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MORNING! Weekend went well, I partied hard (went to a mate’s Buck’s night) and got a bit of Dark Souls time in as well. Managed to ring the second bell, SUCCESS, and now I’m trying to defeat the Great Wolf Sif, NOT SUCCESS YET.
I rang the bell and went straight to Sen’s Fortress. Then I died.*
*Repeat 12 times.
So I think I’ll go spend some time in the gardens and see about this so-called “Great” wolf. (Actually, he’s awesome. I genuinely don’t want to kill him, but then I’ve read that you can get an amazing shield with his soul.)
Yeah I don’t think defeating him as anything to do with the plot, it’s more like I wanna defeat him because he’s there. I guess there are a few areas like that like the Ash Lake and the Demon Ruins.
Demon Ruins aren’t like that. you have to defeat the Boss to get to one of the final game areas. I think I’m going to leave Sif alone. He’s so pretty, he can live.
My bike lost traction and I crashed last night. That was a fun way to cap off a week off work. Luckily it was at low speed (about 20-30k’s) and not while I was going 100 or something. My ribs feel bruised, I have a small headache and it hurts to breathe or bend my back. I also shredded some of my tattoo (sadface and by far the worst part) but the bike seems okay, barely a scratch on it. Getting back on and riding home was easier than I thought… I expected that I’d refuse to ride for a while.
and WHERE have you been TAY??? i’m pretty sure the work day started at 8!!! i am disappointed with you, you could at least have called and told me you’d be late…
i had coffee for you… but… but now it’s cold *sobs*
Morning Taybies! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend filled with gaming….to make up for my lack of gaming.
Had the wife’s work xmas do on the weekend. Lets just say, Doctors know how to put on a good shindig. Stayed in the city, then had a bunch of other htings to do, so really only go an hour or 2 on call of duty, and no time (or energy) for anything else.
This week should contain some more cod, some more space marine, and debating going back and playing some more NFS hot pursuit just because.
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations? Jealous. If I don’t get it for Christmas I’ll be mad because I was told not to buy any games after Skyrim for myself before Christmas.
Consensus seemed to be AC1 could safely be skipped, although I was advised to play it for a bit to at least see how far the game had come. I ended up just skipping to AC2.
That “previously on” sequence was beyond useless. Luckily, I enjoyed the plot of AssCreed enough to play it until the end. And while I’ve finished Ass2 and AssBro, it was not due to the plot, because man, there’s nothing there.
“A story of revenge, and some more revenge, and revengeyMcRevengeface.”
Look Ezio, I get it, you want revenge, now how about some character development? No? Templars are evil, and that’s all you need know? *sigh* Fine.
I went to a lot of effort to clear my inbox last week and was rewarded when the only stuff waiting for me on Monday morning were garbage office memo type emails that didn’t require my attention. Between that and my boss being off sick. I might actually be able to wind down after things being so hectic the last couple of weeks. Hooray, I might have some time to TAY this week!
I’m having friends over on the 17th and in my eagerness in looking forward to that and the break I’ll enjoy over Christmas I completely lost sight of the fact that I’m in fact turning 29 THIS WEEK. I would like to thank my wife for reminding me I am getting older much faster than I thought.
But what really concernes me is the future. Next year, I turn 30. And I cannot think of anything cool or interesting to do to celebrate this. Are there any other old people who’ve enjoyed a 30th and done something interesting to comemorate it? I need suggestions.
They still have meatworld arcades? I haven’t been to one since they closed Playtime on George Street (which was thankfully immortalised in the Looking for Alibrandi movie, so I can show it to my children).
“This is where daddy used to DDR after going to anime conventions.” “Oh God, please shut up.” “Oh, and that’s the alley where my friend was chased by a poop-flinging hobo!” “It’s going to be the alley where our dad was murdered, if you don’t shut up.”
Anyway. I know that Galaxy World is still there, but for some reason I never liked the place. Maybe the machines didn’t get updated as much. Maybe I didn’t like the people who hung out there.
First time I played Halo 2 (I didn’t know at the time that its online functionality would forever destroy the LAN party), was at a LAN party on a projector. It was about a week before it came out. Someone had “obtained” a French copy. It was very exciting.
I’m hopnig to be visited by aliens and/or genies that will allow me to revert back to age 21, and also have lots of money. In fact, that’s my birthday wish, so it has to happen.
Remember everyone! Kotaku Kristmas Meat is on december 17th! Register intent at link_windwaker13@hotmail.com DRINKINGAMINGOODTIMES ! Btw its in Sydney!
I should be able to confirm 100% my attendance one way or the other by this afternoon. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it, I’ve been looking forward to it a lot
I wish I could go, but I can’t. Due to the whole slack-arse broke guy thing. So, I’ll drink a beer(probably a glass of water, I can’t afford beer), and toast to all you cool people.
I’ve made the switch to PC for Skyrim. Can’t really explain it, but I’m enjoying it so much more. I’m a platform agnostic, so this unsettles me.
I’m sticking with my xbox Battlefield though as I really hate it when my opponents have got mices. I don’t seem able to take advantage of the “extra accuracy” I am informed comes with a mouse, but my opponents certainly do.
I figured the good mods would take a year or so to work themselves out. I’m really not interested in too much fiddle faddle and only really want one or two great ones.
In New Vegas, I’ve got Project Nevada installed. It is a thing of beauty.
I thought I could hold out for a PC GOTY in a year or two and in the meantime rock the ‘box. But it just wasn’t grabbing me. I couldn’t get past the framerate and it just felt sluggish and awkward to point my crosshairs at things I wanted to pick up. And sword fighting just really didn’t work for me. This is the first time I’ve felt the PC genuinely gave the superior experience.
So this week’s TABTOL showcases 20 pages of Blaghman-broken, Plainview-farewelling, Trjn-ranting madness (seriously dude, 12 thousand words??). Harli showed all the pretenders who’s boss. I’m sure there were some other important themes in there but I know I was just too damn busy to keep up last week. Let us all know in the replies if we missed anything else of significance (with permalinks if possible!)
That is a pretty sad effort on my part last week, although i was pretty damned busy most of the week, so i didnt get anywhere near as much tay time as normal. Hopefully this week will be a little bit more TAY friendly.
I think that word count thing is slightly off, I did two ~1000 word posts and then slightly more verbose than usual ranting. Seeing as I normally sit around 5-6k, this seems a little excessive.
Also, Harli cheated so I’m disqualifying her and claiming victory for the whole thing. I didn’t make spam posts on earlier pages to boost my post count. Everything I posted was legit.
But most of that rambling was done at work on my somewhat silent Apple keyboard, instead of at home on my super mega awesome fun (and a bit noisy) mechanical keyboard.
Really, I was just having a very slow week at work. Oh so very slow.
Psst, this comment is the secret to boosting yourself into a high position, like a manly man boss man. Just reply to everything, even when you have nothing interesting to say(aka, every comment I’ve ever made).
I should also point out that only about 5 people will read this, and the odds go down once I’m past page three, assuming that we’re at about page six by then. Strange will probably read it, no matter where I post, but apart from that? Ehh, there’s a couple people. Though it was mostly me, before the Calamity, of course.
I wonder if the post numbers are thrown off by posts made on earlier pages?
So if someone makes the 1000th comment and then someone posts something in reply on an earlier page, does TABTOL count the original 1000th post (presumably by sorting by timestamps) or does it bump every post afterwards making the 999th post the 1000th?
The posts numbers are all chronological. So a reply to post #1 now will still be number #3800+. Can’t guarantee that the word count is perfect, bug I’ve used some standard approaches that have served me well in the past. Would have to check, but it’s conceivable that it counts apostrophes as word breaks? Whatever the case, your relative verbosity is undeniable :)
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For those who haven’t done phase three – please remember that this Saturday is the cut-off date. If you don’t have the time to do it, let me know and i’ll try and make time to do it for you.
G’mornin’ to yee TAYbies, your weekends all sound positively swell, except maybe for F4ction and his tattoo-shredding crash :(
My weekend was awesome, had a work dinner for a bunch of people who’s last day was on friday, got up saturday and went into the city and wandered around Circular Quay for a bit, harassed the staff of the Apple Store on George St (:P) and bought a few christmas presents.
Sunday was tops the lot I must say, I took a new ladyfriend with me to the Happy Feet 2 Premiere, and shall we say, things went extremely well, and I’m almost certain the kiss at the front door as I dropped her home means I’m onto a good thing :D
nah, they both came into the cinema and made their little speeches etc, but I missed actually meeting Mr Williams… George I’ve seen around the building over the last few months, he’s a really cool guy, and I’ve always been jealouse of the bomber jacket and scarf he wears most of the time :D
Should be a good week on the gaming front. Batman: Arkham City patch hopefully will be certified. Spike VGA’s will unveil some new games, hopefully on par with last years. New xbox 360 dashboard. Man, I got to get me a life. ;)
Strangely I find myself excited for the new dashboard even though I don’t like it very much right now. I think its mostly to do with the fact that I’m so very bored of the current dashboard. But then I’ve always hated the current dashboard!
The worst part about Jack and Jill, apart from the fact that it looks like one of those movies that would not be remotely interesting except for the playing multiple characters gimmick stacked with the crossdressing gimmick, is that I can tell just from the POSTERS, what the movie will be like:
‘Jack’ will play the ‘straight man’, probably something of a cynical/sarcastic family man who people associate with because he feels so put upon.
‘Jill’ is a crazy wacky fun loving free spirit who who get all up in Jack’s business and screw everything up and make Jack angry. At which point Jack will realise he’s a huge tool who needs to loosen up, and Jill will realise that she’s Adam Sandler in a wig and kill herself.
No, not really. She’ll promise to be more serious and controlled but she’ll still be cheeky and mischeivous, and there will be some stealth prank waiting for Jack after he has waved Jill off in her car or at the airport or whereever they use as the setting for their heartfelt goodbye.
If I’m wrong, I will be amazed.
You know what I want to see? Jack and Jill, but where Jill is just a figment of Jack’s imagination and sometimes he cross dresses to play the role of Jill while imagining Jack getting mad at her, but she does evil things on purpose to get revenge on Jack for being mad at her. The rest of the family, who are all substance abusers, think this is harmless self expression and indulges the fantasy, which is why no one reacts to this extremely odd behaviour. At the climax of the movie JackJill throws herself down some stairs and handcuffs him/herself to a boiler, where he/she beats herself with a cane and begs for forgiveness. It’s revealed that Jack created the Jill persona because he had a sister who was raped and murdered and he has spent his life carrying the burden of witnessing the crime because deep down he wants revenge, but he has also mentally blocked the incident from his memory.
Now that you’ve pointed out the similarity to Fight Club, I can’t even figure out how I wrote that without it even occurring to me. Wow, I’m visualising a mashup of Fight Club, Psycho and I Spit in Your Grave.
Good morning all. I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a great time, despite not getting to spend any time in Skyrim. Saturday we had my sister’s engagement party at our house. It was a fantastic day, we got really lucky with the weather, almost everyone invited was able to make it. And sooo much food, don’t think I will eat again until at least lunchtime. Sunday was spent cleaning up and watching the Kiwi’s get knocked over in the cricket.
I don’t know anything about D&D. except that I’m 99.9% sure that no one in my area plays it. Or they keep it very underground, which is also likely I guess.
It’s pretty good, actually! I’ts a lot like if you were playing an MMO in person with other people. You have dedicated roles (I was tank/DPS) and stuff, but there’s a lot o customization and freedom involved. Basically, you play a zero-graphics RPG with other players, and you can do whatever you want. Quests and dungeons are the main things you do though.
Perhaps a better description would be if Skyrim was infinitely more liberating, and you can play with other people, and your characters have backstories.
So i watched Captain America last night, i am honestly not sure what to think. i cant quite put my finger on it but something felt a bit off. thoughts anyone? also is green lantern as terrible as people have told me? or do you think its awesome?
I think what they’re doing is making movies for all the avengers, to explain why they’re all in the same time period and whatnot, then they’re going to make an avengers movie.
Hahaha, I’ll give you my thoughts – it was crap! Heh, there you go.
No but for reals, characters that went nowhere and that I didnt care about, random acts of not really very interesting action, and then uhhh shes all like no dont die and pretending to cry and I was like ahhhh please hurry up and die please.
Wow late start to the week of TAY. Morning every human/meatbag, Welbot and Bish
I’m only going to be posting this week once so I want to get a few things cleared up. Strange, I want to thank you for last week’s noms and your words. I did read it and I don’t want you blaming yourself for what happened. The last thing I want to do is to make a nice lady such as yourself sad. If anything, I blame myself for letting it all get to me.
I don’t know how many people would remember this, but LoL talk actually started with me. I came on one morning and talked about the game and how much I enjoyed it. Soon others got interested in trying it out and before we knew it, over a dozen people are playing this together as teams via TS. When people started complaining about the amount of ‘LoLchat” in TAY, I felt responsible for this and got defensive cuz I thought I was making a contribution to making our community stronger by playing a 100% team-based game together. I wrote up an apology to you and everybody else about my overreaction and I didn’t get a reply in any way shape or form, but still certain individuals taking a snap at LoL, and I took that as a kick to the teeth and didn’t feel welcome here anymore as I tried to remedy the situation that ultimately I caused and to me I got ignored.
So I decided to leave TAY so that I don’t risk making things worse and also risk the worst thing and end up dividing us, like with Rocketman’s attempt. At the very least I wanted to come back with a clear head, but then I realised I haven’t been able to do that from my high school history either. I don’t know whether or not I will come back, because right now I still feel like if I do, I’ll infect this place with my negativity and overreactions. Hopefully I can find my own way without damaging what this great community has become, so I’m going to say farewell for now. I will still be on TeamSpeak and always up for a chat on Steam if you wish. I’m not going to be avoiding the friends I’ve made here.
also i love you because your a robot with a sexy voice ( totally not meant in a creepy way) and even though none of it is directed to me you are teaching me alot about a game i thoroughly enjoy on TS and in TAY so thank you very much. side note: i could never go back to my school and not hate the majority of people there, so even though it feels like a repitition of events i honestly think they are completley unrelated and not similar at all. School was hell for you and no one had your back, this is more like an argument with friends about which type of pizzas you want for pizza night a group of people want something new and different you want to stick with the regular (hope that analogy works and is not read the wrong way) anyhooo hope you feel better soon :) and i hope to hear your voice in TS and TAY again soon :)
Techy, if you don’t get on here more often, I’ll continue to harass TS with my terrible, terrible (so very terrible) humour, more OR less often (depending on which option is perceived as a threat) :P
Seriously though, we all love you and you’ll be back. No one goes cold TAYkey!
I’ll respect your decision, but I gotta say that you shouldn’t feel like you’re damaging TAY by being yourself. Thats what TAY is all about, sometimes we joke, sometimes we come on here and just vent our spleens about what crappy days we have, and sometimes we have public spats at eachother because we’re all cranky on a monday arvo.
The fact is that we all do things like that, its only human (wink), and after all that we all have a laugh, kiss and make up, say we’re sorry for being in the middle of a coffee crash, and we carry on, because we know that we’re all friends here, warts and all.
So if ya need time off, indefinitely or not, that’s your decision and thats okay, you do what you gotta do. But if you decide to come back later down the track just know that you’ll have a community here that’ll welcome ya back with open arms.
Thank god the Diablo looked the least damaged. I’m much more likely to forgive the ferrari’s getting damaged, but you write off a Lambo(man?) and there’s no coming back from that
I was just glad there were no Astons or Porsches in there, you destroy my dream cars (FYI an Aston Martin DB9 or a Porsche GT3 RS) and I’m gonna have to choke a bitch.
I finally finished Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood over the weekend. To be honest, I was disappointed by it. The last stage in particular felt incredibly rushed. I can’t help but feel disappointed in the same way Red Leader felt disappointed when he missed the target exhaust port on his first Death Star assault.
I would have been greatly disappointed by the one-memory long sequence 9 there if it weren’t for the 20 minute Desmond sequence after it. As it stands I’m just somewhat disappointed. The big problem with the end of that game though, is the fact that halfway through sequence eight it just says ‘yeah no all those weapons you’ve got and that whole brotherhood of assassins you’ve trained? We’re not giving you access to them anymore! You have this macguffin thing, use that in roughly three or four identical memories that you can’t decline at all anymore’.
Yeah, that bit was unnecessary. Ezio would know better than to use the thing, and he could take enemies down better with his normal skills anyway. So stupid.
You say that Ezio would know better, but just remember.
Ezio, is a twat. There, I said it. If I knew anyone like him in real life, I would either a, punch them, or 2, disown them like I did every other friend of mine.
Good morning, TAY. (suddenly whenever I say that I feel like I’m one of Charlie’s Angels, ‘good morning, Charlie!’ TAY’s Angels? Whatever)
Hope this week is better than the last. Its day ten of my irritating cold, and when a cold lingers for this long I just get annoyed.
So on Friday I went to a farewell party for some friends who are moving to America. One of their friends brought along an entire set for Guitar Hero 5, and I spent the early part of the night fiddling with the drum kit, because I have never used one before. We only have #3 at home, which I must say has a far better music selection on it. Anyway, I’m no good with the drums. Maybe it was the drinking I was doing, I was good at any regular patterns but the instant more than three of the colours showed up on the screen I started flailing. When we finished playing Sultans of Swing, I retired from the drums forever.
Also since Skyrim is still SKYRIM and whatnot I spent Sunday fiddling around with that. Mostly College of Winterhold/Dark Brotherhood questlines, which were pretty fun as smaller narratives. But one thing I’ve discovered and hope isn’t only affecting me, dragons show up at the worst possible times. Leaving my house in Whiterun? Blood dragon! Stalking a Dark Brotherhood target? Dragon! Fighting two giants and a bear? Two dragons!
I have hardly had any dragon attacks. With the exception of the story attack outside Whiterun right at the start, I’ve only had one random dragon attack – outside Riften. Luckily there was plenty of town guards to help, even if they wanted to attck me more than the dragon.
I had one more encounter, just as was leaving a dungeon. Two dragons showed up, but they were struck with the reverse flying glitch and after firing a lot of arrows at them (that mostly missed) they back-flew halfway to Solitude and I never saw them again.
I’ve been to High Hrothgar and met the Greybeards. They sent me off to find the Horn of SIr Unpronouncable, but I haven’t gone after it yet. So not very far.
Decided to do some dungeon-diving and join the Thieves guild/ Dark Brotherhood to get some money/decent equipment behind me first.
I only watched part of it and recorded the rest since I was sweepy. Pretty damn good though. Makes me want to watch Red Cliff (Have the BD and have been meaning to watch it forever. Haven’t got around to it yet though :( )
I was interested in red cliff but then i found out that the theatrical release in Australia (maybe all western releases) was only half the film. They literally cut half the film out. So figured I would try to get the full film and watch it one day
I watched Mongol when it came out at cinemas, it was an interesting film, if maybe a little unfulfilling. I think it was more interesting from the cinematic standpoint, really seeing the different culture rather than the story itself.
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:24 AMLATE TAY IS LATE!
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:26 AMI need my fix, man, I need my fix!
Also,
Morning all! How did the weekend go? I finally got a heap of Skyrim happening, as well as a bucket of shots on Friday night, and hookers on Sunday!
What?
Oh!
“HOOKAH”
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:29 AMMORNING!
Weekend went well, I partied hard (went to a mate’s Buck’s night) and got a bit of Dark Souls time in as well. Managed to ring the second bell, SUCCESS, and now I’m trying to defeat the Great Wolf Sif, NOT SUCCESS YET.
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:43 AMI rang the bell and went straight to Sen’s Fortress. Then I died.*
*Repeat 12 times.
So I think I’ll go spend some time in the gardens and see about this so-called “Great” wolf. (Actually, he’s awesome. I genuinely don’t want to kill him, but then I’ve read that you can get an amazing shield with his soul.)
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:56 AMYeah I don’t think defeating him as anything to do with the plot, it’s more like I wanna defeat him because he’s there. I guess there are a few areas like that like the Ash Lake and the Demon Ruins.
Strange
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:53 AMDemon Ruins aren’t like that. you have to defeat the Boss to get to one of the final game areas. I think I’m going to leave Sif alone. He’s so pretty, he can live.
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:59 AMReally?
Poo I was hoping I wouldn’t have to go there hahaha.
Yeah Sif is pretty badass, but I’m all up in his grill now so it’s either me or him.
NotAbbott
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 1:55 PMI finally spent some committed time PvPing in Dark Souls, gravelording it up in and around Smough’s arena, as well as just plain old invading.
Damn good fun, and I don’t apologise for any killing I committed, or how much grief I caused.
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:04 AMIf I was going to let any creature live for being pretty, it would be the Moonlight Butterfly.
But I murdered it horribly, so now I may as well kill everything else.
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:30 AMmmm strawbrary
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:32 AMLie-berry
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:33 AMalso would like to thank Stevo for recommending said bucket o’ shots, ’twas indeed a tasty affair
f4ction
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:38 AMMy bike lost traction and I crashed last night. That was a fun way to cap off a week off work. Luckily it was at low speed (about 20-30k’s) and not while I was going 100 or something. My ribs feel bruised, I have a small headache and it hurts to breathe or bend my back. I also shredded some of my tattoo (sadface and by far the worst part) but the bike seems okay, barely a scratch on it. Getting back on and riding home was easier than I thought… I expected that I’d refuse to ride for a while.
The first and hopefully LAST time I come off it.
f4ction
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:39 AMAnd yep, I’ll go to the doctors at some point soon.
Strange
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:43 AMHow about NOW, young man!
Also, I know how you must feel about your tattoo. :( *hugs carefully*
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:44 AMSucks to hear, but chicks dig scars*, so it’s not all bad :P
*still under scientific study
D.C.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:48 AMOuch. That sucks, man. Good to see you lived to tell the tale, though.
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:59 AMDayum son, hope you feel better soon.
Bish
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:01 AM/o\ !
Don’t die, f4ction!
Remember!
You’re a survivor! You’re going to make it! You will survive, keep on surviving!
Freyr
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 8:29 PMomg f4ction :(
I hope you are okay dude!
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:32 AMI know, right? It just doesn’t feel like the day has started until TAY appears on Kotaku.
NotoriousR
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:25 AMHooray!
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:26 AMand WHERE have you been TAY??? i’m pretty sure the work day started at 8!!! i am disappointed with you, you could at least have called and told me you’d be late…
i had coffee for you… but… but now it’s cold
*sobs*
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:27 AMWE’VE BEEN WORRIED SICK!
We rang all the hospitals just in case, DON’T SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN TAY!
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:26 AMThe Adventures of young Mark Serrels: The Movie
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:27 AMBAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA!
Think I just freaked out my office with how loud that laugh was :D
Epic call, Puppy!
Blood Apathy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:29 AMbwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*cough splutter snort*……….hahahahahahahahahahahaa
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:27 AMmorning all :D
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:31 AM*phampf*
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+good morning Di11, sorry for my bad grammar but it is hard to type with your face, how are you this fine morning?
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:37 AMhow ya doing pixel?
i too feel as if i could slide my face along my keyboard. but im too tired to AKLjfahoweuhrzshdfhushfoijaehsdnvu2
whoah hey who what was that *looks around to see if anyone noticed*
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:01 AMi’m goood…. gooooood…
*sluuuuuurp (sibs coffee through a straw)*
what? i’m too lazy to lift the cup… it’s VERY hard work before the completion of my first and what will hopefully become many coffees for the day
Blood Apathy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:27 AMMorning Taybies! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend filled with gaming….to make up for my lack of gaming.
Had the wife’s work xmas do on the weekend. Lets just say, Doctors know how to put on a good shindig. Stayed in the city, then had a bunch of other htings to do, so really only go an hour or 2 on call of duty, and no time (or energy) for anything else.
This week should contain some more cod, some more space marine, and debating going back and playing some more NFS hot pursuit just because.
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:55 AMParty on Wayne :D
Shane
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:28 AMHi everyone. How were your weekends? I spent mine running around Constantinople. Boy, am I tired.
Strange
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:34 AMAssassin’s Creed: Revelations? Jealous.
If I don’t get it for Christmas I’ll be mad because I was told not to buy any games after Skyrim for myself before Christmas.
Shane
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:41 AMI’ll lend you mine when I get sick of it.
Shane
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:37 AMALSO:
http://www.game.com.au/assassins-creed-revelations-special-edition/playstation-3/ACREXCPS3
Hint to your gift-giving relatives if you cannae buy it yoursel
Strange
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:54 AMNice price! Thanks, will send it on to the right people. :D
Effluvium Boy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:42 AMI too did a fair amount of Constantinopling.
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:46 AMI’m still in Florence. Yes, I’m late.
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:06 AMI haven’t even left Jerusalem yet :( I’m so far behind.
Is it safe to skip AC1 and just move straight on to 2 and Brotherhood? Or will I be missing something major?
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:08 AMI asked the Kotaku peeps a while back for advice on this: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/community-review-assassins-creed-revelations/comment-page-1/#comment-446961
Consensus seemed to be AC1 could safely be skipped, although I was advised to play it for a bit to at least see how far the game had come. I ended up just skipping to AC2.
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:26 AMOk, I’ll do that, when I find time to get away from everything else I’ve got to try out.
D.C.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:28 AMSecond game has a ‘previously on Assassin’s Creed’ opening too.
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:12 AMThat “previously on” sequence really didn’t help me.
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:08 AMThat “previously on” sequence was beyond useless. Luckily, I enjoyed the plot of AssCreed enough to play it until the end. And while I’ve finished Ass2 and AssBro, it was not due to the plot, because man, there’s nothing there.
“A story of revenge, and some more revenge, and revengeyMcRevengeface.”
Look Ezio, I get it, you want revenge, now how about some character development? No? Templars are evil, and that’s all you need know? *sigh* Fine.
Edward
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 3:15 PMI skipped 1; didn’t finish 2 and now have brotherhood.
I’ve not missed much except for the ending of 2 but you can pick it up really easily if you watch the cutscenes at the beginning of brotherhood.
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:29 AMI went to a lot of effort to clear my inbox last week and was rewarded when the only stuff waiting for me on Monday morning were garbage office memo type emails that didn’t require my attention. Between that and my boss being off sick. I might actually be able to wind down after things being so hectic the last couple of weeks. Hooray, I might have some time to TAY this week!
I’m having friends over on the 17th and in my eagerness in looking forward to that and the break I’ll enjoy over Christmas I completely lost sight of the fact that I’m in fact turning 29 THIS WEEK. I would like to thank my wife for reminding me I am getting older much faster than I thought.
But what really concernes me is the future. Next year, I turn 30. And I cannot think of anything cool or interesting to do to celebrate this. Are there any other old people who’ve enjoyed a 30th and done something interesting to comemorate it? I need suggestions.
Blood Apathy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:31 AMHire out an entire arcade joint and have like the old school time zone super sessions. :P
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:33 AMMarry me.
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:42 AMThey still have meatworld arcades? I haven’t been to one since they closed Playtime on George Street (which was thankfully immortalised in the Looking for Alibrandi movie, so I can show it to my children).
“This is where daddy used to DDR after going to anime conventions.”
“Oh God, please shut up.”
“Oh, and that’s the alley where my friend was chased by a poop-flinging hobo!”
“It’s going to be the alley where our dad was murdered, if you don’t shut up.”
Anyway. I know that Galaxy World is still there, but for some reason I never liked the place. Maybe the machines didn’t get updated as much. Maybe I didn’t like the people who hung out there.
Interesting idea though.
Blood Apathy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:00 AMThat sounded like a more real life version of “how i met your mother” :P
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:31 AMI say, a Halo LAN party. But then, that’s just me.
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:34 AMI could buy Halo Anniversary and have a 4-player co-op campaign marathon.
On Legen…
dary difficulty.
Then again that’s something I could do this year.
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:40 AMBut everyone lugging a TV and console over to your place? In this age of Xbox Live, it will surely take something pretty special to make that happen.
I miss Halo LAN parties…
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:45 AMI wonder where I can find 4 old-school xboxes.
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:52 AMI wouldn’t go that far! I think some Reach system link would suit just fine.
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:00 AMIf a thing be done, it must be done right. I’ll also need 16 ‘Duke’ controllers, and some 51cm TVs with refresh rates that make my eyesockets ache.
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:04 AMFirst time I played Halo 2 (I didn’t know at the time that its online functionality would forever destroy the LAN party), was at a LAN party on a projector. It was about a week before it came out. Someone had “obtained” a French copy. It was very exciting.
Splicer
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:35 AMWell i’ll be 30 at the end of the month, i’ll let you know how that plays out. I may decide to go back to being 25 again.
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:47 AMI’m hopnig to be visited by aliens and/or genies that will allow me to revert back to age 21, and also have lots of money. In fact, that’s my birthday wish, so it has to happen.
Tigerion
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 3:10 PMSorry, wishes only come true if you don’t tell anybody about them. It’s in the fine print of the contract
Crazyguy1990
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:31 AMWoohoo! Now I don’t have to wake up early for TAY! \o/
ShiggyNinty
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:33 AMRemember everyone! Kotaku Kristmas Meat is on december 17th! Register intent at link_windwaker13@hotmail.com DRINKINGAMINGOODTIMES ! Btw its in Sydney!
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:45 AMI AM EXCITE!
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:03 AMI should be able to confirm 100% my attendance one way or the other by this afternoon. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it, I’ve been looking forward to it a lot
Bish
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:27 AMWe can talk Pokemon!
Pogeymooooonnnnnnnsssss
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:35 AMYes, definitely talk pokemons. Some other things too, but mainly pokemons
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:11 AMI wish I could go, but I can’t. Due to the whole slack-arse broke guy thing. So, I’ll drink a beer(probably a glass of water, I can’t afford beer), and toast to all you cool people.
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:33 AMI’ve made the switch to PC for Skyrim. Can’t really explain it, but I’m enjoying it so much more. I’m a platform agnostic, so this unsettles me.
I’m sticking with my xbox Battlefield though as I really hate it when my opponents have got mices. I don’t seem able to take advantage of the “extra accuracy” I am informed comes with a mouse, but my opponents certainly do.
James Mac
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:14 AMI too am PC-ing Skyrim… but it’s for the mods my good man, the mods.
But, now, it’s started crashing to desktop instead of loading the game… anyone else encountered this?
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:23 AMI figured the good mods would take a year or so to work themselves out. I’m really not interested in too much fiddle faddle and only really want one or two great ones.
In New Vegas, I’ve got Project Nevada installed. It is a thing of beauty.
I thought I could hold out for a PC GOTY in a year or two and in the meantime rock the ‘box. But it just wasn’t grabbing me. I couldn’t get past the framerate and it just felt sluggish and awkward to point my crosshairs at things I wanted to pick up. And sword fighting just really didn’t work for me. This is the first time I’ve felt the PC genuinely gave the superior experience.
Batguy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:36 AMSo this week’s TABTOL showcases 20 pages of Blaghman-broken, Plainview-farewelling, Trjn-ranting madness (seriously dude, 12 thousand words??). Harli showed all the pretenders who’s boss. I’m sure there were some other important themes in there but I know I was just too damn busy to keep up last week. Let us all know in the replies if we missed anything else of significance (with permalinks if possible!)
TAY December 2, 2011: 3685 comments
1: Harli 280 posts (7.6%, 3893 words)
2: Trjn 264 posts (7.2%, 12300 words)
3: Pixel the Ferret Viking 242 posts (6.6%, 5837 words)
4: Rize 218 posts (5.9%, 4115 words)
5: Effluvium Boy 150 posts (4.1%, 2502 words)
6: Sughly 137 posts (3.7%, 3633 words)
7: Steve-O The Deve-O 113 posts (3.1%, 2264 words)
8: Bish 111 posts (3.0%, 2396 words)
9: Chuloopa 103 posts (2.8%, 1616 words)
10: Plainview 102 posts (2.8%, 3038 words)
11: Splicer 97 posts (2.6%, 2463 words)
12: Di11enger 96 posts (2.6%, 3018 words)
12: Shane 96 posts (2.6%, 5280 words)
14: Dr What? 93 posts (2.5%, 3123 words)
15: D.C. 92 posts (2.5%, 2296 words)
16: Morkai 90 posts (2.4%, 2550 words)
17: Rocketman 89 posts (2.4%, 2312 words)
18: PuppyLicks 80 posts (2.2%, 1474 words)
19: NovaCascade 72 posts (2.0%, 2641 words)
20: Strange 67 posts (1.8%, 2605 words)
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22: Phoenix 59 posts (1.6%, 1329 words)
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Post #1: Batguy at 08:31 28/11
Batguy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:37 AMPost #1000: Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian at 09:43 29/11
Batguy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:39 AMPost #2000: Sughly at 14:03 30/11
Batguy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:40 AMPost #3000: Shane at 11:43 02/12
Batguy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:41 AMPost #3685: Blaghman at 00:55 05/12
Shane
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:43 AMWhat a depressing 3000th post. I feel guilty now. Sorry all!
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:06 AMWe all have days like that. Hope this week treats you better!
Sughly
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:03 AMHahaha, my 2000th post was a typo. Sigh…
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:37 AMYay top 50!
I always hit the ground running with TAY, but at about page 4 I lose it and then miss out for the rest of the week.
Blood Apathy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:39 AMThat is a pretty sad effort on my part last week, although i was pretty damned busy most of the week, so i didnt get anywhere near as much tay time as normal. Hopefully this week will be a little bit more TAY friendly.
Chuloopa
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:41 AMLowest word count in the top 10!
hells yeah!
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:42 AMWoo, Top 5!
This is a big moment for me! *wipes away tear*
Trjn
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:44 AMI think that word count thing is slightly off, I did two ~1000 word posts and then slightly more verbose than usual ranting. Seeing as I normally sit around 5-6k, this seems a little excessive.
Also, Harli cheated so I’m disqualifying her and claiming victory for the whole thing. I didn’t make spam posts on earlier pages to boost my post count. Everything I posted was legit.
Trjn
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:47 AMI’m not kidding, she’s a phony! Hey everyone look at the big fat phony!
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:53 AM*conspiracy alert*
someone call the government and by that i mean serrels
*shifty eyes*
sidenote you where very verbose last mr trjn 120.3 k words… someone likes the sound of their own voice :P
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:54 AMand by that i mean last week and 12.3k words. lol
Trjn
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:55 AMThe sound of my own keyboard, mayhap.
But most of that rambling was done at work on my somewhat silent Apple keyboard, instead of at home on my super mega awesome fun (and a bit noisy) mechanical keyboard.
Really, I was just having a very slow week at work. Oh so very slow.
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:54 AMI was trying to figure out why it didn’t seem like she’d posted that much :P
Bish
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:03 AMI thought you were calling her a big fat pony before re-reading it.
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:28 AMin which case it just goes to further proof how IMBA they are
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:08 AMWhat do you mean Trjn, that was a totally and completely legit conversation
*innocent look*
Effluvium Boy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:46 AMBack again in my comfy butt-groove at #5
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:48 AM\o/ TOP 3 BOOYAAH…. but hot damn that’s a lot of words Trjn
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:49 AMTop 20 already. I’m coming for the rest of you next
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:56 AMcheater cheater pumpkin eater! *points at Novacascade*
just kidding :)
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:01 AMYou’re just scared Di11enger. Granted I had a lot of help from Harli, but once I have enough power, I won’t need her anymore.
MWAHAHAHA.
*cough* I mean, I love you Harli, you have nothing to be worried about :D
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:04 AMoh my
*hides in pixel’s skirt*
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:07 AMYou’re not safe there Di11, you’re not safe anywhere…..
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:23 AM*farts so loudly the windows shake*
damn straight!
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM*dies*
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:34 AMOne down…
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:58 AMI went from 55 in my first week, to 20 last week, to 16 this week… MY ASCENT IS SLOWING, MUST SPAM MORE!!!
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:13 AMPsst, this comment is the secret to boosting yourself into a high position, like a manly man boss man. Just reply to everything, even when you have nothing interesting to say(aka, every comment I’ve ever made).
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:24 AMI should also point out that only about 5 people will read this, and the odds go down once I’m past page three, assuming that we’re at about page six by then. Strange will probably read it, no matter where I post, but apart from that? Ehh, there’s a couple people. Though it was mostly me, before the Calamity, of course.
AlexPants
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:18 AMHm, still somewhere in the twenties, well not bad. I need to pick up my game!
Trjn
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:20 AMI wonder if the post numbers are thrown off by posts made on earlier pages?
So if someone makes the 1000th comment and then someone posts something in reply on an earlier page, does TABTOL count the original 1000th post (presumably by sorting by timestamps) or does it bump every post afterwards making the 999th post the 1000th?
Batguy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:27 AMThe posts numbers are all chronological. So a reply to post #1 now will still be number #3800+. Can’t guarantee that the word count is perfect, bug I’ve used some standard approaches that have served me well in the past. Would have to check, but it’s conceivable that it counts apostrophes as word breaks? Whatever the case, your relative verbosity is undeniable :)
Trjn
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 3:31 PMThe word count definitely feels a little excessive. Oh well, I can’t complain. Nobody is going to beat this record for quite some time.
Unless I get really bored at work again.
James Mac
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:27 AMHacks!
Hacks I say!
Chuloopa
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:43 AMLADIES AND GENTS!!1
THIS IS YOUR LAST WEEK TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE KOTAKU KRISTMAS PROJECT IF YOU ARE NOT!!!
LAST WEEK!!!
email me at troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail(dotcom)
Everyone else – abso-bloody-lutely stellar job, guys and girls. you’re all amazing
For those who haven’t done phase three – please remember that this Saturday is the cut-off date. If you don’t have the time to do it, let me know and i’ll try and make time to do it for you.
Thanks guys
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:52 AMG’mornin’ to yee TAYbies, your weekends all sound positively swell, except maybe for F4ction and his tattoo-shredding crash :(
My weekend was awesome, had a work dinner for a bunch of people who’s last day was on friday, got up saturday and went into the city and wandered around Circular Quay for a bit, harassed the staff of the Apple Store on George St (:P) and bought a few christmas presents.
Sunday was tops the lot I must say, I took a new ladyfriend with me to the Happy Feet 2 Premiere, and shall we say, things went extremely well, and I’m almost certain the kiss at the front door as I dropped her home means I’m onto a good thing :D
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:52 AMconsarnit! reply-fail…
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:54 AMFirst TAY break of the week? Well done!
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:56 AMI didn’t break nuffin’ and you can’t prove I did!
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:14 AMYou call that a break? Why, in my day we didn’t get breaks!
True story.
Mark had to moderate every comment by hand, while I was outside, playing hoops with a stick.
A STICK!
D.C.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:07 AMYou get to rub shoulders with Robin WIlliams and George Miller?
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:15 AMnah, they both came into the cinema and made their little speeches etc, but I missed actually meeting Mr Williams… George I’ve seen around the building over the last few months, he’s a really cool guy, and I’ve always been jealouse of the bomber jacket and scarf he wears most of the time :D
D.C.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:50 AMShould be a good week on the gaming front. Batman: Arkham City patch hopefully will be certified. Spike VGA’s will unveil some new games, hopefully on par with last years. New xbox 360 dashboard. Man, I got to get me a life. ;)
McGarnical
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:53 AMShould I be excited about this new dashboard?
I could certainly do with some better functionality. I don’t know anything about this new one.
D.C.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:56 AMDepends how you feel about change. :D
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:56 AMyeah I’m keen to see what the new dash looks like, as well as how many ads they’ve managed to jam in there.
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:09 AMYoutube access on your Xbox.
That means Epic MealTime on your xbox.
That means BACON ON YOUR XBOX.
I think I have made my point.
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:09 AMSmart.
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:14 AMwhatchoo know about bacon on xbox?
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:18 AMWE’RE CHANGING THE GAME
Blood Apathy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:02 AMNew dashboard is….different. Good though i wish they’d tweak the ad sizes (oops not meant to talk bout it) NDS my ass! :P
AlexPants
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:27 AMStrangely I find myself excited for the new dashboard even though I don’t like it very much right now. I think its mostly to do with the fact that I’m so very bored of the current dashboard. But then I’ve always hated the current dashboard!
D.C.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:25 AMXbox Live works well with the current dashboard too, one of the clear advantages over PSN in my opinion. I liked the original dashboard too.
Shane
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:58 AMBad news DAN!
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/film-jack-and-jill/story-e6frfmw0-1226210988248
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:14 AMThe worst part about Jack and Jill, apart from the fact that it looks like one of those movies that would not be remotely interesting except for the playing multiple characters gimmick stacked with the crossdressing gimmick, is that I can tell just from the POSTERS, what the movie will be like:
‘Jack’ will play the ‘straight man’, probably something of a cynical/sarcastic family man who people associate with because he feels so put upon.
‘Jill’ is a crazy wacky fun loving free spirit who who get all up in Jack’s business and screw everything up and make Jack angry. At which point Jack will realise he’s a huge tool who needs to loosen up, and Jill will realise that she’s Adam Sandler in a wig and kill herself.
No, not really. She’ll promise to be more serious and controlled but she’ll still be cheeky and mischeivous, and there will be some stealth prank waiting for Jack after he has waved Jill off in her car or at the airport or whereever they use as the setting for their heartfelt goodbye.
If I’m wrong, I will be amazed.
You know what I want to see? Jack and Jill, but where Jill is just a figment of Jack’s imagination and sometimes he cross dresses to play the role of Jill while imagining Jack getting mad at her, but she does evil things on purpose to get revenge on Jack for being mad at her. The rest of the family, who are all substance abusers, think this is harmless self expression and indulges the fantasy, which is why no one reacts to this extremely odd behaviour.
At the climax of the movie JackJill throws herself down some stairs and handcuffs him/herself to a boiler, where he/she beats herself with a cane and begs for forgiveness. It’s revealed that Jack created the Jill persona because he had a sister who was raped and murdered and he has spent his life carrying the burden of witnessing the crime because deep down he wants revenge, but he has also mentally blocked the incident from his memory.
Trjn
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:17 AMYou got a little Fight Clubby at the end there, but aside from that methinks the premise works pretty well.
Get yourself a contract with Hollywood and make that shit happen.
Matthew K
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:23 AMNow that you’ve pointed out the similarity to Fight Club, I can’t even figure out how I wrote that without it even occurring to me. Wow, I’m visualising a mashup of Fight Club, Psycho and I Spit in Your Grave.
BearBlaster
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:36 AMShane, I highly doubt anybody thought it would be any good. Maybe even DAN! .
Shane
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:51 AMI dunno, DAN! has been pushing it pretty hard :)
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:15 AMLalalalalala, I’m not listening, I’m sure it will be amazing. AMAZING!
Bish
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:58 AMHEY ‘CUZ!
How’d the weekend LAN thing go?
Did you win? Because that would be fully sic, brah.
NotoriousR
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:29 AMIf buy ‘cuz you refer to harli, they seemed to have steamrolled everyone.
Of course, if you had twitter, you’d know this.
NotoriousR
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM*by
Oh dear.
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:17 AMYour subconscious mind is telling you to buy more games, you have no other choice.
Obey. Obey. Obey. Through obedience is order, through order, peace.
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:59 AMGood morning all. I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a great time, despite not getting to spend any time in Skyrim. Saturday we had my sister’s engagement party at our house. It was a fantastic day, we got really lucky with the weather, almost everyone invited was able to make it. And sooo much food, don’t think I will eat again until at least lunchtime. Sunday was spent cleaning up and watching the Kiwi’s get knocked over in the cricket.
How was everyone else’s weekend?
BearBlaster
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:37 AMExcellent! I had my first ever D&D thingo on friday night, which was pretty good!
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:46 AMI don’t know anything about D&D. except that I’m 99.9% sure that no one in my area plays it. Or they keep it very underground, which is also likely I guess.
What’s it like? How do you play?
BearBlaster
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 12:33 PMIt’s pretty good, actually! I’ts a lot like if you were playing an MMO in person with other people. You have dedicated roles (I was tank/DPS) and stuff, but there’s a lot o customization and freedom involved. Basically, you play a zero-graphics RPG with other players, and you can do whatever you want. Quests and dungeons are the main things you do though.
Perhaps a better description would be if Skyrim was infinitely more liberating, and you can play with other people, and your characters have backstories.
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:02 AMSo i watched Captain America last night, i am honestly not sure what to think. i cant quite put my finger on it but something felt a bit off. thoughts anyone? also is green lantern as terrible as people have told me? or do you think its awesome?
Splicer
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:06 AMTo me it just sort of…ended. Like they were building up to something that never happened.
Bish
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:07 AMYou know what you should do? Throughout whole movie just have this looping.
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:16 AMdamn youtube at work :(
i will lol about it when i can watch it at home
BearBlaster
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:39 AMI think what they’re doing is making movies for all the avengers, to explain why they’re all in the same time period and whatnot, then they’re going to make an avengers movie.
Sughly
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:15 AMThats some pretty accurate insight
Sughly
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:14 AMHahaha, I’ll give you my thoughts – it was crap! Heh, there you go.
No but for reals, characters that went nowhere and that I didnt care about, random acts of not really very interesting action, and then uhhh shes all like no dont die and pretending to cry and I was like ahhhh please hurry up and die please.
Tech Knight
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:05 AMWow late start to the week of TAY. Morning every human/meatbag, Welbot and Bish
I’m only going to be posting this week once so I want to get a few things cleared up. Strange, I want to thank you for last week’s noms and your words. I did read it and I don’t want you blaming yourself for what happened. The last thing I want to do is to make a nice lady such as yourself sad. If anything, I blame myself for letting it all get to me.
I don’t know how many people would remember this, but LoL talk actually started with me. I came on one morning and talked about the game and how much I enjoyed it. Soon others got interested in trying it out and before we knew it, over a dozen people are playing this together as teams via TS. When people started complaining about the amount of ‘LoLchat” in TAY, I felt responsible for this and got defensive cuz I thought I was making a contribution to making our community stronger by playing a 100% team-based game together. I wrote up an apology to you and everybody else about my overreaction and I didn’t get a reply in any way shape or form, but still certain individuals taking a snap at LoL, and I took that as a kick to the teeth and didn’t feel welcome here anymore as I tried to remedy the situation that ultimately I caused and to me I got ignored.
So I decided to leave TAY so that I don’t risk making things worse and also risk the worst thing and end up dividing us, like with Rocketman’s attempt. At the very least I wanted to come back with a clear head, but then I realised I haven’t been able to do that from my high school history either. I don’t know whether or not I will come back, because right now I still feel like if I do, I’ll infect this place with my negativity and overreactions. Hopefully I can find my own way without damaging what this great community has become, so I’m going to say farewell for now. I will still be on TeamSpeak and always up for a chat on Steam if you wish. I’m not going to be avoiding the friends I’ve made here.
Take care of each other humans.
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:14 AMyou’re a knight, being protective is your thing.
also i love you because your a robot with a sexy voice ( totally not meant in a creepy way) and even though none of it is directed to me you are teaching me alot about a game i thoroughly enjoy on TS and in TAY so thank you very much.
side note: i could never go back to my school and not hate the majority of people there, so even though it feels like a repitition of events i honestly think they are completley unrelated and not similar at all. School was hell for you and no one had your back, this is more like an argument with friends about which type of pizzas you want for pizza night a group of people want something new and different you want to stick with the regular (hope that analogy works and is not read the wrong way)
anyhooo hope you feel better soon :)
and i hope to hear your voice in TS and TAY again soon
:)
Rize
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:27 AMTechy, if you don’t get on here more often, I’ll continue to harass TS with my terrible, terrible (so very terrible) humour, more OR less often (depending on which option is perceived as a threat) :P
Seriously though, we all love you and you’ll be back. No one goes cold TAYkey!
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:30 AMI’ll respect your decision, but I gotta say that you shouldn’t feel like you’re damaging TAY by being yourself.
Thats what TAY is all about, sometimes we joke, sometimes we come on here and just vent our spleens about what crappy days we have, and sometimes we have public spats at eachother because we’re all cranky on a monday arvo.
The fact is that we all do things like that, its only human (wink), and after all that we all have a laugh, kiss and make up, say we’re sorry for being in the middle of a coffee crash, and we carry on, because we know that we’re all friends here, warts and all.
So if ya need time off, indefinitely or not, that’s your decision and thats okay, you do what you gotta do. But if you decide to come back later down the track just know that you’ll have a community here that’ll welcome ya back with open arms.
Peace, Techy
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:33 AMAlso at least keep lurking here or get on Twitter so we can give a heads up when the next Melbourne Meat runs around ;)
Strange
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:56 AM*hugs* Don’t be a stranger.
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:19 AMok, this morning I have discovered 2 things…
1) cold coffee is bad.
2) I should not put chewing gum in my mouth before drinking coffee, spearmint does not go with coffee…
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:20 AMSpearmint really doesn’t go with anything. Which is why I rarely have gums. I like food too much to ruin the taste
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:22 AMYes I rarely have gums, my teeth just sort of float around in my mouth…
Its too early for this
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM1) i don’t understand this statement… coffee, bad? should never be in the same sentence :P
2) coffee with anything in your mouth is considered multitasking and all the cool kids do it
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:36 AMwell comment 1) was a coffee I had made at 8:30 and was attempting to drink at 10:15… so, cold and nasty.
Edward
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 3:19 PMblack coffee on ice is the best way to start lectures.
Stevorooni
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:20 AMMy Twitter feed has concurrent posts by both Mark Serrels and his alter ego Simon Pegg (who happens to be in Australia right now!)
PuppyLicks
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:35 AMSWEET JESUS!
The Highlander battle is about to begin!
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!!!
Di11enger
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:25 AMon a completley unrelated note http://www.news.com.au/world/eight-ferraris-tangle-in-most-expensive-crash-ever/story-e6frfkyi-1226213870366
prius gets revenge for everyone calling him cheap!!!*
*probably not what actually happened
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:32 AMThank god the Diablo looked the least damaged. I’m much more likely to forgive the ferrari’s getting damaged, but you write off a Lambo(man?) and there’s no coming back from that
lambomann007
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:46 AMiseewhatyoudidthar
I think I should start the RSPCL (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Lambos) :P
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:19 AMWould this group liberate lambo’s from their oppressive(dickweed) owners, and give them to caring houses? Because I would totally be up for that.
Morkai
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:47 AMI was just glad there were no Astons or Porsches in there, you destroy my dream cars (FYI an Aston Martin DB9 or a Porsche GT3 RS) and I’m gonna have to choke a bitch.
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:53 AMOr a Koenigsegg CCX
*Drool*
James Mac
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:43 AMJust buy a 911, the only way people can tell them apart is if someone says…
“no, that’s a new porshe”.
Cakesmith
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:27 AMGood news everyone!
I finally finished Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood over the weekend. To be honest, I was disappointed by it. The last stage in particular felt incredibly rushed. I can’t help but feel disappointed in the same way Red Leader felt disappointed when he missed the target exhaust port on his first Death Star assault.
Effluvium Boy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:37 AMI imagine it was supposed to feel fast paced and frantic.
Effluvium Boy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:44 AMOh, whoops. Do you mean the Desmond sequence?
AlexPants
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:40 AMI would have been greatly disappointed by the one-memory long sequence 9 there if it weren’t for the 20 minute Desmond sequence after it. As it stands I’m just somewhat disappointed. The big problem with the end of that game though, is the fact that halfway through sequence eight it just says ‘yeah no all those weapons you’ve got and that whole brotherhood of assassins you’ve trained? We’re not giving you access to them anymore! You have this macguffin thing, use that in roughly three or four identical memories that you can’t decline at all anymore’.
Strange
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:59 AMYeah, that bit was unnecessary. Ezio would know better than to use the thing, and he could take enemies down better with his normal skills anyway. So stupid.
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:21 AMYou say that Ezio would know better, but just remember.
Ezio, is a twat. There, I said it. If I knew anyone like him in real life, I would either a, punch them, or 2, disown them like I did every other friend of mine.
AlexPants
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:37 AMGood morning, TAY. (suddenly whenever I say that I feel like I’m one of Charlie’s Angels, ‘good morning, Charlie!’ TAY’s Angels? Whatever)
Hope this week is better than the last. Its day ten of my irritating cold, and when a cold lingers for this long I just get annoyed.
So on Friday I went to a farewell party for some friends who are moving to America. One of their friends brought along an entire set for Guitar Hero 5, and I spent the early part of the night fiddling with the drum kit, because I have never used one before. We only have #3 at home, which I must say has a far better music selection on it. Anyway, I’m no good with the drums. Maybe it was the drinking I was doing, I was good at any regular patterns but the instant more than three of the colours showed up on the screen I started flailing. When we finished playing Sultans of Swing, I retired from the drums forever.
Also since Skyrim is still SKYRIM and whatnot I spent Sunday fiddling around with that. Mostly College of Winterhold/Dark Brotherhood questlines, which were pretty fun as smaller narratives. But one thing I’ve discovered and hope isn’t only affecting me, dragons show up at the worst possible times. Leaving my house in Whiterun? Blood dragon! Stalking a Dark Brotherhood target? Dragon! Fighting two giants and a bear? Two dragons!
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:44 AMI have hardly had any dragon attacks. With the exception of the story attack outside Whiterun right at the start, I’ve only had one random dragon attack – outside Riften. Luckily there was plenty of town guards to help, even if they wanted to attck me more than the dragon.
I had one more encounter, just as was leaving a dungeon. Two dragons showed up, but they were struck with the reverse flying glitch and after firing a lot of arrows at them (that mostly missed) they back-flew halfway to Solitude and I never saw them again.
…And then I found 50 gold coins.
AlexPants
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:47 AMYeah, I went a long time without any showing up, but suddenly they’re a lot more common. How far into the main quest line are you?
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:56 AMI’ve been to High Hrothgar and met the Greybeards. They sent me off to find the Horn of SIr Unpronouncable, but I haven’t gone after it yet. So not very far.
Decided to do some dungeon-diving and join the Thieves guild/ Dark Brotherhood to get some money/decent equipment behind me first.
Blaghman
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:22 AMHmm, challenge accepted? We’ll see. What challenge? You’ll see.
Effluvium Boy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:45 AMAnyone watch Mongol on Saturday night (SBS)
NovaCascade
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:58 AMI’ve got it on DVD in the cupboard and have been meaning to watch it forever. Haven’t got around to it yet though :(
Effluvium Boy
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:13 AMI only watched part of it and recorded the rest since I was sweepy.
Pretty damn good though. Makes me want to watch Red Cliff (Have the BD and have been meaning to watch it forever. Haven’t got around to it yet though :( )
Tigerion
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 4:09 PMI was interested in red cliff but then i found out that the theatrical release in Australia (maybe all western releases) was only half the film. They literally cut half the film out.
So figured I would try to get the full film and watch it one day
I watched Mongol when it came out at cinemas, it was an interesting film, if maybe a little unfulfilling. I think it was more interesting from the cinematic standpoint, really seeing the different culture rather than the story itself.