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anyone else having probs with ubisoft servers for trials fusion on xbox one? everything seems to work, uplay, track central etc except my times arent saving.
Yeah I had that, ain’t just you.
Same here, worked on the first track but the few after that never connect, put me off progressing since I felt like I was missing out.
Seems pretty common, there was a bit on the ubi forums about it.
Yea about 90% of my times arent saving, I get the odd one slip through, I’m just getting gold on everything now will go back for times later when few more friends start posting theirs, still the leaderboards were a huge part of previous trials games, these issues are a bit of a killer.
Pretty great weekend. My girlfriend met the extended wog family and i met hers at her 21st. It wasnt nearly as bad as i thought. It was actually pretty okay.
Im back at work and im SOOO relaxed.
also about 16 episodes into Sword art Online, man this show is all over the place. I still kind of like it. But the characters have super inconsistent personalities.
Getting serious, Rockets. 😛
Sounds awesome, my friend!
I think I only got about 12 episodes into SAO before taking a break. I agree that the characters go all over the place but I suppose that’s what happens when the storyline jumps months at a time.
I enjoy it for the concept but dang does it stumble over its ideas.
I believe there is a new show that has a similar story but is much better.
EDIT: Log Horizon or something?
Yeah that rings a bell. I’ll have to check it out along with the other bunch of anime that I’ve yet to catch up on. 😛
Sounds like you are having a good time, well done Mr!
Hey friends. Good weekend. Great weekend. Hung out with a new pal for like six hours on Saturday. Cooked for the first time on Sunday and yesterday. Started watching Hannibal. (It’s pretty great.) And played me some adventure games. Good times. 😀
What’s new with you guys?
I hermitted like a pro, the only reason I left my house over the four day weekend was to walk my dog.
I feel you might be the new hermit overlord. The one the prophecies spoke of!
believe it or not I actually tried to get people to do stuff, no one wanted to.
Hooray for cooking! Glad the results are turning out well, slow cooking is a great way to get started. Set it and forget it! (with apologies to Ron Popeil)
Hey DC.
Moved house most of the long weekend. Enjoyed playing the beginning of TLJ, I’ll write more once I’ve spent a few more hours in it, probably tonight after Game of Thrones!
The Longest Journey! Yesssss! I assume you’ve just been moseying about Venice with April Ryan. Taking in the sights and sounds. Slowly but surely falling in love. 😀
Man, what is it with TAYbies moving house over major holidays. @dkzeitgeist moved on Christmas Day I’m pretty sure.
I haven’t ventured outside yet! I just had a lengthy conversation with April’s land lady about life and her other room mates. I had to turn it off after that though as my room mates started playing Titanfall and the sound was ruining the atmosphere.
But, moseying about, listening to the sound track and clicking on all the things is exactly what I intend to do!
You have not made the enemies list today, Riley. 😀
Aww, yeah.
(⌐■_■)
I just found out there’s a thing called the Yeti Crab. It’s pretty cool
Haha ‘pretty great’ oh man just wait until season 2 then….
Edit: Nieghbours dog had to be put down due to another neighbour who is a vindictive and hateful person.
Breath of Fire 5: Dragon Quarter is the best BoF game and a brilliant game in itself and it sickens me how people avoided that game due to their own complacency and killed the franchise!
I remember playing that in high school and really enjoying it. Didnt realise it got ignored.
Ignored? It so didn’t sell well that Capcom discontinued the franchise and now we’re getting a shitty mobile sequel.
I played that game and liked it. But I think it got shunned because for most it was a source of frustration.
While novel, I don’t think the ol’ Dragon Meter went down too well with most players.
and now Dark Souls is pulling in all the players despite BoF5 doing it 10 years earlier…
Too much chocolate this weekend.
…
*throws up*
Not enough chocolate.
I had next to no chocolate, was a good weekend.
I don’t mean to sound silly but try drinking lemon water for a while to clean things out.
So in addition to Pathfinder last night (which was glorious by the way), I also played some Only War 40K RPG on the weekend. Here’s a brief summary:
– We’ve been seconded to the Inquisition because we’re starting to reach badass levels of Guardsmen.
– That said, we had our first encounter with Tyranids. Holy crap they are terrifying as my guy was completely geared up for melee combat with a power fist and even the Hormagaunts wanted me to stay as far away from them as possible.
– Thankfully we managed to locate and “recover” a crashed Tau ship that had quite a substantial armoury on board and set about laying a minefield of gravity and pulse mines. Those didn’t really help against the Termagaunts though. Or the Genestealers D:
– The fight culminated with the boss being a Warrior Prime who proceeded to a) slash the eye of our scout to no lasting damage, b) mangle my cybernetic arm and destroy my power fist D:, and c) cleave off one of my ears and part of my face in a way that would have made me burn a fate point but apparently my cybernetic arm (which also is more like a cybernetic shoulder and upper left torso) had some sort of bio-energy discharge that jumpstarted my heart. With my primary weapon useless, I pulled out my Hell-pistol and crit twice and killed the beast. Yeah, that made me feel better.
– The Inquisition said we could keep the Tau ship and use it for transport as our Valkyrie has been reclaimed by the Catachan regiment that we borrowed it from (the rest of the Catachan were dead in the crash so we took it to prevent it falling into enemy hands). Funnily enough, the Techpriests were going to remove the modifications that we made to the Valkyrie (which included four twin-linked autocannons and two wing-mounted rocket pods) and the Catachan asked them if they could keep the ship as it was. 😛
Holy crap… yeah Tyranids, I’m surprised you survived 😛
The inquisition letting you keep xenotech? Best keep that quiet from the Ordo Hereticus
Sounds pretty fun to me!
Pity about the power fist 🙁
Morning, TAY! Hope everybody had a good weekend.
I went down to visit the folks and ate my body weight in food. Also got the usual “Oh hey, you work with computers, you must be able to help me with…” conversations. Was pretty good though (Also loving the new Opal cards for trains. Travelled for 5 hours over the weekend for free! Normally would’ve cost me like $18 :P)
Played a whole bunch of Bugs vs Tanks on the train. Really good little game! Also got an itch to play Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents, so downloaded “Osu!” on PC (it’s free!) and played around with that for an afternoon. Really good game, though there’s not really many songs to play on there if you’re not too into anime songs you’ve never heard of. Good for a short while.
Also, Dark Souls (no, I still haven’t finished it…)
Hc gb Qenatyrvp Pnfgyr abj. Zber Ehva Fragvaryf! Q: Naq gurl erfcnja! Q: Ng yrnfg gurl’er n ybg rnfvre gb orng 1i1. Nyfb, SVANYYL tbg n arj fgnss gb hfr. Jvgpugerr be fbzrguvat? V’z wrnybhf bs zryrr pynffrf, gurl unir FB znal bcgvbaf rneyl ba naq V’ir orra fghpx jvgu zl fgnegvat fgnss orpnhfr gurer’f orra ab bguref hagvy abj.
V fnirq bhgfvqr bs gur obff qbbe arkg gb gur Dhrra’f ebbz, juvpu V’yy gel naq gnpxyr gbavtug.
EDIT: Okay, so apparently spoiler tags aren’t working at the moment? CAREFUL, EVERYONE! I’ll put the DS2 stuff in rot13, just in case. I’m not sure if anybody is trying to avoid it? Nothing really that spoilery, but anyway.
Ugh, I hate those conversations. Oh, hey you work with computers; you must have been the one who set up the email on my phone. What’s my password again?
I haven’t played Bugs vs Tanks but I picked up a bunch of those other experimental Level 5 games, including Aero Porter for some strange reason, and I’ve enjoyed most of them. I think Liberation Maiden and Weapon Shop were pretty good and I’m yet to play Attack of the Friday Monsters (I really need to get on that).
Oh man, I still have so many fond memories of Elite Beat Agents. The songs that they chose were the exact right kind of fun and funky music and I remember the last level being a blast to play. Even though they were covers they were still damn good music.
Yeah, definitely give them all a try. They’ve all been decent to good. Attack of the Friday Monsters was also one of my GOTY’s last year too. Love that game.
And yeah, the last level of EBA was fantastic. Best in the game! Such a shame we’ll probably never see another…
We should play Osu! as a group (again for all the people who used to play it on TS)! Then I can get competitive and chastise myself whenever I don’t win!
I’m surprised there aren’t more Disney songs on it. Just Can’t Wait to be King was the only one I found 😛
Im in, i can do like 4 songs really well and suck at the rest so we can only play those songs
but the attack on titan theme is awesome
I remember we played that when I had my wrist in plaster. Wasn’t the greatest success but was still fun.
Hidden bonfire details:
Nf lbh’er pyvzovat hc gur fgnvepnfr gbjneqf gur Dhrra’f ivrjvat ebbz, gurer fubhyq or n ynqqre lbh pna npprff sebz n fvqr ebbz gb gur yrsg juvpu gnxrf lbh bagb gur ebbsf jurer gur nepuref jrer. Whfg arkg gb gur ynqqre yrnqvat orgjrra gjb bs gur ebbsf vf na vyyhfbel jnyy gung yrnqf gb n urycshy obasver.
I actually found that already! (Who’da thunk!)
I’ve gotten into the habit of hugging every wall and spamming the action button just to look for fake walls 😛
Mad Men 7×02:
@virus__, @sughly
Spoiler tags are broken, so this is in http://rot13.com/
Ernyyl, ernyyl qvttvat guvf frnfba. Ybir gur fuvsg va Qba gbb, ubj ur’f bhg va gur pbyq ohg gelvat gb cerfreir n fgnghf dhb. Frggvat uvf nynez fgvyy naq nyy gung. Ernyyl rawblrq gur pbagvahngvba bs guvf fgbel yvar jvgu Fnyyl gbb. Nsgre gur frnfba svanyr jurer ur gbbx gurz gb uvf puvyqubbq ubzr V gubhtug gung jnf cebterff naq Qba ylvat jura fur ivfvgrq gur bssvpr frrzrq yvxr n erghea gb sbez sbe uvz. Yhpxvyl gurl obaqrq. V nyjnlf rawbl gur fprarf jurer Fnyyl naq Qba obaq, vg jbhyq or fb rnfl sbe Qba gb ercnve gur eryngvbafuvc ohg gurl obgu fgehttyr trggvat gb gung cbvag. Gung fprar ng gur raq jvgu gur ‘Unccl Inyragvar’f Qnl, V ybir lbh!” guvat? Pbhyq srry jung Qba jnf srryvat. Unun!
Gung fprar jurer Fnyyl ivfvgrq gur bssvpr jnf vaperqvoyl jryy fubg gbb. Ybirq ubj fyvtugyl bss guvatf frrzrq naq lbh pbhyq frr gung guebhtu Fnyyl. Fbzrguvat jnfa’g evtug. Znfgreshyyl qbar. Ernyyl yvxvat gur qrirybczrag bs ure punenpgre gbb. Gelvat gb or byqre naq fbzrbar ryfr. Gung pbzzrag nobhg jnagvat Orggl va gur tebhaq jnf nyy xvaqf bs qnex naq uvynevbhf. KQ
Ybgf bs pbzrqvp ryrzragf va guvf rcvfbqr. Gur Crttl fghss jnf whfg pevatr jbegul rzoneenffvat. Ernyyl tynq Qnja raqrq hc jvgu n cebzbgvba bs fbegf gbb. Ernyyl yvxr Qnja.
Rot13, like the old days!
Done. Hope I didn’t spoil any one. Sorry ’bout that.
I’m not getting notifications, all because it won’t let me view my profile or show me logged in, this is so balls.. Things aren’t posting for me first time either, ugh!
I totally agree, also her name is Dawn? I thought it was Don, well that’s how it always sounded to me prior to season 7 lol.
V jbhyq fnl gur vqrn oruvaq Qba’f eryngvbafuvc jvgu Fnyyl vf zber nobhg gur vqrn gung ur unf n erfcrpg sbe ure gung ur qbrfag unir jvgu nalbar ryfr, gebhoyrq eryngvbafuvc or qnzarq. Vg vf gebhoyrq, ohg… gurer’f n ornhgvshy xvaq bs xabjyrqtr gurl unir nobhg rnpu bgure gung evfrf bire gung, naq V guvax gung’f jurer gung ybir pbzrf sebz. Rira vs Fnyyl vf qvfnccbvagrq va uvz. V qba’g guvax Qba vagraqf gb cynl gur avpr sngure, V guvax ur’f pbzsbegnoyr orvat erny jvgu ure fvapr fur’f bar bs gur srj crbcyr ur pna or, juvpu gvrq vagb uvz gnxvat ure gb uvf puvyqubbq ubhfr naq jungabg. V guvax gung gevc onpx sbe uvz jnf rknpgyl jung ur jnagrq vg gb or, naq gur pbagenfg bs Fnyyl pnyyvat ure sevraqf naq tbvat onpx gb gur gnoyr jvgu uvz fubjrq vg jnf fbzrguvat zber zrnavatshy guna ure hfhny qnlf gbb jvgu sevraqf fur’f boivbhfyl abg pbzcyrgryl pbzsbegnoyr jvgu.
Ruuu enzoyrf, ohg bu zna, guvf vf jul V’z ybivat guvf frnfba fb zhpu! Fb zhpu gb ernq vagb ^^
Bu, gung’f fbzr tbbq vafvtug gurer. V’z vapyvarq gb nterr!
V yvxr gung Fnyyl nyfb unf gbhpurf bs gubfr zbzragf jvgu Orggl gbb. Ynfg frnfba jura Orggl yrg ure fzbxr naq jura fur fnvq “Zl sngure’f arire tvira zr nal guvat”…
Gurl obgu frrz gb npuvrir fbzrguvat jura gurl yrg gubfr cergrafrf qbja jvgu Fnyyl. V guvax fur qvtf frrvat gurz nf erny crbcyr gbb.
New Tay!
I had a good break- went to The Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday, hosted BOARD GAMES at mine Saturday and played a bunch of Ground Zeroes. Also, Pathfinder DMed by @popdart5, which was fun.
A Monday Morning Question: Which Game would you like to see Wes Anderson adapt? I’d love to see Wes Anderson’s Broken Sword
Want want to see Grand Budapest and also a Wes Anderson Broken Sword. XD
In trademark Wes Anderson flat delivery: Ah, Paris in the fall
cut to shot of Stobbart, played by Jason Schwartzman, Camera moving in a straight line across an elaborately dressed set until he’s dead centre in frame
Hoping to go catch Grand Budapest this weekend. Fingers crossed.
Pathfinder was the first time ever where I was actually trying to put on a voice for my character 😛
I noticed that. Maybe in this universe Elvish can be closer to cockney, given we’re both going the brit?
That just doesn’t fit the Elvish image xD, it would be hilarious though.
Cockney I would plan more for a Halfling, and Scottish if I roll a Dwarf xD
Scottish is the traditional dialect of Dwarf-ish.
I was thinking of using something akin to Russian for Orc-ish dialogue.
You speak Orcish?
Common, Catfolk, Elvish, Goblin, Orcish, and Abyssal.
Moderate Int, ranks in Linguistics.
Elven, Common, Orcish and Gnome for me.
High Int all the way- that’s how we got trapkilling duty!
@redartifice No, you got trapkilling duty. I got “colour the stones so you don’t get them mixed up” duty. :p
It’s going to be very interesting / greatly looking forward to see[ing] the different perspectives on what happened. I’ve got Drewan’s notes in front of me and I’m sure they read quite differently to Abelas’ thoughts.
@beeawwb the Rogue on trapfinding duty. I felt like such a cliche!
I’ll hopefully have my write-up finished tonight
Actually yeah, lets be real, Elvish is always going to be Welsh.
Work is dead, TAY is dead, Twitter is dead
wtf life why you be so quiet. Dont make me read 700 chapters of one piece, ill do it i swear to god.
This is what I feel any morning when I’m at work. Do you know how boring twitter is at a quarter past seven?
I asked you a question on Twitter like an hour ago and you’ve been ignoring me!
Jerk.
I wasn’t ignoring you, I just don’t notice the DM notification thing. And when I do I usually ignore it because it usually just shows me messages from 12 months ago.
Whatever, Blaghs.
More like, Jerkman.
That will get you like 1/4 through the entire show?
yeah probably less
Maybe you’re in fact dead, and are also Bruce Willis?
I’m serious, one day I decided “fuck it, what’s this one piece about?” I then proceeded, over the course of 2-3 days, marathoned just about 600-700 chapters online.
First time I had ever decided to commit myself so seriously to ah, anything, really. Sometimes I get overzealous and read certain books I pick up within a few days, but nothing ever like that.
Was worth it, though.
Oh man, I have a silly amount of One Piece on my computer. I last remember getting half way through the Rainbow Mist story before I got tired of it. I should really watch the rest of what I have, there have been some good stories in there.
So guys, in thee interest of keeping my bad reputation up, did you know that Beauty and the Beast opened on Broadway 20 years ago last Friday (you would if you’d seen me mention it last night, but shut up)? I know this because I creepily stalk Susan Egan (Belle from the stage, Megara from Hercules) on twitter.
So in honour of this, I think that all of you who aren’t D.C. should join me in listening to its soundtrack, which is kind of jarring if you’re only used to the movie version.
Oh, also Bun Bun and Frey… Frey(?) turned up at my house on Good Friday, and we played board games (more like BORE- Ehh, you know the joke). More importantly, they can now vouch to the accuracy of my stories about my mother. :/ She was so restrained, until just as they were leaving…
The only jarring bit was Lefou, I thought. Everything else was great. 😀
I dunno, when I first started listening to it Belle was a real surprise, since she sounded like Megara. Now that I’ve listened to it a thousand times I have the opposite problem, and I can’t watch Hercules without thinking of Belle. :/
For me she sounds vaguely reminiscent of Stephanie D’Abruzzo which just makes me wonder if Belle is a puppet. :p
Hey hey, all. Currently enjoying a peaceful easter monday. And by that I mean I’ve bought a good $40 dollars worth of easter candy, which might or might not be worth it.
The Easter chocolate aisle in the supermarket was madness yesterday. People see “$2 off” and go nuts.
just nuts or fruit & nuts?
Morning errbody how was everyone’s weekend/Easter/chocolate coma?
Cathryn and I went camping for the long weekend with her family up in Eildon which was good but cold, oh so very very cold. Entire trip I was the only one to catch a fish (I never fish it was my first time). We had home made gyros and a whole bunch of other meaty goodness and jaffles oh so many jaffles filled with bacon and eggs!
We got home yesterday and ended up going out that night to se the Lego movie, I found it hilarious, Cathryn not so much as it wasn’t a movie she would usually see but overall had it’s moments I gave it a 8 1/2 awesome a out of everyday awesome while Cathryn gave it a 7 1/2
I too saw the Lego movie yesterday and I can just say that it’s a fun movie. Unfortunately I missed the first few minutes due to running late but the film was downright enjoyable and the people who made it did seem to have fun themselves.
I had a silly grin all through the Lego Movie, from about the first scene on.
My wife didn’t care for it much either.
So this weekend I got a group together and played Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator.
each person takes a station (Helm, Weapons, Science(sensors), Engineering, Comms, Captain) and the captain orders the ship where to go. I started on engineering, tried captain (NEVER AGAIN) and then did weapons for a while (PEWPEWPEW)
HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AWESOME.
The best part of the evening was manging to kill an entire armada by calling them names so they flew into a black hole.
I Highly reccommend playing it, the Ipad/Android apps are approx $3 and the PC one is approx 40 for 6 licences. (but is DRM Free)
if anyone is interested in giving it a go let me know.
http://www.artemis.eochu.com/
Colour me jealous, I’ve always had a hankering to play Artemis!
I’m sure it’s something that could be done via teamspeak and a central server…
Personally I think half the fun comes from being on the same “bridge” in the same room. Unless you’re in engineering.
I found engineering quite easy, until people left the shields down and launched a nuke point blank…
They were probably wearing a red shirt.
Oh, dear god. I remember just playing a dumbed down version of this a couple weeks back named Quintet with a few TAYbies over TS- Blaghman, Aleph, Steve-O, Gorzilla, and me? We did exceedingly well and managed to scare off every other player (all five!) on the server when we started blowing up their ships. Also I believe half of us were drinking.
This however looks infinitely more complicated and therefore far more fun. Will check it out.
Once again, if you are interested let me know, I’m keen to play this a lot
So did I to be honest, it’s just all around fun and the viewing we saw there was actually no one under the age of 20 there for reasons.
This was in reply to @redartifice about The Lego Movie, KotakuAU has a hangover
Weekend of movies.
The Lone Ranger – Everyone was saying to avoid it like the turd it is but I actually really enjoyed it. Not a fantastic movie by any means but it was fun. Only real issue is it would be a great kids movie except for some weird reason they threw in some over the top violent scenes (William Fitchner eating a guys heart).
Escape Plan – Okay this is the very definition of stupid action fun. Stallone gets put into a CIA secret ultra max prison because [insert stupid meaningless plot point here] and Schwarzenegger helps him to escape the only way they know how. Bullets and snapped necks ensue. Brilliant. Caveziel was great as a weird twitchy warden and Sam Neill was Sam Neill. 50 Cent was a computer nerd for some reason.
Anchorman 2 – Good god how did they go so wrong. There were one or two laughs but in a two hour movie that’s just abysmal. They made the mistake of going full retard along with recycling every setup from the first movie. Really disappointed with this one. First one is a classic and this one I just wanted to turn off.
Oldboy (Hollywood) – Another one people complained about but I enjoyed but that would probably have more to do with a man crush on Josh Brolin. Elizabeth Olsen can act too. Also looks very good naked. Hmm. Starting to realise why I liked this film 😛
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Solid film. I’m loving how they’re all part of a continuous overarching story. They could have utilised the Winter Soldier a bit more. He never really seemed all that threatening. Cap’s shield is a bit all over the place though. He can take a full strike from Mjolnir or a missle’s direct hit and not move an inch but some random terrorist kicks it and he flies a few feet back. The movie did further reinforce that Scarlett Johansson will be my next wife but they had to throw Emily Vancamp in there too. Hnnnghh. Mistress perhaps?
Anyone else going to Ironfest this long weekend?
http://www.ironfest.net/
More gifs than kotaku, Quite the feat.
I gotta say, @Markserrels – I really like the new TAY description. Good stuff. People were hung up on the image or something last week, but I never really looked at that. Text is where it’s at.
Hey Transientmind! Feeling better after dentist/sick/bad day one-two-three punch?
Dentist was actually a non-event.
Guilty secret: I hadn’t been to one for ten years. TEN YEARS. It’s just started being covered by my health care, which I ALSO only got because I turned 31 and every year you don’t have health cover after that jacks up the price for life by a stupid amount when you do eventually get it. And if I’m going to pay for a glorified fucking discount card for when I need it later in life, I might as well use what I can. (I calculated that by not having/needing health insurance over the last ten years, I’ve probably saved $15k+.)
I was expecting there to be cavities or something, but apparently the ache was just sinus pain from the sickness – the nerves attached to that stretch across the sides of your face, which can be mistaken for a deep toothache. X-rays and visual inspection showed that the teeth are pretty much perfect. Slight receding of gums due to brushing too hard, so I just have to dial that back a little and everything will be fine. I did have to explain my history with the missing front tooth, but otherwise he cleaned some calc off, but that’s about it. (Quote: “When a patient tells you they haven’t seen a dentist for ten years, you know they’re either going to have really, really bad teeth with loads of repairs needed, or they have really, really good teeth that they take perfect care of. Anything else gets someone in pretty quickly.”)
Youngest brother has terrible teeth, so I’m not telling him about how long I left it. Because he needs to see one more often. I don’t want him thinking he can get away with what I get away with. (Much like… well. Many things in life. Le sigh. Some of us definitely lucked out on starting rolls in char-gen.)
Otherwise, yeah. I’m still hocking up crap, but energy is returning. I’m not going to do any intensive exercise or anything yet, I know I’m still in recovery, but I at least feel human now. I can’t wait until the last of the sickness is gone and I go back to feeling powerful again. Y’know… Full of vitality and coiled-spring potential. It’s one of those things you don’t really notice til it’s gone.
I’ve just returned from my first visit to the dentist in 10+ years, also. And also only because it was covered by my health care. 😀
I’ve got major sinus problems myself at the moment, both maxillaries are fairly swollen as is the left frontal and the right frontal is so swollen I’m surprised there’s not a bulge in my skull. Have you ever had treatment for it?
Nah, it passed after a few days as part of the course of symptoms that this whole sickness has manifested over time. At the moment I’ve moved on to constant, dry coughing. Probably trying to expel the last stubborn clumps of crap still sitting in my lungs and throat.
@tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
Have you guys got a physical description, a couple of lines about your characters? I’m trying to do a write-up and the best I’ve got without embellishing is along the lines of “Barbarian looking dude” and “Druid with crazy eyes”
Karvurk has a scar on the right side of his face. He was branded by his tribe when they discovered he was a magic user at an early age. The brand roughly translates to “Elven Mage” which is one of the biggest insults in the Hobgoblin language.
Besides that? A fairly normal Hobgoblin; bald, has orange eyes, has dark greenish skin.
Also I will hopefully finish my backstory this week. I’ll email you a copy when it’s done @redartifice
Well the Druid can include “Ink stains on his chin” now 😛
Dem’nion, in short, quite thin build due to “Noble forcefully trying to live off the wild” diet for several months, blonde hair going just past his shoulders and red eyes (Like on his avatar pic on the tumblr).
Well his tongue is now probably going to be dyed black. It’s okay though, he never really had a silver tongue.
6’8″, 280lbs, long white hair and beard, his tribes totems tattooed across arms, chest, face and back. Bright blue eyes. Early 40’s. All muscle. Weathered features. Entire body covered in scars.
You could always do what I do and just make things up as I go along and invent my own descriptions, I mean *cough*… Yes.
I was going to do that based on my conception, and Lord Tallone is in his 40s, short and balding, but for PCs I’m going to err on the side of unique looks.
Ginger-ish cat, green eyes. Wide-eyed and inexperienced. Too much knowledge, not enough sense. (And a couple rough drawings on the Tumblr to that effect)
Yeah, those images have been useful. Also, Abelas is calling you a naive kitten in his head at this point.
Accurate and fair. 🙂
Slightly over-weight, lazy. Dreams big but doesn’t act. Alcoholic.
That’s some good roleplaying you’re doing there.
One of those, ‘so real it probably is’ scenarios. 😀
Method Actor.
I added it to my character’s profile in Roll20 but this might not be visible to anyone else?
I think those are only visible to @popdart5 and yourself in game. I was only ever able to see my own.
I’ll go back and check things out to look at releasing viewing privileges. I know I had set it up for you guys to look at but I wasn’t sure if there was an option to make it public.
To be honest I haven’t thought too much about it other than the vague, generalised wildling description. I guess matted, long brown hair with a bushy beard. Tall and generally toned/well built, except for a bit of a pot-belly. Is rather hairy for a human, with excessive body hair everywhere except for where his many scars are. Brown Eyes and long, grime-encrusted finger nails. This was really rushed, but should do for a start.
So, my youngest brother got a job here in Brisbane only a hundred metres down the street from where I live, so he’s living with me now.
He moved in over the weekend.
I had actually moved the PC desk and PC to the spare room, got rid of the bed, then used the extra living room space for a table and chairs, so we’ve had to play furniture tetris and order another bed to accommodate the extra person. His bed hasn’t been delivered, so he’s couch-sleeping, with the TV.
I think he played Dynasty Warriors 8 on my PS3 for like… 48hrs straight and have doubts he’d have slept before midnight the day before his new job if I hadn’t imposed a mandatory bedtime. He’s always routinely been active on Steam at any bizarre hour of the morning. Even when he was employed.
So, it’s like a ‘crashing for a couple days’ situation right now, but eventually it’ll be full-blown roommates mode, so interesting to see how those challenges pan out. I foresee getting a lot more sleep than I traditionally have, with the setting of bedtimes and making sure he takes a multivitamin. I guess I’ll have to grocery shop for two… At least sharing rent money will make that easier.
Because I’m ultimately a considerate person, I might have to change my gym schedule or something and head to work earlier in the mornings so that he has time alone in the apartment when I’m not there. Because not having ‘me time’ can make a person cranky and unmanageable.
Congrats to your bro about the job, though. That’s excellent news!
Its nice to know other people are stupid and are ridiculously responsible with there siblings, it makes me seem less crazy.
He’s 28, but in some respects he’ll always be my ‘baby brother’. Life has randomly been kinder to me than to him and the unfairness of it incites a powerful sense of protectiveness which I actively have to fight. 😛
(Edit: Not entirely random. He does have a tad less determination and bloody-minded stubbornness than I do. Which while not always a benefit, has yielded more rewards for me.)
Anyone else having issues since the comments upgrade over the weekend?
Normally on the Kotaku main page on a story next to the “Discuss” button (and also at the top of the actual story), you would see the number of comments for that post, but that number isn’t showing up anymore.
Also this morning, in the top right it says I’m not logged in but I clearly am because I can post…
Yeah, I’m getting the same. Just figure it’s server gremlins still being fed after midnight.
Yup, on the main page it says I am logged out, but clearly I am logged in because I am posting.
Very strange
Also I keep getting a “You are posting too fast” when I try to post more then once every few minutes.
I posted for the first time in half an hour, and got that message… Something is quite wrong somewhere.
I got that error message on the very first message I tried to post after something close to four days of not posting anything.
Refreshing seems to deal with it for now.
Yeah, same thing is happening to me.
@benwhite
I think even the Allura Media servers have an Easter hang over at the moment.
At the moment, even though I am logged on and easily posting, the login button is still at the top of the page.
And the usual buttons on the article pages are not showing the number of shares, comments, etc.
Looks as though it’s been all fixed now hopefully.
I am a long time Final Fantasy fan, but I skipped FFX due to a negligence of the PS2 era. I just picked the HD remaster up, and while I am enjoying it, I don’t think I’ll ever get fully involved with it like I have with other FF’s, which I find interesting as it has always been so highly regarded from what I’ve heard. The problem for me is that the world doesn’t seem very inhabitable or immersive. I don’t feel like it is a world that people actually live it – for a world where death and destruction happen every day, people seem to be able to pick themselves up and carry on a little too easily. When Sector 7 got wiped out in Midgar (FF7), the loss portrayed by all the oppressed in the city was tangible, but not so in Spira.
Which brings me to my next point: OVERWORLD! Personally I NEED an overworld to get sucked into a world, a container of sorts which shows me the limits of where I can go and what new places I can explore. I’m sure all of this was hashed out upon release ’cause it was the first FF to be without one, but I still haven’t found a sound reason why they neglected to include one. Without an overworld, it just feels like a corridor in which I have no possibility of exploration. Even FF13, ‘the final hallway’, had Gran Pulse, a mass of expansive land to traverse, which I freakin’ loved.
I won’t say too much about the sphere grid. It’s a great idea, but it makes for incredibly slow stat increases. I’m sure it’ll open up in the end game when I can grind a little better.
So, FFX fanboys and veterans, care to address my points? I REALLY want to love this game, I’m just not quite there yet.
Good, interesting points. I’ve almost completed FFX but like you, it didn’t really draw me in as much as 7 or 8.
I’m having a lot of fun with FFV atm though, and I’m assuming FFVI will be even better.
I actually beat FFV once, I can remember a total of 0% of the story. I can tell you that there is a great job system, and that it is the black chocobos that fly (I KNOW RIGHT, WEIRD).
Flying black chocobo that is actually purple in colour. 😀
Yes, I’m finding the job system very complex but brilliant – one of the best.
You assume correctly. Very correctly.
Yeah, I liked FFX but when compaired to FF7 or 8. It is very average.
Those are all completely valid points. FFX does open out a bit and there’s some large areas later on but it never gains a true overworld and you’re right, it doesn’t have a lived-in feel to it the way that the other games do, though I’d argue that a lot of the other FF games don’t have hugely realistic towns. XII is the only one I recall feeling like the cities were on the right scale and with the right number of people and buildings to actually be cities.
I disagree on the Sphere Grid though. It’s the best progression system they ever came up with in those games. It might feel a little odd at first, but it really opens up after a bit and if you’re a power gamer you can optimize it enormously as well as there are items to remove spheres and replace them with others.
I’d encourage you to at least play until you assemble the whole party. Characters are the lifeblood of a JRPG and if you can’t enjoy the plot and characters there’s nothing to keep you there. FFX has got some pretty weak characters offset by some really good ones. But don’t force yourself to play it if you’re not feeling it.
My favourite progression has still probably got to be the License Board in XII.
I maxed that out pretty early on in the story because of side-quests so I never really got the feeling of unique character skills or abilities. Everyone in my party could do everything that everyone else could do.
I didn’t mind people being multi-talented, I always thought the real skill there was in setting the parameters on the gambits right
The license board was godawful, I don’t know how you could like that at all. You could actually easily fuck yourself up completely in it, and it made everyone utterly bland by taking away any unique features they might have otherwise had. Additionally it boiled down to just a rush to two of the summons so you could get extra MP then fill out stuff if you needed to use the gear.
Sphere Grid was miles better. FFV’s jobs (and FFX-2’s derived system) is better. Materia kicks its ass. I’d even take the stupid junctioning system from 8 over it any day.
Plus with FF12, the city size to Vaan size ratios were accurate. Of course, that’s due to there being no world map. I don’t think it can be done if there is an overworld, which will be interesting because Versus 13 was said to be bringing back the overworld, I wonder if FFXV will stick to that, and if so, can they pull it off?
I’ll definitely be playing right through it and X-2, because when I make a commitment, I stick by it through thick and thin!!! (I just got married so you’d hope so). I am actually enjoying it, it’s just not quite what I expected. At the very least, I’ll beat 10 so that I can hear the Fight with Seymour battle, the Black Mages reworked that song and it is AWESOME, can’t wait. Seymour’s voice is really disconcerting though, I feel like it is too high, he should have a deep, gravelly, unsettling voice that alludes to his eventual betrayal. I know he isn’t fully human though, so maybe that’s the reason.
The only other thing that annoys me is having to make sure that all 7 characters have a turn in battle so that they all get experience, it’s just time consuming.
10 is where FF lost me. I was a huge fan of the series up to and including 9, which for some reason no-one ever talks about (and which I had to play on an emulator at the time).
But with something way too suspiciously close to a ‘and I woke up and it was all a dream’ storyline, character voices I couldn’t stand, and character personalities I couldn’t stand (honestly, even 8 was pushing it on that front – I wanted to tell Squall to ‘shut the fuck up’, but half his text was ‘…’ anyway. That guy needed to just get laid already, and just stop being… well. A godamn teenager).
Combat was OK, the skill/gem-grid system was pretty cool, but ultimately I abandoned it early in and just watched my middle brother play it instead, so I could walk away anytime there was a blitzball match or boring-ass random-encounter-infested maze-zone to slog through.
11 was an MMO, so I ignored it, 12 looked interesting but I had given away my PS2 at the time and didn’t feel like getting another one for it (I was hugely turned off by the fact that you don’t actually control combat and the game just plays itself. Nowdays though, that’s one I do want to go back and play. Maybe emulated). 13 was a fucking abomination of frustrating/boring paragon system coupled with time-based rewards (I HATE timers – that’s not why I play turn-based RPGs), characters I actively wanted to punch in the face until they couldn’t speak anymore, or just toss off a cliff to put them out of their own damn nihilistic misery, and the most pointless corridor-runs to run back and forth through to grind up materials while you still have access to them. FF13 was the worst and I’m angry that I still own it and occasionally feel like I should just ‘give it a chance’. AGAIN.
Imagine how pleased I was to hear that the next three fucking games of the Final Fantasy franchise were to be based on the worst entry in the series? Fortunately they seem to have changed that and only made 2 FF13 games, leaving ‘versus’ to be 15, on its own.
ily
Versus was only ever related to 13 in the same way that Type-0/Agito is. They’re all part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis group, which is to say they’re related thematically (stuff to do with crystals and deities and shiz), but the world, gameplay, core story and so forth never had any relation to FFXIII.
There’s nothing wrong with the other games that were going to be part of the 13 stuff. Just 13 is shit – the game formerly known as Agito XIII turned into FF Type-0 and turned out excellent, and the game formerly known as Versus XIII and now FFXV looks interesting as well. Though I suspect it’ll be shit.
Personally 9 was where the series started to lose me, X got me back in a bit but XII and XIII kicked me right out. 🙁
I saw early gameplay previews of FF13-2 and when I saw that it was using the same battle system, I threw up my hands and swore a bit, including swearing off anything related to it. That battle system was one of my primary complaints, I won’t give anything else that uses it (or similar) much of a chance.
Apparently Lightning Returns is pretty cool, but deadlines and timers shit me, which is apparently a core mechanic underpinning the entire game, so while it looks cool, playing it would be kind of like going into Gran Turismo knowing that you hate racing games.
The only time I ever heard anything about Versus for the longest time was fanboys decrying the current state of the franchise and claiming that Versus would be the second fucking coming, curing cancer and world hunger. Apparently, I dunno, it was going to be some sort of Open World affair with all the best bits stolen from modern MMOs or something. Ambitious? The same could be said of everything the FF series has failed at to date – ambitious.
@strange and others who have played it say that XIII-2 is actually not too bad, and that Lightning Returns is kind of meh. I hate timers too, which is why I haven’t bothered. Don’t like time planning stress like that – it even prevents great games like Persona from being enjoyable for me.
Woah, I knew there were people out there that hated FF13, but I’ve never seen one in the wild before… I kid, I completely understand all your points, I’m just one of those people that like something regardless, like a dog that plays with only one chewed up toy, even though it literally doesn’t function anymore. I do rate the story of FF13 though, I think it’s really strong and has its own legs (so why did they make FF13-2?).
I’m sure it’s been said to you before, but have you tried Bravely Default? Everything a modern FF should be.
XIII was heartbreaking for me, as it was an utterly humourless trudge, with no real sense of character or a cool setting. Cool bits? Well, it was pretty
FFXIII isn’t the worst FF game. It’s probably one of the worst games full stop. I’ve clocked nearly every FF game there is and all the main ones but XIII I can’t even bring myself to finish. It’s horrible.
I’ve played Bravely Default as far as leaving the first room. Heard its good though.
I think there have been worse….
*Holds a copy of Daikatana next to Freeze.*
Difference is Daikatana was a broken mess. It’s like laughing at some one for not walking when they’re in a wheelchair. FFXIII is perfectly able and functioning but just shit at everything it does.
I’ve heard Bravely Default is pretty damn great, but I think it’s only available on 3DS, which I don’t have.
Mechanically it’s FFV. Visually it’s beautiful.
Characters are bland cardboard cutouts and the story is by the numbers with a terrible amount of repetition though. I was very disappointed. 🙁
Fair’nuff. Won’t be a system seller for me, then. (The other one I keep being heard of as a system-seller is Fire Emblem.)
I typically prefer story/characterization over visuals anyways.
Fire Emblem is an amazingly good game. Most enjoyable thing I’ve played on the 3DS by far.
X is actually my favourite, mainly due to it actually being challenging. VII, VIII and IX are far too easy to become world destroyers and blow everything away with minimal effort including challenge bosses. X actually requires you to think about levelling up and what characters to use. Status effects are actually useful and required.
Mechanically FFX is fantastic, I just really didn’t like the characters and the story is okay but nothing special.
The whole game is padding for the Monster Arena.
So, who else is getting Trails Fusion for PC this week?
i want to, but i am shit at all games, imagine how bad i will be at a game that requires mechanical skill???
WHICH IS WHY YOU SHOULD PLAY IT WHILE ON TS SO I CAN FEEL LESS BAD ABOUT MYSELF.
I mean, I’m a good friend, really.
speaking of good friend, i totally should come for my annual visit to canberra sometime soon.
You’re welcome at any time!
That said, my parents will be away on their annual trip in August, so I might do something then if I can be bothered.
well a certain overweight chap who might shield you from the sun is giving away a beta key on twitter if you want to try it without risking the money on it
Hoping to buy it Thursday, depends how much doctors bills are this time.
So uh.. Does TAY look like this for anyone else when viewing mentions or replies when accessing them from their profile?
Edit: I know why it’s doing it, it’s turning the link to HTTPS for some reason rather than just normal HTTP…
Late for the boat but here goes.
I’ve had a Dreamcast for a while now (not going to lie, I’m a sucker for all things retro) but I have been pondering about getting the VGA box for the unit.
The big question: do I pay top dollar for an authentic version of the accessory or will a third party/generic one do?
I know there is the VGA cable but from I can tell it’s basically an adapter and doesn’t actually provide a 480p signal.
Anyone here with first hand experience?
I have a XCM VGA box that works pretty well, the last time I used it anyway.
Oops, I was still hanging around old TAY by accident :S
I’ll re-ask here then :3
MQFT cause I’m in a dillema.
G or F?
Edit: Urgh, unworthy page-get. Now I’m sad :'(
G.
F
F for FRIDAY FRIDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON *commits Seppuku*
Upvote for the live and graphic harakiri on TAY.
Yo, as a tip, don’t Google search Seppuku with safe search off (I wanted to check my spelling), there were some real doozies under the image search (By which I mean porn, not graphic deaths).
Seppuku… porn? What the…
Sigh. Dammit, Internet. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Also, rule34 ‘fanart’ is one of the reasons I have very serious trouble upholding my, “Safesearch by default is for wimps,” philosophy. There is serious mind-scarring in there.
Safesearch off by default is for the brave and the people who have already got all the mental scars they’re likely to acquire (needless to say, I’ve got it off).
People who are still afflicted with some measure of sanity can use the settings to make it moderately safe
my little pony porn is the most brain destroying on the market…
I know for a fact that you are wrong.
🙁
Yeah. I’ve been to places I thought were ‘the weird part of the internet’, then found places that made me realize I was wrong, then had people – dark, strange, disturbed husks of people – point me at…
…at…
…
Hm. What was I doing again? I think my mind reflexively rebooted in self-defence.
@transientmind: I don’t go looking for stuff like that, but be on the internet long enough and you realize that humanity’s capacity for getting off to things that are absolutely fucked up is limitless. Every time I’ve thought that it couldn’t get stranger or more disturbing, eventually I’ve found that I’m wrong. 🙁
G
G
F just because at the time I post this it will tie the vote.
Some men just want to watch the world burn, don’t they?
Oooh can I be the one setting it on fire??
Only if you pick G or F 😉
If he wants to be the one setting it on fire he’ll need to pick G now. Right @aliasalpha ? Right?!
I’m picking OR, just to annoy!
F
Final Fantasy it is! It was either that or go to the Gym 😛
Kinda glad F won out 🙂
Which one are you playing?
Still playing FFX at the moment. Nowhere near finished :3
I’m only up to Macalania Temple now.
I just got too amused that my phone tried to autocorrect Macalania into Macaroni.
Heh, Macaroni Temple.
It really should’ve been gym.
>:P
Confession. I felt guilty so compromised and cut Final Fantasy short and went to the pool :3
If I went to the gym I wouldn’t have had time at all for FF!
So much for a quiet week at work! People’s problems didn’t go on holidays!
But I do find it funny when someone signs off an email with:
Thanks
-insert name here-
No comma after “Thanks”. Makes me imagine that they’re thanking themselves for an email well sent.
Now you just need to have a conversation with another Pow (or I guess, you real name, pshh), then every email can be a good ol’ thankfest.
I’m a world class thanker.
It’s a running joke here at work where we go “And I’d like you to thank…me” after the deputy CEO flubbed her line while attempting to thank the Governor of the state.
Didn’t help that he, quick as a flash, followed her saying that with “Thankyou”
Ahh, people’s problems not going on holidays…
“Why hasn’t that request been actioned? I sent it in a WEEK ago!”
“Right. Almost a calendar week, or, this week: two business days.“
THIS! SO FUCKING MUCH THIS! I get this shit at work ALL the time! “Why hasn’t this job been actioned yet?” “Cos it only arrived in the workshop TODAY!”
Oh wisdom of TAY.
I got violently ill on saturday. After that ive just been real sore and tired. Im not usually one to rush to the doctor at the drop of a hat, but in your opinions how long should I put up with stomach pains before I worry?
feverish? Vomiting?
Go to a doctor.
just stomach pains? half a day. A day goes by, that’s worrying. More than two days straight, that’s bad.
but if symptoms are worse as red described, go to a doc.
just pains, no vomiting. But after walking through a mall for about 15 minutes i got the sweats on.
Dang. I hate doctors… and need to work 🙁
if they’re crippling types of pain, enough to actually make you stop in your tracks, I’d consider strongly going to a doc. But otherwise give it a day. Get some serious rest, plenty of fluids, etc.
Mind you I’m the type of bloke that attempts to combat sickness with alcohol and machismo and punching out hallucinations of physical representations of sicknesses when I inevitably hit a 50 degree plus fever, so yeah.
I usually just don’t go to a doctor. Best solution. >.>
If it’s stopping you from going to work, then I’d give it a day or two, if it’s just pain that’s uncomfortable, give it a fortnight. Any blood is a quick trip to someone though, that one’s a good sign, well, good in the sense that it’s kind of strong. Sort of a bad sign really.
May not be the best to follow my advice though, since last year I didn’t get treatment for what was most likely a stress fracture.
If using a word like ‘violently’ as a descriptor, that’s usually a good time to make an appointment. You can always cancel if you start to come good after all.
It is my advice to just go to the doctor whenever. I figure you may as well, that’s what they’re there for 😛
Even if you’re not sick. Doctors must get so bored of treating sick people, go in just to chat about masterchef or something
should have mentioned it here first, but if anyone is interested, im doing a garage cleanout of some old boxed and complete pc classics. if any taybie is interested in anything let me know and ill give them the TAY discount! 🙂
These are all complete in boxes, manuals, copy protection wheels, and all.
95% of these are on floppy disks also.
The Secret of Monkey Island
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the fathers,
Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
Kings Quest II
Kings Quest III
Kings Quest IV
Frederik Pohl’s Gateway
Lure of the Temptress
Discworld
theres more but still getting it all together…
best to email me @hotmail.com
ALL THE QUESTS. Memories of childhood. Fun fact, I only had KQ2, 3, and 4. So I’d never played 1 until I became adulterated.
hahahaha… LIKEWISE…
notice how i only have 2, 3 & 4?
Hahaha, yes, I did notice that. :p
And sent you an email (maybe?) to enquire about them further.
DON’T DO IT! KEEP THE ADVENTURE GAMES!
very tempted to keep monkey island and freddy pharkas… two of my favorite games period…
im pretty set on what i want for them, otherwise it will be a sign for me to keep them… saddened i didnt know where my monkey island was when Ron Gilbert was at PAX. especially when we got out of the panel and myself and 4 others ended up catching up with him and talking adventure games from half an hour.
Freddy Pharkas is so damn underrated. Sins of the Fathers is my favourite adventure of all time.
that game was amazing… so much work went into it…
there was a real sense of dedication that went into making it… even the manuals, the medical journal and everything…. A++++
Still have the lyrics to the opening song stuck in my head to this day…
He was born in ‘ol St. Louie…
Discworld, eh?
CD-ROM? How much?
let me double check tonight red… need to confirm it is indeed discworld…..
This Posting Too Fast thing is really annoying. It seems like every second post I make gets rejected by it regardless of how long since the last one.
i thought it was just me…
@benwhite
If only tags worked. 😛
Tags don’t work, spoilers don’t work, fast posting bug and for some reason I’m logged in but It says I’m not and have to register which takes be to my account anyway
Upvotes work though and isn’t that the main thing? Here, have one, Cam!
And 5 for you DC you go DC
Yeah, I’ve had it quite a lot. I suspect it might be not checking when you last posted but when anyone did
Aaaaaand guess what error I got when posting that…
i haven’t made a comment in nearly a week… i got hit with it on my first try…
You need to slooooooooooow dooooowwwwwnnnn!
Maybe we need to press the submit button in a more relaxed manner
Kotaku Conspiracy to get me off the site!
YOU CAN’T TAKE ME DOWN THAT EASY SERRELS/BEN
Kid te in the face with your ENERGY LEGS!
let me double check tonight red… need to confirm it is indeed discworld….
My Easter has officially been dubbed the “worst Easter ever”by Mr. Strange.
He couldn’t eat any chocolate, I hit my head so hard I literally saw stars and noone would let me go to sleep for fear of concussion, plus I burned my finger pretty badly. Think we need a do-over.
Edit: PLUS there was no TAY. Madness!
whoa strange you guys sure know how to party…
Aw man! Sorry to hear that, Strange. :'(
*hugasaurus*
By the power vested in me through the sacred bond of the Internet, I hereby declare May 18th shall be a “do-over” Easter, henceforth known as “Easter 2: @Strange Boogaloo.” Let the town criers ring news of this proclamation throughout the kingdom.
Sounds good to me! 😀
Oh, will we be seeing you for dinner on Saturday May 3rd at Brathaus in the Valley? I’m going to be spamming everyone with notifications about that when notifications start working again.
I should totally try to convince my brother to come along, too.
Yes.
And you both should come and see Gloryhammer afterwards as well. I won’t even make you dress up as unicorns. 😛
Nooooooo. I don’t know what that is, but the unicorn thing makes me disinclined to find out. Just run. RUN! Is it a music thing? It seems like a music thing. In general, I don’t do crowds. Especially not music shows, where everything is… heightened. Close proximity to unknown agitated/excited people sets my hypervigilance on high alert and I get the urge to fight my way to freedom.
I have just checked my calendar and “Brisbane TAY Meat” is already entered for May 3rd so there may be a clash with that but…. Wait a minute. It’s the same thing! :p
Holy shit, Dan’s gonna be there.
Keen, keen, keen, keen, keen, keen, keen, keen.
There was TAY, but it kinda got lost, and once it came back, I think everyone had given up trying to load it. Sounds like a shitter of a weekend though 🙁 *Hugs*
Well at least I wasn’t like Mr. Strange: I actually got to eat some chocolate! 😀
heh I didn’t eat any chocolate either. Closest I came was an ice cream!
For the first time in forever, I played some Dota 2. It was something. We had games where we were stomped and games where we stomped.
There was one game that I played with Blaghs where I was Keeper of the Light and he was Juggernaut. We also had a non-terrible Anti-Mage in that game. For whatever reason, the other team completely focused on me. They built items to counter me and blew everything to kill me whenever a team fight happened. Which was fan-fucking-tastic because while they were doing that Blaghs and the Anti-Mage were killing all of them.
In another game, I played as Terrorblade. Terrorblade is just straight up broken. Even with a bad start (although my lane support was brilliant) that led to a lot of early/mid game feeds because I couldn’t work out how to not be retarded, I managed to get online. Sitting in the jungle for 20 minutes farming every camp with illusions and taking at least one (normally two) lanes of creeps is a pretty good catch up mechanic. Eventually I just got to the point where I was ignoring team fights and pushing. I even killed the enemy team’s Puck by attack moving an army of illusions down the lane and going off to kill more jungle creeps with the actual hero. I apologised for picking TB at the end.
In other news, yesterday I also parted my hair the other way.
hahahahah yeah terrorblade is stupid amazing, pair him up with somebody like lina early game and your q will wreck everyone’s buisness. It’s amazing how much people underestimate that slow.
And also yeah he can push towers/lanes like no one’s buisness.
I didn’t even go for the “kill anyone that tries to interrupt my farm” build. I get a little retarded when I have to micro multiple units. It was made a little worse because I had turned off auto-attacks and automatically selecting new units. Had to turn those back on about halfway through the game, which is coincidentally when I managed to start not sucking.
you think “oh, I’m not going to get many illusions up, this is going to be difficult to handle-” but then you transform first and then get your illusions up and then things start melting before your eyes.
I try and part my hair the other way but I just laugh at myself. And then I get paranoid that the way I usually part it looks ridiculous to everyone else because everyone sees kind of a reversed view of what I see in the mirror. 😛
To be honest, I felt like I had a good hair day yesterday. Which is weird because I don’t think I’ve ever had a good hair day.
So I’ve parted my hair that way again today.
I gave my hair a part the other day (instead of just letting it hang), and I laughed at how silly it looked, so I’m just going to avoid touching it ever again.
I got my hair buzzed to a 2 again today, and no-one’s even commented. (I had let it grow for a couple weeks and it was starting to feel all wild and unkempt. Also, what’s this ‘parting’ business people talk about?)
Meanwhile, when I don’t notice a hair-cut, the girls here get all shirty! Hypocrites.
I know what you mean. My “it’s time to get a haircut” cue is “I need to brush my hair in the morning to straighten it out” – generally 4 to 6 weeks after getting it buzzed.
It’s probably because their haircuts cost about the same as a game console. 😛
See, that’s a good joke, but I had this friend who had long, straight, beautiful blonde hair. I’m talking ass length. And she was not a natural blonde. So every month or something ridiculous she would go into a salon and book literally an entire night for getting her colour and etc done. Bring a book, put on a movie, that kind of deal, I recall her saying something like 4-8hrs. And seriously hundreds of dollars.
Yup. That comment was only half tongue-in-cheek. Ladies’ haircuts/colours are ridiculously expensive. Moreso if you go to someone who actually knows what they’re doing properly. I’m forever thankful I managed to find a guy who is awesome but reasonably priced at $115 for a cut/shampoo/blowdry/massage. That’s actually pretty cheap compared to most. I haven’t paid to have my hair professionally coloured since my wedding, I just can’t justify the expense.
Ah, the ol’ Clark Kent hairstyle.
Ordered one of these.
Not sure if awesome or a tool.
Shephard-Commander.
Get the sneakers, then we’ll talk.
Tool is awesome, so there’s that at least! 😉
It is subtle enough that you don’t look like you are wearing video game clothing to the casual observer but will still get points from any gamer you encounter.
In an attempt to emulate my sensei, @dc, during my lunch break I went to Kmart to buy a Slow Cooker and left with a Rice Cooker instead.
I didn’t get confused, I just suddenly remembered how much I hate cooking rice the moment I saw it.
The part that confuses me is where you said ‘instead’ when clearly you meant to say ‘as well’. 🙂
It’s not a good impulse purchase unless it destroys your budget.
The Slow Cooker was $34, the Rice Cooker was $14. I made a judgement call!
Also I could only fit one box in my green bag so I had to choose.
ALSO they had no $34 Slow Cookers on the shelf.
First appliance I bought after a fridge when moving in to my current place
Man, no one followed me when I was preaching bad eating habits. WHAT GIVES!
Slow cooker though? Best decision, Pow. I’ve eaten especially well the last few days. Most consistently good food eating streak ever. Haven’t eaten this well since I’ve moved out of home. Haha.
I’ve been deprived of cooking slowly since I moved out of home.
Must get my own before the cold sets in!
Winter is coming, after all. You know nothing, Pow.
I’m probably going to be cooking a lot more creatively now that my brother’s come to live with me. Cooking for one is shitty and I only cook the most utilitarian basics because I also have to clean that shit up when I’m done. But if I cook for two and someone else will clean, there’s a lot more incentive to use, say… more than one frypan/grill tray/microwave.
Plus, y’know. There’s the satisfaction of cooking someone nice for ysomeone else. On your own, you’re like… “Thanks me, that was really great!’ “You’re welcome. Now clean up.” “No, YOU clean up.” “No, Y– oh. Damn.”
Don’t forget the joys of left overs, my friend. Nothing like looking in freezer and seeing an already made and proven meal waiting to be eaten. 😀
You get satisfaction out of cooking someone nice? D:
…I’m leaving it as it is.
Take from that what you will.
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Good Evening, Clarice…
This is my everyday! Occasionally I will make a more elaborate dish than usual, but if it requires more than 2 pots, forget it! 😉
Speaking of cooking, a TAYste test for a new Tay:
@dc: 3 STIR FRY TIPS
1. Nice hot Wok, not too much oil, you want it to be a clean fry, and you’ll get more oil etc from your meat. Little more if you’re vegie-only, but start with a tablespoon or so. Peanut or Coconut oil is a good place to start
2. Cook the meat in batches, maybe two handfuls or so at a time. Chuck it all back in before you add the vegetables
3. Fresh Vegetables are better than frozen, as frozen ones can make the stir-fry a little too watery in the cooking process
And 3 easy sauce combinations:
1. Sambal Oelek. Available in a jar from your supermarket. goes well with green beans and cashews
2. Honey/Soy- get a decent kecap manis soy sauce, and use that if you can, otherwise your standard Kikkoman’s and Capilano can work. you don’t want it too sweet though. Goes well with carrots and stir-fry noodles.
3. Fish sauce and lime- a lot of people don’t like it, but fish sauce used well is great. Only use a little bit at a time though, as the fish sauce you get in a supermarket can stink to high heaven. Goes well with leafy ingredients like Bok Choy
Oyster Sauce is my favourite!
Oyster sauce is an honourable mention
Real oyster sauce, or that imitation stuff? 😛
Thanks Red. You’re alright! Don’t listen to what the others say about you behind your back!
I know that it’s all @powalen talking behind my back.
About how I didn’t include Oyster Sauce in the list.
I use frozen veges because they’re easiest. Birdseye stir fry mixes work really well. I usually use Malaysian or Shanghai mix.
The combo is good (though fuck ANYTHING with snowpeas in it), and it’s a cost effective way to cook, it’s just the extra liquid that I have an issue with.
A way around it it to microwave them a little bit and drain all the excess water off before adding them to the wok.
The cooking meat in batches thing is a somewhat important cooking tip for frying. Too much meat will crowd the pan and they’ll all just release juices. Juices are neat and all but you’re not going to get that sexy, sexy fried texture.
Honey/soy is my go-to combination (because I always have honey and soy sauce). I like to use all of the broccoli family greens with it. Add chili flakes (not powder) and ginger to make things more interesting.
1) agreed. A good stir fry only has a little sauce left at the end, because most of the juices remain in the stuff you cook
2) Ginger is definitely a worthy addition to any of the above. Either grate a little in or put a large hunk in that you fish out before serving.
This kid knows what he’s on about and I respect that.
Sesame oil is good for a bit of flavour too, I just don’t personally recommend the one that’s infused with chilli. Was the most potent chilli flavour, rendering the meal inedible after adding about 3 drops.
Sesame oil has a high smoke point, which is good for beginners, and has a nice flavour
I make my own chilli oil from dried chillies and kashmiri powder, works a treat
Shouldn’t use a lot of it though, due to it’s strong flavour 😛
Macadamia & grapeseed are also good for their high smoke point too. Bit hard to find these days for some reason though.
Awesome tips.
I have one amendment: after cooking the meat in batches,don’t chuck it all back in before adding veges, chuck it in at the end so it remains tender.
I find that with stir fry vegetables they’re not usually in the wok long enough to make the meat overcooked, but if you’re using broccoli or anything super dense, yeah, doubleplus agree.
yeah it really does depend on the veggie(s) you use. The harder the vegetable, and thicker it’s cut, the more cooking it needs prior to putting the meat back in.
Okay, so it seems that my Steam list has finally been arranged properly.
This leads me to a question:
Do any TAYbies organise their games on Steam, or do you just have them all in one section?
I just split them up according to what I play them on. That way I can hide my “PC” folder if I’m on my Mac and vice versa!
I have them divided. The main one is “games that I’m never going to play” and there is no other group.
I have
Installed list and then not installed
96% are not installed
I’ve tried a few time but both times I’ve gone through and allocated most of my library to groups steam has cracked it and removed all the folders from my account. So bugger doing that again.
At the moment I have A folder for the games I play with Mrs Tigs and a Shameless gaming folder for the top 10 or so games that I am planning to finish
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
In case anyone was concerned about the bonus 1,000 EXP I gave you guys as a level 1 characters, this is mostly due to the fact that you guys have actually put thought into your characters and created quality backstories. It also demonstrates that your characters are downright better than the average person but not super-massively better to start as a higher level character.
Plus as you guys scale in level, I can start bringing out the big guns and monsters and have epic dungeons and fights while you guys can respond with more toys of your own to play with. Giving you guys a slight headstart will make sure you get there faster.
Lick all the things! \o/
Found a portrait of you for the Tumblr. http://www.geekosystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/chimp-lick-640×380.jpg
I’m eagerly awaiting reaching double-digit hit points
I’m eagerly awaiting critically failing my Hit Dice roll.
I don’t know that any player would be concerned about getting bonus XP at level 1. 😀
Wait… 1000XP?! Must’ve missed the memo…
It’s because he said level 2 at 1000xp, not 2000, so he’s bumped us up a bit.
So we got a bonus 1000xp? I should probably update my character sheet.
We’re using the ‘Regular’ XP progression but @popdart5 said we only need to get 1000 xp for level 2. Since the Regular progression requires 2000 XP for level 2, the easiest way to do this is to just give 1000 bonus XP.
The reasoning makes sense too IMO – creating encounters that aren’t too hard for a group of level 1 PCs is tricky.
@redartifice: were you able to get the character descriptions out of Roll20 or should I copy/paste what I have there into TAY or something for you?
I couldn’t see anyones other myself last night, perhaps just flick it to me in an email? red_artifice at the hotmails
Mailed.
GUYS, LINK BETWEEN WORLDS IS FRIGGEN RAD
Pokemon’s out the window, head’s been buried in Zelda all weekend. So damn good. I think I did things the hard way though, once I got to Lorule I hit up the Ice Palace first and holy hell that thing just about puts the Water Temple to shame. Also I wouldn’t have made it through if I didn’t have two bottled fairies with me. The temples since seem to have been a piece of piss in comparison, though it probably helps that I have more hearts now as well as the upgraded sword. Kind of a disappointing aspect of the whole “tackle whichever dungeon you like” thing, you avoid the set difficulty progression that you’d otherwise get. Still cool though. Also I kinda don’t get the whole rental system. Like, what reason is there to not just hire out every single item from the get-go? Gotta be prepared, and all that. Also despite rupees being abundant and having maxed out my wallet, I’m still being naturally stingy and not shelling out for all these exorbitant prices, just because they sound like a lot. 200 rupees? No thanks I’ll pass. Even though I’m not actually spending that money on anything else and am wasting every valuable rupee I come across.
Got shiny new climbing shoes over the weekend, too. Didn’t get to use them yesterday though because I kind of killed my legs at laser tag, they’re still a little sore today but it should be fine.
Also, I got a Sketchbook Streetpass :3 Also, she gives breathtaking hugs. Literally. Like there was this sudden sharp squeeze and my lungs collapsed, totally took me by surprise. Wouldn’t have guessed she could be that strong 😛
Man, duck the Ice Palace. It’s hard but for all the wrong reasons. The rest did feel easy, but ehh, they were enjoyable.
First Zelda game where I grabbed all of the collectible thingy, even if I was lazy and skipped 2 pieces of heart (I think it was 2, somewhere around that anyway).
And a breathtaking hug? Sure it wasn’t just lightheadedness from a rush of blood to not your brain? 😛
*facepalm* I kept getting bored on the weekend and couldn’t decide what to play, why did I not start LBW?
Also doesn’t sketchbook do climbing? I’d be surprised if she wasn’t strong 😛
AFAIK she doesn’t, her brother does though. She’s pretty tiny. Also I’ve never known a hug to be naturally that strong before, not without someone obviously putting effort into it. Kinda like one of those effortlessly strong handshakes I guess.
oh right, well in that case maybe she has super powers or is like a vampire or something : /
Fair bet that’s the manifestation of repressed Feelings in the only socially-approved outlet she has access to.
Hey man my mind doesn’t need ideas like that put into it 😛
Is it just me or is Kotaku completely and utterly broken in Firefox? Can’t reply, can’t see spoilers, can’t see half the content on the site. It works in Chrome, but yeah.
So a couple of my friends from back home are coming down tomorrow. Looking forward to it! Even though I was more looking forward to going to Melbourne to meet them, but oh well. This will be the first time that any of my new friends will get to meet my old friends. I really hope Oliver likes them and they like him. Most of his friends are my friends too now so it’d be good if the same could happen between them.
I’m also taking them to that burger place I was talking about the other week. Not so much so they can have it, more so I can have it again 😛
I don’t think the problems are Firefox-specific. Personally I’ve always had issues with the buttons and stuff showing up as unknown characters or empty squares in Firefox but everything else works. Now it seems like the site is actually stripping out the spoiler tags and stuff, it’s not just that they’re not displaying right.
If you’re having display issues where everything looks all garbled though, make sure you’re browsing on HTTP and not HTTPS. HTTPS is super busted right now.
Urgh, Irish girls in my shop. My one true weakness.
*passes out*
Scar Jo will be devestated
ScarJo with an Irish accent and her Black Widow hair is pretty much my nirvana.
Which Black Widow hair? It’s changed each film
Big fan of Winter Soldier.
It’s totally impractical for everything, but IM2 hair I loved.
Her Winter Soldier hair, tan and civvies made me realize what everyone was on about.
It’s a damn good accent in any form. 😀
Welsh is better I think
In your shop? Or around your shop? Last time I was there, there was only enough room for you and the other staff member IN your shop! Or are they hiding under the counter sorting out alternative payment? 😉
I need some shows to watch. Pitch me ideas. Things that i can marathon through new stuff old stuff. Everything is welcome. HELP ME BE LESS BORED
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/76419583759/07-february-2014
Here’s a list of my favourite currently airing shows.
Since I wrote that I would easily add Cosmos and Hannibal too.
danke
That is a really good list buddy
Thanks Rockets! 😀
Cosmos is awesome.
HANNIBAL
Life on Mars (british)
Veep
The Thick of It
OHHH MAN VEEP
i watched a episode of that on a plane and totes forgot about it
Hannibal seems scary
and i have seen life on mars it was pretty solid. I enjoyed it
Hannibal is scary awesome.
How good is Hannibal!
This weeks episode…that end confrontation…so goooooood.
Seriously, Mads Mikkelsen is a charismatic son of a bitch, but Hugh Dancy just steals the show.
Gung shpxvat oveq va gur pbecfr sevtugrarq gur uryy bhg bs zr
And the three male leads are all great. Do wish they gave Alana a little more to do though
I’m interested to know what they do with her character.
The road map of the show apparently has season 4 being an adaption of Red Dragon.
Spoilers for Red Dragon:
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Va Erq Qentba, V nyjnlf gubhtug gur fba jnf abg uvf- V gubhtug vg jnf ure xvq.
Jung qb lbh zrna Jvyy qvfpbirevat jub Yrpgre vf? Yrpgre vf va gur ynfg pryy ba gur yrsg va Erq Qentba, univat fgnoorq Jvyy juvpu vf jul ur ergverf va gur svefg cynpr. V qba’g frr gurz xvyyvat Penjsbeq
Gung fnvq, gurl’ir nyernql qrivngrq sebz gur obbxf- Xngm naq Puvygba ner obgu va gur yngre jbexf. Gubhtu jr unira’g unq Puvygba’f qrngu pbasvezrq.
Vg’f vzcyvrq Puvygba qvrf ng gur raq bs Fvyrapr bs gur Ynzof ol Yrpgbe nsgre ur rfpncrf, nyorvg arire pbasvezrq.
Gur fba znl abg or uvf, vg’f orra n juvyr fvapr V ernq gur abiry naq gur zbivr qbrfa’g gbhpu ba vg. V fhccbfr vg’f rnfl rabhtu gb whfg fnl gung rvgure jnl.
Naq V’z ersreevat gb Jvyy chggvat gbtrgure gung Yrpgbe vf gur Evccre. Nf lbh fnvq, vg’f jung znxrf uvz ergver naq jung znxrf gur eryngvbafuvc orgjrra uvz, Yrpgbe naq Qbyneulqr fb vagrerfgvat, jvgu Yrpgbe gryyvat Qbyneulqr nobhg uvz rgp
Xngm bayl unq n zvabe ebyr va Erq Qentba naq pbhyq rnfvyl or ercynprq ol nal bgure sberafvp vairfgvtngbe.
Vg’f n funzr vs Puvygba vf qrnq qrnq, orpnhfr Enhy Rfcnemn jnf fb, fb tbbq.
Jvyy qvqa’g chg gbtrgure gung Yrpgre vf gur evccre va Erq Qentba gubhtu- vg’f jul ur’f va cevfba. Jbegu abgvat gung gur jubyr Zvaarfbgn Fuevxr fghss naq gur znva ersreraprf gb cer-Erq Qentba Yrpgre ner cerggl oevrs
V vzntvar gung F3 jvyy or unaavony ba gur eha, naq ur’yy or pnhtug gbjneqf gur raq bs vg ernql sbe F4
@redartifice
“…Jvyy Tenunz, n oevyyvnag cebsvyre jub pncgherq gur frevny xvyyre Unaavony Yrpgre guerr lrnef rneyvre, ohg ergverq nsgre Yrpgre nyzbfg xvyyrq uvz.”
@cakesmith
Cbvag vf, ur chg vg gbtrgure orsber Erq Qentba.
@redartifice
I will admit that I may not be remembering the novel correctly and it may be a flashback at some stage, but it’s definitely used as a prologue/pre-credit scene in the movie.
Fun fact:
Miriam Lass’s quick discovery and subsequent attack by Lecter match almost exactly how Will Graham originally discovered Lecter’s serial killer status in the novels; he saw the picture of the Wound Man and then made a call to the FBI. As he did, Lecter snuck up behind him and slashed him with a linoleum knife, but did not kill him.
Random suggestions away!!!
Ghost in the Shell, movies + Stand Alone Complex (2 series worth) cause it’s amazing
Boardwalk Empire. Prohibition gangsters with Tommy guns 😀
Falling Skies. eh it’s not bad
Rick and Morty. Rick is my new hero
Rick and morty is amazing
Already seen Ghost in the shell and SAC both were great made me think.
boardwalk empire couldnt hook me after 3 episodes
I’m trying to adopt Rick’s new catch phrase (from the season finale), so far it is improving the quality of my life 😛 Sorry my suggestions were no good, will try harder next time 😛
I quite enjoy Falling Skies. Certainly gets more and more intriguing as it goes.
FRINGE!
Have you uh
finished watching Jojo
because
you need to keep watching jojo
BUT THE ANIMATION SAT, its so weird. Yeah i have been spoiled from Kill la Kill and Golden time and now anything different seems terrible even if it isnt.
IT GETS BETTER I PROMISE. The art direction also improves over time, and it makes up for any animation shortcomings. The first arc with Jonathan and Dio is pretty lackluster compared to the rest of the story too, once you enter the second arc everything’ll kick up into overdrive.
Personally I love Jojo’s slick presentation and shoutyness but I could understand why maybe it doesn’t appeal, since it’s a lot of still frames and stuff, true to its manga roots. Has possibly the best ED of any anime ever though. Yes. If you ever get to Stardust Crusaders it has an equally brilliant out-of-nowhere choice of music which I won’t spoil for you because the moment where it comes in in Ep 3 is too good.
Anyway, does that mean you want current anime recommendations to be stuff that’s really well animated? Or just that you need something decent? (I wouldn’t have called Golden Time particularly well animated so I’m confused…)
Golden time has a style that im fond of with the muted colour backgrounds and very sharp thin lines. So thats more of a personal preference.
I didnt hat Jojo maybe i just need to give it some time.
Not trying to be argumentative or anything, but Golden Time didn’t strike me as having any style that isn’t common to pretty much every mid-budget J.C. Staff Light Novel adaption. The actual light novels have incredibly good artwork (Eiji Komatsu is a favourite of mine) but the actual show seemed pretty standard?
Maybe I watched so much that I can’t see it any more.
no it was pretty standard, i just like that sort of style.
NEW THINGS SCARE ME
Attack on Titans animation seemed weird too my for a while too, but my opinions change over time.
The animation style reminded me a lot of the Index / Railgun series. Which you might like maybe? Railgun is vastly better than Index IMO but both are enjoyable enough. Nothing like Golden Time though.
If you want slick animation though, Mekakucity Actors just started. Same animation team and director (SHAFT / Akiyuki Shinbo) as the Monogatari (Bakemonogatari etc) series, Madoka Magica and others. I don’t know for sure if the show’s any good yet but it seems quite similar to -monogatari visually and in the way it’s quite dialogue heavy. It’s actually got an interesting production story since it’s an anime adaption of Kagerou Days, which was a series of Vocaloid songs.
Also in terms of other new anime that’s just started, Mushishi is still amazing (watch the first series though!) and Captain Earth seems very promising. There’s a few others that seemed good so far but need more viewing to see how they pan out.
Biggest disappointment was Knights of Sidonia. Massive hype, excellent cast, great staff, adapted from manga by one of the best SF manga artists out there, but they absolutely screwed the pooch with it by deciding to do everything in cel-shaded 3D. There’s been a few shows trying it out recently and it varies from passable but slightly mechanical (Arpeggio of Blue Steel) to kind of okay, but this feels like you’ve stepped back to 1999 and are watching CG videos from a bad PS2 video game. 🙁 So horribly stilted and jerky and right down at the bottom of the uncanny valley due to fairly realistic designs as well, I just couldn’t watch it past about 5 minutes in. So disappointing. So yeah, don’t watch that.
I second -0’s suggestion of A Certain Scientific Railgun. One of my favourite anime shows.
Pushing Daisies! Such a stylish show. I liked it.
it didnt get enough credit, i watched it all and it was fantastic.
Fun fact: Hannibal is made by the same people.
The facts were these…
Hannibal
Silicon Valley
Louie
The Flintstones
Boardwalk Empire
Burn Notice
Mad Men
Sons of Anarchy
Silicon Valley
Monk
King of The Hill
Top Gear
Homeland
I forget what else I watch.
Gotta go with burn notice, also leverage, white collar and suits are also amazing shows
Yeah man Burn Notice is one of my most favourite shows, it’s kinda like MacGuyver meets the A-Team with a bit of Miami Vice thrown in for good measure. Been meaning to check out Suits, it seems like an interesting show.
Dragons: Riders of Berk.
No Shame.
That was the first thing I watched on my new TV
man i love my kitties….
this one is 3yo now but he’s still just as cute as ever!
http://i.imgur.com/7cIBUzO.gif
dawww! looks like one of my old kitties! so kawaii!
Hey all, apologies for the jankiness – it’s being ironed out right now!
My hero!
Thanks Ben!
Thanks man
Insert joke about Ben finally getting his sandwiches and able to work again here
Um, it’s still telling me to log in the upper right hand corner
Sounds like a work in progress. 🙂
TOOK YOUR SWEET TIME!!!!
we were just sharpening up our pitchforks and firing up the torches….
@dc was putting together a makeshift flamethrower out of a cigarette lighter, a ballpoint pen and a couple of elastic bands macguyver style.
i know a few others were grouping the masses for a Denial of Service attach…. and im sure everyone else was up to no good…
(Read: Thank you 🙂 )
For some reason @dc and Macguyver seem like a good fit. I don’t know why.
(Maybe it’s the adventure-gaming item-combination?)
I blame the Easter bunny. Damn rabbits are always chewing through wires.
please save us Ben, you’re our only hope.
It’s okay, it’s a good trip down memory lane. Having to pay attention and refresh to see responses, and having to rot13 spoilers. Just like the old days!
Go home YouTube, you’re drunk. I clicked a video of The Smiths – How Soon is Now? and in the sidebar, lots of other Smiths songs as you’d expect.
And then one glaringly out of place “Madonna – Beautiful Stranger – Official Video HD” thumbnail. Really?
suggestions from websites are terrible, I use grooveshark and it suggests the worst crap, “we noticed you listened to some great music carefully written by talented musicians might we suggest some abysmal pop shite?”
Amazon’s emailed recommendations always piss me off too. “Hey we noticed you bought this, so how about these other things? People also bought those.”
Yeah. They did. I’m one of them. I already own everything you’re suggesting I buy! Apparently it’s too hard for them to check if I already purchased that item from them.
yeah that is a pretty poor effort, useless twits
How Soon is Now is such an incredible piece.
And yeah, Youtube’s recommendations sometimes have absolutely strange crap. It’s something related to a video you’ve watched at a previous time I think? The first few are usually related to a current video and then there’s one or two that are based off previous viewing. I think the idea is to make it something a bit like how you can get yourself lost on sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes and end up reading about stuff you never actually intended to view. Probably finds interesting things for people that browse regularly but I find it’s usually irrelevant to what I’m doing at the time.
Yeah, I’ll often do “click-through” listening quasi-Pandora style, leading one song in to the next to see what comes up. Usually things are at least somewhat tangentially related. So here’s what I’m thinking. Madonna was married to Guy Ritchie, and Guy Ritchie is English and so are The Smiths. That’s all I’ve got. :p
You mentioning that song actually resulted in me looking up The Smiths on Youtube and the recommendations seem all to be at least related enough that I could see some kind of linking – The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Velvet Underground, Radiohead… Second last one is a full album rip of The Beatles ‘Revolver’ and that’s the biggest stretch.
Whenever you’re viewing metal videos there’s always a Bieber song in the side bar from all the people carrying on about him in all the comments.
Stupid people don’t they know the only way to make it go away is by not looking at it and never uttering its name, they’re empowering it, make them stop.
Edit: also this post took 10 minutes to get out cause I’m posting too quickly :/
Does anyone here have Harvest moon animal parade that they’d be willing to sell? I would like it, but it seems to be a pain in the bum to get
So here’s a thing i thought i’d never say…
I JUST COMPLETED DARK SOULS AND IT FEELS FREAKING RAD!!!!!
… that’s it, that’s all i’ve got
Want some celebratory rye? Course ya do!
Do you want to built a snowman?
Now get all the achievements!
I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying Dark Souls 2. Assumed I wouldn’t like it at all 😛
Yesterday, I shaved off my awful sideburns and shitty moustache. Now when I look in the mirror, I don’t recognise myself. Who is this alien in the mirror?
No no no no no. Sideburns need to stay. I’ve had them for 10+ years. Trust me, I’m an expert.
It was very fashionable in the Victorian era.
Well, @beeawwb’s sideburns are pretty neat.
I’ve had sideburns at least bottom of ear length since…
pretty much since i could grow them.
Yeah, same here. I look ridiculous when it’s shaved to the hair line.
Why thank you. My sideburns are a combination of “I’m lazy” and “Screw it, I’m bored.” – The size / shape may change (e.g. straight bar, lamb chop, etc) but the basic “the more facial hair the less shaving” idea is always there.
Regrow them, get a frock coat, top hat & monocle to complete the look
That’s why I hate shaving.
You start getting attached to your face, instead of your face being attached to you.
Guy walks in and hands me about 20 keys. I tell him to give me half an hour. He tells me I’ve got 10. I point out that’s a hell of a lot of keys and I can’t physically cut that many that quick. He informs me he’s a solicitor.
Uh, good for you?
10 half hours? Easy!
That threat’s emptier than the centre of one of those giant Easter eggs.
What’s he going to do, sue you? That’s batshit crazy. Haha!
The law firm of Adderly and Grigoris asks that you immediately retract your statement about our employee and pay damages to the tune of $10,000
Implying our employee is “batshit crazy” is grounds for a suit under the defamation act.
If you do not comply within 30 days we will be forced to pursue the matter further.
Solicitors are used to their employees treating them like GOD. The justice department is insane – the lackeys and EAs we have submitting requests on behalf of lawyers and judges will gush breathlessly to us, “But it’s for a judge!” like that should impress us for some reason.
“Yeah? Then he should be pretty on board with the concept of following the rules,” does not go over well. Apparently they’re super, duper, ultra important for no discernible reason.
And like I’ve said before… there is something incredibly fucked up about ‘contempt for the court’ (ie: the judge – who IS the court, apparently) being an actual crime. Contempt for garbagemen isn’t a crime. Contempt for nurses isn’t a crime. People demonstrate utter contempt for teachers all the time, but if they stopped working for even half a day, people would lose their shit at their kids’ all-day babysitter not being available all of a sudden. They’d certainly notice faster than if a judge stopped doing THEIR job. Why, if judges stopped doing their job, the only thing that would happen is the innocent would fall victim to the court of public opinion, criminals might walk free, and trials would take forever to go to court. So… no different to how things are.
Fuck self-important judges. Fuck self-important lawyers. And honestly, anyone who gets anal about being called a doctor, too. Someone telling me they are one would honestly make me less inclined to be helpful, not more.
To be frank… Fuck ANYONE who tries to tell me they deserve more respect than someone else. Everyone starts with a base level of respect in my eyes.
Asking for moreExpecting/demanding more than anyone else is a pretty fucking quick way to lose it.*hops on soapbox, foaming at the mouth*
And another thing!
Don’t try to sell me on the whole, “Well we deserve respect because becoming a lawyer/doctor/judge is really competitive and difficult!” Really? I should respect the time and effort you put into an absurdly lucrative and exclusive career which keeps you exceptionally comfortable compared to everyone else? Why the fuck would I respect you for your self-service?
Doctors for their service, maybe, but even then – why more than a nurse, who does the ugly, smelly, mundane, boring grind spirit-crushing shit you don’t want to, with none of the credit? Or someone who sacrificed their career and sometimes even personal lives to live with and care for a relative, who may not even necessarily even be aware of the sacrifice made? Or any other person who has amazing strength of character they don’t wear on their godamn sleeve? I’ll afford unearned respect to a serviceman or emergency services for their job – someone who gets paid less than I do to sign up to potentially fucking die for the sake of keeping me and others safe.
*rants angrily for the next hour – nothing to see here, people*
http://i.imgur.com/MIj6o.gif
Its so nice to not be the only one eloquently ranting on a forum…
Eh, contempt for the court has a pretty valid use case. Ensures that cases are heard in a proper manner.
Well. There is that. But still! Anger! It should just be ejecting the disruption from proceedings or I dunno. A ball gag.
I’ve noticed some weird glitches playing FFV on my Vita; I’m wondering whether it’s my Vita console, the PlayStation port of the game, or just FFV the original in general. Two issues that don’t seem to pop up when I search for them.
Firstly, the timer seems to be off. According to the game, I’ve clocked about seven or eight hours however I played all day yesterday and also the night before. If I had to guess I’d say it’s around ten or fifteen hours real time.
Secondly, it freezes at points; though it’s not complete game-crashing freezes. It’s always during text dialogue. The music still plays and after about fifteen seconds the buttons work again and I can continue through texts.
Has anyone else encountered these issues?
The timer issue could well be a PAL/NTSC thing. From memory the PSN will give you the appropriate version for where you say you’re from (I think there’s a few games where you have to download the correct version if you’re transferring from a PS3 or something, but I could be wrong), so if you’re on the PAL version and it’s a bad conversion, the timer could be timed to 60Hz when the game’s running at 50, so timers and whatnot will be 5/6ths what they would accurately be.
That’s wild speculation though.
Hmm, for some reason the kotaku icon isn’t showing next to the tab name. I don’t know why that is.
EDIT: No Kotaku, I am not posting comments too quickly. I’ve been away for the last two days.
It’s been doing stuff like that for the last couple of days.
Easter must’ve been crazy.
I think when you consider the fact that we can STILL link back to comments from a very, very long time ago, this database must be reasonably massive and maybe even have some sort of breaking point. Which may or may not have needed to be adjusted with the frequency of commenting.
I’d be happy with a database wipe if it’d fix the problems
I’m imagining like a few hundred kilobytes all up.
Pretty cool that Kmart spell out some of your consumer rights about warranties/returns/etc on the receipt when you buy an appliance. Saying things like you can’t be refused a refund, etc. Didn’t think they’d bother honestly 😛
Does that mean you went back for the slow cooker?
I would if I could carry two boxes home without looking like a loon.
What good is rice if you have no slow cooked goodness to put on it, Pow. :'(
Slow cooked stuff is better with mashed potahto anyway! ;D
One day I will learn how to make this mythical mash potato and then I’ll put gravy on it and then I will eat it and then I can rest.
Butter. Shitloads of butter.
Also, don’t be like my cousin, and make sure you cut up the potatoes before boiling them.
1. peel potatoes and chop into pieces (helps cook faster)
2. put in pot
3. Cover with water
4. add heat until water boils
5. continue to boil until the potatoes are soft enough to be able to pass a fork through them without any hard bits in the middle, usually about 15-20 mins
6. Dump a lump of butter in. If you’re feeling extravagant, add a little milk or cream as well.
7. Get a potato masher and mash the shit out of those potatoes until the butter and potato is incorporated and everything is smooth
Yessss. Thanks man.
Alternative option for @dc:
Peel potatoes, chop into pieces, was them, then put into a freezer-bag while still wet from washing. Put freezer bag of potatoes into microwave and cook for I dunno. 10min or so? They’ll be soft, moist, and mushy. Put them into a bowl with a shitload of butter and some cream (or sour cream if you like), chives, and a very, very generous helping of garlic – ultra-crushed/paste. Mix until the entire thing is creamy.
For funsies, do the same thing but use sweet potato. And instead of garlic, use a mix of soy sauce and red wine. Replace chives with oregano/rosemary.
@transientmind: you’re talking some pretty advanced potato mashing there. @dc should start with the basics IMO.
Hm. Maybe. You might be right.
If only because it’s good to know how it feels when it’s done and having a good idea with what each ingredient will do to the flavour so you can eyeball the right quantity without any kind of recipes. (Necessary, in my opinion, because most recipes seriously underestimate how much garlic you should use.)
But otherwise it’s not that much more advanced. Anyone confident to follow the first steps can follow the rest, because it’s simply adding more ingredients to the mashing portion of the steps. Delicious ingredients. The real issue is getting the quantities right. Too much and you end up with goop. Too little and you might as well not have bothered. (So in that respect, starting small won’t hurt.)
(At least I didn’t suggest he saturate the sweet potato in a home-made red wine jus. The only way to make a really decent jus in my experience starts with caramelizing certain vegetables/herbs, which was one of the harder techniques for me to learn, personally. Honestly, after a certain point it’s more worthwhile to buy sauces than it is to make them yourself. Some sauce recipes are truly absurd in the ‘dicking around’ department for very little increase in flavour.)
@dc, that’s a good guide but it’s missing an important step
8. Get jar of Hormel Real Bacon Pieces, put 1/4 jar in mash, stir through
That sounds like the sort of thing that the ACCC might force them to do if they pinged them at some point for not following the rules…
True! I like it, whoever is responsible.
Yeah, I was just thinking it sounds like something they would do as a way to make sure that they don’t get in trouble thanks to some zealous store-manager wanting to subtly discourage refunds in order to improve their stats.
Ooh. Coles are selling Chocolate Fish again.
I’m going to be popular with my wife tonight.
Later that same evening…
haha I get jokes!
The ones that are just chocolate-coated marshmallow?! :O
That’s the ones.
Fun fact. That’s actually the only way to get fish in New Zealand.
I think there needs to be a Firefox addon that hides anything Game of Thrones related on Facebook, because it’s getting pretty bloody boring all I see from friends is them either gushing over GoT or someone bitching it’s sexist or something..
Find new friends. Problem solved! 😉
It’s hard when it appears a lot of the population these days has an obsession with Game of Thrones 😛
I have no interest in it either we should be friends.
Hahaha. I tried to get into it, to the point where I watched the first 2 seasons and contemplated reading the books, but that required me getting over the hype that surrounds it 😛
My sister gave me seasons 1 and 2 on DVD for Christmas, insisting that I’ll really like it. It’d be a struggle to get over the overhype in itself, but having it there on DVD?
I own like 20-30 DVDs that I’ve received in one way or another over the years, and haven’t watched a single one. This thing’s never gonna get played.
Yeah, that’s even worse haha. Like It’s okay, but I was just never into the whole medieval genre. So it’s pretty meh to me lol.
To be fair, people are allowed to express their enjoyment of something. We all talk about things knowing that not everyone we know is going to enjoy it or care.
Lol, okay. I’ll just sit here in the corner with my unpopular opinion because i’m not allowed to voice it.
Yeah, not exactly what I meant.
@strange apparently Gloryhammer has changed from Tempo to the New Globe Theatre. Dunno what’s new about it, it’s the same venue as the old Globe Theatre 😀
Probably a new owner and new decor. And maybe new liquor licence. The old one required you to be a member of a ‘club’, which meant a one-time membership fee before you could gain entry or be served alcohol.
I used to go there a lot when they were showing
shittyfucking rad old-timey B movies.Old timey b-movies such as?
Faster Pussycat Kill, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Reefer Madness, uhm… Star Wars: Christmas Special. All kinds of crazy junk. 🙂
Envy. I wish I knew of a place like that. And had people to go to it with, I guess 😛
Hell, I just went on my own. Go there often enough you meet people anyway, because you’re a regular. 🙂
I mostly stopped going on account of things getting… complicated, with the bartender.
If you like a place, for Pete’s sake don’t date the staff.
Okay, those are damned good bad films there. Did they ever show The Giant Claw or Q The Winged Serpent?
Might’ve, but I’d have missed them if they did. I’d only go every few sessions.
I loved the old Globe. Only went a couple of times for gigs there but it was awesome nonetheless. Saw a mate’s mate’s band and then sat in the cinema bit and watched a Rolling Stones video where The Beatles were supporting them. Other time was for a punk gig. Interesting on a sloped floor 😀
I think they’ve wholly abandoned the movie idea and gone for gigs only. Which is a shame. I’m not much a fan of live music.
Civilisation 5 – The Fellowship of Kieth
I did a bunch of stuff that I didn’t make a post about. I’ll provide a recap if there is enough demand/I can remember what happened. The game then told me that I had lost the game. I pleaded for more time.
After pumping all my efforts into research, I formed the United Nations. The poll said I was winning by three votes. Worried that Ethiopia might beat me in the real election, I set to win all the city states. I rigged elections, gave tonnes of money gifts, and connected whatever resources to their trade network that they wanted me to. Right now, I own all the city-states except one, and I’d need to stage a coup to get it back. I’ll see if I can fit that into my schedule.
I also sent exploration ships to scour the oceans, looking for any city-states or that single unmet civilisation, so that I can throw money in their faces until they vote for me.
It’s been a long time since I founded the United Nations, and I’m trying to figure out when the United Nations Election Victory Hour is going to begin. I noticed at the beginning of the turn that my title is “Chairman Kieth the Something-Or-Other.” Does this mean that the poll when I founded the UN was the election, and I just didn’t realise it? I would have won the game if that was the case, right? Or maybe I am referred to as Chairman because I adopted the Communism tree? I dunno.
TAYbies, how many turns after founding the UN is the real election?
I have no idea, there are so many things being referenced here which I never experienced in Civ 5. Those expansion packs must’ve been doozies.
I get the feeling that since I pleaded for more time when I lost, I’m essentially in a sandbox mode where I can’t win. I’ve spent all day trying to beat this thing, and I still haven’t won.
If that’s the case, I’ll just end it there. I’ve been eager to try the Elder Scrolls mod for a while, and I have just been waiting for this campaign to end for the last 100 turns. I want to be the Daedric lord Mahrunes Dagon and win a science victory, dammit!
Also, yeah, vanilla Civ 5 was highly critised for missing features that were in Civ 4. The expansions solved that.
Nevermind the fact that each expansion last I checked was forty fucking dollars each or some similar bullshit. 🙂
Definitely ‘on sale only’ territory.
With the humble bundle, I picked up Civ 5 and the Gods + Kings expansion for like eight bucks. 😛
Also, maybe this year is the year to go to the EB Expo in October, Can anyone advise if it’s acutally worth the trip? Never been to one before 🙁
It’s a pretty alright guy.
I think it’s worth it for me, but then, I’m Canberran, and will take any excuse to hang out with the Sydney TAYbies.
Not sure it’s so easy to justify for anyone who has to go further, but ehh, it could be worse.
It’s very hard to distance it from the fact that it’s EB pimping itself out quite hard – giant store full of old warehouse stuff, pop-up stores and preorder booths and the like. But it’s not bad if you’re not bothered by that. Might depend on the distance you’re travelling as well as what games will be on the floor that you might be interested in queuing a fair while for. 😛
It’s about 4 weeks before PAX AU this time. I know which one I’d prefer to go to personally. EB Expo seems like more of a trade show with aggressive advertising and stuff where PAX is more of a gamer gathering.
Hello Guys!
Got the Sly trilogy (been playing on Vita, but it’s cross-buy), and it’s a lot harder than I thought I would be. I’m currently stuck on a racong level where I have to drive around a track and beat the other cars, but I’m fairly sure it’s impossible.
Also bought $9.90 worth of games in the US PSN flash sale. I got all the Crash Bandicoot games (including the cart racer), all the Spyro games, Braid, Tokyo Jungle, and then I had enough for one more game and ended up getting Back to the Future (the Telltale game – they also had Jurassic Park, which I heard was bad, and Tales from Monkey Island, which I thought was the original games but it turned out to be the Telltale games, and because I ‘ve never played the originals I didn’t get it). I tried Remote Play to my Vita and it worked fine, but unfortunately the games themselves wouldn’t transfer.
Also saw Divergent in the cinemas, it wass a good adaption of the book, and if you’ve read the book, you’d now that it’s actually a pretty good sci-fi dystopian story. The trailers show way too much of the love story in my opinion, but there’s still a bit of it (not as much as the trailers suggested though).
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/04/22/looks-like-suikoden-ii-will-re-released-playstation-network/ I might finally be able to try a Suikoden game! \o/
@popdart5 Do you still have that map of the world for the Pathfinder campaign somewhere? I know it possibly isn’t 100% up to date any more since we handed in our backstories and stuff but I was wondering if maybe it would be worth adding to the Roll20 campaign area and/or to @redartifice’s campaign tumblr.
I’ll add it in as one of the documents and backgrounds so you guys can refer to it.
It’s also queued for the Tumblr 🙂
Working from home tonight. Vastly superior experience. If only because I can measure my progress in tasks against the flow of time/cookies in cookie clicker on the other window – openly and without judgement. Also, wear shorts – openly and without judgement. And fart loudly. Openly, and without judgement.
HC? CPS? Achievements unlocked?
I just did a reset, so I’m at 15k HC now. Pre-reset was 60 trillion CPS, 13k HC, 130/150 achievements.
(Depressingly, I was actually at 17k HC last week, but then the PC crashed and for some reason I must’ve copied an old save code to my notepad file somehow.)
I assume you’re doing this sans add-ons?
I used one as a guide for what to buy until about 150k HCs, since then I became a bad person and I’m using an auto-clicker for gold cookies, auto-buyer, and so forth.
But now I’m at 5 million HCs on next reset, 130 quadrillion CPS. Thinking I’ll try and get the 400 fingers unlocked Achievement, then do a full reset, hopefully in time for the prestige update.
Yup, eyeball only. …AUTO-CLICKER?
Pffft. Why not enter the cheat code ‘Ruinthefun’, which gives you all achievements, upgrades, and a hojillion cookies, and… essentially nothing left to do? 😛
In truth, I was absurdly into it for a while, but left it alone for god knows how many months, just put it back on the browser a couple weeks ago.
BECAUSE THERE’S STILL LOTS TO DO. IT WILL TAKE WEEKS TO EVEN GET THE NEXT ACHIEVEMENT.
I got a new PC a while ago and lost everything.
My brother has been keeping my Mum and I awake at night. Suddenly everything seems to take so much more effort
Bleh. Well… think of the rent money he generates, at least?
Really wish there were a way to help.
To me, not worth it. Mum was nearly sick because he decided to paint our toilet floor at night with foul smelling paint. His room is furthest away from it.
Practising his drum solos?
Nope, having showers and leaving the lights on opposite our rooms.
God damn it, thinking about recipes has made me want to cook.
…And order hundreds of dollars of gourmet shit in groceries. 😛 (Which is totally not worth it. Well, unless you’re trying to get laid, I guess, but there are still cheaper ways.)
pfft, cooking good aint that expensive.
Oh sure, you can eat pretty well for pretty cheap, but ‘gourmet’ designated tastes are kind of expensive. Every now and then if you wanna do a bruschetta with some pancetta or fry some leipajuusto to wrap generously in prosciutto and serve with pickled onions or similar, you’re looking at some pretty ridiculous prices (maybe around $40 for a satisfying plate for two) for a single snack to have with an afternoon wine.
Every 5-6 weeks I give myself a budget of $60-80 and go to one of those gourmet supermarkets and buy a bunch of stuff because I kind of get the same way.
Though I discovered a while back that the best thing is to ensure I buy stuff that requires minimal work to enjoy. If it’s a cooking ingredient then it needs to be something I can use easily. I’ve still got a few tins of chestnut paste in the pantry that I was going to use to make some Mont Blanc cakes but never got around to (due mainly to needing to get some extra tools, esp. a double-mesh strainer).
Yep. When cooking for one, time and effort are huge considerations for me. All the recipes I have, things I’ve learned to do, and time and time again more often than not dinner is a stir fry, or stroganoff and rice at the fanciest, just eggs or breakfast cereal + protein shake at the least fancy. And honestly… most nights I lean toward less-fancy.
Also, that’s a pretty great idea. I usually just waste money on treating myself to restaurant meals every week or two.
I just usually go for some ridiculously expensive cheese. Usually paired with cheap crackers. Not a fan of the mini toast things.
Yeah. Really expensive cheese, some good cured meats maybe. Pate. Ice Cream. Sweets like saffron nougat or persian rahaat.
Also the place I go to most often has some rarer ingredients like chipotle and pomegranate molasses (which is used to make amazing salad dressings, goes awesome with tomato)
I got a wife by replicating Sizzler’s cheese toast with a $2 loaf of bread and about a $4 bag of parmesan flakes. Not sure what you’re trying to accomplish 😛
Roman Empire levels of decadence? Collapsing society through wanton hedonism is expensive, time-consuming work, but somebody’s gotta do it.
The roman empire fell more from barbarian attacks than hedonism (though poor and complacent defences did contribute a lot). If you want to recreate that experience I’ll stop shaving, buy an axe and come kick your door down…
Not sure if best or worst man-date ever.
That might hinge on whether or not I also wear a loincloth made from the skin of a freshly slaughtered animal
Rohypnol.
Jesus. That reminds me. My brother was telling me he had mentioned me to one of his friends in conversation, who had asked, “Your brother?” and he’d replied, “Yeah, you’ve met him. Like me but heavier. Paler skin, shorter hair, blue eyes.”
“Ohhhhhhh I know the one – oh yeah, I’ve got a roofie stash set aside for him.”
I do not know why my brother felt compelled to share this with me. Perhaps as warning. It was a joke, but all the same I never drank at that friend’s place again. In terms of jokes, that’s pretty damn wrong. About as wrong as the other friend of my brother’s who shuddered once when I was freshening his drink and gave him a smile, and he said, “Wow, don’t look at me like that. That look’s going into the bank.”
“The bank?”
“You know. The spank bank.”
“Ah. …Very good.”
They’re quite open and forthcoming people, some of my brother’s friends.
Haha! It’s weird, man. Some guys will go out of there way to make sure their buddies are comfortable around you and then others do this. 😀
HI EVERYONE.
Dark Souls 2 beat. 33/38 achievements by the time the final boss fell. Still need all spells, hexes, pyros and miracles, and to beat Vendrick. Have made an Excel spreadsheet with the insane amount of grinding that needs to happen to get these achievements. Kind of uninspired to start on it now. I might wait for the inevitable 1.05 or 1.06 patch that reduces covenant requirements 😛
Play time: around 53 hours. This includes around 15 hours spent solely in Heide’s Tower jolly co-opping.
PS: Don’t forget my Kickstarter. It’s not looking at all good for its success, but you can still get (some) rewards even if funding fails.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
I keep trying to share it on Facebook but they’re all morons who can’t read more than 20 words in a row.
I can read 50 words in a row before my mind wanders off, thank you very much!
There he is!
http://www.medievality.com/
Stay away from the torture section.
It isn’t safe for sanity.
That’s a relatively sedate list, really.
Have you heard of Scaphism? Now that’s a torture method.
OH WTF. Why did I just Google that and read the method in its entirety?
Yeah, I’m not doing that. I want to sleep well tonight, I don’t need nightmare fuel.
Well that sounds like a riot.
Right?
15 year old me spent a lot of time reading in depth about various torture methods, would’ve made a great conversation piece at social gatherings if I’d ever been to any.
I will have to cite this if I ever write a paper on why teenage boys are little monsters.
Ahh, so I shouldn’t add that the reason I was reading these was part of elaborate revenge fantasies I devised for the dickwads who threw food at me?
Probably best to avoid that.
Well, Angry Joe’s review of The Elder Scrolls Online was rather harsh
http://youtu.be/Ov3B26h12C4
5/10, eh? I could tell before the game had even launched that the final product wouldn’t be that great, but I did not expect it to be that bad.
EDIT: Dammit, the link keeps starting 17 minutes in. I want it to start from the beginning.
Urgh. Just finding academic sources for my essay is taking longer than writing the essay itself. :/
It’s really annoying me.
Google Scholar?
There’s only so many relevant academic journals on narcissism and organisational behaviour though 😛 I need 10 for a 1500 word essay, which I think is kinda nuts cos it’s not leaving me much space to work with.
You can use multiple references for one piece of text. Like:
“blah blah blah blah blah (Trevor, 2009)(Steve, 2003)(Kevin, 1999)”
If that makes sense :S
Might help save space for writing.
God help me. I’m looking at Order of the Stick mini’s and considering it.
Drinking chocolate milk that is now 14 minutes out of date.
#LivingDangerously
You go you first world anarchist!
The brave young Dutch lad put his finger in a dyke, so she kicked the shit out of him.
#PageSixInMyHeart
New climbing shoes are hard. I have to learn to climb all over again, everything feels all weird. As good as they are, I still managed to slip off holds a couple of times. Also god damn my feet hurt 😛
haha the new Ace Attorney game in the works is revealed to be set in the past. Like 1868-1912 Meiji Era past with Phoenix’s ancestor as the main character.
Also dear god SAO: Hollow Fragment is coming to NA. That’s a bombshell. The temptation to buy a vita buys ever stronger, because this year the Vita is killing it. @negativezero
Dude have you seen Trigger happy havoc, its like my favourite game this year by far.
I have, and I’ve played a bit on my friend’s Vita. I don’t know how people can compare this to PW when they are completely different. You could pare it all down to “Crazy courtroom shenanigans” but even then PW focuses on “shenanigans” and Denganronpa on “crazy.”
Wait what? Source on the Hollow Fragment news please?!
EDIT: Found source. Holy shit. When did Bandai decide to come back to the Vita? :O
I wonder if it will be dual audio or dub-only? It’s digital so I guess maybe it could even be sub-only and just a re-release of the subbed Asia release… I need to know if I should cancel my preorder on that or not. Don’t want to play a game like that with a Funimation-style shit dub.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is officially releasing October 7th. So damn hyped for this game.
And that trailer! So damn good, right?
Who wants to go to splendor in the Grass with me the lineup is crazy good.
http://splendourinthegrass.com/main-lineup.html
OUTKAST, Interpol, Foster the people,
so many good acts
Kelis is a hipster artist now?
yeah
also hey
oh who am i kidding im super hipster
Actually I think the more pertinent question is Kelis is still a thing? She’s like, super old artist from my high school days. I was in Year 9 when we were playing her music when we were running the school radio station.
Last years splendour was the most fun I’ve ever had. Definitely going this year.
Pathfinder people, I’ve given you all the map of Idris in the handout section of Roll20 and I’ve also done up a background we can all refer to when needed. In addition, your specific journal sections are now completely free for you to edit and add to but there was no option for me to grant you guys the ability to make it private yourselves. So everything you put up there is public. Unfortunately there was no in between as it was either completely private or completely public.
Where do you find them? Can’t seem to find that area.
It should be the option available next to the chat bubble on the right-hand pane where we were rolling the dice, at the top of the pane. It should look like a newspaper.
I’ve been on an adventure game kick all week. Almost finished with Meobius but real world stuff got in the way. Then Broken Sword 5 thanks to @aliasalpha’s saved game. (I forgot to back mine up when I reinstalled windows.) Tex Murphy was delayed, alas. Gives me more time to play these!
I accidentally deleted my save in Chaos in Deponia. =(
Oh maaaan! That sucks. Were you very far in? If you posted on a the Daedalic forum someone might help you out with saves.
Basically what happened is …
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Aw maaaaan! You’re not too far from end I don’t think. I reckon just watch playthrough on YouTube.
but achievements. aaaacheeeeeivementttttts. =P
Weird thing is I’ve still not played part 2, since I’ve been sick I’ve just been curled up on the lounge trying to 100% assassin’s creed 4. Only one more treasure map and about half a dozen optional mission objectives to go and it’s mostly easy stuff I just missed like kill the assassination target with a rope dart or kill 4 guards and I missed one because I was too busy being stealthy. The only hard one left is a double assassination in Principe that I’ve never managed to see a way to do before.
Guys Guys i have a new game
Rocket’s everyone make a list of music that defines your tastes
ABBA- Dancing Queen
CHRVCHES- Nightsky
The wickedly talented adele dazeem- Let it go
Arcade fire- The suburbs
Gorilliaz- Clint Eastwood
M83-Midnight City
Crystal Castles- Not in Love
Purity Ring- Fineshrines
Muse- Feeling good
The Killers- Mr brightside
MGMT-Kids
what about you guys what songs define your tastes??
Metallica, Led Zep. Alternating between 104.7 and 102.3 for the good songs. Anything with loud, buzzing, distorted guitars really. Except country. I hate country – I think it’s their voices that I dislike. Also, I’ve been listening to Cat Stevens a bit since DC mentioned him on TAYlist the other week – he’s a pretty cool cat.
hey our local 102.3 station plays the oldies tooo
too bad they also play 14 ads for every song
Yeah, I also don’t mind the oldies. Let’s face it, there’s not a lot of Metallica and Led Zep on the radio these days.
Hmm, not sure I understand 100%, but I’ll give it a go.
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Ray vs Cedric Gervais
Toxic – Britney Spears
Pound the Alarm – Nicki Minaj
Reaching Out – Nero
Countdown – Beyonce
Bonfire – Knifeparty
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Kyoto – Skrillex
Spectrum – Zedd ft. Matthew Koma
…I have no shame in my music taste 😛
dude i love Toxic, its on a episode of Doctor Who. 🙂
Im a skrillex fanboi from when his first EP dropped, Nero still gets constant play on my car ride playlists and knifeparty is made up of the dudes from pendulum so naturally i love them.
Reaching Out!
Favourite Nero song. Its been on everyone of my playlists since their album dropped.
It was either Reaching Out or Must be the Feeling, cause those are my two favourite Nero songs. Reaching out is definitely their best song though, by far.
This game is hard, and it requires too much brain.
*Just insert like 20 different songs from musicals*
Circle of life
The music of the night
Every Song from Wicked
i got you sorted buddy
oh oh im also gonna add
There’s a bit of other stuff.
Arch Enemy – We Will Rise
System of a Down – Toxicity
Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
Alice Cooper – Poison
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
Village People – YMCA
Oh, and stealing Gotye – Heart’s a Mess from BDKIAF.
Yeah, alright.
The Amity Affliction – Youngbloods
Architects – These Colours Don’t Run
Arctic Monkeys – Arabella
Being As An Ocean – The Hardest Part Is Forgetting Those You Swore You Would Never Forget
Ben Folds – Annie Waits
Bring Me the Horizon – Sleepwalking
Childish Gambino – Bonfire
Chvrches – The Mother We Share
Confession – This Is A War
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
A Day To Remember – The Downfall of Us All
The Devil Wears Prada – HTML Rulez D00d
Foo Fighters – Everlong
The Getaway Plan – The New Year
Gotye – Heart’s A Mess
I Killed The Prom Queen – Say Goodbye
Kanye West – Power
Lamb of God – Redneck
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
The National – I Need My Girl
Northlane – Dispossession
Parkway Drive – Romance Is Dead
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Suck My Kiss
The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
The Wombats – Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)
Is that too many? That’s probably too many.
You have the best taste
Literally the best.
System of a Down – Atwa
Power Glove – Ressurection
Belinda Carlisle – Summer Rain
Screaming Jets – Better
Lamb of God – Everything Turns to Nothing
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
Nirvana – Lithium
American Headchargev- Americunts Evolving into Useless Psychic Garbage
Austrian Death Machine – It’s Simple If It Jiggles It’s Fat
Butthole Surfers – Pepper
The Black Keys – Little Black Submarine
Well that narrows it down :/
How about Top 25 played from iPhone? (With duplicate artists filtered out, to have 1 representative song and alphabetically by artist)
Everything But The Girl – Rollercoaster
John Mayer – Walt Grace’s Submarine Test Jan 1967
REM – Nightswimming
The Smiths – Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Steely Dan – Aja
(There’s a lot of duplicate EBTG / Smiths / Steely Dan)
Also include… (again, alphabetical so as to not provide bias)
The Audreys – Poorhouse (though You & Steve McQueen is a close 2nd)
Ben Folds – Learn to Live With What You Are
Boz Scaggs – Lowdown
Clairy Browne & The Banging Racketts – She Plays Up To You
Colin Hay – Overkill
Dr John – Right Place, Wrong Time
The Eagles – Hotel California
Earth Wind & Fire – Steptember
James Taylor – Your Smiling Face
Jimmy Hendrix Experience – Bold As Love
John Mayer Trio – Another Kind of Green
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’
Robert Cray – The Dream
That’s enough for now.
I think Garbage covers a pretty broad spectrum, from the slow ballads like Cup of Coffee and Milk, to the defiant power songs like I’m Only Happy When it Rains and Sex is Not the Enemy, with fun pop like Cherry Lips and Special to round it out. Shirley Manson’s wonderful vocals don’t hurt either. I can pretty much listen to their first four albums endlessly (along with Shirley Manson’s debut in the self titled album Angelfish) and be transported to a different time and place. I was never really happy in my teens/early 20s but Garbage gave me a kind of uplift then and still does today. They kind of went of the rails with Not Your Kind of People but it would probably grow on me if I gave it a chance.
Muse is another big one for me, but I think their spectrum is similar to Garbage (even if their style is pretty different) with perhaps the exception of the epicness of Knights of Cydonia on their Black Holes and Revelations album.
I think that really covers most of the bases in terms of style. Obviously there’s classic rock pretty much everybody loves, and I have a weakness for sappy 80s love songs like Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Summer Rain”, but I think we’ve covered mostly everything.
That Garbage song was used in The Phantom Pain trailer so well.
Ground Zeroes verdict?
That trailer actually prompted me to revisit the album and I think it has potential for me to grow to like it, but it didn’t instantly grab me. Many of my favourite albums didn’t at first: Absolution, Vulture Street, a few others.
Very nice list. Fineshrines takes me back to summer a few years ago.
Active Child – Hanging On
Deftones – Rocket Skates
Mars Volta – Aegis
Flight Facilities – Crave You
Bob Marley – Three Little Birds
John Legend – Ordinary People
Outkast – Prototype
Daft Punk – Giorgio by Moroder
Nero – Reaching Out
Green Day – Give me Novocaine
Chvrches – Recover
Off the top of my head.
78 Saab – Needle in the Hay
78 Saab – Sleepless Nights
Andy Gibb – Flowing Rivers
Billy Joel and Ray Charles – Baby Grand
Billy Joel – The Entertainer
Elton John – Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Elton John – Gotta Love Someone
Bon Jovi – Always
Bon Jovi – Dry County
Guns N Roses – Coma
Beatles – The Long and Winding Road
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
Ben Folds – Sentimental Guy
The Cardigans – No Sleep
The Cardigans – The Road
The Killers – Glamorous Indie Rock N Roll
The Rasmus – Save Me Once Again
The Rasmus – Keep Your Heart Broken
John Williams – Princess Leia’s Theme (ANH OST)
John Williams – The Asteroid Field (ESB OST)
James Flamestar – The Lesser Evil
…
Yeah, that’ll do.
Heathen: The Rays – David Bowie
Halfway Home – TV On the Radio
So What? – Miles Davis
Da Funk – Daft Punk
I Shatter – The Magnetic Fields
Bleecker Street – Simon and Garfunkel
The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
Baba O’Riley – The Who
Plastic Beach – Gorillaz
Lost in the Supermarket – The Clash
The Planets; OP 32: Jupiter, the bringer of Jollity – Gustav Holst
Spiegel im Spiegel: Arvo Part
oh red
you can join the hipster parties that myself @bdkiaf and @sughly attend
😛
Have you listened to The Magnetic Fields, rockets?
nope, i will check them out though.
69 Love Songs is one of my favourite concept albums ever
I dunno if I could pick specific songs to define mine. It’s kind of more just by artists/albums.
The metal side is pretty much covered by by Judas Priest. Like Matthew K and Garbage above, they have a pretty wide range of stuff going from their early stuff like Sin After Sin to the cheesy 80s goodness of Turbo, then something much heavier in Painkiller. Could maybe branch out here with The Living End too.
Next major part would be… I dunno what to call it exactly, big band kind of jazzy type stuff. Basically the de Blob soundtracks, or maybe even Cat Empire. Blues Brothers. That kind of thing.
They’re probably the two main parts, really. Otherwise the only other music I have going on is the stuff that I play, and other than videogame themes it’s pretty much just been Scott Joplin rags and Jelly Roll Morton pieces.
Actually, you could probably just trace it all back to videogames. Unirally and Donkey Kong Country. They were probably the most formative soundtracks to firmly plant themselves in my mind as a kid 😛
Okay, I think I was doing it wrong before, sorry. I’ll try again.
Metallica – Face to Black, Master of Puppets
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same, No Quarter
Silverchair – Tomorrow, Cemetery
Nirvana – Scentless Apprentice, In Bloom
Incubus – Stellar, Warning
Alice in Chains – Would?, Rooster
Midnight Oil – Dreamworld, US Forces
Soundgarden – Fell on Black Days, Black Hole Sun
David Bowie – Life on Mars?, Golden Years
Boa – Courage, Duvet
Not sure what you mean by define, exactly. As in I haven’t really pondered these lyrically.
Crap, it’s difficult to narrow. Take three.
Okay, ten artists. I’ll leave it at that. Phew.
Queen- I Want It All
AC/DC- TNT
Nirvana- Come As You Are
Iron Maiden- The Trooper
Muse- Knights of Cydonia
Dave Brubeck- Take 5
Gustav Holst- Mars (from The Planets)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov- Trombone Concerto
Sigur Ros – Untitled #8
Purity Ring – Finshrines
Nightwish – Nemo
Dream Theatre – Lie
Nine Inch Nails – Everything Right Where it Belongs
Portishead – Roads
Massive Attack – Dissolved Girl
Madonna – Frozen
Karnivool – Deadman
Dead Letter Circus – Alien
Sia – Breathe me
Kate Miller Heidke – Words
Clare Bowditch – Prinz Willy
Chvrches – Science/Visions
London Grammar – Flickers
Pink Floyd – Wish you were here
New Order – Blue Monday
The Presets – Anywhere
Sonic Animation – Satin Filled Roof
Underworld – Rez/Cowgirl
Coheed and Cambria – The Final Cut
Thirty Seconds to Mars – Hurricane
Muse – Muscle Museum / Plug in Baby (I seriously cant choose between the two)
The Smiths – Still Ill / There is a light that never goes out (also cant choose)
The Dresden dolls – Missed Me
Katy Perry – ET
Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light
Kate Nash – Mansion
The Cure – Love Song
Arcade Fire – Afterlife
That’s all I can think of now… I’m sure I’m missing a couple of Boundaries in there…
Is that too many songs?
I’ll combine my answer with a test to see if spoiler tags have been fixed (edit: nope)
METAL
Black Sabbath – Megalomania
Black Sabbath – The Writ… Ahh fuck it… just say “Black Sabbath – All of Sabotage”
Gwar – Song Of Words
Gwar – Stalin’s Organs
Gwar – The Road Behind
Arch Enemy – No Gods, No Masters
In Flames – Alias
Soilwork – 20 More Miles
Killswitch Engage – Rose Of Sharyn
Lacuna Coil – Spellbound
Mnemic – Door 2.12 (though they do a fuck of a good cover of Duran Duran’s Wild Boys)
Evergrey – Recreation Day
Evergrey – The Dark I Walk You Through
ROCK
Cold Chisel – Four Walls
Cold Chisel – Flame Trees
Australian Crawl – Boys Light Up
Australian Crawl – Hoochie Gucci Fiorucci Mama
Divinyls – Pleasure And Pain
Heart – Alone
Def Leppard – Gods Of War
POP/CHEESE
A-Ha – Take On Me
Big Audio Dynamite – The Globe
Billy Joel – Downeaster Alexa
Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon
Boney M – Rasputin
Cameo – Word Up
Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl
Devo – Beautiful World
Dread Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
ELO – Four Little Diamonds
A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax
Joe Jackson – Real Men
Madness – House Of Fun
Men At Work – Dr Heckyll & Mr Jive
Mitch Benn – Love Handles
Murray Head – One Night In Bangkok
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
Sir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back
Hmm, I’m going to see if I can give a suitable answer by simply hitting “Next” on my phone 10 times… keeping in mind my phone only contains about 1700 songs, which is less than 5% of the music on my computer…
Sun Ray – Mutemath
A Descent – Born Of Osiris
Passenger – Powderfinger
Mouth of Kala – Gojira
Yikes! – London Elektricity
Breakout – Foo Fighters
Scream For Silence – Children of Bodom
Funk You – Camo & Krooked
Cyclone of Insanity – Crypt of Kerberos
Sudden Death is Nothing – Valient Thorr
Okay, let’s do this thing:
NIN – Discipline
Psy – Gangnam Style
Epica – Storm the Sorrow
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Metallica – One
Hanson – Give a Little
Foo Fighters – My Hero
Noel Harrison – Windmills of you mind
Opeth – Ghosts of Perdition
Regina Spektor – Real Love
NIN – 18 Ghosts II (Ghosts II 18? I can’t remember how the song titles work with this album)
Queen – Bicycle Race
Dream Theater – Panic Attack
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
Nightwish – Cadence of her last breath
Danny Osmond/Jackie Chan – Make a Man Out of You
I’ve edited in songs quite a few times already. It’s tempting to add Tool’s Vicarious to the list but I don’t think I want to include Tool in a list of songs that define my tastes because well… Tool.
Operation “Hide the last Plum at the bottom of the work fruit bowl so that nobody gets to eat it before I do” was a roaring success. A wordy operation name, but a worthwhile one!
Also, how about that new Ace Attorney news, huh? I saw @saturday mention it on the last page! Ye Olde Japan times! Going to be funny if they try and make it set in America again 😛
@shane! New Ace Attorney!
(Not confirmed to be getting a localisation or anything yet… But I can get your hopes up anyway!)
HOLD IT!
Amazing. Already cannot wait.
Cool operation but I must ask, why not just take the plum?
Because plums are tasty and are for breakfast, obviously! (Well, second breakfast, because I eat breakfast at home…)
Sure, I hear you say, I could buy my own plums and bring them to work. But, Benny, I say where’s the fun in that!
@Powalen learned all these tactical operation planning skills in the army and he’ll put them to good use, dammit!
I play that game but its called
“Operation hide the good flavored chips in the cupboard underneath the chip display in case i get peckish.”
What you should do is open a packet of Chicken flavoured chips, tip out the contents in the bin, then put in your favourite flavour and reseal it.
Nobody likes Chicken chips.
right??
why do they even make them, i have never once thought
“mmm i am in the mood for chicken flavoured chips”
I must admit that I do fancy chicken twisties. Other chicken chips are weird though.
Honey soy chicken?
That other chicken flavour I forget that was like Moroccan style or something?
look at this fancy guy, using my tax money to buy himself fancy crisps.
Buy chips? Pfft.
I let mum do it for me 😛
That last point was exactly what I thought (despite having never played an Ace Attorney game due to the fact that I’m terrible).
@beeawwb has claimed the Kings Quest series…
let us hope he is a fair and just ruler…
rest of the adventure games still up for grabs!
What adventure games? Have I missed a whole bunch of Tay?
I’ve missed a whole bunch of tay, haven’t I?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-273/comment-page-2/#comment-2557138
Yes, I missed a whole bunch of tay. D=
Confession, I’ve never played any of those /o\
Just don’t tell @dc!
I already knew. She’s on the list!
My advice? Leave the box stuff for the collector’s though. If you’re keen to play they go on sale all the time on GOG for very, very cheap.
I haven’t asked for any because they’ll mean so much more to other people. Although, my friend does love monkey island…
Hope my post didn’t come off as aggressive or any thing. Reading back now it almost seems that way. Definitely wasn’t my intention. Just saying boxes are linked to nostalgia and all that and probably aren’t worth that much without a love of the game attached already. 😀
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get onto monkey island, freddy pharkas and gabriel knight now!
\o/
Do you have X-Wing or TIE-fighter boxed floppies? I’d kill for those.
as a matter of fact i do… but i aint parting with them!!!
I think @sughly was keen. Did he send that e-mail?
yeah he was after freddy pharkas but the newer cd “talkie version”
mines the old school floppy!
Alex’s Winter variant appears!
The Starks are always right in the end…
People who laughed at the beard will now perish without its warmth
Don’t you also need pants in Winter though?
Sacrifices must be made.
It’s 26 degrees in Brisbane today! >:|
*shakes fist*
Winter isn’t coming, man. It’s a lie they told us to make us hopeful, just so they could CRUSH that hope and laugh at us all through the eternal summer. 🙁
It has been far too many years without a winter.
That ain’t going to stop me from hoodie/beanie-ing it up anyways. That’ll learn you, Brisbane!
SOAD – Aerials
Dry Kill Logic – Dead Man’s Eyes
Insomnium – Regain The Fire
Slipknot – Duality
Devildriver – Crowns Of Creation
Amon Amarth – As Loke Falls
Amon Amarth – No Fear For The Setting Sun
Before the Dawn – Black Dawn
Sentenced – Dead Moon Rising
Unsun – Home
Noooo, I thought I had fixed it.
@rocketman
Hey TAY!
I’m one of those lucky workers who got Tuesday off. So this is my Monday.
I also had a bad morning, which went like this:
– Woke up to screaming toddler, he’s normally a little more subdued and sleeps in a little longer.
– Got toddler to mummy for his morning feed.
– Opened laundry door to see the dog had diarrhea’d everywhere on the floor.
– Heard garbage truck on opposite side of the street. Since I didn’t go to work and was inside all day yesterday, I didn’t realise it was bins morning. Quickly jumped over diarrhea, grabbed key to open side gate, jumped back over, grabbed bin, ran around the side of the house, jammed key into lock
– Key broke off in lock.
– Swore so loudly I made a group of blackbirds on my neighbors roof fly off in fear.
– Contemplated running bins through the house, only to remember what the dog had done.
– Resigned myself to a super full bin come next collection date. Will have to jump in an squish it down. Most of our bin is filled with nappies. Joy.
– Trudged back through laundry.
– Stepped on carpet. Carpet went squelch. Stopped to think why.
– Cleaned laundry and feet.
– Got ready for work.
– Out front door, around other side of house.
– Car door open, all things inside moved around.
– They opened car door with crowbar. Car locks fine, door closes fine, have a great big bulge with scratches on my door.
– At work.
Send coffee, or hugs. Or a light flu so I can have another week off.
DUUUUUUDE
wow just wow
thats some shitty luck
Hugasauraus
Rough day mate, sending some good vibes your way.
It can only get better.
Also, ask you neighbours if you’re on good terms with them if you can use their bin.
Aw, man. That’s tough. 🙁
Okay so Rocketman’s little game was awesome; I’ve been so unproductive at work it’s not even funny. Too much music on my mind. So here’s the sequel: pick your favourite song of all time.
According to my iPod my most played is.. Boa – Courage. I’m happy with that. Best song ever. I’m just really surprised it’s not Metallica or Zeppelin to be honest.
Oscar Peterson- Hymn to Freedom
Want that played at my funeral.
I want Dust in the Wind played at my funeral.
Of all time? Nope. Can’t do that. I can pick my favourite song for a situation, I can pick my favourite band of all time (Steely Dan) but there’s no way I can narrow something down to just 1 song.
Of course you can! Maybe when you read my upcoming post about my favourite song, you’ll get an idea.
I get where you’re coming from but my “favourite” songs have all meant something to me at some point in my life. So what you’d really be saying it “choose your favourite moment in your life” (or the most poignant, etc) and I just can’t break it down that easily.
Forced to choose it would be something like Donald Fagen’s “The Nightfly” (from the album of the same name, one of my top albums) which describes a late night DJ at a small jazz station in Baton Rouge, who uses the late night to escape a broken heart.
Lyrically it’s fantastic, in typical Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) style, and musically engineered to within an inch of it’s life (though not as much as track 1, I.G.Y.) and I can listen to it forever. But I still wouldn’t call it my favourite. No one song deserves that honour.
I need to expand. Boa – Courage; I’ve been thinking about it.
Lyrically, it’s perfect. Who makes everything feel alright? You do. These are lyrics for everybody, children and adults alike. The message it conveys is great as well; finding light in darkness, being hopeful and knowing that others are there for you, and telling people to fight for what they know, and having courage, obviously.
Musically, it’s just simple, soothing acoustic guitars that progress into brilliant rock featuring smashing drums and smooth solos, though not too heavy or over-powering. I love progressive, extended music as evidenced by my love of Metallica, Led Zeppelin and the like and girl-fronting rock bands are so hot. Put simply this song is everything I love about music in one sweet five minute package.
Well there’s my letter of love to my favourite song.
I go through phases of favourite songs.
My current favourites are:
Baby – Rudimental ft. MNEK and Sinead Harnett, and
Countdown – Beyonce
My all time favourite song would still have to be:
Toxic – Britney Spears
That song has an unnatural hold over me :S
…stil not ashamed of my taste in music 😛
I even made sure that this was a reply! Stupid uni computers!!! >:( >:( >:(
@benny
Ha!
Wait..
I prefer fashionably un-challenged, thank you very much 😛
Most played songs on my iPhone are:
The Suburbs (Continued) – Arcade Fire
You’ve Got Time – Regina Spektor
Daphne – Lia Ices
Favourite song of all time would be either Space Oddity — David Bowie or Brothers In Arms — Dire Straits
Top, top choices there.
You get a mental high five.
When I first started reading your post, I was going to respond with something snarky like “HA! That’s what you get for having Tuesday off!”. But then it just kept getting worse and worse. Rough day mate, at least they didn’t actually get your car.
I’m starting to find this whole reply issue kind of frustrating. I started to notice it last week.
So apparently replies are borked. good to know.
Man, they are not having ANY luck with those servers, are they.
Civ 5 – The Elder Scrolls Mod Fun-Time
I have downloaded The Elder Scrolls mod for Gods and Kings. Fun times will be had.
ME: Kiergo of Elsweyr (Khajit)
Queen Ayrenn of the Summerset Isles (High Elf)
Gortwog of Osinium (Orc)
An-Xileel of Argonia* (Argonian)
City States: 6
Map: Tiny, Ring-shaped
*But you’re probably asking me:
“But Phalansipo, (since nobody can spell my username) the Argonians come from Black Marsh!”
Technically correct. Argonia is the true name, but everybody calls it Black Marsh these days because reasons.
This is going to be fuuun.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=252148461
Your username is easy to spell, you just have to pick a mnemonic to remember it. I just remember my feelings towards the opening area in Pool Of Radiance, the town of Phlan. It was kinda shit so it’s just “Phlan is poo” with one less o. Simple.
Alias sulphur?
Depends how much curry I’ve had
I’ll admit, my mind pronounces your name as sulphur rather than alpha I have no idea why though.
I see that @redartifice has posted the map that I drew on the http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/. Needless to say that I drew that about five years ago when I was younger and stupider so if anyone is feeling cartographically inclined, go right ahead and draw a new one if you want.
Haha, don’t blame @redartifice for queuing it up – it was meeeeeeeeee. The more content the merrier, right?
I saw it in the queue, thought I’d bump it up 🙂
I don’t blame you guys for wanting more stuff but I just thought I’d put the disclaimer on there that I drew that map with my sister when I was back in high school. And I was never very good at drawing. 😛
My picture of Drewan is literally the first thing I’ve ever drawn, and I didn’t even trust myself to colour it.
(Although I am now tracing over the lines in GIMP and will attempt a digital recreation that doesn’t look so crayon-splotchy. Which I’ve also never done before. My strength is words, not arts.)
You including the places we’re from too?
I was talking about my drawing of Drewan that I’m re-tracing. I think Red is implying below he’s going to give a shot at re-doing the map. I’d hope he includes our own geography. 🙂
oh haha misread, sorry! 🙂
I might give it a crack in Autorealm at some point
Okay, I think Elsa’s ice dress is the most difficult cosplay I’ve done to date. The cape is very hard for me to get done accurately, even more so because of the awkward angle it is on.
Upside: ALL THE GLITTER!
Down side will be trying to get rid of all the glitter at the end of the endeavour, it’s much like sand in that once it’s inside it’s almost impossible to get out again. Although, given that tendency you’ll probably end up with Victoria’s sparkliest dog which could be fun in itself.
Tell me Scree, will you be singing Let It Go while you cosplay? Cos if so I would like someone to film that very much! 😀
Dealing with inevitable failure and contingency plans: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology/posts
The times I regret not being a social butterfly. I’ve sent a few links around to generally skeptical/apathetic friends and family and put some funds on my credit card which will make it on time (godammit Kickstarter, be more flexible with payment options willya), but honestly I really don’t know what else could be done. Five hits per press release? That’s… not great. An anthology of that size for that price is frankly kickass awesome, and it’d be a shame to see it not happen.
Hopefully artists/authors who were interested weren’t only interested by the prospect of getting paid to work while or before they work instead of long, long, long after the fact. But who would blame them?
It’s all good, man. I appreciate the effort, I really do.
The press release thing is an average. Only one place actually wanted to print something based on the press release, and only if I wrote an article rather than a press release. That whole exercise (finding relevant news outlets, writing press releases, and sending them out) ended up being a colossal waste of time.
To be honest, I thought the principle of the thing would get a lot more attention than it did. And I thought the generally-good reputation of the established universe would do the campaign some favours too. But at the moment, it’s very nearly the least successful comics Kickstarter campaign active at the moment. That’s rather disappointing.
Oh well. Live and learn. I’ll just keep doing as I’ve been doing, I guess.
I don’t think your average punter cares a whole hell of a lot about the plight of the artist. Not when so many willingly create work for free. It’s one of the major problems with creative industries. People post their stuff on DeviantArt, write fanfic and post it on enthusiast forums, write and draw some truly amazing work for regular webcomics which survive only on banner ads.
And most importantly… it doesn’t affect them. I doubt anyone really has any idea how hard it can be to try and make a living doing something you love, until they’ve tried it themselves. Also: “Or you could resign yourself to the Real World and have a Real Job doing something you hate, like I do,” might rear its ugly head, diminishing sympathy.
To me, the better angle was not ‘righting the wrongs’ as much as, ‘this is a product/project which will be very cool, and if you care, this is why we need the amount being asked for.’ IF you care. Self-interest, man. It rules the wallet far more often than sympathy does.
Don’t know how shitty I feel that I can’t back this, Shane. Believe me. 🙁
Same is true with Hellscream’s Metro 7.
Do you need me to give you money to give to Shane? 😀
It’s all good, man. Don’t worry about it!
Though if your pledge would have made the difference between success and failure, I might be a little more upset.
Some role models to learn some lessons from.
http://www.businesspundit.com/the-10-nastiest-ponzi-schemes-ever/
That’ll always be the dream.
Flight Facilities replied to a comment I posted.
Oh, yeah.
#coolguy.
wagga flight centre replied to my email saying they don’t offer helo training, bastards
Rat bastards.
Passing by the entrance to the Epilepsy Foundation’s office, I noticed the lamp above their door was faulty, flickering rapidly at random.
I stopped a moment to stare and soak up the irony before moving on.
Gots to get new customers some how, man.
Kind of like how there is an “s” in the word “lisp”.
The guy who decided to call it a lisp must have been a real arsehole.
*arthehole.
He giggled to himself every night until his death.
You know that speech irregularity/impediment where people can’t use R’s & replace them with W’s? It’s named Rhotacism…
It appears that the Youtube homepage has a new category of video recommendations;
Watch it again. It lists a bunch of videos you watched before, and tells you to watch them again. Why would I do that? Why would Google put resources towards something that nobody will ever use? I guess they want to make their money twice.
Because you’ll look at it and go “Hey that was funny/I liked that song/I don’t remember that” and click.
Putting resources towards disrupting the user experience and giving them things they don’t want is pretty much what the Youtube homepage is about.
I changed my bookmark to the subscriptions page and set that to only show uploads.
Some people DON’T have a bookmark to the subs page with only uploads?? How do they cope?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-sher/17-things-your-childs-pediatrician-doesnt-want-to-hear-from-you_b_5162716.html
I wonder how many doctors have snapped and beaten their patients half to death after being told #7 one too many times.
Damn hippocratic oath, getting in the way of my beatings.
I’m picturing Number 11 happening a fair bit.
I used to work for a medical school. They are (or maybe by now have) seriously and totally developing and investigating and implementing an OSCE ‘station’ (it’s the practical version of an exam for med students, they enter a room and have a fake patient in there and have to deal with them) where the Doctor enters and is confronted by…a patient who has googled all their symptoms and is convinced that they have problem a, when it is actually problem b.
AND that the damn patient will not get off the phone throughout the whole consultation.
AND that the damn patient will counter every single thing the doctor throws at them with a quick Google search and a “nope, this forum post says…”.
They were designing it to test the students mettle, because apparently it’s a very regular occurrence in hospitals now.
Reminds me of a comedy challenge my brother did- they had a gig called a pressure testwhere each comedian would have a challenge thrown at them, so someone obnoxiously heckling, power outages, random sound glitches. He had someone talking to his doctor about his STDs loudly on the phone in the first couple of rows
TIL that bathroom cleaning products are just as effective as kitchen cleaning products for wiping down benches and stovetops. I also learned that I should probably make sure that my kitchen and bathroom cleaning products aren’t in the same coloured bottles in the same spot under the sink.
Way too long into living alone I learned that fancy cleaning products are often more expensive and LESS effective than the basics: bleach, baking soda, vinegar. And that you can buy generous quantities of all of those from most cheapass dollar stores.
Things I wish I had known much earlier.
I just want something in a spray bottle with bleach for the bathroom and without for the rest of the house. I’m a simple man.
Just finished Kingdom Hearts Final Mix. This is my first time beating it (although I have watched my brother beat the game previously). I don’t recall the last boss fight taking so long but then again I was actually playing this time!
Also, got a pretty Kingdom Hearts PS3 theme. First time I have changed the theme since buying my PS3.
Man, that end boss fight in KH is such a traditional Final Fantasy weird thing.
Like a fleshy naval destroyer.
Yup it certainly is … something.
Also, I didn’t realise Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD was a thing.
I mean, it makes sense, money is a good thing.
The Jumbo Floating Restaurant is just about the coolest thing I have Googled today. @cj
Huh. Was in Hong Kong, no one ever mentioned it.
Jesus fucking Christ, Telstra. I know the back-of-house guys aren’t hired for their communication skills, but this is not a conversation ANYONE should have to have.
“Hello?”
“Hi, this is Transient, from Shared Services. How are you?”
“What? No, this is Spectrum Services.”
“Yes. That’s great, you’re who I’m looking for. I’m from Shared Services. How are you?”
“Sorry?”
“How are you?”
“I don’t understand.”
“I’m asking how you are.”
“Can… I help you?”
“I hope so. I need to find the FNN attached to a group name. I only have the group name and which exchanges it might be on.”
“OK. What is the FNN?”
“That’s what I want you to tell me. I don’t have the FNN, I only have the group name.”
“OK. What’s the group name?”
“It’s CORPSERV. That’s C O R P, S E R V.”
“S, A, H…”
“Nono. C, O, R, P…”
“C, A, K…”
“No, sorry. It’s Charlie, Oscar, Romeo…”
“S, H, A?”
“No. C for Charlie. Repeat it back to me.”
“C?”
“Very good. O for Oscar.”
“H?”
“No. O for Oscar, or… Orange.”
“My systems appear to be failing. Can I transfer you to a colleague?”
“That would be fantastic.”
Cue being handed to another guy with an identical accent and similar difficulty with the internationally-recognized civil/maritime standard phonetic alphabet. Bloody hell.
The thing is, ‘His this is so-and-so from x department, how are you?’ is standard Telstra internal greeting training. I say it because the big T drilled it into my fucking skull over several years. With the mannerisms and diction, to this day I am asked for my employee ID to attach to jobs, and have to explain that I’m External, now. So even internally, this guy would’ve utterly failed.
I feel your pain sire! I wish I didn’t… but I know it oh so well!
Only vaguely related, but the receptionists lack of NATO phonetic alphabet knowledge irks me to no end. They seem to just use people’s names with the occasional fruit thrown in, which given the stupid spelling of some names seems to just be a recipe for disaster.
Back at Telstra we had a guy who was cruelly nicknamed, “Afer.”
After someone overhearing him telling a customer, “A for Orangutang.”
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you use the phonetic alphabet instead of whatever anglo names you’ve heard them using on wheel of fortune.
Reminded of this
I avoid using “Mike” for M because I’m usually introducing myself as Matthew then spelling out my email address. I don’t want them to think my NAME is Mike. But otherwise I follow the NATO rules – have since I was in Cadets at 16.
I guess it didn’t occur to people at my workplace to do that before I did, because someone commented on it and now half the people in the claims area have little charts on their desks which they refer to.
M as in Mancy. God, you of all people…
I normally do F for Foxtrot, U for Uniform thing with two exceptions: if the person uses the NATO phonetic alphabet as well, I drop the “F for” bit and I always use Penguin instead of Papa.
Because Penguin is a rad word and it confuses people slightly because most people have a vague idea of the NATO phonetic alphabet and know that penguins are not a part of it (yet).
I got my first response from an employer that wasnt a no! It is a day!
Also, Is Kotaku broken? My login is all muffed and a lot of things are kind of bugging out.
All things are indeed bugging out. Which is probably why we aren’t up to page six already.
I dunno, the posting too fast thing is getting to be a bit of a joke in itself
I’ve been taking a break from Kantai Collection and haven’t paid attention in about 3 weeks. And now I look and there’s an event starting today 🙁 No one else will care about this but anyway…
EDIT: Ignore from here if you don’t care — spoilers are still broken 🙁
Two new Destroyers, Tanikaze & Amatsukaze. New light cruiser, Sakawa. ‘Zwei’ update for Bismark, Kai-2 updates for Tone and Chikuma (and the teased artwork for Tone especially is awesome). Amatsukaze looks like she’s a better dressed version of Shimakaze, down to having the same cute Rensouhou cannon things. Must add to my collection.
Apparently the Tone-class and Bismark updates require a new item, an upgrade blueprint which costs 4 medals. You get 4 total for clearing all three of the event maps, plus can get one for clearing the recently added 1-5 and 5-5 maps each month. So that’ll sure slow people down and make things interesting. I actually needed to get a Heavy Cruiser up into the 40s or so to clear out world 4 and previously I was working on Atago because the Takao-class cruisers have marginally better stats than the Tone-class, but if Tone and Chikuma have 2nd-tier remodels with better art it changes everything.
They’re also adding a new special type of ship, Akashi, a.k.a. the Item Shop Musume. Akashi was a repair boat, converted out of the pre-dreadnought battleship Asahi. Apparently she instantly repairs any lightly damaged ships when she’s flagship and gives you an extra two repair dock slots as well, or something.
They’re also apparently changing some stuff or maybe it’s just the event maps, but apparently having lots of Line of Sight is essential to be able to get to the boss nodes, which means that fielding scout planes on carriers, seaplanes on cruisers and lots of radars is going to be important. And that also is a buff for the Tone-class cruisers as they have the longest LOS of any non-carrier ship. Apparently success during scouting at the start of the battle will now buff air attacks too, so maybe I won’t feel quite as gimped for always running my carriers with a Seiun to ensure I don’t get T-crossed. If I’m understanding the patch notes right, it sounds like if you scout successfully and have air superiority your ships can double-attack during day combat if they have scout planes on board, which is also insane. My Yamato is already a wrecking ball without being able to shoot four times in combat…
Also during the period where I stopped playing they added another new destroyer, Hamakaze, updated the Kai graphics for light carrier Ryuujou (though to her despair, this didn’t involve any of the upgrades she desperately wanted and her flight deck is still flat) and upped the drop rate for Uzuki and made her drop in World 2. I imagine that last thing will only last until the end of April though (Uzuki = April).
This is probably going to end up sucking me back in again. Dammit. I can’t escape its pull. 🙁
Are you accepting my posts yet TAY?
Looks like it is, you must have slowed down enough. I think Kotaku has a stitch
It won’t let me reply
If it’s coming up saying you’re posting too fast, what I do is press the back button which takes me back to the post I was trying to reply to, press reply which still has the comment I typed out there and then I press submit and it goes through the 2nd time for me.
… Dammit. It doesn’t work for me =(
Lame 🙁 Stupid things not working!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92u3W6OG9hQ this sure is a pretty game, but I hope they do something about that insane geometry / LOD pop-in. Or at least that when you’re walking around the locations at normal speed and perspective it’s less pronounced.
@transientmind, this was supposed to be a reply to your post above, and yet…
It’s really kinda difficult to have dialogue with other people when nobody knows anyone replied to them =(
I choose to imagine that the KotakAU crew are so excited for the PC release of Dark Souls 2, they’ve decided to make the comment section an often obtuse challenge with highly frustrating elements.
So when you manage to post successfully you get a great sense of elation.
Surely the “posting too fast” message (which I just feckin got again) would be replaced with “You died” if that were the case
Cooking is fun!
You’re damn right it is 😀
I feel like we should probably high five!
o/
what did you make today?
Made the sausage casserole I made the first day again except with some improvements. Tasted good, man. Better. 😀
That’s what I love about cooking! Making small refinements, or changing things up to see how it goes! Once you get a good taste for things, you’ll start piecing together your own little gems 🙂
But I don’t know how to high five throw these series of tubes /o\
I mean o/
Damn right it is. I’ve been making spaghetti sauce all afternoon. Might have overdone it with the chili flakes but bugger it. More heat is more good.
I had homemade hummus for tea, not enough lemon but bloody nice nonetheless.
Also, I recommend your next kitchen gadget be a bread maker. Homemade bread is quite nice and only gets better when you start making fruit & nut loaf or pizza bread
Congratulation @dc you are now an anime schoolgirl in my head. Let’s be fair, you always were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZXXk6TfPkU
(And yes, I know that’s the English dub.)
I just got back from headspace. I feel great. There’s a lot I can say on the matter, but I don’t know where to begin. Hooray for mental health services!
When I was done I had katsu curry for the first time. KATSU CURRY!
Katsu curry is delicious. I remember a bunch of TAYbies where talking about it at one point, so I decided to order it over teriyaki or udon.
I didn’t like the chicken though. Crumbed foods tend to make me feel a tad sick, and the katsu wasn’t an exception.
EDIT: Obligatory mention about beating Freeze in the therapy race.
Well done on the appointment, man! You did good!
Glad to hear this!
The curry is just a generic Japanese curry. So if you’re going to a food court place to get it, odds are you can ask them to give you a different sort of meat to go with it. I like pork when I mix things up.
Also hooray indeed.
Good stuff mate, glad to hear it went well.
Screw the therapy, I’m interested in the curry. Hooray!
(Nah, good for you. The hardest thing is taking the first step.)
Hey, I’m going on Monday probably maybe.
Well @phlanispo went today, I’m going to my psych in the morning, the public holiday on Friday will make it a bit messy but if you go on Monday it’ll be like a hat trick. Admittedly one of those hat tricks where you get 2 wickets at the end of one over and the third at the start of the next one but that still counts.
Do it! 😀
Japanese curry \o/
Chicken Katsu is pretty much doing it wrong though, proper Katsu Curry is meant to use tonkatsu (breaded pork). However chicken or beef curry – just pieces of meat with some veggies like carrot and potato thrown in – is really just as good.
I had a go at making Japanese-style curry from scratch a few times and it’s not that hard but I could never quite get it tasting right. I think JP curry powders have more turmeric than the ones we get here.
And sometimes, that’s all that needs to be said. 🙂
Someone on Reddit linked to the Harry Potter Wikia. This paragraph hurts me:
How about:
The bit about Rowling can pretty much be ignored because it’s mentioned in another section that makes more sense.
Fuck you Wikia. Your terrible content will not convince me to create an account to fix you.
Going through the Scott Bradlee stuff on YouTube after seeing that Pokemon cover and there is some very cool stuff in there.
The 40’s Jazz version of Just Dance is brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GprENPJXUJY
Haha! That’s awesome! I love big band 40s stuff. 😀
Call Me Maybe in a similar vein.
Makes you realize how terrible modern song lyrics can be. Haha!
So who has any experience with those ship to companies? If so what’s the recommended one?
I wanna buy a bunch of stuff from Dickies, and well the Australian site has minimal choice and is about 4x the price of the US site and the US site won’t ship to Australia cause they’re jerks or something.. Pretty sad when I can buy 3 shirts, 3 pairs of pants & a warm ass jacket from the states for about the same price as 2 pairs of Dickies trousers here (about $160) bleh.
I used a proxy to get something shipped and the US ones are okay, but a bit of a pain. The one I used is apparently the best one. You had to open an account and pre-pay them about $10 for that but that went toward re-shipping. They’d just ship stuff onward but it would be uninsured unless you paid them to open your package and take photos. Additionally you have to fill in your own customs declaration and jump through a bunch of hoops. And that was the best of them apparently.
In comparison, getting stuff shipped via a proxy from Japan is incredibly easy, though recent law changes mean you have to provide proof of ID and address the first time (apparently to stop people stealing stuff and then shipping it out of the country to fence it)
Blah, this sounds like more effort than its worth :S Maybe I could use the canadian site and get my friend there toe ship it on to me when it reaches her place hmm.
Weird question, but has anyone else noticed some sort of macro-blocking like effect on youtube? So far as I remember it only appeared after I got back from holiday (so mid-February), and I rock HTML 5 because flash is a bit special. Seems to be a downscaling issue, since it doesn’t crop up in fullscreen, my guess is it’s either dropping rows/columns of pixels, or more likely it’s simply not sampling pixels in adjacent blocks when it’s rendering itself at “normal” size on screen.
Or something. Is this just me, or has anyone else noticed this?
Have not seen anything like that no, but I am not an avid youtuber.
Tried playing pokémon again, fainted several times to a cheating Hawlucha, as my pokémon fainted and I sent out a new one and he attacked without me even getting to choose a move D:
I probably could level them up a bit more, but I didn’t think it would need that.
Also, I put in this code for a Magmar, and it didn’t evolve when it came over, so I stuck it in the box. What good is the item if I’m not going to get the pokémon?
So I’ll probably try Sly again sometime tomorrow and hope that I can pass the car scene, which I’m fairly sure is impossible.
Yay for impossible games!
PROGRESS! (I feel so anyway)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/cape_patterns_snowflakes.jpg
Still require the placement of more snowflakes and then reserve snowflakes. Hopefully will be done soon.
@ dark souls friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWgwCkyohTw
Lords of the Fallen from a bunch of guys that split off from The Witcher developer CD Project looks like it’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Dark Souls. Just thought you should know.
A thing I read said its combat was a little more combo-ey than Dark Souls, which could be interesting (didn’t look it in the trailer, so I could have misread or something), but yeah. Looks pretty cool.
Announcement so close to release is interesting, but ex-Witcher devs? Colour me interested.
You know Blaghs, I don’t think you said interesting enough in that comment. Why use intriguing, fascinating, surprising, curious, peculiar or any other word that would fit in the various uses there when you can smash one word into the ground?
Because thesauruses are for jerks.
Also, the combo-ey combat could be somewhat Monster Hunter-esque. The bastard love-child of Dark Souls and Monster Hunter could scratch a lot of itches.
so I just applied for the Dragon Age Keep beta. no real idea what it is, but whatever.
got a whole form to fill out as part of the application – What DA games have you played, what elements of RPGs are most important to you, what other RPG series have you played etc.
then theres this box at the end asking :
‘in 500 characters, tell us why we should include you in our beta?’
me response :
“what with all the free marketing data I just supplied, I think you owe me.”
we’ll see how that works out….
I had some fries/peppers/foodstuff combination from Lord of the Fries for lunch today, and ended up getting tortellini matriciana for dinner.
No wonder I’ve had the squits since then. D:
Help! I wandered into the youtube cover rabbit hole and I’m completely lost. Send a rescue team!
The only way to escape one rabbit hole is to enter another.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mario+paint+songs
Well, this machinima video was interesting. I don’t know what I just watched, and you won’t either.
Helen Keen’s It Is Rocket Science is well worth a listen if you have 15 minutes, a love for space travel and the voice of Peter Serafinowicz
Ohayyyy-ohh from Japan!
What was up with TAY? Offline most of last week, etc?
I r having fun in Osaka and wider Kansai region. Gaming-wise, I’ve already picked up a blue PS4 controller for $60. Some cool 3DS custom skins, plenty of unreleased games for every platform, and the new Vita’s look pretty neat.
Anyone want some fancy stuffs? That controller is a great deal, even counting postage within Australia. @negativezero ?
Hmm. I could maybe use a Hori screen protector for my 3DS XL. Meant to ask my friend to get one but only remembered about it a day or so before he was due to come back 😛 Play Asia seems rather slow on shipping.
Hori is the brand? Give me details and I can prob get it. Or an alternative if they don’t stock hori?
It’s the brand, yeah. Like this one http://www.play-asia.com/nintendo-3ds-ll-lcd-screen-protection-filter-high-quality-paOS-13-49-en-70-5hu1.html
But I think they have a few different colours and stuff. Last time I was there it they were pretty easy to find, most of the department stores had a whole wall of the things in the games section. The Wii U one I picked up over there was like 680 yen, so they’re fairly cheap. Not sure on what other brands are good, I just stick to Hori since they’ve served me well. If you can’t find them that’s ok.
Got the best one they had, like 805 yen?
Sweet, thanks for that. I’ll fix you up for it and everything when you get back?
Yeah, gotta mail it somewhere too. 😛 Just standard 70c letter should do?
Geez they’re up to 70c now? Last I remember it was 50.
Have they started selling Veritechs yet? I’d have one of them
Google tells me it is a tranfermers/gundam type thing? Toy? If yes, then it’s very likely that I’ve seen them in the shop. Give more details/price and I can get one. They were like 15-20cm tall !ax IIRC.
Robotech/Macross mecha. Also 20cm tall isn’t big enough for me to actually fly, I’m really quite a bit taller than that.
Ha. 😛 So did you want the toy, or real thing only?
Oh real thing only, no sense playing with toys when I could play with a real one (if only there was a real one)
Heh, didn’t see anything like that yet. 😉
Dupe
Sounds like you’re having a blast! Any cheap Metal Gear related action figures?
Yeah, tons of fun. :)Might do one of those fabled TAY write ups when I get back, about everything. For now I’ll just spam with game related stuff.
But I can’t help and point out that I played a urinal mini game at the arcade. I scored 250ml.
Anyway, metal gear. Define cheap, and which one you want. I’ve seen a bunch.
Haha urinal mini game? wtf.
Scrap that, on second thought, way too troublesome. Take some cool photos and post them so we can all see your amazing trip. Don’t go out of your way though. Thank you.
I walked in to see screens above each urinal. Wtf. I look closer and it had a lil toddler statue character who looked like he was peeing. Wtf. The screen says free play. Wtf. I look into the urinal and it has a target on it. Wtf. Anyway, I pull my pants down and notice a sensor thingie above it, so I let loose. My points started racking up, multipliers and screen effects were popping. I finish up and am presented with my high score. Wat.jpg
Only in Japan. I would think.
GOTY
Today I went to hang out with one of my highschool friends, haven’t been over since last year or early January. Had a fair bit to catch up on 😛 As well as finish off Borderlands 2 together, finally. Gunzerker is awesome.
He’s finally gone and got himself his dream car, a Nissan 300ZX. The damn thing is so ridiculously tiny and 80s and awesome. On our way back I just had to hook my phone up to the stereo and start it playing through Turbo to add to the atmosphere. So great 😛
He also couldn’t help but show off what the twin turbos could do, and… wow. I just. Wow. Almost felt like I needed a cigarette afterwards.
Nice. My are a list id’s team car was a 370Z. Could turbo or supercharge later. Was so sweet.
Until I realised I don’t fit in it. 🙁
NEW GAME RANT.
So first it was Pokemon that’s stupid. Now it’s Zelda.
All along they’ve had this questionable rental system for the items. I mean it was kinda cool in that you could deck yourself out with everything you’d need from the get-go, and never leave yourself high and dry. But then it also seemed kind of pointless, in that why would you even NOT rent one of the items? You’re only going to get to a point where you wish you had it and need to backtrack for it. So I just rented out everything, and off I went. At one point I did die, so then I had to go back and rent them all back again. Rupees aren’t exactly hard to come by, so it wasn’t that big of a deal save for the fact it’s an extremely tedious process.
Now the game’s had a Gold Skulltula equivalent in these hundred Maiamai squid-like thingies hidden around the world. On returning about half of them to their mother, she mentioned something or other about working magic on my items, but only those that are my true possessions. I tried switching out things like the bug catching net and the lantern which aren’t rented items, but still nothing happened. I figured you must be able to maybe find the rented items out in the wild or something, but just hadn’t come across any yet.
Fast forward to now where I was about to head to the end of the game when I realised I only had a few Maiamai left to find, so off I went and rounded them up, then went off to the mother to drop them home. Still I get the same spiel about true possessions and nothing seems to happen. Still too confused, I turn to the internet to figure out what’s supposed to happen here.
Lo and behold, it turns out that she can actually upgrade all the useful items you have throughout the game. The only thing is, you have to buy them first. Yeah, apparently being able to buy them outright is a thing, instead of having to just rent them. But I have no idea when the hell this was supposed to happen, I only just went back into the house now because I happened to be nearby and he decided to announce this to me.
WHY AM I ONLY FINDING OUT ABOUT HELPFUL THINGS LIKE THIS AT THE END OF THE GAME WHEN THEY ARE COMPLETELY USELESS TO ME.
Nintendo you are dumb and I hate you.
It should have been about the same time as you rescued blah person and the Sand Rod was returned to the item shop that the option was given to permanently purchase stuff. I think it might have also been mentioned when the shopkeeper was first introduced that you could rent everything or buy things outright from the get go.
I’m not sure it was, he only mentioned it when I walked back into the house last night, announcing “oh hey I’m going into the business of buying and selling now!”
Tingle is magnificent. I will give him all the rupees forever.
Ravio? No more. Never. He is a jerk and should go die.
Kaloo Limpa!
Sucker Punch confirmed that there will be no ‘paper power’ gained when you complete the Paper Trail quests for Infamous: Second Son. You get a mask and 4 jackets.
Boo.
aww, and I was hoping to throw origami swans at all my foes 😛
I totally saw an old lady prepping her heavy ammo on the subway yesterday.
oh, I keep meaning to mention. I think your PSN ID in TAYnames is wrong, I tried to add you after I said I would (ages ago so we could try mercenary kings) and it said the name was wrong, I tried a couple of variations but to no avail.
Hmm, okay. Can you remind me in a couple days again on case I forget? I’ll check it.
Bah, oh well, too much to hope for I guess. I suppose there’s only so many ways they can vary the exact same abilities and they pushed it with 4.
ALSO ONE MORE DAY TILL DARK SOULS 2
ASJHAGALSHJKXNBJAGSAS
Wooo, first Jane Jensen and now Ragnar “The Longest Journey” Tornquist retweets my stuff. I get a kick out of this probably more than I should. XD
I felt like that when I got a reply from Roman Mars.
That’s awesome, DeeCee. 😀
It’s normal to get a big kick out of stuff like that. I’ve recently been posting a lot on Twitter about Thaurorod’s latest album because it’s so far my album of the year and their new singer has retweeted me, and now follows me. He’s even favourited one of my quilting tweets. He has no idea how much that made my day.
Haha! And now you’re intimidated to say the wrong thing? ON CONSTANT ALERT? D:
That’s so awesome, though!
Shows how the simplest interaction can make a fan an even bigger one. 😀
I feel immense pressure to be interesting. I also am refraining from talking about Thaurorod on Twitter now because awkward. 😛
While it is true, in a strict sense, that I have eyes and spies everywhere, no one should ever be intimidated by me. Believe me, if there is one thing I know about musicians it’s that we are the most tragically insecure of people, and that we will latch onto and unconditionally love anyone who gives us a reason to feel good about the very strange lifestyle we lead. You may think it means a lot to you, but it’s nothing compared to how much a single kind Tweet means to me, and to us. So, thanks! And don’t feel awkward if you feel the need to tell the universe we suck 😉
Eek, an intruder! 😛
I was mostly just being silly. I just didn’t want to embarrass you with my effusiveness!
I really appreciate your responses though, and hopefully while you’re with Thaurorod you guys will tour Australia or do the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise and I’ll buy you a drink or six. 🙂
I was inordinately excited when Susan Egan replied to a tweet of mine. I mean, sure, it was questioning what I meant since sans context it didn’t make much sense, but validation!
I’ve been working super hard and so I was thinking of rewarding myself with harvest moon. I haven’t bought a game brand new in ages and I have some extra money, but, I need to buy extra material to test out the hard design I’d been working so hard on. I probably can afford both but I know Mum is a little worried about the bills going up
Scree did you ever consider trying to do some sewing work for people. Patching Clothes ect for a supplemental income, you seem pretty good at it and if you are worried about money you can use the profits to buy recreational stuff?
I don’t have time with all the cosplay stuff I am doing
No time for sewing, I’m sewing!!
I say go for it, it’s important to reward yourself occasionally and bills going up are still only potential issues rather than current ones.
I downloaded a Singstar clone for PC yesterday as i am having some friends over and i wanted to see if i could get it working. It works ridiculously well. The only problem is that you have to match the lyric block files with the specific .mp3 file you have. Its not that much effort, i just started using audacity to find where the lyrics started. The other cool thing about the app is that you can add any video file to the background of the songs playing. I imported several Linkin Park songs just to add Naruto AMV’s behind them.
ALSO ALSO
WORKS WITH SINGSTAR ADAPTERS AND MICS
it was a nice evening of singing let it go 50 times
That Broforce is pretty brotastic with some awesome bro characters. Just a shame that Bro Dredd seems to lag my game something fierce whenever I use his primary weapon.
Also, what do you mean I can’t pass the level by just shooting and exploding everything? Actual thinking and platforming? Dang it game, first you’re all super old-school Rampage destruction games and now you need me to use my grey matter.
I was playing it with a friend and he died and I just flamethrowered my way through the level, jumping at random times, occassionally saving my friend only to have him die again, keep telling him to keep up, and get to the end of the level and win, in about 20 seconds, with a path os explosions in my wake.
Vita friends who use a PAL account on your system: Muramasa is one of the PS+ games next month, along with Hot Shots Golf. Both are great games so you should get them.
What’s the fine print with PS+ and the free games? I can only keep them for the duration of my PS+ membership yes? I’m assuming the games are removed when I do not renew?
Deactivated until you renew.
I also do not know how this works.
From what I was reading on the brief in-store T&C thingey, I think if your sub lapses you lose access to the free ones, but if you re-sub and the activation code is logged against your account, you can go back and re-download them? Also you can only go back and re-download games that you chose to ‘purchase’ when they were free, I think? This is only my first month with a sub, so I guess we’ll find out next month.
Yeeeeeepppp.
yeah I’ve let mine lapse and all the free games vanish from your download history, if you resub they all reappear at the top of your list, doesn’t even bother to sort them by date so you have to scroll past every ps+ game to get to things you actually bought, a small price to pay for a massive amount of games though.
And when it comes to making sure you have access to the free games later, you can ‘purchase’ them by attempting to download them – you can interrupt/cancel the download after, by the looks of it, it just shows the game in your downloadable list and as ‘purchased’ whenever you visit the store afterward. My guess is that it’s tagging your account with activation codes.
Ahhh, another game I bought on sale for about 15 bucks, haven’t got to playing yet, and I’ll now get it for free.
This is one downside to PS+ – it really doesn’t encourage me to buy games.
(Like how I went out of my way to get the Soul Sacrifice bundle instead of Killzone, when I could have just traded Killzone back in on the spot and got Soul Sacrifice for free a month later)
The upside is that if you bought it physical you now have a digital copy as well.
EDIT: Also Muramasa has pretty good DLC. Two installments are out and I don’t know when the other two will be done but the first one of them was pretty awesome if a bit hard and a little repetitive.
Bought it digital when it was a PS+ sale item. So no real difference to the free one, except it’ll still be there if I let PS+ lapse and put my vita online?
How would the game being deactivated work – surely I’d just leave the vita offline if I wasn’t going to renew the sub?
I think it knows when your sub expires.
Last night was a night of infamy…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bl6QI70CUAAZgQf.jpg:large
Now I get to start all over again \o/
Thats a little sucky still.
I wouldnt mind do a run with you ??
Nob, Bunny and I are doing a hardcore run. Since I died I now have to power level to 30-31 just to catch back up. Want to join?
Sounds fun. You guys all have the expansion so i guess i should grab it at lunch.
Somebody say hardcore run?!
… wait, no, shit, all my crusaders are under level 15. Aggghhh my whole ‘level up a crapton of crusaders at once” plan isn’t panning out that well, whoda thunk it
It’s kind of odd how they limited party sizes to only four as you couldn’t even get all of the classes in the base game in one party. It still remember D2 with 8 player parties being utterly chaotic but totally awesome.
And just like that I’m back to 31
AWWW YIIISSS I got my FF art books today. My friend decided to simply foot the cost of shipping it over the border instead of waiting for me to pick it up. Beautiful stuff, Amano and high fantasy at it’s finest. It was heavy enough to make the postman ask if it was a pair of work boots, which was a great sign of it’s quantity.
Tags don’t work, but ah well. @greenius
Kotaku comments hate me? Can’t post more than like… once every ten minutes.
I like to think of Kotaku as an equal opportunity place. It doesn’t matter whether you’re African, American, or Asian
In the toilet, European #dadjokepagesix
Not sure what is going on at Allure, but for some reason, when I log in, it no longer shows as though I’m logged in, instead the ‘Log in’ button remains.
Also, I can no longer see when an article has been commented on.
(Tested on FF 28 & Chrome 34)
Server funny business, it’s been a mess all week.
Yeah its all screwy at the moment im sure @benwhite is working hard to fix the issues.
Nice avatar.
If you want to check replies, once you’ve logged in, try visiting http://www.kotaku.com.au/user/profile/ – I think that’ll show you responses.
edit: cause derp
OK, last try to get this comment to show up:
I have a couple of Dead Island Epidemic beta keys if anyone wants.
EDIT: Hooray, it finally worked!
huh, I didn’t know that was a thing, thought they’d forgotten about the series and moved on to Dying Light.
I got that too but I have no idea how the game will work. A zombie MOBA with craftable weapons? Whuh?
Yup me too… Well i have one left, so whoever wants one
Even though i know it’s gonna be an unbalanced mess of a fighting game, i’m still gonna get Jojo’s Bizarre adventure: All Star Battle due to the ridiculous amount of fan service in it.
THEY LITERALLY DISTORT THE MODELS JUST SO THE POSES THEY MAKE ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE MANGA PAGES.
also oraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoroaroa
I caution you against buying it. It has a free to play style energy system in it and expects you to spend tons of money on the game despite paying full retail price for the copy.
i think they took that out of the english release
edit: apparently they didn’t , but they added an arcade mode. apparently you can only unlock costumes in that mode, so i simply wont play it.
Ok, so apparently Brian Blessed, voice actor from Rome:Total War and Viking: Battle for Asgard and Warhammer 40k once punched a polar bear in the face.
Why hasn’t somebody made a video game about this man yet?
GORDON’S ALIVE?
I still remember him fondly from Blackadder. Best king there never was.
Polar bear and the dalai lama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYGzw7B_pvs (not sure where it’s mentioned in this episode but the whole thing is worth a watch anyway)
That’s going to have to wait until lunch, but seriously? He punched the Dalai Lama?
WWWaaaaaait, a quick Google search says he had a boxing match with the Dalai Lama.
That’s it. This guy is my new personal God.
He wasn’t already?
@spaghett’s last song played game!
What Goes On – The Velvet Underground
Magic – Coldplay
I really like this one actually, and the music video too.
Marked For Diablo – Thaurorod
Not gloryhammer?
They’re in my current playlist as well. Would be weird to work on a Gloryhammer quilt and not listen to them at all. 😀
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap- ACDC
Gay Pirates – Cosmo Jarvis
De Perros Amores – Control Machete
Video Games – Lana del Rey. XD
Winamp (yeah, I still use it.) is telling me that it was Donald Fagen – I.G.Y.
Kickin’ it old skool.
Did you download that with Napster or something, homedog?
…cowabunga?
Got it off Compuserv.
Human Again, from the Beauty and the Beast Broadway Soundtrack. Of course I had to respond to this just after the worst song on the album…
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
Can’t Remember to Forget You – Shakira ft. Rhianna
Finlandia, Op. 26 – London Philharmonic Orchestra
BLTs are surprisingly just as awesome without the bread. I was craving one but I’m not supposed to be eating much bread because it makes me sick, and for the first time in this situation I didn’t really miss the bread. \o/
Skylanders – Trap Team.
As well as having 60 new skylanders to buy, there’s also 40 ‘trappable’ enemies that become usable characters when you trap them in a generic crystal thingy.
So now they’re selling physical character slots without having to go to the effort of making a figure for each character. It’s quite ingenious how they find ways to bleed the formula just a little more every time.
I’m a little scared what the estimate will work out to for buying absolutely everything (in perspective and from hazy memory, SA came in around 300, SG around 500-600 and SF around 1100 on early RRP estimates – excluding no in game difference collectibles)
That is rather impressive marketing
Apparently XSeed are looking into bringing Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim to PC. Which would be cool since Konami are sitting on the PSP release and haven’t released it digitally (plus it was a shit port) and the PS2 version is a PS2 version. It actually already exists on PC (Origin and Oath in Felghana are both on the same engine) so I’d imagine that this is pretty doable, though VI is the oldest of the modern era games.
I doubt they’ll have time to look at this until they get around to doing Trails in the Sky FC’s release though. It was supposed to be out in Q1 and it’s nearly May and no sign of it yet so they must have had some issues.
Speaking of Ys, I got the Ys artbook a couple of weeks ago and it’s glorious. Absolutely enormous too – slightly thicker than the Okami and Valkyria Chronicles artbooks. Packed with artwork as you’d expect. The most interesting thing is that it covers all 25 years worth of Ys, so it has some of the artwork from the original game release plus all the re-releases of Ys I & II that have happened over the years (incidentally it doesn’t cover Dawn of Ys or Mask of the Sun, presumably because those versions of Ys IV weren’t Falcom’s work). Fascinating to look at the progression of the character designs over that period since they roughly reflect popular anime artwork. 1980s Adol had that big hair thing going on and stuff.
Friendly reminder that the Gloryhammer show in Dubbo(at The Amaroo Hotel) is tonight, plus the Sydney one at the Bald Faced Stag is tomorrow night. Anyone who has even a remote interest in metal and loves fun should attend.
Just don’t buy any merch, I need to make sure there’s some left for me when they get to Queensland. 😛
Also, I’m only spamming this because the shows are cheap. At under $30 a pre-bought ticket (or I think $30 at the door), it’s easier for people to take a risk. 🙂
I’ve started Kingdom Hearts re:Chain of Memories, the combat system certainly is different. I hated it at first but I can see it being kinda cool.
I’ve still never played any Kingdom Hearts game but the first.
You should definitely try Kingdom Hearts 2.
It’s a bit jarring going from 1 to 2 though cause some of the story doesn’t make sense without playing chain of memories, but 2 is definitely the best.
Dropped into an EB to pick up Luigi’s Mansion 2 for the wife to encourage her to start using the 3DS again and fell in love with the statue for the limited edition of Watch_Dogs. First time I’ve preordered the special edition of something since Halo Reach, I think.
Boy I hope the game doesn’t suck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuIdjU1I-08
Ace Attorney 5.5, the one set in the Meiji era (It’s part of the main series as opposed to being treated as a spin-off, but doesn’t count as AA6- that’s also being worked on) trailer.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhh so cooooool. i assume the girl is the new sidekick, she looks a little too serious though…
but seeing as this isn’t AA6, is Takumi working on 6 as well? i know he said he doesn’t want to make Phoenix the main character anymore, which makes me think they let him have control of this spin-off (or not spin-off whatever) so that someone else could work on 6 which has phoenix in it.
i hope he’s working on 6 as well just so he can finally explain all of the plot points at the end of apollo justice that 5 pretty much completely ignored.
also, what’s with people’s obsession with Phoenix being the main character? i can see people already writing this game off just because it’s a new main character.
yeah, this and AA6 are separate projects, so we’ll get further adventures of Polly, Nick, and, uh, Athena doesn’t really have a good nickname, she was referred to as ‘Thena a few times but that’s pretty lame.
Also I’m not sure on people immediately disliking this dude- He’s phoenix with a slick old-timey outfit and a sword. Nothing wrong with that.
Fans are crazy…
and Athena obviously doesn’t have a nickname because she never got a sidekick of her own!
I’d like to see Athena get a male sidekick, that could be pretty fun. (Though I guess Apollo already kinda fills that…)
A young, male non-lawyer sidekick! Like male Maya for Athena. Manya?
So cool! The new (old?) courtroom looks great.
all i hope is that the judge looks EXACTLY the same.
Edit: aaaaand the post below sums it up better.
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/83677271289/chapter-one-tallone-stones-and-traps
Tay Pathfinder part one! The party meets and receives an errand, before heading into an ancient trap filled tomb!
Starring
Popdart as the GM
Red as Abelas
Tech Knight as Dem’Nion
Freeze as Lundgredolph
Negative Zero as Izumi
Steve-O as Beorn
Beeawb as Drewan
Rize as Narshak
Ser Nobulus as Karvurk
Some dramatic license taken, some lines invented, all totally biased by Abelas’ viewpoint!
@tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize @popdart5
Fantastic job, you’ve really captured the spirit of the adventure and got many smiles and quiet laughs to myself (reading at my desk) as I was going through it all. Thanks for taking the time to put it together!
Thanks, I tried to give everyone a couple of lines and shifted it around a little bit so I could get the characters through a bit more.
Also, FUCK YOU FOR TELLING ME WHAT TO DO, POSTING TOO MUCH ERROR: YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD
Yeah, it’s certainly different to Drewan’s letter home. More observational, less conversational. But then, that’s kind of the point!
Also, it’s time we told you. Red, you’re adopted. Posting Too Much Error is your father. I’m sorry we had to keep it from you for so long, but we just didn’t know what to do. You… you look so much like him though, it’s inevitable that you find out.
I always thought it was the big red button on the control panel.
Or possibly the 1940s Human Torch
One very minor point: I don’t have detect magic. At least not yet.
EDIT: I think it was Karvurk that was the other magic detector. Happy to take credit though. 😛
I’m going to claim license on that for this one- I was trying not to make characters fade into the background too much 🙂
Fair enough. I was kind of quiet simply because my build’s not that useful for the stuff we were doing.
I figure once we hit combat the equation will shift- I’m pretty basic in combat, everyone else will be going the spells.
I’m probably going to be shit in combat too! \o/
/o\
Magic Missiles! Magic Missiles everywhere!
Was potentially me, actually. I’m not saying Karvurk doesn’t have it, I just know that I do. :p
Everyone has detect magic except me.
But you’ll see how awesome I am when we need to get past a guard or something.
My persuasive skills don’t start kicking in until Level 4 or 5 from memory. Stealth! Stealth all the things!
Who needs Stealth when you’re +14 to disguise at level 1? 😛
Shut up, sexy. :p
Just so people know the licking everything and ink drinking isn’t artistic license. That’s just Steve-O.
Maybe this will get through. Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to do this Red. It’s a refreshing way of hearing how your character describes events and quite different to my rather basic chronological reciting style for Numenera. Also your character is one cynical elf. 😛
Cheers man, we haven’t even got into the real insult slinging
Abelas you’re a dick 😛 lol. Still great write up, really love the style!
I’m a dick? You’re the so called “noble” thinking he’s so great because he’s slumming it as a common sellsword.
Oh I know, to think I have to walk the same path as a lowborn like you to remain living makes me sick. However, since I have to work with you, I suppose I’ll have to make the effort to tolerate your presence… for now.
I really gotta practice my voice acting to be able to keep up with your retorts xD
I have… things… which may assist you in that regard (keeping up with retorts) but… I don’t want to publicly disclose them.
Made five different meals this week and have a tonne of left overs. Successful first attempt at this. Next week I’m gonna make some elaborate tacos. 😀
Is it just me or has TAY slowed down a lot this week? Easter or broken site?
Also bought Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines which is 75% off on Steam right now. Loved Masquerade — Redemption and I hear this one is better, so here’s hoping!
And finished Moebius. Going to start Broken Sword 5, Part 2 next!
But… uh… what’s up with you guys? 😀
Three things:
1) Do a Google search for an unofficial patch. It fixes most bugs (the game shipped with an incredible amount of game-breaking bugs). I think it’s up to 8.1 or something?
2) Never ever ever do a Malkavian clan run on your first game, as the Malkavian’s hear and see things that aren’t there. It can spoil the game on your first run through.
3) Don’t do Nosferatu on your first run through, as they break the Vampire code just by being seen by a human. You miss out on large chunks of the game by being a Nosferatu.
And one more for good measure:
4) Before GoT/ASOIAF, there were the Vampire clans in Bloodlines. Watch your back, foundling.
(all in all one of my most fav games ever)
Most of what you said went completely over my head, but I will look for these words. Haha!
@aliasalpha gave similar advice too. Getting unofficial patch now.
But more importantly, how are you, Quiz? Better day than yesterday I hope! 😀
Malkavians are crazy vampires, generally cuckoo pants on head types.
Nosferatu don’t look human, so they break the Masquerade, which is the agreement between the clans to not reveal vampires existence to humans
Oh, actually that’s starting to trigger some Redemption memories. I’m sure it’ll all come flooding back. 😀
V:tM is an RPG I’ve never played with, but for a lot of the 90s it was crazy popular in tabletop circles. Very Emo.
I was massively into VTM in my late teens/early 20s but I never identified as Emo.
Also Malks were my favourite, though I tried to play them slightly more mystic/tuned-in-on-another-frequency than cuckoo wacky types. I’m kind of dismayed when I see them played like that. 🙁
Yes, a far better day. Still not being productive, but then again am swamped in difficult work.
No car break ins and no dog poo today…so far. 🙂
Coincidently, the community patch version 9 was released yesterday
Nice. Though it’s going incredibly, incredibly slow. Can’t find any other mirrors either. :\
nice, I loved Redemption (pretty sure I still have the disc somewhere). I need a gaming PC I miss certain types of games like this one and RTS,
I never finished Redemption. Got up to Prague though. Remember it was crazy buggy back in the day. Loved the atmosphere though. Bloodlines looks like just my kind of thing! 😀
oh really, so you didn’t even get to modern times, I went all out on that one, checked out all the alternate endings etc. Funny thing I remember is that I used a two handed battle axe all the way through modern times, people had guns and stuff but my axe cleaved everything. I even dabbled in the multiplayer for a while. Man you just brought back a whole lot of good memories 😀
I always wanted to try out the storyteller mode but couldn’t get my head around it at the time and didn’t have enough people to play with anyway.
Redemption is well worth working through for the modern age stuff, it’s quite a good story change (and has lily). Have you got the GOG version? That’s solidly patched
Nah, still have the disc somewhere though. 😀
Well there’s bound to be somewhere that will have the patches by now even though that was in the bad old days of having to know if we got the American or European version of the game. If I recall correctly the last patch ironed out pretty much all of the actual bugs but sadly didn’t do anything for the design issues like poor pathfinding. Mostly not an issue except when you have to dash between sunlight that sets you on fire…
I played it back in 2001 I think so it was buggy but not unmanageably so. It was actually a free gift with Return to Castle Wolfenstein but I played it way more than Wolfenstein and I played a lot of Wolfenstein, it had 64 player multiplayer with classes and everything, was really ahead of other fps in terms of the multiplayer content.
Don’t you *start* in Prague? After the scene in Prague you go to modern day New York. I was amazed when this happened because I wasn’t used to such long games. I thought I was at the final boss and then bam, second half of the game kicked in.
Oh right, start in Prague and then Vienna. I didn’t progress past Vienna. Haha! Been a while, man. 😀
Redemption was fairly decent, but it’s a totally different animal to Bloodlines.
If you can get past the dated graphics/engine, it’s dripping with atmosphere and lore. A must-have for any WoD fans.
Yeah, man. I often replay old games. You should see my GOG collection. Can still get lost in old games too, so I think it’s something I’m gonna love!
Broken site is definitely making me post shy
You’re not the only one, page 6 and no @shane?
Broken site makes it frustrating.
Absent mindedly staring into space and a woman starts yelling at me for peeving on her. I tell her sorry but she’s not my type. Then she gets angrier asking if I’m calling her ugly.
I’m confused. Did she want me staring at her or not?
Tell her you were thinking about your boyfriend.
“Oh, so I remind you of a man?!”
“Yes.
But an attractive one.
With a huge penis.”
so the way to attract women is to compliment them on their metaphorical penises?
my god I’ve been going about it all wrong
I’ve always found in that situation a nice way to diffuse things is to say “Sorry, you reminded me of my wife and I was just thinking how lucky I am to have her.”
I have yet to find anybody who can find a chink in that comment to come back and hit me with when I go staring into space and accidentally creep someone out.
Yes, it did happen a lot when I was younger.
Probably a lot faster to simply reply “Yes”
Works slow, TAY’s slower.
In my boredom I decided to search for a cartoon I remember watching as a child. From what I remember it was something similar to Tom and Jerry. I start searching for other cat and mouse cartoons on google. No luck.
Then I remember that the musical tune ‘popcorn’ was played during one ep. I do a wiki search of ‘popcorn’ to see what it has been used in.
Low and behold I read “In 1976, the tenth episode of the Soviet animated series Nu, Pogodi! included this song as Volk (The Wolf) is chasing Zayats (The Hare) at a construction site”.
Aha! it wasn’t a cat and mouse but a wolf (who smoked ciggies) and hare. I don’t know how my mother came across a Soviet VHS cartoon created 13 years before I was born..
Has anyone else come across this cartoon before?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu,_Pogodi!
I blame gremlins and or young children who may be gremlins in disguise.
“may be”.
Just watched the episode with the Olympic games, feels very Hanna Barbera in style, sort of part way between yogi bear & scooby doo
I very, very vaguely remember an Olympic games episode, or maybe that was just the wolf blowing smoke rings.
I phoned mum and mentioned the cartoon, turns out she isn’t a Soviet spy who acquired while in the Motherland..
Which is just what a soviet spy would say…
I am not nor have i ever been a member of the Communist party.
@redartifice is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!
Shut up man, I can only deny like two of those.
By crickey you’re right!
A little disappointed I wasn’t trained from a young age on how to be awesome 🙁
ENDUT!
HOCH HECH!
Silly Solly’s bargain bin VHS catalogue. 🙂
@aliasalpha Kotaku is broken for me. And there’s no reprieve in site. #PageSixTypo
I can’t reply, can’t upvote, and the success of this post is a even odds bet.
It’s very upsetting.
Rendered suddenly voiceless…
It’s gone from cascading stylish to HTMHell… Sorry, as jokes go that was PHPissweak.
I got a BIT more functionality after cache clearing but it’s still pretty messed up. If you’ve not tried it, it could be worth a go, not like it can get much worse. Also I found my android browser coping a little better strangely enough.
I’ve actually found Ctrl+F5 refreshing is letting me post with out getting the “Posting Too Fast” error / Red’s real father.
Is it still displaying without vote buttons and everything?
Have you tried changing it from https to http? That fixed it for me.
Project time go! Tomorrow is all Numenera write-ups, all the time. *gets game face on*
Well if you need memory jogging the videos of both sessions are available
It’s already starting to get cold in Dubbo. This is a bit of a shock to the system.
On the plus side, it means that I get to basically live in my favourite hoody. Which is totally rad and comfortable and I relish the opportunity.
On the down side, Freya often steals my favourite hoody and I have to live in another random hoody that just isn’t the same. What’s worse is that come laundry day, all of the good, comfy hoodies have to be washed. Meaning no hoodies for no body!
Today is laundry day. Laundry day is a sad day.
It’ll get warmer… just not until late September. Which is fine by me, I much prefer the colder months!
We’ve been lucky thus far in Canberra, we typically have a pre-winter drop around now, into the negatives overnight (then a creep upwards in temperature late May, before a drop again in June), but we’ve had minimums of 7 or so, which is horribly warm.
Today is Gloryhammer day for you. They even brought the taco suit…you have no excuses. 😛
Also Freya should not steal your favourite hoody. A favourite hoody is one’s sanctuary and not to be stolen!
She’s working tonight which makes it a bit difficult to get out of the house.
My randomised Internet Radio just played “Some People Have it Worse Then Me” by Tim Minchin, and now it’s playing “It’s Nice to be Alive” by Ballpark Music.
Well played, universe.
Got up this morning (ok fine it was this afternoon) and walked out into the family room, only to have the alarm go off. Thanks guys, just totally forget I’m in the house when you leave 😛
Also I stayed up til Dumb O’Clock finishing off Link Between Worlds. So goooooooooooood! Reminded me a lot of Wind Waker’s ending.
And dat music. Both the actual music that was written, as well as the aural quality of it all. After that stupid cocktease in the secondary credits of OoT3D with the orchestrated sequence, it’s just like YES! This is how Zelda should sound now!
you sir have inspired me to try and actually play that this weekend. I have no plans this weekend, no friends want to see me and the girlfriend is working tomorrow and Saturday, I’ll need to do something to retain my sanity, I seem to have unintentionally taken this hermit business too far. 😛
Also thanks for being my guinea pig, now hopefully I won’t make any of your silly mistakes 🙂
Haha, as long as the mistakes can be learnt from that’s good I guess 😛
Of all the second-half dungeons, I recommend NOT doing the Ice Palace first. Save that one til near the end. Also to do the Desert Palace early on (but you’ll need the Sand Rod first). Other than that it’s mostly fine I think.
@shane
Please don’t send me any of the rewards if it falls through. I don’t want you spending your money and time on something that didn’t pay off.
Edit: No Kotaku. I’m not too fast. You’re too slow.
Yeah, I don’t understand his logic with that. That stuff is an incentive to kickstart. Without something to kickstart you don’t owe any one any thing. (Even if you’ve somehow justified it to yourself that you do!)
Shush now, and let me give my friends things.
@shane
I agree with Freeze.
Don’t worry about it, man. It’s just digital rewards I’ll be sending out.
It’s just digital rewards. It’ll cost me literally nothing to send out. I’m not sending out all the rewards – just what it says in the description.
I appreciate it though, man.
“The adventures of Blaghs playing Ys 1”
*Moderately crappy jingle plays*
I started the game, sat through its opening stuff.
Ran out into a field, it tells me how to fight things. After a lot of time running carefully around I realise the easy way to kill basic dudes is to just sprint into them and punch them into the wall.
Cue me failing against the first enemy that isn’t a tree, dying, realising I haven’t saved and lost like three minutes of progress, so I will never play the game again.
Keep going, it is quite a good game. The bump combat takes a bit of getting used to.
The most important thing is that you need to hit them slightly off centre which takes some getting used to
That was my first experience too. Were you playing the Steam release? It’s better with a controller and set to digital input. And yeah, the way you do it is run into all the dudes. Once it clicks it’s like popping bubble wrap in terms of how satisfying it feels.
Ys 1 is pretty short too, you can knock it out in 5-6 hours. Though you can also fuck yourself if you enter Darm Tower without getting the silver gear you need to beat the final boss – it’s worth keeping one eye on a guide, the core of the game is from 1989 and so it doesn’t hold your hand or tell you where to go.
Biggest tip is to talk to *everyone* in the starting village then go back to the kid that runs the village watch because he’ll give you a free sword. Also it’s actually worth spending some time early in the game grinding monsters to get gold etc. to upgrade all your gear.
Ys II is miles better than Ys 1. It’s a much bigger and deeper game with more stuff in it, plus you get magic that makes the battles a lot more complicated and interesting. And the music is miles better. Especially the Steam release if you’re using the modern soundtrack. Ys I is all nice tunes, but Ys II goes all out guitar rock.
EDIT: Also in Ys 1, make sure you remember to go ultra-creepy and when escorting Feena, there’s a spot where you can trap her so she can’t move and you can bump her and thus ‘measure’ her. Do this with the Mask of Eyes on for extra creepy. It’s worth two steam achievements and hardly anyone has them!
(There’s ways you can do this in Ys II and Oath in Felghana with a character you’re escorting as well. :P)
Damn, I missed the talking to everyone sword.
I’ve made it to the second village, I bought the basic sword and armour, and the seer person whoever is like “YOU ALSO NEED A SHIELD, SCRUB!” So I’m not sure if I’m supposed to grind on enemies to get enough money to buy one, or if there’s some other way to get cash or whatever.
I dunno. I think it’s pretty alright thus far, obviously I have no idea what I’m doing though.
Grind enemies for cash is the only way. As I said, it’s from 1988. It gets a bit more complex as it goes but it’s really Ys II where everything goes awesome.
You haven’t even fought a boss yet.
I have restarted twice since my last post. I decided I’d get the sword for talking for the achievement, and then after doing so I ran out into the wild and died to my second enemy because I got cocky (without saving).
I then went through it all again, and remembered to save, which was a godsend because I died to the second enemy I saw because I got cocky. At least I learned a little, I guess.
Game of Thrones latest episode thoughts:
Svefgyl, V zhfg cbvag bhg gung V qb abg pbaqbar encr naq zl sbyybjvat jbeqf ner abg n zrgncube sbe pbaqbavat encr, rvgure.
Va ertneqf gb gur ‘pbagebirefvny’ fprar, crefbanyyl V qvq abg svaq vg nf ubeevsvp nf bgure fprarf cerivbhfyl frra va gur frevrf orpnhfr;
Wnvzr naq Prefrv unir cerivbhfyl cebperngrq (naq ybivatyl gbb – frr gur irel svefg rcvfbqr). Jura V jnf svefg fcbvyrq ol n arjf fvgr gung gur rcvfbqr srngherq n encr, zl svefg thrff jnf Fnafn. Gura V gubhtug Funr ohg punatrq onpx ntnva guvaxvat, ‘ab, vg’f qrsvavgryl Fnafn.’ V jbhyq arire unir thrffrq Prefrv.
Ab bar qrfreirf encr, abg rira Prefrv qrfcvgr ubj zhpu V nz fgnegvat gb ybngur ure, naq sebz guvf rcvfbqr V svaq gung V nz fubpxrq gung Wnvzr jbhyq qb fhpu n guvat – whfg jura V jnf fgnegvat gb yvxr uvz, gbb.
Svefgyl, “cerivbhf cebperngvba” qbrf abg znxr encr nal yrff ubeevsvp. Frpbaqyl, va gur obbx vg jnfa’g encr. Jung gurl qvq jvgu gung fprar ehvarq nyy gur punenpgre qrirybczrag bs Wnvzr. V’ir ernq hc ba jung gur qverpgbe guvaxf ur jnf qbvat jvgu gung fprar naq vg qbrfa’g ernq yvxr ur jnagrq vg gb. Vg jnfa’g gur evtug pnyy. Ng nyy.
Nu, bxnl. Fuvg. Gura lrnu, V thrff V qba’g cnegvphyneyl yvxr guvf arj qverpgvba sbe Wnvzr gura. Onpx gb Glevba nf snibhevgr – hagvy ur’f xvyyrq.
Lrnu, gung fprar frrzrq dhvgr n ovg bhg bs punenpgre sbe Wnvzr cbfg-znvzvat. Orsber uvf pncgher, lrnu, vg’f fbzrguvat ur zvtug unir qbar. Nterrq gung gur fprar pbzcyrgryl jerpxf nyy bs gur punenpgre qrirybczrag ur tbrf guebhtu, fbzrguvat gung V crefbanyyl rawblrq frrvat naq ernqvat nobhg. Wnvzr’f frzv-ersbezngvba znxrf uvz sne zber snfpvangvat nf n punenpgre, naq vg’f qvfnccbvagvat gung guvf fprar unccrarq ng nyy. Abg arprffnel.
Bu, V fubhyq’ir ernq guvf orsber V cbfgrq. Jung jnf vg gur qverpgbe jnf tbvat sbe?
http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/game-of-thrones-director-on-the-rape-sex-scene.html
Thanks for linking that, seems like some of the scenes cut buggered it up.
Ru, V guvax rirelobql’f bire-ernpgvat nobhg gung fprar. Jura V jngpurq vg encr qvqa’g rira cnff zl zvaq (gung zvtug or orpnhfr V unq gur bevtvany fprar va gur onpx bs zl urnq juvpu cynlf bhg fyvtugyl qvssrerag).
V zrna Prefrv xabjf orggre guna nalbar ubj Wnvzr jbhyq orggre fbyir vffhrf jvgu fjbeqf engure guna jbeqf, uryy ur chfurq n puvyq bhg bs n jvaqbj naq ur’f fnvq n srj gvzrf ubj ur jbhyq xvyy nalbar jub zvtug gel gb pbzr orgjrra gurz jvgubhg guvaxvat bs gur pbafrdhraprf. Fb fur xabjf ubj ubg-urnqrq ur pna or, vs ur jnagrq ure gura naq gurer gung jbhyqa’g unir pbzr nf n fubpx. Ohg gung’f whfg zr pbzvat sebz gur bcvavba gung vg jnfa’g encr. Znlor V arrq gb er-jngpu gur fprar.
V’z abg fher jung gur jevgref jrer tbvat sbe, V whfg gbbx vg nf vg jrer va gur obbxf. Thrff jr’yy svaq bhg arkg jrrx ubj fur vf gbjneqf Wnvzr.
Bux, er-jngpurq vg. V qvqa’g abgvpr Prefrv’f qvfthfgrq ybbx jura gur tbyqra unaq gbhpurq ure naq gur natre va Wnvzr’f snpr nsgrejneqf. V pna frr jurer crbcyr ner pbzvat sebz abj.
Tvir zr n oernx V jnf rngvat qvaare ng gur gvzr /b\
My interest in Game of Thrones is waning, however Falling Skies S4 premieres in June and is still fantastic, Red Dwarf is still around, Supernatural is on my pile of shame and X-Files is getting a sequel* hooray! Sci-Fi lovers unite with me!
*I lied, The X-Files tv series is not getting a sequel. A third film may still happen however.
You forgot: “and Farscape is getting a movie!”.
It is? Hmm I should really check out the series in that case. Reminds me of one of those ‘Firefly’ type scenarios.
I only remember Farscape for two reasons: it had one of the major Muppets puppeteers working on it and it apparently shot in locations really close to where I used to live in Brisbane. It did have a bit of a Firefly vibe at times.
Firefly with majority of aliens! \o/
I really should get a copy of that series, the concept was really cool from the pilot 🙂
I really need to go back and watch all of farscape again
I’m still scarred from watching the
editedhacked to bits version when they tried to get on at 5pm kids TV slot.Because Jim Henson must be for kids
Yeah, that was pretty bad. But by then, they’d already had an 18 month hiatus, so I was happy to get it at all! 😛
I’m rewatching it now, and really appreciating some of its subtleties that I’d never picked up on before. Thoroughly enjoying it – just started season 2.
I’m not watching much scifi at the moment, alas. Which is too bad, cause I love it!
Lots of great scifi movies on the horizon at the moment.
Benny, Chris Carter has a pilot commissioned by Amazon which might be as good as a sequel, I guess. (Though you can always watch Gillian Anderson on Hannibal. :D)
Is she a regular? I’ll admit I really did enjoy the Hannibal film – wickedly good. And Mads Mikkelsen is a pretty cool dude, too.
She’s recurring but she’s easily the best thing about every episode she’s in.
what do you know about Red Dwarf??????? Tell meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I thought that season back in 2012 was a one off. Are you telling me there will be more?
Apparently filming for Series XI starts this October.
*leaps into the air and throws an uppercut* YESSSSSSS!!!!
SHORYUKEN!
😛
*hurricane kicks around the office*
Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku!!!
funny I googled cause f*$% trying to spell that, turns out the literal translation is “Tornado Whirlwind Leg” seems a bit redundant to say Tornado & Whirlwind
Well, a whirlwind kick is a type of kick, so maybe by adding tornado to its name, they want to imply that it’s even more whirlwindy.
good point, I wasn’t thinking of it as a type of kicking, still though, Spinning Spin Kick amuses me, it’d be like saying “Rising upward uppercut” or something, well not exactly that but you get where I’m going 😛
At the moment I’m watching moody dramas like The Killing, Hannibal, Mad Men, True Detective and House of Cards. It’s a great, great time for TV. 😀
God dammit I need moar time! I want to watch House of Cards as well!
Hannibal, so good. So so good.
Nintendo’s dropped it’s price on 3DS games in America, so I hope they come into affect over here. $30 for Animal Crossing is a bargain!
Nintendo? Drop their prices in Australia? LOL.
The sad thing is if Nintendo lowered their prices by even 10 or 20 dollars, I would be more inclined to get them. For now I just peruse their sections, staring at how the Pokémon games from 4 years ago (B and W) are still full price.
There are Wii games from them that still go for full price 😐 Not even on a current system.
this is the reason I never played Battalion Wars or the sequel.
They are pretty much the same price in Japan. Plus/minus 10% on a couple games.
In fact, our Wii U premium bundle is cheaper.
Edit: *snip* I am a crankypants today.
Thank god it’s a figurative Friday. 🙂
And now I’m sad I missed you in your crankypants.
I detailed the conversation I had with a ‘trainer’ who Telstra booked our team in for to show us how to use a system we use every day, because our complaints about it being broken were clearly user error.
Right up until he ran into the same error.
I dun even know what you said, but I agree whole heartedly! Hooray for Friday and fuck everything else! Time to get my lazy on biatches!
Anyone know when Trials Fusion is going to release for PC? It says the 24th, but… it’s the 24th.
Maybe tomorrow?
24th of Octember? 😛
When in doubt, assume american time, it’s usually a safe bet. I just bought my copy so I’ll have to redeem it when I can be bothered to get up
And apparently its not the key for the game but the beta that I already have. Poo.
7 Hours the counter says.
Also, Uplay required? Ewww.
I just realised that my 3DS backlog has now been reduced to zero.
Should get to work on the Wii U backlog I guess.
My backlog is massive. I think the only one I’ve finished is Pilotwings 😛
I have so many games that I need to finish. I generally move onto another game if the old one gets too challenging.
EDIT: I finished Layton vs Wright of course.
I did a thing.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/459244965961289728
Edit: Ha! One guess what happened posting this.
I’d upvote it but I can’t see a button for it in the picture
So its not just @dc that’s known for their quickness now? 🙂
I got the error the first time I tried to post today. It’s pretty random.
Hey guys, I picked up a few singstar games for the karaoke meat.
Singstar 90’s
Singstar Rock ballads
Singstar Party hits
Singstar Pop hits
Singstar Pop
Singstar Chart hits
Singstar Hottest hits
That isn’t seventeen copies of Singstar Disney. >:|
Nob hasn’t sent me singstar Disney yet. Gorzy has Singstar 80’s that he hasn’t sent me
Well what about the other sixteen copies? >:|
You can provide them? Not sure why we need 17 copies
Isn’t it obvious?
It seems pretty obvious to me.
Rock Ballads, yeeeeeeeeah!
I realize no one cares, but they announced Nendoroid #400 and it’s a character I’ve been hoping they’d do pretty much since I started buying them \o/
THE OG OF SHOUJO HAS ARRIVED
This reminds me that I need to watch Cardcaptor Sakura. I’ve ran through the entity of Sailor Moon so really nothing is stopping me from watching CS except laziness.
CCS is still the best magical girl anime ever made, IMO. I re-watched it all about a year or two ago and it’s dated extremely well due to being one of the last high-budget hand-animated TV anime.
Agents of Shield is getting really good!
The episodes are getting more and more well-written. Makes it have the perfect amount of mystery and suspense, while still keeping all the action.
Dilemma: my current PC headset is kind of broken. Not completely but it has issues. So I need to replace it. But I don’t know what to get. Most PC headsets are frankly shit quality – badly designed, uncomfortable, crap mike or shit audio quality.
So the actual dilemma I have at the moment is, do I buy an okay set of cans with a microphone attached, or do I buy a really nice set of quality headphones (replacing both my current Steelseries headset and my crappy muddy-sounding Sennheisers) and get a good microphone to go with? And if I go the latter route, what are my best options? I know a bit about headphones but nothing about microphones.
Grado PS1000 headphones with a Neumann Solution D microphone setup.
Yeah I’m thinking something maybe not $10,000+
I was contemplating doing the same, and earlier today I bought an Audio Technica AT2020 which seems to have pretty good reviews, and was $120 on Ebay without bothering to shop around at all, or in that same budget area there’s the Blue Microphones Yeti. If that’s a bit too much for you (which is pretty reasonable, really) I think there’s a Logitech one in the sort of $40ish range that is more or less the best you’ll find at that price.
Yeah I was eyeing the Yeti as well. The last time I tried a desk mic like that though, I found it would pick up the sound of my PC’s fans too much so there was a constant hum in it.
Do you have a good DAC?
Edit: regardless – get some okay headphones for gaming, and a DAC plus good cans for music. Get random standalone mic to suit your needs. Gaming and music audio is too different to use the same cans.
After the disappointment of the mic on my steelseries 7h headset (especially since the phones themselves are fantastic), I’m looking at a sennheiser pc360 as my replacement when I can afford $200
The mic on my Steelseries headset is crap too. Or was. I made it worse. I have a Syberia v2 and the sound quality is okay, fairly crisp but a bit too overly bassy. Since I’m constantly getting sneaked up on by people in the house because of the lack of any external noise (they’re very good at isolating noise) I want to replace with an open set, plus the headband on this set is uncomfortable.
The Sennheiser set I have (which I originally got to use with my amplifier for music listening / gaming on TV separate to PC, but TV and Amp are in storage right now) is the HD215 and they’re pretty awful, the Steelseries cans have a far better sound to them. They’re muddy, lack clarity and just generally aren’t very good.
Ideally I’d like to replace both, then take the Steelseries ones to work to use when I want to block out all the noise I have to deal with in my new desk location.
Can’t get the endgame Lorule theme out of my head. So good.
Ah yeah, forgot to mention a couple things:
– PS Vita TV is available here, like $100, or a bundle with controller and memory card.
– Picked up a couple PS Vita 64GB memory cards for $103 ea.
– Japan’s new version of guitar hero is awesome lol. It’s a drumming game by Namco and is available on Wii U too.
– PS4 has at least two japan-exclusives already..
– Arcades for chicks consist of photo booth machines. So many machines,
– I found Dark Souls 2 statue!
http://imgur.com/axmvrb4
– You can’t use the PS Vita TV with anything but a JP PSN account and the games are limited.
– 64gb Memory is totally worth it. You feel like you’ve actually got a lot of space with one.
– Do you mean Taiko no Tatsujin?
– Natural Doctrine is announced for western release but Sega are being dicks about Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin / Yakuza Restoration. They haven’t localized Yakuza 5 either so I think the series is dead 🙁
Whoa, so in a interview it was revealed by Takumi and the producer of The Great Ace Attorney that it’ll be the beginning of a new trilogy. So we’ll have regular Ace Attorney and now The Great Ace Attorney, kinda like how it was with Investigations- oh ow old wounds just opened. However, people genuinely seem excited for this so perhaps we can expect the entire trilogy translated.
However, this sets up something grand. Just bear with me. The year is 20XX, Phoenix and Co. Law Offices in full swing. Polly’s a full partner, Athena’s got her own sidekick. Suddenly BLAMMO! Phoenix is indicted for murder! which would be shocking, if it didn’t happen before. As Polly and Thena go about in the investigation, their progress is halted almost every step of the way, revealing the glimmer of a deep, deep conspiracy against Phoenix. But maaaan, who would go so far against our lovable idiot? We need to call in the big guns.
BLAMMO, ENTER MAYA FEY.
Who, you know, offers no help whatsoever in the beginning, aside from a bit of comic relief. But through emotional engineering and hyper-sensitive eye examination or whatever the hell Apollo does, our heroes wind our way to a disturbing truth- whoever’s behind this has had this plan in the makings for a entire century. And so, finally out of answers, they look to the past for guidance..
BY MAYA CHANNELING PHOENIX’S ANCESTOR. (or phoenix’s ancestor’s sidekick, I dunno.)
boom, perfect cross-over scenario, Capcom I will accept my payment by cheque.
*cheque
I feel like the only person in the world who thinks that the Fey story is done. They had their trilogy and wrapped it up perfectly. Maya was a great supporting character, but I don’t really miss her and I definitely don’t want her to come back into any kind of major role.
There is only one response to this statement:
(ahem)
OBJECTION!
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist. I haven’t even finished the first game yet 😛
I would not… object… to a physical release this time. 😐 Haven’t bothered with the other 3DS one because digital only.
ALSO DARK SOULS 2 TODAY WOOOOOOOO
Oh the name of the third Hobbit movie has been changed from “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” to “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” I thought the original title was good & worked well. But Peter Jackson thinks otherwise.
Really? How lame. To be honest there shouldn’t have even been three movies. I can understand making Lord Of The Rings into three movies because it’s three books, but The Hobbit is one book and should’ve only needed one movie, two at the most. Talk about milking the cash cow.
Yeah, I know. He felt “There & Back Again” was more a title for it if it was only a 2 movie thing. Come on it’s a very fitting title in my opinion!
Yeah 3 movies to me seem a bit excessive, or more so 3x 3 hour movies.. The first I felt there was way too much dicking around to get basically nowhere. The second wasn’t as bad imo. But both did feel too long, where as Wolf of Wall Street I found to be too short >_> which is kinda funny given it’s longer than either of The Hobbit movies I think.
I know, you could pretty much read The Hobbit in the time it would take to watch the three movies.
Mashed is on Steam! \o/
Had it on PS2, one of the best four-player games ever made.
Think Micro Machines, but a lot more realistic.
It was made by the same company, too.
Oh man, used to play the hell out of Mashed on my friend’s Xbox. So good.
Nope. Not as a page get.
Here’s something to start the page off
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KGCN-ppIGGg/URXbLYAiWZI/AAAAAAAADVw/2zGuogcMkY8/s1600/kitten.jpg
That’s some high quality photo! super kawaii too!
Really? I thought the original was page-get worthy.
I don’t know what it was, but there’s a notification saying that this comment tagged me in some way. Hooray for broken notifications! 😛
I’m not even getting notifications. I can comment and up/down vote, but it’s still got the “register” and “log in” buttons up the top.
You and @shane can check http://www.kotaku.com.au/user/profile/ to see if you have replies.
Chances are the tagging wasn’t a broken notification Shane, @freezespreston did edit his post because it was a pageget, he probably didn’t want the page being dominated by confessing his undying love for you
Yeah, I guessed as much (and that User Profile page is actually my homepage), but the notification didn’t disappear when the tag did, which (after having experimented pretty thoroughly with this system) is uncharacteristic.
This system is not behaving in the most characteristic of ways recently. I think the HDDs the database is on was made from melted down VCs and they went over to Gallipoli for ANZAC day
Wait, Trials Fusion does not use your Steam friends list? I have to add people to Uplay to have any leaderboards?
Fuck you Ubisoft, I wants my money back.
yeah, i just realised that. it’s…. disappointing.
going through http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames & adding people now.
Ugh. Shall do so too. But damned if I ever buy another game that uses uplay. I swear Ubisoft are becoming the new EA.
They put an energy bar in the mobile version.
EDIT: It’s only gone on me once so far, but there was an option to upgrade the tank size (the bar) for 50 coins that also gave me more fuel (the equivalent of energy), so the levelling up (which completely refills your energy) to running out ratio is just right, I think. It might get worse later though.
It does, the first refuel is coins all refuels after that are gems starting at 15 and working their way up
I actually don’t mind Uplay, I’ve never really had a problem with it and I enjoy how they handle achievements (making them more the epeen meters)
(Oh, apparently posting once a goddamn day is too fast for Kotaku)
(Okay this is getting silly, JUST LET ME POST YOU STUPID COMMENT SECTION!)
It’s just unnecessary. Just one more thing getting in the way of playing the game I bought. Yet another client and account and login and friends list and achievement list etc.
That’s why people like Steam – one homogenised game account to rule them all. And then Ubisoft comes in wanting a slice of pie and completely misses the point.
Hell I wouldn’t mind it so much of they didn’t try to make it a half-arsed steam competitor. They should have kept it as just an optional extra Ubisoft game achievement system like it started out as.
It would be better for everyone of peeps like Ubisoft and EA accepted that people like and want Steam and tried to work with it instead of against it.
edit: I am mostly annoyed with it today cause the game I bought on steam and run through steam doesn’t actually use Steam. That’s just a jerk move.
I like the idea of steam having competition so they can’t get up their own arse and go all anticompetitive, much like how it’s nice that there are still a few places to buy music that isn’t fucking itunes. What they DO need is the ability to import things like friends lists and the like, especially if it’s a game that’s also sold on steam
Yeah that’s what gaming needs – a universal friends list. And not Facebook.
Also Origin falls into that steam competitor category but it feels to me like it was created so EA can be anticompetitive with their games.
Yeah, some kind of openID friends list thing, works as universal plugin for games services and email/IM services.
BRB, inventing…
@aliasalpha
Relevant xkcd.
So the multiplayer in Watch_Dogs actually looks kind of fun. Bit of Dark Souls style invasion, a bit of Assassin’s Creed style objective multiplayer and some interesting companion application stuff where you can screw with the other players.
As long as there’s a way to turn off invasions if you want to play solo, that’d be a really nice way to incorporate multiplayer.
If there’s not, I’m fairly sure if you just turned off the internet on your console it’d still work as a singleplayer game.
Just thought I’d mention in case anyone’s interested, Mightyape have got Titanfall on Xbone for 50 smackers (about 55 with shipping). Not sure if it’s a time limited deal or whatever, so if you want it get on it quicksmart.
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Titanfall/21460991
Looks like there’s no “What Are You Playing This Weekend” this week, so I thought I’d do it in here.
I’ll start.
Finished Lego The Hobbit, so now going for 100%, after that it’ll be a mixture of Trials: Fusion, Plants Vs. Zombies: GW, and Rocksmith: 2014 edition.
What about you guys.
Sly Cooper, picked that up on Vita a week ago, still haven’t done that much.
Also Pokémon, X and the original Red/Blue (cart versions – looking forward to seeing what I caught, then possibly deleting the save if I want a new one).
Dark Souls 2, DOTA, maybe some Diablo 3 Hardcore if I want to change up my masochistic tendencies a bit. I’ll finally get around to Steins;gate as well.
Looking for the last treasure map in AC4 which is all I need for 100% completion.
Playing Trials Fusion, have to rebuild my career from the beta and get back to the task of beating @fatshadylive again
Possibly getting some coop in with a mate now I can talk again, probably going to try out Sniper Elite V2
I’m back on the Monster Hunter bandwagon, it seems. Especially if the TV is occupied that has the PC / ps3 / 360 / Wii u dependent on it – I can just play on 3DS.
Oooo, didyou see that new MH4U trailer released the other day? Wooooweee
It appears that I have. Interesting new traps, also awesome that launching people in multi can be beneficial.
FFV
Still playing FFX2.
99c sale:
Finished Telltale’s Jurassic Park, loved it.
Started Telltale’s Back to the Future, not digging so far.
Started Tokyo Jungle, frustrating but good.
Havent touched Braid yet. Maybe tonight!
Braid needs some lovin’
I finished Trials Fusion earlier today (oops :P) so I’ll be playing more of that. I was supposed to play Dark Souls 2 but I can’t get myself off Trials, I haven’t even started DS2 yet! Hopefully I still have time to return to FFX-2 and Layton vs. Phoenix which I was playing before.
Are you PC’n on Trials? If so, add me on Uplay! I’m GreenGreenius 🙂
Nah, I’m on XBox.
Finished off Infamous and now trying to finish off Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney
That Bob’s Game guy… anyone click through to the kickstarter? And then click through from that to his million-word life story posted on his website?
It’s… it’s something alright.
Finally, PS4 HDCP has a death date, April 30th!
http://www.videogamer.com/news/ps4_1_70_update_rolls_out_april_30.html
The update also adds the somewhat rudimentary (but adequately functional) video editing application and option to copy captured stuff to a thumbdrive so you can edit it with a more powerful editor but for me, the death knell of the pointless brute force interface level implementation of HDCP will be the real joy of this update. It was stupid on the PS3 and even stupider on the PS4, goodbye and good riddance you bastard!
That would mean that things like the Elgato would now work on it right?
(Not that I have an Elgato or a PS4, but just in case)
Yup, that or my Avermedia Live Gamer Portable. I know the LGP could record the PS3 with the analogue cable (think most of the other capture devices had a similar thing) but it was a bit of a bugger to keep swapping cables around and swapping capture profiles and the recording software got confused if it detected both an active HDMI and an active component input so I set it up, tested it and then never bothered to use it. HDMI cable swapping though, piece of piss, 5 seconds of work and job’s done.
I just had a look at it and that’s a great price! Do you use it often? Does it work really well?
The LGP? Yeah its a fantastic bit of kit. They’re supposed to be releasing the LGP lite sometime around now, the only difference being that it just drops the component input options and a moderate chunk off the price so it might be worth looking for too. It’s all processed and compressed on the device itself, the only thing the recording PC does is write data to the HDD so it doesn’t even need a really powerful PC to run.
As for the quality, pretty much perfect. It’s far from ideal to use a compression-happy medium like youtube to display video quality but this should give you an idea, there’s a 1080p version of that clip which is a bit of overkill for a 360 game but should give the best video quality.
The only negative of it is the Same PC mode (using the video card HDMI out into the device and passing it out to the monitor but capturing video on the same machine) is kinda wonky. I’ve only gotten that working once and failed several times with huge broken files but if I run the HDMI out into the LGP and out into the monitor again and capture on a separate PC, it’s as perfect and reliable as when using it with consoles.
That clip quality is really good!
I don’t think I could use the lite, I do most of my stuff on a PS3 😛 It’s not too bad of a price, especially because it works with PC as well (I’d probably use a laptop to record from a desktop).
Thanks for the write up!
Now if they would get around to adding media player support like the PS3 had. Or at least open that up to third party stuff. It’s insane to think that the Xbox One is getting a Plex client and PS4 isn’t yet…
Its insane to think the xb1 launched without the ability to see the battery level of your controller…
Come to think of it, how do you check the PS4s?
Top right hand corner Of the home screen and whenever you push the PS button it shows it I believe
Was going to buy a Pokémon Silver game today, and I was checking it.
Correct cart with NINTENDO GAME BOY at the top? Yep.
Label with an embossed number? Yep.
Little number on the underside of the cart? Yep.
Turn it over. Nintendo Screw? Nope.
It’s a normal philips head screw. So I didn’t buy it (I did get a rather cool Pokémon Gameboy and Gold though), and it’s a bit of shame, because the label was in really good condition (most of the gold/silver ones are wrecked).
Was this a good call or a bad call? Is there any normal reason it would be a normal screw? The seller said that was the condition he got it in. After looking online, it seems that even if the battery was changed, you still use the original screw.
I guess there’s a chance the battery was changed but they lost the screw?
Kinda strange that it checks out with everything except that though.
It’s a possibility, but for all I know the electronics have been altered and it’s a different game (it didn’t feel any lighter, but maybe it’s possible to swap the circuitry or something?).
Silver seems a lot more common than Gold though, so hopefully I’ll be able to pick it up locally as well.
I’d guess the battery removal reason also, however I will assume it was a pain getting the Nintendo screw off without the correct tool in the first place, so a normal screw was easily put back in its place – because that’s what I would do.
:/
I couldn’t be sure though, so probably for the best!
What’s with the hunt for the Silver cartridge?
I’ve gotta catch em’ all! I just want to have a full collection 🙂
Silvers the last one for my GB/GBC ones (main games only, though I might get around to the spin-offs). Then I can get the GBA ones, then the DS, then Y.
I just have 1 or 2 from each Couple/triple.
Never bothered with GSC cos I have both HG&SS but it has crossed my mind every time I go into Game Traders.
So, Gen 2 is the only one I dont have a cart from…
So, we don’t have a shed and we’re kind of in desperate need for one (we’re in desperate need for pretty much everything but a washing machine. I bought that when I was working =D). Anyway, I was thinking while over the shops and just said to my Mum “Why don’t we just get a shipping container?” and she looked at me like I was insane.
After about 5 minutes she said “How much is one?” I shrugged and said “Can’t be much more then the cost of getting a large shed installed in the backyard and concrete put down.”
I’ve looked at a few sites but I’m pretty useless. I keep quoting Olaf when I see small ones. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with shipping containers.
My uncle has one in his backyard. Couldn’t tell you any more than that I’m afraid, I was all of maybe 12 years old when he picked it up 😛
I like this story, since my equivalent is that my uncle has one at his house, but it was there when he bought the place, so I can’t help any more than you.
High five for team useless!
Hmm interesting idea, they’re designed to be easily sealed and securely locked, if you could leave a trail of lollies or something from the house to the back of the container and then lie in wait behind a bush, you might just solve your brother problem after all…
How much is a shed likely to set you back? A quick bit of searching seems to price the 6m containers at around $1800 (on ebay, gumtree and a place rather imaginatively called onlinecontaners) for used ones.
Well for a large shed it’s like $700. To have the concrete laid and the whole thing installed would be probably another $1000
So a teeny bit more expensive for a container then. The container would probably be a lot more durable overall since they’re designed to be carted around on cargo ships and all and it’d have the hypothetical ability to be moved which is an advantage a fixed place shed would lack but might also be pretty expensive to have delivered in the first place.
Delivery is included in some of the quotes I got.
btw, are you on steam?
Oh well added delivery is good, cuts out a potentially rude surprise of the hidden cost.
I’m on steam, yes, same name as here. The only aliasalpha I know of who isn’t me is some Spanish bugger on youtube who got the name first and made me be aliasalpha1 instead (I didn’t think I’d be making any videos so didn’t bother to make an account for ages). I was quite annoyed until I asked myself “How many times have I done this to him?” and realised it’s probably quite a lot.
Yeah, I’m surprised how often scree is used, especially considering it’s the name of rocks.
Added you
Hooray, I feel all friended!
See, I see “scree” and I always think of this: http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090712210835/primal/images/archive/8/86/20140212203523!PrimalScree%26Elizabeth.jpg
I have no clue how much it would cost for a shipping container, but it would be a lot sturdier than a shed, the problem with them is you can’t move them easily so once it’s down it’s down for the duration.
As someone who has built more than one shed in his life (at 17 I worked with a shed building company) I can say your pricing is pretty spot on cost wise around the $1500 to $2000 mark is the normal cost of buying and installing a new shed with slab
Hey, I got KLotaku working by using a different browser.
Should have thought of that earlier…
KLotaku? Postingtoofastku more like!
Skullgirls is 50% off on Steam!
So which 50% do you get, the skull or the girls?
Both.
What a deal!
Anyone else playing Trials Fusion on PC? If I don’t have you already, please add me on Uplay! I’m GreenGreenius. Or just lemme know your name and I’ll add you :).
Need all the buds!
What if I do already have you? Are we unworthy of mention now??
Y’all should play the game more!
I freaking love harvest moon =D
Wow I actually saw a pre-edit for once! *e-hugs* and high fives for harvesting moons
I changed my mind a few times before settling on this. I think I’m just in a limbo because I have to get more wool, shoes need to be painted and patterns need to be verified.
Can you harvest wool on the moon? It seems like a good way to combine the things you love
You can get wool in harvest moon by harvesting wool from sheep. Some games you can turn it into proper wool balls, some you can’t
I love harvest moon, but I enjoy Rune Factory so much more, it has the bests of harvest moon plus RPG!
still need to buy an american 3ds for rune factory 4…
I’ve missed a lot of the rune factories and I’m trying to catch up slowly. I loved rune factory 2.
Has it been announced for europe? They tend to get them and that way no need to buy a new 3DS
It was cancelled:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-20-3ds-rpg-rune-factory-4s-european-release-cancelled
Neverland went bankrupt and the Rune Factory developers were all laid off so no one can do the localization programming for Europe. Also scuttled the development of Rune Factory 5. The team was apparently re-hired at Marvelous AQL (who were publishers of the Rune Factory games) but they’re working on a different game series now, Forbidden Magna. I suspect the Rune Factory IP might have been lost in the bankruptcy, since it would be considered an asset for sale if the company shut down. Probably to be auctioned off at a later date.
Forbidden Manga sounded potentially kind of interesting though. Apparently it’s an Inn Management / Strategy RPG / Dating Sim hybrid game where you capture spirits in a battle segment (which as described sounds like Valkyria Chronicles) and then put them to work as maids in the Inn and talk to them and do various events to build your relationship with them and improve their stats in combat.
As neg said, the European one got cancelled, hence why i have to get an american 3DS… damn region locking… and it’d still be worth it, i got nearly 300 hours on rune factory 3…
Also i highly recommend Rune Factory 3, it’s so much better than 2, they improve nearly everything.
i also got the PS3 (i think it’s called tides of destiny) one, which is okay, but they kind of play down the farming aspect compared to the other games, so i was a little disappointed in it.
Rune Factory 4 is apparently really good. Best seller of the franchise. Wasn’t enough to save the developer though, which is sad.
That is a massive pity. It makes life a hell of a lot harder for us as fans. =(
I want a pet Wallaby. Specifically a Rock Wallaby. Shame I don’t have a few more acres for such..
So mum came round today. When she left she told me 2 things. Start eating properly cos I’m getting too skinny again, and that next time I come up we’ll be down a dog. Justin can barely stand up anymore apparently and it’s getting too hard to watch him walk round in pain. Mum thinks he might have even had a mild stroke. He’s only 6 years old 🙁 I may have cried a bit (or a lot) when she left. He’s off to the vet tomorrow to figure out what to do next…
She told me yesterday on the phone but it didn’t hit quite as hard then. Or maybe it did, but I had an Oliver around yesterday to hug me (or more accurately strangle me. Don’t think I’ve ever been hugged that tightly before) whilst I held back tears 🙁
Not a good day 🙁 I did get my essay done though, I guess.
The loss of a pet is hard. Very hard. Feel better soon.
Just remember, it’s ultimately what’s best for the dog.
Aww damn man that does suck hard. Had to do something similar a few times myself (only with cats), the only way I got through it was looking at how much they hurt with no chance of improvement even if they survived and asking what I’d want in that situation and the answer was always “lethal injection please”
My cow, Moo, in harvest moon had a calf! I called her Mootwo. =D
I am way too proud of this.
*wipes away tear* They grow up so fast
Spent basically all day playing the Pathfinder card game. It’s getting way cooler now that our group’s a fair way in and started to hit on good strategies and cycle out poorer cards from our decks for some new stuff.
I think I’m finding myself jumping on my Xbox and retrogaming more.
Xbox is retro? That can’t be right.
2001, I’d call it retro.
Now you know how I feel about the PS2.
Hell, even the Gamecube falls into that category!
You’re crazy, guy!
The PS1 & N64 were considered retro when the Wii and PS3 came out.
Now that the Xbox One is out, the original Xbox is considered “retro”.
So crazy that I’m making sense!
Nah. Nah. Nah.
Everything stopped at some undefined point and will forever stay that way.
At first you were Gooky, now you’re being Kooky.
Mysterious and spooky?
I finished Infamous Second Son, that’s now retro
I was trying to catch Pikachu in the forest on Red, he appears, and…my level 14 charmander (chose him for the first time since it was red) made him faint. So now I have a level 3 weedle which I shall use to catch Pikachu, and my Charmander has already evolved into Charmeleon.
It’s so much better playing the games on an actual Gameboy and not an emulator. Especially because Red isn’t monochrome, it’s actually got a red tinge! Makes it just that more enjoyable, and had a smile on my face the whole time I was playing it!
Urgh. Left my car keys in my wife’s car and she’s not coming home for 4 hours. I start work in about 15 minutes. Looks like I’m riding to work.
Feel like a teenager again except way more unfit and unhappy about the prospect.
good thing you live kind of close to work! If that happened to me, I’d be screwed!
Ouch. Shame you can’t just make up a spare key, since I recall you saying you can’t cause Holden are dicks or something to that effect.
Caught a Pikachu. Only took 2 hours and caused 2 pokemon to evolve too their second stage.
Also beat Brock. Now it’s time to go to Celadon, and then I might try the Mew glitch. Can that stuff up my cart if I’m not careful :/?
Was just reading one of the main articles and got a pop-up ad for Trials. A pop-up ad on KotakuAU. D:
This is why I use AdBlock.
I know it’s a bit iffy, but I’d prefer a subscription model, where paying a small amount monthly would enable ad-free browsing.
I’d not mind static ads but no, everything has to move now.
And have wankers overacting to new phones. I want to shove that guy’s phone down his gaping maw
So I picked up Dark Souls 2 for PC. I’ve barely made it past Majula and I still have no clue what I’m doing. I do know that I seriously need to pick up a 360 controller as it simply is much more suited to a controller (it’s a fairly lazy PC port).
Fairly lazy? So way better effort than the first game then?
I never played the first one so I can’t comment.
This is a new level of weird, I’m on hold and got some generic jazz but its gone all digitally distorted and crazy. Obviously broken to all hell but in an oddly pleasing manner, sounds reminiscent of c64 chiptunes
Bah, laptop mic was too crap to record a sample, that’s a shame. It could legitimately be an interesting new musical style, 40s smooth jazz with 80s chip samples.
Ugh. Went to bed fine last night. Woke up at 4:30 and was extremely sick, have not been sick in so long, forgot how much it FUCKING SUCKS. Not sure if it was something I ate (doubtful since mum & dad are fine) or it was something that’s going around atm and I managed to pick it up when venturing yesterday to the shops or whatever.
Hard not to point that your username is @virus__…
Ah but a virus is more along the lines of say hepatitis 😛 This would be more so true if I was the lucky receiver of gastro.. But nah, just some 24 hour bug maybe if that.
@kermitron It has finally happened. Roosterteeth Let’s Play Minecraft episode 100. The credits sequence was beautiful.
I finally bought Tales Of Xillia. Thank-you PSN easter sale. 😀
Hooray, finally got a working Vita code for Starlight Inception… which is bigger than the maximum free space I can create on my memory card… oops. Didn’t think of that.
Hope you feel better soon dude.
#replyfail
Meant to be a reply to @virus
I totally hit reply, then submit, then it told me I was posting too fast, hit submit again but the reply didn’t work.
Stupid fucking Kotaku.
It’s annoying hey.
Cheers 😛
I don’t think I’m all that good at Trials, but it’s amazing how fast you learn. Was doing the “Mind The Gap” course, got about halfway through with about 70 faults, then without thinking hit the back button, “shit”, start again, then proceeded to do the whole course with 72 faults. I know that’s still crap, but I thought it was a massive improvement on my first attempt.
So, Hulu are now doing their bit, fighting the good fight against the slavering hordes sailing under the black flag
They’ve blocked VPN access BECAUSE PIRATES!!!!!!.
Fuck Hulu.
What if we used a DNS change like tunnelto.us?
Uh.. That does not seem very logical in my books.. But hey, this is a US company we’re talking about.
Quite probably being paid by foxtel
Just curious, where’s everyone at with Trials: Fusion?
I’m currently sitting at level 37 with 108 medals.
Haven’t done many of the challenges, but I’ve only been playing for 5 hours.
Level 40 something with 120 something medals.
Golded the first 4 areas and up to the extreme tracks now. Gotta say, the difficulty curve gets really steep.
You ain’t kiddin’, just finished “The Greater Crater” with 309 faults and 17:07
A friend was talking about having got his sax out for the first time in three years, and since I’ve got the house to myself tonight I decided to get the clarinet out for the first time in… I don’t even know how long. Maybe eight years or something, I can’t remember when the last Christmas concert my friends organised was.
Somehow could still manage to play the Stevie Wonder stuff from way back when, even though I never really memorised any of that old band stuff since we always played with the sheet music. And I don’t think I’ve played it for the better part of a decade. Wow.
Also, this is fun. I totally need to find a band to play with or something.
…and now I’m playing stuff I’ve never played before, and hitting all the notes correctly – somehow all the fingering is still instinctively there. I don’t believe it.
Hnnng, if this was page 18 I’d be all over that last comment.
He’s just made of double entendres, isn’t he?
My last post was meant to be a reply to @mrtaco ‘s second comment >:(
This’ll be a new post too since pressing “reply” just refreshes my page currently, but oh well, it’s slow anyway.
Change it from https to http, it should fix it I think.
@mrtaco
Mobile browser won’t let me :S
I’ll just lurk around till it’s fixed and won’t comment :\
Wasn’t this an issue with javascript on mobile browsers?
Can’t go down to the bottom of the page and hit the switch to desktop button?
HOLY SHIT I CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A SOUND ON THE FLUTE TOO
CONSISTENTLY
WHAT
My music teacher wanted me to play flute in primary school, cos I was one of the few who could make a sound with it, but I wanted something different. So I ended up on cello!
I never used to be able to make a sound with it at all. Then towards the end of highschool one of the musicals I was playing for had a Reed 2 part that switched between clarinet and flute, so rather than going through and transposing all the parts I figured hey we have a flute at home, why not see if my clarinet teacher can learn me how to drive it.
So basically I only played it for a small portion of that year (2003? Or 2004. I can’t remember now) and haven’t touched it since 😛
How does that even work? A clarinet is a B flat instrument and a flute is a C instrument.
Hence my reluctance to go through and transpose everything 😛
IIRC the Reed 3 part switched between clarinet and oboe. I guess the score was written with the idea that a woodwind player would know how to play multiple instruments, which I guess the school wasn’t counting on when they picked up the music for it.
Sheet music is expensive, especially for a band. I imagine it may have been a case of stuff it
We all had recorders.
So did we, and I’d have to say that it’s the most vile sounding instrument and should be banned.
During my later years at school, they brought in a program where the year 5 kids would all have to play violin for music class, and we ended up with a string ensemble made of most of them.
Most awful sounds I’ve ever heard in my life.
Junior Strings concerts are the best, because the only people who turn up are those obliged to, and they sit there with pained smiles on their faces as their child (along with the rest of the band) struggles to play six notes.
Glorious.
They should have a best actor award at the end of the night for most convincing parent
True, but at least a violin souds good when learned to play properly. A Recorder on the other hand still sounds like crap.
I dunno, I’m still not the biggest fan of it. Probably just conditioned to be that way 😛
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c9jEvXMm0c
This girl seems to do alright with recorder though.
I can’t beat the second gym on Pokémon Red.
How can a bubblebeam from a level 21 starmie take one hit KO a level 18 Pikachu? Unfair much?
Maybe that $500 Magikarp was a bad idea…
Someone pledged $750 today.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
!!
I tweeted a pair of comic nerds I know (who have also had a history of taking the piss out of the “4 teh expozurz!” ripoff excuse) with a link to the kickstarter and one of them has already retweeted it so with any luck you might get a few more backers.
Edit: Make that both. 6000 odd followers between them so at least 2-3 new people might have a look…
Thanks man. Much appreciated!
Goodnight.
My 3DS right trigger button is broken. It works occasionally, but it is super annoying. I’m thinking of repairing it/replacing it myself. Anyone else done this?
Nevermind. I blew into the R button and now it works all the time. wtf
The NES cartridge blow lives on!
NES?! I was doing it to Atari carts long before NES was even a thing!
Actually, blowing on those carts is a bad idea
I would imagine that doing it to the 3DS wouldn’t be the best thing either. Even if it was the Nintendo-prescribed method of fixing the DS’ shoulder buttons 😛
My R button on my original 3DS went too, it’s what originally made me consider sending it in to get fixed. Until that other thing happened. Really wish I’d done it now instead of putting it off, so at least if it got screwed up by them applying the update it would’ve been on their hands. I blame Luigi.
Is pulling one apart particularly difficult? Compact stuff is sometimes super complicated or weirdly easy.
The 360 controller is nice and easy, the PS3 one… not so much
Well, the XL was easy enough to get into. They just have a couple of rubber pads stuck over two of the screw holes that you need. Then there’s a couple of ribbon cables you need to be careful of as you open it up, had a friend manage to rip one of them when he did it.
Regular 3DS, I’m not so sure. I think that one might be a little trickier to get into, I couldn’t see anything immediately obvious when I took the back panel off but then that was a while ago.
I wouldn’t be able to clean it the normal way. Also, I don’t really want to replace it. Seems complicated
If there’s space, could you get a soft, long bristled brush behind the buttons to give them a wipe out? Maybe dampen the bristles a little to help pick up gunge? Works on my laptop at least.
Hey maybe your breath is magic! Find someone with a broken leg, blow on it and then tell them to try dancing
This Game of Thrones parody is hilarious; Medieval Land Fun Time World.
Anyone else here played Kingdom Heart: Chain of Memories? I’m really getting bored with it, the whole game just seems like one constant grind.
I played through the GBA version and didn’t even slog through the remake in 1.5. It’s combat system is novel but I remember near the end certain decks don’t hold up against certain bosses so you have to make new decks just for ’em.
And the story is, well, who gives a damn about the story in the non-numbered titles. 😛
I just realised that the points between castle oblivion is just filler. Not even good filler, it’s just … so boring! I think I am just going to skip to the next one, 358/2 days or whatever it’s called.
Yeah but if you have a bad story with bad gameplay, what else is there left?
Sometimes I love the spam comments on my blog 😀
“You know this is just the same with everything in life.
You’d think history showes us at least anything, but no.
Hate all you want but the world changes rapidly, and we have no control whatsoever over it.
For instance, imagine Barack had any balls to put Vladimir to his place, but it seems like it’s not happening, welcome WW3.
A profound post, thanks!”
On my review of Battlefront II. It somehow got through through the spam filter 😛
Demon Gaze is a pretty cool guy. At first I was really not liking it because it seems a bit poorly tuned and bad at explaining what locations are going to be too hard for you etc. but if you stick with it it gets a lot better. Haven’t managed to beat the first boss yet though – had a go at her and after about 5 minutes I think I got close to beating her and my healer ran out of mana and she enraged and killed my tank 🙁
Not really related, but since you’re a Ys bro, I thought I’d reply to you.
I’m considering giving up on finishing Ys 1. Might just go to 2. Because that end boss is a bullshit piece of crap.
And that’s my Ys story.
Yeah, Dark Fact is an asshole. I assume you got the silver gear you need to beat him? I eventually got him but it must have taken 20+ goes.
Yeah, rocking all the Silver, looked up how to beat him, and even then I’m yet to get him below 1/3rd health. Also, for whatever reason I seem to run faster upwards than downwards, and it’s only in that fight, and it does it both with keyboard and on a controller, and it totally throws me off.
Well, there’s no denying the evidence the playstation is an all round multimedia platform
I’ve started the grind in Dark Souls 2, the final slog to get the last few achievements.
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I don’t know if I’ll finish this quest. It will require me to go through the entire game at least one and a half more times, and I’m not too keen on that right now…
Edit: Just found this guide to creating a wicked sorcerer build. I’ve majored in melee in all my Souls playthroughs so far, so I think it might be fun to give it a go.
Is magic as overpowered in 2 as it was in 1? I was thinking of giving a magic class a go whenever I can afford to pick up 2
Sounds like it is. Woo for balance.
Mr. Strange respecced as a Sorceror for NG+ and he’s really enjoying it. He never really got very far with any NG+ playthroughs in the previous games as he got bored,but this time he seems as if he may even go again again.
Vendrick is stupidly easy. Don’t even need to roll to avoid his attacks he’s so damn slow. I got him first time without getting hit.
I figured as a 50G achievement, it’d be a hard one to get 😛
@benwhite please tell me the comments problems are getting close to a fix. I’d not even mind if you have to take the site offline for a day or 2 to fix it properly but having to try and post comments 3-4 times before they take is discouraging even an opinionated, loudmouthed bastard like me
I’m no IT duder, but my humble suggestion to @benwhite and whoever else is in charge of this all is to piledrive the servers. Just grab em and piledrive em straight to the ground,
or perhaps suplex the servers, I’ll leave the technicals to the technical guys.
I forgot the PSP Go was a thing.. Well more like Sony tried to make it a thing and let it fall flat on its face.
I’m glad I could never afford one, in retrospect. Not the best review of a product when you think of it.
honestly it was a neat idea, the only problem was that no stores wanted to sell it…
Well thats the thing, it was. But Sony didn’t even try & push it. I remember my local JB had it. But it was also pretty expensive from memory.
I picked one up cheap, and it’s classic Sony; there are some greats ideas and there are some crap ideas.
The good? Onboard 16GB was awesome. There was further expandable memory via the M2, but at least a freebie 16GB was enough to get by with. The bad? They threw it away.
After an awesome switch to mini-USB charging for the PSP-2000 and 3000, the Go went back to proprietary. It should have stayed mini-USB and that should have carried over to the Vita, also.
Okay, going to try re-installing Quake 2, and then play it against the Xbox version to see of they’re connected.
Xbox version didn’t work. 🙁
Does anyone remember fine fares? They were like Oreos, but better. They were my favourite treat as a kid, but they vanished off the map about 8 or 9 years ago. Turns out my mother found a shop that still sold them. They are still as good as I remember. So good.
EDIT: Fine fare page get is best page get.
Oreo, please. Delta Creams are where it’s at.
Delta Creams are pretty good, too.
So they finally announced the cast for the new Sailor Moon remake that’s starting in July and the core characters have all been re-cast except for Usagi. I’m not sure how I feel about this.
Fake Spoiler: I will watch it anyway
I have spent the last couple of days trying to finish an English assignment on capital punishment. It is currently 5,707 words, 20+ pages, and contains 41 different references. It has taken me approximately 19 hours of work to get this far. The 19 hours estimation is pretty conservative, as I always round down to the nearest hour after every session.
But I have been struggling to find a way to end it. This was all I could come up with:
I get the feeling that this conclusion is bad. I think it comes off as half-baked philosophy, but I can’t figure out how to end it. I know that I am asking help from an empty room, but, uh… help?
EDIT: Posting comments too quickly? I’ve pretty much skipped this week’s TAY due to all the server issues.
EDIT: In no way am I qualified to answer this question.
Question, is it an essay and what were your main points. Were you for, or against?
Not an essay, but a report. I tried my best to remain unbiased.
Also, this is the reason I’ve been offline the last couple of days, so I probably missed a Dead Island Epidemic MultiTAYer. I didn’t even get a chance to play the game. Sorry.
I haven’t either. My brother demanded things be moved so I’m been moving things.
The best way to do a conclusion is to summarize what you’ve said in your report.
But I already have a summary… 🙁
Perhaps you should say that the conclusion is that no one should really have a say in someone’s death?
That’s really wishy-washy.
Without knowing how the rest of the report goes, I’m not sure how to approach the conclusion. Also I’m fairly against capital punishment which makes it hard to write something neutral.
Concise is good. Definite is good. Neutral is a bit trickier but possible.
Fun fact: It was only prohibited in Australia in 2010.
The first and only time Queensland will be the most progressive state in the country!
@trjn’s suggestion is a much better alternative.
Depending on the content of the essay, it’s worth touching on the issues around capital punishment, and (probably) why there is no clear consensus. Is it an effective crime deterrent? Is there potential for, or a history of, injudicious or punitive application? Is there a social class more vulnerable to the retributions of a bloodthirsty court (hint: the answer might be the lower classes who can’t afford top-flight legal help)?
What reasons have been given by the nations or states who have abolished capital punishment, and why haven’t those arguments swayed the rest of the world? If your report examined these questions, all you need to do in your conclusion is remind the reader that even though most people have a strong opinion on the issue, there is very little consensus among or between institutions, or communities.
It’s sort of a summary of what’s come before. That’s what a conclusion typically is.
i would definitely recommend against including that middle paragraph philosophising about the nature of death.
The main thing to remember if the issue is murky is: it’s okay to put together an inconclusive conclusion, but you yourself must never seem unsure. If the only thing you’re sure about is that the evidence is unclear, at least be confident about that!
This is much more useful advice than what I posted.
A rejiggered version of my paragraph followed by something addressing these points would be a solid conclusion.
The debate rages on is in there twice.
I can’t remember if that was intentional or not.
How about this?
Or words to that effect
@popdart5 I was talking with some friends about playing proper Pathfinder RPG while playing the card game adaption on Friday, and there were expressions of interest from several in trying it out.
Obviously our current group’s full but I’m thinking that the same approach, running it online might be workable. On the other hand, I’ve played a fair bit of pen & paper stuff but always as a player and not as a GM. Since the rest of them would be completely new to it (aside from one friend who played an introductory session at PAX apparently) I’d probably think I’d be best suited to GMing but I have no idea where to actually get started, what I’d need to do (and what I’d need to buy) and so on. Eying off Paizo’s adventure path stuff since that seems like it’d take away a bit of the stress in terms of coming up with a storyline and stuff, but are they any good?
Tips/advice appreciated. @redartifice as well since you also GM stuff (don’t know if you’ve GMed Pathfinder specifically?).
Fake Edit: Fuck you, Posting Too Fast Error.
@dc
Hey I watched that Spike Jonze Her film today, why didn’t you tell me it was awesome, DC? Okay maybe you did, I do recall you mentioning it here on TAY a little while ago. It felt like a spiritual successor to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to me. Sort of. Anyway, I loved it. 4/5.
I finally see this post! 😀 Arcade Fire did the OST too, btw!
Haha, finally. And here I was thinking that you were ignoring me.
Thank you notification system! 😀
Excellent movie though. Loved it. I think it’s up there with my favourites now.
Totally. I want to watch it again. Wish me luck in convincing the wife that it’s a romance so she’ll watch it with me!
@freezespreston, you were right: Vendrick was kind of easy. Actually getting to him ended up being harder 😛
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I just downloaded the full soundtrack to Katawa Shoujo.
Emotions.
That is all.
Spent some time messing with Infamous’ photo mode last night, really makes you appreciate the glorious visuals, I got on a bit of a theme “the last thing you’ll ever see” got a series of pics of what it looks like through the eyes of enemies as I smited them.
Wait, is Kotaku even more messed up? When I click on an article, it opens up a completely blank page. It took a lot of effort to get to the homepage, and when I was there, I couldn’t click on any of the articles.
Uhh, I think it fixed itself? Dammit, I skipped last week’s TAY so I wouldn’t have to deal with technical difficulties, (Considering that this is only page 10, I think a lot of people did the same) and they are still there. I know Kotaku’s team of trained monkeys is working hard to fix all the problems, but they seem to have made little progress.
And it think I’m posting comments too quickly. Great. Is this something they did on purpose, to minimise server load whilst they were working?
Qumulys sends his best wishes and fistbumps to all the TAYbies 😀
And @sughly, I gave him your Uplay so expect some competition soon D: (he just told me he beat pretty much ALL my times :/)
Still waiting on my xbox receiver til I dig into this times!
If it weren’t for Q, none of you would be calling me Numbers, good times.
Oooh I just realised we’re in OLD TAY!
TAYlist for the 1st of May 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by an awkward 3 minutes without any sound output
Backstreet Boys – Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
Huey Lewis & The News – Hip To Be Square
George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You
Vanessa Amorosi – The Power
Daft Punk – Instant Crush
Hook N Swing – Reason
Men At Work – Overkill
Cold Chisel – You Got Nothing I Want
Jimmy Barnes – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Screaming Jets – Stop The World
Midnight Oil – Read About It (A personal addition to the playlist)
Billy Ocean – Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Radiators – Comin’ Home
Daddy Cool – Eagle Rock
Police – Every Breath You Take
Scissor Sisters – Don’t Feel Like Dancing