s ok Kyle, we’re all about teamwork here at Lazygamer. I’ll take the cabbage award in your place this week. Mmmm soup!

Comment of the Week

I’m all for doing more Community Requests. What should we do next? Guild seems to be onto something here…

XD Brilliant. Now to get Gavin to do a Let’s Play Dota 2 😛

I think that will be infinitely more horrific than my pathetic attempt to survive the house full of animatronics!

Bonus Content

I’ve been watching Pokemon wrong my whole life. THANKS DARRYN!

Got some time to spare? Here’s a blog where Zyori chats to NoxvilleZA – our local statsman who is at TI5!

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Last Updated: July 31, 2015

81 Comments

  1. Great Video Matty! Really enjoyed it.
    Also, this is always my favorite article of the week. Those headers are too cute for words.

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    • hairyknees

      July 31, 2015 at 13:01

      Yay! Thanks man 🙂

      Yeah I spend far too much time trying to find the perfect AWWWW for these articles 😛

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      • Captain JJ Fantasticus

        July 31, 2015 at 13:25

        Kept Geoff away from them then, I see.

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          July 31, 2015 at 13:56

          I believe Geoff posts them on Tuesdays, after they’ve been properly prepared instead of raw like Matty.

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    • Tiaan Pat

      July 31, 2015 at 13:49

      I shat myself the first time he died :O man i was at work as well… almost yelped :/

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  2. Hammersteyn

    July 31, 2015 at 12:39

    • Captain JJ Fantasticus

      July 31, 2015 at 12:43

      I never could understand how some superheroes (male or female) could wear little undies, but then long-sleeved tops. Because the enemy never attacks your knees? In Skyrim they do.

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      • Hammersteyn

        July 31, 2015 at 12:44

        Because of over sexualization? Ladies love boy bands and Robin is the right age.

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  3. Hammersteyn

    July 31, 2015 at 12:40

    Nice one Guild, we should start a “Let’s get Gavin to play Dota” trust and see how much money it takes to get him to play DOTA 😛

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    • Guild

      July 31, 2015 at 12:45

      I think Gavin might just buy into that 🙂

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    • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

      July 31, 2015 at 13:02

      Wait. We want to give Gavin some money to do something horribly unpleasant? But he already has Geoff for that!

      Reply

  4. Hammersteyn

    July 31, 2015 at 12:40

    Nice one Guild, we should start a “Let’s get Gavin to play Dota” trust and see how much money it takes to get him to play DOTA 😛

    Reply

  5. Ranting Raptor

    July 31, 2015 at 12:46

    Get well soon Erwin!

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    • Hammersteyn

      July 31, 2015 at 12:48

      Guessing you’re a lock for EVO points 😛

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      • Ranting Raptor

        July 31, 2015 at 12:55

        He’s not working so will most likely get it while chilling in a hospital bed while I’m stuck in traffic.

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  6. Ranting Raptor

    July 31, 2015 at 12:46

    There are 11 windows in that header by the way…. 11th one snuck in at the very edge there

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    • Dutch Matrix

      July 31, 2015 at 12:47

      Windows 7/11?

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    • Hammersteyn

      July 31, 2015 at 12:47

      And 4 of them are open………..

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      • Corrie

        July 31, 2015 at 12:57

        In this day and age leaving just 1 window open is dangerous.

        Especially when Darryn’s roaming around as Batman:p

        Imagine a little girl waking up in the middle of the night thinking it’s Christmas and thinking he be Santa Clause

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      • Ranting Raptor

        July 31, 2015 at 13:23

        Those will need security hotfixes

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        • Captain JJ Fantasticus

          July 31, 2015 at 13:24

          Maybe he’s port forwarding?

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          • Ranting Raptor

            July 31, 2015 at 13:36

            LOL

  7. SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

    July 31, 2015 at 12:53

    Hahahaha. Android. You’re so cute. Like a couple of months too late cute. 😀 My vault is already over 100+ population! Muahahahaha. MUAHAHAHAHAHA. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    Wouldn’t it be awesome if in Fallout 4 you could come across YOUR FRIGGIN VAULT from the app? That’d be some next level immersion.

    Btw. Anyone think that Noxville sounds very South African..? Peculiar.

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    • Captain JJ Fantasticus

      July 31, 2015 at 12:53

      Mobile games aren’t real games anyway.

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      • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

        July 31, 2015 at 13:01

        WHAT?! But Plants v Zombies… O.O

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        • Captain JJ Fantasticus

          July 31, 2015 at 13:03

          Never played it.
          And isn’t that on Origin also?

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          • Corrie

            July 31, 2015 at 13:05

            What about games like Gangstar Vegas, Asphalt 8 and a few others

            Hook it up to a Moga controller like I did and it really works especially when I use the PS1 Emu

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:06

            Nope, nope and nope.
            I game behind my pc or tv. I don’t even have facebook on my phone. When I’m out it’s either for work or to socialize. Neither of which gives me time to bother with my phone.

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:12

            This man knows what’s up.

          • Corrie

            July 31, 2015 at 13:12

            But sometimes when load shedding occurs it cool to play a mobile game

            Also Streaming to my phone with Limelight works okay

            I see mobile games as a time killer so if your stuck in the toilet or generally are bored it helps, but I get where your coming from on it

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:14

            When load shedding happens, I spend time with my gf instead. Way cooler than mobile games.

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:14

            Yes. This too.

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:16

            You have a gf? Your wife is gonna be maaaaaad.

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:17

            Haha! I meant wife. Of course. 😀

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:18

            Of course. 😀

            *whispers* Don’t worry, I won’t tell a soul. 😉

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:19

            Funny story. My wife and I were looking at a place to rent (for her mother) and the person asked my wife if it’s for her and her boyfriend. So she said, yea sure, but this one here is my husband.

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:20

            hahahaha. I can see why you married her.

            I’m sure there’s a lot more, but damn that’s good. XD

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:23

            Haha. Yes, quite. 🙂 Only person ever who was able to steal my controller and get away with it unscathed. (not that I had a choice tbh – I had to buy myself a new one)

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 31, 2015 at 13:18

            What about if your girlfriend is in Japan…? 🙁

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:19

            Mobile Games it is! ;P

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:21

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 31, 2015 at 13:26

            ^This

            🙁

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:14

            I can appreciate that. The toilet won’t work for me. If I’m longer than 2min it means I’m really sick. 🙂
            But I read ebooks when loadshedding happens, so that’s my “mobile device entertainment”

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:12

            The PC port is. But it’s also on Steam. It was first a mobile game, and PVZ2 is mobile-only.

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:12

            I think I got it free on Origin, that’s why I know. Will try it out to see what it’s all about.

          • Pariah

            July 31, 2015 at 13:13

            It’s addictive. PVZ2 isn’t as good.

        • Ranting Raptor

          July 31, 2015 at 13:23

          Wasn’t created on mobile….

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          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 31, 2015 at 13:26

            I didn’t know that a mobile game had to be “created” on mobile to be mobile. Did you just make that shit up? Or…? Lol.

          • Ranting Raptor

            July 31, 2015 at 13:28

            Plants Vs Zombies was originally a PC game. The original statement is mobile games aren’t real games.

            Plants Vs Zombies is a port of a PC game. Therefore the statement of mobile games aren’t real games cannot be applied as the game is actually a pc game.

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 31, 2015 at 13:29

            But the mobile version of the PC game is still a mobile game. It wasn’t just a bullshit port (I am looking at you, Batman). So if it was originally a PC game but was properly reconfigured for mobile then it is (obviously) a mobile game. So the original statement stands.

            Unless you’re retarded.

          • Ranting Raptor

            July 31, 2015 at 13:35

            Nah. I see the statement of “Mobile games aren’t real games” for games that only are available on mobile.

            That being said, I don’t necessarily actually agree with the statement. The amount of gaming I do on mobile is increasing now that I have a kid and I still take away enjoyment from it.

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 31, 2015 at 13:36

            The statement kinda read for me that “mobile games aren’t real games” as in any games available on mobile are not real games. Hence why I had a problem with it in the first place, because mobile games are by their very definition real games. Especially amazing gems like PvZ (uh… touch screen anyone?).

          • Ranting Raptor

            July 31, 2015 at 13:46

            As I said. I didn’t say I agreed 🙂 I love PvZ on mobile. Fallout shelter is epic and Lionheart is real fun

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:30

            Come to lagz for the funz, stay for the logic ;D

  8. Mark Vincer

    July 31, 2015 at 13:08

    All the cool kids in the General Chat group know this already but In other news:

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    • Captain JJ Fantasticus

      July 31, 2015 at 13:12

      Haha.
      Does this mean I’m not a cool kid?

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      • Pariah

        July 31, 2015 at 13:13

        Rhetorical question?

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      • Mark Vincer

        July 31, 2015 at 13:13

        Are you in the General Chat group? Then NO, NO YOU’RE NOT

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      • Mark Vincer

        July 31, 2015 at 13:14

        Join and be cool. We’re waiting for your…uh…general chat

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    • Ottokie

      July 31, 2015 at 13:25

      Congrats again to you mate 😛

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      • Mark Vincer

        July 31, 2015 at 13:31

        Thanks! Your profile picture was literally my face in the gynaes office.

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        • Captain JJ Fantasticus

          July 31, 2015 at 13:32

          Haha. That’s excellent man.

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          • Mark Vincer

            July 31, 2015 at 13:34

            You go in thinking you’re going to be a big strong man. Then you see this tiny thing, not even 4cm big, heart beating like crazy, jumping around like it’s trying to play Kinect and your heart just melts. Unbelievable.

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 13:36

            I can only imagine dude. Moerse congrats.

          • Mark Vincer

            July 31, 2015 at 13:37

            Plus, it’s literal proof that you had sex. *sunglasses on, finger guns blaring*

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 14:02

            Haha. If you could only send that back to your 15 year-old self. 😀

          • Mark Vincer

            July 31, 2015 at 14:09

            “Here we go, kid. Not only do you have sex but you have sex SEVERAL TIMES. BOOM” *high fives all round, then sits and plays Contra with younger self*

          • Brady miaau

            July 31, 2015 at 14:48

            Hmm, did not go down like that for me, but I feel you.

            I sort of believed it was happening when they took the little one out my wife, turned to me and said, look, its yours. And I held her, right there in the operating theatre.

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 14:54

            Wow man.

          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            July 31, 2015 at 14:54

            Wow man.

          • Mark Vincer

            July 31, 2015 at 14:57

            Yeah, up until now it’s been very “oh having a baby”. Then seeing the screen makes it real. But yeah, when you hold the kid for the first time and try force the Wii remote into their tiny hands, it suddenly becomes very very real.

          • Brady miaau

            July 31, 2015 at 15:15

            It seems the seeing the baby on Sonar and 4d scan did not do that much for me. But holding this tiny 5 minute old little being managed to move me quite a bit!

            Good luck to you! I hope all is smooth sailing.

            I, of course, am a parenting expert, having not killed my little girl in the last twenty months. She is still with us and seems very happy. That, I think, is the crux of it! So tricky. So many people with the “right” opinion. Yeah. Like I said, I am an expert. On my little girl .I know what she wants, most of the time, I can help her out. So.

          • Mark Vincer

            July 31, 2015 at 15:28

            So far so good for both of us then! Stuff peoples opinions. All children are different. Like those teachers who told me that I was “holding my pencil wrong” and gave me a rubber triangle to change my grip. I showed them, I chewed up the grip, kept my hand the way God intended and now make a living as a designer (I call it a living, anyway)

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      July 31, 2015 at 13:49

      Why are you growing one of these?

      (Only kidding, congrats :D)

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      • Mark Vincer

        July 31, 2015 at 13:58

        And THAT was the face I made during the conception!

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  9. Ottokie

    July 31, 2015 at 13:35

    • Pariah

      July 31, 2015 at 14:30

      That must be terrifying… And hilarious to watch. XD

      Reply

  10. Ryanza

    July 31, 2015 at 14:12

    the good this week. – I finished the witcher 3. The bad – I got the bad ending. The ugly – having to wait for Cyberpunk 2077.
    Don’t Support DRM. Cyberpunk 2077 is coming.

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    • Captain JJ Fantasticus

      July 31, 2015 at 14:13

      !!!

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    • Pariah

      July 31, 2015 at 14:29

      !!!

      Reply

  11. Weanerdog

    July 31, 2015 at 16:39

    Get well Admiral

    Reply

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