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HAPPY BIRTHDAY @markserrels!
In other news, To The Moon is $3.99. Convince me.
(Also Dreamfall and Longest Journey for $3.99 and $5.99 @dc)
Happy birthday! (I am terrible with birthdays ._. )
Me too. I just do what Facebook tells me! \o/
You’re friends with THE Serrels on Facebook? Dude, screw the writing career, you’ve made it already.
The only way I can maintain my enthusiasm for writing is by convincing myself that he friended me because of it 😛
It’s a good game.
Also >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wwn4ilLZas
Convince you? It’s $4. Don’t be that guy.
It’s a day’s budget for food. I need convincing.
I will, I always am.
Cheap doesn’t justify a purchase.
This is why we can’t have nice things, Jim.
HAPPY @markserrelsDAY
Oh look. I ruined it. LIKE I RUIN EVERYTHING.
HAppy Birthday, Mark
(thanks @shane)
HAPPY BORTHDAY @markserrels
IN BEFORE @blaghman talks up to the Moon
Happy birthday Mark! 😀 May your days forever be rich with Irn Bru!
HB @markserrels! #evenoldermanserrels
HAPPY SERRELS DAY! may your porridge be … porridgey
I’m bad at birthday messages
HAPPY BIFFDAY! http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/biffday.jpg
I wish every day was Biffday.
The Longest Journey/Dreamfall. There’s two worlds. A world of science and a world of magic, that have been kept separate from one another. A few people have the ability to cross the divide into other world. April Ryan is one of these people in the first game, Zoe just might be too when she begins to hear voices through her worlds technology insisting she finds April Ryan, saves April Ryan in Dreamfall. Amazing games. To the Moon is just like a book. Instead of turning page, you click on hotspots. It’s really damn good too.
Happy Birthday Marky Mark!
Happy Birthday Mark.
Buy it or @blaghman will shake his head disapprovingly at you
You wouldn’t want to disappoint the blaghman would you
To the moon is one of the best stories in a video game I have played recently. Even at full price, this game is more than worth it (Set aside 5 hours to play from start to end for full effect) 🙂
I watched so much Alien on the weekend that nothing happened.
Not even an Alien related dream.
Man I had this dream one time about an Alien film written by Joss Whedon and directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet. It had the worst story of all time and it was a stain on the series as whole. It was the most retarded thing ever. Wait, that makes it a nightmare, right?
Boy am I glad no one actually made that film.
Better than Aliens
Ey oh ey
D:
There’s only one alien film better than Aliens. It’s called Alien.
No Alien movie is better than Aliens, but the first is pretty close. 😛
There’s a difference between your favourite and the best.
For instance, Final Fantasy 8 is my favourite, 7 is the best.
Nope. *folds arms stubbornly*
😀
@dc *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
(Prometheus is my favourite this month even if itt’s not really an Alien movie)
Aliens is an amazing action film, Alien is an amazing suspense/horror. I guess I prefer suspense/horror, hence my favouritism. I like the slow burn over in your face action. Some of the imagery in Alien though is just sublime, the art direction and set design just bleed through the camera, so good.
Only saw it once. When I was sixteen. I like slow burn, suspense horror too. Maybe it’s worth picking up on Blu-Ray sometime. XD Aliens I’ve seen about ten times.
@dc Honestly, for years I was exactly the same and thought Aliens was my favourite, and had also watched it tonnes. Then I saw Alien as an older viewer and my whole preference changed, and I’ve since seen Alien as many times.
Oh cool! Will make a point to rewatch then!
There’s two, the others are on par.
Alien 3 is the worst Alien film and just a terrible film in general. The others range from awesome (Alien, Aliens), good (AvP) and average (Resurrection, AvP2).
I refuse to even watch the AvP movies. XD
I really like the first AvP. It’s a great mix of action and horror like Aliens and the original Predator, and the Predator teaming up with the human and regarding her as a hunter is ultracool and adds a great layer of depth to the Predators as a whole, really showing them as having honour to what they do and that they aren’t just evil hunters.
AvP2 isn’t great, but it has some decent action and the Predalien is sort of cool, which is why I consider it on equal footing with Resurrection. Neither Resurrection or AvP2 are great films, but there’s enough about them I can like that I don’t consider them horrible.
Theyre no Blade Runner
Except for all the replicants.
(Had to be said. XD)
This is a wise decision my friend. Very wise.
I question the sanity of any sentient being that rates Resurrection higher than 3, no matter how bad you think 3 is.
I really liked Resurrection. Had a lot of smart ideas behind such an awkward implementation.
Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder did a really good job in it, and the human/alien hybrid was super creepy. The only redeeming factor 3 had was Ripley sticking it to the man at the end, but other than that the whole film was utter trash.
Resurrection was completely out of place with the entire series, I felt. Jeunet is an amazing director, but he’s an arthouse director. Whoever decided he’d be good for an Alien film should be killed. Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder were fine, but the story and the entire feel of the film was completely off-kilter for me. Ripley being cloned so they could attain a queen? A little farfetched, but OK. Ripley somehow becoming some sort of partial hybrid? Hngh, come on. The queen taking on human attributes like a womb and literally giving birth to some fucked up hybrid? What the hell?
If the Alien series had a certain feel to it, I thought the first 3, while all totally different adhered to a certain atmosphere. Jeunet brought his arthouse-style direction and it just felt wrong. The entire film felt disjointed and messy.
At least Alien 3 had the decency to follow the formula, and I feel even if you didn’t like the film, you have to admit it felt more in sync with the series than Resurrection. I always felt Alien 3 tried to go back to it’s roots. It was attempting to be a scary film in a similar sense to Alien. I’m still not entirely sure what the fuck Resurrection was trying to be.
I think having Ripley almost being gang raped was the very opposite of going back to its roots, which up until that point had been about Ripley being awesome and kicking ass. Plus the dog alien was mega doofy. I will agree with you though that Resurrection was a shift from what the first two films did.
I think that particular scene was more to do with fitting the rest of the movie. Ripley can be the baddest, most determined person in the universe, but a group of other not-so-very pleasant people can make that count for nothing, at least temporarily, if they so choose. I think it was trying to capture a sense of helplessness more than anything. The entire movie is about basically having no hope. I think it was interesting to see Ripley vulnerable and not in charge.
They have no weapons to fight a single Alien, they’re powerless, hopeless. Ripley is hosting a new alien queen, and there’s nothing she can do. They don’t have the tech to remove it on Fury 161, and she’s sure as hell not letting Weyland-Yutani get their hands on it – again, no hope. She’s trying to warn everyone about the Alien and no one believes her. She’s not in charge, and again, powerless. A bunch of rapists, murderers and generally bad men decide they’re going to attempt to rape her, and she’s powerless again. But she was saved by another prisoner – the flipside of the film is her trying to get people to work together to beat the odds.
As for the Alien, I found the ‘dog’ alien, as it’s generally known to be, far more scary and terrifying than it’s predecessors. It was smaller, sleeker, faster and more agile. Not only was it a cool evolution to see, it fit the movie’s setting perfectly. The old style aliens were more of the sheer numbers and determination-type of terrifying. The dog alien was scary because it could leap out of an air vent and whisk you away in a heartbeat.
But I guess it’s just a case of each to their own. The Aliens films are among my favorite films of all time, and I get quite passionate about them. I still puzzle as to why people hated Alien 3 so much, and my mind utterly boggles when someone describes Resurrection as anything but an abortion.
But that’s my opinion, and it’s actually not a common one regarding Alien 3, I’ve found.
Morning TAYbies, how was the weekend? Mine was fun, finally got to finish a art type thing I’d been thinking about for a while, hammer through Blood Dragon after a few drinks which made it playable and then spend sunday getting the rest of the achievements for that, minecraft and most of deadlight, then I watched expendables 2.
Today’s probably going to be boring as all hell for me as the server at work’s still down since friday and I’ve got a whopping nothing I can do.
If id seen this earlier i would have replied as my day was quite boring too…alas..
Well, you’ve found it now. We can be bored together because the freaking servers are still down here, I’ve had a whopping 3 things to do all day and that took half an hour
Sounds a lot like my day. Majority of the higher ups are in Brisbane/Melbourne this week. With them gone theres nobody to do anything for. Most of the day i’ve been reading up on game of thrones history…accidentally stumbled across a massive spoiler too, heart broken.
The rest of the day i spent compiling a list of all the games im going to finish before i purchase any more because my librarys gotten out of hand.
WOO! my bosses are waiting on an image of the server so I can actually do things, most of my day’s been trying to find a decent pdf shrinker for a client and watching some facebook groups I’m in explode because of a video that was posted … fun times.
I’ve managed to whittle down my lost of console games to finish before buying more … but I don’t even want to think about the state of my steam library
5 more minutes until home time!
Hopefully your day is a bit more entertaining tomorrow. Until then.
Sydney.
I am in you.
Hot.
(antifreeze pun)
(and a pun about antifreeze)
Fun article in the Sydney paper (Think its the daily telegraph?) about Canberra, calling it
And that was just the opening sentence. It got more scathing from there.
My kind of article.
Yeah, our opinion of the place has really improved in recent years.
Sounds about right.
Finally got around to playing Jet Set Radio HD which I bought aaaaaages ago.
What a shit tutorial. It forces me to perform a series of mundane tasks but doesn’t have the decency to tell me what button does what or anything.
Wound up ragequitting, which just isn’t like me at all.
That’s the closest I got to gaming this weekend, not counting Minecraft on the Potaku server, trying to farm some cows so I have leather for books. Finally found Beavwa’s impressive homestead with it’s giant wall.
maybe @negativezero can teach you?
Oh, I was able to figure it out, I just became so frustrated that I lost interest in playing.
I see, damn.
I always preferred JSRF a lot more than the original, but I wanted to give it a go anyway. I didn’t spend too long with the original because I never had a Dreamcast.
The original JSR isn’t very fun. JSRF is miles better in every way except that its soundtrack has Birthday Cake.
You’re like the first person I’ve ever had agree with me. Whenever I say I liked JSRF, people are all like “YOU HEATHEN, YOU MUST PREFER THE ORIGINAL”.
Eff that. I have the JSRF/Sega Rally combo from the original Xbox which is thankfully backwards compatible, I might just pop that in tonight.
I had a DreamCast and never played. Someone prolly gave me a pirated copy too.
Nothing could drag me away from Shenmue (except Marvel VS CApcom 2, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Cannon Spike, etc etc etc)
I only ever played Dreamcasts at other people’s places during “parties” so apart from a few solitary hours with JSR after everyone else went to sleep, my only experience with the Dreamcast was limited to Chu Chu Rocket and Samba Di Amigo.
Ouch! Missed all the best stuff.
You needed your own DreamCast to really appreciate Shenmue though.
(Or you could’ve slept on my couch every weekend like @gutsoup I guess)
I had a Dreamcast and I played it and I liked it, but it was always a game that was stylistically miles ahead of where the game itself was. The big thing that JSRF takes away is the time limit. This makes it much less frustrating and arcadey, requiring perfect precision on all your jumps and getting everything exactly right in a certain amount of time, and instead changes the game into a more open world exploration game where finding secrets and getting awesome jumps and tricks is far more important, and that in turn makes it a vastly superior game to actually *play*.
Also JSRF has a better soundtrack, aside from Birthday Cake. JSR has some great tracks, but JSRF has a more cohesive style. JSR is the prototype, JSRF is the real game.
Incidentally the fact that the AU Xbox launched with JSRF was what cemented my decision to buy it originally. Xbox was basically the Dreamcast’s successor.
I’m not a creative person, so when I can’t think of anything to do, I just add to the wall. Haven’t been on in a while though thanks to signing up to Telstra for ADSL at the new place.
All I’m doing is mining to kill time while I farm cows for leather. I keep cooking steak and chicken and farming wheat even though all I eat is melon.
I see all the epic builds and I think that not only am I insufficiently talented to produce good pixel art or cool buildings, the amount of resources needed is too darn high if you’re not playing in creative mode. Someone put up a building made of gold blocks nearby. I’ve found enough gold for maybe three. 🙁
That said, whatever modest builds I do accomplish in survival mode is made all the more satisfying – if I was playing in creative mode I’d be bored because I’m not smart enough for cool circuitry.
I’m trying to stockpile some resources for a big-ass castle right now, so that’ll kep me digging at the very least.
Yeah, all my stuff is survival. The wall was a way to use the resources since I dig a lot of tunnels. Creative kinda takes away most of the point of just messing around and wasting time for me. Also why I moved far enough out that there wasn’t really any creative near me – as Pip found out, people with creative can get bored and have unlimited TNT – there was a massive crater and subsequent secondary spread of exploding TNT uncomfortably close to her place.
I have been tempted to make a big castle then blast away parts of it to make it look battle damaged, then put vines all over it so it looks all overgrown and abandoned.
But as for huge amounts of TNT… I have learned my lessons.
Where did all the good news go?
It wasn’t rating well so Ten axed it. I think people were getting sick of Paul mcdermotts smarmy grin.
ew
Hola Tayberinos
I am in Puno, a small city on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Today I have been on a cruise to two places: the island of Taquile, the largest Island on the Peruvian side of the lake (local joke: Peruvians say they have the Titi part and the Bolivians have the Caca part, the Bolivians say the reverse) and also to an Uros floating island, a reed and root made platform that the Uros live on. Such a unique way of life.
A Monday Morning (Sunday Evening) question: where would you park your floating island?
*ring ring*
Hey cousin… I heard you like titis
My answer to your question: why would you ever want to park a floating island?
Hee hee.
Titicaca.
Near Sonic the Hedghog?
Lake Kawaguchi.
Uros are super interesting! Can they move around?
Has anybody read Joker written by Brian Azzarello? Picked it up on the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yeah, wasn’t what I was expecting. Need to read it again.
He and the artist also did Luthor which was in continuity so I was suprised when Joker was an elseworlds tale. :-/
I didnt know what to expect when I picked it up. I liked that it was told through the perspective of an up and coming hired thug, thought it gave a good insight into Joker’s crew. Also thought the art was great.
How did you find Luthor?
I preferred it, it was good seeing things from his perspective. You know, for him, Superman is an evil alien that has invaded Earth.
Oh cool, i’ll probably pick it up then.
What was that brand of computers, the website featured a while ago where they showed how much the parts cost individually, and how much they charge and what you get with them with warranty and such? They looked like a good deal, but I just can’t remember the site
Alrighty Sydney folk, the manly @freezespreston is in Sydney for a couple of days (today and tomorrow).
We need to organise dinner or something. So, who would be up for Ichi-Ban Boshi either tonight or tomorrow night?
@alexpants, @cakesmith, @35, @shiggyninty, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @batgirl, @trjn, @freya, @fatshady, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @powalen, @ruffleberg
Thanks for the list @dc
Thank TAYnames! XD There’s also people like Pez that I don’t know…
poor @masha2932 🙁
Racist!
I just couldn’t decipher the number combination and wasn’t sure if he lived in Parramatta or something. (I’ve got no concept where that is. XD)
Pointlessly posting here to indicate that I WOULD be up for something, but payday is Wednesday and I’m flat-ass broke til then.
I’m out tonight and will be carrying too much stuff to go out tomorrow night ;( Sorry dudes, short notice!!
I’m free tomorrow.
Having people look over your shoulder every 10 seconds is really annoying…particularly cause I can’t get on TAY without looking like I don’t care about their computer woes.
(Decided to shake things up a little. XD)
I relistened to Superjesus’ Sumo a couple of times over the weekend, so I’m pretty sure the last song I played was probably Sand Fly.
Hersey – Uematsu – FF8 OSt
(suprisingly* not Heresy – Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral)
*not even a little
Uematsu spelled Heresy correctly, I did not.
Zeitgeist S02E16 opening theme. End theme coming soon!
Fireproof – The National
Go get it
Maybe I will.
Come release day. 😛Virus by M4sonic
City Hall, by Tenacious D.
Aww this doco looks really cool. I like how it seems to be looking at human behaviour in a really honest and respectful way, despite the flaws of people http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/storieswetell/
I’m expecting that link will take me to a Troma Film or something even more nasty.
Hey, just read about that yesterday and was going to give you the heads up.
Foiled again! *shakes fist*
Does look amazing.
(Also have A Separation recording today on Foxtel after you and @bdkiaf talked about it last week. Won’t be able to watch until the glasses situation is dealt with. Subtitles and all that.)
Ahhh cool! Glad someone took the suggestion 😀
Holy shit, right!?
Saw the trailer a few months ago and promptly forgot it existed. Looks great.
I didnt realise that lass had got into directing too. She did the one with Michelle Williams potentially sexing someone behind Seth Rogen’s back, or something. Away From Her, I think it was called? Too lazy to reopen imdb 😀
But now I’m curious to see that film, she seems to have talent. Interesting she made that away from her film now seeing that doco trailer.
Sarah Polley I think I’ve only seen in Dawn of the Dead remake. So cool to see her getting recognition for directing.
New Paul Greengrass too, looks purdy gooooood http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/captainphillips/
I just discovered an account on Twitter called Best Youtube comments and was laughing so hard I cried. My boss probably thinks I am ill because I was silent laughing and…oh gawd.
That started popping up in my feed too. What’s going on?
Edit: oh. You’re retweeting them. *headdesk*
Those are prolly my RTs, sorry, I was really laughing a lot and got carried away.
I didn’t even make it all the way through before forcing myself to stop.
omfg that orbit one!
I died on the
That’s what I look like after I take a dump and realise there’s no toilet paper in the roomSo after getting my Learner licence 2 weeks ago I finally drove for the first time in over 12 years on Saturday. I don’t know if it’s just an issue with not having quite enough leg room or our car being really low, or maybe just the fact that it’s something I just have to adjust to, but my knee was stiff as hell when I got out of the car afterwards.
I think between even a luxury-size sedan still being slightly too cramped for me, and too low for my much shorter wife, we might have to consider an SUV. The issue there is that SUVs are double the price of any other car of a similar age. Even something from 2002 can be up to $10k. :/
Is it a manual? Even with strong legs it can feel pretty weird after using a clutch for the first time in ages.
Nah, automatic. I was learning in a manual back when I was 16 but it’ll take longer for me to learn confidently enough to pass a test and I really just want to get onto my Ps ASAP.
Plus my wife has a hip issue that prevents her being able to drive a manual on a regular basis, so us owning one would be pointless.
Saw Star Trek on my stony lonesome.
So young Spock is just, like, a cheat?I had my hopes up high, they werent met. First is miles miles better imo
Agreed.
Way too much “homage” to the first Star Trek and the the old Star Treks.
Agreed, lots of fan service. Being a fan I liked the little injokes and all that, but could tell it wasn’t as accessible as the first one.
It wasn’t even the accessibility it just felt there wasn’t a good script.
I did enjoy it even though it sounds like I didn’t.
My biggest problem was the lack of danger since they introduced the Bendict Cumberbatch Patented Cure-All at the very start. That’s why Kirk’s death held no real weight for me. Spock’s reaction, though, was amazing. That was probably my favourite scene.Why dont you just marry Spock then
But yeah I found Cumberpatch to be really crass and pretty poorly written and overracted yah
They’ve cured death forever too, huh. Not sure that’s going to lend itself to dramatic story telling in future instalments. XDAlso the whole volcano part was amazing and got me so excited for a JJ Abrams Star Wars.Volcano part? I need to rewatch this movie.Opening scene deecee
I need to see this movie again. Haha!
Oh Dan…
I missed everything from the Native’s planet up until Spock/Kirk going to Kronos. D:@dc Aw really? How come? Was that because of your glasses or something?
edited because err thats not a spoiler I just got caught up with spoilers :/
Left cinema for about twenty minutes, Freeze followed. Totally wrecked the movie for him.
Will definitely see it again, possibly in 3D at South Bank Cineplex sometime soooooooon.
@dc Ooohhh i had no idea. Hope everything was ok 🙁
I was a little bit drunk when we first went in, my awareness of things was quite low
@dc Just hitting the bathroom?
Nahmsayin?
Haha! No! XD
Was going home. Wasn’t feeling the best. Freeze stopped me. Freeze is awesome.
My problem was the story arc never went very far – it was one basic mission and the movie was filled in with overdrawn events. There was no real sense of adventure (something Hollywood sorely lacks lately).
They could have fit so much more in if they edited the ship crash, Kirk dying moments and the ship standoff. With that added time they could have made the Klingon moments more interesting (this felt really rushed) and do a better build up earlier on (Kirk loses his ship and 2 minutes later he gets it back again).Use < s > and < / s > for masking spoilers, only without the spaces. Be quick too. D:
Thanks sir!
Spoiler tags:
Type “<” “s” “>”
I’ve just been spoiled. >:(
Sorry man, believe it or not it’s not a huge part of the whole story.
S’OK. Only saw a few words before scrolling away in a panic. 😛
That’s the problem with this one and the first Star Trek. There’s such a turn over of who’s Captain of The Enterprise it becomes a bit of a joke.If it had an impact and he learned something from it, I could have let it slide. Maybe.In the series you’ve got to earn the whole Captain thing. Came a little too easy for Kirk, I think. It’s like if a new recruit was promoted to General in the army, just cause he does something heroic on his first day. 😀http://www.gog.com/promo/indie_adventures_weekend_promo_100513
Oh wow, lots of adventure games on sale too, apart from the ones @shane mentioned!
@tigerion: Scratches is $4!
Phew, good thing you’ve now got Tigs to try and convince to buy Scratches 😀
He expressed more enthusiasm. 😛
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If everyone playing on the Minecraft server could look at this:
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That would be awesome. Also, please share it amongst any friends you invited in.
I suck at remembering peoples @ handles 😛
What kind of monthly cost are we looking at?
@Cakesmith would be the man to ask, but even if people could just donate a couple of bucks or something, that’d help.
I’ll hit it on Wednesday when money is a thing that exists for me again \o/
Saw The Evil Dead at the weekend with @AlexPants, @ShiggyNinty, @Cakesmith, @Batgirl, @Blaghman, @Trjn, @Frejr, Holly and Patience. I enjoyed it but thought the “laughing at gory bits” kinda ruined any atmosphere. And the talking through the movie. Why is it not yet legal to stab noisy cinema people in the face? We then went for
Mexican! Indian!Sushi! http://youtu.be/nepADA9jwuwStuff happened after that but it was 11pm and if I didn’t leave then, I wasn’t getting home that night.
How are all you guys?
Mexican indian sushi is where it’s at.
I’m going to see the evild ead on friday with some work fronds, was it just gory for the sake of gore or were there actually decent reasons for all the things?
Well, The Necronomicon was the primary reason behind all the gore. It’s pretty brutal though. I liked it, but wouldn’t go see it in a cinema again. I’d watch it at home where I could enjoy it more.
I think the film was making people uneasy, hence the laughter. Understandable, but I’m there for that feeling so the laughter kinda ruined it.
The schlocky gory bits were pretty funny. Don’t forget the original was a B-movie.
@Freya!
Yeah, we had talking during the movie people a-plenty when we saw The Place Beyond the Pines! First time I saw Dawn of the Dead these two girls talked the entire time, it’s like they just bought the tickets to sit in the air conditioning in the dark together to ramble. Saw it a second time with a packed cinema and it was so much better. Crowd reaction and all that. (In the good way. People jumping, recoiling back into their seats and all that. Not pointless conversation. Haha.)
Yeah, I was getting ready to punch the dick behind me who was laughing ALL the time. Jump scare? AHAHAHAHAH! Character gets stabbed? AHAHAHAHAHA! Emotional moment? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! -_-
I don’t really get along with my dad all that well, but he totally yelled at a bunch of talking kids during The Impossible and they shut up for the rest of the movie. WAS AWESOME. 😀 Another guy did that when I saw Hugo too!
I’ve gotten into telling people off territory. Wouldve totally told off the people in Pines if I wasnt in the middle of a Dan sandwich.
I’m always too worried about making a scene/ruining their night. D:
Hi @dc!
😀
I finally saw Iron Man 3 on the weekend. I rather liked it.
I think the twist with the Mandarin was pretty cool because I did not see it coming at all and Guy Pearce did a good job as the villain. The only thing I didn’t like about it was that Ben Kingsley did an absolutely amazing job and his Mandarin pre reveal was pretty horrifying as a villain, which means I can’t help but wonder what could have been if he had been the actual Mandarin.I wasn’t to sure about the kid character Tony hangs out with for a bit. Kid characters are normally pretty annoying, but they managed to avoid this for the most part. I still probably would have liked him not to be in the film, though I will admit Robert Downey Jr had some great lines at the kids expense.
Also great to see Pepper get in on the action a bit.
What did everyone think of Doctor Who last night? I felt that like the rest of this season so far it didn’t feel up to par with previous seasons. It was still good, just not the greatness I’d come to expect from the show. Given that they were using a classic Doctor Who enemy, it was doubly disappointing that it ended up just being an average episode. Also, that young teen girl was the absolute worst.
To finish, because there was talk of dreams further up the page, I had a dream the other night where I was a Pirates of the Caribbean style pirate who boarded a massive Titanic style cruise ship and started to ransack the place. I eventually came to a room full of beautiful women who started to swoon over me because I was a sexy pirate, then I started murdering them with my sword and saying “I’m a pirate, what did you expect?”. On one hand I hate my mind for taking the dream in that direction and not another one. On the other hand it was pretty hilarious.
That kids gonna put on the armor in Avengers 3 after Thanos annihilates the team in Avengers 2. Mark my words.I liked the episode last night, probably second favourite of this season following asylum of the daleks.
spoilers for latest episode below
The whole thing of Clara just knowing how to command a group of soldiers, set up a defensive perimeter and blah blah blah kind of annoyed me. So did Moffats changes to the cybermen so they can now upgrade on the fly and the upgrade process not involving completely butchering the human body to encase their nervous systems in the metal shell. Now that I think of it, wasn’t all this universes cybermen destroyed … that was the entire premise of the doomsday episode? they all had to come through the tear? Screw it, moffat is bad and bleh. I really did like seeing Warwick Davis completely free of makeup and being able to emote properlyWait, Asylum of the Daleks is part of this season? Because of the delay in broadcasting and the Christmas episodes, I never have any idea when one season starts and the next ends. I thought the weeping angel episode was the final of last season, and the one where he recruits Clara was the start of an entire new season, with the Christmas episode being an inbetween season episode. Looking it up though, we’ve only got one more episode left until the season ends? Man, that sucks. I thought we were only halfway through a season.
Oh, also
The adapting on the fly thing made them seem a lot more Borg-like. And what was with that super speed? Did they always have that, or what? Cause it looked sort of stupid.
Another also
I’ll agree with you on Clara being able to command a bunch of soldiers. It also felt a bit unbelievable that a military platoon could be so imcompetent.Well the idea behind that was they’d been sent there as punishment and hadn’t actually done any soldiering in a loooong while … you’d think considering how much the CO is all “the army is great” she’d have kept up the training.
It wasn’t just that they hadn’t done soldiering in a long while, they were sent there as punishment BECAUSE they were incompentent.
@dire_wolf
Oh, I get that they were sent there as punishment, and was even going to mention it in my original post but decided against it. My point is, even if they’re being sent their in punishment, their incompetence is just taken to ridiculous levels and becomes unbelievable that they’re in the military at all. Either they should have been kicked out of the military, split up and sent to different units or sent back to training. Keeping a highly incompetent unit together and just shipping them to a far off planet out of the way doesn’t make much sense, as they’re going to continue to remain incompetent while also continuing to drain the militaries resources.
@dire_wolf
Oh man, that is overthinking Dr Who. 🙂
he he … cyborgmen. They never had the super speed thing, that’s something that most of the classic villains missed out on. They were all lumbering clanking monstrosities that moved at a snails pace, but were damn near unstoppable. Kind of like zombies“looked sort of stupid” That’s part of Dr Whos charm.
But it didn’t look stupid in the good, Doctor Who way. It looked stupid in the poorly done CGI trying to be cool but failing way. Plus the fact that it only showed up once sort of made the rest of their interaction with the Cybermen seem odd, because if they had that power why didn’t they keep using it all the time?
Because Dr Who ?
Really, it’s not meant to be Hard Sci-Fi, just tongue in cheek fun.
Last year’s episodes were the first half of season 7, this year’s episodes are the second half of season 7. But at least we get the 50th anniversary episode in November.
How do they broadcast them in England? Do they show them all at once, one a week until the season’s over, or do they show half the season and then have a massive break before showing the second half?
They get them the same as we do. This season we’ve got the episodes only a few hours after England though, which is a bonus.
I do think it’s funny that Foxtel went to all the trouble of grabbing the broadcasting rights for all BBC programming, but completely overlooked the current contract that ABC has with the BBC where ABC continues to air Doctor Who within a few hours of BBC on the actual channel for the forseeable future and they get the choice to renew the contract for as long as they want, except on the ABC iviewer
Yarp, Asylum of the Daleks is episode one of this season … I’m pretty sure the idea behind splitting this season in half was to accommodate for the 50th anniversary shooting, or the bbc just wanted to milk it over two years.
I thought it was fine
Good to see Warwick Davis not being used for comedy. It’s been a while.
Wasn’t to impressed by the upgrade of the Cybermen, didn’t we get an upgrade recently?
That idea of them upgrading all the time has been done somewhere before.
I expect more from Gaiman.
But overall it was fine.
Finish your assignments, @greenius?
Yeah, but definitely failed the one for this stupid subject again 😛
That’s the spirit! Haha! Hopefully it’s like last time and you surprise yourself. Either way, must be a good feeling to have it done.
@greenius @powalen @strange @sughly
#SURVIVORFINALE!
I haven’t seen it yet…I totally clicked that spoiler, immediately regretted it, then I just felt a mix of relief and anger. It was an emotional rollercoaster. 5 stars.
Phoenix should write games with David Cage! 😛
I clicked it too, realised what I did, covered the screen ASAP and closed the page, crisis averted!
OHHHHH IT’S NOT A REAL SPOILER! 😀
(sneaky @phoenix)
hey gentlepeeps how r we all this horrible monday morning?
I sure wasn’t ready for the weekend to be over but despite my groans and grunts I got myself into work. My last sick day was a Monday so I feel like I can’t call in sick on a Monday again until I’ve called in sick on a Tuesday or Wednesday in between, and I try not to have any sick days closer than 6 weeks apart if I can at all help it. I have this weird mentality that I can’t be sick too often or I’ll get in trouble, probably a holdover from an old job where they seriously scolded you like a misbehaving child if you were sick “too often”, i.e.: more than the boss.
I slept through my alarm so thankfully my cat decided to communicate that her breakfast was late by clawing the shit out of the mattress next to my head at about 7am.
I don’t think I’ve actually been sick at all for years (barring me throwing my back a couple months ago), but I still take a day off here and there for sick leave. Usually a Monday or a Friday, nobody seems to get upset about it though.
Oh and yes, my cat does the same thing. She’s slowly stopping it though.
I occasionally get a mild bout of man-flu or an unspecified stomach complaint, but I would say 50% of my sick days are “blargh, don’t feel like it today” or “I slept in so I can either rush to get out the door and only be a little bit late, or I can just not go in”. That’s what happened on Monday about 6 weeks ago.
This is usually accompanied by crippling guilt when I wake up for the second time at around 10am.
I’m jelly, I always get sick.
oh man, i hear you. i got the flu over the weekend and had a pretty full on weekend what with 2 birthdays and mothers day, including the mother in law. have had no time for R&R.
also my alarm clock is just set to vibrate only… it used to wake my missus up with the ringing, but i noticed that every time my phone vibrates in the morning , kitty comes, and starts rubbing her head on my neck. so i tried this one night about 6 months ago, and my kitty has been waking me up since. EVERY TIME! i think he is used to me getting up at the same time everyday. \o/
floople doople zeebidy bob … It’s been 3 hours since I got to work and I still can’t do anything, best case scenario I can do things at about 1 … worst case is sometime on wednesday
I have nothing to do at work, so I’m slamming down Zeitgeist as fast as possible, and am about to hit up the latest Potaku. @dkzeitgeist, is the missing episode [S02E15] a deliberately forgotten chapter for the hardcore fans to unearth after your death? I checked iTunes and Podbean’s embedded player as well as the site itself – has anyone heard this one? 😛
Oh, and it looks like, after having done about half (edit: exaggeration) the contracted work ourselves (we won’t be paying for those bits), the MAN CAVE might be approaching completion tomorrow! \o/
What stuff did you do yourself?
We’re gonna do the floor today and tomorrow (I’m home tomorrow to help with that). Wife is doing some painting today (though we were always going to do this). Sanding down the plastering work that’s was done over the weekend (original schedule had this being done on Tues/Wed last week).
Except for the floor, just little stuff here and there, but it was holding the whole damn thing up 🙂
Edit: OH! I forgot to mention the sandpit, which was also part of the original quote. I did that entire thing by myself.
What the heck!?
That’s weird, it somehow got unlinked. Should be back up and ready to go.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/01/25/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e15-eli-roth-presents-an-apatow-production/
Thanks, man. I was worried I’d never find out your perfect porno!
Dammit, Ash wanted to get some game from the google store on my android phone and now I’m getting all these shortcuts to spam sites appearing constantly. I scanned with avast antivirus and its not picking anything up. I’ve never dealt with this before, WHAT DO!?
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
rollback? reformat? if neither are a possible solution I guess huddle yourself in a corner and cry.
Get an iPhone.
Maybe that’s the game.
screw avast, you need to bring out the big guns….
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/us/mobile/index.html
its free. and has a QR Scan code if you click the link so u dont have to manually input in your phone
Tried, but still says no threats found :'(
Must be friendly spam then. That’s good news! \o/
Phones need anti-virus? D:
Not if, like me, you’re too cheap and lazy to ever get any new apps 😀
My phone is from Cold War, Soviet era Russia!
Nuke detection unit still good?
If only, my friend.
You should store that in an archology
Only Android phones really. Google does sweet fuck all to curate their marketplace and relies on people complaining to know when there’s a problem. Apple and MS do proper checks of stuff.
10% off of board games at Ozgameshop.
Go buy some. It’s damned cheap before the 10% off anyhow.
*mental image of D.C. sitting in the dark playing board games by himself.*
:'(
You could invite other people instead of playing with yourself.
Or get Arkham Horror, which is for 1-8 players.
Get some for November. We’ll need some way to pass the time before I crash on the couch.
Slumber party! Count me in too.
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D:
No. Meating. Shane. 😛
No board games? I guess that just leaves awkwardly staring into each other’s eyes.
Or couch co-op games.
That’s what the kids are calling it these days .#DareYouToSayTheCave
😐
Tease DC.
Tick!
See you tomorrow, buddy.
They sell BOARD games now?!
Holy crap, this is like 40% the price of Games Paradise.
Yeah. I was enormously tempted but I don’t know how well they’ll package them.
Yep. I’ve been into the store of Games Paradise and while their customer service is kinda worth a little more, it’s not worth the full cost.
I used to be in Games Paradise on a weekly basis about 10 years ago. I have a stack of World of Darkness and D&D sourcebooks that probably represent an appreciable fraction of their income for the early 2000s.
We’ve been going there a lot…but over the last few weeks we’ve spent probably $300 there and then last night spent a similar amount online for more games :/
No sense in adding a :/ face to that unless you’re having mixed feelings about the spending. As long as you ultimately get some mileage out of the games it’s not money wasted!
I popped in there to see if they had a few of the games I was looking for and was kind of surprised Jenny’s still there. I’m guessing she’s part owner of the business or something, though it never occurred to me to ask.
It’s money. But then it’s board games. I have mixed feelings about not having money although I do like games.
My money all disappears on bullshit anyway, I try to buy things I actually want at the start of each month so I’m forced to pace myself.
No link, not shopping.
#LazyMonday
Someone in Brisbane buy Munchkin so I don’t have to!
Buy the deluxe version! Or an interesting variation!
I’ll buy all the monopoly.
Or maybe just the WoW monopoly. They’ve got Hobbit monopoly too, so I might get that. Unfortunately there’s no Adventure Time monopoly on the site.
You sure do like Monopoly
Not really, but it’s pretty much the only game I can convince people to play with me. Plus WoW branded money and little metal hobbit figures seem like they could be cool.
You have not lived until you play 4-board Monopolisk.
Risk board. Your armies are purchased using monopoly money which you gain by travelling around each monopoly board – UK, US, Australia and Star Wars. When you pass go on one board you move to the next board, then once you’ve finished your monopoly turn you play a Risk turn.
EDIT: This was a terrible game that some friends of mine invented. It ran for several days and didn’t conclude. By the time we finished, one player owned all of the UK and had hotels on every square on the board.
Do you have any idea how many monopoly games there are 0.o
I don’t think they would fit in my apartment, let along the board game area
Got myself a Wallabies 2011 World Cup Jersey today. Usual price $160, I got it for $33.80 including delivery. I bought it in 3XL to encourage me to keep losing weight. Pretty happy with my purchase.
@shane – are your lesser evil books in yet?
Sadly, man, the only one I have in stock is Book 2.
I’m holding out placing an order with my publisher until the omnibus is released (and I sent the cover back for redesign last week). Hopefully soon!
Sorry.
Amazing
EDIT: Just realised it’s on the front page of Kotaku. Oh well.
REPOST:
Alrighty Sydney folk, the manly @freezespreston is in Sydney for a couple of days (today and tomorrow).
We need to organise dinner or something. So, who would be up for Ichi-Ban Boshi either tonight or tomorrow night?
Freeze is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet! Don’t be scared!
Edit: Just realized you all met Freeze at NYE camping dealy. 😀
Only some of us. Which you’d know had you watched my camping video!
I had my reasons. REASONS. 😛
Is it because you’re a jerk who won’t watch anything fun? 😀
(SURVIVOR)
Mostly!
C’mon 🙂
It’s over! LET THE MADNESS END!
@dc season 27!
NOPE. >:|
I WOULD!
But I can’t make it because I’m in Queensland.
#NotHelping
Me! But you need to tell me when…
I didn’t really enjoy Iron Man 3 that much.
It’s probably my not paying proper attention but I didn’t understand the following:
Why did the mandarin want to kill the president?War Machines login just magically has the address of where the Mandarin lives? Like the address was just listed on the AIM Corporate site? Why on earth would you do that?
What was the metal thing in the suitcase the first explosion guy had?
Other things I didn’t like:
*If he had those other iron man suits sitting around waiting, why didn’t he just call one of them over as soon as his current one failed?*I am really tired of every single time him being iron man, the suit fails in some way. It’s always “you’re low on power” or “this prototype isn’t ready for that yet”, urgh.
*Further on the above issue, there wasn’t a single truly badass Iron Man moment. The army of iron men was kind of cool, but they really under-powered him for this movie. He pretty much just constantly got his ass kicked the entire movie.
*The twist was really predictable. You spend time fleshing out the second in command with a prominent actor and then provide a really one dimensional antagonist, then it’s given that he’s a front. Either that or I’ve just seen this exact same thing done in some movies before.
*The fire-breathing was pretty awesome but what happened to it? Seems like they forgot he could do that and should definitely made an appearance in the final fight.
*You tell a terrorist what your address is and then you don’t bother setting up any sort of defence at all? Really?
*What purpose did the PTSD from the Avengers serve? It made sense but it was never addressed. This could have provided Tony with an emotional journey, but instead he just gets hit with it here and there and then just carries on with his life. All it is used for is an excuse to have him being a narrator as he seeks therapy in the post credit scene (worst post credit scene ever, btw).
Despite this, it was still a good movie. Just not as good as the first two.
To answer what you don’t get
He wanted to kill the President so the Vice President would take over. The Mandarin had bought the Vice President’s loyalty by offering the exodus viruis so his daughter could regrow her missing leg.I don’t know about your second point. I think there was an explanation, but I can’t remember it.
The suitcase contained vials containing the exodus virus. The virus is unstable and they found a way to weaponize it so people who take it explode. This is first hinted at at the start when the plant Happy pulls on explodes.
Edit: To go into your other points
I think the idea was that he wanted to go off the radar for a bit. Hence not using other suits.I agree with this. Would be nice to just see him at full power in a fully working suit kicking ass for once.
Iron Man did do some cool stuff, though I get why you’d say this. I think Tony as himself (so, not fully suited up) got some cool moments though, like when he attacks the Mandarin’s mansion.
Not really predictable if you know the comics. The Mandarin is a Chinese dude, not a white guy, and AIM is a completely seperate thing from him. I thought they were trying to set something up for The Avengers 2 or even just one of the other heroes stand alone films by introducing AIM in Iron Man 3.
I think the fire breathing was just a shout out to the comic Mandarin who has all sorts of magic powers. They didn’t want magic in the Iron Man films, so having him breath some fire because of a science thing was as far as they wanted to go.
Tony’s just really arrogant, so, you know, it’s in character.
I’m hoping they’ll address the PTSD thing a bit more in future films. Plus it was a way to tie it back into the rest of the Marvel cinematic universe, as was the scene at the end, as unlike the first two Iron Man films this one didn’t really feature Shield or other heroes or anything.
I really, really enjoyed it.
Some of your points addressed below
Why did the mandarin want to kill the president? – To have the Vice President be instated so he could have a puppet in the White House.War Machines login just magically has the address of where the Mandarin lives? Like the address was just listed on the AIM Corporate site? Why on earth would you do that? – Didn’t Tony call him?
What was the metal thing in the suitcase the first explosion guy had? – Extremis serum.
*If he had those other iron man suits sitting around waiting, why didn’t he just call one of them over as soon as his current one failed? – The silo was blocked by debris as demonstrated when he calls Jarvis and Jarvis’ response is “They’re clearing the last of the debris now, sir”
*I am really tired of every single time him being iron man, the suit fails in some way. It’s always “you’re low on power” or “this prototype isn’t ready for that yet”, urgh. – You’ve gotta have some danger otherwise what’s the point.
*Further on the above issue, there wasn’t a single truly badass Iron Man moment. The army of iron men was kind of cool, but they really under-powered him for this movie. He pretty much just constantly got his ass kicked the entire movie. – To link in with his mindset. After the New York thing Tony knows for a fact that he’s woefully underpowered for other worldy threats. He builds all this new armor to try and prepare for every possible scenario but at the end of the day he’s still the one inside the armor. His weaknesses are the armors weaknesses. I thought this was a really interesting way to display his vulnerability.
*The twist was really predictable. Still great though.
*The fire-breathing was pretty awesome but what happened to it? True, that!
*You tell a terrorist what your address is and then you don’t bother setting up any sort of defence at all? – Again, I think this was supposed to show Tony’s unstable mindset.
*What purpose did the PTSD from the Avengers serve? It made sense but it was never addressed. This could have provided Tony with an emotional journey, but instead he just gets hit with it here and there and then just carries on with his life. All it is used for is an excuse to have him being a narrator as he seeks therapy in the post credit scene (worst post credit scene ever, btw). – See points above. I think it did create an emotional journey for Tony, not something super deep, but it was there. I loved the after credits scene.
Sughly’s S.H.I.T.S.T.O.R.M. for today:
Deportees – When Buildings Sleep
Oh man, you used my acronym <3
I dont remember what it stands for any more though XD
Sughy’s Hipster Indie Tendancies Shine Through Something Something Mainstream…
Over Something Mainstream
Repulsive?
No, I don’t think it was that clever.
That’s pretty damn good too!
Oh man, I saw this movie on Boxing Day and the songs still won’t leave my head.
Never see Les Miserables. >:|
Okay!
If I only spare you from such a fate, it was worth it…
My mum loves Les Miserableface, I’ve been subjected to various forms of it over the years and once again yesterday my sister was kind enough to buy her the DVD, so once again forced to endure it. I know your pain @dc , they pop into my head frequently, my mind is tainted. One thing I’ll say about the new version, Russel Crowe makes it comical, the dude tries so hard to sing like a big manly man and he’s the worst by far (plus I’m pretty sure he’s the only cast member with an actual band). Every time he opened his mouth i cracked up.
The story is pretty dodgy too. Hey, girl… I saw you on the street for a minute and now we’re in love. Let’s sing about it!
yeah, i though the plot was weak and most of the songs aren’t very well written, i have no idea why it’s so popular. Wassamattawitpeepl
I saw a show in January of 2007, and I still can’t get its songs out of my head.
…
BRB, gotta relisten to the Wicked soundtrack.
Why do this to yourself? 🙁
Because I’d much rather spend my time Dancing Through Life.
I may have walked in front of a Channel 7 video camera >:-(
You’ll be famous! Photobombing a newscast! \o/
You didn’t start talking about immigrants, did you? 😀
Were they filming fat people from the neck down in the mall?
HAHA! They always have the same stock footage of this one kid on Ten News for that purpose.
Hahaha, oh man, that poor kid. What do you think his self esteem is like? 😛
🙁 Maybe he turned his life around and is plotting revenge!
I remember they did a piece on our school doing some charity crap. That closing shot of the story where they say “So and so, channel ten news”, it was a shot of me and 2 friends walking. But one of my friends was veering straight to the female toilets. Nothing suss.
Probably important to note that he wasnt female.
I’ve never been on TV (to my knowledge) but if this is it, man is it dissapointing.
It’ll be me staggering through the mall, looking up, getting annoyed then wandering out of shot.
My wife keeps getting messages about being on the news because she’s in a piece of stock footage getting off a train at Central station. Any time they do a report about city rail they run the same footage, which is now like 8 years old.
Why else do you think they filmed me?
Does anyone here do scrapbooking or know someone who does it? I’m trying to start one, but I have no idea what to do. =(
The beauty of scrap booking is that you can do whatever the hell you like, and it’ll be great. Things like layouts, typography, spacing and decor come with practice. Is it a memoir, or commemmorative scrapbook, or something celebrating a particular interest of yours?
Colobus Monkeys: Our Simian Brothers Through the Ages!
I’m making a doggy scrapbook of Sid and his friends. It’s for my neighbour who lives in a nursing home now.
Layouts is probably the hardest thing for me.
My recommendations follow:
Buy an empty scrapbook-shaped book with plastic sleeves. Buy a bunch of square paper that will fit in all sorts of different colours. Buy some dog-related stickers and decals (phrases, and pictures of bones, whatever).
Write out short paragraphs of information, anecdotes and such onto small rectangles of paper, and fix them to the individual square pages (no more than one or two per page). Add photos of the dogs (trimmed for fitting and aesthetics, if needed – no more than one or two per page), and draw a footprint trail to direct the reader’s eye to the different elements. Fill blank spaces with stickers/decorations, and/or individual words that describe Sid’s adventures.
Repeat on the next page, but change up the layout. Put things at angles. Don’t use the same layout twice!
Basically the main idea is not to overcrowd the page, but not to leave it blank either (hence lots of meaningless, unobtrustive filler – decorations).
I did have one layout. But I feel I don’t know what to do. Btw this is probably the best advice anyone has given me. Do you mind if I send you images and get your advice?
Also I worry that I don’t have enough embellishments. ^^;; At the same time i’ve heard of people buying embellishments they never use
I’m far from an expert, but happy to help if I can.
shane at shanewsmith dotcom or DM me on Twitter. Whatever you like, really!
Edit, you can draw your embellishments (use homemade stencils possibly) – bones and footprints, etc, all quite easy just to draw onto the page. No purchase required for those.
Any help will be appreciated. Trust me, it’s like you’ve just thrown me a life ring in the middle of an endless ocean of coloured and pretty patterned papers.
Ugh, patterned paper. I’m going to recommend against that right now, but that might just be a personal preference of mine 😛
@shane
I was thinking of using it only as the base. So the very back page. I also have glitter paper but I’ve no idea what to do with it.
@scree, I was just joking – obviously you can design it how you want, of course! Just beware of overstimulating the old people 😛
EB Games sells a lot of cool junk these days. It’s overpriced junk, but still cool junk nonetheless. I probably would’ve bought one of those TF2 Pyro figurines if they weren’t so expensive…
I did buy Trials Evolution Gold Edition though. I couldn’t resist that steelbook case… And then when I opened it, I found out it had the soundtrack in it too \o/
I always feel like buying the action figures they’ve got on sale, but then I don’t because I’m embarrassed.
That’s just a deluded sense of dignity you get when you think you have to be an adult, you’ll lose that soon enough
I shed all my dignity and pride in favour of enjoyment, like when i bought a pile of Ninja Turtles Dvds and the checkout woman said “Oh for the kids?” to which i replied “Nope all for me” she looked at me very strangley and was silent for the rest of the transaction, I walked out with a big grinn and a sack full of loot 😛
EB Games use to sell Anime published from Madman, sort of upsetting they stopped.
Unsure if this ‘Loot’ products as they call it will last.
At Bankstown there’s a dedicated EB store just for toys and figurines. You can get some pretty good bargains – we got a Yoshi plushie for $16, and it’s a good-sizes one.
Had to get the train, from Potzdamar Platz… you never knew that… that I could do that…
Listening to David Bowie’s The Next Day for the first time in a couple of weeks today. It really is pretty damn awesome. 😀
It never ended up clicking with me 🙁
First half I love up until Valentine’s Day, then it starts getting hit and miss for me. 🙁
All love gets a bit wonky after Valentine’s Day.
Especially since that song’s about a high school shooting. 😛
I finally have time to post!
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*cough*
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How about dem Vidya Gaems?
I do like ’em, goshdern yeah 😀
All the cool kids are playing board games now. Get with the times, grandpa.
It’s so cute when you think you’re cool.
Is that OGS deal with a code or just automatic?
You have to use a code, it expires in a week.
HOOOOOOLY FUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT TRAILER NERDZ!!!
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-first-trailer-for-arrested-development-season-4-readies-the-final-countdown-20130512
Looks so damn good. 😀
Upvote, then watch. Thanks for the link \o/
Am I understanding correctly that the entire season is going to be released all at once? Set [redacted] to never sleep.
All episodes released at the same time, focusing on an individual character. Tells a serialized story over the course of the season.
Oh that’s right! I forgot about that. Can’t wait! Thanks for the reminder 😀
I’m going to feel so bad [redacting] all these episodes at once on launch day. D:
I love the ‘watch your back’ scene.I was resigned to just watching Mr. Strange play Bioshock Infinite because I didn’t think I’d have time to play, but after he played while I was busy yesterday I now have no idea what’s going on.
So I gave myself a day off work and banished my son from the loungeroom while I played it all morning. Been forever since I’ve been able to play a game all day. Feels good. 😀
ZzzzZZzzZzz
GET BACK TO WORK
Dear Head,
Would you kindly stop being a pain?
Yours sincerely,
ontargett
Hope you feel better. 🙁
Moving away from the computer screen helped.
Don’t know why I’m getting HD Game of Thrones, without glasses it’s going to look the same as SD anyway. D:
For future rewatching.
I don’t rewatch episodes. Even my Blu-Ray sets of the first two seasons still have plastic wrap on them! XD
Monster.
I will rewatch eventually… probably.
Bought the complete BSG boxset on Blu-Ray for Christmas 2011. Still in plastic wrap. D:
Monster!
Just sit really close
Is there any good articles or whatever I should read?
(remembering I hate your favourite game)
http://www.adventuregamers.com/games/view_reviews/22859
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/reader-review-annas-quest/
http://www.indiedb.com/games/annas-quest-vol1/reviews
@sughly, by the way, you’d better remember this stuff when you’re big(ger) time. Or … well, I guess there’s nothing I can do but cry. So I’ll cry. But you might like that. So I really have nothing to threaten you with.@sughly, I hope you remember this stuff when you’re big(ger) time.
Haha! Remember you guys, thats a good one
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/academaesthetics/
I’m reading this.
Don’t take this as an insult, please.
How do you care enough to write this?
(I’m still reading)
It was my Honours Thesis. I was going for First Class Honours and publication (and got ’em both!).
I enjoyed it, though, even if it’s really kind of boring nowadays.
I’m reading it. I find it interesting.
I just don’t know where people find their motivation…
I have zero to none. 🙁
http://potaku.com/2013/05/13/risk-legacy-game-one-shaping-a-new-world/
http://blaghman.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/lint-a-review/
http://blaghman.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/shane-w-smith-the-man-behind-the-hair-on-top-of-the-man/
http://potaku.com/2013/05/09/sexism-in-gaming-yes-but-whats-to-be-done/
I’m sorry, I started reading this the other day and my eyes rolled into the back of my arse.
Not your writing, the topic just makes me sick. :-/
I take shots at everyone. \o/
Don’t know if that helps!
Not really, it’s like politics, it’s all bad news and I can’t handle it so I avoid.
It all just makes me feel sad, angry, frustrated and powerless.
Everyone spends a lot of time discussing what we should be doing and not nearly enough time making changes.
I notice recently things tend to push to far in the other direction and we get those articles like the anti-bewbs one about Dragon’s Crown.
Everything’s always misbalanced and all we do is just keep tipping in either direction. 🙁
@dc @shane @alexpants @blaghman
Too many wurds not enough pictures
:p
@shane: How’s your Mad Men marathon going? Still season five?
Yep. It’s slowed down a bit in recent days because circumstances. But we’re nearly halfway through season 5. Awesome show, just awesome. 😀
Looking forward to you being involved with season 6 episode discussions. Though you better hurry up, we’re halfway through the season!
I think we’re gonna do the usual, and hang back until we can watch a season in one big hit. So (at the earliest) we’ll start season 6 about two weeks out from the season finale.
The Americans has finished its first season now if you’re keen to watch that. Really great cold war drama.
We have so many DVDs to watch, and such a … disappointing … internet connection that I’m gonna put that one reluctantly on the backburner.
You’ve just made my enemy list. >:|
If you can send me a portable HDD with all the stuff you want me to watch, I’ll watch it, dagnabbit. I just have no good way to [redact] everything 😛
Time for a SECOND WEEK OF TAY? 😮
I dunno. I mean I did already miss out on the first page…
You’re in TAY’s grasp now. Ain’t no escaping.
Oh man, you’ll miss subtle plot points that’ll recur later if you don’t go back and read the first page… 😛
DON’T CLENCH. Just let it happen.
POTAKU GIVEAWAY!
I’ve been trying to keep quiet about having these things but I’m pretty sure I’ve told 90% of the Sydney TAYbies at some point because I was so excited.
Hell yeah. Thanks Potaku!
Doc What told me a while ago that they’d made the best kind of mistake on one of them (a wild 360 disc appears) and I had no idea what he was talking about, but it sounded like I was going to be getting a free game, so I played along \o/
Yep! They sent 3 PS3 copies and 3 PC, but one PC copy was already open so I peeked inside and there was a 360 copy (still sealed, mind) there. Worked out for the best there!
The box(es) they were sent in read ‘Alexander Cavenett – Potaku – [my address here]’. It’s like we’re official or something. You have no idea how much flailing I’ve been doing.
We actually got sent a sixth copy but his head and one of his arms had fallen off, so we kept that one. He looks a bit sad.
That’s so cool, man. Must be awesome, being recognised as professionals for something you built from scratch!
I’m going bald, where’s mine?
It’s, umLOOK OVER THERE
*runs away*
Sweet merciless babies … It’s like a collectors edition of a collectors edition. Finally, shaving my head for charity gives something back!
Awesome sauce that we raised nearly $3000 and hopefully we can get more TAYbies next year. Soon, an army of bald taybies (BAYbies) shall be known across the land and we shall be unstoppable!!!
@jimu: First trailer for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.…
Edit: Freakin’ love the tilt shift shot of the city. Looks pretty great! D:
Then why the sad emoticon? 😛
That’s my ‘holy damn, I was dissing the show just last week and now I’m on board like some kind of hypocrite’ face too. XD
I am so down for Agent Phil Coulson: The Show.
And the inevitable tie-in, Agent Phil Coulson: The Show: The Game.
and the minigames are “Find the weapon with Agent Coulson” … you can’t lose because everything is weapon!
And the iPhone tie-in, Touch Agent Phil Coulson!
And then the board game version that comes with your very own blow up coulson for hours of family friendly fun
Jeph Loeb! Awesome!
Jeph Loeb’s new role is Marvel TV, he’s been bringing out all the shit for about a year (?) now.
Makes sense, dood’s written many a comic, made Commando & Teen Wolf and did all that TV work.
Oh damn, I can’t watch at work, perhaps tonight.
That tilt shift shot is just to prove that Joss Whedon is directing the first episode :p
I really hope the lesser Marvel heroes like Luke Cage and Iron Fist get to be in this. That’d be pretty damned fun.
It’s cold, windy and raining.
Prefect day for my car to shit itself 😐
Afternoon, TAY!
Oh, and…
Happy Birthday, Mark!
@markserrels
YEAAAAH!
Fucking potatoheads.
‘My PC is having issues running this game well.’
‘What sort of hardware is it?’
‘*hardware that would have been ace for it’s time, but is now 5-6 years old*’
‘That’s some slightly dated hardware there. Core 2, DDR2 RAM – probably need an upgrade.’
‘Nuh-uh – it meets minimum specs!’
‘Yeah but that doesn’t guarantee it’s going to run well, if at all.’
‘Nuh-uh – it meets minimum specs!’
‘I give up.’
People are idiots … especially around technology. If you can find a way to get through to them that the recommended specs would be the one to look for it they wanted the game you run properly you could maybe get an upgrade out of it … otherwise, let them suffer.
I feel your pain though and good luck on not stabbing them
Now apparently the game is poorly designed and optimised.
Someone, please…. help me.
If you need an alibi, I’m sure we could all vouch for you. Just smile and pray that they leave soon so you can bitch about them to your coworkers
Are they running it on minimum settings. 600×800 with low quality.
That is what you get with minimum specs
….sigh…
Hey, that sounds like my PC. At least it’s taken 5-6 years to get to this stage.
Minimum specs means that it runs. That is all that it guarantees.
And that’s assuming the minimum specs hardware is operating to its capacity! 🙂
Sometimes even recommended specs are a huge bag of BS
(read: My CoD:BlOps experience)
MY SON JUST TOOK HIS FIRST STEPS
PUT THEM BACK BEFORE SOMEONE HAS AN ACCIDENT!
That’s just awesome 🙂
THIEF!
Congrats! \o/Damit @doc_what
*shakes fist*
You still got an upvote 🙂
such a proud moment 😀
Congrats, my friend! Must be proud! 😀
My wife’s gonna try to replicate the moment with a video camera, and when I get home, I’ll try the same, so I can see it happen. But yeah, proud for sure!
Celebratory music!
I was hoping for this.
That works too! 😀
Or this!
I cant actually link to anything at work, I just felt left out 🙂Hahaha, nice
Totally kind of not really related – You seen The Kids are All Right?
I have, I liked the movie but:
Can’t say I liked the mothers all that much. They had an arrogance to them. Liked the weird family dynamic and interesting story though.Good for the most part. 😀
Nah no way, I loved them! Modern day parenting and all that jazz
Annette Benning’s character was a horrible lady. And Julianne Moore’s was selfish, even if her wife was a horrible lady. XD I did like their attempts at bonding with the father though. It was his own damn fault he was locked out of the family eventually.Still liked it though. 😀
Edit: Edited out swearing. That was kind of offensive. No lady should be called that. 🙁
Nah still disagree. I think she was a hard edged character for sure, but I still loved her
It was about giving and taking in relationships, and she needed to give more which she was learning, but J Moore’s character had let herself drift too far before she had the chance to see. I loved that aspect of it, needed her character to be that way.@sughly: Was just about to edit my post to say:
It’s probably better than depicting an idealized, preachy couple with everything all worked out. Was a relationship drama, for better or worse. I agree, good point!Our little one’s not far away. Great stuff!
@shane Good work on the “accidentaly ignored” panel
Holy crap, dude, you are actually reading it. I just want it on the record that I accept no personal responsibility for any brain damage that article causes.
It was interesting. That part was a good …urrrr, showing(?) of your power over the reader and your knowledge of comics. I was more impressed by that one panel(an, you know, the panels around it, the bubble tail that led me past it etc) than the whole thing.
But I liked the whole thing. It was well written and easily digestible.
Good work.
To put it in interweb terms (instead of my rambling way):
You smart, I jelly <3 <3 <3
demonstration, the word I was looking for was DEMONSTRATION.
Just saw on Nintendo News we can now Wifi our very own Deoxys! this news is a few days old so a lot of you may already know… I’m still excited though.
Yeah, dood. I gots one! 😀
How do you even know all these things exist when they do?
Siliconera initially but @greenius reminded me the other day
(you should read his rants)
Good Guy Greenius posted it outside his long post as well 🙂
I have an hour left and have finished reading @shane’s intelli-comic
Any other suggestions?
Time for a lobotomy!
🙁 ….
http://spacepyrates.com/comic/2011/01/26/the-shack-3/
One thing I love about reading Space Pyrates is watching where they start and see where they end up, art direction wise. Can see them get more skilled as the comic goes on. Really, really impresses me. (Full disclosure, I know these guys! So does Shane!)
Can see it with almost every web comic too. Sense of progression as they go on.
All good artists do that! 😀
Yeah, one of my favourite things to watch. Seeing in action what happens when you put time and effort in refining your work. Really cool.
You should read The Lesser Evil in preparation for Peaceful Tomorrows. I think you will be very surprised at my progress. For realz.
@shane Have you read Logicomix?
Nope, but I just googled it, and it looks quite interesting!
That’s kinda what that reminds me of. KInda.
(also that comic about comics you quote that I am blanking on the name of)
Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics
OK, now I’m really depressed because I haven’t made a comic in a billion years and I should be, even if it isn’t the best I can never be the best if I don’t practice.
Is there anyone with free time that would like to digitally ink & colour some scribbles what I do?
I could prolly pencil some shit and scan it but I find computers abysmal and dont wish to be near them more than I have to…
welp!
After reading the Chris Hadfield article and watching the video, I’ve been listening to some David Bowie, and after listening to Life on Mars I realised that the lyrics from the first half of the song sync up suprisingly well with the events and themes in act 1 of the sci-fi novel I’m writing. Now that I’ve made the discovery, I think I’ll rewrite a few minor details so it’s a more direct reference to the song (I was already gonna put a Space Oddity/Major Tom shout out in at some point, so doing the same thing for Life on Mars makes sense).
Space Oddity is my favourite song of all time, unrelated to most of your post but just throwing it out there. Haha!
I always had a slightly softer spot for Starman myself, but a very worthy favourite indeed!
AS THEY ASK HER TO FOCUS ON SAAAAAILORS FIGHTING IN THE DANCE HALL, OH MAN LOOK AT THOSE CAVE MEN GO… IT’S THE FREAKIEST SHOW. TAKE A LOOK AT THE LAW MAN BEATING UP THE WRONG GUY, OH MAN, WONDER IF HE’LL EVER KNOW… HE’S IN THE BEST SELLING SHOW…
IS THERE LIFE ON MAAAAAAAAARS
Game of Thrones time! Can’t believe we’re up to episode 7 already …
72% *shakes fist at fast internet people*
…
Or people with Foxtel. *once again looks guiltily at Foxtel box in next room* 😛
They show GoT before 8:30 on Foxtel? shame on me.
I think it’s two hours after broadcast in the US…
Still on episode 2 of season 1.
But I’ve read the books so it’s not interesting to me anyway.
*flicks fringe*
Are you trying to seduce me?
Really? I love seeing the divergence. The more the series goes on the more different it’s getting.
Bunny mocks me for shuffling poorly. I would feel bad but I win more games than he does soooo I just feel pity.
In my defense, you can’t shuffle cards very well.
In my defense, I win a lot more board games than you.
But I can shuffle.
Its funny caus the only time @freya talks is when its about @trjn, who is probably right next to her most of the time
She’s using my laptop.
I like their couple banter too. XD
Actually I’m just a figment of his overactive imagination and he’s created an overly complicated series of accounts to prove I’m real to other people. Don’t tell him.
Oh god, it’s become sentient!
I think this defense wins
OHHHHHH
Initially thought you meant like hardc0re fully sik Melbourne shuffle 😛
Didn’t think you were the type to do it 😀
I think it is very insensitive of you greenmang to post videos of somebody suffering a seizure. I thought you were better than that
You thought wrong.
It’s taken a week, but I’m finally about to try and install Windows to that built PC from previous TAY.
I’m so good at drawing things out, I should be an artist.
My toe hurts 🙁
I bet! D: You got your boot dealy yet?
Yes but I can’t walk on it (or at least I’m not supposed to, I have been a little bit) until I’ve seen an orthopedic surgeon and I couldn’t get in to see him until next Monday.
Also I’m betting his diagnosis will be “here’s an X-Ray referral. Wait two weeks, get these done, come see me in 3.”. But I was told not to walk on my boot until I’ve seen him so I’m crutching around everywhere (or, in the office, rolling my office chair around so I can carry stuff, eg roll into the kitchen to get water).
Worst thing at work so far aside from the fact it’s miles and miles on crutches to get to the car park is that we have enormous heavy glass doors that you have to pull open and they shut themselves really quickly and getting through the door on crutches requires a level of speed and strength I simply haven’t got.
Also you would be amazed how much you move your toes doing unrelated things. Like lifting your other leg.
It makes it more difficult to do anything which makes you feel like you’re going to injure yourself in some other way…so you sit there and think “awesome, I can’t do anything”.
Basically yeah.
I’ve already burned through the family goodwill too, can’t get them to bring me foodstuffs while I sit on the couch and play video games any more.
Currently hoping the new laptop I’m getting at work arrives tomorrow so I can start working from home a bit.
Actually I lied. Worst thing: sleeping at night with this boot on.
Road redemption made their kickstarter target so theoretically I should be getting that game sometime. Pretty happy as I was getting worried it would miss out.
Just hoping that they don’t stray too far from the road rash formula
Anyone know of any other board games that have vidya game versions like Ticket to Ride? Also with cross platform multiplayer between PC and Mac. Just curious for when my friend and I get sick of playing Ticket to Ride.
The other option would be for us to play board games via Skype (which we’re going to try anyway because it’s sounds too fun not to try :P)
There are many bored games with tablet adaptions. It’s very popular – turns out that people use it to try out the games before they buy the real thing and it actually works out that having a digital version increases sales of the actual game.
Catan! Yet to play the vidya game but like the look of it thus far.
What systems do you have?
Smallworld is a well respected game but think it is currently only available on iOS. Smallworld 2 is currently under development.
A good list can be found here
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/6483/computer-versions-of-board-games
I have a PC and a Windows Phone, she has a Mac and an iPad.
So I’m not expecting there to be too many games we can play together 😛
Thanks for the link, I had just gone to that site to see if they had a list like that xD
The only one I have is Ticket To Ride. I’ve heard that Catan is good but I don’t know if I’d really want to buy it at the moment.
Not that I’d not be up for buying games…just that I only just bought Settlers in board game form anyway.
it’s not a board game, but jones in the fast lane is hella fun! not cross platform, and don’t think you can play unless you both sit at the same computer, but SO worth it!
My headset at home broke this morning. One ear cup came apart and the headband that attaches into it snapped away. I’ve taped it back together but it’s not the same.
Currently I have two sets of headphones at home. I’ve got a reasonable pair of Sennheiser ones connected to my amplifier which I use for console games etc (normally outputting to TV but that’s in storage so it’s right by my PC at the moment) and I’ve got my PC headset which was a Steelseries Siberia and it is now kaput.
Should I just get myself a clip-on mic and pipe my PC’s sound to the amplifier? Or get a new headset? (Or continue to use a set that’s held together with duct tape?)
That sounds just like the way my Steelseries broke. And the way many others broke after a quick google search at the time.
I’d lean towards the pipe from PC to other set – should be easy enough?
Yeah I’ve got a few optical cables around, should do the trick. I guess I should get myself a clip-on mic too, and maybe some softer earcups for my Sennheiser set since they dig my glasses into my head.
FUCK SHIT FUCK!
I think I got the ending of Survivor spoiled because of a file thumbnail >:(
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Was it:
They all survivedJoke is invalid ever since that guy died :/And then his doctor killed himself too… :Ouch, didn’t know about that until you mentioned it but just read up on it. Sad and unfortunate for both of them 🙁Wahh. What file thumbnail? I don’t wanna be spoiled! (Don’t get to watch it until tomorrow D:)
The reunion. They generally always show a clip of the winner at the start and since the thumbnail is usually from the first few scenes it showed who it was.
This has happened before on a previous season 😛
Weird thing is I told myself it would happen again and tried to avoid it nu telling myself NOT to see it until I finish the episode (and see the winner), but I guess I forgot and when I went to remove the torrent I opened the file location and saw the pic >:/
Booo! I wondered about that happening, but luckily enough got one that dled inside a folder
That’s what you get for being naughty and not waiting another couple of hours to watch it on TV. 😛
I was going to, but it goes for like 3 hours with all the ad breaks :'(
Oh man. I have to give the computer a name? Names are hard. I don’t even know how long I just sat there trying to think of a name for my baby yoshi in Paper Mario 2.
[Your name]-PC
That’s all I went with because I too am terrible at names.
I just went with Windows8-laptop.
My desktop was called Windows8-desktop.
I am so creative.
I name mine after anime characters (have been doing it since I was about 15) and would be embarrassed to let anyone see my network so I think you’ve made a vastly superior life choice.
Naming things is hard. I always spend ages on it.
Worst thing is in MMOs where you come up with a great name and some other fucker already took it.
Still going – currently tossing up between Phantoon and Quadraxis :p
Part of my thinking behind choosing my usual screenname (not mrtaco) came from it being something that was a bit unusual and made-up, so it would be something unique that nobody else would have. I haven’t had a situation yet where it was already in use, though it would be quite confronting if it ever did. My main problem I run into is that 12 letters tends to be more than you’re usually allowed, so I end up having to go with Gooky instead.
Woo, metroid! (was actually replaying prime1 just yesterday!)
I so badly need to replay the series. I don’t remember much of most of the games, even though I’ve played them multiple times.
I ended up going with Thardus. Because I like his theme song.
Theme your network – my network is Savannah, my main PC is Wildebeast. There’s giraffe, cheetah, rhino and a few others connected at various times.
And today I learned that I’ve misspelled wildebeest all these years…
Reminds me of the story I heard of a guy who set up all the servers in his server room to have a heartbeat program that played a different animal sound at regular intervals, so that the room sounded like a rainforest and if any machine stopped it was really obvious because its sound would disappear.
Call it TacoTin. TaComputer.
Latest Game of Thrones (safe for book readers):
“A bear there was,”“A bear, A BEAR!
“All black and brown,”
“And covered with hair!
“Oh come they said,”
“Oh come to the fair!”
“The fair? said he,
“But I’m a bear!”
“All black and brown,”
“And covered in hair!”
“And down the road,”
“From here to there,”
“From here!To there!”
“Three boys, a goat,”
“And a dancing bear!”
“They danced and spun,”
“All the way to the fair!”
I mostly just posted this to annoy Sughly with super secret things that he can’t read yet.
GoT usually makes an effort to end every episode on a cliffhanger, not so much this time, I could hardly bear it.Tormund and Tywin and Ygritte are brilliant. Really glad that Tormund is finally acting more like the Tormund in the book.Corresponding Book 3 Spoilers:
Wasn’t Brienne meant to bite off Hoat/Locke’s ear and then he dies a long slow death?Yeah, Hoat has his ear bitten off, before throwing Brienne in the pit. Then again, Hoat was the leader of the Bloody Mummers, and slobbered a lot, IIRC, so there’s quite a few differences between them.Whilst Locke is excellent in his own dastardly villain type way, I’m a bit disappointed he didn’t thpeak with a lithp. Reading his lines were always fun.Oh man, such a good ep of Mad Men!
Really starting to actively hate Don. Haha. He’s a compelling character and all that, but he’s gone from being a sympathetic kind of guy to a monster who treats everyone around him like crap. Interesting story direction, but doesn’t change the fact I think he needs some serious therapy. XD
Liked all the stuff with the merger too. It’s hard to get a read on Bob. He seemed to genuinely want to help Joan but at the same time he was warned on the stairs that his days were number. Based on his previous behaviour, I think he was thinking about his job. (Though I suspect any decent person would help Joan anyways.) Might be more to it though.
Liked the Don/Ted rivalry and thought Ted got Don back good with the plane stuff.
Pete continues to be a monster without any of Don’s baggage to justify it.
Roger Sterling’s a jerk, but the funniest jerk ever so it’s okay. 😀
They sure shot a lot of people in the ’60s. D:
Also, where was Don’s secretary? They kept on making a point to show the empty desk. Something I miss?
*shrugs*Haha, difference is, I don’t tag you in Mad Men posts. 😛
Because you’re a jerk! Maybe I want to be part of the discussion too :'(I don’t.:3 😀1st day of assessment over. \o/
This hotel is a dump. /o\
So who’s coming for dinner tomorrow?
This guy
Meeee
:'(
guh … so my boring day just turned into a night of me having to stay late to make sure I don’t get completely overrun tomorrow. hooray for unfair workloads! *goes and grumbles in the corner while manning the helpdesk*
How the hell do you go through two major airports and not get a single Streetpass?
You might be the only person to consider any airport in Queensland to be major.
You turned wifi off?
Survivor finale…
HE DID EEEEEET!! Yessssss!! Now Im off to watch the reunion XDDude there’s legitimately so many things to discuss! I was going to post it in my comment above but I’ll do it here after I finish the reunion (a few more mins left)
BOOKMARK THESE COMMENTS PEOPLE!
Oh, seems like they’re revealing what I wanted to discuss 😛
But speculation is funsies!
EDIT: OR NOT!
OGOMGMOMGOGMOMGOMGOMOGMGOMOGMG!!!!!!!!
Upvoting purely for your level of excitement
@sughly (you get a non-bracket tag even though I’m replying to you, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!)
@powalen @phoenix @strange @dc @masha2932
Survivor Finale and Reunion Spoilers! (bookmark/favourite this for future reading! – I do that with your comments :D)
Ah man, felt so bad for Erik :(. You could tell he was in a bad shape and he was really skinny. I doubt he would’ve won anyway but he could’ve got to the end through a winning streak.
Good lord there’s pretty much ALWAYS someone who thinks they’ve done a lot when they’ve just done pretty much nothing but ride along to the end. It really pissed me off when she got all cranky towards the end at Erik >:(
Dawn was really annoying this season and cried a lot but I still liked her to an extent (just not as much as her last season). The Brenda thing was kind of weird but that was still kind of bad to stab her in the back like that. But I know it’s just a game and she’s probably a lovely person out of it and I really don’t see how people can tweet (or say) terrible things to her face. C’mon… seriously people?!
Brenda! <3 :D. Definitely the biggest change and going from pretty much someone who was just there doing nothing in her first season to someone who was just an all around awesome person and actually played the game. Although I do admit she was still kind of “just there” until about half way through the season
COCHRAN OMGOMGOMGOMOGMOGMGOMOGMOGMOGMOGMOGM!!!! So glad. He’s so awesome :D. Really deserved it too! Sometimes you just get dud seasons where the people win aren’t really the best or they only win because they’re the best but only because everyone else sucked (like being the skinniest person at fat camp). Wanted him to win in his first season but he played some pretty shitty moves then but now all is good 😀
Strange will love all the Malcolm sightings 😀
Brenda is preggers! Woooo!
I recognised Rudy but didn’t remember too much about him but wow 😛 that was just awkward
Really good season! Probably in my top 10 or so (too bad I can’t really remember the early ones :P)
SEASON 27 PREDICTION SPECULATION FUN TIMES OMGOMGOMOGMOGMOMGOM:
I’m thinking “blood” “runs in the family” “blood in the family” sort of thing. Definitely going to have Russell and Brandon Hantz, maybe family members of famous Survivors (children, partners etc.). Still don’t think it’ll be too good since the past two seasons were great but only time will tell!I hope y’all stick around for next season!
I disagree with most of your points!
Haha that’s weird, I just replied to your Mad Men spoiler 😛
I thought it was retaliation. HAHA!
I just thought about how you always replied to my Survivor ones but then you made a good point, I do unnecessarily tag you in them :P. You’d love it man!
OoooOOOOoo!! Nice thoughts on s27, I think youre right on the money. I had no idea ^_^
I’m a bit distracted by Fire Emblem now to give proper thoughts haha, but I basically agree with everything you said anyways 😀
Upvote for…
Brenda is preggers XDO_o
What am I doing here?
🙂
Don’t respond! That’ll only enable Greenius. 😛
@masha2932 😀
CONTINUE WATCHING IT!
For S27 blood is thicker than water… or is it??? I don’t know if returning players is a good idea. Perhaps if it was just all new players on one tribe and a family member on the other, and DON’T tell anyone who is related to who. Then do a tribe swap, and the merge, etc and watch it hit the fan when they need to vote off their own family member.As for the finale, Cochran so deserved it. Not just for the game he played (which was amazing, 3 immunity challenges won) but also because he’s dedicated so much of his life to the game, and it paid off. Sherri did nothing, and did she think she was winning votes by going Erik? That was just stupid. I was just watching season 2 as well, and Tina made a good point to their jury “Don’t base your vote on if you got your feelings hurt”. Which I totally agree with. But it is probably easier said than done. Brenda raked Dawn over the coals, which made for some good television, but I don’t know if she really deserved it. Still on the fence on that one a little. But it doesn’t matter because the guy that deserved it won everyone’s vote. He played a great game and got rid of people before they got rid of him.Whose up for a small karaoke meat in Melbourne?
I need to book at the chi lounge but I would rather try it out. Reviews are … varied.
Anyone willing to come with me on a saturday lunch time?
*raises hand* count me in
Thank you Techie!
Anyone else?
How was your first day at work @powalen ?
🙂
They grow up so fast :’)
Good. I was tired though because I was nervous the night before 😛
I’m just glad I have something to do during the day now 😛 Only took three months of job hunting…
Good to hear Jobalen 🙂
So, how’d you initially apply for the job(s)? SEEK?
Yeah, seek.
So. Damn. Proud. :’)
Your turn!
YOU. ARE. EMPLOYABLE. >:|
@dc @dc @dc @dc @dc @dc @dc
EMPLOYMENT HI 5
>:(
Game of Thrones good! Mad Men good! That is all.
Game of Mad Men on Thrones better! That is all 😛
Sounds like the Mad King prequel.
GREENIUS PAGE 4!
Can y’all help me out with something? I was just wondering what the different types of Game of Thrones Blu Rays are. I understand Season 1 had some sort of massive collector’s edition box but there was also a standard 5 disc one (which I now have). I don’t think there was any other sort of common “limited edition” one.
Now, I’m a bit confused with Season 2. As far as I’ve gathered there’s the standard 5 disc one (with a crown on the cover) as well as a few ones with alternative covers (lion, kraken, stag) and a 6 disc one. There’s also some sort of pin one edition but I’m not interested in that. I obviously want the one with the most stuff but I’m not sure which one it is :/
It seems like the “Limited Edition” JB Exclusive one with the Lion is what I’m after. It has 6 discs and the description seems to say that the bonus disc has bonus Game of Thrones related features. This is where I’m getting a bit confused, I swear I’ve seen people talk about (and complain) about a “bonus disc” being JUST HBO trailers and like a TV sampler, nothing really Game of Thrones related on it – am I right in thinking this?
Also bargainers how cheap was it when youse got it? I figured $30 was a decent price for S1 but S2 was still $40-50 so I’m waiting a bit.
TL;DR – What’s the deal with the 6 disc Game of Thrones Season 2 Blu Ray? Is the bonus disc just HBO TV crap? Is it Game of Thrones stuff?
I AM CONFUS
The people complaining about the HBO trailers are talking about a bonus disc full of sample episodes of HBO shows like Girls, Newsroom etc. Which came in the standard 5 disc release. The Lion/Lannister 6 disc one from JB has that sixth disc which is actual extra bonus content, as I understand it.
Yeah, some confusion also comes from me seeing the Lion one with 6 discs advertising that HBO stuff :/
Oh I should mention that I haven’t actually seen it in shops (dad picked it up for me :P) but when I see it online, it’s a bit vague.
My issue was with the S2 BD having something along the lines of ‘EXCLUSIVE LIMITED BONUS DISC’ on the cover insert. Not a sticker, but actually a permanent part of the case. I saw that and went, ‘Oh awesome, bonus disc!’ thinking there’d be extras like interviews, behind the scenes, etc. Turns out this ‘EXCLUSIVE LIMITED BONUS DISC’ was a HBO preview disc for all their other shows. Not exactly deal breaking, but more than a little misleading, if you ask me.
Hard to answer because a lot of the ‘alternate skin’ covers only have the alternate art on the slip cover and a crown on the blu-ray case, don’t worry about the 5-6 disc thing they will always have that many discs as mentioned plus a little plastic sleeve of another addition trailer for HBO, making it 6-7 Discs.
Oh! I figured I’d be missing out as I assumed the show was 5 discs (which is true) but the 6 discs ones either had the HBO stuff or the bonus, didn’t think it’ll be additional
The super duper special edition of S1 comes with a dragon egg and the normal 5 disc blu-ray pack. As well as the first episode of season 2 on Blu-ray. If you want the first season on blu-ray it all depends on whether or not you want the dragon egg as well and if you’re willing to pay for it.
S2, I’m not sure about. I picked up S2 5 disc set with the Crown on the front.
http://www.gog.com/promo/indie_adventures_weekend_promo_100513
Lots of adventure games!
I recommend most of them, but The Longest Journey/Dreamfall and Scratches in particular. If you’re a fan of the pixel art, old school kind of adventures then Gemini Rue/Resonance/Primordia is where it’s at. Machinarium’s a pretty solid game too, but the puzzles are an acquired taste.
Also:
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/the_night_of_the_rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit is now available to pre-order too. This publisher is probably best known for their Deponia games. (Which are pretty damn good!)
Edit: Just noticed that if you pre-order, you get Deponia for free!
I loved The Longest Journey, although I can hardly remember it now, but I was put off playing Dreamfall by the change in game style. (Unskippable stealth and action sequences? Not in my adventure games thank you very much! 😛 )
Botanicula and Machinarium are too cute not to love 😉
Have you played Miasmata? I doubt it’s my kind of game, but I’m still intrigued. :/
I haven’t played Miasmata for the same reason, doesn’t seem like my kind of game.
Dreamfall is a really decent story and from time to time they’ll give you puzzle solutions around fighting and stealth. (Not all the time though.) Ragnar Tornquist is first to admit the fighting in this game sucks and has confirmed it won’t be in Dreamfall Chapters. 😛 It’s as much of an adventure game as Heavy Rain. (Probably more, with a lot more dialogue trees and actual puzzles to solve.) If you’re a fan, it’s worth playing!
*looks at Collector’s Edition on shelf*
Not that I’m a fanboy or any thing. 😛
I looked up the CE for Heavy Rain since I didn’t even know they had one, very cool protruding cover, they did something similar on my DOA 5 art book with sweat,very cool 4th wall effect.
I meant I’ve got the Dreamfall CE.
I liked the concept art Heavy Rain had unlockable in the main menus though. Reckon it’d be a great art book!
Badass.
http://redkit.cdprojektred.com/
CDPR have released the dev tools they used to make The Witcher 2, for free. :O
Man, those guys are awesome. They own GOG too, so this page of TAY is dedicated to them it looks like. XD
Has anyone played the PC version of Fez? I missed out on playing it because I dont have an Xbox/PS3, I guess its only $10, but should I be getting it?
The game had a lot of hype around it during its development I assume that was for a reason.
Haven’t had a chance to play it myself.
Yep! I really liked it :D, never finished it though but always wanted to get back to it!
Reminds me a lot of older games and that sense of “discovery”. You’re not really told much and the sense of exploration and just finding out little things on your own is awesome.
Yep. Get it. Severely underrated, which was weird considering all the buzz before it came out. I loved it.
It never came to PS3
:’-(
First time in a very long time I’ve slept alone in a room. Like almost 10 years. Feels weird.
Bah! You’ll be fine!
When you bring your hands back under the covers and offer yourself that special moment of comfort, don’t be shocked at the coldness. It’s just ‘Uncle Freeze’ come to visit 😛
Was gonna be all hey what about Sydney, then remembered we shared a tent ;D
Anyone else watching the footy?
Got very close in the last quarter. Not a pretty game, but Carlton did well to get as close as they did with so many injuries.
Slow night here on TAY. Watched my episodes too early.
JUST TALK TO YOURSELF FOR THREE HOURS! I MEAN, HAHAHA, WHO’D BE STUPID ENOUGH TO DO THAT? NOBODY. THAT’S WHO! NOBODY! HAHAHAHA.
You mean that time that we logged in of a morning to find the comment total having shot up by almost 500, and all of them attributed to one Blag H. Man was just a figment of our collective imaginations? Oh, ok then
No.
I’m saying that I’m nobody.
*Slits wrists whilst hanging self in a dark room filled with broody poetry*
Whoa man, that’s dark, even for you. You should be listening to the wise words of the Rocketman
Watch Arrested Development from start to finish since you’re unsure whether you’ve seen or the episodes!
I decided to do that 2 episodes (50ish minutes) ago! 😀
That’d require access to all the episodes and it’s only the last season I’m not certain about. (Cause I watched out of order. :P)
Hey DC.
‘sup.
That’s how the cool kids say it, right?
I wouldn’t know. 😛
Did you recapture the first step magic on camera? 😀
Not yet. But I’m off work tomorrow, so fingers crossed! 😀
I’m sure soon enough you’ll be looking back fondly at the time when he wasn’t running around the house being destructive. It’ll keep! 😀
He’s plenty destructive already /o\
Hmmmm?
Did you do a D.C.? >:|
I can assure you he didn’t…
…
Oh you mean…
Never mind.
He meant did he have sexy times with you.
I got another email from the police. Another step forward \o/ Got an invite to the final testing.
Now I have 6 weeks to get some semblance of fitness. /o\
Deadline might be good motivation! 😀
Woooo!
6 weeks should be long enough to run back to Qld from Sydney.
#helping
I assume the fitness test is to see how long you can cross your hands for in a authoritive demeanour.
Either way time for a training montage.
GETTING STRONG NOW… WON’T BE LONG NOW…
With lyrics like that, that song should be terrible, but it isn’t. XD
Must be the crescending brass instruments, an ode to human accomplishment.
I feel kinda cliché saying that.
I don’t even need to click to know exactly what this is, and I couldn’t approve more.
Does The Wire have any moments like this? (Treme 1×08 clip!) 😀 No plot spoilers, but be careful of recommended clips/comments/etc. Not dissin’ The Wire, just know that it’s a gritty kind of show. Moments of grittiness here too, I guess — in between the upbeat music.
Has plenty of moments like that
I gots to watch me The Wire! (Might wait until after Treme finishes later this year!)
NO! Watch it nowwwwwww
Hope this day finds you well, @rocketman! You too, @strange, my friend!
My Love story
Dear friends i wanted to mention all by name for what you all give me, what you all have given me. 1 by one so in no particular order
@bish You have given me a person shoulder to cry on a sarcastic comment when i have fallen down and would rather play the pity game than brush myself off and contunue on my way. You have given me a best friend who it doesn’t matter that we are seperated by 10000 miles we still will sing the final countdown together
@blaghman You have given me the ability to laugh at myself. I always used to take myself so seriously then i met you. Not handsome, or clever or cunning. But what you are is a amazing example of the sheer brilliance of the world. You care so much but you don’t show affection. You are the silent protector, You are my batman, the hero i dont deserve but the one i needed now.
@freyr You have given me the ability to like myself, before you i always thought i wasn’t interesting or even worth loving, you showed me i was. You also let me into your life in a very meanigful way. we shared secrets and you always make me feel important and cared for.
@trjn You have given me nothing fuck you. I kid, you gave me the ability to see that i don’t always have to sit on the fence. That im allowed to form opinions and no matter how many degrees of greyness there are you always explain yourself to me so i can understand.
@f4ction,@noobheadshot,@techknight @Jocon @stevothedevo You guys are like the brothers i never had, always wanting to play games with me make me feel needed and wanted and indeed loved. You all are amazing. More than any off you admit, you all make me smile and laugh. ( yes i added extra because i went to bed than i thought fuck i forgot all these important people)
@alexpants @cakesmith @batgirl You all gave me friends my own age, Once more you are all very attractive and cool. You gave me cool friends. Me having cool friends my own age who treat me like an equal. I have never felt cooler than when i talk to you 3
@EffluviumBoy @Dan You two are the most infurriatingly beautiful people i know, if given the chance i would marry both of you.Spending any amount of time with you is just so entertaining and fun and happy. You are always trying to make me better. To polish me up so the world can see my brilliace.
@shiggyninty @Doc_what you two have given me ambition, to follow through with what i want to do creatively, You make it so easy to like you both and do a brilliant job of making stuff for everyone to see. Not because you want attention but because you want to show how brilliant your friends are.
@Annoymistpessimist You are a fucking rock star. I know a rock star. I love your music. It seems like sometimes you make it for me. Thats how much i love it.
@harli You made me realize i am funny, its strange, people have been calling me funny my entire life but i never really cared much until i heard you laugh. Your laugh is the 2nd or third most beautiful sound i have ever heard. Not because of the sound itself, but because its proof i am as awesome and as amazing as you.
@DC You are me, but with better social skills, I love that because it shows me how likable i am. There is never a time I get sick of reading your posts on TAY, never .
@sughly @BDKIAF you both made me want to listen to better music. If it wasnt for you sughs i would never of listened to FUneral by arcade fire The very album i am listening to now. And ryan you made me want to listen to metal. I now own 3 metal albums i enjoy cover to cover.
@gorzilla You took me in when i had no place to stay, you treated me like family. YOu are the kindest most generous person on earth. I am telling no word of a lie that you are the literal best human being in exsistence. Nobody could replicate the kindness that fills your heart
@pyrean you are shit because you dont post here.
@scree you are such a beautiful girl that is so kind and despite your neurosis just want to make everyone happy. You make alot of people very happy my dear
@numbers (someone tell him i wrote this cause i cant fucking remember the numbers) You cop a fucking pounding everyday and keep on walking. You are the exact example of how to face bullies. I feel like such a fuckwit bagging you and you just keep on being nice and keep going. You are a legend
@rize You always have the loveliest ability to make me smile and laugh. You make others happy you make me happy. You are very genuine and very kind.
@MJHellscream You are perhaps the most awkward and quirky people i thank myself i know. You make it so easy to be the self of myself i hide from general view. You and Ambers love for each other is the exact kind of love i wish for everyday. You are so amazing together. You are both the luckiest people imaginable
@Greenius You turned something i hate about myself to something that makes me smile. I am indeed Ho tross and you are a beautiful soul.
@powlean @Masha Guys you have a bromance, go to a chapel in the US and get married. You both make me smile at how genuine you are. You both dont have a evil bone in your Body
@shane I BOUGHT THE FUCKING FIRST ADDITION OF A LESSER EVIL THAT SHIT IS GOING TO BE WORTH MORE THAN MY HOUSE ONE DAY BECAUSE YOU ARE SHANE FUCKING SMITH ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT WRITTERS WHO HAS EVER BEEN.
@freezespreston I MADE YOUR NAME. I own you, You have a hard life, not out of choice but out of neccesity. You have to fight to stay sane everyday and you do it by making me enjoy your stories. Your story telling is what inspires me to tell better ones.
@number35 How the fuck do you manage to be so fucking cool. It hurts my brain. Yet instead of hanging with anyone, you choose to talk to me. You could be friends with anybody in the world yet you are mine. 🙂
@Mythamphetamines I didn’t like you to start off with, mostly because you were More bogan, more inteligent, more funny and just better than me. But you never flaunted it over me, Your only concern is that everybody is having fun. WHich is impossible not to when you are around my friend
@Dawdle We share the same TAY cake day. You and mr Dawdle are so kind. Im not sure exactly what i did to warrant having amazing pair of super cool friends but I dont deserve both of you
@welbot Im typing this on the computer you built for me. You have had a rough life dude. But you just keep swimming, you are my Dory. You just keep on keeping on even in the roughest of weather.
@fatshady You may not know this but i joined TAY because i read all the comments you used to write and they always made me smile and want to join in. You are the reason i am here.
@serrels You take whatever criticism i throw at your awful red hair and just keep me thinking im witty. I have never wanted to please someone as much as i want you to like what i say. That may seem like a bad thing but it isn’t. Im witty only because you think i am.
@Ruffleberg You hate everything, but i know in your heart you will never hate me. Love you buddy.
@ anyone who didnt get a mention by name, unforetunately my memory is somewhat limited and i no doubt forgot some people who deserve a page written about there awesomeness. I love you all so much.
PS
I saved the best for Last
@strange You are my real mum. Not my internet mum or my babysitter. You are my Mum. I love you.
TL;DR
PS: Thanks, man. That’s a pretty special post 😀
@rocketman You are all the proof anyone needs that a real man doesn’t have to pretend to be an unemotional hardass, but can wear his heart on his sleeve and give no fucks about it.
Aw man. That was pretty damn moving. :’)
Rockets, you’re awesome. Sometimes, it genuinely frustrates me that you can’t see how decent you are! Like I find myself getting riled up for real! 😀 Life ain’t always easy and I get that, believe me — just know you’re liked a whole damn lot by folks here, you’re good and there’s no reason you shouldn’t be happy. (Or that happiness isn’t lurking just around the corner if you don’t happen to be feeling it right now.) Hope life treats you good, my friend!
I see a lot of myself in you too. Makes me think I might not be as bad as I sometimes think I am.
Anyway, feeling a little awkward talking like this, so might mosey off to get some shut eye. Haha! Thanks for the kind words!
POTY (Post of the Year)
Rocketman, this is amazing. Everything you have written is not only accurate, but you can tell its from the heart. Especially love your comments on @strange and @scree. But this whole post is 100% truth, start to finish. Congratulations Rocketman, for putting into words the many, many reasons why this group is amazing.
Awww, thanks Rocket.
Funny and touching too.
Also @powalen has a fancy job now, so he’s out of my league. 🙂
That was a cool read. Even though I have no idea what’s going on or anything at all. Are… are you dying or something?
…did I possibly just stick my foot in it by even suggesting such a thing?
I don’t think he’s dying and I’m not sure what’s going on either. I guess it happens when you’ve been here a while you eventually want to thank people.
Shut up… just… shut up.
You had me at Hello.
Fuck you too, Rocketpony. Fuck you too 🙂
I think it’s just TAYbie’s in general that exude awesomeness. I dunno where I’d be today if it wasn’t for the support you guys gave me after my marriage ended. Seriously, if it wasn’t for all you people, I wouldn’t have a friend in the world anymore. I’ve shared both the good and the bad times of my life with you guys, (mostly bad unfortunately), but it’s nice to know you’re all still there for me no matter what!
Keep reaching that rainbow kid.
Aw Rockets. You’re the best.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdf8sprIwW1rh13y7o1_500.gif
Rocketman, the people you hang around with is a reflection of yourself. Everything you’ve written also applies to you. I completely agree with Jo as well.
I’m trying to think of nice things you’ve done, but all I can remember is all the times you’ve trolled me. And then had to apologize because I didn’t get it. So you are very patient and kind.
This list probably wasn’t necessary as we know how much you appreciate us as well appreciate you too!
SOB.
I get it, this is some kind of elaborate ruse to get the highest upvoted comment ever!
In all seriousness man, you are heaps awesome. One of the things I have always respected about you is that you can share your stories with us just to give us an interesting/funny story. Dude, you are awesome and don’t ever change (well maybe the self conscious parts can change).
Oh wow Rockets. I am proud to be your Mum.
Why are my eyes leaking?
Easy, easy.
Quit gaying up the place.
Sometimes you don’t realise how awesome you are :). Through all the sarcasm and joking around, I/we genuinely think you’re a top bloke and one of the best people I’ve ever met* (we still haven’t met in person). This post and the replies made my day and put a huge smile on my face.
🙂
PS. I’d help you fix incorrect tags but I’m on my phone so it’s inconvenient
You’re an absolute champion Rocketman. To be perfectly honest, I’m actually jealous of you. You seemed to have taken a more emotional beating than I have over the many years yet you still stand tall and happy to this day. Even during the times I actually lashed out at you verbally, you still didn’t walk away, giving me up as some sort of lost cause to my depression. It’s humans like you that make me want to believe I’m a human again a fair bit, if only you were in my life years before where I really needed a real friend… Thanks for the kind words Rocketman
Reading this has made me uncomfortably aware that I don’t have nearly as much of a connection as this with even one person here, let alone like twenty people.
Good on you, rockets.
Totally read just my own last night. Then I read a few others this morning, and read my own again. Thanks Rockets 😀
Oi. It’s mine too.
I got real named though /o\
You cant have it its mine!
N’aaaaw.
‘Infuriatingly beautiful’ is the best thing I’ve read this week, btw.
I’d say more but sentimentality is not my strong point. So, n’aaaaaw.
gay
I hope you realise you’re one of the most loved people on TAY. Including @dc.
*have
@powalen
@mythamphetamine
@lucifer9783
@35
Not too sure of Pez’s but…
@anonymous-pessimist
@anonymous_pessimist
@anonymouspessimist
Oh Rocketman..
You’re wonderful. If I could pull you into a big hug right now I would. For now, I’ll have to settle on a virtual one. *hugs*
You are a stand up guy, Rockets.
Just saw this through the kudos post. a deserving winner!
So… the local Comic Meet has decided to put out another comic, and are calling for 2-page submissions. I decided to write and make a comic in one night, see what I can put together. I’ve only done one page so far, and am getting tired. Still a bit exhilarated though, so will see how we go \o/
#OopsIStartedAnotherProject/o\
It was a shark and horny night 🙂
THE MIDNIGHT MASHER
*ominous music*
Why ominous? :’-(
I am a gentle flower 🙂
By day.
But past midnight…
Ha ha.
That is the best hash tag (because I do the same thing =P)
Night, TAY.
Goodnight crazyguy
NEW COMPUTER IS OPERATIONAL!
Minus not being connected to the network at all. So mostly operational I guess. Also now I have no idea what to do with it. Also also constantly being asked to give myself permission to view particular folders is annoying. I want to crawl back into my win98 cave again.
Make sure you turn off user account control.
That should get rid of the permission messages.
In regards to that folder thing do the following;
I personally completely move the slider down because those pop-ups irritate me.
EDIT: I am the GREETEST at quote tags.
Ah, cool. Is there any way to make all the little blue and yellow shields go away too? It annoys me having them plastered all over everything.
@Shane
I can’t believe I forgot about this.
THE FAR CRY 2 BOX ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is awesome and in great condition,
Thank you so so much.
Let me know how I can repay the postage costs.
Wooooo \o/ \o/
Don’t bother, man. Merry Easteristmasannukarthday
Really? Thanks! You’re too kind 🙂
@Sughly and any other Phoenix Wright fans
Well.. well..
1) Europe release confirmed! Hazzah!
2) Phoenix’s VA got replaced with his one from MVC (He also voices Teddie for P4G! CAN’T UNHEAR)
3) New assistant’s name is Athena Cykes. I can dig it, but first Apollo and now Athena? Huh.
4) mumblemumbledigitalonlymumblemumble
5) The name of the game is Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies. Bit underwhelming, I really liked how snappy Justice for All and Truths and Tribulations sounded. You need some some of law or justice term in there, man.
6) Release date is fall 2013 whatthefuckwhyaretheresomanygamesthisyearman
ugh, digital only. I want a case and a manual.
Also, the fact that you don’t actually own the digital titles you pay for is a bit concerning …
I hate digital only for 3DS, those non-existant accounts sucka-da-balls
Yerp
I’ve already taken the plunge with Fire Emblem, so I don’t have to give a damn unless my 3ds breaks/is stolen! yayyyyy!
Also, Nintendo has said that they’re working on overhauling their whole system, but goddamn they have digged themselves into quite the hole to get out of.
All I’ve bought is that Pokemon AR game and Crimson Shroud.
I’m not taking the plunge on a full game until they sort that shit out, for all I know, they’ll screw it up and I’ll lose all my purchases.
I really want Code of Princess, but between the account situation and the price of an SD card big enough to fit it on, I am not keen 🙁
2 other points:
1. Ha ha! Teddie!
2. This year is full on for me too. So much good stuff!
As a long-time fan of the series, I can happily say I’m not getting this game.
It’s not because I’m a PSVita guy now, either.
It’s seriously dead for me. Like Star Wars I’m done at the original trilogy.
I didn’t even finish Apollo Justice, just couldn’t do it…
Guy, guy. Let me guide you back unto the good path. AJ is shit, you know it, I know it. But this, man, this changes everything. 3d courts. Anime cutscenes. Music far above the bleeps and bloops of past AA fare. Phoenix looking grand and majestic, like his namesake, except there’s less fire, except maybe a bit in your loins because the game could be that great.
Unless, you know, you don’t have a 3ds, in which I can only say “dang, but hey the vita’s great as well.”
You’ll eat that sarcastic statement when we get… Monst… hun… t…
I can’t really commit to a 3DS for one game, but at the right price I’d consider a 3DSXL.
I want New Leaf. ; ~ ;
FANTASY LIFE!
Bravely Default Flying Fairy
Pokemon X& Y!!!
OH MAN, FANTASY LIFE
IT’S LIKE ANIMAL CROSSING BUT WITH LESS ANIMALS AND MORE WIZARDS
😀 😀 😀 😀
Why would you want less animals…? I would want more animals, and less wizards.
@sughly
I want quests or whatever. I enjoy Animal Crossing but it’s just so open as to what you can do.
There’s no real point. Just have fun, which is cool.
It was fun the first time, don’t really have any feeling to do it all again.
@sughly It all feeds into the whole “I have lots of games but so little time to play them’
I need some sort of goals so that I can get to a point where I feel I’ve got my moneys worth and check that game off the list and move on to the next one.
If I was desperate for more games then I’d be keener for more of that freeform gameplay.
@sughly
Animal Wizards plz
I meant back unto the Phoenix Wright train, I’m far too aware of the 3ds’s shortcomings to recommend it straight off the bat.
But yeah, New Leaf’s gonna be another black hole of time-consuming..ness.
i could go on and on about how Apollo Justice was actually really great, and it got a bad rap just because you didn’t play as phoenix, but i have a feeling no one would give a shit 🙁
I’ll listen, guy. I’ll listen. It was essentially the first AA game, but with changed-up characters. Not a bad thing at all.
It lacked the appealing charm of the first games, personally.
Your face lacks appealing charm.
Dude. DUDE. THIS! What the heck is wrong with you people!?! Apollo was amazing! Blah.
Didn’t @sughly prefer it?
I may be very confusedIt’s hard to say since I love them all, but I definitely rank it high
Better than 2 I reckon!
(@grandmasterb-funk)
2 was the worst, which is saying something as 2 still wasn’t a bad game 😀
I think I played the first 2 or 3. I think I got up to Apollo Justice and stopped.
I wasn’t even aware they were still making them.
sadly, some fans want to boycott it because it’s digital only…
do they not realise that the game is already struggling to get western releases?
instead of boycotting it, they should just buy it, if it sells enough on the e-shop, maybe we’ll get a retail version of ace attorney x proffessor layton!
A boy can dreamI’m not boycotting games because of digital release, I’m waiting until Ninty sort their shit out.
I have nothing against digital releases, I’ve filled 20 GB of my 32GB Vita card with digital games.
What I have a problem with is not being sure if I’ll be able to play my game again if some doosche yoinks my 3DS or my 3DS dies a sudden death.
thats cool, i’m talking about people who think that capcom is trying to get more money by making it digital only, and they want a box.
i really don’t like the e-shop as well, but i’m trying my hardest to support a series i like way to much 🙂
I want a Code of Princess box :’-(
Well, to be, fair, NINTENDO. But no matter what capcom’s crazy intentions are, you’re right in that AA is on it’s last legs with DD. Fire Emblem, however, got a lot of flack at it’s launch, and I believe it sold 80,000 copies quick-like, so perhaps the boycotters are simply the vocal minority.
And I firmly believe Ace Attorney X Professor Layton is being witheld for E3. BELIEVE.
Yay that digital has made available games I may never have seen, boo Ninty for being behind the times.
Yaaaaay!! Soooo incredibly sad about the digital thing though :'( I’m not too surprised by the naming with apollo and athena, the whole series is filled with names using super obvious puns and references, it fits into the world nicely. Yeah wouldv been nice to snug some legal term into the title there, but yah still nice.
Digital only? Oh well, looks like I won’t be playing it now.
Two posts back-to-back? dang saturday you sure are heading into “talking by yourself” territory. Or.. wait, maybe with that sentence I just did.
anyway.
DAFT PUNK ALBUM GOT LEAKED ASKAHSKAXJHJFSGJKSFGREJRG
EDIT: Ah, so they streamed it on Itunes, and so pirates ripped the audio off there, and that’s where all the copies out there on the net originates from thus far so it’s not entirely a leak per se. Audio’s a bit muddy, however, so if anything this hypes me up for the actual album even further.
Eh, I’ll wait for the full release so I can guarantee the quality.
I’ve backed away a fair bit from that album release, though. Far too much hype surrounding it meant the first single couldn’t even hope to live up to the hype. I’m hoping it’ll mean I’ll enjoy it a whole lot more.
Aye, after a listen-through I can guarantee it is no Discovery Part 2. However, DP have stated themselves that they’re planning to remix the album, so if they produce something along the lines of Alive 2007 with the remix album I will be very, very impressed.
Without going into a full-blown review, it’s still a good album despite it being over-hyped. lyric-heavy, a lot of it seems safe (personal opinion, though), the beats are slow-paced and relatively catchy (couldn’t tell ya about repetitiveness, would have to listen again) and overall, will be a very polarizing album.
My favourite songs so far are probably Instant Crush, Get Lucky and Contact.
Will be waiting for a decent quality rip.
I’ve ended up with dodgy albums before and been misled.
Oh man, listening now, people are going to hate this album. Personally, I’m loving it, but anyone expecting something like their previous albums is going to be severely disappointed.
It’s really, really odd that I consider “Get Lucky” to be one of the better songs of this album, when I thought it was more the teaser than the apparent headliner it is now.
I’m not sure of the track titles cause I’m using the iTunes stream, but I think it was Giorgio by Moroder, the one where he’s talking, the end of that song is fucking rad.
That’s definitely one of the more experimental tracks, and by experimental I mean “batshit-crazy-what-is-going-on-roller-coaster-ride-OF-FUCKING-AWESOME.”
Also, god damn Pharrell can sing. If there was a whole album of songs like this with Pharrell singing I’d buy that shit straight up.
His solo album was so dissapointing 🙁
ANother glorious day at the old office.
D:
*Free Pax 3 Day Ticket Comp Giveaway Thing*
there will be more about this on Potaku and Kotaku at a later date but I’d obviously rather a TAYbie won so I’m giving y’all an early hint.
Listen to the podcasts. Take notes.
Feel free to pass it on to anyone looking to go.
YOU MONSTER!
D:
>:-(
:pI sure did play a lot of Bioshock Infinite yesterday. I turned on my PS3 just then and the PS+ message that tells me what it did overnight had 16 autosaved locations uploaded to cloud storage.
Persona 3 keeps randonly killing me.
Kinda annoying. >:-(
I’m playing through P3P, and my responses are pretty much
“FUCK THIS MUSIC IS GREAT”
“FUCK YUKARI YOU’RE IN THE FUCKING ARCHERY CLUB WHY DO YOU MISS SO MUCH”
“FUCK THIS MUSIC IS GREAT”
I do love the music but the vocals are a real step down from P4G, and yeah she misses heap :-/
I gave her a really good bow I got from a quest and for a while she was quite decent.
Did you visit Inaba yet? I almost cried happy tears when the music played.
No, I’ve just started a game up recently, I’m barely into the game as is.Vocals? What vocals, all I ever hear is “I never felt like, da da da da” and “sakhfsjkdafhsdjakfgsjdkagbsga.” But I just feel like every theme is better than it’s Persona 4 counterpart, down to the battle results music.
no way…NO WAY! P4Gs music makes me have feelings and shit, P3P merely lets me enjoy.
nothing, NOTHING will ever come close to the song that plays in the TV lobby…NOTHING (it has various names, something about back of TV in Japanese and Studio Backlot in English, anyway, I can never remember except AMAZEBALLS!)
Also, yeah, I pretty much prefer EVERY piece of music in P4G, not that I think P3P is bad (in any way) just everything about P4G is borderline perfect 😀
I’ve just realised.
Vocals, not LYRICS.
You know?
Daft Punk’s new album sounds exactly like what people in the 80s thought people in 2013 would be listening to. I’m very ok with this.
People in the 80s also thought we’d have flying cars and hoverboards by 2015, so they’re not that smart.
Mate, it’s not 2015 yet.
Maybe not for you.
I dunno man we got self-lacing shoes, sure they ain’t in mass production like we thought but it’s a right step
Michael J Fox is getting a show on NBC up soon, though, so I’m sure it’s a sign of what’s to come. Probably. Probably not.
Really? I didn’t think Michael J. Fox could really commit to anything regular. Guess he’s feeling better these days.
Hah, his character on his show has parkinson’s (shaking jokes ahoy!), and I believe with medicine these days it’s quite manageable. By the looks of it, though, he’s got it pretty reined in, so good for the guy.
They could probably get a season’s worth of material just on the picture memes produced by 4chan.
He does a pretty good job on The Good Wife, works it into his character and doesn’t play the victim or any thing. He’s a really inspiring kind of guy! 😀
Well we do have flying cars and hoverboards, just not in the same way that people in the 80s envisioned them.
Then they don’t count!
Morning folks!
Get Lucky (Album Version)- Daft Punk
They didn’t expand the solo at the end. I am dissapoint.
I’ve never listened to Daft Punk in my life and would only be jumping on a bandwagon if I started this morning. XD
Nothing wrong with using a bandwagon to find new music.
You should get Interstellar 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem and watch that. It will turn you 😀
Into what? D:
A Daft Punk fan.
Sith
Best movie.
That’s actually the only anime movie I’ve ever seen…
How is that even possible?
You’ve never seen Pokemon or Dragon Ball or Beyblades or Yu Gi Oh or any of that other stuff that plays constantly on free to air?
Dood, you need to go and get Ninja Scroll right now and watch the shit outta it.
If you like The Clone Wars and Tron: Something something then you need to watch Ninja Scroll.
Well I’ve seen maybe 5 minutes of a pokemon episode once, but that doesn’t really count.
I just searched for Ninja Scroll, and it has an MA15+ rating, so no thanks. I don’t really like super violent stuff like that. But thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Stay away from Ninja scroll, you wouldn’t like that.
But some of the other anime stuff you might really like. Something along the lines of cowboy bebop or trigun is a good introduction
Only Ma15+ My copy’s rated R18.
It’s Ninjas, they stab each other. I think it’s more the sex and swearing that does it :-/
I’m gonna have a think on something less violent that you should watch.
I really think you’re missing out on a lot of cool shit.
Stabbing and stuff and other general violence I’m okay with, I just don’t like gory or heaps of blood. Plus sex and swearing I try to avoid too.
Pretty much I just try to avoid anything with an MA15+ rating or higher.
Ninja Scroll has a few bits with lots of blood and also a dude getting stabbed in the eye. There’s also a rape scene.
But as someone who lost interest in anime a long time ago, I will still recommend Cowboy Bebop to anyone.
Check out “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808506/
It’s pretty good.
Everyone’s answers are all good here. Just trying to think of something in the style of Clone Wars or Tron fro you.
Hey @negativezero Any suggestions for lambo?
@kermitron: don’t forget the lady that keeps snakes in her vag. Ninja Scroll’s pretty dumb.
@lambomann007: I honestly wouldn’t know where to start with suggestions, maybe some Ghibli films? It really depends what you want. @andre’s suggestion of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a good one, that’s a brilliant film. Summer Wars (same director) is pretty solid too. You don’t want to watch Ninja Scroll – based off what you’ve said you prefer to avoid it’s basically everything you don’t want to watch.
As far as something like Tron goes, the trapped-inside-a-computer-or-video-game thing is actually not that uncommon in Anime. There’s the .hack stuff which personally I liked but it’s very slowly paced and I don’t know if it still holds up now. Sword Art Online has the same sort of idea as well. Another one I personally really loved which involves a game world but not people trapped in it per se is Denno Coil. I think I’ve mentioned it before. It’s about a bunch of kids in a near-future setting where Augmented Reality is ubiquitous and everyone basically wears google glasses 😛
@negativezero thanks for the suggestions. Arrow’s ending this week, so I’ll check some of these out 😀 …or I could just watch Tron Uprising again 😛
What I like about it (and Clone Wars) is the sci-fi setting, but I’ll watch pretty much anything. Which reminds me I still have MLP to watch…
Totally possible. The only anime movie I’ve seen is Perfect Blue 😛
Though getting technical and going beyond just movies, I’ve also seen GitSSAC and season 1 of Samurai Champloo, back when each was aired on SBS years and years ago. But otherwise yeah, that’s it.
Perfect Blue is a great movie. The director Satoshi Kon was also highly regarded in the industry.
I can only recommend you see other works from him “Tokyo Godfathers” (has been on SBS) and “Paprika”
Satoshi Kon is my favourite anime director, but maybe the things he deals with are a bit too heavy for Lambo’s tastes?
Laaaaaame 😛
You’d hate it. Synth for daaaayyyysss.
I forget 🙁
Daft Punk? 😀
nope
I don’t know! D:
Whatever song is playing at 58 minutes into Random Access Memories. Motherboard I think.
The Game of Love – Daft Punk
Something there – Beauty and the beast soundtrack
Sub Focus – Coming Closer (ft. Takura)
Ambient two-step with great vocals, not for the weak.
@batguy – hey man just got some mail today…. will be posting yours at lunch time…. sorry man, ive been sick as a dog 🙁
Hope you’re feel better soon!
thanks man…. got one of them man flu’s had this cough for 6 weeks…. cant shake it off.
Me too!
But whatever, whenever you can get around to it. Just glad to hear that it arrived.
FREEZE’S MEAT
Tonight – 6:30-7pm meet out the front of Kinokuniya for dinner at Ichi-Ban Boshi
@freezespreston, @alexpants, @cakesmith, @35, @shiggyninty, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @batgirl, @trjn, @freya, @fatshady, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @powalen, @ruffleberg, @masha2932
If only I lived near enough to the city for a 7pm meet-up on a week night. Sadly, this is very much not the case.
This is so disorientating, seeing ‘Freeze meat’ but everyone else is in sydney
Say hi to Freeze for me. Tell the others they’re terrifying. >:|
Nah!
I hadnt seen this yet! That was cool. Memories…
Like the corners of your mind?
Haha, I’ve got my reasons, man. REASONS. 😛
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!
Afraid I’ll have to give this one a miss. I will meet Freeze one of these days…
I WENT TO THAT PLACE WHEN I WAS IN SYDNEY!
it was basically a way better borders
Going to have to pass. Lack of sleep, travel time and finances are a deadly combo for a social
life.
I would’ve come if I was invited… and if I wasn’t home from work today sick anyway.
You can blame @dc for the list.
Totally wrote that list when Batguy was in Brisbane. I remember him, I swear. Just figured he couldn’t go to the meat then! 😀
I will be there! And that will probably mean that I’m followed there by @trjn. So it’ll be the A team. Yes, that.
I think last nights Mad Men was the best of the season, by far. Posted some thoughts last night. (Every one was too busy talking Survivor. :D)
Also Game of Thrones:
Did not care for that scene with Theon. That was uncomfortable for everyone. D:What’s weird is that my wife somehow got spoiled on the Theon bit last week but apparently what’s happening with Theon right now is a huge divergence from the books, to the point that a lot of book fans are really unhappy because it’s completely botching the character for later on, so I have no idea what her spoiler sources are.
I guess I’ll find out when I get there. I’m still only 3/4 of the way through the first book.
Liked the scenes with Jamie/Brienne and Daenerys though. I’ve got to admit though, some of the wedding stuff in this ep was beginning to feel a bit soap opera-like. :SThe
Jon/Ygrittestuff feels really soap opera-y to me, but I have a feeling shit’s REALLY gonna go down in either the next episode or episode 9 though. It’s too quiet right now.Wha! I think thats amazingly well handled, actually. For a couple that havent had much time to develop as a couple on screen, theyve done quite well. I think a lot of that is on the shoulders of her performance, which manages to ride that line of being crass and ‘wild’ while showing some genuine connection with Jon, without overracting. She’s nailed it imo, and I love all the screentime they give her for it.Agreed! Me too!
If you mean the stuff with Shae and Tyrion I will be sad! I looooove Shae’s character, so so much. She brings a refreshing level of common folk frankness to the show. She had so much more time when she was first hooking up with Tyrion and I loved it, so was nice to finally see more time with her and Tyrion.Ehhhh. Shae depends entirely on who she is with. When she’s with Sansa she’s fantastic, when she’s with Tyrion she’s a pain in the ass. I think the issue I have is the same reason you like her though, she just doesn’t get how things work within a family like the Lannisters. It’s less common folk frankness and more naivety for me.Noooo ways, I think she grounds Tyrion in a lot of ways. Because she’s right all the time! She makes him realise how absurd a lot of their stupid ‘family ways’ are. the scenes with him and her are the best.And as if that wasnt heartbreaking hearing her talk about how they couldnt live a proper life, and their children would be killed. She was completely right! And Tyrion is just bending to his father and ciompletely disregarding the life they could have, just because hes too proud to go and be a commoner with her somewhere else.Nup. I mean, you’re right with how ridiculous a lot of the family stuff is, no doubt, but Tyrion doesn’t have a choice. Without the Lannister name he’s worthless. What else is he supposed to do? That’s what I don’t really think Shae gets, being a Lannister is the only reason Tyrion is anything.Becaaaause hes with the woman he loves, maybe? He’s essentially putting that title’s importance over her and the life they could have together. Imo, its better to be a commoner with a family you love, than be alone and have a position of relative power amongst people who hate you.@sughly
We may have to just disagree here. But holy shit, does this speak to the quality of the show or what?
@sughly
You may be forgetting, because I think they only mentioned it once in the show, but Tyrion’s already tried running off with someone he loved. When he was younger he fell in love and married a commoner. His father found out and because she had “presumed to marry a Lannister, Tywin had his entire guard rape Tysha for a silver each and then made Tyrion go last for a gold coin, because a Lannister is worth more.”@sughly @strange
Ohhhh yeaaahhh. They’ve actually been mentioning that a whole lot in the last two episodes. And I totally forgot. This is a pretty massive factor.@strange @bdkiaf
Ah yeah, yeah I did forget about that. He couldve made that point to Shae though, to be fair. I was going purely by the points he was giving Shae in the last ep.@sughly @strange
From memory he’s made it pretty clear he doesn’t want to talk about it though. Also, what would telling Shae that achieve? Constant fear? Assuming it doesn’t scare her off altogether. That hardly seems like something you’d want to inflict on the person you love.For Tyrion I don’t think it’s pride…it’s responsibility. He feels the responsibility his noble blood gives him more keenly than most. And there is no way him running off to “be a commoner with her” is going to make her any more safe. Remember even as far away as Daenerys was, assassins were still able to get to her.One thing I really liked about last nights episode:
Was Joffrey being updated on Daenerys. The fact they know what’s she’s doing. That was awesome.Ok, and I would say for the sake of making my own point I was dismissive of Tyrions reasonings, but you guys are being a bit harsh on poor ol Shae. She’s awesome, she’s been nothing but awesome, and she’s being put in a shitty shitty position. I feel for her 🙁@sughly
What?! I never said anything about Shae.@strange
Exactly, you didnt say anything about her! You dismissed her XDThis thread is awesome 😀
No, I love that stuff too. I mean the Sansa/Tyron stuff and marriage for duty and all that. I like the Shea stuff and totally agree with you there… Still really like the show, but that arc in particular is walking a fine line from dramatic into soap opera stuff. What I found funny last week was a bit over done this week.Oohhhhh and she was all how do sex with midgets. Yeah, agreed.Don’t forget Sansa’s super-young so to her everything really is dramatic and soap-opera-ish. I think she was 11 in the books when they started but in the show she’s slightly older, maybe 13ish.Oh really? I didn’t know that! I know they ‘aged up’ Daenerys too, right? I completely understand why she’s so upset too, even if she wasn’t young.I thought the only difference between the book and the show with Theon was that the book skipped him and it is all revealed in flashbacks and dialogue?Mind you, I’m saving season 3 all up to watch at once.
I’m only 3/4 through book one but yeah, I think I’ve heard that Theon
reappears in book five and we gradually learn why he was missing.I assumed that we were just seeing it now so they don’t have to do a flashback exposition dump later, but apparently people are now saying the character is wrong because of it. I’ll judge that for myself when I’ve read more, I guess.
What has he done in the show this season?
Do you really want me to answer that? It’s super-spoilery.
Just hide it.
I read the books. 🙂
Basically after being knocked out by his own men after taking Winterfell, he wakes up in a dungeon being tortured for reasons unknown. He’s released into the woods by a guy who claims to have been sent by his sister, recaptured, nearly raped, rescued by the guy who released him and taken on a roundabout journey back to the dungeon he started in. The guy who rescued him was actually behind the torture all along, and was just fucking with him.He challenges Theon to guess who he is and (IIRC) Theon guesses he’s oneo f the Karstark’s men, and is torturing Theon as revenge for what he did at Winterfell. The guy pretends to confess this is true then admits he was lying and there’s no reason for the torture whatsoever.
In the latest episode Theon is rescued by two women who promptly get naked and dryhump him, at which ponit his torturer returns and chastises him for being so proud of his penis. It’s then heavily implied he cuts it off.
I’ve been assuming since his “recapture” that the unnamed torturers/women are a figment of Theon’s imagination and he’s actually sitting in a dungeon somewhere mutilating himself, possibly having gone mad after betraying the Starks, even though he knows he didn’t murder Bran and Rickon and frankly I have no idea what’s happening at Winterfell ever since he left since there’s no Starks there. Presumably Robb’s men took it back after he bailed and are keeping it safe until someone returns.
At this point it seems like Jon Snow will get there before anyone else, since I’m pretty sure Robb and Catelyn aren’t getting out of Walder Frey’s castle alive, Sansa is currently bethrothed to Tyrion and isn’t getting back to Winterfell anytime soon, Arya just got snatched by the The Hound and I haven’t the faintest idea where Bran is headed right now.
So yeah. Stuff.
My mum decided to see what GoT was like just before that scene started -_-
Haha! Oh man! D:
Was bad enough having my sister in the room for that.
Least I was able to guess the point of it as it was happening :/
Haha, then mum was like “Poor guy” XD
Haha! I’m sure every guy in the audience instinctively winced. Theon’s done some terrible things, but no one deserves that. XD Just when you think you’ve met the most sadistic character on Game of Thrones another sadistic character comes along to torture them. 😛I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would do what hes doing. Whoever he ends up being, hes a dick.
But… Mad Men too. Good show. 😀
The Wire is better!
I posted this on Twitter, but I’ll say it again here.
I think I’m over Game of Thrones. Tried to watch the 4th episode and I can’t get through it. Am I the only one getting bored?
4th episode of this season or 4th episode of the first season?
Either way, no, I’m still totally hooked. This season has had some pacing issues but I really do feel like they’re building to something.
Current season. The first season was great. I felt like it started to slip in the second one and now, I dunno, the awkward boobs for the sake of boobs and odd changes are just bleh. Not feeling it.
Ah… yes?
Have you read the books? This MAY be a factor?
Mebe. Nah I havent. All I can say is I love this season as a TV fan.
I’ll admit the latest episode was a bit slow, but I still found it tense enough to counteract the boring romancy bits.
If I was getting bored though, I’d at least give it until the end of the current season before thinking about giving up.
Nooo, whys everyone getting bored? There’s still so many interesting threads being followed and twisted and gah! Boring romancy bits, pah!
The marriage stuff is the only thing that’s boring me, still love the rest of the show and can see them moving stuff slowly into place for a big pay off soon.I did not say I was getting bored! But surely you have to admit the
Robb bits in this episode were boring and gagworthy.:O I liked the Robb scenes.Saaaaame.
“Boring romancy bits”. You lie Strange, you lie!
Does Theon Greyjoy still get his willy out a lot?
Asking for a friend.
You could say that
Heh. This is funnier than you think it is.
I dunno, I think I’m pretty funny.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
If you were a basketball team, willies would be your home court.
I’m saying you perform better on willies.
fucking spammer!
Finally got the podcast done!
http://mumbojumbovideogamepodcast.podbean.com/
Includes @fatshadylive and Dane Martensen and discusses Neverwinter, Hitman Absolution, The Walking Dead, GTA V and heaps more!
Have a listen and if it’s any good, we will continue with more soon!
Cheers guys
You sound hot.
Pics?
Warning! NSFW http://media57.podbean.com/pb/a5efd465ace8371ae765b08bcc1b3917/5191b4a8/data1/blogs32/617051/uploads/1400copy.jpg
Mumbo? Perhaps! Jumbo? Perhaps not!
Never gets old?
HITMANN
Everytime I play Absolution I feel like 47’s grand kid who’s visiting him in the retirement home.
“For years, Dianna was my sole contact at the agency.”
“Ahh Jesus… Grandpa! Hey, hey Grandpa. We know. You’ve told us that one before.”
“Have I!? Sorry sweet pea, my memory isn’t what it used to be. How are you?”
“I’m good thanks, Grandpa. Remember, I told you Vicki & I are getting married?”
“You are! That’s wonderful… Who’s Vicki?”
“You know Vicki, Gramps. You introduced us… Victoria? You remember her and Diana?”
…
“For years, Dianna was my sole contact at the agency”
“I know Pop… I know…”
-slow dolly out to Everybody Hurts-
Nooooo I still find him amazing and cool. Even if he has early onset Alzheimer’s.
Any feedback (pos or neg) would be much appreciated! Tell me what you did and didn’t like. I can take it! *braces for impact*
Thanks again. I had more fun than I expected, mainly because it gave me a chance to talk about games and stuff.
Inspired by the animated Avengers series DVD he is watching my son is drawing his own “power system for killing bad guys”. Complete with a running commentary on what every line he draws is for. “this is smoke so you know the bad guy is dead”. 😀
Troubled young man. 😛
Edit: And by that I mean awesome. 😀
Get him some comics!
This could be a very very good idea or a very very bad idea
I like the style of 3D used for the backgrounds in Ni No Kuni and Phoenix Wright. Too bad the west doesn’t attempt stuff like that.
Yeeeeah, a lot (not all obviously) of Western games try for photo-realism over art stuff.
It’s weird too, that I love Western comic book style art but they never go with an art style that is as amazeballs as that when they do do that style.
Anime style lends itself more easily than most because of it’s implied detail, I guess that comes from the fact that anime has to try and do things on the cheap because hand drawn animation is more costly/ time consuming.
Works for them, though! So damn pretty looking!
I friggin love anime style, it’s an art of it’s own implying a lot of detail with a lot less line work.
I’m not sure that it’s less artwork than more ‘western’ styles of 2D animation. There’s a heck of a lot of detail that goes into the eyes in anime (mainly because the eyes are the most expressive part of the human face).
Stylistically they have ways of suggesting motion etc with less frames, but each frame doesn’t have less lines.
I think you misunderstood my meaning.
I wasn’t straight up comparing Japanese animation to western animation but more Anime style as a whole as it is used throughout Japanese media compared to American animation style as it is used throughout Western media.
As an example, Westerners like to draw in every detail on a muscle(this is a generalisation of course, I’m sure any idiot with Google can come up with examples)there will be clear definition exactly where the muscle is and how big it is. Whereas Japan likes to use simple looking shadows to show where the muscle sits and only imply it’s size and shape.
There’s nothing more simple about what Japan does, it looks like less work but in fact both Western and Japanese artists need to have a good knowledge of human anatomy, where it sits and how it changes shape when a person moves, to show this.
In no way do I mean it is “less artwork”.
It’s just as hard to draw something in this style:
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/188/2/e/Jim_Lee_unused_Icons_cover_by_INKIST.jpg
As it is to draw something inm this style:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/045/2/e/ncp4golden_yukiko_by_naughtyboy83-d5uwmnp.jpg
The difference really in games is that Japanese stuff has actually got some art direction. 😛
OoOOOOOooOOOOoooooOOoOOh 😛
Thats kind of a relatively new thing though right? In the way that theyve done it, at least. Japan imo have always been better though at doing things with a more cartoonish look and feel, hence Nintendo.
Wind Waker came out in 2002, Danedane
:p
Yeah good point ^_^
Jet Set Radio came out in 2000, if you want to talk about the origin of Cel Shading / Cartoon Shading 3D stuff…
I didn’t, I just wanted to remind @Sughly of an old cel shaded game we both played 🙂
I wouldn’t know, Ni No Kuni was the last Japanese game I played in ages. XD The only thing is their worlds tend to feel a bit empty. Look with you eyes, not with your hands. Lack of interactivity with the surrounds. Though basing that on one game is totally unfair. 😀
*cough* Ico *cough*
Haha! Good point. Nothing but interacting with surrounds. 😛
Looking forward to getting glasses worked out/starting SotC!
There’s a lot of Japanese games I’d argue have a lot more fuller and richer worlds than any western game
You just have to come at it differently
It’s a different mindset though, you shouldn’t go into that sort of a game expecting it to play like Fallout where you can pick up EVERY GODDAMM USELESS PIECE OF SHIT YOU COME ACROSS.
Which is cool (I love Fallout) but, you know, different thinking.
You play the game for different reasons.
Same way you watch a comedy for a laugh, a sci-fi for the excellent world creation or a Pauly Shore movie because there’s something seriously wrong with you :p
One thing I loved about Heavy Rain that most people seemed to hate was the unnecessary world interaction that wasn’t essential to the game, but there for establishing character and the like. (All the scenes with Ethan dong regular stuff around the house in the opening chapter, etc.) Didn’t force you to do any of this stuff, but gave you a sense of who he was if you did. I like that kind of detail, but you’re right… not every game has to play the same.
Yeah but I think the idea of that was missed a bit. I mean, apart from playing with the kids, everything else doesnt really give a sense of his life other than he has showers and has a fridge and a kitchen. Most people have these things.
Stuff in the chapter after the accident though with deciding what to do with Ethan’s time was pretty great. To pay attention to kid and follow the schedule or uncomfortably do his own thing, disconnected from what he once had. I think it just comes down to what you bring to the game too and if you’re willing to role play with the character a little… maybe…Completely understand that criticism, though.
You make a good point!
(Responding here to comment on your reaction to that scene below)
I didn’t feel like I was punched in the gut at all. For me that is the only stupid thing about that game. I don’t know any parent that would continue to fumble around trying to pay for something instead of chasing their kid down. And I don’t know any kid that would be stupid enough to run away from their parents in a crowded shopping centre and then run out the door and across the road. Even if a kid is running from their parent in the shopping centre there’s no way they leave the centre, they’d be too afraid they’d never be found. So it was all way too far-fetched for me to feel anything at that point.@strange:
Didn’t even think of that too. Good point. Also wondering how being a parent changes your perception of things with the game. I remember when I first talked to @sughly on the Adventure Gamers forum about this game back in 2010 he said the father/kid dynamic didn’t really feel true as well.I thought the everyday stuff was more to be kind of a tutorial and also to make you feel more like Ethan. To immerse yourself in his boring, everyday life so you felt like you were him and to sharpen the impact of what came next.
But to em that was all pretty hollow, precisely because the characters had no development in those scenes. It was so one dimensional that there was no impact, it was like look things are happy and he has a nice kitchen, and now things are sad and his kitchen kind of sucks.
Yeah, that’s a good point too. Really contrasted what came after!
@sughly: No impact? D:
That seems a little superficial way of looking at it. I felt like I had been punched in the gut after I played that scene. 🙁@dc
Yeaaaah I simplified, true. But still, there was a lot missed out on. I felt like he had a lot of pieces in the right place, but the writing completely let it all down.@sughly There wasn’t supposed to be any character development there. It was just setting the scene.
@sughly: Haha! We always seem to have strong, polarized feelings when it comes to Heavy Rain. XD It’s cool though, cause I can see exactly what you mean. I just tend to be more forgiving when it comes to Cage and Quantic Dream. 😀
@strange How can a game promising to be revolutionary for storytelling in games not do any character development in it’s opening scenes? Whats the point in setting a scene about people you dont really know or care about apart from he plays with his kids and likes them?
Was character development in a way though. Conjured this picture of a content, happy guy. Things were simple and normal. Just a day in the life snapshot of an everyman.
@sughly
I don’t want to say you’ve missed the point, because I really doubt you have. I get the feeling that because the impact of what happened after that opening scene didn’t really affect you that you’re completely dismissing the worth of those opening moments. Which is fine, but you of all people should know that nothing is going to have the same impact on everyone.
@sughly Meh. You kids are too young to know what’s really important in life.
#oldladyfallbackargument
😛
I dont thik Cage is as smart as he thinks he is.
I really respect Cage for what he’s trying to do, but think he might need a little outside help to actually achieve it. He’s got a good eye for creating cinematic atmosphere and the like, think he needs to bring a screenwriter in or maybe just expand their internal writing staff.
@dc
Yeah, the man has talent, but maybe too much ego?
I don’t mind his games, but they neither as goodd as the best films or the best games.
He seems to think he’s pioneering a new future for the industry and maybe he is, but he hasn’t actually made the thing he’s been aiming for yet.
@dc
(bloody edits *shakes fist*)
Not just the writing, the gameplay needs more refining too.
@dc @jimu Honestly, I think David Cage needs to get away from all this genre crap. He’s wanting to make human stories, he promises as much, but fills it with shallow characters and genre conventions and gets completely distracted. I think for a game to live up to what hes saying, it should really be straight up drama. Just real human stories, with real shit happening to real people going through real situations.
edit: Its because of this that I really have zero interest in his next one
How did this convo about Japanese games get turned into a debate about Heavy Rain? Hmmmmmm, @dc ?
Haha! I don’t know Jimu, but I’m all for unnecessary world interactions is all. If people don’t want to use ’em that’s fine, but I’d prefer they were there than not… XD
Very apt jimjim
fucking Pauly Shore
Fucking. Pauly. Shore.
But…Encino Man! 🙁
That’s a Brendan Fraser movie that Pauly Shore co-stars in, not a Pauly SHore movie. 🙂
All things involving Bredan Fraser (Fraser himself included) should be launched into the sun. The world and humankind will benefit greatly,
I love the The Mummy AND The Mummy Returns. *folds arms stubbornly*
😀
(And The Mummy roller coaster at Universal Studios. :P)
He was in Scrubs … You are the worst person.
Ehhh, Brendan doesnt deserve anyone as amazing as Rachel Weisz XD He was replaceable
@sernobulus My point still stands 😀 (trolololol) #ihatescrubs
Hey now. He was fantastic on Scrubs. My Screw Up is one of the very best episodes of the whole series.
I don’t know who this Bredan Fraser person is and why you hate him so much, but I sure am glad you don’t feel that way about Brendan Fraser,because I like him. 😛
I repeat … THE.WORST.PERSON.
Airheads is a classic!
Japanese design and western design is different.
Japanese design tends to focus on the characters. They design a bunch of characters and put a lot of work into their personalities, interactions, development etc. Then they write a story around those characters, then build the world around that framework.
Western design tends to focus on the world first. They build a detailed game world and put a lot of work into designing all the places you might go and the things you might see, building a story to take you around those places, then they design the characters that might fit into that framework.
Personally I’ll go for more interesting characters and character interaction over a more interesting world any day.
Hello.
Hey man!
What the hell are you doing here?
Hey!
Who is this etc…
I tag you all the time and you never reply :’-( DICKMAN
I bet you don’t even know DICKMAN is a thing now!WHY NOT ME!?
Also, I tried to reply to your comic comment to say I’d help you out (won’t have free time till next month though) so shoot me an email!
Oh rilly?
(I made some cracks about “World’s biggest” Zelda fans not looking like Shiggy.)
Hello! How’s Bacon Week been treating you so far?
Salty and Greasy!
Okay Melbourne, help me
Since I’m going to Melbourne for a week I need to know some cool places to go to pass the time, so any good pubs, restaurants, arcades etc suggestions would be appreciated!
Galactic Circus at Crown Casino is a good place to pass the time. Arcades, Laser skirmish and bowling all in one place 🙂
When are you here?
For pax, July 17-25
Oh.
Well I imagine that during the PAX weekend there will be meats and such since it seems like everyone except @dc is coming.
Inner Melbourne is littered with pubs, cafes and restaurants. You can’t fling a shoe out the window without it hitting a passing barista or waiter. Mainly limited by what sort of stuff you want and how much you want to pay. There’s a fair amount of stuff to do as well but it depends what you’re into.
Personally I’m working that week but not the Friday of PAX, but might end up taking some extra time off around it as I’ll also be gearing up to move out of home so I’ll be house / apartment hunting.
or @jimu
PAX NORTH! (ft. @strange, @jimu, @sughly, @dc and Ken Levine.)
ARe we inviting celebrities now?
Cos Natalie Portman.
She can be our keynote speaker?
Gamble gamble gamble
How I Met Your Mother Major Spoilers:
We met the mother.Yayyyyyyyy.
Is that really a spoiler though?
No, but the more pressing question would be “Does anybody here care?”
nope, my boss would, but he doesn’t know I’m heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere
Really don’t like the characters all that much any more, after that happened I found I didn’t give a damn about who the mother was. D:I imagine his kids share the sentiment given that they had to listen to 200 episodes of his story only to have their mother turn up right at the very end. So the majority of the story had nothing to do with how he met their mother at all. They probably hate their father now. Maybe that’s how he tells all his stories? “Dad, where’s my bike padlock?” “Well son, in 1997 I was living in a college dorm…”“That’s great Dad, but I don’t see what you banging Aunt Robin again has to do with my padlock.”I like to think of it as..
Every single time anybody ever asks him a question, he goes on to retell the whole entity of HIMYM, be it related to the answer or not.Nahhh. I stopped watching like a year ago.
It only took eight years. Ted needs to go to a screenwriting class and learn about cutting unnecessary details from his rambling stories. 😛I think the most interesting part about this is that people are already claiming it’s not the mother and it’s all a lie.They were dead the whole time?
No, no, no, no, wrong movie.
You’re thinking of Die Hard.
She’s a he?
It was Marshall the whole time!That’d make for a real… Crying Game…
*wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
Finally.Feeeeeck. Spent alllllll this time levelling up Donnel on hard difficulty – which is freakin HARD – and then when I get to the mission with his kid I forget to put one of his better skills in the last slot and save it while I’m already in the mission.
FML.
Least you ain’t playing Lunatic/Classic.
Also, if it’s Aptitude you missed out on, well, it just means your kid’ll hafta grind more, nothing too serious.
Seriously, I haven’t got past the first chapter on Lunatic/Classic.
I didnt use Aptitude OR Armsthrift. Instead I used some shit about getting extra dodge/avoid or whatever if attacking. Which is still alright I guess but no Aptitude or armsthrift :'(
Armsthrift is a level 5 ability for Mercs, right? Not that important in the long run.
Ah, that skill. Patience, I believe? Could be worse, you could’a been stuck with a rally skill.
That said, Armsthrift for a Taguel using BeastStone+ is a bit handier than someone having Armsthrift for, say, a Steel Sword.
Armsthrift with a Brave Sword is worth it though.
Armsthrift + Whichever blade can give you gold when you kill a guy + Dude with 50+ luck = gooood times
I am many hours into this game and have no idea what any of this means.
Also, what chapter does grinding start legitimately?
@Beavwa
Armsthrift = Skill, Weapon cannot break with enough luck
Leifs Blade= Weapon, Every time enemy dies with this sword equipped, you get gold (with high enough luck)
50+ luck= 40-50 luck guarantees you never break a weapon and you get gold every other kill.
Grinding.. can begin whenever, really. Depending on the difficulty you can choose not to grind at all through the game. I’d say if you feel like you need to grind, then do so.
@beavwa: Armsthrift is a Mercenary skill gained at level 5 IIRC which has a (skill / 2) % chance to activate and if it does, the character’s weapon use is not decreased.
Galeforce is a Dark Flier skill gained at level 15 which allows the character to take a second turn if they attack and kill an enemy and as such is massively OP. Combined with a Brave Sword (Attacks twice for every normal attack, so if your character’s speed is good enough to get 2 attacks, they’ll attack 4 times) the character can become a wrecking ball.
Grinding starts when you want to, but you should probably get to about chapter 13 so you can buy Master Seals and Second Seals from shops.
@saturday @negativezero OK then, another question – how does one grind? I kill the few randoms on the map then nothing is left.
@beavwa
menu —> wireless —-> bonus box —-> bonus teams. From there, you can choose a bunch of pre-built teams to face off against based off characters from past FE titles.
@beavwa: On Easy Mode you can just use reeking boxes to summon risen on the map, you’re guaranteed to make more money than they cost. I think in normal mode, the boxes cost more.
Even without Aptitude, Donnel’s kid turned out to be my strongest unit.
To quote..ith that thing I wrote a while back about Donnel
This also applies to the kid.
Actually I think it’s because she inherited Galeforce from Cordelia so she was already set up amazingly well.
Today’s weather is affecting me. This grey, dreary day is making me feel grey and dreary. Think I’ll go play some Bioshock Infinite to make me feel colourful (and dreary). 😛
Will the ciiiiiiiircle be unbroken, by and by, by and by. Is a better home a-waitin’ in the sky, oh, in the sky!
Loved that scene when you arrived at Columbia and they had the choir singing that. So damn iconic.
Last night I went into the basement of some bar in Shantytown and picked up a guitar and played that while Elizabeth sang. Was weird. Also, Mr. Strange was watching me and even though he’s further ahead of me he’d never even seen that bar before, let alone the guitar. 😛That was the best moment of the game for me. 😀 So awesome.
That bit was one of my favourite bits in the game.
The sun’s been out multiple times, it’s a lovely day then I go outside and it’s freezing, damn it Melbourne!
I like to tell my BioShock/weather story any chance I get…
Original BioShock spoilers!
That dust storm that hit Brisbane once happened to strike right when Ryan vented gas into Arcadia. I looked out the window and it was the exact same conditions as inside the game and it freaked me out, Strange. IT FREAKED ME OUT. 😛I was in a class in the city when that dust storm hit. So I was listening to the teache while out the window the city behind him slowly turned orange. It was surreal.
When I was playing the demo of that game and got to a bit right near the start when you’re going through a corridor tube and everything shakes and it starts to crack and water seeps in and at that very moment my Mum barged open the door to my room and scared the hell out of me so much I screamed. I don’t scream. Damn you, Mum! 😛OH! I can’t believe I forgot about the Survivor finale. I’ll go and watch that instead. Expect my comments for you to disagree with in a few hours @sughly my friend. 😀
I also recorded a podcast.
Apparently podcasts are a thing now and I’m not on any of them yet, I need to rectify that 😛
I respect all the confidence you podcast people have. I couldn’t do it.
That you know of *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
Hearing my voice also makes me want to kill myself, so no podcasts for ol’ D.C. any time soon. XD
C’mon Dan!
You can do it!
You’ll never be cool.
Why do you hat me so?
Because you won’t help me record a board game podcast. Also because it’s fun messing with you since I’m a figment of your imagination.
I would say that your board game podcast has a fanbase in Western Australia, but that would imply they have internet and technology, which they don’t, and have therefore never experienced fun.
Just record it on cassette, do they have cassette players there yet?
Don’t know that they’ve left the age of steam just yet.
Vinyl maybe?
An important thing that Rockets said last night that no one else has touched on…
Funeral by Arcade Fire is awesome!
LUNCH TIME REPOST!
*Free Pax 3 Day Ticket Comp Giveaway Thing*
there will be more about this on Potaku and Kotaku at a later date but I’d obviously rather a TAYbie won so I’m giving y’all an early hint.
Listen to the podcasts. Take notes.
Feel free to pass it on to anyone looking to go.
Tell whoever manages the Contact tab on your site to answer my three questions!
Please!
Thank you!
Come Again!
that would be @AlexPants
@doc_what: You got Greg Edmonson to score your camping video?
I watched it. ARE YOU HAPPY! 😛Yes. AND YES! 😀
Awesome video too. Looking forward to see this elusive video content Shiggy’s been hinting at on Twitter for Potaku!
Coming sooooon!
SURVIVOR?!
BREAKING BAD?!
THE WIRE?!
NOPE.
WHY DID YOU EDIT?!
T_____________________________T
WHAT TERRIBLE THINGS DID YOU SAY BEFORE D:
J.J. Abrams and Fringe show runner J.H. Wyman’s new show Almost Human looks much better than the premise suggests! 😀
Very, very aesthetically similar to I, Robot (2004) too.
Also, Karl Urban’s in it, @strange! You can objectify Judge Dredd! XD
Seems very similar to the I, Robot movie. Cop who is injured after a robot calculates others have a better chance of survival, gets a cybernetic limb, doesn’t trust robots anymore, is teamed up with a special robot who is made to be more human like and have emotions.
None of that’s a bad thing, of course. I loved that movie, and this new show looks pretty cool too.
I think the same kind of issues of what it means to be human and all that will be explored better through a tv show too. Just hope there’s no product placement like in I, Robot. 😛
I didn’t even know I, Robot had product placement. It honestly never occured to me till just now that all that “retro” stuff he was into was product placement and not just part of his character design to make him more relatable to modern audiences.
Season four of Fringe had some terrible product placement too, where the characters started talking about how cool their phone is and they cut to the Verizon logo. D: Luckily they toned it down after that, but was still horrible.
The worst product placement I’ve seen lately is the Surface in shows like NCIS where they always take the time to show the characters clipping on the keyboard and flipping up the back stand.
The Amazing Race is the worst. “Take your 2014 Ford with your Travelosity gnome to your next pit stop.” “Congrats, you’ve won a brand new Ford.” *cut to parking lot montage next episode about how cool their new Ford is*
Disturbs me that I remember the brands, because that means it’s working. They don’t care if it annoys me or not. 😛
Didn’t someone do it with a Vita in a show recently?
Thought I saw this on Kotaku…
Yeah, the product placement in I, Robot didn’t bother me until it was pointed out. I guess it’s super cheesey that Will Smith’s character just loves retro stuff so of course that includes this year’s “vintage” Converse All-Stars or whatever, but I didn’t really care.
I thought it worked because that style is vintage now and is still very popular.
So it made sense that it would still be popular in the future.
(I own a pair)
@dc @dire_wolf
Bothers me that studios will demand integrity of a scene be compromised for some mindless advertising. That’s just me being pretentious though. Haha! Just don’t want it to become like the Truman Show where the wife would look to the camera and start the sales pitch.
Also, I Robot is set in 2035. That lady would know what 2004 converses were and not be astonished. She would’ve been relatively young then. 😛 Not like Converse designs have changed much through out the years too.
New character in Borderlands 2 comes out soon (not sure when). Anyone wanna start the Borderlands 2 bandwagon with me again? (@trjn @greenius @blaghman @whoeverelseIplayedwithbutforgot)
I.. uh.. never actually finished Borderlands 2, so I am down for playing it (I also have Gaige but haven’t played her at all, heh)
It might just be you and me frond, seems that everyone else hats me. \o/ …?
As much as I liked BL2 I don’t think I could ever play it again after putting 60 hours into that game. XD
I think I’ve put a fair bit more into it. Such an awesome game, Handsome Jack would have to be my favourite villain ever.
I’ll jump back on the borderlands 1 bandwagon if you like?
.. oh goddamn I haven’t played through 1 either :/
Going from BL2 to BL1 is hard. Number 2 is the same as the first except they improved everything.
Going back to borderlands 1 is ugly, ive tried it.
Number 2 is much better!
I could probably roll a new character to help fill out the numbers.
Yep! 😀
Looks like it’s me, you, @saturday and @trjn ?
Stupid cold weather…
*grumbles*
I look forward to the cold weather. 😀 Easier to get warm in winter than it is to get cool in summer.
I disagree. No matter what I do, my hands are permanently frost-bitten all throughout any kind of cold weather no matter how rugged-up I am.
Plus you can only rug up if you’re prepared for it. If you’re out and about without a jacket or something and it gets too cold, then you’re screwed. At least in the hot, you can always find shade.
I live in Brisbane though, to be fair. Doesn’t really get that cold anyways. 😀
But why would anyone want to get warm? Isn’t the smart response to just stand around in T-Shirt and Pants in -8 degree weather?
Edit: Man, capitalising “Pants” makes it seem really, really weird. Particularly after a weekend hanging around Pants.
Walking Dead game – episode four.
FUCK YOU TELLTALE!!! YOU GOT LEE BIT!!! THIS LAST EPISODE IS GOING TO BE HORRIBLE!!! WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME FEEL ALL THE FEELS?!?!?When I buried the kid next to the dog, I might’ve had a manly tear in the eye. Haha.Ben?saved him. he shits me but i couldn’t let him die. You?lol, the other one 😛
I had my reasons!
Any HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER fans here?
RUN, DONT WALK to the latest episode, the season finale, it’s FANTASTIC.
The last 60 seconds is just stellar, a massive payoff for all of us who have waited this last 8 years 😉Just watched it. WHAT. Is that really the finale?Season finale, as far as I know there’s one more season.
Really, MASSIVE spoiler in here, Do not click unless you wanna be majorly angry at me. They all signed on for the final season 9, the only hold out was Jason Segel who finally relented and said ok as long as it was the final one.
Only the season finale. The fact you found out who the mother was finally, was a major thing this whole season was building up to. The boots, the guitar case and the umbrella were all things that were seen in Rachel Bilsens apartment when she said the mother lived with her remember? 🙂I only clicked because I wanted to be majorly angry at you…
>:|
@dc
On unnecessary world interactions
See, I came from the other way, I was used to the streamlined games where if an item was able to be picked up it was worth something in some way, even if that way was to sell it for a few dollars at an in game shop.
When I first played Fallout 3 I picked up everthing, then I was overencumbered, I didn’t even understand what the hell was going on, I was used to Final Fantasy where you can pick up as much crap as you want and sell it at your leisure.
I don’y really like inventory management like that, I feel it can really slow down and kill the pacing of a game (I’m looking at you Mass Effect 1).
But rather than thinking of that as a fault of Western RPGs I just took it as a different game mechanic and learned to live with it.
Now when I play Fallout I have the opposite trouble of missing important items because they look like rubbish (I just did it in Dead Money the other day, a password on a scrap of paper on a bar that my damn cursor wasn’t acknowledgeing).
But yeah my point:
Maybe don’t look at these things as a fault but rather just a different way to play.
Hugs&Kisses
jimu
Yeah, definitely all comes down to preference thing. I think it’s the adventure gamer in me, wanting to click on all the surrounds and hear the characters thoughts. 😀
My point though, don’t let your preference ruin what could otherwise be a fun game. Evolve beyond it (says the guy who hates FPSs)
Oh, don’t get me wrong, never ruins a game for me. 😀
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/14
Hey! The currency was bottle caps!
I got so many NukaCola caps in NV just so I could go to the factory and claim the prize. XD
I’m working on that. 🙂
I clicked that hoping it would be brooms. You didn’t disappoint
What I don’t like is shooters and action adventure games that make me press a button to pick up ammo. If it’s ammo my gun needs just let me walk over it and it’s automatically picked up.
Shakes fist at Uncharted
I’ve never mined unless it was really specific about where you stood.
And then in old Survival Horror it’s part of the challenge(but that’s another genre and pointless of me to mention) XD
Well if you are playing with the hardcore mod then ammo has weight and that would be super annoying anytime you walked over a corpse with a missile launcher
So, I’ve still got a double-pass to GI Joe from that comp a little while back and they’re only showing it at 3:30 at George St now. The friend I was going to go with is stuck at home waiting for some Ikea jerkfaces who were supposed to deliver beds on Friday, and no one else seems to want to take his spot.
Anyone want a free ticket? 😛
a/s/l
18/f/syd
u bby?
Seems legit.
What’s your ICQ?
Fuck off! You aint old enough to remember that shit!
Pfft, sif!
I had ICQ until mid year 9 when everyone was MSNing.
Ha ha!
Everyone trying to descreeeetly hide the spoiler for How I met your Mother and Popsugar goes and spoils it in a headline!
GO journos!
The himym fb page went and plastered images just after the show finished on fb. What a dick move…
I’ve always felt uneasy throwing around the How I Met Your Mother acronym as, to the skim reader, it’s uncomfortably close to hymen.
Was it Barbra Streisand? I hope it was Barbra Streisand
MECHA barbata streisand. They really spared no expense.
Man that is BS, it’s hard to even watch legally that quickly in Australia.
Glasses place fixed my glasses for free! 😀
Fucking A!
Oh man, so damn relieved. I’m slightly poor and would’ve had to go without glasses. XD
What place is that?
OPSM! 😀
Nice
I go there for glasses stuff too! 😀
Rambling about achievements.
Makes me wanna play Halo 3 again. That game wasn’t the best but man I have a lot of fond memories of it!
I wish that more stuff had continued with Mass Effect’s achievement system, where doing stuff in the game got you achievements which unlocked bonuses in the game itself.
That was pretty cool, but I would’ve wanted better than “Cast X 75 times!” though. Not exactly a challenge-like achievement.
I thought those sort of ones were more to encourage you to branch out and try new things.
All it really did was tell me to skill spam in battle TBH 🙁
I just got good with shot guns and ran up and blasted everyone in the face in ME1, Im just not a shooter guy, much more interested in the dialogue & story.
ME2 was good for forcing me to play properly and the combat was actually more fun.
The way skills were done in ME2 were just stupid though, playing as a Sentinel for instance is a perfect example as to my problem with the combat in ME2, why does my tech ability go on cooldown when I use a biotic skill? Or better yet, why do I have to wait for my Throw ability’s cooldown to finish in order to change my fricken ammo type on my gun?! -.-
Oh yeah, AND the lore breaking “Clips” mechanics that got shoe-horned in 😛
I didn’t mind.
The clips forced me to change up my style a bit and not just rely on the same thing all the time.
I tend to just find what is most easiest and effective and spam.
I miss Halo 3. that was the peak of XBox Live multiplayer.
People are too douchey/competitive these days, sucked all the fun out of Reach/4. I don’t even want to think about the state of Call of Duty.
I’m on a phone conference at the moment and I just heard this one guy say “Nothing at all, nothing at all” about any possible impact… lets just say I’m glad my mic was muted xD
Archiving any archives today bro?
You know it! 🙂
We’re the king of archiving our archives, twice the mailbox storage saving!
That was a really cool show that was ahead of its time! 😀
Joss Whedon’s first writing job was on that show.
Is it Roseanne?
It is! 😀
Whoa, Serrels’ posted this on twitter!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html
Edit: Kind of heavy reading.
I didn’t read the author’s name at the start, so I was going through it, all’s well and good, and then there’s the line “I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt” and I was like “WAIT, WHAT?”
I am on top of the ball.
I did a very similar thing but even glossed over the “partner, Brad Pitt” because I assumed that was some lady’s nickname for her partner. It was not until I read the last line where it said that Angelina Jolie is an actress that I went “oh…righhhhhht”.
And I’m a doctor :p
Finished Survivor and in the middle of the reunion.
@sughly @greenius @powalen @phoenix
YAY!It had to be Cochrane. There was no other choice.I don’t understand how people could think Sheri coasted and Dawn didn’t. Dawn didn’t make one single move that wasn’t what Cochrane told her to do. They were way too hard on Sheri and not hard enough on Dawn. And Dawn further proved how silly she is by not taking Malcolm’s advice to just own her duplicity.Hahaha, Malcolm is a terrible actor. 😀I still feel like Dawn did stuff. Like when Corinne and her gang wanted to try and get her she leaked information and played both sides. Cochran might’ve told her to do it (they didn’t really show if he did or not) but she still executed it.Haha yeah, he was terrible :P. Going to watch his previous season!? 😀
Yes, I think I will. I’ve been handsewing all day every day lately and I need something I can watch without having to pay serious attention to while I sew.
>:( and 🙂
😛
OOO! And we can discuss that too 😀
@powalen you should watch it as well!
Me and @sughly have seen (and discussed!) it already and I think @phoenix might’ve seen it too. Season takes a while to pick up though but it’s a pretty good one!
S25 spoilers
Malcolm and Denise killed it last season. Very happy for Denise as well, she was a machine. Totally deserved to win it.Yeah, I agree!
Sugs and I were going for them from the start but I guess most people were 😀
More S25 stuff:
LISA ANNOYED ME SO MUCHWatch what? (no survivor spoilers if it’s related to that :P)
Malcolm’s previous season (the one directly before this, season 25). It’s a good one too!
Of course I only highly recommend it to Strange because she wants more Malcolm, more of the time 😛
Watched Nightmare in Silver.
It was okay. Interesting but not executed as well as it could have been. This isn’t really a spoiler but I don’t want to colour other people’s opinion before they see it. I’m influential!I can’t be bothered changing accounts although Freya also watched Nightmare in Silver.
Are you seriously that lazy?
Wait, why did I even bother asking that question?
I really don’t know. The answer is pretty self-evident.
I can’t upvote your posts if you post through my account.
Bit of a let down for a GaimanNew work laptop \o/
I’m still 11 months from a new one! NOOOO stupid 3 year leases. But still best feeling o/
IT Guy decided to grab it first and ‘set it up’ for me. So as you’d expect it’s half-done and I want to put something else on. But our network install system won’t let me – starts up like normal then the machine just reboots. 🙁
But seriously though, if anyone wants to see GI Joe I’ll be loitering in the foyer at George St cinema til about 3:30 with a spare ticket. Jeans + white T-shirt, holding a red phone with a wrist strap. Feel free to come up and say hi :p
Giving away free stuff is so hard.
Should’ve brought a piece of paper and tape with me, and just stuck the ticket to one of the pillars with a sign for anyone to take it.
Also this site is such a pain to navigate on my mobile. DEATH TO JAVASCRIPT!
It’s nice of you to offer to give things away! You should come along to Ichi Ban Boshi afterwards. I assume you mean the George St in Sydney. We’re meeting at 630-7pm and we’re going to eat ramen! You’ll know us, it’ll be a group of nerds in ironic T shirts.
I would’ve loved to, but I have to be over at the Aurora around then.
Perhaps another time.
🙁 oh well! Hope you had a good time at your movie!
http://collider.com/metallica-through-the-never-image-dane-dehaan/
This sounds like an awesome idea for a ‘concert movie’… too bad I’m not a Metallica fan. XD
Street Pass Quest 2 is pretty awesome 😀
I was just thinking how I get at least one Street Pass whenever I go out (4 a week) and how I missed out on like a year’s worth of them because I didn’t take my 3DS out with me to Uni
:'(
I just streetpass myself 3 times a day.
:/
Not enough 3ds fronds for Street Pass… I think I have only ever got 2 or 3. Total.
You can hire characters for 2 coins (you can get 10 coins per a day, 1 per 100 steps).
In Street Pass II you can hire previous Street Passed people which makes it easier (and better) since you can pick what colour they are and hire the higher level ones too 😀
In SP1, the hired people suck compared to ‘real’ street passed people, don’t they?
They’re only ever level 1 or 2. Street Pass people start off at level 1 but every time you pass them they’ll level up. Since I get most of mine at Uni I get people pretty consistently on a weekly basis and I’ve got two people who are level 6 and 7 :D.
I beat the whole Street Pass 1 by myself when I first got my 3DS. Because I never took it outside I just shook it for “steps” and used hired people :P. It’s just slower since they do less damage, but still totally doable!
But in SP2 it seems like you can hire previously passed people (as much as you want?) and with the newly added features, I immediately blazed through a few rooms.
I used to take mine out every day get around 3 a day and only ever got the same guy once :-/
I gave up cos I lost interest.
They max out at level 7. I’ve streetpassed myself about 30 times so far and I’m capped at 7.
Only if you get the same people several times. First time random and hire cat are same-same.
I did 95% of my first time through with hires. Trying to only use real people for the second time through.
It’ll be either cats or dogs, depending on what you pick as your favourite animal when you set up Street Pass.
Usually I’d only hire people to fill up my team when I already had a decently levelled Street Passed person so that hired people pretty much just filled up spots.
I like dogs. I have not chosen an option. So I guess cat is default.
After the first time someone had no puzzle pieces for me, I figured it was better to concentrate my coins on that to help others out, so hopefully they don’t get that disappointment from me.
FINE YOU WIN
I left the ticket and the glasses on the pole at the line for tickets. I bet when I come back out it’ll still be there.
Surprisingly enough, it was gone.
BUT BECAUSE SOMEONE USED IT, OR SOMEONE BINNED IT?
I guess we’ll never know.
People interested in GW2:
Played through a few Fractals of the Mist last night (managed to get a group of noobs to do it with – was cool because we all sortof worked it out as a group, nobody trying to rush us through it).
Pretty good fun! Played three of them, two were kind of hybrid puzzle/boss things. The other was a “teleport to the past, take part in a significant event from the land’s history” (kinda like Caverns of Time?) – not quite as interesting as the first two, but still better than what I’ve seen in the regular dungeons.
My warrior is level 53ish I think. I’m pretty keen to so some dungeons / instances. Even the lower level stuff just to try them out
Hmm, I wasn’t even aware that this existed. Looks interesting. Should try and get a group together for it.
They did the “Go back in time” missions in GW1 as well, really late addition, but it had some really cool key events that you played through, like the White Mantle soldiers who held off the Charr with the help of the Unseen Ones, or Gwen’s escape from the Charr prisons, and if you get all the objectives, you get some cool rewards, tokens to buying really awesome weapons /shields (Basically the same stats, but bloody good looking skins)
Ya, the “end game is all about the skins” thing is pretty much the same in GW2 although, higher quality tiers (per http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item#Quality ) have increased min/max damage etc. (Also, you can put upgrade components in to have effects like +N% damage – only one slot for upgrade per item.)
Well considering in GW1 their level cap was 20, it’s only logical to expand the tiering on the weapons and armour a bit more, otherwise looting would be kinda boring 😛
I really hope you can craft some really epic stuff for end game
@shane: Twitter feed hacked?
Are you suggesting @shane didn’t get cut up using women’s supplements?
I don’t want to presume any thing. 😛
Thanks man. Have changed my password… again :\
Going to see Star Trek Into Darkness in 3D! WOOOOO! STAR TREK!
Jelly, I’m never gonna get to the cinema 🙁
well i can safely say that i have had a good 24 hours
-firstly, a group of Dota 2 Casters asks the community to make some posters for them to put in the background of their studio, i thought i’d give it a shot for fun, last night on the stream i checked, and not only did i get on the wall, but i had a super visible spot! (also it’s a joke only dota players will get)
-Secondly, ANAMANAGUCHI RELEASED THEIR NEW ALBUM YEAH! so far so good, it’s a little more chilled than there other stuff, but still full of chiptuney goodness.
-Thirdly, i won a free Twix
I don’t get it. Why the cancer lancer kitty?
it got cut off, but it’s the “hang in there baby” poster (you know, with the cat hanging on a pole) and at the bottom it says 6.78 is coming.
JOKE EXPLAINED IN SPOILER (because i hate it when people explain jokes)
basically everyone knows in the 6.78 update in WC3 Dota Phantom Lancer is gonna get nerfed hardcore, so i made it to reflect how screwed PL is.Berapa harga anjing itu di jendela?
Yang satu dengan bergoyang-goyang ekor?
Soooo… After my week of absence how’s things 😛
Basically if you remember me posting about my mood and that, well it all kinda got too much and I took a break from pretty much everything for a few days, and I realised I really needed to buckle down on some uni work because I really wasn’t taking it all that seriously. I feel a lot better now thankfully, and got a fair bit done.
I had a (what I was told was) big accounting test today at 4. I even bought a calculator and a pencil and everything, and studied for like 6 hours last night! Turned out to be a multiple choice quiz where the most common answer was “All of the above”
Also that group assignment I think I mentioned a while back? High distinction! And my partner doubted me (aka I’m like 95% sure he thought I was slightly retarded)
And this is annoying. The one night there’s something on FTA (other than Formula 1) that I wanted to watch, somethings gone wrong here and there’s no tv signal anywhere, and nothing in the kitchen is powering on either :S
Gamez… I’ve been playing F1 2012, but the chances of anyone else playing it here are I’m guessing zero, but how about those weather effects, huh? (They are actually pretty damn good). Yeah we’ll move on from that one.
UPDATE: Been talking to the after hours guys, kitchen appliances are working, they can’t for the life of them find the antenna fuse thingys, and they have no idea what caused it 😛
YEAH BOI!
Good going Benji 😀
Thanks man 🙂
I think I need to stop doubting my work :S I’ve done it ever since I can remember, accepting I’ve done shit and ended up doing really well. (Except for maths. I expect I’ve done shit and have done shit)
It can be a good and bad thing 🙂
Better than expecting you did good and doing bad!
A friend spent ages on an assignment and started working on it a couple of weeks before it was due (like you’re supposed to :P), he even got his dad to check it (he’s some successful businessman) and his dad bet him he’d get a HD.
A friend and I started working on it a couple of days before it was due and he got a HD and I got a D while my friend got a C :/. Felt so bad but also so good that I got a better grade (but that’s mainly because I’m a terrible person) :P.
Moral of the story is that I’m a dick… wait, that’s not it, it’s set your expectations to be rational. If you truly, honestly think you did shit then believe you’ll do shit, but put in hard work and GET YOUSE SOMMADEM HDs nommy nommy nom nom
Oh man the Maccas oil is getting to my brain…
Fun Maccas story: I walked in today and the guy (who I swear works there 24/7) at the register’s like “2 mcdoubles?” and I’m like “Yep.” They know me…
I always feel bad when somebody’s really proud of the work they’ve spent ages on, get their results back and did badly 🙁 I try and avoid mentioning my results in those cases so I don’t look like a dick 😛
Remember the moral of my story? 😛
I usually ask “what did you get”, even if I got a shit result 😛
Got meself a Dinner Box and the latest ep of Game of Thrones.
Let’s get this party started.
It’s a regret party.
There’s no regret in a dinner box 😛 Only flavoursome love
There’s ALWAYS regret. I had KFC at lunchtime and it did not agree with me. =( I definitely regretted it.
But Dinner Box = Maccas
(@bdkiaf too)
I’m not sure if KFC or McDonalds regret is worse…
Ohhhhh.
I’m used to regret being associated with KFC.
Google tells me that’s a family meal. Are you eating a family meal?
Pfft no, I ain’t no piggie. Only had a Big Mac, cheeseburger, 2 small fries, 6 McNuggets, 1 regular and 1 small coke.
Pfft, disappointing Greenius. I think you should apprentice under Master @bish. Then you will learn how to eat a family meal by yourself
Maccas for me, by faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
(except breakfast)
KFC. I’ve had more food poisoning from KFC then Maccas.
Regret is actually one of the secret herbs and spices.
Dinner Box is not Bacon & Cheese Zinger Combo >:-(
oh well, it was good knowing Greenius.
Who wants to be the new Greenius?
Yellowius?
I can’t stop seeing Garth (from The Office UK) in Game of Thrones ever since it was pointed out that it was him :/. Same thing with Simon (from Misfits) D:
Wait’ll you get old, everyone becomes someone from something else :-/
They still are, just less so since I haven’t seen as much compared to those with like 6+ years on me 🙂
No, EVERYONE.
(It’s a senior thing) :p
@powalen
http://www.softendo.com/mario-games/super-mario-map-games.png
No idea if it’s been talked about already, but 😀 http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=BevXnCGpDdzJqIkXfOwYvA%253d%253d&ncdctx=jeCZUr1bqjcNe%2bVfG1Fig8ysBHEtXNa8%2bpTCSoeWomW3EusRaVBx5dgHCFjMngHV
About time!
HI TAY!
I feel like I’ve been away for a while even though I’ve been checking in pretty often. Uh… I have nothing else to say. I suspect I’ll be a mostly night TAY person for the foreseeable future. At least during my free time at home between 8-10 😛 Unless mobile TAY drastically improves (give me a version with no images/notifications so it’ll load faster please!)
How ’bout them games!
ps. Downloading Survivor now! Probably won’t get to watch it tonight though… D:
WORK!
MONEY!
SURVIVORRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDD
Congrats on being more of a grown-up than I am!
And it took me pretty much all day to watch Survivor. Between fast-forwarding all the ads and dealing with my son I’m surprised I even managed to finish it. 😛
Ads aye? 😉
You’re working these days? That’s great news, Powalen!
I hope the new job goes well 🙂
Just started this week!
Well, my Thrustmaster HOTAS has finally shipped…
Now to sit in a corner and rock back and forth until it arrives…
SOOOOO much innuendo inyourendo
We got the latest Delain CD in the mail today and it came with a bonus DVD. After he opened it Mr. Strange noticed one of the track listings for the DVD said”70000 Tons Of Metal” so he put it on and it turned out to be kind of a video diary of their 70K experience (they were on this year’s line-up) and Mr. Strange was in it at least 4 times. He’s pretty happy now. 😀
That’s pretty cool!
If he keeps this up, one day Mr. Strange might be almost as famous as the First Lady of TAY 😛
Only joking – that’ll never happen 😀I believe I have located @shane ‘s Source Of POWER!!!!!
Sweet! Bookmarked! Watch yourselves, TAY! 😀
Star Trek Into Darkness in 3D was good. Still liked the first one more, though. Missed so much the first time. D: (Sorry Freeze, I’ll make that up to you some how. :S)
You sure love page-gets.
D: I don’t know why this keeps happening! Congrats with the new job again, Pow!
I’m pretty sure I know why 😛
I remember getting a lot too and wondering why and then @f4ction was all “YOU’RE LIKE 90% OF THE POSTS” and I was like… oh yeah, good point.
😀
WORDS
I sensed a f4ction log in and/or complaint along the lines of “I logged in for this?!” 😀
HIYA BUDDY!
Whoa, Star Trek Into Darkness hasn’t opened in the U.S. yet?! Weird!
Yeah, that’s a thing now. Happened with another blockbuster recently
So on the Giant Bombcast last week they came up with an interesting idea: Mirror’s Edge, but in the Star Wars universe where your character is a Jedi.
I want this game.
:O Best. Game. Ever!! Dice, get onto it Pleeeeeese
That or Mirror’s Edge 2. XD
Zombie U2ZombiU 2 is in the works as well!Nightalen zingers aren’t as good as Dayalen’s
Ugh
EDIT: Nightalen sounds kinda fancy actually.
EDIT2: It wasn’t a joke, by the way 😛 Apparently they are making a sequel.
We all know that that game will never be made. But maybe the Star Wars license is how Dice sneak it through corporate approvals.
I mentioned that on Twitter like 5 times when that deal was announced.
@banderdash shot me down cos he reckons the fighting would suck.
I disagree. Just slice through everything like butter.
Fuck the fighting, you wouldn’t be doing much of it in a Mirror’s Edge game anyway.
Then why make them a Jedi at all?
Back before Lucas fucked everything up about them, the Jedi order weren’t meant to be sword-happy murder squads. Yoda himself said that the Jedi use the force for ‘knowledge and defense’ and not attacking things.
But I guess you’d have to be a crazy dickhole with a murder-stick for it to be a modern video game. 🙁
(Someone get EA to license Star Wars to Telltale and let them do a walking dead style game)
No Jedi games, please.
No Dan! games, please.
Dood, there’s GOING TO BE JEDI GAMES, don’t be ridiculous. Just don’t play em if you don’t want to.
That said, how do you know someone won’t create the best Jedi game ever soon? Huh? HUH!!?? HOW?!
Also, I can’t meet you Thursday anymore.
Will have to be next week :-/
No Jedi games, pleeeeeeeeeease.
Well, since you said pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.
I’ll have a chat with my close-buds at EA, I’m sure they’ll understand.
I didn’t say it would suck… I said the fighting would get repetitive.
Think of how boring the sword combat got in Oblivion, now put that in a game your sword will cut through everything…
The only way to counteract that is to spawn multiple masses of enemies… which you just harvest through. The combat challenge disappears, and the game becomes boring.
So you make the character a force-sensitive who hasn’t got a lightsaber until toward the end of the game, if at all.
And that would work… but it’s not what we were talking about.
Maybe to go along with the Mirrors Edge feel they can award you for not fightibg. Give you some force powers like a gentle push and guard.
Write that into the story, you’re a Jedi pacifist.
Change the ending if you do kill.
It’s doable I reckon
Set it post order 66, have it based on escape and evasion… where you’ve given up your saber to hide from Jedi hunters.
@banderdash
There you go Dice, EA. We’ve sorted it all out, not much left to do now :p
http://www.play-asia.com/Persona_4_Golden/paOS-13-71-1ab-49-en-70-4q5j.html
$29.
Y’all need this game.
I do, but I lack the necessary hardware to play it 🙁
Oh man, you’d love P4G!
Buy a Vita. It’s worth it for P4G alone.
Shut up, I’m not an addict. >.>
I am seriously considering it. But money 🙁
What else would you use the money for? May as well go nuts on spending!
Rent, food, going on a cruise in August with my girlfriend, just saving in case life happens. Sooner or later I will get it. And then it will get added to the Pile Of Shame for months before I start it, play it for an hour or 2 and then move on 😛
OR YOU WILL BUY IT AND PLAY IT AND LOVE IT AND DUMP 90 HOURS INTO IT IN A LITTLE OVER 2 WEEKS!
That is the second option.
@novacascade – I forgot to mention I pretty much got a Vita for it too 😛
It’s not the Persona 4: Golden machine for nothing!
@greenius – YOU’RE NOT BEING HELPIUS!!!
@novacascade
You mean we’re not trying to convince you to get it?
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/YG1600SOUL/ps-vita-wifi-soul-sacrifice-ps-vita-bundle
Oh, would you look at that! It’s in stock at Orange.
You’ll need it on that cruise…believe me!
Vita has lots of good games. You just have to remind yourself it’s portable, then all those games you think are just a port suddenly beome playable ANYWHERE!
Still not a huge selling factor for some people :P. Despite the portability it’s still the same game, just inferior :/ (in the case of console ports)
@greenius
Have you played any of these ports? MGS HD & Sonic Racing are exactly the same.
I imagine you’ll find the same for Dragon’s Crown.
Mortal Kombat has taken a graphical hit, but whi cares? It still looks great.
I’d buy most games on Vita over PS3 if they took a graphical hit. End of the day, graphics just aren’t that important, you guys are all playing Monster Hunter 3 on 3DS and Wii U and that looks like shit by today’s standards.
@jimu
I haven’t because I haven’t needed to but it’s not exactly the same as they’re generally a little worse. I know graphics aren’t everything but when it’s the same game but with slightly worse graphics on a smaller screen it’s still something that makes it inferior.
As for Monster Hunter, it may look bad but both versions look bad. It’s not like the Wii U one has current-gen HD graphics and the 3DS one looks like a PS1 era game, they generally look the same but the 3DS one just looks worse. It’s not exactly PS3 and Vita but between the Wii U and 3DS versions, the Wii U one had better controls (dual analog sticks without any extras), online and better graphics. More than just slightly worse graphics on a smaller screen.
In the case of MGS: HD. The Vita version ONLY gets MGS2 and 3 HD whereas the PS3 (and 360) versions got PW as well. It’s still making it inferior and I’m sure the graphics aren’t as good on the Vita version, which isn’t a problem for me BUT if I can get it better looking on the PS3, with an extra game, for the same price, I know which version I’m getting.
Of course I rarely use my portable stuff as portable so playing and inferior version for “portability” isn’t really a main selling point. So for me, it’s a clear choice which version I’m going to get (whichever version is better, without considering portability). Obviously it’s different for each person and I know you hardly find time to game at home so the portability works wonders for you, so it suits your needs better than mine and there’s nothing wrong with that… but that’s my problem with the Vita. The bottom line is, they’re still just ports, and slightly inferior ones too once you take away the portability. The Vita isn’t getting enough good, unique and exclusive games, and it’s hurting it badddd :(. EVERYONE I know who owns a Vita reckons it’s an awesome piece of hardware but the whole “no gaems” thing is true and more people need to realise it, especially Sony >:(
@greenius
I do not compute smaller screen being inferior. At all.
I presume MGS removed Peace Walker because they always intended it to be available as a PSP classic (or whatever you want to call them) and didn’t want to cut into those sales.
Is MGS HD really that cheap on PS3 now? Because at launch there was a price difference, no?
I wasn’t arguing for or against MH3 on 3DS or Wii U, my point was, that it’s a game YOU enjoy & put many hours into and it isn’t graphically superior on either system and you didn’t care, yeah?
So I’m saying that what most ports should lose (if anything) would be graphics and not content (Which IS the case with MGS but not SART & Dragon’s Crown as far as we know)
I understand that some of these points don’t mean much to someone like you, but I still think they are worth defending.
As a reverse example:
I don’t play much multiplayer at home, so it isn’t a point about home consoles that would sell me on them but the fact that you can do home multi with only a second controller and not another console would be a point in favour regardless of what it means to me personally, yeah?
🙂
@jimu
But things still look a bit worse because of the smaller screen (pixelated stuff, jagged edges).
I know you weren’t arguing for that about Monster Hunter but I addressed your point :P. I’m not sure what you’re saying but it IS graphically superior on the Wii U, and that was my point. However, the actual content differences was enough to make it an easy decision. You originally said it looked like shit by today’s standards (which is true) and I said that while it does look shit, BOTH versions look shit by today’s standards and one just looks less shit than the other. It’s not like one has current-gen HD graphics and the other looks like a PS1 era game, more of a shiny coat of paint that makes the Wii U version “HD”, animations and all that are just smoother too.
No one wants their ports to lose content but like you said, they’re still losing graphically. Graphics don’t really matter to me but it’s still something (as little as it) that differentiates the two, so when it comes to making a decision I’m going to pick the “better” one.
And as usual I’m not really bothered by this and I’m sure you aren’t either. We’re just rationally talking about our points and addressing each other’s :D. Good time sink.
@greenius
Wait a minute…this isn’t a hate filled argument? I want a refund >:-O
I think the fact that MH has a 3DS version and a Wii U version has confuse dwhat I was trying to say.
Imagine for a minute the 3DS version doesn’t exit. And we know that the Wii U version is not up to Wii U superior ability. But you still play regardless. So graphics don’t matter.
It was all just to back-up the fact that I know gameplay over rules graphics for YOU in games. I chose MH because I know that you sunk in so many hours and I know it isn’t the best graphically.
🙂
@jimu – I know and that was my point. It’s just knowing there’s a better one out there makes it much easier to make a choice. And to bring it full circle if a Vita game looked like shit but it was ONLY on the Vita then I wouldn’t care. But when it’s on Vita AND PS3, and it’s better or the same on PS3, it’s harder to justify the Vita version.
But there’s times where I like portable. Recenty beat both Thomas Was Alone and Sound Shapes on Vita as it was easy to play in bed 🙂
Wow. At first I thought it was the fighting game but that’s the RPG. Cool.
Yeah, Persona 4: Arena is the fighting one.
It’s great masha! I think you’d like it 🙂
The RPG, maybe, but I have no VITA 🙁
Not yet 😉
Well, get one!
eh, NOT HELPING! GT has a vita preowned for $150
That’s a pretty good price actually
#NotHelping
I know and you’re really not. I can’t buy it on the credit card as it’s too cheap and I don’t really want to layby it. AH! My brain is hurting again ;_;
Could always not layby/buy things and save up 😛
Remember how you wanted to buy P4G when it came out despite not having a Vita? It was like $50 then but it’s always going to drop in price and I’m sure it’ll be even lower than this in a few months.
Patience my friend!
Trailer for The Lone Ranger isn’t too bad for the beautiful scenery alone. I likes me a good western. Gore Verbinski’s a pretty damn good director too. M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth hopefully will be decent, though if it’s only 1,000 years after humans left the planet why have the animals evolved so much?
…
This is why I like watching the trailers. XD
(Unless it’s the kind that spoil the whole movie!)
Wait. After Earth is Shyamanalanaman?
I was somewhat interested but now that’s evaporated.
Yeah, it seems the studio’s learned, and so his name is no where near as prominent in marketing as it used to be.
It also looks crushingly mediocre to me.
It’s hard to say from the trailer, I like the stylized scifi world, but not sure about the Earth stuff. Also the Smith father/son thing might be too gimmicky. Would love to see a return to form from the director!
It’s his redemption movie. After Avatar was his Happening redemption movie. Which was his Lady in the Water redemption movie.
😀
I thought Happening was great, really enjoyed it.
…
D:
MONSTER! 😛
Then again, I probably shouldn’t judge. Lots of people HATE The Village and I freakin’ love it.
I don’t see what could be bad about it.
I thought the village was fun until the twist.
That was twist I was just all “siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh”
Booo! I like all but one of his movies. (Wait, I never saw Avatar, maybe 2)
So… Annie’s stories are getting quite sophisticated. Also, I don’t know who told her that meat comes from animals.
(She would say “Nobody told me. I just learned it up.” :P)
Better not have been of the Colobus variety, otherwise another member of the W. Smith family will be put on the enemies list. 😛
You know, she did say something that sounded a little like colobus…
What. It’s lonely on the list at the momentMONSTER! D:Oh Sumia. You keep falling over because you have no feet.
I thought that too 😛
I thought it was power of cliché’s that kept tripping her.
WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE NO FEET?!?
I actually kinda like it 😛 It makes it look like they’re ice skating in battle.
Fire Emblem Awakening: On Ice
When they were developing the game they didn’t know how powerful the hardware was going to be so they decided to drop the poly count on the models and the easiest way was to stylize them and remove the feet as it also vastly simplifies the animation.
Turns out that the 3DS was powerful enough to render the feet but they liked the stylized look so they ran with it.
They ran with no feet! 😀
They do have feet! They’re just… kind of stumpy. But it’s standard Japanese super-deformed style really. They have small bodies and big heads. Take a look at something like a Nendoroid and you’ll see the same thing. Big head, small body, nearly non-existent feet.
C’mon, you don’t need to explain that o me! I love FF4 on DS.
Just a heads up @powalen – but new Pokemon trailer and scans so… good luck trying to avoid them 😛
POKEMON X/Y STUFF (NOT FOR YOU POWALEN)
OMGOMOGMGOMGOMOGMOGMOGMOGM! I think it’s just become the 2013 game I’m most interested in at the moment (until I remember something else I’m forgetting… :P). 3D world! WOOOT! And as usual those new Pokemon are fuglyyyy, except for the Panda. He’s my bro.Pokemon is high on my list but…. WIND WAKER RARARARA, we definitely need more info soon.NO DATE. NO HYPE.XX/XX/2013, NOW HYPE.NEED DAY AND/OR MONTH. HOW MANY TIMES HAS NINTENDO BURNED US WITH JUST A YEAR :/Now that I remember Wind Waker was announced to cover up a previous burn with Zelda on the Wii U, truly no hope for us =(Ocarina of Time was soooooooooooooooooo late it wasn’t funny. Although that seemed to be a thing with N64.
I remember waiting so long for games so I sold mine and got a PSone, never looked back (only sideways)
The Wind Waker HD is due around the holidays (Christmas to normal people) this year. So around Oct/Nov/Dec. 😀
Possibly January…March at the latest.
Yeah, @doc_what things have been delayed so I’m scared D:
NO HYPE UNTIL I’M PLAYING IT
@greenius
WW is coming though, that’s a definite, it’s not some unheard of game by some tiny developer.
You can safely hype.
(You just may run out of steam before it actually comes)
@jimu – uh no, even first party Nintendo stuff (Kid Icarus, Pikmin 3) has been delayed recently so I’m just playing it safe and not getting my hopes up until there’s something definitive.
Unless you meant it’ll be released – which isn’t my concern. I know it’ll be out, it’s just a matter of when :P.
@greenius
Yeah, that’s what I meant, not clear?
You have too many excuses not to hype. Hope you don’t go through life playing it that safe.
@jimu
Yeah, I went back and read it mid-way through my reply which is why I briefly mentioned it after :P. Not sure why you’d say it though, it’s certain that it’s coming and no one doubted it.
I don’t live playing it safe but I do it rationally. Like I’m not going to get super hype for a Japanese game that isn’t even announced yet in case it doesn’t (you and Bravely :D). I’m not sure hype is the right word but I just mean excited :). I’ve been super excited for stuff in the past, setting my expectations too high and being burned. These past few years I’ve just been rational and going in knowing next to nothing and loving games a lot more 🙂
Even if it does come out in 2013, I know I’ll love it but it’s still the same game I played way back on the Cube. Pokemon is taking a (long overdue) big step forward so I’m more excited for it anyway 😀
Zelda is my absolute favourite game series and Pokemon is up there too. Played both a lot as a child and I have fond memories of both. Of course as it gets closer to release things will change since I lose my shit for Zelda :).
If this was a brand new Wii U Zelda however… :O 😛
@Greenius @Jimu
I have a feeling the game won’t require that much time and the end of the year release date is purely to get the Jesusday sales.
@greenius I said it to encourage hype.
You know, it’s funny (going slightly off topic here) WW is in my top 3 Zeldas ( a fave franchis of mine also) but I just haven’t felt excited about the franchise since Phantom Hourglass ( a game I loved and played the shit out of, loved all the DS-centric stuff).
I dunno what happened, but somehow I fell off the Zelda-love bandwagon. I had a fair bit of fun qith OoT 3D but….
I dunno.
As soon as I saw that wall/mural mechanic in the vid for the new 3DS Zelda I felt exhausted by the idea.
@doc_what I’m just joking, I’m sure it will be here
Or will it? 😛Yeah I saw some links on Twitter, didn’t read further. Let’s see how long it takes for me to accidentally stumble across it because someone used the region as an avatar on a non-Pokemon forum or something 😛
The box art is great.
…
Also player customization FFFFFFFFFFFFFF. also, battle cut-ins show character art of the trainer you’re fighting! Real slick!I’m.. awfully paranoid about how I spoiler things now. Hmm.
the customisation options Ive seen are pisspoor, still, better than nothingI’ll prolly play it more than anything else, but Bravely Default is still my most anticipated game of 2013.
That Panda looks pretty good, fighting types often look a bit shit, he looks good.I like all the new designs, less hit & miss like Gen 5.
You know that game has a snowball’s chance of actually coming out in 2013 right? They haven’t even announced it’s official title yet.
*fingers in ears* LA LA LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL LA LAALA LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Not listeniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
DARK. SOULS. >:S
Fuck the Crystal Caves and their invisible paths. Damn things. They shouldn’t be so hard, but I’m finding them really hard to navigate, even with the falling snow and prism stones and arrows in the ground. All the damn tricks, and I still slipped and fell four times trying to get the Blue Slab. Now to see if I can actually find the right path this time to the boss area 😛Oh man, in my current PC playthrough I forgot where to go and ended up getting the slab accidentally on like my 2nd try because I thought that was the way forward :/Yep, that’s kind of what happened to me. Though I always intended to get it before progressing, I like to find the ‘right way’ forward before exploring 😛On my very first playthrough I explored pretty much everywhere I could and tried to get all the collectables that I could find on the ground – which meant getting that Slab was a pain :/. However, all plans of “exploring everywhere, collecting everything” came to a stop mid-way through The Tomb of the Giants >:(My exploration nature stopped when I got hopelessly lost in the sewers and cursed all the way down to a speckle of health, those eyeball things still terrify me.I was scared too until I learnt the only thing to fear is fear itself. Now a days I just attack stuff head on flailing my weapon and hoping to kill stuff. It usually works! I used to be a spear and shield pansy!I bet when FDR said that, he was talking about Dark Souls! 😀
You act as if he had more important things to deal with.
Oh god. My bed is freezing cold.
inb4someterriblefreezejokeWas good catching up with Bunny, Freyr, Cake and Ruffles.
Next time come at the weekend!
Must’ve felt like old times with that defector Trjn. 😛
What a traitor.
Huh, GI Joe was surprisingly not bad. Nothing great, but nothing terrible. At least for someone hardly even vaguely familiar with the franchise.
Drinks afterwards were ok, though I found and confronted the vampire that attacked me the previous time. She was rather embarrassed about the whole thing.
Was GI Joe (the cartoon) a thing in Australia?
The only way I really know of it is because shows constantly parody it.
I have some ultra-vague flashes of seeing it in my childhood. But I don’t think it was something that was on that often/that I really watched a lot. Unless maybe it was on Cheez TV, and I was an Aggro guy. I did have a few toys from it though, including a pretty sweet boat thing and some dude with deadly blue boomerangs.
@serbobulus
Played fairly often when I was a kid (I’m 31 this year)
The toys were huge, I had mates with so many. SO many!
This was before Cheez TV was even a thing.
or @sernobulus … whoever
HAHA! Bobulus. XD
Vampire? WHAT?
You know, those things that latch onto your neck and try to put holes in it with their teeth.
I feel like there’s a story you’re not telling us. D:
Oh, there’s plenty of those.
Bedtime, etc.
See you all in the morning.
@alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @cakesmith, @35, @shiggyninty, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @batgirl, @trjn, @freya, @fatshady, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @kermitron, @masha2932, @powalen, @ruffleberg, @shiggyninty
We should have lunch/afternoon tea/dinner either on the 17th or 18th of June.
Might be cool.
HE’S COMING BACK
WITH A VENGENCE
GO BACK TO CANADA, PLEASE
AND I KEEP TELLING YOU TO HEAD BACK TO AUSTRALIA AND NOW YOU FINALLY BUDGE?
that being said I suppose I should feel bad that Canada is losing such a stalwart, fine young man who made the country as a whole brighter.
On the other hand fuck you
THE JOKE’S ON YOU
CANADA HAS SHACKLED UP THIS SUPPOSEDLY FINE YOUNG MAN AND HAS ONLY GIVEN HIM TEMPORARY LEAVE FOR A WEEK
HAH
No kidding? You passing by my part of Canadia then? Love to get a drink or two with ya in the airport then.
Also, FUCK ONLY A WEEK? BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE THEN
All of the above.
Well, I know getting home for you from the city at night is a bit of a jerk… plus on a weekday, so if anyone can’t be bothered, that’s totally cool.
Aw man! I was looking at May and was all “That’s a Friday and and Saturday. That’s A-OK!”. 🙁
Could always crash on my couch.
You had me at @cakesmith
I’m sorry you had to suffer through two names before I got to you.
Anonymous Pessimist is a pretty long name.
I shall see what I can do!
We should have all of those meals on the 17th AND 18th of June.
But what do you have against breakfast?
Lunch/afternoon tea/dinner sounds like you’re planning a single massive meal over several hours.
Classic Bish.
WOOOOOO!
MEGAMEAL over two days!
Of course. Wooo 🙂
BISHINGTON ESQUIRE THE THIRD meat!!!
DARK. SOULS. \o/
Seath is a dead dragon thing, and I got his tail cut weapon \o/ I can now begin endgame if I want (but I don’t want). I now intend to head back to Duke’s Archives, grab the Large Magic Ember, drive Big Hat Logan to madness and take his gear, maybe farm for Channeler’s Tridents. Then it’s off to the Great Hollow and Ash Lake to find Siegfriend and mini-Siegfriend and the Great Dragon covenant. And then up into Blighttown to kindle a bonfire or two, and get the Eagle Shield, which I missed on my way down. Then I guess I should go farm Stone Greatshields and Stone Swords in Darkroot Garden. Then possibly off to tackle the DLC bits, see how that goes. Then, weapon/armour upgrades – get as much to maximum as I can! Then I can endgame \o/Stupid Siegfriend. He died in Lost Izalith on me even though I killed four of the tentacle things before he dropped down! Lousy poison water.Where is everybody? Sleepsleeps??
Um, in the pet thingy
There’s a pet thingy?
What is it?
Hotdog factory?
XD
The glue factory? I hear that’s where @Wilbur disposed of Mr Ed!
the off topic, talk about your pets
Getting settled in at work and trying to get warm.
Also cursing Optus for their horrible inconsistent internet lately
Time to tee up a Telstra deal with your work perhaps?
Not my internet, it’s mum and Ange’s therefore I can’t 😛
Sure as hell not going Optus in my apartment that I can do
I’ve been talking to you jim jim :'(
keep up the good work ! 😀
I had sleeping to take care of, yes.
Walking dead episode 4 choices talk
The choices in this episode i found to be incredibly easy compared to previous episodes. The only one i struggled with was Ben. I like to play Lee as I see him – a reasonable and compassionate guy. But on that token, Ben shits me to tears. He always has. I really can’t stand him. He screws so much up so often. But all that consider, i couldn’t drop him. The reason being is because he was physically in my (Lee’s) hands. Letting him go felt like murder.. and it, to me, isn’t something that Lee would do. I hauled him back up and saved him. Now that Lee has been bit and we are on our way to find clementine i feel better in the decision as we have the added body of Ben, who has VOWED to make it up to Kenny and be there for Clementine. This gives me the feeling that he’ll probably end up sacrificing himself at some point for one or the other… but i guess i’ll have to wait ad see when i start playing episode 5. No doubt there will likely be some choices that will be HELL HARD to make. Man this game is brilliant. So utterly bloody brilliant. I’m kind of dreading Lee’s passing, though 🙁OH DUDE, DUDE, DUDE, WHO WENT WITH YOU TO SAVE CLEM? Because it changes up 5’s intro a fair bit depending on who. Also, Ben. Yeahhhh Ben. He’s a good kid, but I feel at his worst that he’s better than some characters on the TV show. Also, but sad that we couldn’t keep miss climbing axe, huh? She was heaps more useful than ben.Miss climbing axe was awesome. I really liked her. So i’ve got Ben, Kenny, Token black chick, and omarSo damn good. The choice that I hesitated over longest was “Do I bring Clementine with me to FuckedUpWalledCity or not?” In the end, I decided yes, but ONLY because I thought Omar would turn when I wasn’t there! 😛I saved Ben as well, and so did @dc. But @greenius and Mrs Shane dropped him. Brutal.
I took her with me. No way i was leaving her on her own.Okay reasoning for Ben! Like @dc said he’s pretty much the victim of bad writing and well he’s just a shitty dude. I gave him more than enough chances but taking the hatchet out of a door that’s clearly got zombies on the other side was the final straw. I know it’s just a character and he’s supposed to make mistakes because that was the way he was written but my golly gosh that was silly. He literally put us all at risk because of that and when he said he actually WANTED to be of use and to be dropped so that he could buy us some time then I’m going to do it. Obviously it’s a game and it’ll continue on with or without him but we all could’ve died if I tried pulling him up. By that point in the game I was pretty annoyed with him and if it was real life and he was a real person it would’ve been a different situation but he’s just a stupid game character 😛Monster.NO!
Yes.Was I the only one who saw Ben for what he is? He’s a teenager, and spends the game trying to prove he’s an adult, and failing. He’s not malicious, not stupid, not a bad person. He’s a kid, and as such made decisions like one. Plus, Clem liked him so I saved him colon pee.Totally agree with you, man. He’s just a kid who’s in way over his head. I gave him a break as much as I possibly could. Not giving him food in chapter 2 is one of my playthrough regrets!I was hella nice to everyone in my playthrough, but I went in with the idea that everyone else is falling apart, and Lee had to be the best of humanity to hold them together. Had to take an extra long time whenever I dealt with Larry, though, and even then I was usually cold as hell to him.Monster.Yeah, that;s the other thing that i took into consideration. He is pretty much just a kid and has been through a lot. But the amount of times he has screwed up with clem was getting on my nerves. Still, i couldn’t kill him. No way.Holy crap – have you guys seen the Amy’s Baking Company thing that is blowing up on reddit right now??
Their facebook is adding fuel to the fire!
It’s HILARIOUS. It’s almost as if its all just a big joke… until you realise it’s not and you don’t know whether to laugh harder or feel legitimately sorry for this woman’s mind space as she is clearly not mentally stable.
https://www.facebook.com/amysbakingco
Jesus… 😐
Holy fucking shit. This can’t be real :\
Edit: Ten minutes in. This CANNOT be real O_o
Edit: Onto part 2. O_O
Part 2 is more crazy D:
I honestly don’t think I have the stomach for this 😛
People like that annoy me soooooo much so I’m not even sure why I watched it 😀
My god, it’s like a train wreck. I can’t look away 🙁
I saw it on reddit and remembered I’d seen a link to a youtube vid earlier in the day, which I revisited only to discover it was the full episode of Kitchen Nightmares – I watched the whole damn thing.
I think my favourite part of all this is that the only thing he was able to compliment about her restaurant was the cakes, which she blatantly said were her OWN products and NOT storebought – but she later inadvertently outed herself on Facebook (not during the show) admitting she resells them. Being her own product really means “I buy them, cut them up, and repackage them”, and she didn’t bother explaining that to Gordon Ramsay because he’s foreign and wouldn’t understand the American way.
What’s obviously happened here is that this twit (while facing criminal charges for fraud and identity theft) met some rich dude twice her age and managed to con him into bankrolling her lifestyle. He bought her a million-dollar restaurant they don’t know how to run so she could pursue her dreams of being a terrible cook for the masses. I’m pretty sure her sharp-edged horrible face is also the product of a surgeon’s knife.
Like I said on Reddit, Samy should have read the fine print and realised the crazy is part of the package he was buying. She must be a SPECTACULAR lay.
I think I’m becoming your biggest fan.
“spectacular lay”?
Spectacular lay…
I wouldn’t ordinarily say something so incredibly sexist but the woman is a nightmare and he could obviously have bought anyone else if he wanted. He rescued her from the courts in her time of need.
I just can’t imagine what she has to offer personality-wise.
She can speak feline.
Holy shit, I forgot about that. My wife nearly had a rage-induced BSOD when she started meowing.
I didn’t think that was sexist at all, after all it takes two to tango
By becoming my only fan, you are by default my biggest, smallest, and most highly represented demographic in my fanbase.
No other person on this planet can make that claim.
Hey! I’ve been your fan for ages now!
Oh my, well now I feel very special!
Does this mean I get to start hosting cage fights? That’s what people do with their fans, right?
That’s what I do with mine.
I thought about it once. But then I decided nah, that idea blows.
Yeah. It kicked off yesterday or the day before? Raygun Brown was posting about it on twitter. Sadly all the awesomely crazy Facebook posts are gone now.
Nothing is ever truly gone on the internet.
But all the replies!
I liked the one where some girl asked if they were open for lunch and the response was “we’re not taking reservations from sluts like you!”.
Yeah, Raygun’s tweets were where I saw the link to the episode on youtube. That aired on Sunday in the US so really Monday evening/Tuesday morning for us is when it really started blowing up.
Say 1 thing that will go against what people think or like and everybody looses their mind. Heads up! Mod this mod read that. People get offended too easily.
I think people put their feelings first instead of the point of a discussion. While many discussion include discovering new u understandings and perspectives. I’ve noticed on this sit anything people don’t like gets shut down fast.
funny that’s how shares are bought and sold, I guess its a nor.al part of human behavior, yet we have the ability to challangr this and learn and prove things as well as teach others, yet somehow people forget what to teach and learn is. why is 2 + 2, 4? Cause you remember being told or because it just is due to your understanding of the + operator and the system you use? Why do you use the system? Because its been proven to work. Why do you agree? There have been 8 based and 16 based systems used and 12 based systems used by past civilisations. I know the answer is simple, but the question and the way of thinking is important. I believe a single method may cover many solutions and problems and situations, but not all.
heads up! Mods gotta check I didn’t offend anyone, which I hope I have not.
I read this twice and I’m still not sure what it means.
Human behavior.
Also I guess is philosophy and whingeing
That makes two of us.
Intriguing. But I disagree re: shutting down of others’ opinions. From what I’ve seen, a lively debate is welcome, as long as it is a reasoned one and doesn’t contain personal attacks. Pretty much what I would expect in real life, too 😛
You would, FATTY!
I am seriously thinking about starting my own bookkeeping business. I sort of do it now, in a far more complex fashion on a corporate scale. I think I know enough people that I should be off to a decent start (although obviously I’ll just get the ball rolling before I quit my job). I also think I’ll just charge a standard monthly fee rather than by the hour as I tend to be a lot faster than other people that do this sort of thing.
Any taybies work for themselves?
I hear the mafia like a good book keeper!
Actually they prefer croooked bookkeepers 😛
They prefer to call it creative accounting.
Don’t laugh. I’ve been asked to do that before, for some Asian gangs. The money isn’t worth the risk though.
IS THAT YOU IN THE MIDDLE!?
https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lympw2p7c31ro8uo0o1_500.jpg
How did you get this photo of me in my secret dealings and my raging boner?
*Raises hand*
I started a company about 2 years ago now. Fun times
If you are looking for any advice or somebody to have a look over your business plan let me know, very happy to help out with something like that.
The only thing I would say is think long and hard around offering it as a monthly fee. If you are doign work for a small business they will expect you to be their finance person. So if they have questions or info or a report or HR salary questions that is going to come to you. You might find yourself in trouble if you are offering unlimited services for a flat rate.
There is also people (liek us) who want you to do additional work that you currently aren’t doing. We have an online system an have our bookkeeper make of sales in that system when that has been entered into the books. You don’t want to be turning away good business if it doesn’t fit into your “monthly plan”
Maybe a monthly plan for items 1,2,3 and additional charges for anything over and above.
Will you be doing payrole and the HR side of things as well?
Yes, I was thinking of a basic package that includes your usual business requirements (receipts and payments, profit and loss statements, year end reports, BAS/PAYG lodgements etc.,) and then a second tier for a larger volume business. On top of this I would offer payroll as an extra service for an additional fee which will include payslips, summaries, super distributions.
I would also amend if the business requires weekly reporting.
So on the low end I’d be charging $200/month and high end around $400/month. I think this is reasonably priced and I can do most of it in my sleep.
Sounds good.
Make sure you do proper financials on what would be involved. Setup costs (software, rent (and bond), company registration, legals, etc…). Then make sure you are including all your expenses in the packages (BAS, company tax, you probably know more of them than I do)
It took us a good 6 months to get ready to start and a bit longer to actually get going
The album you keep going back to and can’t stop listening to…
No surprise for ol’ D.C., Arcade Fire’s Funeral has been on constant rotation since December! 😀
Best song from the album? Probably Laika. (If you forget Wake Up exists. XD)
I’ve had my iPod on repeat for months now.
I guess a few weeks back I listened to P4G OST multiple times a day.
I dunno if you know this, but I like P4G quite a bit :p
Haha! Game music is awesome. I still have this song that Greenius linked me stuck in my head.
You done good kid. <3
I have a decent collection of non-game music. Just haven’t been listening to it :-/
Of the moment? Like, right this moment? Random Access Memories. But only since yesterday.
The two albums I constantly go back to though are Daybreaker by Architects and Get What You Give by The Ghost Inside.
Random Access Memories.
That or the Trials Evolution soundtrack.
But mostly RAM.
LAIKA :DDDDD
Hard to say. Partly because I am not good at music, and don’t tend to go back to the same thing until it hits its next rotation anyway.
Though I do seem to most frequently having songs from Ram It Down pop into my head, so I’ll go with that one.
Tyrannosaurus Hives aka The Perfect Rock n Roll Album.
Gay Paris – The Last Good Party.
Bastardized Blues / Sleazy Stomp / Heavenly Hard Rock with Cookie Monster / Tom Waits-esque vocals.
Here’s the opening track – Ash Wednesday Boudoir Party
Therion’s Sitra Ahra, Eluveitie’s Helvetios and Epica’s Requiem For The Indifferent. I have been listening to those for about a year and a half now and don’t see it stopping any time soon. I listen to others but always go back to those three.
Whenever there’s a dog or cat in a movie/tv show, I like to pretend it walked onto set and they couldn’t get it to move away. >:|
That movie Beethoven. There was no dog in the script.
It was a Tree of Life-esque movie on being a kid and having a harsh parent. XD
The movie “Lassie” makes no sense now …
Try justifying Milo & Otis.
Artsy movie about nature, following an empty wooden box in the stream symbolizing mortality.
*filming melting icicles*
“Oh my god shut up that stupid dog already.”
“She’s having puppies though.”
“Who cares, throw the father outside, maybe they’ll leave.”
“He just keeps coming back in!”
Cameraman with ADHD and a misguided love of animals.
That cat in the Matrix must’ve had a serious problem to be doing the same thing within 5 seconds
Minor Star Trek Into Darkness plot point:
Early in the movie a couple woke up with a giant dog sleeping in their bed and I laughed, thinking about my theory. 😛Good SKYRIM! everybody!
Finally got Steam to download and actually work for me last night and in celebration… I turned off the computer and went to bed, damn asthma has really taken it out off me the last couple of days.
So, for a complete pc noob, what games should I be getting, nothing high end cause I didn’t spend that much money on the laptop so I have no idea what it can handle.
p.s. SKYRIM!
p.p.s. Clubby says Hi!
Hey Hugo!
What up D.C.
Obligatory ‘Who’s this guy?’
No idea, this profile just turned up when I checked out this website 😛
Based on your post below and the fact that you don’t already have Skyrim installed, I am going to believe this
Now, if you don’t have Skyrim on the PC- which is quite frankly crazy if that’s the case- do so. And mod the ever-living hell out of it.
Sweet mother of Talos, how could my oxygen starved brain have missed this! Will get tonight… um if I still have enough internet download thingies.
You sir, are gonna see Skyrim in a whole new light.
It will be glorious.
Just FYI, shop around. Last I looked I think a Steam key from OzGameShop for Skyrim is like $18.
I think it was like $10 recently but you might’ve missed out 🙁
I doubt you’d be willing to wait because SKYRIM! but I’m also looking to pick up the game again with all DLC so I can let you know if I find a good price?
Final Fantasy VII 😀
Minecraft, I guess?
Proteus is on sale for $5 today, it’s rather ‘different’ to normal games, more artsy less gamey. But it’s probably my most favourite game from this year so far.
Game of Thrones stuff:
I came across this interesting theory about where they may be going with Talisa in the show. It seems more plausible now after the latest episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsTVnZm9hFg (make sure you have annotations on, also potentially NSFW as there is nekkidness near the end)
Who’s Talisa? (Only know a handful of Game of Thrones names. XD)
Robb Stark’s wife.Haha I’m the same, it’s the best/worst feeling :D!
IIIIIIInnnnttteeerrreeeesssttttiiiinnnngggg.
That makes so much sense, and for once it didn’t occur to me.
Clearly I have the same weakness as Robb when it comes to pretty girls.
Whhhooooaaaaa… damn.
35 quits smoking : a boredom-induced update.
First up I’ll admit, yeah, I’ve messed up a few times. Since Saturday, when I set the quit date, I’ve had maybe 3 or 4 cigarettes. I’m not exactly happy about that, but given that its only early days & that is less than 10% of what I’d usually do in that time frame, I can sorta live with that.Its getting easier each day to go without them. The key thing, for me at least, is to keep busy / distracted. theres nothing worse than being at home alone & having nothing to do, & then that tiny inkling of temptation creeps into my head…
I’ve been combating that by playing Torchlight 2. Such a time-sink. Really good distraction as well.
Also, practicing guitar. Another good distraction.
Still… its been 4 days with a drastically reduced intake, and I’m starting to sorta feel a bit better. (honestly, I cant say if that because of the not smoking thing, or that I’m finally getting over this cold, or that I’m just in a good mood today because of puppies & kitties & other stuff, but yeah.)
So yeah… Its encouraging. & not as hard as I thought it’d be.
That is all.
You’re doing awesome, man. Keep it up! 😀
If I can stop being fat, you can stop smoking.
…are we still talking about smoking here?
EDIT: Also, good work man! Keep it up, and stay honest. It’ll help a shitload.
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YAY 35!
You can do it, fight the urge, live long and prosper, may the force be with you, blood for the blood god… um…
It’s cool that you’re being honest about ‘messing up’. Keep it up, man.
Nice work! Once you make it to 3-4 days with no cigarettes whatsoever, you shouldn’t have any nicotine left in your system so your withdrawal symptoms (if you have any) should be fading rapidly.
The biggest issue I faced was having idle hands. I used to smoke a lot while gaming and sitting at the computer so it felt weird to me to not smoke while reading stuff online. I also used to smoke a fair bit waiting for trains but it’s now completely illegal to smoke anywhere on train platforms. It’s kind of gratifying to see people get fined for smoking and chucking a massive wobbly over it, thinking “that could have been me”.
I always use the “Safely Remove Hardware” feature of Windows 7 when I’m unplugging a USB drive. Someone I work with ALWAYS points out to me that you don’t have to do it and it wastes time.
He just corrupted his drive by removing it while it was doing a heap of writes.
People who don’t eject drives urk me almost as much as people who put DVD’s in the wrong cases.
The first are just lazy
The 2nd are monsters
JUSTICE! xD
You don’t have to use ‘Safely remove hardware’, but you also have to be smart enough to not pull a drive out while it’s writing, or make the other classic mistake of removing it as soon as the file operation shows as complete. Most flash drives take another 5 odd seconds to finish up after your OS or program says file operation is done.
That being said, ‘Safely remove hardware’ is a sure way to make sure you don’t corrupt your drive.
Yeah, there’s really no negatives to doing it, unless you’ll die if you don’t move for 3 seconds.
I think his issue actually happened because Windows update was doing what it does best: dumping crap on a drive that’s entirely unrelated and inefficient for a background update. Safely removing would have either severed this pointlessness or told him it was busy. Either way, it was too perfect 😀
Especially if he habitually gives you crap for not using it. For those in doubt as to the existence of karma, there are examples. They’re rare, but usually oh-so poetic when they occur.
It’s officially aggrotech day. Fuck the fucking fuckers.
Now all I am seeing is this guy as a giant mech. Awesome
http://collider.com/agents-of-shield-footage/
@jimu: 3 minute ABC upfronts trailer for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D….
You are on a roll with the page-gets, mang! (Seriously, you got 4 in a row)
Also, I shall take this time to dedicate a preview of new Whose Line is it Anyways
:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Shame that there’s advertising in play here, but they roll with it and actually do a good job of it.
:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
It’s like what I expected it would be 🙁
Some comments I liked/agreed with:
“Now they can’t make bald jokes to Colin, cuz now there’s Wayne xD”
“I like Aisha Tyler, but not here. Not here. I liked Drew because he balanced the greatness of the cast with his shitty comedy.”
“the, uh. . . the stage is significantly smaller. . ”
I did laugh though but that’s more to do with Colin being amazing 😛
___
EDIT: Aisha might’ve been a bit stiffer since it was a promo/advertising thing but we’ll see how she is come the actual show.
The tiny stage is really getting to me though :/
With drew missing, they can’t make drew fat jokes.
… They should make drew fat jokes anyway.
EDIT: “You took my line.” Oh, Colin.
Drew is skinny now though :/
I, uh… I really enjoyed that.
Don’t hit me.
Also, cool to see Ming Na in the cast. I liked her in ER and Stargate Universe.
She’s also the speaking voice of Mulan.
Turn Into A Windmill
Imagine a windmill turning. Copy those actions with your arms, transcribing a great slow-motion arc – and you will wave yourself calm.
That calm will be super handy as I’m being escorted from the building.
Not sure if reply fail or amazing life advice.
This hasn’t made me calm. I have started laughing at just how ridiculous it is, so I am the opposite of calm.
IT’S NOT WORKING
I have the irrational fear that if I encounter any windmills I’ll go all Don Quixote and attempt to slay it.
…. Or maybe I want to do that, I dunno. I wish there were windmills in my area..
Windmill? You sure that ain’t a palace!
http://tinyurl.com/9qtwwoh
Have you been reading lifehacker again?
Add a dab of lavender to milk; leave town with an orange, and pretend that you’re laughing at it.
Leave town with an orange…
Edit: damn it. Too late with the joke 😛
@greenius
I wanted you to get Dragon’s Crown on Vita so you would play with me 🙁
and also Multi with Dragons Crown :pI replied again 🙂
The PS3 version just suits my needs better as I don’t need portability and it better controls (in the sense that I prefer using a DualShock 3 rather than the Vita) but it’s not a game I’ll get at launch anyway. I’ll be waiting for a significant price drop since I’m happily working on the pile 😛
Fine, I’ll do it by myself then *crosses arms*
I haven’t found a hug diffrence between the two other than lacking L2 & R2 and the size.
Less shoulders can be annoying but they usually find a way around it with the touchscreen, which hasn’t bee a problem (yet).
I know some people find the Dual Shock a bit too small. sooo…
I actually have more problem with my 3DSs sharp edges, is the XL rounded and more comfortable?
Yeah, feels great. But the 3DS XL has a sort of smooth slippery feel
DC is a game I’d love buying bundled, pity they aint doing that outside of Japan. >:-(
DC ain’t for sale! >:|
Are you sure?
Could go to a lot of meats for $1,000,000…
Hmmm…
Still no! 😛
I volunteer. I would sell myself for a cool million.
I wish they had a double-pack so I could buy both! I don’t want to have to choose 🙁
I’ve chosen. It would just be nice to play with the PS3 jerks on occasion.
@shane: Did you end up getting To the Moon?
Yes, the answer to this question is important.
Uh…
That’s okay, because you got Dreamfall, right? 😛
Um…
Want a free copy? I have a spare copy. Unfortunately, I think it works via whatever crazy system GMG uses, rather than Steam, which makes things awkward for people too lazy to download yet another stupid program.
Dislike crazy systems. No thanks, man. Want to keep my PC pure, if I can.
When it comes out on XBLA I will consider it 😛
Hahahaha. Ha. *wipes tear of laughter from eye*
http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/ruins-of-body-and-stone-putucusi-machu-picchu-and-back-to-cusco/
Red went to Perdida from Ni No Kuni, or atleast the cheap Incan imitation.
total rip-job :p
So I watched that entire episode of Nightmare Kitchen. I have never, never seen anything like that before. Unbelievable. Also, I don’t like conflict like that, and I feel a bit anxious 😛
I feel like I have missed out on something …
Starts with an innocent @chuloopa comment (oxymoron) back on page 7
CHULOOPA!
Seriously – how messed up is it?!
It is UNBELIEVABLE. I cannot reconcile what I just watched with reality.
Why did you unmention me :'(
MONSTER
Hunter
Dark Souls \o/
No idea why. Much better to ask “why not?”
Why? WHY? Because DARK.SOULS.
Metro last light is getting good reviews. Such a relief and @beavwa and I were getting concerned due to the close proximity of the review amnesty and release.
But OGS has no keys in stock 🙁
I’d get it but I’m never good with games that scare/creep me out
Metro 2033 is probably my favourite FPS ever. If this is just more of the same I will be happy
Good book too. Will get that your way on Monday.
Looking forward to it. Almost paid twice the price for the game to get that as the pre-order
Some of the comments on the Inverted/Normal poll on the front page are bothering me.
It’s okay to have a preference, but people on both sides need to stop telling the others they’re doing it wrong. :S
But, but can’t they see that they’re wrong?
They can’t be allowed to be wrong. We must fix them. We must fix their wrongness.
You’re approaching this all wrong. 😛
Your face is all wrong. >:|
Well played!
So’s your mother!The inverted vs normal debate is fun because other people care and can’t see the other side. I don’t care but it’s fun to argue with people on the internet over pointless thing.
I use inverted controls on my steering wheel, cuz that’s the pro way to do it 😛
Inverted guitar hero controls!
Inverted microphone, recommended controls if you’re tonedeaf
Hit the bottom of the drums!
Inverted light guns! Fire behind you!
Inverted keyboard, use your feet!
Inverted Joystick
I cram it straight up my anus.
Long time inverter who’s old enough to remember when many FPS titles were inverted by default.
Goddurn kids. The fuck off my lawn.
Your generation is holding back progress because you can’t accept that the world is better without your crazy old ways!
Up is forward, which by such logic, also would continue further to looking down.
Down is backwards, which continues further to looking up.
I don’t see how this is confusing.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Don’t change the subject.
You’re the one that thinks inverted is correct.
Correction – I’m the one that knows. It’s not my fault you’re ignorant.
I should clarify this with a @dc COLONPEE
@ynefel You’re the one that will be mocked in the future for your ignorance. Just like those who blew tobacco up people’s asses for medicinal purposes.
@trjn
The lesson here apparently being it really was a good move to quit smoking a few years back.
@ynefel that or you should have been smoking rectally.
I only use that in Ace Combat or X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, nowhere else
It comes down to whether your brain has learned to abstract the movement as tilting your head, or moving a camera.
Begone with your logic and moderate stance
I’m old enough to remember. I adapted with the times (which is actually so out of character for me)
STOP ANNOYING PEOPLE
We try to stop them, but they keep coming back!
no, I mean @trjn needs to stop annoying people.
People aren’t responding in the thread anymore. There’s less fun to be had 🙁
“smoking rectally” 😀
So last night I finally heard from Mami (the japanese girl I took on a date last week).
Was getting a bit worried that I hadn’t heard from her, but it turns out she was worried about replying because the day after we’d had our date, she found out she had been accepted for a job in Sydney, and she’s going to be moving there! She didn’t want to hurt my feelings cos she liked me, and wasn’t sure how to approach it, so she delayed telling me for a while. How sweet! At least I know it wasn’t something I did (or didn’t do) that lead to her not replying!
You made her move to Sydney? D:
In all seriousness, that’s too bad man. 🙁
Are you still homeless? Move to Sydney with her.
It’d be like a rom com in real life. There’d be hard times and laughter, but you end up happy 🙂
nah. I was lucky enough to find a new place to move to on the same day I had to be out of the last place! It’s actually cheaper than where I was staying too. And nicer, but it’s a bit more out of the way from where I want to be. Least I have a roof over my head for at least 12 months though.
It’s a really tough situation, being physically apart :(, it really is.
Sorry to hear this sire…
it’s all good. at least I found out before we really got to know each other. Would have been much harder then. Just fairly typical of the way my life goes I think, so not really all the surprising to me 😉
Who’s the one that recommended 12 Angry Men? I saw it last night. Holy damn, so so amazing.
edit: @greenius, get in here so I can talk about this film with you!
Greenius!
Which version?
1957 or 1997?
57
Nice. 🙂
I’ve realised I havent watched enough of Henry Fonda and need to rectify this. What I have seen him in has always been amazing.
It was like an Ace Attorney case unfolding, but without the anime-ness of course 🙂
Now watch Reds
Off topic but I’ve been waiting for you to come back.
DID YOU WATCH STRIP SEARCH?!
Not really a Monica fan anymore..Argh woops I clicked that thinking it was about the last ep I watched… not thinking one was out today XD
Least it didnt give anything away… I’ll get back to you on that one. NBA atm
Star Trek Into Darkness spoilers:
Weird how this set at the bottom of the page looks so much better in a production still than in the movie itself! D: Usually it’s the other way round.They certainly don’t like hotlinking… link redirects to collider front page when followed from here. Copy link/paste into new tab works ok. Stupid Referer.
Edit for stupid typo.
Thanks for the heads up, my friend. Just changed the link to the main article!
@sughly
Are you excited for (@powalen this is not for you this is NOTFORYOU)
the new French inspired Pokemon region?Ooo, I didnt even know about that. Considering I just found out… I guess yes?
😀
You should specify that it’s Pokemon 😛
I’m sure @powalen get it
Oh wait…for everyone else?
I guess?
No I meant that it’s not really clear what the spoiler is about and saying “NOTFORYOU’ sounds a bit jokey so he might accidentally click on it :O
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh (maybe)
Shiggy and Doc write about Mega Man. I understand not much of it. One of those franchises that’s completely slipped by me. But it does seem odd that Capcom’s essentially completely ignoring it.
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Also, have been watching Harli play Cry of Fear over at Gamespot. Enjoyable.
Is Harli streaming or is it just a vod on Gamespot?
I have 24 hours to write about 1000 more words on Nier. Including the big bit I’ve been avoiding because I have no idea, “Describe the impact of the game on society”
As far as I’m aware there wasn’t that much fanfare. There was a bit of talk about it, but I don’t think it’s really going to be remembered or anything outside of the few people who love it :S
Well you aren’t going to chew up much word count with the “describe the impact of the game on society” section.
It’s meant to be one of the biggest sections :S
Then you’re going to have to work pretty hard to make “some people are aware that it existed” into something a bit longer.
Just out of curiosity, were you given Nier to analyse or did you choose it? And if you chose it, how come Nier?
I chose it because I couldn’t think of another game I remember well enough to write about. Plus I can write a lot about it, except for the societal stuff.
And because it’s Nier. And Nier is amazing 😛
Just seems like a bit of a strange choice if a bigger part of the paper is on its impact on society. If there’s anything I can suggest as a general rule of thumb with uni assignments, it’s to try and separate personal tastes with what’s better for the assignment. I did it too at first, but benefited greatly by stopping that habit. Just some friendly advice 🙂
When you boil it down though, there haven’t been a lot of games that have had massive impact on society as a whole. Some of the early arcade stuff (Pong, Pac-man, Space Invaders), Mario, Doom (specifically the controversies around it) then maybe Halo and CoD.
Depends on how you look at it. To certain degrees there’s lots of games that have made an impact, however small it might be. Nier isnt one of them though I dont think.
Also biggest one that comes to my mind is Minecraft. The paper would write itself.
Oh yeah, Minecraft was probably the most important game released in the last decade or so.
Yeah, violent games more than anything 🙁
World of Warcraft (signing your soul to Blizzard), Starcraft and Street Fighter (competitive gaming, also Counter Strike to a lesser extent), Grand Theft Auto (marketing through controversy), Wii Sports (expanding the market) and then there are the games that had an impact on video game culture without impacting greater culture directly.
Well if you’re talking about impact on video game culture then the biggest single influence is probably D&D.
D&D for bringing roleplaying into it. Wolfenstein for FPS mechanics. Dune 2 for RTS mechanics. Street Fighter 2 for fighting game mechanics. Halo and Halo 2 for Xbox live. Counterstrike/Quake for similar reasons on PC. Half Life 2 for forcing Steam on people…
It’s not too hard to just list off a shitload of these.
GTA and hot coffee might be a good one too, also tomb raider as it broke into films.
Mario did that first though? But yeah, good angle
Hot Coffee had very little impact beyond embarrassing some people and upsetting some gamers. Proverbial storm in a teacup. I guess you could use it as a starting point for an essay about censorship though.
Though if you want to talk about censorship, the starting point should be Mortal Kombat. IIRC that was the game that caused Australia to start rating video games in the first place, the highest-profile one to be banned because of our lack of an R18 rating, and one of the first to finally be released when we got our 18+ rating. Massive scope there for talking about tangible societal impact.
There was a whole thing on YouTube about how the fishing game was impossible.
I know because I read an article arguing against this poular opinion.
That’s about as much impact as it had I think :-/
Drakengard 3 sounds weird. Which I guess is as expected because all Cavia’s games were a bit odd.
I wonder if we’ll ever see it in English 🙁
It probably sounds weird cause it’s not in English.
I can understand a fair bit of moon language so it doesn’t sound that weird to me.
I was more referring to the fact that apparently it has a female protagonist who is followed by a group of pretty men who she has a somewhat more than professional relationship with. Or maybe it is professional, just the oldest profession in the world if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Apparently the old guy gives the best ‘service’.
I guess this isn’t that much of a stretch since Drakengard 2 had that whole incest subplot. Cavia were a strange developer.
“Oldest profession”?
Caveman was a way of life, dude. I can’t really understand how-oooooooooooooooohhh…
Yeah, that…that doesn’t sound like a game that’ll have a quick and smooth translation.
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/14/drakengard-3s-lead-character-is-rather-promiscuous/
Starting to get a bit sick of this rain. 4 days of solid rain is a bit too much.
Hola Tay
I am in LA Paz, the capital of Bolivia. It’s a strange city. Our tour was held up today by a massive protest by Teachers. They were letting off fireworks and dynamite in the hills to get the President’s attention!
Hope you’re all well.
I did a blog about my visit to Machu Picchu:
http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/ruins-of-body-and-stone-putucusi-machu-picchu-and-back-to-cusco/
But now some thing important: @spaghett’s last song played game!
El Condor Pasa (if I could) – Simon and Garfunkel
I’m imagining someone rocking up with fireworks and everyone’s all like ‘Hey, cool idea!’
Then along comes that guy with the dynamite.
lol
Ni No Kuni \o/
I miss Spaghett!
Aw man, I don’t have the patience for Shadow of the Colossus at the moment, I don’t think. It’s stressing me out. Haha. Seems to be good though.
Take a break. (one day I’ll come back to you Half Life 2, one day)
Don’t think it’s the game that’s stressing me, it’s kind of like Dark Souls where I can’t get lost in the escapism for some reason… yet. 😀 Really love the world and setup, though. I think I had mentally prepared myself for another Ico, but this is pretty different.
When my family got our first computer, it was an Amiga 500. I think I was perhaps 6 or 7 at the time? It was my first encounter with a mouse and for some reason I learnt to use a mouse upside down, and continued to use it that way until high school. I always resisted changing the way I did it because I could use the mouse perfectly upside down. It used to bug my dad no end, who kept telling me to just try it the other way. I finally relented when I was 15 or 16, and I think it took me maybe a day to make the switch for good.
Funny how quickly your brain can adapt and change such things, but to me it’s even more interesting how your brain opts to do it in the first place. Apparently I tie my shoes in an unusual way too.
MAYBE I’M AN INVERTER BECAUSE I’M WEIRD!
I eat with a knife and fork with the “incorrect” hands.
I had young parents, like they gave a shit the way it went, so never bothered to tell me otherwise.
Haha! Me too, sometimes I even have this weird habbit of cutting food with the knife in my right hand. Placing the knife down and then swapping my fork to right hand to resume eating. WEEEEEIRD.
I do that.
*edges away slowly*
I’m pretty sure I don’t even hold the cutlery properly. No one ever taught me. Haha.
D.C.’s broken. 😛
I do that too. My dad always tried to get me to change to the “proper” way, but mum let it slide because she used to do it that way too. She abandoned the old ways over time though. Me, I still maintain it.
Using the knife in the right hand makes no sense at all to me. I’m right-handed, the fork is the one that gets moved around the most and needs most control.
Finally!
Did the Amiga have more than one mouse button? I could understand this if you were using a 1-button mouse. My family’s first computer was a Macintosh Plus (it was Plus because it had a whopping 512k RAM vs the SE with 256k!) and those had one-button mice. I never used it upside-down because I was shown how to use it correctly, but I can see how you could make the mistake.
Nah it actually had two buttons.
http://tinyurl.com/aks5o26
I think my brain is just weird.
Yesterday, I introduced @cakesmith and @freezespreston to Pappa Roti. I’m fairly sure that they’re forever in my debt now.
Malaysian Papa Roach cover band?
That’s not quite as awesome but I wish it existed.
Considering there isn’t one anywhere within 40 minutes of me I’d say you owe me.
Owe me buns. Send me buns. It’s not a request.
Dear non inverters,
You can argue all you like but you’re just wrong. There is no argument. Simple biomechanics state this.
Regards
The guy doing it right.
Dear heretic,
Biomechanics do not apply to an abstract concept.
May you step on a lego.
Regards,
The only sane person here.
Can’t we all just get along, Rodney King style. 😛
No.
You’re the one trying to apply conditions and variances to laws to fit your view instead of accepting what is.
Here we go
I dont really want to see the article because it sounds like its just lots of angry people, but all I’d say is I got stuck on inverted because of Starfox on SNES. Got used to it and never looked back.
Err, inverted. Not introverted. By preference isnt to stay inside and not talk to anyone. Wait…
Not really an article. It’s a poll with about three sentences and 700 defensive comments. XD
I really don’t care what people do.
Unless I’m taking turns at a game with a non inverter. Then they are literally the worst people ever.
The worst is when you go to change it over to inverted so you can actually play their stupid game and they make a big song and dance complaining about it.
Every. Single. Time.
Yeah, inversion is an entirely subjective subject, and I feel like any argument that isn’t simply “this is what I prefer doing” is a waste of time. Thus why I choose to troll people who try to bring some abstract version of logic into this area, where it has literally no place.
I left a comment about the shortcoming of the poll, but that was the extent of it 😛
I don’t like the poll. Hope Serrels doesn’t intend to do a topic like this every week. Us vs. Them stuff.
He is. But I have no issue with this, I think it’s interesting to see the results. Maybe turning comments off would be a good place to start though.
Blergh. Will be avoiding that thread. XD
But he always does.
Ken VS Ryu and a list of others.
He’s pretty good at coming up with them.
This guy gets it.
It’s weird, inverting seems to be the same as using a camera. You tilt up by moving the attachment dealy down and vice versa for going up. Never associated that logic with gaming. I just figure press up to go up, press down to go down. XD Maybe the d-pad mentally conditioned me…
No, no, it’s simple D.C., when you lean forward, you automatically look down, and when you lean back, you look up, so the positioning of inverted makes the most sense.
…
I still don’t understand what that person was trying to say.
I can sort of understand it. Just all comes down to preference and trying to articulate your preference. Just irritates me when people get all stubborn and consider their way of doing things definitively right. Haha.
I burst out laughing at one of those. One of them said something along the lines of “Lean your head forward, you look down”.
Well, it’ll certainly make you look something…
There’s an awful lot of stupid going on in the comments section of that article. So many people are trying to politely explain why someone else is entirely wrong, ignoring the fact that it’s entirely subjective based heavily on perspective. Oh, and it was great when a couple of TAYbies brought that point up specifically and got told they were wrong…
On the bright side, it makes the trolling even funnier 😀
I may have just purchased a large amount of McDonald’s regret and chased it down with a huge bag of jelly babies. Not feel so good now.
And it’s still better than eating at Amy’s Bakery of CaterwaulingWorth it?
Nah, not at all. Hence regret 😛
Sometimes I find you need to refresh why Maccas and KFC induces regret. I do the same every month or two ‘Wow, I feel like Maccas/KFC!’ *15 minutes after* ‘I remember why I don’t eat Maccas/KFC now. Blergh.’ *fast forward a month or two later* ‘Wow, I feel like Maccas/KFC!’, etc. Rinse, repeat.
I know that cycle waaaay too well.
I get McDonald’s once a week. Regret. EVERY. TIME. >:(
I eat KFC cos I like it, I haven’t touched MacDonald’s in years because it make sme feel ill (except breakfast)
Haha, I do this a lot too – but with cola. And on a much longer timescale. And with far less. I’ll only have a sip of Pepsi or Coke or something and then not touch it again for another year or two.
I still don’t understand food regret.
I get it from eating too much. But not from eating something bad. I go in knowing full well what I’m doing. What’s regret before the fact called?
Trepidation
Can’t shake the feeling I’ve been annoying here on TAY all week. Hope this isn’t the case, but if it is I apologize. Just feeling a little off lately. :S Also, sometimes when I try to debate something I worry that it comes across as… I dunno… aggressive or stubborn or something. Never intend it to be that way. If the Heavy Rain stuff yesterday seemed like that, I’m sorry. D:
Don’t make us nom you for community kudos again!
I think it’s wearing off. We have no choice, it seems.
@markserrels, Kudos for @dc again please.
I get that feeling a lot too, but that’s just my paranoia program talking and I tell it to shut up 😛
You should probably get that thing uninstalled. 😛
I’m working on it, it’s like Norton… bloody hard to really get rid of
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness! 😀
You know that the most annoying thing you do is worry about being annoying, right? Keep up this torrent of apologies and we’ll have to label you Scree v.2. Or, probably actually Scree v.3 since I think Saturday is Scree v.2.
What was I saying again? I’ve forgotten.
You should have put an apology a the end of your comment.
3/11 Shanes.
Is this a thing now? Because I’m not sure I approve.
I give it 12/8 Shanes
@masha2932 says sorry a lot >:(
O_o
You didnt annoy me personally in the slightest. I left for a while because i didnt like how loudmouthed I was starting to get, so it was for my own good, if thats what you were somewhat referring to maybe. I cant imagine you were talking about anything else because everything is about me I’m pretty sure.
I just assumed you were off making Anna’s Quest. (Which is a good thing. XD) Would be lying If I said I didn’t worry that I had offended you though. Haha!
GoT discussion yesterday was actually one of my favourite TAY threads ever, btw.
I feel like I’m missing out D:
@dc or DBKIAFIAFAFAFBKABFKBIAF link pls?! 😀
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-224/comment-page-5/#comment-1339900
<3 you
Interesting points! 😀
Ah no no, no I liked that too, I mean the heavy rain things, I was being a bit obnoxious and saying things off the top of my head without thinking them through
Stop it. If people found you annoying, they’d say so. Like I’m about to say now. 😛 I’m getting annoyed at you thinking you’re annoying people. So there!
Stand up for what you believe in if you feel strongly enough to do so. If you’re worried about offending people all you need to do is:
1. Be polite
2. Don’t direct abuse at the person, or their ideas
3. Laugh nervously at the end of every single post3. Have faith that the people you’re talking to know you don’t meant to be offensive.
If all else fails, tell them @blaghman made you do it.
I like you. Do you like me?
I like you. It’s well known that @dc hats everything though. 😛
More hat than TF2 😛
Jimu hates most things too, but he loves me fo shizzle! We be buds him an me! He gets me! I like that!
dawwwwwwwwwwwwwww
@dc Hasn’t answered D:
You know it.
Furthermore, we all know you’re stubborn. We accept it. 😛
And I think the fact that you’re worried about being annoying, in a way means you are not being annoying. Because the most annoying people don’t usually care that they’re being annoying.
D.C.’s got posting remorse! XD
At least you haven’t edited…yet.
You know what I do find annoying though? “XD”
Only because I’ve never been able to tell anyone’s intentions when they use it. 😛
I think when @dc does it, it’s similar to his “Haha!” at the end of posts.
Keep your passionate opinions out of my TAY.
Not being able to walk is slowly driving me insane.
If you can’t walk, how are you managing to drive slowly?
…I really can’t help myself. I have a condition.
I think I just chortled.
I’m not sure I actually know what a chortle is, but I feel like whatever that was that just happened was one.
:'( Hope it feels better. How long do you have to wear the boot for? (You told me the other day I think, but I forgot. :S)
Another 4-5 weeks 🙁
Oh man, here’s hoping it gets easier.
If you get tired of walking then run!
That’s what my dad always said to me. =P
Not helpful.
Funny, that’s what I usually said in response.
DANCE! 😀
Sip Warm Water
A glass of chilled water will calm you more than most other liquids.
A cup of warm water will calm you even more.
This reminds me…I need a cup of tea.
This is going to sound stupid.
But warm water tastes bad.
Not stupid, I only drink water when it is near freezing, cannot stand the taste at any other temperature.
Yeah, but you’re clearly a sane and rational human being.
That is certainly what the voices in my head keep telling me!
Me too! You’re all right, Hugo and Blaghs. :’)
*blushes*
Aww shucks.
DOWNVOTE FOR LIES!
That’s stupid
I always have a bottle of water on my desk and drink from it through the day. Makes staying hydrated so much easier.
Although you know you a re really weird if you can’t drink warm water but you can drink warm cordial. That’s just plain wrong.
It’s not stupid, it’s true.
Though I also think water in general tastes bad.
You live in Canberra! Best water in the country by far.
Undeniable fact.
It didn’t work.
Or maybe I was just really stressed before. I don’t remember!
@shane is probably the only one who is interested, but Zach Braff’s Kickstarter funded movie is getting a decent cast so far. Mandy Patinkin and Josh Gad have been announced.
Commence Zach Braff hatred now.
I hear that Mandy is a bit of a diva, but he was great in Dead Like Me. Also, I hear he was in some Princess movie I haven’t seen. He’s very talented though, in the right role! \o/
He quits more ensemble TV shows than Rob Lowe and that’s saying something. 😀
*Starts crying*
what
A twofer response!
He is goofy looking… I know that is an extremely harsh comment to make and will most likely be moderated due to language used, but that is just how I feel.
Nothing personal, but I reported this comment because it was just too damn harsh 😛
I reported too. >:|
(Only because I think it’d be funny if the post legitimately disappeared. :D)
I didn’t actually report the post.I did. 😀Ugh, no wonder everyone here is getting annoyed with you.😛I totally deserved that.
This doesn’t stop the fact that I must now declare a never ending blood feud against you!
I do wish to assure you however, that it isn’t personal 😛
Understood. I shall prepare my gauntlet for slapping purposes. Be ready.
And I Clubby… what? I don’t own a gauntlet.
I do own several pairs of loin cloths if you would find that preferable 😛
While I didn’t really like him based on Scrubs (I liked Scrubs, he wasn’t so great), I watched the Kickstart video, and enjoyed it.
This has no relevance, but it’s a little story I felt like sharing.
Feel the same way about Braff, liked Scrubs but find the actor annoying.
I must be the only person in the world who doesn’t actually mind him.
I like him!
Garden State was great.
With one of the best compilation OSTs of all time! \o/
I CARE!
*runs off crying*
I DIDN’T KNOW I’M SORRY!
Oh, OK.
“Josh Gad”
I know which movie I’m not watching now.
Elaborate.
I can’t stand the guy. He’s the single most annoying person I’ve ever seen on TV (in and out of character). I just avoid everything he’s ever in now. He completely ruined the second episode of one of my favourite shows (Party Down) just by acting how he usually acts (loud and annoying).
Huh. Well elaborated.
Agreed, BenJ!
i don’t understand people getting pissy about it. If it’s something you want to see, fund it. If it’s not, shut the fuck up and let the people funding it enjoy it.
But Zach Braff must be the richest man in the history of ever because of all the Scrubs!
Cool Sarah Polley interview about Stories We Tell. I know a few folks here were interested the other day! (There’s some ‘plot’ spoilers here that might be better to see in the movie for first time.)
Guys… I have a spontaneous urge to play a game like the original Fallout.
but I’ve already played Fallout 1, 2 & Tactics to death. Same with XCOM.
Are there any other such games?
Wasteland?
Haven’t played the original…. but I backed Wasteland 2, so I should give the first one a run before that comes out!
Looking for more similarity in mechanics or setting?
mechanics mainly.
Random thought of something I haven’t played – TotalBiscuit did a ‘WTF is’ video of a mafia game with similar mechanics in the last few months. That video should give you an idea if it’s something you’d like.
I think it’s Omerta – City of Gangsters.
Continuing my theme of suggestions I haven’t played yet – Frozen Synapse?
Good choice, well worth a try @35
ohh… I’ve been meaning to have a look into that one! thanks for the reminder!
What are the mechanics specifically? I only really got exposed to fallout before FO3 (nb4 monster, do you even play games, etc)
My housemate a few years back used to play xcom pretty heavily… tile turnbased squad/party stuff?
I remember playing a game called ‘Exile 3’ ages ago (free demo on a PCPP mag) by a company called spiderweb software. It’s fantasy RPG which may not be your thing, but I thought it was pretty cool at the time (circa ’98?). They recently got remade and (some) released on steam under the name ‘Avernum’. I think you might be able to get demos directly from spiderweb software’s own website.
Alternatively, I may have totally misunderstood the type of game 😀
Played Planescape: Torment? Sort of isometric turn-based. Could possibly fill a Fallout void.
And it was made by some of the Fallout folks right? I’m not so good on my developer history, but I remember hearing something along those lines.
Depends, do you mean that gameplay style, that theme, or both?
Also, if you’ve played a heap of XCOM, you could try to old ones? (or vice versa if necessary)
Arcanum?
havent heard of that one. I shall explore.
How about syndicate?
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Doesn’t play remotely like Fallout, but might thematically be something you’d like!
not exactly what I was thinking of 😛
(but I have played that & its awesome)
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/sanitarium
Sanitarium. Doesn’t play remotely like Fallout but is isometric! 😛
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/primordia
Primordia! One of the vendors in town sells a G.E.C.K., if that’ll seal the deal! 😀
Speaking of Enslaved, the US PSN dropped the price of pigsy’s perfect 10 DLC to $5. I need a US version of the main game though 🙁
I am not familiar with any of those games at all. But based on things people have said about XCOM/assumptions of them being turn-based strategy things (and also mentions of “it’s by the XCOM guy!”), I would put up a suggestion for Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars. If you have a 3DS, I guess.
Best game of all the launch titles, I got a good 60 hours out of the campaign alone. And usually don’t consider myself much of a strategy guy, but found that it seemed to actually make me start thinking strategically. Nice change from my usual failures at chess and Advance Wars. Also nice is that it goes pretty cheap these days too. But then there are those that don’t seem to like it as much as I did, so who knows. Also I could be barking up the wrong tree too. So/um/yeah.
Damn… Ghost Recon by the XCOM guys would be awesome. But sadly, I have no 3DS.
Not sure if it was “guys” so much as one particular guy who had something to do with the other. But still, I thought it was a pretty solid game regardless 😛
There’s some pretty decent games out there for 3DS. Ghost Recon, Kid Icarus, Shinobi, Luigi’s Mansion (if you can find it), RE Revelations, Mario Kart. Personally, I’m a fan of Steel Diver too but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
I am seriously on the verge of hurling my PC out the window then going home and not going to work for a week.
If you hurl your PC out the window, you might never have to go back to work again \o/
If I hurl myself out the window I will definitely never have to go back to work again…
But who will take care of that Xenoblade art book? D:
Pretty sure that unlike a PC, you’re irreplacable, Neg.
Want to meet for a drink one afternoon? You’re not driving at the moment, are you?
I’m still able to drive, thank god.
Maybe once I’m more mobile. Got an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon on Monday and he’ll tell me if I’m okay to walk on my boot with a single crutch / stick and that will give me some mobility back eg I’ll actually be able to go into shops and stuff. Jumping around on crutches is exhausting 🙁
Can’t you go to the doc and tell em the pain is too much and get a cert for the week off work?
I would.
So apparently all that work I did yesterday, laying the floor in the future-Shane-Batcave, all got pulled up by the contractor and redone because it wasn’t very good.
That sound you just heard was my last man card being torn unceremoniously to pieces. I don’t think I can own a Batcave now.
Edit: I’m going home to shed manly tears. Peace out gently TAYfolk.
Uh, that’s a typo, but I’m leaving it there.
You sure he just didn’t want to charge you for it? 😀
I don’t want to think about that, because I’m not sure being bent over is any better. 😛
It’s a crying shane.
Mancards are stupid, anyway. 😛
Interesting article about Daft Punk and RAM and all that good stuff.
http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/
Was wondering why I felt so sore until I remembered how the busdriver today had happened to leave the stop at the same moment I was helping my son onto the seat, meaning I was not holding on and almost fell over, slamming into the seat. I just discovered I am now bruised on both knees and both forearms.
I swear, sometimes it is like they time it perfectly. You are just getting ready to sit in the seat when they suddenly take off, either throwing you into the seat and nearly taking off the head of the person in front of you, or sending you stumbling several seats further down from where you actually wanted to sit, leaving you with no choice but to act like that was where you wanted to sit all along.
It’s probably the only fun thing in their day,trying to time it perfectly like that. 😀
Dickman is part of the job description
(I dont really mean that, most bus drivers are lovely people)
@sughly @sughly @sughly @sughly @sughly @sughly @sughly @sughly @sughly @sughly
12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men! 12 Angry Men!
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I TOLD YOU SO!
Your turn to watch it now @dc!
I thought you would have seen it already Sugs but I guess not :P. I randomly stumbled across it one day and had literally had no idea what it was about. I absolutely loved it!
We watched it in my Year 11 Legal class and a friend and I were all :D. But when we finally saw it pretty much everyone else was all “:/ zzz boring” which made me :'(. Worst people ever.
EDIT: Also, when you edit in someone’s tag they don’t get a notification :P. Do it in a separate post!
No.
Predicted it.
>:(
Haha, ah finally there you are. Yeah honestly, I believed you guys that it would be a good film, but it was way better than I expected. Amazingly solid writing and performances, and the long takes are incredible. Those ‘aha’ moments are so well delivered, and all the nuances with the jury members and how theyre different, and the motives with some of them – gah! Honestly, a perfectly composed film. Everything comes together so so well. Thanks a tonne for the recommendation, its an instant favourite man.
😀 no problem, man!
Ever seen mid Chaplin? City Lights, Modern Times, Great Dictator? I LOVED City Lights.
I’ve seen a few, I havent seen City Lights or Modern Times though. Great Dictator was quite good, and so is The Kid, I really should try more since I liked those two a lot.
Oh man, definitely go for City Lights! I saw The Great Dictator first (out of his movies) when I saw a clip of the “famous speech” on YouTube. While I enjoyed it, I think I preferred his silent ones more and when I got around to City Lights I looooooved it.
Cool beans, will do
You’re a good egg, Sughly.
🙂
but a terrible human bean
*cringe*
You’re alright in my books too Jemu.
I’m a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad egg
Not sure if I don’t like SotC or if I’m just not in the right mood. It seems very Dark Souls-like.
I would guess you’re just not in the right mood.
The only potentially Dark Souls thing about it (apart from the whole being able to go to most places you can see thing)is the loneliness of the world. But the isolation is what helps you to bond with your companion,who in this case instead of a helpless-seeming girl (like in Ico) is a horse.
Edit: STOP THAT! Grr.
Edit the second: How far have you gone? Just exploring so far, or actually followed the story a bit?
*mental note*
Quote @dc’s posts when replying to them to avoid edit confusion.
Some exploring, first colossus. Think you’re right, just not in the right mood.
I definitely found I had to be in the right mood to play at first, but as I got further (second or third Colossus) just beginning to play would put me in the right mood. Until I sucked at a Colossi and would have to take a break and visit TAY complaining. 😛
Well one of the best things about it is the diversity in the Collosus…es (Colossi?), and the way it challenges you with each one. I doubt many people can say they dont enjoy versing…
the one that you jump onto from horseback.Err…me. I could say that!
Mainly because I found the horse controls frustrating so it got a bit tricky to manouver. Nowhere near as bad as the one you had to shoot while on horseback, though. That one nearly made me rage quit for good.Well you can go suck an egg
I love eggs! 😛
Based on @strange’s reply I assume you were saying you perhaps weren’t enjoying SotC as much as you feel you should be?
You’re allowed to share your opinion dude.
So it’s something about SotC and your penis from what I can gather.
I’m assuming this is Shadow of the Colossus related.
If you don’t enjoy it, it’s fine. No need to edit your comment!
SotC… I set myself the task of finishing it during Shameless Gaming Month, and for the first 3 or 4, I just had to turn on the game, ride Derp McHorse directly to the next target, complete, save, exit. Struggled with a few aspects initially so I found it wasn’t good to do too much in one sitting. That’s all I can offer guessing at what your comment might have been.
Mosey is a funny word. And underutilised. I like funny, underutilised words. Like mosey. And nifty. And my all-time favourite word: innards.
I like Joss Whedon’s use of the word “undercurve” in Astonishing X-men
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/covers/astonishing/astonishing17.jpg
True story: I didn’t really care for SotC much myself. It’s an interesting art piece but there’s not much in the way of game in there.
Aww man and now your re-edit made my down-vote look worser! 😛
We look forward to your return, hope you’re feeling better by then.
So much SotC hat in here :'(
FYI SotC is massively frustrating to play.
Shoulda got SotN :p
I’ve never been carsick in my life but this taxi driver’s driving is making me extremely ill.
Sounds like every Sydney taxi trip I’ve ever taken. Which is 4.
I thought it was just me but the other guy said he was a couple of minutes from spewing himself.
Just got back from seeing Star Trek. I liked it.
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!Oh man, anyone thinking people that talk up indie music are douchebags or hipsters need to check this kid out. Reviewing some amazing albums with such an honest opinion. I love this kid so much http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPC0t4Wz_C8&feature=youtu.be
I’m sure his review is great, and I’d probably be interested if it was written, because I cannot listen to him talk for 30 minutes.
This sounds harsher than I want it to, but I can’t word it better.
Haha! Yeah hes a bit droll, but man, he just has such a great attitude and articulation about what he likes in the albums.
Also, kudos to him for having such an open mind about music too. All I listened to at that age was the Men In Black single on repeat.
What a cool kid.
Anyone know a good way to recover from car sickness? I really feel awful and its not going away.
Throw up.
Or get shitfaced. Then throw up.
Your choice.
Already done.
The throwing up part. Think I’ll pass on the shitfaced thing.
I would just say lie down in a dark room. It’s what usually helps me.
Just watch out for the photos.
Major Tomb raider spoilers
When Roth died, I couldn’t help but laugh because the axe stopped his body from falling backwards. It was intended to be a heartfelt moment, yet I start giggling every time I think of it. Any one else have this reaction?In other news, I layby’d the ps Vita
HELPIUS
Not Helpius D= On the upside there’s only $119 left owing on it.
Downside is no games =(
That’s not something a layby can fix
ZING
Are you getting Aussie or US account? Cos if I don’t hear back from @gutsoup I have an Aus Little Big Planet going to waste.
Aussie. The problem is more I can’t afford games right now.
Well, do you like Little Big Planet?
Never played it actually ^^;;
VitaBr…
VitaSis!
Oh yeah, is she the first VitaH… Sis? :O
VitaBros and VitaH… Sis!
That didn’t even cross my mind. I was gonna ask persimmon to change it to VitaDoods.
Hehe upvote for persimmon
THE SECOND COMING OF ALEPH:
heh…29th May.
Gove.
Be there.
ENCORE PERFORMANCE:
Ladies…Some time in the (hopefully) near future.
Darwin.
Please be there.
So yeah… guv’mint training on the 29th. Odd, I’m a jetsetter now!Also needing to get my wisdom teeth removed, which means another flight off the eylandt in the coming month/s… and all without seeing a familiar soul.
At least I get to leave here for a little while!
Wisdom teeth removal >:(
Useless things
@dc Just watched the SHIELD trailer. looks good, hope they can keep me interested.
Trailer itself was kinda off, the timing on the gags and stuff really didn’t work. Was odd.
Still, it worked, has me interested.
All those upfront trailers are edited to be really stupid and sometimes the good shows you can see through the stupid trailers. This looks like one of them. 😀
Fuuuck. So turns out the reason that my stuff wasn’t working is my own damned fault, because I was a moron. It’s just taken me 3 days to figure out why, because cryptic messages were hiding the actual problem 🙁
Sony really needs to add the ability to gift things over PSN.
Yes!
Crappy dynamic themes for everyone 🙂
This! I hope the PS4 can do this. And not make you have to gift through social media or somesuch which I wouldn’t put it past them to do.
Played DOTA.
Easy Bots.
Bought 15 flying couriers and sent em all into the enemy base.
Fun times.
Just posted pictures of D.C. looking like a stoner through the ages on Twitter. There for a limited time only. Enjoy. XD
Edit: Time’s up. They’re gone. 😀
I responded \o/
Eyyy, longer hair! Suits you too
You really don’t look that much like a stoner. I had classmates who looked way more stonery than you.
Admittedly, they were stoners, but the point stands.
Mrs Freeze says you are really handsome with longer hair.
Me? I’d say you’re totally bangable either way.
…
D:
Already saved to the Spank Bank.
…
Hahaha!
True story: I burned dinner because I was too busy making sure I looked at all the pictures before you deleted them. 😛
LOOK WHAT YOU DID D.C.!
*shakes fist* Past D.C. screws up again. Man, what a screw up. 😛
Good thing current D.C. can learn from his mistakes, no?
Yeah, Current @dc should make up for Past @dc’s mistakes by reposting all the pictures and not taking them down. 😛
Those photos are gone and they ain’t ever coming back. 😀
I don’t know a great deal about the internet but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case…. 😛
😐
…
I’ll just have to destroy the internet then.
Also, then what was the point of posting them in the first place? They were mostly great photos, there is nothing to fear. (Except apparently @freezespreston ) 😛
I saved em all. @dc
🙁
Fred Durst @dc is best @dc.
I had that chin patch thing for like six months. 😀
I actually legit liked it. A full beard would look better though 😉
Man, I was feeling like crap all day. Now I feel better. Thanks for putting up with my moodiness. Haha.
Stoner talk and feeling better?
😉
Hacky sack? @smurfydog?
Stoner DC’s in the mood for some hacky sack? Bring it on! 😀
*kick*
*slides in and kicks it high*
Stop harshing my mellow!
Duuuude! Mellow out!
You’re so violent when you hit the weed 😛
Edit: should learn to refresh before replying 😉
It’s cool, I’m that jerk that ruins your game by being super aggressive, while you’re just trying to stay cool.
The weed’s impaired your reflexes.
*strums guitar*
There’s something happening here,
What it is ain’t exactly clear,
There’s a man with a gun over there,
Telling me I’ve got to beware…
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound,
Everybody look what’s going down…
I was hoping you’d be impaired so I might at least get a kick in, but some jerk came along and stomped on the metaphorical Tim Tams dude! I don’t even know what’s what anymore.
I mean, who stomps on metaphorical Tim Tams?!? 😛
I need a hug. Or a drum circle. Actually, just a drum circle. 😀
No mention of wanting more Tim Tams?
Shame.
@greenius
Because it’s so hard to open the damn packets, man.
@blaghman Yeah, but… maybe but…
Can’t you just kick some my way dude?
“*strums guitar*” cracked me up, I’d best be off to bed.
I don’t know how you employed people find the time to look at TAY! The work day goes so quickly I barely have time to do everything I want to let alone waste time 😛
Also, First-10-minutes-of-Survivor-Finale Spoilers
Godammit Eric you skinny, malnourished bum! I believed in you!Me too! Poor Eric. 🙁Relevant XKCD for me:
http://xkcd.com/303/
If only I could use this!
Though even if I did, my computer is in full view of everybody in the office (it’s a small company in a single-room) so I probably wouldn’t TAY anyway 😛
Nothing to do at work at all… 🙁
http://collider.com/bryan-burk-star-trek-into-darkness-star-wars-interview/
Cool interview with Bad Robot EP Bryan Burk about all their projects. Warning, spoilers for everything attached to the production company. (Film and TV.) Excellent read though.
(Man, I seem to link to Collider a lot. :S)
Look at his little grin. So happy with himself.
Haha! Wouldn’t you be? 😀
@smurfydog: Now I’m listening to Bob Dylan Hippie music for real now. >:|
Hahaha! Me too, only it’s not Dylan 🙂
Downvote for angryface. Turn that frown upside down dude. Hippie music is groovy, man!
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
See? Groovy!
I’m gonna have to counter your downvote with an upvote for Dylan.
Fair call – and thank you 🙂
It’s a rare thing for me to give out a downvote, (I think I’ve only given out 3 or 4 ever, and all in jest) but using angryface in the same post as Dylan and hippie music… that’s just not cool, man! 😛
Colon Pee is where it’s at, dude!
I bought the album willingly though. Haha.
Of course you did 🙂
‘Cos deep down all decent folk have a little bit of hippie inside 🙂
Any one here end up seeing Cloud Atlas? Was it as good as it looked?
Almost as good as you looked with longer hair.
Rawr.
So terrible movie then? 😛
A mess with a solid gold core to it.
I liked it quite a bit, I had no idea what it was though.
Good strong anti-arsehole messages.
I liked Speed Racer, soooo…
I liked all the Matrix sequels with a soft spot for the third movie.
I can’t judge you, my friend. XD
I liked Matrix 2 & 3 quite a bit at the cinema, I re-watched them semi-recently and now I only really like 2 because of the massive Smith fight.
That fucking cave orgy is an embarrassment.
Haha! I liked the dystopian Zion stuff. :'(
Again, liked it in the cinema, none of it was doing it for me last time.
3 is too much of a finale, doesn’t stand up on it’s own at all. They made the exact same mistake with Pirates 3.
I agree with Pirates. Second and third movie shouldn’t have been made, to me.
@dc I think 2 was my favourite.
I’ve never seen them again since the cinema though.
I wasn’t that impressed by the first but I loved how ridiculous the 2nd got.
The intro with Johnny Depps of part 3 is the best bit outta all the films though.
I loved the first. I had to do a presentation comparing two movies in the same genre at uni. I picked Last Crusade and Pirates. 😀
@dc
What about the fourth Pirates movie? Was that okay? You didn’t mention it, so I’m assuming that you think it’s good. 😛
@blaghman: Wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be. Appreciated that it started a new story and didn’t build on the convoluted plot of the other sequels.
@dc
I can understand that, but the movie was completely lacking any substance anywhere. When your comic relief character is the main character, what does that leave you with from a narrative standpoint? A bunch of wacky situations? Woooo…
@dc @blaghman
I didn’t know they were making Pirates 4, I just saw it on a plane. I was dissapoint.
There was some decent ideas.
A lot of it seemed like set-up for a sequel to me.
I liked the sprawlingness of the trailer, distant past to distant future.
Yeah, they pull that off really well I reckon.
They really nailed that.
There are bits that feel like they’re a bit of a detached from the other things going on and could have spent less time on though. Not a perfect movie but it really nails that sprawling, interconnected plot thing.
That and yellowface is weird.
I found the reverse yellow face the weirdest. They changed a perfectly attractive Asian woman into a monstrous Westerner.
But yes, all the face colours were weird, butt I can appreciate why they wanted to do it.
Ambitious movie that was executed a lot better than I was expecting.
Very much worth a watch.
Looking forward to it! Was going to see it at the cinema with my mum… never eventuated! Haha!
Well…Batman Year One Animated is a dissapointment :-/
Whats with the sleepy voice acting for Batman?
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Yeah, overall I liked it, interesting to see all the stuff that appeared in Batman Begins (or was altered slightly and put in, and stuff). But I agree, Bats really wasn’t great.
It’s a straight adaptation of Batman Year One by Frank Miller, Begins was borrowing from this story. The comic is waaaaaay better. I wasn’t impressed with the generic character designs, the nonsensical animation (Batman seems to step from one rooftop to another at one point) and the voice acting was abysmal.
I was told it was good from a friend I trust who read the comic, so maybe I was expecting too much.
They butchered a classic 🙁
I liked Bryan Cranston, even if it was just because I was seeing him as the father from Malcolm in the Middle the whole time.
I don’t watch enough TV to pick him, I did hear generic anime voice-actor number 32 though. He was wickid as generic pimp in the street and generic police officer in squad car 😛
He played James Gordon, so I spent the first 5 minutes of him talking thinking “who the hell is that? I recognise that voice.” Then it clicked, and I was like “THIS IS THE GREETEST THING EVER.”
@greenius
June 2
Venture Bros Season 5 starts.
For realsies this time.
aww… 😛
A few days ago I remembered I put a reminder for it in my phone months ago and I was going to watch it and do a “Venture Bros Season 5! Oh but I guess no one cares since I’m the only one who watches it” kind of thing.
TRUE STORY.
It’s been ages since I last saw it (not including that random episode a few months ago)
It’s been 3 gorram years between seasons with only that Halloween episode (which totally blue balled me) for sustenance.
Think I’m going to have to rewatch the entire series so I can remember what exactly is going on. may force @dc and @sughly to watch while I’m at it.
Was that the one with the Space Oddity scene?
Thats the one.
I honestly don’t remember too much :/. While watching the Halloween one I could barely remember the characters and events that happened. I think I watched it a few months after the last episode of the previous season aired (just acquired and watched them all pretty quickly).
Kinda irrelevant but as for your cartoon recommendations I still haven’t seen Frisky Dingo(?) but you and Dan did get me into Bob’s Burgs 🙂
Frisky Dingo is like a completely off the wall version of Archer.
I went and picked it up actually. Waiting for mums to leave, it seems like something mums wont be into
Don’t think she’s going to leave, Sughly. XD
I know :'(
Survivor Finale Spoilers @strange @greenius @sughly @phoenix (I haven’t watched the reunion episode yet)
Thank god Cochran isn’t a complete stupid. I was ready to call him an idiot if he voted out Dawn (like the episode kinda wanted you to expect). Eddie would’ve cleaned up at the final vote.At this point though, I’m kinda hoping Sherri will win 😛 Eric and Brenda were my hopes but they’re both gone and Cochran and Dawn have slightly annoyed me the last couple of episodes 😛
Will edit again after the final vote! (I’ll have to try and find everybody’s opinions again as well)
EDIT:
Err…. yeah, I take that back. Sherri’s final speech was terrible 😛Wait, have you finished it or not? Do you know the winner? Your posts are all out of place 😛
Still watching 😛 Don’t have much time to do a proper write up if I wait until the end.
Ah, about 30 minutes left?
You said “Will edit again after the final vote!” and editted something in but it didn’t seem like you’ve seen it all. I won’t post spoilers until you finish it 😀
*strums guitar* Goodnight @dc
Haha, good night Jimu!
Why isn’t there anything enjoyable to watch on tv anymore?
And by “enjoyable”, I mean sport.
I don’t understand the question. What is tv?
Idiot box.
This thing on the left that that guy must have opened early on in his career?
You know, I think it might say something about me that I read that as “This thing on the left that Tony Abott guy must have opened early on in his career” before I opened that link.
Well, there was the FA Cup final.
I can’t believe they didn’t show last nights Giro stage. Oh well just finished watching it now and it was awesome. Not sure how much you enjoy cycling so you might not care. But stages live Sat and Sun
So thanks to Saturday and Gorzy talking about it, I’ve started watching Gargantia. It’s pretty cool, looks really nice, and I like how the story’s going. That said, of the six episodes out so far, 2 of them have had copious amounts of fan service. It’s a little ridiculous how quickly they got it going. It’s not particularly, ummm, bad, fan service? (meaning it’s not High School of the Dead) But yeah. It’s a little off-putting since these characters are about sixteen years old…
Did someone say fan-service? ( . )( . ) 😀
:pYou know that the character designer for that show is one of the most popular porn artists in the country right?
But regardless, the service is pretty much par for the course nowadays. 🙁
Well now I know that.
And knowing is half the battle.
GEEE EYYYEEEEE JOOOOEEEEEEE.
Naruko Hanaharu. So popular that his artbook releases actually have attracted queues to purchase them.
Regardless, I think Gargantia is the best show running this season.
I think Positively 4th Street is my favourite Bob Dylan song. I can picture it playing over the credits of a project I’ve got in mind. 😀
Hey @smurfydog, I kicked the Tim Tams at you, but I think they got caught on the table. You’ll have to like, kneel down to get them.
While you’re there, can you put Dark Side of the Moon on? I need it, man. I need it so much right now.
Haha! That’s a dirty trick you jerk. *grabs Tim Tams before they get kicked again*
Hang on – nearly got it… You want to sync it up with Wizard of Oz? Tell me when to drop the needle.
Oh man, you read my mind. Ok. Ok. 3. 2. 1… … Go.
…
Baaaaaaallllllllllssssss, I got it wrong, do it again.
Oh man! I’m not your trained monkey!
Ok – say when… This is gonna be so cool… 😀
Ok, ok, ok, ok.
3.
2.
1.
G-WAITWAITWAIT. Okay.
3, 2, 1, Go.
…
You nailed it man. Niiiiiicccce.
*Huge sigh* Thanks man! 🙂
Ummm… What are we watching again? 😛
I’m not sure any more, but its soundtrack is rad.
There must be someway outta here, said the joker to the thief. There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.
Businessman they drink my wine, Plowman dig my earth. None will level on the line, nobody offered his word. Hey.
No reason to get excited, the thief he kindly spoke. There are many here among us, who feel that life is but a joke…
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate. So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
All along the watch tower, the princes kept the view. While all the women came and went, bare foot servants too..,
Outside in the cold distance, a wildcat did growl. Two riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl.
*ten minute guitar solo*
Terrible joke.
Freakin’ love Bear McCreary’s Battlestar Galactica version. Major spoilers in the comments most likely. Be careful.
I’m pretty sure my favourite will always be Hendrix.
My favourite ad? The one with Eva Longoria playing with her pussy.
…Let’s see if I can get through the next hour without laughing at the word “Thrustmaster”.
*puts money on the table*
I’m out.
Hey, @freezespreston , I’ve obviously missed some pretty big news somewhere in the last week or so. From random posts and bits and pieces I’ve picked up here and there it looks like you’re finally getting somewhere with the police thing? Meetings or tests or something I’m guessing?
Sorry, I’m not on during the day due to work, and I mostly skim twitter during my tea breaks.
So what’s the news?
Through to the final set of tests. Means I have about 5 weeks to get some semblance of fitness together. So I should have a final answer pretty soon.
Excellent news, Uncle Freeze! Best of luck to you.
I’m sure you’ll be fine – that stoner @dc speaks very highly of you 😛
My girlfriend’s dad is one of the main trainers of new recruits in Brisbane, it’s likely you’ll get some training from him, he’s a pretty cool guy, right into 70’s rock and such.
P.S. Dating a police mans daughter can be stressfull 😛
Watched 3 movies since Sunday. Woo. I’m slowly trying to make myself sit through a movie without checking the internet as I watch it. Still haven’t managed to do it, but I’ll keep trying 🙂
I watched:
1. Safety not guaranteed- It was OK. I don’t know what I was expecting.
2. This is 40-OK to good.
3. Seeking a friend for the end of the world-Kind of pointless. I know pointless is not very descriptive but it’s just what popped in my head about the movie. Steve Carell and Keira Knightley didn’t seem to have any chemistry.
Safety Not Guaranteed was amazing. I like movies with broken people for some reason. 😀
I was expecting something like Lars and the real girl I think.
I was hoping he would be more broken and crazy. Kind of cool they actually time traveled thoughDid you like the song, though? Thought it was an excellently casted movie too. Glad there weren’t any huge names in there.Yeah I liked the song. 🙂
Stop watching “OK” movies and watch some good stuff 😀
12 Angry Men! 😀
Good film!
…
DO IT D.C.!
FUN FACT: I started watching it around this time too. Just wanted to quickly check what it was before going to bed one night but ended up watching the whole thing because it was so good 😀
No regrets.
@masha2932 YOU TOO!
It is on my HDD. I might watch it tomorrow.
Currently at work otherwise I might try it now 🙂
Awesomeasha 😀
@masha2932 YOU TOO!
AND EVERYONE ELSE OMGOMOGMOMGOMG
Aw man, did I miss photos of stoner DC?
PS: I’m writing this to you from the comfort of my very-nearly-set-up mancave.
Wooooo! Floor look better than your attempt or did he just wanna get paid? 😀
(You missed the stoner pictures. :D)
Never mind.
Congrats on the man cave, my friend!
Thanks, man. It’s gonna look pretty damn amazing when it’s done. Books down one wall, DVDs down another. TV against the back wall, and desk against the front wall, with a massive daybed in the middle! \o/
Will you be posting before and after photos of the mancave?
Kind of curious to see how it looks once it’s done.
Yep, that’s the plan. Taken plenty of snaps along the way \o/
It was a rip off. He’d already posted 2 of them before!
So I’ve missed out TWICE? Oh man, that stinks 🙁
…
God, look at that D.C., almost like he’s a perfectly normal person, or something.
So you’re tall and skinny with a tiny head. Who’s the guy photo-bombing on the right?
Good night TAYfolk. It’s smurfy-bed time for this little blue dog.
Peace out 🙂
Confucius say “Man with four balls can’t walk.”
Confucius say “Crowded elevator smell different to midget.”
Sup sleepyTAY, I’m waiting for Tenacious D to come on stage. What are you up to?
Writing \o/
I did not think this through. Will not actually be able to respond if anyone replies. Congratulations Shane \o/ you get my only reply!
Enjoy the show, dude!
yeah enjoy dude. im drinking rum and writing vague TAY posts.
http://penny-arcade.com/comic
This is never not funny. (Mildly NSFW)
Man.. the one thing I have learnt about the games industry is that it is a minefield of marketing decisions and secrets…
Just deleted a wall of text where I tried to make vague statements about what this means and you’d likely figure it out and that does not reflect well on me and my business.. so lets just say I’m happy and you’ll know why in 2 weeks.
You finally managed to put the brain of Hitler into the body of a shark. Congrats
There’s literally nothing else it can be.
Oh it was supposed to be his brain. How am I going to explain to the penis transplant team they will have to undo their hard work.
hehehehe “hard”
Goodnight, guys.
See you all in the morning.
Bored, feel like vacation. But wheeeeere?
Somewhere not cold?
Soviet Union!
Just watched WARM BODIES.
I was expecting some sort of Twilight-esque movie? WOW Twilight type movie that was NOT.
Fantastic movie. Definitely not a slapstick comedy. Quite a touching movie, good dark comedy in places, but a very good character driven movie set in a post apocalyptic zombie infected world. Definitely recommended viewing. Nicholas Holt (sp?) Beast from Xmen First Class is sensational as R the zombie. Just remember that it doesn’t matter they’re not Romero-esque zombies. The rules are set up clearly, which helps the movie, the zombies are a little smarter than your average Romero style ones, they have very very basic speech ability, able to utter basic words from time to time, basic abilities, such as R liking to play music. This gives R personality for instance. It really is sensational. Really do recommend seeing it.
A few pacing faults here and there, a feeling it was rushed at the end with the time coming in a little short (97 minutes, I kinda felt it would’ve benefitted from 2 solid hours myself given the whole plot element of… well you’ll see… and ultimately? Hopefully there will never be a sequel because it’s totally self contained and ultimately feels ‘complete’ which is a rare feat these days with movie makers always wanting to ‘set up a franchise’ which in itself, was really appreciated by me. 8 out of 10.
I first saw the trailer and thought “hey, that looks awesome! I want to see it!” Totally don’t get all the Twilight comparisons I heard from people after seeing it 😛
Steam trading cards? Pfftt, it’s nice, but I honestly don’t need anything to collect-
“Earn Coupons and In-game items”
Discounts and Hats? I’m in.
PHOENIX WRIGHT 5 SPOILERS CONCERNING NEW CHARACTERS goddamnit I’m horrible with spoilers.
EDDDGEEEWOOOOORRTTTTTTHHHHH (and also trucy!)And new trailer!
And there’s a web demo!
http://www.capcom.co.jp/gyakutensaiban/5/trial/index.html
The music really is top-notch.
Ohhhh my gawd… OHMYGAWD.
TRUCYYYYYY!! ^_^ Trucy is kinda sorta my favourite ^_^ ^_^ ^_^Dammit EA, if you don’t make a new Battlefront game then, by help me, I will be irritated. So very irritated, I will also complain on the Internet and we both don’t want that to happen.
KOTOR3 pl0x
You ruined “ignore nob page 11” >=(
I would love a new KOTOR but, I don’t know. Seeing that Bioware own TOR MMO it’s kinda like them saying “we were wrong”. Don’t think EA is capable of saying that …
They don’t have to admit anything. There’s a lot I’m willing to overlook for that game.
Haha yeah, Im willing to pretended that TOR didn’t exist if we got a new KOTOR.
I thought one of the major marketing points of The Sims 4 was that it’s offline?
Wait … Sims 4, didn’t they just release number 3? #OldManNob
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/ea-announces-the-sims-4-i-remember-the-sims/
The Sims 3 came out about 4 years ago. DO YOU FEEL OLD NOW? 😛
Well he already said that he was Old Man Nob, so yes, I’d imagine he does.
Even I feel old now…
Wats a kotor???
Babbius
Do you really not know? Cos get on that if you don’t.
I fear for your fun! D:
I know but I’ve never played it :P. This camee up during the last Steam sales and I got downvoted to oblivion :-). Nice S Preston gifted KOTOR2 though
Oh, grab the first as well, I grabbed them when I first got a 360 (after Resi 5 & Street Fighter 4 came out) and they were dated at that point and I loved them.
I sat through long load times and everything.
They’re my favourite Star Wars anything 🙂
I gave the newest patch for Sim City a go. It seems like they have fixed some things;
– Traffic is more intelligent. I noticed that a lot of my residents would take the long way to destinations if the traffic was heavy in a different section.
– Casinos actually work!. I built a casino and people actually went into it. Amazing, I didn’t think I would ever see this day.
– Public transport (mainly busses) aren’t irritating anymore. When you used to build a bus station your town was flooded by so many busses. Seems they have actually fixed this and the bus AI.
I didn’t really notice and huge problems except …
– Residential lots won’t build sometimes! I had a few places become abandoned but when I bulldozed them a house wouldn’t be built over it (building a park did seem to fix it though). Commercial & Industrial lots seem to work fine.
– There’s something odd about the graphics. This my be a problem on my side but every so often (1 – 1/2 hours) the screen would go black for 5 seconds then fix up. May need to update my drivers or something.
Hmm, may have to give this a shot tonight. Is there a spare piece of land on the server? Mines a tad irradiated and death filled.
I made a new region but it only has 4 spots, I might start a new region with more space.
I might have to join in on this. I haven’t done any multiplayer SimCity yet.
Actually, I’ve only played SimCity twice since I bought it… Although that’s more due to not having the time to than anything else.
Regarding bulldozing lots, one of the changes in that patch is that buildings won’t come straight back. It takes (I think it was) a minimum of 24 in-game hours for construction to start up. Makes it so there’s actually more reason to avoid people abandoning.
This was ingame months of the game yelling at me to zone more houses …
Well that sucks…did you try removing and re-adding the zones?
Yup, nothing happened. As I said though, once I places a park heaps of houses finally popped up.
I want to get in to Sim City at some point when they’ve fixed game breaking bugs. Have they fixed them enough yet or should I wait another few months, by which time everyone else will have lost interest?
People have already lost interest.
Steam trading cards?
Hell yes! Now I can make “the heart of the cards” jokes.
3 posts with only me posting. Must be “ignore nob page 11”. It’s like playing DOTA 2 all over again. /o\
I’d respond to this, but then I’d be joining Freeze in the “breaks all the rules” club. And we know that I’m just not that cool.
Are cards the new hats?
They really should have made them trading hats instead of trading cards.
No, but they can GIVE you hats!
And coupons/vouchers, because Steam games aren’t cheap enough amirite
Well technically I think cards can be crafted into badges
And badges can give you hats
I am so doomed with this
Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure
Possible GOTY contender? 😛
Is that for real? Keen. I love Scribblenauts. And DC. And @dc.
:’)
At dinner last night.
Me: What the…?
Annie: FUCK!
Moral of the story: I should never try to do handyman things while the kids are within earshot.
Ever again. /o\
It’s always hard when that happens. You want to start laughing uncontrollably but the responsible parent side of you knows it shouldn’t be encouraged.
My eldest was about 3 when she was sitting in the back of the car, dropped her toy to the floor, sighed dramatically and said “for fucks sake”.
There was much laughter, but I think she thought we were laughing at other things, like the dancing she was doing at the time 😛
Edit: haha, it’s kind of a relief that this is a fairly universal thing!
I think no matter how careful you are, it’ll happen at some point. I doubt she knew that it wad considered a bad word.
However at my primary school, in my last year, we had preps that knew words that would make a sailor blush. (I’m sure your daughter will not be like that.)
Thats pretty amazing
Yeah, it’s hard but if you make a big deal or try andexplain it’s not cool to say stuff like that they’ll repeat it incessantly to get a reaction. If you ignore it, they don’t realise they’ve done anything they shouldn’t have.
Ash asked if I could skip a song in the car the other day. I was like why I like this song! And he says “it has words I’m not allowed to hear”. I was like oh, oops.
Either he is extremely well behaved or his mum is terrifying.
Bit of column A, bit of column B
My cousins taught me the C-word when I was three. That wasn’t crowd pleasing. XD
Blame the crowd 😛
My uncle hit me so I’d stop saying it and I retaliated by calling him a ‘c’…
You should have called him a cunt. Much more impactful.
C IS FOR COOKIE, THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR METhat is awesome 😀
If this was DAN! saying this, that crowd-pleasing comment would have been amazing.
HAHAHAHA! Oh man… theyre advertising a dating site during nba called, wait for it, wait…
blackpeoplemeet.com
Srsly?
Whenever I go onto YouTube I get Christian Dating or Mature Age Dating. (With a tag line, YOU CAN LOVE AGAIN.) :S
I’d say it’s targeted, but I already told you I got premature ejaculation ads. So, no. Completely random 😛
I listen to lots of old people music. XD
Woooowwwww..
Could you imagine if there was a whitepeoplemeet.com? Holy shit, so much outrage.
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/15/take-a-closer-look-at-pokemon-x-and-pokemon-y-with-these-screenshots/
POKEYMANSSSSSSSSSSSSS
This might be the first time in a while I choose to be a guy.Ghey
totes, bru, totes 🙁
But I’m guns be black, daats fo shoSo you can go on blackpeoplemeet ?
Holy damn, that screencap on the front page linking to The Last of Us R18+ story looks awesome…
So much urban decay, overgrown post apocalypse! 😀
LoU and B:TS make me almost wish my PS3 wasn’t teetering on the brink of oblivion 😛
Shame the game isn’t going to live up to it.
I hope I’m wrongWill be playing Dark Souls tonight. IN. MY. MAN. CAVE.
Life is good/complete
Do you think your wife built you a man cave so she wouldn’t have to put up with Dark Souls again? 😀
I never play when the family is around, so… no.
Also, downvote because I think you’re dissing Dark Souls 😀
Your kid would learn to swear much faster if you did.
I don’t swear at Dark Souls, but I would definitely ignore everyone and annoy them 😛
Just put down a deposit on an apartment, which I will then turn into a glorious MAN CAVE!
There will be swords and clubs hanging everywhere, IT WILL BE AWESOME!!!!
SKYRIM! LEVEL OF AWESOME!
That’s awesome news Hugo. Congrats
Make sure you let me know when I can bring the mead and sweet rolls over
PARTY IN SHANE’S man…cave……
I have a feeling you’re making an entendre-laden statement, but I am expecting to have big meat in my man cave in the near future. Make of that what you will.
ha ha ha! *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
as requestedHehe, pretty much why dogs > cats http://gemma-correll.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/cats-dogs.html
I like both >:-(
Wait until you have a cat that pees all over your xbox games. And is then sitting around like king tut waiting for his food afterwards.
My mum had cats all the years I was growing up, I have seen it all.
I have also had dogs attack me and kill my chickens etc.
Although I don’t make a big deal about it because that’s their nature.
Both are equally good pets. Far better than fucking fish (Although a nice aquarium looks great, they are barely “pets:)
Still equally illegal, though.
“No, I mean he *SLEEPS* with the fishes”
Shouldn’t have had your xbox games spread all over the floor for it to pee on then.
What’s more amusing is dog people’s constant need to validate their belief dogs are better. Dog people are like ‘See? Look!’ Cat people are all like ‘Yeah, good for you.’ It’s an uncanny reflection of the personality difference between dogs and cats.
I’m sure if cat people had a reason to validate their choice, then they would. =P
Last night one of my cats was asleep when his brother tried to attack him and started a big fight. The one who started the fight lost so he came crying to me, literally crying, about it and I was all ‘bro you started this it’s your own fault’ and he hissed at me.
Cats are jerks. But I love ’em. When they’re not peeing or throwing up on everything.
Holy crap this looks amazing!
http://youtu.be/SKOPh5ZEciQ
Oh my! That looks incredible!
The 5 secs I watched seemed decent, fuck my computer for being unable to just play a goddam YouTube clip.
After recommending Arcanum to 35 yesterday, I couldn’t help but give it another go myself.
Still find myself caught in the eternal battle of;
Tech is better, no wait magic is, no tech, no magic, tech, magic. tech, magic AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!
Good times.
That game was so good. Oh the memories.
@negativezero
Oh maaaaaaaaaaan, George Kamitani & Masayuki Doi are both attending E3 and signing prints D:
Why E3 and not PAX? E3’s pretty much just a press event 🙁
*facepalm*
@sughly
You had a chance to listen to Random Access Memories yet? I get the feeling that the track Doin’ It Right would be something you’d enjoy.
Also, Striiiiiip Seeeaaaarrccchhh!
I knoooooow, I still havent seen Strip Search! Was caught up doin ‘family shit’ yesterday (I think thats what people call it). Now its back to nba. Life is tough.
Also yah I gave RAM a spin, not bad, not bad. It was a bit hiss and miss, but to be fair I only gave it one spin. I remember really liking the closer, is that the one you meant?
Oh man, first you had to draw some chairs, now this? Tough life man, tough life.
Nah, though that song is good. Second last track, has Panda Bear from Animal Collective doing guest vocals.
Ohhhh yep yep, I did really like that one haha XD
speaking of guest vocalists I liked the Julian Casablancas one too
Instant Crush? Yeah, great song. Julian Casablancas and a vocoder is a really cool combination.
I found a $20 pokeymans at Dick Smith the other day.
Girl behind the counter: “Pokémon eh, you’re a real man”
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I hat you so much. Black white or Black2 White 2?
D:
White. No manual or anything, just empty case from shelf with cart with tags stickytaped all over it.
jellyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I live on the outskirts of Brisbane, takes me over an hour to get to work in the CBD, I never find ANYTHING good in our local stores.
I. AM. JELLY.
I rushed straight out to Sunnybank when you posted about it caus it was the only nearby shop advertising available stock. I got there and there was none. Sad but true story.
2.4/19
Would probably read again.
Oh man, the outskirts are terrible. Least you don’t live one suburb over where it truly gets bad. 😛
Not sure in insult or flirting
Definitely an insult.
Really? Amazing :\
Should’ve challenged her to a battle.
For your honour.
A Pokémon battle?
Of course. Show her just how much of a man you are!
Read it as flirty 😛
I’m the kind of person that would cause a scene in that situation. If someone can’t be professional enough to just be quiet, I’ll either nerd out really loudly about how great it is and embarrass her, or just start returning insults loudly.
Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t have taken that shit. Fuck that noise.
I’d just do what i always do. Feel sorry for someone who thinks less of a person for not adhering to some retarded social standard. Funniest part is, I bet she doesn’t even know a single thing about Pokemon, apart from the fact it’s a kids game or for ‘nerds’.
Besides, you got Pokemon for $20, you’re clearly the winner here.
I find it hard to believe that you, of everyone here, would say nothing 😛
Even I, the ultimate non-confrontational person, would have said “Beg your pardon?” …daring them to repeat themselves.
Don’t know what I’d do if they actually repeated themselves, though 😛
“Good sir! Pardon my French, but you’re an asshole!” 😛
Believe it or not, I’m far better at keeping my mouth shut in real life.
Yeah, I went with that. Saving my energy for dodgy phone companies. And dodgy real estate agents. And dodgy electricity retailers. And, well, work.
When I was 12 I collected the Sonic the Hedgehog comic, they did a spin-off about Princess Sally and I bought that.
Guy behind the counter was genuinely worried, spotted sonics fave in the top corner and said
“It’s a Sonic comic?”
He haa.
Only real men, like @bish, play Pokemon.
wait when did i become a real man
when did this happen
i want to undo this please
Sheeeeit… just storyboarded the ending for Anna’s Quest. 27 shots. Hnnnng… so much work… but dont want to cut any shots :'(
Making games for a living sounds like the worst thing ever. Luckily, I get to come into an office and fix problems all day. None of that pesky creative fulfillment for me.
Colon p.I look at how much work I have to do to finish The Game, and I want to cry 😛
But doing a page per day is awesome fun.
#Perspective
Yeah except for all the other backgrounds/animations/writing/coding/cutscenes that needs to be done for the game on top of this clip :/
My point is that one thing at a time, without thinking about overall progress, tends to improve my enjoyment of the process. Progress sorts itself out, as long as you’re working, and you’ll work better if you’re enjoying it. That’s my experience, anyway 🙂
Yeah actually thats a good way to keep yourself focussed. I spend way too long looking at the bigger picture, and its kind of defeating. Feels like its insurmountable. Other days I’m like fuckit, I’ll just get this background done, and end up falling in love with the background, knowing how it will play when its in the game. As long as I keep that going, I’ll end up with a bunch of things I’m happy with that go together to make a game!
Or I’ll crash and burn. Either or.
Can’t wait to play it, man! You’re living the dream, no one said it’d be easy. 😀
Persona 3 Fes is $5 on PSN US!
OoooOOOoo!! I think I will get this. Thanks jimjim!
Just remember Persona 4 Golden is about infinity times better.
It’s a good game, but Golden is golden. 😀
I dunno man, P4G is epic as fuck, but I actually prefer P3P. Only by the tiniest of margins, mind you. I prefer the tone of P3P for some reason. But I haven’t played P3 FES. I’ve heard P3P is much better than P3 FES, though.
Ergh, this is the stuff that turns me off this series. Do I get P3FES or P3P?!
P3FES adds more story wise, P3P adds more gameplay / mechanics wise.
I played FES and loved it, although the combat was a bit dated (I heard it was fixed in P3P).
Dood, same game.
Differences.
P3P is PSP/Vita only, they had to cut a heap of content to have it fit on a UMD.
So no anime cutscenes and it plays like a visual novel outside of dungeons. (Pick locations off a list, locations are static backgrounds.)
P3Fes comes with a whole extra part that wasn’t in P3 or P3P. Def worth a fiver imho.
P3 and P3fes wont let you control all the characters in battle and there are some other difference that are less good but I cant see you caring since it’ll be your first.
Oh wow, I didn’t realise P3P was so stripped back. I really enjoyed running around all the locations in P3. @Sughly I would say, play P3FES. I had never played any of the previous Persona games and started on FES.
It’s weird, because it’s better in other ways, combat mostly. And you can be female which shows a different side to social links.
I’ve got P3P and just grabbed P3 fes, can’t go wrong for a fiver 😉
@Jimu
I’m just gonna throw it out there and say I wouldn’t have had as much fun in Persona 3 if I didn’t get to explore everywhere for myself, plus the anime cutscenes were awesome.
I honestly don’t think it’s worth a fiver … It’s worth much more then that! =P
Cooool, thanks for laying it out, I appreciate it. Will still pick it up then 🙂
P3:FES has an extra chapter called the answer. It contains A whole extra chapter of what happens after the game.
P3P has the ability to be a female main character allowing you to get storries of other characters. Yes there are no animated cutscenes, but it certainly offers a new perspective.
My advice is get P3: FES and if you like it, grab P3P if you want to know more about the characters.
P3P is far better graphically and mechanically, also gives you the option of a female protagonist.
This is my plan:
Get P3FES and play P3 (the main game) then FES (the extra stuff). Since you haven’t played Persona 3/4 before you won’t really miss any of the game mechanics added in P3P, that were in P4 and the game should still hold up pretty well.
Then play P3P as a girl for a different experience 😀
I doubt I’d ever follow through on this plan but I played a few hours of P3 around launch and it was great. HERMITTTTTT
P3P contains a lot of upgrades that originated in P4, like the ability to control all characters in battle.
I prefer everything about P4G but I also think it overall plays better.
I was much more involved in the drama and comedy, I thought the characters were better realised, I love the music, a lot. I haven’t been that keen on any type of music in ages. I’m obsessed.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m loving P3P, but Golden was like…I dunno, just addictive and …
I just haven’t been that obsessed with a game in years.
We know jim, we know *pat pat*
Hey! If @shane & @freezespreston get to mention Dark Souls every other post, I can geek out on P4G too >:-(
:pI haven’t mentioned Dark Souls in a while. Man, that’s a good game. I <3 Dark Souls.
Xenobladeeeeeeeeeeeeee
SKYRIM!
P3P Female Protagonist path is really interesting. P4 has better game systems but the darker feel in P3 is good too.
I like how everything in P3P is black/blue/greeney-aqua colored. Being a part of an organised unit was kind of cool as well. Felt more professional and a little more organised. Junpei annoyed me at first, but he grew on me eventually.
On the other hand, P4’s group of school friends kind of gels better with the school life in a rural town thing they have going on.
Also you can’t complain about P4 not having a consistent color scheme either, since it has that black & yellow theme going all through. But I do admit I prefer the P3 color scheme. Also the evoker concept for summoning personas is a lot more interesting stylistically.
After all this talk I think I’m going to have to actually start P4G. From what I’ve been hearing, I may aswell kiss my life goodbye.
Also QotSA out today. Legally or by leak, not sure, but its out
FUCKING WHJAT!?!?!?!?!
WHERE!!!!>Q>!>!
!JfojdfosdjvWEQJR Q]2-341`4
I guess its a leak then haha. Hold on ill dm you in twittersville
Ugh, so I’m playing Fire Emblem (I’m super far behind the times, I know, a few weeks, man. Blurst. (General game talk, not really spoilery, but whatevs)):
So Frederick has become a bit of a cursed unit. Whoever I pair him up with proceeds to die within 2 turns. This has happened throughout the last 3 battles. I don’t understand. He’s so strong by himself, but he refuses to be useful as a support! Goddammit Frederick, can’t you protect fucking Donnel once? FUCK. It’s a good thing I play on casual, or I might actually have to think my strategies through.lolol! Yeah I dont know the details of it all, I’m sure Saturday will leap into your rescue, but supports arent that great until the person they are supporting becomes half decent themselves. I think also it depends how high their relationship level is too. Or something.
Yeah, that’s exactly it. The thing is, I got him to support Lon’qu, who will normally dodge everything that is thrown at him, and then everything hit him, and he died. WHY FREDERICK? WHY? WHY ARE YOU SUCH A TROLL?
Hes just an envious limelight hog
I found he was pretty good when paired up with his waifu.
Attempted Shadow of the Colossus again. Still not feeling it. I want to like this game so badly, though. 🙁 Loved Ico so much! Hope it clicks soon.
Edit: I should say I love the world and art direction, the story set up, riding the horse across the plains, platforming and the general atmosphere… just not fighting the Colossi. :S
I loved the first half of that game, but lost interest and just watched a playthrough for the rest of it. Guess I could go back to it one day.
I think it’s a game that excels in concept, and does pretty well in implementation, but really has not aged well at all. Edit: want to emphasise in case it wasn’t clear that this is my opinion only.
🙁 I suspect Ico’s aged a bit better because of how simple the interactions with the world are. (That’s not a criticism either.) Maybe I should replay that so…
Ico end game spoilers:
… I can share a watermelon with Yorda on the beach. 😀Each to their own though. On the back of all the negativity thrown this game’s way yesterday, I’d like to just say it’s still one of my favourite games, and don’t find the controls awkward and really enjoy the whole experience. I replay the game probably once a year. So yah, thats like, your opinion, man.
Not giving up on this game yet, though. I love so much about it that I’m hoping it’ll click once I kill this Colossi guy without turning the PS3 off after five minutes. XD
I’d like to think it will click but I’m not sure. The Colossi were the highlight for me, despite loving all the other bits you mentioned. The game was great running around, and then just became mindblowingly great against the Colossi. If youre not into them, its kinda of a bad sign.
I’m going to play it now and won’t stop until I finish the first battle out of sheer force of will.
Haha, will keep you guys posted but will make a point not to be all negative about it if I end up not liking it. 😀
If you’re feeling like this at THE FIRST battle then the game isn’t for you, man :/
It gets worse and Colossi get more annoying to fight.
I still loved it though but the gameplay is pretty annoying and barebones, but the awesome design and world made up for it 😀
EDIT: I told you the game annoyed me at times but you didn’t believe me 🙂
Already feel like I’ve gotten my moneys worth out of the HD collection anyway. I’d include Ico up there with my all time favourites. Also, it wasn’t that I didn’t believe you. Just didn’t want to go into the game looking for flaws. 😛
@dc I thought it was more you didn’t believe me because you thought the game would be calming and not like you expected :P. You said so yourself that you thought SotC would be like Ico (not sure why!) 😛
So how’d you go? You shouldn’t force yourself to play it so I’m assuming nothing changed :/
Wait until you’ve fought IIRC the third one who is humanoid and super tall. It’s a spectacle and that was where the game really clicked for me.
Also be aware that the game itself is a frustrating horrible mess with bad camera and poor controls. It’s all the rest of it that makes the game so amazing. Like the horse being actually a horse not a car with legs like in everything else – he’ll actively avoid obstacles if you let him, you’re just nudging him onto the track you want to go. Also the feel of the world and the conflicting emotions you feel when you take down each colossus.
This!!
One game I can’t wait for is Project Fedora, the new Tex Murphy game. Overseer was released in 1998 and ended on a cliffhanger. It’s been a long time coming. 😀 (Though weirdly it’s a direct sequel despite the fact that the actors have aged 15 years…)
Any one play The Pandora Directive? One of my favourite adventures of all-time. Pulpy, science fiction detective story about Tex Murphy, a PI who sets up shop in the mutant district of Old San Francisco. Used FMV for cut scenes and a 3D point and click interface that was ahead of its time…
Edit: Also, Project Fedora is using a similar FMV/3D hybrid interface. Will be interesting to see how that holds up. XD
Edit 2: Speaking of FMV, The X-Files Game is so damn underrated. I freakin’ loved that. The scene on the ship with shadows burnt onto the walls creeps me out to this day. 😀 The beauty of this game was the cast though, it’s not often you get FMV with production values this high.
Edit 3: Shut up, D.C. 😀
@bdkiaf
‘Fuck that noise.’ Has officially been accepted into my daily vernacular.
As it should be.
So, you know that teacher’s protest I mentioned yesterday? Got worse today. Blockades in the streets of LA Paz. Couldn’t get to the airport except through a back way, and apparently the army’s been called in.
I’m now in Sucre, the Capital of Bolivia. It’s a neat city, with an Adelaide/Canberra vibe.
@jacksonwryan (hope I got that handle right) – NBA (bulls/heat)
Nooooooo!! Fuck. Chicago nearly had it :'(😉
Haha!
Ah man. I was hoping they’d extend the series – but, let’s be honest. Heat have won the East now (Knicks and Pacers aren’t going to threaten them (Knicks are done for anyway))
So glad the Spurs are up again, 3-2. Tomorrow is a massive game. Super excited for it.
‘mon Spurs!
Hoping OKC can hang in here at least :'(
They are gone brother, sorry!
IT WAS SO CLOOOOOSE!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW
HUH
HUHH
HUHHHH
I’m in a lecture and it’s impossible for me to pay attention. zzzZZzzZzzZzz wee woo wee woo
I’m at work, dreaming of not being at work.
What do you normally do at work? What’s work like? What’s your job?
I don’t even know what to expect when I get a job…
Expect every day to be exactly the same. Macro time (months, years) speeds up, because you no longer have reference points of semesters and uni holidays, but your minutes and hours will drag unbelievably.
Ever do the same thing for eight hours every day before? I hadn’t before I started work.
Gaming analogy: feels like endlessly grinding for loot in an area so familiar (and therefore dull) that you could do it with your eyes shut, with a 0% chance of drop.
This is so depressingly accurate.
Yeah, but what kind of work? Obviously it’ll depend on your job but when it’s something simple like working at the Deli at Woolworths, janitor, McDonalds etc. it’s pretty self explanatory what the job would entail but I have no idea what “office” full-time type of worky things involve 😛
Honestly, it’s the same except you get to sit down.
But what’s the same!? D:
IS WORK JUST SITTING DOWN?
I’ve been doing it for more than five years, and I’m honestly not sure yet.
Don’t be in a hurry to find out 🙂
But @shane, I need money! :O
Greenius types to waste time:
Does anyone know the price of a bacon and egg McMuffin and hashbrowns? I think I paid for 2 hashbrowns and only got one this morning. Worst day ever. Also the bus came at like 10:02 (when it’s supposed to leave) but didn’t leave until 10:17 or so… wut
I loved Phoenix Wright/Ace Attorney games but I forgot most of the characters and cases :'(. I’m sad we never got Edgeworth 2, even though the first one wasn’t that great. GIMME MORE GAEMS AS WELL (like Ghost Trick)
PS+ has a pretty good line-up for June. I’ve already got 3 of the main ones (Ico, SotC and Rayman Origins) but I’ve been wanting Amalur for a while. I should really beat all the other games I nabbed off them :/. I’m thinking Catherine next! Who’ll be my Catherine discussion buddies? <3
Personally I grab the stuff on PS+ that I own on disc anyway, so I can have a digital copy whenever and not have to dick around with discs. But I’d still rather have the physical copy so I guess I am a contradictory person.
I grab it too since it’s “free” and there’s no reason not to grab it but it means I’m also missing out to an extent since I’m missing out on games being offered on PS+. Of course it makes it hard to get new games when you own a decent amount so there’s always a title or so in each month that I already have but the others I don’t usually make up for it 🙂 (Amalur!)
So far I’ve only played one PS+ game that I didn’t already own and that was DOA5.
One of the good things (especially with those little PSN titles) is that I wouldn’t have played them otherwise (Renegade Ops, Thomas Was Alone). Great for co-op too with other PS+ers but only if they play it too (@masha2932 >:( )
Catherine!
At school, attempting to read things on multithreading.
But all I can see are piles and piles of words, and none of them seem to make any sense. I need to sleep.
Are you doing some kind of computer science or programming or something? Feel free to ask if you’re stuck, I might be able to help maybe. 🙂
Did Computer Science at uni already, though that was a few years back now. Currently doing games programming at AIE. I know I’ve done thread stuff before, but fucked if I can remember it. Main problem’s just that my brain isn’t in the game today.
/@greenius
Whatcha studying?
School as in High School? Uni/TAFE?
downloading P3F, home sick.
:'( you should write some more 3DS Letters!
okies
I am at uni. I am drawing boxes around femurs and quantifying their volumes. It’s ~fun~
SCIENCE!
So this is what it feels like to be cold…
WORST.PAGEGET.EVER
Or blurst?
How’s the Vita? Did you play Welcome Park? 😛
Do you not understand how layby works?
I pay it off slowly and they keep it until it’s paid off.
No, I do not 😛
I assumed you’d get it and then pay it off.
Wait … really?
Kids these days.
I’ve never needed to know what it was because I never needed one 😛
Couldn’t afford something? Didn’t buy it. Wanted something? Budgeted and saved up.
That’s a credit card, not a layby.
ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I’m wearing this crazy big jacket thingy that’s a “small” but feels all large and the sleeves are small.
AMERICANS HAVE WEIRD SIZES
You think Americans have weird sizes? Try the cheap knock-off Asian jackets. An XXL is the equivalent of our medium!
Yeah but I’m Asian *gasp* so the proportions are still alright and I’ve just got to get a few size(s) up 😛
This Americano one has short sleeves and fat middle body bit thingy.
And yet no one believed me when I said it.
¡qué!
That’s the most emo-est post evah. 😛
Wait wait, I can get more emo.
CRAWLING INNN MY SKIIIIIN
THESE WOOOUNDS THEY WILLL NOT HEALLLLLLLL.
I hate my younger self for liking that song…
Shadow of the Colossus:
Woooooo! I killed my first colossus and it was pretty awesome. I feel a bit stupid…
Didn’t realize you could climb the fur after the platform bit and kept on trying to jump the arm. D:
#OhDC #HashTagsForHarliSo you’re liking it then? 😀
That’s the main gameplay of it and finding out how to kill the Colossi can be a bit frustrating, especially when you don’t know what to do, or you think you know what to do but can’t execute it 😛 (your case)
One thing I didn’t like originally too was him just falling randomly, until I realized the stamina bar was ‘ticking down’… I kind of like that aspect of it now I know how to manage it.
Dark Souls has a stamina bar.
Was thinking that @sughly might like Dark Souls after all. I feel like these games are pretty similar. Find weakness, exploit weakness, slay enemy.
Umm… so like pretty much every game?
Nah, because you can’t just button mash and run into battle. Got to be strategic.
Dark Souls also rewards this kind of gameplay. Only weaknesses are more subtle than bright blue glowing sigils \o/
Yeah except the thing that works for me in SotC is a few more things – the scale of the battles (tiny man, huge enemy), and the personalities of the Colossus (subtle little things you get with each one). No two Colossi are the same at all, which also has to do with all of their environments and stuff like that. I know DS would be similar, but theres something about the colossus world and stages in particular that I love. Also the ongoing events storywise in SotC is pretty compelling, even if they are slight. Ending is an amazing payoff.
edit: @shane you often need to do a lot more work BEFORE you get the chance to even get to the sigils 🙂
I do really like that sense of scale and the world, just was waiting for the gameplay to click. I think it might’ve, but we’ll see for sure come next Colossi. 😀
@sughly, yeah I know, I’m mainly just trolling @dc now 😛
Remember to kill white tail lizards!
D:
I hate lizards. I get uncomfortable talking to Wrex in Mass Effect. 😀
#NotASpaceRacist
Now that’s actually racist.
But it’s not like they’re a real race or anything 😛
Must be why Ashley Williams and I got along so well. 😛
Xenobladeaphobe
Hahahaha, oh man 😛
Murderer!
MONSTER
PUNTER
I’M IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION!
SotC and Spec Ops spoilers:
I actually mentioned the guilt of killing colossi in a blog post I wrote about four years ago. I was reminded of this when Spec Ops started riffing on the idea that you could just stop (playing), and nothing bad could happen.And if you put down 1984 early enough, he never goes to room 101. I think the idea that stopping playing so that you stop doing “bad stuff” is inherently flawed if you’re playing it to experience the narrative.Oh yeah, totally agree with you.
It’s a flawed argument for sure, but it’s a great one to have thrown in your face after you’ve done all the heinous shit 😛That’s totally the point of SotC though
Yup!
Good!
Sounds like you had the ‘moment’ I was trying to sell you on with Dark Souls. WRONG GAME 😛
It’s weird though, might just be stubbornness but I’m looking for reasons other than being stuck why I didn’t like it… just to justify my whininess… can’t find any reasons… yet… XD
>:(>:(>:(>:(>:(>:(DAMNIT @DC>:(>:(>:(>:(>:(>:(Too much clicking with no payoff.
2/10 Diablos.
SPOILERS:
Hoped one would change.
Was not disappointed.
Also, can I save any where or is there a place I can go to manually save?
http://www.supercheats.com/playstation2/questions/shadowofthecolossus/181639/Can-I-know-how-to-save-Please.htm
Ooooh! Cool, thanks. They said to kneel in front of shrine to heal, but nothing about circle. *shakes fist*
At the same time, I liked that Ico wasn’t overly hand holdy… except for all the literal hand holding… XD
Yeah exactly. Thats a thing I find quite weird about these games. People always talk about how they dont want hand holding, then get frustrated when they miss things. Cant have your cake and eat it too.
Haha, it’s much better than Ni No Kuni.
*60 hours into game*
Hey Oliver. This guy looks HEART BROKEN. Didn’t your SPELL BOOK say something about CURING A BROKEN HEART?
*takes you to interface without prompt*
I’m pretty sure I just started the game in the wrong mood anyway. Stressing about if TAY folks hated me yesterday was probably not what Team ICO had in mind. XD
Thanks a lot, man. If you’d given it a fair go to start with, I wouldn’t’ve had to out myself as someone who never bothered to finish the game. >:(
Ico/SotC spoilers:
Also, I like all the little plot connections with Ico. Shadow men. Blue swords. Interesting. Would be lying if I said I didn’t wonder if sacrificed woman was adult Yorda. 😀There’s apparently a lot of discussion about the lore and connections between the games, but I think it’s accepted that at least these two are separate characters. Could be wrong there, though…Dark Souls has a similar approach to its story/lore. It gives you a little, and makes you figure out the rest for yourself. It’s all there to find, but you have to want to piece it together. Love that stuff.I just like speculating plot points, even if it’s not plausible. Also, I’m six minutes into the game! 😀
You’d love speculating stuff in Dark Souls 😀
So much lore!
As for Ico/SotC (and The Last Guardian) – I think they’re all set in the same world but I’m not too sure.
Noticed that the Shadow Men in SotC don’t have the horns that the Ico ones did. Interesting. 😀
Mustn’t of originated from same village.
Males and females.Wait until the end and the connection will be more clearI’ve introduced myself to a new meal: lunch-dessert.
Do tell.
It’s dessert, but after lunch.
Not instead of lunch?
I think you did it wrong.
It’s my first day.
Blame the guy who can’t speak English. Ah, Tibor, how many times have you saved my butt? heheheh
Have you had breakfast-dessert? Cake and Prosecco for breakfast is a great way to start the day.
Pancakes w/ syrup, etc feels like it’s a dessert…. but so very mainstream.
Can’t have pancakes without ice cream 😀
Bizarro ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ inspired indy pitch:
Replace monsters with sentient delcious food, stabbing with eating, set in ‘hugified’ domestic environments.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand…. I’m done. Slow day.
Edit: I regret this post now, but trying to keep enough for replies to make sense.
Odd. But I would still play it. Like the Micro Machines version of SotC!
@dc, don’t read it 😛
I should clarify that Shane meant there’s pretty big SotC spoilers in there so don’t read it because of that 😛
I feel like such a dickhead.
I don’t actually remember SotC 🙁
@fled I’m sure he didn’t read it 😀 – no worries!
@greenius I hope you’re correct, but there might also be other people affected 🙁
@fled they would’ve pointed it out 🙂
@fled, I just mean that dc shouldn’t click the spoiler tagged bit. You did nothing wrong, man.
I handled things badly :\
@shane (I know you’ll be notified about reply anyway, but pattern matching!)
I think it’s ok, bud – nobody has mentioned anything to me, but if I had realised what I was posting, I wouldn’t have done so.
Anyway, I know a site you might be interested in checking out. Enjoy!
Damn I loved the Mega Drive Micro Machines games!!!! #offtopic
We will call it Calorie Quest. Or Dance with Diabetes.
Shadow of the Fatty boom boom
Ughhhhh so I’ve got 2 hours to waste until my next class at Uni…
Also I found a 75% off Total War Shogun 2 voucher in my Steam inventory, anyone want it? (HAPPY SHANE?)
Nice offer, but I think they’d rather have the whole game.
Joke would’ve worked better if I said “of”
SORRY SHANE 2/10
It still works. In fact, your way, you’re only offering 25% of a game.
Tightwad.I didn’t say it didn’t worked I just said it would’ve worked better 🙂
Ugh, Cheapius
If only you’d packed some kind of portable handheld gaming device
I’m going to a casino-themed event tonight and there’s prizes for whoever has the most chips at the end. Please tell me how to become a blackjack master in less than 5 hours.
Blackjack master? Pffft
Master of stealing chips on the other hand…
Go to supermarket on the way, stock up on S&V or Red Rock SC&SC or whatever your poison is.
Everything I know about casinos is what I learned from Sonic The Hedgehog levels
So I should spin really fast? Good thing I’m wearing my blue shirt today.
Do you know how to count cards? It requires a lot of memorisation (and some basic maths to calculate odds, but it’s super basic), but it stacks the odds in your favour, which is so very rare for a Casino like thing.
You’re also unlikely to get kicked out for it, since this is only a themed event.
Hah, I know vaguely how card counting works but I’ve never practiced it. I still figure blackjack offers the best odds though.
Saw Tenacious D last night and they were awesome.
It’s nice to see Jack Black not doing shitty kids movies…
Did you see @Phoenix? He was there too!
I like School of Rock 🙁
You won’t when you see it on almost every school bus trip D:
I like Brutal Legend!
I felt like that was what ‘shitty kids movie’ was directed at
Ooooh! You’re probably right. I liked it too.
that wasn’t a shitty kids movie! school of rock is great!
i’m talkin’ bout ergh… gulliver’s travels…
OOOOHHHHHH!! Oh god. I erased that from memory. Thanks a lot dickman.
BUT THEY WATCHED IT IN SURVIVOR ONE TIME! (I think)
That’s the extent of my knowledge about it.
Oh my god Minecraft videos we’re so original. It stars Red, and it stars Green, and it stars other people who aren’t defined by colours. Like Powalen and Rize and Alephamphetametanullamarinewhydidyouhavetochoosesuchadifficultname.
Also I played some OoT today and got killed by a swarm of chickens. So that’s something.
Why did you hurt that poor chicken? D=
It got in the way of my sword swinging! IT WASN’T MY FAULT I SWEAR
Oh man that pic of you three beardy guys is glorious.
OH it’s a bacon strip 😛
STEP ONE: PREPARE YOUR BACON
Some hero of time you are
Hero of drunk-buying-food-from-a-service-station-at-a-stupid-hour-of-the-morning time.
Chicken Hero.
I’m a hero to everyone but the chickens.
I will probably remember to watch this when I get home.
That was great, perfect music choices.
Reminds me I should play minecraft again, I wonder if my pathetic platform in the trees stil exists.
Ooh, was that near my place?
Possibly, I just found a big tree near someone else that had some glass building at the top of another tree. Only really played twice, kind of a pc minecraft noob, feels very different from the xbox version.
Ah, that one. Was there last time I was in the area, haven’t been on in a while.
It does! I found it one time.
Yay!
I had such grand plans and schemes for that structure… one day my mighty wooden platform… one day.
Glorious battling, Zetrox hosted a Minecraft Hunger Games fight at his birthday LAN a few weeks back that myself and Tofu took part in.
I think we need a new function added – the ‘punchline’ button. Which works exactly the same as the spoiler button, except it says ‘View punchline’.
For @shane.
You totally should have spoilered that last bit.
I would have.SotC:
Colossi two is defeated. Possibly one of the funnest gaming moments I’ve had this year. Can’t believe this is the same game I was ranting about this morning. XDAlso, I love exploring in games like this but I’m worried exploring will take me to other colossi instead of cool hidden areas. D:
I dont think that can happen. On a replay I went to a later one before I was meant to caus I got ahead of myself and he didnt appear
I’m fairly certain that they spawn in order.Is there any reason to explore then? Will it just be lots of empty plains that the game will take me to eventually anyway or is there optional stuff too from time-to-time?
I dont believe theres anything to find, youll get to see everything by the time youre done
There are little things like fruits and white tailed lizards, but nothing else that can be interacted with (and those are entirely entirely optional, to the point where most people don’t even know they exist without Dr Internet to help them).
Also, there’s no chance of running into a colossus if you just go the opposite direction that your sword tells you!
The lizards seem pretty hard to catch. Will I miss out on any thing if I don’t? By the time I adjust the camera they’re gone… :S
White tailed lizards give you extra grip but only the white tailed ones. They tend to stick in the same areas though and only spawn once. So you can go back to get it if you missed it.
My understanding is if you manage to shoot off their tails without killing them, you can keep farming their tails for extra grip.
I have never played the game myself but I have watched a friend play, and all he did, for an hour, was try to shoot off a lizard’s tail without killing it.
Like @trjn said, they increase your stamina bar. There are apparently 77 of them in the world.
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Extras#Lizards_and_Fruit_Trees (light spoils, possibly)
But they’re optional. You can beat the game without finding one.
That seems pretty useful. Oh man. 🙁
@dc I imagine each one only gives a tiny boost, given there are 77 of the freakin things 😛
@dc they’re everywhere, hard (almost impossible) to miss them. Don’t bother actively searching for them and just kill em whenever you find one 😀
There are places you won’t see if you just go from Colossi to Colossi. There’s also a Trophy for finding all the Shrines, but I found them all just for my own satisfaction,not the trophy. And yeah, like people said. Lizards and fruits are really handy, as well.
Lizard locations spoiler:
Pretty sure every Shrine has at least one white-tailed lizard. If you scare it off just reload or walk off a little ways and it will respawn, and if it’s a shrine with more than one lizard, the same thing will make the next one respawn after you get the first one’s tail.The battle music was so good. 😀
Ah man, when you get onto them and that music kicks in, and youre way up high being swayed around… unreal
That’s the moment that won me over and then the struggle of ‘hanging on’ became fun. Felt like I was doing something heroic. 😀
LOVED the first few battles.
I could replay the first half of that game forever! 😛SO COOL.
Deciding whether to let go and recover stamina or push on to next weak point.
Theyre all great you monster!
Spoilers for @dc to avoid:
There’s a tonal shift about at the halfway point where the battles become more strategic than reflexive, and I wasn’t ready for it when I last played it (2007 or thereabouts). I took out the one where I had to fire arrows from horseback, and the one in the underground cavern… but stopped when I got to the little bastard you have to run into the columns.I just wanted more exhiliration, more toe-to-toe fighting. Maybe I’d be ready for it now. Maybe.
I miss the platforming and environmental puzzles of Ico, though. (But at the same time, it’s all there… just presented differently.) Also thanks for all the help!
One thing about the game that bothers me too was similar to Beyond Good & Evil. The precision of aiming the bow and all that, especially when you draw it… camera zooms the direction character was facing instead of direction you had the camera pointed, then you’ve got to correct it and the moment to strike passes. I understand that’s just the way games like that were made though.
Back to the game. I’ve got Colossi blood lust. 😛
Monster.
Hey, the guy in the game is a monster. (It’s a guy right? He doesn’t really look like a guy and is wearing a hair band… Haha!)
Sexist
He does what you tell him to do, D.C. You could ignore his motivations, if you wished. But you choose the other option.
Monster.
I’m just following him on his journey. 😛
I’m disappointed we didn’t make it clear enough they were very different games, gameplay-wise. I thought I had,but obviously not. Sorry about that.
I’m sure there’s some post in distant pastTAY where I was saying “I’m sure Demon’s Souls is a good game and all, but I just don’t think it’s for me. Gonna give it one last go tonight.”
And we all know how that turned out.
Must be something about these games. They just don’t work well until they click with you, and then they seem just about perfect!
Like how @dc is FINALLY talking about the things he likes about the game which ARE THE WHOLE POINT OF THE GAME! 😛
“Deciding whether to let go and recover stamina or push on to next weak point.” for example
@rocketman You hear MØ’s new song Waste of Time? This is pretty damn great… http://www.indieshuffle.com/mo-waste-of-time-2/
:'(
Edit: Oooooo, this website is coooool!
Edit 2: This is really cool. I may spend a lot of time on this site now.
Haha! Aww sorry, I just said rockets caus we talked about MO once upon a time. But yeah actually this is all synthy and stuff and in the alley of @bdkiaf too come to think of it ^_^
Oh and yeah, the site finds some reaaaally interesting bands for sure. The only downfall is that its always ends up being new tracks that belong to bands with ep’s or albums months and months away :'(
First world problems right? Also they find good remixes.
Edit2: I think youre officially a hipster now too, or something. Yay? (oh yeah this cover is rad!)
Oh gaaawwwwdddd.
That Notorious B.I.G. vs Flume song is incredible.
http://www.indieshuffle.com/notorious-b-i-g-vs-flume-juicy-insane/
Haha! Ah not my cup of tea alas
Pssshhh! What do you even know? 😛
I was going to ask where you find new music a while ago, but this website will do nicely.
Yeah its one of my faves. Another couple of good ones are this one – http://disconaivete.com/ and…
This one http://guerolitomusic.com/
but neither have as much coverage and are updated as frequently. Also I like how Shuffle tags everything, very handy
This songs pretty grand too. You might like this jimjim (@jimu), could be mistaken for a NIN remix with guest vocals 😀 http://www.indieshuffle.com/the-naked-and-famous-vs-kids-of-88-a-source-of-light/
Ha Ha! That STINKS of NIN.
Not bad, only problem for me is the backing vocals. Dunno why, but they really stood out in the wrong way.
But yeah, good track.
Stinks is not the word I would use XD but yeah, if you didnt know who did it and you heard that song, right up until someone sings I’d wager it was a NIN song
and that’s why it stinks…for me. I enjoyed it though.
Morning TAYbies … specifically the melbourne based lot.
Would anyone be interested in seeing the Evil Dead tomorrow at 7:30? I was going to go with the work fronds, but they’ve all got conflicting schedules and I still really want to see the movie. Also, vidya games.
I went into jb hifi yesterday to grab Metro: Last light, but found out it wasn’t out till today … so I ended up getting Halo ODST, Prototype 2 and Dead space 3 instead. Prototype 2’s pretty relaxing, I’d put it on the same carthartic level as god of war.
Welp, my day’s been moderately aweful, so back I go.
I think ODST was actually my favorite Halo. Great game, and the first to feature Firefight mode, which was epic co-op material.
EDIT: Single player was pretty decent, a different approach to story telling. Not to mention the ODST’s being a hell of a lot more personable than wooden Spartans.
ODST was a brilliant game though I felt the
love story was a bit unnecessary – it was also slightly awkard since Nathan Fillion and Tricia Helfer had recently broken up in real life.ODST is okay. The stuff where you’re walking around the city at night as the Rookie was pretty boring to me, but the stuff set during the day when you control different members of the team was pretty fun. Probably the weakest Halo game, but still a decent game in its own right.
@shane @rize @everyoneelse
Zach Braff movie casting update.
Anna Kendrick.
End.
Zach Braff movie funding update:
JKS Kickstarter, I got 10 mil from the people I said wouldn’t let me make the movie my way so you were really just a bargaining tool. LOL!
Really..? Doooodgy.
I had a feeling that might be mentioned. There was an update on Kickstarter today about just that.
Call me Plunkett.
DAN IT PLUNKETT!
Oh man, I do like Anna Kendrick! 😀
i am so glad i gave my money to that
This was fascinating. @dc, there are some light spoilers, but I think you might like to read it anyway. Bookmark it at least.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-02-the-quest-for-shadow-of-the-colossuss-last-big-secret
Might wait until after I finish. I’ve already asked too many questions about this game. Usually like to discover stuff on my own. Will bookmark, though.
You should read @jacksonwryan’s article about SotC when you’re done, too.
😀
That’s some old school writing right there. Not even sure it’s still readily available.
I hope it is, I thoroughly enjoyed reading that.
Makes my heart flutter!
Oh thats rad! I love when people all come together over something like this. Reminds me of Fez – I wasnt arsed to figure out all the hidden languages and stuff, and found this whole community of people sharing notes and discovering all the hidden bits of the game. Really cool.
Dark Souls has the same kind of thing going on. Especially with regard to the lore. So much discussion 😀
Blerdy blerdy blah blah
@dc would love Fez!
Hernandez just reminded me that I’ve probably seen Cool Runnings more than any other movie. I think it was the only movie my school owned.
“Hey, you dead?”
“Yea mun!”
Yes, that was number one viewing at my school as well, though The Air Up There came in a close second.
I think I saw it every year that I went skiing while living in Brisbane. And multiple times after that.
Still has nothing on Aladdin, which I once watched 4 times in one day.
Hahaha, my school too.
Though there was that one time in year 4 when we watched National Lampoons Christmas Vacation… :/
Don’t the “vacation” movies all have nudity and a whole bunch of swearing?
Christmas had the swearing, which one of the teachers loudly coughed over 😛 Nudity was only hinted at though, not explicitly shown. Unlike Vanilla and Euro. Was Vegas a thing? I can’t remember if it was or not, or if I saw it.
Vegas Vacation was late 90s IIRC, I don’t think I ever saw it.
I’ve definitely seen Vacation (this is the Wally World one with the skinny dipping scene I think?) and European Vacation (which I don’t remember very well but probably has nudity because you know how liberal those crazy Europeans are with their bodies and all).
All I clearly remember about Christmas Vacation is when the stupid brother kidnaps Clark’s boss because he got a shitty bonus and took his rage-induced ranting too seriously.
Yeah, that was the scene where the coughing/loud talking happened 😛 There was the part where Clark was imagining the girl from the shop going for a swim in his fantasised pool, but then he got interrupted before she got out of it.
European Vacation had a visit to some kind of show with topless dancers doing the can-can, because France.
In that statement, I SEE PRIDE. I SEE POWER.
There was this one substitute teacher in my high school that basically always bought the TV in and put on Star Trek for the whole lesson, the classic William Shatner one 😛
Was it the same guy who always put Spartacus (the Kurt Russell oldie)?
Every. Freakin. Time.
I can’t remember his name, he had this bushy block-like haircut, brown hair
And he looks like Al Bundy from Married With Children.
YES! That guy!
I think his surname was Evans?
Yes that was his name, Mr Evans :P. That guy just didn’t give a shit lol
At my school it was Mrs. Doubtfire.
Hey guys, thinking about listening to some podcasts and remembered that someone recently was recording one…anyone remember what it was?
Even though I said in TS 2 minutes ago that I was too lazy to go look for it: http://mumbojumbovideogamepodcast.podbean.com/
That’s the one!
It’s gooooood listenin’.
The usual first episode wrinkles but it was pretty good.
Not as good as Zeitgeist.
Or as bad as it.
This week I say “Sperming”.
Tomorrow, 9:30ish.
Inform who you need to inform.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
http://www.potaku.com
http://shanewsmith.com/podcast/
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here
And why the dick not?
Mainly because I hate talking and have nothing interesting to say. I’d spend my whole time pretending I know something about writing or games, and then give up and just talk about cute stuff my kids do.
Sold!
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.
I know you weren’t really asking for recommendations, but have you tried Rooster Teeth? I’m aware their humour isn’t for everyone, but if you’re at all a fan of Red vs Blue/Achievement Hunter, it’s worth checking out.
Enjoy!
SotC update:
Killed a lizard. Half hour well spent.Did you eat its tail and get a boost?You know it! Stupid lizard!I forgot about them actually. I always got a few, never got all I dont think
Haha, I became fixated with this one lizard. It was my white whale. :'(Anyone ever play Datura from PSN?
Thoughts?
So what are people’s must grab games for the vita? Aside from P4G
Definitely Gravity Rush perhaps also Uncharted and Soul Sacrifice depending on your tastes.
I was hoping to get all them and touch my katamari.
That definitely does not sound suss.
Umm, well I’d say P4G again, hmmm, P4G another time on top of that.
Oh, and maybe even P4G.
#Helping
#HashTagsForHarli
Not helping =(
No, no, see, I added the word “Helping” so I must have helped. That’s how it works.
No, @scree he is helping.
THERE ARE NO OTHER “MUST HAVES” FOR VITA.
Seriously.
I think Disgaea 3 is on VITA, probably worth picking up if you can find it cheap.
EDIT: Looking on EBGames website says $28. Not bad, I enjoyed the game.
This unless you also have it for PS3 and have clocked lots of time in it.
Virtue’s Last Reward
FIFA! 😛
Guacamelee is pretty good apparently.
That’s all I know of that are Vita exclusive, off the top of my head.
Which region are you thinking for your PSN account? b/c if it’s US and you didn’t play it on PSP already you should try the Corpse Party games.
Also if it floats your boat (it may not) there’s the remake of Ys IV in English this year (Memories of Celceta).
Muramasa releases next month IIRC. Dragon’s Crown in August. Vanillaware <3.
Also Lumines is pretty good unless you’re burned out on Lumines (it was the first one I played).
Aus account
Ok, I’ve been restraining from posting this, but no longer. Has anyone else finished Blood Dragon and heard the amazingly terribawful song that plays in the credits, @freezespreston maybe? (i recall him commenting on the game). It’s like hyper 80’s and hilarious, I had it in my head for days, so i decided i’d youtube the video clip. It is Farqing hellarious. If you find bad 80’s stuff funny you must watch it, if not don’t cause it’s a prime example of the best/worst of the 80’s
Angelo Jannotti – Friends (forever) watch the clip from the movie “Miami Connection”
Edit: guh tagius failium, thanks @sernobulus
Also I’m home now so
I find 80’s music amazing, not hilarious. 80’s music is srs bizness.
Yeah, I love it, but I know a lot of people who don’t. Also I think I love it because a lot of it is ridiculous and I can’t help but grin and do bad 80’s dances complete with clapping. I’ve got a mate that is 80’s mad, any time I’m in his car he plays 80’s tunes and we act like fools, good times.
@freezespreston
I’ve played maybe 5 hours of games in the past fortnight, while admittedly it was all Blood Dragon, it hasn’t let me finish much.
aww, dood, you have to finish it. The last bit is rad. If you do go back to it don’t do what I did and finish everything before the story missions because you get an awesome weapon in the final mission & can then use it to do other stuff. I beat it and went “Whoo, awesome new weapon……. awww nothing left to do :(. “
….
Shit.
Doctor Who. The Name of the Doctor.
Has anybody actually seen this episode yet? Or know of a way they could see it if they chose too? Because I’ve tried, and I’m starting think that this whole “watch out, there’s discs and spoilers out there” is a lie and just some kind of weird marketing stunt.
I know that the BBC have been really vigilant about removing any torrents that dare even mention that episode, and as such I have not seen in. I wanted to [redacted] it, but I could not. Very strange.
The thing is, I know of a few “secret corners” of the Internet and Usenet that never care about what the copyright holders have to say, and none of them have it. Hell, Pirate Bay boasts when they get cease and desist letters AND they’re distributed, and still nothing.
I call shenanigans. Also boo, I have to wait till Sunday to see it 🙁
Haven’t found it anywhere and haven’t seen anyone really saying they’ve seen the episode (with any form of proof). IMDB folks are suspecting it’s a hoax after all.
Hoping it is because some of the spoilers I accidentally chanced upon were things I did not like at all…
Here’s hoping. The BBC could also be protecting its viewers by deliberately putting fake spoilers out there to smother the real information?
Let us know whether they were legit or not afterwards!
Let’s be honest, it’s Moffat.
Odds are, whatever the truth is, you won’t like it.
I bet it’s Santino!
Perstephanie
I think Moffat is a bad showrunner so yeah, I probably won’t like it. 😛 Every episode he wrote while RTD was in charge was fantastic. Since he took over I’ve liked his episodes less and less. Series 5 was solid. 6 started well then just went bonkers. This series hasn’t been terrible for me, just lackluster.
Not sure what my point is. Opinions!
The Pop Sugar articles at the bottom of the page like “Everyone’s Talking About Daft Punk — Here’s What You Need to Know” make me think they’re being written for people who want to jump onto bandwagons and support whatever is currently cool without actually caring about what it is.
Or something.
Ha, yeah does come across like that doesnt it. Bleh. Its one thing getting into it because you (for whatever unknown reason) didnt know who they were before RAM, but its another to get into it because its a cool happening at the moment.
All these bandwagon jumpers mean you need to find new bands to like?
😛
Yep. It’s all about what’s fashionable.
If there was one titled “Kim Jong Un — Here’s What You Need To Know” I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.
I totally read the prologue of game of Thrones last night. Woo! 7 or 8 pages down, about a million to go!
… and then the book sequel to Drive arrived today. Game of Thrones might have to wait.
Not sure if I’m just timing my jump wrong in Shadow of the Colossus or am missing an obvious puzzle solution, but either way… Colossi three will have to wait until I’m in a good mood again. >:| I can tell something’s not right, because the adventure gamer in me loves working out puzzles and usually has the patience for this kind of stuff. Doesn’t take all that much to make me riled up this week for some reason and that troubles me. Anyways, will stop with all the SotC posts until I have something of substance to say again. Haha.
Minor hinting:
Is that the horse colossus or the big tall dude with the pokey stick colossus?If the horse, look at his feet. if the talldude, you can’t get up his arm with his bracelet in the way
Ahhhh man… want to play SotC already now XD
I LOVE the aha moments in this game. I found it worth every moment struggling against them.
Thanks, man. Not going to read though. It’s not the game, it’s me. Will go back to it when my head is clearer.
Colossus 3 has a kind of non-obvious solution so I hope you can figure it out.
I think I had a few problems with 3, like, I’d try to execute something that looked entirely possible, and totally reasonable within the confines of the game, and it would just fail me.
Also, I had to look up a guide on how to start the battle properly. I am really freaking bad at SotC.
This is kind of interesting actually, theres one prevailing attitude with the game which is a sense of patience. People who got impatient with it had a bad experience. I think it ties in pretty closely to people who dont play adventures because of a patience thing. No idea what to make of that, but yah, interesting… *looks off into the distance, finger and thumb to chin*
So, what you’re saying is that I’m an impatient, angry person, who is terrible at games, and so hideous that you have to look into the distance, rather than at me.
Thanks Sughly. Way to cut deep, man.
I think this nails my point actually.
I haven’t even reached the third one. That’s the problem.
Ahh, yup. I also had that problem. The bit where I said that I’m really bad at SotC? Yeah, I ain’t joking.
I know it’s not the game. It’s all me.
Told you it was annoying at times! 😛
I’m not sure if you’re already doing it but Sword Light Beam thingy will reveal weak spots which may help you figure out what to do.
If a colossi is bothering you shine the sword on it to reveal its weak points(like greenius said). Secondly, if you run around the area for a few minutes you will hear a voice (Dormin) offering you a vague but easy to interpret tip about how to defeat the colossi. It’s as much a puzzle game as it is an action one.
Also, don’t go into a game forcing yourself to like it. Even if it’s Shadow of the colossus or a 99c mobile game. Play the game with an open mind and give it the best you can but if it doesn’t click then that’s fine too. Nobody will hate you.
Nobody will hate you*
*unless it’s Dark Souls apparently 😀
Oh yeah. Forgot to mention. Meat not this weekend but the next. 25th May. My place for more board games and movies and vidjagaems and other such frivolities.
@dc, go do that voodoo that you do so well.
Dee and Deeeeee
Maybe I can kill another dragon with an arrow!
I wanna casht magic mishell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17PKGHLppMIAn oldie but a goodie
You sir are invited as well.
Is that that animation? I hope its that animation…
It may be a version of said animation, perhaps,
@dkzeitgeist, @sughly, @lambomann007, @strange, @jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops, @welbot, @virus__, @sernobulus…
What would I do without you?
Wait, for once an @ reply showed up in my notifications, what is this witchcraft…
You should buy munchkin! Or someone should tell me where a boardgame shop is at Brisbane CBD so I can buy it.
Mind games on level 2 of The Myer Centre had every single expansion.
Remind me to bring Munchkin with me next time, yeah? 😀
I have Munchkin Impossible. If I don’t get to go to Freeze’s someone should pick it up and take it for me.
I’m going to a concert that night.
You people pick the worst times for meats. 😛
Plus there’s also the distance thing. Your place is just a bit too far away for me.
12 Angry Men viewing session
and Venture Bros. I guess!
That is my wife’s birthday. :-/
Perfect excuse 😀
:
Are you implying that we are not good enough for your wife’s birthday celebrations? That you are ashamed of us?
That’s understandable.
I bet you she works that night
who do you think you are? me? you couldn’t be that unlucky!
Nah, less about being unlucky and more about the fact she works most weekends.
She’d never work on my birthday but she would on her own.
As if you were coming anyways jimjim
#jerkius
Not sure if dirty or not.
So June First? Yeah I can prolly do that. We need bring anything, hookers, blow, other festivities?
It’s our anniversary weekend. We’re going to be obnoxious and coupley.
Going to take a couple of days off TAY and the internet in general to clear my head. Will be back on Monday. Catch you on the flipside, home slices.
See you tonight, @dc!
😛
I dunno, I reckon it’ll take him a full half day before the “Rocketman cycle” is complete. 😛
But who will keep me company in weekend TAY :'(
MONSTER.
I will!
See now @dc, look what you’ve done? If you don’t keep Greenius company, this horrible monster will be unleashed on TAY!
Hey! 🙁
GUYS, LAMBO IS DOING THAT LAMBO THING AGAIN!
Don’t worry, I’ll be there.
Silent. Watching. Waiting.
On TAY, too?
Given my phone is TAY capable, yes, I will be both on TAY, and watching Greenius from the most convenient piece of brush.
Make sure you bring tissues….
Oh wait, you’re watching something else…
Never mind.
YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON INTERNET! YOU WILL REGRET THIS.
It’s me isn’t it? What did I do wrong? Let me fix this! I can change! I promise you!
He’s definitely testing you. Up the page you asked what you’d do without him. Now we’ll find out.
It’s because I went to Sydney and hung with other Taybies isn’t it?
I’LL TEXT YOU HOURLY <3 <3 <3
Wait, what? Dammit, I go out for the day and miss all the Shadow Of The Colossus stuffs and now I’ve missed my DC conversation chances, too?
Hope you feel better soon, don’t be alarmed when I check on you via text message. 😛 Remember, we’re all here for you, none of us hate you, and we want you to feel comfortable around us.
*hugasurus rex*
That’s what you get for leaving TAY >:(
D:
Meh, whatever…my donut with salted caramel that I had for dessert at lunchtime was worth it. 😛
Lunch dessert is already catching on @powalen D:
Totally just accidentally texted my area manager about 10 pictures of Walter Matthau.
ha ha ha! IRL LOL
I assume your area manager is an older gentleman who you are attempting to make grumpy.
He was pretty dashing as a young lad.
Actually who am I kidding, he was always dashing.
http://i.imgur.com/QXr2l4o.gif
Damn @welbot – you’re giving @notoriousr a run for his money with your sublime gif usage lately.
hahha why thankyou!
http://www.awwwards.com/apps/authentic-weather-probably-the-most-honest-weather-app.html
TAY sure is lonely without good ol’ @dc 🙁
But now that he’s gone we can talk about him behind his back!
That D.C., what a nice guy.
and so handsome too!
Wait, where’s he gone? 🙁
He left because you weren’t here to support him. He left because you’re a monster.
I have been rather neglectful, this is true…
I do it because I love you.
I love you too, man.
…
Emphasis on the italics.
At the terrible Japanese site I use to buy the horrible shit that is ruining my life, whenever you log in it displays the string “Loggius in” and I think of @greenius.
LOGGIUS
Just watched the season finale of Arrow.
I was enjoying it and it was going rather well until
Laurel decides, after being warned by everyone she knows to stay out of The Glades to go to The Glades. She’s such an awesome person, she must have gone there to help people, right? Wrong! She’s an imbecile and went to save some papers. Seriously?! She almost got all three men she loves killed (and did manage to get one killed after he saved her) for boxes of case files. Case files that probably don’t even matter anymore as her clients are probably all dead. 😛I’m waiting for it to finish downloading.
It was only downloading at 2-3 Kbps yesterday. But it’s going at over 100 now. :/
Edit – Finished! \o/
Did you watch it yet, Lamb?
Yep.
Laurel is rather annoying. I think Oliver would be better off with Felicity I think. I don’t think grabbing those case files was entirely useless though. I dunno what case files are used for though. I assuming they make future, similar cases easier to solve? But anyway, when the building started collapsing on her, I was thinking that this might be when she becomes Black Canary, but nope, she just got Tommy killed instead. I doubt she’ll become Black Canary in this show anyway, I don’t think superpowers will fit in with the show’s gritty and realistic feel. Also, I think the ending would’ve been better if after Tommy died, Oliver walked out of the building with his hood down, and Laurel and her father see him and realise who he is, and then end it.But yeah, I don’t really like shows that have cliffhanger endings 😛 Good thing it’s getting a second season though.
To be honest, I think this Laurel is too vapid and I hope they never do make her Black Canary. 😛The “real” Laurel:
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/11000000/Black-Canary-gotham-girls-11066425-1024-768.jpg
(you don’t know how much cartoon porn I had to sift through to find that safe for ladies image)
Could have just linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canary but I guess it wouldn’t have been as fun for you. 😛
Nah, I like pics by good artists
I like Ed Benes (the pic at the top) but it seems he’s the creator of much of the soft-core I was sifting through
(Not sure if they’re commisions cos he’s a fairly pervy Brazillian)
Fire Emblem Awakening’s Summer scramble DLC just got released.
First thing I noticed, Tharja’s ass isn’t censored like the US copy.
Buttes are only offensive to Americans I guess?
What about her arse?
@jimu: Dragon’s Crown ordered from Play-Asia because it’s Atlus and they’re a bunch off fuckers and won’t let me get the US releases through Amazon. Getting PS3 *and* Vita because Vanillaware.
Also put in my preorders on Xillia (decided to buy locally so I can get it day 1, I cancelled the statue version because I already have a better statue) and Project X Zone and Ys: Memories of Celceta.
That’s most of my to-buy list of announced 2013 games. \o/ Just need to wait for NISA to announce their Tokitowa and Disgaea D2 LEs and I’ll get those through them. Other than that, Remember Me I’m thinking I’ll skip until reviews are in, get Last of Us eventually but probably not straight away as I’m still very very iffy about it (what they say it is and what they’ve shown of it don’t reconcile well for me, and given Uncharted, I’m leaning toward it being what it looks like and not what they say it is) and AC IV & Watch Dogs I’m going to probably aim to get on PS4 or Xbox vNext unless there’s better launch games.
Pile of Shame games for the next 4-5 months of 2013 sorted \o/
Still a ton of announced but not scheduled or not yet released in Japan stuff that hasn’t got localizations that I’m interested in too. 🙁 Fingers crossed for Atelier Escha & Logy, Toukiden & Fairy Fencer F and maybe Senran Kagura if the rumors ever come out.
Well it’s not really pile of shame since you’re not working on older titles and just getting new ones 😛
Did you just go with JB/EB for Xillia? I’ve still got a Zavvi pre-order but they, OzGameshop and Amazon haven’t updated their listing yet :P. It’s still the cheapest though at like $50
Yeah went to EB. JB’s the same price and I want it immediately when it releases.
And the pile of shame thing was because my pile of shame is still growing faster than it shrinks despite cutting back a fair bit. Got so much stuff but I kind of hold back from diving into playing a lot of it. I think I’m worried I’ll play all night or something.
If I hadn’t broken my toes I probably wouldn’t have finished Fire Emblem already. I can’t see myself finishing Luigi’s Mansion despite that it’s good as I’m utterly stuck and the game has a retarded lack of checkpoints. Just got so much stuff. 🙁
EDIT: Can’t get into Monster Hunter 3 either. I literally can’t read the text in the game.
I hear it isn’t too bad on 3DS but the text size is horrible in the Wii U version. Luckily most if it is crap anyway but sometimes there’s little bits of useful information 😛
I’ve only got the 3DS version and the font is unreadable plus the text is aliased to hell and back. I have to squint to read it.
I think I need to wait for MH4 to get into Monster Hunter, doesn’t seem very fun to play on my own.
Yeah, it’s not too great singleplayer and most of my fun came from multiplayer.
I used singleplayer as a sort of training/tutorial where I figured out how to fight the monsters so when I faced them online I wasn’t completely terrible.
Just don’t give up on it 100% yet since you can probably play some multiplayer with TAYbies whenever there’s a meat. I know @beavwa has it on 3DS 🙂
I should probably learn how to play before that anyway.
It’s easy enough to teach someone in person so I’m sure either he or I can teach you the basics.
What about Pokemon X&Y?
:pI think Neg wasn’t into Pokemon because he’s LAME >:(
Pooogeymannnnnns :DDDD
colon PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Never played a Pokemon game.
Oh really? How come?
I only just got hooked during the DS era. But I did play @gutsoup’s Blue back in the day.
The first Nintendo handheld I ever owned was the DS, and the period I was really using it a lot there wasn’t a proper Pokemon game out for it IIRC. Also it’s never really interested me that much. I play JRPGs for the characters and the plot, even if both are stereotypical or conventional, but it never seemed like the Pokemon games had anything much of either element. Just grinding and challenging the next area boss.
FWIW I find Dragon Quest games unengaging as well for a lot of the same reasons.
I put a lot of time into that blue, and on stadium, never played another so much. I’ve somehow ended up with the transfer pack for the 64 again, not sure how
I have your Stadium and your Blue and OldSnake’s Red.
Pigfucker still has a record on Stadium 😀
Star Trek was pretty cool.
Also want Blood Dragon, but do not want Uplay. Ugh.
I would argue that UPlay is actually worse than Origin is. Origin at least lets you start games without loading it.
The Uplay system where you get other rewards for playing games is really cool.
The rest of it is super terrible.
Really? How? Whenever I start Sim City it insists on loading Origin first for what seems like no other reason then to annoy me.
Depends on the game. Some EA games, like SimCity and NFS Most Wanted, get your account details from Origin, like some games on Steam do, so you need to start Origin for those. But the rest you don’t need to start Origin for, they’re like normal games, they get activated with the key when they’re downloaded/installed and then they just work.
Worth it. Blood Dragon is amazing. Although its making me very sad because I don’t have much left to do in it.
I dunno, I’m pretty stubborn. Also I don’t have an ethernet cable long enough to reach from one end of the house to the other, so I couldn’t do anything with it anyway.
Maybe I’ll go up the road and yell at Ubisoft for a while.
I’m guessing if I went and bought it from JB, I wouldn’t be able to play it since the only reason for the game not connecting to the internet would be that I’m a dirty pirate.
DARK. SOULS.
Have acquired all rare drop weapons except for Channeler’s Trident. That’s my next goal. After that, Great Hollow, Ash Lake, DLC, then endgame! Getting close! 😀Man, you’re catching up to me. This is worrying.I’m gonna get my 1000G on this game, I’m pretty determined.
Another playthrough and a bit before that happens.
I’d have it by now but Blood Dragon happened.
TURNCOAT!
I will hit 500, if I’m super lucky.
I already have all but about 8 achievements \o/
– Ending 1– Ending 2
– Dragon Covenant
– +10 Magic reinforced weapon
– All Spells
– All Miracles
– All Rare Weapons
– All other achievements
#smug
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/334941310718976001
Yeah, my PC play through is going well…
Wow. PSN just tells you that online play isn’t available.
Cool. I thought it was an online only game for a moment. Now I can keep postponing my playthrough 🙂
I think @shane played the majority of his first playthrough offline because he didn’t connect online at all :P. You’d be missing out on quite a few things if you only play offline though but it’s still totally doable
Yeah, for my partial PS3 playthrough, I decided not to connect anymore after I got slammed by an invader in the Undead Burg. That was not a good decision, as I have learned from my 2 week Gold Trial in my current playthrough (which has expired, WAH [but I still have several trial codes left, so it’s not all bad])
I swear I’ve had that before but I also swear I’ve been able to play perfectly fine (ie. it still saved) while not logged into the Live servers (PC version). It’s all a bit stupid :/
It feels cold… 🙁
Goodnight everybody!
Might repost later seeing as we’re far down the page.
I live in the reasonably-cheaper part of the world. So I’ve been thinking, if any TAYbies want to save money on, say, a steam purchase, that I would buy the game in question, I would gift it to said taybie, and then they’d pay me (Paypal perhaps?) Physical items aren’t out of the question, although shipping costs would obviously count as a factor.
Just wondering.
Awesome offer, man! Every day is Saturday!
Edit: Dark Souls (Steam code) is stupidly cheap on Amazon right now, everyone.
How stupidly cheap are we talking? (Plus is it available to Aus?)
You can answer if you want, but I’m checking Amazon right now anyway 😛
Hmm, yeah. $7.50? I think I’ll have to get that.
EDIT- aaaaand US only 🙁
There are ways. Saturday’s offer above, for example (hence replying to him).
Or faking a US address and paying with Amazon gift card.
Ehhh, too much effort for what was going to be an impulse buy 😛
I’ll just wait till it goes on sale on Steam, or I have enough money to buy it full price.
I can’t buy from Amazon since they don’t accept PayPal but if you’ve got friends who can (either because they live in the US or they did the whole fake US address thing) then maybe they can buy it for you and you can repay them – that’s what I’ve done 🙂
You can buy those sorts of things thru Amazon if you set your card to have a US billing address. I used that work-around to get some US PSN point cards a while back and I think others have also done this.
Another alternative to PayPal could be us buying you a gift of similar value. I’ve asked Bosch to do this a few times for me <3
NA fronds 😀
Like… sexy times?
Jesus, how much do you plan on buying?
Danedane’s a cheap lay
I’d knowIt was a time…. a era of BEEF.
I may sext you for some NintenDOPE points, nahmsayin?
Yo man, you know much a $20 3DS points card here costs
TWENTY DOLLARS
I WANT ALL THOSE LIMITED EDITION THINGIES THAT THEY REFUSE TO SHIP OUTSIDE THE US is that where you are? COS HHHNNNNNGGGGHHH
I’m seriousOh man, now we’re dipping into deep funds here, but I’m sure we can work out something if you desperately want to buy something. Also, I’m in Canada, for but all intents and purposes limited editions are rarely missed out here.
Actually, all I want is that Dragon’s Crown pre-order bonus from Amazon.
It’s a book.
I guess shipping could be pricey?
Shipping is where things get messy. I guess if you give me your info I should be able to work out shipping costs and we can establish something from there, but keep in mind if we do go ahead with this it’ll take a fair amount of time, however.
.. And is the book available on it’s own, or?… Devil’s in the details, I suppose.
Yeeeeeeeeeah, i’ll just get a plain edition from Playsia, it’ll be cheaper anyway
Cheers
Listening to a coworker with a cold at the chesty cough stage come back from having a cigarette, then sit at their desk coughing and spluttering for 5 minutes afterwards. Eugh.
Then I remember I used to do that too, once upon a time. Good lord am I glad I gave up smoking.
@sughly
Who is this Smallpools band at the top of that Indie Shuffle website? Where did they come from? They’re super rad. But this is the only song and it only came out today. Listening to new music is the best/worst.
http://www.indieshuffle.com/smallpools-dreaming/
@rocketman, this might be something you enjoy.
Oooo yeah this is pretty coo. It’s fun. *bops shoulders*
Suuuuper Passion Pit vibe.
Man i haven’t been on here anywhere near enough this week.
I totally miss you guys 🙁
In other news, due to days of birthing next week, i’m expecting a little spare cash, so i logged into ozgameshop to check how much credit i had only to discover i had lost more than half of my points, yet received no notification telling me they were about to expire.
I sent the guys a friendly email and they reinstated the points so now i can use them next week1!! \o/
Man those guys are so great! 😀
Also, thanks to my monthly prize packs from Slavetopainting.com.au i now have 2 KOLINSKY SABLE brushes!!
Anyone who likes to paint stuff should know how amazing this is. They are so beautiful – i should probably name them.
Phil and Steve?
Sorry lambie, BDKIAF just totally trumped you. You know i can’t resist puns. Unless you’ve got something better in the tank?
George Brushington and Abrusham Lincoln. Natch.
You’re winning the name selection so far. Nice work.
Bristley Spears and Taylor Swish
Ohhhh, Bristley Spears is good!
Love Bristley Spears.
Very very nice.
Geoffrey Brush
Brush Limbaugh
Max Paynt?
Ooh ooh, T. Pain’s long lost cousin.
Pain T.
Are they actually sable? Or is that just the branding?
I keep forgetting points expire. I haven’t ordered from there in nearly a year.
Yep, just checked. I have 13,373 points. 100 expired in April and 7,210 are about to expire this month. Good thing I was planning on placing an order anyway.
O_0 …………… oh crap, points expire O_O , i been saving them up for ages, i better go check, last i looked i had a whole lot, now i understand why people keep waving their vouchers around, i kept thinking, why not just save them up? I really should read things more closely.
CSA
Chuloopa Service Announcement
Oh man, I just checked and I have 3000 points expiring at the end of this month. Can’t use them though because I only have 4075 points in total.
I was worried, there were some clear openers for nether region humour and nobody stepped up
“The Nether Region” would be a good name for a raunchy location in a video game. Remember my Red faction map i made that had the sphere of raunchy pictures, that would have been a good name for that. 😛
just raunchy?
I just read the Shadow Of The Colossus article someone ( @shane? ) posted yesterday. And then the blog it linked to about Colossi that were cut. So awesome.
I remember finding some of those places spoken about, too. Such a beautiful game. For me, just exploring was a huge part of the gameplay. I can’t imagine playing by just going directly from Colossi to Colossi, I would have missed out on seeing so many incredible things.
Part of me feels like I didn’t give Ico enough of a chance. Maybe I need to go back to it, because everything I’ve read about SotC sounds amazing.
Do you need your HD collection back? I hadn’t realised you didn’t really get into the games.
Nope! Free on PS+ next month! 😀
Ah yes, handy!
I found both games took a little to get into, but once I fell in love with the worlds and the mystery of it all it was easier to find the determination to push through when the gameplay became frustrating.
I gotta get it now cos it’s one of the few games that stream to Vita. 😀
I hope you guys don’t like minestrone soup… or models… or Kanye…
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/05/17/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e06-fame/
LISTEN, COMMENT!
Or Zach Braff 😛
Within the first minute!
I don’t know if I’ve ever been happier for a working week to be over. Rather than complain I’ll just say WOO IT’S FRIDAY.
I’d actually forgotten it was Friday.
Far out this is slow without @dc :/
Therefore a temporary DC must step up.
I nominate you as the first person to bring this up.
Nooo but, Anna’s Quest
When has that ever stopped you?
Haha, truuuue ^_^
>:|
;D
FUCKING A
Whenever @dc isn’t on screen, all the other characters should stand around asking “Where’s @dc?”
Not enough emoticon disclaimers!
COLONPEE
…
Yup.
At least it’s easier to not waste away the whole day on here though. 😛
I betcha he’s doing that thing where he says he’s not going to TAY but he’s still reading and just not posting or upvoting >:|
I don’t think so. I doubt he’d be able to resist upvoting. 😛
ADVENTURE GAMES! COLOBUS MONKEYS! URBAN DECAY! DAVID CAGE!
The bait has been placed. Now we wait.STAR TREK! TREME! ICO!
Mad Men! Game of Thrones! Six Feet Under!
No, there was that time where he said he’s taking a TAY break and did exactly that 😛
Just read and didn’t vote :P. WHAT’S THE POINT!?
I’m keeping him busy.
I like where my imagination is taking me
Whatever it is I can pretty much guarantee its wrong.
@spaghett @dc @ redartifice LAST SONG PLAYED GAME!
Orphaned Land – In Thy Neverending Way(Epilogue)
Oh maaannnn. Worst timing.
Triangle Is A Real Instrument – Harley Quinn.
I’m really not that narcissistic. Honest.
It’s true, otherwise you would’ve posted a link too!
BAM BAM – Drink you sexy
Indo Silver Club – Daft Punk
Puscifer – Potions (featuring Trent Reznor, pretty much a NIN song with Maynard singing, all industrial beats and melodic piano) next …
Puscifer – The Mission (Featuring Mila Jovovich on vocals, swoon)
Sharon Van Etten – Save Yourself
Low – Foo Fighters
Bloodhound Gang – Along Comes Mary
I need to go do some work now. I can’t decide what to listen to, though. Someone give me a letter of the alphabet so I can narrow it down to artists starting with that letter.
Edit:
Okay, I’m making a playlist. So far: Xandria, Jaldaboath, Fear Factory, and Gloryhammer.
Edit2: Wait, looks like I have no Fear Factory on this computer. Have to fix that, but for now I’m substituting Falconer and Finntroll.
X
X
Too slow! #oldmanshane 😛
It’s not a competition. *rolls eyes*
J
G.. loryhammer.
Xandria it is, then. Handy timing as well, considering they were recently announced for 70K next year.
Did you guys really think I wouldn’t have a band for ‘X’? 😛
I thought it would help, because there wouldn’t be that many to choose from. If I was really trolling, I would have said A or S.
Uh…yeah. What he said.
Any letter would help. I have favourites or ones I’d like to listen to in each letter. A and S would have given me Amaranthe and Sabaton. Actually, I’m going to treat that as suggestions and adding them now. 😛
FF.
Can’t get any narrower than that.
Fear Factory?
Foo Fighters?
I guarantee there’s some band somewhere called Fatal Frame.
IKTPQ, IWABO, TDWP. I can’t imagine there is more than one band for those.
😛
I Know The Police Quests?
I Want A Baby Ovary?
Two Dancers Want Peeeeee…anuts?
WBTBWB?
Who Butt The Butt, Wobbly Butt?
that made me snort laugh, co workers must think i’m strange.
Wub The Bub-Wub?
Acronyms dont count last latters of words lambo
Yes but dubstep artists aren’t smart enough to know that. 😛
Second one! \m/\m/
Q! Quuuuuuuueeeeeeah
Is this the real life…
Is this just Fanta® sea…
Aww I want a Fanta sea 🙁
How very Kenan & Kel of you.
Who luuuuuuuves orange soda.
Kel looooooooooooovesss orange soda.
I do I do I doooOooooo
oTSA!!!
SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!
Queens of the Stone Age added.
Y’all on mah wavelength! Except Shane. Shane is on his own.
What else is new 🙁
D, K & Z.
Look, you can see where I’m going with this.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/05/17/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e06-fame/
Oh god, the potential acronyms! THE POTENTIAL ACRONYMS!
Oh man, I forgot how awesome some of the songnames for Jaldaboath are. Listening to “Axe Weildong Nuns”. 😀
Thanks @mrtaco!
Edit: Should be “Axe Wielding Nuns”. Can’t change it though, because Sughly outed me. 😛
Weildong?
Is that like a german whale’s genitalia?
Dammit, it’s a typo. *Wielding
Stop picking on me! 😛
Kekeke
I MEANT TO DO THAT
…instead of just using my go-to band of choice >.>
Oh, speaking of Fear Factory, specifically Dino, you ever listen to Divine Heresy? Those dudes were rad. Saw them years ago completely by accident.
Dang, son.
Divine Heresy were (are?) great.
I think I may have but can’t quite remember. I’ll check them out later today.
Watching the nba, get a pretty good insight into US ads. Suddenly I want to eat lots of burgers.
MORE ACRONYMS!!!
FUCK!!!
Straight up, though, how tasty are burgers?
http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/24106000/ngbbs500da3095d930.jpg
That is a tasty burger. Or so I’ve heard.
Pretty sure that ad for the Pillsbury Doughboy had him being scanned at airport security with a doobie…
@jacksonwryan Kniiiiicks! Kniiiiiicks! (as you can probably tell by now, I like underdogs ^_^)
Yeeeah!!!
Even though I’m a Hornets/Pelicans man, I’d love to see the Knicks win the Championship this year.
There’s no way that’s happening. Sorry man.
Would be cool to see them extend the series but… I had money on the Pacers damnit.
Oh dear… still a close game though
Good game! Excited about the next game! Like seeing teams come back from 3-1 down because it is so rare.
Knicks! Knicks! Knicks! 😀
Hope you didnt lose too much moneys
Get Hype!!!!
Dont tell me what to do
Don’t you just love pelicans?
They’re flamingos….iknowrite. It was impromptu, apparently when they do English lessons they have pelican as a repetition word or something like that, and so it was a stab at him being an immigrant. Fun facts!
Guy just decided to throw out a $200 watch because it was going to cost $5 to fix.
o_O
EBAY!
… Did you go grab it after he left?
Humans, amirite?
Techy??
Is that you?
I didn’t replace him with a version of me if that’s what you’re thinking… 🙂
One of us! One of us!
Well, yeah.
$205 is a crazy amount for a watch.
So apparently this E3 is going to have some surprises for Vita owners. Also Sony Japan is starting some kind of advertising campaign pointing out all the ‘Hunter’ games on Vita this year, listing PSO2, God Eater 2, Ragnarok Odyssey Ace, Soul Sacrifice, Toukiden and some mystery unannounced game which may be being announced today.
Also it doesn’t seem to be Panopticon, the hunter game Sony announced a day or two ago.
Please localise PSO2 Vita, please localise PSO2 Vita
I rather like the vita support, but they keep pushing these titles as competitors to MH, and that’s.. odd, to say the least. If anything, they need more faux-Personas; that’s where the money’s at.
I would play a Monster Hunter with Persona style day-to-day activities. I would play a 3rd person shooter/rpg with Persona style day-to-day activities. I would play basically any game, if it was like Persona, is what I’m saying.
They’re pushing them in Japan, where Monster Hunter sells millions of copies and is a cultural phenomenon.
God Eater 2 and Toukiden both at least look to be very competent Monster Hunter clones with actual good gameplay. I think @ynefel was saying he enjoyed God Eater more than MH.
Yeah, I understand that MH sells like gangbusters, but if anything it provides a backlash because people pick up too easily on what they’re aiming for. Not to say that the games are bad- there is variety among them, but it’s not entirely a broad field in which to carve out a unique niche in.
I mean, I suppose in the long run it’s good, but you can’t deny there’s a fair amount of tunnel vision being applied here.
True, but everyone says the reason the Vita’s failing to perform in Japan is the lack of a Monster Hunter game. Nintendo seems to have money-hatted Capcom enough to keep MH out of Sony’s hands, so I think they’re trying to hunt (hah) for the next big hunter game instead.
I’ve never gotten into MH in the first place so I’m all for a bit of variety. God Eater looks more up my alley, definitely playing PSO2 if it ever comes out in English, and Toukiden looks interesting too.
It’s a safe move, but one that still puts them in a corner. One great game isn’t enough to justify a console, but nor does multiple derivatives of said game. I mean, with Nintendo, at least you get TWO rehashed games of different genres. 😛 And while this is good in the East, well, this strategy doesn’t exactly pan out perfectly in the west.
Still, perhaps it’s simply the odd marketing making my opinions askew- from what I’ve seen from Soul Survivor, it’s unique enough to not get labeled as a ‘hunter’ game. Perhaps a valid strategy for the west would be to.. well.. concentrate what makes these games unique. Either way, Vita’s gonna be stuck on rocky ground for a while (but E3 is looking reallll good to prove me wrong)
I loved God Eater/Burst and am desperately hoping localised God Eater 2 on Vita becomes a thing. It’s hard to say whether I enjoy MH or GE more, but MHTri/3/3G/3U has kind of lost me a bit. I rank MHFU or MHP3rd as my two favorites, and immensely sad they didn’t follow the design ideas (OR FUCKING LOCALISE) of MHP3rd. The monsters/weapons/setting of the MH3 series doesn’t grab me like the old ones. Also, water combat can get fucked, seriously. Whoever decided that would be a fun idea in a game with MH’s control style should be killed.
Currently, I think God Eater is my favorite, but only by a bit. I like the God Arc weapon idea, the anime styling and the fact it has a cohesive story. Even if it is a little shallow.
So far Namco’s been pretty shitty when it comes to localizing their vita games so not holding out a lot of hope, but it would be awesome if it happened as of all the hunter games, God Eater 2 looks the most interesting to me.
Though the stuff I’ve seen of Toukiden recently also looks interesting.
Surprises in that theyll finally discover theres no games?
trolololol couldnt helpit.
“They’re actually refurbed PSPs! SURPRISE!”
“We noticed everyone is playing PSP games so we decided to remove backwards compatibility to encourage people to play our amazing Vita software lineup”
Worked* for PS3
* didn’t work
I would play so many ps2 games I missed if my ps3 slim didnt take that out. Now I’d have to, like, find something to unplug for the ps2, put the av cables in, ergh! Who could be bothered doing that? Not this guy.
PC Emulation is clearly the answer.
I think I may have gone insane…erer.
I have just noticed I have been mumbling out loud while working, then surprised myself by letting out a crazy chuckle over nothing.
The weird looks I have been receiving this morning are slowly starting to make sense.
I think being alone in a library for a week now is starting to have some affect on my mental well-being.
The voices in my head think I am fine though.
As a random person on the internet that may or may not also be a figment of your imagination. I say you’re fine. Everyone else is just jealous that the voices in their head are so freaking boring
Wise words from a talking block of coagulated soy milk curds.
You’re perfectly sane, the world really is out to get you.
It all makes sense now.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
I did environmental work for years, so i was always out in the bush somewhere away from anyone so i started talking to myslef, trees, animals etc. Once i started working in an office again i realised it’d become a habit and it took me months to stop randomly blurting something out every so often, also find myself singing out loud often, people do look at you funny, but it keeps me amused and that’s the important thing.
I hadn’t noticed this previously, but that Fairy Fencer F JRPG that was announced a little while ago with the Yoshitaka Amano design work and stuff was announced with music by Earthbound Papas. I had no idea that that’s Nobuo Uematsu’s band that’s basically The Black Mages.
Even more interested now. Hope the game is decent. Unfortunately it’s the team behind Neptunia so it’s almost guaranteed to be crap 🙁
Was Neptunia that bad?
I won’t buy it on PS3 but I may grab the Vita port if they localise.
There’s a Neptunia anime starting next season (July or so) to promote the games.
There’s actually three Vita Neptunia games. One of them is an Idolmaster clone, one of them is a spinoff where you play as Noire (the Sony avatar character) and I think the third one might be a port of one of the PS3 games?
Anyway, I’ve only played the first game and it’s… low budget basically. Mediocre. Has a fucked up combat system unfortunately – you basically assign skills to different attacks and there’s a percentage chance they’ll work. But the problem is that things like healing spells are among those skills. So if your character is near-death and you need to heal her, there’s only a percentage chance you’ll be able to. 🙁
Also the dungeon areas are these really tedious corridors filled with random encounters and the most annoying music imaginable and the plot’s nothing hugely engaging. But it’s possible the sequels improve on the game a bit, I haven’t tried any of them yet.
IIRC It had some annoying DLC bullshit too, like you can’t use Nisa (Nippon-ichi’s avatar character) unless you buy her for $5 or so. 😐
Welp, that was interesting. The bosses just went on this massive tirade about people taking too many holidays and said that no one can take holidays for a while before rubbing off the whiteboard that has all the dates people are taking off. Then he told me that I have too many holiday hours saved up because I’ve only taken 3 days off in the last year and a half so I now have a mandatory week long holiday at somepoint. I’m thinking christmas up in queensland sounds good.
Brisbane/Gold Coast inc. meats.
Well I’ll be up on the sunshine coast because family, but I’m sure I could make the trip to finally meat all dem taybies.
My body is ready
… normal ready or Reggie Fils-Aime ready?
Because one of those freaks me out a bit
Gettin freak-ay
I’m probably going to head to QLD in October or so for an old friend’s 30th, maybe meat you all then too.
Nah.
(colon pee)
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah! o/
Favouritism.
It’s less favouritism and more that they don’t want to have to give me a massive payout if I ever leave the company
I know, it’s just amusing that this happened immediately after everyone else had their leave cancelled (which, by the way, is pretty shitty for them). Recommend you lay real low for a while 😛
The dates are already back up and the bosses have calmed down and bargained that any leave already planned can go ahead, but they won’t accept any new leave requests that take place in the next to months.
Good thing I’ve already got pax days off ^_^
One time when I was working security (about 10 years ago) I tried to take time off to go down to Melbourne for Manifest. Unfortunately there was an increased ‘terror alert’ (I think this was after London got bombed, though I’m not sure) and all leave was cancelled for NSW Police due to a potential threat against Sydney. For some reason the security company I worked for got delusional and decided that included them too, so they cancelled leave for all their employees. I was in danger of forfeiting money on non-refundable flights and accommodation deposits, plus pretty pissed off about not being able to take the trip.
Now I was still living at home at the time but I was 20 years old, so imagine how aghast I was when I found out a special exclusion was being made for my leave because my mother called up the CEO of the company and yelled at him.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
My sympathies for anyone who dares cross a mother. Did anyone else find out that your mum called the ceo?
Oh yeah, my immediate supervisor knew, who spread it to my coworkers, who had a good laugh about it. I then got taken off the site I had been working and informally demoted. Because of my computer aptitude I had been placed in what was technically a control room job (monitoring CCTV, alarms, etc.) which attracts a higher basic rate of pay. If you’re not placed in a “control room” you don’t get the higher rate.
When I returned from Melbourne I was informed I was no longer to report to that site and was suspended with pay until they found me a new site. Two weeks of sitting around playing video games later they told me to show up at the Optus building in North Sydney for a concierge desk role, which was dull as fuck.
Two hours into my training shift wondering what I was doing with my life I realised my security license had expired the day before, so I informed my new supervisor, who told me I would need to immediately apply for a renewal (which, thanks to the increased terror alert and changes in legislation now required my fingerprints be kept on a police file) otherwise I couldn’t continue working as a security guard. Told him I was ok with that and walked out.
I have been with this company nearly 3 years but only taken 2 weeks of leave plus one or two other random days. Unfortunately I only have 3 weeks of leave saved up because I was a contractor for my first year.
Once people get more than 4 weeks saved up the company starts forcing them to take time off, though I think you can refuse if you really want to fight it. I’m thinking I might take a week off around July.
Who’s going to join me for some late night midnight lov… Nintendo Direct watching? 🙂
@jimu possible Wind Waker HD date. If not then Nintendo are stoopid.
Most likely a Pikmin 3 release date too for PAL (unless one was already announced?)
I doubt there’d be any new stuff announced though :/
You know I don’t own a Wii-U, yeah?
You know that I was talking to a certain Jemu about a Wind Waker release date yesterday and now that one might actually be announced it was pretty relevant to tag you 🙂
Yeah, nah, thanks 🙂
I bet they’ll have another X teaser though. It had people raving about it for weeks after the last time they showed it.
You know it!
Ooooo a Ninty direct!! Tonight? I’M IN! 😀
Is it tonight?
Yup. Midnight, in case that wasn’t clear from Greenmang’s comment.
They are going to announce that by the end of the year they will be ahead of the Vita in the category of “No Games”.
They’re already winning that!
Only for people who order rare 3ds games in that are available around the corner
If that was a dig at me getting Rhythm Thief, it’s impossible to find a *US* copy. It’s been sold out for nearly a year and it’s very rare. AU copies I had no idea about because when I finally got a US copy, I didn’t have an AU 3DS yet.
….
Yeah, rare, totally.
….
@saturday: It really is. It’s out of print. Maybe it’s easy to find in stores over there because no one bought it because they don’t like good games? Or perhaps it recently got a reprint.
Not sure, but every other week I see it circulating through a EB games.
Maybe I should pick one up next time I come across if it’s that rare.
Settle petal, just a joke 🙂
@sughly – ha “settle petal” I like it.
@negativezero – don’t worry he’s just Trolly >:(
Heh, boooo! My 11 3ds games disagree
(Troll. Well played.)
Can you play those 3DS games on the Wii U?
No?
Don’t count.
I geddit now I geddit. Sughly gets jokes.
You really are the new replacement D.C.!
Watch Survivor!
Oh wait, you already do!
I’m liking you more already ;D
Aren’t they referring to Wii U?
Wii U’s the new Shake Spearian Tragedy now.
OOOOHHHHHHH! right. Gotcha. Yeah this is all true then :3
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But it’s still better than Vita since it has potential (games coming out that people are interested in) 😛
@greenius whoa wait why was your comment removed..? What was the gist of it?
@sughly ahahaha I knew it was freaky seeing “Comment removed” in italics (@crazyguy1990) 😛
Kotaku said it was a duplicate comment but I forgot and changed something so the same comment along the lines of “But it’s still better than Vita since it has potential (games coming out that people are interested in) :P” was posted twice. So I just removed the first one 😛
Spooky!
Shakespearean Comedy.
What’d you say @greenius? (in the removed comment)
And I don’t think that’s the popular opinion right now. (about Wii Us potential)
See above! I think it’s pretty popular at least with Wii U owners or those interested in it. When it comes down to it, it DOES have games announced for it (ie. potential). You’ve got your standard first party Nintendo stuff: Wind Waker, new Zelda, new Mario platformer, new Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers, Pikmin 3 as well as some interesting ones like Retro’s new game (EXCITE!) and XenUblade. There’s also some third party support like Bayonetta 2 and Wonderful 101.
When I think of the Vita I can only muster up interest in a handful of titles that aren’t ports which were Tearaway and Soul Sacrifice (which I didn’t end up buying). All those standard Nintendo games have been the same for years but at least they’re unique and different and it’ll be no different if Sony announced some genuine first party support for their big existing franchises like Uncharted, God of War etc. but they haven’t. There’s KillZone I guess but other than that? Can’t think of much :/
@greenius
I wasn’t looking for this convo but…
It all just comes down to taste really and wants.
For whatever reason I’m over the Nintendo rehashing of old shit. There’s a few exceptions, if they did a really good 3D Metroid or another 2D one. But even stuff like Mario Kart, which I’m pretty sure is my favourite franchise, has been below par. 7 wasn’t bad but… & I number Mario Kart Wii as last. There’s something really wrong with that game. I wish they’d bring back proper power-sliding, it’s just too easy now :-/
You know my feeling on XenoBladder.
Retro’s new one could be good. But I’m not a fan of Prime 3 so I’m cautious.
Sony’s first party shit can fuck off.
I just need Square Enix to step up and do what they started doing with the PSP so LATE IN THE GAME. They need to do an enhanced port of Versus 13 or whatever it ended up being called and they need to make games that play like classic FF only to a Vita standard (which P4G has set VERY high).
I really hope Persona 5 is either cross-play or Vita exclusive, there’s obviously a market for that kinda thing on the Vita.
Someone needs to step up and localise everything else.
Western developer need to stop being such pussies and make a good handheld game instead of this toned down bollox they do. Who wants half an Assassins Creed or Uncharted when they can get the good stuff at home?
There’s a bunch of things coming to Vita I’m excited for all those indie games are better suited to it since when I do sit down in front of my TV, I’m looking for a bigger more involved experience than they often offer.
There’s no way I would have bought Guacamelee on PS3, I just wouldn’t have played it.
hugs & kisses with fairy floss on top
Lord emperor jeu
@jimu
😀
Yeah I know what you’re saying but that’s also what I was trying to say too. Even if you’re not into the first party Nintendo stuff or sick of them (as most people are), at least they’re coming and stuff has been announced. The Vita is getting pretty much no support :/
“Who wants half an Assassins Creed or Uncharted when they can get the good stuff at home?” that’s my other side of the “no gaems on Vita” thing. There’s ports and then there’s just like crappier console versions (Uncharted, WipeOut, AC etc.). From what I played of Golden Abyss I didn’t really care for it but another portable Uncharted is still better than nothing at all.
I didn’t mean Sony in particular and I’d go nuts if Squareenix (another company making stupid decisions lately… :/) announced Type-0, or SEGA did Valkyria, ya know just news of something 😛
If you don’t mind me asking, what Indie stuff are you looking forward to? I can’t think of much but I don’t really know of stuff unless its talked about a lot. Like I probably wouldn’t have known abouce Guacamelee if it wasn’t for you talking it up and it looks like the type of game I’m interested in :D. Haven’t bought it yet though as it’s a bit out of my price range for what it offers.
I will not be having with this deviant behaviour!
More like Nintend-ewwww. 😛
Where can I stalk you best for updates – here or twitter? No internet yet.
Twitter most likely but if I get really hype for something you’ll see it here 😛
I predict you will have your fingers ready over the copy paste shortcuts 🙂
As in, OMG copy paste x 1000
Nah I usually do the extended ones like:
OMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG HOLYSHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT WIIIIII UUUUUUUUU ZELDAAA TEASERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
JIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Repost from the bottom of the last page.
Anyone even mildly interested in the Occulus Rift should have a look.
I love the concept and had the same idea as soon as I saw these 2 devices.
You can’t actually see in the video but he has a Leap motion stuck to the front of the Rift headset.
Get Hype!!!!
I wish I was a programmer so I could play with all this stuff.
THE FUTURE IS NOW!
I’ve been waiting to hear more about the leap motion. The main issue would be that for the full effect you’d need to have the hilt of a sword or something and the illusion would kind of be broken once you went to hit something like another person and they parried and instead of meeting resistance your blade in the real world would just keep travelling.
Still awesome though, now someone make a demo of chivalry/dead island with this
Haptic gloves with actuators in the right places would give the feeling of resistance you’d need I think.
That’s the next step, well that and one of those gaming vests that simulate getting hit. I just realised this is basically a costume in an 80’s sci fi movie. crazy AR goggles, wired gloves and special wired vest in an empty room
snazzy
I think another thing would be if when you hit or get hit (using the sword example) the screen would blur or flash red or something like that. Similar to what games already do. I think when you’re immersed with the Rift something like that might be enough for your brain to simulate a physical reaction in your arms.
It’s all about what your brain perceives not what your actual arms feel. Would be interesting to test different scenarios.
I think a vibrating wii-mote thing with visual input and sound would be enough for the most part.
The main issue with that then would be that you probably couldn’t make a game look too realistic to reduce the amount of potential panic from people thinking they’ve actually been decapitated or something. But I definitely think the occulus rift and a more active gaming experience is definitely the way things will go. It’ll be less sitting in front of a computer/console and more of standing in a room flailing your arms about. It’s gonna be fun regardless.
If you can’t take the heat get out of the fire I guess.
Some people won’t play a scary game with the lights off, some won’t play them at all.
Just depends on what you’re in to. If it can be a powerful enough sensation to make you actually FEEL those things then that’s a pretty massive advance in entertainment.
I agree with you, but at the same time I can see the negatives surrounding having such an immersive experience that your brain can’t make the connection that this isn’t real. It’d be like being stuck in a nightmare, it feels real to you at the time so there’s a chance that it could cause issues with mentally scarring people and blah blah blah. Ultimately it is the players choice whether they play super realistic murder simulator 5000 with their VR game station, but I think the entire thing would need to be gone over with a fine tooth comb so the industry can decide just how realistic virtual reality can get while minimising the risk to players mentality and most importantly so they can’t get sued.
cc @tofu
Can you just imagine the violent video games hysteria this could cause.
My God.
Not against the concept, but honestly, it’s technology I think a lot of people should never have access to 😛
I think we reached the limit of replies…
This is in response to your post below.
One more thing to remember too is that this tech isn’t only for games. It can be used to simulate travel or for education or as a sense of freedom for the disabled. Maybe even as a means of medical rehabilitation for psychological disorders?
I don’t think having the gaming industry regulate technology is the best way forward.
While I was purely looking at it from a games standpoint, I can definitely see the benefits of the VR environment/gesture controls like the leap motion in a rehabilitation environment, purely for the amount of control that you would have over the level of immersion the user was experiencing.
Ultimately I think it’s less about the games industry regulating and controlling the technology and more about them acknowledging that their software moving forward would have to essentially hit a graphic ceiling to maintain safe levels of immersion depending on the content of the game.
… I’m running out of words to be able to convey what I’m trying to mean. I like the tech and think VR is definitely the future of games/using interactive media to help people cope with things but I can see people chucking a hissy fit about the technology if it can be used for the current level of graphic content in gaming but with a much higher level of immersion.
… yep, words all gone. Balls, this was the best discussion I’ve had in a while.
All you have to do is watch that clip with the grandma ‘exploring’ Tuscany to understand the potential in that. The potential it brings beyond gaming is huge.
As for what @tofu was saying about immersion it can totally mess with your balance already. Our brains are wired to trust our senses so if you eyes and ears tell us we are on a rollercoaster then the brain says Ok. So when it tilts and turns it will try to correct, even if that means actually falling over
Next step is groinal attachments ala Red Dwarf.
Don’t pass that one around at parties.
Japan already makes those for their extensive line of erotic games.
We told you, that’s a BACK MASSAGER
:pIt’s a nice idea, but I’m still kind of skeptical of the Leap. Mainly in that having to hold your hands up high like that would be very tiring after a while. You don’t usually go around with your hands hovering in front of your face.
I wouldn’t mind seeing something like skyrim played with the leap, where you can pretty much sheath your weapon most of the time, plus you should be able to reposition the leap lower so it can pick up on normal hand position
I think that’s just up to positioning it properly. I think the Leap might need a slightly larger FoV for this application. It should match your peripheral vision. Perhaps this can be achieved with some different lenses.
The main reason this is exciting is that in the VR world, not seeing your hands is a big immersion killer.
It’s a great step in the right direction. Maybe the next gen kinect could do it too.
I was wondering if using 2 Leaps would give you a big enough FOV.
It’s not so much about holding your hands up and controlling things. It’s about having your body in the virtual world with you, not just your floating head.
Oh, for sure. It’s just a matter of figuring out which method of control works best. But that in turn would probably depend on what it is you’re trying to control anyway. In some cases, the Leap would absolutely be the perfect way to control it. A lot of games and demos seem to be leaning towards using the Razer Hydra. To me it seems like the better candidate for games in general, though I’m still yet to even unbox my Hydra. Can’t wait to try it out though. My Rift’s *gotta* be here in the next week or two.
Sweet, can’t wait to hear your impressions of it. I think I’ll get one too, though my programming skills are very basic (see what I did there).
I’m not a huge fan of the hydra but it’s probably just the wires.
Also it would feel weird to have to press buttons to move your fingers instead of just moving your fingers…
If you haven’t already, check out the MYO. https://www.thalmic.com/myo/
I’m really excited about that, but really depends if the device can recognise all hand/arm movement or only pre-defined gestures.
Haven’t heard about that one yet. Interesting concept though, especially if it does have that kind of direct movement recognition (rather than just gestures). Kind of getting into the whole neural control area.
I’m not too concerned over using buttons though. For years I’ve been pressing buttons to make characters jump, without even giving a thought to it being a button push. In my mind, I just want to make the character jump and then they jump.
The leap really seems like a business tool more than anything to me. To be used similar to a mouse rather than as a VR device. However increase the range and field of view and it could have potential
I’m trying to stay off that hype train but seem to have my bag caught in the door and keep getting pulled along
Depending on what is out in the next 6 months I might have to splurge on my birthday
I expect there to be one on display at PAX. They have not announced this, I just expect it. That may permanently book me on the hype train.
Otherwise we can all just come over to my place and play with the dev kit.
I don’t have one yet but I plan on picking one up soon.
for some reason, whenever I hear Call you Mom by TMBG, I always think of Rocketman and Strange.
“I think I’d like to call you mom, cos you remind me of my mom,
I’m gonna go put on my sailor suit, and we’ll go out on the town”
Awesome article about the BMX stunt riders on E.T.
http://www.narrative.ly/on-two-wheels/the-bmx-boys-of-et/
Pretty lousy that they never got credited for their work :\
Yeah, that’s a bit poo.
If this song isn’t about Demon’s Souls, I don’t want to know. 😛
“I break with the past
Set the nexus free at last
As the future will be there to save us
Trapped in my skin
See the nexus in my dreams
But will you bury me within”
“And as the darkness reveals
I see no reason
For me to reach for the cure
I’m my own demon”
Amaranthe’s Nexus
“Buuuurryyyy meeeee withiiiiiin, the darknesssss wiiiiilll reveaaaaaaaal”
As Linkin Park would say, if they were singing it
CRAAAAAAWLIN IN MY SKIIIIN!
THES WOOSS THEY WILL LADELYOUUUUUU!!!
SUFFOCATION
NO BREATHIN’
I get the feeling you’re making fun of me. :'(
Also, that’s the only time I’ve ever posted lyrics. I only did so this time because it seemed to be way too thematically close to Demon’s Souls for co-incidence.
Haha, awww actually no I wasnt making fun of you at all, I just read that bit, imagined its proximity to a certain LP tune, and decided to share my findings. But yeah looks kinda trolly doesnt it 🙁
Sorry Sughly, guess I’m just a bit frazzled today. *hug*
Oh hey hey, why are you even apologising now! I’m the one that looked like a troll! I’m sorry, so there.
Also, iTunes seems to be as skilled at shuffling as @trjn thinks @freya is.
In a playlist of 9 albums it just put 3 songs from the same album in a row.
A computer has exactly the same odds of randomly picking 1, 2, 3 as it does 5, 64, 39. Us humans have a lot of difficulty appreciating why a computer can’t see the difference.
My mp3 player’s randomiser played the same song three times in a row. And it frequently plays songs twice (more than it should, statistically speaking). I think the possibility of buggy randomiser code might be a factor sometimes, as well!
That’s never happened with any iPod I’ve used but I hardly ever use the shuffle function – I prefer to listen to whole albums anyway. I had an old Creative mp3 player once that only supported SD cards up to 64mb, so even when I compressed my mp3s to a lower bitrate I would only fit about 50 songs on it. I can’t say for sure if it repeated songs a lot or if it only felt like that because the selection was so small to begin with.
Shouldnt music programs really be programmed in a way that intentionally doesnt follow one artist/album with a duplicate on the following track tho?
Well yes, but that’s not exactly random. 😛
MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY
iTunes has a “less random” option that appears more random to us mere mortals.
Is it actually called that. Cos that would be cool
I’m amazing at shuffling, @trjn is just wrong.
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I just spent 3 hours in a “First Aid Basics” class. Now to hurt someone so I can put my skills to use … that’s how it works right?
EDIT: Correction, 4 hours.
EDIT 2: eye speel werds gud
Does this mean you can go around telling people “I hope you choke … because then I can use my knowledge of first aid to save you and then you will give me all the money in gratitude” … because I’d do that
I’m pretty sure it does.
Also you can ask the hot girl in finance to help you practice CPR
The hot girl from payroll was at the class. Maybe I should try and be “study buddies” with her. 😉
You could take turns checking each others airways are clear
Don’t practice with people choking. Choking is like the scariest thing possible to medicos.
You’re now obliged to make out with any unconscious strangers you happen to find on the street. It’s a big responsibility.
“Man injures several in Queensland rampage; yells “I’m helping!” as police tackle him to the ground.”
That’s weird, I just spent my last 3 hours in your Mum.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
*frowns disapprovingly*
To be fair, it’s a pretty accurate preview of what you’re in for if you click the link 😛
Which is why I’ve never listened to one of DAN!’s podcasts. 😛
It appears not everyone loves a Your Mum joke…
Interesting.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Spock_Zachary_Quinto.jpg
Pimpin more Minecraft Let’s Play starring Cheatius, that jerk.
@greenius – youre in the Potaku minecraft server?? I should get back in there one of these days…
Yes, please play more on Potaku server so it doesn’t get shut down from lack of interest. 🙁
Interest has really gone down lately, but it recently got renewed for another month, so there’s a bit of time before we consider dropping it again. Want to do another Minecraft Cup before that, though, I know that much.
Well I’ve chipped in towards the next renewal so we’ll see how we go I guess.
Maybe I can compete in the next cup. 😛
Awww man… I just went back in for a bit and some douchebags had messed with my place :'(
All my wheat was gone, my cow fence was broken and theyve all escaped, and all my houses doors were left open. Poop.
Yup, that happened to me too. Someone destroyed all the glass in my house and opened all the doors. I moved 8000 blocks in a direction to get away from it…
Laaaaaaame
(which direction? I want to be your neighbour :3)
Um, north? I’m living on a mushroom island which is supposed to be extremely rare to find. Had to travel over sooo much ocean.
Laaaaaaaaame
Yeah, the trolling got kinda annoying. Bit hard to regulate it on an open server though.
Yeah I understand. Just sayin, people who would even bother are lame.
Damn, I didn’t realise people were dicking with other people’s stuff like that. I guess you get trolls occasionally but I’ve never noticed anyone breaking my stuff and I’m pretty close to spawn.
I think a lot of the troll stuff happened before you joined. There were stories of them destroying peoples’ (mainly Pant’s) house and stuff 🙁
I’m not really. @powalen said to go into Minecraft one day on TAY as they were having a Potaku Cup that night. He said it would be fun!
So as someone who likes fun I figured I’d give it a shot not knowing what it was but it turned out to be a lot of fun 😀 except when @rize cheated AND WON EVERYTHING
Would definitely be keen to compete in the next cup and get my revenge >:( (@alexpants @doc_what @shiggyninty)
EDIT: also my side was totally different and rigged.
@Chuloopa
I bought the tropico bundle from indie gala you were asking about the other day. I’ve already put over 8 hours into it and finding it really well done. Just working through the campaign so far and it hasn’t got overly challenging yet but it’s fun in a sim city building / trading / add a bunch of whimsy way
Worth getting if you like that kinda thing or if you had any questions let me know. Deal is live for another 6 hours
I just played a few hours of ME2 and now I have a headache.
Urgh!
Did the bit where I got to walk around the Normandy Crashsite, that was well done, I liked it.Especially the datapad from Racistjerk. That was kewl.
I didn’t think Ashley had a datapad.
she deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeadBut actually, so is old bald guts.
yeah, I know which guy you are taking about. Just making a joke of Ashley’s horrid racism. =PI should have clarified, I understood, had a giggle then did the nerd thing and set you straight *blush*I actually thought he was the bigger racist than Ashley. If you talk to him before the first mission in ME1, he says “I don’t like Turians in general”, all because his ancestors fought in the first contact war… big whoop, a lot of humans did. With Ashley it was more justifiable than him, her family was discriminated against because of what her grandfather did (Which in the end also saved lives because he surrendered, but apparently nobody in the military cared about that). Not being able to get anywhere in the career you chose because of something that happened generations ago, I’d be kinda having a big grudge for aliens too. Childishly placing blame on the ones that caused the war, whom really weren’t the ones responsible for the position I was put inPersonally, there is no excuse for racism at all, I don’t care who did what, you’re only feeding the fire.
Just saying it’s more justifiable in the individual’s eyes, but of course no form of racism is acceptable
Catherine first impressions:
Fun game! I think I did my first “boss battle” sort of stage and that was pretty difficult (playing on Normal). I also like the whole choice thing as well and at the moment I’m in the majority for the first two questions asked.
I’ve wanted the game for a while and haven’t been disappointed :). Best text message simulator I’ve ever seen!
Love that game. I just wanted it for the story, but got totally sucked into the gameplay. Enjoy!
Did you originally play on Easy or Normal? I recall people complaining that it got too hard on Normal so they added the Easy difficulty and I think you also gave up on finishing it because it got hard :/
I played on easy and it was fucking hard!
I can’t help but feel that if I play it Mrs Freeze will be paying VERY close attention to what choices I made.
You’ve already made the wrong choice by choosing to play while she’s there 😛
I mean right choice.
Yeah…
Do what I did, make the right choices!
(I also explained to her what was going on since obviously she only walked in at the wrong times.
But Jemu, the “right” choice is subjective!
You’re obviously not married…
😀
@jimu – I knew Vincent was Kanji and it’s getting distracting! :/
I thought Catherine was Rise too but apparently not (I just looked up her voice actress)
I had a long enough break between. They all sound like the usual crop of anime voice actors to me.
I just wish I could swap the language over to Japanese, then I’d recognise NOONE!
TRUE STORY:
When I started getting into anime a few years ago I saw some in Japanese. Around the same time I also decided to play Blue Dragon in Japanese because the English dub was genuinely terrible.
AND I TOTALLY RECOGNISED SOMEONE FROM THE ANIME AND GAME! I was quite pleased with that 😀 (the girl from Blue Dragon was that girl in Samurai Champloo)
try’na remember how I played BD, prolly Japanese.
It’s funny, when I talk to everyone and they say they couldn’t stand so and so game/movie/anime cos of the bad dub I have usually missed it.
I mean, I expect the worst, so unless it’s exceptionally good (P4G) or exceptionally bad (Batman in Year One) I don’t pat attention.
I think @batguy said to me that Catherine’s was overall good but there were a few groaners. I didn’t notice.
Hugs & kisses
Jaded old emperor jemu
Yeah some of the dialogue in there is horribly stilted and awkward. Not sure if it’s due to a poor Japanese or English script.
Or maybe it’s just me.
I generally play with dubs and it’s pretty much always okay (for the games I play) except for a few duds or annoying characters here and there. Blue Dragon was an exception and it was pretty bad, high pitched and whiny :/ no thanks!
Catherine’s seems fine overall but so much similar voices after just playing P4G. I swear I heard Adachi too! And while looking at the voice list earlier I noticed Luke/Yosuke was in it too (didn’t recognise him though)
Yeah, I’m playing P3P and just got Devil Survivor 3D in the mail, Atlus US seem to have a bunch of recycled voice actors. It’s nice to see they support the good workers but can also draw you outta the experience :-/
Emotional outburst ahead:
I’m perilously close to giving up on TAY. There’s a rising boys-club undercurrent that continuously makes me feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. I also feel like the respect level everyone used to have for each other in the community is a far cry from what it used to be. I’m not trying to make anyone be what they’re not or asking anyone to change, I’m just mentioning this so hopefully people can understand better where I’m coming from. I’m also well aware there’s at least a few people who might themselves feel more comfortable with me gone and I’ve been trying to be less outspoken in the hopes I can alleviate this feeling for them.All of this adds up to me no longer feeling at home in what used to be my internet home, my safe place. I still care very much about everyone, but I think taking a few steps back may be healthy for my emotional wellbeing.
How do you feel TAY could be less of a boy’s club and more inclusive?
Yeah, we already got a pink colour scheme.
PS: That’s a joke. I’m sorry if I’ve contributed in any way to a boys’ club vibe – if so, it was entirely inadvertant and unintended.Seriously, Dire Wolf? Have a think about what you’ve just said. You’ve just asked the victim to come up with a solution for the perpetrators’ actions. :S
I think he’s more suggesting you elaborate on what you’d like to see more or less of. If you’re the one that’s pointing out something that’s bothering you, it may not have occurred to those doing the things bothering you.
Pretty much. I didn’t mean any offense, Strange, I just wanted you to elaborate a bit so we could get a clearer idea on what you are talking about.
Okay, I can see how I may have knee-jerk reacted to that one. Sorry,Dire Wolf.
Like I said though, I don’t really want anyone to feel like they have to change anything. If I’m the only one feeling uncomfortable then it only makes sense for me to be the one to remove themselves from the situation.
And it’s not really anything specific, more just a build-up of things and a change in TAY line-up, so to speak, that lead to a distinctly different feel to the place that seems less my thing than before.
Nooo I would prefer other people to change than you go :'(
And also for the gross stuff, Im not exactly a fan, and I know DC isnt either, so there.
Even if I did make gross jokes lately :'(
*all the hugs*
You’re probably wondering why I upvoted:
I only upvoted because I’m not sure what instances you’re specifically referring too. It’s hard to change what I don’t know about, although I do understand it’s probably hard to list specific examples without offending anyone. But like I said below, I don’t think I didn’t anything wrong but if I did, let me know as I do try to post things without offending people.
D: don’t go Strange!
Okay, okay. I’ll stop calling you all those disgusting names (Belinda and variations :P) and I hope I haven’t contributed too much to what makes you feel uncomfortable but I’m pretty sure I’ve been alright *hugius*
You’re the worst if them all.
Worstius.
To be fair, I feel just as uncomfortable and straight out bored when people are clearly censoring or reigning themselves in for fear of upsetting or offending someone. Of course there’s a line, and it varies from person to person – a modicum of tact and respect is definitely required, but I’ve often seen people walking on eggshells, when I’ve honestly felt they shouldn’t need to – simply for the sake of protecting a few of the overly ‘precious’ people.
There’s no way a perfect balance will ever be struck, and I think it’s more about what you’re prepared to put up with. Interacting with others full stop requires a level of tolerance in any place of communication, and I honestly think sometimes particular people can be a little too precious at times.
This is coming from me, possibly one of the most difficult people on this planet to offend, admittedly, I realise that. I know I overstep the line at times, but I’m actually holding back 80% of the time. I usually reread most of my posts before hitting ‘submit’.
If TAY got any more (and I hate to use the term) ‘PC’ I think you could probably count me out as well.
Wow. I gather from this you see me as one of the few “overly ‘precious’ people”. I think it’s definitely all about respect though. You are respectful in your interactions so I’ve not really had a problem with you in that regard.
I am outspoken and like people to know where they and their actions stand with me which is why I guess I’ve always assumed that’s what I was getting from everyone else.
I wouldn’t assume I’m referring to you as one of the ‘precious’. It’s more that your comment has elicited a response from me on the topic, is all. I was generally trying to present the flipside to such an observation for the most part. And not to just be contrary either, it’s honestly how I feel.
I do sometimes feel that you try and be the ‘mother’ at times, sometimes it’s warranted, other times it’s not. If someone’s clearly stepped over the line and been overly aggressive or offensive, I think they should be pulled up – not just by you, but by anyone who feels something’s wrong. But at the same time, we’re all grown ups here and are generally more than capable of dictating the particulars of our interactions, online or otherwise.
Whilst a rampant ‘boy’s club’ is not a good thing, and can/will offend people or make them uncomfortable, the alternative prospect of everyone tip-toeing around the place is equally terrifying. There’s some strong characters in this community, (yourself included) and it’s one of the reasons I stick around.
While I’d love everyone to get along, I don’t want to see people putting a leash on their personalities when they’re potentially not doing anything wrong. I’m not here for a sterile, boring environment. I’m here for the community and pretty much everyone in it.
Haha, sometimes I wonder.
Also, thats fine that youre here for the community. Everyone is. but not much fun being part of a community that makes you feel awkward or left out or offended
But even the term ‘grown up’ is subjective, and everyone feels differently about it.
I just stress my concern is an overly sterile environment. In much the same way as @strange, if I’m a minority in such a belief, then so be it – the majority rules.
I don’t think it’s asblack and white as either rampant boys-club or overly PC walking on eggshells, there used to be a good balance. I guess balance is probably what I’m missing right now.
As for the “mother” thing, I never intended to try and be anyone’s mother, in fact the reason I came here in the first place was to escape being a mother, but I think that as soon as it was discovered I actually am a mother,my habit of sticking up for what I think is right(which may not be what everyone else thinks is right 😛 ), and making sure people know what I think of them suddenly became “mothering” in people’s eyes. Not something I had any control over.
I’m more curious if it’s to do with people’s attitudes or behavior changing or just the simple recipe of who’s here and who isn’t has changed.
Anyway, I hope you realise I’m not being rude or difficult/argumentative, I’ve tried to keep it as civil as possible. I don’t think less of you for making such observations, and whether I agree with them or not is beside the point. I’m fairly certain, as always, most won’t agree with me, but in the same fashion as you, I have strong opinions on things that not everyone always wants to hear. Which is why you won’t hear about most of them until something makes me pipe up.
I’ve been appropriately reigned in when I’ve overstepped the line on more than one occasion, and I believe everyone here should be comfortable in expressing their opinions in a constructive, civil manner.
My two cents, for what it’s worth.
Seems like it’s worth 2 cents.
SEMICOLONPARENTHESISWHICH PARENTHESIS? I CAN’T TELL IF YOU’RE HAPPY OR SAD!
I can’t help but feel responsible somewhat.
Also @strange, I’d hope you’d realise 95% of what I say is said with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. I have a weakness for the ridiculous.
And my eyelashes
Aww man. Dont go Strange :'(
I know what you mean about the respecting each other thing. I think people are getting way too heavy handed with their opinions, and I’m one of the worst offenders. People used to be able to talk about something they liked without having “No this is better because I said so” shoved into them. Actually… not sure if this even has anything to do with what youre saying, but I’m adding it to it anyways! It’s something that was bothering me recently, and I’ve realised I’ve got to stop doing it myself before anyone else does. My name is Sughly, and I am a disrespecter 🙁
That being said, was totes joking about the song thing before and didnt mean to come off like a troll :'(
Yeah, I guess this is part of it. Disagreements these days tend to become personal really fast, instead of just discussions.`I’m all for disagreements and discussions,especially because they help us understand each other better, but it seems like we can’t do that anymore without it degenerating into personal attacks.
Yep. That kinda really rubs me. I dont know if a lot of the time I react that way because someone else has first, or maybe I’ve grown to just do it myself now without much provocation, but either way it sucks.
Usually it’s because you’re wrong.
😛
SEE! YOU SEE THE CRAP I PUT UP WITH!?!
THIS ISN’T CRAP YOU’RE WRONG AND ALSO I HEARD YOU PUNCH BABIES!
It’s true :'(
I’ll add my voice to the chorus of don’t go
To expand on what dire wolf was saying I don’t think he was asking for solutions more of a request to get a better understanding. As you say there is an under-current of boys-clubness so a lot of it isn’t necessarily something that would trigger our ‘oops shouldn’t have said that’ mechanisms.
So asking us to change, or not really change but keep/return things to how they were isn’t a problem it’s just us understanding what we are doing different.
Sometimes just shining the light on the problem can make it go away as we pay more attention to what we are doing. Hopefully this is one of those times as having people like yourself in a forums helps make this a much better place than the ‘rest of the internet’
So cut back on the crude comments, drop the your mum jokes and pay attention to what we post.
See that’s the thing though, most people seem to be enjoying the aspects of the community that make me uncomfortable. The last thing I want is for everyone else to make themselves uncomfortable with speaking their minds, or being themselves. I don’t want everyone to have to think twice before they post anything, because it will most likely cause the community to stagnate. So I guess part of the reason I’m speaking up is to find out if it really is just me. Is this just my problem? Because if so then I’m happy to remove myself so the community can continue to thrive. Because I think this place is important and needs to flourish.
Don’t remove yourself because of what other people think, there’re plenty of us who want you to stay.
If you MUST leave, do it because YOU want it.
Nah, it’s not just you. I haven’t much liked the boy clubbiness either.
Also, I’m about to walk out the door, so I don’t have time to write anything meaningful.
So, not that different from what you would write if you werent halfway out the door? 😀
(not sure if exacerbating the problem)
Oh you 😛
I know what you are talking about and it’s not just you. There is some stuff creeping in that kinda makes me feel not as comfortable in TAY. Also, you would be really missed if left. =(
To me as well. @strange you’re not alone on this. But I really don’t want you to go, you’re the main reason I came to this community in the first place. It was thanks to you I met some really great people through here, including yourself (Hope you enjoyed your stay in Melbourne btw! :D)
I dunno what to say 🙁
There’s a lot of stuff posted on TAY that I just straight up ignore. Some of it is the boys clubby stuff because it’s just boring.
NO YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO GO
Now not that you’ve got me stuck into it 😛
I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable and unwelcome, mainly because there’s kind of an established “club” of members already familiar with each other, so it always feels like being an outsider to everyone else. Though it’s also the way it’s a different “vibe” to the other groups I usually hang with online. Kind of… did you ever have a thing when you were little, where you kind of felt like you were too young to be able to hang out with the older kids? Kind of like you weren’t allowed? That’s a thing I used to get a lot, and I remember having a similar kind of vibe years ago when a friend tried to get me to go on HyperActive with him. It had its own pre-established “club” with all its close ties and in-jokes and everything, and just felt like the guys there were older than me and I was too on the outskirts to be “allowed” to join in. Even though I already knew half of them from elsewhere. But yeah, kind of felt a similar deal on here as well, though maybe a little less unwelcoming.
But um… I’m not sure what that has to do with anything. I just kind of went into spiel mode for a bit there.
Oh man, I know exactly what you mean. When I first started posting here I felt so uncomfortable, I very rarely commented, and even then it’d only be replies, I’d never start my own threads. Then I realised that the people here are some of the best I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with. Not just online. Once you relax and just be yourself, that uncomfortable feeling starts to disappear.
Yeah, saaaame. First time in here was the same. You comment enough and people know you just by that, and stuff. I already know you now @mrtaco! Sooner or later you’ll be there when new in jokes are made. You may even make them yourself! No pressure. *watches intently*
Same here to all of that. My first few posts felt more like Talk To Myself rather than Talk Amongst Yourselves. But it still brightened my day to see the interactions going on in here (especially the honest discussion and people doing nice things), and I wanted to be able to add to that and hopefully help someone else feel that way too.
I went on a break for a while and found that I’d come back occasionally and just read everything. Seeing other people interact on TAY is almost as good as being a part of it yourself.
DC is fighting so hard not to upvote this somewhere out there
(And @mrtaco)
I think that’s how everyone feels initially but it really shows you how great the community is to anyone and everyone. Hell, I swear people were even willing to forgive Sandy Cervix and let them genuinely join the community.
I’ve seen you post more frequently Tacs and it’s always good to see new faces around TAY, especially if they’ve been part of the Kotaku Community for years!
Strange, If I’ve said anything to make you feel uncomfortable, I apologise. I am thick.
Its funny caus tofu is kinda thick
Er, alright, as one of the youngest members actively posting here, I feel.. uh.. obligated.. to speak, I suppose. Well, not obligated, but if there’s anybody potentially at fault, I should be at near the top of the list. I suppose. I’ve said ‘I suppose’ twice now, haven’t I? I honestly have no poignancy when it comes to.. er.. speaking. Typing. Whichever.
Anyway, from I’ve been reading so far, it appears respect, or lack thereof is one of the reasons you’re feeling disconnected from TAY- is this right? I.. feel a bit thick, I might not actually be grasping entirely what’s being said here. And you know, you’re correct in general, being on a internet forum doesn’t mean you are given permission to.. not.. be as polite as you are in real life? Well, no, I suppose you can, anonymity is part of the internet, but on a closer-knit community like this, everybody should aspire to both enjoy both freedom of speech and keep conversation to..
Ah, damn it all, I’m rambling. Spent more time thinking about this than I thought I would, and I still can’t wrap my head around it all. Sigh.
Right. Well, if I’m contributing to the reason why you’re close to giving up on TAY, I apologize. I’ll try not to encourage and engage in said behaviour in the future. And if you do leave, well, er… It’d honestly feel a bit emptier here with you, Strange- I’ve seen you as a defining fixture of TAY, although that honestly doesn’t sound as complementing as it should, doesn’t it?
Right. Well. All I’ve say on the matter.
….
Phone auto post placeholder. Apologies. The first line is always dangerous.
Real post:
You are a pillar of this community and I have nothing but respect for you. All I can do is give you my honest opinion on the matter.
So, here goes.
At the end of the day, you should be coming here for you. If it turns into nothing but what feels like am obligation, and you’re getting nothing from it personally, then things can get toxic, and you may grow to resent it.
For the record, yes, I can see what you mean, and I can also see the increase of cases of people taking breaks if things get a little uncomfortable or personal for them. Many above have already articulated and discussed various reasons behind this much better than I can here. I do also think the nature of all our interactions have gotten more personal with twitter, accounts, etc. For better or worse.
Whatever your decision, I will respect it. I know I can trust you to be honest, and share your opinion on anything I could talk to you about.
And that’s the funny thing. Trust. Respect. These are things it feels harder and harder to find the older and more cynical I get. And that’s what TAY has become for me.
People being kind, giving other people things, just for the sake of being nice? People they haven’t even met? Madness. Me from 5 years ago wouldn’t have believed such a community could exist, and without TAY, present me would believe that even less, and I wouldn’t have held much hope for future me.
Well, I’m already far enough down this side-track, might as well finish it.
I believe TAY has helped to make me a better person, and I would like to thank you for playing much more than a small part in that. So, regardless of your decision, all I can say is thank you, and I (selfishly) hope you decide to stay.
TL;DR: Rambling way off topic.
+9001 couldn’t have put it better myself
*hugasaurus*
Okay, so I apologise for not getting around to answering everyone, it’s been a busy weekend.
Firstly, I feel I need to clarify that my post was not a goodbye post. I’m not going anywhere yet, I just felt the need to speak up about something that’s been weighing on my mind for a while,and to explain why.
When I was little I had no idea that publicly there were separate toilets for males and females, and on my very first day of school I wandered into the boys’ toilet. There were are a few boys in there and I still remember them looking at me like I was nuts before laughing and making fun of me. Telling me I was a girl and should get out. And that’s the kind of feeling I often get in TAY now. The feeling that I walked into this familiar yet somehow fundamentally different room and I don’t belong, and everyone has turned around to look at me and laugh because I’m the odd one out.
And I think the biggest thing I got out of all this discussion is that it isn’t just me, others have also been feeling similarly to myself and just not speaking up. Perhaps, like me they thought they were the only ones feeling uncomfortable and didn’t want to rock the boat. So if nothing else comes out of all this then I’m glad at least those people know they are not alone as well.
I really appreciate everyone’s responses to this and the healthy discussion. Because I know everyone wants this place to be an inclusive rather than exclusive place and we all try in our own ways to make it so.
So, the guy in the same position I work in (except he is in a senior position) is moving to a different department to me on a different floor. I’m a little sad, he has been my mentor since I started working five and a half years ago. He’s always been a really cool guy and taught me basically everything I needed to know, in the department I work in.
Bah, I should stop being selfish and just be happy that he is moving up!
Take his place!
Salt the earth, leave nothing behind!
Haha, I doubt they will promote me, what’s the point in promoting the staff on a sinking ship? =P
Fleeting feelings of superiority?
I doubt they are willing to spend the money.
Since D.C. isn’t here my lunch will be consumed in honour of him.
Some chips and Smarties and I might even throw in a couple of Tic Tacs as a treat.
nom nom nom
I had cereal :3
Meat pie with mashed potatoes and a slice of cheesecake.
Subway Italian BMT with everything (except onions and olives) and Marinara Sauce.
SO.DAMN.GOOD
You guys who have good lunches arent allowed!
DO PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS?!
STAHP POSTING PEOPLE WHO ATE GOOD FOOD. >:(
Toasted tandoori chicken pita.Edit:
With bacon.I was going to do a whole “lolno I said ‘good food’” but the second edit CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Casserole. Cooked last night in our new pressure cooker. Fall apart chicken with a nice thick rich sauce. Some potatoes for filling and a handful of green beans for colour and texture. Was rather tasty
EDIT: I’m not allowed here
Lol if youre chicken’s falling apart you should get better chickens lolol
The kind with 4 legs. More drumsticks \o/
Wagyu burger with an icy glass of
NinetailsNine Tales.http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/ninetales.jpg
😀 😀
Refreshing!
http://cdn.smokingmeatforums.com/4/47/47090725_zzzzzzzzzzzzhot-sauce-mouth-on-fire.jpeg
What possible purpose could that image have? Like, what happened to require that picture be made?
Awwwwwwww, that’s a fair question.
I just google “fire mouth” and voila!
I had S&V chips and chocolate!
You are also allowed
S&V. chocolate slice and a 450mL Coke.
I’m watching my figure so couldn’t get a 600.
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.
I prefer cans of coke. Taste better. Glass bottles taste the best but they are rare and spensive.
I’m eating my lunch now. It’s Salted Doritos, with crappy store bought guacamole.
You are allowed in here
These comments are way more funny than they should be 😀
Tonight’s Nintendo direct may be the first one I watch live in a long time…mostly cause it’s on a Friday 😛
Woo! I watched the last one and only got 5ish hours sleep then went to work.
I regret nothing!
Board games with Bun Bun and Frey Frey tonight.
People should come on over and play board games with us because they’re totally rad.
The people or the board games?
TUNE IN TO FIND OUT!!!
The people are only rad if they come over and play board games.
My Thrustmaster HOTAS arrived!
Also, I picked up a joystick. 😉
I love it when you talk stick!
@greenius (because I cant be bothered going back to the old thread any more) – SOOOOOO hope they announce a date for Wonderful 101. Sooooo hope.
It would be the smart thing to do but…
Nintendo.
Smart.
lol
S M R T
Think I have spare trading card beta invites if anybody was keen to get in on that
Standard post below and whoever I like the most gets it
I like you all equally so I guess it goes to whoever posts firstInvite me if you want to live.
Please.
Frond me
I want to liveI’m kinda late to the party but that new Daft Punk album is a pretty cool guy …
The coolest guy.
Instant Crush and Doin’ It Right, top tracks.
It’s hard to pick a favourite because they all are great however I am reaaaaally liking Instant Crush.
Also, kinda liking Touch …
I LIKE ALL OF THEM! 😛
But yeah, Touch, Instant Crush, Get Lucky, Give Life Back To Music and Contact are my favs.
Oh , just got in to the Steam Trading Card beta. Comes with a couple of invites, if anyone wants one.
Y’know, cause they’re rare and it’s really exclusive 😛
I also have a couple of invites to this rare game called “DOTA 2”. If anyone needs an invite, let me know. =P
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARD GAMES
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO different state 🙁
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-URNS.
People should come and play those!
Too far away 🙁
I might just buy a bunch of them so I can be part of it
We should set up some system of skyping board games
Is it possible to partake without talking? 😛
😀
newp
:'(
I wish I had cool Sydney board game friends in Melbourne
🙁
Sometime I don’t know why I bother
@tigerion no, you see you’re my cool Melbourne board game friend in Melbourne whereas they’d be my cool Sydney board game friends in Melbourne
Well that makes sense. We did have one cool Sydney board game friend when @powalen was down but having more would be cool
@powalen and @jordi didn’t know what Delta was trolololol
Colour me intrigued. I guess there are online ones or just a case of us all having the same game
@dc
I saw that.
Awww man, I was gonna be all “Shaaaane! Come back!”, like in that film Shane, and then was like oh this is the biggest waste of that, wouldve been so much more appropriate if it actually was @shane.
Long story short, @shane you should pretend youre leaving. Humour me :3
He leaves at 4pm every day. You could literally make this reference daily.
Literally.
Noooo its 4.15 on a Fridayyyy! Have to wait til Monday now :'(
@bdkiaf – FINALLY watched strippers searching!
Ahaha, I see why you said what you said now. Yeah I dunno… I think she was super nervous and just got flustered. She did that comic, not sure if you saw, on her site about regretting something she said on the show. It was probably aimed at that ep. I still like her, I felt bad for her actually. I’d probably do something like that inadvertently then go hide in a corner for the rest of my life.Also Lexxy is amazing.I totally get why she was acting like that, but she took it way too far. Mike looked legitimately offended. You could tell he backed off after a while. That said, I still enjoy her comics, I just think she acted poorly.Yes.Yeah she did, but still. She’s a babeh. Babeh’s will act poorly.I wish Ninty Direct was happening in the next 10 minutes. I am ready, right now.
*taps finger on desk impatiently*
I’ll never make it to midders 🙁
Where is everyone? :'(
@dc?
You there?
I miss you…
Ugh, that @dc guy.
I MISS HIM TOO! ='(HOW ABOUT PHOENIX WRIGHT GUY
Have you played the demo? The cornered music is, as predicted, from the trailer, but with added guitar. Animations are actually better..er than expected, lots of attention to detail put into them.
I’m refraining because I cant speak Japenese
(would be interesting to see what it looks like in 3d though)
Nor can I, but it’s sure nice to look at/hear. It’s a rather short demo and walkthroughs (or, uh, 4-step instructions) are out so you can breeze through it no problem.
But… but why would you spoil some of the gameplay to see it in Japanese..?
It spoils almost nothing, actually, It’s set right near the beginning of the game (if not… the beginning with one or two things trimmed out) that only includes a intro before court, calling a guy out on one thing, and running through the tutorial of the mood detector.. thing.
Like I said, man, MUSIC AND THE PRETTY PICTURES. DO EET.
I’m lurking, got some convo?
*checks pockets, moths fly out*
Aww man, I’m out of conversation and I’m poor :'( thanks dickman
If more people worked from home I wouldnt be so alone.
Guys I’m so alone…
This is like the “All work and no play” typewriter but in a comment thread.
Anna’s Quest will start as a happy, cheery cartoon adventure, and slowly dissolve into a homicidal tale of murder and alcoholism.
If more people actually worked at home they’d be less bored.
😛
So ronery …
I could try working from your home, and then you’d never be lonely.
Wink.
I never said you couldnt do this.
If you worked in an office you wouldn’t be alone either
Just for you:
I’m gunna put a comment here so Sughly can take a quick rest.
I even did a bit of work! No joke!
So dem gaemz dey b gud eh?
Yah
HI JEU (you signed yourself off as jeu :P), replied to your Ninty comment <3 xoxoxo
CATHERINE FRIEND!
I was enjoying it but felt a lot of bullshit happening (especially with traps) so lowered it to Easy and it’s so much easier (shock horror :P) but this means less frustration and more enjoyment 😀
Do cutscenes actually change depending on whether you’re “good or bad”. I assume they do whenever that little meter pops up and one angel is flying. I wasn’t planning to do more playthroughs since it feels wrong on a “rented” PS+ game but I hear the game is relatively short so why not 😀
I can be your Catherine friend…
Did you play on Easy or Normal :-)?
Ummm… ahhh.
Errrrr…
Normal? Mebe? Probably easy XD
I NEED LESS AMBIGUITY IN A CATHERINE FRIEND!
I’m not sure. I can check a guide and not be spoilered like you would be if you like?
I assumed there was only minor difference (maybe different text messages etc) until you reach near to the end and then it would change drastically.
There seems to be two main types of endings and then variations of each. I only played through the once, I found it really challenging on easy. I want to do a replay but pretty much don’t do replays at the moment because of the…PILE
Sega, keepin’ it clARSEy:
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/super-monkey-ball-vita-includes-adult.html
Oh dear…
*nods*
Oh my…
Oh Japan…
http://www.q1045fm.com/up-n-adam/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/george-takei-george-takei.jpg
Bleh.
Subway was a bad choice for lunch. 🙁
You dont get refret from something healthy! Youre doing it wrong
The pains in my stomach say otherwise…
The only time subway is a bad choice for lunch is if the tomatoes have gone all dry and tasteless. Blegh!
Or if the avocado is rotten. My KFC regret came out ahead of Pip’s experience that day.
I don’t have avocado, so I’m good there
Oh yeah, make sure you watch when they add pineapple in, my last footlong I asked for pineapple, I checked it when I noticed the lack of taste, they put in only 4 small pieces of pineapple… 4! 😛
@dc?
@dc!
@dc…
…@dc
@dc(@dc)
\@dc/
ɔp
@greenius WITCH! Burn him!
¡noʎ uɹnq plnoɥs əʍ
˙ɹǝʇʇǝq ʇoƃ ı ʇnq
¡ʇʍǝu ɐ oʇuı ǝɯ pǝuɹnʇ ǝɥ
*stoner voice*
…@dc’s not here, man.
lol fantastic!
*Edward Norton voice*
@dcs not here. @dc went away
Just finished watching Steins Gate which my brother recommended, first decent anime I’ve watched in awhile, shame the ending was so cliché I probably would of enjoyed it more if it ended 4 episodes sooner.
10/10 either way.
Man, 4 and a half hours til Ninty direct still :'(
CmooOOOOoooOOOOooonnnnnn
You should watch a movie in the meantime!
You should too!
Join @masha2932 and I in simulteanously watching 12 Angry Men
Everyone is welcome!
Sorry, too busy listening to this and being super manly to watch a movie.
Who is this Kiki Dee? I like this Kiki Dee. I wish to hear more of Kiki Dee…
Is this a serious question, or a reference (I’m never sure with you)?
She also did this duet with Elton, but it’s nowhere near as good as Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart. And yeah, I’ll be honest, I know nothing about her besides the two duets with Elton John…
No I was bein serious, but you have failed me.
(its ok, I found a Greatest Hits of Kiki Dee, this will suffice)
You’re just the latest on a very long list.
Sorry dude, I know I postponed it yesterday too but I’m exhausted. I should have slept earlier for my morning shift. I’ll let you know when I’m watching it. It’s next on my entertainment list I promise.
Sorry again, it just happened. Poor planning on my part.
:'( so no Nintendo Direct either? 😛
Next time…
No Nintendo Direct, sorry. I’m preparing to brush my teeth as I type this. Going to bed as soon as possible.
I’ll catch up with the hype tomorrow 🙂
Choo chooooo!
Oh man, looking for a multifunction mono laser printer with wireless capabilities is doing my head in.
Anyone know a good online place to purchase one?
http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Printers-and-Faxes/Laser-Multifunctions/Mono-Laser-Multifunctions/BRMFC7860;jsessionid=%28J2EE7737300%29ID0154220653DB01823980100077436559End;saplb_*=%28J2EE7737300%297737353
I think i found one cheaper. I was kind of aiming for $200 or under.
I just want to add, I appreciate it though, it’s just out of my price range. Plus I’ve checked Harvey norman, the good guys, officeworks and one other place for printers.
“Man, it’s all been forgiven, swans are a-swimmin’…”
Love this song. Notice Arcade Fire guy in background.
Will be back on Monday. Just wanted to reassure people, ain’t nothing you guys have done wrong or any thing. Just been in a dark place all week. Went to bed last night at 6pm and spent most of the day there. Read TAY this afternoon and felt better, you guys are awesome. Still need to sort some stuff out though, noticed my mood was bleeding into TAY all week and I don’t want that. Anyways, see you guys on Monday. I miss you. :'(
Also, up to Colossus 5 for any one interested!
@strange, you’re awesome. Please don’t go.
Bleed into TAY all you want, just come back D=
Do you know how quiet it’s been without you? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO IF I’M NOT CONSTANTLY REFRESHING TAY?
http://www.zombiesrungame.com
Erggh, I’m way too lazy to run.
Just to show you up though, I’m going to go do 3 sit-ups, then call it a day.
You’re Sughly, man. But you’re no D.C. when it comes to stimulating discussion. 😛
… :'(
I had the colon pee, you can’t get sad. COLON PEE!
:'(
Those cannot be real.
Too much sadness
:'(
Oh wait, Trouble Will Find Me is out forreals todayyyyyy!! Woo woo
Not that anyone has or will care but:
https://www.zombiesrungame.com/FreezeSPreston/
That’s what not doing anything for a month does to you.
36 days to go. Need to get that down to under 25mins. Closer to 20 would be preferable.
How does this thing work?
Do you need to carry your phone with you when you run?
I am curious because having additional motivation to exercise is always good. But I don’t like running with my phone with me. Maybe I could use it when I’m on my bike. I be the fastest runner \o/
You do need to take your phone with you. It uses the GPS to track your speed and distance. I have an armband that the phone sits in. It’s pretty cool. Plays your music with interjections of updates from your base and companions talking to you while you run and gather supplies and such, earning stuff to expand your base.
@sughly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFIa9lTrJng
I think I’m troubling my mum by letting her know I’m spending my Friday nights listening to this
Do yourselves a favour! Watch this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx33GxV91ow
gah … I just burnt most of my hand with a microwavable meal. Moving back to my room and I slipped, the meal went flying up into the air and went all over my hand and up my sleeve. I haven’t sworn like that in a while. So now my hand’s sitting in a tray of cold water.
… so you had cold water for dinner?
… maybe
If you want to not have to worry about spilling water, put some icecubes in a damp tea-towel and place it on your poor burnt hand.
Oh and *hugasaurus*.
I would, but apparantly the housemate used all the ice … and frozen peas. Admittedly it was pretty funny seeing me flail my arm around in an attempt to keep it from going any further up my sleeve, I managed to get a drop of the stuff clear up the hallway and into another room. it was a good 10 ish metres. I consider that a mild win. Hugs are always welcome.
You should be very careful with using ice around burns, because if it’s too cold, you can constrict the blood supply to your hand, which will do further damage (weird form of frostbite). :/
Eh, the burn’s not that bad, I can’t really feel most of it except for a little on my ring finger … although that could be from the nerve damage from a few years ago.
I’ll see how I go in the morning. Just kind of dipping it into the water tray for a minute or two at a time and searching for my first aid kit.
Although the concern is touching, blags
3 things.
1: About the previous page…I’ll respond to anyone I’ve neglected in the morning when I’m not so tired.
2: Just watched the first Abrams Star Trek movie with my kids. The little man’s reactions were priceless, but he was very loud in his excitement. Not sure taking him into a theatre for Into Darkness would be wise. 😛
3: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/has-a-single-piece-of-concept-art-ever-sold-you-on-a-game/comment-page-1/#comment-1373605 It’s pretty cool that this guy made an account and responded. And how did he know there was a KotakuUS account? Did anyone else know this?!
Neutral for 1) since you replied to me, upvote for 2), upvote for 3). So 2 upvotes. I can only do one. I did maths for nothing 🙁
1. Never replied to me, so much hat.
2. That was my first real Star Trek thing and I liked it 😀
3. CONSPIRACY
3) I’ve never seen that KotakuInternational user get mentioned, very cool to see a developer make an appearance on a Australian article though.
I’m sitting on a train, but its cold and lonely and it seems to be taking a really long time departing. I think… I think I see @blaghman and @greenius down the other end of the carriage… it could just be two homeless people though.
Choo… choo?
This is the worst hype train in the history of hype trains.
OI BITCHES NINTENDO DIRECT GET HYPE! IT ONLY STARTS IN…
…2 hours and 9 minutes… getting sleepy D:
I think I’ll fill that time with more Arrested Development. Already re-watched like 35 episodes in 5 days >_>
Also:
@powalen @sernobulus @rize @fled
Know your Ninty Direct crowd!
!! T minus 2 hrs !!
You can’t tell me what to do, you’re not my real mum!
Must take a lot of persistence to be in the Ninty Direct Crowd since it seems Nintendo Direct doesn’t have a schedule.
Walking around in the dark and all.
NINTENDOOOOO
This is not the first time I’ve been mistaken for a homeless person.
Ughhhhhh. So tired. Such a long day, too much drama and too much work to do! This Nintendo direct better make me want to buy a Wii U or I’ll be pissed!
Edit: As you can see progress is coming along pretty well. http://i.imgur.com/acETdgf.png
XenUblade teaser 2? 😀
Hopefully! Speaking of which I was playing Xenoblade with my neighbour the other day! T’was great! Unfortunately neither of us can get it working 100% properly in Dolphin though.
And this is why you’re on the list of approved Bens 😀
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/dolphin.jpg
Oh dear…
… 😀
MOAR LIKE SUGHLY NOT WORKING
AMIRITE?
😛
Sugs how come you never played Xenoblade? >:(
*shrugs* iunno
lollolololololololololololololololllllllllll
I’m just going to apologise in advance for any tweets/posts about me commandeering a public transport system that runs solely on hype.
Next station, amazeville
Mr. Zeville, I am disappointed and saddened that it has come to this. You have been a continual thorn in my side but now I must deal with you once and for all.
But you are curious… curious about the details of my plan. As I expect you will not survive the procedure we have in store for you, I see no problem with answering a few questions that you may have.
strokes white cat on lap
Ask Me Anything, Zeville.T minus 87 minutes.
Mmm, adding random things to 2 minute noodles is so good… 🙂
I cut up some chicken and carrots and added them to two packs of beef noodles.
Tasty.
Two in one day?
Damn, I’m good.
You’re good, but not DC good
That said I don’t remember my last page get, it was probably (well actually) not memorableTry mi goreng. It’s better.
Dammit steam, I love you most of the time but when you decide to ‘content conversion’ when I just want to play a game with no way to cancel or play something while I wait, well it is a test of my loyalty to you
Argh. Went looking for the link to the Nintendo Direct and got new Pokemon spoilers.
Ah well. Time to settle in and wait for some gamebombs to be dropped (I actually don’t expect anything new to be announced but still :P)
What spoilers?
I assume it’ll be the new game mechanics and Pokemon announced a few days ago 🙁
SPOILERS: They’re still ugly 😀
I hadn’t seen the latest batch of new Pokemon until just now. Nothing major, but still 😛
Which version do you reckon you’ll get, any ideas yet? I think I’m going to get Y. Just because Yveltal looks badass
Still on the fence. Not worried about version-exclusives because of the amount of people we’ll have playing it (and I’m hoping/assuming a greater focus on online mechanics) so I’ll probably just go with whatever version we need more of (so X at the moment)
I thought X was the popular one? We should do a poll!
I’m going Y
I don’t know where that notion came from. From my memory Y was overwhelmingly more popular than X at the time of the first reveal trailer.
Y was my first-instinct choice 😛
Yeah, but everyone is all “OH MAN EVERYONE WANTS Y SO I’LL GO X” which makes X more popular 😛
Its going to be strange having a simultaneous worldwide release. Normally we get to hear about a bunch of the new mechanics and the full dex for months before release, after it comes out in Japan. I wonder how different it will be this time around
I’d be lying too if I said I didnt go check out those leaks to suss out what I want my team to be :3 I did it to avoid situations of raising shitty ones only to replace them later. Hate wasting levelling up on ones I give up on. alas, it will have to happen that way this time.
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I did the same for B&W. Going through the dex I picked out Samurott, Zebstrika, Chandelue, Ferrothorn, Mienshao and Reuniclus to be my first team. And they all worked out super well. Although this was the first gen where my starter wasn’t even close to my favourite
I kind of like tree headed deer, I may go X
ghey
Could’ve asked for a link 😛
Greenius’ Nintendo Direct Hype Placeholder Comment
Unless there’s no real hype and this remains empty… awksAlso I’m getting sleepy :'(
I AM WEAK.
___
http://www.nintendo.com.au/nintendodirect
Your body is not ready. sadreggie.jpg
T minus 30 minutes
Soooo sleepy 🙁 Caffeine (I love how Firefox’s spell check suggests Nescafe when you spell that wrong) isn’t helping!
What is wrong with you guys, geebus! Kids these days
It’s hard and stressful having to spend the day pretending I’m not a kid!
:3
zZZZZzZZZZzZZZZZzzzzzzzz
Well that was rather bad :/
Just spotted a very rare AUS PAL version of Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, I’ve seen American copies go for $200, scary to see how high a Australian one will be when it ends.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/fire-emblem-path-of-radiance-for-gamecube-and-wii-/400488205230?pt=AU_PC_Video_Games_Games&hash=item5d3ef50bae&_uhb=1
Also Nintendo Direct in 30 mins, hype!, okay, back to lurking eBay.
Ever get your GBA player? 😀
Nah my standards are to high and my wallet is to low, which can’t work in unison.
Really? Ive been watching copies recently caus I got into the 3ds one, last one I followed went for around $110?
I just searched some buyouts and assumed it averaged that, you’re probably correct, but I can assure you this version will go for something stupid.
Its weird how that can happen though. Whys that? Caus he’s worded it in a certain way? I think it was only last week a similar copy went for $110ish (I’m not doubting you at all though, I’ve seen it before, and this ones already got bids at 100 with 6 days left)
Any product that was intended for Australian retail usually fetches a higher price due to it’s limited supply I can’t really explain why except I think it has something to do with Australian collectors hating imports.
Anybody care about the Office finale? Anybody seen it?
I thought it was nice without being spectacular. Much like the show overall, really. Still, I enjoyed it and there were definitely some satisfying character conclusions. I especially liked that Michael Scott appeared. I kinda expected that he would – in fact, it would have been a massive shame if he didn’t – but everybody involved with the show did a really good job of keeping it a secret. They’d been saying for months that he most definitely would NOT be returning!In summary, if you’ve watched the show for any length of time over the years, it’s worth catching the last episode if/when you can.
I finished it about 20 minutes ago!
I thought it was a decent conclusionAfter thinking about it a bit, though…
…Andy’s conclusion wasn’t very good. Yeah sure, he says that he’s happy and he gave a nice speech at his university, but he got a pretty crappy deal compared to some of the others. He’s ultimately a sweet guy who wanted love and success, but didn’t see either. I want resolution on his life right now dammit!I saw every episode up to mid Season 7 or so but I just couldn’t stand it any more since it really decreased in quality. I’m all for conclusions though and Dan Tweeted that it was pretty good too so I guess I’ll check it out :). Cheers!
@blaghman I dont think I like Kiki Dee
So many of these songs sound like Disney songs, you will probably love her
The fact that you simply assume that offends me. I will happily spend my life having only heard her in Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart.
It doesnt offend you you liar
Your harsh words against me as a person cut me deep to my core.
Choooo Chooooooo
ITS LIVE WOO
Mario and Sonic ergh next
Gamepad curling. YES.
The graphix actually look pretty cool though.
You know as well as I do the gameplay will be repetitive and droll
The hockey would be cool – anyone remember that hockey game for the N64 (Wayne Gretzky Hockey IIRC) Man that was a great game!
Oh man yeah! I had Wayne Gretzkys! That was a great game. There was one on NES I had fond memories of too, mostly because there was an inbuilt fighting system you could get into with other players 😀
I have no idea what you’re nintalking about.
IT’S GO TIIIIME!
Noooot the best start.
Eyyy I will probs get this game, I miss Warioware
Maybe.
It looks not so good :/
Yeaaaah… I just miss Warioware :'(
Same :'(
Give us a proper WarioWare goddamnit!
I fuckin hate nabbit. Cool that you can play as him tho, I guess
His invincible… hand holding at a whole new level.
I posted before that booooooooo nabbit sucks
If he doesn’t take damage, what’s the point? That seems silly.
So New Super Luigi U gets a packaged copy but not Ace Attorney (boohouhou)
W101!!!!!!! YESSSSSS
That new W101 logo looked amazing.
WOOO 101 RELEASE DATE
I didn’t know there was another hype thread 😛
-_-
I want this game, lots.
Ahhhh that use of the pad as a map is gonna be so so helpful
I STILL DON’T GET PIKMIN! THIS DOESN’T LOOK FUN! HALP ME SUGHLY!
YOU CANNOT BE HELPED IF YOU THINK THAT >:(
I reaaaally think you have to play it to understand it.
I’VE NEVER PLAYED PIKMIN! I DON’T GET IT!
Then you will need to play it.
Get pikmin and throw them at shit and they kill it or pick it up thats it! Woo woo pikmin is so fun, SO FUN
WHAT CONTROL SCHEMES YOUSE GOING?
Gamepaaaaad
Wiimote pointer controls works so much better for Pikmin!
Actually I hadnt even thought about that. Dammit. I just wanted to have a map there :'(
Can you leave the pad out as a map anyways while you use the pointer? I guess so..?
They said you could use wiimote controls and gamepad map at the same time in the video just then, didn’t they? Am I imagining things? (It’s possible I’ve gone crazy)
Yep and they said you can use Wiimotes and use the Gamepad as a monitor – my jaw literally dropped when I heard that!
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate has that 😛
They said you could use it as a monitor (like off-screen play but using Wii-Mote) but I’m sure it’ll work that way as well :P. I don’t see why they can’t have it showing a map!
Awww… thats it XD
NO WIND WAKER INFO NOOOO
But yeah I’ll definitely be getting a physical copy of Luigi U, no way I can rely on Nintendo E-Shop.
Does the WiiU have the same animation as the 3DS when its downloading?
No
I think it’s just your standard progress bar :/
Even some moving footage would have been nice :'(
Probably the worst direct yet 😛
Hahaha, what a massive troll. “Here’s all the games you already knew about – except Sonic. Woooo Sonic”!!
That said, I’m glad that Pikmin and stuff are coming out pretty soon. They’re gonna have to drop some E3 megatons now though…
So neither nothing new or interesting? Just reiterating what everyone already knew with some lame additions?
Some one fill me in here?
Apparently we’re excited about Pikmin?
I don’t know. I still don’t see myself playing much Wii U.
Play Pikmin already you heathen
What if I do and I hate it? I can’t take that kind of pressure.
Then you speak no word of it and try to hide all incriminating evidence.
Essentially. Woooooo!
MARIO AND SONIC RUSSIA CURLING THINGS YOU CAN’T DO IN REAL LIFE MIXED EVENTS!
Yeah you got it. Theyre like yeah were doing a sonic game but we’ll tell you bout it later lololol
Oh I actually forgot about that. Brand new Sonic action/adventure game. Nothing shown but a picture…
So… anything interesting going on?
Picked up IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 off of GOG.com for $10.
Gee. Hope Nintendo are saving a few titles for E3 or something 😛 Not much coming this year (though what is coming looks pretty schmick)
What, youre too good for my choo choo thread now huh? HUH? *shoves into locker*
*Rescues Pow from the Locker*
It’s cool Pow, don’t worry. He does it because he’s sad, and his father drinks.
*pats Pow reassuringly on his back*
Edit: Wait, I was assuming you put him into a locker, rather than just pushing him into the side of one. … … Welp.
He hit me here and here *points to feelings*
If they don’t announce anything notable by than they are probably throwing in the towel for 2013, can’t blame them hard to compete with two consoles emerging, maybe they were scarce on details this time because of the Xbox being announced next week, didn’t want to get overshadowed.
Ooh is the new Xbox next week? That should fire up some discussions.
Oh I forgot about that! Except it’s at some absurd time like 3am on a Wednesday or something…
Well that was kinda lame.
Pikmin 3 looks really cool though. WTF was with a countdown in the form of minutes though in Warioware? It should’ve been 2 seconds left, not 2 minutes!
Overall? Still not convinced. I’ll have to wait and see what’s shown in their E3 period presentation. And by that I mean really seriously pull out the big guns.
BED TIME!
If they don’t announce and I mean ANNOUNCE the new Wii U Zelda then >:(
I’m pretty sure there were announcement trailers for both TP and SS. Both made me very happy :D. Every now and then I’ll watch the footage of TP being announced and the crowd going wild, makes me laugh every time 😀
Pretty much the only thing that will make me buy a Wii U is a new Zelda game 😛
If they don’t go the route of the tech demo they showed though, then I’m still not sure if that’s enough. Coming from a massive Nintendo fan, I honestly think the Wii U is the stupidest console ever made. Even the Vita looks like it has a more promising life ahead of it.
Does it though? 😛
Vita is getting pretty much no support. Let’s face it, crappy support is better than no support!
Hey. Hey. Hey.
Vita has those 12 Monster Hunter clones.
Not in English!
At least it’s region free 😛
We’ll see 😛
But yeah, I stick by what I said! I’d expand on it but I can barely keep my eyes open.
They won’t, it would take focus away from the 3DS one and Wind Waker remake. New Wii U Zelda is probably years away, same as X.
They can still tease it but I’d prefer a proper announcement trailer. They did it for TP which was years away and since they’ve already talked a tiny bit about the Wii U Zelda it’s not too unreasonable. You’re right though and they’d probably either briefly tease it (like the pic of Fi and Link for the SS teaser) or just talk about it some more (like they did in the direct a few months ago) :/
Eff this im gon bed (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Just make sure you don’t flip the bed.
Sort a wondering, did anyone else’s jaw drop completely when you saw Nabbit was invincible, I could hardly believe it.
Why would Nintendo would do something like that lol.
I wouldn’t say “jaw drop” but I was like lolthatsstupid but then Nintendo… so stupid isn’t a surprise 😛
Kinda makes it unfair if you’ve got a proper 4th player (and not someone who really needs it) but I guess the game would be incredibly easy anyway with 4 people.
Random coloured Toad still seems like an odd choice to me :/
Eh, I dunno. It’s optional so I don’t really mind. I’ve tried to play Mario multiplayer with non-gamers before and they just get frustrated so it could be helpful.
I’m more surprised that Luigi U has multiplayer at all! I thought it was meant to focus on single player.
Actually, the one glimmer of hope I get from this is that Nintendo are willing to have 4 player multiplayer where all the characters don’t control the same. Hopefully the next NSMB stars Mario/Luigi/Toad/Peach and they give them the different stats like in Super Mario Bros 2.
But what if Toad is OP and everyone wants to pick him and all those lovely people who choose Luigi are disadvantaged by this filthy cheating Toad?
>:(
I see what you did there (I think)
Mario Kart woes :'(
It’s optional? so you can play Nabbit without his invincibility? or do you just mean you can instead pick a Toad/Luigi.
Oh sorry, I just meant it’s not affecting me playing Luigi U as a single player game.
My thoughts on the Nintendo Direct (Disclaimer: I don’t own one but my body is ready for a reason to get one)
Mario & Sonic: YAWN – not a system seller, tis cool and everything but really only something you get if you have kids and already own the system, not to mention a multitude of Wiimotes or something
Sonic exclusive on Nintendo: Nice, I think Nintendo needs more stuff like this and Sega’s less likely to pull a Ubisoft, although you can see that they’re hedging their bets by hitting 3DS as well
Game & Wario: The last Wario game I played was on the Game Boy, this is quite possibly the weirdest trailer I’ve ever seen, though it did look like some interesting ideas, I wish though seeing that logo they’d put out a new GAME & WATCH gallery with some of the more obscure stuff like Goldcliff or Climber
The Wonderful 101: Very pretty logo!
Super Luigi U: I gotta say I am pleased they’re releasing it as stand alone content (taking a leaf from Blood Dragon, Undead Nightmare and a few other DLCs which are doing it right)
Also I’m quite taken with the idea of this Nabbit character, though I wish Nintendo would cut down on the Toads in these games and either bring back the princess as a playable character, or stick Wario in there.
Pikmin 3: I have more of an idea what Pikmin is about now than I did back when I owned a Gamecube, I was never game to spend $50 on it back in the day incase it wasn’t my cup of tea
Hasn’t been much Game & Wario talk so I’ll add to it:
Yeah, I didn’t think the trailer was too great either :/. I think the last time we got a PROPER WarioWare game was like 6 years ago on the Wii and that one wasn’t too good. Loved the GBA and DS WarioWares though and it’ll be great to have a proper one on Wii U but… yeah, that’s not the case :'(
I think that Game & Wario trailer is a good example on why a lot of Japanese games don’t go western, they are simply weird.
I’m guessing Nintendo think since it’s targeted at younger audiences and believe children aren’t able to discern the clashing cultures.
Noooo wrong wrong! The original Warioware games were amazing! I think they were pretty popular too? And they were totes bizarre, its what made them great.
How can Nintendo drop some megatons at E3, let me think:
Revive F-Zero – the Gamecube game looks amazing, just make that in HD
A HD Wave Race – there hasn’t been a good jet-ski game since the last Wave Race, just call it Wave Race 3 instead of something dumb like “Blue Storm” and tie it in with some jetski companies to make it all legit
A new first person Metroid
A Mario Game that is like Mario 64
A new Star Fox with the same gameplay as 64, but with 4 player co-op (where each one can play one of the main characters) and 16 player competitive space dogfights – make it happen Nintendo!
Revive something unexpected like Star Tropics or Balloon Fight
Revivie something really unexpected like your old Game and Watch games, someone the other week on YT was crapping on about playing an uncharted game without the rampant murdering, Nintendo has an old G&W platformer starring an archelogist: Goldcliff, how about Climber, a vertically scrolling, widescreen platformer from 1986 which is based on Ice Climbers but way more fun than that game.
Make your next Donkey Kong game a throwback to the original (and the GameBoy revival) but in 3D, don’t ask me how they’d do it, but I want it!
Talk to free to play devs, not everyone has a PC able to handle some of these games coming out these days, those devs will want them on consoles because that’s people playing the game without the hardware hassles. Sony has the right idea courting all those F2P devs for PS4, Nintendo needs to do the same, in fact they’re the only console on the market set up to accommodate that old PC staple – the hotbar!
Keep EA away from the platform, honestly if the WiiU takes off it won’t be thanks to EA and if the second the WiiU hits it’s stide, EA will be there looking to flog their latest sports shovelware or Sims tie in – screw them, make them the Tengen of the 2010s
That’s all I can suggest.
Endless Ocean 3. Instant-One-Man-Powalen-Hype-Train.
Oooh! I had Endless Ocean 2!
I’d be more than happy with some release dates for the stuff they have already announced, Nintendo need to be more punctual.
Don’t forget Retro’s new game!
what was it again?
It hasn’t been announced yet which is what makes it interesting considering their track record 🙂
Staff Locks!
Huh… apparently Japan gets Yakuza 1 and 2 HD and Americans get to play E3 games at Best Buy :/
Lucky.
Something cool to end the evening.
Goodnight, everyone.
+1 for the dood watching peppa pig! GEORGE!!!!
Peppa Pig is pretty lame mang XD
Its like, one of the worst cartoons Ash used to put on that I had to endure.
It’s certainly not the best show out there, but George is just so kawaii!!!!
Everyone loves jumping in muddy puddles!
Wait, so.. Ninty’s going to help make the next sonic game?
Because.. that’s good.
Hey Saturday!
I finally found some Jones soda.
In a Korean supermarket.
Yeeahh I get mine from a asian supermarket as well so it’s alll good.
Now unto more pressing matters Bishfrond- which flavours did you aquire?
ALL THE COLOURS OF THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS
Green apple, Strawberry Lime and Orange & Cream.
What do I have first to prepare my tastebuds for the majesty of this moment?
Green Apple > Orange & Cream > Strawberry Lime
Stay thirsty, my friend.
Does anyone want to have a crack on giving me some tips for Fire Emblem. I keep just scraping through with only one or two people alive still. And it’s still only early game.
I’m the worst tactician.
Somebody say FIRE EMBLEM
because seriously I might never finish the game I started a new save game on Lunatic/Classic and I can’t get past the first level dear god I’ve spent more than 4 hours on it somebody call help I see frederick on my ceiling at night
Anyway, all I can say is that if you feel like you need to grind, summon up a bonus map or fight some risen if you need to- no real downside to grinding. Stick to letting your bestest units go in front and attempt to get the weaker units last hits. Always pair people up when you can/make sure they stand next to each other. Sometimes, it’s actually easier to stand still the first turn and let everybody come to you.
By mid game, you’ll tear up the competition, it’s only early-game where it’s a pain in the tuchus.
Yaaaay I do all these things! #doingitright
I definitely did a lot of charging in, and not appreciating what each person was good for. I had much more success when I started pairing more, keeping people in tight groups, and strategically levelling people up from the back lines like you say.
Agree with Saturday.
Don’t underestimate Support bonuses. Extra hit and dodge stats with the chance of blocking is always helpful.
Don’t be afraid to turtle, either. I don’t remember any maps where there were infinite reinforcements, so if you want to take it slow, take it slow.
Take advantage of map bottlenecks. Pegasus, Falco, Griffon and Wyvern Riders obviously throw a spanner in the works here, as well as some long distance mages, but it still manages to hold reduce their damage output.
Great now I want to play FE instead of working, thanks dickman
Yeah, no turn-limit missions in this game (except for minor things like catching thieves before they loot the map).
@freezespreston Everything people have said above is good! Also make sure you always have the enemy-range overlay turned on (press X I think). I also find it handy at the start of the battle to go through the enemy team and manually highlight enemies that have bows or high-critical-chance weapons (range gets highlighted red instead of purple) to keep your pegasus/wyverns safe.
EDIT: Another tip that I’m not sure if you know: Your Healers (especially units that can only heal) should be healing someone EVERY turn, even if it’s just for 1HP. It’s the only way they gain experience so you want to use them as much as possible! Also, obviously, keep them out of enemy ranges.
Thanks guys. Something to keep in mind.
How do you summon bonus maps or fight risen?
Once in a while, a team’ll just spawn on the map. You’ll notice it when it happens. Roll over to them, kill them in the face, keep the loot and exp. Simple.
To summon bonus teams (Mind you, they don’t drop any items/gold so you will wear your items out from grinding too much) go the main menu on the map, then wireless –> bonus box —> bonus teams. The same menu with bonus teams on it has spotpass maps available and free items that are pretty awesome.
You can also buy Reeking Boxes to summon Risen on the overworld map.
Fuckin fire Emblem fucking fuck
o_O
Settle, petal.
Trying to do the babeh mission for Cherche on hard. SO HARD! T_T
I KNOW RIGHT
SERIOUSLY
OH GOD THERE’S EVEN A LUNATIC+
Super late to the party, but on that Nintendo thing:
There were no real surprises. Pretty much your standard Nintendo stuff. That Luigi expansion looks okay, and it’s pretty cool they’re releasing it as a standalone. A lot of that other stuff wasn’t really my cup of tea, the Warior thing looked super odd and the sonic winter games thing was just your standard minigame game, but it looks like stuff that will appeal to a casual crowd so hopefully they’ll sell some more Wii U units because of it. That Resident Evil thing was obviously thrown in so Nintendo could still maintain that they’re appealing to the hardcore as well as the casual, but I’m not sure many people will be interested in a port of a year old 3DS game.
Was a bit surprised there was no Zelda. I imagine a new Zelda game with realistic graphics instead of the cartoony ones of the past few games would get quite a few people interested and be a system seller, which is what Nintendo needs right now. Even one with the cartoony graphics would probably help. I’d also say giving Metroid the Tomb Raider treatment and rebooting the series as a shooter with an indepth story that aims for an MA/equivalent rating would help move some systems.
It’s all just further proof that they weren’t ready to release the system. They needed another year or so. Unfortunately with the Wii sliding out of relevance they were kind of forced to.
Honestly I feel they should drop out of the console business, focus on handhelds and making great games again. Never going to happen but still.
That is a pretty interesting whatif though. Can only imagine how pretty first party Nintendo games would look on a PS4…
After this Nintendo Direct I am still completely uninterested in Wii U.
But you were interested in “X”/XenUblade so that’s not exactly 100% uninterested 😛
Interested in getting more news about the game. Not interested in the game if it turns out to be a monster hunter clone.
If someone bought me one, I’d play it. Not buyin’ myself one though.
Let the world know that if you’re ever in a post-apocalyptic resistance force and you’re worried about government spies ruining things, you want @FatShady around. He’s a terrible spy, so if you have any doubts about him, just shoot him. Simple.
He was dreadful. But so was my sister. And she was always a spy.
Oh lordy, FINALLY did this Cherche babeh mission on hard, and only lost one of about 5 villagers. I will take that. Phew! Easily the most challenging thing so far, had to perfect it completely :/
But you didn’t. You lost a villager.
Go back and do it again. Properly this time.
NO! YOU CANT MAKE ME! I saved it and I’m never going back, good riddance to him! >:|
Panne’s kid mission is pretty fun.
If you ever want to see how your best character does against, like, 40 dudes, that’s the one to test it on.
Yeah I did that on easy mode (or normal, whatever its called)… not sure about trying on hard :/ Didnt really use panne this time either
@greenius
On Indie games coming to Vita
Other than Dragon Fantasy (I just found out Terraria is PS3 only ) I’m not sure. Sony made an announcement recently that they were bring a turd load on indies to both PS3 and Vita this year, but I’m guessing cos contracts are yet to be signed or whatever that they can’t make any official announcements. But they have invented the Indie Games section in the PS store now to accommodate. I’m keen, I miss out on indies cos I’m backed up with “AAAs”, portability will sort that shit.
Also, Sony announced something about Unity engine compatibility, so it will be easier to port anything made in Unity to both Vita & PS3. I’m foreseeing a lot of cross-buy stuff in Sony’s future 😀
This is sorta a losy point cos WiiU will support Unity too (but 3DS isn’t? *facepalm*)
😛
I think you also miss out on a lot of indies because you don’t really game on PC either. I know at least for stuff like Thomas Was Alone and Hotline Miami it’s just PC ports and both went to PS3 as well.
Oh yeah, but being on PC would be no different than console if I did play. It’s still time spent at home gaming, which I don’t get a lot of.
Prolly said this a million times before but it’s extra impactful because indies are often tricky: by the time I do sit down to game at home it’s quite late and my brain is fried.
I was a night time gamer back in the day, but now I’m burnt out by that time :-/
For instance, I grabbed Cave Story on PC and didn’t even get past the first level :-/
Got it on 3DS and nearly finished it in a week or two (got stuck and bought a Vita and haven’t gone back, woops)
Here’s a bit of a silver lining for all those bummed out by last night’s Ninty Direct: http://www.vooks.net/next-nintendo-direct-will-feature-mario-kart-smash-bros-and-3d-mario-for-wii-u/
If they can bring themselves to release a non gimmicky, proper 3D Mario then I will be so there.
Galaxy 1 and 2 werent gimmicky, they were awesome!
The whole spherical worlds and platform thing did my head in and I couldn’t do it.
More my problem but still meant I didn’t really enjoy it. Much much preferred 64.
I finishe dGalaxy one but had no desire for 2 :-/
3D land was the best since 64 imho (3D games I mean, NSMB1 is awesome!)
Galaxy 2 was amazing :P!
I liked 3d land, but galaxies (both of them) were way more interesting I thought
@jimu just hates the Wii and console gaming 😛
IT’s kinda true, but I gave G1 a chance. I don’t just dismiss games because of console.
I just liked the simple 2D like goals in 3D land.
@sughly
I think the whole giant universe feel just didn’t work on me somehow. I could hear the huge music and everything and I just wasn’t there :-/
I appreciated the gameplay more in G1 when it got frustratingly hard. I remember having to replay a dessert level heaps, it had the moving floors and fuck…it was a challenge.
Yeah, 3D Land was a good mix of 2D and 3D Marios which I enjoyed. I grew up on and prefer 3D Marios though so I enjoyed Galaxy 1 but something about Galaxy 2 just really clicked and I loved it. Felt like it improved on G1 in almost every way.
How much of G2 did you play?
Ummmm, totally posted this on the next page. *sigh*
I posted about this before it was cool
I posted about this after it was cool
it was never cool
I was going to post that to Sughly but couldn’t think of a way to say it :P. Figured you’d post it though.
Never cool? Cool enough for a Jemu upvote!
🙂
https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/335416341957844992
🙂
Expected but official confirmation is good.
@jimu (saw replies on phone while computer froze but it’s easier if I just reply here) 😛
Catherine:
I swapped to Easy around the 3rd night and I’m just about to finish the 6th. It is getting difficult on Easy but it’s manageable since I have a ton of Replays. It wasn’t too bad on Normal and I was making slow progress but I just kept burning through Replays that it got frustrating :(. The game seems fairly short (it’s only like 8-12 hours isn’t it?) so seems easy enough to replay for a “bad” ending, but the puzzles won’t be too fun to replay :P.
I like it but I prefer if there was less of a rush or didn’t have annoying enemies standing in your way. I’d like it more if it was like that arcade game Rapunzel. No time limit but move limit so you have to think carefully 😀
Voice actor stuff:
Yeah, lotta same people used! At least it was a nice change when they use UK voice actors (Xenoblade, The Last Story) but it’s mostly Americano 😛
I hate Rapunzel, I know what you mean, but it got to a point where I just couldn’t beat a level. I was totally stuck. So no time limit sounds nice, but it’s actually WAY harder because there is only one answer to the problem not multiple.
I switched Xeno over to Japanese as soon as I could, never played Last Story cos Ozgame fucked my order and it sounds like a 3rd person shooter and fuck THAT.
I can’t remember how long Catherine is, took me aaaaaaaaaaaaages cos I’m shit at it. I had a few months break in the middle cos Pokemon or something came out while I was playing. So maybe, if you’re good, Catherine would be short, but not for me and my lack of SKILLZ.
We’re getting Wonderful 101 a month earlier than the US as well. Kinda weird 😛 It’s going to have multiplayer too so that might be good!
I’m let down about the Luigi DLC though. In the US it’s a $20 download (which is the perfect price for it, I think) and the retail version is $30 (which is also pretty reasonable because it’s a physical product and you don’t need NSMBU to play it) but Nintendo Australia said our retail version is going to cost $60! If that means the download version costs $50 for us then I’ll probably pass :\
I did see that, thought it was weird :D. Is UK getting it early too? I thought PAL was September and August was for US but I guess it’s the other way around. SCORE!
Bit of a bummer about Luigi DLC too. He’s my bro and while I wasn’t a fan of NSMB U or DLC I probably would’ve checked it out if the price was right but we know that’ll never be the case :P. The retail announcement was pretty cool (green box!) and means it could drop in price but he said it was a limited time only thing so that won’t happen either :'(. I think we can still access the UK eShop though so it might be slightly cheaper there.
Ummmm, totally posted this last page. *sigh*
Well, you both wasted your time, when hasn’t Ninty done this?
:pYeah but it’s at the bottom of the page and NO ONE GOES THERE
😛
We posted it at the same time, you just lost 🙂
#winning
So wait… appart from Sonic, there was no new news in that Ninty Direct?
Fuck, glad I went to bed. :-/
Join the long line of people trickling in here today saying the same thing
Do you have numbers? I’d like to take a number and sit down.
With any luck they were just clearing out the less important stuff before the big E3 Nintendo Direct(s)
…I’m not confident enough in the WiiU right now to bet on that though 😛
same 🙁
This’ll sound trollish but it’s just the gosdarn honest trooth:
I was more excited about Final Fantasy VIII getting a HD port on PC than I was about anything on Ninty direct.
I have no intention of ever buying this port. :-/
Uh that’s not really trollish because there was pretty much nothing on Ninty direct 😛
I just don’t want anymore downvotes OK?
I hand em out like it aint no thang and then when I get one my heart breaks *sob*
>:)
:pAlso I don’t think anyone has downvoted you except when you WRONGLY thought that after the last Direct, Bravely Default news was better then Zelda news 😀
*swears*
If saying Bravely Default is a bigger deal than a crappy-looking, unnecessary sequel to a game that no one ever wanted a sequel to by a company that has repeatedly shown their utter inability to do that sort of game properly any more is wrong, I wouldn’t want to be right.
@jimu made the right call. >:(
HA HA HA!
Hardly trolling when true.
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/sonic-hedgehog-re-mastered-now.html
I want this…on something other than a phone :-/
edit: I don wanna await moderation 😀
@greenius
This may* change your mind about the Vita:
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/ps-vita-to-have-surprisingly-big-show.html
*won’tAll my comments keep getting moderated, prolly cos I keep linking the same bloooooooooooog
Hey, I’m all for Vita support 🙂
I just found this statement amusing
a teaser for a teaser for an ad :-/
I wrote this a million-million years ago but the moderation fairy hats me
“Coming soon for Vita, another 26 games to try and plug that Monster Hunter sized gap in its library.”
Personally, I’m hoping for a Persona related announcement somewhere at this E3. Shut up, I’m not an addict.
Sure, but ALL FOR JAPAN. NO ENGLISH GAMES FOR YOU!
Persona something would be good but unlikely, I think 5 is supposed to be a console (PS3?) release? Maybe we’ll get P5:GoldenFES+ on Vita in a few years after that 😛
I’d love Tales of Innocence or Hearts R but that’ll never happen :'(
I’m dreaming of a cross-play Persona 5.
Personally I think they’d be nuts not to since P4G is so popliar
Prolly unlikely, but a 31 year old man can dream
,kjfkgfkyfkjyrfh6eh54eyu5j
Cross play… on 3DS and Wii U 🙁
Region locked too!
;D
Well, they’ve got something on the cards for 3DS, so I’d love it if they said “Hey, Persona 5, for 3DS and Vita! BAM!”
But then I’d have to make a choice 🙁
UNLESS they were two differentish games :O
BUY THEM ALL
As if that’s even a choice. Unless you’re insane, you’d get that on Vita.
Megaten IV!!!!!
There is a game coming Fate something something, it’s the biggest Persona ripoff I’ve ever smelt
What is it called @negativezero?
EDIT: aaaaaaaaaaaaaand moderated again
What, Fate/Extra? I don’t think that’s anything like Persona.
OK, I’ve confused Fate/Extra’s title with the Persona copy game. Shit…what was it?
If there’s Persona 5 news it’ll be at TGS, not E3. Japan doesn’t give two shits about E3 generally.
I was shocked anyone outside of the press cared for E3, I always new about it, and was happy to hear any good news that arose, but people get excited like it’s a concert or something. The bulk of people that attend seem to be suits advertising. Blergh.
I’d be keen to attend this year because Georgie is doing a signing, I’ve never heard of such a thing at an E3 before.
Dave Cox said: “We needed to make a change, so we did. The Castlevania series wasn’t going anywhere, sales were dwindling and it was appealing to only a very small hardcore base of fans. That’s how franchises die. The success of Lords of Shadow proved to everyone that there’s life in the series yet and that people could accept us going in a new direction, and we can do that again. We have to take these risks if Castlevania is to survive, otherwise it’s just going to be like Mega Man.”
Well, they lost me! (I’m sure they care since they’re making a buttonne more cash now).
EDIT: OK the moderation has just gotten silly now, what’s going on?
Is this in reference to MIrror of Fate? I enjoyed Lords of Shadow so I wouldn’t mind more proper Lords of Shadow type games (3D GoW like action/adventure without the stupid “Colossi” shit thrown in).
RE: Moderation thing – it’s a problem that’s been happening a lot. Just editing your comment will get it out of moderation but it’s weird :/
It’s in reference to FUCK YOU SotN fans!
BOYAAAHGH!kfuoyl
Another SotN type of classic Metroidvania would be sooooo good
Yeah, no-one was buying the handheld ones. Maybe they should have tried doing a console one?
Oh yeah, they did, in 3D *facepalm*
I actually enjoyed curse of darkness, but then I’m a forgiving type,
EDIT: ffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
See, I liked Lords of Shadow but why bring Lords of Shadow into the normal gameplay (Metroidvania) :'(.
That 3DS games seems like a little bit of both but not as good as either.
The new universe just sounds dumb, the whole Alucard thing and the ending of Lords. Not keen, I didnt mind lords but I didn’t finish it and wasn’t too bothered.
Did you ever play Harmony of Dissonance or Aria of Sorrow on GBA or Dawn of Sorrow on DS?
They were all quite good (never as good as SotN)
Yeah, I was going to say “Dawn of Sorrow” as well (probably my favourite of the GBA/DS ones) but it was shorter than SotN and I liked the whole shape shifting thing more than collecting souls/powerups although that is just as good 😀
Wut.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/05/08/merida-brave-makeover_n_3238223.html
The new one kinda looks like a not-that-great fanart 😛
Have they finally announced Kuzco as a disney princess?
No? Pftttt worthless news.
But on track, I find it funny that she was considered a ‘disney princess’ at all. Not that she doesn’t deserve a place, but simply put all the ‘disney princesses’ are stereotypical hyper-romanticized figures meant to appeal to little girls. *shrugs*
Nala D:
But thats the point, theyre proudly using her to try and offer a new way of thinking about female figures. Not much point in saying well weve been sexist all this time, may as well stay that way 😛
What is this even? Whats she even being redone for..?
What the crap is that? What? Why?
My favourite part of watching Brave was it reminded me of just how much of a thing I apparently have for redheads. And being disturbed by how much more of a thing it seems to be than I ever thought.
And also by the fact that she is 16?
Right?
Right?
I’d rate her second only to that babe Stitch hangs around with
Charlize Theron is so pwetty :3
Sooo much incestuous stuff in Arrested Development :P. Hopefully S4 is easy to “acquire” without Netflix and I’m so keen for more 😀
I wonder what I’ll watch after it…
Breaking Bad? Dont you not watch that? You should watch that.
I’ve seen every episode 😛
I’ve been meaning to re-watch it sometime but not feeling it at the moment 😀
Oh. Well… good! Fine! Carry on then…
Mr F
NOPE. I was up to Forget Me Now but now it’s Notapusy… THEN Mr. F 😛
@powalen – it only just occurred to me that you were probably just referencing the episode rather than being Trollalen and suggesting that I watch the episode titled “Mr. F” next 😛
Unless I was right the first time :/ 😀 😛
POKEMON RUMOUR MILL
SERIOUSLY
GUYS THIS IS THE MOST SPOILERY OF SPOILERS EVER
SERIOUSLY.
Seriously.
Hamburger pokemon, evolves into a literal burger kingAlso there’s a bunch of other information but who cares
Forreals? Pics?
edit: Oh… rumour. Sadface.
RUMOUR MILL, GUY, TEXT ONLY. TAKE WITH GRAIN OF SALT.
Also
World Tournament gets giant expansion, you’ll be able to buy clothes/accessories from the participants of the WT, this means you’ll be able to buy gym leader/elite 4 outfits….thats pretty cool if its true
GOTY!
O______________O
I googled “hamburger Pokemon” and someone joked around as it being a Miltank evolution lolololTotally did the same thing
I hate Saturday nights on the internet. They’re so quiet and boring and dull.
Even worse is when the day has been lost to oversleeping (woo, late night beforehand), and being left in a completely dead state where the few things you can think of to do wouldn’t be in any way enjoyable at all.
I want to want to play games.
(not a typo)
Ooooo hadnt seen this trailer before. Kind of super excited for this game… http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/the-wonderful-101-heads-for-wii-u-in-september/
ARE YOU NOT AMUSED @BDKIAF ?!
…
Yes. That looks fucking rad.Actually this getting a date kind of went by the wayside of attention. This is a big deal mang! If your a WiiU owner, you should be excited for it. Because you obviously all have the same tastes as me and therefore I demand your level of interest is on par with mine!
You’re right..
PIKMIN WOO!
Excuse me but he was talking to me since he did reply to me
…probably accidentally :'(YOU’RE RIGHT
PIKMIN WOOO!
WONDERFUL 101 WOOO!
PLATINUM GAMES WOOO!
BAYONETTA 2 WOOO!
YEAH WOOOO! WOOO EVERYTH-… oh. Bayonetta…. ah… mmm…. ehh….
I like the visual style but the gameplay bits look shit.
If it had been a launch game like was promised it’d be a pretty solid thing to get with a system I guess.
Star trek into Dumbness. Hehe, amusing article title. So trolly.
Get with the times. That’s so 2 days ago.
🙁
Welcome to last week.
Welcome to shutup!
Persona 4: Arena – It’s Blazblue meets Street Fighter IV, with the characters from Persona.
What’s not to love?
The Blazblue bit
Get. Out.
XD
Oh? George R. R. Martin is only 64?
I was under the impression that he was like 85 or something 😛
So at the rate everything is going at I wonder what’s going to happen. Will the TV series make it’s own ending? Will it influence that of the books? Do I want to read the books before they’re done? WILL THEY EVER BE DONE? AHHHHHH
Dont follow that thread of thought, it can only lead to bad places
I believe he’s talked to the showrunners about his plans for the books (since, obviously, he already has the overarching story mapped out), so if he were to die or whatever, they’d be able to keep going on whatever vague path there is.
The guy needs to stop fucking around shoving glazed hams down his fat throat and finish the goddamn books. The gap between each installment has been ludicrous.
mmmm glazed hamz
@bdkiaf – Acquire and play Pikmin! I always see the Wiimakes for pretty cheap 😀
I’ve had the Wiimakes of them sitting on my shelf unplayed for years so I hope to play them soon. I played a decent amount of the first on Cube but always said I’d go and finish the first and second before 3 came out. Don’t have much time now!
Does anyone else have the games but never finished them?
I didn’t like the 30 day limit in the first game so I’m glad to hear it’s not going to be in Pikmin 3.
Never played Pikmin 2… (even though that apparently didn’t have it either)
The time limit isnt fun at first because youre new to it, but I like the pressure it puts on you when you understand the game. Just means you have to retry days until youre happy with them, ala Fire Emblem
I didnt finish 2 :3
Because I was obsessed with doing everything, and had no idea the underground bits were randomly generated and was spending all my time down there and cursing the game for being too repetitive ^_^ I should go back and play it properly. Replayed the first about a gazillion times though, because its AMAZING.
JOIN ME IN MY QUEST TO FINISH THEM!
(@POWALEN TOO)
😀
PIKMIN FRONDS
OKAY!
I should do that too. I have both the wiimakes here.
Pretty sure you werent invited
edit – 😛
GET YOUR ELITISM OUT OF HERE, THERE’S NO ROOM FOR YOU IN THIS EXCLUSIVE CLUB
:pIf I already owned Pikmin 2, sure. But I don’t 😛
Haha I knew you were going to be Excusalen but who has a new job and income? 😉
Ionno.
Some boogie woogie on a Saturday night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB-kep46Yc&feature=player_embedded
Thanks @sughly Always great to hear some new music that I like 🙂
Kind of reminds me of these guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvw2cf0DJYA
ah yeah, I love CYHSY! Havent listened to them in ages!
LIFE’S A HAPPY SONG!
I’m not sure if you’d taste good enough to be drinkable…
You may want it now, but tomorrow morning you’d regret it.
LIFE’S STILL A HAPPY SONG! (The Muppets 2011 ending spoilers.)
Don’t do that man 🙁
IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN!
I don’t know what you said before the edit, but I can forgive you because I love the content post-change.
It said:
D.C.:
I choose to trust you in this matter.
Oh D.C. 😛
…I hope you ARE feeling better though 🙁
Damnit DC. Stop editing everything.
http://imgur.com/UNwDOYr
You know, there was something I wanted to say to you, but I forgot what it was…
“STOP EDITING” ? 😀
Shadow of the Colossus:
I’m up to Colossus 9. Like how the battles are basically a puzzle you’ve got to work out then a challenge to implement. Favourite colossus so far was the bird one. It was simple, but fun.My fave boss battles are puzzles, a thing I love about old Zeldas, you have to figure out how to kill them. 😀
DARK SOULS:
@freezespreston @shane @sernobulus @blaghman @alexpants
Best and quickest way to get glowy maggot thingy on my head so I don’t kill myself in The Tomb of the Giants?I haven’t gamed on the PC for a while so I might get back into my Dark Souls game 🙂
Give Chaos Servant 30 humanity, kill ceaseless discharge, go down until you hit Firesage Demon, turn right just before. Get Sunlight Maggot.OR
Get someone to drop it in co op.What Freeze said.
You can also just use a skull lantern, or the Cast Light spell.Used the Skull Lantern on my first playthrough and it ruined my whole shield/turtle gameplay. Don’t have the required stats for Cast Light, so Maggie Maggot seems like my best option 🙂Air Force One is on TV.
Get off my plane.
A question for those who have the PS Vita, is it worth getting?
If so, what are some good games to get for it?
HA!
Games on the Vita. Good one.
It’s a Shakespearean tragedy! 😀
I’m happy with my purchase, but only thanks to PS+.
P4G is a fantastic JRPG/Dungeon Crawler/thing. Gravity Rush is a lot of fun, though by no means perfect. I don’t really know aside from that.
Have you played Guacamelee?
Nope. I only play free games (P4G is the only one I’ve bought)!
You should grab it, it is fackin Amazeballsesez
It depends on the sort of games you like, which region PSN account you link to it, and if playing PSP games as well adds or doesn’t add value for you.
I like mine a lot and I’ve gotten more time out of it than 3DS, but it still really lacks a must-have mainstream system-selling title. Persona 4 is probably the high point so far and while an excellent game, it’s a port. There’s a lot of reasonable games that are Japan-only because no one wants to take a risk on them at the moment. I’ve gotten a lot of value out of mine using it for PSP stuff too. Or at least, Sony’s gotten a lot of value out of me.
Like what pretty much everyone else but Troll S. Preston said, Persona 4: Golden is the only thing out there 😛
That’s completely untrue and you know it. >:( Best thing out there but not the only thing.
Only thing you mentioned 😛
But yeah I guess you’re right (to an extent :P). It’s true for the only “must have” but I guess there are other good games for the Vita (which to be fair is what Craze asked for) – just nothing else really great or amazing.
I’m always arguing in favour of portability. @greenius will tell you that ports like Mortal Kombat are inferior but I say even though it took a graphical hit that the fact I can play it on the bus, train or toilet makes it far superior.
There’s a bunch of different styles of games available now and most of the PSP and PSone games on PSN work on Vita now (they seem to slowly add more).
It’s technically a supi\erior peice of tech over 3DS but I imagine that 3DS will always have a bigger selection of games (thanks to all the shovelware etc)
I like to own both, portability is important to me and I don’t wanna miss out.
I refuse to get PS+ and I still have more than enough games to play (I already have a digital pile) but I bought all the old Final Fantasys and grabbed a bunch of PSP games I missed.
Persona 4 Golden is my game of the year, possibly the decade. I haven’t been this emotionally involved in a game for years, but that’s me so…..
I would argue that there are plenty of gret games on Vita, but as @greenius loves to remind everyone, they are often available else where.
But here’s an example, I own Metal Gear Solid HD collection on PS3, I bought it day one, and excellent game. I played through all the story in MGS2&3.
I love the VR missions that come extra with 2, there’s no way I’d choose to play those over say MAS Effect (which I’m still trying to finish).
So I bought it again on Vita so I can play the VR mission, they are perfect for bus trips etc because they are short.
TL: DR
Yes the Vita is worth getting, there are a bunch of games I would recomend.
Persona 4 Golden
Sonic Racing Allstars Transformed
Mortal Kombat
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
Guacamelee
Muramasa rebirth (June)
Dragon’s Crown (August)
PSP
Persona 3 portable
Dissidia Duodecim
Final Fantasy Tactics The War of the Lions
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
PSone
ALL THE PSONE GAEMZ
Final Fantasy
Dino Crisis
Resident Evil etc
etc
@greenius is a poofNah, he pretty cool guyOoooh, so there’s something wrong with being gay is there?Homophobe :p
Mummmmm Daddddd I think Uncle Jemu drank too much againnnnnn
(reply relevant for @crazyguy1990 too)
I say they’re inferior if you take out portability. Like I said, portability isn’t really a big factor for me so I’ll usually go for the console version, but portability is huge for you so it makes them great for you.
PS+ is definitely worth getting, especially since you (crazy) already have a PS3. Pretty much ALL the games on Vita I was even remotely interested in have been available on PS+ (Uncharted, Gravity Rush, WipeOut, Lumines) as well as giving me a chance to check out games I wouldn’t have normally, and giving discounts on others I was interested in. The Vita selection always seems to be solid each month and even though the games are practically just rents, there’s plenty of time to finish them before the sub expires.
As for the great game things. I feel like if they’re available elsewhere then they don’t really make the “must buy for Vita” list. Red Dead Redemption isn’t a “must buy” for Xbox specifically because it’s pretty much the same on PS3. However, I do feel like it’s a “must buy” game for either console. Same goes for a lot of the Vita games. If you don’t already have it elsewhere and want portability then check it out because if it’s just a straight port on both 3DS and Vita, it’s probably better on the Vita.
I love the Vita and everyone agrees that it’s a great piece of hardware but it needs more support. There’s more than enough games out there to warrant buying one and it’s probably even worth to buy it just for P4G alone and just use PS+ for the rest of the games (that’s what I’m doing). I figured if I was willing to spend about $20 each on a bout 5 or so games, $50-70 a year for PS+ for those games AND more was more than worth it.
I forgot to mention the games like
Gravity Rush
Hot Shots/Everybody’s Golf
Dead or Alive 5(is it 6?)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1&2 (the gore is back)
These games look great, I just haven’t played so not sure. Dead or Alive looks fucking amazing but alas, I am a Tekken fanboi and those controls confuse me :-/
@greeniusOthers?
I’m personally waiting to see if there’s a vita + ps4 bundle.
Hogwarts buddy? :’)
@negativezero
Do you still play Lumines on Vita?
Heh… you know how I only played one game and beat your high score? :P. Well, while I really like Lumines, I kinda don’t want to play it ever again so I can still say that I’ve only ever played one game and beat your high score ;D
😛
I’m a terrible person.Haven’t touched the game since that happened. You basically ruined it for me by making me feel terrible at the game.
😛 aw, don’t be like that. If anything it should’ve given you incentive to play it more to try and beat me, friendly competition and whatnot. If I recall I only just beat you anyway.
But I guess you had plenty of other games to play so it wasn’t high on your priority list (at least I hope so).
That awkward moment where you start Etrian Odyssey 4 and remember “Holy crap this game is brutal at early levels” and spend 3 hours on one floor of the first dungeon only to realise later on you entered the wrong dungeon and that the actual first dungeon is a breeze.
Fire Emblem:
Was playing Chapter 7. One of the enemies killed Frederick in one attack. Everything I have ever believed in was a lie.More Fun!
…again?
…really?
Also, I ♥ TAY.
DARK. SOULS. \o/
Took out Ash Lake and Great Hollow. Siegfriend is dead? 🙁 I think I must have missed some narrative clue, because this seemed kind of random. Oh well, at least I got 10 humanity from his daughter using the Dark Hand, so it wasn’t a total loss (also, a slab). STill, melancholy. GOT THE CHANNELER’S TRIDENT. Never thought that would drop. Only Boss Soul rare weapons to go! Got the all-sorceries achievement after a very brief foray into the DLC area. Wondering if I should continue through that, or just go for endgame.Latest Doctor Who spoilers. And.. stuff.
That’s one way to do a retcon.I’m just grabbing it now, but retcons are a thing I’m used to from comics.
They are a necessary evil
Depends how they’re done though, technicallt Alan Moore’s take on Swamp Thing was a retcon and that is amazing.
Pity they just undone i in Nu DC U 🙁
I figured sooner or later they would delve into exactly what happened at the end of the time war, but to introduce the concept of a whole lost incarnation.. well.. They’re betting it all on this horse, eh? Also, now that we have a “true 9th doctor” we can go ahead with a reunion no problem 😛I’ll get back to you in an hour or two after I watch 😉
Reading spoilers before watching episodes?
What a madman.
Ill have guessed everything before episodes end anyway, GoT it aint
TOP-NOTCH WRITING
Don’t knock Moffat, I love his work.
But yeah, Coupling quality it aint :-/
I loved it, ridiculous, made no sense whatsoever but fantastic!
Love all the bad CG with the old doctors running about. Was great. ZGood to see Smith having a teary.
New Doctor is fun! Cool idea. Not against this kinda retcon at all! 😀 😀 😀
It’s ’bout time we had a older doctor. This also means all the modern doctors are pushed up one slot, meaning Smith’s doc is the 12th. Already, we’re nearing that particular problem of running out of reincarnations..problem? What problem? The Master reincarnated 3 times after his 12th.No problem.
Also, I’m fine with young Drs, Smith does a good job of acting old I reckon.
Little dissapointed an Alien didn’t pop outta Hurt’s chest :pYeah, the Master cheated before to get extra reincarnations, he’s pretty much the one exemption. (might be one or two other time lords, but most definitely the Master cheated this rule.) And I also like young docs, but they kept getting younger after 9th and was afraid we’d go even further this time around. Then again, this is a past version of him, so.. 😛I was hoping the 12th Dr was a woman…no chance for that now :-/Gonna jump in on a point in your discussion, but post it here because I’m lazy:
IIRC, The Doctor had his regens reset at one point, somewhere around the fifth Doctor, so he has a fair number left in him. Also, also, I think it was Tennant, might have been Eccleston, made a comment about being able to regenerate 1000 times, though it may have been entirely flippant.It’s fiction, at any point they can make up any old excuse and do as they please. ESPECIALLY in Doctor Who 😀Just sold my car. I may have taken a while to put it up on carsales.com.au but it lasted a whole of two days on that site before someone took it. Admittedly, I asked for less than I initially wanted but it’s still about half of what I originally paid more than five years ago, so I’m happy.
@saturday
Ohmygod I’ve just had some cream soda Jones and it is like liquid fairy floss halp
I should’a warned you about cream soda.
I didn’t.
Now look where we are.
(Wait this is bad, right?)
It’s nice, but one bottle and I think I have had my sugar intake for the month.
Enjoy your diabeetus.
I think it goes well hand in hand with my impending heart attack!
Is everyone in beddy by bys still?
Imma watch Dogger Hoo
I’m crying in a corner because Uncle Jemu called me bad words :'(
@greenius aint played G2 yet. Plan to borrow from @gutsoup when I shave the pile more (which never happens) :-/
G2?
Galaxy 2. Super Mario Galaxy 2, shaken not stirred.
How funny is this???:
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/final-fantasy-xiii-2-characters-appear.html
Lightning looks bitchin
@crazyguy1990
What’s your verdict on the Vita? Going to buy one? 🙂
WE NEED DEFINITIVE ANSWERS
See above.
It depends on the games, really.
Which games are you interested in? The age old debate of “no gaems” 😛
Wipeout 2048.
i’m not sure about other games…
Haha! 😀
they are good >:-(
It’s stuff like this that has me confused why anyone would be more excited for LttP2 than Bravely Default:
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/bravely-default-new-character-world.html
@doc_what @sughly
because lttp was the best zelda game EVER!
Watchmen was one of the best comics ever and I wasn’t excited for the prequel comics.
Also, was it…reeally?
Would you have been more excited if Alan Moore was writing the prequels?
Yes, of course.I just wouldn’t see it happening though since Watchmen works so well on it’s own which is where this comparison stops working.
LttP got an awesome sequel, Link’s Awakening.
Yes, but it was also made by a very different Nintendo who have subsequently effectively abandoned that style of game. It was a complete experience as far as I’m aware, doesn’t need a sequel, and the one gimmick they’re adding to it looks pretty jarring.
Making a sequel to such a beloved game will guarantee them sales, but it’s super risky. The chances they’ll actually pull it off are really low, much more likely they’ll make something incredibly disappointing.
Dood, noone said lttp2 was more exciting. It was the announcement of it that was more exciting than a localisation announcement we all saw coming.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
*8hugs*
^_^
(So so so so excited for BD)
Did you only just realise this Jemu?
😛
Uncle jemu needs some me time >:-(
You know what looks cool? Bravely Default.
Where Is Everybody?
– Nine Inch Nails – The FragileHanging out with Carmen Sandiego and Wally.
I went out to get an antenna and some chicken curry, but the curry place was closed 🙁
Antenna works awesomely well though!
side vote
D.C. will be back tomorrow! 😀
…waitaminute…
You downvoted me so I’m never coming back.
but my Vita! 😀
I believe there is something wrong with me right now.
I was listening to the new Daft Punk album and I though to myself. “Eh, I can’t really stand this right now.” So I stopped listening to it and put on Skrillex instead…
HALP
HOW DARE YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC YOU LIKE!
BUT I ALWAYS LIKE DAFT PUNK MORE THAN SKRILLEX! 😛
Anyway, I’m over that mood now.
I haven’t even listened to the new album and I’m a fan :-/
I think its got merit, and there’s good tracks, but overall it doesnt compare to older stuff I dont think. It comes off too much as a cobbled guest appearance thing. It’s good, just not great. IMO.
I’m not a huge fan, the old stuff went on & on & on & on & on until I got sick of it 🙁
I love Tron OST & Discovery a whole lot
Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world
That album is my thinking music. I put it on when I really need to focus on something. I think it’s the repetitiveness that helps me think.
You folks are incredibly good people and I’m proud to call you my friends, especially the Brisbane TAYbies — but everyone else too. Things have been so much better since I started posting here. I love you guys. :’)
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Colobus Monkeys are pretty cool too. And Star Trek. And Ico. And Six Feet Under. And Arcade Fire. And Spec Ops: The Line. And The National. And adventure games.
Hey D.C., hope you’re feeling better. For once I’m not going to downvote you for lies and slander, even though I know that you feed off them.
New National Album this week for us non pirating peoples! YAY!
Listening to the Sakura Taisen opening for some reason and it’s still one of the most hype things ever.
And then I get sad that it never got localized until it was too late 🙁
Actually felt like one of the best additions to P4G was the replacement battle theme. Prefer it to this one.
They’re both still there…you should play 🙂
I did play it for a bit. It never really grabbed me though. Too stressful, always felt like I was fucking it up by choosing wrong.
Ha! Really?
I just did whatever, flogged it. Didn’t finish all Social Links or read all the books, I didn’t finish all the quests. But man, did I ever have fun.
I had that trouble with Valkyrie Profile Lenneth, restarted that game 3 times. :-/
Well Valkyrie Profile has the added issues of playing like crap and being boring as well… 😛
Really?
I love it, cool 2D platforming with turn-based battles.
The hard part is preparing peeps for Ragnarok.
Excitiiiiing!! New Coen Brothers getting a good wrap at Cannes 😀 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/inside-llewyn-davis-cannes-reviews_n_3299618.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment
Errr wrap, not rap. They didnt rap.
Ooohh.
Love me some Coen brothers. Their movies are just so damn fun. Even the ones that aren’t really meant to be.
Oh lordy http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/05/17/human-doll-cloning-is-so-hot-right-now-in-japan/
Not sleeping tonight! 🙁
The smiles are the worst part.
As predicted, playing Catherine with wifey watching is somewhat uncomfortable and judgemental.
FSX has a seaplane…
I’m so happy!
:`)
PAX NORTH SCHEDULE:
Day 1, Friday, 19th July, 2013: Only God Forgives movie meat?
Day 2, Yet to be determined.
Day 3: Yet to be determined.
Oh yeah, I should probably buy my airplane tickets for PAX Aus sometime soon…
Just got to convince my parents to let me go by myself :/
Don’t worry, D.C. will be your PAX buddy 😀
PAX North buddy!
Hell. Yes. Is that the day it comes out? I hope its the day it comes out.
Day after release, according to IMDb! 😀
Just played a game of Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small with @freya.
She got mad because I named my animals, they were:
Pigs: Oink, Poink, Doink, Jeff, Jeffe, Georgia, Suzanna, Russia, Alabama and Texas.
Cows: Buttercup, Betsy, Jill, Perstephanie, Daisy, Daisy II and Daisy III (Daisy moved to another stable with her daughters).
Horse: Silver.
Sheep: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven.
Also the little token that decides who plays first was called Pepe.
I won. I think it was the names that put me over the line.
No Jeff with a G? 😛
He changed from Geoff to Jeff after Jeffe showed up.
Perstephanie! cc @strange
Don’t misrepresent me. I wasn’t getting mad because you were naming your animals, it was annoying because you took too long with each turn because you were too busy reciting the names of every single animal every time.
And then you had to think of new names for each new animal each turn and then you’d go through your list of names again.
Really enjoying Catherine. Although the puzzles at times make me want to hurl the controller at the screen. Especially the boss levels that give you zero time to think. But just as I hit that point I suddenly charge up and finish the whole level.
just finished the 4th Day.
That baby was creepy.Hilariously, the stats after each choice show the vast majority of people taking the “safe” choice. Wonder how many were made under duress as it were.
What difficulty are you playing on? I was on Normal but swapped to Easy after the 3rd Day boss level because I didn’t like that the boss levels gave you zero time to think (as you put it). The game was manageable but I was losing more retries than I was getting and it’s much better on Easy.
So I’m guessing your meter is all in the Good/Blue zone? :D. Answered any questions in the minority yet?
On easy. Not playing for any challenge really. Not a massive puzzle game fan. Still giving me a challenge.
haven’t answered in the minority yet but got a few drops back towards red due to a few poorly phrased questions with vague answers.
To be honest Easy is probably what most games would consider “Normal”. It’s still challenging at times but without being too cheap or annoying.
I think I’ve been in the minority twice out of the 13 or so questions I’ve answered. I sometimes get red answers to texts or questions, but overall I’m in the blue. I’ve just been answering truthfully/with what I would normally answer with (without the pressure of someone watching :D)
It’s an interesting game. I think I’m near the end and I’m curious to what the ending is going to be. I’m tempted to play it again but replaying the puzzles isn’t going to be too fun :/
They do that on purpose. Wait’ll you finish. You’ll see what was going on. It’s really a well designed system imho.
I answered honestly. I imagine if I were still single my honest answers would be different Marriage and fatherhood really changed my attitude about some things and re-prioritise a lot.
I want Street Fighter X Tekken now, I didn’t before.
Vita comes with all the characters for no extra cost.
Probably because they have the edition of it coming out on consoles with all the characters
Of course they do #capcom
Luigi’s Mansion 2!
So good!
Checking out the Wii U’s Virtual Console.
OVER $10 FOR SUPER MARIO WORLD AND SUPER GHOULS AND GOBLINS?!?! DA FUQ?
Also, this storefront seems really unintuitive and cluttered.
Super Metroid, 30cents. GOGOGO!
That’s why I was there.
I’m tempted since I’ve never properly played it but I dunnae
Can you buy stuff for whatever price they are or do you have to buy a certain amount of $ or spacebucks first? (ie. increments of $5, 1000 points etc.)
Ugh, Cheapius.
I just spent 30c on my card. That’s it.
DOIT IT’S AWESOME
Also I am a hypocrite since I am being too lazy to turn on my Wii U. And yeah, you can pay for it in an exact amount if you do it with a credit/debit card I think. No spacebux required.
Dood, Super Metroid was the birth of Metroidvania, ther isn’t a better Metroid.
I can’t believe I’m reading this, better be a trolling >:-(
Dark Souls \o/
Currently working my way through the aota content. Just took down artorias on the first try. Man, that was a cool battle. Loved it!I cannot defeat him. I’ve psyched him up in my mind to the point where he is completely unbeatable.If my weekend achieved anything, this would be sufficient:
http://i.imgur.com/91cdD4D.jpg
I REGRET NOTHING.
That looks… Rather expensive 😛
I have no idea at all what you need all that power for, but nevertheless, enjoy!
3 x 6GB GTX Titans in SLI. Only one is mine, don’t worry. I’m not that silly. The other two belong to my silly friend.
Now, if only you can get it up to 88 miles per hour, we’ll see you next Thursday 😛
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Thanks for clearing that up :P. I had pretty much no idea what those things were 😀
*looks up price*
O________O
At least you aren’t crazy enough to have 3 for yourself!
I had to double check they were Titans 😛 They cost 1.5x the entire cost of my computer each!
Obviously if you have one though you’re pretty serious about PC gaming so I’m not going to judge or anything.
Yeah it’s a little bit of extravagance, but I have my vices. They’re a fraction overpriced, but still awesome. I came from 2 x waterblocked 2GB GTX670’s in SLI, and they weren’t cutting it. I was going to waterblock this puppy too, but I’m still not sure. Dismantling a $1300 card for slightly higher overclocks and lower temperatures than the already batshit single card figures I get out of it on air seems a little foolish.
So uh, whatcha doing with the 670s? ;P
Urgh, scabius
Hah! Selling them to the same friend with the Titans, he’s building a rig for his girlfriend.
3000 word social networking assignment due on Friday, 86 words in \o/ I procrastinated so much today I even went and watched college rugby :S (we won 16-0)
THANKFULLY all but 1 class was cancelled this week, so I basically have the whole week off to do it. Unfortunately I’ve become semi-addicted to Counter Strike GO. We’ll see which one wins out.
Easy.
I’m basically going to repeat that many many times in slightly different ways.
Hey, iOS people, this looks pretty fun.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/awesome-city-builder-made-by-the-oz-bureau-of-statistics-is-narrated-by-shaun-micallef/
*Looks over at my Nexus 4*
*Begins to cry*
A little off-topic, but how’s the Nexus 4 treating you? Have you ever used iOS? Because I’m curious how it compares.
I’ve had iPhones since they launched here 5 years ago, but I’m still using a nearly 3 year old iPhone 4, so I’ve been out of contract for ages now and been seriously thinking of upgrading to a Nexus 4 as they’re pretty cheap to buy outright, and there are some pretty good pre-paid offers available these days.
I really like the Nexus 4, its battery life isn’t too bad, it has a lot of grunt behind it, and it’s a really fast thing. Downsides are that it seems to heat up fairly quickly under moderate use, and its camera is pretty terrible. Unfortunately, I’ve never owned an iPhone, so I can’t really compare.
But yeah, I’d recommend them, they’re great value, and I run off pre-paid, since I hardly use my phone, and for that it’s great.
Thanks, mate.
I can’t seem to find any compelling reason to make the change from iPhone4 to Nexus4 anywhere I look, but looking at the dollars, if I by a Nexus4 and like it, I can sell my iPhone4 and get most of my money back, and likewise if I don’t like it, I can probably still get most of my money back by selling it on.
I think I’ll take the next week to ponder my options…
It’s pretty cool! Plus I learnt some interesting things about my town back home too. It’s grown quite a bit in the past 7 years (from ~3000 people to ~5500). I know all the info is available online but it’s a nice way of presenting it. The game itself also gets pretty challenging. Especially when the largest demographic is the over 60’s. (I like to refer to home as the place rich old people go to die)
It is a nice little distraction but ultimately feels pointless. Aside from Micaleffs voice. I wish I could marry that man.
DARK SOULS \o/
BEATEN.DOWNVOTE FOR BEING BETTER THAN ME!
Edit:
Good work.@shane
I FOUND YOUR PACKAGE IN MY BOX AND THEN I CARESSED IT WITH MY HANDS.
Also, thanks man, mucho gracias 😀
Also also, now I’ve got your address. I WILL HAVE RETRIBUTION!*gasp*
You’re the Johnny hunter!
D:
It’s not my real address.
Or is it? You might never know…See you in new TAY everyone!
WOOOOOOOO!
Dear TAY,
How’s things?
Your pal,
D.C.
Meh.
Can’t sleep. Nothing new.
How’s yourself?
Your pal,
SmurfyDog.
Also can’t sleep. Hope you get some shut eye soon, my friend!
Not too bad, Mr. @dc, not too bad.
That’s good to hear!
I watched Eurovision. I have not seen it before. I actually really enjoyed it.
Walked aimlessly through the streets at 2 am. Lots of shifty looking people.
Yeah, you’ll get that at 2am, but it’s still kinda cool being out alone at that time.
I guess that’s what attracts the shifty looking types. Maybe you’re one of them 😛
I totally was. Muttered something to myself and saw guy across the street staring at me. Haha.
I get this too haha!
I’d probably have a reputation by now except lately it’s been too bloody cold to go out 😛
Hurry up 8:30, I need new TAY distractions. 😀
Haha… up early, or up late?
Up always.
Life’s a Happy Song
Edit: Don’t know why I posted that. I’m sorry.
Because it’s awesome (and it’s been way too long since you posted it last time)!
Everything is good, everything is grand…
Damnit DC.