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XENOBLADE!
Who’s this guy?
DisappeariusReappearius.
XENOBLADDER?
No.
yep
*tears of joy* I’ve missed you!
Want some rye? Course ya do!
D: Don’t use your special @pixel_the_ferret_viking catchphrase on someone else!
But he never had to find out. This would’ve been our little secret! 😛
Aw man, I bet you call everyone else “monster”, too. 😛
Only people who do monstrous things. So yes.
*whimpers*
I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL!
*jumps out through the window*
*peers out window*
WANT SOME RYE? COURSE YA DO!
MEEEEEEENTAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaal hu-
*splat*
No, no. no. no. NO!
It took me 10 years to get that phrase out of my head. Now that prospector’s voice is back in there. Thanks!!
You’re welcome! 😛
YES INDEED!
XENOBLADE. GREATEST GAME EVAR!!!!!11!!!!
Amen brotha!
Morning all! Happy MonTAY.
commiserationscongratulations to @chuloopa for getting married over the weekend. I’m sure my invitation just got lost in the mail. I understand completely.God damn it – i sent that invite like 4 times!!!
I’m about to go postal on that… postie…
Thanks buddy! 😀
PERSONA!
hahaha, oh my god i woke up this morning and saw ten million siliconera articles on persona and they all look like troll games and that was the best thing ever
It was definitely the biggest troll when watching the stream, they announced the dancing game and was about to wrap up, then a countdown started from 55 seconds and we ended up getting what we were waiting for haha
Hey, hey, hey guys, guys…
If anyone missed the article on the weekend, there’s a chicky called Taylor Davis, that can apparently do something with a violin and make it sound decent:
Oh and she mainly does excellent gaming scores, eg. Skyrim, Zelda, Chrono Trigger, Kingdom Hearts etc.
I just purchased her album (Melodies of Hyrule) from her personal website, (do the googles for Taylor Davis Violin, i don’t want to put another link into this post) and it’s only $10, and every bit as amazing as the above clip…
I’m usually not much for TAY-marketing, but she pretty much produces all of this herself, so every bit of backing she can get, she deserves!
*Sees Sheik costume. Rolls eyes*
At least she doesn’t dance as stupidly as Lindsey Stirling.
(Taylor Davis was also Violinist for the Critical Hit album that I’ve harped on a few times about)
*Looks up Lindsay Stirling*
0.o
So how about that Doctor Who?
I liked it, I really liked it.
Interesting to see the angry eyes of next Doctor guy during the big scene, will be interesting to see how much he returns to being an old man. Also, that Tom Baker cameo at the end. Pretty great. He appeared and I was like “Oh crap, I know who that is, but I can’t remember!” Clicked a little while later. Oh, and I really liked John Hurt as the Angry Old War Doctor. The “assemble a cabinet at them?” line made me laugh far too much. Now other people, bring interesting discussion. INTERESTING STUFF!I didn’t watch it!I forgot it was out yesterday, so then I went on the internet and then suddenly SPOILERS!
Good times.
Still going to go watch it tomorrow at the cinemas though, so that is my completely irrelevant contribution to this comment chain.
Helping!
I kind of loved it.
Tom Baker is my Doctor so I recognised his voice instantly. 😀 Wasn’t fond of David Tennant often forgetting how to act as The Doctor, though. It was a bit jarring. When Clara was stopping the Doctors and again in “the big scene” I may have teared up but if you tell my husband, I will hurt you. He doesn’t know, thanks to the nice dark cinema we watched it in. 😛I bet you $50 there was at least one point in the movie your husband was hiding his teary eyes from you.He doesn’t hide it. Probably because I don’t laugh at him like he laughs at me. 😛I blame the writing for Tennant’s acting. He was obviously only there for fan service and was an in-betweener between the much younger John Hurt doctor and the current much older Matt Smith doctor. I don’t care for Smith much so it kind of bugged me that Tennant had to play the less-experienced second fiddle role.Overall though, I thought it was a good episode, a good story, and a good celebration of the 50th anniversary. A+ would watch again.
Heh. I almost considered going to a cinema for it.
But then I realised that it would be full of screaming Dr Who fanatics (you know the ones I mean) and decided against it.
Far, far safer viewing at home.
Actually, the fans made it. Being in a big room, where everyone gets the jokes and cheered and gasped in the right places really made the experience. So glad I saw it in the cinema.
Oh man, John Hurt was absolutely fantastic! Also, kind of wish they used DotD to reveal that Peter Capaldi was the next doctor, but regardless it was really freakin’ cool having him there.Really happy I went and saw it at the movies. The 3D worked really, really well with the Timelord art, and that intro was so good 😀Re: Your second spoilertag
That intro made it so worthwhile. 😀I was munching on popcorn during the movie and every time it squeaked I laughed 😛So damn good.
John Hurt did an amazing job as wartime Doctor. Everything about it was awesome, really. I may have started to tear up a bit at the whole “the noise the TARDIS makes brings hope wherever it’s heard, even to you” thing.
I loved it, but a couple of things felt slightly off. Thoughts and wishes spoilerfied below.
No.1: Dr 10 (11 now?) saying “I don’t want to go.” You could see on his face that even he thought it a shlockly line.No.2: Alright, so all the stuff with 10 (11?) with Timothy Dalton and the Master has just been retconned? What? That kinda leads to his death.Blaghs picked up something I didn’t and it’s making sense now.No.3: Seeing Hurt and Tennant made me realise that Smith is not a fantastic Dr IMHO. Grab your pitchforks, I’m going to stand right here and martyr myself over that point.No.4: I miss Eccleston.No.5: The one liners within this were brilliant. “Yes, lock me in the tower with my co-conspirators, Sand-shoes and granddad!”The only things I agree with you about are your last two. 😀
But that’s the great thing about Dr. Who, we’re both still big fans who don’t agree on everything.
Also, I’m calling it early.
Here’s the body-centric nicknames from new Who in order – ears, hair, chin
eyebrowsSee, the proper nickname for the next doctor is
Malcolm Fuckity Tucker.Im really hoping that Capaldi brings over at least a few shades of Tucker to the doctor.
His chess-master style, thinking 10000 moves ahead, take-no-shit attitude, making horrible jokes at really inappropriate times etc.
Point 2:
The Timothy Dalton and The Master stuff still happened. There’s a line about it in one of the shots of the war room, they’re like “the council’s locked itself up with their plan of blah blah evil whatever.” So they would have still bailskied, expecting Gallifrey to fall, even though it didn’t in the end.COMPLETELY missed that part. Oh brilliant. Thank you Blaghs.
No problemmo, I thought the same thing on my first watching, second watching with my mother I heard the line and suddenly it made a whole lot more sense.
In fact, I believe that a line said right after is along the lines of “Damn the council, their plans have already failed. So actually, The End of Time ends just a bit before all the Docs pull a planet-sized houdini. This also perfectly sets up the return of the Master and Lord.. Rasselon, was it? Don’t remember.No. 2: They explicitly state that the military command in Arcadia aren’t taking orders from the high council who are in another city, which is who Rassilon et al are.I loved The Day Of The Doctor. I went on a road trip with about 20 other Who fans to see it at a better cinema, despite the fact that the local cinema had two screenings. The 3D was amazing. I particularly loved the
mobile phone warning with Strax and the put your 3D glasses on with Matt and David.However, for me, I think An Adventure in Space and Time was even better. David Bradley was superb as William Hartnell, andthe little cameo by Matt at the end was nicely done.I think An Adventure gave me more feels than The Day of The Doctor. The only thing I didn’t like about An Adventure isthe casting of the bloke who played Patrick Troughton. He didn’t look right.Agreed about all your spoilers. In saying that, every single other bit of casting was almost impossibly brilliant. Everyone looked like their counterparts.
Yeah. All the main cast was amazing, the end credits with the comparison photos were spooky. Also I liked the fact that some of the actual cast from the series had cameos, including William Russell, who played Ian Chesterton.
AHHHHH I HAVE TOOO MANNYY OPIIINNIONS
Ha, a recurring thought in my head during watching was “what would eccleston would’ve brought to this scene?” Hurt was actually far-more lighthearted than I thought he would be, and considering 9 is the angry doctor, I would’ve really liked to see how his inclusion would have effected it all. Which brings me to my next point- it honestly feels that bringing gallifrey back kind of negated the development we’ve managed to garner over 3 incarnations, doesn’t it? I mean, the doc still remembers the guilt he had over the original decision, so I suppose it doesn’t matter in the long run- I like to think it easier if the decision was made more for the war doctor’s sake and the not the current one’s. Also, the whole concept was smaller in scale than I imagined. I expected a grand foray into the last day of the time war surrounded by daleks and time lords alike trying to stop the doctor, but what we got were shape-shifting aliens attempting to conquer the future by putting themselves in 3d paintings. I suppose it also worked in the show’s favour, however- sticking to it’s homely roots brings out the charm and humour of DW. The humour was all quite well done. Even the ever-repeating jokes managed to seem fresh.”Wibbly-wobbly? who says that? I don’t know where he got it from.”And last but not least, I liked rose in this episode, but simply because she wasn’t rose.All in all, a very fitting anniversary special. I had different expectations for it, but I do expect the christmas special will deliver on this front.
Agreed. I wanted to see the things he mentioned, like the
Nightmare Child, the army of Couldhaves and neverwills…the entire thing felt like an episode rather than a giant foray into a war that was ripping the very universe apart.Well, I suppose they have to leave something for future visits to the Time War.Man, that’s another legitimate gripe. Out of all the particular insane things we hear about both sides, all we really see of the Daleks and Time Lords here is a fleet of blowy-upy-flying saucers and a doomsday box with a attitude. And it honestly makes me think that the Doc will have to grapple, if he ever does find Gallifrey within the next 50 years, with the fact that he potentially saved a race who has a fair few blood-stained suits among themselves.Really enjoyed it. I got up for the 6:50 showing on ABC so I better have! 😛
I agree with a lot of what you guys have said. My favourite gag was when the three Doctors were in the TARDIS and Tennant goes “Oh you’ve redecorated! …I don’t like it” and screws up his face hahaThe ending scene in the museum with Tom Baker kinda sorta confused me though 😛
It did me, until somebody else explained it:
That’s not Tom Baker as in Dr 4. That’s Dr 20,30,40,50+, who just LOOKS like Tom Baker. He says that the Dr will eventually begin to revisit old faces. So it’s Dr sometime in the very far future telling Dr 11 (now 12) that he will live on beyond his 13 regenerations.When I saw it the first time, I was very confused as well.Ahhhhhhh
Just an FYI, that Tardis joke has been used a few times before, and it’ll happen again and again, and keep being funny 😀
My favourite iteration of that gag is in the Time Crash special with the Fifth DoctorI think my favourite part of it was John Hurt acting like a old school Doctor and totally mocking the style of the new series. “Why are you pointing your screwdriver like a weapon. What are you going to do assemble a cabinet at them.” or “WTF is timey wimey”Thought the episode was good and was enjoyable for me who only catches the occasional episode of the new series. Out of curiosity did anybody else think that when they went through the ground up statue bit there was going to be angels under the sheets?
Ten’s comment of “I don’t know where he gets that from” was amazing. Also, I never thought Angels because they’ve never been known to hide under sheetsThe last thing: Hah, that’s exactly what I thought!
it was pretty ok.
had a few faults, but overall it was intended to be a celebration of the show’s history & with all the fan-service callbacks to the early stuff, it was just that.
Specifics:
Awesome bits :
– The chemistry between the 3 doctors. brilliantly done. especially Hurt being slightly embarrassed at how childish his older selves seem to be.
– Some brilliant lines. “oh, you’ve redecorated…. i dont like it” “what’re you going to do? build a cabinet at them?” “…and you’re basically just a rabbit, arent you?” etc.
– the intro sequence being a giant shout out to ‘An Unearthly Child’
– the music. holy shit. the music…. the way 10 & 11’s themes play around & merge at times was amazingly done.
favorite bit:
– “eurgh. all 12 of them…” “no sir, all thirteen” *queue Peter Capaldi’s crazy eyes.*
Slightly less awesome bits :
– Tom Baker at the end…. just sorta turns up & rambles for a bit. “I might be you might be me I’m going to be you and me are past me you future…..” off screen there must’ve been a aged care nurse having a breakdown.
– the whole ‘undoing destroying Gallifrey’ thing. I dunno how I feel about that. I mean, since the reboot, the guilt The Doctor feels over this act is his main driving force. Take away that motivation, and the character has to change….
– 10 was just sorta…. there. didnt actually do anything, other than utter a few funny lines.
least favorite bit:
– WE WERE 3 SECONDS AWAY FROM GETTING ECCELESTON BACK ON SCREEN. FUCKING COP OUT.
I liked it.
Needed more Eccleston though 😛
DARK SOULS! \o/
Apparently the Dark Souls community is starting to ramp up in preparation for Dark Souls 2. So you will get a lot of co-op / invasions now.
SWEET. I was just thinking about getting back into it! 😀
Do you know if GFWL has been removed from it yet? It always crashes on my PC because of it 🙁
Don’t think so. I’m pretty sure you need to still go through it.
This makes me sad.
I’ve never had a problem with GFWL until Dark Souls.
OMG, I want all the Persona games! Yes! EVEN THE RHYTHEM / DANCING ONE! Also, I wish @saturday stayed online I would have liked to hear his reaction to all the trailers. =P
I ESPECIALLY WANT THE RHYTHM/DANCING ONE (after giving up on P4A I have little interest in the updated version, and while the cross-over 3DS thingy one looks fun, I don’t know who all those weird P3 characters are, so why should I care about them when I can DANCE, LIKE A WAVE ON THE OCEAN ROMANCE).
Play Persona 3:FES! I liked the story better on P3 but liked the characters and Mechanics more on P4. Still, that’s not saying the characters aren’t likeable (except Junpei, that guy can die in a fire) I enjoyed them. Plus you get a FRIGGIN PUPPY AS A TEAM MEMBER! A! GOD! DAMN! PUPPY!
KORO-CHAN!
He’s so adorable!
Yeah, but effort.
I’m kind of hoping for P3SUEOA, or something. I want all the benefits of all the different versions, and none of the drawbacks. >.>
I swear if they didn’t announce Persona 5, everyone would end up boycotting those games haha
I had some time to sleep on it, and I’ve come to the realisation that this dancing game is one of the best ideas ever 😛
Hah, I was talking to @scree last night. She was working so she couldn’t watch the stream so I related the announcements. She seemed more excited about the rhythm / dance game then the others. =P
To be fair, I am unreasonably excited for the rhythm / dancing game too.
So excited for the dancing game.
Did you watch the trailer?
No
hahahah, I really should’ve stayed up, it would have been a roller coaster.
3DS Persona EO which is pretty much P3/P4 crossover fanservice? That.. sounds pretty fucking good, I’m in! I’m pretty sure it’s just to test the waters of how much persona fans are on the 3DS. Who knows, if all goes well..
Essentially a Idolmaster/theatrhythm version of Persona? FUCKING A! Hilarious that Vita got this instead of the 3ds game, however.
A teaser (not a launch trailer, major dissapoint) of a game that probably won’t make it to PS4 despite it not coming in probably 2 years? FUCK IT, AT LEAST P5 EXISTS!
I missed th entire event and reading this has been a roller coaster for me I WANT THEM ALLL
You forgot Persona Ultra Ultimate-Suplex something something. I assume it’s just a rerelease of P4:Arena but with some changes?
Nope, full-pledged sequel as far as fighting games go. The plot is now centered around the P3 characters, we got Yukari and Junpei joining in, all the shadow counterparts of the P4 cast are playable, and we even get a new character in the mix.
ALSO PLAYABLE ADACHIOh, I might need to play this, just so I can keep beating up Junpei repeatedly,
Probably going to be region locked again and won’t come out in Australia until 2017. :\
The 3DS getting the Etrian Odyssey clone makes more sense because they can probably just re-skin EO4 and churn it out in a few months.
At least it appears to be a graphically-upgraded EO- there are 3d character models being used in attacks instead of the usual 2d fare. It’ll be interested to see how, or if they’ll actually experiment with this.
Hey peoples, haven’t posted here in a while, just wondering if anyone is still interested to listen to the podcast.
Mumbo Jumbo Podcast 11 – Sucking on a Crab Juice Lightsaber
Join Shannon, Dane, Dick and Ryan as they discuss steam sales, Mass Effect, Battlefield 4, Stanley Parable, Batman: Arkham Origins and the wonderful world of e-cigs.
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XCOM! If you don’t follow my twitter you might of missed it but while trying to install the 7gb update for EW steam carked it near the end and somehow uninstalled XCOM so all last night instead of a 7gb download it was close to 17gb download
I really should install XCOM since it’s been unopened in my drawer for months 😛
So Kotaku, any info around about the new Abe’s Odyssey? I never played it on the original PS although it looked cool.
…there’s a new one???
@cakesmith That joke will be relevant again!
Hello.
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Follow me.
okay
*farts*
*coughs*
Those games age well so if you get a chance definitely check them out!
Haven’t heard anything about the new one, though.
It’s a downloadable remake of the original AFAIK. Coming to pretty much everything under the sun. It’s just been really quiet lately, has me a bit worried.
I’d love to hear from someone who has had some hands on with it. I don’t think that happens much with downloadable games though 🙁
No persona 5 or persona q for the vita….. sad face.
Good Morning all, Hope you all had a good weekend.
As much gaming as I did was Laser tag on saturday night and The Last of us last night…
Oh Yeah, I’ve started playing last of us… Now this is hillarious as I am a Jumpy person.
Lets just say my housemate finds it more entertaining to watch me than the game itself.
I do Like the game, but I have had alot of moments where I have screamed or squealed uncontrollably.
What happened on the weekend I hear you ask?
Games. Games happened. Also sleeping. And not much else.
Was a good weekend I went to sexpo
Link Between Worlds is fantastic.
The Playstation 4 is pretty neat. Knack is fun but doesn’t really do much to showcase ‘next gen’. Trying to turn the PS4 off with voice commands is difficult.
I suspect I may hide out in Doc’s house until I can get my own PS4.
Doctor Who was enjoyable. I watched it at 6:50 in the morning and again at 7:30. The second time was with my parents who haven’t watched the show since the 70s or 80s, so I had to explain a lot but they seemed to enjoy quite a lot of it. Was interesting to get that perspective, because it made it seem like they’d balanced enough between new and old fans there.
Hope everyone has a fine Monday. Or as fine as Monday’s can be, which is generally not very fine.
Was the first ep of Doctor Who I’ve ever watched and I liked it too. Got a sense that it was going to be incredibly crowd pleasing to the fans.
I was the same. I’ve seen the odd episode here and there and I guess have a basic grasp of the concept but haven’t really gotten into it.
Yet, last night I found myself sitting on the couch eating dinner when it happened to come on and ended up watching the whole thing. And it was surprisingly enjoyable. I might [REDACTED] and check it out from the start of the new series.
Also, I will watch anything with John Hurt.
See, i thought Hurt was the ultimate fantasy casting- “if we could have had any British actor as the Doctor in his prime, who would we get? I know, John Hurt!”Yes.
Yes it was.
If you need a crib sheet on the eps to watch to catch up, let us know. Also @cakesmith.
Most of nu-Who is enjoyable enough, but there are a couple of clunkers
*cough*Fear Her, Love and Monsters*cough*“Couple of clunkers”
Amy.
…*cough*
I liked Pond. That said, she pales next to RORY DESTROYER OF WORLDS
Amy as a character concept is fine. Karen Gillian was…I just can’t stand her. More often than not she just came across as an unbearably bad actor, especially because her idea of emotion was to either hit friends or go dead-pan. However, those episodes were generally made bearable by Rory.
I think she grew into the role. I also felt that she was better written when she was a force of nature, not a meek submissive, which I think the writers realised
*cough*
Anything involving the Weeping Angels after Blink*cough*
Had such a good weekend. Hung out with Sughly at Dreamworld on Saturday. It was amusing how many times we were having deep and meaningful discussions about adventure games midway through rides. XD Mrs. Freeze’s birthday shindig was later in the day and that was pretty great too, though I felt way, way out of my comfort zone and was like early Kotaku DC… scared to talk to people. Also saw Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Friday! Completed Goodbye Deponia too!
Catching Fire was pretty okay. I enjoyed it enough. Jennifer Lawrence is fantastic, as usual. Nice to see the Coldplay really went out of their comfort zone for the song in the credits which definitely didn’t sound like every single Coldplay song ever.
Still lots of plot points I couldn’t suspend disbelief for, but I expected that going into the movie. I thought this one was shot better and better all round.
I might’ve laughed when:
The savage monkeys attacked.BDKIAF, interested in going to Wet N Wild when you’re here in January? Sughly and I were talking about it on the weekend and thought there might be some meat potential there with both you and Rockets in town?
Some of it was a bit much, I suspect that’s how it plays out in the book though, I’ve not read it.
I’m not a huge fan of water parks. I’ll happily go to any of the other theme parks though. Swimming/water parks just aren’t my jam.
Oh, that’s okay then! Just throwing the idea out there! We’ll hit up Wet N Wild some time this summer, but won’t force you to go if it ain’t your thing. Looking forward to hanging out either way though. Going to be good times a-plenty!
Made the mistake of opening up Skyrim(SKYRIM!) at 11pm last night… 2 hours later remembered i start work at 5:30am… I REGRET NOTHING \o/
The Symphony Of Legends on Saturday night ended with Skyrim music. I was looking forward all the way home in the car to playing it when I got home. Then I got home and realised my 360 is brokened. 🙁
Upvote at Symphony of Legends, not brokened 360.
NOOOO, that’s the worst thing that can happen…
Ironic that what made me want to play it was listening to the music in various Youtube videos 😛
What happened to your 360?
It has a weird power problem where sometimes the power brick has no lights and seems dead, and sometimes it has a green light and works fine only to turn off after a few minutes and appear dead again. Gonna get a new power cable and cross my fingers that that’s the problem because I haven’t been able to find anyone on the internet with similar problems that had a solution.
I tried a different power board as well as a different power point but still had the same problems, too so the easiest fixes have been ruled out. 🙁
Almost sounds like (in my completely unprofesional opinion) that the powerbrick could be overheating… is the vents blocked by dust? or is it completely inclosed behind some furniture? (I know mine is) but yeah i tried before my old one was overheating causing issues
Vents are clear and it never felt hot when it turned itself off which is why I’m worried it may not just be the power brick.
… yeah that’s not good… you don’t know someone who could spare a powerbrick for an afternoon while you test? at least that way you’ll know for sure
*deep breathe*
SSSSSSSSSSSSKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SKYRIM!
SKYRIM!
I’m up to lvl 22.
Wow i’m making a lot of posts this morning, but just thought i’d get this off my chest.
TAY, i would like to personally apologise to all of you guys.
I’ve been very (VERY) pessimistic and down over the last few weeks and a feel as though i’ve let it trickle into my discussions on here.
To anyone that i may have hurt/offended/pissed off i would like to sincerely apologise to you (@rize, @dc, off the top of my head)
I have now decided to be an optimist (you can totally do that right? if not i’ve heard gratuitus amounts of alcohol help)
So yeah, please, if i say something wrong, feel free to tell me, because you guys don’t need that crap because you’re awesome! EVERY.DAMN.ONE!
Pixel, I don’t know why you’re apologizing. You’ve never done any thing wrong, at least to me. That boys club thing was about TAY in general and not you. You wouldn’t have even been an example if I was a jerk (more so) and was naming names. XD
Hope your new attitude serves you well, though. I’ve been feeling grumpy and moody for the last week or so. Maybe I should do this optimistic thing too. 😀
You’re awesome and I won’t stand for your Pixel bashing any longer.
This most be the guy version of synchronised PMS then? 😛
*throws dinner plate*
XD
Always look on the bright side of life my friend, you’ll be right
Life’s a happy song, Pixel!
Life’s a piece of shit!
When you look at it,
Life’s a laugh
and death’s a joke
It’s true,
You’ll see it’s all a show,
keep on laughing as you go,
just remember that the last laugh is on you
aaaand it’s stuck on my head! 😛
It’s ok, I’m pretty sure it’s all just lost in translation.
Well played, sir, well played…
Now to content with the weird stares i’m getting from around the office for bursting out laughing while it was completely quiet XD
I share because I care.
God you’re shit.
But only a little.you’ll make an excellent father! 😛
Learn how he likes his coffee and you’ll make an excellent son.
There’s just something about calling @rize for “Daddy” that doesn’t click with me…
well except that one time, but there was ALOT of alcohol…
*hugs*
Cradled in Love
😉
I don’t recall you being at all objectionable. *hugs*
I just felt like everything that came out of my mouth was negative swill, and felt like i’ve stepped on some toes, and that’s not fair…
I’m glad most people haven’t read anything into it, i’ve only spent the last week being grumpy about it 😛 i felt the need to clear the air… i do that from time to time, I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO LOVE ME!
I think you can, but when drinking you need to ensure your glass is half full
Good Morning Everyone, Happy PS4 week.
Excitetruck!!!!
Read that as
Excrete-truck….
#truestory
#relevant
#noonecares
#hashtagsforHarli
I’d play the shit out of Excrete-Truck.
Saints Row 2 had the poop spraying side quest, they shoulda called that excrete truck
IIRC you could just drive that around in free roam too. 🙂
funniest memory of that was playing online with a friend, he hadn’t done the missions and didn’t know it existed, he turned up in a shiny sports car he’d just modded and was all proud of, so i sprayed it with poop and laughed at him while he tried to flee.
So damn psyched. Missed you at the meat on the weekend you crazy non-meater! 😛
PIRATE’S CREED. WOOO!
Hola Tay
Boring Saturday, busy Sunday.
Went and saw DOCTOR WHO on the big screen. Just before the session started, got a text that the trainer for the training session I’d organised for TODAY had gastro.
Watched Who (Awesome, also
CAPALDI!), ate dumplings, then did a mercy dash to the office to call all the participants and cancel. Now, less than twelve hours later, I’m back in the office.A Monday Morning Question: Over the years, Doctor Who has crossed over with a couple of things, including two generations of Star Trek and the soap Eastenders. What video game should the Doctor appear in?
Fallout!
I know the Tardis had an easter egg appearance in 1 or 2, and also the robot dog in 2 maybe??? but an actual mission with The Doctor, would be awesome.
Assassin’s Creed!
Can just imagine the Doctor pointing his Sonic Screwdriver at you trying to figure out why you’re not quite right. 😀
I’m sorrryyyyy
I want the doc in pretty much any JRPG. He’d possibly fit in a bit too well.
You spoony Time Lord!
Bioshock, especially Infinite.
A different sort of Impossible GirlMass Effect.
Reapers vs Daleks would be a hell of a thing
Custer’s Revenge.
I’d like to see him cross over into a Doctor Who game that’s good.
Yeah, people have said a Telltale game and after seeing last nights 50th dealy, I think it’d fit!
See, I think the Doctor as a playable character is a little OP. That said, one where you play as a companion would be pretty cool.
Honestly, I think to make a Doctor Who game good you simply can’t play as him, at any point.
Yep. The main problem then is you don’t get any real agency- the second you hit a significant snag, the Doctor comes in and saves the day. maybe a Captain Jack game?
UNIT Game, ala XCom? The Doctor could just provide advice from afar on alien technologies, or tell the UNIT team where they have to go to protect Earth.
UNIT works best when they’re not exactly on the same page as the Doctor, but a Unit game with cameos could be cool.
Darksiders or Gears of War.
Because of reasons.
When Dishonered first came out, I really tried to like the game, but it just didn’t click with me.
There was nothing wrong with it and I enjoyed the story, alternate ways to complete the missions and loved Blink, but for some reason I just could not get into it.
On Saturday I saw that they were having a 50% off sale for the game and its add-ons, so for the first time in maybe 8-10 months, thought what the hell, i’ll give it another try.
Ended up spending nearly all of Saturday playing and loving it.
I still find it starnge ( Hi @strange ) that there can be some games that initially you just can’t quite get into, but later start loving.
So people of TAY, what games have you had this experience with?
Elder Scrolls games. Couldn’t get into Morrowind. Loving Skyrim.
SKYRIM!
Did you ever play Oblivion? Of the three I found it to be the weakest.
Never played it, watched housemates play part of it. Something about the look of Oblivion put me off, too shiny and the chars were too weightless.
Which is weird, because i played a bunch of Fallout 3 which was on the same engine.
I ended up skipping Oblivion. Compared to the exotic landscape and lore in Morrowind (which I adored), Oblivion was downright bland and generic.
My last time playing Morrowind:
I was constantly stabbing at a wolf in the head *whoosh whoosh whoosh* and the wolf just kills me in multiple hits where my shield doesn’t do anything.
I can’t pick up a game after that…
After playing Oblivion (my first ES game), I picked up Morrowind, and that was my major problem with it.
I’m aiming at this enemy, I can see my weapon hitting it, but I keep missing over and over and over again.
The only guy I ever manage to kill is the assassin that comes for you in the middle of the night… which is really annoying overall.
A tip I heard, and it helped the first time I played Morrowind, at the start of the game turn down the difficulty to zero. Then for every level you increse, add 10 points of difficulty.
This helps with the crappy hit ratio at the beginning, while maintaining a staedy level of difficulty.
I would really recommend giving it another try, because the world of Morrowind is simply amazing.
Mass Effect and Dragon Age. It’s really weird because I loved the earlier Bioware stuff (Kotor, Jade Empire) and the later Bioware stuff is very mechanically and thematically similar, if not the same.
I really didn’t like Dishonoured. I figured the game would be somewhat redeemed when I started getting into combat, but it made it tedious and unenjoyable.
In terms of coming back to a game and loving it, I can’t really think of one off the top of my head, but I know there’s been a few.
Any game that lets me play as sneaky killer Nightcrawler is OK in my book.
The idea is fantastic (though if it was actually Nightcrawler I’d be far happier) but it just all felt a bit bad. Maybe I was overhyped for it, or something.
When I first played Dark Souls I didn’t really enjoy it. Then I picked it up again a year later and fell absolutely in love with it. More so then any other game before hand.
We’ve had our patchy road Dark Souls but I will always love you. =’)
One day you’ll play The Last of Us and love it. HOW COULD I HAVE JUDGED YOU SO HARSHLY?
Then all will be right with the world.
I’m sure I will in your fanfic. =P
Oh you have before and you will again. >:|
It always seems to be RPGs for me (despite the fact that RPG is one of my favourite genres).
When I first played Fallout 3, I enjoyed the vault bit at the start, but when you got out into the world I didn’t enjoy it as much. Eventually I did get around to playing the whole thing, and really loved it, and then after playing New Vegas (which I initially didn’t care was coming out but got anyway because everyone was talking about it) I am now in love with the series.
Mass Effect I didn’t care too much for to begin with. I mean, I liked the game, but I wasn’t super in love with it. Then came Mass Effect 2 and it is now one of my favourite franchises of all time.
Dragon Age was a big one for me. I loved the very start with the city elf origin, but after that I found myself not really getting too into the game. It took me multiple restarts, and months over all, to finally get around to finishing it. I got half way on my elf rogue, stopped playing for ages, decided when I came back to start a new character, got half way on my new human mage, stoppinged playing for ages, came back again and started another new character, got half way on my new human warrior, stopped playing yet again and then when I came back I decided to just pick up where I’d left off on my human warrior.
Since then I’ve started a bunch more new characters (though never played them through to completion) and started three DA2 characters (though only one I completed the game with, the other two I only got up to act 2) and DA:I is now one of my most hyped games for 2014.
You could possibly add The Witcher to the list. When The Witcher 2 was coming out and everyone was mega hyped for that, I picked up the original game just to see what it was like (I’d been hearing good things about it for years). I ended up sinking about 30 hours into the game and got about half way through it, but that was over the course of about two years. It was an okay game, but it hadn’t aged well and did a lot of things poorly. I eventually decided I was never going to finish it and so picked up The Witcher 2 when it was on sale and started playing through that.
Despite the fact that I was enjoying it and it was a solidly built game, I only got about halfway through chapter one before I stopped playing it for some reason. I started playing it again this weekend, and I’m approaching the end of chapter two and really enjoying it. The problem is, I like the game, and I really want to love it, but there’s little things that are keeping me from fully embracing it (mainly how blatantly fanservicy and sexist it is).
Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls. Took me several attempts to get into both games.
Ended up being two of my favourite games of all time ever.
But you’re the ambassador for Dark Souls!
I refuse to believe there was a time when you didn’t like it…
YOU’RE THE ENTIRE REASON WHY I STARTED TO PLAY IT! 😛
I’m sure I’ve posted this many times in TAY, but those games (more than any other I’ve played) seem to require some investment before they really click with gamers. @strange had a theory I agree with: that if they persevere, each gamer gets a ‘moment’ in a Souls game, usually by overcoming a difficult challenge, and they finally get the game.
My moment in Demon’s Souls came about 2/3 through Area 1-1:
The blue-eyed knight on the staircase rushed me, and I engaged in sword play with him (where previously, I had taken him from range with the Soul Arrow spell). When it was over, my heart was beating like crazy and I realised that I was on my feet. That was when the game clicked with me.In Dark Souls, the moment wasn’t quite so profound, but I took down
Havel The Rock in the Undead Burg during my first playthrough by dodging each and every blow. One mistake meant death. But I kept dodging and slashing at him. It took almost half an hour, but I took him down. Hooked.I think mine was
The first Titanite Demon, Near Andre of Astora,
Might be an easy foe for most, but took me a bloody long time and left me so satisfied when i was done… Havel the rock still beats me to a pulp though 😛
Wow, you stuck with it a while before getting the moment! 🙂
I kept having small moments through out
killing the Taurus Demon, and the Twin Gargoyles was pretty awesome,
but i kept feeling that i killed them through “cheating the system”
Taurus Demon fell to his death and Gargoyles pretty much killed each other XD.
so i never got ‘dat Dark Souls Feeling’ till i killed the Titanite Demon ALL BY MYSELF…
There may have been fist pumping and manly roars involved
The Witcher… Very much so…
Restarted Multiple times, and could only get up to act 2 before i got bored…
Decided “To hell with it” earlier this month and restarted once again.
Got massivly into the story (the actual gameplay is still oh so flawed) and ended up completing it…
Now onto the Witcher 2, and i’m so glad i finished 1 so i could start it, because HOLY CRAP SO GOOD!
I understand some people don’t like it, but i love the living crap out of it…
So pretty! (almost Skyrim! Pretty, but in a different way)
Mechanics are a helluva-lot better (still not perfect),
and once again the story is just awesome!
Oh man, both the Witcher games had this for me too. Played the first bit of both, liked it a lot but then got pulled away for years by other stuff and then got attracted back by the expanded editions and finally finished the games and they are amazing
Red Dead Redemption. Only now I’m 7.5hrs or so in, and it’s getting old again. I actually played Undead Nightmare first, and this started annoying me after 2hrs with stupid mechanics. RDR is now annoying me due to the constant horse riding. It’d be okay if you could just go in a straight line, but for any kind of speed you need to follow tracks.
Can’t think of any others off the top of my head.
Bioshock
Thought the opening was amazing but then go bogged down in fights and pretty much stopped after the first big daddy fight. Wasn’t until much later that I went back and played it again and enjoyed it much more. Some day I’ll actually get around to finishing it
Final Fantasy XII. Hated that game so much the first time, ran myself into a corner where my levels were all shot and I hadn’t built everyone properly and every boss fight was too hard and I eventually hit one that was impossible. Abandoned it.
Came back about a year later armed with a power leveling guide for the early game, and with a bit of early grinding I was able to get some quality gear, build everyone up with specific stats in mind etc. and get the Zodiac Spear really early, and as a result I was able to really enjoy the plot and everything.
Also had a similar experience with Xenoblade. Tried to start it several times but the weird character models and initially super-clunky battle system and everything just didn’t work for me. Then I decided to push through it for a bit and it began to sink its teeth in, and I think it’s when I picked up some extra characters and swapped out Reyn for a different tank that everything really started to come together and now I’d say it’s one of the best games of the last generation.
I really didn’t enjoy Bioshock when I first played it, even traded it in.
Months later I dreamt about it, bought it, loved it. *shrug*
Good Monday morning everyone. I have some apologies to make. Sorry to @freezespreston for not being able to make it to his wife’s birthday. I hope she had a good birthday. Also apologies to all of the other Brisbane Taybies who were there. I shall meet you all eventually.
Sorry also to @strange for not organising anything with the Symphony of Legends. We already Twittered each other about it but I still felt kinda bad about not doing anything either before or after (the weather certainly didn’t help matters).
On that note though, Symphony of Legends was pretty good. I was late so I missed the Halo theme but the rest was pretty fantastic. All of the Blizzard stuff was stupendously good and my favourite track for the night is probably a tie between Hyperion Overture from Starcraft 2 and Isle of Creation from God of War 2. Mind you, the Grim Fandango stuff was superb and the Journey and Heavy Rain suites were absolutely sublime.
Funnily enough, I didn’t enjoy the Skyrim Dragonborn theme nearly as much as I thought I would. I suppose it’s because the rest of the orchestra tended to drown out the vocals which is a shame.
Aw man, I forgot they were doing Heavy Rain music. That’s easily one of my favourite OSTs this generation! Sounds like good times a-plenty, my friend! Don’t worry about the meat stuff too. There’s more on the horizon. @ruffleberg is in town not this weekend, but next… there’ll be meats then! MORE MEATS, MORE OF THE TIME.
No need for apologies! I felt kinda bad I hadn’t organised something more concrete with you, anyway.
I was in the very front row so the choir was really loud for me. It’s a shame they weren’t as audible further back though, because they did a pretty awesome job.
Did Joe tell you about those creepy Kotaku people he met at Supanova? XD
Yeah, he mentioned some nice guy called Danfortheages that I don’t know, though. 😛
Man, what sort of user name is that? WHAT A JERK! MUST BE FLU!
Oh wow. Those must have been some awesome seats. I was off to the right side of the stage on the second floor which was still fairly close to the choir but I guess it was just a matter of ambience. Was still good though! 😀
Dammit South Park, I’ve got their game of thrones theme song from the last episode stuck in my head.
weiner, weiner weiner, weiner weiner, one weiner next to another, weiner weiner, weiner weiner….. dammtFreeze showed us that on Saturday night. The song, not the, uh… never mind. XD
Hi @strange!
Now that the important stuff is out of the way…
Question for TAYbies who have high-demand jobs and/or childrens:
How do you find time to maintain gaming?
Orphanage!
ebay.
With difficulty and sacrifice of sleep.
This.
My free time comprises sleeping, gaming, and social life mainly. I only ever maximise two of these things. (Hint: it’s sleeping that loses).
After everyone goes to sleep. Or, an hour or so every couple of days.
I can’t mainline gaming like I used to.
I wish it were socially acceptable to have a gaming shed in the backyard, like a men’s shed where men used to tinker, but where I can get my game on.
Who cares if it’s “socially acceptable”? If you want a game shed, go right ahead and do it!
I tried doing that when I was a kid because I kept getting kicked off the TV. Set up a little TV and a pillow to sit on in the garage.
Then I realised that the garage was horribly cold and windy. At which point I also realised why my parents agreed to let me set it up in the first place 😛
Hi @zap! 😀
I find that because gaming is stress-relief for me that I have to make time for it or I’m no good for my high demand parenting job.
The time I usually put aside for gaming is after dinner, after my 4yo goes to bed at 7 and before my 12yo goes to bed at 8:30. This way it doesn’t impact upon husband time, either. It used to be during my son’s naptime but he doesn’t nap anymore.
Another handy thing if you’re struggling to find the time to game is portable consoles. I find I can fit a lot more portable gaming in than any other type these days.
I just buy games and stare at them every night because I’m too mentally tired to actually play them.
It is pretty much the same as playing them, I think.
I find when I’m tired (so, all the time 😛 ) that the more “nothing” I do, like just bumming around on the internet or whatever, then the worse and more tired I feel. Sometimes you just need to force yourself to do something and you discover you don’t feel as tired any more because you’re having fun.
I had “fun” once.
It was awful!
Neglect personal responsibilities… not really, just don’t shower.. or you know…
I get maybe an hour in a day if i’m lucky, (REALLY LUCKY), but i’ve learned that that way i actually appreciate a game more then if i poured hours and hours into it a day…
I usually tell the missus on a day off that “right, i plan to do some gaming at some point today” and she goes “OK” and then we do whatever she wants (I kid, i kid)
but yeah, just accept that it is not going to happen as often, and appreciate it when it does.
*shrug* I have no idea how it works. Timey wimey wibbly swirly thing.
Recently, most of my gaming time has been commute time (and has forced me back into handhelds), but I can still squeeze in an hour or two at night if there’s a console game demanding my attention. I sleep five hours a night, so there is that to consider…
Oh, and I wouldn’t say that in my case, it’s a habit that’s been maintained. It’s definitely something that occurs in irregular staccato bursts.
Still, with a full-time job, two point five kids, a writing career, and quality wife time all taking priority over games, it’s a miracle I get in any gaming! 🙂
Edit: Oh! Having no social life helps!
6 hours here on average o/
and i don’t even have kids… a Wife and 2 dogs though 😛
Having no IRL friends to keep in touch with :P. Teamspeak is a big help in this regard
Usually I get home so drained I just watch youtube the rest of the evening, and maybe one or two LoL games if I’m lucky. I got a huge pile of shame due to this strategy and I might need to reconfigure my schedule files.
Not having a social life helps.
Generally I game in any time that I would usually watch TV. I also grab a bit of time during lunch to play a puzzle game or something a couple of times a week.
I’m sure things will change once I have kids, at the moment it’s just running a company so I can generally just play when I want without worry about other people.
Morning TAY. I was on the sunny coast for an 11 year old’s Nerf war birthday party on Saturday. We had bases set up and had games of CTF with 20+ kids in the park. It made me feel like a kid again, until i was exhausted and they were all still running around shooting each other. Haha. It was awesome.
The fiance and i went to Sirromet Winery at Mt Cotton with two of our best friends yesterday, was lots of fun, so humid though, i was dying from the heat. Food and wine is good. 😉
Was literally hanging out to play games all weekend, i actually wasn’t feeling particularly social. I managed to finish a couple of races in Forza 4 yesterday afternoon.
I love how you juxtaposed kidstuff with grown-up stuff there. Sounds like a great weekend. 😀
I just wish that i was in a better mood for socialising. Oh and i forgot, we went and saw Catching Fire with our friends last night.
Thoughts: Jennifer Laurence is still awesome, and beautiful. Peeta isn’t as much of a pussy in this one. Camera work was a lot better, story better. I so wasn’t ready for it to end when it did. I want more!!
After using the word “apologies” earlier I now have Sinead O’Connor’s’ cover of Nirvana’s “All Apologies” stuck in my head. Think I need to go dig up my copy of Universal Mother now.
“saying ‘i apologise’ is basically the same as saying ‘i’m sorry.’ except at a funeral.”
Morning all. Just a quick one: those of you who received their Link Between Worlds exclusive preorder – did the items all come in a nice collector box or was the treasure chest just given to you in a wanky plastic protector alongside the game?
*EB Games Australian edition. Not the UK import.
A wanky plastic protector.
TBH I wasn’t even expecting the chest because I left my pre-order so late. The quality of the audio in the chest is pretty poor though.
Ugh, that sucks. Hopefully the UK import I ordered (late) is better. Will inform.
ACHEIVEMENT GET!
MARRIED MAN!
http://tinypic.com/r/15popkw/5
We had seriously the best time ever! Things seriously couldn’t have gone better! Plus as an extra ego boost, quite a few people told us it was the best/most emotional/most fun wedding they ever been too.
Also my speach was a HIT!
Sooo stoked.
As you can see, bee also looked absolutely stunning.
OFF TO NOOSA TONIGHT!!!
i was about to say, W…T…F ARE YOU DOING HERE MANG? 😛
edit – Oh, yeah, and congratz XD… DING, LEVEL UP and that stuff… FOR THE EMPEROR
Congratumalations!
Your wife is hotCongratulations!EDIT: So half of that joke disappeared and now it looks kinda sleazy, so I’m going to leave it here and label it a tribute to Loops!
*canned laughter*
That’s our Rize
Congratulations battle brother 🙂
May you have many many more years of happiness to come for both of you!
Grats, guy!
Gratz! And gratz on wearing a tie with the vest and proving me right! 😛 (you proooobably have no idea wtf I’m talking about)
I don’t!
Elaborate, please 😛
My best friend got married a few weeks ago, we wore basically the same as you wore, but no matter how many people told him and no matter how much I pushed he refused to wear a tie (yet made his groomsmen wear one) and I kept telling him it looked silly but noooo, he didn’t want to.
Urgh. It annoyed me more than it should of 😛
Congrats, Loops!
So very very pretty. And Bee scrubbed up well too.
Did you do a written speech or just wing it. I just went for it and mine was awesome as well. At least I think it was, it made Mrs Tigs cry so it was either really good or really bad.
Written. I’ll see if i can get the transcript up.. i was pretty proud of myself.
Even made the word “maelstrom” fit in
That’s so awesome, man. Congrats. You both look pretty damn spiffy too!
Oh, that reminds me, how’d the guests react to the baby stuff? 😀
Really like the Xbone. The interface takes some getting used to, but now that I’m getting used to it I like it. Not a big fan of install times but oh well. I suppose there’s a point where it’s just necessary. Forza 5 got most of my attention over the weekend and likely will until my wife is several hours ahead of me in Dead Rising 3 so I don’t spoiler her.
On the upside, Forza 5 is great. I can see why people are complaining about it being “microtransaction-y” because yeah, it has a lot of little prompts to get you to use tokens, and holds some nice cars out of reach until you pay extra for the DLC (which you then still have to buy with in-game credits before you can use?) but I don’t get the “grindy” complaints. You’re playing a game about racing. You earn credits by racing and you use them to buy more cars. I’m not sure what people expected. What is the complaint here? That you have to do races to do more races? Welcome to every racing game ever, guys.
I like the driveatar, and I think it works well. I have something like 21% sync on mine and it’s been appearing in my wife’s races. Watching her chase it is immensely satisfying, and I can see my driving habits in it, see it make critical mistakes I would make, take lines I would take, etc.
Battlefield 4 looks great, and I am trying very hard to get over my frustration at online multiplayer in general to enjoy it.
I don’t like FIFA but I will give it more of a try. I think my mistake was doing the skill minigames and treating them like basic how-to tutorials, when really they are designed for more experienced players to refine their skills. I think if I just start doing some games I will enjoy it more.
We picked up Just Dance 2014 for something fitnessy/active to do. We were going to wait for Dance Central 4 but I don’t know if that will ever actually happen so Just Dance will tide us over. I haven’t tried it yet but I look forward to it.
On that note, I also tried out Xbox Fitness and my abs are still aching after a 10 minute core workout late on Friday. Looking forward to getting a lot more use out of this in the future.
tl;dr: xbone is good stuff and I am glad I got it at launch
Played a bunch of XCOM: EW on the weekend. There seems to be a standard way my missions are going lately:
@powalen gets shot and panics, running AT the enemy, @cakesmith the heavy is always out of position and arrives at every fight late, @pixel_the_ferret_viking attempts to snipe something and misses EVERY TIME, @scree the sniper leaps onto a building with her cybernetically enhanced legs and starts killing everything (eventually saving the day), and @strange the medic runs around keeping everyone alive (and I assume lecturing them about poor tactical decisions).
It’s a complete reflection of real life.
EDIT: Oh, and @masha2932 the heavy initiates a fight, gets injured immediately and takes 2 weeks off.
*nods* yep, that seems pretty accurate XD
Edit – Actually if he adds a *Blam* *Missed* SORRY! then it’s pretty much me to a tee
Fixed.
Well, there was no Swedish voice in the game, so I made him German. Now he just sounds angry when he misses.
….don’t take him on any missions to Poland.
Shut uuuuppp… Otherwise you force me to break out my schüttenboomen… you don’t want that now do you?
I can imagine @scree apologising after shooting the enemies. =P
I made her Russian for some reason so I can only assume she is.
I’m sorry? I have no idea what is going on
Man I really want to play it myself now, start an army of TAYbies and machines alike working together against an alien menace. I mean who wouldn’t want HK-47 watching your back, meatbags? 🙂
About time you played it, you’ve been missing out!
The last time I played. I was doing a “save the VIP” mission. I was doing great then @rocketman got grazed by a bullet for 1 damage. He panicked and shotgunned the VIP point blank.
I lol’d the moment I pictured Rocketman panicking and taking the shot xD
I pretty much have 2 squads running now. Is it just me, or did the game crank up the difficulty with EW? I don’t remember having people out for so often in my last play through.
That my main squad is led by @dkzeitgeist and they are pretty successful worries me.
EDIT: And better to arrive late, know what I’m saying? …because I’m less likely to get shot.
Originally had shot in the face and that made my comment even dirtier.I’m getting a lot more injuries and deaths this time around too. Quite often I’ll just get massively critted out of nowhere.
Also, I’m getting a lot more female soldiers? Like, 70% women, both starting units and recruits.
Well… I’m sold for joining your cause, sign me up! 😛
Yep, lots of in my game too. Not a complaint, just an observation.
And yeah, the 1 death I’ve had (RIP Klutar) was because suddenly a Floater came out of nowhere and killed him with 1 critical hit.
I had that happen to @f4ction in the second or third mission.
Hey, running at the enemy is a legitimate strategy, okay!
Because they least expect it!
I played some Zelda: Link Between Worlds. It was great.
Then I played some more Zelda: Link Between Worlds, and it was fantastic!
Then I played even more Zelda: Link Between Worlds, and my brain fell out because it’s everything I had hoped for! The music, the dungeons, the nods to LttP…. I am in Zelda heaven.
I’m already stuck in it.
Can’t get the last pearl. The one in the temple surrounded by water. I can’t even get to the temple. XDTurtle Rock? I did that first (random selection). The boss hits really freaking hard, so I don’t recommend it with a lack of hearts (or faeries)
Have you rescued the 3 turtles so you can get a ride on the mothers back to gain entrance?I think @sernobulus is talking about the House of Gales, in which case, he needs to
go north to Zora’s Domain, then follow the quest to get the flippers to be able to swim.I kept forgetting I could turn into a painting to start with. It’s a great mechanic.
Yeah. I like that it’s used everywhere, so even though there’s no dungeon order, there’s still plenty of puzzles that keep you thinking.
Cody, did you receive your PS4 yet? @ynefel
Yeah, got mine from Amazon last Thursday.
Oh man, just remembered. MARIO THIS WEEKEND! Can’t believe how hyped I am for this game. Looks soooo good. (I already have so much Nintendo stuff to play! XD)
Oh man, I didn’t catch up on the reviews and videos on the weekend. D: I don’t even understand why it’s called 3D world!
Oh yeah, I finished my first playthrough of Catherine. It is a really great game, the balance between the nightmare puzzles and Stray Sheep was perfect. To anyone who has gotten most of the endings, which ones should I aim to get first? I ended up getting the “Normal Freedom” ending.
I got stuck in that game. One of my biggest gaming regrets is not finishing it 🙂
It was quite hard, especially when they threw ice blocks into the mix D:
The bit where I got stuck was
when Catherine is attacking, and you have to keep Katherine safe. No matter what I did, she never lasted long. 🙁Ah yeah, that bit got me for a few turns.
Nice, it’s still on my backlog. Free from PS+ !
So, I’ll be moving in 2 days (just to the other side of Parramatta) and I apparently won’t be able to get cable internet there.
Whose the best to go with for adsl2 these days? tpg?
I’ve always found Internode to be the best if you can get them. Brilliant customer service.
I’m looking at going with their 150gb adsl2 naked plan
I’ve been with iinet for the last year or so and barely had any issues. Customer service has been pretty top whenever I’ve had to contact them.
You moving in with a friend of just living by yourself?
Moving by myself.
I told Gorzy to ask you if you wanted to move in D=
He hats me. =(
Plus I live in Queensland so it might be a little bit out of the way. =P
But then you get to live in Sydney with all the kewl kids.
I will just move in with you cake. You a big spoon or little? =P
OH GOD I DON’T WANT TO BE EATEN!
tpg has awesome deals and is very reliable….
I went with Internode when I moved, on TAYbie suggestion. They had a special deal on (probably still running if you want to check) and they’ve been pretty good so far!
Snacktaku: As well as going to see The Day of The Doctor yesterday, I also had a really amazing meal. Potato wedges with bacon and melted cheese on top. It was pretty much like a pizza with wedges as a base. I give it 55 Ultra Shiggys.
...........PS4 WEEK!!!!! \o/\o/\o/Let me know if you drill through this far enough!!!
EDIT: FAIL. Tried placing spoiler tag within spoiler tag, within spoiler tag….
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TAYinception.
indeed… :`(
So yesterday while watching the Day of the Doctor with my wife, my little 14month old guy was playing around with his blocks at our feet.
I felt a tug on my leg, look down to see him one leg up on the couch.
Tapped my wife on the shoulder, she looks down.
He slowly climbs up onto the couch, then sits there with the biggest grin on his face. He wanted to get down and do it again, so he threw himself head first off the couch (I caught him, thank the power of greyskull).
So TAYbies, any help on how to stop little one’s from death via couch?
Pillows on the floor. You’ll never be able to stop him from jumping.
I like the way Enahs thinks.
Remove your current flooring and replace with pillows.
Or trampolines. Man, I want a trampoline floor.
Baby crash helmet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I Googled and it exists.
http://www.thudguard.com/product-info
Ninja Edit: @benny – think of it, and it shall be google-able.
Don’t get the little one up on the couch and count to 3 before they jump into your arms. My little niece enjoyed that so much she would just do it anywhere. Remember being told and not thinking anything of it until I was there. The first time i saw it we were watching TV, she gets up on the couch and 1, 2, 3 jumps off at the floor next to her Dad who caught her. Crazy kid I think.
Then later on we were in the kitchen area having a cup of tea. From the other room, where is isn’t any adults we hear 1, 2, 3. Big bro rushes into the other room. I look in and she has climbed half way up a full size book shelf, reach 3 in her counting and jumped backwards. Crazy kid.
Ummmm not sure how that helps, something to look forward to I guess
Gee, thanks.
I’d better just ring the wife, you know, just to see how he is and not to check up on whether he’s broken his arm already no sir not at all.
Just buy one of these
Morning, TAY.
Feel like I’m running on fumes… 🙁
Weekend should be good, though. 😀
23 in five days! \o/
Nice! Got any big plans?
Hoffbrauhaus in Melbourne on Saturday night!
Planning to down as much beer and fit in as much pork knuckle as is humanly possible.
\o/
NO WAY… it’s almost like the 1990 is like your birthday :O….
seriously though congratz, what’s the plan?
All the coolest kids ever were born in 1990! \o/
…i was born in 88, so technically i’m more a 90’s kid because i don’t remember the 80’s but i sure as shit remember the 90’s(good times, best cartoons) 😛
actually being remotely productive today;
Finished off a PHP page i’ve been writing for work,
Done some boring BAU stuff,
Continuing my self learning in Object Oriented Programming
Dappling with Java programming (because most of our systems are java based), which is pretty easy in terms of syntax when you’ve done PHP… for now anyway…
I’M LEARNING STUFF AND HAVING (somewhat) FUN DOING IT \o/
*shudders*
I just realised i’m actually working… I KNOW HAVE TO BRING EVERYTHING INTO QUESTION, EVER!
Yay PHP and Java! Yeah, syntax is pretty similar due to the whole object orientated nature n stuffs. I did the above at uni, it’s pretty handy to have basic knowledge of the stuff.
That’s what i figured,
I have to find a way to develop my career, and none of the stuff i’m currently doing is going to assist me outside of this company…
so a bit of self-initiative and hammer normal stuff out of the way early on leads to a knowledgeable Pixel 😛
Once you’ve learnt one, it’s easy to learn another!
That’s what i’ve been told,
But so far, my brain did not function properly when it come to understand the process flow for OOP and programming in general…
So i’ve made it my proverbial White Whale… I WILL GET THAT SUCKER \o/
GYAAAAAAARH
*flips table, storms out, moves to tibet*
Aaaaaaand, story go time!
Work bollocks.
Fallout from the cancellation of the training session today coupled with all the OTHER shit I was expected to do this week.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
#helping
Actually no, i’ve promised to be positive, let me fix that
(╯°◡°)╯︵ ┬─┬
Hola. Weekend was pretty okay, didn’t do much of anything apart from some cleaning. Had last (?) DnD session with full crew, since one guy is leaving for greener pastures in Melb. We discussed PAX cosplay ideas and we kinda have something do-able. Made me all excited for it and to meet random internet strangers and eat lots of ramen n stuff.
What are your cosplay ideas?
Unless they’re a secret.
(In which case, tell us anyway)
Well, partially secret I guess, because my friend thinks it’s very unlikely for people to do this for a group cosplay.
But, apparently a while ago there was a ‘classy Minecraft’ update that had most characters in suits or similar. I tend to agree with my friend, plus it’s a pretty practical cosplay (easy to undress if we get hot, etc) and pretty easy to do. We have enough of us to have the character/skeleton/creeper/pigman etc, plus a female to add. Should be fun.
So Day of the Doctor in the Cinema was amazing. Like exceeded all expectations. Lately Doctor Who seems to be “DARKNESS DARKNESS WOO DARK DEPRESSION” but this episode had so many positive parts and Smith and Tennant have such good on-screen chemistry.
I had a really good weekend, followed by a horrid Monday morning but now i feel so much better. I think it was just hunger.
MUSE and METRIC in 2 weeks.
14th of november we are having a meet in sydney too. Everyone who can make it should come. 🙂
You bought a TARDIS when you saw Day of the Doctor?
We ended up seeing it at the movies last night too. It was rad. One of the better uses of 3D too, which was unexpected. John Hurt was fantastic, it’s really a shame that he didn’t get a full series to show off in.
JOhn Hurt was really really good. It showed a whole other side of the doctor. The 3d was extremely well done.
14th November?
Where did you manage to find a DeLorean with a working Flux Capacitor?
We have tonnes of Flux capacitors at work. They are not that interesting.
MUSE HYPE.
I’m only there for the Friday, so we’ll have to have a drink before Muse.
im there all friday cause i fly in on the thursday for metric the night before 🙂
Radical. I’m staying at the Novotel at Olympic Park, so I’ll have to meet you out there for beer(s).
JAPAN GROUP MARCH 2015
Have received quotes from a couple of suppliers. Just need to make a few changes, then I will be posting something tomorrow or Wednesday, with an itinerary and prices…
Stay tuned 😀
ohhh i am actually kind of keen. DAMN IT NOVA
I’m making note of everyone who has expressed some sort of interest and I will make sure I tag them when I post up the full itinerary.
When will we need to confirm ourselves by?
Not sure yet. Thats something I’ll need to confirm with my manager when he gets back from Hong Kong next week. I believe that it will be a $500 per person deposit when you want to confirm your place and then final payment around January 2015. I’ll get all these details soon
PERSONA 5 BABEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!!
oh and hi, how are you? i’m feeling very persona 5 today. persona… 5…
i’m so happy… i..
“I’ve been waiting for this!”
My entire emotions can be explained in this one link.
PERSONA 4 DANCE ALL NIGHT! \o/
ITS PERSONA SO I’LL PLAY IT!!
ALSO PERSONA Q LOOKS SUPER RAD
IT IS A GOOD DAY TO BE A PERSONA FAN
NUMENERA
For those who came in late: http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Session is this Wed, 7:30 SA time. What will the adventurers find in Charmonde?
@novacascade @mythamphetamine @popdart5 @tech_knight @tigerion @blaghman @mawt
Unfortunately we will be farewelling Adahn aka @transientmind, he’s got other, weightier things on his plate.
That’s a shame. I will give you a send-off most worthy of you @transientmind.
We still gotta decide on our choices of loot, chaps!
Whoever rocks up on Wednesday gets a piece of the pie. The dibs system works people!
I’m leaning towards the corroding damage sphere more than the exploding arrow cuz Scrappa likes grenade-like contraptions 😉
I should be right to be there this week. I totally messed up my weeks and thought last time was the ‘off’ week
So Pathfinder Druids are kind of OP. My players are going to hate me next session. Particularly when I have a note that says “The Elephant will show up in 10 rounds. It has two primary attacks and a trample attack that deals 2d8 + 15, reflex save for half. Subtly hint that the spiked pit might be a good idea.” >:D
One of my favourite GMs brought the Draconomicon to a first session for one of his campaigns (4th edition); making sure to have it sitting atop his pile of source books. He used it in quite an intimidating fashion, flicking between pages marked with post-its every time we took a step. It was mostly just a ruse though; we did indeed fight two black dragon wrymlings, which are an encounter level 4 for a standard level 1 party (so, the hardest difficulty he could set without guaranteeing a total party kill).
He tried to kill us a lot that session actually, the next encounter was also level 4 and consisted of a small army of goblins (16 all up, I think).
There’s always a careful balance between trying to kill the party and just giving them a bunch of goons to murder. I thought I’d balanced it last session but my dice let me down and the party downed the boss too quickly (to be honest, if they got hit by the boss they were most likely dead). It’s kind of disheartening to realise that you’re ultra-mega-death boss lasted all of 12 seconds before being pulverised.
Next session is going to be interesting because there are going to be a tonne of mobs to deal with.
I like the “minion” subtype in 4e. They let your players feel badass – there’s nothing like a warrior literally wading through a mess of bodies as he strides up to a boss – but can also help to lull them into a false sense of security – there’s nothing like that warrior then taking a swing at the boss, who shrugs it off, laughs, and counter attacks. They can also still pack some heavy hits or sneaky abilities.
I once created a kind of ‘splody zealot minion; on death, they would deal small aoe damage, which could chain. The first few encounters they kind of rushed at different players, hoping that they’d work it out. They didn’t; so when the during the boss fight, waves of minions were ordered to swarm. The look on their faces as 1 detonated a chain reaction and nearly dropped the tank was priceless.
Getting a boss just right really takes a lot of effort. Again with the 4e, I like that it’s modeled on a kind of videogame format. I would craft boss phases/forms to deal with damage spikes, so if a boss became bloodied or even killed too quickly, I’d have a kind of backup plan, eg: an Orc chieftan boss that could give into dark magic/bloodlust, a wizard that became possessed by the dark spirits he was trying to summon, etc. 4e’s videogameness also made me try and come up with “non-static” encounters. Sometimes the worst thing is having a toe-to-toe fight, because then the villain just runs into range of the party’s spellcasters, so having a villain that takes one look at the party and then dash off, causing them to chase after, also turned out pretty great – for one thing, they thought that meant there weren’t going to be any traps down that corridor.
This Saturday is the last BOARD GAMES of the year (unless we try to do some New Years shenanigans but I doubt that very much). There will only be a scant few in January before we give up on the whole thing and move to a quiet country town to retire.
People should show up. It’s rad fun. This weekend’s BOARD GAMES was pretty cool. I finally won a game of King of Tokyo. I never win at King of Tokyo.
This Saturday I shall also be playing Board Games. We have picked up a new copy of Battlestar Galactica and will see how that goes.
Just remember that if you’re a fracking toaster, don’t get excited about being a fracking toaster.
We’ve only managed to play that one once. It’s a little hefty and most of the time we’re in the mood for lighter titles.
Well we’re going out to a place right after to gorge ourselves upon meat in celebration of me becoming an old dude.
Met guy from work’s bulletin board. INJUSTICE GET.
Picked up some fast food on way back. INDIGESTION GET.
I MISS YOU SHAAAAAANE. Sometimes. Not often, though. *decisive nod* 😛
You know what i remembered was awesome on the weekend?
Hookah, with nice herbal-molasses…
Cobbled with the Star Trek Catan – Federation Space expansion!
VERY AWESOME!
Lost Cause – Beck
Oh man, new page get will ensure this is the only reply. *moseys off*
U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start – Deftones
Save Me Once Again – The Rasmus
Graceless – The National
I got you.
Tal Tal Heights and Main Theme – Taylor Davis
F*** this game, all it does is show me my horrible taste in music!
Sexxx Dreams – Lady Gaga
Price of a mile – Sabaton
So I was sent home from work today. Something about ‘infectious’ and ‘disgusting’ and ‘stay away from me’. I figured they were just the usual responses to my presence, so I thought nothing of it.
But anyway, now I’m home. And since I’m home, and thanks to Pez wanting me to soundcheck his new LP tonight, I figured I could bolster my stereo system a little.
And it’s all complete!
It’s all white-trash jerry-rigged, though it works like a charm. My setup now consists of my PC as the receiver, with record player and auxiliary inputs, USB cam/mic combo, and 2.1 speakers which I’ve now frankenspliced in an additional 250W amp which is pushing a 12″ sub and a 6×9, powered by a separate PSU. Hooray for tinkering!
http://i.imgur.com/XS5LK.gif
Mycguyvamphetamine
Last few days I’ve become obsessed with watching mocap performances from behind-the-scene videos of games. These actors are so damn impressive and completely underrated. All of the emotion and detail and all that stuff is all right there in a room of make believe scenery. (Which I imagine is incredibly hard to do.)
Good to see TAYbies seem well. Thought I’d see more next-gen console talk! I have read the two pages and distributed upvotes as necessary. Hope Mrs. Freeze’s party was a hit. (And thanks for the DM, @freezespreston.)
Very much running on fumes today, so this is a lunch-break retreat to regroup. Gotta get back to it in a minute. Still not the Best… but it’s within sight. Worked the weekend to make up for taking time off for interviews this week. Overseas contacts receptive, but unsure about suitable positions/qualifications. Got some other good leads from family and friends, overseas. A friend entrepeneuring in Hong Kong, family in finance in Singapore, plus the PR group in Thailand and Malaysia. (Not sure how much to reveal of my motivations – don’t want to be playing the pity angle, or potential instability.) Time zones making linking up with some a little tricky, but should be taking some calls this week to talk options.
Compression of time is weird. Every day so far has seemed like an eternity, such that I want to chase up contacts about things, but it’s only been a few days and that would be being too pushy. I really miss sleep. Grunt. Payday tomorrow, will treat myself to some luxury foods, maybe that’ll help those ‘indulgence’ urges. God knows I need to eat more… finding it very difficult to put on that ‘good’ weight, no matter how sore I am from the workouts – even took the weekend off in that respect, and spent a few hours out at the cinema mid-last week. (Got another free ticket from a friend who couldn’t use theirs.) It was nice to be outside and stuff for a bit with no pressure on things to do, even if I did get home way too late.
Probably going to get some gaming in soon maybe. Think I’ll need that and some sleep. Also, there’s a Steam Sale on this week by all reports (Nov 28th – U.S. 27th), so maybe that’ll present an opportunity. Even though the pile of shame remains huge and likely to stay that way.
Alright, time’s up, gotta get back to it. Good luck all.
I dont know you that well, but you seem to be having a tough time and coping really well. I want to give you a hug for being a strong person.
HUGS
Seeing the upvotes on the previous page brought a smile to my face, my friend. Always good to see you! Hope good things are on the horizon for you!
Hey, guy, you are genuinely one of the most incredible people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. I’d be an absolute wreck in your position, but you’re not only holding it together, you’re working hard to improve things. You’re a seriously good dude.
Good luck with everything. I hope it all works out for you. 🙂
Hey man!
Mrs Freeses party was … interesting. I really should have passed on the shot from a $20 bottle of bourbon though.
Hope things start coming together for you soon man!
Oh man, I felt that shot in my heart and in my chest. Not good. (I’m assuming it was from the shot, but maybe it was looooove? D:)
Or maybe it was your heartbreaking because you finally realised that @shane was gone.
He’ll be back. He’ll be back.
*waits*
SHOT TO DC’S HEART
And you’re to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name
Compression of Time? When did you get possessed by Ultimecia?
Spent the weekend with Fez, still reeling over how awesome it is. I can’t remember the last time I felt this amazed by a game.
Still got a couple of things to work on with it, and it’s really hard to resist firing it up again. But I’ve got to get my presentation for my research project ready for Wednesday (oops), and also gotta head all the way over to friggen Warringah Mall in a couple of hours to pick up something for mum’s birthday. Thank god it’s not particularly far from climbing.
Have you played VVVVVV ?
I’d rate it higher than Fez, personally.
I have. And I enjoyed it a lot, it had some great puzzles to it and some really challenging parts too. But I didn’t really find it mind-blowing like Fez.
I hate christmas shopping, mainly because im awesome at it. I find 400 things for my sisters then when it comes to everyone else im like ummmmmm a towel would be nice for them. Being thoughtful is hard.
*reads between the lines*
RocketMan’s secret sanTAY is going to get a towel! 😀
I did better than that last year. @rocketman is truly awesome at Secret SanTAY.
I’ll just leave a little story prompt I thought of…
Romantic Comedy about 2 24 year olds who find each other by the internet because both want kids. Its a strict friend only thing until they fall in love
They are both ghost vampires and are the same person
written by M Night Shamalamadingdong
I am Jack’s raging vampire lust.
All I can think about is the cast from Superbad being even more awkward in this scenario.
Babes in the hands of Babes
The order from the government had seemed unfair at first, but once it was forcibly applied to a couple of dissenters the population quickly adjusted, for better or worse.
Mostly the latter.
The crazy pace of motherhood, now forced upon increasingly younger women, was ugly and led to more unprepared women, in many cases just out or still in high school- incomplete people with ambition and drive, but forced to put their rapidly running biological clock ahead of anything. More and more desperate men doing anything to carry on their bloodline led to the rise of sadistic “Father’s seed” organisations, promoting deception and rape all to push men into fatherhood. The rate of single parenting skyrocketed, and the number of parents who were entering the workforce, in many cases for the first time, at the age of thirty increased dramatically- an entire lost generation of people trapped between being children and having children themselves.
The older generation (and by older, less than five years older in many cases), now free from the pressures and responsibilities of family, ran wild, leading to a boom industry in adult hedonism. As more and more over-25s had no children to spend money on, and all the time in the world to develop a career, the gulf between the childless and the parents grew to a great chasm- and entire class of people at permanent disadvantage, all thanks to the draconian parenting law.
Character study about a woman who lies about her age. She says she’s younger, but not for vanity reasons. She sees herself as damaged goods and can’t conceive in a world where conception is every thing. All the guys she wants to date want to have a family. One day, she meets a man of some sort… then the montages begin…
The Hollywood Reporter calls it an ‘unnecessary, self-indulgent wankfest’ and Entertainment Today gives it four stars. “This years Twilight for a new generation”
I give it 5 David Cages. 😛
EMOTIONS
Press ‘x’ to lie about age!
‘unnecessary, self-indulgent wankfest’ makes me think that @sughly would love it, but “This years Twilight for a new generation” is pretty much a guarantee he’d hate it.
Spoiler: The woman is a replicant
Well that goes without saying, Red.
Maybe in YOUR relationships, D.
😛A reality TV show where people who are 24, single and childless (but want a family) all get locked into a house and have to live there, under 24/7 camera watch with the exception of one room – the procreation room. There are only three ways out of the house – either you and your nominated partner fall pregnant, proven by a test. Congrats! You get a free house and the world will celebrate you beating the clock.
Or you are forced to leave when you turn 25 and don’t have a partner/are pregnant. I’m sorry, but the world has seen you fail – now you must live with the crushing knowledge that you not only will never have kids, but the world has watched you fail.
Or the third way – through medical emergency/death. If you have a medical emergency, you are contractually obliged to get back to the house as soon as possible (unless you turn 25 in hospital).
The show is in it’s fourth consecutive year of running. It’s a ratings hit, with reality TV leanings, lashings of nudity and human drama.
But something is happening inside the house.
Contestants are being murdered.
Inside the house, with it’s supposed 100% camera coverage.
The police are baffled as their leads show that none of the housemates could have done it. The cameras seem to shut off just before the murders, only to come back on afterwards – with no trace of how they get switched off. All crew are accounted for.
A single, childless police officer goes into the house, undercover, to try and catch the killer. But as contestants are dying around him, he begins to realise he has got more than he bargained for…
I’ve got the perfect name for this: “Conceived in Blood”
Or if it gets made into a cheesy action flick, “Get Born or Die Trying”.
But yeah that is an amazing title. I’m actually tempted to write a bit about that now. Wow.
Conceived in Blood.
*good shudder*
Actually, sounds a bit like Ben Elton’s Dead Famous
Oh yeah, does to. Crap. I read that book years back.
Damn.
I just read the Wiki for that and it is quite similar. Also, I found this in the character list.
If that’s not a unique character I don’t know what is.
If this was written by Ben Elton I would be throwing money at it
I like it!
In the future, the world is divided between two factions: the tyranical “for the greater good” faction and the free thinking human rights faction.
The greater good faction lives in a 1984esque world where all their actions are highly controlled by the Government and people under 25 are treated like farm animals and forced to have children. Because of the level of control the Government has, and how excessive breeding is of those of the right age (teenagers start having children as soon as they are able and don’t stop till they hit 25), the practice of eugenics is common. The driving philosophy behind this faction is that what they’re doing is in the best interest of the human race. Not only are they ensuring the human race keeps growing population wise, but also that we’ll continue to get stronger with each generation.
On the other side of the fence are the human rights faction. They believe what the other faction is doing is highly unethical and want no part in it. They believe all humans should be able to choose whether or not they have children, even if that means the eventual decline of the human race. This faction is much, much smaller in number because they don’t force breeding on people. Unsurprisingly, the two factions often end up in conflict, not just because of their opposing ideologies but because of the first factions continually growing population means they’re often seeking to expand their territory.
The tides start to turn however when the human rights group invents AI and starts to invest in the creation of robots. The origin for these robots would be scientists over the age of 25 trying to create “children” for themselves, but because of their conflict with the other faction those robots soon get turned to war.
The whole thing would have a strong focus on biological science verse synthetic science, the ethics of those sciences (think part Gattaca, part Mass Effect “does this unit have a soul”), the ethics behind the greater good and the relationship between parents and children.
You had me at Gattaca.
Genre: adult entertainment
Story: [CENSORED]
Hot
woman lies about her age to get together with a guy. she’s 27, claims to be 23.
guy wants kids, doesn’t realise that she cant have em.
her friends & family know & try to convince her to confess.
she refuses coz reasons. likes the guy or something.
lies to him that she’s pregnant, disappears for 9 months. goes out & kidnaps a newborn from a hospital. returns & claims it as theirs.
all the lies to cover up = drama.
Edit : series 2 – then later, after her partner has turned 25, she somehow actually ends up pregnant…
so many problems with that premise.
a. brings consent into question, 12-25 becomes ethically dangerous, really hard to write about pregnancy in pre-teens for cultural reasons. in world, no drama at all, apart from the horrible nature of modernity given free reign.
b. lets say 14 is the “safe age” rather than 12, so it’s 14-25, max age becomes 90, so one family with 6-7 different generations is possible, 1, 15, 27, 43, 57,72, 87. if a family has more than 2 kids or re-marriage to handle kids across paternal or maternal lines, etc. you have a household of 6 generations, 20 to 80 children. or split familial lines,
if proliferation is acceptable due to female/male population imbalance, you’d have teen couples with 4 kids, with up to 3 different father/mothers, in a communal family of 5 to 6 generations, 80-100 kids ?
c. it also puts a quirk into may/december relationships, 25 yr married to 65, is dating your great grandfather/mother.
d. huge problems with marriage /religion in a society where people have unmarried sex & have to live with spouses they hate for kids that will leave or join other families past 25yrs. it also tends to isolate teenagers into a subculture of advertising and peer pressure to have kids due to the next problem,
e. unstable population numbers, in cultures that protect their children from sex and violence during teen development. also generally chaotic advertising and peer diversity, drug fuelled raves organised as orgies for teens becomes an underground issue.
f. massive university/work system of people working from 25 to 45 and going back to school or retiring in huge numbers to pay for broader families as their grandkids deal with kids.
g. if it’s women only being infertile, you have gross social inequality, if men, then you have some kind of schism of youth vs elderly running the society and making rules, e.g. banishment of children until adulthood, patrilineal dominance or just plain freakish.
h. quirky anti-moral family constructs proliferating on the fringe/cult side to offset the 60+ years of “missing out” on childbirth options,
e.g. just add psychopaths with sociopaths, shake with liberal ideology, add rage, and simmer for 30 years. You’d have an emerging self-help cult/ backlash against kids in general, with some amoral leaders, think “US Tea Party” with teen pregnancy as their agenda, lots of mouthpieces, no leadership, no common ideology or visible plan.
Questions for XBONERS!
(xbox + owners = xboners!) \o/
Dead Rising 3: Have they removed that annoying as all shit timer crap that the first two games had, (ie. having to give katey zombrex between 7-8am? some people just want to you know, kill zombies in a creative fashion!
I don’t think so, since it’s a pretty major part of Dead Rising. Could be wrong though.
Also, couldn’t you just do whatever you wanted, but Katey would die?
if she dies its game over…
Oh lame. I always got the Zombrex on time, so I wasn’t sure. I thought it let you continue though.
The entire game has to be beaten within six days unsure what the time ratio for actual real time that is, and all side quests also have a expiration once they are started.
If your asking if the game has any time based commitments, the answer is no.
thats still incredibly annoying… part of the fun with open world games is just spending hours just dicking around… especially when you have hordes of zombies
I understand why they had that in DR2 but I still didn’t like it. Long story short, there’s a trainer out there for the PC version that lets you adjust the ratio of game time/IRL time, so rather than having something like 3 IRL hours to finish the game you could have like 10.
yeah ni should really grab 2 on pc…
Just going to put some words here before I forget them:
New MvM maps in TF2. Playing MvM with people I know >>>>> Playing MvM with innernet randumbs and shouty 12 year olds. We should totally definitely organise a TAY group for killing evil robutts.
tagging @mythamphetamine @zetrox2k since I know you both have expressed interest recently. MvM is 6 persons, so if you’re both in then we’ve got room for 3 more.
The return of TF2sday?
…that IS patch day.
A valid argument.
How did we end up running it last time? Did someone host a server?
I believe so, but I want my MvM loot from Mann Up mode, which requires queuing on Valve servers.
Doesn’t that still require actual money?
The tickets cost real $$, and you need tickets to get the loot.
You can only use tickets on official Valve servers.
You don’t have to have a ticket to play.
I still have a bunch of “tour of duty” tickets, and a few of the “surplus” tickets that give everybody some loot, even if they don’t have a tour ticket.
I’ll be interested
im in man! tried joining you several times the other day but no go
I’ve been seeing people playing TF2 lately! As soon as I get my good mouse back I’ll join in! (currently using a $7 one from Woolies :P)
EDIT: Do you guys jump on TS while playing?
Just saw this on Twitter, George Takei has actually released a fragrance called “Eau My”. Amazing.
EDIT: Link
I don’t know if I’d want to smell whatever that smells like, but I still want some.
I want him to release a health drink with the promo line:
I never should’ve drank those chemicals
Nothing to see here
◉_◉
◕ ‿‿ ◕
¯\_(ಠ◡ಠ)_/¯
ಠ╭╮ಠ
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
That’s good, ’cause I can’t see anything.
X_X
Oh man…So there’s a sushi store in the Woolies at Mawson that makes fresh stuff and sells it via Woolies shelves, and it looked surprisingly good.
Long story short I think I ate too much sushi.
There is no such thing as too much sushi little puny man.
This is pretty much what I’m picturing as you right now:
http://tinyurl.com/ku4xhtg
Accurate.
Hey, I’m at Mawson Lakes, you should come say hi
You’d think the two were closeOh man, last night we had some sushi before seeing Day of the Doctor.
They had Wagyu beef nigiri. It was just slices of beef, cooked blue with a tiny bit of rice. I could have eaten a whole damned cow worth of that stuff.
I’m not even sure what some of the things I ate was (I wish one was wagyu beef, now). One was some crazy mixture of seafood, halfway between a roll and nigiri, and completely awesome.
Heh
http://laughorgtfo.com/camera-catches-pool-crashers-8197/
Brilliant!
Man, I wish my pool had a slide.
Also I wish I had a pool.
A filled bathtub is just as good!
Is what I tell myselfMilpool~
Asked on Twitter but I’ll ask here as well, can anyone suggest a good beard trimmer?
I hear these are okay
What I use is actually a set of clippers! Just shove in the #2 blade, and you’re good to go (if you want close-cropped beard, on a Shane-style budget). The Shaver Shop was selling them for $19.99 when they opened here! \o/
Edit: as an added bonus, you can also shave your own head Max Payne style over the sink!
http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-03-09/10-grown-up-things-every-woman-needs-for-her-home/
Should be something there.
I use a Philips QT4070, one of the ones with the little vacuum thingie near the end to catch all the hairs as they get cut. At first it was pretty good, only had the smallest amount of mess to clean up in the sink and it was all in the sink itself rather than all over and around it like with my old set. Although my one lately seems to not have as much suction, not sure why. Cleaned out the filter and stuff, but it doesn’t seem to have made a difference. Dunno if it happens to all of them or I’ve just got something weird going on, but eh. I mostly use it for my head these days anyway. I guess that could have been the problem actually 😛
I just use some generic clippers. Makes it incredibly easy to the point where you actually do it.
I use a regular razor and just try to ‘sculpt’ it. Sometimes it works, sometimes I have to clean shave. :'(
I have this Philips. Works a treat, and the HQ9 heads are brilliant.
Clean shaven, no beard.
Honestly, I’m totally pre-ordering that Next Car Game from Bugbear on Friday.
Saw LGR playing the tech demo, and it looks awesome. 🙂
@sernobulus
Because Twitter is a really bad place to have a conversation like this:
I completely agree that “best” is all personal opinion. But something like Fire Emblem, which was better received than Pokemon (it’s the best reviewed 3DS game of the year), it isn’t going to win when it’s put down to user vote, because less people have played it.
Don’t get me wrong, Pokemon is a great game, but it all comes down to majority vote in these cases.
The same thing can be said for movies and music.
Example: In 2010, The King’s Speech won Best Picture. It was chosen by a closed section of voters. However, it’s competition was the likes of Inception. If it had been open to user voting, I would almost guarantee that Inception would’ve won because of its wider audience.
Inception did win best picture, unless that was a dream
COMPLETELY agree though.
Are you sure the audience for Inception was bigger than The King’s Speech? Without bothering to look up any statistics of any kind, I’m not convinced that’s the case. Colin Firth is a big draw for half the world’s population, a story about the royals gets most of Europe and anyone over 50 watching it, a based-on-a-true story gets all the historians to fork out so that they can complain about the inaccuracies, and then there are people like me who get dragged along by someone who belongs to one of the above categories.
It’s largely not an internet-savvy audience, though, which might well affect internet voting turnout! 😛
I haven’t seen Inception 🙁
King’s Speech: $414,211,549
Inception: $825,532,764
Fair enough!
On second thought: after pensioner discounts, daytime ticket prices, and so on, I’d actually like to see this represented in number of tickets sold 😛
Inception is 37,081,900.
King’s Speech 3,356,433. 107th highest selling movie of the year.
Wait, you didn’t have to look that up. I thought the “:P” would be sufficient to get that across! 😛
Edit: Well, there you go. This is why I shouldn’t be in marketing. I thought The King’s Speech had all the elements of massive commercial success.
In the EU/AU market, yes. In the US, not so much.
As Trjn said, a lot of its sales were generated by Oscar buzz after it got nominated, and then re-released a PG-13 cut of it AFTER it won.
Australian returns
Inception $36,515,403
The King’s Speech $32,552,584
Pretty much backs up what @shane and yourself are saying, much closer over here.
Not enough ‘splosins
Massive commercial success in cinema is the teen/young adult market
The King’s Speech – Worldwide: $414,211,549
Inception – Worldwide: $825,532,764
Now, The King’s Speech is (in my opinion) the better movie. But it reached half the audience that Inception did (based on worldwide gross). On top of that, and this is my personal experience, The King’s Speech became much more popular AFTER it won the Oscar. I was working as a projectionist at the time and I remember being shocked by how popular it became. But it was all AFTER it had been given the award and word of mouth spread.
The King’s Speech also had a lot more people who would see it 2 or 3 times as opposed to Inception.
Figures taken from BoxOfficeMojo
Also by that logic the terrible Jonny Depp Alice In Wonderland should have won because $1,025,467,110.
No doubt that the logic is flawed. As @shane said, it’s not an accurate representation of number of tickets sold, but it’s the closest I can get without ringing my old boss and asking for the actual ticket sale figures. But it’s a general guide of how much business it pulled. More money = more people in seats. Coupled with good reception and you have a “popular” movie.
And that’s where Alice in Wonderland loses points, it doesn’t have the well received behind it. It was mixed-positive at best.
http://www.the-numbers.com/market/2010/top-grossing-movies
Including ticket sales. Assuming US only.
Nice find. I assume that’s US only?
It’d be interesting to see a breakdown of international ticket sales. Especially on something like The King’s Speech which undoubtedly would’ve done more business outside of the US because it’s more “targeted” to that market, I guess you could say.
Interesting that Avatar was the second highest grossing movie of 2010 despite being released in September 2009. Speaks to what a juggernaut that movie was.
I was under the impression that you needed to see Inception more than once to get it 😛
#ArgumentativeForNoReason
The King’s Speech got a limited release in America initially because the swearing pushed the rating up to an R which killed the theatrical release there. It also had very limited appeal outside of the English speaking countries, whereas Inception did well because heist films are a bit more universal.
They re-released the movie after it had won the Oscar with the swearing toned down so that it could get a more American friendly PG-13.
King’s Speech was also classic Oscar bait, although the performances from Firth and Rush were abso-bloody-lutely fantastic.
Completely agree with what you said. Labelling something as “Best Picture” or “Game of the Year” is not a good idea as it’s a minefield fraught with danger. It is not a popularity contest (although that is often considered) and it is hard to judge something solely on its artistic merits because individual interpretations are invariably different. Also, the differences in the layperson’s opinion and that of a professional in the industry (film, music, or games) is so astronomically different that of course they will pick differently.
Yeah but you can’t say Fire Emblem is the best game because it was less popular then other games.
Okay if you give both Pokemon and Fire Emblem to a board of “video game experts” you can get answer for “best” game of the year.
But that’s not what games are, a good game is supposed to get an emotional response from the gamer. It is supposed to speak personally to the person playing for one reason or another.
I love reading separate GOTY posts because it’s always personal. The game has done something that has resonated with the player. Maybe changed their way of thinking. Which, in my mind, is what GOTY should be.
I agree with you to a point, I agree that that the most popular game will win and that stupid. But I don’t believe that the game “technically best” (got highest review score) should win GOTY.
I guess what I’m trying to say is voting for an overall GOTY is just silly. There is no “best” game. Unless you mean “most popular” or “technically best”.
True. And as someone who hasn’t played Fire Emblem (yeah, I’m in that boat :P) it wouldn’t be MY handheld game of the year. Mine would be Luigi’s Mansion 2.
You’ve hit the money right there. I’m not saying that the best reviewed game should win GOTY, just that when you open it up for voting, the most popular will.
I’ve always enjoyed the reasoning behind why something got GOTY more interesting that the decision itself. The argument of why the game was the best technical achievement, elicited the strongest emotional responses or was simply the most fun is pretty damned rad.
This is why I’m pretty dismissive of most GOTY awards but I’ll pay attention to a few outlets that write the stuff I find interesting around that time.
I’m rabid for Pokemon and Fire Emblem is still my GOTY (I’m a tad disappointed by this fact, to be honest :P)
Have any of you guys had problems signing into the PSN in the last few days? I keep getting the message that my email address or password are incorrect and I can’t change the password.
There was someone earlier. Can’t remember who.
Oh! Someone had this last week in TAY (@zetrox2k I think…?)
heah i had to call sony up… apparently they reset the passwords of thousands of accounts they suspected suspicious activity on… they just forgot to tell people about it….
ill look for the phone number…
Yep, Sony changed the passwords for some people without telling them. Just reset password again to what it was.
Yeah, I’ve tried resetting the password but it won’t accept my email address or date of birth. I suspect I’ll have to call them.
Ew. Email reset worked for me. 🙁
got the link to an article:
http://www.techienews.co.uk/973153/sony-resets-passwords-eu-psn-users-precautionary-measure/
That’s weird.. Smells like bullshit.
my experience regarding the whole fiasco… (pasted from my comment last week)
Playstation AUSTRALIA (AU)
1-300 365-911
support@playstation.com.au
Just to get an idea, who has an Xbone and who is grabbing a PS4 come Friday?
letter from target confirms my preorder will be ready Friday \o/
I’m getting a PS4, but ordered from Big W and they won’t give definitive dates.
i was going to preorder back in march but my brother and friends kept saying, “wait we’ll go do it together!” come late july i said screw it im not waiting anymore and went to pre order from eb. i placed it but they said they couldnt guarantee me a console before april next year… come start of september, i saw a target catalogue saying that they were taking preorders.. went in, they said they guarantee me a console, so i ordered 5 and cancelled my eb preorder. preordered the first 5 PS4’s in my local target!!! \o/ they are all ready for pickup…
no im not buying one per toilet 🙂
ones for me, 2 for my two bro in laws, and 1 for my mate…
The mental image of you walking out of Target with five PS4s makes me smile. 😀
To be honest at the moment I’m more excited about Super Mario 3D World than PS4, but that says more about Mario hype than lack of PS4 hype.
I’m hoping he has a shopping trolley, or he might end up being like that guy who drops iMacs!
i may have to hire a security guard for the day… after all i preordered the consoles from Target in broadmeadows…. melbournes equivalent of the Bronx
*adds Zetrox2k’ ‘stab and mug’ entry into to-do list*
Take a photo and show it to everyone that can’t get one at launch and feast upon their tears.
Bonus points: “Don’t even want the system, just going to flip it on Ebay for $1000”
Waiting until August before I choose one.
I’ll have Dark Souls 2 to keep me company until then.
what about next gen DS2???
I can get a second copy! \o/
Besides, it’s not confirmed yet that DS2 will be next-gen. All that’s been said (that I’ve seen) is that they are thinking about it. It certainly won’t be out in March. *nods definitively*
http://www.polygon.com/news/1102765/dark-souls-2-confirmed-for-concurrent-next-gen-release-with-current-gen
Why do you do these things to poor ‘ol Shane?! D:
i think we just lost shane… hes on the way to order a nextgen console like a PS4,
WII Uor XBONEIt’s for the best!
WELP. 404.
PS4 probably on Friday because midnight is too much for this old man.
id go midnight but target isnt doing a midnight launch… 🙁 that and the legions of psycho’s will mug me for the five consoles… ive preordered in melbournes equivalent of the bronx
Not gonna get one until prices come down and/or a bundle appears.
Going to get a PS4 when Destiny releases – got to import mine because it’ll replace my PS3 which has a Region A bluray player, and also I want to be clear of any hardware issues.
Waiting on Xbone to see if the company offers any employee purchase discounts or incentives once the smoke clears and the stock stabilizes.
man i thought they would have offered consoles to ms staff first? thats pretty piss poor, should have offered you guys a hefty discount too…
They gave them to dudes from the Xbox team. Sweet white ones.
Getting my PS4 on Friday. Roped a friend into coming with me because I don’t particularly feel like getting stabbed and mugged (I live around some pretty dodgy areas).
Oh man, you’ve got reinforcements? *cancels ‘stab and mug’ Liondrive entry from to-do list*
And here I was under the impression that you were supposed to be such a nice guy. Those gym sessions must have turned you into some kind of roid-fueled tough guy 😛
I… was going to give the stolen PS4 to an orphanage!
Yeah right, more like distract the orphans with it while you steal all of their cherished possessions, then take the PS4 back too. I’m onto you and your dastardly ploys.
i just thought about that too, jokes aside literally just called my brother and mate and asked them to accompany me..
Probably the best thing to do, especially since you’re getting 5! That’s basically screaming to get mugged if you’re on your own! Also, how did you even plan on carrying 5 in the first place?
being very easily amused at work today, just spotted a typo on an order, was supposed to read “Sample tint for customer’s approval” was written “sample tit for customer approval”, then one came in that wasn’t a mistake just poor wording “polish 1 long knob” oh how I laughed 😛
You make your own fun! 😀
we used to import these tools called assembly probes… (china language) boxes used to state Ass. Probe
:O
That’s the best thing ever 😀
Lately I feel like I have a bit of short fuse and I don’t like it at all. I know I’m stressed about certain things, but don’t like the idea I inadvertently take it out on others. And the thought that I do this stresses me out even more resulting in more stress induced out bursts. It’s a predicament. XD
On the bright side, there’s EIGHT Colobus monkey sub-species! What a crazy world!
Everyone thinks there’s seven sub-species but there’s always that one that they forget.
I feel like we’ve had this conversation before. =POh man, that was a great conversation. One of those things that brings friends closer together! 😛
Haha, did you remove one of the exclamation marks next to my name?
Maybe even all of them, but you’ve wronged me in ten different ways since. So cancelled out. 😀
Stressed out he says?
http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/
Hugs is almost the definition of a stressful situation! 😀
I know…. XD
Monster! (Don’t tell @strange I called you that!)
Why don’t we want @strange to know you called me a monster?
It doesn’t matter. Just don’t tell her. And by her, I mean @strange.
I’ve always had a short fuse. But I refuse to lash out at other people, so I tend to turn it against myself sometimes…. which isn’t fun.
but yeah. the solution is politicians. they’re not real people, so its perfectly ok to get angry about politics and yell obscenities about them on social media. which is why i do it a lot.
seriously… nothing like a good angry venting.
But angry DC is funny and makes me laugh which eases my stress so your stress is handy for me! 😛
#selfish
Fake angry DC isn’t the same as real angry DC. 🙁
I am unsure whether I’ve seen fake angry DC or real angry DC. 😛
That whole Sleepy Hollow incident last week might’ve been real angry DC…
I’M SORRY. D:
Dude, everyone gets angry. It’s part of life. I yell at my kids. They know I still love them (seriously, my son answered ” I know” when I told him I loved him the other day :P).
Real angry DC is still DC, and I like DC. 🙂
You need to know this, because you might get angry again next time I talk about Sleepy Hollow. 😛
i know this is laughable for some,
BUT I JUST HIT 2000 COMMENTS!!!
…this is comment 2002 actually…
Zetrox2k 2K comment get 😀
A man of few words!
just like my initially planned wedding speech…
“im a man of few words…. thank you…”
And your 2000th comment was asking about dark souls 2. Many people would approve
There’s something about that statement that makes my soul scream in pain.
I want a quantifiable measurement of mastermind.
I also want it to NOT include the guys who wrote those movies.
I’ve got one: me!
It’s the use of “comedy” to describe Epic Movie, Disaster Move and Meet the Spartans and the use of “masterminds” to describe the people behind them.
Or it’s probably just the repressed memories of any of those movies trying desperately to resurface.
Well it’s funny that they think they’re comedic masterminds.
Wait, no, it’s just sad.
At least people are learning. I don’t think one of their movies has had a theatrical release in a couple of years.
Could be satire?
…please be satire.
Those guys are too dumb to know what satire is.
I actually sort of like Disaster Movie. Their version of Giselle is great.
Man, remember when spoof movies used to be good.
Like Flying High. And The Naked Gun.
Their horrible-ness is their charm. I quite enjoyed all of them, though I am a fan of retardedly stupid movies. I still think Scary Movie 1-3 are great movies, and definitely the best of those types of movies.
Been meaning to make sure I finish at least one game this year.
Put in a marathon effort on Wind Waker HD on Sunday (pretty much the whole day), paused just outside the final boss chamber for dinner.
Wii U helpfully powers down due to an hour of inactivity. Had not stopped and saved all day.
…
Screw it. I have officially finished a game. Due to the disappointing end game, I hereby declare Pokémon Y ‘finished’, even though I may still return to it from time to time.
As long as you watch the last boss fight on YouTube, I’d call Zelda finished too.
I was hoping for a 100% run, but was going to settle for 100% Nintendo Gallery.
I’m pretty much done with XY for now. As much as I enjoy the breeding and stuff, it can’t carry an end-game by itself for me. After I enjoyed B2W2 so much I was a little disappointed.
Probably not going to bother with Pokemon Bank or anything until “Z”, which I’m sure will be a big improvement as third versions usually are.
As someone rapidly approaching the end-game
In Lysandre’s lair following the activation of the big…crystal…thingyWhat’s the issue with the end game? I care not about plot spoilers.
Essentially, there isn’t one 😛 A couple of new areas open up and there’s a handful of small missions in Lumiose City. That’s about it. The rest is battling/breeding/etcEDIT: Of course, this is all just my opinion. Don’t let that affect you!
That’s annoying, one of my favourite parts about Silver was that once you were done in Johto you suddenly had all of Kanto to exploreWhat shits me the most, even though it’s only a little detail, is the Pokédex not even recording encounters in the endgame battle area. It’s like it has just been tacked on the side at the last minute.
Wow, you set it to 1hr? Brave. D:
I’m guessing it was a default. It’s safely turned off now. I’ve learned my lesson.
Well, thanks @freezespreston, now I’m watching these clips on YouTube
God damn but do I love that movie.
So my sister is writing a romance novel despite never being in a relationship that lasted more than 6 months. Le sigh.
This could prove useful for a psychiatrist some where down the line. The inner workings of her psyche.
Oh I already know how her mind works and it kinda scares me.
collection of short stories?
More along the lines of a Mills & Boon style romantic love/romp novel.
Edit: I got the joke. Me so smart.
It’s ok, I’m pretty sure the chick who wrote a bunch of Dino-erotica novels didn’t have much experience in that either…
Illusion shattered.
She was involved with an Alligator for a while, but it’s just not the same.
It’s okay Pow. I’m sure that one of the first people to travel through time will use it to film hot hot Dino-porn. They’ll become the futuristic version of David Attenborough, but smutty.
A Sound of Thunder… In my pants.
Knowing your love for dinosaurs not sure if hilarious or creepy 😛
Stephanie Meyer wrote a whole series that got a bit popular based on a couple of wet dreams.
Basically this @popdart5. Romance novels are basically a way for them to explain how things should have been and use it as a way to explain why all the previous relationships were ruined by those guys not being like X & Y.
X&Y obviously being mutually exclusive and based upon the whim at the time
In high school 6 months is FOREVER. She just has to make all the characters 17 with huge knockers and all the self control of me at a Sizzler dessert bar. Throw in a little spanking and you’ve got something your gran will read on the train.
Too bad she is a lite-feminist so there is no chance she’ll write that. And no I won’t suggest she write that (I don’t want to get slapped.)
“lite-feminist”?
Only one calorie.
All of the self-righteousness, none of the guilt.
She’s opinionated and all that but she’s not about to get on her soapbox or join any marches. Basically how a lot of people are lite-environmentalist.
Slacktivist.
I recommend she writes a dirty realism relationship novel or short story.
Humans are strange might as well write about it.
Kotaku can stop this Games of the year thing now.
The winner is here
The link goes nowhere.
So, TAY?
You think this is a game son?
TAY? nah its too buggy to be GOTY. It just ate my link.
you know what? I think I’m gonna leave it like that. I like the mystery.
That moment when you find a job that you really want, in a place you want to work at, that is a perfect fit.
That moment when you realise you have pages of selection criteria to address.
That moment when you realise you have until 11:55pm tomorrow night to do it.
….whimper
With the QPS they give you 10 pages of selection criteria 30 minutes before the interview starts…
Speaking of applications, heard anything back?
Nope. I take heart I haven’t received a get lost yet.
Exactly, in your case no news is good news. Just means you’re still in the pool. Depending on if you were part of an influx of candidates (due to a campaign or time of year, etc), getting the first call back can take even 3 months, easy.
Googleplex!
BTW, speaking of Slacktivism, this is the worst petition I’ve seen all year.
I’m sorry, but a petition to dismiss a democratically elected government, as distasteful as you or I may find it, is just the dumbest.
http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/to-the-australian-government-and-the-governor-general-we-reject-tony-abbott-and-liberal
We, the undersigned, declare this petition page 4.
I suggest a petition to dismiss Red’s declaration of petition page 4!
I hereby petition that @dc is a JERKY MCJERKFACE
Signed!
I hereby petition that Red and DC should just get along!
…
signed 🙂It’s a good thing that online petitions aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
I hereby petition that @dc is a Facey McJerkJerk
Splinter group!
Splitter.
Because a government is going to dissolve itself because a few people clicked on the internet.
Hmmm, good point. This seems more like a job for Facebook likes.
At least they were voted in by the people 100%, unlike the previous term.
Eh, I don’t even buy that- despite the rhetoric, the previous lot were a legitimate (minority) government. You can bet if the libs had formed govt in 2010 we’d hear the same bollocks.
Yeah, legit under the ‘system’. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t shady and uncool (see below reply), and not what the voters wanted. I’d be unhappy no matter who got into power with such tactics.
So what would have been your alternative? Another election? What if that had ended in the same situation?
If my understanding here (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-252/comment-page-4/#comment-2200046) is correct, then my alternative would have been a re-vote in the affected electorates.
That’s all electorates.
What you’re suggesting is a do-over until there is a majority government and quite frankly that’s a terrible idea that relies entirely on having a two-party system.
As @trjn said, that’s all electorates- otherwise you’re disenfranchising voters in some electorates. For example, the people of Denison genuinely voted for Andrew Wilkie (infact, they’ve done it on more than one occasion) even though he’s not a member of a major party- should the people of Denison have their vote discounted just because it’s messy at a federal level?
The truth is is that in terms of negotiating legislation through, the last government worked and performed its intended purpose- the outcomes may have been undesirable for some, but that’s how parliament works.
The Liberal party got into power by forming a coalition with the National party. The only difference between Labor running a minority government and the Liberals running a coalition is when they bothered to make the agreement to do it.
Not only that, minority governments are fairly common under the Westminster system. It’s just that we’re dominated by two parties with few minor parties (just the Green and Nationals, with the Nationals swept up under the arms of the Liberals thanks to the aforementioned coalition) so minority governments are somewhat rarer here.
Finally, it was 53.45% :p
Voting ended, we had hung parliament. Only after this did some other separate alliances occur with some independents to put someone in power. That’s my problem – these alliances only formed after the hung condition.
Unless I’m totally wrong, in which case …. I’m wrong. 🙁
That’s a feature, not a bug. The idea is that the ruling coalition still represents a majority of MPs.
Only difference here is that it wasn’t a majority coalition like in the UK. Labor still controlled the senate.
My understanding is thus: Greens etc had alliances that are well known, Libs/Nats too. Voting closed, parliament was hung so neither party was in power. Queue a couple of days of restlessness. Eventually some new alliances were suddenly formed, which gave Gillard the extra seats required to form a government in power. Do I not understand it correctly?
All I stated was that the voters didn’t vote them in 100%. Which they couldn’t have, if alliances were formed after voting ended.
It doesn’t matter when the alliances were formed because we vote for representatives.
Once a representative is in place, they choose who they side with and how they legislate. Some people declare who they side with, others don’t. That’s all just a part of how the system is designed to work.
The last term was just as legitimate a government as any other government formed in this nation’s history and I’m getting a pretty strong impression that if your side had won it, you wouldn’t be making this argument.
If we allocated seats based on % of first preference votes instead of electing representatives, neither side could ever form a majority and they would always have to negotiate the whole confidence and supply thing.
I don’t actually have a side, but I’ll admit I have a dislike for Gillard as a person. Anyway, I think it best that I quit the commenting while I’ve not dug myself down far yet, as we definitely have personal opinions that clash on this topic. Apologies for any bad karma I may have attracted, I didn’t mean to. 🙁
I like games and stuff.
@stickman Just to make it clear, my disagreement is because you’re spouting a view that was thrown about a lot during the last few years and is simply wrong. This isn’t an opinion thing.
Gillard was elected as member for Lalor and leader of the Labor party. The majority of the house of reps decided that Labor shall form government which meant that their leader would be Prime Minister. Everyone voted in a representative and everyone’s representative then got to vote on who they wanted to lead. It’s the exact same process that gave Abbott the nod this time.
Getting the independents to vote for Labor to form government is no different from getting any member of the house of reps to vote for or against a piece of legislation. The biggest problem is that we have a two party system where the two parties are so dominant that there normally isn’t any negotiating.
I’d be more supportive of one changing the country’s name to “Straylia”
Not by much, though.
Why did I read the comments section for that Persona Q article.
First comment:
I don’t know who’s more stupid, the commenter for posting something so incredibly stupid that the human race’s intelligence level as a whole gets dragged down just by him posting that comment or me for reading the comments section.
I’m going with me.
You are the worst..
I almost got into a fight in Youtube comments over the Muppets of all things.
Oh man, it’ll be reenacted soon enough:
Actually, I couldn’t argue back thanks to the new Youtube comment system, so yay?
Question
Does anyone know if the camera that’s comes with the COD Ghosts Prestige Edition is any good? It says it’s 1080p video and photo camera (looks like a sniper scope). Just wondering if people thinks it’s worth $120 ish as the prestige edition costs about $250 and I value the game plus dlc at about $130 so if the camera is worth $150 I’ll probably get it cause i need a camera.
that was a really poorly structured paragraph, apologies 😛
edit, i swear i only bolded the word question, tried removing tags and it keeps putting them back :/
Got any other specs? Need to know resolution, fps, memory card details. Is it waterproof? Can you easily mount it? A shortage on some of those will limit its use.
yeah, that’s my problem, as of yet i can’t seem to see many details which makes me think it’s probably poop, all i can find is “it records 1080p at 30fps”. I should probably just find a god camera somewhere, but I”m a hermit so that’d mean going places O_O
Hm, maybe some googling is required. What would you use it for? A GoPro or a standard camera will probably be better in either case.
Damn CoD fanbois, always yelling every little thing
ha, very apt,
It’s slightly overcast with a possible chance of showers. How about you?
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. 2.
Had a bit of a breakthrough at work today.
After 7ish months of employment, today I wa finally iinvited to play Halo with my bosses for the last hour of the day.
That makes me official, huh? 😀
Wow, that’s something!
Pew! Pew! with the boss. That’s boss.
now to convince them to promote people in accordance with their Halo skills,
You got a 20 kill streak and were promoted to CEO
Depends, did you win or lose against him?
Co op, thank god 😛 I haven’t played Halo since Halo 2.
You’ve finally made it kiddo.
So. Damn. Proud. :’)
*16 year old girl with a baby in a pram and her crew walking down the road towards me*
“scuse me m8, ya got any smokes?”
Me: “nah sorry”
Her: “don’t fuckin lie to me m8, ya so do, gimme a smoke”
Other derro friend/fuck buddy: “we can tell ya smoke m8, give us a fuckin smoke ya fuckhead.”
*I walk off*
Fuck I hate people sometimes…
I know. They’re the worst. It would have been no effort to just hand over a smoke but instead you had to be a dick about it. 😛
I probably would have just to shut her up if I had one, but I haven’t touched a cigarette in like 6 months, so… 😛
And even if you did, you aren’t obligated to give any one of them. I hear they’re expensive. Also calling you a fuckhead ain’t exactly friend like.
I’ve never actually bought cigarettes, they just get given to me. No idea how much they cost 😛
You seen housos? If so, imagine Shazzas voice, and that’s exactly what the girl sounded like!
6 mths clean, and they still knew you smoked just by looking at you. 😛
Not even that really. I’ve smoked like… 5-6 cigarettes in my life. All whilst very drunk. I’m not a smoker, is what I’m trying to say 😛
Wow.
Sometimes?
The majority of the time 😛
I’m Shady!
Sup people??
We’ve already got one of those.
Dr ? – Orbital
I’m doing well man! cooking me a steak.
This.
Petition Page 4, eh?
I’ll just leave this here…
http://www.activism.com/en_AU/petition/allow-us-to-punch-douchey-teenagers-in-the-face/591
Christ I love that petition.
Top hit when you Google search ‘petition punch teenagers take icecream’ ^_^
I really liked Doc Who, that is all
Walking dead season 4 episode 7
And I have lost interest in the series. I thought the governor was reformed, but apparently notAgreed. It was nice seeing Victor from Dollhouse though.
Also there’s characters at the new camp I like. Here’s hoping they come to their senses, get rid of Governor and join Rick’s group somehow.I so much wanted Victor to live but it was obvious he wasn’t going to. 🙁 Two episodes in a row all about the stupid Governor for zero reason because he’s ended up back where he started anyway is ridiculous. And now he’s the “villain” for the mid-season finale after such a great start to the season? Grr. And man was today’s episode painfully pointless. Stoopid Governor.Would have been way more interesting, storywise if he’d just taken the family to the prison and tried to join them, rather than rehashing the battle between groups.Yeah, that would’ve been crazy interesting. Seeing Governor understand that Rick’s group is the best chance at keeping his people safe, whether he liked it or not. That change alone would’ve showed character progress, but just pressing the reset button and putting all the pieces back in place to how they used to be in season three… *shakes fist*There’s no way he could be reformed. Anyone who thought it could happen has forgotten how bitter and hollow and completely nuts he is.Yeah, this. My girlfriend was shocked when he hit the dude with the golf club, as if it weren’t completely expected. He’s properly insane.Brutal Legend ho!
o/
Good stuff? I still haven’t played it. 🙁 Still sitting there… probably shrink wrapped… I’m waiting for the right moment I guess.
It’s okay, but I’ve not played much of it.
There’s not too many worse feelings than thinking that you’ve lost six months worth of photos from the lives of your young kids…
And not too many better feelings than finding them!
o.O
*heartrate increase*
The strangest thing – I dropped my phone in the loo last night, it died and the first thing I thought of was the kid photos. Magically it came back to life this morning though!
Then the first thing I did was backup.
Ouch, that’s actually more of a problem now than 1-3 years ago. Back then, every phone came with a pittance of memory so an external microSD was required. Even when wet, the chances of the microSD working are very high. Now that everyone has 16/32GB built-in, you’re screwed if the phone dies. 🙁
Exactly this. You don’t want to know that my phone is the Galaxy Nexus with no option for external memory. No microSD card failsafe. I tend to copy photos over to my Mac every month now.
Same, N4 here. I backup to Google+ though, so there’s that I suppose.
🙁 Take this opportunity to do some backups. Remember, a backup isn’t a backup until you have at least three copies: original, backup copy, off-site non-volatile copy.
Yep! We’re making photobooks of them and uploading them to Blurb, back-up on external HDD and Dropbox and my desktop machine.
The culprit was my wife’s Macbook which did its best to erase them 😛
You know how I have a tendency to get…obsessed with some songs?…
My current obsession is with Redfoo’s ‘Let’s Get Ridiculous’. I listened to it on nonstop repeat for 4 and a half hours this morning… (am I the only person that does that? Just listen to one song over and over for that long?)
MY BROTHER KEEPS PLUGGING IN AND UNPLUGGING HIS VITA FROM MY PC AND IT KEEPS STOPPING THE MUSIC EVERYTIME AND RAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Never get between a lambo and his music.
After Clerks II, I put 1979 on repeat for like three weeks.
After Six Feet Under finished I played a certain song for some time!
Gettin’ Jiggy Wid’ It?
Yes.
Coincidentally, this is the song I put on after finishing Banjo-Kazooie.
You can tell it’s a lie because it’s about a song.Not a single song, but I’ll quite often have a list of only a half dozen or so that get repeated constantly. At the moment its:
When Can I See You Again – Wreck It Ralph soundtrack
Perfect Cell Theme – Dragonball Z
Laura Palmer – Bastille
Alive Inside – Walking Dead Game soundtrack
Next Train – Andrew Mockler
World Of Dreams – Future World Music
…
…
The only thing I can draw from this is that I have “eclectic” music tastes
Zeldas soundtrack just keeps on getting better this game.
So impressive!
A Link Between Worlds? If so then yeahhh! I’m glad each dungeon has its own music 😀
Link’s Adventure
:pToday just seems like a really off day. Like everything is slightly out of focus, except not visually. Climbing was particularly meh too, and not just for me. Also the drive to Warringah sucked. Stupid rain and traffic and combining of multiple lanes into few and bleh.
…
……
Ravio is a dick.
Ru-fi-o, Ru-fi-o, Ru-fi-ooooooooooooooooooooooo
Apparently the actor still gets that.
Often.
Someone mentioned slash?
Sandslash?
All right! Tomorrow’s the big day. Sending the completed Triumviratus Issue 1 off to publishers. This bit’s the most terrifying part of the process, though it really doesn’t amount to more than actually posting a letter 😛
Woo Four Kings Defeated!
Also Onebro PvP is hard.
@dc
Boadwalk Empire Season 4 Episode 12 Spoilers…… biiig spoilers
holy damn hell damn crap. That episode was intense and just kept escalating, so much of it I didn’t see coming. Wasn’t expecting the Chalky / Narcisse / Harrow encounter to work out like that at all. Just so bad for everyone involved except Narcisse & then even he gets screwed by Hoover. Seeing Richard go like that was heartbreaking, he was one of my favourites (possibly favourite). Didn’t anticipate Eli getting himself into so much trouble either. The Capone arc will probably get a bit crazy next season too. Great EpisodeAMAZING episode.
Oh man, i think Richard was one of the only likable characters on the show. It’s a bit like Game of Thrones where the unlikable characters are all really watchable still, but Richard was the one you wanted a happy ending for. Felt so bad for the guy. He’s the kind of person where killing an innocent would weigh on him and it was for the best it went down how it did, maybe? So he won’t have to live with the consequences. That shot at the end. The way it was lit and cut abruptly was crazy beautiful and seeing him without his mask on at the house and on the beach. Oh man. :'(
Glad Jimmy’s body was finally discovered and that Nucky helped Richard out on this front. (Even though it didn’t end the way they wanted it to.) Poor Chalky though. Like you said, things were escalating before. I imagine this is going to have all kinds of repercussions next season. I thought Eli was going to be killed off for sure. Even that fight with the FBI agent, he looked like he was screwed more than once. So weird how little we saw of Margaret this season but moving into the apartment at the end probably ensures she’ll have a bigger role next season. (Things are bound to get complicated with Arnold Rothstien.
Here’s an interview with the showrunner about the state of Boardwalk Empire after the season finale. Spoilers a-plenty for season finale.
Goodnight, TAY.
HOLY CRAP I JUST FIGURED OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THE FEZ NUMBER SYSTEM
I *was* going to bed, but then I glanced at the wad of papers as I was leaving the computer and something just clicked for some reason. Dammit.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/11/25/nintendo-reveals-blue-luigis-mansion-3ds-bundle.aspx
Oooooh.
WHY’S IT BLUE?!
Because it’s a pretty great colour, but yeah, green would be better. 😀
That “Luigi green” in that metallicy 3DS XL colour would be rad. But I don’t want it to happen cause then I’d want it 😛
Sometimes at the Brisbane meats everyone sits with their 3DS and I feel so left out. : (
😀
🙁
Bleh. So sick of this preinstalled shit.
Either give out the actual game or don’t.
I came here because I think people here may enjoy this
http://9gag.com/gag/a3Y1038
I don’t know if anyone here still actively watches it, but there’s a pretty big spoiler from the latest Family Guy going the rounds this morning.
Like, even the official Facebook page posted it.
Does…does…that make it a spoiler? Is there a point where it just becomes promotion instead, if the official page posts it?
Glass half full day,
Stupid dodgy wiring and roof combined with a thunderstorm killed our lights, had electricians walk around looking confused yesterday so they have to come back today and I have to sit around waiting for them. On the other hand, I have to sit around waiting for electricians instead of being at work, whoop. Also only 2 sleeps left until PS4 :)……..:D……..( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)…………….o(≧▽≦)o
Edit: I declare this to be Glass half full page 5.
On the other hand, you don’t have to be at work \o/
For sale: http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/james-flamestar/
Glass half full: there has been more than 1 sale! \o/
Glass half empty:
There’s a character based on my likeness.
Actually, given that I hadn’t met you at that point (I think), it’s actually a character based on a vague description of your likeness. 😛
I was listening to the album on the drive to work this morning.
I would read the comic on the drive too, but…I dunno, something about that idea seems less smrt.
They should totally make an Oculus Rift Augmented reality version to view on your drive. There is just no way that could go wrong 😛
How much fun would augmented reality driving be, it would sure help keep you awake on those long drives
You’re selling Pez?
1:1 scale
So, about half the size of a normal person.
Yes. He gets up to all sorts of weird antics. And for just $4.00 😛
Amazon Black Friday digital deals are up
Bioshock Triple Pack – $14.99
Borderlands 2 GOTY – $11.99
Mass Effect 3 – $6.99
Civ V Gold + Brave New World – $19.99
Plus a few more.
Linky
To the Moon is three dollars. THREE DOLLARS GUYS!
#RequisitePlug
#HashtagsForHarli
What’s “To the Moon”?
I’ve never heard you mention it many times before.
Game Downloads are only available to US customers
Hmm.. How do I get around this?
Create a US Amazon account, set your shipping address as an American one, and everything else should be cool.
@cakesmith
Is the spoiler that it isn’t funny?
How do you spoil Family Guy?
Legit spoiler:
They killed off a character… someone called Brian, I think.They’ve killed a few characters so far and yet there they are still on the show. The magic of when your writers no longer give a shit.OH MY GOD THEY KILLED KENNYWait… did I read somewhere that they don’t do that anymore on South Park? (Granted, I haven’t watched it since season… 2… I think)They still kill him off, though it’s a rarer occurrence nowadays. Hasn’t happened since the ziplining episode.Good. The sooner they ruin the show and stop trying to make it the better.
I miss Family Guy from before season 10…
They stopped caring or trying to make it better a long time ago. It’s just a string of unconnected unfunny references at this point. Doesn’t even have any jokes or story lines.
Yep, which is a real shame. Had some great moments when I was younger kicking back at a mate’s place with some drinks and just watching a crapload of Family Guy.
You were there? BUT THAT WAS 16000KMs AWAY!!!!
Obscure pop culture reference.I haven’t watched Family Guy since about season 10, it was just a warning in case anyone actually cared.
But hey, apparently they don’t so next time I won’t bother.
Nah, you did good. I don’t watch but was surprised even sites like TVLine posted the spoiler without any warning on the front page.
Given the internet chatter I’ve seen about it, there are people who do care. Family Guy is a setting though where Death is a recurring character and time travel exists, so I wouldn’t expect the character death to be permanent.
Secret SanTAY!
Everything should be sent out from me by this point. If you haven’t received an email let me know.
I don’t know what to give! I’ll just send $20 in an envelope 😛
What happened to the going to The Reject Shop and buying random goodies strategy?! D:
Well now my person will know what they’re getting. Good one, spoilerius!
Pfft ain’t nobody looking at posts made at 9am!
Except Greenius.
I think all the participants should list the consoles they own. Just because NO REASON.
I’ll start.
@shane
360
3DS
Shane is strongly hinting that anything but games is beneath him 😛
I’m just trying to help (myself!) folks like @powalen, who are clearly struggling to find inspiration.
Edit: what I really want is fame and fortune and a life of luxury, and if my Secret SanTAY can figure out how to give me those things for <$20, I strongly encourage them to do that 😛
Winning Lotto ticket!
Don’t worry about me!
I don’t want to give games anyway. People can buy their own games 😛 I like to give presents that people wouldn’t buy for themselves.
To be honest I’ve barely thought about what to get yet…You should give the gift of Colobus Monkeys this holiday season!
I bet no one thought of buying malaria. It’s the perfect present, the gift that just keeps on giving.
I said things people wouldn’t buy for themselves.
Yeah, but realistically people would only buy one for themselves and couldn’t justify a second. A second would ensure the monkey has a pal to conspire with and everyone is a winner when a monkey is given the opportunity to conspire. That’s just science!
>:|
😀
You can always go to sites like OGS etc and look at the stuff under $20.
I would say ThinkGeek too, but the postage alone would be $40…
I think if OGS is the option for anyone, they’d better get on it ASAP. Shipping (esp from them) before Christmas is going to be a close call.
Whoever has Shane should just buy copies of the Lesser Evil and send them to him.
I always need more stock. I’m okay with the plan 😛
What a monster!
Or he’s hoping for his Secret Santa to gift him one of the consoles he doesn’t have. 😛
Hahaha, no.
NO.
(Postage alone would be >$20. So, no.)
You don’t think I’m that kind of moocher, do you? 🙁
Of course not. If I really thought that you were hinting at that I wouldn’t have made a joke about it.
I thought it was obvious it was just your way of trying to find out which consoles the person you drew owns.
Sorry for making you sadface.
Nah man, haven’t you heard? Old consoles are cheap as, a 360 goes for like $12 these days. Totally within budget.
But I already have a 360 🙁
@ontargett None (working).
People want games? I thought with the under $20 price tag it was all about finding something quirky the recipient might appreciate. Something that shows you put thought into it.
This sounds way too tough. I’m glad I’m not participating. Sucks to be you guys! 😛
The secret is to go dumb. I had Puppylicks last year, so I sent him a small puppy toy (for him to lick), a pink Halo Spartan to ride the mighty puppy steed, a letter from Santa (which was a real pain, Santa rarely ever returns my calls anymore), and a DVD labelled as having only Ubisoft DRM, but which had a (bad) loop of the most important part of the He Man version of What’s Up.
I do this because it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
Puppylicks included that DRM with Omikron: The Nomad Soul when he sent it to me! XD
So, in a round-about way, I’ve sent you a gift.
TICKING THAT ONE OFF THE LIST!
Then I gave the discs to Sughly, so you’ve given him one too!
Woah. Whoever gets you is gonna get spoiled big time.
I’m sure @freezespreston is organising it this year so he doesn’t get sent more crap like what he got last year.
MAMESHIBAAAAAA
Hey, I was drinking vodka out of the Turtles mug just the other night. Cowabunga!
Yeah, for sure… but not everyone is gonna do that 😛
Edit: I’m sure people will try to do this, but it can be tricky if they don’t know anything about the person they’re sending to.
We should have asked everyone to write their own verse into that Favourite Things song from Sound Of Music! And then @blaghman could have recorded it as his Christmas song. 😀
Dinosaurs, old books and films on the big screen,
Watching the tennis with lollies and ice cream.
Weedle and Caterpie shooting their strings,
These are a few of Pow’s favourite things!
Circling wagons at the Christmas season,
Show runners Sorkin and even Joss Whedon,
Colobus Monkeys, Hermit caves in the spring,
These are a few of D.C.’s favourite things!
That’s what I’m hoping for/sending out!
Also, if whoever drew me is thinking I’ll be difficult to buy for, I’m really not. Everyone should know by now that I’m addicted to JRPGs, junk food, power metal and fabric. Plenty of fodder there.
Wait. Did I read correctly earlier when you wrote we are paired up? So if I know my KKK, then they know I’m theirs as well?
I’m not sure about this, but these things usually work more randomly than that.
I don’t think so. There’s nothing secret about that.
Secret Santa’s aren’t usually pairs, are they? I’ve always played it where you give to one person and receive from a different person.
I think I’m losing my mind. It’s that time of the year.
I inaccurately use the term pair. It was a random draw and only one lot got paired in the true sense.
Aha, cool, thanks for the clarification. I’m not entirely losing my mind.
MOOOOOOFFFFFAAAAAAT
http://www.avclub.com/article/sherlock-season-three-105977
I’m getting pretty keen. January isn’t that far away \o/
I watched season 1 then as I was about to start season 2 (I was 1 minute into the first episode) my wife decided she would want to watch the series so I held off on starting season 2 for about a year and was on a cliffhanger.
Just recently I finally convinced her to actually watch the damn show so I could watch season 2, and of course it ended on another cliffhanger. She’s agonising over having to wait until January for more. Oh no! Three months! How will you survive? >:(
But you ain’t bitter! 😛
Mr. Strange bought me some of this on Saturday night. I think he was trying to send me a message. 😛
Came across that stuff a few weeks ago, and had a good laugh with my wife about it. Or at? I don’t really remember that clearly.
I’m joke bitter. 😛
It’s going to have been two years between the second and third seasons. Two years.
I’m so god damn hype.
I almost don’t see them as seasons. I see them as an ongoing series of movies. I don’t mind getting three movies in two years. That’s pretty good, actually 😛
#GlassHalfFullAfterAll
That’s probably a better way to look at it. January is so close, too! Hyyyyype.
Speaking of close, Treme is only a week or so away. Craaaazy!
Oh man, I still haven’t watched all of SoA season 6 or any of Mad Men season 6. And now there’s going to be Treme and Sherlock…!
Time to quit my job and lock the kids in a cellar. I gotta get on top of this.
Haha! Treme’s only a short run. I know you like to watch a season after its finished but you should totally watch while they air. One ep of a different show across the week! 😀
Yeah, we’re going to. Treme isn’t a show that thrives on week-to-week suspense 🙂
You’re okay, Shane. You’re okay. I don’t care what the others say. 😛
@dc What do others say about Shane?
That he’s a bad seed!
I hated that Cumberbatch got so popular that they had to keep delaying the series for him.
I’m selfish like that.
Oh good. The Christmas carols have started in the centre.
Yay.
I’m surprised they didn’t months ago! In some ways, you’ve lucked out? 😀
Now we get to watch @freezespreston descent into madness
*gets popcorn ready*
I think I said this last year, but who’s the Christmas carols actually for? Customers hate it. Shop assistants hate it. Who actually likes it? D:
Not every customer is you, DC. 😛
I like them. They help me feel festive. But only in the week before Christmas, not the whole month. That’s just the shopping centres trying to get people to buy more stuff for Christmas.
BAH HUMBUG!
*there’ll be many a wagon circled*
BAH HUMBUG-five o/
My motto for the over-commercialised stressful time that some people refer to as christmas… i simply refer to it as BAH HUMBUG! time…
Merry BAH HUMBUG to you 😛
Christmas means little to me. Don’t do any thing with family. Friends are always out of town. Shops are closed. Nothing is on TV. *shakes fist*
So you just stay at home? That must be a nice change for you.
But BAH HUMBUG! day is a excellent day to get some hardcore gaming done \o/
You lie! Unless we’re not friends…. 😛
I invited you over and over again to my place along with @mythamphetamine last year but you refused.
That’s because you’re scary! XD
Masochists.
Me. It’s a global conspiracy to get me to sing stupidly.
KIDS.
Also, even if customers hate the songs, it reminds them to DO THEIR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AND SPEND ALL THEIR $$$$$$$
I like them. 🙁
Even when I was a shopping centre employee, I liked them.
Edit: To be fair, the last shopping centre I worked in did have the best ever christmas song included in its playlist as well as, unusually, “The Eve of War” from The War of the Worlds musical.
Christmas Carols are great! They just shouldn’t be played outside of December 😛
I could ignore them when I worked in retail.
I had a co-worker who LOVED carols. like, had them on her iPod and listened to them out of season liked them.
There’s a few Christmas songs I like. Like O Holy Night!
I can tolerate them, as long as it’s not the overly saccharine type, but listening out of season?
The only time I do that is when I want to play the oh-so-fun Steve Ouimette versions of Christmas Carols on Guitar Hero. They are some of my most favourite things to play ever.
The only Christmas related song I have on my iPod is White Wine in the Sun.
Basshunter – Jingle Bells. If JB Hifi or someone with nice speakers played this, I wouldn’t mind at all.
Noise canceling headphones. Even better, ones like this: http://www.sensear.com/digital-hearing-protection.php that still let you hear people speaking.
If you play them backwards, the world becomes Doom-like.
Demons everywhere, and you’re holding a minigun.
😛
It’s not even fucking December yet and they’re already starting with the fucking carols?
I officially loathe this time of year by the way. Hate Christmas so much. 🙁
It’d be slightly better if it was winter, IMO. I’ve had many white Christmases, and the summer one just doesn’t cut it. “Dashing through the snow..” WHERE??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosGBYU5vIE
I feel ya man, where i work on the playlist is the Chipmunks rendition of ‘I’m a little Christmas cracker’.
And you can’t escape it, even the toilets have speakers!
Suicide material at it’s finest. :/
Oh gods.
You win.
Huh,
Just had coffee with the Head of IT from the Danish office…
Sooo that would mean that 50% of the Danish population is gathered under one roof!
Mmmm… Danish Office.
Now I’m imagining @powalen dancing / frolicking in an office full of Danishes (the food kind).
Wow… Danishes, half price!
I am pretty cheap
HaHaha! Yup, the exact mental image I had. XD
…you have a Danish office?
*pictures an office full of danish pastry*
it’s is pretty tasty
Must be nice to have a chat with one of your countrymen.
It was actually, went out for coffee and everything… plus it’s not every day a pleb like me gets to talk to Senior Management, so yeah, very very interesting… made my day actually, i feel really good
Oh man, they’re conspiring against us! D:
Well there was definitely NO Pinky and Brain-esque plotting to take over the world… No siree… nope… nothing to see here
*Whistles*
So as @cakesmith can attest to, last night I started to get the shits with Xcom: EW. Ignoring the new missions (spoiler stuff moved to the bottom) that mean you constantly get screwed over by enemy spawns, I’m just constantly getting bullshit hits. Plus, it feels like heavy cover doesn’t do anything any more, I’m constantly being critted more often than hit when in it.
Starting to think I need to restart the game without Ironmode so I can reroll when an enemy does 9 damage from two screens away with a light rifle to someone elevated and Hunkered Down in heavy cover.
Twice.
Fuck Exalt and their missions. Having 15 (I actually counted) enemies spawn in ONE WAVE, already surrounding you, and then 3 subsequent waves of 4-8 enemies spawn each turn after, with rocket launchers and sniper rifles is NOT fun. It’s shit. Your tactics mean nothing unless you know what’s coming up by playing it more than once.I’M SORRY! 😛
I finally found a use for your inability to fire anything but a pistol straight, and the game glitched and you got shot offscreen. 5 turns later I realise I’m missing someone and it never showed me you got attacked…
Bahaha poor Pixel get’s left behind to die,
Token Foreign kid indeed 😛
I feel your pain, plenty of games have broken combat mechanics. E.g. GTA5.
Well, the weird thing is I can only remember a single moment in Enemy Unknown that went to shit due to a glitch, and even then I got around it.
So I ended up blitzing the entire season 2 of Legend of Korra over the last few days. It’s pretty good.
Ending spoilers:
So I’m guessing that the cycle will continue again and Vaatu will reappear for harmonic convergence in another 10,000 years. Seems kind of weird that they didn’t really address that.General thoughts:
Season 2 was better than season 1 as it didn’t have to go through the annoying character establishment again. Also the storyline seemed more suitably epic for an Avatar cartoon, rather than season 1 which was pretty small-fry in comparison.Haven’t finished watching Season 2 yet,
but i concur with your second point,
I like that it is more to the point of grand scale,
Season 1 felt very… Narrow.. in it’s scope for an Avatar, only being based around Republic City and all…
Overall 450,000 out of 500,000 Pixels
I give it 22 out of 25 feels. I really liked what they did in the mid-season arc (you know what I’m talking about).
The shift in art style, tone, and general feel of the story was done pretty spectacularly. I also liked how most things looked like it had been painted over with watercolours.My copy of Ys: Memories of Celceta shipped \o/
Hoping to get it by Friday, though Amazon estimates Monday.
It occurs to me that I should write a primer or something on the Ys series for Potaku.
Yes.
*Ys.
Textually that works but it’s pronounced more like ‘ees’. So making puns with it isn’t Ysy. 😛
i’ve tried to get in ys, i’ve got origins, I and II on steam through sales, but have never really got far in them, however i am always up for new vita games, so i’m considering getting this one.
Ys I & II are kind of different. I loved Ys II, but was kind of iffy on the first one. They’re not representative of the more recent games. Basically the versions on steam are a slight graphical overhaul and audio remake over the top of the original PC-88 games from 1986 & 1987, so they feel pretty retro.
Origins is the final evolution of the new 3D combat system that debuted in Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim on PC & PS2. First one to introduce new characters and everything. It’s basically a dungeon grind with some awesome bosses and a plot that expands on the backstory of Ys I & II. You don’t play as Adol and none of the characters really feel like him – Yunica is closest. The same engine was also used for Oath in Felghana which you can also get on Steam – Oath is a remake of Ys III. They have a lot of jumping puzzles and stuff too, so I guess they’re kind of action platformers?
Memories of Celceta replaces the previous Ys IV in the series canon, incorporates some of the story points. The previous Ys IV games weren’t produced by Falcom and apparently they were never that happy with either of them. It uses the same engine as Ys Seven, which takes out all the jumping and instead gives you a dodge. Additionally Seven had a much stronger focus on plot (though never anywhere near as verbose as Falcom’s main RPG series, Legend of Heroes / Trails). You have multiple party members, can switch control around to any of them and they gain skills and stuff.
So it gets tricky. The best Ys game right now IMO is Ys Seven. It’s fun to play and has a strong plot and solid art. Felghana is probably the best one on Steam, but Origins has better combat. Ys I & II has fucking amazing music and is a retro-style classic. So they’re all kind of good. Except Ys VI, which is kind of bleh so far (haven’t finished) and Ys V, which isn’t in English and was so terrible that it nearly sank the entire series.
Do you need to have played the previous games to understand what’s happening?
Well I can’t speak for Celceta because I haven’t played it. Each one is self-contained so if you play any given one at worst you’re not going to be familiar with some of the recurring side characters.
Origins is probably the only one where being familiar with the original games (i.e. I and II) is a benefit. The reason is that Origins has three different lead characters and it’s a prequel set hundreds of years before Ys I and lays out Ys I & II’s backstory.
The rest of the games have some call-outs to previous ones. Ys I through Seven all have the same main character, Adol, who is a red-haired swordsman that has incredibly bad luck when traveling. Basically every story opens out with him arriving in some new place – often after being shipwrecked – and then there’s some kind of trouble he has to investigate, gaining new magical abilities as he goes and leveling up and getting new equipment and everything. Then he throws that shit away and starts over. I guess you could compare it to the Legend of Zelda? Though the series is more combat-focused and isn’t just recycling the same plot each time.
Celceta really shouldn’t require much previous game knowledge because it’s a remake of Ys IV, which chronologically is the third game in the main series. As I understand it, Adol washes up in Celceta after being shipwrecked and has lost his memory.
If you want to try one that’s most like Celceta, jump on PSN and get Ys Seven for PSP.
made the grand mistake of bringing a box of sour straps with me to work to keep in my desk drawers…
My stomach hurts
OH GOD I CAN’T STOP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfslY_AvhLw
WHY WOULD THEY PUT 200 IN ONE BOX!
I THINK I’M SWEATING SUGAR!
#noregrets
@shane I read Peaceful Tomorrows 1 & 2. My main thought coming away from it (spoilerised just in case someone hasn’t read it yet [you should]).
God Frank is such a prat. He pulled the equivalent of “I’m not winning anymore so I’m taking my toys and going home” except with more explosions and death.Also is it bad that I was rooting for the real Elam Padakan the whole time?
Good read Shane! Well worth my convention dollars. 🙂
You’re making us all look bad, man! D:
You know what can cure that feeling. Reading @shane’s books. 😛
No one must know I’m illiterate and get a Colobus Monkey to transcribe my thoughts into posts!
In that case, give that monkey a raise. Or do you have all 8 varieties of Colobus Monkey and rotate them on posting duties throughout the day?
It’s never me who talks about Colobus Monkeys. They’re just making their presence known.
WAIT!? There are 8 varieties of colobus monkeys? I thought there was only 7!
Ah! Popular misconception right there, my friend. We should meet up to talk about this indepth!
Yes! I agree. Come to the city tomorrow, I think me and @strange are still have lunch.
Both wrong. They’re a myth.
You’d like that wouldn’t you? WOULDN’T YOU?
That made me want to read it all over again 😛
EDIT: Again again. I’ve already read the omnibus!
What? You actually read it? We all just buy it, throw it to the side and tell Shane it was great.
I don’t think he cares after the buy it phase 😛
I KNEW IT.
And you’re right. I don’t care.
*counts money*
*drops 5c coin*
*starts crying*
Thanks, man. Out of all the people in the world, except for me (but including my publisher), you are one of two people I know has read this book. The other one is Alexpants.
Edit:
That’s not exactly the reaction I was trying to provoke, but okay! That’s certainly a very valid reading 🙂 Also, yeah, GO ELAM. I’ve got a soft spot for him – he used to be a mustache twirling Vader-esque guy, and my writing improved a lot when I decided to make him a better person – basically saved The Lesser Evil (this is way back in 2001ish).I understand what you were intending (and how you expanded on it with the short story add-on for Frank’s life before the main story) but I just felt that Frank was, in the end, extremely petty about the whole situation. Yes he may have justified it by alluding to martyrdom and sacrificing himself for the greater good but, considering he criticised Stanley for doing something similar, it seemed to me that he was feeding himself lies.Also by that point in the overarching story, redemption was probably beyond his capacity, considering everything he had done and all of the schemes that he had enacted. He was very Machiavellian and I ended up thoroughly disliking him for it. Which is weird when I think about it because I enjoyed Stanley’s character growth. Probably because I saw more of Frank’s evil side than I did Stan’s.
That’s good! \o/
The point of the short story wasn’t that he found redemption through martyrdom – it’s meant to feel kind of tragic (though understandable, given his history) how badly he misses the point of it. What he does at the end is nothing short of monstrous, and is meant to seem that way – his new “understanding” is not an improvement over his self-involved paranoia in many ways at all.Definitely like that you picked up on his self-delusion regarding the importance of his ‘sacrifice’ – that was really hard to write! Thanks. I think the difference between Stan and Frank is that Stan learned to see the small picture, the individuals in the crossfire of his actions – Frank’s arc is almost the opposite of that. (A side point here is that Frank remained deluded until the end, convinced his death would have importance – Stan knew how little it all meant and had no delusions about how he would be remembered. Stan has woken up – Frank only thought he had.)
Also, if this commentary from me is destroying the magic, I can stop. Let me know 🙂
All good my friend. I have a degree in creative writing so I enjoy talking about how people approach writing and developing character and what not. Unfortunately I lack the drive (at the moment at least) to write a substantial work of my own but I do enjoy reading.
Anyway, learning how to write prose and deconstructing literary techniques kind of trains you in spotting these things so a small amount of the magic is lost for me anyway. Fortunately I don’t read comics or graphic novels that much so I enjoyed reading your books. It was a nice change of pace. 🙂
According to the message I just received EB’s launch party for the PS4 starts at 5pm.
I really feel for the staff. I really do. That has to suck.
5pm till midnight? That seems … excessive
5pm – 1am.
That has to suck especially for the managers who will be doing a 9am – 1am shift.
For the XBone launch the manager here did 9am – 5pm, 9pm-1pm then 9am – 5pm the following day.
Yeah, that’s gotta suck. When are you picking up your PS4?
Probably Friday morning. Feel weird about a midnight launch for some reason.
I never really got midnight launches. My cousin went to a GTAV one and went straight to bed after getting home.
I miss read that as managers doing a 9am to 1pm shift and was like, ‘uh so what’s the big deal?’ 😀
Okay, so because a few people do seem to be having difficulties with their Secret SanTAY ideas and @powalen responded so awesomely to my Sound of Music joke suggestion maybe everyone in SS really should do a verse of “My Favourite Things”. Here’s Pow’s and mine(didn’t want to do one, but can’t ask people to do something I’m not willing to do myself! 😛 ) to start it off:
Dinosaurs, old books and films on the big screen,
Watching the tennis with lollies and ice cream.
Weedle and Caterpie shooting their strings,
These are a few of Pow‘s favourite things!
Colourful t-shirts and epic guitarists
Dark Souls and Nier and Fantasy’s Final
Savoury snacks with a bit of a zing
These are a few of my Strange little things.
Edit: Obviously the point is not to tell someone what to buy you, just to throw out tidbits to hopefully spark ideas. 🙂
Reading and boardgames and Snakes all a sneaking
Magic cards, comics and Discworld freaking
Sci-fi and Doctors and RPG brings
Red to keep talking ’bout Favourite things!
Synth pop and techno and hot female drummers,
Doctor who, batman, and fat Italian plumbers,
Bad jokes and puns and puppies and kittens,
These are a few of rocket a favourite things
Also fuck rhyme scheme I’m too cool for it
You’re also too cool for secret SanTAY by your lack of response.
It’s not too late is it? Sorry bro been busy as fuck 🙁
Nope. Had a few stragglers come in late. Just email binoter at the hot males with your address.
Penthouse apartments and twelve in a hot tub
Drinking Jack Daniels while getting a backrub
Little gold chains pinned to brass nipple rings
These are a few of my favorite things
Dunno how I’m going to get that into an auspost thing for under $20.
I’ll do a proper one eventually – That’s just a segment from my favorite Christmas song – Jingle Hells Bells.
Dark Souls and Dark Souls and Dark Souls and Dark
Stories with meaning and subtext and heart
Family and writing and fame give me wings
These are a few of Shane‘s favourite things
Hilarious puns told with great understatement
Again and again with no sign of abatement
And having my ego stroked, that doesn’t sting
These are some more of Shane‘s favourite things
I do like long songs, but not too long, I think
Comics, et cetera, please check out this link
My life is now ready for @blaghman to sing
Because this song has told all of Shane‘s favourite things
Edit: Second verse
Edit 2: O Gods, I can’t stop.
Elaborate in jokes like haikus ’bout The Dig
Generous gifting of comics that’ll go big
Shane will write verses with all the rhyming
And this seems to be a list of his favourite things
Boardgames, Webcomics and Retro Gaming,
Stealth games and puzzles and old shcool strategy
80s Electro and Rockers and folk who like to Sing
These are a few of my favourite things
Breakdowns and boardgames and men dressed like bats
Comics and movies by that Quentin chap
Synth pop with ladies who know how to sing
Are BDKIAF‘s favourite things
Speaking of which… Are you aware Kate Miller Heidke’s new album?
I saw a crowdfunding campaign for it a little while back. Appears to be still running.
Part of me briefly considered the possibility of an extra 10k in our wedding budget for that top tier.
Worth it.
Yeah I’m considering doing the $100 Birthday call for my Best friend…
I’d forgotten I’d backed that one! Hooray for more vinyl coming my way 😀
I’m not involved, so perhaps I’m just bluffing,
When I say what I want is a big pile of nothing,
Anything Santa brings will not suffice,
‘Cause anything’s something and to me that’s not nice.
Whatever you think of you’ll find it’s not fitting,
You’d best shove it firmly where you do all your shitting!
My tastes, you’ll find, are quite nihilistic,
The absence of things is what makes me tick…
No card! No tree! No socks, undies, or money!
I want none of that stuff! I’M NOT EVEN BEING FUNNY!
Nix, nil, naught, diddlysquat, ZIP, ZILCH AND NADA!
THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE WHOLE ENCHILADA!
Like my sex life!
Like your Kudos prize!
Like Dan’s mum and daaad,
The things I want don’t exist, they’re nonentities!
…
I’ll spend Christmas alooone…
And saaaaaad.
That’s depressing. 🙁
Now that’s the spirit!
Any rock music from alternative to glam
Games on a tabletop or magic cards in my hand
Painting Miniatures and some drunken lanning
I kept it G rated – my favorite things
Batman and Zelda and Tenacious D.
These are a few of my favourite things.
More to come. 😀
Aural fidelity; volume and vinyl,
N64 games, those make me smile.
Nomming and meating; top-notch sensations,
These are a few of Leph‘s favourite creations!
Doctor Who, coffee and 80’s cartoon shows
Cricket and footy (all the major co-odes)
Alan Moore comic books, music and stuff
This is of what I just can’t get enough.
Oh, forgot to remind you about the Gravity short film @shane.
Jerk.
so I just read that the new Killer Instinct has removed the no mercy / ultra combo finishers.
umm………. ok. not that I was ever gonna be getting it, but now they’ve taken out the two only memorable mechanics from the series, theres even less reason to get it.
All I remember from the SNES one is spamming the ice guy(?) to beat the campaign, listening to the soundtrack CD a few too many times, and how awesomely well the Super Advantage controller worked with the Lost Vikings.
As someone who spent way too much money on it in the arcades and played the N64 Gold version nearly more than any other game at the time, I haven’t yet seen anything that has made me want the new one.
http://www.polygon.com/news/175482/persona-5-is-now-a-f2p-fps-for-mobiles
Oh man, I can’t believe SEGA sold the Persona franchise to EA
I just got the joke from yesterday.
/o\
You shouldn’t make jokes like this. Sega owns them now so it’s terribly plausible 🙁
And now its a 404 error
You’re a 404 error.
It’s a joke.Well, I just posted off some copies of Triumviratus. Fame and fortune, here I come.
*canned laughter*
That wasn’t a joke!
*more canned laughter*
Ah, screw you guys. I’m just gonna go claim this postage on my tax.
*canned laughter reaches crescendo, wild applause*
BAZINGA!
Slash: Romance without boundaries has reached its second stretch goal, meaning 18 of these characters will be included. I need to vote on one. Advice?
Jack Bauer, 24
Captain Crunch, Breakfast
Marge Simpson, The Simpsons
Mara Jade, Star Wars
Pinhead, Hellraiser
King Hippo, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out
Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz
Major Motoko Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell
Professor Oak, Pokemon
Stringfellow Hawk, Airwolf
Phyllis Diller, Ohio
GLaDOS, Portal
Sting, England
Aleister Crowley, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Ganesha, Hindu Mythology
Miss Marple, Agatha Christie novels
Samara Morgan, The Ring
Friedrich Nietzche, Germany
Johnny Five, Short Circuit
Major “Hot Lips” Houlihan, M•A•S•H
Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Sammy Davis Jr., New York City
Green Arrow, DC Comics
Skylar White, Breaking Bad
Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way, My Immortal
Red Ring of Death, XBOX 360
Aerith Gainsborough, Final Fantasy VII
Ranma Saotome, Ranma 1/2
Bigfoot, A Monster Truck Rally
Rosebud, Citizen Kane
@dc, TAY.
Every deck comes with 2 blank cards to make your own after the first stretch goal.
Their use is obvious.
In that case, Jack Bauer would be fun, and he’s a pretty well known archetype.
Wait, female characters? I thought slash was a guy on guy thing.
Slash is anyone/anyone. The term’s roots are in things like Kirk/Spock
Reading through this list, I read ‘pinhead’ and think “well that’d be hillarious, nothing would top that” then I see Ganesha. And then it goes one step further and has the Red Ring of Death. How does that even work?
I’m certain you’re going to regret asking that question.
“Red Ring”
Ganesh slowly stroked the 360 as Pinhead undid his belt buckle, getting harder and harder as he watched the life leave the Xbox’s eye, leaving a dull red ring where it once glowed a joyous green.
I hate my brain because it read most of this while I just scrolling past. 🙁
What, they have Houlihan but not Klinger?
personally I would probably go with Johhny 5
Everyone quit their job and apply for this job.
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov
With a job description like that who would want to work anywhere else
DENTAL PLAN!
Honestly, they could put up a job description that said “Your primary role will be to let Mike Krahulik literally shit on your face” and they’d still get thousands of applicants.
It’s sad how true that is.
That actually sounds like a terrible job. :\ They seem too big to have a single person running all four of those roles.
Going to put it here rather than the echo chamber I see building up on Twitter…
I don’t have a problem with that ad. I don’t see it as a job ad in the strictest sense.If work is what you do to pay for the rest of life, this will be a terrible job. It will be demanding, unreasonable, and not worth the peanuts it will pay.
But, I see it as an offer to join a family. If mucking around to get tech working, if maintaining websites and being the 24/7 tech support guy for your group of friends are thing you already do for free, out of passion, because you find them fulfilling, then, this is probably an opportunity to do that while not having to work another job for all those shiny gadgets, all those new toys.
That’s the way I see it. Not for me, not a traditional ‘job’, but for the right person, it is the perfect opportunity.
It does remind me of the saying ‘get paid to do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’.
Counterpoint:
A lot of times an expectation like this is nothing short of exploitation, here’s hoping this isn’t one of those casesIf I’m completely honest, if I were qualified for that position I’d apply in a second. The opportunity to be a part of the Penny Arcade family would be something I couldn’t pass up.
I put this on twitter, but for an American job the benefits (from what I know about US jobs) aren’t bad- holiday pay, bonuses, medical, retirement. From an aussie perspective it looks awful, but we have it pretty good in terms of job entitlements.
All I get from it is “We have a shit work environment / management. So instead of working on resolving these issues we are just going to exploit some poor guy because we are famous enough to get away with it”.
I’m taking this from a fairly similar point of view but I still think it’s a bad deal.
Quite simply, I think Penny Arcade is too big for this job to be just one person. They say that they’re a team of 15-20 people and that’s probably true but PA is an amazingly popular site and they have a whole host of side projects from PAX to Child’s Play to Penny Arcade Report to Strip Search to god knows what else.
I think the popularity of the site will mean that whoever gets the job will probably have to lower their salary demands. Which, considering the skillset they’re after, is unreasonable. Although I’m sure that by American standards, the benefits offered are at least decent (although I assume that anyone qualified will be able to demand as good, if not better from most other companies).
There are people out there who would absolutely love this job. Not just at Penny Arcade but at any sort of startup style company where they can be “the man”. It’s a job for a very specific type of person.
Here’s hoping they try to pick the best person for the job based on their budget capabilities rather than only selecting from the lowest bidders. Only considering lowball offers would be pretty silly.
Edit: Removal of second point, no idea what I was responding to. There’s no coffee left in my system.
…at least they’re honest?
“We haven’t got a desk for you, so for the first few weeks you’re going to be working from the dickwolf forest.”
You can’t say that on the Internet!
Sounds tiring.
I should stop eating entire jars of salsa with entire bags of corn chips, my metabolism won’t remain this youthful in years to come.
Yeah, but in the meantime, #YOLO !!!
Yep. Juuuuust about ready to start doing work. Soon.
Maybe.
3 more sleeps till ps4… it will be glorious……… or dead out of the box… whatever…
There are actually some great shows on this list.
I’d add Orange is the New Black. So, so addictive. The Killing too. Six Feet Under!
Yeah, but which ones would you remove to accommodate them?
Friends. Seinfeld. NCIS. House.
Seinfeld and House? YOU BASTARD! 😀
I’d remove:
Downton Abbey: boring.
Friends: way overrated.
Scrubs: irksome.
Can’t speak for Girls, Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, West Wing, House of Cards, NCIS, Newsroom, Doctor Who as I haven’t seen them.
Wouldn’t mind checking out The Wire – everyone here raves about it.
THE REST IN THE LIST ARE FUCKING BRILLIANT. Haha. Especially The Sopranos.
Haha, I made a point to remove only shows I had seen. Can’t judge stuff I haven’t seen so they win their place by default. XD I love The Newsroom, my friend. You should totally watch. Jeff Daniels/Emiliy Mortimer one-two punch. Plus Sorkin! SORKIN! (Which probably means nothing to you if you haven’t watched The West Wing too. :D)
I love Treme though, so think The Wire might be worth checking out soon.
You are a truly horrible person.
Err.. it gets overshadowed by House. 😀
Who wants their medical to be a comedy anyway? That shit is life or death.
* I don’t like my medical to be a comedy, more accurately.
House is good, but I like Scrubs (excluding the last couple of seasons) soooo much more. Then again, the kind of TV show I usually enjoy watching is comedy so that probably has a lot to do with it. =P
Oh also, I agree with getting rid of Friends. I find it pretty overrated too.
Friends feels a bit disposable to me. I enjoy it when I watch it, but don’t really take any thing away from it. As multicam sitcoms though, it’s up there with the best. (But you know how I feel about multicam sitcoms. XD)
…You wouldn’t like Childrens Hospital then? 🙁
You’d remove Friends and Seinfeld before The Walking Dead?
Nup.
You’re wrong.
Oh, I didn’t even see The Walking Dead. Yeah, that goes without saying man. Considering I’ve seen like seven episodes of this show and disliked three. 😛 Though I honestly can’t stand Seinfeld, so yeah. Plus these things are subjective. Can’t tell me I’m definitively wrong about something that’s just opinion, man. Geez. Don’t like it when people just say you’re wrong, like in that defining games thread where some guy said I’m wrong and none of my suggestions were better than Halo. Just opinions.
I was kidding, dude. Relax.
Sorry man. You probably got the response I wanted to give the guy in that thread.
George Costanza is only the funniest character ever.
Elaine’s the only one in the ensemble that doesn’t irritate me. XD
Seinfeld, NCIS and House?
You monster.
NCIS is an excellent procedural show with a strong ensemble, but there’s no way I could marathon episode after episode. House is pretty much the same. I find my binge shows tend to be stuff with serialized arcs and the like. Seinfeld I honestly can’t stand. There’s something about it I find so, so annoying.
Seinfeld is annoying? Why you have to be so wrong all the time Mr Wrong.
😛The only show I’ve ever failed to marathon was SVU mostly because all rape all the time is a tad soul crushing.
I found The Killing season three difficult to marathon for similar reasons. So dark, so much of the time. Really amazing story but too dark for watching back-to-back.
Nope, if they’re not on the list they’re obviously shit and not worth it.
Woah. My list would be very different.
Numbered, just so I can keep track of them. Not because I’m ranking them in order. Also, caveats for shows that got bad later on.
1. Sopranos
2. Six Feet Under
3. The Shield
4. Sons of Anarchy
5. Treme
6. The Wire
7. Friends
8. OZ
9. Gilmore Girls
10. Outnumbered
11. M*A*S*H
12. West Wing
13. Yes Minister/Prime Minister
14. Red Dwarf (seasons 1-6)
15. The Simpsons (seasons 1-10)
16. Firefly
17. Californication
18. Wonderfalls
19. Malcolm in the Middle
20. Arrested Development
21. Freaks and Geeks
22. [open for future shows]
seriouslyforreal.com/more/turn-your-beer-bottles-into-glass-cups-5-easy-steps/
O_o
I need to try this.
Visions of a face full of exploded glass bottle abound.
They actually look pretty cool.
They do. Just the method seems a bit dubious and I know how much the Internet likes to troll. Might try it with my leather apron and welding mask…
Let’s make crystals!
…I kind of feel like that person may not have read the info clearly.
Should be fine, pretty sure that’s how they do the dodgy ship in a bottle
That’d work, just do it in Safety Glasses.
Just putting this out there: AC4 is the best AC game.
The general consensus seems to be if you are going to start from the beginning you should play through 1, 2, Brotherhood then skip to 4
Hell, you would probably be better off skipping 1.
Yeah, two sort of reintroduces all the important concepts. Might be a little confusing, but first game was a bit repetitive gameplay wise. (Still really enjoyed it for what it was.)
D:
*starts a List*
1 was a great game, it was just that they had been so focused on making the mechanics and everything work (remember, a giant open world like that with all those AIs moving around and that free running and everything was absolutely cutting edge tech at the start of this generation) and they hadn’t spent as much time in making sure there was enough variety in what you were doing. The game was just a bit too open and the tasks you were doing too mechanical and repetitive.
I’d even say just read the plot from 1 on wikipedia or something.
Yeah, if I cared the slightest about the overarching story that loosely connects the game togethers I would probably AC wiki it or YouTube it or something. I got told the ending and can honestly say I do not give a single funk.
The framing stuff for this game I absolutely loved until Brotherhood and then it lost me. I’m playing the new one strictly for pirate shenanigans. XD (Hoping I get my fix of the other stuff with Watchdogs.)
I’ve heard the over-arching story goes completely pants on head retarded after 2.
I missed when they took out the glyph puzzles and the like too. (That’s probably the adventure gamer in me speaking though.)
It’s better than 1 and 2 and probably even Brotherhood. Multiple well-designed interlocking systems, collectibles with meaning, combat that doesn’t feel trivial, amazing naval stuff and it’s a lot less hand-holdy, allowing you to approach stuff multiple ways instead of having a ‘right’ way to do everything and instantly failing you for doing anything else.
What about Revelations? No one ever mentions that. Is it that bad? D:
I liked it more than Brotherhood, weirdly. I know not many share this opinion. Istanbul was incredibly beautiful. Story did feel a bit like filler though.
What’s the order I should play them? I gave up on #2 after 8 hrs or so, I have Revelations, brotherhood, 3.
I’d play them in order up until Rev than skip AC3, but different games appeal to different people so it’s hard to say. I would say the only must play in the series is Assassin’s Creed 2, for me atleast.
I’ve heard only bad things about 3 (first 7 hrs is tutorial?) but I got it for free so I’ll definitely play at least some of it. 😛
So it goes: 1, 2, 3, Brother, Rev, 3, 4 ?
I really liked the setting and the time frame, just felt like the design got in the way of the game.
I gave up on 3 after about six hours. I have 2 for PC, I should probably play it. Haven’t played any others.
I’ve haven’t really heard anyone say it was good. I think @cj said he liked it more then Brotherhood (for some reason) but he said Brotherhood probably was a better game.
Revelations is really on par with 2, not as good as Bros, but it has some annoying bits to it (Tower Defense minigames, pointless useless bomb stuff, fucking atrocious first-person platforming mini-game for the Desmond bits) and it felt pretty unnecessary. 1 is the worst of them only because it was basically a tech demo, it also was by far the most open-ended in terms of how you’d approach each part of the game, and also you felt a lot more assassiny. Interesting time period too, was always disappointed they rushed to the Renaissance so fast.
3 isn’t a bad game but it feels very raw and like it forgot a lot of lessons from Bros. Specifically, Bros had the right balance between structured and unstructured play. I rate AC4 better because of the multiple interlocking systems. 2 had the best collectible stuff by far (finding the hidden signs on stuff which unlocked puzzles that slowly revealed bits and pieces of an interesting video that had ramifications on the ongoing plot of the game).
AC4 just puts everything together really nicely. There’s always something to do, and everything you do will advance you in multiple things because all their systems work in harmony and nothing is pointless or unnecessary. It might be the first AC game I bother to get all the collectibles for example, because they make it easy to find them and worthwhile to get them all.
AC4’s primarily by the Far Cry 3 team and their approach to open world stuff really works nicely.
Thanks for the detailed run-down.
I’ve just started it and so far it seems different.
Still could be good but seems a little off kilter, but could be good or bad.
It has some awesome bits. There’s some platforming sections that are straight out of Prince of Persia’s playbook, and those are super. Then there’s some other bits which aren’t so stellar. But mostly the problem was that it’s more of the same, 3rd year in a row.
Yeah that was the feeling I got. It wasn’t that it was a bad game, just that it was more of the same and didn’t deliver on the expectation set. aka there is no revelation at the end
Working through it and if nothing else Mrs Tigs likes looking at the pretty cities so there is always that
It’s also got some straight up annoying stuff, like doing just about anything fun would make your wanted rating go up and if it went too high you’d have to play the shitty shitty tower defense minigame. So you’re constantly doing some stuff then going hunting for wanted posters etc. to bring your rating back down again. Simple things like you couldn’t buy more than one or two shops in a go without stopping to go bring your level back down again. Too much busywork.
Oh man, heard so much good stuff about this game. Still keeping my hype levels controlled, but am feeling way more optimistic about this. What was your favourite in the series previously? (I love Assassin’s Creed 2.)
4 > AssBros > 2 > 3 == AssRev > 1
Hah, that about what I’ve heard (except 1 being slightly better then 3). Still, as someone who has only played the first one I will probably play through 2 and AssBro mostly because I want to be a Pirate.
IMPORTANT FOR ANYONE WANTING A PS4 ON LAUNCH!!!
as i mentioned earlier i have several PS4’s on pre order. It appears as though there will be ONE SPARE ONE that someone can pickup (and pay for off course!) on launch day..
its at Target in Broadmeadows, ive already been advised they will be ready for collection.
i figured id ask here as preorders are completely sold out everywhere before i cancel the preorder!
will repost if no-one responds!
EDIT: They will have to meet up with me at 8:30am Friday morning at Broadmeadows shopping centre!
@scree @negativezero @tigerion @tech_knight @35 @tofu @beavwa @izzy @greenius @inquisitorsz @mcgarnical @notoriousr @puppylicks dont know who else to tag!!!
If I lived in Melbourne I would be mighty tempted to take you up on that offer. =P
http://www.flightcentre.com.ausomeflightbookingagency.com (not an actual site)
edited to avoid the wrath of @novacascade
day trip, we can do breakfast and lunch! \o/
*whispers* I don’t think we’re meant to mention that company in here. @novacascade will get angry. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10…
*deep breaths*
Its ok Zetrox… I’m not angry, just disappointed.
Although you may or may not have just made it on “The List”
I think we need to make some kind of list of all TAYbies’ lists.
Making lists?
You just made the list.
(of listmakers.)8:30am on Friday or Saturday?
Friday…
Edited post to be more specific 😀
I’m actually kind of tempted. I was going to import but with the issues around the systems being DOA sometimes I’m a bit worried about warranty. Also I turn 30 on Sunday so maybe it’ll be my Birthday Present to Myself.
Let me check my finances first and if someone else gets in ahead of me I’m not that worried. Also not sure I can get all the way from Wantirna to Broadmeadows by 8:30am then get from Broadmeadows to Southbank for work in time.
if you like and if it helps you out, you can wire me the funds and pickup from my place (Craigieburn) if its more convenient…
Probably further to go to get to Craigieburn.
$550, right?
Just doing the numbers to see if I can afford.
It’s going to be a bit too much of a stretch for me I think, sorry. Too close to Christmas and didn’t plan for it, plus I ended up overspending significantly when I went to NZ last week thanks to an unexpected incident with the rental car. Might not have the cash back from that for several weeks so best not to over-extend since it’s an expensive time of year.
Hope you find a buyer. Worst case you might be able to buy it and flip it immediately on Ebay for a profit…
No stress man I don’t have to buy it! I can just cancel it and it will go to the next person… I just figured I’d ask in case anyone missed out on a preorder!
Like Nob, if I lived in Melbourne I would actually take you up on that.
yei Melbourne!!! where great things happen!!!*
* Disclaimer: Great things may or may not include not so great things, like traffic jams, and intolerant assholes…
Can someone tag all Melb Tay Folk?
It’s okay cake, we can keep the money and use it to buy games that we will never play! \o/
OR buy more crates in SWTOR.
@rize will agree!
Yes! We can spend like $500 on crates, BEST PLAN!
i can also happily shred all your $500???
Rough math says that’s 241ish crates.
i will use my spare dollar from the $499 left on my preorder for a cupcake!
cake and PS4!!! \o/
@greenius @inquisitorsz @mcgarnical @notoriousr @puppylicks
We need to create some TAYNames pages with lists of @ people for state / city-specific taggery.
Sorry for any double tagging
@budgieishere @jordi @f4ction @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @pixel_the_ferret_viking @ynefel @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog @velnica @chuloopa
Got mine last week. \o/
Just a heads up, editing in handles doesn’t create notifications.
I missed this (busy week). Thanks for thinking of me but I have zero interest in a PS4 right now (or any time in the foreseeable future).
PC master race etc. etc.
Saw The Hunger Games: Catching Fire this afternoon. Seriously brilliant, and the ending was amazing. In further good news, they’ve done up the local cinemas and they’re actually quite decent now, rather than looking 20 or 30 years old like they used to.
They certainly took their time… That has always been a shit cinema 😛
What did the kiwi say about the TAY centrefold?
This page isn’t sixy enough.
Correct answer:
“SUPRISE!!!!” ***SPLAT!!!***
Really want to quit out of Zelda to check my streetpasses but I can’t because I’m mid dungeon and that dick Ravio will take all my stuff if I leave forcing me to rehire it all.
Who thought that would be a good system?
The same people that thought that adding a stamina meter to Skyward Sword would be a good idea, so that every time you want to move quickly you have to slow down, but every time you want to take your time you have to speed up. Because that’s a fantastic idea!
Also how about having the only defense mechanism in the game being a limited-use item that you have to go back to a store to replace? 😐
Nintendo needs to give Zelda to another team to have a crack at it.
I like the change to the shield, it rewarded intelligent use, and incentivised parrying/shield bashing over turtling, since the shield didn’t degrade if you timed it right.
That said, I still got the Hylian shield by the end since it was indestructible.
That would be the case if the directional stuff on the sword wasn’t so damned inaccurate. But regardless the damned shield broke after about two uses even if you got the timing right, it might as well not have existed at all.
Also it was contrary to every instinct built up over years of playing Zelda games.
But I thought Skyward Sword was complete trash and it killed a lot of my enthusiasm for the whole franchise (I was super hyped for it 🙁 ) so I guess my dislike of the whole game makes the bits that felt broken feel even worse.
I wondered why there were still shields for sale when I already had one… Mine hasn’t broken yet, I’ve been using it a fair bit.
Sometimes I squat on the floor, put my arms around my legs and lean forward.
That’s how I roll.
I wanted to be an elevator operator as a kid, but I was told it was a career with ups and downs #dadjokepagesix
Finally stumped by a dungeon in Zelda
@doc_what
@sernobulus
Which one?
I’ve rescued 5 Sages, I think, so I might be able to help…2nd to last sage 😀I looked up a guide, just overlooked something obvious.
I could be wrong here, but can’t you do the sages in almost any order? So what might be the sixth sage to you could be the third one to me.Unless you’re pedantic like me and do them in the order they are numbered in Link to the Past.I’m sitting on the Lorule Castle finale until I have a 100% clear at the moment. I have 2 items left to upgrade, then I need to grab all the hearts from the mini games. I’m still missing around 10 pieces I think.
I didn’t do the dungeons in LttP order. I started with Turtle Rock and had my arse handed to me by the boss several times. I think he does 4 hearts damage in one of his attacks, and when you’re a lowb Link, things get very hairy.
I’ll be making my long awaited return to TAY in early 2014.
Prepare your emotions, The Iceberg is back.
Bringing back old cast members, eh? This is a ratings stunt right here for sweeps week if ever I saw one!
Who was that masked man?
Apparently I’ve been hating everything in your absence.
Well, you haven’t been hating ACIV…
Played it at the EB Expo. Not that good.
Dammit! They always give you a teaser that makes you want more!
The show’s being going downhill since he left, can his triumphant return save it?
Yet another shark jumping moment.
Ugh. Just re-realised that I have no idea how to draw a plain old rectangle to whatever part of the screen I like. Could do it fine last year with the old version of OpenGL we were using, but with all the vertex buffers and texture binding and god knows what else that we’ve been doing this year… complete blank. All we’ve been doing otherwise is loading in pre-made meshes and pushing those all around the place. There kiiiind of was a thing for post-processing where we render to a framebuffer object, then draw that to a quad that covers the entire screen. Been trying to force that into working for this, but it’s not going so well.
The simplest things are always the most complex.
Ok. I think I got something working. Not entirely the best way of doing things I guess, but it does the job.
Now to get started on the actual presentation…
Hope it all goes well, my pal!
We’ll see at 3am when I’m still up putting stuff together 😛
I believe in you, Gooky!
You were a fool to!
All I have done is a small scribbling of notes that I think I need to cover. And it’s incomplete. And I bet I get chosen to go first tomorrow.
http://www.sharpie.com/Pages/GlobalLanding.aspx
Really, really liked this weeks ep of Sleepy Hollow. Love the whole mythology that’s forming and the atmosphere and tone of the world.
Uh oh…I’m about to watch it. This means I’ll probably hate it! 😛
And that’ll be okay because you’re awesome. *preemptive hug*
Probably my favourite ep so far this season, which means you’ll almost certainly hate it. 😛
I…err….have no comment on the episode. 😛
*hugs*
😀
I haven’t watched last week’s episode either. I’ve been in a ’30 min show or less’ kind of mood the last few days. Except for American Horror Story: Coven which is getting good. It means more Sleepy Hollow episodes to watch this week though 🙂
One of those shows that’s good to marathon too. More episodes is a good thing. 😀
Good Game made me want an Xstation FOUR
IT’S JIMU! HEY JIMU!
hel o deesee
I need a badge that says “Ask me about Grim Fandango”
How about that Grim Fandango?
Grim Fandango ™ is the revolutionary new adventure game from Lucasarts! A four year noir journey through the Land of the Dead!
Now ask me about Loom!
I love Do-
Oh.
You mean the latest masterpiece of GUNS storytelling from id’s John Carmack? Why, it’s an extraordinary adventure with an interface of GUNS, stunning high-resolution 3D landscapes, sophisticated score and musical effects. Not to mention the detailed animation and special effects, elegant first person control of characters, objects, and GUNS. Beat the rush! Go out and buy Doom today!
Heh. Zelda –
Hilda’s first appearance, how she turns around in slow motion, hair flowing around and the way she says “hey.” Someone enjoyed making that moment a little too much.You know what’s fun on Pokemon XY? Wonder battles, You and a friend wonder trade six pokemon and then battle them…. Can make for some interesting (Read: Frustrating) and hilarious battles 😀
What, so send six caterpies into the void, see what you get back, then fight?
pretty much haha
You know the more I play this Onebro thing the more I am impressed at how finely crafted the gameplay in Dark Souls is. The way it is more about skill than leveling.
In any other RPG or brawler a level one playthrough would be a torturous slog needing hours upon hours of repetition and perfecting exploits to get anywhere because everything is just about comparative stats. But not Dark Souls.
What playing Onebro really does is remove the crutches in the game that you could have relied upon in the place of skilled play. Stuff like sorcery, miracles, great-shields, poke weapons, bows and of course a big HP pool.
The gameplay is exactly the same except you can’t be lazy anymore. You have to win by timing and positioning and reading the enemy, by mastering the mechanics. And it’s entirely doable.
People are always saying how hard the Souls games are but I sorta disagree. Maybe it’s just us being conditioned by other games into being lazy, to relying on stats and just grinding to victory.
All you Dark Souls fans, I urge you to give it a go.
It’s the most fun playthrough I have done yet.
So, I should not be awake. Stupid abdominal pain. Anyone on to keep me company?
I’m about to head to bed.
Hope you feel better soon, scree!
🙂
I’m attempting to do work. It’s progressing at a much faster rate now that everyone else is in bed and it’s a whole lot quieter around here.
good thing I tried sleeping then instead of taying
Hmm… meant as in audible loudness in my home, rather than activity on TAY. Dunno if that’s how you were reading it, but it looks that way to me now 😛
I read it as we were annoying you. =P
Haha, of course not 😛
Well, other than @dc.
All i would’ve done is whinge about pain anyway
Pearl Jam?
Wouldn’t that be expensive to make?
#DadJokePageSix
It hurts my teef
Does anyone know when the PSN smartphone app becomes available in Australia? Also, knowing what it’s called would be a big help too! Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Are you on Android or ios?
I’m on Android and the app is available now (I had the old app and it updated a few days ago)
Just search the Play Store for PlayStation or PlayStation App and it should be at the top of the search results.
The app is much faster than before and there are options to connect to the PS4 too. I just wish the playstation store opened within the app and not a new tab on your browser. That being said, the PSN webstore has been remade for mobile which is good.
Android, and whenever I search for Playstation or anything like that the search results are only these stupid “PS4 countdown” or “Playstation Trophies” apps. I’ll try looking up play store though, thanks! 🙂
Why are distractions so easy to come by?
It’s a psychological thing. I think I found a study on the Internet, give me a…heh. Funny kittens.
ok, spare PS4 has been claimed by my brother in laws friend. Sorry guys, i did give you first dibs!
So I started playing XCOM: EU last night, it runs way better than I was expecting for my PC, as in high FPS with everything turned up to maximum. I’m quite enjoying it so far. This is basically going to be my test run before I do the real thing (With a difficulty other than easy), since I’ve never really been good at squad tactics games before, unless it’s Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced because that game was way too easy.
Edit: Also in my “real playthrough” where I have a higher difficulty, I think I’ll try to make a run with TAYbies working together with machines like myself and HK-47, depending on who wants to follow the orders of a robot commander 🙂
Morning all!
THE LESSER EVIL (Kindle) WILL BE 99 CENTS THIS WEEKEND.
Tell your friends, tell your family, buy your Secret SanTAY 20 copies and call it a day.
And here’s a little ditty in tribute to yesterday’s ditties:
The Lesser Evil for Kindle’s on sale
So click yourself through to this link without fail
Don’t stress, you’ll probably still make your rent
For this deal just sets you back 99 cents…
I’ll pick it up, thanks for the heads up
Awesome – thanks!
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, I’ll be posting updates as soon as I see the deal go live! I’ll also probably post it here, but this place kind of dies down on the weekends…
(Also, as a completely off-topic aside, Gargamel is pretty much single-handedly responsible for my fear of being eaten.)
I shall add you to my twitter feed now.
Do you know if that works for non-kindle ereaders?
It will work for the Kindle app on tablets/desktops, etc, but as far as I know, the Kindle has its own file format that is not generally compatible with other e-readers.
Apparently, it can be done, but it’s probably not worth the effort to strip the file of its DRM, convert it from Kindle to epub and then re-load it into your e-reader.
Orla Brady is going to be the doctor who xmas special. I choose to hope that she’ll bring in the actor who played her husband on Fringe- John Noble.
I had no idea who she was until I saw a photo of her. Amazing the amount of time I watch something and say “OH! It’s Whats-his/her/-face, I love them! I gotta remember to watch the credits to find out their name!”
I never do.
This guy is my ultimate what’s his face: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791968/
Mark Sheppard is in bloody everything SF.
I remember him as that pyromaniac in an X-Files episode, years back.
For me, he’s Badger in Firefly
Oh yeah, ns! Totally forgot. He really is everywhere!
I was going to say that to me he’s that guy who was in Stargate… but it’s not listed on IMDB? :/
Not the original film?
TV series. I forget which though.
I may or may not have impulsively bought Fringe the complete blu-ray box as it jumped out at me this week at JBs. Price? I don’t remember + irrelevant.
I might have a look at that- I have the first 3 seasons on DVD, but if it’s cheaper to buy the Blu-ray box I may just do it at some point.
AU$135, for clarification.
Given s5 alone on Blu-Ray is $55, I’m sorely tempted.
this was a wise decision. I’m planning on picking up series 5 on payday & finally finish it.
Not Coping this morning…
Hey Ginger, feel free to vent, or to shoot me some sort of DM (can we DM on here? If not, I’ll link my Twitter account or my email). If not, hang in there.
The Monty Python Reunion Tour sold every seat of every show in 43.5 seconds…
O_o
Wow what kind of jerks would sit there waiting for the tickets to be in sale.
I’m so jelly. =(Goes to show they’re still loved by so many even after so long since they made those comedy sketches.
I chuckled about the “There are known planets that are closer to here than Australia” comment (I think it was) John Cleese responded with in their interview last week.
I just read that as well…
Jesus. So jealous though.
I didn’t even know that was happening 🙁 I’d have totally bought tickets.
They aren’t coming to Australia. Well at least not that they have announced
It’s most of Monty Python (Graham Chapman’s been slacking off recently, the lazy bastard). I’d have traveled to see them.
EB has a Wii U bundle I’m tempted to get.
$428 for the Premium Wii U, Mario Bros U, Luigi Bros U and Rayman Legends.
Tempting. Very tempting.
Great bundle!
The only thing potentially stopping me is I may have managed to score Luigi Bros at The Good Guys sale last week. I haven’t had a call yet saying that I missed out and my order was acknowledged.
Hold on to the extra until it goes out of print 😉
That’s pretty much why I got it, because it’s a limited run.
Same reason I got the Mario 25th Anniversary edition on Wii.
I bought that 25th Anniversary thing and I’ve never played it. Flipped through the booklet and that’s about it 😛
I could always take the extra off your hands >_> <_
Is it limited? I’ve seen tons of those at JB and I don’t even really pay attention to the Wii U stuff.
Limited time run rather than limited stock… or so I believe.
What @shane said. Although, it’s restricted to physical copies, it will always (well, as long as Nintendo offer it) be available as a downloadable DLC.
I’m not sure what the run is, but seeing as the “Year of Luigi” is ending I would imagine it would maybe coincide with that? That’s what happened with the Mario 25th Anniversary set.
I need to buy wiiU games.
Too bad I’m poor =P
Hmm..
Which one(s) do you have already?
Just windwaker. =P
I’ve stalked your twitter and seen that you love Zelda. Do you enjoy Mario games?
Yeah. Confession time, I’ve never beaten a mario game. Galaxy was the closest I’ve ever got to finishing one. Also, I like most Nintendo games.
DOIT!
DSE had them (and still does in some places) for like $220? Add in $80 for both of the mario’s, and $30 for the Rayman, that’s $330 all up. Just FYI, it can be gotten at this price …
Not in my area unfortunately.
REPOST because Page Six betrayed me.
THE LESSER EVIL (Kindle) WILL BE 99 CENTS THIS WEEKEND.
Tell your friends, tell your family, buy your Secret SanTAY 20 copies and call it a day.
And here’s a little ditty in tribute to yesterday’s ditties:
The Lesser Evil for Kindle’s on sale
So click yourself through to this link without fail
Don’t stress, you’ll probably still make your rent
For this deal just sets you back 99 cents…
Could I open this on iPad via the Kindle app, perhaps?
You should be able to
Yeah, I would think so.*
*Not legally binding opinion
Self-obsessed D.C. post:
I went to the gym on Monday and am sore in every part of my body. Like struggle to stand up sore. Was meant to go Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays but am thinking of skipping today. (Got personal trainer thing on Friday and don’t want to be this wrecked then.) If I’m still feeling the last work out it’d probably be over doing it if I went today, right? The thing is I really want to go today because I’m enjoying it. I enjoy the discipline of keeping to the schedule too. Arrrrrgh.Enable me one way or the other, TAY? 😀
Sounds to me like you may have hermititis.
Weirdly I want to leave my hermit cave to do it. I just don’t want to hurt myself in the process. XD
Catch-22.
Yes, keep it up. Just do a light session, though. That should actually help with the pain, as long as you don’t overdo it.
Haha! Was just having that very thought when I refreshed TAY. Weeeeeird.
I think this what I’ll do. It’s decided then. 😀
twins etc
Completing each other’s unspoken sentences?
sandwiches
Go- sometimes more (light) exercise is the best way to work out the stiffness. It’s why footy players go to the beach the day after a match
SPORTSBALL
Are you hurting because you still have muscle fatigue or are your muscles just tight and aching when you try to move? If it’s the latter, more exercise will help loosen you up again, just take it easy though, you don’t want to tear anything.
It’s the latter. Gym did seem to help and I didn’t really feel it at all while there! 🙂
Thanks for the advice, my friend!
Just upgraded from a DSLite to the 3DSXL…. And I am inlove with Ninty again.
It really is a great device.
Now get Fire Emblem!
Nice! If you need a list of 3DS games you need I could easily provide one. =P
Ah screw it here it is:
– Luigi’s Mansion 2
– Fire Emblem
– Pokemon X/Y
– Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
– Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
– Bravely Default (out next week)
You left out
* OoT(damn you, sneaky edits)* Ace Attorney 5
Never played the Ace Attorney Series so I can’t really recommend it. =P
Homework: Play Ace Attorney.
Is that the next one being released?
Play. Them. All.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for all
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (the new one)
@shane, ugh so much work! They need a Ace Attorney collection game.
@sernobulus, I agree. That would be pretty sweet, and worth buying! 😀
You can buy the lot on iOS except Apollo… The trilogy.
Fire Emblem is going to be my next 3DS purchase once I’m done with the Pokeymans.
I’ve resolved myself to a no pile of shame rule with the device.
Ahem. Star Fox 64 3D.
Also Kid Fricken Icarus. And Shinobi And RE Revelations.
Can I add Rhythm Thief?
Rhythm Thief deserves to be on the list much earlier than Star Fox or Kid Icarus.
Really? Is the game that much better than the demo? Because I was interested in it right up until I played the demo, then nup.
Also nothing deserves to be on the list before Kid Icarus.
Assuming that the list you’re talking about is a list of shit games with awful control schemes, then I agree with you.
I haven’t played Rhythm Thief’s demo. The actual game is basically Rhythm Heaven with a plot and a Jazz soundtrack.
@negativezero Nah, it’s the list of the best games on 3DS, with top production values, excellent scripting and tonnes of content and fun to be had. And there’s nothing wrong with the control scheme, it’s a dual-analogue game just like Metroid Prime Hunters. Best used with a thumbstrap rather than a stylus.
The demo seemed more to me like Beat City than Rhythm Heaven. Pale imitation.
@mrtaco
The demo is a small portion of the game. While those rhythm mini-games are in there, there is a lot more. Also, the art and story is pretty good. I like to think of it as a musical professor layton
How about you, did you try the demo first? To me it didn’t really seem to stand up to the other rhythm games I love. But if it isn’t that representative of the full game, I might have to look into it again.
– Got it.
– Holding off as pile of shame growing.
– Holding off as pile of shame growing.
– Got with the Zelda 3DS XL.
– Holding off as pile of shame growing. (It can wait as a N64 veteran).
– Holding off as pile of shame growing.
Also Mario 3D and Mario Kart 7. But did pick up Kid Icarus and Starfox 64 for cheap as well. DO A BARREL ROLL FOX!
Cheers!!!
Gotta stop buying now…..
After getting a 3DS thanks to @powalen, I’ve cut my PC gaming in half and spent the extra time on the new device. I think I put about 20 hours into Pokemon but since then have put 40 into various DS games that I’ve missed out on. Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics have been the main offenders and reminds me how much I love tactical squad-based RPGs. That reminds me, I need to fix my PC and play more X-Com and replay Jagged Alliance.
I really don’t like the rain considering my current location. I’d write up a list of reasons why, but I’m not sure they’re entertaining enough yet. 🙁
Are you in a storm drain? or working in a rainwater tank? Or with some chemical that needs to be anhydrous?
None of the above. It’s more a rant coupled with a set of unfortunate coincidences.
How’s the water level near the base? I wouldn’t drive through past the new IGA down the road if I were you – lady at work has water all through the floor of her car.
Oh lovely. Well, I may get stuck here! I had to slowly navigate my way around the roundabout and take a detour because of flooding.
It’s probably gone down since then but: http://www.dailymercury.com.au/photos/rain-mackay-region/24528/.
Lol, great.
Another one to add to the list:
I’m getting really sick of hearing Avicii’s Hey Brother song on the radio.
What is it with everyone on TAY making a list? Jeez.
At least make a crossword.
Haha.
Well, TAY is essentially just a big list of everyone’s blabberings.
Good idea, I’m gonna add it to the list for “Things to do with lists”.
You just made the list, @redartifice
umm…..
This song sounds like horse feed piled upon a sibling (3, 7)
reasoning:
answer = ‘this song’
‘sounds like horse feed’ = ‘hey’ (homophone for ‘hay’)
sibling = brother (straight synonym)
piled upon = ‘hey’ goes on top of / in front of ‘brother’
Saw the doctor again yesterday about my knee. The x-ray and ultrasound revealed there are “loose bodies” floating around in there, which is what’s causing it to lock up. I’ve got to make an appointment with a surgeon, and at the moment all signs point to it needing to be operated on again.
Aw man, sorry to hear that. Hopefully it’s something that’ll heal pretty quickly.
Sounds like…. Recovery Gaming Time
That’s why you earn the big bucks!
A Cracked article is trying to convince me a sandwich consisting of deep-fried turkey, sweet potato fries, french-fried onions, mushroom sauce, green beans, and cherry-jalapeno-cranberry sauce is a disgusting horror and they are not succeeding in the slightest.
Do they happen to mention where you can get one of them?
…asking for a friend. He’s a scientist.
American Euros.
It sounds like a caloric nightmare and an artery-choking horror.
Would eat.
Sounds carby. Take out the bread, potato, onions, beans and cherry and you might have something, once you add some butter, bacon, and wrap it in a lettuce leaf with some thousand island dressing.
/keto
Currently waiting for our Windows (Parallels) image to be finished, so that we can start installing it to 140 brand new Macbook Airs. Wish this week would go faster. Trip to the central coast for engagement party is coming up this weekend. 😀
Why are 140 purchased if they all require Windows? FFS. I work in IT and this makes me mad to no end,
Presumably because they use software which isn’t available on OS X. The same reason that all of our Macs have the option to boot to Windows.
So why are Macs required then? It’s double the job at the start, and a huge hassle later on with sorting issues.
Presumably because they use software which isn’t available on Windows. The same reason that all of our Macs have the option to boot to OS X.
;P
We have a lot of software that requires Windows. The main reason they were purchased was for Apple airplay mirroring to Apple TV’s connected to around 110 projectors. All the other wireless mirroring options weren’t smooth or reliable enough. I work for a K-12 college btw. The other reason was the reliable hardware.
Watch it without laughing. I dare you.
Still pretty iconic. XD
I still think this trailer sums up the series best.
I laughed right at the start. XD
NUMENERA
For those who came in late: http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Session is TONIGHT, 7:30 SA time. What will the adventurers find in Charmonde? Hint: INTRIGUE!
@novacascade @mythamphetamine @popdart5 @tech_knight @tigerion @blaghman @mawt
Aha! Now I know where that reference is from! I should have guessed it when you were previously talking about drinking milk out and about. 😀
I haven’t bought them regularly since HS, but I’m a huge fan of The Phantom
My voice is a little shot, but count me in 😀
Super Mario 3D World! Which character are you guys going to play as? Totally Luigi for me because jumping higher is fun AND green cats are less creepy. FACT.
I usually play as Luigi in those games so I will also be going Luigi. =P
Too bad this isn’t online multiplayer. I reckon it’d be so fun playing with a group of TAYbies. Maybe we should have a Super Mario 3D World meat of some variety. XD
Meat at @dc’s place?
I would, but… *throws smoke bomb*
*trips over furniture*
I don’t wanna.
I agree though, local only is a little dumb. I played MH3U with @greenius heaps and it was sooooooooo fun.
I’m looking forward to playing a co-op game with you guys eventually, like Portal 2s. I loved that. Even Renegade Ops would be awesome.
@masha2932 and I played through Renegade in co-op 😀
And we never played another game together again :’-(
Just like @greenius and me when it came to Borderlands.
I love multiplayer Mario. It’s great fun. Just ask @blaghman, @mythamphetamine or @rize.
Is that when the Troll S. Preston thing began? 😛
No, that began many, many, many moons ago….
*looks off into middle distance*
🙁
There is a random button. I expect it will be used liberally in this apartment.
It was essentially Toad or bust in Super Mario Bros. 2, but I have a feeling that I will mostly be playing as Green Mario in SM3DW.
Toad was cool and all… but Peach can fly!
I can’t believe all of you aren’t playing as Peach. So disappointed in you all.
Peach can hover, that’s admittedly a very cool ability. XD
I’ll be playing as my crazy three year old. Because I’ll be imagining the whole thing anyway, so why not?
The week after a big meet of some variety my voice is sore because I speak more than I do for the rest of the month combined and my voice ain’t used to it. #HermitProblems
And your weekly personal trainer sessions mean that you don’t get any time to recover, either! /o\
Saw him at the gym today and he spoke to me. The gym’s just a nightmare of social interaction. And the front counter where people say “Hello” haunts my dreams! D:
Well, gyms are all about pushing through the pain…
Using voodoo magics I have secured a PS4 for sometime in late December apparently. Justified by starting a full-time job around then.
Hype, yo. Hype.
Voodoo, eh? You don’t have a rubber chicken with a pulley, do you?
I do not divulge military secrets.
So your excuse for not coming to board games of “playing PS4” is starting to look somewhat suspect.
I think the video we did for Pixel Otaku makes it look pretty reasonable.
Not if I don’t watch it!
@stickman In regards to your comments about which Assassins Creed games you should play I’d say give 3 a shot its not fantastic by any means but the frontier is an interesting environment and If you just stick to the story missions and ignore the economy system all together it wont take long to finish. The only side stuff worth any time is the homestead missions and I’d argue they were better then the main game.
As for revelations I really enjoyed it especially getting to play as Altair again. It has some of the more cinimatic moments of the series and the best hidden tombs. Istanbul is a great inbetween of the cities from 1 and 2 and has some great free running paths and the ziplines keep things flowing. However its very short and also only has one side task worth your time and thats getting atleast 6 assassins to be masters from some light story missions with your apprentices.
Having not finished 4 yet Im not ready to make a final judgement on it so far but I wont be surprised if at the end of it I replace 4 as my favourite game in the series instead of 2, and as mentioned is possibly the best one they’ve made.
Thanks for the tips. Good to know what to not waste time on haha (side missions).
Woke up with this song stuck in my head.
Currently in my head: the music from the Elebits trailer.
God knows why.
Memento Vivere – I Killed The Prom Queen
Finally, one that I can kind of be proud of admitting!
Hella Good – No Doubt
Ah, No Doubt. Don’t Speak was probably one of the greatest songs of the ’90s.
It looooks as though you’re letting gooooo…
I just love Gwen Stefani mainly, haha! My favourite No Doubt songs are Hella Good, Ex-Girlfriend and It’s My Life. Don’t Speak is kinda “meh” to me. It’s a little too slow for my liking.
Gwen Stefani is pretty great. Not really a fan of her solo stuff, but you can’t deny she’s aged incredibly well and all her songs have amazing, catchy hooks.
Just a Girl was pretty great!
Also even though I don’t particularly love the song, this reminds me of driving home from the Gold Coast in 2007.
Not a fan of her solo stuff?! Have you heard the pure awesomeness of What You Waiting For?! And yeah, she seems to be stuck in her own little time bubble where time isn’t a thing. She looks better now then she did when she was in No Doubt!
I suppose I should admit that for a short time, this song was a secret shame of mine. So damn catchy. XD
And since we’re admitting secret shames, did someone say Nelly Furtado?
No shame! Sweet Escape is really good and incredibly catchy! And no joke, I have Nelly Furtados Maneater open in a tab ready to play! But that’ll have to wait, cause now I’m listening to Sweet Escape on repeat, haha!
For some reason all these songs remind me of 2007. I think I was more adventurous with my variety of music then. XD
Loved All Good Things too.
Then there was the time I sang SexyBack drunkenly at a party. XD
Street Fighting Man – Rage Against The Machine
Question to Hunger Games book fans:
Any mentions of what’s happened to the world outside of North America?There is no world outside North America. Not now, not ever.*begin existential crisis a-new*
ConfirmedNo, of course not! America is the centre of the universe, pagan fool!
I have a feeling if I post my actual biggest game disappointment of the year the Internet will literally kill me.
I’ve already got a downvote for Zelda even though I clarify that I know it’s not a bad game. *shakes fist at people* If you post The Last of Us, I won’t hold it against you. 😛
*invests in pitchforks and torches*
The Last of Us
There you go, did it for you.
EDIT: Wait, is it actually this?
And if you didn’t like the game and expected to, that’s the definition of disappointment so people can’t tell you what to think. Just post it.
Yep, big difference between biggest disappointment and worst game.
Like I said on Twitter, I really liked SimCity, but it still wasn’t the game I wanted it to be. Hence why it’s my biggest disappointment.
Tomb Raider would be a close second. I just couldn’t get into it and I really wanted to. It was just, too much.
SimCity fails to Simulate something the size of a City. That’s a fair gripe.
Given that disappointment is the measurement of the differential between expectation and experience, it’s hypothetically possible to enjoy a game while still having it be the biggest disappointment.
My biggest disappointment of 2011 was AC Revelations, but I still played the whole bloody thing to full synch.
Oh I’m perfectly aware of that. A lot of people aren’t aware of that though.
As long as the answer isn’t Dark Souls, I promise not to join the lynch mob.
…mine is.
You know what? I’m going to need all copies of my books back from you. I don’t feel comfortable with them being in your possession.
Edit: no, that’s a bit harsh.
… just don’t buy any more 😛
Who let you back in here?
If it really is The Last of Us, I hope you know all that nemesis stuff is just me trying to be a big man. I understand that different games appeal to different people. I was sad you didn’t like it, but I know not liking it isn’t any thing personal. I’ll give your post an upvote! 😀
Okay, fair enough. Everyone seem interested in what game I’m taking about.
Faint hearted should not click below:
The Last of Us*clutches chest, falls to ground wheezing*
Dammit Pants! I TOLD YOU NOT TO READ IT!
I DIDN’T KNOW I WAS FAINT HEARTED! I DIDN’T KNOW!!
I blame the lack of dairy!
He drinks plenty of Malk!
Doit!
What. Apparently “DOIT!” and “Doit!” are duplicate comments. ALSO AS IF THAT EVEN MATTERS.
Stupid website.
Brisbane TAYbies! I didn’t want to rain on Freeze’s Meat Parade last week, but I’m moving back to the true state of origin, as in the first state, in January and would love to catch up with you all one last time before I go. How’s the 14th or 15th of December for people? Is there a preferred venue?
@dc … please help with the nameses!
@sughly, @strange, @freezespreston, @jimu, @gutsoup, @popdart5, @transientmind, @sernobulus, @virus__, @dkzeitgeist, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007…
Ruffleberg is in town on the weekend before too, so there’ll be meats then as well!
You left out @dc
#runningjoke
I hear @dc is always willing to be social and have guests at his place.
Why do you say these things? MONSTER!
(Also, Endu lives about five minutes from me. Don’t give him ideas! :P)
PARTY AT @DC’S PLACE! EVERYONE IS INVITED!
*torches house*
PARTY AT THE CHARRED REMAINS OF DC’S PLACE. ERRBODY INVITED.
DCs it is! j/k.
If the stars align, Beardy and Ambrose will be moving in to my house so then they’ll live 5 minutes from you!
Wicked.
Totally tubular.
Kids still say that right?
Cowabunga!
The cool kids say BOSSANOVA
And I might be moving into his house. So I’ll be living 5 minutes away…
You need to bring a gift though because @dc loves getting gifts.
Only if you want the gift of a punch in the face back. 😛
DC gives the very best punch in the faces. Many mirths were had, and much good time.
Ah! Ice breakers!
@sernobulus volunteers to break ice… with his face.
I’ve heard Colobus Monkeys are a good ice breaker.
@sernobulus that would explain their faces.
Oh man, I get to taste some of @dc’s patent punch? Oh man, I can’t wait for a glass of it.
Glass right in the face.
Wow he even pours it into my mouth? I might find that a little odd though. Still, @dc sounds like the best host!
Especially if the gift is a hug.
You were invited *hurt look*
Noooooooo….you’re defecting too, Endu?! 🙁
I’m not sure yet about my plans and finances for the rest of the year but I’ll try my damnedest to make it whatever gets planned.
If it’s somewhere affordable for me, I can easily pick you up on my way through.
Oh and technically I’m not defecting, I’m crawling back 🙂
Preferred venue for me is anywhere I don’t have to pay for parking!! Preferably southside-ish, but as long as I don’t have to pay $30 for parking, I’m sure I might be able to swing something!
I’m willing to travel. If it makes it any easier on your finances, you could host and we could bring foods? Offer open to you too @strange.
@freezespreston I know 🙁 Bad weekend for me, Mum and best friend were up from the promised land for visits.
I’m happy to do that if you want. I still have 3 packets of Hot Pot mix in my cupboard that we can use if people enjoyed the Hot Pot we had at my last meat! Hard to let others know what to buy though. Might need to pool money on the day and go shopping with someone that morning if we do that, or I could find pics of the things that normally get eaten and people can bring stuff.. dunno how to work it, but if people wanna go with that option, I’m sure we can sort something out!
Well, I’m completely unoriginal and was thinking of ordering a carload of pizzas. That way food is done and merriment can commence.
well that sounds fine to me too! we could always take a vote and see who wants what and go with the most preferred option. I’m not fussy!
Sounds good dude.
maybe, keep in touch cos I cant really say til closer to the date
Hugo rant!
You have been warned (especially since I can’t get spoiler tags to work, I am the greetest).
Ah the joy of working out how long I can pay the mortgage and bills with the savings I have since I no longer have an income.
Still, it’s not all that bad, as my mortgage has a redraw option so while it is disappointing in the long run (in terms of paying off my debt) I at least have a source of money to keep the wolves at bay.
Worst part of it is though is having to listen to the inconsequential crap my family is bitching about, but knowing I can’t tell any of them I have lost my job as then I would cop nothing but shit from them all.
Bah, enough of that whinging.
I was really enjoying the new playthrough of Dishonered I had started, even to the extent that I replayed nearly an entire mission because I had missed one thing, but still enjoyed doing that as well.
Then I made the mistake of having a look at Fallout New Vegas again.
Oh well Dishonered, we may try agin in another 6-8 months time 😛
Hope it works out my friend! We have been relying a lot on our redraw recently as well.
Ah, it”ll all work out, just whinging a bit because the family is pissing me off at the moment.
It is an annoying thing with the redraw, you make all this headway with paying off the loan, then lose it when you need the money.
Yet it is also an awesome thing, because you have access to that money when you really need it.
Kinda makes me feel like a kid stealing from the cookie jar, you are happy when you have the cookie/money yet still mangage to feel bad and/or guilty.
What sort of Job are you looking for? Are you looking for a job?
Librarian, but I will alo be looking into any records or administrative roles.
Coolies, If I see anything I’ll let you know 🙂
So who wants to come to the Sydney CBD Dick Smith on PS4 launch night and watch the riots from across the street? Wear your running shoes.
How do we know if our running shoes are efficient at escaping indiscriminate PS4 rage riots, we might need roller blades.
I’d feel safer if I had some kind of defensive weapon with me.
Bring a decoy PS4 box to throw as a distraction.
If you even get to throw it before you’re swarmed and smothered!
Wear an Xbone t-shirt. No one will come near you!
Now I know why you’re disappointed I haven’t shown up at the station again. You just want to be able to push me in front of the train!
I was thinking I should enter the competition anyway and then not show. If they draw my name out they’ll have to go through the effort of confirming I’m not there and then have to do another redraw on the spot and people will start to get agitated that they hadn’t worked it all out beforehand.
Can you imagine if somebody did one of those smash-the-new-console video things at this event?
(I kinda want that to happen, just to see what goes down :P)
I’m really bored at work so I decided to write the intro to what I think the next Fallout game will be.
War, War never changes.Decades ago a company released a technological advancement only known as the Pee-Esfor. This ancient technology was released to counter a long time rival company whom had released something similar known as the as an Exbone. To many these piece of technology was a beacon of hope. A “lighthouse” in the dark ages of technological stupor. Many tried their best to acquire the said new technology but thousands failed. Many lost hope until one faithful night.
A cult “acquired” many of these relics and claimed chosen ones would be decided to carry these for the rest of their days. The chosen few were announced, a mere few hundred in a group of thousands. Unfortunately, tensions were too high. Fighting began to break out. The town began to splinter off, authorities were overwhelmed and the riot grew. Soon the whole state fell into chaos. Then the whole country.
For a while things stayed like this, unfortunately this chaos continued to flourish and began to threaten many other countries. It is not known who who fired the first shot but soon the world was at war. This wasn’t a war with bullets and men. It was a flash. One second life, next second nothing. All that was left is were ruins. Mans work and accomplishments were nothing more then a pile of rubble.
Perhaps unfortunate to the world however, there were some survivors. Left with nothing and had to build a new world from the ruins of the old. For a while everything was okay but war …
War never changes.
Ohhhh, does that mean
The vault dweller is out the back of the store, in the safe? Pretty tiny vault, but still better than the vault full of Gary’s.Holy crap, there’s a kickstarter currently running for a 25th Anniversary re-release of HeroQuest.
I did indeed see it, and pretty psyched for it, just hope it’s not too expensive once it gets released though. Looks like it could be a pretty costly package. Spent far too much of my childhood/teens playing this with my mate down the street!
I only ever played Police Quest!
lol this isn’t even a video game Jimu! It’s a board game! Yes Heroe’s Quest was a video game, but the game we are referring to, is the reason it was renamed to Quest for Glory!
I may have owned that…
Can’t wait!
Hey Canberra TAYbies (That being @shane, @bdkiaf and @rize)
I floated this idea with Rize the other day, but how would you feel about doing some sort of lame and saccharine thing to be all like “woo, Christmas!”? I was thinking either like, a picnic or something, though based on dates the only time that would work would probably be a weekend, and that would probably have to be the 7th/8th. Alternately we could just have another lunch meat and make Shane late again. Yay/Nay/Thoughts/Blaghs you Cray Cray?
Can always have a BBQ or something. Easy to organise, easy to do, cheap, and a relaxed environment which should mean that @shane won’t get spooked.
Partners and childlings welcome?
I was going to suggest that, but I leave that as a group decision.
Say hi to Shane for me!
If I invite one the other would have to turn up at the moment… 😛
Works for me.
Sounds good.
I’m keen. Will depend on timings, though! 🙂
Alright, if I say Saturday the Seventh of December, would there be a time preferable to others, would that date work? Does anyone wish to recommend a place, or thing or something? I don’t know, organisation is hard…
(cc. @rize, @bdkiaf)
Uuuuh….
UUUUHHHHHMMMMM…
BBQ at @rize’s place!
Did I fuck up? Sydney thing is the weekend after that, right?
No that’s fine, I just have no idea about…things. And stuff.
Dramatic actors reading YouTube comments. Amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXLyUoz2M4 – NSFW Language
Ended up going to bed because I had a slight headache and accidently slept for most of the day. I blame the heat.
Just a rant
What the hell is up with people reprimanding me over my dog?! I am well aware that Sid is over weight. I am trying to do something about it, but it’s very hard when my Mother is constantly giving him food. I’m also really sick of people threatening to report me to the RSPCA for whatever reason seems to take their fancy. My dog is fed, watered, bathed, wormed, trained but most of all, happy. Go take your threats where they may actually do some good, like say, a starving, chained up dog. Don’t just assume I am a terrible owner because my dog is fat.I don’t turn around and say “well your child is fat, I better call human services” because I don’t know the child’s situation. For all I know, it’s not a dietary problem, but could be a health condition. Also, you know what? It’s none of my business. I wish people would just leave me alone. -_-
Sorry, it’s just while Gorzilla was down, I was told off on two separate occasions. Then one of the women just accosted me and after reprimanding me for having a fat dog (without letting me explain), she then threatened to call the RSPCA because I wasn’t giving him enough dry food. All while she was telling me that her father was a vet and she was a vet nurse.
Shouldn’t this be between me and my vet? Why is it suddenly everyone else’s business as well?
Needless to say, I felt thoroughly depressed afterwards because I don’t want to think I am a bad owner. I mean, sometimes I don’t pick up after my dog, but it’s usually if he does his stuff in a park garden bed, but other then that, I like to think I’m a good owner. I love my dog.
In fact, I had a dream that I had to share my dog with another family. It was their turn to have Sid and I woke up feeling upset. I was relived when I realised it was a dream.
Sorry, just had to get it off my chest.
Image of Sid
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/P7260034.jpg
The two words to tell the lady are:
“Fuck” and “Off.”
EDIT: Also, cool dog.
He is lovely. I haven’t seen another dog that’s so tolerant. He allows puppies to jump all over him and everything.
What breed?
Border collie cross Labrador.
Nice!
I have an extremely(EDIT: looking back, extremely is a bit harsh, she’s kinda overweight, people see her and go “wow, your cats pretty fat) fat cat (think like a real life garfield, i’m not even joking) and i cop a fair bit for it as well…
we even had the vet tell us she was overweight (our reaction was a sarcastic “really?”), who then told us she needs expensive diet food, to which we disregarded as them trying to sell us bullshit products, and told them it’s a 13 year old cat that’s still completely healthy, so we’ll stick to what we feed her now. She is still a pretty affectionate and active cat… you know… for a cat…
but yeah, if the dog’s happy and you are happy, don’t feel forced to change anything.
There’s all that fur too.
Our vet knows we have cut his food down and the vet is happy with his health so…
Wait, you mean that the dog you called fatso many many times while on TS is actually overweight? HOW COULD YOU NOT BE AWARE OF THAT.
Apparently I walk around with my eyes closed. =/
🙁
I go out of my way to avoid talking to people. I can’t fathom the idea that some one would willingly walk up to a stranger and act all holier than thou and judgmental. D:
To play devil’s advocate, look at it this way: if you saw someone walking around with a malnourished child who had a black eye, you’d be remiss not to confront them about that. Now obviously there’s a big difference between a beaten child and an overweight dog, but abuse is abuse, even if that abuse is done in kindness. To some people, trying to look after the welfare of the abused is more important than potentially offending the sensibilities of the abuser.
Not that I’m saying Scree is wrong or an abuser or anything. My dog’s are slightly overweight as well but are still healthy and happy, so I can’t really throw stones around. I’m just offering the potential viewpoint of why some people would feel the need to speak out.
I’m not abusing my dog! Does the dog in that photo look abused to you?
I don’t know; that blanket he’s laying on could certainly be comfier. And silk sheets; why doesn’t he have silk sheets? He’s practically living in squalor.
He was a wollen blanket and two doonas.
Edit: Guess I now know what to get him for Christmas
So mean 😛
Awww, he’s such a cute puppy! Who cares what anybody says, they’re just idle threats that people make so that they can feel big. He doesn’t even look very big! I wouldn’t stress it, some people just like to put others down so they can feel good about themselves, it’s sad and petty.
PUPPY!!!! 😀
So damn cute.
anyway… the part-Labrador thing is the thing. they’re just total gluttons.
My Lab was stupidly fat at one stage. it takes commitment, but a doggy diet is definitely doable.
with my Nelly puppy, we changed her diet to about ½ – 1 handfulls of dry kibble first thing in the morning, & then 1-2 handfulls of dry kibble & a little bit of gravy at night. She got by fine & lost a whole heap of weight.
but yeah… talk to your vet or something next time you go see them. they’ve got all the proper advice.
Our old dog was quite overweight for a long time, and it was mainly my Mum as well, slipping him far too many treats. Once he got a lot older though he began getting arthritis in his legs, so I convinced her to feed him a bit less at meals – not a lot, just like 10-15% less – and stop with the treats and get his weight down so that he’d be able to walk more comfortably. Was worth it as I think he ended up living longer (15 years) because he was still able to get out and exercise.
But if your Vet is okay with his current condition then I’d just ignore what people in the street say.
Videogame consoles made by Nintendo,
Games for them (ones I can hold hold in my hand though!),
Dodging a DRM service like Steam,
These are a few of my favourite things.
F-Zero X – the best game soundtrack I’ve heard,
High-energy metal screamed by Rob Halford,
Windows wound down, music’s loud as I sing,
These are a few of my favourite things!
When girls happen,
Interaction,
Failings get me down.
I just think of what @transientmind said
And then can turn things,
Around!
Yeah it’s pages late and irrelevant anyway but this damn song keeps coming back into my head thanks to you guys and then this happened 😛
Woooo! My* PS4 has been shipped and is in transit… 😀
*technically my sister’s PS4, but we live in the same house so whatevs. 😛
Ah, the old copy music off ipod and consolidate trick. I have performed it too many times.
Please explain this. My mind is not in a situation to comprehend, but I feel like I need to know.
Walking home from work today, trying my best to dodge and hand-wave the street salespeople. The guy handing out pamphlets visibly skips the entire line of people in front of me, just to specifically hand me a leaflet. For a gym 😛
Did he just call you fat? I trust you ran off in tears!
No… No I don’t think he was calling me fat 😛
Stick Insect-esque, perhaps.Sometimes when I only glance your avatar out of the corner of my eye I get you confused with @stickman. Maybe he did the same?
Maybe he was trying to pick you up :p
What a player! He was handing out those pamphlets to everyone!
A man can do crazy things when they’re in love.
Hello everyone, how are we?
Quite warm. Too warm. And sleepy.
NUMENERA
The party managed to attend a political rally, kick a secret policeman in the shins, crash tackle two thugs at once, meet a crime figure with glass hands, and utterly fail to flex their way into a noble’s house.
How did a lowly criminal get his hands on part of the city’s defence array? Which buggers took the party’s stuff? How does the Orange cloaked movement led by Narada Trome and the Aeon Priests fit in to all this? Will anyone ever be impressed by @blaghman’s muscles?
Tune in next time for more Tales from the ninth world!
Thanks @tigerion @mawt @tech_knight @popdart5 @blaghman @novacascade @mythamphetamine!
BTW, @popdart5: Here is the image of Charmonde I used: http://www.deviantart.com/#/art/Tel-ron-the-Marble-Citadel-206098628?hf=1
Cheers. I shall do the write up tomorrow.
I’m glad I had a chance to contribute more to this one 🙂
Awesome Numenera session tonight. So many laughs. Anyone who is thinking of joining really should.
Thanks again to @redartifice for running the night.
No prob man, it’s always a lot of fun. Especially when NPCs abuse characters 🙂
Especially when NPCs abuse
characters@blaghmanFixed 😀
Don’t make me flex my muscles at you!
Roll D20 = 1. Critical Failure!!
FEAR MY FURY!
Felt good to threaten lowly meatbags with a heavy crossbow to the forehead 🙂
Just finished Link Between Worlds, good ending to a good, solid game. Lots of fun was had by me.
BRING ON DA BRAVELEY!!!
Did you get 999 seconds in the Cucco dodging? No? Then you haven’t finished. Get back to work.
HA HA!
Fuck no…
I did very little sidequesting.
Not a big Zelda sidequesting fan.
Think I only did OoT & LA sidequests.
I only do what I come across and what I think is fun.
I found the musicians in the Milk Bar.
I haven’t spent the past hour and all my money there. That would be ridiculous. *shifty look*
I read this with absolutely no idea what the context of it is but I choose to believe it is real life.
Any reason it wouldn’t be?
There’s no such thing as milk bars 🙁
http://scratchingsydneyssurface.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/16-august-2013-sydney-milk-bars/
Interesting.
where we guzzle our moloko, droog.
I know that Freeze has already made his point, but there is a milk bar in my suburb, and it’s pretty rad.
…where?
In his suburb. He just said that.
Interesting. Threw in a thing for the Rift to read from the accelerometer, just to see how noisy and inaccurate it is. It’s pretty bad, floats right away 😛 Pretty sure putting it on someone’s head would make them fall over.
Then I set it up to sit there for a few seconds at the start of the program (assuming the headset is stationary) and take a few hundred readings of the sensor fusion’s acceleration output, to get an average reading for gravity. Keeps coming out to about 9.8516 rather than the 9.81 I was hard-coding in the first place. Doesn’t seem to make much difference though, it still floats right off 😛
I have a feeling I’m going to exceed my max 15 minutes of talk time tomorrow.
Gravity actually fluctuates over the earth’s surface, so you could actually be accurate 🙂
I dunno. A couple of times when I bumped up the number of iterations to a hundred million, it crept up over 10.0 for some reason 😛
Huh. Just walked downstairs and there’s a nicely decorated Christmas tree now. I have no idea why. The house will be empty for Christmas, and I hope my housemate isn’t expecting anything to be put under it… Oliver and I have bought each other a little something each but that’s about as far as my gift giving to friends is going this year.
I can’t remember the last time we put the Christmas tree up at home… It’s easier not to.
Uh oh.
I have a feeling that Santa is going to give her a cat.
I was going to say “noooo don’t say that!”
But then I imagined a cat in wrapping paper taking it’s last breath and collapsing in front of her on Christmas morning and started audibly laughing, so thank you for inadvertently putting a smile on my face 😛
ohhh…..
can santa give me a cat?
also a new flat in which i could keep said kitty?
if you could arrange that, it’d be grand.
k thanks.
One flat kitty, comin’ right up.
I hate to say it but your life would probably be a lot less stressful if you just went and spent $5-10 on something trivial to give the housemate. Save a lot of drama down the road.
What I’d really love to do is buy another plush llama like the one she has, tear it to shreds, make some of Oliver’s fake blood that he uses for videos, cover it in that, leave a note saying “SURPRISE!” inside it, wrap it up, and hide hers.
I honestly know nothing about her to know what she might even slightly like though.
Edit: Spelling
It seems like a good opportunity to bury the hatchet. Little things like jewellery, nail polish or an appointment for a mani / pedi generally tend to go down well with most girls, and they’re cheap too which is a bonus. Although from what I’ve seen on this subject I wouldn’t expect her to give anything to you, though that means you’d have one up on her which is always useful 😛
I would do something like that if I were trying to impress or were with a girl. She would take that as a sign that I actually like her, which is the last message I want to give.
Also, I only spent $10 on my best friend, and he’s only spent around the same on me, but they’re meaningful and we both put a lot of thought and effort into getting them (he went to America! :P). If I buy people gifts, it’s because I love them generally, and because I thought the gift would be meaningful 🙂
Plus, then I’d probably have to buy his wife something nice, and ugh. I can’t think of anything to get her either. I’m not good with presents! Gift cards are an option but I hate giving them! Such a cop out. “I like you exactly this much, at what this store values at $20.”
…but that’s exactly what we’ve done with Secret SanTAY /o\
I should add “I’m also broke” 😀
Fair enough, just thought I’d throw out some suggestions! And it’s less about showing her that you like her, more about making her like you a bit. She’s less likely to be a b**** to you if she actually likes you 😛 Though it’s up to you, if you only give presents to loved ones then that’s fine, haha! All I know is that I love Christmas, I love giving presents, and everyone likes getting presents 🙂
Eh, Christmas means next to nothing to me 😛 Not religious, not materialistic, not a fan of my family, nothing to celebrate 🙂
Man, I sound like a grumpy cold hearted old fucker.
BAH HUMBUG! \o/
I’m also spending christmas with my Mum this year. It’s less hassle for us.
Hear that, @dc? Everybody loves getting presents.
Liondrive doesn’t know what he’s talking about. 😛
The gift that keeps on giving
So, I’m deciding to have my home workspace as a standing desk for a week, just to try it out.
Hope it doesn’t hurt. 🙂
hnnnngh Steam Sale….
*shuts down computer, runs into darkened room and closes the door*
I’M GOOD!
SKYRIM LEGENDARY EDITION 66% OFF
I KNOW YOU HAVE IT BUT THAT SHIT’S STILL TEMPTING
I CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA
I…. may have grabbed that this morning despite not liking Skyrim all that much.
That’s how these things work.
Trust me, I’m a professional.
I may have to grab that, even though I’m playing it on PS3 atm.
BUT MODS!
PRETTY!
SO PRETTY!
MODS!
…
*opens 15 browser windows to the sale*
*crawls into fetal position*
http://store.steampowered.com/
Your mistake is having a wishlist.
*rubs hands together schemingly*
I USE IT AS A “TO-BUY” LIST 😛
Same, and then I change my mind about a game and don’t want it anymore.
…and then a month later someone buys me the game.
…and then I usually like it 😛
Well, here we go. With Black Friday and all the online deals on the horizon it’s time for me to engage in the
americanmodern right of consumerism.Which means inevitably a trip to the states and for me to line up like a idiot with my idiot friends so I can be surrounded by a bunch of other idiots so I can get a idiotic toaster for 75% or some shit.
Yay.
Black Friday? That’s horrible!
How would you like it if we had White Thursday, or
Asian Saturday?Hi Saturday!Well, I laughed way too hard at that and now feel just awful.
I expect only the finest racism from my Australian pals. :p
Truth be told, I re-wrote that like 4 times to make absolutely sure it wasn’t going to offend you 😛
YOU NEVER WORRY ABOUT THAT WITH ME… ya jerk 😛
GO BACK TO ICELAND YOU FILTHY FOREIGNER!
I love youGersh gurndy morn-dee burn-dee! BORK BORK BORK!
you know i don’t take it seriously XDI actually did it just then 😛
That would be right…. I Get my extra pay this week and manage to spend almost $1300 on Bills….
Alternatively: Oh shit, I got a heap of bills this week! Good thing I also got a bunch of extra money!
Thank you that is a good way of looking at it…
The other good part is, if you’ve gotten the bills out of the way already, you can spend the rest of your money on fun stuff and let Future Chris sort out the next lot of bills!
yeah… but rest of money is $75… Not much to last until next thursday…
I’m just going to look on the bright side, and know that next week the only thing I need to worry about is Rent.
The Internet is no place for optimism!
So I relented. I had 3 pieces of heart to find before a full clear of LBW, but then madness overtook me and I slaughtered Ganon instead. As a sequel/remake/whatever, it ticks all the boxes for me. Sooooooo good.
I hope they do a release of the soundtrack too. The music is some of the best i’ve heard from a Zelda in a long time.
So this looks like Minecraft as an RTS:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/227860/
Meh.
So just to confirm we are all meating at 10am near @dc’s place on the 24th to shower him with gifts?
You wouldn’t dare. >:|
…what if we mailed you a heap of wrapped presents, but they were all empty boxes?
My cat would approve the empty boxes!
EXCEPT FOR ONE!
Damn it, you ruined my plan…
SORRY,
QUICK, HIDE ANOTHER ONE IN ANOTHER BOX (he’ll never notice)
What if I made you something? You you deny all the love and effort that’s gone into that thing
You better believe I would! 😀
Theoretically… if I sent you a gift in the mail, you could drop it off at DC’s place…
Freeze doesn’t know where I live. XD
Damn! haha
Not that I would’ve sent anything anyway 😛But other people do 😀
No they don’t! And if they think they do it’s lies and misdirection!
Strange and Puppylicks might know and I’ll have to make sure they keep that to themselves. >:|
enduwolf (and maybe soon Hellscream) knows a rough radius too! The secret is starting to disperse…
Planning on randomly door knocking?
Note to self: NEVER ANSWER THE DOOR AGAIN!
What if it’s your PS4?
Just got a gas bill for $167 for a 21 day period. What the hell.
If you have any housemates, the next time one of them farts tell them they’re the reason for the bill and they have to pay for it.
Or they can hook themselves up to the BBQ and forgo paying their share.
Let’s not go there for a BBQ…
Ouch. I paid that for a nine month bill.
My average daily use (Mj) for this period is 366.98. I got another statement giving me an average of 88.76 for the rest of the quarter. This can’t be possible.
Yeah, that’s bollocks. ring them up, check if they did a proper meter read.
I’d be investigating if you have a leak, for real.
This just happens to be from my first month living there. I bet they read the meter for the previous people wrong.
Keep checking AusPost tracker for PS4. Even though it’s in transit, I don’t expect it to arrive until tomorrow anyways. *shakes fist* (Probably for the best. Have no games for it yet.)
Step 1: Press F5
Step 2: Repeat Step 1
And that kids, is how we TAY!
Although I’m still more excited about Super Mario 3D World. Don’t get me wrong, can’t wait to play Pirate’s Creed and all the potential a new next gen console has but… SUPER MARIO 3D WORLD!You’re F5 cheating on TAY! D=
I have a secret shame. I still take the long way and right click and manually click on refresh. D:
Having no games has never stopped people buying things in the past!
Having no console has never stopped people buying games in the past!
So apparently I’m headed to Sydney on the 14th (?) of December. Still gotta book flights and accommodation though.
I’LL MISS YOU!
I’m sure you’ll practising punching cement walls while I’m gone for when I come back. =P
Will Powalen and Semobulus finally meat!?
Yes.
We will say “hi” to each other and then stand awkwardly! At least that’s what I will do. =P
We don’t stand awkwardly ’round these parts! We lean on things.
The art of leaning on things is not to be taken lightly.
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Yay! I can finally meat some nob!
Nob meat is best meat.
Gutsoup Car get
now to get a licence…… I’m good at doing things in the right order.
Also happy ps4 day (I know it’s after midnight & technically tomorrow, but no more sleeps :D)
I’ve got 4 days off after tomorrow for my birthday,
New console, 4 days off work, birthday, tis going to be a splendid weekend.
Happy birthday for whenever it actually is! Sounds like an awesome weekend planned!
Having a car will be good incentive for the licence. XD
GRATZ on car get, whatcha get? if you don’t mind me asking.
And Happy Early Birthday™ \o/
I’m totally not a car guy, just wanted something that’d be reliable ish.
Got a 1999 Toyota Camry Touring, in immaculate condition, has had 2 owners a Dad and his daughter, has log books with service history since new, drove awesome.
Edit: Thanks for Birthday wishes, it’s on tuesday 😀
Nice… first car?
First cars are awesome,
Mine was an old banger from ’93… IT WAS AWESOME!
it is my first car, I’m a bit late to the party, I’ve always lived inner city and never had a need for one, now i live on the outskirts and everything is hard to get to,
I’m the same way, my wife and I only started driving this year so we’re both on our P’s despite being 28 and 30 respectively. Our first car was a ’99 Hyundai Sonata which we paid cash for in February. Still pretty good fuel economy for it’s class considering it’s age, but it was getting on a bit. We were able to trade it towards finance on a new car back in June.
The ’99 Camry Touring is a good car. My wife’s grandparents had that one before trading to a Mazda something-or-other around 2005 and I always preferred the Toyota to their Mazda (though they traded in the Mazda for a Hyundai Accent this year shortly after we got our Holden Barina Spark and I am wicked jelly).
sweet, yeah I’m about to turn 31 so I make you guys look good, will be interesting, I’ll have to go bug @dc sometime, since I’ll be like 5 minutes drive from him 😛
It was weird since i know next to nothing about cars and wasn’t able to find a car guy to go with me, hope i haven’t picked a lemon but all signs are pointing to it being good.
Edit: also only has 132 000klms, which is awesome for the age.
I think our Sonata had 238,000km on it but according to the log book it was originally a company car, probably for a sales rep, so it did a pretty ludicrous amount of it’s kilometres in it’s first two years. I think we were the fifth owners.
Apparently 3D World has had the lowest-selling debut of a Mario game in Japan since Mario 64 DS, with something like only 100k units sold. Weird :/
woah. thats two for every Wii U sold to date.
I’ve heard reviews saying it’s the greatest 3D Mario ever made. Japan is weeeeeeird
Always blows my mind that the New Super Mario Bros games outsell the Galaxy games by a crazy, crazy amount. I know which ones I’d prefer to play. (I guess the non-3D ones are a little more accessible to a wider range of folks though.)
Must’ve just been a really rainy weekend any nobody wanted to go out.
Did the Wii U sell particularly well in Japan?
I hasn’t sold particularly well anywhere 😛
EDIT: Haha, I just noticed the typo in this comment. I haven’t sold well anywhere either.
Case solved! Next, that infamous cookie stealing case The Pasty Twins whittled down to the Cookie Monster!
Was it Cole Electric-Guy-Gravely-Voice?
Oh, and the other thing is that Wii U Party sold stupidly crazy amounts over there when it came out. Can’t remember the numbers, but it was way more than this.
@cakesmith @sernobulus
http://www.swtor.com/2xp
Apparently SWTOR is running double xp from now till the end of the weekend.
… Shit.
We should really start grouping again. We could reroll imps!
I have everything but an Agent at 15 or higher… 😛
EDIT: Also, we can always group our Republic characters and you won’t have to play as Lards, the Devourer of Worlds!
I think my BH is about that level.
I have an Assassin at 13. Could get him to 15 easy enough.
Otherwise I also have a level 16 BH 😛
I haven’t enjoyed the Marauder at all and got him to 15. There’s a good chance he’s going to stay there forever…unless grouping with him makes it worthwhile.
Yup, sentinel is pretty meh aswell. =P
I enjoy the Marauder.
A lot more now that I’ve realised just how OP healing companions are. I have 0 downtime between fights.
But then I also really enjoy the story he’s got so that may be swaying my opinion 😛
@cakesmith
I am loving the smuggler’s storyline. Probably my favourite class so far because of the story. It seems like a very light hearted kind of story compared to the Jetti knights (Yada Yada, the fate of this world, blah blah).
Got up to roughly 20 with my smuggler. I love the fact that (vague early story spoilers):
You get told that there’s this giant war and you could help and your response is “SHIT NO, I FOUND THIS TREASURE MAP!” and run off.@cakesmith the Marauder’s storyline is often considered one of the best in the game. It’s a lot of fun.
There’s a couple of serious “shit just got real” moment in the Marauder storyline. Like you realise just how much of a dick you can be. And it’s glorious.
End of Act 1 (approx. level 30 story spoilers)
The act is focused on tracking down Jaesa Willsaam, someone who is very strong in the Force and has the ability to see peoples true nature. After thinking you tracked her down you meet Nomen Karr who is her Jedi master. He asks you request Darth Baras (your master) to meet him on Hutta. However, he sends you instead. You fight and Karr succumbs to the darker side which Jaesa feels and goes to help. When she arrives, she finds Karr defeated and you basically holding him hostage. She attacks you and when you defeat her you don’t kill her, your reasoning being her ability would go to waste.And this is where it gets awesome. You basically get to corrupt the hell out of her. You convince her to use her ability to see peoples true nature on her master and she realises he wasn’t who she thought he was. She gets angry and turns to you as her new master. And the first thing you get her to do, is kill Nomen Karr. And she does without hesitation.And then you bang.@cakesmith
Are you sure that isn’t a fanfic you wrote. =P
The banging may come later in the story.
Marauders aren’t really that fun. They have a lot of buttons to push as part of their rotation, they suck gear wise because of a last minute decision by BioWare before the launch of the game and as a melee class they’re hit pretty badly by the lag of playing on an American server.
I never had a problem with those. The thing that bugged me is that the class was weaker then weak tissue paper. 30s is basically impossible to solo.
@sernobulus it’s one of (in fact I think it and the sentinal are the only) pure dps classes in the game, so they don’t get anywhere near the survivability of the other classes who have heals or tanking abilities, even if they’re not specced for it.
Companions can help somewhat, but when I leveled I stupidly decided to stick almost exclusive to Vette, the dps companion, and that was hell.
@dire_wolf The Gunslinger (smuggler) is DPS only too. I actually rerolled my level 20 smuggler to a scoundrel cause having no utility at all sucked….suddenly I have cloak and heals. So much better!
OH GOD I DON’T KNOW WHICH CHARACTER TO PLAY!
I’m always so tempted to go back to TOR, then I remember they still haven’t properly implemented SGRA, the crap way their ingame store works and the terrible way they’ve treated Australian customers and that kills the desire somewhat :/
– OGRAs are very basic and from what I’ve seen, generally shit. I could care less about variation when the first half is nothing to write home about.
– What’s wrong with the in-game store? I don’t understand.
– The only negative for Australians has been the closure of the Aussie servers, and that was a cost issue. It was incredibly expensive and the vast majority of players left.
I will say that the game is shit if you aren’t preferred status (bought the game for $5), is OK if you are, but you really need to subscribe to get the most out of it.
EDIT: I should mention, regarding no more aussie servers, that I get no noticeable lag at all with players or environment until I go past 350ms, and even then we’re talking a minimal amount. Nothing like WoW on NA server.
How dare they make the free part of a game bad?
THEY ACTUALLY WANT ME TO PAY FOR SOMETHING TO MAKE IT GOOD?
Why i never!!!
*marches off*
It’s not just the companion romances, it’s also the flirts you can get with quest NPCs. For flirt heavy classes, like the smuggler and agent, it’s pretty noticeable. I would love to level a Jack Harkness inspired smuggler who goes through life flirting with everything that moves, but it ain’t gonna happen with how the game currently works, and since I can’t roleplay the sort of characters I want it kills my will to go back to the game.
The way the ingame store works in regard to loot chests is bullshit. You’re paying for the random chance to get the item you want, and if you’re unlucky you could end up forking out heaps of money before you get what you want. Mass Effect 3 did the same thing and it was bad in that game as well. If BioWare really wants the gamble chests, fine, but at least add a way to buy the items straight from the store.
Australians have been treated very poorly over the course of TOR’s development and release. There was the last minute “we aren’t releasing the game there” when pre-orders for the game first came available and a refusal to communicate with players about it for ages. When the population on the oceanic realms started to go down, BioWare refused to discuss the issue with players for months, then when they finally acknowledged the issue they still took months to talk to the players again about it. Then, despite many players asking for servers mergers, they decided to just close the servers down, even though the whole reason the game was delayed for release here in the first place was so that they could offer us a “quality” game with local servers.
So it’s not just the closure of the servers (though that is a big issue, try pvping with a melee class), but also the poor way BioWare has communicated with Oceanic players over the years.
No one is forcing you to buy the items though and they are mostly cosmetic. Secondly, MOST items can be sold on the Trade Market, so if you really wanted it that much you could just get it from there.
There’s a balance required when doing an ingame store. You make it Pay2Win and people will get shitty.
I remember BioWare being very supportive about the game not being released here at the same time as the US. They encouraged people to import it which a lot of people, including myself, did.
The fact they even offered Australian servers is a huge bonus for them. They honestly can’t be blamed if the monopoly on the market that certain companies have just made it too expensive to keep them running.
1: still doesn’t change the fact that it’s an unethical and bullshit business practice.
2: I can say with 100% certainty you’re not remembering the situation accurately. They did eventually come out and say just to import it, I’ll grant you that, but that came after weeks of post limit capped threads asking about it—during which time they didn’t say anything—and even after they came out and suggested importing it took more time still for it to be cleared up that the game wasn’t being region locked or anything.
3: While I can’t blame BioWare for the shitty way Australia works, I’d be more willing to give them props for this if they hadn’t turned around a year later and closed the servers down. All indications are the closures were in no way a cost thing. They could afford it, they just didn’t like the fact that all three servers had a low population. They could have just merged them together to form one server, they didn’t, and I think that was a poor choice on their part.
Also, on the communication thing, I may also be bitter with the way they’ve handled communicating about SGRA. Basically, when it comes to all the things I really care about with the game, it hasn’t felt like BioWare has cared about me in the slightest as a customer.
To clear up my stance on the whole thing (and avoid another replica incident), I love the game. I pre-ordered the collectors edition, I bought the expansion when it came out and I have a level 55 character and two level 50s. It’s the first MMO I’ve really, really enjoyed in years, and I’d be happy to keep playing it right now.
However, BioWare has made me feel devalued as a customer. I hung on for months, always willing to give them a second chance, but it reached the point where I had to say no more, that I respect myself too much to continue to be treated like shit by them, and so as much as I’d loved to go back, I can’t, because nothing has changed. How do I know nothing has changed? Because I still periodically check in on the game. I read the website. I browse through the forums. That’s how much I love the game; even after all the wrongs I’ve felt BioWare has done with it, I’m still holding out a glimmer of hope.
If your user experience has been different to mine, that’s great. I’m glad, because it’s a great game and people should enjoy it, but I’m the guy who was checking in on the forums every day leading up to release to discuss the game, and my priorities with the game are clearly different to yours, and as such, my experience with it has been far less than stellar.
It’s not unethical. What would be unethical is forcing you to use it to progress through the game.
I ordered my CE from Amazon on July 21st 2011, a fully 5 months before the game was released, and only did so after it was confirmed to not be region locked.
That I remember very well because I remember doing so much research on it.
The problem with merging servers is you have 3 different types. PvE, PvP and RP. You can’t merge those into 1 server and keep everyone happy. They gave a fair warning about the servers being shutdown (like what, 2 months in advance) and offered free transfers to other realms. If it was bleeding them money why wouldn’t you close them?
Just because something isn’t forced on you, doesn’t mean it’s not unethical.
It wasn’t fully confirmed not to be region locked until after they had suggested importing it (and they didn’t really suggest importing it, they only agreed with people who had already suggested it). People were pre-ordering before it was confirmed, and had to wait to find out whether that would work or not. I would know, because I remember taking the gamble and then waiting anxiously to find out if I’d just wasted $150.
From all BioWare posts on the issue, money wasn’t an issue. They weren’t bleeding money from keeping the servers open. I’ll grant you the different server types was a problem, but they could have just bit the bullet and merged into one pve server. Roleplayers could have still roleplayed amongst themselves (and indeed, it’s common for mmos not to have an rpg server and that’s just what those who want to rp do), and world pvp was never a big part of the game (indeed, in all my time playing on a pvp server, I maybe saw a total of four enemy players).
Yeah, SWTOR with some latency now is okay – at launch it was unplayable, but they fixed a lot of that. Not like, say, FFXIV, where there’s still some really bad latency issues where the game says you’re inside AoEs when you’ve moved out of them already and stuff.
(In regards to classes and story)
I can see where the BH is going to go. I’m picturing a very “morally grey” character. The story seems to be ramping up in that direction.
That’s pretty much how I play mine. Killing people is just another job, but there has to be a reason for it. I won’t murder someone just because I feel like it. He still has morals.
The Consular story is alright. Nothing fantastic. Kinda interested to see how it would play as a complete jerk because there’s been a few moments where that could’ve been interesting.
I played my Bounty Hunter as only being in it for the cash, but with a strong sense of client loyalty and loyalty to her crew. She couldn’t be bought off once a client set her on a job, and whatever that client wanted is what would happen.
The Consular story suffers from pretty poor pacing. It’s okay, but it could have been a lot better (it’s also generally thought of as the worst of the stories).
I played my consular as a jerk and it actually made a lot of sense. Being harsh and brutal was necessary in a lot of situations and I sympathised with one of the companions (Zenith) and his way of thinking a lot. Dark side Jedi are actually a lot more complex and interesting to play than just dark side Sith who are just jerks. 😛
Hey everyone, just stopping in for a breather from work/XBoning. Last weekend I went and caught up with some uni mates in Armidale, now I wish I could justify buying a spa!
Uhh XBone games I have are AC4, BF4, COD, FIFA14 (free), Ryse & DR3.
Really only played Assassin’s at this stage, had a go at FIFA with a mate the other night, and let someone try Dead Rising.
3 Day weekend on Friday though!
What’s going on in this corner of the net?
“Xboning”
*sniggers*
I should have mentioned that after I was done XBoning I decided to try my new Xbox One…
But I’ve ruined the joke now.
Nah, still funny!! 😛
#juvenile
in my corner there is PS4 hype and a 4 day weekend after tomorrow, whoo.
Edit: Also being a bit Jelly that DR3 is a bonesclusive
Excellent man! Enjoy!
Apologies for the rant about CEs
So, EB are selling the AC4 CE for $88. The RRP was $130. Surely they wouldn’t sell anything at a loss, so I’m going to work on best case scenario here – selling at cost to get rid of excess stock. Given that it’s a 33% reduction in price – this seems like an excessive margin to me.
I was under the impression that previous breakdowns have shown that a ‘standard’ game will see 15% return to the dev, and 20% to the retailer (quick google of some 2011 articles). I’ve always thought of CEs as being a way to support the developer further, since a higher return would get back to them, but I’m questioning that now. Is it just a chance for every link in the chain to take a higher cut, with no difference by the time it gets back to the source?
Is this another way we’re being taken for a ride and treated like cash cows? I may need to rethink my buying habits.
I’m now genuinely curious how that $170 Dark Souls 2 CE will be carved up.
It’s always been my belief that WHAT I buy will reward content creators, and WHERE I buy will reward the content distributors. If I’m actually just pumping up a retailer’s bottom line and nothing else, then I’m going to need to change how I spend.
@cakesmith used to be an EB guy at some point I believe. perhaps he might know something about the split?
Oh hai!
What Red said below is pretty accurate.
New release games actually have a fairly small markup on them (not as bad as consoles and first party accessories though). But when it comes to CE it actually gets a little more devious.
Ever wonder why so many are EB exclusive, JB exclusive and so on? Well, that’s decided by the publisher/supplier (not the developer). And (generally) part of getting these exclusive CE is them dictating the price point you will be selling them for on release along with other things such as “you will help us advertise the shit out of this!” and so on.
But these prices are usually only for a set period. After that they could sell them for whatever they want. So yeah, while it may have only cost EB say, $75 for the CE they sold for $130, they have very little say over the price on release. Because MOST of that money goes to the publisher.
So why do they agree to it? Well, couple of big reasons:
1) Good relations with the publisher/supplier. This is the most important thing for a business (after making money of course). This is also why EB is usually so hesitant to break street dates when the Mum & Pop store down the street does.
2) It allows you to draw shoppers. They can’t get it anywhere else. They have to come to you. Added to the usual “THESE WILL SELL OUT!” marketing and you have yourself some impulse buyers.
It’s ultimately a really shitty system for everyone EXCEPT the publisher and developers will always get the worse end of the deal.
Profit priority is Publisher > Retailer > Developer
Books are sold on the basis that 50% of the RRP goes to the retailer.
There are often complex deals with wholesalers regarding the return or payment for unsold stock that also protect the retailer when it comes time to discount the stock.
Publishers typically end up with around 20-25% of RRP and authors wind up with around 10%.
I don’t know how the games industry works, but I can’t imagine it’d be wildly different.
I thought part of the whole used game debate brought out what the standard retail margin was for a new game vs a used game, and why they love those used games so much. This discount seems to be bigger than the new game margin, which makes me wonder who actually profits from CEs.
The margins are one of two major reason why you’re seeing way more CEs these days. It allows the retailer to push prices higher for stuff. Not saying this is a bad thing, consumers still get bonus stuff etc.
The other reason is if (for example) EB has an exclusive CE they don’t have to and won’t price match it.
Yep. Time to get the head out of the clouds and go with – buy the CE if there’s cool shit I want. But no further expectations.
The thing about CEs isn’t that they send more $$ back to devs directly, it’s that they sell more on the first day, which is when games need to sell the most.
Also, if the AC CE is at cost at $88, that probably puts the standard eds cost at around 50-60, so it’s still more $$ to the dev overall (the collectibles + extra shipping costs for big boxes would still be less than $30 worth otherwise it’s pointless)
I don’t think I can keep taking it on blind faith that it will be more $$ to the dev overall. What if it’s no different to the dev whether I buy the SE day 1 or the CE day 1? (to nullify the ‘more sales’ part)
Then only buy the CEs with stuff you want? I only buy CEs if they have cool shit I want, like Batman statues or loot chests.
Yeah, looks like I just need to manage my expectations on the process. It was naïve of me to think that spending more would always mean more back to the creators of that game.
I guess this is another reason why the whole crowdfunding thing has been kicking off in a big way (relatively) recently. Because it does (seem to) work that way. I hope.
CEs are good for 3 things from a publisher perspective- more preorder/day one sales (see Price Skimming), more promo by retailers, and I imagine a larger margin. If some of that margin makes it back to the devs, great. If it doesn’t, but sales are still higher, also great!
33% is an excessive markup?
For your own sake, never ever ever look into the markups in nearly every industry anywhere. I’ve worked in places where markups START at 100% and go up from there. I know of one thing I’ve been involved in with a markup of 5000%.
I’m keeping it relative to the whole new/used game debate. And that would be a 50% markup from the markup perspective.
Hell, my own job has a client pay 400% of what my company pays me to sit here and do this job.
Belkin’s markup at my old work was about 300%-500% IIRC.
EDIT: I should mention, that was enforced by Belkin, not the store that sold their stuff.
man dem surge-protectors
When you’re Batman, a measly 5000% markup is nothing.
So as people now i’ve been listening to Taylor Davis a lot this week…
Have had her youtube channel in the background when i work, and she mainly does fantasy stuff…
Then this came up just now:
OH GOD HIT ME RIGHT IN THE FEELS :’)
EDIT – cause i screwed the linkses!
What are these ‘feels’ you speak of?
I’ve never seen that movie, btw. D:
>:|
Well dear sir, you have some homework to do, AAAND GO 😛
It just brought me back to being a kid, watching this movie, and the songs are awesome!
When I was a kid I was pretty adamant that I didn’t want to watch girls movies like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. I was a stupid kid. 😛
Well i had an older sister, so i had a good excuse XD
I have a younger sister. Best excuse. It’s basically my excuse as to why I watched Sailor Moon on TV. XD
You know that strong reaction you get when you look at buildings? It’s a different form of strong reaction.
I love her work, one of my favourite instruments to listen to are the strings like Violins and Cellos, hence why I still love listening to Apocalyptica
Oh man, I love the violin. I’d love to be able to play one.
uninteresting story; I did play the violin for about 1 year, but as “stupid kids” go, i got bored and quit XD… The trombone however, now that i can play 😛
Haha! Same goes with piano for me. Took lessons, didn’t appreciate that this is something future D.C. would want to know. Man, past D.C. was an idiot on many fronts. 😛
Damn parent’s as well for being right in trying to get us to keep going XD
I think if I ever had a kid I’d think about committing to learning something like that with them. If they’re ‘forced’ to do it, I’d ‘force’ myself to do it too.
My plan to a T.
At least it will be if the lessons are outside work hours! 🙂
Would you say you’re quite the… tromboner? 🙂
Well… i was a teenager!
#TAYdixieband
I have bought a few of her albums now, highly recommend them 😀
Where can I get them? Anything except iTunes preferred 😛
I got them straight from her website:
http://www.taylordavisviolin.com/store/
Otherwise you can find her on loudr.fm i think…
I’ll look into it tonight, my thanks, mighty Pixel of the Ferret Viking tribes 🙂
No Probs my friend,
I can highly recommend the “Melodies of Hyrule” album she has… It’s pretty amazing…
Be prepared to possibly need to convert file formats though, i received mine in .WAV formats, which is a bit unneccessary for me 😛
Austin “Journey and Monaco Soundtracks” Wintory has 50% off at his bandcamp site atm- Journey OST for $5: https://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/
Austin “The guy I was sitting just over a metre away from as he conducted the Grim Fandango Suite and some of his Journey compositions” Wintory has 50% off at his bandcamp site?
Cool, I’ll check it out.
Sometimes bragging is kind of fun.…
Monster.
Ask me about Grim Fandango!
Wow – Ghostcrawler is leaving Blizzard…
Didnt see that coming.
Will miss the guy, he copped alot of flak but I genuinely like reading his replys and news.
I think he’ll be missed in the wow community.
Given how the WoW community has treated him in the past, I very much doubt this.
Nah thats just the overly vocal part of the community, I really doubt its the proper perception of him as a dev
TAYlist requests, what’s your pick?
Somewhere (from west side story) – Tom Waits
Alternatively:
All the Young Dudes – Mott the Hoople (Or a Bowie ver)
Bee Gees- Staying Alive
ALTERNATIVELY
Saturday Night- Bay City Rollers
Lost Cause – Beck
Cowboy Boots – Macklemore
Rainbow Connection – Kermit the Frog
I resisted the urge to request something from James Flamestar. I hope you appreciate this.
So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it!
Well funny you should say it,
I’ve heard he has this amazing new album out
#taymarketing
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking about requesting 😛
Well i have heard that he has a few new things out
Limp Bizkit – Faith
OR
Baha Men – Who Let The Dogs Out
OR
Billy Ray Cyrus – Achey Breaky Heart.
Obscure hipster request:
Russian Circles – Memorial
(loving that whole album at the moment, but that track in particular is a standout.)
Serious request:
Jefferson Airplane – Somebody to Love.
White Rabbit is better.
I love both, and second both.
The Smiths – I Want the one I cant have
Remember the Smiths Gobbledock?
What the hell was that about?
Lol. Wrong Smiths :p
Greenday – American Idiot
Puscifer Live Album and A Perfect Circle Live Albums! My listening is sorted for a few days 🙂
ohhh….. i must look into this.
What is …. By Puscifer
and
Mer de Noms Live
Thirteenth Step Live
eMotive Live
Stone and Echo – Live at Red Rock
what? they released live versions of all their albums?
Yep. They did the 3night tour in US last year. it was recorded. And two nights have new songs, including a bowie cover
Numenera peeps: the recap will be delayed as I’ve got a fair bit of work today and these sessions are getting a bit more complex so it’s harder to write it as a coherent story. Expect it maybe tonight or tomorrow.
No Prob man, they’re awesome.
Also, i realised last night that we forgot to schedule the next session- 11th of December OK for everyone?
Yep! I was worried I was going to be kept back at work last night but I managed to get away.
Cool. We might do the 11th then take a 4 week break for christmas etc
Oh okay, I was thinking you were too perplexed by picturing Blaghs’ muscle flexing to concentrate on the write up. In any case, looking forward to seeing it 🙂
Eh, he’s not much. (rolls 8)
Getting really hyped about PS4 even though I’m not particularly excited about any of the games I’m getting, still though HYPE!!!!!!
Haha! Me too, keep checking Australia Post website.
oh, the uncertainty of the post would send me mad.
To be honest, the fact it’s even in transit now is enough for me to be psyched. Big W weren’t really forthcoming with time frames so I was mentally preparing for it to arrive two weeks late or something. XD Synced my trophies, every thing is ready for first sign in now. 😀 I think I’m still more psyched about Super Mario 3D World. I’m psyched at the promise of PS4 though. Quantic Dream. Naughty Dog. Sucker Punch.
I am really looking forward to Pirate’s Creed!
I have 3 weeks to wait 🙁
🙁 boo, that sux, hopefully you have some other quality games to work through in the mean time.
Bejewelled Blitz has been sucking my time away lately.
Though I did recieve a new Boardgame last night 🙂
Which game?
The Witches – Discworld Boardgame By The same guy who made Ankh Morpork
Feels … strange (hi @strange) that all known gaming devices for the foreseeable future will be on the market tomorrow.
Unless the Oculus Rift HD consumer versions counts separately from what’s already available, but that’s probably splitting hairs.
The future is now. Cheesy but really seems to apply here.
yeah it does feel odd, i guess probably because it’s been so long since the last ones.
http://www.gog.com/news/preorder_broken_sword_5_the_serpents_curse_season_pass
GOG are taking pre-orders for Broken Sword 5 now if any one is interested!
I’m tempted but I never even finished Broken Sword 1. Maybe I will buy that game in the future when I have finished the first three games already sitting on my Steam account.
Yeah, I hate to say it but the last couple of entries in the series have been hit and miss so might be worth waiting for reviews any way.
*points down*
What he said. =P
Nob’s a jerk.
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/11/27/atlus-free-use-dormant-sega-ip-says-company-president/
Does this mean Atlus might have access to doing a new Sakura Taisen game? They tried unsuccessfully for literally years in the 90s to acquire the US rights to the Sakura Taisen games and were always knocked back on it.
Sakura Taisen in the style of Persona would be godlike.
Apollo Justice might well be the funniest Ace Attorney game yet. The people on the bus must think I’m absolutely crazy.
Mr Justice, am I understanding that you object to the length of a second?Well, Apollo Justice is the best Ace Attorney game, so that makes sense. 😛
Don’t tell me that. I want to believe that Dual Destinies is worth breaking all my self-imposed
rulesguidelines for.@pixel_the_ferret_viking: One of my favourite movie themes in a long while. So, so good.
I just listened to that, SO GOOD!
Duck Tales Oo-oo
Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales, oo-oo
*walks off*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🙁
Why would you do that to me…
No point fighting it, I suppose
*puts Ducktales theme on repeat for eight hours*
You’re welcome! \o/
It’s ok, I got this.
dun dun dun dun Inspector Gadget dun dun dun dun woo-OOO
I see your Inspector Gadget (HELLO!), and raise you
Oh-ee-yeah, Tale Spin
Oh-ee-yoh, Tale Spin
Friends for life, through thick and thin
With another tale to spin
Yep.
Edit – changed because MEMORIES!
http://i.imgur.com/GCqLpoX.gif
@rize, eeeyup 😀
More new Star Wars games in the works!
WOOOO!
More like WOO-OOOO
AMIRITE?
Open world Star Wars game? Yes please.
Can we just get Battlefront 3 first before Star Wars 1313 2 gets announced first so we aren’t teased on and off for years by Pandemic again thanks that would be super
KOTOR3 first please.
Both first please.
I remember the pre-release marketing: “SWTOR is KOTOR 3, 4, 5… [etc]”.
This is where I link that Karl Pilkington GIF of him calling BS.
The Jedi Knight Story feels a hell of a lot like it’s gone the KOTOR 3 direction. Though (obviously) not as much story content, it’s still pretty great.
DONT TEASE ME WITH YOUR LIES!
*runs off crying*
http://i.imgur.com/0nM6bMD.jpg
@BDKIAF @sughly
JEZABELS ALBUM IN JANUARY WOOOOOOOO
\o/
Buying the crap out of that. Prisoner was probably the most played album I’ve picked up in years.
Yah yah!
Ok, this may be music overkill considering we’ve got a couple of music threads going already, but I find Birdy’s cover of The District Sleeps Alone tonight better than the original.
Original: The Postal Service: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIBnmdJJ50
Cover: Birdy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txl5qkq-76E
Anybody else got cover’s they love more than the originals?
Edit: Words.
I must have funny hands or something, after reading that Important things about the ps4 article I’ve come to the conclusion that I must be one of the only people that prefers a Dual Shock over Xbox controllers.
Edit: the article seems a little biased really, what happened to personal preference, they present it like a fact XBox control > Duel Shock. It’s a matter of opinion
I’ve never had an issue with the Dual Shock. But I have been using them since the age of 12.
I’m happy to use a Dual Shock too, but at the same time would take the Xbox controller over it any day. XD
I own a 360 controller for my PC, and it’s a nice piece of hardware. i guess I don’t care about controllers enough
yeah, i don’t hate the controls by any means I just prefer Dual Shock, just weird to me how so many people carry on like it’s some archaic piece of crap.
it’s really a matter of personal preference, I find xbox ones really uncomfortable, doesn’t mean i think it’s a crap control, just not suited to me,
You’re wrong!
*flips table*
😀
WRONG!!!! How dare you have an opposing opinion about things,
*wraps hands in cloth, dips in glue and rolls them through broken glass*
Oh it’s on now 😛
*cowers*
I DIDN’T EXPECT THINGS TO ESCALATE. I JUST WANTED TO FEEL LIKE A BIG MAN.
*cuts self on glass shard wimpers and runs away*
Too much Gym, obviously,
@redartifice Watch out! Here comes @dc with a R-R-R-R-ROID RAMPAGE! 😛
The horrible, clawed meat hooks of a Playstation fan.
The DS3 took me a long while to get the hang of. Whoever thought having triggers that sloped downwards was a good idea, I don’t know 😛 Apparently they fixed that with the PS4 though so yay! Other than that though, I generally like the DS3. It’s just the triggers got so much more use this generation!Nothing compared to the PSP Monster Hunter Claw Hand.
See, PSP controls being awkward I’ll agree with entirely
3DS hands are a thing as well. Even I get slight claws with my XL.
my hands go numb from too much portables, although i haven’t had it happen with the vita, maybe in my old age i just sit better or something.
Yeah, the 3DS hurts a bit too, but some PSP games are worse (Which is why I never got far in Peace Walker)
It’s a matter of you being weird. You weirdo.
bah, *flips tea table and leaves* I knew i shoulda kept it to myself 😛
http://collider.com/rick-and-morty-pilot-dan-harmon/
Pilot for new Adult Swim show. I freakin’ loved it. 😀
I’ma have to check it out, I love me some Adult Swim
I am literally about to pre-order a PS4
HALP!
You can do it.
I believe in you.
this guy gets it 😛
Seconded!
SWTOR.
There, now you have no time for a console.
Oh mannnn, double xp. WHEN WILL I HAVE TIME FOR MARIO CATS!?
Where?
Just EB, even if I preordered I wouldn’t get it for maybe 3 weeks. (More likely next year).
I’m currently sitting in a Catholic school listening to a class learn about being a good Muslim child.
…
…hang on.
Catholic schools are the worst!
Evangelical schools are the worst.
I’m pretty sure all schools with any religious affiliation are the worst. 😀
True.
Good thing! \o/
Yeah, it definitely is. Still, what an incredibly weird experience.
Good Muslim children convert to Catholicism?
Presentation done.
So crappy though. It sounded so much better in my head, then I got up there and forgot what I planned on doing 😛
It was probably like that scene from Indiana Jones. All the girls had words written on their eyes lids.
Today’s fuck this quotient is quite high. I just want to walk outside in the rain.
Mine, too, man. Instead of working, I’ve spent most of the day planning a Kickstarter campaign I might never launch.
I’ve spent most of it writing a proposal I don’t believe in
I’ve spent most of the day responding to letters, eating, encountering writer’s block, more responding to letters, and then napping. It’s almost like it’s not work.
I’ll back it.
Also, speaking of, how awesome is it that @beardymcmuttonchops’ KS has gone so well?
It’s awesome and crazy inspiring.
So’s your face! *decisive nod*
I don’t even. All these feels.
LAUNCH IT
Gotta get a green light from my publisher first. It’ll have to involve them.
What goal does one look towards when all of his other career goals are complete?
Self improvement is weird, i mean i do want to improve my career, but i have no real way to do it besides leaving my job which for all its flaws is clearly one of the best situations to find oneself in. Lots of travel to nice places, chilled environment (mostly), good pay and lots of chances for overtime. The work is endlessly interesting. Just i will never move up in this company. I will stay at the exact same level until i retire.
I mean in a ideal world i would be the on set electrician for Doctor Who. But a big part of me feels that my safe, comfortable and largely fun job is the place to be. Maybe i just dont have any motivation to move forward. Maybe i just need some more hobbies to take up my time so i dont focus on work. Maybe its just really slack at work at the moment and i wanted some attention?
WHO KNOWS????
Personal goals. Travel. Self improvement. Alla that stuff
It’s okay to take a minute to be content with what you’ve got. You don’t have to climb the ladder just because it’s there. If your job makes you happy, don’t throw it away for some arbitrary measure of ‘success’ that might not fit well with your life.
The desire to always be better, be different, is the reason why no one is happy. /hackbuddhism
You are so right its scary, why do we feel this endless need for “better” i have been conditioned to think that if im not striving for better im standing still and standing still is bad. But that isnt true. Life is constantly moving im never quite standing still, my horizons are broadening all the time regardless of wether i want them to or not. I”ve already done far more than i thought myself capable of.
Thanks buddy
I’m not a fan of when people ask me what I want to achieve in my life. I’m not a very ambitious person and I have no idea where I want to end up and or how far I want to be promoted up the chain (if at all). In any case, I find personal/social/relationship more important than career goals anyway so maybe that’s something you can work towards?
OR OR I COULD MAKE A COVER ALBUM OF TAYLOR SWIFT AND ABBA SONGS TO NET ME A HOT MAMMA WITH A CRACKIN KABOOSE???
That could work.
Legitimately though, didn’t you say that one of your life goals was to release an album? Get to work on that!
I don’t mean the Taylor Swift/ABBA idea though, that’s awful.
I cant sing
I wish i could, singing is my favourite thing in the world.
It makes me really happy. But alas i was cursed with the voice of a 15 year old boy constantly going through puberty.
thanks buddy, i will work on it.
You don’t need to be able to sing to make music.
Yodelin’ Rockets Good Timey Music Jamboree
there’s lots of successful singers who cant sing. doesn’t stop them, so why should it stop you?
This goes back to the discussion we were having this morning doesn’t it…
pretty much the opposite.
this is more about Bob Dylan & Conor Oberst & Shane McGowan etc who arent exactly great singers, but do it anyway. & their passion more than makes up for their shortcomings.
@35 a decent Bob Dylan impersonation is one of my party tricks.
Theres a bloke at a pub i frequent who does open mic nights.
anyway, he’s a big Dylan fan & it was a few day before xmas last year & we were out having a beer & the idea came up that he should do nothing but xmas carols that night. but in the style of Bob Dylan.
So he did. & it was hilarious.
Just there is that guy who sounds like a 15 year old boy who is doing quite well for himself. Lustin beavers or something like that
Lustin Beavers is a brilliant pornstar name.
Your life goal should now be to attend another Deve-O LAN – and not pass out before 12 this time.
YES YES I SHOULD
also i didnt pass out.
i went to sleep because its hardcore to go to sleep first.
Dunno, I’ve always been low on the job food-chain
Welcome to the existential pit that is the human experience.
Hey @redartifice, just something I’ve been meaning to ask you. Do you mind when I misspell names of characters and/or places when I write the recaps as I’m solely going off how I think it is spelt from how it sounds? I just thought I should check as you are the GM and the storyteller and I know some GMs get annoyed if people ruin the story by continually getting details wrong.
Eh, I’m happy. I think a player’s eye on it is much more valuable that my view being imposed. If there’s something blatantly wrong it probably means I didn’t do a good enough job communicating it.
My plans as DM don’t survive contact with the players- I had no Idea @mawt and @mythamphetamine were going to accost crowd members for example 🙂
Thanks for that. I just wanted to check. 🙂
A friend of mine who is a pretty prolific DM describes players like this: the plan for what the DM thinks the players will do is this road that runs pretty straight with a few curves. What the players actually do is disregard the road and end up on another continent. It’s half the fun of RPGs. 😀
Absolutely! Especially with something as freeform as Numenera, I’m lucky if I’m one scene ahead of you guys- I have a vague arc in mind, but how you get there is subject to much change.
There are ways to cheat it, which I haven’t really needed to do, such as giving false choices or closed plot loops, but as long as the players are enjoying it I’m happy.
Should of punched him in the face instead of kicking the knee
Realized I’d been slacking off on this so it’s time for…
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update that No One Cares About
After the previous installment where I obtained I-19 (Iku) I have basically been grinding World 2-3 and 2-2 to try and get something interesting to drop. Leveled my Chiyoda up through the various remodels to turn her into a proper Light Carrier. Iku very quickly surged through to level 19. My core ship trio of Fusou, Yamashiro and Hiryuu are all sitting nicely in the high 30s, and I’m basically running them with one of the two subs plus two other ships. Most of the time that’s been my heavy cruiser Choukai and my light cruiser Yura, but I’ve got some flexibility there and have periodically swapped one or both out for the other Takao-class heavy cruisers as I’d ideally like to get them all to their respective remodel levels (25 for Takao, Atago & Choukai and 18 for Maya) as there is a quest that requires me to deploy a fleet with all four to World 2-2 and beat the boss.I’ve also been spending some time on some of my destroyers, as while doing research on World 3 (which I can’t reach yet due to not having enough survivability to punch through 2-4) and it seems that one of them essentially requires you to have a fleet of six level 30-40+ destroyers ready to go. Currently I have Yukikaze at level 22, but the rest of my destroyer collection are all level 10 or below. I have absolutely shit luck with drops and building, so I don’t have Shimakaze yet, and as such I’ve been sinking most of my destroyer effort into Yuudachi, Shigure and Hibiki because their late-game remodeled versions are crazy powerful. I’ll eventually need to pick another two to pull up once those four are finished with, probably Makigumo and Shiranui at this point but if any of the other existing ones get ultra-cute 50+ remodels like Yudachi and Shigure did then that would definitely sway my decision.
The RNG goddess still trolls me every day. I’ve been grinding and grinding and sinking resources into the Battleship recipe consistently and consistently I get goddamn Tone and Takao-class heavy cruisers. Sucks so much. So Tuesday night I decided to try my hand at something else. Since I was finally a fairly respectable HQ level (30) I swapped Hiryuu in as my flagship and had a go at spending my resources on crafting equipment rather than building ships. There’s a daily quest to do equipment development 4 times and I’ve been doing it, but usually with just the base resource allocation which usually results in crappy 12cm cannons. This time I used a known Aircraft recipe. Very first development, I get a Ryuusei-Kai, the strongest buildable Torpedo Bomber in the game. I then built in succession two Suisei (Dive Bombers) and a Tenzan (Torpedo Bomber). So my two fleet carriers now carry updated aircraft.
Also finally had a breakthrough last night. After weeks of trying for a drop or a build to give me a new battleship and always getting cruisers or Fusou-class BBs which are basically useless to me, I finally picked up Ise. Wasn’t the battleship class I really wanted (I really want to get all four of the Kongo-class and ideally either a Nagato or Mutsu) but still much stronger than my Fusou-class battleships and has an extremely low remodel level of 10, when she gains the ability to launch floatplanes (My Fusou-class sisters have this too but it unlocked at 25). So tonight’s plan is to start leveling Ise up toward making her a permanent member of my primary fleet. If I can get one more and get them to the mid-20s or better I should have enough firepower to finally push through to World 3, where the Kongo-class Battleships that I really wanted to get hold of are much higher chance of dropping.
Status: Still Addicted
Responding as someone who knows little about the game and moreso about the historical side:
I understand the Mutsu and the Nagato are fairly heavy and powerful BBs but wouldn’t they also be pretty significant resource sinks in terms of maintenance and armament? Also, I can’t recall if Kantai has any form of speed mechanic but wouldn’t the Mutsu/Nagato class BBs as well as the Ise and Kongo class all be rather slow and have a fairly low ability to evade as they are similar in design and build of British WWI dreadnoughts?
(Apologies for this. I like your updates as I’m a military history nut and Kantai seems pretty cool in terms of replicating historical modifications and ship capabilities.)
Yeah, they cost a fair whack of fuel and ammo to keep them running. I currently only have Fusou-class BBs and they’re a bit more efficient – the fleet carriers esp. Akagi are about as expensive in terms of fuel, but Akagi can absolutely chew through your resources replacing shot-down planes. It’s one of the reasons why I’m running one or two slots with submarines in my fleet, they cost next to nothing to field and repair and help offset the difference.
Kongo isn’t just similar to a British Dreadnought, she *is* a British Dreadnought. Or at least a Battlecruiser. Built by Vickers in England (side note: in the game she talks in random Engrish and drinks tea a lot). Fusou was actually ordered after Kongo and Hiei were laid down and at the time they were all completed, Fusou and Yamashiro were actually heavier and more powerful than the Kongo-class. However all four (Kongo, Kirishima, Hiei, Haruna) were overhauled in the 1920s to improve their armament and were reclassified as battleships. The Washington Treaty which restricted the number of Battleships each Navy could have meant that the Japanese ended up keeping a lot of their older battleships. The Amagi-class and Tosa-class which were under construction at the time was cancelled – Amagi and Akagi were slated to be converted into Aircraft Carriers, Takao and Atago were scrapped, and the two Tone-class, Tone and Kaga, were initially scrapped as well but after Amagi was irreparably damaged by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 and scrapped, so they re-ordered the Kaga and had her converted to a carrier instead.
(SIde note: interesting thing is that Japan was probably only competitive in the pacific because of their carrier fleets, which they would never have had had they not had to start building carriers instead of battleships.)
Anyway, after Japan pulled out of the Washington Treaty they completely overhauled all the Kongo-class BBs, starting IIRC with Kirishima, then Kongo, Haruna and finally Hiei (which had been demilitarized to avoid scrapping it). That reconstruction made them into Fast Battleships, increased their speed to 30 knots – same speed as the Bismark and Tirpitz and faster than all of the US battleships classes. So it’s not at all the case that they were slow ships, they were actually among the fastest BBs in the world at the start of WW2.
Anyway the Kongo-class isn’t that inefficient to run in the game. Nagato and Mutsu are, but they also hit extremely hard. Yamato and Musashi obviously hit the hardest in the game but both were only obtainable during events and not from building, so at the moment I couldn’t get either of them even if I wanted them. 🙁
Well you just put my knowledge of Japanese WWII naval history to shame. I just learnt a lot that I was unaware of. Particularly regarding how the carrier fleet came to be, that was really interesting.
Well that sucks that you can’t get either Yamato or Musashi considering they were the main flagships during the war. I had forgotten that the Kongo-class BBs had been upgraded and refitted to be faster. I kept thinking they were in the same category as the Fusou class BBs but they simply had the same armament, slightly lesser plating, and improved engine and fuel efficiency. I presume the Nagato and Mutsu have better guns but the rest of their stats are the same as Fusou and Yamashiro.
Funnily enough, I only know most of my knowledge regarding Japanese ship capabilities because of a war game I used to play called Victory in the Pacific. At the start of the war, the Japanese heavily outmatched, outgunned, and had more airpower than all other fleets in the Pacific. Even if the entire US battleship line went toe-to-toe with the Japanese, it would be a very close match as they were nearly equal in armament and guns.
I’ve been tempted to try out Kantai Collection but I have neither a VPN or any understanding of Japanese so I would be utterly out of my depth. I like hearing about it so please carry on. 🙂
The Japanese approach to their shipbuilding was that they could never hope to compete with the larger powers in terms of volume – much smaller nation with tighter resource constraints – so instead they needed to compete by making everything higher quality or more advanced. Thus how you have them somehow managing to shove 18.1″ guns onto Yamato. They also invested heavily into their carrier fleets and their pilots, which is why losing four of their core carrier fleet at Midway basically fucked them completely.
Game-wise, I believe Nagato and Mutsu can mount the 51cm guns that Yamato and Musashi use, but the others are limited to 41-46cm max. My Fusou, Yamashiro and Ise all only have 36cm 🙁
Fusou and Yamashiro (and Ise and Hyuuga) were all converted into Carrier Battleships – their rear turret was replaced with a small deck and crane used for launching floatplanes. That’s reflected in the game as well, when you hit their remodel levels you turn them into Aviation Battleships and they gain the ability to do an opening torpedo strike from the air before fucking shit up with guns. That can be useful though their planes tend to get shot down compared to the ones from my carriers. IIRC the conversion actually improves their fuel efficiency in the game. In Real Life the removal of the turret probably took out some weight and increased speed?
The game is fairly playable without knowing a lot of Japanese. I don’t know what most stuff says. I’ve done enough Kanji that I can recognize them so they’re not all random squiggles, and learned the meanings of enough of them that I know eg. if I see Red Castle that’s Akagi or Flying Dragon that’s Hiryuu. And the rest of the UI you learn through repetition mainly.
The VPN part is easy, you only need it to sign up and you can just use a free VPN. Actually getting into the game is harder. There’s a lottery system to get added to a server. Once you get in you’re all good. I can link you to a wiki if you want.
P.S. you probably don’t want to play this game as it is all-consuming.
I feel like my grandma and you are me trying to explain how to record tv shows to the hardrive. Its going way way over the top of my head.
This is why I spoiler-tagged it. Wall of text about bullshit that no one cares about and no one who might care about can understand.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World Fifth Session Recap 27th November 2013 starring:
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions,
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And saying farewell to:
Adahn aka @transientmind the strong Jack who focuses mind over matter. After encountering the powerful psychic resonance of Boregal and Seria, Adahn decided that he would momentarily leave the group and return to his home and hearth for meditation and mental rejuvenation.
Author’s Note: I embellished the story a little bit. I hope no-one minds.
As the party left the Beyond behind and descended into the more civilised lands of the Steadfast, they decided that they would head towards the kingdom of Navarene and its capital Charmonde, the Marble City. On the way to Charmonde, Ranger was able to explain a few details of the city and the kingdom to those who have either never been or never paid attention. Navarene is ruled over by Queen Amalu from her Palace of a Thousand Slaves however her rule has become quite distant of late. Queen Amalu’s advisors are the real rulers in the kingdom but thankfully they are fair and just in their rule (aside from the whole slave labour deal) and the kingdom is thriving.Their journey to Charmonde was fairly uneventful aside from a few caravans here and there. Several days after they left Embered Peaks and crossed the range separating the Beyond and the Steadfast, the party arrived in Charmonde. They quickly discovered that the name Marble City was not entirely literal as the city is constructed mostly from white synth and other white-coloured materials. The Jerribost River dissected the city between the northern wealthier districts and the southern trade and general habitation zones.
The party entered Charmonde and soon became aware that there was a large congregation of people in the main square of the residential district. The square was filled with a couple of hundred people all dressed in orange hoods and orange cloaks. The party asked around to find out what was going on and it was a rally organised against the influence of the Order of Truth and their members, the Aeon Priests. The Order of Truth under their newest Amber Pope was attempting to firmly establish the Order as a legitimate religion and belief system rather than simply the worship of Numenera, technology, and the majesty of the prior World ages.
The people in the square started cheering as what appeared to be their leader ascended to the stage that had been set up. She introduced herself as Nerada Trome and she started decrying the Order of Truth and the toxic influence they were imposing on Navarene. Nerada continued detailing the Order’s supposed crimes, including their antagonising the group of people to the north known as the Gaians, and how their influence was a threat to the sovereignty of the realm. She spewed more invective, claiming that the Order was corrupt, that it was amoral and cared nothing for society, and she proclaimed that the Order and all of the Aeon Priests should be evicted from Charmonde and all of Navarene to great applause.
As Nerada was delivering her speech, Phetys noticed that some of the orange hoods in the crowd were not paying attention to the speech. They were surveying the crowd and looked as though they were keeping an eye out for any rabble-rousers. Phetys decided that they were up to something and motioned for Ranger and Blaghs to follow him as he confronted one of the suspicious men. The man was initially dismissive of them and doesn’t consider them as important. Ranger chirped up and demanded to see the man’s papers for why he was here. When the man refused, Ranger declared that he was arresting him for being non-compliant with an order of the city watch.
This set the crowd off as people started bemoaning the fact that the city watch has come to shut down the rally and that they’re in the pocket of the Order of Truth. Unknown to the party, a small group of men started moving towards the rest of the party (that being Beltigron, Nova, Russef, and Scrappa) and, amidst the general discontent and chaos of the disrupted crowd, they swiped a number of valuables from the four party members. Russef felt something being lifted from his person and he immediately gave chase to the thieves as they darted through the crowd. Beltigron, Nova, and Scrappa followed at speed while Ranger, Blaghs, and Phetys stayed behind to deal with the suspicious individual.
The chase after the thieves led Beltigron, Nova, Russef, and Scrappa through the market area of Charmonde where the party narrowly avoided pack animals, traders’ carts, and a shallow trench across the road that the party managed to run across after discovering it was a semi-solid liquid that would hold their weight as long as they maintained enough speed. The thieves fled into the industrial and labourer section of the city and they attempted to evade the party by scaling the buildings and fleeing across the rooves. Beltigron, Russef, and Scrappa had no trouble climbing to the roof however Nova lost his grip and falls into a vat of half dissolved human hair. He quickly got out of the vat as he felt something move through the melted remains of the hair follicles.
Beltigron, Russef, and Scrappa chased the six thieves across the rooves of various factories, tanneries, and other industrial facilities before the thieves split up. Three of the thieves bounded in different directions while another three ran straight through a door of an upstairs porch before the door sealed behind them. Russef tried to follow them but the door appeared to phase out of existence before he could attempt to open it. Thinking quickly, Russef applied a small rectangular panel to the door that acted as an X-ray viewer. Unfortunately the thieves had disappeared by the time he could see through the wall but Russef discovered that this door connected to a vast series of tunnels and passages that ran throughout the lofts and upper levels of buildings in Charmonde. He could not find any way to open the door so he decided to return to the other members of the chase party.
While Russef was busy pursuing those three thieves, Beltigron had managed to apprehend two of the thieves that had attempted to escape. By apprehend I mean grab them in a vice-like grip and pin them beneath him as he launched off of the roof and onto the street below. Beltigron kept the two thieves prone while Scrappa joined him. Together they began interrogating the two thieves and they quickly realised that these mugs were nothing but a distraction. The other thieves who escaped managed to acquire a couple of shin purses from Beltigron and Scrappa and a cypher from both Nova and Russef. A very sticky and smelly Nova joined Beltigron and Scrappa at this point and Russef shouted down from the roof that he couldn’t find any way to get through the door.
Scrappa used his crossbow to liberally apply pressure to one of the thieves and demanded that he let them through the door. The thief stammered and said that he couldn’t let the party through because he didn’t have the access as he was just a low-level thug of the gang. Beltigron asked where they would take the stolen goods and the thief said that they usually sold stuff like that to a fencer called Vicil or “Glass-Hands”. He was a fencer near the riverside and he liked to hang out in one of the local lounges. Scrappa decided to relieve some of his anger by bashing one of the thieves with the butt of his crossbow and he ended up breaking that man’s nose. Beltigron frisked the thief for any valuables of his own and he came across 20 shins in a small coin purse and a glowing blue gemstone. He recognised it as some form of access key that would open another one of the secret phase doors however Beltigron presumed it would not work on the door that the other thieves had escaped through. The party decided to let the thieves go but not before Russef fired a warning shot from his crossbow that skimmed straight past one of the thieves’ ear. The thieves ran a little faster away from the group after that.
While Beltigron, Nova, Russef, and Scrappa chased after the thieves, Ranger, Blaghs, and Phetys were embroiled with a dispute with the suspicious man in the anti-Order of Truth crowd back in the man residential square. The man made a signal with his hand and three other similarly cloaked men arrived to back him up. They declared that they were part of an undercover operation from the city guard to ensure that things did not get out of hand at the rally and, thanks to the party blowing their cover, people were rather agitated. Blaghs decided that he wasn’t going to take this crap and attempted to show off his incredible strength and musculature to intimidate the so-called guard but the guard officers mistook this for an attempt to draw a weapon and Blaghs was slammed and held to the ground.
The city guard officer unveiled a notice that empowered him as an officer of the city guard and that Ranger, Blaghs, and Phetys should stand down. Ranger assumed that this is all a ruse and he kicked the officer solidly in the back of the kneecap and he snatched the notice from him when he reached down to clutch his knee. The notice did indeed denote the man as being an officer of the city guard and they moved to detain both him and Phetys while Blaghs struggled on the ground. Phetys attempted to apply some form of lipstick to his misshapen cyborg features and the officers were quite disturbed by this. He attempted to escape from this situation by making kissing and pouting faces at the guard officers but they just force him to the ground and hold him in a fashion similar to how Blaghs is being restrained.
Ranger managed to diffuse the situation by pretending to be a local city guard who was also undercover. The guards were wary of Ranger, Blaghs, and Phetys however they decided to release them to be on the safe side. Ranger returned the notice to the officer and thoroughly chastised him for disrupting the party’s operation. The officer grumbled under his breath and motioned for the other guards to return to their duties of patrolling the now-dispersing orange cloak crowd. The party then decided to chase after Beltigron, Nova, Russef, and Scrappa and see what happened to them.
Once the party reunited in the industrial district, everyone was brought up to speed and the party agreed to pursue their stolen equipment. They headed down towards the riverside area and they started asking around for a man called Glass-Hands. As they were asking around the area, Blaghs remembered the souvenir that he had acquired for Phetys and he presented a globule of the dark mass that had surrounded Boregal. Blaghs encouraged Phetys to take a bite of it but Phetys declined as he suspected the globule as not being safe to consume.
The party located the lounge where Glass-Hands was said to do business and they were ushered into the backroom where Glass-Hands was enjoying a fairly large synth inhaler that the party presumed contained some form of narcotic. Glass-Hands greeted the party and asked them what they after. He said he had injectors, inhalers, pills, oddities, curios, unmentionables, and everything else. Scrappa asked if he had traded or dealt with anyone who had the items that had been stolen from the party. Glass-Hands was initially evasive, denying that he had ever traded in stolen goods. Blaghs attempted to intimidate him with his impressive musculature but Glass-Hands laughed him, saying that three of his guys were taller and beefier and they would knock the stuffing out of him. Nova managed to convince Glass-Hands to tell them the truth as we were willing to offer recompense or trade to recover our property. Glass-Hands admitted that he had received a few items that matched the description from some associates earlier in the day however he did not say that he knew they were stolen.
Glass-Hands fished a remote activator from his pocket and it was then that the party realised that his hands were not actually made of glass. They were actually some sort of white bug-like carapace and it seemed to be organic in nature. It did not impede his function in any way but his fingers did tend to bend and twist in ways that weren’t natural. Glass-Hands activated a remote and the wall behind the party slid down to reveal a hidden compartment that contained Glass-Hands’ merchandise. Sure enough, the coin purses and the cyphers that were stolen from the party were there. Beltigron’s eye was immediately drawn to a strange looking weapon that seemed similar to the synth staff that the party had acquired from Boregal. He asked Glass-Hands if the party, rather than trading back for their stolen goods could request that artefact weapon instead.
Glass-Hands said that that was a fair trade if they threw in an extra cypher and performed a small job for him in exchange. Glass-Hands produced a small device that emitted puffs of green smoke and Scrappa identified the device as a component of a larger shield array, often used in conjunction with a number of similar devices. Glass-Hands requested that this device be delivered to Akabe, a resident of the upper-class area of the city across the river. He would do it himself but residents of that part of town do not like to associate with him. The party agreed to transport the device although Ranger had strong misgivings about working with an individual as unscrupulous as Glass-Hands.
The sun was beginning to set by the time the party reached the manor of Akabe in the wealthy district of Charmonde. They had passed by the Palace of a Thousand Slaves and the Aseranti University, an institute of study and fascination with technology that closely aligned itself with the Aeon Priests and the Order of Truth. The manor of Akabe was different to the rest of Charmonde: rather than being made using synth materials, it appeared to have been partly grown from a coral-like organism and the structure had been carved out of it. Needless to say, it retained the same marble-white hue as the rest of the city.
Akabe’s manor was not guarded so the party walked up and knocked on the door. A servant girl answered the door and Blaghs, sensing a viable female companion, flexed his muscles and presented himself to her. She was less than impressed and demanded to know what the party was here for. Scrappa said that they were here on behalf of Glass-Hands and the servant girl blanched at hearing that name. She said she would check with the Mistress and return back. It didn’t take much longer than a minute before the servant returned and gestured for the party to follow her into a side room where Mistress Akabe was reclining in a high-backed chair.
Akabe sat up as her visitors entered the room and the party’s eyes were drawn to the small blue stones embedded in her scalp. She was completely bald and had dark skin which created a stark contrast to the lightly glowing stones in her head. She demands to know what Glass-Hands wants and Scrappa presented the small device as a delivery from Glass-Hands to her. She was surprised to see this device and her surprise quickly turned to anger. She said that this device was a fundamental part of the larger shield array that protected Charmonde in case of an attack and Glass-Hands just happened to have one. Scrappa said that they were merely on a job to deliver the item and that the party had no idea how Glass-Hands had come to acquire it.
A slight smile tugged at Akabe’s lips as she surveyed the party. She presented an opportunity to the party: go back to Glass-Hands and find out if he has any more of these devices and find out where he is getting them from. Akabe offered to pay the party for their services and offered her personal thanks and the thanks of the city. Beltigron asked how much she would pay for this and her response was icily cold. She said that she was an advisor to Queen Amalu and she had more power than the party could possibly imagine. Akabe said the party would do this and they would get paid, otherwise they would be imprisoned on charges of stealing the device and threatening the security of Charmonde.
The party agreed to find out more about Glass-Hands and these strange devices lest they be thrown in gaol. Akabe thanked the party for their assistance and she warned them about Glass-Hands’ associates being far more dangerous than he is. The party left Akabe’s manor with the night fully descended upon Charmonde and they resolved to deal with Glass-Hands in the morning. What has the party gotten themselves into? Is Glass-Hands merely a fencer of all and sundry or the tip of a much larger conspiracy against Charmonde? Who were the thieves that stole from the party and how large is their labyrinth of passages? And what is Akabe’s role in all of this? Tune in next time for more Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World.
Awesome write-up, as usual.
Also, posted this last page, but i forgot to organise the next session- how does December 11th sound?
I saw your post. All good on my end. 🙂
I should be fine for the 11th.
Consider it done.
“Blaghs” and “Nova”. Where do they get their ideas for these silly names?
My name was given to me by my mother. Do you have a problem with that?
I actually don’t think I’ve ever laughed as much as I did watching this:
http://i.imgur.com/ESCWFqa.gif
I lol’d.
Ys SEVEN GET!
CC @negativezero
Ys Seven has one of the best moments in the whole series. It’s toward the middle of the game. I won’t spoil beyond saying that Adol is a fucking badass and Crossing Rage is one of the best battle tunes ever.
Just watched the trailer for Ys Vita, looks gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
Will get that after I finish up with bravely.
looks gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
Where’s a good point to start this series?
Everything is self-contained so there isn’t a bad point. Ys Seven and Ys II are my favourites though. I didn’t like Oath in Felghana that much (mainly because of the bosses). Origin is great but repetitive (re-play the same zones as three different characters to get the whole story). Seven is more of an RPG and Celceta is like Seven. VI seemed okay from what I’ve played, but very dated compared to more recent games, where I & II have aged really well.
EDIT: FWIW I’d tried to get into Ys three times before it grabbed me. Once with Seven, once with Oath, once with I & II on PSP, then finally played I & II on PC and it suddenly worked for me. I isn’t that great, but II is amazing.
I <3 Final Bosman
Numenera tumblr has been updated. http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/ 😀
Also, don’t forget that we do have the Spreadsheet. It might be a good idea to keep track of our cypher trading using this. Also @tech_knight I don’t think you’ve been made aware of this before so my apologies for that.
Alright I’ll look into it and update it when I can. Thanks for the heads up
Ha. Got my first message from Climbey this afternoon. Simply said “Climbing?”
Nope! 😛
(because mum’s birthday. Got dinner on. Which I already told her about when she asked on Monday so I’m in the clear)
Well, you really should’ve taken her to meet your folks. Seems to be the thing to do now that you’ve got her number. That or start looking for apartments or looking at colours for the baby’s room.
*retreats to room, bolts door and sticks up Faraday cage wallpaper*
Aw man, I might’ve undone all @transientmind’s progress in one post!
Monster.
You should’ve replied “Climbing!”
I believe the correct response is “ENCHANTMENT!”
Debating whether to head over to EB at midnight or wait until tomorrow.
*puts on tin foil hat* What if they give away your PS4 because they don’t think you want it enough after skipping the midnight launch! D:
Hope they’re prepared for their store to be destroyed by the explosion of tears.
Hello there Isaac.
give em a call to make sure they got the right amount of stock to cover all their preorders.
if (stockcount >= preorders)
{
do nothing;
}
else
{
go to midnight launch;
}
I just told my guildies about the Metro 7 Kickstarter, and they blasted me over the $2000 mark.
I actually feel kind of numb right now.
So many unpublished authors dream about selling a single book. Mine isn’t even published yet, and I’ve already sold at least 50. I don’t even.
AND THERE’S STILL 17 DAYS TO GO O_O
No pressure, but this is the first Kickstarter I’ve backed. It had better live up to expectations. 😉
I HOPE YOU LIKE BEING SCARED
Wait, that sounded like a threat…
Survivor Spoilers (not sure which episode number. The latest one!)
Haha, Tyson. Wasted his immunity. I hope next episode Hayden really lays it on thick with the “why didn’t you believe me” thing. I think it was really smart the way they approached Tyson. Actually seemed pretty plausible that Ciera could be lying to both sides. As soon as he played his idol though I knew Caleb would be going though. Shame, he probably won’t make it back in either.Surprising to see Laura helping Tina in the challenge, too. Would’ve been funny if Vytas copied her and won 😛 Glad that he didn’t though.
Oops, forgot to tag @strange @sughly @greenius @phoenix
…I concur!
Tyson and food is pretty hilarious. Like in an earlier ep where he steals food and convinces the tribe to eat more. This is hugely different to other seasons where everyone acts like they’re on the brink of death 😛PS. it’s ep 11
The way he was just tossing those bones away was hilarious. 😀Was a pretty great ep. Ive been gunning for Ciera all season but she lost me this ep. Why would she ever think it was better to go with Tyson? It makes so much more sense numbers wise even, let alone trust wise, to go with Big Brother dude and Caleb. What is that BB guys name? *shrugs* I like that hes stepping up his game though, hes playing better now than I gave him credit for. Was a good move to go for Ciera, didnt quite pay off, nearly did. But good hes not giving up! Also, awesome move by the moms to get out a bigger player in redemption, real smart. Works hugely in Laura’s favour, and if she gets back in she has Ciera’s vote in the jury now.Edit: wait woops what am I saying, Ciera is still there haha! Ahhhh I need moar coffee.Big Brother dude? You mean Hayden? Why do you call him Big Brother dude? hahaBut yes, it was actually pretty smart of Laura to help Tina now that I think about it. Gets rid of a big redemption challenge threat, giving her a bigger chance of getting back in the game, plus wins Tina AND her daughter over (who will most likely both be in the jury eventually)
Tags because ain’t nobody gonna read this past page @strange @greenius @phoenix
Caus he won big brother! Apparently. Yeah I keep forgetting his name for some reason :/ Ohhhh I didnt think of jury votes for the Vytas thing, but thats true! Not sure Laura would be thinking that far ahead, I think it was more about having less competition in the challenges to get back in. I think despite Tinas good run in the first challenge, Laura will continue to beat her, Laura kills these challenges big time. But still, good point about the votesReally? haha I had no idea. I thought he was just a loved-one. Though I suppose it is possible to be both…Also it’s pretty funny how small of a role Monica is playing lately. She’s basically just no screen time, no screen time, win the challenge, no screen time 😛exactly! haha, I pointed that out too, so hilarious.
I can’t believe anyone would trust Ciera. She voted her mother out, for gods’ sake!Yeah, exactly. I thought she had the right idea last week actually, by buying their confidence and not shaking up her position, but seeing the fallout this week your exactly right. Mind you, she had a good chance there to jump on with Caleb, Hadyn, and Katie. Guaranteed top 4. Idiot!Not jumping on that chance was the stupidest thing ever. And for her to say she didn’t trust them because they’d never played the game before? Who the hell does she think she is? She’s never played before, either! She acts like she’s somehow better and smarter than all the other first-timers and it will be interesting to see how she copes when it all comes crashing down around her.Yah totally agreed
Survivor rant, err, discussion incoming (@sughly @greenius @phoenix):
Urk. Wake up and smell the Tyson, Ciera. You think you’re being smart, but you’re not. Even if Tyson wanted to take you with him and G to the final 3, Monica would probably win immunity so you’d have to go home anyway. 😛Was good they flushed out the idol, and him not telling anyone about that will make them question what else he’s hiding.Will be interesting to see how effective Hayden’s scrambling will be next episode.Reaaaally love Hayden stepping up his game, I want to see him and Caleb take over this shindig and go to the end now. By far my two fave still in. I always liked Caleb as the quiet, smart guy, but Hayden’s proving he’s got determination here. Cmon guyyyyyyys!Why hello there. I do believe I’ll be taking advantage of ThinkGeek’s Black Friday sale…
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/16bc/
It looked pretty great until I noticed http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ee49/
I have a new Xmas wish…
I appreciate what Star Wars is, but I’ve never really loved it.
Return Of The Jedi was my first Sci-Fi or even “adult” movie. My grandmother had it on VHS (bootleg, she had an amazing collection of them numbering in the thousands) and I’d watch the tape every time I went down there, which was once or twice a week.
The tape also had Smokey and The Bandit on it so I have a bizarre love for that movie as well.
Awesome. I had that exact same relationship with Aliens. Except replace grandmother with mother.
And also I lived with her. So… I pretty much never stopped watching it.
The original Star Wars was mine. My dad said to me, “We’ve got this on tape, I actually think you might like it.” I was about seven. Might be the best thing my dad ever did for me! <3
I watched the entire trilogy that day, and learned that
Darth Vader was Luke’s fatherin the same way that cinema-going audiences learned about it in 1980. It was fantastic.It happened for me when they showed the original trilogy (none of the speciel edition carp) on TV… i was only 5 so i stayed up watching the first 30 minutes, then my dad would tape them for me so i could watch them the next day…
I remember having the flu, and ended up watching Episode IV about 5 times that day…
Very similar to this. I would’ve been about 5 or 6 and dad sat me down to watch it on a Saturday.
The next Saturday we watched Empire. And the following Saturday we watched Jedi.
And then a couple of years later, I got a birthday card and in it where tickets to see A New Hope Special Edition on opening night (which was conveniently my actual birthday). Honestly, I still think the best birthday present I ever got. Mum has always said I just sat there grinning the entire time.
So as usual I forgot my rule about not getting excited about anything. Ys Celceta’s CE soundtrack is fucking awful. Absolutely terrible selection of tracks. It’s like they aggressively sought out the worst arrangements of the tracks I like, and additionally tried to stuff in every terrible, terrible vocal arrangement they could find at the same time. Where bad vocal arrangements or bad arrangements in general didn’t exist, they opted not to include those tracks at all.
Profoundly disappointing. This was the main reason I went for the CE in the first place. Feels like a single fan’s Ys mixtape rather than a journey through the best pieces from the series like it was billed. If I’d known how shit XSEED’s music taste was I’d have just got the game digitally and saved a whole pile of cash 🙁
They apparently had access to every official arrangement… 🙁
Yet for example they picked this overblown FF-wannabe arrangement of Termination from Ys Origin instead of the sublime Boss Zanmai version which sounds like the proper one from Ys II.
None of the amazing boss fight music from II is included, it’s all bad arranges of the field music. Didn’t include either the Ys II OR the Origin versions of Overdrive, presumably because it’s too awesome to coexist with such a crap selection.
I like the Ys VI Boss music Mighty Obstacle but why include the standard version when there’s an amazing PC-engine arrangement of it that kicks the ass of the original one?
They’ve got a whole ton of stuff from the three versions of Ys IV but for some reason decided to skip Theme of Adol from Mask of the Sun, which is awesome. Apparently so they could include the shit one from Typing of Ys as if that’s an easter egg or something.
On the upside, they did include the JDK Band Live version of Crossing Rage from Ys Seven so that’s nice. And maybe some of these will grow on me.
Also I haven’t listened to the second CD yet, which is stuff from Ys IV and V. Don’t know V’s music at all.
Ys? Don’t they come before Zs?
In this case I think they come before the Fs 🙂
Is anyone else looking forward to seeing Ender’s Game? The book is one of my favourites, and I can’t wait to see how well it’s adapted to the big screen.
Spoilers:
Probably not well.I saw the trailer, and (sadly) I’m not confident.
Loved the book, but I’m giving this movie a wide berth
It’s Sci Fi,
I’m easily amused
I’ll like it XD
It’s almost PS4 O’Clock
Whoo
*looks at watch*
Stupid thing must be broken, it reads 10:31
It is definitely broken. You made that comment at 11:31
😛
After months of messing about and thinking I could never afford custom work, I finally went to a plastics place and got them to cut the foldaway shelves I’d designed to mount my joystick. After all this time, it cost me $80 for the pair, I could have done it pretty much any time I wanted… Typical but they’re pretty sweet, swing back under the tabletop exactly how hoped they would and are damned nice to use
http://aliasalpha.customer.netspace.net.au/deskwide.JPG
http://aliasalpha.customer.netspace.net.au/deskshelf.JPG
All I need now is TrackIR which I’ll be getting in a few weeks and then I’ll be the best set up shit pilot in wagga!
Nice Rig!
Cheers, funny thing is that the setup is the culmination of 3 years of work, now the motherboard & CPU in the tower are getting old enough where I’m thinking of an upgrade… It’s the neverending cycle
Oculus Rift!
Just Saying…
Looks sweet though, i used to have a similar setup with my Pro-Flight Yoke…
Sadly now, i don’t take the time to use my sims anymore, other then the occasional War Thunder so it’s all neatly* packed away in a cubboard
*not neatly
EDIT – wait you’re from Wagga Wagga? i used to live there \o/
I’ve been really tempted by a Rift but the next time I’m getting any kind of display I want it to be 2560×1440 and even the commercial versions of the rift won’t go that high.
How did you manage to escape Wagga? I’ve tried many times but that big white balloon thing keeps catching me
lol, I managed to score an IT job in Canberra, and now afterwards moved to Melbourne…
Kinda miss Wagga a little though, but that might be because i’m not a huge fun of urban metropolises 😛
I’m mainly in Melbourne at the moment to earn money… not that that’s going particularly well either XD
Surely Canberra doesn’t count as an urban metropolis, it always just felt like a bigger wagga with shops that actually had stuff in them.
pretty much, it was more Melbourne i was referring to 😛
Whoa! Impressive setup! 😀
Okay, I think I’ve found the problem. My housemate does the exact same thing that my dad does that infuriates me to the point it makes me hate him.
The only time she’s ever in the kitchen is when I am. I go in to do something, she’ll come in and try washing up, making something, cooking something, cleaning, whatever. I walk out, go back later to do what I was trying to do, she walks back in and finds something else to do.
NOTHING pisses me off more than this! Getting in the way, breaking my focus, and taking things or space I need/am using is the number one way to make me want to punch you over the head.
Urgh. I know I post about it a lot and I probably should let up a bit, but nobody’s ever made me want to rant as much as she does.
I think you need to learn to gas at will.
Initial thoughts on the PS4 based upon having to carry it (and a bag of game stuff) 2.5 klicks uphill to get home (In the rain (actually there was a bit of spitting), while on fire, chased by muggers and thieves):
The box of the PS4 is a box. It probably has things in it. On top of the box is a handle, but it feels flimsy, so I really wouldn’t recommend carrying it via the handle for long periods of time (and in fact, neither did the guy at EB).
Large plastic bags filled with gamey stuff are really quite painful to hold, as they dig into your hand very hard. Think the grocery walk of shame, but exacerbated due to distance.
Apparently my right hand is more resilient, so it’s better for carrying the bag (take from that what you will), whereas my left arm is stronger, so it’s better for holding the box.
The box was slightly too large to comfortably put a hand under, and be able to rest the corner in the crook of your elbow. This may vary person to person though, particularly given I’m kinda short.
Overall I give this walk a “You’re an idiot” out of “Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?”
Canberra has hills?
Fun fact: Inside the box is another box. Boxception.
Yeah, we need something for our roundabouts to circle. And the options are either ditches, or big-arse hills.
Also, because I feel like it deserves a mention.
My Mother while driving today: “This may sound sexist or something… but I just can’t understand how a woman would ever marry Christopher Pyne, and have four children with him. He just always comes across to me as so… so gay.
I Shudder at the thought of Christopher Pyne being gay. (Not in a good way)
That’s so hurtful!
Thanks for the review – I won’t be getting one now 😛
Went on a man-date with the sisters boyfriend to go and see Catching Fire. I liked it overall, there was just one thing that pissed me off.
Why do the game makers have to be such dicks?! They’re all already trying to kill each other, is poison fog really necessary, followed directly by killer baboons?! C’mooon!!! Give them a bit of a break!!! Seriously!!!Other than that minor gripe, I thought it was good!
Oh, so finally the PS4 saunters over to your part of the world, eh? Fantastic! Now we can play some awesome multiplayer!
Like, uh, Killzone. I hear that’s.. adequate stuff. COD. Battlefield 4, even though, y’know, significantly less polished than it’s PC version. AC4? Do.. people even play multiplayer for that?
….
I hear Resogun has some nice online co-op. 😛
Have you played Assassin’s Creed multiplayer? It’s fucking raaaaaad.
Played the hell out of ACB multi. So good!
Oh man, so excited about PS4. AusPost tracker dealy says it’s at the post office ten minutes away for delivery today. I’m betting it’ll arrive minutes before I have to leave for personal trainer session at gym. *shakes fist* What games did you guys get for it? (Assuming you got one!)
Killzone & Battlefield 4. Might trade in KZ for AC even though I’ve already got it on PC.
Pirate’s Creed and Killzone for me. I can see Pirate’s Creed getting all the attention though.
Upgraded my Pirate’s Creed & Battlefield to ps4 versions, got CoD Ghosts, downloaded Contrast, Resogun, Warframe and War Thunder, not bad, 7 games on day 1. My first impression of the device, it is heavy and quiet.
This seems more relevant today with both
nextcurrent gen consoles out.And yes, it is still funny.
I must have missed it yesterday so;
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So PC’s can barely touch their hands together and have tiny testicles that no longer function?
One thing that infuriates me to no end is the success and popularity of Hunger Games. However to spare everyone a molten, scorning, hatred-filled whining wall of text – I say no more.
Except watch Battle Royale.Hunger games is actually really well written book series and from what i have heard the movies stick pretty closely to the books.
except the last half of the last book, its terrible dont read it.
What happens in the last book? I’m never going to read it, but maybe spoilerise it for others.
Eh, YA novels and their film offspring. There’s always been a particularly low standard for them, even though there’s been the exception in Harry Potter, which quite frankly managed to barely teeter above said standard. That being said, I’ve read through the series, and I’ll sum it all up like this-
1st book- pales in comparison to Battle Royale
2nd book- slightly better, if only because it’s a bit more like battle royale
3rd book- (wait, there’s gonna be two movies for this one?!) Revolution for kids.
I’ll agree with Harry Potter, the third story shined however by the sixth (or seventh?) I was getting pretty weary. In fact, I’m happy to envision Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the only instance – mainly because it involves time travel and I love that.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the movie (although, apparently the second one is pretty damn good) and haven’t read the books but I think they both have their place.
What BR did was not exactly anything new when it did it either.
Yeah, I don’t think people only like Hunger Games because they don’t know Battle Royale exists too.
Ultimately they are targeting different demographics.
BR is very much targeting the adult reader while HG is going for teenagers.
And honestly, anything that is well written (looking at you Twilight) and gets kids to pick up a book and read it is good in my mind.
Plus apparently the popularity of archery has skyrocketed since the books came out.
Plus scifi! Making scifi crowd pleasing is a good thing! 😀
IT’S NOT SCI-FI AT ALL! GATTACA IS SCI-FI!
YOU’RE MAKING ME ANGRY DC!
Gattaca is hard scifi. I likes me hard scifi too.
But… futuristic city scapes, post apocalyptic urban decay districts, advanced technology? This is scifi. 😛
I’ll go with Mad Max 2 mixed with The Devil Wears Prada. Not scifi. 😀
But Mad Max is scifi. I don’t understand! What’s your definition of scifi? Stuff you like? XD
Mad Max is post-apocalypse. Sci-fi involves actual science! Like chemistry and physics and starships and death stars and lasers!
To me science fiction is plausible world building that can be explained through amplifying where we are now. (Either through technology, time frame, concepts somewhat grounded in reality, etc.) It’s weird though, I’ve never had to define what I think scifi is. Just go with my gut feeling. Haha!
@benny, in a literal sense, you are right. But it’s sort of half-generally accepted that sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural, alternative history, and all sorts of not-this-world stories fit within the umbrella of speculative fiction (which in some folks’ vernacular is shortened to sci-fi).
In this particular case, though, the technology in the Hunger Games (mostly to do with the dome) does mark it as a sci-fi story in my mind.
Ugh, speculative fiction as scifi? I concede. In my mind, scifi takes place in space but that’s just my interpretation then, I guess. @shane
What about stuff like Children of Men, benny? That’s scifi in my mind even though there’s no space and it’s based on crumbling of society in the near future.
Children of Men? Post-apocalypse. 😀 @dc
But… it’s a world that’s crumbled as a direct result of biology. Biology is science! Not unlike Gattaca, really. (With a society forever altered by genetic engineering?)
😀
@benny
It’s both.
Source
EDIT: Yay broken tags!
Apocalyptic is a sub genre of scifi. Yeah, it’s about time for me to get off the boat.
You mean like this
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120219172920/thehungergames/images/f/f5/Gamemakersala.jpg
Nah, I mean like this.
Well, admittingly HG treats the whole roman-style gladiator tournament as a setting to Katniss’s insecurity and relationship with Peeta, whereas BR is, about, well, who survives and who dies. Same idea, but completely different tones.
EDIT: Which makes complete sense now that Cakesmith has brought up demographics.
I am smrt.
The movie didn’t really seem to have any real structure to it. It was just like “bad stuff is happening and our society is terrible but Mary Sue here wins and everything is ok or something I don’t know.”
I guess now that the second movie is out the plot will develop now?
I dunno, I think there’s room for both. They’re only similar on the surface.
Battle Royale is my favourite just because I felt like it was written for me 😛 Has everything I love in a story in one amazing package! 😀
Dinosaurs? D:
Well, not everything 😛
(It may shock you to hear this, but the dinosaurs aren’t the main reason I like Jurassic Park :O)
Aw, I pictured you like a little kid clapping your hands every time the dinosaurs come on screen! XD
There is also an element of that, yes…
You mean, uh, you’re not supposed to cheer for the T-Rex?
You kind of are, in a way! Jurassic Park ain’t a monster movie! ;D
One thing that infuriates me to no end is people who get mad because because lots of people like something. Also people who say The Hunger Games is just Battle Royale. Comparing the two does not make you cool, nor does it make you smarter than those who love The Hunger Games. Let people love what appeals to them, and if you think there’s something in the same vein that’s better, then instead of getting mad that what they love is popular, suggest the other thing in addition to what they already love.
I’ve never read the books and only seen the movie of Hunger Games but even I can see it’s very different from Battle Royale. I’m sick of people hating on stuff just because masses of people like it. It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t affect you, so who gives a fuck if every man and their dog like it.
Also, I’m mad at myself I typo’d “because” twice because now I have Wizard of Oz stuff stuck in my head.
“Because, because, because, because.
Because of the wonderful things he does.”
Thanks a lot. Now the only thing I can picture are those horrific adult baby munchkins in the flowers 🙁
Mrs Shane noticed they were adults for the first time just a couple of months ago. Years of cooing suddenly turned to lifelong trauma 😛
To be honest, the success of things like Fifty Shades and Twilight do get under my collar a bit. Call it professional jealousy, I guess. I’ve tried reading both, and put them down because (in my sole opinion) the sentence structure, repetitive language, and grammar was all so bad that I just couldn’t continue.
If you look at the commercial success of something, and then imagine that as money diverted from more deserving fiction, then a little aggravation is kind of understandable. Something I learned way back in the Firefly/Farscape days.
(Though your point is well-taken also, that these things are largely a matter of personal preference, and any rage should be bottled up inside)
In this case, though, I’ve read the first Hunger Games book and thought it was reasonably well-written, so I begrudge it nothing.
You want poorly written sentence structures, language and grammar?
Check out J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.
I don’t see it as “money diverted from more deserving fiction”, though. The people who obsessed over Twilight were never going to be that obsessed about, for instance The Lesser Evil. And if something like Twilight encouraged people to read who otherwise weren’t that big into reading, then they probably went on after reading Twilight to other perhaps “more deserving” books in search of something else that appealed to them in the same way. It’s entry-level fiction, hopefully paving the way for a lifetime of reading “more deserving fiction.”
All good points, and I hope the truth is like that, but I still believe that within the young adult genre, there’s some very high quality book (that would be a far higher-quality entry-level book) struggling to get noticed, or maybe even remaining unpublished, because all the marketing dollars happened to go to Twilight.
I wonder if anyone’s done a study analysing what folks who have been “brought back to reading” by books like this read next, or whether they actually stick with reading? That would be a really interesting study.
Edit: for the record, I was never suggesting that I could’ve landed Twilight’s audience if not for Twilight 😛
Re your edit: I know, I just had trouble thinking of a different example for “more deserving”. 😀
But yeah, these are the same issues facing every industry that relies on publishing. Games, music, movies, etc.
Agreed!
And to backflip and actually use myself as an example, I don’t mind having to work harder for my (planned) future successes because I think the struggle improves the quality of my work… but I still can’t help the twinge of jealousy when I see sales figures for things like Twilight and Fifty Shades.
I did suggest the other thing and I also spared everyone the whining wall of text.
No hatred. 😀
I pretty much agree with you but I reserve the right to continue disliking Avatar because I really like the Timothy Zahn novel Manta’s Gift and Avatar is 100% exactly the same story except “tall blue people” instead of “flying manta rays”.
I don’t care about the vague comparisons to Fern Gully and Pocahontas, I just want to raise Manta’s Gift awareness because it’s a pretty good book and no one has read it.
I thought Avatar was 100% the same as Aliens? Or was is Titanic?
Some general criticisms of Hunger Games movies:
*I don’t know what the world looks like. Yes, grey districts and big bright shining lights in the Capitol. But I still don’t get it and can’t picture it. It seems all a little too abstract to me. I can’t think of any other sci-fi where this happens. Maybe it’s just me though.
*Some of the dialogue is horrendous. “Whats your favourite colour?”, urgh.
*This whole Katniss as a symbol of hope thing gives me a headache. The way they constantly try to drill this in gets really annoying after the tenth time. Also, it doesn’t really make much sense. Gladiator defying an emperor made sense, this doesn’t.
*This movie series has made me hate Jennifer Lawrence. She looks a little too well fed for someone from a starving district, there’s no real emotion in her and the character has shown no real development apart from “scared to not quite as scared”.
Blue. No, yel…
*Gets thrown over the edge*
Why people compare to two I can understand, but don’t get.
One is the story of a distopian post apocalyptic civilisation proficient in the use military force to keep the lower caste down to ensure the bread and circuses required to ensure those in power remain so. The circus in this case involves you people competing in a fight to the death. The primary focus is on the power struggle, which develops more and more as the story continues.
The other is much more focused on the game itself and is about violence in youth in the modern day. It also has children fighting to the death. The core concepts and message so to speak are vastly different.
It’s mainly the children fighting to the death part.
Well if that’s the only criteria for a ripoff then my basement would truly horrify you.
Just kidding.
I don’t have a basement.
I think I am essentially done with my course now.
How terrifying.
Hi 5 magic fingers. 😀
Hello.
Has anyone actually tried Outlast?
I am in the mood for something horror, and contemplating picking this up on steam.
Thoughts?
You should play Scratches first! Slow burn horror!
I believe @f4ction has.
Nope
i have, it’s kinda jump scarey, but still pretty creepy at some points.
It’s not technically out yet (though there is a demo that lasts about half an hour) but this kickstarter is looking pretty horrific
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bischoff/stasis-2d-isometric-scifi-horror-adventure-game?
in the good way that is.
I’d play the crap out of that!
DEAR FRIDAY TAY
Speaking of crowd-pleasing sci-fi, I would like to remind you that The Lesser Evil (Kindle edition) goes on sale for 99 cents tomorrow. 358 pages of crowd-pleasing sci-fi for less than a dollar… that’s a winning ticket right there!
http://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Evil-Omnibus-Graphic-Novel-ebook/dp/B00EG3X5C2/
I ask you to support this sale by buying a copy for every single person that you care about. If you don’t buy, you obviously don’t care.
I feel bad that I’m anticipating the weekend sale.
Yep, because I posted it here, hoping that people would ignore it! 😛
Edit: also, how dare you be excited about my work? Don’t you know how that makes me feel!
Answer: pretty damn awesomeSome cheap arse like myself, holding off spending more than a dollar on probably a brilliant piece of work, holding off spending a dollar on a friend. It really brings a tear to my eye.
The sequel is still full-price! Your conscience can be saved! 😛
If we’re doing Shameless Plugs: Adelaide Fringe!
Wolf Creek the musical at the Adelaide Fringe- limited season: http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/wolf-creek-the-musical/e23170ac-80ed-4b5e-9cf4-f7ffe200f402
“It’s a hysterically morbid, delightfully amateur and breath-taking spoof of the Greg McLean Australian horror film, Wolf Creek.”- Crikey
Also:
Angus Hodge: Finding My Rose-Coloured Glasses
http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/angus-hodge-finding-my-rose-coloured-glasses/508dc1ec-d63e-4587-8df1-005d68f838c5
‘The man…’ -Guardian.co.uk
‘…Andrew Hodge’ -Rip it Up
SHAMELESS PLUG
*drops monocle*
Well now I want to see it just to find out what “delightfully amateur” means.
Here’s the melbourne cast pic (my brother in the judge wig): http://www.andrewtaylormanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Wolf-Creek-Musical-General-Cast-Shot2.jpg
Amateur in it’s deliberately like a primary school musical
Love the number plate
Huh. Someone across the aisle from me is looking at Steam sales. Apparently Dementium II got ported to PC?? But it’s listed there as being by Memetic Games, not Renegade Kid. Weird.
Also I still gotta import that. Stupid games not getting released here.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaMXTehCcAEgjKK.jpg
PS4! PS4! PS4!
Stock photo. User experience may differ.
Also, I’m totally picturing you as the Nintendo 64 kid right now.
When the courier arrived at the door I did run faster than I ever have before!
…Towards, or away?
I ran towards people! Towards! What madness is this?
All that Gym.
I’ve got to go there now and then go to the store to buy games. I’m thinking of saving time by not changing when I go to the store and be disgusting and sweaty. XD
Manly musk.
EB Girl will love it.
Eh, atleast I”ll be living up to the sweaty nerd stereotype. XD
Definitely. The sales clerk will think, “Look at this gym-bro walking into my store. Oh look, he’s walking over to the PS4 games, I bet he’s going to buy Fifa Sportsball Simulator 2014, since he is clearly a sporting gentleman.”
What a guy-mm?
I didn’t realise until i reached the car after the midnight launch that I’d left everyone behind, I walk fast when I’m not excited so i was waaay ahead of them 😛
PS4 bros! Can be the new thing we bond over now that Boardwalk Empire is over!
Oh, that’s the game coming out on WiiU tomorrow right?
I read that as “punching you”
Right in the face.
Bleh, starting to get pissed off with how things are happening at work. Warning bitching & moaning in the spoilers.
Not only have they told me I don’t have a job they have been about as unhelpful and unorganised as anyone could be. I was supposed to get told how long I will be working last week. Nope, heard nothing. They finally got in contact with me saying on Monday saying “We are going to send someone from P/C (people and capability) to sit down and talk about this one on one”. About Wednesday I got an email saying that they won’t be sending anyone and I will get a letter instead and it should arrive tomorrow (Thursday). Well, it’s Friday now and nothing. No word from anyone. None of my supervisors have any idea what’s going on. To be honest losing my job wasn’t too bad of a deal, I got over it.I’m just sick of everyone in my company dragging their heels and pushing back dates. No that’s great I can put my entire freaking life on hold while you guy figure that shit out. It’s cool, not like it’s my life or anything.Burn it down.
#Helping
🙁 *hugasaurus*
On the plus side, you’ve got a job until they show you the door. Which sounds like it could be a while!
I honestly think leaving ASAP is a better option. This whole thing is starting to affect my day to day life. Feeling too deflated / sad to do anything, also everyone is just so down or angry at work. Not a very healthy environment.
Make sure you don’t lose out on your severance payment. That’s the only only only perk of being made redundant.
Resignation might cost you that. You want to make sure that leaving is worth that money!
Yeah, I’m not leaving until they tell me.
*Big Hugs*
If it make you feel any better, I’m pretty sure you’ll forget a lot of this after the 14th.
Haha, I’m banking on that. =)
Did you get retrenched? I hope they’re not trying to trick you into just walking out the door so they can withhold your redundancy package.
Edit: sorry just saw Shane’s post where he already covered this.
Im just gonna say that from what you have said your work sounds like a mob of
cuntslike this time in your life is pretty traumatising and the least they could do is have a bit of respect for how that affects you.Hugs man, i know it doesnt make anything better but you know myself, @blaghman and @f4ction consider you as one of our best friends. If you need anything from a place to stay or some idiot to yell at you know where i am.
JAPAN GROUP TOUR – MAR/APR 2015
Yep thats right people, I have received a fantastic quote from one of my suppliers, and I present it to you now. We’ve got hotels, we’ve got trains, we’ve got sightseeing, we’ve got free time, we’ve got food. Something for everyone 🙂
Spoilered for wall of text, but EVERYONE should be reading this 🙂
Itinerary:
Day 1 – 21st March 2015 – Arrive Osaka
Upon arrival into Osaka airport you will be met and transferred by private coach to your accommodation for check in
Day 2 – 22nd March 2015 – Osaka
This morning visit Osaka Castle & enjoy a cruise on Osaka River. This afternoon we will be attending the (hopefully, depending on schedule) Final Day and Closing Ceremony of Osaka’s Annual Sumo Tournament. The afternoon of the final day is when the best competitors and the most important bouts take place.
Day 3 – 23rd March 2015 – Osaka
Full Day at leisure
Start of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 4 – 24th March 2015 – Osaka-Hiroshima
Today make your way to Osaka train station to catch the bullet train to Himeji. Tour of Himeji Castle with English speaking guide. After the tour, and some time for lunch, we will catch the bullet train to Hiroshima. On arrival into Hiroshima make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 5 – 25th March 2015 – Hiroshima
This morning you will take a short tram trip to the edge of the Seto Sea. Here, board a ferry for the ten-minute passage to Miyajima Island. This tranquil island is home to Itsukushima Shrine, partly comprised of an offshore red ‘torii’ gate – one of Japan’s most famous and photographed sites. In ancient times access to holy Miyajima Island was through this ‘floating’ gate; you will arrive more conventionally, gliding into the ferry terminal. Take some free time to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of this pretty island, mingle with the wild deer, and sample some Japanese snack food. Take this opportunity to try a traditional okonomiyaki pancake lunch before departing this unique setting and re-board the a direct ferry for the trip back to the mainland to the Peace Memorial Museum, dedicated to the events of 1945 and the aim of a war-free world. A visit to this exceptional museum is a sobering, yet educational experience. You will also see the famous Peace Memorial Park and a poignant cenotaph inscribed with all the known victims of the Hiroshima bomb, and the eerie A-Bomb Dome, a tragic city-symbol, left standing in a ruinous state after more than 60 years. In the evening, explore Hiroshima, a truly ‘reinvented’ city.
Day 6 – 26th March 2015 – Hiroshima-Kyoto
Today make your way to Hiroshima train station to catch the bullet train to Kyoto. On arrival into Kyoto make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 7 – 27th March 2015 – Kyoto
Spend a delightful morning walking through the streets of Kyoto where you will discover some of the lovely temples and shrines in this ancient city. Begin at JR Kyoto station at 1.45pm and take a bus to Higashiyama, for an exploration of the beautiful Kiyomizu temple, with a panoramic view of Kyoto. Walking down Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka streets uncovers quaint shops in traditional Japanese buildings, and this walk has been described as one of the prettiest in Kyoto. Stop at tranquil Kodaiji temple, surrounded by formal gardens, and then continue on to Yasaka shrine, a Shinto shrine in the Gion district. Roam the Gion district, with traditional restaurants and tea houses (ochaya), and maybe spot a geisha scurrying along one of the many alleyways to her next performance.
Day 8 – 28th March 2015 – Kyoto
Today is a full day at leisure. Spend a day exploring the many sights and sound of Kyoto, or possibly take a day trip to Nara, famous for its parkland, wild deer and temples. Visit stunning Todaiji Temple, made without the use of a single nail, and the shelter of a massive bronze Buddha. Also see the smaller yet equally beautiful 8th century Kasuga Shrine. The entrance is lined by stone lanterns, creating an atmospheric approach. Spend some time mingling with Nara’s free-roaming deer, before your return to Kyoto.
Day 9 – 29th March 2015 – Kyoto-Takayama
Today make your way to Kyoto train station to catch the bullet train to Takayama. On arrival into Takayama make your way to your accommodation for check in.
End of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 10 – 30th March 2015 – Takayama
This morning set out on a walking tour of some of Takayama’s main attractions. As an introduction, visit the Festival Floats Exhibition Hall, home to colourful floats which come out annually during one of Japan’s most famous festivals. You will also visit Takayama Jinya, formerly a government building and home to some wonderful insights into Japan’s past. Your walking tour will include a stroll past some beautifully preserved wooden houses on Kami Sannomachi Street and a venture past some enticing sake rice wine breweries. This evening, continue your encounters with Takayama’s friendly inhabitants and explore the local eating options.
Day 11 – 31st March 2015 – Takayama-Hakone
Late morning you will leave your hotel and travel by coach to Hakone. This picturesque town is famous for its proximity to imposing Mount Fuji, a symbol of Japan and the highest mountain in the country. Before checking-in to your Japanese-style hotel you will enjoy a short boat trip on peaceful Lake Ashino, and an exciting cable car ascent (weather permitting) to the top of Mount Komagatake for majestic views of Japan’s most loved and famous geographic landmark. After a sumptuous Japanese dinner, you will sleep tonight in an atmospheric tatami-floored room, on a futon mattress.
Day 12 – 1st April 2015 – Hakone-Tokyo
This morning you will travel the short distance by private coach to Tokyo. This afternoon is at leisure
Day 13 – 2nd April 2015 – Tokyo
Following breakfast meet in the reception area of your hotel for a tour briefing before embarking on your exploration of the city. Today you will explore some of the city’s highlights on a carefully created tour. You will begin with a short walk to nearby Hama Rikyu Garden, dating to 1654 and once the private respite of the Tokugawa Shogun. After a stroll through this tranquil garden, after which you board a boat (shared service) for a cruise on Tokyo’s Sumida River. This short trip will take you past the headquarters of some of Japan’s most famous companies and will end near bustling Asakajusa Temple, the oldest and most beloved temple in Tokyo. Here, be introduced to the influences of Buddhism and Shintoism on Japanese culture. Around mid-day, travel to serene Meiji Jingu shrine and Harajuku. Here, mingle with youngsters dressed to the hilt in colourful cult fashions. Later, take in mesmerising sky scraper views of Japan’s major city from Tokyo Tower. Towards the end of the afternoon, return to your hotel by train and foot.
Day 14 – 3rd April 2015 – Depart Tokyo
At proper time you will catch the airport transfer vehicle to Narita airport for your onward flight
Hotels and Inclusions
Osaka – Mitsui Garden Hotel YodoyabashiHiroshima – Mitsui Garden Hiroshima
Kyoto – Mitsui Garden Kyoto Sanjo
Takayama – Green Hotel Takayama (ryokan)
Hakone – Hakone Yumoto Hotel (ryokan)
Tokyo – Park Hotel Tokyo
Holiday Price Includes:
All Accommodation
Breakfast Every day, Dinner in Hakone
Transportation and touring as per the itinerary with entrance fees
7 day JR pass
1 Local English speaking guide on touring days
Exclusions:
AirfaresVisa if necessary (If travelling on an Australian Passport, a Visa is not required)
Meals not listed above
Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, drinks, tips…)
Travel insurance (Possession of adequate travel insurance is a compulsory condition of travelling with Travel Indochina)
And all this comes to the price of….
$3,897.00 per person twin share or$4,461.00 per person single room
There you have it folks. If you really did read through everything, you have my thanks. Feel free to send praise, hurl fruit or anything in between as your reaction dictates. If I can start to get a list of people who are genuinely interested in coming, feel free to respond below or email me at peter(dot)orange(at)harveyworld(dot)com(dot)au
I will be talking with my manager when he returns from a trip next week (I think), in regards to how much the deposit is (It will probably be on the order of about $500 per person). If I can go to him and say I already have X number of people ready to deposit, that would be fantastic.
Thanks again everyone
Tags of people who have shown interest before: @jocon @negativezero @sughly @transientmind @freezespreston @coldcamv @rize @ontargett @dkzeitgeist @rocketman
PS Fingers crossed I haven’t screwed up any tags
Hmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
You know you want to…
Think of it as a way to really get to know Climbey or Sketchbook in the caring and totally supportive environment of your fellow TAYbies 😀
Heh. Well, I did just go over there at the start of the year (as did Sketchbook, weirdly enough), and Climbey’s planning on going there in a few months I think 😛
Well its still going to be while before this heads off… plenty of time to let the memories fade a bit before going again 😀
Yeah, and for money to (hopefully) reappear 😛 I swear I’m still trying to get back to where I was before the last trip…
Roughly how much would the Exclusions add to that cost? (I’m not coming but I’m curious anyway :P)
Flights would be between $1200 to $1600 depending when you book.
Insurance would be a few hundred
Meals and such would be approx the same price as here, probably a bit cheaper.
I showed interest 🙁
Why so much hat Nova? Why?
I guess my only question is when would the deposit have to be paid?
It’s a bad time of year for me to just hand over $500 😛
I’m sorry /o\
@cakesmith @cakesmith @cakesmith @cakesmith @cakesmith @cakesmith
Deposit can be paid whenever you can, but it would be dependant on their still being room in the group. We will probably be running with a maximum of around 20 people or so. Once the space is gone, we won’t be able to get any one else on. I will have to confirm what the max group size will be
Cool.
I’m a 90% yes. Like a few other people I need to do some budget calculating first 😛
I think I’ll need to start a hell of a lot of calculating and budgeting to see if I can go. I’m keen as the commander, though!
EDIT: I mean, putting away roughly $280 a month would get me well above $5000 minimum (personally set goal), but I have a hell of a lot of new and upcoming bills 😛
Myself and wifey are keen and we can afford it so put two down as in.
Question: no way of tying some airfares in as a cheaper package?
I am confirming this with my supplier but generally to get a group airfare rate everyone would need to be leaving from the same city on the same flights. And in all likelyhood, the extra cost of getting to SYD/MEL/BNE will offset whatever discount the group rate would have been
One thing I should mention… If you are travelling by yourself, you can still pay the twin share price and we will match you up with another single traveller in the same room. If there is no other single travellers, you get your own room at no extra cost
ALSO – it is possible to extend with extra nights in Osaka or Tokyo before/after these dates at an extra cost if you would like more time to explore either city. I am considering staying an extra night or 2 in Tokyo since I have never been there. This is also part of the reason why a group flight rate probably won’t work (@freezespreston)
I’m definitely in, though not sure if I’d be single or twin yet. Mainly not sure if I can share with a random. 😛
I’d probably opt to stay an extra day or two as well, if only to spend some time in Akiba raiding the retro games stores like Super Potato. Probably would use the spare time in Osaka to do the same in DenDen Town.
If possible I’d try and pair you off with another TAYbie if that helps, depending on who’s travelling solo 🙂
Don’t have confirmed prices on extra nights yet, but I will get back to you on it 🙂
Would love to, but no money =P Maybe in the future.
Aww, thats a shame. Would have been great to have you along. Though if you win the lotto, I will expect an email 😛
It is in the future.
At the moment I can afford one person haha, that’s not including airfares, gonna need to work and save for quite awhile for this but sounds amazing
I’m down with that.
Pretty sure my mate will be as well but I’ll get him this info and come back with a 100% soon.
Another day in Tokyo could be cool. Not sure what I would do though.
How many people do you have on the list so far? Just the Taybies tagged?
So far only Freeze, Mrs Freeze and NegZero are confirmed. Cakesmith is almost confirmed. Rize, Gooky and ColdCamV are all doing some budgeting but are keen. Haven’t thrown it out to the general public yet, though I have put it up on facebook. Actually, Hellscream sounds very keen too
Well put me as confirmed, I’ll get back to you about my mate.
Also, do you happen to know any good resources for learning Japanese?
My old high school teacher? 😛
Not really. I took it through my HSC but haven’t done anything since.
No worries.
Also lock in my mate Scott as confirmed.
Primus Tickets get 😀
Looks like I’ll be in Sydney late January
No Primus fans then i take it….. for shame 😛
Hey, I upvoted you! 😛
and you deserve a prize for being awesome :D.
Edit:Actually pretty surprised that aside from you no one cares, thought they’d have a couple fans on here for sure
If that’s some sort of weird abbreviation for Optimus Prime then yes.
O_O I know it’s a joke but i really hope you actually know who they are, Les Claypool is a freakin legend
Negatory =D
I think I know that name though. Worked on the soundtrack for Mushroom Men or something, and it was friggen awesome. Third most favourite soundtrack on the Wii after de Blob and HotD Overkill.
Also I remember some friends always going on about “Clay Claypool” at some stage years ago. I have no idea what it is or what it’s related to but I always end up thinking of that whenever I see his name.
best known for doing the South Park theme song nowadays I guess. Definately not for everyone and i have no idea what your music tastes are but I’d recommend them
…kids these days. 😛
Old people these days 😛
ha, that exact phrase went through my head when I read that. 😀
So I Started playing my latest boardgame purchase last night.
The Witches – A Discworld Game.
It’s been done by the same guy who did Ankh Morpork and is more of a look at what a witch is 🙂
Because everyone hats me and wasnt at home last night, I played on my own in the Solitare version – It was really quite Simple, once I read the rules.
Really nice game to play, even on your own.
If you know someone who’s a discworld fan? I suggest you get it for them for christmas 🙂
I have Thud, which is good fun.
Played a prototype of this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1596036277/spiders?ref=live last night.
Needs work.
I played Thud with a friend once. I don’t remember it very well but I think I had fun with it.
That sounds interesting. I quite like the witches in the Discworld-verse, but I tend to find the books Pratchett writes for them kind of uninteresting.
Have you read the Tiffany Aching series?
NAC MAC FEEGLE \o/
First book series that had me laughing out loud…
CRIVENS!
In the game I played last night, the Nac Mac Feegles were causing trouble in Lancre Town which resulted in a Broken Limb needing to be fixed 😀
… i want that game!
http://www.gamesparadise.com.au/catalogsearch/result/?q=discworld
Cheaper at ozgameshop: http://www.ozgameshop.com/strategy-board-games/the-witches
DAMMIT PEOPLE I’M NOT MEANT TO BE SPENDING MONEY! 😛
I shall wear midnight is possibly the darkest thing Pratchett has ever written. Also one of his best.
Yup… in contrast the Wee Free Men is probably one of the most light hearted reads i’ve had from him 😛
I Was about to ask this too 🙂
I’ve read I think the first three in that series, are there more. I enjoyed them more than I had the other witch books but I wasn’t totally sold on them. I did enjoy seeing Tiffany develop into a talented witch instead of having the Feegles sort of cover for her, but I don’t remember a whole lot about the story. I know the last one I read had some incredibly dark stuff in there, surprising for books aimed at younger people.
I shall wear midnight is the last one
Then I’ve read all of them. I Shall Wear Midnight was very good from what I recall, though I still think Night Watch is Pratchett’s best work to date.
Yeah, Night Watch is certainly one of my favourites.
Shit, now you’ve got me thinking about what my top 5 DW novels would be.
Night Watch
Jingo
Thief of Time
I Shall Wear Midnight
Guards! Guards!
Honorable Mention to Interesting Times for being the first one I ever read and getting me interested in the series in the first place.
@kermitron
if you twist my arm:
Night Watch
The Truth
The Fifth Elephant
Small Gods
Mort
Hon Mentions to Going Postal, ISWM and Thief of Time
You could come play The Witches tomorrow.
I have the game and Chris is going to come over with his collector’s edition figures.
I finally played HANABI last night too. Good fun
ALL THE PEWTER!!!
@negativezero So you know how you told me to avoid Kantai Collection if I wanted any semblance of free time? Guess who’s not good at listening to people. 😛
I must have lucked out with the lottery as I got on to a server with absolutely no wait or any fuss. The first ten minutes I was scratching my head and flicking back to the wiki constantly (seriously, that thing is a lifesaver). I picked the Fubuki starter as I had no idea how to select any of the other ones.I played it for about two hours until I ran out of ammunition. I’m currently running three light cruisers (Tenryuu as my flagship, Natori, and Naka) and three destroyers (Fubuki, Wakaba, and Murasame) and I just got to World 1-3. I haven’t lost a ship yet and the RNG Gods appear to be kind to me so far.
I’m really enjoying it although I still mostly have no idea what I’m doing. I ended up blitzing World 1-2 with line ahead formation the whole way and only one ship got hit with a fairly small amount of damage. \o/
I’m going to try and follow the wiki construction formula and build a carrier when I next get the chance to play. Hopefully that works.
TLDR: I have barely any idea what I’m doing but it’s got its hooks in me good.
Some tips:
– Try the Double Line formation. It’s slightly less of a power bonus, but in return you get a defense bonus. It should be the formation you use when you don’t know what formation to use.
– Your ships will never sink unless you push ahead to another node or try and field them when they have moderate (orange) or heavy (red) damage or they are fatigued. Check in the fleet formation page, you don’t want to field any ships which have an Orange or Red face on them (this means they are tired) as they hit less often and less hard, take more damage and can be sunk.
– Your flagship can never sink. She gets an XP bonus for the round which is useful if you’re leveling toward a remodel goal or something. MVP also gets a bonus. MVP + Flagship bonuses stack.
– Do the PVP once you unlock it – the Green option under Sortie. It resets twice per day, you get six fights per day. One of the fleets you have an option to fight will always be super high XP. You take no permanent damage (everyone heals back to where they were before the practice match) and there is no initial sortie fatigue penalty, You get XP even if you lose, and the XP against a level 90+ admiral fielding ships in the level 60-70 range will net you about the equivalent of 5-6 times what you’d get in a single sortie. Only downside is you don’t get drops.
– Don’t bother trying to construct equipment until at least HQ level 10, you’ll usually fail. Only do enough for the daily quests.
– Do the quests! Seriously. You’ve already got six ships so you should be able to do the quest that requires you to fill out the first fleet. Do this quest ASAP because it unlocks the second fleet and expeditions. Third Fleet will take much longer (you need Naka, Sendai and Jintsu. I can’t stop getting them now, but it took me *ages* to get Sendai). Personally I still haven’t gotten the Fourth Fleet because you need all the Myoukou-class cruisers (I get heaps of everything but Myoukou) and then all four Kongo-class.
– Another reason to do the quests: quest to re-clear 1-2’s boss after clearing it the first time rewards DD Miyuki. Quest to deploy a light cruiser & 3 destroyers rewards Tenryuu’s sister-ship Tatsuta. Doing the quests to unlock 2nd fleet, getting a carrier and putting her in that fleet, then sinking an enemy Carrier will give you Akagi for free. She’ll chew through your resources early on but it’s nice to have a Fleet Carrier.
– At early HQ levels you have a higher chance of actually getting rare ships from building, though I think once you’ve got one or two it drops off. I got Hiryuu off my first Carrier build and she’s probably my most consistently awesome ship.
Unrelatedly, when I played last night I had another crack at building a BB and the RNG has finally stopped trolling me, because I built Hyuuga. So now I have the two extra battleships I wanted. I also finally built Kinugasa, who I needed for a couple of composition quests. Also got Choukai to 25 and remodeled, plus both Ise and Hyuuga to their level 10 remodels. Operating those two plus Fusou and Yamashiro, Hiryuu and Akagi together eats my resources like crazy, but the initial action is insane. Every ship launches planes. I’m going to level Ise & Hyuuga a bit more then have another crack at 2-4, really want to push through it.
Yeah I’ve cleared a few quests and unlocked the second fleet and expeditions so I’ve got a few spare destroyers acquiring resources. I don’t think I’ve unlocked PvP just yet but I’ll get right on that. I noticed the quest for Tenryuu and her sister ship so I’ll try and get that done asap.
RNG and construction hasn’t been too bad. I got Tenryuu on about my fourth construction and both Naka and Natori were drops in 1-2. I end up getting three separate Wakaba and a bunch of other little destroyers but it’s still early days yet. I want to get a light carrier soon so I can start attempting the harder areas.
Funny thing, I was so confused by the continue/don’t continue options after sorties and the day combat phases (seriously, why did they decide to switch the position of the continue option for those two circumstances). I went into a night fight with one of destroyers on 4 HP and luckily I survived.
Yeah I’ve been defaulting to Double Line but I decided to chance it and go Line Ahead for the 1-2 boss and came out pretty unscathed. It felt pretty good.
Thanks for the tips Neg. And thanks for introducing me to the game. 😀
1-2 boss is IIRC a heavy cruiser so you’re not completely outclassed. 1-3 has a battleship boss and she can be quite hard to beat down with just destroyers, but I think by the time I was looking at 1-3 and 1-4 I’d built Yamashiro and Shouhou.
Another tip, arm your ships with a second red cannon. Might even be worth stripping cannons off ships you’re not using to boost the ones you are early on. The extra cannons will increase their firepower stat (increases crit chance as well) and in a night fight, if they have two cannons they’ll fire twice. There’s a higher crit chance at night so two hits often makes a difference.
Once you’re established you should have a look at some of the lists to see which of the ships are the best to concentrate on leveling. Eg if you pick up Isuzu early, you absolutely should put her into your fleet. Only a light cruiser but she remodels very early (level 12) and her remodel version has an Air Radar which is a rare, hard-to-get piece of equipment that gives the fleet a big Anti-Air bonus.
Also if you get any of them, Hibiki, Yuudachi, Shigure are all common Destroyer drops that have multiple remodel phases and at the top end remodel they can hit like heavy cruisers.
What I do is whenever I get a new ship I immediately go in and ‘heart’ them which prevents them ever from being used as modernization materials or scrapped. Then I know anything I don’t have a heart on that’s at level 1 is free to be used for modernizing my other ships.
Dark Souls question:
is the Prepare to Die content worth buying the game again for $10 on steam?
edit: cc @shane & @strange & @anyoneelsewhomighthaveanopinion
YES! download DSfix as well though
and use a gamepad… but then YES!
EDIT – Oh wait, i don’t know what’s different with the Prepare to Die Edition… IGNORE ME
well, thats sorted.
thanks Mr Pixel.
Edit: oh, in that case, its not sorted. DAMN YOU, MR PIXEL.
You already bought it between the edit didn’t you? 😛
maybe…
HAHAH! see i can see the future…
Yeah!
Considering the price for that DLC is just under $20 on PSN, then yes.
From all accounts(I haven’t got to a point where I can do the extra stuff yet) the new areas and bosses are rather good.
It’s pretty good. It’s the equivalent of three or four new areas to explore, and the boss fights are challenging and very, very cool. It’s also got quite a bit of interesting lore and new aspects to the overall story, if that’s your thing. Also, some decent new weapons, boss souls, and spells to acquire.
It’s not necessary to the overall game, and I only played through it once, but I’d still recommend it.
thanks Shane & @strange.
I’ll be preparing to die tonight.
Even though it’s a bad port, the PC version is the best version of the game. DSFix helps and there are texture mods and whatnot to improve things too.
The DLC you get in Prepare to Die is a little hard to get into.
You have to kill the Hydra in the Darkroot Basin and then kill the golden crystal golem that will spawn nearby to free an NPC. After you do that, you have to kill the blue crystal golem in the Duke’s Archives to get the Broken Pendent. With that, you can access the portal to the DLC which is where you freed that NPC (you can also pick up her clothes from behind the portal, which includes a pretty, pretty dress).Once you’re there, you get access to some of the toughest bosses in the game, some of the most powerful magic in the game (Dark Bead is super balanced, I swear) and one of the best NPC interactions.
Even if you don’t do the DLC content, picking the game up on PC is worthwhile if you plan on playing it again.
I did this (finished it on PS3, rebought on Steam) and I’m assuming I would never do anything foolish.
Have not actually got to any of the DLC content yet.
Steam Sale question – I’m a big fan of Schafer et al and have ummmed and ahhhed about Brutal Legend for a while. Is it worth it? It’s only $5 on at the moment.
EDIT: Thank you all, purchased and will be installed when I get home tonight.
It’s worth it if you love classic metal and are going into it expecting a strategy game, not an action game like the demo made it appear.
I’m not going to lie that demo… I don’t want to call it a bait & switch but I can’t think of another term, that was the reason I didn’t back his kickstarter. Never been so let down by an otherwise excellent game. Hell, it as so damned good up until that point it managed to make jack black borderline tolerable which is a minor miracle considering how much I loathe him
I enjoyed it. It’s far from a perfect game, but it’s got a good sense of humour, and some of the ideas are great. It’s an ambitious genre-mashing game that didn’t get enough love, IMO. For $5 I’d say go for it. That’s what I paid for it and didn’t regret it.
If you’ve never played it it’s definitely worth checking out – the story is great and I just love it’s style. It mostly plays like a third person beat ’em up and works well. The downside is the main story/boss battles which are played like a real-time strategy and don’t work well from the third person perspective. They’re fairly straightforward but can be frustrating. I honestly recommend using a walkthrough just to get through them. I think there’s only 3-5 of them so it’s not that big a deal.
The gameplay is ok, but the world, the humour, the writing, the voice acting is all fantastic.
EDIT: Put it this way, if you like classic metal it’s totally worth it, especially for $5.
I enjoyed it. It’s a cool world to drive around and explore, but the plot sort of gears up to an RTS which a lot of people took umbrage with. Great soundtrack, great characters, unique art style, Rob Halford.
Hah! He fell for it! Good work all!
You bastards. 😛
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/11/16/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e05-a-coupla-arseholes/
Because I forgot, and you might have too if not for me.
Please don’t hate me.
shanewsmith.com is endorsing the Zeitgiest
SUBSCRIBED
I did one of their season 3 artworks actually. I am deeply ashamed 😛
WRITE YOUR NEXT BOOK IN ZEITGEIST STYLE!
I’ll call it Refused Classification to save everyone some time.
I think Rocketman needs to do some art for them.
cc @dkzeitgeist
I don’t think @dc will stick through this one. =P
Agreed! 🙂
Women….
Why cant people in real life be like you lovely people. No crazy dramas or blame games.
Anyway, im single again.( who can keep track these days right)
MUSE IN 14 DAYS
Sorry to hear, man. You all right?
I am a little annoyed, a bit angry. But im okay. I know what sad feels like and i know how to avoid it for as long as possible.
Stuff of this nature is a bit new to me, im not used to it. So all the feelings are weird.
Its been a few weeks and i finally got her to leave me alone so its progress.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/30-signs-youre-almost-30
Hahahaha. :'(
Oh gods that first one.
I got carded for the first time in ages last week. I asked the guy at the counter how often teenagers came in to buy $50 bottles of champagne.
All the time! YOLO swag!
We speak English in TAY. Or are those just more terms from whatever @popdart5 and @negativezero are playing?
Like, OMG Red. Can you puleez stop mocking me? Like, totally, it’s so lame. 😛
Hahaha, no one says that stuff anymore. How old do you feel when even your ‘hip’ lingo is outdated? 😛
Those words are so fetch.
I had to google that reference. Dang it Mean Girls.
My hip lingo was outdated when I was still at high school. And no, I don’t feel old, I feel ‘mature’. 😛
I got desperate one time about a year ago and flat out asked the cashier if he needed to see my card. He just glanced at me, said “nope” dismissively and kept ringing up the items.
I might have drank a little more and a little faster that night because of it.
First reaction: BAHAHAHAHA
Second reaction: aaww :'(
Third reaction; *fetal position*
If it makes you feel any better I’ve been doing half that stuff for years.
you mean I cant hate young people slang for another 15 months?
The article is “almost 30”
Are you almost almost 30? 😛
in 15 months I’m gonna be 30.
putting that in writing came as a bit of a shock.
Only 22/30 apply to me. I guess I’m not almost 30 after all. PHEW. :\
I AM 30, and will be 31 in.. oh god… 9 days.
Allow me to respond:
1) I haven’t been carded for years, which kind of sucks because I would be able to whip out a red Provisional license and make them double take. Also I still believe I look mcuh younger than I am.2) I don’t have kids and never will, but goddamn if everyone else in the universe doesn’t constantly post about their kids. My cousin uses her DAUGHTER as her Facebook profile pic, which is weird and creepy and also makes it clear who the favourite is (her daughter is her second, though she’s currently pregnant with a third).
3) Hahahaha marathons. *sprinkles crushed Doritos directly into a bowl of salsa, gets a big spoon, flops down in front of TV*
4) Ok I am super old. I haven’t been to a concert since around 2008.
5) I graduated high school in the year 2000 which was 13 YEARS AGO. I went back to uni on 2004 which means it has been over 9 years since I actually studied any Japanese.
6) If I had kids who would grow into teenagers I might side with parents more. As it stands, I still have difficulty relating to authority figures.
7) I stopping going to nightclubs because it was too loud. Not because the nosie bothers me, but because it’s too hard to have a conversation.
8) Fortunately, my current job is the forst I’ve had that warranted me actually having business cards.
9) I still don’t wear sunscreen. I really, really should.
10) I don’t really keep up to date with celebrities and their ages.
11) Is regularly checking credit scores even a thing in Australia?
12) I have two cats. That’s enough.
13) I would absolutely pay more for a hotel room than stay in a hostel, but that’s been the case since I was 20.
14) The only stuff I think is cool are video games, and I feel like they’re being marketed more at me than teenagers nowadays.
15) Taco Bell no longer exists in Australia, which is probably for the best.
16) Yes. I basically just listen to the same musicians I was listening to three years ago. It’s going to be a problem when they stop putting out new albums.
17) If by “not doing things” you mean sitting on the couch playing video games, then yeah. Guilty.
18) I don’t drink a lot anymore. I haven’t had a hangover for years.
19) My mother had me when she was 10 years younger than I am now. I basically apologised for being a shit in my speech at her second wedding in 2008.
20) Yes, everything hurts when I work out. I hope this is more due to my current physique than my age.
21) I think slang like “yolo” and “swag” makes everyone angry, it’s not just because I’m old, right?
22) People don’t buy shoes based on comfort? Get off my goddamn lawn with your poor arch support.
23) Thankfully my 28 year old wife is hip and with it with the new gadgets and shows me how to do things on my smartphone.
24) I don’t go out and drink. I don’t go out. I go home. I feel no regret about this.
25) I don’t eat cereal. The last time I bought cereal I bought honey nut crunch cornflakes or something. Deep inside, I wanted Froot Loops.
26) I don’t think the stuff I like is lame and will never admit otherwise.
27) I can still pull all-nighters, I swear! *”rests my eyes” at 2:30am, wakes up at 4am* STILL COUNTS.
28) I am too old for music festivals. I definitely admitted this when I was 29. 🙁
29) I have definitely sworn the hell off of Ikea.
30) I’ve been to family gatherings where my younger cousins brought their babies, so I guess that counts.
🙁
You and i, we should be friends!
Ahhh to be young and almost 30 again
I’m 30 on Sunday T_T.
So does the fact I’ve never done at least half of these things make me older or younger?
I bought this shirt last night, i swear to god it was designed for me
http://www.redbubble.com/people/tardis53/works/9057715-appa-gold-greatest-hits?utm_campaign=order&utm_medium=email&utm_source=RB&utm_term=2804231
i dont even own it yet but it will be my favourite shirt ever.
I also bought this
http://www.redbubble.com/people/wesleyfung2/works/10582271-survey-corps-emblem?utm_campaign=order&utm_medium=email&utm_source=RB&utm_term=2804231
because attack on titan is awesome
One day i will get tired of printed t-shirts with awesome things on them. That day is not today however.
That Appa one is amazing!
@bdkiaf
I think you should listen to Zeitgeist
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/11/16/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e05-a-coupla-arseholes/
DO they talk about
pegging, i just want a honest conversation aboutpeggingand their are zero resources for it.edit: From now i will self filter. Lets see how long this lasts
Is this the reason you’re single again?
Asshat…..
yes 😛
http://tinyurl.com/oonnxrr
I loved that after pimping the band, Dan couldn’t actually answer the question about what the songs were about 😛I always do!
Except I’ve been out of the office all day. I look forward to listening to it while waiting for PS4 updates.
Birthday cake get,
Just got surprised by the people at my work, they bought me cake 😀
been a good few days,
Car Get, PS4 Get, Primus Tickets get
It’s all coming up Millhouse
HAPPY OLD DAY!!!!!1!!ONE!!!!!!!!!!!ELEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!SIN(90)!!!!!!!!!!
happy birthday dude 🙂
thanks guys, it’s not actually till tuesday but I’m taking monday and tuesday off so they go me a cake early 😀
long weekend birthdays rule.
I’m turning 31 and to this day I’ve never worked a birthday
I don’t think anyone in my office cares about mine 🙁
I didn’t even know that they knew until they walked in, was pleasantly surprised.
I care, happy Birthday for whenever it is 😀
So, uh, how about that Bravely Default. Man, that’s gonna be some fun stuff. It’s gonna be great for all 3ds fans.
I can’t get it until February, but, y’know, I’m not that devastated.
…
And iiiiiiii willll allllwaysss love youuuuuu *sobs*
Man, Zambrero’s is freaking amazing!
do you rock off for free avacado?
I never do because im always tempted to make up my own hand gestures and i then remember never to go full rocketman in public.
bahahaha nooo, but i should try that one day XD
if you trust in yourself…
and believe in your dreams…
and follow your star
you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.
Thanks Mr. Pratchett
Is anyone in the market for a cheap smartphone around the $50 mark?
Coles have the Sony Xperia E in its catalogue for $59. I picked one up and it’s a very surprising little device for the price. There is also a $20 cashback offer now until the end of January, so it’s essentially $39. Locked to Telstra however, if not using the supplied prepaid SIM card. There are hardware comparisons of the device to the Windows Nokia Lumia 520 and that phone is still around the $170 mark.
Okay upon careful reconsideration, it’s nothing like the Nokia Lumia 520. 😀
A few gripes:
Viewing the screen in direct sunlight is almost impossible.
Loading TAY takes about half an hour.
It’s more comparable to the Huawei Ascend Y201.
Last Played song edition (with a twist)
Last song that you sung outloud to
Somebody told me- The kiilers
Last Resort – Papa Roach
Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll – The Killers
KILLERS BROS
The theme song to Peppa Pig.
I have a kid, alright?
Important question: Was the kid present at the time of singing?
It’s not important. I frequently sing the Bookaboo song, regardless of whether my kids are around or not.
It’s… practice… for parenting. Yes, that’s it.
I refuse to answer on the grounds I could incriminate myself.
I… may have sung along to “Last Night” by Katy Perry while out drinking/bowling last night. May have. Probably did. Did. Definitely did.
Reflektor – Arcade Fire
umm… It was either
Ballad for Beelzebub – Graveyard Train
or
Heathen – Kill Devil Hills
not much suits my vocal range :p
Pffft never stopped me XD
Would have been this on the way home from the gym
Strange Love – Karen O
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Stupid Freeview ads! >:[
Gasoline – Audioslave.
Okay I lied. The last song I actually sung was the theme song to Bookaboo.
A story a day or I just can’t play! I wave my arms around like a drummer too.
Wandering down the street yesterday, I had The Ripper stuck in my head. Was probably closer to humming it to myself than outright singing, but the words were there.
…Wonderwall…
‘Frozen’ by Delain.
Grenade Launcher (ft Prevail and Slaine) – Madchild
SNACKTAKU – Friday-Who-Cares-About-Health-Edition-(Also-The-Lazy-Version)
1. Take a bag of beer-battered chips
2. Bake as instructed
3. Smother in grated cheese
4. Bake for further ten minutes
5. Consume
6. Call an ambulance
Rating: 3 million Baconweavedreams
used to do something similar.
just add these steps between 2 & 3.
2(a). throw a whole bunch of diced bacon into your pile of chips
2(b). liberally apply smoky BBQ sauce
Woah.
the only other difference is that you should probably move the ‘call an ambulance’ step to before the ‘consume’ step.
its saves time.
Try frying some diced onion and tomato in a small amount of olive oil until soft/juicy then sprinkle some garlic salt and throw in a liberal amount of grated cheese. Mix until thick and saucy, serve over freshly oven-baked chips (I prefer McCain’s seasoned chips but really any chips you like work fine).
I used to like oven baked chips but then I got a deep fryer.
I might buy a fryer if/when I start eating potato again.
And finished!
My chest was begging me to stop halfway through, but I don’t listen to that little weiner.
*struggles for breath*
Speaking of calling an ambulance! I reckon @strange ‘s hubby might need to after I drop around a present tomorrow!
http://imgur.com/xgdnJlN Ghost Chilli’s!!!
A new page means a new post
JAPAN GROUP TOUR – MAR/APR 2015
Yep thats right people, I have received a fantastic quote from one of my suppliers, and I present it to you now. We’ve got hotels, we’ve got trains, we’ve got sightseeing, we’ve got free time, we’ve got food. Something for everyone 🙂
Spoilered for wall of text, but EVERYONE should be reading this 🙂
Itinerary:
Day 1 – 21st March 2015 – Arrive Osaka
Upon arrival into Osaka airport you will be met and transferred by private coach to your accommodation for check in
Day 2 – 22nd March 2015 – Osaka
This morning visit Osaka Castle & enjoy a cruise on Osaka River. This afternoon we will be attending the (hopefully, depending on schedule) Final Day and Closing Ceremony of Osaka’s Annual Sumo Tournament. The afternoon of the final day is when the best competitors and the most important bouts take place.
Day 3 – 23rd March 2015 – Osaka
Full Day at leisure
Start of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 4 – 24th March 2015 – Osaka-Hiroshima
Today make your way to Osaka train station to catch the bullet train to Himeji. Tour of Himeji Castle with English speaking guide. After the tour, and some time for lunch, we will catch the bullet train to Hiroshima. On arrival into Hiroshima make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 5 – 25th March 2015 – Hiroshima
This morning you will take a short tram trip to the edge of the Seto Sea. Here, board a ferry for the ten-minute passage to Miyajima Island. This tranquil island is home to Itsukushima Shrine, partly comprised of an offshore red ‘torii’ gate – one of Japan’s most famous and photographed sites. In ancient times access to holy Miyajima Island was through this ‘floating’ gate; you will arrive more conventionally, gliding into the ferry terminal. Take some free time to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of this pretty island, mingle with the wild deer, and sample some Japanese snack food. Take this opportunity to try a traditional okonomiyaki pancake lunch before departing this unique setting and re-board the a direct ferry for the trip back to the mainland to the Peace Memorial Museum, dedicated to the events of 1945 and the aim of a war-free world. A visit to this exceptional museum is a sobering, yet educational experience. You will also see the famous Peace Memorial Park and a poignant cenotaph inscribed with all the known victims of the Hiroshima bomb, and the eerie A-Bomb Dome, a tragic city-symbol, left standing in a ruinous state after more than 60 years. In the evening, explore Hiroshima, a truly ‘reinvented’ city.
Day 6 – 26th March 2015 – Hiroshima-Kyoto
Today make your way to Hiroshima train station to catch the bullet train to Kyoto. On arrival into Kyoto make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 7 – 27th March 2015 – Kyoto
Spend a delightful morning walking through the streets of Kyoto where you will discover some of the lovely temples and shrines in this ancient city. Begin at JR Kyoto station at 1.45pm and take a bus to Higashiyama, for an exploration of the beautiful Kiyomizu temple, with a panoramic view of Kyoto. Walking down Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka streets uncovers quaint shops in traditional Japanese buildings, and this walk has been described as one of the prettiest in Kyoto. Stop at tranquil Kodaiji temple, surrounded by formal gardens, and then continue on to Yasaka shrine, a Shinto shrine in the Gion district. Roam the Gion district, with traditional restaurants and tea houses (ochaya), and maybe spot a geisha scurrying along one of the many alleyways to her next performance.
Day 8 – 28th March 2015 – Kyoto
Today is a full day at leisure. Spend a day exploring the many sights and sound of Kyoto, or possibly take a day trip to Nara, famous for its parkland, wild deer and temples. Visit stunning Todaiji Temple, made without the use of a single nail, and the shelter of a massive bronze Buddha. Also see the smaller yet equally beautiful 8th century Kasuga Shrine. The entrance is lined by stone lanterns, creating an atmospheric approach. Spend some time mingling with Nara’s free-roaming deer, before your return to Kyoto.
Day 9 – 29th March 2015 – Kyoto-Takayama
Today make your way to Kyoto train station to catch the bullet train to Takayama. On arrival into Takayama make your way to your accommodation for check in.
End of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 10 – 30th March 2015 – Takayama
This morning set out on a walking tour of some of Takayama’s main attractions. As an introduction, visit the Festival Floats Exhibition Hall, home to colourful floats which come out annually during one of Japan’s most famous festivals. You will also visit Takayama Jinya, formerly a government building and home to some wonderful insights into Japan’s past. Your walking tour will include a stroll past some beautifully preserved wooden houses on Kami Sannomachi Street and a venture past some enticing sake rice wine breweries. This evening, continue your encounters with Takayama’s friendly inhabitants and explore the local eating options.
Day 11 – 31st March 2015 – Takayama-Hakone
Late morning you will leave your hotel and travel by coach to Hakone. This picturesque town is famous for its proximity to imposing Mount Fuji, a symbol of Japan and the highest mountain in the country. Before checking-in to your Japanese-style hotel you will enjoy a short boat trip on peaceful Lake Ashino, and an exciting cable car ascent (weather permitting) to the top of Mount Komagatake for majestic views of Japan’s most loved and famous geographic landmark. After a sumptuous Japanese dinner, you will sleep tonight in an atmospheric tatami-floored room, on a futon mattress.
Day 12 – 1st April 2015 – Hakone-Tokyo
This morning you will travel the short distance by private coach to Tokyo. This afternoon is at leisure
Day 13 – 2nd April 2015 – Tokyo
Following breakfast meet in the reception area of your hotel for a tour briefing before embarking on your exploration of the city. Today you will explore some of the city’s highlights on a carefully created tour. You will begin with a short walk to nearby Hama Rikyu Garden, dating to 1654 and once the private respite of the Tokugawa Shogun. After a stroll through this tranquil garden, after which you board a boat (shared service) for a cruise on Tokyo’s Sumida River. This short trip will take you past the headquarters of some of Japan’s most famous companies and will end near bustling Asakajusa Temple, the oldest and most beloved temple in Tokyo. Here, be introduced to the influences of Buddhism and Shintoism on Japanese culture. Around mid-day, travel to serene Meiji Jingu shrine and Harajuku. Here, mingle with youngsters dressed to the hilt in colourful cult fashions. Later, take in mesmerising sky scraper views of Japan’s major city from Tokyo Tower. Towards the end of the afternoon, return to your hotel by train and foot.
Day 14 – 3rd April 2015 – Depart Tokyo
At proper time you will catch the airport transfer vehicle to Narita airport for your onward flight
Hotels and Inclusions
Osaka – Mitsui Garden Hotel YodoyabashiHiroshima – Mitsui Garden Hiroshima
Kyoto – Mitsui Garden Kyoto Sanjo
Takayama – Green Hotel Takayama (ryokan)
Hakone – Hakone Yumoto Hotel (ryokan)
Tokyo – Park Hotel Tokyo
Holiday Price Includes:
All Accommodation
Breakfast Every day, Dinner in Hakone
Transportation and touring as per the itinerary with entrance fees
7 day JR pass
1 Local English speaking guide on touring days
Exclusions:
AirfaresVisa if necessary (If travelling on an Australian Passport, a Visa is not required)
Meals not listed above
Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, drinks, tips…)
Travel insurance (Possession of adequate travel insurance is a compulsory condition of travelling with Travel Indochina)
And all this comes to the price of….
$3,897.00 per person twin share or$4,461.00 per person single room
There you have it folks. If you really did read through everything, you have my thanks. Feel free to send praise, hurl fruit or anything in between as your reaction dictates. If I can start to get a list of people who are genuinely interested in coming, feel free to respond below or email me at peter(dot)orange(at)harveyworld(dot)com(dot)au
I will be talking with my manager when he returns from a trip next week (I think), in regards to how much the deposit is (It will probably be on the order of about $500 per person). If I can go to him and say I already have X number of people ready to deposit, that would be fantastic.
Thanks again everyone
Tags of people who have shown interest before: @jocon @negativezero @sughly @transientmind @freezespreston @coldcamv @rize @ontargett @dkzeitgeist @rocketman @cakesmith
Herggggh…. ok, don’t think I can make PAX next year any more so I need to pawn off my ticket. I mistakenly thought buying ticket insurance meant I could resell the ticket, they advertised something like that on the booking page, but alas I just got told no and to sell my ticket instead. Stupid insurance stupid *grumble grumble*
It’s a one day pass for the Saturday, so if anyone’s thinking of going on that day please let me know and buy my ticket rather than from the site. Would be helping me immensely as my moneys are draining quickly T_T I paid $64 all up with postage and insurance, but am happy to sell it off for the advertised $55.
Thanks guyyyyyys
I might need a Saturday one for my wife, but honestly have no idea yet. Will keep you in mind!
Same as Rize, I’ve been trying to talk my girlfriend into coming for a day. I’ll get back to you
Thanks guyyyyyyyys! ^^
edit: obviously plenty of time, so no stress. Just wanted to mention it in case there were people who hadnt picked up their tickets yet 🙂
Obligatory who’s this guy?
Also, hope things are okay, dude!
Yah, fine, just something unexpected (but not bad) has come up and I also need the moneys :/
The insurance thing is if you lose your pass you can get a replacement. I think you possibly got confused with the ‘international’ tickets which aren’t transferable to anyone else because they’re pick up at the venue by showing your passport & travel docs.
Nah there is a resell thing, but its only valid apparently if you lose your job? Or someone you know dies? Only then can the insurance be used as a refund option. Probably was written under the resell advert I saw on the booking, but I wouldnt be surprised if ‘insurance for resell’ was in much bigger text compared to the ‘someone needs to die’ bit
Also I would be lying if I havent thought of replying to PAX – “oh, funny you should mention that. Ol’ great aunt Bertha, well…”
“Well if you really want I guess I could go kill someone…”
Hope all is well, Sughly. You’re awesome!
Oh wow. Engraving something for a new baby. It’s name? Maverick.
What a goose.
Cold as ice, man.
Also, another job, I really hate engraving memorial plaques when the two dates are waaaayyy to close together.
On second thought no, that’s too far even for me.
Edit: Now I have to edit too. Thanks. Probably best.
Quiet you, my mind is still trying to decide if my lunchtime purchase was a good thing. There’s no time for correct spelling and grammar!
It was (name) 15/10/2012 – 23/03/2013…
Edit: No.
Sad. Unfathomable, really 🙁
Just…seeing that is making me feel sad.
*sadface*
I know a Maverick. He’s a delightful kid!
You’re right. We shouldn’t mock. I’m sure he’s a top… gu
yn.We’ve lost that loving feeling…
These puns are getting close to the danger zone.
All right, I’m going to MiGs it up with some plane English for a while.
There is no Maverick, only Mega Man.
I… think someone has spat on the internal stairs here at work.
I’m used to these animals not flushing, and not cleaning the sandwich toaster, leaving food in the fridge for months, and only wiping down their desks once a year… but this, this is next level shit. O_o
keep going upstairs, you’ll probably find literal next level shit.
Executives are a couple of levels up. This theory makes a lot of sense.
Well, I went for a walk on my lunch break.
Probably a bad decision because I’m now $2,500 poorer.
On the plus side, new MacBook get.
That’ll teach you to exercise! 😛
Sounds like a bad Apple for lunch
Get out.
\o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\
^^ That’s me cart-wheeling out
Disclaimer: i have no prejudice against apple productsIt was in regards to your terrible, terrible pun.
2nd language?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Punglish
I was going to make a joke like “Now you can’t play all your games!” but we both know you wouldn’t anyway.
Good thing I didn’t buy it for gaming 😛
Just like all those games.
Indeed.
I might boot camp it anyway because I can and put SWTOR on it for when I go back home over Christmas.
Is it a plus because it’s a double negative? 😛
What has your poor wallet ever done to you?
DAMNIT ALEX
I blame the school system.
Did you also buy some lensless glasses and skinny jeans?
Wait, do hipsters still use Macs and just hate iPhones or has Apple hate become so mainstream that they’ve embraced it all again? Arrrgh it’s all so confusing.
It’s cool to hate people hating cool things that you hate.
God I hate you.
I’m pretty sure that means I actually love you and want to wear your skin like a fancy tuxedo.
I’m fine with either scenario.
…this got weird.
it puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again
Sorry about the work stuff, I promise this is my last post in regard to it.
After hours of calling people and chasing people up I’ve finally been giving my finish date. Two more weeks and I can put this stupid thing behind me! \o/YAYSORTOF!
Time to run out the clock.
Gonna run around and chase up some referees! \o/
Hooray! So just out of curiousity what kind of work are you going to be looking for once you’re finally canned?
My current position is Technical Officer but that’s just a fancy name for Draftsmen which is basically a Technical Drawing Person … thing
I read that like this:
Also I got a sheet of paper that has my payout on it. I don’t think my eyes have ever lit up as much as they did when I saw that number. =P
Awesome news, man!
Buy both new consoles, put them on a desk and make them fight to the death! It’s the only way to end the console wars once and for all
I will finally answer the one question!
Spoiler: PC wins.
42!
Twenty dollars? I wanted a peanut.
Money can be used to purchase goods and services, that includes food.
I have no idea what this is in regards to, but since you seem psyched about it, I’m gonna throw out a YAY! for you!
Got something else lined up for after you leave?
Hey guys, lookijg to fill up my ps4 friends list with some aussie kotakuites. Add me! ID is mumbo_jumbo_au
Hey if you buy me a PS4 we can be PS4BFFs…
http://www.tinyurl.com/TAYNAMES
Braggius. I think @dc also received his PS4 today.
So, John Cleese is coming to Launceston in February. Am I excited? YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My PS4 preorder (for a vague ‘late December’ date) is with the Big W where my mum works, so I’m really hoping I’ll go home and she’ll be all ‘look they had a spare one/I broke the electronics guy’s arm and ran off with this/I pulled a few strings here is a shiny new PS4’ and then I will dance the night away.
Highly doubtful though.
Also, I start full time employment properly on Monday (though have been in every weekday since end of September). Had the important details talk with my manager today. He was all ‘*yadda yadda stuff about pay whoo money* so basically now you won’t have to clock out on your lunch breaks!’ and I was all ‘haha! Yeah! Because I’ve totally been doing that. Yep.’ What a moment.
I like money
So do I.
Also spending money. *looks at new computer*
You’re alright, Pow.
Me too, the problem comes when I have Car rego/insurance, dentist bills, christmas presents and flight to Europe to finish paying in the next month. On top of rent, food fuel etc. So this is that “adulthood” thing people were talking about
Hooray for being broke \o/
…
/o\
Solution: Don’t pay those things.
WOOO! Full-time work!
You have my sincerest commiserations.
And right on Christmas, the worst possible time for advertising.
Best of luck. Because work blows.
The moment I clicked over from contractor to permanent I suddenly was able to start and leave on time instead of early and late. And I didn’t need to work through lunch every day to get my work done. Amazing how a little job security can motivate you.
>.>
<.
Not sure which is slower..
Mondays or the slow countdown to the weekend on a Friday afternoon.
Definitely Fridays.
Today absolutely flew for me, which is really weird, since I was the only one at work today :\ Most days I struggle to get a decent amount of work done on top of my new duties, but today I kicked total ass! I did over my quota, and all my admin tasks, plus a little bit more.. but I have no idea how!!
Yesterday and today have been criminally slow. I blame Friday for infecting Thursday. Mondays are shit, but Fridays are sloooooooooooooooooooooow
Fridays are my Thursday. Yay for working Saturday…
Fridays don’t feel as bad though.
Blegh. 😐
Well my haitaku wasn’t guessed in 3 seconds flat
Which is surprising since it was The dig
@shane you are the worst.
FUUUUU
Woot, it’s a real haitaku now
@bdkiaf
No need. Everything background downloads while you play. Patches, updates everything. Killzone I started playing approx. 15 seconds after inserting the disc while a 700mb patch downloaded.
That’s the best new feature yet.
So, so good. I’m in awe at switching between game and dashboard too. Takes seconds and is so damn seamless.
The Bone on the other hand seems to be the polar opposite of this. Ugh.
Got mah PS4! Was dead scared it was a DoA one as it wasn’t turning on properly or outputting a video. Checked the hdmi port and everything was fine there, so called up EB who gave me Sony’s number. Midway through the waiting time I get bored and unplug my fan from the powerboard as it’s cold at the moment. PS4 turns on perfectly. I’m not questioning this, though I am afraid to touch anything else…
Naww, today is the first day since he left (about a month ago) where I’ve actually missed my lil’ Oliver 🙂 He can be cute when he’s drunk… Although it was probably spurred by me sending him a photo of a pie with <3 Ben written in sauce on it, but still 😛 I write neater with a sauce bottle than I do with a pen…
And things are finally happening! Telstra have been outside our house all day digging up and doing NBN related shit! Hopefully this means they’ll actually be on the schedule they gave us this time, if not earlier.
Coalition has them digging up the copper and replacing it with die cast. No one needs 3Mbps right now.
So my Nans house has been for sale for 3 years, just about. We finally get an offer and the family can’t agree. So we’re still stuck in a stalemate where we have to pay for the bills for two houses. This is part of the reason we’re struggling for Christmas.
Sorry to hear. D:
dammit ;(
@powalen finally caught up with me at the station again.
But I escaped with my life! This time.
So close…
Sup people
Spaghett!! You should join us Sydney folk for drinks and dinner tomorrow to celebrate Shiggy’s birthday 🙂
Damn man, can’t sadly, are we doing anything for Christmas?
Ha ha, I invited you and I couldn’t make it myself. I’m sure there’ll be at least one more meat before the holidays 🙂
Wow. I’m digging Resogun something fierce. And the DS4 controller’s speaker shits all over the Wiimote’s.
Also @dc is my first BFF on PSN.
Careful, he’ll steal your car.
I tried to send you a BFF request and it denied it because of your “status”. Which seems to imply lesser.
Best friends forever!
Oh, so you can only add PS4 users?
Whass urp?
Well said!
…
Not really.
HEY JIMU!
EH?
Goin ta @gutsoup s to watch people play PS4 games I don’t like and maybe have a go at shadow platformer that seems to have skipped Vita at the eleventh hour.
Also, Where’s my goddam date for FFx&X-2 on Vita Squeenx?
I am this close to taking a dump in Squeenix’s dirty mouth. This close!
http://www.finalfantasyxhd.com/us/index.php
EDIT: ITS TOO DAMN HOT!
Check out the second vid @DC
I dont suggest you play, just look at the awesome level designs 😀
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/11/28/final-fantasy-xx-2-hd-remaster-showcases-improved-graphics-music/
Oh man, that grassy cliffside in the second video is a thing of beauty!
Hey does anyone know if Pirate’s Creed has 3D like III did? Would love to be a pirate in 3D, it was awesome in III so I imagine a combination of pirates and PS4 and my pretty 3D TV would be pretty damn cool.
The PS4 is so damn loud. Sounds like a jet engine. Also really hot. Have no idea what acceptable heat is so freaking out slightly.
Loud… that doesn’t sound good. :\
I was led to believe that fan noise and loud disc spinning were relics of the past!
That’s…odd. Everything else I’ve read seems to say the PS4 is next to silent. I’m thinking freaking out may not be an over-reaction. 🙁
Mine has been pretty soft for the most part. It’s definitely warm though. Very warm.
The long kiss good night is a pretty cool guy
That is all
I’ve got a cold. I blame Supanova/Dreamworld/Going to the Gym/Freeze’s party. *shakes fist at everyone* 😛
Nope. Obviously carried by PS4. Better send it to me, I’ll disinfect it for you.
You’ve got The Last of Us. PS4 is great, but it’s no The Last of Us. (Yet.)
Wait, if it’s not The Last of Us does that mean it’s good?
=PDo you own it still?
Have a go on easy I reckon. See if that helps,
I gave it to Scree, not interested in the game. The gameplay was just way too poor.
Easy had autoaim, made all those forced gunfights lets shit
Just did the sequence with Bill.You enjoying it so far, Red?
I am, but I hate when it degenerates to shooting. I’d rather be a sneaky bugger.
I just used the shotgun and only as a last resort!
I love the stealth and meandering bits!
I think he’s just still hungover from the beers and shots.
Blergh, I feel like I let you guys down last weekend. Being that no fun guy who’s just lurking around and not participating in any thing. I hope Mrs. Freeze doesn’t think less of me. I was nervous. :'(
Doofus.
That’s what you get for abandoning your hermit life! 😉
That is true!
Initial thoughts on PS4:
Really, really like it. It looks sleek and cool. The menu’s are intuitive. (Though I miss my lime green menu from PS3.) So quick to get into games and the way it installs and patches without making you wait is a thing of beauty. Messaging and checking out your friends profiles is way better too.
Initial thoughts on the games:
Pirate’s Creed:
The gameplay mechanics are fun again and it feels like the gameplay isn’t in the way this time around. Also the missions and optional objectives are way more forgiving and makes you want to go out of your way to 100% just because it’s fun and not crazy obscure like in AC3. It’s so damn beautiful, though at the same time you can tell it’s a multi-generation port too, for better or worse. Love the Red Dead Redemption-style treasure hunting too.
Killzone: Shadowfall
Saying this is just a first impression couldn’t be more true, I’ve only played it for five minutes or so. Definitely way more technically stunning than AC4. Some really beautiful graphics here and the people in particular look pretty damn impressive. Looking forward to trying this out more!
Killzone is pretty, no doubt. It’s why I picked it up, it’s the one graphical showboat of the lot. But dear god, the story. The characters. It’s all just so damn grating.
You should download Resogun, D.C.
And then you should play co-op with me.
I really hope they patch in the ability to customise the dashboard. I love my combination of prince of Persia wallpaper and the ‘art style’ theme that came with the PS3.
Seems weird that you can’t even change the basic colour scheme.
But you can set the TV size up to a maximum of 1000 inches.
Can’t even change the colour? What’s the default? My PS3 menu is a nice shade of gold.
Dark blue. It’s a nice blue, though.
Lime green?
I think that was a setting you chose.
It was, but I miss this setting on PS4. XD
I’m 23! 😀
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CrazyOldGuy 🙂
Hipppo Biffday young’n!!!
Happy birthday, friend. Hope it’s a damn good year!
Has anyone else noticed that Ass Pirates 4 seems to have a lot of design decisions based around overscan, which is a tad irrelevant in this day and age?
The obvious example is its UI, where there’s the massive gap between the edge of stuff and the edge of the screen, but it also seems to extend to screen effects, at least, its AO doesn’t seem to be cast along the edges. Which is good in some ways, because there are some really unsightly artifacts that can appear on edges thanks to the limitations of a screen based effect, but it’s also a little odd.
Just LOL IRL, Ass Pirates 4 should be as official as XBone
Over 4 people (excluding me,) A total of $700+ was racked up in purchases.
I bought SMT IV, which was 29.99. (Is that half off? I think it’s half off.)
I’m not as much as a consumer whore as I thought I was.
Also, crowds for Black Friday in the US, for the most part, is really more disgruntled than downright angry. Still good amounts of assholery all round, though. It might be because I was part of the canadian migration.
We still cant get Megaten IV in PAL cos we are soooo shit!
@jimu,@sernobulus, @beardymcmuttonchops @freezespreston @dkzeitgeist @sughly @dc
I think you guys are probably the closest to where I’m staying so I’ll DM my number to you on twitter.
Call me for a good time xoxo
nob, sughly, dan, freeze, strange and myself are all southside. The rest live in the far north reaches of brisbane out woop woop way! :p
Which weekend is this?
Next weekend I think. 7th/8th.
Ah, coolcool. Should be able to pull that off
Jesus christ someone’s actually buying Nintendo’s “we have to protect the consumer” bullshit about region locking.
It does make sense that that particular piece of software wouldn’t be region locked as it’s designed for tourism but it shows the region lock isn’t even in the hardware itself and can be lifted at any point with any game. Which is somehow worse.
I hate region lock so much
Super Mario 3D World – Wii U
Been playing this for the past two hours, I adore this game! you should all get it. NAOW!
I’M ON MY WAY!
Yeah, looks so nice in HD as well. Fun playing in coop, though it’d be nice if it split screen instead of killing whoever was straggling behind. Love it though. Favourite level so far would be the water creature one.
Water creature? SPOLIERS! 😛 😛 😛 😛
Lend me a Wii U and I will 😀
Why stop at lend? Buy me a WiiU and I will!
I would but there’s not an ip in existence that I have less enthusiasm for.
Rapeplay?
Considering getting the Bioshock Triple Pack off amazon. Do the codes run out, or do they last forever? Do I download it from amazon directly, or will it need Steam? It’s a great price, but I don’t generally buy games off amazon…
It does need steam, I just scrolled down a bit. Do the codes last for ages though?
Yeah, no time limit on the codes.
Can’t you just redeem the codes immediately but not bother downloading the game data until you need it? Seems like that’d solve any hypothetical problem of expiring codes
Can ‘t access Steam right now (steam.exe: main exception. To connect to Steam you must first connect to the internet, when I have a perfectly good connection), but I’d do that if I could.
One of the solutions I’ve seen floated for that before was opening your steam install folder, selecting everything except steam.exe and the steamapps folder and deleting them then running steam.exe & letting it rebuild everything. Keeping the exe & steamapps folders should leave all your game data intact
Never had to do it myself but it might be worth a shot if nothing is working
Now it’s working, but says it has trouble connecting to the steam servers…
Why??? ;(
I’ve had trouble kind of like that when I’ve been running steam on my laptop just for the chat and had the android version running on my tablet and then loaded my gaming PC, kind of got into a loop where it wouldn’t load anything.
Can you log in on the steam website?
Actually, deleting the clientregistry.blob might help: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7241-EYON-2343
Yeah, I can log into the Steam website just fine. It asked me to enter the code that got sent to my email and then give the browser a silly name, but after that it was fine. I just tried renaming the clientregistry.blob, that didn’t work. Might try to open more ports on my internet in a while.
Because its so normal a thing to do to me I’ve not bothered suggesting it but have you reinstalled steam?
Mario and Zelda get!
Also ended up stopped at the lights next to a car carrying two friends of someone I haven’t seen since early last year. Somehow we still managed to recognise each other. despite only having met like… twice before. Maybe three times 😛 It’s good though, means I’ve finally gotten off my arse about messaging my friend since I’d been thinking about doing so lately. Strangely enough, apparently so had she.
Everything is coincidences and psychic mindlinks.
Also, got to try out a PS4 controller. It was all bound and tethered in JB, and I only had a quick fiddle with it so I don’t know how it handles with games yet. But damn that is a nice controller. Could very well be the best controller since the Cube.
I was very impressed with the hands on also. Surprising, because at first glance I thought it was hideous and couldn’t possibly be better than the Dual Shock 3.
I was super excited by it at first glance, because they’d finally made changes and they looked like good ones too. Also I think the DS3 is garbage (though sixaxis is worse) 😛
For everyone asking (thank you btw, and because 140 characters is hard to work with), basically my sleep schedule has gotten way out of whack to the point where I go to bed at 4am and don’t get up till like 2-3pm. Nothing really wrong with that I don’t think. HOWEVER in her eyes that means I’m just a lazy retarded fucker who can’t look after himself or grasp how to look after a house.
she’s not here like 80-90% of the time (which is good), so communication is already at a minimum apart from the stream of texts I get telling me things should be done this way and that, has her stuff arrived, is her food still good, is something cleaned, please explain some stupid little thing she noticed, you don’t pull your weight, I had to clean the single knife in the sink. It goes on.
I clean EVERYTHING. I have to vacuum, mop, tidy up pretty much every day. But because I don’t do it how I (still don’t) know how she thinks it should be done, or with what friggen sponge, she feels like the right response is to assume I’m a lazy retard, have a cry, yell ay me for not telling her exactly when I’m doing something, and get all passive aggressive about it. That still doesn’t mean she’ll help though, she just expects it to be done.
Adding to that she has no respect for anybody else personal space. She throws her wet towels over my dry or clean stuff, dumps wet clothes outside peoples doors do she can hang up one thing to dry (that’s what caused Oliver to punch a hole in the bathroom door), fills the bathroom with her stuff (seriously I have one thing in there. Toothpaste, which she threw in the cupboard anyway) when she has 8 bottles of shampoo JUST in the shower plus another 6 lying around the vanity along with her 3 toothpastes and other hair shit, and then goes ballistic when I leave my shampoo out!
Kitchen: She will not put anything away. Nothing. Then goes ballistic once again when I do put her stuff away. I also have to re wash everything because her version of washing is running something under water, then brushing over it a couple of times. Done. There was still meat on everything last time! Fridge: I currently have 2 things in there. Milk and butter. The fridge is full. Freezer: I have 3 pies in there. The freezer is over capacity.
Loungeroom: I hardly go in there. Both couches are covered in her blankets and pillows, it’s full (along with the dining room) of all her shit she can’t find space for in her room. She’s OCD about what’s on TV, so the only time I watch anything is after midnight. Her clothes hangers also reside in there because she thinks putting clothes outside to dry is disgusting (the three of us have other thoughts on why she doesn’t…)
The problem is? I like to keep to myself. I feel fucking uncomfortable around her. I’ve never felt more unwelcome anywhere in my life, and I live here. When she starts yelling, I recoil and get out of her way. Oliver is exactly the same as me, but we’re both gonna try working on it together. Her and his wife will go at it though, but she gets upset that we don’t step in, cos men or something. I only feel safe and comfortable in this house when he’s around, so I have somebody to retreat to I guess.
Whenever I do actually give her a piece of my mind, she’ll start the crying routine and won’t let me talk to her. So I don’t. Not because the crying gets me (it only makes me laugh and get angrier), but because she completely shuts out everything and starts harping on how she MIGHT get sick in 10 years and apparently then everything becomes disrespectful. I think its hilarious because I already have an incurable disease + all the permanent side effects of the treatments (steroids in particular), but I would NEVER use that as a scapegoat for anything, let alone being told to be more respectful of something completely irrelevant.
urgh. So there you go, I forgot all your tags. @twitterpeople. Currently lying in bed avoiding her whilst she’s stomping around being mad at me because I wasn’t up to see what happened to her ice pack which apparently I should have been fully aware of, which has now exploded and she thinks is my fault. (I had no idea she owned an ice pack…)
Find somewhere else to live dude.
I know it is obviously not that simple but screw not feeling welcome in your own home man.
I’m staying put. Me and the other two live together great. We’ve never had anything to argue about, things get done, and we all know what each other wants/expects, and we respect each other. We just need a way to get her to move out, but won’t be for another month until the other two get back. That and I couldn’t leave them to put up with her 🙁
Fair call.
But don’t let her push you around and make you the miserable one in the meantime.
This pretty much. It’s not worth it. You really should be at the point where either she goes or you go.
http://ww.housemates.com.au/articles_view_article.asp?articleID=2
I think you should seriously say to her “If you’re going to act like a child, go live with your mother.”
I think that the three of you (you, Oliver and Oliver’s missus) need to get her to sit down and confront her. But do it in a nice way, so she doesn’t feel threatened. It’s going to be hard, because I imagine she’s going to do the cry and shut down routine.
The thing is that she is not the only one living there and she needs to be able to compromise. Everyone has to sacrifice something, rather then everyone else sacrifice something and she doesn’t. Tell her that you’re giving her a chance to change, whether she wants to or not. If she is not willing, then she’ll have to move out.
She’s going to have to start acting like an adult, not a child. She cannot have everything her way, it just doesn’t work like that.
Good luck and I wish you all the best.
As for her pulling the sickness card? That’s messed up. No one wants to be ill. It just happens and generally those who are dealt with that card just put up with it. They don’t want to be defined by their illness.
Don’t even give her the option to change. Just say “You’re obviously not happy, we’re not happy” and go from there.
FWIW, I had a housemate who was a friend of mine who I just could not live with. I’m still friends with her, just our circumstances at the time meant we irked the hell out of one another.
It could be sooooo much worse
But yeah, kick her out already. Seriously. Do it.
You should have a kid. Pretty cool sleep patterns there.
*Also, she sounds annoying.
I think the only solution is to burn the house down.
Out of curiosity, do you guys ever have house meetings?
I make sure I have one at least once a month, where I bring up a list of concerns and problems across the board.
EDIT: Oh. This is old TAY. IGNORE ME
Lordvessel full, huzzah!
Four Kings: had problems until I stopped using melee (would lose the hp race due to low stamina/hp) and switched to Combustion. Almost lost when a 5th king came out right at the end and I did not notice :/
Seath the Scaleless: still easy once you figure out where to stand.
Bed of Chaos: man this one gave me a lot of trouble thanks to being able to one-shot me. Took 20+ tries but finally made it to the hole.
Gravelord Nito: dude was a jerk and would keep on spamming groin-stabby-magic-sword as soon as I entered the room, giving me no chance to do anything. But once he stopped that it was all good.
So even on level 1 the late game is still not too hard thanks to elemental weapons being op, even a stick with nails in it. Also can win most fights handily with Pyromancy.
And now I am in the odd position of having a ton of souls and nothing to spend them on.
Interested to see how the fight with Gwyn goes.
Though I will have Solitaire on my side this time round \o/
You going to onebro the AoA stuff? Some of those guys seem like they could be challenging.
Ehhh I’m not really a fan of DLC in general so I haven’t got it.
It is good? Worth $20?
Emphatically yes. At least I thought it was.
Siiiigh, fine.
And I was almost done too.
It’s pretty rad!
Considering the price for the PTD edition is around $35 for any console, paying $20 for the DLC alone seems kind of silly… but yes, it’s worth the money regardless.
Yeah this is exactly why I avoid and dislike DLC, especially on consoles. It’s just way overpriced for what you get.
But Dark Souls \o/ I guess.
@gargamel @benny @everyone
For 2 days only, The Lesser Evil ebook is just 99 cents.
http://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Evil-Omnibus-Graphic-Novel-ebook/dp/B00EG3X5C2/
(Make sure your Kindle account is set to USA, because the price doesn’t seem to have translated across to the Amazon AU store)
Still showing as US$7.78? I actually went and read the first 30 pages of the sample this morning. 😀
Try changing your billing addy to USA, see if that works. I had to do something like that to get it to show up for me :\
Haha, when I added it to wish list it showed as 99c so then I clicked that wanky 1-click buy button and then checked the invoice – $7.78. Not to worry, it’s really not your fault that Amazon’s a bit shit. I DON’T WANT ONE OF YOUR INFAMOUS REFUNDS EITHER! More importantly, I now have The Lesser Evil!
Downloading now. 😀
Peaceful Tomorrows is the sequel, is that correct? @shane
Correct!
But you should totally make sure you like the first one first!
Aw man 🙁
Stoopid Amazon. This sale hates Aussies, I think. Took me ages to get the 99c price showing up at all 🙁
Sorry, dude!
Don’t sweat it.
Check your email. I comped you a copy of the Flamestar comic instead of offering you a cash refund.
DARK SOULS!
So after not playing anything for the past couple of weeks, I decided to jump back into Dark Souls. Still a pretty cool guy. Although I think I’m a bit stuck.
Been exploring the Undead Burg for a few hours today. Slicing and dicing my way through dozens of undead swordsman. Nothing too bad, died a couple of times because I mistimed attacks but got all my souls back and HOLY SHIT TAURUS DEMON!!! Seriously this thing came out of nowhere. Thankfully I had climbed the tower and already gotten rid of the 2 Crossbolters but fuck me… And then I lost about 10,000 souls because on my way back to the Taurus Demon some bullshit cheap arse Skeleton with a firebomb screwed me over. GRAGH!!!Anyway, got rid of the Taurus Demon the third time around by climbing the tower and using jump attacks about 3 times until it was almost dead, then hacking and slashing… Actually thinking about, that 2 boss monsters that I’ve won because of falling attacks. What am I going to do when there isnt an easily accessible high ledge :/
Thankfully some nice folks had left messgaes so i didn’t get roasted by the giant red dragon, but now I’m kind of stuck. I can’t go across the bridge without getting roasted, and if I go under the bridge and get into the Undead Parish, theres either this giant Armoured Skeleton Kinght thing that I can’t touch or what looks like a giant Armoured Rat with about a dozen Skeleton offsiders that I haven’t been game enough to tangle with yet. Hmm. Finally found the Undead Merchant too, so I bought a Crossbow and a ton of bolts and was thinking off sniping the dragon perhaps… Is there any way of aiming without locking on to a target? Because I can’t get that close to the Dragon. Not if i want to keep my Undead Skin nice and un-crispy-fied
For the attention of @shane or @freezespreston or @strange or other Darks Souls aficionados
There is a free aim option, not quite sure how you do it without locking on though. It MIGHT be something you can only do with a bow rather than the crossbow, I have a vague memory of there being a solid reason I used a bow over a crossbow, might be that. The dragon is definitely worth sniping, if you sit under the bridge you can repeatedly tag its tail for really quite light amounts of damage and it feels totally futile for ages but then eventually you get the reward and damn is it nice!
If I recall correctly, the armoured rat thing is actually some kind of boar and charges you as its main attack. Assuming that’s the right one, it’s vulnerable to thrusting attacks in its arse (which sounds way filthier than I planned). You can also run to the right and go up some stairs to clear out the archers & make the fight… well I was going to say “safer” but this is dark souls, “more manageable” would be better.
Oh yeah, @novacascade, get the Drake sword by sniping his tail under the bridge. Powerful early weapon. Need to use bow not crossbow as crossbow has no free aim.
Not 100% on your descriptions but I’ll start early, The Red Dragon is one of the hardest bosses I found. Completely optional so ignore it. You need to get halfway up the bridge down a staircase(make sure to kick down the ladder shortcut) and you’ll get to the Armoured Boar (you call it rat maybe?) which easiest way to deal with is to draw aggro of skeletons one at a time, work your way around to the right and up a staircase, taking out the skeletons and drop the attraction bait(soul remains? I can’t quite remember) onto the bonfires.At least I think that’s where you are. Been a while since I played the Burg/Parish.
Allrighty, first off the dragon.
Crossbows can’t free aim but bows can so get yourself a bow and while under the bridge shoot at its tail till it falls off – free op sword.
Next, don’t worry about the Black Knight on top of the tower just yet but you will need to tackle the Armored Boar.
Firstly take care of the skellys closest to you without agroing the boar, then take a right after the big gateway and go up some stairs and take out all the skellys up there.
Then the Boar.
It is relatively weak to fire so kite it so that it charges at you and runs into the bonfires dotted around the place. Finish off with firebombs if you have any.
Oh yeah, I forgot its fire weakness, being inside so much metal it’s like making bacon on the bone!
Thanks everyone. Gives me some good stuff to go off. Shame I grabbed the crossbow instead of the bow. Can I sell it back to the merchant? I’ll just have to farm some more souls and get a bow. Maybe then I wont get screwed over by the skeletons with the firebombs again too.
Yeah, the Boar is what i called a Rat. i didn’t really get close enough to tell the difference 🙂
Also
Fuck the skeletons with spears. They never give me a decent opening to attack and always seem to read my mind and completely screw me over. Repeatedly!!Tap forward and attack, the kick destabilises their defence and helps get a shot in.Yeah I’ve kicked a few things but never figured out exactly how I did it. I just thought it was because I was right up close to them. Thats the only time its happenedas I said, tap forward and attack at the same time. Forward and heavy attack at once does a jump attack, pressing roll without a direction hops back, attack in the middle of a roll does a sweeping area attack. There’s a lot of little moves the game doesn’t tell you.Spear skeletons are pretty vulnerable to both kicks and the counter attacks if you get good at timing them.
DARK SOULS \o/
I miss Dark Souls…
NG+28?
I got as far as NG++ and got all the achievements. Then I lent the game to my bro, who I don’t think has played it yet.
I got to a NG+5 but couldn’t beat the Four Kings.
Pop into TAY and not even a @DC mention
This is a sad day for jimus everywhere 😛
Played some PS4 at @gutsoup ‘s
Not any *real* next-gen games yet are there?
Still, Resogun was a fun as all buggery.
Heh. Buggery.
it fucked me up good 😉
Probably not until they decide to stop making current gen versions as well. Kind of limits your design decisions when you have to cater for the far less powerful systems as well.
*Sigh* I know, right?
#MasterRace
It’s summer.
D:
Bummer.
as a resident of queensland, I can second this, but also, this comes nowhere near close to expressing just how terrible this news actually is. 😐
Six of us sharing the floor last night. Well, this morning. Whatever time we went to bed. I think I woke to find myself the big spoon?
At least it wasn’t one of the guys.
What would @transientmind do? 😉
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Actor-Paul-Walker-Has-Died-Car-Accident-40505.html
Well, shit. 🙁
🙁 Poor guy.
I only watched Furious 6 on friday night D: and I was thinking that he was the best element to the franchise. Though critically panned, The Skulls remains an indulgence of mine.
Really? He barely existed after the first two. Was just sort of there. Especially in Furious 6.
Yeah, 6 was pretty average – 4 and 5 are my favourites. The whole cop side-story to his character made him more interesting than the rest. FTR, Tokyo Drift sucks.
*Edited as to not be skewed into a sexual reference.
Hmm I have been on a roll with editing today.
Really? I thought that four was pretty meh. Five was incredible, and six pretty well lived up to my expectations after five.
Looks like everyone has different favourites. Mind you, it’s almost up to the seventh film in the series – that’s pretty crazy. It feels like just yesterday that I was watching the first in school.
Tbh I can’t really remember much of four, but the one thing I do remember is how horrible the CGI in those tunnel scenes was. Felt like one of those movies you watch in the rides with the moving chairs, usually taking you on some kind of a virtual rollercoaster.
Five just went and embraced the ridiculousness of everything and turned it all up to 11. Or maybe somewhere around 15. Seriously had the best time watching that the first time around.
I liked the one with the bit with the guy with the car.