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Note: this week’s Talk Amongst Yourselves was a big confusing mess because I was off on Monday and Tuesday and we never started a new TAY! Sorry for the confusion. Won’t happen again. This is a new TAY for the rest of the week. Normal service will resume this coming Monday.
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NEW TAY!
And this one is easier to access
Now with bonus Day One DLC (@dc)
Has that new TAY smell.
Enjoy it while it lasts
I don’t like it. Change is scary.
Back in the cave
Oh god, did they change daylight savings so you put the clock 4 days and 1 hour ahead?
Bahahahahahahriflsohediusangaizbrgskaxhehafaalndozsggegieh
Nobs, your Hallowhandle is probably the most disturbing one so far, with @dc a close runner up.
I dunno… @ontargett…
No, but I hate day light saving time changes. Its all set up to change automatically phone and comp.
Edit: lack of sleep leads to lack od sense. Last 2 lines are seperatr statements only thing in common is day light savings bah don’t worry about it.
REPOST!
I know there’s only about 4 people here who care but:
Nine Inch Nails/Queens of the Stone Age Australian Tour March 2014!
DEETS! http://tour.nin.com
I care 🙂
A gig on a Monday, that’s barbaric! Probably would sell out before I could make a decision anyway 😛 really tempted to go for QOTSA
New TAY on a Thursday. Right after a page get.
*sigh*
I’m still reading up on the THREE BLOODY PAGES that got posted since I looked yesterday arvo, so fear not, Beavwa. I’ll read your page-get. I’ll read it so hard.
Edit: Enh, PokeHype. Interesting factoid about EB price-matching Big W on your pre-order though. Normally I thought they were super-anal about calling up to make sure the cheaper store had stock, so they could give a shit-eating grin and apologize insincerely. (OK, that embellishment is my annoyed imagination.)
RE: Edit
Depends on the store mostly. My old store is super generous in price matching to the point where they will price match for certain regular customers even if they don’t bring it up.
Also why I went there yesterday to have a reasonable conversation ahead of launch day shenanigans about what they could and couldn’t do. I like this store and would like to buy more from them.
I went in expecting to have the conversation about them not being able to match, and got a pleasant surprise. They said they took issue with the GTA V one recently because it was effectively a bait-and-switch by Target, the local one had all of 5 copies at release week. Much happier matching Big Dubya because they do this shit properly and will carry plenty of stock.
I think it depends on the game. With GTAV it was pretty bad though. My housemate who works for EB couldn’t price match unless Target had stock and her manager kept pretty close tabs on it. Even if Target were about to have stock delivered in 2 hours, they would tell the customer they would have to wait or pay their full price.
I have a stupid exam today. I just checked the results for the assignment (which I worked really hard on) and barely scraped a pass, which means I have to smash this exam despite not knowing the subject nearly as well as I think I do. /o\
What are you studying again?
I’m doing a Certificate IV in general insurance. This particular module is Insurance Products, which really should be quite easy. :/
I guess you could say my hype levels for a NIN/QotSA tour are somewhere around 999,999 and 1,000,000
Had to. I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry.EDIT: Use the right tags dammit Cake!
I don’t get it.
… I also don’t get it.
Anyone got a pie chart?
I hat you both.
HI CAKESMITH!
The opening tracks of “The slip”…. Watch the you tube videos of 1,000,000 – the touch activated panels are cool…Pity the new music isn’t…
It’s over 9,000.
Ragh.
Wow, The Slip References, Nice 🙂
For a live recording that is mixed so well, holy shit. Reminds me of the EP Slash did from one of those iTunes sessions, sounded so good.
I may have brought my 3DS to work today, even though my current commute handheld is the VITA, just incase Pokémon breaks street date.
I always bring my 3DS to work. Wouldn’t want to miss out on those streetpasses.
What game are you playing on your Vita atm? Mines been dormant for a couple of months.
Muramasa, pretty great game. Beat the main story and trying to get the bonus endings.
Collect ALL the swords!
Hur dur dur I’m a author, what with my award-winning book
‘The Walking Dead’‘The Lesser Evil,’ winner of TWO nobel peace prize awards and a Rockbjörnen (Sweden’s most popular music award!)….
I literally cannot remember anything else about Shane at the moment. He plays Dark Souls, right? But I’m pretty sure everybody’s played Dark Souls so that doesn’t count.
ShaneIloveyoumandon’thurtmeIsweartogodIwillbuylike20copiesofyourbook
Also, you and your wife are having another baby!
BABIES!
So all my friends are banging on about GTA V. Then they’re banging on about Pokemon.
I honestly didn’t think there would be that much of a cross-over between the brands.
Also, scary fact…I’m getting old. I yelled at a first year uni student today for parking wonkily beside me.
Both released around 1997.
Both releasing 7th main installment this year.
… That’s all I got this time of morning.
7 + 7 = 14
1-4 = 3
HEY GUYS HALF LIFE oh screw it this is getting old.
Edit: Me no numbers. Numbers no good.
Actually that is -3
Which is a negative to HL3 being released
We’re all getting old its just some people don’t grow up. Just, don’t grow up too fast.
Erg. Beyond: Two Souls has already enraged me and I haven’t even opened the case yet.
Fancy steel book with a real nice cover on it. All well and good but the spine is blank. No title, no logo, nothing but the PS3 brand up the top. Why? God of War:Ascension did the same thing. Who the hell displays their entire collection face out?
Game hunters, who mount (mount hehehehehe) their cases like animal heads.
Right? It’s such a nice looking case too. Just ruined by not having the name on the side.
Drakengard 3 is getting localized after all.
Also Tales of Hearts R got ported to iOS in Japan. Namco is turning into Squenix 🙁
Oh hey, it’s a TAY that’s actually from this month 😛
For once I’m hoping the air con goes into overdrive. This helmet + scarf combo is pretty toasty.
(oh yeah, it’s Silly Hat Day today. Apparently my friend was the only one of all the first years who took part yesterday, stupid lamers. Nearly our whole group today has shown up with something for it)
How about that TAYlist, time for your requests!
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Mardy Bum — Arctic Monkeys
(Haha! Me and a friend totally sang this loudly while walking through London a few years back. Good times. XD)
Fluorescent Adolescent — Arctic Monkeys is good too. XD
Agreed.
I know I told you last night but
Don’t stop me – Queen
Diamond in the Sky- TJ Davis
We’ll see, I’m not sure we have this one
I wouldn’t be surprised. 😛
Alive – Krewella
A Forest – The Cure
Make Some Noise – Beastie Boys
Cars – Gary Numan
One of my favourite SF Authors, Sean Williams, wrote a trilogy where one of the characters speaks only in Gary Numan lyrics
The Killing Moon – Echo and the Bunnymen
War Pigs – Black Sabbath
Nice choice
Wake Me Up – Avicii
To stick with the 80s New Wave vibe we have going
Space Age Love Song- A Flock of Seagulls
Pure massacre – Silverchair
The Batman Theme – Danny Elfman
No, ok.
Epic – Faith No More
The Song Remains the Same – Led Zeppelin?
Obscure request :
Caveman – God God Dammit Dammit
Serious request :
Sleazy Bed Track – The Bluetones.
I know we don’t have that song, I’ve got it on my iPod so I’ll see if i can do that.
Slipknot! I dunno what song though.. Anything is good, but if it’s available Snuff, Vermillion or Duality.
or alternatively Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Depeche Mode – Martyr
Tragic Symphony – Hanson
Foo Fighters – Oh George
Creed – My Sacrifice
Thanks everyone, for the requests. I’ll try to play as many as I can.
Anyone else think it’s slightly hypocritical that some game journos are harping on about Beyond: Two Souls’ faults while they were most likely the same people who praised the ever-loving crap out of The Walking Dead despite the two games being mechanically very similar?
Have you played Beyond: Two Souls though? Because it certainly has some faults. I mean, I’m enjoying it thoroughly, but it deserves the criticism.
Oh I know it’s more of an interactive movie than a game and the plot is definitely not for everyone (it is David Cage after all). I guess it’s being reviewed differently because it’s a David Cage game through and through while TWD was something a little bit different from Telltale.
At least it ain’t no Jurassic Park.
Don’t be messing with JP, I really liked that game
I enjoyed it for what it was but there was no denying it was exceptionally corny and pretty bland compared to the other Telltale stuff.
It’s part of the JP universe, of course it was corny
It’s funny because your name sounds like it has Booty at the start now.
Difference is, David Cage.
For me, the reviews I’ve read don’t criticize the gameplay but rather the plot, which is the correct thing to do since the two games are more of playable movies than anything else. (Personally, I’m not digging Beyond- the plot’s kinda.. well, it warrants a whole other discussion.)
But if they’re harping about the games not being traditional video games, well, Heavy Rain’s been out for a while, no?
Yeah I guess the reviews I’ve been reading make it seem like they were expecting a non-David Cage game. I mean, Fahrenheit was amazing back in the day but it was completely bonkers from a story standpoint. BTD is slightly less bonkers (so far at least, I haven’t quite finished it) but still true David Cage material.
It’s fashionable to love that Walking Dead game, and fashionable to hate on David Cage and his games. Simple as that. On the internet opinions become like snowballs. Enough people having the same opinion will then roll around and pick up stragglers who didn’t originally intend to have that opinion.
Jim Sterling actually nails why those two games are different,
For all the complaints that can be leveled at Beyond — and they can be leveled in feckless abundance — the overwhelming problem with it is that it’s just plain boring. Like a sociopath, Beyond: Two Souls knows how to act like it has a heart, while providing nothing of the emotional depth required to connect with an audience.The Walking Dead has heart.
I’m going to have to politely disagree on that point. I actually found myself really involved in the story of Beyond (maybe not to the same extent as TWD but still quite a bit).
Different horses for different courses and all that.
I feel the opposite. Beyond had me engaged with the story and characters right from the start. The Walking Dead did not. I played most of the first one and didn’t really care about anything and was definitely not immersed or engaged enough to want to get the rest of the series.
I also felt like Walking Dead was trying too hard to manufacture “feels” which is kind of what was making me unfeel. It wasn’t natural.
Still made me tear up.
Oh man I had tears rolling down my cheeks. Lost a few man cards that day.
Also, Walking Dead was around 4-5x cheaper. And APPEARS to let you make more meaningful/high impact decisions. I say ‘appears’ because I haven’t completely spoiled Beyond for myself yet.
It was Earth all alongYou maniac!
They finally made a monkey out of me.
I love you, Dr. Zaius!
@beavwa BeavwAAAAAAAAARGH! REAL MONSTERS!
Could even drop the TV show reference and it works. I like it.
Now make me one! I can’t seem come up with anything clever
Stevil-o the Devil-o
Steve-L the Deve-L?
Steve-o the Deve-Ourer.
Steve-O the Reave-O? (Or Reap-O but that sounds like repo man. Or like you rape.)
You’re too good at this!
It’s fun 🙂
Maybe you could come up with something for me!
I’m not particularly pleased with mine, I feel like I could have been more clever… and failed.
(Edit: And as all great men know, if you can’t be clever yourself, find someone who is and steal their stuff.)
Transient Mindflayer.
Mm. That is decent! I did actually think of it but ruled it out as it seemed less undeadly halloweenish, more d&d.
if they weren’t a whole-cloth D&D thing, I’d love to see a proper Mindflayer horror movie.
PENNY ARCADE IS ALWAYS RELEVANT: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/22
So I really enjoyed Beyond:Two Souls last night. I was pretty much hooked straight away and now I can’t stop thinking about it. This is a good sign, for me. Anyone who wasn’t a fan of Heavy Rain should probably stay right away, though.
http://archive.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=540135
This post is totally relevant to Beyond: Two Souls too. I love @sughly’s response to my fanboy enthusiasm. XD
Where is @sughly anyway?
In our hearts and minds!
I would guess working. Crunch time.
HAHAHA!
I’m glad to hear people are enjoying it despite all the reviews. Was gonna buy it yesterday but couldn’t find the special edition anywhere and realised I don’t really have the time to play it right now, anyway, so sadface. D:
I’m tempted to head down to JB/EB after work today to grab it. Ugh, but no time! But games!
Who’d post lyrics any way? Geeeez! 😛
Every time someone posts lyrics online – something, somewhere good and wholesome dies.
*strums guitar*
I swear someone needs to remove your ability to edit posts.
I swear someone needs to remove the chip on the shoulder you always seem to have!
Not cool, DeeCee. Objections to lyric posting and editing after people have already commented on stuff are valid. Both are annoying.
Well Cody being an abrasive jerk is somewhat annoying too. I suggest he doesn’t read my posts if he doesn’t like it and I’ll happily do the same.
He wasn’t being an abrasive jerk this time though. I think maybe if those words had been from someone else you wouldn’t have had such a kneejerk reaction, Read them again and imagine they’re being said by someone you’re comfortable with and have met in real life. Not that bad after all.
You probably need to back off Beyond a bit there dude. You’re feeling too many emotions.
😛
Finally finished “Orange is the New Black” last night. Final episode was EPIC! Anyone else here watch it?
Captain Janeway!
I had to google that, but that is pretty awesome 😀
Awesome show. I loved it.
I love this Arcade Fire song. So good.
Arghh! Once was enough, but twice?! Just because you don’t have Facebook doesn’t mean you should inflict your song lyrics on TAY. 😛
Edit: Goddamn lyric-posting, post-editing menace!
You saw nothing! 😛 Don’t make me strum my guitar!
Have you listened to Reflektor yet?
I haven’t! But I will soon!
I can’t think of a Halloween name. Werewolf seems too obvious. I was thinking Dire Wolf Creek, but I’ve never seen the movie, and if people don’t get the reference the name looks silly on its own.
Vampire Wolf!
Dire Wolf Creek: The Musical!
Recently finished it’s Melbourne run, back at the Adelaide Fringe next year!
Teen Dire Wolf?
Lupus.
It’s never lupus.
Only reason I’m not playing Beyond: Two Souls right now is I love it so much and don’t want it to end. D:
That makes no sense.
Yeah? Well so’s your face! 😛
*puts paper bag on head*
I get that way whenever I approach the end of a game. I just don’t want the experience to end, so I try and draw it out. I do it with books too. And TV shows.
This might be why I have SO MANY games unfinished, usually just up to the nearly-last chapter.
Wait, you have already almost finished it?
Doubt it, but I don’t want to take that chance! XD
I say go with your gut and never playing Beyond: Two Souls again just to be safe, you should play Wind Waker instead. 😉
Only reason I’m not is because I have 4yo hanging around.
Also, I’m cross that it’s my wedding anniversary today. That means I’ll have to do something together with my husband tonight instead of playing Beyond:Two Souls. 😛
Play Beyond: Two Souls together! I imagine that’s what couples do, right? 😀
Two Souls! It’s romantic.
Hell no! Whenever we play anything but co-operative music games together we end up on the brink of divorce. We have completely different playstyles and priorites.
I know the sweetest girl who turns into a serious domestic violence case whenever her husband plays video games with her. Doesn’t matter what. Co-op? He’s always shooting her guys or stealing her powerups. Competitive? That gets nasty. (Admittedly they play Mario Kart. That way lies madness second only to Monopoly.)
Vicious arm-punches for DAYS afterward.
hahahahhahaa Vicious arm-punches between a couple
@beavwa
He can watch you play Beyond, best anniversary ever!
I had an interesting conversation with a friend on the way to work this morning and it seemed like a good discussion topic.
Song Covers Better Than The Original*
*in your opinion
Go Radio – Rolling in the Deep (Originally by Adele)
EDIT: And for funsies, worst cover you’ve heard
Obv one is Hurt- johnny Cash.
Hurt – Johnny Cash (Originally by NIN…)
TOO SLOW
MORE LIKE DAY TWO DLC
Eric Clapton – I shot the Sheriff (Originally by Bob Marly and the Wailers)
I prefer Jennifer Saunders version of Holding Out For A Hero over the original version.
Also, Alestorm – You Are A Pirate.
Oh, and Natalie Imbruglia’s version of Torn.
All Along The Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix. (Dylan cover obviously)
I like a bunch of the Guitar Hero covers to the originals. Particularly Holiday in Cambodia. Kinda feel that the series was worse off in a way when they started getting only “legit” versions. The absolute worst was when they kept putting in live versions of stuff, ugh.
Black Betty – Spiderbait.
Worst cover? Just look to Glee*.
Best cover? I’ll get back to you.
EDIT: Actually I’ve been really enjoying San Cisco’s cover of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky…
*Don’t. You’ll die.
Turn The Page – Metallica (original by Bob Seger)
Edit: I have quite a list of covers I enjoy;
You Spin Me Round, People Are People, Fuck Tha Police, Rebel Yell by Dope.
Anarchy In The U.K, Helter Skelter, Street Fighting Man, Smokin’ In The Boys Room by Mötley Crüe
White Wedding by The Murderdolls
T.N.T. by Anthrax
Communication Breakdown by Slash with Myles Kennedy
Knocking On Heavens Door by Guns N’ Roses
Sharp Dressed Man by Nickelback (this one blew my mind, I had no idea they could play live so well)
Cum On Feel The Noize – Quiet Riot
Wild Horses & Wicked Game – Stone Sour
The Saints Are Coming – U2 & Green Day
Tattoo’s & Tequila (the album which is made up of cover songs) by Vince Neil
I Am A Cider Drinking – Alestorm (such an awesome song, they also covered In The Navy which I am yet to hear)
Oops I Did It Again – Children of Bodom
Get Lucky – Halestorm (yes they covered Daft Punk)
Women In Uniform – Iron Maiden (this one shocked me since I didn’t realise The Skyhooks were that well known)
Inner City Blues – The Mayfield Four
Also covered by Metallica – I really enjoy their version of Whisky in the Jar. Think it was Thin Lizzy who did it originally?
Yeah, their cover of Whiskey In The Jar was awesome. Yeah Thin Lizzy originally recorded it.
Also on the topic of Metallica covers I also like;
Overkill, Damage Case, Too Late Too Late (all originally by Motorhead)
Tuesday’s Gone (originally by Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Sabbra Cadabra (originally by Black Sabbath)
Die, Die My Darling (originally by The Misfits)
So What (originally by The Anti-Nowhere League)
Breadfan (originally by Budgie)
Am I Evil? (Oringllay by Diamondhead)
Astronomy (Originally by Blue Oyster Cult)
Stone Cold Crazy (originally by Queen)
Mercyful Fate (originally by Mercyful Fate)
They take songs and make them Metallica like. It’s one time it just works which is pretty cool.
Their cover of Astronomy is awesome, probably better than the original (but not as good as BOC’s re-imagining of the piece from Imaginos)
Agreed, I do find it better than the original. I haven’t heard their reworked version though. Off I go to find it.
Imaginos is hard to find legit, it’s been out of print since the early 90s. 🙁
EDIT: Actually it looks like it might have gotten a remastered release last year. Will have to investigate this.
Videogames – Bluejuice
a good cover version is one where the covering band takes a track & makes it their own
eg Hurt – Johnny Cash & All Along the watchtower – Jimmi Hendrix
a bad cover is one where the covering band just plays the original track as it was written & doesnt add anything to it.
eg: anything Amanda Palmer covers
Favourite cover versions
Dekalb Blues – The Drones (originally by Leadbelly)
Take up thy stethoscope & walk – At The Drive In (originally Pink Floyd)
Then there’s the covers that are a mixture of the 2 and just fail.
Example:
Linkin Park – Wish
Nine Inch Nails – Wish
Wow, NIN is a popular band to cover…
They sure are. Team Cybergeist have a cover of Head Like A Hole on their upcoming EP, they previously did The Hand That Feeds (I think) I know Angel did a remix of it, but I don’t own that release =/
Have a Cigar – Foo Fighters featuring Brian May.
Throw Baker Street in there, too.
Such a good cover.
This gets asked so often on Reddit that I think people just automatically say Hurt.
American IV: The Man Comes Around, the album the cover is from, is fucking amazing. Almost all of the covers are great and interesting takes. Personal Jesus is pretty amazing, especially because Marilyn Manson already did a great cover of it (original was Depeche Mode, kids).
I’m also a fan of Regina Spektor’s cover of Real Love. Actually, Triple J’s Like a Version segment tends to get a few of these.
On the topic of Manson, I think he has done some great covers, just people automatically hate them because it’s Manson..
Most of his covers are better than his originals.
He has 2 good albums, but it stops there 😛
Love his cover of Tainted Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
JoCo – Baby Got Back
TAY, I am disappoint. No mention of the fantastic White Stripes version of Jolene.
@trjn Like a Version is awesome. Really liked Owl Eyes’ Pumped up kicks
I asked this on twitter, but it probably encourages a greater depth of discussion than 140 characters:
What is the Godfather Part II, or Empire Strikes Back, of videogames?
Both films are examples of sequels that surpass their predecessors. Have we had a videogame sequel that does that? It seems to me that just about any game that’s had a “2” slapped on the end is usually more of cash grab.
Uncharted 2.
Borderlands 2.
As @cakesmith said, Mass Effect 2.
I want to throw Portal 2 onto that list.
Uncharted 2…good one!
oh, Uncharted 2, most definitely!
You’re all wrong as Uncharted is the superior game.
I stand by my Twitter reply:
Mass Effect 2
It is known.
Crash Bandicoot 2! And then Crash Bandicoot 3, again!
I know there’s a few – I just can’t think off the top of my head. Although you are correct, they’re extremely few in number. Will repost if I can think of them.
Baldur’s Gate 2
I assume your criteria here is “surpasses the original by a fuckton and is the sequel and not the third or so on entry in a series.” And, well, there’s a fair amount, actually. Borderlands 2, Diablo 2, Pokemon Gold/Silver, Uncharted 2 (Debatable, but meh,) Galaxy 2 (also debatable,) Megaman 2, maybe?
*shrugs*
I’m not saying these are definites, but definitely contenders- Dota 2, TF2, Half-life 2, Assassin’s Creed 2 (All downhill from there, unfortunately,) God of War 2, Halo 2, god I can’t believe I forgot Halo 2, Fallout 2?
Honestly the question shouldn’t be “Are there good number 2 sequels to video games” but rather “which is the best number 2 sequel to a video game.”
inFamous 2, Killzone 2, Batman: Arkham City, The Witcher 2. The list goes on and on.
Unlike films, I think video game sequels often tend to be better than the originals.
InFamous 2 IN MY MOUTH AND ALL OVER MY FACE!!!
YESSSSSSS!!!
Killzone 2 was brilliant.
Personally (very personal opinion, I know a lot of people disagree with me on this) I feel Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 was better than the original. The characters are stronger, the story is less goofy, and there are not any lame twists or anything like that.
It also doesn’t have an ending. =P
Yeah I’ll pay that. 😛
I really need to replay KotOR2 with the ending mod.
I played through and finished the first one earlier this year, yet to start the second one though.
I own KotOR 3 times.
PC boxed copy
Steam copy
iPad copy
I got the iPad copy to play on the plane/hotel room during PAX. Ended up playing XCOM instead haha.
I own XCOM three times. 😛 Across multiple platforms, which is different to Diablo 2, which I ALSO own three times, but only because I kept losing/damaging discs.
…Life really is better with digital media over disc-based media. Downloading things from my steam library is MUCH better than hunting down a CD and hoping it still has the CD key somewhere in close proximity or downloading a crack from the net.
Oh transient, you fool. ‘Downloading from the net’. As opposed to downloading from where else? BBoards? Usenet? University mainframe? Underground pirate FTP server? You ancient relic, you.
I like you. You can stay 🙂
Age of Empires 2.
I was gonna say this, but I held out hoping someone sane would mention it before me. Tada!
Well, Sane is a stretch, but thankyou!
Far Cry 2 – I guess this game is more of a new game that shares some features with the original. Also it was made by a different developer.
Just cause 2- Is your question referring to mechanics, story or both? Because the Just Cause 2 story is basically nonsense but the mechanics and gameplay shift from the first game was amazing.
Majora’s Mask
F-Zero X
Lylat Wars
Resistance 2
Hmm… Donkey Kong Country 2 maybe?
Ooh, ooh, I know!
Wii Sports Resort. Not even kidding.
Doom II, Half-Life 2….. damn it, I know there’s more!
EDIT: Arma II and Quake II. Although Quake II is very much a matter of opinion, the others seem pretty clear-cut to me.
Why are so many of my answers from the 64…
Perfect Dark.
XCOM 2!
*fingers-crossed, naively hopeful look*
Edit: Reply fail.
Anyway, when you say X-Com 2 are you referring to Terror From the Deep?
No, the as-yet-unnannounced (BUT TOTALLY HAPPENING DAMMIT) sequel to 2012’s XCOM, not X-COM. 🙂
(That would work, though. Terror from the Deep was pretty cool. Though personally I enjoyed Apocalypse more.)
Sequels in video games tend to improve on the original much more often than in movies. Games are almost always made with the idea of becoming a franchise because that’s where the real money is. If the game sold well enough to get a sequel, the developers tend to (bot not always) refine what made the original work.
Sometimes it isn’t the second game in the series that delivers the goods though. Just look at COD 4.
Hey! In my heart, all the previous CoD games were beautiful, wondrous single-player gems.
I would say assassin’s creed. One was fun but kinda tech demo like.
2 really took the series to a new level and fully fleshed it out
Well the obvious answer here is Mafia 2, though not everyone agrees with me that Mafia 2 was better than Mafia, or even a good game at all. I think it was.
As to games I think are actually the Empire Strikes Back of video games, I’ll have to say Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect is basically this generation’s Star Wars anyway, and I think that ME2 was the only sequel that is comparable in the improvement of quality and narrative development compred to it’s forerunner.
There are plenty of games where I enjoyed the sequel more than the original, but I don’t think they’re quite at the level that I would call them the ESB to the original games’ ANH.
Video games are highly iterative, it’s very rare for a sequel to a popular game not to improve on a lot of elements of the original, at least mechanically.
Free Mafia II or Civ 5 through GMG by signing up to a website and voting, but the servers for the voting website have (of course) been hit hard, so don’t expect to do it proper for a bit.
http://blog.playfire.com/2013/10/free-game-for-voting-in-golden-joysticks.html
lol. golden joy sticks.
Ambiguous.
Why can’t I favourite posts to come back to them later damn it..
I’ll repost once it’s up and working for me. Hopefully by then they can handle the traffic seamlessly thereon.
\o/ legend!
Ah work emails.
‘There’s a meeting at 11.’
‘Update: it’s now at 10:30.’
‘Update to update: it’s back on at 11.’
‘Update: I swear we won’t change the time here again’
Fruitless afternoon/night of doppelganger hunting yesterday. Oh well, one name crossed off the list, only 4 others to check out.
So I watched The Matrix for the first time the other day. In the scene where Neo is in the waiting room to see the Oracle, there’s a bunch of kids there too (called potentials). One of them looked freakishly like Miss Emsie (the girl I really like), it kind of creeped me out. It was really weird, she looked exactly like Emsie, like she was her clone (except it’d be around the other way because her clone would be about 10 years older). So now we’re trying to find a more recent picture of her doppelganger, to see if they still look freakishly similar. The only problem is that I can’t find photos of the child actors, so I don’t know which one out of a list of five names is her. But I already tracked one of them down, only to find out it wasn’t her. So that’s only 4 left to find.
…
And by tracked down, I mean used publically available (but hard to find/put together) information on the web to find a photo of her in her band.
I am not a stalker, honest. 😛
And of course this is a pageget…
You’ve successfully creeped us all out without even changing your name for Halloween!
He could be LamboFang
LamboBreathingHeavilyOnYourWindowMang?
I know where you live… >:3
I’m kidding of course. (Or am I? :P)
Really? You never visit!
Or maybe you do… o_o
I think what’s even creepier is Miss Emsie is doing this too.
She’s exactly like me, except a girl! Does that not strike fear in your heart knowing that there’s two of us out there, in cahoots with each other? Mark my words, we’re going to take over the world together one day 😛
You’re only a stalker when you start sniffing things of theirs or licking pictures of them.
I’m glad we have solid guidance on where that line is.
It’s pretty clear cut. The police officer explained it to me in great detail.
Officer, I was just getting the new leather smell from the bike seat I swear!
So it’s okay if I lick things of theirs and sniff their pictures?
I think this can go down as one of the best/most disturbing page gets in hisTAYry
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
I’m scared.
It doesn’t get more disturbing than my previous page-get that simply says, ‘Page-get’ with no edits. 😀
*sigh* so I got rejected for that job at Optus, even though I impressed the interviewers with what knowledge and skills I have.. They weren’t even after someone with telco or retail experience =/ and I was one of two people who showed up to the interview out of 6 people, ugh. This week just keeps getting worse as the days progress.
You could inquire what made them choose the other guy over you, y’know, for educational purposes.
Then you track the other guy down and kill him!
Perfectly logical sequence of events!
Shane, I’m disappointed in you.
Off topic, you’re confusing the hell out of me.
Same, I thought that was Shane a moment, fml.
I was going to go with ‘Saturday of the Dead’ but honestly where’s the fun in that?
I can do the tracking down bit! 😛
and to top off today I just remembered I can’t go to see Metallica: Through The Never because lack of funds, today hates me =(
Scary phone call done! I didn’t even get nervous or procrastinate, I just did it. This is good progress.
Also good is that the mistake was fixed with no problems and now finally the batting I ordered for Mrs. @shane’s quilt is on its way.
So. Damn. Proud.
Why are you trying to scare people over the phone? D=
Maternal instinct. She can’t help it.
My housemate is a mother, and when she puts her mum voice on, even I almost jump to attention.
My housemate is a mother too, but I just laugh at her mum voice.
Which really annoys her, because she’s also my wife, and he’s our son 😛
Half of these posts will make no sense in two months time after we change our usernames back 🙂
We’re supposed to change our names back? Oh =(
I’mma say… no.
I am thinking of changing my avatar permanently to Hellboy, though, because Hellboy.
Hellboy doesn’t get half the love or attention he deserves.
Also my favourite comic book movies and only half because of RON PEARLMAN.
Ron Perlman = Awesome. Plus, he’s big into reading to kids and doing Make-A-Wish stuff.
You should watch Sons of Anarchy if you dig Ron Pearlman man!
Change… back..?
wait a minute, two months?
Ahhhh shiiiiit
Only @dc reads 2 month old TAY posts. 🙂
Should it be 2-month-old? Just wondering since I always had a problem knowing when to use hyphens in this way.
In two months will the same thing be happening for…. CHRISTMAS!?
Edit: in which case i dont think id have to change mine…
After the awesomeness of this one, I think so 🙂
A lot of us change our avatars for Christmas but I can’t remember too much name-changing from last year. Halloween is more fun for that!
dog in a suit and a christmas hat.
i like it.
No change for me, then.
I shouldn’t have looked at that ‘the big question’ article about sport.
It makes me angry when people can’t express an opinion without being aggro. Oh internet.
U no right, u. Am no happy!
It really bugs me when people smugly answer neither to these questions like they’re some kind of hero.
THAT WASN’T THE QUESTION YOU DILDOS.
I am more tolerant because I share their opinion. (Mostly. Everyone knows AFL isn’t real sportsball. If they’re going to ask nonsense questions, they’re going to get nonsense answers!)
I’ve had to hold myself back from doing that on a few of these polls lately. Just asked myself – what am I adding to the discussion if I do that?
No NFL, no answer.
Sports egg!
\o/
So I just bought an Oculus Rift.
Should ship sometime in November. So excited 😀
Oculus Rift meat!?
I actually got to play a tiny bit of Mirror Edge on the Occulus Rift at PAX. It was so damn good!
SO.DAMN.GOOD!
Lambo. Doesn’t. Meat.
You jerks and your ability to see out of both eyes
*cries*
I got to play TF2 and some fantasy indie game on the Oculus Rift at PAX, was pretty amazing! (and definitely worth both of the hour long waits :P)
Missed out on Mirror’s Edge though 🙁 That’s going to be the first game I try when I get mine 😀
I haven’t really kept up with the demos and stuff in ages, but of the ones that I have checked out, there’s three main ones that stood out for me as the best ones to show off what the Rift can do. Reactions seem to vary from person to person though – one demo in particular tends to really resonate with them while they mightn’t think much of the others.
Blue Marble – this one shows off the Rift as an “experience”. You just sit there and watch things fly by while music plays. I got the best reaction from one of my friends on this, it was the most incredible mind-blowing thing he’d ever seen.
First Law – a demo of a space combat game. I found this one particularly cool, just sitting in the cockpit and being able to look around at the other ships flying about you, firing off homing missiles and watching them fly around as they chase their targets.
Proton Pulse – the arcade game. Bright colours, easy controls and a simple concept, which starts to get really cool when things start to get more frenetic. It can take a while to get to the fast-paced stuff though.
Rift Racers is great for experiencing motion sickness 😛
Bought as in, consumer version or dev kit?
Just a dev kit. Dev Kits are still the only ones you can get. Plus I’m actually going to use it for developing anyway. 😛
Is eBay the only way to go for those or is there a more official avenue now?
No, you can get them straight from their website these days: http://www.oculusvr.com/ I think you’ve been able to do that for a while now actually.
It’s advertised as being $300 on there, but it ends up being around $400 right now once you add in shipping and converting to AUD.
Wow. Back on the kickstarter it ended up working out to about $327.
Does it come with a complimentary vomit bucket?
I think I’m going to wait for the consumer version
so… Pokemon…. has it broken yet
I really hope it does break today, because I’m heading into EB later to pick up my copy of Beyond and it would be great if I could also grab the Pokemans while I’m there.
Not sure what I can do for a spooky name using/similar to Rize that I haven’t done before…
Rize of the Dead?
The Dead will Rize?
Done em 😛
Cries.
OF TERROR
Rize from the Grave?
Done it 😛
Blatant Lize.
True Rize.
… That’s not a halloween thing, but it’s a good name nonetheless.
Dead Rizing.
.. Dead Rizeing?
DAMN YOU DOUBLE VOWELS
Take the Crytek approach and just misspell everything.
Fo’ Shizzle Mo’ Rizzle.
What? Street talk scares me.
Ryse Postponed Until 2015.
If this is the turnout for crappy ol’ Halloween, imagine what #Danuary’s gonna be like.
Shotgun “Red Right Dan”
#Danuary is the best month of the year
We should really be celebrating Doctober right now. Stupid Halloween.
Dead quiet no doubt 😛
This name change thing starts earlier each year. Eventually we’ll be stuck in a permanent holiday season nonsense where the shopping centres play Jingle Bells on an endless loop.
I fear @MattPants is already on his way there.
Also board games on Saturday. Attend!
And we shall make nothing but Jingle All The Way references in every post.
Put the cookie down.
NOW.
I should have changed my name to DavidPants earlier this week, because this week at work I’m David, not Matt. Oh well.
About two weeks ago I got an order from head office to put out all the Christmas gear and decorations.
I’m refusing to. 3 months is way too early.
You’re a good man. It’s almost as bad as Easter stuff appearing in January.
Fuck that noise.
Nearly $500AUD, but still……
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/collectibles/star-wars-darth-malgus-sideshow-collectibles-300151/
And then…..
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/collectibles/star-wars-darth-malgus-sideshow-collectibles-400109/
Holy balls.
Holy mackerel!
Without clicking I assume this is the life size one for like $5k or whatever it is…
Yeah, it is. Wow.
Eeyup.
And it’s not even the most expensive thing on the site.
Damn, I wanted to buy 10 of them, Oh well.
Better “Hurry – Less than ten remain!”
I almost pay that much on my car.
If you need to pay for something like this in installments, it is not for you. No collectible is worth being in debt over.
Five hundred dollary doos?
If anyone wants a free copy of either Civilization V or Mafia II on steam,
go to
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/joystick/
and vote for the golden joystick awards,
make sure you use your GMG registered email address when voting
then go to
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/joystick/
and choose your game enter your email and gmg username/password
How welcoming 😛
must be getting hammered!!!
8 hours ago on twitter
“Apologies we’re currently experiencing some slight technical issues on the GJA voting site. Please bear with us while we fix it! Thanks!”
🙁
To anybody interested, the servers for the voting site are being hammered to death, so it probably won’t work for a while. However, voting apparently ends after a few weeks, so there’s plenty of time.
Name change, GET!
Edit: Why yes, this is about the laziest possible name I could have done without just leaving it as Mawt.
Approved.
Lazy, yet somehow endlessly effective.
We would also have accepted Mawticia Addams.
You spelled it wrong.
Idiot.
Mawtal Kombat?
Aight, name changed. Job’s done.
*zug zug*
Swobu.
Work, work.
Pfft so unoriginal 😛
Telstra just sent me a message about “phone and electromagnetic energy safety”. WATDAFUNK?
Queensland Health sent me a message earlier about an orthopedic appointment for 1pm…..yesterday.
i got an sms about a colonoscopy appointment about 2 weaks ago that i never booked…. o_0
Hey, as if you’d pass up a free colonoscopy…
“Telstra would like to
discretelyadvise that we would like you to stop hammering your unlimited phone plan….They emailed me last night saying that their bigpond email service was out on the first.. Uh, thanks for being so quick about that, Telstra?
Morning friends!
I gots some new video games from mightyape delivered this morning. Semi hype for Asuras wrath because I don’t really know anything about it and mildly optimistic for Neverdead.
Weird moment last night, it got to about 11:30 and I was drifting off to sleep and randomly opened my eyes to see my door opening by itself … my first thought was “Oh shit, I’m in a horror movie. I’m the first victim in a horror movie” Then nothing happened and I got up and closed the door. Either nothing happened or this is a really comfy skin suit some one made and I just haven’t noticed yet
There are some pretty cool boss battles in Asuras Wrath and almost as much yelling in DBZ.
Asura’s Wrath is mental. I played through the first half of the game and had no idea what the hell was going on.
I love it when Capcom gets their crazy hat on. So much fun.
I’ve heard people say it plays as a better anime then a game … so We’ll see how we go.
Also, ten points for you for the Bela Lugosi name change
so i ducked out to get some kfc regret and fuel my mule, when a van pulled up beside me offering home theatre system or an xbox one… it was the real deal, he opened it up, had a close look at it without putting any prints on the things, controller stamped day one and all…how the hell does that even work??? anyway, he wanted $300 for each (he had 4)… not one to support the black market, but had he come post pay day i would have been tempted…
Not worth it, Xbox would probably block the consoles via serial number.
Either that or it was an undercover cop. I’ve heard stories of them doing that.
Isn’t that entrapment?
Said stories may or may not be true, however.
There’s so much peer pressure for this name change thing-o. Do I change my name too? Have I been here long enough? What if I’m not accepted and people look at me like a giant weirdo and my spaghetti spills out of my pockets? PEER PRESSURE.
What about StickMan? IRL, that’d be terrifying.
I’m in the same predicament \o
Best I can think of is RileyBones..
WilyClones.
Biley Moans.
SmileyBones. Or some variant of Bones.
SmileyBones reminds me of the Smiling Knight from asoiaf 🙂
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Smiling_Knight
I actually quite like that one.
NeedlestickMan?
StickMoan.
Man from the Stick Lagoon
Blaghs has the Blagh Lagoon wrapped up 🙂
Boooo.
The Sticker Man.
NOT THE BEES
The Sticky Man? Why is he sticky? What is this stuff, omg gross.
Stick Mantis
The Headless Stickman.
This holds some promise!
Yay, I’m being useful! 😀
Yep, it’s pretty good. 😀 Thanks.
Haha, you’re welcome!
Wick(er)Man
If you post in TAY you are a TAYbie! Eeeeeevverrrryone doo eeet!
Yerp, I’m the Tasmanian. The scariest motherfucker this side of Oatlands.
I wish I handed in what I’ve done so far for this web assignment for the first one… I’m happy with it, unlike what I handed in last time. I have about 1 and a half hours to finish it. Not sure if I can do it but whatever I hand in I’m going back to bed afterwards 😛
Web assignment? What kinda web stuffs? I did I.T. and am pretty good with web dev things, so hit me up if you need help.
Just building a website with html/css/javascript. Not hard at all, I’m just hopeless when it comes to actually sitting on my arse and doing it 😛
Engage turbo mode. 😛
Man, do you remember when PCs had that button on them and you had to remove it in order to play certain old DOS games?
What about Van Demon’s Land?
I like that even better
Name changed, waiting for new avatar to take effect. Not sure if I like it. Suggestions welcome!
Nice!
Hiiiiiiiiiiiii Taaaayyyyy. Luv u. Missed u.
Hello person!
That’s not a very scary name, to be honest.
Well maybe you’re saying it wrong.. It could be, “Yuriko, hm, lovely.” OR it could be, “YURIKOOOOOO OMFG RUUUUUUN!” look. I’m gonna be honest. I’m completely out of the loop. What’s with the scary names?
We have caught a case of the Halloweenies!
Oh! How exciting! I want a cool name. I wish Halloween was an actual holiday in Aus. People need to embrace it! Embrace the weenies!
@redartifice Has been particularly on-point with coming up with cool horror names for people! Or ask on the next page as a new post.
Me, I’d suggest yushrieko. 🙂
Yushrieko is pretty good.
Boo-Shriek- OH if you want to double down
You Reaper?
That, or just pick something creepy, like INSTANT COFFEE or TASMANIAN
cc @transientmind
INSTANT COFFEE! Ooooh, a chill went down my spine (because I was scared, of course, no other reason….). Hmm. Tay makes my phone go sllooooowwwww.
Yeah, I chuckled a lot when i saw @ontargett’s handle.
Hmmm. You win this time, Gadget.
Oh, and because it’s October of course! *Looks at you as though that should explain everything*
I think it’s due to All Hallows’ Eve, though I’ll admit we started rather early this year.
Whatever it is… I like it.
BIG POTAKU NEWS COMING TOMORROW!
Mark your colanders! Make a note in your dairy!
THINGS! Because REASONS!
I like things!
Half Loaf 3 confirmed!
Potaku Season six. Half six and you get 3. Half. 3.
Yep. Seems that way.
That was scienced by a doctor, so it must be true
And I like reasons!
Who’s this jerk? Coming in here and self promoting! What a jerk!
I got comics at work today. Witchblade compedium 1! My bag is 200% heavier than I’d like it to be. TWO HUNDRED PERCENT!
@shane not around?
Ok.
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
Self (sortof) Promotion AND comics!
It ties in on TWO levels!
I have two colanders, which one do I mark?
One’s more of a sieve I guess though.
Would a chopping board do?
Dear Bish,
A colander is NOT a sieve. Wearing a colander on your head makes you look like a cool spaceman and/or robot from a 1950’s serial. Wearing a sieve on your head just makes you look like a person with a sieve on their head. THAT is madness, Bish. MADNESS.
A chopping board is worse. How would you even wear that on your head? You’d need string or something. Why would you even thing of that?
Warm regards,
Doc.
Disagree.
The finer mesh of the sieve acts as a better Faraday Cage so that the NSA can’t read my thoughts; and it stands to reason that if my thoughts are leaking out, then something solid like a chopping board is going to keep all my brain to myself.
Explain that away with your online medical degree!
I didn’t say it had no purpose, but you won’t be a fashion trend setter. You’ll be laughed off the catwalks of Milan! They’ll mock you in the pages of Vogue! You’ll have to give up on your dreams of being the Fonz of the fashion world. Say goodbye to that Canada’s Top Model spot!
And for future reference, I didn’t get my medical degree online. I found it in a rubbish bin.
I
lovemiss you guys!( Hi @Bish! )
Hi Strange!
o/
Instructions unclear, but I now have filtered milk so I’m taking it as a win.
And if milk is like cigarettes (Which we all know it EXACTLY is) then filtered is far healthier.
Tried to smoke a cheesestick.
Story checks out.
Feel like I’m doing a disservice to Beyond: Two Souls playing in small increments. Even though it won’t last as long I feel like I should play for a sizable chunk. Just finished segment 6. Really, really love this game. I think it might be my favorite Quantic Dream game and I love how all of their games stand on their own. No sequels, just compelling original and standalone IPs. The acting in this one is a thing of beauty too, if I didn’t love Ellen Page before this would seal the deal!
David Cage is a lucky guy too, getting to make games like this. Controversial, maybe, but I think he’s an auteur and the most important person working in games at the moment.
Also, usual fanboys gonna fan disclaimer! 😀
7/10?
Five Quantic Dreams out of Five Quantic Dreams.
(Your mileage on what a Quantic Dream is worth might vary. :P)
You know what, this comment is actually making me think.
Who do I think the most important person working in games right now is?
I really don’t know. Tim Sweeney or Steve Polge spring to mind, since they’re technical director and lead programmer (respectively) on the Unreal Engine, which is virtually omnipresent. In terms of storytelling while I automatically swing to Kan Gao (To the Moon), I feel like we need to see more from him to judge whether it was a swift strike of lightning, or if he managed to bottle it. The same really applies to Jenova Chen (ThatGameCompany), as much as I love Journey.
Hmmm.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
You’ve made me think, DLC.
That’s what I planned to do all along, make you think! It’s not like I was just spewing fanboy praise for no reason! *cough* 😀
I am so tempted to troll you but so far have resisted the temptation.
I appreciate it! 😀 I’m making it hard with my excessive fanboy ravings, I bet. 😛
I think I’m doing a disservice to gaming as a whole by getting into wow for 5.4, damn this time consuming soul sucking game D:
The heart wants what the heart wants! 😀
I left for 7 odd months just before 5.3. Got back in on 5.4, and I’m actually enjoying myself. I keep going until I feel like I’m working a job (See LFR and dailies) and then I quit for 6-12 months, then get back in for new content. It’s a pattern that’s formed since I started playing 6 or 7 years ago.
I find the trick is to stick to one character, two max. When you start trying to complete all your LFRs on 3 or 4 characters each week, you wear yourself down. Dailies were a huge issue for me too previously – 10-20 dailies, every day to rep grind for gear to be replaced in next patch – but thankfully they’ve toned it down in 5.4.
I started late vanilla and quit like a month after cataclysm released, and came back 2-3 weeks before 5.4 s I’ve been off the beat for 2 years prob.
Unsure why I came back.
How’s your cloak progression going anyways?
Considering I bailed before Isle of Thunder, not well. My Rogue is furthest, with 2/20 of those Thunder Tablet jobbies, and my ‘lock is still back at needing to kill Sha of Fear in ToES.
It’s an amazing cloak, but making it so you can only get the items needed from raid drops on chance isn’t so great. My lock is so far behind because he need 10 Sigils of Wisdom and 10 Sigils of power, and somehow ended up with 20 Sigils of Wisdom before the tenth Sigil of Power dropped. Now I have to go and do ToT LFR as well as SoO just to get the items I need.
So bad. These are the things that end up burning me off the game. I’ll see how long I last.
EDIT: I started mid-late Vanilla, and played solid until very late BC. Quit before Wrath, came back for about 2 months in Wrath, bailed again, missed Cata completely and started again not long after MoP. Started/stopped several times since then.
Oh good, now I can talk to you about one of the sections I did last night.
That party. So awkward. So terrible. So familiar. Such a nightmare from the moment you had to get out of the car. I did not want to do anything and just wanted to walk the poor girl right out the front door. 🙁 Felt like wreaking havoc with Aiden at the end but just left instead.Same here. Felt so bad for Jodie. As soon as Dawkin’s left, I attempted to walk across the street and away from the house. Wouldn’t let me, alas. She was all open and trying to sociable in my version, but guarded about her abilities. Didn’t kiss the guy either, cause I figured she wouldn’t be that forward. Finally showed them the ability when they all circled her. Figured they knew some of the stuff and they all lived on base. When they turned on her… poor Jodie. I just left too. Not sure how I feel about Dawkins yet. He seems like he could be okay, but he’s still experimenting on a little girl.Speaking of adventure games, Telltale’s new series The Wolf Among Us based on the Fables IP has been dated for release… tomorrow… D:
I don’t know how to feel!
I LOVE Fables! For many years it was the only US comic I continued to read. After ruining back to the future, I’m worried :/ So on one hand – Fable game! \o/
On the other – From the writers of Back to the Future: The Game! /o\
(For the record, I have no love for any part of the walking dead franchise so I didn’t care what they did nor would I even notice if they were destroying the original comics in some way)
Quality wise The Walking Dead was a huge step up for Telltale, so this’ll be interesting to see. Hopefully there’s no sophomore slump.
I can but hope. Hehehe. Butt.
Fables is so good
SO good.
Butts is so good too.
Blitzkrieg release ahead of any reviews is not a good sign.
Why must you inject depressing reality?
…
:C
Man, people who call in this age of instant and text messaging are weird to me.
Agreed! It’s the age of Quantic Dream! CLEARLY! 😀
Edit: Haha! I misread that as People who call this the age, etc…
D:
…Dude, you need to calm down.
What if I call you maybe?
Depends on the situation. I’ve got friends who’d rather send 5,10,20 messages back and forth over a period of time, say, trying to organise something – when they could just make a simple phone call and have it sorted in 30 seconds flat. Yet somehow when I suggest making a phone call, people look at me like I’m some sort of nutjob.
Yeah, people aren’t really smart with their methods of communication these days. Email (work), SMS, phone call. Three options for three separate instances.
Either way, voicemail needs to die.
Voicemail is shit. I call people back when I miss a call and they say ‘Did you get my voicemail?’
No, why bother checking my voicemail when I can just call you back? Seems simpler than listening to a message and then most likely calling you back anyway.
I do this to my Dad and I can tell it annoys him.
My solution is that a while ago my carrier fucked my voicemail mailbox up, and I haven’t bothered to fix it. No voicemail, whee!
This is exactly the scenario where I’ll call. “Where are you?” text messages can go on forever, or, “What about 7pm? Ohwait, when does streetside parking become free?”
If it’s bored messages to each other full of inconsequential shit, or random pictures of things? Booty calls? SMS/MMS. Anything that requires urgency and/or clarity? Phone call.
Bingo.
Yep, so when it’s simply to ask the question “What are you doing this weekend?” there’s no need to call 3 times in 10mins.
Calling multiple times indicates a failure in calling! Or someone who is so forgetful as to perhaps be able to claim disability for it.
Sounds like D.C. attempts at planning meats. 😀
http://www.news.com.au/world-news/russian-parliament-to-debate-law-to-strip-gay-parents-of-custody-of-their-children/story-fndir2ev-1226736459175
This sickens me! D:
Related and awful: http://cir.ca/news/kuwait-airport-check-scans-for-homosexuality
How the hell do you scan someone to tell if they’re a homosexual.. Do they like pop them in a body scanner and it tells them if they’re bi, straight or gay?
Using the scientific method of stereotyping what they see on American TV, most likely. 😀
Oh god. I would be so fucked if that was the case.
Wait. Wait. No. No, I have no sense of fashion. Thank Christ. I’m safe.
Just hide your iPod filled with your show tunes and you’ll be all good in the hood. 😀
Hey, there’s stuff on there that isn’t showtunes.
Like the Glee renditions of other songs.
(Also a whole lot of classic Rock and Metal, but shh)
That Country is becoming more and more depressing, much like the arab emirates.
Sickening and upsetting.
How is being gay even an issue anymore!? Seeing stuff like this makes me want to punch someone.
Currently thrashing Children of Bodom. MY GOODNESS they’re tough to beat at their absolute best.
BooooodAOHM!!!
EEHFTAH MEEDNIIAAAAIIGGHHHT!!!
BEDDLEBEDLELBOOBOEEBDDLLEEBOOEBELLOEEBLOOOOOOOO
http://www.gog.com/news/release_montagues_mount
Montague’s Mount was released today. Seems to have a Dear Esther/Gone Home tone to it!
Montague? A plague o’ both your houses!
Haha!
…
I don’t get it! :S
The joke is so obvious, but @blaghman should explain it for @dc and anyone else that didn’t get it, that doesn’t include me though. Because I totally got the joke, it was funny. I read the joke then got it and started laughing because that’s what you do when you understand a joke.
Maybe he should make a chart!
Maaan, I thought everyone had to study Romeo and Juliet at some point in high school English.
We did that other one… you know the one with old timey speech. Speak American, damn it! 😛
I think it was Hamlet we did? That was the self fulfilling prophecy/witch/murder thing right?
I believe you’re thinking of Macbeth.
It’s the one with walking trees!
Oh yeah! That’s the one! You can tell teaching us about it clearly worked! 😛
@dc
I actually really like Shakespeare. I am a massive nerd.
@blaghman you should check out “The Hollow Crown”
@redartifice
IIIIIIIIInnnnnnnntttttteeeeerrrrrreeeeeeesssstttttttttiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggggg. I will try to remember that.
Also @dc
Shakespeare is awesome. Studied Macbeth, Hamlet and Othello in high school. Really need to get around to reading more.
Hm. It ticks some of the boxes, but is more about ghosts, madness, and revenge. Macbeth is the one with prophecy, witches, and murder.
Edit: …Or what Blaghs said.
I was away the time we did Merchant of Venice.
Odd play. Really anti-semitic for the time period.
VERY. But also appealingly clever in its resolution.
Only if you come from the perspective of “let’s fuck over the jew”
@redartifice Oh no, not from that perspective. If you were to pretend that the merchant was instead, say, exactly the same race and keenly looking forward to getting his pound of flesh, the ruling of, “Only a pound – not one drop of blood more or less or you’ll be done for murder,” is quite clever legal maneuvering.
Even if it was totally unfair.
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet to be specific.
*Shakesphere. 😛
Also I ain’t cultured!
The setup was there for a Vita reference…
I am unaware of where this was intended to go.
*joins the uncultured club*
A certain commenter once declared the lack of games on the Vita as a Shakepearean Tragedy.
Much mileage was made of this.
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.
For never was a story of more woe,
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Their parents were loopy, mental they say
Separate families they wanted to stay.
So those cray cray young bitches faked the end of their life
Went emo and shit, to end all the strife.
Some shiz went wrong with the plan they did sow
Put a cap in the ass of Juliet and Romeo.
The bit that gets to me with that is that the rhyming scheme has changed from ABABCC to AABBCC.
It felt wrong to upvote that
I love Shakespeare and all, but posting Shakespeare online is as bad as posting lyrics…. 😛
QBD asked a question, all I was doing was answering!
Obscurely.
In as wanky a fashion as possible.
Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish! O
for breath to utter what is like thee! You tailor’s-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile
standing-tuck!
Commentary at the Olympic diving?
You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!
Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much to
say in the behalf of that Falstaff.
I agree with @strange. Posting Shakespeare on the Internet is like posting about the VITA on the Internet.
-_-
Don’t be abrasive.
Scary name get.
That is indeed horrifying.
Speak for yourself…
*@freezespreston post*
Something something ‘Han Job’, ‘Stroke my wookie’ etc
Brilliant.
I was going to be a slutty version of myself for halloween, but apparently we’re supposed to do something unusual.
Did somebody else purchase something from teefury the other day? @benj maybe? Somebody else
Have you got your stuffs yet?
Yeah. I bought a tshirt from there a few weeks ago. It took like 7 business days just to be shipped, then almost 2 weeks to arrive but I got it on Monday 🙂
Ok thanks. I think I ordered the same day and nothing has arrived yet. Won’t start to worry until next week then
I just played Journey again for the first time in months. Made a friend at the scarf bridge. He had white robes and showed me most of the secrets and stuck with me to the end.
I’m going to try and play once a day for a week and document it all. I blame @McGarnical.
\o/
I need to play it more as well. Such a great experience.
Haven’t played yet, but I have the collector edition. Looking forward to some nice quiet time to check it out.
Prepare yourself for a D.C. criticism about Beyond: Two Souls!
Not really a spoiler, just an area I feel Heavy Rain and Fahrenheit did better.
Giving you time to explore without a constant need to push on. Beyond’s scenes are more concise and meaningful, but at the same time they rarely give you the time to take in your surrounds properly, you always feel like there’s a clock above your head and if you’re not doing something the game will punish you for it.Love the story, love the characters, but in some ways this is Quantic Dream’s most linear game yet.
Legit spoilers here. Only read if you’ve played atleast the first eight or so segments:
Saying that, I really like the brief opportunities they give to take in your surrounds. Taking in the detail in Dawkin’s office for example. I loved how Jodie wasn’t punished for taking her time. She could look at his things and make judgements about the guy by his reactions. Also like how he showed patience and respect with her.
This is without a doubt my favorite moment so far in a fairly inconsequential scene. The way you learned about both characters through these small moments was expertly done.
Also like Strange mentioned on the previous page: the party. Excellent character study about how Jodie interacted with her peers. Felt like you really owned her decisions by all these little choices you were given: smoking the weed or not smoking the weed. Drinking or not drinking. Socializing or sitting by yourself in the corner. Really immersive stuff.
Love the dynamic between Aiden and Jodie too. When you try to move too far from her and it doesn’t let you, you can almost feel the frustration Aiden feels from being bound to Jodie just cause you’re feeling it a bit yourself.
Read it even though I haven’t played the game.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I read it anyway. I’m shocked at how rebellious I’ve become.
EDIT: Now I know where I got this rule-breaking behaviour from.
My complaint:
The time-hopping. Sometimes we’re introduced to people who we’re supposed to care/give a shit about, but ultimately the slightly jumbled narrative ensure that we only gotta care about who we gotta care about- Jodie and Nathan. Which I suppose isn’t a bad thing, but at the same time it just kinda ensure the ‘closed’ feeling you sometimes get from the game, like.. pretty much all the Aiden interactions, really. I guess what I’m trying to say here is that I just don’t give a shit about Ryan Clayton.Hope you don’t mind if I don’t read, my friend. You’re the king of inadvertently spoiling stuff I don’t want to know. Haha! XD
I was about to post telling you not to click on that. I had a skim of it and it seemed a bit further than I was up to, which is 6-ish.
fair enough.
Don’t delete it! I was going to come back later and read it properly after I’d gotten further in the game.
When I read it you said to only read if you’ve played the first six, not eight or so. Did you add stuffs in in your edit that I shouldn’t read yet?
Nah, I’m fairly certain it’s all in the first six. Spoilers up to: (Just chapter name, nothing spoilery otherwise.)
First interview.Just decided to add a couple of chapter numbers in case I was remembering where it fit into the game wrongly. XD
My biggest complaint so far:
I don’t have it yetBest complaint ever! 😀
It’s always good to acknowledge any shortcomings in things you like.
Decided to pick up MG Rising REVANGANANG today. This better be good, or I’m blaming Rize.
if you aren’t at least a little hyped after the first boss in the game, you have no soul.
I’m something of an MGS fan, and REVANGANANG always kind of rankled at me. (Stupid, I know) Simply because it’s not a REAL MGS game. But I’ve always been secretly fascinated by it.
i’m not really a MGS fan, but i’m a hardcore Platinum Games fanboy, and when i heard they were making reveangence i knew i had to play it.
the game is great fun, solid gameplay and over-the-top goodness. it has some of the best boss fights in a game i’ve ever seen. also it’s corny music rules. i like the game.
I’m looking forward to it!
It’s pretty awesome. Just don’t expect anything deep or meaningful.
‘Revengeance’ conjures up some bad 80’s action movie sequel starring Chuck van Damme-Lundgren. I’m keeping my expectations realistic. Also, Raiden isn’t the most emotive of characters.
Also don’t expect anything like a normal brawler. The combat system is bizarre and takes a bit of getting used to but worth it once you get the hang of it. Just you’ll be ready to break something if you try playing it like a standard game.
I reckon if I can handle and even get excited about a normal MGS game’s demented control system I should be able to join the dots on this one.
I couldn’t get into MGS for the first couple attempts. I was always like… “Why do I have to enter the fucking Konami code to draw a weapon?”
So much fun. An excellent Platinum Games hack’n’slash with some Metal Gear paint over the top.
I’ve decided I need some gaming projects to keep myself busy.
On top of playing Journey every day for a week (depending on how that goes, maybe a month, maybe forever!), I’m thinking of doing the A-Z challenge in Dota 2. You have to play through every hero in alphabetical order and you can’t move on to the next one until you win. This will take a while.
Also, I was talking on Twitter about trying out the latest Madden when it comes out. I have never seriously touched a sports game (a few minutes at friends’ houses and at demo stations don’t count) and I loathe American football. Yet I love almost every other sport that exists. It’d be fun just to see how it goes. I could even follow it up by playing the latest AFL game.
I used to love to older Madden games. Were surprisingly fun and didn’t ask much beyond a basic understanding.
The new ones are full of bewildering jargon and minute management I got completely lost and was just hitting random buttons.
I just know that I’m going to get completely lost and try to just kick it to the centre half forward somewhere inside the forward 50. You can do that in Madden, right?
Something something linebacker something TOUCHDOWN!
i’ve considered the a-z challenge as well…
but right at the start are anti-mage and alchemist…
TAYlist for the 10th of October 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the Night of The Living Hallowe’en HandlesEagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
Kate Ceberano – Pash
Michael Jackson – Thriller (Requested by @Hugo_the_Hungarian_Barbarian)
Tears For Fears – Mad World
Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star (Requested by @Virus__)
Art Vs. Science – Parlez-Vous Francais (Requested by Nos, the chump with no KotAU name)
Ataris – Boys of Summer (interesting cover by a band with a sort of relevant name)
Bowling For Soup – High School Never Ends
Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash
Ami Stewart – Knock On Wood
Tone Loc – Funky Cold Medina
Lighthouse Family – High (I absolutely love this song)
Queen – A Kind Of Magic
Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise (Requested by @Mawt)
Johnny Diesel – Don’t Need Love
Stevie Wonder – Superstition (Requested by @vonsack)
Meatloaf – Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
Sorry to all whose requests were not filled. Time constraints, not having songs, requesting Hanson are all reasons why the songs couldn’t be played.
Requesting Hanson…
DAMMIT @TRJN THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS
Fuck you, Hanson is amazing. Numbers is the one not seeing reason.
You’re acting like the Republicans. Next thing you’re just going to shut down the station instead of simply compromising and playing a little Hanson.
What kind of bush league radio doesn’t have Gary Numan?
‘Bush.’
I’ll…… show myself out.
We had him, time on the other hand…
Yet had time for Kate Cebrano…
That one was from the computer.
*bedewn bump bump bump be doo be doo, bedewn doo doo bump bedew bedew* Very superstitious…
Just realised this was a good pick for halloween too 😀
And the Spotify List- A hybrid of @lucifer9783’s actual played list and the requests.
http://t.co/rioUarCfEs
Tomorrow just play everything named in Axis of Awesome’s “4 Chords”, including Waltzing Matilda.
YES
Aww yiss!
Just got an email that was essentially asking for “Suggestions on improving the workplace”. I immediately replied, and so far my suggestion hasn’t been turned down:
All I’m saying is, I think it will really help morale if we had a muffin button.
http://i.imgur.com/VvLr9eG.gif
If they won’t even come at that, time to quit.
All I can think of now is this contraption: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EkVQavmOQ0A#t=238
Hey Something @strange in the Neighbourhood, where’s your spooky name? This also applies to the Killer @trjn of Caerbannog, but probably not to @dkzeitgeist since the excitement in his name terrifies me a little.
And why do I have to peer pressure you guys myself? Where’s the name-calling from everyone else?
Given I got a “fuck you” for denigrating Hanson, I was scared to ask
Nah, is cool 😛And I stand by that. They have their own microbrew beer called Mmmhops. How is that not amazing?
That is amazing
Reluctant… grudging… *gnh* …respect.
GAAAH.
That reminds me, I should update my avatar to reflect my scary name.
This is a comment that definitely deserves a side-vote.
It’s October 10.
Yeah. We should have wound down Halloween prep ages ago and be neck deep in Christmas by now.
Exactly!
Can we do a Die Hard Christmas this year?
Every year is a Die Hard Christmas. I’m going to make sure I have a copy on my laptop so that I can watch it while in Europe.
You should be Faulty Trojan. Nothing scarier then that.
It doesn’t exist. Make believe isn’t scary.
Edit: Ooooooohhhhhh. I get it. Condoms. Haha. I’m a spaz. I thought you meant @trjn being wrong about something 😛
I don’t think you understand how peer pressure works.
I understand exactly how it works.
BOARD GAMES!
Wait, we were going for spooky names?
The Lesser Evil is scary 🙂
I laugh in the face of peer pressure, for I am an old lady!
I did actually change my Gravatar to be slightly more All-Hallows-Eve-y, though but even though it’s on my profile page it has yet to make its way to my comments.This latest profile pic took a while to come through
I’m pretty spooky already.
We’re doing this again are we?
How time flies.
As TitS has matured further I’m finding it much more expansive and enjoyable to play with.
Hurr.
More seriously, I completed Chapter 2 last night and I’m still liking it a lot. It’s a very slow burn though, never really reaches out and grabs you but it’s really good if you pace yourself through it. Extremely wordy at times too. As I understand it, I’m now past halfway.
TitS?
Trails in the Sky / Sora no Kiseki FC.
EDIT: Or boobies if you prefer to interpret it that way.
I believe the preferred term is “chesticles”.
Obligatory Spooky name encouragemen- OOH TITS
Made my name more sanguine just before you posted this I think.
Ohohohoho LANGUAGE WIN.
I just finished the Prologue and am a very small way into Chapter 1. Still having fun. 🙂 But yes, oh my is it wordy. Even a little too wordy for me, and I love to read.
If the text speed was just a little faster I think it would be fine. But yeah, words words words. Every NPC has several lines of dialogue that change as you complete plot points. Apparently the games get even longer as they go – there’s apparently similar amounts of text in just the Sora no Kiseki trilogy to the entirety of the Wheel of Time novels.
POKEMON X/Y STREET BREAK!
Has it happened yet? XD Yeah, that was pretty evil. EVILBENNY muahahahahah!
Er, I picked mine up about an hour ago.
You haven’t got it yet?
Huh, apparently there were a few stores that broke street date in Canada and Italy over a week ago. I did not know that.
Man, wasn’t (REDACTED) awesome? (REDACTED) was pretty awesome.
People are… seriously passionate about that. c.c
This made me laugh more than it should have.
http://i.imgur.com/FTnRhJq
Here, I fixed the link for you.
Did you really?
Yes. Why would I lie about something like that?
I’m ashamed to admit I clicked on that a few times in genuine confusion.
Trolljn
… Bastard. 😛
Enslaved is headed to PC!
YAY!
I know there was “Deluxe” edition coming to consoles and there were rumours of it coming to PC. Didn’t realise it has been confirmed.
Source
Maybe people will actually buy it this time. Some issues with the combat aside, it’s a great game and deserved to do way better than it did. Also has some of the most convincing voice acting & performance capture animation out there, I don’t even think Naughty Dog hit the same levels with the Uncharted stuff.
Yeah, the dynamic between Monkey and Tripp was awesome. Beautifully animated too!
i dunno, you can totally feel the sexual tension between Drake and Sully.
I just called my buddy to ask if I could borrow his copy on PS3, do you know what this “Deluxe” edition brings?
Probably would have Pigsy’s Perfect 10 DLC I’m guessing.
Oh cool, I didnt know that there was DLC released for it 🙂
I haven’t played the DLC either, so might be the excuse I need to buy it again! 😀
Also would love a sequel and am hoping this is to get interest up for that…
I dunno… it was fun and visually impressive (occasionally even breath-taking toward the end). Just… it seemed to me like the game told the story that needed to be told.
Edit: It’s like we love some worlds so much that we beg for sequels that aren’t naturally there, then feel a bit miffed when they turn out kind of artificial. (Halo?)
Like a kid at bedtime who has been told, “And they all lived happily ever after.”
And the kid asks, “What happened next?”
“I told you. They lived happily ever after.”
“And then?”
“And then they died. Because everyone dies eventually.”
“…”
“Ah shit, don’t cry, don’t – dammit, stop crying. Look, they uh… they didn’t die for a really long time and had long and satisfying lives!”
“*sob* But what happened?”
“I don’t know! Really boring shit! They went to work and paid bills and cleaned the house and exercised and ate well, and sat around having fun evenings with friends and generally didn’t do anything exciting worth telling stories about, because the only thing worth telling a story about was that one thing I already told you the story about!”
“I HATE WHEN YOU TELL STORIES.”
“SO DO I.”
Ninja Theory always intended to make more though, was just the lack of sales that killed that. The world’s compelling enough to have interesting stories away from Monkey too, I think. (I know what you mean, though. Nothing worse than a series that outstays its welcome. *looks at Assassin’s Creed*)
Such an amazing game. I love the world and I love the characters. Alex Garland wrote the game too and he’s awesome! (28 Days Later, Sunshine, Dredd…)
Oh right. Probably should make this official.
October 19th there will be shenanigans taking place at Casa Del Freeze. Feel free to come along or not if you’re a jerk. There will be food, movies, board games and some new fangled teletube moving board entertainment or “videogames” as the poor seem to call them.
I’ll tag @dc and I’m sure he’ll step up to the plate and tag all this Brisbane peeps.
Interstates are welcome too if they can behave.
@sughly! @transientmind! @freezespreston! @strange! @welbot! @sernobulus! @lambomann007! @virus__! @dkzeitgeist! @enduwolf! @popdart5! @d370n8!
And @jimu and @gutsoup, who could forget them? Not me! *shifty eyes*
Also, special guest of honor: @beardymcmuttonchops!
Any suggestions that I forgot about him are lies! LIES!
eh, with my attendance record I’d forget to add me too 😛
Hey, I’ve hung out with you three times! I’ve only seen Lambo once, only seen Welbot about two times, met Endu for the first time last Saturday. XD
I see, shows what I know. Man for a hermit you’re quite the socialite 😛
Hmm, pretty sure I’m playing tabletop RPGs that day but if not I shall make an appearance.
For some reason this didn’t show as a notification =(
I blame Cody! I blame Cody for all my troubles! 😛
Ahh yup, as I told freeze I may or may not be camping that weekend, not yet confirmed. Hopefully not, been too long since a freeze meat.
Whatever you do… don’t get food poisoned!
Time?
Usually about 5pm onwards till whenever/next morning if people want to stay.
We should all take turns of GTA V and see how long we can last on 5 wanted stars 😛
I don’t think I ever got 5 stars in the entire time I played GTA V!
You would’ve on the final score mission 😛 I know I did both times lol.
Nahhh
I don’t like you 🙂
But he makes adventure games! What more do you want, Virus? RPGs? RTS? THAT’S ASKING HIM TOO MUCH. GEEZ.
I don’t like RPG’s or RTS games, so that would have no impact on me 😛
I don’t think that weekend is good for us sorry man 🙁
GAH BUNGIE YOU @#&*!ING TEASE.
Email subject: “Transientmind, you can be one of the first to play Destiny!”
“Ooh!”
“…If you preorder the game.”
“RASSERFRASSIN”
Those rascals!
Been weening myself off Zoloft for the past two weeks and am now in the cold turkey phase where my Serotonin levels are all wacky and I feel crazy light headed all the time. Lucky I don’t operate heavy machinery. XD
Is that the only reason you have been liking Wind Waker? because you are on some kind of drug-withdrawal high? D=
I’ll take it! 😀
@dc’s name is the scariest of all.
Go for a drive! It will clear your head!
Seriously, don’t though.
Am I a good halloweenie?
Awwwwh.
*patpat* Y’did good. Here… have a lollipop.
Thanks friend! I’ll get there eventually.
SCARRY NICK/GRAVATAR FOR HALLOWEEN ACQUIRED!
You Dick, that’s not even Scarry
Hey, don’t be too harsh – I’m just a guy trying to get by in this busy, busy world 🙁
I was just trying to make a Richard = Dick joke.
I’m funnier in my head.
Don’t worry, that’s how I took it – I was making a bad “Busy World” pun 😀
Good morning, how are you? I’m Lowly Worm.
Holy ball sack, the start of MGR is bonkers. So fucking epic. I may be slightly sold on the idea already.
AWWW YEAH SCARY NAME!
…errr >_>
Soz. /rejected
Just realised this kid-free weekend of ours encompasses Oktoberfest. Gonna go drink ALL the beers and eat ALL the pretzels! 😀
Ooooh, that’s a good one Strange! (Name, that is. Not binging plans. Though those are good too.)
Thanks. I was gonna be all high and mighty and remain unchanged until the end of the month but I thought of this and knew I would forget it by then. 😛
TAY temperance league will be here to judge you after Oktoberfest! 😛
Mainly just consists of me drinking Pepsi Max by myself feeling so lonely. XD
lol temperance
This gives me an idea.
I’m going tonight.
Gonna ravage a pork knuckle.
Just, like, a wild animal or jungle boy that shit.
Wind Waker HD is so pretty.
Agreed! So. Damn. Pretty.
Excellent.
You dirty Zelda-phobe, you.
Also starting to get mad Pokemon hype.
Gotta catch ’em all!
Can’t wait for Saturday.
Is that when you’re starting Beyond: Two Souls? 😀
Also, I keep thinking you’re Rize cause of the colours of your gravatar.
I’m doing that too.
Me too…
Oh god the Pokéhype. That’s tomorrow!
Hey @rize when you shouted ‘I love you’ as me and powalen left the meat on Sunday did you mean that in the plural form or should I be jealous of you and @powalen ?
😛
Or maybe it was a joke and I missed it 🙂
I’m guessing you were using ‘you’ as a plural. Just a random thought that popped into my head, this heat is making me woozy.
Erm…both of you!
It’s one of the most brilliant and awkward things to shout out in public because you can never gauge how it’ll turn out. Though it’s pretty much always funny 😀
Ha ha, it worked then.
Great idea:-)
So I got a minute alone with the cute barista at the cafe near where I work.
Here goes nothing..
“What’s the difference between a cup of coffee, and you?”
“I dunno.. what?”
“One I want to hold in my hands everyday and enjoy the delicious aroma, and the other.. is a cup of coffee.”
*almost die in the seconds she took to process it*
grinning “I tell you what.. if I didn’t already have a girlfriend…”
:0
The men of TAY seem unusually good at attempting to pick up lesbians.
well i’m guessing she’s bi from what she said. obviously just committed 🙂 I respect that totally
I’m good at finding bi chicks apparently..
Not at all creepy! 😛
Smooth.
Many respekets.
I salute your courage, Sir Wellington
SO tacky. SO awesome.
Very clever. I can’t come up with anything as good as that.
GOLD!
http://collider.com/imax-theater-upgrade-video/
Aw man, why can’t Brisbane have a proper IMAX theater. :'(
It used to from memory..
Yeah, the one at the Cineplex doesn’t use IMAX projector any more, they just stretch the screen. Don’t think it was a full size IMAX to start with too. :'(
Eww.. Fuck that then.
Decided to keep my Falcon helmet on for the train trip home. It was amusing watching the cars slow down as they drove past me 😛 One lady at the train platform got it, coming up and asking if it was for the mental health awareness thing. She called me brave for doing it, but I corrected her saying that I was just stubborn.
Got more than a few sideways glances on the train, along with a few smiles. Most people seemed to involved in their own little bubble to notice anything though, reminded me of that bus story about the guy with the gun.
…
I forgot about that.
Hmm. A cursory google seems to point to it “actually” being tomorrow. The signs up at school had it on yesterday, but I think that was before whoever put them up realised it was a short week this week, meaning first years would have all Wednesday to themselves and we wouldn’t be in til today, so they changed it last-minute to have two days.
Awesome, I was walking around like that for no reason, in a way 😛
it’s 10th day of the 10th month. It’s only tomorrow for Americans and other post Australian time losers
Oh cool. We’re even better than the first year scum *coolface*
Apparently my friend was the only one who showed up with a hat, a Waluigi one he borrowed from a friend. Everyone else in that yeargroup is so lame.
So I picked up Tiny Tower after that Tiny Death Star story the other day and it’s awesome. It’s like Simtower but you only have to play every 15 minutes.
I’ve been renaming my shops after movies for fun, after I called my sub sandwich shop Red October.
*strums guitar*
..What a day it’s been..
..What a magic day.. SHHHH
..Can you hear the moon is on its way?
*The first its is actually it’s Benny you dumb shit. Fixed.
It’s time for all the stars…
That sparkle in your eye…
To fly to the night and light up the sky.
Crap. Now it’s stuck in my head. WHY DID YOU DO THAT? The kids aren’t here until later and I was going to get a break!
Haha, we’re trying to make it a routine that the kid goes to sleep right after that song but NOPE, he still screams like a possessed child when we put him down.
I’m just learning new songs, really.
Here’s an appropriate bed time song for kids!
Eughhhhh I want a ps3 so bad now that Drakengard 3 is getting localized. It looks amazing and the soundtrack sounds amazing too.
The smell of these slow-cooked beef ribs I’m cooking for our Anniversary dinner is torturous! Hopefully they’ll be ready super-soon because I’ve been smelling them for hours.
mmmm ribs
That was my best ribs yet. Tender, juicy, fell right off the bones. And the spices I’d put on them were oh so tasty. Perfect timing to do my best, considering it’s the first time we haven’t actually gone out for dinner. Phew!
Recipe? (Or is it a secret?)
Loosely based on this: http://www.kitchenriffs.com/2013/05/oven-slow-cooked-bbq-spare-ribs.html
It’s for pork ribs but it works really well for beef ones too. I use both ancho as well as chipotle chilli powder and a few splashes of liquid smoke. I don’t follow that recipe’s quantities though, I especially don’t use that much sugar when I’m cooking beef ones. When they’re done I brush on a little Sugar Ray’s Brown Sugar and Hickory BBQ sauce before putting under the grill.
@shane I may have just bought a copy of The Lesser Evil.
But no Peaceful Tomorrows? Why do you hate Shane so much? :'(
I want to read The Lesser Evil first before I make a call on Peaceful Tomorrows.
Haha! Me too! Totally haven’t bought Peaceful Tomorrows yet either! XD
Wait.
It’s possible to buy Shane’s books? He just throws them at me…
He better not try that stunt at Supanova! >:|
Nah man, not at Supanova. Maybe at a meat beforehand, though 😛
Hope you enjoy it, man. Keen to hear what you think either way, though! 🙂
Eavesdropping on the train this evening, listening in on four bogan women talk about the most stereotypical bogan stuff ever. Such as the baby bonus and how they only eat greek salad.
After a cracking story about buying a plasma tv, a lady and I looked at each other from across the empty carriage and we both just burst out laughing. Nice to know that complete strangers can be on the same wavelength occasionally 😛
And that’s How Pow Met Your Mother!
Ha ha, I was thinking the same thing.
Took Chilli down to the river today, for a swim (not that she can swim properly yet) she loved every moment of it. The jumping at the small waves was hilariously cute.
You two would have a great team name:
Chilli Virus
Hahaha.
Digitally altering cosplay photos seems like cheating.
Being a police officer is not cosplay Freeze! You actually have to wear the uniform too 🙂
I know the whole not wanting your friends to meet your parents thing is a very high school attitude, but I’m really not looking forward to Oliver meeting my mum on Sunday 😛 I can’t imagine how that’ll end up. Not so much what he says/does, but what the two girls feel necessary to say about us. I’ll never hear the end of it :l
Isn’t it your lovers you’re meant to be worried abo…
Oh it’s Oliver. Never mind.
I have no problem with her meeting just him. Most of my friends have met my mum and for some reason think she’s awesome, but yeah I just need to lay some ground rules for appropriate conversation 😛 She won’t be staying long though thank god. She’s only bringing some of my stuff down and then she’ll hopefully be out the door!
Take her out for coffee when she’s leaving, have a gossip session to get her readings on your roomies – even if you aren’t actually going to do anything with the advice, if she’s anything like my Mum she’ll just love the opportunity to dish and analyze and that you got her involved.
Before I flew to London all my friends met my dad at the airport. It was weeeeeeird.
But then I met all their folks at various 21sts, so not weird at all really.
I just introduced Gorzy to my parents, then we sat down and had dinner.
When I phrase it like this it sounds like I was introducing him, if you know what I mean? But no. It was kind of weird for me, even though my parents were positively normal by their standards.
We met Hellscream’s mum and step dad at his birthday dinner! 😀
Freeze has met my folks on numerous occasions, my father is a real have a chat 😛
I would love it if he met my dad actually. They have like the same tastes in everything 😛 Sometimes he jokes that he’d like to send me home and get my dad down here cos he sounds more interesting 🙁
Wow I have some random attacking me on Facebook on a friends status because I never saw some notification from yesterday that she replied to something I said.. Get over it, and drop it, I don’t care what you have to say about me, you look to be a mother in her 40’s i’m sure you have better things to do, like look after your kids, not be a keyboard hero and attack a 22 year old for an opinion he expressed.
Fuck people are morons.
Indeed.
I wish I understood people, but then I fear I may dislike humanity even more 😛
Up until the point where you realize they can’t really help it, that it’s always been this way, that it always will, and you regard it with the vaguely-amused resignation of a parent changing baby’s poopy nappy twice in the same hour. “Again? Sigh.”
Pretty sure that poopy thing goes more like: “Your turn!” “But I just did one!” “Do you really want to keep count here? Because pretty sure you owe me like a billion. YOUR TURN.” 😛
Second day back at the gym after 3 weeks being a lazy blob. All the bits of me that were hurting after last time are hurting again, and now the rest of me hurts too 🙁
Hamster: 2
Neg: 0
IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE HIS NAME IS NEG-ZERO. I GET IT.
No that’s just fortuitous happenstance!
You mean it was… punintended?
Yes. Not to be confused with pun intended.
Though I did noticing it before hitting submit, so I guess it was partly intentional.
If you want me to diagnose, take a photo with your shirt off and send it to me.
For diagnosis.
@scree was there some kind of Melbourne meat going on on Saturday?
Yup. 11 am. Optic bar
That Beyond photoshop article had me gasping for air. Haven’t laughed that much for a while.
Home made pizza (home made bases too) for dinner, it smells so good Q_Q want now, but damn it’s hot =(
Watching 2010: The Year We Make Contact, John Lithgow is in it, should be good.
I’m curious to watch this. Was it any good? Does it feel like a proper successor to 2001?
I should not be awake but I can’t sleep. Stupid sore throat. =(
I almost hopped on at that time to post the same thing.
No sore throat though, just a stupid brain that won’t shut up.
Not sleeping buddies!
But seriously body, what the fuck. Either get better or stay the same, don’t get better, then worse, then better then worse. It is annoying.
Happy Birthday @techknight ! Hopefully that’s the right tag!
Hope you have a fun filled day sire!
@tech_knight
Repost for good measure.
Free Mafia II or Civ 5 through GMG by signing up to a website and voting, but the servers for the voting website have (of course) been hit hard- but as of writing this you can chug your way through, although with about a million page views or so continuously it might take a bit of refreshing to get through.
http://blog.playfire.com/2013/10/free-game-for-voting-in-golden-joysticks.html
@virus__ ’cause he wanted to be updated ’bout it.
EDIT: Voting is down, site is simply being hit too hard. Registration might be still up, however.
Yeah, I almost got there last night but it suddenly stopped working on me =(
It’s working almost flawlessly for me now. Might want to try again.
EDIT: oooorrr nooot. It’s definitely spotty, but better than nothing.
i’m voting now, so it seems okay lol..
If GTA V doesn’t take out GOTY from this thing, it’s probably rigged 😛
@freezespreston @sernobulus @strange and other Dark Souls peeps
Has anyone gotten their invite to the DS2 beta? Facebook says all the invites have been sent out.
I missed out. Tried the key that was being posted about (2QMR TNNA G7BN) and had no luck either.
Guess I’m just going to have to make do with playing something that isn’t Dark Souls 2. Maybe more DARK SOULS.
I have a feeling it’s NA only for the time being. ='(
Oct 11 for European countries do today sometime.
Some guy on Facebook is claiming to be an Aussie with access.
Taking it with a fistful of salt, but I haven’t heard anything on my end yet.
A couple of people on Twitter said that it worked when I couldn’t get it to go.
Orrrrrrr
http://imgur.com/8ShTyuL
Don’t mean to rub it in but OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG EXCITE!!!!!!!
Eeerrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
NICE!
I call fake though. 😛
Wow, is that what the new iOS7 email screen looks like? Ew.
I just got up when I saw on FB they had sent the emails. Read your comment while waiting for my emails to load…DARK SOULS II BETA GET! Sent at 3:31am.
BOARD GAMES!
Saturday, 2pm! We have Shadows Over Camelot now, so people get to be silly English kinnigits!
A few of the regulars have already made excuses which basically boil down to “something something, pokeymans” but I won’t hold it against them. They’re just dead to me for not showing up.
POKEYMANS!
Haha made me laugh too
Anton and I will be there 🙂
Most excellent.
Played that last weekend, good game.
New Humble Weekly Sale.
God dammit Freeze, I don’t need weekly reminders of where I should be pissing my money away!
Or if you already have them you can get http://www.indiegala.com/ for about the same price and get crusader kings II as well as knights of pen and paper
Well fronds, it looks like it’s going to be a crazy busy day at work today so I probably won’t be on.
As I’m going to my folks place for the weekend straight after work today, I will probably see you all on Tuesday.
You all have a sexy weekend.
@redartifice, I’ll send the 3DS on Tuesday. I was going to do it yesterday but time got away from me.
Peace out, homeslices.
We’ll see you on Twitter gushing about Poker-mans though, right?
EDIT: Also, that is still one of the greatest gifs ever 😀
Sweet, cheers man!
Hmm. So much for Pokemon tomorrow. It’s going to lie dusty and unused for a while.
Is there a non-disclosure agt as part of the access? I’d be keen to hear thoughts you have. Vicarious living and all that sort of thing…
Doesn’t appear to be.
Unfortunately this test looks EXTREMELY limited. Seems like the servers are only online 20:00-22:00BST Saturday 12th, which at best estimate is 5am-7am Sunday morning here?
@strange might want to take note of that.
Yeah, I just saw that. While I won’t have the kids, I’ll be still in the hotel we’re staying in this weekend. Voucher doesn’t appear to be transferrable though. 🙁
Hmmm, I wonder how much 2 hours of internet will cost at the hotel? 😛
Oh wow.
I feel bad for my copy of Wind Waker. It’s been neglected ever since Beyond: Two Souls was released. Must finish it before Arkham Origins though.
Monster!
I think the real monster is everyone else for not letting Quantic Dream consume your lives! 😛
But if you’re only playing a chapter or two at a time, you have plenty of time for Wind Waker!
The rest of the day is spent contemplating those chapters though and spreading the word of David Cage! 😛
David Cage can spread his own word. Play Wind Waker. 😛
Doesn’t feel right playing two games at once! :'(
Anyone else noticed the blatant lack of PS4 in-store advertisements in Australia. Just walking through major retails like Kmart, BigW , Target, Myer( not including EB or JBHIFI) there doesn’t seem to be any advertising for the PS4 going on at all. Lots of xbone information though. Does Microsoft have their hands in these retailers? This seems to be getting worse with every iteration of the PlayStation brand. I think PlayStation Australia really needs to step up there game when it comes to advertising.
@tech_knight Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Techy!
Happy AI Installation Day Techy!
Happy birthday, my friend! Hope the day treats you well and the year treats you even better!
You’re awesome!
Happy Day Of Activation, @tech_knight!
Hope your day is full of whatever robots do for fun. 😀
Global domination.
Random vaporisation of humans
Long hot oil bath while watching a montage of the futuristic battle scenes in the terminator franchise
HIPPO BORFDAY ROBUT BROTHER!
Or should I say, date of manufacture.
Happy birthday @tech_knight. May the year ahead be full of system upgrades and UI tweaks that leaves your RAM humming nicely.
HAPPY OLD DAY @TECH_KNIGHT
Should have shut down the assembly line, never was a better robot built. Happy birthday Techie
Happy Birthday @tech_knight! Hope you have a lovely day and treat yourself to something special!
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Morning all.
Happy Friday!
That is all.
#Poet.
POOOOOOOOOOKEEEEEEEYMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
I have a confession.
I don’t have money for Pokeymans because I’m going to get Mum an expensive birthday present.
! D=
…is the present Pokemon?
Mum isn’t interested in pokemon. Katamari maybe.
But nah, it’s the vertical garden.
Haha, hyped?
@strange: Get a chance to play more Beyond: Two Souls? I just did the chapter:
(Just chapter name, nothing spoilery otherwise.)
The CondenserProbably my most favorite one in the game so far.
Legit spoilers here, only read after you’ve done the chapter above!
I loved playing that chapter in Jodie’s house when she was a kid. Just the day-to-day activity and seeing her interact with Aiden and how their dynamic was back then. I went up to her room and she played with her toys which was pretty damn adorable and then Aiden started playing too which didn’t really phase Jodie one bit. Haha!
Also that scene in the garage. Man, I played Jodie as much braver than me. She didn’t look back to see what the noise was coming from. Just stoically moseyed to the door like she had done this before. Loved eavesdropping on the parents too through the floor boards. Poor Jodie.
Then flashing forward to the next chapter, it was incredible seeing Aiden and Jodie looking out for one another, establishing their dynamic even more. I made sure to scout every room with Aiden before pressing on with Jodie. Two chapters was a cool contrast on how she’s adapted to him being there. I wasn’t sure before, but I like Dawkin’s now.
No chance, and won’t get one until Sunday night at the earliest. You’ll probably be all finished by then. At least, one of the reported 50 billion endings, anyway.
Oooooh! Cool! I don’t think I’ll be finished. Only playing two or so chapters a day. We’ll have to compare notes after we’re done, though. Looking forward to hearing what you think about some of the plot points!
You can see the Stephen King influence in this game too. That’s a good thing.
And weirdly I found Heavy Rain had an M. Night Shyamalan The Sixth Sense/Unbreakable/Signs era vibe!
This comment has been here for a few minutes and no one has called David Cage a hack with no original ideas. Weird.
Oh you!
Definitely weirdly. Felt completely different, to me.
Was more the atmosphere for me, plot wise and all that it’s nothing like them. 😀
Yeah, like I said: felt completely different. As in atmosphere.
I get the feeling I’ll have finished the game tonight or tomorrow. I’m certainly enjoying it, even with some obvious flaws. It’s very much a game for people who enjoy Quantic Dream games though.
Yeah, well said. Doubt it’s going to convince any one to jump on the band wagon if they’re not on it already, I agree!
Thoughts on that chapter.
Dang that gave me the heebie-jeebies a few times. Seeing all of the flashbacks and memories was quite a nice touch as well.Also, that is one hell of a tenterhook for David Cage to throw in there to keep the player engaged. I kinda like the spiral/cyclical story structure with its information asymmetry but at the same time I want to know everything leading up to these scenes.
Still, massively intrigued to see where things go to from there (I am slightly further ahead than you so I won’t say anything).
Oh yeah, I really love the structure of this game! How one chapter usually contrasts the other and you get little hints earlier and full elaboration later. So great!It really makes you have that “oh wow” feeling when two dots connect about 2 or 3 chapters after youve done something.I really liked how they used the same line in both the embassy scene and the party scene. The “I hate this dress” line. It was a nice little tie-in from one scene to the next. I’m hoping they keep doing more of that in the later scenes.Going to see Gravity again with my folks today! Unreasonably excited! 😀
Excited… about time with the parentals? That must be a nice feeling…
Enjoy, man!
More so, excitement is about movie! 😛
I’ve got tickets booked for tonight. The latest session we could get, just because we could. 😛
And there’s not a damn thing we can do about it! XD
I’m going to see Gravity on Tuesday. Looking forward to it.
Seeing it in 3D? I recommend it! 😀
Yep. I’ve been waiting for a screening that doesn’t finish too late. Also cheaper tickets on Tuesday.
Wow, it’s rating way better on Imdb than I expected. From the trailer I thought it might be a bit like Moon, cool premise streeeeetched out to buggery. But Imdb is usually a good indicator for me, so I’ll likely go check this out 🙂
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/
But… Moon was amazing! 😛
Also, it’s one of those movies that is amazing in 3D. I’d recommend you see an IMAX 3D session if there’s one in your area. People I saw it with last Saturday who don’t like 3D agreed that it worked awesomely here.
Oh yeah, Moon was definitely a good movie. My mates all loved it. I’m just a grumpy young old man.
Haven’t seen Man of Steel yet. Doesn’t look like it rates super well though.
I generally trust the people around here, TAY is a pretty decent indicator of movie quality. Usually. Except for that time when people actually enjoyed Man of Steel. Ick.
Watch Rubber!
I thought that too, actually, especially given the trailers. But (at least to my mind) it didn’t feel too long or unnecessarily stretched.
Moon was brilliant. Gravity looks like the most boring thing ever.
Gravity was probably the most enthralled I’ve been at a cinema in a long time. I wasn’t sure how that premise could stretch 90 mins though, but Cauron managed to do it well!
It felt longer than the 90min it was, to me. And that is NOT a bad thing. It meant I was invested for longer.
Gravity is many things, but boring isn’t one of them.
It’s very lean, which is good- more blockbusters could do with being shorter.
Headphones. Have been eyeing off the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro set at JB for a while. RRP 195, have just dropped to 146 in the last week. Anyone in the know think this is a good deal?
If I could spend this much on headphones, I would. When I worked at Big Brother we had crazy good headphones and I’ve wanted the expensive kind ever since.
I had a pair very similar to that for all of two-ish days. They were the most comfortable I’d ever worn. Then my son jumped on them whilst throwing a tantrum and the headband snapped. 🙁
The sound was pretty good too, but I mostly remember how comfy they were.
Haha great timing, didn’t even see your thread. I did a fair bit of research. There’s some conflicting opinion (as headphones are of course subjective) but for me it came down to the M50 vs the AD700. M50 apparently has better bass, and are more enclosed. AD700 are more comfortable and better for hot weather, and have more realistic sound.
I bought the M50s last night for ~$140 delivered from eglobaldigital with a $5 discount coupon.
On Amazon US the 280s review 4.3/5, M50 is 4.7/5. So not a huge difference either way, but yeah.
Awesome, thanks. Looking to replace a crappy $30 set of ‘gaming’ headphones, so anything will be a step up. Being able to try them on first is a must – these were the pick from looking through JB a month or so ago.
Yeah good point. I’m taking a gamble again by not trying mine on. Got some Panasonic noise cancelling ones the same way and I was fairly disappointed 🙁 Lame bass and noise cancelling was over-hyped.
Fingers crossed though, this time the reviews will be true 🙂
They’re pretty decent headphones without getting too expensive, however in terms of that price:
http://www.shopbot.com.au/pp-sennheiser-hd-280-pro-price-51720.html
Yeah, so eglobal will probably turn out to be just over $100 delivered. But yeah, good point.
Followed that link because I’m also looking for headphones and came across this:
http://www.eglobaldigitalcameras.com.au/index.php?dispatch=products.configuration_product&group_id=369&product_id=33503
Headphone amplifiers? Do they work or are they just a gimmick?
I’d say they work in terms of making it louder, but no idea about any other impact (ie quality). Honestly don’t know much about them.
Just ordered myself a new pair of M50 gaming headphones to replace my Creative Fatalitys.
http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/headphones/0edf909675b1be4d/
So excited!
Grats! Except that link points to a world map?!
Weird. Works fine for me. You on Chrome?
Well. Dark Souls 2 “Beta” (The software doesn’t mention beta only Network Test Vers.) is installed but can’t play anything.
🙁
The menus look nice though. Highlighter is a fancy liquid fire effect inside the button that looks purty.
That … that sounds great!
*whispers to self* – Dammit nob, keep it together.
I gotta go, I think I left my house on fire! What? I’m not crying, I just cut some onions before.
If we didn’t have an alarm I’d give you the keys to my house so you could go in and play it on Sunday Morning.
I don’t think the beta is open yet. All the Facebook things just recommended downloading it early before the Beta kicks off.
Yeah, but like Freeze said it’s really more of a “Test”. Just for those two hours.
Wind Waker:
Really like how this game is a bit like Arkham Asylum, the fact you can explore new areas in old locations just by having the right equipment. So good.
Just got the sword at the castle dealy and sailed back to the Forbidden Fortress to save the sister! Having trouble with that bird on the roof, but I’ve only tried once and was playing off the game pad. XDI hate that though. I hate spotting treasure/doors/areas that can’t be accessed the first time I’m there. It’s mean.
I admit, was way more satisfying in Arkham. Usually there’s just a crate with rupees in this game. XD
Still waiting on my copy from the UK, but with any luck the wait will be totally worth it.
*bit like Metroid
Metroidvania, eh? I learned that word from my pal @jimu!
I reckon we had this discussion once before and @negativezero thought there was a better label than Metroidvania
I remember arguing that something (Tomb Raider I think?) wasn’t a Metroidvania, not that I think there’s a better term.
Anyways, I’m outta here for the rest of the day. Just wanted to say sorry for calling you an abrasive jerk yesterday, Cody. I think there’s a conflict of personality between us and we’re probably never gonna be best of friends or any thing, but you didn’t deserve that, especially after how tame the posts were otherwise. I’m the one with the problem and you should just keep on keeping on!
Bye DC!
Enjoy the movie!
Don’t go! You were the only one talking to me! If you go I’ll have to do *shudder* real life stuffs!
Also, no one else it talking about Wind Waker, how else am I supposed to live vicariously through someone’s story if you aren’t here! /o\
Wind Waker sure is a game!
GO ON!
Uh… uh… VIDEOGAMES D:
Just heard of the new Team Cybergeist songs Zombie i’m really hyped for the new album and EP even more now!
Same.
Jks.
I don’t care.
Unnecessary.
Okay..
Ok.
But if it was a Team Zeitgeist song….
He’d be shoving it down our throats and tagging it on to unrelated posts from others.
Unnecessary.
S’funny, but.
Less than three.
Thursday Night Star Wars d20 Session Recap:
So after being captured by our archnemesis who is an Imperial Moff, we were being held prisoner in a Star Destroyer but we managed to break out, grab all of our gear and hightail it to our smuggler corvette which was being dragged by the Star Destroyer via gravity tether. We managed to escape and hyperspace jump near Nar Shadaa where we will (hopefully) be safe from the Empire’s clutches for a few more weeks.Also, playing as a Tech Specialist in this session was so much fun. I managed to:
– explode the fuel tanks in the main hanger bay with a well-placed thermal detonator
– deactivate the gravity tether and tractor beam
– take out the Stormtrooper reinforcements by reverse-engineering the controls of a turbolift and making them go splat as the turbolift rocketed straight to the top of the lift shaft
– making the Star Destroyer get out of hyperspace by randomly jettisoning escape pods while in hyperspace (big no-no, the alternative was deactivate the hyperdrive but this was more fun)
Results:
– freedom
– keeping all of our stuff
– one very pissed-off Imperial Moff
Man, that sounds awesome. Never played Star Wars RPG, but the new one looks pretty cool.
We’re playing the old one made by Wizards of the Coast. I haven’t had a good look at the new Star Wars RPG but it’s made by Fantasy Flight who also do all of the 40K RPGs so it might be worthwhile to check it out.
If I still had the time and inclination for tabletop RPGs, I’d be all over this. I played the old Star Wars RPG in high school but it was kind of ruined by one of my friends not DMing very well. He not only had our story parallel that of the original movie (so we were always in the same situations as Luke, Leia, Han, etc. only a few minutes behind), he had us travel with an NPC which was basically a Marty-Stu avatar for himself who did everything perfectly, leaving the rest of the group looking like a bunch of bumbling tools who just tagged along for the ride trying not to shoot their own faces off.
Yeah, that’s awful DMing.
As hard as it can sometimes be when your players are being idiots, the number one rule for being a DM is that it’s the player’s story, you’re just facilitating it.
Ah man, yeah that sucks. Bad experiences with tabletop RPGs pretty much sap all inclination to want to play more. Fortunately I’m running with a group of people who work pretty well together and nearly all of us have a bit of DM experience so we know what we want from players ourselves as well as what the DM wants.
I hope you can get back into it at some stage as there are so many good things that can come from tabletop anything, board games or RPGs. So many good stories and memories and whatnot.
Oh, that was one of my first experiences, when I was around 14. I kept it up until I was 23 or so. When I quit uni and got a full time job I couldn’t spare the one day a week to hang out with my friends unless I gave up half my weekend. Weekly sessions became monthly. Monthly became never when I tried going to my friend’s place instead of him coming to mine for a change and my girlfriend got annoyed at the fact I was going to be out of the house from 9 in the morning til probably 8 at night (including an hour each way of travel time). Not being into tabletop RPGs she couldn’t understand why I would want to hang out with my friends for 9-10 hours straight. I remember one time she called around 2pm wondering why I wasn’t home yet.
“For me to be home, I would have left at 1. That would only have given us 2 hours to play”.
“Isn’t that enough?”
“We’d barely even get started!”
*commence argument and me leaving early*
The next time I only got halfway to my friend’s place when she called me back because she wasn’t feeling well. In fairness I had also left the apartment pretty messy on that occasion so I was skiving off my domestic duties, but that was the point I officially gave up.
Probably the only time that my hobbies have conflicted with my girlfriend (now wife). In any case, I was suddenly too time poor to keep up the habit. My friends found other groups to RP with.
You could sit in on an online Numenera session at some point if you want to?
I read Imperial Muff, heh.
Pixel…Otaku?!!!
Potaku?
Potaku no longer.
http://potaku.podbean.com/2013/10/11/episode-51-pixel-otaku/
Geez, @dc was right about your inadvertent spoilers! 😛
I assumed (I’m sure correctly) that everyone has listened to this podcast by now. Therefore nothing could be spoiled. 😛
@saturday, huzzah I was successful in voting! Now I just have to wait for GMG to verify my entry D=
oh man, FTL or Mark of the ninja. Voting is hard
And thanks for the reminder
Ever so slight gripe about GTA Online because I hate to sound like a whiny prick when people are losing their entire character:
But I wish you could choose which variant of a car you want when ordering. In particular cars that have targa tops. You seem to have to play the lottery as to which one you get.
I wanted both the Coil and Coquette. The Coil arrived with a carbon roof that I can’t get rid of and the Coquette with nothing. Which means that it had no windows to black out either and no option to add a colored roof – only carbon. Minor, minor gripe, but when you spend $150K in online after grinding away for a small while, it would be nice to not have to then play the lottery when it comes to making the car look exactly like you want.
End of rant.
I saw you say something like this yesterday.
That’s a little poo.
Also, how do you have so much money!? Are there jobs that I should do that pay more? TELL ME YOUR SECRETS!
I played it for a fair bit now. I did replay the Base Invaders mission a few times to save up for the cars. It’s pretty much just those two cars that I bought. They’ve now removed the ability to replay missions (i.e. glitch the replay) so it’s harder to make that money. Which might not be a bad thing because you lose a certain level of satisfaction if you make money really easily.
So last night I was on a website looking for sewing tables and was really frustrated that they didn’t show prices for anything which meant I then had to find an online seller to be able to find out the price (and eek! $999 for the one I had my eye on).
This morning I go back to the website to see if there might be anything else that would do what I want but for cheaper and they’ve now upgraded their website with a new layout…and the prices. 😛
Better new prices?
That was weird. The edit turned it into an almost duplicate comment instead.
Unfortunately, no. But I did find out that another table similar to the one I originally wanted was only $179. So basically $800 extra to make it height-adjustable. No wonder they didn’t want to have their prices online. 😛
Edit: Save More than a few white pages.
Add or remove under table legs as required.
😀
Unfortunately modern White Pages are a lot thinner.
Fixed!
The cost of sewing tables is ridiculous. It doesn’t help that I need one that can be moved. =/
I’m now saving for this one: http://www.horn.com.au/horn-hobby-sew-table
Gonna be $215 delivered. Shame about the the 30-plus postage charge. It’s supposed to be available at Spotlight but I’ve looked in all the ones around here and they don’t have any. I may ask them if they can order it in for me though to avoid the postage charge.
I was looking at this one
http://www.horn.com.au/details.php?prodId=50&category=3&secondary=&keywords=
Easy to move, has storage, perfect for my needs.
Yeah, that’s a good one. The best price of its type as well. $399. If I was just sewing and not quilting I’d definitely go for that one.
i have been interested in quilting but I have absolutely no idea how to do it.
It seems complex but it’s actually pretty straightforward. There are a bunch of youtube how-to videos, if you’re interested. The only problem is it can be addictive and expensive. 😛
I think you’d be good at free-motion quilting too, with your art background.
In case you’re unsure what free-motion quilting is here’s a good place to see what it’s all about:
http://www.leahday.com/project1/
While you’re basically just stitching all the layers of a quilt together to secure them, you can turn it into another layer of art on your quilt. 🙂
And here’s another http://www.quiltingismytherapy.com/quilting-portfolio/
What’s the difference between a sewing table and a normal table? Can’t a normal table be used? (Sorry, have not done sewing since year 6). I was damn awesome at it though!
If you have a look at the link I posted for Scree you can see that a sewing table has a lift in it so you can lower your sewing machine to be flat with table, making a larger surface area with no drag for your fabric. This is especially important when doing something like quilting where you’re manouvering bed-sized pieces of fabric.
Aaaaah I see! That makes sense.
Isn’t that actually an overlocker? Since i’ve never seen one of those for your regular sewing machine, only overlocker machines.
Um…no.
Sure sounds like an overlocker cabinet is all 😛
I think i made a mistake pre-ordering pokemon with EB. Gonna have to sit and sadly wait for the postman til next week by the looks.
I gotta not be so lazy!
I’m going to need to call EB to make sure they will still have copies when I rock up at the midnight launch. I might need to end up pre-ordering this morning otherwise I could miss out.
Also, if you really want Pokemon, can’t you cancel the preorder or arrange to pick it up at the shop instead rather than waiting for it to be posted?
I probably could cancel it but I’m a bit edgy about doing that last minute. Anxiety says, if I difficult everything up it might make it worse.
That’s why I pre-order online but choose in-store pickup. I used to love Game because they had a release-day delivery guarantee. At least EB is better with postage than JB though…those guys take forever to just process their orders, let alone post it out.
Usually EB are pretty good. This was the order i chose to try out Express Post too. False advertising right there.
I think pick up is the way to go…
If it was express posted yesterday and you don’t live in the sticks, then you should have it today. Aus Post guarantee this. If it was express posted today expect it Monday since they don’t even let their couriers deliver on a Saturday.
JB post a day or two before it’s due out, but Australia post takes about 2 weeks to deliver anything from JB’s Victorian warehouse. It’s a total joke, I wish JB still had the option to have their stuff couriered or at least express post =/
I ended up preordering from EB yesterday when I went to pick up my copy of Beyond: Two Souls. Apparently they’re having a midnight launch. I’m undecided whether I’ll go or not (probably not, I’ll be too busy Ellen Paging).
This happened to me with several preorders with EB. The only reason I ordered locally and paid all that extra money was to be able to get it on release day usually, so I got to the point that now if I order through EB I get them to deliver it to a local store and I go pick it up from there, that way I guarantee I can get it day 1.
People who have played Wind Waker this just happened:
Tetra has just been turned into Princess Zelda and has been made a damsel in distress and is now locked away in Hyrule. What the shit, man? Tetra is a badass, who has saved Link several times already. SHE CAPTAINS AN EFFING PIRATE SHIP! WHY TAKE HER OUT OF THE GAME WORLD!? Dick move.This has made me lose all motivation to keep playing.
Welcome to one of the biggest issues with that game.
This is the first example where I was like “Hey, wait a minute. That’s bullshit!”
That’s one of the best things about WW. Tetra / Princess Zelda isn’t a 2 dimensional character. She’s an actual person with a cool personality. Too bad she falls into the “helpless princess” for majority of the second half of the game.RIGHT!?
Wind Waker seemed so self aware and, to me, looked like it was shaking off most of the bullshit of Zelda stories.
Disappointing.
Phantom Hourglass does it way better.
Edit: Err, just in case, I guess there’s a kind-of spoiler for SS in here. And TP and OoT, I guess?
Yup. Princess Zelda is almost always completely useless. In OoT, Sheik is a bad-arse, and when she reveals herself it’s like, BAM, crystal. WW has what you mentioned. TP she just basically isn’t there at all so it doesn’t matter, and SS she… she’s off doing important things while you derp around. And then BAM CRYSTAL.Stay strong man, it a really great finale.
For you.
That reads well snarky.
I meant I’ll keep playing for you.
Not that it’s a great finale for you.
ILY.
Welcome to Japanese media.
Any time a female character is capable or talented they have to be put in their place so they can be rescued by a man, otherwise people might forget that men are better.So, I’ve just stared at the mountain of work I have piled up ahead of me, sent out a veritable deluge of notices to correct failure, which has folks’ heads spinning and I haven’t even sent out 40% yet, and am bemoaning the number of things required of me for the entire foreseeable future, so what do I do…
Spend ten minutes typing up a tirade making questionable use of an incompleted arts degree and knowledge of porn history, on the Bioshock porn article.
If RL had a HUD, I’d see a Skyrim style message: “YOUR SKILL IN SELF-SABOTAGE IS NOW 91.”
Rack that skill up boyo, you never know when it’ll come in handy one day! 😛
But I’ve already prestiged it once… I want to work on other skills!
Just played Journey again. This time I lead a new player through the game. She didn’t seem to quite understand when I was leading her to certain spots but we got there in the end. We end found the fl0w easter egg thingy which I apparently hadn’t found before.
Still no white robes though. I’m kind of tempted to not get them until I’m done with this week of play.
Do you actually know the gender of your companions?
Because yesterday you were all “This white-robe guy was awesome, he showed me everything!”, but today you’re ” She didn’t understand.” So I’m hoping this is because you know their gender, and aren’t just assigning good=he, dumb=she. 😛
First person I don’t know, their PSN name was Japanese. The second person’s PSN name was Jenna_Jem.
Anyhow, everyone knows it goes: boy, girl, boy, girl.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/10/09/230676658/virtual-strangers-a-journey-with-anna
I should probably play Journey at some point.
Pokemon X and Y question someone might be able to answer (I’ve searched around and haven’t found anything). Spoilerised just because:
Can you get the mega stones for the Kanto starters even if you don’t choose that starter in the game? If I chose Squirtle, could I still get the charizardite or whatever it’s called to mega evolve the Charizard I’m planning to eventually transfer over from my White game?Short answer: Yes.
Yay.
Probably the last random thing posted of the workday, to better focus on… well, work:
The lights in the men’s room are flickering like a bad horror movie. Have been for a couple days.
I’ve been turning the light off every time I enter, because the flickering is annoying and there are a couple windows providing ample natural light, which is easier on the eyes than the damn-near halogen 7-11-quality light the fluoros provide. However, every time I go in there, someone has turned them back on again.
I am now engaged in an invisible war against one or more persons. I suspect… the ‘Illuminati’ – for obvious reasons. If I don’t return, you’ll know they got me. I don’t care what weird forensic means are necessary, I want you to take revenge upon my pooping-in-the-dark-fearing killers.
(Note: Please do not take revenge upon coworkers in the event that I do somehow manage to die in the near future.)
So Pokemon, anyone going with a nicknaming theme for X/Y? I’m tempted to run something based off my work but I don’t know if I’ll have the character space to do that. Still would be funny to have a battle go like “Fringe Benefits used Flamethrower, Good & Services used Surf”
I name ’em after the pokemon games themselves. I never catch enough pokemon that I actually use to warrant any problems, so I’ve never had to name a pokemon “Trading Card Game.”
I remember naming all my Pokemon in original Silver…I honestly don’t know how I came up with nearly 250 names without duplicates or anything nonsensical. Don’t think I could do it now.
I always name them of after the first thing I think when I see them.
Or you could do movies, or Simpsons characters. OH elements from the periodic table – Helium used Tackle!
Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone’s relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts.
However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird’s beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car.
MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills.
The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause: When crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger. They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout “Cah”, not a single one could shout “Truck.” #dadjokepagesix!
Hahaha, oh man, you got me good.OH HO HO HO HO SO WITTY.
I just figured out why your username is scary. No Shane should be against DadJokePageSix 🙁
whatchu talking about,
willisshane? the gif is of the guy laughing, therefore signifying my approval for DadJokePageSix.EDIT: Also, I banked on this name change affecting you more in tandem with the post on the first page. Kinda loses it’s effect now.
Still confuses the almighty hell out of me! 😛
Also, I totally missed Page 1 this week. Went back to check and O_o
Twenty copies, you say? Make it twenty-five and we’ll call it even.
Yeah, that deal was valid only by responding on the day that was posted, I’ve got it all written out here and I took the time to get it officiated by a notary, so….
To be honest I was banking on the very slim hope that in retaliation you’d change your name to Saturday and then I’d tag you in every post I made saying “Hi @saturday!” ‘Course, y’know, that idea was actually flawed from the beginning but there you go.
I love that gif. LOVE it
Ha!
You are just the worst kind of person.
Oh gods…Dad Joke Page 6. See you guys later, have fun. 😀
Come Back Strange! Or we’ll just spam mentions!
@strange
That’s such a very @strange reaction.
It’s so @strange you could almost call it… odd.
You can EVEN call it ODD. But that’s not a @strange thing to say.
Hey i was listening to The Doors before. You know that track “People are @strange?”
So good.
Got a fill in worker with me today. My usual off sider is off. Holy shit, she is just following me around the shop and I don’t think she’s stopped talking to breathe in the last 3 hours.
“Hey what are you writing? Is that about me? Lemme see! What are you doing? What site is that? Oh, who’s that picture of? What’s that? Is that a game? I love games. I love the internet. Did I tell you about this lolcat picture I saw seven years ago? It was OMG the funniest thing ever and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it ever since. I don’t remember exactly what it looked like, but I do remember that I laughed so hard that milk came out of my nose. I remember that because I was wearing my prom dress at the time, just to try it on, and the milk got on it. It was a bit @strange because I hadn’t been drinking milk. Anyway, the dry cleaning bill came to $76.66. Six-six-six, the devil’s number. I’d been thinking about dabbling in satanism for a while, and that sort of came as a sign to me that I should definitely try it. The first thing I did was go and get my eyeballs pierced, but it hurt more than I thought it would, so I only got the left one done and gave up on satanism after that…. oh, what are you writing now? Is that about me? Do you have a wife? Kids? I love kids. I can’t wait to have some of my own, but Mr Paws says I have to wait a few more years before I try to land Mr Right. I don’t do everything that Mr Paws tells me to, but I do most things.”
You should be a writer or something.
Nah.
Easy.
My mobile phone number has 666 in it. People think it’s a bit @strange, but Satanism sounds like more effort than its worth.
Are you lurking nearby? Because that’s pretty much exactly it.
Oh, your poor ears. 🙁
I actually have a small headache after reading that.
Talkey-people hurt me.
That read like a 40 year old talking like a teenager, in a brilliantly horrible sort of way.
You should become a writer!
Thanks… I think…? 😛
I’m picturing a movie where the main character is separated from his children by his ex-wife so he pretends to be a teenage girl who attends their school so that he can be near them.
Obviously starring Adam Sandler.
We’re gonna be rich.
I’ts like Mrs Doubtfire with @strange r pedophilic undertones.
You’ll make a fortune.
Read it in Kathy Lee Griffins voice.
I’m sorry I made you do that.
*holds gun to my head*
I suppose the most important question is: is she appealing to the eye aka good looking?
Mrs Freeze might be reading :O
I don’t think that would matter. If she doesn’t shut up and she’s annoying, no amount of good looks will actually make her attractive.
Good point, I’d rather not be around an endless parrot no matter how good they look.
1. No.
2. She’s also the bosses daughter.
All kinds of nope attached to that second point. That sucks you can’t even tell her to shut up because then you’ll get in trouble.
Thankfully there are alternatives. Lots of tools with eardrum-piercing capabilities.
And also the equipment in the store 😛Nepotism then. That explains a lot.
Oh man, you told me how she was getting extra special treatment at the Pac Fair store during training.. I feel sorry for you.
Man, on edge waiting for the new Pearl Jam album…
Hasn’t it been available for streaming all week?
Not sure why but this comment reminded me that the new Panic at the Disco album came out today, must get!
LIE HARD
Two wives. One lie. No escape.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel tension, you might even barf.*
* none of the above are guaranteedA blast from the Shane W Smith past. The short script can be read for free.
When does the movie came out? I would like to watch it. IN 3D.
I’ve been starting work at 7 every day this week. That means getting up at 5:30 every morning. That means I was really looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. And then I remembered that Pokemon was coming out tomorrow morning.
I just want some good zzz’s, yo.
Also something something Pixel Otaku oh my glob.
I CAN’T GET LINKS TO WORK WHATEVER I’M GOING TO NAP IN THE KITCHEN
Kitchen, eh?
ProTip: You need to add the http://
Also, is your email still [you-at].potaku.com?
This is why I’d love the game to go on sale today, so I can get it on the way home and sleep in tomorrow.
‘sleeping in’ being until something like 6pm, because you only got to bed around midday because you were up all night playing pokeymans?
HI GUYS. HOWS STUFF?!?!
2 Questions:
should I get X or Y?
& does anyone have any idea when pokemon is gonna be available on the eshop? midnight? or sometime later tomorrow?
Edit: because #DadJokePage6.
contrary to what some people (ie: @rocketman) think, I’m not a drug dealer. in fact, I know so little about illicit drugs i have to look stuff up in addictionary.
Why not both?
Pokémon Y
Because Y not
Haven’t looked into the eshop release, I’m going to avoid it so I can have space for dual destinies.
I’m getting Y, X is slightly ahead on preorders, most exclusives will be tradable so you shouldn’t be filled with regret further down the track regardless of which one you pick.
X because everyone knows that X stands for X-treme!
Definitely better exclusives in Y – except I think the version exclusive legendary is better in X.
I’m getting X for the mega-evolutions which reminds me, did they ever show the X variants of Blastoise and Venasaur?Nothing that I’ve seen yet.
Serebii started posting stuff last night (http://serebii.net/xy/). He’s apparently spent the last ~24 hours playing it straight through, probably closing in on 48 hours since he started. He’s already revealed more in his first few hours of posting than any of the leakers did over the previous week. It seems a lot of the megalution stones are still not found, and less than half of the Mega Evolutions have been seen.
Re Pokemon on eshop, it just says it is made available on 12 October so it might get released at midnight but no one seems to know.
Apparently each game is quite bulky at about 6,000-7,000 blocks of storage each so that may or may not be an issue for you.
Blocks of storage? What the fuck Nintendo? Stop being different.
Remember PS1 memory cards?
Bodacious.
Roses are red, violets are blue. If you were a Pokemon, I’d choose you.
I’d pick a Magikarp over me any day.
Pika!
NOTICE!
ROUTE 12 may be
blocked off by a
sleeping POKéMON.
Detour through ROCK
TUNNEL to LAVENDER
TOWN.
VERMILION POLICE
Bitch, I will HM01 you.
♪♫ I BELIEVE I CAN HM02 ♪♫
Snorlax again?!?! TM15 time.
(-.-)zz (((([[[[[[{{{{{{{{||||====Q(‘o’Q)
Those spam mentions were way funnier than Dad jokes. 😀
But you guys aren’t posting hard enough. I’ve bathed my son, cut out all 6 pieces of a top to sew, did a load of washing and started packing for tonight and you’re still on Page 6?!
CAN’T TALK NOW.
I’M BUSY
MASTURBATING THE WINDWIND WAKING.Oh Come on @strange
you must have at least let out a snort at that one upthread.
If not, tell it to your son, he’d love it
Are the six pieces to show the six nipples for some kind of dog-human hybrid?
Because that’s sick.
You’re sick.
I don’t know why I love you, but I do.
Dad?
@virus__ @strange @metalheads
This is quite fitting for Halloween month, can you tell the difference between Metal bands and Ikea products
http://ikeaordeath.com/
I saw that yesterday. So funny. 😀
Also, I need a Samsplet.
Also also, I know more about Ikea than I do Death Metal so I got a lot right by not recognising them as an Ikea product so choosing Death. 😛
It was rather amusing.
I like your new name, different but the right size and shape that it’s like nothing has changed.
Mrs Tigs came up with mine cause I couldn’t think of anything
*bookmarks for later*
Doesn’t matter, they all come from the same place.
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/560-a-world-map-of-heavy-metal-density
The last line of that write-up is awesome.
Saw that last night, 16/20 I think I did alright haha.
19/20. I win!
But do I win at Metal, or just at Ikea? 😛
Ikea for sure, i’ve only ever set foot in Ikea once 😛
My Ikea visits became much more frequent after this became the view out of my back window: http://instagram.com/p/Uis3KGib98/#
Oh wow haha. Nearest one to me is about an hour away 😛
I can do a round trip on foot in about 20 minutes including a transaction.
Not that I’ve timed it or anything…
Of course you haven’t =P
@virus__ I DON’T EVEN LIKE THEIR MEATBALLS I JUST LIKE COFFEE TABLES
This was a triumph
No school work for 3 weeks now :\ Not good. Thankfully I got 2 jobs from my own customers today, but still not gonna make up the $900 shortfall. Something tells me I wont be treating myself to maccas for my b’day dinner 😐
Wish my part time work would get off their ass and make a decision on the full time role they offered. I might very slowly be able to drag myself out of this mess if I can land it. Providing they pay enough of course. 3 weeks ago I put forward my interest. No reply or anything. Rang to find out yesterday if my manager got my email, and she did, but said they’re making a decision at the end of October now :\ BLEH!
At least I have a roof over my head. Don’t have to worry about losing that for a while thankfully.
Brisbane Peeps!!!
I am going to be in Brisbane Next thursday afternoon/evening with a lot of spare time.
So…. would anyone like to Meat up?
Also – Does anyone know of any good accommodation that is Cheap ish? – I’ve got to get to Mt Coot-Tha in the morning
How long are you in Queensland for? I think @freezespreston is having a meat at his place on Saturday if you are around then.
I’m coming back to sydney on the friday arvo 🙁
Damn, we could probably do a lunch or something. If only @dc was here! Let’s see if I can get the tags right …
Let me work out when My flights are. I think I’m coming up late arvo thursday, I’m then working Friday most of the day.
I’d love to but I’m not sure if I can. Maybe we should try and organise a Thursday night TAY dinner somewhere near where you end up staying?
Edit: also, sorry I don’t know of cheap places and I won’t be able to offer my place because the spare room’s full atm. 🙁
Not a problem looking at a couple of YHA ish places
@dkzeitgeist lives not too far from mount cootha. I’m about 30 mins away, but you’re more than welcome to bunk here if you need to.
Explorers Inn Hotel isn’t bad. Cheap, tiny rooms, but they have a/c and tv and are clean and comfortable enough. Mrs Wolf and I stayed there for 3 days before we moved up here.
@sughly, @freezespreston, @jimu, @gutsoup, @popdart5, @transientmind, @sernobulus, @strange, @welbot, @virus__, @beardymcmuttonchops, @dkzeitgeist
I left out @lambomann007 on purpose. He knows why. >:|
And why did you leave me out?
I’d like to say it was because I saw your post already above, but that’d be a lie. D: Sorry man, I forgot!
Should I decide/receive permission to go to Casa Del Freeze next Saturday, would you like a ride? That way I can punish your constant transgressions by subjecting you to an hour long lecture on why not being a proud member of the MASTER RACE makes you a horrible person.
Doubt i’ll be able to make it since Thursday is late night shopping and Freeze is stuck at his shop till 8pm or so.
Mehbeh.
Week nights are an issue for me, seeing as I live so far out in bumble shit head jerk zone, so I’m a mehbeh.
Somewhere to stay?
Umm…
Ditch?
I know a garden shed you can sleep in! (Once again, not mine!)
Mmm the comfy comfy ditch 🙂
Reviews of the first episode of The Wolf Among Us are starting to pop up. Destructoid was quite positive, gave it an 8, as did GameSpot. IGN & Game Informer gave it a 9 (But then, who actually uses them as a metric?), and the Kotaku and GamesRadar reviews were both largely positive.
Get a moderate amount and reasonable degree of hype!
(And @doc_what, most reviews seem to indicate that it’s largely a positive on the world of the comics, with SHOCKING REVELATIONS and the like for longtime fans, so it looks like it isn’t pulling a Back to the Future!)
Keeeeeeennnnnn.
Hanging for the email telling me the download is available.
OH MY GOD
you must be the first non-employee I have ever seen capitalise the “s” in GameSpot!!!!!!!!!!!!
???
Anyone know what the deal with the Torchic gift that comes with X/Y? Is it an EB only thing?
Online deal from launch to January. Timed exclusive, no retailers involved.
Is this similar to Victini/Genesect? Free to download for the first few weeks?
I’m going to go with yes, but I missed those events. My history has a large black hole from around ’07 or ’08 until a few months ago.
Looks like it is just through the Wi-Fi through the main menu.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Wi-Fi_event_Pokémon_distributions_in_Generation_VI
@beavwa and @sernobulus pretty much got you covered here.
Event runs from 12 October 2013 (release day) to January 2014 (12-14th? can’t recall exactly, I think it coincides with the launch of the full version of the new Pokemon GL web site.
The Torchic has it’s Hidden Ability “Speed Boost”, so it will be useful as a Blaziken, but is also holding the MegaBlazikenite stone, which it can use to activate its Mega Evolution.
Currently it is believed that the MegaBlazikenite stone is not available in-game, so this event is the way to get your hands on it.
The Torchic is male so – although you can breed it with a ditto to get more Torchics – you won’t be able to pass on the Hidden Ability.
@greenius @powalen
Animated gif thingy on the homepage showing mega evolution stuff, avoid if you are worried
Thanks! The gifs make it worse! (Though I haven’t visited the homepage in a long time, fearing this :P)
I have a confession to make.
I don’t want to be the very best, like no one ever was.
I’m generally happy hunting legendaries and doing other sorts of general exploration.
I’ve easily spent more time breeding and hatching eggs in White than I have battling.
Edit: Guess I’ve still got the ‘Gotta Catch Em All’ mentality – trainer battles have always been a means to an end, rather than the main event.
I want to be the very above average!
Like a few people ever were!
DUN DUN DUN!
To catch some of them is my test
To train only a couple of them is my caaaaause!
DUNDUNDUN
I will travel across the game!
Searching mostly in tall grassss!
I can still remember the majority of the first verse from memory. Never got around to learning the second verse though.
Damn it…
YOU TEACH ME AND I’LL TEACH YOU
I wanna be, the very best!
Re-la-tive-ly speak-ing…
To catch some, is my real test,
To store them is my cause!
@sernobulus @rize http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zItKxjn57YQ&noredirect=1
I freakin’ love that guy. Such a champ!
I spent most of my time in white / white 2 hunting shinies, and I have still yet to ever see a damned wild shiny. Every battle I go into I get super excited, cause I’m like “surely after 10 years of playing pokemon my chances of seeing a shiny should be pretty high right. RIGHT?!” and then I get sad when it’s just another regular pokemon. 🙁
I saw a shiny Bellsprout on my very first play of Silver, years ago. One critical hit later and I swear I nearly cried. I haven’t seen any other one since (and that Red Gyarados doesn’t count).
I caught a shiny meowth in gen 2. But that was more than 10 years ago and it’s long gone.
Lately I figure I’ll eventually have the luck come through on the breeding front, and since I’m only hatching good things, it could be a shiny I want. No luck so far.
The only shiny I’ve ever seen in my 15 year career was a shiny Poochyena in Ruby version.
Unfortunately it was the Poochyena that you encounter as part of the story before receiving your starter Pokemon, so it was impossible to catch.
That makes my situation look tame by comparison…
Oooh, that would suck!
Two things:
Pokeradar is back. That should make shiny hunting a bit easier.Also “apparently” – this is still at complete unconfirmed rumour phase, but change of shiny encounters has been increased somewhat.
The idea being that it should take away some of the incentive for people to make hacked Pokémon.
17 (?) years, 7 games, innumerable play throughs and I have NEVER seen a shiny 🙁
Excluding the Red Gyarados obviously
I thought my 10 years was bad! On the plus side though you should (hopefully) be due for a shiny encounter soon!
Does that mean I can has shiny starter tomorrow? 😀
Getting a shiny starter would be the best way to start a game, ever! Damn, now I really want to know what the shiny starters look like! If Fennekin isn’t blue / purple I will probably cry!
Oh it’s been 17 years? I must’ve been remembering the 15th anniversary or something!
ie. Old.
I’m pretty sure I saw that its been 15 since Yellow, so I’m guessing its around 17 since Red/Blue
Either way: old!
oh man – in a proper Pokémon MMO I would spend so much time breeding different Pokémon for other trainers; run off some special batches with certain egg moves or natures, it would be so much fun.
Yep, that’d be the kind of role I’d look to add to the bigger picture.
So I’m attempting to give up Coke Zero. It’s working better than expected. Being hot as summer already I couldn’t go cold turkey so I switched to the slightly-less-bad-for-you-because-it-doesn’t-have-that-scary-chemical-sweetener-in-it regular Coke which tastes really supersweet and disgusting after years of drinking Zero so I’ve only been having one can a day instead of three. It’s so gross I’ve already stopped craving it and pretty soon I’ll only be having it on Friday nights with alcohol and I’ll hopefully have kicked the twenty-year-old habit for good. Hopefully.
Stick to it! Your body will thank you in the long run.
I only drink full-ball Coke because damnit Zero doesn’t taste the same – but my story is about congratulating you. If you just wind it back it’s not too hard to stop – I have a glass with dinner each night and that’s it. Go Strange go!
But you have to pick up another bad habit, that’s how it works.
I becleave in you.
http://johnniebrocks.com/Images/ProductImages/FN_63058.jpg
I decided my big change to make in 2006 was to kick the coke habit. Up to 30 cans a week at that point.
So I decided, no coke for the first 6 months of the year. Cold turkey.
February 2006 – Coke released Coke Zero.
Had to wait 5 months to find out what it was like. Funnily enough, with that sort of build up and anticipation, it was a fairly big let down, and I’ve never liked it.
I forced myself to like Coke Zero because my husband wanted to drink it(he’s funny about his weight and thinks he’s fat even though he’s far from it) and it was easier to just buy one kind of Coke than two. Been drinking it for about 4 years now.
Coke just tastes sickly sweet to me now, but the main thing Zero has over regular is that it’s more consistent. Every can of Zero has that Coke bite that is the main thing I’m addicted to, but with regular Coke, it’s a bit of a gamble as to whether it’ll be bitey or not.
Plus black cans are way prettier than red ones. 😛
You’re trying to get away from it! Tell me more of the bad aspects, don’t convert me to drinking it (I was going through a similar sort of transition until she converted me to soda water – love to have that at home now)
The actual known issues that the huge amount of sugar you’re drinking causes IMO outweighs the potential unknown but never clinically proven dangers of Ace-K & phenylalanine.
I hardly ever drink coke of any description now. Only occasional. Water is better. Tea is also pretty awesome.
Gravitiy holds up to a second viewing. Almost just as tense as first!
I plan to pick up the 3D blu-ray release and see how it performs at the home cinema.
…wait, why do we have spooky themed names and not Pokel-mon names?
Why not both?
“Pikachu Naked”
Coz i’d probably have to go with whatever was #35 in the pokedex.
& that would be Clefairy. just no.
Clefairy is rad.
YOUR FACE IS RAD.
Your name wins.
Hands down.
I beat all of you. So trendy you’ve probably never heard of me, and you probably wouldn’t dig it even if you had.
Oh, I’m totally switching to a Pokémon themed name and gravatar come Monday. I would have done it earlier, but didn’t want to be mean to the spoiler free people.
So, heads up @powalen @greenius – better make sure you get playing asap! 🙂
RAICHU IS MINE.
I know right? CHANSEY!
???
It’s okay. It’s only slightly creepy preferring to watch your Pokemon have sex than battling with them.
Cool.
DAMN YOU REPLYFAILOPUS!
@beavwa
I don’t even get to watch. I have to leave them with an old couple, go for a walk around the block, and an egg ‘mysteriously’ appears.
… I don’t even know if the Pokémon are involved in the process…
The old couple aren’t the hosts of http://www.pokedexxx.com are they?
Thank god that isn’t a real site.
I wasn’t going to click it just in case
I’m honestly surprised that it’s not. Rule 34’s application should be fairly extensive for something as popular and mainstream as Pokemon.
@freezespreston Pokemon Snap XXX. Look it up. (I saw a version of it spliced into a ‘Nin10d’oh’ clip reel on youtube. I totally don’t go hunting for PokePorn.)
Just… don’t look for fanfics.
I….
Damnit Pow.
Brock from the original Pokemon series watched Pokemon breed and he wasn’t a cree… Uhhhh
Hmmmm
…
How ’bout that weather?
@strange @scree
This came up in my pinterest feed. So much wanties.
Can’t even imagine how much work would go into something like that, each block is something like 9 pieces in 5 different colours 0.0
Sorry, I don’t know how to quilt.
Quilting’s easy!
Except for the Quilting part. The Quilting part is a pain.
To be honest I think that person overcomplicated it. It could be done just as well with less pieces per block, you’d just have to not be afraid of “Y” seams.
I’ve always thought I’d like to make a Tetris quilt one day. If I do, I’ll give it to you. 😀
New Arcade Fire song is mind blowingly good. I love the French parts in particular. So, so good.
I think the new stuff might be their best yet! 😀
Parlez vous Francais?
Zou Bisou Bisou?
Je ne parle pas francais.
(And with this, I have exhausted my knowledge of the French language)
Wee wee surrender cheese! *snort*
Any time I visit a foreign country, I try to make sure I memorize how to say, “I’m sorry, I don’t speak your language,” in their language. If I have time/if it makes sense, also, “The only bit I know how to say is the phrase I just said. And this one, explaining the earlier one.”
I went to the Champs-Élysées while in Paris and I can confirm, it is a busy street.
Did you go the Mickey D’s near the Arc de Triomphe? That’s the thing to do in Paris! So romantic!
No but we did spend 20 minutes watching a drunk guy attempt to ride his bike across the round-about around the Arc. Was quite entertaining.
Ah, Paris!
SPEAK AMERICAN!
Listened to this in the car this morning. Australian music high five!
FRIGGIN FINALLY
Also: BOWIE
@powalen
http://m.fanfiction.net/s/7174705/1/Lost-in-Pinwheel-Forest
I think I’m happier not knowing what a Conkledurr is.
O.O
…
GET ME THE EYE BLEACH, SOMEONE ELSE BASH MY HEAD IN WITH A BLUNT METAL OBJECT, STAT!
http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/conkeldurr.jpg
Enjoy.
I don’t even want to know what he’s going to use those concrete blocks for.
http://i.imgur.com/zYacejD.jpg
And then!?
and then you make Karl read an excerpt on the next Zeitgeist.
Yes.
Yes.
;_;
Stupid but potentially brilliant game idea that I probably stole from somewhere else accidentally but that I thought up while walking around today:
Okay, so the game’s like, there was a prophet, and they foretold evil, blah blah blah, someone has to defeat evil, blah. Big quest, blah. Dungeons and blah. So on and so forth.
But you play as the prophet, and have to design the dungeons to leave clues or powers for the hero brosephine. So you have to like, make them the right difficulty. Too easy and the bad guys will find and complete them and get the clues and evil will reign forever. Too hard and your frankly idiotic hero will fail. Maybe have some control over the hero but they more or less just run through the dungeon like an idiot, face tanking things and doing whatever.
I was also thinking like, you could make a super duper easy dungeon, in which case whatever clue thingy was in there would be found like way into the past from the future perspective, and so it would become folklore and what not. Probably make it a balancing act, like if evil gets x number of clues then they win, maybe include some randomisation or rogue-like elements to how it all works to keep it interesting.
Ok. I think I’ve been reading the Molydeux twitter page too much. Blaghs Away! *Throws down a smoke bomb, waddles off*
That’s actually a pretty cool idea, though it definitely sounds Molynesque.
Also, I laughed far too much at the imagery of you waddling through a smoke bomb 😀
The worst part is that the smoke dissipates before I’m finished, so you get to see me waddle off around the corner, with a faintly mumbled show-tune greeting your ears.
Kinda stealing off your idea. But what if for a game the player is the evil/bad person’s right hand man/women.
Throughout the game the player has to guide the hero/good guy to the bad guy/your boss for some reason. The player can either be directly involved with the hero’s quest (join his group of adventurers) or can plant clues, create false prophesies, start rumours that will guide the hero through the game.
All you’ve done with this comment is remind me of the Mistborn Trilogy. Man, how good were those books?
So good, is the answer. So good.
… Yes
…?
Good enough!
I’d never thought about magic in that very specific way before
10/10 would play
Also, Molydeux account is consistently amazing.
There was a game on Kongregate with a similar setup. Essentially, there were a number of days until a dragon attack, and you had to train the local bumbling heroes with the dungeons under the castle and hope they could beat the dragon. Dungeons too hard and they’d die and you’d have to recruit a new level uno weakling, too easy and the dragon would have them for Scooby Snacks.
Dangnabbit. Why do other people have to steal my ideas before I have them? Still, that sounds interesting, I’d look into it, but I’d just get jealous, and I am so very lazy.
And then I had to find it. Easy because it was made by Nerdook, whom I adore.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/dungeon-developer
Sounds a bit like Molyneux’s own Dungeon Keeper, except you’re not an evil overlord.
Dear TAY,
I leave for 7 hours and I came back to Pokemon fanfic.
What the hell man?
Regards,
Cake
SMARTPHONE GET.
Now my phone knows things so I don’t have to think any more.
I won’t be needing this anymore! *throws brain out of window*
I threw Brian out the window when I finally upgraded to a smartphone. It probably wasn’t the politest thing to do since he was just making sure that I was happy with my purchase. :/
Don’t worry. Your old phone will still be operational when you come crawling back to it. >:|
Despite what people say, I managed to break my Nokia 3310, miraculously, in the same week that my sister did the same to hers.
If I remember correctly she broke hers by falling over while playing a game of hide and seek, or maybe “tag.” Something along those lines.
I broke mine by falling over while doing some sort of Tech Crew related drama thing.
There are two morals to this story. Firstly, those archaic bricks ain’t nearly as tough as people seem to think. Secondly, being stupidly unco runs in my family.
Man, we should play hide and seek sometime.
That’d be sweet.
You bring the vaseline, I’ll bring the things to trip on.
…Proof that you just can’t manufacture ‘Coffee Sleeve Quotes of TAY(tm)’ quotes.
My 3315 went through the wash one day and only sort of worked after that. I think that’s a better outcome than I expected though.
Also how did you manage that? I dropped my 3200 so many times or fell on it and it never suffered..
I’m a little fuzzy on the details, as this was many years ago, but I do believe I tripped at the top of a small set of stairs, smashed something on the metal handrail, and then hit the ground. So either I got some serious air and my pocket & phone hit the rail (entirely possible), or I landed on it after my very brief attempt at flying, crushing it on the concrete below.
Or possibly even both. I don’t know. I am super duper unco.
Well shit, that will do it..
Dear Tay
It’s letter writing page seven. As chief TAY-gimmick monger this week, I’d like to inform you that you can, like, skip this one if you really want.
Of course, I may berate you mercilessly if you do.Yours sincerely
Red Right Hand
So UTAS want all current computing students to have their enrolments for next year in next week. What have they given us to work with? A list of the old units and the unit codes of the “recommended” replacements. No names, no descriptions, just the unit codes. Then for the optional electives it doesn’t say anything, just “options”. How on earth is the ICT department so fucking hopeless? Seriously? There’s no possible way to work out what I’m meant to be doing when the only thing listed on the form is “options”!
And I cannot believe how much of an entitled bitchy little whiny princess this other housemate of mine is. She knows full well I have allergies, she knows I can’t go back home for the sole reason of being a complete mess around my dogs, she knows that my overall heath is getting worse right now, yet she still won’t let up about getting a pet (She knew all of this before we signed the lease). She says she’ll only keep it in her room and gets upset when anyone tells her an animal can’t live in a single room, and thinks the rest of us are ganging on up her purely for the fact that they’d also like to put my health first before her wants. God she pisses me off. Find something else to cuddle instead. And not me. A pillow or something.
She could get a snake.
…
…
Look, you all see where this is going.
Stand your ground. If she knew this before signing the lease then she can’t force anything on you.
If she brings an animal into the house she’s getting kicked out. We’re all very firm on that. It’ll probably take a while, but once everything’s settled down and our lives aren’t so hectic I’m sure we’ll all start to get along a bit better and she’ll be a bit more understanding of where I’m coming from. At the moment though as far as I’m concerned I’m over caring about her and if I have to be harsh to the point where she gets upset then I don’t mind.
Has anyone else had trouble finding other people in GTA Online? I always seem to get put into sessions by myself, and have to try finding a new session multiple times before I get stuck in one that actually has people in it. Further, both quick jobs and choosing jobs through the start menu never puts me in a lobby with other people. Instead I find myself in a lobby by myself with myself as the host (and I don’t really want to host because my internets not the best). Even though I’ve played quite a bit, it’s taking me ages to level up and make money just because I can’t find anyone to do anything with.
I’m usually in a group of randoms until I start a job then I just invite from crews and friends, seeing as everyone seems to be playing, and it usually fills up.
Which crew are you on?
I’m on the KotakuAU one and I’ll usually end up with chums from here.
EDIT: This is all PS3.
I’m KotakuAU and PS3 as well. Maybe I’m just having some bad luck.
@greenius @sughly @powalen
Survivor stuffs.
Bwahahahahahahaaaa! So funny.Also can’t believe nobody thought about what would happen if Monica took his spot and he went to the other team. 😛Also also, Caleb looks like he’s going to be a doofus and get himself voted off next by strutting around like he’s king of all.I 100% agree with that first spoiler tag! haha So good.
Next episode will be interesting! I reckon he’ll let Monica take his spot (that does mean he goes to the other tribe, right? Not back to his original?) either way, funny! I was hoping Candace would punch him or something when he got to Redemption Island hahaEh but if he goes to the other tribe, he’ll be gone first vote. I dont think he’d stand a chance there, and his wife is in a good spot. It’d be way dumb for her to do that. But bahhhh that was so good! I was yelling at the girls for not speaking up at tribal though, I think they got lucky. As soon as Caleb said he was voting for Brad, and especially when Brad made it clear he was voting for Ciera, the girls should have both just said ‘ok me too’, and made it clear to the remaining guys that they either vote Brad or go to a tie. Luckily it went that way anyhoo. Hope this means a restructuring of the alliance there, Caleb and the 2 girls have majority nowI’m so hyped for tomorrow. I have no plans other than play Pokemon all day. I promised Masha I wouldn’t post long, gushing comments about it outside of spoiler tags so he didn’t have to read them 😛
I’m back to considering Y version at the moment though… But X… I think this is the first time I’ve ever not been able to decide which version to get. Maybe I should just drop this whole decision and get both versions 😛
I’m sad because I have rellies dropping by. *Sigh* Don’t they know to time these things so that I don’t have a new game (oh, who am I kidding, I’ll just sit in my room all day anyway).
I have to work until midday /o\
Thats 3 hours of potential pokemanning that I wil NEVER get back 🙁
I read that as “Monday” and almost cried for you.
If I had to wait until Monday I would be crying
I know absolutely nothing so all I can tell you is that the bird thing looks like it has a massive hand where its dick should be so I would instead go for the Deer that had a bad run-in with a set of christmas tree lights.
I finally decided I’ll use X as my main cartridge after I remember that they’ll probably still use cart+3DS as a single identified “unit” for online trades and battles.
🙂
The missing part from one of the figures I got last month is going to be replaced by the manufacturer. \o/
The Witcher is free at GOG.com … kinda. If you buy anything from GoG you will be given a free copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. Such a brilliant game, everyone should play it.
http://www.gog.com/news/special_promo_get_the_witcher_free_with_any_purchase
Despite everything I’m getting kind of tempted to pick up Pokemon 🙁
One of us…
One of us…
If I’m remembering correctly, you’ve not played one before – or did, but just didn’t dig it?
My advice would be to wait 2-3 weeks and see if the feeling is still there. That last 24 hours is where hype has built to critical mass, and it would be easy to get caught up in it.
This is good advice.
I haven’t ever played one properly. I played maybe 15 minutes of one of I think the GBA ones on DS using a naughty card and didn’t really like it much, but it was probably not a good way to experience it.
Depending on how @scree’s meat tomorrow goes I may end up caving to peer pressure though.
(@scree you should probably post the details again since it’s a New TAY etc)
Do I have to? I am sick =(
Don’t let a few days of hype be the only reason you get it.
My hype only kicked into overdrive when that anime invoked about 15 years of nostalgia.
Had a really nice walk this afternoon. Walked for about an hour and a half, mostly with a mate. He said he didn’t even have to slow down so I could keep up with him, which is a sign I am getting fitter, even if I’m not losing heaps of weight.
All packed up and ready to go away for the weekend. It’s way easier when you know it’s only 15 minutes back to the house if you forget anything. 😛
Also, apparently Mr. Strange’s work is paying for us to have a nice (late) Anniversary dinner tonight due to some good thing or other he did at work. \o/
when I do good at work, I get an email saying thanks. 😐
I was reading through a street date breaking article from 2011, when I ran into this massive reply thread. Ah memories (and that’s just lurker memories)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/10/why-street-date-breaks-are-bad-for-the-games-industry-as-a-whole/comment-page-1/#comment-418824
@chuloopa @lambomann007
Did I miss anything?
I would recommend staying away from the bottom of page 6. There is some pretty disturbing pokemon fan-fiction back there *shudders*.
WHY!?!?! I had almost purged that from my memory, and you had to go and bring it up again *shakes fist*
I was trying to warn the man so he didn’t have to go through the trauma the rest of us suffered!
If we had to suffer, he can suffer along side us. Besides, he’s already crazy. What harm could it do?
It could make him EXTRA crazy! That was some pretty disturbing stuff after all! I don’t think a person who is already crazy would be able to cope with the trauma!
Dear LionDied
Maybe @crazyguy1990… is the sanest of us all?
Nope, scratch that, he’s wearing food as clothes. He’s bananas.
Your Pal
Red.
Actually, I’ve got my dick in a bowl of cashews.
Why?
Because I’m fucking nuts!
XD
Page 6 is over 😛
Dear Red Right Hand
I think I missed the gimmick of Page 7, I promise to do better next time! My deepest condolences for any harm or grief that I may have caused.
Yours truly
LionDied.
PS.
Are there any other gimmicks that I should be aware of for future reference?
Dear @liondrive
The main ones are Dad Joke Page six and letter writing page seven, though the popularity of the two wane.
There are a number of other TAY in-jokes (you may have noticed a couple, such as Shakespearean Tragedy or @dc hats buildings) but those you’ll pick up through osmosis.
Occasionally there is also a half hearted attempt at sexy page 18.
Keeping the old traditions strong
Red.
Not the longest I’ve seen. And appropriate considering its letter writing page 7 – http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-7/#comment-473692
@blaghman @scree @bish @lambomann007
But I pressed reply /o\
Gragh…
@beavwa
Yo wassup.
:’) Ah the good old days.
@scree: so I may or may not make it tomorrow, it will depend entirely on whether I can find a servo in range that has decent petrol. My car’s unfortunately designed to run on 98 octane and anything below 95 will void the warranty. There’s apparently some kind of shortage at the moment because of changes to truck safety laws causing a lot of the tankers to be off the roads.
What kind of car do you have? I can’t think of many other than supercars which need 98 RON petrol 😛
they’ll never know if you do it once. evidence only builds up with continuous use.
Interesting, just found a fan edit that cuts apart episodes 25 and 26 of Evangelion and the End of Evangelion movie, arranges the scenes in chronological order and splices everything back together so that everything lines up. Going to have to watch this at some point.
I’m one of those terrible people who has only seen Rebuild of Evangelion (1.11 and 2.22), but not Neon Genesis.
You should fix that.
There’s strong circumstantial evidence to suggest that Rebuild actually occurs after End of EvangelionSo I’ve stayed away from most of the Pokemon X/Y info that has been released over the last few days. But I couldn’t hold out any longer, so I’ve check out the full pokedex and decided on a couple of teams that I’m planning on using through the game. But since I can’t choose between tham, you get to help 🙂
I only want to use new pokemon the first time through, then I’ll think about mixing in the old ones. So all of these are new releases – Obvious spoilers are obvious (I’m looking at you @powalen, @greenius, best stay away).
Team 1
Delphox – Fire/Psychic starterAegislash – Steel/Ghost
Dragalge – Poison/Dragon
Auroros – Ice/Rock
Hawlucha – Fighting/Flying
Trevenant – Grass/Ghost
Or team 2
Chesnaught – Grass/FightingNoivern – Dragon/Flying
Malamar – Psychic/Dark
Barbaracle – Water/Rock
Heliolisk – Normal/Electric
Sylveon – Fairy
I try to avoid doubling up on types in my teams, so you can also feel free to mix and match if you think it’ll work
I vote for Team 2! (I didn’t look at them, I’ve just got a good feeling)
They both seem like good teams, though i would probably go with team 1, purely because that has the pokemon that more appeal to me!
My team so far is:
Greninja – Water/Dark
Aegislash – Ghost/Steel
Tyrantrum – Rock/Dragon
Hawlucha – Flying/Fighting
Avalugg – Ice
Dedenne – Electric/Fairy
I’m not to convinced with Dedenne or Avalugg though, I’m a little disappointed in the lack of electric types. I was kinda hoping for an electric/fighting.
Yeah I’m leaning towards team 1 as well. I see we agree on a couple of pokemon. High five o/
Although I have to say, while I admit Tyrantrum looks badass, but I am definitely on Team Aurorus when it comes to the fossils\o
I’m purely team Tyrantrum because i always have to have a dragon type on my team, and i wasn’t really impressed with any of the other dragons. I really like Dragalge’s type, it is pretty much my favourite type combination out of all the introduced pokemon, i’m just not sold on his design unfortunately, haha.The only thing i noticed about your team 1 is that there are four pokemon that are gonna get hit hard by ground type.
Thats true, but in game its not such a big deal.
Team 1. The only difference between that and the team I will probably use is my choice of starter.
Who are you going to choose as your starter?
The grumpier I get with my girls the more hilarious they find it.
I’m doomed when they get older.
You need to get yourself a son! You’re out numbered as it is! XD
I’m not as crazy as @shane.
Just hand it over to the wife, she knows how to handle those kids of yours.
Ah spewing. I missed out on that whole EB games kerfuffle in Rundle Mall earlier today. Apparently they were selling X and Y for a bit. Damn, I could have been playing it tonight.
Kitty is missing… :S
Aw man, I’m sorry to hear that. 🙁 Hope the little urchin turns up. Last year my cat ran away for a week and turned up fine and healthy and alright. Cats like their adventures!
its not like her to be gone this long… and if they’re out, they ALWAYS run back inside when we call them… ive been walking back and forth between the front and backyard, and gone for walks around the block for hours now… somethings not right :/
Aw, thinking of you guys, my friend. Hope everything ends up okay.
Hate when pets go missing. Hope she turns up soon. :/
My kitty is MIA which is probably because I whacked her since she knocked over my eldest’s snowglobe collection and smashed them all which I’m currently cleaning up.
Kind of upsetting since it’s been six years of collecting them every time we went away and the damned cat just smashed them all in seconds.
God I hate cats.
Jesus man =/ Damn cats. Thank fuck ours only knock over shit outside.
Dear @DC
I was about to launch into a discussion about radio stations in GTA V before I left on Saturday. You suggested a TAY post and now I’ve finally got to the point of writing something about it.
I had just started referencing Brütal Legend – I really liked the way in which it offered a selection of tracks at the start of the game, but you would unlock extras by meeting certain milestones or side objectives, possibly finding them in the world (I seem to recall this, but I have my doubts), and most importantly, there were a few tracks that were tied to specific missions, or moments in the game. I think the best example was having Through the Fire and Flames by DragonForce playing as the soundtrack to your escape from General Lionwhyte’s stronghold – it fit that mission really quite well, and it was the first time you heard the song in the game. Successfully completing the mission adds the song to your list of tracks, and whenever it played afterwards I was reminded of that mission.
Slight “spoilers” for GTA V final mission (not really, names have been omitted or obfuscated, but whatevers, it’s easy to spoiler it just in case):
I went with option C at the end of GTA V; after the three dump whatshisname’s car into the ocean, you get one last mission objective to drive back home. It’s nice, because you get this kind of “relaxed” driving mission – there’s not really a sense of urgency, you’re not doing this for anyone but yourself now – and as you start the car, Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger starts playing. At least, it did for me. I really hope it was scripted, because it might have been my favourite moment in the game. Somehow that song just fit that particular drive so well. But it’s not a hidden track, that song just plays as part of the Rock radio station. If that had been the first time that song played, and then from then on it was always a part of the radio stations rotation post-story, I think that would have just made it even better.That got me thinking – how cool would it be if each character or a few of the bigger heists/missions had their own “theme song”*? I had thought that Little Green Bag by George Baker Selection would have been perfect to have played during the first heist. Then continuing with the Tarantino soundtrack theme, if there had been a radio to the side during “that mission” that started playing Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel.
The games have always aped at an updating radio station through “news breaks” that go to air after most major missions, where your most recent escapades are summarised in a bulletin, and I think you could essentially roll all these together and get something that works.
At the start of the game, each radio station starts with a selection of songs, and certain milestones add new tracks into the mix. I also think that you could also go for hiding “CDs” around the map – like hidden packages – even the CDs seem a little archaic, but who listens to radio? I just think that they could have made some of the larger missions/heists just really stick out as “memorable gaming moments” by associating a particular track with it.
*So I realise that each character was effectively given their own theme song through the individual trailers, but I don’t think I ever really noticed them linked other than that the default radio station in their personal cars was set to the station that included “their” song in the mix. I also got to thinking that Michael, at least, could have done with an even better theme song than Radio Ga Ga; I eventually settled on Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads.
I started putting together a kind of “wishlist” soundtrack in Spotify, but it’s a bit all over the place.
Anyway, that’s what I thought about that.
Regards,
Mawt
P.S. Also tagging @redartifice, since I think we discussed this briefly via Twitter.
P.P.S Hoping this is still Letter-Writing page 7 – it was when I started.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band occurred for me also.
Stuck in the Middle With You would have been appropriate for that other bit.
I only watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time a week ago. Good movie.
Dear Mawt
Saints Row 3 did this really well too- it played Holding out for a Hero at just the right time.
I also think Trevor’s theme would be something really unpleasant like Einsturzende Neubauten.
Yours
Red.
I think when you first hop into cars after certain missions the radio does get set to some tracks. Like as Trevor, when you…
…get done dropping off Patricia back to her home and husband, the SADDEST SONG is playing on the radio. I’m pretty sure it was scripted because Trevor doesn’t normally listen to that station.So does anyone want to go see Videogames Unplugged: Symphony of legends with me?
@dc you love videogame soundtracks like Bioshock right?
@Strange is going and @sughly seemed interested!
If you guys go we should all have a dinner before or after!
For those not attending midnight launches tonight for Pokemon X/Y, be aware that Big W has them for $44 and they open their doors at 8am tomorrow.
Gotta catch ’em all!
I’ll be hitting up my Big W as soon as I get off work. They better still have copies left. Otherwise, EB Pricematch it is 😀 If they are sold out, you may hear reports of a grown man in the foetal position in a game store.
I blame dem vidya gaems
Wao, Europe’s PS+ games coming in on 23 October:
– Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
– Remember Me
I love PS+.
It’s one of the reasons I’m holding off on buying a PS4 early. Finishing my PS3 PS+ games and also waiting for the PS4 PS+ catalogue to grow.
They’re diving straight in with PS+. Resogun (the Defender-style game by Housemarque, the Super Stardust guys) which I’ve heard being described as the most visually impressive launch game is free on PS+ at launch I think. Also some kind of cut down version of Drive Club.
With the PS4 releasing soon I hope PS+ gets crazier for PS3 games. Just release most of the bigger older games as people move to the next gen.
Also since it’s the first time we have digital storefronts for both major consoles during a hardware transition, I’m wishing for crazy sales on previous gen games to celebrate the PS4 launch. You know? 75% -90% off sales on all PS3 games on PSN. Something like that would be great.
I’m hoping for The Last of Us in December. I want to try it but I don’t think I’ll like it so getting it on PS+ would be rad.
That would be very cool, but I doubt it’ll happen quite yet- given the Last of Us was a “system seller” for PS3, I don’t think they’ll want to counter-program it against the PS4. I reckon it’ll be a couple months into 2014 at the earliest.
Would you like a copy of it? I’ve finished it once and have no drive to re-play games, so it’s yours if you want it!
Wow
You don’t even need a subscription to Blaghman +
Take the deal @negativezero
Blaghman + is a pretty shitty deal, to be honest. All it really gives you is a bunch of background themes that are me topless, and nobody sane wants that.
Heh. @ynefel.
RULES OF NATUREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Well, I’m off to watch Pokemon: The Origin. If I don’t post tomorrow morning, I’ve likely exploded from mega-hype.
Drive slowly to the shops tomorrow 😛
Toying with the idea of ordering a Pebble. Anyone actually have one?
They’re good for skimming along the water.
I think Pez has one!
Wow. New episode of South Park was tasteless even for their standards.
That’s what I thought. I’ve never, ever, been one to get caught up in the morals of a joke or comedy, but this just didn’t feel like either of them. It just felt awful and I have no idea what to think about it :S The show has gone from being funny to just being way overdone political commentary.
Edit: I did like the Tesla bit though. Although at the same time I hated it because it was just a gag that felt like it was thrown in for the sake of it, and I distinctly remember them saying once that they don’t do gags because they’re immature or something.
I was just shaking my head at most of it but when
Cartman shot Token it kind of felt off.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin
Also, I think it highlighted and critiqued the “Stand Your Ground” law quite well.
I got it. Just think they handled it pretty poorly.
First time I’ve ever taken issue with South Park. Usually they’re a lot smarter than that.
I 100% got it, I’m just with Freeze on this. It wasn’t a smart episode and it’s also the first time I’ve ever taken issue with the show as well.
I understand what kind of character Cartman is, but everything was just taken way further than it needed to be taken to be a good episode.
I thought I should add that I probably would have been fine with it if it felt like it was trying to work things in to a joke or some kind of weird/convoluted Cartman style storyline, but it didn’t feel like that either. Just pure political commentary.
It was a bit of a let down because I really liked the first two episodes. The random Shitter comments from Alec Baldwin through the first episode had me in stitches.
Also the second episode had Randy as the central character and he is the greatest character in that show. Never not hilarious.
Finished Wind Wa
nker!Honestly, I didn’t really like the last 2 dungeons, which is a shame, because I loved everything before them. Definitely worth my time, but the frustration at the end stops it from overtaking TP as my favourite Zelda. A really good HD remake, in terms of HD remakes, as well. A step down from the Halo:CE redo, but only slightly, thanks to the gameplay improvements.
TP has the best final boss fight of any of them IMO.
One-on-one straight up sword duel with no stupid gimmicks or anything. Just Link and Ganon settling their differences the old-fashioned way. Felt badass.I am yet to finish both WW and TP, however I personally think that the final dungeon in Skyward Sword was pretty awesome.
Jesus Christ I completely agree with you *insert shocked face* :P. Out of the games I’ve finished, the final fights are TP > OoT (the Tennis fight is a classic, if frustrating because I didn’t realise I needed to use light arrows) > WW > SS (Screw this guy, I only beat him by using the half damage potion and that was with the friggin’ Hylian shield).
That said, the finisher of Wind Waker is by far the best. So very brutal.
IN THE FACE!!!!!I remember at the time thinking that Wind Waker’s final battle felt incredibly cool, almost as though I was actually playing against another person. It never seemed quite the same on subsequent times, but that first time… holy hell it was incredible. And yes, especially that brutal finish.
Hmm, my local Big W opens at 8:30 tomorrow. I start work at 9. Is it worth going early, buying my pokemanz, and then have to work, knowing its just sitting out the back teasing me? Or should I just wait until I finish work, then go and get it…
Argh, I don’t like decisions!!
I vote get it beforehand – you won’t have to spend time going from retailer to retailer if one of them is sold out, you can just finish work and go straight home and start playing.
This is true. And I’m only at work for 3 hours. It’ll be a very long 3 hours though. With it sitting there teasing…. mocking me
The emails I’m getting from EB are saying that they’re opening at 8am tomorrow.
Country town though. Fairly sure mine will be 9 just like every other morning :-/
http://pokemonaustralia.com/australian-pokemon-x-and-y-midnight-launches-and-early-openings/
You’re on the list! \o/
:O Ok awesome. I now have two options \o/
even horrible Perth EB’s are opening at 8 tomorrow, which is great for me as i’ve got work at 9 😀
Shane
Masha
MASHANE
Ma Shane – Shane, I am your mother *breathing noise*
Back off. @shane is mine.
If you kill me I’ll haunt your pebble watch!
I just watched someone start playing the new Pokemanz… I want it. I want it now.
Hm. This afternoon I ended up straggling out of school, and shortly after I did the remainder of the filmies came out too – including two mentioned in a previous “omg too many girls” post. The super chatty (/crazy) one and the super shy one. There was some brief initial chat, mainly thanks to the former, then I was mostly just walking alongside them while chatty was buzzing away with another filmie. Eventually some shuffling to let other pedestrians pass led to me walking alongside the shy one, both in total silence until a meeting of gazes turned into an awkward hi/how are you. I’ve been out of sorts all day, thanks to a lack of sleep, and retardedly said so. She asked if I was going to the pub, and I responded (retardedly, again) saying I wasn’t sure, and that I was just kind of following everyone else. The chatty one has been down there a few times, though always runs off not long after getting there. Shy one though, I’ve only seen her briefly appear once a long time ago. I asked if she was going, and she also said she wasn’t sure. From there, awkward silence returned to take over. At least until a ways further down the road, when Chatty started talking with us again, so I started to relax a bit and say more.
So we all ended up down at the pub. And I used my time waiting in line for the bar to fire off a panic message to my friend to tell her of the predicament I was in 😛 Eventually ended up outside with everyone else, kind of all crammed around a table waiting for a better spot to open up. I was standing with Shy and one of the idiot artists that I don’t like at all and ugh. Stuck in a conversation with him. During which Shy Girl decided to flee over to the other side, kind of standing there on her own. Then there was great movement, as a large table got claimed by some of the group. They were mostly on the near side though, with the far side against the wall empty. Save for one spot up the end, taken by the school admin/receptionist lady. And the spot next to her, taken by Shy Girl. Even though I made my way around fairly slowly, no one had sat down on the other side yet so I ended up seated in the spot next to her. Do do do, awkward silence once more, just sitting there chipping away at my drink. By this point she got out her sketchbook and was continuing with a drawing she was doing at lunch. I just sat there watching the magic happen, occasionally replying to my friend’s messages and firing more panic back at her. I noticed on the page she was drawing on that she had “GHOTI = FISH” written there. Woo, an opening 😛 I commented that I’d never seen it as GHOTI before, only ever PHOTI. Which led to talking about languages, and me asking about her background (though in a super stupid shitty way, god damn useless brain) and finding out that her mum is American and she was born over there, though has lived here basically her whole life yet has managed to keep most of her accent.
Conversation died down again, and she went back to drawing. Also drinking – she’d started out with just the glass of cider, but admin lady got her a rum and coke too. One of the teachers got her to do a caricature of another of the teachers up the other end. It was pretty funny, but she wasn’t too happy with it when it was done. Something or other got her flicking through the rest of the things in her book. She’s really really good, most of it sketches and line drawings, along with a a few brush-drawn things. I think I kind of awkwardly complimented her, or at least tried to. She is pretty amazing, but she made some comment, like “I’ve got a long way to go”. Back to drawing again, and this time it was of some kind of character face-down on a table. Head kind of leaking onto it, a few little glowy spark things floating around. Apparently she wasn’t feeling too good, having now finished a second cider on top of the rest and it had all gone to her head. Said that she was a bit of a lightweight, and doesn’t really drink that often. Admin lady asked if she was ok, and took her off to get a taxi home.
And that was my evening of awkward. Though mind you it only took place over the course of maybe an hour and a half. Now I’m left to ponder over every little piece, in my usual fashion. Though between the events here and the fact that despite usually being highly elusive and only seen in the hallways, she’s started appearing at our table towards the end of lunch a couple of times over the last few weeks, I am starting to wonder if there is reason to be suspicious. The thought does give the tiniest hint of some kind of a confidence boost though 😛
Uh… apologies for the wall of text. Also I don’t even know why that took maybe the last three hours to write/recollect. Even if I was watching TV.
You and your stories! 😀
It’s nice to hear James Spader’s voice on TV again. Kind of reassuring, in a way.
Also can’t help but feel like a knowing smile is warranted at seeing the thinning hair being combated by an all-over buzzcut 😛
Keen to get into The Blacklist, though Spader just doesn’t seem whole without Shatner 😛
Maybe if we’re good they’ll throw in a cameo 😀
I love the Blacklist. It’s a fascinating show.
And while I’m spamming the place up with random thoughts – on the topic of Metroidvania, brought up a page or two ago. That’s not an actual/”official” genre, is it? Unlike “roguelike”.
Fuck I hate that term.
I don’t think it’s official. It’s just a go to term to explain those kinds of games
Anything that describes a game’s gameplay is a genre in my book!
Developers use the term to describe their game so I would say yes it is official. I don’t think you will ever find it in the drop down list of categories, but then again I’ve never seen roguelike in there either. SO it isn’t an ‘official’ genre but it is just as official as roguelike
21 HOURS LEFT TO BACK OUT OF THE STEM KICKSTARTER D:
I probably won’t though. Especially having just watched this video on how they’re improving over the Hydra. Pretty cool stuff. Also I love the guy’s accent.
How the hell is it I can be so exhausted from running on minimal sleep and feel like doing nothing but going to bed once I get home… and yet manage to stay up til stupid o’clock anyway. Me is an idiot.
*twiddles thumbs until I can buy pokemon tomorrow after work*
… so, uh, fuck you guys. Just sayin’.
Also, I own Civ 5 now. Yaaaaayyy!
Apparently 4 stores in Canada have a midnight launch for Pokeymons!
Man my email from GMG hasn’t come through with my code for Mafia II =(
3DS charged, comfy seat set up, water bottle for hydration, I’M READY!
ps. Pokemon Origin was actually better than I expected (I didn’t really have high expectations, to be honest :P). The anime is SO much better when the Pokemon have proper cries and don’t say their names. I love the use of the in-game music too, I’d forgotten how much I liked the Rivals Theme. The battles were spectacularly animated too. Really hype-inducing!
I really liked it too! Even if it was weird that Red was Naruto.
Wait… Red talks? Thats not right, haven’t these people played Gold/Silver? Canon is ruined…RUINED!!!!
Ok I’m off to work/getting pokemons. I may drop by periodically but if you don’t hear from me, assume that I exploded from the uncontainable awesome
@scree @other melbourne TAYbies: I’ve picked up a cold and feel terrible, not going to make it to the meat. 🙁
Is cold code for Pokemon?
I’m the only person that isn’t interested in Pokemon apparently.
That would explain why you feel terrible for picking it up. 😛
Get better soon!
Holy fuck. Seriously, I just got an email for a petition to save the Kangaroo’s from being culled, so you know, they can continue to eat their food sources which now (being so dry) would be diminishing and given all the rain we had end of last year and start of this year it would’ve provided lush food sources for them so they bred, and now there will be too many of them to be properly supported by the ecosystem and they will be driven to graze farmland (crops etc) or they will starve from hunger. Yeah lets do that to them, rather then be humane and not let them suffer starvation.
Kangaroo’s are amazing animals, Wallabies too, but I don’t want to see them suffer like that and struggle to find enough food that’s actually going to keep them alive and healthy. I’d rather see a portion culled off and a smaller portion survive more successfully and not have to destroy farmland or other vegetation just to stay alive and keep their herds well fed.
Ugh.. Wish people would understand that the “save the animals” thing isn’t always the humane option. Plus it’s not like these kanagroo’s would just be left once shot or whatever. They would be turned into food for animals, and if they’re healthy enough they could be sold to humans.
Depends on the area, but aren’t kangaroos in plague proportions in a lot of places?
In parts of Queensland & The Northern territory this time of year after a good previous summer they usually are. I know out at a mates farm 80kms out of Toowoomba they were having problems with Kangaroos around this time last year, I can only imagine it got worse as summer came and they scored all that rain. But yeah, plague proportions for sure.
Also, if it’s extremely dry with the grasses they like to feed on being dead, the last place to have green grasses they like to eat will be the sides of the road, so they will gather and graze there and that’s a real danger, you never want to hit a kangaroo on a country road doing 100km/h..
In Canberra we have a yearly cull of roos. Every year we kill off a whole bunch of them as humanely as possible, and every year animal rights activists proclaim that they had wild successes in preventing the killings when all they do is agitate the animals. Irks me to no end.
They’re all mindless idiots, they never want to know the truth and think all animals need to live forever no matter what they may do to their environment or if it may endanger themselves..
Heh, reading this post but with humans in place of the kangaroos 😛
Beyond: Two Souls
Last night I got up to the chapter:
(Just chapter name, no spoilers otherwise.)
NavajoHoly damn, that was so damn good. Really compelling chapter.
Legit spoilers here. Only read if you’re up to the chapter above!
Both Homeless and Navajo have assumed the position of new favorite chapters in this game. They were long and open and gave you a variety of things to do. Particularly loved how they felt like standalone moments in Jodie’s life. In some ways they reminded me of chapters of The Walking Dead. Fairly self-contained, but part of a larger arc.
Really liked the feeling of discovering in the Homeless chapter. How she got her scar and the like. It’s awesome to connect pieces of this puzzle together. Appreciated the different approaches to resolving her predicament too. Some really heavy stuff in this one. There might’ve been a manly tear in the ‘ol eye at one point. (When Jodie confessed to Stan she didn’t want him to save her.)
Really interested to see if stuff like turning off the surveillance cameras would change what happened to the extended group. (Would Stan have been arrested otherwise, etc.) Jodie is awesome too. I’ve been playing her as trusting and sincere and I’ve kind of fallen in love with how cool this kid is. Kind of a brotherly, protective thing going on. Haha!
Played the emo Jodie chapter too, which made me laugh. Thought it was a bit over the top at the start with the tantrum in the room but liked the rebellion and misuse of her bond with Aiden.
Navajo was amazing. I liked the fact Jodie could kind of piece together what was going down on her own terms. Was she going to listen to these guys or investigate on her own? I also like how something seemingly unrelated to her arc ended up being so important. Glimpse of other ways Aiden’s kind manifests on our world and the like.
Saying I love this game would be an understatement.
Glad to hear you’re enjoying it man. I’m not reading your spoilers though.
I know how bitterly disappointing 2013 has been for you in terms of gaming until now. 😛
Haha! Good, I’m glad you’re not reading spoilers. Really, really hope you won’t watch streams too.
What’s new, Shane? Any more big life updates? 😀
Hahaha… no.
I’m currently playing through GTA4 thanks to you! 🙂 Cheers! Finally getting around to giving it a go!
Contrast some of my fan boy ramblings with another criticism.
Whenever Jodie sobs in this game, I don’t buy it. So much more effective when a tear runs down her cheek, but kind of awkward and jarring how the game does more intense crying and how it just stops abruptly when you do the slightest thing.There’s a word I’m thinking of but I think you know what it is. 😛
Haha! You know it!
Gold.
I saw a Dark Souls/Witcher 2 boxset in JB yesterday for PC. Seems a weird combination of games to box together!
Interestingly, The Witcher devs have said that Demon’s Souls was an influence on them, with its brutal brutal difficulty! Also, both games involve a lot of rolling around.
Two of the unquestionably best games of the generation together?
I don’t see the problem.
No problem, but where’s the connection between them? Are they even the same publisher? 😛
Namco published both in Australia, I do believe.
…
You and your voice of reason! 😛
I just bought a game at Big W for the first time. Very nerve-wracking (I’m special, shut up). I walked up to the entertainment sectiony thing, sort of awkwardly caught the eye of the guy behind it, and was like “is this the desk thingy for the entertainment… thing..?” And, to his credit, there was only a brief flicker in his eyes showing his pity/disgust for the useless man-child in front of him.
And then I bought both Pokemon X and Y! They were in the desk, right in front of me, and I asked him if they had any copies, and he pointed at them, and I spent the next ten minutes mentally chastising myself, which manifested itself in an inability to speak properly!
As a note to players, make sure you watch every TV you see (Or just keep watching the same one. I dunno, that probably works too). The stuff on them is brilliant.
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/25453
Jane Jensen interview about the HD remake of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.
Adventure games! WOOOO!
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF EDITING THAT OUT? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND AT ALL.
Stop being abrasive! 😛
Your face should stop being abrasive!
aw man that’s pretty rough…
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
at maximum velocity I’m possibly the best
but for now I’ll have to settle for as awesome as the rest
Coworker today: “You’re a cool guy, Saturday, I like your swag”
I just nodded and said “Thanks bro.”
He was, in fact, complimenting the fact that it is Saturday tomorrow, and that he was looking forward to it.
The Wolf Among Us is available to download \o/
Why the hell would you release same day as Pokemon?
What’s this about Pokemon?
I dunno. Some kind of mobile game about Pocket Monsters that some odd balls are interested in.
You probably haven’t heard of it.
I gotta say, the music so far has been fantastic. Really good quality too. Still getting used to the whole 3D models thing though 😛
EDIT: Maybe I should clarify that I’m talking about Pokemon… Though at this point it’s probably assumed.
Yeah I know. The jump from the 2D pages of the Fables comics to 3D models is kind of jarring.
Don’t ever change.
The game’s amazing. I haven’t even got a Pokemon yet and I’m already in love with it.
Playing Wind Waker, but got slightly impatient/annoyed:
Sail three squares north and two squares east, you’ll find what you need there. I comply. OOOOOH, to get here you’ll need to go three squares west and one square south! *quit*
More Journey!
Lost two companions along the way today. I called the second one Lopez because I wasn’t sure they were a real person.Red vs Blue References are the best references.
at least i hope it was a RvB reference.Pokemon day, aka the day when I have NFI what anybody’s talking about 😛
Adopt sportsball protocols, replace words when needed.
“See that ludicrous display last night? What was [that trainer] thinking, sending [that pokemon] on that early? Thing about [that trainer] is, they always try and walk it in.”
absolutely flawless deception.
I know nothing about sportsball either 🙁 I’ll never fit in!
Neither do I, that’s why I know the lines in the first place! just say exactly what I typed verbatim and you’re good.
A extreme opinion is to just cover your ears and say “NA NA NA NA EARLIER GENERATIONS ARE BETTER,” that stops all pokemon conversation AND validates your knowledge of all pokemon-related!
I find smiling and nodding my head and going “oh yeah” when someone says something that could sort of deserve a response I guess works well 😛 If anyone ever asks my favourite Pokemon is Charizard cos the only other one I know the name of is Pikachu and that seems like a cop out. (I have no idea what a Charizard is or what one looks like)
A Charizard is the best one. So you are correct in choosing your favorite.
SQUIRTLE IS THE BEST
WRONG
Picture an orange dragon.
You have Charizard, aka The Best Pokemon There Ever Was Or Will Be And Especially Better Than That Loser Blastoise.
Just make up words.
Why would anyone just make up words?
@freezespreston, did you get Wolf Among Us from Telltale’s store?
I did. They gave me a Steam code for the season pass as well.
Good guy Telltale.
They also give a DVD copy at the end of the season! So awesome!
Oh yeah. Forgot about that.
So close to buying the season now, but can’t decide if I wanna wait until they’re all released and play like The Walking Dead. Possibly Christmas sales too. Got so many games to play right now that there’s no rush!
Might be a good game to follow Beyond: Two Souls with, since The Walking Dead was so Heavy Rain-like.
Wait. I’m going to play an adventure game before you?
You’ve changed.
Telltale and I have a troubled history. XD
Bought it. Didn’t give me a Steam pass though. How’d you manage that? Got it from Telltale Store though with DVD post release.
@dc It came in the email I got
Maybe because I preordered it?
@shane.. Season 6 of Sons of Anarchy, oh man every episode just keeps getting better and better. Easily my favourite season, though an hour seems too short per episode =(
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 😛
We’re just about to (re)watch the end of season 4. Will be some time before we take on season 6! We are mega-hype for it, though. This show is even better than I remember it being. So damn good.
But how else will I hype you up for it even more? 😛
So I finally get my hands on GTA V and you all move on to Pokemon. I see how it is.
Some of us are Ellen Page-ing it up!
:'(
But I want to Ellen Page it up!
You know what you have to do, then. $68, Big W. XD
Or just wait a month and get it for $15 in the bargain bin.
Don’t look at me like that. You know its true.
*looks at Freeze like that*
-_-
That’s what I did with TLOU! 🙂
Ugh. My friend is having birthday drinks or whatever tonight. Insists on it being at Star City.
Why the fuck do people always want to go to the freaking casino all the time? They’re the most depressing places on the planet.
Oh, uh, I’ve been to Star City like… twice? Twice.
To see musicals (Legally Blonde and Priscilla, if my memory serves).
Yeah, I’ve been there to see a couple of things too. Slava’s Snow Show and We Will Rock You. Maybe a couple of others.
That was ok though because it meant staying entirely away from the casino portion of it. And also they were pretty rad, especially the latter.
We Will Rock You was wonderful in its stupidity. It knew that you can’t have a good plot in a jukebox musical and it just ran with it.
I proposed to my wife at Star City…
You won her in a bet? D:
Actually I lost the bet.
Freeze bet she would say no. Who won and who lost? 😛
@freezespreston: The Wolf Among Us prologue makes a really strong first impression, definitely stronger start than The Walking Dead at least. Really excited to play this proper now!
Good to hear!
Had to get a head start in me huh? 😛
You questioned my street cred! XD
Damn you @freezespreston and DC, I’ve been trying not to buy games!
Some of the most enjoyable TAY ramblings have revolved around comparing notes with The Walking Dead.
So I watched someone start streaming Pokemon last night, and I had to turn it off. It looked awesome and I realised I wanted to play it myself. Good job Nintendo, you did it again. Make me buy your new handheld by releasing a Pokemon game on it. So this morning, amongst other things I had to get done, I stopped in to my local EB. Lots of people. Couldn’t see any on the shelves. Decided not to spend a butt load of money off the cuff like that. But maybe… I’ll just go into target next door and see if they might have anything. Turns out they did. Game and special Pokemon 3DS XL. Picked both up for only $278. No lines, and I think it was cheaper than EB. Win?
You do know that you shouldn’t say this right? Your lucky I am at home and not going to the shops today. Oh damn it girlfriend wants to go shopping. Must have restraint…….must….
Oh stuff it.
I was THIS close to just leaving after going to EB…
Goddamn real life, stop getting in the way of Pokémon! 🙁
Also just registered all the DS games I have (except one which expired) and got me some stars!
… which can be used… to buy… stuff… ?
Like SHOELACES!
Hope you don’t wear loafers.
The Wolf Among Us, Episode 1 — “Faith”
Here are the choices I made, Walking Dead style.
Only read if you’ve played the game and want to compare notes. Comparing notes. WOOOOO!
— I gave the money to Faith. Seemed pretty important and Bigby had sympathy for her. Decided to play my version of this guy as a man of the people looking out for the vulnerable.
— I didn’t tell Beast about Beauty for the same reason I gave the money to Faith, if Bigby’s going to be looking after these folks as Sheriff they need to be able to trust him. I figured that she’s a grown woman too, married or otherwise — she’s capable of making her own choices. I promised Beauty I wouldn’t tell Beast and told him I wanted to stay out of whatever troubles a-foot in the elevator.
— I made the judgement call to see Prince Lawrence first. The fact there was a knife and blood in the mirror made me think whatever was going down was going down right now. I decided to prioritize. (Felt worried about Toad the entire time, though. Was glad to see he was okay afterwards.)
— I watched the intruder in the apartment until the lastest possible moment and acted when the Prince went for the gun. I prevented his death and successfully chased down Tweedle Dee.
— When Snow asked if I had a suspect, I stayed quiet. I didn’t. I suspect there’s more to this case than is apparent right now and it was way too early to make a judgement call.
— Showed restraint in the bar fight and backed down.
— I arrested Tweedle Dee at the bar. Gut instinct told me he knew more about what was going down than the other guy. Would’ve liked to take ’em both in though.
Whenever I had the opportunity I tried to play Bigby as a good guy.
I’ve got to say, I really enjoyed this episode. I love the tone and atmosphere of the world and feel like it’s perfectly suited for an adventure game. Can’t wait to see what happens next in the case!
One thing I didn’t like was the “Next time on The Wolf Among Us” thing. I get they were trying to be like TV, but I didn’t appreciate the spoilers! *shakes fist*
Walking Dead did that too. I was never enamoured of it, but they never really spoiled anything too important either…
Oh, really? I completely repressed those memories then… or did what I did here… take off my headphones and look away from the screen. XD
You are a special kind of strange 😛
RE Revelations did it too. I think? I can’t actually remember now. Maybe it was only a “Previously, on blahblahblah” thing they did at the start of each episode. Which worked pretty well, considering the handheld format and all.
@strange is good! 😛
How is the game compared to Walking Dead? Still enjoyable if you’ve never heard of the source material?
I thought it was better produced than Walking Dead game play wise. The mechanics felt stronger, the cinematography better… More of a kind of noir crime story with a twist. Don’t expect the same kind of ‘feels’, but definitely a compelling story and crazy interesting world. I’ve never read the Fables comics either. Same kind of elastic story telling as The Walking Dead or Heavy Rain, where you influence the story through the decisions you make.
Also, there’s ‘case files’ that give you a brief run down on characters and their back stories. Really well done for newbies to the Fables world.
That… Actually sounds really good haha
Today was the first day since June 15 that I didn’t play Animal Crossing for any amount of time. Kind of crazy to think about, actually 😛
Pokeymuns!
Spent the first 40 odd minutes poking at the word filter for nicknames. It looked dire for my Pokemon tradition of immature and grossly offensive names now they don’t allow them but I managed to slip past RectalHammer as my own nickname.
Frack and Perineum are both allowable as well.
Smeg is not.
Picked the fox looking fire starter and named it Mozilla.
I’ve put in a bit over 3 hours so far. Got my starter to evolve so I guess I can leave the first patch of grass now.
It looks so purty. Kind of reminds me of how Ni no Kuni looked.
Also have to get up at 4:45 in the morning D:
Worth it for DARK. SOULS.
II.
Oh man. ENJOY IT! 😀
Can’t wait to hear about it.
I’ve just been catching ALL the mons. Got my firey fox to evolve and even got a badge.
I dont know if its a spoiler but when it casts ember now it uses the stick in its tail as like a wand or something! I was impressed. I also lol’d at magikarp in battle…Beyond: Two Souls
Played a few more chapters tonight up to:
(Just chapter name, nothing else spoilery…)
The MissionWhich I still haven’t completed yet.
Legit spoilers up to the chapter mentioned above here.
Don’t read unless you’ve played the game!
Really, really loved the cooking for date night with Jodie. I liked the balance between Jodie and Aiden, how Aiden set the tone in the prelude and then it switched perspectives for the date itself. So, so tempting to mess with Jodie during this section but just staying restrained as Aiden was a challenge in itself. (One that I managed to carry out. Haha!) I figured as riled up as he was, Jodie’s still the most important person in his existence and he wouldn’t want to hurt her.
For what it’s worth, I made the Asian Beef. (One shake of salt, one shake of garlic and two shakes of pepper. Haha! They didn’t throw up after eating, so maybe I did good?) Romantic music. Cool clothes. This was a really fun chapter and I like the balance between completely serious stuff and small character moments like this. Weirdly stressful prioritizing what to do. I cooked first. Set the table. Had shower and got dressed. Then cleaned up apartment. Dates are tough. XD
Loved the late night in the lab chapter too, the connection to The Separation when Jodie’s examining those artifacts. The realization what was happening was pretty sad. :'( Poor Dawkins.
At times the game can be a little heavy handed, but it’s easy to forgive when it’s this good.
Quantic Dream? I love you! :’)
Night.
Night!
Vegemite on toast is never not a good idea.
Man, stop talking about pokemon guys. I want but I can’t afford. >_
You’ll get used to it eventually. I’ve not been able to buy a game for years. The last game I bought was RockBand 3.. Haven’t been able to afford any new games since then. Hell, I can’t even afford to buy food atm :\
Sorry to hear that. If I wasn’t pretty much broke I would offer to help.
It’s all good. I’m not complaining so much. Just trying to make you feel better about missing out 😉
Thanks, but you’ve made me feel bad because I can’t help you =(
dun stress about it.. really. I’ll get by somehow. I always do.
I have been having internet problems all week so I couldn’t post this on Monday after I watched the movie and I wasn’t going to try and type all this on mobile TAY.
My internet is working now, however slowly, so I might as well post this now.
How awesome is Gravity? This powerful forces keeps us all grounded. It’s strength is just perfect enough ensuring we’re not floating everywhere but at the same time not too heavy to adversely affect our mass.
Seriously though, the movie was great.
Movie Spoilers!!!
First major positive outside the movie was the audience. For a movie about space I was expecting that the public nature of a movie would mean that people would ruin the experience with their eating noises and the like but they were great. Except for the one guy who decided to use his phone for a few seconds into the movie but he put it away soon after. People were quiet during the movie’s silent bits and screams and laughs were well timed.Onto the movie:
The movie was really engrossing, my eyes didn’t leave the screen and my hand was even in the cup holder for most of the movie for some reason. Not really tense in a scary way, the movie was just good to watch the whole way through.
The story was good and even though I would have preferred it if Ryan died freezing in the capsule, I was just as happy with the ending they used. The few minutes of footage on earth was just a bit jarring after being in space for so long.
The characters were kind of sparse though, almost unimportant, but I don’t think that detracted from the movie. Gravity to me was about trying to survive the situation and I think It would be harsh if I tried to judge it as a character piece.
Also, I kind of dug Sandra Bullock’s androgynous look. 🙂
Like everyone else has said, the 3D was really well done. Both ways actually, depth-wise and with things popping out of the screen. The two best bits for me were
1. The second Debris explosion when Sandra Bullock reached the ISS. I kept blinking instinctively as pieces of the ship flew towards the screen.
2. The first person sequences – I was talking to my friend afterwards and I just said ‘Videogames don’t even do it that well.’ They just felt great and well realised. You could see the faint glow of the suit readings and the condensation from the characters’ breath.
Another good thing about the movie was the music and how it was used really well. It was clever of the director to use the ‘bwoooa’ effect during the explosions. Completely silent explosions might have been better but I felt like it was a good compromise, cleverly keeping the silence of space but also using loud sounds during explosions which the audience has been trained over the years to expect.
Tried to find a video but I found this instead. Kind of funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b953KzL-BKE
This has been a really good year for movie music actually. I didn’t like Man of Steel but the music was great. Pacific Rim was OK but I really liked the main theme music.
Finally, Gravity?! More like Wall E, am I right? 🙂
When Sandra Bullock was using the fire extinguisher to propel herself that is all that was flashing in my head -Wall E! Wall E! Wall E! I’m sure most people who watched Wall E were thinking that.
I think the lesson here is that one word space movies are good. First Moon and now Gravity 🙂
The movie was my first IMAX experience and it was a good first IMAX movie. The screen was awesomely huge and really helped sell the expansiveness of space. I learnt that the movie was not short for IMAX and thinking back you could tell in some parts especially with the text on the instruments and the shots of earth seemed a bit blurry at times. The expansive space shots were great on the IMAX screen though and the 3D glasses were really big too which meant I didn’t have to keep adjusting them – they fit perfectly over my glasses.
The most disappointing thing for me was the size of the seats -they felt really small compared to normal cinemas even. The cinema was packed and I’m thinking the size is to maximise the money they can get from each individual viewing. I would have still preferred it if the seats were bigger. While I was in Melbourne at PAX I watched Pacific Rim in Hoyts’ V-MAX theatre and it was great – wide leather seats and a big screen as well. That was kind of what I was expecting IMAX to be.
Other than that I think I’ll give IMAX one more go, maybe watching a movie shot with it in mind. There are always great documentaries advertised so maybe I’ll save up and see something in the next few months. My friend was talking highly of some documentaries he had seen when he was in high school.
It was also nice just catching up with said friend and talking for almost 3 hours after the movie just having McDonalds afterwards and walking around Darling Harbour. You know, if possible I think having a movie to watch every month could be a good way to catch up with my friends who are often 2-3hrs away. It’s long enough to have a few new things happen in your life but not too long that it feels like you’ve barely seen each other in ages.
The Wolf Among Us:
More like Property Damage: The Game.Overall, really enjoyed it. Given what little I know of the Fables continuity, this should be interesting.
What choices did you make? I posted mine above!
I did everything the same, but I went for the Woodman at the end. Kind of wish I’d gone to help Toad first, and that I’d gone for Tweedleguy at the end.Wonder how different the Toad scene would’ve played out if you went there first. I liked deducing what went down through the evidence, though. I wonder if Prince Lawrence would’ve been proper dead if you go there second…I’m at work, which is fine because money, but man I just wanna keep playing Pokemon. So good.
Squirtle 4 Lyfe.
@freezespreston, DARK SOULS 2. Write-up please.
Haha. Sorry. I went back to bed once it finished and only just got up again.
Dark Souls 2! \o/
Ye gods that sucked getting up at 4:45am. Especially after Pokemoning until 1am.
Anyway without further ado I picked the Warrior class (something I figured I knew to face the unfamiliar) and ventured forth.
That wasn’t quite what I expected. Still unmistakably Dark Souls but many of the quirks I associated with the game removed. Some changes I liked, some I think I will like given time to flourish in the full game and some I just don’t think I’ll ever particularly like.First thing that I noticed was the animations. Oh my god. The improvement is beyond anything I expected. You’re character moves so smooth and fluidly. Even the bulkily armoured warrior moved with the practiced grace of experience. Every attack links from the previous one in one motion. It really is great to watch and control. The detail in the world is a real step up as well. The ground is no longer one texture just repeated along with the odd tuft of grass. The beta opened up in a forest and the ground covered in grass and rocks, irregularities here and there. Surprising how the small details make the world that little more immersive.Next thing I found was a message. The systems been given a small but important change. You can now write several statements in one message. Ie: [Be wary of ambush ahead. Use caution. Consider dashing through.] Makes the messages have the potential to be far more useful. Or misleading. I left a message at the top of a ladder at a fatal height [Giant enemy waiting on ladder. Try jumping off.] Makes you think twice about it with the threat of a giant enemy :3The enemies seem much more aggressive. The zombies are still just trash but the giant shambling fat things with dual sickles are deceptively fast and don’t let up pressuring you, which is a pain since one blocked swipe takes your entire stamina bar away and the next one is only a second away. There’s also some thieves who do almost no damage but are lightning quick and can attack 2-3 times a second. When encountering several at once it makes it a bit of a challenge.Some minor gripes.
The world felt a little too open. I’ve always associated Dark Souls with being an open dungeon crawl. Everything tinged with a slight feeling of claustrophobia. This one felt a tad directionless. Might not be a bad thing in the entire game sense but it bugged me a bit throughout, perhaps unreasonably. They’ve taken away the jump (or changed how it works? Did see a ledge that looked like I could jump too with an item on it but couldn’t work it out), while not really necessary I missed more than I thought I would. They’ve also taken a step back with the stat screens and used obtuse icons ala Demon’s Souls rather than the plain english of Dark Souls.Major personal gripe.
Started the game and noticed the weapon damage was 484. Thought wow they’ve started us off strong but first encounter with a zombie showed they have about 3000 hp. I hate when they just start throwing big numbers out. Makes them seem almost arbitrary and without impact. Dark Souls you noticed a definite difference between 20 and 50 damage. Dark Souls 2 there’s not a lot between 100-200.Decided to try some different characters.
Sorcerer.
Magic has been nerfed HARD (sorry @trjn). Gave me 20 soul arrows and it took 6 to kill the first zombie. Considering what lay ahead… Yeah.Dual Swordsman
Fast moving and fast attacking he could deal out a lot of damage in a short time. No defence at all. Also took a lot of damage in a short time. I couldn’t quite grasp the play style needed in the short time I had with him. Seems very skill dependent and should be a blast to master.Temple Knight
Oh yeah baby. This is my jam! Heavily armoured, carrying a halberd, crescent axe and miracle bell, this guy is built for heavy melee. And his backstab is glorious. Kicks them behind the knee then two hands the axe overhead and buries it in their skull. Looks awesome and everything is identified as a Dragonrider. I think I found my starting class.Online features
Completely broken. All I got were error messages whenever I tried to summon or be summoned. Didn’t get invaded once and couldn’t invade. Also once I quit and tried a new character all summon signs disappeared completely. So didn’t get to try that. There is a normal White Soapstone and a Small one with the small signs being identified as Shades rather than Phantoms. No idea what that meant as I never got to try. Bloodstains, ghosts and messages worked as usual and with no problems.Overall I loved it and am hype overdrive for March. Cannot wait to get a hold of the full experience and lose myself in the game for another couple of hundred hours.
\o/
@shane @strange @sernobulus
Sounds awesome. I got home around 10am and immediately fired it up on the hopes that it was still going but I just kept getting a message that I wasn’t on the latest version and to quit out and sign in to PSN to download the update, which I then did but there wasn’t any update to download so I just assumed I’d missed all the funs. 🙁
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
I’m totally fine with magic being nerfed. Although it was relatively weak early in DaS anyhow. It was only once you got things like Soul Spear and Dark Bead that it went a little bonkers.Sounds probably good aside from the bit about the big numbers. I dislike that idea.
Hey, just a heads up. News.com.au has spoilers for Breaking Bad’s finale on their front page. (Again, second time in two weeks.) If you needed any more reason to stay away from these guys, here it is!
@dc
Played The Wolf Amongst Us! Time for discussions!
Gave Faith Money – Thought it was the right thing to do– Lied to Beast – Same as above
– Helped Toad – What kind of monster would let a guy with a child possibly die? A super monster! That’s who! MONSTER!
– Stayed silent when Snowwhite asked me who I thought it was
– Didn’t tear off the guy’s arm.
– Stopped Tweedle Dee – He seemed like he knew more then everyone else.
Really liking the game so far, can’t wait for episode 2!
Here’s the choices I made.
Haha! I felt bad about the Toad thing, but I suspected that the Woodsman stuff was a red herring and the fresh trail for the case seemed to lead to Faith’s apartment, especially with the guy and the knife. I am a monster, though. I know. :'(How beautiful was the art direction too. Way prettier than The Walking Dead. Loved the colour palette too with the purples and pinks and bright colours and all that.
Speculation on where the story might go:
With all these decapitations and Ichabod Crane in the cast, any one else suspect the Headless Horseman? 😀 I’m sure there’ll be more to the mystery, but that’s my theory based on the little we’ve got to go on so far. XDYeah! The art direction was amazing. I’m gonna hold judgement on if I like this one or The Walking Dead more until I have played all of The Wolf Amongst Us also;
I figured the Prince was already dead, there was a pool of blood next to a knife. Apparently he wasn’t dead though, stupid Tweedle Dee.Not saying I like this better than Walking Dead. Loved the Walking Dead a whole damn lot, just think this one holds its own and wins on prettiness and the mechanic fronts atleast. XD
What happened when you went to Toad’s place first?Speculation thoughts:
Hard to say, given this one’s less of a Fable, but Faith’s ribbon reminded me a lot of the story of the girl with the ribbon around her neck. In case you’re not familiar, the short version is that the ribbon holds her head on. Of course, it could just be a coincidence, or it could simply be a wink and a nod to the tale, but the old pictures of her don’t have the ribbon, so my first assumption was that something happened more recently, and since Fables are notoriously hard to kill, she lost her head briefly, but was reunited with it.
As such, her murder may have even been less purposeful than implied, with the second death possibly just a copy-cat. Or not. I’m probably overthinking this. I read way too many crappy detective novels when I was young.
Ooooh! That’s a cool theory you’ve got there, especially after the conversation Bigby and Faith have at the start where she asks if he likes her ribbon and he says to tell what happened. Then she’s all like… I’m trying. D: Maybe the money wasn’t for her pimp, maybe the money was some sort of blackmail thing?Really enjoying this crime mystery aspect to the game. Gives a different ‘hook’ to discuss post game than The Walking Dead.
Agreed.
It’s interesting looking at the suspects. We’ve got the Tweedle Dee/Dum combo, who are (I assume) working for the pimp, and they’re clearly trying to work out what happened, there’s Prince guyface, but it’s clearly not him since he’s spent the past week more or less dead, and it’s not the Woodsman. This leaves, what, Ichabod (clearly not him), Beauty and/or The Beast (again, there’s a mystery there, but it ain’t this one), Colin (He’s a pig, Blaghs, how would he do any of this?), and Bluebeard (way way way way way too obvious). So I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that we haven’t met the killer yet (unless they were a background character).Yeah, I agree. I feel like all this stuff is going to be relevant eventually and minor plots will relate to the larger plots, but don’t think we’ve met the killer yet either. This leg work ain’t a waste of time though, cause it slowly but surely chips away at the case. The beauty of this game though is if for whatever reason we guess who the killer is early, it still has great characterizations and atmosphere to keep you playing too. Best crime stories are always about more than the crime!Just a heads-up. @greenius, @novacascade and I all had the same weight loss tweet sent from our accounts early this morning.
Anyone else?
I used to nag my parents to buy me this for approximately AU$50 when I was a kid but they never did. Pfft, parents hey. And now I’m one of them.
I think I had that as a child..
I want this because it’s so glorious..
That’s awesome, I have two of the Hot Wheels 1/64 variants of that.
Ooh, jealous. Yeah I saw that one (which is also Hot Wheels) for 50 bucks at Big W a while back, I should seriously buy it..
I have a spare one of those Hot Wheels Elite batmobiles that you are after, only it’s 1/43 scale not 1/18. Still in the boxing, it’s a beauty. Way more detailed than the 1/64 models. If you wouldn’t mind that, I could send it your way as it is just collecting dust here.
Aw nah, I couldn’t do that. It would only collect dust here as well haha.
Arghh, must resist the lure of Pokemon X! If I buy it I’m not going to get any of my assignments done! But it looks so gooood!
Yeah, I won’t be doing much study for my exams…
Ugh. Only just got up, feel horrible.
Must stop having such terribly late nights.
God dammit all this Pokemon talk is making me consider picking up a copy of Y.
Only $44 plus many hours of your life sacrificed. Bargain.
What if you can’t afford $44?
Wait for a rom copy? 😀 I didn’t really say that.
Evil Benny is evil
They don’t call it TAY Marketing for nothin’
Yeah cause we totally wouldn’t have bought into this whole pokemon thing if not for TAY 😛
We’re the Marketers in this scenario! Where’s my paycheck, Game Freak?
GTA V
That torture scene? Yeah :SIt’s not THAT bad honestly. I think by then though I was like “Yeah Trevor is the lunatic, he does insane shit” tbh at least he wasn’t cutting the dudes fingers or toes off.. Or cutting his tongue out.. Few shows in recent did the cutting someones tongue out thing, I couldn’t handle that, that was just messed up. But the torture scene reminded me of the one at the start of Zero Dark Thirty, it’s basically identical to that scene which is worse imo. I think Rockstar may have drawn inspiration from it..We’re at the same point. I did not handle that mission well.
Put the controller down and wept. Mission accomplished Rockstar (presumably), but now I’m soured on the game.Seriously considering not resuming gameplay.
Solutions I’ve heard:
Drive around obeying road rules and engaging in non-violence. Buy snacks from convenience stores, play tennis, golf, watch a movie, chill out and watch some of the channels on TV, then get up and drive around until you can give people lifts or fight crime by stopping robbers. 🙂
The day I do things in a game that I could just be doing in real life is the day I throw my console out the window and never look back.
Edit: I’m gonna cool down for a couple of days before I make any decisions. Just got to me tonight, that’s all, and right when I was really enjoying it, too.
…Triathlon! (Seriously, people who do THAT in real life are mad bastards. I used to swim with them. Crazy people.)
Edit: If it helps, I think that’s possibly the low point of the game, and there isn’t anything else that should trigger so hard.
Ok, I’ve come to my senses. After seeing others talking more about Pokemon, discussing things like “natures” and soft-resetting to get a better one, and other things like stats and stuff… it reminded me that I had less than no idea what I was doing when I played Red (my “strategy” was to pump them full of rare candy so they would just destroy everything), now there’s a metric fucktonne of new things for me to not understand. No thanks.
Plus, I hate RPGs. All that number crunching and stat balancing, having to have some kind of a strategy to effectively win battles… What was I thinking, even entertaining the notion 😛
No, no, don’t come to your senses, do what I do! I find the biggest move that my Pokemon has, and I use that! I currently have 4 Fire Types on my team, and I plan on increasing that number! Strategy is for noobs!
I remember once getting completely owned by something on… Cinnabar Island, I think, using Fissure on my guys and just destroying them. So then when I found that as a TM, I taught it to my Charizard and just used it on everything. Because it should work that way, right?
The strategy is as deep as you want it to be. You can go through the entire game with just your starter spamming a single move if you really wanted to 😛
Don’t let those of us that are pretty deeply into the metagame give you the wrong idea!
Once you’ve been sucked into the metagame though it is very hard to get out of it, just saying! If I could redo it I would not have gotten into the metagame.
Maybe, but it’s still an RPG. So I’ll get about a third of the way through it, then put it down for some reason or other and won’t return to it until I’ve completely forgotten what I’m supposed to be doing or how to do anything. Then it’ll must seem like too much effort to get back into it again, but also too much to just start over, so it’ll never get touched again.
I’m totally making the smart move here 😛
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness
Challenge: Listen to everything from Level 5 to the end as loud as possible.
😀
I’ll work my way through it, though it should be noted that my tastes in aggressive music begin around the 9-10 mark, using that scale as the yardstick 😛
LOL Anal Cunt.. Always reminds me of the band Anal Blast that Joey Jordison was in before Slipknot.
I’ve heard most bands/artists in every level apart from level 11, never listened to a single one of them. For good reason, it just sounds like guitar, drum & vocal diarrhoea.
You’ve never heard of Gorgasm, Dir En Grey or Meshuggah?
Didn’t see Meshuggah there tbh. But no I haven’t heard of the others simply because I don’t listen to that style of music.. So makes sense I guess..
If you have never listened to them, how do you know they’re “like guitar, drum & vocal diarrhoea”?
Actually I lied. I’ve heard Strapping Young Lad, Anal Cunt and one or two others. They’re exactly what I said.
Remember! Eclecticism is a good thing, and investigating and categorizing subjective terms is a dangerous and annoying act.
It’s the internet, expect subjective and annoying, not my problem if people have an issue with my own opinion which I am happy to state. Just seems pointless getting worked up over what someone else thinks because it doesn’t agree to how you see things.
Interesting.
From the sounds of the descriptions there, I’d only go about as high as an 8.
I was actually surprised to find that some bands I considered “light” were ranking far higher than anticipated.
This is a very interesting thing, thanks for sharing.
The bulk of my taste starts at 7, with the odd song I like in 5 or 6.
Currently working through 8 but I expect to still enjoy 9, maybe a couple of songs from 10.
Also good to see Be’lakor get some love. Such a great band.
The majority of what I listen to would be in levels 6 or 7, seeping in to 8. 8’s probably pushing it a bit for me though!
No I do not want to look after your Berry field. Why give me a choice if I can’t actually decline? Also I kept entering doors whilst trying to read the billboards in Lumiose City.
#firstworldpokemonproblems
Haha, and there’s a Snorlax blocking the way on route 7. That’s gold.
There’s a lot of throwbacks to past games in this! I loved that Santalune forest had the same layout as Viridian Forest.
I lost that fight twice trying to capture it.
Worth it.
THERE’S WEEDS GROWING IN THE BERRY FIELD NOW!
So I think my mum likes my friends (and house) at least. If nothing else she definitely realised who I picked up the kinda excessive swearing from 😛
Before that she wondered if you had been hanging around nurses & sailors?
For most of today, I’ve been mentally preparing a checklist of reasons why I’m loving GTA V.
But then, I just got forced to do a mission (I’m sure those of you who have played it know which mission), and I am seriously doubting I’ll even turn the game on again. Man 🙁
I played a mission today where I thought “nowww I’m glad we have an R18 rating”
Don’t know if I was expecting it or not, for a GTA game.
Yeah. I did not enjoy playing that mission.
Enjoyed reading this piece on it, if only because it was reinforcing my existing opinions. >.>
Yeah, I’ve been reading stuff for the last half hour going on about how fucking brilliant it all was. I’m not feeling it though. Just angry and upset (probably what they were going for). But all I can think of is this quote from a review of THAT scene in Modern Warfare 2.
I’m surprised people found By The Book to be the worst part of the game.. I thought killing Johnny Klebitz by basically curb stomping him and showing The Lost MC his brains on Trevors boot was far worse, it’s even worse if you happen to run over Ashley, Trevor just doesn’t give a shit that he runs over her whilst she is next to Johnny mourning his death. He just shows no remorse for what he did, he doesn’t care he killed someone. At least with By The Book he shows some emotion afterward and doesn’t kill the bloke, even if it was in spite of the FIB..All I saw in that was a mission that was influenced by Zero Dark Thirty, which in the movie the scene was far far worse if you ask me. I guess I just see it as a game, nothing more. I dunno, i’m not desensitised to violence, but that mission didn’t affect me at all, I saw what it was trying to do but torture just seems common to the GTA franchise to me. The random event you come across of a woman about to be raped in Blaine County on the other hand, that just upsets me to no end.These are only spoilers if you haven’t played the mission Shane here is referring to.
The TV ads for Beyond: Two Souls makes it look like a cross between Call of Duty and the Matrix.
There’s going to be so many disappointed people out there.
Hey, atleast they’ll buy the game and ensure Quantic Dream can make more masterpieces! #FanboyGonnaFan
Beyond: Two Souls trivia:
A poster with the games working title can totally be seen in the Mall at the start of Heavy Rain!
Working title relates to plot for Beyond: Two Souls, so spoilers:
Infraworld!That’s awesome 🙂
Next replay of Beyond I’ll be scouring every texture for clues about their next game. XD
I liked how ZombiU did the same thing.
@shane: You gonna get The Wolf Among Us eventually or are you on the fence?
For sure, man. It’s definitely part of my master plan.
What else is on this master plan? Better not be like the Germans! D:
I do intend to take over the world one day, and systematically cull the human race of its morons. But my plan isn’t racially motivated, so it’s okay.
Beyond: Two Souls
Just finished the chapter:
(Chapter name only, no spoilers otherwise.)
NorahLegit spoilers here. Only read if you’ve played the game.
So, so good. Had a serious Terminator 2 vibe going on breaking into that hospital. Really spooky entering into the other patients rooms and having them talk to Aiden.Last week of Uni for the year! Holy poo time has flown by quickly. This is going to be a busy, busy week. Sooo much going on, so many places to be.
All I’m hoping for is that I don’t wake up sick tomorrow morning… I have a habit of getting sick when Oliver gets sick :S
Haha, you guys.
Just FYI the last time we both got sick was before we started hugging and shit 😛 We both just have shitty immune systems but have never taken the whole keeping away from each other thing very seriously 😀
Hey, no judgement!
A true bromance. You guys share everything.
Pretty much 😛
Stop hugging him then 😛
Neverrrr! I don’t think either of us would cope 😛
Hahaha. Well you both may end up with stronger immune systems after 😛
Ugh, Not a particularly good feeling in the stomach at the moment.
🙁
@jimu, @greenius: WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE?
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Wait a minute, you’re not… carry on…
Hi
@Greenius sees all! What about @jimu? *waits*
hi