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Morning all 🙂
Morning 🙂 Been doing next to zero gaming in the last week… a holiday in NZ will do that to you. One mate already broke his collar bone XD
Ouch!, hope he gets better… Jealous of the holiday. A mate of mine went recently, he’s still raving about it!
Haha yeah it’s brilliant up here, really nice weather and there’s so much to do.
Morning taybies. I had a great weekend. Wet N Wild on Saturday with the fam and fiancé. Went out with some friends and their partners for some great Italian food that night and we watched 21 jump street after. Played hours and hours of Banjo-Kazooie on 360 yesterday, i love that game.
Why do you guys think collecting things in new games isn’t nearly as fun? I mean i get a kick out of finding cool loot in Skyrim or Diablo 3, but they don’t make me run around searching for 100 musical notes in every new area and enjoy it.
I loved finding the Riddler Trophies in Arkham City.
Because now a days the hidden collectible a are scattered around so much that if you miss one you will never get it as it becomes blocked off
Hola Tay
I had a quietish weekend, went Magic Drafting Friday (Won 1, lost 3, got majorly outplayed) and then to a work social BBQ on Sun. Also played a chunk of Skyrim, I’m playing a sneaky Imperial lady.
A Monday Morning Question: Assassins Creed has made a bit of a thing out of exploring some historical periods that haven’t really been in games before. Which era do you think could make a cool game? i reckon the indian rebellion would be cool.
The Egyptian era would be cool. Going around markets and seeing how the pyramids are being built, but you know, aliens. lol
You know I’m really surprised AC didn’t jump on this era already, seems right up their alley
My exact thoughts.
I’m surprised that they haven’t done the French Revolution yet. Surely that would be a perfect setting, even if it is around the same time as AC3 and Black Flag.
Does pre-history count? Scale Stonehenge, jump off it and assasinate druids.
THE ’90s!!! 😛
KURT COBAIN WAS AN ASSASSIN
YES!
HE DIDN’T REALLY TOP HIMSELF, HE WAS ASSASSINATED COS HE KNEW TOO MUCH!
DAVE GROHL HAS TAKEN ON HIS DUTIES!!!
KRIST NOVASELIC IS THE ASSASSIN MASTER, THAT’S WHY HE STEPPED OUTTA THE SPOTLIGHT COS HE’S TOO BUSY RUNNING THINGS
TRENT REZNOR FITS IN THERE SOMEHOW
PEARL JAM ARE BORING
Courtney Love: Totes a Templar.
Totes.
Don’t forget the Vita spinoff where you play as Michael Stipe
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Hola back atcha sounds like you had an awesome weekend red, besides losing 3 games..should of gone for the neck.
I still feel feudal japan is calling the assassins name and I for one would love it, using a Japanese sword over a cutlass or short sword
I should actually have buffed up trample on my dude with double strike which is a mistake I realised two seconds later.
My problem with a Japanese Assassins Creed game is that Samurai/ninja games have been done a lot. China/Mongols however…
They’ve said many times that the point of the Assassin’s Creed series is to explore historical settings that haven’t been done a lot in games.
Feudal Japan (esp. Sengoku-era) is probably the most used historical setting in games next to WW2 and maybe Romance of the Three Kingdoms-era China.
I’ve got no doubt that it’d be a good game, but IMO Ninja’s Creed would be the exact point at which the series jumps the shark. While there have been pirate games before, there’s nothing like AC4 which really drills into the historical figures and gives you a chance to explore the area. Same for the US War of Independece – there’s strategy games but nothing like AC.
I’d rather have Yakuza Ishin.
There are so many more interesting periods they could set it in that haven’t been done somewhere else.
Just thought about it and wouldn’t mind a Creed set in Russia during the fall of the Tsars/rise of Socialism (1915-1925).
Imagine the setting: A Creed, in the hostile Russian Winter.
Story wise, you maybe could work in the hopes that Lenin, planning on “giving power to the people” through socialism could be the Assassin’s hoping for a egalitarian government, finally throwing off the centuries long influence on monarchies of the Templars…only to realise that everything is going terribly wrong…
Yeah I’d play that one to death.
I started playing the Resident Evil remake on the Wii over the weekend – such a great game. Come to think of it – I think that game was the first ‘Remake’ for video games.
Am I the only one finding it a little hard to get into GTAV? Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun – but it’s not grabbing me like other games have,
It definitely feels like you’re spoilt for choice.
3 lead chars does that, yes. If you’re not stepping back and allowing it to happen and just holding on for the ride, you won’t feel the game as much as GTA4.
I think that might be part of the problem – there can be such a thing as too much to do. I guess personally though I find sandbox games to be a bit of a filler – almost just something to do with your hands (aside from jerk…erm, I mean…er…smoking. Yes, smoking.)
Persoanlly still prefer the original RE, I’m just old.
But actually, I prefer the DS version where they added quickturn.
I also have a thing for shoddy voicework (Helloooo castlevania Symphony of the Night!)
The last GTA I cared for was Vice City, I went off sandbox after that. I do like Fallout New Vegas though and 3 and they’re pretty sandboxy.
The REmake was indeed a glorious game. In fact, a lot of the Resident Evil games that came out at that time (REmake, Code Veronica, RE: Zero, RE4) were all pretty good. It’s a shame things have gone down hill since then.
At least I still had the light gun Resident Evil stuff on Wii which were pretty good. Still waiting on that RE2 remake Capcom >.
I REPLAY RE2 ALL THE TIME, STILL A CLASSIC
Seriously, my faves are 2 and 3 by a longshot.
Morning all.
So, anyone pay attention to Blizzcon over the weekend? That new WoW expansion looks okay. It didn’t really excite me, but it didn’t really look horrible either. Heroes of the Storm looks pretty cool. I’ve never really been able to get into MOBAs before, but I can see myself maybe getting into this because it’s full of characters I know. Bit disappointed the Warcraft movie is going to be Orcs verse Humans, as though we haven’t had enough of that already.
It had the opposite effect on me. The WoW expansion makes me want to re-sub back. Also the D3 stuff looked amazing! Inversely in the new MOBA looked like something. Probably won’t pick it up unless it’s free to play and a bunch of people are already playing it.
I’ll probably re-sub for the expansion. I have done for every expansion, though I only stuck around for Cataclysm for maybe a week before deciding I wasn’t interested. Mists I played around with for a few months, re-subbing for the Landfall patch, that was pretty cool. Was interested in subbing for the next one, but it was basically all fucking raiding, and as a tank, I am so done with that.
What I noticed standing around in an inn, in Pandaria? You see some humans or tauren or any of the really old models standing next to a panda, the difference in character models was night and day, like… 2013 to 2003. The character model overhaul is long overdue.
As for the time-travelling… I’m not fussed. Caverns of Time was in almost all respects the biggest yawn to me. I enjoyed Stratholme the first time, but honestly they all felt kinda pointless. Yay, we get to fight to preserve the status quo, instead of making history ourselves.
Time-traveling episodes in TV are basically jumping the shark, I think this is WoW’s shark-jump – even if it is pretty and stylish and introduces new pet/collecting/farming minigames. There’ll be a bunch of new factions to rep-grind, at which point you’ll get pretty average, unimpressive pre-raid gear with stupid high token costs, and if you want to gear up any further, you’ll have to get on the raid treadmill. Which… y’know. Fuck that.
…I just turned myself off already. Yay! No purchase, dollars saved.
The new expansion looks awesome and I’m super tempted (didn’t play since Cataclysm release)
To be honest, what else could they do for the movie besides Orcs v Humans? It’s been the primary storyline running throughout WoW and the Warcraft games in general.
Here’s my HOLLYWOOD pitch:
A young white All-American boy with an annoying nasal accent is whisked away from his boring school life where a bully mistreats him and he is a stereotypical nerd etc.
He enters the Land of WoW, and saves the also all-American Princess from the Great British accented Trolls (they are the Orcs but group testing said Trolls is more relatable, also we don’t wanna step on Peter Jackson’s toes).
He finds the sword of WoW and uses it to …
[INSERT PROJECTILE VOMIT HERE]
Orcs and Humans teaming up to fight demons or undead?
They want to appeal to both Horde and Alliance players. It seems to me the best way to do that would have them fighting side by side against the Legion or Scourge instead of against each other.
Goooood morning TAY,
So, had a week off… used that week very productively… i finally played and completed The Witcher \o/
Only took me 4 years!…
Am actually amazed how good that game was… incredibly flawed mechanically but the story telling made up for it…
Then i started playing the Witcher 2, and holy-shite!…
It looks and plays so much better!
It kinda feel as though the Witcher is a game they needed to make in order to sell the universe to players, where as the Witcher 2 is the game they wanted to make… so well executed…
Which alignment did your playthrough fall towards? Thoughts on the ending? (Feel free to chuck up a spoiler tag) It’s been a few years since I finished it but I found the things that weren’t entirely spelled out rather intriguing.
I stayed as neutral as possible all the way through, which led to some pretty thought provoking episodes… When the Scoia’tael took Murky Waters, i rescued Alvin and got the hell out of dodge, which led to a lot of Elves and Dwarfs dying…
During the Siege of Vizima again i was again neutral, only really helping Foltest when needed and killing the King of the Wild Hunt at the very end…
I was pretty unpopular but believe i stayed true to the Witchers code which seemed morally right to me…
It did leave me thinking a lot about the extreme measures both sides were taking, and i’m glad i took the path i did… i can’t see myself supporting either the Scoia’tael nor the Order of the Flaming Rose because they all just seemed too extreme in the measures they pursue… if anything i sympathised with the Scoia’tael the most, but couldn’t condone the actions they took…
As i said, really well made game, it literally had me stumped a few times about what to do, and i really had to consider every action that i took because i knew it would have consequences
I tried for a neutral play through, but ended up on the non human side of the equation by the last chapter. I think the tipping point was the robbery when I figured the most neutral thing was to do what witchers do best and just go kill the monsters, still turned into taking too much of one side.Ending sequence / final boss was interesting with some of the questions it raised.
Neutral Path buddies! That path in the first game is the correct path – the ‘true witcher’ path. They’re meant to stay neutral. You kind of have to pick a side in TW2 thoughI like everything about Witcher 2 but the combat. I dunno what it is, but it just won’t click :-/
Iiinteresting because once i got used to it, it is such a vast improvement over 1 that i’m loving the crap out of it XD…
I guess each to their own, and i can see how some people wouldn’t like it because it is very… unique 😛
I didn’t play 1 cos I’m a PCaphobe.
The combat makes sense, and I play on easy cos I’m crap but it doesn’t excite me for whatever reason :-/
I dig the odd action RPG too.
How is it different? I quit Witcher 1 after I realised that combat = clicking a lot and/or in rhythm. Not gonna stick with W2 if that’s still the case.
Never played 1, playing 2 on 360. Plays like an action RPG, like press a to attack etc
It’s still clicky, but more… i don’t know how to decribe it, Dark Soulsy?
You have normal and heavy attack (left click and righ click respectively)
you have parry as well… so yeah it’s more actiony rather then “click in rythm in ways that a partially broken but sometimes defintely always occasionally works” fighting…
Fist fighting is now QTES but actually fits well as they don’t drone on…
use of Bombs are now encouraged more…
I don’t know, took a little to get used to but works so much better then 1… 1 had the story but as i said was flawed through and through mechanically… 2 is still flawed, but vastly improved
There’s a RED-supported mod that apparently alters the combat to make it more fluid and less clunky. I can’t remember the link but it’s part of the RED-kit modding toolbox website or the Witcher 2 website.
360 🙁
Ah my bad. 🙁
Hm. What’s that feeling of sympathy you get that’s tinged with a sort of ‘I told you so’ disapproval that comes when the hardship someone is facing is entirely brought about by their poor decisions? (In this case: a PC game played on console.)
Hay hay hay, not poor decision!
Had I bought it for my craptop I wouldn’t be playing at all. A game is better than no game, no?
Also, it plays great. Just not falling in love with it is all.
It’s OK, my Master Race’ing has been poor lately what with spending damn near every day last week up to stupid-o’clock on AC4, so I need to get some kicks in where I can find them. 🙂
Never cared for the Witcher games honestly. Found the combat clunky and repetitive and they failed to make me care about the characters or events before I got bored.
Eh, each to their own i guess 🙂
i love the shit out of it, so much i could look past the bland graphics (There’s a mod for that) and clunky fighting…
I’ve been struggling so much to get into The Witcher. Like you said, the mechanics aren’t great. Feels very wooden with movement and combat. The Witcher 2 is just sitting on my desktop waiting to be played but I’m determined to get through the first one first at some point so I can make it to the second one. I’m looking forward to the 3rd one next year (2015) though as that looks fantastic so I really need to get into it
I am totally convinced the bugs in BF4 PC are getting worse. My textures are now doing acid behind my back.
I cant throw grenades when im in a shipping container…. I watch it sail away, land somewhere good… then Im ‘killed in action’ by the damn thing.
Hola TAY
Over the weekend I realised I am juggling too many games at once. AC IV, the Batmens, Ace Attorney, AC Liberations (I bought a Vita), Majora’s Mask, A Link to the Past. Too many games. Not enough time! Enjoying them all though. So that’s something.
Also my sister is sending me pictures of the abandoned kittens she rescued over the weekend oh my god you guys it is LITERALLY A BOX OF KITTENS – http://t.co/Zs3S50u4Qg
And here begins Pants’ slow spiral into becoming a crazy cat… guy 🙂
Hey they’re not at my house. It’s my sister’s slow spiral, not mine! 😛
For now right? 😉
If you need pointers on how to be a crazy cat Man My housemate is one so I can give you plenty of pointers
“I bought a Vita”! \o/
Did you get P4G yet? (is that even something you’d like??)
I told him to get it on twitter but he won’t listen to me!
+1 for being a pretty cool grindey JRPG. I’m maybe 8 hrs in.
Grindey?
I only use Grind when I’m not having fun, which never happened to me during P4G! GotY!!!
Fair enough. I’ve been having fun this whole time too.
Might go down to JB at lunch and get it. 😛
SEXY TIME!
The music I heard when I read that:
@sernobulus @greenius @gutsoup
P4 moosic is the best
I bought P4G over the weekend for my girlfriend. It’s pretty amusing watching someone new play it when you knkw the story/ending.
Btw the killer was the butler, in the library with the candlestick the entire time!
I have Tomb Raider, GTA V, Hitman Absolution, Spec Ops The Line, All the Batmen, Remember Me, State Of Decay, P4G, Ace Attorney and Heavy rain to finish and yet I find myself still playing ArmA II multiplayer at nights
Why do people abandon kittens and not just take them into the RSPCA or something? 🙁
lazy gunts
I had a pretty awesome weekend. On Saturday I went to Lake Meander with a group of friends and we had a bbq, even though it was really cold. The wind was coming off the snow and onto the lake. Brrrrrrrrrr. I also took the dog for a nice long walk.
Yesterday I went to church, and then my godparents took me out for afternoon tea. I had Baklava and coffee, which is a match made in heaven. We also went to Shiploads and I managed to pick up a copy of the original Django on dvd.
Today I’m planning to take the dog out for another long walk and have a picnic. Parents are home tomorrow and I haven’t destroyed the house or anything. The only mishap that has occurred is that in trying to fix a problem with Tetris Blitz on my mum’s iPad, I accidentally lost most of her progress. Whoops.
Morning ladies and gents!
How are we all!?
Fantastical. <———- This is my word for the day. Feel free to use it at will.
Nice.
I will.
FANTESTICLE!
In WoW I would always congratulate people on gear-get/achievement/ding with, “Gratsticles!” It is surprising how many people were weirded out by this.
Sick!
But at home slackin’ so not all bad!
(why so many exclamations, jimu?!)
BECAUSE YOU CANN!!!!!
Sick – boo!
Home – YAY!
Played some Windwaker HD over the weekend. Truly epic stuff. If this was a brand new game, I daresay it would be in contention for GOTY.
PS. Anyone looking for AC4, Target are selling for $58.
Woo, I too had some WW goodness!
How good is it? My housemate was telling me how she liked the original WW but didn’t see the point of getting an HD remake. She took that back after watching me play for 5 minutes.
That “A” button sail is the greatest thing ever.
Yeah it looks really pretty.
Swift Sail? I haven’t got it yet. Purchased 3rd item in auctionhouse, hope it’s next…
Gonna get that as soon as I can.
I met @popdart5 on the weekend. He’s awesome AND lives on the north side! That’s Jimu, Endu, Gutsoup, Beardy and me now!
I also walked past George R R Martin and an entourage of screaming girls following him. Was the weirdest thing.
Authors are the new rock stars? Does @shane have groupies when he goes to cons?
I… might’ve visited his booth about eight times. THAT DOESN’T COUNT THOUGH!
Just the tip?
It totally counts.
Dude, you were awesome too. As was @shane. I can’t wait to meet the rest of the TAY crew.
Also, apologies to @freezespreston and @sughly. I seemed to have completely missed you guys at Supanova yesterday. I’m sure we’ll meet in the near future.
Aw man…I wanna meet @popdart5!
Feeling very sad today about having to miss Supanova,but at least we still took advantage of not having the kids for the day and went out to a nice air-conditioned cinema and saw Thor: The Dark World which I thoroughly enjoyed. Saw it in 3D and it was weird because I’d forgotten it even was in 3D until I dislodged the glasses whilst scratching my face. I think that means it was good 3D. I think. 😛
The day was way cheaper than Supanova would have been, too. Two 3D movies, two drinks, and then Nandos for dinner later still cost less than just two entry tickets would have been.
That’s why I’m not sold on 3D (as well as feeling uncomfortable). I forget it is 3D all the time. The fun-effect usually wears of in the first 20 mins.
Also, I AM JELLY I WANNA SEE THOR 2!!!!111!!!
I love 3D! I’ve never really forgotten I was watching something in 3D before so maybe it’s just becoming commonplace to me, like a while after switching to DVDs after VHS?
I loved the DVD switch because we got dual audio and all the extras.
I didn’t appreciate the better quality pic until I tried watching a VHS yet.
Prolly why I only own 3 BDs.
The only thing that stands out to me as bad on a DVD is the blocky subtitles, which again, I forget about pretty quickly.
Also, I am penny pinchin’
I’m looking forward to meeting you too Strange. I’ll see you at the Symphony Orchestra thing in two weeks if you are still going. Funnily enough, I met Joe (the guy who was housing Shane) so I know he’s going as well. It does sound like I might be a fifth wheel for that night but I’m okay with that.
Also, yeah Supanova was pretty expensive. I tried to limit myself but I still ended up spending about $100 for the day. But I bought @shane’s books so it was worth. 🙂
I can’t believe that Symphony thing is so close now! I got my ticket way back at the start of the year so it feels like I’ve been excited about it forever. We’ll be having dinner with Joe beforehand, so I’ll let you know where that will be as soon as we have a plan. 😀
Urrrrrr.
Convention food does not agree with me.
Should’ve gone to HJ’s with Shane and me afterwards. He got four BBQ cheeseburgers, a mango smoothie and two strawberry milkshakes. He can never criticize my diet again!
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-42-16405325.jpg?size=67&uid=f461beb4-0d01-4a11-8fee-be4c75c42c07
I thought I’d play it safe at Gold Coast Supa Nova and just bought hot chips….NOOOOOOOO!
Morning everyone.
I tried to improve my drawing over the weekend. Yay for improving, but boo for the way it makes me feel. =|
How do you draw? Paper, or digital?
Both. I’ve also dabbled in watercolour and acrylic but I’m terrible at them
sidevote
I don’t think blood is wise to use as paint, especially if it’s your own.
😀
That would be really difficult to paint/draw in blood
The trickiest part was just to keep enough of it flowing.
Although I guess that only applies if you’re using it straight from a finger or something, rather than pre-collecting in a bowl and using a brush. But then I guess you’d have to deal with coagulation or something.
Improvement is always a good thing so Hooray for good things \o/
Morning all.
Had a pretty laid back weekend. Bought the Devil May Cry HD collection recently. Absolutely love replaying through the first. It looks amazing!
Learnt a lesson on the weekend.
Don’t burn bridges, they might come back and cock block you one day, badly 🙁
I feel like the last sentence requires story tiem. kgo.
Haha, crowd around kiddies.
Saturday night I met a nice German girl at the pub. We got along really well. She asked if I wanted her number and suggested I come into the coffee shop where she works to pay her a visit sometime.
Turns out she’s room mates with my ex >.< Sent her a message the next day and its clear she doesn’t want to know me. What pisses me off is that my ex started dating a friend of mine 2 weeks after we split and I gave them my blessing. Even got a thank you message from her.
Yeh, annoyed.
Wow. Tough break. You can’t fight that kind of unfiltered poison-in-the-ear.
Nah, might be for the best though. No doubt it would have caused drama. Still, I’d feel better if I at least had a shot before getting palmed.
🙁
D: D:
Sorry to hear that, my friend. 🙁
Thanks mate. Left with a bit of an anxious feeling after it.
Eh. Shit happens.
Just gotta move on to the next and pray it’s not your exs best friends sister or anything relatable back to her
That’s true mate. I can still take away the fact she was keen before she spoke to her, its good for confidence.
That’s the problem with the area I live in. Everybody knows everybody which means everybodys f*cked everybody, or knows someone who has.
Howdy. Weekend was pretty good.
Saturday was playing some WW, I’m up to Tower of Gods now. No idea on time played. That night was also my gf’s bday dinner partay, which ended up at a cocktail bar in the city. Pretty fun, she’s happy with her gift too so that’s a bonus.
Sunday was maybe half an hour of WW, much youtube loitering, and some chillaxing after gf finished work (work on bday, not cool). Had another DnD session because one of our party is leaving soon. In addition to being a generally cool Rogue, I now have an awesome sword thing that hits good.
Serrels tells me the Xbone TV in Australia is pretty good and Gizmodo is telling me it’s terrible.
I don’t know what to think. SOME ONE TELL ME!
Time for PopSugar to step up, eh?
HA HA HA (chesty sick laugh)
Trust Lifehacker, who tells you to put your Xbone in the Microwave.
I actually bought a microwave last week. And here I was putting my bread on the counter like a sucker.
Enh, I read it as Serrels saying, “It’s not so bad, really…” like one might talk about a crippling injury. Which is basically what that TV list is. It’s awful.
Also, I had never seen Quickflix before until realizing that we weren’t getting Netflix on that thing, and what the hell is Quickflix? So I go look it up. Jesus fucking christ. A quarter of the range of netflix at double the price. Hay guys, I think I found out why we have a piracy problem.
How much do you think I can get on commission for revealing that problem to the powers that be? I mean, surely they’d be keen to fix it, right? …Right?
Yep it’s on the list next to faster Internet and a bullet train from Melbourne to the HJs in surfers in just under 40 minutes
It’s been a while, so it’s time, once again for Chuloopa’s patented “In my ass” game!!
The title of the last song you listened to folowed by the words “in my ass”!!
It never* gets old!!
unless you are an actual adultME FIRST!
Do i wanna know in my ass!
MAKE NO SENSE!
SUPER FUN HAPPY TIME BUBBLE CUP DANCE TIME!
All the small things in my ass.
You shouldn’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ass.
Period IN MY ARSE
Displaced in my ass.
Welcome to Paradise in my ass.
Touch in my ass!
Wasn’t going to play along but then I realised the last song I listened to was Cleansed by Fire…(in my ass). 😛
So last night was curry night? 😛
Nope. Last night was Nandos Extra Hot night, though…. 😛
Mr. Strange sent me a message this morning about his aftereffects, actually and I just laughed at him because even when I eat the same level of heat as him I never have a next day bathroom excursion of fire.
The line “Through the fire and the flames we carry on” seems apt here. 🙂
Everytime in my arse.
Sweet hell almighty. *hangs head*
Getting Away With Murder… in my ass? This makes no sense. 😛
Somebody that I used to know in my arse.
Semper Fi Little johnny
La La La in my ass! :O
Pizza Guy in my ass
I think I’ve seen that movie
Ha!
Sweet dreams in my ass
The Keeper in my ass
Hard to love somebody in my ass.
This apartment building has been undergoing renovations for months. It basically means that I’m serenaded by the sound of power tools every damned day.
Right now, they’re doing something to the apartment right next door.
Dickbags.
I can fix that for you…
*Changes the work plans so TRJN hears a mechanical version of Blue Danube*
At least they’re doing it during work hours when people are out of their homes instead of at night when everyone’s trying to sleep.
Unlike the roadworks that somehow HAD to be undertaken out on the street maybe ten metres from my BED at 1am the other night. Now those are some dickbags.
Morning, everyone.
If I may ask, I have a couple of Dreamcast accessory questions. At the moment, I am thinking about getting the Broadband Adapter and a VGA box (a must these days given that everything is a progressive screen now).
First, is it worth getting the BBA accessory (for collection sake)?
Second, in terms of a VGA box I can find third party version for a quarter of the price of the official version. Are the third party versions (and I mean the box, not the infamous cables) worth it or will I damage my console in the process?
My thanks in advance.
Man, I wanna know this.
Is that the box that adds horizontal lines to the picture so the graphics look less shit?
From what I have learned, the VGA box allows the Dreamcast to output a progressive image at 640×480 resolution. And if I have read correctly, it outputs the image at 60Hz.
As the name implies, you hook up the Dreamcast to the box, and it has a VGA port so you can attach a VGA monitor or HD TV. It also has regular RCA ports for a regular TV signal (I think it is for the light gun).
Oh right, it’s Dream Cast specific, I was thinking of something else.
That’s cool, I’m worried my Dream Cast is gonna keel over soon though. It’s always been dodgy.
I met @mrtaco briefly on friday evening.
& a few of the Sydney TAYbies.
that was cool.
then went & watched bands play.
then drank cider.
played a bit of Path of Exile yesterday. it’s pretty decent for a Free-To-Play game. not much hand holding, so you’re pretty much just dropped in the deep end & left to figure it out for yourself.
which doesnt take too long, i guess, but given its got some mechanics that i’ve never encountered before, a little bit of a tutorial wouldnt hurt.
probably wont drag me away from Torchlight 2 for too long though…
aaanyway….. whats up with you lot?
I’m up to act 3 of Path of Exile with a level 30ish Duelist.
So much of it is lifted straight from Diablo 2 that it isn’t funny. The passive skill upgrades are lifted from Final Fantasy X and the skill gem thing is novel but I feel like it really restricts your item progression.
It’s damned hard to get new shoes if you need them to have two linked green sockets. I guess the items that let you turn common items into rares is probably the only way around that. Find commons with the right sockets and burn some items to make them useful.
I’m not going to deny that PoE is pretty heavily influenced/copied from Diablo 2 and I’m okay with that. Heck, the final boss
is pretty much a clone of Diablo from Diablo 2.The game does what it does well and I consider it to be a newer version of Diablo 2 with a few differences.
Path of Exile is pretty good. I think they’ve got the f2p model right because I’ve spent a tonne of money on cosmetic stuff that I wouldn’t usually buy.
I’ve currently got a level 44 duelist on Domination league. How about you?
lvl 10 (or 11) Marauder on Standard.
It’s not a bad game, but I do prefer TL2.
Fair enough. I’m the inverse, probably because there seem (to me at least) to be a little more variety in build options in PoE. I don’t get nearly as engaged playing TL2 as I do in PoE. Different horses for different courses.
Shane was unreasonably excited about catching the train last night. He even took a picture.
I backed away slowly.
Canberra.
The railroad hasn’t made it to Canberra yet. Its all new to him.
Canberrans, they’re a strange bunch.
I love how the top three responses here are all “Canberra”
ok people, ive heard some disturbing information on the xb1.
a couple of weeks ago i was talking to a gamestop assistant manager they informed me that microsoft was authorizing store for xb1 trading, now the first thought that came to my mind was a drm return but i dismissed it. yesterday though i was speaking to another store manager who said that their is rumour that xb1 games now lock to one console.
now none of this is confirmed, but it does raise concerns
any opinions
I doubt it. Given the shitstorm MS ignited last time I doubt they’d have kept something like this under wraps.
i hope so, but ive paid for one and would hate for a drm return , so im just being cautious and trying to find out as much info as possible
I don’t mean to sound silly but given the train wreak that the new generation is, you’re better off putting your money into retro consoles.
There is something seriously wrong when there is more entertainment and game play in either a Super NES and Mega Drive (aka, Genesis) than the PS4, Wii U and XBone combined.
Can I play the CoDs on the Dreamcast?
I’m the worst person to ask about that. I’m more critical of them than Yahtzee is to a J-RPG.
Can I play the Batmans on the Dreamcast?
Or Skyrim?
My point is, you find fun in the games you play. I’m leery of putting any game on a pedestal and saying “THIS GAME IS THE FUNNEST!”
I’m not leery of it. CRONO TRIGGER!
I don’t put any game on a pedestal either. I look at the library on the consoles.
And when it comes to the new generation, the justification for any of the consoles (I count the Wii U as the first in the next generation) is close to zero.
That might change over time but it is a far cry form the good old days when new console launches had well made launch titles to go with them.
If CoD is your cup of tea, then fine. You are entitled to your preference.
My original point was to be vary careful with the new generation. Game consoles are no longer about the games. It’s all about technology and using DRM to pamper to the publishers who have grown desperate for zero risk investment.
But what if I derive my enjoyment from high end simulations like Forza? or Online gaming?
The reason old consoles had stronger launch titles is that the complexity was lower, sure, but that’s a separate issue. And I don’t know how you could argue the DRM point as a corollary to “entertainment and game play”- Unless it’s something super obnoxious like GFWL, I don’t see how it’s impacting game play.
Sounds like a load of bull to bull to me. Probably someone misinterpreting something else.
So I spent some time watching anime at the Madman room at Supanova yesterday. They were showing Samurai Pizza Cats.
It was so 90s it hurt.
I still have the opening credit song in my head. And it’s fantastic.
Guido Anchovi, he’s a wild, romantic rover (or something)
That cat gets down down with a love hangover!
One of the very rare cases of a show being vastly improved by a hack-job localization. Apparently Saban weren’t given the scripts to the original show when they licensed it so they basically sat in a room and made amusing shit up.
ignore this
There’s no way they’ve kept that under wraps this late in the game.
So it’s remembrance day today.
I can’t help but think about how many people’s lives were affected by all the wars. Not just the Australians. Not just the ones who came home and then suffered through PTSD. Not just the ones who perished. Not just the allies of the Australians, but also the enemy. Young men who fought for a cause they may not have believed and may have also died from it.
At the same time, there are the ones who do support the cause of their leaders, such as the war in Afghanistan, because they believe it will make the world a better place. The difference between the terrorists and the soldiers is that the terrorists use very cowardly methods.
Those who fought under Hitler may not have agreed with his views, but what could a lowly soldier do? You speak up, you die. So you cling to life while you can and face an enemy who may not want to be there as much as you don’t.
For this reason, we should remember them. All of them. Everyone who lost their lives, everyone whose life was affected, everyone.
We will, remember them.
The reason I decided to write this is because when I think about the Australian media, they oft forget about the allies who fought beside us. Why shouldn’t they be remembered? They also forget our enemies. They talk about how young our soldiers were, how they were fresh faced and often came home no longer the same. They forget it was most likely exactly the same for the enemy.
The australian media tends to only focus on Australia, generally forgetting most of the time, it was the australian and NEW ZEALAND army corps. Our brothers across the water are the most forgotten and I just wanted to get this out. To remember them in my own way I guess.
Sorry for the rant.
I agree in every respect. It’s also heartwarming when you see footage from the joint commemorations, particularly for the Vietnam War, that both sides are able to put aside their differences, respect their former enemies, and jointly pay respect to the fallen. It shows that war can still have honour.
I have read some of the most amazing things on cracked about times where enemies worked together
Your point about the people under Hitler/Taliban etc- there’s a whole school of debate over what constitutes a “Just War” and whether the frontline soldiers are morally culpable for the actions/orders of their leaders. The Nuremberg Defence is a notable example of that.
I don’t believe we should respect the taliban so much, mainly because of their methods.
Those who believed in Hilter’s cause, i am a bit iffy about that. But those who were forced into a war they didn’t want, definitely.
And that’s one of the key tragedies of war- it forces Joe citizen into having to make those choices.
edit: well I”m just dumb then
But Remembrance day is for WW1 and marks the end of the war.
there fixed
Pokemans!
Who is available to link up and trade or battle or whatevr?
If we do we get an extra Mon in the Safari per person and that means MORE MONS!
C’mon peeps, do it!
FC: 4038 – 6136 – 9136
YES! On the page get! 😀
Want an eevee?
Please.
Where did you get one?
I have all the Gen 6 and Gen 1 starters.
When Pokemon bank is up I’ll have all the starters.
Any particular nature or ability? I have a breeding pair
Also Eevees are found on route 10 in the yellow flowers
Ability Runaway
Hasty x2
Docile
Lonely x3
Gentle x2
Jolly x2
Rash x2
Lax x2
Serious x2
Relaxed x2
Calm x2
Impish x2
Naive x3
Mild
Hardy x2
Naughty
Brave
Ability Adaptability
Docile
Calm
Relaxed
Jolly
@jimu so you don’t miss it
WOH!
Whatever is fine, I haven’t gone in for Battling yet so have never looked into this sort of thing much.
WOW!
Just pick one then?
Also, my friend code is 1891 – 1289 – 4889 You need to add me
Hardy?
Sure!
I wanna pokeymans but I’ve been to shops twice now and they were sold out, so I may have bought 5 other games 😛
@gutsoup
I’ll try’n hook yas up fer yer berfdaze
Please don’t forget to add my friend code. Because I wanna nap and I can’t till you get your Eevee
Done!
Oop, saw this too late, guess you’re nappin’
I feel like I haven’t been playing Pokemon nearly enough. I only just beat the seventh gym yesterday. I haven’t even got up to the Safari everyone’s been talking about.
Sounds like it, I only picked up my copy on the 10/10 and I finished off The Champ last week.
I dunno, I get really addicted to Pokemon these days.
That date sounds wrong, very wrong. where did I pull ten from?
I meant end of Oct…
Almost 2 weeks after it cam out I think, maybe just a week.
Man I haven’t even gotten past Shalour yet. I’ve restarted twice now as I wasn’t feeling any connection with my Pokemon (yes I’m one of those people).
I was unsure when I picked the frog, was damn happy when it evolved all the way, it looks so cool!
I’m the same – Just beat the 7th (Psychic I think?) gym myself. Haven’t really delved into the breeding/safari things everyone talks about.
I write this reply as hopefully an extra reminder to add you tonight if I haven’t already done so.
Whet’s your number, or did I already add uou??
3668 7797 0858.
Heh, I only typed the first 4 numbers and autocomplete provided the rest. That’ll do Windows Phone, that’ll do.
Add me too D=
1891 – 1289 – 4889
Your Eevee is waiting for you
I already have you!
… Anything you want to trade?
I’m just filling up the ‘dex and (fruitlessly) shiny hunting lately.
I meant Jimu =P Want an eevee?
All good. Dex’d all the eevolutions over the weekend except the fairy one. Will get around to the minigame thing for that one at some point. If there’s anything you want, I can keep an eye out for it on the trade channels – I’ve already facilitated things like ponyta, clefairy, dratini, etc.
I do far too much trading and will be dabbling in a bit more shiny hunting so it’s good if I have more goals.
I plan to do a few wonder trades, I might ask after that
done
Anything you’re after? I’ve got a fair bit of stock – the PC has extended to a 31 box capacity for me.
WOH!
I dunno, what can’t I catch in Y?
Clauncher! Staryu! Uh… the fairy floss Pokemon that I don’t know the na- ah, Swirlix!
The third Pokemon in the Safari comes from the person beating the Elite 4 (or I guess more specifically: connecting to the Internet after beating the Elite 4)
Not much point doing any competitive breeding/training until after the Elite 4. Friend Safari (which is post-game) really makes things a lot easier.
I know the first part.
And errr, haven’t bred a thing so I dunno what that second parts about :-/
All Pokemon in the Friend Safari have a guaranteed 2 perfect IVs. Makes competitive breeding a whole lot easier!
cool
NINJA EDIT: Hi Tay! Welcome to Monday. I apologise for not even having any sort of greeting. For some reason I have read the last three sentences in Dr. Who’s voice. It’s naff.
So I’m sitting here, chewing my nails off, waiting on a damn email from the local TEDx chapter to see if I’m on their speakers list.
Their “Hard Deadline” to pick speakers was Saturday night. I’ve been checking emails non-stop for the last two days.
I’m giving up hope that the event will even happen at this rate.
What are you going to present on?
Haven’t quite hammered the fine details out yet, but it’s on a personal interest – surviving serious mental illness and how survivors begin to stigmatize themselves.
Holy shit. Awesome.
Even if you don’t get an email from TED, record it and upload it.
I’d be really keen to hear that.
Likewise! Hope it all goes your way, @quiz_b!
I don’t think I could handle PAX. The crowds at Supanova were way too much for me and I spent a good hour in the morning hiding in a corner. Then another three hours escaping to the panels upstairs. Scary stuff. D:
The cool thing about PAX is that if you are sick of the big crowds you can go and just chill in the beanbag lounge, or find people and camp on a tabletop area or in the console library.
I think the panels at PAX would freak you out more. The distribution of population seems to be 70:30 between panels:expo floor.
But once the panel begins scary people can’t talk to you! Only had one guy try to talk to me in the line. D:
I only had one… special dude in the line at PAX. All the rest were pretty friendly.
The guy that talked to me seemed nice enough. Not scary or any thing. (Other then meeting the criteria of being another human trying to talk to me and that’s inherently scary!)
Shane totally saw the weird cosplayer who cornered us at EB on the Supanova floor too. XD
The weirdos are there, sure, but most people were pretty cool.
One of my favourite memories of PAX was actually standing in line- on the second day, I was near the front of one of the lines to get in, and there were beach balls being volleyed around the crowd. The crowd started a spontaneous game to launch the balls over a hanging banner, great fun.
Also in the crowd, someone had written “for a good time call xxxx” on one of the balls… so us and one of the guys we were standing with gave them a call and wished him a happy PAX 🙂
That was @blaghman
Oh god really? We actually called Blaghs?
TAY MISSED CONNECTIONS STRIKE AGAIN
@redartifice
It depends, on the Friday there was someone else, on the Saturday was mine, and I don’t know about the Sunday.
@blaghman That was the one! Did you get a phone call?
@redartifice
I think so? I got a coupla texts too, we left Pip to respond to them, which was probably a terrible idea.
@blaghman The guy we were standing with called before the gates opened. Small world.
Oh gods. Having a random talk to me in a line is how I met my creepy waifu at Supanova last year.
Don’t know what I’m talking bout? GO LISTEN TO OLD SCHOOL POTAKU
I remember the tweets when that was happening. It was entertaining for all!
…
Except probably for you. 😀
PAX North!
It’s (still) a thing!
I believe I gave it its new official title “Jerk Party for Jerks” the other week.
Then why aren’t you going to be there?
BAM!
Because I’m going to be at PAX. We’ve been through this.
But… you’re a jerk.
*gets joke explaining chart that Freeze prepared for me earlier*
Jerkburger Meat.
The good thing about pax is if you’re in a big group, it’s not an issue.
I think I ended up initiating conversation with people in stalls
Only people I talked to at the stalls were people I knew. Shane and uni pals. Way too loud. Didn’t want the awkwardness of not hearing people respond and all that.
Part of me thinks going in cosplay would somehow make it easier. Mentally prepare for a certain amount of interaction with people and you can ‘escape’ into the character?
Escaping into a character does make it easy. Plus they won’t know who you really are
Costumes with helmets and/or masks are great for this.
I can help you make a cosplay outfit if you’d like to test out your theory.
You so kind, Strange. But I don’t think I’m man enough to leave a house in cosplay and take a train in cosplay and go to a place in cosplay. Haha! 😀
Eh, you have to own it. I’ve walked down main streets in full dieselpunk or steampunk gear. Trick is to own it and wave.
Get dressed at the venue!
What other excuses have you got for me to shoot down? Bring it! 😛
LOOK BEHIND YOU! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!
The mask and/or helmet can help with this also. It’s like hiding in plain sight!
I think you should do it though. It’s scary to do it at first but once you push through that it’s great. I still get terrified every time I go to dress up for something in a public place (along with plenty of other social situations :P), but am glad I went through with it whenever I do.
Wake up at 1.30, don’t get back to sleep until 4.30. Today’s started off just great. Ho hum. Started FFIX on my PSP this weekend. My favourite FF but I think I’ve only completed each one since VII only once. I keep on starting new games but get halfway and then lose interest, so I can’t remember much, if anything, of a FF game ending 😀
I love seeing FFIX love.
I finished FFVIII(My fave) on my holiday!
So good, had been so long I’d forgotten a fair bit of stuff 😀
Feeling under the weather which means all I want to do is play a JRPG. I don’t have any on the go at the moment besides TiTS but that’s on PSV and I need a big screen game. Which means starting an old game all over again.
First thought was that I’d like to play FFXIII again but then I realised my Mum hasn’t given it back so now I need to find something else. Any suggestions for JRPGs that I might already own that hold up to replays?
Costume Quest! Not Japanese, but it’s all turn based like and short?
Urk. I tried it but it’s not my thing. Very much nothing like what I love about JRPGs there.
Aw, that’s too bad. You tried, though. I CAN’T STAY MAD AT YOU. (Really loved the combat in that game, though. It’s why I’m so psyched for Ubisoft’s upcoming Child of Light!)
To continue the FFIX love train I say FFIX \o/
Soundtrack is great and you can still appreciate the pre-rendered backgrounds today.
I replayed that recently. Still quite often get the song from the fight in the play near the start stuck in my head for no reason. 😀
I want to be your canary I think it’s called haha 🙂
I never managed to finish It, I got to the last battle but could never beat the S.O.B’s. 🙁
Just put my 3 shortlisted games on Twitter. Nier, Lost Odyssey and Resonance of Fate. So far Lost Odyssey is winning.
Maybe get all completionist up in Resonance of Fate. I dont know much about the other two…. (for shame).
Even just for the christmas sequence!LOST ODYSSEY!!! \o/
Considering @greenius isn’t here, Xenoblade.
I would but the Wii is slightly busted and the WiiU is all boxed up in the cupboard ready to give the kids for Christmas.
Are the kids home? Otherwise you might need to test the WiiU. Yu wouldn’t want to ruin their christmas by giving them a WiiU that didn’t have decent playtime
You done good, kid.
Okay, going off to play Lost Odyssey now. That should make me feel better. Even thinking about awesome games I’d love to replay has me feeling better. 😀
Just don’t read the short stories. ='(
Wha? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
XENOBLADE
(Lost Odyssey was my favourite JRPG before Xenoblade so you still have my thumbs up :D)
Except now I can’t play either of them. The 360 ended up having power problems and the Wii is brokened!
All is not lost though. We have WiiU sitting patiently in its box and hiding in our wardrobe waiting for Christmas so we can give it to the kids.
How are you, Greenman? I miss youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
I’m sad after hearing the news that is preventing your Xenobladdering 😛
I’m sad now too after I remembered I forgot to watch Survivor so now I’ll have to wait until Monday. 😛
Also, for reals how are you? Managed to get rid of some of your stresses? *hugasaurus*
i’m considering picking up XIII on PS3 ( i had it xbox before) and starting over so i can finally beat it….
Oh man, I nearly completed forgot. Best cosplay of Supanova yesterday were two gigantic Chaos Space Marines. They must have been at least 2 metres tall and were made of awesome. It’s a shame I didn’t get a photo but it’s good to see some Warhammer love. There was a tonne of variety in the cosplay actually (lots of Naruto, LoL, Star Wars [surprisingly], quite a bit Attack on Titan, random anime/magic girls, also lots of Game of Thrones).
Actually, now that I think of it, @chuloopa did you end up having your Dark Heresy game over the weekend? If so, how’d the inquisiting go?
I saw an Iron Giant but one of the best cosplay I saw was one of the simplest… someone dressed as Battlestar Galactica’s Starbuck. Looked 100% authentic too!
I saw a Claptrap too. So cool looking.
Heh, the K9 was quite good. Although there were far, far too many Doctor Whos.
Also, opposite-gender costumes seemed to be a big thing. Male Miss Fortune (shudder).
There was a Male Ahri at PAX AU. It certainly was … something. =P
It certainly was.
Yeah my friend said there was a weird over-abundance of bearded females.
Someone bothered to do an Iron Giant? Who would even recognize that, it’s such an obscure crappy movie…
…
…Yeah. I’m trolling today. I don’t know why.
Your face is an obscure crappy movie! *decisive nod*
😛
Ohhh man i saw those guys in apost on the 40k quotes FB page. They were SO epic!
And Dark Heresy is tonight, my man.
CAN – NOT – WAIT!
LUTEFISK FOR THE etc. etc.
Bust some skulls and burn some heretics. FOR THE IMPERIUM!
Heretics gunna taste ALL my grenades!
NUMENERA: Wonders of the Ninth World
For those who came in late: http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Just a reminder, session is this Wed at 7:30 SA time! Let us know if you can’t make it, also we’ll have @tech_knight on board!
cc @mawt @tigerion @novacascade @negativezero @popdart5 @mythamphetamine @blaghman @transientmind
Yay @tech_knight. Welcome to the crew. 🙂
What did you end up going as?
My descriptor is “Mechanical Jack who Talks to Machines”
I still gotta do my character sheet though 🙁 been too tied up with other things from work and on the weekend I was sick
Log on a half hour early and I’ll help you if you need
Alright hopefully I’ll make it in time, are we using voice chat or just roll20 chat…?
Roll20 voice chat works just fine with your mic
oh it’s got voice chat? sweet didn’t know that! Alright I’ll be there nice and early or at least I’ll try to.
Still contemplating my PAX attendance. I fear if I contemplate too long, the prices will just skyrocket.
Anyways, if I go it’ll be in a gang of 4-6 of us. Naturally, I suggested we all do some reasonable cosplay as a group effort. Some suggestions were: all Storm Troopers, Bilbo Swaggins and the Fellowship of Yolo.
You guys got anything?
PAX tickets are on sale?
Not yet
Even if tix aren’t on sale, I imagine this is probably the right time to be booking hotels before they all disappear. Unless they are still setting up PAX-specific discounts?
There are PAX-specific ones, but acting quick is the way to go
I am making a few cosplays.
Oooooohhhh, details details details!
Any of the class based stuff can work with that number
Different TF2 character each.
Different borderlands character each
Pick a game with a large character selection and all pick from that, aka street fighter / mortal combat
Yah I thought TF2. There will be a girl so she can go as Pyro. We also have a RL engi haha.
The Avengers?
That would probably be really difficult though.
Human centipede
You know what I loved about the original Quake?
The medieval setting and feel to the game.
I think Quake and Hexen are the only FPS’s I can think of that were set there.
Does anyone else know if there are others?
Okay,excluding Chivalry. That one’s obvious.
RUNESCAPE
Actually I recall a very very few games, old ones, that are in this period. I think the early Thief games were? Also depending on how you look at it (and I haven’t played more than 15 mins) Witcher series? Along with SKyrim, but that’s kinda fantasy too, so not sure if it counts.
Thief? Skyrim? Or do you mean in terms of shooty shooty
Yeah, shooters.
Heretic, that was fpsey
Quake had a medieveal setting?
There you go, owned it for years (because Trent OST on disc) and nevr played :-/
Just realised that over the course of the weekend, I pumped about 20 hours into Pokemon. Went from 4:17 to 24:29.
…And nearly half of that was voltorb flip >_>
@chuloopa
LOOPS!
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/09/03/space-hulk-deathwing-announced-is-a-first-person-shooter/
Edit: I hadn’t seen you shouting about this all over the place, so I figured you might not have seen it yet :p
I’m hesitant to begin getting hype for this. Mostly because Cyanide is involved with it and their track record is spotty. I hope it turns out well.
E.Y.E. was pretty ok.
looked like rubbish & had a few buggy bits, but it was a pretty deep RPG.
Dunno anything else about Cyanide though.
They’re probably more well known for some the simulator games. Not bad but nothing to crow about.
I know them mostly from Blood Bowl. The game is buggy and the UI is quite strange and counter-intuitive. The game itself is still fun and enjoyable but I would put that down more as the core rules of Blood Bowl from the tabletop version being good rather than Cyanide doing stuff to add to the tabletop experience.
So I haven’t used an Xbox 360 in a fair while and I don’t plan on buying an XBone any time soon and I think Microsoft is punishing me. 😛
Couldn’t find the working HDD and controller charge cord for the 360 in the loungeroom so I decided to go play Lost Odyssey in the bedroom on the Slim 360 instead.
Try and fire up the console but nothing happens. Check all the cords are connected, then unplug and replug. It starts up but then turns off again mid-update. I think it may be the dodgy power board which is supposed to be a power saving one but just randomly turns stuff off so I removed it from the dodgy power board and plugged it into a different power point. It turns on so I assume everything’s fine.
Does the update, starts the game…and then mid opening scene turns off again. Guess I won’t be playing Lost Odyssey. 🙁
Not entirely sure what could be wrong. Could be the power cord but when it’s actually on it’s fine. Weird.
FORCED OBSOLESCENCE! You never should have patched!
#tinfoilhat
#masterrace
Yeah, updates are bad.
*curls up in corner*
#PatchesneverfailonPC
#hashtagsforharli
HA!
I turned mine on on Saturday night to play some Trials and it froze twice during boot up then a few more time in Trials.
Something fishy’s going on…
My 360 has been offline for about 6 months now thanks to a lack of wireless. Sounds good to keep it that way.
D: D; D: D:
Took the dog for a walk to have a picnic by the river. Walked over 4 kilometres and now he and I are exhausted.
That escalated quickly.
Aw crap, just realised Climbey’s likely going to be back tonight.
I’m too busy being in a don’t-want-to-deal-with-anything state to want to deal with that >_<
Already staring vacantly at RIft stuff and hating everything as it is.
You have the best problems.
“I’m kind of dealing with my own shit right now which I don’t want to talk about, so I’m all moody and won’t talk much, but if you want to hook up for dinner or something later this week, I’ll happily listen to you talk about your trip while I’m checking you out.”
We need to make an “Awkward heatthrob Gooky” meme image.
Rory Williams springs to mind.
Good mix of awkward & pure sex appeal.
RIFT STUFF FIXED! 😮
Well, sort of. SDK 0.2.5 was crashing on startup, something had to be changed in the initialisation stuff but now seems to be ok. Also they seem to have fixed the stuff that crashed during cleanup at the end!
…my distortion rendering is still borked though. Dammit.
Hey Tech TAY! I have a question!
So some dude is coming to set up my internet this Thursday and the confirmation email that Internode sent me mentioned that if you live in an apartment building, you may need to give the guy access to the Main Distribution Frame for cabling work.
Now, am I correct in assuming that he would only need access to this if the unit was not already set up for broadband? (which is should be, I was given the option of an EasyConnect Telstra plan before I moved)
The email says that any cabling is at my own cost, so I’m just a bit worried it’s going to be some massive cost that I won’t get to take advantage of if I move out in 6 months.
You should be OK. If your unit is set up and they can get the signal they need, you’ll be fine.
Also: INTERNODE BUDDIES
I hope so! Thanks!
Now I just gotta ask if I can have the day off on Thursday… 😛
I’m worried about what @strange said and wanna turn on my 360 to see if it still works, but I gotta go see the Doctor now D:
Doctor Who? Tell him he’s a jerk and I hate him!
If it’s Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman tell her I appreciate how tough it was for her to be a woman on the frontier.
If it’s Doc Brown say that Einstein’s a damn good name for a dog! Nicely done!
If it’s Doc What? ask him to say hi to Shiggy for me!
What if it’s the EMH?
Please state the nature of your medical emergency! He’s a doctor, not a psychic!
@dc I may have giggled at your almighty pop culture knowledge.
@dc
…
Please share whatever the hell you’re on cause i want that
Don’t mind me. I’m just over stimulated. Haha!
GREAT SCOTT
I’m sure yours is fine. I hope you are fine, too. Just going to Doc’s for medical certificate or are you feeling superduperbad?
Oh yeah, hope you feel better too, Jimu.
As is usually the case the infection has spread to my sinus and I have been prescribed antibiotics.
I feel not too shit.
Not too shit is good, right? Right? 😛
Good for a sick person, yeah
Weekend report:
– Resubbed to PS Plus \o/
– Downloaded Guacamelee and played for about 30 mins. Don’t like it. The platforming is imprecise, the combat feels janky and I don’t give a shit about the plot. 🙁
– Played some of The Guided Fate Paradox. If anyone is fence-sitting, don’t waste your money. Plays really badly, plot is nonsense, characters are uninteresting (aside from having nice designs) and the game is amazingly chatty. I’ve got a high tolerance for talky games, but not when the dialogue is just for the sake of dialogue. “Shut up and let me play” was all I was thinking.
– Got in touch with NIS America regarding my missing Disgaea D2 LE and it looks like it left the US but never arrived in Australia. 🙁 But because I’ve been buying their stuff since 07 they sent me a replacement \o/ \o/ \o/
– I spent most of the weekend playing Kantai Collection. Discovered I don’t need a VPN to play after the initial login which makes things easier. Managed to finally get a full size carrier (Hiryuu) and my very first sortie with her was hillarious. Recon plane went out, spotting the enemy fleet early. Pre-emptive airstrike from Hiryuu and Shouhou flies out, torpedoes all the enemy ships and the rest of my fleet didn’t even get to fire a shot. Perfect victory. Then the random drop from that encounter was the Sendai, which was the remaining ship I needed to complete the Sendai-class light cruiser set and unlock my third fleet. Following encounter was against some aircraft carriers, which I wiped out again (this time with some battleship support) which unlocked Akagi so now I have two carriers \o/ Currently my main fleet is the Battleship Yamashiro (flagship), Carriers Akagi and Hiryuu, Destroyer Yukikaze and light cruiser Kitakami (which I am currently trying to build to level ten so I can remodel her to a Torpedo cruiser for anti-submarine operations). My 6th slot goes either to Battleship Fuso or Light Cruisers Yura or Tenryuu depending on status and resources available. My next major goal is to get a Kongo-class (ideally Kongo or Haruna) but every time I build a Battleship I get a Fuso-class and it’s very annoying because that’s about 12 hours worth of resources. 🙁
– Kantai Collection is insanely addictive and no one should play it. Upside is that I think I’m actually learning some Kanji readings while playing it.
– Still have absolutely no idea what to take away with me to NZ next week.
Upvote for replacement Disgaea LE!
Are you serious!? RE: Guacamelee
I found the platforming really good and the combat takes learning but once you get it you can get some serious combos going.
Agree about the plot, though. It’s pretty nonsense.
I just don’t like it. I can’t put my finger on it but the platforming feels really broken to me. Also with the plot being uninteresting I’m not hugely motivated to stick with it when I don’t like how it plays.
That’s fair.
I’d say stick with it but if you’re already struggling you’ll probably just end up hating it more.
I might give it another go at some point later since everyone but me seems to love it. But everyone seemed to love the developer’s previous game (that Mutant Blobs thing) and I thought that was pretty awful too.
AH MAN! Mutant Blobs Attack was great!
I think we may have just established that at some fundamental level our taste in games may not be compatible.
Love Guac couldn’t give two shits for blob
Related question – have you played Rogue Legacy? Because you’ve pretty well summed up my impressions of that game. I really wanted to like it too!
Yes. I thought it was complete trash too, absolutely can’t understand why everyone raves about it. Went in wanting to like it but really don’t.
I haven’t tried Spelunky yet because I’m worried that it’ll have the same issues for me.
“The platforming is imprecise”
ha ha! Good one, as if.
My brain is bursting with a creative idea… so hard to concentrate on anything else.
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the cloooock!
But then I’ll hurt my hand!
Sprawl 2 *swoons*
Take 5, grab a notepad, brain dump, and then come back to it at the end of the day.
4.5 A5 pages so far :p
As if 5 is enough. 🙂
I pre-ordered Lego Marvel Super Heroes a few months back…
Just remembered now…
I REGRET NOTHING \o/
So last week I mentioned that terrible tendency in open-world games to complete all possible sidequests and exploration options before advancing the main quest? Happening again in Assassin’s Creed 4.
Not sure if it really counts as a spoiler because it’s more of a game mechanic, but whatever:
So you capture forts to uncover sections of the sea, much like using radio towers in Far Cry 3, or Synching Viewpoints in any other AC game. So of course, immediately I capture as many of them as I can to reveal the entire map… or the entire map except for one section. That section was infuriating the hell out of me until eventually I gave up and did some more story missions. Turns out there’s a story mission to unlock that section, in a tutorial on how to take forts.
Mm… post-mastery tutorials.Yeah, but do you know how to Run?
You gotta sprint before you can be told how to crawl.
Finally have headphones again, and it only took 8km of walking up and down hills (and a stop at Hungry Jacks) to get them 😀
http://i.imgur.com/ZewecVJ.jpg They take batteries, which is interesting…
Batteries = active noise-cancelling. So good to drown out some constant noise, like on plane/train.
I know it has (fairly average) active noise cancelling, but even without “turning them on” the sound quality is kinda poor. Very soft and drowned out. They sound great with the noise cancelling turned on though, so I’m not 100% positive whether it’s just for the noise cancelling or not.
Some headphones require it to be turned on otherwise they don’t work properly (or at all).
Path of Exile is not a good game and yet I can’t stop playing. Dammit.
I found it mostly visually pleasing and the sound quality pretty decent. I liked the IDEA of the skill/talent tree system, but not the limitations that sprang out of it and the length of time it took to get fun toys. Leaving shit on the ground is the only way to progress too, and that plays fucking havoc with my OCD and is the primary reason I stopped playing. You simply cannot explore the entire map, pick up everything, return to vendor when full, then come back and continue. It’s simply not possible, thanks to respawns and taking bloody forever to ‘jog’ at a relative crawl.
I’ve only been picking up blue and yellow items. White items are trash and seem to only be worthwhile if they’re the right item with the right sockets.
That’s pretty much how Diablo games work anyhow. There are meant to be trash items that you ignore so that you excited when you see something yellow.
‘Meant’ to be played? Pfft. No, Diablo is MEANT to be played with you as a human vacuum cleaner who returns to town every three minutes to drop shit off at the vendor.
At least with town portalling, Diablo doesn’t punish my pathological compulsion to pick up every bit of shiny possible. And Torchlight even caters to it. 🙂 (God bless you, magical trading kitty.)
And then there are trinkets that aren’t even worth picking up.
By the time you get to act 3, portal scrolls are plentiful.
EVERYTHING IS WORTH PICKING UP.
Everything.
Well, not in Path of Exile, because it means you can’t get past respawns. But in NORMAL ARPGs it is. 1 gold is something, dammit! They all add up!
It’s starting to feel like even the blue items aren’t worth picking up.
On the other hand, 10 hours into the game and I have literally no concept of value in this game.
And this is why Torchlight and Torchlight 2 got it right with the Pet to sell the items for you as you kept going with a now empty inventory :). Torchlight 2 made it even better with the shopping list, so darn good!
I’m the same, I need to pick up everything and compare it with stuff I have. I was playing multiplayer but got too frustrated by everyone running off while I was comparing gear. Seems to happen a lot when I’m playing multiplayer RPG’s. =(
I like it. I can see the flaws and they still haven’t fixed the shadows which keep bugging out and crippling my fps but I still play and enjoy it.
Me and a friend played that back in like… April. Once. So shit, wouldn’t play again 😛
It scratches the clicky itch and it’s free. I haven’t gotten back to it in quite a while though. Not high up enough on the priorities.
Crazy day is crazy, but we did just apply for $500,000 worth of grant funding.
#Redworkshardforachange
gah, why do I always get jobs where they just keep overloading and overloading me until I hit breaking point and quit.
This is why I’ve never had a job for more than about a year and a half,
edit: and I am good at coping with stress and big workloads, this is just getting unreasonable
Maybe you should stop making meth!
In all seriousness, my friend — hope you’re okay. 🙁
maybe I should consider making Meth, Walter White seemed to have it pretty easy relatively speaking 😛
Or become a bootlegger! #BoardwalkEmpirePals
You need to learn to pretend that the easy jobs are hard and take a long time.
This is the Australian way.
@jimu what’s your name on pokemon?
“I<3Trubbish”
Also, does anyone else feel guilty about making their pokemon roll around in pokemon amie?
I don’t know what that means, but yes. Yes, I do.
Wait, do they do that because of the gyro or something?
I just thought they were having a fun time rolling around!
If you use roller skates or the bike they roll from side to side.
I generally have Super Training as my default lower screen. My Pokemon need to stay in shape.
Never used it. I spend all my time on the Player Search System.
You are missing out D=
Haven’t done much in that yet, too keen on the main game.
Jimu Hsien
If the Kinect wants to spy on me then fine. But I ain’t changing what I do in front of the TV in my home and they’re just gonna have to deal with that.
*takes off pants*
But they’ll sell your measurements to the evil underwear corporations!
“We noticed you are slightly below average and have subscribed you for relevant enhancement offers from our partners.
Also your Pizza has been ordered”
Hahaha.
Wouldn’t that be a blow to the ego.
Don’t play Xbone games if it’s cold in your house.
EDIT: Wait were you actually referring to it ordering your pizza for you?
Both. “You’re fat and have a tiny penis. Eat some pizza fatty.”
All those kids yelling at me on CoD will finally have a reference point.
Really hope The Walking Dead season two or The Wolf Among Us episode two isn’t far away. I’m in the mood to play one of these games!
I want to play more of The Wolf Among Us so much. SO MUCH. I’M MORE HYPED FOR IT THAN I AM THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 2, AT THE MOMENT.
I’ve got more Walking Dead hype, but would happily play either. I love the tone and atmosphere of Wolf Among Us and the whole crime angle to the plot…
A lot of it is probably just because I’ve played the first episode of Wolfie, so I’m more invested into its arc than I am with Walkies.
Same here.
You weren’t a fan of TWD season one, though. Right?
Not entirely no.
Ha! I’ll be waiting for the full seasons. Worth it!
But post episode conversations! POST EPISODE CONVERSATIONS!
I wouldn’t know, I didn’t play WDS1 til it was on Vita.
usually I’m a million years behind you lot anyways D:
Oh gods. My 12 year old played some of her music to my 4 year old and now he’s running around singing his version of that “Acapella”song: “oh oh oh oh ohh ohh oh oh oh oh ohh ohh thought you were a perfect lubber”. 😛
That calls for groundings all round!
I would do that…but I’m dead from all the laughing I did. 😛
I just you tubed it.
Is that what passes for music these days?
Erggh, it is so annoying. It gets stuck in your head and you just want to stab yourself in the face.
This! So much this. 🙁
I don’t think she understands what the word acapella means.
She really does do it acapella later in the song though. (I wish I didn’t know this.)
She does it for like 2 bars, and is then like “BRING THE BEAT BACK!”
Oh god. I just realised what song this is about. One of the girls at work likes that song. She has terrible taste in music.
Technically it means “in the style of the church,” or something along those lines.
I do not know what sort of church she has been going to.
(And I’m sure we could discuss that it’s called Acapella, not A Capella, but shhh, let my bad joke sit)
Worse. Its what’s POPULAR in music these days 🙁
It’s way scarier than @strange’s music too. WAY SCARIER.
Okay, thankfully we all now just have the Avengers cartoon theme song stuck in our heads instead. Phew!
Getting stressed wondering if Mrs. @shane liked the quilt I made for her. He was supposed to be home an hour ago! Why haven’t I heard anything?! 😛
He might be still recovering from getting to ride a train twice in two days!
He perhaps he wrapped himself up in said quilt on the journey home, and promptly fell asleep, thus missing his stop!
Kids are down and the quilt is amazing! Mrs Shane will send through a message soon, but just to put your mind at ease, it was a huge hit.
Mrs. Shane’s looking to send a message?
Oh man, that sounds ominous. I’d lock the doors and windows tonight, Strange. (Probably worth doing every night now that I think about it.)
Huge hit? She’s hired a hit man! D:
Yay! Now I can stop worrying that you put it in your checked baggage and it was lost or something. 😛
@scree YAY! Thanks
Eevee is mega-cute
no problem, what gender was it?
Dunno, didn’t look.
Want to check real quick?
he a boy
Then I’ll give you a girl. You can then get all the eeveelutions =D
Did you lift the tail?
u no it 😉
Why doesn’t anyone do PR vids?
Mine’s awesome
#pokemans
I have one.
When do you get online sos I kins watch?
I’m playing as we speak.
Mack Daddy?
Tis me.
You went off the lines 🙁
HAH HAH! Your vid is classic!!
I made mine all about my precious Avalugg, then I realised Avalugg kinda sucks 🙁
4038 – 6136 – 9136
Cool cool, mines 4098-3661-1533 🙂
I made one with my Amaura. She’s so cute!
I think I added you the other day. My FC is 2063-0450-7288
WE ARE FRIENDS
How was my PR vid???
A hell of a lot better than mine
I spent a fair bit of time on it…
Is this something I should check out? I pretty much skipped the building entirely.
Maybe. you just make a short clip, like a music video. It can star you and a Pokemans of your choice. You can pick backgrounds and animations and sound effects and music.
I had fun.
VLR came in the mail today, time to get all the endings! \o/
VLR is soooooooooooooooooo good
feel free to come to me to discuss stuff after you’ve finished it!
Will do, I’ve finished 999 a year and a bit ago, hopefully I can still get the references.
I neeeearly traded @scree a Weedle named Doodle and rethought that.
#PretendGentleman
I wondered what happened =P
@Scree is an artist. I’m guessing she spends much of her time doodling.
I wouldn’t call myself an artist…
Yet, Evidently, I would.
because you wouldn’t know art if it hit you?
I’ll have you know that I once had a very nice Vase fall of it’s perch and hit me. Boy did I know it.
I made that upWait. They keep the names when traded?
Not sure if that means I should stay away from trading or start right now.
And the other guy can’t change it! 😉
I thought you could go to the Centre in the second city and talk to the guy who “appraises” the names, but really can just change them?
Only your own.
The ones that have you as original trainer
Hey, my pals at Space Pyrates who some of you met at Supanova on the weekend are doing an improv comic!
http://www.twitter.com/spacepyrates/status/399815600525938688
I hope they go with my sentient pirate ship and his magic guitar in the “sexy” bar!
I went with Robot Lawyer and his magic guitar in an underground Mechanic’s workshop!
IT’S RATED AAAAARGH!
Never forget, peoples. XD
We’re all monsters now.
Aww man, where’s all the Supanova write-ups!?
Well, here’s mine.
In short, I had one of the best days of this entire year so far. It was that good. And I only spent about 4 hours there in total. My cousins and one of their friends always come down from Maryborough for it, and I usually think about going but never actually do. The one I went to back in 2011 was a massive let-down. It was cramped and uncomfortable and I ended up getting the flu. But I did meet Robin Hobb and get to have a bit of a chat with her, which was awesome.
But this year, I knew I had to go. George R R Martin was going to be there, and so was Garry Chalk, the voice of Optimus Primal in Transformers: Beast Wars. That character was my hero growing up.
So I waited until the very last moment to buy my ticket. About 9pm on Friday night. And I just hoped that they could scan the barcode on my phone. I showed up way early, but the lineup was already huge to the main building where Artists Alley and the panels/signings were. While in line I met up with my cousins+friend. They didn’t want to stay in line, so we decided to head down to look at the other building first. There were so many awesome things that I wanted to buy. I’ve resolved to going back next year with a bucketfull of cash. They even had a bunch of Takara Masterpiece Transformers and G1 reissues like Devastator. They even had a gorram Fortress Maximus.
Did I mention I was dressed as a half-arsed Ice King from Adventure Time? One of my highlights was getting a photo with a really good Varys cosplayer, and I asked him if he’d help install the TRUE king on the throne. THE ICE KING! He totally agreed. Brandon, my cousin’s friend who spent the day in a Deadpool morphsuit, got stopped for photos every couple of minutes. He’s usually so shy and reserved, but as soon as he put that suit on he just owned it.
Another cool moment was a bunch of Adventure Time kids came up to me. The Finn challenged me to a duel, and Princess Bubblegum ran away in fear. I hoisted ,my wedding ring up and yelled, “It’s ok! I’ve already found my princess! You don’t need to be scared!”
Then we migrated up to the other building. I went upstairs and bought my photo token with Garry Chalk and I had an hour and a half to kill before it. I went downstairs and thought about trying my luck with getting A Game of Thrones signed by George R R Martin. I located him pretty quickly, and no sooner than someone joined the line behind me, they capped it. No more signings until after lunch. I only waited in line for about 25 minutes before getting a signature, and he was just the nicest dude. He asked ME if I was having a good time! He reminded me of a little Hobbit Santa Claus. I just wanted to take him home and make him a cup of tea.
Then I went back upstairs and mulled around the photography section, waiting for my photo with Garry. I ran into another dude who was waiting for a photo with him too. We both bummed each other out, because we BOTH had the bright idea of bringing our Optimus Primal figures with us for our photos. But his was the original 1995 figure, and mine was the 2005 re-release with updated face sculptures and cartoon-accurate paint applications. We decided that Garry would choose whose figure was better.
And I have to warn you guys… this is pretty much the nerdiest, fanboy thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. I’m not proud of it, but I would never take it back. I introduced myself, and asked him if he could say something for me. He asked me what I’d like him to say. And I said, “can you say…. that’s just prime?”
He put his arm around me, pulled me close and said it right into my ear. In that moment, I was transported back to Prehistoric Earth, and it wasn’t Garry Chalk standing next to me. It was Optimus Freaking Primal. I blubbered some kind of sentence out and I’m pretty sure I audibly said “Oh my god…” as the hairs stood up on the back of my neck.
In the photo, my wife says I look happier than in our own wedding photos.
Here’s some pics.
And after the photo with Garry, I was pretty much ready to head. I had a great day, and next year my cousins and I are going to be going as a themed cosplay group. Cannot wait.
Every paragraph needs to have its own special post so I can upvote each paragraph. Awesome write-up. Always love reading about what incredible times people have.
The other awesome thing? I was the only Ice King I saw in the timespan that I was there.
I was thinking of doing a write up but the first four hours or so involved me cowering in corners and hiding in panel lines. Did see Joe Flanigan from Stargate Atlantis who openly mocked Stargate Universe a whole damn lot. Also saw Rikki Simons from Invader Zim. Second half I worked up the courage to go see Shane and Space Pyrates and then Sughly and Freeze found me and we hung out. (We also saw a sketch-off between three comic illustrators!)
After the gang left Popdart5 and I moseyed around Shane’s booth. I really hope you didn’t mind, Shane. D: Then we met a cool guy named Joe! TRUE STORY!
He minded hanging out with you so much that he even chose to go out with you for foods afterwards!
Stockholm Syndrome is a weird thing!
Wait, you were @shane’s booth babe?
Hooray for mocking Stargate Universe!
I love me some Stargate but I could never get into Universe.
Haha! I liked Universe, but I can understand being riled up at cancelling one series for another even though the other one was still going strong.
I don’t really have much vitriol for universe. I Just didn’t find it interesting enough to watch.
It’s one of those shows that got better the longer it went. Loved it at the end of its run, liked it at the start.
Mocking it was a bit harsh. 🙁 I really liked Universe. It was cancelled way before its time. At least Atlantis got its time to shine.
It was pretty tongue in cheek though.
I don’t care, he’s on my list now! 😛
I think I’d be the same if I got to meet Peter Cullen, who played Optimus Prime and Coran in Voltron. And meeting George RR Martin would be awesome. I’m keeping an eye on who’s coming to Oz Comic Con in Melbourne because I’m keen to go.
Urghhhh I have to go back home again tomorrow 🙁 Mum’s pushing me to stay until the weekend, but no. I’ll just catch the bus back here on Thursday morning, or Wednesday night if I can.
And egad, this isn’t going to go well. I managed to get in an argument with my brother over Ultimate Ears vs Klipsch. We’re both very stubborn over this :l
Easy. They’re both terrible.
They’ve both gotten pretty shit compared to what they used to be to be honest.
I went with Klipsch on what, If i remember correctly, was your advice!
Though that was a year or two ago now and I wasn’t after top of the line, just something better then the default apple ones. They are definitely better then then apple ones.
Aha I remember that! Yeah, as far as earphones go the Klipsch s4’s are still amazing for their price and are by far their best (portable) product, but their new styling and products (particularly headphones) leave a lot to be desired. They’re going after the Beats crowd now. On the other end of the spectrum I would never buy another pair of UE earphones, but would choose their headphones over the Klipsch ones.
So now that it’s found its way to its home I can share with you all how Mrs. @shane’s quilt turned out: http://www.craftsy.com/project/view/classic-quilt/142296
It’s the largest quilt I’ve ever made, with 216 five-inch squares. It’s a monster, just like me! 😛
Nicely done, Strange! I saw it in person on Thursday and was blown away! So damn good!
I believe the phrase skills to pay the bills was said repeatedly.
I showed the photo to my Mum who is a quilter and she loves it.
Midori, Midori Mix, Bacardi, Tequila.
All over ice.
Thrown into a bullet blender.
Served with a straw.
*glug*
So damn good.
That sounds revoltingly sweet.
It’s really nice!
The Bacardi takes off a bit of the sweetness, but it’s still there.
My Boss should be so happy I brought a new motorbike. If I wasn’t broke I think I’d have quit today.
As it is I’m going to start looking for a new job tomorrow.
Anyone know of any jobs in NSW for a 28 year old male with little in the way of formal qualifications past year 12, experience in retail, policing and security monitoring and a few thousand hours on video games?
You could try my job. They’re always hiring and guaranteed to have a store not too far from you.
If memory serves you do engraving and related things don’t you?
I’m not sure how good I’d be though as my handwriting is terrible and my drawing isn’t much better.
I imaging it would be a fun job in many ways though getting to see the results of your work (when not dealing with arsehole customers though, but you get them in most industries.)
Yeah, Mister Minit. Don’t worry, my handwriting and drawing are beyond terrible.
It’s decent money and the work isn’t overwhelming. Plus as a general rule you get to work pretty autonomously so don’t have anyone consistently riding your ass.
And as far as the customers you get about 4-5 horrible ones a month and sometimes feels like it’s all you dealing with until you realise that’s out of 1000-1500 people.
Just go to a few shopping centres and drop a resume off at a few (because half the staff are lazy assholes that will just stuff it in a cupboard and forget about it) and try giving the head office a call.
Going through playing some older games from this gen. Arkham Asylum, Fallout:New Vegas, Darksiders and Mirrors Edge. Having a blast.
The tail end of this gen hasn’t been fantastic with only a small handful of stand outs. Going back I’m realising 2009-2011 was probably the best time for it.
The Walking Dead 4×05
First half of the episode I found pretty slow and I suspect that’s because it was character based in a show with not really hugely compelling characters. I find the world a lot more compelling than characters as a whole. Got real good in the second half though. Loved the stuff with Rick and Carl and also Hershel defending the cell block. Get the feeling the worst is over on this front. Not sure how I feel about the end with The Governor though. When we saw someone feeding rats to the zombies a few weeks back I strongly suspected it might’ve been him.
Hopefully this shift in what has been a good storyline won’t be for the worse!
=D
I thought it was Lizzie feeding her pet zombie the rats. They were coming from inside the prison, not outside.The worst of the flu is over, all the non relevant characters are dead and someone we gave a shit about died, so I imagine that’s it.
Not quite sure how I feel about the governor returning. =/
Oh good point with the Governor. I thought at first that the flu might’ve been ‘released’ at the prison. Like man made and all that. Do you think we’ve seen the last of Carol?People who aren’t dead have a habit of coming back in the walking dead, so yes, we most likely will.Mum predicts she’ll team up with the governor
This is the first season I’ve watched, but Carol didn’t really strike me as a bad guy. Just doing what she could to protect her people with the best intentions in mind. Then again, there could be all this history I don’t know about.The Walking Dead is getting a spin-off on AMC, though. That character could end up there and I wouldn’t mind. Maybe we’ll see them in the Telltale game which I would love too! 😀
Carol lost her daughter in season 2. In season 1 we met her abusive husband. She is tough as nails. She isn’t really a bad person, but it wasn’t the best thing to do as the people had a chance to recover.What Rick was saying was that in Season 2 his best friend who was banging Rick’s wife Lori, tried to kill Rick and so Rick had to kill Shane in self defense.
Oooooh, that’s cool. I assumed all that history happened before the zombie apocalypse. You’ve got me interested to go back. (Even though I haven’t liked any of the eps I’ve seen before this season.)
Liked all the symbolism with the watch and all that too.The series only refers to things that happened in previous seasons.
Which all happens when Rick wakes up.
Even the opening has symbolism. It was more prevalent in the first 3 seasons. In fact, I don’t think they’ve changed the third season opening for this seasonI love the theme song though. So good. Bear McCreary did the awesome music on Battlestar Galactica too. The imagery is scary.
I also love the theme songI was going to buy it from iTunes, but I hate iTunes
http://i.imgur.com/Hc1OtgT.jpg
Finished Path of Exile and that last boss is some bullshit. I was a fairly glass cannon build but he just wrecked me. Barely gave me a chance to attack in the small gaps between his attacks and if I got caught out, I just died.
Lag spikes did not help.
Luckily, his second form was so much weaker that I could just stand next to him and fill him with arrows.
Never playing that game again.
I hate having to drive in the rain. Means I have to drive with the windows up.
I hate driving with the windows up.
How was climbing girl?
Tanned 😛
I assume you two are a couple now! Congrats! I SAID CONGRATS! >:|
There are two of us.
The maths checks out.
Math was never my strong suit so I’ll take your word for it. 😛
She was also driving with the windows up.
You just can’t look cool in the car unless the windows are wound down and you’re slowly nodding your head along to Public Enemy being blasted to everyone in a 500m radius!
Extra points when it’s 3 pasty white guys!
*Bellowing along to Judas Priest at the top of your lungs
😎
I’m always blasting cutesy J-pop with my windows down.
In all seriousness though I just feel like my senses are dampened if I can’t hear the sounds of things going on around me
That’s when you make car sounds yourself!
Hi all! I’m home!
Currently putting together a write-up of the weekend. Did anyone write-up the Thursday meats? Looking for some words to copy/paste 😛
No write ups from Thursday except that you live up to the hype. You should put that in your write-up.
Oh, internet.
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I don’t care how old it is, it’s never not funny.
All I’ve done tonight since the kids went to bed is watch Mr. Strange play GTAV and then watch the latest episode of Castle. Which was bad. Really bad. Think I’m going to give up on the show. I have loads of things lined up to watch and don’t need to waste time on bad shows. I’ll miss Ryan and Esposito though.
Made the same call for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I understand that lots of people like it but I’m not one of them and I feel like I’ve given it a chance to win me over and it hasn’t happened. :'(
Sleepy Hollow, though? Totally won me over!
I really like sleep hollow as well.
I found Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tolerable for the humor but that’s slowly wearing off.
I’m loving SHIELD more with each episode. I can see it turning into something really special. I always tend to give first seasons of stuff more leeway because it does take time for shows to find their feet,more often than not.
As for Sleepy Hollow, I’m watching it because my husband likes it but I’m finding it a bit boring and don’t really care about anyone in it.
Call me when SHIELD actually gets special! 😛
I find it special already. So there! 😛
Breaking Bad near the end of season 5
I’ve never wanted anyone dead as much as I want Walter White dead.Yep.
At that point, I was with you.
He does some pretty cool stuff in the final episode however.
Have only the final episode to watch tonight.
Nothing to see here…
Finally got around to getting rid of the beard.
Moustache engage 😛
Oh, @dc. Meant to mention, Climbey *did* seem rather pushy for me to start going on Thursdays as well. First asked me if school finishing would mean that I’d be climbing more (then accused me of laziness when I was all “ehhhh…” about it), then later when leaving was asking if I’d be in on Thursday. I told her Mondays. Yup.
And I totally didn’t just reply fail this to Crazyguy up there somehow.
Ooooh, Transientmind-esque!
…
In the sense you’re being firm and decisive. Playing hard to get and all that.
BUT he would’ve asked her out ages ago, man. *strokes patchy chin stubble*
I suppose the lack of asking people out is Gooky-esque. You so craaaaazy.
Who’ve you asked out lately? 😛
That’s why I’m so invested, man. I missed my shot. That ship has sailed. Let me be your cautionary tale. Also, people find me repulsive and you pleasing to the eye. You should totally take advantage of that. XD
Maybe you should cosplay as Confident Gooky, escape into the character. 😛
There’ll be another shot. After all, I’ve missed mine plenty of times >_>
I should be my own cautionary tale, but I am generally too dumb to learn from my mistakes so they keep happening.
Haha! Same here, man. Same here. Maybe we should take up drinking? WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Also, here’s a song by The Eagles, man. There’s wisdom here. *stares off into distance*
😀
@dc I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man.
/obligatory
@dc There is always another shot. Asking chicks out and getting rejected, bad relationships that I screwed up instead of just not being interested enough? I’m pretty sure I’d be up around 75% strike rate, there.
The key is to cast a really wide net, see. You’ll catch more fish that way.
I only just saw your edit and now rescind your upvote for the repulsive comment.
Also typing this out has given me massive deja vu. Typo corrections and all.
I like to think @mrtaco said something along the lines of, “Yeah, I’m not climbing on Thursdays, but since you’re desperate to see me I’ll see if I can clear my calendar for you to buy me a drink.”
OK, so… story time:
A few years back, when I was single, there was a very alternative chick at work who I hadn’t seen around much, but was who looked very fine. I’d complimented her on her ear-ornament once, in passing, and we’d always smiled when passing in the hallway. After another such passing, as I got back to my desk I remarked to a coworker next to me, “Damn, I’ve really gotta ask her out.”
Coincidentally at that time, one of the women in the office who chatted with her a lot was just walking away from her, so I got up from my desk and walked over to ask, “So, what’s the story with you two? She’s around a lot.” (The rumour was that they were probably dating, but if you don’t ask you don’t know.)
She replied, “Yeah, we broke up, but we’re still friendly, y’know.”
“So it’s definitely over huh?”
“Yeah.” …She didn’t look that sad.
“Reason I ask, is because I wanted to know if you want to go out for a drink sometime.”
She looked a little surprised, but pleasantly so, and said, “Oh! Yeah, sure!”
“Great. Give me your number and I’ll call you to tee something up.”
I go sit back down at my desk, and the coworker I talked to before was staring at me like I was a space alien. When I asked, “What?” she complained, “People don’t actually say they should ask someone out then just go and DO it.”
“Why not?”
“Because… I don’t know, they just don’t! There’s… dwelling and stewing and worrying and building up nerve and stuff!”
“That seems terribly counter-productive.”
“But what if she’d said no?”
“Then I’d get to stop wasting my time on her and look somewhere more promising. Win:win.”
“Besides, isn’t she into women?”
I just shrugged, smiled, and got back to working.
(The relationship didn’t work out, in the end. She and her ex were totally not over it, she just didn’t know it. So eventually I broke it off, seeing that this wasn’t going to end well. She was great in all other respects, though, so the time was definitely spent well.)
The moral of the story is that you just do it.
Do what? Only go for lesbians?
No, the moral is to ask! Always! No matter what the apparent obstacles might be!
Utter awe.
It really is as easy as just asking. If they say no, you just dust off your ego and go look elsewhere.
It isn’t! First you have to figure out what you’re asking. And then there’s the realisation that if they say yes, you’ll have to follow up on it. And then if you follow up on it, you’ll actually have to figure out how to be an engaging and interesting individual instead of just standing there in total awkward silence which is about 95% likely to happen so obviously this is a terrible idea and should be shot down immediately.
I don’t think a no is what I’m most afraid of 😛
Stop thinking! You’ll hurt yourself. 🙂
@transientmind Far too late for that 😛
You need to start giving less fucks, my man.
Law of universes states that as soon as you don’t give a shit, a banquet of pancakes will plop itself on your table.
There’s nothing wrong with admitting to the girls that you have no idea what you’re doing, but you’d like it to continue. If she’s interested, you’ll potentially have some fun; learn a lot; grow a lot; maybe get a gf.
Playing hard-to-get. Good strategy.
I think this has veered off into impossible-to-get. 😀
…Playing?
A work in progress. The weekend write-up. HEre’s what I have so far. I’m going to bed.
Wednesday. Out from Canberra airport.
The portable bag weigher I bought has paid for itself; my suitcase gets checked with 200g clearance. No excess baggage charges this time around.I don’t like the default seat I’ve been assigned, so change it up a bit and opt for a window seat. As it turns out, there’s no one sitting next to me. Pretty good decision, that one. Spend the trip alternately reading East of Eden and wondering how the bloody hell planes stay in the air. They’re huge metal tubes full of heavy people and bags. Start thinking of landing as a partially-controlled plummet, and can’t get the image out of my head. Only mildly nervous. Return attention to book.
I’m staying with Joe and Linda, two friends from a previous life who I haven’t seen in way too long, since about 2008 actually.
Who watches the watchmen? Actually, it turns out that I do. Having not seen the Watchmen movie before, I spend my Wednesday afternoon watching it. Good film, though not much more than a dumb action romp. Probably a good move to jettison all the claims to literature that the comic aspired to, but still… it left a void.
Chinese food is on the menu tonight, and I share a lovely meal with my congenial hosts. We play a little Injustice, which I haven’t played before. Addictive brawler.
Thursday. I don’t know what I’m doing.
When I come out of my room in the morning, this is waiting for me. #miseryA promise is made to ‘stage’ an actual hobbling photo, but this never takes place. (Which is to say that the hobbling goes ahead, but with no photo).
I’ve caught the bus in to what is apparently Queen St Mall. The bus driver helpfully points me in the right direction, and I dutifully walk. He drives away, my lone and only safety net (such as it is) whisked away from me in a cloud of stifling petrol fumes.
I arrive at Hungry Jacks, see no sign of @dc or @strange, and immediately attempt (and fail) to look nonchalant as I lean against the wall and check my phone. There’s a message from DC that says “Let us know when you’re around.” I reply very sociably: “I’m around” and as I hit send, I see @strange and @dc standing about ten metres away.
I don’t really want to say too much about @dc here, because it could quite easily veer into Scrubs-esque-guy-love territory, and no one really wants that. But I’ll say this much: he doesn’t disappoint, and the way he talks is reassuringly similar to the way he types.
As we all know, @strange is pretty awesome. She has made this fantastic quilt for Mrs Shane, and presents it to me at about this point in the story. Her son is a cool kid, and funny. At a later stage today, he will get a balloon and proceed to chase me around JB with it. We keep playing the game right up until Strange starts yelling at us to stop. I feel like a kid who’s just been busted eating the teacher’s chalk or lighting matches behind the desk (ummm…. neither of which I did ever as a kid).
I think I might have overstated the extent to which I freak out over socialising because both @dc and @strange treat me like I’m about to burst into tears.
@jimu and @beardymcmuttonchops make it for lunch! They are both very friendly, cool guys, so naturally I don’t say much at all. DC very proudly announces that Jimu is white, and not Asian. Thanks, DC.
Beardy’s Kickstarter starts soon (or might have started, I don’t recall, sorry), so we should all support him!
Because I have already had a big Hungry Jacks breakfast, I elect to consume just the $1.20 thickshakes for lunch. I order a Red Velvet one and a strawberry one, and for the life of me, I cannot tell which is which as I drink them.
DC asks me who I am most nervous about meeting tonight, and without hesitation I single out @dkzeitgeist and @transientmind. DC then proudly tells me (for the first of several times) about the meat where he and Transientmind were the only attendees. It’s not a particularly reassuring story, the way he tells it.
He walks me back to my bus stop, but tries to send me underground. I know that at least that much is wrong, and manage to foil his attempt to sabotage my travelling plans.
By the time I’ve returned to Joe and Linda’s, more guests have arrived: Linda’s sister, niece and nephew.
Thursday II. C-words
I am desperately fashionable in a high-vis vest as I set up my stall.My banner is up and looking pretty schmick, even if I do think so myself. Given the Game of Thrones focus on this con, I’m kicking myself for not including the “Game of Thrones – galactic version” review quote on the banner.
By the time it’s done, it’s 6:30, and there’s no time to shower, no time to change, nothing. Just jump on a bus with some books and head to the meat.
Realising that in my haste, I have books but no pens, I lug the bloody things all over the Queen St Mall looking for a place that sells pens. I have to hide as I pass the Hungry Jacks where we are all scheduled to meet. No one mentions it later on, so I think I get away with it. After weaving my way through a rabbit warren of corridors, I find a Target, and buy 8 pens for five bucks. Now I can return to the group, sweaty yet triumphant. I think I’m even vaguely on time – if not, no one is petty enough to mention it.
@dkzeitgeist, who proudly introduces himself as my biggest fan (or maybe was christening me as his, I’m not entirely sure. Actually, in retrospect, it was probably this one, because I don’t think he owns one of my books at this point in the story) presents me with a present that manages to be simultaneously funny and thoughtful: a cassette recording of the Zeitgeist episode I would be missing tomorrow due to Supanova. It actually legitimately feels kind of cool to own some Zeitgeist merch, and I realise that I’m not so far above the compulsion to collect things as I thought I was.
Within five minutes of meeting DAN!, I’ve managed to imply that he ejaculates prematurely (at the sad expense of his partner’s satisfaction), and when he leaves at the end of the night, I call him a cunt. I’m pretty sure I make the very best of impressions.
@transientmind is everything he has been hyped up to be. He conducts himself with an effortless-seeming suave charm that is somewhat awe-inspiring and jealousy-inspiring, but somehow retains an approachable air that prevents him from being entirely intimidating.
I keep the promise I made to him earlier, and we each purchase a glass of milk from the bar at the Beach House. This costs us four dollars apiece, and I make a secret vow never to keep another promise to another human being ever. A valuable lesson indeed.
As I have met @freezespreston previously, I shall only focus on the bad points this time around. When my massive burger arrives, he suggests that I cut it in two to help me eat it. I realise now that this was a masterful troll, as the god-awful mess that results causes me to spill burger bits out of just about every bite I attempt. Pretty sure my eating put everyone else off their food. Sorry, gents.
@sernobulus is there, but we don’t get a chance to talk too much. I use my ace-in-the-hole way too early, shouting out “DARK SOULS” \o/ the moment I meet him, and running headfirst into uncomfortable silence territory. Pretty sure he wisely avoids making eye contact with me after that.
@sughly is there. That’s all I can say about the man at this stage, because he carefully sits as far away from me as possible when we go for dinner.
@beardymcmuttonchops sits up the other end of the table with DAN! and Sughly. I think he might have had enough of me. Fair enough, too.
@dc is a monster. He wants to elbow the people sitting at the table to his left. For no reason. Or maybe it’s because I tell him to. Whatever.
I offload more books with a carefully targeted range of approaches, including “Does anyone want a book before they go?” and a more individual approach: “Do you want a book before you go?” As you can see, my creativity is on full display tonight. No one wants me to sign their book in pink, and I am disappointed.
@dkzeitgeist disparagingly refers to himself a C-word as he makes for the exit, but decides to buy a book from me before he goes. So, in DAN!’s book, I write “Keep up the good work, cunt” (@dkzeitgeist, I hope this was actually funny to you, because there’s still a part of me that says “Too far, man. Too far.” Let me know, and I’ll send you a more PG13-rated personalisation. )
When I return to the house, I kick everyone’s ass at Injustice except the 11 y.o. boy.
More coming later.
Edit: Awesome page-get.
Edit 2: Stupid page-get. *edits out multiple links* grumble
Here are the links I edited out.
#1: Desperately fashionable: https://twitter.com/GrumpyOldGamer_/status/399355389164003328/photo/1
#2: What I got from DAN! https://www.dropbox.com/sc/fde4hu4vjdj1nqq/346zOSOGmn
#3: What I wrote for DAN! in return https://twitter.com/dkzeitgeist/status/398407932976443393/photo/1
Oh, and Scrubs Guy-Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4L4Uv5rf0
I MISS YOU! :'(
Manly Shane in reflective safety vest 🙂
It’s just a Reflektor…
So good! I’ve got thoughts I’ll post tomorrow, but I’m going to bed and don’t wanna ramble on an iPad keyboard. XD Amazing write-up, it’s like I was there… for seven hours…
Awesome tale, and awesome get.
Wait…. who are you and what have you done with Shane? We all know that Shane does not get page gets. His huge posts always languish and the end of pages, quickly lost as the sands of time march on
TIL: “down the other end of the table” now means one seat away, with an empty seat in between 😛
I think it’s measured by ‘distance from @dc’. 🙂
If anything, it’s too PG.
Indeed.
…Ballsack.
*taps nose, nods*
You forgot to mention that time I gave you one punch right in the face! And then a second one at the dinner. There’s photographic evidence!
Yeah, that’s a thing I do when I’m nervous I inadvertently have the same conversations over and over again. I’m sorry. D:
You should’ve hung out more with @sughly too. He lives up to the hype also!
PLUS HE MAKES ADVENTURE GAMES!
*waits for the rest of the write up*
Jesus, Shane. When I said ‘flattery will get you everywhere’, you really took it to heart! Even I might believe the hype at that rate. Also, I can’t believe there was nervousness to meat! You should be well aware I am of the opinion that Shane is good people. 🙂
But yeah, @dc is not as awkward as he makes out. White House Down meat was proof – he was great company. I’d been prepared to write off the day and just chill out at the pub enjoying a nice lunch and a drink solo, but it was better for having D.C. around. He does have a certain… nervous energy, but I like to consider that an attempt to contain enthusiasm. (It’s certainly better than no energy, and serves as a nice counter-point to my own laid-back attitude.) After all, he’s usually looking on the bright side of things (with the notable exception of anything regarding himself – stop that!), and has banter down pretty well.
— Nervous energy.
— The way he talks is reassuringly similar to the way he types.
All this is going on my resume! 😛
Just to clarify there was no dissing of you, all mentions of White House Down meat were about awkwardness on my part and how you took it in your stride. Haha!
Thanks for the kind words, you guys!
More write up, more of the time!
It’s coming.
-_-
FTL is going to get a expansion. Neato.
Also thinking very strongly about getting a PS4. It’s a tough, tough decision for me.
Muramasa Post Ending 2 Question
I have forged all the swords possible but there are still swords that I have yet to “unlock”. How do I unlock these weapons? The previous ones you had to advance the story but seeing as I need to get the swords to advance the story (ending 3) I don’t really see how to unlock it. Unless I screwed something up ok the main story.@scree @negativezero @anyoneelsethathasgotreallyfarinmuramasa
You need to beat all the white Demon Caves. Some of them drop extra swords. Suggest consulting a guide to find out which ones you need to beat. Once you forge the Oboro Muramasa (108/108 swords) you use it against the final boss to see the true ending.
I haven’t done it because the final demon cave I needed to beat is just too hard. You have to fight a Red and Blue Oni simultaneously, followed by the Horse and Bull Onis, followed by all four at once. It’s the all four at once but that ruins me, they hit too hard. 🙁
I just bought Don’t Starve and Rogue Legacy from the Humble Store. $15 for the two games, not bad.
Really tempted with chivalry…
Do it! Then arrange a chivalry night so we can shank each other.
I’ll jump on a shank battle
been playing Rocksmith 2014 a fair bit recently.
It’s pretty rad coz I’ve never had any sort of lessons on guitar or bass, so all of its picking up on certain techniques I’m less awesome at & suggesting i do its tutorials.
goddamn harmonics.
also, I discovered something awesome & mildly scary about it.
if you get good at a certain song, the on-screen notes go all semi-transparent, making it a bit harder.
then if you get better still, the on-screen notes disappear completely & you have to just play from memory. :S
also, I’ve come up with a list of things I really wanna finish before picking up a PS4 / upgrading my PC
Kingdoms of Amalur, Lost Odyssey, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Far Cry 3, Arkham Asylum & City, Max Payne 3, Space Marine, Alan Wake, Resonance of Fate, Mirrors Edge… probably a few others as well…
aaanyway… whats up with you lot?
I’m really debating whether or not I want to get the new Deus Ex Directors Cut. I played the original and was blown away with it, but got stuck at the first boss and it drained my motivation. $20 on steam looks reasonable but I might wait on a sale first.
if you’ve got the original DE:HR on Steam, the DC is $10.
if you’ve also got the Missing Link DLC, the DC is only $5…
#NotHelping
#HashTagsForHarli
#Hi@DC
I know, but I bought it on 360 -_-
When will people learn?
#DailyMasterRace
#HashTagsForHarli (why are we doing this, again? It’s important as a Twitter-er to just follow, but sometimes I like to know.)
@harli once pointed out how dumb it was using hashtags on anything other than twitter.
needless to say there was then a flood of pointless hashtags.
then #HashtagsForHarli became a thing.
Oh! In that case I totally approve.
@transientmind Indeed @35 is correct!
Always a pleasure, 35!
that just proves you’ve not met me.
I’m not often a pleasure.
Edit: Haha! Oh man, that response was too weird. TOO WEIRD.
no, it really wasn’t.
I can deal with extreme levels of weird before it becomes a problem.
Have fun with Kingdoms of Bannanarama. The last section is one long corridor over an hour long of just trash mobs.
Havent been doing the main story much. been buggering about with the faction quests.
But I’ll consider myself warned when it comes to finally doing the last bit.
Had to put together IKEA furniture on the weekend. Brought it all home, unpacked it all, realised I needed a screwdriver.
Okay, put all the pieces in a pile, go into work on Monday, buy a screwdriver on my lunch break, unpack everything again once I get home, realise I need a hammer.
Screw you, IKEA! I thought it was meant to be all allen keys!
(I’m just going to not put the back on my bookcase. I’ll just say it’s meant to be like that)
Hehe. I think you’ll find the backing might be required to keep it all straight.
Aw man. Looks like I’m buying a hammer today 😛
I bought 4 Billy bookcases once. It took until the 4th one that I built to realize that I was putting the top shelf upside down so you could see the joint screws. 😛
You have a hammer. Just hold the screwdriver backwards…
I’ve done that heaps of times.
Not because I don’t own a hammer, but more i was too lazy to go get it when i already had the screwdriver.
How did you know that’s exactly what I was doing…
I gave up after the second nail 😛
Where you work we’ve used anything from screwdriver to network switches to knock down nails XD
I find that pink desk legs are also quite acceptable.
I built an Ikea bookcase using the handle of a large knife as the hammer. They’re just small nails anyway.
Go to Kmart. For $20-30 you can buy a little toolkit with all the basics. They’re terrible quality tools but I’m fairly certain you’re not going to be constructing houses anytime soon so it will cover anything minor you need.
Seriously, it’s pretty much an essential purchase.
Good advice
I’ve been going to Kmart/Coles almost every day in my lunch break getting stuff. You don’t realise how often you need certain things until you don’t have them! 😛 Scissors, screwdrivers, nail clippers, pens, etc. So many small things!
I remember buying a pair of scissors because I needed to cut things and didn’t have anything to cut with.
So of course I buy a pair in a heat-sealed package. Which… you can’t open without cutting. The tools I needed to open the package were INSIDE THE PACKAGE. That’s some zen shit. Or pure idiocy, I haven’t decided.
i r smrt.
Chuloopa’s PSA:
Pretty sure most people would know, but in case you don’t and you care – you can get a demo of New Lego Marvel Superheros game from the official website if try before you buy is your thing. I picked it up last night and hope to spend a little time in it tonight to get my Marvel Lego fix until after the bells of weddings. \o/
Chuloopa’s PS4!?
Oh, PSA.
Chuloopa wishes 🙁
Being a plaguebearer is not as cool as Nurgle made it sound.
*cough*
That being said – you can share the plague with others!
TAKE THAT, NEXT GEN CONSOLES!
Nurgle – sharing shit before it was cool!
I’m pretty sure I’m inadvertently sharing Papa Nurgle’s gift with the staff at this school, and from there, the children.
Basically I’m making an army of snot-nosed kids.
There is going to come a time when Sketchbook and Climber stumble across these pages (because all girls are obsessive stalker psychopaths right?) and there is not a single thing in this world that would make me want to trade places with @mrtaco at that point.
If they decide to sign up, whatever name they decide to use they will forever be known as Sketchbook and Climber to us.
I’m picturing Climber as super-athletic, tanned, and outgoing while Sketchbook is kind of introverted, very artsy and intellectual, possibly with dyed hair of an unusual colour. That sound about right @mrtaco?
And Gooky has two looks that he alternates between when he’s meeting either one. One day it’ll be like Mrs. Doubtfire where they end up at the same restaurant and he sits down at the wrong table in his introverted, very artsy and intellectual clothes with possibly dyed hair of an unusual colour… THEN HILARITY WILL ENSUE!
Fairly accurate, yeah.
In that case, focus on Sketch, and let Climb take you along for the ride.
Get it, ride?
I don’t know, I’m sure it could be spun as a quirky romantic comedy bump in the road. Nothing a montage couldn’t fix!
On the plus side, he hasn’t really said anything incriminating. He’s been very carefully neutral… for the most part. He did indicate a preference at one point. (That’s right, Stalker girls. Now you have to read ALL the posts to find out which.)
All the same… it will be very uncomfortable.
When I was many years younger and too stupid to know it was a bad idea, I dated women who worked on the same floor as me. Nothing especially long-term, just sampling, doing the rounds. One day I walked into the break room to see four of them all standing around talking to each other and laughing.
They were all from different work units, I didn’t know they knew each other! They paused a moment when I entered and… I don’t know. It might’ve been my imagination, but I thought they looked amused and curious to see what I would do. I can’t imagine what the expression on my face was at the time. I definitely tried incredibly hard to control it, but for at least a second or so it must’ve been pure, unadulterated, wide-eyed horror.
I grabbed a drink of water with a forced smile, then bolted, internally screaming, “NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OF THIS.” I immediately abandoned any thoughts I’d had about a couple of the others on the floor I’d had my eye on.
Moral of the story: don’t sleep with coworkers. (Plural. One is probably fine.)
You have the best stories!
You’ve lived, Transientmind. You’ve lived.
Whereas my stories are just horrifying and off putting?
Well that strip club one you were telling us was pretty off-putting.
Thursday’s conversations really turned into #boysclub stuff, huh? D:
That’s why I’m only known here as Gooky/MrTaco and not my proper online name. Gotta keep things separate 😛
Though that said, my friend at school who became obsessed with figuring out my age found out a whole craptonne about me in the process thanks to knowing my username. Actually, she also saw me posting on here a lot at school so was able to find things on here from time to time too. Ugh.
At least this system isn’t particularly easy to search through for anything that hasn’t happened within the last couple of days.
Tickets are now on sale for PAX North. Just give me the money and I might send you a ticket, but probably not. *decisive nod*
Also, this too I guess:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/tickets-for-pax-australia-are-now-on-sale/
North? South? Midwest? What do all these options mean?
Welp. That didn’t take long for the PAX website to crash.
@chuloopa Were the xenos purged and the heretics slain? Is the Imperium safe? Were many ‘nades thrown? (Sorry I’m being impatient. I just like hearing about people’s RPG stories) 😀
I may have already registered for PAX AUS tickets. >.>
Who’s planning on going this year? I’m wondering if it’ll be the massive TAYbie meat up like this years was and therefor worth getting tickets for.
I didn’t go last year – but by all accounts it was a lot of fun. I’m seriously contemplating jumping in so I can meet people.
I’m seriously considering it.
Do it man – even without PAX it’s always fun catching up with the guys. There was no PAX last year but @pyrean and @gorzilla’s housewarming was awesome fun. PAX will just be the icing on the cake, or the broken to the furniture.
Just grabbed a @saturday ticket.
Mate bought a 3 day pass for me \o/
Would you recommend the 3 day pass? Or will a single day be enough?
Based on my experiences with it this year, you can see everything in a day, but you’ll want the three day pass so you can keep going and hanging out with people.
Did you ever go to the movies with that girl?
Twice. It’s more of a friends thing than anything. I’m still in contact with her.
Friends are good! Some of my best friends are friends!
…
*moseys off*
2 day pass would be enough but I go for the social aspect more than anything
I think it will really depend on if the get the panels sorted out. If it is feasible to see a couple of panels in a day without waiting for over an hour in lines then there will be much more to do.
There is plenty to keep you occupied for 3 days, certainly if you like boardgames it could go for a week
do I grab a 3day ticket? Gahhh! why did it have to be today it goes on sale?
Yes
Yup, I just bought two 3 day passes and realised that there’s a non-zero chance it’s the week after my sister’s wedding. I might be busy in late October.
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Tickets purchased! I went with the three-day pass.
How much are prices?
$150 for the 3-day
I may or may not have just purchased two Saturday passes. Okay let’s go with may.
It’s time to start organising the PAX 2014 Dance-Off.
It will be good to catch up with you down there. Don’t think I saw you at the last one.
I need to practice the worm. Last time I tried it I busted my chin open, spilling blood everywhere.
Or don’t practice so we have more dramatic stories to tell
3 Day pass here. Dunno if I’ll be there that long but may as well play it safe!
Got my 3 Day Pass ordered \o/
3 day pass purchased!
My son has elected to watch Jake and the Neverland Pirates in his room which means soon I’ll be able to play some more Resonance Of Fate. Looking forward to it.
I’d forgotten how fun it was jumping around acrobatically and gracefully shooting enemies. Oh and the dress-ups! Was so happy when I reached the point where you can buy new clothes. Gun parts? Who needs gun parts when you can buy clothes? 😛
Man, I found the mechanics of that really difficult to get into. The story was revealed so slowly so it didn’t grip me enough to propel me forward, and I can’t remember but I think it has that crazy Japanese fixation with rating your performance – invariably telling you that ‘A’ isn’t good enough, because you know there’s a rank S.
I should probably give it another go because it seems pretty deep… but yeah, that was a hard one to get a handle on.
I found the mechanics rough at first, but the more i played it the more i got into it.
I thought the story was a bit awkwardly paced, like the focus was disjointed. Still great, but if they’d rearranged the focus a bit it would have been amazing to me.
I liked the options for the map too, even though i got it horribly wrong and couldnt take it back.
Oh man, you can’t take it back?! That was one of my worst fears in placing those tiles!
Heh. More things to screw up and be judged by the game for. “Yeah, you fucked up that tile, buddy. And now you see why – totally never getting that chest. What’s inside? Could just be gil… could be a rare ultra-weapon component. You’ll never know. You are bad and should feel bad. Go back to corridor-shooters or something, codboi.”
…I may have overstated my perceived harsh judgement at the hands of the game. All the same, by defeating that, @strange is clearly better at games than me.
You don’t need to take it back. There are no mistakes. You can always get more tiles, you may just need to wait for a new chapter in order to open up the part of the map where enemies drop the shape of tile you need is all.
Definitely not better at games but I’m clearly more patient than you. 😛
I think a lot of people struggled with the game mechanics at first, especially because right at the start it gets suggested you go to the Arena for the tutorials but it never appears on your map as your “Next” objective so a lot of people missed it. It took me forever to go through the tutorials again yesterday, but it’s slowly coming back to me.
As for the grading, I can’t remember if you get graded in the Arena battles, but for the actual game part there’s no grades on your performance so at least you don’t have to worry about that.
The story is weird and convoluted but that’s part of why I love it. 😛 But yeah, mostly I just love the style of the game. It’s oozing with style and that just makes me happy.
I spent a fair bit of time with it but never got to the point that it was enjoyable. Combat wasn’t the problem for me, it was the actual plot and characters were incredibly obtuse and the whole game feels like it’s doing its utmost to stop you from getting into it.
Hello you beautiful bastards
Really can’t wait to play Goodbye Deponia. It’s still not on GOG. I’m betting they’ll put it up right on launch week for the PS4. *shakes fist*
Hey DC, are you planning on going to PAX next year?
Nah! Can’t afford it and don’t think I would even if I could. Would love to hang out with interstate TAYbies eventually but it won’t be PAX, alas. Not good with crowds like that too. What about you?
I grabbed two Saturday passes, hope to take the wife and kid along. So it should be cool – apart from you not being there of course.
You’re mistaken, things are cool when I’m not there! So you’ll be all good in the hood!
http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/11/5088078/xcom-enemy-within-review
Great review for the XCOM expansion pack at Polygon. (For what it’s worth, I’ve found my opinions and Polygon’s opinions are getting further apart by every review. There’s only one writer I trust on that site now to often have similar thoughts on a game as me and that’s Danielle Riendeau!)
Polygon like it? Crap. I was looking forward to that.
I only noticed the review because it the solitary high score in a sea of low scored games! XD
Got a good review from Gamesradar too, but since I never play Enemy Unknown any more, I’ll probably wait until it’s on sale before I buy it.
GameInformer, my first port of call for reviews gave it 9.25 too. We’re (mostly) on the same page when it comes to reviews!
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/xcom_enemy_within/b/xbox360/archive/2013/11/11/firaxis-polishes-a-prized-alien-alloy.aspx
This. I want it, I was slightly underwhelmed by the Kotaku review (which is the only one I’ve read) but i’ll still get it. Just cheap. Not gonig to pay $40 for an expansion on a game I hardly ever play… again.
I should really play more CiV.
It’s always sad when your views and a favourite site’s diverge.
I’ve stopped reading Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Most of the reviewers are still OK and I noticed that they’ve been bringing Cara Ellison on more, lately, who is hands-down my favourite (and whose blog I keep meaning to get around to reading, but never do), but the editor John Walker has been increasingly using the site as a soap-box for his personal issues and it’s getting too much for me to put up with because it’s infused in EVERYTHING. If I wanted to read a feminism blog, I’d read one. But I don’t really feel like getting all my gaming news and reviews served with a side of white-male guilt.
I don’t read Polygon so much for the reviews (which I rarely agree with) but more for the seemingly-exclusive interviews and usually some early-breaking news. Seems they have a nose closer to the ground than most.
Oh yeah, Polygon’s reviews were never the strong part of the site too. I agree. Their investigative journalism and features is where it’s at! 😀
I’m seriously so annoyed that the PAX tickets are already on sale…
On the plus side, i should be able to at least still get a one or two day pass by the time i come back from my honeymoon.
Also – with a baby on the way, it’s probably a bit selfish to want a 3 day pass… it’s not really fair on bee… BUt still – PAX YOU BUMHOLES! 😛
You and i can stand on the otherside of the fence crying, trying to claw our way through while PAX is on…
I will definitely not be able to afford attending this year, which sucks, but here’s hoping for some nice post-PAX meats going on
Edit because i still can’t do that spelling thing very well
Grab two Saturdays and come along with Bee!
I can’t think of many things that Bee would enjoy less, unfortunately. 🙁
I’m trying to figure out the best way to bring up the topic of me wanting to go for 3 days and somehow juggle a 6 month old too.
We could always somehow convince our wives they should hang out in Melbourne for 3 days with the kids while we go to PAX. That wouldn’t upset anyone!
…right?
Bring up the topic while juggling your niece/nephew… that’s what you meant right? RIGHT?
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Uh, that might be exactly what my wife is doing.
You should totally frame the 2015 Japan trip as a treat for her to make up for that. 😉
Hey, those people look familiar. Where have I seen them and in what capacity! 😛
I hearby hire Transientmind as my Director of Marketing.
Uh… Your pay is uh… in the post. Yeah, that works
I need to write more.
Last night, Freya showed me a job ad for an “aspiring online journalist” or something like that. At the Guardian. It looked interesting and started in February. Pretty neat.
They wanted someone who actively wrote. I haven’t done that in a long while because I hate my writing. Everything I’ve written in the last two years or so, at least the non Shameless Gaming stuff which takes very little time or effort, has either been left as a half started draft or deleted without mercy.
Not having a reason to finish things is kinda shitty but when I go back and look at some of the stuff I’ve written, I’m almost glad I haven’t added to that shitheap.
As I’m sure you can all tell, I’m in a super fantastic mood right now. Fucking renovations. Give me peace!
*Gives a hug*
It’s okay, I’ve had coffee now and the damned renovations seem to have stopped for now. If they start up again, I’m just going to go do some groceries.
Unemployment does weird things to the brainmeats.
Deleted without mercy made me laugh.
You probably think I’m kidding but I wouldn’t be shocked if I’ve deleted over a hundred thousand words worth of stuff in the last six months or so.
You really should keep that stuff – put it away in an archive folder or something at least.
I’ve recently started doing that. I write everything in Simplenote these days, so it’s just a matter of suppressing the urge to smite from high atop the thing.
HOLY CRAP I’M GOING TO PAX. My best friend just bought me a pass… maybe 2… I’m not entirely sure seeing as he wont answer his frakking phone
Introducing the First Annual TayWives Club.
While your husbands are off enjoying themselves at PAX with their mates you can all congregate at one of the many cafés in Melbourne with your children where you can bitch about your horrible thoughtless husbands and make a pact to withhold sex for months to,…
Uh. Actually. Never mind. Forget I said anything.
I’m planning on leaving mine at home. I haven’t told her yet. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow, send help.
Can Mr. Strange join? 😛
This might be a stupid single guy question, but wouldn’t they understand if you go on your own? Not exactly springing it at the last minute or any thing. It’s 11 months away and couples don’t need to be joined at the hip constantly, right? RIGHT? MAYBE THIS IS WHY I’M SINGLE!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahaa…
Haha.
Ha.
Good one.
The idea of checking your individuality at the door doesn’t appeal to me. Maybe the hermit lifestyle is a keeper! XD
Take it from me. Leaving a spouse behind while you holiday is a recipe for disaster and/or resentment.
But if you give 11 months notice and give them an opportunity to go somewhere without the kids some other time, what’s the- I mean- Married life sounds tough. XD
But surely if you’re doing something they don’t want to do then it’s fine? I know I have no problems with Mr. Strange doing things like Soundwave by himself, or travelling to see bands I don’t like. But I also know that if he does something like go on the metal cruise by himself then as much it sucks to be left behind, I’ll also get my turn to do something by myself. This is how I got a weekend in Canberra, and still have one up my sleeve for when I need it/we can afford it. 🙂
Plus I imagine married or otherwise, everyone values some alone time!
I think alone time is healthy for a relationship. How else is your partner going to have time to miss you? 😛
I’m with Dan, I’ve never had a problem with SOS taking a holiday on her own and vice versa.
Maybe all women aren’t the same…
…
…
Probs are, but.
Unless Sally’s a figment of all our imaginations!
Don’t even joke.
Not a stupid question at all and I’m with you. There’s two factors at work here. One is that all women are not the same (or maybe I’m doing this wife thing wrong? 😛 ), and the other is that boys find it easier to use their wives as an excuse for not doing something as opposed to actually asking them if it’s okay. 😛
Also, I think in a relationship there needs to be balance. Balance between spending time with each other and spending time doing the things you love that the other probably only tolerates because they love you. I know I need time away from the responsibilities of being in a relationship every now and then, and I also know that Mr.Strange needs to do the same. It’s good to get the opportunity to just be you-you as opposed to couple-you.
You’re my role model, Strange! 😀
Then maybe you should what I say more often!
Play Dark Souls!😛My role model once told me that it’s okay if you only tolerate something someone you like loves! 😛
It… it might not be the best weekend for them to be upset at you in Melbourne, given that it’s also the weekend of Melbourne Cup…
Without fail, the day I call in sick is the day I get the most emails. Seriously. 30 emails on a Monday is basically unprecedented.
Still feel like ass, and by the time I climb on top of all this work I’ll probably need another sickie.
So that’s my weekly whinge.
You get more emails when you’re sick because anything that someone would just quickly mention when they see you gets an email instead.
An excellent theory, except all my emails were from externals brokers/solicitors.
I think they just sensed weakness.
Oh man, PAX. Do want. Though none of the others seem to be around to talk to about it.
Also those prices have gone up since last year. $45/$115 vs $55/$150.
Aaaaaaand two tickets purchased, since a friend is strapped for cash at the moment.
Venue changed to a site that’s 50% bigger, and at a more busy time, which is probably why there was the price hike.
But less discount for 3-day pass? $20 off this year, $15 off next year. Sense is not made with these prices. Probably better to just get 2x 1-day passes?
Probably because last time they sold out within the day, and must’ve seen the stats on whoever was left out but bought all three 1-day passes.
@stickman – My mates and I are contemplating a nerd session Saturday – A carton of beer each, starting lunchtime Saturday playing Magic, Warmachine, Board Games and Sexbox. If all goes to plan we should have a few Xboxes set up in a LAN. Let me know if you’re interested (and we didn’t scare you too much the other night)
Sounds pretty goooooood. Still not sure what my plans are, but I’ll try and pop round at least for a bit.
I’ve kind of got post meat blues for the first time in months. :'(
Your meat was blue? You animal.
@dc HAS read my books! <3
meat from cows that have likely been exposed to Mad Cow Disease are painted blue to show that there is a possibility that they are infected.
most of the time, this blue meat is incinerated.
my point is, DC most likely has BSE. or whatever the hell its called when its transmitted to humans.
so I guess my subsequent point is – dont eat DC.
Edit: but then again, Im not your goddamn dad, so if you wanna eat DC, you go right on ahead.
I always pictured him as a mad pig rather than a mad cow.
That’s a photo not an avatar right?
Blue steak. For when you like rarer than rare
The only way to have it!
And he likes his steak the same as me.
Dear Diary, I think he really is the one.
I don’t because, you know, Disney World.
TAKE ME WITH YOU!
Nah.
That’s fair.
Well, I’d offer to hang out to alleviate that, but I’m kinda tied up until next weekend.
Mrs Freeze birthday meat!
Wanna have supercheap lunch with me tomorrow?
I would, but don’t think I can afford to. Was an expensive weekend. D:
Thanks though. You so kind. 🙂 Always good seeing you and your son too!
I could visit you and bring some bread one day, you know….
Haha! That’s as kind as it is terrifying! (Thanks for the thought though!) Nah, I’m okay. Just too many meats in a short amount of time. Have to pace myself out of necessity. 😀 Especially with Mrs. Freeze’s party coming up soon, Arcade Fire in January, Brisbane International Film Festival and potential Wet n’ Wild meat I’ve been contemplating. 😀
Worst part is having to continuously top up my Go Card! *shakes fist* XD
Oh man, there’s an Aleph meat too on the horizon. D: D: D:
Played my first game of Dark Heresy last night.
SO. MUCH. FUN!
I am an Arbite by the name of Lucius Kreig.
And i am COMPLETELY and UTTERLY useless despite some good stats.
I missed just about EVERYTHING! Even with GRENADES!
Highlight was when i tried to do a running leap into cover while hurling a grenade, but failed my agility test MISERABLY, causing me to trip, smash my face into a pew before stumbling back and getting tangled in the pew behind me.
Second highlight was shooting one of 12 psychic thralls with explosive collars, causing him to explode, which then caused a chain reaction of exploding psykers which THEN summoned a lesser Daemon made of blood.
BUT I managed to survive (with one wound left!) and got a master crafted revolver for my efforts!
SO.
MUCH.
FUN.
@popdart5
Can’t tell of this is board game mumbo jumbo or an actual game game
Tabletop RPG based on Warhammer 40K.
^ what he said.
It’s pretty much 40k DnD.
And it’s SO MUCH FUN!
Played online via skype and roll20, though 🙂
skype? Roll20’s inbuilt voice/video chat is a actually pretty good
don’t ask me – it was their suggestion haha.
It’s also what TB and the gang were doing on their youtube playthrough.
I htink it’s because roll20 glitches now and then and you have to reload the screen – so having skype on means no down time in conversation and no one is inconvenienced if one person is glitching. Eg – i was ruling in KM’s at one point rather than M’s
Hah that sounds awesome. At least your GM was being generous and didn’t make it that you pulled the pin while you tripped because that could have ended so badly.
Also trust you to summon a lesser Daemon in your first session. 😛
Looking forward to hearing about more shenanigans in the future. 😀
Btw, how are you finding the system to play in? I’ve had a few people try it and some of them can’t wrap their heads around the sheer number of possibilities that they can do.
Well I’ve read most of the rule book – so it’s pretty easy for me to understand it now. I can see why it would be confronting though. There really is A LOT to it.
Also, speaking grenades – i got INSANELY lucky at one point – i rolled a jam on a grenade, but when i rolled on the mishap table it was a dud. i was THAT close to blowing myself up.
I’ll keep you posted on everything that happens in the next episode.
Maybe we should start a taybie session next year or something?
Oh wow. That was incredibly lucky to not accidentally kill yourself. Stuff like that is why I like Dark Heresy and the other Warhammer roleplaying stuff: things can go awesomely well but you are only this far away from dying at any time. I mean, heck in the Only War game our scout was patrolling in her Sentinel and got critically hit by a krak rocket that stunned her for an entire round. It’s a good thing the enemy didn’t have more rockets otherwise she was toast.
I’ll still post up my stuff as well although it sounds like we’re going to take a break from Only War as my friends want to run a Deathwatch game *grumble grumle*.
If things pan out and we get enough interest, I’d be hella keen on a taybie session of Dark Heresy. @redartifice can confirm that doing Numenera has been pretty successful so any other rpg stuff should work well. Plus I like anything 40K so I’m in for sure \o/
I’d love to play in a campaign in addition to DMing. I know @mawt tried to get a D&D one up a while back, and @ynefel has Shadowrun books but wasn’t keen on running.
Point is, super keen.
I shoul probably think about doing something with that Friday Fan-tay-sia thing I did a while back. It was good fun but doing that during work hours and on tay itself was probably not the best.
As would I, dibs on Tech Priest! 😀
Who didn’t see that coming?
Anyone?
Tech Knight as a Techpriest? Don’t be ridiculous. 😛
just out of curiosity, is there something about this that is inherently downvote-worthy?
honestly, people are confusing sometimes.
You want to be happy on Christmas.
That pains us deep inside.
You must understand the anguish we feel.
Burn in downvote hell. Face the downvote oblivion.
FINE.
I’ll feign happiness & drown in a sea of commercial consumerism like the capitalist cretin you all seemingly want me to be.
*buys all the xmas junk*
Nope, so I’ve fixed it.
<3
Someone downvoted me for saying Red Dead Redemption’s name didn’t make a whole lot of sense the other day. I wasn’t saying I hated the game or any thing. D:
People are weird! Nothing downvote worthy about that post. My family doesn’t really do the gift thing either. We usually don’t even see each other on Christmas Day. XD
the ‘Red Dead’ part sure. in the context of the game makes no sense (other than to point out that its a spiritual successor to Red Dead Revolver)
but the ‘Redemption’ part does. its one of the major themes of the game.
but yeah. some people are weird.
Oh yeah, I get the Redemption part. Just all of it together. XD
no.
I agree.
I do really really love all the tradition and ritual that comes with christmas – decorations, carols, an excuse to watch Miracle on 34th Street on endless loop, that sort of thing – but if that’s not how you do it, that’s fine. I always think that Christmas is about the “gifts” that you have all year round – friend, family, and/or pets!
Anyway, that’s enough feel-good out of me for a while, can’t use it all up now! I’ll think about video games, I’m sure there’s something to be mad about.
Well on the fact that they upvoted the post of Gemini being upset about missing out on a 3ds I think they just want everybody to be miserable
Hey Red, sorry for the delay with the Duel Shock. What exactly does ‘as a commentary’ mean?
@redartifice
As a commentary on social issues/themes- do you think it effectively conveys its message and is worthy of examining from that perspective, or is it pretentious twaddle that Kojima is shoving down our throats?
Aha, great. Thanks.
You forgot option C: Kojima is a raving lunatic with just the right amount of entertainer thrown in.
Eh, that probably fits under pretentious twaddle.
Kojima is a genius. Whether he’s a sane genius is the question.
The thing on the other page about doing your own thing even when you’re married, hope no one took it as a criticism or any thing. This is just an outsiders perspective and you guys clearly know what being married is like more than me. So no offence intended in the slightest!
LET’S NEVER FIGHT AGAIN!
You’ve planted the seed of doubt in my mind and now I can’t ever see my wife the same way again. YOU’VE RUINED MY MARRIAGE YOU MONSTER!
Don’t you already do your own thing from time-to-time, though. Like when you went to Canberra? Or New Years camping trip?
Shh. You’ll spoil my victim fantasy.
Gawrsh, will someone marry this guy already?
@mrtaco you know anyone for him?
To tell you the truth and this will come as no surprise, I’m not the biggest fan of marriage.
If people wanna be together, they’ll be together. *decisive nod*
*flees before the angry town folks with pitch forks and torches arrive*
Sure, but the legal stuff that a marriage/civil union brings with it is a way of formalising that.
Speaking only for myself, screw that! 😛
Obvious case is things like power of attorney or allowing medical decisions- it’s one of the reasons that the gay marriage stuff is so heartbreaking
Weird you can’t delegate someone to do that without marriage, though. I feel like I’ve opened a can of worms. Haha!
You can, but without the rights that marriage grants it doesn’t carry the same weight- for example, a parent/sibling can overrule a gay partner.
Red’s example above is the most important thing about why not having it be legal is bullshit.
Especially since (mostly in the US) when being gay has been a sore point for the
traditionally-close-minded, when gay folks have been injured or dying, resentful parents and siblings can – and have – excluded the partner from their bedside.I’m not sure, it’s been a while since I was clued in on the activism angle (though my brother gets ornery about it every now and then, so I get to hear stuff then), but it’s also traditionally meant that wills leaving things to partners have been more successfully contested by family.
These are the things you wouldn’t think would be happening in 2013, but they do, and it’s really unfair that some people don’t have legal protection against it.
If you don’t formalize it yourself, the State will do it for you after a while. All the legal crap will be taken for granted, and you’ll need to go to the hassle of drawing up an opt-out of your common-law marriage. (I forget how long it takes. I think it was 3yrs but got shortened, out of a desire to screw more people out of half their shit.)
I’m telling you, guys. Adjacent apartments with sleep-overs.
My housemates became officially defacto in the eyes of govt because they shared a bank acc- never mind that there were two other names on it (myself and the other housemate)
That was a shock to their system
If it was as simple as that there would be no point to the fight for gay marriage.
The Gay marriage thing astounds me, as I’ve never been able to get a good answer for why the hell not.
Hey, I believe that any one who wants to marry damn well should be able to.
As an individual though, it ain’t for me!
Also, my folks have a terrible, terrible marriage which might have something to do with my feelings about it.Well I’d argue that’s a user issue then 😛True enough, but I only ever speak for myself. Not saying others shouldn’t get married or believe in marriage or pursue it as a life goal. Just don’t expect an invite to a D.C. wedding ever. 😀
Also I feel nothing but happiness about friends getting married, engaged and the like too. This is good news.
@dc Oh, point taken. I was just pointing out there are reasons to get married other than to say “we’re married!”
The Gaypocalypse as near as I can tell. Rivers of gayness flowing through the streets, destroying everything it touches with only stalwart family man Tony Abbot there to turn the tide.
I haven’t seen any other argument yet really.
Most fabulous end of the world ever.
If we’re going to go out, we may as well do it in hotpants.
Hi, you called my middle name?
You really are my clone.
The one that was left out of the fridge for a little too long but ,man, clone for sure.
Are you calling me defective?
…
Once again, that’s fair.
D.C: Dan Clone
makes sense.
I thought D.C stood for David Cage?
@shane.
Before people think I’m a monster, here’s some things I believe:
— I believe in monogamy.
— I believe in love, trust, loyalty, patience and respect.
— I believe in having someones back.
I don’t believe in:
— Sticking around when the above stuff goes away.
— Staying together for the kids.
Again, not that simple. In the 8 years or so I’ve been married we’ve hit parts where the differences felt irreconcilable and it would be a waste to stay together. It would have been easy to call it quits but we persevered and have always gotten through it.
Maybe I’m just a little bit emotionally stunted. Haha!
Or maybe just emotionally inexperienced? Relationship stuff is different depending on the people involved, anyway.
Your things you believe in are all things that don’t just stay the same. It’s normal for them to fluctuate over time in a relationship so they’re all things that will need to be worked on at some point or another. If you can’t be bothered working on them, that’s when the lack of them is a problem.
Sticking around when they go away is a test of a relationship but if you both work hard enough at it then those things can be regained. People often stay “for the kids” which is okay because it gives them a reason to fight. A reason to work hard to make the relationship work.
So I’ve done pretty much no work today which has given me time to create new NPCs for my Pathfinder group to fight. So far I’ve come up with Giganta, Skeletor, and He-Man.
They are going to hate me so much. 😀
I find the coolest shit during GM prep.
Finding it really good for the Numenera stuff as it means i get to look at futuristic concept art
That is so freaking COOL
I now own a set of tools. Can I have a Man Card now please?
It should’ve been given to you with the tool box. Maybe you were deemed unworthy? D:
Maybe I needed to get one of those big red rusty steel toolboxes instead of the dinky little plastic-molded box I bought.
Proper tool sets aren’t bought. They’re accumulated over the years and have weird tools that you bought for one job and have been sitting in the toolbox the entire time
ok
Edit: alternate joke:
no. a real man builds his own tools. what does he build them with? NOTHING BUT HIS FISTS & TEETH. & OCCASIONALLY A ROCK HE RIPS FROM THE COLD, COLD EARTH.
I’m going to print that out and stick it on my tool box.
“print it out”?!?!
nah man, you need to hunt a bison with a bow made from chair legs & rubber bands, then skin it & tattoo your message onto its leather the traditional way – using a needle & a pigments made from the local flora.
/Manly Printing
So you’re saying that a real man is a tool?
That’s what my ex said.
Well… something along those lines.
If you have to ask…
I bought a drill last week!
*nods*
True story
I’m so glad that whenever I buy something the single allen key required to build it is already in the box
What’s a man card?
I’m scared of PopSugar
Tilda Swinton?
Oh my god you totally reminded me that Lady Gaga’s new album is out today! I completely forgot about that! Thanks so much! 😀
umm… sorry?
Oooh, I umm, like, Lady Gaga…
I declare this a judgement free zone!
Declaration denied!
Nooooooooo!
Fine, I can take being judged for liking Lady Gaga 😛
fair enough.
I aint gonna judge you for liking something.
just couldnt tell if you were being sarcastic ^up there^
Haha, I was being serious! So that thank you was serious aswell! I knew I was forgetting something about today but couldn’t put my finger on it!
Random Lady GaGa trivia:
when she was 15, she played a random school kid in an episode of The Sopranos.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1319343/Lady-Gaga-rebellious-15-year-old-hit-TV-The-Sopranos.html
I’m more scared by reading the titles of their articles. It’s another freakin’ world, man. Completely different from any world I know or understand.
But somewhere at PopSugar someone is cowering at the Kotaku/Giz headlines.
“But, but…they are saying that someone’s developed Virtual Reality Sex over at Kotaku! I can’t link that here at PopSugar. We have STANDARDS!”
Bowie?
Is that you?
Jesus fucking christ. I need to have some kind of “professional” e-mail address to use for stuff, btu I already have way too many accounts spread across everywhere as it is. So I found a thing about adding an alias to my yahoo one that I check fairly often and that seemed like a good solution.
Except not. I can’t find any way of getting the e-mails for that address to go into their own folder, and now I’ve found that it seems to have the same name attached as the rest of the address. So I can either appear to people as Mr Taco on the professional one, or have my real name appear on the junk one. Neither of which I want.
Then I found mention of there being a second option – extra addresses, which is somehow different to an alias. Only, the article I’ve found on doing that seems to refer to using options that don’t actually exist.
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING HARD AND SHIT AND I HATE IT ALL *flips table and storms off*
Wow.. this works perfectly with the post i just made.
Maybe you need a hotmale.com account too?
By the sounds of it he already has one.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
I use 4 emails at the moment! 1 for everyday, 1 for work/when I need to sound professional (not often), 1 for throwaway “sign up to our website before seeing any of the content” stuff, and 1 for Kotaku/TAY to keep you all where I can see you.
Oh and apparently now you need a vaild mobile number to sign up to yahoo?
FUCK THAT
Xbox is always trying to get my mobile number too. D:
OH MAN! WHAT IF SOME LADY AT YAHOO IS JUST TRYING TO GET YOUR NUMBER!
God, they’re everywhere.
If I can’t hide away from the real world by being on the internet, where else can I turn??
I have a few. One for my girlfriend pretty much exclusively, plus anyone who knew me from the older, wilder days. Those fire off all kinds of alerts to get my attention ASAP. (We might’ve only been in a committed relationship the last few years, but she’s been my confidant, occasional lover and best friend for damn near fifteen years; she’s always had priority, no matter how long either of us fell off the radar.) Not everyone’s made it from those days. Sometimes folks need help; they will always know where to turn to, to get it. (Same goes for the mobile number I’ve had for the last almost twenty years.)
Then there’s the good ol’ transientmind one for pretty much anything social and anything else that I actually give a shit about – family and friends, MMO accounts, etc. Y’all know or can guess that one at google’s thing.
Then there’s the random alias/spam filter, which is for competition sign-ups, messageboards I don’t care about, fakebook and the rest.
I have a fourth, rarely-used one which is for absolutely professional things only, which is the only one that has any kind of real-name association attached. Godamn if I don’t always forget that one’s details.
Yeah, that last bit’s the problem I’m having here. If I just create a new account somewhere else, I’ll forget about it and never check it. Whereas if I have it linked to one of my other things I do check, it’ll be fine.
SO WHY IN THE FUCK CAN’T I DO THAT
There’s actually some pretty innovative tools out there which handle forwarding and mess with gmail in some creative ways – you just need to make sure you have somewhere stable and consistent to store all the login data. I’m not in a position to get it from the horse’s mouth on using them, but I can do some research later.
Gmail allows you to forward/link other addresses to it. Then you can reply FROM either of the linked addresses, or Gmail. If Yahoo isn’t letting you do it, forward all email to a new Gmail account.
I have hotmail and yahoo forwarded to my gmail.
@mrtaco
I feel as though my email account should end with @hotmale.com
It would be far more apt.
For those wondering, i already thought of hotmale.cum, but that sounds more like gay fetish website – which is only slightly relevant to me…and hotmale doesnt?
No. It does. But it’s the RIGHT amount of pseudo-homo-eroticism. It doesn’t overdo it. It’s slick. Like my body.
*wink*
Do you come here often, sweetheart?
hotmale.xxx domain is on backorder. 🙁
Ugh
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/metal-gear-solid-v-might-break-canon-but-kojima-says-thats-okay/comment-page-1/#comment-2125326
It’s jerks like this that are the reason we cannot have nice things. Who cars if something is 100% canon? I’d prefer to be entertained rather than continuity neckbearded.
Some people find entertainment in a consistent story.
Yeah, I believe canon is important to story tellers and so is a sense of cohesion. Just think ultimately a writer should control their own work however they see fit. If they wreck it inadvertently, then damage is done but it’s theirs to wreck. XD
Agreed, it shows me the devs care about the story they’re telling within their game. I still feel heartbroken from what Ace Combat did with Assault Horizon 🙁
To my mind, Ace Combat lost all the heart it had with Assault Horizon. Didn’t feel like a real Ace Combat game to me. I lost interest very early on in the game and still haven’t finished it.
They were screwing with it on Fires of Liberation too (The Xbox 360 one) with the HORRIBLE framerates, felt like I was flying an A10 bomber in an F16… how is that possible!?
At least they kept with having a fictional world, which I really liked, especially with the stories of the nations of Belka, Ustio, Osea, Yuktobania, Erusia, all of them.
There’s “blatant disregard for” and “overlooking a few details to serve the plot”
BTW, I think TAY shipping in purple prose needs to be a new page-specific thing 🙂
Canon and shippers are two words I dread reading from fandoms of any kind. XD
I don’t even know what either of those two words mean. I like to think it’s nicer that way.
Well, I do know have a Canon printer, but I don’t think it’s referring to printing!
In case you do:
Canon is whatever is considered official. Like if a game based on an IP is canon then the story repercussions and the like carry through to the greater universe as a whole… otherwise its an off-shoot that’s not really considered official. When something isn’t canon it means it can stray from the established path too.
Shippers are the fans who (not always, but often) rabidly hold onto an idea that two characters should be together and tend to go nuts when things don’t go this way. There’s perfectly reasonable shippers too, just like any thing it’s the vocal minority who go nuts!
Ugh, this post is completely ruining the established DC canon.
How am I meant to write my @dc x @shane slash ship fanfiction now?
D:
@shane came to @dc in the night, shivering with energy and with a look of desire in his eyes
“Oh DC,” said Shane, “I had to come back to tell you one thing. Well, two things”
Dc looked into his eyes, breathing heavily as he drank in his manly odour
“DC, I love
Hungry Jacks. Also, shanewsmith.com. Anyway, bye, back to Canberra to the wife and kids”Shippers are the worst.
@dc stared into the night, pondering to himself
“I wonder what David Cage is doing right now,” he thought, preferring to believe he was perhaps speaking with Willem Defoe, reminiscing about the good old days they had spent with Ellen Page, or planning his next game somewhere in the depths of his handsome head
😛@dc looked down at @shane’s package, which had been thrust into his hand.
“It fits so well,” he exclaimed, “I didn’t realise it would be so big, but it’s still perfect!”
Shane smiled at D.C. shyly, blushing slightly at the compliment, “There’s more it can do. I could show you, if you like.”
Taking D.C.’s silence as confirmation, Shane reached down to his package
pulled out The Lesser Evil, and showed D.C. how books work.I’m so sorry for starting this, @dc 😛
It’s okay, you’ve made the list and revenge will be enacted sooner or later.
Maybe I should share the story I received about Oliver and I… It might make you feel less traumatized 😀
…or maybe I should join in with the DC and Shane erotic more-than-friends fiction 😀
@powalen’s heart was torn. How could he have caused this, this vile hurt to his one true love. Sure, @dc treated him just as a friend, but Pow knew they could be something more.
“I know,” thought Pow, “I’ll get the other people on the forum to write slash fiction. That way i can get ideas to eventually put into my declaration of love”
I have real tears from this
Fin.
I hate every last one of you guys.
Except for @sughly.
And @strange.
But the rest? HATE.
Also, how did a post about Metal Gear Solid… a series I don’t even play… end up like this? D:
You brought up shipping.
Mate. I’ll wreck you.
Well, guess I’m really uninvited from PAX north now.
Arghhh! Why’d you tag me?!
I had to go see why you hated everyone and now I can’t unread what I have read.
admit it, you loved every word.
That’s fair.
Whenever I hear the term “slash fiction” I imagine that it’s actually blood hungry fans, who want to know what would happen if, say, Malfoy went on a stabbing spree through Hogwarts while under the pressure of his family’s expectations.
In the context, “stabbing spree” would be an entirely different concept (and probably not an unpopular one)
I have no doubt that exact story exists and several variations too. Some where he stabs them with his penis, others where he stabs them with a knife and then his penis, others where he stabs them with his penis and then a knife and then this penis again.
EDIT: I realise now that there was a perfect opportunity to make a wand/wang joke. Let’s just pretend that in spite of the content of this comment, I was somehow above that.
Remember, slash writers: Blood clots, it’s in no way a lubricant
#red’sseenthings
It’s all downhill from here and we started in a pretty deep trench.
Jordi once linked me to a slash fic where Lucius Malfoy took a power drill to Draco’s head and had sex with his brain.
Is that what you meant?
Nothing will ever top the goffic stylings of My Immortal
I was not aware that existed nor am I surprised that it does.
Something something “inner walls”.
Verisimilitude is a thing. Breaking canon partially can really fuck with that, but by the same token, sometimes a story can get pretty tied up in its own history to the point that the restrictions really fuck with some cool things you’d wanna do.
The modern day compromise to that seems to be the now-ubiquitous ‘Reboot’. Like anything, it’s effective when done well, but used too frequently can really fatigue fans of the franchise by trivializing it.
At the end of the day, re-writing canon to suit creative ambition without any in-universe explanation is basically lazy writing, so yeah, I think a little flak for that is probably deserved (even though I haven’t played any MGS games since 2 and thus don’t have a horse in this race).
Star Trek has handled the canon thing well with the new movies. It still fits into what came before and can be explained why it’s so different, but it doesn’t invalidate what’s come before either. You might not be a fan of the new stuff, but it still fits!
Yeah considering this is MGS, making everything canonically correct is not Kojima’s strong suit. I mean, just look at MGS3:
It is by far one of the better games of the series but it took a lot of liberty with the timeline. Full-body stealth suits in the 1960s? Okay then, let’s just ignore the fact that they were supposed to be flashy and brand-new tech in the first MGS.Then of course, all of the other scientific/mystical stuff never really gets explained and is just kind of accepted. As an origin story, it worked well but it certainly raised a few eyebrows.
Sense?
Why make sense when you can have nanomachines? This is Metal Gear Solid we’re talking about.
Where’s @Mawt?
I need his expert opinion to parrot.
@effluvium-boy took the parrot. Sorry.
YOU ARE ON FIRE TODAY!
“parrot” is clearly a reference to The End from MGS 3.
I’ve already made clear that I believe the encounter with Quiet will be like a kind of mirror to the famous sniper battle encounter.
It is known that The End is actually over 100 years old, and, to preserve what little life essence he has left, is able to enter a trance-like state. This is why he is in a wheelchair when you first see him.
And so the inevitable conclusion starts to become clear, MGS 5 actually occurs within the mind of The End as a precursor to that fight in MGS3. It is the last dream of a dying man and in his bizarre dreamscape he inhabits the form of an attractive, mute, scantily clad girl instead of the withered old husk he is confined in when awake.
This also explains why Snake is voiced by Keifer Sutherland; it’s all a dream.
oh! ohohoho, that Kojima is a clever devil! I nearly fell for his red herring of making you use the term parrot in your post!
“canon” is interchangeable with “cannon”, and you know what else has cannons?
That’s right, METAL GEAR?!
and by connecting all the Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid game cases together, do you know that that makes?
That’s right, an exact scale model replica of the Shagohod, with the MGS 5 & Phantom Pain cases as the cannon.
All this time it was right in front of us, hidden in plain sight, just like Nanomachines!
YES!
Hey, retcons are all the rage nowadays 😉
TAY I’ve been in the library too long. WHAT’S THE OUTSIDE LIKE?!
Burny.
Hi @f4ction
Hello
Ready to start breaking things now.
HULK SMASH!
It was good seeing
John Nobleon last weeks Sleepy Hollow. Just like old times. I hear he’s signed on for more eps this season and has said he’ll be back next season too.I really should watch more of that.
It’s way better than it has any right being. Haha!
I miss Fringe. D:
Almost Human starts on Nov 17, the new show by Fringe show runner J.H. Wyman!
I should probably tune in for that. On the topic of Fringe, I have been anticipating a five-season blu-ray box release but nothing has materialised at my local JB.
Bought tickets to the Canada VS USA ice hockey game next year in perth, so excited, such a great idea!!!
Oh, Canada
Mannn that would be pretty righteous!
My sister and her GF go to the Hockey ALL the time. They are members of the Melbourne Mustangs. They wanted to go to Canada V USA when they were last out but apparently tickets were STUPID expensive
80 bucks for nosebleed section tickets 🙁
but should be worth it, its a pretty rare chance to see professional ice hockey in australia.
It better be miracle on ice-like!
Now I need to try and get a screenshot of some of my work. I’m going with my tank game from last year because it’s the only thing I’m truly proud of. Plus it looks pretty cool.
Total pain in the bitch to try and control one tank with a controller, the other with the keyboard, then try and get them to do something that looks cool AND capture it with printscreen. Needs more octopus.
#JAPAN
Not sure if i mentioned this before – but a couple of weeks ago when Bee was on her hens weekend I finally watched Black Dynamite (the movie).
BEST. MOVIE. EVAR!
So many luls!
Can you dig it?
DY-NO-MITE
DY-NO-MITE
I love that movie so much.
Soooooooo much!
I really need to do a cull on Facebook I think. The general intelligence level of my news feed is dropping incredibly fast.
Sometimes I wish we were ruled by The Machine, and everyone would be compensated/paid equally for their contributions, regardless of what their job was. Lawyers would earn the same as garbagemen, etc. In this society, you would be evaluated, interviewed, and provided a list of assignments which best match your aptitude, talents, and motivations…
Admittedly there are always people who aren’t truly satisfied in life unless they’re earning more than someone else, that’s how they derive enjoyment – but you’d hope they could instead be satisfied with achieving more instead of earning more.
In this ideal society… I can very easily see myself in jobs I’d normally never go back to because it’d be financial suicide, or alternately too competitive thanks ONLY to the high renumeration, rather than actual desire to perform in the role. Bartending. Complaints management. Hobby-shop owner/operator. Investigative reporter/opinion columnist.
I think, some days, I’d actually be very happy and content to be a ferryman or sailor. (Not, not entirely AC4-inspired.) The Brisbane river utterly reeks, but on a windy day it’s fantastic to be on the water. There have been a few times that I’ve hopped on the ferry just to ride it up and down. I love the sea more, though, and kind of miss outrigging. (Our high school club for it got shut down due to finding too many dead things in the water – it just freaked out the members too much and we didn’t have enough to justify its continued existence.)
Some of my favourite memories are of being out on the water. Especially if you go out til you can barely see people on the shore, then just float around, while there’s a storm coming in. Nothing but the power of nature as far as the eye can see.
What sort of unlikely ‘dream jobs’ would folks here take, if they didn’t care about the pay and The Machine told you it was an option you could slide straight into?
(Edit: Apart from the obvious. Pornstar, gigolo, playboy photographer, unjustified celebrity, international man of mystery, and made-up ones that don’t exist – eg: interstellar starship captain.)
My list is super boring: Theme Park tester, Holiday Resort Reviewer, Professional Terrible Dancer, Science-Wizard, that sort of thing.
That’s the point. I wanna know what super-mundane stuff people really like and could really see themselves occupying their time with if the pay/availability weren’t a factor. 🙂
When I was young, I first wanted to be a doctor. Then I wanted to be a game tester. Then I got a job making game art, and I suddenly felt really sorry for the poor testers!
I guess I still have a dream of possibly one day being a technical director in a game dev house, or doing some more cg stuff for tv or movies. That was a lot of fun when I was doing it for a living. Hard to come across good regular jobs for that kind of stuff round here though
Science-Wizard is my favourite, it’s a job title I created for someone who sets out to scientifically validate things that would be nice to know, but which really aren’t critically important. Things like “Is there an optimal way to reheat fast food chips (Kentucky Duck’s spring to mind as one of the worst offenders) so that they aren’t terrible.” But all of this would be discovered via triple-checked methods, and written up properly.
Another example I can think of is an extension of an experiment I did when I was young, and that’s finding out the best type of paper-aeroplanes for different conditions, depending on whether you want height, distance, hang time, whatever else.
Basically I would just be doing third grade science projects for a living, and it would be rad.
Backyard tinkerer. Just sit around and build whatever, whenever, whyever.
I’m going to be living the dream next year. Making fun things and selling them. And getting all you guys to make everyone you know buy all my stuff. 😛
I guess the big dream is to make enough so my husband can live his dream as well. He wants to photograph bands for a living. He’s quite good at it but obviously with us to take care of he can’t just run off and do that.
“Dream jobs” I’ve thought of over the years range from hairdresser (before I shaved my head and developed an aversion to hair 😛 ), to singer in a band, to interior designer, and even a carpenter. I’ve wanted to try a lot of things but fear, money and being bad at formal training have always gotten in the way. I wonder what job The Machine would spit out for me?
Oh man, your post reminded me, I would love to be a wedding singer.
It would be the worst thing ever for the Bride and Groom, since they’d have to put up with me singing badly at them, but aside from the constant reminders of my crippling loneliness, I think it would be a blast. You could just stand there crooning ridiculously clichéd love songs at them. Fantastic.
Professional Raconteur. Tell stories and be a general good dinner guest.
A professional wanderer. anywhere, anytime, I’d just have to walk and look at stuff. Avidly or vacantly, completely at my discretion.
….Orrrrrrrr be a gardener.
Something involving practical special effects and pyrotechnics.
Military pilot, probs helicopters.
Or racing of some kind. Running the Dakar would be the bomb.
But alas, reality.
Oh, also musician. That’d be nice.
I’m an office worker now but I used to clean toilets for a living.
I preferred cleaning toilets, it was more interesting.
But, it didn’t pay so well, the hours were shit and people treat you like a cunt because you clean toilets. So yeah, I understand.
tl;dr Socialistic State?
So. I just backed that Slash card game.
You were right to tell us. Reaching out for help when you have a Problem is very brave. Sit tight. People will be around shortly to take you someplace Safe and Secure.
You won’t be able to harm yourself anymore.
I think you misunderstand.
Oooooh! Alright, the life style change will take some getting used to but we support you, man. We support you.
Wat.
I thought this was a non-confrontational way of you telling us you were gay?
Wat.
*prepares chart*
No I think you misunderstood. @dc was right below
There is no way that David Cage would end up with Buffy, that was a foolish pick. He clearly would have gone with Faith as a much more logically counter point to his own dreams and personalities
link?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/finally-a-game-where-you-argue-about-slashfic/
Can I get custom @shane and @dc cards?
A few of the backing tiers involve putting your own characters (even yourself and friends) into the official deck.
So yes. Yes you can.
GOTY
Le sigh.. Just as I suspected, I’m getting right royally screwed by work for the next 3 months. Finally got in touch with my boss and she’s confirmed that I’m going to remain casual for the 3 month trial. Even after I told them I could only work full time hours if I was getting the same money as I was getting from doing my part time job and work for the schools. They assured me I would be on more than that, but didn’t bother to tell me it’d be 3 months down the track 😐
I also told her when I got the job, that due to my giving up my school work, I would likely run out of money in the first few weeks since I wasn’t getting that cash income. Of course, now I’ve run out, and after trying to get hold of her for almost a week, she said she would talk with the owner and see what she could do (same thing she said the day I got the job.) So now not only do I not have any money to put fuel in my car to go to work or put food in my belleh, or pay bills, but I’m not going to be getting paid for not going to work since I’m casual 😐 Also means I wont get paid for public holidays etc.
dude.
What’s your Paypal? I will send you $50 on THursday.
Cheers man. You’re a true champ! Haven’t felt this mad in a long time. Even on a full fortnight’s pay I’m gonna be $200 down on where I would be otherwise, but I could deal with that. If they could help me actually get there. They’ve actually just made my already shitty situation even worse. Of course she doesn’t give a shit though. She’s off to New Zealand tomorrow on a company funded trip. Dunno how they expect me to run the place and improve things if I can’t even get there. Dumbasses!
Just think, soon this period will be nothing but a memory 🙂
I dream of the day!! It’s all I’ve wanted since around this time last year! I will party so hearty!
Am I mistaken, or are you saying that you’re gonna be ‘casual’ for 3 months? Still working full-time equivalent hours? The per-hour wage is higher for casuals.
usually that would be the case, but not where I work :\
or at least not in my situation. I got a promotion, so after the 3 months is up, my pay will jump rather significantly. Providing I can actually survive that long anyway. I need to actually start pulling a full 2 weeks worth of my current pay to even come close. Even then I’ll be getting $200 less than my previous situation. But as I said in an earlier post, I can make it work for a few months, but they need to help me get there. I was getting $700 odd cash from doing my school work every fortnight, but I had to give that up to work for these guys full time. $700 is a lot of money to be missing in a fortnight 🙁
I’m still confused. To me, it sounds like you’re being ripped off. This is what usually happens in a promotion:
You are making salary x. You get a promotion! You now make salary >x. However, since it’s a new role, you are on probation for 3 mths or so. After this time, you’re back to your permanent full-time (or whatever it was) role, still earning that >x salary.
There is no sudden change to a casual role that suddenly pays less. Anyone else want to chime in, maybe prevent @welbot from being ripped off? :\
I know that’s normally the case. As far as I know, for the trial, I will be paid the same hourly rate that I have been on since I started work for them earlier this year. The reason I will actually end up earning less over the course of 2 weeks, is that the work I used to do for the schools, paid more than double what I get from these guys per hour. By giving up doing that school work 2 days a week, and working for this mob full time hours, I will actually earn less. I’m not happy about it, but I’ll live. My biggest problem is, that I need to work the full 2 weeks to be able to even come close to what I was earning, but due to not doing my school work in the past weeks, I have only had my part time earnings from last fortnight to live off. After paying my rent, buying some food, and paying some bills, all that money was gone the day after I got paid last fortnight. I did tell them that this would happen when they told me I got the job, and they said they would see what they could do to help, but clearly that’s nothing :\
So now I’m stuck at home, no money, no food, no petrol, and because I’m not at work, being classed as casual, means I don’t get paid for today, or any other day I have off. Which at the moment, could be tomorrow too. So next fortnight, I’m going to be in the same situation as this fortnight, because I wont be getting a full fortnight’s pay from these guys. So the vicious cycle begins again. Really not happy with them atm at all.
Well, I …. uhm… I’m not sure. 🙁 If it was me I’d be pushing for a $/hr increase due to the aforementioned ‘casual gets more’ thing. Also, if it really comes down to it, you may have a cooling off period or something.
@redartifice
Seriously, retcons are the best. like all the narrative backflips in Dr Who and how the year Captain America was thawed always changes and the war Tony Stark was injured in keeps updating and etc etc etc…
Marvel is on a floating timeline, so it’s only updated to explain why the heroes aren’t all in their 80s by now.
My point is that if you adhere slavishly to “canon” you constrain yourselves, where a little judicious retconning makes a lot more sense.
Yeah totes, totes 😀
Another sweet retcon is that Bucky was a highly trained killer back in the day and not just some little boy following Cap around a Warzone.
Sometimes it’s needed, you know?
Dood, Sean Murphy’s a champ
http://comicsalliance.com/sean-murphy-kickstarter-apprenticeship-cafe-racer/
And Mrs Murphy too!
http://mini.miramachina.com/post/64389934132/o-custo-dos-super-herois-antes-e-agora
HEY @JIMU!
I read you hate me…
I don’t know why I say these things! D:
🙁
:pPax tickets 50% sold out. Freaking heck.
Not sure if Numbers will be able to make it with them selling out this fast D=
Page get, really? =(
Have you got your tickets? I’d hate to not have another opportunity to be all silent and socially awkward around you.
Yeah, same as last year. I make someone a cosplay and they buy my tickets =P
This year, Nob is the one getting the cosplay
Also sorry i didn’t talk too much. I should think of better conversion next year
Nah, you were fine. I’m the one who sucked. Real time conversation is just not my forte.
It was also really cold. Still, i should have made you talk by engaging in conversation with you
Next time, eh? That’ll be my goal for PAX next year: have a proper conversation with Scree.
We should discuss games. I imagine that shouldn’t be too hard, right?
So have you heard about these new video games? I hear all the kids today are playing them.
Yeah. That should work.
@dire_wolf
So I’m playing style boutique! It’s…probably something you’re not interested in…
No need to worry, PAX tickets are a go!
Hotel Accommodation, notsomuch…
Wow, how do you know? Now sure if I should pick some up tonight, or wait until 9-10am …
Do it now, man. They tweeted that it’s 75% sold out now.
D: damn son. Alright, peer pressure got to me, I got Fri/Sat tickets.
Peer pressureeeeeeeeeee.
Atleast it ain’t drugs!
Dad: There was a fight at the fish and chip shop today
Me: Really?
Dad: Yeah, 2 fish got battered. #dadjokepagesixWhat’s the cheapest meat you can buy?
Deer Balls. They’re always under a buck!I just bought a 3 day ticket 😀 (maybe I might get to meet @greenius this time)
I just bought a 3 day pass too. @greenius is a pretty cool guy.
Got my 3 day pass. Expect to see @greenius wearing green all 3 days.
@greenius is a joik
(@nightflarer @dire_wolf too)
I didn’t buy any tickets 😛
But you will …right? D:
Nope! 😛
I’m pretty sure the 3 day ones sold out yesterday
@greenius is pretty terrible
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The new Matt Reilly book has a very different tone and setting than his norm.
I forgot that was out.
I really want to read it.
What’s long, hard, and fucks New Zealanders?
Grade Three.booooo.
Why do New Zealand race horses run so fast?
They heard about what happened to the sheep.From a guy with NZ relatives, you’re a funny guy, Crazyguy.
Just entered the PS4 comp Sony emailed out and totally botched it cos I know so little about those launch games.
Not one FFXV question…
What’s the difference between Paris Hilton and the Titanic?
Only 800 people went down on the Titanic!For those who are looking to do Pax on the cheap, I found this.
http://www.wimdu.com.au/outer-west-melbourne
I was checking west because I live there so I can tell if they’re near public transport. Otherwise you still have northern, eastern and southern suburbs to choose from.
Better link
http://www.wimdu.com.au/melbourne
God dammit, I was hoping I could hold out on the PAX tickets for a few weeks, since I’ve got my car rego/greenslip/insurance etc to pay out of this pay. But since the 3 day passes are already half gone I guess I will just do it.
Will definitely have to wait a while for the accom
So yeah. Just got a 3-day PAX pass for myself and my brother.
Wow. Such meat. Much TAYbies. Awesome.
so PAX
So how about that PAX thing guys? Yeah, not attending!
Been home for almost an hour now. Holding out okay, have completely avoided all contact with the dogs, but now they’re so upset with me that they won’t get up. (Newfoundlands will do that) Justin (the older one that I like the most) looked heartbroken 🙁
@dc keeps talking about PAX North, maybe we could do PAX South.
We had that Game On thing a few years back, I think that’s the closest we’ll ever get to an event 😛
MAICon isn’t too bad, gives an opportunity to cosplay and geek out a bit. Game On was good though.
I have a (sorta) friend who went to that last year, and according to the Facebook event page a fair few of my friends were invited (not many actually from Launceston though… Mostly from Burnie)
Never really been into that kinda thing though
Hmm, question. Do I try and organise a new cosplay for next year PAX, or do I take scree’s amazing Journey outfit and use that again. Seems a shame for all that hard work to only be used once
Wear the Journey costume on one day, and something else on another!
Since I now have a plan with Rocketbuddy I need to think up something I can do by myself…
smother yourself in toothpaste.
Edit: what are we talking about?
…oh. cosplay. nevermind then.
eh, make another one.
Been wondering the same thing. I don’t really like reusing my costumes too much, particularly to the same event like that. But on the other hand, people really liked the Manny one plus it’s easier than figuring out something new 😛
If I can figure out a Pokemon cosplay before PAX with minimal effort, that’s what I’m wearing!
Go as Machoke 😉
Pip is seriously considering Team Flare scientist. Which means I’d probably have to try the admin. The bald one I guess.
Oh that would be awesome! And not that hardof a costume to make!
First step to making it a reality would be making the scientist headgear, I guess.
Oh, I was thinking of the grunt costume. The scientists may be a bit more difficult to make 😛
Finished Breaking Bad.
I’m not entirely sure how to feel about the ending. So conflicted.
It’s what you wanted just not how I think you wanted it. I thought it was a very good ending.I thought the ending was pure fanservice in a good way. I think the episode before (walt dies alone in a cabin, Jesse is a Nazi slave, Skyler is disgraced and ruined) is the true Tragic ending.Interesting take.
I was spending so much time genuinely hating what Walt had become but he seemed to have grown past that by the last episode. Seemed genuinely remorseful and seemed kind of anticlimatic the way he died. It was kind of a hero’s death without the blaze of glory or the hero. I really don’t know what I wanted. There’s nothing to tie up so it was a good ending.http://www.twitter.com/PAXAus/status/400225926278938626
PAX is 75% sold out for three day pass. If you’re on the fence, I’d commit soon. XD
Hurry up and commit already.
I’ve committed to not going!
You should come so you can exact vengeance for every horrid joke and pun I’ve ever made.
You know who you should take! Sketchbook Climbing Girl after an unfortunate (?) transporter accident!
Well, I guess Climbey does have that whole “secret shame” of having attended Supanova this year…
But yeah nah “taking” someone interstate is a bit much I think. Plus between you guys and my forum friends and probably even Cosplay Girl again… yeah no 😛
You’d have a convention full of wing men! (No women, though. They can’t be trusted not to sabotage and steal you for themselves. *glares at scree*)
By that logic, couldn’t the wing men not be trusted not to sabotage and steal the target for themselves?
Poorly vetted wing men, maybe!
*looks suspiciously at DC*
You’re off the team.
@mrtaco as if you need a team, you seem to be doing pretty well by yourself. If anything, we should use you as a lure.
What did Cinderella do when she got to the ball?
She choked.Shane’s trip to Brisbane. All 4700 words of it.
Here’s the bit you already read.
Wednesday. Out from Canberra airport.
The portable bag weigher I bought has paid for itself; my suitcase gets checked with 200g clearance. No excess baggage charges this time around.I don’t like the default seat I’ve been assigned, so change it up a bit and opt for a window seat. As it turns out, there’s no one sitting next to me. Pretty good decision, that one. Spend the trip alternately reading East of Eden and wondering how the bloody hell planes stay in the air. They’re huge metal tubes full of heavy people and bags. Start thinking of landing as a partially-controlled plummet, and can’t get the image out of my head. Only mildly nervous. Return attention to book.
I’m staying with Joe and Linda, two friends from a previous life who I haven’t seen in way too long, since about 2008 actually.
Who watches the watchmen? Actually, it turns out that I do. Having not seen the Watchmen movie before, I spend my Wednesday afternoon watching it. Good film, though not much more than a dumb action romp. Probably a good move to jettison all the claims to literature that the comic aspired to, but still… it left a void.
Chinese food is on the menu tonight, and I share a lovely meal with my congenial hosts. We play a little Injustice, which I haven’t played before. Addictive brawler.
Thursday. I don’t know what I’m doing.
When I come out of my room in the morning, this is waiting for me. #miseryA promise is made to ‘stage’ an actual hobbling photo, but this never takes place. (Which is to say that the hobbling goes ahead, but with no photo).
I’ve caught the bus in to what is apparently Queen St Mall. The bus driver helpfully points me in the right direction, and I dutifully walk. He drives away, my lone and only safety net (such as it is) whisked away from me in a cloud of stifling petrol fumes.
I arrive at Hungry Jacks, see no sign of @dc or @strange, and immediately attempt (and fail) to look nonchalant as I lean against the wall and check my phone. There’s a message from DC that says “Let us know when you’re around.” I reply very sociably: “I’m around” and as I hit send, I see @strange and @dc standing about ten metres away.
I don’t really want to say too much about @dc here, because it could quite easily veer into Scrubs-esque-guy-love territory, and no one really wants that. But I’ll say this much: he doesn’t disappoint, and the way he talks is reassuringly similar to the way he types.
As we all know, @strange is pretty awesome. She has made this fantastic quilt for Mrs Shane, and presents it to me at about this point in the story. Her son is a cool kid, and funny. At a later stage today, he will get a balloon and proceed to chase me around JB with it. We keep playing the game right up until Strange starts yelling at us to stop. I feel like a kid who’s just been busted eating the teacher’s chalk or lighting matches behind the desk (ummm…. neither of which I did ever as a kid).
I think I might have overstated the extent to which I freak out over socialising because both @dc and @strange treat me like I’m about to burst into tears.
@jimu and @beardymcmuttonchops make it for lunch! They are both very friendly, cool guys, so naturally I don’t say much at all. DC very proudly announces that Jimu is white, and not Asian. Thanks, DC.
Beardy’s Kickstarter starts soon (or might have started, I don’t recall, sorry), so we should all support him!
Because I have already had a big Hungry Jacks breakfast, I elect to consume just the $1.20 thickshakes for lunch. I order a Red Velvet one and a strawberry one, and for the life of me, I cannot tell which is which as I drink them.
DC asks me who I am most nervous about meeting tonight, and without hesitation I single out @dkzeitgeist and @transientmind. DC then proudly tells me (for the first of several times) about the meat where he and Transientmind were the only attendees. It’s not a particularly reassuring story, the way he tells it.
He walks me back to my bus stop, but tries to send me underground. I know that at least that much is wrong, and manage to foil his attempt to sabotage my travelling plans.
By the time I’ve returned to Joe and Linda’s, more guests have arrived: Linda’s sister, niece and nephew.
Thursday II. C-words
I am desperately fashionable in a high-vis vest as I set up my stall.My banner is up and looking pretty schmick, even if I do think so myself. Given the Game of Thrones focus on this con, I’m kicking myself for not including the “Game of Thrones – galactic version” review quote on the banner.
By the time it’s done, it’s 6:30, and there’s no time to shower, no time to change, nothing. Just jump on a bus with some books and head to the meat.
Realising that in my haste, I have books but no pens, I lug the bloody things all over the Queen St Mall looking for a place that sells pens. I have to hide as I pass the Hungry Jacks where we are all scheduled to meet. No one mentions it later on, so I think I get away with it. After weaving my way through a rabbit warren of corridors, I find a Target, and buy 8 pens for five bucks. Now I can return to the group, sweaty yet triumphant. I think I’m even vaguely on time – if not, no one is petty enough to mention it.
@dkzeitgeist, who proudly introduces himself as my biggest fan (or maybe was christening me as his, I’m not entirely sure. Actually, in retrospect, it was probably this one, because I don’t think he owns one of my books at this point in the story) presents me with a present that manages to be simultaneously funny and thoughtful: a cassette recording of the Zeitgeist episode I would be missing tomorrow due to Supanova. It actually legitimately feels kind of cool to own some Zeitgeist merch, and I realise that I’m not so far above the compulsion to collect things as I thought I was.
Within five minutes of meeting DAN!, I’ve managed to imply that he ejaculates prematurely (at the sad expense of his partner’s satisfaction), and when he leaves at the end of the night, I call him a cunt. I’m pretty sure I make the very best of impressions.
@transientmind is everything he has been hyped up to be. He conducts himself with an effortless-seeming suave charm that is somewhat awe-inspiring and jealousy-inspiring, but somehow retains an approachable air that prevents him from being entirely intimidating.
I keep the promise I made to him earlier, and we each purchase a glass of milk from the bar at the Beach House. This costs us four dollars apiece, and I make a secret vow never to keep another promise to another human being ever. A valuable lesson indeed.
As I have met @freezespreston previously, I shall only focus on the bad points this time around. When my massive burger arrives, he suggests that I cut it in two to help me eat it. I realise now that this was a masterful troll, as the god-awful mess that results causes me to spill burger bits out of just about every bite I attempt. Pretty sure my eating put everyone else off their food. Sorry, gents.
@sernobulus is there, but we don’t get a chance to talk too much. I use my ace-in-the-hole way too early, shouting out “DARK SOULS” \o/ the moment I meet him, and running headfirst into uncomfortable silence territory. Pretty sure he wisely avoids making eye contact with me after that.
@sughly is there. That’s all I can say about the man at this stage, because he carefully sits as far away from me as possible when we go for dinner.
@beardymcmuttonchops sits up the other end of the table with DAN! and Sughly. I think he might have had enough of me. Fair enough, too.
@dc is a monster. He wants to elbow the people sitting at the table to his left. For no reason. Or maybe it’s because I tell him to. Whatever.
I offload more books with a carefully targeted range of approaches, including “Does anyone want a book before they go?” and a more individual approach: “Do you want a book before you go?” As you can see, my creativity is on full display tonight. No one wants me to sign their book in pink, and I am disappointed.
@dkzeitgeist disparagingly refers to himself a C-word as he makes for the exit, but decides to buy a book from me before he goes. So, in DAN!’s book, I write “Keep up the good work, cunt” (@dkzeitgeist, I hope this was actually funny to you, because there’s still a part of me that says “Too far, man. Too far.” Let me know, and I’ll send you a more PG13-rated personalisation. )
When I return to the house, I kick everyone’s ass at Injustice except the 11 y.o. boy.
Here’s some bits I forgot to mention from Thursday:
* Legend has it that the temperature in Canberra today is hotter than in Brisbane. I pretend to be nonchalant about having one less thing to complain about. You might even say I play it cool (#DadJokePageSix).
* @dc did give me a punch in the face. He did. @strange is witness. Everyone had a good laugh… though I think you had to be there, so I won’t explain any further.
* DAN! says I sound like Richard (edit: Kingsmill). I have no idea if it’s a compliment or not, but at least I have a fallback option impersonating JJJ hosts if things get really rocky.
And without further ado, Friday through Monday.
Friday. Supa…
Anyone remember Samurai Pizza Cats? It’s on DVD, and my hosts have it. I loved that show when I was a kid, but there’s no way that it can measure up to those fond memories, right?WRONG.
Oh man, it was fantastic. So crazy funny. We suspect (without having done even a lick of research to verify) that the English dub is entirely unrelated to the original Japanese content, and was written on the fly to accompany whatever was happening on the screen. It is genuinely batshit crazy, but self-aware enough to be winkingly funny. I really enjoy watching one point five episodes before the day kicks off.
I’m never too sure about competitive etiquette, especially when facing off against people half your age. But anyone who really knows me knows that when I’m given an opportunity to compete, I am fierce, determined and absolutely unyielding. Also I’m a desperately ungracious winner. I whoop the kids (and adults) at Injustice many times. Eventually I get the distinct impression that my merciless winning is causing me to overstay my welcome, so I hand the controller away, and go to have a little alone freak-out.
Soon, it’s time to get moving.
I spend way too long thinking about the answer to a question that no one was ever going to ask me: “What’s your favourite thing about Brisbane?” My response: “The way that people say ‘thank you’ as they get off the bus, even if they’re getting off through the rear doors.”
I don’t know why, but of everything that’s going on, and excepting the absence of my family, that’s the thing that reminds me most that I’m not in Canberra anymore. I guess the little details matter after all.
At Supanova, no one I speak to is expecting too much to happen today, so I’m expecting a slow afternoon. It’s what I get. In the six hours the convention is open that day, I sell six books (and three of those are to someone I know from Canberra).
That night, the comics folks wander down to a nearby Chinese restaurant, and I order vegetables. After having eaten nothing all afternoon but sugar-coated dried pineapple chunks, I feel I owe my arteries something. One last hurrah. Especially if the weekend ahead is anything like previous cons.
After some confusion with the Translink journey planning site, I discover (by using my feet and eyes) that the bus stop I need is right around the corner from the restaurant, outside the ‘gentleman’s club’. I make eye contact with nobody and catch the bus back to Joe and Linda’s.
Saturday. Nova… (hi @novacascade)
SHIT. I’ve slept in. I never sleep in. I haven’t slept in in years. Not this late.No time for breakfast. No time for shower. I throw on some clothes and charge out the door.
I’m stressed and already a little grumpy by the time I even reach my table, but I make it with time to spare before opening. Indeed, I’m actually one of the first people to arrive on artist alley. I should have stopped to get some food. Too late now, though.
Anyway, the doors open and people enter. Lots of people. A huge, pulsating mass of nerds with cash to burn. I want all that cash to be mine. I know this is not going to happen.
The morning is as slow as yesterday afternoon. I sell a book an hour. It’s pretty demoralising, to be honest. I try to keep a positive attitude, but it’s hard. I feel the defeat sinking into my gut, although I refuse to let it show on my face. A sullen demeanour is not going to sell books, that much I know for sure.
Here’s something I’ve picked up from the various cons I’ve done so far. I’m not sure how this is going to come across, so I’m going to preface these observations with the following disclaimer: I’m not bitter about it – this is just what I’ve observed.
It’s a relatively quiet Saturday afternoon. I am trying to keep an eye on the stalls around me, trying to see what gets the attention of con attendees, and what doesn’t.
What sells:
Fads. These days, anything with zombies is a surefire recipe for success.
Doodads. A lot of stalls, even comic ones, fill out their tables with little plastic gizmos and such. They were cheap, and seemed to move pretty well.
Craft and crafting. The guys at the table next to me had a pretty constant stream of customers, and plenty of excited people charging across the building, drawn by word of mouth to check out their cute hand-made (3)DS cases and hair clips. The table at the other end of my row selling markers also had a strong show.
Fan art. Attaching your work to a more popular segment of popular culture is a good business strategy. Folks selling professional prints that venerate popular shows and movies (Star Wars/Firefly/superheroes/Transformers/lots of stuff I know nothing about) apparently do very well this weekend.
Bright, short and snappy. It’s pretty hard to convince someone on a limited budget to splash out $18 or more on an author they’ve never heard of (even if it is a decent price for such a large book, it’s still a large risk). On the other hand, a small hand-stapled sample comic selling for the cost of a hamburger is a tried-and-true road test method. If it’s in colour, even better, because it will attract eyes from a distance.
What doesn’t sell:
The Lesser Evil. The Lesser Evil is none of these things. It doesn’t easily draw the eye, it doesn’t appeal to the wallet, it doesn’t latch on to established popular culture. If I can get someone to pick up the book and have a decent look at it, I have a decent conversion rate to sale.
But it’s not something that’s immediately engaging at a place where everything is happening in a rush, where time and money is limited, and there are a thousand brighter, louder, shinier and cheaper things vying for a punter’s attention.
I don’t mean to suggest that the other things on offer at other tables are devoid of substance, but the only thing my books have going for them is substance. They can’t compete in any of the other arenas mentioned above.
Mitigation
Because my books can’t compete on any of the above arenas, I have to work hard to sell each and every copy. I can’t just hope they’ll catch someone’s eye; I have to be standing, engaging with every person who walks past, holding out my book in the hope that they will take it, flick through it, and be impressed enough to take a gamble on me.
Every person who walks past is a potential fan, and (with all due modesty) a hefty percentage of them might even be likely fans, given half a chance. I want to give them that half a chance. I have to sell my books, because they won’t sell themselves.
I’m so far outside my comfort zone that I don’t even recognise the guy standing there trying to sell books.
At around lunchtime on Saturday, I am feeling particularly alone and insignificant in this place.
I take semi-regular sitting breaks all through today, and especially in the morning – I just don’t feel enough enthusiasm to keep up the pressure on passersby all day. I subtly clear out my 3DS streetpasses as regularly as I can, and by day’s end, I have 103 of them. That’s enough for the 100-in-a-day achievement, and I realise then that it’s the only achievement I really wanted to get. I might even be just about finished with Streetpasses now.
Things pick up in the afternoon, though, and I sell about twenty books in the space of three hours. There’s still about eighty books sitting on the ground behind me, so it’s not quite the landslide I am hoping for… but it’s something. It’s enough for now.
Before I leave for the night, I drop the price of the 3-book bundle from $45 to $40. Hopefully that makes a splash tomorrow.
That night, the awesome and friendly folks at Geek Speak invited all the creators out to a local hotel for drinks, and put on a very generous bar tab. I initially intended to take it easy, but after flubbing my drinks order and accidentally winding up with two drinks instead of one, I realised the cards were stacked against me. I had no choice but to slam down the first drink at top speed, so that I didn’t look like some weird free-food-hoarding moocher when I returned to the group.
I don’t recognise the guy who goes around tonight, chatting with everyone, getting to know as many people as he could get to. Alcohol has never given me that kind of social confidence before; I guess this is the first time I’ve had drinks on a stomach that’s had no meals for twenty-four hours though. Still, I have a great time, and get to meet a whole bunch of other comics creators and artist alley vendors. It is a great night, and I get uncharacteristically tipsy.
The nearest bus stop is, again, the gentleman’s club bus stop. I hope that the detective Mrs Shane has hired to follow me has actually been following me, and isn’t just hanging around places like this hoping I’d show up. I’m so uncomfortable waiting here that when I realise that there’s still 25 minutes till the bus arrives, I head back to the bar and say goodbye to comics people once again.
As I haven’t eaten anything all day and am feeling kind of muzzy in the head, the BBQ cheeseburgers I buy from Hungry Jacks when I hop off the bus that night taste as good as satin feels.
Sunday. …aaaa? It’s still going?
I’m so exhausted. You wouldn’t think standing still for three days is particularly tiring, and you might not think that talking rote lines to strangers is especially draining, but there’s no way I could be more completely wiped, physically, mentally, spiritually.But there’s still a whole day to go, and so I screw this doofy smile of confidence-faux upon my face, and grind out the day.
It turns out to be a good decision. More than fifty books are sold today. The new price point of $40 seems to be a big draw card, and the words “Can I tempt you to get all three books for $40?” have a success rate of greater than 50%. Seriously. I don’t know whether the word ‘tempt’ has some secret magic powers, or whether the price point descended past some risk threshold, but the books start to sell really well as bundles.
By the end of the day, I have only three copies of The Lesser Evil remaining, and quite a few of the two volumes of Peaceful Tomorrows. Still, I’ve done a huge amount better than I thought I would.
The day has passed in a blur. I can’t account for it; all I know is that I’ve eaten nothing, and drank only about a litre of water. I barely remember the bus trip in this morning.
Joe has finished the replica sword he has been working on for months, and intends to give it to his client this morning to complete the guy’s cosplay. He smuggles it in early morning with me. Also coming in early is Linda’s nephew Liam. I like the name Liam, and the kid seems cool too. I think he might not have much of the liking for me since I only lost to him once in Injustice, but he’s polite enough not to show it. We get in very early and wander around the marquee, which I haven’t seen yet. A separate area for the retail stalls, and they all get AIR CONDITIONERS. I remark rather unwittily that if I had just one of those up near my stall, I would get rich. It’s probably true, but after some thought I decide that I probably couldn’t get away with theft like that.
I do recall meeting a few TAY people today. @freezespreston, @sughly, Mini-sughly, @popdart5, and @dc all come by the stall. @popdart5 is a cool guy – and I was the first TAYbie he met. Poor guy – could have done so much better. He’s also a fellow public servant! I wheedle $40 out of him, and send him on his way.
I forget which order everyone else comes in, but Freeze and Sughly miss DC by a few minutes, and everyone misses Popdart by a few minutes, and eventually Freeze and Sughly track down DC (with a little guidance from yours truly).
DC looks so freaked out by the thick crowd here that he looks like he’s about to cry. He hops nervously from one foot to the other and is looking around as if expecting someone to inadvertently touch him at any moment. I think that he’s pretty brave to hang around a place like this all day with that kind of anxiety weighing on his back, but of course I don’t say anything complimentary like that.
I also get to see some old SerenityOZ friends, Brendan and Diana, and their small offspring, CJ (who is absolutely named after the iconic West Wing character). It’s good seeing them, as I haven’t seen them in years, and I let them have the book bundle at mate’s rates.
The late afternoon and evening part of the day is DEAD. No foot traffic at all. Half of artist alley has already packed up and gone home by the time the doors close at 6pm. I’ve never seen anything like it. I must admit, though, I’m kind of jealous that they feel okay breaking their stalls down early, and kind of wish I felt the same.
At day’s end, Popdart and DC have returned to assist me in breaking down my stall, as has my host Joe. Everyone meets, and makes with the chitchat while I pack up my stuff, and send folks on bin runs. I am so exhausted by this point that I can barely concentrate, and I worry I might have been a little gruff and/or ungrateful for the help and company. Just in case it didn’t come across, @popdart5 and @dc, I really appreciate it, guys.
I leave the guys for a few minutes to give out some copies of my books to the folks I bent elbows with the night before. They are all grateful, and most offer up some excess stock of their own as compensation. At the risk of sounding like a complete jerk, I am at best only mildly interested in most of the stuff offered, but I take it and will read it before passing final judgement.
Everyone asks me if I’ll be at any more cons; I proudly tell them that my wife is pregnant, and that I’m a homebody for the foreseeable future. I thought I would be a little disappointed by this, but I feel absolutely okay with it. Home is my place. Cons – even ones that go well – still feel like weird and alien places for me.
DC goes to hang out with his Space Pyrates pals, and Popdart leaves as I exit with my suitcase of stuff. I wander down to Joe’s car with him, and pile all my crap aboard. He offers to drive it back to his place and leave me here to do whatever social thing is planned.
There are indeed plans for the comics folks to meet out at a pub at a place called Milton. As directions start to make themselves known, it becomes clear to me that getting out there and back before the buses stop for the night will be a MAJOR hassle. At the eleventh hour, DC whisks me away from those problems, and we go on a brief mandate to the city instead and binge on Hungry Jacks. The lady at the counter thinks we are a couple because DC sneakily buys two pink milkshakes for us and tries to put his hand in my pocket.
This is the most relaxing part of my day to date, and it’s pretty clear to me that this was a much better choice than trying to figure out the train to Milton and back again. Thanks @dc, you are indeed excellent company. Really needed that decompression. I feel a little guilty that @Popdart5 is long gone by the time this decision is taken, because this was something he totally could have participated in.
I send Mrs Shane a picture of a train to show my daughter, but the message doesn’t arrive on her phone until about two hours after she’s picked me up from the airport the next day.
When I get back to Joe and Linda’s that night, Joe and I spend about four hours listening to cool music (including the entire James Flamestar album!) and looking at photos from a previous life: the annual Brisbane SerenityOz shindigs (of which I participated in 2 out of 3). It’s a great way to wrap up the day, and the weekend.
According to a Facebook post made by Supanova on Tuesday night, around 34900 people visited Supanova over the course of the weekend. Huge numbers. By far the biggest con I’ve ever attended. Of that huge throng, I only like about fifty people. The ones who bought my books. They are the true elite, the 0.1 per cent, the ubermensch.
Monday. Leaving, on a jet plane…
I wake up more than 10 hours after I went to sleep. Amazing. That’s twice as much sleep as I usually get. I must have been so wrecked.Holy shit. The Lesser Evil track on James Flamestar’s unbelievable album Stargazers is an epic track even on the tinny speakers I’ve been listening on. But in a room with surround sound and subwoofers… man. Oh man. It was HUGE. I don’t know what’s beyond epic on the scale of awesome, but this reaches whatever mythical peak you can imagine.
If you don’t own this album, shame on you.
And all too soon, it’s time to be heading home.
Being home is great. I missed my wife and kids so much. Spending five days apart is harder than maybe it should be, but I’m okay with that.
Better than it being easy.
THE END.
Linkdump:
#1: Desperately fashionable: https://twitter.com/GrumpyOldGamer_/status/399355389164003328/photo/1
#2: What I got from DAN! https://www.dropbox.com/sc/fde4hu4vjdj1nqq/346zOSOGmn
#3: What I wrote for DAN! in return https://twitter.com/dkzeitgeist/status/398407932976443393/photo/1
Linkdump2:
#4: GeekSpeak Facebook http://www.facebook.com/geekspeaktv
#5: James Flamestar album http://jamesflamestar.bandcamp.com/album/james-flamestar-stargazers
#6: Leaving on a train https://twitter.com/GrumpyOldGamer_/status/399730445442510848/photo/1
Oh and FYI @Strange, this picture depicts me wearing a clean, fresh shirt. It just happens to resemble the one I wore on Thursday, as I bought about eight of them at the same time, each with a slightly different colour.
Haha! All my lumberjack shirts look the same, so she should be used to Sleepy Hollow-like lack of costume changes from TAYbies.
I have half a dozen plain black shirts and blue/grey/faded-blue jeans, so yeah, that’s going to hold pretty much true here, too.
And, of course, Guy-Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4L4Uv5rf0
And because I’m terrible at telling people how I feel about them, I should add that all the Brisbane folk live up to the hype. You’re all awesome people, and it was really great meeting/seeing you all!
You too, man. I’m sorry I didn’t swing by more than once on Saturday. But after Garry’s photo at 12:40 I was ready to bail.
Really glad you made some big sales- I remember you were a little disappointed after Adelaide.
Thanks!
It’s pretty much all about adjusting expectations. On reflection, I did all right in Adelaide too.
Main reason I didn’t hang around afterwards. I was thinking of it since it is probably going to be a while before I see you again but I really just wanted to get home and see the wife and kids.
It’s all good, my friend. Pretty much what I assumed.
I really hope you didn’t mind me hanging around your booth Sunday afternoon. Hope I didn’t cost you any sales. Also, I was incredibly stressed at the crowd. I guess it showed. XD
Shane, it was so damn awesome meeting you. I was nervous, the kind of nerves you get when you’re meeting someone you respect like crazy and I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: you live up to the hype. (You might even exceed the hype and I was already expecting big things.) Before these meats you never know how an online friendship will translate to the offline kind, but I’m proud to call you a friend man. Possibly one of the best I’ve ever had! But, uh, that’s enough feelings!
Space Pyrates folk totally respected your ability to stand for three days too. What a trooper! They also had nothing but kind and nice things to say about you as a person as well.
I feel pretty much the same way, dude, but as I’d much rather those feelings be implied than directly expressed outright, I’m just going to post a link that I forgot to embed in the original post.
SAMURAI PIZZA CATS
(As soon as someone finds the script, we might begin the show!)
That was totally screening upstairs in the Mad Men Anime Theatre. XD
Also, you going to post non-Kotaku edition to your blog too? TOTALLY SHOULD!
UGH. So much work. It never ends, does it? 😛
Fine, wait until you’re back on the governments dime. 😛
Nah, I’m actually doing it now.
Uhn. That hurts man. Hurts deep.
You and Sughly are like brothers, man….
Oh man, too many feelings tonight. Haha.
…. 🙁
😛You’re like a monster to me, Strange. A monster! Hugs?
By the end of Thursday’s Meat with you and @shane I felt like an awkward third wheel. Kind of like when I’m with you and @sughly. 😛
I told you you’d be fine, you doofus. 😀
Wait… that’s not good 🙁
Wait…yes it is! I just mean you guys were getting on fine and didn’t need me as a buffer anymore.
But don’t you see, Strange. We were all feeling like awkward third wheels. XD
Heh. Totally feel guilty reading about that sales stuff, because I’m one of those guys who just wanders around the place with zero intention of buying anything 😛
Glad it went well for you all up though. Epic tale.
tl;dr Thanks for the tag 😛
Ok fine, I lied. I did read it all. Sounds like an awesome week. Glad it went so well for you
You’ve done well! The write-up is appreciated too!
And a slightly revamped version here with pics:
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2013/11/brisbane-supanova-2013/
cc @dc
I think you mean Richard Kingsmill, Shane.
You gent, you.
I have a feeling that the word “gent” might end up becoming a running joke here.
I’ve already started using it IRL.
8/10, needs more jimu
Streetpassing is one of my new favourite things in the world, second only to Lady Gaga’s new album!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1441186_10201783812428596_46519768_n.jpg
I’m deriving far to much enjoyment from this greeting! I feel I need to point out however that I am not a psycho or anything!
My greeting is “shanewsmith.com”. Yours is an appropriate response to that. 😛
Mines an appropriate response for all occasions!
Did I get your friend code?
Yeah we are friends, I appear as my real name though, not as Liondrive 🙂
i wonder how many people are gonna buy PAX tickets & not turn up coz they forgot they bought PAX tickets a year ago?
Except when they get them in the mail a month before
hush you. this is no time for your logic.
Well, the mail could always not show up..
In which case they pull a @rocketman and have to arrange flights and accommodation at the last minute and cause themselves excessive stress
(Love you Rockets 😀 )
One of my friends this year only went on the Sunday because he forgot that it was on on the Friday, then had work on the Saturday.
So I just reluctantly bought a 3 day PAX thingo. Kinda sorta really annoyed how early this is. The fact that the tickets sell so quickly just makes it worse.
At least you know they’ll be easy to ditch on Gumtree if you change your mind. 90% sold so far.
Goodnight.
But it’s not even 10pm yet!
Ok, so if I don’t multiply the FOV angle of the perspective matrix by two, I get an image that doesn’t (seem to) distort as it moves towards the outer edges of the screen. But then everything appears to be much closer and things don’t look right. Plus it still screws with the barrel distortion in the end anyway so things look wrong.
This is too hard and I just want to give up already,
Just do a barrel roll.
Oh God. Past 90%… Freaking out that Anton wont get a ticket now 🙁
SO MUCH MONEY SPENT THIS MONTH!
Had to buy Pax tix this morning as they were 90% sold out :/
Also getting a launch US PS4! Despite it only having as many games as the Wii U at launch. *rimshot*
How’s you guys?
I woke up this morning to find one of my monitors isn’t displaying a picture anymore. Thanks monitor, it’s not like I spent $300 on PAX tickets yesterday.
Yeah, the money I was going to put towards a new graphics card went towards buying PAX tickets yesterday.
Admittedly I’ll get all but $155 of that money back but I really wanted the GTX 780 🙁
GTX 780 Ti?
GHz edition? Ti OC? SO MANY NAMES.
New TS server details:
27.50.70.3:10527
Usual password.
@negativeZero
Don’t know if you saw but we finally have a release date for The banner saga. Looking to launch on the 14th of Jan. Looking to be shaping up pretty much along the lines I expected when I backed.
Maybe you can get your games back and launched total up to 2
Legend of Zelda – Link between worlds got a 10/10 from GameInformer! I usually don’t pay much mind with game scores but A perfect score … Damn, not like I wasn’t hyped for it before!
But the art direction alone should take lots of points away. XD
I joke, I joke. Hope it’s as good as it sounds!
People also said Wind Waker art direction was terrible. =)
Not me! That’s it’s saving grace! 😛
I still hate it every time I see it in screenshots and videos. But it looks so good on the 3DS.
Just has that plastic sort of CGI look that I really hate about the New Super Mario Bros games too.
Yeah, horrible 90s CGI. New Yoshi’s
IslandStory looks horrible too.Trying to decide if I want to cosplay as something relatively simple for PAX. So far the only idea I’ve had is to make a little sign on a hat that says “Mt Moon” and when anyone asks me about it I peg Zubats at them.
Should I start putting together a Chewbacca outfit?
…
…
…yes.
I may/may not be researching this…
If it can’t happen, I can always go as Luke in stormtrooper armour, so everyone can remark on height requirements within the Imperial army.
Wouldn’t R2D2 be a better fit?
*Beep* you.
“aren’t you a little fat for a storm-trooper”…
…
I KID i kid…
…
You’re short
Kinda really want to go as Hawlucha now 😛
Actually maybe I should finally get around to making my Caterpie inspired costume…
I’m gonna do it! I have a year to plan!
And Caterpie never goes out of fashion.
That would end poorly for you.
Rize uses Glare!
oh man, this is a good idea.
You can have it!
I’ve been considering this also, even though I don’t even have the game 😛
TANITH FIRST AND ONLY \o/
https://twitter.com/f4ction/status/400294904141586432/photo/1 😡
Hooooleeee…..
WOAH! 😀
You’re my new god if you pull this one off! 😀
Why not go as one of the many finns?
If I was to cosplay for 1 day I would go as Snow from FFXIII just so when people say hey your dressed as snow I can be like “what? These are my everyday clothes? I’m not dressed up” and make them feel really awkward
I’m wondering if there’s someone out there who got that as Joel from The Last of Us.
Legitimately awkward. 🙂
Wait if I went as Joel that could be better..wait I don’t have his hair BITCH
Man, I shave my head. I can barely cosplay ANYONE without using a wig to do it. My natural colour used to be blonde, but now it’s a sort of fieldmouse grey-brown. Not sure if it was destined to do that or if it’s the result of spending my entire childhood swimming in chlorine. 😛
All bald/shaved-head dudes in video games are totally ripped… I should work out more.
Maybe Cole from inFamous. He’s everyman like.
I’d also have to shave my face. My beard, noooooo!
Heh. It’s a weak excuse for not cosplaying, the real reason is I couldn’t be bothered with the effort and expense.
I like Joel’s lumberjack shirts! That’s some cosplay I could get behind!
It’s like a bigger, grumpier DC in his 40s/50s. 🙂
Nah, he’d have more appreciation for the beautiful post apocalyptic urban decay if that was the case! XD
Dear TAY,
One more repost, and then I’ll let it slide gracefully into obscurity.
Shane’s trip to Brisbane. All 4700 words of it.
Wednesday. Out from Canberra airport.
The portable bag weigher I bought has paid for itself; my suitcase gets checked with 200g clearance. No excess baggage charges this time around.I don’t like the default seat I’ve been assigned, so change it up a bit and opt for a window seat. As it turns out, there’s no one sitting next to me. Pretty good decision, that one. Spend the trip alternately reading East of Eden and wondering how the bloody hell planes stay in the air. They’re huge metal tubes full of heavy people and bags. Start thinking of landing as a partially-controlled plummet, and can’t get the image out of my head. Only mildly nervous. Return attention to book.
I’m staying with Joe and Linda, two friends from a previous life who I haven’t seen in way too long, since about 2008 actually.
Who watches the watchmen? Actually, it turns out that I do. Having not seen the Watchmen movie before, I spend my Wednesday afternoon watching it. Good film, though not much more than a dumb action romp. Probably a good move to jettison all the claims to literature that the comic aspired to, but still… it left a void.
Chinese food is on the menu tonight, and I share a lovely meal with my congenial hosts. We play a little Injustice, which I haven’t played before. Addictive brawler.
Thursday. I don’t know what I’m doing.
When I come out of my room in the morning, this is waiting for me. #miseryA promise is made to ‘stage’ an actual hobbling photo, but this never takes place. (Which is to say that the hobbling goes ahead, but with no photo).
I’ve caught the bus in to what is apparently Queen St Mall. The bus driver helpfully points me in the right direction, and I dutifully walk. He drives away, my lone and only safety net (such as it is) whisked away from me in a cloud of stifling petrol fumes.
I arrive at Hungry Jacks, see no sign of @dc or @strange, and immediately attempt (and fail) to look nonchalant as I lean against the wall and check my phone. There’s a message from DC that says “Let us know when you’re around.” I reply very sociably: “I’m around” and as I hit send, I see @strange and @dc standing about ten metres away.
I don’t really want to say too much about @dc here, because it could quite easily veer into Scrubs-esque-guy-love territory, and no one really wants that. But I’ll say this much: he doesn’t disappoint, and the way he talks is reassuringly similar to the way he types.
As we all know, @strange is pretty awesome. She has made this fantastic quilt for Mrs Shane, and presents it to me at about this point in the story. Her son is a cool kid, and funny. At a later stage today, he will get a balloon and proceed to chase me around JB with it. We keep playing the game right up until Strange starts yelling at us to stop. I feel like a kid who’s just been busted eating the teacher’s chalk or lighting matches behind the desk (ummm…. neither of which I did ever as a kid).
I think I might have overstated the extent to which I freak out over socialising because both @dc and @strange treat me like I’m about to burst into tears.
@jimu and @beardymcmuttonchops make it for lunch! They are both very friendly, cool guys, so naturally I don’t say much at all. DC very proudly announces that Jimu is white, and not Asian. Thanks, DC.
Beardy’s Kickstarter starts soon (or might have started, I don’t recall, sorry), so we should all support him!
Because I have already had a big Hungry Jacks breakfast, I elect to consume just the $1.20 thickshakes for lunch. I order a Red Velvet one and a strawberry one, and for the life of me, I cannot tell which is which as I drink them.
DC asks me who I am most nervous about meeting tonight, and without hesitation I single out @dkzeitgeist and @transientmind. DC then proudly tells me (for the first of several times) about the meat where he and Transientmind were the only attendees. It’s not a particularly reassuring story, the way he tells it.
He walks me back to my bus stop, but tries to send me underground. I know that at least that much is wrong, and manage to foil his attempt to sabotage my travelling plans.
By the time I’ve returned to Joe and Linda’s, more guests have arrived: Linda’s sister, niece and nephew.
Thursday II. C-words
I am desperately fashionable in a high-vis vest as I set up my stall.My banner is up and looking pretty schmick, even if I do think so myself. Given the Game of Thrones focus on this con, I’m kicking myself for not including the “Game of Thrones – galactic version” review quote on the banner.
By the time it’s done, it’s 6:30, and there’s no time to shower, no time to change, nothing. Just jump on a bus with some books and head to the meat.
Realising that in my haste, I have books but no pens, I lug the bloody things all over the Queen St Mall looking for a place that sells pens. I have to hide as I pass the Hungry Jacks where we are all scheduled to meet. No one mentions it later on, so I think I get away with it. After weaving my way through a rabbit warren of corridors, I find a Target, and buy 8 pens for five bucks. Now I can return to the group, sweaty yet triumphant. I think I’m even vaguely on time – if not, no one is petty enough to mention it.
@dkzeitgeist, who proudly introduces himself as my biggest fan (or maybe was christening me as his, I’m not entirely sure. Actually, in retrospect, it was probably this one, because I don’t think he owns one of my books at this point in the story) presents me with a present that manages to be simultaneously funny and thoughtful: a cassette recording of the Zeitgeist episode I would be missing tomorrow due to Supanova. It actually legitimately feels kind of cool to own some Zeitgeist merch, and I realise that I’m not so far above the compulsion to collect things as I thought I was.
Within five minutes of meeting DAN!, I’ve managed to imply that he ejaculates prematurely (at the sad expense of his partner’s satisfaction), and when he leaves at the end of the night, I call him a cunt. I’m pretty sure I make the very best of impressions.
@transientmind is everything he has been hyped up to be. He conducts himself with an effortless-seeming suave charm that is somewhat awe-inspiring and jealousy-inspiring, but somehow retains an approachable air that prevents him from being entirely intimidating.
I keep the promise I made to him earlier, and we each purchase a glass of milk from the bar at the Beach House. This costs us four dollars apiece, and I make a secret vow never to keep another promise to another human being ever. A valuable lesson indeed.
As I have met @freezespreston previously, I shall only focus on the bad points this time around. When my massive burger arrives, he suggests that I cut it in two to help me eat it. I realise now that this was a masterful troll, as the god-awful mess that results causes me to spill burger bits out of just about every bite I attempt. Pretty sure my eating put everyone else off their food. Sorry, gents.
@sernobulus is there, but we don’t get a chance to talk too much. I use my ace-in-the-hole way too early, shouting out “DARK SOULS” \o/ the moment I meet him, and running headfirst into uncomfortable silence territory. Pretty sure he wisely avoids making eye contact with me after that.
@sughly is there. That’s all I can say about the man at this stage, because he carefully sits as far away from me as possible when we go for dinner.
@beardymcmuttonchops sits up the other end of the table with DAN! and Sughly. I think he might have had enough of me. Fair enough, too.
@dc is a monster. He wants to elbow the people sitting at the table to his left. For no reason. Or maybe it’s because I tell him to. Whatever.
I offload more books with a carefully targeted range of approaches, including “Does anyone want a book before they go?” and a more individual approach: “Do you want a book before you go?” As you can see, my creativity is on full display tonight. No one wants me to sign their book in pink, and I am disappointed.
@dkzeitgeist disparagingly refers to himself a C-word as he makes for the exit, but decides to buy a book from me before he goes. So, in DAN!’s book, I write “Keep up the good work, cunt” (@dkzeitgeist, I hope this was actually funny to you, because there’s still a part of me that says “Too far, man. Too far.” Let me know, and I’ll send you a more PG13-rated personalisation. )
When I return to the house, I kick everyone’s ass at Injustice except the 11 y.o. boy.
Here’s some bits I forgot to mention from Thursday:
* Legend has it that the temperature in Canberra today is hotter than in Brisbane. I pretend to be nonchalant about having one less thing to complain about. You might even say I play it cool (#DadJokePageSix).
* @dc did give me a punch in the face. He did. @strange is witness. Everyone had a good laugh… though I think you had to be there, so I won’t explain any further.
* DAN! says I sound like Richard Kingsmill. I have no idea if it’s a compliment or not, but at least I have a fallback option impersonating JJJ hosts if things get really rocky.
And without further ado, Friday through Monday.
Friday. Supa…
Anyone remember Samurai Pizza Cats? It’s on DVD, and my hosts have it. I loved that show when I was a kid, but there’s no way that it can measure up to those fond memories, right?WRONG.
Oh man, it was fantastic. So crazy funny. We suspect (without having done even a lick of research to verify) that the English dub is entirely unrelated to the original Japanese content, and was written on the fly to accompany whatever was happening on the screen. It is genuinely batshit crazy, but self-aware enough to be winkingly funny. I really enjoy watching one point five episodes before the day kicks off.
I’m never too sure about competitive etiquette, especially when facing off against people half your age. But anyone who really knows me knows that when I’m given an opportunity to compete, I am fierce, determined and absolutely unyielding. Also I’m a desperately ungracious winner. I whoop the kids (and adults) at Injustice many times. Eventually I get the distinct impression that my merciless winning is causing me to overstay my welcome, so I hand the controller away, and go to have a little alone freak-out.
Soon, it’s time to get moving.
I spend way too long thinking about the answer to a question that no one was ever going to ask me: “What’s your favourite thing about Brisbane?” My response: “The way that people say ‘thank you’ as they get off the bus, even if they’re getting off through the rear doors.”
I don’t know why, but of everything that’s going on, and excepting the absence of my family, that’s the thing that reminds me most that I’m not in Canberra anymore. I guess the little details matter after all.
At Supanova, no one I speak to is expecting too much to happen today, so I’m expecting a slow afternoon. It’s what I get. In the six hours the convention is open that day, I sell six books (and three of those are to someone I know from Canberra).
That night, the comics folks wander down to a nearby Chinese restaurant, and I order vegetables. After having eaten nothing all afternoon but sugar-coated dried pineapple chunks, I feel I owe my arteries something. One last hurrah. Especially if the weekend ahead is anything like previous cons.
After some confusion with the Translink journey planning site, I discover (by using my feet and eyes) that the bus stop I need is right around the corner from the restaurant, outside the ‘gentleman’s club’. I make eye contact with nobody and catch the bus back to Joe and Linda’s.
Saturday. Nova… (hi @novacascade)
SHIT. I’ve slept in. I never sleep in. I haven’t slept in in years. Not this late.No time for breakfast. No time for shower. I throw on some clothes and charge out the door.
I’m stressed and already a little grumpy by the time I even reach my table, but I make it with time to spare before opening. Indeed, I’m actually one of the first people to arrive on artist alley. I should have stopped to get some food. Too late now, though.
Anyway, the doors open and people enter. Lots of people. A huge, pulsating mass of nerds with cash to burn. I want all that cash to be mine. I know this is not going to happen.
The morning is as slow as yesterday afternoon. I sell a book an hour. It’s pretty demoralising, to be honest. I try to keep a positive attitude, but it’s hard. I feel the defeat sinking into my gut, although I refuse to let it show on my face. A sullen demeanour is not going to sell books, that much I know for sure.
Here’s something I’ve picked up from the various cons I’ve done so far. I’m not sure how this is going to come across, so I’m going to preface these observations with the following disclaimer: I’m not bitter about it – this is just what I’ve observed.
It’s a relatively quiet Saturday afternoon. I am trying to keep an eye on the stalls around me, trying to see what gets the attention of con attendees, and what doesn’t.
What sells:
Fads. These days, anything with zombies is a surefire recipe for success.
Doodads. A lot of stalls, even comic ones, fill out their tables with little plastic gizmos and such. They were cheap, and seemed to move pretty well.
Craft and crafting. The guys at the table next to me had a pretty constant stream of customers, and plenty of excited people charging across the building, drawn by word of mouth to check out their cute hand-made (3)DS cases and hair clips. The table at the other end of my row selling markers also had a strong show.
Fan art. Attaching your work to a more popular segment of popular culture is a good business strategy. Folks selling professional prints that venerate popular shows and movies (Star Wars/Firefly/superheroes/Transformers/lots of stuff I know nothing about) apparently do very well this weekend.
Bright, short and snappy. It’s pretty hard to convince someone on a limited budget to splash out $18 or more on an author they’ve never heard of (even if it is a decent price for such a large book, it’s still a large risk). On the other hand, a small hand-stapled sample comic selling for the cost of a hamburger is a tried-and-true road test method. If it’s in colour, even better, because it will attract eyes from a distance.
What doesn’t sell:
The Lesser Evil. The Lesser Evil is none of these things. It doesn’t easily draw the eye, it doesn’t appeal to the wallet, it doesn’t latch on to established popular culture. If I can get someone to pick up the book and have a decent look at it, I have a decent conversion rate to sale.
But it’s not something that’s immediately engaging at a place where everything is happening in a rush, where time and money is limited, and there are a thousand brighter, louder, shinier and cheaper things vying for a punter’s attention.
I don’t mean to suggest that the other things on offer at other tables are devoid of substance, but the only thing my books have going for them is substance. They can’t compete in any of the other arenas mentioned above.
Mitigation
Because my books can’t compete on any of the above arenas, I have to work hard to sell each and every copy. I can’t just hope they’ll catch someone’s eye; I have to be standing, engaging with every person who walks past, holding out my book in the hope that they will take it, flick through it, and be impressed enough to take a gamble on me.
Every person who walks past is a potential fan, and (with all due modesty) a hefty percentage of them might even be likely fans, given half a chance. I want to give them that half a chance. I have to sell my books, because they won’t sell themselves.
I’m so far outside my comfort zone that I don’t even recognise the guy standing there trying to sell books.
At around lunchtime on Saturday, I am feeling particularly alone and insignificant in this place.
I take semi-regular sitting breaks all through today, and especially in the morning – I just don’t feel enough enthusiasm to keep up the pressure on passersby all day. I subtly clear out my 3DS streetpasses as regularly as I can, and by day’s end, I have 103 of them. That’s enough for the 100-in-a-day achievement, and I realise then that it’s the only achievement I really wanted to get. I might even be just about finished with Streetpasses now.
Things pick up in the afternoon, though, and I sell about twenty books in the space of three hours. There’s still about eighty books sitting on the ground behind me, so it’s not quite the landslide I am hoping for… but it’s something. It’s enough for now.
Before I leave for the night, I drop the price of the 3-book bundle from $45 to $40. Hopefully that makes a splash tomorrow.
That night, the awesome and friendly folks at Geek Speak invited all the creators out to a local hotel for drinks, and put on a very generous bar tab. I initially intended to take it easy, but after flubbing my drinks order and accidentally winding up with two drinks instead of one, I realised the cards were stacked against me. I had no choice but to slam down the first drink at top speed, so that I didn’t look like some weird free-food-hoarding moocher when I returned to the group.
I don’t recognise the guy who goes around tonight, chatting with everyone, getting to know as many people as he could get to. Alcohol has never given me that kind of social confidence before; I guess this is the first time I’ve had drinks on a stomach that’s had no meals for twenty-four hours though. Still, I have a great time, and get to meet a whole bunch of other comics creators and artist alley vendors. It is a great night, and I get uncharacteristically tipsy.
The nearest bus stop is, again, the gentleman’s club bus stop. I hope that the detective Mrs Shane has hired to follow me has actually been following me, and isn’t just hanging around places like this hoping I’d show up. I’m so uncomfortable waiting here that when I realise that there’s still 25 minutes till the bus arrives, I head back to the bar and say goodbye to comics people once again.
As I haven’t eaten anything all day and am feeling kind of muzzy in the head, the BBQ cheeseburgers I buy from Hungry Jacks when I hop off the bus that night taste as good as satin feels.
Sunday. …aaaa? It’s still going?
I’m so exhausted. You wouldn’t think standing still for three days is particularly tiring, and you might not think that talking rote lines to strangers is especially draining, but there’s no way I could be more completely wiped, physically, mentally, spiritually.But there’s still a whole day to go, and so I screw this doofy smile of confidence-faux upon my face, and grind out the day.
It turns out to be a good decision. More than fifty books are sold today. The new price point of $40 seems to be a big draw card, and the words “Can I tempt you to get all three books for $40?” have a success rate of greater than 50%. Seriously. I don’t know whether the word ‘tempt’ has some secret magic powers, or whether the price point descended past some risk threshold, but the books start to sell really well as bundles.
By the end of the day, I have only three copies of The Lesser Evil remaining, and quite a few of the two volumes of Peaceful Tomorrows. Still, I’ve done a huge amount better than I thought I would.
The day has passed in a blur. I can’t account for it; all I know is that I’ve eaten nothing, and drank only about a litre of water. I barely remember the bus trip in this morning.
Joe has finished the replica sword he has been working on for months, and intends to give it to his client this morning to complete the guy’s cosplay. He smuggles it in early morning with me. Also coming in early is Linda’s nephew Liam. I like the name Liam, and the kid seems cool too. I think he might not have much of the liking for me since I only lost to him once in Injustice, but he’s polite enough not to show it. We get in very early and wander around the marquee, which I haven’t seen yet. A separate area for the retail stalls, and they all get AIR CONDITIONERS. I remark rather unwittily that if I had just one of those up near my stall, I would get rich. It’s probably true, but after some thought I decide that I probably couldn’t get away with theft like that.
I do recall meeting a few TAY people today. @freezespreston, @sughly, Mini-sughly, @popdart5, and @dc all come by the stall. @popdart5 is a cool guy – and I was the first TAYbie he met. Poor guy – could have done so much better. He’s also a fellow public servant! I wheedle $40 out of him, and send him on his way.
I forget which order everyone else comes in, but Freeze and Sughly miss DC by a few minutes, and everyone misses Popdart by a few minutes, and eventually Freeze and Sughly track down DC (with a little guidance from yours truly).
DC looks so freaked out by the thick crowd here that he looks like he’s about to cry. He hops nervously from one foot to the other and is looking around as if expecting someone to inadvertently touch him at any moment. I think that he’s pretty brave to hang around a place like this all day with that kind of anxiety weighing on his back, but of course I don’t say anything complimentary like that.
I also get to see some old SerenityOZ friends, Brendan and Diana, and their small offspring, CJ (who is absolutely named after the iconic West Wing character). It’s good seeing them, as I haven’t seen them in years, and I let them have the book bundle at mate’s rates.
The late afternoon and evening part of the day is DEAD. No foot traffic at all. Half of artist alley has already packed up and gone home by the time the doors close at 6pm. I’ve never seen anything like it. I must admit, though, I’m kind of jealous that they feel okay breaking their stalls down early, and kind of wish I felt the same.
At day’s end, Popdart and DC have returned to assist me in breaking down my stall, as has my host Joe. Everyone meets, and makes with the chitchat while I pack up my stuff, and send folks on bin runs. I am so exhausted by this point that I can barely concentrate, and I worry I might have been a little gruff and/or ungrateful for the help and company. Just in case it didn’t come across, @popdart5 and @dc, I really appreciate it, guys.
I leave the guys for a few minutes to give out some copies of my books to the folks I bent elbows with the night before. They are all grateful, and most offer up some excess stock of their own as compensation. At the risk of sounding like a complete jerk, I am at best only mildly interested in most of the stuff offered, but I take it and will read it before passing final judgement.
Everyone asks me if I’ll be at any more cons; I proudly tell them that my wife is pregnant, and that I’m a homebody for the foreseeable future. I thought I would be a little disappointed by this, but I feel absolutely okay with it. Home is my place. Cons – even ones that go well – still feel like weird and alien places for me.
DC goes to hang out with his Space Pyrates pals, and Popdart leaves as I exit with my suitcase of stuff. I wander down to Joe’s car with him, and pile all my crap aboard. He offers to drive it back to his place and leave me here to do whatever social thing is planned.
There are indeed plans for the comics folks to meet out at a pub at a place called Milton. As directions start to make themselves known, it becomes clear to me that getting out there and back before the buses stop for the night will be a MAJOR hassle. At the eleventh hour, DC whisks me away from those problems, and we go on a brief mandate to the city instead and binge on Hungry Jacks. The lady at the counter thinks we are a couple because DC sneakily buys two pink milkshakes for us and tries to put his hand in my pocket.
This is the most relaxing part of my day to date, and it’s pretty clear to me that this was a much better choice than trying to figure out the train to Milton and back again. Thanks @dc, you are indeed excellent company. Really needed that decompression. I feel a little guilty that @Popdart5 is long gone by the time this decision is taken, because this was something he totally could have participated in.
I send Mrs Shane a picture of a train to show my daughter, but the message doesn’t arrive on her phone until about two hours after she’s picked me up from the airport the next day.
When I get back to Joe and Linda’s that night, Joe and I spend about four hours listening to cool music (including the entire James Flamestar album!) and looking at photos from a previous life: the annual Brisbane SerenityOz shindigs (of which I participated in 2 out of 3). It’s a great way to wrap up the day, and the weekend.
According to a Facebook post made by Supanova on Tuesday night, around 34900 people visited Supanova over the course of the weekend. Huge numbers. By far the biggest con I’ve ever attended. Of that huge throng, I only like about fifty people. The ones who bought my books. They are the true elite, the 0.1 per cent, the ubermensch.
Monday. Leaving, on a jet plane…
I wake up more than 10 hours after I went to sleep. Amazing. That’s twice as much sleep as I usually get. I must have been so wrecked.Holy shit. The Lesser Evil track on James Flamestar’s unbelievable album Stargazers is an epic track even on the tinny speakers I’ve been listening on. But in a room with surround sound and subwoofers… man. Oh man. It was HUGE. I don’t know what’s beyond epic on the scale of awesome, but this reaches whatever mythical peak you can imagine.
If you don’t own this album, shame on you.
And all too soon, it’s time to be heading home.
Being home is great. I missed my wife and kids so much. Spending five days apart is harder than maybe it should be, but I’m okay with that.
Better than it being easy.
THE END.
I still can’t believe with all those TAYbies and the like visiting your stall that nobody brought you any food!
Wait… you’re right!
Scum, the lot of them.
Hey. I offered a couple of times and he kept refusing.
Pfft, details.
And I repeatedly asked you if you wanted water. WHAT GIVES?
NOT YOU, that’s for sure.
7/10, needs more jimu, seen it before
Dear TAY,
I hope this letter finds you well.
Please find enclosed the new TeamSpeak server details to replace the old server which will be going offline later today.
Address: 27.50.70.3:10527
Usual password.
If you are unsure of the usual password, please kindly ask one of the TS regulars or myself on Steam.
Kind regards,
Cakesmith
Hooray!
Not that I use TeamSpeak much. Maybe I should change that.
I have nothing interesting to say.
Most times you log in, say hello, then everyone sits in silence for a couple of hours. Unless they’re playing games or singing Disney.
But mostly silence.
I admit I don’t log in as much as I used to, mainly due to either silence or everyone doing ARAMs all night, which frankly bore me now.
I got another group with 15+ people that I play LoL Summoners Rift and even Twisted treeline (when it’s online) with almost each night now. They’re not that good at the game but they’re happy for me to coach them on how they can improve (As in they don’t tell me to shut up yet :P)
yeeeaaah i should probably log on and say HI every once in a while, but the thought of instant communication where i don’t have time to think of good/witty responses scares me… plus that @rize guy is a jerk
Dear TAY
Because we had fun with it last week, it’s time once again for SIX WORD SPECULATIVE FICTION:
The Dragon begged for our help
A Tale told in terse form,
Red.
Dear Red,
Is this an ongoing saga where everyone contributes six words, or is each story standalone? If the latter:
Advanced technology did not save them.
Kind regards,
Usually verbose
Dear author man
Each sentence is a complete standalone.
The Witches’ meeting minutes were remarkable
Red.
Four guys, one cup, no survivors.
Story ended because lasers. Pew pew.
Belatedly, they realised Kinect was benign.
Played the Lego Marvel Superheroes demo last night.
SO. MUCH. AWESOME.
I was SOOOO giddy when i got to play as spiderman… my god it’s so much fun! And the hulk transformation is brilliant! 😀
Added to the Xmas list! So i’m pretty sure Santa bee might bring it to me if i’m a good boy 😀
Assuming it’s local only, but does it have any online component?
I HAVE NO IDEA \o/
I don’t see why it wouldn’t in this day and age…
Just about every other Lego game hasn’t.
See below and weep with me
No online multiplayer.
Well that sucks
Well my missus just picked it up, can’t wait to get home and play it… as far as i understand it
Lego City Undercover + super powers + local co-op… I THINK WE HAVE A WINNER \o/
Hells to the yeah!!
MISSUS WIN!
you should totally come over to my house to play LEGO…
I’M AN ADULT \o/
Being mature is overrated.
For some reason my wife is convinced I’m 5-6 inches shorter than @sughly…
She ain’t talkin’ about height.
That makes sense then.
Talking about hair length right?
Gut I believe.
:'(
TALKING ABOUT HEIGHT. *glares at Rize*
I’m pretty sure you and I are around the same height. 6’2-ish? Sughly’s shorter but in better proportion than both of us. Haha!
In the context of Dan’s statement, this is far funnier than it should be.
I know, man. i know. I ain’t editing though.
Who am I kidding. I’M TOTALLY EDITING.
6’2-ish… IN GIRTH!
“Better proportion”.
All heights must just look skewed from way down there I guess
HAHAHAHA.
Brilliant.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/11/12/dragon-age-inquisition-footage-shows-off-tactical-combat.aspx
New Dragon Age; Inquisition footage. Not going to watch because I’m on a media blackout, but so damn tempted too. Also that first screenshot blows my mind. SO. DAMN. PRETTY.
DA:I \o/
Really tempted to start playing through DA:O again just to hype myself… BUT I HAVE SO MUCH OTHER STUFF TO PLAY
Yeah, sounds nice in idea but I just know I’ll wanna play it for 80 hours again and not willing to do that. I’ll wait. It’ll keep.
I never played any of the expansions or non-launch DLC (*spits*). I’m totally doing that for my PC run at some point, to set up the ‘perfect save’ for how the Warden should be.
Then I can go back and do the Perfect Run for DA2, as well. Which despite the fucking horrific mechanics (endless ‘drop out of the sky’ enemy-spawning, copy-pasta dungeons/rooms, artless, button-mashing combat, and back-and-forth patrolling to force spawns/events – fuck, it was horrible now I think about it) I really enjoyed anyway.
THEN I CAN DO DA3… er, nowait. EA boycott.
Shit.
@gutsoup: ARRRRRGH! How good was this weeks Boardwalk Empire. It’s got that sense of escalation happening that was really obvious at the end of last season too.
yeah, i was pretty shocked by the ending there.
Narcisse is just freakin scarey, dude has a few screws loose.That whole stuff with Myer and the like too. Crazy tense. Also Margeret choosing again to get involved with this stuff. She can’t take the moral high ground any more. Glad Chalky made it out alive… so far.Starting to look around at getting a new car because family, and I realise that I have no idea what I’m looking for. Also, the realisation that I’m probably going to have to spend $30k minimum is not a pleasant one.
This adult thing is shit. I’m gunna go play Pokemon to make myself feel better.
eh, any good family friendly mid-size sedan you can get for below 30k… look at mine, ISO standard child hook restraints, 4 doors, economic, good size boot which can fit a pram (i’ve tried this) and several other items (full weekend in wagga) 28k… get it used and it’s 22 – 25k
Seriously though, you don’t have to pay a huge amount for a civilised, reliable family car… Hell even Hyundai and Kia are (now) valid options, the IX-35 and new sportage is quite decent cars…
One of my colleagues ‘upgraded’ from a HSV R8 to a Kia sportage and he is loving it, even now, a year in…
I’d love an ix35 but if I had ix35 money I’d probably do something silly like spring for a Veloster.
Funny story I actually considered the Veloster SR Turbo, but luckily thought the better of it and purchased a Jetta instead… NO REGRETS \o/
I have a Barina Spark. With my credit rating it was either that or a Mirage. I feel like I made the right choice.
Don’t buy a ‘new’ new car. So not cost effective and the biggest regret of my life. $45k down the drain for noooothing.
I recently got a new new car and while I agree that the rapid diminishment of value makes the idea of paying the finanace off over 5 years and ultimately paying way more than the car is worth is somewhat disheartening, the fact that it’s got an 8 year warranty and capped price servicing is pretty comforting.
Yeah. They lose an utterly ridiculous percentage of value in one year alone. And one year sitting on the showroom floor makes fuck all difference to how it runs.
You’ve got it easy. We’re about to upsize to minivan 🙁
Also, yeah, newish second-hand is usually a better option than straight new. They lose something like $5000-8000 value the instant they drive off the lot. That’s demoralising.
Salary-sacrificing is usually an option for leasing a car. Looked into that at all?
With the changes made to FBT last year, novated leasing is no longer competitive. 🙁
Minivan?! So it really is twins, then? 😛
No. Our car really isn’t designed for three seats though. Mrs Shane got a chance to try it out when she babysat for a friend while I was in Brisbane.
My sister and husband just got a Mazda CX 5 (I think) for their soon to be new family. Seems okay. It’s around the 30k mark new.
My wife has her eyes on one of those. Fairly sure we’ll end up with one.
From the small time I spent being driven around in it last time I was at home they’re pretty good.
Something like an X-Trail or a Rav4 or similar is a godsend with kids. So easy to pack all the shit in and out of the back.
We have an X-Trail and the back being completely flat all the way through means sliding the prams and bags straight in and out is something I highly recommend.
There’s a reason so many soccer mums drive those things.
Yep, Rav4 is among options at the moment. Think we’re pretty much getting something that size/shape, so looking into similar stuff like the CX-5, Captiva, …well, there’s a crapload, you get the idea 😛
edit – shutting up
What about a Trax? 😛
… didn’t even know that existed…
soo let me get this straight…
“Hey the barina looks cool, lets make it bigger”
“okay, here’s a bag of weed”
“aaaand go!”
Sound about right? 😛
I think the Trax is replacing the Captiva, or was intended to? We’re just kind of adopting the Chevy products since Holden is basically done making their own cars after the current run of VF Commodores. I don’t mind it really, though for compact SUVs the ix35 still gets my money.
…why?
Edit – too crappy, shutting up
Wait for end of year runout sales.
get 6 of these things & tie them all together.
jam a 2nd hand engine in one to power it, & you’ll have 3 spares for storage space etc.
probably less than $30K as well.
Flawless plan.
My old lady got a Mazda 3? I think? For about that.
It’s pretty hashtag dope, son.
Do you work for the government? Because if you do you can get crazy deals because you don’t pay stamp duty or some nonsense if you buy it through the government.
I think.
Nope, I’m actually on the evil side of education. It’s the reason @bdkiaf hates me. Probably.
Powerful voice, though.
Holden Cruze and Hyundai Elantra are both pretty good mid-sedans in the low $20k range. Though I think I recall reading that last year’s Cruze had some issues that led to a recall.
I’ve been car shopping for about 4 months, due to the fact that I know nothing about cars I’m hesitant to buy one, it’s gonna take a while.
I also dislike this adult business
Dear TAY,
It has come to my attention that you’re all a bunch of deviants.
Disgustedly yours,
D.C.
Oh yeah baby, talk dirty to me
This post is to hold a mirror up to your collective behaviors… but I bet you all like that. Perverts.
😛
Hi, Dan Clone!
Gattaca!
Which one of us is Vincent, and which one is Anton. Or is it Jerome?
I’ll be Vincent. 😀
Tell me, Benny. Did you save any thing for the swim back?
Okay, okay. Fine – I’m Anton. XD
That’s better!
moar like SEXUAL-deviants IMARITE o/
Says the guy who tried to reach into my pocket and buy me sweet pink drinks.
Hey I was trying to put some money in your pants.
…
That doesn’t sound any better.
MAKE IT RAIN!
Dear @dc
Don’t make me write more fanfiction.
Rite-good Red.
What took you so long?
I thought i would have been the biggest tip off.
Just the tip, though.
Deviants? Where?
Steam really needs to work on it’s maths.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/38410/
Okay so Link Between Worlds hype – definitely but uh, where is the damn musical chest pre-order thingo? Is it sold out already?
think it sold out a few weeks ago, unfortunately.
Oh crap. What a great Zelda fan I am, then.
I’ve ordered one. About a month ago.
#helping
I managed to get a 6-down-vote score on a comment in the general news item. More specifically, it was on an article about Xbox vs PS4. Now everything I post is awaiting moderation. 🙁
I’ve been thinking about PAX cosplay ideas all morning now, thanks guys! >:[ How cool would it be to go in a Caterpie costume on Day 1, then Metapod on Day 2 and Butterfree on Day 3. Unfortunately I lack the motivation to do this 😛
Anyway, I have to buy a modem/router today. I got the day off for tomorrow! \o/ Have to wait at home all day for the Internode guy /o\ All I need is a cheapy, right? Doesn’t need to have much of a range. D-Link has always been pretty good to me too. I dunno, I’ll just go into JB today and buy the first thing I see 😛
I have a Belkin Dual Band one (D600?) that seems to work pretty well, even with the PC on the other side of the house.
If you want advice/help, I am here. =P
Cool!
It won’t be cosplay in the normal sense. Just a t-shirt/pants that have Caterpie’s markings on them 😛
Got a screen printing place near you?
Dunno! I guess I have a year to find out haha
If you can find a really good one, they should be able to put custom designs on shirts and pants.
So who’s going to PAX?
I’ve seen confirmation on twitter and random posts but thought it’d be cool to see on one elaborate list:
Not Shane!
#Helping
#ClutteringTheList
#I’llShowMyselfOut
You can go to PAX North and hang out and make Strange feel like a third wheel again?
Except she wouldn’t because Pax North generally is lacking in the DC department from experience.
But you had a special guest: @sughly’s brother!
…
That was all my doing… some how…
You’re welcome!
I bought two three day passes, so there’s a good chance I’ll be there.
In fact, you’ll be there twice!
It’s more in case I lose the first one.
I bought a ticket. I won’t feel confident enough to say “I’m going” until I actually have accomodation and whatnot 😛
Damn PAX!
Nope.
/Not Helping
Edit: Which is a tad annoying coz I had a decent idea for a cosplay I could’ve done.
You ARE helping. I have to know who’s going to be circling the wagons with their ‘ol pal DC…
me
Hey Red, have you decided on Supanova this weekend?
Decided against- just couldn’t see, outside of GRRM, a real drawcard.
Going to a Magic thingo with a mate while his missus is Supanovaing in costume.
Ooh, I am. Need to be forgotten by Freeze, abandon NightFlarer, and sit around a whole lot.
I paid for two @saturdays. I’m hoping to take the wife and kid along but like many have already mentioned, it’s difficult to know for sure what will be happening in a year from now.
I’m going.
nah
PIIIIIXEL!
yup
I have a three day pass
Probably Saturday and Sunday again for me as I work on Friday
I’ll be in Melbourne for three days but at PAX only on the Saturday.
See below.
@Sughly and I were talking about going to Melbourne at the same time but not going to PAX because, you know, mouth breathers.
So we might be there just not at the con because, once again, fucking nerds.
Oh man, the crowds at Supanova traumatized me. I’m not sure I could ever subject myself to that again. You guys have the right idea!
Hmm. Might want to double check with Sughly on that one.
It was very obscurely discussed.
He’s bought a ticket hasn’t he.
Fucking. Krams…
I think he said on Twitter he’s just got a pass for Saturday. I think. You might want to double check if you wanna go at the same time!
Maybe.
That’s fair.
:3
Those nerds are fucking terrible. Especially the ones from that TAY place.
Literally worse than Hitler.
Found some cosplay ideas for you
http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/199689/DAN_0120-copy.jpg
NSFW, if you’re a prude.
I totally bought a saturday ticket :3 Got it with insurance though so I can try selling it back if I change my mind
Mrs Tigs and I are going
3 day pass! I’ll be there!
I’ll be there all three days.
Currently considering it. If I do, I’ll do all three days and do a dress up with my gf and friend. We’ll have to think of something super creative.
Tickets are going quick, my pal! I think the 3 Day passes are already sold out and you’ll have to get three single day passes instead!
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I ended up getting 2 x 3 day passes so 90% will be there unless unforeseen accident happens
I
Dear TAY,
Rogue Legacy was well worth the purchase. I can see myself playing it for hours.
Thanks for recommendations,
ontargett
NP.
Send nude pix as payment.
I can, but I might need to send some eyebleach with them.
They don’t have to be of you.
Lost Planet 3 is 50%, down to $25.
Hmmm…
lower!…
looower…
loooooooooooooooooooooooooower…
seriously, i liked (not loved) Lost Planet 1, but felt no compulsion to actually play any of the sequels… maybe when it comes down to $10 in a steam sale or part of a humble bundle, i will consider it 😛
Lost Planet 2 co op campaign was incredibly fun. I reckon you missed out.
Apparently it’s a little bit shit.
And by little I mean a lot.
…I’ve heard it’s horrible.
So some slightly better news! My manager finally contacted me this morning (after word had gone around that I wasn’t going to be in at work today) and said I can fill my car using one of the on-site tech’s fuel cards! WIN! Just sucks she couldn’t have arranged it sooner, cos now I will miss being paid for today. Better than nothing though. Hopefully it will be enough of a boost to keep me at work for the next fortnight so I might be able to get a full pay next cycle! Still gonna be hard though, cos due to the timing, I’m not only going to have one days pay more than last pay cycle this round, so I’m only gonna be slightly better off this week. At least I wont have to worry about buying petrol for a while. Hooray for them actually stepping up to the plate and trying to help at last though!
Also big props to @redartifice for helping out. It’ll be 3-5 working days before it’ll reach me, but given what’s just transpired in the past day or two, I’d say that timing will work out nicely!
February next year I’m gonna figure out something awesome to do for all those who’ve helped me and cheered me up with steam gifts etc! Been a bloody rough year for me, and I highly doubt I’d still be here if it wasn’t for the greatness of TAYbies! Even those who haven’t helped in a material sense, I still appreciate all your kind words, as at times, even just having friends to chat to has been a great help to my mental state. My hellish year may not be quite over yet, but at least I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Dear TAY,
Holy Shit!? I didnt know there was an expansion for AOE2HD!? Does anyone know if it’s any good?
Kind, non seductive (I heard there’s some kind of sexual content crackdown) regards,
Me
there is?
well F**K, i’m not allowed to open my mouth then XD
Dear Wilbur
Apparently some people don’t appreciate
literaturederanged slash fanfic.Philistines.
Red
Should focus on good wholesome boardgames instead
I’ve already worked out we could have @shane and @dc custom cards…
I totally backed that. 😀
Is this in relation to AOE2HD DLC… cos that could be…. im gonna go with interesting. 😛
Apparently if AoE2 HD runs well for you, it’ll be fine/great. But I was cautioned against it by TAYbies and checked out the Steam forums about how HD runs, and it seems the lag issue is not only incredibly prevalent and debilitating, but also almost entirely unacknowledged by the devs. Which is… disheartening.
OK. AOE2HD is touch and go. sometimes it runs fine, other times make me want to strangle small animals.
Thanks 🙂
I just purchased A Link Between Worlds + musical chest from Game UK. I also received a download code for Link’s Awakening DX but I already own the game on 3DS. Is there anyone here that would be interested in a free download code for Link’s Awakening DX?
It’s a great game. Massive kick right in the nostalgia.
(I already have it on my 3DS, so not for me thanks!)
I’ll take it. I love the original hand held Zelda games, but that’s one I never got around to playing.
No problem. Just email me: benbonnici at the gmails and I will send you the reply code.
Which one was that again? Too many zeldas
The one with the
Space WhaleAhhh now I remember
Only Zelda I’ve actually played!
Danganronpa preordered from NISA \o/
There’s a limited edition?
you better believe i’m pre-ordering that!
edit: it comes with the soundtrack… instant buy….
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND pre-ordered 🙂
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/11/11/the-last-of-us-story-dlc-to-be-revealed-on-spike-tv.aspx
I think I agree with the article writers take on this. On one hand, more The Last of Us. On the other, the game ended so perfectly, trying to continue it on could lessen it. They mention a new character, so hopefully the DLC (and any future games) will stay away from Joel and Ellie. I think that’s the key to continuing to series successfully.
Yeah, I’m optimistic. This is Naughty Dogs first piece of story DLC too and I remember reading how they want to do the game justice. I think it’ll be great!
ADELAIDE FOLKS. DO YOU WANT FREE ENTRY TO SUPANOVA? I HAVE EXHIBITOR BADGES THAT ARE GOOD FOR ALL THREE DAYS. @DC PLEASE TAG THE RELEVANT FOLKS FOR ME KTHX
There’s people in Adelaide?
Uh… @jacksonwryan: ANY FRIEND OF SCIENCE IS A FRIEND OF MINE!
@redartifice: HE’S OKAY I GUESS, BUT HE’S LEFT ME HANGING WITH HIS SOVIET ARCOLOGY STORY FOR A WHOLE DAMN YEAR NOW.
I’m sure there’s more, but… I…
*flees*
I decided fiction wasn’t my strong suit.
You read page 5, you know this.
That’s okay, I’ve got a script for the first episode of a web series that has sat untouched on my computer since January 2012. I moved it from my active projects folder into archives. :'(
You have an active projects list?
I do! There’s three active projects right now!
ooh, details?
Nah!
@benny @lucifer9783 @redartifice @jacksonwryan @banderdash @neinhandle @ash @suretheresmorethatimforgettingoffthetopofmyhead
It hurts to be forgotten.
Goddammit.
Whereabouts in Adelaide?
Burb? Woodcroft… South.
You?
Brooklyn Park (airport). Got a mate down that way
@satay
#Helping
Yes please.
I’ll need your address, and I’ll send it your way this afternoon express post. Email me shane at shanewsmith dotcom
Good guy Shane!
Thanks for the kind offer sir (and to @dc and @redartifice for telling everyone the state I live in and now they can find me and OH GOD) but I already have a free pass through the gates there and might turn up saturday in my Goblin King gear for a few hours. <3
There was totally a guy at Brisbane Supanova dressed as that too. Yours was way better. 😀
Hey @shane I emailed you buddy xxxxxx
Hey guys!
I got to play an awesome game at PAX Au this year called Hand of Fate. Really great game, basically you have a character and a deck, to move forward you play a card from the deck. The card could be anything. Maybe you fight 3 bandits, or you encounter a traveling group, etc… Combat is fairly simple, think Fable kind of combat.
Anyway, the creators, Defiant Development have opened a Kickstarter for their game. Check it out if you get a chance.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/defiant/hand-of-fate-a-card-game-that-comes-to-life
backed!
…is what I will be saying next week, as soon as i get paid.
Backed!
… Is what I’d say if my credit card wasn’t all the way over there. *points 2 metres away*
Backed!
..Is what I’d say if Blaghs credit card wasn’t all the way over there
worst financial decision i’ve ever made was learning my credit card number.
makes buying stuff online way too easy.
I’ve accidentally memorised the first half, but whenever I realise I’ve entered them by default I just start mentally distracting myself while I read the latter half. Works wonders because my brain is an idiot.
Baaaaaaaacked.
Brisbane represent!
I can’t get my head around what they’re actually showing. is it a real physical card game or a video game or some kind of trans-media thing?
Assuming it’s video-only, why would I want to play it over, say, Hearthstone (provided I could actually get into Hearthstone since I have zero luck getting beta keys)
Basically it’s a video game, you can get a physical / tabletop version if it though (higher tier stuff).
As far as I can tell Hearthstone and Hand of Fate are completely different games. The only similarities I can imagine is that you can build a deck.
I remember watching you play that.
And Gorzy and I gave you a crap card =P
Monster! D=
=P I think you got the “worst luck” card or something, if I remember right
Must find glorious music to play while I reference what I hope to be my final university essay.
Suggestions?
Conflicted over worthiness of this get…
Just remember… the penitent man will pass!
So if i tell all my topic coordinators I’m a sinner…. I’LL PASS!?
You best believe it!
I feel there is an element of deviousness to this advice.
*head pops*
Fine, just listening to the Mr. Ed theme. What do I care? 😛
That plays when i stand and/or walk. I get a break when I’m seated.
Explosions in the Sky was always my study music.
or, if you want epic, cant go past Two Step From Hell
This is what I use when I wish to feel dramatic (I used to set up a fan to blow my hair dramatically, but I can’t do that any more).
http://open.spotify.com/user/1232180911/playlist/09KplbF8DE8raB6gc14M5M
Holst: The Planets: Mars, the Bringer of War
been ripped off so many times (along with the rest of the Planets) but still the best.
Maybe The Departure from Gattaca! (cc. @benny)
The best.
SOLD, to the man of ice.
Can’t go past The Lesser Evil by James Flamestar.
That shit is glorious.
Someone should write a book to accompany it.
Sounds derivative, almost like Game of Thrones but in space.
The Who – Tommy
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1193393746/im-you-dickhead-short-film
A man travels back in time to force his 8 year old self to learn guitar, so he can get more action with the ladies in the present day.
I watched the pitch video, and I am strongly considering breaking my ‘no-crowdfunding’ rule.
Why no crowdfunding? Not that I’m criticising your choice, just always interested to hear reasoning
It wronged him in the past!
Mate, I’ll wrong you!
Thanks, but I’m not interested. I’m flattered though.
@dc is spoken for now.
-_-
Now I know how @benj and Oliver feel. Let’s never tease them again!
Hmm…. nah.
The teasing must continue.
Also, why isn’t Shane getting these kinds of comments? It takes two to bromance!
@dc It’s because I deflected your outpouring of genuine emotion with a Samurai Pizza Cats video. Carefully calculated move, my friend.
Also, I’m married. That might diffuse the sitch at my end a little 😛
I really wish he were here right now 🙁 What I would give for a great big hug today…
That’s okay… I can change you.
Only you getting the comments because you’re more horrified than @shane. Better reactions.
…I’m guessing, anyway. 🙂 (You’ll note that I don’t tease about bromances.)
A few reasons.
First and by far most important is budget. I don’t even have enough money to buy all the stuff that’s out now, let alone place an uncertain pre-order.
Second is that backing crowdfunding projects is not too far removed from gambling in my mind. The risk here is twofold: completion, and quality. I’m a veteran of incomplete projects; I know how hard it can be to see a project through to completion. I also know how hard it is to stick to a promised plan and also deliver a [insert project type here] of decent quality.
Third is that the cost of funding almost always exceeds what the purchase price would be after release, which grinds against the bargain-seeking instinct within me.
Fourth is the hardest one to explain, and possibly entirely irrational. It’s a matter of pride or jealousy or something. I didn’t receive any financial aid while I was struggling to get noticed. I wonder whether the struggle has made my writing better, or whether it’s just made things harder for me. I’d like to think the former. If someone had just handed me a pile of money and said “Now go, write” I don’t think I’d value it to nearly the same degree. I wouldn’t have worked as hard, and I wouldn’t be nearly as proud of the achievement. And while I know not everyone can do a Kevin Smith and make a movie on credit cards, I think Kickstarter is kind of denying that kind of romantic-indie creative story from happening again.**
Fifth is that I don’t want to support any new projects until I’ve received my perks from previous backed projects, and I haven’t yet received my physical copy of Stargazers
** I am aware that this particular paragraph may/will come back to haunt me if/when I decide to put together my own crowdfunded project in the future.
Sixth? Crowd sourcing killed his parents!
No, that was definitely me.
No problem.
The reason I back a number of projects is that the ones I’ve backed (other than CLANG) have all been fairly low risk and it’s truly been disposable income- there’s been no projects that I’ve overspent really, and the ones I have funded at a high level have been pretty sure things (like Numenera).
i think the preorder premium bit is always going to happen- Once something is in production it’s easier to gain efficiencies and knock the price down.
I can understand the struggling creator bit, but I wonder if it’s just an alternate avenue to success?
Yeah, that last one is entirely irrational. I’ll freely admit that.
Will you back @beardymcmuttonchops’ project?
Yes. Definitely.
Mind that slope, it’s a bit slippery 😉
I’m still hopelessly addicted to Kantai Collection. 🙁
Last night I did my first remodels. Got Yamashiro to level 20 and remodeled her into an Aviation Battleship – reduced firepower but better other stats, cheaper to run and has aircraft. Also upgraded my Kitakami to Torpedo Cruiser for improved anti-submarine warfare as apparently subs become much more important later on.
Still haven’t had any real luck with ship crafting, though after about eight tries I finally managed to build my first submarine this morning – I-168. Still need to level up a little bit to try and push through the first event world before the 20th when the current event finishes. E1 rewards another sub, I-19, for completion but I don’t think my current fleet is strong enough to get through.
It also occurred to me yesterday that the formula they’re using for the game could be applied to a whole bunch of other stuff with probably only minor tweaks to the progression and combat systems. Don’t know if something else would be as appealing though.
soooo coooooll
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/09/colorized-photos_n_4242066.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000010
Dear lady from my old high school
I know you have no way of knowing that I’ve been going through a bit of an internal crisis lately thinking I’ve been wasting my life. No way at all. But bringing in the trophy for the schools annual Science award to get a new name engraved on it isn’t helping. Especially when my name is on there 3 times.
Slumping over
Freeze
Did you tell her that was your name?
No. I always feel embarrassed and ashamed when stuff like that comes up and I’m sitting here in a retail shop.
I probably shouldn’t but I do.
I totally get that. I was a frickin’ celebrity at school. Now, it’s like… I work for the government in a role which doesn’t use any of my qualifications or skills which I fell into when I quit a GOOD job out of disgust with management, and have never left because I’m comfortable.
COMFORTABLE. Gah! What have I become?!
You so smart, Freeze.
But… pride?
I get where you’re coming from, man. By my reckoning, I’ve spent almost 12,000 hours in my current job, a job for which (on a good day) I feel no interest, and take no personal pride in, a job that has taught me nothing of value, and to which I contribute mediocre work.
I think back to high school when I topped the class in every subject and was voted “Most likely to succeed” and again to college when I got the third highest UAI in my year and was again voted “Most likely to succeed” … and I feel like I’ve let down the kid I used to be.
But in the last few years, it’s slowly dawned on me that there are other ways to measure success. Professional satisfaction is just one small facet of life. If you hate your job, it means that you’re only doing it to support your family, and there’s a certain kind of masculine pride to take out of that kind of sacrifice. Also, having a family. Also, you’re taking steps to move on to the next stage of your working life, thinking about where to go. It’s all stepping stones, then, and nothing wasted.
Also, from what I understand, you might not be intellectually stimulated by your job, but you are doing it very, very well. And that’s not nothing, either.
Lots of this.
This Pretty much sums up what I was feeling/wanted to say, but far more eloquently.
http://gematsu.com/2013/11/sonys-third-party-production-team-will-have-at-least-one-if-not-a-few-announcements-within-the-next-six-months
FF Type-0 Vita port?!
Entering a comp.
I need puns for use on a tombstone!
Don’t ask why! Just go!
😛
those who want to enter themselves, hit up the doom & destiny facebook page
in terms of weird names or punny epitaphs?
Both!
Here lies jack, a man of class.
Pity bout his stone-dead ass
I go to meet my maker, and file a bug report.
1st one is in!
I go in peace, and leave in pieces.
BTW, i don’t plan on having a tombstone, but if I did I’d want this as my epitaph: http://bladeordie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VonnegutTombstone.jpg
Mine will say
“LOOK OUT! I’M BEHIND YOU!!!”
Here lies X
For all the things I did in life
Next time warn me ’bout the knife!
YOLO? 😛
lol i like it
“Here lies BoganTown’s youngest cancer victim. He was fully sick.”
“bro”
Oh.. wow…
oh my..
just… wow…
You’re welcome, my friend.
Need good puns?
RELEASE THE SHANEKEN!
Also, my favourite is still Spike Milligan’s: I told you I was ill
Yeah, it’s pretty hard to come up with something original when all the greats have left some pretty amazing messages behind.
Here lies Michael Gunn.
Who made his father, Arthur, very proud.
I want to restart Animal Crossing. For no real reason apart from feeling like I’ve been too merciful a ruler.
BURN THEM!
BURNNN THEM ALLLLLLL!!!
I’LL BURN THEM FOR THEIR INSOLENCE.
So your solution to merciful is to WIPE THEM ALL OUT?!
you monster
😛Hey! This person seems familiar! But how and in what capacity? Did you used to be Batguy?
I can confirm that we have been seen in the same place at the same time. I was considering a name change but I’M BATGIRL.
My mental voice read that back as a woman attempting to mimic Christian Bale’s ‘I’m batman’ line as spoofed by HISHE. Yeah. That wasn’t weird.
That’s how I said it in my mind too.
Neglect them for months like your hero, Dan.
That’s how you play Animal Crossing.
@rize RE cars;
At the end of the day, everything is based of personal opinion, i would never purchase a Holden due to it largely being GM and i’ve had plenty an issue with GM’s in the past.
But there’s similar stories everywhere about Fords, VW, Kia, Hyundai, Toyota, Nissan etc.etc. so it boils down to preference…
All i can say is do your research, find out what commonly fails in that series of cars, so you know what to watch out for. Take plenty for a test drive, because some cars might surprise you (i’m looking at you Kia Optima) and some might really let you down…
$30,000 is an amazing price bracket for both new and used cars, so you have a lot of stuff to toy around with…
I tend to keep a check on the pulse regarding new cars since i bought mine so if you ever want an opinion (because that’s all i can give XD) i’ll be happy to help…
I do apologise if i came across a pretentious in my previous reply, it was worded very, VERY poorly 😛
Whereas I’ve owned Holdens all my life and never had a complaint.
Exactly!
I’m not denying there’s no good Holden’s out there, i’ve just never been lucky enough to get my hand on them XD… when i say Holden i of course mean Opel but you know 😛
To be fair I’ve only had Commodores (Australian built) and a Rodeo (Isuzu).
i will admit i drove a brand spanking new VE SV6 once, and that was pretty good…
To me it’s the international labels (Captiva, Cruze etc) which is assembled at Daewoo that i’ve had issues with, and heard horror stories from…
And it’s like anything, you have a bad experience with a brand, you are left with a poor image of them and are not likely to revisit
What’s the point of driving a Honda if nobody knows it’s a Honda?
As a German shouldn’t you be all about Audi and VW and Panzers?
1st. Shut up!
2nd. I may or may not be driving Das Auto at the moment XD
I hear fuel economy is important for you.
Being able to get from Germany to Poland in one tank and such.
Nah, we’re all converted to gas now…
…
too far? 😛
The badge on the car means sweet FA to me, as does whoever made it. I’m pretty straightforward when it comes to cars. For example, I’m not getting a Kia Sportage because we have them at work and when you try to drive up a hill they move like a pregnant whale on a beach. I have a friend who’s got a 2009(?) Captiva for work and I haven’t heard any issues about it from him.
Ultimately, if I can get a medium turbo diesel SUV that’s less than 2 years old and in my price range (without any issues), I could care less about brand.
edit – nevermind, i should refrain from airing personal opinion when i’m crappy
Trying, and failing, to find numbers on initial PS4 & Xbone manufacturing runs. even approximations. nope nothing.
though sony are reporting over 1.5 million pre-orders…
@mcgarnical mentioned on twitter that theres still Xbone consoles available day one, so i’m wondering if thats coz MS anticipated numbers better, or if the number of pre-orders for the Xbone are much lower…
That is precisely the sort of shit they definitely do not want us to know. 🙂
http://bit.ly/170o8a2
From talking to the EB manager here the XBone preorders are much lower. There’s a suspicion amongst them MS stopped taking preorders for the Day One edition as a marketing move to be able to say Sold Out to not look so bad next to Sony.
I am amused that you can buy a console Day One but you can’t buy a Day One console.
There’s really no gain to them by doing that though.
Leading up to now there have been heaps of reports of the Xbone having production capacity problems. CPU yields were low, design wasn’t finalized for a long time and so on. Sony ramped up production on PS4 months before Microsoft were ready, so they have a huge stockpile.
Thing is you can still order an XBone and get one in launch day. Just not with the Day One decal on the controller.
And if they really are struggling with production and still can’t sell them all and Sony has a huge sold out stockpile that just sounds even worse.
Microsoft failing to sell hardware this launch would be very bad. It would say very bad things about the state of the console market, even.
Competition is good. We need it. If it was a one-horse race then I guarantee you Sony would be turning the screws the other direction.
I may not be an XBox fan (I have my reasons), but I can appreciate that people have personal preference, and I respect that. I don’t really care about what console people have, as long as they are enjoying themselves.
Someone’s doing work outside my house. I’m hiding. I’m really thirsty, but that’s all part of the hermit life style. If they realize I’m home after hiding for two hours I might appear crazy.
:S
You don’t have…water?
They’re fixing the shade sail at the front of the house that tore off in a storm last week. I forgot to close the curtains. They can see into the kitchen. D: D: D:
Bathroom sink then
I’ve got to pass by that window to get to the bathroom. IT’S A FUCKING PREDICAMENT, RED. 😀
Stealth, DC. Commando crawl.
Or sneak out the back to the garden hose.
I’M GIVING YOU OPTIONS DC
Any one who’s hung out with me know I ain’t stealthy. The amount of times I’ve hit fire extinguishes, phone booths, other people, stumbled on water bottles and the like when hanging out with @sughly and @freezespreston can’t be counted on one hand!
Have you seen the first five minutes of the film Waterworld?
Smoke bomb.
That sounds like something I’d do. If someone broke into my house I’d probably hide not because y’know the stabbing but because I wouldn’t want to talk to anyone.
‘Hey, so that’s my TV you get there. Nah, that’s cool. So…do this a lot? How about this weather, huh?’
And you know you’d end up helping them carry stuff to their car. D:
My TV is pretty heavy. I wouldn’t want them to injure themselves. They’d probably sue me.
By contrast, when someone knocks on my door and I’m not expecting anyone, the first thing I do is grab a knife.
Well. Sometimes the first thing is put on pants, THEN grab a knife.
Both are likely to scare the person away, so you’ve got all bases covered!
No. No pants. Startle them so you get the upper hand. NOW WHO’S THE DERANGED MANIAC? OLD NO PANTS OVER HERE.
Better yet… just put on a shirt and take off shorts. Yeah. Shirt-cocking. OK when girls do it, so wrong when dudes do it.
Peekaboo. I see you.
Nobody would help me in JB HiFi so I just went with the cheapest Modem Router they had. You just lost yourselves an up-sell from a mostly ignorant customer, JB!
Also, someone should cosplay with me as Sawk and Throh for PAX. Requirements: must be shorter and less lanky than me and be willing to wear red body paint for the entire day 😛
But you’re the lankiest!
I didn’t say the requirements would be hard to meet!
Morph suits perhaps, as an alternative to paint?
Don’t forget to wear underwear, no one wants to store at your dong all day
#personalexperience
Depends on who’s wearing it.
Your dong, maybe.
*whimpers*
Is looking at dudes junk in a morphsuit a popular activity in Norway?
it’s waaaay to cold up there, so it’s a non-issue…
down here on the other hand 0.0
But then we won’t get to paint each otherThis took a sensual turn.
You missed when we were writing slash fiction (page 5)
I…um…will be back later.
@rize So uh, this is kinda tempting to get.
http://www.buystarwarscostumes.com/chewbacca_authentic.html
TAY-Marketing ATTACK 😛
October. You will roast.
I guess you can say he’ll be a little
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
Chewie
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
*walks off*
I’m really not loving that whole ‘Melbourne in October’ news. I really prefer the cold.
Melbourne in October is nowhere near as warm as Brisbane in winter.
Convention Centre is nice and cool in October.
Source: Sat in it for a conference in a suit all week
October this year has been fucking freezing,
These are reassuring replies Neg, @redartifice, @cakesmith!
I love me some wind-chill.
It’s currently 13 degrees with wind chill taking it down to 8.
Roastin’.
Well it depends. PAX is basically schedule for a week ago and we have the massive high temp of 16 today
Looks toasty.
DON’T LISTEN TO ANYONE ASIDE FROM ME!
BUY THE DAMN COSTUME!
Advantage of Han outfit: buy boots, belt and holster, make the rest easily.
I could just be lazy and go as William Riker…
How’re you going to manage to look that awesome?
By surrounding myself with people who aren’t awesome.
You’re going right?
“Authentic Chewbacca costume!
Skinned from the famous smuggler wookie himself!”
Maybe it’s just me but that costume doesn’t look like Chewbacca to me at all. Fur’s the wrong color (Chewie is more of a chestnut and not that slate gray) and the head doesn’t look right and the proportions seem off too.
I finally got around to watching The World’s End.
I’m not entirely sure how to rank it against Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead but it was definitely pretty amazing. Simon Pegg sure knows how to act like a massive cunt.
Mannn i need to see that movie SO BAD!!!
SOOOOO BAD!
For me it goes Hot Fuzz > The World’s End > Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz was best because it was about old people and old people are hilarious.
My listing is Shaun > Hot Fuzz > Words End
Gotta do these stupid “postcard” things for school. A small little thing with a short description about ourselves and then some contact info, with a few pictures of cool stuff we’ve done over the course. I’ve used a screenshot from my tanks game last year, as well as a pair of giraffes mounting each other. Totally stuck for the description bit though.
Oh man, this sounds almost as a bad as the interpretive dancing some folks did at uni once.
Apparently the easiest way to tell a woman from a man is the elbows. Lol psychology.
Yeah, because women can’t touch their elbows together behind their backs…
This is a lot better in person.
Hahaha, Mrs Shane apparently fell for that one a bunch of times in college.
Ha! Apparently men with arms stretched out can’t have their elbows touch.
Help I think I’m a woman D:
I NEVER MEANT FOR YOU TO FIND OUT LIKE THIS.
COULD HAVE AT LEAST TOLD ME TO MY FACE
GOSH
YOUR BEAUTIFUL, WOMANLY FACE.
I have the best ladystache.
Do you comb it 100 times each day?
@batgirl Constantly twirling it around my finger.
It’ll make @transientmind’s advice on picking up Lesbians a whole lot more useful for you, my friend! Things are looking up for Gooky!
‘Actually ask someone out’ is pretty uni-sex advice. 🙂
You and your stories!
I HAVEN’T HEARD THESE STORIES.
TELL ME A STORY.
A DEMAND A STORY.
I will tell you a story lass… once I am back from getting my hair cut.
The lads who were out on Thursday can attest to the fact that my mane has grown unruly and wild, it must be shorn back down to a 1. …So that I may once again frighten children and the elderly.
(My barber is awesome. Half an hour, a chat, $10, including a beard-trim and tidy. A friend of mine has this long, luxurious blonde hair which goes down to her ass. She’s not a natural blonde. So apparently she has to book in these like… 8hr marathon sessions where the hairdresser puts on a movie for her and gets her drinks and she drops hundreds of dollars on it. Insane.)
@transientmind – I skimmed your comment and read “long, luxurious blonde ass hair. She’s not natural“
Alright, here’s your story:
(It are a sad story, though, so spoilertag.)
A while ago I reconnected with an old best mate from high school. He’d had adventures – converted to Islam, got on various watch-lists for his political views, married a devout muslim girl, brought her back here, got divorced when she went insane with culture shock… went back to eating meat and drinking like the old guy we knew. He was still a little cut up about it… it’d been pretty bad and she had otherwise been pretty great.
This blonde friend I mentioned earlier and I were taking advantage of his hospitality. We’d spent a pretty wild night out, impromptu cosplaying with theatre props on the streets on the way to the bottle’o to pick up more fuel for our insane Magic: The Gathering/music video binge.
After a big night, I’m usually an early riser. I was pottering around the kitchen before anyone was up, making myself a bit of toast and some coffee. The girl I’d shared the couch with was roused by the noises, so I went back to the pantry to get her a cup as well – I knew she’d need it.
When I opened the pantry door, I saw the saddest thing.
One of those white-board shopping-list type things that people use for pretty much anything other than shopping lists. On it were two messages, in different hand-writing:
“Welcome to our new home, darling! I love you so much.”
“I love you too, baby. We’re going to be so happy here.”
Little hearts drawn on.
The divorce had been like… almost a year prior. The message had been there even longer, staring him in the face, picking at the scab of his feelings every time he opened the pantry.
I frowned at it a bit, but left it, and went back to making coffee. As blondie got up and padded sleepily into the kitchen to join me, I handed her the mug and gestured to the whiteboard, instructing dourly, “Have a read.”
Her eyes slowly widened as she read, her face falling in sadness, and she exclaimed, “Oh my GOD,” and quickly rushed to put her coffee down and grab a tea-towel. She rushed to the whiteboard, and it took me a moment to realize what she was going to do before I snapped out and caught her wrist before it made contact with the board.
She looked up at me, imploring, “We have to get rid of it!” but I didn’t let go.
Instead, I shook my head slightly and noted, “Yeah, that was my first instinct too. But one day, he’s going to take stock of his life. The mistakes, the regrets, the good times. And maybe he’ll pack it in a box to preserve forever, or maybe he’ll clean it off himself. If he does – when he does – it’ll be a moment of empowerment. He’ll be consciously making the decision to move forward, himself. And it’ll more powerful than anything you or I can do for him. If you wipe that off, you will rob him of that moment to choose – of that empowerment.”
I let her go, saying, “Don’t do it.”
She looked back at the board, full of sympathy, but she agreed and put the tea towel down.
I don’t know what he did with it. He did move out eventually, and packed everything up. The whiteboard would’ve had to be included, but I never asked him about it. A man needs his secret regrets, secret shames, it’s the burden of age. Maybe he chose empowerment, maybe he clung to sentimentality, but it was his choice.
So yeah. Story with a moral.
Alternately, if you were just after dating stuff…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-250/comment-page-3/#comment-2123386
But I already graduated! What good is uni sex to me now? 🙁
Time to start a new degree, my friend.
I think I did it completely wrong last time.
Who’s this guy?
YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE.
Ice cream?
I thought she meant KFC …
ALL THE DELICIOUS FOODS.
I wonder how many of these GW have sold…
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440270a&prodId=prod2160196a
😐
Knowing the addictive nature of Warhammer players?
Probably multiple.
Mann i need to re-evaluate how much i care about the hobby to actually think that the collection is stupid 😐
When I click that I get a ‘choose your country’ page. Are they selling Australia?
For the price after that page, you’d think so.
You still have to assemble and paint it yourself, though.
Then add the absurd cost of paint to the total.
Holy carp. That’s more expensive than my FREAKING CAR.
Huh. Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) is writing the new Daredevil series (reportedly anyway).
http://www.thewrap.com/netflix-disney-marvel-daredevil-drew-goddard
Yes please
And apparently the lady who adapted the twilight books is doing Jessica jones
*deep breath*
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Head writer until the end of season 4 (Trinity) so yeah. COULD be good.
Actually that makes it a lot better.
I’m sure with Twilight she had to work with the source material…
@benny Mrs Shane is on her way to the post office with your Supanova badges now. Because no one else said they wanted one, I’m sending you two and keeping one as a souvenir.
Haha, thank you. Thank Mrs Smith(?) for me also.
MR AND MRS SMITH 😀
Shane’s resume:
“Shares name with fictional character played by Brad Pitt”
I think their lastname is actually smith.com/blog
Winner.
News just to hand! If you don’t need both of them, @jacksonwryan is looking for one. Commence discussion!
Is he someone in Adelaide I can just pass it on to?
I don’t recall exact addresses, but you could hold an outside-Supanova meat! And then put on the badges and laugh as you pass by all the crowds and masquerade as exhibitors before opening! 😛
He looks like this!
Hey, yeah dude! I am. I can grab from you if you don’t have someone you know lined up for the second pass.
No problemo. I’m only planning on attending the Saturday so if you want to meat up before then to collect? Otherwise Saturday? I will need to wait for them to arrive in the mail, also.
Oh that’d actually work really well, because I plan to attend the Sunday! So you use Saturday and then switch to me and I will use em (both?) Sunday? let me know if you want via email – jacksonwryan @ gmail . com
Sounds good.
\o/
Guy came in looking for a pen refill for this odd looking pen all proud and boasting about how his pen is one specially designed for stabbing people.
Congratulations. You’re a psychopath. :/
Edit: Found it. This one http://www.extac.com.au/Uzi_Defender_Tactical_Pen_p/uzitp2.htm
It’s actually a thing :S
Wow… just.. wow…
Well, they always say the pen is mightier than the sword.
Don’t even care this isn’t page 6.
I can’t stay mad at that joke. For Last Crusade/Sean Connery reasons.
The pen ish mightier than the shord.
That’s how it sounded in my head also.
The ultimate pen for Pokemon trainers, who want the most out of their S.T.A.B damage.
I’m going to buy one of those pens purely to prod you with it when next I see you.
O_o
Trying to discover the legality of these but it’s really fuzzy. Best I can figure it would be classed as a category M weapon ie: a weapon disguised to look like an innocent item.
Could say it’s just a tool? It’s a glass-breaker that can also write things.
Besides, everyone knows that pretty much any pen or pencil will work just fine if you get it in the right spot. Designing for it would just be to give you some margin for error. Pfft. Amateurs.
Edit: Actually, that’s TWO posts in one day indicating a predilection for stabbing/violence. Totally not a psycho, no really! The first one was just because I live in the Valley and homeless people sometimes think they deserve to be inside my home.
Not a psycho. Just prepared.
Got an email to the address associated with my US PSN account telling me you can now use PayPal to add funds on the PS Store. This just made life a whole lot easier. Haven’t tested it yet to see if it discriminates against Aussies, but good news either way.
Apparently Amazon opened their PSN store yesterday too. Not available in Australia.
I got this as well. Also haven’t tried. Will probably take the plunge tonight, I think there was something I wanted to grab on Vita/PSP before I go away for the weekend.
Theoretically it shouldn’t? Interested to hear if you have any problems with it, though.
Yeah I can’t see why it would, but history has taught me cautious optimism before outright excitement.
That’s weird, because I’m pretty sure I ALWAYS used paypal to pay for things on the PSN. c.c
TAY has gotten pretty damn BoysClub-esque lately. I know that didn’t sit well with folks last time. I feel kind of stupid for bringing this up, but just throwing it out there…
*smoke bomb*
I realise i’ve had major part in it so i’m keeping quiet for now, apologise to anyone i may have offended
No, we’ve all been a part of it. No one person or any thing. There’s nothing wrong with it either, just bringing up the fact that this kind of alienated people last time. (Full disclosure, I’ve never been a fan of boys club stuff too, but at the same time I recognize I’ve made my fair share of comments this time as well.) Uh, I dunno why I even brought this up!
LOOK BEHIND YOU! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!
Trying to deflect attention away from the steamy torridness of D.Chane?
Yes, but that’s not the point! 😛
Quiet, young DC. Let your fears melt away in Shane’s warm embrace.
I’ll take full responsibility for Tay shipping, but in my defence, I was going for purple prose over smut and innuendo.
I would like a share of responsibility to be assigned to me, for while I never instigate, I always follow through.
…how so?
*insert relevant examples here*
I REST MY CASE! 😛
I can objectify the heck out of Chris Evans if that’ll help balance it out.
Chris Hemsworth > Chris Evans
(You don’t want to start this)
This is Blade Runner all over again
Captain America is a replicant. He died during WW2.
Life Model Decoy, jeez neg get it right
I WILL FIGHT YOU ON THIS.
Who cares about Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth?
Now Captain America and Thor, those guys are cool.
Oh, to be the little spoon with Captain America.
Captain America has nothing on the Human Torch.
I hear that guy is HOT.
Tell me about it:
http://schmoesknow.com/schmoes-know-exclusive-michael-b-jordan-cast-as-johnny-storm-in-fantastic-four-reboot/
Good god are they rebooting that again?
He’s so hot. AMIRIGHT?
Pft.
Tony Stark’s where it’s at.
Stark naked, amirite?
Have we balanced it out enough for your tastes now, @DC? 😛
Someone still has to mention Mark Ruffalo.
@dire_wolf more like Mark Buffalo amirite?!?
*holds up hand*
@freezespreston
Well, I don’t think he looks much like a bovine, but if that’s what you’re into.
*high fives Freeze*
Debatable but Tom Hiddleston is the true gentleman
*Yells at the smoke cloud*
YOUR FACE IS PRETTY DAMN BOYSCLUB-ESQUE LATELY!
*Throws another smoke bomb down*
*Chokes on all the smoke in the room*
WE NEED A DOCTOR HERE
WHO?!
WATT!
o/
I can treat him, trust me, I’m a doctor!
*Looks down at own corpse*
Oh. Well, this might be a problem.
I blame that jerk who won’t stop talking about his failings with females.
…@blaghman?
Neato!
Hadn’t sold a shirt on redbubble in months, now all of a sudden in the last week i’ve sold 4 or 5 of them.. i really need to start designing tees again…
I’ve been tempted to make shirts on there purely to sell to myself.
It’s a great idea – you should do it!
Heck, you may even make a couple of bucks while you’re at it!
For example:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/chuloopa
EDIT: Awww sheet – i just realised the one Sughly did for my personal purchase is live! Need to fix that!
Sooooo… if anyone wants to enter this on my behalf I won’t protest… *ahem*
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=32300003a
Famitsu reviewed Lighting Returns 3 points lower than FFXIII-2 and 2 points lower than FFXIII.
Must be a good game then! 😛
That’s solid reasoning and I approve.
So there is a folder just sitting here on the network with postcards for everyone in the school. Containing all their phone numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, etc.
……………….
Of course. OF COURSE.
Don’t be creepy, Gooky. Don’t be creepy. 😛
That’s what I told me.
I don’t intend to act on it. I just had the realisation. And then couldn’t un-think it.
In all honesty, it’s far safer to simply let someone else do it.
You’d probably need to make up a cock-and-bull story first so you can cover your tracks, but how hard could that be?
On the other hand, I have been told many times to “get her number”, so… 😛
Her number is useless unless she gives it to you herself, my friend. 😀
You mean they’re like friend codes now?
Lame.
Only thing you could do that wouldn’t be creepy is warn your friend that their details are up there for all to see.
This. Well, your friend… or better, whoever put it up there, really. “Who’s in charge of this? You know you’ve put private details in a public folder, right?”
Though all this gives you a segue next time you talk:
“How crazy was it all being listed like that? To tell you the truth, I’ve been wanting to ask you for your number for a while…”
Then the montage begins! 😀
Smooth angle!
I’m known for my smoothness.
…
No, that’s quickness.
HELLO ALL THE MAILING LISTS
Man, the paper trail at your inevitable trial is gonna be a treasure trove.
A witness, known to authorities only as “Sketchbook,” was quoted as…
I look forward to the Law & Order: SVU ripped from the headlines episode about TAY.
In the Kotaku Commenting System the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the posters, who make comments; and the moderators, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.
INT- SCENE: A modern office
DETECTIVE @dkzeitgeist looks over a bloodied keyboard, while OFFICER @Blaghman speaks to a witness. Also in the scene, MEDICAL EXAMINER @DC is photographing blood spatter patterns…
Dun-dun.
I had lunch at 9.30am (I don’t even know, shut up) so dinner at 4pm is totally acceptable right?
I started cooking my dinner at 8am, so sure.
As long as you’re in bed by 6pm.
Probably like 2am. Exam tomorrow so I’m cramming like…I don’t know think of a lewd sex joke.
Kramming like Dane Krams?
Not that lewd!
Kramming with Krams.
While eating Clams on the lam.
Damn.
Eating only when you’re hungry is super healthy. We’re meant to do the same for sleeping, but that would usually mean sleeping through the last half of the work-day, so we don’t do it. (Well. Some countries do it with siestas, but they’re filthy foreigners and what would they know?)
I discovered that this is incredibly difficult and that at work, I often eat out of boredom. One day my metabolism will slow down and there will be dire consequences.
NUMENERA: Wonders of the Ninth World
For those who came in late: http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Just a reminder, session is TONGIHT at 7:30 SA time! Let us know if you can’t make it, also we’ll have @tech_knight on board!
cc @mawt @tigerion @novacascade @negativezero @popdart5 @mythamphetamine @blaghman @transientmind
Boom. Be there AND be square, like me.
BTW, remind me that your psychic thingo has changed
Might as well stop tagging me 🙁
I’ve got my roll20 account set up and ready to go on Monday so I should be good to go for tonight 🙂
Ah, I’m at about 50% chance of making it right now – if I’m out for this session I’d prefer to be sent ahead scouting and fail to return rather than be stuck in the tavern drinking.
Given your character is a ranger I’m sure we can wrangle that.
Heh. It’s fitting for the character, but it also makes an interesting enough hook if I turn up halfway through a dungeon/encounter.
@freezespreston Yes, they’re rebooting Fantastic Four (purely to keep hold of the rights). Being directed by the guy who made Chronicle and produced by the team who did X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar) so it has the potential to be not shit.
But it will remain shit until it proves itself not shit in which case it will be removed from the status of being shit.
I wonder if they’ll try fit into the new Avengersverse that’s making Marvel so much money.
Nope. Completely separate to the MCU due to 20th Century Fox owning the rights.
Having said that, there are rumours they’re going to connect it to the X-Men universe (also owned by Fox).
Is that Max Landis? I loved Chronicle. So good.
Max Landis wrote it, Josh Trank directed it.
Love me some Landis.
Chronicle that is.
You’ve seen The Death and Return of Superman right?
Yip.
I knew you wouldn’t let me down.
This must be a feeling my parents have never felt before.
Ah! For some reason I thought Landis wrote and directed it! Now I know!
Yeah but it’s the Fantastic Four. They’re a bit of a relic. A lot of the other characters have been modernised quite successfully but F4 remain so 60’s it’s painful.
But if it’s Landis though, he did a great job grounding his characters in Chronicle. Maybe he’ll bring that sense of tone and atmosphere to the project!
Director (Josh Trank), not writer.
Although, Trank did help come up with the story for Chronicle.
Oooooh, disregard my comments then. 😀
I liked the Venture Bros take on them. Hilarious yet horrifying and sad.
Ben died ages ago because stone isn’t living, Johnny has to be kept in a special chamber because being on fire is horribly painful, Sue turns invisible but only her skin does and she lives in fear of the egotistical, controlling maniac Reed who was the only one who got out without anything horrible.
@markserrels
Gizmodo doesn’t seem to have a ‘Talk Amongst Yourselves’ equivalent, so I’ll post this here.
You have a disconnect between the generated markup and what your Javascript code expects the markup to be. In your JS file here, you have code expecting “#content > .pull-right”, which is direct descent, but in Gizmodo’s page markup here for example, the “pull-right” class is inside an “em” element, which maps as “#content > em > .pull-right” instead.
That causes an error further down when you try to use the .offset().left property of the pull-right element, and that causes a Javascript error. And because you guys decided to use qbaka to track Javascript errors, it means every time the page scrolls, a HTTP post is sent from the browser to qbaka with the error details, which is basically a flood and causes a constant stream of Ajax connections to their servers and really jittery page scrolling.
Can you maybe pass this on to your dev team? They need to either put a check against undefined in the Javascript, or remove the ’em’ element from the markup.
Edited to add, it doesn’t happen on every article, but I’ve had it several times this past few days.
There’s White Noise at Giz, but it’s a bit of a ghost town.
It does, it’s called White Noise, but that doesn’t matter, welcome!
The person you need to talk to is @benwhite. he’s also on Twitter at @d3v1an7
Yeah, I remember they had a try at it but I forgot its name and I hadn’t seen it appear in the list recently. Or maybe I’m just bad at finding it =)
Gizmodo has Whitenoise as their TAY equivalent, but not many people use it.
*head desk, head desk, head desk, face floor *
Is this some sort of new form of twister?
OH I WANT TO PLAY!!!!!
Left haaaannd…. Mincer….AWWWHAHAGHIUGEMYGODWHYITHURTSSOMUCH!!!!
Nah, dance craze that’s taking Brisbane by storm!
Budget cutbacks means morse code communications from now on.
End up going to Supanova this weekend, Gutsoup? Hope is all well, you sound stressed! D:
no, didn’t go, wasn’t in the right mindframe
Just a tender moment to let you know that i love you all.
Awwww.
<3
I love you guys too. :’)
I don’t love you back but will happily exploit your love for me in the form of booty calls.
I farted so hard this morning I had to go to the toilet for a precautionary wipe.
#boysclub
Any follow through?
Fortunately, no – was touch and go for a bit though.
I’m waiting for the follow up that involves SPACE MARINES or your penis. I expect it shall come soon.
You know me too well 🙂
*rimshot*
Which is itself a double-entendre.
DOUBLE IN YOUR TENDRE.
…Yeah, I got nothing.
“or”?
Well.. it DOES have a helmet…
That may be illegal in some countries. 😀
Not this one, baby
Sorting this exotic asian cold I picked up with careful application of video games, anzac biscuits, pseudoephedrine cold and flu tablets, metal at unhealthy volumes and my heater.
I feel I’m fighting the good fight and winning. Fuck you cold, let’s see you beat me now.
Hngh, Eva Green.
Random: “Have you guys got any spare handsets?”
Transientmind: “Nope, sorry. You’ll need to put an order in.”
R: “I could’ve sworn your unit had all those big piles of spare handsets returned from clients.”
T: “We did. You told us you needed our storage space and it was a waste of time and space keeping them and we should send them away. So we did.”
R: “Oh. Because we really need a spare phone.”
T: “Yeah. You’ll have to put an order in.”
R: “It doesn’t need to be anything fancy, just one of those little black ones that we had spares of…”
T: “Gotta have storage space if we’re gonna have spare phones.”
R: “Yeah, I know, but… we only need the one. Sooooo…”
T: “Sooooo we don’t have any spares and you’ll need to put an order in.”
R: *sadface*
T: “If it helps, I don’t like living with the negative consequences of my decisions either.”
I won’t pretend I wasn’t savouring the irony.
I love it when you answer someone’s query, and they continue to ask the question in different ways like somehow a definitive ‘no’, might turn into something else if they persist. I don’t have what you need, and asking me again or begging isn’t going to magically change anything.
It’s how i got Bianca!
This is every day with my kids.
I liken it to going back to the fridge repeatedly, despite knowing there’s nothing good in there. Like something might’ve changed in the 5 minutes since you last checked.
You have no idea how many times I encountered the same kind of situation at the school I used to work at! Of course, nobody wanted ANYTHING, until the day it had all been shipped off to be recycled, or thrown away!
I just pulled a hair from my nose…
OH GOD!!!
WHYYY?!?!?!
The ensuing tears and face-wrinkling pain, that’s why.
I…
…I could see through TIME…
The worst ones are the ones that are right at the very front of your nose – the little ones – they sting so bad. That or the gigantic black ones that are like an inch in diameter and come out with part of your brain attached to the root.
Oh man.. I HATE those.
Getting older sucks arse!
*Link to Red Dwarf clip.*
If you didn’t use cooking tongs to extract said hair, you did it wrong.
mannnn i fucking LOVE that show
And, holy shit – X Rebirth drops in two days. I am decidedly excite. Here, smell it. See?
Yep, that sure smells like excitement ..
Why is it the customers who come in and spend hundreds of dollars are in, got what they want and out with no fuss but the ones who spend nearly nothing will bother and harass you for an entire day?
They have so little that the tiny amount means more to them.
…Not the most fun answer. :/
I was thinking the same thing.
Funny to think about really.
I remember not too many years ago when I’d been utterly screwed on finances by an ex, was paying for rent at two different apartments and drowning in credit card debt. Trying to wriggle out from under that debt sometimes meant a weekly food budget of $20, where every single dollar was worth its weight in gold – hell, right now a dollar gets you a loaf of bread, son. That’s great value for vital calories (Like, nearly 250 a day – and if you ever get sweet cravings you can let the bread dissolve on your tongue where it will be converted to glucose.)
Contrast to only a few years earlier as a young and brash corporate stooge working insane hours for insane monies, throwing money around like it was candy, paying for other peoples’ bus tickets or bottles of water in queues because they were holding up the line and looking embarrassed. I remember one time, standing at one of those intersections that tricks tourists because the walk signal doesn’t go when you’d think it should thanks to turning lanes, and some kid started walking out onto the road after hearing the wrong pulsing walk-signal go off… I yank the kid back by the collar to prevent him getting hit by a car (which then sped past, honking), but had to drop my newspaper (yeah kids, we read newspapers in those days) to do so, which then spilled everywhere and got picked up by the wind. Such a filthy litterer. What I assume was the kid’s mother looked incredibly apologetic and tried to offer to pay for the paper, to which I replied, “Thanks, but I won’t miss it. I tip more than that for my coffee. …It’s not even very good coffee.”
Value is a function of scarcity, and all that.
Good guy Transientmind! Not really related to Freeze’s post but I like being generous and I feel so bad that I can’t afford to be overly generous these days. It’s not cause I don’t want to, it’s because I really can’t. I look forward to being able to do nice things for people again. Haha!
Rich people are busy getting richer.
Soooo just got back from the doctors. News was about as good as it could get. Everything’s gotten a lot better since last time, no need for steroids, keep doing what you’re doing, see you in 6 months or so.
Seriously so relieved. I do not, ever, want to go on steroids again. I’ve lost a bit more weight (down to 62.5kg with shoes+hoodie and that on) which I’m not entirely happy about, but it’s still better than the 52kg I was at a few years ago. It fucking scares me that I weighed that at 16 years old.
Don’t need that great big hug from Oliver anymore, although I’d still like one cos I haven’t had one in like a week and a half, I miss the guy 😛 He’ll have more ammo when he complains that I’m too skinny and there’s not enough of me to hold on to now though… (yeah that’s happened a couple of times)
Glad the news is good on the health front, my friend! Hells yeah!
Doctor told me to avoid coming home when possible too, but I completely forgot to ask about getting a referral in Hobart 🙁
As a frame of reference, how tall are you? Also, good news is good. Most people’s weight fluctuates a few kilo just on how hydrated they are and when they last pooped.
Yeah, I’ve always been very puzzled at the women in the office who get all excited that they lost one kilo this month, when I’ve noticed that I can be anywhere up to two kilos difference at any given time of the day.
“Sometimes I just forget to eat, and yeah, I lose some weight those days.” Apparently the concept of forgetting to eat is so alien to them as to warrant stares, so clearly these people have never been glued to a 4X strategy game on a weekend.
I can’t wait to see the spread in Woman’s Weekly: “The Dota Diet! See how one Swedish man lost 5kg after a marathon gaming session.”
Umm I think I’m like 167cm tall from memory. Somewhere around that.
That’s like 5’5 or something, right? That weight doesn’t sound too crazy for that height?
My brother is 185cm (6’1) and he’s been under 60kg. Even now, I’d be shocked if he was over 65kg. Then again, he seems to break a different limb every week so I don’t know if he’s a useful example of anything when it comes to health.
It does if you saw how tiny I actually am 😛 I constantly get told to eat more, but the only thing that achieves is pissing me off.
When I was, uh, slightly, um, depressed earlier this year I got down to 70kg and I’m 6’2… wasn’t good… I can empathize my friend.
That sucks man 🙁 Whenever I get depressed I’m always happier not eating at all so I can understand that. Hope you’re doing better now!
I am. Took some happy pills for a while and now all is good in the hood. Haha! Thanks!
168/64, high five!
I had a little crisis when I was trying to get fitter and discovered that I could barely struggle out a dozen chin-ups without feeling like my arms had turned to rubber.
I exclaimed to the trainer, “Shit, I used to be able to do an infinite number of these when I was 19! The limit was just whenever I got bored!”
Trainer asked, “So what did you weigh at 19?”
“Uhm. About 56kg.”
“And now you’re 80.”
“78.5 thankyou!”
“Near enough. Mystery solved. Lifting that extra weight is hard, which you’ll find out when I start strapping weights to you while you do it – don’t give me that look. …Also you’re out of practice, you should be able to do more like a few dozen, and I’m guessing you never did much more than 100.”
“This is all very reasonable, if only slightly less disheartening.”
19 year olds aren’t renowned for their long attention spans.
Haha sometimes the hard truth hurts 😛 It’s very easy for me to notice when I’ve put on or lost a couple of kilos though. It always shows itself somewhere.
Urrgh. And here’s me fighting to stay under 100kgs.
Lightweight. *Rolls Eyes*
*Cries*
Man. I can only do like six tops before I have to stop. A dozen is pie in the sky crazy.
Does climbing help with that stuff?
Apparently not? 😛
Well, I’ve got the strength for it, sure. But my stamina is pretty shit. Though that probably comes down to having done nothing but bouldering for the last couple of years. Like when Climbey had me down on the ropes the other week, and I was huffing and puffing all the way up. Totally unfit.
Intense cardio is totally un-fun and a sure-fire way to lose all your hard-earned bulk. Which is why you’ll always be able to outrun a bodybuilder. 😛
…It’s also kinda the only way to stay fit. 🙁
Good thing I’m just doing this for fun, and don’t particularly care about fitness then 😛
Reads through all the replies.
Looks at 6ft 7 self in mirror at 85kg.
Remembers when he came back from travelling weighing in at 69kg.
Remembers when he was weight lifting and exercising, weighing in at 95kg of muscle.
Looks back at mirror.
Lanky.
Starting to get pot belly.
Has existential crises about being the tall hairy skinny guy with the big belly.
Promises to go to gym. Tomorrow. Or Saturday. Sometime soon.
Goes back to desk and eats chocolate to feel better.
This is confusing because it has two slightly different titles but here you go @dc:
Thanks Jimu! Think I’d prefer to just watch the original in full though! You awesome!
qwell, long story short, the euro one is worth your time….but not before 12 Monkeys.
But there’s a TV show coming. There’s no point watching the original now. 😛
You just made the list, like literally, there was no list previously…
Seems like something I can take pride in, maybe? 😀
Came home to find three huge bull ant nests out in the front yard. HOLY SHIT WHEN DID BULL ANTS GET TO ALSO HAVE WINGS?? AND THEY’RE TWICE THE SIZE OF ALL THE OTHERS. AND THERE’S LIKE THREE OR FOUR OF THEM STANDING GUARD AT EACH ENTRANCE, JUST WATCHING OVER ALL WHO ENTER AND LEAVE.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/ItCameFromRedAlert.jpg
I AM TERRIFIED.
Why do bull ants suddenly appear every time you are near?
Just like Climbing Girl they long to be close to you!
Just think of them as Pikmin, maybe?
They do look rather Pikmin-like…
Plus they are red, and I can only imagine that those pincers would sting like a motherbitch.
So the winged ones are future Queens, kill them before they pull an Aliens in your back garden (serious)
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
GAME OVER, MAN. GAME OVER.
bitch!
I think dad went out to take care of them already, in whatever manner. I know once years ago in the backyard he dumped diesel on an ants nest and set it alight, just standing there and turning the soil for a while.
I just realised before that this would have been perfect for my giant solar death ray. Too bad the sun’s already gone. Guess I’ll have to come out and check for any on the weekend 😛
KILL IT WITH FIRE
@ynefel: tried adding some cash to my US PSN wallet via Paypal.
Paypal deducted the money correctly but then the fucking Sony store is all ‘couldn’t fund your wallet’ so now I have $50 in limbo. I don’t want to go whinging to Sony because they’ll be all ‘your account has a fake address’ and stuff, last thing I want is all my crap being cancelled because of violation of ToS.
Maybe it was just because I left it idle for too long before finishing the workflow.
Poooo. That limbo money can take a couple of days before it returns too. I hate that.
According to our good friend BlueMaxima it doesn’t work from AU 🙁 Stick to buying codes.
@chuloopa
http://comicsalliance.com/ten-golden-age-sidekicks-names-gross-sex-moves/
These guys sound like they know how to party.
Awesome! 😀
Also, on the postcards thing – they’re all going to be mass-printed and be just sitting there on the tables at industry night or whatever for anyone to take. So… yeah 😛
Guess who just had Thai Green Curry…this guy!
PEW PEW cc @chuloopa
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82751694/helmet.jpg
Glad I mocked it up in paper first! Needs to be bigger. (BECAUSE I HAVE A BIG HEAD)
Oh.
My.
God.
So freaking AWESOME!!!
The real question is:
Which Chapter?
Bit soon for that 😛 But I’d probably go BA Death Company, Imperial Fists orrrrr the ANGRY MARINES
Paper mockups are the best. Though yours looks a whole lot fancier than most of mine.
NUMENERA: WONDERS OF THE NINTH WORLD
And so, the party has solved the mystery of Embered Peaks, pacified the psychic entity Boregal and brought peace to the area. But what awaits them in Charmonde?
Thanks for playing @blaghman @novacascade @popdart5 @Tech_knight! Next time @tigerion @mawt @mythamphetamine @transientmind!
Was an awesome session. Although I will say we all found it kinda difficult trying to get any information out the Crazies that seemed to populate the town. Still… we got through it… Just :-/
Yeah, I was a little worried you’d be stopped short a couple of times, but I figured I could feed something to @tech_knight if you got really stuck. If you hadn’t gone towards the Forum of the Dead when you did Chahil probably would have started screaming
In which case the cowards in us would have us leaving the town for good 😛
Hah! I’m trying not to railroad you too much, but I’d have probably tried to force you back to the town in that case!
Its subtle railroading, the kind that I’m guessing a GM has to be good at. You are doing an awesome job
Glad you’re enjoying it!
I still would’ve gone in personally, it was my home afterall 🙂
I really felt bad cuz I was barely able to contribute/knew how to contribute since it was all communicating with fleshlings (Which being as I am, not very good at that lol). Plus they were so out of mind they couldn’t answer our questions to help investigate further, if Nova didn’t use that monitor I think we would’ve truly been stuck at the Forum of the Dead. I was trying to press Chahil about the leftover blood stains but that didn’t help much sadly 🙂
Still this is a lot of fun taking part in a rollplay, never actually done it like this before (Not through a computer game role play server). I really should show the bios of the Neverwinter Nights characters I’ve done in the past just for you guys to read if anyone’s interested :P.
Good thing I remembered I had that gadget then 😀
AND you got it replaced in the same session, was a very good run with that cypher. 🙂
Also, @tech_knight if you can send me a character sheet and, if you have one, a character pic? If you haven’t got a pic in mind Moebius is a good artist to start with.
I’ll put the character sheet together when I can and send it over with an avatar. I’ll probably have to do a shoddy mspaint job on the character sheet lol
Doesn’t need to be on the actual sheet, just the character details.
Also, there is an app you can get to manage your char- search numenera on the app store of your choosing
Ah yep I can do that, I’ll email you what I have in my notepad tonight and if I’m missing stuff like class-based skills or a stat I missed you can let me know
Oh by the way, my character’s name is spelt “Scrappa”
Baw, Tactical Haptics’ kickstarter isn’t looking too good 🙁
Still got a month to go, but I dunno. Hope they get there.
R.I.P.D is a pretty terrible movie.
Jeff Daniels is pretty great in it though.
And god dammit Ryan Reynolds stop picking terrible movies to waste away in.
Also, Crazy Girl likes the moustache. Told me so a couple of times today. The last of which ended something like
“No but seriously, I think it’s really [cool/good/something/I forget].
[possibly something else happened here inbetween]
Can you be Batman?”
“*confused pause* Why?”
“…..because I love him?”
Don’t at all know what to take away from that.
*sigh*
My first thought was to do my “budget batman” again, where I took my Capt. Falcon mask and wore it under my black hoodie, with a pair of cardboard ears safety pinned to it. Pretty easy.
Although I can’t remember where I put the ears.
Momentary excitement when I saw that Antichamber was up on the Humble Store!
Only to go and look and find that it still seems to be restricted to Steam. Baw 😛
Although, looks like they have Receiver. And Papers Please. $2 and $6. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
Again? Really?
Also the whole post-being-stuck-on-the-previous-page thing is irritating.
Wait till you get three in a row.
It’s terrifying.
D:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand bought.
Why does it matter if it’s restricted to steam?
I don’t like, have nor want Steam. Because tinfoil 😛
\o
Surely one game wouldn’t hurt. Go on try it. Of course nothing bad can happen from installing it just for one game. You don’t even have to run it unless you want to play antichamber. You wouldn’t even know it was there
Goodnight, TAY!
ZZZZzzzzz…
Probably going to disappear a while guys. Maybe a few months.
I don’t mention it much because it isn’t entirely my tale to tell, but the girlfriend’s situation has taken a turn for the worse.
It’s been a few years in the works now, with her health, and her insane family, but we’ve started running out of options and. Well. They tell her that she isn’t going to get better. I refuse to believe it. She’s not handling it well and neither am I. But I have to. So… I need to do some things and can’t afford to divide my attention. Yeah, it’s a cop-out to say I won’t log on to a website with my phone or whatever when I get downtime, but I know I’m about to become really unpleasant company.
Thanks in advance for well wishes, good luck with your stuff.
So sorry to hear. And also disappointed – that cheerful yellow face along with the wisdom and insight (or just general hilarity) that usually follows will be sorely missed from these pages.
All the best, truly.
+1 :'( What I was pretty much gonna say.
Best of luck, TM.
Oh man 🙁
Really sorry to hear that. Will be thinking of you. If there’s anything you need, don’t hesitate, okay?
All teh lucks man! Hope everything works out ok!
Aww man, that really sucks, I’m sorry to hear that 🙁 Take care of yourself and your girl and I hope you both come out okay.
Will miss you around these parts too! I enjoy reading both your posts and your replies!
All the best, hope things work out.
I’m sorry to hear that. Spend time with her and try to make every day happy. It’s the most you can do, for both of you.
Remember, Doctors can be wrong, and don’t always know everything. For example, my mother was initially told by her doctor that there was nothing they could do. Another doctor decided to try something, and it worked.
Wish you both the best of luck and hopefully, they find something that can help her out.
Sorry to read this man 🙁
You know where to find us if you need us and we’ll always be here :). I hope both you and her will be okay.
*robohugs*
This is sucky news. I send my regards.
Aw man, thats terrible news 🙁
I hope it all works out, if you need anything at all we are all here for you.
*hugs*
All the best, my friend, to you and your girlfriend. Sending good thoughts your way. If you ever need to talk no matter how unpleasant you think you’re being, you better believe there’ll be people here as well as in person who’ll be happy to listen. Hopefully all is well soon.
Awww nooo 🙁
I hope everything works out mate – best of luck and we all look forward to seeing you pop your head back in from time to time.
Good luck mate. Do the best you can and the rest will follow.
All the best.
*hugs*
All the best friend. Best of luck with your future endeavour.
Panoramic ball camera?!
I’LL TAKE THREE!!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/panono-panoramic-ball-camera
It’s cool but I don’t have $500 to drop on a prototype camera
Oh i’d never spend money on it… i said I’d TAKE three.
$500 for a novelty camera?? Yeah.. no way. 😛
But still – it’s pretty awesome!
I dunno, I spent $500 on my 808 Pureview…
😛
TAYlist request time, may only be a one hour show today, so make those requests good ones.
The Lesser Evil – James Flamestar
I’d love to play Flamestar, but I’ll need a cd, I do plan to buy on one day.
$5 for a digital copy. Dunno if that would work.
http://jamesflamestar.bandcamp.com/
I’d much rather a CD copy, otherwise I’ll have to play off an iPod, not a fun time.
Stardrops – James Flamestar
Hi Numbers!
Video killed the radio star – the buggles
Hi Scree, I can say for a fact we do have that song.
\o/
Obscure hipster request :
Mundo de Ciegos – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Serious request :
Next Girl – The Black Keys
Edit : Seeing that it’s seemingly a thing…
Flamestar request :
The Note That Destroyed The World – James Flamestar
Can Flamestar requests not become a thing, it just makes me feel crappy, not being able to play the music you guys want.
sorry man, I’m just being silly.
also, dont feel crappy for not playing requests.
you’ve got a responsibility to make your show good, and I dont think anyone expects you to play some of our requests.
I mean, no matter how badly BDKIAF wants you to play Chansaw Gutfuck, I dont think you should feel bad for not doing it.
Next girl – suuuch a great song…
I think i’ll listen to the brothers album now….
hells yeah.
was playing it in Rocksmith last night. such a funky bassline.
We don’t have Next Girl, but we have plenty of Black Keys, do you have another choice in mind?
‘Lies’ would be 2nd choice, but anything really. its all good!
Taco – Puttin On The Ritz
I heard this one a few weeks ago, I’ll be sure to play it for ya.
Puttin’ on the Ritz.
Everybody (Backstreets Back) – Backstreet Boys
I watched This is the End the other night and it has this song and it’s been stuck in my head pretty much ever since.
Cakesmith’s Gay 90s?
Why not?
At least it’s not Hanson.
Same thing happened to me when I watched the end. I think it was stuck in my head for at least 3 days.
Scooby Snacks – Fun Lovin’ Criminals?
Sounds like a good song, I’ll play it if it’s in the computer.
Anything from
James FlamestarBeck.Depeche Mode – Martyr
We don’t have Martyr, but we do have other Depeche Mode, got a second choice?
The Smiths – Ask?
Pink Floyd – Breathe (In the Air)
Don’t have that one, second choice?
Foo Fighters – This is a call.
Almost didn’t catch that, you got lucky, mang.
Pixies – Any.
Oculus Rift mini-review:
No wolf make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad.You can’t get wolfenstein to work on it?
I may have left my debit card at home and have about 60cents in my wallet.
I regret skipping breakfast this morning.
BIN FISHING \o/
Why would I fish for a bin? How would I even eat a whole bin?
#missingthepoint
Hook. Line. Sinker.
1. Unplug the fridge at work
2. Wait 10 minutes
3. Send an email out saying that all the food in the fridge is now off
4. Volunteer to clean it out
5. Gorge
I think that’s how Lards started out.
Yeah, but he can cartwheel like a boss.
I’m still laughing about that… 😀
It was pretty amazing.
I watched forty minutes of Man of Steel last night and honestly would say it’s one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen. I found nothing entertaining about it at all. I had adjusted my expectations after what I’ve heard, but clearly not enough. D:
But I liked it and nothing else matters.
You like Gattaca and that’s the only thing that matters. 😀
Hugs?
Totally. *hugs*
I enjoyed it for what it was.
Should be said too that I’m not a Supes fan at all, so even before the opening titles rolled they were going to have a tough job getting me on board. XD
*Adds Superman to list of things that DC hates.*
It’s been there for a long time. Haha!
How can you hate Superman?
How can you like Superman?
I don’t like his origin story. Don’t like how overpowered he is. Don’t like the world he lives in. XD Now that I think about it I found the previous movie incredibly bland and boring too. 😀
This is a bad conversation to start while I’m at work. You can expect an essay on why Superman is one of the greatest comic characters ever created later tonight.
I’ll make sure I’m not around.
😛
@cakesmith Yeeeah. I agree with DC here.
If all you know is the movies there’s a lot you don’t know.
@rize Read “Red Son” and prepare to be wrong. Even if it is just a one-shot.
I think there’s a lot of poorly-tapped and entirely untapped ideas and stories that could arise from being OP. It tends not to happen in Superman stories, though.
haha, not a supes fan either, i like the fact that his alter ego is Clarke Kent instead of the other way round like most heroes but that’s about it.
I’m surprised the N64 game didn’t make you come round and become a massive fan 😛
Also remember the supergirl movie? ahahaha
also also remember Masters of the Universe movie with Dolph Lungren & badass 80’s synthesisers that were actually a mystical device (cause i know how much you love synths :P).
Don’t mind me I think i broke my brain and am now a little bit loopy
@gutsoup
I wonder if I can get that at JB. How did they get the food on to these little white sticks?
I’m going to pick a few problems I had with this movie apart quickly (cc @dkzeitgeist):
Act 1 – Krypton:
Too many subplots. The codex, Zod, the core collapsing. Took much exposition. Looked good though. Didn’t mind the change from the sun exploding to the planets core exploding as much as a lot of people. I haven’t read a lot of Superman comics but I’m pretty sure it happened in one of those universes too.Act 2 – Growing Up/Becoming Superman
Ok, this is my BIGGEST problem with the movie. Jonathan Kents death. In the movie he just signals Clark not to rescue him as he is about to be taken by the tornado. That’s not what it’s about. The death of Jonathan has always been about Clark realising that not matter how many powers he has, with all his abilities he can’t save everyone. He’s killed by a simple heart attack. No. Just no, movie. And he’s god damn Superman! Why didn’t he rescue the dog instead?Act 3 – Vs. Zod
A lot of people have the same issue as I do. He lets half the city get levelled killing who knows how many people as an direct result of his fight with Zod. He would’ve tried to draw Zod away from the city. Stealing this from a YouTube comment of all places because I agree 100%:“Superman fights Zod with absolutely no concern for the people around him who would get hurt. It goes against the ideals that Superman stands for – protect life at all cost, even if saving that one life might lead to more lives, or even his own, being in danger.”
Still, there were some interesting ideas in the action scenes. The fight in
Smallvillefor example had some awesome flow to it. Like, actually looked and felt like super powerful people kicking the crap out of each other.EDIT: Like Freeze though I enjoyed it for what it is.
A lot of people blame Zack Snyder but I think most of the blame needs to be put on David S. Goyer. Dude can’t write for shit.
One thing I’ll say is on paper it had a damn good cast though: Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and the like.
isn’t the prohy from Boardwalk the Villian in that? I thought he’d make a good villian
Yeah, that’s him! He’s in a movie called Take Shelter too. You should watch. It’s good! (cc. @sughly)
ooh, will have to check it out.
And hes amazing in Revolutionary Road, off the top of my head
Ooooh! That’s playing on Foxtel. I’ll add it to the list!
Yah, such a great film, so well acted by everyone in it
See, this is really interesting to me as a non-superman fan because as a film, I found it entertaining enough. Weird pacing issues, but it was mostly enjoyable.
Yet a lot of these points you raise kind of tell me why it is, objectively, a bad Superman film. But subjectively, I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!
http://www.gog.com/
GOG is having this weird limited stock sale at the moment where there’s only so many copies on sale and when it sells out they move onto the next game. Weeeeeird.
Ugh. High pressure impulse sale…
Yeah, agreed. To tell you the truth GOG is always having sales. Don’t feel pressured into these ones, because they’ll be at these prices again soon enough.
Oh, I’m not going to. I really dislike limited stock sales for all the common reasons.
hahaha that’s pretty clever really 🙂
I like the bar that won’t shut up.
STOP MOVING YOU STUPID BAR!
Fuck’s sake. Just found out my employers had changed my super provider without my permission or knowledge. What makes it worse is a small amount of research shows they’ve changed it to one that is the worst performing stocks of anything on the ASX and has consistently won consumer choice worst of awards.
Now I need to try and unfuck this situation.
Isn’t it illegal for them to pull shit like that?
Man that is just utter BS!
Yeah, pretty sure that’s illegal…or at least dodgy as hell.
Almost certain it’s illegal.
Should have been impossible for them to roll you super over into the new fund. So contact your previous fund, say you want to use them but employer did this. Ask them what you need to do
Any news on the application?
Nada.
How long since you submitted? Long enough for a friendly enquiry?
A week? So probably not.
Your employer switched to the poorest performing super fund on the market with no apparent reason for doing so?
There are some decisions that make so little sense that I have to assume that someone, somewhere, was really good in bed to make it happen.
Oh Crap…. I had Coffee… Now I feel ill…. Why do I do this to myself?
“it’s been 6 months, surely my body can handle one tiny coffee”
2 Hours Later
“OW OW OW OW OW”
ACH!!!!
MEIN ARSCHLOCH!
ES IST EXPLODEN!!!!
AAARRRGGGHHHHHHNEEEIINNNNNN!!!!!!!
Too tired to know better
Have a coffee to wake up
Now alert enough to realise that you didn’t want coffee
The only cure is more coffee.
So tough to avoid all these PS4 reviews. To be perfectly honest, I want to make up my own mind about this console. I don’t want any thing to influence what I think about the games too. Time to avoid the front page of all game sites for two weeks. D:
I was set as an Xbot from about 2007 onwards, so there was never any chance of me not buying an Xbone. Some reviews suggest it’s less powerful than the PS4. Some people might argue blah blah blah I don’t even care enough to make up shit people might say who fucking cares it’s a goddamn toy not a way of life no matter how many hours you invest in gaming.
Exactly. I’ll be the first to admit I acted like the majority are now, comparing the PS3/X360 at launch and lording it over everyone that the 360 was better.
I was 15/16 then, a child. People really do need to wake up, a few missing details here and there at launch is nothing, as long as you’re happy with the system/s of your choice.
(XBone here also)
Eh, they’re mostly positive with a screaming negative for more games. People act like launch games are the only games a system will ever get. It’s crazy.
It’s true, all I’ve done for seven years is play Chromehounds and Lair.
Yeah, Kameo and Condemned: Criminal Origins are starting to wear out its welcome on the 360 too. 😛
The Nintendo 64 launched with 2 games in the US:
Super Mario 64
Pilot Wings 64
And since then, everyone has realised they’ll never have a lineup that good, so that’s why they don’t try.
I think GameCube quite probably had the best launch lineup ever.
I think I remember Smash Bros and Rogue Squadron?
Smash was launch window, didn’t come out til a month or so later along with Pikmin. But there was Luigi’s Mansion, Rogue Leader, Wave Race and Burnout all available from the get-go. All awesome games, and Rogue Leader’s got to be one of the best launch games of any system.
Mario 64 never outstays its welcome.
Not getting a 64 at launch may have contributed to me never having owned or played through Super Mario 64.
Monster!
It is a heavy burden to bear.
Latest game I’m playing is ‘pick the timeframe to hardware revision’, since my 360 is the elite revision, and my ps3 the first slim. So I expect XBone and PS4 will happen for me once there is a revision and/or package deal, and enough exclusive games.
Jury is still out on the MS side, original xbox had the controller revised same year as launch, but no major changes after that – just minor internal changes around manufacturing and anti-piracy stuff. The 360, first revision after 18 months, and revised to wahoo ever since.
Baseless prediction: No signs for major revisions, maybe 3 years. Storage may be the first point of change.
Sony is a very interesting story. Playstation -> PSOne, 5 years. Ps2 -> slim, 4 years. Ps3 -> slim, 3 years. Without taking anything else into account, looking at a ps4 slim by 2015. Storage may also be a major driving force on this one too.
At least with a mindframe set this far out, I’m not too concerned about short term impressions. Big companies will support and make these platforms better over time to make sure they’re a worthwhile investment for the consumers. Relax, and enjoy the experience!
are you getting one at launch? what games u getting with it? I’m gonna upgrade AC4 and BF4 to the ps4 versions as my first games and hoping Starbound lands soon too, It’s my birthday on the tuesday after launch so I’ve booked 2 days off work and will have 4 days to check it out, I just bailed on my work christmas party too cause it’s on the 29th and I was like “no work that’s day 1 of new console, I do not want your free booze and food”
Assassin’s Creed 4 and Killzone, for me! 😀
I’ve got some looking at stuff to do. XD
hope you like AC4, I’m almost finished it, been thoroughly enjoying it, I hope they make more pirate games, so fun
I loved all the Assassin’s Creeds before 3, so hoping the troubles there were an anomaly. XD
I can’t wait for a Red Dead sequel on next gen consoles. Did you see the Dragon Age footage from yesterday? I couldn’t help myself and watched the first 30 secs. Totally in awe at how beautiful and colourful that world is. As Skyrim-like as the interface looked it was reassuring to a party behind you. 😀
Has anyone else played dysfunctional learning systems 😀
dunno if its gonna interest anyone, but Walking Dead season 2 is $16 on green man games.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/walking-dead-season-2/
use the 25% off thing GMG25-C8FGA-VFPGI
I am trying to save money here!
sorry!
/role reversal
You should be. Gotta save money for christmas. The only real thing I’m allowed to spend on is stuff for Nob’s cosplay
Ah! I hope it’s released soon! I saw an article about the changes to season two on Game Informer yesterday. Hope that’s prelude to an impending release. Noticed a few recent Wolf Among Us tweets from Telltale too!
TWD 2 will come out as soon as every plot point is spoiled on front page headlines on every gaming site.
Time for Tina to step up! 😀
Good to know. I’ll get my preorder in as soon as I get paid, which is tomorrow.
@dc the best Superman stories aren’t about Superman the flying brick- they are about Superman the boy from Kansas who wants to embody the best of humanity, even though he’s not human. That’s what I like about Superman (although he’s not my #1)
It’s the ideas behind Superman, not the character himself.
The death of Superman is pretty cool – as well as popular back in the day. Supes is pretty cool in the The Dark Knight Returns as well – but I’m a massive Batman fan so go figure.
Haha, I remember that.
I really liked the Superman issue in Hush
@dc might like some of Alan Moore’s Superman stories. There’s a kind of “best of Alan Moore’s DC Universe characters” collection that includes “For the Man who has everything” and “Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” which are both excellent. It’s also got “The Killing Joke” for Batman and a cool Green Lantern Corp short story called “Mogo doesn’t socialize” which might just be the ultimate hermit comic story.
I miss Transientmind already. 🙁
HE HASN’T LEFT YET GODDAMMIT
Or has he? D:
I missed him first!
That’s because he’s your wing man!
Wing commander!
I missed him before he even started posting on the site.
/hipster
Last night conversation came up with some friends about pickup lines. Most of them were pretty terrible/offensive/similar. I’ve always found it odd that I don’t really have any of those up my sleeve/can never think of any, considering that I’m usually all over bad humour. But then I actually came up with one somehow, and I kinda wanna use it. For Sketchbook, of course 😛
“You must be a pretty great artist. You draw my attention better than anyone else here.”
Pick up lines are like puns and I can’t abide them! >:|
For someone who claims to hate puns, you sure were making a lot of wordplay jokes on Sunday night.
I just wanted to make you feel comfortable… or something… Let’s go with that.
How does that Nike slogan go again?
Shoe fly don’t bother something or other?
Unsure if joke. Pretty sure what Rize means is “JUST DO IT.” Ask the girl out already! 😛
Yes, intentional 😛
Can’t do anything yet though. There’s still another couple of weeks before the last possible moment to do so.
why the hesitation?
Because why do today what you can put off til tomorrow?
Also terror.
I dont understand this scared of rejection thing to be honest.
but then again, I may be in the minority there.
you have no reason to be terrirfied.
you seem to be a pretty rad guy & you’re not too harsh on the eyes either.
confidence is goddamn hot, so just go for it, man.
@35 Like I said to… someone else the other day, I’m not sure that it’s the potential rejection I fear most, but the possibility of success. Because that means I have to follow through with it, and deliver on whatever it is I’m proposing. Also I have to figure out that bit too.
firstly, a disclaimer: I’m a bit of an extrovert / antiauthoritarian with little regard for consequences or my own wellbeing. I’m also a filthy optimist.
so yeah, just remember that nothing is set in stone.
when the bad out weighs the good, you’re free to make changes.
secondly, another disclaimer. I give shit advice, so ignore me.
@35 The weird thing is I do a lot of those things a lot of the time too. They just seem to completely disappear in some situations. This happens to be one of them 😛
I think pick-up lines are kind of fraught. If there’s laughter, you’re expected to be equally witty with whatever original material comes second. If there’s a DC glare, then it’s at best a salvage mission. Much better to just ask the girl out and put all the discomfort on her.
Hey they nearly worked for @welbot 😛
But yeah, it really depends on delivery and such. I can see a generic line used in any situation being risky like you said, but I think a tailor-made one for a particular circumstance would be much less so.
To be honest, Welbot’s line creeped me out. Haha!
It all depends on who you’re using it on. I can safely say, there’s no way I would have ever tried it on anyone else but her, cos I knew she wouldn’t take it the wrong way. She wasn’t your typical girly girl. A little bit,, how shall I say.. Indie? Punk? She just has a very different attitude to most girls, and we’ve joked in the past while she made my coffee, so I knew even if I got shot down, she wouldn’t be offended 🙂
Mannnnnnnnnn i used to LOVE pick up lines but never used them seriously.
There are some REALLY great ones out there, too.
So. many. lols.
I got a message from someone on a dating site the other day.. it was just terrible… “Have you got a jersey? Cos I need your name and number!”
Like.. come on.. considering how often you hear women complain about terrible pickup lines, you’d think they’d at least have the decency to come up with a good one for themselves!
nahahaha that’s great!
hahahahahahahaaaa!!!
My brother had a good one
“Hey, your beaver can knaw on my wood any day.”
Oh man, this time last week I was psyching myself up to meet @shane. That week went by crazy quick! D:
http://imgur.com/GAp5pXr
-_-
Was that really a week ago? God damn.
The US is getting a Bravely Default Collector’s Edition release.
It’s the same as ours, except doesn’t have the figure. And they don’t get it until 2014.
PAL Nintendo is like some kind of bizzaro-world where we don’t get fucked over for good JRPGs.
I think you mean Nintendo UK…
Nintendo of Europe.
They are like anti-atlus!
You mean Sega? 🙁
My good pal @sughly posted an idea on Twitter… what if we have one last hurrah with our Dreamworld annual passes by going to the park before Mrs. Freeze’s birthday shindig on the 23rd?
@freezespreston, @jimu, @gutsoup, @sughly, @strange, @welbot, @sernobulus, @virus__, @transientmind, @beardymcmuttonchops, @dkzeitgeist (who’ll be at Disney, but whatever… I ain’t jealous…) @lambomann007, @popdart5 and all the rest!
Is aleph still at Surfer’s? Maybe we could have an aleph/Dreamworld meat?
I think Aleph’s in town until Sunday, maybe? Although I think he’s keen to do something in the city on Saturday. Also, I can probably only justify one Gold Coast trip. Haha!
DisneyWorld.
The only thing that makes me not jealous is the fact this’ll be stuck in your head for weeks!
Not to mention It’s a Small World!
SO KEEN!!!
@enduwolf
Lambo. Doesn’t. Meat. 😛
Won’t be able to make it, too far away for me. Plus I’ll have a shiny new Xbox One I’ll be too busy playing with (and I’ll still be tired from attending the midnight launch) 😛
I’d love to say I’m down with the idea, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to at this stage. Given I’ll be half way through my pay cycle, and I haven’t yet had a full one, I might not be able to. Will see though. Hopefully I’ll have a better idea by tomorrow, though I’m not gonna get my hopes up. Everything always seems to happen at the worst possible times for me!!! So looking forward to next year when I wont have to worry about things like this!
Whaaaa?
NegativeZero’s daily Kantai Collection update that no one cares about:
Attempted to clear the first of the event maps. Managing to get through 75% but not quite make it to the boss each time. My shipgirls are just not quite strong enough. I can’t see myself managing to push through to the boss and beat it to get my I-19 before the event ends on the 20th. Spent some time trying to level up my new submarine, but finding she’s pretty useless at this point. Doesn’t actually fire in the first round and all the destroyers and cruisers focus-target her with depth charges so usually ends up taking a trip to the repair dock after every sortie. On the upside she costs next to nothing to run and repair.
Finding I’m getting my ass handed to me in PvP sorties as well. I’ve hit a high enough personal level that I’m being thrown in against fleets with 4+ battleships at level 15+ and my two battleships are the basically the weakest variety and can’t hit hard enough, leaving me forced to run several aircraft carriers to bring the extra damage. Akagi and Hiryuu absolutely chew through my bauxite (side note: why the hell is it bauxite and not aluminium? The other resources – fuel, ammunition, steel – are refined products but bauxite is raw aluminium ore. Weird Japanese thing?) and so I really can’t afford to keep using them both at the same time.
Spent a ton of resources attempting to build another battleship but the RNG goddess keeps giving me heavy cruisers instead. 🙁 I’ve had about 20 attempts in the last week or so and only one produced an actual BB, Fusou, which I’ve had practically since I started playing. Starting to look like I need to push through to some more advanced sortie areas and hope I get a Kongo-class as a drop instead, might be more reliable.
Still addicted. 🙁
How much of the difficulty wall is cash based?
My only saving grace is laziness and the fact it isn’t released in English. If that pops up on steam I think I would be in trouble
WALL OF TEXT WARNING
It’s a browser-based flash game so it’ll never turn up on Steam. Plus the subject matter probably makes it too potentially volatile to localize unless in the future they expand it to navies beyond the IJN but I’m not sure that that wouldn’t make it worse. It is getting a Vita version at some point next year though! Don’t know if it’ll be stand-alone or not yet.
I have to admit I spent some cash on it to get extra resources, but generally speaking the difficulty wall isn’t cash-based, it’s time-based. The cash shop sells bundles of resources, instant-build and instant-repair items, emergency repair teams (equip on a ship and they will never be able to be sunk) and cosmetic items to allow you to customize the look of your headquarters. Also you can buy items to give you extra construction and repair docks. I bought two extra repair docks to improve the amount of time it takes me to completely repair my fleets after a bad sortie.
You can’t pay money to get special ships. Resources regenerate at the rate of I think 1 per minute, but refresh at 3 minute intervals. Your personal (headquarters) level dictates your maximum resource cap – I’m currently level 16 HQ and I can stockpile I think 6000 of each. You also have a cap on how many things you can build – you need construction materials and those are rewarded mainly from quests or you can pay money for more (I have never hit 0 though)
Instant Build and Instant Repair items can be gotten via sorties. There are quests in the game as well, ranging in type. Most of them are one-offs (eg ‘Have all four Kongou-class Battleships’ or ‘Have Akagi and Kaga in your first fleet, Soryuu and Hiryuu in your second fleet’ or ‘Sortie with a Light Cruiser’) and there are some which are repeatable every day or every week. You can only track progress toward 5 quests at once so it requires picking what you’re going to do at a given time. Can change which ones you’re working on at any time though. The quests also reward resources, instant build, instant repair and construction materials.
The way sorties work is that you pick up to six ships to form a fleet (duplicates not allowed), then pick an area. Each area has multiple nodes on it connected in a map. Whenever there’s a branch, there is a random chance you’ll go in each direction (some branches also require certain fleet compositions). Some nodes drop resources, other nodes contain enemy fleets, which you will then engage in battle with. You start by picking a battle formation (Line Ahead, Line Abreast, Double Line, Diamond, etc) and then the enemy picks one as well. Depending on the combination there are different effects (eg if you pick Line Ahead and they pick Line Abreast then they’ve ‘Crossed the T’ in their favor and you take extra damage). If you have any recon planes, you’ll send one up and if you have air superiority you’ll successfully recon the battle and this avoids a disadvantageous formation combination. Then there is a torpedo attack phase for advanced ships, followed by an air attack phase where the carriers send out their torpedo planes and fighters to shoot down the opposing planes. Then it’s just a standard biffo between the ships. Targets on the other side are picked semi-randomly (I think battleships target destroyers first, destroyers always target your subs etc). Cannon fire and dive bombers off the carriers. Once everyone’s used up their turns you have an option for a night attack or to continue. Night attack every ship with only light damage can fire their weapons again, and they usually do a lot more damage in this phase. But you also take more damage from opposing ships so it’s a risk/reward thing. Then depending on how you go you get a rating (best is a perfect S, where you wiped out the whole enemy fleet without taking any damage) and every ship gets XP based on the difficulty of the node, even if you lost. The flagship of the fleet gets I think 50% bonus XP, and the MVP for the battle gets 50% as well (so 100% if your MVP was the flagship). MVP is usually the ship that had the best damage dealt to damaged received.
After the battle’s over you can either continue to the next node or go home. Any ship that enters a node with only light damage or no damage cannot be sunk in a subsequent battle, but if they have medium or heavy damage then you run the risk of them sinking and being lost forever. Your flagship can never be sunk but if they’re damaged down to 1 HP you have to turn back. Similarly if you run out of fuel or ammunition you have to head back.
Once you’re back at HQ you can spend Fuel and Ammo (and Bauxite for carriers) to resupply the ships you used, and you can spend Fuel and Steel to send them to the docks to be repaired. Resupply is instant, repair takes time depending on the class of ship and how much damage. Heavy carriers like Akagi cost a button of steel, 150+ to repair if they’re heavily damaged and repairs take several real-time hours. Conversely a heavily damaged submarine can be repaired in about 4 minutes at a cost of around 3-4 steel.
There’s multiple ship classes. Destroyers are the weakest ship-to-ship but are cheap and extremely common, plus a few of the rarer ones (Yukikaze, Shimakaze, Hibiki’s Russian upgrade version and a few others) can be extremely powerful later on. There’s only currently 4 submarines in the game, and only two are buildable, the others are event drops. They’re super cheap to run and repair and can only be hit by light carriers, destroyers and light cruisers, but they get focus-fired as a result. Light Cruisers are basically the support / utility ships, they’re not that expensive to run but they’re mostly used for anti-submarine warfare or farmed because they get specific equipment that’s valuable. Heavy Cruisers are sort of a jack-of-all-trades. Hit hard but not as a hard as a battleship. More expensive to repair and run than a Light Cruiser but less than a battleship. Battleships obviously are heavily armored and hit really hard in the cannon fire phase but are expensive to run. There’s different types of carriers – Seaplane Tenders, Light Carriers and Fleet Carriers.Light Carriers are much cheaper to run (close to cruisers) and Fleet Carriers are probably the most expensive.
When you build a ship, you basically put a different amount of each resource into the build and depending on what you put in you have different chances of getting different types of ships. Doesn’t seem to be a formula to it but people have come up with recipes that have fairly known chances of getting certain types of ship, for example 250 fuel, 30 ammo, 200 steel and 130 bauxite has around a 9% chance of a submarine and a small chance at Yukikaze or Shimakaze, otherwise it’ll be a destroyer or cruiser. Which one you get is random, so if you’re me then you’re sinking 600 steel repeatedly into attempts at building Battleships and never getting them 🙁
You can also build equipment. Same deal applies, only your HQ level and your flagship affect the chances of getting certain equips. Different ships have different numbers of slots for equipment. Usually they come armed at level 1 with 1-2 pieces, generally cannons or torpedos or aircraft. Once a given shipgirl gets high enough level you can Remodel them. They get a stat bump and in some cases may change class (eg at level 20 you can remodel Fusou-class Battleships into Aviation Battleships and they get offensive floatplanes). At remodel time your existing equipment gets de-equipped and they get new gear. Some of the ships have really rare equipment after remodeling, eg the Seaplane Tenders get midget subs.
To actually answer your question, from what I’ve seen if I log in in the morning and evening I have gained around 600 of each resource. That’s enough fuel and ammo to do all the PvP exercises (picks 5 other players fleets, 3-4 at your same HQ level and 1-2 at much higher, your ships can’t be sunk in PvP and are repaired back to full for free so you only ever need to pay resupply costs, great for boosting XP) and then do several sorties depending on which ships you send, which get damaged and so on. You can send your secondary fleets (you can have up to 4 fleets) on expeditions which basically cost a fixed amount of fuel and ammo and have a certain time, and at the end they return with resources, extra build, instant repairs etc. Haven’t done much of that but I imagine after a bit it becomes fairly efficient long term. If you only logged on once a week you’d be at the resource cap but you’d probably not get as far into the game as quickly – lots of resources would go over your capacity and be lost, you miss out on the high XP from PvP exercises and generally I think it’d feel a bit frustrating. Playing twice a day like I have been is probably too often, though it does give you two shots at the PvP stuff (refreshes every 12 hours) which can make it easier to complete some weeklies and dailies. Overall I think if you’re playing semi-regularly at least, you shouldn’t need to pay for anything.
I know i harp on about it.. but my god, you guys…
Doom & Destiny….
Soooooo gooood…
Already 12 hours in… ON A MOBILE GAME!!! WHO THE HELL SPENDS THAT KIND OF TIME ON A MOBILE GAME?!?!
I’ve spent more time then I care to say on Jetpack Joyride. =P
And that doesn’t even have a story!
That’s one of the only games that has ever made me motion sick. Can’t play it at all. D:
Candy Crush people? 😛
I said GAME – not something you go to rehab for.
Forget a bottle of water for that burn I need an ocean!
IGN: 75
Polygon: 45
Things are looking up for contrast
Fair warning: car talk.
So I may have the opportunity to get a demo 2013 Rav4 diesel for a pretty decent price. However, one thing I just don’t get: why is its brake towing capacity only 550? That’s rather low for this type of car…
EDIT: Actually, just found the answer. Toyota was “worried about Australia’s extreme climate” and therefore rated it really low here. Seriously, the exact same car in New Zealand is rated at 2000…
…
The important thing is that you tried …
Sportsball!
\o/
I thought this was a gaming site.
Diesel? Do you know the pro/cons? Rav4 is pretty cool.
@freezespreston
Clicked the link, ended up here:
http://imgur.com/gallery/tCFGjLe
Phoenix Wright Dual Destiny Club Nintendo survey:
“Why did you choose to download this game?”
Where’s the “Because some idiotic company wouldn’t release it physically” option?
ALSO HAS ANYONE FINISHED THIS
WE SHOULD HAVE MAD SPOILER DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT
I’ve only recently finished the first investigation in the second case! D:
I refuse to buy it because it’s digital-only and Nintendo are shit.
Also because I haven’t gotten around to the last 3 or so of them yet because the second game kind of killed the franchise a bit for me by being a bit crappy.YES
PLEASE
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR ALL MY LIFE
I like it!Me too! Blackquill was a pretty awesome prosecutor, however when Edgeworth appeared i lost my shit.And they started doing the OBJECTION!OBJECTION!
OBJECTION!
OBJECTION!
thing in quick sucession and it was like yessssssss
So, Apollo Justice return of Phoenix, 5: Edgeworth cameo, 6: Return of Maya???
considering we got pearl in this one, i find it very likely she’ll be coming back soon. also, apollo is the ultimate badass.Alright, it’s been a while, so let’s dredge this up…
THE LION KING
Critics are raving, they had this to say:
“Why Blaghs, if you organised a Meat to see The Lion King live on stage in Sydney, I would totes come, and I definitely said all this, definitely.” – D.C.
“Crunch. Smash. GGRRRDDDTTTHHUUDDD.” – A Rolling Stone
“Oh god, please be my friends and come see this with me. I’m so alone.” – Blaghs
Alright, so, as I’ve mentioned before, The Lion King stage musical is on in Sydney, and thanks to its ceiling, Capitol Theatre is the bestest place ever to see it. The show starts running in December, though all those tickets are long sold out, and is running until the start of May, I believe. So, I was thinking we could have a meat, and go to the theatre maybe some time in March, see a manly musical. Right now, I’m looking for anybody who might be interested in going (+whatevers are welcome), and what sort of timeframe would work best for them. Personally, I’m away January/half of February, but if you all decide you want to go then, well, I guess I’ll just cry a bit, though most of those shows are close to sold out.
I know this is still quite a way away, but these tickets do have a habit of disappearing, so I figured I’d try and get the ball rolling again.
Lion King is amazing. I saw it on Broadway and West End. So good.
As for me going to Sydney? Not going to happen. XD
You suck.
But you already agreed to it. Look, it says so right there.
You can’t back out now, it’s too late.
I’m known for my lies AND deceptions. *decisive nod*
But the rest of you? SHOULD TOTALLY SEE IT!
Don’t make me do a summoning circle!
Somewhat interest. What kind of moneys is it?
Oh, yeah, that’s reasonable. Uhhh, the cheapest seats are like $60 (plus additional fees because everyone hates fun), the decent ones are like $130 (The most expensive are like $200, but screw that noise). You can only buy a max of ten at a time, so depending on the numbers involved we could possibly split up into cheapskates and not, or something.
I thought @blaghman was paying for all of us?
I’m out.
😛I would very much like to see a manly musical with you, Blaghs!
Any time is fine with me as long as it’s on a weekend or after 6:30pm-ish if it’s on a weeknight.
I might be in on that…
I’d be really keen!
And March sounds perfect, so definitely keep me in the loop.
I’m interested, but honestly have no idea about how busy I’ll be around then. Keep me in the loop and we’ll see!
Hmm, I’m interested enough to keep abreast of developments.
Pervert.
GUYS. I’M POSTING THIS HERE BECAUSE IT’S LIKE 12 BASE COMMENTS UP OR SOMETHING AND WILL BE IGNORED, BUT THERE’S TOTALLY A WICKED TOUR IN MELBOURNE LATER NEXT YEAR. WHO WANTS TO GO TO MELBOURNE IN JUNE AND SEE WICKED? EVERYONE? GOOD PLAN!
Interesting. We were supposed to be giving mum tickets to that for her birthday a couple of years ago, but it was all around the time her dad was getting worse and worse and eventually passed, so nothing came of it.
Should mention it to my sister.
I have to say, I don’t give a shit about the Lion King, but I saw that show with my ex at the Capitol and it was really good.
“Name a videogame without the letter e”
I know at least three:
– Stunts
– You Don’t Know Jack
– Microsoft Flight Simulator
– Gran Turismo
– Black
– Jonah Lomu Rugby
– Dragon’s Crown
Can you guys think of any others?
Dark Souls.
Star Fox.
Luigi’s Mansion.
Final Fantasy.
Angry Birds.
Mario Kart.
Pac-Man.
Off the top of my head.
Final FantasyFinal Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy IV
DARK SOULS.
Edit: Damn it @saturday
Fine then.
DARK SOULS II
Mario Kart 7
Ms Pac-Man
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Flow
Star Wars
Aladdin
Also I just realized that you say you know 3, but then go on to list 7 games without the letter E in their title. WHY DO YOU LIE TO US?!
Limbo
Thought of more:
inFamous
inFamous 2
Fallout 3
Final Fantasy (insert number here)
and of course, F.3.A.R
Skyrim
Batman: Arkham Asylum (& City, & Origins)
Upvote for Stunts.
-Pharaoh’s Tomb
-Unirally
-Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts/Goblins
-Doom
-Starwing (:P)
-Lylat Wars
-Moon
upvote for Pharaoh’s Tomb!
I think you’re the first person I’ve ever come across in my life that knows what that is.
DID YOU KNOW THAT APOGEE FINALLY RELEASED ALL FOUR EPS AS FREEWARE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO? I randomly googled for it at some point and found that it had only just happened a month prior. I was so hyped. Same for the sequel, Arctic (Antarctic?) Adventure. And a bunch of others I’d never heard of.
yeah! I think I went and downloaded them all and then proceeded to not play them again, since I was sure they weren’t going to live up to nostalgia.
But oh man. So much fun. I don’t think my brother and I ever managed to finish even the first episode without using the level skip cheat.
I think I played through the whole of the first one, but then never got around to the rest of them for ages. Eventually did though.
Still gotta get around to playing the sequel though. One day.
(off the top of my head, popular ones)
Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins
Bastion
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Call of Duty: Black Ops (and II)
Limbo
Soul Calibur
Star Wars: X Wing
The Halo series (bar Reach)
Project Gotham Racing
Forza Motorsport
Morrowind Oblivion & Skyrim (if we ignore the part that says Elder Scrolls)
I’d argue that technically Halo’s title is “Halo: Combat Evolved” but you get in with Halo 2, which still doesn’t have an E in it even if you expand 2 to two.
True, I usually forget about the subtitle. I can’t use Anniversary either.
Portal.
Bioshock.
Brink.
Braid.
World of Goo.
Torchlight.
Saint’s Row.
Monaco.
Flatout
Burnout
Forza
World Rally Championships
SPAC MARIN!!!!!!!!!
VVVVVV 😛
By the same token,
aaaaaaAAAAAAAAhhhhhh!
Lufia
Yoshi’s Island
Ico
Far Cry
…
…
Assassins Crood.
Mario Party
Pitfall
Pong
Joust
…Edit point…
Galaga
Kung Fu
Maniac Mansion
Grim Fandango
Psychonauts
Hitman (only Contracts and Absolution if taking subtitles into account)
Madworld
Pikmin
Gothic
Ultima
Might and Magic
Forza
Rock Band
Dig-Dug
Galaxian
Galaga
man that could take a while.. think I’ll leave it at that!
This has been blown out of the water, but I just wanted to point to Blizzard, which also doesn’t have an e in it.
Diablo
Starcraft
Warcraft
World of Warcraft
That new LOTR game sounds really neat.
ALL ABOARD THE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC HYPE TRAIN
NOTHING STOPS THIS TRAIN except for periodic stops at ‘too good to be true’ and ‘goddamnit another cash-in with wasted potential’ stations.
I don’t think I’ve played a LOTR game since last gen (xbox, ps2 era I mean). The new one sounds pretty cool. Hopefully it’s good.
Do you hear that low whirring sound? That sound is JRR Tolkien spinning in his grave after reading the plot summary.
Sounds okay as a game but as a piece of LotR fiction it sounds like it fits in with canon about as well as a thirteen year-old’s furry Spock / Riker slash fanfiction epic fits with the canon of Star Trek.
Is slash the word of the week or something?
*picks up pen to write an instalment*
*is slapped by @dc*
“@dc looked down at Tolkien, as he spun in his grave, wicked thoughts spiralling through his mi-”
…
I think I’m going to stop this one here, as it’s already gone WELL beyond the creepy line.
EDIT: Nope, too far, too gross.
Perfect- if we butcher the world of LOTR enough we can hook up a generator to his grave to harness all that centrifugal power!
You’re unsuited for the rage of war so pack up, go home, you’re through…
“ping you are making me feel feelings so i am sending you away you beautiful, beautiful man”
So Nintendo are finally adding an account system to the 3DS!
Except… your purchases are still fucking linked to the system, you can only have one account per system, and transferring your account to another 3DS requires you to do a system & purchases transfer. So the only benefit is being able to use the same eShop cash on your single 3DS and your single Wii U.
Heaven forbid your system is stolen or breaks because you’re still going to be just as fucked.
It’s nearly 2014, how can Nintendo continually get this shit wrong? This is rudimentary stuff that has been solved for what, 15+ years by everyone other than Nintendo.
What are you talking about, friend codes are the greatest thing since sliced bacon.
Every time I add a friend to every other system I own, I wish I could have exchanged a 16-digit code with them instead. It’s clearly a superior experience.
Sometimes people say things like “Blaghman” and I’m all “Who’s that? …Oh, you mean 1848-1688-1172! Yeah that guy is kind of okay.”
Agreed, it’s dodgy as hell. Stupid thing is, they keep releasing new hardware, as special edition consoles, and wanting everyone to buy them even though there’s items locked to your original system.
It’s like ninty are still living in the hardware only times, but they accidentally an eshop.
I basically refuse to buy digital stuff from them when they can’t guarantee I’ll still be able to get it down the track on a different system. And with a lot of more niche stuff recently being digital-only that’s getting even worse. 🙁
And this is leaving aside the absolutely insane bullshit they do like encrypting all your saved games on removable media so they’re only useable on that system. Why the fuck would that even be an idea they entertained, let alone implemented?
I am convinced that Nintendo need to get out of the hardware business. Their actual hardware is shitty, their infrastructure is dysfunctional and their operating systems are clunky as fuck. Let people that actually know how to build this stuff handle the hard part and focus on what they’re actually good at doing. (
re-making the same four or five games over and over)Y’know, I honestly think all three companies are going to go downhill with OS optimization and all that jazz. Nothing like Day One patches to kickstart the new generation, amirite? Or do you mean general layout? Because, well, I’d need a bit of explanation for it all, aside from preference I don’t see how the 3DS/Wii U menus are clunky.
NINTENDO SHOULD MAKE MOBILE GAMESThe Day One Patch is because the systems entered manufacturing 6+ months ago and the OS has had extra development time.
Microsoft knows how to make operating systems that work. They’ve got lots of experience at it. Sony’s stuff is usually pretty functional but not necessarily awesomely usable. Nintendo meanwhile is a load of horseshit. How many patches did they need to make the Wii U system menus not take a million years between each screen? And as far as I know it’s still not fixed…
Ah, the difference between developing software and making hardware, I gotcha. Unfortunately, that only lends to the idea that the Xbone and PS4 were rushed in their release, which is pretty sad in itself.
But really, we could rag on about how shitty consoles are before patches- The xbone won’t even work out of the box without the update! But it’d just be nitpicking, although there is substance to the complaints. Also, the Wii U, has in fact been patched. The number of patches it took was pretty stupid, though. In the end, all three companies fucked up not having a shiny OS out of the gate.
The reason Xbone won’t work is because the OS that went to manufacturing was the version that expected you to connect it 24/7 to the internet, activate all your games online etc…
I’ll give em a trophy for “We didn’t do something extremely stupid.” I’ll put it right next to “Nintendo finally has HD graphics.” I also hear that the patch is to add in apps that weren’t finished in the first OS and to clean up the dashboard (which apparently is being hammered away straight until launch, because, y’know, THEY NEED THEM APPS.) But, y’know, I can’t remember the source where I got that from, so let’s brush that aside.
But, no, seriously, Day One patches are shit and all three companies are to blame. They really are, and they’re going to be common, and all that’s needed to solve them most of the time, is, well, more development time. If I had the shittiest internet on earth and I have access to the Wii U, PS4, and Xbone, chances are I’d stack the Wii U and Xbone to use as a fancy seat while I see what features would be gimped on the PS4.
I think the save encryption was to stop people from modifying game saves and stuff, as happened on both the DSi and, probably more famously, on the Wii – where modified Twilight Princess saves gave hackers a way to take control of the system.
Agree it’s shit though, especially since I’ve been fucked over because of it.
There are heaps of ways to prevent save game hacking without encrypting everything to the system.
I wasn’t aware of that encryption stuff mate, that’s a stuff up if I ever saw one. I bought a 3DS for pokemon y. It arrived a week before the game, so I bought Ocarina of Time off eshop as I want gonna be in town. Don’t think I’ll be buying anything else from them though.
As for them being involved in hardware, their ideas are good. A 3d capable handheld? Motion controlled games? Great ideas come from them to shake the industry up. Let them get these ideas, but have someone else implement them, that way common sense items make it into the designs alongside the quirky things.
3D has been a complete dead-end and motion controls ended up leading them to targeting old people and stuff and alienating a lot of the enthusiast market that supported them before that. I also expect that if they didn’t exist in the hardware space, you’d still see innovation in technologies, just not from Nintendo.
That’s a far out ‘what if’ idea. The Move and Kinect are both beautiful pieces of tech if not horribly flawed in their execution, but that shit would not exist without the Wii. Unfortunately, as it stands, Nintendo is the only one to bring the fresh ideas to the table, if not only because of necessity to survive in the current market.
Nintendo didn’t invent many of their technologies, they’re just good at packaging them sometimes. And they’ve had some colossal failures over time as well.
They’re good at making portables I guess.
EDIT: On your point, you could argue Sony paved the way for the Wii with the Eyetoy, and also the Wii’s motion controls are basically an interesting combination of Light Gun tech and accelerometers. So you could equally argue that the Wii’s shitty motion controls wouldn’t have existed without Sega.
Nintendo are not the only ones to bring fresh ideas to games. Just look at how much the industry was turned on its head by Apple, or how everything changed when Sega and then Microsoft took everyone online for multiplayer, or what a difference that Rumble motors made, or multi-touch screens, or the home console system in the first place.
The ideas Nintendo brought probably would have been invented by someone else in some form. A lot of them were kind of obvious and everyone was working on them simultaneously.
I’m sorry- when I mean “fresh” I generally mean it in the sense of “not being brought in the limelight” as opposed to outright inventing it.
Quite honestly, I agree that Sony and light gun games helped in the development of the Wii. So what? I’m not saying that Nintendo invented them- I’m saying that they helped further progression (if not only give attention) of the technology by bringing it into the limelight.
But really, man, that argument you pose at the end there?while “Company X would have invented this if Company Y hadn’t” certainly has logic behind it, it’s still heavily flawed for this conversation. Would Company X would have invented a better product than Company Y? In this case, would Sony have made the wii better than Nintendo? Would Sony have even released the Move at all without the Wii? Chances are, no, unless they either straight up dedicated Move to launch and not as a add-on and put heavy first-party support behind it like Nintendo, and that’s simply too large a risk for Sony or Microsoft. And even when Sony decided to enter the fray, it was half-assed.
For clarification, I ain’t arguing about the idea of Nintendo being gods that heralded a new age of motion gaming. Of course that shit’s wrong. I’m saying they took a step, albeit a very crooked one, but it was still a damn step when nobody else would.
Honestly, I feel that the one day Nintendo does catch up with the present, nobody will notice. There will be a solitary groan of ‘OH FIIINNALLLY, NINTENDO CATCHES UP WITH THE PRESENT,’ only for the angry grumbling to immediately shift about the failure of the Wii U.
Eh, but in the end they shouldn’t be rewarded for simply catching up.
The problem is that when they catch up to 2013, it will be 2030.
A clever marketing move by Nintendo to headline their next console having a unified account system as a feature.
Well if offline play can now be a feature…
That’s because we’ll all be too busy IN OUR FLYING CARS
Damn you, Blaghs. Now I’m listening to The Lion King Broadway OST again.
In your reflection, he lives in yooooooou…
I listened to the OST three and a half times this morning at work (I only have four albums on my phone at the moment, don’t judge me), and when He Lives in You would finish I’d repeat it a couple more times. Best at listening to albums.
My favourite part of the Broadway OST is the last forty seconds of King of Pride Rock/Circle of Life (Reprise)… goosebumps, man. Manly goosebumps. XD
Yeah, it’s pretty damn good. I know you’re probably sick of me harping on about it, but there’s a similar effect at the end of the Beauty and the Beast Musical, and it is rad.
Beauty and the Beast? This is the first I’ve heard of that!
Came out in the 90s
Also, apparently Hugh Jackman was the first Australian Gaston!
Just like Ellen!
@dc It’s no The Producers!
Apparently? Psshh, real fans (That being @cakesmith and I) saw him live on stage!
It’s annoying though, there is an Australian cast recording, but last time I checked it was nigh impossible to get a good version (you could either get like, 3 songs, or get most of the album, but it was at like 120kbps and was awful).
Huh, I totally forgot that I saw that as a kid.
Wonder if that was him I saw.
Maybe I should rewatch The Lion King before I go see the musical! Haven’t seen that movie in years and years.
Or maybe I won’t 😛
Can you still get it on blu-ray or has it gone back in the vault?
Pretty sure it’s still available. It’s so pretty on Blu-Ray. So pretty.
Yeah, I saw it in 3D in the cinema and was disappointed. All the colours were too dark and there weren’t any spectacular shots in 3D… but blu-ray, holy damn… so colourful. So beautiful. Definitely the best version.
One of my favourite tellings of this story
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7428
Girlfriends mum gave me some stuff called Rapigel. Farmers use it on horses and dogs… and also themselves when they have muscular pains.
Thought I’d give it a whirl. Did not wash hands thoroughly enough before my next number 1.
Its like animal strength deep heat.
Rookie mistake.
Same advice applies to chilies and Tiger Balm
I washed them I swear.
….But if this is what you get from a watered down version…. holey moley.
What an unfortunate name for a product…
Speaking of musicals: I was in Annie in high school, and it’s a hokey mess that I’d love to see updated.
But not like this.
Jay-Z is a producer so I’ll see it for the inevitable http://youtu.be/zxtn6-XQupM scene
Will Smith and Jay Z presents: Annie!
…
…wait, what?
Oh god, Having Will Smith involved in any form ensures Jaden Smith would be playing a role.
Willow Smith is Annie.
So we get to hear “Whip my hair back and forth” in the middle of it all.
Good enough.
Sung by the orphans
Were you the lead role? 😛
Eh, not redheaded enough.
I was President Roosevelt. Almost got put in a wheelchair for real getting the bloody thing off stage
TAYlist for the 14th of November 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by failing my driver’s test this morningPeter Andre – Get Down On It
Taco – Puttin’ On The Ritz (Requested by @FreezeSPreston)
Joan Armstrong – Drop The Pilot
The Smiths – Ask (Requested by @GingerChris86, The computer played this song when I didn’t want it to, I want my money back)
Prince – Raspberry Beret (I love this song, can’t help but sing along)
Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star (Requested by @Scree)
Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Scooby Snacks (Requested by @benny, of course it opens with the diner scene of Pulp Fiction, swearing is a great big no-no)
Hoodoo Gurus – The Right Time (Thank God You’re Here, anyone?)
Vitamin C – Friends Forever
Sir Mix-a-lot – Baby Got Back (Anyone ever played Fat Princess?)
Beck – Loser (Requested by @Rize)
The Black Keys – Lies (Requested by @35)
Pixies – Bone Machine (Requested by @DKZeitgeist)
Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down
Backstreet Boys – Everybody (Backstreets Back) (Requested by @cakesmith)
Elton John – I’m Still Standing
Foo Fighters – This Is A Call (Requested by @CrazyGuy1990)
Alas, I don’t have the time to spotify this!
I thought the swearing was edited out?
*Ah crap, the explicit version. Sorry about that.
The track was titled ‘Scooby Snacks – Album Version – Clean‘ It was decidedly not clean, the rest of the song wasn’t too noticeable with the swearing, just that Bunny was loud and clearly shouting ‘motherfucker’.
Next week we will go with something nice and friendly. No surprises.
I’m thinking Urge Overkill – Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon.
Hanson doesn’t have swearing.
http://open.spotify.com/user/1255130935/playlist/3HWQIAsnKq3ezsA2pDQ7xv
if you have Spotify, you should be able to paste this straight to the search bar: spotify:user:1255130935:playlist:3HWQIAsnKq3ezsA2pDQ7xv
A few songs are mysteriously missing from Spotify, I did the best I could. I was surprised that Lies by Black Keys was not available, so I replaced it with what I hope is a suitably unknown indie track for @35.
Aw man! Mad props to @gingerchris86 for The Smiths! Clearly a man of good taste!
I should probably start requesting the entire back catalouge. one song at a time :p
I was even more impressed that it wasn’t one of their more famous/popular songs!! You’re clearly a true fan! 😉
Did you see morrissey tour in December last year? ‘Twas an amazing show
No unfortunately not. I was unemployed and on the verge of homelessness back then 🙁
Got a big coffee from a coffee shop.
Got it back to the shop and poured a bunch if instant coffee into it.
@cj
All of my hat.
No comment
Well shit.
http://www.vooks.net/upcoming-3ds-update-wont-allow-eshop-region-changes-registering-nnid/
I didn’t think it was possible to tighten the region locking screws even further than they already were, but Nintendo found a way.
Fuck them completely. 🙁 After Bravely Default I think I’m going to be out completely. So sick of this sort of bullshit.
Oh glorious Internet! Never leave me again!
Also, this new connection is WAY faster than the one I had at home. I can actually load Youtube/iView/etc without waiting for it to buffer now 😛 If I’m getting this excited about ADSL2 then I think the NBN will make me explode.
[redacted]
Well, you may be waiting for a while for that.
Shall we have a Speedtest race? Hint: I’ll win.
I’m mean. 🙁
I’m at 4.71 up and 4.95 down at work
From memory home is a bit faster.
Ouch, you’d hope so, at least on the download!
I think it’s closer to ten at home.
0.3 down 0.08 up
ADSL2+ connection.
ouch
Wat
Absolute fastest I can get in my area.
It’s understandable being in the isolated rural area in the middle of the Gold Coast and all.
The copper in our area is beyond repair and Telstra won’t fix it due to “future uncertainty”.
Edit: When it rains we lose the phone lines completely.
That’s still not ADSL2+ and you shouldn’t be paying any speed premium for that.
So basically it’s typical Telstra shafting the customer, refusing repairs, saving all the money for when NBN gets put in one day? Joy.
Oh, I went right off and at the moment we’re paying $70 a month for unlimited everything (phone and internet). I was so happy the FTTP was coming but now I’m fairly certain we’ll end up with a FTTN that won’t even work in our area.
In fact, I’m browsing around, and there’s talk that the official Telstra minimum is 0.8mbps on ADSL1/2.
This is grounds for a tech support call. Keep pestering them. Get ombudsman if you have to. They have SLA’s, they will fix your stuff eventually.
Telstra reseller, not Telstra direct.
That’s so bad that I’m gonna down-vote you for potentially lying, or something. I dunno. D:
How do you exist?!
But in all seriousness, that’s either not ADSL2+ or something is majorly going wrong. Also I’m pretty sure it’s against QoS guarantee from your ISP, so I’d look into it.
The speed of my Internet is nothing to brag about, it’s just the Internet back at home was super slow 😛
Ha, just like with everything: it’s a miraculous leap forward! …Until you experience something better. 🙁
9,319 kbps Downstream
1,022 kbps Upstream
2.4 dB SNR
Decent, but being less than a click to the nearest exchange it should be so much better.
yeah, pretty decent. You’re right about the exchange bit.
So, uh, now would be a bad time to remind everyone that I’m already on an NBN connection?
With 100Mbps up and 40Mbps down?
Neato! Tidy!
WE KNOW *grumbles*
After @scree’s discussion of snow the other day (last week, the week before? Whenever it was), I figured I should dredge up a copy of something amazing.
My starring role in the 2009 Radford Snowsports team video opening thing, The Spy Who Gloved Me.
If you like truly bad puns, horrendous special effects, parodies of a James Bond film you probably haven’t seen, and the sexy sexiness of Goggle-Tan, then this movie is for you.
I don’t like any of those things! 😛
THEN YOU’LL LOVE THIS!
I haven’t even clicked through and I already want to upvote.
Ahahahahaha
Blaghs you so suave.
I’ve got a question Blaghs.
Do you pronounce your name like blah-man (with a silent ‘g’) or blag-man. I’ve heard people say it differently and I’ve never been sure. I say Blah-man. Am I wrong? D:
I say Blag-man, but since a lot of people go for Blah-man I’m happy to accept their pronunciation.
Now I know and knowing is half the battle! 😀
Thanks, man!
Super Mario 3D World is out this month? D:
I was thinking like a few days before Christmas or something.
What do people think about having another large pax after party?
From my understanding that’s what most TAYbies are going for! All the meats, all of the time!
Yeah, but I wanna know what people want to do too.
I like the idea of another Karaoke night, maybe not the same place if there is another one thats easily accessible.
But really, anything is cool as long as there are a group of awesome people involved 😀
I’d have to look at what is around the area
I’d be cool with doing it again. Maybe this time I won’t be old man Negs and want to go home and go to bed at 9pm. 😛
I was thinking maybe a Friday instead this time.
I’m up for it!
any suggestions?
Anything that isn’t just walking around the city for a couple of hours not doing anything.
…I don’t really know how to do things.
But… but… Walking around aimlessly is what Taybies do best! Why would you take that away from us?!?!
MONSTER!!
Brisbane TAYbies have perfected standing in a circle talking about where we should wander aimlessly too. It’s always JB Hifi. Always.
Oh man, don’t get me started on circles…
Will the circle be unbroken, by-and-by, oh, by-and-by…
Well from what I understand this year there was karaoke involved. So that’s at least a step up from what I ended up doing, which was just the walking and nothing else 😛 Can’t even remember there being much talking, if any at all.
Yeah there was karaoke.
I was looking at strike bowling as they also have bowling and laser tag if people wanted to do that
Hmm. Good for a regular meet, but I’m not so sure about one around PAX. Mainly because every time I’ve done laser tag it’s pretty much killed me and walking the next day was painful. Dunno if it’d be the best thing to do before a whole day on your feet. Or straight after one for that matter 😛
@mrtaco
It’s karaoke, Bowling and laser tag. We do not have to do everything =P It also does catering.
I’d be interested in a catch up on the Sunday. I plan to fly back that day/night.
A summary of my first ever online battle in Pokemon XY:
1. I send out Galvantula, he sends out Mewtwo.
2. I use Sticky Web, laying a speed-lowering trap for the game, he uses Psychic. Doesn’t kill me.
3. I use Bug Buzz, taking him down to 1/4 health left. He kills Galvantula with another Psychic.
4. Switch in Mega Mawile, use Sucker Punch and kill Mewtwo. As soon as Mewtwo faints, he immediately disconnects.
I guess he was hoping Mewtwo could carry the entire match? 😛
A win is a win 🙂
Here’s my first PROPER battle if anybody is bored enough to want to watch! Was a pretty fun one! I won’t tell you who won, it was very close. Might be still fun to watch though? I dunno 😛
JQNW-WWWW-WWW2-SY3F (put the code in your Vs. Recorder to watch!)
Nice battle. It was very close.
Totally watching this tomorrow. I might even make a pennant.
You just ruined some poor 8-year-old’s day 🙁
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World Fourth Session Recap 13th November 2013 starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
Introducing:
– Scrapper aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines.
Unfortunately absent:
– Adahn aka @transientmind the strong Jack who focuses mind over matter,
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions.
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel, and
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness,
And bidding farewell to:
Aura aka @negativezero the clever Nano who fuses flesh and steel. Aura’s latest implants and cybernetics have become finely attuned to a bizarre wavelength that only he can detect. He has diverted from the rest of the group to seek the source of this signal and perhaps find others who feel the energy the same way that he does.
(Author’s Note: I hope you liked that little bit of storytelling Negativezero. It should hopefully allow you to get back into the game at a later date if you are able to/want to.)
(Author’s Note the Second: Sorry for my roleplaying guys. I realise that it could eventually get us killed if I keep playing my character the way I have been so I’ll tone it down a bit.)
(Author’s Note the Third: Sorry for being so late with the recap.)
Last time on Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World, the party liberated the nearby synth garden from a pack of dangerous broken hounds and earned the respect and admiration of the townsfolk of Cylion Basin. At the same time, they were able to help Seria overcome the psychic presence that was intruding upon her mind. Seria said that this being seemed to come from a town in the north called the Embered Peaks. The party set off for the Embered Peaks that same day.The journey to the Embered Peaks was uneventful which was a welcome change of pace. It took the better part of a day for Blaghs, Nova, and Russef to travel to the Embered Peaks, during which time there was some gentle ribbing about Blaghs’ numerous bug bites that he suffered from bathing in the black pool. It was all in jest and, in no time at all, the party were standing at the edge of the town of Embered Peaks.
The town had definitely seen better days. While the solid sandstone structures were still intact, there were many broken windows and piles of refuse scattered about. As the party walked further into the town, they came across various groups of people. Some of the townsfolk were in bad shape, with bandages covering fresh wounds and some people moaning on the ground. Other townsfolk were openly brandishing weapons of various sorts, gathering into small gangs and looking menacingly at the other groups. So far, the party had not attracted any undue attention as all of the townsfolk seemed to be wrapped up in their own little worlds.
The party came to the centre of the town which was disturbingly empty. There was a building that was charmingly titled the Forum of the Dead which appeared to double as both the local council chambers and the crypts for the deceased, however there was no local enforcement or control happening at the moment. Adjacent to the Forum, the party spotted a series of cages that they assumed were used to house criminals. Russef decided to go and investigate these cells while Blaghs and Nova wanted to wander around town and see if they could find anyone that knew what was going on.
Russef ventured over to the cells and found a man sitting by himself in one of the cells with the door completely open. The man was muttering to himself and shaking his head but Russef could not quite make out what he was saying. When he approached the man, the man perked up and looked directly at him.
“I’m the only one that knows the truth of the universe,” he says. Russef asks him what he means and he continues his rant. “Lots of folks have a machine in their brain; you can see it when they talk.” Russef is quite unnerved by this man’s insane ramblings so he leaves the man alone in his opened cell.
Meanwhile, Blaghs and Nova were wandering the streets of Embered Peaks trying in vain to find someone who could help them. Nova overhears one person’s rambling where he was saying something about a dead, dark god and how he was going to kill those people across the street for looking at him funny. They quickly leave that group of individuals behind and they come across a man who is quite unperturbed by the surrounding chaos. This man has arranged a wide variety of gadgets, gizmos, and other pieces of technology in front of him and he is tinkering with a few of the items. A number of the gadgets appear to have originally been farming machinery of some sort but they have been heavily modified.
Blaghs approaches this man and asks him about what has happened to the town. The man responds by saying that he hasn’t really noticed much except that the townspeople have stopped giving him trinkets to improve and he has resorted to rummaging through rubbish bins for new technology to tinker with. Blaghs says that the town seems to have gone through a mass riot or something similar and this jolts the man out of his mechanical fixation. He gathers up his things and says that he would like to help the party solve this mystery as he would like the town to return to how it was. As the three men walk back to the centre of town, the mysterious tinkerer introduces himself as Scrapper.
The party meets back up with Russef in the town centre as a trade cart hurriedly trundles out towards the town’s exit. Russef explains that he had just spoken to that merchant who had no idea what was going on but that he was here when the violence started. Strangely enough, the merchant said that he was completely ignored and unharmed by the townspeople but he didn’t want to risk it anymore and left. Blaghs and Nova introduce Scrapper to Russef and now-enlarged party decide to speak to one of the least violent looking groups of people nearby.
As we approach this group of people, they seem to be in the same sort of haze that the man in the cell was. It wasn’t until we started talking that they paid us any attention and even then, they were struggling to concentrate on our words. Russef uses one of his gadgets on his gauntlet to detect the presence of any Numenera around these townspeople and they are registering in a similar fashion to Seria and her psychic abilities, although on a much weaker level. As this happens, this elderly woman with fleshy tendrils instead of hair grabs Nova and pulls him down towards him. She whispers in his ear,
“I’m the only one that knows the truth of the universe.” Nova looks this woman in the eye and notices that her eyes are clear for a moment before they become clouded again and she relinquishes her grasp. The party decides to back away from these townspeople before they turn violent and they are unsure what to do now. Blaghs asks where the leaders of this town are and Scrapper perks up saying that he hasn’t seen Magistrate Yurin for a few days now. Scrapper says that the Yurin used to come by and purchase a few curios every now and then however he tended to stay in the Forum of the Dead where his office was. The party ventures into the Forum to find out what happened to the magistrate.
The Forum is quite a large amphitheatre that descends down towards the offices of the council and the magistrate. When the party enters the offices, they find that everything is in disarray. There are papers scattered all over the place, furniture upturned, and a large amount of synth smashed on the floor. The party hears rummaging coming from the next room where they find a young man with shoulder-length blonde hair scurrying around the office, ineffectually attempting to tidy the mess. The man stops what he is doing and he turns to face the party.
“I’m sorry,” he says. “The magistrate can’t see you now as the councillors are dead. They will be back soon.” The man gestures for the party to leave the Forum as he returns to cleaning things up. The party is quite dumbfounded by his behaviour and asked him how the councillors were dead. The man repeated what he said earlier. “They will be back soon. The magistrate is busy and cannot see you now.”
As the rest of the party attempted to reason with the man, who identified himself as Charhill, Scrapper noticed a number of large pools of dried blood on the floor. When he pointed it out to Charhill, the young man was not fazed by that fact and said that the magistrate would fix everything when he returned with the councillors. Blaghs had had enough of this man’s behaviour and moved to restrain Charhill and escort him out of the room while the rest of the party examined the blood spots.
Nova decides that this would be a good opportunity to use one of his cyphers and he deploys a temporal viewer, a device that allows him to see the past for any period of time up to one year ago. He quickly manages to discern that the attack happened about three days during a council meeting. The councillors were standing around when the magistrate walked in wielding a bizarre staff-like object with what looked like a dagger fixed to the end of it.
“I will know the truth,” he says to the councillors and applies the staff to the forehead of one of the councillors who immediately drops dead with a strange black mark on his forehead. The other councillors do not react to this murder and the rest of them fall to Yurin one by one. He then begins dragging the bodies into another room when Charhill interrupts him. Charhill is quite aghast at the situation but Yurin reassures him that everything is fine and that he and the councillors will return soon. He tells Charhill that he will be quite busy and that no one is to disturb him. Yurin returns to dragging the bodies into a neighbouring room while Charhill busies himself attempting to clean the blood. The temporal viewer did not show anything of any further interest.
The party decides that they had better interrogate Charhill for some more answers. Every question that was asked was responded to in the same fashion:
“The magistrate is very busy and he will be back soon. He says everything will be fine when he returns with the councillors.”
Tiring of these fruitless questions, Blaghs applies a little physical pressure to his chokehold and demands that Charhill show us where the magistrate is. Charhill squeaks a little in terror but he reluctantly shows the party into the next room where he activates a floor plate that opens a hole that leads downwards into the crypts. He leads the party forward until they come across a door with a small mirrored panel on the wall next to it. Charhill leans into the panel and his lips touch the panel when he mouths a phrase. This seems to have activated some strange mechanism and the door opens as the stench of rotting flesh and death wafts out from the mortuary.
When the party enters the mortuary, they find a large, cavernous room that has a number of stone tables. Each of the tables has the corpse of one of the councillors on it and they are covered by a large purple cloth. Towards the far end of the mortuary, there is a man bent over one of the corpses with his ear next to the mouth of the corpse. The scene is disturbing enough as it is but it looks as though the corpse’s mouth is moving, as if it were saying something. No one in the party can hear it saying any words but everyone feels a slight buzzing within their heads. The man stands up suddenly and turns to face the party. Charhill is startled to see the magistrate in this room of death and he flees from the mortuary in fear.
Yurin steps forward, wielding the staff that he used to slay the councillors.
“Are you here to help me or hinder me?” he says to the party. The party is confused about his question and ask him what is going on.
“I don’t think Boregal will want you here. You should go.” The party asks who Boregal is.
“Boregal says that he can bring them back. He says they have the answers but they tell me nothing but lies. I ask them things they know but what they tell me is wrong. I have killed as many as I have dared and yet I still don’t have the truth.”
Russef perks up and repeats the mantra that the townspeople kept talking about.
“We know the truth of the universe.”
Yurin perks up at this. “Do you? Do you know the truth of the universe?”
“We can show you the truth,” Russef responds.
Yurin shakes his head. “I’m not sure you do. Boregal says that he can bring them back. Boregal says he has a resurrecting machine. They were supposed to tell me the truth but they only tell me lies.”
“Where is Boregal?” Nova asks.
“He’s here. He’s always here,” Yurin says as he gestures towards a doorway off to the side of the room. “You say you know the truth. Well, perhaps Boregal can show you,” Yurin grabs a vicious-looking tool that looks like a saw blade attached to a stick, “or I can get it out of you.”
The party cautiously follows Yurin through the door down the side passageway until they come to a large, triangular-shaped room. In the centre of this room and covering up almost half of the room is a large gelatinous mass that looks like hundreds of small, round globes that are mostly black but with a bright red colour in the centre of them. There are numerous wires and cables coming from the walls of the room going into the mass to do something that the party cannot quite understand. The mass doesn’t react to the party’s presence but the buzzing sound they heard in their heads before has returned and it is louder and more frantic. The party feels like whatever is making the sound is panicking.
Yurin hands the saw-blade tool to Nova. “You must use this to speak with Boregal or kill him. Only you can do it.” Yurin points out a seam that runs along the gelatinous mass that Nova should cut. Scrapper starts backing away from the mass as he thinks something bad is about to happen. Russef manages to remember some knowledge about the Numenera and he explains to the party that these blobs are being controlled or drawn to a psychic entity that is most likely at the centre of the mass. If the party either removes or destroys the source of the psychic power, the gelatinous mass would dissolve and the psychic power that is emanating would be eliminated.
Nova wields the saw-blade tool and cuts straight along the seam that Yurin pointed out. The blobs part easily and they start to recede from the blade. There, in the centre of the now shrinking mass, is a petrified brain. The psychic signals pound out strongly for a moment before being silenced and the brain falls to the floor as the gelatinous mass that was suspending it dissolves. The party feels a psychic pulse come out from the brain and a whole manner of material starts forming up around the brain. The brain starts to form itself a homunculus body made from pieces of technology, mortician tools, and parts of the gelatinous mass. The brain settles into the centre of the body’s stomach while a featureless head looks directly at the body.
When the body has finished forming, the mouth of the construct opens and starts spouting the same lines that the townspeople have been speaking.
“Imtheonlyonethatknowsthetruthoftheuniverselotsoffolkshavemachinesintheirbrainsyoucanseeitwhentheytalkiknowabouttheirdarkgodandimustkillthemimtheonlyonethatknowsthetruthoftheuniverse –“
“We know the truth!” Nova yells out.
The construct stops jabbering and his attention focuses on Nova.
“You do not know. You are lying. Only I know. Only Boregal knows! You are here to take Boregal away. You are wrong. I just want to be free. You do not know –“
Nova tries to reason with Boregal again. “We’re here to help. We’re trying to help a little girl and we can help you too.”
“Yes I felt it. I feel all the animals and I felt another. Another like me. I tried to reach out. To be a friend. And you are here! You want to keep me locked up! I just want to be free!”
Boregal was getting quite agitated and it looked like it was about to lash out. Russef feared the worse and drew his crossbow which made Boregal even angrier.
“I knew it. You want to hurt me. To keep me locked away. You don’t want to help. You want to destroy. To hurt. To imprison me.”
“We’re not going to hurt you,” Nova says. “We can help you. We can let you out.” Nova stands aside to show Boregal the exit of the chamber. “We won’t hurt you.”
“Freedom?” Boregal asks. “At last, I never thought I would be free.”
The anger and torment that seemed to be sustaining Boregal was let go and Boregal homunculus body slowly began to melt into the floor, releasing all of the materials that had been absorbed. The petrified brain that was Boregal also fell to the floor and the psychic ambience that had been in the room subsided with Boregal’s body. Blaghs went up to Boregal’s brain and safely contained it within an intact synth preservation globe. Blaghs did not feel any violent thoughts emanating from Boregal; he was finally at peace.
The party scoured through the materials that had been left behind when the gelatinous mass had dissolved and they had discovered quite a trove of valuable pieces of Numenera:
– 1 small exploding arrow
– 1 small ceramic sphere that contained a corrosive substance (Level 3 cypher)
– A medallion that projects an environment field emulating temperature and climate which will sustain people within a certain area for 28 hours
– A wearable ring that contains a syringe holding a special type of poison that deals 3 points of Intellect damage
– A small adhesive patch that restores (x) number of Might points
– A remote viewer that can be attached to a wall and can be viewed through another viewer from any distance for a short period of time
– A small synth cone that project a light breeze
– A gemstone set in a small device that, when placed close to a person who is asleep, will cause that person to begin dreaming about their favourite food
– A synth staff that with a metal rod attached at the end that discharges an electrical shock that inflicts 3 points of Speed damage and stuns the victim. The staff has a 1 in 10 chance of depleting that in-built charge
After the party searched through the remnants of the room and Blaghs safely secured Boregal and a suitable souvenir for Phetys, the party make their way back to the mortuary where Yurin has returned to listening to the dead.
“They no longer tell me anything,” he says to the party. “You must have shown Boregal the truth. I understand. Excuse me, I must tend to these bodies and prepare them for a proper burial.” Yurin returns to tending to the corpses of the councillors and the party decides that he was not at fault for his actions due to his proximity to Boregal.
As the party ascends out of the crypt and returns to the Forum of the Dead, they find Charhill in a daze and unsure of his surroundings. He asks the party where the magistrate and the councillors are and the party attempts to explain what happened. Charhill is incredibly distraught by this news and he tells the party that it would be better if they left Embered Peaks. The party decide to take his advice and they leave immediately. The townspeople have regained their senses and they are attempting to figure out what happened. While they recognise that something was afflicting their minds and that the party managed to cure the town, they are embarrassed that they had to be seen in such a state. The townspeople acknowledge the party as they pass by but they do not rush out to praise their saviours and they merely watch as the party begins the trek away from Embered Peaks.
The party has rescued the town of Embered Peaks and resolved the mystery of the psychic entity that was afflicting the region. While the people may not know what the party accomplished they are true heroes of the Ninth Realm. But where to now for our heroes? Does greater adventure lie in the vastness of the Beyond? Or does their fortune lie to the west, in the great kingdoms and dominions of the Steadfast? And what souvenir did Blaghs acquire for Phetys? Tune in next time on Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World.
CoD: Ghosts for the PS4 comes out in Australia tomorrow according to the message I just got and confirmed in store by EB.
Whhhhhhhhyyyyyyyy??????
Right? AssCreed is out on the Nineteenth, I think, so I can, what, put it on my shelf for 10 days?
I’ve been at my parents house for a week and I’ve come home to find a big wet patch on my living room carpet. No wonder my flat smelled really damp when I opened it up.
My local DSE store had the PS4 demo stand. Here are my thoughts.
Standard demo stand, with 32in Sony TV and two controllers, plus the Eye camera. Console set to demo mode or something, with a bunch of stuff showing off the Eye and the touch pad on the controller. I actually didn’t know they had more stuff on it until the second time I went around with my gf.In the ‘game’ section they had a bunch of stuff, including Killzone, Knack, etc. You click on that, opens up a description, with maybe video clip or trailer. Knack had a playable demo (like 5 games listed, I checked 3) so I fired it up.
Load time was pretty slow IMO, but still decent I guess considering it was loading the whole game and level from the menu. Visuals looked nice and were sharp – I wasn’t impressed, but satisfied. They actually had anti-aliasing turned on, and looked like 1080p, so this was pretty sweet. Game was running at probably 30fps, as you could see the lag when panning camera. Graphics were kinda Darksiders1 looking, with fewer elements on the screen and effects. It was the demo, so not sure what final will look like. Kinda like an adult Skylanders for next-gen, that kinda look?
Shadows were much better than current-gen, but at that distance to the TV they weren’t really great and quite pixellated. But, I guess this is the sacrifice they made to give AA, which has far more of an impact at a standard 40inch+ lounge room distance. Jaggies suck.
Gameplay was very demo-ey: Jump, punch, and I got a transformation after 5 mins. Impressions of the game are that it is quite fun, more casual, and should be a 60-80% cost game as compared to AAA-release. But alas, that was the demo.
These Humble Bundles are making me a cheap, game-greedy bastard. So I know most of you already have them, and could obtain them for US$4.69 currently, but if anyone’s cheaper than me and wants Batman Arkham Asylum and City PC for free – shout out. I already have them.
The Batman thing was pretty well-received. Seemed quite unexpected, and earnt me a hug 😛
You’re such a pimp.
Source pl0x? I missed this important development.
End of previous page.
Not particularly important though 😛
Wait I lied. Page before that.
@dc
We are now up to date with Treme! Only five eps left… ever 🙁
We’ve got Mad Men Season 6 DVD (with current 20% off sale at JB, came to $29) and SoA Season 6 to watch, and then we’ll be watching Treme Season 4.
Shane, I was just watching Treme a few minutes ago wondering if you have watched. Probably at the very time you were posting this. WEEEEEIRD.
A nice end to the season though. More understated than last time. Lots of interesting arcs.
Liked the whole Annie thing this season too with the:
Taking credit for Harley’s song. Also good to see things work out for Sonny. How good was the studio version of This City as well?So much great stuff. Mrs Shane commented that it would have been an okay ending if Season 4 had never happened. I argued a bit at first, but now agree with her. All the ups-and-downs of life, the complexities and complications, the dreams that worked out in some fashion (Janette, Annie), the ones that didn’t (Davis, LaDonna), and the ones that turned sideways and took the characters places they never thought they’d get to (Antoine, Sonny).The shot of Obama getting elected in the dying seconds of the episode kind of underpins the whole thing with a bizarre irrational impossible kind of hope, though the rest of the episode was dealing with the cruel inertia of a corrupt system.
And I’ve long since stopped being surprised by these coincidences! 🙂
http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/as-treme-refrain-ends-creator-david-simon-sings-tv-blues-1200803211/
Did you read this? Posted this on TAY while you were in Brisbane!
David Simon’s thoughts on the golden age of TV and how stories need to get away from certain elements of storytelling. Makes a lot of sense.
Thanks, yep, I read it on my phone! Great article.
Edit: Though that link just took me to a spam antivirus page this time around :\
It’s so cute when couple’s thoughts start synching up.
Won’t be long before you start finishing each other’s sentences.
SANDWICHES!
Whatever you do. Don’t tell Freeze about that time on Sunday night when we both said “Brisbane was known for its quickness” at the same time.
Are you referring to yourself with the royal “we” now? Geez, I know DC likes you but I didn’t think it would give you that big of an ego.
Should watch Orange is the New Black sometime too!
Looking at what we’ve got queued up, I think we’re booked right through New Year’s. But yep, it’s on the list.
New season is q1 2014. If you play your cards right you might be able to go straight onto the second season after you finish the first!
If we waited until Q1 2015, we could watch three seasons back-to-back 😛
I’m considering setting up a multiplayer session of Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition sometime this week.
Would anyone be interested?
Xbox 360 + 4 games = $249
PS3 + 3 games = $399
Bit of a price difference there.
That buy or trade-in value?
Buy price at EB.
They offered me $12 for my 360…
Oh. Oh. Twelve whole dollars? I hope you jumped on a deal that breathtaking!
I’ll take it if you pay me $12 😛
wut.
wut.
I don’t even…
That’s pretty fucking ridiculous, even for EB.
It is one of the launch white ones. I’m sure a slim would command a much higher price.
Are you looking to part ways with it? I’m looking to pick one up so my wife and son can play Disney Infinity and I can play RDR. I’ll pay you more than EB!
A little over a month ago I bought some Blurays, the first 3 seasons of SoA, and 4 movies. One of these movies was a film called True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon & Josh Brolin.
Anyway I’m having trouble sleeping, so I go to watch it, and to put a long story short, in 1969 John Wayne starred in a western called… True Grit. Guess which disc the girl put in my case?
I’m hoping that I can just take the case & disc in to the same store and explain what happened, cause I’m fairly certain I threw the receipt out some time ago.
The original is still a fantastic movie though.
The remake is great as well.
Yeah I don’t mind a bit of John Wayne every now and then, but was a little disappointed to find that was the version I was given.
For westerns I always preferred Eastwood’s spaghettis.
John Wayne won the Oscar for the original
Final Kantai Collection Update No One Cares About for the week as NZ will be in NZ for a long weekend.
– Leveled my Yura (my first non-destroyer ship drop when I first began playing!) to 20 and upgraded her to Yura Kai for added anti-submarine warfare (her Kai version has some of the best ASW stats in the game). Shame the current event will probs be over by the time I get back from NZ and I won’t have time to blow the crap out of some enemy subs.
– Leveled my I-168 to 10 and she finally gained the ability to fire torpedos during normal combat and started sniping the shit out of destroyers in the opening phase and getting MVP. Feels good.
– Gave up on ever getting another Battleship via crafting and ran the second world a few times. With a decent fleet now I’m finding the 2-2 isn’t too bad, haven’t tried 2-3 yet but will do so when I get back. Battleships can drop from these zones sometimes so might be time for some grinding.
– Discovered that 2-2 contains the transports I need to kill 3 of for a daily quest. I’d been wondering where they were hiding.
Still addicted. 🙁
I’m starting to understand more of these words. This game sounds compelling.
Can’t stop playing. I suspect its basically pokemon with ships that are girls.
This South Park episode is great.
Almost finished downloading… I forgot about it, it hasn’t been in my weekly download list this season, will have to remember for the last few episodes!
Wait. Kyle and Cartman are friends now? I haven’t watched it in a while.
They’ve completely thrown out any character continuity at this point in favour of whatever serves the plot at the time.
It’s not like it used to be.
http://img7.joyreactor.com/pics/post/comics-syacartoonist-insomnia-205317.jpeg
Aww yiss today we gonna get some PS4 bombas. Hopefully.
Tomorrow I am just going to stroll on my break at work upstairs to the second floor of the Target where I work and hopefully grab a PS4. Wish me luck.
Also, Dota gets a damn neat patch (with Diretide,) and Planetside has had a massive optimization I’m raring to test. So sad there’s no TS server for TAYbies these days.
… We have a TS server. Buzz me on steam, brosephine.
Well. Now don’t I look like a fool.
Well.
WELL.
Yes, yes you do.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-250/comment-page-7/#comment-2130829
Hhmph.
I’d forgotten about that too… I should get on more often
Okay, I’ve been doing some thinking… and you can disregard my original idea 😛
True story.
It’d be wise to get his approval in some form first. Accepting help at complicated times can be tough.
While he’d be touched by the thought I’m not entirely sure he’d want or need it.
Surely there aren’t people out there that are going to choose a console based on the boot time.
Right? ….right?
Especially when the promise of a 13 second boot is just for one console.
What about all the other Xbox Ones?
Hey, if the PS4 takes 2 seconds longer and you add it all up that’s like half an hour subtracted from my life over time while waiting for my video game console to boot up and who had time to waste like that? Not gamers that’s for sure.
Hmm, that’s 900 boots, which is once every second day for about 5 years.
Maths checks out. PS4 for me, pls.
Edit: maths.
I know I’d be happier with a console that got me into the game in five seconds than one that got me into the game in a minute.
Dunno if it would necessarily make me choose one over the other, but I’d sure appreciate it.
So I asked last night but I didn’t get much of a response, so I will ask again.
Do people want to do another big meat up after pax again? What day should we do it and what activity should we do? (restaurant or something else)
Tuesday at an adult bookstore.
Is everyone over 18?
Tuesday’s coming. Did you bring a coat?
EDIT: In the context of your message I just realised how dirty this sounds.
I live in a giant bucket.
My spoon is too big.
#contributing
Yes.
Thursday Pre PAX dinner and drinks
Friday Dinner
Saturday: The big one. Karaoke again could work or something similar
Sunday: Post pax dessert fest
If we do karaoke again and this one becomes the biggest PAX meat ever with even more people than last time, I don’t know if Rainbow Karaoke bar will let us all in, considering that we were basically at full capacity for that room we reserved last time.
I’m definitely keen for another big meat (heh).
I’m keen for anything, but as a suggestion – apparently there is a beer hall in Melbourne called the Hofbrauhaus. Would be cool for something different? Maybe I can give myself gout again.
If I’d like it half as much as the Bavarian, I’d vote for this.
Dude, come to Sydney again. I’m taking you to the Lowenbrau.
Lowenbrau is also a beer. :O
I spend 14 hours at the Lowenbrau tent at Oktoberfest. Nectar of the gods.
Yes.
Yes, however I haven’t been to Melbourne for many years, so I can’t think of any suggestions. Sorry!
Yes yes, would like to meat and eat meat.
Yesterday, I took my con money to the bank. Turns out that Supanova was my most lucrative con to date.
Edit: cut out the maths bit because I just shouldn’t do maths.
Nice work, a few more and you can become a lucrative full time con man it it keeps trending this way
I should have added that rather than being legitimately profitable, it was merely less unprofitable. A few more and I will have to take on another job to pay for it 😛
Shane’s clearly been hanging around @dc way too much.
All these edited posts…
Quiet, you.
Edit: just for a joke, I added this edit in.
HAPPY FRIDAY, EVERYONE!!!
Just today, monday and Tuesday, then i’m off to prepare for my pending nuptuals then off to noosa the week after for honeymoonin!
Awwwwwwww yeeaaaah!
…can I go too?
Can you fit in a suitcase?
I could be the suitcase!
You just want me to stick things in you, don’t you.
That can be arranged 😉
Part one of nuptial prep: learn to spell “nuptial”
😛EDIT: Because apparently we’re editing our posts this page?
*stern kick to the nuts*
CORRECT ME, WILL YOU?!
SPAC MARIN
\o/
Noosa is really nice. Shame you won’t get to see any of it.
Unfortunately I’ll be seeing plenty – part of the aftereffects of bee going to hospital the other week is we’re not allowed to have any special adult time for at least a month.
It’s killing me 😐
Also, Noosa is where i proposed to her, hence why we’re going back. Mannnn it’s SO nice there 😀
CAN. NOT. WAIT!
Have fun, man! Mrs Shane was six weeks pregnant when we finally got around to honeymooning. We actually got to see lots of Tasmania!
… Trying to work if Euphemism or…. 0_o
Actually, this was a rare serious post. Treasure it.
I’ll treasue it like it was my own.
This time round in Noosa should be pretty great – last time we did a lot of the “activity” stuff, so this time will feature a lot more of the chill stuff like picnics and the such.
Plus Bee has booked a sunset Gondola ride.
So Gangsta! 😀
aah, nice, just remember everything in Noosa is closed by like 8pm on weekends. Me & my girlfriend were there a few years ago, on a saturday night we went to the pub at about 7pm and we were the only people in the entire building other than the 1 employee, he kicked us out by about 7:45 cause he wanted to close, we then decided to get food and the only thing we found open was a pizza place that was about to close when we arrived and we convinced them to make us one last one. Very relaxing place if you’re prepared though ::P
Apparently the Fable re-release is going to be rated R18+ because if you have sex you can have a child which is apparently an incentive.
Ummmmm … okay …
I mean, maybe it’s just me because I’m a heartless monster and children scare the crap out of me. But I don’t think the classification board realises what the word “incentive” means.
Humans multiplying is an incentive? Eww.. 😛
That’s … a pretty bizarre interpretation, and a strange (hi @strange) decision.
And I’m perfectly happy to accept the definition of children as incentive.
Zelda has hardcore gambling issues, children are encouraged to bet all their money to have a very slim chance of winning something. BANNED IN AUSTRALIA.
Vegas Stakes for the SNES was rated G.
God only knows what rating it would get today 😛
Yeah, I think it’s truly bizarre. Especially because usually they just have a problem with the sex being the reward for something, not “rewards” resulting from sex.
As a parent of an almost 13 year old girl I’d have zero problem with her playing the game. If anything, the Fable games are the most responsible depiction of sex in games I’ve seen.
What I learned in Fable 3 about wooing women: Constantly Dance with them, clap their hands like a child, or shake their hand for an awkwardly long time and they’ll ask you out on a date. Obviously this didn’t work for me when I tested this in the real world… you humans are a strange race 😛
Actually, the dancing isn’t necessarily a terrible approach.
I got a wife in Fable2 by constantly dropping my guts in front of strangers…
ADULT SITUATIONS, LIEK HAVING THE BABBIES.
D=
I NEED AN ADULT!
Incredibly boring repetitive IT tasks are always made better with music. Feels Just Like It Should just came on, and suddenly this data entry became pretty great.
Lifehacker or someone did a ‘best typing playlist’. I… don’t know if that may help. 😛
I listen to Rainwave, a collection of game music, chiptunes and remixes like a radio station, pretty cool stuff
http://all.rainwave.cc/
The girls here in our shared office listen to the radio. I hear Katy Perry’s Roar literally ten times a day – not so great.
I remember having that issue when I worked as a stock picker… you hear the same song over and over and over… urgh, I don’t miss that at all
Neither do I, mind numbing. But you robuts like repetitive tasks and such!
Why you think I play LoL so much? It’s the same darn map and I’m meant to destroy their nexus! 😛
My son loves that song. I hear it ten times a day as well. Thankfully it’s just him singing it in his cute little boy voice instead of the actual song. 😀
My 2 year old niece was alternating between that and Indonesian nursery rhymes when I saw her the other day. Thankfully I had that explain as I had no idea what was going on
Good god if I have to hear Roar one more time I will lose it. My eldest is obsessed with it and has it on repeat whenever she is home and when not she’s singing it repeatedly.
yep, i do a lot of data entry and I don’t think I’d make it through some days without music
Repost because no one saw it. 🙁 [Or just wasn’t interested]
My local DSE store had the PS4 demo stand. Here are my thoughts.
Standard demo stand, with 32in Sony TV and two controllers, plus the Eye camera. Console set to demo mode or something, with a bunch of stuff showing off the Eye and the touch pad on the controller. I actually didn’t know they had more stuff on it until the second time I went around with my gf.In the ‘game’ section they had a bunch of stuff, including Killzone, Knack, etc. You click on that, opens up a description, with maybe video clip or trailer. Knack had a playable demo (like 5 games listed, I checked 3) so I fired it up.
Load time was pretty slow IMO, but still decent I guess considering it was loading the whole game and level from the menu. Visuals looked nice and were sharp – I wasn’t impressed, but satisfied. They actually had anti-aliasing turned on, and looked like 1080p, so this was pretty sweet. Game was running at probably 30fps, as you could see the lag when panning camera. Graphics were kinda Darksiders1 looking, with fewer elements on the screen and effects. It was the demo, so not sure what final will look like. Kinda like an adult Skylanders for next-gen, that kinda look?
Shadows were much better than current-gen, but at that distance to the TV they weren’t really great and quite pixellated. But, I guess this is the sacrifice they made to give AA, which has far more of an impact at a standard 40inch+ lounge room distance. Jaggies suck.
Gameplay was very demo-ey: Jump, punch, and I got a transformation after 5 mins. Impressions of the game are that it is quite fun, more casual, and should be a 60-80% cost game as compared to AAA-release. But alas, that was the demo.
Yeah but how did it feeeeeeel? 😛
See below. 😛
I read the first post, very detailed and informative with the PC jargon – I liked it. I think I upvoted it? Will be sticking to PC however. Not psyched at all for next-gen consoles.
Correction: did not upvote your previous one so I will for this one.
I forgot to talk about the controller!
I like it, seems much more comfortable than the DS3. Hard to tell with the corded security stuff, but the longer sides definitely helped my largish hands to cradle the controller better. The sticks are much better – deadzone reduced, the contour of it means it’ll never wear out, shorter height, shorter throw. L1/R1 buttons will take some time to get used to as they are much firmer, at least as firm as DS3 d-pad. Triggers are finally actual triggers; nice steady force throughout the travel. The concave shape helped a lot to keep finger stready. The touchpad was interesting. The button click worked okay (nothing to use it) but the actual touch screen wasn’t as responsive as I hoped, considering the small size of it didn’t help either.gog.com have the remake of the rise of the triad remake for $7.50
Only 40 copies left, so you maybe have a couple of minutes to get on it!
Go! Go! Go!
Get it!
@everyone
@shane I finished The Lesser Evil last night. I shall now review it in doge form.
Such character. Much style. Most emotion. Favourite Stan. Pretty tech. Layers like onion. That twist. Wow.
Seriously though, that was a very good story and I really enjoyed it. I haven’t really read a serious graphic novel before and your writing and your art style was really superb. Now on to the next books. 😀
I really need to get his latest work, surprised I haven’t done it yet
Thanks, my friend. Really glad you enjoyed it! (I always worry a little and guilt out about selling books to people, especially friends.)
At the risk of asking for too much, if you put pen to internet and tell Amazon what you think of the book, your words shall be immortalised both there and in soundbite format on my website.
Also, anyone who reviews The Lesser Evil has a chance to win a digital copy of Peaceful Tomorrows #1 when it comes out (probably not so big an incentive for you, though, I suppose).
My favourite is Stan, too!I shall get on that when I get home. 🙂
Thanks, man. And after you’ve read all the books, I’ll be happy to recommend some graphic novels that are actually good!
Only con with the story: Lack of puns 🙂
Hear that, @dc? If you want some Shane words without punny times, you should totally read the books 😛
Then Shane slips in a new recurring character for his next book, the robot servant that loves using puns in his conversations 😛
I… have to do this now.
He does write a good collection of funnies.
Hi all.
Anyone else get massive slowdown on the front page due to the excessive use of gifs for the main image of articles lately? Seems to be almost every second article has a gif nowadays and when 3 or 4 are lined up, my ipad slows down like crazy…….
Is there a Kotaku Minecraft server these days? I’ve been quite productive this morning…
and I’m scared.
Nah, I think that got closed ages ago. Actually, I think @gorzilla may still have a server.
I think @zetrox2k had one going and the plan was to keep it up a few months but I only visited it once and I forget how long ago that was.
The last one I put any real investment in was the Potaku one.
mines still running steveo 198.24.178.178:25602
ill log in now and restart the map however cause no one has bee on for ages, and that new update was MASSIVE
Myself and some friends are planning on getting back stuck into it this weekend…
Done update, up and running…. i can import Laputa back into it too if you like…
IT’S FRIDAY! TIME FOR SOME SELF SERVING INANITY!!!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/11/15/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e03-all-over-the-shop/
LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, TELL YOUR BROS/SIS’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S’S
Oh man, @dc is not going to last long this week!
Edit: that ending… hahaha 😛
For once we had comedic timing.
Bros and sises.
What’s that?
You want a t-shirt, hoodie, baseball 3/4 sleeve shirt or sticker with my face on it?
WELL TODAY’S YOUR LUCKY DAY!!!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/dandkzeitgeist/works/11098235-dan-and-karls-zeitgeist-zacchary
ORDER NOW PEOPLE! THEY WILL BE SOLD OUT FOR DANUARY!
That is scarier than a tee with ‘Feels kids’ on it.
w00t!
Neutral Milk Hotel were pretty damn amazing last night.
hows things with you lot?
How ’bout that Prometheus! GREAT MOVIE!
you suck. almost as much as that film.
Edit: also, that means I”m gonna have to stop flirting with you :p
I think it’s for the best, 35. I think it’s for the best.
Wearing a full suit on a Friday because of some function I’ve been roped into. Sure, it’ll probably be really informative and a great networking opportunity, plus there’s lunch, but… I’m wearing a SUIT on a FRIDAY, damn it.
At least you look classy.
WHOA! Blink and you miss it on gog.com
There goes System Shock 2 right before my eyes! I didn’t even see the price!
Has anyone seen that the Psvita has come down in price again? (maybe this is old news)
but I noticed that vita with Killzone is only $199 at JB hifi
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps-vita/playstation-vita-3g-wifi-console-bundle-killzone-mercenary/695544
Yep, you’re right, but it doesn’t come with a memory card, so add (for example) $44 for an 8GB card.
Or 85 for a 32 D:
My savings…my precious savings
yeh but you can get the the memory cark and game pack for $42
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps-vita/ps-vita-8gb-memory-card-mega-pack/685648
That game pack changed. It was 10 games (some demo-ey, showcasing Vita hardware) including LBPV, Motorstorm, some others. It’s now Disney themed with Epic Mickey 2 ($20 value) and some other stuff. YMMV according to store location.
Wishing I’d played Max Payne 3 on PC now. Having a hell of a tough time in certain areas, even on Normal.
When you’re in the stadium with the sniper rifle, and you’re saving Pessos from being obliterated in the stands, this is the time I wish I had my trusty keyboard and mouse. On top of the right-stick aiming there’s the added effect of the delay of using the sniper rifle AND the grunts could be coming from the left, right or below.Also as you mentioned previously @shane, you just don’t get any time to really take it all in and just walk around. You need that to get all the clues and parts scattered around. Minor gripes really, but the story still has be by the scruff of the neck which makes it worth it.
One thing I noticed on my third attempt in that part is
You can use bullet time. In fact, you almost have to.That didn’t even cross my mind! I’ve barely used it to be honest. Only in the sections where you’re forced to.
(i.e. the collapsing water tower on the top floor of the building in Chapter 4).I just plain forget to use it in most cases, too busy trying to get good cover.
Me too! I figured it would be useful advice 🙂
I would have preferred being able to get out of sniper scope, that would have helped a bunch!
I didn’t get past the bit that stadium bit. Even once I got a handle on where all the guys were rushing in from, the hit detection seemed way off and I kept failing for what seemed like arbitrary reasons. I wound up rage-quitting after the 5th failure and I can’t be bothered going back.
I gotta admit, I got real lucky after several attempts. The real issue is that once you miss one, it’s real tough to get back on track. Then you panic and waste a whole bunch of bullets hoping one connects. I was able to work out the order after that many goes at it.
Absolutely love the avatar
#Notbeingrelevanttothisconversation!
I had flashbacks the other day of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and laughed stupidly hard every time Zorak got lasered. It was a no-brainer!
Gotta go up the coast to my Nanna’s place tomorrow. Having a garage sale to try and sell off all her stuff. Is probably gonna suck.
I don’t really have to go and should probably stay down here to get work done. But I don’t really have any kind of mementos from the place at all and haven’t had any other chance to go up during the rest of the organisation over the past month or two. At least there’s a nice lengthy drive to the place.
Why go and find OLD mementos when you can buy new ones right now?
http://www.redbubble.com/people/dandkzeitgeist/works/11098235-dan-and-karls-zeitgeist-zacchary
Guaranteed* to be hit with the ladies!
*Prima Nocta enforced in the case of successful formation of inter gender relationship.
Now that’s sympathy.
OH SHIT!
There’s something I’ve missed.
Now I feel bad.
But I won’t edit because I’ll own my mistakes.
@mrtaco. Dude. I am so sorry.
Completely ignore this.
Seriously. So, so sorry, man.
Haha, don’t feel bad. It’s pretty old news anyway (she passed back in like… August I think? Or April. One of the A ones), just stuff to be dealt with at a time when there isn’t much time to deal with things.
I thought your post was funny 😛
Find out how much of a jerk Dan is by clicking here.
http://imgttg.com/user/avatar/90876_10138.jpg
Don’t mind me, just havin’ a Dan.
That’s our DAN!
*canned laughter*
Edit: also, I think if there’s one thing that the people here are well-used to, it’s overzealous self-promotion. http://shanewsmith.com
What a gent!
Wait, really? Again?? COME ON!
I’m not sure if this is a gift or a curse. A girse?
Curft.
Work will always be there waiting, but you’ll never get another chance to do this.
I already swiped the bottle of Strega (no idea how old that bottle is, but it’s lost most of its yellow colouring and newer stuff doesn’t quite taste the same. Shame there’s only an inch or so left) as well as a jar of ground cinnamon she had (no idea what brand or whatever it is, but it’s way better than the stuff we have at home).
The only other thing from there I can think of that I would possibly want is the macadamia tree. Nothing better than a nice, juicy, freshly-cracked macadamia straight from the tree 😛 But I think that’s slightly unfeasible. Also it would probably just die at our place anyway.
I made it through all of this weeks Zeitgeist!
I thought for sure the ceasarean conversation would get you. For sure. 😛
But that’s just science, Shane. SCIENCE!
Gotta be slight of hand, right?
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/401144701832544256
That sure is a shiny coaster you bought.
Don’t worry, it’s COD It’s more interesting as it is now. =P
Go find a demo PS4 and convince the store owner to let you play it. 😛 I attempted last night to see if they had any games out back, but had none!
So burnt out and forgot to grab a coffee before I snagged a desk.
GOOD LUCK!
LUCK CANNOT HELP ME NOW. MAYBE I SHOULD TRIP A FIRE ALARM TOMORROW MORNING. WHO HAS AN EXAM AT 9AM ON A SATURDAY? MONSTERS.
I was going to suggest making everything else feel “burnt out” with a liberal application of flames, but tripping a fire alarm is a slightly less illegal.
Well, a similar level of illegal, in that it’s illegal, but the punishments are less severe.
I did once. On my birthday.
Stupid chemistry exams.
Just get one of the monkey butlers to grab you one. Job done.
For some reason, my Logitech M570 Trackball Mouse is causing the cursor to jump around a lot, even though I’m not touching it.
Does this mean it’s on the way out?
EDIT: Found out it was my Wacom tablet causing it, not the trackball.
Rookie mistake!
heheeh that used to get me sometimes too! Eventually you’ll learn to put your stylus away from the tablet, or in its holder! 😉
My old tablet was better in regards to the stylus holder.
It had its own stand along with the ability to place the replacement nibs inside it, like you can do with the Intuos and Cintiq.
Unfortunately, for the newer Bamboo, they’ve gone with a loop on the outside, which I find to be far less practical. 🙁
ugh. sounds annoying. My little home one is an old graphire. Has a little pen stand at the centre of the top. Very handy!
Repost for a new day:
THE LION KING
Critics are raving, they had this to say:
“Why Blaghs, if you organised a Meat to see The Lion King live on stage in Sydney, I would totes come, and I definitely said all this, definitely.” – D.C.
“Crunch. Smash. GGRRRDDDTTTHHUUDDD.” – A Rolling Stone
“Oh god, please be my friends and come see this with me. I’m so alone.” – Blaghs
Alright, so, as I’ve mentioned before, The Lion King stage musical is on in Sydney, and thanks to its ceiling, Capitol Theatre is the bestest place ever to see it. The show starts running in December, though all those tickets are long sold out, and is running until the start of May, I believe. So, I was thinking we could have a meat, and go to the theatre maybe some time in March, see a manly musical. Right now, I’m looking for anybody who might be interested in going (+whatevers are welcome), and what sort of timeframe would work best for them. Personally, I’m away January/half of February, but if you all decide you want to go then, well, I guess I’ll just cry a bit, though most of those shows are close to sold out.
I know this is still quite a way away, but these tickets do have a habit of disappearing, so I figured I’d try and get the ball rolling again.
Edit that I probably should have remembered to add: Tickets cost somewhere between like $60 and $200, assuming this all works what I’ll probably do is get people to send me money, and I’ll buy them in groups of 6-10 or something, but I’m really not sure about that part, as it’s something for future Blaghs to worry about.
@mrtaco I’m pretty sure the Wicked tour will be hitting Sydney after it finishes in Melbourne, so uhh, yeah. Think about that, or something.
I WANNA GO TO THERE.
I don’t know if I replied to the previous post, but yes.
And potentially ‘yes’ to your idea of Wicked in Melbourne too.
#Manly
I would see Wicked if it was in Sydney. Don’t want to travel to Melbourne for it 😛
Somewhat interested.
Do it.
Maybe.
god, canadian blaghman, on the bus and here too??
I have a feeling that Mrs Shane would love to do this, but I can’t be sure what’s happening next Feb/March/whatever, so it might be fairest to keep us out.
A very likely “yes”.
BTW, I already saw Wicked in Melb a few years ago (you guys should go, it’s great!).
I placed a qualifier because my gf is applying for an internship in Washington for Jan – March and I might try to get over there to visit her during this time.
I’m waiting to see if Rocky Horror gets announced. If It does I’m likely to be seeing it….
Interested in both but not sure the finances will be adequate
Wicked in Melb more likely as I wouldn’t have to worry about accommodation and travel
When @dc’s not on
screenTAY everyone should say “where’s @dc?”Hey, he’s mine. Get your own.
It’s okay, he took me to see World War Z. If there’s one way to tell someone you hat them, it’s taking them to see a god awful movie.
I agree, that film was crap.
To be honest, I knew it would probably be crap. I just wanted to leave the house and hang out with someone. I regret nothing.
It’s @dc! Hi @dc!
Sup!
Where’s Wally!?
Edit: I’m no good at this…
Where’s Wailmer?
Speaking of which, when I was back home, I was poking around my old folders and found this image saved:
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Quagsire_8195da_1958748.jpg
Marco?
Pogo
5 lectures to go. Party time excellent. HOW’S IT HANGING, TAY?
By a thread.
A CONVERSATION THREAD?
No.
I loved this so much
Cold, shriveled and slightly to the left
So ah, is my TAY not updating or has no one posted in like half an hour…
I assume no one has posted! I have had to do work for this half hour! D=
So inconsiderate.
Lunch!
Lunchtime nap.
Lunch!
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
I WROTE PART OF A THING ON THIS WEBSITE. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/the-games-that-defined-a-generation/
Look at this jerk not being on TAY all week and only coming in to brag.
It’s been a really busy week at work. 🙁 Juggling multiple daily deadlines for two different projects. I need alcohol. Fortunately, thanks to one of these projects, I know now where to get the best drinks at the lowest prices! Like that’s any kind of consolation.
I’m going to a work function tonight that has open bar and a buffet.
Awwwww yeah.
My parents are visiting for the weekend.
Awwwwww.
If you still had all your hair I could have hidden in it and come with you.
Yeah well, you should’ve thought about that before getting me to shave it off.
Sorry to hear, man. Let me know when it starts to quieten down so I can harrass you again!
…
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Arrrgh! Stop being so emo, D.C.!
What’s on your mind?
Nothing of consequence. Haha!
How are you, my friend?
I’m good. That games that defined a generation article got me thinking about Mirror’s Edge, so now I’m listening to Still Alive on repeat while writing my novel.
That’s a good problem to have though!
Midway through your novel they’ll all start free running? 😀
I’ll admit, it is tempting to have that happen.
http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/
That is awesome
DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY DOOOO DOOO DOOOO DOOOOOOO
http://youtu.be/UJw4VNX8zCk
Always look on the bright side of life
*pulls pants down and stretched arms out for a hug*
C’mere, bigguy!
It’s okay to miss me.
Especially when aiming for your face.
Haha! I have been feeling a little down after the awesomeness of last week/weekend. XD
…
The monster.
TAY IS SO SLOW TODAY!
I DIDNT WANT TO DO THIS, BUT YOU GUYS FORCED ME!
*does work*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE ANYMORE.
IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU DROVE ME TO A LIFE OF WORK!
Anyone watching the PS4 stream? I missed the first 10 minutes. Apparantly there’s a new Uncharted?
Yes. Yes there is a new Uncharted. Trailer here: http://kotaku.com/new-uncharted-announced-for-ps4-1464917969/@jschreier
D’oh. I missed it too. Oh well. There will be articles that summarise it for me.
*plays music*
Edit: Hot damn.
*Throws wallet at naughty dog*
*flails*
*throws pants at screen*
NATHAN DRAKE ILY
This teaser I like. I remember Uncharted 3 had a quick 30 second montage at the end that spoiled every set piece in the entire game. This has me excited at story possibilities and is enough for me. MEDIA BLACKOUT ENGAGED! (Though I know I”ll have to see atleast one screenshot of what Uncharted looks like in next gen. XD)
I’ll be checking it all out, so I can let you know when I see a shot that doesn’t spoil too much.
You so kind! 😀
Story speculation with Uncharted 3 spoilers:
Remember Drake and Sully’s conversation at the French Chateau? Here’s a playthrough, it’s right at the start. The time frame would work out, fifteen years and the like. I wonder if this’ll relate? That or it could relate to the orphanage Drake ran away from. Maybe he had a pal?Reddit has the words/map pegged as an associate of Sir Francis DrakeOooooh, cool. Didn’t even think about that angle. Then again, maybe there’s a Drake story running paralleled to Francis’ story. That’s something the series likes to do. History repeating itself and the like.I’d actually be happy for them to diassociate from Sir Francis for a bitLikewise, especially with all those story beats indicating he’s not even a real descendant. I’d rather see who Nate really is. I’d be down for playable Francis Drake too. In Naughty Dog, we trust.also that it may feature this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibertatiaThe Last of Us story DLC
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/11/14/the-last-of-us-left-behind-dlc-coming-in-early-2014.aspx
It WILL star Ellie, but her sidekick will be Riley. Any one who played the game/read the comic knows that Riley was with Ellie when certain events transpired before the game began. I’m a little disappointed that Ellie’s back instead of a new story, but at the same time I’d really like to see all this stuff on screen.I’m okay with this.
Kotaku’s got a write-up that’s a little more spoilery!
Hm, maybe I should just wait for a GOTY edition now?
That’s my plan at this point.
Farewell, all, until next we cross paths (probably later tonight). Congrats, Kudosian. Nerts to everyone else. Toodlepoops!
A LONG TIME AGO, WE USED TO BE FRIENDS.
HE WAS A BOY. SHE WAS A GIRL. CAN I MAKE IT ANYMORE OBVIOUS?
YES, I IMAGINE WITH ELABORATION YOU COULD MAKE IT CONSIDERABLY CLEARER.
No, and I’d appreciate it if you didn’t try.
That was my jam in Year 6.
Year 6?
Holy shit I’m old….
I remember because my friends and I sung it word for word at my Year 6 formal.
So basically, replace that with Total Eclipse of the Heart and formal with random bar and nothing has changed?
Correct
Year 7 here! I remember because they played it repeatedly at my Year 7 formal aswell. =P
Hello old man!
I think I sung it to @dc one time. It worried him. =P
…how many formals did you youths have?
I had one in year 10 and one in year 12.
Year 7 (end of primary school) and Year 12 (end of high school).
Likewise and I didn’t go to either!
Year 6, 10, 11 (didn’t go) and 12. And like every year ‘dances’ with boys from other schools but that was just to hook up. Ah, girls only education.
@sernobulus
Huh. I finished primary school at the end of year 6. Crazy Queenslanders.
But if you’re old then…
What was I saying? Where’s my Zimmer frame? Get off my lawn!
Pffft. Everyone who is cool knows that Teenage Dirtbag is where it’s at.
Now the Veronica Mars credits are playing in my head! 😛
Poor EB people. I brought down a pile of games to trade in because, ehh, why not (though I have like, a bag of games somewhere, that I cannot find, and I really don’t know what I did with it), and rather than my usual system of nervous silence, I went for nervous chatter.
On the bright side, they were very polite, and the guy kept fudging the numbers on things to make it worth more for me.
So you got $14 instead of $12 for your pile of games?
Of course not. He only said he was trading games, not consoles.
I got $304 worth, would have been a few dollars less. Was $270ish originally, but then it turned out being like $4 more expensive to pop a GameInformer subscription on top so I got more bonus value, so I did that (and he fudged the numbers a little there), and then after paying off Dark Souls 2 and buying another controller and Killzone I was like $1.16 short, so he just fudged that up a little.
I really want some fudge.
A pile of games?
Or a box of games?
SHould have taken your console in. I hear you can get 12 bucks in store credit for that
This will no doubt make some people a bit nuts, but fatshady sold his to eb last week for about 100 or soemthing if memory serves me correctly. I think he had a little inside help though!
Shane’s box of games?
Should have sent them to @dc. He could have made a reasonable facsimile of @shane from his belongings to cuddle at night now he is all sad he’s gone.
There may -or may not (it’s the former)- have been some games that I brought down from Shane’s box of games.
Fun fact, apparently they can’t accept Kinect Adventures by itself. I got the greatest look when I was like “Damn. I don’t even own a Kinect.”
Someone needs a body pillow.
It’s me.
Please. I’m so lonely.
…This whole time I’ve just had a spare pillow sitting next to me doing nothing.
Why didn’t I think of that?
My cat’s started spooning me in the mornings. I don’t like being the big spoon. But it eases the crippling loneliness.
And yet at the same time, enforces it 😛
THANKS BRO. NOW I’M SAD.
[/monster]
I’m so ronery.
SO VERY RONERY POOR RITTLE MEEEEEE
Heh, Saints Row.
It just won’t be the same if his things don’t smell like him or feel like him, or whisper back to him 🙁
It could’ve been worse.
I once had a dude come in at like 9:20am on a…Wednesday or something. First customer of the day. Traded a few of hundred dollars worth of stuff.
“I want to take cash”
“I literally do not have enough cash in my till to give you cash. I can put it straight in your bank account?”
“Nah, I want cash”
Repeat a couple of times with different variations of the same responses with him getting more and more frustrated and not understanding how physical money works.
I’m pretty sure cash registers are magical containers that make money appear in them when they get empty,
Dude, you weren’t picking up on his cue.
Obviously he just wanted to make you say “Not enough cash, stranger!”, then you could have high-fived and sorted things out properly. You were the one making things awkward here.
I think they get a sales target for that so don’t feel too bad for them.
I’m not having fun with video editing today. 🙁
I’d expand further, but it’s all just doom and misery.
Does any one really have fun with video editing?
No
Edit: That is a scientifically proven fact
When I worked at Big Brother there was this editor that had skills to pay the bills. He seemed to love doing it too. I guess Stockholm Syndrome took hold a long time ago? D:
Some people are just psychopathic weirdos, is all 😛
I’m pretty sure @sughly likes editing too. You so craaaazy. (And awesome, but mostly crazy.)
I punched the computer once whilst trying to do some video editing… I dunno why but I find it’s one of the most frustrating things in the world 😛
I’m potentially with Sughlipop here, editing is fun!
Stuff like sound design I don’t mind, which is weird because it’s basically editing without the pictures. I dunno, if I had a proper editing booth set up and could learn at my own pace I might’ve liked it better.
Yah I still love editing, but I won’t deny it being a frustrating exercise
I did. Granted, it was back at school and all I did was take the piss out of people. My masterpiece was a documentary on midgets. I filmed short people in my school for what they believed to be a documentary on promising students. It was hilarious, especially the reveal at the premiere.
You’re a bad, bad person. 😛
That. Is. Brilliant.
So adding to the NPCs I created the other day, I now have female Prince of Persia, female Jesus, and Van Hellsing. 😀
Lady Jesus?
Father, Daughter, and Holy Ghost?
Lady Jessina maybe? I’ll stop talking before I get smited. 😛
Her role is that she talks people down, heals them, inspires others, and rouses the crowd.
Pretty much going to be annoying for the party to fight in an arena when she turns the crowd on them.
Religious dissident then.
Yep, very Jesus.
So I’ve started watching Batman Beyond, even though I’m only like 30 episodes into Batman: TAS (I suck at finishing TV shows, I’m also in the middle of Freaks and Geeks, Orange is the New Black, Ghost in the Shell, and half a dozen other things) , and holy damn, this is more late 90s/early 00s than X-Men: Evolution, and that is really something.
I think you mean BATMAN OF THE FUTURE.
You’re right, I do mean BATMAN OF THE FUTURE, because that’s clearly the best name for it, and I definitely don’t feel like anyone involved in coming up with that name should be fired.
Into the sun.
I’m between shows at the moment and really miss having something to marathon.
Catch up on The Walking Dead! 😀
EDIT: I’ve seen the first three episodes of season 4 and it actually is pretty good so far! Reminds me a lot of the first half of season 3.
Watch Batman The Animated Series! It actually holds up reasonably well. Its first season is 65-70ish episodes or something (the minimum needed to by syndicated, plus a little buffer), so it’ll take you a decent amount of time to watch it all!
Don’t listen to this madman. If you’re going to watch a cartoon, watch Daria.
I haven’t had anything to do with animated Batman other than playing The Brave and the Bold on Wii (WayForward!) and it was awesome. It made me want to watch the cartoon.
The Brave and the Bold is a lot of fun, very self-referential, but I can only enjoy it in small doses.
Batman The Animated Series was the starting point for the DCAU which is generally excellent. It also featured enemies who use actual guns, which was kind of surprising for the time. It also bounces between being relatively dark and gritty, and absolutely ludicrous, which is fun.
I really, really like the DC animated stuff though. While not in the same universe, Young Justice is fantastic, and Under The Red Hood is one of the best comic adaptions I’ve seen.
Also, in animated things:
I watched the Justice League: Flashpoint Paradox movie thingy the other day, and it was pretty good, had Kevin Conroy, Nathan Fillion, and Ron Perlman in it!
But it also had anime style Wonder Woman, and she just looked friggin’ weird next to all the not anime EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WHOLE MOVIE.
Watch the Venture Brothers. You’d get a kick from it. Jam packed with references to all the animated superheroes.
There’s a character called Captain Sunshine who is an amalgamation of Batman and Superman who is also a uncontrollable pedophile.
He’s voiced by Kevin Conroy.
Ahh yes, that’s exactly what I need, another TV show to watch 6 episodes of and then have the rest staring at me, thanks Freeze.
:pAte a microwaved cheese burger from a cardboard box for lunch today.
Haven’t had the slightest need to poop yet.
Worrying.
Sounds like you and your gut have a complicated relationship. Always getting food remorse. I’ve never had food remorse in my life. (Except for that food poisoning thing in London. *shifty eyes*)
I’ll make you eat those words and then you’ll regret it.
It’ll get there dun worry. At the most inconvenient moment possible tomorrow. Guaranteed!
Funnily, I felt like I was going to poop before.
Turns out it was just indigestion.
It took a glass of Eno to get to that conclusion.
Yeah, if department stores could start selling different things from one another, that would be great.
???
I was trying to find white LED lights that were about 10metre. But they all had similar and none of it was what U was looking for
That’s a huge LED.
I have an exam at 9am tomorrow on 1,000 years of Greek history *head desk*. WHO CAN REMEMBER ALL THAT?
I BELIEVE IN YOU!
Just spend all night drinking wine, having orgies and watching people murder each other and you should be right.
Wait I can remember it
“Head” …
LINE!
Good luck
I walked around JB Hi Fi today and honestly, none of the games that are out interest me in the slightest.
I mean literally none of them.
Is it just me?
Am I getting sick of seeing the industry shovel out the same tired shit year after year?
I feel the same way every single time I walk into EB/JB. I look around the entire store/section and I don’t want any of it. Except for Mario & Luigi and The Wonderful 101, which I can’t afford right now 🙁 There hasn’t been a game on a non-Nintendo platform that I’ve wanted for like a year or more.
I’m sorta the same, but it’s more of a case of if it were cheaper.
Like I’d pay a tenner for that game but $40+ is no good.
I was so confused when I first started looking around at PS3/360 shelves just to see what was around. Practically nothing stood out as being in any way interesting at all.
Ugh. From Sunday onwards I’m going to have very little in the way of internet until around Christmas or something. I’m trying to cram in as much downloading through the UTAS network as I can in these next two days! I can call Telstra and get them to give me free mobile data whenever I need it (within reason), but ugh. So slow.
In happier news this t shirt has been bough for me 😀 http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Holiday/PopCultureGifts/TV/Childrens+Hospital+Property+T-Shirt-377851.jsp Nobody understands why that makes me happy, but it does 😛
jimu JRPG rant time
In case you missed my propaganda on twatter:
I grabbed the Bravely default demo on the eshop, tryina get people to grab it cos it’s new quests that won’t be in the game in a town that will.
Playing will unlock goodies in the full game depending on how much questing you do.
It’s doubleplus gnarly btw, so grab it no 😉
I have it!
I am terrible at it. :/
Isn’t it a challenge?
I picked normal and had to grind a bit before I could go into that dungeon, soooo good!
Learn some skills from a job then switch over. And re-equip them skills!
ok
It’s absolutely terrible, a great example of why this type of game has had it’s day and is now a cancer on the gaming industry. Stuff like this makes me want to quit gaming altogether.
Or you know, I never tried it and just riling up Jimu. 😛*shakes fist*
Rants are usually for bad things. I demand you criticize some things!
Bloody first person shooters!
Ohhhh yeah I downloaded that the other day. Forgot about that. I shall give it a play through tonight or tomorrow! I’ve been sorta looking forward to it, but I definitely need to give it a try first
I have it! I saw you raving about it to everyone but me on Twitter so I grabbed it and played some without telling you. 😛
Is there a meat? If we meat we can swap ourselves in-game! 😀
There’s a lunch meat tomorrow, apparently. 😀
In da City?
Yup. As far as I know.
See if I can drop by, have a Sunnybank trip in the morning
Also, I actually popped in here to talk about Bravely Default. Mostly just wanted to say how sick I was of getting poisoned and how it makes me feel like I need a 3DS XL so I don’t have to squint at that tiny screen to figure out what’s going on. Seriously, I have great eyesight for an old lady but even I’m struggling to see stuff in Bravely Default on the regular 3DS.
Oh well what a shame, guess I’ll have to get an XL! Luckily Christmas is going to be here soon and family is asking what to get for me…. 😛
Ha ha! Time for glasses, oh long-sighted one, I can see fine (small close things, I wear the glasses cos Im short sighted)
I totally read that as ‘pooped in here’ at first.
I think this may be more to do with me than your comment though.
My PS4 is preparing for shipment.
Hngh.
This asian cold continues to make me feel tired and headachey. I stubbornly persist with video games due to the fact I’m back to work on Monday. Fuck you, cold. Fuck you.
All I want for Christmas is a GTX 780, thanks Santa. Ti preferrably.
All I want for Christmas is Kotakuuuuuuuu
Oh, Fatshady
@blaghman
C’mon Shane, I already posted a reference to that this week. Twice in one week? We don’t want oversaturation here.
Not sure I understand why that’s a bad thing.
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/brb3jf/the-final-bosman-awaiting-greatness
Last 4mins HILARIOUS!!!
Hey, Legacy of Kain people (@pixel_the_ferret_viking, @strange, @jimu, @dkzeitgeist, @whoeverelse), do you think it’s worth skipping Blood Omen 2? I’m a coupla hours into it, and it really feels a little meh to me (thanks to not playing the original, I really don’t care about Kain that much), I figure I can always just read a plot summary or something if I need to, but uhh, yeah. Is Defiance worth skipping BO2 for?
I did, watched a mate play for a while and was unimpressed. read the story on Wiki or something.
Defiance seemed better, but I just watched my mate play most of it and caught the important bits so I cant really comment on gameplay. Seemed less puzzly and more actiony.
Ugh. Because I liked the puzzles in the Soul Reaver games. They tended to hit a good balance of “what the fuck am I supposed to do here” and “lolol this is super easy, the designers should go back to school.” The combat was the worst part, and somehow I doubt that changes.
I liked how just beating on a vampire wouldn’t kill iy and you had to lead them into light or syake their heart.
That was a new idea at the time.
Still think defiance is wortha look in, there are puzzles and the story bends back around nicely,
Fair enough. And yeah, I agree. As stupid as it is, I feel like Soul Reaver got worse once you got the Soul Reaver. It became less about using the environment or weapons to kill opponents, and more about not ballsing yourself over so that you actually had the Soul Reaver up to kill things.
Since you’ve got Pixel tagged already, the Little Big Adventure games are on sale at the moment on GOG! http://www.gog.com/promo/pcmac_weekend_promo_151113
Dear Friday night and weekend TAY,
How are you? Oh, really? Well, that’s just super.
I am venturing into self-publishing for the first time. Is there someone who was keen to pick up the Flamestar comic? If this is you, IT IS NOW AVAILABLE. Can you please roadtest the purchase/download flow of my site? It’ll set you back $4.00 and you need a Paypal account.
Edit: Hell with it. First one to purchase it gets a full refund.
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/james-flamestar/
Thanks gang!
Oh, this is cool! Self-publishing could lead to something awesome! Good luck with it, my friend!
Cheers, man. I don’t expect big things, though 😛
Don’t forget to look in on digital, Comixology has a self-publishing thing now!
Thanks! I’ve had the Flamestar comic up “awaiting approval” on Comixology for about six months now! 😛
Oh damn
It’ll get up one day! 🙂
Seemed pretty painless. Didn’t take long at all.
Where do I go to download it at a later date?
Thanks!
Was there an email and/or download link? That should stay active for three downloads, I think.
No email. I did it all on my phone since I’m sitting in front of the TV and I can’t find the download link anywhere after closing the window. It just wants me to pay again.
Hmmm. Sorry about that. I’ll refund the payment. Would you mind trying again when the refund comes through please? Think I’ve tweaked it.
Try now?
I just resent the purchase receipt. If you got that, there may be no need to try. If not, then, yes, please try.
Edit: hopefully you got an email with some links. If not, maybe it can be found here: http://shanewsmith.com/checkout/purchase-history/
Hate to say it but nope and nope.
Okie dokie. Thanks for trying. I’ll refund the payment. Might be best to leave it for now until I work out WTH is going on!
‘Your payment of $4.00 is complete.’
Yeah, everything worked fine. Got a download going at the moment, got an email with download link. All good.
Huzzah! Thanks my friend. I’ll refund you tonight
What? No!
I paid for it, dammit!
Thanks! But, I did make the promise. I’m happy to honour it. Really, just let me know!
Well, I don’t think I’ll be getting any more PS3 games.
I picked up Ratchet and Clank: Nexus, and Ratchet and Clank: QForce today, and to be honest, I’m looking ahead to the PS4.
Ill be getting MGS V and Dragon Age 3 on PS3 cos I cant affor no Ps4 for a few years :-/
MGSV on PS3? I can dig that.
I kind of wish they didn’t. You can’t help but feel they have to cut back on a lot of what could be possible to accommodate a lesser system.
I just presumed it would look like shit and have nasty slowdown, you know, not missing content, just running crap.
(Kinda like the difference between PC and console now)
If I hear it is missing content, then I’ll dip out and wait.
Well, I was going to mention how I needed a hug, going through all Nanna’s stuff. That which remains, anyway.
But then the rain turned it up to 11 and the garage started to flood, thanks to a blocked drain out the front. First started trying to unclog it, but that didn’t work. Then I started sweeping what water I could away while my sister tried to barricade the door. Then the old lady next door came out to help. That didn’t work either, so she took my sister round to the backyard to try something else. I went and got the sledgehammer I saw earlier and took it to some of the concrete keeping the water in, that took a little pressure off. Went to see what the others were up to and they were going to smash a pipe, the old lady now carrying a brick. Told her to step aside, of course :p Went down the side path and found there was a small hole in the pipe already, and it was gushing water out nearly as high as me. Deliberating where exactly to smash it, we decided to retreat to get advice. But on the way I noticed a lid that could be opened. Untwisted it and watched a whole load of water gush out. Sweet relief :p
So now I’m nice and soaked. Good thing I brought a change of clothes with me.
Oh wait, those are pyjamas.
Eh, wear the pyjamas.
Good luck over the weekend.
Welp, got all the water mopped up and most things reorganised again, but now I am mega funger (wtf funger is a real word that already exists in my phone’s dictionary?) and seriously hope there’s a 24 hour Maccas around here somewhere.
That’s better. I have no idea how people survived before 24 hour drive through was a thing.
Are you old enough (or live in Perth) to remember before we had Sunday trading?
Gawd!
Not sure, when did that happen? I still tend to end up assuming most places will be closed on Sundays. Damn op shops, only opened for half of Saturdays…
Hey!
We have Sunday trading now!
YAY!
PS4 GET
Jelly get
Bravely Default demo stuff.
Why am I allowed to brave to -4? doesn’t that make grinding rather one sided?
It’s awesome!
Watch out when bosses flog you with it!
Time to get Baldur’s Gate 2 HD!
\o/
…It won’t unlock for another hour…
Fuck.
🙁
Edit: Still Waiting… :\
It’s go time!
😀
Oh man, I’m gonna have to get a move on and beat BG:EE. I’ve been so slack. My Ranger-Stalker (I wanted to choose a class that suited me but they didn’t have “creep” class) won’t level himself!
You Creep Nob
I simply cannot justify buying that game again. I think I’ve bought it like four times already.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewjhellscream/metro-7-a-scifi-horror-novel
Your friend and mine @beardymcmuttonchops has written a book. Help him reach an audience.
well if he wants to reach that far he’d better have long arms.
/dadjoke pagewhatever
Thanks Shane! Beat me to it!
Dude, you are SMASHING it.
Also, my publisher has shared the link with his friends. You’ve gone INTERNATIONAL.
O_O
Ah shit, this comment would’ve been the best start to my joke. Ah well.
Goal reached, congratulations
Best get started on that prequel
https://www.ebgames.com.au/loot-163391-The-Legend-of-Zelda-Hintbook-Box-Set-Loot
There is zero reason for me to ever need or even want this but god damn do I want it.
Same 🙁
@shane I believe you said you have a weakness for books with gilded pages?
Shhhhh, I’m not looking, I’m not going to look, I’m never going to look.
I preordered it and it’s 50% paid off.
I am a sucker.
Horrific price though.
Doc What ordered it from overseas and it’s only costing him some $100.
I’m paying $150 but that could change
So my uncle just cut and dug up about 3 metres of pipe, all of it chock-a-block packed full of dirt. Well there’s your problem.
that’ll do it
It makes me sad when I buy something like a TV series season by season on DVD… and if I’d just waited until the end I could have had some super awesome bonus mega edition with all this awesome stuff that looks pretty and serves no other purpose.
I started playing the Bravely Default demo and I keep dying. Apparently Normal difficulty is too hard for me 😛
The music is pretty great though. Reminds me of Ni no Kuni.
Make sure you have jobs set on the characters, and activate brave multiple times for -4 for the first turn.
That usually gets a turn one victory, unsure how far into the demo it lets you cheese like that for.
I did some quest grinding before heading too far from town.
About to play The Wolf Among Us Episode 1! Who do I tag for discussions in 2ish hours? 😛 @dc @blaghman etc
Also downloading The Stanley Parable. We’ll see what all this hype is about tonight!
I think Freeze played it and possibly Nobs and Virus too, maybe? I DUNNO!
Enjoy, my friend. I loved it!
Then I must hate it!
I liked it aswell, and I usually hat everything @dc likes =P
It’s true! I like world peace, he hates it. I like tolerance, Nobs is all racist.
This game brought us together!
Finished the first episode. I really enjoyed it! I had no idea what it was going to be about so I was pleasantly surprised.
Major, super dooper Spoiler:
Toad Junior is adorableMore spoilers:
My choices were:– Gave Faith Money (83%)
– Told Crane no one was to blame (37%)
– Went to Lawrence first (25% – this shocked me! Would’ve thought it would be the other way around, it sounded like a much more interesting choice!)
– Prevented Lawrences Death
– Chased Tweedle Dee (66%)
Very good! I think it’s technically better than the Walking Dead was (can’t really comment on story yet). Felt more refined and had some pretty cool camera and motion effects. Walking Dead season 2 will be great!
Unfortunately I was spoiled on the very final scene of the episode. If anybody is going to buy this via Steam, do not look at the Community page! A massive spoiler comment is being featured on the main page for some stupid reason. At least there was when I happened to look >:[ (I ended up buying it direct from Telltale anyway so I got spoiled for nothing…)
@dc @blaghman @sernobulus @virus__ @freezespreston
— I gave the money to Faith.— Didn’t tell Beast about Beauty, told her I’d keep her secret.
— Went to see Lawrence first because I thought Toad might’ve been red herring.
— Prevented Lawrences death.
— Didn’t have a suspect in mind, so stayed silent.
— Showed restraint at bar fight.
— Chased Tweedle Dee.
Great game!
We played this episode in exactly the same way.
What have I become
I’m right there with you, my friend. This is madness!
I feel bad thanks to the ONE different choice I made.
For those who are thinking of cosplaying for Pax. If you need any help or advice, just tag me ^^
I’m still contemplating, and will see what my friends are doing, but once we settle I might tap you for advice.
No problem. I have already annoyed Numbers into using better quality blood on his Hotline Miami cosplay instead of paint. ^^;;
You are an artiste 🙂
At one stage we talked about going as Borderlands PCs, but we’ll see.
Even though I know what it means, I couldn’t help picturing a group of people dressed up as Borderlands themed dekstop PCs.
I may be a little fatigued.
I also thought the same thing =P
My main tip is to use a fabric that breathes. Cotton is the best
Okay! How about this…
Any idea how I could go about making some Caterpie antennae (the red bit on it’s forehead :P)?
I was thinking maybe a thin headband to wear or something? Then try and make the antennae to attach to it? I dunno!
Ever heard of spirit gum? It’s something they use to attach fake prothetics. Otherwise you can use hair clips. These are just some alternatives to the headband idea. How high up do you want it? Like, where exactly do you want it placed?
Forehead, just above eyebrows ideally but whatever works really! Not too fussy!
I’ll look into your ideas. Not getting started on this any time soon but it’s good to have an idea of my options first. Thanks Scree!
for just above your eyebrows look into glue for prosthetics. Spirit gum is one I know of, but there may be others. Also, what are you thinking of making it out of?
I really have no idea. This is all extremely early stages! haha Any suggestions are welcome!
Probably won’t be actually starting on this until next year at the earliest.
You probably want something light so avoid things like clay. You can use craft foam which is light, but it may look a little boxy and less rounded.
The third option is stuff called Worblas deco art Worlbas finest. Both are a thermo plastic that is light and tough. If you want, I could possibly make the antenna out of left over Worblas finest. I can use the off cuts that would normally go to waste.
Oh no that’s okay! Thanks for the offer but I’d like to make it myself. Never done it before so might be fun!
I’ll keep your suggestions in mind, thanks Scree!
@powalen
I could send you my off cuts and you could do it yourself.
@scree That’s alright Scree, I’m sure you’ll find a use for it yourself. Much appreciation for all your help though! I’m sure I’ll have a lot more questions for you next year.
@powalen Alright, if you insist
Bone implant, for sure!
:l Twice my housemate has told me she’ll help me move in and get my stuff up, twice I’ve told her when that’ll be, and twice she’s told me the night before that she’s actually got something else to do now and “good luck moving in!”
If she thinks she wants me to help her move anymore of her stuff (Oliver and I moved up ALL her stuff, not kidding), then she can go fuck a goat.
when she asks, “I’m not your homie, here’s an update cupcake. Just blow me and show me your best fuck face!”
I will remember that one and promptly put it in the “never say under any circumstances” pile 😛
lols
I’m throwing it open. James Flamestar comic is available. http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/james-flamestar/
My reward tiers are much more generous than Hellscream’s! Four bucks, get a 70 page comic. 😛
Featuring some poor likenesses of familiar faces: @alexpants, @cakesmith, @rize, @qumulys, and @anonymous_pessimist (note that at the time of completion, the artwork was done based on vague descriptions, rather than actual meat experience).
(Note that Freeze had issues when ordering on his phone, but TheCracks successfully ordered it last night. I assume he was using a conventional computer (but tbh, I never bothered to find out). I recommend using a computer, just in case.)Man.. my pickup line’s got nothing on this!
http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2013/04/4-BIZ-4-GM.RB_.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/atNvAkW.gif
speaking of pickup lines…
http://i.imgur.com/cjuHfZX.png
Uhhhh
hehehe yup. don’t think I’ll be trying that one anytime soon 😉
I am totally overwhelmed and emotionally wrecked from today. What I thought would take 2-3 weeks to fund took 2-3 hours. The Metro 7 Kickstarter is now sitting at 131% funded of the $850 goal. Now, the possibilities of what I can do are almost limitless. The actual physical book is totally going to an actual physical thing.
The first stretch goal is for a prequel story that will be sent to all backers if we hit $1250, and I’ve found a place that might just be able to host a launch event here in Brisbane…
For those who missed it, you can see the Metro 7 campaign here. It’ll be live for the next 29 days!
What’s the difference between erotic and kinky?
Erotic is when you use a feather, kinky is when you use the whole chicken!
\o/
I dub this page free-for-all joke page 15!
And sadism is when you use an emu.
…Masochism an ostrich?
ok, but no jokes about german sausages. they’re the wurst
Q: what do you call a greek who is falling off a building?A: con descending
Q: What has four legs and an arm?A: A happy doberman.
Q: Why does Mike Tyson cry during sex?A: He’s got mace in his eyes.
Three old mates Tom, Billy and Paddy are working on a construction site. Lunch time comes around and they’re sitting on the edge of a girder 30 floors up.Tom opens up his lunch box “Shit ham salad again. I swear if I get ham salad one more time I’m going to jump off this girder.”
Billy opens up his lunch box “Shit tuna and mayonnaise again. I swear if I get tuna and mayonnaise one more time I’m going to jump off this girder.”
Paddy opens up his lunch box “Feck peanut butter and jelly again. I swear if I get peanut butter and jelly one more time I’m going to jump off this girder.”
The next day at lunch time Tom, Billy and Paddy are sitting on the edge of the girder 30 floors up.
Tom opens up his lunch box “Shit ham salad again” and he jumps to his death.”
Billy opens up his lunch box “Shit tuna and mayonnaise again” and he jumps to his death.”
Paddy opens up his lunch box “Feck peanut butter and jelly again” and he jumps to his death.”
A few days later at the funeral the three wives are chatting.
Tom’s wife says “Why didn’t he tell me if I’d known he was bored with ham salad I would have made him something else. I thought it was his favourite.”
Billy’s wife says “Why didn’t he tell me if I’d known he was bored with tuna and mayonnaise I would have made him something else. I thought it was his favourite.”
Paddy’s wife says “Stupid feckin git. Paddy made his own sandwiches.”
I love your jokes 😛
One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I’ll never know!
Sleepy. Been up since around 8:30. Only had like three hours’ sleep. But have this annoying feeling like I need to do something, only I can’t think of anything at all that I want to do. Other than not go to bed for some reason. Stupid brain.
Sleep deprivation is deadly
It’s ok I’m not driving.
http://youtu.be/IIUAl8tyiLE
Brilliant.
Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 5 Spoilers:
UGH, the Governor is coming back next episode. I was enjoying this season, too! Seems like the sickness ‘arc’ is closing and now that he’s back the show is probably going to turn into the same horrible villain piece with-a-couple-of-zombies-on-the-side that the second half of season 3 was. I hope I’m wrong 😛I actually liked the sickness arc. I think the thought that there is something a lot more dangerous then zombies and people was a good idea. Anti-biotics don’t do shit though because people die of influenza all the time. It’s usually vaccines that help more then anything.I’ve really enjoyed this season though:
The stuff with Carol in particular was great. My favourite ep of the season was when the groups went out into the world: Daryl and gang at the veterinary school and Carol and Rick in the suburbs.
Also maybe the sickness was man made, I wouldn’t put it past the governor to release something into the prison population?
I thought it might be something like that, but it would be a pain to manufacture.Before antibiotics were discovered, respiratory infectious diseases killed many people. An example of this is Tuberculosis. In America, the tuberculosis epidemic was so severe, they created the Waverly hills sanitarium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_Hills It was pretty much a hospital for people to die.
Knowing this, it only make sense to me that it’s a natural occurrence. There isn’t really anyone to make and distribute antibiotics. Makes sense that other diseases may become a problem
But there’s plenty of places like the CDC and laboratories who have all kinds of horrible things stored away for testing. Wouldn’t be hard to access in a zombie apocalypse, I imagine.If you’d watched to the end of Season One, you’d KNOW that they destroyed the local CDC already 😛HEY SHANE! I MISS YOU! 😛
As glad as I am to be home with family, same here, man.
That’s enough feelings for one day! How ’bout that local sporting team!
Yeah, Carol has always been a really great character. Such a shame she’s gone now, she was by far my favourite. I hope she makes a comeback. I agree with your favourite episode too! I really wish those two kids survived, I liked them 😛 (How did that guy manage to keep his hair bleached? Hasn’t this outbreak been going for over a year? haha) They kinda made a good impact though.Wait. We know the girl is dead, but the boy might still beHate going into Bunnings. Start wandering around looking at everything going oooh that would be a good idea and starting to come up with schemes and plans that I have neither the money or the time to carry out.
So bored right now… :\
Finished Wind Waker. First 2/3 of the game I’d easily give 9/10, last third? 6/10…
Yeah, I agree, it sort of falls apart at the end. I still think it’s worth it.
Not sure I want to play another Zelda game. :S
the others tend to be better in that they don’t peter off into being terrible.
A Link Between Worlds!
Is that to say that WWHD is your first and only? 😮
Played NES and SNES ones and also tried Twilight Princess.
Well that’s ok then.
Though still needs more Majora’s Mask 😛
I find n64 games to be unplayable these days. 😛
You’re a monster.
That generation is easily my least favourite. That’s when I moseyed to the master race and never looked back until the PS2. The 3D is monstrously ugly. XD
http://imgur.com/eOHaCIG
Yes. Horrendously ugly.
Agreed.
😛
@freezespreston Well, that is the 3DS remake, so I don’t think it’s a fair screenshot.
Given in the original he had a croissant for hair.
Come over my house for some Perfect Dark Arcade! 😛
I feel like I’m in an overly critical mood today, but I shake my head at your Perfect Dark. (Haha! Only experience with that series was Perfect Dark Zero on the 360. Not good. :P)
Ok. You’re on the list.
That’s okay, cause you’re on my list! >:|
Yeah but your list is ridiculously easy to get on 😛
I meant my movie list. You’re on my movie list. XD
The complete opposite reaction I had.
You’re my enemy.
You’re in good company! 😀
D:
It’s okay, I’ll forgive you, it’ll just take time.
I’m one of the few (many?) that didn’t get that reaction.
My least favourite part was the stealth bit toward the start. During many replay attempts I have given up there.
I just loved sailing though, so being sent off on a random sailing hunt was fun!
Twilight, I gave up on the second dog bit, damn that dog.
I didn’t have an issue with the Tri-Force quest, since I’d already gathered all but two by the time it dropped the actual quest on me, I just thought the last two dungeons were really poor when compared to the rest in the game.
That’s right! I think I had found a bunch of them, cos I was going treasure crazy.
Which were the last two dungeons.
I maybe remember thinking they weren’t actually dungeons?
Like the:
big hole that you just fought doods endlessly?By last two dungeons I mean the wind temple, where you’re with whatsisface, and it allows you to run through to the end of the dungeon without the key so you then have to backtrack massively all because you’re an idiot who can’t read (insert angryface here), and the bit at the very end where you just replay through the old bosses and it’s boring, and then there’s the fight against Ganon and it’s just not very good (the sword fight is fine, but the bit against him in big mode was not so good).Oh, I remembered that being good (been a while)
How was the Brisbane meat yesterday? Sorry I couldn’t make it. Was feeling not good. D:
Also, house full of not good feelers. we made it as far as Aspley…
Hope you guys are feeling better now! Also hope someone turned up for @mythamphetamine. XD
I hope so too!
Will attend the Mrs @freezespreston meat next weekend.
Already booked in!
I meant turned up, we are mostly feeling better, thanks :p
Is your wife coming as well or just you? Staying the night or heading home? Do you like me Y/N?
A/s/l
31/sexy/brisby
She may drop by but I think she’ll go to the other Bday we were invited to, because of course there were 2 on the same goddam day.
I believe I will crash wherever I pass out, if that’s kosher.
Y
Just saw a little Agents of SHIELD on the telly, middle of the show, out of context.
Didn’t like what i saw much, looked like every other cop show on TV :-/
Will try the pilot still, see what I think, but urrrmmm, TV.
I’m not really a fan. Reminds me of NCIS: LA and that ain’t a complement. XD
Bleh. Another day completely wasted.
Got woken at some point in the morning when mum was looking for her laptop which I’d borrowed, intending to get some work done yesterday (which didn’t happen). So then I ended up sleeping for another four hours and woke up completely dead.
Amazing.
Simply amazing.
Also @markserrels, people seem to be blowing up over the St.Pierre – Hendricks bout.
Did you catch any of it?
You really gotta hand it to him…
As this weeks TAY winds down I just need to send a massive thank you out to both @shane and @benny for providing me with a couple of tickets to Supanova for today. While I already had tickets, my sister who is much younger than me (15) – didn’t. Shane of course was offering his passes as he wasn’t gonna make it down here to little ol’ ADL and Benny not only said I can have the two passes Sunday, but he delivered them to my letter box. What a couple of guys, hey!
So thanks Brotakus <3
I may not have helped in the slightest, but I’m choosing to take credit as part of the community.
You’re most welcome HermHerm!
You’re welcome. It was all Shane mostly, so I too must thank him.
Incredibly short Supanova Adelaide write up coming tomorrow!
All good, my friend!
Have now completely moved out of college. Goodbye, I won’t miss you
Currently getting drunk and watching the comedy channel. Stole olivers wild turkey. This stuff is gewddd, hope he doesn’t mind. Don’t think he will, he bought it for the both of us, soooo full steam ahead.
Eh stuff it, I’ll do it now and repost it tomorrow.
Many thanks to @shane for providing me with two badges that allowed my wife, kid and I to attend the Adelaide Supanova on Saturday. Super excited as I barged into the pavilion, I turned to see my kid suddenly get freaked out by the crowds (perhaps it was him teething) and my wife pulling a scrunchy nosed face, exclaiming ‘it stinks in here.’ She also had other classics such as, ‘I can see way too much skin on that fat woman,’ and ‘these people have never had sex before.’
So off I darted to the Artists Alley to have my fifteen-year-old comic book Wolverine #125 signed by the original penciler Leinil Francis Yu. Achievement Unlocked – YES! Then we left.
Well, I’m glad you at least got a few minutes in there, dude! Probably best the tickets were free 😛
Sleepy time.
See you all in new TAY.
Hey @transientmind. Just wanna let you know we’re still thinking about you, pal. Hope all is well!
Same feelings here. Why did you post on old TAY, DC?
Thought he might be more inclined to respond if it wasn’t so public as new TAY. 🙂
I’ve been thinking about getting a Vita, so for all of you that have one:
Which is better out of Killzone and Soul Sacrifice?
I’ve heard great reviews about Killzone, not so much about Soul Sacrifice. After looking one up, I don’t think it’s really my sort of game. The review said it was really grindy. Any personal preferences?
There’s a new TAY, my friend! Should repost here, more people will see it!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-251/