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Welcome back @markserrels
Morning TAY
Edit* No way….a TAY get….a first for me
Last song played game gang
Talk about your life by Scooter
Because who doesn’t love those German techno masters 😀
I’ll have to give it a listen when I am not in my corner cubicle in my quiet office
Damnable policy against headphones!
Congrats on the baby to you and your missus again Mr Serrels
And welcome back, you missed a lot
@dc left TAY to clear his head *and came back a day later*
@shane made a joke about leaving TAY for a while *and came back a minute later*
And @greenius bought some clothes online, and once they were delivered he discovered they fit
And everyone else!
I can’t believe @greenius bought clothes online and they actually fit. That’s not possible.
I know right! Maybe he used an electronic change room
What’s the bet that footage is now on some seedy corner of the internet
A twist worthy of M. Night Shamalamalan
Shamallamadingdong*
The small makes my muscles pop and the medium fits normally. *flex*
Buffius
Beefcakeius
Jean Claude Van Dammius
No, I was being serious 🙂
Far is a fantastic album, some of the songs on it are incredible. Laughing With is playing now, such a great song.
*forcefully puts Shane’s man cards back in his hands* Dude, music is music
Life without music would be a mistake
YEAH 🙂
Hi Strange! Splendid to see you too. I’ve been around, just tied up of late; new job, getting married soon. Hope you’ve been well. 🙂
Ooh, congrats on the marriage thing. Hope you have a fun day. 😀
I am well, thank-you.
Congrats!
Rebellion (Lies) — Arcade Fire, actually make that the entire Coachella 2011 set for the fifth time in a two weeks. 😛
Dude, if my internet is back tonight *It may be, when the underground connections flood it can take days* I will tweet you and we can Torchlight 2 together
Seriously, the end game is awesome, you can go back to the start and play a new game plus
Or, just teleport in a place called The Mapworks, and buy maps for dungeons that are scaled to level
It is crazy!
YOU’RE CRAZY! 😀
Little bit 😀
Fantastic end game oppotunities though, this game kicks the shit out of Diablo 3
Hmm, it was a David Guetta track. Possible one of the ones featuring Kimbra? She-Wolf?
Buses man.
Edit: stupid phone TAY. Bus ride to work normally takes 25mins. It has so far taken 30mins just to get through 1 suburb.
While I have not had bus problems yet this morning, I soon have to brave the trip from wherever on earth I’m housesitting, to work.
This could be…
Something.
My dad went for a walk this morning, and said he saw a bus that had somehow caught its back wheel in a stormdrain and was stuck in the road. He said, and I quote, ‘it was freaking awesome!’
Morning TAY,
and for @markserrels:
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/33998152.jpg
Talk talk talkey talk talk!
NEW YEARS CAMPING VIDEO SHOULD BE UP TODAY ON POTAKU!
In other news I put a Kit-Kat in my pocket yesterday and forgot about it till today. It was in the same pocket as my wallet. And my keys… And my work headphones…
FUN!
Yeah, I don’t even know how to describe it eh? Getting up for work is going to be a significant challenge…
Maybe apply it like eye drops? Deliver the energy where it is most needed.
Haha yeah, my brother just received his first babby a couple of weeks ago, luckily he works nightshift so he is accustomed to being up all night.
Also while you may be sleep deprived, it can’t be as bad as last years sleep experiment, right? 😉
That’s right, I forgot about that. What that says to me is:
He got permission to sleep at work before. He can get it again.
Right? Right?
@markserrels Welcome back. Hope you’re not too sleep deprived.
@therestoftay yesterday I posted a link to Croixleur, a Japanese doujin game that Nyu media has brought to the west. If you haven’t upvoted it on steam’s greenlight, do me a favour and do so now.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=114203390
Already done. I think it’s pretty crazy that they have to go through greenlight in the first place, since there’s already several Nyu Media games on Steam proper.
Girlfriend asked me if I was feeling OK this morning. I responded with “I am error”, but she didn’t get it.
Morning, all! Now that the Tennis is over, I will return to knowing/posting absolutely nothing about the Sportsball.
Also welcome back @markserrels!
Oh man, sportsball.
Had a ground pass for the final day. So many drunk Serbians and Scots. So damn loud.
You’re either saying that because they’re really attractive or are extremely muscular and could beat the bajeezes out of you.
It’s both.
Hi everyone. Welcome back Mark!
About to find out how work feels about me cutting back and commuting once a fortnight from Bathurst. Don’t know what to expect.
TRUE STORY THAT I JUST REMEMBERED:
Back in the MSN days like 5 years ago, I was at a friend’s house and some friends put that pic as their display picture and claimed that the girl we were talking to (who was from our school) looked like that. She was actually rather attractive but totally told the teacher on them and they got detentions. Fun times.
CONCLUSION: my friends are dicks.
Hi all, Welcome back @markserrels and hope all is well man. If an update has been provided about MiniSerrels somewhere i’d be keen to see how you are going, perhaps you are already writing this??
Now for my dilemma. I am in possession of a picture frame. This picture frame is called a piix from iinet and it has a unique feature of having its own mobile phone number. Why this is cool is because you send it an MMS and the picture instantly appears on the photo frame.. why I think this could be funny as hell is that I can give the number out to you all and while drunk or whatever, you can send it pictures… that would be good right>??
Was going to go as far as posting the number of twitter elsewhere but perhaps not wise…
whats the worst that could happen??? 😉
So, should I give the number out? Only down side is that I can’t change the number so once its out its gone 🙁 I think it would be awesome, but then pron and such could be a bad idea (but funny?)
What? I mean like when we all meat up we could send photos to Fatshady and it can be like he’s there
I knew what you meant.
Scree. Gets. Jokes! 😛
That does sound like fun! As long as it doesn’t cost you anything to receive the pictures. That would end badly… 😛
Maybe just DM or email it to people who will be interested in sending you pictures of their junk random funniness.
Eldest daughters first day of school today. She’s terrified and trying everything she can to get out of it.
Nah. She never had any problem with that. More stressed about not being able to read and thinking everyone else can. Thinks she’s I’d going to be useless. The truth is she is actually way more advanced than most of the other kids.
:’) Aw, cute. Haha! I was one of those weird kids psyched about starting school. Hope the day treats her well.
WHAT A FREAK!
I don’t remember what I was like before or on my first day but I think I was probably excited too :P. Ah the non-hermit social days, I used to talk to and make friends with everyone!
Reposting two things from old TAY.
1: I need Autolog fronds for NFS Most Wanted! Doesn’t matter what console you have it on. My account name is 007lamboman.
2: Hnngh. That Tron Uprising season finale. So good.
Seriously, if you ever find yourself with nothing to do, download the first ep and watch it. You won’t be disappointed. The first ep itself more than makes up for the lackluster story in Tron Legacy. The subsequent episodes only get better and better.
I’d say it was one of the best shows from last year/this year, but I don’t watch enough TV shows to be able to make that judgement 😛
I’ll be shocked if Tron: Uprising doesn’t get cancelled. As far as I can tell there’s no second season ordered, which isn’t a good sign.
Yeah, it doesn’t really help that they decided to air it at midnight…
I think there are two possible situations that might save the show.
1: Now that Disney owns Star Wars, they may end up with The Clone Wars on one of their channels (depends on what the current deals with it are though). They could air The Clone Wars and Tron Uprising side by side, which would help it get more viewers.
2: They decide to tie the series into the third film (which they’ve said they’re working on). Could generate enough interest in the show to warrant a second season.
I think this is all just wishful thinking though 😛
I finally found Once Upon a Time in the West on Bluray.
At Coles of all places.
I am pleased.
Tron Uprising > Once Upon A Time. At least, better than the few episodes I watched 😛
Okay… perhaps, but Once Upon a Time in the West (and in America) are completely different things 😛
Henry Fondaaaaaa
Oh, ohhhhh. I didn’t realise the ‘West’ was a part of the title and assumed he was talking about the TV show xD
…sureee
Trollzizzle!
…am I supposed to have heard of Once Upon A Time In The West before? 😛
It’s a classic spaghetti Western. Well known amongst film buffs but probably not elsewhere. It’s also old so I don’t expect you to know it 😛
Dot points!
– Welcome back @markserrels
– Work. bleh.
– Dishonoured. (yeah, thats right. I spell it with a ‘U’. coz I talk proper). I like it. Finally getting into it over the weekend, but goddamn… the difficulty spikes up in the second mission. so much loading previous checkpoints was done. still, its pretty ok.
– suddenly hyped for Ni No Kuni.
– The Nintendo presentation from last week. I know ninty get a lot of flak for releasing games from the same 4 franchises possibly a bit too frequently, but seriously… remaking Wind Waker?! thats a bit too much.
Sure, its apparently one of the best Zelda games (never played it myself), but why go to the trouble of building an entirely new game engine (if they’re only using a re-skinned GC engine, this is not worth putting on the Wii U) if you’re only gonna remake whats already been done?
why not, I dunno, make a new Zelda game in this new engine? new story & stuff, but using a HD-er & prettier version of the Wind Waker art style?
is nintendo really that lazy / scared of new things?
I’m no hater. I like nintendo. but really, this is just taking the piss.
Sure, other companies have done HD re-releases. but they’ve just re-skinned the existing game with new textures. the difference is, Nintendo are implying that they’ve rebuilt the whole engine just so they can make the same game again.
– hope all the northerners are doing ok with all the water.
– Again, I’ve run out of dots to point.
Edit: spelling
They had great success remaking Ocarina of Time on the 3DS, why not see if the magic works twice?
Was the OoT 3D really a remake? or was it just the original game, ported to the DS with a 3D effect added?
From the presentation, I got the impression that the WW remake is a total remake. Rebuilt the game engine from scratch, recreated all the models & textures & stuff.
Point is, if they’re gonna go to 90% of the trouble of making a new game, why not just make a new game, rather than remaking something?
then its the same issue.
its like cloning Jimi Hendrix & then telling him to just play nothing but All Along The Watchtower forever & not make any more new music.
Because while that might not be the best use of resources, you can take that to the bank.
then that just makes nintendo seem more like an un-imaginative, money-grubbing & lets-keep-making-the-same-game-over-and-over-coz-our-fans-are-dumb-enough-to-keep-buying-it sorta company.
where the hell has the innovation nintendo has become known for gone?
Sometimes polish is more important than innovation.
Because they knew the stealth section was an abomination and are going to remove it? #EternallyHopeful
OoT was reskinned and they changed the control scheme to fit the 3DS (which somehow made the Water temple more tolerable according to people that got that far).
It was a remake, not reskin. They even went as far as coding in some of the more famous glitches from the N64 version.
Hi @DC!
yeah, well enough for a monday Tuesday morning without coffee.
how about yourself? survive the weekends weather in one piece?
I’m okay. Some of the drains on the roof have snapped off, I expect that’s going to be expensive to fix. A few trees are down, but otherwise everything’s fine! 😀
Dishonored :D!
I didn’t find the second mission too bad but there was a lot of reloading for me too. I can’t remember the name but that “See through Walls” power up makes a huge difference. I’m pretty sure the first assassination (second mission) took me like 8 hours because I was exploring everything and stealthily taking out everyone non-lethally so I could explore in peace.
yeah, the see-through-walls power is super useful. the only thing i dont like about it is that it turns off after X seconds. seriously? I’m only gonna turn it on again straight away & the way the mana works, it doesnt cost anything, so yeah…
Also, in the 2nd assassination mission –
pretty much the same map as the first, but this time, BAM! theres a great big freaking omnipotent rocket turret in the main street & the guards are now teleporting, all-seeing freaks.
I’m a bit concerned as to how they’re gonna make the later missions even more difficult…
I also had a habit of hoarding health and mana potions and waiting until my mana fully regenerated before using it again 😛
It kind of makes sense later on when you’d want to use the move and then Blink straight after (or use something else), but it would’ve been better if it just stayed on indefinitely. I’m just glad it’s not a sort of “drains mana for each second you use it” kind of thing. I probably wouldn’t have abused it as much if it was 😛
Very few people owned a Gamecube and not all of those people bought Zelda TWW (Due to outrage at the cartoony graphics at the time). It then went on to be critically successful, if not financially. Now all those people who missed out would like to play it.
For that reason a rerelease of The Wind Waker makes more sense than any other Zelda game.
Nintendo have said they are working on a brand new game. It was while they were working on that game that they ran the older games through different graphical filters and came to the conclusion that TWW looked fresh and new.
Also, TWW was released with parts of the game removed due to time constraints. A remake means there is a chance some of the removed sections could be added back in.
The game also used the GBA for some fun, but non-essential, features. A straight port would have to lose them completely.
I understand what you mean, & if I had a Wii U, I’d be all over this.
But Nintendo are getting a bit of a reputation as releasing installments of a franchise annually with only minor improvements / tweaks.
A remake isnt exactly helping change this. If they wanted to remake WW, why not do it after whatever Zelda game they’re currently working on?
I think it’ll work better before as it’ll help build up hype and possibly introduce, or bring back people to the Zelda franchise. For most gamers it’s inevitable that a new Zelda would be released on any Nintendo platform but not many people expected a Wind Waker HD remake (most people were counting on a GameCube Virtual console/straight up port).
I’m not sure what most people think but the Wii U didn’t really have too many games that would make people think “I want a Wii U”, can’t say that has changed too much but there’s definitely more incentive for people to pick one up now.
I agree with most of the things you said and you have a point. Wasn’t sure where I’m going with this but I’m just bored 😛
Honestly, of all the things out or announced for the Wii U, a new Zelda game is the most likely thing to make me run out & get one.
Remake of WW is about 30% making me want the console, but a new Zelda game… yeah, I’d have to stop writing this reply coz I’d be going to get one immediately.
The thing is, Wind Waker was released in 2002 (I think?) so as a game, its limited to what was achievable 10 years ago, so a remake, if it stays true to the source material, is going to inherit those limitations in some way. If it doesnt stay true to the source material, why call it a remake at all?
The source material is the story, not the thechnical limitations of the hardware.
You say a new Zelda title would make you buy a new console but not this rerelease. But you ALSO said that you have never played TWW.
This makes it sound more like you have something against the game itself. Surely a remake of arguable one of the greatest Zelda games ever made, that you have never played, should be one of the BEST reasons to buy a Wii U?
BECAUSE NOW YOU GET TO PLAY THE WIND WAKER!
I’ve got nothing against the game, like I said, I’ve never played it.
What I dont like is the idea of a remake when all this effort has gone into making the tools needed to make an entirely new game.
If it were just a HD port, then sure. theres minimal effort & resources gone into it, but to make an entirely new engine to just remake a game? seems a bit of a wast of time & money on Nintendo’s part.
So they’re bad cause they’re lazy and rereleasing a game, but also bad because they’re not lazy and putting in extra effort, not just upresing?
It’s only a waste of money if they don’t make a profit. Given the level of excitement around not only TWW, but an HD release, I’m sure no money will be wasted.
Using the previous games as a guide, I doubt we’ll see the new game until 2015. We haven’t seen a video, hell, from the Nintendo Direct it sounds like they’re still trying to work out what kind of game it will be. Nintendo are giving people what they asked for. The Wind Waker, and they’re not doing it half-assed.
I think it’s pretty awesome of them and I’ll keep being a “dumb-enough-to-keep-buying-it” fan 🙂
Which is weird as they are one of the few people who don’t do that.
I mean, TWW was 2002, TP was 2006 and Skyward Sword came out in 2011.
Even the New Super Mario Bros series has about 2 years between games (Excluding this years NSMB2 on 3DS and NSMU on WiiU). Granted we also got the SMGs and SM3DL.
And Metroid? 2002 – Metroid Prime, 2004 – Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, 2007 – Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, 2010 Metroid: Other M.
They all seem like perfectley respectable gaps between games to me.
And Nintendo said that TWW HD is getting released because the new Zelda game isn’t anywhere near ready. This is something to help pass the time/bridge the gap. Releasing it afterwards would kind of miss the point.
There were a few Zelda rereleases of the past year or so. OOT3D as well as 4 Swords Anniversary Edition but these, and TWW HD included are part of the 25th Anniversary celebrations.
Nintendo’s reputation for releasing games in their series annually (Like Assassin’s Creed or CoD) just isn’t true. Neither is the monor tweaks thing. For ever person who complains that the games are the same, there is someone complaining that they are too different.
I thought the GBA stuff was universally panned? There was a lot of experimentation with that sort of thing back around then (see also: the Dreamcast’s VMU) and it’s interesting how often ideas in the tech space are abandoned because the tech itself just isn’t there yet, but end up coming back around later. But I think the GBA stuff from Wind Waker wouldn’t be a loss if it disappeared during the port.
What is a loss is the cel shading 🙁
“I thought the GBA stuff was universally panned?”
Nope. It was fun.
I think it’s pretty much guaranteed that the GBA stuff will still be in the port to some extent given that the Gamepad exists.
The problem with the GBA stuff was that not everyone had a GBA so they couldn’t make it a requirement to play, so it just serves as an interesting experiment. You didn’t have to use it and were’nt penalised so there was really no downside.
So quiet here at work
No daily Trust work yet allocated to me as the Manager of our little sector is off and her second in command isn’t quick to do that stuff
I guess I just file some distributed trusts and bluuuuuuuudge
You work on Statutory Trust Accounts? If you have to audit them I don’t envy you, however Tax Returns and General Ledger is easy enough.
Yeah, we just distribute them when the child is of age and pay any claims made by the parents before the child is of age
The ledger is fine, the Tax returns are handled by the Tax Branch, it is no problem
I just have to bundle the entire file together with binders, file it on the system and send a final letter with a Statement of Account
Well that was definitely a different way to spend a three day weekend.
Shame the office was open this morning, would have been nice to sleep in. Turns out that I grew accustomed to the sound of the wind lashing at the window, so I struggled to get to sleep last night.
Hi fronds!
I still have no power at home! I got almost no sleep last night because it was hot / humid. Atleast the trains are down to emergency services which is reason enough for me to get a day off.
Apparently there’s a number you can call to get an estimation on when power is restored to your area. They reckon about 3:30pm.
I AM MOVED!!!!!
We moved house over the weekend to a much much much better place in Lovely Banks (it’s a new suburb in Geelong). So now we have a 3 bedroom townhouse with lots of space! So much awesome.
It took us the entire bloody weekend to do it, though. I got to drive a truck. It wasn’t as fun as some people make it out to be.
I’m still incredibly sore from the whole ordeal, though. But thanks to Bee’s increadible ability to be a site foreman (ie. preventing me from sitting down at all and telling me what to do even when i’m already doing something else) we are not only moved in, but we are COMPLETELY unpacked and set up.
The down side is that we still need to clean and landscape the old place.
Also i won’t have the net at home for at least a couple of weeks.
Le sigh.
ALSO – I SAW THE HOBBIT!!! (Spoiler free)
I wasn’t even going to bother, really, as i’ve only seen the LotR movies once each as they are just long and tedious for me (aside from the kick-arse battle scenes), but i am so glad i went and saw it. It was actually a rather brilliant little movie, aside from being super kid-friendly now. I found Gandalf to be much more likable in this movie as well, and Bilbo is much cooler than Frodo. Dude actually has a pair of balls unlike Frodo who just looks like he is about to poop himself while he waits for Sam to come and save his butt.
I did notice, however, that when there was a scene with quick panning or really intense fighting, that everything seemed to look really blurry, which was about the only real grip i had with the movie.
When i left the cienema all i could think of “Mannn i really want to paint up some Warhammer dwarfs now”, then smarter side of my brain said “dude, you don’t even play fantasy , let alone have the funds to paint up a bunch of those neat little dudes”
but then again…. http://www.slavetopainting.com.au/products/dwarf-thunderlord-avatars-of-war
So yeah, lots of great stuff!
You can get them from slavetopainting.com.au – although i don’t particularly like the look of them.
I like dwarfs to be the more traditional fantasy thing, i guess.
We that’s the plan. I’m slowly inching my way towards you, then before you know it BAM! You’ve been chuloopa’d.
ALL THE HAMMERS OF WAR!!!!
Should have my Termie squad finished shortly. I hope.
Have you started on any of your minis yet?
I have not. And to be honest, I am currently more interested in making a Necromunda gang! Or two, if I can be bothered ordering parts from Forge World
Yeah, I just prefer to do the whole conversion gang thing, since Necromunda is such a personal thing. Also those stock models are preeeeetty ugly.
Also – not sure if this would interest you or not:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LARGE-LOT-OF-WARHAMMER-40K-NECROMUNDA-BULKHEADS-/390529619466?pt=AU_Miniatures&hash=item5aed61160a
Yeah man – they certainly are ugly as sin. lol
Conversions are where it’s at 🙂
Howdy Tayberinos
@markserrels! Congrats on Babby!
I had an interesting long weekend- the Australia Day party I was at was disrupted by us having to call an ambulance (All good in the end).
I also went and saw Django Unchained. Which was… Quite something http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/the-d-is-silent-thoughts-on-django-unchained/ if you want to have a look at what I thought.
I also played a fair bit of Far Cry 3, which I’m enjoying quite a bit, especially now I have a silenced sniper rifle.
A Monday Morning Question: What video game adaptation should Quentin Tarantino direct? I want to see Quentin Tarantino’s Grand Theft Auto.
sup @dc!
It was OK in the end- girl dislocated her shoulder in the pool, so she couldn’t get out easily. We submerged a chair in the pool for her to sit on and waited for the ambos, who gave her painkillers which helped her get out of the water. Ambos then popped her off to the hospital for x-rays, and she was back within 90 min.
I loved Django Unchained so damn much.
So. Damn. Much.
As for the question, Saint’s Row perhaps. Or Sleeping Dogs, that could be cool.
Saw Silver Linings Playbook on the weekend. Such a damn good movie that I could relate to more than I care to admit.
Nothing that the trailer shows. Honestly the worst, most misleading trailer I’ve ever seen.
It’s about a guy discharged from a psych ward by his mother (against doctor’s advice) who attempts to settle into his old life after the fallout from an ‘incident’ that put him there. Really cool drama/dark comedy thing. Best movie I’ve seen in a long time.
(Edit: That’s not the part I could relate to, just so you know. :P)
Interesting. The trailer made it look like a boring RomCom. Now I’m mildly interested.
I thought the same thing. Some of the scenes in the trailer are insanely out of context. It’s a welcome surprise, though. I’d prefer the movie to be better than the trailer instead of the other way around. 😀
Ohai Mark.
I actually spent a good portion of my long weekend playing games. It was frightening. Finished Dishonored, which was fun but also felt disappointing towards the end, and I’m continuing to make progress in Mario Wii U, which can be horrendously difficult at times, and that makes me sad. D:
No Dark Souls progress. Nowadays when I look at the case it’s like all these horrible memories come flooding back and I start shaking and sweating and I hear the sounds of my dying character and I drop the case and run screaming from the room and drown my sorrows in cookies and tea.
…was that a reference to The Room? It was a reference to The Room, wasn’t it.
Sidevote for The Room reference.
Jesus holy heck D.C., you’re quick! I posted the comment but somehow got a Duplicate Comment error and when I came back to page 2 YOU HAD ALREADY UPVOTED IT!
inb4I’mknownformyquickness
AHEM
Well i had my last day of work on Friday, It doesn’t feel any different being unemployed.
ANYWAY, because of the massive floods down in south east QLD (hope you are all safe especially you @freezespreston) and northern NSW, my moving is definitely going to be delayed AT LEAST a week maybe 2-3. I am kind of bummed about it but I can’t control the weather so I’m just going to keep on trucking 🙂
I have a list of things i have to do today and i would like to write it here so that if i post throughout the day people can tell me to get back to work.
Finish Resume
Go to Department of main roads and upgrade my license
Visit my nonna (who is way too pleased I’m not leaving yet :P)
Finally put music on my phone
Fix up online banking stuff
Find Charger for my ebook reader and put books on it (Help would be nice with title suggestions)
MORE MANGA and comics on my ipad
I should wash my car but its way too hot for that.
Im probably forgetting stuff.
Greetings and salutations, TAYbies. I had a fun yesterday, finishing off DmC and starting on the latest borderlands 2 dlc … unfortunately my sheer stubbornness and laziness, I forgot to take it off true vault hunter mode and my paltry level 44 assassin keeps getting blown away by the base enemies from the first mission. I now loathe everything. On the plus side, short week! WOO!
As predicted, the only game I played this weekend was Binding of Isaac. Again.
I now have 14 hours clocked on that game on Steam and I only just made it up to Mom for the first time. She destroyed me in about 30 seconds. So, I think I might just give up there, as I’d been having an absolute dream run and I can’t even fathom being any more prepared for the battle than I was. The real clincher was the item martyr + yum heart combination I picked up which meant I could farm the hell out of the machine that gives coins for hearts, and buy every upgrade from every shop and completely rort the arcades.
So I might actually play something else this week.
In non-gaming news, it turns out we can’t fit both our car and our old TV unit in the garage, so I might have to chuck that up on gumtree and hope someone actually wants a 12 foot long TV unit from the 80s that will only fit a 32 inch TV.
The Binding of Isaac :D!
Most of my runs take ages because I spend so long playing the slots and arcade games.
EDIT: Which characters do you have? It took me ages to get up to Mom and even longer to finally defeat her but as soon as I unlocked and started using another character the whole game became so much easier (and fun!)
Oh man, that first Mom kill felt FANTASTIC!
It gets easier once you’ve done it, and certain characters are definitely easymode, comparatively speaking.
I’ve killed Mom’s Heart 10 times, and unlocked/killed It Lives.
Nice! Did you Cain it up for those runs? After I beat the game with Isaac it was a Cainfest.
That’s sorta where I am now but I’ve done a bunch of the Challenges, killed It Lives (and the stuff after it a few times) and now I just need to beat a level after It Lives a few more times to get the next section. Trying to avoid using Cain and beat the stuff with other characters for new unlocks.
Blondie (Mary?) is my current project, and she’s fucking tough to use… Eve is another point of interest, though slightly easier.
I think I’ve done Maggy and Judas. Was working on Eve and Samson for a while but… too hard 😛 and ??? is even harder.
When I reached that point of failing I just tried some Challenges and it was awesome. Have you tried doing any yet?
Nope, didn’t realise there were any! Will have to have a look tonight 😀
I have the blonde girl, the dark haired girl, and I just unlocked Cain in the aforementioned coin machine farming run. I might have a go with Cain now that I have him, but I feel like the “right” thing to do is finish it with Isaac first, so I’ve been reluctant to play with other characters.
Cain is my favoured character, the lucky foot really helps with regard to pills and gambling!
I’ll give him a go! I hate when I’m having a great run then I hit a pill that takes away some of my health. 🙁
Yeah, for the most part I just don’t take pills unless I’m playing as Cain!
I always take them because I live life on the edge.
“Health/Tears/Range/Speed Down”
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Exactly the same feeling I had! I felt like it would be cheating to use the other characters BEFORE I beat the game with Isaac so I went out and did so first.
Cain was the character I was talking about. I’ll describe why he’s so awesome in the spoiler below so you can read it if you want, or avoid it :). There’s nothing too spoilery but I just describe the item he starts with and why it’s good.
He’s mainly awesome because he starts out with a Lucky Foot. This makes all pills have a positive or neutral effect, makes items more likely to spawn after clearing a room AND makes it easier to win at the arcade and on other machines.
Well, I might go ahead and give Cain a shot before I give up on myself then. 🙂
And MASH
Or is that too old-school?
MASH was awesome.
Until Alan Alda became a writer / producer & made Peirce a tragic hero.
I didn’t mind that so much. What I really hated is Alan Alda’s loud obnoxious fake sounding laugh where he rolls around clutching his sides.
That was the only thing about MASH that annoyed me.
Man, I really feel like watching MASH now.
Love all of MASH, even his stupid laughter 🙂
the direction he went with the character was pretty fitting, I just think what made it jarring was that his was the only character that went in that direction.
I mean, the whole show was heavily anti-war, but in later seasons, only Alda’s character was the one doing the anti-war thing in any real way. I just think it’d be better if the same attitude was extended to the other characters.
the ending film went a good way to doing this though…
This comment thread won’t go any deeper so I tagged you manually — @35
I think everyone had their moments in the later seasons, but yeah, it seemed like whenever Alda had a REALLY great idea he’d keep it for himself. I guess in those later seasons the show really morphed into Hawkeye as a proxy for the viewer (particularly apparent in the movie, I suppose) and I don’t necessarily disagree that the show needed a fixed protagonist, which is probably why it never really bothered me that all the major plot threads concerned Hawkeye. Maybe everyone else had their own stuff going on but we couldn’t devote screen time to everyone. Many sitcoms with an ensemble cast will devote episodes or arcs to various characters and this is something that the earlier seaons did well, but I think the change in tone also meant this wouldn’t really work anymore.
I liked the serious, darker M*A*S*H more than the earlier stuff. *shrugs*
Totally. The show really matured well. The early seasons are almost cringeworthy in comparison (despite being legitimately funny).
Grampa W. Smith.
Anyone know where I can get Solider of Fortune, the latest one that came out a couple of years ago and bombed hard?
*shrugs*
Ebay??
ozgameshop?
Amazon?
I have the original one.. or was it number 2.. i have no idea any more..
Number 2 was my favourite
I appreciate you responding but I don’t think I will bother now, due to the whole R rating issue they had to remove the dismembering, also it got horrible ratings
Will do!
I am *this* close to completing the Artorias of the Abyss DLC for Dark Souls, at which point I will probably take a break from that game and jump into some good ol’ fashioned brawling 🙂
I have Anarchy but I have my problems with it. Just curious to hear other people’s thoughts!
It’s your fault I bought it since you posted that awesome news link that said it’ll be a budget title (AWWW YESSSS) AND it would come with Bayonetta! 😀
So… do I say ‘sorry’ or ‘you’re welcome’? 😛
Oh, it’s still fun (just flawed), so a bit of both!
My progress in DmC Devil May Cry this weekend was hindered by the product key not initially working, something resembling a social life, DOTA2 and then a complete lack of power to my neighbourhood.
Still, I’m enjoying it so far. The combat is interesting and varied, it doesn’t feel button mashy and there is definitely the stylish flair that you’d expect from a Devil May Cry game.
The big problem is Dante. I’m not one of those guys that loathes the fact that there’s a new Dante. It’s just that so far, he’s phoning it in.
Old Dante was a caricature of action movies. Everything he did was so over the top, so ridiculous, so beyond what anyone would consider reasonable that it just worked. Sure there are hammy moments like the “I wanted to fill your dark soul with light!” but for the better part he was a smarmy, snarky, stylish son of a bitch.
New Dante doesn’t really have any of that. It’s really apparent in the cut scenes with Vergil. Vergil’s voice actor tries. There’s nuance. There’s some level of giving a damn. Dante’s voice actor pretty much just says the lines and moves on. He’s boring. He’s dull. Sure he kicks ass but it’s missing the absurdity.
Maybe he gets better as the game goes on. I’m sure I’ll find out, the combat is enough to keep me interested.
Do you also feel the talent tree is as unappealing as Darksiders 2’s is? I really think they should of gone for a different angle with it.
I honestly haven’t gone deep enough into the game. That and I didn’t play Darksiders 2 after not being that impressed with Darksiders.
I don’t mind the new Dante, he’s less over the top than the older dante, he goes become a regular smarmy kickarse bastard … just without the over the top thing. He’s more believable personality wise.
The whole shoehorning kat as a love interest thing to get him to give a damn about humanity is pretty damned cheesy
Combat wise I loved the new DmC … it’s a lot easier to pull off crazy combos and general awesomeness. That said, I haven’t tried it on pc yet. On the plus side, there’s no actual quick time events.
I’ve been playing on PC with a 360 controller and it plays just fine. Don’t ask me how the keyboard and mouse controls are, I’m not silly enough to try.
As for the Kat thing, what’s not to love about a squirrel semen spraying psychic in shorts?
so after seeing some of the videos on EVE i thought i’d give the free trial a shot.
i think it’s safe to say i’m addicted to it.
the funny thing is i don’t really enjoy the combat as much, but it’s actually more the mining and business sides that really interest me…
Really need to get back into it. My account is still subscribed, all I’ve done for the past 6 months is log in and ensure skills are training.
I want to get into combat, but it’s pretty terrifying – putting your ship and pod at risk.
I think I’ll just end up piloting a big ‘ol mining barge someday.
yeah, that’s what i’m working too as well…
the only problem being that to get the good ore you need to go to the low sec areas, meaning that i would need protection, meaning i would have to join a corporation at some point.
There was a TAYbie corp for a short while, but afaik I was the onyl one who still logged in semi-regularly… I left a month or two ago.
@markserrels HAI MARK \o/ Welcome back amigo!
@all I hope those affected by the flooding are safe and dry. I hear the worst has passed for the majority, though my grandmother was evacuated last night so far as I can tell.
In lighter news, I purchased my very first Nintendo 64 with two games (Lylat Wars and F-Zero X) yesterday! Now to play the waiting game, along with the I-hope-I-didn’t-get-scammed game.
Also watched Django last night. Won’t give anything away, but it’s the typical stylised ultra-violence in parts, with somewhat tacky, almost jarring comedic interludes. That aside, it’s a fantastic film, I highly enjoyed it. BRAVO to DiCaprio’s performance. Holy shit, that was powerful stuff.
Also changed the flavour in my vaporiser from chai tea (by and large my favourite thus far) to choc-mint, which is a bit overpowering until the chocolate dissipates (which does so rather quickly), at which point it’s predominantly menthol, which is a nice change. Bit sweet for my liking, might have to try the others shortly.
Anyways, hope everyone’s having a good day \o/
EDIT: Removed spoilers.
Edit-vows broken :'(
You’ve broken your edit vows many times before! Yargh like a pirate. Basically, did you acquire it? 😛
Many times? That’s my second-ever edited post, my first being in jest, and hidden away elsewhere 😉
Also yeah, I had to acquire it, though will be looking to purchase it upon legal release!
I dunno… I knew it was more than one! 😛
along with the I-hope-I-didn’t-get-scammed game.
If you payed with Paypal you shouldn’t worry to much, you should only play that game if you’re selling stuff on eBay.
Edit: Sorry forgot to hit reply =/
ReplyWIN!
I payed with bank deposit, as Paypal is a shit and won’t allow me to make transactions. Scary/stupid of me :S
You told me before (but I forgot :P) but why didn’t can’t you use PayPal again? Weren’t you banned or something? Surely you should be able to contact them to get it set up and working again. PayPal have protection so they’re always a relatively safe way to pay for anything, especially on eBay.
My account was limited back in 2010, and now I’m stuck in an infinite dispute-resolution loop. It’s a bit shit, and means that I can’t resolve the issues (contacting Paypal results in “head to resolution centre and follow prompts kthxbai”), hence I need to use alternative payments.
Xenoblade has its hooks into me again. Really didn’t like the previous two zones I was in but the current one is great and I rearranged my party and now I’m creaming everything.
I don’t think I’ll get time to play again until the weekend though, and by then I should also have Ni no Kuni. Conflicted. 🙁
Also need to start planning out what I tackle after Xenoblade and Ni no Kuni are dealt with. The only other upcoming games I have my eye on are Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite but those aren’t until March so I’ve got some time.
Satorl Marsh and Makna Forest. Satorl because there’s those fucking birds everywhere, and Makna because it’s a horribad maze
Yes, I said so in Old TAY.
About that character discussion in the previous TAY:
Ah, so you do have Melia! She was my favourite lead (with Reyn and Shulk/Riki as secondaries). I really liked her strategy of summoning buffs that can be used as attacks. I would always use Summon Aqua (health regen buff) at the start, then throw out Bolts/Flares as needed. I also liked that she could Topple without needing to rely on teammates. Such fun!
Dunban can topple without teammate assistance too. But I find the topple never lasts long enough to have Shulk daze the enemy and Carna headshot it for potential insta-kill 🙁
I actually haven’t used Melia yet at all, she hasn’t been in my party for a while. Thinking I might swap out Carna for her for a bit and see how that goes.
Sharla is good for healing but she’s almost too powerful. It’s good to keep at least one healer type though and Riki/Melia both have healing moves (I believe)
Oh yeah, I forgot Dunban could too. The main problem with Melia though is that the AI doesn’t really control her all that optimally (just spams whatever attacks work instead of holding buffs, toppling properly, etc). She draws aggro really easily too so aggro-down gems are essential.
Anyway, happy to hear you’re enjoying it!
The benefit of Carna/Sharla is she has an aggro-down aura.
Also Dunban is just cool. Maybe some of the awesome is lost in English but his attack names in Japanese are badass. Plus that whole left-handed thing. And at the moment I have him using headgear that’s an eyepatch for added awesomeness. One eyed and one handed. \o/
Non-edit postcouint inflation extra post: Apparently Squenix have sold 300,000 copies of Bravely Default. And still no localization 🙁
I’m convinced more and more by companies like Capcom and Squenix that Japanese game studios just straight out hate the west.
Paradoxically Namco, who historically hate the west with the fury of a thousand suns and would deliberately prevent us from getting their games (eg “Hey Europe, heard you were interested in Xenosaga? Here’s a limited edition version of the shitty middle game. You won’t get the two good ones.”) are now leading the charge with localizations of JRPGs as far as the higher-profile stuff goes.
Morning all! hope everyone had an awesome long weekend!
@markserrels – congrats on mini Serrels! hope all is well!
I am still trying to burn of the excessive amounts of alcohol that was consumed on Sunday…. :S
Morning all.
Weekend checklist:
– Acquired better couches.
– Dug another half kilometer of tunnels in minecraft
– Restarted my marauder on path of exile, found some claws and decided to make this character a wolverine build.
– Watched all 3 indiana jones movies yesterday.
Back at work on the 7AM start brigade!
Gorzy’s.
Given that I’ve tunelled (and made portal shortcuts) to most places, have a pretty good experience farm going, and a couple of hundred diamonds, I’m starting to run out of things to do.
Was thinking of tracking down the dungeon with the ender portal, but that can only be done once per map. I’m hesitant to do that given how long this one has been going.
i dont quite think anyone’s been that far in yet… gorz has been busy building the walls and towers, nos has been redstoning up the place, and others have been mining on the dark side 🙂 might jujmp on later tonight…
I guess I could make it my next project to find the ender portal and build my house on it. Just been getting by with a hole in the ground so far.
If you’re having a wander around, go to -267 x, 676 z and take a swim 🙂
is there a reason Valve keeps loading me up with DOTA 2 steam gifts??? I currently have 12 of them in my inventory…
Oh… yeah..
Obligatory @markserrels blah blah blah blah welcome back blah blah.
No, but really, it’s great to have you back man – hope everyone is doing well and you haven’t developed sympathetic man-boobs yet.
Also, my thoughts are with all the QLD taybies – is everyone ok over there?? Any news???
Ugh, 10:57 and bored
Come on work, get interesting
Spag’s is hungry and keen for lunch
Sam is good man, she had to leave early Sunday morning
Which caused me to dive into Torchlight 2, Batman Arkham City and Machinarium
Because, well……really missed her and no big new games are coming out any time soon.
Good to hear, too bad she had to leave. Though the fact she stayed in the first place is reassuring? 😀 I’ve been playing Zombi U. Such a cool game, then I’ve got Ni No Kuni out on Thursday!
successbaby.jpg
Very reassuring but not the first time she stayed man
Every weekend so far 🙂
Ni No Kuni looks great but alas, I have no PS3 and no urge to buy one
“no urge to buy one”
MY ASS.
Hahaha
Ugh, Rememberius!
Quotius!
I have changed my mind
Young Justice is pretty much done for. Here are the shows that are replacing it:
Teen Titans Go!: Featuring the return of Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg in all-new, comedic adventures, Teen Titans Go! will premiere in April 2013. Character-driven comedy is the order of the day as this new take on the superhero series focuses on the funny business that happens between saving the world and living together as teenagers without adult supervision. The series stars the principal voice cast from the original Teen Titans, and is produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
Beware the Batman: A cool, new take on the classic Dark Knight franchise, Beware the Batman incorporates Batman’s core characters with a rogue gallery of new villains not previously seen in animated form. Along with backup from ex-secret agent Alfred and lethal swordstress Katana, the Dark Knight faces the twisted machinations of Gotham City’s criminal underworld led by the likes of Anarky, Professor Pyg, Mister Toad and Magpie. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, this action-packed detective thriller deftly redefines what we have come to know as a “Batman show.” Featuring cutting-edge CGI visuals, Beware the Batman, based on characters from DC Comics, is coming to Cartoon Network’s DC Nation block in Summer 2013.
Is it just me or does Beware the Batman sound absolutely terrible?
+1 for it sounding terrible
There is a reason some villains have never been animated before
And get killed off in the comic books or seen rarely
Edit for spelling, because I had villains spelt correctly and fixed it because I thought it looked wrong, then realised it was wrong
Nope. Cool and edgy.
Seriously though, terrible. Prepare for the Cluemaster and Calculator.
All the good super hero shows never last long enough. Wolverine and the X-men, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and now Young Justice, all canceled before their time.
I’m not sure that new Batman show sounds so terrible. Some of the villains sound a bit stupid, but it’s nice to see them expanding beyond characters like the Joker or Scarecrow. Plus having Katana as a sidekick sounds cool. My main concern is it could feature subpar CGI.
That new Teen Titans sounds terrible though.
lol looks interesting, that’s for sure.
I might have to give it a shot once i get internet back.. if i remember.
@crazyguy
played some scribblenaughts unlimited before we started the move while Bee was at work.
Oh my god man – thank you so much!!!
While most of the puzzles so far have been fairly simple, the sheer joy that comes from creating something out of thin air is just so satisfying – also it helps that the art style and music are just sooooo cheery. I couldn’t stop smiling as i was playing – bigkiditis?
Thanks again man – so much awesome win. You’re such a gent!
CAMPING VIDEO IS UP!
http://potaku.com/2013/01/29/camping/
Starring: @sughly, @freezespreston, @masha, @blaghman, @f4ction, @shiggyninty and some non-TAYbies… (@ruffleberg was there, but I don’t think he’s on camera)
You KNOW you wanna watch it!
Awwww. Watch it so you know what to expect next year? I MADE IT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO COULDN’T COME!
It’ll be too painful, man. Will bring back memories of refreshing an empty TAY alone in silence. 😛
But… All that editing work…
I’m sure all the regular, well adjusted TAYbies will watch! 😀
Should have said:
Are you for scuba?
If just one person gets that reference I will be happy.
Ugh.
^ Who’s this guy?
Watched an episode of Good Game SP with my nephews the other day, one of the games they talked about was Swordigo.
The three of us are now addicted to this game, I find this to be all kinds of awesome!
Don’t be like that
There is always a place in my heart for BDKIAF
“I wanted you to know, that I am ready to go, my heartbeat, heartbeat”
Oh, you like me now, well that’s weird
Last year you were chillin’ with that girl Sam
Now you wanna pretend like my feelings is still the sam… e?
Fuck them backpackers
I try, oh, how I try :'(
She was the one that said she was in a relationship with me
We weren’t going to, guess she changed her mind
All I ever post is lyrics, quotes and funny pictures anyway
SO MANY BABIES!
THEY WILL RUN AS FAST AS KENYANS
THEY’LL RUN SO FAST PEOPLE WILL THINK THEY’RE KENYANS AND THEY’LL GET DEPORTED BACK TO KENNYAAAAA
SNAKE EYES!
Best energy drink ever
Just set up my voicemail. Had much more fun than I thought I would.
Standard voicemail message:
“If you don’t know how to use voicemail by now you’re stupid”
Busy message:
“Im on another call with somebody who called me before you did. Had you called me earlier, I would be talking to you and they would be hearing this”
I also use this phone for work.. Should be fun.
🙂
A friend had a whole “Hey, what’s up *long pause* that’s good! but this is a voicemail” kind of thing which was incredibly confusing :/
One of my brothers friends did that. Except it went for ages, with several ‘Yeahs’ and ‘Uh-huhs’ etc.
Well, daughter cried the whole way from the car to her classroom then wouldn’t let go of my leg. Poor thing was absolutely terrified. Eventually got her settled down next to another little girl with a book than ran. Feel a bit guilty but it was probably for the best.
Then I spent next hour or so cutting up all the trees that came down. Some roof repairs to be done and we found a tap around the side of the garage that had been ripped from the wall (o_O) and has been spraying water everywhere for who knows how long. One of the trees took out the pool fence so going to have to replace that too.
But now it’s blue skies and sunlight and mud and a horrible smell. \o/?
The cleanup sucks, but at least it marks the return of normality once again?
Any chance insurance will cover cost of damages?
Eventually got her settled down next to another little girl with a book than ran.
I know the running part was exaggerated but I find the mental imagery of that hilarious.
From what I hear, this is normal first-time experience. Also, I’m sure the school thing will sort itself out.
PS: Storm insurance is iffy in QLD isn’t it? Are you covered for any of this?
Not sure. The insurers all decided to be REAL specific on storm damage claims after 2011. I know 2 people who still are waiting on claims to be paid from that 🙁
“But now it’s blue skies and sunlight and mud and a horrible smell.”
So normal Gold Coast, then?
HEY-OH!!!
Zombi U question:
There’s a security room on the way to the apartment complex. I see the Raven code hidden on the door/windows/etc but can’t actually make out what it says? Am I missing something or is it the worst possible font evah! 😛 I’ve aligned it enough for it to show up as a message. Still can’t read the text. :S
I haven’t read the spoilers, so can’t contribute anything of value to the conversation.
No one has! :'(
they will be foreever lost to time itself
Hiya @dc!
Soviet arcologies!
What point of the game are you up to? I’m having trouble remembering an apartment complex 😛 (Perhaps you’re further ahead than I am?)
Oh, man. Would be nice for Wii U to connect to internet so I can write notes on the walls for everyone. Get a sense of who has been where. Haha!
Did a quick google and apparently I’ve nowhere near completed the game. I figured I must’ve been a fair way through but it’s just because I’ve been playing very, very slowly 😛 You’re one area ahead of me I think.
I’m in…
Buckingham Palace, I think. Haven’t played it for a few weeks 😛
Haha! I’ve been playing so damn slow too. I also restarted the game on Sunday after deciding I had killed too many survivors. Now I’m up to Survivor #9 again. :'( Why’d you stop playing?
Not because I don’t like it or anything, I just have to be in the right mood to play it. I don’t normally do horror, let alone survival-horror 😛
This. That game is so tense!
I’m googling, and I’m seeing all sorts of references to decoders and secret languages, and they all say “Come back later”
For the record, I was looking up the right game, but it might have been totally the wrong thing.
PS: I have about a 5% chance of ever playing this game. So not fussed about spoilers 🙂
Sounds right, there’s been some back tracking stuff before. Just this time it looked like it might’ve just been dodgy font. Glad that’s not the case. Thanks again!
Anytime, my man. As long as I can make a snarky joke first, I’m all about the helpful.
Ha! The guy who reads all the spoilers is worried that Shane read the spoilers :P. You’re only ruining it for yourself D.C. when you eventually play Xenoblade (and other games!)
NOPE! 😛
Our credit card got emptied by fraudulent charges so we cancelled it. PS+ renewal charge to that card didn’t go through so they completely banned my account until I paid it.
Mind you the only way I could pay it was with their pretend space dollars purchased from a store. They wouldn’t accept anything else. And the made sure the amount owing was $50.90 so I had to spend extra. Was REALLY not happy with that.
Wait so you had to pay $50.90 to renew your PS+ before they could unban your account? Seems incredibly stupid on their part 🙁
At least $50.90 is a good price for PS+ (compared to the usual $70) for a year! Makes sure to turn off auto-renew to avoid shit like this in the future 🙂
What that actually means is that @freezespreston had $19.10 in his wallet and when they charged the $70 PS+ fee it took the wallet amount then tried to fund the rest from the cancelled CC.
Ah, fair enough didn’t consider that.
Still seems incredibly stupid to BAN an account because you couldn’t afford/pay the renewal fee…
Spaghett is thinking of buying a PS3 folks
For Deadly Premonition and Ni No Kuni
And I guess a few other titles that come out
Should I do it?
The Last Of Us!
Also don’t get that newer slim model, get the slim model before that.
Oh ok, thanks for that man
How big should the hard drive be?
A big one is good if you’re a PS+ member or are playing games that require install. That said, it is user-replaceable.
Depends, if you only plan to use it to play Playstation game exclusives you won’t need much.
That sounds good, I do only intend to use it for playstation exclusives
I am not about to start buying blu-ray’s although I guess I could
That’s what she asked.
Why the glossy one?
I got it wrong it’s actually matte,the new one is half-glossy the reason is because the newest one looks and feels cheap, but if you don’t care about cosmetic stuff just get the new one.
The new one would actually be a good PS3 exclusive only console since its 12GB or 500GB with a replaceable HD
The only thing I hate about it honestly is that I have to close the disc tray by hand =( I feel like a barbarian!
I can close disc trays by hand and don’t give a fuck about cosmetics, so thanks for your input man, been really helpful
I’m not sure of the sizes of the new ones but the more space the better. 500GB seems really excessive for me but it’s super easy to upgrade the HD space for a PS3 so go with the 12 if you want but definitely upgrade it to something more reasonable like 150 or so.
Yeah, the first three are pretty decent Playstation exclusives.
inFamous a little less so than the others. Uncharted 3 also less awesome.
Don’t forget Metal Gear Solid series either. MGS can be played on your PS3, and the HD collection will get the others onto your PS3. And Metal Gear Solid 4.
One of the bestest and overlooked things about PS3 is backwards compatibility. Not with PS2 games unless you fork out mondo mucho monero, but with the original PSX console. Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, Metal Gear Solid. Many more.
Also, Demon’s Souls. If you don’t own it, well, let’s just insert some vague insult here and left it at that.
Those PSX games you just mentioned? I have them on my Vita. I love this whole cross-buying dealie.
I was rather tempted to get Superman 64 yesterday…
I didn’t get it.
…shit.
Gotta get dat PS3 for your dream wimmenz
Too bad they changed Ellie from The Last of Us to look less like Ellen Page, otherwise you’d have two reasons to get a PS3! 😀
My primary gaming machine at the moment is my PC, but for the exclusives I have mentioned I would get a PS3
Macbook. Not a lot of gaming to be had. I’m exceptionally glad that FTL is Mac compatible.
Non apple guy over here remember? You said it was why we can’t be friend 😛
One of my main problems with Apple is it’s lack of gaming
Oh yeah. I keep forgetting I hat you. Racist.
It’s hard to hat me
I should know
I’ve tried
If you only own one console this generation and don’t care much for FPS, then PS3 is the best console to have IMO.
I’d agree, even though I initially preferred the 360 as a console! PS3 has the games, the free multiplayer and the better subscription service.
I have about three times as many 360 games as I do PS3, and yet the PS3 is the system I am most happy to own now. Wasn’t the case until the last 2-3 years though.
At the price they’re at now, it’s a no-brainer.
I spend more than it’s price tag on dog food a year and I don’t even need that.
SnackTaku: Revenge of the lost Monday edition
Take hashbrowns. Cook in the usual way. But there were planes to catch and bills to pay. They went all crispy while I was away
Add cheese and apply to Helga’s Sandwich Thins.
Toast lightly in sandwich toaster.
Lunch uses RELIGIOUS CONVERSION.
It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE.
I never had them with Sandwich Thins before.
It’s… it’s like there’s a party in my mouth… and everyone’s invited! \o/
It’s like there’s a party in my mouth, and everyone’s comi-waaait a minute… :S
Ok
So, looks like I shall start setting aside some money each fortnight to buy a PS3
These are the games I want
Heavy Rain, inFamous, The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, Deadly Premonition and Ni No Kuni
Maybe some MGS or Final Fantasy although I never had a Playstation before, so on those franchises I am deathly behind and not all that interested on
FF is pretty easy to jump on, but don’t jump on with FF13.
MGS… Good luck. Start at the start.
Also, Where’s Uncharted on your list?
I can loan some of these. I have:
Heavy Rain.
And I think I have some MGS and FF fun should you throw caution to the wind, though it might be NTSC.
Sounds good
I am a man who prefers to buy and own his own things
Part of my compulsions
Even if I have a tv season downloaded I will still buy it
It’s annoying for me, but I do it anyway
I am probably wasting my own money
Haha! Weird twins! 😀
Twins man, I keep telling you
No Uncharted? Honestly one of my favourite game series evah! (There’s demos on PSN, so make sure to check them out if you’re on the fence!) Sony has really got some awesome exclusives this generation! I’m not a fan of MGS or Final Fantasy, but it looks like you’re down with the JRPG/Japanese aesthetic? 😀
Uncharted 1 was the best game.
Uncharted 2 had glorious set pieces.
Uncharted 3… well… I just pretend there is no Uncharted 3.
Uncharted 3 I will defend. Story wasn’t quite as good as 2, but the MP is excellent.
I don’t play MP, so I wouldn’t know 😛
Uncharted 3 wasn’t that bad. (I agree the other two being better. I think one and two are just as good as one another. Just comes down to preference of single location exploration or globe trotting to me. :D)
OMG I upvoted your comment after reading the U3 comment but that U1 comment. LOLNO. I’m in the U2 is the best camp 😛
U2 was dazzling and spectacular, a real joy to behold, and overall it had a better story.
But I firmly believe the actual game mechanics and shooting gallery design was stronger in U1 (hence better game).
Both excellent in their own right.
Both camps can agree that U3 was incredibly disappointing though!
I felt U2 just had overall better design and set pieces and whatnot. U1 was too much trial and error with the gunplay and too much of it. Been a few years since I’ve played both though… I should do an Uncharted run through!
One thing I really loved about Uncharted was the setting. Exploring that island was all kinds of fun. (A sense of exploration that I hope the new Tomb Raider has on its island!)
My favourite part in the whole game, the bit that made me go, “Holy Shitballs this is incredible!” (I think I actually said that out loud too) turned out to be the bit that everyone else in the universe hated.
That bit when the monsters start climbing up into the circular room, and you need to run-and-gun to stay alive. Until then, I’d been all L1 to aim, R1 to fire, carefully. Don’t move too much, just aim and shoot. Aim and shoot.
Changing up the game so drastically, especially at such a late stage, is risky game design, and I was frustrated by that bit until I adjusted my style to match it, but once it clicked, it really clicked with me.
Changed the way I played U2 and U3 too.
Neither U2 or U3 gave me a moment like that. Though the opening of U2 was pretty damn awesome.
I always found the Uncharted stories to be somewhat real and believable UNTIL the supernatural stuff kicks in. Now you just know there’s going to be a little ‘twist’ in each game though and it really takes you out of it. At least in one it was unexpected but it just gets sillier in 2/3. No idea about the Vita one though… (although 3’s wasn’t too bad)
U1 had dicky motion controls though.
If you’re interested in saving some moolah you can sign up for a PSN account now and purchase Final Fantasy while it’s on sale (I’m pretty sure it’s still on sale?) as most of the main games like FF7, 8, 9 are 50% off until something like tomorrow. You can access the store from a computer 😀
For JRPG goodness there’s also Tales of Graces I guess. And Tales of Xillia later this year. Also the Atelier games may or may not be of interest to you (skip Rorona and go to Totori first) but they’re a bit of an acquired taste.
MGS4 is a masterpiece, despite what everyone says. Anyone who owns a PS3 and doesn’t own or hasn’t at least played through MGS4 should be killed.
EDIT : TO clarify, not everyone says it’s bad, in fact it’s fairly highly regarded – but there’s some misguided opinions on it around. It’s definitely a unique game.
Phew! I own it.
Limited edition even. Bought it more than two years before I bought a PS3.
I haven’t played it yet
You’re safe.
For now.
PLAY THE GODDURNED GAEM SHAEN
MGS4 was basically the main reason I got a PS3 in the first place. I’ve since played countless other games on it, but it was definitely the catalyst for purchasing it.
I also bought a ltd ed Japanese DVD release of the cutscenes and watched that. So I know the story. Now I can be safe?
That’s somewhat better.
I’d still like for you to allocate some time to at least attempting or planning to play the game.
Promise me you’ll try.
I promise. It’ll be after I unwrap the HD collection Ltd Ed I’ve owned for > 8 months.
Don’t stress too much – the game only adds like 5 mins of gameplay to the cutscenes anyway.
Same. PS3 for MGS4. But that was recent. Because I got the MGS HD collection on my 360, and loved it.
I like lots of things. Just not MGS. I own all of them and I just can’t get into them, between the trial-and-error gameplay, the crap controls and the nonsensical plot it just doesn’t do it for me.
Journey motherfucker! There’s sooooo many amazing games and exclusives I can list but I’ll wait until you get a PS3 before I do that. But one thing you absolutely MUST have is a subscription to PlayStation Plus. It’s amazing value, especially for new PS3 owners (inFamous 2 is completely free with it!).
Yeah PS+ is a must – it’s like $70 for a 12 months subscription, you get multiple full PS3 games free, free PS Classics, minis, etc. Also discounts, beta access, auto updates, cloud saves, all kinds of groovy shit.
Plus they update said free/cheap shit every month.
Sleeping Dogs, Quantum Conundrum, Wipeout, Lumines (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (and F1 whatever) next month 😀
I tried getting my brother to look at it. His response was to spend $80 or whatever it is on CoD Elite and then tell me he couldn’t afford it T.T
-_-
Because CoD Elite was totally worth it.
Whereas $70 p/y for PS+ gets you something in the vicinity of ~10 full PS3 games and countless other shit.
BUT COD.
Derp.
Sounds good Green, thanks for having my back
Saving for it may take 6 weeks, or 16, who knows how the weeks ahead will be on my bank account
You definately need to consider God of War and Uncharted I see these as alot more important to get than the Infamous series.
Yep, agree! God of War is a good choice because you can get the “Collection” of sorts with FIVE God of War games for something like $40. Friggen insane!
Interesting man, thanks for that
God of War does look good
I don’t like the idea of Multiplayer and don’t understand why many games keep shoving it in
Which is why I didn’t/haven’t included UC in my list of PS3 exclusive games that make me want to buy a PS3
That doesn’t mean 1 and 2 weren’t amazing! Campaign for 3 was decent enough too but nothing compared to the first two.
Oh, so should buy then?
Of course! One of the best exclusive series on the system. A must have IMO
Totally. They are pretty frickin good games, and self-contained too.
Alright, thanks Greenman 🙂
Helpius* 😀
As I said above, I love the UC3 MP.
My main problem was that it seemed like the single player suffered by it 🙁
Just bought @Freya ‘s birthday present. Got her a do you really think I would post this where she can see it?
Hope she likes it.
Wow, I’ve never heard of a ‘do you really think I would post this where she can see it?’ before. Where can I buy one? How much does it cost? Does it come in red?
That face is the face of a jerk because it is your face and you are a jerkface. You jerk.
Jerk’s a fun work to say.
Fun fact: ‘jerk’ is the rate of change (that is, derivative) of acceleration with respect to time.
Your face is the rate of change (that is, derivative) of acceleration with respect to time.
Get it? Because you’re a jerkface.
I’m enjoying this way more than anyone should.
…
Dammit.
…
D.C.
HAHA @Greenius.
WRONG. AFTERNOON.
Majority rules.
Fun story: I wasn’t paying attention when I typed that. It was originally ‘afterboob’.
…guys, I think I’ve started something here.
There’s nothing afterboob.
There’s crying, nappy-filling, crawling, and finally, walking.
So according to the 3DS Activity Log, I’ve just broken 160 hrs playing Pokemon White 2 :\ Value for money, at least.
It’s 2 o’clock
And…shame on me, but I have only filed two files
It’s just so damnably boring
I stole your work ethic for the day. Hope you don’t mind. You can have it back tomorrow.
It’s alright dude, take it!
Just, return it in like new condition and everything between us will be fine
Good man
Lightly used here
Near mint in box condition
Yeah, I enjoyed it!
Second movie I’ve seen Timberlake in, first being… something Falls. Whatever, that’s irrelevant except for saying that he seems to have grown as an actor since.
Really cool concept, and it was well executed, from what I can recall 🙂
“But pfffft”?
Are you listening to a clean version..? I’d say you’ve lost more than one credit there.
No i’m listening to the unedited version, thankfully. lol.
The R.Kelly quip gives me endless giggles.
I’ve noticed that songs with swearing in the chorus tend to do rather well so that people can sing along.
People like swearing.
Even if they’re singing along to the censored version.
Weird how the taboo on swearing means that things like FCUK can succeed purely because they’re “naughty” when they wouldn’t even be looked at twice if people didn’t give a flying fuck about the word fuck.
Exactly like that.
For anyone who is interested, the Groovin the Moo lineup just went out early. I’ve spoilered it below cause it’s a longish list. Damn good lineup though.
Alison Wonderland
Alpine
The Amity Affliction
The Bronx (USA)
DZ Deathrays (DJ Set)
Example (UK)
Flume
Frightened Rabbit (UK)
Hungry Kids Of Hungary
The Kooks (UK)
Last Dinosaurs
Matt And Kim (USA)
Midnight Juggernauts
Pez
Regurgitator
Seth Sentry
Shockone
Tame Impala
Tegan And Sara (Canada)
The Temper Trap
They Might Be Giants (USA)
Tuka with Ellesquire
Urthboy
DJ Woody’s Big Phat 90′S Mixtape (UK)
Yacht (USA)
Yolanda Be Cool
I thought they were here last year? Didn’t they do BDO as Mariachi el Bronx and some sideshows as The Bronx?
yeah, I think they’ve toured here maybe 5 or 6 times (as either Bronx or as Mariarchi) in the last 4 years. Still, I’m always keen to see these guys & with a new album out soon, thats all the better.
The only one i give half a toss about is Regurgitator. I actually don’t even know who most of them are. lol
man i am DYING to see the gurge live again!
A lot of stuff on that list I wouldn’t expect to be your thing. No love for The Amity Affliction?
Not really my cup of tea. I can’t figure out why though.
It seems to have all the right stuff?
I just listened to a few other songs that sounded much better than that one, so kinda glad i didn’t hear that one first lol. I’m sure the would sound awesome live and have a cool vibe, but a bit too screamo for my current tastes. reminds me of the days when i used to listen to Poison the Well, though. lol
Holy crapballs @anonymous_pessimist is going places!
Not really, he’s shit. Pez however, is an awesome hiphop act.
So Sam got the job she interviewed for on Friday!!
That is so close to my building and it means we can start planning trips away together and stuff
Heck yes!
Thanks Shane
Close to my building, also means money for her
And we can possibly open an account together and blah blah blah
I got an email with a 65 page pdf about O-week for the residential college I’m staying at. I’ll just let this explain everything…
http://imgur.com/pGWlRTr
No thankyou!
It’s going to be so much fun! I’ll be sure to write something on TAY from the top of a mountain I just spent 2 hours climbing 😛
Ugh, so many stupid things. Wearing PJ’s while running around Hobart, a dry formal dinner. DRY!! (I’m 100% positive I’ll cope on that one though :P)
There is a cruise though, and in last years photos everybody looks fairly well pissed. There’s also a ghost tour of Port Arthur. It’s probably un-Tasmanian to say this but I’ve never done that before.
It’s the job of the local never to attend the tourist stuff. It’s like being a geographical hipster, in a sense.
Hopefully quick question time for you all, I’ve been thinking of getting some of those Gunnar computing glasses considering I spend every waking moment in front of them either at work, gaming, doing graphic design/recording/video editing. Has anyone used them before? I’m looking at getting the non yellow lenses because I don’t really like seeing everything as slightly yellow.
My understanding is that they do nothing without the yellow tint. That tint increases contrast and reduces eyestrain and after a while your brain filters the yellow out.
They give things a yellow tint, your brain normalises it. When you take the glasses off, everything will seem bluer as a result.
Terrible for graphic design work.
Try out f.lux before purchasing hardware. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you adjust to the ‘discolouration’, and provided you’re not doing colour-precise work (welp, there goes that idea with regard to your graphic design, at least…) it’s free and super simple. Helps a ton with eyestrain!
I’ve no experience with eyewear myself, so am not in a position to answer accurately on that aspect of it.
Gunnar glasses are meant to cut down on glare, I’d just wear sunnies if a screen was too bright for me.
Hey gang,
Aside from what might be a technical hitch (awaiting news from dept service desk), I have the support of my manager to go part-time and work from home (in Bathurst) 3 days a fortnight.
Not a bad outcome… especially because it might mean I can get the cost of my computer reimbursed and get comped internet access! 😀
Nice. I wish I could get our VPN stuff to work right here so I could work remotely. Though my house lacks a nice study that I can close off and avoid distractions so it’s hard to make it work at all.
get ready for some kotaku-ception….
so the mrs and i have been considering the option of moving & working somewhere for a couple of years…
then all of a sudden, a kotaku article today pointed me towards a place i would totally work for… does this place have the most awesome job perks or what???
This is what stands out…
Free food
Lunch supplies and snacks available in the office every day, and free beer on tap.
Your best friend
Our office is dog-friendly; bring your pets to work.
Flexible working hours
Work when you feel most productive.
New bike
$500 toward a new bike when you join the company.
Self-directed vacation policy
Take the time to rest up. We don’t track the days.
Subsidized company trips
Part vacation, part team-building, we’ve traveled around the world together.
I know what I’m doing today, polishing up my damn resume!!! \o/ \o/ \o/
o.0
That’s… impressive. What on earth do they ask for in return for that? All work pro bono?
this is the job I’m applying for… funnily enough i meet all their criteria, as well as all their preferred but not required skills!
There is the slight issue of them being in San Francisco.
Damned Silicon Valley jobs. So damned awesome yet still in America.
my missus has given the thumbs up to try something different out career wise… 🙂 that includes moving away!
Wives like this are awesome 🙂 My wife is about to do the same for me.
San Francisco, California! Holy crap, its as though it was meant to be! I have a friend who lives in Richmond, California. Just Google mapped the places, only a 25 min drive…
with a bit of luck my mate might be able to accommodate the Mrs and i for a month or two!
WibiData
One thing to keep in mind if you decide to make the change is that San Francisco is *tiny* compared to Melbourne. Adelaide is around 50% larger in population than SF.
Hermit Heaven???
WHERE!?
San Francisco! (see above)
http://wibidata.theresumator.com/
a few jobs up! maybe we can coop the Portal 2 maps that are part of the job application!
Long weekend update
So the weekend was good, started out with a family occasion. Big brother brought his kids down to go on puffing billy so invited everybody along. So ended up having a BBQ out at emerald with about 20 family members. Was nice to be part of the girls going on that trip for the first time
Then Sunday was a work day, didn’t get as much done as I had hoped. Got home and Mrs Tigs was still out sailing (or at least not back yet) so I loaded up spayce maureen and managed to complete that.
At first I thought the final battle was going to be using the jump pack and I was set for that but then I dumped it. I thought the ending was well done, I don’t mind QTE as much as some people seem to have an issue with them and I thought they were done well in that fight. Shoulder barging him off the tower then pummeling him on the way down with little backflips to avoid his attacks. A different technique but still felt meaty and badass.
But now that I’m done I might have to try the online/co-op side of things. Or maybe see if I can finish it on hard. The other option of course is to move on to my next game. I have transformers, darksiders 2, force unleashed and Arkham city to play as well. Decisions Decisions. I also only ended up with 35 / 48 servo skulls.
Then Monday I had some work to do in the morning then went and had a BBQ and board games at a friends place. Mrs Tigs finally got to play her discworld game Guards Guards, even if it took an hour to work out the rules and we had to cut the game short. Then home for a bit of torchlight 2 before bed.
Sounds awesome. Is that Puffing Billy the train thing Greenius and SmurfyDog took Aleph too?
Arkham City is a damn fine game. Play that! 😀
They went up to the Dandenongs so it probably was, don’t think I heard anything about that though so not sure.
ZombiU is so damn fun, except it feels almost like a bare bones concept demo. The survival aspect and the atmosphere is incredible but the world feels empty. Not a whole lot to interact with. The idea of playing as a new character when you die is so damn cool, though. Would like that to be expanded in a sequel. Maybe raise the stakes a little, give the characters their own seperate quests and personalities and motivations.
Pretty great for a launch title I think.
I started playing it just then, didn’t encounter a zombie for 10ish minutes of turtling around and put the controller down to take a break 😛 /wuss
Yeah, a really great launch title. Probably my favourite out of the ones I’ve played. Sort of reminds me of a survival horror version of Condemned: Criminal Origins. It’s funny how slowly you progress through such a small area. Sounds like what the Dark Souls people were describing! My zombie fightin’ skills have improved too. Divide and conquering. Survivor #10 has lasted for two whole hours. 😛
I walk around so slowly because I KNOW that they’re going to try and get me with a scripted scare. I tap the zombie radar constantly and they still get me 😛
Like the one…
on one of the early ‘missions’ where you’re ascending a staircase, notice that there is something at the top that wasn’t there before, and then when you aim your light on it the zombie screams and starts coming down at you.
I almost poo’d myself.
Haha! Oh, man. That moment was awesome. I might’ve recoiled backwards a little. I’ve gotten into a bad habit of hitting all the corpses I find over the head even if they’re not moving. Just in case they start when my back is turned. So many headless bodies. D:
There’s some scripted stuff, but they’ve shown restraint there. Lots of the scares come from just the general uneasiness of the downtime, then the sudden adrenaline rush of having to do stuff!
Take off ALL of the heads. It is the only way.
My (extremely) long weekend. By Strange.
-My husband abandoned me on Friday morning to go on the metal festival cruise we usually go on together. I tell myself it will be okay because I can distract myself by playing ALL THE GAEMS!
-Friday night I’m too depressed to play games so I watch a terrible rom/com movie. :S
-Spend most of Saturday playing Tales of Graces f but by nightfall the weather’s starting to get kind of awful.
-Spend Saturday night watching a bunch of True Blood.
-Sunday arrives and with it some really scary weather. The rain is horizontal and the wind makes the house feel like it’s falling down. Thankfully it stays up. 😛
-I need my parents to bring me some milk and bread because the weather is way too bad for my planned walking supply run. I wish I had learned how to drive by now.
-Sunday night I let the 3yo pick a movie on PSN for us to watch.He chooses Spy Kids 4, even though we’ve never seen a Spy Kids movie before. Power goes off inthe middle but thankfully for only a second.
-My daughter sleeps in my bed Sunday night because she’s scared of the weather. The 3yo is fine.
-Wake up Monday morning and have no power. My parents come over to take us out for lunch but then have to rush off so they can get back to their place before all the roads near it are closed. I foolishly decline to go with them because I know my daughter will need to be here for school today.
-Without power I’d planned to use the Weber for dinner but discovered Mr. Strange had neglected to clean it after using it at Christmas time. It was really disgusting. So we had sandwiches for dinner. 😛
-We then spent last night reading by torchlight and hoping the power would be restored. Turned data on on my phone a couple of times to check in with Mr. Strange and make sure he knew we were okay before he hopped onto the ship. I only have a prepaid phone and it didn’t have much charge by then so I was hoping it would last long enough.
-Woke up this morning and we still had no power. Mum texted to let me know my daughter’s school was open so I got her ready for her first day of High School and managed not to cry until she was well up the street. I was a bit stressed about her crossing the road at the top of our street because the power outage meant the traffic lights were out too. I watched until shecrossed safely.
-Phone ran out of charge but thankfully the weather is goodtoday so I took myson on a bus-ride to the shops around 10am to charge my phone and buy batteries in case wewere without power again tonight.
-Arrived back from the shops to find the power had been restored while we were out. \o/
So yeah, not the best weekend but we’re all safe and it could have been way worse. Could have been way better, too. Could have been with Mr. Strange. 😛
The end.
P.S. I missed you guys.
Atleast you’ll have your own adventures to tell upon Mr. Strange’s triumphant return! Sounds like a crazy weekend. Was glad to get your text last night too, I let TAY know you were fine! 😀
We missed you, Miss Strange. I was contemplating sending an SMS, but wasn’t sure if that was pushing boundaries or something 😛
Glad to hear that things are on the up and up, and awesome to hear that The Dude is impervious to harsh weather conditions!
hugasaurus!!!
Haha! I totally thought the same thing about texting Strange, was worried that I’d annoy her. Then she texted me! 😀
Haha! Not at all! Always awesome to get Strange text messages! Always! 😀
Losing power for an extended period really makes you realize how much we take electricity for granted. Feels like you’ve reverted to being a caveman or something when it’s gone.
It was especially bad for the kids. The weather meant they couldn’t go outside, the power meant they couldn’t watch TV or movies or play games. And it was dark in my son’s room even during the day so he couldn’t play in there, either. My daughter kept saying she just wanted to use her sewing machine. Instead they were stuck having to hang out with me. Poor things. 😛
I dunno…Mr. Strange doesn’t seem to want to. You saw how happy he was to palm me off on you in Melbourne. 😛
I’d say it was the better option, but YOU DITCHED US /o\
That may or may not have been because I hit you though
I thought my weekend was long, it sounds like yours was much longer.
At least everybody is ok, although a certain person *cough*MrStrange*cough* is better than most.
Although you shouldn’t read by torchlight, it will strain your eyes (catch cry from my childhood)
Lets do a thing where we each list a game that we enjoyed that we think nobody here in TAY may have played or even seen or heard of.
I’ll start.
I remember playing this game called Evolva on the PC where you absorbed the DNA of your enemies and used that to evolve new abilities. I only played the demo but it looked freaking nuts.
Anybody remember it?
http://old.games.tiscali.cz/reviews/evolva//img6.jpg
When I used to play LOTS of Flash games on Newgrounds/Kongregate, Bubbletanks was always a lot of fun 😀
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom. It’s kinda short, but it’s a really nice puzzle platforming/action adventure game.
Who knows, maybe people here have played it! I never got around to finishing it, but I’ll do it some day.
I started it and really enjoyed it but then a shiny new game came along and I forgot to finish it.
\o/!!!!
you’re awesome!
it’s awesome!
let’s all join together and kick leandros in the genetically engineered nuts!
Absolutely, what a douche
well.. he is an ultrasmurf through and through.
Even better! 😀
I’ve started playing it again on PC after finishing the 360 version.
I just wish it were easier to get a multiplayer game 🙁
Exterminatus playdate?
I think so!
Evolva was awesome. and it reminded me of MDK. I don’t think I ever managed to finish it but I got a long way through it. Putting stats into claw or firepower which you ‘learnt’ through killing enemies, such a cool concept
I know a few taybies have played it but considering most have never heard of it I’ll say Tiny bang story. Such a wonderful hidden object game with everything hand drawn. So adorable.
Adventure Quest and Artix Entertainment’s other games. Played them a lot when I was younger, recently been playing some Dragonfable and Mechquest again.
Epic 40,000: Final Liberation was a great, albeit very unfinished game.
Rites of war was a very solid strategy game as well.
Warhammer: Dark omen was one of my favorite total-war-type games until rome total war came out.
Also, Overkill… sooo good – anyone play that? http://www.myabandonware.com/game/overkill-1o7
There’s another flash game I used to play the shit out of, though I can’t recall the title, and describing it would be wrong/inaccurate.
Will search on Newgrounds tonight and link 😀
Kind of reminds me of Rengoku (Rengoku II: Stairway to Heaven being the game I played)
Boktai on GBA was pretty rad! It had solar panels and encouraged you to go outside… lol OUTISDE! Crazy game was crazy.
(I may or may not have held it really close to a light bulb for ‘solar’ power)
Arctic Thunder.
Snowmobile arcade racer. Used to play it on Xbox with some friends. It wasn’t an amazing game, but we had heaps of fun.
i played it at my cousin’s place, there was a level where you were in a big kitchen or something…
it was rad
I’m sure a few other people here will have played it(as I’m a terrible game hipster), but when I was young I loved Bugdom. Couldn’t finish three of the levels, thanks to being young and terrible at games, but that’s what cheats were for, right?
Also liked a lot of the other games by Pangea Software, particular Otto Matic and Weekend Warrior.
I loved this game! My friend and I used to play “multiplayer” where one person would control movement and the other controlled jumping. I remember it being absolutely hilarious at the time for some reason 😛
I used to play “Co-op” with my friend on the PC version of Halo like that, but with one on keyboard, and one on mouse.
Such good fun.
Going back to the 64 days, did anyone play Tetrisphere? My younger self found it pretty tough,especially some of the later levels but still a lot if fun.
virtues last reward 😛
no but seriously, battle stadium D.O.N
it was a Japanese only smash bro’s-like game which contained characters from dragonball z, naruto and one piece, and as a young anime enthusiast when all i knew where shonen jump based animes, it was mind blowing
had fun times with friends playing it.
OH AND ALSO the same type of game but Digimon rumble arena 2, also awesome
ZOMG?!?!
Want to get ready for the new sim city?!?!
Ididn’t realise this, but sim city 2000 is now abandonware!!
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/simcity-2000-1nf
FREE SIM CITY!
Yeah, but the thing is that GOG at least has the whole dos box thing built in, making it a farrrrr more leasurable and convenient package – so it’s worth the money in that respect.
there are actually quite a few games on gog that you can get for free from abandonware sites. But as i said, it’s all about the convenience that you get for paying.
Mr. Strange put $150 into my account last week as a “sorry you don’t get to do 70K with me this year” payment. So I’m going to use it as the start of my savings to finally get my Maiden In Black tattoo. \o/
BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON’T LIKE NI NO KUNI!?
Does it never get played again? Do you force yourself to finish it? Do you return it?
On the other hand, what happens if you really, really like it (and JRPGs!)? :D. POKEMON, FINAL FANTASY AND XENOBLADE? 😀
You trying to convince me not to play it? You’re a complicated guy, Greenius! 😛
I always thought it was fan theory stuff but the PokeDex entry for Basculin was all “THEY TASTE GOOD”
I had a pretty good idea what that picture was going to be before I clicked it.
I loved early pokemans
Uhh, gee, thanks Valve/Steam for the twelve copies of DOTA 2 you so kindly placed in my inventory today o.0
12 giftable copies of the game.
Which reminds me…
WHO WANTS A GAME? I HAVE 12 GAMES TO GIVE AWAY, LUCKY-DIP STYLE. PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 1-12!
No. 13 is an unlucky number.
Although in this case it’s not really certain whether losing is really an unlucky thing…
Not as scary as plain old “Comment removed” but I totally saw what that said.
Or should I say “said!” 😉
Hullo all, long time no see.
Inspired by Junglist I have started a Onebro Dark Souls play-through and figure I will document it here for lack of a better place/use of my time.
For those not in the know a Onebro must stay at level 1 for the whole game.
Day oneish:
So far this has been the easiest play-through of Dark Souls I have ever done. Blasted through the Taurus demon, Gargoyles, Capara demon, Moonlight Butterfly and Havel in (personal) record time with minimal deaths. Also went to the Asylum but did not bother with the Stray Demon.
Pyromancy and upgrading weapons (which I never before used/did this early on) makes such a huge advantage at this point in the game. And all fights are way easier with a shield.
The Bell Gargoyles, which I previously always struggled with, went down in under 10 hits!
But the real Dark Souls starts here. Next up is everyone’s favorite: Blighttown.
It’s Jo!
I seem to recall playing Halo 4 with you recently completely spontaneously and randomly.
Give me a Demon Spear and a Artorias Shield or a Grass Crest Shield and I will absolutely smoke that game maybe throw in some Pyro spells for the lolz.
Ahh but the deal with a Onebo is you can’t level up. So a piece of wood with some nails in it is the mighty weapon of choice.
Only requires 12 Strength 10 Dexterity a lot of starter classes have that.
Wait, is the rule that you also have to be a level one pyromancer?
I’d say so since I think it’s the only one that starts out at level 1 (been a while since I played the game so I can’t remember but I think I read it somewhere). But I guess you can play a “no level up” game and pick whatever class you want.
Pyromancer is the only class that’s level 1. All the others start at 4 or 5.
Just putting it out there, assembling and shifting a 200kg+ bed licks donkey nuts.
Hi Freeze. How’s things? Been able to clean up the yard yet or still too wet?
Also, how on earth does a bed weigh over 200kg? 😮
And yet you still upvoted 😛
😀
Yes, a guy named Freeze would be rather cold.
Maybe you should have assembled it in place so that you didn’t have to also shift it.
Yay for logic.
This is what happens when you have a drawing tablet, a copy of Sculptris, and absolutely no idea of what the hell is going on…
Yeah, a little bit.
I was just messing around with it, and finally ended up with the frog head.
Not yet.
He doesn’t have a body at the moment…
Then your work here is not done. You know what you have to do.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Superfrogboxart.jpg
Send him to France?
I heard they’ll love him over there.
You know, I really feel like my intelligence level has gone down since I started posting on TAY 2 years ago…
😛
To clarify, I use to be all logical and stuff and not very creative/emotional. More left side of the brain oriented instead of right side. I was creative, I just kept it to myself and didn’t really exercise it that much.
That seems to have changed since I started posting on TAY, thanks in part to all the social interaction which I was missing out on before. I find I’m a lot more emotional and creative now than I was before. Kinda makes it hard to think straight sometimes though…
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=123664434
I can Surgeon good! \o/
Finally beat Pokemon White 2! 😀
Now to complete my Nuzlocke run! (lol just kidding, that’ll never happen)
Just sent some new letters, let me know if you got them or not! I hope all those older letters didn’t clog it up because the new ones were pretty rad.
Blackboard etc.? 😀 Yup!
The more letters you draw, the more features you’ll unlock like 3D, Stationery, Sound Clips, Photos etc. a whole bunch of stuff!
Just sent my first stationary/3D one before the battery ran flat 😛
I’m watching the guitar hero episode of South Park and noticed something really cool. In EV Games behind the counter is a wall full of copies of Okami!
I googled it and apparently every time they’re in a game store it’s full of Okami. Looks like Matt and Trey are fans of my all time favourite game!
…mango flavour in the vaporiser it is.
I’m not sure how this is going to pan out, so I’ll take the credit if it works, but I’ll blame you if it doesn’t 😛
It’s fucking horrendous and it’s all your fault /o\
:'(
Oh man, it’s a really unpleasant flavour… apparently it was a ‘test-lab’ product, hence I got it free. I’m glad I didn’t pay for it 😛
I think I may just stick to the tried and trusted chai tea henceforth!
You wronged me some how and this plans been months in the makings! 😛
HAHAHAHA!!!! <3
You know what’s fun? Going to places in games you’ve been to in real life! 😀
After getting back from New York in 2011 I played Enslaved. Thought it was so cool to explore Grand Central Station knowing that I was there a few weeks earlier. ZombiU’s got a couple of London landmarks. Weird feeling to go explorin’… 😀
I’d love to go to Ibiza or Oahu in Hawaii just to drive around after playing Test Drive Unlimited 2. I feel like I wouldn’t even need a map!
Broken Sword! I remember stepping out of the Metro Station and thinking ‘Paris in the Fall.’ Haha!
I had the same feeling playing ‘The Italian Job’ on XBox all those years ago. Driving through the streets of Paris and seeing all these places I’d been to just a year before!
Mindblowing! 😮
I even tried to find the youth hostel I stayed in by re-tracing my steps from Sacré-Cœur but of course it wasn’t there 🙁
Wait if we are all your home slice(s) then you must have some other slices on the side.
Damn D.C. !
PLAY ON PLAYA!!!
One final little tidbit;
Was humming the Pokemon theme to myself (like a man, of course) when my brother started singing it (like a man, because men). He then tried going on a spiel about his affinity for Team Rocket.
At which point he (only now, some 12-13 years on) realized that Ekans and Arbok were Snake and Kobra, backwards.
Uhh…
The naming conventions can be kinda smart. ArticUNO ZapDOS MolTRES there’s another one in Gen 5 but it’s German!
Yep! I don’t know like 60% of Gen 4/5 Pokemon 😛
Because they’re not pokemon.
Goodnight.
This Mash has got to dash
There’s food to Cache.
Don’t worry though whatever it is
I’ll do it with panache.
*boom* and he was gone in a flash.
Going to sleep seems to be the thing to do at the moment. I’m gettin’ on that bandwagon right now!
You’re not willing to play the post 1am refresh game?
Even worse than the weekend or holiday ones. I thought you were committed D.C.
C O M M I T T E D !
Midnight Masha is a registered trademark.
Like Beer O’clock it’s always midnight somewhere so lock your forums there’s a Mash about.
*Michael Jackson’s Thriller Plays*
Like your beardless face!!
Is that a buuuuuurn or a weird complement. I’m not sure /o\
My self confidence is completely gone without my beard. I want to crawl into a hole and DIE.
Awwww 🙁
Don’t worry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yVPewAybZw
(I really need to download the complete series and watch it again one day)
I bought all of my pre-work paperwork to do (I have homework to do!) and not a single pen here works. Just a super-thick Sharpie 😐
🙁
Hopefully you find a working pen.
Or you could try using the sharpie. Best case scenario it helps time pass during your night shift or worst case you ruin all the paperwork.
I think I’m just going to sit here and dream of what my life could have been if I had grown a beard when I first started getting facial hair.
That and have micro-sleeps so work passes by a little quicker.
You would have probably been a secret agent delivering covert intelligence using your beard.
00-SHAVEN pfft more like 00-UNSHAVEN
*music plays*
Ha ha ha, I just googled ‘what does it mean to dream of beards’ and the first link had this:
To dream of seeing a beard, denotes that some uncongenial person will oppose his will against yours, and there will be a fierce struggle for mastery, and you are likely to lose some money in the combat. Gray beard, signifies hard luck and quarrels. To see beard on women, foretells unpleasant associations and lingering illness. For some one to pull your beard, denotes that you will run a narrow risk if you do not lose property. To comb and admire it, shows that your vanity will grow with prosperity, making you detestable in the sight of many of your former companions. For a young woman to admire a beard, intimates her desire to leave celibacy; but she is threatened with an unfortunate marriage.
🙂
That is some odd stuff. I always saw it as this “to dream of a beard is awesome and signifies the pinnacle of dreaming. You are truly blessed.”
Ha ha…sure
I guess I’m off to bed as well. Hopefully you found a pen to complete your paperwork F4ction and you’re not walking around in a haze after your weird beard dreams.
I never found a pen and really hope I dream of beards when I get to bed at 9am. ADIOS!
And soon I can go home! But I have to pick someone up so I don’t get to go to bed until 9am or later :'(
Someone mentioned something about Tron Uprising so I gave the first episode a go.
Just finished watching it.
Was getting close to giving up in the first 10 or 15 min but by the time I finished the episode I decided I quite enjoyed it and will give the next few eps a go.
Major spoilahz in the FF ranking article… Good one Jason, ya bum!
Sure, they’re old games, but what if someone new to the series decides to check it out to see which ones to play and then BAM they’ve got a major plot point unncessarily ruined in FFIX. It really didn’t need to be there :/
I only read it for IX but I hope there aren’t other spoilers 🙁
My FF ranking list:
X.
It was easy to scroll past the others after your warning, not much said about X at all.
The only one I read was IX so there’s spoilers in that but it’s probably safe to assume there’s spoilers in the others.
X is pretty cool guy 🙂
Morning TAY
Energy drinks for breakfast and so far no supervising staff for our little sector
And a killer headache that Forte has already taken the edge off
Unspecified but they confirmed they’re throwing away Ignition’s old localization (generally considered to be terrible) and doing it over from scratch.
Guys! The Vita has GAEMS!
Probably NSFW
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/01/the-ps-vita-wanking-game-is-a-surprise-hit/
I feel the game has touched on what the vita is all about. You know what I mean? Like it has the right feel
Cum on guys, this is such a dick move. I’m not feeling this at all.
Edit: I wouldn’t touch it with a foot-long pole.
Indeed we need more games that stimulate our minds and help us reach the climax of our potential.
Wanking aside, apparently the game itself is pretty fun. It’s a simple card battle game I think.
Last night was DayZ play date night thing and it was glorious! I was lucky and found a ute early in the game that has an m4 rifle and an m9 pistol with a suppressor attached. Eventually we all met together and I broke my legs! \o/
That was a hell of a lot of fun, but I feel bad about how long it took…
Oh, and @f4ction, the UVA is still loaded with medical supplies and we found a small amount of petrol, so it wasn’t all wasted 😛
In the game that @f4ction had up before I was prone next to a tree then just died instantly. The game is … well to put it nicely, the game isn’t very well optimised.
Apparently you should be careful with doors and the like too. I keep hearing stories of people knocking themselves out or breaking limbs on them 😐
No need to apologise, you shouldn’t force yourself to play if it makes you feel unwell. Give big picture mode a go if you can.
Spaghett’s last song played game
You See Me by Childish Gambino
Because amazing
Update, Supervisor and her second in command have shown up
Both are a little worse for wear, maybe they will go home sick
If they make me sick I swear to god I will end someone
Soul to Squeeze – Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I forgot to mention, Gambino at BDO was so damn good. Except for the Royalty stuff, not keen on that.
Didn’t he have an album where he did a song with Beck? and one with Tina Fey?
Yeah, Royalty. It’s not my thing, more of a “gangsta rap” thing, for lack of a better term.
Oh, damn
I was looking forward to the songs with Beck and Tina Fey in them
It’s probably worth giving it a listen. Especially since it’s free. It just isn’t as enjoyable as his other stuff.
Might do that man
Thanks 🙂
I wouldn’t be surprised if I didn’t enjoy it as much
We left the gig when he started doing Royalty stuff
Mostly because it meant we would get home earlier
See, this is why I’m home today. Feeling better than yesterday, but don’t want to risk infecting other people with my cooties.
Oh, and Fred Astaire by San Cisco.
It’s nicer when they aren’t here
But I think it has something to do with the fact that they make me feel anxious
I guess it’s because they have the power to get me in trouble
Albeit I didn’t do anything wrong and never do
Second last song I listened to this morning was Leadbelly’s original version.
I probably should have Preordered that game. Oh well I’ll pick one up in-store tomorrow. \o/
Via Facebook
“Alex Markposted to EB Games Australia
8 hours ago
So for all those still concerned about their Wizards Editions, mine is in transit as of 7 hours ago. Good times.”
Looks like I’m all good 😀
If I get to EB and they don’t have it….
IF THAT HAPPENS…
Well, you might not hear from me for a while. Because I’ll be in jail.
That better not happen cause I want my Doc What art book…
Oh and jail is bad and stuff I guess. Selfishius
I should look into how much it would be to get a book published.
@shane?
It’s free if it’s a good book with a broad appeal. Publishing deal \o/
The Art of Doctor What? If you drew a RETARDIS on the front, you’d make a frickin fortune (and lose it in a lawsuit, but whatever)
Otherwise, I’d recommend Blurb or Lulu for a art-style book. They can do decent hardcovers. Not especially cheap, but colour printing tends not to be cheap. (Why my comics are B&W :P)
Well that’s good for him, EB hasn’t shipped mine yet and I preordered it the first day it was up on EB’s site. 🙁
I decided to get it Day 1 aswell, peer pressure I tell you!
Question that remains is do I preorder it today or not.
I’m also curious as to wether it is worth preordering it. Which place has it cheapest?
JB HiFi ripped it off their site =/ not sure if you can even get it instore their, EB Games might be an only option
Apparently preordering from EBGames gets you a special DLC character.
*shrugs*
Better the nothing I guess, may aswell preorder it from EB.
I’m getting Hitman HD from EB Games tomorrow anyways, it’s settled! preorder today.
Yeah, don’t see any reason NOT to go EB. FREE STUFF
I believe it was $84 at JB but no idea about launch price. I think it’s $84 at Big W too so might as well pay the $88 at EB. You can price match when paying for a pre-order, right? So if JB had it for $70 on launch, could I get EB to refund the difference?
You lose preorder incentives if you price match, well half the time… depends if the storehand wants to be a dick.
WOO
I’ll probably cave. I need a new game 😛 Going to wait and see who has the best price first though. (C’mon, Kmart! You can do it!)
WOOTENANNY
Just got an email from my publisher. First time he’s given me advance dates of books coming out. Here’s the schedule:
Late February: Ebook versions of The Lesser Evil (individual volumes 1-3)
Mid-March: The Lesser Evil Omnibus print edition (at this point, individual print volumes will be discontinued)
April: Peaceful Tomorrows Volumes 1 and 2 will be released.
Learn it. Memorise it. Save your money. Then give it all to me.
Well I was going to use that money to repair my home from storm damage and keep the kids fed and clothed but okay. You convinced me to invest in Shanecorp Global Pty. Ltd.
Good man. Those gold hubcabs on the Rolls don’t buy themselves.
Edit: Life can get pretty stressful if you don’t know where the next one is coming from.
Checking my profile page, I just noticed I have almost 5000 kotaku comments under my belt.
Oh man…
3500 pages for him – about 11 novels :\
Assuming 8 characters per word, and 140 character tweets, you’ve written enough for 5x 80000 word novels on Twitter (about 1500 typical paperback pages).
Enjoy the good times.
Typical Serrels. I bet none of them were even millennial comments.
Cheers,
TadMod – Owner of the 1000th, 2000th and 3000th comment-breakers.
This is acceptable.
That was hilarious. Didn’t you actually screw around with the CMS to make sure you got one of those records when you were working here.
Now I’m remembering Edmus and my eyes are aflush with tears.
HAHAHAHA, YES! It was the 3000th comment. I inserted an image. It was amazing. HAHAHA.
OMG, EDMUS! I’m going to play right now. I hope my hats/stats haven’t been wiped out!
Some say on an overcast day you can barely make out the figure of the giant, imposing and great, as he walks this terrestrial realm in search of his two vices – chocolate and games.
Sometimes he forgets about one of those obsessions to focus on the other.
After months of gorging on chocolate, I’m back.
Remember that time you came to a meat? That was fun.
I no longer get invited to them. The last one was at the zoo, and I’m broke, so I need to wait for el-cheapo meat’s to happen…
…Or I could get a job. 😛
We don’t do meats anymore. We just hang out as friends on a semi-regular basis. You are more than welcome to tag along.
WAIT! I’m planning a laser tag meat. Trying to get new peeps along to that!
WHAT ABOUT THE MEAT SHANE MEAT THING? NEXT WEEK. CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE.
Yes! Come along, Tad! You’re such an easy target in laser tag.
I’m keen. Will have to try to convince the parent to lend me money, but it’s worth it! 😛
@Shane
Meat who?
I thought we were meating at Kinokuniya on Sat 9 Feb. Are we not?
HHHNNNNNGGGGRRRHHHHHHH!
So my fears are coming true and Zavvi and The Hut group (including The Hut and other sister sites) are having problems with the Wizard’s Edition of Ni no Kuni. People (pretty much everyone) are experiencing “Payment Problems” and Namco Bandai UK have responded on Twitter and said they don’t know what the problem is but they will investigate with Zavvi. Of course “Payment Problems” must be a glitch in the system since everyone is getting it and they’ve already completely charged me for it on PayPal. Will need to do some investigating…
Namco Bandai have Tweeted about other games recently (some Naruto one) recommending people use big retailers like Amazon and Zavvi so they’re definitely trusted by them. This is gonna be interesting :/ 🙁
Play.com seem to have stock on it too but don’t ship to Australia. If anyone is really keen on it they can try out a forwarding company and it might still be cheaper than it was locally ($140). Good luck fellow Wizards!
You could always wait outside EB Games tomorrow and mug the first person you see carrying a Wizard’s Edition.
The jailtime will be worth it.
SELF-SERVING COMMENT TIME:
Hey guys,
I know I’m not around as much as I should be, but that’s going to change! I’m going to start being the most damned annoying person on these here TAYs over the coming weeks*!
Anyways, I wanted to ask the peoples who play Dota 2 to be so kind as to lend some comments/upvotes/favourites on my newly submitted set to the steam Workshop:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=123648070
If you decide to upvote/favourite the set, would you be so kind as to do that for the individual items also? Much love for you if you do! ♥♥♥♥♥
*Well, I’ll give it a shot
This legitimately made my spit my drink all over my keyboard. Now I have a wet keyboard… THANKS SHANE. >:(
Hahaha, very true. It was just the first result that turned up. I couldn’t find any of the clips on their own!
Haha, thanks man. Much appreciated. If you want a dota 2 invite, I’ve got 3 spare that I’m trying to get rid of!
Morning, folks. That’s all I’ve got!
Who’s going to the NovaMeat? Saturday, 2 Feb at Surfer’s Paradise?
From the desk of @novacascade:
Golden Nova Meat (or The “Nova Ditching His Real Life Friends To Hang Out With Internet Friends… Its Just One Night Ok? I’m Not A Bad Person” Meat)
Who: Me 😀 and whoever else wants to be there
When: Saturday 2nd Feb
Where: Hard Rock Cafe, Surfers Paradise
Why: First time I’ve been to QLD in a long time, so I intend to take advantage
What: A Scotish Doctor
How: Drive, Walk, Bus, Train, Fly, Swim, Teleport, Ride on the back of a Velociraptor, TARDIS, Whatever
Long story short, I’m going on holiday to the Gold Coast for a couple of weeks with some friends, and have set aside a night to have a meat while the girls go out shopping (or whatever it is they do :P). When I made mention a while ago, the Hard Rock Cafe was put forward as an option for dinner, and since I’ve never been to one I decided to go with it. I’ve been told there’s a Timezone nearby as well, for all your gamey goodness.
Express your interest (or not) below and/or twitter me and/or email me at jones(underscore)11(underscore)is(at)hotmail(dot)com
Pretty damn anxious. This move is – though awesome – very sudden and totally life changing. It’s a BIG DEAL. And there’s no chance to even draw breath here. So. Much. Momentum.
Sounds like it’s going to be good for your writing, though! Plus, an adventure! Hope you feel better, my friend!
She came home all happy and excited telling us about all her new friends (everybody apparently) and learning about manners on the “big TV” (electronic whiteboard).
We purchased this for her in the hopes of having it assembled for her by the time she got home as a reward for starting school but it was 2 am by the time we got it together.
Nawwwww,
Also, you bought her a Super A-Mart store? (The link puts me onto a store locator)
Same here, just type Manhatten into the search box. It’s the loft bed dealy according to the number! I suspect she’d like that a whole damn lot. That’s good to hear, Freeze! 😀
That’s so awesome 🙂
My nearly-3-year-old is very excited about preschool, which we call ‘big school’ and she calls ‘high school’ 😛
Ok TAY
So, I found out that last week, when two of the people in my sector were sick and I was away on an approved day off, that the Branch Manager, the guy who runs our floor, went through my tray and found Trust’s that I hadn’t yet set up
Now, we don’t have any File Cover’s at the moment
I could set up a new trust, but where am I going to put all the documents is my argument
We are supposed to be getting entirely new File Cover’s too, and we don’t know when
He hasn’t confronted me or anything, and I doubt he will
It isn’t a major issue I just feel like I don’t have a leg to stand on
“when two of the people in my sector”
Is that a euphemism?
Because if it is, i find you talking about your balls quite crass.
That being said, it is rather impressive they got employment, and i hope they feel better soon.
Thanks man
It wasn’t a fail on your part, I did appreciate the joke man
My balls are employed
The branch manager hasn’t and won’t say anything
It’s just Ol Spaghett’s anxious brain running away with wild thoughts and theories
A week old Trust not set up isn’t the end of the world, besides as I mentioned, where the hell am I going to put the paperwork when there is no file covers
Thanks DC my brother 🙂
I will, I just need to forget about it, or try to anyway
He was made to wear a singlet and all the other kids made fun of his superman lunchbox,
How freakin awesome is this guy?!?!?!
http://www.slavetopainting.com.au/collections/featured/products/28mm-aaargh2d2-sf-ork
Seriously need to pick him up at some point.
Also, this dude. Because beard.
http://www.slavetopainting.com.au/products/dwarf-lord-avatars-of-war
Not my type, but to each their own, I guess. Good luck with the pick-up. I hear an oil can is his drink of choice.
I refuse to click that link because knowing precisely what you’re talking about will ruin your comment for me. 😛
It seems even when i’m not trying to be borderline homo-erotic, i’m still borderline homo-erotic…
le-sigh
well… I’m gonna be down in melbourne 15-18 Feb for the ATP festival, so I figured I should book some flights. given that its only a few weeks away, I figured they’d be a bit pricey. nope. $60 each way.
oh nice, I thought to myself, that means I can look into getting flights for PAX as well. $39 each way.
awesomeness.
Edit : Also, if any of you fine melbourne people would be up for food & beer in the city on the friday night (15th) give me a shout.
yeah, it surprised me. I was expecting the Feb flights to be about $150 each way… so yeah. pleasantly surprised.
Yeah, this is the reason I can’t visit my sister. You’re lucky if you get return flights from here for $400 and it’s usually more like $500. Factor in that I’d have to take at least one kid with me and yeah, no can do. Stoopid Canberra. :S
Can you fly to Sydney, bus to Canberra. Adds to the time, but it’s the only way to travel cheaply. $30 per ticket on the bus.
Bus-ing’s not really possible with a three-year-old. But yeah if I can ever get Mr. Strange to stop being scared of being alone with the kids then that’s definitely an option.
I might be able to but will have to see closer to the day as a) I may be moving house and b) I may be in Redmond.
This is old and you’ve probably already seen it but I just found it and thought it was cool!
awesome ad 😀
That was awesome!
On the subject of ads, here’s some I grabbed from work
AHHH NIGHTMARES!
Reminds me of that thing in Aeon Flux.
Speaking of nightmares… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oxSeTZkJsI
Dreamy.
Sidevote!
(c) Aleph
But I don’t want a sidevote. I want up and down!
I do! I sent soem out too!
Blue Max hahaha
I think I send out way more than I receive back 🙁
Same :(. People hate meeeee
Bah, most likely no Dark Souls II this year. /o\
I hope we get some kind of proper information about what they have changed soon.
I just wish the new head-guy would keep his mouth shut. At least 75% of what he says about the game scares me. And not in a good way.
Did you see the full interview?
“The concept of time and the existence of time is something that will be key to Dark Souls II,” replies Shibuya. When we press for more detail, he simply rephrases the word ‘time’ with ‘eras’ and leaves it there. That’s as much as he will say, claiming that he doesn’t want to spoil the surprise for players. We’ll have to wait to see just what this clue means, then, but it sounds as though time travel between different epochs of the world’s history could play a role in the game. For a series that already shares so much DNA with The Legend Of Zelda, playing with time mechanics can only serve to strengthen that bond.
Uh… okay.
Edit: This kind of worries me, but the ‘direct’ rather than ‘subtle’ stuff really does worry me.
Wait, what? I love the Zelda series but how the hell is the Souls series similar to the Zelda series?
Because you have a sword and shield in third person.
Duh. They’re nearly identical games.
I swear, it’s like the interviewer had no idea what any of the “Souls” games were. So he googled screenshots for it and winged it from there.
The controls, perspective and swordplay are kind of similar. But you’re right, they are worlds apart in a lot of crucial respects.
Honestly though, Dark Souls on Easy PG Handhold Mode probably wouldn’t actually be too different from a Zelda game.
But couldn’t that be said about any game? You take away the story, characters and well everything and replace it with Zelda then yes, the game will play like Zelda.
I am really struggling to see the similarities. You have a sword and a shield, that’s about it. The controls for moving are the same I guess and the swordplay is very different. Zelda is a much faster slashfest whereas Souls is more of a realistic and precise kind of swordplay.
Totally. I’m not saying you could flick a switch and turn one into the other. They are incredibly different, and come at games from entirely different ethos’seseseses.
That said, the swordplay isn’t particularly precise in either game. Gotta say that. Both games reward timing, though.
Yeah, every time he talks it sounds like he wants to make a big Hollywood blockbuster game. A big budget linear game that’s stuck on “hard” difficulty. I really don’t think he sees what the fans of the Souls series love about the game. =(
To make it more accessible they are changing platforms to Facebook, publisher to Zynga and renaming it Soulville.
I don’t get why people are so surprised, the Edge interview pretty much confirmed this, also it described the game as looking as good as Star Wars 1313, meaning it is next-gen.
Either way, FROM can take all the time they need to make Dark Souls 2 as amazing as possible 🙂
Spag’s brain box is slowly calming itself down
Helps I have work to do
And he hasn’t said anything
Nor has anyone else
Oh, FYI I am referencing my post on Page 5 about uncompleted work being found in my tray
I am sorry dude
I have two seperate anxiety disorders
So, I guess some of my posts tend to come off anxious or edgy
What was found really wasn’t a massive problem
Just, my brain runs away with the horrible thoughts
Twins twins twins twins twins man
Serious
But yeah, now I am just focusing on work for the time being
That said, I like your formatting.
Easy to read on mobile.
Answering that question a few weeks late.
That was painful to type though. A double linefeed makes the browser ‘lose’ the textbox, so it jumps between above and below every keystroke.
Ah, android.
Thanks for answering it at all 🙂
I guess my formatting would make it easier to read on mobile
It is less cramped together
Only one hour until I can stop pretending to work, and take a well-deserved lunch break.
In other news, the wife is leaving me again. Heading down to Bathurst tomorrow to check out this house we’re keen on. See if the photos lied. Also potentially going to meet with a builder and get indicative quotes on some renovations.
We might have someone interested in buying our Canberra house, which means that we can get a good price for it, and keep agents out of it. Would put us in reasonably good stead to put an offer in on the Bathurst place, especially if we can at least exchange contracts quite quickly. If all prices fall in our favour, we might end up with a mortgage about 40% the size of our current one, and get a bigger house in the process.
It’s all happening really fast though (the idea only germinated on Friday evening, just five days ago). I’ve never really had cold feet before, not for wedding or kids, or anything (other than minor social engagements that I frequently bail on). But I’m getting it now. Despite the belief that this is best for everyone (and especially best for me), I find myself really digging for excuses to not do this.
My mum cried when we told her 🙁
I just hurt myself by furrowing my brow and squinting my eyes to try and figure out what that facial expression actually means. 😛
Haha!
Now you know, though. It makes sense, right? RIGHT? 😛
He’s being racist.
I can’t decide if this means confusion, annoyance, or is meant to be vaguely threatening.
I tried it out and it still doesn’t make sense! 😛
I’m going with “pained” based on how it felt to make that face.
I’m the exact opposite of the burning fires of @dc’s passionate seduction.
I guess that’s why my wife fell for his smouldering loins.
You see it’s funny, cause D.C. is repulsive to the lady folk! XD
I do not find you repulsive in the slightest and you know this. Therefore I can only conclude that you don’t think I’m a lady. D:
😛
Logic \o/
I can confirm your not so stop it.
Yup. Pretty much the only person @dc is repulsive to is himself. 🙁
Except when he’s being self-deprecating. Then it’s ALL the downvotes! 😛
SHUT UP!
lies. i think you’re hot.
Also, I’m not going to let the fact that I a) am a heterosexual male & b) have no idea what you look like, lessen my judgement.
He’s hot. Sexual preference has nothing to do with it, *everyone* is attracted to DC.
It’s science.
We might have someone interested in buying our Canberra house, which means that we can get a good price for it, and keep agents out of it.
I watched a couple of those house selling reality shows and they constantly go on about when a buyer knows a agent isn’t involved they always want that factor taken out of a price and you usually get offered between 10-50k less.
The show could of also of been talking shit.
It makes sense, but we know what the house is worth, and we know what we’ll accept. Ultimately, if we have a buyer lined up at a price we’re happy with, I don’t think bringing an agent into things will add any value (and it will delay the process).
Thanks though – you are right. It does happen sometimes 🙂
Warm those feet up man
Everything is coming up Shane, Wife of Shane and Children of Shane
Sounds good to me guy 🙂
At least it means we’re not making the decisions lightly. And that’s never a bad thing 🙂
Morning all, how’s things. I woke up to find one of the dogs I’m taking care of staring at me from next to my bed … the issue with this is that he crawled in through my bathroom window, somehow opened the door, navigated and moved some of the boxes I’ve still got in my room all without waking me. Either he’s smarter than he lets on or my housemates think it was funny. Both are as likely as the other.
In moderately interesting news, my housemate has a job interview … which means there is hope that I can stop paying for his portion of the rent and start buying things again.
Is anyone else looking forward to dead space 3?
I’d like to think so. I’ve had to spend about $2000 the last few months just for his rent. Plus, I know where he sleeps.
I’ll wait until it’s nice and cheap on Steam somewhere down the line. Didn’t like the direction they took the second game. I thought Dead Space: Extraction on the Wii was better!
I still need to play Extraction, although I’d heard it was pretty awesome. I’m only getting the game to see how the co-op holds up and so I can make my javelin/rivet hybrid gun … I want to be able to shoot a necromorph, pin them to the wall and then explode them. None of this go for the limbs junk which they kind of got rid of in the third game from what I played of the demo.
Oh man, that Dead Space 3 trailer. Possibly the worst trailer for a game I have seen in a while.
I thought it was February 1? Either way, I gots me ZombiU to finish first! Here’s hoping it doesn’t sell out and they don’t restock or any thing. :S
@masha2932
Did you see Jesus Lady Beard Guy (???) on that Samsung Galaxy Note 2 ad? Am I the only one who is confused by this? I vented my confusion on the Twitters.
Hey D.C! Just workin’, you know how it is. Thinking of starting the original Fallout this week, looking forward to it! Yourself?
Ha ha, I did. It was very confusing at first but after repeat viewings he looked like a guy though.
“Artbook”.
It’s more like a 12-page cardboard flip booklet.
Pretty, but severely lacking content.
Still, free is free!
Yessir.
US 3DS I got about 8 months (maybe?) before I moved here.
Unforeseen but impeccable planning.
Well, so far I have survived 5 days without PS3. Thank heaven for Foxtel. Kind of glad I didn’t preorder Ni No Kuni as I wouldn’t be able to play it. Hopefully I’ll be able to pick it up cheaper when I get a new PS3, whenever that is …
@tigerion How did you go with everyone’s music suggestions? Find anything you like yet?
Good so far, I’m only just getting up to your suggestions now. Found a few things that require further investigation, I enjoyed them but only listened to a few tracks from the albums.
I have certainly found songs I like, now just a matter of working out if it is just tracks or the band I like.
Details, man! We need details! Although if you’re anything like me you refrained from giving details because you couldn’t quite remember the names of stuffs. 😛
You will be pleased to know that I am keeping track of the bands and my reactions as I listen to them. I’ll post up ALL the details when I’m though (and probably get a bunch more suggestions of what to listen to)
Most of the militant vegans I know have pets. So what do they feed their pets? And if meat, how do they reconcile it with their belief system? I can’t ask them this because they’ll feel like I’m mocking them.
I’ve wondered this too.
I had a teacher who fed her dogs a vegetarian diet, because she didn’t like the look of canned food.
She wasn’t a vegetarian herself, just the dogs.
The fuck is wrong with people???
They don’t like how it looks, therefore the dog misses out?
To shreds you say?
We came to the conclusion that they were probably fed some dry food, Although she did use the word “vegetarian”
Some of them try to find alternatives … but I’d like to think that unless their idiots or they want to shell out a buttload of money for vitamin and mineral supplements specifically for their pet, they’d realise that meat tends to be a necessary part of the pets diet
Militant vegans deserve to be mocked. Mostly because the prefix of militant is just a nicer way of saying asshole.
I unfortunately ended up on the PETA website after googling your question. Apparently there are vegan pet foods. It all seems a bit ridiculous, as PETA usually does, but if your pets aren’t eating meat, they need a few suppliments, as a human on vegan diet would.
Fun fact: There’s a company called Harbingers of a New Age who make vegan pet foods. What a wanky name.
So some of them choose for their pets? That doesn’t seem ethical. I guess it makes sense though, seeing as some of my recent vegan convert friends seem to just have jumped in headfirst on the grounds of “animal cruelty” without delving deeper or forming any real opinions beyond the sensationalist propaganda pictures they keep shoving in my face on facebook. I’m not sure even they could tell me how they reconcile their beliefs with pet ownership and diet.
Edit: I accidentally a word. :S
Even owning a pet seems like it would be unethical though, wouldn’t it? I don’t know, vegans are weird.
I know they don’t usually use the word “owner” and sometimes “pet”, but how that actually justifies things I have no idea.
Friend? Housemate?
If we’re shooting for equality, my dog should have to pay rent. Preferably not in poop.
Edit: Sorry, not my dog. The dog I share residence with.
I think “companion” is pretty common.
And ever since Firefly it’s creeped me out to see people referring to their pets as “companions”. 😛
See this picture of a horribly mutilated and starved puppy? Like if you want to stop the abuse or ignore if you are an uncaring asshole who touches children.
I’m Lucifer incarnate if going by the descriptions on those fucking photos.
My last partner was vegetarian. Fine by me, but as an omnivore it led to me cooking two separate dishes each night, etc. etc.
Pain in the ass.
Some of the vegans I know are great people. But some are a bit misguided. It’s pretty much the same as any group of people, really.
A lot of vegans believe humans weren’t ‘designed’ to eat meat (conveniently ignoring the fact we have teeth intended for eating meat). But an animal like a cat is a carnivore and eating meat is natural and stuff for it.
Trying to make logical sense out of veganism is impossible.
There’s a girl on tumblr who believes she is a cat in a human body, but she is vegan. She reconciles this by saying as she has a human body she can eat a vegan diet, smoke weed, blog on the internet, etc. but she can’t go to school or get a job, and doesn’t see why her parents should have any expectations of her whatsoever.
People are weird.
I’m pretty sure I am near the end of Devil may Cry: Devil may Cry. I probably only have 2 or 3 missions at most left so i will probably beat it tonight. This is good because it lines up perfectly with the release of Ni No Kuni
well … keeping with tradition, there’s 20 missions in the game. The last fight is pretty infuriating though
Figuring out how to defeat the final boss took me way longer than it should have. I’m all for minimal telegraphing of strategy, but when I have to start guessing how to do things? Damn.
The only reason I figured it out was noticing that the doppelganger was giving me purple orbs to boost my Devil Trigger, so I figured I’d activate it and see what happens. This is after going through the doppelganger/healing phase about 10-15 times. So, I don’t know if those orbs *were* their way of telegraphing, but if it was it was pretty stupid.
My issue was I figured out to go to the devil trigger stage quick enough, but whenever I’d try and hit his actual body the doppelgänger would block it. So for some reason it wouldn’t end the fight and I was stuck doing the doppelgänger dance for 25 freaking minutes before the game decided to let my hit on him register and end the game … I went back and did it again and breezed through the fight in a few minutes using the exact same tactic … I’m fairly sure games hate me
better than ninja fucked?
Pretty sure that’s how the world got Jesus.
Mary, it wasn’t immaculate conception! You just got done by a ninja! You didn’t even notice him then BAM you’re pregnant.
See, the bible had it wrong this whole time – I’m pretty sure everyone would be one religion by now if one of the books abdopted the idea that Jesus was not only a magician, but a half-ninja magician!!!
#alltheoffensiveremarks
#highwaytohell
I feared the same thing until I saw a few DC upvotes pop up here and there. And then I also thought I shouldn’t have minded in the first place. We’re right and he’s wrong so if he has to go away for a bit to think about, so be it. 😛
God dammit, so if I want JP audio in SPINE SWORDSoul Sacrifice I have to preorder it. Except that means it’s DLC with a code which means I need a US copy due to using a US PSN account on my Vita. Which means finding a US retailer that a) offers the preorder bonus and b) ships to Australia. 🙁
Ergo purchasing the game and adding to the publishers sales and preorders and demonstrating to them that doing it this way is a viable business strategy.
If it means I get JP audio I don’t care.
EDIT: I will also happily pay extra for JP Audio DLC for JRPGs if it means not hearing shitty American dubs with bad anime voice ‘actors’.
Yeah it’s almost Catch-22-like. They could be using the DLC idea to see if people really do want JP audio, but if you don’t pre-order for that because of physical location/ DLC objections they could use that as “evidence” people don’t want JP audio. And if you do pre-order they could start only offering it that way for future localisations due to it being such a success.
ie: they’ll interpret the data whichever way makes them the most immediate profit, right or not.
Notwithstanding poor implementation in this case, DLC JP audio is a very good idea that I hope gets taken up as widely as possible.
Yes.
Starting with Atelier Ayesha plzkthx tecmo koei 🙁
Oh, it looks like Amazon US are currently happy to ship it to Australia.
But they don’t list the preorder info or give the right date yet. 🙁 WHAT TO DO.
Order it. They’ll sort out the info later. Also, you can always cancel it later if you need.
Yep, ordered. May cancel if I find it cheaper somewhere though.
Sadly Amazon won’t let me ship Muramasa Vita with Unspecified Preorder Bonus to Australia. 🙁
I hope they don’t fuck it up and region lock the multiplayer. I’ve got a lot more confidence in Sony getting that right than I do with Nintendo with Monster Hunter at least.
Back from lunch and preparing Section 122(1) Certificates which are legal evidence that we have been granted Probate
Joy
And today I am here till 5 pm
Joy
Not too bad of a day after the initial anxiety eased back a bit
Keep in mind it isn’t gone and never truly is
Why can’t charity just be charity and not just another form of advertisement these days.
People are dicks.
I haven’t done much today, I kind of want to start on my podcast but the idea i have in my head is always way better than the outcome and then i look at the finished product i get all down at how it could of been better if i tried harder. I mean i know its not super important but when i do something i try to do my very best that i can and when i half arse something i feel shitty because of how cool something seems in my head. Anyway
i should be free to travel to sydney next week and the roads should be clear woo
ALSO you know how everyone here is always telling me how smooth and not awkward i am with the ladies. You are all liars .
SnackTaku: Wait…It’s Not Tuesday??!! edition
1. Take Aldi Frozen Macaroni Cheese and cook as per instructions
2. Take a bite.
3. Think about how bland it is. (If you can’t do this step, skip straight to PROFIT)
4. Stir in tin of Mexican Salsa tuna
5. Marvel at your ingenuity
6. Take a bite.
7. Take back anything nice you ever thought about yourself ever.
8. ???
9. Profit.
Conclusion: would eat again (at gunpoint, line call at knifepoint). 193 out of 856.5 Bishes.
It’s weird, I feel like maybe the Vita is getting a bit of momentum going again game-wise?
Oh pull the other one…
O_o
Now you can get trophies for it \o/
Already got one. It’s very nice.
My prob with those sort of games is I’ve always been more of a slow and steady sort of guy and…well…ahem…
Nope. I was interested in Tearaway and SPINE SWORD and now there’s Muramasa I guess but it’s still a bit eh for the future.
So theres a federal election on Sep 14th.
I dont care if Labors policies involve state-sanctioned torture of kittens & I dont care if the Libs promise to give everyone free puppies & lots of money. I dont care if they could even deliver on that. While Abbot & Hockey lead them, they will always be the greater of two evils.
Edit: Sep 14th
its more fundamental than that, it comes down to who runs the better / more effective smear campaign.
ANOTHER race to the bottom election. I think informal votes might actually win this time.
Lib’s performance for the last 5 years has been terrible.
They’ve run solely on negativity & scaremongering.
They’ve not once come out with a viable alternative to a Labor policy, other than their idea of scrapping the NBN & going with a wireless network (Leigh Sales exposing Abbott’s ignorance on the issue was my favorite piece of journalism last year).
I always thought Labor could have blitzed the last election if they’d just held the higher ground and talked policy. But they wandered right into the muck and mire as well. Put off the whole nation, who filed a record number of informal votes.
No one is innocent here – the last election campaign was a complete disgrace from everyone, and I’m expecting worse this time around.
I vote for Galatic President Superstar McAwesomeville
Yeah, I’ve really come to hate Gillard over the last few months but I don’t really want to live in a world where Abbott is Prime Minister. I’ve been staunchly labor my whole voting life but this time it’s more about being the lesser of two evils rather than voting for the party I actually prefer.
same here. I was brought up as a Labor voter, & while the last few years I’ve really not liked the direction they’re going, I’d walk over red hot broken glass before voting for Abbott.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it! 🙂
I’ll get onto this one day, I promise. Been tying my money up in other things recently!
Shoot me an email. I like you well enough. You can have one of my leftover copies.
shane at shanewsmith dotcom
As long as you promise to buy the upcoming sequel in April 🙂
A kind and generous offer but I’d prefer to pay for it. It’s on The List of things to do now that we have a disposable income again. We just completely tapped ourselves out this month from buying the car!
I’m not going to fight you, but the offer stands, okay? 🙂
Fight him.
Donkey vote, or just deface the ballot, with a donkey.
Edit: Just FYI I decribed both a Donkey vote and an Informal vote, I just used a drawing of a donkey as an example
as much as I’d like to do that, every donkey vote is one less vote toward keeping Abbott out of office.
That was my strategy last time, voting against who I didn’t want most, guess who..
Donkey vote means going 1,2,3,4,5 down the page. Informal vote means voting for Superman or Mickey Mouse or “none off thees fuckwitz”
I worked the last election, and there was a ballot paper with this meticulously rendered donkey on it. Seriously, someone must have stood at the booth for an hour drawing this damn thing 😛
I’m a strong advocate of not wasting your vote. Try to pick a favourite, even if it is the lesser evil. Why risk it?
Edit to add link.
You could always vote independent because that totally didn’t result in a complete clusterfuck last time people did that.
Independents & the Greens are going to be problematic. if the left-leaning vote gets split between too many parties, the Coalition will get in even if more people voted against them.
That is why I will always support a preference based system rather than a first past the post. You can have alternatives on the same side of politics without automatically handing victory to the person on the other side
I’ll be voting for whichever parties are less likely to fuck everything up with the NBN.
Labor started it.
Liberals want to scrap it & replace it with a wireless network.
no contest.
I don’t trust the wireless between my xbox and router let alone as my primary means of accessing the internet. The Libs have heard of frequency crunch, right?
You know, I don’t think they have.
The Liberal broadband policy is almost non-existent. Sigh.
If it’s the rate at which they chew their cereal, then yes
Yes, but Labor still has their stupid filtering plans and stuff waiting for the right moment and I’m not sure I completely trust them.
So pirate party. 😛
Considering that it’s deciding which log of shit is the more edible when comparing them any other way, yeah. The labor pile has some undigested corn in it.
Speaking of NBN, I’m about to ring up iiNet and get them to connect the NBN at my parents’ new place ^_^
Accordingly there are no plans to introduce the NBN where I live in the next 15 years according to some research.
So the NBN is a bit of a pointless argument for me.
Yeah, this. I’ve no interest in the NBN at the moment, further than the fact that yes, it’s being rolled out.
At least you’ve got the remoteness of your location as a reasonable explanation.
I’m in the middle of one of Australia’s biggest population centres. Go figure.
I’m in our nation’s capital, and I can’t get ADSL2. My brother is also here, and he can’t get internet of any sort. This country’s infrastructure is completely borked.
NBN won’t just benefit individuals in the right zones, it will benefit the country as a whole.
There don’t appear to be any plans for its introduction in my area either, but its implementation still influences my decisions.
That’s not an election campaign argument. I want to know what my individual vote is worth to these guys 😛
True. But I can’t help but get cranky when 3 streets down from me is already connected and I’ve got to wait over 15 years.
Selfish? Yes. Yes I am aware of that.
I’ve been brought up as a Greens voter, so I’m safe in the knowledge that no matter what I do on election day, I will not change the result.
This is one bit of logic that I really hate. People who don’t want to vote for a minor party or an independent over a major party because it’s a ‘wasted’ vote.
Our preferential system means there is no such thing as a wasted vote.
I agree with you, but feel I should also point out that I’m reasonably confident he was joking 🙂
Heads up, guys (and gals). If you vote for Abbott, I’m deleting you from all my friends lists. For reals.
Well, not for reals. Probably just shake my head in disappointment, but whatever.
Abbot as Prime Minister. That’s the stuff nightmares are made of. Crazy, religious, racist, nightmares.
I’ll usually decide who I vote for in the days leading up to the election.
I never understood people who ‘only vote labor’ or ‘only vote liberal’. I understand certain parties have common/consistent goals or standards, etc, but it just sounds dumb to me.
I always figured you should be basing your vote on different parties recent performance, what sort of goals they have, and how that lines up with how you feel about things.
Ideally, yes.
But based on the last 5 years, Libs have done nothing but say how they’re gonna scrap Labor policies. Nothing constructive.
Also, their unhealthy obsession with a budget surplus. they’ve not yet com forward with how they’re gonna achieve this. Leads me to believe that however they plan to do it, its gonna be unpopular.
And the Libs traditionally show preferential treatment to people with high-income / big businesses. since I dont fit either of those groups, I’m always gonna be a bit cautious when the Libs are involved.
It’s a logical way of thinking, and I used to think that way myself when I was younger, but it’s not really that simple, because as you said, the different parties have common/consistent goals or standards. At the moment I can never see myself voting Liberal, even if they “perform” well, because I can’t agree with the parties current morals at all, and I’d rather have poor performing people in office whom I can agree with on a moral level than high performing people whom I can’t.
I think the people who only vote a certain way do so because of personal political leanings. Like if you were particularly right wing, you’d want to go with a rightist party who cater more towards your views.
At the end of the day, yeah, the party may have some items in their manifesto that you don’t agree with, but they won’t let the gays marry and will tell the boats to fuck off, because we’re full and that’s what really matters.
Hang on… Damn. That’s both parties, right?
My mother voted for the same party for 40-odd years, solely because her father voted for that party.
Not sure that’s what I’d want to instill in my children :S
That describes my husband. Although for not quite as many years yet. Problem is, he grew up in country Victoria where it made sense to do that. But the needs of a city are very different to the needs of the country so he should probably re-evaluate. He might even be in the process of doing that after the last election here though. He helped vote Newman in and then Newman thanked him by taking his job away. 😛
Unfortunately, the rules are:
1) You don’t talk about politics
2) You don’t talk about not talking about politics.
So… no one knows the rules 😛
I’ve always lived in safe seats (Ciobo, Crean, Costello) so my vote has never made a difference.
Wait! I’ll be moving before the next election! Let’s see… New seat, held by Harry Jenkins since 1986. And by his father for 16 years before that.
Shit.
I blame the phone and my slow typing. When i hit reply it was the last comment on the page.
My first real reply fail!
Supervisor asking me if I watched My Kitchen Rules
My response was “No, I missed it, what happened”
Reality: I don’t care what happened, I played Torchlight 2, Spoke to Sam on the phone and rewatched Black Books season 3, Fuck My Kitchen Rules in it’s reality TV ass
Spoiler: some people cooked some food in their kitchen and one team didn’t cook as good.
There’s cooking in that show? I thought it was just an hour of people bitching at each other and Manu being an arrogant self-important dick.
Sadly I guess they base an entire show on the “framing device”
Actually, it’s Pete Evans who plays the arrogant self-important dick role.
I know this because I watch ALL THE COOKING SHOWS! I was planning on being a chef before I got pregnant with my daughter. Was even super-close to trying out for the first Masterchef series but then I got pregnant again. I sense a theme. If I don’t want to get pregnant again (and I most certainly don’t!) I’ll have to put all food-related ambitions out to pasture. 😛
My parents watched My Kitchen Rules.
Meanwhile, I watched someone play videogames via livestream because I can’t find the energy/motivation to pick and play one myself. I’m not sure what’s worse here.
Thats a rather aggressive statement.
I played some games of LoL watched a documentary on Nick Cave and the bad seeds then played some music until i eventually passed out.
Rockets my man, I am a rather agressive person
It is directionless for the most part, but it is there
Me too, i get mad and then i rethink and am like I shouldn’t get angry at myself because i need my confidence and i am a good person and i shouldn’t get mad at others for similar reasons. So there i am, just mad.
Most of my statements tend to be rather agressive
Its not like “I am so mad” It will be “I hope someone cuts him open and hangs him with his own intestines”
I prefer to voice how I feel, in eloquent sentences
Wow 😛
Yeah, Spaghett has problems
Good thing I never act on anything I say
So many humans are so detestable
Ugh, good thing I have a shrink :/
Making myself sound worse by the minute \o/
Ive been playing so much Pokemon Black 2 that I can still here the Pokecentre song. Quite pleasant really…
Dundun dun dundundun dun dun, dundun dun dundundun dundun, dundun dun dun, doo doo doodoo doodoo doooooo, doo doo doodoo doodoo dooooooooo
its bad that i just sung the song in my head to check that you had the right amount of “Dun’s”
How’d I go?
I just re-read my comment, I fuggered it just before the doos 🙁
Clearly more of a “naaaa/naaah” sound
Let’s just, you know, get some ideas bouncing around. Sort of go crazy, you know, no rules…
I took a risk when I employed you, Manny…Don’t eat muffins when I’m developing you! I took a risk when I gave you a job. A lot of people would have said, “Who is this rudderless hippy? How do I get away from him? Has he got a hunting knife strapped to his shin?”
Is this the part when you fake interest for a half hour while your supervisor recounts what happened during the show?
So I call EB Games and ask them if they are going to release Hitman HD early since it is already on the shelves at my local JB HiFi, they tell me they are not sure and tell me to call 20 minutes later.. yeah… I’ve rang 5 times over the past hour and no one has picked up.
I think they are screening me.
I got through, they told me they are still confirming with head office and that it’s been broken at other places and if EB Games does decide to release it early it will be sometime around 3 PM
They will call me apparently -.-
I don’t get it? :S
distantdrop JANUARY 30, 2013 1:33pm
So I call EB Games and ask them if they are going to release Hitman HD early since it is already on the shelves at my local JB HiFi, they tell me they are not sure and tell me to call 20 minutes later.. yeah… I’ve rang 5 times over the past hour and no one has picked up.
I think they are screening me.
Aleph. Gets. Reading comprehension.
Hey good point… I should totally see if I can buy a Wizard’s Edition from them tomorrow 😛
D:
Ni No Kuni has been broken at JB HiFi aswell I believe I didn’t see it there but I saw the N area with 5 empty spaces so they either pulled it off or they sold them all.
OH?! And how do you know this, or are you just assuming it has been broken?
Would probably go get it today if it’s been broken 😀
I just felt it was strange their was empty spaces there, and a lot of people asking on EB Games Facebook.
But no I don’t know for sure.
FIND OUT, MAN! FIND OUT! I NEED TO KNOW BY 4PM! SOMEONE MUST BE NEAR A STORE!!!!
Bear in mind that Campbell Newman is bordering on raving lunatic yet people still got him in based on the amount of discontent towards Anna Bligh.
Food for thought.
Campbell Newman and Darren Lockyer should swap jobs one day and see if anyone notices 😛
Campbell Newman and Ron Jeremy’s crotch should swap jobs one day and see if anyone notices.
“Although this site is about Tony Abbott, it is intended to be apolitical.”
Amusing enough site, but credibility lost 😛
Oh, of course. Didn’t intend for anyone to take it as credible, but rather a source of amusement.
I think it’s my problem, not yours. I would actually like to see someone with no agenda put together a really decent summary of the candidates’ perspectives on everything 😛
This site is a pretty good summation of everything that is wrong with current politics. On both sides.
I wonder if the origin of this site can be traced back to Kirribilli?
No, I think they would have paid an exorbitant amount of money to get some staffer’s second cousin to do it. Plausible deniability.
*Checks TAY after having lunch and sees all the political talk*
Nope!
*Checks twitter and realises it’s also on Twitter*
Nope.JPG I’m out!
*throws phone out of the window*
Jacks is a cool GAEM man!
I got to threesies* the other day.
*When inputting “threesies” my phone defaulted to “threesomes”. O.o
Surprisingly playing Jacks with hot women doesn’t get me much action. I like to think it is because I am too good at it.
Survivor #14 in ZombiU. Just out of curiousity is this normal or am I just really, really bad at the game. Can’t connnect to interwebs, so can’t check stats there. :S
I’ve only played the demo and found I was dying because the controls are really slow and janky.
But you’re definitely just shit.
Thought so. :'( I don’t mind the controls, man. The touch screen stuff is pretty unresponsive at times, but the core gameplay is fun!
I’m curious. Do the actions made by previous survivors matter? Do zombies stay dead, or shortcuts remain open, or anything? Or do you actually have to start again from square one?
Basically the character doesn’t mean a whole lot to the story.
People you encounter will act like they’ve spoken to you before. Paths are open. Zombies stay dead. (Except for your old character, who you can hunt down and kill, retrieving inventory.) It’s a really cool idea, but the lack of any personality or individual ‘quests’ kind of makes them seem a little disposible. :'(
I find when I lose a character I’ve kept alive for three hours, I’m a lot more reckless with the next one. They die off in five minutes. Then the discipline returns.
I wonder if Zombie U had been released on PS3 or 360 it would have been slammed a lot more than it did.
Hard to say because half the game appears to have been designed around the unique dual-screen hardware. It would be a different game on PS3/360.
Or maybe if the Wii U was more established. One of the common praises I hear is that it is a great launch game which seems somewhat backhanded.
Yeah, I honestly don’t think it looks all that good or special, it does however, look good for the Wii U.
For what it’s worth I like it a whole lot better than New Super Mario Bros U and the slow, controlled pace is something I really appreciate! You just get the impression that it could be so much more too.
Feels a whole lot more ambitious than they could’ve been as well, which is always welcomed!
Dark Souls is probably better!
We’ll find out when ZombiU2 is released It’s set in Ireland and Bono makes a guest appearance
Yeah, that’s a good point. It reminds me of Condemned: Criminal Origins for better or worse. An Xbox 360 launch title. :S I’m having a whole lot of fun and can see a lot of potential in the survival element, but it is a bit bare bones!
So I played Hotline Miami, got both endings, all the masks, and finished the bonus level.
Discuss.
You wanna hear some real discussions? Maybe about poo?
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
Be my valentine.
Give me one of those crappy candies with “B mine” or something else similarly lame and then we’ll talk
It was very gratifying playing it, learning from my mistakes, and finally getting it right.
Bah … damn tumblr being nothing but bronies screeching about something happening to the main character and baseless speculation about the Doctor Who 50th anniversary containing all the doctors and linking to an article that says Stephen Moffat said it, but at the bottom they have an edit saying they were mistaken and to stop fan girling.
I preordered Ni No Kuni during my lunch break. The girl there actually knew what video games were! She made a comment about how amazing it is to get a Studio Ghibi product with such a broad release especially in Australia.
My faith in the EBGames workers has been restored.
Then I am reminded of the time I went to EB asking about Metal Gear Solid, and the first two people I spoke to had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Reminds me when I went to get my preorder of the original Crysis, they asked if that was for XBox or PlayStation.
D=
Where’s @dc?
@DC, if you’ve gone to EB to get a Vita and its only game to demonstrate to EB Girl how much you love gaming, I beg you man, reconsider your strategy.
Edit: if he doesn’t FURROWBROW this, he’s definitely gone.
I don’t know, she might ask @dc if he wants to play multiplayer. 😉
Time to lay off the porn for a while, man 😛
So this just happened
http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/314731_10151252611183657_55903310_n.jpg
You are an inspiration to us all
Edit: With your almost 50 minutes of playtime a day 😉
SHANE!
They did that to me when I decided to preorder Hitman Absolution on their website, they shipped it on release day -.- I was like: ‘are you kidding me?’
I know it’s much more unbearable for you due to it being a Wizard Edition? which stokes the flames of uncertainty.
Is it right to follow the WeAreAustralia Twitter account this week because my friend is curating it and then unfollow it next week? 😛
@greenius and… uh… @everyone.
message from friend working in JB HiFi regarding Ni No Kuni –
“it is SELLING NOW GO GO GO THIS IS NOT A DRILL”
If you’re going to go get it are you going to that special EB with the special guy and areyou going to film his reaction?
Well that’s not fair. How dare he! 😛
Also, will your friend mind if I follow him on Twitter? I like his handle. 😀
I don’t think he will mind at all 😀
Followed. I’ll blame you if there’s problems. 😛
I did that with @dc last night.
It didn’t help at all, but it made me feel slightly better.
Every day’s a school day when it comes to Twitterquette
He even sent proof for you to show off!
Pretty brave to take a picture I would always fear they would kick my ass out of the store, or does he work there?
Edit: Also stickers on the embossed DmC slip covers? that should be made a crime.
@freezespreston
There was talk of a theme park meat at the start of March
Is anything happening with that? I will need to look at getting leave and booking flights if something is happening.
Let me know, kthxbai
3rd of March. Gonna start harassing people incessantly very soon about it until everyone agrees to come.
Why is it “Mo Fo” and not “Mo Fu”???
Is it because it sounds too much like the name of a chinese wise man done the correct way?
It really should be “muh fuh”
Just sayin
Edit: Am aware this sounds like ‘mother’ and is probably the reason it isn’t muh fuh
This is a recording. Shane is busy right now. Leave a message and your phone number. With his schedule, cannot be looking up phone numbers.
So it appears I’m now eating second lunch, a combination of Chicken Tikka and steamed rice.
Oh god it burns why wasn’t I warned!!!
Any way, yum, back to eating.
HOLY CRAPBALLS, ANYONE WANTING TO PLAY ANY MAME GAMES ON THEIR UNJAILBROKEN IDEVICES DOWNLOAD A GAME CALLED GRIDLEE RIGHT NOW BEFORE IT IS TAKE OFF THE APP STORE!!!!
AMAZEBALLS…
i am currently playiong street fighter alpha 2 on my iPad mini and it is SSOOOOOOOOO good!
I’m not sure if he replied yet (currently catching up!) but he said he’s unbanned :). Something about PS+ renewing but they had cancelled the credit card so he had to pay for a new sub before he could get his account back.
BOLLOCKS
Mein Herz Brennt has always been one of my favorite Rammstein songs – but DAMN is the new piano version ever haunting as hell!
repost from last page if anyone missed it…
HOLY CRAPBALLS, ANYONE WANTING TO PLAY ANY MAME GAMES ON THEIR UNJAILBROKEN IDEVICES DOWNLOAD A GAME CALLED GRIDLEE RIGHT NOW BEFORE IT IS TAKE OFF THE APP STORE!!!!
AMAZEBALLS…
i am currently playiong street fighter alpha 2 on my iPad mini and it is SSOOOOOOOOO good!
EDIT: Basically once the game is installed u use a filebrowser to transfer all the roms to ur ipad and voilla! run the app and select your rom!
so then. we just had this little activity thing at work to get the new students orientated to the library. this always makes me want to punch students.
this activity involves a group of 3 students being given a question (the answer being a book on the shelves), then being told to go to the catalogue, search for key words from the question (which have been highlighted by the way), find the book & then bring it back to the library staff.
heres a sample of what these senior high school kids did –
– run to the shelves hoping to randomly come across the book they needed (shotgun searching)
– ask what a catalogue is
– do a search for the whole question in the catalogue
– search google
– search the catalogue, but then think that books are sorted alphabetically by title on the shelf
– when corrected on the above point, they then decided that books are sorted alphabetically by author
– search the catalogue & then think the number of pages listed in the cat record is the call number
– search the catalogue & then think the listed barcode is the call number
seriously. I dont know how these kids got to years 11 & 12 without knowing how to look up something in a library. I dont know how they’re going to survive in TAFE & Uni if they dont learn how to.
I mean, when I was in year 2, our class was taken to the library & shown how to look up a book. is this a rare thing? does it not usually happen?
/rant
oh cool. so it does happen. this makes me feel slightly better.
hell, even if you never use libraries, i think being able to find something in one is a pretty damn useful life skill that everyone should have. up there with sewing on a button & changing a tyre.
hell, library skills are arguably more useful, coz if you dont know how to do the above, if you can search a library, you can find something that’ll tell you how to :p
Kids these days google their smartphones.
More seriously, it’s a different generation. I was in one of the last years to use books for research. My school went full net-friendly just after I left. I barely touched paper though uni. Etc.
Yeah, this unfortunately. Printed press is becoming a romanticised, archaic medium whether we like it or not. I learned basic library function in primary school, and spent the entirety of high-school using a laptop. I didn’t actually *touch* a book at all for educational purposes for what, 4 years?
google wouldnt be so much of a problem if kids searched it correctly & also had a bit of an understanding of critical analysis of sources.
the ones at work tend to just search for whatever, jump on the first result & copy & paste whatever. no thought is given to the reliability / currency / validity of what they find.
hell, even if they dont use books, we have 1000’s of databases that are peer reviewed, & only slightly harder to search than google…
we still get asked ‘whats a database?’ whenever we suggest em.
hell yeah. they were being phased out just as I started at my school (1990). but I do remember being taught how to use one.
Yeah I think they were pretty old when I was young, but I still used them.
That being said, I haven’t been near a library for a very, very long time.
I don’t recall ever being taught how to search up a book in the library. I’d probably make some of the same mistakes as those you listed, especially thinking the books are sorted alphabetically (wait, they’re not?), because from memory that’s how my primary school’s library arranged their books.
I suppose it comes down to your school / teacher & their attitude to it.
I dont really hold anything against anyone who doesnt know how to use a library, but I just think even if you never use libraries, its a useful skill that as many people as possible should have.
these days though, I think its more important for students to be taught how to critically analyse a resource. make sure its relevant & accurate & trustworthy. not enough kids are being taught that.
You have my sympathy, while working at a TAFE library the sheer amount of ignorance shown by the students was scary.
Though I must say, it hasn’t changed much since coming to a government library.
I did Library/Information Services at TAFE and their inability to find books disgusts me
The last time I had to look up a book in a library was 7 years ago. I was taught, but I can’t remember how it all works now. I at least know how to search the online catalogue though 😛
So Django Unchained was pretty good! I liked it.
Not my favourite Tarantino movie, but it was very enjoyable!
I’m tempted to go see it. It’s possibly the only Tarantino movie that’s ever held any interest to me.
It’s worth seeing, and I’d definitely pay money for it when given the opportunity.
And lucky it was dark or the other people in the cinema would’ve seen me wincing at all the blood 😛
Y’know, I’ve never understood the blood. Is the intention to be so over-the-top that it’s not believable at all?
It’s superfluous and I don’t see a whole lot of purpose behind it.
I get to pick Sam up tomorrow afternoon and come home to her after work on Friday
Safe to say Spaghett is a pretty happy guy right about now
The anxieties of page 5 pushed back in the general malaise of anxiety that is my brain
Now I am just doing some Investment Review Submissions to wittle away the time to 5
I do?
You should go to a doctor man
I am love sick, and riddled with anxiety
Love sickness cannot be cured, nor do I want it to be cured
And for the anxiety I take Prozac
Is there maybe a Spaghett based pill you can take?
Started another new character in SKYRIM!
Promised myself I would try to give this game a bit of a break, but without even realising it, yep, new character loaded and currently hunting deer outside Whiterun.
*sigh*
Oh well, once Aliens Colonial Marines comes out it should be able to distract me from SKYRIM!
For a few days at least.
Well, maybe 2.
*starts daydreaming on smithing a set of Nordic armour all those deer pelts should help increase my smitthing skill and while I have been working on archery I really should look at whether I am going for one-handed or two-handed though I think I will give magic a miss this time though the way skills increase that may not last long though if I raise all three armed combat skills at the same time that may take longer also I should start considering stealth though not really a stealthy character it would go well with archery plus I should consider alchemy as I haven’t used that in a while collecting plants goes well while hunting maybe mix up the armour and have half light and half heavy and oh crap maybe I should stop typing all this*
I’m going to make a new character in Skyrim when they release the DLC on PC. I’m pretty sure it is really close too.
SKYRIM!
The last time I played Skyrim I played a character who used only a shield and fist. Captain Skyrim. I made it a whole lot further than anticipated
Surprisingly well. It made them a whole lot more interesting to fight though. Really long fights.
I have to try this… crap, that means another new character to start.
Oh poor me, however will I cope 😛
This first song is called “I’m so sad, so very, very sad”
♫Soooo Saaaad♫
Thank you
@zetrox2k
I did get it all sorted. And tonights my gaming night.
Warning: My net is not great and neither am I.
I probably won’t get on until about 8:30-9:00.
Gotta organise the kids and whatnot.
Ok so by luck of the draw
@freezespreston and @shane are girls.
@mythamphetamine is currently the leader and best soldier and has become a heavy.
@chuloopa only one else to score a promo so far and is the medic.
@tofu is 2IC after Aleph
@dc is lying in hospital. Injured but alive.
@dc is lying in hospital. Injured but alive
And you say myself and @shane are the girls…
You paniced though but killed the last alien in your frenzy and hit no one else despite shooting right through Aleph
but I did kill the alien. I’m sure that’s what aleph would have wanted. Plus if Aleph dies, I take his command. It’s a win win
woah woah woah woah woah!!!!
People are going to let me near them when they are SICK!??!
People trust me to be a COMPOTENT DOCTOR?!?!!
….Hey.. CJ… any idea if there is such a thing as sexual harassment law suits in space?
You were on the ground about to die but then I finished the mission on my last turn to revive you so you survived, Just.
You seriously have to re-think your delegations…
You’ve picked the worst leader of the bunch /o\
Also, @ the ZombiU discussion on the last page: (@dc @freezespreston :P)
I’m on Survivor… #5? Maybe #6? Can’t remember. I’m playing super cautiously though. I finished…
Buckingham Palace (at the point where you hand the scientist dude the textbook he asked you to grab) last night, so I’m not too far in yet I suppose.
And yes, ZombiU is good for a launch game. The only reason I bought it was because it did interesting things with the new hardware. It’s like the Wii Sports for non-casuals 😛 Honestly I wouldn’t have looked twice at it if it had standard controls on the PS3/360.
Also, WHAT!? Ni no Kuni broke street date!?
Dammit, I should’ve checked before I left the cinema. $84 though… 😛
I found a lovely present in my emails.
“Your copy of The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Hystoria has been shipped”
=D
OMG
Shipment Details
– The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia
Sold by Amazon.com LLC
I didn’t know this was out today.
Meanwhile guess which company still hasn’t shipped Ni no Kuni to me so clearly once again I’m not going to have the game day 1? 🙁 This shit happened to me with ME3 too, took 4 days to arrive.
ME3 had a midnight launch as well, wasn’t as bad as the StarCraft 2 one where I returned home and woke that morning with bronchitis, hard to say if the midnight launch contributed to that.
What shipping did you pay for? I went for the middle option ($15) this time so hopefully it’s quicker. Something tells me it’s just going to be the same and I’d have wasted my extra money 🙁
It appears that my colleague’s phone-voice volume is directly linked to my headphone volume. The more I turn the volume up, the louder he yells…
I don’t understand, I’m the only one able to hear Zeitgeist, yet onward (and upward) he yells? Wat?
Also also, Childish Gambino… who creates his beats? Keen to throw them on the car and see what sort of damage they can do. “So Sick With It” has me excited in my naughty parts.
I’m fairly certain Donald does all of his own stuff. At least the stuff before Camp, he may have someone else helping him now.
Seems he’s influenced by DJ Screw and various Trap artists in terms of beats. Really enjoying it thus far.
I don’t understand how anyone can be surprised by EA anymore. Like Spaghett said in the comments on the article, EA are the absolute kings of squeezing the most money out of their games.
You must’ve missed when Mass Effect 3 was $110 on launch for the collector’s edition IIRC on Origin
Wait. I’m currently playing through DmC about to finish and start Ni No Kuni.
Are you me? I’m so confused.
I just got a text to pick up Hitman HD at EB Games! I’ll go check out the Ni No Kuni situation.
From what it seems though is that it’s JB only doing the street break for Ni No Kuni.
Finally shipped \o/
I was dumb enough to get a digital version through the PSN.
didnt even think of potential street date breaks.
oh well… I’ll just have to wait til tomorrow.
IT WAS ALL ME!
Spent like 10 mins standing there while the staff talked to HQ. A friend got it at JB so they took pics of his receipt 😛
A GIANT BEARASAURUS ATTACKS!!!
DO YOU FIGHT?!?!
Dice roll results:
1. You die a horrble death that sees your insides come out your bum
2. You die a less horrible death, and your bum is still ok. But you’re still dead
3. You and the Bearasaurus have high-tea together. But it kills you after your scone.
4. You and the Bearasaurus have a dance off. Your movies are slick. but his are slicker. You break your neck while trying to head-spin
5. The Bearasaurus doesn’t even notice you. You take it personally. You retire to your room to listen to emo music and write bad poems. So bad that you die.
6. You heroically stab the bear to death in a shower of blood, viscera and confetti! you win!!!
Tell me if your in and i’ll roll the dice!
I don’t know, but it certainly seems as though he doesn’t need you.
:'(
All I ever wanted was a bear-hug.
I don’t know about that, but i can give you a bare hug.
GIGGITY ;D
I died as a gentleman and a scholar, with the taste of scones and tea fresh on my lips … now to haunt that blaggard until the end of time
You’re not the boss of me! I’m going to be an incredibly beautiful-looking bystander. So there! 😛
Sounds like something a dopey person might say while working undercover.
I’m on to you.
If you’d bothered to meet me while I was in Melbourne you’d know I’m not dopey looking. Or incredibly beautiful-looking for that matter. 😛
I guess you are our Queen, so i have to be nice to you.
PLUS i never said yuo were dopey looking. Just dopey 😛
I’m imagining a pile of bodies and a bloodied bear, encircled by cheering halfwits.
A few weeks ago I was saying how I missed the days of 3D platformers, and it would be indie devs that would start to bring them back. Well… http://www.oliverandspike.com/
Gotta say, I’m looking forward to this! The first thing I did was look to see what platform it’s on, thinking please don’t be on ios, please don’t be on ios. It’s not, it’s coming to consoles! When it’s coming is another question completely, but I’ll wait!
Deadlight is currently 50% on steam. This little title was right up there as one of my GOTY contenders for last year.
Have a look and well worth it if you think it looks like something you would like. Come for the art style, stay for the story
I’m not sure if it’s still on but there’s an insane bundle of Microsoft Games (including Deadlight) from Amazon for $10. For just $2.50 more it’s definitely worth getting it for the other stuff including the AMAZING Mark of the Ninja!
Fail
I went to EB Games to pick up Hitman HD, Ni No Kuni was there and asked if I could just transfer my order from the EB Games that’s near my work to the one where I had Hitman HD preordered at, ofcoarse I couldn’t so I was given the option to either buy the game twice(I paid the preorder in full) and return it or just pick it up tomorrow.
I decided to just take Hitman HD and get Ni No Kuni at work tomorrow, so I guess I don’t get to join the Day -1 Club.
What I learn’t? don’t pay pre orders in full.
Hitman Blood Money time I guess.
I was with a friend so we went to JB and he picked up the game for $84. Then I went to EB to pay off my pre-order and then I receive a receipt and I was all “wherez da gaem?” and then he was all “OH YEH” but then it didn’t break at the time and I pointed at my friend who had the game in his hand from JB.
So 10 minutes of derping around and they had to take a picture of the receipt from JB, call HQ and do a bunch of other stuff and they couldn’t sell it to me, so asked for a full refund. I found out it officially broke around 30 minutes after.
No pre-order goodies but I got it for $5.95 less and finally got rid of that EB games credit I had lying around!
R.I.P @shane you expoded some cars killed maybe one alien and died. All on your first mission.
Bought Ni No Kuni, will be my first exposure to Studio Ghibli and my first JRPG in a long while!
I bought it too!
Even though I won’t be able to play it until the weekend.
And I probably won’t actually play it until next week…
…
On the bright side, over the weekend I can try and convince the manager at EB to give me the preorder thingy…
Same! I’ve never seen a Studio Ghibli film.
Though I did watch like 3 minutes of Howl’s Moving Castle once. Don’t think that counts.
Don’t you have it on Steam?
You have everything on Steam.
Even the console exclusives. Somehow.
Picked English. Kind of regretted it (inb4DUBSSUCK), but I prefer to play games in English 🙂
Aww man I’m so stressed. Attempting to explain the trying circumstances we’re living to my 3 year old son is an exercise in futility. He understands but at the same time he doesn’t.
I was actually almost looking forward to Mr. Strange being away because I thought it would be relaxing. Ha! 😛
Haha, just watching the second episode of Tron Uprising.
The nightclub scene is so lame. It’s like the entire night club is populated by me.
hmm still no word on the Zavvi situation with the Wizard’s Edition but by this point I don’t mind if I miss out on it (since I now know the thing I wanted the most is available in-game and as a pdf). Still would’ve been nice to have it though as it looks mighty fine but all this recent hype would’ve made that 3 week wait painful!
For those of you playing at home, I pre-ordered the Wizard’s Edition of Ni no Kuni at Zavvi back in July 2012 but there’s problems with it around the world and they’ve claimed “Payment Problems” but have charged me fully for it.
TO BE CONTINUED…
@greenius after that email. I now have a dispatched email. They are saying I should expect it on for before the 21st of Feb
I bought it locally at launch cause I thought it might’ve been cancelled. It’s so tempting to just sell the WE since it’s going for $350+
Awesome news man :D. I was overseas for last week and when I got back on Sunday mine was there too!
Now, I got impatient and bought it in the mean time so by the time I sell off the other copy for like $50, It’ll be a $40 loss, making the whole Wizard’s Edition cost around $140, which is what it would’ve been at EB anyway and I didn’t save anything! >:P
Oops!
Got my Ni No Kuni Wizard Edition from EB! This is the first and last time I will post anything about the game (probably) but so far it’s gorgeous! Playing with Japanese audio (cause the english dub seemed a bit crappy) and was saddened by the dubtitles. English text that corresponds to the English dub, not the original Japanese audio.
SO PREEEEEEETY!!!!!!!!
Drippy has a WELSH? Scottish accent in Ni no Kuni :P. Accents are weird in the game… Oliver has an American, his mother has a British and they’re all over the place!
It’s Welsh, not Scottish.
No issues with the spoken word, but trying to read Welsh/Gaelic? Fuck that.
I can’t understand accents for crap, but translating it has always been fairly easy for me.
Then again, I can’t understand people with neutral(or Aussie) accents speaking English half the time, so I think I just have a problem with spoken words.
I’ve got the closest thing to an Anindilyakwan dictionary around here somewhere…
Tried learning bits and pieces, but it’s stoopid-difficult. The word for “turtle” is 40-50 letters long, and the syntax is all funky in sentence structure too.
I’ll stick with learning from the locals.
@mythamphetamine
Well, if we’re talking about different languages, then I have no chance, either way. Languages are crazy difficult, I have enough problems with English.
I DUNNO MAN
Accent spoilers!
I was going to Spoiler Tag it but no one would read it 🙁
ಠ_ಠ
Not Scottish. Not even close.
What’s annoying is the stupid “Welsh accent” subtitles. Especially as I’m playing in Japanese.
I’m sooraey e’nnit
The ‘ouer’ ‘youer’ stuff IS pretty annoying.
Tidy!
To be fair, Doc, it’s more Scottish than it is, say, Japanese. 😛
Oh god. They’ve accented the subtitles?
That goes from being annoying (dubtitles) to completely unplayable for me – I don’t want to have to put in effort to read the fucking text when I’m listening to it in a completely different language where they’re already saying things that are different to the way it’s translated.
Definitely going straight to my never play pile.
Wow bit harsh :P. Could always brush up on your Japanese with subtitles off?
Care to share the Wizard’s Edition contents then? 😉
I can’t understand enough Japanese to enjoy the game that way and there’s a lot of it which is unvoiced. I understand enough to know when what is subbed and what is said isn’t the same thing though and it’s very distracting.
I named my first familiar DocWhat.
I’m playing with the English dub because that’s my usual preference, but it did take a little to get used to and for a while I was seriously considering switching over. But I might do that for a bit later anyway, just to see how it sounds!
Given that the game appears to be set in America, English dub makes sense. Welsh drippy put me off though.
the Dubtitles are making me think about swapping back :/
Racistius.
i didn’t know the thing that annoys me the most in the world had a name, Dubtitles, i like it.
recently happened to me with Final fantasy advent children complete, god i hate shilly shally dilly dally so damn much.
Hate dubtitles so much 🙁 Xenoblade has them too and it’s distractingly bad at times. Like, characters are saying something *completely* different in Japanese.
Being 100% completely honest, I’m only buying Ni no Kuni because Studio Ghibli and I probably won’t play it. It looks kind of shitty and I’m not remotely excited to play it at all.
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life…
If life seems jolly rotten
There’s something you’ve forgotten
And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you’re feeling in the dumps
Don’t be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle – that’s the thing.
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life…
For life is quite absurd
And death’s the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin – give the audience a grin
Enjoy it – it’s your last chance anyhow.
So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath
Life’s a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true.
You’ll see it’s all a show
Keep ’em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the right side of life…
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the bright side of life…
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life…
(I mean – what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing – you’re going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life…
Hey! There you go! Any positivity is a start!
I was more meaning that you could maybe not be so negative all the time and actually play the JRPG that became amazons #1 selling game in 1 week?
You know, to see if you hate it as much AFTER you play it? And if you DO play it, maybe you could, I dunno, I’m spitballin’ ideas here, but focus a li’l bit on some of the stuff that you don’t hate? Or maybe even something you ‘like’?
I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
Screw everyone who’s excited about new games, Ebay just informed me that F-Zero X was posted today!
Oh, Greenius! I was only kidding about those!
Just don’t do it again.
Gotcha!
No, seriously.
I like these jokes.
Powalen. Gets. Jokes?
Powalen. Makes. Jokes.
Or at least tries to.
Oh… I replied before you editted (or at least I thought I did because I didn’t refresh) but I just noticed you had more to it :P.
GODDAMN EVERYTHING IS CONFUSING! DDC WHE
It turns out that Drippy is really an enchanted sex doll and the main character is really being lured into the big bad’s rape dungeon, with the twist it’s all in his head. He’s actually sedated in an asylum with abusive staff.
The ending is way depressing.
Also its all set in 9th century Belarus it turns out.
In a vaguely related theme, I was thinking that the ending of it would be so much better(not that I actually know what it is) if it turned out like Pan’s Labyrinth. Man, I love that movie.
What was the ending for that again? I forgot.
For anyone glancing: Major Pan’s Labyrinth spoilers.
Ofelia takes her baby brother down into the Labyrinth, and is told to spill a drop of his blood so as to enter the underworld. She refuses, her father appears and kills her. It’s then revealed that that was the final task, and by spilling her own blood rather than the innocent’s she has proven herself. So she’s taken down, and becomes the princess of the land.
That’s all well and good, except that the movie has the underlying theme that it is all in her head(which does get stretched towards the end, but still), so the likely answer is simply that she died. She was shot by her step-father, and she died.
Oh yes, now I remember! Thanks. Awesome film 🙂
Looking back, I would have watched it in 2007, when it was only released in 2006. I always thought it was an older film than that.
We watched it in Media, so I can do a pretty good analysis of the movie. Well, I could, but that was a long time ago…
Note to self: Watch this movie so I can read these spoilers 😛
Please do.
While I remember, @dc have you seen Pan’s Labyrinth? I assume no, but is it on your list?
You should put it on your list.
@blaghman: It’s been on my to-watch list forever but I never get around to it!
I’ve seen Pan’s Labyrinth. I’ve got some of the OST on iTunes too!
That’s because you’re a terrible person, Pow.
Almost as bad as me.
@dc
Wait, you’ve actually seen a movie?
Wow. I don’t know what to believe anymore. 😛
In a vaguely related theme, I was thinking that the whole game (not that I know what it is) would be so much better if it had all the musical scenes from David Bowie’s Labyrinth. Man, I love that movie.
😛
I won’t post anything about it now 😀
Well, not here. I’ll keep texting people privately 😀
And our seductive poses? I’m pretty sure you don’t have us on Twitter so this makes no sense…
I never really got into twitter. I have an account that I made to enter EB’s competitions and won a kinect out of it though!
In short: makes no sense
Nice! I made one to enter competitions (and keep up with TAYbies I guess… :P) but didn’t win any. TAYbies always win the Harvey Norman ones!
I got Spec Ops from Harvey Norman ^_^
Have you got the link to the TAY names spreadsheet? I’ll follow everyone and add myself to it.
And this one is easier to remember! http://tinyurl.com/taynames
Googling “TAYnames” works too.
I took a pic where I was licking the case, face side-on to the camera, eyes closed, but had to delete it because it was creeping me out 😐
Decided to check out some more of Combichrist’s work after liking what I heard in DmC and I must say I’m really enjoying it. Anyone who is into aggrotech can make further suggestions as to other good acts?
@ynefel might be your man!
Myself, I’m partial to Psyclon 9, Angerfist, Suicide Commando, Funker Vogt, Grendel and Wumpscut to name a few.
Glad to hear you like Combichrist 😀
I think these are more “Industrial” than Aggrotech. Fuck genres, listen to it all.
From your combichrist listening so far, do you know the song that plays in this trailer?
I’ve tried my best to find it but I’m beginning to think it was a track created for the demo/trailers.
Thanks.
Evening, TAY!
I’ve purchased a Blu-ray drive for my pc! \o/
And I got Ikki Tousen collection on DVD. \o/
Also, I went and saw Wreck-It Ralph, which was an awesome film! \o/
Overall: \o/\o/\o/
Oh noes, I can’t make my SimCity cities look like London/Paris/Berlin! /o\ Deal breakerrrrr. /s
Seriously, I don’t see what the problem with this is.
I’d say this is ‘good’ DLC. Trivial stuff that doesn’t effect the playability of the game in any way, unless you want to make London/Paris/Berlin I guess. Other than that, it doesn’t hamper how I play the game at all really.
I don’t know why this is news now either. This stuff’s been known for aaaaages.
Although, what I find silly is that the Limited Edition doesn’t have this stuff in it. You’d think the Limited Edition would be the edition that comes with the most stuff… Oh, and the fact that the Deluxe Edition is $100 for a digital download. I can get the limited edition from ozgameshop for $56, and I don’t think the DLC will cost another $44. Turns out a lot cheaper that way.
I think they got it right for once.
The Limited Edition is well, limited.
Why make false claims and give people more when they’re simultaneously claiming that there’s less?
I was in the beta last weekend!
I couldn’t even finish the tutorial because the servers were constantly overloaded / down.
Absolutely 100% not buying the game despite how hyped I was when it was announced.
Well, yeah. It’s a beta. For testing purposes? What were you expecting? 😛
I didn’t finish the tutorial because it crashed, and then I couldn’t get back to it when I launched it again. I played the 1 hour city about 4 times though.
Also, my plan is to pre-order the game from ozgameshop (because it’s way cheaper), that way I’ll get it about 2 weeks after launch, which means the teething issues on the servers should be all fixed by then.
I expected that given that the game is out so soon and this was effectively a demo (otherwise why the 1 hour limit?) that the experience wouldn’t be so crushingly disappointing. And what I played of the actual game wasn’t what I want from a SimCity game anyway. Tiny town micromanagement. 🙁 I want SimCity 2000 with a graphical upgrade. 🙁
I don’t think it was really a ‘demo’ because it was a closed beta and there was a lot of stuff labelled ‘not available in beta’, hence why the download was so small. Seemed more like it was meant mostly as a server stress test to me. The game’s release date is about a month away too. I don’t know how ‘soon’ that is in game/software development though. I’d assume you know more about that than me 😛
Also, technically all we’re allowed to say about the beta is that A) there was a beta and B) we were in it. Nothing else. Can’t even share some gorgeous screenshots I took 🙁
The download wasn’t small. The launcher was small but it sucked down over 1gb of data.
It was about 2gb, and that’s pretty small for a AAA next gen (if you want to call the PC next gen) title. The minimum requirements for the game state it needs 10gb of space, so that beta was at most only a quarter of the entire game.
Also, I don’t know why I’m replying on an old page. I think I’m just bored 😛
Terrible admission: if Monster Monpiece wasn’t $80 AUD (more like $20-25) I’d probably buy it.
So, it says in my software provided with my Blu-ray drive that my pc is capable of Blu-ray playback.
However, when I insert a Blu-ray into the BD-ROM drive, it doesn’t play… 🙁
I’ve got a Blu-ray drive in my PC, but I can’t use it because I can’t output blu-rays over a VGA connection because of content protection stuff :/
Try VLC. I could never get it to work(I managed to convince my software to run Blu-Rays by downloading a newer version, letting the trial run out, and now for some reason the old stuff just works(though it says that it can’t)), but their support for stuff has been getting better over time.
Wow I don’t have many figurines but that looks pretty awesome mayb… *looks at price*
:OOOOOOOOOOO!
No, bad Notty.
You’re almost as bad for my wallet as Nob(Gonna leave this statement as is).
BUT ITS SO PRETTY!
Btw, are you still working? On contract or a more permanent position?
Last week this week, sadly.
Still, gives me time to work on some stuff, hopefully.
Hahaha. I kid.
It gives me time to Ni No Kuni.
Just rock up next week and carry on working. When no money comes through complain loudly and then you’ll get paid. TA-DA! Instant job.
…
…
You know, that almost might work.
It worked in Scrubs for Janitor!
If only I could pull it off.
Sadly I’m preparing goodbye muffins, which make everything rather… final.
@blaghman
Turn those “Goodbye” muffins into “THANKS FOR THE JOB, GUYS!” Muffins.
I kept typing Muffines.
Are Muffines real things?
I can only hope that they are.
I find it both amusing and saddening that the only instances of Groote Eylandt showing up on television is folks getting busted for marijuana possession/trafficking/supply on Territory Cops.
I agree with your amusing and saddening sentiment, but it’s not surprising from what you’ve told me. Perhaps the Eylandt will get a spotlight on one of those fishing shows one day?
This, however, is just saddening 🙁 Is this Britain’s most irresponsible parent? Mail Online
We had (still have, though now repurposed) a home-base style setup here for ET Adventures (apparently a popular fishing show? He’s some sportsballer, I think) until he played a dick move and was chased off the Eylandt.
So yeah, for a while it was known for the fishing, now it’s known for the crimes 😛
That’s a shame.
We need to catch up dude! Did you get the new job? If so have you started yet? If so, how’s it all going? How did you spend the rest of your week in Melbourne? Sorry I couldn’t make it to the 4 states mega meat and catch up in person 🙁
All good man, stress less!
About 1/2hr after my interview I got a call to the effect of “we can’t officially inform you that you got the job, but get your paperwork (crim. history, working-with-children clearance) together ASAP and we’ll call you within the month to further discuss your *ahem* hypothetical starting date”.
…pretty sure I got the job 😀
The rest of the week in Melb. was awesome. Wandered the streets, soaking in the performers and the artwork scrawled along the alleys. Spoke to bogans and bigwigs alike (trainstations seem to be hotspots for bogan activity, meanwhile cocktail bars are a pretty good place to regale a suit with tales of far-off lands, :P), and just relaxed…
Caught up with Pip and Beavwa on the Friday, consumed alcohol and burnt stuff (some game on Steam… the sole purpose of which is to burn stuff in a fireplace!) before the meat on Saturday which was all kinds of awesome!
How’s life in the hills treating you man? Such gorgeous landscape out that way 🙂
Awesome news on the job front!
Life in the hills is pretty good. I’ve been back at work for a couple of weeks now and that’s all fine and dandy.
I start my Auslan level 2 in a few weeks. (Again – I had to drop it last year due to no car) That has me a little nervous, because I’ve forgotten so much of what I learned in level 1 :/
I may have to actually study this time 😛
Hahaha! You’ll pick it up, I’m sure!
I learned a very very minor amount of Auslan while I was in school, but that was a while ago now, and can’t recall a damned thing 😛
Good luck!
As for the story, I’m not entirely sure it’s all that sad, going from my own experiences.
There’s baby-photos of me with dads beer in my hand, and I know that I finished a few of them behind his back, too.
My grandmother is a firm believer in putting rum in a childs milk to help them get to sleep (I disagree with that one, but anyway…).
I dunno, I guess I’ve just assumed that all children had tasted beer, and all teenagers had more than their fair share of alcohol before they finished their schooling.
With that in mind, I’d commend anyone liberal enough to supervise a teenager’s alcohol experimentation in lieu of ignoring the problem whilst it goes on behind their back. It’s going to happen anyway, unfortunate as it is :S
As the article states though, it was not the intention to minimise risk and provide a safe environment for potentially unsafe activities, rather to provide the mother with the optimal drinking partner, which is indeed an abhorrent act and abysmal parenting.
Iunno, it seems as if I’m OK with the act provided it’s with good intentions. I’m feeling a little conflicted on this. Food for thought nonetheless. Thanks for sharing.
I was also brought up with a sip of Dad’s beer and on special occasions a very small (probably watered down) glass of wine. I have no issue with that.
But the idea of raising a child with the specific goal of having a drinking buddy in future years- I find that abhorrent.
Jimu’s awesome!
Did you have one?
Nope, I was only 16 (I think, may have been 17 actually) at the time 😛 I’m not interested in drinking alcohol.
HEY! You were 17!
HAHAHAHA I was refreshing a few sites waiting for updates on the Zavvi situation ONLY TO FIND OUT SOMEONE SCREEN CAPPED ME ON TWITTER on one of the forums! (NeoGaf) 😛
😀 I’M FAMOUS
Oh god… what if they go through my Tweet history and see my seductive poses!?
Lucky them 😉
Today sure has been one lousy day for me, after my EB Games upset I play Hitman HD Blood Money and don’t notice the slightest change in graphics -.- It’s almost as bad as the 3DS Myst port, than my American friend logs in and we play Sonic Transformed for three hours(not a bad thing), now I’m probably going to surf the internet for two hours and cry myself to sleep at 12 for not having Ni No Kuni today.
I can’t decide if a pony would be bitter or sweet. I’m thinking it’s sweet with a bitter after taste that sneaks up on you, that’s why he suddenly pauses before swallowing.
I’ve finally gotten my Blu-ray drive working how I wanted it to! \o/
I had to buy AnyDVD HD, but there was a cock-up on my part.
I unwittingly bought the regular version by mistake, so I was billed for the both of them.
My fault for not reading what I was looking at. :\
$122 for the version I was after.
The one I accidentally purchased was $70 and it didn’t do what I was after. (Disable Blu-ray AACS encoding, which was causing the problems.)
Fuck. 🙁
I’m not sure.
Should I e-mail them?
Worth a shot. I mean it’s not like you have anything to lose by trying.
Totally. For $70, it’s definitely worth a go. Especially if they can verify that you immediately bought the next version up afterwards.
Nighthawk…
D.C.lovesJRPGhawk…
Also it was too big to Tweet but JRPGs often have that sound for the scrolling text to simulate voices. You can hear it get higher and lower pitched for male/females/children etc. Some Japanese games use jibberish instead so it’s not a completely monotonal beep. But most games also have the option to increase text speed which will get rid of it 🙂
Did it work for you?
@greenius: That’s weird! Nah, haven’t played it yet. Going to finish ZombiU. Don’t think there’s too much left based on my mission objectives/collectable progress/etc. Thanks for the heads up, though!
Oh… I was under the impression you were already a few hours in!
@greenius: I played the demo which took place an hour or so in, I think. So heard plenty of ‘tidy’ references. 😛
Of course man, surely they’d consider the circumstance. Like Dire Shane has said, it’s worth a short and you’ve got nothing to lose by doing it, but $70 to lose by not doing it. Think about all the Spyros you could buy with that!
Finally starting some coding work on my game that I wanted to make! What’s the game about, you ask? I’ll never tell 🙂 Well not yet. Maybe later. If you’re good.
Is this for commercial purposes, educational (for a class) or just for your own enjoyment? Also, what are you using to code the game?
Right now it’s for enjoyment and just to get a start on things. One day I’d like to make a game and sell it! The only thing holding me back there is artwork, which is why I recently bought a graphics tablet and have been trying to improve!
Is it a game bout outfitting and commanding an army of sharks as they rebel against Poseidon? because I’d play that.
What are you using to make it? XNA? C++? HTML5? Unity? Gamemaker? Etc.?
EDIT FOR A WORTHWHILE REPLY! 😛
I finally started making a game I’ve been wanting to make today too 😀
Right now it only consists of a random name generator though… Got a little confuzzled when trying to read from an XML file. Of course the solution was stupidly simple…
It’s gonna get a lot more complex if I have a decent amount of time to work on it tomorrow.
Also, you should tell @greenius what your secret project is for good luck. It’s what all the cool kids do 😛
I was just about to post that he should totally tell me because I am the keeper of secrets.
Gamemaker right now. GML is ridiculously easy 😛 I did try learning XNA with Visual Studio when I had a developers license for Windows Phone and the Xbox, but after a year nothing got anywhere so I gave up. It’s a lot harder than Java which is what I’ve spent a couple of years working with.
Good luck on your game!
I should add it’s really cool making something and running it on the Xbox! It feels like a big thing even though it’s not 😛
Thanks! Good luck to you too! 😀
Yeah, I kinda gave up on XNA too. Probably because I didn’t know enough about general game programming techniques back then.
I use a program called Construct 2 these days, a HTML5 engine/game making program. It’s drag and drop like Gamemaker, but it’s structured more like proper programming. I think from using that I now know enough to be able to go back and make something decent in XNA.
I own gamemaker too (pro on steam), only made one game with it though. Decided to do it all via scripting instead of drag and drop, because I’m hardcore 😛
I’ve read a lot about Construct 2 lately. I’ll have to remember to give it a go! Yeah, I think my biggest problem with going to XNA from Java is that I don’t really know anything about making games in Java, only other random little applets, so I wasn’t really sure what I was doing.
Hmm. To be honest Drippy is irritating the bejesus out of me right from the get go. Something about him is just begging to be smacked.
…Aleph. Gets. Jokes?
Did you finally get your daughter’s bed together or something?
Atleast you’ve seen movies. 😛
No, certainly not your fault for not knowing the source material!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bunting
:/ gives a whole new meaning to “cry baby bunting”
Whichever one it may be, it’s not suitable for poor little Oliver… (the main character of the game who is a child)
At least the ‘definition’ of Tidy is a lot more consistent.
I think the second definition would be appropriate, given the circumstances such as age.
Now I’m not sure what to think. To find a magic wand I need to find something brown and sticky
Hmm.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1998102
*shakes head*
If you value your sanity and faith in humanity, don’t click the link above.
Tales Of Graces f talk.
I have Hugo with me now and I just finished that poor frozen village on Fendel. Felt weird ransacking everyone’s cupboards and stealing all their stuffs when they were all obviously so poor . But I kept doing it anyway. 😛 So now I’m bactracking through everywhere I’ve been so far in order to complete quests and Requests. I wouldhave to say Cheria is one of the most annoying game characters ever. Sometimes she’s so bad she has me wishing for Vanille.
School’s back which means I get the main TV to myself until Sunday when Mr. Strange gets back. Which means I’ll be making the most of that and saving Xenoblade for when he gets back and I’m kicked back to the family room TV where the Wii is.
I never really minded Cheria that much aside from the way her VA flubs the Indignation incantation. 🙁 Richard was the one that made me cringe the most.
It’s not the voice acting, it’s the character. So annoying. So childish while thinking everyone else is childish and she’s the only mature one of the group. So full of bad female stereotypes. Urk.
Oh right. I think that’s kind of a Japanese anime stereotype they’ve inherited actually. But she is a bit annoying like that. I seem to recall that she realizes this and gets better later on. Not hugely though. 🙁
Ni No Kuni.
I preordered the WizzRad’s edition because of reasons. I hadn’t seen screenshots or watched the trailer; purely for JRPG by level5 + Ghibli. In the 6 months or so, I think I saw maybe 3 screenshots. So I wasn’t really hype for this game, I think it might have just been the last of “buy-special-editions-of-video-games-for-no-raison”.
Initial Thoughts/Opinions:
Spoiler tags aren’t working
Holy Shhfjgshfgjksh *rabbid frothing at the mouth*. This game is incredible. I’ve just finished the first ‘other world’ town, and it feels like I’ve been given most of the tutorial stuff now. All of the game mechanisms are right up my alley. Side quests everywhere, back-tracking for locked chests, pokemon-esque familiars, and omgstats min-maxing characters. Plus there’s the in-game Wizard’s book, updating with spells and monsters and places, PLUS stories/lore/flavour for the world. hngh.
It looks AND sounds beautiful. I think that was to be expected.
It falls into a few traps common to RPGs (especially JRPGs), eg: awkward camera/movement controls in town/map, unnecessary exposition (what should have been a surprise twist has been telegraphed far too early in the game).
No no no
Ni no anything should not become a thing.
Lady: Hey baby wanna have some Ni no sex tonight
Guy: No that sounds dumb and I’m leaving you
(Please note that the couple in question had been having marital issues for a while and the dumb use of Ni no was just the final straw. In short using Ni no in front of anything will ruin lives)
Production note: I initially had the guy asking for ni no sex but I thought I’d change it up.
I love finding out what goes on in a writers head before we get the final edit. More stories!
Are we naming gorgeous games now? Ok.
Of course there’s PoP 08 but I’ve mentioned that too much and it’s a given 🙂
I know…
Ratchet and Clank: A crack in Time.
So glorious.
That game blew me away with its visuals and I was only playing it on my CRT. I must replay it on my HDTV one of these days.
One of these days?
Now! 😀 Play it to get out of your funk!
I should replay it one day too (but not now because Ni no Time)
THAT ENDING
I can’t remember a more tragic ending. The first time I saw it I was like “aw…. hell no… nooooo… that’s not fair”. But I think the ending was a much better choice over Stephen King’s original and vague “will they/won’t they” (though that can work in its own right, I just prefer the brutal end Darabont created
And yes, I prefer a closed ending in this case, as opposed to “chose your own ending”. Simply because I feel the characters aren’t developed enough for me to care that much.
I just wish my copy of the movie on Bluray wasn’t stolen 🙁 I really feel like watching it again.
Alvin and the Chipmunks is relentlessly brutal. It’s like it does everything it can to try and permanently scar you for life. 😛
Ugh! Such a good movie
Stephen King’s book endings work better, in books of course
So what Darabont did…..damn
SO MANY FEELS!
Spaghett. Gets. Emotions.
I thought the movie was alright … the ending really annoyed me though
Considering they were the only ones on the road and it was pretty damn silent, an entire convoy of army trucks would have been heard a lot further away and I’m pretty sure they would have had to overtake the convoy of heavily armed soldiers at one point because they come in from behind the truck
I think I read that King told Darabont he wished he came up with that ending. I loved the Drew Struzan paintings at the start, particularly the Roland/Dark Tower one! 😀
That reminds mem I need to finish reading the Dark Tower series. About halfway through the books.
Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick?
Yeah those things just always stood out for me 🙂
I’m up to Wolves of Calla I’m pretty sure
Never watched it, but from what I know it could pretty much be construed as a parallel to the Half-Life universe, yeah?
Morning errybody!
Edit: Am currently finalising the digital copies of the James Flamestar comic. I suppose they’ll be issued to the relevant backers at the appropriate juncture (that one’s not my call) in either cbz or pdf format. Maybe other formats too, if they’re easy to create.
They’ll probably also go on sale at some point in the future too.
(that one’s not my call)
Edit: I really don’t know sorry. I pledged a $40 and hope to receive them.
I also pledged $40.
It would suck if you didn’t receive them after all the hard work you put in. You wouldn’t be able to pimp them out properly either because you won’t know what happens in them.
(I hear James Flamestar saves the day. Possibly with a magical guitar)
I’ll have to purchase one as I never backed Pez’s Pozible. Mostly because it reached its goal superfast and I thought it would be nice to purchase his album when it’s released so that not all of his initial base of interest had prepaid.
I think that given your starring role and because your character REDACTED EVEN IN SPOILER TAGS you should get a copy regardless.
Couldn’t help myself and clicked on the spoiler. That ended a lot better than I expected 😀
Miiverse got a small update last night, so now you can sort by popular posts. All I have to say is: 0_0 Go check out the larger communities!
HOW DO THESE PEOPLE DRAW SO WELL ON THE GAMEPAD!?
They sell their soul to Satan.
I’m not as good. Possibly because of a typo I sold my Seoul to Satan. I need to get my hands on South Korea for the bargain to come into full effect.
Morning Gang
Last song played game
Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones
Good song to walk down to the street to
Most definitely. Nice to ‘discover’ a band three albums in and have a whole lot of stuff to listen to! 😀
I am man, mentally anyway, physically a bit under the weather, picking Sam up tonight though
How are you man?
You haven’t been posting a lot, that I have been around for anyway
That’s true, been feeling a little scattered since I was sick last week. Don’t think I’m 100% better yet. Otherwise I’m okay, man. 🙂
Get better soon man 🙂
Thanks, Spaghett! You truly are the king of kings! 😀
@dc, are you suggesting he should be crucified to redeem mankind?
Just putting the idea out there. No? Okay then. 😛
@dc @shane, Always look on the bright side of life
Besides, I can see my house from here
Monarchy of Roses – Red Hot Chili Peppers.
This album seems to cop a bit of shit because it’s not quite the same as previous albums, but I really like it.
I bought it yesterday (On my iPhone. Downloaded it on the spot. Just saying.) and was pleasantly surprised. It’s a lot more chilled than some of their older stuff. Still got ridiculous bass lines though.
Can’t lose those bass lines
Oh, instant download?
So just like Xbox Music then?
I’d actually never heard of that. It looks kinda cool though.
It is pretty cool
It’s how I got a good copy of Dead Poetic’s New Medicines because any version I torrented had a bunch of ticks and noise and stuff that isn’t part of the album
I rolled man
I rolled
It was a pleasant surprise
Just like when Angie came on the other day and I was driving
Ugh, good times
Such a good band man
You stay on that kick, they have a big back catalog for you to listen to”
They were amazing live last year too
Loved that band. Still a bit sad they split…
They had three singers that each performed on different songs. Two really good ones, and one not-so-great one.
Also, I had / have a massive crush on Jen (bass / vocals).
Brutal honesty:
Whitney Houston – I’m Your Baby Tonight
Read some comments about it being the same as the X-Men theme. I can see where they’re coming from, but there are clear differences.
Something by ReVamp.
I was looking for something to listen to and found that CD hiding amongst our others. Mr. Strange hadn’t even told me he’d bought it. 😛
I should try to post here more. So now I gotta try to sum up what I’ve been up to while I’ve been away from TAY.
CANADA IS COLD.
– Saturday
TL;DR: READ THE DAMN POST SHANE IT’S ONE LINE
I read that as “ehh…” instead of “eh?”.
It’s all about the inflection, maaaan.
Back at work after a couple of days sick, and really keen to get some work done, so I smash into it.
45 minutes later and I’ve finished my morning’s work that was supposed to take 2 hours, and now I have to wait for a couple of emails, which will give me about 10 more minutes of work.
…I wish I could get away with playing my 3DS, or something.
So I’ve decided that Justified has the best villains in any tv show. Mags is fantastic and Rob Quarrels is probably my favourite villain ever.
He only says that until he’s taken advantage of you.
Then he calls you names and poos in strange places around the house.
Is that the show with Walton Goggins? I haven’t seen it, but hear some good things. Worth a look, you think? What does it compare to?
Yes, he is fantastic in it.
Have you seen Deadwood? Its the same lead actor playing the same role but basically set in modern times. It’s based around a US Marshal in a small town where everyone knows everyone and even the criminals are fairly civil.
The first season is standard slightly more episodic tv. It’s good, not amazing. The second and third seasons however, have a major villain running through the entire season. Both have been fantastic and I am now going to go looking for other stuff one of the actors has been in.
Overall it’s funny, the script is awesome and the protagonist is damn cool.
Thanks. Deadwood is on my shortlist of shows to watch. Sounds like I’d like this one too!
You haven’t seen Deadwood? Man, you’re in for a treat.
So everyone who tried to fight the Bearasaurus last night died horribly.
Sorry guys.
If the boss doesn’t come in i’ll come up with a new encounter for you all. Maybe somone will actually win this time?
If it’s one thing I’ve learnt from your times being DM on TAY, your minimum success chance setting is way too high, like with that spider web I got stuck in the whole battle cuz I never got 6 on a 1d6 roll 😛
Please be less brutal, please? 🙂
Nooooo! The challenge makes it more fun!
Also, I’ll totally be up for an encounter today!
Alleviating boredom?
Ni No Kuni is all my Ghibli dreams rolled up into one Finetastic game-a-ma-jig!
And I’m only just at the world map now.
You playing in English or Japanese? I started in Jap but the “welsh” accent dubtitles were annoying so I’m swapping to English.
GAME IS SO GOOD!
I’m goin’ Jap, I hate American voice acting. The welsh dub-titles are confusing, they really should have been generic English.
OK, I hate the whitie.
Debating climbing on the Ni No Kuni hypetrain. I’m not a huge fan of Ghibli (and I don’t mean I dislike it, I’m just largely indifferent, mostly) but this game intrigues me.
I love Ghibli’s art style and direction, but am not a fan of the whole ‘magical wonder’ type thing they do. Might not be the right words, but you know what I mean? I haven’t seen much Ghibli, but it’s an impression that I seem to get.
My question is, what’s it like as an actual game? You don’t need to sell me on the art style, that looks incredible. I’m more curious about the actual gameplay and if it’s a ‘magical-wonder-tale-of-warmth-and-magical-wonder’ type story.
TL:DR – What’s it play like, and what sort of story drives it?
It plays like a Ghibli movie, so it has that magic charm about it. As much as I love the game I would say it isn’t for you.
Saying “it isn’t for you” will just make him want it more!
(Now I’m off to buy my copy before I learn anything more about this game :P)
So far seems like a fairly standard JRPG.
But no save points. So best JRPG ever.
WORLD MAP!!! I MISSED IT SO MUCH! ಥ‿ಥ
Tales games have a world map but it doesn’t feel the sameeee
But there are save points… (I assume you’re not far enough – I’m only an hour in but stopped at the first actual save point)
You know what doesn’t have any AT ALL, Xenoblade! You can save any time you want!
Xenoblade’s save-anywhere system is one of the best things about it. Save points are such an antiquated idea.
*ahem* @freezespreston
I agree. It also goes well with practically no loading times and fast travel which just makes everything so much more convenient.
As for save points they are a “thing of the past” and a better thing would be to have a save where you want system and instead have “healing points” around the place (similar to FFX, Ni no Kuni and sometimes Tales). I wasn’t thinking about this for JRPGs but also Zelda. It’ll be interesting how they handle the save system in that if they decide to change it up…
There are a lot of Ghibli films with no ‘magical wonder’. Like From Up On Poppy Hill, Whisper of the Heart and Grave of the Fireflies. If you like the style, ther are a few Ghibli flicks out there you’d enjoy, even if you don’t like Spirited Away or Howl’s Moving Castle. Anyhoo…
Ni No Kuni plays like a cross between an old school turn based RPG and Pokemon. You can call out monsters to battle and level up, but you can also battle yourself.
It has towns and people who you can talk to and a massive, beautiful, amazing world map to explore.
Honestly, I’m not too far in and I’m still at the stage where I’m trying to work out the battle system, but I’m loving it and can’t wait to go home and play more.
This seems a productive answer. I might have to check it out, have needed a new JRPG for some time! The catching/battling mechanic intrigues me greatly!
Also, I’ll look into your suggested Ghibli flicks, was hoping there were some other films that would make my very generalised and largely uninformed opinion irrelevant.
Too early to tell for me atm, I’ve had one fight. I’d say you’d be ok though since you play the Pokemans.
I think there will be a decent amount of non-combat from the little I’ve read.
TL:DR – Dunno
PS: Don’t like Ghibli’s magical wonder? Watch Grave of the Fireflies.
morning.
I slept on the floor last night. Was probably the most comfy sleep I’ve had for a while
What’s your secret? I’ve been sleeping on the floor for nearly three years, and I’m heartily sick of it 😛
I slept in my bed
And, for some reason
Woke every couple of fucking hours
Once because of the dog, once because I don’t know why
My brain is dead
Middle class male prostitute?
I’d be a cheap night out for the rich, and an extravagant indulgence for the poor.
Price on a sliding scale.
Wouldn’t be the only thing sliding.
HEY HEY!
I’m glad you took advantage of that opening. I left it wide open for you.
Dreading the reply to this one
Hi Shane.
Bet this wasn’t the reply you were hoping for?
@greenius, you know we’re all on page 11, right?
@shane
yes of course but one needs to catch up on TAY! 😀
Career change or just something new in the same field?
I wanna get out of library work, but I’m not qualified to do anything else, so I’ll have to go back to uni… but the question is, to study what?
so yeah… I know how you feel man.
Well i’m currently in second year of a commerce degree, so anything early managerial or sales is where i do best.
c’mon man.. even i’m not THAT sleazy
now you’re talking
He’s saying you’re too talented, and he doesn’t need the competition.
Are you trying to get into my pants again, Shane?
You say “again” like I ever stopped trying.
I’m saying it’s soul crushing.
yeah i’ve heard that. Such a shame too… 🙁
really? I find my current job in education soul-crushing. I hate the attitude of education management towards education. it makes me feel dirty to be part of it.
Id kill for something a bit more creative than what I’m currently doing, coz my current job makes me feel totally brain-dead.
I dunno. I’m more in #35’s camp. Regular work is soul-crushing. Public service desk work is soul crushing. The daily grind is soul crushing.
By comparison, for me at least, creative work (although not without its trials and tribulations, which often feel amplified just by the fact that you actually care how things turn out) feels like a ray of warm sunlight to the face.
Yeah, I agree with this. Doing the same thing day after day is soul-crushing. Writing songs and playing shows is what I really enjoy doing.
But I think it’s different when the creative thing is your actual job. You guys can use your creative work as an outlet for stress from your money-making job but if your money-making job is the creative one I can see how it could get soul-crushing. Having to monetise your talent and make it a job could really kill your passion.
I hope not. We’re about do a treechange to make it happen.
Must do Potaku work. But Ni No Kuni.
D:
This must be what it’s like for you job-having people.
Speakin’ of Ghibli, I watched Nausicaa for the first time today. I’ve read the manga before, and I wasn’t exactly sure what to make of it, and the movie, although very nice by Ghibli standards (Dat voice cast,) was.. well, left me feeling a bit hollow, considering the movie is only a quarter of the manga.
So yur.
Finally worked out wifi issues for Wii U, felt good to hit Powalen’s zombie with a cricket bat in ZombiU and steal all his inventory. 😛 So many health packs, thanks man! 😀
May I ask how you sorted it out? I have so many problems with my WiiU on my network.
Bought a new router. :S My other one was dodgy any ways and this one has a stronger range! If you’re having troubles the interweb recommends manually configuring it too.
ZombiU’s so much fun: thinking carefully, conserving ammo, scouting the terrain. Until the game decides to lock you in a room with seventeen zombies without warning. :'(
For those suckers who don’t follow me on Twitter and also those of you who don’t care,
LISTEN UP!
Dan And Karls Zeitgeist Promo Quest is now open.
Submit me your promo images for tomorrow’s show.
I don’t care what it’s of.
BUT it must contain the podcast name (Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist), episode 16, and tomorrows date.
Submit it to me however.
If you need inspiration
Anybody else get an invite to this (in Sydney)?
Nintendo Australia would like to congratulate you on winning the opportunity to play some pre release Nintendo 3DS and Wii U games coming in 2013!
You have won a double pass to the IGN Black Beta Select Awards Night on February 1st 2013.
I saw the competition but didn’t enter. Congrats :)!
What was the competition rules and what was your entry? I’m curious to get into the minds of Nintendo and find out what winning entries are like, haven’t won anything from them in a while :'(
I honestly can’t remember what I said 🙂 I think it was one of these things where you were almost guaranteed of a prize if you entered. As far as they’re concerned, more people is better for all their promo shots.
But I wasn’t asking to gloat, I was wondering if anybody else was going to be there!
If my brother doesn’t want to go (or doesn’t get back to me) I’ll have a spare ticket. Would you be able to make 5:30 at Darling Harbour tomrrow?
I’m not going purely on the basis of supporting my good friend Sir Eats-a-lot.
COMPETING SITE
@dc, we watched another Freaks and Geeks last night. It was the one where
Sam tried to improve his fashion sense, and the whole school laughed at him.
That moment when he’s walking down the corridor and he realises that he’s made a big mistake, going from confident to distraught in the space of a couple of seconds was so damn good whateveritisthatmakestheshowsoamazing. Oh man, all the awkward.
Such a good present. You rule! King of kings, you might say.
Well, that means you’re officially ahead of me.
Need to get back into it.
But so many other things to do…
@shane did you steal my work ethic again man?
I am like “Spleh” but if asked why I didn’t do anything “Spleh” isn’t really a good answer
Wasn’t me today, dude. Or if I did, it’s stuck on the sole of my shoe or something, because I sure as hell ain’t using it! 🙂
Thanks anyway
Maybe it will turn up later
Who knows
Just, no fucks given today, at all, anywhere
I did consider it
Haven’t fully decided yet if I should or not
It would be fun, but I don’t feel well enough to bother
So at 3am I was messaged by Mr. Strange, The ship was in port at Turks and there was free wi-fi so we pretty much had a conversation which was nice. One of the things we spoke about was if he was stalking Sabaton for me. I’d just gotten back to sleep when I received another message from him telling me he’d just run into the bass player from Sabaton on the beach and told him I’d ordered him to stalk them. I think I’m embarrassed now. 😛
There is no need to be embarrassed. At least not until the next time you meet them and he remembers Mr Strange 😉
He’s been talking to them a fair bit and apparently they recognised him from the Melbourne headline show. Which means they most likely would have recognised me as well if I was there. I can never talk to them again in case they recognise me. 😛
Mr. Strange also says the new lead singer for DragonForce is a really nice guy.
Oh, man. Your husband is confident enough to talk to them? I’d hide in the bushes/run away! 😛
They’re just regular guys. The cruise is a pretty stress-free way to meet bands, anyway and it’s easy to make friends with them. I mostly avoid it because I’m scared I’ll find out the people in my favourite bands are horrible people.
I need some help TAYbies.
Looking for a good quality xbox (HDMI) PC video capture card that is compatible with windows 8. I want high quality 1080p stuff.
Also a good quality audo recording option (interviews, voice overs etc??). I was thinking of a USB microphone but if there are alternatives that don’t need a PC then let me know…
Might be making a few videos for some of my ‘friends’ and Im in the process of lining up a cool interview that I’d like to do a decent job of if possible?
Any help is appreciated dudes. Cheers.
Welp, I haven’t looked into many of the capture cards, but most of the $150 and up ones tend to do hd recordings without eating up too much space. As for audio, I can highly recommend the blue yeti series from blue mics. They’re usb mics with pretty much studio quality. I got a blue yeti pro because it’s got different capture settings depending on how many people you had using it … it was just under $150. It’s kindy weighty though.
TAY:
Most hated but gloriously-well-written character in TV. GO!
My answer: Janice Soprano (The Sopranos)
I have never wanted a character to be hit by a car so badly in my entire life, and I love watching shows with bastard characters. Most ‘nasty’ characters or anti-heroes have some redeeming features (family values, noble goals, naivety, inexperience, self-doubt, or a painful past to mitigate themselves), or it’s just damn fun to watch the train wreck. But Janice is just pure toxicity right to her core. She is an incredibly well-crafted character, and I hate her like I’ve never hated before.
I always wish I knew the actor in a situation like his, so I can decide if he’s brilliant at that part or just a rotten person. I usually give the benefit of the doubt.
Also, this: http://tinyurl.com/6o3oj8z
I was saying this exact thing about Janice Soprano the other night 🙂
I still haven’t decided whether Ricky Gervais is his characters or if he’s a genius. I honestly think he might have a foot in each camp!
Ricky Gervais is far from a genius. Pretty sure he just plays himself all the time.
I actually hate Cersei more than Joffrey. Joffrey’s a spoilt little shit, just a product of his environment – but Cersei is straight poison. I can’t even stand that expression she wears on her face 98% of the time, like she’s got it so hard and no one will ever understand. Toxic is the word.
All she wants to do is make everyone as miserable as she is. Never wanted to punch a fictional character so bad in my life.
She was also fantastic in Dredd.
I spent the first half of Dredd wondering who on earth she was, and then when it clicked I was like “Oh. Yeah. That makes a whole lot of sense.”
Especially Lori.
EDIT: Wait, this is for most hated characters? Damn, then this sarcastic answer doesn’t actually mean anything here then… 😛
Illythia from Spartacus:Blood and Sand.
Sister Mary Eunice from American Horror Story: Asylum. Although its hard not to root for her at times.
Dale from The Walking Dead.
So annoying. I understand he’s the voice of reason and humanity, but damn. He just goes on and on, seemingly for the sake of it.
I was not even remotely upset when he got chewed on by that zombie.
I saw that bit the other day. Season 2 end spoilers.
Wasn’t particularly upset either, but then there’s no one in that show I particularly care about.
Norman Reedus is pretty cool. For reference, see Boondock Saints.
…is a dickhead. I don’t know anything about the actor, but I’ll defer to the people who seem to think he’s cool.
There’s not much to the actual character though.
Maybe it might sell out fast and become a rare title like Xenoblade, picked mine up at EB Games around about 9:30 I didn’t get the preorder incentive so I pricematched the shizznatch out of it, can’t wait to get off work.
It wasn’t sold out, just not stocked at all in my local stores.
Bogans don’t like stuff with non-English names 😛
Glad you found a copy. I want to start the game so damn bad, must finish ZombiU first. (Which I’m loving, so it’s not a huge problem. :P)
Sounds like you’d love Dark Souls then 😛
$242. You pay an extra $150 and you get… a box and a statue of a character who apparently only exists in DLC :\
Edit: My point was this is a very expensive collector’s edition, and it doesn’t seem you get all that much for it. Definitely not for me.
To be fair, it was something like $50 cheaper to preorder. This is more of a “shit I missed out on preordering the limited edition and I’m willing to throw any kind of money to get it”.
Thanks man, I didn’t realise I page got until just now
I don’t know, Spaghett is in a bad mood today man
How are you Tofu?
Random bad moods suck.
I’m pretty awesome at the moment, despite not sleeping well. Realised that I’ve lost about 15kg in the last 6 months and I should be completely debt free by the end of the year. Plus the help desk at work has been conspicuously free of idiots so far today.
Random bad moods do suck
It may have something to do with waking up every couple of hours last night
I shouldn’t be in a bad mood, my car repayment and car insurance got paid for this morning, and I still have $740.00 to last me the fortnight
And I get to pick my girlfriend up tonight
I am finding it hard to motivate myself to work right now
I will get there
Good on you losing all that weight, thats fantastic!
@dc @zombiucrew (Why do I always miss the ZombiU discussions!)
Where did you find my survivor? 😀 I always carry heaps of health packs that I never have to end up using because I barely ever get hurt until I die 😛 If anybody ever sees one of my survivors, get them because they’ll have a tonne of items.
I hate the swarms triggered by events, too! It makes it seem a tad less realistic when you triple check to make sure everything is dead before trying to open the door, then you touch it and BAM FIVE ZOMBIES RUNNING AT YOU.
Right outside the Safe House door going into the London Underground. Haha!
The game does so much right that it’s always disappointing when they have screwy, cheap deaths like the swarms. :S
There seem to be a few similarities. The main one that I can see (having not played ZombiU) is the death/reincarnation element.
In Dark Souls, if you die, you respawn at the last bonfire (check point) and all your souls (currency) and humanity (… it’s complicated…) are left at your point of death. All the enemies have respawned. If you die again without having recovered your souls and humanity, they’re gone for good. Kind of a similar mechanic, though I think it’s made more interesting by the respawning enemies! 🙂
Player vulnerability seems to also be an element the games share in common. The ethos that character death, while frustrating, is supposed to happen and is a learning experience. Risk/reward considerations that flow on from this ethos.
No save/reload. Autosave every step you take. All actions are permanent. Shortcuts opened remain open despite death.
Edit: DAMNIT, send me your address. Play for ten hours, and tell me I was wrong about it. I dare you.
All that stuff is pretty addictive. The respawning enemies sounds annoying to me, though. Like your previous characters progress meant nothing. :'( Though I know what you mean about the learning experience stuff. I’m so much better with divide and conquering zombies and conserving ammo now. If I started the game again I wouldn’t be on Survivor #16. 😛
Yeah I was about to say that. I like that the zombies don’t respawn and you just have to deal with what killed your previous character in the first place.
Wow that sounds pretty good actually.
@dc – respawning enemies CAN be annoying in Dark Souls. I’m probably not helping to convince you but I’m not going to be all biased and tell you what I want you to hear, but what I know. Picture going through a bunch of enemies only to die at the boss. Look, fair enough, the boss is tough but having to go through the same enemies again and again can feel really annoying.
Thankfully there’s much better checkpoints and shortcuts in Dark Souls compared to Demon’s Souls and it’s less annoying. It also doesn’t take too long to get to the boss again since you’ll know everything but it can get frustrating if you have to do it multiple times in a row.
Basically, it can get annoying but it’s not too bad – at least not compared to Demon’s.
It seems annoying, but eventually it becomes about pattern recognition, muscle memory. The feeling you get mowing down enemies that troubled you twenty minutes ago is empowering and addictive. It really demonstrates that it’s a skill-based game. Taking down an overpowered enemy without taking damage will make you feel awesome.
Bosses (and a number of other mini-boss or powerful foes) you kill stay dead no matter what, as do all NPCs, who are all killable, and the shortcuts will get you to the areas you need to be at without having to grind through the same areas again and again. (You even get a warp-to-specific-bonfires ability eventually).
Having played both I can’t make a strong comparison in gameplay, but the underlying mechanics are similar.
Regardless, it’s a game that you need to experience first hand.
Hm, I’ve never died right outside the safe house before :\ Maybe they just spawn there when a friend dies in a place you’ve already cleared? I encountered a random player the other night that I’m not friends with as well. He didn’t have any items…
And my strategy now is: when I see a locked door/obvious ‘trigger’ I touch it, immediately quit out and turn around expecting a fight 😛
Oh, true. The other day I thought you said Blaghman’s zombie got you there! Thought this was the fallout of that incident. Haha!
What Shane said. Seriously. Play Dark Souls.
And if ZombiU is even remotely like Dark Souls then it’s probably best as a game you’re playing at the same time as another. So when it gets a bit much you can play the other game for a bit before going back with fresh perspective. You just bought NiNo Kuni, right? Start that too.
I like to play one game at a time, though. Get the feeling I’m near the end of ZombiU too! Sounds like Dark Souls is a lot more punishing. ZombiU hasn’t gotten to that level where I need to take a break. (Just the occassional moment of frustration from weird design decisions/me making stupid decisions. :P)
I know you like one game a time, but you also hate JRPGs and bought Ni No Kuni anyway so I figured you were being a new, more adventurous DC. 😛
Bizzaro World D.C.!
The one who organises meats and goes to plenty of social gatherings!
Anyone else entered that VAIO Duo 11 comp on Gizmodo?
I did, and I think my entry is brilliant, if I do say so myself 😛
You should go vote for it! http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/01/vaioduo11uptradeweek1?BJackwitz It’s the one under ‘Braycen Jackwitz’.
…
Wait. Now this means you all know my super secret identity…
😛
I was going to throw a vote cause you asked for one, but it actually made me laugh 😀
Also, everyone there who used an older gaming device for that comp should be voted down as quickly as possible!
Joking, but not really. Sort of.
NOPE! 😛 I think it’d frustrate me and I’m kind of a perfectionist who likes to complete things and it’d drive me nuts if I couldn’t. I play games for escapism, not torture. Haha!
I played as a Royal through Demon’s Souls. Great introduction to the mechanics, and a decent long-range option as a good fallback.
Played a much harder class in Dark Souls, and love that even more.
I thought I would be like that too. Until Dark Souls, I liked my games to be as easy as possible.
But I am a total convert. Honestly, it’s a game that stands apart from ‘games’.
You need to experience it anyway. Stop being so stubborn. 😛
And I play games for the same reason you do. Do you think I’d love a game that was torture? You can’t decide based on an erroneous reputation that it’s a brutally difficult game. I rarely play games on modes above Normal because I’m not the greatest hand/eye co-ordinator but even I can play Dark Souls.
I agree. It’s a challenge, but it’s not punitive. And it’s not brutal, but it is firm and fair. Rewards concentration and persistence, rather than skill. Observation and patience, looking around, knowing the world (you like this stuff), it all pays off.
DC … if you play it, I’ll play it. Same kind of mindset with the whole torture dealy … we could be dead soul buddies
Fuck it. Me too. I’m starting again on the 360. And I’m gonna wait for @dc before I start it.
I was hoping no one would notice
Dark Souls is not hard. It got that reputation from the ADD riddled generation that won’t play a game unless they can blast through it without paying attention. The same group of people who won’t play a game if its longer than 6 hours.
The only thing the game demands is patience and focus.
My mind is rarely focused. 😛
Thanks for the recommendations! You guys are all kinds of awesome! Think I’ll stick to ZombiU/Ni No Kuni for now. I hear JRPGs are long haul, so I expect to be on that one for a while. I’ll keep Dark Souls in mind, though. Looked decent enough at the Freeze BBQ anyways! 😀
He’s lying, everyone. He’ll never play it. He’s just placating us in the hopes it will shut us up. It won’t. 😛
@dc, this conversation is more torturous. And it won’t stop. Playing Dark Souls is by far the easy way out. And you might actually have fun to(edit:o).
If you don’t send me your address, I’m sending the game to @strange.
Not if I send it first!
Seriously, he can have my 360 copy. I bought it on Steam and play it there, so it’s now a spare.
Send ALL the copies! 😛
No, if I play it eventually I’ll get my own copy. Thanks for the offer though. 🙂
I was sitting here for a good 5 minutes trying to figure out why people would call Dark Souls hard if they’ve played Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
I got there in the end.
Political rant. featuring lots of swears.
Fuck you Tony Abbott. Fuck you.
“It’s clear to us what you, our fellow Australians want. Less pressure on cost of living, more job security, borders under control”
cost of living increaced 1.1% (2.4% if you factor in energy prices). salaries went up on average 3% last year. even for the public sector workers who were limited to at most a 2.5% wage increase (granted only on the condition that productivity was increased & that other costs were cut by 8%) the net cost of living is actually cheaper. -1 Abbott.
Job security. its a Liberal government that is making my job insecure. seriously. Libs policies are gonna make people unemployed before too long (myself included). so -2 & another Fuck you to Abbott.
Borders? let em in. process em quickly. let them contribute to the workforce. cram your ‘turn back the boats’ line up your arse. and finally, fuck you Tony Abbott.
But I like being informed.
…and to a lesser extent, I like getting angry at certain things.
You like being informed and yet you’re reading news that quotes Abbott verbatim without providing any commentary on if his statements are true or valid?
it was abc live tweeting his speech. i can wait 30 mins for an analysis piece.
More rant.
“my pledge is that I won’t say one thing before the election and do the opposite afterwards”
funny, but with the application of punctuation the meaning of that changes drastically.
“my pledge is : That I won’t say one thing before the election. (And do the opposite afterwards)”
Spoilered since I’m sure some people wish to avoid political discussion:
It’s funny, if they had someone else leading the party, I might actually consider voting Greens>Independents>WhoeverElseICanFind>Libs>Labor.
But with him?
Ha.
I don’t care who my Lib candidatey people are/is/whatever. They get to go LAST.
if Libs had someone respectable & a more moderate leading em, I’d have to flip a coin to decide if it was Libs or Labor to go last.
Here’s something I’ve never seen or heard directly answered (lies are not actually answers):
STOP THE BOATS!
……why?
IN THE NAVY…
YES YOU CAN SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS
DEY DOOK URRR JERRRBBBSS!
Yes, that’s right. Someone from a (most probably war-torn) foreign country, with no formal Australian qualifications, came and took your job, because they were willing to work harder than you, and for less.
And they’re the bad guy.
See this is my biggest source of confusion. From my experiences (I don’t have enough evidence to say “the majority of the time”, though I’d like to) they’re getting the same bloody pay rate, they’re just willing to do a job so they can live here.
I dunno…I guess I have to frequently remind myself that politicians pander to the majority to secure a win, even if it means dumping on basic human compassion.
Honestly, most Australian businesses would choose an ‘Australian’ applicant over an immigrant one anyway, because racist country. They’re only taking jobs no one else applies for. The bastards.
JERBS!!!! (and the taking of, by them foreigners)
seriously, companies bitch & moan about skills shortages, but [the government] wont let in foreign workers, or invest in education to train these workers. but they’re quite happy to outsource jobs overseas.
its just a line, and a lie, to appeal to a racist culture. sloganeering at its most basic.
Edit: l accidentally a few words.
Because they get phone calls, food and shelter. If the government would stop wasting money on these freeloaders my Centerlink payments would be higher.
So I just bought Ni No Kuni, despite never having seen a Ghibli film and not really playing JRPGs.
The hypetrain has left the station.
I’ve played a fair few JRPGs but have seen no Ghibli films, so pretty interested to hear how you go!
I’m concerned that I will absolutely love it and proceed to spend far too much money catching up on Ghibli films and JRPGs.
@bdkiaf has already expressed interest ;D
I returned from my lunchbreak not 5 minutes ago with a copy of Ni No Kuni in my hand.
I’m not entirely sure how this happened.
I still vote for Galactic President Superstar McAwesomeville
Because HIMYM
Also, reasons
And raisins
And buttfuck today @tofu, I really am repeating myself
@dc, Sam’s best friend who is having the marriage troubles, has gone to her husbands parents to stay for a while *I guess the husbands parents are on Sam’s friends side* and they want to meet me
Man, anxiety
Spags just wants to go home after work, and take his pants off
I normally vote for the australian sex party … because it’s called the australian sex party, they have decent enough policies.
THE BIG BRAIN AM WINNING AGAIN! I always repeat myself. My day is about 80% repeating the same thing to people, the paraphrased version being “You’re an idiot who can’t read. To spare myself from having to talk to you again, I’ve done everything for you … please don’t come back”.
Screw pants, they’re terrible. Give me a skirt for summer and I’ll gladly wear it.
I am repeating myself, and then I worry about it
Because anxiety
Which leads me to say I am worrying
Which is me repeating myself anyway
I’ve never really considered it before, but why can’t men wear skirts? That kind of downstairs air flow would be faaaaabulous!
@markserrels, what’s the verdict on kilts? Are they skirts like @ynefel implies?
Kilts come with Kilt Knives, to be used stabbing people who call them skirts to death
Nice knowing you @ynefel
Oh no, I wasn’t implying they were skirts, just that the Scots set the precedent for men to wear such attire.
@shane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian_dubh
I exaggerated. but I would be using it for stabbing those who called it a skirt
I did consider that, but I mean skirts like women are allowed to wear. Why is it weird for a man to dress like that?
Considering my hairy hairy legs it would be quite a site to see me in a skirt
A worse one if I were to bend over
@bdkiaf 😉 😛
Is that supposed to be a point against men in skirts..?
It’s supposed to be a point towards our eloping, considering you think I don’t love you anymore
But yes, probably a point against men in skirts
I could wear a longer one, but where is the fun in that?
@spaghett
Oh, well in that case, don’t even bother with the skirt.
Guess I won’t be wearing a skirt then
I know, right? And parachute pants are acceptable, but are waaaay more offensive 😛
Having worn a skirt in public, the reaction wasn’t nearly as bad as you’d expect.
Ahh, the good ol’ days of School.
I asked this during a family dinner once and received many weird looks.
Fijian men wear skirts and they are nothing if not manly.
:S Your girlfriends, friends parents want to meet you? D:
I say stay home, take your pants off!
I think I will do it man, I have to pick Sam up on my way home from their house tonight anyway
Spagett has to nut up or shut up @shane #hashtagsforharli #shaneball #shanesballs #sixseasonandamovie #xratedobviously
Sam is very happy, all those girlfriends are Sam 🙂
Still no guarantee that it won’t have been touched by Shane’s Balls at some point.
I never make that guarantee. No particular reason.
Shaneball *molested by Shane’s Balls* Patent Pending Copyright 2099
… It’s a pretty high chance that everything has been touched by Shanes balls at some point or another.
That’s the idea, man. I’m giving @dc about twelve hours to save me money and accept the PS3 version I’m offering him.
Please don’t man, if I played I’d prefer the console version and I already feel like such a mooch for The Walking Dead/Deadalic pack. I will feel compelled to buy you something in return and can’t afford that right now. D:
All I would want in return is your Dark Souls stories, which I can spin into humorous and powerful tales for TAYbies to enjoy.
And access to this mysterious project bible. 😛
PS: I’m in a gifting mood because my writing career took steps yesterday, new computer is on its way, money concerns are starting to ease, and the idea of a treechange makes me happy. Life is good, just sharing the wealth. No obligations.
Tell you what. We’ll compromise. I’ll buy it. But I won’t send it to you right away. Each day, you get a digit of the Steam code in a Twitter DM. That way, it’s like I’m sending you 25c at a time. That’s not unmanageable, right? Not even the cost of a McDonald’s soft serve! 😛
PS: I might be joking.
GIFT SPAGHETT ALL THE THINGS!!!!!
*Ahem* Good to hear things are taking steps forward man, the TAYbies deserve good things, and I always love to hear good things have happened
Ignore my request for gifting, Obvious troll might not have been so obvious
You want it? Unobvious trolling notwithstanding
No I am fine thank you very much 🙂
I hope @markserrels is doing the Noms this week, you are so getting Nommed
I need to get in touch with Mrs Shane so she can physically Nom on you
!!!
This might be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long while.
Mike from Penny Arcade (Gabe) is doing an AMA on Reddit. A double amputee that volunteers at PAX and has met Mike and Jerry asks if Gabe could be convinced to fly down to California to have his legs scanned to be used as the basis of his new prosthetics if enough money was donated to Child’s Play.
Gabe just straight up agrees to do it.
The prosthetics will also look like Iron Man armour.
Yay internet!
That is genuinely one of the best things I’ve seen on the internet in a very long time. Love the occasional reminder that people can be not just good to each other, but full on awesome.
There’s extra meaning to it if you go through the rest of the comments. Facelesscog (the guy making the request) found Penny Arcade while he was in hospital having a tumour removed, the site obviously means a lot to him.
Ni no Kuni arrived.
Also surprisingly my JP Premium Box thingie for Atelier Ayesha showed up simultaneously (if Tecmo Koei won’t give me my Boss voice and my awesome collector’s edition then I just have to make one myself). All the shelf space reduction.
All this talk of Dark Souls made me finally put the game back in. Forgot it was a new PS3 since I last played so I have to wait while it updates. Haven’t had to wait for an update for a while! I’m crossing my fingers that the cloud preserved my save for me correctly or I may be a tad upset.
Also, just checked the mail and got a card saying there’s a parcel to be picked up after 10am today. Which means the parcel guy came by whilst I wassleeping in this morning so I missed him. It’s too late to go out because I won’t be back in time for school finishing so I guess I’m going out tomorrow. I’m pretty sure it’s my Shadow of the Colossus T-Shirt which means I’m super-excited. 😀
Not yet! I bought it last week so I could play on the weekend but the weather had other ideas. 😛
How far along do you have to be before you can reach the new stuffs?
when you get The Lord Vessel.
If you want, I can tell you how to unlock the content (Yes you need to “unlock it”).
Ah. I can’t do it yet, then. I was just starting Sen’s Fortress when our old TV broke.
If it was an EA game, then the unlock would be a further $2 purchase, on top of the DLC.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Oh man, I just hit that stage in my PS3 save… which has no DLC 😛
Guess I got a long slog ahead of me with my 360 version!
You mean the postman came to the door but you had too many clothes on to answer him right? 😛
If you can hold off until DC starts playing, @tofu @shane @dc and @strange can playthrough together! That might be fun.
I can’t hold off. I’ve been holding off for nearly a year. I have a line-free TV and my husband is away which means I can finally play at night. There is no holding off.
I might join in as well, as soon as DC starts playing. It can be the next game on Beardy’s monthly playthrough list
fiiiiine … but I’m calling my character DC
Never say never, 007
I’m waiting for you to start playing to buy it
@Chuloopa
Interested in some Exterminatus tonight? I played a little bit of online the other day, about long enough to unlock the customiser. There went the rest of my night.
Need to play a bit more multi as well to unlock some more armour sets to play with
Anybody else on PC interested in joining in?
Potentially yes. Not sure what I’m supposed to be doing tonight, but I’m happy to give it a whirl.
Cool, the 8:30 timeframe seems to work for most people, maybe I’ll just jump on and start sending invites to everybody on my list
Planned to grab Ni No Kuni on my lunch break but according to the EB Games website none of them have stock /o\
Reached the point of no return for Zombi U. Having so much fun, but really hope they don’t make the game crazy hard with swarms in the last part.
Says I’ve been playing for about twelve hours, but I’m notoriously slow when it comes to games. (Though this one seems to be designed for that.)
#hashtagsforheroin
Spags is feeling much better guys
Props go out to @ynefel @bdkiaf @shane @tofu @dc
You may not know what you did specifically, but Spaghett’s mood has been lifted considerably
Also, @markserrels took my Spaghett’s last song played game and made an Off Topic Article about it
😀
You’re awesome, man. Tell that anxiety to stop harshing your mellow, then play some hacky sack. (Maybe with @smurfydog!)
I’m having Garlic Bread for lunch. Good eatin’…
I think I need to tell my Doctor to up my dosage
Garlic bread for lunch?? My pizza last night was delivered late so they threw in an extra garlic bread
I had 3 garlic breads
Maybe I am the new Van Helsing?
More Spaghett is never a bad thing.
Never leaving TAY, you will only get more of me
Sometimes forcefully
Except, considering how I write, it is always forceful
Sometimes when I read your comments your line breaks make me read it as if it is said by William Shatner.
That truly was
A fantastic compliment
I am sure
William Shatner would be proud
You can have one too if you’ll play Dark Souls! 😛
Come over to my place and play it and steal all my Snickers ice-creams if you like. 😛
So I’ve been wanting a fun platformer (Ala Super Meat Boy) to play on the go on my Vita. Sadly, the Vita has no gamesshakespeareantragedy, but the other day I stumbled into the Playstation Mobile store and discovered Life of Pixel.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/01/08/playstation-mobile-spotlight-life-of-pixel/
It’s so much fun! Exactly what I was looking for! My only gripe is that the music for each platform doesn’t reflect the original chipset so the Game Boy music doesn’t sound like a Game Boy, C64 doesn’t sound like a C64, but other than that the game is great!
“We thoroughly researched the graphics capabilities, pixel resolutions, colour palettes and scrolling of each machine and our aim was to recreate these limitations as closely as possible. So, using the Commodore C64 levels as an example, the level blocks, enemy sprites, player sprite and effects were drawn using the exact palette limitations and pixel resolution of the C64 – so nice chunky 2×1 pixels were the order of the day.
Each machine features eight levels, and the machines included within Life of Pixel are Atari 2600, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Model B, Nintendo Gameboy and NES.”
I thought I’d share incase anyone out there was interested 😀
I meant to get back to you about that but stuff! And then I couldn’t find the tweet to double check you had actually offered me the game 😛
\o/
I started playing the Naruto platformer on 3DS.
Even though it’s Naruto AND a 2(.5)D platformer doesn’t save it from being a pretty bad game.
I’m pretty sure you can just assume that all the handheld Naruto games will be pretty bad.
This one was exceptionally so.
Knytt is Metroidvania. Probably not what you were after but I liked Knytt Stories back in the day, no idea what Underground is like 😛
My Vita is US 🙁 If it was free on the Aus store, I probably added it to my cart anyway 😀
😀 scweet! Just do the region swapping thing then tell me how it goes before I do it myself 😛
Random fact:
Ryu’s cameo in Wreck-it Ralph was voiced by Kyle Hebert, who voices Ryu in Street Fighter IV.
Now that’s attention to detail.
Apparently a lot of those cameos used the real voice actors, except Zangief. Who was voiced by the director or something.
Hercules in God of War 3 was voiced by Kevin Sorbo who voiced Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Will watch the short later, but that Steamboat Mickey/Walt Disney Animation song makes my cat go extra strength crazy! It’s awesome! 😀
I loved this at the movies, up until the paper planes began forcing them together. It then took it out of the quirky coincidence realm and into a “Power of God!’ one which made me very uncomfortable :/
Yeah that crossed my mind, but then I remembered I was watching a Disney animation and decided to just roll with the whimsy
The day after Gillard announces the election, NSW police arrest Craig Thomson on fraud charges. The timing – oh man, the timing. Can’t help but wonder…
Don’t get me started on the whole Thomson fiasco. A stellar example of corruption at its finest for all involved.
That’s not corruption, that’s efficiency.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending him or the Labor party at all. The way this thing has been handled from day one is nothing short of utterly disgraceful.
Just wondering if this was a warrant held in reserve until it could be used to create election campaign imagery that’ll be on our screens for the next seven months :\
Not sure the risk would be worth the payoff if if ever leaked that’s what happened. The law is meant to be desperate from the government since we’re based of the Westminster system. Not that it is but the illusion is there.
I have an Asian (English) copy of Ragnarok Odyssey for Vita I bought in Hong Kong last year, and am not using anymore since I sold my Shakespearean Tragedy Vita.
I’m wanting to donate it to someone, and for some reason, the first person that springs to mind is @doc_what.
Let me know if you want it.
I did want this game, but nobs is giving me Rayman, so I’ll leave this for someone else. If no one else wants it, I’ll def take it off your hands. 🙂
If you want it, you’re getting it. I don’t care what Nobs is doing, I want it to go to a good home.
Good game, just don’t have a Vita anymore.
tsekkt at the geemails
Go.
Hey nef, would you happen to be selling a copy of Disgaea 3 since you no longer own a Vita Persona 4 machine?
No, I actually bought Disgaea 3 digitally, as did I most of my VIta gaems. Just got Ragnarok Odyssey retail because no other way. D=
Aww okay, thanks anyway :D!
It’s probably the only thing I need for it now as all the other games I was interested in have been/will be on PS+.
I have Disgaea 3 on PS3 but I’m interested in the superior Vita version. Since I barely played the PS3 version, I figured I might as well play the better one if given a chance :). Won’t be picking it up for a while though.
I sense some sneaky stuff going on but thanks anyway!
Vita version of Disgaea 3 is brilliant. Best version to have by far.
Agreed.
I’d have preferred Disgaea 4 since it’s the better game IMO, but if you want to play Disgaea 3 the Vita version is the best way to do so. The games are oddly suited to portables.
I wouldn’t say oddly suited 😛
Yeah, I have the PS3 version and have also barely played it. Too much of a handheld style game for the big screen.
Did anyone get Unfinished Swan? I did. I’ve played it start to finish 3 times. It’s short, but it was so much fun. Especially that first level, splattering ink onto the stark white environment. Loved walking through a room and then looking behind me and seeing the inky mess I left and the details of plants, fences and benches etc that are now visible.
Also… Terry Gilliam.
Unfinished Swan is really REALLY short though. You can probably finish off the game in an hour? It’s on sale on the US PSN though.
I played and liked it. I thought the mechanics stayed around just long enough not to wear out their welcome.
Have you managed to get to the tower with only 3 paint balls? I’ve no Idea how you’d do it.
I did!
I wandered around for AGES before getting to the lake and seeing the first set of orange swan foortprints. I then side stepped till I hit the wall and went forward until I hit the bench. I worked out where the stepping stones were in a previous play through and through sheer luck, made it to the next set of footprints first time. Follow the foot prints to get to the bridge. I got stuck on the staircase here and had to waste my first paintball. Once inside use the gold parts of the statues as markers. Finding the ramp in the room with the king’s head was the only tricky part here. one up, keep going for a bit and walk parallel to the footprints till you’re level with them. Walk in the direction they are facing to get across to the next section. I wasted my next two paintballs trying to find the right stair case. Go up and round and bash through the boxes. The rest of the level is pretty easy after that.
I completely fluked it first time I attempted it.
MAILU MANNNU WHERE ARE YOUUU UUU DESUU~~~ !
I hate waiting for stuff you know is going to happen but not necessarily when. Going to be called during the day? Know a package is on its way? Ughhhh, I just don’t want to do anything that’ll make me miss out on them 😛
Well you’re stuck at work, so not much you can do about that :P. I’m more worried that I’ll be brushing my teeth or pooping or washing the dishes and I’ll hear the knick-knock-knocking and won’t be able to get to the door in time and then they’ll give you one of those “COME PICK IT UP AT THE POST OFFICE” things 🙁
Oh and also clothes… gotta wear them before I answer the door :/ (or at least a shirt :P)
I also put off playing Ni no Kuni for a few hours so they wouldn’t come knocking in the middle of a cutscene I can’t pause… They’re usually here around 3pm. I want to play Ni no! 🙁
It’s a JRPG, so ‘too long’ is a valid answer. 🙁 I think it’s something that JRPGs in general need to figure out. That opening stretch is often way too long and bland. I saw someone recently (may have been Kitase talking about FFXIII which is super awful at this) saying that Japanese culturally are all about preparation, they like to make sure they introduce all their systems in a well-explained manner over time and so on.
I can’t think of any JRPG that didn’t have a slow start aside from FFVII.
NEARLY HOME TIME!
ALSO, SHENANIGANS!
*Coughs* I am finished yelling, my chest actually kind of hurts
Maybe I should stop lifting weights during lunch?
Dark Souls, I’ve missed you!
My save is fine but I’m not. I’ve lost my Dark Souls mojo. So I started again. This time a large (large as in the body-type I chose because the other options were too twig-like and made her look like she would break if anything even looked at her) red-haired Cleric called Strange. 😛
This is how rusty I am: I lost to the first boss the first time I tried because it never even occurred to me to heal. And then when I got back there the next time I almost forgot to pick up my souls.
But I’m getting the hang of everything again and even better, I’d forgotten they put “YOU DEFEATED” back in the updates so it was an awesome surprise. 😀
Just a tip, healing takes a long time to cast. When I do a faith build I usually heal after a battle and save all my potions for battle.
Yeah, my othercharacter was/is a Pyromancer so I was aware spells and miracles take awhile. But I was so rusty I didn’t even think to use my flask!
I know about 4 or 5 of us were going to start playing again … I’ll be diving in for the first time, naming my character after @dc because he’s hesitant to play
I’ll also be starting for the first time. Just waiting for mightyape to ship my Prepare to Die edition.
I’m still stuck on the spider woman in that game. I really should get round to finishing it, but I’ve found it’s the sort of game where I have to be in the mood to play it, and I just haven’t been in the mood for a while.
Ni no Kuni first thoughts:
Gameplay spoilers (NO story spoilers!)
OH MY GOD. IT’S GHIBLI POKEMON. POKEMON GHIBLI. GHIBLIMON. I blocked off all info going in so that was a surprise to me. I love the monster design so far, too. I’d really like to see a spin-off Pokemon game in this style, but that’ll never happen. 😛
Also, daaayyymmmm this game is pretty! It’s been ages since I’ve played a proper JRPG so this is good. I really like the english voices too. Whoever is complaining about Drippy is wrong, that dude is hilarious.
TL;DR: First impression = Good 😛
I was going to do a post but then I forgot so I’ll just post it in your post because reasons.
What I like about the gameplay (not really spoilery so I’m not going to hide it but if anyone doesn’t want to know more about the gameplay then skip it):
This stuff happens about 1.5 hours in so it’s not too bad but I LOVE how they’re handling side quests! Easy way to get them, keep track of them and awesome incentives for actually doing them. NICE!
What I don’t really like:
So far it’s nothing major but I don’t like how quickly the enemies spawn and move. You should be given the option to at least avoid a decent amount of the battles but because you’re battling so often it just feels like random battles are in there anyway.
It’s pretty much just how the main gameplay works. I didn’t know about it until pretty recently but I never considered it a huge spoiler 😛
Apparently I’m upsetting people by having a contrary opinion on stuff so I’m taking a break from TAY for a while.
Wait, is this about Disgaea/Ni no Kuni stuff I said?
I didn’t find it to be “oddly” suited because it wasn’t very graphically demanding on consoles so I didn’t see why it wouldn’t work well on portables. I played a bit of the first on PS2 but found it much more enjoyable on PSP because of the portability. Never seemed like an odd thing to me.
“too long” to get started, but you haven’t even played the game. Yes, most JRPGs and Japanese games take a while to get started but I don’t think 1 hour (it’s actually more like 30 minutes) in Ni no Kuni is “too long”.
And I’m not upset I’m just saying. But if this is about something else then carry on… 😛
I actually feel that Ni No Kuni does take a while to get started; still undecided if it’s too long yet.
I’m comparing it to Chrono Trigger – this may or may not be a fair thing to do. I have played Chrono Trigger at least once a year, every year since 2003. You’re essentially dropped right into the game – there’s no stopping to explain how the menu/inventory/battle ui works. As much as I’m enjoying Ni No Kuni currently, part of me dreads the thought of ever starting the game again.
Could be worse. Could be Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance. It’s been almost 2 hours and its STILL explaining its bloated mishmash of mechanics to me.
I’m only like 3 hours in but I still think it’s a lot shorter than a lot of Japanese games and JRPGs that take hours just to get out of down and get anything going. Within 30mins – 1 hour you’re already introduced to the battle system, you can walk around the world map and do other stuff. Sure the tutorials can be annoying and it’s no Chrono Trigger but it’s a lot better than other stuff.
My main problem with his comment was that he’s never played the game and doesn’t intend to. Surely that’s hardly a valid opinion 😛
Hmm, I doubt you’re really upsetting people. They may be a bit annoyed with you because your comments about certain games may be ruining their high, but I doubt people are super upset to the point of wanting you to leave TAY.
And I really hope you’re not upset either. You’ve actually seemed a bit sad in general for a while now so I hope everything’s okay with you.
Finished Zombi U:
Not sure I got the best ending. I really, really liked this game. Just needs more polish. Also feels like it ends abruptly and has more backtracking than The Cave! (Any one who knows The Cave will understand that’s a lot of damn backtracking. :P)
Oh, man. There’s three endings and I apparently got the worst one. Damn!
Have to replay the game to see the others. I probably will eventually, but for now… it’ll keep…
D:
I didn’t even think that might be considered spoilery. Believe me, I’m sorry, man. :'(
Feel terrible. Let me know if I can make it up to you some how…
S’okay, I just tend to prefer to know the least I can about a game before getting a hold of it.
I’m afraid I may have upset you. As an apology, please provide Strange with your address so I can send you Dark Souls.
Upset me? Don’t worry ’bout me.
I just hope I didn’t upset you or ruin it in any way. 🙁
As payment for upsetting Rize, you now have to let him give you Dark Souls.
Nah, more of a slight disappointment in knowing that feature, but I know I’m over the top when it comes to what I consider spoilery stuff.
No harm done!
Could be worse! Just wait until they start releasing new Pokemon X/Y information.
TOTAL BLACK OUT!
@powalen ran out of useable Pokemon.
@powalen blacked out.
@sernobulus Pfft, like that ever happens.
@powalen – something tells me friggen Salami will post picture spoilers of stuff. I’m trying to avoid as much as I can this time around, even stuff like avoiding the evolutions of the starters.
I went nuts for Gen IV and looked up ALL the new Pokemon and it kind of ruined the game for me :(. I tried to avoid it for 5 but couldn’t resist and looked up the starter Pokemon evolutions (which made me change the one I was going to go for) and I also looked up some of the uglier Pokemon which was quite hilarious :D.
TOTAL BLACK OUT!
There’s a similar game with FAR more polish but the name escapes me at the moment…
Sent out invites in Miiverse, now I play the waiting game. (You haven’t added me yet? :P)
I haven’t played the Wii in weeks :D. Would get more use if I had frequent co-op buddies but nope 🙁
Are there even any coop games? Unless you mean local coop!
Yep local! I don’t have a cool gaming hermit sister I live with 😛
@shane @lambomann007 @bdkiaf @doc_what @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @effluvium-boy @notoriousr @tigerion @greenius @beavwa @scree @trjn @freyr @zetrox2k @blaghman @thecracks @negativezero @freezespreston @rize @bish @tofu @strange @nomad @sughly
The goods are being delivered tomorrow morning. Thanks for the input. I’ll let you know when it’s done!
That wasn’t a very subtle coded message. You were barely vague at all.
Whatever happened to “the stork is en route” or “the lizard barks at January”?
Ugh! She’s one of the worst offenders because she always swaps between different handles! 😛
I’m not even sure what’s her preferred one anymore, I figured it was Freyr but it might be Freya. Too confus’n
What’s worse is that her Twitter display name uses a different spelling to her Twitter handle.
The worst!
That is pretty annoying. I reckon you should block her for it. See how that works out for you.
What’s the worst that could happen?
I would advise you avoid all tractors and taxis.
And tape! Didn’t she totally throw tape at someone (Pez?) before?!
Wooo! Got my stuff in the mail.
It was a different postman (or woman in this case) than the usual one :(. The usual one comes 2 hours earlier and has a cool turban and tells me to have a good day. What a gent!
This one just left the stuff on the doorstep. Nothing wrong with that but seemed like they were in a rush (were most likely late/behind) since by the time I opened the door they were already in the van ready to make an escape 😛
I had a package arrive the other day from the US, and the postman’s solution was not to deliver it to the house. Oh no, that would be too insecure. His approach was to instead attach it to the letterbox with packing tape! That’s not going anywhere!
I’m still pissed off at the guy who delivered a rare strategy guide that I ordered and decided it was a good idea to bend it and shove it in that junk mail hole in the letter box. Now there’s a giant crease on the cover of it to remind me of it forever 🙁
However, the seller was also partly to blame since they didn’t put it in a box and just lightly wrapped it in newspaper (which oddly enough still managed to protect it until the mailman bent it)
I had that happen with a mint condition mario kart on snes. I cried a little as I dragged it out the slot it was forced in, scraping and tearing along the way
I got a delivery today too!
It was from OzGameShop, and it was in a box! First time that’s happened.
Ah, Taken.
Nothing like jamming electrodes in a guy’s thigh to get him to co-operate.
Interesting…
Have you changed email address over the years?
(As in, the address you post from)
Yes. I used to post under an old email address in the olden days. I doubt it would have added much to the post count though, I mostly lurked with the occasional bout of talkativism.
I hit 16,000 a few days ago 😛
Pretty sure I have the most now (or at least the most in such a short time since I didn’t post regularly until 2012). Blaghman, Trjn, Shane and D.C. also have tons of posts.
STFU GREENIUS.
Yeah, I’ve got 13,300. When beloved people like Strange who’ve been posting for significantly longer have less, it makes me think that maybe less is more… then I post what I had for lunch… (Garlic bread! :P)
And outta nowhere suddenly a massive storm…
I can feel the power about to go out too so luckily I stopped playing Ni no Kuni :P. No one likes losing progress!
The Okami art book is so pretty! I had no idea it was “backwards” or that it had a shiny cover. I can easily see this being one of my favourite art books. @benj we’z gun draw all the Okami pics now :D! Speaking of which, where’s your artwork at bro?! Been using the tablet much?
@masha2932 – has your Amazon stuff shipped yet? I ordered Okami in early January (around the 2nd) and due to those delays I told you about it didn’t ship until sometime around January 15th. Just received it today and I paid for the lowest and slowest shipping, so you should get your stuff around 2 weeks.
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The last MQFT I did was about randomly buying a cheap beanie online and well I’m pretty sure my head isn’t suited for beanies. Looks weird as 😛
It’s a really nice looking book! And it confused me a bit at first being backwards and all. It’s still a bit weird but I got used to it!
I haven’t drawn much lately 😛 I’ve drawn a few things for my game but if I showed them you’d know what the game is so… *taps nose* (I promise I’ll share the art and what the game is when I figure out what’s doable! I think I’ve set my ambitions too high and I don’t wanna go all Peter Molyneux on everyone)
Tonight I’ll draw something out of the Okami book though! I’m gonna have a look for something now.
(this is deserving of another post :P)
Ni no Kuni people, there’s free DLC available for the game from the Australian PSN :D! You can’t just search for it but if you go into the Latest PS3 Ad-Ons you should find it after a bit of scrolling.
It’s just two familiars and I believe one of them was offered in the Collector’s Edition guide in the US/EU. Nothing too big but nice nonetheless 🙂
Wait, you got it??! Im calling you a ghibli fan, and by extension a fan of anime. WELCOME!
While looking for it I noticed another swimwear pack for DOA5 has been released -.- I think they are trying to turn the game into Xtreme 3.
More Dark Souls talk. Don’t read, @dc!
So I made it to almost the Taurus Demon without dying. Unfortunately I forgot that as you prepare to enter that tower for the first time a flaming barrel gets rolled down the steps at you. I’d become over-confident so I’d broken my number one rule and I didn’t have my shield up. Oops. 😛
And now I have to stop playing and go cook dinner. 🙁
I love how the broken railing on the side of that looks like something you can make a dive to safety off only to either all to your death or land on a balcony with no way off. Troll design at its finest.
Well, the game did come from a guy that trolled the entire Dark Souls community by saying that the pendant was useful
Yep, landed there very first time I played the game. Quit out and resumed, still standing in the same place.
You did read it, didn’t you?! An upvote from you is like marking your emails as read. You upvoted it, so it means you’ve read it. 😛
Aww I didn’t read anything and posted my comment but you already posted something along the same lines :D. Great minds think alike? 🙂
Oh thank god, TAY \o/
I went a whole… 7 hours without you, I think.
I didn’t really go without, I was still watching, only I couldn’t participate. Like that time I had a threes- yeah… let’s stop it right there.
If a threesome has three participants, and a foursome has four…
I think I know why they call me handsome :'(
Best post.
That guy with the crazy hair was on Conan the other day. He seemed funny so I might check it out 🙂
It’s on the list! Any other crazy sitcoms I should see? Happy Endings is also on the list. Haven’t seen much about Children’s Hospital so undecided about that one 😛
Party Down 🙂 It only lasted 2 seasons because Jane Lynch went to Glee and Adam Scott went to Parks and Rec, but it’s really good. A couple of the cast members of Childrens are also the main characters in it.
The thing about Childrens Hopsital (no apostrophe! It was named after the founder Arthur Childrens and just so happens to be a children’s hospital) is that it’s really hard to just jump into it because you won’t get anything that’s going on, so watch at least all of season 1 to start understanding it. It’s only 5 10 minute episodes.
Also I haven’t seen Happy Endings but I know Chief from CH (and Party Down) is in it, so I hope you’re a fan of Megan Mullally 😛
I’ve never even heard of Party Down but I like Adam Scott and I don’t mind Megan (haven’t seen her in much) based on interviews and what I saw on Conan.
I’ll start from the start for all of them since I acquire them anyway :P. Jumping in and watching random episodes can really ruin something.
Have you seen It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie or The League? They seem like the type of things you’ll like 😀
I wouldn’t mind Always Sunny if they replaced every single one of the actors 😛 I’ve liked what I’ve seen of it, but I can’t stand anyone in it.
Louie grew on me. It’s a bit different than what I’d normally watch. It’s kinda dark and twisted but it’s good 😛 It makes you think a bit!
I was an insta-fan of The League when the comedy channel played this as an ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuVsLR_2GX0 The guy with the awful teeth is also in Childrens Hospital a bit, and got his own spin off show NTSF:SD:SUV which isn’t bad.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT SUNNY!
Louie is the weird child. A nice mix of sitcom and drama but it’s really well done.
I first heard about Childrens Hospital when Paul Sheer (bad teeth guy :P) was on Conan. I thought it was his show but later found out he’s just in a minor role. I liked The League but tried to watch the new season and it was blegh. Gave up immediately after a few eps.
NEVER!! The one episode I’ve watched (the one where they’re going on a road trip and the girl keeps needing to pee) was funny but the guys yelling constantly killed it for me!
I’ve only seen seasons 1 and 2 of the league, it’s a shame it seems to have gone downhill 🙁
U BAD BEN J!
But like you said about Childrens, you can’t just start in the middle, you have to start at the start! It’s all part of the characters and how you’re supposed to hate them and the stupid shit they do 😛
Also it probably would’ve helped if I knew about Football (American) and the players but a lot of the jokes just meant nothing to me because of it (at least in the latest season). Oh well…
I found Paperman!
Seriously, everyone should watch this short!
It’s so damn sweet, it bought me to tears.
Watch it!
something something Steamboat Mickey/Walt Disney Animation song makes cat go extra strength crazy something
something something phobia weirdness something
🙂
Weightloss Update 2: I didn’t actually lose any kilos this week, but I think I’ve lost some centimetres around the waist. Any progress is good progress.
The Dark Souls Amazon special has begun, @dc. What am I going to do?
A) buy the Steam key?
B) Send you my PS3 version?
Edit: Imma play Dark Souls for one hour and come back to see the answer.
@everyone else, my new computer arrived today. @greenius, the postie left it on my doorstep, even though no one was home :\
It looks very pretty, except for being dusty as hell. Took me almost an hour to clean up. I went to test it, and then remembered that I have no monitor. Forgivable mistake? 😛
PS3 version, it’s his preferred console! And he’d have to use a controller for the best way to play on PC (pretty sure he’s not a PC controller type-a guy)
Alternatively C) Send him Steam key, PS3 version and get Rize to send him his Xbox one as well.
EDIT to your EDIT:
Computer! 😀
DC. Makes. Decisions.
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What the shit? Who broke DC?
That’s MY job! 🙁
Edit: you okay man?
@dc we’re all just playing man, what’s up? 🙁
King. Of. Kings.
You know I was going to post “inb4 D.C. does the :S face” I KNOW YOU TOO WELL D:
And we all know D.C. doesn’t know what’s good for him!
You know how you could stop the stress?
Accept Dark Souls.
We won’t stop until you do.
Send him the PS3 copy and send me the Steam key! Everyone wins! (Except for you and everyone who isn’t me and D.C., I guess :P) EDIT (Maybe not even D.C. judging by his reply above :P)
I assume you have DC’s address, going by this? The only appropriate solution is to give the address to EVERYONE and have EVERYONE bombard DC with Dark Souls. I’d buy Dark Souls for that purpose!
…this reminds me, I should have probably played Darks Souls by now*.
*I’m not going to buy Dark Souls for myself, because it’ll just be added to the pile…
I’m the worst at reading! 😛
I have a novel, magazine, art book, graphic novel pile of shame so I’m not sure what picture you’re referring too but I assume you’d be doing it and using it as a reference pic? 😀
Nice! Show usssss (and show us your game stuff ;D)
Mmkay. Infomercial before and after shots it is!
Have you experimented much with colour yet? That’s the only thing I haven’t done and I have no idea how to colour stuff 😛
Not at all 😛 I’m taking this opportunity to play around and see what works.
Heh, I’ve been meaning to do that for a while but keep getting sidetracked and I’m lazy 😛
Lazius! 😛
@smurfydog
Lazydog hasn’t used his tablet for ages either!
@shane, I hope you havn’t brought the game yet, because I just got it for @dc ok?
So, uh, I just ground off the top of one of my fingers. It didn’t seem to hurt as much as you’d think but now the pain is making me want to vomit and my entire right arm is in agony.
Oh man! 🙁
Hope you’re OK.
You’re probably in shock. Sounds like a trip to hospital might be a good idea.
Don’t drive.
Yeah, hitchhike. Unless it’s your thumb that’s chopped… then you might freak out the drivers 😛
HOW ARE YOU TYPING THIS WITHOUT GETTING BLOOD ON YOUR PHONE/KEYBOARD??? 😛
Hope it’s not too serious though 🙁
Not good! 🙁
I see we have a new page so I’m going to go there in hopes that somewhere on there it says you’ve been treated and are going to be okay.
Holy shit man, sounds like you’re having a blast.
Uhmm, I’m assuming that’s a work-related injury (key-cutter or shoe-buffer or something)? ALL the compo.
Hope you’re able to get it checked out tonight/get some painkillers into you soon.
Is it because Gus and Walter finally face off against each other in an epic battle of wits for the ages?
I’m unhappy with the way my current photoshop shading is turning out. Anyone know any good tutorials?
Please?
It’s been years since I followed any PS turorials so I’m not really up to date.
I’m told these days you’re possibly better off using Illustrator. This from friends who produce some amazing artwork using it and made the transition in recent years.
I have no idea what their reasons are though.
So… helpius? \o/
I used illustrator for the background. I’m just having a lot of difficulty placing the light and getting the shading to blend well
I’ve just watched every episode of Penn and Teller Fool Us.
I should really learn some sleight of hand. Seems like the sort of thing that I should actually know.
What about that thing you do with the poker chips, ’cause that’s technically sleight of hand
Sleight of hand is something very different from my coin tricks. There’s no deception with the coins, it’s basically pen spinning.
Kinda related – My Dad loves card tricks but can’t actually do any.
Over the last few years I’ve made a point of learning a new card trick 3 or 4 times a year to impress Dad, then, as a sort of gift to him I teach it to him. We go over it several times and he practices it obsessively, but when it comes time for him to perform it for his mates, he always forgets some crucial point and gets it wrong!
That said, I only remember the tricks long enough to show and teach Dad, then quickly forget them myself. Maybe it’s genetic. :/
Maybe indeed.
I only really have one or two of them. Some basic trick shuffling and false choices.
Mine were all trick shuffling or mathematical. I forget the mathematical ones if I don’t do them for a few weeks. Which I don’t, because I only learn them for Dad.
I’m sad they cancelled season 2, it was an interesting show :(.
One of my favourite sleight act was the Canadian with the sealed deck. I think I stumbled across that clip randomly and it’s what led me to see the rest of the show. That black guy (Michael maybe?) who came on the show twice was really good too but not good enough to fool them I guess :P.
And then there’s Piff the Dragon 😀
The black guy doing the sleight of hand was my favourite. He wasn’t doing anything creative, just doing some incredibly smooth sleight of hand.
The Canadian with the sealed deck was a great trick though.
One of these days I’m going to make him tell me what his giftphobia is all about. And if he tries to say “Reasons” I’ll give him a gift. 😛
He just feels ‘gift guilt’ and how he’s taking and not giving (which isn’t true). We all feel it :'(
It’s a bad feeling.
D.Creeper., not sure why you’re acting surprised! But waaahhh?
Someone gifted me Dark Souls. Wouldn’t tell me who they were, even after repeated e-mails. Had to relieve gift guilt. Decided Strange was the best candidate, because she’s awesome!
Thank you too, whoever gifted Dark Souls!
Wait, what?! You have Dark Souls now? WHO DID THIS?
… I can’t decide whether to be happy about this or not :\
For future reference:
a) There are many more awesome people than me around here. And
b) If I give you something I’ll definitely let you know it was me!
Anyway,don’t be embarrassed. And don’t give me Ni No kuni. Because I don’t deserve it. This time. 😛
*hugasaurus*
Oh, you’re getting Ni No Kuni.
To make up for not getting Xenoblade! 😀 (From me, atleast.)
It. Is. Done.
(Don’t know your last name, so might of put Strange. XD)
If you know where I live why haven’t you visited yet? 😛
And it was probably Freeze who gave you Dark Souls….
But what about you and Ni no?! I was anticipating your thoughts! D:
@greenius: Haven’t started!
You didn’t even start it?! D:
I thought you mustn’t have liked it.
I can’t accept it. You should at least try it first. Everyone else is loving it!
I bought another copy for you!
You don’t think a $70 present is a bit of overkill retaliation for an anonymous $17 present? 😛
Yes, retaliation.
Christmas un-ruined! I’m still interested in your thoughts for Ni no Kuni AND Dark Souls. 🙂
I was tempted to give you mine if my Wizard’s Edition ever came.
EDIT: wait, what if you’re lying?!
STOP EDITING THINGS IT’S LIKE A SECRET CLUB I’M NOT ALLOWED IN I HATE SECRET CLUBS I’M NOT ALLOWED IN
No Pants’ Club.
NOTE: I don’t actually know how it happened. He stated on Page 12 that he’d lost the top of one of his fingers, and is in a fair amount of pain :S
I should really downvote myself for laughing at this!
Maybe I shouldn’t have thought up the title “Freezie got Fingered…”
But, seriously, I really hope he’s okay.
DADDY WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SAUSAGE, DADDY WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SAUS-A-GES
Freddy got Fingered is a weird film…
So, Ni No Kuni. I freaking love this game.
Story spoilers, 1-2 hours in.
Just beat the guardian in the woods, I wasn’t super sold on the battle mechanic until this battle. In a decent fight it holds up quite well.
I’m impressed by the mechanics so far. Looking forward to digging further into it with more familiars, to check the type mechanics etc.
In case you missed it there’s free DLC!
That golden glittery thing dropped and I picked it up. Tried to cast my spell and it got cancelled by the Guardian’s special move :(. I was sad…
I did the exact same thing! It wouldn’t let me change to defend. I guess you can’t after picking those up. 26 damage. Worst.
No idea, I assume it’ll be a later on thing but I’m still pretty early in the game (3 hours)
Tofu’s first 40 minutes with dark souls: I decided on going with a pyromancer character because the dude had an axe. After making my DC proxy I set forth from my cell murdering everything in my path … until I got up to chumba wumba past the first bonfire. I died horribly because I forgot to go see that guy who encourages my drinking problem by giving you the flask. After a few more deaths and then running back in to grab the few thousand souls I’d already accumulated, I saw a door over on the side and decided to flee.
After learning how to parry and change weapons I found my way back to the lumbering dragon/troll hybrid and tried to plot my move from the tiny balcony I was standing on … I didn’t know he could fly and he quickly murdered me for the fourth time. I end up beating him after 4 more deaths by developing the tactic of running away when he goes to hit me and we got a good rhythm going until I looted his corpse for his house keys. Oh joy, cutscene time! After getting control back at the first bonfire I decided to go talk to the knight dude there, I was listening intently and sneezed … unfortunately I also accidentally poked him with my axe, suddenly he decides that I simply don’t deserve to live and chases me all round the map. I get caught on a log and promptly die. No worries, I’ll just respawn and go on my merry way, like nothing happened … he was still angry and the chasing begins anew, I die once again and ponder the fragility of life. Lather rinse repeat for a few more times. After losing all my souls/humanity and most of my pride I turned off the game, kind of regretting saying that I would play this and then deciding that manuals and tutorials were beneath me.
Spoilered because blaghs told me to
Hahahaha.
I attacked that guy as well.
Also, you may wish to edit in spoiler tags, given we’re trying to avoid spoiling the game for someone.
EDIT: MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I HAVE POWER!
UNLIMITED POWER!
Yeah they will.
Edit: Wait, no. No they won’t.
Because it’s filled with puns. There are so many puns in there. I seriously can’t believe that Tofu was so punny. It’s an apuncalypse.
There were no puns! I AM NOT A PUNNY PERSON!
Aww you shouldn’t regret it!
As for attacking things, I’ve never randomly did it but I always hear people putting their controller down and accidentally hitting the trigger as they did so :P.
regret probably isn’t the right word, it felt good murdering all the things and the game doesn’t really coddle you … but I can see myself getting murdered by the most stupid stuff and losing a lot of progress.
Sure, why not
Ok, hmm.
Probably figured this one out but don’t punch anyone that does not punch you first cause for the most part there is no take-backsies.
Talk to everyone and go everywhere, can end up being important. And say yes to most questions.
Items and gear are a lot more important than levels.
There is never anything in barrels unless there is a corpse in it.
You can do a death-from-above.
You can back-stab.
Go up first.
You can only summon help or be invaded while human.
Maybesortof spoiler:
Crow nest.
More info:
Do not go into the depths without these things: moss, purging stone and a rusted ring. One of which can be found by solving the riddle of the crow’s nest.
Otherwise you will have a bad time.
And you can roll onto barrels to destroy them.
Dark Souls \o/
Points for doing it without looking anything up, I’ll admit I wiki’d the hell out of it.
Uh with that dude you may have to either kill him or restart 🙁
Xcom update
The following soldiers have performed admirably, in decending order of awesomeness.
Chuloopa ‘Bonus’ Support Medic and highest kill count
Aleph ‘Prototype’ Heavy gunner and currently only magician.
Numbers ‘Deadbolt’ Sniper
Doc What ‘Hulk’ Secound Heavy Gunner and token black guy
Tigerion ‘Wardog’ Recently promoted to secound assault.
Recently recruited cause I only just saw his post
Nova ‘Crash’ Also a Heavy Gunner
The fallen. (In increasing devestation of loss)
Shane – Died on his first mission. No kills.
Freeze – Died on third mission. One Kill
D.C – D.Ceased Survived three trips to the hospital. Died fouth mission. One Kill.
Tech Knight – Died third mission. Four Kills. Went down under assault from three Mutons.
Tofu ‘Duke’ Original first assault, shotgun ace. Died on fifthteenth mission, alone and surrounded on all sides. 14 Kills, and a legacy for all assault troops to aspire too.
@mythamphetamine @dc @tofu @chuloopa @lucifer9783 @freezespreston @tigerion @shane @doc_what @tech_knight @novacascade
If you need any more recruits I’m happy to get M/C’ed mid-mission and shoot someone in the back of the head.
Well, I am a pacifist and conscientious objector. I died with clean hands. It was a good death, I’m sure.
I am a bit upset to be your least devastating loss, though.
Loops and I shall avenge your death, or die trying.
Or something. I’m likely to hide in the corner and push Loops into the crossfire, but hey.
Hey your one of only two people with a Plasma weapon. And you have a lazor pistol and a grappling hook. Only one with any of those.
If you want easy mode just name someone Greenius. I may or may not shoot the back of Aleph’s head though.
Guys guys guys!
Check out Gizmodos article on Lego riddles!
I really enjoyed going through and trying to answer them, I got 35 all up! (whether they’re correct or not is a different story, but pfft, who cares?)
Just started Walking Dead season 3
My god, Rick and Lori are bad parents. They seem utterly incapable of being in the same room as their son. “Where’s Carl?” is like the catchphrase of the show. So. Damn. Bad.
I like Carl more now in season 3. He’s a bit of a badass for his age. Still hate Lori though.
I really like how hard Rick is now. How he’s lost that hesitation when it comes to screwing over other survivors. It’s terrible to watch, but compelling. I can see this mattering down the line if/when they actually find entrenched survivors somewhere.
Mr. Editor here gettin’ craycray ‘cos some punk be gettin’ all up in his grill an’ cuttin’ his grass.
Chicken and mahfuggin’ gravy.
It needs some touching up, and I’m dead tired right now and wasn’t very careful, but here’s the outline I drew of Issun! Sorry it took so long Greenius, I needed a break from the computer so went to watch tv for a couple of hours.
Not sure why you’re apologising! It looks good man :D, how long did that take and was that using that Vector line thing?
Can’t wait for the “after” in colour 🙂
Thanks 🙂 Yeah it’s vector art, and it took around 45-60 minutes including a bit of experimenting which didn’t work out.
The colouring will be interesting! I haven’t gotten much of a grasp on working with colours in Corel Draw yet so it’s anyones guess how it turns out.
I appear to have hit a bit of a snag. It keeps outlining all my lines and I have no idea how to stop it doing that. I’ll have to wait for my brother to stop watching whatever he’s watching to help me fix it!
I’m not sure what you’re talking about! 😀
Ctrl + D is deselect in Photoshop (I think?) so maybe that’ll work? I think Alt (or was it Ctrl?) and that wand thing in Photoshop lets you deselect specific areas too. Yeah, I’m terrible at Photoshop 😛 haha!
Aha it’s okay, he showed me how to fix it and also showed me how to colour things! I’m going to bed now so I’ll colour it when I get up.
NO FAIR! You get outside help 🙁
@scree, I’ve got my replacement RAM en route via International Priority Mail. Which means that soon, I’ll be able to send you the ones I’m removing. Hopefully in a week, certainly within two. Will keep you up to date with developments as they arise.
Thank you! There is no rush. While I”m not using photoshop/illustrator it will give me time to sew =3
http://imgur.com/Sh53tWJ
First time drawing the Human Kite from South Park.
Used a reference pic, and I’m happy with how it turned out. 🙂
Had a local multiplayer night tonight (which is pretty rare for me these days). Played Portal 2 co-op with a friend and had a bucketload of fun. That game becomes so much more fun/easy when you can actually talk it out.
We originally planned to fire up the Wii (not a euphemism), but the controllers were stuffing up. Dammit, Nintendo.
TL;DR: I wasted a night by not playing Ni no Kuni.
(And missed a lot of juicy TAYdrama, apparently!)
Have you played co-op before? A friend and I did local with both of us finishing the main game but not touching co-op, it’s great to talk and try to co-ordinate the puzzles in person. I assume it’ll be pretty hard if you just used the in-game prompts online with a random.
With a random? Don’t bother. With a friend? Hilarity. It makes you feel both idiotic and far superior to your partner.
For bonus points, add alcohol.
VITABROS:
Just watched the second Tearaway trailer and it looks as awesome as ever! It and SPINE SWORD are the only two games I’m looking forward to (unless Muramasa adds new content).
Anything else I should be looking out for? I ask this question a lot but it seems like there’s been a bunch of new Vita stuff happening lately but I only watched the trailer for Tearaway and read about the SPINE SWORD pre-order bonuses.
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Zavvi changed the order from “Payment Problem” to processing but they won’t respond to anything saying whether the Wizard’s Edition will ship or not. They’ve said Ni no Kuni will ship shortly but not what edition.
They only seem to be replying to really angry people and I’ve been calm about it without threats 😛
@shads
Xseed confirmed earlier Valhalla Knights 3 and Ys IV: Memories of Celceta are both getting localized for Vita if that has any interest (I’m absolutely getting Ys)
Never played Ys but it looked interesting. Any news on TitS (hehe)? Wasn’t there going to be the sequel or something?
I should do a primer on Ys some time. They’re really solid action games, especially Ark of Napishtim onward where they expanded the mechanics quite a bit. Probably best way to experience it is Oath in Felghana (remake of Ys III: Wanders from Ys in the new style). The Ys I&II on PSP and coming to Steam still uses the original series gameplay where you basically run your dude into other dudes. It’s fun but doesn’t have the strategy element. Ys Origin is probably the best of them but it’s not as representative of the core series. Chronologically the series goes:
– Ys Origin (English on Steam)
– Ys I & II (English on PSP/PSN, coming to Steam)
– Ys: Memories of Celceta (English coming to Vita, remake of Ys IV)
– Ys: Oath in Felghana (English on PSP/PSN, Steam, remake of Ys III)
– Ys V: Kefin, Sea of Sand (not in English)
– Ys: Ark of Napishtim (English on PS2, PSP, not sure if it’s on PSN though)
– Ys Seven (English on PSP/PSN)
As for the Kiseki/Trails series, Trails in the Sky is a trilogy and the games are enormous so they’re expensive to localize for a small company that sells at low volume the way XSeed does. So I think they’ve said they really want to but with the PSP dead they’re really worried about the risk and probably can’t afford it. If it happens, Sora no Kiseki / Trails in the Sky would probably have to end up PC ported or Vita ported before we got Second and Third chapters. After that there’s a pair of games in the same setting set years later, Ao no Kiseki and Zero no Kiseki. Zero has a Vita port and Ao probably will too, but it’d suck to get those ahead of the rest of TitS.
Falcom’s doing a new Kiseki game on PS3 and Vita this year (Sen no Kiseki / Trails of the Flash? (potentially bad translation)) that looks amazing, and I’d think if there’s any of them that will get localized, that’s where Xseed would spend the most effort and have the most potential in the west. So I’d say if we get any Trails game in the next 18 months or so it’d be this one.
Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits might rival Bowie’s Space Oddity as the most perfect song evah.
Hotel California – The Eagles.
Sorry man, I just can’t agree with you on this /o\
This guy gets it.
I have it on vinyl. Best. Man, I need to bust out my vinyl collection now.
I’M NOT OLD, YOU ARE.
Yeah I’m old now, no longer a youthful teen :'(
I have a single Vinyl and have no idea what to do with it…
Oldius!
Everyone in my family keeps reminding me I’m almost 30 now and I should do this and that (especially bad as my little bro’s wedding is approaching and I am not in a long-term relationship like I ‘should be’)
Also, throw the vinyl at someone like in Shaun of the Dead!
Anyways, I’m going to try and lose consciousness for a while. Fingers crossed for no dreams!
@dc
I feel kind of bad because the more I think about it, the more it seems like we were bullying you today. I’m sorry for my part in all the turmoil you went through today. And I wish you hadn’t bought me a game because now I’ve profited from your discomfort. I’ll make it up to you somehow.
And the whole thing came about through good intentions. We really think you would enjoy the game, but I’m pretty sure we went about the whole thing the wrong way. :S
Not at all. Don’t feel bad. You guys are awesome. There’s nothing to make up for.
You’re my friend and sometimes it’s good randomly doing nice things for your friends. (Something that makes me anxious when people direct gifts at me… for reasons… :P) Friends also joke around and tease and the like. Something that comes with familiarity. A good thing! I hope no one here ever feels bad about any thing related to me. I’ve got my own demons unrelated to TAY and that just happens to bleed into here for whatever reason. When that happens know that it has nothing to do with you guys. And don’t hesitate to tell me to shut up. Haha!
You guys are so damn kind and good and the best damn folk I’ve ever encountered
Man, that was a rambling paragraph right there! Haha!
I know it’d be easy enough to write someone like me off too. I appreciate that you guys care. :’)
You should do something nice for him, but something that doesn’t cost anything as that could make him uncomfortable.
Maybe suggest a game he would like or something
Those posts better not be deleted when I’m gone! People need perspective and at least some reasoning as to what happened :).
I do not regret bullying you.
ok I do but you’ll like Dark Souls, just don’t play it yet – after Ni no Kuni 😀
So are most of the TAYbies (namely those I usually play GAEMS with, those on TS) getting Colonial Marines on PS3 or PC? I don’t care about xbox as mine has been in the cupboard for ages. I don’t want to have get both PC and PS3 but SO HELP ME GOD I MIGHT.
Collectors on PC, PS3 standard, eyyyy?
Also, only one more shift in the control room then it’s prison time. I get my new uniform on Monday if everything is in stock.
I like the look of it and will probably get it on PC at some stage
Will not be a launch purchase for me, my pile is to large so if I buy at launch it usually has had a price drop before I get around to playing it
I thought about staying up the whole night then started yawning a second later. Old man masha 🙂
If I was an old man, yelling would probably be too much work. Maybe I’d just put a fence around my lawn. Or tigers. Depends really 🙂
Twitter website keeps telling me it’s over capacity and I’m not allowed in :'(
Worst page get. So now I will say something else.
I am going to go shooting again soon. If I don’t have my beard I NEED to go shooting instead.
Boring rant about me sleeping too much and being sick.
Also, I was feeling sick when I got home from work. I ended up sleeping from like… 8:30am to 12:30pm, then 1:30pm to 4pm and then 4:30pm to 8pm or something. That’s triple what I normally sleep. Still feel sick though! Feel like there is a knife in my temple, making me see spots and I can’t taste anything, not even delicious, delicious HP sauce or potato and leek soup.
I’m having too much fun with this at the moment.
I just realised you can play 2 or more sound clips at the same time and the mash ups are awesome.
I tried Lionk King +Giggity and Sherlock BBC + James Bond so far 🙂
Ha ha Rock lobster goes well with the james bond theme as well.
Somebody also added ‘scotty doesn’t know’ from Eurotrip. Ha ha, man, it has been a while since I watched that film.
The main problem with the site is some of the sound clips take a while to load though
Edit: I initially though Scotty doesn’t know was from American Pie but F4ction reminded me it was from Eurotrip so I changed it. 🙂
You guys are tough to keep up with! 10 pages in 2 days?!
Back in my day, we only had two pages of TAY, and we were HAPPY about it!
Old man Tad.
Onward and upward. By this time next year, we’ll be doing thirty pages a day and lamenting the quiet old days of 5000 comment weeks 😛
Then we can keep the acronym TAY, but change the name to “Twitter/Tweet Amongst Yourselves”!
It’s not really that hard. Just jump to the last page and ignore all the others! It’s what I do! 😛
So, I bought The Walking Dead because it’s on sale on Steam for $12.49 at the moment. I’ll be waiting until tonight to download it when it’s on off peak time, but I might post my adventures here. Late to the party, I know, but I’m more of a console gamer.
\o/ You won’t regret it. 2012 GOTY.
I’m happy to discuss your adventures with you as you have them!
Great, so there is an update to the system we use to mange Trusts/Estates
Problem is, me and my little sector cannot use it until we get an all clear
I don’t mind slacking off, but I prefer it to be when I am at home, on a day off work!
Not when I am at work, stuck here doing nothing
It feels like it man
I have some paperwork I can physically file, and then bam, not a lot can be done until they tell us it is all good
And there are a lot of trusts man, a lot of trusts they have to change the branch reference for
So how bout that Ni No Kuni? AMIRIGHT?
Just finished the first town area place
EARLY SPOILERS
I beat the rat king and got a real wand also got my second familiar! I’m loving the secondary quest system.
One problem I have with the game is there is no “reload” option when you die. There’s only a continue (which makes you lose 10% of your monies!) or return to title screen.
How early?! I’ve only played about 2 hours so I don’t want to click your spoilers.
I just stayed the night at the cat lady’s inn. Further or not?
Yeah further then that. Although the second spoiler isn’t really spoilerey. Just me saying something that bugs me about the game.
Just be sure not to click in the first button. Not a huge spoiler but still a spoiler nonetheless.
I’ll leave them both alone. Thanks.
Not reading your poilers cos Im still in town (questing has never been so fun as when Im walking around a painting!) But ues, yes, AWESOMES!
SPAGHETT’s LAST SONG PLAYED GAME (@markserrels, It usually involves some capital letters, for future reference 😉 )
Walking Shade by Billy Corgan
This is a song from his solo album, after the Pumpkins split up, and after the one Zwan album
He did a solo album, critics didn’t love it, and I can’t speak for other fans
But I loved it
Hell, its Billy Corgan, the man is damnably talented
Dare by Stan Bush
Nothing like Transformers (THE REAL TRANSFORMERS MOVIE!!!) album to get you pumped for the day.
Downvote for your insinuation that the Michael Bay Transformers movies are somehow not legit. 😛
An inordinate amount of Skyrim music coupled with a perfectly appropriate amount of Skyrim gameplay.
Still waiting on GotY version.
Within Temptation – What Have You Done Now.
Not my favourite of theirs but still a good song
All your answers would wanna be http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/02/01/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e16-future-love-dental-hygienists/ in about an hour.
Still looking for a place to rent 🙁
Still have my ps3 in storage 🙁
Still havent played Ni No Kuni :'(
I walked into eb games, just to pick it up and hold it. FML
I’m the man who sees you when you’re sleeping.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzeqs4Ql4b1r09u21o1_500.jpg
NIGHTMARES
I HAVEN EVEN WATCHED DJANGO YET! :'(
p.s. Does anyone in bris want to see it? Deecee???
HOW HAVE YOU NOT WATCHED DJANGO YET?!
Please take @dc, I really want to hear what he thinks of it.
To be honest, it doesn’t look like my kind of movie at all. I would totally otherwise, though. :S (Should also get through Pulp Fiction in my DVR first. :D)
Any other movie and I’d be there! (Within reason! :P)
@POWALEN LOVED IT** thanks for noticing the mistake!
Have a look DC, it’s pretty good. Here’s my thoughts on it:
http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/the-d-is-silent-thoughts-on-django-unchained/
Walton Goggins \o/
He pops up everywhere these days. Good on him!
Been super tired lately – mostly self inflicted by going to bed too late for the last week.
So lat night, went to bed early, got probably 8 hours sleep and today I feel more tired than I have for the last week.
Fuck I hate sleep. Seriously, I’d be happier without it. It’s such an obligation.
Same here, sleep is such a waste of my time
Admittedly I would be gaming or whatever if I was awake
But I am in control of those hours
When you sleep you just, are asleep
And an indeterminate amount of time passes, and nothing happens
This. I don’t have difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, it just feels like such a waste of time. I know, it’s necessary, and you can’t deny the awesome feeling after a good night’s sleep – but that’s beside the point.
It’s a period of 6-7 hours of everyday I don’t get to do anything. I’m fucking unconscious. I could be burning through my pile of shame, or reading a book. I could be doing so many other things.
I hate going to bed every night, because it symbolises the day is done, and you’re conceding. 5 out of 7 days a week, you wake up and then get to go to work.
It’s shit.
It’s horribly shit
I am in bed at 11, and up at 5 am
I don’t want to sleep
Last night my girlfriend was over, and she is still at my house
I had to wake up when my alarm went off, and leave her
I wish I had called in sick….that or dead
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/02/chivalry-medieval-warfare-gets-a-beefy-free-update
Just in case you haven’t heard the good news. 😀
Finally started getting back into Skyrim, and currently working my way through Dawnguard. So far I’m fairly impressed by it, but Gameplay Spoilers
transforming into a vampire lord is so brutally unfair to any enemy I come across. I’m only using it if I get dragged into a fight I can’t stealth and fire a few arrows to get out of, but unless the enemy is using fire they’ve got no chance.
Eventually I’ll join the Dawnguard as another character and see how they go.
Yeah, I’ve decided to start Skyrim for scratch again, go a different race this time, and play through it in anticipation for Dragonborn being released soon.
Hey so freeze tells me theres a shindig this saturday night on the gold coast? Could someone link or share with me tge deets? Im on kotaku mobileand reaaaally dont have the patience for it >:(
From the desk of @novacascade:
Golden Nova Meat (or The “Nova Ditching His Real Life Friends To Hang Out With Internet Friends… Its Just One Night Ok? I’m Not A Bad Person” Meat)
Who: Me 😀 and whoever else wants to be there
When: Saturday 2nd Feb
Where: Hard Rock Cafe, Surfers Paradise
Why: First time I’ve been to QLD in a long time, so I intend to take advantage
What: A Scotish Doctor
How: Drive, Walk, Bus, Train, Fly, Swim, Teleport, Ride on the back of a Velociraptor, TARDIS, Whatever
Long story short, I’m going on holiday to the Gold Coast for a couple of weeks with some friends, and have set aside a night to have a meat while the girls go out shopping (or whatever it is they do :P). When I made mention a while ago, the Hard Rock Cafe was put forward as an option for dinner, and since I’ve never been to one I decided to go with it. I’ve been told there’s a Timezone nearby as well, for all your gamey goodness.
Express your interest (or not) below and/or twitter me and/or email me at jones(underscore)11(underscore)is(at)hotmail(dot)com
Forwarded you Nova’s e-mail too.
@NovaCascade: @SerNobulus @FreezeSPreston @danfortheages Some time mid afternoon. 3-4 ish if that suits everyone. Decisions arent my strong point
It really is a fantastic game you should really get a move on with your PS3, a little on the easy side but hopefully it picks up.
Bank Account looks at me with sad whimpering eyes
Spaghett uses Purchase a PS3
Purchase a PS3 misses
Bank Account runs away
A friend is over 9 hours in and said it gets pretty difficult. Either that or he’s just shit 😛
The demo had two sections, a really easy level five section and a crazy hard level 18 boss. Not sure if it’s cause you just go from one to the other without hours of gameplay in between, but seemed pretty difficult!
Yeah, I’m about 4 hours in and around level 9 so the level 18 stuff must be quite a bit ahead.
I’m going to sit in front of the PS3 and Ni No Kuni it up all day.
Also thanks anonymous Dark Souls purchaser. You’re awesome!
Aw man. You’re going to get further than me and I’ll have to avoid your spoilers too. I have to know what’s hidden behind the spoiler buttons!
@shane
Way to play Shaneball while playing with Shane’s Balls (Patent Pending, Copyright 2099)
I say Anon was Shane
He said he was playing Hardball by threatening you with a purchase of Dark Souls if you didn’t comply with your address
I said he was playing Shaneball
Nah, wasn’t me, man. I was as surprised and devastated as anyone. If anything, @dc is making this up so we stop harrassing him 😛
Ooooo, sneaky tactic by the crafty hermit we know and love
Yeah, the following mental breakdown was just for show! 😛
So.. Shane touched himself while thinking of D.C.?
…
D:
:S
So that’s a no..?
Or it’s my sex face 😛
Not anymore! Because greenius broke it!
Ugh, DreamBreakius
Right.
Not even when you’re bored, just play Dark Souls.
All the time.
Dark.
Souls.
Darksouls
Alright, Ni No Kuni. Must force myself to close TAY window. If any one needs me: e-mail, twitter, text. Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
Damn it DC!
I can’t text you I dunno your number
Besides, they would be inane text messages
Probably involving shenanigans and heroin
Thanks @rize and @tigerion for the fun W40k: Space Marine shenanigans yesterday evening. I never want to stop playing Assault, so much jumping and axe swinging, chopping and stomping xD
Did they ever add a local search for servers? That was my only gripe with that game.
Dangit I might have to jump back in to some spesh marine again soon 🙂
Not that I can see, I never got into the multiplayer cuz I hate a non-dedicated server multiplayer system for a PC game. I went through that garbage with CoD:MW2, never played CoD again since Black Ops was also a disaster
We did exterminatus through a party so Tigs was hosting I guess
Been a long time since I’d played it, and took a while to get back in to the swing of things.
God damn I love jumping into a massive of Orks with a thunder hammer.
You were cleaning up, despite the ping issue. It seemed like the netcode for Ausssie-based hosting is horrid. My ping is fine, since I’m literally a half hour drive away from Tigs’ house.
Yeah, I’ve never bothered looking in to it but I always heard people claiming it has really large netcode problems. Shame really, cause multi would be awesome, but even playing with friends in the same town lagged horribly.
If it scaled like a BF3 map with vehicles included, I’d play that till I drop every night 😛
We ran a 2 assault 1 devastator team. Me and Rize were chopping them up jumping all over the place while TIgs mowed them all down at range. It worked up until the beserk orks with dual axes came at us, it was brutal. That and I kept jumping into the fricken squigs all the time, gah!
Really didn’t help when I spawned into a group of about 8 of the berserkers
But that was fun, we will have to give it another go sometime soon
Has anyone heard from @freezespreston since last night? It’s a little concerning he hasn’t checked back in.
I heard from him a few hours later. Said it was still bleeding and hurt a whole damn lot, but only a few milimetres deep, enough to regrow properly hopefully. Hope you’re alright, man!
So, uh, I just ground off the top of one of my fingers. It didn’t seem to hurt as much as you’d think but now the pain is making me want to vomit and my entire right arm is in agony.
Nasty!
Ermahgerd D:
I was about to ask the same thing!
Thanks for the update,DC. I really hope it heals quickly. Sounds nasty. 🙁
Speaking of under appreciated genius.
I think some more Torchlight 2 this weekend
And Omerta: City of Gangsters
No PS3 yet
Yet….
As mind blowing as me fighting a small dog?
So apparently the relief position (higher duties) I was doing for the last 3 months ended last week. Funnily enough my supervisor (of my normal position) and I were the last to know.
Now I probably need to go explain to the area manager why in booking time to a job that I am no longer allocated to … shit.
Good luck, man. At least you have the “it’s not my fault. YOU didn’t tell me” argument.
My recommendation: blame them before they even get a word out.
Pleading ignorance never works.
Clearly your workplace has higher standards of competence than most.
It’s just the finance department. Have to make themselves justified by making life difficult for everyone.
Clearly not a public servant.
Perhaps your supervisor should explain that.
That person is called a supervisor for a reason, it is their responsibility to pass this info on to you so you can do your job.
@strange, what’s happened to my Dark Souls? When I finally cracked open my 360 PTD version yesterday, it said “Victory Achieved” 🙁
I have never played a “You Defeated” version of the game, and I’m getting quite sad about it.
Maybe you need to patch it? If I recall correctly you rarely connect your 360 to the internet so the “You Defeated” update may be in a patch that was released post-PTD.
It’s permanently connected now – I bought a wireless adapter about three months back.
It downloaded a 2MB patch before it would let me play. Maybe that undid it 🙁
New plan: Defeat boss, close eyes, scream “YOU DEFEATED” then open eyes and continue playing.
For the record, when I last played (before yesterday) it was around a year ago and it was “Victory Achieved”.
On the weekend I bought and installed the Artorias of The Abyss DLC on my PS3.
Yesterday I put the game in and had to download 200mb of updates.
I then started the game and when I took down the first boss it came up “You Defeated”.
Your copy is up to date, and PTD edition comes with Artorias so the only real difference is platform.
When I beat the Taurus Demon the other day (my proudest accomplishment ever) it came up as YOU DEFEATED. Also playing on PS3 here!
Aww man, that guy beat me yesterday. He jumped up just as I was jumping down so instead of landing on him I went splat. 😛
I not gonna say its the only reason I play it on PC but its definitely a big reason!
I should pre-order the Tomb Raider Collector’s Edition. Then the action figure that comes with that could sit on my desk and chat with my Tomb Raider Anniversary figure about all sorts of girly things, like dirt and grime proof makeup and the latest archaeological fashion trends!
I think my Anniversary fig gets bored listening to my Shogun fig talking in Japanese all the time…
😛
In which we insult flood victims, plan future relationships and discuss getting in the ring with wild animals.
LISTEN, CHAT TO YOUR RL PALS RE: ZEITGEIST, SEND ZEITGEIST AS A GAG PRESENT VIA iTUNES!
Dear DAN!,
I would very much like to listen to the latest episode of your no doubt family-friendly podcast, but unfortunately episodes don’t show up on iTunes on my phone for some undetermined period of time after you announce them here. This displeases me greatly as I want you inside my ear-holes.
Kind regards,
BDKIAF
Yo BDKIAF,
Firstly, I totally know what your name stands for and hope to one day confirm it is accurate.
Unfortunately iTunes usually takes a bit to process our feed so we’re at the mercy of their monkeys. Trust me, if I could give out sloppy favours (nahmsayin?) to speed things up for you, and only you, I’d do it. But, the Return of The Jedi style ghost of Steve Jobs is a busy force ghost, no doubt peering at chicks nekkid and knocking shit over at Bill Gates’ house, so be patient and we’ll pleasure you aurally asap.
Yours in hotness,
Dan
Dear DAN!,
Firstly, ;).
This is upsetting, though expected news. If you could direct those sloppy favours this way that would be excellent. We can rub beards while I wait for Zeitgeist to appear on iTunes.
My facial hair quivers in anticipation,
BDKIAF
Zavvi update:
Order changed to Despatched :D. They even gave a tracking number but it doesn’t show anything (yet). I’ll give it 3 weeks before I get worried…
@shads
Awesome news man! Now you’ll have a copy of the game going begging.
PS: I don’t want it. My PS3 is near kaputsky.
That’s assuming the Wizard’s Edition actually shipped and I get it 😛
They actually put over 200 copies on eBay yesterday (for ~68 pounds ~$100) but it sold out within a couple of hours. Let’s hope that means they did have stock in the first place 😛
Just like in the Americas…
I think the cancelling was an error. Apparently it’s happened before with other things and just seems unfortunate that it happened with Ni no Kuni’s Wizard’s Edition since the same thing happened in the US.
…Unless they actually did cancel orders and that would suck :/. People were saying they had the same “Payment Problem” but those that had it cancelled also pre-ordered it late. I figured it might’ve been a stock issue but hmm… I hope everyone gets it sorted out!
I didn’t have a chance to play it yet – I want to finish Xenoblade first since I started it and I’m liking it heaps and I suspect it’ll turn out to be more my sort of game as I’m not really into the magical whimsy kind of JRPG – but the book with the Wizard’s Edition was worth the price of admission alone. Fucking amazing.
I like how you like Xenoblade after being all “nawwwww” :D. Ni no Kuni is good but nothing special as a JRPG so far. I just love how pretty the whole damn thing is! Sidequests are done really well too.
I like Xenoblade’s story and setting. The combat is okay. The goddamn grinding search points to do daft MMO fetch quests is terrible.
Yeah, the side quest variety and tasks are pretty mundane in Xenoblade and there’s lots of them. At least most of them are just sort of “do it on the way” kind of quests.
The sidequests themselves aren’t anything special in Ni no Kuni, but the way they handle them is really good. No story spoilers but I just describe how the system works, if you want it to be a surprise then just ignore it. There’s a stamp card and each sidequests you complete gives you a certain number of stamps. Once you complete the card you get a Merit point and you can trade that in for some gameplay bonuses like the ability to jump, run quicker on the world map, make it more likely to find items etc. – just sort of passive bonuses. I’m still really early in the game so there’s only a few rewards available/shown but I can see the late-game rewards being really good.
They also have a nice journal of all the side quests and also ones that you haven’t accepted yet. They’ll also appear on the map so it’s much easier to find ones and complete them. Just makes the whole thing a whole lot easier. You still have to hand most of them in though (unlike Xenoblade)
The problem is the stuff that you can’t do ‘on the way there’ because either the level design is shite (Makna forest) or more likely, the drop rate on some item you have to get a million of is terrible. 🙁
I’m actually half tempted now that I’ve outleveled the current zone to drop my healer and use 3 DPS for added grinding speed.
For me it is because I need to deploy code tonight so starting my main job of the day sometime around 5:30-6:00pm
Cheer up Crazyguy!
Spags is hungry!
He is also sleepy, bashful, grumpy and a Doctor
Cheer up man, play some games and kill some pixels violently!
Eat some tasty foods
Listen to some good tunes
And watch a favourite show
Or, if at work, soldier on brother
Ah, just finished seven years worth of studying at uni yesterday. I’m looking forward to spending some time on Ni No Kuni! So far I have put in a total of 2 minutes!
Nice work! Ni No Kuni is obviously the next step, but what comes after that?
EDIT: This is my 13000th comment.
Holding out for 4. Hoping for online multi
3 Ultimate has online multi! (on Wii U :P)
Yeh that would be awesome. Has a localised version been announced yet?
Nope, early days yet though. Still waiting on my Bravely Default Flying Fairy localisation announcement.
Did you read my post? I wasn’t upset and we hope you weren’t either but good to see you’re back 🙂
I read that as Feb 2020 and was slightly confused. Will this be the generation that I actually buy a console. Based on past experience I doubt it but who knows.
Haven’t seen much of the new consoles or what is coming, should probably look at that sometime
Is it actually confirmed they are talking about the PS4? If so, HYPE! If not, STILL KINDA HYPE.
I may even watch the Microsoft E3 presentation this year if they’re announcing their console (normally I don’t bother because I don’t own a 360 :P)
YOU GOT ONE JOB SONY
DON’T FUCK IT UP MAN I SWEAR IF YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT A VITA GO OR SOME SHIT
ONE JOB.
If it turns out to be them talking about the future of the Vita I’d be okay with it.
But even the WSJ is reporting that PS4 is about to be announced, and there have been rumblings about an early reveal for one or both of Sony and Microsoft as well. Capitalize on Nintendo’s tepid reception for the Wii U and try to screw down some of the building hype around Android stuff like Ouya and the whole Gabe Newell cult-of-personality Steambox stuff too.
TAY fills up so fast that while I quickly skim thru the last page a new last page appears.
Awesesomes
Spaghett’s victory
I asked, openly and loud enough “Alright, who is willing to or wants to stay and answer the phone until 5 O’clock today”
Friday is the shared day as we do not have a fifth staff member in our little sector
Luckily, as the manager of my sector got in a tad later than usual, she took it upon herself to stay late
Needless to say, Spaghett get’s to get home at 6:40 instead of 7:40
That hour makes all the difference
Especially on a Friday
Repost from twitter:
Attn: Sydney people & whoever else may be around 23rd Feb: Mojo’s. Who’s keen?
Maybe Bavarian too if people are interested.
Bavarian Bier Cafe is literally across from my work, but this may be referencing a different one somewhere else in Sydney
I am interested however
Thanks 🙂
I wanna meet @35 and you too @tigerion
Yup, it isn’t the Bier Cafe on O’Connell Street, noted
Well come to Melbourne then 😉
Otherwise your next best chance will be the Theme park meat on the 3rd of March which I am hoping to make. Who else is going to that one?
Hmmm, you are in Melbourne?
Damn
Pshh, the trips aren’t that expensive. If you have someone to split fuel with, they become even cheaper!
I finally feel like I’m part of a group! Am I one of the cool kids now?
You’ve always been one of the cool kids.
Ha!
Oh Blaghs, you were always one of the cool kids!
Rize and @alexpants
Oh, you guys. *blushes*
No. And you never will be.
Lesser-than-three.
Hmm, that’s on my birthday, it would certainly give me a good excuse to get away from the family.
Plus Bavarian Bier Cafe \o/
RE-POST
In which we insult flood victims, plan future relationships and discuss getting in the ring with wild animals.
LISTEN, CHAT TO YOUR RL PALS RE: ZEITGEIST, SEND ZEITGEIST AS A GAG PRESENT VIA iTUNES
Interview on TV this morning with Bruce Willis about A Good Day To Die Hard.
Interviewer: So tell us what we can expect from it? Bruce: Well, uh, it has explosions, and, um, fire, and, er, there’s a, uh, nuclear threat.
Sounds promising!
Bruce Willis+explosions+terrorists+one liners=Die Hard. Seems to meet requirements.
I’m so sold on this.
Have not been too excited for MGR Revangananagnagangace, and after playing the demo, am still strangely unexcited.
It looks amazing, which is refreshing, seen far too many grainy, jagged, shitty looking PS3 games the last year or two. But for all his cyborg-badness, Raiden never really struck any chords with me at all.
The gameplay (yes I’m aware it’s a demo and may change) felt uninspired. I mean the game seems to be sold on the ‘cut anything’ premise, but how far will that novelty go? Anyone who’s played Afro Samurai will find this gameplay concept very familiar.
I’m an MGS fanboy, to be sure, but I’m not disinterested because it’s not a stealth game or ‘true’ MGS title. It just feels kind of uninspired to me is all.
This is very true. I haven’t given up all hope, and the hype train will probably run me over when it releases. Then TAY marketing machine will drive me to the hospital and force me to buy a copy at gunpoint on the way,
My prior experience with Platinum games is a lot of why I’m not interested despite them making a MGS game I should actually be interested in.
‘Sup dude and dudettes???
Oh man, you guys wouldnt believe the day i had yesterday…
I woke up in the middle of nowhere in a forest, so i decided I’d pick a direction and head down in a straight line hoping to find a nearby town or something… anyway, i got to a road, so once again i picked a direction and followed the road… i tried to keep a bit of distance between me and the road to avoid being seen.
i walked over a small hill and i saw a barn. i decided to drop flat on the ground and creep slowly through the open door. I passed through several people literally within inches. They were behaving rather odd, hence why i was avoiding them….
i entered the barn and climbed up a staircase where i found an old rifle and a heap of ammo. I armed myself and slowly made my way out of the barn. I was spotted. Unable to quickly switch to my axe due to the lack of a quick swap skillset, i fired. The thing was down… then they came at me…. hordes and hordes of them… i lose them after running for my life for about 10 minutes. I jumped a fence, which they were evidently unable to scale.
Ahead there is a house… i run towards the house… i close the doors. Creatures are banging on the windows… but im in a safe zone. nothing can hurt me now… but they are evolving…
They have developed abilities beyond my comprehension. They start to walk through the walls… about 10 of them… injured and unable to fight them all off, i head for the door. the door jams. my vision flashes blue, black, then a sunny yellow colour… within 3 seconds, i am free-falling from a height of about 1km in the sky… i can see the whole world from here… its beautiful….
SPLAT. DAMN BUGGY MOD.
DAY-Z Survival Diary… – Revenge of the buggy mod
Has anyone played The Witcher 2? http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings-enhanced-edition-game-xbox-360 It’s $25 on ozgameshop at the moment, and I always planned to consider it if it ever dropped below $30.
It’d make my comp melt, but when I eventually upgrade I will. Once I finish the first one.
It’s supposed to be amazing. The Witcher’s never appealed to me, though. Looking forward to Cyberpunk!
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/pc-games/the-witcher-2-version-2/658879
$24 at any JB if on PC.
Took a look at bank. Can’t afford it now.
Ah well, guess it won’t be going up in price anytime soon.
Thanks everyone 🙂
$24 at jb hifi pc/360/ps3
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/pc-games/the-witcher-2-version-2/658879
Hmm I could have sworn yesterday when I went in…. Ah we’ll, master race pros and all that!!!
I started it. I also got it cheaper than that butI can’t remember where.
But yes,I started it and it looked awesome but complicated. I’ll get back to it soon.
Got past the demo section of Ni No Kuni! Really, really liking it so far. The animated cutscenes in particular are stunning!
Demo started taking on the Guardian in the Deep Dark Woods and finished with arrival at Ding Dong Dell. There’s another part of the demo that took place later in the game, though. I liked it then, but much better knowing the setup with Oliver and his mother.
No story/gameplay spoilers, Talking about how pretty Ni no Kuni is (just in case people don’t want to hear :P):
So pretty! The cutscenes are so well done (and blend pretty well in with the 3D graphics!). I love the animations, especially on Drippy. That dude is so tidy (:P). I think my favourite animation is when Oliver runs down stairs. It looks exactly like it would in a Ghibli movie!
I just got another familiar too and it is the damned cutest thing I have ever seen. Loving the monster designs so much!
I’m naming my familiars after TAYbies. First one is Sughly, cause he’s a crazy Ghibli fan. Second one will be Greenius for similar reasons. 😀
So damn pretty. I haven’t actually seen any Ghibli films, but now I desperately want to. I knew this would happen
The monster designs are so great. I only have the first familiar, but I love it so damn much.
Nope, no money & sadly I have other commitments I have to stay true to /sigh @novacascade
Ni No Kuni talk :
So far my experience with it has been pretty disappointing.
the disappointment has nothing to do with the game. Havent even been able to play it yet.
The 2 EB stores I go to told me that their stores’ allocation was pre-ordered out or otherwise reserved, so I figured I’d get it on the PSN (save $5 & get the two extra familiars as well).
few days ago, I pre-installed. last night I get home, try to launch it… ‘this application failed to install correctly.’
damn.
jump onto the PSN Store & hit download.
wow. its going fast. 6GB is gonna take 70 mins. I’ll go do something else for a while. come back 45 mins later, still rocketing along! 5 mins after that… nothing. just a message saying the ‘connection to the store has timed out’ hmm… cant resume the download, so I’ll try again from the beginning.
repeat the last paragraph 2 more times.
shit. ok. last try before I decide ‘screw it, I’ll go get a physical copy’
start the download.
hit download in background button.
oh wow. its taking ages now.
turn the TV off & go to bed.
when I left for work today, the PS3 had turned itself off.
hopefully it’s all good when I get home, or I’ll be an unhappy little camper.
I preordered from PSN once – that was with RE6, and it was such a fucking painful debacle I didn’t get to play the game until 3 days after retail release. They fucked it up with a patch that ruined the download, along with screwing up the unlock. It unlocked late, and I also had to redownload the whole thing twice.
Also, the late unlock wasn’t due to time difference, etc – they actually broke the unlocking process.
Never again.
I’ve bought stuff off there before & not had any problems. This is the first pre-order I’ve done though, so that might be the issue.
Yeah it definitely is. I’ve bought multiple full digital titles from PSN with no worries – have done since the RE6 debacle as well.
Just won’t be buying preorders again.
I still haven’t gotten around to it, the debacle involved in it’s purchase put me off it and I ended up playing something else. Been meaning to get back to it.
I haven’t let everyone’s opinions taint my expectations though, have a mate who enjoyed it thoroughly. I also had a blast with Operation Raccoon City as well – but that was one of those games I know there was issues, but I couldn’t stop playing and enjoying the shit out of it.
All these people having trouble getting a copy. This is why I preordered instead of just grabbing a copy like usual. Had a feeling it would happen.
I walked into JB yesterday on my lunch break and found one no problems. That being said, it was a standard copy, no special edition or anything.
Damn dude 🙁
This probably isn’t helping but the game isn’t 6GB, I hear it’s split up into two parts and there’s another 12GB part. I’ve never had problems with PSN downloads but I just download them in the background and leave the PS3 on for however long.
Good luck with it, sucks that you haven’t got to play it yet considering you pre-ordered it 🙁
Packages \o/
Ni no Kuni yesterday along with Atelier Ayesha’s JP deluxe release.
The World Ends With You and Miles Edgeworth Investigations today (now have the full set of DS Ace Attorney games \o/)
My DS collection just needs a few more and I’ll have everything I was ever interested in.
I had Anomaly, a graphic novel, turn up yesterday
I think they printed it in Landscape, so long!
3 hours and counting
Nearly done all my allocated tasks for today
Then just tackling what was left over from yesterday
Most of which is now near completion thanks to my supervisor being here to approve stuff
Spags is bored gang
Any TAYbies here on Virgin for Internet access?
Thinking of getting one of their wi-fi devices and wondering if anyone has any deep dark secrets that Virgin may be trying to hide.
It’s anything 3G based, just make sure you’re aware of their quotas, usage charges etc. People can really do some financial damage with those things if they’re not on the right plan or don’t understand what they’re getting into.
@shane @lambomann007 @bdkiaf @doc_what @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @effluvium-boy @notoriousr @tigerion @greenius @beavwa @scree @trjn @freya @zetrox2k @blaghman @thecracks @negativezero @freezespreston @rize @bish @tofu @strange @nomad @sughly
The King was in the counting house, counting all his money…
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/batguy_kotaku/IMG_4016_zps656d8f98.jpg
The Queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey…
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/batguy_kotaku/IMG_4017_zps4354b590.jpg
(Are those descriptions subtle enough for you, @trjn?)
I don’t have any photos for “The maid was in the garden hanging up the clothes”, but @benwhite tooks heaps of them and can probably share them at some point!
Ooo-er, that description of what he took photos of sounds pretty dodgy actually…
oh damnit. I was totally in for chipping in for that back on new years when I heard about it. Stupid not going on TAY proper for ages.
Ni No Kuni Stuff
If your over lvl 16 it’s probably safe to read this unless you’re happy go lucky grindy than lvl 20.
The DLC familiar tickets are redeemable after the great sage temple trials.
Gameplay minor spoilers
I’m starting to get more use to the L2/R2 menu toggles in combat it seems to be the only fastest way to switch to spells/defends/items while moving in combat also I can tame now! worlds of possiiblilties!
Heh, I think I may have gone a bit overboard with grinding. I’m level 18 or 19 and haven’t got up to that section yet.
(It’s the next thing I have to do though so don’t think you’ve spoiled anything for me :P)
@spaghett, there’s a PS3 at my second-hand local that’s $129.95. Any interest? What’s your budget on this?
From @Spaghett:
If I had a dollar for everytime I think about Sam, I would have a dollar, that woman never leaves my mind
Shieeeeet :’)
I just said this to my wife. She laughed and said I’m not getting sex for a month for that.
GOOD ONE @spaghett. Guess you’re going to have to make it right and take her place since its all your fault.
Go ahead
Pics or it didn’t happen
That’s what she said?
Only a one month wait? Congrats man.
Or am I the only one for whom that’d be a step up? 😛
Depends on the marriage…. 😛
I choose to believe that it’s all marriages.
Don’t tell me otherwise. Please.
You should have used your wife’s name.
Also one month? Try being in a long distance relationship sometime.
Ni no Kuniers, how many hours have you played? I just want to get an idea of where everyone is at which should help with the discussions 😀
I’m about 5:30 hours in and I’m doing all the sidequests I can.
Is anyone else doing all the side quests? (spoilers about how they handle the sidequest system) What Merit rewards has everyone picked? (out of the initial ones available/shown). I’ve finished two stamp cards so far and got the move faster on world map thingy (thinking it’ll help me avoid monsters) and Jump because who doesn’t like mindlessly jumping around while walking!
🙁
I saw that Powalen put just did a 4 hours sesh and Distant is already level 16 (which I assume is something like 7 hours in). Slow down people who only got the game recently!
I’m alot higher than 16 lol was just mentioning something that could be missed around the lvl 16 area.
9 hours I think, I’m on my 5th merit card, only got the ‘jackpot’ merit reward so far the other rewards don’t interest me so I’m going to wait for others to pop up.
I was greedy and just wanted to claim something ASAP 😀 but saving them sounds like a good idea… Jumping is completely useless but so damn fun!
Have you also noticed all the merit rewards have the word Jack in them? I wonder if it will continue for the later rewards.
Oh, never realised that until now!
I got about 45 mins in last night. Got to the world map for the first time and that was all I had time for.
7 and a half hours, I think. Level 18-19. Yep, I’m doing all the sidequests as well. I picked the run faster ability too for the same reason as you 😛 Saved my second point though, saving for the Jackpot ability.
I just bought it!
Am about to start playing since the cricket is all but over, but first I’ll watch My Neighbor Totoro.
I’m about 5 hours or so in, picked the faster map running merit award first, for obvious reasons. Not sure if I’ve redeemed my second yet. Doing any and all side-quests I find so far.
@bdkiaf! Love you!
@greenius, Damn man….something cute I said was a fucking page get, and I didn’t even post it here 🙂
Ugh, Sapphett is so Sappy!
Seriously though, with my obsessive brain it is hard to stop thinking about things, I am just glad Sam is one of those things, compared to the myriad of things I worry about, including not getting reponses to texts and worrying I am insulting/annoying people on TAY
Liar.
I’d respond to your texts.
Edit: Seriously though, TAY is generally pretty chill, I wouldn’t worry too much about insulting/annoying people. That’s not free reign to be a prick though 😛
I reckon it will be pretty awesome
You are so beautiful…
So if Sony and presumably Microsoft both announce new consoles early this year and it seems like both have had dev kits at developers for a bit now as well, I wonder if that means we’ll see some launch games playable at PAX Australia?
I’m interested in what the prospective price points will be for the consoles. I’m undeniably a cheapskate, but it would be awesome to see them come in far below PS3’s launch price.
I’ve not read a whole lot about the new consoles, is there any word on backwards compatibility? Would love to be able to play some of the unreleased current-gen exclusives on a shiny new console (Beyond: Two Souls, looking at you).
Sony would be mental if they tried to launch a PS4 at that price again. It nearly killed them with the PS3. Hopefully the would’ve learnt from some of the mistakes from the PS3’s launch.
It’s probably the first generation I’m contemplating buying on-release (though I’ll take it as it comes. Walk-in purchases aren’t an option, and pre-order/mail takes forever anyway), and I’m really hoping they get it right.
Part of me thinks that’s incredibly optimistic, part of me thinks that they’ve learned and may actually go for an $AUD500 price point, if the US equivalent is $USD399 or something.
My chips are on $499 USD, $649 AUD.
Use a coaster.
Could be both. I think they might do a multiple SKU launch with varying HDD sizes.
That seems reasonable for a brand-new console, certainly for release.
I think it may be over my budget, but I’m okay with waiting for it to drop a little.
Yeah, but lower price point means (typically) fewer features. I think backwards compatibility will be the first thing to go. Especially if they want to keep manufacturing PS3s the way they did with the PS2 (for a full extra generation!)
I doubt there’s going to be BC. The rumours are saying they’re ditching the CELL processor and going for a x64/x86 architecture, and I doubt they’ll go through the effort to either emulate a PS3 or chuck in another CELL chip in a PS4, making it even more expensive.
That’s a shame. I understand PS3’s are ludicrously cheap now, but it’s still an additional expense I’d rather not try to factor in.
I wonder… if they do choose to announce/release the PS4 this early, will the late-release PS3 exclusives be re-released on the newer console? Seems a bit iffy for a release schedule.
Although I suppose they may still be trying to breathe life into the PS3 so as to have two products to appeal to a broader (fiscally speaking, perhaps?) audience.
They’re still cheap but it’ll still add on another $100-$200 in manufacturing costs + all the effort to get it working. I think that some of the late release exclusives might still stay PS3 exclusives. God of War 2 came out in 2007 on PS2 (although they did HD Collection-ify it). But, who knows? I DON’T!
I’d be perfectly happy with $700-800 for a PS4, provided it was worth it. I remember my PS2 cost me close to $800 at launch, that was including a memory card. It wasn’t cheap, but nor was it asking to much for what you got for the price.
I might have different standards though, I never quite understood the discontent that accompanied the 3DS’ $350 price tag either. Nor the Vita being ‘overpriced’ – people seem to have radically different ideas on what technology is actually worth these days. It might be because it’s so prolific compared to what it was even 5 years ago.
Also, in the wake of the Vita’s less than desireable success to date, and people already bemoaning the Wii U’s success, I seriously wonder if anyone has the capacity to please the average consumer today. We all expect so much, for so little.
Yip.
The general public just wants shitty $1 iphone games. :\
$399 USD is my expectation. No backwards compatibility or if there is it’ll be emulation case-by-case like the 360’s Xbox BC.
The big questions for me:
– Will they be crazy and lock games to the system?
– More than one PSN account from more than one region per system like the PS3? Or stupidly restricted like the Vita?
– Region Free? (This would be a significant dealbreaker for me)
EDIT: $399 base SKU, there might be a more expensive one.
Whatever they are, I hope they’re both runaway successes so that Nintendo gets a mighty big kick up the arse.
*Kick*
*Nintendo’s startled from slumber*
“Huh-wha… Oh! Um… NEW POKEMON!!!”
…
“And we’ll re-release something Zelda-ish I guess… WOO! FUN!”
I hope we get another Vita-announcement situation.
Sony: “Hey! The Vita is going to be sold for $250, the same price as the 3DS!”
Everyone: “Yaaayyy!”
Nintendo: “Oh my god! PRICE DROP! ANNOUNCE GAMES! GO GO GO!”
I like it when Nintendo panic 😛
Those jittery bastards…
And now the Vita’s considered to be vastly overpriced. Despite that it was priced way lower than expected originally and everyone was talking about how cheap it was at the time. :\
I think the Vita is extremely well priced. You can easily get one for $200-$250, even in Australia. I don’t understand people saying it’s overpriced. The problems lie out of a pricing issue.
Absolutely. And if you like the sort of games it has and is getting like I do, it’s really hard to understand why people aren’t buying the system. It feels very much like the enthusiast’s handheld.
At the moment I’m interested in the Wii U/3DS stuff. like 3D Marios (I grew up with 3D Mario so it’s my preferred), Mario Kart, Wind Waker, XenUblade, Smash Bros!
Next get console stuff will be awesome too 😀
Following on from the Disney “Paperman” short that went around yesterday, here’s a technical Behind the scenes. Quite interesting:
http://www.cgramp.com/making-of/disneys-paperman-short-cg-animated-vfx-technology-breakdown/
So what time is this meat tomorrow? Still around 3 to 4ish? Freeze is working until 5:30 I think. Definite Hard Rock Cafe? *D.C. obsesses about details* 😛
Also, had lunch with my folks today and vaguely mentioned Hard Rock Cafe plans and my mum asked if that was a disco. Haha! D:
Ball
Hells yeah, I’m already scripting ‘random banter’ for meeting Nova. Something something Orange something something Elvis Festival at Parkes something something!
This guy gets it. Also get me on the topic of travel and I won’t shut up for hours.
I’m so sad I’m missing this.
Because of the date of 70K this year I’m not only missing out on the cruise, but also the Zelda concert and the NovaMeat I’d been looking forward to. Mind you, I would never have been able to do all three but just one would have been nice!
I’ll be there from around 3, so any time after that is good. Hard Rock Cafe is still the plan at this stage.
Aww, I missed a Jimu incursion! I love it when @jimu is around.
I went out for lunch and to pick up that package. It wasn’t my Shadow of the Colossus T-shirt, it was even better. My Alesia shirt from Eluveitie. Yay! It’s so pretty. 😀
I’m lurking about somewhere.
If people reply to my “awesome” comments, I come back…maybe that’s why no-one replys…:-P
Oh, I don’t want to talk to you, I just like having you around! 😛
I read your Nier discussion with Ash but it was pretty much finished by the time I got there. 🙁
My ability to discuss Nier has been diminished by time. I really need to replay, I bought the DLC and still haven’t put the disk in…Ni No Kuni at the mo though.
I never even bought the DLC. I thought about it but I just found that my experience with the game was so complete after getting all endings that I didn’t really need the DLC to pad it out.
I got one ending before my xbox died. I will have to start again from the beginins.
I was about half way through my new game plus too!
One ending as in the first one? Duuuude you’re missing out on so much!
Hey! I was working on it. Hardware failure, HARDWARE FAILURE!
Maybe if you made some awesome comments people would reply to them! 😛
SOUL SILVERRRRRRRRRRR
Awww you guys were talking bout paperman? I freakin loved that short! So good. Also, enjoyed WIRalph, but Brave and ParaNorman come out on top for 2012 animation for me methinks.
Reply fail :/
If you hadn’t edited that last bit in I wouldnever have realised that’s what it was. 😛
Also, I haven’t seen Brave orParaNorman. Although oneday we will buy them and then I’ll probably have to watch them a billion and one times each. 😛
Google seems to think it’s a cumulative 366955.895 years to watch both Brave and Paranorman 1,000,000,001 times.
I’m sure after the first hundred viewings, you could put two screens next to each other and watch concurrently. And probably also at 1.4x speed for the funny high-pitched voices.
Enjoy the ensuing maths, nerds.
Hundred viewings of each movie, or the first hundred viewings independent of film?
If the latter, what is the approximate distribution of films watched? 1:1?
Yep, sure thing…
You know what? Add another couple of screens at random intervals too, for multiple concurrent viewings of each movies. And screen-in-screen for 3/4 of the screens.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
…Are we watching the credits?
Or about eleven and a half teraseconds.
What’s that from? Looks like a silly movie…
That’s what D.C. would say. PULP FICTIONNNNNNNNNN :DDDDDD!
I thought the video you linked was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFEoMO0pc7k
Yeah, Brave wins for me(still haven’t seen ParaNorman). The real question is which had the better short.
La Luna was a great little distillation of the themes of typical Pixar films. Paperman is absolutely gorgeous, but personally I wasn’t that big a fan of the last 3rd. Loved it before that, though.
Both are totally valid choices though, which makes it hard.
ParaNorman was all kinds of awesome. I loved when the bass guitars kicked in when the gang were sleuthing…
Home time very shortly
Well, after a 2 hour train trip
Looks dark outside, I think it must be cloudy
Go home, grab Sam and go back out again for dinner
Then, go home and fantasize about @bdkiaf, and write his name all over my arm
Buy some heroin, ride a diamond pony, and witness the rebellion at the Winter Palace and the assassination of the Tsar and his family
@dc, I think I am imagining before even leaving the fucking office.
My chest hurts, I coughed and Feroza said I should stop smoking
Whelp, I don’t smoke :/
I think he went back to work. Or was horrified by my ignorance. Hard to tell. Had a squiz online and seems foreign games on a local account get no DLC or trophies or online play.
Hard to choose. Hard to choose.
Did you go Aussie or US account?
OI OI OI!
The “fine…” was because I was eating Shapes and wanted to continue eating :P. But I stopped because I’m Helpius.
As a recentish Vita owner (I got one in November) I was also looking up a lot of the account swapping stuff because I got it from Amazon and it came with a US download code for PS Smash Bros.
What I’m typing is just stuff I know but haven’t tried out yet as I haven’t had the need or urge to swap accounts to play PS Smash Bros. When I was asking around on TAY it turns out no one here has swapped theirs either :P.
Basically it’s one account per a memory card, per a console at any given time. So unlike PS3 where you can have multiple users and accounts on the one system, you can’t do that for Vita. This also means you can’t access or use content from other accounts. On PS3 if I downloaded something with my American account and tried to play it with my Australian, no problemo! On Vita you can’t. I downloaded PS Smash Bros from the PS3 and tried to transfer it over to the Vita but it says something along the lines of “this content was purchased by another user” as my Vita is linked to my Australian account. So you’ll need at least two memory cards if you want to use two accounts on the Vita. Most bundles come with the 4GB and you can just buy a 32GB separately (which is what I did). My Vita is linked to my Australian account with PS+ so most of the games I was interested in are available for free, so I’m using the 32GB for it and one day I’ll use the 4GB for PS Smash Bros and anything else I decide to buy from the US store (but I’m not interested in anything at the moment)
It’s an old video and I don’t know if things have changed but IGN had a tutorial on how to swap accounts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWsKE6tStQ . Basically you need to deactivate your Vita from your account and then do a factory reset of the Vita (otherwise it’ll still be linked to your account) before popping in a new memory card. You have to do this every single time you want to swap accounts and while it’s not too bad it’s not very convenient. I think in the past they let you had more than one user per a memory card and thus let you accessed content from them but I’m fairly sure that was patched sometime in April.
If you already have PS+ on PS3 just go with that account but if you’re set on purchasing a bunch of cheaper downloadable titles and PSP games then the US store is superior. You could always go different regions on each one but then you’d be missing out on those Trophies!
ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
Also Persona 4: Golden. MUST BUY.
OTHER STUFF:
I hear the 3G isn’t necessary so just get the Wi-Fi model since you can tether it to your phone for 3G stuffs. PS+ is a must have since you’ll immediately get a lot of the games most people are interested in like Uncharted, Gravity Rush, Wipeout and Lumines.
Indeed, no point in 3G if you can just tap into peoples wifi hotspots like a ninja.
Can’t wait for Persona 4 to hit Australian shores, I’m also going to keep my eyes open for DOA5+.
I’m playing 3 JRPGs at the moment, Persona 4: Golden, Pokemon White 2 and Ni no Kuni! 😀
Kinda near the end of Persona 4: Golden and I’m sitting at 65 hours or so, finished White 2 a few days ago and barely scratched the surface of Ni no Kuni. Have you played Persona 3/4 before?
No I havn’t played either 3 or 4, I’ve watched plenty of speedruns of 4 however.
Aw man, as if you’d watch speedruns of it. Spoilers D:! Excellent games though 😀
The only reason I got a 3G one was because I didn’t want to run the risk that later on I was like “man, why didn’t I get a 3G Vita?”
Ironically now you must be saying ‘Why did a get a 3G model?’
I have a 3G model to, apparently it was the first 3G model they sold at that paticular store(This was long after release.), not many people like filling out that Government 3G form.
Nope, I’m happy I have the option. I recently got my Surface from work so it’s replaced my iPad for the only things I did with that, and my iPad had 3G which I used entirely for downloading podcasts because the Apple podcast app was woeful at automatically downloading them properly (it’s also woeful at working correctly and not crashing but that’s another issue). That means I’ve got a Telstra 3G SIM with about 8-9gb data expiring in about 10 months on it sitting in an iPad that I don’t use any more, so I’m very seriously considering slotting it into the Vita.
I’m pretty happy with my 3G model.
I rarely use the 3G, but I like having the option.
Thanks guy. PS US it will be if in fact I do purchase a Vita. Ta!
No problem guy.
Retweeting here in case there’s a chance of finding somebody interested who isn’t going to that Zelda symphony (pfft, as if you would):
“Sooo… who likes Nintendo? I have a ticket to a invite-only pre-release showcase event at Darling Harbour starting in an hour.
Basically my brother bailed on me at the last minute, after I’ve been asking him constantly for the past 24 hours whether he would really, really, really make it. And it feels like a waste not to use the extra ticket.
Unfortunately no planes can get there soon enough and my Delorean is in the shop. =(
When you do get your delorean back, you could skip ahead in time to when the currently “pre-release” games are post-release anyway. So you can play them soon enough either way.
Actually, when you get your delorean back, you can skip back in time to this afternoon to join me anyway.
Hey… wait a minute… you don’t really have a Delorean, do you!?
Aslong as there are no follow up questions involving my ownership of said Delorean then yes, I do own one!
Oh. My. God. How I wish I were in Sydney!
Hopefully a friend claims it but if not, hopefully you can sell it off there.
Forgot to show you guys this picture yesterday. The organisers of 70000 Tons of Metal making me all sad and jealous again by posting a picture of Helloween playing on the Pool Deck. Grrr. 😛
Oh well, I guess I’dbetter get used to it. Can’t even imagine the feelings that are going to kick in when Mr. Strange comes home raving about it and shows me his photos!
Oh, wow. Atmsophere must be amazing! Does Mr. Strange have friends on the ship or is he doing his own thing? 😀
He has friends. Most of whom we met on the ship either last year or the year before. He’s always hanging out on the 70K forums so he’s made some friends through there as well. And apparently he’s made new friends again. 😀
Vidya game reference on the sportsball site
Game over within 10 overs. It is like Super Mario found a pipeline to take him close to the finish. Clarke walks out to shake hands along with his teammates.
This has been such a terrible summer of cricket
Amazon updated their listing for Muramasa Vita and will now ship it to Asstralia. Yay. So now I get whatever their nebulous ‘preorder bonus’ is. \o/
So now I get whatever their nebulous ‘preorder bonus’ is. \o/
Am I the only one that read this as “Nobulus”?
There’s plenty of Nob to go around! YOU GET A NOB, YOU GET A NOB. EVERYONE GETS A NOB
I love my Nob… wait, what?
I’d… probably prefer a poster or something. I wouldn’t know where to put you and the shipping costs would be terrible.
Yes! This comment made me look to see if they changed the shipping on The Last of Us Survival Edition – and they did!
@notoriousr @jimu – it’s $95 with the medium speed shipping ($15) as they don’t allow the cheapest one. This is still cheaper than game ($60) and art book ($35) separately since it also comes with the comic, steelbook and DLC including the soundtrack :D. BUY BUY BUY
Too late, already preordered figurine edition from GameStop. Hopefully they don’t cancel that. Thanks for the heads up though!
Also does this mean Amazon US in general is shipping games to AU?
EDIT: Hmmm. It’s says I can preorder the GoW:A CE from Amazon. Kinda tempted. But not really. But kinda.
Amazon US doesn’t normally but recently with Vita and PS3 stuff they have been. It’s unregioned after all.
Pot on my stove boiling away merrily full of malt vinegar, brown sugar, peppercorns, cloves, onion, bay leaves and beef. The house smells so good.
This was on Gizmodo a few days ago. Really good read!
Agreed, really eye-opening piece, imaging yourself living as they did, kind of scary when I think about it.
For anyone who is interested Gametrailers has the first 30min of God of War Ascension up on their site
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/lxquf7/god-of-war–ascension-opening-gameplay
Are these constant games.com articles about Zynga games paid adverts or do they just REALLY love ‘Ville games?
Over on the US site comments are disabled on them so my guess is a sneaky attempt at advertising.
Interesting the whole “Republished from Games.com” thing at the bottom. Republishing ads?
Also I just looked at games.com.
Ew.
I think it’s more advertising the website than Zynga games.
And look at who just fell for it 😛
I finally did it. I found an edible store pizza. The “Dagostino” pizzas from Woolworths are really good! They taste home made and they’re pretty fuckin’ big and cheap.
WOOOO!
I picked up Super Hexagon at launch cause I loved VVVVVV and figured, why not? I played it a bit on the bus for the first few days but after that I pretty much only played a couple of games once a month or something.
So until about a few days ago when I decided to play it properly all I had completed were the first two levels Hexagon and Hexagoner which aren’t too hard. To complete them you need over 60 seconds in each which unlocks the Hyper mode of each level in which I only had around 10 seconds for both.
There was quite a bit of talk about it recently and I saw that Budgieishere NEARLY completed the third hardest (and probably hardest out of Hexagon, Hexagoner and their hyper versions) and pretty much missed out by less than a second. This made me curious to see whether I could beat it before him so I went on my quest and played it every now and then these past few days.
Well I did it! I beat Hexagonest about 15 minutes ago and those of you who have played or see the game know that’s insanity. My heart was pumping like crazy trying to hold my concentration and I didn’t’ want to mess up right near the end. Last night I also beat Hyper Hexagon and Hyper Hexagoner too! Wooo!
Hyper Hexagonest is my next goal but it’s absolutely crazy…
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/15/weirdest-pokemon-black-white/
Really creepy and messed up Pokedex Entries that make me think twice about wanting real life Pokemon :/ (just kidding, who wouldn’t love real life Pokemon!?)
Have you read these before? Articles about the concepts behind some of the Pokemon designs. Pretty interesting!
http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Column:On_the_Origin_of_Species
(Wow it’s been almost 2 years since the last entry. I remember reading them as they came out…)
We were discussing Yamask on the New Year thing, but I couldn’t remember its name, so I just called it “Depressingmon.”
Man, it is so messed up.
The third familiar is the Seed Sprite, right? If so, I’m okay with this. Cutest damn Ghiblimon there is (and super useful, I’ve found :P)
Shouldn’t the green one be Greenius? 🙂
There’s an awesome scene coming up around the 6:30ish hour mark which I won’t spoil but it’s speaks true to us hermits!
I keep listening to Everything’s Alright from To the Moon.
Great game, and when this song plays it’s absolutely perfect.
This is one of the rare games where I wish I could play it through again fresh.
I am so late to this party.
I’m only 20 minutes in but gave up a while ago but now I’ll play it sometime soon. @powalen you should play it too since I randomly started playing because you did :P.
Reinstalling now!
I’m trying to finish colouring my Issun, but trying to find a good skin colour is borderline impossible :l
Hmm. I need something a bit darker than that, but I’ll write that down for the future because it’s a good light skin colour!
Racist!
You could always find a pic of Issun and then use that colour drop tool thingy and use the same tone but take note of what amount of green/red/blue is needed for it so you get a general idea in the future 😀
Oh hey, I’m drawing too, trying to figure out how to colour stuff (WITHOUT OUTSIDE HELP FROM MY BROTHER) 😀
It’s nothing special but my parents haven’t seen anything I’ve drawn yet and they keep asking what am I doing with it. I think they think the tablet is just sitting there doing nothing (which is true for 70% of the time :P). My mum asked me to draw a random picture for her so I figured I’d do a plant (Iris).
I started with the right one and was just messing around with colours but I accidentally drew on the wrong layer so the lines are really strong. Then I lightly outlined it (the left) and now I’m going to colour it properly 😀 (or try to).
I’m still learning so a reference pic was used 😛
Dats a nice plant (although I have no idea what an Iris is :D)
I’m hopeless trying to draw in that sketchy kind of style. That’s why I like vector art, it’s meant to be simple! Anyway keep going with it man, it’s looking pretty good!
According to the BOM website, coming your way at 11pm, @dc. Severe winds and large hailstones. Yikes. I miss the simpler days of normal weather. 😛
All right, scary weather’s moved on. I might take advantage of the lull to go to bed. Going to bed without being scared is a luxury I didn’t really appreciate until this week. 😛
I’m so smart. I plugged my wireless receiver thingy for my xbox controller into the USB port on my power board instead of my computer and spent 5 minutes pulling the battery pack in and out wondering why it wouldn’t connect. I think I need to go to bed…
Oh man, seven and a half hours into Ni No Kuni and only started this morning. :S I feel like I’ve just been grinding the last hour and made no real quest progress too. 😛
😀 Told you, man! A game this pretty deserves to be admired, damn it. 😛
I might go to bed, so I can wake up early and psych myself up for this meat. :S
Good night, folks!
Though saying that, I’m looking forward to it! Can’t wait to meet Nova and see the gang again!
You got it or just trying to fit in? 😀
Haha I feel bad for all the non Ni no Kuners since all the talk is probably annoying them :(. Just like with all The Walking Dead discussions…
Just as long as half the posts on every page don’t become “View Spoiler” like they did with The Walking Dead, I don’t mind all the Ni No Kuni talk 🙂
I understand that in a game like The Walking Dead minor spoilers could ruin it for people, and I don’t mean to be rude, but it did get a bit much.
To ruin all the “Ni No Kuni is awesome” posts.
Ni No Kuni is very pretty, but I’m about half an hour in, and there is no voice over.
Occasionally in the animated bits I can hear a faint echo of someone talking, but they have no real voice. It is really freaking weird.
I’m reinstalling it now, so I really hope that this fixes it… :/
Damn. Was there no voices in the opening cutscene? Because there should be 😛
I wish the entire game was voiced.
Absolutely nothing.
Also, reinstalling it didn’t work.
Changing it to Japanese voices didn’t work (not quite true, I heard about 12 words of Drippy’s, but most of what he said was the same).
Crying to myself in the corner? Didn’t work.
Well… Hmmm…
Shit.
:/ That’s really weird.
Can’t seem to find anybody with the same problem after a quick google either…
EDIT: Aha! Change your PS3 audio settings. Apparently it doesn’t like Surround.
… That would explain a lot.
My first reaction was “but why on earth would my PS3 be set to surround sound?”
…
Because I have a surround sound system upstairs, and we only moved the stuff downstairs for renovations… *Sigh* Well, that was stupid of me. I have no idea if it works, and I’m too lazy to check now, but thanks Pow, you’re a champ!
I’m pretty great.
I wouldn’t go that far. 😛
Edit: Downvoting me, Pow?
Why do you hat me?
🙂
@powalen
As an update, your solution didn’t work exactly.
It was already set to its default, stereo settings, on my stereo speakers, with my TV set to stereo.
However, I mashed options in the menu, added some other option thingy to its audio thing, and now it works.
Huzzah.
Button mashing solves everything.
Free Need for Speed: Most Wanted for iOS
Click “Get Code” and you’ll get code! Super. Simple. Stuff.
I doubt I’ll ever play the game but whatevs! And I highly doubt autolog will work with your version @lambomann007 😛
Semi-Simple Pimple Ni no Kuni competition requiring Facebook! (hopefully that link works)
You just have to click on this application and you’ll instantly find out whether you win or or not (I didn’t). It says you can enter once a day until the competition ends and I have no idea if it’s open for Australia but it’s easy enough to just enter so why not?
You can win the game, Drippy plushie, soundtack, t-shirt, Japanese Wizard Companion oh AND THE MOTHER FUCKING WIZARD’S EDITION!
@sughly
I was browsing Zavvi earlier today and I think they put up the Wizard’s Edition for sale again except it was 99 pounds :|. All sold out though by the time I saw it.
I didn’t win. Also, GT can’t get the wizard’s edition and it’s pretty much sold out everywhere so this might be my last chance
Read some of the Wizard Book dealy last night in game, it’s pretty good. Would be awesome to have a physical copy.
It’s a Japanese one for this though :P. There’s a .pdf available that someone ripped from the game. People are putting it on their tablets! 😀
Would be pretty awesome to have on the Wii U controller!
I clicked the link but the button doesn’t appear to work?
All it says is “I’M A WIZARD” and that’s it.
Doubtius 😛
Autolog is cross platform on all the platforms. You can’t compare race times between Mobile and Console/PC versions because they have different races in them, but you can compare overall Speedpoints (kinda like bounty in the original Moat Wanted). Your profile caries over between different platforms too, so any speedpoints you earn in the mobile game you’ll have in the full game and vice versa.
I don’t have an iOS device powerful enough to play it though 😛
My Ni no Kuni experience last night – load it up, play for 5 minutes and promptly fall asleep. Dang it.
2 things I’m not a fan of-
1. Why oh why do they allow you to name things. I’m not equipped with the emotional maturity to handle it. And now my first Familiar will be forever known as (NSFW or delicate sensibilities)CuntzerkerDang it.
2. The music is somewhat bland. No memorable tunes so far except for the battle theme which I already hate.
1. Good lord whyyyyyyyy! I also just went with the default names because I’m boring.
2. I like the soundtrack but nothing is too memorable. I hum/rehear random bits in my head but I have no idea what the rest of the song sounds like or where it’s from. One of the main ones is the first few notes from the main theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9L-QzakeiM
I went with default name for my first familiar.
Oliver though? I called him whatever it was that Drippy called him as an insult.
I’m mature.
I’m naming my familiars after TAYbies. So far there’s Sughly, Greenius and Powalen. Next up! Freeze!
Is Sughly the Gimp Imp?
The thing with the sword and shield? You best believe he is! Pow’s isn’t the manliest of familiars either. >:D
Manly upvote fairy!
Just so you know, it’s also a real nursery rhyme. 😛 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye,_baby_Bunting
Indeedily.
So a new CD Projekt Red engine for the PS4.
I think this is a wonderful thing, really keen to see how it looks and cyberpunk 2077 is looking incredible.
Did they actually mention the PS4? I can’t find them saying anything in the article.
Nope, they don’t mention any platforms.
Which means PC and next-gen consoles and probably a PS3/X360 back-port I’d think. They’d probably be building it on top of their current engine used for The Witcher 2 (which already looks amazing on PC).
Also they’re revealing some other thing on Tuesday. All signs point to The Witcher 3.
So, this meat thing. I’m pretty sure Freeze is working until 5:30, so we probably shouldn’t do Hard Rock Cafe until then, but what time should we meet before and where? 3:30? 4? 4:30? *D.C.’s planning logistics.* 😛
If it happens like most Sydney meats, by 5:30 we will still be standing around trying to make a decision about where to go and what to do. And We’ll have been doing that since 3:00.
I’m guessing that by 5:30 we may still be in timezone, but if we have moved I’m sure one of the other fine gents will let you know. If not, then maybe they’re trying to tell you something. 😛
Anytime after 3 near timezone. I’m staying in the apartments in the building above it so if you’re early just send me a message and I’ll come down. (DC the first to arrive? Worst hermit ever :P)
Haha! Sughly’s offered to give me a ride, that’s why I’m trying to nail down exact times. It’ll be all good in the hood, though!
This is pretty messed up. :S (Both the apology and the rules of the band.)
Japan is crazy!
Yeah, @jordi was talking about it on Twitter.
The whole culture around Idols in Japan is completely fucked up.
Amazing so far, but I had to take a break. For a point and click adventure, it’s fairly intense …
Last day alone before Mr. Strange gets back from his awesome trip that I am in no way jealous of. 😛
I’m going to try and finish all my housework this morning so I can spend the rest of the day and night playing games.
My old man just called me to tell me my name was gazetted as an approved recruit in the police fortnightly updates.
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Happy saturtay everyone!
Yesterday I managed to pinch a nerve in my back and I haven’t gotten it to stop being pinched yet … long story short, everything is pain and all I have is Dark souls to keep me company. FUN!
Dark Souls is just balancing it out. Its balancing the Physical pain with emotional pain … All the emotional pain. /o\
*refresh*
Hope everyone’s having a great day/looking forward to having a great evening at the meat!
I’ve just finished domestic duties and rewired my room, so for giggles I’ve got my laptop, desktop, 3DSXL, X360 and Wii all running at once.
There’s so many screens /o\
I’ll be diving into Final Fantasy XIII-2 shortly. It’s the first FF I’ve played since X-2. Let’s see how it goes!
That’s an odd choice to play! If I recall you got it for free from S-DOG?
There’s a brief summary of the story from XIII in the menu but the story is pretty stupid anyway (for both games – moreso XIII-2) so you can pretty much just ignore it :P. Gameplay is fun though! Think Pokemon-y monster capture-y.
Who/what is S-DOG?
I bought it from EB in Townsville, because the cover was pretty 😛
@shane 😛
Fair enough! I remember him trying to offload it on people (I think he had two copies?)
Ohshi-!
I must’ve missed that one 😛
I got inFAMOUS from him though!
ARE YOU EVEN ON MY 360 FRIENDS LIST? WHY DO YOU HAT ME ALEPH?
It’s ok! I checked an we totally are. Carry on!
hmm… so this is the year most of my friends turn 21 😛
I guess I SHOULD attend their birthday parties but I dunno… :/ (BESTEST FRIEND)
Well an interesting day so far
Didn’t sleep well and have a twinge in my shoulder. Nothing major and think it will be gone tomorrow. But I ended up waking up super early and Mrs Tigs was sleeping half way down the bed so i couldn’t get the quilt on me properly with waking her up so just got up.
To make up for that I played some space marine multi and also tried out the Chaos Invasion Exterminatus thingy. Interesting as the ‘horde’ attacks itself (Orcs vs Imperial Marines) but in some ways I think it is harder than standard as it has some many more shooters. Although I was trying solo so that might have something to do with it
Then work was ok, my meeting went well and now I’m just hanging about. Have a bunch of stuff to do and going to wait for another person to get back to see if we will beer it up or not.
Plenty of work to do in the mean time (hence why I am on TAY)
Stay awesome saturTAY people
Wooo flower pic complete!
Any tips from the drawers? It was my first attempt at some proper colouring and realisticness. I sort of just picked a random colour from what I wanted and then just did a bunch of lines while leaving the opacity low (10%). I did big lines for the base colour in areas and then smaller ones for the details. No idea if that was efficient or not and some of it looks a bit messy but it seems alright 😀
I also used a reference pic because I’m DaWorst. Didn’t trace it though as that’s cheating!
Holy crap you can write neatly with a tablet! It looks pretty good! You did a really good job with the detailing and everything.
It would’ve looked better if it had been drawn in Paint. 😛
Looks pretty good 😀 Way better than anything I could draw.
Ni no Kuni is great, but gameplay wise it’s nothing spectacular. Kinda wish it had some of the convenient features from Xenoblade 😛
FFXIII-2 is gorgeous, but gameplay wise it’s nothing spectacular. Kinda wish it had some of the actual gameplay features such as gameplay.
…so much QTE T.T
I actually really like the combat system of FFXIII (and part 2). It takes forever to get going, but once it does, the act of paradigm shifting is really really fun.
My biggest problem with it is that its non-boss battles aren’t quite sure where they should live in terms of difficulty, which makes things a little inconsistent.
I’ve no idea what I’m doing, or what a paradigm shift is, but lordy am I shiftin’ those paradigms like it’s going out of fashion!
Also jumping. WHAT EVEN?!
Have you tried jumping in front of an item box?
It jumps with you!
Looks like I’ll have to do it when I next load it up 😀
It has awesome gameplay. You wash your mouth out with soap, young man!
And the QTEs are only really in boss fights. They are annoying though, because they stop you from being able to pay attention to what’s going on.
I assume you’d want stuff that’s not on Steam/other places… hmmm Trials DLC? That’s 400 a piece but it’s coming to PC soon. Fez is awesome too but also coming to other platforms :P. I hear Spelunky is good but I think that’s 1200 so wait for a sale.
I have 1300 or so points spare too so I wouldn’t mind recommendations as well :D. Mainly exclusive stuff!
Yeah, exclusives/unattainables (retro etc.) is cool, but I’m pretty much after anything recommended to me 😀
How much is Fez? I might check that out and grab some Trials DLC too!
Fez is 800 points. It and the Trials DLCs have been on sale before.
Oh man I just checked my points… 1190 ಠ_ಠ
Time to tell you all of my adventures trying to get to Dubbo last night.
I left the house around half past 10, hoping to get to the airport with plenty of time to spare for my 11:55 flight. I made it with just enough time to spare. Except that the check-in terminals didn’t want to work, they spat out an error message thingy and told me to line up to talk to a real person.
The queue was long and didn’t particularly feel like moving. Eventually, I pestered one of the Qantas ladies who told me to cut to the front of the queue (it was already ten minutes past the check in time). Turns out I was meant to be flying with Jetstar so I was meant to be checking in with them. Oops.
Managed do the check in at Jetstar because the flight was delayed.
Those delays seemed like a good idea at the time. Right up until the bit where we spent almost an extra hour in the air due to the weather and had to take two attempts at landing the plane. Oh, and I had to collect my bags and then check them in with Qantas for my flight to Dubbo. After landing, we spent a good period of time sitting on the tarmac waiting for the all clear to actually let us get off. Enough time that I got off a flight scheduled to land at 2pm after my 4:30 flight was meant to leave.
My flight to Dubbo didn’t leave until around 5:30, but even then I was too late to get my bags onto it, so I had to get moved to the next flight. Which was scheduled for 6:40 originally but delayed until 7. That was, until it was delayed to 7:40 and then 8:40. Eventually I got on the plane at some point after 9pm. Yay.
At least the flight there was fun. So much turbulence that the flight attendant had to quickly claim the seat opposite me mid flight.
Eventually I got to Dubbo. And now I’m here, typing about why the weather gods are colossal dicks.
The worst part? I didn’t find $10.
Oh, and Red Rooster continues to be a massive disappointment. That is all.
Red Rooster in Dubbo is the blurst RR ever. They also had an Oporto for all of 2 months. The original store got shut down then. But I think there’s a new one in West.
I heard Big Rooster used to be much better, but I never went there. Are there any still around these days?
Did you mean Red Rooster? There’s a few around Melbourne and I also thought people stopped going there for ages :P. Some friends and I started going there again last year and it’s not too bad. Food is pretty tasty and they have some pretty awesome deals every now and then.
Like this one http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/86094 😀
Oh man I loved having Red Rooster when I was up in Surfers Paradise a couple of years ago! Their chips are the best! I had it like 5 times over 2 weeks. Unfortunately there aren’t any in Tasmania 🙁
ahaha no it might be a bit before your time. Before Red Rooster was even a thing, we had Big Rooster.
Yeah, I Googled it and I think Red Rooster acquired them in 1992 (before I was born) 😛
Babbius.
Doing a few registry edits can do wonders for your ever-thinning patience in Windows 7. No more notification bubbles when the computer turns on, things pop up instantly, and now I can copy and paste without having to drag and drop in Windows Explorer!
Dammit, Ni no Kuni. You’re a pretty game but can be so frustrating. Completely discourages exploration because of the unmarked high-level monsters (which you can’t run from once in a battle).
/mini-rant because I keep dying 😛
Spoilers are about five hours in to game
I got to the desert on my way to Al Mamoon or whatever it’s called, and Drippy warned me not to get into fights and head straight to the city because the enemies were tough. He was, um, very right about that…
I just wish enemies had a level number or symbol or something above their head so I know when I’m heading ‘out of bounds’ 😛
At least half of those, the meaning is completely obvious because of grammar. Also every language has homonyms. They aren’t what makes English hard to learn. English is hard to learn because it has inconsistent grammar and spelling / pronunciation rules and an absolutely massive vocabulary.
Strangely counter-intuitive discovery: I took half my honestly far too large collection of figures out of my cabinets and spread the existing ones out and they actually look way better when there’s less of them.
Yeah. I intended to rotate out quite a few to make room for some newer ones but now I’m thinking maybe I’ll rotate out even more to make sure stuff has more room.
Last night without a husband hogging the TV and I didn’t play all the games, like I’d planned. I watched The Hunger Games with my daughter instead. Stressful and depressing movie.
I don’t know what vote to give this :S
Was it a good movie at least? I’ve yet to see it, haven’t read the book/s either.
Bet you’re looking forward to having Mr. Strange around to hog the TV again! 😀
What do they call The Hunger Games in France?
A Battle Royale with cheese.
*groan* Are you sure you’re not a dad? 😛
As for the movie, I thought it was pretty good. My dad has the books so I think I might borrow them now.
AndI’m scared of Mr. Strange’s return. He’s going to be full of amazing stories and have loads of incredible photos and if I don’t cry I’ll be very surprised. Will be good to have him home though, this week has pretty stressful and facing it all alone was tough.
Not that I’m aware of, which is bittersweet I suppose. Much as I’d love a family, at least I don’t have to pay child support! 😛
I don’t understand your fear? It’s only a couple photos, and there’s always next year 🙂
(BTW, you guys keen for Waken at some point in the possibly-distant future?)
I fear I’ll be jealous. Bitterly so. My absolute favourite band as well as some I’ve loved for a while but never seen before were on the cruise this year. This is the third 70K cruise and the first one I’ve missed. Who knows if there’ll even be any/many bands I like next year?
As for Wakken…Mr. Strange has already been and doesn’t really want to do it again, and for me it’s kind of not something I think I’d enjoy. And 70K kind of ruins you for other festivals. I’m definitely going to do Falun ( http://rockstadfalun.se/ ) with a VIP ticket at some point, though. Crossing all my fingers for this year. Mr. Strange’s all-time favourite band is on this year(Magnum) so it’s possible we could do it.:D
P.S. If I get to do 70K again next year, you’re totally coming too.
Something tells me I may need to work on getting my passport first 😛
Additionally, 70K doesn’t seem to be much my cup of tea. Not that I won’t go, as festivals and the like are rarely for the music alone.
Hell, I’d go to a Miley Cyrus + One Direction gig if it meant I got to hang with friends*.
*Obviously that’s an extreme example, and I would hope against hope that a friend of mine with such a vested interest in music *wouldn’t* consider Miley/1D appropriate listening material but hey, sometimes, you’ve just gotta make sacrifices 😛
Do you mean the bands aren’t really your cup of tea? Yet you’d do Wakken? 😛
Or is it the cruise ship thing?
By the way,I promise to never make you go to a One Direction gig with me….
Just checked out the Wacken lineup for this year… They seem to have mellowed out a bit!
Last I checked (might’ve been last year?) Amon Amarth was the big name I wanted to see there.
This year they’ve got Whitechapel, which is awesome, but sold out 😛
I saw them at Soundwave anyways, so all’s well 😀
Never been on a cruise ship, so it’d be worth the experience I’m sure!
As for One Direction… *shudder* let’s never speak of it again 😛
Amon Amarth were on the first 70K.
And if the mix of metal on 70K isn’t your thing, if they do Barge to Hell again there’s more likely to be more bands to your taste on that. Not sure if they’ll do it again though, it didn’t go anywhere near selling out and 70K always sells out.
We’re going to Barge to Hell, or we’re making our own. It’ll be awesome 😀
I didn’t really like Hunger Games. I mean it wasn’t terrible… I probably just wasn’t meant to be the target audience 😛
…point. haha
I’ll go see the second movie when it comes out, but I won’t read the second book. Didn’t like the first book much (I was hoping the movie wouldn’t be as faithful as it ended up being :P)
I thought that the movie was terrible.
It was almost bad enough to be good, but it didn’t quite go the whole mile.
As well as all the design and directorial choices that I didn’t like, it had so many plot holes that could have been really easily explained(and I believe they were in the books), but they just left them open, and it makes the whole thing look really, really poorly thought out because of it.
It was oneof those things where I was so engrossed I didn’t care about plot-holes. Actually, I rarely do anyway. 😛 But the actress really drew me in, which is why I liked it.
As far as the plot-hole thing goes, it’s just the way I consume entertainment. Movies, games, music,books…if they’ve taken me on a journey, I don’t care about stuff like that, it’s a bit nit-picky and not something I generally hold against things if the overall experience was good.
I don’t mind plot holes, usually.
But they were just added on top of all the other terrible decisions the movie made.
I felt like Hunger Games was far better when it was called Battle Royale. Though less likely you’d be comfortable letting your daughter watch it.
I’ve seen Battle Royale. And frankly I don’t think they’re any more alike than say Buffy and The Vampire Diaries. Two shows with vampires. Two movies with kids battling eachother for survivsl. The similarities don’tgo much further.
And yes, I wouldn’t let her watch it yet. 😛
I’ll be flying outta Melbourne next week – who wants to meat me?!
It’s in Singapore though…
SO WHO’S IN? 😀
…now I know what Aleph feels like with he organises Groote meats! 🙁
Oh man, a totally missed opportunity to do the standard
WHO
WHAT: A Scottish Doctor
WHERE
WHEN
WHY
HOW
WHATEVS post 🙁
Because I wasn’t there!
I went out to dinner tonight for a friend’s birthday.
While I was walking to the Whirligig(where we were meeting) from the bus, I started getting increasingly worried, my heart went haywire, and I considered leaving right then, and “calling in sick”.
Man, @dc, you would have been proud. :/
Shane’s weird procrastination plan
1. Set aside 90 minutes for gaming while fam is out
2. Play Dark Souls. Make some progress, get slaughtered after ten minutes.
3. Throw a tantrum and quit.
4. Start new (oft-delayed) writing project instead.
5. Find $10.
6. PROFIT
TL;DR I forgot how good Dark Souls was for my writing 😛
I’ve made no progress in Dark Souls at all. I haven’t quite got my timing back yet and I also keep making some very silly mistakes. It doesn’t help that in the Undead Burg I’ve noticed some of the enemies and their behaviour has changed slightly in updates over the past year. I’m having more trouble defeating the Taurus Demon than I ever had on my first playthrough. Last time I jumpedoff the ledge and forgot to pressthe attack button onmy way down so I landed on the ground and hurt myself and did that whole slow stand up thing that happens with falls from high spots. During which time he smashed me. 😛
I have a husband again! \o/
He also bought me The Witcher II strategy guide. For a penny! He took it up to the counter at Best Buy and they couldn’t find it in their system so they sold it to him for a penny. 😛
Score!! Sounds like he had an awesome time from his fb posts! Hope he’s treating you like a princess for having abandoned you!
Ha! That would be what you’d think but no, he’s too busy reliving his cruise with his facebook and 70K friends to even pay much attention to me. 😛
Just poke him in the side of his head until he acknowledges you! Works every time.
I could probably slap him in the side of his head with my naked boobs and he wouldn’t even acknowledge me…. 😛
The trick is persistence. Keep going, he’ll come ’round 😛
Ni No Kuni Stuff:
If you’ve dumb like me and been saving merit points: don’t, the others don’t unlock unless you spend them -.-
I figured it would be something like that so I bought all the first 6 or so available but nothing else unlocked immediately (maybe because I didn’t have any spare points after that?). I’ll try it out next time I play, thanks 🙂
More “hints” that people might not know:
Spoilers around the events of the first boss
If you go and talk to the Duck Tree and tell him about your travels you get some pretty decent items each time 😀
I fear I’ll be doing this a lot when I move out in 2 weeks.
“The internet keeps crashing when I go on google images. It’s because there’s too many games installed isn’t it?”
“An icon is missing, how do I get rid of the virus causing that?”
“There’s a box with the weather on the side of the screen. I closed it because I think it’s a virus.”
“The monitor’s black, is it a virus?”
“The computer’s really loud today, how do I take it apart and disconnect the fans?” (30+ degree day)
Just a sampling of what I have to deal with when I’m home! Then there’s always the “It’s telling me to press ok to continue, do I press ok?” “Now it’s telling me to put in my email address, do I put it in?”
Dammit… I think Kotaku just swallowed my comment. *sigh* Sorry if this is actually a double post.
So that Nintendo thing I went to the other night was actually really good. It was really an IGN awards night with Nintendo as one of the major sponsors. Because Nintendo invited me, I was assigned as a VIP, which gave me access to the ivory tower with free food and alcohol all night, and the opportunity to rub shoulders with Australia’s gaming elite e.g. I spent 5 minutes chatting to Bajo about Dead Space 3 (he said it’s really good (and I found out afterwards that Hex was there too, but didn’t know at the time, so I didn’t get to speak to her 🙁 )).
I played heaps of multiplayer Rayman Legends, FIFA 13, Nintendoland, Trials Evolution (and convinced my “competition” that they had to go buy it to get better at it), as well as Luigi’s Mansion 3DS (good) and Alien: Colonial Marines (not so good).
Then at the the end of the night they gave me this. Score!
So yeah, all you Sydney people who ignored my last minute invitation – you missed out big time! It was great!
Those Sydney jerks! Ignoring your Nintendo and Zelda invites! 🙁
*shakes fist at your Trialsness*
Actually I believe when Django is set it’s pre KKK, they were just a bunch of uncoordinated racists haha. Honestly best scene in the movie. Had be in hysterics.
Edit: when the movie is set it barely pre-dates the KKK, who formed in 1865, 6 years after the setting of Django.
It sure is. I *need* to see it again. Did you go to Vmax for it? Was boss on the massive massive screen.
@lambomann007 I thought I’d have a play around with Construct 2, and it’s really nice! I can’t really tell how powerful it is yet, but everything I’ve done is 10x simpler than it is in game maker. I love how there’s so many useful things just built in. 8 directional movement took me 15 minutes of coding and numerous google searches in GM, but Construct just lets you drop it in.
I’m not sure if I’m willing to drop $120 on it, but I’ll see how it goes.
Hello all! Sure is quiet in here.
I hope everyone’s well.
@dc – where are you buddy? Hopefully you’re preoccupied with awesome stuff and not stuff that sucks 🙂
That’s great! Awesome is good. So much better that stuff that sucks 😛
Will we have to wait for tomorrow for a write-up, or can you give us a sneak peek tonight?
Oh wow 😮
Awesome times indeed!
Sleep well my friend 🙂
Haven’t slept? Damn boy, you know how to party!
That or D.C. can’t sleep outside of his hermit cave. Others slept fine. 😛
I’ma stick with “party animal”.
Lock it in, Eddie.
Should have brought your teddybear. 😛
He just likes to watch everyone else sleep!
Debating whether I need a third dinner or not…
Also… why the hell am I so damned hungry tonight?!
I ended up having 6 slices of vegemite toast.
I’m now contemplating raiding the fridge for something. WHAT THE HELL IS MY METABOLISM DOING?!
Also, I’m sur my stomach isn’t big enough to hold 3 meals, let alone 4… where the hell is this food going?!
…there’s been none of that.
Work’s going to love me tomorrow then, eh?
Hi everybody!
Finished Episode 1 of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead! Moving on to episode 2. Hating it so far! 😀
How are you all this fine drizzly day?
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