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Howdy folks! I’m back from a weekend at PAX Aus, and ready for a couple weeks in the Captain’s chair. And I’m fairly sure anyone who attended the expo would still be on a gaming high, even considering it being Monday morning. It was a great atmosphere – very inclusive, and very “come and play!” A stark contrast to the E3 that just finished, which was all about shovelling groups of people into a room, showing a demo, and keeping the cattle moving.
I didn’t get a chance to check out the many, many interesting board/card/tabletop games in that area, though – did anyone get a chance to? I was a little busy crashing out of the semi-finals of the FIFA and Shootmania comps. Sadface.
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Morning all!
The Lesser Evil ebook is out! If you care about the environment, or fancy paying just $0.022 per page for epic sci-fi comic adventures, this is the moment of my career that you’ve been waiting for.
https://www.shoplocket.com/products/hFRvt-the-lesser-evil-omnibus
And if this Lesser Evil thing is a mystery to you, here’s some more info!
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
Phew! Now that that’s all out of the way, I’ve got a few minutes to chat. So, how are you going?
Going good Shane, how are you this morning?
I’m cold,Cam.V ery cold. We’re getting wind straight off the snow-topped mountains here in Canberra.
Stuff that gotta pack on those jackets and beanies. It’s cold down here in Melbourne too but the sky..she lies.. All blue sky’s and freezing.
I don’t care about the environment, so i bought the physical book.
There’s a physical copy? @shane why you no tell me this?
Also, it’s worth noting that there is a spelling error in your name in the illustrator credit on Book Depository
http://www.bookdepository.com/Lesser-Evil-Omnibus-Graphic-Novel-Shane-Smith/9781927384107
Thanks, man. I already fixed up the Amazon listing that had the same problem. BookDep is a bit trickier to get to 🙂
I’m working from home today, my legs still hate me after PAX and can barely walk :(… but worth it! 😀
My throat is still feeling from Saturday XD, but it was so god damn worth it! Final count down and bohemian rhapsody were both shown great justice that night
What about Don’t Stop Me Now? 🙁 I thought I did okay 😛
Also for your throat, have some tea, it helps 🙂
This is true, i was actually impressed that you took the stage to be honest… i would not have the guts to grab the mic single handedly, so i take my hat off to you good sir! Bravo!
Hey I was hosting the party (Shoutout to @scree for helping me organise the whole thing btw! :D) I thought I might as well put on a good show myself, especially with Never Going to Give You Up lol
Best Rick-roll ever!
yes, big Kudos to both you and @scree for this… best initiative!
I only organised it because no one else would. Seemed too good an opportunity to miss.
Which clearly makes you and Techy the 2 BEST.DAMN.PEOPLE.EVER!
I think you mean the 2 least laziest people ever.
Will things ever be the same agaaaaaiin?
WHERE WERE YOU?
could have song this in duet!
One day…
Though the way my voice was going i would have been better off singing is Joe Cocker in “Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong”
I’d be down for that.
Morning everybody,
Hope you all had a good sleep and hopefully the drole of Monday-itis isn’t too bad.
My day started with my bird waking me chatting to the birds outside, on the plus side I got a phone call from my boss saying don’t bring lunch your doing a half day so that’s a plus haha.
Going into hermit mode at home for a while after seeing all those people at PAX.
Yay for sleeping.
Also, HANABI!
HANABI
I’m guessing we’re not talking about the Beat Takeshi film…
Nope.
HANABI!
HANABI!
I love that film.
When the hell is state of decay being released in Australia it had been classified but he’s seemed to disappear :p is annoying really want to play it!
Latest estimate is for the hours following 7PM AEST this Friday, according to the last UL Round-Up thread. I hope there aren’t any more delays…
http://forums.undeadlabs.com/showthread.php?22578-Roundup-Thread&p=238616&viewfull=1#post238616
Wicked, wicked – @junglist massive!
I have no regrets.
Booyakasha.
Restecp
lnk cr b82rez 2g4
Was the first one that came to mind, but couldnt remember it fully for the life of me
A mate and I used to quote it to each other all the time in high school.
We were the coolest of the cool.
I always remember losing it during an interview he had with a natural health practitioner discussing the benefits of sperm as a natural product. Miss that show.
The interview with the founder of The Body Shop was pretty great.
“An animal called a crylic. It live in Taiwan.”
Herrow peoples!
It was nice meeting everyone at PAX, finally got to put faces to names. Hopefully I didn’t scare everyone off with my presence 😛
It felt kinda weird introducing myself as ‘nightFlarer’ in person, ’cause I never use that name in IRL haha
As for PAX, I wasn’t as disappointed as others have been, I always go to at least 3 conventions per year, so maybe I knew to what expect? or maybe I didn’t have to travel to another city? Compared to the others I’ve been to, PAX had the best quality. The negatives was that the venue isn’t large enough for the amount of people that came which also caused large queues.
Also got a bit starstruck meeting Shiggy and Doc (I didn’t show it though :P), listening to them speak was like listening to a live Potaku 😀
Hopefully I can meet up most of you guys again in future meats!
As long as you introduce yourself as your handle while doing a power rangers pose, you should be fine
Also, totes knew shiggy and doc before potaku so you know, whatevs *flicks fringe* Also pretty sure I helped name him shiggy.
Ah I was missing the pose, thats probably why it didn’t feel right!
I’m pretty sure I helped named Doc What when he used Watt back in the days haha
There you go, between us we invented them!
I didn’t see ya!
And you saw everyone.
😛
I know I’m so disappoint! Where were you on Saturday?!
EVERYWHERE
-__-
He was the guy in the almost-too-dark-to-be-green-which-disappointed-many-shirt
…
also HI!
I WORE BRIGHT GREEN ON FRIDAY AND SUNDAY!
aaaww 🙁 but… BUT…. aaaaaaawwww… that’s okay, i let people down too, for the lack of horned helmet and manly beard…
One of these could have been helped
I saw a manly beard! Any beard is manly to me since I can’t grow one 😛
took me 4 weeks to grow this baby!
#patchesarecool
Hi guy! There was a few people I didn’t introduce myself to because I usually keep to myself so I’m not sure if I met you and actually was in the presence of @greenius. I was the half-asian guy with the black hoody and green shoes.
i was the guy that got dragged onto the stage during “Land DownUnder” involuntarily and then ran off again
#bestdescriptionever
or the guy that stood tall with @rize belching out Bohemian Rhapsody.
or the guy stood awkwardly in one corner staring at everyone
haha that doesn’t ring any bells, we could of been awkward staring together!
STARING BUDDIES \o/
You’re coming to the next meat!
I don’t think he went to karaoke 😛
Nah seriously, I was constantly walking around between places and seeing different people. I was mostly with TAYbies though and if you ever saw a long haired Dave Grohl lookalike, wearing lots of red, and a tall black guy – I was the green guy with them 😛
hmmmmm not sure if I remember, were you at the joust thing at 3?
Yep, around that time!
Glad I got to finally meet you and so many other TAYbies as well. Such an amazing weekend 🙂
Best. Meat. EVER!
🙁
How soon we forget…
^ Who’s this guy?
He should come to Melbourne!
Likewise! 😀
It was great meeting you! Don’t be starstruck! We’re pretty lame.
We can be all lame together!
I MET A CELEBRITY \o/
that’s totes what you are right? RIGHT?
YOU’RE ON THE INTERNET
*swoons*
@rocketman or @bdkiaf – you guys listen much to Sharon Van Etten? Probably played more of her than anyone else the last few months. Like Aimee Mann, but better. And I like Aimee Mann! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekM-Pfe6QE8
Unrelated, but you check this more than Twitter.
I sent you a DM.
Haha, ahhh twitter is for schmos. Nah actually I’m just lazy.
GUYS!
I need the Tomb Raider & the Bioshock Infinite Steam Trading Cards to craft my Steam Sightseer badge.
If anyone has doubles and wants to put them in my inventory, I won’t tell if you don’t.
I have spare Dead Island, Kerbal Space Program, Football Manager, Reus x 2, Skyrim & Torchlight x 2 if anyone wants them.
daniel12582.
Add that name to your lists.
What happens when you get the Sightseer badge?
I realise how little dignity I have left and I Google “noose knot”.
i feel like a terrible person for upvoting that!
Profile will level up, doing nothing.
*Opens Trench-coat*
I’ve got what you need
I think I need the football manager one – Happy to give you the two you are missing for it once I figure out how to do that…
Yeah, I’m still on Steam probation due to me not buying anything from it since forever.
Once that’s cleared up, among other… conditions, we can come together and trade.
So how did everyone like PAX?
I’ll be reading all the reviews and comments since I didn’t go =(
Also was there no PS4? I haven’t heard it mentioned anywhere… seems strange that it wasn’t there.
Did anyone try the oculus rift? I had a quick go at ozcomicon and while I agree that it needs a bit of improvement before it will have mass market appeal, I was none the less very impressed and excited.
I loved it!
Only went Friday, but there’s was tons to do for one day.
I couldn’t see myself do all 3 days because i didn’t participate in any tournaments or free-plays, but enjoyed the panels i attended and had plenty of time to check the showroom
#dat_indie_section
Overall 4.5/5 horned helmets
I got a few minutes with the Rift playing Mirror’s Edge.
Impressive tech, light and comfortable. I’m definitely going to get one.
Software support is going to be the big thing to make them viable – the demo was pretty much no parallax and head tilt was just bonus mouse movement, but I see the potential.
I got to try it out with lunar flight.
I’m sold, I’ll be getting one. Was only a free set flight but had enough to understand the concept. Head movement was totally independent of controls.
A bit of an issue when you move off the horizontal plane with balance type stuff, feels like you should be tilting or something. In the middle of a game I can see myself falling off a chair.
Sony didn’t bother showing up for some reason. 🙁
Programming lecturer has spent 45 minutes using his r2d2 doll as an analogy…
Well the weekend was certainly interesting. We’ve all agreed it won’t be repeated in quite a while! I hope all PAX goers had fun, even though from what I’ve read it was a bit of a disappointment.
Woke up with Ni No Kuni music playing in my head. A good start to the day. 😀
i told you already D.C,
DS cartridges DO NOT go there!
Pixel! Read your post on the other TAY. I wasn’t there, so can’t comment on you in particular but I’m full of crazy doubt every time I leave a meat and it usually doesn’t go away for a week. You’re always awesome here on TAY, so I imagine it’s the same in real life!
Also, want some rye? Course ya do!
thanks dude, i go through phases like that, so i really appreciate it…
Certain people are trying to educate me on how not to care, and i’m getting better at it, especially at work.
But when it’s people that I actually care about and i believe their opinion of me matters, that’s when the over-analysing happens…
Also, you’re a pretty rad dude yourself, you should come to melbourne so we can wallow in doubt together XD
No Melbourne. EVER. >:|
😀
I’LL EVEN SHOWER, I PROMISE!
Don’t fall for it, @dc.
He might. Not. Even. Show. Up >:(
Yeah, but the same could be said for me… *thinks back at PAX North*
Also. NO. MELBOURNE. EVER. >:|
😀
Pixel and DC meat write-up
*crickets chirp in empty square*
@sughly: The Cave is $6 on Steam for another hour, I’m pretty sure you don’t have that game? It’s fun and definitely worth six bucks!
naw man! totally want that… DAMN YOU WORK PROXY!
Someone buy this game for Pizzel!
Someone DON’T do this XD, people are waaaay to generous as it is
Someone. Buy. It. I’ll send $6 to whoever does.
>:|
If I had money on the nets, I would. =(
You got Paypal? I can send $6 to you via Paypal now. Would that help?
i will hurt you…
But not your face
i like your face.
pretty face.
my face.
…
I do have paypal. I’m worried I won’t make it in time though.
@dc, got a spare $6 for a temp loan for a rye buddy? I’ve got my moolah here, ready to send you instantly…
Aw, would like to, but can’t really do it right now. Only 15 mins left on the clock too! :S
Paypal? Can transfer to you pre-purchase, so you not out of pocket…?
#OnACrusade \o/
I don’t even have Paypal. D.C.’s living in the past, Shane. Living in the past!
Okay, okay everyone, I have made the gift purchase. I will need to add Pixel to my steam friends list to send it to him later tonight.
Aw, @benny, sorry man! One of us just stole the other one’s thunder – time will tell who stole whose 😛
BTW, I have some Mario games that arrived recently that I believe you were keen on. We need to get in touch!
Did anyone get him the game? If not ill buy it now even though it’s back to $10
Yep, @benny and I both did apparently!
This!
Get it Krams.
Or else.
http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/only-god-forgives-sword-thomas.jpg
Sword? Looks more like a cane knife.
Who are you, the URL police?
http://www.police.com/url/cut-the-cheek-son-im-issuing-you-with-a-formal-warning
I bought The Cave. I also bought FTL and Dragons Lair.
I played The Cave three times back-to-back and was thinking about playing again this weekend. (Decided not too, though.) Flawed but great game though.
Bought. Better be good *glares*
Oh, it is. It is. *glares back*
Unless you were glaring at Ron Gilbert. *glares at Ron Gilbert too*
Uh oh. @Dc hyped it up so it’s just going to be another Spec Ops and The Last of Us fiasco. Good one D.C….!
Nah, @Sughly was into this before I even mentioned it. Ron Gilbert. LucasArts. Double Fine. I think he also knows it ain’t really an adventure game too. 😀
Doesn’t mean he’ll like it though!
Saying it’s fun and worth $6 isn’t exactly hyping it either. XD Also, I played it three times back-to-back, so I liked it. *shrugs* 😛
I’m just messing with you Mr. D.C.
Spec Ops, The Last of Us and even if @sughly dislikes Cave ain’t got nothing to do with you 😀
Morning all! I am so physically tired from PAX, but hell I had fun.
Friday was spent mainly lining up for everything, did end up giving Saints Row IV demo a try. Went to the Penny arcade make a comic/Q&A on Saturday morning, which was highly entertaining (from people seemingly trying to start State Vs State and Capital Vs Capital fights, to Mike and Jerry trying a Vegemite sandwich, and of course seeing the comic being created), and I tried out the Pikmin 3 and Super Mario 3D World demos on Sunday. Of the two levels I got to play through in 3D Land – I was 2nd best in it, and the boss level – I lost power ups, and spent most of it just running around in circles trying not to die. It was really fun, as was Pikmin 3.
The rest of PAX was spent mainly hanging around the Nintendo section, purchases, and hanging in the beanbag lounge area playing Mario Kart 7. Also loved getting all the Streetpass hits.
Glad you had a good time. Did you end up meeting any TAYbies?
Also PIKMIN 3! WOOOOO! 5 Days away!
Unfortunately not, kept mostly to myself there. Maybe next time!
I got to play Pikmin 3, it was awesome. =D
Of course it’s awesome. It’s Pikmin 3. (That’s what I tell myself so I don’t get jealous. XD)
Please… please don’t talk about how many Street Passes you all got.
My bastard gland is already working overtime pumping jealousy into my system that it could rupture.
I… forgot my 3ds /o\
#failsatlife
Hahaha, oh, man…
Morning everyone.
I slept so well and I am now eating normally so I am pretty damn happy. I will do a pax write up soon (I want some breakfast first =P) I have lots of images, a lot of them are Elizabeths on request of my mother (sorry about that). Also loads of lol ones.
Hope everyone is having a good day so far
Can i just say, AMAZING job on the cosplay Scree, i was in awe when i saw it!
Glad you’re feeling better too!
Are there pix!?
I saw the Rupee cushions and nearly died from radness.
There are loads left over. =P I made way more than necessary.
I’LL BUY ONE!
How much we talkin’? A million dollars? TWO MILLION!?
-frantically scribbles in cheque book-
Um, they’re not worth that much ._.
$25 dollars + postage and handling, is that okay?
DONE!
DM me details via Twitter?
(at)dkzeitgeist if you aren’t already on the Dan Train.
First of all, what colour were you after? I’m out of green ones though, sorry.
@scree
What colours you got, man? -figets, scratches-
Twilight princess ones I have
Purple
Silver
Gold
Blue (2)
Skyward sword
Blue (2)
As a perfectionist, I was constantly comparing it to others and wondering if it was okay. I would have liked to re-done it, which was the original plan, but Nova’s cosplay took too long to make. Which was again because of being a perfectionist. ^^;;
I was happy to finally meat you. I just wanted everyone to be happy and be able to meat, whether you went to pax or not.
It was awesome to finally put a face to the name,
Us north westerners need to stand together more XD.
But yes, you did an amazing job, nothing to be embarrased about at all!
#sadface that i didn’t get to see Nova’s cosplay though
I have an image of both of us.
Same here. I was totally expecting someone who looked like a viking.
Nothing to see here!
If I recall correctly, he looks like Danish Shane.
Or…
A Shane-ish Dane!
W000 first guy not to make “dat-swedish-joke”
*shakes fist*
I love you now
Huh?
@Sughly It’s a joke.
It’s genius.
You might not understand it at first though. It’s far too nuanced.
Maybe after a second reading.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Now?
well, it just made me declare it… i’ve been secretly loving you since the first time we met…
…
on TeamSpeak…
BEEF ERA!
fluuuu, my huh was a joke too. Caus Dane is my name. It’s ok *pat pat*
But Dane isn’t your name…
@Sughly Also, also, I totally knew you were making a joke… I just… I was pretending not to get it as part of my own joke.
Yeah. That’s what it was.
I’m telling you, man. So many layers.
Or Dave Grohl 😛
Bahaha yeah i’m sorry that i look rather ordinary…
…
I MEAN I’M BLOODY HANDSOME BECAUSE I TOTALLY LOOK LIKE @SHANE AND HE’S A MIGHTY HANDSOME DUDE
…
fixed that phew!
It wasn’t a problem. I totally thought Blaghs was rocketman for an hour on Friday.
But one totally looks like a tall manchild and the other, a beautiful monstrosity.
Well @blaghman did carry a banana in his pocket…
Still haven’t gotten out of him why 😛
Blaghs pretty much confused the hell out of me which is why the confusion occurred.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking He caught a banana that the LOL people were throwing into the crowd. He put it in his pocket and left it there.
Something to do with a LoL character having a move that looks like bananas that’s totally OP.
He also liked stroking it and attempting to throw it at people.
Great to hear you are better! \o/
I would do a write up but … lazy! =P
I will at some point, but I want to write it in open office writer first.
omgomgomgomg imma be an Uncle soon,
Sis just went into labour!!!! \o/
Congrats Pixel! 😀
A baby, and a new game! Whatta day for you, man. 😀
Baby yes, game NO! 😛
Too bad i couldn’t afford going back home to actually be there, this is the only downside to moving that far away from home…
COME ON NIECE!
Do you go home often?
not since 08 to be honest.
getting residency was REALLY expensive, and then paying for my education down here has left me a bit on the broke side XD…
We’re aiming for maybe Christmas 2014 at the earliest but who knows.
#globaleconomy and stuffs
:'(
Do your folks/family visit you here?
Edit: Oh man, just occurs to me that these posts might be bringing you down.
…
Uh…
UNCLE! WOOOOOOO!
Pixel visiting is sister kickstarter?
naw, that fuzzy feeling inside ^.^
Seriously though, i am okay with how my life turned out…
scratch that, I’M BLOODY PROUD.
I am so happy to be here, i have an amazing life and you guys keeps me cheered up
At least your family is nice and close.
Glad you like Melbourne
Ill put cash down on that.
Not at all dude,
Yeah my parent’s are actually coming down March next year \o/
To be honest, the whole home sickness thing is over and done, This is my home now, so talking about it is cool.
It comes with the territory that people are curious, so happy to answer all questions about that.
It does suck a bit not having been there since 2008, but i have seen my family so it’s all good
At least Skype exists \o/
Excellent news, congratulations!
Congrats Pixel! Your gonna be an awesome uncle!
Uncle is the best job
Wooooo \o/
I had a pretty awesome weekend this weekend. I didn’t go to PAX, unless it was PAX South. 😉 However I did see Pacific Rim and bought FTL, Dragon’s Lair and The Cave. Also bought a couple of t-shirts from Totally Irreverent’s closing down sale. I’ve also started using meal replacement shakes for breakfast in the hopes I’ll be able to lose weight faster. Really happy at the moment.
http://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/12869/17442/img_20130722_085719.jpg
D:
And now I’m hungry…
…
*drools*
Oh man, I just had a crazy healthy breakfast. I drank vegetable juice. VEGETABLE JUICE!
Why must you tempt me. D:
BECAUSE YOU HATE EVERYONE IN MELBOURNE!
🙂
:'(
No. I just know the chances of ever getting to go to a meat there is non-existent at the moment. XD
Start job seeking! (and don’t you dare try to pull that “I’m unemployable” bollocks!)
I guess you’re just forcing everyone to go to Brisbane >:(
I only ever eat chips. Too many food poisoning incidents
I finished reading The Long War (the sequel to Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s The Long Earth) and was really disappointed.
Just felt like a series of ideas that were still gestating.
Damn. I spotted it in the airport the other week and wasn’t previously aware of the series. Was hoping it would be good.
Ah well, one less thing to buy and put on the backlog.
The Long Earth is better. The Long War takes half the book before there seems to be a point and then things just happen before it gets to the end and something something spoilers.
@f4ction
Let me know if you are going to upload that video you took of us during Bohemian Rhapsody…
Pretty sure i need to check that out 😛
Did Freeze sing his patented song about visiting a certain bar?
I will upload it later today!
thanks dude, should be pretty amazeballs
Dear @pixel_the_Ferret_viking
Please check your inbox.
Love,
Anonymous
PS: THREE MINUTES TO SPARE
dear @shane… damn you…. sir…
Genorosity of TAY strikes again…
I WILL GET YOU ONE DAY…
ALL THE GAEMZ…
seriously though, thanks a million, you’re all awesome
Anytime, my brother from a Danish mother!
It’s a present to say “Happy, um, babywarming!”
Haha, dammit!
I should have just trusted TAY to deliver, instead of reactivating my Steam account.
Sorry, man.
naw sorry dude!
Love the gesture though, thanks…
#allthefuzziesthismorning
No hard feelings. Well, maybe Pixel has after his eventful morning, haha.
Hey @powalen !
We should beat Kid Icarus: Uprising one day 😀
I only ask you because no one else plays/likes it 😛
@strange gifted that to me! I played a fair bit, but I got something else that distracted me from it, been meaning to go back
WOOO!
It’s a really well made game but the controls are baddd
It is awesome, and the controls are fine!
You just need to never play it with a stylus, ever. Dig out your DS Phat, and steal its thumbstrap. That’s the only way to play 3/DS games with the touch-analogue controls 😛
I also have it.
I also need to finish playing it.
If they brought out a Wiimote or twin-stick version for the WiiU I totally would 😛
They won’t, Nintendo hate money 😛
Heeey! Did someone post this already? Just got word from a friend that Ron Giblert’s PAX keynote is on the tubes, yaaaay! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6IYgWh-qnY
Thanks Sughly! That’s all kinds of awesome!
Will have the bit where rocketman called me in the middle of the speech!
FARKING CHAMP!
I only got in at 10:33 so it was too late 🙁
Haha! Ron’s not as grumpy as I imagined! Hopefully he doesn’t quit the keynote half way through. XD
He actually seems pretty awesome and funny!
This keynote is awesome! 😀
The Dig \o/
So that was pretty amazing
http://imgur.com/a/DfEMi has my pax photos!
So this is what non-camera phone photo quality is like :O
EDIT: Last two images say “The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available” 🙁
Blaghman with surly face takes the win.
Rocketman being killed by everyone was a close second.
I can’t fake a smile for cameras, it means that most photos of me end up being horribly depressing.
I’m the same, except I just pull a shit face (some would argue just a normal face) because fake smiling and I don’t work together.
Greenius doesn’t like Gaytimes huh? Can we just like, kick him out or something?
I don’t know where you got that wrong assumption from
http://i.imgur.com/F4iJt0jh.jpg
That is not a face of joy at having a Gaytime, Greenius.
Nope
That’s me pulling a silly face Mr. Bishington :-). Even if it was, I hadn’t consumed the Gaytime yet so it would’ve changed.
Wait for @fatshady to upload his pics and you’ll get the other end of the spectrum 😛
Btw, weren’t you going to be at PAX?
@fatshadylive
I refuse to believe anyone could willingly pull that face around a Gaytime.
Also yes.
But then I couldn’t because work.
True (sad) story!
Hey I remember that big guy in the blue, I saw him playing JS Joust.
Nonsense, you remember him as like the 1 of 5 black guys at PAX 😛
Are you including the TIE pilots in that figure?
The woman in charge of running the World of Tanks booth babes used to work for me. Wish I’d stayed in touch more now /o\
SOooooooo Jellly
ALL THE AWESOMES!
Oh hey you can see my Manny helmet right in that first picture 😛
I have a steam copy of The Cave if anyone wants. In the spirit of Weresmurf, IT’S A COMPETITION! Post so I know if anyone’s interested and I will add the challenge.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking (?) @sughly
Pixel’s already got it. This giveaway is because two people independently gifted him the same game, the big jerks 😛
Have you played The Cave yourself, Benny? It’s pretty damn good! We could compare notes afterwards! 😀
I accumulated so many steam games this shameless month, it’s not even funny. Besides I was gifted two, so I may as well act in kind.
I haven’t played the cave but if we’re going by the spirit of @weresmurf the. I’d like to chuck in on it, whoever @benny picks to win will also receive a copy of Fallout:New Vegas from me.
Gahhh! When am I going to learn that reading political articles is only going to end up in me being angry?
This morning! Congrats! Every thing is different now!
Reading Political Articles is like reading a script for Bold and Beautiful for me.
SO DAMN INTRIGUING, WHO’S GOING TO SLEEP WITH HER NEXT!
I see a little silhouetto of a man. SCARAMOUCH, SCARAMOUCH WILL YOU DO THE FANDANGO.
I hereby retract this because i don’t know the lyrics correctly, but @scree does XD
…
HI @rize
Nevermind, Pixel beat me to it ._.
BAHAHAHA damnit
Bahahaha!
oops ^^;;
Pixel and Scree, ruining queen since 2013 \o/
*High Five*
*high five* o/*\o
These edits are amazing.
Worst singalong ever! \o/
EVERYBODY PLAY THE GAMMMEEEE
OF LOVE
Oh man, this is an excellent keynote. Geeking out! 😀
Steven Spielberg playing Monkey Island. XDThe Dig. \o/
Maniac Mansion! WOOOOO! My first adventure game on the NES as a six year old or something!
It’s weird hearing him talk about all these things influencing him in his childhood like Star Wars, but then he goes to make all these things that influence me in my childhood. 😀Yeah, this was great. I kind of had the impression maybe Spielberg wasnt quite that involved in the game since it was just remnants of a film project for him, but its probable he wouldve had his hands more in the production than I first realised.
It was the most cinematic of all the LucasArts games too. That opening, man. Holy damn!
I want to play this Perfect Murder game! :'(
Sounds a little like a bizarro The Colonel’s Bequest. 😀
This is so, so good. Hearing about The Last Crusade adventure game and the origins of Monkey Island. SO GOOD. 😀
Should have been there
Monkey Island 2 ending spoilers :O 😀
EDIT: So how does Monkey Island 3 start?
It was an insane ending. 😀 😀 😀
Curse of Monkey Island spoilers:
Monkey Island 3 basically alludes to the ending, but never touches on it fully until the end. Guybrush basically is adrift at sea as an adult in a dodgem car. There was a whole different design team, so Ron Gilbert would’ve done it differently.Ah, thanks! I rarely hear stuff about MI3 and 4 so I assumed they just aren’t as great 😛
CMI is pretty damn great! Might even be close to MI2 as the best. It’s just really different from the others.
YES!
Freddi Fish and Putt-Putt 😀 – the games of MY childhood! (babby)
I never played them.
It really was amazing. I love the story of the 5 year old playing Monkey Island, I think it says a lot about good adventure game design. Really inspiring stuff.
We should’ve been there, Sughly. We should’ve been there. :'(
So good hearing all these stories I’ve heard from other sources about LucasArts directly from Ron! I feel like replaying The Cave again right now. 😀
And that thing about a five year old playing Monkey Island? That was totally me playing Maniac Mansion. I can relate. I could read, but only just barely and found the idea of exploring this mansion so damn compelling. 😀 I missed the tone of the game entirely, I didn’t think it was comedy. I thought it was horror. XD
sooo… Pax Aus next year then?
DOOOOOO EEEEEEET!
No. Melbourne. EVAH. >:|
#DChatesme
*runs out crying*
I will definitely have to be there next year
#cradledinlove
duuuuude…. DUUUUUUDE… i need to find out if the Karaoke place has PoTF…
#unlikelybutduuuuuuuuuuude
DUUUUUUDE! Well if they don’t have PoTF
WE WILL SING ANYWAY!!!
MY BODY IS READY FOR THIS
YET YOU STILL UPVOTED IT!
;_;
well i didn’t actually want him to think that i thought that he hated me… I’M NOT A MONSTER… god! 😛
Might throw a weekend writeup on TAY tomorrow. Leaving Melbourne and I won’t be home till about 8pm tonight. Fun!
Pantsy… YOU’RE NOT DRIVING, WRITE IT ON THE ROAD
I might just have bought Organ Trail …
I’ll come on your ‘wagon’ trip of doom
Okay cool, so no one has actually said they want in on my competition. Awesome. We go ahead anyway! For the latecomers. I really just wanted to get an awesome gaming question out there. My question is:
In which video game can I find a hotel on a cliff bend, two convening major story lines, high schools that float over land and water, a pretty addictive card game, a train uncoupling mission, monsters and deities, a love story climax in outer space, and an introverted main character in love with a girl who is secretly harbouring feelings for the antagonist?
It’s one of my favourite video games. Winner gets a copy of The Cave, on steam. Good luck!
FFVIII
Argh! I made it too easy! Haha, did you want the copy of The Cave or were you just answering the gaming question?
*AKA: well done, Effluvium.
I was just answering the question.
I don’t use Steam often… at all, so I’m not sure when I’d get around to playing The Cave.
Looks like an awesome game, though. Maybe I’ll get it on PS3 eventually.
It probably was a bit easy :D. I’ve only played a few hours of FFVIII (will go back one day!) but was pretty sure that was the answer too :P. Description was a bit spoilery, I guess 😛
Yeah, those hints were pretty generous.
Throw a tougher one at us, @benny
Yeah, geez @benny, if you’re going to be generous, at least do it in the right way.
Final…aww…
Did anyone else have a really shit time trying to find the White Seed ship? Spent hours in my ‘flying highschool’ looking for it.
Yeah.
I played it three times, and even on my second and third playthroughs I sure couldn’t remember where the heck it was.
I really need to play it again, I enjoy using Irvine
All you needed to say was addctive card game and everyone still would have guessed right
QUESTION 2! As the first was too easy and yes, spoilery about Rinoa’s feelings. BUT I DID LEAVE OUT THE PART ABOUT THE TRUE ANTAGONIST! Haha.
Question: in which video game can I find poor polygons and a pants-less red-head if I’m quick?
Leisure suit larry? Surely there’s a poor polygon image of a pantless redhead somewhere in the crappy spinoffs
But only if you’re quick is the clue.
Funny story, DO NOT google pants-less red-head game, while at work
Cheater cheater pumpkin eater
to be honest, it wasn’t like looking in the back of your maths book in school…
Unless you were hiding something in the back of your maths book in school
Conkers bad fur day? I dunno that’s the only thing I can think of.
Haha, you guys. I’m trying to make these questions NOT Google friendly. Meaning you have to rack your memory-filled brain for the answers!
*Video-gaming-memory-filled brain of course.
The Sims
!
Holy Meryl, we have a winner! Well done, Beavwa!
Metal. Gear. Solid. 1. The first one.
?
In all seriousness, I do already have The Cave… I just wanted to answer.
Also, I’ve never played a MGS game, where’s the best place to start?
The first, otherwise you’ll be very confused by plot points that make no sense.
If not the first go the third. Its my favourite of the series and you dont really need to have played the others to follow.
I think I played the MGS3 then MGS2 (didn’t finish either) before finishing MGS on PS1, then returning to and finishing MGS2 and then MGS4 whenever that came out a few years later.
Just keep in mind that mechanics keep changing so it might be hard to go back to a previous game after playing a later one, so I’d just say to play them in order of release (MGS1->4)
LoL skins that I can’t use (two sets):
Arcade Sona:
OCDNDFCRN2QKKP
OCNQGPP3WHFMYR
Full Metal Ramus:
OCDA7NPHG7FFJU
OCX7MPLR33MNU9
Riot Graves:
OCH44JTMHJLFRV
OCFQ479XC7ANGK
I doubt anyone will redeem them but they’re going in the bin so I figured I’d type them out 😛
I might try them when I get home, I couldn’t get any of mine to work which sucks
Did those come from the riot booth or should I be looking through that general swag bag of junk to do something similar?
Both I believe
Came from the swag bag!
I think I grabbed the second Arcade Sona skin.
Thanks Gaytimius!
Have a troll gift as a token of my appreciation!
Whoa! That’s an expensive troll gift D:
Either I’m doing something really wrong here or they don’t work
The codes are correct (I just double checked)
I’ll type out the instructions exactly as they appear:
New to League?
1. Point your browser to signup.leagueoflegends.com
2. Enter your account info and click “Play for Free”
3. Continue belw
Claim Your Skins!
1. Log into the League of Legends client and click the store button
2. Select the “Codes” tab and enter your promo codes
3. Click “Submit” to claim your skims
Then it has the codes and says in fine print: CODES EXPIRE FIVE DAYS AFTER THE EVENT. SO DON’T HESITATE! (we’re well within that time frame).
Other than any errors on your end the only thing I can think of is that someone had already redeemed them and just didn’t say.
@notoriousr @puppylicks @danmazkin @miketarno
Did you guys enter your Borderlands panel codes?
I just tried entering one and it said it was already redeemed… WHAT THE FUCK T_T
yeah same! i just emailed them asking about it and im waiting on a response. glad to hear i’m not the only one!
Oh phew! I contacted support too but yeah, now I’m glad I wasn’t the only one so it seems likely it’s just a system error or something (unless some dodgy folk and going around trying out all these codes and redeeming them 🙁 )
Nope, haven’t tried yet. Need to download the game again first. 🙁
No you don’t! Just go to the website and type the code. I think they’d just give you a redeemable code later on for your preferred platform.
Roger. I’ll check it out tonight. Don’t have the code on me.
Yeah haven’t tried yet, will be interested to see how this all pans out.
Let me know how it goes! (same with @miketarno)
@danmazkin – I haven’t received a reply from support yet but lemme know if you get one!
Doh! I forgot to do it last night. I hit the first gym session on the road to become the Tarnonator and I was completely wrecked by evening time. I don’t think I’ll be going back. 😛
Oh man, this Ron Gilbert keynote makes me want to replay The Cave. I’m going to replay The Cave. Peace out, home slices!
Haha! That was short lived. Too soon since my last playthrough I think. Will wait until I forget some of the solutions. XD
MONKEY ISLAND!
Win a copy of The Cave! Just answer my question 2 above. Thanks for the publicity, DC.
Last weeks TAYlist, HERE WE GO!
Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Chimes – Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Cover, It went okay…)
Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (@BDKIAF)
Taxiride – Get Set
Dropkick Murpheys – I’m Shipping Us To Boston (@freezespreston sorry we didn’t have the
song to wanted)
Gym Class Heroes ft. Neon Hitch – Get Yourself Back Home
Alcazar – Don’t You Want Me (Last Monday seemed to have been terrible cover/remix week)
Queen – You’re My Best Friend
Matchbox 20 – She’s So Mean (I love this song, and the music video is pretty cool too)
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
John Butler Trio – One Way Road
Zoot – Eleanor Rigby (see Chimes/Alcazar notes)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Love Rollercoaster (@freezespreston)
INXS – Original Sin
Got a Request?
Reply to this comment, & I’ll see what I can do.
The Griswolds – Heart of a Lion
So sorry, we don’t have that in the computer.
Any other choice?
Johnny Cash – The beast in me
So much Johnny Cash, no The Beast In Me, this sucks…
How about when the man comes around or the man in black
WORKING OUT WITH SATURDAY
“I’m kinda tired”
“IT’S BEEN THREE MINUTES YOU FAT FUCK, JESUS A WHALE COULD DO BETTER”
“GOD FINE”
“WHALES DON’T HAVE LEGS”
“I GET IT SATURDAY”
“THEREFORE YOU FAILING WORSE THAN A WHALE ENTAILS THAT YOU ARE PRETTY PATHETIC.”
Today I was all
“It’s a good day for a jog!”
“If I go jogging today, I’m going to treat myself to a bowl of ice cream tonight”
End result: No jog, many ice creams.
Alright crazy asian metabolism, you know what to do.
Oh man, crazy asian metabolism, such a double-edged sword. I once had a girl elbow me- I’m skinny enough that she poked my ribs; she said “Damn, that hurt! You must have some abs down there!”
“… Yes. I do.”
ALPHA MALE SATURDAY
BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOD DRAGOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!
500 GAMES
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWRRRRRRRR
NOW ON TO QUESTION THREE as Beavwa correctly guessed the answer to question two, but had no idea, as he’s never played an MGS game before! The luck of some people..
So: In which game can I find a boy hero with sword and horse, and a maiden in need of saving?
Okay, this one is very generic. There are many games with that setting, I have a particular game in my head and you need to guess THAT ONE. Good luck young Padawans!
Zelda? Ocarina of Time?
Ocarina of Time
SotC?
(Never played it, so I could be way off)
Way off? Or DEAD CORRECT! Haha. Well done. Shadow of the Colossus it is.
I give up, I’m never giving this game away.
I was tempted to comment that after your first 2 games, the next one will be SotC, but that would have been creepy if I’d done that in time.
Maybe switch it up to something non-Sony.
Psst. Suggested new question:
“Who wants it?”Metal Gear Solid 3.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE ANSWER WAS ALREADY GIVEN I HAVE A RIGHT TO ANSWER ANYWAY
Shadow of the Colossus? I’ve never played it, just remember people talking about it on TAY
Damn I need to refresh before posting
Btw, I got you some codes. I think I gave them to Gorzy to pass on to you. I will double check tomorrow alright?
Listened to the pax keynote.
Soooo gooood
Want to play Trials Evolution so bad, but don’t have enough bandwidth to download it 🙁 3 days and I can!
PS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL STARTS THIS WEEK! WOO
My quick and dirty PAX write up:
Queues, standing, peoples, street passes, standing, lost pass, new pass, double secured pass, cold, queues, standing, street passes, queues, burgers, queues, BOARD GAMES! Jenga, queues, Saints Row demo, standing, queues, dead 3DS battery, exhaustion.
Sitting in queues! Beach balls, street passes, fud, koala thumbs, street passes, HANABI! queues, street passes, Harli hats me, queues, joust, street passes, less standing, karaoke, exhausted, fud, somewhat alive, one wet sock.
Nearly dead 3DS, sitting, Khoo! HANABI! BOARD GAMES! Sitting, BOARD GAMES!
HANABI!
Potato salad for lunch \o/
But not @dc’s version of ‘potato salad’ – my one had bacon and egg. In short, a MAN’s potato salad.
Making this a permanent Monday thing.
What’s new, Shane? Hope you’re well?
Oh yeah, doing okay. Ate potato salad, which mitigates Mondays somewhat. I think it’ll be a good routine.
How’re you, man?
Not too shabby, my friend. Not too shabby. Strange makes excellent potato salad type stuff! 😀
As per Shane’s suggestion, THE CAVE! Who wants it? Haha.
PS: the Sony questions were fun. Maybe some Nintendo next time.
Since @benny is struggling to give away The Cave, Who wants a copy of Fallout: New Vegas, simple 25 words or less: If Fallout became Reality, what would you do? Most creative answer wins.
Join the Brotherhood of Steel and mosey about in that cool armour.
(I’ve already played and loved this game for 123 hours so don’t give it to me. XD)
Or start a radio station and play atmospheric music for the Vault dwellers out there. (Or all Arcade Fire, all the time!)
Who am I kidding, I’d just take in the post apocalyptic urban decay!
Remember to take photos!
I would know if I’d played it?
Haven’t you played any of the fallout games before scree?
Nope. None.
Seeing as I’ve actually hoarded bottle caps as part of a promotion, I imagine I shall live over the land as the new king and overlord.
Yes, 56 whole caps shall buy me all the irradiated land and people I need.
If Fallout became reality I would.. hey Cold Cam want to trade New Vegas for The Cave?
Best answer.
That is a damn good answer haha
Ill be picking the winner in 20 minutes so get your answers in now.
About to get stuck back in to work but:
PAX WAS AMAZE-BALL AND SO WERE ALL OF YOU!!!
Soo much fun.
So much sleep deprivation.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH WALKING!
I did learn that Converse shoes with soles so thin that they’re nearly transparent are terrible options for both Melbourne weather and conventions in general.
Next year, I’m wearing boots.
Wear work shoes. Ones that are designed for standing jobs. Those would be the best option.
Says the person whose feet are still a little numb.
If it’s in Melbourne and anywhere near the outdoors, I think boots are the only real option.
gumboots?
Did you see the guy cosplaying as Ryo. The crazy loon was walking around in bare feet 0.0
He wasn’t the only barefoot cosplayer. Some of those people were incredibly brave with their choices.
Or incredibly stupid.
I think I fall under the latter category.
My calves still feel like they have a pair of rods embedded in the middle of them.
I GOT TO MEAT THE DISHONORABLE LOOPS \o/
AND HE GAZED IN MY DIRECTION!
*swoons*
Monaco/BioShock Infinite/Tomb Raider (2013 Trollerion EDIT ;D)/DmC giveaway pls?
#Greedius
Is it just me or have the same small selection of games been going on sale repeatedly this Steam sale? 😛
Talk about pushius.
But fine, I’ll send you tomb raider
<_
HAHA HE GAVE HIM TOMB RAIDER 1996! THAT WAS HILARIOUS!
TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGS @tigerion.
Thanks for the game, can’t say i’ve heard of it, but it looks glorious,
plus it looks pretty much like my autobiography…
On a side-note anyone played “Fowl Space”?
I saw lingerie-loving Vikings and knew it was meant for you
Much obliged, and you know me better then i thought XD
Well after how much you ‘revealed’ at karaoke, I feel I know you much better
… *wiiiiiink*
… it was dark in there, i saw an opportunity and i took it
The Newsroom day is the best day of the week!
So many TV shows to watch and download after PAX.
PAX is over, Masha. LET IT GO! :'(
I know :’-(
Currently on my last train home. The only form of public transport I haven’t used on this trip is a ferry. Or a horse drawn carriage. I did stand there and watch as a horse urinated for over a minute at a set of traffic lights though. I had to cross there too 🙂
Creepasha
Oh, We’re heading for Venus (Venus)
And still we stand tall
Cause maybe they’ve seen us
And welcome us all, yeah
TAYlist for the 22nd of July 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by losing last week’s TAYlist28 Days – What’s The Deal
Green Day – Holidays
Killing Heidi – Mascara
Go West – King Of Wishful Thinking
Pink – Nobody Knows
Gotye ft. Kimbra – Somebody That I Used To Know (not too bad a song, I never really listened to it during the time it was popular)
Angels – Let The Night Roll On
Short TAYlists for short shows
So much hat :'(
So I just entered my papers to do my first teaching prac in a secondary school. Whos buying me my flak jacket?
w00t congrats \o/
Well scary as well but i’m guessing it’s a good thing right? 😛
2 items you’ll need, tear-gas grenades and lollies… kids loves them some lollies
Mayhaps Teargas lollies??? “Enjoy this!” “Omm nom nom!” *pssssFFFFFFFT* “AAAAAARGH!”
You’ll do juuuust fine 😛
Oh man, life’s not easy for a prac teacher at a state high school in Brisbane. Good luck, my friend. 😀
(Also, congrats!)
Im intimidating. lmao. I can do it. lol.
Time to start working on your teacher voice
It is very helpful when you have a room full of people ordering food and not paying attention when it comes
Just rent out the movies Dangerous Minds and Sister Act 2, then you’ll know what to do…
I already have my montage ready to go!
I know someone that may be able to give some tips on that 😉
Um, the write up may be posted tomorrow as I am on page 3 and it’s still Friday D=
Maybe you can post it in instalments? 😀
I’m thinking I might. Or spoiler everything
Spoiler each page separately, that way we know where we’re up to, if we need to leave for some reason 😛
For my part, I want it to be a real wall of text. I don’t even want paragraph breaks, commas, or full stops in this one. Only the hardcore will read. It’ll be the Finnegans Wake of meat write-ups! \o/
you know all the cool writers
don’t even need spaces either.
I’m not a cool writer so i do, but all the hardcore people, that’s where it is at
WishIcouldbeacoolwritertooohwellmaybeonedayifIworkreallyhard
Your hardcore sucks. I want no full stops, no punctuation, I want NO SPACES. I want it backwards and I want every third word replaced with every fifth which must be jumbled randomly with every eighth and thirteenth!
Nah, a pattern isn’t hardcore enough. I want every character replaced with a random number of random other characters a random number of times.
but not before every word has been turned into an anagram… obviously
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Of course. Sorry man, I thought that went without saying! 😛
This calls for… NAVAJO WINDTALKERS!!!!!
I spoke to @scree. It’s going to be paid DLC, but the first episode is free! 😀
Woot, great big wall of text write-ups are awesome.
Ok, I’ll write one just for you since you gifted me Tomb Raider (1996) <3
It’s…huge ._.
That’s what…
wait…
That IS what she said. :\
I wasn’t going to go there
#soproudofmyself
That’s what she said…
you’re a terrible person and you should feel bad
#butistillloveyou
#that’snotwhatshesaid
Thanks Pixel =P
But it was a good write up
Mine’s bigger.
Anything mentioned about me at karaoke is completely and utterly a lie and false information.
YOU LIE!
I heard you were very dignified.
I will disregard as per your advice.
and now for Pixel’s-used-to-be-a-regular-thing-puppy-picture-of-the-day-thingy… because work is slow…
I couldn’t find my doggie the other day, but i heard this tapping noise.
This is what i found!
http://imgur.com/JG8lnfX
You need to work on a new name. 🙂
What’s wrong with PUTSBARTPPOTDT?
IT’S A THING! 😛
My appetite has increased like crazy over the past week. So hungry all the time. Haha! Always eating something. I’m still 73kg though, so it’s okay for now… but probably should restrain myself. 😀
No restraints, Double Bacon Deluxe!
I hope you’re eating healthy things!
Breakfast? For sure. Other meals, uh… maybe… 😛
Still an improvement 😀
Your body is probably screaming for nutrition!
Worms
Nah, increased appetite is an Anti d side effect. 😛 (It says so on the box! XD)
Worms are an anti-D side effect?! :O
Tried to fix that wording before anyone noticed. 😛
Lurkius sees all
Waitwaitwaitwait.
They turned AXE Cop into a TV series?
That is amazing.
Alrighty! I have picked a winner..actually I didn’t really I couldn’t do it so the winner is @benny and ill take The Cave off his hands for him.
Also the bonus winner is @scree because she hasn’t played a fallout game before and I feel she does alot around here from everything I’ve heard from everybody.
So congrats you two, you’ll both be recieving copies of Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition.
Just add me on steam (ColdCamV) and ill send you the game when I’m home from work.
Awesom-o! Thanks Cam! I finally gifted a game, too! (Haha more like traded, actually.)
Yay! new friend!
TAY. Tell me what to do.
Game of Thrones S1 DVD:
$16.95 Y/N
Max Payne statue (from MP3 Spec Ed)
$24.95 Y/N
GoT: Y
Max Payne: N
+1
Game of Thrones season one is the only GoT season you need.
I disagree with that, I find the entire thing pretty damn compelling! 😀
Seconded.
Okay okay. I just love Sean Bean.
Personally I’d go Y/Y because you know you want to.
Good, now I have someone to blame if I decide later I’ve wasted my money. Thanks, man. Much appreciated.
Hey all. I just got up because three days of almost non stop walking is tiring. PAX was super fun. I’ll try and keep my write up brief:
Day 1: Got in at about 9.40 and had to wait about half an hour to get into the show grounds. Once in the grounds, I just followed the crowd down to the main hall and then just wondered around there a bit looking at things. Asked on Twitter where all the TAYbies were at and got told to look for the tall black guy with glasses, so after playing an indie game I rounded a corner and saw @masha2932, went up and introduced myself and then through him was able to meet other TAYbies.
Walked around with Masha for a bit, then went to a panel that featured a company that made cinematics and had worked on both Saints Row 3 and Saints Row 4. It was an interesting look on what goes into making all the different types on cinematics that go into making a game. After that we wondered around a bit more, then went to queue up for the BioWare panel, which I really wanted to see. Got there an hour early but they were already over capacity so we wondered off. Met up with another group of TAYbies who were wondering around that was comprised of @chuloopa @miketarno and someone else, I think it was @greenius? (Sorry if it wasn’t and I’m forgetting who it was). Mike really wanted to see the BioWare panel to, so jumped on the end of the line in hopes of being let in, and the rest of us followed (except Masha, who wondered off somewhere). We didn’t get in, but Mike started talking to a girl called Annie and she joined our group when we wondered down to the main hall. Then we just walked around the hall a bit with Mike, Annie and I hanging back a bit and talking.
I left to go home about about 7, but got stuck waiting for the train for ages, then it started to rain and the posters I’d picked up from the Ubisoft booth got all wet (they dried out okay). Bumped into @scree and another TAYbie on the platform who I was never told the name of (so sorry, whoever you were) and talked a bit with them.
Day 2: Got in at about 10.30. Wondered up to the tabletop area first, where I met @tech_knight, then sort of hung out a bit with a group of TAYbies, until everyone wondered off to do there own thing. Headed down to the main hall and purchased a plush companion cube (for my sister. I’d been meaning to do it the day before, but ran out of time) and a The Last of Us artbook. Then I wondered around a bit more before meeting up with Annie, afterwhich the two of us just wondered around together, occasionally bumping into and saying hi to TAYbies. Went to the jousting thing at 3 when all the other TAYbies were there and had a go at that. It’s a weird thing they had set up, but fun.
Later, all the TAYbies headed to that bar, but there was a panel at 7 that Annie wanted to see because some BioWare people were on it, so I decided to stay with her and line up for that. The panel itself was interesting enough, it was about how gamers are portrayed in the media and whether that matters or not. After the panel was over I had a brief chat with Patrick Weekes, a senior writer at BioWare, so that was cool.
Next Annie and I headed to the main theatre where they were holding the concert. The first people they had on were playing sort of techno music inspired by retro gaming, and they were pretty good. Then they had three guys on electric guitars playing stuff (they said it was from Nintendo, but I couldn’t really tell). Annie said we needed to get closer, so we ended up standing right near the edge of the stage and next to one of the speakers, which was loud. The last people they had on were The Protomen, and they were very good. The concert ended at just past eleven, then I headed home.
Day 3: First thing I did was go buy a Normandy statue, which they’d sold out of the day before, then I jumped in line to try the rift. Was able to skip ahead in the line a bit because I wanted to try Mirror’s Edge, while almost everyone else was lining up to play Team Fortress 2. The rift is interesting. It’s immersive, and you keep wanting to turn your head to look around when you’ve got it on, but the resolution is terrible, and the bottom half of the screen was cut off. After that I went up to the Magic the Gathering thing and got my photo taken so I could get a free pair of goggles. I’d had my photo taken on Friday, but they were out of goggles so I decided to do it again. This photo ended up looking a lot better than the one I had on Friday so that was good.
Met up with Annie and we sort of wondered around a bit before heading to the console free play area where we played Injustice for about an hour, which was fun. We wondered around a bit more, not really sure what to do since it felt like we’d seen and done pretty much everything. As PAX was coming to a close we headed to the main theatre to watch the closing stuff. They had two guys playing giant Jenga while Halo music was playing in the background and Gabe and Tycho were commentating and it was amazingly fun to watch. They’d somehow managed to make Jenga really exciting. Then there was a quick “thanks for coming, this was great” from Gabe and Tycho, and then PAX Aus was over and I headed home.
So all and all it was a fun, though exhausting, three days. I saw some cool stuff, met some cool people and got some swag, I couldn’t really ask for anything more than that. I do feel a little guilty I didn’t hang around with TAYbies as much as I could have though.
Ooo, tell me more about this Annie.
*Haha, I’m just messing. Great write up.
Awesome write-up, DireWolf! That Normandy statue sounds cool and you made a friend! No Karaoke though? :'(
It was great meeting you man. It was nice to hang out 🙂
It was great meeting you too. It was great meeting everyone. TAYbies are the friendliest people.
Great writeup! I’m hoping everything went well with Annie. Lined up a date yet? 😉
Seriously, that would be the best PAX ever if someone got a date out of it. Annie was really nice!
Don’t apologize dude. I intentionally left you alone so you could have some space. *wink* *wink*
It was great meeting you Dire Wolf. Don’t be afraid to jump into the conversations though, you were so quiet while you were with the group. It’s too bad you couldn’t make it to Karaoke though, there was a lot of hilarity
@dire_wolf
It was nice meeting you. Also the guy was Gorzilla.
You were very quiet. As you may have noticed, I prefer talking so I bring up loads of conversation topics. I was trying to get you involved D=
I’m just kind of seconding Techy’s comment which is why it’s in response to him
Sounds like a great time was had 🙂 So wish I could’ve been there too! Even if the show was a little disappointing to most, I think it would have been worth it just to meet TAYbies!
Annie this, Annie that 😉
I wanted to talk about my experience with the Oculus with the people who tried it but somehow I was demonstrated the HD Prototype which I’m told was meant to be for media only. So while everyone is talking about trees and moon walks I looked around a VR environment of the Unreal 4 tech demo.
No idea how that happened.
Also spent the entire day walking back and forth past the XBone cabinet but not once did I see the thing. I’m really curious as to why there was seemingly never one there. Why only show it in brief periods? It’s a relatively inexpensive piece of consumer tech but they’re treating it like a deep black classified government project. They need to get a grip.
Oh man, sounds like what you missed out on in post-Oculus conversation you more than made up for in seeing something cool and different!
INSIDE SCOOP. SELL YOUR STORY FOR MILLIONS.
@Freezespreston I’ll buy your story for one Dark Souls (now a unit of currency)
What was the enviroment you looked around?
Around a snowy fortress (looking up into the falling snow was pretty neat), in a room with a solar system model with a miniature sun in the middle (the shadows moving around you looked great and it was the most immersive part, seems lighting is extremely important with it) and in the room with the fire demon thing shooting electricity at it.
Oh man, I’m jelly.
I went looking for it after you posted on twitter but couldn’t find anything in the area you said.
Achievement unlocked: master infiltrator
Freeze, I think Microsoft were trying to build hype by limiting access. It was an insanely misguided move, but I think their intentions were hype-building using the ‘scarcity’ marketing method.
I agree with you, though – they are so far out of touch that their efforts to connect with an audience are actively sabotaging them. They have to get a grip.
If they just stopped right now, I might one day get an Xbox One. So, Microsoft, please. Just stop. Or save me some money and keep trying to advertise. Your choice.
I’ll say it was misguided. Almost everytime I walked past it people were laughing and taking pictures because there was nothing on display, and when the Xbone was on display no one really cared.
That was pretty much exactly what was happening. No one wants to see the console. They want to see the games on offer.
All the pictures of the empty Xbone display were pretty funny though. At least draw a curtain around the thing if there’s nothing to show!
So nobody ever found out why the display was empty a lot? Doesn’t make much sense 😛
I think it was because when it wasn’t in the display box it was at one of the panels in the main theatre that the had at least daily.
They did put a black sheet over it at some point. I still found that hilarious though, and took a picture.
Check with Raygunbrown on twitter. He might have tried the HD one.
What what what? I heard some mention of there being a HD Rift around there somewhere, but didn’t think they would have shipped it out here. And not having seen anything about Oculus themselves being at the event, I figured it must’ve been a unit someone had modded.
Man, I am envy now. Especially getting to look around the winter citadel, I’ve heard that demo’s awesome.
All right. I’m out.
Pixel, enjoy The Cave. Everyone else, enjoy your bleak and Cave-less evenings.
Sincerely,
@Shane
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Tell your friends, tell your family, reconcile with your enemies and tell them. Track down your high school crush, and tell them. The Lesser Evil ebook is now available.
Me: Hi, Jessica? The Lesser Evil ebook is now available.
Ex-gf Jess: …wanna fuck?
I’m messing. That NEVER happens in real life.
*@shane I will email you my postal address tonight in regards to the DS swapsies.
Okay, Here is Scree’s write up, Part 1. Pre-pax and Friday. I will post them separately, but then might post them together later in case anyone missed them if that is okay.
The day before PAXI woke up early and immediately started working on the cushions. With people actually wanting them I needed to make sure I had at least one of every colour because I didn’t want to disappoint anyone.
At about 1pm I rang up @gorzilla as he had so kindly agreed to help me move some of the heavier items in our backyard to the front lawn to be collected for hard waste collection. I forgot to take my mobile with me so Gorzy managed to pick the wrong street. He doubled back and we kind of passed one another on opposite sides of the road. I almost got hit by a car trying to cross. I was off to a good start so far.
The items we had to move once we got to my house included a wet mattress, old fashioned door and bed base. We actually got it done very quickly and then it was time to break my old desk to move the new one in. It didn’t take too long to do this either! So with plenty of time left over until dinner was ready so I asked Gorzy what he hadn’t played. We ended up playing We <3 Katamari. Well Gorzy played while I laughed at his reactions.
I could see Mum squirming as she was itching to play katamari as she loves the game too. Good thing she had to cook dinner =P It was our way of saying thank you to Gorzy as the items were too heavy for me to move by myself and no one else was really able to help.
After dinner, Gorzy played more katamari and struggled with a particular level. He tried 3 times, failing each time. I said if he couldn’t beat it this time, I would have a go. While he was playing the same level (the one where you need to get to 40cm in 6 minutes), he discovered a hole in the fence that he’d passed over the last three times which opened up a whole new area that would allow him to reach his goal.
After a while he passed the controller over to Mum who had forgotten how to play. She started the tutorial as I complained to Gorzy about how Mum had painted over the hinges of the kitchen door I had to remove. We began to find a way to remove this. Half way through, Mum got stuck and required help. Gorzy went to her aid as I continued to unscrew the door. The door came half off before Gorzy came, ripped it off and carried it outside for me. Mum and I said goodbye to him as he headed back tot he cabin he was staying in.
PAX Friday
I woke up to Mums dalek alarm clock shrieking at me. I had a back up on my phone as I have slept through that alarm before. I dragged myself out of bed, got some coco pops and then decided I didn’t want to eat them. The coco pops were given tot he dog as I got ready. A half hour of showering, dressing and adjusting later, I was almost ready. Gorzy knocked on the door as I had just started on the make up. I did it as quickly as I could and put the false eyelashes on badly. I don’t know how many of you have had experience with false eyelashes, but they are a huge pain in the arse. HUGE!
At 8:30 we headed off. I got several odd looks from public transport users. Even on the Pax train as I was the only cosplayer that boarded. Embarrassing much?
One we arrived, we received lanyards for our tickets and wristbands to confirm our age. Then we waited in line. It was about 9:10 once we’d arrived. Little did we know this was going to be kind of a theme over the weekend. Our position in the queue was fourth row along near the front. None of the queues moved until 10am started. Even then the audience of eager game fans was warned to walk calmly and not to run. It took a while to filter through the doors for each of the queues. Even so I had a plan of attack.
Due to my experience with eGames, Armageddon and Manifest conventions, the first place I was headed was the expo hall. I was well aware that vendors at conventions only had limited supplies and that it was first in first serve. What I wasn’t expecting though was a severe lack of game merchandise vendors.
Gorzy and I decided to just go down each of the isles. I saw several things that interested me, but I didn’t stop. There was a skull candy van at the end of the first lane. I decided to have a look but I was unimpressed with the design or the prices. I dislike headphones that can be folded as they tend to pull hairs out and it hurts.
We continued along and were stopped a few times by people wanting photos. During this time, Gorzy became a pack horse. We continued along until we came to the ubisoft booth. I got two posters. Gorzy got one. We then went and looked at the games, some of which were interesting, others not so much.
We went to the Lol booth because I promised @Steve-o_the_deve-o I would get him some Lol codes. We didn’t stay there long as the crowd was insane and it consistently stayed that way for the rest of the convention.
Somehow we ended up in the indie games section. This was probably the part that impressed me the most. The games were well set up. I had a lot of fun just looking at them. Although I did play Hero days. I found the movement controls hard to use and I told the people so. I also suggested making it an option to be able to use a virtual d-pad on the bottom of the screen giving the person playing more options to play how they felt comfortable. They thanked me for my input as Gorzy and I were moving on to the next indie display.
While in the indie display area, I met a few people I had known from when I went to the IDGA. Finn created colourbind, and showed me and Gorzy how it worked. It looked complicated, but fun. I asked about tablet possiblities, maybe dumbing it down a little. We talked for a little while before moving on.
We stayed a while at the Walk Thru Walls studiuos booth. The game we were watching was Metal dead encore. We weren’t able to play it as it was occupied, but it had a great sense of humour and I personally liked the art direction. Gorzy and I picked up cards after talking to the creators as we were very interested in getting this game for ourselves. Especially since we found out when you buy Metal dead: Encore, you get the first Metal dead game free.
We ended up at the bitrave studios and looked at their two games, Jelly run and Dogo gogo. They seemed interesting. I didn’t play them as I wanted to get an idea of what was around. I picked up a card so I could look them up afterwards as I definitely wanted to check them out further.
Moving along, we came to the Infinity Ward booth. We were told about the game, which was an online trading card game. I used to play Yu-gi-oh and I liked it, so I wanted to try it out, or read into it more. We found out there was exclusive Beta access on the cards, so Gorzy and I grabbed one each, as well as one for Pyrean, Gorzy’s (jerk) friend that he left in Sydney.
Last Indie booth we ended up at was the Grow booth, however, their computers had decided to stop working. As one guy was trying to fix them, we spoke to the other one about the game. I found Grow was available on Windows 8 which I own. I picked up a card and told him I intended to download it later. (maybe today!)
We moved along and found the Sanshee booth. I bought the female Junes shirt and a Triforce necklace. Gorzy contemplated buying but didn’t.
As we were heading to the big top, Gorzy and I met up with @blaghman, @f4ction and @sernobulus. As we were making some for of introduction, I couldn’t figure out who Blaghs was. He asked me who teased me most and I responded that everyone did. At which point he responded “Darn I was hoping she’d say Rocketman.” At which point I assumed that he was rocketman.
In the board games section, we all met up with @bevwa, @tigerion, Mrs. tigs, @rocketman, @trjn and @freyr.
Blaghs, Nob, F4ction, Gorzy and I decided to go get some lunch. We decided on the taco truck before standing in line. While the others were in the taco line, I went to the Churro truck to buy drinks as the taco van only had coke and I don’t like it.
After I got the drinks, Blaghs and Faction got their Tacos but Gorzy and I were still waiting for ours. We didn’t get them until Blaghs and F4ction had long finished theirs. We decided to sit outside as there were no seats inside. It was quite windy and I managed to put my cuff into the guacamole.
It was about then that @chuloopa showed up.
After we finished eating, we said so long to Loops and his friends before heading back to the expo hall. As I was wearing tall boots, I wanted to sit down. The only place to do that was the Nintendo booth.
While sitting down I pulled out the Junes shirt and put it over my corset so I could take the corset off. Unfortunately, the corset had been hurting my back and I could no longer stand it. The wig was also driving me mental, so that also came off.
As we were sitting there, a lady from Nintendo came over with posters. They were meant to be moved elsewhere but she allowed people to take some. I grabbed a few Zelda ones, but for the others sitting. I also got a Mario one. When I turned around a lady was trying to get close. I asked her what she wanted before getting a Zelda one for her. She was getting it for her son. After I got that one, the people moved the posters away.
Once again, we ended up at the Sanshee booth. Gorzy decided to buy 2 FLCL shirts, but didn’t have the cash on hand. As he went to line up in the Atm queue, I asked the guy how much they were.
This is the conversation from my point of view. (So what I heard)
“I want to pay for those shirts. How much?”
“$40.”
“Are you sure it’s not 2 for $50? I swear I saw a sign somewhere.”
“We don’t have any signs on display.”
“I swear I saw a sign.”
“Look, if he[the boss] said it was okay. $50.”
I paid the man and went over to Gorzy who promised to pay me back.
The five of us headed back to the big top to meet up with other Taybies. We found a spare table and started to play a card game named Smash up. F4ction had robot ghosts. Rocketman had ninja dinosuars, Gorzy had Steampunk aliens and I had Zombie Pirates. At first our goal seemed to be to make Rocketman lose but then it changed to stalling Factions win. Faction ended up winning, Gorzy came second and Rockets and I drew third.
After that, Gorzy and I had to leave. We went out to the station and met up with dire wolf. Then a train pulled up. I read that the train wasn’t taking passengers while others crowded around it, waiting for the doors to open. After about a minute or two Metro announced that the train was not taking passengers and to step away. A moment later I began to rain.
It was cold enough without the rain, but with the rain it was even worse. I put my posters under my skirt so they wouldn’t get wet. The train sat there for about 10 minutes, while all the waiting pax attendees got soaked to the bone. Eventually they moved the train so we could catch the one that was taking passengers. Gorzy and I decided to get a taxi from the station because of the rain. Gorzy and I sorted out the loot once we got to my house before Gorzy left for his cabin.
TL:DR
The indie games set up was awesome. There were taybie encounters everywhere. Also Queues. But it was fun and corsets hurt. Also, Smash up is a great game.
PAX photos
http://imgur.com/a/JLjR1
It’s inevitable, any form of robot will triumph 🙂
It was actually the ghosts. They were OP
Crazy detailed write-up! Looking forward to Day Two and Karaoke! 😀
Also, I’m impressed you got so many photos with strangers. I couldn’t do that. Haha!
I was just worried that I constantly came across as looking like a snob. I hope it wasn’t too detailed. I tried to keep it moving along.
Nah, detail is okay. Gives a good impression of what the day was like and people who don’t want the details can just skip it! Good write-up.
I got a couple of shots too, including the MASSIVE group photo at karaoke, which I’ll be posting up within the next few days
Kinda like this?
http://imgur.com/a/nF4iG
Although my phone didn’t want to work.
Haha! Oh man, a scary group. Where’s that anti-social corner again? 😛
where all the different coloured lights are =P
There’s a photo somewhere with me off in the corner being anti-social, so there was one.
MY GOD what happened to my hair? It’s so tall it’s worthy of DragonBall Z… Holy shish kabob!
I have no idea?
Nice photos scree, I totally forgot about taking photos the entire time I was there
Mum always yells at me for not taking photos.
What actually happened at the store was the guy was saying the shirts cost $60 for 2 but scree yelled him down
I really hope this is a joke.
She is pretty terrifying.
How? I’m tiny!
Ha. I learned a long time ago size is no measure of ferocity.
If you hit me with a bag I apologise! How am I scary?
I’m just teasing you.
You’re a monster. D=
@scree so @dc keeps trying to tell me.
@freezespreston
I hope the cushions survive the kids.
I cant help but read that last one as some kind of vague mysterious threat
I particularly like the picture of someone cosplaying as Serrels
Gorzy this, Gorzy that 😉
Welp, Im off to the gym for the first time in ages! wish me luck!
Take it easy, my friend!
Do I say have fun? I’ve never been to the gym
Haha! Don’t think there’s any thing fun about the gym. 😀
The evidence would suggest that you say “good luck”
This PAX write-up is over 2000 words long and I’m not even half way 😀
Yours?
Yes.
This is why I took a more brief approach.
I was going to say “But I have plenty of time” before realising you’re unemployed too and probably have more time than me so… yeah 😛
😀
I guess I’m just bored 😛
And you like your note comparing too! 😀
It would take me several days to write that much on this phone. Maybe I’ll put together something substantial when I next get some time in front of my computer.
Come on slow poke. Write faster!
Over 4000 words! I’m pretty sure this is the most I’ve ever written for anything 😛
PAX WRITE UP:
IT WAS GREAT
NEVER SAW GREENIUS SO THEREFORE HE ISN’T A REAL PERSON
JOUST IS AMAZING
I GOT TO MEET PEOPLE
THEN I GOT SCARED AND RAN AWAY FROM PEOPLE
THE END.
ALSO I MET ROBERT KHOO WHICH IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERED. AND HE WAS SUPER AWESOME.
EDIT: ALSO I MET RON GILBERT, WHO IS ALSO SUPER NICE CONTRARY TO HIS GRUMPYGAMER TITLE.
IT’S OKAY, YOU CAN JUST ATTEND THE NEXT MELBOURNE MEA…
OH THAT’S RIGHT. YOU DON’T WANT TO MEET US BECAUSE WE’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, BECAUSE WE REFUSE TO TRY OUT THIS MYTHICAL GYM CHICKEN.
I AIN’T FALLING FOR THAT TRAP.
YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE
How about those queues, eh?
And that panel? That panel was great! They said some really interesting things, and people asked question and they answered the questions and stuff.
Wow, it’s like you were there. 😛
Woo, I met the elusive Notorious 🙂
So did I! Notty five! o/
So dreamy…
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_locfxvZcTj1qdo0hw.gif
Woo. Notty five! \o
http://collider.com/nicolas-winding-refn-only-god-forgives-barbarella-interview/
Haven’t read it, but I assume you guys will be interested in this interview! (@sughly, @dkzeitgeist, @freezespreston.) I’m guessing there’s spoilers for Only God Forgives!
Edit: Haha, actually interview seems pretty short.
…
The language he uses in first answer is… interesting. XD
He says he doesn’t waste any film but I’d argue almost 1/4 of that film was wasted.
He does have a half right point when he says you can’t define OGF as good or bad as its about the experience. I’d argue that would apply to almost every film.
And I’d argue it wasnt wasted, so there!
So’s your face. Nyahhhhh. *pokes out tongue*
Pretty standard conversation though for discussing masculinity in film. The amount of times I referred to similar things for Thin Red Line and Taxi Driver in my film essay on the subject, that imagery is there
So after about 2 hours of P4G I have a question. Is there actually a game in here or is it one of those interactive novels? All I’ve done is press X repeatedly and moved to the other side of the screen a couple of times.
You’ll get to the “game” part soon!
Yeah it’s a bit tedious at the beginning but once it starts it’s great!
The first few hours are just that but then it’s all game for like 60+ hours before being more like that again towards the end. Don’t give up on it yet!
There is, but it does take a good long while to get going. Not Final Fantasy 13 long, but like, 7 hours.
Haha, I get it! FF13 took 8 hours! 8!!!
Hi @jonathorus
BAM!
Finally!
Hi @jonathorus, hopefully you can join this awesome community. Say hi, tell us how your PAX was etc 🙂
Just post your comment again in the new TAY (this one) and people will be happy to welcome you. Upvotes too. 🙂
How cool is it that we just met you on the line at PAX. NEW FRIENDS!! 🙂
What up?
Aww man…it’s not Jonasaurus? Now I have no excuse for hugging! 😛
@novacascade
I sent the picture of you and me to ThatGameCompany, I hope you don’t mind.
I’m so tempted to post the write-up without spoiler tagging it but I’m 100% sure it’ll break TAY 😛
!! MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT WARNING !!
It’s been a while since I wrote lots of words. I don’t particularly enjoy writing, nor am I good at it, but I’m bored and can’t think of anything better to do at the moment. So have this crap, I guess! (you’ll probably enjoy this @dc!)
Drum roll please! *badadadadadadadadadada* (my bad attempt at typing out a drum roll noise)
I now present…
PAX through the eyes of Greenius!
Part 1 – Nobfrond
What kind of genius starts off a PAX write-up with something that isn’t even PAX? This guy! *points to self* I guess this whole wall of text isn’t necessarily JUST about PAX, but the events around it. I thought I might as well write about the mini lunch thingy we had on Wednesday since @sernobulus came down to Melbourne early. The plan was to derp around and wander around the city (playing C chords – obviously), however, we didn’t really do any of that and it was lunch time by the time either of us got into the city. We met up for lunch and @beavwa joined and (thankfully) had a plan of where we’d go to eat. He suggested Beer Deluxe which was our usual Melbourne Meat, meet-up point but none of us had really eaten there before.All three of us had barely eaten anything prior to that so we were pretty hungee. There was a bit of a wait for the burgers but it just made them tastier and boy was it tasty! The burger I had was pretty darn big and stuff exploded everywhere when I took a bite but it was good eatin’! It’s been a while since I’ve had proper burgers/food as I’m used to scoffing down crappy fast food burgers. Unsurprisingly, I had no food regret!
After lunch Beavwa went back to this thing called “work” (never heard of it), so Nob and I decided to head into ACMI to start off our city adventures since it was literally around the corner from where we ate. They had a Hollywood Costume exhibit which was really interesting and awesome. I believe they had the actual costumes/clothes/outfits used in the films! Other than displaying costumes, there were videos and WORDS (D:) describing the process of creating them and just the whole idea around them (why they’re used, what they represent etc.). As a creative person who’s a fan of films, it was all really interesting and wasn’t really something I ever really thought about!
I’ve only ever been to ACMI a couple of times, my first time was about 6 years ago when they had a Pixar exhibition (which was really great! – dat Toy Story zoetrope! Dayumn!), and the second time was when they had a Gaming one (also great!) which happened to be my first meat, which was approximately 1 year and 1 day ago from today! For those playing at home (and didn’t see my post last week), I didn’t do a @dc and go through pages and pages of TAY (:D), I just remember going to the meat the day after I got my driver’s license which according to a recent letter, I got on the 20th of July.
What was the point of that again? I can’t remember, but it was something to do with me finally seeing the Free Admission section of ACMI which was actually pretty awesome too! I didn’t think it would be that big, or that good (that’s what she said).
By the time we finished at ACMI it was already time to go and our city adventures came to an end.
Part 1.5 – Thursday Bar Robot meat
I didn’t actually attend this one so I’ll keep it brief. I was a bit iffy on this one since I don’t live close to the city (so it wasn’t convenient), and I don’t drink (so there wasn’t much for me to do there!). I figured the people attending would be at PAX anyway so I could just see them there and I think I did (except for maybe a few people – @redartifice ?)Sorry I didn’t go @puppylicks and @danmazkin but we saw each other at PAX anyway! 😀
Part 2 – Pre-PAX
This is still pre-PAX but not all of it was in-between our lunch on Wednesday and PAX on Friday (i.e. Thursday as this write-up’s structure would dictate), but it’s more of my overall thoughts before PAX.When the tickets originally went on sale I think it around the time I was working last year so I had the money to spend and figured I’d just go for it. I’ve never been to any conventions before, nor was I ever interested in attending one, however, things are different now. I have interstate TAY friends! There was no schedule or any hints to what PAX Australia would be like, but I figured I can always meet up with people and that would justify the experience.
Based on my idea of these types of gaming conventions there would be a lot of “free swag”. The type of things that might be cool but also the type of things I’d never use. I actually saw a few “PAX swag” videos for previous iterations of PAX in the US and while some were as expected, there were actually a few cool things like art books, comics, t-shirts etc.
As time went on and consoles and games were announced I did get slightly more excited. I would be keen to see some big bombs being dropped – like a new console or game announcements (I would completely lose my shit for new Zelda information), but after E3 and prior announcements, this all seemed unlikely.
I hate lining up for ages and waiting for something. It’s not that I wouldn’t be interested in playing some of the newer games but if I have to stand around for hours, just to play a few minute demo I’m more than happy to pass and wait for the game to be released. I don’t really play demos anyway, so the games I was somewhat interested in seeing weren’t high on my priority list.
When the schedule was announced I had a quick look to see if there was anything I’d be 100% interested in seeing, only to find that there wasn’t. There were maybe one or two things I’d kind of like to see but wouldn’t be too fussed if I missed it. I was under the assumption that you could see something if you wanted to and would only have to line up, maybe 30 minutes before it started (which is perfectly reasonable) – or just head straight in, without queuing.
I definitely wanted to see some panels though as they seemed “PAX Australia exclusive”. Demos and everything else would be fully playable whenever games released, tabletop, board, handheld games – could all be played outside of PAX relatively easily. I just didn’t want to spend the majority of my time doing something I can do outside of PAX.
Since there weren’t too many panels I was interested in seeing, some PAX regret started seeping in towards the lead-up to PAX. I just questioned whether it was really worth the money and whether I’d actually enjoy it at all. I also wondered if I’d actually do the thing I wanted to do the most, meet up with fellow TAYbies. I bought a single ticket and was going to head in by myself so the last thing I wanted was to not enjoy PAX, not end up seeing any TAYbies, and just be there by myself hating everything.
Part 3 – PAX Day One – Friday
As it was evident on TAY, there weren’t really any PAX plans going on. People didn’t know how they were getting there, who they were going to meet up with (or how) and some didn’t even book their flights until the last minute (you know who you are!), again, I worried that I didn’t even know how I would get there or how I would meet anyone but thankfully @negativezero offered me a lift to and from PAX.I’ve been on holidays for the past 3 weeks, so waking up early for PAX was ugh. We headed towards the city and planned to catch the train to the showgrounds. I saw @miketarno at the station and he joined us on the PAX quest. Unfortunately the train was about 20 minutes late so despite getting to the showgrounds before 10, we didn’t actually end up getting inside until 10:30 or so which was too late to attend the Ron Gilbert keynote, which was one of the few panels I was actually interested in 🙁 (but I’ve seen it now thanks to @sughly posting it in this week’s TAY!). We had to line up outside and it was a complete mess. No one knew where the line started and ended and it was just a mass of people everywhere. Thankfully there were 3DSs EVERYWHERE and clearing StreetPasses really helped pass the time. I was used to having 2-4 StreetPasses a day and considered that a lot but at PAX, you would almost immediately get 10 StreetPasses, go to clear them only to find you’ve got 10 more and this goes on indefinitely. Madness. But through this madness, we did manage to see Beavwa in the line and I got to meet the one and only HOTROSS for the first time! Other than @rocketman and Beavwa (who were ahead of us in the line), we also saw @novacascade and @cakesmith in the line behind us (both who I also met for the first time). I was surprised to find out I couldn’t connect to the internet at all when we got inside PAX. I was relying on using Twitter to meet up with people so this posed a problem, but at least I could still phone/text people!
After missing out on the keynote, we figured we’d just walk around the main Expo Hall and see what PAX has to offer. It was pretty much what I expected and possibly even worse. There wasn’t really anything that I was interested in and there didn’t seem to be any of that “cool free swag” I had heard about. The Xbox One wasn’t even displayed and there was no PS4 stuff at all. The amount of people and the size of PAX surprised me too – neither were massively big, but I expected smaller (that’s what she said). After going around the Expo Hall we then headed towards the Big Top, which was the board games/table top area that also had a handheld lounge of sorts with beanbags. Other than being StreetPass heaven, there wasn’t really anything special about this place either. I felt like I had already seen PAX and the day had just barely started. Sure there was a selection of games and board games to play and see, but nothing that I wanted to desperately line up for, nothing I couldn’t experience outside of PAX.
They had a sort of “PAX XP” game going on where they hid 12 QR codes throughout areas and scanning them revealed a phrase. Saying the phrase at the Info Desk gave you a PAX XP Cube. The swag we had collected wasn’t that great but Mike and I were set on getting as much swag as we can, including this “XP Cube” thing.
We ran into various TAYbies throughout the day, some new faces and some old. Some of us had actually StreetPassed fellow TAYbies before meeting them in person, so we knew they were in the area. My Mii just had my actual name (Joel) so I changed my greeting to be a sort of “GREENIUS! \o/”, so TAYbies would know who they passed. I StreetPassed a “Freya” then walked a few steps and saw people who looked like a Freya and Trjn and it totally was @freya and @trjn. Now apparently I’m creepy for correctly guessing it was them but I say BOLLOCKS! I just have a really, really good memory and I’ve probably seen meat/Twitter pics of TAYbies before, as well as heard them on TeamSpeak. I don’t try to remember these things but the amount of random crap I remember is pretty crazy. SO YOU’RE THE CREEPY ONE FREYR! I didn’t recognise people I’ve never seen or heard before!
Beavwa had stubbornly refused to take my money on Wednesday since he ordered the burgers for us but I managed to give it to him in the end after he bought an overpriced (but delicious!) hotdog for me (mainly because I couldn’t be bothered lining up to order the same thing). I told Mike I needed to run into @masha2932 because I also owed him money and had to give him a few other things. So to Mike, it seemed like I owed everyone money and was some sort of suspicious dealer of sorts (no comment). In a totally non-racist way we were just on the look-out for a black guy (as that was pretty much all I knew about Bumasha :P), and suffice it to say, there weren’t many black people at PAX. I eventually spot an elusive black guy (oh god, this is so borderline racist) and question whether it’s who I think it is. Mike and I briefly discuss whether I should go up to and say hello as I didn’t recognise the person he was speaking with. He told me before PAX he was planning on staying at F4ctions with a few other people and I had heard that they attended the Gilbert keynote together, but I didn’t recognise the person he was talking with. I decided to go for it and go
“waddup my nig“Masha?” and it was! Turns out the other guy was @dire_wolf ! I’m glad he found people because through my sketchy connection I managed to see a few of his Tweets where he said he would be waiting at the Tank, only to say a few minutes later that he’d just leave :’( (without having seen anyone).Many new and old TAYbies were seen (I can’t remember the exact order and I don’t want to try listing everyone only to end up forgetting someone, so I’m not going to bother listing them :P) but @chuloopa soon joined in on the “swag hunt”. The groups and people I was with throughout the day changed constantly but after a while we decided to try for the BioWare panel. I’m not a huge fan but Mike was, and we got there 1 hour before only to be told it was completely full. We tried our luck anyway, but nothing changed. The thing about PAX was the theatres only held about 100, 200, 300 and 1800 people. The BioWare one was in a tiny theatre that only seated about 300 people and I later discovered (after seeing a different panel) that it was pretty much just a room with plastic chairs and a screen. Really!? It could’ve easily been in a bigger area and they could’ve added more chairs, let people stand, or just have no chairs at all and made it a standing area. It was also flat so if you had someone tall or wearing a stupid hair sitting in front of you, good luck seeing anything.
A PAX Enforcer (basically a PAX staff/helper) recommended we get there maybe 30 minutes before for a guaranteed spot, it was apparently full nearly 2 hours before the event started. 2 hours of lining up without a guarantee of actually getting in? Fuck that. The organisation around this was really bad. They either needed more panels, more space in the panels, or a way to see what was happening without actually being in there (i.e. showing what was happening on a screen outside).
As Mike was a huge BioWare fan and this was his #1 thing at PAX he was super disappointed and I felt bad for him 🙁 (poor dude!). However… he started talking to a random person in the queue named Annie about their love of BioWare and Mass Effect. She tagged along with us for a while and ended up becoming Dire Wolf’s future wife! Who knew! There was some mad chemistry between them 😉 (I’m just teasing… I’m a dick :P). There was more mindless walking around and waiting before I sat down at the board games area in the evening and I was shown, and played Hanabi …HANABI!
@fatshadylive was also playing and I met him for the first time. He expressed his happiness towards my Twitter avatar and how there was something about that green square that he just liked :D. He (and many others) was also glad I wore green (which I did throughout the weekend so people could easily recognise me). I had to use the lavatory mid-Hanabi so I left and ran into Masha who was on his way to Coles to get what I thought was “Gatorade for FatShady”. Masha came back with boxes of Golden Gaytimes (oooh, so that’s what he said) and Gaytime Friday commenced. The champ walked through the rain to buy them for us! Some Gay pictures were taken and I made stupid faces in them (and no @bish, that was not a face of disappointment).
That was pretty much the end of the day and Neg and I headed back. It was super windy the whole day and raining too. The walk back to the car wasn’t fun 😛
When I got out of PAX I saw that there were many TAYbies which I haven’t seen yet and didn’t even know were at PAX (@notoriousr :P), so therefore they didn’t exist.
Part 4 – PAX Day Two – Saturday
Ughhhhhhh. So after getting to PAX fairly late on Friday, we decided to leave earlier so I had to get up earlier. At least this time the train wasn’t completely packed/PAXed (trololol) and we got seats which enabled us to clear our StreetPasses!We got in at about 9:15am but since the doors don’t open until 10am we had to stand there and wait for nearly an hour, doing nothing. Since this was my first time lining up indoors there were lots of beach balls being hit in the line and people cheered whoever hit it high enough to go over the sign near the top of the roof. It was amusing seeing Trjn and RayGun complain about how many times they got hit in the head on Twitter.
My legs and feet were pretty sore from Friday but all the early waiting made me even sorer and tired of PAX already before it even begun! As soon as we got into PAX I see Neg making a mad dash for a coffee and he just zoomed off, never to be seen again. I remember seeing Shady Tweet that he’d be taking pictures of everyone walking in so I saw him and had a quick chat before wandering around again. He was quite pleased I wore green again! This time there were less lines for the things I was somewhat interested in seeing so I had a go at The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which was awesome! OMG BUTTONS! I also played the Sonic Game very briefly (not long enough to judge it) and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team which played just like the others and now I’m interested in picking it up! I also ran into Nob and we played some Super Mario 3D World on Wii U which was a lot of fun co-op, I don’t think it’ll be as fun solo (unless it has online, but knowing Nintendo, it won’t 🙁 ).
Notty said he was in the Borderlands panel line so I headed over only to find out that the line for it is in the queue room which was a somewhat better decision as you didn’t have people blocking the main pathways and waiting out in the rain. I joined on the end and I assumed he was towards the front. I also saw Puppylicks and Dan waiting ahead but they were too far to say hello too. It was about 1 hour and 30 minutes before the panel started and the Enforcer with a counter said I was clearly in and the cut-off point was marked later on at around 30 people behind me. I saw Masha and told him to hop in the queue because I was Needius and didn’t want to wait alone. I also managed to gather Mike who also joined the wait. And wait we did… wait wait wait. Throughout our conversations a random guy in the line says to us “are you guys from Kotaku?” because he recognised the names we were talking about. He told us he was a Kotaku lurker but we totally didn’t peer pressure him into joining TAY, hello @jonathorus ! Your post is out of moderation now :D. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-233/comment-page-18/#comment-1683819
More waiting was done and finally the line starts moving. Here’s where more problems with PAX comes into play. So while we waiting inside in the Queue Room (the entrance to PAX) when it was time to enter the panel we just walked from the queue room to the theatre and ANYONE could have easily joined in at any point (and probably did) meaning those towards the back of the line, those who are supposedly clearly in, might not make it. Along the way I made a little joke about entering through the exit and some random grumpypants goes “IT CLEARLY SAYS NO ENTRY” before very rudely saying “DUMBASS”. Okay, guy, take a Chillaxative, I’m not even talking to you :P.
I told Mike, Masha and Jon I was set on making it into the Borderlands panel after waiting all that time so Jon walked pretty fast and I followed. This somehow ended up with Mike and Masha around 10 people behind us and I looked back and they did a sort of “come back here” gesture, while I did a “come up here” gesture. After all that time waiting and joking about being cut off right at the front of the line. Jon and I were cut off. At the front of the line, right in front of the door. … … after being told we were CLEARLY in and having waited nearly 2 hours this was not where I wanted to be, and I didn’t want Mike and Masha to miss out too since I dragged them into waiting for it as well. The Enforcer said “sorry guys, you might not make it” and we waited and waited before he said there was space for around 10 more people. So off we go and thank god I got a seat but hang on… what about Mike and Masha?! I sit down and I’m yet to see them walk in. Oh god, they must hate me right about now… BUT! I see Masha walk in but no Mike. I later found out that Mike gave up his spot for the cosplayers who waited in line behind us as he did cut in line but I had only been waiting for a few minutes before either of them joined me in waiting and he waited just as long as anyone else. Apparently the Masha and Mike were going to be the last people to get in, which is why Mike gave up his spot (what a champ!). As it turns out the cosplayers went in and about 20 more people came in AFTER them and just stood around the side. But it was too late, Mike had already left, disappointed and destroyed :’(. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER PAX.
The Borderlands panel was my first panel and I at least wanted to see one. Next to the keynote, this was the only other one I wanted to see. The panel was great but the waiting and all the shit before it kind of put a damper on the experience. They announced some new DLC and content for Borderlands 2 which was probably my GOTY last year and best of all they gave us (at the Panel) codes to get some of this FOR FREE! …except I tried redeeming them earlier today (Monday) and one of them says IT HAS ALREADY BEEN REDEEMED. WHAT THE FUCK!? :’(
After Borderlands there was more wandering around and we decided to have a little TAY meet up and play Joust. Joust is a crazy game where you hold up a Move controller but you have to keep it steady while trying to get people out of the game. There’s a short time where the music speeds up and you can move freely without being knocked out and a “FREEZE!” time where you can’t really move at all, both come up at random intervals and make the game intense. We’ve passed the game numerous times but I confused it for something else and thought it looked crappy without a screen (it doesn’t need one!), because I didn’t know what it was. Since there were a group of TAYbies it was easy to meet up with people and @bdkiaf came up to me and introduced himself. The game was really fun but I was terrible at it. Both times I played, I knocked someone else out as well as myself at the same time (DERP). @patiencemaddox (I think this is the right tag?) was scarily good at it though and her game face will forever haunt my nightmares…
Again with the aimless wandering and standing at places doing nothing. Saturday was full of that and ugh! I attempted to see the Animal Crossing panel with Beavwa, @princesspipster and @batguy but decided I had waited enough and just wanted to sit around doing nothing. I’m kinda glad I missed it because it was apparently rather terrible and was quite literally just a video. I joined back with my buddies and we managed to run into the lovebirds again ;), before bidding them farewell and leaving them to do their thang …bow chicka bowwowwww! We also tried for the XP Cube after failing to find the rest of the QR codes, but we knew the answer and thought we’d have a crack anyway. Masha said he tried for it in the morning but forgot part of the phrase and just left :P. We said the secret phrase – “a few roos loose in the top paddock” and got… stickers? Apparently they ran out of the cubes which were only small Rubik’s Cubes, which I probably would’ve preferred, but free stickers are better than no stickers! Masha, BDKIAF and I also tried out the Occulus Rift which was pretty cool. A bit low res but what surprised me the most was how light it was. It didn’t even feel like it was there! I’m definitely interested in a future HD consumer version of sorts.
@tech_knight said we’d meet at the entrance for karaoke at 6:30 and head over at 7. Turns out he didn’t mean the entrance and meant the board games building, and he wasn’t even at the entrance of that :P. It also turns out they were leaving at 6:30, rather than 7 so luckily we saw them just in time. And off to karaoke we go!
I saw a new guy I haven’t met before so I assumed it was @freezespreston but it was actually @cj, oops :P. When we got to karaoke there was already a group of us there and I met more people! Including @rize and @pixel_the_ferret_viking, who both expressed their disappointment that my green jumper wasn’t green enough.
There was a bit of confusion about what was covered by the karaoke payment because a few of us haven’t eaten much the whole day and were pretty damn hungee and expected food to be covered (which it was in the end, thank god!). I didn’t stick around too long as Neg was my lift home and wanted to head off and I was pretty tired as well.
My feet were in so much pain from all the standing and waiting D’:
Part 5 – PAX Day Three – Sunday
Whhhooooooaaaaaa I was so over PAX by this point. Mike sold his ticket and didn’t go on Sunday and I thought about not going as well but figured I paid the money so I might as well go and I can still play board games all day and just bum around.Neg wanted to go EVEN EARLIER and I was the opposite and wanted to go later because waiting sucks. Luckily it was the weekend so my parents weren’t working and could drop me off at the station. I got there later and caught up with Masha at the station. It was super chill and we easily walked in and caught up with others. On Sunday it was relatively empty and there were significantly less people all around. Masha wanted to play some of the Nintendo stuff so we did that and played some Game & Wario on Wii U with CJ before we checked out the Xbox One presentation. I was somewhat interested in it but didn’t want to line up for hours. Apparently you could still easily get a seat after turning up 5 minutes late so the plan was to get there about 5 minutes before it started and see what happens from there. As it turns out there was no queue, no wait, nothing. We walked straight in and got a seat. Groovy. The presentation was alright but showed nothing new. I was quite surprised by the Kinect stuff and it actually looked pretty cool as a piece of technology except virtually useless for gaming applications. I couldn’t really think of anything I was interested in that would really benefit from the Kinect.
After that Masha and I grabbed some burgers and got swarmed by Seagulls. Thankfully @klutar Jr. was there to scare them away! The rest of the day was super chill and I met @mawt and Hotross and I went on a water hunt when Mr. Mawt gave him his, what a champ! I pretty much just sat down for the rest of the day and played some Love Letters (?) and more HANABI! until it was time to go.
On the way back I was clearing my StreetPasses in the car only to find out that I had one more.
The final StreetPass for PAX was BatGuy 🙂
Part 6 – Closing Thoughts about PAX
PAX itself was just okay. I didn’t think it was anything special and I’m not sure about attending the next one. I knew that meeting TAYbies was going to be the best part, and it was. The panels at PAX were great too but only if you saw them but seeing them was difficult because of pretty terrible organisation. I really hope they get there shit together next time.The weather was fairly crappy. WOO MELBOURNE! Rainy and windy at Friday. Rainy on Saturday and clear blue skies BUT STILL COLD AND WINDY on Sunday :P. So mega kudos to all the cosplayers out there as it must’ve been hell! There were a lot of awesome costumes throughout PAX 😀
It was also super easy to talk to anyone at PAX since we were all effectively there for the same reason and had common interests.
All in all I don’t regret going to PAX. I had fun there and it was a great way to spend my weekend. But I’m totally pooped out and will gladly spend the last week of my holidays just sitting around doing nothing. Hell, I just spent like 4 hours typing this write-up which is over 5000 words long.
To everyone I met, it was awesome meeting you, and to everyone I didn’t, DO YOU EVEN EXIST!? I kid, it sucks that we didn’t meet up but there’s always next time. I look forward to meeting you then and thanks everyone for a great time at PAX!
I betcha barely anyone read the whole thing 😛 :(. It’s also safe to assume I’ll going to repost this badboy at some point 😛
#Needius
Too busy laughing at “waddup my nig” to keep reading 😛
Words, words everywhere.
When’s the wedding? 😀
Hah. I did laugh at that bit.
She seemed cool though. Maybe you’ll remain friends, Was she from Melbourne? If she is and you’re single and she’s single ask her out.
I say this knowing I’d be terrified to do the same 🙂
This is exactly the type of thing masha would say! 😀
Wow, that’s a lot of words for someone who never talks in person. =P
There’s a difference between not talking and not talking a lot.
I just don’t talk to you because you’re lame.
🙂
(I’m kidding)
(OR AM I?!)
(I’m kidding Scree, don’t get worried :P, it just seems like whenever you’re there it’s always in a big group and you’re at the other side. So I just don’t talk to you)
I think you’re doing it on purpose. You just don’t want to talk to me.
You’re right Scree, after making me promise not to tell anyone, he told me that he was specifically avoiding you as much as he could. Thankfully for him though, you’d never need to know, since I was sworn to secrecy.
Phew. Just remember not to tell @scree the part where I said she was like literally the worst person ever and her cosplay wasn’t amazing, the rupee cushions weren’t amazing either and that I’m totally lying and I need to specifically point out that this is sarcasm and she’s actually really cool, her cosplay and rupee cushions were totally radical and she’s a super nice person who really goes out of her way to help others.
Just don’t tell her that.
Nope, don’t be silly :P. I talked to you when we were together, remember when we went to pick up Shane?
Creepius.
NO, U
Suspect that the bulk of PAX’s problems were they booked out the Showgrounds expecting a much smaller attendance, then sold all the tickets within days and ended up having way more people. Eg if there had only been 15,000 over the three days (instead of the 40-50k I’m hearing around) then the smaller theaters wouldn’t have seemed as undersized as they were. Basically they’d outgrown the venue before they had a chance to have a convention at the venue.
Reckon they’ll have to be at Jeff’s Shed next year.
I heard they had a two year contract with the showgrounds, so they might have the same problem next year.
Expect exclusive* info about this on Potaku soon
*not exclusive at all
Jeff’s shed is smaller. At least it was when they had Armageddon there.
The problem was that master chef was all like “I need the giant shed.” That was originally meant to be one of the theatre’s. It would’ve been fixed if they’d used that.
I also think the queue hall should be re-purposed for something else. They should check everyone at the door.
If the queue hall hadn’t been inside then the early-arrivers would have potentially spent 1-2 hours standing in the rain.
Unless they set up more gazebos.
I couldn’t help but think that setting up screens in the queuing hall with streams from the main hall and/or the smaller rooms would have been a great idea for “overflow” people.
That would be a good idea. Remember to tell the pax people this so they can improve it next year
*Opens all spoiler tags*
*Ctrl-f*
*Types in “Blaghman”*
*Cries*
I didn’t even know you went to PAX. D:
He bullied me :'(
Could just be a nickname. Try Blags? Blaghs? Bla? Sexy beast? Fabio? Hot stuff? Hot man? Man? Man with less hair? Hairless man? Encino man? Brendan Fraser?
Nope, pretty sure Greenius just hates me, after we came to the conclusion that he would have been one of the people throwing food at me back in my school days.
I’M A NICE GUY, I SWEAR!
You know, Masha and I randomly share stories every now and then and I realised that the last few I was telling him were ones where I was totally horrible D:
😀 Niceius
On a related note, I like the short hair. Suits you. Wink! That’s a flirtatious wink, not a I’m tricking you wink.
Thanks. I totally need an actual hair cut though, it kind of looks rather silly.
No ways, I’m being forreals, suits you
Nah, he does need a haircut. Still better than the long hair though although we can’t make jokes about it anymore 🙁
HI @BLAGHMAN
Don’t worry Blaghs, I was totally happy to meet you, even though you and Rockets ditched me ;_;
Blame Freya and BunBun for that.
And not the fact that I’m a terrible person.
*shakes fist at peoples*
Why do we get the blame for that?
Because that was when Crochetman and I decided to go with you to watch Harli’s panel.
So what you’re saying is that it’s @harli ‘s fault but you’re afraid she’ll make you keep your hand raised for half an hour without reward.
Got it
I’m sorry! I couldn’t control where the enforcer was going >
@harli Hat!
I had typed you at one point as well as the rest of the Geelong gang but then I didn’t want to miss people since I saw ALL THE PEOPLE at one point (I mention this)
@blaghman
There you go, champ.
Cool write-up, not enough Karaoke. That’s what I was most interested in and it was gone after a paragraph. *shakes fist* 😛
*Blaghs’ Karaoke write-up*
“I sang some songs. Some stuff happened. I moped in the corner for a while because that’s what happens to me if I’m not constantly talking to someone I know during events. Then we went home.”
Hmmm. That write-up is terrible.
D.C. just to let you know I spent the last 20 mins writing up a karaoke meat, only to realise it would be bigger than expected (that’s what she said) so I’m going to continue to write that shizz in Word before Kotaku breaks and I lose everything.
GET HYPE!
Glad that you found some fun in PAX.
It was just about the most awesome long weekend of my life and next year can’t come soon enough for me. I think I might take a whole week off next time so that I have more opportunity to meet up with Melbourne TAYbies.
Yeah, I want to get a whole week off to do some tourist stuff and explore Melbourne.
The fuck?
“Gatorade for FatShady”. Ha ha.
I read it all.
🙂
But even before she can get her knickers on, Masha’s seen everything
What? 🙂
Shady said he was super keen to go to Coles and get a drink because he was thirsty. That’s not an unreasonable assumption!
Wowsers! That’s a long and detailed writeup – I’m amazed you remember all that. :O
I remember even more and can go into even more detail.
SEE @FREYA – AMAZING MEMORY – NOT CREEPINESS.
Dude you recognised me off my streetpass and probably like 1-2 old photos of me posted like a year ago. CREEPIUS.
AMAZING MEMORY – NOT CREEPINESS
Creepiness.
Ate a whole thing of Latina Ravioli and pasta sauce, as well as three shots of port.
Mild regret.
That’s crazy, guy
I’m eating raviolli too!
I had a bowl of cereal and strawberry yoghurt and two chicken pies and a bowl of chips…
I’m still hungry. D:
I think youre pregnant
Why are the potaku cartoons so angry all the time? Guys, y u mad? Chill out man. Just chill…
not enough bacon?
We’re just really passionate about what we do.
Like, KKK passionate?
Like, Kathy Bates in Misery passionate.
If that makes any sense.
They have American Kirby Syndrome.
Something something The Newsroom something something Aaron Sorkin something something watch this show something. Something something Treme something @shane something…
Something something The Newsroom something something Aaron Sorkin something something watch this show something.
_ _ The Newsroom _ _ Aaron Sorkin _ _ watch this show _.
Don’t watch The Newsroom. It has Aaron Sorkin. Please never watch this show, EVER.
If you say so D.C. 😛
Your edit:
Don’t watch Treme as well. @shane, okay?
Go something yourself, Greenius. 😛
Well played my friend!
🙂
BRILLIANT!!
I’m loving this new DC lately.
Aw, I really don’t like myself lately. Haha!
Aww man 🙁
Hopefully you feel better.
Shane is watching Treme,
I’m watching under the Dome,
Powalen and Blaghman watched a few episodes of The Americans.
There are many more people watching shows you recommend
Don’t worry your suggestions get through. It takes a while but they do 🙂
About Under the dome, I just finished episode 3 on the train home from the airport. I actually looked for the book at the airport but couldn’t find it. I’ve never read it and if the show gets cancelled I want to know what happens. I might look for it in my local libraries soon.
I don’t recommend Under the Dome any more. The series is terrible. Haha! XD
Oh really? It seems OK so far.
If it gets worse I’ll read the book then.
I think I’m just judging it too harshly compared to the book. The sense of momentum is just completely different and it’s feeling sort of disposable right now where this point in the book I was well and truly hooked. :'(
How’s Catch-22 going? 😛
Breaking News…
The Classification Board has announced that they will be reviewing the classification for Saints Row IV on the 29th of July.
So there might be a chance that we will get the game after all.
http://www.classification.gov.au/News/Pages/22July2013-Classificationreviewannounced-for-thecomputergameSaintsRowIV.aspx
Considering an ‘Australian edition’ of the game was at PAX, it’s pretty much a sure thing.
I got an email from JB HiFi with a 20% off games voucher where apparently you print it out and they scan the barcode in-store.
My email didn’t come with a barcode.
I need to stop deleting all my ‘junk’ emails before I check them out. Once, I threw out abut $100 of MYER vouchers because I thought all the letters they were sending was spam. 🙁
I got the same email, just chuck it at them and make it rain!
Thanks for the heads up, was in my junk mail as well, to bad it expires by the 25th, could of used it on Pikmin.
Dearest friends instead of posting a PAX meetup from my perspective i am going to tell you what i learnt about people
@fatshadylive Is a old old old man with no depth perception. He was all like ” guys guys look at this amazing spot to wait for the train” Needless to say it wasn’t a good spot to wait for a train
@lambomann007 Is like freaking Houdini i spend the weekend sharing the same accomidation and i think i saw him less than anyone 😛
@Blaghman gets cranky if you take away his juice
@Scree should appreciate herself more because my god her cosplay’s were amazing
@F4ction Is the coolest guy for letting us crash with him.
@Novacascade must have really dirty socks
@Masha2392 bought us all gaytimes. What a radtastic awesome thing too do BIGGEST GAYTIME FRIDAY EVER
@Freya and @trjn Are really amazing at talking to strangers while waiting for food. They are like make this tag team duo of charisma and humor
@harli Is a big shot and hates me ( BUT OMG ZORINE TE TALKED TO ME AND HUGGED ME AT PAX)
@alexpants Will let me touch him pretty much anywhere, we get really creepy with our hugs
@BDKIAF can actually sing really fucking well. We rocked a duet of westlife
@Beavwa and miss beavwa are probably my favourite thing about my trip. Seriously WARMEST SET OF PEOPLE EVER. They make you feel so loved just by talking to them
@shiggyninty and I made his girlfriend way jelly of our relationship
@cakesmith and i never seem to run out of things to talk about. Such a rad dude. ALso PS dude punches so far above his weight.
@Greenius is a just a meaner version of BISH nice way to conform to stereotypes. He came around eventually
@Mawt Looks like DAN and gave me his water, i owe him my life. Probably
@SerNobulus Is all around cool dude,
@rocketman Is just so thrilled to have so many amazing people in his life, Seriously i feel so wanted and needed and loved. You guys not only put up with me, you encourage me to be my best self and i am growing into the person i want to become everyday because of you all.
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@gorzilla IS COOL BECAUSE HE GOT ME A PRESENT FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND THE PRESENT WAS A FOOLY COOLY SHIRT THAT IS AWESOME
Special mentions
@batgirl and @jordi
Everyone who was at karaoke knows why.
@freya! 😀
Thanks DC you are the best
I was going to correct the tags but then I couldn’t be bothered. AM I THE BEST!?
Probably not.
True story.
@powalen is great
@lambomann007, @masha2932 😀
Speaking of Lambo, he is crazy elusive. We’ve had so many meats this year and we haven’t seen him since Boxing Day. D:
What are you talking about? I saw him on Saturday!
I… Uhh… okay.
I’m always up for a hug, Rockets.
Anywhere. Any time.
I’m not on that list. I guess that’s a good thing? 😛
Considering there were no words on the screen, I’d say we did pretty damn well.
It’s not charisma, it’s a basic understanding of social situations :p
Rocketman, you do realise everyone was talking to everyone at the convention right? It wasn’t that Bunny and I are charismatic.
Oh. Wait. It’s because you didn’t have anything else nice to say about us. I understand.
SORRY IM NOT SOCIALLY NON RETARDED
No mention of @freezespreston…
To be fair that guy is kind of a jerk.
You guys realize im a jerk who barely remembers how to tie my shoes right?
its ok man @rocketman spent the whole weekend telling me how Im a wasted existance and he hates me
All I really caught from that is “Fooly Cooly Shirt.”
I can honestly say I’m more jealous of that than the fact that you went to PAX.
But what about Zoidberg?
🙁
You’re welcome any time RocketBuddy.
I do not hate you! ‘Sif somebody could hate on the Rocketmans.
FILTHY ATTENTION WHORING REPOST (maybe one more tomorrow so those non-night TAYbies can have a read):
!! MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT WARNING !!
It’s been a while since I wrote lots of words. I don’t particularly enjoy writing, nor am I good at it, but I’m bored and can’t think of anything better to do at the moment. So have this crap, I guess! (you’ll probably enjoy this dc!)
Drum roll please! *badadadadadadadadadada* (my bad attempt at typing out a drum roll noise)
I now present…
PAX through the eyes of Greenius!
Part 1 – Nobfrond
What kind of genius starts off a PAX write-up with something that isn’t even PAX? This guy! *points to self* I guess this whole wall of text isn’t necessarily JUST about PAX, but the events around it. I thought I might as well write about the mini lunch thingy we had on Wednesday since sernobulus came down to Melbourne early. The plan was to derp around and wander around the city (playing C chords – obviously), however, we didn’t really do any of that and it was lunch time by the time either of us got into the city. We met up for lunch and beavwa joined and (thankfully) had a plan of where we’d go to eat. He suggested Beer Deluxe which was our usual Melbourne Meat, meet-up point but none of us had really eaten there before.All three of us had barely eaten anything prior to that so we were pretty hungee. There was a bit of a wait for the burgers but it just made them tastier and boy was it tasty! The burger I had was pretty darn big and stuff exploded everywhere when I took a bite but it was good eatin’! It’s been a while since I’ve had proper burgers/food as I’m used to scoffing down crappy fast food burgers. Unsurprisingly, I had no food regret!
After lunch Beavwa went back to this thing called “work” (never heard of it), so Nob and I decided to head into ACMI to start off our city adventures since it was literally around the corner from where we ate. They had a Hollywood Costume exhibit which was really interesting and awesome. I believe they had the actual costumes/clothes/outfits used in the films! Other than displaying costumes, there were videos and WORDS (D:) describing the process of creating them and just the whole idea around them (why they’re used, what they represent etc.). As a creative person who’s a fan of films, it was all really interesting and wasn’t really something I ever really thought about!
I’ve only ever been to ACMI a couple of times, my first time was about 6 years ago when they had a Pixar exhibition (which was really great! – dat Toy Story zoetrope! Dayumn!), and the second time was when they had a Gaming one (also great!) which happened to be my first meat, which was approximately 1 year and 1 day ago from today! For those playing at home (and didn’t see my post last week), I didn’t do a dc and go through pages and pages of TAY (:D), I just remember going to the meat the day after I got my driver’s license which according to a recent letter, I got on the 20th of July.
What was the point of that again? I can’t remember, but it was something to do with me finally seeing the Free Admission section of ACMI which was actually pretty awesome too! I didn’t think it would be that big, or that good (that’s what she said).
By the time we finished at ACMI it was already time to go and our city adventures came to an end.
Part 1.5 – Thursday Bar Robot meat
I didn’t actually attend this one so I’ll keep it brief. I was a bit iffy on this one since I don’t live close to the city (so it wasn’t convenient), and I don’t drink (so there wasn’t much for me to do there!). I figured the people attending would be at PAX anyway so I could just see them there and I think I did (except for maybe a few people – redartifice ?)Sorry I didn’t go puppylicks and danmazkin but we saw each other at PAX anyway! 😀
Part 2 – Pre-PAX
This is still pre-PAX but not all of it was in-between our lunch on Wednesday and PAX on Friday (i.e. Thursday as this write-up’s structure would dictate), but it’s more of my overall thoughts before PAX.When the tickets originally went on sale I think it around the time I was working last year so I had the money to spend and figured I’d just go for it. I’ve never been to any conventions before, nor was I ever interested in attending one, however, things are different now. I have interstate TAY friends! There was no schedule or any hints to what PAX Australia would be like, but I figured I can always meet up with people and that would justify the experience.
Based on my idea of these types of gaming conventions there would be a lot of “free swag”. The type of things that might be cool but also the type of things I’d never use. I actually saw a few “PAX swag” videos for previous iterations of PAX in the US and while some were as expected, there were actually a few cool things like art books, comics, t-shirts etc.
As time went on and consoles and games were announced I did get slightly more excited. I would be keen to see some big bombs being dropped – like a new console or game announcements (I would completely lose my shit for new Zelda information), but after E3 and prior announcements, this all seemed unlikely.
I hate lining up for ages and waiting for something. It’s not that I wouldn’t be interested in playing some of the newer games but if I have to stand around for hours, just to play a few minute demo I’m more than happy to pass and wait for the game to be released. I don’t really play demos anyway, so the games I was somewhat interested in seeing weren’t high on my priority list.
When the schedule was announced I had a quick look to see if there was anything I’d be 100% interested in seeing, only to find that there wasn’t. There were maybe one or two things I’d kind of like to see but wouldn’t be too fussed if I missed it. I was under the assumption that you could see something if you wanted to and would only have to line up, maybe 30 minutes before it started (which is perfectly reasonable) – or just head straight in, without queuing.
I definitely wanted to see some panels though as they seemed “PAX Australia exclusive”. Demos and everything else would be fully playable whenever games released, tabletop, board, handheld games – could all be played outside of PAX relatively easily. I just didn’t want to spend the majority of my time doing something I can do outside of PAX.
Since there weren’t too many panels I was interested in seeing, some PAX regret started seeping in towards the lead-up to PAX. I just questioned whether it was really worth the money and whether I’d actually enjoy it at all. I also wondered if I’d actually do the thing I wanted to do the most, meet up with fellow TAYbies. I bought a single ticket and was going to head in by myself so the last thing I wanted was to not enjoy PAX, not end up seeing any TAYbies, and just be there by myself hating everything.
Part 3 – PAX Day One – Friday
As it was evident on TAY, there weren’t really any PAX plans going on. People didn’t know how they were getting there, who they were going to meet up with (or how) and some didn’t even book their flights until the last minute (you know who you are!), again, I worried that I didn’t even know how I would get there or how I would meet anyone but thankfully negativezero offered me a lift to and from PAX.I’ve been on holidays for the past 3 weeks, so waking up early for PAX was ugh. We headed towards the city and planned to catch the train to the showgrounds. I saw miketarno at the station and he joined us on the PAX quest. Unfortunately the train was about 20 minutes late so despite getting to the showgrounds before 10, we didn’t actually end up getting inside until 10:30 or so which was too late to attend the Ron Gilbert keynote, which was one of the few panels I was actually interested in 🙁 (but I’ve seen it now thanks to sughly posting it in this week’s TAY!). We had to line up outside and it was a complete mess. No one knew where the line started and ended and it was just a mass of people everywhere. Thankfully there were 3DSs EVERYWHERE and clearing StreetPasses really helped pass the time. I was used to having 2-4 StreetPasses a day and considered that a lot but at PAX, you would almost immediately get 10 StreetPasses, go to clear them only to find you’ve got 10 more and this goes on indefinitely. Madness. But through this madness, we did manage to see Beavwa in the line and I got to meet the one and only HOTROSS for the first time! Other than rocketman and Beavwa (who were ahead of us in the line), we also saw novacascade and cakesmith in the line behind us (both who I also met for the first time). I was surprised to find out I couldn’t connect to the internet at all when we got inside PAX. I was relying on using Twitter to meet up with people so this posed a problem, but at least I could still phone/text people!
After missing out on the keynote, we figured we’d just walk around the main Expo Hall and see what PAX has to offer. It was pretty much what I expected and possibly even worse. There wasn’t really anything that I was interested in and there didn’t seem to be any of that “cool free swag” I had heard about. The Xbox One wasn’t even displayed and there was no PS4 stuff at all. The amount of people and the size of PAX surprised me too – neither were massively big, but I expected smaller (that’s what she said). After going around the Expo Hall we then headed towards the Big Top, which was the board games/table top area that also had a handheld lounge of sorts with beanbags. Other than being StreetPass heaven, there wasn’t really anything special about this place either. I felt like I had already seen PAX and the day had just barely started. Sure there was a selection of games and board games to play and see, but nothing that I wanted to desperately line up for, nothing I couldn’t experience outside of PAX.
They had a sort of “PAX XP” game going on where they hid 12 QR codes throughout areas and scanning them revealed a phrase. Saying the phrase at the Info Desk gave you a PAX XP Cube. The swag we had collected wasn’t that great but Mike and I were set on getting as much swag as we can, including this “XP Cube” thing.
We ran into various TAYbies throughout the day, some new faces and some old. Some of us had actually StreetPassed fellow TAYbies before meeting them in person, so we knew they were in the area. My Mii just had my actual name (Joel) so I changed my greeting to be a sort of “GREENIUS! \o/”, so TAYbies would know who they passed. I StreetPassed a “Freya” then walked a few steps and saw people who looked like a Freya and Trjn and it totally was freya and trjn. Now apparently I’m creepy for correctly guessing it was them but I say BOLLOCKS! I just have a really, really good memory and I’ve probably seen meat/Twitter pics of TAYbies before, as well as heard them on TeamSpeak. I don’t try to remember these things but the amount of random crap I remember is pretty crazy. SO YOU’RE THE CREEPY ONE FREYR! I didn’t recognise people I’ve never seen or heard before!
Beavwa had stubbornly refused to take my money on Wednesday since he ordered the burgers for us but I managed to give it to him in the end after he bought an overpriced (but delicious!) hotdog for me (mainly because I couldn’t be bothered lining up to order the same thing). I told Mike I needed to run into masha2932 because I also owed him money and had to give him a few other things. So to Mike, it seemed like I owed everyone money and was some sort of suspicious dealer of sorts (no comment). In a totally non-racist way we were just on the look-out for a black guy (as that was pretty much all I knew about Bumasha :P), and suffice it to say, there weren’t many black people at PAX. I eventually spot an elusive black guy (oh god, this is so borderline racist) and question whether it’s who I think it is. Mike and I briefly discuss whether I should go up to and say hello as I didn’t recognise the person he was speaking with. He told me before PAX he was planning on staying at F4ctions with a few other people and I had heard that they attended the Gilbert keynote together, but I didn’t recognise the person he was talking with. I decided to go for it and go
“waddup my nig“Masha?” and it was! Turns out the other guy was dire_wolf ! I’m glad he found people because through my sketchy connection I managed to see a few of his Tweets where he said he would be waiting at the Tank, only to say a few minutes later that he’d just leave :’( (without having seen anyone).Many new and old TAYbies were seen (I can’t remember the exact order and I don’t want to try listing everyone only to end up forgetting someone, so I’m not going to bother listing them :P) but chuloopa soon joined in on the “swag hunt”. The groups and people I was with throughout the day changed constantly but after a while we decided to try for the BioWare panel. I’m not a huge fan but Mike was, and we got there 1 hour before only to be told it was completely full. We tried our luck anyway, but nothing changed. The thing about PAX was the theatres only held about 100, 200, 300 and 1800 people. The BioWare one was in a tiny theatre that only seated about 300 people and I later discovered (after seeing a different panel) that it was pretty much just a room with plastic chairs and a screen. Really!? It could’ve easily been in a bigger area and they could’ve added more chairs, let people stand, or just have no chairs at all and made it a standing area. It was also flat so if you had someone tall or wearing a stupid hair sitting in front of you, good luck seeing anything.
A PAX Enforcer (basically a PAX staff/helper) recommended we get there maybe 30 minutes before for a guaranteed spot, it was apparently full nearly 2 hours before the event started. 2 hours of lining up without a guarantee of actually getting in? Fuck that. The organisation around this was really bad. They either needed more panels, more space in the panels, or a way to see what was happening without actually being in there (i.e. showing what was happening on a screen outside).
As Mike was a huge BioWare fan and this was his #1 thing at PAX he was super disappointed and I felt bad for him 🙁 (poor dude!). However… he started talking to a random person in the queue named Annie about their love of BioWare and Mass Effect. She tagged along with us for a while and ended up becoming Dire Wolf’s future wife! Who knew! There was some mad chemistry between them 😉 (I’m just teasing… I’m a dick :P). There was more mindless walking around and waiting before I sat down at the board games area in the evening and I was shown, and played Hanabi …HANABI!
fatshadylive was also playing and I met him for the first time. He expressed his happiness towards my Twitter avatar and how there was something about that green square that he just liked :D. He (and many others) was also glad I wore green (which I did throughout the weekend so people could easily recognise me). I had to use the lavatory mid-Hanabi so I left and ran into Masha who was on his way to Coles to get what I thought was “Gatorade for FatShady”. Masha came back with boxes of Golden Gaytimes (oooh, so that’s what he said) and Gaytime Friday commenced. The champ walked through the rain to buy them for us! Some Gay pictures were taken and I made stupid faces in them (and no bish, that was not a face of disappointment).
That was pretty much the end of the day and Neg and I headed back. It was super windy the whole day and raining too. The walk back to the car wasn’t fun 😛
When I got out of PAX I saw that there were many TAYbies which I haven’t seen yet and didn’t even know were at PAX (notoriousr :P), so therefore they didn’t exist.
Part 4 – PAX Day Two – Saturday
Ughhhhhhh. So after getting to PAX fairly late on Friday, we decided to leave earlier so I had to get up earlier. At least this time the train wasn’t completely packed/PAXed (trololol) and we got seats which enabled us to clear our StreetPasses!We got in at about 9:15am but since the doors don’t open until 10am we had to stand there and wait for nearly an hour, doing nothing. Since this was my first time lining up indoors there were lots of beach balls being hit in the line and people cheered whoever hit it high enough to go over the sign near the top of the roof. It was amusing seeing Trjn and RayGun complain about how many times they got hit in the head on Twitter.
My legs and feet were pretty sore from Friday but all the early waiting made me even sorer and tired of PAX already before it even begun! As soon as we got into PAX I see Neg making a mad dash for a coffee and he just zoomed off, never to be seen again. I remember seeing Shady Tweet that he’d be taking pictures of everyone walking in so I saw him and had a quick chat before wandering around again. He was quite pleased I wore green again! This time there were less lines for the things I was somewhat interested in seeing so I had a go at The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which was awesome! OMG BUTTONS! I also played the Sonic Game very briefly (not long enough to judge it) and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team which played just like the others and now I’m interested in picking it up! I also ran into Nob and we played some Super Mario 3D World on Wii U which was a lot of fun co-op, I don’t think it’ll be as fun solo (unless it has online, but knowing Nintendo, it won’t 🙁 ).
Notty said he was in the Borderlands panel line so I headed over only to find out that the line for it is in the queue room which was a somewhat better decision as you didn’t have people blocking the main pathways and waiting out in the rain. I joined on the end and I assumed he was towards the front. I also saw Puppylicks and Dan waiting ahead but they were too far to say hello too. It was about 1 hour and 30 minutes before the panel started and the Enforcer with a counter said I was clearly in and the cut-off point was marked later on at around 30 people behind me. I saw Masha and told him to hop in the queue because I was Needius and didn’t want to wait alone. I also managed to gather Mike who also joined the wait. And wait we did… wait wait wait. Throughout our conversations a random guy in the line says to us “are you guys from Kotaku?” because he recognised the names we were talking about. He told us he was a Kotaku lurker but we totally didn’t peer pressure him into joining TAY, hello jonathorus ! Your post is out of moderation now :D. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-233/comment-page-18/#comment-1683819
More waiting was done and finally the line starts moving. Here’s where more problems with PAX comes into play. So while we waiting inside in the Queue Room (the entrance to PAX) when it was time to enter the panel we just walked from the queue room to the theatre and ANYONE could have easily joined in at any point (and probably did) meaning those towards the back of the line, those who are supposedly clearly in, might not make it. Along the way I made a little joke about entering through the exit and some random grumpypants goes “IT CLEARLY SAYS NO ENTRY” before very rudely saying “DUMBASS”. Okay, guy, take a Chillaxative, I’m not even talking to you :P.
I told Mike, Masha and Jon I was set on making it into the Borderlands panel after waiting all that time so Jon walked pretty fast and I followed. This somehow ended up with Mike and Masha around 10 people behind us and I looked back and they did a sort of “come back here” gesture, while I did a “come up here” gesture. After all that time waiting and joking about being cut off right at the front of the line. Jon and I were cut off. At the front of the line, right in front of the door. … … after being told we were CLEARLY in and having waited nearly 2 hours this was not where I wanted to be, and I didn’t want Mike and Masha to miss out too since I dragged them into waiting for it as well. The Enforcer said “sorry guys, you might not make it” and we waited and waited before he said there was space for around 10 more people. So off we go and thank god I got a seat but hang on… what about Mike and Masha?! I sit down and I’m yet to see them walk in. Oh god, they must hate me right about now… BUT! I see Masha walk in but no Mike. I later found out that Mike gave up his spot for the cosplayers who waited in line behind us as he did cut in line but I had only been waiting for a few minutes before either of them joined me in waiting and he waited just as long as anyone else. Apparently the Masha and Mike were going to be the last people to get in, which is why Mike gave up his spot (what a champ!). As it turns out the cosplayers went in and about 20 more people came in AFTER them and just stood around the side. But it was too late, Mike had already left, disappointed and destroyed :’(. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER PAX.
The Borderlands panel was my first panel and I at least wanted to see one. Next to the keynote, this was the only other one I wanted to see. The panel was great but the waiting and all the shit before it kind of put a damper on the experience. They announced some new DLC and content for Borderlands 2 which was probably my GOTY last year and best of all they gave us (at the Panel) codes to get some of this FOR FREE! …except I tried redeeming them earlier today (Monday) and one of them says IT HAS ALREADY BEEN REDEEMED. WHAT THE FUCK!? :’(
After Borderlands there was more wandering around and we decided to have a little TAY meet up and play Joust. Joust is a crazy game where you hold up a Move controller but you have to keep it steady while trying to get people out of the game. There’s a short time where the music speeds up and you can move freely without being knocked out and a “FREEZE!” time where you can’t really move at all, both come up at random intervals and make the game intense. We’ve passed the game numerous times but I confused it for something else and thought it looked crappy without a screen (it doesn’t need one!), because I didn’t know what it was. Since there were a group of TAYbies it was easy to meet up with people and bdkiaf came up to me and introduced himself. The game was really fun but I was terrible at it. Both times I played, I knocked someone else out as well as myself at the same time (DERP). patiencemaddox (I think this is the right tag?) was scarily good at it though and her game face will forever haunt my nightmares…
Again with the aimless wandering and standing at places doing nothing. Saturday was full of that and ugh! I attempted to see the Animal Crossing panel with Beavwa, princesspipster and batguy but decided I had waited enough and just wanted to sit around doing nothing. I’m kinda glad I missed it because it was apparently rather terrible and was quite literally just a video. I joined back with my buddies and we managed to run into the lovebirds again ;), before bidding them farewell and leaving them to do their thang …bow chicka bowwowwww! We also tried for the XP Cube after failing to find the rest of the QR codes, but we knew the answer and thought we’d have a crack anyway. Masha said he tried for it in the morning but forgot part of the phrase and just left :P. We said the secret phrase – “a few roos loose in the top paddock” and got… stickers? Apparently they ran out of the cubes which were only small Rubik’s Cubes, which I probably would’ve preferred, but free stickers are better than no stickers! Masha, BDKIAF and I also tried out the Occulus Rift which was pretty cool. A bit low res but what surprised me the most was how light it was. It didn’t even feel like it was there! I’m definitely interested in a future HD consumer version of sorts.
tech_knight said we’d meet at the entrance for karaoke at 6:30 and head over at 7. Turns out he didn’t mean the entrance and meant the board games building, and he wasn’t even at the entrance of that :P. It also turns out they were leaving at 6:30, rather than 7 so luckily we saw them just in time. And off to karaoke we go!
I saw a new guy I haven’t met before so I assumed it was freezespreston but it was actually cj, oops :P. When we got to karaoke there was already a group of us there and I met more people! Including rize and pixel_the_ferret_viking, who both expressed their disappointment that my green jumper wasn’t green enough.
There was a bit of confusion about what was covered by the karaoke payment because a few of us haven’t eaten much the whole day and were pretty damn hungee and expected food to be covered (which it was in the end, thank god!). I didn’t stick around too long as Neg was my lift home and wanted to head off and I was pretty tired as well.
My feet were in so much pain from all the standing and waiting D’:
Part 5 – PAX Day Three – Sunday
Whhhooooooaaaaaa I was so over PAX by this point. Mike sold his ticket and didn’t go on Sunday and I thought about not going as well but figured I paid the money so I might as well go and I can still play board games all day and just bum around.Neg wanted to go EVEN EARLIER and I was the opposite and wanted to go later because waiting sucks. Luckily it was the weekend so my parents weren’t working and could drop me off at the station. I got there later and caught up with Masha at the station. It was super chill and we easily walked in and caught up with others. On Sunday it was relatively empty and there were significantly less people all around. Masha wanted to play some of the Nintendo stuff so we did that and played some Game & Wario on Wii U with CJ before we checked out the Xbox One presentation. I was somewhat interested in it but didn’t want to line up for hours. Apparently you could still easily get a seat after turning up 5 minutes late so the plan was to get there about 5 minutes before it started and see what happens from there. As it turns out there was no queue, no wait, nothing. We walked straight in and got a seat. Groovy. The presentation was alright but showed nothing new. I was quite surprised by the Kinect stuff and it actually looked pretty cool as a piece of technology except virtually useless for gaming applications. I couldn’t really think of anything I was interested in that would really benefit from the Kinect.
After that Masha and I grabbed some burgers and got swarmed by Seagulls. Thankfully klutar Jr. was there to scare them away! The rest of the day was super chill and I met mawt and Hotross and I went on a water hunt when Mr. Mawt gave him his, what a champ! I pretty much just sat down for the rest of the day and played some Love Letters (?) and more HANABI! until it was time to go.
On the way back I was clearing my StreetPasses in the car only to find out that I had one more.
The final StreetPass for PAX was BatGuy 🙂
Part 6 – Closing Thoughts about PAX
PAX itself was just okay. I didn’t think it was anything special and I’m not sure about attending the next one. I knew that meeting TAYbies was going to be the best part, and it was. The panels at PAX were great too but only if you saw them but seeing them was difficult because of pretty terrible organisation. I really hope they get there shit together next time.The weather was fairly crappy. WOO MELBOURNE! Rainy and windy at Friday. Rainy on Saturday and clear blue skies BUT STILL COLD AND WINDY on Sunday :P. So mega kudos to all the cosplayers out there as it must’ve been hell! There were a lot of awesome costumes throughout PAX 😀
It was also super easy to talk to anyone at PAX since we were all effectively there for the same reason and had common interests.
All in all I don’t regret going to PAX. I had fun there and it was a great way to spend my weekend. But I’m totally pooped out and will gladly spend the last week of my holidays just sitting around doing nothing. Hell, I just spent like 4 hours typing this write-up which is over 5000 words long.
To everyone I met, it was awesome meeting you, and to everyone I didn’t, DO YOU EVEN EXIST!? I kid, it sucks that we didn’t meet up but there’s always next time. I look forward to meeting you then and thanks everyone for a great time at PAX!
I betcha barely anyone read the whole thing 😛 :(. It’s also safe to assume I’ll going to repost this badboy at some point 😛
#Needius
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Creepius.
ʘ‿ʘ
Not helping your case there.
Karaoke meat:
Fine…
When we met with the group at PAX it seemed like Neg wasn’t with them and he was my lift home. So I had to know whether it was okay for me to go to Karaoke because if he didn’t want to go it would be easier if I stayed at PAX with him. I didn’t want to stay at PAX :P. Thankfully I got intouch with him and he said he and Mr, and Mrs. Tigs would head off to karaoke later so it was no problemo.
We took the train back and it was super crowded. Safe to say we all got to know each other a little better after that ride. Freyr was all “I’m too short” so I swapped places with her and had to grab the bar thingy on the roof which made my arm feel funny and it was uncomfortable. I shouldn’t have swapped :P. BLAGHMAN joked about picking Scree up because she’s the smallest and lightest and then she said she’d reveal everything if we did (since she’s wearing a dress) and things got awkward. Apparently I’m the second lightest and BLAGHMAN wanted to lift Scree and I up to see who was the lightest but he didn’t. And probably couldn’t. Because he’s weak.
I’M A NICE GUY, I SWEAR.
We got off one stop before then the main station and took a tram from there. Turns out the karaoke place was only a short walk from the main station anyway so we could’ve just gone from there :P. The karaoke place was pretty cool. There were a bunch of people already there and I got to meet Rize, Pixel and THE TODD for the first time. Spent a while just sitting down and just fucking relaxing because god damn my feet hurt… CJ stroked the hell out of the chairs because that’s his thing apparently.
Also at some point these people asked us “Is Simon in there?” in which we replied yes, but it’s probably not the Simon you’re looking for. They poked their head in and stared directly at a Simon which they clearly did not know and Mike jokingly said to let them in. Now our Simon thought that they were with Mike and said they could come in anyway but didn’t know he was joking around so they started introducing themselves and I don’t know what happened from there but then they left. That was weird.
There was a lot of confusion around the food and the payment since Mike, Masha and I were pretty damn hungry. Bumasha was keen on checking out Lord of the Fries since the guys at the IGN AU panel said it was good. The plan was to just leave if food and drinks weren’t covered since we wouldn’t be singing anyway, and then have some munchies. Then we remembered that Techie would have to pay the remainder so we were going to leave some money anyway because he’s a champ :). BUT Mr. Techie was confusing once again and it turns out food was covered, so food was ordered! Batguy didn’t get his rice for agessss
Satays! We ordered like 3 chicken ones but apparently there were beef and lamb ones too. Trjn said the lamb ones were amazing but I cannot confirm that statement. Masha also ordered some fish balls and this sounds totally wrong unless you’re Asian and know what they are. Hang on I just realised that Masha probably didn’t know what they are when he ordered them except for basing it on the name. Why would you want to eat fish balls Bumasha!?
Some songs were sung and some music videos were dodgy as. There were also a lot of songs that didn’t display the lyrics so that was kinda weird.
There was a group photo of some sort except when I left I saw Beavwa and Freeze outside coming back with drinks so they weren’t in the photo. BEST GROUP PHOTO. Then Neg, Mike and I left and they were still partyin’ up at karaoke for a few more hours so you’ll have to ask them to write about it @Dc sorry bud, can’t help you there 😛
Upvote for mentioning me twice.
Spoiler tags please.
HI, I’M SHANE OF THE PREVIOUS PAGE AND I WANT A WALL OF TEXT 😀
Speaking of Karaoke, do we owe the über rich Simon any (more) moneyz?
OH! You just reminded me of the people who were “looking for Simon”
And I spoke to him on Sunday and I think he said we were alright and the money thing worked out 🙂
Correct, it was all covered and I got refunded my $93 deposit as well.
Everyone knows my fracking human name now thanks to those partycrashing humans… god damnit…
Hey man, those chairs were super soft.
PAX Aus in five words.
LoL. indies, headphones, lines and streetpasses.
That’s six words.
Eleven if you include the intro.
Ahaha I’m glad you were that guy first.
That’s 6 words!
Yes, I’m being that guy!
You were very comfortable to lean on.
I’ll do mine in haiku form (pardon the rudimentary nature of it and potential incorrectness as I haven’t done poetry since year 7)
PAX was really ace
Especially the hot dogs
Lines can go suck it
No poetry since year 7? For shame. Every second Kotaku competition used to be a haiku/limerick one.
Good times…
With what I wrote above, there’s clearly no point entering. 😛
Those were some surprisingly good hot dogs.
WHAT?! IT WAS ROCKETS BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY? AND PEOPLE SUNG HAPPY BIRTHDAY?
PREPOSTEROUS! AS IF THAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN!
Wait, turns out it actually did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqe1d_hNAKA
🙂
Sorry, I started filming towards the end. Also volume is a bit loud so headphone users be wary. Change video quality to 720p HD for best image quality.
I am the black ninja…
Gone forever
:’-(
Because someone had to delete it 🙁
Happy Burthday Rocket Man!!!!
Haha, random related videos are the best!
Guys, not to take away from anyone else I met, but @miketarno is legitimately one of the coolest, nicest, most genuine guys I have ever met. He also has a really weird thing for hot dogs.
Everyone else is pretty rad too.
I don’t think i met you =( I will have to settle for making you a beanbag (yes that is still happening)
I was even at karaoke! You were just rushing around so much trying to make sure everyone was okay that we didn’t get the chance to meet.
More like I was too busy having a break down. I’m the best, around!
Or that.
I’m back in Melbourne in January. We’ll make it happen.
Maybe I’ll even be able to give you the beanbag!
By January? You sure about that? 😛
I…might…
You were really nice.
Thanks. I was worried I’d come across as a snob as i hadn’t had the chance to introduce myself yet.
Awwww, thanks man.
*manly, Sicilian mafia style hug*
Also, that red jacket is pretty rad.
And the red shoes. Nice ensemble.
Thanks :). (I’m taking this compliment because I like it think it was my green jacket that convinced Mike to buy that red one)
My PAX experience:
My feet hurt. I got a lot of streetpasses. I was hungry. I queued a lot. I went to some panels. There were a shitload of TAYbies.
I miss video games.
I played board games.
I wish I cosplayed.
I’m hungry again.
Reply fail. Oh well, it can stay here.
I am still writing up Saturday’s pax D=
Worst advice I’ve heard from this online Maths course at Uni so far:
“For your assignment I won’t be accepting word files as I use a mac…”
Pro-tip hotshot. You can get Microsoft Office on the mac. You, as a Uni Lecturer should have this for students who don’t know how to make PDFs or can’t scan in their work. Jesus *christ*.
But.. You can open them in text edit.. I have one open right now.
I know! This got a *MAJOR* facepalm from me.
I’d mention Google Docs. It’s like. Free. AND IT MAGICALLY opens docs on a Mac.
lmao. I think I’ll go up and drop a hint to IT to maybe talk to him. I’m an ex IT worker and I talk to the IT guys there all the time, we’ve cross collaborated when I used to work at a school before, they were surprised to see me. They should get a major laugh out of this.
“For your assignment I won’t be accepting word files as I use a mac…”
“And the whole class magically drifted away on the magic school bus”
rofl!!!!!
OK, Time for Gorzy’s PAX write up!
Followed other people around who are doing better write ups then me!
Went to the Rome total war II Booth. Was disappointed that we didn’t really get to see anything new. It was just this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg42DC4EpMY played as Egypt. There was a bit of Q&A which was nice but I would have been left feeling cheated if I hadn’t managed to jump in on the first session on the second day so I hadn’t had to wait. I feel sorry for anyone who lined up to watch. Each session went for about 40 min and at least on the first day there was so many people waiting there was so many people queuing that they had to turn people away.
I also had screes phone who had no interest in Rome. With had no way to contact her to find her again I started texting other TAYbies for help and we both managed to circle the expo hall on opposite sides of each other for a while (During which time I was accosted by a booth babe who tried to get me to listen to head phones. I said, “NO, I’m trying to find Elizabeth!” and stormed off. I hope that left her slightly confused) before I decided to stand still and Scree found me.
Back to following other people.
All in all I had lots of fun but probably only barely worth the trip down if It wasn’t for getting to meet soooooooooooo many TAYbies.
Also Nobulus was mean and wouldn’t help me to steal the tank. It would have looked good in my living room.
Thank you scree for reminding me to add the bits I left out.
Also Freya
PS: PAX australia was very close to being called World Of Tanks Australia. How much money did those guys spend there?!?!
It would have looked what Gorzy? It would have looked what?
My son saw that Peter Dinklage might be at Supanova at Brisbane this year, he asked if he can get a picture with him. I said definitely. He asked if he can use both Sonic Screwdrivers in the photo. I said ‘Sure!’ Liam plotted out his own photo! He wants him as David Tennants Dr Who, fighting Pete Dinklage as ‘The Master’ (courtesy of The Masters Sonic Screwdriver) in a photo! :O
I MUST MAKE THIS PHOTO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!
(Btw he knows him as ‘Captain Gutt’ from IceAge, not as Tyrion Lannister lol)
Oh man i missed Housos
That was on? dammit I missed it too
I’ve lived in Logan, I’ve lived in Wilsonton in Toowoomba and I currently live in Forest Lake near Inala.
I frakking LIVE Housos.
I don’t need to watch it. lol.
I think by far the highlights of PAX for me were the people I got to talk to and ask questions. I got to talk to the lead marketing guy at Halfbrick, the guy who made Antichamber, and ‘e’ the Operations Manager of Xbox Live (I didn’t actually know that’s what he was at the time, I just knew that he was someone who worked with Xbox :O ). Managed to gather some good information, and I’m all motivated and enthusiastic about making my super secret project now (which I’ve only told Greenius, Tigs and another friend of mine about. The rest of you will get to see what it is in about a month or two). I have plans now too, which are pretty much just “make a demo/prototype of the game, contact Microsoft Studios about them publishing it, get them to publish it so I can have Xbox Live things in it”. We’ll see how that goes. My life’s goal right is pretty much to have my own booth/display at PAX Aus next year. It’s going to be plenty if hard work though.
I’m getting my own Surface for testing purposes tomorrow too. Luckily I have enough money left over after PAX for that (with $2 to spare!).
Awesome news dude! I look forward to it :D, I feel like a part of the experience since you told me about it pretty early on. SECRETIUS!
I do Q&A if you need help. My specialty is spelling mistakes.
Also, i asked Kactus games, the booth cost 3.5k. It’s very expensive at Pax
For someone that specialises in spelling mistakes you already spelled “cactus” wrong 😛
It’s a name, therefore it should be spelt in the way that the creator prefers.
PAX confuses me a little. It seems to be blowing out from what it was originally intended to be…
Well that’s cheaper than I thought it would be 😛 I was thinking it would be around 5-6k.
What exactly is Q&A? Is it sort of like beta testing?
It’s bug checking, pretty much.
Actually it’s QA. Quaility Assurance. I accidentally added the &. Man I must’ve been tired yesterday
FTL is a brilliant game. I think it’s fair to say that I’m addicted to it. I mean what self respecting sci-fi fan wouldn’t love the opportunity to live out their fantasies of being a starship captain. For the record, I’ve called my ship Serenity.
It is a pretty cool depiction of being a starship captain. I kind of want more, in a way though. Like some kind of game where there’s more of a campaign, so you get to spend more time with your kickarse ship instead of having to start over again right as it begins to get super cool.
Continuing on from where @greenius left off especially for @dc:
Everyone sort of filtered out after he left until it was just myself, Cakesmith, BDKIAF, Rize, Jordi and Batgirl left at about 12:30. We all left at once and kind of wandered through the city for a bit until the girls hopped on a tram and went where ever it is people go on those things.
We decided to go for a walk to the casino. I really had to desperately pee by this point so started searching for a Maccas. We crossed a road and myself and Cake kept walking but Rize and BDKIAF got accosted by some police about jaywalking. Don’t know why just them, guess they just looked dodgy. 😛
Are some cheeseburgers at Maccas, instant regret and headed over to the casino. Rize left almost as soon as we got there. I doubled the money left in my wallet, Cake tripled his and BDKIAF lost everything he bet with. Cake went up to his room, BDKIAF got a taxi and I walked back to my hotel.
There was no more karaoke meat after that. Settle down @dc.
Gotta love the Cas!
But only if you win 😛
If you sang in the casino it would’ve almost been a karaoke part 2
Great… seems like I’m going to have to go to surgery to remove this thing in my ear. Lovely… :/
I’m 99% sure it’s an infected preauricular sinus for those of you playing at home. Just watched a pretty graphic (but informative) video on it which I doubt anyone would want to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-aUukFk-tY – I don’t recommend seeing it 😛 the first part is informative and the second part is the surgery itself. I’ve had it since I was born and it’s been infected before and the doctor had to cut up the back of my ear which fucking hurt. Hopefully it’s as easy as just taking anti-biotics but it seems likely to get infected again :'(. And don’t worry – fairly sure it’s not contagious and even if it was I doubt any of you have preauricular sinuses anyway since they’re rareWhat a great end to my holidays 🙁
My local doctor is fully booked until Wednesday morning so I’ll have to wait til then to get an official verdict but it seems like surgery is inevitable. Ugh, lameeeee – it also hurts like a motherfucker!
____
Oh yeah and uh… Where’s my Water on iOS is pretty great. (Y)
I was playing that on the plane ride to Melbourne. It’s a pretty cool guy.
I played it a lot when it first came out but then stopped for a while. Only recently went back to it and they’ve pretty much doubled the content :D. Figured I’d buy the extra levels as well since I like the game and had money to spare.
What’s the deal with that music?
*shrugs*
Calming maybe?
Well last night was one of the worst nights I’ve ever had and I could barely sleep. The mother fucker swelled up so much that my ear was pulling the right side of my face towards it :/. At least it’s not some incredibly fugly bump like in the video – but just that the top of my ear is all big and makes it stand out at a crazy angle. So rather than being flat against my head like |(O_O)| my right ear is something like \(O_O)| and the pain >_>Last minute trading card request
Looking for Bioshock, dead island, torchlight and tomb raider
I’ve got dead island and tomb raider.. nfi what I’m supposed to do with em
Give em to me obviously 😛
I’m not sure how
Somebody beat you to it, but thanks anyway
As for what you can do with them if you get a full set of them you can craft a badge that goes on your profile and pretty much does nothing
Or just view your inventory and sell them all for 15 cents and they will sell really quickly
yeah it appears selling might be all I can do? I can’t find anyway to actually trade?
You need to actually chat directly with the person you want to trade with and the select invite to trade
ahhh ic. cool
Home again, home again… I wanna go back.
Hola Tay
PAAAAAAAAAAAX!
I’ll spare everyone the full writeup- twas nice to meet those of you I did on Thursday night (BUT NOT @greenius 🙁 ) and those I saw wandering around.
Not unfortunately, as I like my friends, but I did stuff with friends so was unable to do some taybie stuff.
Still, highlights:
– Oculus is a game changer
– M:tG is a new obsession for me + friends
– Photo with BL2 people!
– Catching both Mike and Jerry wandering around and getting a book autographed
– Ron friggin Gilbert
– JOHANN SEBASTIAN JOUST
Also, saw Pacific Rim today. was good, but the Russell Street Cinemas smell like urine.
So we’re not your friends? 🙁
You’re not, you didn’t come out on Thursday
😛Nor did you come on Wednesday.
You’ve got me there.
:D! COLOUR BROS AGAIN
COLOUR FIVE!
Mtg is pretty great. Maybe get Magic 2014 on steam, there’s talk of some multiiii! Besides, while the decks arent AMAZING, they are still pretty dang fun, and $10 is less than youd pay for one standard deck irl anyhoo
I’ve already got it on tablet- Out of my mates I was the only one who’d played it (digitally) before. Currently rocking the Blue/White starter
I totally thought it was a super lame nerd thing for the longest time but now I’m kinda interested. Definitely not going to play it in real life though not because of I’m ashamed but because $. I’m thinking of getting the Steam one – either 2014/an older one/newer one – who knows! Looks kinda fun 😀
The physical cards aren’t really that expensive if you know where to look. We’ve probably spent about $200-250 and have enough to build 12-15 useful decks together.
Or it’s like $10 for the digital version :P. It’s also because I don’t have anyone (outside of TAYbies) to play with in person anyway.
It’s not something I’m super keen to play but if it’s really cheap on Steam, I’ll give it a look see.
Just keep in mind the digital version only gives you a pretty basic card set. Want better and more varied cards you have to buy them micro transaction style because of course you do.
I’m trying to teach myself Magic the Gathering since I collected heaps of free cards from PAX. I don’t know why I never got into it sooner, considering I loved Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid. I’ll have to pick up the digital game sometime.
It’s actually a free d’load on Android, then you pay $10 after to unlock full content. Still, good way to learn the rules.
That Ron Gilbert opening keynote was great. I never knew he was behind Humongous Entertainment and Freddie Fish. Those games were some of my most favorite when I was young. Now I know why they were so good :O I think I’m going to have to hunt down the rest of those games now. I only own the first Freddie Fish and the first Spy Fox, but I’ve played some of the Pajama Sam and Putt-putt ones before.
Yeah, that surprised me – I was aware of Putt-Putt but not his connection to it
@ynefel were you at PAX? No one has mentioned seeing or meeting you but I think I may have streetpassed you while waiting for the train station to open.
Yeah I was there on Saturday. I passed you, @faction and @blaghman at some point. I did see Doc, Shiggy and Pants in the Exhibition Hall before lunch, but it looked like they were interviewing someone and I didn’t want to interrupt. I waited around, but decided to wait to meet people at lunch. Then I got stuck in a queue for one of the MTG demos, and didn’t realise the time – I went to look for people to meet at about 12:15, but couldn’t find anyone, and 3G access from my phone was an unfunny joke.
I ended up bailing on the first train when the station reopened, because I was so fucking tired. My feet were absolutely rooted after so much standing and queueing. Didn’t end up going Sunday because I was too tired and I spent way too much money on Saturday.
I think I need to just make my way to a meet one day – Saturday PAX was just fucking carnage. So many people, so fucking messy,
Jim Cummings, you legend!
http://static.neatorama.com/images/2013-07/SMASHING-l.jpg
I changed my mind, I don’t wanna go back. The cold of Melbourne makes the cold of Sydney feel like warm.
You wouldn’t even go back to see your TAY friends? :'(
Do I even have any of those yet? 😮
DO YOU!?
Yes.
We can be friends because you like Xenoblade and Grim Fandango.
<3
I am a fraud.
I haven’t even finished Grim Fandango >.>Pffft, the real question is:
Have you finished Xenoblade?
EDIT: Also Glottis <3 – as long as you like him and Grim Fandango then that’s okay, but it’s totally worth finishing! So much love for that game!
I got up to the part with the docks and the bees and I think I was a little lost then I took the “adventure game break” and didn’t get back to it for ages. Except this time rather than just getting back to it and having no idea what I was supposed to do next, I found that the hard drive for all our games wouldn’t boot up any more. Then never got around to finding out why/fixing it/starting the game over 😛
Xenoblade… that also lies unfinished <_< I think I got to around the 30 hour mark, I was something like level 31 and in the swamp area. I’d come across that fortress atop the mountain with the lizard king guy in it, and tried to fight him. And lost. Then tried again. And lost again. Then started getting pissed off at him being a bastard, and continually lost against him several more times. Then took the adventure game break 😛
Booooo
BUT I REALLY REALLY LIKED WHAT I PLAYED
If you really liked it you’ll go back to it ;_;
Isn’t there something about “if you love something, let it go”? I’m sure I am doing this right.
>:(
That wasn’t even the worst cold we got during this month
Pansy.
The weird thing is this year I went on a holiday to Japan during their Winter. Every day was between -1 and 10 degrees. And every day I was walking around in a pair of jeans (with thermals underneath) and a tshirt, with just my beanie and gloves for anti-warmth protection. I just got way too hot in my jacket and had to abandon it until late afternoon.
Melbourne is a special kind of cold.
Honestly, this Bamboo Manga might be the best purchase I’ve ever made…
As long as the drivers don’t keep screwing up. *crosses fingers*
Managed to get something done:
http://crazyguy1990.deviantart.com/art/Character-Drawing-Aratsu-387318218
And with that, goodnight.
So Unity just added in support for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 last night. What utterly convenient timing…
I will give this “PAX write up thing” a go.
WARNING! WALL OF TEXT BELOW!
PAX was good.Reign it in dude. Some of us don’t have all day to read through all that.
Seriously dude, try to cull that down to something a bit more manageable.
I’m not that great at write-ups so I will just post stuff here;
@faction is an awesome guy for letting me stay at his place for a whole week! I got a tour of Geelong.
It has a lot of shops@Rocketman @Lamboman @Blaghman @fatshady it was great staying with you guys! Really, I had so much damn fun!
@scree thanks for letting me hang out with you and gorzy for PAX, I don’t think I would have checked out half the stuff if you weren’t leading! (Also the Rupee cushion is awesome).
@Gorzilla thanks to you also for letting me hang around you and scree (again)
@AllTheOtherPAXPeopleThatIMet – it was great meeting you all!
I’m about to board my flight so, goodbye fronds!
What about the people that were there that you had already met?
SO. MUCH. HAT.
Inorite?!
UGH, SER HATULUS
Thanks for carrying my bags and such when there were photos/stairs.
I just hope you had fun.
Thank you for hanging out with us and trying to help me find Scree when I lost her!
Also, I clicked that first spoiler and was sitting there thinking it’d broken because no wall of text had appeared. I’m smart!
Raptr is telling me that my 5 hours of Borderlands 2 this week is nothing against the community average of 35 hours this week.
That’s a goddamned full time job.
It’s probably because people have been idling to get the Steam cards.
That or there are only about three people using Raptr and playing BL2 and they’re a tad obsessed.
Hi everyone,
I am an indi developer from Brisbane. Two days ago i released my first iphone app. I would love to know what you think.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/swatcha/id672986848?mt=8
DLing now!
Brisbane represent!
I don’t have an iPhone, but I’m sure it’s fun! 😀
I am iphoneless T_T but yay for Brisbane devs!
There’s a good chance that my SGMonth post tomorrow will just be me saying “HANABI!” several hundred times.
Looking forward to it!
I think Elly is the only person that has tried to edit these so far. It’d be funny to see @junglist try and turn “HANABI! HANABI! HANABI!…HANABI!” into something slightly readable.
EDIT: Come to think of it, I think that my stuff does get edited slightly. I just don’t re-read it after I’ve sent it to see all the em dashes that get shoved in there :p
I will not – at least so long as I – referring of course to myself – draw breath – stand by and allow you – a person whose bias in the matter at hand – the reputation of em dashes – is well known – to slag off the noble em dash.
Can you nest em dashes? I’m going to go out on a limb – a metaphorical one, of course – and say no. The above is a clear abomination.
I don’t dislike em dashes – they’re quite handy in some situations – I just prefer alternative approaches.
ROLL UP, ROLL UPLINE UP, LINE UP for 35’s dot-pointy thing about PAX– Beer (this was an ongoing event)
– Met a whole bunch of people at Robot Bar. Lack of actual robots was sorta disappointing.
– Met @Puppylicks. he’s a pretty cool guy with a pretty cool mustache.
– PAX, Day 1 : Walking. Lines. Hanging around boardgames, Playing the Indie games on show. Crap coffee, but lots of it. Sore legs. Sleep.
– PAX, Day 2 : Pretty much the same as day 1, but with MOAR JOUST.
– sorta didnt meet @chuloopa, but I was standing within like one metre of the guy, so that counts. he has cool hair.
– Night of the 2nd day : Karaoke – [THIS SECTION LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY]
– Met @scree & @bdkiaf & @miketarno& @f4ction & @notoriousr for the first time, which was awesome.
– Apparntly @lambomann007 was around at karaoke & HE NEVER SAID HI & THEREFORE I COULDN’T HUG HIM. WORST & ALL THE SADS. I’LL GET YOU NEXT TIME LAMBO.
-PAX, Day 3 : due to the karaoke thing, I couldn’t walk or speak without hurting on Sunday (which I guess many people would consider an improvement to the company I usually provide), so I gave up on PAX & nommed on all the tasty foods I could find & played games & watched movies.
– Yesterday : explored the city. got lost several times, found record stores & more tasty food & coffee. got hit on by an airport security guard. got home about midnight.
Still a bit sore. Goddamn awesome weekend.
Edit: fixing handles.
– Stage dive.
plural.
Most importantly, it started with a “here, hold my drink.” A key component of all good ideas.
Sorry man.. I was kinda overwhelmed with all the new people i was meeting and wasn’t too sure as to who were and weren’t taybies, so i only introduced myself to people here and there due to the awkwardness of possibly introducing myself to non-taybies as “loops”. lol
I’ve said it a couple of times before – i was in wayyyy over my head haha
I’m sorry =( I knew the name badges would’ve been a good idea.
My god that would have been awesome. Name badges! lol
And why are you apologising?!?! I already knew you from previous meat anyway! 😀 haha.
I just feel terrible that i didn’t introduce myself to more people. I just hope no one thinks i was being rude…
Nah.
Not showing up two weeks ago …. now that was rude. 😛
Yeah.. that was pretty bad :s 🙁
i’m sorry
Two guilts for the price of one \o/
…
Oh man, now I feel bad. 😛
…monster 😛
I SAID HI! and then stood awkwardly starring at you… i think the a brief discussion of your nipples came up as well
My nipples came up in discussion more times over the weekend than i was expecting..
I met you three times before I figured out who you were. It took me streetpassing you to figure out who you were.
Awkward. Also I don’t think I ever introduced myself :p
That’s my fault hahaha
I worked out who you were pretty quickly, but you were doing something on your DS, then went to play the fireworks game with bunny and someone else… Also, as conceited as it sounds, i assumed everyone knew who i was, as everyone seemed to know me, yet i had to work out who everyone else was – mostly due to all the comps i’ve entered and my infamous nipples.. lol
It was cool meeting you, though – even if we didn’t formally introduce ourselves lol
OMG CREEPYR, WHO RECOGNISES PEOPLE FROM STREETPASSES!? 😛
It was more that he never introduced himself and after meeting him several times, he streetpassed me and I was like “oh. that’s who that is”
Hope everyone’s doing well this morning.
Me..not so much, my body Is aching from the gym and my lift to work bailed so now I have to take public transport to work “I just don’t like myki” anyways on the plus I did have a bit of a sleep in.
Hope your having a better day then me.
My legs and feet are still sore from standing and walking at PAX 😛
Mornin’.
So PAX was excellent from a Potaku standpoint as well as being an opportunity to hang out with friends. We worked pretty hard but it was nice that we could also let loose on Saturday night and just have fun. That was probably the biggest gathering of TAYbies I’ve ever seen and it was really great to meet some of the people I’ve been talking with online for almost two years now. And, you know, hang out with the other friends I’ve met before, too. A group photo was taken at karaoke – has that gone online yet?
I hurt all over though. Feet, legs, shoulders, spine. Totally worth it.
@techknight has if but don’t believe he has posted it yet
I haven’t, I’ll most likely upload my photos from my phone tonight and post you all the link here
I’m sorry that i couldn’t seem to remember who you were. =( I think you told me who you were 3 times before I finally remembered.
Been through too many tears, aye?
I was like tears? Crying tears? Why was she crying… OHHHHHH I geddit
more like “so many new people” @_@ I think I had to be introduced to Cakesimth 2 or 3 times as well =P
Do you remember me?
Bughly.
I don’t even think I got a chance to meet you.
Haha its ok, I never went. Just messing witchu 🙂
;_; So mean
I was much easier to remember when I had hair.
All good, Scree! There were a lot of people to meet, after all.
Are you a nice person?*
Do you have Facebook?
Hit the link below and click the ‘like’ button above the image and help me win the ‘popularity’ section of a painting comp! 😀
It would be a hollow victory, but a victory none-the-less!
http://www.slavetopainting.com.au/gallery/Troy%20Cleary.jpg.aspx
THANKS FRONDS!
*You don’t have to be nice – i’m happy for you to participate even if you’re a horrible prick that kicks puppies! 😀
Puppykicks!
My god.
How amazing would it be if actual puppies had puppylicks’ mustache?!?!
If I had Facebook I would but you have my vote in spirit, also I could never do war hammer, I got a small set of 5 space marines for my 11th birthday and I was so excited until I realised I had no idea what I was doing and also that I can’t paint to save my life. Also those things are expensive!
I was the same, man. The thing is that EVERYONE gets better with experience. My god my early models were a MESS!
And yeah, they are HELL expensive, which is why i buy almost exclusively through ebay, with orders through slave to painting when i have some extra money to support actual businesses…
It’s funny, though – compared to other hobbies the cost can actually be somewhat on par or only slightly mroe expensive when you think about it.
Dude, Loops is a painting god!
Done
THANK YOU LADY SCREE! 😀
I pressed teh likes!!! Helping!
*gratitude cuddles*
They’re slightly less gropey than my normal cuddles!! 😀
… slightly…
I didn’t do it
Actually I did but angling for a normal cuddle rather that the inferior gratitude cuddleI liked this before it was popular, before it became cool to ‘like’ it.
#HipsterScarfFlick
*Adjust Shane’s glasses for him*
You’re the hippest!
I had to find my account details and reset my password because i haven’t logged into my facebook account in over 2 years just so i could like this…. I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY! BECAUSE THIS JUST SHOWS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
That’s pretty amazing.
You’re pretty amazing!
<3
I usually don’t “LIKE” things on Facebook and I hardly use FB anymore but I liked it for you <3
I like you.
Framed was one of my favourite games from PAX. Great art style and slick animation coupled with a really clever mechanic. I don’t think it’s released yet, but it’s well worth checking out when it does come out.
Ohhhh that is cooool! It’s a really clever evolution of that sliding platformer one, whos name escapes me… did a similar thing but was purely a platformer. But yeah, tres cool!
I didn’t really get to check that out
I played WOLFDOZER. With a name like that I couldn’t pass it up. There were a few interesting games at the surprise attack booth.
I didn’t see that game, but it looks pretty rad from what they have on their website.
Also Wolfdozer is one of the best names ever.
Framed was awesome 🙂
Did anyone else check out the Rome II booth at PAX!?!?
Sooooooo goood!!!
Not only is combat SUPER polished – but they have really kicked the politics system up a notch – i’m guessing to compete with games like crusader kings (that’s the right game i thinking of, isn’t it? big world map? lots of managing stuff).
But yeah… there is HEAPS there. Hell, if you don’t like the actually play the battles you can do the whole management thing, then let the battles play out in an epic cinematic.
Best camera i saw was when they went on board with a chariot – sitting behind the driver, then crashing heavily into massed roman bodies.
Sooooo good!
I missed that, were was it?
Totally missed out on so much vidya game stuff. Didn’t get to the console or PC freeplay area at all. Might have to check some more stuff out.
Was totally bummed that we didn’t get a chance to play relic
It was in the main expo hall. The big Red-curtained area next to the saints row and nintendo set ups.
And yeah – F4ction and i kept looking for it and never actually saw it…
I’ll have to buy it when i call afford it after moving this weekend and wedding in november.. so yeah.. next year :s lol
Invite me to the wedding. Best wedding present eva!
Oh man, also, how good is Magic: The Gathering? My friends and I did the free learn to play at PAX and immediately went and bought decks and played for 3 hours. Today will be the first day since Friday I haven’t played.
want my green deck?
I may have gone straight to the game store on arriving in Canberra and bought a deck builder’s toolkit, so perhaps I don’t need any more cards 😛
I appreciate the offer though.
Just thought I’d ask. I’m giving it to GT anyway
You always need more cards
I haven’t even used the ones I just bought!
Also, the game isn’t on Mac, which is super upsetting 🙁
🙁
Maybe Apple just figured people buying macs would be too cool for mtg?
Truth.
I may dual boot so we can Magic together. Maybe. We’ll see.
Stickin it to the cool people
I have not played yet, but i got my free deck from PAX and are keen to find people to teach me
You’re heading down a dangerous path.
Play Android: Netrunner instead. Much easier to avoid bankruptcy.
We gave in and bought intro packs there to play a few games. One of my booster packs had a foil planeswalker which will probably be too OP for the casual level of games we’ll be aiming for.
Yeah, one of my friends got a planeswalker. Their abilities are pretty ridiculous.
I dun like planeswalkers. They are weird and foreign and too overpowered and I dun like them
Racist.
Given it’s also a foil, I suspect it might be possible to sell it and break even on the 2 deck purchases.
Yeeeep. Its what I’d be doing. So do it! Caus everything I do should be mimicked.
Yeeeep. Its what I’d be doing. So do it! Caus everything I do should be mimicked.
Clever girl
Played all weekend, including in a bar! Such fun. Which deck did you get?
Death Reaper – Black/Red. The game seems to be pretty well balanced, I’ve dominated and been dominated on multiple occasions.
I tried to get the black/red deck, but they were out. Got the black/green intro deck. Green is fucking monstrous once it builds momentum. Literally just rolls over the top of everything. But black is my favorite – so many curses and leeching-type effects.
Yeah, one of my friends got the black/green, it fucking destroys when things start to stack.
I dig black, but I’m keen to try a few other things. We’re playing again on Friday, so I’m thinking I’ll probably put together a white/red deck before then to test it out.
White has many flying/healing things. I hate playing against it, because it’s effective. I think blue is my archenemy though. SO MANY INTERRUPTS.
I have 4 or 5 cards that are both white and red, so I’m thinking it might be a good idea to try out white/red. It seems like it should be a good combination. We’ll see, I could just get utterly embarrassed.
White and Red are both weenie specialists.
They churn out a ridiculous amount of cheap creatures and overwhelm their opponents. Red combines this with burn cards (like Shock), while White tends to use buffs to make their weenies more imposing.
So if you want to play White/Red, just load the deck with cheap, cost effective cards.
New players always hate blue and prefer the more stompy green/black.
Some of the most powerful things in the game are blue, as are some of the most interesting abilities.
I like red/white! I have one and its probs my most effective. Has the speed to take out things before they do build up, and the white just helps boost it with +1s and healing and such. Tres cool (I’m sorry I’ll stop using that phrase at some point, but that point isnt today)
Red is fun because it’s just balls-out wreck-shit. Blue/white don’t sit well with me because I’m too aggressive – but they’re nasty to go up against.
Blue is nasty in an annoyin way though right, like oh I’m gonna take away your library and just counter everything you do. Yay we didnt really play you just watched me annoy you!
@sughly
So maddening. Interrupts! Counters!
HNGH FUCK OFF AND DIE
Denial is a legitimate tactic :p
A friend got the green/black 2014 deck on Friday, but they were all gone Saturday and I ended up with a 2013 black/green deck. Having played with both, I think I like mine better, although it’s got more of a 50/50 balance – other deck was about 70% green.
See I didn’t even realise there was a difference – in that case, I think I got the green/black one. It’s primarily green and has a foil green card in the front. I also got the core 2014 fat pack as well. Came with like 100 land cards and 9 boosters I think. Not bad for $60.
Didn’t realise myself until after purchase I said “hey, this isn’t the deck I borrowed yesterday”
I like the massive tramply nature of that deck, but have become quite a fan of the stronger black nature of mine. Bloody planeswalker fits in perfectly with it too.
Nice. I got the blue white- Counter spells, flying creatures, and denial.
My friends have grown to hate Pacifism and Claustrophobia.
Pacifism is the reason I’m using white in my next deck.
I’d love to have someone to play with. I played when i was younger, but didn’t know enough people. I bought a bunch of stuff from PAX to try and get started again. I always had heaps of geek friends, but they were never inclined towards card games or pen and paper RPG stuff.
=(
It has been many years since I played MTG. I fear that the rules are too confusing now.
Normally don’t pay any attention to shameless gaming month, but have somehow ended up getting motivated to knock off some games. Finished Bioshock Infinite and Metro 2033 so far, and almost finished Pokemon Black 2. Going to try and finish Metro Last Light this week as well. Then, onto White 2.
I’m trying my best to finish Animal Crossing. It has an end right?
Once you build the rocket and launch it to Alpha Centauri you get a cultural victory.
Hahaha I totally wish their was space travel in the game now
I say yes. When you own all the money in the world, and Tom Nook comes to you for loans. Then, when he can’t pay your exorbitant rates, you hold Timmy and Tommy hostage and start breaking fingers for every day that passes that he doesn’t pay up.
I dare you to get:
All house upgrades
All bugs, fish, fossils and art donated
And… all catalogue entries D:
I’m trying. Believe you me, I’m trying…
I’m THIS close to completing the dinosaur exhibit in my museum all by myself 😀 Because I’ve only got 4ish pieces left to find it’s pretty exciting when I finally do get something I haven’t already donated.
I have one piece left. ONE. PIECE.
Is it a Diplo Tail?
My town is made of Diplo Tails. The soil is just crushed Diplo Tails. All of the fruit that grows tastes of Diplo Tail.
So. Many. Diplo Tails.
Haha, nah, Trilobite.
According to TAYnames @batguy has it so that should be relatively easy!
If I still cared, you have a piece I could use but then I’d still be one short :'(
@sughly
I have so many pieces spare but haven’t had a chance to update the spreadsheet for a week or so. And I did promise that I’d help you finish the exhibits.
I’ll sort it out and open my gates tonight. Anybody who wants them can come and get them!
Also, for SGM I aimed to finish 3DS. I did that by collecting all the puzzle pieces then accessing all the rooms in Streetpass Quest II. I could probably still try to get a whole bunch more hats (all the hat) and finish the achievements, but meh.
Pokemon B2W2 have my favourite credits roll of the series
Just got to Drayden’s gym this morning. Will just knock the main story off, then move to W2. Kind of cheating, because I have most of my ‘mon from previous games at my disposal. Finishing is just a formality, really.
The real challenge is HeartGold. I’ve finished it and gone to Kanto, and am about 3 gyms in. I hear when I finish that I can get 1st gen starters? I also heard I can use HG as a gateway to the GBA games as well, so I can get stuff from my Fire Red, etc.
I can’t cheap HG though, my current ‘mon can’t really be transferred back, I don’t think.
Fuck, Pokemon is daunting.
I discovered the ‘final’ battle in HG/SS consisted of
L90 blue/red startersI ran scared from the game and haven’t turned it back on.
Edit: manual spoiler tags
Oh gawd.
Oh yeaaah, isnt that
Ash up in the mountain or cave or some such with a beefy pikachu?I remember that, took me ages
Yep.
=(
I want 1st gen starters! I have Fire Red, Sapphire and another one or two on GBA, but I can’t get the ‘mon off them until I get to a particular point in HG, I think.
I WANT TO LEVEL A BLASTOISE. ALSO, CHARIZARD.
You only get to pick one, if I remember correctly!
Yeah I heard that. I just want to get Squirtle from the end of HG, and my Charmander traded from my Fire Red.
A friend traded them to me when he gave me SS…
I’ve only traded over the sapphire / leaf green legendaries I had sitting on the Pearl cart.
On another note, I have White sitting there, not sure whether to start (and possibly also get B2/W2) or just wait for X/Y – especially since that might be another ‘clean slate’ gen like gen 3.
As much as I liked W2, I say wait. The hype is going to be through the Pokéroof come October.
@Tigerion … you bought me a steam game. THE CURSE IS LIFTED!!! *melts into a puddle of soy based goo*
*dumps bags on floor, fires up PC*
Woo, back from Melbourne and PAX. Let’s see what Kotaku has been up to!
*opens RSS reader* *faints*
OK, so… yeah. A week is a long time in Kotaku-land. A loooooong time.
*cracks knuckles* Time to dust off my necromancy robes.
Well that was a bit gloom,
don’t know why i do that
apologies TAY, stay awesome
/Pixel out
*sends virtual barbarian bear hug*
#cradledinlove
Oh happy day @beavwa, The secret of the magic crystals trading cards are finally released
Are they retrospective?
Nope, you would have to put in another 2 hrs or so to get them
I do like those profile changes that let you display your rarest achievement. This game will haunt me for life.
I told several people about your achievement and they were so awed by it
Continuing the gradual unpacking of my thoughtbox, I am now ridiculously hype for Saints Row 4. It cannot be overstated how fucking rad super powers are, I killed a police officer by using telekinesis to throw his own car at him. The time I got with the game felt really short, but it was easily some of the most fun I had all weekend.
ahem
DOES WESTLIFE MEAN NOTHING TO YOU. 😛
I PLAYED SAINTS ROW ON FRIDAY I HAVEN’T MADE IT TO WESTLIFE YET. GAWD.
IM WATCHING YOU, MY LOVE.
I’m so pumped for the Persona 3 Movie, stayed up all night to watch the new trailer as soon as it was released. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnC9IDJma6M
Now that so many people are keen on M:tG, I’m disappointed that I didn’t try and get a draft going on the weekend.
we could all play the online version???
I don’t think we can do booster drafts in that version without investing a little too much moneys.
Anyhow, drafts are better in person. It’s why I love 7 Wonders so much.
You are saying words in combination which makes no sense to me
HEY GUYS CHECK OUT THE NERD OVER HERE
Booster drafts:
Each person (typically in a group of 6-8) buys three booster packs. They then open one booster pack, take a card from it and pass to the next person. You do this until you’ve exhausted the pack and then repeat with the next two boosters.
Then everyone takes the cards that they’ve drafted and make a 40 card deck with it (basic land is provided to make this whole thing work). Then you play each other with your newly formed decks.
7 Wonders is a brilliant board game that uses this mechanic but instead of using it to build a deck, you use it to build an ancient wonder and get points.
Doing this online makes it less fun to call someone a dick for taking a card you wanted.
There’s sealed play in the new one though! I’ve never done it before but I understand its the same as drafting? Seems like it’s all emulated to picking booster packs and building decks and whatnot before the game, looks cooool
Sealed is where you get given a sealed deck (effectively 3 booster packs of a cycle’s core set) and two additional boosters (normally the other two sets from the cycle) to make a 40 card deck.
That still sounds pretty good though
It’s good in that you get to muck about with deckbuilding.
It isn’t quite as fun as drafting, where you have that shared pool of cards to fight over.
EDIT: Also, if you’re interested in the sealed deck format, Dominion is a pretty damned amazing deckbuilding game.
I haven’t done either but damn if they don’t sound good, drafting seems to be all about strategy picking one car and hoping someone doesn’t pick that other card you were eyeing. Although I wouldn’t mind playing a sealed game as that sounds fun too. Need to get some cards.
Nah not really, just interested in trying it in multi with y’all ^^
@ColdCamV The problem with those formats is that they get expensive and damned quickly too. That’s why I’m really digging 7 Wonders. All the card drafting goodness but with only a single purchase (using the same pool of cards each time doesn’t work as well with Magic, unfortunately).
@trjn so with a draft you have 3 boosters to pick cards from? Or everyone buys 3 boosters?
@coldcamv Everyone gets 3. That’s why it starts to get expensive. Everyone ends up with 45 cards and you should aim for about 25 of them being in your deck.
I enjoy drafting.
7 Wonders is also good.
7 Wonders is amazing.
I need to pick up 7 wonders it seems
That really is a shame actually, I’d have happily bought some boosters to do a draft with everyone. Booster Draft games are awesome, way more fun and easier to be competitive than pre-constructed. Haven’t done one in years though.
Honestly the only reason I didn’t bring it up was because I thought we only had two or three people that would have been interested when we needed at least six. Kind of underestimated that.
Only issue I think might have been that a drafting game requires you to know a bit about the game and how to construct a deck. It’s not super newbie-friendly.
MtG meat?
I think everyone’s bummed back off to different states 🙁
Hold an MtG meat in Melbourne and stream it to the others and or podcast it.
LEGEND OF KORRA IN SEPTEMBER
NEW ARCADE FIRE ALBUM IN OCTOBER
MUSE CONCERT IN DECEMBER
The rest of this year is suprisingly awesome
Its sad that im excited about a cartoon and some music coming out more than any actual events im attending.
Also anyone want to go to see MUSE with me. THey are apparently the best band live and i have been a massive fan for ages. Tickets will most probably sell out stupidly quick so if you wanna go decide soon. they go on sale JULY 29th
They really are the best band live. Even better than you’re expecting.
COME WITH MEEEEEE
Yeah, theyre pretty darn amazing its true. Bellamy sliding across the stage as the guitar kicks in for Knights of Cydonia after a Ennio Morricone intro on harmonica. Pretty hard to top stuff like that ^^
Oh man, now I want to go.. Checking dates.
Edit: It’s the same time as Warped tour. I’ll have to think about it :/
I’m tempted to go!
There are Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth Shows.
I probably would be keen on any of them except Perth cause fuck that.
Ooo… $130/$109 for tickets T_T I miss when they were cheaper
I have to add in flights too. God if only i lived in a major city. No wait i tried that. DAMN ME AND MY ANXIETY
Lets do it!
serious? i would love to go with you. 🙂
Would you mind if Deveo-lass came along? She loves Muse
As long as i get to be the third wheel, i am the best third wheel just ask @freya and @trjn
@bdkiaf @rize @blaghman @mythamphetamine
Is there something happening this weekend? (Is it this weekend? I am unsure.)
Have a family Christmas-in-July that I can’t get out of on Saturday evening, but should be okay for any other time (day or evening) as long as I get enough notice \o/
I think something will happen.
Yup.
Ahoy! I put a call out on the Twitters today, I’m thinking (yes, it hurts, thanks for asking) dinner/movies? Of course, I’m more than open to suggestions for everything.
I’m more keen to just spend time with people, the activity/entertainment is hardly the focus for me 😀
I just got to Sydney from Melbourne and boy do my feet hurt.
*ducks to avoid tomatoes being thrown at me*
oh nob
That joke is much funnier if you flew and your arms are tired. >:|
HUMANS CAN’T FLY! THAT’S JUST SILLY!
Want so badly to reference the “bird imitation” joke from Season 8 of MASH, but suspect I might be the only person to get the reference. :\
MASH was like… the only thing we’d watch on TV after getting home from school. I recall they ran back-to-back episodes at the time.
Me too, man!
MASH bros!
o/
\o
geek-five!
I don’t get it.
he is saying he walked from one to the other.
What? No I’m not! Stopping putting words in my mouth!
Oooooooh…
I get it!
Wait, wait no.
No I don’t.
I still don’t get it.
*aims at feet*
Started a new game of Deus Ex HR, aiming to get the no alarms or killing cheevos.
Within 10 minutes I had set off three alarms and ended up going on a killing spree.
I am the greetest!
IMPRESSIVE
I certainly thought so, made it a whole 10 minutes without jumping up and down, throwing boxes and firing randomly at walls, floors, doors and the occasional bad guy.
Hugo, jog his memory.
*Thump*
Sorry, Tigerion. I didn’t mean to jog him so hard.
That’s exactly how you play stealth games.
Yeah, nothing like standing in the wake of the carnage you’ve caused in your ‘stealthy’ playrun’s non-quickloading improvisation and yelling, “THIS COULD NOT HAVE GONE WORSE IF I HAD TRIED.” Then eyeballing a crate which looks like it might be explosive, and a laser grid which you can’t see a way around (admittedly without having bothered to look at all yet).
In for a penny, in for a BOOM
@powalen – how well have you been avoiding Pokemon: X & Y spoilers? Still trying to avoid them if possible?
I’ve been actively seeking them out, but somehow my 9 yr old knows more about it than me. I was like… where did you find this stuff out? He tells me he’s been visiting the official site for updates almost every day haha. Ahhhh… he’s got taste, I’ll give him that
Ah, the old “get news from the official site” trick.
By actively seeking out mind you, I mean having a look at kotaku every now and then for pokemon articles
Haha, reminds me of when I kept checking the “Smash Bros. Dojo” for updates on SSB Brawl 😀
As for Pokemangs I went crazy before Gen 4 and saw so much which kind of made it less fun :(. I tried to avoid seeing anything for Gen 5 but I couldn’t resist looking at them for a laugh when Ice Cream and Trash Pokemon were revealed (good lord they’re so bad!).
I planned to do a “Powalen” and avoid everything for Gen 6 but it’s hard with picture and heading spoilers all over the place. I still try to avoid them though but it’s not the end of the world if I see something. Thankfully it’s a worldwide release so it should be much easier to avoid stuff and I at least want to keep the starter evolutions a secret 😀
Yeah the starter evolutions are a big one for me! DON’T WANT TO KNOW
I have some ideas in mind so it’ll be interesting to see if it ends up anything like what I expect 😀
…Wait, it’s possible to play Pokemon without thirty guide bookmarks in your browser and a printed copy stuffed into your DS case, along with your battle record-keeping binder?
DO YOU EVEN EV BRO?
Haha, that’s exactly what I did before White version. Totally ruined any surprises because I looked up all of that sort of stuff 😛
It’s going to be so much fun to not know what to expect!
This is why I don’t pokemon anymore.
In my heart there is still only 151 pokemon.
The only thing I’ve seen is the occasional website/youtube thumbnail. Haven’t read anything.
In celebration of todays discussions, SHITSTORM is
Map of your head by Muse
because Hullabaloo is a way way underrated album, and I’m forever grumpy I’ll never get to hear this amazing song live
Not being Black Holes and Revelations or The Resistance does not make anything else Muse has done underrated :p
Maybe for their other albums, but when do you ever hear people talk up Hullabaloo? Pretty rarely, and the amount they play any of the songs from it is kinda relative to that
Black Holes and Revelations is better.
“The 2nd Law is better”
said no-one ever
despite that, the 2nd law is actually pretty okay, Supremacy and the title tracks are just as good as anything else they have done.
Yeah, but Hullabaloo still deserves more attention
Isn’t that ironic that hullabaloo got not a lot of attention.
…do the formatting buttons not work for anyone else? Whenever I click them now I just get the throbber at the top quickly flashing like the page is reloading or something, and the title reads “connecting” for a moment, then everything is back to being like nothing ever happened.
Yep! People posted about them not working for them a couple of weeks ago but they only stopped working for me this week :/
oh wellHeh.
It’s like we’re the same person.
I didn’t even want to type it but I couldn’t think of any other name I’ve heard for it other than “spinny loady dealie” 😛
PayDay sometime? (PS3)
@dkzeitgeist @redartifice @freezespreston @masha2932 @ruffleberg (others)
Hell, I’m keen for any other PS+ game!
:'(
Especially @bdkiaf ! 😀
Keen! any night bar fri this week is good for me
Awesome! Did you guys ever get a game going? I haven’t played it yet.
We’ll see what works for the others then.
I’ve played a couple of rounds with Red. It’s a fun game that would be even more fun with a full party.
Hello there, friend!
So how would you say the game is like? I don’t know too much about it and I’m trying to think of an example of something I know but would you kinda say it’s like Left 4 Dead? As in there’s specific levels/missions/”heists” I presume and certain objectives that have to be met – which can be done solo (with AI) or 4 player co-op?
Do you play as both the cops and robbers?
All of those things are true. Except the last part, you only play as the robbers.
I guess Left 4 Dead is a pretty good comparison. In each level or heist or whatever, you have multiple objectives, which progress on to the next one as you complete them. Generally it’s some variation of “recover X from Y and escape” but with a whole lot of shooting in between. Also, the police/SWAT will periodically enter an assault phase, where there is an increased resistance for a certain amount of time.
I think that’s it? You may just have to play it, it’s good fun.
Cool thanks! I kinda just didn’t want it to be, select a map and just do stuff. I like a bit of structure and an end :). I don’t think I’ll be playing it regularly so I just wanted to beat the levels at least once.
Figured I’d just ask for a quick description since I’m bored and catching up on TAY 😀
(O.o)
(o.O)
*raises hand*
My PS3 tag is RileyJones-
I’ll probably forget that the next time I turn on the PS3 😛
I’m “GreenCOD” but you can just add your deets to TAYnames if you haven’t already! (google it)
Will do friendo.
Why must you tempt me Greenius!
PAX was so boss, it was great to meet so many TAYbies as well. Just a shame I didn’t get to converse for longer with you guys but I was running all over the place bumping into so many people, t’was awesome.
Yeah, seeing so many people was great!
It’s a shame that none of my non-TAY friends are that interested in gaming and didn’t go, as it would’ve been nice to bump into them and catch up, but it was great seeing all the TAYbies 😀
You could have met at least one more if you’d come two weeks ago 🙁
Yeah, good point! Inquisitorsz wasn’t at PAX!
😀
*punch*
BTW, Inquisitorsz is a cool guy. He stopped by Oz Comic-Con just to say hi.
It rhymes. It must be true!
I’m still swooning over dat ‘tasch
Glad I got to have a chat at bar robot as i saw you briefly twice but didn’t actually get a chance to talk at pax itself
@shane If I end up with square eyes it’s Mrs. Shane’s fault. 😛
Her fabric arrived yesterday and I’ve never cut so many little squares in my life. I’m seeing squares everywhere I look!
@animalcrossing: are people still buying turnips? I found I always forget to sell them so I didn’t even bother getting any this week.
Some kind of Tetris Effect?
But then you can use rotten turnips to attract ants and flies for the museuuuuummmm… fucking hell I spend so much time with this game
Oh right, she asked me to ask you not to do squares, but hexadecagons instead. That’s okay, right?
By the way, I am absolutely joking. Please don’t do this.It would certainly be challenging. 😛
Animal Crossing
I keep forgetting to play on Sunday.
Turnips were selling for 154 Bells in my town this morning.
Edit: up to 196 Bells now.
my turnip price was 25 bells last friday. 🙁
Wait, you have animal crossing..?
i got it the weekend it came out. i have only put like 25-30 hours into it though, havent even paid of my second loan yet.
You guys mustve got so many houses in your HHA place. So jelly :'(
at PAX, I mean
You won’t be jelly when half of them are just filled with nothing 😛
Yeah, Fridays are usually pretty woeful with turnip prices.
Oh and in case any of you like to snigger about things like Mr. Strange does….my turnips are currently selling for 69 bells. 😛
Im a mature adult i wouldn’t laugh 😛
Finally got my own Surface 😀 Now to put the Windows 8.1 preview on it.
Are you break dancing around your house now?
RT or Pro?
32GB RT, because that’s all I could afford 😛
http://www.gog.com/promo/anuman_interactive_weekend_promo_190713
Only an hour or so left of this, so short notice but there’s a Microids sale on GOG. Benoit Sokal games (like Syberia, etc.) and also stuff like Still Life, Amerzone and etc.
Still Life for $4 too! I reaaaaally liked this one, did you play? It had flaws for sure, but had a really engrossing story with some amazing cutscenes.
Was also bout to quickly buy up Syberia, then remembered I have them on steam ^^. God I love syberia. I feel like weve discussed this though… and… you said you didnt like the lack of interaction, or something? Interaction sminteraction anyway, when you have a story as great as this 😀
Yeah, I loved Still Life. Not the lock pick puzzle though. Post Mortem wasn’t bad either. (Though it had flaws a-plenty.) I’ve never played Syberia 2 but yeah, wasn’t fond of the lack of interaction in the first game. Cool atmosphere though.
But then youll never know what happened to Kate and the Mammothsssss
On Still Life though, I looooved that cutscene where
the killer guy in modern time was in the police building, and she chased him. Argh, was so goodSyberia’s ending was pretty perfect though:
Kate running to the train in that old resort town and leaving her old life behind. I kind of don’t need to know what happened to her, that ending felt satisfying to me. 😀Oh man, I like dramatic adventure games. There’s not enough of them these days, there’s heaps of comedy stuff but outside of Wadjet Eye there’s not much mysteries. I hear the new Sherlock Holmes game is supposed to be okay!
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/24856
Haha, I think youd be the only person who described the first Syberia as having a satisying ending ^^ Everyone was pretty up in arms about how open ended it was, particularly with the whole purpose of looking for Mammoths
I’ve never played a Sherlock, except for the old old ones. I dunno… something about them puts me off, but I should give them the benefit of the doubt one of these days
Yeah, I dislike the old Sherlocks too. Not a fan of any version of the character, really. But they said the magic words in that preview: “Heavy Rain” and “L.A. Noire”… XD
Haha! I remember the fallout from Syberia’s ending, but I think because I wasn’t as hooked as other people and in no rush to play a sequel that I found it satisfying enough. It’s only half the story, but Kate’s arc feels pretty complete.
Boooo, boo I say. Syberia 1/2 is one of my faves!
@sughly: I can see why. I liked the world and the artistry and all that. Just didn’t click with me, alas. Lack of hotspots or hearing Kate’s thoughts on her surrounds made me sad. :'(
Murdered: Soul Suspect is probably one of my most anticipated games for next year. Not sure if it’s really an adventure game, I suspect it’ll be a hybrid but it sounds so damn cooooooool. Haha!
http://www.adventuregamers.com/news/view/24777
Broken Age!
@greenius: BROKEN AGE! Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect too!
@sughly: Any word on Broken Sword 5’s release date? I didn’t back it so am on the outside looking in at all those backer only updates. Haha! XD
Ahhh….. ehhhh… *shrugs*
I dont really get any updates, except for a couple of videos of Cecil chatting away about fans this and fans that, and some admittedly rather cool behind the scenes look at the background artist. Pretty sure there hasnt been mention of any dates..? Maybe?
My sister is a big fan of Syberia – are there any similar Point & Click adventure games I might be able to pick up for her? She’s got and played most of the major ones (i.e. Lucasarts, Telltale etc)
Other Benoit Sokal games I reckon, like Paradise – flawed game but great story and atmosphere
Stopped watching How I Met Your Mother a good season back now, but this was pretty funny.
AMC released a mashup trailer for Breaking Bad at comic-con! …Only available in USA T_T
It’s a brief recap of ALL the major events in the series, so HUGE SPOILERS:
OMG SO FUCKING HYPE I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT MOST OF THESE THINGS I REALLY NEED TO RE-WATCH IT BUT THERE’S NOT ENOUGH TIME T_T
YESSS thankyou greenius! Just went looking frantically for a reupload by someone else and failed 😀
Haha no problem :D, consider it pay-back for Gilbert keynote!
“Breaking bad comic con trailer” – second result 😛
blergh, I copy pasted the original’s title XD
But after watching that, ARRRRGH so excited. What things did you forget out of curiosity?
A lot of things really. I watched S1-3 pretty quickly since they were all out by the time I acquired them and then watched 4 and 5 as they came out on a weekly basis. I’ve never re-watched them and it’s been so long between viewing that I just completely forgot a lot of the little details. I feel like I caught up on everything though 😀It should go without saying that this has some major spoilers for the show.
On the other hand, that was tight. Tight, tight, tight.
Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
August 12th right? omg… not next Monday but the Monday after…
edit: ahaha got too overly excited, one more Monday away nawww dammit
Wait a minute that’s 3 weeks away. HOLY SHIT I’M GOING TO REWATCH EVERYTHING NOW!
THERE’S STILL TIMEEEEE
Do it! I rewatched them with my sister just before season 5 started, was so so good. I remember picking up on some things I’d forgotten then too
@sughly – kinda the same thing with GoT. I haven’t re-watched any of them and keep forgetting so many things, but in GoT’s case, I didn’t really know much to begin with 😛 (i.e. WHO’S THAT GUY!?)
I plan to re-watch GoT before S4 starts though! I might even… read them! :O
I think I just need to re-watch 5 because I powered through 1 – 4 just before it started.
@dkzeitgeist saaaame
@greenius Reading the books has filled soooo many gaps for me. I’m continually like ahhh, so that’s who that guy was, and that’s why he went there and this guy did that, etc etc. I can even put names to faces now! Sometimes.
@sughly – I got about 150 pages into GoT then stopped for some reason 😛
I think it was hard because I had just kinda watched the first season and the second was currently airing so the events were pretty fresh in my mind and I was pretty much reading exactly what I saw. It was also kind of annoying jumping back and forth when reading the first book, and watching the second season >_>
I’ll try again one day but the plan is to buy (and hopefully read :P) them when they’re all out but that’s going to take a looooong time.
@greenius Ive gotten way too impatient for the show now haha, need to know whats happening post show! But cant justify skipping straight to that point, need to read them proper.
Eh… that was okay.
HYPE!Yeah, I’ll probably check it out when it airs if I get sick of watching the streetlights flicker.
OH GOD I HAVE BOUGHT TURNIPS IN ANIMAL CROSSING
I NOW HAVE TO CARE ABOUT THE PRICES
TURNIP PRICES?
No, no.
TURNIP PRICES!?
43
I’M SCARED IS THIS BAD OR GOOD
Ahahahaha
so bad
@sughly @dkzeitgeist
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ihmtz/this_is_director_nicolas_winding_refn_ask_me/cb4jarw
Whaaaat! A Refn q/a reddit!!
(thats a pretty amazing answer)
Wait… is he really married to Fritz Lang’s daughter? That’s cray cray
She doesn’t appear to actually be Fritz Lang’s daughter. Not sure what the deal is there.
Saw that, I read the first few then my brain imploded because I don’t understand Reddit.
@sughly @BDKIAF @dkzeitgeist
this kid was inspired to make music cause he loved the music from drive
i heard it, its not awesome but its quite good for a single kid, thought you guys might appreciate it
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=65055
He likes his fade ins.
Hey, anyone who’s interested in Steam Summer cards I have a few left over that I’m happy to trade away for other stuff. Currently have:
– 3 x Prison architect
– 3 x Torchlight
– 1 x Skyrim
– 1 x Reus
– 1 x Tomb Raider
– 1 x Chivalry
– 1 x Football Manager
– 1x Kerbal
– 1 x Riptide
If anyone wants to trade just let me know.
It would be so much easier if we could just gift the cards! I have a whole bunch piled up that I’ve never looked at 😛
Well you can trade it for nothing, which is essentially a gift 😀
Yup, this works. I have a few things people might want, as well…like a double of the Steam ” 😀 ” face.
Yeah but trading requires me to be online at the same time as the other person 😛
Gimme a shout next time you’re online and we can trade if you like.
I’ll take anything if it’s free.
Christ I’m a card whore.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Take control of yourself and refuse these cards
That way there will be more for meI’ll send you my cards if you like, I think I have a couple of leftovers and I have no interest in completing the set a second time just to get a higher level of badge.
Edit: n/m, I see you’re already level 5. Well if anyone needs Football Manager or Dead Island Riptide, I’m your dude.
Christ, I’m a whore.
Fixed it.
Have you already maxed out your sale badge?
Cause it looks liek you only need 1 card to get another level. I figured I would prefer to be a virtual voyage than a joystick jetsetter so sold the rest of my cards
Yeah, I’m at level 5 so I don’t need them any more, but I’ve been starting to get them for other games now. On the bright side this is actually pushing me to give more time to games that deserve it, like Brutal Legend.
I may have just maxed out my terraria drops at lunch today
After all that careful planning and rigorous toy shopping the office reaction to my desk toys was:
Supervisor: “I like your dinosaur”
Me: “Thanks”
Supervisor: *walks off*
Nevermind! I just bought Luigi’s Mansion 2! I’m going to finish VLR before I start it though. I’m at the good bit of a visual novel. The bit where you’ve finished most of the middle section and are just going through to see all the various endings. So good! Loved this game so far.
EDIT: I meant to say I bought Luigi’s Mansion using the 20% off voucher JB sent me last night but didn’t include a barcode for me to print. I sent an
angrypolite email and they sent me a working one /coolemoticonThis made me lol and get strange looks from people at tthe bus stop
Ooo what price did that put it at..?
$48 I think. Not too bad. Was meaning to get it anyway the voucher just pushed that purchase forward a little…
Damn bargains!
Great buy.
Remember my movie list? It’s back! Recording Midnight in Paris today after hearing @bdkiaf and sughly talk about it a couple of weeks back. It’ll be my first Woody Allen movie. D:
it’s pretty good. You see owen wilson and you’re like “ahhhh shiiit” but then you’re like “ahhh shiiit.. this is a damn good movie.”
Haha! Owen Wilson will be off-set by Amy Adams, I hope. XD
Edit: Oh man, she’s not in the movie. I was confused with Rachel McAdams. *shakes fist*
He’s actually pretty good in the movie. He’s always had a sorta ‘subdued’ sort of voice, and in Midnight in Paris he’s a quiet dreamer-type of dude, so he plays it off actually quite nicely. The whole cast is quite nice, really.
Saturday: *WHISTLES NONCHALANTLY*
These reviews are amazing
Them tricksy Adamses
Great movie. Owen Wilson is even good in it. I know, shocking.
Also got Robot & Frank. I think it was @jimu who recommended that?
Me too! Great movie.
Sughly recommended it too.
NO! ONLY me….
😛So, Dennis Farina is dead.
=(
R.I.P Avie.
I purchased the Gurren Lagann collection and have started watching it. It starts off a little wobbly, but after 3 or 4 episodes, I think I can see where it’s heading. Really starting to dig it. Gainax! \o/
First dozen episodes: Regular gainax fare, good stuff
Onwards: HOT-BLOODED GAINMAX MANLINESS
Make sure to check out the movies, as well.
I will! Kamina is funny.
I just wanted to use the term ‘Gainmax.’
A honest retrospective makes me realize that the reason I hold it in high regard is because, simply put, good giant robot animes these days are rare as fuck.
I love how over the top it is. So amazing.
Good Super Robot stuff is even rarer. I think that Gurren Lagann might have been the last good one, even 🙁
It’s like they recorded a schoolboy argument. “Well my robot is just a part of an even bigger robot” “Oh yeah?! Well my robot is
the moon” etc. Then they animated it.Have you ever seen Gunbuster? It draws a lot from that. Which is fair enough since they made it and IIRC the G-L creative team’s previous work before it was Diebuster / Gunbuster 2.
Two pieces of news:
1) nailed my driving test, so I now have my Ps. Woo!
2) I have a 3DS XL. My wife is currently the main user and the only game we have currently is MArio Kart 7, though I will probably cave and buy Animal Crossing and/or Pokemon at some point, at which point I will probably post again and/or add my friend code to TAYnames.
Obligatory P plate celebratory Maccas run time?
Hit it up on the way home already! My wife says it’ll be awhile before she lets me out solo, the thought of letting me try my hand at the garage is too much for her to bear.
How are you really going to learn unless you do the hard stuff before you’re ready? A few dings and scars mean nothing in the long run when you think about the valuable life experiences and lessons that await the newbie lone driver.
I mean, congratulations, man! 🙂
Peak hour driving in a thunderstorm is the first thing every new driver should do.
Crazy non-daylight saving night-time peak hour, definitely.
Okay, yes. That was a bit confusing.
I did laps of Mt Panorama on my Ls.
Route 66 & Death Valley on my Ps.
This sounds like the opening lines of an Aussie hip hop song.
“Got my full licence wouldn’t believe the places that I’ve been!”
That bad, huh?
Drive safely!
Streetpass dangerously!
CONGRATS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Congrats Matt told ya you would pass! Now to do the P plater passage, you need to play music really loud and gun it at the lights till you hit the speed limit then stop!
GET SUPER MARIO IN 3D LAND CAUSE IT IS BEST GAME!
@sughly Map of Your Head is one of my favourite Muse songs. You might want to check the expiration date on your Hipster Card.
Yesss! Im happy ssomeoneagrees! Fuvk this phone is dumbt type on. Seriously thiswhat it looks like sans correctionss
The beginning of this semester is going well. Haven’t been able to get myself up to get to 9am lectures every day, and today I went to the wrong tutorial :S Went to data management instead of web management. Easy mistake, they were right next door to each other and I take both of those classes!
That’s our Ben!
-canned laughter-
I’m Ben.
^ Who’s this guy?
No idea.
So far I’m loving all the games I bought from the Steam sales, although I haven’t downloaded The Cave yet. Dragon’s Lair is great. The animation is brilliant, although the game can be a bit frustrating. Organ Trail is a lot of fun as well. Of course, I’ve already detailed my love of FTL. Glad I got the Steam Wallet code so I was able to take part in the sale.
Vampire Weekend covering Blurred Lines is one of the best things ever.
Yo nerds,
I need to buy an ethernet switch for work. It’s just for one guy’s workstation. 2 PC’s 1 data point.
Anything I need to keep in mind?
make sure you reroute the power to the auxilary
and don’t forget to encapsulate the digital transmedia struts.
Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed.
Make sure you get permission from the Elders of the Internet.
What about the flange?
BE CAREFUL OF THE FIREWALL!
It’s been breached!
Oh, Christ! The radiation!
If there is only one thing you need to know,
never ever eat yellow snow.
#helping
I’ll watch out where the huskies go.
Thanks.
Don’t forget to reverse the polarity.
Edit: I don’t actually know if everyone else’s suggestions were genuine (except for Hugo’s – that’s obviously sound advice), but I wanted to get in on the joke, just on the offchance that there was a joke to get in on.
The polarity on the transmedia struts?
nah keep at it.. this is like when the apprentice is sent to the paint store for the checkered paint and the left handed screwdriver.. even if we get him to ask one of these questions, we have done our job 🙂
He can’t do that, we need him to get the spots for the spot welder
Send them for a long stand. XD
Just depends how many ports you want, really. You can pick up a basic as hell 5 port gigabit switch for $30-$40. Should do the job just fine. Ethernet switches aren’t very complex devices.
I don’t get the joke.
Good try, Nef. I ain’t falling for that one!
Aw shucks. I tried man, I really did.
Hey all, just wanted to jump on and say thanks again to F4ction for opening his doors to me and all the other chaps and looking after us soo well. To everyone I stayed with or met during the trip, it was a pleasure. So good to put so many faces to names (many of which I got right!).
I was pretty busy doing my own thing down there, you know with all that waiting in line I had to do 😉 but when I did get to catch up with people, especialy for a gaytime it was awesome.
If you saw my tweets from saturday night you could see I had a good time also 🙂 If I had known Jung was here for the next few weeks I would have told him to do some funny stuff around here. Like include a firewall reference in every post for a day. (nice dude btw, first time I had met him).
Hope we can do that again sometime.
Well, I have to be getting back to a job I am enjoying less and less atm and dream about the next gaming type thing I get involved in… at this rate, I don’t think there is anything else this year 🙁
PS. TLOU was awesome and really enjoyed that. Not sure what to play next.. I had not played a ‘real’ game for ages (you know, 10+ hour story) so it was nice to have something to focus on for a bit. OH just realised that I bought the 400 days thingy so that should be next. 🙂
You owe me like $5 for opening the door for you on Sunday night. BTW Blarghs stole the good couch on Sunday night so I just slept on a slightly improved hobo bed
hobo bed FTW.. whatever.. I dont owe you anything. I say we are even. I sat with you watching the ending of saving private ryan 🙂
Hey look, it’s master salesman shady
Was nice to meet you dude, hopefully you will be able to catchup up with more of us next time your down Melbourne way
I saved you like $20 didn’t I… oh and even if I didn’t I still would have sold you a game 🙂 Nice catching up mate.
The Penny Arcade guys spoke about the World of Tanks booth babes this weekend. Thought it was interesting enough to warrant its own article. PLEASE TO ENJOY.
I think the one I found the most distasteful were the women dressed as police officers trying to get anybody and everybody in for ‘saucy’ photos. What was the point, anyway? I couldn’t even tell what they were there for. They were right on the Sennheiser stand, so not sure if they were related.
Ah yeah, I think they tried to get us in for something at some point. Made that silly sad pouty face with the ‘awwwws’ when we said no and kept walking. Doc says he intentionally avoided filming or photographing either group all weekend (although that did make finding an article image a bit of work :P)
Yeah I saw them from a mile off, begging and pleading for people to come and get pictures taken. Yeah, no. Sorry ladies. Self respect – I has it.
I actually wanted to speak to them, as my headphones have a tendency to pick up Mum’s voice rather then mine. They wouldn’t come near me.
Yeah I didnt get that either. What does that have to do with headphones
They were for Sennheseiser
They were apparently helping promote Sennheiser as the “most wanted” headsets.
If I had any interest in World of Tanks before PAX it’s well and truly gone now. A tier 1 tank cannot beat a tier 10 tank. It’s just not possible in the game, regardless of how many shots you land. You could theoretically shoot a tier 10 for an hour with a tier 1 and it would never be destroyed. What an utterly ridiculous system.
Also, that stupidly large booth could have been used to house a whole heap of more worthy games.
I don’t understand why people like booth babes and would want photos with them in the first place. If the only reason a woman’s paying attention to me is because they’ve been paid to, I don’t want them paying attention to me. XD
It’s an odd situation when you both know neither of you want to talk to each other but she still has to act like it’s the most important thing ever.
Please to enjoy? I donut get it.
JB are doing a Wicked Wednesday Sale thingy and they’ll have PSVs tomorrow for $199. So if they have any there when I go out tomorrow I may become the proud owner of a Vita. \o/
Commence Shakespeare jokes now…. 😛
Zounds!
The Shakespeare jokes are getting a little old, especially considering how much more content’s available these days. (Although it was very much warranted 6 months ago, believe me) Don’t be fooled by the very lonely and dusty shelves at retail stores. The Playstation Store tells a very different story these days.
I’ve been collecting the PS+ games since they started doing PSV ones so as long as I get a good memory card thing I’ll be set with more than enough to play for ages.
I always figured that the shakespeare jokes were more about people who defended the console a little bit too hot-headedly (thats totally a real word), & less about the games on it.
Maybe I missed the joke entirely. =(
It was from some nameless Blue person who had an apoplectic fit on twitter and said with all seriousness that it was a Shakespearian tradegy that people didn’t think the Vita was the greatest system out of all handhelds, consoles and PC’s.
It kind of grew from there.
Oh. Yeah that’d explain it.
What games are you thinking of getting? (Or playing that you’ve already got with PS+?)
Ummm…can’t remember most of the PS+ games but I’ll probably try a lot of them. As for other games, Soul Sacrifice (Spine Sword!) and obviously P4G.
P4:G! <3
omg 40% off One Direction headphones?!
Shut up and take my money!
Shakesphere*
Methinks the lady doth protest too much!
Shakespeare is awesome and wrote many sayings still commonly used today, such as: Going on a wild goose chase.
Which we mis-use because you’re actually supposed to catch the wild goose at the end, it should just be hard and take a long time.
(Thank you Brian K Vaughn)
I think P4:G is the only game I’ve ever purchased that wasn’t bundled in with the console (it came with AC:Lib and PS Smash Bros), all the PS+ games are more than enough!
I haven’t downloaded everything that’s been available on PS+ because I either have it elsewhere (PS3, 3DS etc.) or just didn’t like it and deleted it (a lot of those PSN titles are pretty average and not my cup of tea), but the 32GB is more than enough space. Definitely get at least an 8GB but since you’re planning to get the PS+ stuff as well as some PSP/PS1, the bigger the better 😛
32GB cards retail for about $100+ locally but I imported mine from Super UFO last November or so for $80. I just checked and it’s still around $80 but they seem to be out of stock at the moment. Harvey Norman had a 30% off sale a few months ago which made it around $80 locally, but getting it that low locally is rare, so you might as well import.
PSP Go I has. Crisis Core PSN has not. T_T
Ooo pagey getty, means I’m important. Elaborating, I just think Sony had a great little device with the Go. It’s very pocketable, flash storage is far superior than Memory Stick. All Sony needed to do was keep the price down and put ALL UMD games onto the PSN, two things they fumbled big time.
If someone were to kickstart something like a portable Ouya they’d make an absolute fortune.
A $99, full digital handheld with expandable memory and an app store-like environment? Sold.
Skeptical fry
Not sure if joking…
You know that was the single reason I never got a PSPGo. No Crisis Core? No deal. Best game on the system, period.
Kinda wish I got a Sony handheld at some point for all the FF games that were exclusives.
FF Tactics and Crisis Core were the highlights. I think I actually enjoyed the story of Crisis Core more than FFVII itself. Game was pretty tops too. Final cut scene in Crisis Core may have almost made a grown ‘Nef tear up too. Was brilliant.
You know what the worst thing is? FF Type-0 is mainly an expansion of the gameplay in Crisis Core. 🙁
Type-0 still haunts me. Vita HD remake would cause immediate pants shitting, and even a digital PSP localisation would make me cry tears of joy.
Remember how Sony did a thing on Twitter a while back where they wanted to know the Japanese games everyone wanted on Vita? The top answers were consistently Type-0 and Valkyria 3.
There’s a fan translation project though:
http://skybladecloud.wordpress.com/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-english-translation/
It looks like it’s making good progress.
Meanwhile the Valkyria 3 fan translation has apparently translated everything that isn’t part of the Extra Edition or DLC. I think they’ll edit that, do a release, then do the E2 and DLC stuff.
In regards to this, sad thing is if Squeenix ever did a prequel spin-off of FFVIII for the Vita I would whip up that handheld in a flash.
Agreed.
I really wanted it but have never been able to find a Copy anywhere.
Pretty easy to track down online. Odds on it’ll be a ‘classic/platinum’ jobbie, but not hard to get. Fantastic game, and fleshes out the FFVII story amazingly well. Suddenly FFVII makes a different kind of sense and you look at many of the characters in a completely different light. Cloud isn’t as emo as everyone makes him out to be (well as much as Advent Children did) and even if he is a little surly, he’s got his reasons.
Also, Zack Fair is a fucking legend.
It probably helps that it was competently translated (unlike FF7 – a lot of the stuff that seems a bit eh in FF7 is because the translation of that game was *bad*). But yeah, it really helps flesh everything out.
Yeah, there’s a few early Squenix/Namco PSP games that aren’t on PSN and I can’t understand why not. It’s like they don’t want money. Off the top of my head: Tales of Eternia, the Star Ocean 1 & 2 remakes, and FF Crisis Core are all not available on PSN. 🙁
Wasn’t digital Crisis Core some obscure licensing issue with the soundtrack? That’s what I heard anyway.
Possibly.
I played a pirated version anyway, since I wanted it in Japanese to match with the Advent Children cast so I played an undub.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/23/4548032/triumphs-and-tribulations-of-pax-australia-2013
Cool PAX post mortem dealy…
For somebody whose most played game on Steam is Bit Trip Runner and has finished it on that, Wii, and 3DS, I completely overlooked the sequel and can’t believe I don’t have it :S Was it on sale during the Steam sales at all?
I’m pretty sure it was. Maybe for like 33% or something low.
http://www.steamprices.com/au/app/218060/bit-trip-presents-runner2-future-legend-of-rhythm-alien
Apparently it’s been 50% off? The graph is hard to read :/
Sorry guys! I am still doing the write up, it’s just taking me a while. The sleep deprivation seems to have caught up with me
NOT GOOD ENOUGH SONNY JIM
but I’m tired. D=
Take a rest and post it when your ready, on that day it’s posted we shall call it “Scree’s PAX Party” Day!
Unacceptable and unprofessional. I’m docking your pay for the next fortnight.
Nooo, I’m not sure how you will dock it but noooo!
Polygon sez:
“PAX AUSTRALIA 2014
While organizers were unable to share attendance numbers with Polygon at this stage, next year’s event will move to another location “to make the venue match the audience,” the founders confirmed.
“Oh yes, with every show, PAX has never stayed in one venue,” Holkins said. “If you look back, every other PAX has started at a smaller venue and then graduated, so yeah.”
Blomberg guaranteed that next year’s expo will be bigger, and they’ll need bigger theaters and spaces. “We’ll grow and we’ll definitely learn from this year,” he said.”
Do we know if it’s staying in Melbourne for next year?
If their moving to a bigger venue I doubt it, show grounds is basically melbournes Hub for large events (except the exhibition centre) most likely will be at where they do the EB EXPO
Yeah, Melbourne next year!
Hm… can I get away with two Melbourne holidays in the same year? I’LL SURE TRY
Say hi to Greenius for me!
Why? You’ll be able to say hi to him yourself.
No. Melbourne. Ever. >:|
😀
What about Geelong then? 😛
Confirmed in Melbourne for another 2 years.
Exhibition Centre I guess?
Edit: What D.C. said.
Yes.
Brisbane’s out, then.
PAX North 2! Who knows what Gosling movie I won’t go to at the last minute! 😀
Probs none since goslings taking an acting break
He’s directing though! How to Catch a Monster meat!
Who’s to say they’ll get the same numbers?
I was under the impression that, at the time when most people bought their tickets, PAXAU was going to be somewhat of a one-off. The first stop of some kind of PAX world tour.
Now that has changed, perhaps the sense of urgency and exclusivity has diminished.
They always announced it as a regular thing. I’m just happy it’s in Melbourne for a bit longer as I’m fairly sure that longer-term, Sydney will pinch it since Sydney steals everything like it 🙁
I’d probably still have gone next year if it was at Showgrounds, but if they move to a venue with better theater facilities then that’ll be a massive difference. Hope more publishers show up too – I don’t play crappy iPhone games, LoL or World of Tanks and I build my own computers so that eliminated about 99% of the expo hall’s content. But I’d have probably queued up to touch a controller or play some of the PS3 / XBone launch titles if they’d bothered to show up with them, and it might have convinced me to get one of the consoles at launch (right now I’m waiting to see what’s exclusive)
@alexpants Not committing to anything since I don’t know how much time I’ll have, but would you be interested in some board game write-ups for Potaku? Tried a few new ones during PAX.
I’d definitely be interested. Was a bit surprised by how popular the board game section was over the entirety of the weekend, really.
The rest of the place was absolutely uninteresting to me aside from the panels I couldn’t attend without sacrificing all my time, so I spent all three days hanging out there and missing out on talking to a lot of TAYbies as a result 🙁
Hanabi!
IT’S NOT HANABI UNLESS WE WIN >:|
Next Friday night the 2nd of August at 7:30 pm, I’ve made plans for you all.
http://youtu.be/vo7ioGEvakI
Props to @Sughly for the art.
Don’t for a second think I have any kind of talent.
The art is a thing of beauty!
Muhfuggah got skills.
But what to pay with them?!
From what I hear whoever did the colours is awesome too!
Dealers.
Natch.
I’m not saying this isn’t true
Oh man, those ones. I was going past there with my friend (I was in my Manny gear, she was Princess Bubblegum) and they dragged us in for a photo. One of the girls asked if we were a couple, and after being responded to with a “no, we’re just friends” she said something along the lines of “Oh. I was going to say, you two are gonna have a lot of fun tonight!”
It was… rather uncomfortable..
FFFffffffffffffffffffffffff… that was meant to be in response to the booth babe stuff on the previous page, talking about the police women at PAX getting people in for photos.
Manny?
Also, I only saw one Princess bubblegum but she was with the ice king
Manny Manny Calavera, got no skin, got no hair-a…
http://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/manny-calavera-grim-fandango.jpg
She did have a friend there who was the ice king. Actually, they’re both at the start of this video: http://au.gamespot.com/portal-2/videos/cosplay-chaos-pax-australia-2013-6411819/
Only thing I know of of me at the moment is at 1:39 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHq-Ec9MSOU
I think i passed you multiple times. I was dressed up as one of the Elizabeths. If I’d known I would’ve introduced myself.
Aww. If I’d know you were one of them, I would have approached every one asking “Scree?”
Then walked off chuckling at their confused reactions.
I had the darkest blue clothing. Pretty easy to spot. And a little red backpack =D
Shh, stop making me feel bad!
I can’t really remember any specifics, since I wasn’t really paying particular attention to any of them so they all kind of blur into one. Got a photo? Could jog my memory (though no promises :P).
http://i.imgur.com/K8hZc2T.jpg
Nova and I.
Oh hey I do actually kind of remember you! (that’s a relief :P)
You looked good, definitely one of the better outfits around the place.
I think I might have even possibly taken a picture of Nova…
I’m sure Nova would’ve been happy =P
I, however, am never happy with my cosplays ^^;;
Haha, that’s always the way isn’t it? There’s always something that could have been done better, or something that you didn’t have time to put in, or something that went wrong. Or something that seemed to look great in the mirror, but in photos just looks horrible for some reason.
I’m just a perfectionist. It means nothing is ever good enough
Preaching to the choir 😉
Yay! Perfectionist buddies! o/ Hi five!
She’s pretty, you should’ve just went with it 😉
Yeeeeeah… a long time ago it would have been even more awkward >_>
These days though, I don’t think her boyfriend would be too happy about it 😛
I’m pretty sure I saw you at one point, and was like “That’s probably Mr. Taco, I should say hello!”
Then I didn’t.
I would’ve subjected him to Grim Fandango quotes until he asked me to leave. (That or refuse to talk to strangers. Probably the second one. :P)
Psssst did you know he didn’t even finish Grim Fandango!
*ASK ME ABOUT GRIM FANDANGO!
*don’t
He must be some sort of… monster! D: (Then again, I didn’t finish it until like 2002 or something when I bought the game on release in 1998. D:)
See, I told you @greenius. No friends :'(
:'(
It’s okay, who want’s to be that monstrosity’s friend anyway!?
Were you the manny in the suit or the robe?
Suit!
Dude, that was awesome- here’s the one I took of you: http://imgur.com/ri5xjP0
Thanks!
Haha, that mouth alignment. All day I was wondering whether it was ending up crooked or not, worst fears confirmed 😛
That was one of my favourite costumes of the whole thing- is the mask built on a welding mask? how do the eyes work?
It’s built from scratch, mostly out of cardboard. I put together a series of straps (can’t think of the proper word for it?) to use as kind of a mounting point for holding it on my head, then attached the helmet itself to that using velcro dots. The eyes are made of swimming costume liner, so since it’s fabric I can still see through them from up close.
Actually, still have some pictures up from when I made it. I built two prototypes, the first was to get an idea of the geometry and proportions so that it would fit around my head and facial features properly. Then the second one was kind of a test to see if the measurements I’d calculated were right and would work, or if they needed to be altered. Then the last one was the good copy 😛
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Halloween09/Evolution1.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Halloween09/Evolution2.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Halloween09/Evolution3.jpg
I added a couple of things to it the next time I wore it, since some problems came up on that first night. Mainly that the mouthpiece was always crooked in photos, whenever I had the helmet up I couldn’t look down at all or it would fall shut on my face, and the flaps that would hook in at the jaw didn’t really stay in at all. So I added some support struts and a couple more pieces of velcro on the inside at the back, so that the face would be held up while open. Added in some guides for the mouthpiece so it would be aligned with the teeth. Then added in some more guide pieces for the jaw attachments so that they’d sit in the right place and I wouldn’t pull the face in too close, as well as some velcro dots to hold them in place.
…dammit, now look what you made me do. Stupid rants 😛
Kotaku karaoke! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=575b_2pslsE
End of song is in the responses bit
God that guy in the hat is a nob end
The Protomen sang the exact same song at their concert. I think you guys have them beat though.
That’s all kinds of awesome. I don’t know who a good portion of those people are though, but you guys sing good. 😀
You need to come to PAX Aus next year.
Nah, to tell you the truth I get intimidated with large groups like that and prefer smaller gatherings. Haha!
But then we’ll never meet 🙁
I get what you’re saying though. I’m not a fan of large groups myself. There was just such a friendly atmosphere at PAX though that I could deal with it.
But we were in small groups, within the large groups!
Don’t worry D.C., that’s one of the reasons I got anti-social on Saturday night! If you were there, we could have been in the corner, not talking to each other, together!
Do you see the guy off in the corner, not in frame?
No? Good. I remain safe for another day.
Im The guy in the hat with the mic next to Shiggy in the only shirt he owns. (The bacon one)
I recognized you from your patented hat! Haha!
WHAT! How did you know my hat….
*prolly my twitter icons
I’ve seen photos of you before from the Kino meat with Shane I think. You were wearing that hat there. (Or something similar.) D.Creepius.
Yeah sounds bout right
Cut off in their prime
That “Nothing really matters” part at the end of the song is my favourite bit too. *shakes fist*
Better than having your prime cut off.
Is that what you called your hair?
No, it’s the name for my penis.
Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing better in life than singing Bohemian Rhapsody with a group of people.
I just spent ages sleeving a bunch of trading cards and discovered that the sleeves I have with a solid-color back look way nicer with these things than the clear ones. 🙁 Guess I’m going to have to go hunting for colored card sleeves 🙁
I could have told you that.
Luckily, sleeves are really easy to track down. Just don’t buy Ultra Pro. They have a stupid little holographic circle thingy on them which is completely unnecessary.
Yeah, I unfortunately have a lot of those. Back when I played Star Wars CCG they were banned because you could use them to mark cards (orientation of the ultra pro logo vs the front/back or top/bottom of the card).
Going to have to grab some other colors. While blue looks great as a contrast color, I don’t want to have all the decks sleeved with blue as then they’ll get mixed up.
I get unreasonably annoyed when people take an entire trolley load through the self service checkout.
There’s no rules against it!
What annoys me is when someone has three items, and they take like six hours to scan them and put them in their bags. If the machine ballses up, fair enough, but if you just suck at scanning? Go through a normal checkout.
I’m always borderline too much though. Always! I feel the eyes on me… but dont care for lining up based on borderline too much. Deal with it *sunglasses*
The self-service thing is for the anti-social, not how many items you’ve got. 😀
Or, for the people not wanting to be judged on the fact that they’re buying $35 worth of junk food.
@sughly and @dc I’m sure you’d already be all over this, but just in case you don’t know.. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57594534-233/leisure-suit-larry-sleazes-his-way-onto-ios/
I’m super duper zooper keen for the Transport Tycoon iOS port though.
Ha, what a biased quote though. I dont doubt this version looks pretty terrible, but that quote dont mean much, he’s just saying he gets easily bored by adventure games. Which is his own short attention spanned problem.
I feel I should mention this.
Oooooo youll have to pass on your verdict! I actually saw a few more screens today that were more promising than earlier ones
My instincts are telling me to avoid Larry like crazy, especially a remake of a game that’s already been remade. D:
Kinda want to play the vga remake after seeing all the screens for this ^^
Haha! VGA, there’s a term I haven’t heard in ages!
I love a good non-biased review.
I haven’t played that in years. It got boring to me after I discovered Industry giant 2 though
I think Larry belongs to another time and should’ve stayed there. XD
With that being said… I played Larry 7 recently and loved it.
I kind of agree with this sentiment, but I kind of dont. I’ve seen it mentioned in other reviews, but I dunno… I think it’s dismissive of the series, I think it still has it’s strong points. But the way they updated it, from an outsiders pov who hasnt played it anyway, doesnt look like they took it into modern times too well.
I haven’t been game to replay the Sierra games. (Except for Gabriel Knight, which holds up awesomely.) There was a time where the Space Quest games were my favourite games evah and I don’t wanna ruin those memories by playing them today. 😀
Edit: I’m not saying the other Larry’s are bad, just that they’re a product of their time. Just like Star Trek: The Next Generation was the product of the late 80s and early 90s. They don’t make Star Trek the same way they used to and I think trading on nostalgia for Larry ain’t going to work… I’m a little apprehensive about SpaceVenture too, though the fact it’s not a Space Quest game might force ’em to be more creative.
I don’t mean to be dismissive! I feel like I’m not being articulate lately when I debate stuff with you. We’re always usually on the same page and I somehow give the impression I’m not. XD
Nah its cool. I’m not being narky anyway dude, dont stress, just discussing
But no actually I deviated from what I was gonna say haha… about it being a product of the time. Which is what I do and dont agree with. Like, yeah I think thats largely true, but what I meant to say is that I think there’s a lot that holds up today still, it just becomes easier to glaze over the series and make that call I think. I’m only saying this caus I played 7 recently and liked it sooo, yah.
Completely understand what you’re saying! I agree!
I think it just bothers me that it’s a remake instead of a proper Larry 8. Where’s Lust in Space, damn it! (Man, that sounds creepy if you haven’t played the series. XD)
For suuuure, a second remake is so pointless. Although they do at least get into the ios and android markets this way, so there’s that. I wonder if that had a large sway in the decision to remake again actually? Probs did…
Was anyone after the Lol skins they gave away at Pax?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153035143650447&set=a.10151914499060447.877401.10150098155565447&type=1&theater
Anna Murphy put a picture on facebook of her sitting on the floor surrounded by the names of all her backers so far. Pretty awesome. Shame I can’t find my name though. It must be one of the ones at the wrong angle. Even worse is that you can clearly see Mr.Strange’s and he’s gloating. 😀
Just ran an 8-2. Feel so sore and dizzy and so damned aggravated. Only need 4 more shuttles! 80m! 16 seconds! Why is it so hard!
Beep…..Beep…..Beep……Beep
The soundtrack of my fevered nightmares.
Beep.
When’s the test scheduled? For what it’s worth… I BELIEVE IN YOU FREEEEEZE!
I’d believe in him more if he hadn’t managed to forget who I am mere (many) months after meating me.
I’m still cringing about that. I feel so terrible.
Don’t.
I simply refused to tell a lot of people who I was, making them feel incredibly awkward. Hell, Scree assumed that I was Rocketman, when she should have known that the biggest jerk there was me.
I didn’t recognize him in any of the pictures with short hair, but then again I haven’t met him and am basing his appearance on eating brains in Julie Vs. the Dead. 😀
You mean you don’t base him on his rendition of Friday?
It’s okay, I introduced nob as virus to dc, despite having met both numerous times.
But aren’t you maneless now? It’d be a bit more difficult to recognise you now that people can actually see your face. 😛
I’m the fat dude with glasses, clearly I stand out at events like PAX.
3rd August. Only 11 days O.O
Look at it this way – when it’s done, you’ll only be 9 days away from Breaking Bad returning. Run for Walter. Run to him…
I should probably finish off season 2 and beyond huh?
…yes
Is that even a question?
Stoopid beep test.
*hugasaurus*
Beep
*snap*
LOL code from PAX
Riot Graves – ocrwcaglr7ha7u
I might have a few more tomorrow.
Next section of the Pax write up
Pax SaturdayI woke up at 6am without an alarm. I started getting ready, and was even finished with make up before Gorzy showed up. Mum demanded a scratchie so we caught a taxi to the shopping centre so that we could. While we were there we tried to find snacks due to the over priced food. We weren’t successful, but I did manage to get some Nippy’s iced coffees which I love. Gorzy bought some hot chocolate while I went looking for a hair net as my wig was annoying me again. After the hot chocolate wait (it was a while), we began to head to Pax.
When we left the coles, someone dressed up as the 5th doctor stopped me, thinking I was someone else. Upon finding out that I wasn’t that person he asked me to come by the board games area so he could take photos of my outfit anyway. Gorzy and I said we’d show up at some point so that he could.
We headed to the queue hall and lined up. Being earlier, we managed to get into the third line about 5/8’s of the way up. My feet were hurting me already so I sat down, whereas Gorzy decided to clean out his street passes again. I was drinking my Iced coffee while Gorzy hit one of the beach balls which then smacked someone in the back of the head.
After 40 minutes, people began trying to hit the beach balls over the map that was hanging from the ceiling. I commented that if you get enough gamers in a place for a long time, they will make a game out of anything. Gorzy agreed before clearing out his 3DS streetpasses again. He helped me to my feet, as I thought we would be able to go soon, but instead everyone was still playing the hit-the-ball-over-the-map game. For a while it kept everyone amused until the announcement that pax would open in a few minutes. We slowly filtered out.
As Gorzy had missed out on seeing Rome II on the Friday, so we went to Rome II booth straight away. Because I wasn’t interested in Rome II, I told Gorzy that I would meant him in the Tecmo Koei area.
The first game I played in there was Ninja Gaiden Z. I really loved the srt sytle. It was cel shaded and featured a brand new protagonist who had been defeated by Ryu and wanted revenge. During that fight he had lost an arm and was now part of a cyborg. His enemies were cyborg zombies and while it was Ninja Gaiden, it wasn’t stressful. It’s no longer ridiculously hard, but rather enjoyable. I could see it as the kind of game I could come home to and play to relax. However, as I was playing, something went wrong and the screen kind of split. I immediately informed the lady that it had happened. The guy with her said “daijobu, daijobu.” The lady said it would be alright, and I responded that I knew as I understood a little Japanese. I started the game again and it was fine.
The second game I played was Castlevania Lords of shadow 2. I got a little mixed up with the controls and my play time was kind of ruined by the fact that my back was beginning to hurt. I played to the boss before having to leave. Someone at the booth asked my opinions of Ninja gaiden Z. I told him that I really liked it and that I was looking forward to it. After that I went to the Rome II booth and asked how long the presentation would continue for. The Attendee told me 11 minutes so I wondered off to do something for another 10 minutes. While I was looking for Gorzy, I ended up going to the ubisoft booth and getting a rayman legends poster that I didn’t get the day before as I was accidentally given two Just Dance posters.
I ended up at the MSI booth and was watching people play a maze game that buzzes if you touch the edges. I decided to try but I think I hit the side about 20 times. The corset did not help. I was given a showbag for my troubles.
I went back to the rome booth and they were letting other people in. I immediately though “uh oh.” Gorzy had my phone as it was hard to get it out of my bag constantly. I wandered around the rome booth and was accosted by someone in cosplay. She was trying to promote a game. I apologised because I couldn’t play it at the moment. She wished me luck with finding Gorzy and I went off again. I finally found him near the Staints Row IV Australian version line.
While I had been seperated by my phone he had received a message from Nob asking where I was. At which Gorzy responded that he didn’t know, he just had my phone. It was at about this time we decided to head to the Big top and meet up with the others.
Many, many Taybies were there. I took a photo with Nova in his cosplay and then fussed over the cosplay. I still wasn’t completely happy with it. I am such a perfectionist. There were so many people I can’t even remember who else we met, but it was great meeting you all.
Gorzy and I told Nova that we needed to get to The doctor as he wanted photos of cosplayers. As I was getting my photo taken for the 5th doctor, someone cosplaying as Booker came over and a small photoshoot ensued. After getting several photos taken, Nova came over and he was able to get a photo of use together.
We then moved along to others who were playing board games. There we saw Cakesmith, Freeze and Mrs. Freeze and Beavwa and @princesspip. I tried to find the two green rupee cushions Freeze had ordered and found one was missing. I panicked but it turned out I had accidentally given it to Nob instead of Freeze. So nob got his Red rupee Cushion and I eventually gathered the courage to ask Freeze if he was Freeze and that the cushions were for him. He was a bit confused at first, but I told him there was no other reason that the 2 green rupee cushions would be sitting on the table. He paid for the rupee cushions and one was immediately stolen by his wife, to be used as a head rest. Pip then told me that the cushions are really comfy and are just the right size for a head and neck rest.
During the queue, the QR codes had been discussed. For some reason we had decided to complete them. For this reason, Nob, Gorzy and I were wandering around the big top. We started at the miniatures section, moved around the console handheld freeplay section and even checked the Merchandise section. We only found 2 QR codes in the big top, so we decided to move into the queue room.
While there, we grabbed a show bag as you can’t get them in the morning when you queue up. Near there I found an animal crossing QR code. I was in the process of starting up animal crossing when someone cosplayinf wolverine asked for a photo. Gorzy got the bags (as per usual) and Nob got the DS to try and get the QR code. We managed to get the QR code after the photo and then found the Pax QR code! And then we found another one! Oh wait, same one.
Unable to find any more, we moved onto the Expo hall. Earlier I was told there were 2 QR codes in the hall. Nob, Gorzy and I looked for them, and managed to find one at the end of the hall near the laser tag.
We wandered the hall and were unable to find another QR code. As we got close to the Sanshee booth, Nob decided to go and get some shirts while I spied seats. They were beanbag chairs and it was one of the first times we actually barged into a booth. We sat down and started playing The Legacy of Barubash by Kactus games.
It was your typical rpg for a tablet. It was a pretty good game despite all the bugs. I had an issue where the portraits covered the text. I alerted one of the creators so they would know the bug existed. The creator, kamil, told me that several other people had played the game but hadn’t told them of bugs they had encountered and so he was grateful that I hadn’t hesitated to tell him. I explained that I do QA in my spare time and that’s why I knew I had to tell him. It was now that nob had returned. I was only sitting on half a seat and without any other free seats available, I offered to share mine. The guys at Kactus games offered us lollies. I am fairly certain they were aware that we were just there for the seats. Nob started playing the game and I found a spelling error pretty much instantly. I asked for paper and pen to jot it down. Kamil responded, “be careful what you wish for.” He couldn’t find any so I found a note pad I had found earlier and wrote down who said the erroneous message and what was said. Several other Taybies found us and another member of Kactus games introduced himself to them. We stayed there a while longer before getting up, ready to head off. Not before shaking the Kactus Games creators hands and accepting business cards. The one who shook my hand, that I almost introduced myself to as Scree, then tentatively asked if he could have a photo. Turns out that he had wanted to ask for a while and wasn’t sure whether he would. I said it was fine and that we had come over because of the seats. They told us to come back and sit down on their chairs anytime. I had talked to them for a while and was able to find out that they had been working on the game for 3 years and still weren’t too close to completion. Many problems had arose during that time, including changing the engine three times. The first change made their 2D art obsolete so they had to re-do the art. Not only that, they had a lot of issues arise once they got to Pax and with the debug back in Perth it made things difficult. The booth cost 3.5k and along with air fares it ended up costing them a lot of money to be at Pax.
Nob, Gorzy and I headed back to the big top to try and find some more QR codes. While we were there, we found a seat and decided to get something to eat. We had crepes which were pretty average. While we were there I was cosplay spotting. I saw a faith and another man who I instantly knew was Frank West. There were others that I recognised and was pointing out to Nob and Gorzy. I commented on their outfits, whether they were well made and such. After eating we decided to brave the rain and cold to get to the PC room as it was the only area that didn’t have have shelter between the two buildings. While we were out there, we ran into Fat shady who encouraged me to have a look in the Trial Caravan because it was warm. Getting into the caravan was easy enough, but getting out in the skirt and boots was a bit harder. Unfortunately because the petticoat was a bit long I had to lift the skirt whenever going up and down stairs.
When we arrived at the PC room, we took a moment to warm up. While we were doing that, we found another QR code. However, we also found out that it didn’t give us any new letters. Dejected, we went to the look at the PC freeplay, but as per usual, there was a bit of a queue. Nob went upstairs to see if there was a QR code so that I didn’t have to struggle up the steps.
While Gorzy and I waited downstairs, I ran into someone that I recognised but I didn’t know where from. I found out he’d was wondering where he knew me from too. Turns out we both went to RMIT and did the same gaming course, but different years. I also told him about the QR code hunt we were on and he told us that we only needed the phrase which we’d already guessed. Nob returned and with the new information and facebook deets exchanged, Gorzy, Nob and I headed to the big top. We got to the merchandise booth and upon finding it packed, decided to go to the queue room where the merchandise booth lite was. Once we got there, we were told to move along to the information booth which is where we actually had to be.
The person serving us told us because we were in a group we would either have to sing with interpretative dance or we would have to say a line of the phrase each. I was under the impression they were making it harder then it should have been. After saying a word each, we got a sheet of stickers which was a consolation prize because they’d run out of the XP boxes on the Friday. I jokingly said it wasn’t good enough. The man serving told us to come back tomorrow to see if we could get a consolation,consolation prize. We said alright and moved along, trying to decide what to do next.
It was about 3:30pm when I thought, let’s go to the animal crossing panel! It was the first panel I’d really shown any interest in, and was kind of looking forward to it as I do love animal crossing. We went out into the cold and asked where the drop bear theatre line was, at which point the enforcer told us it was back in the queue hall. It quickly dawned on the three of us that he was talking about the huge queue in the queue room where someone was holding a sign that said “Anyone behind me is unlikely to get in.” We were on the way there when we decided that it wasn’t worth the wait.
At this point we headed back to the expo hall, but the details of exactly what we did there are fuzzy so it was obviously nothing of significance. At some point CJ got into contact with Nob and was a little lost. We agreed to meet up at the queue hall.
After adding CJ to our merry band of warriors we decided that it was best to head off to the big top as there were seats there. At least I think that’s why we went there. Once we got there, we met up with f4ction, Loops and Lambomann. We grabbed a table and rested for around an hour, some people eating, while I contacted Techie about meeting up and becoming a large group.
The large group converged to the train station and following the person’s instructions went to the back carriage which apparently had a lot of room in it. Around a dozen of us squeezed in our group consisting of the previously mentioned taybies as well as Techie, princess pip, Beavwa, Trjn, Freyr, Blaghs and Greenius to the group.
Blaghs suggesting lifting me up, at which point I said “No” because I had a skirt on and I didn’t want to flash anyone. I suggested Greenius instead. When we compared weights, I was 5 kilos lighter. I wasn’t too pleased about that.
When the train started moving, being so short I couldn’t reach any of the hand rails. This was when Blaghs suggested that he would grab my wig, thus saving the wig and leaving me to fall. This discussion went on for a while. Then when I nearly lost my footing, Blaghs steadied me and not the wig, thankfully.
Skipping the rest of the train ride, when we left the platform, all these people were heading to the footy. First some backstory for anyone who is not on teamspeak.
When I’m busy using my hands for drawing or using a controller, I have my microphone on voice activation. Sometimes when the football is on, well, when Essendon Bombers is playing, Mum starts getting a little frustrated at the game. She starts yelling at the TV and my mic starts picking her up. So most people on teamspeak are used to hearing my Mother yelling at the footy.
So as we walked past the footy supporters, someone was saying that we should get my Mum on teamspeak at Karaoke so that we could hear her yelling at the footy. I later found out the Essendon game wasn’t televised so that was lucky.
It was around this time that I was starting to feel bad about what had happened on the Friday. The others had been teasing me about it earlier, but it was starting to eat away at me.
TL:DR
I played some games, lost Gorzy, found Gorzy, Found Nob, looked at shit, gave up on panels, took photos and head to karaoke meat.
Does not include karaoke meat, sorry.
Huh, what happened on Friday? :O
Mama Scree is scary when she yells D:
The friday write up is on another page but I explained in that.
I believe the correct adjective is “hilarious.”
What happened on the Friday? You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. I had a similar crazy incident at the Star Trek Into Darkness meat, so you’re not alone. I ruined that movie for Freeze. :SShush you. You’re more important than a movie.
GAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!
So gay
:’)
The shirt thingy. That’s what happened.
🙁 Hope you’re feeling better now.
Fairly certain that’s nothing to stress about.
Edited somehow putting the wrong word in which changed everything D/
Haha! I thought, man, Freeze really is a monster! 😛
In that case yes. No idea why my phone autocorrected to that.
I…am a little disappointed that I missed it.
I paid the shirt person back anyway
I don’t get it D:. What happened again? I read your write-up yesterday but all I gathered was that you got shirts at 2 for $50?
they were $60. I ripped them off $10
I think @jordi ripped them off $10 too 😛
I went back and paid the extra $10 though.
You’re just jealous you weren’t in on it
I do admit, a Junes shirt would’ve been pretty rad.
So I think the lady at the post office scammed me out of money.
I went to get a new passport on Thursday, did the interviewy thing, and she was like “because you lost your old passport, you need to pay a fee, and call the passport office and tell them that you’re a dead shit for losing your old passport, even though it was 2 years expired.”
So today I called up the passport office, and the lady on the phone was like “No, you don’t need to call us, it was expired. Hahahahaha.”
I forgot to ask if I get my $105 back…
I wish this story ended with me finding money…
If I bothered chasing up half the instances like this where I was meant to get money back… I’d have, like, at least a grand. Maybe. I dont even remember any of the instances this happened, I just know they happened. *goes back to playing video games*
That’s odd. My old passport hadn’t expired last time I replaced it, it was just dilapidated and I wanted to get a biometric one. I paid for the new one but there was no extra charge or any thing…
Yeah, the charge is just for lost and stolen passports. I like to call it the “idiot tax”.
In my case, my passport is somewhere in my room. I put it somewhere smart for safe keeping, and it was so smart, that I cannot find it.
Maybe someone from Mossad is using it! 😛
So apparently that creepy pervert from Lost in Space is @dc in the future from what he is saying.
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/12831
Tell a lie and say you don’t see the resemblance. 😛
I will tell the truth, and say that I don’t see the resemblance.
However, given D.C. looks like Pey’J in my mind, and I don’t know who that creepy guy is, I don’t think I’m the best judge.
I hope Freeze is kidding, otherwise I might have to kill myself. Haha.
😀
When aren’t I messing with you?
😀
D:
😀
MONSTER! D:
People keep telling me that.
You don’t know who Dr Smith is?
*vomits*
What?
I laughed so much, both at how random it all is, that guys expression, and this response. A perfect storm, some might say
Creepy pervert?
I hat you!
Frank Woodley stand up show on ABC2 at the moment. Just started.
God that man is funny.
Shakespearean tragedy:
Saw it was horrible histories and closed it instantly. The amount of times I have to watch that goddamn show every week since its on abc3 and thats all I get to watch… no more. Just, no more.
You… you don’t like Horrible Histories?
What sort of monster are you?
You go watch it every day for years on end and tell me how much you like it then Blaghs, You go do that. I could probably chart my fondness for it, which did start high, as a gradual falling slope which is now in the definite hatred zone
Have been, still enjoying it.
Now In The Night Garden, that’s a different story…
That only takes one viewing to know its shit
Now do it EVERY SINGLE NIGHT FOR THREE YEARS.
Yeah I had my share of bad kids shows already thanks. To be fair though, Ash was a toddler during the time of High 5. That had its advantages.
@sughly Bewbz?
“Oh look, it’s the Ninky Nonk” *shudders*
I can understand that.
Which is why I only watch it occasionally, via the medium of youtube, so it will stay funny forever.
Forever.
Monstar!!!!!!
Best kids show on TV atm!!!
Srsly, are you even listening? You can watch anything – it can be the greatest masterpiece of anything ever, but watch it every goddamned day, its bound to get a bit shit
I can’t say I am listening, no.
Why do you only get ABC3?
Probably cause of a child you stupid 1min ago AEF
^^
Oh awesome. I forgot about Shitsville. I wanted to see this.
Holy shit the young liberal on this show is an absolute fucking tool.
I had heaps of fun meeting everyone!!! If I never got around to saying hi it is probably my fault. I also had heaps of fun singing every song!!!
And that @freezespreston is as awesome as everyone expects.
Also @scree is awesome but that’s expected. Also @tech_knight is awesome. Everyone is awesome!
Had too much fun at PAX, Johann Sebastien Joust was AMAZING. And I do hope that there is a kickass convention centre that can take over because that rain was a nightmare. And I got to play just dance next to a guy dressed as Nathan Drake!
Damn straight.
You are pretty handsome and awesome. I wanted to hug you but your wife looks like she could brawl.
I wouldn’t try to take her on.
Mrs. @freezespreston beat me in a strength tester once. True story. 😀
I am floating, well not actually floating metaphorically floating. The pretend water is made up of nothing and im floating on it. If life was a pathway i feel like im just walking down it,, with no particular vigor or enthusiasm.
here is the problem
I like my job now, i get to hang with cool people and joke and be myself, its easy and the work is stuff that is interesting. The problem is: it isn’t a challenge. I can turn up to work everyday, knowing what to expect, be bored for half the day and go home in a good mood having accomplished very little.
So many “problems” like this are popping up around my life
I have the travel bug, a workmate has just finished a two year stay in England and made it sound amazing. I would love to do that. The problem lies in the fact that i have one friend IRL. Thats right one. He is my best friend but he is also never up for the kind of adventures i want. I hate travelling alone and don’t do great with people by myself, i need a straight man, to my comedy. I don’t mingle well.
I want to buy a house, but living alone scares me and roomates tend to be a little unstable.
Drifting is hard, like im not sad or anything, im actually pretty happy with how my relationships with you guys are and how i am going at work. I havent gotten angry in a while which is always positive.
This is where my problem lies
Im content.
Yep im whiny about having no major issues in my life.
Life is really weird
We’re not your IRL friends?
;_;
Man Rocketman, I thought we were friends for life.
We are, Its not that you aren’t IRL friends its just distance makes it hard.
You hate me, Also are 2000kms away. I count you all as friends. But I find it hard to put you in the same category since i cant invite you over for beer and ghibli movies. Which i really want to do.
Pfft, I’m only 1000km away.
I thought we had a moment @rocketman.
What about Westlife..? :'(
If you want to travel the world with me and then move in together i will retract my statement
but yes i love you babes.
I’ll travel the world with you if you pay for it 😀
THANKS HOTROSS <3
Would you? I thought you disliked things and people?
FREEEEEEEE
I kinda feel the same as you. Just replace work with uni. I want to do… things. I don’t care what. Just something interesting that isn’t drinking or getting high like my friends want. But yes, I do feel like I somewhat just cruise through life a bit too easily. I want something a bit more dramatic to happen every now and then!
I’m sure if you said hey who wants to hang out? Atleast 5 people will say “where ya at?” I get what your saying and I hope you feel better soon, but just know your not alone and we all friends..IRL and not. If you ever wanna talk someone’s always gonna be there to listen.
The royal baby was born at 8lb 6oz or in metric 1 baby.
Lol. ABC2 is providing some serious entertainment for me tonight.
I liked “The royal baby was born at 8 Pounds, or 6 US Dollars.”
So I found this picture from someone on here earlier today, and just showed it to a friend because I saw the three of us were captured in it.
http://i.imgur.com/Xqk9YI2h.jpg
Another friend pointed out the guy in the Superman shirt and now I can’t stop laughing at his face.
Whats happenin to the guy next to red shirt..?
That is my photo. All rights reserved. Woooo, blind photos from over my shoulder
There’s always something good about putting on new pants
There’s something even better about taking them off \o/
f4ctions great PAX AUS writeup.
People stayed at my place on Thursday night. We left for PAX at the stupidly sucky time of 06:45am. We shifted base camp to our place in North Melbourne to avoid said stupid wakeup times again. It was exhausting at PAX. I met IronStylus at the Riot booth. I was very excited. So much walking. We also went to karaoke. I ordered a drink when I got there and they wouldn’t let me take it to the karaoke area. So I shotgunned two rekorderligs and ran inside. I was kicked off when choosing a song so I just went to the bar and progressively drank my way through 16 rekorderligs and a whiskey.
Dont forget the sour worms
ignore this I wrote the log as a reply by mistake.
All the Upvotes for Rekorderligs, 😀
PAX LOG GO.
I wasnt able to get the PAX till 5 on Saturday afternoon cause of work and having to fly down. After wanding around the on the street for awhile I asked someone just how the hell I was supposed to get in. Behind Coles? ok good place for an entrance. I’d been in contact with Gorzy since I landed and aranged to meet up with Him Scree and Nob at the entrance. Having never met Scree or Nob before it fortunate it was so easy to tell them apart. Nob was the one in the dress as I recall.
Anyway they took me to this big smoky room called ‘The Big Top’ cause they were all tired and stuff so my first experience of PAX was sitting in a food court watching a Zombie from PvZ walk up behind people eating and lean on them. Eventually F4ction Loops and Lambo rocked up. Lambo is not the kind of guy you’d want in a Nacho eating contest but he can pack a bag. Also I finally managed to deliver these sour worms I owed F4ction for some reason that was long ago and a joke.
On the way to karaoke I got to meet Tech Knight who is actually a fragile flesh bag like the rest of us, and Greenius who thought I was Freeze. For the uninformed, I am not. Masha turned up at some point as well I forget, hes a cool guy. I owed him a beer, “lucky” for me I ended up with two Caronas served in a glass for some reason. Two Debts fulfilled. Yeah I sang, damn right I regret all of it but I guess it was fun at the time. It was the last night I spoke with my normal Voice.
Thankfully F4ction had allowed me accomodation during my stay, perhaps he later regretted it. I think Rocketman might of. It was on the trip to this awesome apartment in an old warehouse that It was decided I was some sort of not normal person and it would be that way for the rest of the weekend. The story about how my cat got pregnant did nothing to help this, I have no regrets.
The night ended with me up till 2am watching Saving Private Ryan whilst making passive observations of group snoring patterns, I think I deserve a PhD. Eventually Shady made it back to the apartment, ten mins more and I would of nicked his couch to sleep on. I would instead spend the two nights sleeping on the floor of the kitchen on an improve bed made from carpets and sleeping bag. I wont deny it was far from the worst nights sleep I’ve had, prolly do it again.
Sunday started with dissapointment, the food at the cafe we went too was good but I was so dissapointed by the Coffee, truly for a drink containing Coffee and Chocolate to be so bland and flavourless is an accomplishment. The long black alteast tasted like coffee, though one that could of used some salt.
That aside the rest of the day was alot of fun, I wandered around PAX by myself for the most of it, with only one day I didnt feel like linning up for anything. Occasionally I ran into TAYbies, usually followed by the question of how I hadn’t died yet. I only played 4 games at PAX two I already own, one of them Twice. Trials Evo was my most played game because its awesome. One of the Indie groups asked for my email so they could send me their demo since I didnt want to wait in line, I am still waiting. Its almost like its only been two days and they have lives or something.
I only took 3 photos of Cosplayers, some guys from Hotline Miami, a really awesome Gaige from BL2 and by far the best costume of the whole convention because of what it was. She was dressed as the main character from Transistor, the creators of Bastion new game comming 2014. I cant wait, I may of let on to some people that I really liked Bastion.
I had all of monday in melbourne, I was by myself for most of it, it went like this. Lost, underground, coffee, meetup with friend, pancakes, tram, zoo, butterfly hous, inducted as the butterflies new king, awesome new critters I’ve never seen, snow leopards, other stuff happened at the zoo but w/e, more tram, get fed up with transport system get off at random stop, sitting on street wondering where I was, guy walks up “can you help me Im lost?” “so am I” I respond. Laughter is exchanged and I spot the central station for him. Coffee crawl begins, basicly walked back and foward across carlton. Got to airport super early, massive regret on not taking the lady at “Assembly” (really cool coffee shop, not a cafe) offer. Spent rest of time at airport buying drugs leaking from the snout and slowly degrading in health. Semi concious throughout flight. Met 35 on the station platform in sydney, taxi, bed.
End.
Written but not edited by – CJ
“Tech Knight who is actually a fragile flesh bag like the rest of us”
My disguise was working as intended then 🙂
that moment where TAY disappears for 10 minutes
*shudder*
*rocks back and forth, twitching*
i… i was lost man…
Also really, thanks for The Cave!
After watching that Ron Gilbert keynote, i was really keen to give it a go
It’s all good, man. It was $6, not a kidney! 🙂 Hope you enjoy it
you don’t put dollar values on gifts… IT’S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS!
Well, I thought about it for less than fifteen minutes! 😛
That’s still less then Fifteen minutes of being considerate, STOP TRYING TO BELITTLE THE ACT OF BEING AWESOME LIKE JEEBUS…
are you Jeebus?
you are Jeebus
I’m still hurt @dc refused my 50 cent gift :'(
Did you ever accept it @lambomann007 ? They’re actually pretty good indie point and click games!
(Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please)
D.C. is a jerk!
Tell me something I don’t know!
😛@greenius: There are at least eight sub-species of the Colobus Monkey!
I’ve seen that more times than I need to >:|
Yes, I did! Thanks for those 😀 I was going to thank you for them at PAX, but I forgot. Just like how I forgot to eat most days… 😛
HOW DOES SOMEONE FORGET TO EAT!? I WAS SO HUNGEEEEEE
Ughhh I feel ragged! I really don’t wanna get outta bed this morning..it’s cold outside and I’m comfy..curse you work!
So, last night i remembered a game that i used to play for many many hours as a kid.
Who else here played Little Big Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2?
I LOVED THOSE GAMES!
To this day i feel as though they were so far ahead of their time,
Amazing free-roaming adventure games.
LBA2 had voice actors for every damn character in the game,
store line was excellent, graphics were intense for the time…
Just amazing games…
Thought i’d share that because i poured so much time into these games.
It’s the games that tought me how to english, working out puzzles as they went along, not necessarily fully understanding what they wanted me to do, but through persistence and exploration worked it out.
This garbage pile is a good place to find stuff! You just have to be DISCREET about it!
I loved the first one, but never played the second. So damn good.
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/little_big_adventure
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/little_big_adventure_2
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
totally need to get that…
Also if you thought 1 was good, 2 is MIND BLOWING… you should get it
#enabler
I remember playing the demo and was blown away that it was raining in the game. RAIN. Haha!
AND THUNDER! completely amazing for it’s time… seriously if you’re missing a good game to play, give it a shot, you won’t regret it
So after having had to gradually increase the number and volume of my alarms to wake me for work over the last couple of years, because I keep learning how to just sleep right through them, I’ve gone the last week and a half alarm free. Last night I popped one alarm back on to try and reset my sleep cycle somewhat before I return to the office next week and it woke me up first try.
I’d really like to have the confidence that this will work on Monday too. It’ll be pretty embarrassing if I’m late to work my first day back. I’m always slightly suspect of people are are “sick” right after having holidays.
Haha, alarm immunity is amazing. Back when I was going to uni, I eventually learnt to sleep through my clock radio’s alarm. Then I switched from the radio to the buzzer, and was soon sleeping through that too. Then I discovered that the DS actually has a really good alarm, the sound it uses actually pierces through my sleep but without being shrill and panic-inducing like my radio’s buzzer. For a while that worked, but eventually I was just reaching over and turning it off the moment it started, rolling back over and falling asleep. So I tried that thing of leaving it across the room so I couldn’t reach it from bed.
I somehow learnt to crawl across the floor, turn it off and crawl back into bed while hardly waking myself up at all.
HEY, YOU.
(no, not you in the blue shirt and the sandals)
YEAH, YOU.
DID YOU GO TO PAX THIS WEEKEND?
DO YOU LIKE POTAKU?
DO YOU WANT TO BE ON POTAKU THIS WEEK TO TALK ABOUT PAX WITH US?
IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW.
(and if you answered no to that second one, don’t let me know)
I SAW THIS GUY!
(and then wee’d a little because he’s a celebrity)
I’m no Harli, though.
YOU’RE ON THE INTERNET = Famous
stardom must be getting to your head
It was great to finally meet the Potaku crew :), but I didn’t do a lot at PAX, I mainly spent my time at the LoL booth watching the amazing championship matches and getting to see the Riot Games staff in person, which I know does not want to be talked about very much, so I’ll pass on being on Potaku 😛
Unfortunately the three of us don’t particularly understand eSports and LoL so yeah, you’d probably have a lot to say that would be met with crickets I’m afraid. 😛 But it was awesome meeting you!
I appreciate the honesty though good sir 🙂
Do you need the perspective of someone who didn’t go to PAX and has almost no idea of the things that went on during it? Because I could be that someone.
…If only I hadn’t answered “no” to that second question.
DAMNIT POW I SAID DON’T LET ME KNOW. DON’T.
How about I come on and try to bluff my way through the whole conversation?
I think you could probably pull that off.
With all the War and Peace sized write-ups people have been posting it wouldn’t be difficult.
No love for my more succinct approach?
The best thing about those write-ups are seeing the same thing from different perspectives. Direwolf talking about meating scree and someone else at the train, then Scree fills in the blanks by saying it was Gorzy. It’s like that movie Vantage Point. 😀
Or Arrested Development Season 4 😛
That was such a bad film
I liked the premise though. Kind of imploded towards the end. 😀
Sorry.
EDIT: I nearly wore my non tight green t-shirt, just for you <3
I don’t like Potaku.
I LOVE Potaku! <3Oh, you.
I’m a guy like me!
Depends on when you record, I suppose?
Thursday nights! Usually aim to start at 7:30, tends to record until a bit after 9 or so.
I’d be up for that. When do you guys record these days?
See above response!
If I didn’t have the Pax Pox I would. 🙁
Crafted the FTL badge on Steam, got a 66% off coupon for Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity. Anyone want?
SoSE is an amazing game, takes a while to get into but soooooo goooooood!
I already have it, so no thanks, but if anyone wants to multi this, I’M IN!
I will but only if someone teaches me haha
Now I feel bad for not being interested! The original Sins game came out around the time I was deeply embroiled in the universe of GalCiv 2, and the 4X strategy genre didn’t grab me. I feel like now might be too late.
There’s never such a thing as too late XD
But no pressure, i can appreciate this game is not for everyone.
There’s just something about building an empire with a huge armada that steamrolls the galaxy that pushes my buttons 😛
On my way to work and come around the corner to be greeted by 9 cop cars, 2 ambos and a fire truck. Judging by the amount of blood and the fact they haven’t moved the guy off the centre line and not a lot of attention towards him I’d say someone has been killed. Again. They really need to upgrade that piece of road going by the fatality count just this year alone but they keep pissing and moaning about it being too expensive and not viable just yet. I’d say they’re waiting until a planned 2000 house estate gets built in the other end so they can pass the cost onto the developers so great. Lets just let people keep dying so you lot can go to the next election with claims of financial responsibilities. Pity people have to die for your image but hey political needs take precedence right?
Aw, poor guy. :'(
Run for prime minister Freeze you have my vote.
Bummer.
Some of you fine people need to add me on Wii U and 3DS….because you’re all like, awesome and stuff.
you’re deets on taynames? chances are i’ve already added you but i will double check XD
Wii U “Gemini_Wraith”, 3DS 3007-8100-8523
Has ACNL, will travel.
Good morning amigos!
Last night myself and a few friendos went to a Game of Thrones themed dinner at Gastro Park in Kings Cross. It was pretty interesting.
Entree’s:
Burnt Forrest Bark – Potato, mustard & goats cheese cracker. I think this was to represent the burning of the Riverlands by Ser Gregor Clegane.
Dragon Bone Marrow – Roast veal bone marrow, air baguette.
Mains:
Beach Fire – Crispy skinned barramundi, this was amazing, the skin could’ve passed for pork crackling. Also came with goats milk curd which had mushrooms and other goodies in it and a green salad. This was supposed to represent the blown up fish at the battle of Blackwater.
Desserts:
The Royal Fondue – Cheese fondue and roasted grapes.
Candlelight – Edible candles with mulled cherries & hibiscus ice cream.
All the meals were very tasty and I enjoyed listening to the story behind each dish as they were brought out.
If you think its something you’d like to try check out the link http://www.gastropark.com.au/game.html
Man, sometimes I forget how fucking rad food is.
That whole thing looks fantastic.
I went to one of their previous GoT themed meals.
Was pretty good.
Our desert was a dragon egg. Looked (and tasted) awesome.
A part of me was hoping it would be a gigantic feast like you see in the series. The books always go into so much detail about the food and liqour they consume. Plus who doesnt want to drink black beer or honey wine from a horn while devouring roasted boar :]
Yeah, it’s not masses of food, but we were full by the end of it.
Our main was a big shoulder of pork with knives sticking out of it. That definitely hit the spot. The stuff preceding it was a lot lighter and, although matching the theme, didn’t conjure up visions of hedonistic feasting.
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/brutal_legend
DRM free version of Brutal Legend is on GOG. (DRM free version lacks the multiplayer, but that’s no big loss.)
Honestly, I reckon if I was going to revisit Brutal Legend it would only be for MP.
I wasn’t a fan of the stage battles at all. Single player’s where it’s at! 😀 (As long as it’s not a stage battle part. :P)
I kinda liked them..That’s cool! I loved the game even with the stage battles, so I imagine the game’s that much better for you. The open world is amazing.
I was just annoyed that they didn’t mention that RTS thing anywhere and the demo was just all action/adventure – so I assumed the whole game would be like that :'(
You and me both, Greenius. You and me both. Still an incredible game there, just could’ve been so much better. :'(
It’s okay, we have Black Lake now <3
Is that even being made, though? Nothing from this Amnesia Fortnight seemed to get announced as full games. They even announced Massive Chalice afterwards.
Yeah but Brad wasn’t a project lead. Lee (Autonomous lead) talked about pitching his game to various publishers in one of the later AF (not Arcade Fire :P) episodes with playthroughs and closing thoughts on the games which I assume was recorded months after the initial AF finished.
Nothing official announced yet but if they were pitching Autonomous, who’s to say they didn’t pitch Black Lake 😀
Although, both Lee and Levi are working on Broken Age so it’s going to be a long wait 😛
Shane’s Media Update Today
(Your daily dose of SMUT)
Ace Attorney beaten – fantastic game. Might have to make room in my top 25 for it… but will give it time before I make that call for good.
Ghost Trick started – also awesome 😀 (@scree \o/)
Ace Attorney 2 inbound from eBay – $13. Win.
Wire, the – season 2 – complete. Amazing.
Season 3 begun. 1.5 eps in.
Treme 4 eps seen. Love it.
That’s about it.
Ghost Trick! That’s available on iPad. Think I’d like it?
Also I’m really glad you’re liking Treme. Favourite characters at the moment? I like Melissa Leo. I like Jeanette. I like LaDonna. I like Creigh. I like Sonny. And Annie, Lucia Micarelli is awesome. I like ’em all. 😀 (Although I totally said this the other day. XD)
I think I said the same. There’s literally not a dud character so far. They’re all great characters, and all for different reasons. \o/
Re: Ghost Trick, your racist bias against Japanese games might preclude you from enjoying it. 😛
I’ll give you a more in-depth review when I’ve spent more than twenty minutes playing it
I loved Ni No Kuni, Ico and SotC! You’re the racist. 😛
I was gonna say, we’re calling @dc racist now?
Buildings aren’t a race, guys.
Yeah man, you’d like it! Plays differently from Ace Attorney and a bit more like a point and click? I dunno, it has weird gameplay 😀
There might be a demo on iOS? Watch some gameplay/reviews or something to get a feel for it, but it’s awesome!
Someone was saying the gameplay from Beyond: Two Souls has some Ghost Trick-ness to it. Also Murdered: Soul Suspect!
I dunno, I imagine that connection would be pretty thin. It’d be like saying Heavy Rain is like Monkey Island because there’s dialogue trees
Good point! Did you like Ghost Trick? I think we’ve talked about this before and you said not really?
Nah I never even got to play it that much. I was given it as a kudos prize! Then… I traded it in towards a dsixl because I was poor and had a naughty card… then I bought it again caus I felt guilty. True story. Still havent played it for more than 10 minutes
WORST
Ghost Trick is excellent so yes, you would like it. Unless you’re a bad person.
Oh man, that (WIRE)
bit where Frank visits Ziggy in jail. My feels.Was just about to say that. And of course the leadup to that scene,
Ziggy finally losing his patience with getting disrespected and marching back into the warehouse gun in hand.Probably my least favourite of all the seasons, but really has some of the best moments towards the end out of all of them. Next three get better and better @shane!
edit: Oh! Oh! The climax of that last case in Ace Attorney too! So great ^^
I didn’t want you to miss out on the games. Some of these can be a pain in the bum to get. Just glad that you are enjoying it.
Aren’t you glad I lent you the 8 games now? =P
I have a question. How do you get back in touch with someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time? I mean I have there deets but every time i think about it, it just sounds awkward. Nevertheless i really want to talk to them.
Get in touch, say “it’s been a while, wanted to see how things were” and then catch up.
Alcohol helps.
Corner them in a darkened parking garage come night fall?
Send them a text saying “hey how are you? Long time no talk” the hardest part is taking the first step.
Sext your junk.
you gave the same advice to Anthony Weiner recently, didnt you?
KISS
You can always try my friend’s approach. Hadnt heard from him since high school, despite me and others trying numerous times to get in touch (and driving to his town where he worked and finding his shop closed down?), then yesterday got a call asking if him and his fiance could stay for a while starting today. I said yes, so you know, cant really go too wrong in these situations. Despite it being rather random, still happy to see the guy.
Most people i make a impression on aren’t glad to see me or hear from me. 🙁
What? Thats a bit dumb. Either youre exaggerating it or the people you talk about arent worth your time anyway.
What if they robbed a bank and they’re on the run?
Then what, Sughly? Huh?
Then… adventures?
Kentucky Route Zero – $12.50 on steam yay or nay?
Definite yay from what I’ve heard, but I’m waiting until they’re all released. That’s a full season pass, right?
Yeah season pass its 50% off
50% off you say…
Finished the draft of my next SGMonth blog. Now to shower, shave, edit and then collect screenshots of Hotline Miami.
DUDE!!!
@mrtaco your cosplay was awesome! I was catching up on TAY and saw the link @redartifice posted (http://imgur.com/ri5xjP0), you even had the gloves and everything!
Pity you hat us all and didn’t say hello :'(
You should’ve introduced yourself any way. Not every day you meat Manny.
Were you intimidated?
“Intimidating? Me? But I’m your friend!”
I didn’t see a Manny Calavera at PAX 😛
“My name is Manny Calavera, I’m your new Travel Agent”
HNNNNG
*runs off to play Grim Fandango*
Oh man, I love that game so damn much. And the mural that’s on the save game screen. I would get that tattooed across my back. 😀
Whoa, new D.C. is a hard c***! 😛
What’s this new D.C. stuff you guys keep talking about? Am I acting different? Also, I’ve wanted a back tattoo for years!
I’m just joking around 😛
Like before you “didn’t get jokes” but are making them now etc. just little things, you’re fine! NO NEED TO WORRY (that hasn’t changed 😉 )
You just didn’t strike me as the tattoo type!
‘I don’t want a new travel agent, i want to go home’
‘You can’t go home Celso, You’re dead.
BUT you’re not alone, everyone here is just as dead as you, that’s why we call it the Land of the Dead’
That game is all kinds of brilliant :’)
Year Two has all my favourite moments from the game.
oh god yes, that iconic White suit XD
and cats
and Velasco
and the blimp
and….
Most perfect and well realized part of any game ever. So many great moments. Even Manny reading the Plaque for beloved Sanspoof at the cat track. So good. 😀 Talking to all the people, like security guard at the blimp place… 😀
bahahaha oh god the security guard…
i spent so long trying various conversation pieces to see how long i could make her rant for XD
I’m not the hat, you’re the hat >:(
Oh, and how did you see?! 😛
Black magic!
By which I mean those black parts are fabric, and I modeled the helmet so that the mouth hole was at my mouth and my eyes were at eye level. Though only just – they’re at the very base of the eyes, so I can’t really see anything below eye level when it;s closer than say a metre or so away 😛
ALSO I SAW YOU UPVOTED MY POST ON THE LAST PAGE WHERE I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT HOW I COULD SEE OUT OF THE EYES AND OBVIOUSLY YOU DIDN’T EVEN READ IT. KNEW YOU WERE THE HAT :'(
You mean the ranty wall of text? 😀
Sorta read the first bit and clicked on the photos then skimmed through the rest 😛
Yeah. Yeah that’s the one.
I’ll let it slide this time though, because you like Ghost Trick.
So managed to play some monster hunter with @beavwa and @greenius last night. Highlights? 60 second kill times. Lowlights? Greenius refusing to hunt naked with me >.>
I need to participate in these MH shenanigans one day
Follow me on twitter, I’m always harassing people to play. Monster Hunter is my drug of choice at the moment 🙂
done aaaand done 😛
WILL I EVER REACH HR8+ D: ?!
@thecracks @platinum-urchin @wilbur
i’m HR1… that’s good right? like coming first in a race?
WINNAH \o/
What keys do you need? I need:
-Deep-six a Deviljho: Deviljho
-A Sea of Wyverns: Ivory Lagiacrus & Gobul
-Volcanic Activity: Rathalos & Steel Uragaan
Then of course the urgent: Dire Miralis
I saw a Deviljho once when hunting something much smaller, and ran screaming.
Then I saw a much smaller one in the mission where they first get introduced (and you get told to run away), thought “how hard could it be”, and got stomped into the ground and my face bitten off.
Haven’t been too keen for a repeat performance.
Haha! “how hard can it be” – famous last words. Once you get to the upper end of high rank gear you should be able to take on a ‘Jho, easy. Well, ok not easy but you should be able to take him 🙂
All of those I think! I’ve only done a few keys.
sorry. im a bad person. maybe i should get this twit….ter (?) business.
It’s good just for the notifications 😀
Like last night, @hindenlagen randomly Tweeted us to play MH and I easily saw it and hopped on.
This is my rifle.
And this is my BUM.
AND MY AXE!
Rather funny for me to choose my sad little low rank missions and have @greenius do little more than sneeze on the monsters to kill them.
I’ve almost finished the low rank armour sets now so I’ll hopefully be up at something a little more challenging next time.
i’m still in Moga Village doing all of that stuff…
I like it there…
It’s cozy
What I did was do the Moga stuff first so I knew what to expect and knew I could solo stuff. Then I’d hop online and do it up to the point where I’d fought the monsters before, then go back to Village stuff and do it all over again 😀
Although there is a point where the Village quests stop and there’s Port only G-rank monsters which are the scariest things you’ll ever face *shudders in fear*
I always kinda saw the Moga part as a place to get started, get some equipment made and venture over yonder… I have nearly finished all the quests (only got the 5 star quests left) and i spend waaaay too long just collecting resources for potions etc.etc. 😛
I’m not much further ahead – just ‘cleaning up’ the 5 star ones, and what little online time I’ve had is just derping around. When Greenius sneezed last night I went from HR2 to HR3.
Moga is a bit richer in MH3U as opposed to Tri. Moga includes High Rank quests as well! You will want to upgrade your farm and fishing fleet to max at some point aswell
Everything is a lot quicker in online. Seriously, HR1/2 in the Port is the equivalent of 1-5* Moga Village quests :O. It’s all done in a way that you pretty much just fight the monsters you need to and you can rank up super quickly and easily.
I don’t recommend leeching and getting others to power through Port stuff though, loses a lot of the fun and you don’t actually get better at the game :(. We kinda powered a few others through the HR stuff and they’ve still got low gear and haven’t really learnt how to fight the monsters by themselves!
As for resources I used to tediously collect stuff too before realising I could totally just buy Potions and easily farm hundreds of Honey >_>
Go for a HR set, I recommend Wroggi since it’s super easy to farm and there should be a HR quest where you fight two – Poison immunity is great against Giggi and the Raths 😀
Wroggi is also great for Dual Blades (me)… SO QUICK TO SHARPEN
That does sound like a good HR set to start at. I will still make ALL THE ARMOUR SETS though since it gives me plenty of grinding time on train trips. Good value I’m getting out of this game.
Yeah, I was kinda powering through the game so G-rank armour is what you’ll want to aim for in the end. I kinda just threw everything before it aside except for a few sets 😛
Last nights episode of Under the Dome wasn’t terrible!
Except for the fact the Surface Tablet used for product placement didn’t explode when pressed against the Dome, unlike every other bit of technology. :S Also, the bombed remains of the area outside the town was pretty cool. Much more impressive explosion than in the book!Whoa, I just received 6 notifications all at 10:23/4 *Mr. Popular* 😛
I also saw The Big Lebowski for the first time yesterday. Mmm it was rather odd and not what I expected. I can’t say I liked it a lot but it was still enjoyable – although I did lose my shit at Buscemi saying “I am the Walrus” 😀
EDIT: Maybe I didn’t like it as much because I was in a lot of pain, extremely tired and poppin’ pills
Highlights being Peter Stormare and Flea the nihilists, and how that rug just really ‘tied the room together’.
SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY, YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR *ELEMENT.
*Nitpicked by @sughly
That’s just like your opinion, man.
Ahahaha, so quotable
…We still want the money Lebowski
(also its out of your element, because y’all nitpick me Imma nitpick back!)
I don’t nitpick you. Don’t be that guy.
I WAS THAT GUY ITS TOO LATE
how the fuck have you written 24000 comments? my god.
Also lebowski is much better the second time, i have no idea why.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/dc/
@dc is just a beast at commenting.
Thats different DC is a hermit and lives here. You do things sometimes. For fucks sake i only have 9000ish and i have been here for 3 and a half years.
I have 305 and I’ve been lurking around for 3-4 years…
Yeah but you post like 3 times a week now
I TRY AND POST MORE
I love it here
*recalls posting numerous music related posts and including rockets… and rarely getting replies*
:'(
TAY’s my hermit cave!
woo just about to crack 5000 \o/
in a year or so because i have 205 to go XD
I hit 10k the other day.
People are so weirdly defensive when it comes to that movie. I generally avoid saying anything about it because as soon as I say I don’t like it there are two responses.
1. “You need to watch it again, it’s so much better the second time.”
It’s not, by the way. It’s the same movie.
2. “Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”
It’s not like I base everything on it – but I use imdb’s top 250 as a really general way to see if movies are actually good or not, because for the most part it’s accurate.
I’ve seen it quoted/mentioned/referenced etc. plenty of times before and it’s in the 250 so I assumed it would be good watching. I didn’t really know what to expect other than it was sort of a comedy and it was apparently “good”.
While it wasn’t bad I do feel like it fell short of my expectations and (slight spoilers)
Walter gave me the fucking shits😛Not terrible, but just not super good.
Walter is supposed to give you the shitsYes, I know but it was still super annoying to watch 😛
Ahahaha! To be fair that second viewing does apply to a lot of films. I agree though that I’m not so sure it applies to this one.
My brother and his friends quoted it like crazy in high school and the quotes alone annoyed me and I vowed never to watch it. XD
Then again, people quote stuff usually because its pretty great. Like say, Grim Fandango ^^
Hahaha! Touché!
You should watch it. I don’t like it at all, but that doesn’t mean you won’t. A lot of people do, obviously.
On the other hand, you’d be going against my impeccable taste in films, which hasn’t led you astray so far.
Anyone want a Crunchyroll 48-hour All Access Guest Pass?
Persona 4 Golden has such a great soundtrack, can’t play the game and not feel happy.
Also been replaying Castlevania Symphony of the Night on my Vita, i remembered it’s soundtrack was good but i forgot just how good, I keep playing for longer than intended just so i can keep listening to the awesome music, also “DARK METAMORPHOSIS!!!!!”
@gutsoup! Hope you’re well, you should post more even without your @jimu pal here! >:|
@strange might be getting a Vita today!
Hi, hope things are well with you, yeah sorta on purpose that I’m not posting much, nothing to do with jimu not being around.
@strange you totally should get a Vita, I’ve been loving mine a lot more than i thought i would, I pretty much spend most of my free time on a couch bundled in pillows and blankets with my Vita safely nestled in my arms, it’s a bad hermit device, i stick earphones in and forget the world, even been doing most of my movie / tv shows on it. If there was a food dispenser on it i would never leave the couch …….. wait, i just remembered bodily functions, okay so you might have to get up ocassionally 😛
Edit: also @strange I’m sure you’ve done your research but EB are still advertising 3G models for $249
Aw, well even if you don’t post as often, still definitely come to the meats if you feel comfortable! 🙂
Sent the blog post thingy to Junglist. Now I can safely resumed my scheduled nothingness.
Yay.
Got PS+? Us unemployed/free in the afternoon folk should play some gaems
Really not in a gaming mood.
Lying around doing nothing would be pretty rad though.
Watch Tangled, that movie is rad.
Why do people keep suggesting that I do things? I want to not do things!
Don’t go have a nap all day and feel like you accomplished nothing then follow it up by high fiving yourself for doing nothing.
Don’t tell me what not to do!
Read a book!
I guess I could make some progress on The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I made a start on it when it came out but was just in one of those weird moods where none of it sank in. At all.
A dozen cups of tea, a blanket and a copy of Neil Gaiman’s latest does sound like a good afternoon.
Man, I still haven’t recovered from Pax. So tired still.
I just wanted to apologise for the wait of the write ups. I’m sorry they are taking so long for me to write up.
Worst page get ever. >=(
Could of been worse you could of said “so I have this rash..” It’s all downhill from there
NNTA
But… I’m so slow… D=
Better late than never! 😛
And don’t worry, I’ve been reading them too and I’m sure plenty others have as well (GOSH, TAY doesn’t revolve around D.C. [it does]). Take your time, no rush and NNTA! (that’s No Need To Apologise – for those playing at home)
It totally revolves around DC
No apology necessary, great creations are always worth the wait..
wooow that sounds creepier then i realised…
what i mean is, take your time 😛
I don’t think they are great creations, in fact, I’m more worried they are boring.
I know DC will still read them because he wants to like vicariously through them.
They are detailed and i enjoyed them… except for all the shenanigans i missed out on due to being a anti-socialite 😛
I’m sorry. /o\
Wait…
No i’m sorry /o\
i should have tried more to meat up at PAX and stuff
#terribleperson
I know. being with people in cosplay is embarrassing. You could have just said so Pixel =P
i’m actually keen on cosplay for next year, just need to decide on a costume 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I think the most important thing is to find something that you like and cosplay someone from that.
I read them so I can remember what I got up to!
WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT APOLIGISING?
Thats right, only when you accidentally sexy dance on top of a girls boyfriend for 2 hours.
otherwise no apology is needed.
Hehe “apoligising”
um…What?
I’m just going to assume Rocket gave some dude a lap dance by accident.
“Accident”.
@dc you ever on teamspeak?
I foresee you and i having long, LOOOOOOOOOOONG discussions about amazing adventure games eg. Grim Fandango, so that probably needs to happen
Hahahaha when pigs fly!
That’ll also be the day when I regularly talk on TeamSpeak and don’t sound like Beeius.
Nah, my voice is horrible and I try not to subject it to any one. Also, talking to people on the internet kind of frightens me. If you ever come to a Brisbane meat though, you’re welcome to join Sughly and me in our on going adventure game musings! 😀
You only need to listen to the Karaoke video to realise my voice is not great XD
But i understand the whole internet shyness thingy, i has that… which is why i’m rarely on teamspeak… i never know what to say
Just don’t say anything 😀
I didn’t even know which guy was you in the Karaoke videos and also I couldn’t tell one voice apart from another anyways. I’m always up for talking adventure games on TAY, though. Any time you want man, I’ll be here come rain or shine. Haha! (I also worry that I annoy my regular adventure game discussion buddy Sughly, so prepare yourself for too much rambling. :D)
Haha I saw the few long discussions on previous pages and was all “aww it’s cute when they talk adventure games <3” 😀
I was surprised when I met Pixel too only because I didn’t think he’d be there because he doesn’t go to anything, ever.
I’M SOCIAL… I’M JUST SOCIAL ALONE… with myself… (o.o) yeah!
I’LL TRY TO BE BETTER I SWEAR… PLEASE DON’T HAT ME…
i’ll *sniffle*
i’ll try really hard
That’s why you need me there. I hate the quietness and keep talking.
See, that’s perfect actually! breaks the ice a little bit
Just ask any of the people on TS. I talk too much.
There’s no such thing, it makes the atmosphere better
Are you sure? =P
Adventure dev left out of adventure discussions, again…
Sorry Sughly…
Also HI SUGHLY… i barely even speak to you…
it’s probably because i’m a snob…
It’s because i’m a snob…
I’m a snob…
yeah!
So how’s things?
Haha, nahhhh youre no snob, I wasnt even joining in on any adventure discussions, I just like an excuse to whinge. And say that I’m an adventure dev. I like how it sounds… but I never get to say it :'(
You’re like the famous person that made a game, you shouldn’t even be talking to plebs like me XD…
Also you’re a game dev… that puts you in the same league as Ron Gilbert… so that means you’re completely awesome
*blushes*
…I didnt say stop, keep going
eerrrrhhh….
i love you?
You’re damn right you do.
Perhaps you should actually work on your game then 😛
Ahaha, you say that just as I look over my list of animations that need doing and weeping a little for how behind I am
Haha, immediately after PAX I was all “I should make a game.”
Then I remembered how much time and effort it takes and I was all “F that.”
The funny thing is, you work and work thinking theres no end, and then all of a sudden its kind of finished. Albeit buggy, but the moment it feels like it all comes together as opposed to long list of things to do is surprisingly fast. Should do it. Chip away at something in your spare time, you’ll have something eventually.
Maybe I will! Except I’m already supposed to be writing an EP which I have made zero progress on. One project at a time, perhaps.
Watched a show last night called Shitsville. Was…enlightening. Premise is Joe Hildebrand takes 4 young politicians (under 30, one from each of Labor, Liberal, Greens and Sex Party) and takes them around to face the major issues facing the average Australian (last night was the insane traffic congestion in our major cities).
It really showed that the next round of politicians in the future aren’t going to be any more in touch then today’s. the Labor guy seemed utterly disinterested in everything bar himself, Greens had good intentions but not a single practical idea, tge Sex Party didnt seem entirely sure what planet she was on and the Liberals mother needs to investigate the legalities of an 81st trimester abortion (when faced with a single mother of 4 who had to travel 40km taking 2 hours for work he blamed her for being single with kids and said she needed to accept consequences).
Joe is hilarious though. Reminds me of a less dry and more sarcastic Loius Theroux. He delights in putting them into uncomfortable situations and doesn’t cut them a break when they say stupid things. I’d recommend it.
I had no idea about it when you mentioned it last night, but that does sound pretty great. Especially the theroux part
I’m not all that fond of Joe Hildebrand.
I thought @dc and awkward situations were a perfect match?
Awkward people try to avoid awkward situations. They just find us. :'(
Siobhan is a dope. She has no idea what’s going on.
The rest aren’t much better.
Good show though.
Good fucking god. The greens woman was at UTAS last week with a camera in front of her. She’s the stupidest, most batshit insane person I’ve ever seen.
Plus Joe Hildebrand is a dickhead.
Edit: I should say I base Joe Hildebrand being a dickhead entirely by his appearances on Sky News
@sughly @BDKIAF
Dudes new naked and the famous music, i don’t know if you guys know these guys but they have had some catchy popular tunes 2ish years ago.
This new song was produced by the guy from M83, it sounds like it too a little more pop orientated but a brilliant tune, only heard it this morning.
*pouts* dont tag me hey? 🙁
My god people, I love you all, HOWEVER
sughly and BDKIAF always reply.
THE REST OF YOU ABANDON ME LIKE A OLD BOOT
I NEED ATTENTION TO LIVE
Actually thats not entirely true, you posted something yesterday but I was out the house and couldnt listen to it. Now I’m too lazy to find it again. Post a link for me pleaaaaase! You said it was ah… a guy… from Aus… maybe… and, ah… bdkiaf said the guy likes his intros…
Dan did. I said nothing, like you, because we’re awful people.
Can’t remember his name, some guy who made music because of the Drive soundtrack. It was alright, certainly no Kavinsky.
I want to drive you through the night, down the hills (and doobedoobe, dont know what this guy saaaays)
Faaaark. still remember sitting in the cinema during this opening and just being like, oh lordy…
Ha, I clicked the link without reading your comment and pretty much immediately was like “This sounds exactly like M83.”
Which is a good thing.
AARGH! I loved their last album!! This is great great news! I dig this one too, it’s kind of a little more restrained than usual, but I like it
I remember finding these guys actually caus they had one of their songs for a beer ad haha. It was one of those times you go google “the bittersweet between my teeth lyrics” and hope for the best
cider ad not beer.
Was it that one with the pool and slow mo jumps and all that?
That was it!
Out of that whole response, thats what you had to say? Rockets, relly? Relly rockets?
Oh man! Speaking of beer ads, this may be my favourite one ever.
There last album was pretty mediocre
“punching in a dream’ and “young blood” were standout tracks filled with excitement and beautiful riffs. im excited to hear if they can capture the same intensity.
Nah I like the album overall. I agree those are the standouts, but I still listen to it in its entirety even now – played it only a few days back actually! If this tracks anything to go by though, doesnt seem like theyre interested in matching the energy of those ones, this is way more restrained.
I think thats why i am into CHVCHES so much, they have a amazing energy in all there music. Electro pop is pretty awesome too.
The one thing that irks me a little with them is her singing live. She looks terrified! I mean I get it, I feel for her, but it takes so much of the energy out of the songs. Hopefully as time goes on she adjusts to it all
That being said though, bout the new NandF single, being produced by Gonzalez means that theres a very good chance there are big tracks in there
Either she needs to adjust to it herself or she needs to speak to a psychologist. I’ve no doubt that there a heap of specialists in that area.
Weirdly she’s completely natural in interviews though, super charming even. Just cant translate it to the stage. Im no performer but I suppose they are two rather different things
@sughly
I dunno, it’s weird. I mean, I’m not playing to nearly as many people as she is, but I’m not even close to the same person on stage. Normally I’m quite quiet and reserved, but as soon as our first song starts I change completely.
@bdkiaf I suppose seeing that shes not nervous with interviews, it would say something about her confidence in her abilities? Probs nervous she sucks, or something.
@sughly Truth. I am pretty confident in my abilities 😛
But seriously, if that’s the issue a psychologist would be exactly what she needs.
Really liking this. Enjoyed their previous album as well, though it had some bits that weren’t as good. I kind of went off them after hearing my sister’s concert report on them (they came to Melbourne and did some shows years ago before the cider ads and everything). There was apparently a lot of weed being smoked 😐
Haha, totally sounds like you went off them because potheads like them! No but Ive watched live footage of them, they sound terrible live
That is Beautiful 🙂
LOL code stuff
I keep getting these codes don’t appear valid for all the ones I try
If anybody wants to try these and let me know it they work (or not) so I can see if it is a code issue or a me issue it would be appreciated
Sona
OCJJNXEN4WNULU
OXWWGLFRDEFT3A
Rammus
OCKRR7DGLHEF6L
OCE97UANHAYNXQ
Graves
OCTADLGUMRYX9G
OCAYJJJDXG7CNG
EDIT: other codes added
Make sure you’re using them on an account that’s on the Oceania server. If you’re still on NA, they won’t work.
Thanks bunny, that is probably it. I changed my region when logging in in case it was that and is started downloading a chunk of data. Then I couldn’t login as I had just changed the region not moved my account.
Woot, that worked \o/
I dont see whats so funny about that
That I’m such a numbknuckle I thought of the solution to make it work, but failed in the execution of said solution
Its ok tigs, I am a terrible joke maker. I mean, who even calls it joke making? People that are bad at it, thats who
Maybe our newest stand up comedian, @DC can offer some protips!
DC. Gets. Jokes.
DC. Makes. Jokes!
Spent all morning dealing with a customer determined to be difficult, insulting me and my work so I was in a bit of a crappy mood.
Lady just came in to tell me that some engraving I did for her was absolutely beautiful and the person she gave it to was overjoyed with it.
It’s amazing how much that changed my day.
If it makes you feel better, you are a amazing human who makes me happy just by being you.
Vomit
onto the receptionist.
I dont get it 🙁
I vomited on the receptionist once.
Ohhhh, ahaha. Of course you did.
Sughly. Gets. Jokes.
So I went and saw The Conjuring last night, it wasn’t bad, one of the better horror/thriller movies lately however I feel like it was a step back for James Wan (the guy who directed insidious and SAW)
Aww really? I was kind of cautiously optimistic about it, I like his style. Insidious was great fun… got a bit shit towards the end, but still.
It’s not bad, like it’s worth a watch just don’t expect anything over the top like insidious’
I just kind of wanted to see whatshisname, Patrick something, the main dude, caus hes pretty cool guy. Funny that he’s the one coming to help now though. It’s like some weird extension of his Insidious character.
Oh and for Vera Farmiga, of course.
Yeah I saw that as a bit weird it could tie in to insidious 2 if they didn’t have a different name. Which is something I would of loved to see but ya know can’t have everything.
Oh yeah thats right, they are doing insidious 2 arent they! Yeah, pretty obvious after that ending. Rose Byrne again wooo! I’m gonna marry Rose Byrne, did I mention that? Caus I am…
Can I come to the wedding?
Sure! Date is to be announced… we’re still working on a few tings. By we I mean me. And by working on things I mean buying chlorophyll.
And I totally just got insidious confused with sinister! My bad haha
Season pass for Kentucky Route Zero is %50 off at Steam. Seriously, get it, it’s a delightful urban-legendish-creepy-road trip-inspired adventure game.
@DC (I believe you’ve expressed interest but didn’t get the season pass?)
Looks so damn good, will wait until it’s all released though. Thanks for the heads up, my friend!
But couldn’t you just buy it when it’s cheap and then not play it until it’s all out? 😀
What if it doesn’t get discounted by the time everything is out? :O
Ssssssh!
But it’s season pass, just buy now for discounts and wait until all the games are released then play! I guess the only problem is whether or not you have enough willpower to play the episodes before all of them release.
Ssssssh! x2
so following up on a conversation from yesterday…
Pretty sure i’ll be getting tickets for Muse when they come to Melbourne… If anyone else is interested we can get a meat going
STevo and I are interested. Although im not sure if he wants to go the melbourne show.
suuure he does XD
Melbourne has…. @greenius… WHO COMPLETELY LOVES MUSE!
RIGHT?!
*shakes fist*
I actually do like Muse but haven’t really listened to them since The Resistance came out and I wasn’t really a fan :P. I did listen to a couple of 2nd Law songs which were pretty good 😀
sooo… Concert?
Nerr. 😛
Sounds good buddy ill make a weekend of it. take a day or two off work and have a look around melbourne
BUDDY! \o/
did i actually say hey to the benevolent Rockets at the Karaoke meat? i don’t think i did… what a jerk i am… HI ROCKETS!
It was his birthday too… man, what a jerk! 😛
You left me out too. :'(
@freezespreston OH MY GOD I’M A TERRIBAD PERSON… I’ll HAVE HUGS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE I DIDN’T SAY HI TO WHEN WE SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN…
I haven’t listened to Resistance (I guess it did badly so I held off on buying and wound up skipping it) but 2nd Law is excellent.
A few years ago I would have been so there. Probably even screaming at people to come myself.
Then the Resistance came out and I would’ve just seen it locally if I could get tickets easily.
Then the Second Law came out and I don’t think I’ll bother anymore.
the ressistance is good and the second law is pretty okay.
But thats my opinion broheimer.
That’s okay. Your opinion is allowed to be wrong.
Fully. Glad I saw them during the tours for black holes, but am a bit gutted I missed the absolution tours, thats probably my fave album. Also never saw Muscle Museum live despite seeing them three tiems :'(
sik brah!
Aww, WHY’D YOU HAVE TO ADD MORE TO YOUR COMMENT!
NOW MY COMMENT LOOKS WEIRD.
JERK.
Caus I was expecting someone to write something like that as a reply and wanted to mess with them?
I saw them just after The Resistance, one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. If you’re even remotely a Muse fan still, I very highly recommend it.
Yeah I would wager youd be right. Even if youre not of a fan of the newer stuff, theyre such great performers
I’m learning how slow and painful the transcribing process is this week.
Procrastination is at an all time high, too.
I’m so very glad that I wasn’t involved in the media side of PAX. It was exhausting enough having fun there.
Eyyyyyy ;D
They even let others join in on the fun.
HANABI!
HANABI!
HAM!abi
As a ‘first time attending an event as media’ experience, it was pretty fun, though. 😛
Anyone else been watching “Under the Dome”? Oh man, it is pretty awful but I can’t help but watch.
Last night when the latina cop says “What does 1315 mean?” my girlfriends 12 year old sister burst out laughing. These characters are beyond stupid.
I like Linda’s voice though. So raspy. *swoon* 😀
Also did you notice that the Surface tablet didn’t explode when pressed against the Dome when everything else does? PRODUCT PLACEMENT!:S
Haha yes. We’ve seen that surface tablet a few times now, not to mention the windows phone as well.
Also Dale Barbara doesn’t do any thing in the show. He just wanders about aimlessly. In the book he had a purpose… D:Foreshadowing!
Microsoft will save every one from the dome. Did I say Microsoft? I meant Microhero.MicroHARD.
Younger or older sister?
………
Just checking 😛
@dc @sughly You folks dont know where I could get my hands on a copy of Grim Fandango. I cant find it for sale anywhere.
It’s rare. Pirate it.
Tim Schafer even said we should do that and just buy merch or something to “make up for it” :P. I’d be keen for a re-release but I don’t think that’ll ever happen since LucasArts are kaput.
Yeah… I uh… I dont know how to pirate and bit torrent and such forth.
*wink*
of course you don’t
*wink, wink twitch, wink*
no really, I dont.
*wink, wink twitch, wink*
LucasArts re-released it a few years ago, but they were never good at the whole digital distribution thing. Don’t know where you’d be able to find it. :'(
Nah ebay has tonnes of copies of the rerelease, should be easy enough to get one there
edit: hmmm… seems numbers have declined 🙁 But yeah, theres still some there, albeit a bit more pricey than they used to be. Some buy it nows from uk for around 35 including postage
A while ago when I was looking it was pretty rare and thus pretty expensive 😛
It’ll be so much easier if they did a digital re-release but they hate free money apparently :/
Is it still a LucasArts property? Because Disney certainly don’t hate free money.
Yeah, LucasArts IP locked up in the Disney vault at the moment.
How great would it be if they just went for a quick cash-in and sold the rights to Double Fine?
Great. The answer is great.
VERY great! 😀 Also, Full Throttle too, while they’re at it. Actually give all Tim Schafer games to Double Fine!
No idea but I just assumed there’s something wrong with it, otherwise they would’ve done something with it by now!
To be honest, I think LucasArts just stopped caring about these legacy games. There was a shift towards the end of the company with the Special Editions but they kept on changing presidents who kept on changing priorities.
Your comments in this thread are all over it! Kudos. Unlike unhelpfulius.
@sughly: Haha! And kudos to you for recommending this song. Can’t stop listening! So good!
I heard a rumour that the same company who was able to resolve the rights issues of System Shock 2 and get it on GOG and Steam has set their goal on LucasArts games… I can’t remember where I read that though. 😀
If Grim Fandango EVER makes it to steam, insta-buy!
To be fair, 35 is still a pretty great price for it
*31 – http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GRIM-FANDANGO-PC-CD-ROM-GAME-LUCAS-ARTS-CLASSIC-/221258137299?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item3384033ed3
Yeah of course. But a digital re-release would be like $15 and would be guaranteed to work on most (current) operating systems. Just less hassle I guess!
I’m not sure if ScummVM works for Grim (not actually being on Scumm and all that…), but stuff like that have fixed almost all the compatibility problems with other LucasArts games. The re-releases of these LEC games even had ScummVM on the disc.
Grim was the first adventure NOT to be a ScummVM game from Lucasarts, which means it’s slightly harder to get to work on modern systems… other option is to build a virtual box with win98 and it should be OK 😛
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/ResidualVM
http://wiki.residualvm.org/index.php/Grim_Fandango
Yeah but… theres no sign of that happening any time soon, soooo…
I bought all those re-releases for like $6 each to back up my original copies I had. Really, really glad I did. Missed out on Day of the Tentacle though, which they released in the UK but not here. :'(
yeah what @greenius said…
I have the discs floating around somewhere but i will need to hunt for them
Same here. I believe I have a disc somewhere.
@negativezero Did you end up backing little witch 2? I’ve had the kickstarter page open ever since you linked me, debating which tier to get… it’s like @bdkiaf’s cloud factory all over again
Have you been reading Cloud Factory? Gawd, that art.
NOOOO! I forgot she said in an email she was posting themmmmm, going now…
edit: Awesommme! So ominous. Love it.
I backed it before I linked it. $50 tier I think.
I was thinking that… thats the earliest tier for the bluray, plus you get the art book. Pretty good deal.
The only extra thing you’re getting with the LE bluray is a section of film. And that’s cool and everything (I actually have a section of film from another anime but I won’t tell you what it is because it’s embarrassing to admit I own all the BDs) but it’s not something you can easily display. As it is you need to pledge $60 for international postage 🙁
Yeah exactly. Although I think the next tiwer up also gets you limited edition of the bluray, which includes more behind the scenes stuff. But still, rather bug price jump for that. Will go the 50 too I think
In the FAQ:
A Douga Cut is something far more cool than a flim cut mind you – it’s an actual in-between frame used to do the animation. Back before everything was digital they’d probably have been giving away Cels instead.
I got thrown off by this one though:
Kind of doesnt really say whether thats in the standard or not… weird wording
That’s because the listing they had for the standard edition mentions those but the LE doesn’t. 😛
@negativezero Yesssss! Now I geddit, definitely getting standard now then ^^
What’s a good lunch to have on a Wednesday that’s healthy? @shane I’m looking your way food man
Potato Salad! Without bacon and egg!
YOU MONSTER… how dare you…
no bacon…
i just…
i don’t even-
HUH?
*points at Pey’j avatar*
name me one thing that’s not made better with bacon?
EEEERRRRRRHHHH you’re wrong, EVERYTHING is better with bacon 😛
Well maybe except shampoo… actually no that would work too… bacon scented shampoo, smell like amazing breakfast all day
No bacon make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad
Not gonna lie potato salad wouldn’t be bad, maybe even some egg salad…hmm, or I could get a ceasar salad that’s tempting SALAD!
Remove all the healthy stuff (eeeeeeewww) so you’re left with bacon, maybe parmesan, chicken and croûtons smothered in Caesar dressing… WINNAH \o/ 😛
I need some egg on that 😛
Eggs. *shakes fist*
Scrambled, fried, sunny side up, boiled hard and soft so many choices!
Eggscelent!
Just a little yolk there! 😛
Healthy food? Why ask me?
Yesterday I had hashbrowns, mozzarella cheese and avocado toasted sandwiches 😀
Today I had a burger and chips!
I shall refer to you as Food Man because that first one sounds delicious haha.
Shane’s patented Hashbrown Melts were a thing of legend for a time!
Hahaha I had hashbrowns yesterday too and wondered if you still had them 😛
Just in case anyone was wondering (and I know that none of you are), I deliberately used the rabbit mask for the screenshot of Hotline Miami but never used it in game.
I’m a fraud!
It’s tough when you a pig trapped in a chicken trapped in a rabbit trapped in a humans body. The pig used to have a turtle trapped inside it. From there it was turtles all the way down.
Pikmin 3 price roundup! cc@dc, exciiiiite! http://www.vooks.net/bargain-roundup-pikmin-3/
To pay $10 more for eb’s clock or not to…
I think you need that clock and by EB standards that’s still damn cheap! Thanks for the link, my friend! I think I’ll just get the standard version. I’m all kinds of psyched though. So excited to play this game.
Hnnnnnngh I dont knowww… they dont do price matching on preorders do they?
Not sure. I avoid talking to people, so have never price matched in my life. Haha!
I’m a little like Captain Hook when it comes to clocks, though. Can’t stand the ticking sound. Ever since that incident with the crocodile. D:
Big W looks like the best bet for me atleast. 😀
oz gameshop \o/
few weeks wait /o\
We can wait together! <3
Only $48 too! I didn’t mind waiting because I just beat Pikmin 1 and 2, so didn’t want to overdose 😛
What if I spoil a plot point by accident? 😛
ZOMG PLANTS HAPPENED!
/spoiler
Is there a plot to spoil? I don’t know much about Pikmin, but it doesn’t look like a particularly story-driven game.
Green Pikmin! Watching, waiting from the overgrowth!
@bdkiaf: That’s the joke! DC. Tells. Jokes.
Mate. I’ll wreck you.
Nah, I wasn’t actually sure since I’ve never played a Pikmin game.
Yeah, there’s a basic plot that dictates what to do, but it’s no deeper than Mario. 😀
Then I’ll “accidentally” spoil Beyond: Two Souls >:|
That’s a joke response by the way :P. Could you imagine though? Someone would have to be a terrible person to actively spoil things for others. And even if there were things to spoil, I know you wouldn’t accidentally spoil them because I’m sure you go over your posts to make sure everything is a-okay before you submit! 😀
(not making fun of you, I do the same to an extent :D)
I think they will but you might not get the bonus goodies if you do it. Just ask them, I guess 😛
It’s a clock … in a can.
Is it just me, or is that one of the crappiest pre-order bonuses I’ve seen them come up with?
DK tie.. Cool. Ocarina with OoT… Nifty.
It’s a clock. In. A. Can.
It’s like they got a memo from Nintendo to be more like Club Nintendo in Australia. Put us in our places with stickers and post-it notes.
Could be worse.
I’d rather eat the clock.
Probably safer.
Plus, without giblets what’s the point?
But… the pikmin world is full of things like that that you pick up. It’s like an item from the game. Its not that bad.
There might be clocks. There might be cans.
Are there clocks in cans?
…maybe in pikmin 3 there are YOU DONT KNOW
I think the idea anyway is that its a clock, but to make it more pikmin like the fashioned it in the shape of a can. Think ya missin tha point. Anyway its a preorder, just dont get it if you dont like it
*reassuring pat on the back*
It’s okay Sughly, it’s okay.
I’m just going to buy a pack of Energizer batteries and pretend it’s a pre-order bonus. JUST LIKE IN THE GAME!
Those will ironically set you further back than an extra $10
Pssst, they’re Duracell ones in-game 😛
@dc the manly upvote fairy seems to be loving this…
Thing is, I can’t really give much credit to EB when this is literally something already available at http://www.promotionalproductsaustralia.com.au for about $5 in low quantities, all they’ve done is add a pikmin label.
From what I understand, Pikmin 1 was about
ship partsPikmin 2 was about
junkPikmin 3 is about
fruitNot the manliest of phrases.
>:|
Pikmin 2 actually had “treasure” which ranged from random junk (bottle caps, batteries, marbles etc.) to delicious looking food (and fruit), jewellery and various Nintendo things.
LOL Skins from PAX
I think everyone I needed to give them to has them so here are my spare.
They are one use only so pleas reply with which one you’ve used so other people don’t keep trying them over and over again.
1st set
Sona: OCERFA7E9YYJK9Rammus: 0CYC97G3QZXGME
Graves: OCGMCV4EK63XCR
2nd set
Sona: OCWFVPNHXHMTQRRammus: OCWMDPU7G3CDP9
Graves: OCD9L7VY37797K
3rd
Sona: OCYT3ZNX4ZFWY6Rammus: OCH9NEAANNHGFC
Graves: OC3FPZTTWMXPQU
Why does everyone rabbit on about Chie? Yukiko is obviously the superior choice for not wanting to put a gun in your mouth everytime she talks.
i totally get what you’re talking about and agree with you fully
#hasnocluebutwantstobeinvolved
How ’bout that Grim Fandango! 😀
I like you!
Talking about all the girlfriends we’ve been sharing around.
all the things Pixel misses out on by missing meats eh? 😛
I prefer Naoto or Rise myself. =P
I didn’t realise @jimu was “everyone” :P, because I’m pretty sure he’s the only one that goes on about her
…but I guess since he talks about it so much you got confused 😀
Chie’s voice annoys me too. Yukiko to an extent as well :P, it’s all like nasal-y and weird.
HAHAHAHHAHHAIT’SSOFUNNY
“Shut up, it’s a endearing character trait.”
Rise/other for my pick.
I don’t disagree with you (though I do sort of because Rise), but Chie is more fun to hang out with.
hat
You should hear Chie’s voice in the original PS2 game -__- I like Golden’s Chie better.
(Don’t hat on my Chie)
PS VITA get
i kinda went overboard and got alot of things
blurays
Eva 1.11 and 2.22
Puella magi Madoka
Dvd’s
fringe s1 and 2
Dexter s1
Games
little big planet vita
playstation allstars
other
A DATE
girl at the checkout was a big Puella magi Modoka fan and was like ” OMG HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BEFORE” i said i saw a few episodes and i wanted to see all of it. Then we talked about another anime i liked and she was like “wanna go to dinner?”
Thank you anime
Did you double check it was a girl?
Stop stealing my original joke a minute before I posted it. 😛
how do you double check asshole? 😛
If I have to tell you I can’t see the date ending very well…
girls just have penises at the back right? Like a tail?
Yes. It’s also prehensile so don’t be surprised if she passes you something with it.
thats why they have to sit on the toilet right, cause its to hard to aim backwards?
Oh man, way to go Rockets.
I have to make this joke because it’s too easy:
Are you sure it was a girl? 😀 😀 😀
I’m sorry, man. Fringe? So damn awesome!
rockets, take LBP back!!!
http://au.playstation.com/psn/news/articles/detail/item617189/Introducing-the-PS-Vita-Mega-Pack/
10 games and an 8gb memory card for $49.95
effort 😛
wahh????
but LBP
…Wipeout
…Little Deviants…
… Motorstorm RC…
..Lemmings…
…. Ratchet and Clank….
+++ MORE MORE MORE!!!
All that requires effort 😛
I’m so out of the loop, but didn’t you have a girlfriend at some point?
…unless you still do 😉 PLAYAAAA!
I thought you were still in Sydney but apparently not :P. That’s what I get for not coming on TeamSpeak anymore!
SHe broke up with me, then wanted me back, i said no and since then she has been rather creepy and sending me messages late at night. Because apparently its of vital consequence for her to know if im “awake’ at 2am saturday nights.
Ah, young love.
both my relationships have ended that way. the first one it was me sending the creepy messages so i know where she is coming from. it will stop eventually. Or ill be really lonely one night and take advantage of her vunerability, either way its a win win for me. 😛
>_>
Its s joke greenius. Im like captain nice, i don’t do shit like that. Mostly because i haven’t had the chance. 😛
…until now 😛
>_> (I knew you were joking)
HA!
Who gets asked out by girls?! Who! Lucky so and so grumble grumble. Actually wait, in hindsight I got asked out last time. Hmm. There you go.
Man, you should develop games for iOS. You’d be rolling in ladies. iOS is sexy, PC isn’t sexy.
Funnily enough, pretty true. A few times now I’ve been asked about what I do, then they’re like “oh, like iphone games!”, then I’m like ah, nahhhh, and then they just look disappointed.
Told you.
I’m going to start making iPhone games, just in case my current relationship falls apart.
THIS IS A JOKE.Also, dont make adventure games. All the girls that play them live in Germany,
What do girls here play? Has there been some kind of study regarding this? There must have been, right?
Also, I’m not implying girls don’t play the same games as guys, that’s idiotic. But as a whole I refuse to believe there isn’t some kind of difference.
I think German girls play exactly what German guys do. Adventures, it just never stopped being popular there. Germany is powerful when it comes to adventures, man. LucasArts had to cancel the sequel to Fate of Atlantis because they wouldn’t have been able to sell it in Germany and that’s a good share of their profits alone!
Move to Germany?
how are you still single, you are like the coolest guy i know besides @35 how the shit is he single he is the coolest guy i know besides @effluviumboy how the crap are you all single?
I was trying to make subtle moves on you but thats all for naught now isnt it
It’s probably more your idea of cool is broken it would seem.
Ahaha! Haha… ah… :'(
Evidently.
We, uh…
We like to keep our options open.
I reckon I’d be too scared if a girl asked me out. I don’t know why. I’d probably say I was married and I’m not wearing my ring because it fell into the garbage disposer two days before our anniversary and I’m only at the store to replace the ring so wife doesn’t find out…
Then I’d go home and cry…
Oh dear…
Orrrrr.. You could go on a date and have a good time. Maybe.
I need prep work for dating stuff. Haha! I’ve got to do the asking cause I need to mentally psych myself up. 😀 Also, my first reaction would be she was mocking me. It’s a rich tapestry of mental illness being DC… 😛
FUCK THAT SHIT
i want to find DC a girlfriend but the person who is his ideal match probably hasn’t seen light in 3 years after someone called her pretty.
http://imgur.com/qUu0Dgx
>__>
You are like my perfect partner.
Is that because thats how you reacted?
NO because he is literally the funniest TAYbie besides me.
FUCK YOU ALL I AM FUNNY
I know a good ring shop, Rockets. To keep up the illusion every time you see the girl from now on!
😛
Hey DC…wanna go out sometime?
😛
HE BETTER TREAT YOU GOOD MUM
also this is by far the most jelly of a TAYbie i have ever been. I have been here years waiting for strange to ask me out. YEARS
Suave Rocketman, time to have done afternoon delight!
I see the fact that I import all my anime has finally backfired 🙁
p.s. Madoka Magica movies or the TV series?
Wow, what? That actually happens? So much envy.
ATT: All Pax Peeps
Just wanted to sincerely apologise for saturday night. Missus was totally out of it by about 6pm, a combination of wet/cold/tired/sore/feeling sick right after eating. It was all a bit too much for her so we ended up calling the day short. It was her birthday as well, so she made the sacrifice to come out to PAX because she knew how much i wanted to go, and im not the type of person that would take her home and leave her there on her birthday while i went out again. i ended up getting her a little chocolate cake and we just watched a couple of movies. She was completely out of it…
So sunday, she was feeling a bit better but opted to stay home and rest so i bought my brother in law along with me. she is actually still mostly in bed, she appears to have caught the flu.
I apologise i didnt get to meet everyone, as it was a perfect opportunity to catch up with some of the interstate Tay-bies, so if i missed you, im sorry.
hope everyone had fun!
@masha2932 : I’m still holding you to that beer!
I hope she’s feeling better. We completely understand. (Well, Techie and I did, can’t talk for the others)
My was really sick and I totally left her at the hotel 😀
monster!!!! WAS IT HER BIRTHDAY TOO????
Ha ha, I’ll keep my end of the bargain.
Sorry we couldn’t chat longer. Maybe next time 🙂
Hahaha omg this is so amazing!
Was asked by some peoples to promote an adventure game theyre working on, which looks rather creepy and interesting actually. So, well, might as well post in here to see if anyone’s interested anyhoo http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fran-bow-a-very-creepy-point-click-adventure-game
I should mention they are super nice people, so I was happy to back them for that reason alone. Not that I’m trying to influence you or anything…
too scarey for mi :3
I will try the demo but I can’t help with the donating atm. =/
Isn’t IndieGoGo that crowd funding site everyone refuses to find because of the way that site works?
I couldnt even login T_T but it still took my money just using my email, sooo *shrugs*
If a project chooses ‘Flexible Funding’ they get the money regardless of target.
This project has Fixed Funding so it should be pretty much the same as kickstarter. I don’t know if they take the money up front like pozible or at the end of campaign like kickstarter.
It would be at the end, I was told if the target doesnt get reached I get refunded… dont imagine that would be easy for indiegogo to manage if the moneys going to them along the way
Looks pretty amazeballs, will check it out
I’ll back them if you back Anna Murphy. 😛
…nahhh
Grr. 😛
Actually, I was just then realising that she might actually be doing music you’d like. So yeah, forget I joked about you backing her and just check out her soundcloud links. You might regret it but there’s also a chance you won’t. 🙂
https://soundcloud.com/annamurphy
Mmm, listened to the three demos, not really for me alas. The second was kinda kewl! But I appreciate the thought ^^ I’m sure one of these days something of yours will click with me
It’s time for another episode of “Batguy Analyses Social Media!”!
On today’s program: how many twitter mentions were there of PAX, PAXau, PAXaus or Penny Arcade Expo over the past couple of weeks? I’m still refining the stats, but it looks something like this:
4815 posts for 13/07/23
5120 posts for 13/07/22
8065 posts for 13/07/21
9481 posts for 13/07/20
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(This is by GMT days, I’ll break it down into AEST days later).
Interesting, huh? And while it may seem surprisingly low, you have to realise that network coverage at the expo sucked
I’ll be back with more stats tonight or tomorrow, like top words, posters, mentioned and retweeted!
PSV GET!
$199 for the system and a game. The game was advertised as being Little Big Planet but when the guy was showing me the deal he lifted up the ‘Wicked Wednesday’ in-store flyer and showed me the underneath one and said if I didn’t want LBP I could choose one of those. One of the other pictured games was Soul Sacrifice. SPINE SWORD! \o/
Then of course, it was 60-ish bucks for a 16GB memory card but a PSV, 16GB memory card and SPINE SWORD! for $260 leaves me with no complaints. 😀
Did you get a date too?
Damnit! Was gonna say that too 😛
I only just caught up. Now I get this. Way to go, Rockets!
WOOOOO! Congrats! Hope the rest of your day went okay too!
Didn’t you see my post about the 32GB ;_; ?
Nope. I’ve been out all day. What did I miss?!
DID YOU SEE IT YET!?
Samsies
PSV with Soul Sacrifice for $199 *twitch*
Soul Sacrifice was possibly the most angry I’ve been at a game this year. 🙁
Does that include Animal Crossing? :p
Yes, actually.
It was kind of silly but I preordered Soul Sacrifice from Amazon US, paid a shitton to get it shipped and everything just so I could get the JP dialogue (because up until it released they were acting like that was a preorder-only thing) and then when I’ve finally downloaded the stuff it’s not selectable and you have to play a huge long section of the game with a godawful english dub instead before you’re given the ability to access a menu.
I still haven’t played beyond about 2 minutes in. I know it’s kind of pathetic but it upset me so much that it absolutely soured me toward the game completely.
Does that mean you hate it and your (cheap) friend Greenius can borrow/have it? 😛
@rocketman you should give all of us your mobile number… in case we all need to know what your doing at 2am….
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This post is going to break Freeze! D:
Half of the TAYbies have my number anyway. Bish has texted me at 2am before but that’s because Canada.
Aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!
arg???
So I decided to get subway because salad requires effort to make and subway has bread..oh god so much bread.
Edit: also page get about food is probably the best your gonna get from me today XD
bread makes you fat.
But it was healthy bread..multigrain
It was a half-baked post, but you obviously kneaded to get that off your chest.
DOughn’t stop
Wheat a minute, don’t thresh it to death with half-baked puns. At yeast dole it out in slices, or you might get a rise out of someone. Butter guess I’m ignoring my own advice, huh?
Good to see you’re abreadst of the situation.
keep it roll’in
I would come back with something witty but I don’t think I have the flour to reply
It would just get down-voted anyway. @dc loaves puns.
A down-vote from D.C – Why would you dough that to me? Did my puns not rise to the occasion?
@sughly
Roger Federer is playing the Brisbane International next year. Just FYI.
http://www.brisbaneinternational.com.au/2013/07/roger-federer-bound-for-brisbane
OooOOooo! Interesting…
Hey @dc was it you who was recommending American Horror Story a while ago? Or maybe it was Mashaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? Anyway, I’ve now seen the first two episodes because our houseguest wanted to watch it. I’m not sure I like it but I’ll probably keep watching for a while, at least.
It was Masha! Freeze, Sughly and Mrs. Freeze love it too. Beardy likes it for the reason I hate it, it’s so batshit crazy. D:
Sure, you say that NOW…
I could never get into that. I just found myself really hating the characters and thought the way they told the story was rather weird. Bit disappointing, since I like the idea behind it.
DIRE WOLF
dude did you totally pick up at PAX?
You are also alot more handsome in person. kudos for that
It sucks we didn’t really get to speak at all. Someone was like, that’s Rocketman, and I was like, cool, but then I never really said anything to you :/
DID YOU PICK UP????
it has been bugging me.
I NEED TO KNOW MY GOSSIPING BRAIN NEEDS IT
Pick up? As in hook up? As in with Annie? I don’t know. We’re talking about going to see a movie sometime, but I don’t know if that’s just a friend thing or a date thing. I suck at flirting and reading signals.
Maybe she’s a replicant!
It’s a date thing. Trust. I saw you guys.
Dude ask her out, see a movie. She followed you around all weekend. She likes you.
Yeah, this for sure. In the time I spent with you guys I didn’t see you apart. It’s a pretty safe bet.
Again, I repeat.
When’s the wedding?
Really? OMG!!!!
I will live vicariously through you.
Oh man, squeeee 🙂
Masha, you are such a romantic. It’s adorable.
Season 1 was awesome!
Season 2 was OK but still good.
Also I love that there are different characters and scenarios for every season.
Finally people should watch HBO’s Enlightened, Carnivale and the life and times of Tim.
Carnivale was great. I was so sad it got cancelled. Fantastic music, atmosphere, everything,
Ohhhh thanks for reminding me! I got up to like the last ep of season 1 and forgot to keep watching XD I was watching it with someone else who stopped watching it, so I stopped too… for some reason. I was loving it too though, imma get it again now! And for peoples saying its crazy, course it is! You just go with it…
Trine and Trine 2 are pretty cheap on Steam.
I found the gameplay pretty average but it’s pretty! So that’s something 😛
Does it play like The Cave?
The Cave felt like an adventure game with (unnecessary) platforming, Trine feels like a platformer with puzzles, It handles the whole jumping and platforming part well but the puzzles are kinda lame IMO.
Still worth playing though, especially for the prettiness! Watch a trailer or something, it’s beautiful looking and we can always play co-op <3 (I never finished the games but just bought the DLC)
Like Lost Vikings then..?
30 minutes till home time…. CAN’T WAIT!
From my brief time playing it, the Android version of Magic 2014 is pretty good. I imagine it’s going to be incredibly microtransaction heavy though.
WOO MUSE TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How they dont go on sale till the 29th???
Frontier Touring Presale
F YOU CHRISTOPHER 😛
One of my friends got hers yesterday in the Muse Members presale, So I understand completely :p
You seen them before? You’re in for a treat either way.
Saw them at BDO 2010 – so awesome… Its going to be a good night
Thanks for the gift, Greenius. But can’t accept.
DID YOU EVEN READ THE MESSAGE!?
You made me sad.
If I had gifted you Trine 2/Kentucky Route Zero, would you have accepted? 😛
I thought about gifting you Kentucky before becoming Greedius and figured if I bought it, it’ll be for myself (I’M THE BEST), then I thought I’d just re-gift you a troll gift I received instead 😀 😛
No gifts, no matter what it is. I really appreciate the thought, but it’d just be wasting your money. 🙁
What if I buy you a gift? D=
What if I send you a rupee cushion?
No gifts. Gifts make me incredibly, incredibly uncomfortable. I don’t like that feeling. I don’t want to hurt any one elses feelings either but I can’t change how I feel. No gifts.
D.C.’s a jerk.
Cuddles then? cuddles are always nice
Don’t like them either. I’ll accept gifts in the form of respect for personal space. XD
mental cuddles? it’s cuddles without the touch?
*mentally hugs Pixel so damn much*
\o/
But I’d feel that way if you don’t accept it =(
That’s why you shouldn’t gift things to me. 😀
@dc But I would go out of my way to give something to you and you’ll repay me by refusing it because it makes you fee la little uncomfortable?
You know how they would treat this in a psychologist’s office? Gift you things. If you don’t accept it, you won’t ever get used to it. Have you ever gifted something to someone? You know that fuzzy feels you get? You will be denying the gifter those feelings. =(
He once gave me the gift of co-operative multiplayer.
I’ll never forget that moment <3
I’ve been hearing a lot about these rupee cushions I just gotta see it.
But what about those times you DID accept gifts? 😀
You don’t know how happy we get when you accept stuff <3. Dear Esther was gone in a flash!
sadius
YES.YOU.CAN!
Thanks Obama! 😛
Oh wow, I just realised how many downvotes he got hahaha!
The thing is, this time around it’s completely understandable 😛
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41660/
That video… around the 35 second mark… TOMMMMMY TRON-IC *ba daw ba daw* “STAY OPEN”
:/ *cringe*
Trollgifts are great practice for the real thing, though.
AND STAY OPEN.
Jesus. That looks terrible.
Thanks
Obama@Bish 😛I think it was like $5 as well! Expensive troll gifts >_>
I can still hear it. It’s in my head. Make it stop.
Same. I figured I’d share my pain because I’m a terrible person 😛
AND STAY OPEN.
D:
You gifted him that? I probably wouldn’t have accepted it either. D:
Genuinely the worst. *shakes head*
Oh man I have had a nap and should be typing up the karaoke meet, but I feel so lazy.
My feet are still kind of numb, anyone else still recovering from it?
MY voice has been squeaky for 4 days. SOOO WORTH
I think that sentence needs to stop at squeaky =P
Burn.
DO NOT say stuff like that when i’m drinking!
i may have splurted some water which ended up in a coughing fit, and weird stares from people!
How was I to know you were drinking?
… telepathy? 😛
I’m not that talented D=
He’s a viking.
I’M ALWAYS DRINKING…
except for when i’m not, that is
You should insult me more, you are really good at it. 🙂
This guy gets it ^^
My voice was fine. I obviously didn’t sing enough =P
OR… You’re secretly a experienced singer in disguise
I sing all the time. Usually over teamspeak XD
AHA, i knew it… you secret has been unveiled!
It wasn’t exactly a secret. It’s like saying that Blaghs secretly likes Disney songs
bahahahaha, i like this cheeky @scree
I’m liking the new sassy scree 😀
OMG PIXEL OUR COMMENTS ARE SO SIMILAR IT’S CRAY CRAY
@greenius TWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINS \o/
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @greenius
I have no idea where it is coming from ._.
The true @scree is coming out and it’s awesome…
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I think I am in just a funny mood…no freaking idea ^^;;
I’m still walking with a slight limp & the bruises are showing no signs of going anywhere anytime soon, my voice is still croaky & rubbish & I still dont know what I did that hurt my neck.
tl;dr – yes. worth it. so damn fun.
Maybe it was all the stage dives?
they account for the bruises, but the neck thing & the leg are a mystery.
Maybe whoever caught you with the last stage dive caught you wrong?
haha nobody caught me! I made sure of that :p
Really? I swear at least one person caught you.
nope. I did catch some guy called Steven (edit: i think that was his name) at some point.
Ah it was the other way around, I knew you were involved somehow.
That’s where you hurt yourself.
Did @scree beat you up?
As much as everyone would like to do that, I’m happy Scree resisted the urge.
I reckon she could pack quite a punch.
There is no way i could hurt anyone. And if I did I would feel awful afterwards.
Apologise after every bone you break?
SORRY! *punch*
I’M SO SORRY *punch*
PLEASE FORGIVE ME *eye gouge*
Otherwise known as fighting Canadian style?
Hey, me too!
Were you also stomping around in a pair of ski boots?
I wasn’t able to do any skipping at the gym because my toes are still sore from all the standing and walking (and the dropping of bookcases upon them before that)
Has your toe healed yet?
Yep! Just very weak still and I can’t bend it inward. But I was told that it’d probably be stiff for 6-9 months.
So tired, so much of the time 🙁
People keep telling me I look sick and not to worry about skipping lectures because I need some rest, and it’s kinda scaring me that people are saying that :S
Do you have a friend who can take notes for you?
A missed a lot of highschool due to anxiety and other problems
I can watch the lectures online, no problem there at least 🙂
Then rest. If your body requires the rest, it’s best to do so. You may not want to, but sometimes sleep can help more then you think.
🙁 Hope you feel better. Not much else I can say.
Thanks 🙂 I’m thinking it could be this whole doubling my medication thing. My blood pressures probably a bit too low because of it and they make me tired anyway.
I usually get that when I fell a little bit under the weather. I have kind of pale skin so when I’m unwell people actually notice it.
Alright peeps, i’m out… well until i get home at least…
Thanks for making the afternoon entertaining.
LOVE YOUS
/Pixel Out
I didn’t really dig The 2nd Law, but god damn Panic Station is a funky tune.
Hey it’s that only song I’ve heard from 2nd Law! Does that mean the rest isn’t as good? 🙁
Uhh.. Madness is pretty cool. Otherwise, yeah, pretty much :/
Just going through… Supremacy, the opener, thats pretty good. Prelude too… tracks like these where they have that orchestral thing going on. Ooohhhh Survival, got a Queen vibe going (more so than usual). Oh Follow me, this is a good song…
hmmm… it appears I liked this album more than I remember haha
edit: Oh no wait, Follow me goes into that terrible skrillex zone, ewww. Big freeze! This ones good too. There’s lots of good songs, just not great I suppose.
It’s a strange album. Every song is a different style and it feels kind of inconsistent. I didn’t mind it but their earlier stuff is much better.
@dc am I allowed to give you the gift of laughter?
No. I hate comedians. 😛
So much hate. 😀
Even my brother?
Especially your brother. 😛
😀
YOU ARE SO HATFUL
I WILL TELL HIM YOU SAID THIS
“ANGUS, DC HATS YOU”
“…Who’s DC?”
Angus is a cool name.
He downvoted the puns at the top of the page, so I’m pretty sure he hates everything even remotely funny.
@dc only likes Peter Hellier and Dave Hughes.
*shudder*
Shane said you don’t like anything remotely funny so I figured you’d like people who weren’t remotely funny. 😀
So I’m downloading (thanks to PS+ and previous PSP purchases) Sine Mora, Gravity Rush, FFVIII, Uncharted, Rayman Origins and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. So with those and spine Sword I only need P4:G and Ass Creed: Liberation and then I’ll have pretty much everything I want for the PSV so far. I heart PS+ so much right now. 😀
Oh man! Rayman AND Uncharted! Good times ahead!
Let me know if you want to slay daemons together.
Virtue’s Last Reward? IIRC you played and like 999? Or do you have that on 3DS already?
I…forgot about that…. D:
Got US PS+? It’s free right now IIRC.
It was also free as part of PAL’s PS+ and I think @strange has been stockpiling Vita games, so she should already have it 😀
What? When was that? Are you sure? Ive been grabbing all the free stuff for Vita since it became part of PS+ and never saw it!
I only have AU PS+.
I think when MGS: HD was on it (a few months ago?). I have the Australian PS+ too and most definitely have it.
Since I’m Helpius I decided to do some Googling 🙂
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/03/22/playstation-plus-your-april-update/
You talked about getting Thomas Was Alone from PS+ so who knows what happened 😛
Holy smokes I missed MGS HD and Mortal Kombat too?! I have no idea how that happened because I grabbed everything else on those lists. I always grab everything and VLR would have been my first priority. I never saw it. 🙁
@strange
FOOL OF A TOOK!
But if it makes you feel better, we didn’t get Mortal Kombat (on Vita OR PS3) because it was Refused Classification so we got Gotham City Imposters and LEGO Batman (PSP) instead. LAME.
I asked them whether we’d ever get it again now that it’s been rated but he said it was unlikely 🙁
Oh god, vita comes with monster hunting?
The only thing stopping me from flying into the nearest JB wallet-first is the fact I have $1 left after we get beds delivered for the spare room tomorrow.
US PS+ right now has God Eater Burst for PSP and God Eater’s better than Monster Hunter.
An older PSP Monster Hunter, probably not worth it since you’ve got MH3U and MH4 is coming (hopefully to the West!).
Now a REAL Vita Monster Hunter would be another story… D:
🙁
Anyone remember the game Sleepwalker?
So much rage.
Man I hate not having internet at home… theres only so much 5gb of cellular data will get you…
Basically, i setup a new connection with TPG on the 10th of July, and was given an estimate of 10 working days. I decided to follow up on the connection status on the 18th of July, where I was told by TPG that they had no available DSLAMS at my exchange (CRBN) and could not connect me.
Apparently a technician attempted to connect the service on the 15th, only to discover that they couldnt. So anyway, when I asked why they didnt call me earlier to advise, they advised me that someone was going to contact me within 5-10 working days. Now i have to wait 3 weeks to get my refund…
back to my story… I rang on the 20th to arrange a new connection with iPrimus, the staff were incredibly helpful, however, it appears as though im going to have to wait 2-10 working days for the phone line to be connected, then another 5-10 working days once my phone line is active, to get the internet activated… thats almost another entire month… 🙁
I had the worst experience with TPG and wouldn’t wish it on my greatest enemy.
I think it was @rize who had a similar ordeal with them.
Yeah but on the other hand, unlimited downloads – and I’ve checked the maths on this like twice – are unlimited.
I get unlimited downloads without the hassle from another company. Super friendly and usually have any problem resolved within 24 hours.
It’s almost like they should stop using the copper phone lines for services it was never designed to handle and lay out some new cables designed for modern internet use.
Nah. The average Australian doesn’t want faster youtube or email. Just do it halfway.
They use the internet on their wireless tablets anyway, who needs a wired connection?
That @shane guy can be an alright fella when he puts his mind to it.
I hear he can grow a pretty intimidating beard too. D:
I was cowering in fear when I met him
He must be on a quest to become a mighty pirate!
The karaoke meat
This does have some detail about my illness so if that makes you uncomfortable, please don’t read.
When we arrived at Rainbow karaoke, I was feeling very crappy and didn’t even bother looking after the outfit I was wearing when I got on the escalator. I felt incredibly horrible. I had accidentally ripped the Sanshee counter off $10 and I couldn’t get over the fact that it meant I was a bad person.Techie tried to ask me what was wrong but I said I was okay, because I didn’t want to have the attack in front of everyone else. The last thing I wanted to do was make things awkward for everyone, so I was holding everything back.
We met up with others who were waiting there and did a few introductions before heading off tot eh reception.
When we got to the reception, I went to the toilets, as did Pip. This made things even more awkward for me, as Pip would be able to hear that I was having a panic attack. So I held it in until Pip had left.
So I spent roughly a half hour fighting a battle with my mind. I ended up deciding that I didn’t want to feel this way any more and texted Gorzy to send Pip into the women’s toilets. I was tempted to leave before it had even started. Sometimes with anxiety and especially intrusive thoughts caused by obsessive compulsive disorder, you will know something is true but something in your head overrides what you know you should believe is true. However, another person telling you that same truth can convince your mind. So having Pip there really helped. She encouraged me to go to the karaoke.
I went inside, and grabbed my change of clothes so I could be a little more comfortable. I took a while to get changed before heading back into the room and which point some strange was like
“Scree! Why did you change?!” Blaghs tacked on “I’m so disappointed.” while dropping to his knees. With my anxiety already heightened, loud noises, or being called out to unexpectedly can cause relapse. Which it did. I was well aware that unknown person and Blaghs were just joking but I also felt the anxiety relapse. I ran out of the room, back into the sanctuary of the women’s toilets. I could hear the two guys apologise (though it was muffled) and then Freyr entered. I came out and said that I was just a bit shocked. I explained that I would be okay, I just needed a little time.
After emerging from the women’s toilets I apologised to Rize(who just introduced himself) and Blaghs who also apologised back. (it’s infectious apparently). We spoke there for a little while and I couldn’t bring myself to enter the room so I stayed outside for a while, chatting to Blaghs, Rize, Freeze, Nob and I believe it was either Pip or Freyr.
I could hear the people singing in the room and I was glad that the others were having fun. Around this time I believe Number 35 and Batguy showed up. I ordered my food and went into the room.
It’s fuzzy what happened next but I know I introduced myself to anyone I didn’t think I knew and may have introduced myself to people I had already met. I asked ShiggyNinty if he still wanted the purple cushion and nearly ripped him off because I was so frazzled, but I got there in the end. I sang “you’re gonna go far, kid” by the offspring with Gorzy. Nob lined up “livin’ on a prayer” for us to sing. When it came time to sing that, @greenius, @negative0 and @miketarno were leaving. We had a large group shot taken before they left. After that I had to restart “living on a prayer” but the button highlighted, meaning it wouldn’t stop restarting. @_@ Had to press it a few times to stop it from constantly restarting. We didn’t really get to sing together as everyone sang it =P
After that food arrived and I was disappointed to find the fried rice was a little too spicy for me. Others sang their hearts out and it was nice meeting everyone. I spoke to Masha for a while as I hadn’t had a chance to introduce myself yet and apologised for anything I might say that sounded racist as I’m constantly being called racist on Teamspeak. The last thing I wanted to do is offend Masha.
It was getting late so Nob and I put on total eclipse of the heart. We still didn’t get to sing together properly, but I couldn’t stay any longer. Gorzy and I gathered our stuff and caught a taxi.
On the way back I began to feel really sick, and I knew it was the anxiety coming back even stronger then before. I managed to hold out in the taxi and even told Gorzy he wouldn’t be able to hang around when we got to my house, which normally wouldn’t have been a problem.
The moment Gorzy left, I dry retched. Knowing this was a severe attack, I rang up nurse-on-call who transferred me to doctor-on-call. I had a terrible nights sleep and even sent Gorzy a message at 3am that I wasn’t going to go to Pax, I was feeling that shit.
However, I did manage to get a little sleep, about 4 hours all up. When I woke up I was feeling okay and decided that I would go to Pax after all because I knew at some people may still have some concerns about me from the previous night.
TL:DR
I was ill, recovered, meet people, sang and eat before I went home and was sick again. Oh and it was Rocketman’s birthday!
Thanks for the write-up, scree. Sounds like you didn’t have the best time, but you stuck it out and salvaged things. Nicely done.
Yeah, it was a rough night
To be fair the shirts are kind of thin and not great quality so they kind of ripped you off $10 even at the lower price.
Technically, I think I said “WHY? WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY?” While falling to my knees.
…
Are you sure you didn’t say you were disappointed?
That may well have been in there as well.
It’s hard to say.
pretty sure @rize said he was disappointed, and Blaghs did the why why thingy
#pixeltellsitbestest
Possibly, I must’ve gotten them mixed up.
Just because we both live in Canberra doesn’t mean we’re the same person, Scree.
I know. It was an accident
I’d call it more a misunderstanding, or misremembering, rather than an accident.
Either way, that is hardly something you should be apologising for.
I’m sorry that I’m just not up to your standards, Blaghs. We can’t all be perfect like you. =P
You did nothing wrong, I told you before you were great. Don’t worry 🙂
I can’t help it. Sorry.
@masha2932 has been saying “sorry” a lot too, so you’ve got something to bond over 😀
Um, I’m sorry?
O_O
Sorry
It sucks that you had those bad experiences, but at least it sounds like you’ve surrounded yourself with some helpful and understanding people.
Kotaku, and tay has helped me a hell of a lot then I think people realise. I feel lucky to have you all.
Dammit I’m on the fence about Kentucky Route Zero on the one side it looks good and it’s tempting with the 50% off on the other hand it’s $12.50 and I can’t keep spending money.
Ugh First World Problems.
This is me right now.
I’ve wanted this game since release and all the stories I hear about it on podcasts make me tempted. I’ll keep waiting for a $10 price tag or for all the episodes to be released.
They’re probably funding the future episodes with the profits. They’re like Sughly, an indie dev who’s working on something they’ve probably always wanted to do. I’m sure they’d appreciate a purchase! 😀
(Then again, I’m a hypocrite since I haven’t bought it yet either. XD)
It looks pretty excellent!
PAX WRITE UP
Half of this stuff could be in the wrong order, sorry, my memory and fatigue don’t go well together 🙂 Sorry for any spelling mistakes too, I tried to clean it up as best as I could but I had to post it today otherwise I would have not bothered for the rest of the week since I’m going back to work.
Tried to tag everyone but I think I missed some people. Sorry again.
FRI
> Met a guy from new zealand in the line into the event. He offered me his PAX guide for the QR code stuff. Good PAX moment of people being friendly.
>Beach balls were thrown into the crowd as we lined up and I got hit a few times. The balls didn’t damage my glasses though.
> After 45min of lining up we got into the show and I went to the Ron Gilbert panel. I wasn’t really interested in it since I’m not a big adventure game fan but as I was walking to the expo floor one of the enforcers pointed to the main theatre shouting ron gilbert. So I just followed the crowd and was in the panel. Good thing I went in since it was a cool panel. Informative about the creative process and funny too.
> After the panel I walked around the EXPO floor, looking at stuff. I ended up at the konami booth where I was approached by Dire Wolf who was looking for TAYbies and we chatted a bit as I watched some PRO EVO 2014. Now that I think of it I never actually went back to play it. Damn it @dire_wolf
> Spent most of the day with Dire Wolf, he was happy to go along with me to the Cutscene panel, we played Rayman Legends co-op and he was happy to listen to me go on and on about stuff. Thanks man.
> Met @greenius-(who gave me some earphones, cool)and @miketarno and together with Dire wolf we got some Ubisoft posters. I asked for all of them even the just dance one 🙂
> Mike was great. Cool guy. We make jokes on twitter sometimes and talk about LEGO and it was good to see that rapport extended to real life.
>Went with greenius, mike, loops and dire wolf to take magic photos- i realised I am not photogenic at all. we missed out on some goggles
>Played some some of the new sonic game on the 3DS which was cool. A decent sonic game? yes, they have been getting better lately. Generations was OK and the 2 racing games have been good.
> bumped into @35 and his friend-this happened on all days I think.
> Attended an IGN panel with @batguy, it was fun. Afterwards I tried to cheat my way into getting the free PAX cube but I forgot the phrase and missed out.
>Bought gaytimes for everyone -Around 11 TAYBIES i think-and we took a great group photo. That was fun.
>Went clubbing after PAX for some reason-clubbing has never been my thing but the cold beers were nice after a long day.
SAT
> Met BDKIAF
>Walked around with him, greenius and mike tano and played some indie games. I encouraged the guys to check out Framed which they liked. We played some Enoch 2 too but it seemed a bit generic after the ingenuity of framed
>Met a new kotaku user on the line to the borderlands 2 panel-me and greenius kind of pushed him to sign up and post on tay. his post went into moderation unfortunately but I hope it appeared after.
> Borderlands swag was thrown to the crowd and I managed to catch a beer cozy or cup holder
Mike missed getting into the panel and I gave him my codes from the event.I kind of felt bad, but I hope the codes made up for it a bit.
>Played with the Occulus rift-really blurry but the promise of the tech is there. Surprisingly light too
>Watched as Mike Tano, traded all his free pins for a fruitfucker one with a kind enforcer
>Met up with taybies to watch joust. Shiggy was really excited about it and it lived up to the hype
>Met notorious R he seemed cool but we didn’t get to talk a lot
>One of the highlights of the event-playing Joust with @MikeTarno and the audience laughing at our antics and me and him ending up as the final two contestants where he finally won. I think @Doc_what has a video and it will be fun to see again.
>Mike gave me his magic goggles-ugh, so damn kind.
>Went to collect PAX stickers with mike greenius, dire wolf, loops and annie. Greenius was sprawled on the floor like an underwear model according to Mike. I considered taking a photo but felt it was weird. 🙂
>Played some Hanabi with greenius, trjn, freyr and Nob I think.
After we went for some karaoke. The train was really crowded and apparently there was a new taybie there according to greenius. I forget her name.
>Karaoke meat: Met new people- Beavwa and his mrs, their friend,Mr and mrs tigs. Mrs tigs insisted we use our real names since she was getting confused and we were happy to do so. pixel, rize etc
>It was a slow start- me and greenius were kind of confused about how the payment worked at first but it worked out fine as we had chicken something. I ordered fish balls too which were not the best.
>Freeze arrived too
> Scree felt nervous that she offended me in a way but I quickly told her to stop fretting because she had been a good host
>people were quiet at first but soon everyone loosened up after a few drinks and everybody was singing.
>Number 35 jumped off the stage at some point and he was happy to help anyone sing and facilitate a good time. Cheers @35
> Even though I never chose any song mr. bombastic came up and maybe @cakesmith thought I had chosen it and he gave me the mic. I tried to sing but I sounded terrible. Thanks for skipping it guys 🙂
>Tried using the mic to congratulate tech knight and everyone gave him a round of applause. I can never be an MC though 🙂 shouted potaku.com for some reason into the mic at the end and maybe I was seeing things but I think shiggy rolled his eyes. Sorry @ShiggyNinty
>Happy bday song to rockets was sung
>A group photo was taken-where is it @tech_knight? 🙂
>Night for me ended around 12am as people started leaving. Everyone was in a very good hugging mood, which was cool.
>Managed to catch my train home
SUNDAY
>Sunday was a relatively chilled out day for me. Woke up late, then caught up with greenius and caught a train to the showgrounds. Greenius remained stubborn about using the trams. I liked the trams
>Played halfbrick’s new game colossatron which was announced frist at PAX AU-the dev who showed me the game was really nice and liked my game suggestions. He hinted at possible Barry steakfries (from jetpack joyride) crossover
>Went to the Microsoft panel with greenius. Really enjoyed the possibility of the kinect TV stuff. this presentation was more on the games and it was nice not seeing them on a laggy E3 stream.
>Finally met Zetro2k after not being able to contact him on Saturday. Wish we could have talked more
>Played some more 3DS demos-I really liked the mario and luigi dream team one. Zelda was cool. I’m curious how the merging into levels works. it seemed really simple in the demo
>Tried out the Wii U with CJ and greenius. it was OK, I think it’s just not my thing for now. Needs more games that appeal to me.
>Had lunch with greenius. it was pricey but the burgers were good and the fries were plenty. greenius’ sauce was better though.
>We watched baby @klutar roam around chasing sea gulls. It was cute especially in his little costume. I don’t want kids Klutar but your cute kid made me reconsider for a minute 🙂
>Really enjoyed the final jeff cannata panel which I went to with @negativezero. I had a nice chat with him as we waited in line. He wasn’t as surly as I expected. I always assumed that because his avatar looks anfry in its tiny form but he is a nice guy.
>Met up with TAYBies who were still playing board games. Hanabi again. Met Mawt and we had an awkward hi five where I tried to shake his hand first but we high fived eventually.
> Said goodbye to everyone. All the HUGS.
>Went to the train with tech knight, freyr and trjn. It was really cold. Said goodbye to frejr and trjn who had a flight to catch and tea to have. Met up with @lambomann007 on the train too before we split up.
> I was still not tired after PAX so I roamed around the CBD and went to watch pacific Rim. It was OK. Main highlights for me was the music and the 3D with he snow and rain. I also think the monster designs needed more variety, they kind of looked a bit samey.
MONDAY
>Donated my remaining myki credit to charity. I like the concept
>Met up with pants, doc, shiggy, patience, cakesmith and batgirl-talked about the event and other random stuff
>Joked with doc and pants about them hosting a TAY and/or POTAKU panel next year. Who knows what might happen 😉
>Got back to Sydney safe and sound.
Thank you for your hospitality Melbourne.
OTHER NOTES
1. Kudos to the Enforcers -they did a great job. They were always helpful
2. I was kind of down on the event at times but overall I had a great time and now that I’ve sat down and reflected on it I think I might do it again. Meats were fun and one of the best parts of PAX and the event can only get better from here once the organisers take into account people’s feedback.
3. On that note, if you went to PAX leave them an email. Also I’m sure they will send us attendees a feedback survey in the coming weeks so fill that up guys. Let’s make next year better. 🙂
4.Slept on a sofa bed for the first time in Melbourne. 🙂
5. Thanks to all other PAX attendees. All of them(taybies and nontaybies) as far as I know there was no violence at the event and no bad stories. I hope it stays this way and that there are not going to be blogs about unfortunate stuff happening
6. I should visit the mana bar next time. I thought about it but realised that it was going to be packed for PAX- Maxed out-PAXed out even 🙂
7. Atttend the concerts-I didn’t attend any this time.
8. I had a good time talking to people. You know text is really empowering since there are no accents/low voices etc, to worry about. So I often worry that all the jokes and silly stuff I write here and on Twitter might give an impression of a more fun/wacky guy than I actually am but thankfully it was easy to talk to a lot of people at PAX. e.g it was fun joking with @BDKIAF about how his new magic addiction might lead to his girlfriend leaving him and him becoming penniless because of Magic.
9. Also it’s interesting how many people ended up fully hugging when I think what we were all going for was the pound hug/man hug-this http://www.pinoyguyguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/man_hug_dude_hug.jpg
I like the hugs better in the end though. Thanks @tigerion 🙂
Meeting up with all the taybies-Sydney ones and Interstate ones- was fun-
We have a great little community here guys, cherish it
GOD MASHA! STOP BEING SO SAPPY!
🙂
I tried to edit in Spoiler tags but they are not working for me. So sorry about the wall of text. Especially for the mobile users.
🙂
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Thanks Scree.
It worked.
🙂
No problem =D Glad you had fun at Pax ^^
Does my gravatar really look angry? 🙁
It looks angry when it’s tiny but when I click on your full profile I see that it is actually happy.
Maybe I’m just seeing things 🙂
I’ve used it for so long I’ve actually lost the original image. Maybe I should change it.
Don’t change it if you don’t have to. Jimu thinks it looks super happy.
looks SUPERHAPPY
Looks like: XD
Bumasha probably just forgot to put on his glasses and still has his steampunk MTG goggles on 🙂
Excellent write-up, my friend. I like the bullet points too, made it easy to read for an illiterate like me. 😀
Thanks. the bullet points were more out of laziness but good to hear they helped.
Maybe I’ll use them in the future. 🙂
Haha! When I used to do State of TAY, Saturday said he liked the bullet points too. Now I see what he means.
I may have gone and bought Magic cards as soon as I got back to Canberra. So that could still happen..
I’m not allowed to buy Magic cards.
I am allowed to buy Android: Netrunner cards though.
You are allowed to buy Magic cards. You just can’t expect to have a girlfriend if you do.
We talking physical cards or the Duels of the planes walker cards.
You’re awesome, Masha. Good writeup too!
Aww, thanks 🙂
Great writeup! I still think you should have been the winner of that joust! 🙂
Ha ha, modest to the very end 🙂
Edit: Way too short notice. Never mind!
I’ll just see Pacific Rim tomorrow.
Hopefully this isn’t a repeat of the Gosling Fest where you don’t turn up 🙂
I’m just joking dude. You said you were not feeling up to it then. That’s OKThat was the first meat since October I didn’t go to. 😛
I’m out, busy Sat and have my high school friend visiting now
I’ll go! I also want to see This is the End.
But yeah, different states and all 🙂
I doubt Pacific Rim would be okay for the little man otherwise I’d join you for the movie.
I was going to ask you specifically, but I thought the same… :'(
Just asked Mrs Freeze and she tells me she wouldn’t let our kids see it at their ages.
Should have just come with us when we went duder.
Just a thought: if there is so much outrage from everyone about the Sennheiser girls why was there a line up to get a photo with them everytime I walked past?
Because as long as you make everyone on the internet think you care so deeply about such horrifying events, nothing else matters!
Eh, the ones lining up are probably the ones that will jump into articles about feminism and be all shutup theres no feminist issues in the game industry
There was an outrage?
“We can say one thing and do another”
I just read the comments on that article and I wish I hadn’t.
Because the people who were lining up aren’t the same ones who were somewhat upset about them? Like me?
I didn’t line up to get a photo although I did go up to look at their headphones. They ignored me whilst flirting heavily with the dudes around me. Sorry, I thought you were selling a product, not a photograph.
To be fair they probably didn’t even know how to pronounce Sennheiser so they probably wouldn’t have been very helpful.
What’s the point of hiring someone to sell your product if they can’t actually sell the product?
That’s what bugs me about booth babes. If the best they can come up with to make us want their product is to show some skin, that’s not telling me anything useful about their product. If I don’t know anything useful about the product, why on earth would I buy it? Because boobs? I could always gawk at cosplayers instead.
Personal view, but the sennheiser booth babes actually kinda put me off going onto the sennheiser booth.
thought it was tacky
One of my favourite parts of the show was when the booth babes were kicked out by people wanting to get photos with Master Chief.
There were people lining up for those?
Both times I ended up in one I was practically dragged in by them to get it taken, no line in sight.
Nothing better then coming home and taking the dog for a long walk after a loooong day at work sitting down…
#bestfeeling
#NotaEuphemism
#atall 😛
So it is?
@dc What did you mention me before? I can’t follow the link cos my virus pooper thinks there’s a virus there and fucks the page from loading…
Oh, I was talking to Gutsoup and asked if he wasn’t posting as much cause you weren’t around! He said no! True story! 😀
CANALEPHMEATPEOPLE?
Can Aleph Negotiate A Lighthearted, Ephemeral Party/Meat Even After The Proponents Escaped Otherwise Professional/Litigious Engagements?
Yeah, I’m assuming you’re all slackers/criminals, but that’s OK, because I still luff you.
So I arrive in Canberra this Friday night at 1750, what’s the chance of people being available for a dinner/movies thing then? Are there other suggestions we can take on board?
As for Brisbane (I arrive on the 4th of next month!), I really don’t know what is going on then, I’ll be staying with Freeze, but outside of that there’s no plans. Something about Ekka, which may or may not be a joke? Iunno, but let’s organise something!
All my
hatluff,Aleph <3
CC
CBR: @bdkiaf @rize @blaghman @shane
BRIS: @freezespreston @dkzeitgeist @virus__ @dc @strange @beardymcmuttonchops @mjhellscream @whateveryourtagis @miketarno? @imsorryififorgotyou
Ekka is the Royal Brisbane Show. Rides, animals, show bags and the like. 8th to 17th of August.
Also a lot of us still have annual passes for Dreamworld.
If you’re still in town on the 15th of August, that’s when Elysium opens.
Then there’s our fight club…
I’m there ’til… the 18th, I believe!
Awesome, I’ll check out prices for a daytrip to Dreamworld (didn’t you work there? You totally worked there) and see what comes up 😀
Thanks man!
I worked at Big Brother, which was: “Live from Dreamworld, the home of Big Brother.”
😀
Yay the Ekka, time to get sick!
I’m up for something!
#Helpful
#HashTagsForHarli
I reckon I’ll be humbugging you at work just so I can stay out of the cold 😛
I feel like my boss might disapprove of someone continuously staring at me from across the room.
Or poking me with a stick.
Or whatever it is you’d do.
I didn’t want to meat you again anyway.
Hi kid!
Sounds fun.
Who’s this guy?
Something like that actually lol.
The Mikeinator/Buff Tarno is a Melbourne TAYbie 😛
Well, you’re all a bit shit then, aren’t you.
Dickman.
Am I doing it right? I feel almost like a stranger in these parts!…’these parts’ refers to these parts, not ‘those’ partsNo Adelaide on your roaring rampage of not revenge but something else with an R?
I’ll attribute alliteration to alienation of ample Ican’tdoitI’msosorryhalp
But yeah. Radelaide is on the cards, and so is Perth next time!
Sing out when you are coming, we’ll do a SATAYmeat
Awesome man, would love to!
I’m up for luff. 😀
Yeeee-up. Sounds good.
Friday is late-night shopping in Canberra too, so things will be open for sure.
Do you need a lift from the airport? Unsure if I can offer my services, but will see what I can do if needed
I will pay you in sexual favours.
Or money.
Whatever’s going really, but I’m pretty keen to get lucky.
I’m in Melbourne, along with @greenius and a bunch of others. Venture forth into the lawless south and we can meet up! 🙂
Thing is, he did come to Melbourne.
And I think he said it was his favourite out of all the cities he went to. (he did some round the country sort of megameat early this year)
So yeah.
@mythamphetamine YOU DICKMAN.
I’m currently working on shaking what I can only assume is the black plague, so we’ll see how I’m doing by Friday.
Oh, and in what is apparently fast turning into a thing for me, I won’t have a car this weekend.
whaaaaaat?
What’s wrong with your car man? I can do car stuff, like kicking a tire and saying “Welp, thurr’s yer prawblem”.
I’ll totally sort you out.
Also I hope you’re feeling at least slightly human come Friday. It’s partyparty time, and I need everyone else’s enthusiasm after a 13hr trip o.0
http://imgur.com/YPAvbcr
Me and my friend’s epic gearbox high five. Second only to the epic spotted mike krahulik and chased him down and got an autograph and he’s an awesome dude high five.
Red, I’m so sad we didn’t get to catch up at all on the weekend. I think I might have seen you on the Friday but I didn’t particularly feel like going ‘REDARTIFICE?!’ to someone on the off chance it was a doppleganger.
Just call everyone you see Retarded Face until you find the one bloke that doesn’t punch you immediately.
At that point my face would be so swollen he’d run away from me. Even if I was wearing the Potaku shirt.
#alexandhismutilatedvisage
I was heading to the Johann Sebastian Joust area at 3pm on the Sat, but got pulled into queueing for the above (which was cool, but we got rushed through).
I was on the lookout for purple shirts all w’end! Ah well, PAX 2014 is pretty much locked in for me, so we’ll def catch up there if not sooner
The problem with those shirts is that it was too cold, even though we were wearing long sleeve yellow shirts underneath the purple ones. So most of the time we had jackets on to stay warm. D:
Esp the Friday night when it started pissing down.
Also, not meeting you IRL menat I didn’t have to embarassingly confront Shiggy about calling @number30five shiggy when we met on the Thurs. IT WAS DARK AND I WAS GOING BY BEARD OK
I will make sure I let him know 😛
So Mum doesn’t have to go to the hospital on Friday \o/
Maybe I can start on my Misaki mei cosplay now
Hey @shane bane, did you ever get into Pokemon?
If not, reckon you’ll get the new ones? 😀
Pokegames are good fun!
Nothing will ever come close to Red Version.
(Soul)Silver.
Moarliek mould… builder.
Stinkface.
OOO SICK BURN!
😛
I’ll get you some ice 😎
Nope. And nope. I can’t afford to take the risk I might like it 😀
Whilst it was nice to have a houseguest, the relief now they’re gone is very strong. It was kind of stressful. Plus, I get my sewing room back now. 😛
Dont tell me that, I’m only just getting a guest :'(
It’s okay, it was mostly self-imposed stress. I’m sure you’ll be fine.
But I self impose stress too, OH NO!
Hey everybody, sorry that it’s so late…
I present to you… THE KARAOKE GROUP PHOTO DURING PAX WEEKEND!
Thank you to everyone who attended, it was such a blast, and making me realise how bad a singer I really am 😛
Edit: @scree @tigerion @jordi @greenius @alexpants @shiggyninty @blaghman @masha2932 @negativezero @rocketman @novacascade @bdkiaf @trjn @freya @pixel_the_ferret_viking @rize @freezespreston @gorzilla @35 @beavwa @miketarno @cj @lambomann007 @f4ction @cakesmith @sernobulus
Holy crud, that’s a lot of people.
didn’t know you were in the photo.
oh wait, silly me, that’s myself XD
Wish I was there, next year for sure!
Ah I wished I went, I lost sight of everyone after the joust thing >__< (Probably wouldn’t been able to go since I drove to PAX)
Whoa, that’s a huge group. I wish I came along now, instead of aimlessly wandering the streets of Melbourne 🙁
See, you DO hat us.
NUH UH!
I just thought I was too late to get in on it since bookings and stuff and also I would have felt kind of bad abandoning my group like that. YOU’RE THE HATS, YOU DIDN’T SAY HI TO ME THEN INVITE ME ALONG AT SOME POINT ON THE PRECEDING DAYS. Yeah!
YOU DIDN’T EVEN LOOK FOR ME AND I SAW EVERYONE*
…*except for the people that I didn’t see like @notoriousr @redartifice @ynefel @nightflarer @mrtaco 😛
@BDKIAF found me based on the description “green” and “with Dave Grohl”
Biggest PAX regret was not seeing you T__T
And whose fault was that!?
tsk tsk
Be more green!
@nightflarer It’s not easy 😛
Were you there all 3 days? I wore dark green on Sat – but light green on Friday, and bright green on Sunday.
tsk tsk
Only went on the Saturday, your green must of been too dark -__-
To be fair, @miketarno looks exactly like young Dave Grohl.
No @freezespreston or @beavwa in that one :'(
I’m sorry I thought we had everyone when we took it. There was that many of us there that night I couldn’t keep tabs on everyone 🙁
Oh man, I’m right in the middle. It’s like I’m surrounded by all my friends. =D
Except Freeze and Beavwa aren’t there. D:
Also, all those other people who’re my friends who weren’t there.
Hmm…
We just ducked out to grab a beer and got back it was all done. We were gone for all of 2 minutes.
Without photographic evidence, I have to doubt you were ever there…
Sorry guys
People were leaving so I figured we should get a photo before everybody started disappearing. I think some people had already left.
#pantsparty
Everyone’s invited.
Haha, it really does look like you’re the most important person there. 😀
Best night 😀
Oh, to add to your tags I know @dc is wondering who everyone is so from back row to front row, left to right:
– Me, Nova, 35, Shiggy, Beavwa’s friend, F4ction, Rize, CJ
– Masha, Cakesmith, Neg, Tigs and Mrs. Tigs, Hotross, Pants, Blaghs, Lambo, Batguy, Nob, Trjn, Freyr
– BDKIAF, Gorzy, 35’s friend
– Tarno, Jugsy, Jordi, Pip, Patience, Scree, Techie
– Batguy’s friend, Pixel
I was also wondering who the hell everyone was 😛 Apart from you and Masha I couldn’t put a single name to a face!
Well now you know and knowing is half the battle
😛
GI JOE~~~!
Woo, Ben J knows me 🙂
@greenius rather eloquently described you the other day 😛
Ha ha
I now know what you look like, time to stalk!
My friend’s name is Mark. He doesn’t really have an awesome handle. Such a shame…
I think 35’s mate is Simon or something. Met him before at the Mojo
You got a problem with first name usernames…?
Yeah, I knew “Mark” and “Fattie” but couldn’t remember 35’s friend’s name, despite meeting him before so I just stuck with “____’s friend” for all 3 😛
Epic photo of an epic night!
BEST NIGHT \o/
Did not realise how many people were actually there… and how few i actually said hi to…
sorry everybody!
It’s okay, you said hi to me.
And that’s all that matters. <3
Sorry to those who didn’t get to go to Karaoke especially if it was because of a lack of information
i don’t think you could have possibly advertised it more without carrying a huge sign at PAX stating “TAYBIES ASSEMBLE FOR KARAOKE” or something of similar lines
No I mean before pax. You only knew about it because of Rize.
I kept him in the loop via SMS
Thanks. I tried to alert everyone on Twitter and Tay but I didn’t do a very good job
Awesome. It turned out great. Fun night.
Also @batguy!!
Ah man, thats awesome
So today was yet another dress-up day at school. This time the “theme” was pyjamas/onesies.
I don’t know about you guys, but as soon as I read that I figured there just had to be at least one person who would rock up in just a pair of boxer shorts or something. I mean it’s just screaming out for it, right?
As it turned out, that guy was me 😛
What if you sleep naked?
That’s just weird.
Your face is weird.
That’s why I wore a mask all Friday 🙁
I’ve been thinking about this, what with the whole ‘sleeping on a couch’ thing coming up. I’ll have you know that I’ve invested in some pants, especially for the occasion.
Not really related, but we had a uniform free day in like, year 10, and I rocked up in a collared, buttoned shirt, and multiple people commented that I looked like I was wearing Jimmy Jams. WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE WEAR TO BED?
Tuxedos. Like normal people. What do you wear?
To be fair he went to a fancy pants rich ass school so that’s highly likely 😀
http://www.suitjamas.com/
I want them.
Official Meat wear?
YES! This needs to happen.
When we meat next, i will do my utmost to own and show up, in one of these! (i mean come on, $89? WORTH IT)
I have achieved very little tonight.
But I did make a very crappy video about how bad I am at Kerbal Space Program.
I liked the one with the explosion.
i like the one where the boosters take off without the shuttle…. and the one where the shuttle takes off without the boosters 😛
As you can tell, I am terrible at setting up the order of stuff.
perseverance \o/
i haven’t even played the game so i can’t judge 😛
did make me giggle though
I was sitting on TS repeatedly saying “Well, everything just exploded.” So I figured I should turn FRAPS on. If nothing else, I reminded me of how horrid my voice is.
I picked this up, I doubt I would do any better than you, the fun is getting it to fly
Reading about Globsters. It’s interesting research. Even with the killjoys insisting they’re probably just whales.
Is this Resi Revelations stuff?
They’re gigantic unidentifiable biological masses that get washed up on the beaches. Some are apparently definitely dead whales but some like the St Augustine Monster are more likely a Giant Octopus which they estimate had tentacles nearly 100ft long and 18 inches in diameter. Others they have no idea.
It’s really intriguing how much we don’t know about what’s in our oceans.
More like terrifying
Por que no los dos!
Speaking of those awful Sennheiser policewomen things and their photo booth, someone just linked me to a thing where all their photos are. Managed to find my two in there.
http://www.politeinpublic.com.au/9335_0544
http://www.politeinpublic.com.au/9336_0634
Almost want to scroll through every single one, I figure there must be some hilarity buried in there.
Oh no, I feel like I passed by you at one point. Next time man. 🙂
Yeah, I think I was watching you play Joust at one point 😛 Or at least I think someone said it was you.
Quick question:
What in the name of fuck do those photos have to do with headphones?
I agree. They really should have been wearing the headphones as bras or something.
HA!
I can see why people were a little iffy about their presence, to be sure.
I honestly don’t see why people were making more of a point of the World of Tanks girls than these ones. They looked far less trashy and WAY more appropriate for what they were promoting. I didn’t even notice a change in their uniforms between the first and later days that they apparently had.
Let me put it this way, i wanted a photo done of me, but those Sennhiezer girls made me feel so uncomfortable that there was no way I was going near them.
I didn’t really want to have my photo taken either because of the uncomfortable (even before that one said those awkward things), but I was too scared of making things more uncomfortable by saying no.
I’ll admit, I spent far too long considering the acoustic benefits of breasts.
Turns out they’re probably not a viable construction material for high fidelity audio equipment.
A sound conclusion.
Think cause they’re apparently the most wanted. But my headphones are way better dawg G etc.
That Manny cosplay looks so wildly out of place there, in a completely awesome way.
Argh I almost asked for your photo >_< Twice. once as Manny and another time as the Luigi (I’m guessing)
Aww, sadface.
REPOST because I’m scared of forgetting what’s going on etc. plus I’m kinda proud of the acronym even though I totally stole the idea from Shane.
CANALEPHMEATPEOPLE?
Can Aleph Negotiate A Lighthearted, Ephemeral Party/Meat Even After The Proponents Escaped Otherwise Professional/Litigious Engagements?Yeah, I’m assuming you’re all slackers/criminals, but that’s OK, because I still luff you.
So I arrive in Canberra this Friday night at 1750, what’s the chance of people being available for a dinner/movies thing then? Are there other suggestions we can take on board?
As for Brisbane (I arrive on the 4th of next month!), I really don’t know what is going on then, I’ll be staying with Freeze, but outside of that there’s no plans. Something about Ekka, which may or may not be a joke? Iunno, but let’s organise something!
All my
hatluff,Aleph <3
CC
CBR: @bdkiaf @rize @blaghman @shane
BRIS: @freezespreston @dkzeitgeist @virus__ @dc @strange @beardymcmuttonchops @mjhellscream @whateveryourtagis @imsorryififorgotyou
EDIT: Removed @miketarno because apparently he’s not cool enough to join us in Brisneyland.
…but I still feel bad for not including @miketarno, so @miketarno still gets a mention.
@miketarno
@miketarno?
@miketarno.
@miketarno is gonna have a lot of notifications tomorrow
No such thing as too many is there @miketarno?
What would @miketarno do if he was here right now? He’d make a plan and he’d follow through, that’s what @miketarno would do!
OMG, @miketarno logs in this morning and he’s got 13 notifications! He thought Christmas came early. You cool cats you.
Goodnight, everyone.
And goodnight @miketarno
@miketarno!
Hahaha thought it was weird that you specifically ‘goodnighted’ @MikeTarno, then I scrolled up for context 😛
Good morning @crazyguy1990! And @mythamphetamine, @redartifice, @coldcamv, @freezespreston, @sughly, @bdkiaf and @masha2932!
And everyone else too.
uuhhhh, bit of a whinge. Pardon :S
So pregnancy and marriage and death and funerals and it’s all happening around me more and more frequently and here I am being a miserable old(young) prick.Yeeeeaaah, not sure if jealous or cynical, realist or pessimist or whether it’s a chicken/egg emotional scenario or what.
So glad I’ve got a few weeks of just… nothingness, coming up.
Hey, don’t stress about things. Everyone needs to do these things at their own pace. If you rush into it, you’ll have issues so just keep thinking “I am so glad I don’t have the extra worries of those things”. You can maybe plan them for the future, but don’t get too stressed.
I just knocked out the entirety of Devil May Cry: Devil May Cry in an evening. It was good. Ninja Theory are awesome at character modeling. I’ve never played any of the other games so nothing about it offended me and I thought it was fairly enjoyable. Some annoying enemies they kept making you fight toward the end though.
It made me slightly melancholy when I realized it was a bit like Darksiders and Darksiders 3 is never happening 🙁
Didn’t Nordic Games pick up the license for Darksiders and as such are likely to produce more games?
I don’t think we’ve seen the last Darksiders game yet, it is quite a popular franchise
Yes, but the problem is that one company owns the license now while the core of the actual development team is owned by Crytek, and Joe Mad (the designer) has gone his own way separately as well.
It wasn’t a fantastic game but I enjoyed DmC: Devil May Cry. They really half-assed the Vergil DLC but Vergil was the best part of that game.
I was feeling like rubbish so couldn’t sleep so got up around 1am and figured I would play a little something while I waited to see if the medication kicked in. Saw you were online and playing it then.
The Ys games on Steam (Origins, I & II Chronicles, Oath in Felghana) are all 66% off. You should all buy them as they are good.
bleeeeergh I am so not a morning person…
and i’ve been at work since 6:30…
bleeeeeeeeeeeeeergh *head desk*
Good news! You’ll be able to self publish games on the Xbox One! http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/07/24/microsoft-to-announce-indie-self-publishing-new-certification-process.aspx?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer1869e&utm_medium=twitter
You’ll be able to turn any retail Xbox One in to effectively a dev kit too, which is good.
Now MS just needs to talk about the specifics of making games for it. They’ve already said you’ll be able to use Unity. They also hinted that you’ll be able to port Windows apps over very easily, by changing from using WinRT.js (or whatever it’s called) to Xbox.js. Then I would imagine that most of the code changes would be to add in gamepad support, if your game doesn’t have that already. Although when they were talking about it, they were talking about apps, so who knows if they were talking about all apps including games, or just ordinary apps… Would be great if it was both. Would be a pretty good write once run ‘anywhere’ situation. Plus it also means you’ll be able to use HTML5 for making games, another good thing. I just they’re using Windows 8.1 so WebGL can be used.
Anyway, if you couldn’t tell, I’m rather excited about this 😛 Everything has been falling in to place for my super secret project master plan this week. I came home from PAX with all that info, I had just enough money left over to get a Surface for testing on, Unity added in support for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, and MS changed their stance on self publishing 😀
Now I just need to pre-order and save up for an Xbox One…
The idea of a retail kit being a dev kit is AWESOME. I hope Sony fire back in turn and do the same for Vita and PS4. THEN EVERYONE WINS!
I’d imagine they would, seeing as though they’ve had a big thing for indie games so far. Have they actually talked about how you make games for it yet? I’ve head rumours that PS Mobile games will work on it, and I think Unity has said something about supporting it too. Haven’t heard anything concrete though, mostly because I haven’t been paying attention to it 😛
Unity has said Vita/PS4 support will be available later this year. The devkit thing, that’s the only cost to publish on PSN from what I’ve read. But yeah, you still need a devkit.
You can get Playstation Studio which lets you code C# type thingies for Vita/Android and that doesn’t need a devkit, but yeah, not quite the same.
Look like self published games will be able to have achievements and other Xbox Live features too. http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/24/4553946/microsoft-details-xbox-one-indie-self-publishing
:O I hope they change that for Windows/Phone too.
I wouldn’t get too excited until it releases. There’s a very high chance that these sorts of things will run in the application layer of their crazy hypervisor rather than the games layer, especially if they’re making you use WinRT libraries and managed code.
If this isn’t the case then XBone games are probably going to run like shit because the WinRT libraries are quite slow compared to direct hardware calls.
How is everyone doing?
Because I spend so much money there, t2 invited me to learn all about chai last night.
Soooo much tea. Walked away with 3 new teas, and a goody bag.
Who else loves tea here? What do you like?
Be careful @trjn and @freya might rob you next time you go to play board games. They love their tea.
We’ve got a pretty good supply and chai is my least liked variety.
It’s probably safe.
Probably.
I learnt last night that there are so many different types of chai, that there will probably be at least 2 varieties you will like. Currently drinking a crazy chilli green chai as I type this.
But being locked in a T2 store for 2 hours is not good for my wallet.
We’ve got a spiced tea called Glogg from the Tea Centre that I’ve been meaning to try. We bought it based purely on the name.
It smells like Halloween.
When I was in melbourne I got offered a spot in a class with the Australian or Victoria Aeropress coffee champion. I turned it down thinking it would make me run late for the plane. I so could of made it.
Anthony Burch writes good stuff:
The following is spoiled: BioShock, The Sixth Sense, Doctor Who, Borderlands 2, Sherlock Holmes, LOST, Heavy Rain, Perfect Stranger, Remember Me, and Planet of the Apes.
http://www.heyash.com/the-four-kinds-of-plot-twists-three-of-which-suck/
I’ll just bookmark that for later. I still want to play Heavy rain and maybe borderlands 2 one day.
🙂
The Borderlands 2 one is an example of a non-twist. Heavy Rain is definitely a spoiler though.
It’s actually press O to Jason. All this time!
You can actually save the kid if you press the square button instead of X. True story.The above is not a true story. Especially that bit about it being a true story. Flat out lie.Even if you could, why would you want to. Kid was clearly defective and needed to be sent back for a refund. 😛God doesn’t give refunds 🙁
@bdkiaf
TOMMMMMYYYY TRONNNNICCCCCC *ba daw ba daw*
STAY OPEN!
Pikmin 3 despatched from Ozgameshop! 😀
Now we play the waiting game… @beavwa @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Oh and you local dudes better not discuss it too much and make us jelly! >:( @dc @sughly
PIKMIN HYPE
PEW PEW
NO DEAL >:D
LOOK AT THIS GUY WHO HASN’T EVEN PLAYED PIKMIN 2
WHAT A CHUMP
… (neither have i, TELL NO ONE… SSSSSHHHH)
Oh yeah, I think I still have to finish that one…
MATE, DO YOU EVEN FINISH GAMES!?
😛
Well I do often find myself saying “I don’t play games, I just buy them” 😛
My backlog is atrocious. At last count it had grown to something like ~250 incomplete games, though I can’t remember the breakdown of how many were finished but incomplete, unfinished and unstarted.
In the case of Pikmin 2 I got stuck on that cave where Louie was kidnapped, it took me ages to get to the bottom then I died or something and had to do it again. I think I ended up coming back to it and rescuing Louie but then had to go and do it again to get the treasure from the boss and put it aside again.
YOU’RE WEAK, TACO.
WEAK!
I crack under pressure 🙁
The waiting game begins. Despatched 12:55AM.
So hopefully it arrives before the end of next week. They’ve been pretty quick lately.
This will be the first Pikmin i’ve ever played… *blush*
You’ll lurve it! I have no idea what you lurve but this I do know. Not really actually you might hate it, what do I know geez I’m not a fortune teller.
Pikmin Virgin five o/
something something intentional pun about cherry popping goes here something something
Why must you be so cold Melbourne..WHY!!
kids now a days, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT COLD IS…
back in my day, we walked to school in 70cm snow, in shorts. AND WE APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY…
that having been said F**k it’s cold this morning
You were allowed to wear shorts? Damned young ‘uns getting it easy. Back in my day *grumble grumble*
They did ON THE GOOD DAYS…
otherwise we had to walk willie-deep in snow…
*grumblegrumblegetoffmylawngrumblegrumble*
*grumblegrumblekidsnowadaysgrumblegrumblegrumblegoingtogomakeasandwichgrumblegrumble*
*grumblegrumblethinkillevenhavebacongrumblegrumble*
Microsoft should probably look into moving into the field of gymnastics at this point.
Have you ever seen Ballmer on stage? That man has won Gold at the Olympics.
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
lololol! I see this in a future @trjn writeup…
Lamest porn game ever.
I saw this in Games World the other day…
looked at it, had a mental image and then went “Nope” and walked away…
True story
oh and mandatory “And then i found $10”
“Family Card Games”?
Makin families maybe
…The Aristocrats!
Things i have done this week at work
Solder for 10 minutes
write a list of bolts.
I hope it picks up soon, i might be out of a job otherwise.
Things I’ve done today, go to bunnings, pick up tile strip, lay tile strip, check TAY.
If I do anything other than drink tea while lying in bed, I feel terrible.
Guess I’ll just have to stay in bed, drinking tea. Except not jasmine. That shit tasted toxic. Manflu is the blurst.
are you at least watching cartoons like a proper adult?
nothing’s better then a hot drink and morning cartoons
Dota streams. I could watch Legend of Korra or something but the hard drive with that is at my desk.
= effort, gotcha… Dota streams works too XD
Hope you feel better soon though
Anything?
Masturbating is right out of the question.
Someone hook this guy upto a drip with English breakfast tea in it and then we wait.
Irish.
Scottish
Oh shit, son. Payday 2 Beta is live on Steam for prepurchasers. Hngh. Need to go home and steal shit.
How much is it! Tell me @ynefel
$30 for Standard Edition, and $50 for the ‘Career Criminal’ version. I think beta access is only with the Career Criminal version.
What do I get in the career criminal version?
Check Steam!
Aww I was enjoying getting info without having to check
So, I finally got around to downloading The Cave last night. Started my first playthrough with the Knight, the Hillbilly and the Scientist. Looking forward to having a proper play of it.
Played a game DC recommended: On target
Posted on TAY: On target
Got a page get: Damn you @ynefel !! Why?!
Shopped at Target: Oh my Gok!
Mastercard: Priceless
I went to Target on the weekend and was strangely mesmerised by all the Goks.
hehe Gok… hehehehehe gok…
Okay this would be funnier if everyone spoke vikingish!
(Gok is slang for male-selfpleasuring)
#soimmature
hehehehehehehehe Gok Wang
…
i did not get enough sleep last night
I’ll just sit down overhere now
Pretty sure his last name really is Wan.
which makes it even more amazing!
i added the “g” for funsies… creative freedom and all
duuude i got the Knight, Billhilly (first time the cave called him that i couldn’t stop laughing) and the Twins… because creepy twins…
How are you finding the game?
They’re the same picks I made.
Are you me?
am i?
i am?
i am!
…
who am i?
#frankthetacklingalzheimerspatient
Do you like the game, man? I expect regular, detailed progress updates.
#DidIForgetToMentionIOwnYouNow
I like the game so far. The voice of the Cave is pretty funny. I’ve only just gotten through the gift shop and into the Cave itself. I do enjoy a game with a sense of humour.
i love the game, i think i appreciate more then i originally would now that i understand Ron Gilbert intend with “Being uncomfortable” with the characters, because MY GOD are they messed up XD
Ah Hugo, you truly are the master of stealth.
Deus Ex, secondary objective for a mission is to sneak through gang territory without being noticed.
10 seconds into mission, pick up crate and throw at gang members head… SUBTLE!!!
… but did you do so quiet like?
… i think i remember that section, i went for stealth… so i punched through a wall, killed one guy and dropped the second guy down the elevator shaft
WINNING \o/
WE ARE LIKE THE NINJAS!!!
*stomps around screaming and banging pots together*
Barbarian and Viking Ninja… it’s a thing!
We move with grace (we can walk* through walls)
We move swiftly (run like hell)
You never see us coming (but you’ll sure as sh!!t hear us)
*smash walls
Masters of sneak attacks (shotgun to the back of the head)
Pinpoint accuracy on ranged targets (via thrown large metal crates and dumpsters)
see, you and me, we get each other \o/
now to find a co-op stealth game XD
They can’t hear you when they are unconscious. Of course. 🙂
@mythamphetamine, I think I can get you from the airport tomorrow… if you’re willing to hang around for about 45 min waiting :\
@blaghman @rize @bdkiaf Anyone else in a better position to offer the many-named-man some wheels?
Edit: I’ll see what I can do about getting there earlier.
I’m sure @blaghman could pick him up in his trashy old 2010 Ferrari that all his school friends laughed at him for driving.
Not really, I’ll likely still be at work.
What’s the plan for tomorrow?
The plan is this:
Aleph arrives in Canberra at 17:40.
[…]
Aleph leaves Canberra some time later.
Radical.
He wants to trap you in his man cave Aleph. Be vigilant, he who writes the lesser evil provides no peaceful tomorrows.
It’s all in the game, baby.
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA
Seriously, any time is awesome, really. Don’t rush, I can always catch a bus (does Action service the airport yet?) too 😀
I’ll DM you my mobile number on the twitters tonight, too. Rize has it, as does Freeze, though not sure if Blaghs or BDKIAF does as yet?
There’s a shuttle to Civic, but it only leaves once per hour, and costs $15 :\
WAT.
Seriously?! That’s offensive o.0
I’ll be there, man. Don’t worry. Soon as I can get there!
Nono, seriously no rush 😀
I’ll make smalltalk with the locals. It’ll be great!
owait no-one talks to strangers in the big smoke. Silly Aleph, always such a country bumpkin ;PI really don’t know how I maintain my weight yesterday I ate
Sultana bran
A sausage roll
A quarter pounder
A piece of cake
Bacon for dinner
I checked my weight this morning and I lost weight from 2 days ago. How is my body not dead???
Your body has become accustomed to your heart pumping pure cholesterol
Comparing a pair of weight readings two days apart isn’t really going to give you an accurate idea of what your body is up to.
But good work being not dead.
Board games on Saturday?
Board games on Saturday.
Ha ha ha, and be at risk of catching your man flu? Ummm no.
Sorry I have to work this Saturday 🙁Man flu is best flu.
@effluvium-boy is best flu
Best flu you can’t catch. 🙂
he must be a fast runner!
What’s new and good in the realm of tabletop gaming these days? I haven’t looked into it for aaaaaages.
I’m going to take a wild guess.
Hanabi.
HANABI \o/
Hanabi!
I don’t know what you’ve missed but Hanabi and Shadows over Camelot are both pretty new and pretty amazing. Love Letter is also nifty.
7 Wonders is my favourite game although you might have been around for that one.
I’m still getting into things, so I don’t know about the latest. Mainly I focus on the greatest.
Shiggy totally banged the princess in love letter.
I love 7 Wonders 😀
It’s like one of the 4 card/board games I know how to play 😛 (although I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten the rules by now…)
Pick cards, play cards, cry when @freya gets all the science points.
Really easy game.
I thought it was give everyone but @tech_knight money
I thought DAN! was here on Saturday?
Is he? I’ve been pretty inattentive.
Hey! You! I keep forgetting about the horror game thing every week, and I’m transferring the blame to you. Come in here and flail your arms for a while beforehand so I remember. Kthxbai
Okay 😛
Hey guys, I guess some of you will know if you follow me on Twitter and ever read what I tweet that I have been working for the last 6 weeks or so with my friend Kat to get a website going for her photography or various live bands & other random photography from her travels & general life.
It’s been live a little over 3 weeks now I think? Maybe 4? I can’t really remember.
Anyway if you wanted to check it out, it’s live here; http://www.katseye.co.uk/
Pretty sweet website Virus. Remind me if I ever need a website designed to come to you.
Cheers. Haha, all I did was take a template and apply my “knowledge” to modifying it lol.
That’s a cool domain name/site name. SIte looks good, nice, clean and simple
Cheers, it’s what we were going for!
@POWALEN @STRANGE (DO YOU EVEN WATCH THIS ANYMORE STRANGE? :P)
THE MOLE EP 8
Just started Ep 9 (so no spoilers for that!) but Erin has been so dodgy lately! I’m going to randomly predict that Alex or Sam will be out next. They said a “shock elimination” and there’s been too much focus on those two.EDIT:
ahahah while seeing the opening credits I totally forgot that Linda was in the game 😛I still haven’t watched beyond the first episode. My TiVo only has five episodes so it’s obviously missed a couple. Not sure if I’ll bother continuing. Is it worth it?
Have you seen The Mole before? I haven’t, so the whole concept and discussions around it are pretty fun, so I’d say yes. However, it seems like this season is full of really annoying people (and moments) and might not be as good as other seasons, @powalen has seen previous seasons so he should be able to say a bit more about that.
I don’t really remember much about previous seasons to be honest. I just remember that I liked the idea of the show 😛
Once the people I hate are eliminated it’ll be a good show haha
Shaun and Nick? 😛😛Unless the one you hate the most is the Mole. 😛
Actually, maybe I’ll just wait until it’s done and get you guys to tell me who the Mole was….
I’m pretty sure we’ve both got good guesses 😀
EP 9:
Haha, called it. 🙂Spoilers for ep8 and 9
I know right! Erin is a total mole now (heh). Pretty funny how she screamed so loud she shorted out the communications in the plane haha (I can’t help but feel that it was a bit of a Mole move to turn off the microphone though… Wouldn’t have thought a scream could do that). And thank god Alex is out. He was easily the most annoying person on the show. Now if only Sam would leave next week I might be able to watch an whole episode without going “Ugh” so often.
Haha I figured he’d annoy you when I listed people above but I was going to say that he does it in a sort of cheeky way that makes it entertaining to watch so I don’t really mind him :P. Ally kind of annoys me too with her breakdowns and whatnot but it’s also entertaining.Also they’re really dragging it out. Good for the viewer I guess but it seems like it’s not getting good ratings so eh 😛 bad for them maybe.
We’re already at 9 episodes and there’s still 8 people left. I just had a look at the previous seasons on Wikipedia which had all had something like 10-16 contestants and only 10 episodes a season.
I had fun watching The Mole a while back. I didn’t bother watching this series though.
I’ve been playing the battlestar galactica board game with @thecracks (package deal).
It’s basically just The Mole: The board game: but not really the mole.
But yeh it’s really fun being the secret saboteur (cylon) . Humans spend most of the game trying to figure out who the cylon is!
But if you only play with two people then it’s easy to guess!
Haha touche! We usually play with 5-6 people. We did try a 2-player variant where there may not even be a cylon in the game – just to keep you guessing.
EXCEPT YOU WERE A DIRTY CYLON WHORE!
YOU’RE ALWAYS A DIRTY CYLON WHORE!
Especially when @hindenlagen uses his once -per-game ability to steal the presidency off me.
@benny, games are inbound. Quit your job to watch your letterbox. \o/
Shane! Still enjoying Ghost trick?
(sorry for hijacking)
So far! (Thanks again)
Up to chapter 4, I think, so the puzzles aren’t too complex just yet.
The animations are really excellent and quite funny. The dancing detective especially 😀 Really gives the whole thing a charming sense of character.
Glad you are X3 Rather you borrow them for a while then miss out on some awesome games
Haha, thanks again Shane. Sound advice actually, I would love to quit. The biggest problem I have with gaming at the moment is finding time to play.
Isn’t that the way with most of us? I’d love to work from home and then just not work
Very tempted to pick up a PS Vita. I am aware there may be a price drop just around the corner, however EB is doing a pretty sweet deal (shock, horror) for a Wifi+3G model + LBP for $250. I can also pick the memory card and ten games for another $45.
So tempted. So very tempted.
Should of got it yesterday I got the wifi one plus the ten games on memory card and PS ALLSTARS for 230 at JB
Things that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAAAAAAY.
Haha, yeah I saw a similar deal in-store, wifi + game $199. Some sort of Wednesday only special at JB. But the EB one has 3G.
From the people that do have 3G models, I hear it’s not really necessary and they don’t even use it themselves :P. I believe you can just tether to a smart phone anyway for 3G functions.
I have a Wi-Fi one and it’s been fine for me.
PSAllstars is a terrible terrible “game”. Only one on the Vita I haven’t enjoyed to some extent yet.
PS: Get Sine Mora. Tis rad.
Haha I thought you didn’t get the 10 game thing? 😛
Did you go back and return it? WHAT HAPPENED ABOUT BEING LAZY AND THE EFFORT INVOLVED?!
You’ve changed.
Many, many people bought a Vita from JB yesterday.
Myself included.
3G model is a little annoying to buy, since they treat it like a phone you have to fill out 3G declaration forms etc, I felt like cancelling the purchase after like 15 minutes in while they were still trying to figure it out.
Oh wow, totally didn’t expect that. I thought you could just grab a SIM later or whatever. That is very annoying.
You can put any full-size SIM in, it’s not locked. But it does come with a Voda one in the box.
Really? I got my 3G Vita at launch and didn’t have to fill out any of that shit.
Might be something new? I got mine around about sep/oct/nov 2012 I forget which, it was some type of Government 3G services declarations, wanted to know all my details and products serial number and how many other devices I had that had 3G capabilities, it didn’t help the fact that the guys at EB Games have never filled one out before since it was the first 3G model they ever sold at that local store,
I think I was standing there for like a half a hour, fun.
I think I’ll wait for a possible hardware revision. I’m not itching for a Vita so I may as well wait. Hopefully it’ll come with some built-in storage space or a memory card in the box or something.
Slowly getting over the debilitating Pax Pox. *cough* Was I missed?
Johann Sebastian Joust! Keep your eyes on Potaku for @masha2932 VS @miketarno!
FIGHT!
GUISE PLS DONT FIGHT.
PLS.
Sounds good.
Guys do you think Doc will use Guile’s theme? I hear it goes with everything 🙂
Better than guile’s theme. Oh so much better…
TAYFILM
so i have 2 ideas for things that im going to execute myself but i want to try one more with a group of people from here.
Its a little bit of a strange idea but if you are keen email me
rossfear (at) msn (dot) com
IT wont involve alot of work but it should be fun.
Will I get to get naked on film? You haven’t been clear on that point.
pffft what kind of film would not allow this?
That’s a deal breaker right there
Will I need to do questionable acts on camera during my audition?
When? What? Where? 3 questions 3 answers GO!
Here being Brisbane or TAY in general?
I’m ALWAYS up for more TAYfilm shenanigans!
Well the idea is everyone gets some footage of themselves doing a specific thing and I edit it all together to make one seem less trailer/ short film
Sounds cool! I’m in!
I too would be happy to partake in said motion picture… if it were based in Sydney, which seems unlikely.
Clubby is happy to travel, however he requires his own trailer, personal assistant, make-up artist and a never ending supply of green M&Ms, not sure if your budget would cover those things.
I propose we make a competing TAYfilm in Sydney! What it should be about, I have no idea. I saw Pacific Rim the other idea and liked that. I think that should be our inspiration.
MOAR FILMS!
I have two Sydney based projects in mind. Wanna help out?
TAYFILM STUFF:
http://potaku.com/2013/07/11/tayfilm-2013-second-helping/
Animal Crossing: I have had only four fossils left to get for my museum for quite some time now. Grr!
SPINE SWORD!: I have played a small amount of this and I’m superhappy I was able to get it instead of LBP. My character’s outfit reminds me of Raziel from LoK: Soul Reaver.
Real life: sucks. 😛
Soul Sacrifice is awesome, but LBP Vita is pretty damned fun too.
I would never have played LBP. I’ve played a couple of levels of the two PS3 games and can appreciate their quality, but platforming drives me nuts. It’s one of my least liked gametypes.
Yeah an aversion to platforming kind of makes LBP not really a thing.
Not to mention the platforming in LBP is *bad*. The jumping is all floaty and there’s too much physics involved.
I’ll respectfully disagree. I think LBP is fantastic.
Wut fossils? I have so many fossils. SO MANY. I will gladly be rid of them, my whole ‘A’ section is nearly all fossils T_T
Also if any of y’all have access to a Minimalist Bureau/Vanity or a Astro dresser/cd player/chair/sofa, I’d be pretty chuffed
I also need fossils! I believe I have an Astro CD Player in my box. You are more than welcome to it!
Yesssss
I have some astro stuff and maybe one of those minimalist things. I’ll check. I’ll order it all now and then tomorrow we can arrange a time for me to either visit you to drop it off, or you visit me and pick it up.
As for the fossils, I’m trying to do it the old-fashioned way and collect them all mysef. So yeah, I’m afraid I can’t take any off your hands. That would be cheaterising. 😛
Ordered Astro Chair, Astro Sofa. I have a Minimalist Vanity but I don’t think that’s what you were after, is it?
Yes that is what I’m after OH GOD
Crap, I meant Dresser. I just did one of those things where I wrote down the word I was looking at instead of the one I intended to. Sorry to get your hopes up. I’m a monster!
… leave. Just, leave. Dont look at me i’m not crying I just have something in my eye
… I just remembered I have new houses in my HH area from streetpasses yesterday. I’ll go check them for you. Can’t have my son’s favourite game designer with something in his eye, can I?
@strange you say that, but he had a complete look of what are you talking when someone brought my game up
:'(
I’ll play it again the day before we see you next so it’s fresh in his memory.
but isn’t trading with friends a core part of Animal Crossing? It’s not cheating. 😛
For me, it is with Fossils. And Bugs and Fishies and stuff. Self-imposed rule. Or really, it’s just that I like knowing I found them all myself.
I’ll happily trade other stuff though.
Yeah, I like it. Being a newbie to it all I was greedy, greedy to complete as soon as possible! I could def see myself doing it this way in a future iteration, I dig it
I don’t think you can trade bugs/fish at all so the game makes you get them all yourself.
I’m collecting the Robo-gear. I didn’t set out to, it just sort of happened and I’m going with it.
BLEEP BLOOP ROBOT!
I have a bunch of robo-gear. When I found out you could change their colour to green was when I decided I was collecting them. 😛
Green!
😀
I have heaaaaps of robo! Got an astro/robo hybrid room going. 130,000 points, so clooooose
Yeah, same here.
I feel like I’m progressing too quickly if I trade to complete that sort of stuff.
Not to mention the (entirely full thanks to PAX) 3 screens of houses in street pass plaza to order furniture from…
Actually I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Brisbane cbd – two trips there and its nearly full! 4 or 5 in particular have sooo much stuff, so happy 😀 5 a day limit is bringing me down though
SO MUCH SHOPPING!
I cheaterised so much then ^^
You sure did!
Shane’s Munchies Update Today
Your daily dose of SMUT
Take one of my famous non-patented hash brown melts. Add avocado. Dream about Sandwich Nirvana, now one step closer.
Future ideas:
Add bacon
Add chicken
Add bacon and chicken.
Add egg
Add egg and bacon
Add egg and chicken and bacon
Add relish
NO… ADD SALSA
Add salsa and egg and chicken and bacon
Destroy the world through sheer awesome.
I have a pulled pork sandwich today, using the leftovers from the pork I cooked in Sarsparilla and Chili the other night.
FLAVOURSPLOSION
i have had: 3 Coffees and a V since i started work… i’m still falling asleep at my desk…
I HAVE GROWN IMMUNE TO CAFFEINE /o\
Once when I worked at Hungry Jacks I had two Rockstars and four No Doz in the space of an hour. My hands were shaking when I went to lunch. I don’t drink energy drinks anymore.
i refrain from having them too often, pretty sure they’re punching my kidneys or something, but i felt it was necessary today… except for the whole not-working-as-intended thing
I used to dabble in caffeine mints back in uni, most of them were crap.
Got a new batch one day, just started eating them like normal mints, thinking they were the same crap as the others.
They weren’t.
I figured it out after I’d had the whole packet and I was twitching to react to every little movement out of the corner of my eye. Wasn’t the best day to go driving.
wooow, yeah never went that extreme for that exact reason XD
After that ‘overdose’, I figured I could probably get by without them.
Grab ice, pour down pants.
If the cold doesn’t put a little spring in your step, wet undies will certainly get you squirming.
… GENIUS! \o/
Seeing as there’s AC talk going on but I don’t want to derail the conversation
TURNIP PRICES?!
(or !?, I’m new to all this)
60 something 🙁
Better than mine
a astounding 23 bells
I’m guessing I chose the wrong week to buy turnips.
Mine were 500+ the other morning! I almost squealed out loud on my train ride to work.
You uh forgot the /helpius tag
because, you know, that means fucking nothing to me now. 🙁
I don’t like to tell people my good turnip fortune when I don’t have internet access to share it with them!
/kindius
fair enough.
To keep up appearances though I still hate you.
You don’t know hate until you vs. him in Mario Kart.
…
>:|
You can tether to your smart phone!
That’s assuming 3G works on my train ride. Which it doesn’t for most of the trip unfortunately 😛
Suuuuure. Blame the telcos for being a shit person.
?! or !? is fine.
hmmm this morning has been suspiciously @dc less… DC, WHERE ARE YOU?
i gave him at least
*looks at watch*
3 minutes to reply…
this means he hates me right?
@dc hats me
…
@dc
All the other characters should be standing around, asking “Where’s @DC?”
Maybe @dc..ya know @dc’ed
That’s our @dc
*canned laughter*
So. Ridiculously. Hungry. WHY IS 12:30 SO FAR AWAY??
I hate early mornings.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN JOUST!
http://potaku.com/2013/07/25/pax-australia-ready-set-joust/
Featuring @Shiggyninty @frejr @trjn @batguy @greenius @novacascade @jordi and @masha2932 VS @miketarno!!!
@Beavwa @freyr
@Freyjr?
WHERE IS @DC WHEN YOU NEED HIM!?
@freya
pfft who needs D.C.!
(we do :'( )
@dc :'(
@dc :'(
@dc?
@dc >:D
@dc D:
*Stands around*
“Where’s @DC?”
@dc :'{(
No @dc :'(
@dc !!!!!!!!!!
Nice work on the video Doc
I missed the notifications for that so missed out, looks like it was awesome
Wooo… 2 seconds of taking someone else out.
Then I retired about 10 seconds later in the most manly way possible – with a bruised pinky.
Also @energizerbattery
That was an epic battle! Especially with that awesome music. 😛
Awesome!
Just wrestled a girl to get my wallet back after she stole it, determined to find out my age.
My arms are all sore and red and scratched now.
But the important questions remains:
Was she hot?
I would not necessarily describe her as such, however she is lovely 😛
Also her boyfriend was sitting just behind us.
Just another obstacle
#player
…
#playerone
… wait
#notaeuphamism
The true obstacle is the huge gap between where my group is working and where the groups with the attractive ones are working 🙁
Also the one that is in a completely separate course >_>
Hot
Wifey material.
She just wanted to know if you were legal 😉
KFC’s Parmy burger is surprisingly decent.
Only medium to mild regret too.
That’s more regret than I can handle
I had one. Wasn’t too bad. Definitely more impressive than the one from the Takeaway Truth article.
Seriously messy though.
Yeah. Mine looked pretty good and quite close to the picture until I attempted to eat it.
Did somebody post a deal of xbox 360 controllers the other day. Just got asked for the best place to get one but coupldn’t remember.
So TAY, where is the best price on 360 controllers from a legit place
Wired or wireless? I don’t have any real answers, though I was looking into wired controllers myself this morning, and found that they’re around $38 at both JB and ozgameshop.
Ideally wireless but not a deal breaker if wired
Also missed out on talking with you at karaoke, although may have high fived you on your way out
Yeah. There were a few people that I didn’t recognise and should have gone over to introduce myself to. I think this includes yourself, @pixel_the_ferret_viking and @sernobulus (though I did hug him in the group photo apparently!). But there were so many people and it was just so overwhelming and I’d already met a couple of new people and it had been a long day and loud noises and ahhh!
So sorry. Hi.
HI @batguy!!!!!!! though i think it’s my fault we never introduced! i was being pretty unsocial 😛
Mmm MightyApe have had them for like $25 before (both wired and wireless) but sales are pretty rare.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-135949-Xbox-360-Wired-Controller-preowned-Xbox-360
$12 but probably filthy 😛
Last night Scree sent me some excellent words on cosplayers and booth babes at PAX over the weekend. Well worth a read, guys!
http://potaku.com/2013/07/25/community-response-booth-babes-versus-cosplayers/
excellent read, well done @scree
Very good read @scree, thanks for taking the time 🙂
Related (but not really directly) comment: The funny thing about booth babes is that they’re not just a deterrent to those who are offended…
I’m actually surprised that they are an effective sales tactic at events like this. I thought nerds were supposed to be nervous and socially inept… or maybe it’s just me who fits that bill. I’d be too nervous to go anywhere near their booths 😛
Moreover (or perhaps this is even the main point), even though I’m not a great conversationalist at the best of times, I have no idea how to talk to someone who presents themselves as meat rather than as a person.
I most likely will rile people up with this comment but here goes with honesty…
Personally for me, if you resort to booth babes to get people to check out your product… I automatically assume what you’re trying to sell is definitely not worth my time or effort to partake in because you’re not confident that your product alone is enough to sell it to me.
With World of Tanks, that fracking life sized TANK got my attention to come over in the first place, they didn’t need anything else. The moment I saw the short figure-hugging skirts walking around I shook my head and left.
I agree with you that sometimes it feels like they’re not confident in the product, but it’s also about trying to get as much exposure as possible. ‘What sells? Sex and sex appeal. If we bring that to our booth we’ll draw in bigger crowds than we would without it.’
Although yeah, ironically for some of us it also turns us away from the booth entirely. World of Tanks was very, very low on our interests list all weekend.
The sad thing is that the World of Tanks booth was actually pretty well designed too! They had 5 or 6 PCs on each side with a main large screen in the centre back wall, each of the PCs having a secondary monitor behind the main monitor that the players were using, facing the audience in a Cloned screen format so we could all see what the players could see and do. It was really well done IMO. The guy on the mic had it turned up way too high though, had to block my ears a few times and also the announcer caused major feedback by his own loud voice lol.
I guess the point I’m trying to make is: World of Tanks didn’t even need booth babes to get my (and many others I’m sure) attention to come and at least check it out. I saw the tank, I was hearing the epic explosions from the live match that was happening inside as I was passing by, that’s what bought me in to at least have a look, and I did end up staying for a full match.
I was interested in the play / racing seat things right in front of the main entrance.
Saw booth babes, kept walking, forgot all about stand until friend brought it up on Tuesday.
We need to lay some bait to draw @dc out of hiding.
Ahem.
ADVENTURE GAMES? MORE LIKE ADVENTLOSER GAMES AMIRITE?
DAVID CAGE IS A HACK!
FRINGE IS POORLY MADE AND HAS NO DIRECTION!
YOU HAVE A MEAT WITH @SHANE THIS AFTERNOON!
*waits*
Gift @dc all the games!!!
Anyone know how many subspecies of colobus monkeys there are?
@dc, do you know?
Just four, I think.
what’s a colobus? @dc?
None. There are no subspecies. They’re all dead.
HUH, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT @DC ?!
There were none to start with. The Colobus monkey is a myth.
David Cage is a hack though
OI @dc, LOOK AT THIS NICE BUILDING
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5JC-T5Vt600/UMTGBFKFS5I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/abaAnQ4NU38/s640/concrete.jpg
You guys are funny.
Not sure if I should mention @dc’s out seeing Pacific Rim or just let you guys continue to outdo yourselves with this stuff. 😀
I figured as much but I’m having fun.
I have a massive problem with the doors in the computing building at UTAS… You can’t actually grab the handle and open the door. You have to press the button and wait for them to sloooowly open :l It’s so stupid! I’m not that lazy.
*Milking page get* Hey guys! Watch this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOg2OQqsmOU
Phoenix Wright Dual Destinies DLC!
has you defending a whale trainer who dresses up like a pirate. It’s also set in-between DD and AJ- it’s also Phoenix Wright’s first case after getting his badge back, so that means he’s well in gear when DD starts.That sounds…
AWESOME 😀By the time this comes out, I will have just about played through the other AA games. Good timing, etc.
Edit: related link in which the creators (briefly) discuss their process. Quite interesting. http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/07/plotting_murder_in_ace_attorney_dual_destinies
I eagerly await your reviews, man. 2 and 3’s last cases are roller coasters (infinitely more so than the first AA, really)
Also, here’s hoping
you can cross-examine the whale like the parrot in the first gameGYAAAAAAAH
The hype! The hyyyyyyyyyype.
How can it be that much better than the first game? Hoooooowwwwwwwww!
The first game’s finale is designed for character development. Justice For All’s last case is purely designed to fuck up the straightforward formula that cases normally have in AA. Trials and Tribulations also has twists in how you handle the case, but it’s not as crazy as JFA- but it makes up for it as character drama is ratcheted up to 3000% percent.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, I want to play the next one. Hurry up, Australia Post.
Yeah I agree to an extent. I think the last case on the first game is my personal fave. Opinions!
first game, last case was definitely the most cohesive, and the most satisfying- the bar was set high, so they had no choice but to ramp it up to “batshit crazy” levels in the later games
It started off slow but ended up being totally amazing. I was all ready to disagree with you, but it just got soooooo good. I don’t have a favourite yet.
I completely lost it when I first saw that parrot take the stand.I’m already getting nostalgic for it, and I only finished it last week 😛
CAVED. PS VITA IS NOW MINE. NO REGRETS.
Well, no turning back now, that is.
I thought if I saw one at PAX for a decent price I may cave.
I bought Ticket to Ride and M:tG cards instead. no regrets.
Haha, probably spent less than you would have on a PS Vita, too.
Yeah, but by the time I also bought T-shirts I was over 🙂
VITA FROND
Hehe regrets.
Haha. Just a little.
Has anyone played Dungeon Siege 3? It’s always caught my eye but never bothered. Is it worth a half hearted play through for cheap?
I played the second one many years ago. Thoroughly boring.
Don’t know about #3.
I bought it for cheap and have yet to play it.
I always heard pretty ‘meh’ reviews of it, but from what I gather it’s not a terrible game. I think it was always compared to Diablo a little too directly. I own it on Steam, but have never really played it. I’d say give it a go, it always looked OK to me. It’s probably got nothing on Torchlight II, etc, but no reason not to check it out.
its really shit.
Edit: elaboration – its a clunky feeling diablo wannabe, but no open areas. just corridors. & the multiplayer is really awkward coz both players have to be on screen & it messes with the camera a heap.
I played through it, didn’t enjoy it I liked Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 but you could tell dungeon siege 3 was made for consoles and carries next to none of the things from the first 2.
My Verdict – Dont Buy
It’s not great. If you want it though I may still have it at home.
I have it still in its shrink wrap for 360. I played the demo and really enjoyed it but for some reason never got round to actually playing the full game :S Never played the first two to have anything to base it off though.
Wonder what Apple would say if they knew the application that allows us to login to our phones remotely from work was called iPhone? 😛
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/02/21Cisco-and-Apple-Reach-Agreement-on-iPhone-Trademark.html
*snaps fingers*
schooled
So, they’d say not much, then.
*Goes back into box*
*faint sobbing sound*
Last bit of Potaku spam for the day but this one took a lot of work so I wanted to share it. Lots of information about PAX Australia as a yearly event, where it will go, what Gabe and Tycho thought of the event, some stuff about eSports, the drama surrounding those panelists that quit the show, etc.
http://potaku.com/2013/07/25/qa-with-tycho-and-gabe-pax-australia-is-a-pax-now/
Damn good read, you are bestestest…est
very goodly
Man, you guys have put out some quality stuff from PAX. Not that it wasn’t good before, but you’ve definitely kicked it up a notch over the last week or so.
This. Totally.
If Potaku wasn’t a serious video game journalism site before (and I’m not saying it wasn’t), it pretty much is confirmed as one now.
Aw shucks, ya’ll =D
1st paragraph. is “boob babe” a typo, or am i missing something?
also, I agree with those guys. you lot pulled some great stuff out of PAX. keep it up.
Best kind of typo. One that evokes an even more accurate image than the ‘official’ term 🙂
yeah. I was wondering if it was intentional.
you know… the lowest of high-brow satire or some such thing?
DAMNIT I WAS HOPING NO ONE WOULD SEE THAT BEFORE I FIXED IT
I’M SORRY. YOU SHOULD’VE LEFT IT IN.
Haha, Touch My Katamari.
This should never be explained, it’s perfect as it is
So according to @strange,
@dc is out seeing Pacific Rim…
well he didn’t tell us…
@dc i’m not mad at you, i’m just very disappointed…
I’ll sit right here, in the dark, waiting for you to come back @dc
Oh gods, @dc’s going to come back to like 40 notifications.
How did you find the film, DC?
41 for @dc
We should start going through TAY history and randomly start tagging him in reply posts scattered all over the place. Make him work to clean them out 😀
…
@dc.
You mean you weren’t doing that already? Lightweight.
He once tagged me (possibly you too?) in the very first TAY.
That was fun 😀
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/05/talk-amongst-yourselves/
But he did tell us! He even invited us briefly before uninviting us 🙁
well… well NERH!
@dc
Here I was starting to organise a benefit gig and compose a song about @dc being trapped in a well.
I even had a few words that rhymed with well ready.
I don’t have anything to say, I just wanted to throw my own @dc into the ring.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-234/comment-page-10/#comment-1699177
@dc announces his intentions.
CSI: TAY
Now Enhance.
WE WILL HAVE TO FINGERPRINT @dc ‘s KEYBOARD, COULD BE AN IMPOSTOR
*turns on UV light*
Oh. My. God.
*turns off light and hurriedly leaves*
GOD DAMMIT WHY AM I GETTING HUNGRY AGAIN ALREADY
I swear needing to eat every ~2 hours never used to be a thing.
Fatty fatty fat fat. *points*
Apparently he’s doing the “fatty dance.” Inappropriate? Well, maybe. But I’m raising my son to be a straight-shooter – Dr. Cox
You called?
Well this is awkward.
Um.
How are the kids?
Delicious.
#PretendILinkedToAustinPowersFatBastardImage
Nuh uh!
At least not yet I’m not.
Probably calling yourself Mr. Taco has something to do with it 🙂
But I un-called myself that ages ago 😛
Scrub as I might, it’ll never be gone.
So, Australia post charges $6.95 to post a 220g book from one urban centre to another. Christ.
I think I’m just going to stop sending books. This is ridiculous – postage is worth almost as much as the damn book itself.
And they tried to charge me a further $6.95 to post an envelope that has nothing in it but 2 DS cartridges (just the cartridges). O_o
*waiting for pitch of your Ebook *
!
😀
https://www.shoplocket.com/products/hFRvt-the-lesser-evil-omnibus
good man \o/
Yeah, sorry about that.
Nah man, don’t be sorry. I’ve swapped envelopes, and I’m sending it for 60c if it kills me! 😀
Edit: I doubt it will kill me. 😛
You should just be able to buy a $1.something padded envelope and a stamp for the DS cartridges :S Dunno what’s going on there.
Edit: Actually yeah, it should be fine in a normal envelope!
The woman was trying to convince me that it wouldn’t fit through the example slot, even as she dropped it through time and time again. It was a true #picardfacepalm moment. I don’t even know how to argue against something like that. :\
That’s why back home I always went to the post office in the next town over 😀 The people who ran the local one were arseholes like that.
…buh?
I sent a 3DS game from western Sydney to Wollongong in a padded envelope for all of ~$2 :/
EXACTLY 🙁
You could just get the envelope and put 3-4 stamps on it, I’ve never had a issue with them not shipping it despite the discrepancy.
So the consensus is that either Dungeon Siege 3 is awful or no ones played it.
On that note can anyone recommend a decent trashy and mindless fantasy game? Kind of in the mood for a mentally easy unwind game. Preferably on PS3.
How about Hunted the Demons Forge? Seems to be in that not great not terrible band I’m after.
Kingdoms of Amalur?
This. Kingdoms of amal…amanuensis…amygdala…bananarama is goodly
Got it, played it, finished it.
Kind of sad the studio went the way it did. I enjoyed that game a lot.
Not strictly fantasy, but SPACE MAUREEN hits many of the same buttons.
Also have this. Shit. I have too many games. Pretty much why I’m looking for some of the more mediocre stuff I probably don’t have.
I have too many games
i don’t understand?
Dragon’s Dogma?
Ooh. I forgot I had that. Might do the trick.
Just wish it wasn’t so damn generic. My eyes glaze over every time the story kicks in.
\o/ Dark S…
Nope, can’t do it. But you do need a platinum…
I can recommend a decent trashy and mindless book or two…
dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
Deathspank?
It’s rather silly and mindless.
DEATHSPANK \o/
First game Pip ever finished.
In one sitting.
Overnight.
it is pretty amazeballs, Ron Gilbert at his best…
Though the quest about collecting Unicorn Feces still baffles me XD
…Ron Gilbert.
Ooohhh shiny things
I TOTALLY WROTE RON GILBERT I KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT WHAT’S THAT OVER THERE OOOOOOHHH SHINY
*runs off*
Hey. A shiny thing!
Ron Gilbert.
Ron Gilbert.
Ron Gilbert
GEEZ Don’t you know anything Pixel?
Pfft this guy, what a loser!
NEEEEEEEEEERD!
#involved
Ron Gilbert.
@dc.
@dc
He would have known…
Tim Schafer pfffffffft
that Pixel guy is an idiot
Trine 1/2?
They’re both super cheap on PC if you don’t already have them on PS3. I think you might already have them though?
Hunted Demon’s Forge was great fun, but I played it through co-op with @hindenlagen. I doubt it would be very good solo – like frustrating and boring.
Nier?
:’D
the hell are you so happy about?
I thought that was the emote for sneeze?
There’s a sneeze emote? I thought that was a nose.
#KidsTheseDays
i’m just making stuff up, i don’t even know what i’m saying right now
#VikingsTheseDays
They’re tears of joy.
@blaghman @rize @bdkiaf
Who’s coming out tomorrow to meat Aleph? We should totally make some plans, and pretend we have a clue how to organise something.
You actually have to plan stuff to do in Canberra?
THERE’S ONLY ONE THING TO DO….
drive in circles… alot…
SKY WHALE!!!
I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE AT KAROKE ASSFACE. I THOUGHT YOU WERE JUST A RANDOM FRIEND OF RIZE.
NEVER SAID HELLO YOU ASS
😛
I KNOOOOOOOOOOW I’M A TERRIBLE PERSON…
CUDDLES NEXT TIME?
maybe. you are pretty handsome.
#hairflick
and it’s a 2for… if you go to Canberra you can cuddle with @shane and it’ll be exactly the same!
He was too busy planning out his next invasion.
@rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking
… MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEX
*shakes fist*
… okay i promise next time we karaoke i will know the lyrics for Land Down Under…
DO YOU LOVE ME NOW?
is that your next performance…
OH OH OH DUET \o/
Yes. We should do that.
Wasn’t there something Aleph wanted to do?
Sexytiems.
I’m squeeing hard.
5am start. Sit on a plane. Get drunk. Or sleep. Whatever.
Meat folks. Then sleep. Or get drunk. Whatever ^.^
Almost got caught naked by a neighbor after hoping out of the shower. Potential embarrassment averted thankfully.
Practising the whole “oh, I just got out of the shower *flex*” routine for Annie? 😉
I do that, i look like hot shit.
As in fresh, warm poop?
Dats nastyyy
I was skimming through and read this before reading the previous posts… I regret that.
Oh, Rocketman…
Impromptu Super-man pose and say:
“It’s exactly what it looks like!”
I just got called loud,
we had a meeting about my voice being booming. I did a lot of public speaking as a kid and now cant help it. It wasn’t mean or anything just told to turn my volume down a little cause it echos.
I had no clue i was doing it.
Blame the Karaoke….
Actually just invite your boss to Karaoke… Call it team building so they can learn to appreciate your voice
Let’s see YOU try singing Don’t Stop Me Now @Rocketman! 🙂
Can you top my horribad performance being unable to sing high notes myself? haha
You know what’s a great book?
The Stars, My Destination.
Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation
Deep space is my dwelling place
The stars my destination
Yup, just spent the last two days sitting here doing basically nothing. Sure love feeling useless.
Morning all,
fun bit of fun things.
1. I bought dark souls during the steam sale and whenever I try to open it the game only shows a quarter of the screen … it’s not a case of the game has shrunk, it’s just blacking out 3/4 of the screen. is this a standard feature of the game so I’ll just accept death easier?
2. Everyone in the offices are going to this place called bounce after work because team building = trampolines or some junk. Guess who gets to be a curmudgeon because I don’t like trampolines, that’s right me. If they had taken my idea of drones vs executive paintball teams we wouldn’t be in this mess.
3. The general manager just came through and made an announcement that his 10 year old sucker fish died unexpectedly and several of the developers and myself just blurt out “That sucks” in stereo before looking at each other and giggling … The manager ended up telling a few other people in the other side of the office and all I hear after his story is “WHY IS EVERYONE LAUGHING AT ME?!?”
EDIT: 4. I just had a HR user for one of our clients call me and I was doing my normal helpful thing and right at the end she just cheerfully goes “Please don’t die Damien” … does she know something I don’t. kind of worried that a woman I’ve never actually met knows more about me than I’m comfortable with.
EDIT THE 2ND
because @greenius and @redartifice are curious
When I was a wee baby curd, I had one of those old trampolines with the giant arse metal springs that trampolines had back before common sense started huffing paint thinner and trivial things like safety . One day I was joyfully bounding on the trampoline and the neighbours dog distracted me because I couldn’t understand why I’d never seen a dog and a baby at the same time (I was a bit of an idiot up until about 8) While I was pondering this question of the universe I was slowly drifting towards the side of the tramampoline and the gaping holes between the springs. One of my legs ended up slipping through the hole as I was coming down from a bounce and my other leg was still on the tramp so I ended up slingshotting towards the ground with my leg still caught in the hole. I slammed my neck onto the ground and getting a bit of a concussion.
And that’s why I don’t really like trampolines.
I like Tofu stories 😀
But what kind of monster doesn’t like trampolines 🙁
You don’t like trampolines? Are you a Cylon?
I could be a cylon … how would I know? can you just run a magnet over me and see what sticks?
If you have sex does your spine glow red? Telltale sign.
I’m normally a bit busy with the sex thing to stare at my spine, on the plus side instant glow stick/sex raves
just pop and shake?
Isn’t sex the other way around?
BAHAHAHA
O.o
…
o.O
…
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If you didn’t injure yourself badly on one of those old exposed spring trampolines you never used one of them.
It was like a rite of passage.
“When I was a wee baby curd”. I love you for that. 😀
D: OUCH
I’ve always feared that, or jumping and landing on the springs (but those corner holes were scary as hell)
Dark Souls: I had that. I assume you’re using DSFix? I think you need to turn off AA in game, or something, to fix it.
That’s a lot of notifications. It made me laugh. 😀
Pacific Rim was pretty okay, but one of the shots reminded me of The Iron Giant. So I watched The Iron Giant too, which was amazing.
You guys are crazy.
*moseys off*
How many did we get you to?
@dc.
36!
Damn, I was hoping we’d crack 40.
also,
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2009/11/23/1225802/007663-world-039-s-ugliest-buildings.jpg
The real question is did he upvote every single one of them?
My money’s on yes.
You’re welcome…
See, TAY can’t hold together without it’s resident hermit
Want some rye? Course ya do!
I want more thoughts on Pacific Rim! Give me your summary!
I liked the lore and sense of history to the world. The spectacle of seeing the monsters for the first time too. Sort of had a similar feeling watching as I did with The Avengers though, I liked the down time and character moments more than the fights themselves. It felt pulpy, but intentionally so… wasn’t a dumb movie trying to be smart, was a smart movie paying tribute to monster movies.
Also I saw the Gravity trailer before the movie and it looked incredible on the big screen. GRAVITY MEAT!
http://www.vulture.com/2013/07/ryan-gosling-zac-efron-star-wars.html
Psh. Old news.
It was news to me dickman.
Sometimes I forget not everyone keeps up on their Gosling news like I do.
Not sure how Gosling would go in Star Wars since it tends to have dialogue.
He could definitely play a Han Solo type. Luke’s son would be an odd choice.
Fuck yes.
New Final Bosman!!!:
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/5l92p0/the-final-bosman-the-wii-u-is–in-fact–next-gen
(cc @sughly)
Interesting theory with Ninty on the sly releases and letting people advertise. I think its got some truth to it
NeWhose Line Is it Anyway was pretty good 😀
I’m not really a fan of the “celebrity guest star” thing but Lauren and Candice are pwetty :3. It means they do sort of the same games every time with the celebrity guests (song styles, living props thing)
I just wish they also bring back some of the usual dudes (Brad, Greg, Chip, Jeff and maybe even Drew!) as the 4th guest, but the new people have been good (the girl was alright in Improvaganza)
Aisha is doing well too 😀
I’ve watched the first two episodes. I thought they were pretty good. The stuff with the dude from Glee was fantastic.
I don’t like the celebrity guest star thing but he could have easily been a fourth contestant and things would have been just dandy.
They’re definitely working out the kinks but this is a lot closer to old Whose Line than that Drew Carey’s Improvaganza show.
Improvaganza got my hopes up based on the premise but it came crashing down 🙁
Kathy Kinney was baddd
Part of what made Whose Line work so well was that everyone involved was clearly good friends that had worked together for a long time. Even though Improvaganza had most of the same people involved, it didn’t feel like that at all.
Yet new Whose Line – with Aisha behind the desk – manages to get that feeling across.
Then again, Improvaganza was a cheap Vegas show that they recorded and stuck on TV. Always going to feel different.
Wait, new Whose Line is out?
Oh yeah, I guess you were in Melbourne 😛
REPOST because I’m scared of forgetting what’s going on etc. plus I’m kinda proud of the acronym even though I totally stole the idea from Shane.
CANALEPHMEATPEOPLE?
Can Aleph Negotiate A Lighthearted, Ephemeral Party/Meat Even After The Proponents Escaped Otherwise Professional/Litigious Engagements?Yeah, I’m assuming you’re all slackers/criminals, but that’s OK, because I still luff you.
So I arrive in Canberra this Friday night at 1750, what’s the chance of people being available for a dinner/movies thing then? Are there other suggestions we can take on board?
As for Brisbane (I arrive on the 4th of next month!), I really don’t know what is going on then, I’ll be staying with Freeze, but outside of that there’s no plans. Something about Ekka, which may or may not be a joke? Iunno, but let’s organise something!
All my
hatluff,Aleph <3
CC
CBR: @bdkiaf @rize @blaghman @shane
BRIS: @freezespreston @dkzeitgeist @virus__ @dc @strange @beardymcmuttonchops @mjhellscream @whateveryourtagis @imsorryififorgotyou
OMGHOLIDAYSYOUGUYS
I’m really shit at keeping up with everything that’s happening this weekend…mostly cause I haven’t been at work and that’s where I TAY the most 😛
Well so far I think @shane is collecting me from the airport around 1830, at which point we will presumably sit awkwardly whilst driving to an as-yet undisclosed/agreed-upon location, and hopefully meeting you guys!
I think I recall seeing somewhere that @bdkiaf won’t be finished work until a little later than that? Are there any restaurants that are preferred by you fine folk? Will @bdkiaf be finishing within a reasonable time to fit in with dinner plans? What’s best for everyone?
Question?
I’ll be available from like, 5:30 onwards. Pretty much anything is cool by me.
DM’ed on the tweetars, sir!
AWKWARD SITTING FTW \o/
Also I’ve been trying to call you lately.
Pretty sure you hate me.
…
…
…
Nooooo! Of course not!
HYPE! Ber and I will be available pretty much any weekend 😀
Ended up with Prototype 2 and Asura’s Wrath.
No conviction.
Hey @junglist is there Community Kudos on this week? If so, where can we send our noms?
konkretejunglist(at)gmail(dot)com I believe
ALEX TO THE RESCUE
*flies into the sun*
Yeah the above will work 🙂
Fuck Ubisoft and Uplay :l
Agreed.
Eightheded. ed.
I just want to Blood Dragon already.
There’s a Gizmodo article on the bottom of the page.
It has a giant picture of Atreyu trying to pull Artax out of the mud in the Swamp of Sadness.
Bastards.
*manly tears*
cc/@strange
:'(
The article also has the Podling being drained of life from The Dark Crystal (damn that movie traumatized me as a kid) and most of Watership Down (even more traumatic.)
I think that article hats me.
ARTAX /o\
many tears was shed
Never watched the Neverending Story, but how could they not include that scene from the Land Before Time? You know the one
where Littlefoot’s mum diesSo many tears :'(
NEVER WATCHED NEVERENDING STORY?!?!
It’s AMAZING!
Seriously, great movie. Holds up well after all this time, too.
LITTLEFOOT’S MUM :'( all the sads…
kids movies were so brutal!
Jesus Christ that bunny one is absolutely terrifying…
Briiiiight eyes, burning like fiiiiiiire…
That was @strange’s first movie! XD
JESUS, MAN O_O
EDIT: Oh I guess I based my assumption on her watching it as a child, and that movie looks like real nightmare material D:. I guess it’s okay if it was her first movie, but she was older 🙂 (although it’s still just as terrifying D:)
I’d say as a child. The movie is from the 70’s and I watched it aged about 5 or 6.
Also if you haven’t watched the Dark Crystal WATCH THE DAMN DARK CRYSTAL.
I don’t think I’ve seen (and remember) anything on that list. There’s some stuff I’m sure I’ve seen parts of though.
I was about 4….
>_________>
Running on the treadmill listening to the Potaku podcast – my hours set.
Do I risk wasting money on seeing the conjuring? I didn’t really like insidious. Saw was okay. I’m not sure if it will be worth the $60 for Mum and I to see it.
I think I am dipping into another bout of the lonelies. Wish I knew what makes it happen/go away, now’s not a great to time add even more mope to the schedule.
Aw, I’m sorry to hear that my friend. TAYs always here, for what it’s worth!
What @dc said. I had a massive bout of depression a year or so ago and these guys and girls right here are a big help being supportive, encouraging and all around awesome.
GAAAAYYYY!
Well, now that it’s out in the open…
*ziiiiip*
Yup.
Not gonna say sappy shit like “it’s alright, man”.
But we’re here for you. As with anybody. There’s always someone else at the end of the line.
Don’t feel lonely. We’re always here to mope with.
The Post PAX lull maybe?
*hugs*
Kinda. Maybe. Sorta. It probably didn’t help that I spent a good deal of the weekend hanging out with a friend that I’d otherwise not seen or spoken with much in ages, and used to have a pretty gigantic crush on her. I mean I generally consider myself over it, or at least have given up on there ever being any chance of anything since the time for that has well and truly passed, but I guess these things always kind of linger around on some level. So I guess that could have triggered some kind of relapse, or at least stirred up feelings of regret and such. Then on top of that, just wandering around Melbourne all that time I was reminded of an old theory I had ages ago – “the girls are much prettier in Melbourne” (and the follow-up: “the ones in Sydney just think they are”). It still rings true 😛
I guess normally I’d vent about this sort of stuff with a particular group of friends, but our old bitching hole is kind of semi-abandoned now that most of them have lives, so there isn’t really an outlet for me to bellyache about these kinds of things any more.
Hey man, TAYbies are always here for you (and anyone else feeling down). Because we’re your friends 🙂
*brohug*
HATS. EVERYWHERE!
You’d be the propeller hat. Silly, but still make people smile 😛
I like to imagine that I’d be the hat made of potatoes. Incapable of coming up with a decent metaphor.
If you chip away at it you might get something ;D
I think i’d be right in saying TAY has helped more then a few people (including myself) through bad times… We’re always good for a chat/support/things…
when i say we’re, i of course mean they’re, because i’m a terrible person, But the rest of TAY is pretty damn cool
I know the feeling. I think I end up just wondering how fantastic alternate universe Gorzy is going in the universe where that worked out. Then I wish I was him, who is me but not me.
Alternate universe guys are just big fat jerks.
I totally had a mad case of the sads recently, but do you know what helped?
Talking to a pretty girl at work, who is so far out of my league that she’s in a different ball game.
Wait, that didn’t help me at all, now I feel even more lonely.
Sorry, I can’t approach things seriously, no matter how much I may relate. Sad and pathetic humour is all you’ll get from me!That’s ok, I’m the same way. Plus it got a good laugh out of me 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/ok-yes-i-am-interested-in-this-horror-adventure-game/
When this was announced I was so damn excited for this game and then I forgot it existed. Now I’m so damn excited about this game again. 😀
@mcgarnical mentioned The Raven on twitter before too. Looks pretty excellent!
I reckon we should bring back Harli, get her to reforge the Oar of Thorns, and then have a little oar button next to the upvote and downvote. Also, paddle some of the newer people around here.
And some of the older ones too…
I mean… NO, KEEP THAT OAR AWAY FROM ME!! I DIDN’T ENJOY IT IN THE SLIGHTEST!!!!!
I never did get to see The Oar.
I blame @rocketman.
ssssssshhhh not too loud, you never know where it’s hiding
*looks over shoulder*
i have escaped it this far, even when it was in it’s prime, IT AIN’T GETTING ME NOW!
I was never paddled, because I was there at it’s creation…
So now that I’ve gotten it to work, Trials Evolution is pretty good 😛 I wish I’d known about needing Uplay for it though. I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew that :S
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/3-million-in-gold-allegedly-smuggled-in-peoples-bums/
Have at it, Pun Brigade.
I can’t be arsed tonight, I’m too busy 🙁
I only just realised this was a pun 😛
#OhGreenius
Tell the truth. My upvote gave it away, right? 😛
Took me a minute too. It was pretty subtle 🙂
Haha yes it did <3
Bumasha 🙂
Niceassha 😛
Dude, you just talking shit tonight.
Something something nuggets.
Gotta love that liquid gold
You can change my kids’ nappies from now on, then.
i changed a nappy once…
i didn’t like it…
/True Story
Based on this, I am forced to conclude that you are…
Drum roll…Wait for it…One moreOr maybe two…You are…NORMALMy condolencesi demand a re-roll, that just doesn’t sound right
might have had something to do with my nephews impeccable aim…. little bastard sniped my leg while i wasn’t watching
On the one hand I’d like to. But on the other, I just want Bashcraft to shove it.
PS Vita first impressions:
Underwhelming to be quite honest. This will be my rant of the week, so please forgive me if this gets a little lengthy.I must say that I am not a fan of the new interface, X-cross media bar was much better, more fluid, likely because it was familiar. My first task was to insert the Memory Stick and download the ten free games. This became way more difficult than it should have been. Upon connecting to wifi, fairly painlessly, I was prompted to sign into the PSN. Easy, or so I thought. In went my details for my existing account, however the PSV told me that I could not sign in until I had updated the system. Sure, but then things got weird. I had to create a temporary account to do the update. WTF? So I have an existing account, but I have to create a temp account to update and get things rolling? First fail.
Precious time wasted on that exercise, then after the system updated, I thought I could now get into the downloading. Guess again. AFTER putting in my voucher code, I am told that I have too many devices activated to my PSN account. FFS. Yes, I have a PSP3000 and a PSP Go, but I’m not allowed more than two portable devices? Very annoying. So I have to deactivate an older device. BY POWERING UP THE OLDER DEVICE AND USING THAT Instead of letting me just pick out ones from a list, perhaps? Out came my PSP3000. Not happy. Second fail.
So, old device now deactivated, I wanted to proceed with my initial desire. Free games. After putting in the voucher code FOR THE SECOND TIME, ten games are on the way? Wrong. Another error. This time I get ‘not enough space for downloads’ on the memory card. Geez, really? It doesn’t make any sense that the ten games would not all fit on the provided 8GB card, so I look in to the downloads and what do I see? Each of the ten games in the queue trying to download THREE COPIES OF THEMSELVES. Well, that explains the lack of space. Fail three. And I’ve had enough.
I’m likely to be taking this thing back tomorrow, or trying to pawn it off on eBay. Not a good first impression, unfortunately. I really wanted to like this thing, but there wasn’t the same excitement that I had with the first PSP. Or the PSP3000. Or even the Go, for that matter. Sadly.
I just found the thing to be a chore, not an entertainment device. Anyone else have similar issues?
*My second task was to download P4G after seeing it in shops for $28. PSN price? $54. GAH!
I’m not because I didn’t buy one!
Yay for being an individual!
I can’t say I’ve had any issues other than personal preferences. Like you said, I can’t say I’m a fan of the whole “App” system the Vita has, but it still works. Downloading stuff on the Vita can also be troublesome which is why I download stuff on my PS3 and transfer it over. As for the deactivation thing, you might be able to do it online as I’m sure I deactivated my PS3 at the Sony website before (but I could be remembering it wrongly, or it could be different for handhelds), but I agree that whole limit thing is kind of stupid, especially if it’s for different devices that people are likely to have.All I can say is give it another go as it sounds like these things are just annoyances, but nothing really to do with the console and the actual games. Once you get past these initial problems and get some games running I’m sure you’ll love it, or at least get a proper feel for it. Just think about giving it another shot otherwise you might leave it on a bad note and regret it later on.Thanks Greenie. I think I will give it another go, just not now. I tend to do that a fair bit, it’s how I got my hands on the Go for WAY less than the launch day RRP. I’m usually late to the party and check things out like a few years down the track, haha.
I was going to email, but a TAY pick-me-up is always a good idea. You have Mario-esque consolations headed your way now. And they only cost 60c to post. \o/
YAY! \o/ Mario saves the day. Actually Shane saves the day.. 60c was the best part.
Don’t know about the temp account never had that.
I had to deactivate a system because I had 5 Sony systems already activated (3 PS3’s and 2 PSP’s) which is a massive pain because if you don’t have the system you can’t deactivate it. Meaning 2 PS3’s and one PSP are stuck there. Not sure what will happen when the PS4 is released. Won’t have room for it. Very silly system.
The app screen works better once you organise it. I’ve moved all the stuff ill never use (ie Near) to the bottom a few screens down and all the games on The top screen. Works quite well and handily.
Don’t give up because of a few teething problems. I didn’t have much faith in the system but now I’ve got it going I’ve enjoyed a lot on it. Only one game I didn’t like so far.
They have folders now so you can stick all that stupid shit into a folder then forget about it forever.
Take it back and buy a TV instead.
;P
This guy.
TVs have no games Pow.
Well the Smart TVs have some crappy ones but…Ugh I give up.
My old crt tv had tetris 😛
Ha ha, oh yeah, I remember some of the CRTs we had growing up having some rudimentary games hidden in the menus.
My first TV I purchased in 1998 was a 34cm CRT that had Space Invaders on it.
The initial setup experience on the Vita sucks, but it’s really the only part of it that’s crappy. Once you’ve got everything up and running it’ll be fine. You get used to the tile thingies eventually too, though the interface isn’t as nice as XMB.
Had my first Skype session with my Indonesian tutor. So much easier than doing it by phone.
@bdkiaf, @rize, @blaghman @mythamphetamine
Because you’re all useless at planning, I’m putting out a suggestion… how does 7pm at EB Woden sound? I think Woden works best for all you guys, doesn’t it? That way we’re near food, and we’re near cinemas, and we’re near shops and places to chill.
I’ll be picking up our
sacrificial lambvisitor from the airport at 6:30ish (or maybe a bit earlier) and we’ll make our way over there… barring any better suggestions.Yoyogi in Melbourne!
Not that one, the other one!
I’m sorry =(
Icebreaker. Successful icebreaker. Let’s leave it at that 😛
Also, it was my fault. A bit.
Totally.It was mine as I completely forgot there was two Yoyogi’s.
Nah, @dc ‘s fault.
Luckily Helpius thought it would be a good idea if at least one of us had Shane’s number 😛 (thanks @redartifice!)
Mine for not checking the address on the meat details! >:|
Edit: I’ll settle for it being @dc’s fault 🙂
There’s more than one Yoyogi? News to me.
There’s a Yoyogi!? News to me.
😛
One is a bain marie type set up and it’s in Melbourne central
I’m pretty useless, it’s true. I’ve still not packed completely o.0
I’ve brought up the idea of the Phoenix Bar in Civic followed by Zambrero (that’s totally happening one night, by the by.) but movies and …what’s the name of the place…
hang on :S
…
that one on the other side, the turkish place. Next to woolies. Yeaaaah.
Anyway, yeah, I’m easy either way 😀
Next person to vote gets the deciding vote. I’m abstaining because I’ve never been to any of these places 😛
WAT
My vote is for whatever.
#Helping
you live in Canberra and never had Zambreros?
YOU HAVEN’T LIVED AT ALL!
Well, now I’m just doubting all my life choices.
BRB, off to get divorced
you new-found devotion to Zambreros is admirable, but i would settle for you having a Burrito 😛
YOU @shane, you got some homework to do…
everything on Zambreros menu before the meat
AAAND GO!
I vow to get @shane drunk, and then we’ll consume ALL the Zambreros.
I’ll be driving, so that won’t happen. I’m up for eating, though! 🙂
Red Taxi or whatever it’s called.
Drive to event. Get trashed. Call company. They pick up both you, and your car. Get home safely.
Hangover.
@mythampetamine, my budget for the entire night is going to be about $30. I’m very good at watching other people get drunk, though 😀
@shane
My budget is possibly less. But whatever. It’s not about the alcohol, it’s about the company 😀
You guys should have Zambreros and then go see The Wolverine because he is badass.
If we end up in Woden and want to see a movie, The Wolverine is on at 8pm 2D and 9:30pm 3D.
Done!
That sounds like our plan, then. 7pm at EB Woden, and then we figure out our next moves.
BRING YOUR 3DS for Nerdpasses.
@bdkiaf, @rize, @blaghman
Found a copy of Kya: Dark Lineage on PS2 for $3.
\o/
I really liked that game. The wind mechanics were pretty good for general navigation and puzzle solving. Got a fair bit into it but never finished it.
I’ve been thinking of digging my PS2 out a lot lately. There are some games I want to replay and others I own but never finished.
Replay:
War of the Monsters
The warriors
Finish:
Sky oddysey-this game looked arcadey but it got really hard at points
Ghosthunter-a game by Sony Cambridge which was a really well done ghostbuster inspired third person game
Primal-another game by Sony Cambridge
SOS: The final Escape-a disaster game that looked crap even at the time of release but had some great concepts
Firefighter FD18- A konami game where you play as a firefighter. You even have ‘boss fights’ against different types of fire. Neat concept.
Thinking about my PS2 games I realise I was really open about my purchasing choices. I tended to look for different experiences. For example, I used to look at a game and ask myself whether I had ever played as a fireman before. No? Then buy this firefighter game. You play as a dolphin? Ok, buy this copy of Ecco the dolphin.
I would never have done this though had I not come into the PS2 generation very late. Most of these games were $5-$10 so an impulse purchase was easy to make.
Yeah, last generation of consoles really just went for it and tried new things.
That’s what I miss about the current generation of consoles. 🙁
Yeah, I was impressed by all the weird games there were on the PS2.
There are still some great experiences to be had this generation, maybe not at retail though.
Damn I’m so tempted to plug in my CRT now Crazyguy. 🙂
Too bad I’m working all weekend. 🙁
It should still work via AV input.
I have mine connected to a 32″ LCD tv and it doesn’t look too bad.
I’ll try it on my regular TV then. Maybe I’m just being afraid for nothing. I keep reading a bunch of stuff online about people complaining it looks bad on HDTVs. I rarely notice visual stuff though so it should be OK I guess. I’ll let you know how I go.
Hahah good one masha, that’s funny 🙂
Ha ha, you’re like a little demon on my shoulder 🙂
I’ll show you! One day, one day, I will finish a game
Started playing Asura’s Wrath.
I have no idea what the fuck is going on.Oh man, I own that, I should really play it.
I really wanted a crazy Dragon Ball Z like game and it seemed to be it. QTEs and all
I’ve played about 15 mins and so far I’ve shot hand lasers at a bunch of giant space squids and punched a planet to death.
Ha ha ha. Hopefully I get some time to start it. I’ve read it’s of average length too (5-6hrs) so it should fit with my schedule.
Typical Masha! 🙂
Disc or download? I’ve always wanted to borrow it from someone (next time :D)
The leech is strong with this one.
I have it on disc, I’ll lend it to you IF I ever start playing it 🙂
He’s fucking angry. That’s what’s going onHave you guys ever noticed how sequels aren’t as good as the original?
(Yes, my ships are attempting to eventually be a Sunshine reference.)
There are exceptions to that rule.
Edit: What is this game?
Kerbal Space Program. I made another video last night, showing just how great I am at it.
I liked the second more just because the ship design was hilarious.
Started The Witcher 2
– So glad i’m playing with a controller
– It would look really good on a decent comp. Mine, not so much.
It’s an absolutely stunning game on a high-end machine, still one of the best looking games out there.
Omg I can’t deal with this tiredness much longer. Can’t get into a doctor until next week, but want to persevere because anything’s better than being on steroids long-term anyway 🙁
Just saw an ad for a show about rednecks shooting icebergs called Iceberg Hunters. So it’s now official, tv has ran out of ideas.
Dem dere icebergs sunk the titanic, deys need to pay!
Those icebergs are hard to crack, for sure. We tried to find the one that did in the Titanic, but all we got was a cold shoulder. They’re freezing us out.
No.
Snow problem, I can stop whenever I want.
*melts*
😛
Jesus Christ this game just takes melodrama and just ratchets it past 11 into the stratosphere.
Also, I’ve been on it for half an hour and cleared 3 chapters but the actual game play time has been 3mins and 46 seconds according to the game clock. :S
Well, there’s a massive mark on the bottom of my copy of Kya: Dark Lineage, rendering it unplayable before I even get to the menu screen.
🙁
Taking it back tomorrow and getting my money back.
Finished one of my shameless gaming month goals \o/ Just in time for the end of the month.
Ys: Oath in Felghana completed
on the easiest difficulty because I am bad at video games and also a coward. Final boss was an utter asshole and I nearly ragequit. Fists were pumped when he went down.I doubt I’ll finish my other goal (Atelier Rorona) before July ends but going to try!
Going back to work after a few weeks off has been a real downer for me and then I have a browse though TAY and see a few more sad posts.
Quick, someone post something cheerful!
My shitty mood has improved! WOO HAPPINESS!!
Oh my god what even is this why would anyone invent this time like seriously not even the yappy dogs next door are yapping right now I mean come on let me sleep T.T
Oh, right.
My actual reason for posting.
Could someone be so kind as to provide @bdkiaf with my phone number in a safe and secure fashion please? I’ll be incognito for a while, though active on twitter sporadically.
So… no different from usual, I suppose 😛
@BDKIAF IT’S 0498274355.
Oops not private.
I’m sorry if this random series of numbers turns out to actually be someone’s phone number 😛Called it…
She sounds hot
I’ll shoot him da emailz now.
Travel safe, man! 🙂
Rayman Legends is now on PC. I’m still too lazy to cancel my Wii U pre-order 😛
Does the Wii U version even have anything new/different? :/
something something on the gamepad maybe? 😛
@rize @cakesmith @aleph-null
You are all terrible people and i couldn’t stop laughing last night…
and now all i can think of is
“I COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER”
…
I WOKE UP WITH THAT IN MY HEAD!
so well played sirs… well played
wait… @alephnull ?
@dc – I NEED YOU
@mythalephamphetanullaminerobertjohnreginaldthefirst
(@mythamphetamine :P)
#helpius
i get confused with all these names
OMG! Dynasty Warriors 8 has online co-op! How have I only found this out now?!
Haven’t played a “Warriors” game in years, but I loved previous DW games. Definitely going to pick up DW8 at some point!
Anyone else keen? @jordi @hindenlagen
What are the other Warrior games like, like Warriors Orochi? I think I’ve only played the first Samurai Warriors.
They’re mostly the same.
Button mashy OP goodness.
Co-op dynasty warriors sounds like some silly fun. Never really got into them but I imagine an addition like that could help.
They always had local co-op and I have fond memories of playing it with a friend. He moved away ages ago though so I’ve always liked the idea of online co-op 😀
I was going to buy it on Wednesday but I didn’t have a jb hifi 20% off voucher.
Aww, I was going to wait until it was cheap 😛
Why are they so expensive!? Also download the Japanese voices.
But I want to hear them say “COW COW”!
As of DW7 they actually hired someone who knew something about pronunciation. They actually call him the more appropriate “tsao tsao” now. They still spell it Cao Cao of coarse.
I was turned of by DW7, but all reports indicate the DW8 is really good. I’m keen but wary. If I see it cheap I’ll snap it up 🙂
Lemme know when it’s cheap and we can be friends <3
I know you’re a huge Warriors fan, but is that just for Samurai, or also Orochi? Do they both play similarly to past DW games? I think I’ve only played DW3-5
Other than DW, I’ve only played Samurai Warriors Chronicles on the 3DS. That game is AMAZING. It was the dynasty warriors game I always wanted but never got this generation. Almost as good as DW5!!
But 3DS! I’ve wanted a good “next-gen” (which is now current/past gen :P) DW game with online for agesss. Apparently 6 and 7 weren’t too good so 8 is godsend!
I actually secretly liked 6. The “renbu” combat system was hated, but I quite liked it. My only disappointment was that it was to repetitive (Which is really is something coming from a Dynasty Warriors fan!). Character moveset cloning was wrong on too many levels. Don’t even get me started on the moveset cloning in DW7 *shudder* *shudder* *vomit*
I have the Japanese samurai warrior s for ps3 and it is amazing. I love it heaps
I live my life to Asian history inspired rock music
Thought of the day,
If you guys come from a land down under,
do i come from a land up over?
… that had to be a page get didn’t it /o\
oh god… Remember me is slowly coming true!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23447600
What? no, no, no, no.
Obviously it means Total Recall is becoming true.
That too… But which version? The old one or the remake?
I like the Remember Me reference, cause it’s better than Total Recall.
…no
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403981/
SOMETIMES IM FINISHED EARLY!
Join us this week, as we try desperately to justify our friendship through stories of incest, sperm donation & the Emmy award winning show Friends.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/07/26/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e16-were-friends/
LISTEN, COMMENT, TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
And remember next Friday August 2nd at 7:30pm, Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist will be live!
Tune into the Livestream at http://tinyurl.com/livegeist
Early Zeitgeist! It feels like Christmas cum early.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm
Christmas*licks Lips*
Good ep, guys. First half totally felt like something you might hear in Clerks: The Podcast. Hope that’s praise.
So. Metro Last Light. Fantastic game – just a much more refined version of 2033, really, but I loved it.
One problem though – that story. What the fuck? Then, the ending? I’m pretty sure I got the ‘bad’ ending, but oh my god. How do they put such short, lazy endings in a fairly big name title like that? Also, how is it we still have shitty endings for certain moral choices? Apparently the ‘good’ ending is much better and more comprehensive. So I get shafted because I was a vengeful soul? Fucking annoying.
Also doing the Elite Four on B2 as we speak. If I finish that, brings my finished games for the last week or two up to four. Bioshock Infinite, Metro 2033, Metro Last Light, and Pokemon Black 2.
Shadowrun Returns dropped today. \o/
Curious if it’s anything like Stalker in that there’s like 8 false endings, 2 or 3 correct endings based on actions. False endings could be avoided easily in the last few hours of the game. I liked that method.
Might have to look a bit further into it. I was under the assumption there was only two endings, but you might be right.
The ending ruined Last light for me … well that and the swamp sections, but I’ll probably never play it again.
I tend to play stealthy non violent types if possible and while I loved being homeless russian batman skulking around in the shadows, forced combat shits me off. I still got the bad ending because the hoops you need to jump through for the non canon ending were hidden somewhere up the metros arse. I really hope they don’t make any more
DATE NIGHT
im going to spend the weekend watching anime/tv and filming/writing TAYfilm shit. Should be pretty fun. Script writing is something i really enjoy even if im poop at it.
UUUHHH Date night… that’s exciting…
where are you going? what’re you wearing? what’re you doing? sexted her yet? DETAILS MAN I NEED DETAILS!!!
Tl;dr did you send her a pic of your junk?
Decent ice-breaker that’s for sure!
#pixelisexcellentwiththemdames
That hashtag has sexcellent in it. Context is right. I approve 😛
… THAT WAS COMPLETELY INTENTIONAL CAUSE I’M THAT COOL
*hair flick*
We are eating at a mexican place near my work, im wearing t-shirt and jeans. No i haven’t sexted her. I haven’t really texted her either other than to confirm plans. I have been burned too many times in text conversation so i just meet people and see how they are.
Sounds nice, and makes perfect sense my good man!
Well enjoy, have funsies!
Just remember our advice from last night.
I think the more important advice comes right now:
Probably ignore half of our advice from last night.
Half? I’d say all.
Who has played Soul Bubbles?
Everyone should play Soul Bubbles.
I LOVED soul bubbles. No one else seems to understand my love for it. Easily one of my favourite games on DS.
The only reason I didn’t lend it to Shane is because I didn’t know if he would like it as I seem to like a lot of games other people don’t.
You are now my favouritest person ever. Like, you don’t even know.
It just amazes me how people aren’t willing to give it a go. =(
I saw it in target and picked it up on the box art alone. I played and played and played until I completed it. Love everything about it. Mechanics, music, art, everything.
imma have to give this a go now, don’t i?
Do you have a DS? I’m happy to lend it to you.
did a quick google search and it does look interesting, i might borrow it of you one day =D
I want to finish off some of the games i got going at the moment first though so i’ll keep you posted?
Sure just let me know. It’s not going anywhere.
Haha yeah, there used to be a billion copies of it sitting in Target for all of $10-$15. All of them have disappeared, yet it seems like still nobody has played it.
Totally with you, everything about it was just amazing. Especially loved how it kept changing it up with new mechanics in each world, it was pretty much the first time I ever actually got thinking about that kind of thing.
Probably because it looks like shovelware. I’m sure if people actually played it they’d enjoy it.
I can’t remember why I first played it but I think it got a good review or something, so I looked it up and it looked good.
I’m sure if you gave Shane (or anyone else) the game they wouldn’t just throw it away and go “AWW HELL NAW”, but would give it a go 😛
Well I might lend it to him after he finishes the other games =P
OH YEAH AND THE BEST PART ABOUT THE GAME!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vg2SEZfWIz4/TKeV3OWXqMI/AAAAAAAAFhA/LHDI6udvGwQ/s1600/NTR-P-YLEE-010.jpg
Tell me of this ‘Soul Bubbles’
It’s a unique puzzle game. You wear different masks to lead the bubbles with souls in them from one point to another. Souls will not last long outside of a bubble so it’s all about caring for them.
Is it still possible to get it anywhere? Quick OGS / DC / EB search turned up nothing.
There is 3 copies on eBay
I’ve played Soul Bubbles.
I haven’t finished Soul Bubbles.
REVERSE TACO CONVERSATION (unless you haven’t finished it either? :P)
if it’s a reverse taco, won’t the filling just fall out of the bottom?
OH GOD THE FOOD TALK CONTINUES
I HAVEN’T HAD BREAKFAST AND I’M HUNGRY, YOU’RE A MONSTER
I HUNGRY MONSTER…
FOOD MONSTER…
COOKIE MONSTER?
I HAVEN’T HAD COOKIES IN AGES :'(
Impromptu Effort to Rectify Lack of Cookie Meat?
also known as IERLCM?
we need emergency protocols like that for situations like this!
Now I want to eat so many cookies and McDonalds for breakfast :P, none of which I have!
ughhhhhhhh whyyyyyyyyyyy dooo youuuuuuu toooorrrrrttturrrrrreeeee mmmmmeeeeeeeeeee Pixellllllllllllllll????????????????????????
BECAUSE I’M FETHING HUNGRY!!!!
(@chuloopa is not here so i’m keeping Feth alive)
PLUS I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA WITH EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS AND SH!T
Damn you for making me want a taco and/or a burrito..so good
Well do i have news for you good sir…
Melbourne has no less then 4 (read that 4!!!!) Zambrero stores, with 2 more to come!
AAAAND GO!
Where are these zambrero’s you speak of good sir
http://www.zambrero.com/index.php/locations/?loc=vic
dooo eeeet.
Imagine Mexican Subway! where the subs are burritos… so tasty!
They are all in the city :(( damn you city!!
You are a monster. =(
Not only have I finished it, I have 100% completed it.
TOTAL TACONIC REVERSAL!
KAPOWWWWW FATALITYYYYY
EDIT: (also no one knows what we’re talking about :D)
I completed it, but I didn’t 100% it. I’m sorry /o\ My skill is not that good
That’s ok, you’re still better than @greenius.
I’m DaBest.
Also Scree didn’t know who Manny Calavera was :O!
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASP
*thud*
@dc
Cheap shot
Nah, it was related to our recent taconversations. I was going to say she hasn’t played Xenoblade either but then she has 😛
YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED XENOBLADE THOUGH AND YOU’D REALLY LIKE IT, OMG WORST PERSON IN EXISTENCE.
@greenius what’s a Xenoblade?
*runs off*
Nobody did!
Except @blaghman, but then he didn’t say hello anyway.
No, I mean the character himself, not the guy full of hatred behind the mask. 😛
I have played Grim fandango Greenius. I just thought it was Adventure time related and I couldn’t remember it.
Okay, you’re alright then! <3
@strange !
*shakes fist*
PLAY XENOBLADE AGAIN PLS 🙂
Are you getting Xillia? I still haven’t played Graces >_>
I’ll be getting Xillia eventually. Want to get Vesperia first. And I still haven’t played Ni No Kuni….
@strange throw them all out the window and play Xenoblade 😛
You’ve never played Vesperia? :O Luckily for you I’m pretty sure they reprinted them a while ago so it’s like $40 new, or on Xbox on Demand or something. I remember trying to find a copy and it was rare (and thus expensive) 🙁
Vesperia is probably my favourite out of the ones I’ve played 😀 (Phantasia, Destiny, Eternia, Symphonia, Legendia, Abyss)
You didn’t 100% it?! I’m sure Tacs is going to drop you from the favouritest person ever position 😛
Also NNTA
for anyone keeping taps/care,
Sis has still not had the baby 🙁
Her water broke last Friday and she’s been having contractions but butt-all has been happening.
Baby and her is fine, not stressed or anything but yeah…
They’re waiting a little longer but are considering inducing her to get it going
I thought they would of already induced her if its been a week, hope everything goes alright.
Nah, european system is a little different when it comes to “pro-active” solutions.
They believe to encourage natural cause of things, which means if there’s no complications, then let it happen naturally, no matter how long it takes
That’s really weird.
eeeeyup /o\
so now we wait
Tell her to hurry up
I told her to jump on a trampoline to get it going… she was not keen on that for some reason
Selfish, selfish, selfish
Tonight I’m going to watch my money dissapear! As I’m going to an Indian restraunt for dinner and going bowling. Why must everything be so expensive!
Because apparently, they need it more then you do.
Indians go bowling, and bowling alley people eat Indian too!
Prove it! I want to see your calculations of how they need it more than me
Worth it, because Indian.
Getting me some butter chicken
Was gonna be all you should try something different thats what everyone gets… then I was like what am I saying, everyone gets it because its amazing
But Chicken Tikka Masala :'(
I’ve had some good chicken tikka masala, but never one as good as good butter chicken
Madras all the way
Hot as they’ll make it Vindaloo, Indian curries should leave you crying and high on chilli or you’re doing it wrong 😛
My god the 24 hours-after regret…
#ringoffire
My bro made a facebook post saying he had booked 3 hours of pain on a specific day
A asked if he was going out to have Indian for dinner the night before
He didn’t understand /o\
cc @pixel_the_ferret_viking
hehe…
hehehehehehehe…
PIXEL.GETS.JOKES
I don’t think I’ve ever had butter chicken or “Indian food” 😛
(some Indian stuff probably crosses over with Asian/Malaysian food, which I’ve had – but I don’t go to Indian restaurants)
Technically that’s a Scottish food, not Indian 😛
Lamb rogan josh? I’ve had most of the menu from this place haha
Last time I went to an Indian Restaurant we ordered a round of $5 Pistacho ice-creams for dessert. “Five dollars for ice cream? This is going to be great!” we thought.
Waiter brought each of us a small plate with a 50-cent-sized sliver of pretty ordinary ice cream on it.
Haven’t gone back since 😛
O_O They are Monsters!!!
Heh, these Fire Emblem chibis are pretty great http://akimiya.deviantart.com/art/Fire-Emblem-Awakening-Stickers-388127954
DYNASTY WARRIORS REPOST:
So I found out Dynasty Warriors 8 has online co-op. Yessssssssssssssssss
Has anyone else played them before and is keen for the new one? I’m definitely interested in picking it up now, but I’ll need(ius) co-op buddies <3
I’ve played Keen before. Invasion of the Vorticons I think it was.
COMMANDER KEEN \o/
i like you now
*sits closer to @benny*
Such a good old school game, that kid and his crazy ray gun
There was a guy dressed as Keen at PAX AUS… i high-fived him…
/true story
Now we must frame your hand for memories
i haven’t washed it since!
i loved them back on my uber powerfull 286 PC with it’s mindblowing 1 mb ram and 40mb hard drive capacity.I used to play 1, 2 & 3 heaps then later got one of the newer ones, can’t rmember the name but it had like twice the number of grafiks.
Remember the final boss in number 3, that thing was crazy, with them big stompy feet
This guy.
Although I love Commander Keen too 😀
Also, what’s the deal with “Empires” again? I think I’ve played 4 Empires but it’s been so long I can’t even remember what it was like
(@jordi @hindenlagen @bish)
The “Empires ” spin-offs are more about you creating your own kingdom. basically you start with a few officers and work toward conquering the nation. It doesn’t follow the “Romance of the three kingdoms” story line at all, except for starting locations. I find the “Empires” games quite refreshing, as there is an out of battle tactics and strategy component.
Hmmmmmmmmmm 😀
Maybe I’ll just get DW8 and if I like it, I’ll also get DW8 Empires. I didn’t really want to get “the same game twice” but it seems different enough!
I just thought about getting DW7 Empires now, (or an older one) then get DW8 down the line, but I don’t want to get too fatigued by the Warriors games yet :P. It’s been years since I last played them and Dynasty Warriors 5 was probably my last one. But I don’t think DW7 has online so maybe DW8 Empires will 😀
OMG WARRIORS HYPE
Ugh, Spamius.
ARE YOU GOING TO BUY THIS GAME, CAKESMITH?
YOU BUY EVERYTHING.
I’m keen if I can find it cheap (so far I’ve seen it for $72 at jb)
Tempted to buy it, but I already have all the no time for games.
I’m so excited people want to get this game we should all get matching jackets and drift our cars down mountain paths
I have a green hoodie, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Greenius has one too, so I guess we are halfway to being some sort of of hoodie gang of drifters.
But you’re so bad at being Asian you probably can’t even drift.
I bet he drives within the speed limits
Yeah, I do 😛
Who’da thunk?
Summer Games Done Quick is on. Time to watch people play games you struggled through and finish them in under an hour!
Finally got around to seeing some of the potaku stuff. That joust video… @masha2932, being a good sport there! Man, you’re an awesome guy you know that. Also all you needed to do was hold yours straight up into the air and you had that in the bag.
Ha ha, thanks a lot for the kind words Sughly. Great way to start my day. Awwww 🙂
You’re awesome too but you already knew that 😉
Yeeeaaah ^^
There’s some weird people on this site.
One time I put a crayon in my nose and forgot how to read.
Someone here once masturbated to de Blob with a DualShock controller.
I don’t remember using a DualShock controller…
That’s crazy talk.
The Wiimote is much more versatile.
all…those…colours… HHHHNNNNNGGG
… o/
Like the Freeze guy?
Especially that Freeze guy. The hell is wrong with him?
Example?
… other than Zeitgeist.
(Edit: Disregard)
Finally bothered going to the doctors yesterday. Apparently I’ve managed to cause physical damage to my throat from drinking and karaoke on the weekend. Nothing serious, just have to wait for it to heal.
Totally worth it.
“drinking and singing” eh… that’s what we call it now?
At least he sang. You jerk.
I SANG FINAL COUNTDOWN…
i just had stage fright… AND I’M SORRY THAT I DON’T KNOW YOUR NATIONAL ANTHEM 😛
And to think I went to so much trouble learning yours:
pfft if you’re going to insult me, at least get it right:
😛
I thought it was too obvious.
And mine had the added insult of not getting your country right.
Touché good sir, Touché,
now excuse me while i go cry in my room… JD style…
Pleasure myself, weep aaand repeat – John Dorian
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
3 days later…
http://i.imgur.com/vqHVeQf.png
oh @cakesmith, i didn’t know you had a camera outside of my house…
that’s.. that’s creepy dude
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
It was a necessary precaution:
http://i.imgur.com/mwFnhP1.jpg
Gurren Lagann talk, spoilerised:
Watched the episode last night where the guys get lured to a bath house by a beast lady, and the bath house is actually a gunman. I haven’t laughed so hard at an anime episode in a long time. So much nudity and hilarity ensued I had to stop eating my dinner because I was worried I’d choke.This show is seriously starting to grow on me.Goddamn it. Why did I click that spoiler. Now it’s ruined.
Only have myself to blame.
Now you just look like a crazy person.
*backs away slowly*
Is that like ep 9 or something, the spa one? I can’t remember the details of the episode but that spa scene with the “hole” was hilarious!Yes. That one. So funny.
Simon spending half the episode with Boota attached to his crotch as well.*tents hands*
yess. you are close. you arreee cloooosee
Indeed, only a few more episodes until one of the most memorable episodes in the whole series.
For those wanting to throw some kudos noms my way, send them to konkretejunglist(at)gmail(dot)com
Wheeeee
Wait. Are you asking us to Nom you there?
Dude, you gotta be subtle about it.
NOM ME FOR BJ’sssss
You’re confident about your date aren’t you.
You got a free date, you used up all your good karma
My memory is hopeless, I cant remember who was watching Attack on Titan any more T_T but, anyone up to the most recent, 14? I thought…
ep 14 was a pretty cool guy. I felt like it was a proper return to form, reminded me of the earlier eps in terms of quality in a lot of areas – animation, character, writing etc. Really dug the whole courtroom thing, was coooool. Cant wait to see them venture out to recapture the outer wall (wall rose? I already forgotted ^^) woop woop! Oh and yeah, new song! I like it, animation in the new intro is tres cool, but its got nothing on the old one. Ah well!You liking it is a spoiler?
Ahaha! Hmmm… good point. No but, well, there’s spoilerish stuff in there! Kinda. SHUTUP!
I only just got that show, im so excited to start watching.
Yess! I’ll totally forget youre watching though. I had a full convo with at least 2 others about it and cant remember who they are for the life of me. But yeah, I’m really really loving it, having been as into a series as this for a long while. Definitely has its share of filler eps though, just fyi
There is a little to much dramatization for me (little blond dude bitching and crying all the time) but I guess that’s expected in an anime. Other than that really digging it – the whole ‘titan’ concept is a breath of fresh air.
Yaaaa, but I like where the idea of his character is coming from, and I think it prevails in the end. You see the latest ep..?
I don’t know how to spoiler….
Haha! <‘s’> and then <‘/s’> to close it, without the ‘
In that case:
I liked that there is contention about the fate of Eren – He wasn’t plainly accepted as being mankinds new hope but fear-mongering and rumors stirred up parts of the population into thinking he would turn on them. There is obviously corruption within the Royal Guards (who seem to take the most resources and do the least) and looking forward to seeing how the Recon Corps revolution comes about. I think they introduced the church of the wall people for a reason – Guess we’ll have to wait and see if they come into play.Oh yeah – Levi is badass.
Oh yeah! I meant to bring up all of that haha, I loved basically everything you brought up.
All those politics being introduced are really really interesting. Really excited to see where it all goes, specially the church stuff – like you say, it was introduced for a reason… Also, it was a subtle thing, but I quite liked the way they showed Eren’s thought process during it all, the way it kind of overrode people talking and you got to hear what he was thinking. Was a clever way of introducing things like the church peoples too. ARGH, love it.also you were totally one of the people I already talked to about this show and forgot arent you ^^v
Just for kicks since were on the subject – love this opening so much. Gon miss it :'( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyc6UA2oAgE
I was watching it but I got frustrated with the pacing and I’m now 6-7 eps behind 🙁
Heads up and a semi apology from me:
I’m probably going to get a bit erratic and odd over the next week and will probably end up saying something stupid and offensive to someone. If I do please don’t take it seriously. I have my fitness test in a week and I consider it one of the most important days in my life as its the first time when I’ve actually carried through with something that I really want to do with my life. I’m only borderline with being able to pass and getting really nervous and agitated about it. Gear of failure and being trapped in a life I don’t want and all that. So uh yeah. Probably best to just ignore me for a while.That’s okay, i’m used to getting unnecessariy yelled at XD
we still love you…
Best of Luck!
All the best, man. Will be sending all the good vibes and energy your way. All of it.
On the day, you might find that adrenaline makes the whole thing seem like a billion times easier. #biggingyouup
Hey dickhead, i offend people all the time, its cool there is enough love to sustain us through the bad times.
Also you can do it, I BELIEVE IN THE HEART OF FREEZE.
What’s the fitness test for Freeze? And don’t stress you will do great just stay calm and collected and you’ll smash it
After a brief stint as Batman, Freeze has decided to become the next Commissioner Gordon instead.
Remember when he went to that dodgy house and we all were worried he would die???
good times
Didn’t he end up getting punched or something like that?
That’s our Freeze
*canned laughter*
BATMAN \o/
wooow that was a long time ago…
you have a good memory
Dude, you don’t forget the goddamn Batman.
He’s not the Hero that TAY wants… But the hero that TAY needs
As a straight answer it would be the QLD Police. Their fitness requirements are around double any other state.
Chill.
Best of luck. Try not to stress too much, even though it’s important.
If you’re currently borderline I suspect adrenaline will punt you well over the line on the day.
Mate of mine went through all this a couple of years ago. He was no athlete. Had a gut. Jogged in Converse All-Stars. Got through without much difficulty.
Good luck, Freeze! I still believe in you… still…
“Heads up and a semi”
Heh.
Time for Yellowius to shine? 😛
Back in Perth!
firstly, an apology.
i’m so sorry i didn’t get to see a lot of you guys while in melbourne, Pax and the rest of my time in melbourne was so much more hectic than i expected. i feel pretty bad that i didn’t make it to the meat at PAX.
However, the meat last thursday at bar robot was great fun, and it was awesome to meet the guys i saw there, had some fun conversations :).
as for PAX, it was awesome, spent a lot of money, wont spend much time on it.
My highlight of the trip though was getting to drink with the rooster teeth guys at the after party, i even managed to get jack (from achievment hunter) to record a message for my friend. they also had RWBY shots, which where 4 shots, one Red, one White.. etc…. i had all of them… it was a fun night.
also, if anyone wished they could see me, you guys should watch this weeks episode of Adam Hills tonight, i got tickets to it and told them about my great-grandfather inventing the pavlova, turns out they based nearly the whole episode around the pavlova, and i got talked to 😛
TL;DR: so sorry i didn’t see some people at melbourne, however the trip was awesome.
It’s okay. We streetpassed.
I SAW!!!!
i was back at my hotel and saw alexpants!
at least we met in streetpass spirit.
I think we street passed too! Except my name is just “Joel” (green shirt, Luigi hat or Pipe)
I met you at Bar Robot!
The invention of pavlova is a pretty controversial topic.
believe me, i know….
Welcome back to the awesome Perth weather!
Everyone’s apologising! I’m not sorry for noone, you guys are jerks
I’m sorry that Sughly said this, everyone.
IM sorry you had to apologize for his regrettable behaviour.
I regret nothing what are you saying
Maybe I should have been apologising too… Sorry I missed out, guys.
Edit: or maybe it’s ALSO day:
Apologise Like @scree, Okay!
I wasn’t apologising to you dickman.
I’m sorry. That was unnecessary. .
Maybe you should apologise for not working on your game, dickman.
Not that I’m going to buy it.
I already bought the first part.Totally trying to find distractions this morningggg blergh
http://www.galactic-cafe.com/kanye/
Hahaha, what is going on! This is pretty great
The best bit is that the tweets are real Kanye tweets.
Oh wow
Oh god, what have I done. /o\
I’m sorry, I’ve started the apocalypse. Next thing you know everyone will be apologising.
I’m sorry that you feel sorry for that
Apologicalypse.
Doc reccommended “life of a pixel” to me last night for my shiny VITA
its crazy good, controls are tight, graphics are cute and awesome.
it follows the life of a pixel going through the various consoles.
HIGHLY WORTH IT its like $3.50 on the playstation mobile shop
That would be a very ordinary game…
but very cool there’s a game about me…
#involved
congrats on the Vita, mine is pretty much attached to my hands any time I have a spare moment, and earphones mean i can be the best hermit ever.
Morning all,
For those playing along from last night, I’d gone out to a work function thing at a place made of trampolines … although I didn’t get all jumpy, I did get to film it all and sweet merciless babies was that fun. First everyone went into this massive free jumping area and I saw about 5 collisions, mid air slide tackles and one case of Johnny the wandering Alzheimer patient style tackling. Next up was dodge ball and it ended with several of the developers facing off against the general manager … it was like watching that scene from platoon, but with more balls and jumping.
Finally everyone got to dive into a massive foam pit, there were flips and flops and one dude got stuck in the foam pit for a good five minutes. Plus I got some free socks that don’t actually fit on my feet.
After I got to laugh at everyone, we all piled into the cars and drove maybe 300 metres to this place called the pizza gallery. Damn that was good pizza, there might’ve also been some drinking that made me late getting into work this morning.
All in all, fun was had, people were laughing at me for not jumping but considering I’m the only one in the office who isn’t limping this morning I’d consider it even
Your job.
I want it.
But … it’s mine, hell I only got the job because of a throw away line in my resume about responsible use of stanley knives around children from when I worked at woolies. They’ll have to drag my corpse out of here before I give this job up.
Telltale spills some more details about The Walking Dead Season Two. Even the link is spoiler tagged for the sensitive.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-22-blank-will-return-in-the-walking-dead-season-twoThis spoiler tag is a response to the news and probably does contain legit spoilers:
I don’t know how I feel about this. I’m a strong advocate of there being no crossover between season 1 and 2. No more Clementine, and certainly no more Kenny. But I console myself: maybe they come back as zombies. Or maybe they’ll only be in it for two minutes. Maybe I should just trust Telltale… for now.inFamous spoilers on the front page. Be ware!
YAAAAAY!
So the Deveo-Lass is going to be away for work all next week. I’m already making plans on turning my place into a LAN center for the duration. Any suggestions on good multiplayer LAN games for 4-8 people? Preferably older games so they are easier to ‘distribute’ across the network – I’m already thinking an eight-member run through Diablo 2 is in order.
UT GOTY is a classic that cannot be missed
4v4 Assault would be pretty epic.
NO INVITE???
IM HURT AND OFFENDED
😛
You can come down if you want. I guessed you would have work though.
FarCry, Diablo 2, Dawn of War, Call of Duty 1 and 2, Command and Conquer (Generals is great), Quake, Homeworld 2, Vietcong, BF1942/Desert Combat, Battlefield Vietnam are all brilliant over LAN. All older games that can easily be ‘distributed’ and will run on just about anything. I used to work at an internet cafe/LAN centre, and those games remained hugely popular even after stuff like Modern Warfare came out.
Homeworld 2 \o/
SO MANY GOOD TIMES
Dawn of War is fun as heck at LANs, just ask @Zetrox2k 🙂
yeah you kinda have my bro-in-law’s hooked on it. they’ve been playing it non stop… i joined in a session last night and thought i had everyone, then it turns out that christian (Unloyal) had a second base hidden in another corner, so whilst i was scoutting around for remnants of any lone troops, he started ttacking my base with full force…. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?!?
*evil grin* It has begun
Flatout 2 is loads of fun and relatively low spec… only about a 2gb file (about 1.2gb rared from memory)
HaloCE is heaps of fun…. especially with all the custom maps.
Quake 3 and UT 2004 is fun fast and frantic MP.
COD5:WAW has a fun coop mode.
Minecraft?
Man, these trailers for Gravity are fucking terrifying.
I saw one on the big screen before Pacific Rim yesterday. Oh man, looked so damn good. I can’t wait to see it and there’ll be a definite meat. 😀
Holy… these trailers are really impressive. Didn’t realise I was holding my breath the whole time :\
It’s going to be 88 minutes long and is apparently pretty much this the entire time. I don’t know if I can take that.
I can’t hold my breath that long 🙁
Edit: more seriously, how could it possibly go for 88 minutes? Still, I’m gonna put all my faith in Alphonse, partly because his name is cool, but mostly because his direction rocketed Children of Men firmly into my top five movies of all time.
My most anticipated movie for the year. Start your media blackout, you don’t want to spoil any more! 😀
AAaaaargh! I wasnt going to watch these and then I couldnt take it any more! Figure also theyre gonna be before films at the cinema anyhoo. Oh maaaan, so good
Just in case you missed the post: inFamous spoilers on front page. Be warned!
Just for confirmation, do you mean inFamous as in the first game? (or Second Son/other?)
Spoilers for the end of inFamous 2.
Edit: Headline and picture have been changed.
The URL is still the original headline though. SO DON’T READ THAT.
ALEPHCAN’DMEATPEOPLE
Tonight. 7pm.
EB Woden. Jump off from there.
Required:
@Bdkiaf @rize @blaghman @shane @mythamphetamine
Optional:
Everyone else
You going to talk to EB girl? >:|
😀
On @blaghman’s behalf.
*Adds Blaghman’s name to the list.*
Is this when I clarify and point out that that EB has 2 girls on the normal staff, as well as a female manager? Or does that ruin the joke?
Radical.
Also, you guys made the decision to watch The Wolverine while I was watching The Wolverine. So I’ll skip on that part. I’m down for some eats though.
I don’t much care for superhero flicks. Maybe the plan will change now that two of us have no reason to see it! 🙂
It is pretty good though. I recommend seeing it.
I didn’t like Avengers, Iron Man, or any of the first three X-Men films. Odds that I’ll like this…? 😛
Do you like Hugh Jackman? Also ninjas?
Edit: TRICK QUESTIONS! Everyone likes Hugh Jackman and ninjas!
I’ll tell you tomorrow, I guess 😛
I’ll go along if everyone else does, because sheep.
Also social.
Also, I shouldn’t judge things without seeing them! 🙂
The only real complaint I have about it is it isn’t violent enough. It’s pretty obvious that they were shooting for a lower rating. Wolverine feels like he deserves a movie without that kind of restraint.
It’s about 1000x better than Origins though.
If you come watch it a second time I’ll give you a popped corn.
Alternatively, there’s probably other movies available.
It’s cool, it works out well since I’ve got other commitments after dinner anyway.
You guys will just have to watch shirtless Hugh Jackman without me.
For asecond I thought that said Aleph Can’t Meat People. 😛
Time will tell.
I went to the doctor’s this morning. They changed my prescription. Blergh. Got another appointment in two weeks. I went seventeen years without seeing a doctor and it’ll be four times in six weeks. *shakes fist*
Can we give you gifts yet?
Nope! >:|
😛
booooo!
WHY WON’T YOU LET ME LOVE YOU WITH MATERIAL POSSESSIONS?
*mentally hugs Pixel again*
Better? 😀
aw shugs…
I CAN’T STAY MAD AT YOU!
Can we give you hugs?
Mental hugs!
HA HA, GOT YOU DC. I CLASSIFY HUGS AS GIFTS.
YOU JUST GOT GIFT’D.
That’s my new show. Gift’d.
see, there’s a camera there, and there and there… you sir, was just gift’d
i’d watch that… new Potaku series incoming?
Somebody has to give out all these undelivered Kudos prizes, after all.
The first episode is just us looting Mark’s house for prizes.
@alexpants
and rucks up at @dc ‘s house to give it all to him?
I think @dc will really appreciate Mark’s living room lamp.
Did better than me, i tried to give the gift of laughter.
Yeah, gotta be careful around this @alexpants guy.
Sometimes he’ll just run up to you and hug you and then run away to catch his bus before you even begin to fathom how much mental scarring he’s just inflicted on you.
He should be arrested.
Ah, good times.
You should know I haven’t slept since.
@bish
Other people hugged you too. Not sure if proud or sad that I’m the worst one…
Nothing wrong with seeing a doctor! I’ve needed to see one all week and putting it off made things much worse >_>
Got an appointment tonight though. DOCTOR BUDDIES!
Hope it goes well, my friend! Actually it’s not so bad that the doctor knows me now. They remember me and feels pretty informal and my hands don’t shake any more…
You too, my friend! Although I’ve kinda successfully fixed the problem by performing “surgery” on myself 😛
I’ve been seeing the same couple of local doctors since I was a wee baby 🙂
*shakes ineffectual old lady fist in solidarity*
MY GAME PLAN THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT:
3DS:
– Finish Luigi’s Mansion 2
then go back to Fire Emblem and Kid Icarus
PC:
– Finish Trine then possibly try to play Trine 2 again
– Finish Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please! but I might give up on them, fun though! I do feel like adventure gaming, might possibly start Deponia or go back to Monkey Island 😀
might finally start Sleeping Dogs
iOS:
– Finish up all the extra in-app purchased Where’s My Water levels
Vita:
– I still want to play Uncharted and Gravity Rush but ceebs
Wii U:
– Pikmin 3 soon!
PS3:
– Tales of Xillia soon!
I want to play some PS+ games so I might start Bulletstorm after
VIDYA GAEMS, SRS BZNS
Upvote because you correctly guessed that I don’t care.
CARED ENOUGH TO READ THE FIRST FEW WORDS <3
Should I finish Pikmin 2 before starting Pikmin 3? I’m thinking maybe.
Haven’t you finished it but are right near the end of going for 100%/all treasures? I’d say yes since I assume Pikmin 3 probably fixes a lot of the problems so it might be hard to go back to 1 or 2.
Also and that pont you’re right near the end and can probably finish it really quickly :D.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
– “COW COW”, Dynasty Warriors
Although apparently 3 doesn’t have the “march” function of the C-stick, so maybe playing 2 again will make 3 just feel frustrating D:
I assume it’ll be on the d-pad like it was in the New Play Control! versions. Still fun but yeah, not as fun as c-stick marching! 🙁
Nooooo, don’t assume! You’ll only come out of it disappointed!
But they can’t take away my ability to swarm monsters and control my stupid Pikmin so they don’t fall off cliffs or into water D:
But apparently they can 🙁
PAYDAY
YES! Except no one else has said when they’re free 🙁
(PS3 version)
@bdkiaf @freezespreston @ruffleberg @masha2932 @vonsack @coldcamv ? others
Whenever? Just give me a time.
Whenever? :P. But you have a job and you do things!
Red said any night this week except for Friday. I’m pretty much free whenever since Uni gives me plenty of spare time. I assume you guys will be alright during the day on most weekends? Just tweet each other whenever, I guess! I assume we’re holding out for the full 4 players? Seems like one of those games that’ll be better with more people.
I’m not super interested but it’s been a while since I’ve done a 4 player co-op thing, so it’ll be fun!
Eh, I can do friday now- the thing I was going to do I’ve decided not to do because my wallet needs a breather
Okay, maybe not whenever 😛
I’m busy during the day on Saturdays. I’m free every night though.
See 😛
I don’t have that game. Also, i’m never on TAY. If these things are happening, let me know on Twitter.
It’s part of PS+ so I assumed you might have it.
Sorry mate just saw this, I’ve been in Byron the past 5 days.
Still down to have a hack at some stage.
IT’S OUR STATE OF DECAY PREVIEW!
http://potaku.com/2013/07/26/first-impressions-state-of-decay-and-the-z-word/
This is one of those weird situations where I actually had to send the article to the person who gave me the review code. Sort of gives you this horrible underlying sense of ‘I must like this game, they must approve of this preview’. Who knew writing and games could be difficult?
Really? What kind of conditions apply? Can they refuse publication? What’s the go? I am genuinely curious!
Oh no, nothing like that. Just had to send them the link! But it still has that feeling.
You’re on their list.
Watch out next time, boy.
Maybe they are collecting them so they can quote them for publicity? Once you had the code, there’s not much they could do about it
Their gonna just use the part where you said “this is the BEST GAME ever FOREVER!*” – Potaku
* – This post is completely fact and any objection by the author should be disregarded.
Great preview, perfectly captures the first few hours of the game.
Left a long ramble on my love of this game.
@sughly – When do you want these Astro things? Do you want me to just leave my gates open and leave them on the ground and hope nobody else grabs them and decides to extort a ransom from you? 😛
Oooo I can come in now! I just seen this… astro stuff yessssss
edit: Thankyouuu! Left you a lil somethin by the station
*casually tosses 99000 Bells on the ground and calls it “little” as if it were nothing* o.O
And thank-you! I haven’t had time to go bug-hunting lately so I’m behind on my renovations. OMGIcanpayoffmyhooooooooooooouse 😀
I went hunting for a gyroid to pay off for you too but didnt see one 🙁 I had another 100k for it… but then I was all hmmm, maybe strange doesnt want too muvh money gifted ala the conversation yesterday. True story.
Holy cashballs! Is this turnip-gotten gains or hard-work gains?
Turnips aren’t hard work?
I’ve still got around 4.7 million left over from my massive turnips binge and nothing to spend it on :/
Your friend Greenius <3
Okay so I went to the post office and now the rupee cushions are $38.50 with postage and handling. I’m going to try and see if I can drop the price of P&H, because I hate that it increases the price so much.
Vacuum-seal to reduce size?
I’m worried that might add weight. I need to see how much 500g bags are
About $10.
So only a saving of $3.50
Yep. Australia Post is ridiculously overpriced.
It might be easier if you sent big shipments via courier to each major city, and let the occupants divide up the spoils themselves! \o/
That sounds complicated. @_@
It won’t add weight, the mass of the cushion won’t change. If anything sucking the air out of it might make it slightly lighter.
Though weight of the extra bag, depending how heavy it is…
Just say the price is $40, with free shipping…. 😛
Free shipping? Bargain!
Seriously, though, this is a good idea.
What’s this, 2 for the price of $80? baaaaaargain!
Maybe I will do that. I had trouble charging $25 for them so charging $40 is quite terrifying.
Free shipping to Canada?
Oh boy!
Was it the size or the weight? if it’s the size, maybe send them out unstuffed and just add a zip?
More size then weight, but both are a factor
Given it’s a cushion filled with stuffing (ie, Air) I reckon compressing it as much as possible will bring the weight down a bit, but reduce the size a lot
They’re not that big to begin with really. I will need to think about it
Everyone just chuck a $50 to scree that way she can use the extra $10 from every sale towards her next creation
Sort of sappy post in coming
I had forgotten in my absence how awesome you guys are!
I’ve never had many friends, or felt comfortable trying to get new ones…
i was always an introvert, and had very low confidence…
now i feel like i have more friends then ever that actually accepts me for who i am (including my quirks)
And i just wanted to express my appreciation for that.
During my time away i was slowly becoming my ‘old’ self again, not very happy, introverted, questioning everything i did and do.
But now that i’m more part of this community again (still by far not a big contributor but you know) I have actually become a happier (and hopefully better) person again.
You’re all really cool people, and if i ever have/will offend you i am deeply sorry because i feel honoured even talking to you guys…
So thank you for being in my life TAYbies, it’s better for it.
tl;dr LOVE YOU GUYS!
Get out.
*walks out*
…
#Meanius
#Meane
Shane was selfish and chose a terrible name for that, like troll Shane is umm… Trhane ? uhh… :/
But Meane works!
*runs back in, hugs @shane, runs back out again*
God Shane, getting brutal in the comments today.
We’re glad you’re back, dude 😀
Pssst. Just so you know, you’re one of my favourite people here. I always like reading your posts. You’re awesome, my friend.Want some rye? Course ya do!
naw thanks @dc
I sometimes feel like i’m coming across as a complete jerk when i make ‘jokes’… and i’m always concerned that i’m coming on too strong and make people uncomfortable… if i ever do this, please let me know straight away!
Also you’re awesome yourself dude, and i sincerely hope we get to go to a meat together sometime because i believe we have plenty to talk about XD
I get worried that people hate me and think I’m weird. I think we’re all just broken people here. XD
36 notifications when you’re gone for half-a-day?
That’s not hate, but love man 😛
But then I might get needy and demand 36 notifications every day. 😛
well @dc, that could happen @dc…
HEY EVERYONE, HEARD ABOUT THAT @dc GUY? HE’S A PRETTY COOL GUY, THAT @dc GUY
This only counts as one XD
really? damn, they designed this system too well….
Go home @dc your drunk thinking people hate you..so silly
You have favourites? List them in order from best to worst right now.
I bet you’re either right at the top or right at the bottom.
Hey, why’s @dc upvoting this..?
:'(
Everyone has favourites, that I’m sure. 😀
Man, I’d make a terrible father. Haha!
Isn’t that exactly what a father is supposed to do though?
Now i wouldn’t say this a competition, but if it was, blue, you’re doing very well.
I would totally be the Glados of fathers 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking @pixel_the_ferret_viking
He’s like @shane, except foreign! 😀
But instead of being that handsome latino foreign version,
i’m more like the scrawny pale foreign version XD
also, man i really should get a shorter handle shouldn’t I? 😛
EDIT: Whoa whoa whoa #notinnuendo
We all know @dc’s favourite is @Shane
just to pick a name at randomAHA my handsome evil twin from Canberra!
Eh? Really?
I guess now we all know that…
and knowing is half the battle
Just keep coming to meats. Glad you came to the Karaoke one.
Tay is the best place for helping your self esteem.
To be honest i was scared as hell in the beginning… @rize is pretty much the only one that drags me along to these and he talks so much shit that it makes it comfortable (love you @rize :P)
I will try my hardest to overcome these insecurities because i always end up having such an awesome time
http://25.media.tumblr.com/15149c18be680e99488a339f558f0a6c/tumblr_mlqpsuC2rX1snbovuo1_500.gif
You’ve met us now. We shouldn’t be so scary anymore.
I do believe that will help a lot,
but you know… i’m weird 😛
Although i should/will be there for the next meat
Who isn’t weird?
It should be fine. We’ll talk about games and stuff.
Thanks @scree, i will make it a point to be there for the next meat
Remember the more you come to the easier it is.
i promise, one day i will be comfortable enough to sing solo at Karaoke like @tech_knight 😛
Techie was just making sure everyone had a good time. It was his duty.
duty or not, it was very admirable, i want to have the guts to do it 😛
just something something hate being the center of attention something something
So do I. Yet I feel so comfortable that I don’t mind singing in front of taybies
Don’t worry man, there’s no way I would ever sing at Karaoke. You’re not alone, Foreign Shane!
@dc @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree
First time I ever did Karaoke, I sang Dancing Queen solo. @strange was there.
Last time I ever did Karaoke… was that time.
How was it, @strange? As awkward as it sounds?
Any footage of this Non-Foreign Pixel?
@shane that sounds amazing XD…
I remember grabbing the mic for Singstar at Blagh’s house and belching out “Free Ride”,
But that was because i was slightly* inibriated and no one else knew the song
*little bit more then slightly
To be honest I was terrified when getting up and doing that singing, I was worried I would sing really badly, and I did. I couldn’t do high pitched notes at all. At first I was basically saying to myself “You know what? Fuck it, lets put on a good show” then when I actually got to the stage I had to sit down cuz I was getting so nervous and shaky.
@shane @dc Awkward? You kidding me, that sounds amazing. I hope there was a solitary tear and a spotlight involved.
@sughly gets it. It’s only intimidating if you let it be. If you accept that the entire premise of karaoke is to let your guard down and make mutual fools of yourselves, then it stops being a thing. I forgot to mention I was in a Hawaiian shirt at the time. Going All In.
No it’s not! @shane was all “I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU”
:'( *wipes tears away using The Lesser Evil*
Can someone please translate this for me?
I will never changeDon’t, i find it funny
He’s making a stand by wearing the same stinky underwear until he dies. Not sure what he’s protesting, though…
#liberationofwashingmachinesbecausetheyarepeopletoo ?
also known as LWMBTAPT?
Well now that you know you feel that way you have no excuse for not coming to the next boardgame meat that we hold
this is true… well unless i legitimately have other engagements, but i will do my bestest! you and mrs. Tigs are pretty damn awesome
#cradledinlove
We were battling against the tide,
you were my beacon of salvation
😀
You awoke from your slumber to take up your mouse and keyboard once more and free TAY from the oppression of… something.
We are forever grateful.
that and Yankie Bars
AMIRITE?
AWWYEEEEEAAH!
FETH ME, moving is sooooo lame!
Moving back to melbourne this weekend and still soooo much to do after the grand PAX hiatus!
😐
I saw your nipples on the weekend.
And they were glorious
I don’t recall bringing them out..
Which is odd for me…
I procured…recordings.
they’re all over the red-…. i mean u-tubes
I’d offer to help you move, but I’m not commuting that far. 😛
where abouts in the melbs? north west? you should move north west so we can cuddle
POINT COOK!!! SO KINDA!
Farrkkk, gotta stay up until like 1:30 tonight. To put a happier spin on it, I’ll have a Childrens Hospital watching buddy 😀
Some sort of shadow creature pal who only ventures out come night fall?
BEWARE, brave Captain. Here in the darkest depths of the Sea of Lament dwell the most horrible monsters of all, the fearsome murky demons of the deep will swallow you whole the instant you leave this pool of light. Heed my warning, or take one step forward and learn for yourself…
couldn’t help myself 😛
Haha not quite 😛 Oliver’s coming over from around 5 – 1:30 😀 First time he’s been back since he (sooorta we) moved out almost 2 months ago! He knows what’s going on though so hopefully he’ll understand if I accidentally fall asleep on him.
I introduced him to a fair few Adult Swim shows and while it’s hit and miss, he likes Childrens Hospital and Aqua Teen Hunger Force at least 😛
Non apologetic post:
SHADOWRUN IS RETURNING
That looks freakin’ excellent too. I love that isometric view and all that.
Still, nothing will interfere with Pikmin 3 hype. TOMORROW. (I checked JB before to see if it broke street date. Should’ve known Nintendo doesn’t do that. *shakes fist*)
The built in campaign has been getting mixed reviews, but to me that’s kind of missing the point- it’s gonna be all about the UGC
Yeah I’m interpreting SRR as more of a base platform, which is what I think they intended as well. Give it time, and the community will drop some awesome content. Particularly since so many people are excited about it, and there’d be many Shadowrun enthusiasts familiar with the source material.
@greenius: I bought a green hoodie today to replace my other green hoodie. GREEEEEEEN!
I have never even seen you wear a green hoodie! You should wear one next Meat instead of “*points randomly* I’ll just have that one”shirts. 😛
That’s because I’ve been wearing my old hoodie since 2007 and it’s no longer fit to wear in public. Haha! Also, I like my lumberjack shirts. :'(
I’M A LUMBERJACK, AND I’M OKAY,
I SLEEP ALL NIGHT AND I WORK ALL DAY
Are you a lumberjack? No.
Are you a farmer? No.
Are you an old man? No.
Should you wear lumberjack shirts? No
Should you wear t-shirts? Yes.
😛
You know I’m kidding, right? Wear whatever you like!T-shirts makes me look like a skeleton. You can see my ribs.
Also, now I feel incredibly self concious. D: Haha!
I’m going to make you a dual-layer t-shirt, there’ll be no seeing of ribs through the one I make. Also, I’ll sew it all by hand so you have to wear it because of all the love I’ll sew into it for you. 😛
ooooohhh is he going to accept the gift or not?
*grabs popcorn*
He’ll have to: I’m a bully. 😛
Edit: Plus, I’ll make it so awesome he won’t want to say no. I’ve noticed there’s a couple of things he’ll make exceptions for….
No gifts! No shirts!
Edit: The prospect of being given a gift could make me avoid meats. I remember the first time you invited me to a meat I stopped posting on TAY for two weeks. XD
@dc mental hug then?
ALWAYS!
@dc I read that as you’ll be shirtless at Meats from now on. 😛
And don’t worry, I have a list of things to sew that’s going to keep me busy for at least the rest of year so you can safely go to Meats for at least until then. 😛
I wouldn’t subject you to that! XD
@dc I considered saying something along the lines of show me and I’ll tell you if you should subject people to that but that would be being all kinds of weird and creepifying of me. 😛
I thought they made you look like Skeletor who’s buff as hell 😀
You should do the whole double polo shirt though and pop both collars up
:O so many collars…
Eww. 😛
/like a boss
I, uh, actually like my lumberjack shirts. D:
Oh man…now I feel bad for starting this! Don’t worry DeeCeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I’m just a monster. Your lumberjack shirts look fine. Serrels wears lumberjack shirts too, only his are short sleeved. 😀
Aw, no need to feel bad. I just worry about things too easily. Haha!
You’re awesome, Strange. (One of my favourites. :D)
Pssst @dc
i got lumberjack shirts and love them
Foreign Shane: Lumberjack shirts! Adventure games! Social awkwardness! Best pals!
Friendship made in heaven XD
It was meant to be 😛
*mental high-five o/*
Haha! Back in my uni days, I refused to give a friend a high five for six months. Then one day I did. It made her so damn happy. 😀
loose, black t-shirts! Can’t make out anything 😛
I need a new green hoodie too, I don’t like the fit of my other one but it was cheap, so whatevs 😀
I used to have a hoodie in two shades of green. It was awesome, then the washing machine destroyed it. And now that washing machine has made my list, Greenius. It’s made my list.
I have another green hoodie in two shades of green too! There’s also white.
Except it’s too big.
YOU SHOULD HAVE IT *throws gift*
Correction about Phoenix Wright DLC discussed earlier
you don’t defend the whale trainer, you straight up defend a whale accused of murder.GOTY.
Hahahahaha, amazing! That’s the best thing ever. I might only buy one full-priced game this year, and this is gonna be it.
Yes. Oh my lord, yes. Srsly, looking forward to this case more than anything.
The whale’s not dressed sexistly, right? 😛It’s also dressed like a pirate.GOTY EVERY YEAR
I just caught myself going to touch my non-touchscreen laptop’s screen D:
Every time I see a screen now my natural response is to touch it and I get really disappointed when it doesn’t do anything 😛
You’re not touching hard enough. Really push your fingers into it. Something will happen then!
It’s fun when you’re at JB HiFi and you play “which computers have touchscreen?”, just go around tapping on all of them 😛
I accidentally did that with the e-readers once 😛 Got some looks. Turns out to my surprise a lot of e-readers aren’t touchscreen! Weird, right?!
Sometimes I try and touch the top screen of my 3DS, then feel like an idiot.
I do this too! Ghost Trick looks like it has touch buttons on the top screen 😛
I do this all the time 🙁
i want to play with my internuts but it looks like its still 1-2 weeks away from being activated…
3 bloody weeks to run 2 line tests and flip 3 switches….
@dc you know if you stopped making a deal out of the whole gift thing we’d prob stop too?
Also: http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/3485/burj_al_arab.jpg
403 – FORBIDDEN \o/
…I don’t get it.
It’s a pretty building.
A forbidden building.
It is!
*shakes fist* Buildings. >:|
One day they’ll be post apocalyptic urban decay. 😛
O_O
YOU MONSTER
ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTION WORKERS SLAVED OVER THAT, AND YOU JUST WANT IT TO ROT?
GET OUTSIDE
That’s the real reason I liked Spec Ops: The Line. XD
At least someone liked that game…
😛
Hey, I’m full planning to play it this month, it’s a PS+ game.
The joke is D.C. is silly and thought he ruined the game for me by talking about it too much on TAY, when in fact I wouldn’t have even considered the game if it wasn’t for him.
I still enjoyed the game, D.C. is just a dope :D!
I mean… yeah, he totally ruined everything about that game AND The Last of Us for Nob!
It’s okay, I’ll take his gifts
#Greedius
Made you look!you monster
Ok. The Cave update …
Got through the Castle. Loved the Dragon eating both the Princess and the King, and the Cave’s commentary. Funny stuff.I felt terrible for laughing at the Princess’ demise, it was just too perfectthat game is pretty ingenious
Really cool atmosphere too. I like the start too how it pans down with the purple, star filled sky. Feels really ominous, like Twilight Zone stuff, like something important is about to happen here.Such a great game.
*dusts hands off*
*rides off into the sunset*
*swoons*
my hero
*mosey
You mosey off into the sunset. 😛
Yes, sir. Commencing moseying now.
*nods approvingly*
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/617502838/shadow-of-the-eternals-0
Looking pretty good! I still haven’t played Eternal Darkness :P, it’s on the semi-recently acquired Gamecube pile of shame with MGS: Twin Snakes and Star Fox: Adventures 😀
Blergh. All that stuff from the last campaign destroyed all interest in this game for me. You should back Satellite Reign instead. 😀
I’m not backing anything! 😀 (that isn’t Double Fine)
But I’ll keep my eye on it if and when it releases and turns out to be good 😀
And c’mon D.C., telling me to check out something without linking it? Poor form!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5livesstudios/satellite-reign
Have you backed any Kickstarter projects @dc ? (I assume no)
Why not? And, which ones have you considered backing? 😀
Backed the Space Pyrates Pozible campaign, that’s about it. I thought about backing all the adventure games, but realized I was too poor and someone had to buy them on release. Also most of the projects I like are funded already, if they were struggling to reach the goal I probably would be more likely to back… Or something.
You?
Yeah, that’s fair! I don’t usually back things since most things are already easily funded by the time I find out about them.
Backed the DFA because Double Fine and point and click, but that thing started the whole Kickstarter thing, so who knew what would happen :). Only paid $15 for the game but have got way more than what I paid for with the doco! (WATCH IT D.C.!)
Haven’t really wanted to back anything else because they’ve already been funded, and someone has to buy them on release ;). I wasn’t planning to back Massive Chalice either but Brad made me laugh in a few of the Massive Chalice interviews they put up so I backed it!
Iron Brigade was my least favourite Double FIne game. As cool as Brad seems, his name alone won’t sell the game to me. 😀
@dc – I haven’t played it yet 😀
More like he seems like a cool dude so he can have some money. It’s more to do with me supporting Double Fine, than Brad 😛
Psh, even I’ve completed Eternal Darkness. Only to be disappointed that the purported “god mode” that you’re supposed to get after beating the game three times and seeing the “true” ending doesn’t seem to exist >:3
Twin Snakes has been sitting on my shelf since ~05 and is still yet to be played >_>
How old are you again? I keep thinking you’re old(er) but you keep mentioning school 😀
Well I was a youngen when it first came out so I wasn’t even interested in it until much later (only a few years ago), when I found out it was really good and picked it up on eBay. I’m not much of a horror fan though 😛
Haha, the place I go is kind of a private college I guess, so I can’t really call it “uni”. And even when I was at uni, I’d mostly call it school anyway. So yeah, school. It’s easiest.
I’m maybe not all that old, but enough to not want to get specific about just how old any more 😛 Had everything since the NES, had to start buying everything for myself since the GBA.
I hate horror games too. Being scared sucks. I could only get through maybe half an hour of REmake before having to just give up. Though that said, ZombiU has kept me well-terrified and I’ve hated it, but I’ve loved every moment of it.
Was just wondering whether you’re my age or not, so whether I played it or not is more terrible 😛
But that’s my reason for not playing it :), I was a wee child back then!
But I guess people my age weren’t hardened up as babbies since we didn’t watch Watership Down like @strange and co. did :O
I’ll guess about mid 20’s from that description.
Late 20s. Just because.
Good guess.
But like 90% of the people here are mid 20s 😛
You’ll have to wrestle him for his wallet to find out.
Aaaannnnnd.. Fight.
Yeah, I thought he was a teacher yesterday when he mentioned that. I thought that was weird.
I pity anyone who has me to teach them.
How many Bears could Bear Grylls Grill if Bear Grylls Grilled Bear?
At least six.
However many can be marinated in his own urine.
So, like, one? Maybe two if he’s had a big night?
Bluuuuuuuh. Went to sit down on the lounge and rest for a bit after lunch, then a girl that might have kind of caught my eye came over to do the same, lying down for a nap. I managed a brief “hello”, and continued doing my thing. But then after she got up she started to converse with a “how’ve you been?” and I think I dum’d and ugh. I hate having to try and have conversations. They’re way too hard. I DON’T WANT TO GO THROUGH ALL THIS AGAIN.
Man. Women amirite? Why can’t they dispense with the annoying talking bit and just make with the sexy bits?
So?
How have you been?
Better.
As in I have been better. Than I am now.
Also that was pretty much my answer.
It all stops once you get married, don’t worry 😀
never have to say a word again
#besthubby
It’s spelt -D-A-R-E not H-A-V-E.
true but i was being nice about it, just in case the spy-drones catch me 😛
It’s a hive mind and they know what you’re thinking.
one of us,
one of us
Says the guy who gets surprise breakfast desserts. 😛
I… don’t know what this is…?
Oh god, marriage. Now there’s a truly terrifying thought.
Man, Trine is starting to get good! I’ve played both before for only a couple of hours but as I’m unlocking more abilities it’s getting more fun :D. Combat is still repetitive, jumping is floaty and the puzzles still kinda suck but it’s prettyyyy!
@dc you’d like them!
Always look at those games and think “yeah i’ll get that” and then never end up doing it…
Cool story bro
As in buy it? It was like $4 for both games and the DLC yesterday >_>
eeeyup, but that’s the same amount as a cup of coffee… IT WAS A TOUGH CHOICE 😛
I don’t drink coffee, EASY CHOICE!
Although I already had both games so I just bought the DLC and sold some Steam trading cards which was more than enough to cover it 😀
Eh i’ll get it one of these days! i have enough stuff to keep me going for a while anyway
So my university is an asshole.
my results came back the day i left for melbourne, and it said i failed one of my units, like terribly, 23% to be exact. it was also a unit i had some doubts about whether i would do well enough in, so i sorta believed it.
so throughout the melbourne trip, i was feeling kinda shitty about it, especially since i didn’t know what i would be doing for the next semester…
i check it again today, to make sure i got my facts right to send them an email…
turns out i actually got a distinction in the unit…
way to make me worry curtin 🙁
Eh? Wh… how does that work?
Since when is 23 a distinction? 😛 (Unless it’s 23/25, I suppose)
part of me thinks that my unit may have just been late in handing in their results, they take ages to mark things…
EDIT TO YOUR EDIT: the mark changed to 70% 😛
They keep lowering that distinction score every semester so that nobody gets their feelings hurt by failing.
Yay! Everyone’s a winner!
Yeah, universities are the best. My girlfriend went from a fail to a HD because they somehow thought she hadn’t completed an exam.
Wait. You have a girlfriend? Does she know?
Only when she wakes up.
Just Cause 2 multi beta event this weekend, for those of us who might be interested.
As far as I remember, all you need to do is sign up on the JC2 multi site (via Steam if you like, completely safe) and download a small client file (20MB-ish?).
aw maaaaaaaaaaan i’m in Wagga this weekend :\
*Nelson voice*
Har har!
Though I’d be saying that regardless of the JC2 beta timing 😛
It could be worse, he could be in Canbr-aawwww…
*points*
HAH HAH!
You should move to Melbourne… i’ll high-five you
That you’d be in Wagga?
Why would you be in Wagga?
i ask myself this question often 😐
It’s a happening place.
Beep…………
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Bipbipbipbipbip
The meanest of means you be says I.
The definition of depression is looking at the release date of Star Citizen.
May as well be a count down timer to the end of my life as i know it 😛
But December is only about 4 months away
Then it is only another year to waitIt has a release date? I hadn’t realised. That actually makes me happy!
Dammit TAY Marketing!
I’m unreasonably excited for Pikmin 3!
NOT LONG NOW
Wait, I thought you were one of the ones behind the hype D: ?
Well I was always sorta-hyped, but not mega-hyped. I was kinda hyping for the sake of hype 😛
I’m starting to believe my own hype!
Dammit Powalen!
ps. Hype.
Shh, keep the hype and discussion down while us importers wait 🙂
Oh man how is it going to be to finally get to play it tomorrow!?! I’m going to like play it all day and- oh… oh yeah… sorry 🙁
I don’t even want it but I might go get it tomorrow and go meh I’m over it before the importers even get it.
MONSTER! D: D: D:
I think you’d like it though.
Nah, Freeze is the new Ruffleberg/NegativeZero and hates everything 😛
It’s okay, unlike SOMEONE I was playing Pikmin and Pikmin 2 very recently 😀
Don’t forget to send your noms to Junglist at
konkretejunglist(at)gmail(dot)com
!
I don’t want to be the only one who nommed 😛
i’ve send mine =D
I already told you, you’re all jerks, why would I even nom any of you?
TRUE STORY:
I’m pretty sure I have a Minimalist Vanity and I’ve typed out similar comments at least 2 separate times before deleting them because then you’d ask me for it but I don’t play the game anymore 😛
Ohmygosh. Oh…mygosh. You know how much space I have used up saving all the balloon stuff for you? DO YOU!? *runs off crying*
Hey man, I only needed like the wall and floor 😛
Thanks for the reminder. I didn’t nom you for it, though.
Email sent.
Don’t worry I didn’t nom you either Meane.
Stop fishing for noms, Greenius! Geez!
Don’t know if we’re doing Secret SanTAY this year but if we are, whoever I get is getting one of these.
Fixed the link.
I’ll probably do it again this year if there’s interest. Will try and organize it a bit better this time too.
Forgot to mention that I bought Before Watchmen: Comedian/Rorschach yesterday. I’d had it ordered for a couple of months and it finally came in on Wednesday. Pretty amazing artwork, and a couple of interesting stories. $30 for the deluxe edition is pretty good value, too.
I heard mixed things about before watchmen. i want to like it because watchmen but ehh.
Had a quick look at Shadowrun Returns on my lappy, despite being at work. Looks goooood.
Got a female haircut in Animal Crossing! Won’t lie, kind of like it.
Tried on a dress in Animal Crossing! Won’t lie, kind of like it.
Ahhhh what is happeningggg
Life……finds a way.
I think we all know what’s happening, Dame.
That thing that your father always worried about when you were young.
You should probably talk to @lambomann007
He’s pretty familiar with the … sensations that you’re experiencing.
Now wear the moustache/glasses combo and carry a axe with you everywhere you go. Your haircut and your dress says that you care about fashion, but your axe and your moustache says that you’re a manly man!
Well the lumberjack theme will work anyway 😉
I hid my shame under a Link wig and the manliest clothes I owned, its like it never happened right!?
Lumberjack shirt!
@dc !
Sughly’s no lumberjack. He wears Double Fine t-shirts. (Not that there’s any thing wrong with that. :D)
Not in Animal Crossing!
Best comment on TAY all day, that’s what’s happening 😀
“Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me.”
“I’d fuck me hard.”
I may or may not have a second female character in my town for this purpose 😛
When did you rename Casa de Krams to Animal Crossing?
I dont really know what this means but Ive given everyone else an upvote, cant stop now
That’s the D.C. way!
I upvoted your own comment for you, DC. You’re welcome.
upvote pls
Done deal. 😀
Don’t encourage him.
>:(
We’re up all night to get lucky.
It doesn’t stop. The song’s airplay that is, not the women.
Great song.
Growing on me. Probably the most tolerable song on radio at the moment.
*most tolerable repeated song.
I was so hyped for the official remix. ’twas shit.
Here’s hoping for Alive 2013/14.
BELIEVE.
What is an official remix? Since when was there official remix’s, what?
The one done by Daft Punk.
Ohhhhhhhh…. right
Slowly 🙂
This comment at Gizmodo
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/07/how-scientists-stopped-light-dead-for-a-whole-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-1474477
http://replygif.net/i/101.gif
without even clicking that link, I knew which one you meant. dude is a doofus.
Why did you make me read that
Because I hate your brain cells and wanted to induce them to suicide.
Mission accomplished
*bursts through wall*
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
He’s not gay. Just foreign. 😀
DC bringing the burns.
Is he gay or European, that’s the question we’re repeating, I can’t actually remember most of the lyrics to this song…
I’ve watched this weeks episode of The Newsroom three times. Sorkin’s dialogue just transfixes me and then I realize an hours passed afterwards. D:
That’s the show with Andy Dick right?
*clenches fist*
…
Not today.
*unclenches fist*
If that’s true then you’ll never get me to watch it. That guy irks me.
Freeze is trying to rile me up. That’s NewsRadio from the ’90s. 😛
The Newsroom ripped of NewsRadio? That’s poor form.
*clenches fist*
…
*HULK RAGE*
So your a jerk who doesn’t check twitter messages eyyy???
TAYFILM
YOU ME BRISBANE WEEKEND FUN AS SHIT MOVIE
Aw, I saw that but was procrastinating on how to say no and not hurt your feelings. D: It’s nothing to do with you, man. Just not feeling ‘film’ stuff lately.
You’re awesome, Rockets. Hope you’re not offended.
Boooooooo
urns.
I studied film too ya know :'(
fyi, totally went and checked twitter just in case. No new notifications :'( :'( :'(
If you get Kate Langbroek and Hamish Blake and he’d be there in a shot.
I don’t know what that means!
Shhhhh… just upvote
That’s the Sughly way!
I need to make my dog a shirt that says “keep calm, it’s not fucking park time yet.”
BAD WORDS! :O
Eh, kids can’t read, it’s fine.
Sassy @scree strikes again
My gosh you have gotten amazingly funny these last couple of months. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE QUITE GIRL WHO WAS SCARED OF EVERYTHING? DID YOU MURDER HER WITH RUPEE CUSHIONS???
I don’t know of this quite girl, but the quiet one, yes…Yes I did.
The quiet girl was quite a girl.
And now she’s dead, mwah hah ha ha?
Dead?
Quite.
Stupid lady at the Pokemon Centre ‘hopes to see me again’.
STOP WISHING FAILURE ON ME DEVIL WOMAN. DO YOU ENJOY SEEING POKEMON SUFFER? MONSTER!
You could always stop forcing them to fight each other for your amusement.
She was hitting on you. Jesus, man, I wonder how you take to this in real life.
“So, come here often?”
“WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT TO KNOW MY SCHEDULE, YOU FUCKING CREEPER?”
http://www.news.com.au/sport/dale-beggsmith-australia8217s-most-successful-winter-olympian-has-vanished-off-the-map/story-fnect155-1226686390957
He is one of us, d-bags. Geez. That paragraph annoyed me for some reason.
THat shit annoys me, especially the whole attitide of
“you came to live her, you should follow our traditions”
fuck that, Australian traditions are alcoholism and obesity.
So I’m not Australian ._. Oh god! Why?! Where do I move to!?
tas…mania?
More like New Zealand
Australian traditions switch between massive amounts of multiculturalism or outright racism, mostly dependant on the decade.
or the person
*glares*
I’m pretty Australian then if thats the case
I know many Australians who don’t know the words to the national anthem, and plenty who hate meat pies. How is this a prerequisite to being an ‘Aussie’? I know plenty of immigrants who’d make better Aussies than half the people born here.
Australian all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free,
With golden soil and wealth a toil,
our home is girt by sea.
Our lands abound in nature’s gifts,
Of beauty rich and rare.
In histories page let every stage,
Advance, Australia, fair.
In joyful strains and let us sing advance australia fair.
Beneath our radiant southern cross,
we’ll toil with hearts and hands,
To make this commonwealth of ours,
renown to all the lands,
… I don’t remember the rest …
Oh god I am still not Australian /o\
I COME FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER.
WHERE… SOMETHINGSOMETHINGSOMETHING CHUNDER
Nailed it.
*takes a bow*
Maybe if it was a better song, more people would know the lyrics.
This so much. The lyrics are such a load of self-centered wank we barely remember the first verse.
Haha! That’s the exact point where I forget the rest of the lyrics too…
It’s so good no one can remember past this point.
How can plains be boundless if they’re girt by sea?
v. gird·ed or girt (gûrt), gird·ing, girds
v.tr.
1.
a. To encircle with a belt or band.
b. To fasten or secure (clothing, for example) with a belt or band.
So Australia has a muffin top it would seem.
Tony Abbott’s version would be this:
“For those who’ve come across the seas,
We’ll send you right back there.”
For those who’ve come across the sea
We’ve boundless plains to share
In courage let us all combine
to advance Australia Fair
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia Fair.
To be fair, I’m pretty sure our politicians have forgotten that bit too.
And plenty of the vocal voters too, sadly
To those who come across the sea,
We’ve boundless plains to share,
I think this line is slightly different,
Advance Australia fair.
… beaten 2 hours earlier by Red, I see. Good to see my reading comprehension is add solid as ever.
I know plenty of immigrants who make better people than half the people born here.
YOU’RE A JER-
oh wait… a compliment… well… i’m not sure how to respond to this, i’m not used to them…
I feel like I’ve read this already 😛
@ynefel – crazy coincidence?
This thread is rather funny since I ate pies and drank beer last night. And I’m obese. And i’m probably an alcoholic.
Wait this isnt funny at all… :'(
Alcoholics unite!
I’ll drink to that.
He should fuck off, we’re full.
Canada does have an amazingly stirring anthem though. No wonder he doesn’t sing the Australian one. 😀
OH CANADA WE STAND ON GUARD FOR THEEEEEEEEEEE!
OH CANADA
OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND
ohfuckiforgotthelyrics
HOME OF BACK BACON
AND MAPLE SYRUP TOO
WITH GLOWING HEARTS AND.. MAPLE LEAFS
SOMETHING I THINK WE TALK ABOUT THE SUN
Fun fact: We’re taught as kids to sing the anthem fluently in french. Except when high school rolls around, because fuck that, who needs french?*
*It would have been fucking useful for the numerous hot french women I encountered while travelling in aus
I was a little surprised by France’s when I was told it was about killing people and being awesome because of it. Bit weird holding hand to heart and declaring that one during sports… or during anything at all, really…
Everyone knows that the lyrics to the French national anthem are:
EDIT: Learned that after watching years of the Tour de France. Honest …
That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about France to dispute it.
Trust me, I’m willing to claim to be an expert for morning TV shows.
I know all the words to the Spanish national anthem.
Me too!
I also know a great number of words that don’t start the German national anthem.
SHITSTORM…
Running Joke by Queens of the stone age
One of my fave b-sides (or bonus tracks or whatever you care to call it). Just popped up on my randomising, forgot how good it is
I always forget I don’t like Queens of the Stone Age until I listen to them. I even went and saw them at Soundwave. Made it a few songs in before I realised I wasn’t actually a fan.
but random notes that have no real time signitures 😛
i love QOTSA but i love most music though 🙂
Jesus christ that’s catchy.
Awwww thats a pretty sad story 🙁
ANIMALCROSSINGTALK:
My new favourite neighbour is Annalisa. She is a white anteater who lives in a traditional japanese-style house and does a little bow every time you leave the room. She doesn’t have a visible mouth so her snout wiggles when she talks.
It. is. adorable.
Unless she crosses me. Then she’ll be kicked onto the hate pile alongside Gloria and Derwin.
My favourite animal is still Curlos. He’s a fat ram with curled horns, ergo Curlos. That’s fucking awesome, and then there’s Beardo, who’s a bear, and as his name implies, has some pretty fucking rad facial hair.
Has anyone else had the villagers suddenly change their catchphrases to that of other villages? I suddenly had 2 people copying a third, and for some reason they all changed their clothes to plain white shirts.
It was like a friggin’ cult or something.
Hyep, they do that.
Luckily in my case they copied a phrase I picked out for one of the villagers which was “Broseidon.”
Hey… that was one of my phrases too. But it fit because Mott (the gym junkie jock Lion) called me Brozinsky anyway (part of the game) 😀
Lord of the Brocean?
Yeah, damn trends.
Half of my town have the same ugly, ugly style of shirt on.
I sent a leopard print tank to the leopard…
If he sends you back a human skin shirt, look out.
That stupid default ducky one in my case >:(
Haha, one of my jock-personality villagers wears the ducky shirt.
(Though it actually kind of fits because he’s a cute little green duck that tries to act tough… so I kinda like it 😛 Scoot is his name!)
Haha, nothing worse than getting someone you dont like. Just got this tiny little yellow duck with little black eyes and huge black eyebrows called joey. Hes pretty great.
Just got reminded that EB Expo is a thing.
Is anyone going/considering going?
I feel like I should because it’s in Sydney and not overly expensive, but eeeeeeeeeeeh. Effort.
Not overly expensive.
Would still cost more than PAX.
o_0
$40 for a general ticket. Train ticket.
PAX cost me almost a grand all up.
Geez. PAX was less than $500 for me. But, I guess Rocket paid for my ticket.
I also spent the weekend at Crown which isn’t the cheapest place to stay. That was $700 of it alone.
If there’s an actual meet-up planned, then I’ll come!
I guess it could temporarily sate @freya’s hunger for street passes.
or you could just feed her food instead of making her get 10 street passes before giving her food.
Nope.
I was fairly disinterested in it, but…streetpasses…
GODDAMIT why is there no Brisbane events with streetpasses!?
Supanovaaaaa!
PAX North? You could have gotten, like, one. Maybe two if you were lucky.
I only got one at @strange’s birthday meat T_T
It was strange.
edit: As in, the one was from… ehhh whatever
I vote you come up for Streetpasses and alcohol.
@miketarno @puppylicks @danmazkin @redartifice (?)
I emailed the BL2 support email a few days ago since the code didn’t work but they never replied. I thought I’d try again before sending them an email but the site now says:
I’ll try it and keep youse updated! Please do the same for me 😀
I unfortunately missed the panel- I was in the draw a strip one and by the time I got out the line was full.
Ah, I saw the pic you posted of you and the gang so I figured you might’ve went.
@notoriousr was apparently there and I forgot to tag him above 😛 (but he doesn’t exist)
So I’ve been trying to lose so weight for about a year now. Today I finally reached over 15kg down mark which is half way to my goal. Hooray!
Nice! I dropped close to 40kg a couple of years ago. Not easy, so high five for your effort! 😀
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yeah I used to be about 110. Wasn’t super massive, but still had a shitload to lose. I was normally my current weight, but working and playing games made the weight slowly pile up.
Which is why I’m batting for @gorzilla. It’s not an easy road, but certainly satisfying! 🙂
That’s very impressive!
If anyone’s interested, there’s a 5-album Radiohead set at JB for $12.
What about the disinterested? You’re so inconsiderate!
They can get stuffed and stop wasting my time.
Much better.
😀
I want beatbuddy now. Hurry up and make it already guys. D=
Sorry!
Did you play it?
It was pretty fun.
WOOO my sister is now in actual labour \o/
COOOME OOOOOOOON LITTLE NIECE!
Brought the kids out to see Monsters University. Got here and the cinema has cancelled the screening because noone had purchased tickets and The Conjuring was overflowing with teenage girls and needed another screen.
Now I have two disappointed kids with nothing to do D:
Wolverine!
“\o/”
Tales of Xillia is less than 2 weeks away. That’s really crept up on me.
Is there a non-tedious way to add friends/codes to my 3DS? Like a mass-input or something?
I guess I have to show some TAYbie love and enter you all in one by one, huh.
WTF is this? I’m talking to myself on a Friday night. WELL FKN YAY. Party for one.
Hey Benny, what up? Got no friends to hang out with tonight eh?
Go fuck yourself.
Okay brb.
No, Nintendo wants you to do anything the hard way. Prove your dedication to them.
Finally, someone. What are the benefits of adding people to my 3DS friend list? Anything exciting? Out of the ordinary?
You can send letters. And visit other peoples towns in animal crossing.
Plus you can feel popular.
Ah okay, so the social thing on 3DS at the moment is pretty much Animal Crossing. Chanks.
You can send SwapNote/LetterBox letters/drawings to them and you can play various games with them. Most of the time it won’t matter and it’ll just be an option like “invite friend to game” but for some games, you can ONLY play online with friends (like Animal Crossing).
I just add em anyway :P, no real downside! But then again I started adding people as they were added to TAYnames so it’s always been a code or so every month, rather than 30+ in one go 😀
I’d be Helpius but it seems you’ve already got your answer 😛
Just do it while listening to music or while watching TV or something 😛
Oh and also keep in mind that BOTH people need to add each other on 3DS, so you’re going to have to tell everyone you added, to add you 😛 (or they’ll be in the grey pending void forever)
There’s also no notification sent to the other person when you add them…
WOO NINTENDO!
@benny
No notification? You’re joking, right.
WELL looks like I’m only adding you, Geenius.
I may have added you already.
Cool bananas.
If your friend code was on Taynames when animal crossing came out then yes, I definitely added you
Uh.. I put my friend code on tonight.
Haha.
I will add you tomorrow. I need to see K.K Slider for songs
I’m the only friend you’ll ever need <3
Uh.. it became creepius when you added the love heart. YOU’RE ADDED ANYWAY!
Anyone out there ever had to create a character? I’m trying to research stuff but my brain is not coping, especially considering that I struggle on female hair styles. That and I’ve forgotten how to do eyes and such.
I will stop complaining soon. Also, Sunday write up I will start tomorrow.
Had to?
Well not had to, but done character creation from scratch. It’s a huge pain int he arse for me sometimes
I suck at character creation… Even monster hunter 3 ultimate, with very limited selection i took a good hour selecting looks/name/etc
wait, we’re not talking about games here are we…
you creative type you!
weeeell don’t you look silly now Pixel!
Imma go sit down over here in the corner and think about what i’ve done
I’m pretty terrible at it. I usually have a vague idea but it doesn’t always work out how I want
Yeah.
The biggest issue I have is finding out, after I’ve designed a character, that there’s a well known existing character with a similar design.
Which is something you always want to avoid. Which is why I’m thinking I might pick a hair style I like, eyes, mouth, face shape and then assemble them together to create a Frankenstein’s monster type creation.
Yeaaaahhhh…
All my upvotes.
But you only get one…. *confused*
Anna’s Quest – so many characters! SO MANY! I do get that jut though, especially with eyes, and hairstyles. I have about… 3 hairstyles and 2 eyes. If that. I just try and push extremes for hair, its the best way to find something I like, even if it means toning it back a bit. And then for eyes, just trying very very subtle differences – might just be a slight angling, making the top eyelid more flat, changing the sizes of the pupils etc. But yeah, a LOT of my experimenting ends up with very similar looking stuff XD
My solution for characters is to choose one element, and then bring it to the extreme.
So my Final Fantasy character is ridiculous hair on top of a zipper.
The tall character wears a top hat, has pinstriped clothes, and everything of his is, well, super long.
I am not very creative.
Maybe start with the character’s high level personality, outlook on life, role in the story, job etc. Appearance should reflect those things. Starting with appearance and going the other way I think is going to be a lot harder.
Also don’t be too worried if you end up with something that looks like other characters by other people, you can always tweak it a bit or give them some unique points like accessories or scars / tattoos or different outfits, and honestly it’s not that uncommon anyway. What people are going to engage with is the character themselves – it doesn’t matter if their appearance is derivative as long as they’re interesting characters.
I was going to to suggest someone who looks energetic and maybe just a little bit dirty for the main character (due to adventures). The character I thought of when you showed me your first sketch actually fits that description pretty well so I’m thinking you’re on right track. Have faith in yourself!!
VIDYA GAMES!
IMMA FINISH TRINE ON THE WEEKEND
AND I’LL HAVE FUN. WILL YOU HAVE FUN ON THE WEEKEND PLAYING GAMES?
I DON’T KNOW.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(Friday/Weekend TAY refresh game has begun…)
Yeah, probably play some Pikmin 3 I guess…
Never heard of it.
*Refresh*
*Refresh*
Shepard
Wrex
Shepard!
Wrex!
Shepard.
PIXEL! \o/
GREENIUS \o/
WOOOO A NEW POTENTIAL REFRESH BUDDY!
I wish the Nintendo eShop had gift vouchers and someone in my family gifted me like, the $1,000 voucher for my birthday. Then I would download ALL the great $69.95 games available – guilt free because they had paid. Fire Emblem. Miracle Mask. Monster Hunter. Dream Team. Animal Cross-dressing.
That would be fun.
Except you’d soon run out of space 😀
EDIT: but I think they do have eShop vouchers 😛
And then someone steals your 3DS and you lose everything including the remaining credit.
Also $70?! I have a whole stack of 3DS stuff and I don’t think I’ve paid more than $55 for anything. A lot of stuff is significantly lower than that if you buy from OGS. Shit like that is why Ninendo are assholes for region locking 🙁
See that @MASHA2932 ?
I actually play games!
😛
Witchcraft!
Ooooh, good choice. Excellent game. I enjoyed it more than part 2, mainly because part 2 was a bitch in some places. I think it was geared more towards MP.
Played the original for about an hour and the second for about 2 hours (an hour or so co-op with a friend). I think I’m about half way through one but I’ll probably play two shortly after. I have a feeling I might like two better just based on prettiness. The actual gameplay in the games is kind of chore 😀
The Wonderful 101 looks wonderful!
Woo, new IPs!
Platinum/Clover <3
Oh lordy, it really does doesnt it! Just watched that trailer in the kotaku links, so coooool!
People of Relevance*: Mojo’s tomorrow @ 16:00 onwards. #AHerosWelcome
*Sydney (Edit: And surrounding areas -sorry ‘Gongites)
Edit: #HashTagsForHarli
Yeah you better edit.
Word.
What! You had to edit us in?
Don’t make me get the antibiotics flu!
I wasn’t thinking, I’m sorry.
Dear Flu,
You forgot #HashtagsforHarli
Kind Regards,
NotoriousR
You’ve got my back
Yo peeps.
Apparently JB’s Wicked Wednesday deal on the $200 + game (LBP, SPINE SWORD, PS: Smash Bros) Vita has been extended to Sunday.
The deal is okay, but nothing special with LBP and PS: Smash Bros since they’re regularly bundled games, but the deal is pretty awesome when bundled with Soul Sacrifice since that’s one of the Vita’s better games and hasn’t regularly been in bundles before!
Remember to get PS+ and a memory card 😀 (there’s a pretty good 10 pack of games with an 8GB card bundle going around, but check out Super UFO for a cheap 32GB)
Ugh. I’m taking mine back to EB.
…to buy it again at JB? 😛
YOU STICK WITH YOUR DECISIONS LIKE A MAN.
Haha, nah to keep it away for good. I’m psyching myself up for upcoming 3DS releases now. ETRIAN ODYSSEY IV! DEVIL SUMMONER! SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI IV!
You’re weak Benny.
Just like every other Ben.
>:)
I walked into a few local retailers this week. IT IS SERIOUSLY AS IF THE PS VITA DOES NOT EVEN EXIST! Big W: 5 Vita games. EB: 10 Vita games. Kmart: PSP GAMES BUT NO VITA GAMES.
What’s a Vita? There’s only a Persona 4: Golden machine and nothing else.
Have you played either of those series before? Because they’re kind of niche so if you’re going in cold you might want to check expectations. Etrian Odyssey is fantastic but it’s a very simple Wizardry clone and doesn’t have a strong story or anything (eg. you might want to wait for Etrian Odyssey Untold, the remake of the first one with a more traditional RPG story if that’s important to you)
I can either use $50 on manifest and also on material for Misaki mei. Or I can buy that.
STOP TEMPTING ME GREENIUS!
SORRY!!!
You should be. How dare you tell use about all the great deals that save us money!
So Shadowrun Returns’ campaign features the protagonist from the original SNES game as a companion. I may be grinning like an idiot right now. This game is pushing all the right buttons, I tells ya.
Man ABBA make me feel all giddy. like a flat chested school girl who just went on her first date with a guy from Spanish who has a car.
Uh, I think you mean a guy from Spain. Spanish is a language and you can’t come from one of them.
Spanish class, PAY ATTENTION TO THE METAPHOR WOMAN
Oh so you accidentally a word instead?
Its kind of common jargon when referring to a class to not include the word class so instead of “I have English class, its pretty rad my teacher has a nice rack.” it is “I have English, its pretty rad my teacher has a nice rack.
Good luck in your English class because judging from what I’ve seen, you won’t pass =D
I hope you like tennis, Rocket.
my backhand is terrible.
DIDN”T YOU PAY ATTENTION I LIKE ENGLISH BECAUSE OF BOOBS NOT BECAUSE OF WORDSMITHERY.
…I don’t even.
工 匚凡ん＇十 立几マ巳尺弓十凡卩マ と回立！
@crazyguy1990
I originally put that through translate which churned out some gibberish then realised it just says
“I can’t understand you!” I thought the “I” looked out of place but figured it was just part of whatever you translated, the “N” is weird though…😛@crazyguy1990:
I spent several seconds trying to read that before realizing you weren’t using the kanji for their meaning 🙁
No, you’re wrong here, I’m with Rockets.
I thought what you thought originally but then I realised he meant Spanish class.
Sorry Sasscree, Hotrossassy wins this time.
It needs to have class. Rocketman is lacking class D=
No it doesn’t, his explanation was spot on and it even had the part that everyone can relate to, an English teacher with a nice rack!
That is the least classiest thing you could have said. =/
No, I assure you that I could have said things that are a lot worse.
Yeah, probably. I have to back out of this because I’m starting to feel awful. I’m pretty close to deleting all my comments related to this. I know you’re all joking, I keep telling myself this, but my brain is not listening.
What he said wasn’t 100% clear but it still made sense but I’m 100% sure Hotross can handle a bit of grammar advice and I’m positive it’s barely affecting him, he’s probably even enjoying this “new scree”. I’m sure he’s heard things a million times worse.
Delete your comments if you want but you’ve done barely anything wrong.
No need to worry scree 🙂
I can’t help that my brain is broken. I’m getting better, but I’m still not quite there in this type of thing yet.
Sorry. Thanks for putting up with me.
Totes.
But it’s still funny.
So basically what youre saying is your date turned out to be a Spanish guy, who youre trying to make sound better because he owns a Barina?
Why have I never heard of Shin Megami Tensei before?
Because you have been stuck in the lamp within the cave of wonders for 80000 years?
Maybe.
Easy mistake to make
Played any of the persona games? Because they are awesome.
Hehe, something something all games have people /smartarse
*shakes fist at the edit function*
Because you’re a fool and about to trade in the Persona 4: Golden machine.
Didn’t you buy that 10 pack thing? What happens with all your downloaded games? D:
Yes. Goodbye Persona 4 Golden machine.
Yeah that 10 pack game thing is now associated with my PSN account. Future-proofing if I ever happen to buy a PS Vita again later.
You’ll buy another one later because you’re weak.
>:D
(and because Vitas are actually pretty cool)
Just don’t go into Shin Megami Tensei expecting something like Persona or even a traditional JRPG. They’re dungeon crawler games, directly derived from stuff like Wizardry. The Persona games (in Japan they don’t carry the Shin Megami Tensei name) are more traditional JRPGs, the Devil Survivor games are SRPGs, and the rest (mainline and Devil Summoner) have more in common with Etrian Odyssey or Unchained Blades or way old stuff like Eye of the Beholder.
oh my god i just hit that point in smt 4 where it goes from “this is pretty okay” to “aw sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttt”
(cc @jimu )
But yeah. Good series.
Good spinoffs, too.
*sobs*
Work Guy!
Soooo anyone else try out the new Gatchaman? Gatchaman Crowds? I was pretty excited for this, but… bit shit, right? Just when you think Vanille is the most annoying character possible, Japan go and outdo themselves
I liked Vanille. I even tried to jerk off to her. All the other characters were the annoying ones.
Oh lordy, TOO MUCH INFO TOO MUCH!!
But I dunno, I liked Lightning and Fang, they were pretty cool, even if pretty 2 dimensional. I dunno I didnt even finish it, maybe they all had amazing backstories that explained the way they all acted and I am too harsh. That, or they were all flat and pretty terrible and I was right all along. Either or.
They were pretty flat.
I liked Lightning because she was a bitch. Screw being a whingey teenager trying to find yourself, let’s all just punch Snow in his stupid face.
I liked Fang because… er… she was pretty chill? I think I just really liked her character design and she didnt manage to annoy me, so in relation to everyone she looked great ^^
Fang spends the whole damn game with this expression like “why the fuck am I hanging around with this bunch of dropkicks?” which is how I felt about XIII as well.
HAHAHA! Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head there actually
Haha, sorry. I never finished it either. I made it to the part where Vanille reveals her true self to Sazh.
IT AIN’T ALL SUGAH AND RAINBOES
I really like it, but:
– I’ve got no attachment to previous Gatchaman series
– I really dig the presentation and the music especially (reminds me a fair bit of Mawaru Penguindrum)
– I’m a fan of some of the director’s other work as well. Very much enjoyed Tsuritama when it ran a year or so ago, and I consider Mononoke (and the Bakeneko story in Ayakashi) one of the best series I’ve seen.
His stuff is very polarizing. I like that Tatsunoko take risks with some of their franchises periodically and go in a really unexpected direction artistically, eg I wasn’t big on Casshern Sins but that also was very striking in its presentation.
Yeah I can see that, thats cool. I dunno, I just really wanted it to be something else I think. And that girl, that girl, was driving me nuts!
Because of her speech pattern / dialect (not sure exactly what it is)?
No its the way shes all spacey… and just, waltzing around, oh hey look a floating guy that seems to teleport, I’ll play hind and seek with him! And oh I got a gatchaman notepad, weee I’m a gatchaman now I guess wee! Blergh.
She’s very odd. Did you just watch the first episode? Turns out there’s some method to her madness as well. I don’t mind her at all. But I really like the show so far and obviously you don’t.
Side note: have you seen any of the director’s other work? I highly recommend Mononoke if you get a chance (or the Bakeneko arc in Ayakashi which is the same character). Feudal Japan setting, sort of horror setting. Main character is a ‘medicine seller’ that goes around exorcising spirits. Obviously it’s quite different to this but it’s got similar visual presentation with that kind of washed-out look and stuff. One of the better TV anime I’ve seen.
Ohhh actually, no I havent seen Mononoke but this guy’s blog I usually visit for anime, I remember him saying he loved it. It sounded interesting, I just wasnt sure if I’d like the visual style or not… quite unique. Yeah I only watched the first ep of Gatchaman Crowds, truth be told not all of it either ^^ I dunno, I just wanted something else from it is all. That and of course the girl was driving me nuts.
@greenius: Okay so I put together a list of Vita games that I really want, to see if I should keep the handheld or not and I came up with:
Persona 4 GoldenMortal Kombat
Batman Origins: Blackgate
(Yes, I even went through Wikipedia’s 200+ list for inspiration)
THEN, I put together a list of upcoming/current 3DS games that I want and came up with:
Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Pokemon X/Y
Miracle Mask
Fire Emblem
Monster Hunter 3
Dream Team
Animal Cross-dressing
Harvest Moon
Etrian Odyssey IV
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
No contest.
You don’t want Ace Attorney Dual Destinies?
You monster.
Ooo yes please. Hey! You’re helping the 3DS cause!
I’m biased 😛
Yeah, mine’s similar except it’s like 2 Vita, 20 3DS. One of the Vita games isn’t out yet so I’m unsure (Tearaway) and the other is an enhanced port of a game I already have on PS3 (Disgaea 3).
But you can always keep it and play both, it’s not like it has to be one or the other :P. My Vita decision was made easy because of PS+. I was interested in like 2 Vita games with 6 or so on my “maybe” list. However, pretty much all the maybes and other games I weren’t aware about have been available through PS+.
I was totally oblivious to the fact, but checked out the worldwide sales stats of both consoles. PSVita: 2 million. 3DS: 31 million. I had no idea it was that diverse, truly.
*I knew they both had rocky starts..
Yeah thats also very much a good point of it all. Everyone said the 3ds was gameless, Serrels did articles about how his was collecting dust etc. Its my point with the WiiU now – might be extremely gameless, but in time it will get there. If I wasnt poorer I probs wouldv got myself a vita by now, but since I am poor I’m holding out for better game announcements. Hopefully they come!
Yeah, in my mind, money has no value, so I’m happy to have my Vita, which I barely use (though the back-catalogue that I never had access to before is great), and my Wii-U, which is actually unplugged and in a coolerbag. I know that I will gain more enjoyment out of them than I would have through whatever else with my money.
That’s a very interesting point, BECAUSE the money I regain when returning the Vita is going straight to bills.
Ahh, my role as a Science-Wizard means that I do not have those things you call “bills”.
Except on the Duck-Potato hybrid I created, but we try not to talk about them.
Yes, but I (we) knew both the 3DS and Wii U had games coming. Of course the Vita has potential but there just isn’t enough support for it, especially for unique and exclusive games. There’s like Tearaway and… uh… yeah.
It’s not like Sony doesn’t have massive franchises either but it seems most stuff is coming to both PS3 and Vita, so PS3 is going to win for most people.
The 3DS *was* gameless. The first half year or so it was a wasteland where shit that should have been a $5 downloadable (why does Nintendo overprice their downloadable stuff so much btw?) like Steel Diver was all you had. Wasn’t really until the Ocarina remake and the Mario game that even the hardcore Nintendo fans could really justify owning one.
Vita at 2 million was the worldwide sales in June 2012, it’s a lot higher now. Sony doesn’t release figures though so that was the last official one.
Yeah, it most likely sky-rocketed just this week. I think a few people here picked one up.
Yeah. I think the main argument is (seemingly) the PS+ thingy, but you know, thats mostly back catalogue stuff if I’m not mistaken. Which of course is great, I’m jealous of it. But my 3ds collection is expanding like crazy, and is only going to double in the next 6 months. Personally I would chose 3ds over any console at the moment.
Yeah, I think most people use their Vita for PS1/PSP games :P.
The only PSP game I spent significant time with on my Vita was Corpse Party and I’d argue that was a downloadable game anyway. Overall I think my time breakdown would be Muramasa, Persona 4, Corpse Party, Disgaea 3, FF9, Gravity Rush, Hotline Miami, Trails in the Sky, Hatsune Miku Project Diva, Uncharted, and then some other stuff I’ve dabbled with as well.
It’s really nice to have the PSP and PS1 stuff as an option and it looks fantastic on the screen but IMO there’s enough actual Vita stuff to keep you occupied now.
Whatever floats your boat. Personally I have 2 3DSes (because of Nintendo’s asinine regioning restrictions) and I think the platform is shit and hate the fact there’s some games I want to play on there because it means I have to have a crappy system made by a company I have major issues with.
But also, I don’t play most Nintendo franchise stuff.
Vita’s a much better designed piece of hardware with a vastly superior infrastructure and way more of the sort of games I actually enjoy playing (not to mention all the old PSP stuff). I think there will be one new 3DS release the rest of this year I buy (two if Nintendo pull their finger out and release Bravely Default) whereas there’s 4-5 for Vita, more on the way, and more I haven’t picked up yet. Vita is also by far the best place portable-wise for Indie stuff.
But that’s not the point really. It’s not a contest. If you think you can get a better experience on the other platform and can’t afford to maintain both, then go with what’s right for you.
EDIT: Also you’re not interested in Dragon’s Crown? Ys: Memories of Celceta? Danganronpa? Tearaway? Demon Gaze? Holy Sorcery Story? Freedom Wars? Toukiden? Spelunky? Any of the Atelier games? Disgaea 4 was announced for a Vita port and that’ll definitely come out in English too, not a Disgaea fan? Looking forward for me, the Vita’s got heaps of stuff I want and the 3DS has Bravely Default, another Ace Attorney game and the new Etrian Odyssey remake.
It’s really simple when it comes to the Vita.
Vita > 3DS, but it’s a investment in time, money, and patience (and for some, it’s a long-term investment.)
I dunno if the ‘one is a stronger machine than the other’ argument really holds well though when the 3ds is building such a big big catalogue of games, kind of isnt the point at the end of the day to me.
Aleph’s a very cool guy! So too are BDKIAF and Blaghman a very cool guy!
But not Rize.
And we agreed that Rocketman is a genius, and we all want to see his film.
I dont *grumble grumble didnt even ask me to help grumble grumble*
I’m needed in slumberland. Goodnight.
Well it’s a new day now. Yesterday was great.
Sughly Compliments Masha Day- I can’t believe I have to wait another year for this
#NeverForget
🙂
It might end up being a weekly thing.
Dont put this pressure on me I didnt ask for it!
Goodnight, TAY.
Tonight was good 🙂 Played some bass, played some Trials, watched Childrens Hospital (hey, you should too! They’ve stepped up the creepy a bit) and NTSF:SD:SUV, and made plans to go see Pacific Rim next week! Woot for man-dates!
Hooray! Man-dates are best dates short of actual dates.
Unless you know, your a girl or gay. Then they are Undisputed best dates!
No, I’m going to argue that Man Dates are only platonic dates between two dudes. Other factors are irrelevant, so they’ll always be less good than hot dates.
They’re a lot less awkward 😛 That has to count a smidgen!
PIKMIN! PIKMIN! PIKMIN!
I have to leave the house to buy it, but I feel like death. *Sigh* Why does life have to be so hard? 😛
PIKMIN! PIKMIN! PIKMIN! >:|
WOOOOOO! Also, be sure to friend me on the Wii U if you haven’t already, my details are on TAYnames! (That goes for everyone else turning on their Wii U’s for the first time in six months. :D)
I watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last night. Shot freakin’ beautifully and really compelling mystery.
Which version?
I’m guessing Fincher because “shot beautifully” is pretty much his trademark.
You know it! American remake!
RACIST
PIKMIN!
Ahhh love that film! Rooney Mara right? Unbelievable. Great role for Craig too, I was really wary of it before seeing it but it ended up suiting him really well. Also, no words can describe the beauty of a Fincher film. NONE.
Looks like the new Pokemon is out.
Calm down you’ll get it when you get it
In about ten minutes!
PIKMIN! WOOOOOOO!
I’M GOING NOW!
Replaced batteries in WiiMote and am ready, Pow. 😀
Are you going to save and link all the discussion so that others can go back and read it?
You are?
THANKS D.C.!
😛
Oh what’s that? You guys are holding back the discussion all together?
EVEN BETTER!
What discussion? I’m going to vanish from the internet for a few days! 😀
And singlehandedly kill TAY?
HOW SELFISH!
Hey, I circled the wagons all last weekened while everyone was PAXing and being selfish. 😛
Hey man, not my fault I had no connection at PAX 😛
…
Nah.
You say this but I have a feeling you might end up with it at some point (before hating it) 😛
Nope. Terrible and bland Nintendo shovel ware drek. Gaming as a whole would be better off without this crap staining the industry.
Spoilers so @dc doesn’t get spoiled.
I probably will. I played whatever one was on the GameCube and enjoyed it. Plus it would be nice to have A game to play on the Wii U.Troll S Preston strikes again! You nearly had me there! 😛Dammit you stole my post! And it was gonna be hilarious caus I was going to make a @greenius joke! Harumph >:(
Hey man, he didn’t say “Pikmin 3”, he just said “Pikmin” three times!
I already have two copies of Pikmin so I’m nearly there! :O
Aw, sorry man. Just had to vent my dangerous levels of Pikmin hype!
Someday I’ll have money. Money isn’t easy to come by.
I remember thinking that when I was a young lad and just wanted more games. Not much has changed between then and now.
Would you say by the time it’s come by you’ll be gone?
Neil Gaiman adventure game, eh! 😀
http://www.adventuregamers.com/news/view/24999
There’s some pretty cheap deals at GMG at the moment!
They have a sort of “cash back” thing going on where you can either get cash back (with a few day wait), or opt for store credit which is apparently instant and is of a higher value.
A lot of them aren’t being advertised in one place so you kinda have to look for them (but luckily others have done so already!)
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/111601
Highlights include cheap pre-orders on things and Tomb Raider for $10
I think I’ll finally cave in and buy it 😀
But I have enough games ;_;
Dynasty Warriors!?
OMG I ACTUALLY DON’T WANNA WAIT FOR THIS GAME TO DROP ANYMORE BUT I KNOW I’LL HAVE XILLIA COMING SOON SO I CAN’T BUY TOO MANY PS3 GAMES OTHERWISE I’D WANT TO PLAY THEM ALL BUT I CAN’T PLAY THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME BISH BUY ME TOMB RAIDER THANKS GREEDIUS NEEDIUS
I almost purchased DW8 the other day, had it in my hand and everything, but I ended up with Asura’s Wrath and Prototype 2 instead.
$89 seems a bit steep for a DW game.
OOO! New buddy! When’s the last time you played them? I’ve played 3-5 but have always waited for one with online co-op, seems like DW8 finally fits that bill.
It does seem a bit steep so I’m trying to wait for a price drop. It’s around $55 if imported (Zavvi) which isn’t too bad but I know it’ll be a huge time sink and I’ve already got Tales of Xillia incoming.
@jordi @hindenlagen @thecracks @beavwa ?
We’ll all get it on PS3 eventually and be best friends <3
Only missed 7 and Gundam in the main series. I loved how OP Lu Bu was in the earlier games but usually ended up with Sun Ce because Tonfa’s are badass.
Gan Ning and Ma Chao 😀
Dude Sun Ce is the shit. Trust the dude with the goatee
Also my man is always Lu Xun, though I clear quickly as Zhao Yun cause he’s such a cheat
Hai.
Aww shit.
Just watched Jim Sterling’s review and he calls it “the best DW (or at least the best since DW3)”
HNNNGGGGRRHHHH
Just throwing out some random thoughts on Halo: Spartan Assault. Might write up a full review some time later.
I’m not sure what to think about it, whether it’s a good game, or just an average game. The actual gameplay itself is fantastic, it still feels like Halo and the way it controls is pretty good. The way they’ve made the levels have points and badges makes it rather replayable too. It’s just the presentation of the game that’s lacking. The story is rubbish, such bad writing. The perspective of the game is that you’re using a simulator on the UNSC Infinity (I think) and you’re recreating events from ages ago. So story pretty much is “Spartan so and so went and defended this thing, Spartan so and so took a bunch of marines to attack this other thing, etc.” Rather poor compared to ‘real’ Halo games. Which is why I’m conflicted on my feelings for this game. If it wasn’t a Halo game it’d be okay, I’d still think the game is pretty good and worth playing. But it is a Halo game, and it’s missing the two things that make them great, good story and good multiplayer. The story thing would be fine if it had multiplayer, I think. The game would be pretty killer if they hadn’t left that out. I think they said they might add in MP sometime down the track. They seriously need to get it in pretty quickly. It’s rather lacking without it.
So yeah, gameplay is fantastic, presentation is atrocious.
I’ll give you feelings on games. Pikmin 3, its out today. Go get it.
But it’s not made by Microsoft so it’s the worst thing ever 😛
(just kidding Lambo!)
Meanius 🙁
My sister is up here from Canberra!
Gonna spend the day with her and Mum…without the kids. \o/
Musn’t forget to take my 3DS for all the Streetpasses. Probably only be one, though. 😛
Hope you have an awesome day, Strange!
Somehow, having now owned all the fossils, I still feel disappointed when Blathers is all “Ah sorry mang, I got these fossils already…”
IF I HAD THE FUNDS I’D BUY THEM FOR MY OWN COLLECTION
Shhh Blathers.
Shh.
*gives him two items to inspect*
“Ah, what’s this? Several items!”
What, no. Blathers, what?
To be fair, how many owls do you personally know who have a good grasp of arithmetic?
Only about 4 or so.
I now have Pikmin 3 and New Super Luigi U
Now the agonizing wait for work to finish.
Maybe I should put in the Nintendo Club codes during the meantime.
#ProductiveWorker
Wow when I pull out the games I noticed a small amount of red ink in the bag, thanks to the stamp on the receipt.
Wasn’t dry so I was able to get it off the case.
Thanks JB
Holy damn, Pikmin is incredible. Just stopped for lunch but I had a goofy grin on my face the entire time. 😀
*blocks ears*
LALALALALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU
(but I can still read :P)
The guy at the electronics counter of Big W didn’t know what Pikmin was.
“Pacman 3?” he asked.
Quick, since they’re the cheapest, I’m thinking I might buy there.
How do game purchases at Big W work? I seriously don’t know, and I’m never going to ask someone in store, because that would be weird.
Grab the game from the shelf, take it to the electronics counter (not the main store checkout). Pay, leave, travel home, play Pikmin 3, have fun.
Or, if your Big W is an ill-organised as mine: walk around the WiiU section searching through the shelves, not find what you’re looking for, wait at the electronics counter for 10 minutes for someone to walk past, ask them if they have the game in stock, continue waiting, get game, go home, open TAY to tell the story, don’t play Pikmin 3.
I was planning for my final steps to be “Play Pikmin 3 for ten minutes, get distracted, never play it again.”
I’ve delayed my buying of Pikmin 3 so that I can drop by a political rally.
I really don’t know how I feel about myself right now. Am I an adult, or does this make me younger?
Hipster.
Apparently.
I kind of want to grab some flowers on the way down, so I can try and re-enact this photo, except that this will probably be a rally of four people, and there will be one bemused cop to the side, wondering who these idiots are.
I don’t think tasers have barrels
Man it’s quiet when @dc is out picking men.
…
D:
You’ll be picking your own soon enough, my friend. 😛
Gotta say, at this point I wouldn’t mind owning a Wii U now that there’s finally a game I’m a little excited about out for it.
First of many too. Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Donkey Kong Country Tropical @freezespreston, Mario Kart, Mario 3D, Yoshi, Wind Waker HD!
Wow I completely forgot Yoshi Yarn existed 😛
Eh, the only ones that excite me there are Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101 😛 Can easily pass on the other ones!
There is Bayonetta 2 though (I may love Platinum), and Smash Bros, and somewhere down the line an original Zelda.
What would be great though and seal the deal? A Nintendo RPG on the console! Mario & Luigi work great on handhelds, but they should make something similar to that for the Wii U 😀 Edit: Or a new, good Metroid game! Insta-buy.
There’s the Xenublade one from Monolith coming out soon. That trailer looked amazing.
YES! OMFG BEN, YOU LOVED XENOBLADE AS WELL.
WHY ARE ALL BENS TERRIBLE? 😛
I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING SOMETHING! That too! That looks amazing
There’s a new Ninty IP coming soon! (no announcement yet, other than it exists)
I’m sure Metroid will come, Retro might as well work on it after DKC!
I’m gonna murder some kittens in they don’t
Just kidding… sorta😛I will if it does what Other M did.
@powalen: You’re right WiiMote is so much better than gamepad for Pikmin 3! (Though the touch screen still has cool map related features.)
Is the gamepad just sorta like GameCube controls? I realise asking you this is pointless since you’ve only played NPC Pikmin so… uhh… yeah 😛
Haha! Yeah, can’t help you out with any specifics except to say it’s a lot faster aiming with the WiiMote. The other controls are more than okay too, it’ll just be a preference thing I think.
Is the target circle fixed? On GameCube you move around but the circle stayed fixed at a certain distance in front of you which meant you if you wanted to aim you had to actually move Olimar (which made it kind of difficult to aim precisely). Can you make your Pikmin march using an analogue stick? :O (like D-pad DOWN did on NPC)
Don’t know about the marching… I forgot that existed. Next time I play, I’ll have to see. 😀 I’m pretty sure you can move the circle around with gamepad controllers independently of the characters.
My Wiimote batteries are running out and I have no spares! D: I need to get a new rechargeable battery pack (my current one is hopeless :P)
The only thing I don’t like about Pikmin is the time limit… I don’t want to move faster! I want to explore!
(I just lost all of my Pikmin because I didn’t make it back to the ship in time D:)
Monster! I like the strategy with the time limits how you have to make the day count, some days you allocate to collecting stuff, other days you do prep work for the next day… It’s fun! 😀
Yeah I didn’t realise that you stayed in the same map over multiple days. I don’t think Pikmin 1 was like that? (maybe I’m misremembering) so I’ve been trying to do everything on the map in a single day which obviously isn’t possible 😛
I wonder… Do fruits, dead enemies, etc stay on the ground overnight? Can you collect them the next day?
Fruits and objects will stay where you leave them, not sure about enemies though.
Dead enemies do stay overnight! Or, at least bosses do.
I don’t have enough Pikmin to carry anything at the moment though haha
I stopped after that boss fight. I felt so bad for my lost Pikmin that I needed a break. Day five I suspect will be regrouping and rebuilding my rock Pikmin numbers. XDI’m glad this game is on the WiiU though (it was originally a Wii game, right?). Some of the Pikmin swarming effects look amazing! Especially when you’ve got a hundred of them running all over the place.
?
Both were GameCube games. Re-released on Wii with Wii Mote controls but everything else stayed pretty much unchanged 🙂
I think he’s referring to how Pikmin 3 started development as a Wii game, but they switched it to WiiU mid development.
Blaghs is smrt.
Ah, I thought Pooalen couldn’t be that dmb 😛
A WILD NIECE APPEARS!
SHE USES ETERNAL CUTENESS! ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE
Congrats, my friend! Uncle Foreign Shane! WOOOOO!
The trampoline worked. Congrats uncle pixel
Oh man it’s Pikmin day. I don’t want to leave the house.
WAIT, SCREW PIKMIN – IT’S NEW SUPER LUIGI RETAIL RELEASE DAY! Uuuuuuuuuuuugh, money.
It’s Pikmin Day. Luigi’s not going to steal this away from Pikmin, he had his moment with Luigi’s Mansion. >:|
😀
Also last night was… interesting. Went out for end-of-week drinks with everyone from school, ended up buying two jugs of cider this time just because. Then a third one appeared out of nowhere from someone who didn’t want it, and no one else wanted it either. Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much to have.
Not sure what time everyone disappeared, but there’s a gigantic chain of drunken messages sent to a friend (thankfully none of the “usual” kind of drunk messages :P) detailing a lot of the night. Also I sound like such a mopey whiney bastard in them. But on the plus side, not a single mistake made in any of them 😎
Also Nightriders are lame. Didn’t end up trying to make my way home til 2, waited around for the next one to show up ~half an hour later then it just terminated halfway home, and I had to wait another half hour for the next one instead. Didn’t walk in the door til a little after 4, then decided to cook myself some eggs and bacon, which I didn’t end up getting to eat til nearly 5 😛
Check inside your left shoe.
Aw man, the lining’s got a hole worn in it in the arch. Stupid flat feet.
Sounds like a good night! I’m usually the one on the receiving end of drunken texts. It’s interesting to know what your friends really think, or hearing a story about Jesus and his moose 😛
Blaghs’ riot report.
That protest seemed very chilled. There were a bunch of kids in strollers, some people in wheelchairs, and even someone being led by a seeing eye dog (a very politically minded one at that). So the cops off to the side were looking very bored.
Also, it seems like the people spent all night coming up with their chants. Things like “Free, Free, the refugees.” And “Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here” (Which I claim is an awful chant, because with the diction of a large crowd, “are” sounds very similar to “aren’t”). Also, at the march bit, the front of the crowd ended up chanting something different to the back. Because organisation!
So now I can tick “go to a protest/rally thing which I believe in” off the bucket list. Why I decided to write a bunch of life goals on the side of a bucket is anyone’s guess, but there we go.
DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 HYPE!
More like Dyna-sty Warriors. Like, they’re pigs. In a sty.
…
Not my best work. Also not my worst.
But at least the sty is dynamic.
I prefer Die-Nasty
God damn tay marketing… Just picked up animal crossing… So.. Thanks.. I guess
You mean you only just got it?! *shuns*
Did you ever get your copy? I remember you being super hype for it but then never posted about it 😛
Yeah, I’ve put like 30 hours into it 😛 I just never got a chance to rabble on about it when I got it cos I was moving around from here, home, and my friends house so much during that period. That and I can’t connect my 3DS to the internet here to be able to go online with all you guys so I kinda felt left out there 😛
All online was, was @sughly and I trashing each other’s houses demanding we give each other furniture 😀
Animal Crossing is so last month. Pikmin 3 is the cool guy now.
(Just kidding! We love Animal Crossing too! :D)
NAH MATE, DYNASTY WARRIORS 8!
Stop trying to make Dynasty Warriors 8 happen. It’s not going to happen!
It’s happened.
Eh, that got boring. I’m really into this cup ‘n ball now.
Screw you hipsters, Animal crossing is the bomb!*hair flick*
who knows, in a couple of years I might even pickup this pikmin 3 thing 😛
Pikmin 3 is damn addictive.
It’s so weird to think after all these years I can play a new Pikmin game and it lives up to the hype. So, so fun! Also, it’s the first Wii U game I’ve played where I’d list it with my favourite games. Zombi U was great as a concept demo for what the console can do, but this game is just pure fun.
So sad we’ll never see a ZombiU sequel D: (Even though I still haven’t finished it :P). Would’ve liked to see them get the chance to improve the game.
Yeah, I agree. With some refinements a really good game could’ve been incredible. :'(
They did. It’s called Dark Souls.
ZombiU a concept demo? Dude. It was a singularly unique and great game, sadly never to be repeated or followed up on.
Oh, I liked it too. Just thought it felt pretty bare bones and half fleshed out. When it was great, it was really great though.
ZombiU fanclub unite!
Were you by any chance a fan of the Red Steel games? I loved them both, but everyone seems to be so intent on looking down on them :/
My mother took a photography course at TAFE a while back and has really gotten into it. She’s starting to get really good at it.
At this point we hardly bother with taking photos of the kids as they don’t even begin to measure up. We just let her do them all now.
So I just inadvertently fucked up in Pokemon. Finished the main story of Black 2, and am rolling around collecting legendaries, etc. But to get Black Kyurem, you need to combine Zekrom with Kyurem – you get to catch a Zekrom in Black 2 to facilitate this, but I beat it without thinking, and didn’t catch it. Have saved way past it too. So now I have Kyurem, and the level 85 Zekrom I xferred from White 1. I’m not combining him with Kyurem, because he’s the only one I’ve got now, plus he’s the original from White. If I combined him, I’d be left with no Zekrom.
So now, I basically need to play through White 1 again to get another Zekrom. All to get a Black Kyurem.
Not fucking happy. My own fault, but still not happy.
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that Zekrom/Reshiram will reappear if you beat the Elite 4 again. Not 100% on that though.
In any case, Black/White Kyurem aren’t “real” Pokemon. Once Zekrom and Kyurem are fused, they can be un-fused again (and they go back to their original forms, stats and all). So you can just fuse for the Pokedex entry, then unfuse.
EDIT: Oh unless you meant you wanted a Black Kyurem to keep. Then yeah you’ll need another Zekrom somehow 😛
Yeah, I want a Black Kyurem to keep. Unless I can score another Zekrom from somewhere, easiest way would be to do White 1 again and just steamroll to the end to get a replacement Zekrom purely for fusing with Kyurem. White 1 shouldn’t take too long to do again, only need to to get to N/Ghetsis and get Zekrom.
Trade?
Got no one to trade with! I have multiple DS’s, and B1/W1&B2/W2, but the only way to get another Zekrom is replaying White 1. Won’t take long though, I’ll xfer other ‘mon over and steamroll it.
I was under the impression that most Pokemon are easy to get if you trade online, since people just hack in Legendaries and whatnot :P.
The Wolverine is reviewing pretty decently.
HNNNNGH. Why won’t someone take the kids for a night so I can go see it.
@dc how have you not played Trine before! So pretty! 😀
Reasons!
😀
Have you seen any footage/screenshots? 😀
Yeah, looks pretty but pretty expensive for downloadable arcade games, atleast on Live.
PC, my friend! I wish you knew about it earlier! Was only like $4 for both the other day, I’m glad that sale made me want to play it again and give it a proper go! 😀
Still probably wouldn’t have bought it. XD All Pikmin, all the time!
Next time friend-o!
DC. HATS. FUN.
He could play co-op with everyone!
D.C. loves multiplayer!
I played the demo once…
Like D.C. usually posts when he finishes a game…
Games I finished in 2013:
• BioShock
• Catherine
• Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
• FTL
• Hotline Miami
• Little Inferno
• McPixel
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
• Ni no Kuni
• Okami HD
• Persona 4: Golden
• Pikmin
• Pikmin 2
• Pokemon White 2
• Proteus
• Rayman Jungle Run
• Ridiculous Fishing
• Sound Shapes
• Super Hexagon
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Metroid
• The Cave
• The Walking Dead: 400 Days
• Thomas Was Alone
• To the Moon
• Trine
– The Last of Us
– Tomb Raider
– BioShock Infinite
– Zombi U
– The Cave
– The Night of the Rabbit
– A New Beginning
– The Blackwell Bundle
– Ico
– Shadow of the Colossus
– To the Moon
– Dear Esther
– Remember Me
– Ni No Kuni
– The Walking Dead: 400 Days
– Deadlight
Also replayed:
– Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Played, but technically not finished:
– Fez
List of completed games friend!
-Night of the Rabbit
-Last of Us
-Bioshock Infinite
-Deadpool
-God of War: Ascension
-Injustice: Gods Among Us
-Far Cry Blood Dragon
I’m the greetest at finishing games.
Games finished 2013
God of War: Ascension
Tomb Raider
DmC
Black OPS 1
Sound shapes
Thomas was alone
Not the best tally but considering my current gaming slump it is not too bad. I should be finishing Black Ops 2 soon and then maybe move on to a PS+ game.
I still need to do my yearly playthrough of Prince of Persia(08) and Shadow of the colossus.
Edit: added ‘it’
• To the Moon
• Rogue Legacy (in the loosest sense)
• Dear Esther
• Evoland
• Bioshock Infinite
• DLC Quest
• Antichamber
• The Cave
• Little Inferno
• To the Moon
• Hotline Miami
• Tomb Raider
• The Walking Dead: 400 Days
• Persona 4 Golden
• Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
I think this is accurate. It’s hard to say, as I’m guesstimating when I played some of them. I may also have forgotten stuff. I don’t know. I’m bad at this.
Games I’ve finished this year?
fucked if I can rememberGames I bought in 2013:
-Insmouse No Yakata (VB, JP)
-Kirby Mass Attack (DS)
-Bit.Trip Complete (Wii, EU)
-FlingSmash (Wii, EU)
-Wild Trax (SNES JP, just for the box art because cheap)
-Vortex (SNES, JP)
-Bomberman 4 (SNES, JP)
-Bomberman 5 (SNES, JP)
-Rhythm Tengoku (GBA, JP)
-Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing (SNES, JP)
-Captain Rainbow (Wii, JP)
-Oops another Bomberman 4 (SNES, JP)
-Tingle’s Balloon Fight (DS, JP)
-No More Heroes 2: Hopper Edition (Wii, JP)
-Ni No Kuni (DS, JP)
-Go! Go! Minon (Wii, JP)
-Kururin Squash (GCN, JP)
-Bound High (VB, repro)
-Dream Trigger 3D (3DS)
-Luigi’s Mansion 2 (3DS)
-Pandora’s Tower (Wii)
-Lollipop Chainsaw (360)
-The Last Story (Wii)
-Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (360)
-Wii Music (Wii)
-uDraw Pictionary (Wii)
-uDraw Spongebob (Wii)
-uDraw Dood’s Big Adventure (Wii)
(total purchases of shame there, but there were reasons)
-Skyward Sword (Wii, because colourful box art version was cheap)
-Mortal Kombat: R Edition (360)
-Portal 2 (360)
-Adventure Time (DS)
-007: Agent Under Fire (GCN)
-Pikmin 3 (Wii U)
-New Super Luigi U (Wii U)
Oops, forgot some:
-Super Hexagon (PC)
-Humble Double Fine Bundle (PC)
-Humble Bundle 8 (PC)
-FTL (PC)
Games I completed in 2013:
-Dream Trigger 3D (not sure if this is actually just a Finish, but it’ll do)
-Luigi’s Mansion 2
-Rhythm Tengoku
Games I finished in 2013 but haven’t completed:
-Super Hexagon (or does that go below? Too hard)
-FTL
Games I played in 2013 but haven’t finished:
-Insmouse No Yakata
A “games bought” and “games started” list would be massive for all of us 😛
Do you know Japanese or just buy them anyway? 😀
What are your Super Hexagon times?
Yeah, though I wonder how the proportions between bought and played would look 😛 Although I guess Steam sales are a thing. I keep forgetting that those are exist and people buy loads of non-physical games these days. Such an oldtimer.
The only Japanese I know is limited to the likes of “Nintendo” and “sushi”. I was there for a holiday back in January, so bought an arseload of stuff while I was over there, because it was all so ridiculously cheap. Some I just got because they were pretty (Wild Trax, Minon, Ni No Kuni with that massive book, NMH2, Minon), others because they were Japan exclusives where knowing Japanese wasn’t necessary to play them (Rhythm Tengoku, Bomberman 4 and 5, Tingle, Kururin Squash), were stupidly cheap (Rock n Roll Racing was a dollar, Vortex a little more. Got that because I love Super FX games). In the case of Captain Rainbow, it was an excellent price and I’d heard that a fan translation patch was in the works, if not nearing completion.
Iiiiiii… wouldn’t have a clue what my Super Hexagon times are. They’re on the old laptop, and it’s a horrible chuggy piece of crap that I totally couldn’t be bothered trying to deal with 😛
Well, did you at least beat Hyper Hexagonest? 😛
I got the cheevo for “beating the game” so I count that as completed and I’ve got over 60 seconds in all the levels except for Hyper Hexagonest (the very last one). I just can’t do it :'(. 40 seconds is all I can do…
I doubt that I did 😛 Faaaairly sure that I at least unlocked it though. Maybe.
Well you start with:
Hexagon (hard), Hexagoner (harder) and Hexagonest (hardest)
Once you get 60 seconds+ in each of those you unlock HYPER mode for the respective one. Getting 60 seconds+ in Hyper doesn’t unlock anything but it counts as “beating” it. If you get 60 seconds in normal Hexagonest there’s a screen and achievement that pops up for beating the game (which is what I counted as finishing it)
By that point I had already finished 5/6 levels but Hyper Hexagonest is so hard ;_;
It’s also hard to remember because I’ve played a lot on my sister’s iPad copy (made her buy it :P) as well as a few other friends’ things, so it’s hard to remember what happened where 😛
Games finished in 2013 \o/
– Dark Souls (first finish + all achievements)
– Spec Ops: The Line
– Max Payne 1
– Max Payne 2
– Walking Dead: 400 Days
– Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
– Legend of Zelda IV: Link’s Awakening
– Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Not a dud on that list. Slow year, but unquestionably a quality one 😀
Games I finished in 2013:
– Assassin’s Creed 3
– Tomb Raider
– Fire Emblem Awakening
– Corpse Party
– Ys I
– Ys II
– Ys Oath in Felghana
– DMC Devil May Cry
– Hotline Miami
– Muramasa Rebirth
– Okami HD
– Bioshock Infinite
– Xenoblade
Got a feeling I’m forgetting 1-2 more as well.
I’m not sure If i’ve actually finished any games this year D:
I’m sure I finished a campain of Total War: Shogun 2 but I’ve done that several times. Other then that lots of mine craft.
Oh, The walking dead! Finished that!
Drive done, next up: Only God Forgives. Saturday Gosling-fest.
Blah. $122 out of pocket now, but have New Super Luigi U and that Pikmin thing.
Also, fuck eggs. Last time I had to bring one home from my uncle’s place (overseas at the moment, has a chook in his backyard) my Dad (who is away for the weekend, hence me having to go down now instead of him doing it) just put it on the shelf in my car and wasn’t holding onto it, so it rolled off at a roundabout and cracked itself right on the edge of the door’s cup holder. Today when I went down I forgot to take the keys to the place as well as the egg carton that’s supposed to be around here somewhere but I haven’t seen (thanks Dad) so I ended up cradling the egg in a strip of non-slip mat I had, and placed it in the cup holder of my door. Should be safe and sound, right? Well it was, right up until I braked at the lights, then the umbrella (which I’d just brought back from Melbourne, so stuck in the car so I’d have one if I ever need it) decided to slide forward from the part behind the cup holder and slammed its big hard handle into the egg, smashing its shell open and releasing yet another wave of gooey innards into my car.
No more eggs. Never ever again.
So… Bit Trip Runner 2 is shit :l There’s absolutely no challenge to it. It’s so ridiculously easy! I loved the first one, played it through 3 times, and still come back to it occasionally because I loved the challenge, the music, and the environments so much. The new one has none of that.
Really disappointed by it, considering I thought it’d be really good 🙁
Maybe you’re just really good!
😛
I’m a fucking pro at bit trip runner 😛
Animal crossing why you no make sense to me?!
Turnips! Bells! The island!
TURNIP PRICES?!
Sounds like the plot to LOST 🙂
Who can forget the struggle between Jack and Locke as they picked turnips in the meadow! D:
Games as easy to follow as LOST too I tell ya what
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And so forth.
Mystery Question: Did Freeze type all this up or just copy and paste the original sentence?
A mystery for the ages.
A dan for the ages.
YOU TROLLOP!
Indeed.
My fellow TAYbies, I am in need of your assistance.
I have the urge to play a game, but I have no idea what. Something I own would be preferable, but I did get paid yesterday, so throw some suggestions at me 🙂
If your suggestions are terrible, then I will throw them back… Harder
Xenoblade.
But we both know that’ll never happen 😛
Trine 1/2?
I’ve tried both Trines and they didnt really grab me. Maybe they deserve another chance though…
Yeah, I thought the same and only gave them a proper chance a couple of days ago. Awesome stuff!
Okami? CTHCC? It has cards now
CTHCC? Whats that?
Cherry Tree High Comedy Club.
Let’s play the game where you tell me what project Nova is about.
Fun for the whole family 🙂
You will find out at TAYfilm ’13. Assuming I roll my sleeves up and actually finish it 😛
Only cool people know 😀
Deadpool.
Just reading some Uncanny X-Force and Deadpool made me lol more than a few times.
Been a while. I am so happy 😀
I am playing Kerbal Space Program.
It is a lot of fun.
You should play it too.
Euro Truck Simulator 2, or Aerofly.
There’s something surprisingly cathartic about them.
Failing those, jump into NFS: Hot Pursuit, and just have fun in Freedrive.
Or, someone could give you Driver: San Francisco…Pikmin 3! Funnest game I’ve played since The Last of Us!
Can’t not read it as “funniest”.
Funniest game goes to LEGO City Undercover anyway!
Shadowrun
I need to stop spending money on audio/music gear 🙁
Is what you would say on Opposite Day!
I wish 😛
What? I can’t hear you.
You need to spend more.
*sigh* fine. *orders $600 bass, $300 headphones, $200 condenser mic, $80 PC interface, countless numbers of cables, $200 amp*
FYI my birthday’s in December, so you all have plenty of time to save up!
Sorry Kid, your birthday is on the same month as Christmas, only one gift for you. 🙂
Quite like SPINE SWORD! but Gravity Rush is so far the most interesting game I’ve tried on the PSV. It’s the first I’ve played that gave me that new console excitement, even making me exclaim “Wow!” on occasion. 😀
Gravity Rush is a pretty cool guy.
Whatserface, the main character, is certainly… something.
Kat? She’s in Evrybuddy’s Gulf now too XD
I’m sure she is.
Wink.
No, but seriously, her character is like “I LIKE ALL THE BOYS!”
So she’s a female Pyrean? but serious I have to play this game. one of the main reasons I went Vita.
I will play that one day, when I find it cheap somewhere.
You played P4G yet?
Also, Chaos Rings is impressing me 😀 (dunno if it’s on the Aussie shop or not though)
As of writing the above comment, I hadn’t played Chaos Rings yet because I was waiting for it to download. I’ve now spent the last half-hour playing it and I’m really enjoying it. 😀
Chaos Rings was the best thing that’s been associated with the Square Enix name for a while.
I’m being completely serious here.
EDIT: Hey, dudes who made Wild Arms (and Valkyria Chronicles III) made this. I can dig it.
Did the mobile version come out before or after DQIX & FF4HoL on DS?
Cos I love those.
I believe before, but the reason I like it is because, y’know, it’s something new. NEW!
AHA! I thought 4 Heroes had a new thing going to.
Even though old school and nostalgia was it’s bag 🙂
But yeah, loving Chaos 😀
Oh man, I loved the Wild Arms games. I was disappointed when I was going through my Download List on the Vita to discover that Wild Arms wasn’t on there and I must have grabbed it on the US account that Mr. Strange can’t remember the password for. 🙁
Haha, friend linked one of the tunes from the first WA on my facebook the other day, made me want to do a replay straight away ^^
Cytus Lambda isn’t bad either.
What’s this? Puzzle game???
It’s a rhythm game only available on PSVita.
You can get the first chapter for free, and unlock the rest of the game for $18.45.
There’s some good songs on it, and it’s good fun if you have a decent pair of headphones.
🙂
Oh yeah, I have no rhythm unfortunately D:
Neither do I. 🙂
This made me giggle. Just a little bit.
Poor Ninty *sniff*
Welp, I finally did it, bought Beyond Good & Evil HD, is downloading (slowly) as I type.
Perhaps this time I will actually finish it, @dc will be proud 😀
I bought that and never played it. /o\
Played half of the PS2 version though
UGH! 😛
I’m proud of you already, Jimu. 😛
But this will seal the deal. 😀
I have that too, but have never finished it 🙁
For some reason, when I try to play Rugby 06, the mapping on my Logitech Gamepad F310 is screwy. 🙁
Deadlight is all screwy with my Logitech pad.
So at the moment Im sifting through JB’s anime and TV series catalogue looking for something good..Its gonna be a long night.
Enlightened and Carnivale are fantastic TV series. Cancelled too soon :’-(
No idea about anime, sorry.
ANOTHER!
I should clarify, it’s the name of an anime.
It’s awesome but don’t read anything about it because I think by now Wikipedia etc. probably has a plot summary that will spoil the mystery and thus the whole show.
I just thought you should know your 10000th comment was promoting another. I approve of this.
I always liked Elfen Lied as intense as it is.
Also have a secret shame of Initial D.
Is initial D the car one?
Have you seen the movie? Made in Hong Kong?
I’m serious, looked decent.
The live action one? Yeah I did. I quite liked it.
Haruhi!
Baccano!
uh… I don’t know a third thing to yell!
Angel Beats. 😛
Baccano!
You should give Mysterious Girlfriend X a shot.
The initial premise is quite squickish, yet it becomes a rather heartwarming teen romance anime.
Thinking about last night, it kind of feels like there were a bunch of timeskips in there. Although judging by the timestamps of all my messages, I was probably just staring at my phone for ages before becoming aware of the rest of the world again.
Also totally amazed that the bouncer didn’t kick me out. At one point while I was pretty well-gone, standing next to one of the heaters and kind of dancing around or something. I think I’d maybe been there for a little while. He came up to me and asked if I’d had anything to drink, I told him I’d had a jug before, and that I was just trying to remember the moves to Thriller. Then I think I also asked him if he knew it. For whatever reason, he just suggested that I have a glass of water and went off, so I sat down again and told the people I was with what just happened. Then one of them went to get me some water and the night continued 😛
It’s okay, last Saturday night I was so out of it all I remember was begging my friend to make pudding 😛 I know he made pudding but I don’t remember eating it. I can only assume I did!
I need random male and female first names. I tried random generators but then I just try to find the weirdest ones I can.
Just make it up like bogans do when they name their kids. Get a normal name and replace all the vowels with ‘y’ or something. 😛
Bylyndy ?
Pyrstyphynyy
D:
MAKE IT STOP!
Ya! http://thingsboganslike.com/a-bogue-by-any-other-name/
Heh.
Or car names. Lexus, Mercedes… Huayra.
Strngy 🙂
DC… oh wait
Mike.
I worked with 2 girls whose names were Vendella and Indara. Lovely people, but yeah, strange names.
Phone book will give you weirder examples than any random generator! 😛
I dated two women who had the name Violetta. Not at the same time. I thought it was strange that I dated one girl named Violetta, let alone two. Maybe go with that one, it’s quite a nice name.
A friend of my Nanna’s is a Violetta. I’ve known of her all my life but only this year found out how it’s spelt.
Context needed to have decent suggestions. What sort of setting etc?
Though I should probably not give any suggestions as I think I have poor naming sense. Eg at one point recently I realized that whenever I rolled a Lalafel (the cute midget race) in Final Fantasy XIV I wanted to name them after sugary food. I had a conjurer named Jam Crumpet for a bit…
Sounds like a great name!
Trying to name two main characters and it’s hard =P
Wait, I just remembered.
Go super cliché.
“[a] famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that “cellar door” is the most beautiful.”
So name a character Celador.
I still prefer the word “purple”
Love that p into p sound 😀
I think my body’s finally starting to adjust a bit… It’s 10:30 and I don’t feel completely dead!
Down in the Treme…
Out in the street…
TREME!
I’m thinking Ryan Gosling wants to be the Takeshi Kitano of Hollywood.
Only God Forgives: Crap.
Drive: Good, almost great.
Half Nelson: Crap.
Fracture: Great.
That is all the Gosling I have seen so far.
You should watch The Ides of March and The Place Beyond the Pines. His best movies I think. Drive is excellent too, so you might just be a monster. 😛
Ahhhh haha. No comment. Except that Fracture was pretty terrible.
That’s a comment.
Everybody shut up it’s time for Pikmin.
2.
Actually, it’s 1:30.
😛
Apparently Pikmin time is 1:30-6.
Pikmin 2 is more than valid lifestyle choice. I respect you and your decision. 😀
24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps is on if anyone is interested!
http://www.blancpain-endurance-series.com/pages/live
Seems like I’m the only one awake…
Fuck, it’s 3am.
D:
…I really should be asleep, instead, I was browsing for an Ethernet switch. :\
Also, there’s 20% off of Logitech stuff at JB today.
I’m just going to edit these from now on.
Sorry if I threw anyone with these.
I was awake but forgot to hit refresh. Night shift problems.
Oh, Phil Fish.
Phil Fish.
…
That’s a funny name, now that I think about it. Kinda rolls of the tongue but doesn’t.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_one's_ball_and_go_home
Watched so much Dynasty Warriors videos these past few days >_>. I should’ve bought it locally 🙁
Dynasty Warriors is one – of many – series that I just don’t get.
It looks so damned unpolished despite the fact that they’ve churned out so many of them.
That’s because Dynasty warriors is just plain fun. Especially co-op.
I don’t like fun.
I once had fun and it was terrible.
That was centuries ago. You still haven’t recovered?
Have you actually played any?
I haven’t played them since DW5 (PS2) but they’re actually pretty polished. Although from what I’ve seen of current-gen titles, they do kinda look cheap.
It’s pretty much what scree said. They’re just pure fun.
It’s not the type of game where it’s kinda okay in singleplayer and only fun in co-op, but the type where it’s just really fun in both.
I’m sure you’re aware of what type of game it is (beat em up/hack n slash) but there’s waves of mindless dudes across the map and then there’s sort of higher ranked Generals, which are the bosses and are named enemies (usually other playable characters) with bigger health bars. At lower difficulties it’s pretty much just a button masher, however, at higher difficulties there’s a huge amount of strategy and skill needed. Bosses can easily kill you in a couple of hits so you’ve got to be careful.
There’s a huge amount of content in the game and that comes from having a huge roster of characters which each play differently, can be levelled up and each one having unique “Ultimate Weapons” that need specific conditions to be met.
Battles aren’t just “mash square to win” and other than murdering all the bosses, there’s a lot of little things that can happen that will change the tide of battle. Maybe you let one boss escape who later called on massive reinforcements, or maybe you were too careless and the enemy is attacking your main boss across the other side of the map and you’re too far away to help. They aren’t random either, so if you know what you’re doing you can prevent these events.
I know you probably don’t care but I was bored and felt like typing something up that might hopefully give you (and others) and insight on why Dynasty Warriors is so damned awesome.
gawd, if you love it so much, why dont you go marry it
Lots of dudes to kill, got it :p
I think it was moreso this gen they lost their polish and I think that’s because it just doesn’t matter. It’s making the big bucks (or enough bucks) in Asian territories and doesn’t need it.
I think what we don’t get over here, from what I see when my wife loses a lifetime playing, is that all those generals you grow up learning abot and watching movies about in Asia (especially China, Taiwan and HK obviously).
So it has this extra element of… I dunno, familiarity but not nostalgia (cos obviously they weren’t actually alive to witness :P)
I loved the games during the PS2 era, but toward the end, me and my wife had played so much co-op that I got the shits.
I’m keen though.
On a side note, I heard they’re porting the last one to a bunch of consoles (including Vita) with all the enhancement and re-balances that the series has gained in re-releases and ports and whatever. I’m keeeeeeen.
Oh right, that’s the thing that really bugs me about it.
Sod the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
It’s the Asian gaming equivalent of WW2.
But it has Guan Yu and other dudes I’ve kinda vaguely heard about before!
At least Journey to the West has monkeys.
Yeah but swords!
Get it Jimu! A bunch of us are getting it on PS3 😀
I’m not sure about that port thing but the last thing I read about anything “Warriors” related was that Warriors Orochi 3 was getting an enhanced port to Vita and other consoles (maybe you got that mixed up?). I’ve never played Warriors Orochi but I think it plays somewhat differently to Dynasty Warriors.
It does?
I didn’t think the differences were that dramatic. Anyways, I like em all (actually never played any Samurai Warriors by chance).
I won’t get it for a while, unfortunately, these current gen Warriors games give my wife motion sickness, so that extra incentive to buy has dissapeared (we had so much fun together) 🙁
Maybe after a price drop, whats it cost now??
What, Dynasty Warriors 8? Still pretty expensive since it came out on like Thursday for Australia and like a couple of weeks ago for the US/EU. I was waiting for a price drop but noticed the others didn’t really drop by much and so I just caved in and bought it for $58 from Ozgameshop. A bit annoying because they had a $8.60 off voucher a couple of days ago (it’s not expired) but I didn’t even consider buying it then :'(
Those vouchers, they’re making them harder and harder to use.
“Here’s $1 off if you spend over $60”
Actually, that last one( the royal baby one?), that was only over $40 if I remember correct.
I didn’t find the time to get in the store though D:
Coulda grabbed Skyrim 🙁 Or Deadly Premonition DC :C
@jimu – yeah it was the baby one :'(
I didn’t even know DW8 was a thing but @jordi got me hyped 😛
The code didn’t work on pre-orders but the game was out in EU/US a couple of weeks ago so it’s safe to assume they would’ve sold it then anyway.
Okay (including @jimu) I want to talk about how much I love DW and SW for a moment. Every time I was on the phone and I type slow on phone so I was waiting until I got the chance to go on and on about it.
DW and SW games were one of the few games where my sister and I could play it for hours, plan strategies and basically bash our brains out. The strategy part is my favourite, especially with hard battles and the constant “DO NOT FIGHT LU BU”. It is lacking in some of the versions, which was where my interest dwindled.
Until I started playing SW. Now SW is such a completely different focus. And with it being a Japanese game they love being creative with the characters. The main thing that sucked me into SW were the character storylines and how different scenes will pan out depending on what you do. SW also includes different scenes/battles with each incarnation.
I recommend SW like mad, it’s what made me feel like the franchise had so many different things you could do and storming castles is pretty intense when it’s burning down. The PS3 version unfortunately is all in Japanese which makes me so sad because I feel like they give a more personal feel to beating up all the characters. Also I have a major crush on Magoichi Saika that I named one of my hard drives him.
Anyway they have this almost annual event in Japan for DW and SW where the voice actors come out, do some fun skits, chats and interviews. And then some sing their character songs which is the most bizarre incarnation ever. I actually attended the SW ones and was on my way to attend the DW one until the earthquake promptly cancelled almost everything in Tokyo for about 6 months.
So yeah I’m a major fan of the series and love the games to bits. I think it’s not the best game out there but it’s got an addictive CoD feel to it that makes you want to keep playing it – especially in co-op
@trjn – more awesome DW info for you thanks to @jordi !
The only other Warriors game I’ve played is Samurai Warriors (the first one), it was fun but I can’t remember much differences other than it’s with Japanese dudes instead. I’ll keep my eye on a potential Samurai Warriors 4 though if DW8 reignites my love 😀
I bought it today!
\o/
I have added people to my PSN firnds except @jordi because I can’t find her ID?
CAREFUL!
I just read that there’s a save game erasing bug if you play online and try to invite a friend :/
It’s okay! I don’t have any actual friends so this won’t affect me!
Right?
If I can’t see them then they don’t exist yup yup that’s my zombie survival plan
MINE IS SOMEWHERE. I literally don’t remember my psn ID. I havent bought it yet because I’m suddenly decided I’m poor. but I’ll buy it online for cheapness.
Pikmin 3 might just be my game of the year in a year of The Last of Us and The Night of the Rabbit. D: AMAZING GAME. So fun. There’s no achievements yet I feel compelled to do everything just because it’s so damn fun to do every thing.
I thought D.C. hates fun!?
HE’S AN IMPOSTER! WHERE’S THE REAL D.C?!?
Will the real D.C. please stand up?
I prefer to go with the notion that @dc plays his own tune and doesn’t care much for what everyone else is playing cos he’s his own guy! 😀
So I was playing Deus Ex HR last night and dammit the 2nd main boss pisses me off!
Aw man, I sympathize. That game is incredibly fun in almost every area except for the horrible, horrible boss fights. :'(
Director’s Cut INCOMING! (not just for Wii U anymore but may be the console of choice if you got ’em)
Too bad they won’t patch existing games as DLC. I’d buy that DLC. 😀
I think it’s quite an overhaul, no?
Not just a “here’s and expansion” sort of thing.
Lucky me, DE:HR is a game I always wanted to try but didn’t for whatever reason and now I can play the SUPERIOR version.
Everyone else’ll prolly just grab it in a STEAM sale for a fiver in a year or two anyway 😀
Glad to hear other people are getting Chaos Rings on Vita. I read an interview somewhere where the dood who’s in charge said he want to release the prequel and sequel but it depends on how well this one sells, SO BUY, BUY, BUY!!! 😀 😀 😀
If you’re on the fence, it’s good solid fun. Turn-based JRPG, with pre-rendered backgrounds and sweet block puzzles!
I’m having heaps of fun playing and:
(progress/mechanics spoilers)
Just finished with the first set of characters and started new game with the second, seems money and skills learnt from enemies are carried over! WHich is so good! I was a little worried I would be grinding in new games trying to learn the same shit 😀 ;D 😀
I presume from that upvot that @dc is buying a Vita just for Chaos Rings now! 😛
Haha! Nah, I just support your video game enthusiasm. 😀
It’s genuinely good, huh? Plot’s a’ight, nothing too twisty but the depth stacks up over time.
It’s not heavy with story, but what’s there is effective.
I’m enjoying it a lot 😀
It’s funny, I just re-read my little write-up there and realised I didn’t mention story at all.
Funny that story is pretty unimportant for me in a genre so story driven…
Great, another game to buy. D=
It’s a port of a mobile game, so it only costs like 8 bux on US PSN.
Did you go American or Aus account? Either way, it’ll still be cheeeeeeeeeeeeap!!! 😀
AUS. i didn’t realise it was on the store =P
@strange just grabbed it, so I think it is.
How muchy @strange??
$12-something.
Just a question, what driving schools did people go with? I’m trying to find one.
None really.
Dad signed me up to some RACV thing but that was pretty terrible (I didn’t like the instructor I was given) but it did teach me the basics. The instructor made a good point and said it was good to start driving with someone like that otherwise you’d be picking up bad habits from parents/friends etc. – if I recall you’ve driven before?
After those initial 5 lessons or so (just ~1 hour or so driving in the instructor’s car), I just drove with my dad for however many months until I wanted to take the test.
A couple of friends had used a driving instructor that they said was good so I used him for a few lessons before I took the test (I used his car and he was there as well). He’d give some pro tips and we’d drive around the area where I was planning to take the test so I knew what to expect. Cool dude.
Easily passed on my first attempt.
I was thinking of using RACV but it’s so expensive.
What are you planning on doing? Regular lessons or just some at the start and end (like I did)? Of course if you do something regularly it’s going to be expensive which is why I recommend doing what I did. Having an instructor teach you what you need to know from the get-go is good and then you can go off and drive without one from there. It might even be better to have some more lessons somewhere in the middle to correct any mistakes or bad habits you might have picked up.
Try asking your friends and see if they used anyone in particular.
All my friends live near you ;_;
Regular lessons.
RACV. I got an excellent driving instructor from there.
I’m with a local guy at the moment.
I was originally with this woman, but when I tried to go for more driving lessons with her, I’d found out that she’d retired.
Fortunately, she recommended the guy I’m doing lessons with now. 🙂
Protip:
Don’t lecture me on how bad pot is, then tell me you can ‘overdose on pot’ like you can other drugs (hint: it’s theoretically possible but you’d literally have to smoke in one sitting in a short time, 10 – 12 kilograms of it at LEAST, and you’d die of smoke inhalation first), then get pissed off when I turn around and say:
“I find it ironic you choose to sit there and lecture me about smoking one to two joints a year while you drink half a dozen coffees and smoke a pack of cigarettes every day…”
*sigh* Parents…
Anyone ever had this experience?
Never really got into drugs all that much so not in that sense. My parents were pretty easy going.
Spending my working life in a trade has had something kind of similar. Co workers saying I haven’t got my priorities straight buying 2-3 games a month and how could I possibly afford it. Meanwhile they’re spending $1000-2000 a month on beer, cigarettes and betting on the football.
One of our family members works out west, has done for five years now, hes a FIFO. He buys himself around 5 – 7 games a month to play every time he comes back. Brand new, second hand it doesnt matter, but he’s only ever spending around 300 – 350 on console games (doesnt have a pc up there). Point is, he’s saved more than anyone else up there, because he doesn’t drink or some cigarettes (the most common habit in mining camps) but does partake in pot now and then when he’s gaming. It’s his vice. So be it. He buys in his own words, 50 bucks a month, its barely anything. They do get drug tested now, so he’s given up the pot alas. But, as he said, the moneys more important. He gets ragged on for his gaming but sees people up there blow entire paypackets on booze each week and turn up to week drunk or hung over, he’d rather game on a random day off or in the evening than get pissed and into a fight. Sounds like a better idea to me.
I prefer my vices to be out of a bottle, but living in the part of Canada where there is a lot, and I do mean a LOT of marijuana has kind of enlightened me a bit about the subject. I’m for it, but ultimately I believe that the general populace ain’t ready for it. My parents, being old-school asians, don’t take to kindly to THE DEVIL’S LETTUCE, but I’m wise enough about it.
alsoImight’vesoldpotinhighschoolonceortwicesothere’sthat
I’m not a heavy smoker, did smoke when I was 20 or so. If you’re a responsible smoker, i.e. AWAY from kids, not letting them see you do it etc, don’t drive after you’ve smoked etc etc. I have zero issues with it. I also think that you have to understand that with smoking *anything* health issues are potentially going to arise at some point potentially because well, lungs + smoke are not a combination in any way shape or form.
However there’s a distinct difference between being informed and being a sucker for paranoia and propaganda. To sit there while she smokes away on cigarettes, the most offensive drug of them all short of heroine, to me is disgusting. I’ve told them not to smoke around my son before, they’ve ignored me, saying it’s their house etc. I mentioned about passive smoking, they tell me it’s rubbish. I tell them it’s not and has been conclusively scientifically proven. Of course ‘I’m wrong’ because ‘they know better’. Eh, whatever we just don’t go out the back verandah now as it *stinks* out there. We’d move if we could but we need to be here so I can do Uni.
I don’t begrudge anyone partaking at all, I only smoke now once or twice a year when I get together with an old mate, it’s more of a way of us reconnecting with ‘the good times’ we used to have as young guys in the 90s, we game after a single joint, we have pizza and coke and it’s a great night.
Dad said to me ‘Why can’t you just have some beers?’ I said ‘We have a joint, some pizza and beers and stayed in playing videogames. Last night some douche at the pub near us got pissed and beat the shit out of someone out the front of it. Who’s being more responsible?’
But you know what, I guess common sense ain’t that common after all.
Haha, one of the reasons I’m not too keen on pot is that I treat it on the same level on cigarettes and alcohol- and god knows a good chunk of the world can’t handle those two properly, so adding pot into the mix wouldn’t be any help.
It’s just a generation thing, or a parental thing, or maybe both. I can’t honestly blame the older folks; unless you grow up with it, you’re stuck with a lot of misinformation and propaganda, which sways people a lot more easily these days.
Health-wise, though? I think for the most part pot won’t cause a large dent in your health (it’s mostly one’s lifestyle and personality that I find changes with usage) Unless you partake too much of it, but anything in excess is bad, yeah?
Absolutely, but then, standard pot won’t by any means, some of the wierd, uber strands, who knows. I’m no chemist. Funniest part is, some of our parents DID grow up with it lol. Hippies and all that.
Isn’t that why you never let your parents know these things? 😛
Every single time I see my parents now I get the whole “alcohol, cigarettes and drugs are bad, mmkay?” routine, so I dunno how they’d react if they found out I (occasionally) use all 3. All I know is that for some reason mum thinks I’m completely out of control because of one night over a year ago now when she thought (and still thinks, it gets brought up all the time) I had no idea where I was (despite knowing exactly where I was) because I wasn’t able to give exact directions and now she doesn’t trust me at all no matter what I say or how many times I say it…
I don’t drink or do drugs or smoke, but I also don’t lecture people about their decisions. 😀
British Police told me otherwise…. 😛
Me too, Strange. Me too. :'(
Nope, my parents took acid when they were teens and knew what they were talking about.
I was pretty much told not to let it take over my life.
Which I think is fair 😀
I think that’s the best way to do it. Your parents are wise people and are coming from a well informed position. I don’t think you even need to have ‘done it’ to come from a well informed position as long as you research unbiased, informed resources and have an open, willing to learn mind that isn’t negative and closed off. I’ll be saying to my son the same thing. Anything in moderation, but hard drugs are just stupid and bring nothing but misery into your life. (Cocaine, Speed, Heroin etc) Pot in moderation can be fun in a small group setting in the privacy of your own home but just don’t go out in public and make a dick of yourself. Alcohol is *never* good in a big public setting, being drunk? Well, you may think its fun? But more often than not it ends in tears.
Smoking? That shits never going to be tolerated in my household.
I wouldn’t touch a cigarette, but I’d share a joint if it was on offer and I was in the mood. Cigarettes are far, far worse for you than marijuana. Marijuana does have its downsides. If you’re chronic, your memory really does suffer and it can cause an imbalance in some people which can cause a whole bunch of problems. But recreationally? I’d rather smoke a joint than drink beers.
*ABSOLUTELY* my point of view. Absolutely. For us, there’s no better feeling than kicking back, two, ok maybe three times a year but thats about it, sharing a J, maybe splashing out and having a J each and playing some games. It’s all about just relaxing, giggling, having a great time. When people drink to excess, something always happens in our old group to bring it down, someone always ends up crying, someone always ends up upset by the end of the night and then the next day someones always vomited somewhere etc etc.
With pot, the worst that ends up happening is we end up having to replenish his wifes chip stash lol.
It’s more rarely than that for me. It’s generally just when go catch up with one of my mates in my hometown maybe once every 18 months. Fantasia 2000 was fucking phenomenal last time haha.
lol We were playing INJUSTICE last night after we put the kids to bed, we stayed over his place. We would never spark up while they were awake, plus his Mrs knew we were going to (someone else has to be around if we’re going to just incase, responsible nature and all that)
All I can say is, man, that game is awesome when stoned.
“Hooooly shiiiiiit imagine if superman like, punched you into space… then forgot to punch you down to earth after….”
“Yeah but he’d never forget to punch you down to earth?”
“Yeah but what if he DID?”
“Do you think Superman could like… knock you out with a kiss?”
“He’d be a hell of a first date…”
“Do you think that’s why Lois keeps forgetting? Concussive kisses?”
“Dude you’re blowing my mind…”
Looking at the back of the PS4, all those vents and holes are going to make blindly feeling around the back to plug a cable in an absolute nightmare.
You know how it’s got that odd split running through the middle? All the ports are on one side and all the vents are on the other side, each port inside its own little cubby, so theoretically it should be easier than fumbling around behind the PS3.
Pax Sunday
I was feeling surprisingly chipper the next morning despite not getting much sleep. I’d eventually decided that I would still go to Pax. It wouldn’t be fair on Nova who paid for my ticket and it wouldn’t be fair on Gorzy who I was showing around.It was casual day for me on the Sunday, so I just went in normalish clothes and kept myself warm. Hurrah for being warm! Gorzy and I caught a taxi again and met up with Nob. We headed straight to the expo hall to check out all the things that we had missed the previous days.
First booth we went to was Sanshee so I could pay the booth back the $10 I owed them. I explained the situation and the guy couldn’t believe that I’d come back to give him the money. He tried to tell me not to worry about it, but I wouldn’t hear of it.
Next we headed to beatbuddy because Gorzy hadn’t played it on the Saturday and he wanted to try it. Nob and I were going to look at the intel computers but were chased out by a rude intel guy. Not doing your company any favours buddy.
Once Gorzy finished up the game we headed over to the Muse booth. It had been impossible to get to in the previous days. Nob started playing it while I listened. Loops showed up and was talking to Gorzy. I handed the head phones to Gorzy and then Gorzy handed them to Loops so we all got to hear it. When Nob finished he tried to hand the controller to one of us when we told him that we all heard him playing so it was fine.
We checked out the alienware caravan thingy, looked at stuff that was way out of our price range before heading over to the Kings comic booth. I was trying to find something for my Mum but the only thing they had was a walking dead money bank and it wasn’t worth the $35 they were charging for it.
We then headed over to the epiphany games booth and watched the demos on the big screen. I was definitely interested in checking them out further so I asked for details so I could find them later. (When I remember to put money on my card I’m going to buy the spell one for my android phone. I really loved the mechanic which required you draw the spell.)
We then headed over to the indie showcase again. Nob tried crabitron while Gorzy and I had something to drink. We then showed Nob infinity wars. It was still hard to get close to some of the games. We avoided the Occulus rift because just looking at the screen sometimes made me feel ill. Gorzy checked out Burden. Nob tried out grand theft auto tablet edition or something and I tried the World of Watchcraft. It was fun and made me want my octopus game and watch my Mother threw out. We also tried MacGuffin’s curse and freedom fall. I certainly kind of want freedom fall but I’ve never used desura before.
We headed to the big top as it was almost time for Gorzy and I to go. We met Freyr, Rize and Rize’s fiancée. Blaghs ran for his life when he joked about the 3DS’ being like women. Freyr was trying to get the XP cube and we explained that we knew the phrase. So we headed to the Queue hall, leaving Rize and fiancée to their own devices.
When we reached the queue hall we were quickly told by information that they’d run out of consolation, consolation prizes. In fact the organisers couldn’t believe that so many people were playing the stupid game. We discussed things that we didn’t like with Pax and how we thought they could improve it. The information lady told us to post this on the website. Then it was time to go. Freyr’s 3DS picked up Cakesmith and we saw he was about 20 metres away.
Gorzy and I said goodbye to everyone and then headed to the front of the Coles. I called a taxi but after about 10 minutes, one hadn’t come. I called back and apparently the taxi driver couldn’t find us. We called another and in 10 minutes,a gain no taxi. Called back and the taxi driver said he’d picked us up. I was starting to get annoyed now. Called again and after 10 minutes, the taxi driver still couldn’t find us. I saw the taxi and it hadn’t even turned down into the Coles. We moved to a new location and called again. 10 minutes later, and again the taxi had picked me up. Which is hadn’t. I called again and the lady couldn’t believe that not one taxi driver had been able to find me. I gave very detailed instructions of where I was, what I looked like, what gender Gorzy and I was. 10 minutes later a taxi pulled up. It wasn’t ours but by this time I didn’t care. It had almost been an hour. While we were waiting for the girl to pay, our taxi rolled up. As I told the driver we’d catch the other one, 2 guys were suddenly behind us, after the taxi. I was slightly freaked out and headed to the other taxi. I was still fuming about it and the taxi driver sympathised with me. Mum called me to find out what the hell I was and I explained I was on the way home.
When we got home, Mum and I had to go to Highpoint so we dragged Gorzy along. We didn’t have much time before they closed so we showed him a few select stores, got some food and headed home.
I made Gorzy play Okami on Wii. He was enjoying it although he had a bit of problems with the slash ability. We stopped for dinner (pizza) before continuing the game. The only real thing of note was that when he had to stop playing he put down the wii remote and headbutted Mr. Orange, pissing him off. Gorzy stayed for a while, watching some of the same TV shows before heading back to his cabin.
I slept a lot better that night.
TL:DR
Gorzy played Okami, Nob played other games and I paid Sanshee back.
Great write-up, Scree! Thanks for these!
I can’t believe you read the whole thing.
I read all three too, WHERE’S MY PRAISE!?
I actually wrote 4.
Fri, Sat, Karaoke and Sun?
I read all four* too, WHERE’S MY PRAISE!?
In the fridge, I’d imagine ;D
…are they even still around? Hmm.
I have some in the fridge.
P. R. A. I. S. E!
http://i.imgur.com/zclEDsz.jpg
Are they even still around? Pffft.
(PS In the fridge made me laugh more than it should have :P)
GREENIUS. GETS. JOKES.
(although there probably is one in the fridge :D)
I see myself in that pic! 😀 internet famousss
I can’t believe you read the whole thing either.
Beardy’s Sunday afternoon movie recap. Cos I’ve watched a metric butt-tonne of movies over the last couple of weeks :/
I checked out the 2013 Evil Dead film this weekend and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was! Definitely way tonally different to the original, but in a good way.
The Odd Thomas movie was one I was dreading. I LOVE the book series. Definitely one of my favourite Koontz series (beaten only by Fear Nothing/Sieze the Night – WRITE MORE CHRISTOPHER SNOW PLZ). I was so scared it was going to be horrible. And unfortunately, the first 15 minutes truly is horrible. But after that, it smartens up and becomes a competent, but not amazing, thriller. Definitely for those who’ve read the books, because some things which are quite significantly meaningful in the books are somewhat glossed over in the film. Still enjoyed it though.
Pacific Rim was badass. I am more and more convinced with every passing film that Guillermo Del Toro has a direct line to my subconscious. It’s definitely not a movie for everyone, but if you like giant robots beating the snot out of giant creatures, you’ll like it.
This Is The End is the funniest Rogan & Crew film since Superbad. I haven’t laughed that hard in a movie in a loooooooooong time. I actually left abdominal pain from laughing so hard. The premise of the actors playing versions of themselves during the apocalypse is absolutely brilliant, and one of the highlights was that Michael Cera playing Michael Cera as un-Michael-Cera like as he possibly could. It was amazing. Heaps of cameos. Heaps of laughs. Very self-aware and self-deprecating in many parts. Highly recommended.
I haven’t been so uncomfortable in a movie in a long time then I was with Evil Dead. In a good way though.
Going to see 2 movies on a date night with wifey next week to see The Wolverine and This is the End. Hype.
Yesterday my phone kicked the bucket.
Went into the shop today to sign up for a new plan (I was out of contract anyway).
Decided on a HTC One after much deliberation.
Lady serving me took my new phone out of the box and without pause ripped the plastic sheet from the shiny new screen.
I wanted to do that. >:[
Awesome. I know you’ve wanted a new phone for a while. Powalen with a job is dangerous-he’s buying everything. 🙂
Sucks about the plastic screen though. I try and keep mine on for as long as possible.
Hah. It’s on a plan so I didn’t actually spend any money today. Just replaces my old phone bill 😛
2 episodes in and Orange is the new black is great. Netflix has released all 13 episodes so you can watch the whole of the first season at once if you wish. Damn my slow internet though, I have to wait for the other 11 to download.
I’ve also started watching Dead Like Me and it is good so far. I don’t like the main character though but as her character arc changes I’m growing to like her. I’ve just never liked the ‘I hate everything in the world so I’m going to ignore everyone and be a jerk’ characters in media.
Watching a lot of TV lately hopefully I can push some of that energy into playing a game.
Watch Better Off Ted next! 😀
I tried watching Dead Like Me ages ago but didn’t watch past the third episode because the main character was annoying 😛 I’ll give it another go one day!
Better Off Ted was pretty good!
One of my favourite comedy shows!
The only reason I mentioned it is because I’m rewatching it at the mo 😛
Better off Ted has been on my list for a while maybe I’ll fast track it this time. 🙂 Even better the series has finished/been cancelled so I can binge on it.
Yeah I’m six episodes in with Dead Like Me and she is still annoying sometimes. Her little sister too sometimes-ugh. I think I want to see where the series’ mythology on death goes, so far it has all been just go with the flow, blah blah blah.
Finally you seem to be a reality show guy so maybe check out an episode of Naked and Afraid and see if you like it. It’s basically the survival bit of Survivor with a naked man and woman(it’s censored-don’t worry). There is still a bit of personal drama but since the contestants change every week it doesn’t get irritating . There are 5 episodes so far.
Today’s egg survived unscathed! Thank god.
Also I think I just found out that my aunt, who for my entire life I thought was named Rina, is actually Vittorina. This comes on top of finding out that my dad’s name is actually different back when I had to get a non-child passport which meant taking in his birth certificate to the post office, and then some time between then and now finding out that what I thought was his dad’s name was actually a shortened form of his name, THEN later finding out that it was actually his *middle* name.
What else haven’t they told me???
Ha, I figured my uncle’s name was different too. Asked my parents about it when they got home and I was right 😛
Family secrets…
Why am I out having lunch with the family when I could be at home preordering Space Hulk? Hnnngh!
Use your mobile phone maybe?
The brightspark president of the college decided that tonight would be a great night to have a pub crawl and “didn’t even discuss whether having it on a Sunday night would be a good idea or not.” :l Think I’ll skip this one, along with the majority of the people here…
A bunch of my friends always insist on doing things on Sunday night. I don’t even have anything to do on Mondays but it still bugs me.
I wanna play my playstation 3, but that requires setting it up and I can’t be bothered.
This is me with Pikmin and Wii U and updates and floorspace and fear of bricking.
I don’t have a wiiU =(
Then you are safe! 😛
Morning all,
So I’ve had a pretty fun weekend so far of not really doing anything in particular, Played some saints row 3 with a friend from canadia … it was the mad adventures of an always happy Buddha man and his pet pig monster wearing nothing but a pixeled crotch and a dog collar. Started playing this freemium third person sci-fi game where you get to play as a space ninja with assault rifles. It’s pretty awesome if you’ve got a few people to play with … the ability section for the weapons and your character is freaking confusing at first.
I got to play a bit of animal crossing and decided to make some nice footpaths between all the houses, shops and made some areas for future developments … should be fun. Other then that there’s been a butt tonne of playing pool with the housemates and not playing the last of us … I should probably fix that, but I’ve started drinking and that’s the kind of game I’d need to be sober for.
How’s everyone’s weekend going so far?
EDIT: I should probably add that the freemium space ninja game is called Warframe and it’s got pretty awesome controller support straight off the bat. The camera sensitivity default was still set to a mouse and with a controller it was whipping around like there’s no tomorrow
I played Pikmin 3 and it was really fun! Wait… no I didn’t 🙁
I got myself unnecessarily hyped for Dynasty Warriors 8 which I then purchased after telling myself I wouldn’t 😛
Although I did manage to hold back on buying Tomb Raider for like the 20th time 😀
I also finished Trine and I’m working my way through Trine 2, fun times… 🙂
I’ve been hearing some good stuff about Warframe. It’s good it’s going to be Free to play on the PS4 too.
Re-watching Breaking Bad.
Amazing.
@dc get on it!
Nah, I don’t doubt Breaking Bad is good. Just don’t need that kind of grittiness in my life. Haha!
So gritty D:
Just like I don’t need Pikmin in my life.
Cause you hate fun too? 😀
The only grit you need is over 200 dead Pikmin.
MONSTER!
They knew what they signed up for!
Holy shit I’m hype. So hype. More hype than anything ever.
Man, I feel like if I had known about Breaking Bad in high school I wouldn’t have dropped Chemistry and I might’ve done Science-y stuff! 😛
…just opened up yesterdays games to find that Super Luigi doesn’t even have a single-sheet manual slip? And Pikmin comes in a hole-riddled enviro case??
This drives my OCD insane.
I like the enviro cases they have for the 3DS, the Theatrhythm one looked great, for instance.
I don’t think I’ve actually looked at my Pikmin case. I just shoved the disc in my WiiU and started crying.
Yeah, the 3DS ones I can deal with. They sometimes do cool stuff with the backside of the cover slip, but most importantly they aren’t flimsy pieces of shit that flex massively with the slightest of pressure.
Kind of want to buy freedom fall.
I haven’t really played anything new since Animal crossing and yet I keep buying games. What is wrong with me D=
Just did my tax. Government wants me to give them an extra $200 for the heinous sin of not having private health.
Bastards.
Private Health sucks dicks. 🙁 I gathered together all the bills I had to pay when I broke my foot earlier in the year, took them down to Bupa and they looked through and turns out they don’t cover:
– Hospital Visit
– Radiology
– Specialist Visit
– Crutches hire
So the one thing they did maybe care about was the boot I had to buy, but that wasn’t covered because for them to pay out on that you need to be giving them two pounds of flesh every month instead of one 🙁
Then I went to Medicare and got $190 back. Better than a poke in the eye but I’m still out of pocket like $600 and it seriously made me consider whether there’s any value in having health cover if, in an actual case where I need proper hospital attention, I don’t get a cent of cover.
Not having it added another nearly $800 bill to my end of year tax. I would have had a refund otherwise.
Cheapest health fund I could find to cover myself and wife is $112 a month. Which means either way we’re paying it. That $112 a month covers problem even less than what you described. Which is pretty much nothing. So less than nothing. Just give them your money.
I live on the edge. No private health. Aka walking time-bomb.
You do get stuff like optical and dental covered at least, I just never get around to actually using those services. 🙁
@dc
You were talking about The Bridge TV show a few weeks back I think. I tried the first episode and I don’t think it’s grabbing me. I haven’t even reached halfway through the first episode. Something about the relationship between the two cops is not convincing to me.
I’ll give it a chance (at least finish the first episode) when I get back home since it has been well received.
I don’t think you watched it did you? You were just commenting that it looked interesting. 🙂
I watched the pilot and really liked the Autistic detective, thought it was well written too. Just like Breaking Bad it seemed sort of gritty and at the moment I’m not looking for really dark TV shows. XD
Trying to eat better/fresher/healthier is proving to be a bit of a challenge. Not in terms of wanting to eat it, it’s just so expensive and wasteful when cooking for one :S
*back to noodles*
Just cook three days worth of food in one go!
Cook in meals of 4 or 2 and just freeze the extra serves
I do have a tiny little freezer in the top of the fridge, but it doesn’t actually freeze things 😛
There is part of your problem
Yeah, I agree. I find it’s much easier to eat better for breakfast though. Less cooking and more stuff you can make easily and for cheap.
Up n Go or Milo cereal is my breakfast whenever I can be bothered having breakfast 😀 If I’m at my friends place its always bacon and eggs or panackes (or all 3) which is pretty great, but not healthy at all 😛
It’s just so hard trying to cook here, battling it out with everyone else for the ovens and bench space. It’s really annoying.
i think bacon and eggs is supposed to be better for you than people realise. something metabolism something kickstart something something.
So long as you eat something, you’re doing yourself a favour.
That said, I don’t like eating breakfast, and it makes me feel hungry by like, 9am, which is the worst, whereas if I don’t eat it, I can basically just go a whole day without food…
Weirdly Arcade Fire albums aren’t on Australian iTunes any more. D:
For the betterment of Australia.
Almost every post I make lately you say what I like is bad or stupid or make some sort of joke about it. 🙁
Sorry man. I’ll stop. Don’t really think that. Just being stupid.
Aw, I know man. You don’t have to stop. Just an observation. Haha! You’re awesome and you’re my pal and you can act any way you want, I won’t take it personally. 🙂
Edit: Sorry man. 🙁 I feel like a jerk now. Hope I didn’t make you feel bad.
You did but not your fault. Mine entirely. I feel bad as I’m being a jerk. You should just be shitty with me.
Naaaah, no malice. Just making fun which is alright. Haha!
Tell me I’m not the only one who hates competitive online games… PLEASE TELL ME!
….And yet i don’t stop playing them.
I think I owe large amounts of my fitocracy points to getting mad, and then working out like the incredible sulk to burn it off.
I hate them, my friend. I like co-op though!
Thank god. Co-op is great… as long as it’s against AI.
Oh yeah, I like coop like Portal 2 or Renegade Ops where you’re just playing a single player-like campaign designed for two people. Even Borderlands coop is a bit too bare bones for my liking, I like common objectives and stuff but a good story too.
I like the uncharted co-op too. I think that was in number 2 if i remember rightly. Brief missions but good fun. I never really got into borderlands because i couldnt play at the same time as my friends. Plus its just so big… I got enough of games like that during my WoW phase.
You’re not. I generally don’t like games with multi at all on the whole.
I don’t like them and I get stressed sometimes playing multiplayer in general.
But I like MMOs and I really want to play Destiny when it releases so I guess I’m a walking contradiction 🙁
I finally made it to Sector 8 in FTL. Unfortunately, I was down to one crew member, so I didn’t get much further. FTL is awesome though.
Wee! Train Simulator 2013!
I fiddled with some levers, pressed some buttons and flicked some switches. Got the train moving! Got several citations for travelling 195mph through a 25mph zone. Passengers complained about me not stopping at any stations. They should consider themselves lucky I couldn’t figure out how to derail the train.
Isn’t it the giant red button that says derail?
I obviously played train simulator wrong as no one complained.
“I obviously played train simulator wrong as no one complained.”
That’s because your passengers died horribly after you de-railed, right?
I stopped at the station and did well. I did it completely wrong
That’s like playing Surgeon Simulator and not breaking a beaker against the ribcage just to see what happens 🙁
I am the worst at games /o\
Topical.
Oh man, I did the washing dishes thing earlier, slipped on the wet kitchen floor and slammed my wrist and knee into the tiles. Ouch. D:
Are you alright?
Wrist is a bit sore, but I’m fine otherwise…
Slapstick comedy at its finest, without an audience. 😛
As long as you haven’t done any serious damage.
Nah, not that bad. Appreciate the concern, though! Haha! 😀
Cautionary tale not to do the dishes. No good can come from it. >:|
I wish Mum would think that =P
One trip to the ER could cost you more than a dishwasher 😛
Hilarious damage is always preferred.
Walk it off you’ll be right
http://collider.com/michael-lombardo-richard-plepler-hbo-game-of-thrones-interview/
Cool interview with HBO executives about the state of their shows. Really interesting reading if you’re a TV nerd. 😀
Good news for the Newsroom, eh?
You should watch! I recommend it. (That means there’s a 25% chance you’ll like it! XD)
Massive backlog, but it’ll be on the list, for Sorkin as much as DC.
I haven’t watched any of this season yet. Stockpiling them so that I can blitz through them without waiting.
Creatively it’s improved on most of my problems from the first season which were:
Always being right all of the time…
Seems a lot more character arc before the news-based too. The news is just a backdrop to the character stories, etc.
I’m really liking it. Only nine eps this season though. (And 2×03 airs tomorrow!)
That’s what the West Wing got right. I’m pretty happy with that.
*vanishes to play Pikmin 3 for another few hours* 😀
WHO WILL CIRCLE THE SUNDAY NIGHT TAY WAGONS?!
Me? Is it me?
I call shotgun!
Is it still the same number? I’ve tried a few times but they never pick up.
Nah they changed it to a 1800 number now which is a bitch because it costs you $2 a minute
That’s ok, I’ll just wait til I get home and use the landline.
I’ll attempt it but it will probably look more like a square.
It’s so pretty!
That’s an understatement. Stop with your understatements. 😛 It’s atleast so, SO pretty. 😛
Uni starts again tomorrow.
;_;
Oh, woe is me.
*Gasp*
You might have to actually do something with your time! 😛
In before “look who’s talking” 😛3rd week of uni starts tomorrow.
Already over it, keen for the holidays 😛
Seconded, third week this week for me too.
Though it’s only two and a half days a week so it’s not that big a deal I guess.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I just knew you’d say that 🙁
http://i.imgur.com/lPrJahb.gif
YOU’RE NOT REAL.
STOP TALKING TO YOURSELF
Does that mean more Greenius TAYing or less?
Which do you want? 😛
More Greenius, more of the time! 😀
I miss uni so bad. Best years of my life, bar none.
High school were mine :'(
To be honest, I feel like now is pretty good. I’ve got friends I get to hang with regularly. Things could be better on other fronts, but who cares about that when I’ve got amazing pals. *sappy*
I feel like I missed out with my uni life. Whenever I hear others speak of theirs, it sounds like there was just so much… stuff. But for me it was literally just go to uni, take my classes, go home. Maybe talk to a couple of the guys on MSN here and there, but otherwise that was it.
Right?
In my year at ANU my friends were all taking part in like Humans Vs. Zombies, and they’d meet up and do things, and the most I’d do is see one of them, say hi, and maybe skip a lecture to have lunch with one of them… I was just awful at the whole “university culture” thing.
I didn’t do the whole party outside of uni thing, but doing a film based degree you get to spend lots of time with lots of different people. Sometimes going out on location to shoot stuff would be an adventure. Didn’t do the whole ‘drink at campus bar’ thing or any thing though. 😀
I did Computer Science. I only got to meet the one kind of person 😛
Given my year at ANU was doing Software Engineering, I understand completely.
Oh I didn’t really do much except classes –> home –> classes. But I’ve never – not before nor since – felt the kind of brain-on-fire inspiration that I felt when I was being pushed intellectually. Totally my formative years. Really miss it.
Ah true! I guess doing something you’re interested in would help with the enjoyment 😛
Creative Writing degree! \o/
The best personal decision I ever made, and probably the worst professional decision! 😛
I get what you mean. That’s kind of what drove me to get back into study, I was sick of the laziness and wanted to get my brain working again. Though really I think I felt the kind of think you’re describing just after uni – there were a string of years there where a whole load of competitions kept popping up online, and I’d keep coming up with all these crazy ideas of things to do for them and usually ended up getting some kind of prize out of it. If only because I just looked like I put far more effort into things than anyone else 😛 Also loads of costume parties which were great for that too, though minus the prizes.
I miss being properly productive. These days it’s hard to get motivated enough to even waste my time with something enjoyable, instead of just sitting here doing basically nothing.
Hey, same with me! Except without the talking and MSN 😛
I’m only 6 months in and yeah, so far this year has by far been the best year of my life. I highly doubt I’d say that though if I wasn’t staying at a residential college. It’s the amazing people I’ve met who have made it such a good year. As far as uni goes though, I absolutely despise it.
300 Pikmin have died in the line of duty. D:
Gritty
How many days into it are you?
I’m up to the flying invisijerk, who like, sucks things up, and in all honesty is not all that hard to beat, but I spent basically a whole day attacking him and only took out like half his health… I’ve lost a moderate number of Pikmin so far. Had a moment earlier where I called my Pikmin, and about 60 of them ran through water to try and reach me and died. Funnily enough, I reset the day.I’m up to day 29, I think. I did pretty damn well in that fight, weirdly. I managed to beat the mofo and carry the loot back to the ship all in one day. Some of the other boss fights have been catastrophic though. I’ve retrieved I think about 35 unique pieces of fruit or so… I try to get atleast one a day, but there’s been times where I’ve had to rebuild entire platoons. XDOf my eight or so days, I have had 2 where I haven’t gathered any fruit. I feel so awful after those ones though…NOOOOOO!
DISCUSSIONS D:
Sometimes you need to do the prep work though. Build bridges, knock down walls, etc. And then the next day you get like two pieces of fruit which makes it all worth while.Yeah, that’s true, but I think it’s safe to say that I’m pretty bad at the game. I felt terrible after guy dude and girl chick separated because I didn’t manage to reunite them in one day. :/Haha! Me too. She had to brave the snow cave. At least she had electricity to keep her warm! 😀 I like the little touches of detail too, the conversations on the ship and the rubber ducky that’s floating around the room — the orange glow when the ship takes off and the sound effects of the juice filling the bottle too. Such a good game.It’s kind of annoying, because it clearly has that attention to detail that you rarely ever see outside of Nintendo, but it still has a few niggling issues (mostly Pikmin getting stuck on the environment, and that while it looks fantastic -personally- I think it shows that it has been in development for 2 different systems (some elements just aren’t as high quality as the could be). These are hardly real criticisms though. It’s a shiteload of fun, and that’s what matters.Oh yeah, I agree with your criticisms too but when its this fun it’s easy to over look. 😀 Also the integration of the gamepad isn’t the best when you’re playing with the WiiMote.
The ambient animation of the Pikmin are amazing though. I also like stuff like trees subtly leaning over when weighted down and the like. I’m sure the other games did that too, but it makes me smile. Haha!
@shane: How’d the Friday night meat go? Who went? What you guys end up doing?
Because of reasons, I was late to pick up @mythamphetamine from the airport, and didn’t get to the designated meat spot until half an hour late. Sorry @BDKIAF and @blaghman. They were standing around outside EB looking (understandably) annoyed.
Aleph bought some pink sunnies for my 3 yo. She LOVED them, of course. I still owe him a junior burger, but at least I passed some books on to him in the interim.
@rize never showed up. If he hadn’t recently read The Lesser Evil and (apparently) enjoyed it, he might be dead to me.
We went out for a Turkish banquat (yep, banquat), and I paid for part of my meal with books (now officially legal Shane-tender) because I had not-enough cash. Felt like a right leech and poor person… all the guilts.
I got mocked for playing the role of responsible adult (being lumped in with them makes it a sad day for all responsible adults). Rocketman was praised for his genius, and his movie is a must-see for us all. Other topics. PAX. Aleph is looking forward to QLD, and has a weird fixation on @shiggyninty, suggesting that every second person who entered the restaurant looked like Shiggy…
Blaghs brought his 3DS, and I brought Aleph’s, but even though BDKIAF decided not to participate in the passing of street information, there were plenty of random nerdpasses to be had in addition to the one TAYpass. Went home with five in the end, which made the night worthwhile.
BDKIAF left after dinner, and the rest of us milled around as the shopping centre closed and locked up around us. A brief plan of finding a drinking pit was discussed, but as we none of us had any real drive to organise even this simple plan, we called it quits and I drove everyone home.
For more details, I refer you to an earlier post.
Haha! I totally upvoted that other post too. Oh man, I feel bad. For what it’s worth I remember that stuff, I just thought it was a tweet and not a TAY post. XD Thanks for the details. Meat write-ups are good. 😀
Don’t feel bad. What I wrote before was hardly a write-up, and I was highlighting just how much it wasn’t a write-up with that last line! 😛
A better write-up than anyone else did though!
Woohoo! The two greatest words in the English language:
DE FAULT DE FAULT DE FAULT!
Settled down to watch Kiki’s Delivery Service.
This was the first Studio Ghibli film I ever saw, watched the end of it when it was on SBS a few years ago. 🙂
Dunno if I can stay awake for Formula 1 🙁 I can finally get to the doctor tomorrow, so hopefully I can get things sorted…
Hope it all goes well, my friend!
It looks like it’s going to go well! Webber’s car’s fixed so he should be able to pull himself up after his pretty bad qualifying yesterday!
I kid, I kid. Thanks man 🙂 I’m really glad that both on and offline I know such supportive people!Record it and watch it later!
I’m thinking I’ll probably watch it to about 11 and do that actually 😛
Watching F1 on PSVita via Remote Play, whilst watching Kiki’s Delivery Service.
😀
Since it’s Sunday night TAY and all, I’ll probably repost this – but…
How’s the Red Dead Redemption DLC? Undead Nightmare and all the other crap?
I’ve borrowed and completed Red Dead Redemption (360) from a friend and loved it. However, I didn’t really do much and I pretty much only did the story missions. Through PS+, I now have a digital copy of it on PS3. But both are just the standard editions and since I hear Undead Nightmare is good, I do feel like owning a proper (physical) copy for myself, so I’m thinking about the GOTY version, but I’m not sure whether the DLC is worth it.
I also haven’t played the game online, is that worth doing? TAY shenanigans sound fun and I’m sure we can easily do another play sesh. Well, I did try it once and joined some TAYbies on Xbox, but it was a total disconnect/lag fest, so nothing really happened 😛
Undead Nightmare’s awesome if you’re into supernatural stuff. It parallels the main games plot points and the like in a cool way too. This DLC is probably some of the best DLC made for any game, evah! Feels more like an old timey expansion pack.
Yeah, but what about all the other little shitty things? 😛
I’ve noticed a lot of them are online based which rules them out (unless TAYbies play again!)
Oh yeah, that was the only DLC I played, alas. Never played online either. (Since I don’t have gold and at the time, didn’t have friends who’d want to play any way. XD)
“unless TAYbies play again!”
cc @cakesmith, …uhh…the other people who have it have difficult handles, but you get the idea.
STOP MAKING ME HUNGRY, LIFEHACKER!
STOP BEING AWKARD AUBREY!
WHAT KIND OF NAME IS LYSANDRA!?
*shakes fist in solidarity*
It’s for when you’re expecting twins, and you think one of them will be the Egyptian sun god.
The disappointment upon realising that you only have one child.
That they do not shine with an internal light.
But you still love them, so you name them after both. Liz, and Ra.
I think you put more thought into it than the parents did! 😛
If there’s one thing I have a lot of practice in, it’s over-analysing things.
It’s Sandra with a lie in front of it.
After a few months of using it, I still think Twitter is weird 😛 How do random people even find tweets I send to other people to favourite them? :S
Because they’re bots!
Everyone you’re following? BOTS!
The people who created Twitter? BOTS!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah I won’t dispute that 😛
Yeah, a lot of it is bots.
@Shane_W_Smith for example. Spambot of the worst kind. Avoid at all costs.
I was like, ha, idiot cant even link his handle properly. Then I realised I’m the idiot. This realisation is not new to me…
I keep pondering whether to check it out, mainly because I know a bunch of Melbourne friends use it as their main form of communication (after having pretty much abandoned Skype, which they bullied me into using in the first place :/).
It is weird though. And I don’t understand it or what I’d do with it, so I’m still avoiding it 😛
I was like that for a while too, but then I realised that I should stop worrying, and learn to love
the nuclear bombTwitter.10,000 tweets later, and clearly that was the best decision of my life.
I’m pretty sure it’s bad for me. Eg I’ve been a heavy forum user for say the last six years or so (before then I hadn’t really kicked into gear yet), I don’t log in to them until I know I have enough time to read through every new post that’s been made since my last visit and be sure not to miss a single thing that went on, before logging out again. That’s part of what’s kept me away from facebook (though there’s plenty of other reasons for that), I waste enough time on the net as it is without having another stream of information to obsessively process. Kind of the same deal for Twitter. Hell, even this place has me wary. So many new posts to read through every day, it’s highly distracting and time-consuming 😛
I mostly use it to talk to my best friend because apparently even though we use Facebook, Steam, text and talk face to face all the time that wasn’t enough or something 😛
Edit: I should also add that between that I like to talk about cake.
Still think the best thing about twitter is often having a direct line of contact with people you admire and such, whether its bands or developers or whatever. I’ve made quite a few friends just by replying to tweets!
Best thing was a comedian I like retweeting me 😛
Anyone who is not watching The Returned (Les Revenants) needs to start now.
It’s French(apparently an adaptation of a film: ‘They CameBack’) and slow, but oh so beautifully shot if you’re into that kind of stuff (@sughly @dc :P). Really interesting story,as well.
Just watched the trailer, that really does look pretty great! Like you say, visually looks gorgeous. Will definitely have a look see ^^
edit: Errr… where does one… procure these? Are they fansubbed or something if its currently running?
False alarm, I found it
They’re currently airing with subs on UK tv, last episode is due to air this week. I believe Mr. Strange has been finding them in that place where you hunt isos….
Edit: Dammit, Sughly! 😛
zomg, is exactly where I found them. We hunters are alike. Seems its all up there too Strange, there’s an ep 8 listed as ‘final’ and torrents claiming to be full season.
Yeah, Mr. Strange just told me that. If he’d told me earlier I wouldn’t have let him play XCom so we could watch The Returned instead. Dammit, Mr. Strange!
Games I have completed in 2013 so far:
Our lists are eerily similar!
Heya guys, so I decided to switch out a soundtrack for a game and do something completely random tonight… I started MAX PAYNE 3 on PC using the STARWARS EPISODE 4 soundtrack.
Wanna know something scary?
It suits the game better than the actual soundtrack LOL.
I completely implore you to play it with this!!! It’s incredible! Especially the level where the offices get raided by the military! Play the Sandpeople track and *damn*!!!!
Anyone ever do this?
No, but it sounds pretty damn cool.
See you all in new TAY, everyone!
See you then 🙂
Should go to sleep. But want to Pikmin instead. Wait why is it nearly two hours since I was originally planning to go do this??