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The mystical empty TAY. I had heard of such things but never witnessed it myself
Weekend was nice, had friends invite themselves around for a Sunday roast. Which would have been slightly rude except for the fact they brought the roast dinner around.
The grand final was pretty horrible but at least the world championships were good. So close and yet so far.
Hope everybody had a nice weekend
You have good friends. Do you have the big loungeroom and/or big TV?
The new baby.
As DC said they were coming over to meet the new bub. So rather than impose they brought dinner with them. Was great roast pork as well. They backed this kickstarter thing that basically got them a free range pig and they get it sent to them in chunks. Really good meat
That sounds awesome. ^-^ New baby is way cooler/cuter that watching sports on a big TV.
Free roast! That’s awesome!!! I wouldn’t have said no to that either!!! 🙂
I feel sorry for the next person to come visit, The standard is set pretty darn high
I always bring dinner when I’m visiting friends with a new baby, even if I’m there at lunchtime. Rule 1 of visiting new babies – bring food!
Yep it is so helpful
We haven’t had too much because of Mrs Tigs allergies it is really hard for even close family to know what she is able to eat. But the mother in law kept us well stocked in those early days which was a godsend
How old is your bub?
9 and a half weeks
So tiny and so big at the same time. I was talking to her the other night and was saying “When you were a little little baby…….”
But she is adorable https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/501273141818048512
Aww, what a cutie! 🙂
Hello all,
My weekend was very full and awesome. Was celebrating my wife’s birthday practically all weekend. Dinner with friends at The Habitat on Friday night, brunch with family on Saturday morning, Her job interview after lunch, surprised her with Rayman Legends (Wii U) in the afternoon for something for us to do together, took her to see Missy Higgins on Sat night.
Went to Moose and Gibson for breakfast yesterday and then took her shopping and bought heaps of stuff and spoiled her. Managed to put a good few hours into The Last of Us yesterday afternoon. MAN THIS GAME IS AWESOME. I can really tell they have pushed the PS3 to the limit, the frame-rate isn’t as solid as the latter Uncharted games. I don’t blame them for that, because it looks amazing and i’m having a blast. Just wish i could play the PS4 version.
My weekend. A dot point summary.
Falling asleep on the couch watching TV and then waking up at 7am.
Star Citizen.
AFL Grand Final.
Get bored with Grand Final, play Star Citizen.
Kerbal.
Sleep.
Go out for breakfast.
Shopping.
Star Citizen.
Go out for dinner.
True Detective.
Kerbal.
Sleep.
TAY \o/
Sounds nice. Buy anything cool?
Food shopping, should have clarified. Sunday “Tradition?” “Ritual?” “Habit?” to go for coffee and then head to the shops to buy food for the week.
Food is cool. I like food. Hehe
– Wake up early on Saturday (unheard of)
– Destiny
– Lunch
– Destiny
– Go out for dinner (Korean BBQ with friends)
– Destiny
– Sleep
– Wake up early on Sunday (doubly unheard of)
– Destiny
– Wife wakes up; we Destiny together
– Wife has network connectivity issues, we assume that this is due to unstable servers combined with doubling up on one internet connection
– Take a break from Destiny to play Diablo III
– Wife continues to have networking issues, figures I might as well rejoin her
– Destiny
– Dinner
– Destiny
– Sleep
– Wake up early on Monday (business as usual, unfortunately)
– Work :/
– New TAY \o/
Morning kitties.
I am SO FLIPPING EXCITED today. My new sofa is finnnnnnnallllllllly arriving! It’s being custom-built and has taken 13 weeks, but today’s the day! I am gonna sit so hard tonight.
What sofa did you get?
A variation on this – http://www.nickscali.com.au/lounges/jade.html (hence the extra long wait).
Did you buy a fancy formal dress to complete it?
That was last week’s TAY, friend! 😀
Remind me never to take you to a Black Tie event…
You mean you’re not taking me to the Oscars? :'(
No, but he might take you to some-guy-whose-name-is Oscar’s.
Is that headrests that can be up or down?! Awesome idea.
Yes! So, so good! I bought these lovely little acacia wood platters to put on the headrests when they’re down, for drinks or candles.
Oooo Nick scali custom very niiiice
Ooooh, nice.
I want a couch like that for our new house but I think we’ll be lucky if the budget can cover inflatable furniture.
Yeah, it was not cheap. Like, way more than I expected to pay, but I got a good tax return and figured it was worth it, given the amount of time I’ll spend in front of the tv in the next few months (Alien: Isolation! Little Big Planet 3! FAR CRY 4!!!). But when I went back into the store the other day, it had gone up by another $1200, so I got a bargain.
Sofa king good!
Initially misread ‘sit’.
Props on new couch, though. In honour of this auspicious occasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKiGl02NmU
Should’ve got it at the Sofa King.
Their prices are Sofa King low XD
I’M BACK BABY!!!
hah dood you’re only like 30 mins late with that joke 😉
Yeah, noticed that after I posted it. Don’t know why I bothered.
lol it’s all good! clearly great minds think alike 😉
You mean like minds :p
Getting to the tail end of this illness, hopefully I’m back to 100% by tomorrow.
You can do it \o/
There’s nothing to it!
If you want something, don’t ask for nothing
If you want nothing… DON’T ASK FOR SOMETHING!
I approve!
That’s all I ever wanted :’)
Just don’t try to push too hard today. Worst mistake you can make is doing to much because you are “better”
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was eh, on saturday Cathryn and I went to pick up our fridge which the ebay seller lied about! they said it was in good condition and insisted on that and its not like we checked because they had the whole thing wrapped up and were basically tryna get us to leave straight away so when we did look at the fridge there was a massive dint on the top, scratches and dints all over it, texta marks inside the fridge, and somehow lifted the plastic seal on the stainless steel and its got rust or food under it. Upon calling them out on it they said they had no idea what we were talking about and that the damage must have been done by us and so thats gone to shit.
Saturday night was better we had Salsa’s for dinner and i hit level 20 in Destiny.
Sunday was spent working on my resume and kicking the soccer ball around. Also we packed boxes oh so many god damn boxes.
A Monday question because it brightens the morning – If we opened the first virtual reality pods like in fallout 3 which were capable of playing games what game would you like to play in complete virtual reality
Aw man, good question. Red Dead Redemption.
Just ride a horse for hours on hours..granted after watching a million ways to die in the west id probably freak out
Rez.
Never played rez #secretgamingshame
Ditto. I’m still hunting for a copy. I keep a PS2 handy for BuzzQuiz parties and one day my Rez will come.
Warframe would actually be really amazing in Virtual Reality, wall running, ninja slicing, zapping armies down with lightning, possibilities are endless
That would be awesome!
Mass Effect 2
Would you keep the decision wheel or just be able to say whatever you want to say?
No way, i would want to be able rage at Jack whenever she is being a bitch. (All the time).
The Halo series. Who doesn’t want to be an unstoppable cyborg death god for a day?
The makers of Flower is my guess, what if it was open world halo multi?
Starlancer, Rogue squadron, something along those lines.
Because SPACE! I reckon theirs so many games that would work perfectly with the whole full body vr experience
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: X-Wing Alliance flying through the Death Star II ERRYDAY!!
It’s Monday and the warm is here. Fantastic!
So, weekend. Spoilered because length:
On Friday night I went down to Wollongong for a college friend’s 21st. Only managed to get in some dinner and a game of CAH before everyone called it, had a rather early one. Next day was the traditional late morning getup followed by long, drawn-out cooking of crepes/pancakes. Then we… watched A Knight’s Tale for some reason I think? Before getting into a game of Lords of Waterdeep, this time played in teams of two because we had so many people. Wingman and I spent most of the early game seeming to be trailing while piling up the corruption. But just like last time I played, even with a massive pile of the stuff we managed to (three hours later) charge on through and absolutely obliterate everyone else. Aww yeah.
That night more of his friends came over, they played Mario Kart for a while til we eventually got pizzas. Then they decided to go on a youtube-watching spree so the rest of us retreated to the back room to avoid that, and started playing music 😛 Eventually one of them came to see what was going on, then another, then the rest came and they all said bye and left. It wasn’t even 9:30, and they were all going home?? People are weird.
Played a little more music before emerging back to the main room, wasn’t much to the rest of the night other than watching the host start writing up characters for us for the game of Dungeons and Dragons he was planning, while the others played more games, mostly Hyrule Warriors now. Pillowmaker had to go home that afternoon, so I actually got a full night’s sleep that night! Because there were fewer people. So I got a mattress to myself. And wouldn’t have my sleep disrupted by anyone. In that… dammit how do I make any of this sound non-dirty? Bah. Shut up 😛
Next day: french toast and leftover pizza and leftover cake and Dungeons and Dragons! I kinda wanted to leave early so I could get home and do stuff, but I’ve never played before so wanted to stick around for it. It went ok for a group of noobs who mostly didn’t know what they were doing (although there was one person slowing things down by constantly talking over everyone about things of very little relevance). I was a chaotic neutral rock gnome wizard with the ability to “tinker” and create small devices, I could also take a short nap to recharge my magics. It’s like a perfect summation of me 😛 Early on we lost our half-orc rogue who had to leave when his mum showed up unexpectedly early, so he was written out of the game. Towards the end while we were facing off against the big demon bossguy two of the guys from up the coast had to leave too, but his character was kept in the game because he was nearly dead. I died soon after, and then so did he. We both got brought back though, and I managed to *just* avoid another death before scampering back into a tunnel (mostly) out of harm’s way. Other guy wasn’t so lucky though, he got taken down again a little later on. But other than that, we won and managed to come out of it ok! It was pretty fun, wouldn’t mind having another go of it some other time now that we have a better idea of what’s going on. Only so long as that person I mentioned isn’t there >_>
The trip back sucked. The guys who’d just left had to take a train-replacement bus, and called back to let us know that traffic was at a standstill thanks to an accident. We thought it was on the other road, but once I got on my way I either found the one they were talking about or the other road was stuffed too. Trip took about twice as long, all that extra time was spent crawling along at about 20 or so. Bleh. Even more worrying was just after I’d called back to the others to let them know I’d found traffic too, my fuel light came on 😛 Got back alright, still had about three more litres than I did after getting back from Canberra.
Dad had a free trip that still had lying around that needed to be used up, so he and Mum have nicked off to central Australia for the week. So assuming that my sister’s going to be spending most of her time down here at her boyfriend’s place, I’m likely going to be here alone for the week. Having checked the fridge, it looks like there’ll only be enough leftovers to last me about half that time. I am screwed.
Also, I invited my best friend’s girlfriend to stay over at some point this week. WHATAMIDOING/10.
Really though, she goes to uni a very short distance away from where I live while her place is all the way over towards the city, so it’d be really convenient for her to be able to skip all that commuting. Figured that with the spare space here I may as well offer it up. Doesn’t stop me from stepping back from the situation and admiring just how retarded it seems though 😛Oh friend, do be careful with the lady. But the D&D sounds good!
It’s ok, there’s not much care needed. I’m absurdly good at becoming really good friends with girls that are already in relationships, and having absolutely nothing go on with them whatsoever 😛
Whereabouts are you based Gooky? I’m from just down the coast near Nowra, and heading up to Wollongong tomorrow for UOW Early Entry interview 😛 Also, never played D&D before, probably because it has that ultimate nerd stigma haha
I’m all the way up in Sydney. Our group’s spread all over the place, from Wyong down to Wollongong and Bowral, and everywhere inbetween.
I’m similar with the D&D, it’s always stood out as the ultimate nerd activity. I was always intrigued by it after that one episode of The IT Crowd though, just never really had an opportunity to give it a try til now. Will still continue to loudly yell NEEEEEEERD whenever people talk about having played it thought 😛
My friend group will be much the same I think, spread all over after school. Haha yeah, nothing like a hearty Homer Jay style “Neeeeerrddd” bellow! Similarly, it piqued my interest in the Community episode where they play it. Well, the first Community episode where they play it.
*hand erupts from pile of popcorn*
Guys *pant* Oh my god guys! *takes a moment to catch breath* I’ve been stuck under this pile of popcorn all weekend. You guys don’t know how happy I am to-oh god
*another giant pile of popcorn covers me*
How is work at the cinema, anyway?
I heard Marsellus Wallace threw Tony Rockyhorror from a second floor balcony for messing with his girlfriend while he was away.
Just saying, be careful.
It was just a foot massage!
What up my fellow TAYers?
Been seriously out of the loop, but has there been much talk about Fantasy Life on the 3DS? Read a couple of previews and it doesn’t look to shabby, but just wondering if TAY had any info on it.
Still obsessed with Dragon’s Dogma, just can’t put the damn thing down. I think it has to be Bitterblack Island, done everything on the mainland, including finishing the damn game, but I just keep going back to BBI. I must find all the rare items, 90% of which I will never use.
I think to break this vicious cycle I just need to beat that last damn boss, but that ugly bastard keeps kicking my arse.
Oh well, maybe if I keep playing and collecting for weeks on end, full blown insanity may set in.
Ahhh, I can almost hear the voices in the head already 🙂
So far the people that are playing it are @greenius @beavwa @jimu and me! it’s a heap of fun!
Not playing. Watching it being played since I’m cheap and only outlaid $19 for one copy.
The fact I’ve had zero opportunity to play is a good indication on the game.
How could you forget me, Nob! I thought we had something special.
You know what you did!
Sweet, now must get!
me too, but been distracted by a lot of other games.
Fantasy Life is so good!
I need to get back into Dragon’s Dogma! I was really enjoying it. Can’t even remember why I stopped. I am a doofus.
That was such a good recommendation. I need to do the same and finish it.
I think I got bogged down in the paralysis of realizing that I’d been missing/failing quests out of inaction or completing in the incorrect order and was second-guessing everything I did to get an ‘optimal’ run.
Ah the beauty of NG+ your second chance to do it all again.
I missed and stuffed up a few quests, so it will be good to do better this time around.
The exact same thing happened with me. Played quite a bit, then just stopped suddenly, not sure why.
Problem is now that I have started again, I CAN”T STOP!
Fantasy Life is fun! Very fun! I have a puppy!
Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen was $7.50 on the CA PSN store a week ago and I was too lazy to get it and now all the regrets.
;_;
Still, what a great game DD was.
I’m in bed.
To make up for waking me up and making me grumpy yesterday, my kids brought me breakfast in bed today. So I’m just lying here reading a book about embroidery and generally relaxing. This is not how Mondays are supposed to go! 😛
Such a lucky mum!!! 🙂 Good little kiddies!!
Mostly they’re monsters just like their Mum. But days like today make it worth it! 😛
Did you run a forensic analysis on the breakfast in bed? The monster gene is wiley!
Don’t worry, I’m sure Monday is saving up for something big.
Urgh, reply fail
Greetings all, hope everyone’s weekend was enjoyable. My Saturday consisted of the Royal Melbourne show, got to pet many adorable animals and got myself a few things, like the cutest Eevee plushie and a Decepticon stick-on badge which I think I’ll place on my tablet cover. Meanwhile Sunday included checking out apartments as the last one turned into an official bust, so we’re not wasting time searching again, which I guess in a way has me better off. The apartment plan I had initially was a reminder of the home I was trying to put together for my now ex-girlfriend so… yeah now that’s impossible given that she’s given up ever being able to come here 🙁
And everything inbetween all this was watching the World Championship group stages (Well more catching up by watching the VODs) of League of Legends. Some games were just ridiculous, as in one auto attack away from winning the game and the other team managed to kill them before they got it, managed to pull a comeback in that match too, crazy stuff.
So where abouts you been looking for apartments now?
Still in Dandenong currently, we found some pretty good spots. There’s several whole new blocks in the middle of construction on one side and recently complete ones in the other with people already living in them. They’re fairly more expensive but they’re actually pretty darn good in terms of location and double glazed windows to blur out most of the outside noise being close to a large busy road, still about a 5-10 minute walk from the station in the other direction.
There were cheaper apartments up the road from the original site I first signed up for but a big issue I spotted, the door to the car park was wide open, and the door to the complex within the car park is not locked at all, which means it wasn’t secure possibly due to neighbour negligence. We were able to walk right in and go wherever we wanted. Red flag for me there.
Yeah thats not what you want granted i got hired by body corporate who maintained several apartment buildings and all they asked me to do was see how easy it is to Enter the parking complex as residents were complaining about damage to their cars overnight. Not only did I get into the parking garage easily i got inside their building with access to all floors as someone duct taped the fire escape door so it could never lock
Yeah see this is what I’m worried about, especially being so close to the shopping center. I’m going to be living alone when I move out, and with the train station being close by, my car will be there the whole day and partial night while I’m out at work/going to or from work, so if some idiot decided to “forget” to shut the garage door behind them, anything would’ve happened like what you mentioned.
Alot of the newer ones going in have auto detect timers so if you press the open button you have 30 seconds or something before it auto shuts
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was pretty good. Spent a lot of time in Destiny, scored three legendary weapons and bought an exotic engram that turned out to be a ridiculous-looking helm, and with the help of a bunch of people (we did it, guys!), completed the Vault of Glass. Considering some of the drops people got, I’m wondering how long it’ll be before we start seeing shirts with “I went to the Vault of Glass and all I got was this lousy shirt” on the front…
Also, spent a good three hours playing The Vanishing of Ethan Carter – man, that game is gorgeous. I felt the need to keep stopping to take screenshots for future wallpapers every time I entered a new area. Still not finished it, although I did spend nearly an hour trying to find the entrance to a place that refused to appear until I reloaded the game – I think I’d triggered some dialogue too early by approaching the church from the wrong path. The puzzles I’ve seen are really well done, and the investigations always lead you in one direction then show you a set of events completely different from what you thought happened. It’s great. I want to try to finish it tonight or tomorrow, as the silly season starts this week – Shadow of Mordor and Sherlock Homes hit in the next few days, and Alien next week.
Gah, so jelly of you guys.
Tis now a race between team Piat and team Puppet for second place. Piat’s mob is more levelled and experienced but Puppet’s is learning faster. It’ll be close.
I should probably pick a side.
Team Cracker and @hindenlagen also beat the Vault of Glass on Saturday.
/o\
\o/
Shut the fuck up Jo.
Im yet to find a single legendary and me mate who only started last week is now ahead of me and has 3 legendary items all drops
Man you should have seen @pupp3tmast3r ‘s luck yesterday. 3 legendary engrams and an exotic bounty.
The lucky bastard haha
The only legendary engrams I got from drops were either Blues or for the wrong class (my hunter, when she gets to level 20, will be set for life). Got my legendary helm from the Queen’s Wrath missions, the gloves, boots and chest from the Vanguard Vendor. As for the legendary weapons, two came from ranking up my Cryptarch to levels 9 and 10 respectively, and one from the raid.
Don’t worry about drops – there are other ways to get legendaries. You can get to level 24 or 25 with all blue gear, and then play the vanguard strike playlists, patrol if you need the rep, do the crucible (if that’s your thing), do the Queen’s missions, and save them motes of light for Xur’s exotic engrams. Make your own luck where you can.
A mate of mine gifted me Supreme Commander yesterday. Anyone played it before? I recall playing it for an hour or so aaaaaaaaages ago when it first came out, but can’t remember why I stopped. Anyone like the game? Anyone wanna have a game with me and or my friend?
Oh man I haven’t played that game in so long (CYBRANS FOREVER!), I would love to get back into that game. Only downside with it is it can be really badly optimised at later game stages due to the crazy large scale of it. Did you get Forged alliance with that as well?
yeah I think it was the forged alliance version.
/edit Just checked, and my library says I have both versions!
Awesome! Both are great but Forged Alliance made it legendary TBH. I’ll be certainly up for reinstalling this game and playing with you guys sometime.
Ignore this heathen. Aeon Illuminate forever!
So I was driving home across Sydney on Saturday night and, I’m going to go out on a limb here because I haven’t bothered to check, I assume that the Bulldogs won the NRL Grand Final.
I assume this because at around 10:15pm on Centennary Drive I was suddenly surrounded by a bunch of cars veering from lane to lane while constantly hammering their horns, waving flags out windows, hanging out windows, standing out of sunroofs, etc. There was even a pair of jersey-clad motorcyclists weaving in and out of traffic. I assume at least half the people driving on that road were drunk out of their skulls.
Fuuuuuuuuuck yooooooooou.
Living in Canterbury whenever the Bulldogs play (let alone win) isn’t the best 😛 Best to steer clear of the main roads on those days!
Though it is kind of amusing to see the lengths some people go. Saw a small two-door car with enormous blue sails on each side driving around and honking, yesterday. Lucky it wasn’t windy or it would’ve blown away.
Nope grand final is next weekend they were just generally drunk driving because the bulldogs are in the grand final
Oh jeez, that display wasn’t even because they won? Thanks for the heads up, I’m going to stay the fuck inside all weekend.
Hey All!
I had an extremely uneventful weekend. I played a lot of Hyperule Warriors and Fantasy Life! Fantasy Life is pretty rad, kinda like an animal crossing meets adventure games with a heap of puns thrown in for quest names. I do have a couple of suggestions for people thinking about picking it up.
– You can have multiple “lives” (jobs) in the game with no penalty.
– There are 4 combat lives: Paladin (Sword and shield), Mercenary (2H Sword), Hunter (Bow) & Magician (Magic).
– You only really need to chose one combat life in game as you can only use one weapon at a time.
– There are 5 crafting lives: Cooking, Blacksmith, Tailor, Carpenter & Alchemist.
– These lives a fairly self explanatory, you can make things!
– The final 3 jobs are collection lives: Mining, Lumberjack & Fisherman.
– Get the 3 collection lives ASAP! The sooner you get unlock them the sooner you can start to hoard all the crafting materials and start making things!
Most importantly though, just have fun! The game is all about exploring and talking to people and doing quests so just explore the game and have fun!
You keep your stat boosts gained from all the Lives, right? So if I switched to something else I’d still be able to smith weapons and things the same as I could as a Blacksmith? If so, I’ll switch to Paladin to level up a little to use all the stuff I’ve crafted, then switch to Miner!
…Or just switch to Tailor like I was originally planning and play Fashion Life instead 😛
You keep all you stat boosts from Levels but I am not sure about the “life bonus”.
Man, this sounds exactly like my wife’s dream game.
Seriously – she wants a game where she can run around and be a worker in fantasy land, rather than HAVING to kill things.
…*looks at ps4 fund, looks up prices of 3ds and fantasy life*
*sighs*
*plans trip to EB*
There is a bit of combat in the game, but I think most of it can be avoided.
And that’s what she wants – to be able to level up and progress, without HAVING to do combat. if she feel like smacking something over the head with a sword, all well and good – but she doesn’t HAVE to.
I’m not kidding when I say this sounds like, quite literally, her dream game. Hence why I might drain the bank account for her.
Well you do still have to kill monsters and things when not in a safe area, but it’s not exactly difficult (essentially just mash one button and run around) and you can just run away from almost everything.
Could always get a 2DS to cut costs!
Hmmm, that is true. But the 3DS looks so much better.
I may go look at second hand options at EB during lunch.
Fun?
No thanks.
Hyperule warriors?
Hyrule Warrios also known as Zelda Dynasty Warriors.
hehe i figured that’s what you meant. Just checking 🙂
Blacksmith with a 2H Sword… MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET!
Also lets not forget the glorious moustache.
So much mustache!
Hairy Blacksmith with a 2H Sword… MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET! MUST GET!
So, here’s a dumb thing I feel the need to “confess”.
Years and years and years ago I had a horrible boyfriend who knew I didn’t like horror/torture movies but would still make me go see them. One time he called me and said we were seeing one that weekend – I think maybe it was Hostel? I really didn’t want to sit through all the horrible jump scares and gore, so I looked up the movie online and found a very detailed synopsis, and read it through. Then, when we went to see the movie, I knew what was going to happen and had a better idea as to when to shut my eyes or know to expect something to jump out.
But now, even years later, I don’t want to watch those movies, but I still really enjoy reading their synopsis? Like, when it’s quiet at work I go to moviespoilers.com and look up all those stupid movies and read it and enjoy it. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
Okay, phew! I feel better now, haha.
My girlfriend was shocked when i said i didnt like horror movies. She loves them and because i didnt want to be the scaredy cat i watched one. I believe it was scream. Now scream isn’t even that scary. Its actually nearly a comedy but im a big baby. SO before we watched it during the day i googled the plot. I was like oh thats not too bad and i got through the movie later that night. I told her after we watched it and she promised never to make me watch a horror if i didnt make her watch frozen for the 15th time. So now i watch frozen in secret.
Haha, I’ve never seen Frozen, but I actually really, really do not want to.
Incidentally, Scream was my favourite movie in high school.
YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN FROZEN??
you broked my brain.
I actually didn’t want to watch it when it was released, it looked so generic and childish, than i remembered i am both generic and childish so i watched it.
I haven’t seen it either 🙁
It was pretty average, imo.
I also haven’t seen it.
No Frozen Club! *high five*
Me neither
I am identical, ever since I went on a date many years ago to watch a midnight screening of “The Ring” (western version).
I get where you’re coming from on that but I mainly like reading movie recaps of bad movies like those over at jabootu or agony booth. Movies I can’t be bothered watching myself but have a reputation for being terrible.
I also don’t really like horror movies, but that’s because most of them are just kind of crappy and bore me.
I like horror movies but detest gore movies but do enjoy reading what they are about, the thought of even watching the human centipede makes me ill but I’ve read the entire plot
Hostel is pretty fucked up.
My crowning achievement of the weekend was finally smashing onto the solo wiz (non-season) ladder in D3 at 447. I love grifts packed with slow moving zombie trash…
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I played sooooooo much pokemon on the weekend, i also went on a gran date. Some of you might remember that my gran also known as “rocket gran” is the coolest lady ever. I went to visit her and watch the AFL grand final with her. She made like a picnic for us both and we just shot the shit and watched the game. It was a lovely day.
I’ve hatched 400 charmander eggs so far and have gotten pretty efficient at doing batches of 100.
Just breeding for a shiny??
Mostly. Getting the occasional 6IV which is nice too. They make for good trades.
Think I’ve gotten 6 or 7 out of those 400. No females yet, which would help things since the breeding female at the moment is only a 5.
Is it sad that I want a separate German game play through to be able to masuda method things a lot easier?
Yes yes it is. But my best friend considered doing this.
RocketGran is awesome.
I need a hashtag to use for the project I thought up when I was in bed reading earlier.
Every day I’ll post on Instagram and my blog two things: one photo of something I’ve seen on my daily walk up to the school and back, and one photo of a free motion quilting design inspired by that photo.
I just need a badass hashtag and name for it that isn’t already taken. So far I’ve only thought of lame ones like #dailywalkdesign and #freemotionwalking 😛
Edit: Maybe I should run a competition on Instagram for them to think up a name for me….
Edit2: Maybe I shouldn’t ask you guys seeing as nobody told me about “Strange Stitches” looking like “Strangest Itches” in a url. 😛
#dailystrangehappenings
I don’t know enough quilting terms to come up with a good pun…
#strangethingsinspirestrange
Treads n’ Threads
Maybe treads to threads
#treads2threads
As long as it’s so legit that it’s physically impossible 2 quit.
#theDailyStitch
#InStitch(es)
#StitchThis
#LuluAndStitch
#StitchApalooza
I kinda forgot what I was naming :3
#aStitchInTime
#IRLQ (in real life quilting)
#strangestrashes
#thequiltingroad
It took me all day, but I see what you did in your third suggestion. 😛
Glad my time wasn’t wasted
7D cinema 😀 it looks tame when you view someone else doing it, but it’s something to do if you ever get the chance to.
Graphics card from a mate who upgraded his card is going awesome. No crashes yet which I was worried about as he was getting them. Haven’t really pushed it hard yet though.
Watched How To Train Your Dragon 2. It’s ok. Didn’t get the level of excitement that the first one gave me. Felt it was just pandering to ‘cuteness’ of Toothless for the first half of the movie and then the plot was generic, it just happens to have dragons in it.
Also watched The Lego Movie. It has funny moments but that’s about it. Both ok movies with little bits that promise they could be awesome but don’t deliver up to that I felt
I felt the same about Dragon 2 as well. It was okay, but yeah, not great. Lego Movie was fun; I liked Charlie Day the most.
SPACESHIP
Destiny! It’s pretty great.
Vault of Glass is the best raiding experience I’ve had in a long time. We kind of ran out of time in the first week and didn’t end up going back, so it was really interesting to head back in this week and power through the fights that we had spent so long learning last week. I think we reset twice on the Conflux fight in Templar’s Well, and knocked over Templar in the first attempt.
We’d also had a bit of time to consider the Gatekeeper fight, so we were able to try a few different strategies and nailed it after only a few attempts.
The Atheon fight really tested us, mostly because it was late, but we returned the next day refreshed and managed to get him down.
I’m really quite excited at the prospect of new Raids in the near future (looks like 1 in the Dark Below expansion in December and 1 in the House of Wolves expansion early next year). I think Bungie nailed the difficulty perfectly; it’s a great balance of required gear/level, communication and the right strategy. And the “non-combat” encounter of the Gorgon’s Labyrinth is great. I can’t wait for the reset so we can try and knock this over in a single sitting (and get @dkzeitgeist some better gear!)
Yeah, so I saw your PS4share picture and GIVE ME YOUR GUN
Perfect for shredding praetorian shields. 😀
Sounds awesome. I’m hoping to get a group together on Xbone for this weekend. Depending on people’s various availabilities I guess. I have enough friends for a group but I don’t know how many will be down for it. I know at least two are extremely resistant to the raid, overintimidated by it’s reputation and want to try and level to 30 before attempting it.
Honestly, minimum requirements of Level 25 plus some weapons that deal Void Damage will at least get you in (and that nets you at least 1 set of rewards in a chest between the door and the first fight). If you’ve got at least 1 legendary weapon as well, that will help greatly.
In the first week we spent about 7 hours, split over 2 days. A lot of that time was spent not knowing the fights, learning the patterns and what worked and what didn’t. I won’t deny that it was also challenging even when we did work it out, since we were riding that bare minimum requirement.
Still, with a good bit of communication, you should be able to get through those first 2 encounters, in which case you could end up with 5 sets of rewards (1 chest at the start, 1 from each encounter in Templar’s Well, and 2 chests in the Gorgon’s Labyrinth before you get to the 3rd Raid encounter) which will really help you gear up for return visits.
Funny the bare minimum gear requirement. It looks like from the time we started the first time to knocking it over the other night, we’d all jumped 1-2 levels in armour and god knows how much in firepower.
I think 30 is probably overkill. They just need to be able to work in pairs or trios with a degree of comfort and backing each other up, and the rest sorts itself out. A legendary gun helps.
Currently only level 21, but will hopefully level up by the weekend, feel free to add me GT = FoxRiver
Looking for people to play with.
Yea, I was amazed at how fast we got back to where were were – so much of the time we spent on the first attempt was just learning the encounters.
Good morning all. I hope your Monday mornings are going swell.
I didn’t get around to playing Star Wars RPG on the weekend because the rest of the group actually wanted to watched Riverfire (such dorks :P). It did give me time to blitz through the rest of RE: Revelations though. @mrtaco was definitely right and Revelations is definitely one of if not the best Resident Evil since RE4.
I did manage to play 40K Only War RPG though so here’s a brief summary. WARNING: this is very, very long so open at your own peril.
It all came down to a Khornate warband of marauders and barbarians that were assaulting a ruined hive city on a post-Exterminatus forge world. We had done our best to prepare but we were still facing down a looted Baneblade and a number of other heavy vehicles that could spell our doom. The warband charged right at the city when we caught them off guard when the Techpriest did a massive bit of firebombing on their ammunition stores and caused extreme havoc.As they charged closer, our Techpriest tried to knock out the Baneblade with Hunter-Killer missiles but wasn’t even able to scratch the thing. Our Psyker was able to intercept a telepathic message between a few of the enemy psykers and he managed to pinpoint the location of one of them. Our psyker basically broadcasted the destination of the psyker to our Sharpshooter who took an almost blind shot through the massive dust cloud being kicked up by the warband. Our Sharpshooter managed to hit the psyker who was located in one of the compartments of the Baneblade. That’s right, the Sharpshooter managed to shoot and penetrate the frontal armour of the Baneblade.
Our Psyker was able to take advantage of the enemy psyker’s lack of concentration to basically possess him Ravenor-style and proceeded to psychically detonate the Baneblade’s engines. While he was mostly successful, the Baneblade had built up enough speed that simple inertia said that it would crash into the main gate of the city. Fortunately the Psyker managed to learn that the Baneblade was barely functioning even prior to his shenanigans and the main cannons weren’t even working. What we didn’t realise is that the Baneblade main cannon had been replaced with a massive melta-tipped lance that easily blasted a hole through the gate and opened up our defenses. We pulled our troops back to the main cathedral under the guise of our Emperor statue with plasma cannon eyes while the warband started pouring through the breach. The Baneblade had been totalled by its charge so the warband couldn’t bring the rest of its heavy vehicles to bare.
Our main force regrouped at the cathedral while our Scout hung out with a bunch of Ork Freebooter Kommandoes in the back alleys of the city and harried the marauders. Our Psyker and Sharpshooter sent a message to the Scout that something had entered into side streets and was beginning to brutally dismember scattered groups of Orks. The Psyker was able to pinpoint what it was and the Scout rushed to engage the assailant. She managed to catch him on top of a small habitation block and it was only then that she discovered that this one man was actually a corrupted Eversor Assassin (yeah, we all collectively thought she was royally screwed). Fortunately the Sharpshooter was able to provide supporting fire while our Psyker provided additional help by giving the Scout small precognition bonuses to avoid attacks and he actually took over her body at one point and started hurling Warp lightning through her. Their combined efforts were enough to kill the Assassin but the Scout lost her right leg below the knee and she was effectively paralysed from the waist down when a power sword severed her spine. On top of that the explosion from the Eversor Assassin’s blood exploding basically killed her but she burnt a fate point to stay alive, although she would need a fair helping of cybernetics to continue functioning. The Techpriest came in his modified Tau Orca to pick her up and get her to our medic but she was basically out of the rest of the fight.
Meanwhile the siege continued as the warband prepared to assault the cathedral and the main fortress of the local Trade Lord who is the son of the Rogue Trader that crashed on this planet. The Trade Lord had brought out all of his special gear and stuff, includign a Macharias Vulcan pattern heavy tank. The cathedral was pretty heavily fortified as well by the Emperor statue, our personal Leman Russ and Chimera, and a motley collection of Ork vehicles including their Deathrolla. The Orks kept saying that they would take the Baneblade “when the time was right”.
The warband gathered up enough force and split into two groups, one heading for the cathedral and one heading for the Trade Lord’s fortress. Our Sharpshooter had picked out two of the warband leaders. One was a heavily mutated and hulking brute of a man that looked more like a minotaur as he had blood-matted fur and horns sticking out of his skull. The other one was wearing what looked to be some sort of power armour and seemed far more menacing. Our Psyker tried to get inside the head of the power armour leader but it seemed as though he couldn’t even psychically sense him. The minotaur mutant charged half of his warband forward at the cathedral while the other half under the power armour leader marched towards the Trade Lord’s fortress. The Techpriest and the Psyker headed to the fortress to reinforce the Trade Lord while I (as a Stormtrooper Sargeant) and our Sharpshooter held the cathedral.
The Techpriest and the Psyker arrived at the fortress and readied themselves to face the assault. Most of the lesser marauders were thrown back by the hail of fire from the Vulcan tank however the leader charged forward and leapt onto the tank, as he braved the gunfire thanks to his shield generator. Our Techpriest proceeded to also leap onto the tank and tried to maul him with his Power Axe and Servo Claw however he shield generator and his actual shield parrying were keeping him safe. Our Psyker tried to wield his Force Axe against him but he felt its power weakened as he saw the leader was wearing a Collar of Khorne, a very potent anti-psychic device that nullified mind control and severely weakened ordinary psychic attacks. The Trade Lord tried to intervene however he was terrified of the daemonic weaponry and armour that the warband leader possessed and he cowered inside his tank. The Techpriest and the Psyker cared not for such fear as the Techpriest did not have the capacity to feel fear due to his servo-brain and the Psyker was well prepared against such horrors.
The warband leader struck back against the Psyker and carved bloody gashes through his power armour as his daemonic sword cackled gleefully. The Techpriest was able to strike through his shield generator with his servo arm however he wasn’t able to completely disrupt it. Our Psyker decided that now was a perfect time to deploy a melta bomb and he threw it at the warband leader, completely sticking his leg to the top of the tank. He then dived off to shield himself from the blast. The warband leader roared in fury and dealt a huge amount of damage to the Techpriest however the Techpriest wisely decided to jump off the tank as the melta bomb exploded, carving a huge chunk out of the top of the tank and completely melting one of the warband leader’s legs.
The Techpriest leaped back onto the tank and unleashed his fury, overloading the warband leader’s shield generator and ripping the Collar of Khorne from his neck. The warband leader stumbled and fell off the tank as our Psyker climbed back on. In full view of the rest of the marauders, he pumped a huge amount of Warp lightning into the warband leader until he was nothing but a charred corpse. The marauders began to flee as the Trade Lord recovered his senses and started hailing more and more Vulcan fire into their teeming masses.
While that fight was going on, the marauders assaulted the cathedral and steadily pushed the defenders back. The Orks broke from their ranks and charged straight down the main thoroughfare as they decided it was better to loot the Baneblade now and have a scrap later. The defenders retreated into the interior of the cathedral as the marauders managed to seize and dismantle the holy flamers that had been placed around the base of the Emperor statue. Our Sharpshooter was busy piloting the Leman Russ and conducted a fighting retreat into the cathedral while the marauders charged in after. I continually tried to rally the troops however morale started to crumple when the minotaur mutant joined the fray and brutally dismembered one of our heavily modified Scitarii guards. I decided to charge in as I leapt out of cover and latched onto the back of the mutant as I tossed a Krak grenade down behind his breastplate. The mutant didn’t like that and proceeded to fling me across the room where I collided with a wall and crumpled. The Krak grenade exploded and tore all of his breastplate and most of the mutant’s back to pieces, exposing his spine and many of his internal organs. The Sharpshooter climbed out of the Leman Russ as it had basically exhausted its ammunition and began burst firing her bolt pistol straight into its back.
The mutant began to rampage right towards me so I pulled out my plasma pistol and set it to maximal setting, firing off two shots into its torso and setting it on fire. It didn’t care one bit about the fire and it smashed me with its power axe as I wasn’t able to bring my suppression shield up in time. The Sharpshooter fired another volley that completely obliterated its internal organs and splattered the mutant. The marauders began to flee at that as their champions of Khorne had been defeated and our forces surged out to destroy them.
In the aftermath, we had successfully reclaimed this hive city for the Imperium and the wider Imperial forces were seriously considering launching a crusade to recapture the fallen Forge World. Due to our efforts, we were taken off planet and sent out to be trained and improved to better serve the Imperium. It is unknown exactly what that entails but many years will pass before we see each other again.
And that’s that. Our group are going to take a break and play something else for a while and come back later where we’ll probably be bigger badasses than before.
The Xbox Live community really started to become intolerable around 2010, to the point where my wife was being systematically harassed by people she met in Halo Reach – as in they would follow her from game to game, send her threatening messages, etc. She’d block communications and mute them but for some reason these all automatically reversed themselves after a couple of weeks at which point the harassment would start up again. They even went to her file share on bungie/net and graffittied all her treasured accomplishments (game clips and screenshots saved from the game’s theatre mode) with tags like “back to the kitchen” and “make me a sandwich” – the oversight being that if someone else tags your shit you can’t remove it. I was able to contact bungie to have the tags removed, but the fact that these people put so much effort into hassling one person because she beat them a couple of times is just revolting. I pretty much gave up on talking to people and generally avoid multiplayer.
The few people I’ve befriended through Destiny, however, have generally been alright.
Damn it, epic reply fail. This was meant to be a reply to @neo_kaiser two posts down. Can’t edit at work either, due to outdated IE8. 🙁
for some reason these all automatically reversed themselves after a couple of weeks at which point the harassment would start up again
I never got that. I have no idea why your restrictions would lift and other times they would stay on. My only guess could be that they’re lifted when the profile name is changed, probably even if you change it to the same name (says a lot when people pay to continue harrassment).
and as sexist as it sounds to say but it seems more like your wife was attacked for being a chick and not for being on Xbox LIVE. Probably would get the same reaction anywhere else.
I really dislike that about Halo: Reach. Seems like the few good players remaining on Halo: Reach are only there to destroy the opposition. I mean, completely prevent them from enjoying the game at all (I know they were trying to dueing the TU voting process). Getting overly aggressive and hostile to anyone that’s not on their friends list helping them. Invasion was basically destroyed by Krusty Pigeon and his friends.
Now that Halo: Reach went free a lot of new players are trying the game. The problem is that all these toxic players are insulted that the game they hate is getting some of its population back so they’re now working overtime to remove them all.
Apparently @shane has been moonlighting as a translator for Hatoful Boyfriend:
http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=432990|0
Last night something weird happened. I was being my normal self and was nice to someone over Xbox LIVE. Which resulted in him getting offended for the way I was acting. Apparently online communities have become so toxic that being nice is considered sarcasm and nobody believes it anymore. Is this the level we’ve reached with online gaming? Where being nice is now an offense? and people wonder why gamergate was created…
People like to think that a toxic community is part of the game but the truth is that’s how a game quickly dies out. I’ve even experienced it first hand. I’ve almost reached the point of quitting Warmachine multiple times due to my community around the game, and I know I’m not the only person. My EO had to coax his girlfriend into playing again because the game was almost ruined for her.
Voice communications ruined everything 🙁
So when are we getting an Oculus version of P.T?
Add The Vanishing of Ethan Carter to that as well. That would play amazingly well.
Since it’s a PS4 exclusive I’m surprised Sony haven’t seized the opportunity to push Morpheus.
Maybe they didn’t want people associating Morpheus with pooing themselves everytime they see it?
Well what’s even the point of virtual reality then.
Sony’s getting an awesome line up that they’ll be crazy not to use soon.
The Witness. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. PT. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
nonononononononononononononoyesnononono
Reading that made me think of the Vicar of Dibley.
Hi guys, I’m back. Thanks for all the well wishes and stuff, I’m ok, I just get down sometimes and can’t stop thinking what a fat, ugly, stupid loser I am. Starting to feel a bit better this week.
In other news, had to work all weekend and we were pretty dead, so I re-started reading A Game Of Thrones (was only a couple of chapters in). Got about 50 pages into it, enjoying it so far, back at work all day again today, so hopefully we’ll be quiet and I’ll be able to read some more.
Also, games hype.
Forza: Horizon 2 and Skylanders Trap Team this week, Alien Isolation, Shadow Of Mordor and DriveClub next week, The Evil Within the week after, and Bayonetta 2 the week after that.
So excited.
Incidentally, if you wanna buy Bayonetta 2, Ozgameshop has a good deal, they’ve got a Bayonetta 1 & 2 bundle for $70.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/wii-u-games/bayonetta-2-special-edition-wii-u-game
Edit: Had to be a pageget. /o\
It’s not really a bundle, all retail copies should have both games… $79 at JB currently. Could be cheaper at target / big dubya closer to release.
It’s a bit misleading for OGS to call that a ‘special edition’. THIS is the special edition:
http://www.game.co.uk/en/m/bayonetta-2-limited-edition-only-at-game-206923?
Discovered after a bit of searching that apparently in the UK you only get the first game with the special edition.
Errr, what?
From the description of the edition I linked:
Are there other special editions?
They’re calling things differently in different places. I think in the UK (or is it the US?) their ‘Special Edition’ is the one in the OGS link (selling Bayo 2 separately otherwise)
Looks like the one you linked is the First Print Edition which includes both games, an art book and special packaging. The Special Edition includes both games, and the standard edition is just the second game.
In that case, AU stock is $2 cheaper!
http://www.ozgameshop.com/m/wii-u-games/bayonetta-2-wii-u-game-australian-stock
Hey. Don’t call yourself a “fat, ugly, stupid loser”. Even if you are heavy, not conventionally attractive, or smart or fortunate, don’t call yourself those things – there are already too many people in the world who will cut other down, so don’t do it for them. You’re a funny person and I always like your posts. <3
exactly mate, don’t go down that path. I did that to myself for years and there is no possible good that comes out of saying those sorts of things to yourself. It in fact aids your depression/sadness. Trust me, i’m an expert in all things depression/social anxiety having battled with it for half my life.
I’m finally coming out of it and am now aware of all the things that contributed to my depression, putting yourself down is one of them. Don’t do it man!
Hola Tayberinos
Quietish weekend. Had a friend come over Sat so we could do some prep for our South East Asia trip, which I’m still planning to do in November despite the job thing. Went to harbour town to do some shopping for it, got a new travel journal, I’ll be blogging this trip same as last time.
On Sunday, finished another job application then hosted board games at mine, played Suburbia, Pandemic and Dominion Intrigue. Then jumped into late night Destiny, did two Queen’s Wrath missions and got some sweet Titan plate. Can’t wait for the gear patch to come through, as my legendary drops have been non existent.
A Monday morning question: I’m going g to Angkor Wat on my trip, somewhere I’ve wanted to visit for a long time. Where have you wanted to go?
London, i want to get a flat in london and live there for a year, i dont know why its just a thing ive wanted to do since i was a kid.
Do it.
i will
Glass igloos to see the aurora borealis
Kakadu
SE Asia
Machu Picchu
Previously it was the Colosseum
I want to see aurora borealis somewhere remote!
I read this as DC wants to share an igloo with me
I guess it’s almost a hermit cave!
I saw it in a city and definitely want to see it again without the ambient light.
Like inside a kitchen?
I saw it on a flight, was pretty cool because there was no other light to interfere. Very eerie yet beautiful.
Always wanted to do Japan which is something I’m doing so hooray.
I’ve always wanted to visit Germany. Nowhere specific, just see ALL the German things. 😀
Go with @sughly next year! 😀
You could see two or more of everything German if you go for Oktoberfest!
OKTOBERFEST! *flails arms around excitedly*
Germany is RAD. You should go to Neuschwanstein! I love Germany so much. It’s often cheaper to fly into Frankfurt rather than Berlin (my hot tip, and also Frankfurt is a lovely, often neglected city).
But yes, see ALL the German things!!
I’ve spent a little bit of time in Dresden and Berlin, the whole country is steeped in history so if you’re a culture and history aficionado you’ll have a great time. I skipped going to the Reichstag in Berlin to go to the natural and national history museums and wasn’t disappointed at all!
Antarctica, Alaska, Yellowstone NP, Seattle, Mongolia, Machu Picchu, some Asian places, some African places, maybe Sri Lanka, a bunch of places I’ve already been… Dunno. Lots of places.
Machu Picchu is amazing
I saw a documentary on yellowstone and it looks so good. It looks so untamed and if i in anyway like outside i would love to go there.
South America, more specifically Machu Pikachu, and things in that area. Once South America is ticked off my “Continents” list I can hit Antarctica as my last one and then say I’ve been to all continents.
My mother in law did that trip last year and loved it.
Gotta see ’em all.
Not a great topic of convo at the current time, but I’ve always wanted to visit an active volcano. I’d love to see the raw power of mother earth in full swing.
Europe/UK, during summer so I can go to; Rock Am Ring & Rock Am Park, Roskilde Festival, Metaltown, Download, Sonisphere, Wacken Open Air, Bloodstock, Hellfest Open Air, Graspop Metal Meeting, Reading & Leeds, maybe even Glastonbury…
In general I just wanna experience festivals across the world, Loudpark in Japan would be awesome, would love to go to Knotfest in Cali this year, then there’s Metallica’s Orion Music Festival, Rock In Rio would be just amazing… Etc..
Apart from that, wouldn’t mind visiting L.A. especially Sunset Strip where the rad clubs are that bands like GNR & Motley Crue started out in. Also Miami, just cause.
But wouldn’t mind just a holiday to the UK at some point would be cool.
Dunno, I always wanted to go to Disneyland, for like, ever, and I finally did and it was better than anything I could’ve imagined.
RL adventure isn’t for me, gimme an animatronic elephant and a failed actor mono tonally delivering animal puns & I’m in heaven.
To copy other people, but, the Northern Lights would be amazing.
Disneyland sounds so good haha.
It is next level.
One day we will go together, Dan. And I will embarrass you by singing the songs from all the rides.
I don’t embarrass easily.
Japan
Antarctica
Oh man, so many places… I’ve already been to quite a lot of places that I want to go to but I’d love to revisit! I’d really love to go to Russia or Iceland again on my next trip.
No. 1 destination is prob NY. I’ll get there eventually.
It’s good times in New York, ‘spesh if you’re partial to a burger!
Oh BOY am I. Burgers/Pizzas/Bagels/Pretzels/Bars/Sports…I can’t wait.
Yeah, New York is on my list too – would love to do a trip from NY via Boston and into Canada to visit Nova Scotia
Yep, NY to Boston would be great. I’d also love to do Canada, but drawn to Vancouver for some reason. I think I have some distant family there and I’ve also heard great things (well have heard great things about all of Canada to be fair.)
I always wanted to go to Florida to watch a shuttle launch live. But never got around to it (you needed to block out like 4-6 weeks to be sure to be there) and now they’re all in museums 🙁
I’m basically the only person in my family who hasn’t been to Europe yet, so I’d like to do that. Particularly to see Italy. Also I have a couple of friends that always speak highly of South America, that’d probably be good to do.
I don’t know how to trip though. Going to Japan last year only happened because friends were organising and I basically tagged along. Wouldn’t even know where to begin in making something like that happen.
There’s lots of ways you can plan a trip. If you’re going somewhere for an event, like a music festival or cultural event, then you plan around that date and place. The most important things to book are always flights and acommodation. If you’re feeling completely clueless about how to book those things, then you can use a travel agent, or a tour company to plan it for you (a tour can be good if you’re travelling solo – sharing with others on the tour can be cheaper than booking single rooms)
That’s the thing though, I don’t really do… things. The only times I go out are when I need to go and get something, or if someone invites me along to a thing that’s happening. I don’t really actively look for things to do, to go out and see, especially musical or cultural events. I just kind of don’t know how. Which yeah, is why a tour would probably be a good idea to counter that. But then I have to actually get around to doing something about it 😛 Also after the last trip and how long it took to recover from it moneywise, it makes me less inclined to try it again any time soon.
Ancestral home in Scotland.
Maybe Japan. Can’t think of anywhere else that really tickles my fancy. My anxiety has gotten to the point where I’d be too scared to leave the country.
Wasteland 2 log:
A man suicide bombed my party with a mini-nuke, and all my Rangers who were caught in the blast zone had their clothes vapourised so now they are wandering the desert in their underwear.
You need to put this in a steam review.
10/10 Would vaporise clothes again.
Those bloody psychopathic monk bastards… I managed to get out of the blast radius with half of my party but the others were wandering around in their undies for a good long while. Conspicuous lack of clothing drops in the canyon of titan… To make matters worse, the only stuff I did find was hobo clothes and prostitute gear so my demolitions expert looked like the last guy you’d trust near a bomb and my surgeon looked more like she’d play doctors and nurses for a price…
Oh, one important tip: Once you’re in Damonta, it’s probably a good idea to not leave until you get the job done, not even a short trip out to explore and get some more XP.
Was so excited by this game and now can’t get past character creation because of choice paralysis.
MEANWHILE IN CANADA
“Saturday, against our better judgement we need you to operate heavy machinery.”
“EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE”
They let me operate heavy machinery, you should be fine.
You do not have a proven track record of destroying large fixtures with heavy machinery.
.. do you?
6/6 for property damage lawsuits.
the trick to not getting charged is crying a lot.
RECKLESS HANDLING OF HEAVY MACHINERY BUDDIES WOOOO
My weekend was brought to you by ART!
I went crazy buying heaps of those no-damage sticky wall hooks/velcro, scrounged up any old things I could find and hung everything on the wall! Found a bunch of my old Squash racquets, stuck some velcro on them and smacked them on the wall. ART! Found the packet of Mario Hanafuda cards I got as a Club Nintendo reward, bought some cheapo frames and smashed them up too. ARTx2!
Now it actually looks like someone lives here rather than an all-grey mental patient’s flat. I’ll have to take some photos of all this ART.
My house is covered in art. It looks so unique and its nice to look at to boot.
ART 5
Sooo, I’m moving to Wagga Wagga in like three weeks. My wife is just generally unhappy in Canberra and is keen to move closer to our families (the ones we like) so we’re moving back where she has a much stronger support network.
We were both looking for work there and figured we’d get something, then plan to move, and off we go. She got offered a job to start in two weeks so suddenly we have very little time to get everything sorted.
Fun moving times ahead!
When’s the housewarming meat? =P
Oh, there’ll be one!
If I get the place I really want, it’ll actually be pretty great place for a meat 😀
You need a plan
1. Flail arms around in panic2. Get house to live in Wagga squared
3. Put all your stuff in boxes
4. Put boxes on truck
5. Get truck to Wagga
6. Move boxes into house
7. Sorted
good luck buddy. HUGGLES
Oh man! Adventure a-plenty! Hope the move treats you well, friend! @aliasalpha meat imminent?
Just make sure it’s actually Wagga Wagga.
My family accidentally moved to Wigga Wigga and the try hard bogan teens didn’t make for a very good childhood.
But enough about the Gold Coast.
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Oh man! We don’t get to meet your cute babby all the time next year!
But hey, hopefully you can come back and visit or something. Hope you have fun in Wagga and I’m glad you’re doing what’s right for you guys!
Oh, I’ll find an excuse to take her over there or drag you guys over at some point 😀
Hah nice to see someone can get a job in wagga, it’s not a myth after all! I’m guessing your wife doesn’t work in IT…
The icing on the cake is that she got a job getting other people jobs… 😀
Heh you never know, I might meet her soon then…
MQFT time!
AP, AM, D, L, TM, TE.
… Yes.
I’ll go with yes.
I’ll be honest, might have heard that before, though. Might be cheating.
That’s okay, you can still choose if you want. I don’t think you’ll be cheating anyway so go right ahead.
TM26
I don’t think there is even a game called Earthquake, which now that I think about it, is kind of astonishing.
I can’t think of anything that even deals with earthquakes actually. Of course there is Quake but that doesn’t count.
Disaster: Day of Crisis!
Deals with everything!
I have no idea what TM 26 is, I just picked a number at random.
AM.
TE
Action Points.
You need the D, clearly.
TM
Last played song, is that even still a thing? I don’t care it is to me!
Secrets – The Pants Collective. Pretty awesome side project from Andy Strachan (the drummer from The Living End) super nice guy too, and his music rocks.
Allure (Grey Album)- The Beatles vs. Jay-Z
Chicago- You’re the Inspiration
Mr Crowley – Ozzy. The organs in that are superb, and that lead guitar… divine. RIP, Randy.
“Call me a hole” – that Nine Inch Nails/Carly Rae Jepsen mashup. It is actually insanely clever and fits perfectly.
It’s Not My Fault I’m Happy – Passion Pit
Great song. i listened to that on repeat for like 1 and a half years in my car. Still love it
Room on the third floow – McFly \o/
Had some Dallas Crane on in the car this morning. Not sure what the last song was, but it was one of them 😛
Do Re Mi – Mrs Tigs
New SBTRKT album.
It’s farking hawt!
So, that Vault of Glass was awesome fun.
I was the beneficiary of what my friends call ‘Cracks Luck’, and walked out with a new legendary shotgun, legendary assault rifle, and legendary warlock bond. \o/
Will need to check with @hindenlagen and our other main player to see if we’re going to try again this weekend. If so, we’ll need 3 more.
I got a legendary loading screen so, you know, I’m pretty stoked.
https://twitter.com/dkzeitgeist/status/516102413040635904
A loading screen huh? Looks like a ship hahaha. Wow that ship doesn’t look all that legendary does it.
Oooh, purdy.
I’d be keen, but I know another group of taybies are having a run on saturday, me included. If it’s on sunday, I can definitely give it a go.
.. and I guess the fact that I live in another country’d be a hinderance time-wise? *shrugs*
We have an American in our group, the trooper stays up to all hours to raid haha
It’s definitely doable, but hard. I’ve been playing pretty consistently with @thecracks even though he’s in Perth and I’m in Ireland. We can only do it on weekends though.
Also, I’m probably not free this Saturday. I’ll you know @thecracks if my plans fall through and I am free
Bry wants to board game on Saturday anyway.
I was watching Free:eternal Summer on crunchyroll saturday night and something amazing happened. Two main characters went to sydney and my gosh, the animators got Sydney so fucking right it is scary, everything, every little detail was done correctly. Done to that annoying small “C” on the central station sign.
I got off the train on the same platform featured in the episode this morning and thought “Good thing they didn’t blow their budget by trying to animate peak hour” 😛
(Actually, just thinking about it now… the platform they were on in the show is also the correct one you need to use to go to Olympic Park. A+ for research I suppose!)
Its funny because ive never really noticed the background details of the show when they are in Japan i wonder if its that accurate in japan too.
http://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/mizuho-tokyo-home-of-clannad/
Similar comparison shots exist for Kanon, Lucky Star, Haruhi, K-On, Tamako Market and others. It’s kind of KyoAni’s thing.
Kyoto Animation are super, super careful with attention to detail in their sets. You can look at any show they’ve produced themselves and you’ll find that they’re set in real places and when there are shots of buildings or anything, they’re actual locations. They travel to those places and take a ton of photos to use as reference material.
thats so cool though. Thats the sort of thing that doesn’t super matter, but it just makes me want to support them all the more.
Oh yeah, still got that Wonderful 101 code up for grabs. Winning bid’s currently $30 from a friend, but they’re not overly keen on it. Said they’d rather it go to someone who’s more likely to play it than just sit on a pile of shame for a while, I told them I’m not sure I actually know anyone like that 😛 So yeah, just let me know if you’re interested. Only good til tomorrow night.
$5.
Previous offer of $20 still stands. And I’d play it.
E-mail sent to shane at shane.
Question: am I being overly sensitive or is it a little freaky that there were showbags on the weekend that had startlingly accurate toy replicas of the current Australian army standard issue rifle?
Really good replicas. Looked like 1:1 size, all the little details right down to the grooves on the lower half of the barrel. As toys.
Gun toys are bad!
*thinks back on a time I got my finger stuck in a barrel of a hand gun replica*
I’d kind of like an Austeyr replica…
But yeah, as a showbag thing, that is kinda weird
The sights were a little different, the whole thing is just cast in black plastic, but all the details are there, standard mags and all.
For your interest I tweeted you the photo I took.
That is weird. I never liked guns as a kid. I grew up insanely scared of them and detested cap guns that looked ike pistols.
I never really played with toy guns much either, but in my case it’s because I was brought up with a very healthy respect for firearms. My father, grandfather and my uncles all had rifles and shotguns and we’d go hunting rabbits when camping in the summer. Grandfather was in the reserve and my father was in some kind of cadets program though never actually joined the military proper, and between them all I got educated really carefully about how to handle a firearm, how to behave around someone with a loaded gun, and how to fire one as well. I remember when I was about five or six, going out hunting with the whole clan. They shot a few and were able to recover one. Put it up on a log and had me shoot at it (not my first time doing so, mind you!). Turns out that seeing what a .306 round will do to a rabbit’s head as a kid is a good way to instill a very, very healthy understanding of why you shouldn’t point a gun at another person.
This is how I read it…
Funnily enough, I read it that way once I wrote it too.
You wrote it that way too then changed it 😛
Hey, kids need to get used to it. We’re at war with the
coloured people, poor, browns, Muslims,terrorists don’t you know?I guess they have to start earlier since it doesn’t seem like they have the time or budget to teach new recruits how to handle them properly any more.
The generic one that usually showed up in showbags was basically an M16, so at least it’s a little Australian, I guess?
Man, when I was a kid I’d have gone nuts for something like that. Politically incorrect, mind-poison, dangerous, setting bad precedents, whatever… I wouldn’t have given a shit, I’d have thought it was so cool. Which is probably why it’s bad?
Have only handled a real gun once since the pretend ones in childhood and it was somewhat unsettling, so I guess the appeal just gradually wears off in even the most rabid little boys.
OH YEAH ALSO
@freezespreston My stupid friend was being wishy-washy about whether he could go or not so I thought ok fine, one more week to figure it out then I’m calling it. Last night, saw that the prices for the rooms have now gone up >_< The weekend nights are now $73 each instead of $57 or something. Gonna try catch him and yell at him when I can, but chances are I’ll make the booking within the next night or two when I get a chance. You still in? (and it was for Friday and Saturday, right?)
If you can fit me in count me in. If not its all good as Senor @f4ction has been gentlemanly enough to offer a couch at his estates.
I see how it is :'(
No I really do, much better option if it’s availableFinally managed to get my 3DS connected to the internet, so if you see a friend request (not sure how it works) probably just me.
My friend code 2423-2429-4981 added it to TAYnames, though not sure if that still gets used.
Also FANTASY LIFE GET! About an hour in and loving it, currently merc and loving the music in the pub.
That was quick!
That’s what she said…
To um someone else
*shifty eyes*
Add me – 3668-7797-0858
System is a bit crap, both people have to add, and there’s no notifications.
And done!
Definitely a crap system with no notifications.
I’m hearing great things about Fantasy Life. I think I’ll cave and get it soon 😛
Also, HI HUGO!
HI RIZE!
Ser Nobs, write up on page 1 pretty much sold the game for me. Haven’t been able to put it down since getting it.
Yes, I heartily endorse it by the fact I haven’t played it at all, nor do I expect to be able to any time in the immediate future.
I feel like I have melted-then-cooled parmesan cheese stuck all over my teeth. It feels weird and gross and I wish I had my toothbrush.
use the cheese as a toothbrush.
That’s probably how I got into this mess in the first place.
For some reason I read feet rather than teeth and it was a much more disturbing and disgusting post
Still smelt about the same though.
There’s a Spelunky mod called Frozlunky that now let’s people do online co-op. Anyone interested in mucking about with that?
With a name like that I expected more Disney musical crossover 0/10
I would be, however i am rubbish at games and i suspect you would get pissed at my ineptitude.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww yeah. My model Constellation (Star Citizen again, I know, I know) just arrived in the post. Looks great!
Niiice.
Speaking of, dat Reclaimer. Never before have I been so tempted to spend hundreds in imaginary things.
I like it, but at the same time it’s just not “me” – it’s giant and awesome, sure, but it’s dedicated for salvage and I’m more a pure trader at heart; hence a Merchantman. However I’ll more than likely pick up a Carrack when their concept gets finalised.
Yeah, deep space salvage is totally my thing. Almost kinda sucks it is so massive: means it will be a long while, if ever that I can get into that kinda thing.
But if I do, I’ll hit you up to sell my loot 😀
Ahh, well yeah in that case it’d be right up your alley. I’ll keep an eye on the spectrum for your comms to arrange transfer from your salvage processing to the markets. They’ll probably want some of it in Stanton and I’ve got a hangar nearby.
On the plus side it’s essentially a moving foundry as far as I can tell, so you’ll be able to process that sweet sweet salvage straight away… Sounds like they’re actually putting thought into salvage which is pretty freaking awesome!
SO FREAKING JELLY RIGHT NOW
Argh, serves me right for not thinking about whether you were ready for this jelly or not. 🙁
Always ready for jelly when its of this magnitude!!! :P… I expect sexy sexy pics though! Complete with you sprawled on a bear rug while holding that model! For… Research purposes… Yes that’s it! Research!
Seeing as I plan on keeping it at the office, I doubt that’s going to happen. See me after the Office Christmas party though.
Does anyone here use Plex Media Server?? Their pricing for Plex Pass (All the premium features etc) is about to double. You can still get the lifetime subscription to the features for $75 USD. That will go up in the next day or two. Anyone else who doesn’t use it but has a need for a local media server, check it out: Plex Media Server
PlexPass was already massively overpriced for the features it actually gives you, especially if you’re not running the server on a big beefy desktop / home server.
Yeah i’m running it on an i5 Quad core. So it can do all of the transcoding for Plex Sync to iPad reasonably quickly. Both my wife and i use it a lot, so it was worth it to us.
I run it on my NAS and it’s too underpowered to transcode 🙁 Also plex’s websites can’t see my NAS no matter what I do so I can’t actually use half the PlexPass features even if they were worth it.
Very much not a fan of a lot of the interface fiddling they’ve done in the 1.1 release too. Stuff that used to be simple (eg play the next unwatched episode of a TV show and then return) and used to require a single button press now requires navigating 2-3 levels into the hierarchy or turning on a bunch of search filters and making sure you’re hovering over the button to exit out before the next episode starts.
That is really unfortunate that you can’t use all of the Plex features on your NAS. I’m currently looking at setting up an older small i3 PC as my Plex media server, as i’m currently using my gaming rig for Plex and it pushes my electric bill up a bit. Yeah the interface can be fiddly as it is. I often find TV shows labelled as ‘Pokemon’ after being added to the library. Lol. Very weird.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter feels like it perfects everything Murdered: Soul Suspect wanted to do! I recommend. So. Damn. Much.
I looked at it but all the reviews say it’s about 3-4 hours long and I refuse to pay $20 for that.
but you pay $600 a hour for me? you need to get your priorities straight man.
Worth it.
But you go to a two hour movie for that price?
But in this case I can wait a month or two and get it for $5.
And then the studio goes bust! 😛
Also full retail games tend to be triple the price and triple the length. Seems adjusted accordingly. Don’t mind me. Fanboy’s gonna fan. 😛
That’s what they get for not looking after their fans. *decisive nod*
Wut? XD
Exactly.
*head explodes*
That wasn’t meant to sound so defensive. You’re missing out, is all. 😀
Trust your instincts though. They are right for you. 🙂
It’s a weird quirk I have. I’d pay $60 for the console version without a thought but anything over $10 for PC I see as a complete waste.
Steam has something to answer for the devaluation of PC gaming it feels.
It’s coming to PS4 next year! We’ll compare notes then! 😀
I really like these compact story games like Gone Home, though. It’s my adventure gamer leanings.
Yeah, same. I feel like steam sales have devalued pc games in most people’s minds.
Not so much that but I feel that when games can be sold at a sale and still make a profit for the developer and publisher, it just goes to show how overpriced some stuff is. It’s not so much a devaluing in the customers’ eyes but more of a general reality check for how much things could cost and not cause the collapse of developers.
I don’t like The Lord of the Rings at all, but my sister was wondering. What’s the deal with the delayed Australian release? Is there some sort of story there? Why must it come out at the same time as Alien Isolation?
The evil EB nazi’s want to sell people both at the same time.
But that was going to happen any way! 😀
It’s not for PC on Steam (at the moment*).
I’ve pre-ordered, it says it’s dropping on the 30th September like everywhere else.
*the more I mention this, the more superstitious I’m getting that it will ‘magically’ be pushed back to the 8th like every other platform.
EDIT: Yep, just double checked and it unlocks at 3:40am on Wednesday morning for me.
I think my sister is leaning towards PS4 version.
You’re going to make me do it, aren’t you?
You’re forcing me into it.
You’re MAKING me do this DC.
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#PCMASTERRACE #PRAISEGABEN
Whew. I feel better now.
If it helps, I’m thinking of getting Alien Isolation on PC. Maybe. Maaaaybe.
Prospect of sitting on couch with controller in dark is a good’n though.
Couches are also far comfier than computer chairs to land on when you literally jump two feet from a sitting position due to fright.
I know these things.
*Decisive nod* 🙂
*decisive nod in turn*
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@mrtaco: I knew it was gonna be that even before I clicked on it. 😀
No idea – Steam says it’s out in “1 day and 14 hours”, and WB Aus confirmed this is correct, but has also said the console and retail versions aren’t until next week. Fun fact: JB is undercutting Steam, and I presume the same is true of the XBL and PSN stores, if they’re selling it… *puts on tinfoil hat* maybe WB are trying to encourage digital purchases to get around competitive retail pricing? *takes off tinfoil hat*
ARRRRGH! COSTUME QUEST 2 IS RELEASED ON SAME DAY AS WELL! *flails arms*
I think I am the only person in the world that doesn’t care about Alien Isolation. =P
Pretty keen for Lord of the Rings though.
I just don’t trust the developer.
From memory, it was originally releasing on the 7th/8th everywhere, but they pulled it forward, inexplicably skipping Australia as they did.
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader tomorrow night at 8pm AEST starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus
And introducing @gingerchris86 the ______________. I’ll let him introduce his character if he so wishes.
Jarallius and Vaethril have rested up after their savage bruising at the hands of the Gretchin while Karnath and Amarach have discovered some new and interesting information. What more remains to be brought to light?
I am now Jarallius Twoface after how much fire I took 😛
Looking forward to tonight as I’ll finally be able to do more stuff \o/
Cybernetics are a thing if you ever need it.
The Craftworld Eldar are kinda screwed if they lose limbs because I’m pretty sure they’re not huge fans of cybernetics in general. Dark Eldar on the other hand are more than welcoming of cybernetics.
That’s true, but that won’t be free will it? I’m guessing it’ll be like Mechadendrites where it’ll cost throne gelt to obtain?
Profit factor test to obtain it will be required. You’ll have a bonus because there are Adeptus Mechanicus on the moon that you’re on that would be more willing to give it to you.
Works for me, maybe I should ask about a utility mechadendrite 🙂
We need to buy some Jet Bikes and some cool printed greaser jackets with our team logo on the back.
Those Dark Eldar mooks don’t stand a chance against our need for speed.
“I’ll do this, with my bi-” *crash-boom*
The Screaming Nigels.
Oh yeah, considering the MQFT on the previous page was an even split except for no love for L, I will take your considerations into account and I will take the D.
Devastator Marine incoming for a new Deathwatch game. 😛
Hey hey hey! It wasn’t just the Gretchin, I got hit by Orks first, the Gretchin just … finished the job. =P
I didn’t get hit by Gretchin at all, I got almost finished off entirely by @pupp3tmast3r and his collateral damage 😛
By the way, all y’all who like good TV should watch The Knick. Fascinating series about surgeons in 1900 and the transition into modernity
And I recommend The Leftovers. 2% of the population of the world vanishes. We follow those left behind.
Also, Transparent. Haven’t started watching yet but has some amazing buzz. About a father’s transition into a women. Supposed to be amazing. Amazon’s first Netflix original contender.
I haven’t forgiven Damon Lindelof for Prometheus.
I loved Prometheus, so your mileage may vary. 😀
Prometheus was a film where ostensibly intelligent characters act incredibly, incredibly stupidly. Contrast with the original Alien and Aliens, where the characters were largely competent.
It was also a world that felt lived in. A ship that felt real. Music that was stirring. Iconic imagery. A sense of adventure and hard science exploration. I can forgive the flaws. Fanboy’s gonna fan.
Really don’t think Hard Science is a term that applies there. Like at all.
I’m talking about the feel. Wasn’t speeders and lightsabers and all that. Was grounded in a sort of reality. The specifics of the ship and the tech.
I think too often people go into stuff waiting to be disappointed. Waiting to tell the movie I TOLD YOU SO. Looking for flaws and not forgiving the good. *shrugs* I go into something I want to like and usually like it. Might be deluded but I’ll take that over the constant disappointments. 🙂 It’s also easy to get on the bandwagon of dissing something and tearing something down just cause everyone else is doing that. Ah, I’m ranting. It’s not really directed at you guys either. Just something I’ve been feeling lately when people don’t find good in any thing.
@dc I was more than prepared to find the good in Prometheus. In fact, I tend to be fairly charitable with what I like in terms of films. Prometheus, though, squandered pretty much everything you posted up there, and that’s precisely why I disliked it. It had fantastic production design. It was pretty. There was so much potential…thrown away on an idiot story and murky characters. And that’s primarily a script issue.
@dc, you do realise I went out and brought the Bluray of it right? I enjoyed it.
Doesn’t stop it being completely retarded and a disrespect to the source, itself and the audience.
Hell, Doom was an even worse offender for that but I still watch it occasionally.
Don’t sweat it. I love Prometheus, too. Visually stunning and despite none of the questions being answered, the questions themselves are pretty amazing.
*hugs* It’s you and me, Benny. You and me. We get each other! :’)
😀
And the opening. That opening! (Up to the title credits) So incredible!
Yes! There is someone else who likes Prometheus! 😛
I gotta say, “Transparent” is a pretty great title. It works on levels! Levels!
I know, right? RIGHT? 😀
It’s kinda eerie being like the only one in an empty hospital :/
So quiet…
I wasn’t sure about buying Fantasy Life since I had Theatrhythm and SSB but it turned out awesome 😀
The Walking Dead starts out in an empty hospital! So too does 28 Days Later!
Also the upcoming thriller: “Greenius trapped in a hospital forever”.
Pre-release feedback says it’s: ‘okay’
Well it’s not opened yet so hopefully there are no crazy infected zombies
PS. pls multi with me
I also want to finish Destiny and get it out of the way. If I’m ever playing feel free to join if you’re a high level and we’ll just power through the missions 😛
Uh, is this for me? High Level? I’m like level ten, just started Venus. My 3DS is getting more of a workout than my PS4 at the moment.
But yeah, you’re right, if I ever see you on, let’s power through. Definitely.
I’m level 12 and just hit Venus too. It was a general response to everyone. I didn’t know anyone replied to my comment when I typed up this one 😛
It was also a callout for Theatrhythm and Fantasy Life buds
So quiet…Just like being in Dementium?
No one has played your niche DS games!
(I did intend to play that and Moon something though…)
I have!
Still need to grab the sequel, actually.
I feel like I’m being abrasive today. Sorry TAAAAAY. Catch you on the flipside, home slices.
Not as abrasive as stabbing someone else in the face!
…
Too soon? I’ll respect your wishes and remove my comment if you’re uncomfortable with it. Just say the word, DC.Nothing wrong with having different opinions. That’s human nature.
i disagree,
“Then I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.”
“NEVER!” *head explodes*
No need to go anywhere.
I respect the fact that one of the great things about TAY is that we can all hold different opinions here without feeling like we’re not welcome.
COME BACK AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE
plsAs posted on Twitter on the weekend, Natural DoctRine has piqued my interest, anyone checked it out? I cant decide between PS4 or vita!
Fires (figurative, not literal) started over the weekend at work have been stamped out so I can TAY again. \o/
Friday night I was exhausted and was thinking about going to bed, but I thought I might instead just sit and play some games. Ended up playing Hyrule Warriors for four hours. That game is awesome for playing while relaxing. Sometimes a bit bullshit though – several times lost a mission because the boss at the end managed to get some lucky hits in on my guys right when I was about to beat it. Played mainly with Link but also briefly tried Lana for a level since she was recommended. Link plays much better. Might have been her starter weapon being junky though.
Started looking at houses on Saturday. Got up really early for a 9:15am inspection of an apartment. I’ve always lived in a house so found said apartment (which the agent informed me was ‘pretty much standard sized’) way too small. I guess that Melbourne has enough space that density has never increased because people that want something decent sized can get a unit or a house easy enough, so there’s not really a lot of big-sized home-equivalent apartments like you might find in more densely populated cities in other parts of the world.
Anyway, as a result of this, was able to also cross two more apartments off my list of places to look at, so I was down to only 3. Went to one of them, which was a house. It was grotty as fuck 🙁 Also decided that that was too far out, so another one eliminated. Third place I had on my list, I had had to pick between two separate places that were open at the same time in different areas. Couldn’t get a park anywhere near the one I wanted to look at and realized it wasn’t in a great spot for public transport or anything plus also probably too far out, so aborted and went to the other one. That one turned out to be really nice and I very nearly applied for it (applications closed today) but I feel like I’ve only just started looking and didn’t want to just jump into something because it was okay, especially since it was still a bit of a compromise in some ways – a bit far out, felt kind of hot inside even at only 10:30am and only had Aircon in the living area, not in the bedroom.
Had lunch out with my mum and drove past one other place that looks very good. Fantastic area, nice size and covers all my requirements. Going to get my application together and inspect on Thursday. Fingers crossed.
Then I went home, moved some furniture and stuff around in our garage (my mum has so much shit owing to moving from a massive 5 bedroom place to a small 3 bedroom one a while back but not having ditched the crap she’d accumulated over the last decade or so. Anyone want to buy a big mahogany and glass coffee table?) and then watched the AFL Grand Final. I don’t really give a shit about AFL but it was on TV so something to do. Then I played some more Destiny and got myself to 18.
Sunday, I played Destiny again, finally got to 20 – dinged during the Black Garden story mission. So now I think I might be done with the game. I really enjoy playing it, but I haven’t done any strikes and I’m kind of scared to play with randoms. The game makes it as difficult as possible to easily gather friends and do strikes or whatever, and I don’t want to do PVP at all, so I don’t think I have any way to gear up other than loot caving. Though maybe if I try tonight it’ll be better – my problem is that on Saturday night I exhausted all the single-player bounties I could and when I was playing on Sunday afternoon they hadn’t reset. I also did the queen’s stuff first and discarded her kill order things because they required a much higher level than I was at the time I did them. So basically ran out of stuff.
I’m not sure if I should go back to Destiny after this or not though. I’d like to try the raid, but I’m miles away from having the gear for it even if there were some spots in the various groups. The game seems to have fallen off a fair bit in terms of people playing it too.
Additionally I have Fairy Fencer F sitting there and I just got my Ar noSurge LE today and I really want to try both, hopefully play all of the latter. But on the other hand, I have good internet right now and when I move there will likely be a period where I have nothing at all, which will make Destiny impossible but some of those big offline JRPGs are perfect. Also, Destiny plays so well that even doing mundane boring shit like grinding patrols and story missions to finish bounties is fun. I wish they didn’t limit the number of bounties you could do in a day, though. It gives me a structure. I need concrete goals like that to work toward.
EDIT: Also, forgot, spent Sunday night catching up on a bunch of anime. Hadn’t watched anything for something like two weeks. Lots of stuff ending in preparation for the new season commencing this week. Kind of excited.
Do the daily missions- definitely soloable (bit of a challenge but not insurmountable) and a good way to get drops. Playing with randoms I’ve so far found to be quite fun too.
I feel uncomfortable playing on a team with people I don’t know when I’m attempting something for the first few times and haven’t learned everything. Too many cases of being abused by people in instanced content and stuff. That’s ruined games for me before.
Just don’t voice chat. Honestly, in Destiny it’s not complex- keep shooting dudes, occasionally revive.
May as well do the strikes. They are really straight forward and even if you keep dying, people won’t get angry as you can respawn after being down for 30 seconds. There also really fun and you get to see some sweet bosses! Most/if not all people when I’ve played strikes don’t have mics in anyway. I’ve been invited to join their parties a couple of times though and everyone’s been great.
How much for the coffee table? Got pictures?
I will make some inquiries and get back to you.
One pro to getting it: You can say to guests “It’s made of MAHOGANY!”
Yup. Big feature.
I stopped playing once I hit 20. Finished all the story missions, hate playing with randoms and didn’t seem to be anything to do but strikes and PvP. Attempted PvP, hated it it never went back, spun in circles for a bit then decided I didn’t want to do it any more and quit. Everyone else is playing high level end game which I couldn’t do.
Not sure I’ll ever bother with an MMO style game again to be honest.
I really hope there’s some story missions in the expansion content that start at 20 or so, otherwise I paid for the extra special version to get them and won’t actually get any content I can play. 🙁
If you want to do some strikes or something let me know. I’ve only done the Earth one so it would be all new to me.
I have also only done the Earth one.
Destiny is a very, very, very poor example of an MMO style game. Pretty much any other MMO you play will offer months of story and are very solo-friendly. A lot of the fanboys who are blind to its flaws complain that the story is ‘coming over 10yrs’, but other MMOs manage to tell a pretty decent story over a significant period of time on launch. These guys sold the first chapter of a book where everyone else is selling the first book in a series. Try the Star Wars Old Republic MMO sometime for an exercise in amazing narrative length. (It is, however, hampered by somewhat excessive obstacles placed in your path – it doesn’t get the minute-to-minute combat down quite as well as Destiny does.)
Edit: Which sounds harsher than I intended. It’s a fun game to play with friends and the mechanics of basic run-jump-shoot are fun, too. But if narrative is your thing, it ain’t here, and that’s not the fault of being an MMO-style thing, it’s the fault of something else. I don’t know, the conspiracy theorists say that the lead writer got fired because he was resisting chopping the story up into DLC pieces and whoever they got in to do the same did a terrible job. They say all kinds of things.
Don’t discard the kill orders. It shouldn’t take too much getting of vanguard marks to get you a decent piece of gear (don’t go chest/head first – those drop from the kill orders) or a gun (which is probably more important, but won’t raise your light).
You can send invites on the PS4 to people on your friend list who are online and most folks I know at high level have done everything so many fucking times that there’s really not a lick of difference whether they’re grinding out some bullshit odds on an incremental upgrade solo or joining a friend to hang out and shoot things together to help them along with JUST as good odds for something dropping.
The reason the loot cave works is because Bungie’s system means that it doesn’t actually matter what activity you do, your odds are just as good (or bad) of getting a drop. So the only way to improve those odds is to roll the dice a hell of a lot. So if they’re killing stuff with you, it’s the same as killing stuff anywhere else. Send some invites, join some fireteams. 🙂
Whenever I’m playing, I always leave mine open for random joining by anyone who wants to hop in. It’s a great feature.
The kill orders required level 20. I was level 16. They also take up a bounty slot. Bounties that I was actually able to complete and make XP off and get to 20 with – I assumed I wouldn’t get close to 20 over the weekend.
The Queen’s kill orders? They don’t take up a bounty slot… the bounties do, but once you turn those in, you get a mission token which takes up a ‘mission’ slot in your inventory and stacks with the other kill orders. Or are you saying the bounties require 20? If so, I didn’t know that…
While I had them I was unable to take more bounties, and when I deleted them I was able to fill out my bounty slots back to 5.
So they do.
EDIT: The kill order missions required 20. The bounties probably needed around 10-12 at the most?
That’s funny, because check my inventory on the site and you’ll see I’ve got around a dozen kill orders and have been cheerfully able to accept and complete bounties regardless of the dozen kill orders. They take up a slot in my ‘mission’ items tab, not my bounties tab. Maybe it was a temporary bug the first time you tried it…
Where abouts you looking to move to?
Not 100% sure yet but aiming around the Camberwell/Hawthorn/Glen Iris area. Mainly want to be walking distance from trains.
Yesterday I encountered two of the best taxi drivers I’ve come across in recent times.
First one, me and the bird are waiting for a bus to Coogee beach (friend having birthday bbq/drinks on the grass there) and after waiting for 30 mins and 2 buses going past without stopping because they were ‘full’, we decided to get a cab and ending up sharing it with some Swedish girl who was also waiting there. Turns out she was a 20 year old model, been here for 10 days and has previously done a runway with Cara Delevingne (who is kind of a big deal right now.) The taxi driver was a Rusky named Vladimir and pretty much smoking a cigarette non-stop the whole trip! Luckily, we don’t mind smoking, so weren’t fussed and just found it funny. I also whipped out a bottle of Bulmers only to find I had no bottle opener for it. Doesn’t matter, Vladimir is there to save the day. Legend.
After a few hours in the blazing hot sun, layered up to the death in sun cream and definitely not walking around shirtless, we end up getting a taxi back. Was feeling pretty merry at this stage and luckily when 10cc’s ‘I’m Not In Love came on’, the taxi driver happily obliged to my slurred requests of louder, LOUDER, BLAST IT MAN. We all had a good sing song and the taxi back was half the price of the one there due to no traffic. Good day was had by all.
Also Destiny, Destiny, Fifa 15, Desert Golfing, Destiny, Fifa 15, Fifa 15, Desert Golfing.
I also just bought a new eBook – Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku. Really excited to read this after finishing What If, by Randall Munroe (which was one of my favourite reads ever.) However, it doesn’t feel right reading anymore without cartoons and footnotes on every page.
What a rant this turned out to be. Hope you all had fun too!
So just read the blurb for the Michio Kaku book… Purchased!
Strangely it said unavailable in search listing but let me buy it still. \o/
It looks awesome. I’m only a chapter in, but Kaku’s writing style is very easy to follow for someone not formally educated in Physics which is great.
I came across as part of this list. Picked out about 6 from there that I’d like to get through and also found one called ‘Packing For Mars’ by Mary Roach, just from doing some further searching. Also, looks really good and she is meant to be very witty. 🙂
I find myself in a dilemma, maybe it isnt really, maybe its just a decision that I have to make.
So about 4 months ago when me and the lady friend decided we wanted to move to Melbourne, both of us thought we would move and find jobs there, since then my work has been really wishy washy. They offered me a job in Melbourne after i asked, then seemed to change their mind about 4 times. I was never told exactly that i had a position in Melbourne but it was heavily implied. It really is my own fault for getting none of this in writing. So fast forward to now and its still quite up in the air. I am eager to find out, but at the same time i dont want to pester.
Now this job was something i hadn’t considered when thinking of moving, but now im quite scared. After years of thinking i have marketable skills, i have applied to like 15-20 different places in Melbourne and i have had no response from any over the last 2 months. Not a single job. Not even a you didnt make the cut email
I guess im just scared, i dont want to quit a job into nothingness, The future is scary. I also dont want a repeat of me moving to sydney only to move back home 3 months later. I guess I am at a fork in the road and i feel a lot of pressure to make the right decision.
I know theres not much advice you guys can give, to be perfectly honest i seem like a big whinger because my situation is a lot better than other peoples.
Did you enquire via any other method than email? It may pay to get your resume checked over by a professional.
No only email, but you might be right, i just cant force myself to get it checked though, it seems like admitting im shit at reading and writing. I mean i am obviously, im just not ready to admit that to myself.
True story, I actually had someone else go over my CV today to give me some pointers for improvement. I mean, I thought it was immaculate already but then suddenly the feedback I did receive is two pages worth and I’m like whoa! There’s definitely homework for me to do tonight!
My point is, everyone can do with some improvement. Nothing is ever perfect.
well benny boo would you do me a favor and look over mine?
No problem.
Email me at benbonnici at gmail dot com and I will treat it with the strictest of confidence.
I dont mind who you send it too. 😛
I can’t do all your work for you, Team Rocket! 😀
Give me tonight to go over the suggestions made to mine and I can apply them to yours, where relevant.
Well…can we (I) know what sort of work you are looking for? It’s a bit of a dilemma, but good that there is potentially chance of you sticking with your current company. I’d just keep pestering them if I was you. If they’ve given you a hint of a ‘there will be a job there’ then at least get to the bottom of whether or not there is before worrying about anything else.
Instrument fitter by trade but I’m really more of a electronics/radio tech.
Heard of a company called Communications Australia? May be worth seeing if they have anything posted on their website or sending your CV to their careers section. Pretty decent company usually growing and have parts of the business in that radio engineering sort of space.
Otherwise, job market is a bit slow at the moment and from what I’ve heard, way more so in Melbourne than Sydney. I know it’s not that fun, but if it’s a job you think you really fit the bill for, follow up your application with a call after a couple of days.
EDIT: They’re now called Progility Technologies.
Have you mentioned you’re not in Melbourne yet? If so, I’d leave that detail out!
I got a address from another taybie to use instead of a qld one.
Ask your work again. That’s not pestering.
Also keep applying. Persevere. There’s multiple people here who would be happy to give your resume a glance over and offer some pointers as well, if you think that might be an issue.
I’m with you on that one. Especially if you haven’t told them about your plan to move there. I’d start by saying that the time you were intending to move is getting closer, so just wondering if they could give you an update or definitive answer.
Keep harassing your work. It’s important that at least one of you has a job. Also I agree with a lot of the other advice on getting your resume checked over and making sure it’s perfect.
Also it’s awesome that you are going to try moving again. Make sure you have backup plans though and savings! Futures are less scary if you know you’ve got options.
Speaking of Hyperule Warriors: I know I’ve been hyping Agitha for ages despite having not even unlocked her yet, but… I unlocked her last night and she is actually amazing to play as! (was pretty relieved because so many people have said that her moveset is terrible) So much fun! I really like her standard strong attack where she jumps on the giant butterfly and you can fly around a bit before dive-bombing – really satisfying to combo onto the end of all her other special moves.
The only downside is her squeaky voice constantly going “Ah! Ya! Ha! Oh! Hehehe!”. It’s not great…
So, so far my ranking of ‘Best characters to play as’ goes: (not really any spoilers if you’ve heard people talk about the characters before [I haven’t even unlocked them all yet], but just in case)
1. Agitha
2. Fi
3. Zelda
4. Sheik/Ganondorf
5. Impa/Link/Lana
999999. Darunia (maybe it’s because I haven’t unlocked all of his moves yet, but he’s pretty boring to play as right now :P)
Only just unlocked Fi, but she is so much fun to play as.
So fun! She’s a bit weak to start off but once you unlock her extended moveset she gets really good.
Plus any character who beats people up by dancing around gets a tick in my book.
You haven’t played the Zora person (can’t remember her name) have you? She is probably the worst character I have playing in any Warriors game. Every attack just leaves her open to counter attacks and she does basically no damage. Also Darunia is awesome, great for clearing out waves and waves of enemies.
No, not yet! I was looking forward to them too!
Only reason I don’t like Darunia is because I never like the slow heavy characters 😛 I love his victory animation though!
I swear I was going to do grown up stuff this week but am not really motivated to do any grown up things 🙁
What sort of grown up things did you originally have in mind?
Staying up all night and eating chocolate!
Oh this counts?! Suddenly I feel all mature…
Apparently sitting on the couch watching How I Met Your Mother.
Well…I guess if a glass of wine is involved?
Have you done your taxes yet?
booo
Yeah, that’s been my entire last month… >.
I’ve got a craving for enchiladas…
Racist.
Did I do good, @freezespreston?It could be worse, they could be crispy…
You’re coming along well my young padawan.
DC shot first.
There’s a joke here somewhere…
Joke here somewhere, there is.
Something something known for quickness something.
You thought I wouldn’t see this! You thought wrong.
I’ve had a pretty crappy week overall. As some of you may know, I separated from my wife about 5 months ago, not of my choosing :(, fast forward to last Tuesday and I got a call from her asking If I could look after my little boy because she was going out (on a date).
That was hard enough to handle but then whilst I was trying really hard to not think about how her date was going, my little boy (only 2 years old) started saying “uncle (name of guy she is going out with)”. That almost destroyed me 🙁
I then spent the rest of the week in mental pain and physical as I was attempting to distract myself like mad at the gym and doing other physical activities which didn’t really help 🙁
Then on the weekend, my car decided to overheat coming back from my parents in the middle of nowhere at 11pm at night with my sleeping son in the car and I had to jump the fence of a nearby primary school to get some water so I could fill up my radiator.
I then found out the next day, that I had my radiator was leaking and now I basically have to fill it up each day :(. Also, after dropping my little boy off at my wife’s (ex-wife soon) where I was greeted hostilely by a group of her friends, I went to the gym to distract myself again and then I found that I had locked my keys in the car. 2 hours later, I was able to drive myself back again after the RACV dude came and got them out for me.
Now, I can’t get a new car, used or otherwise because I had put all my money into a homeloan that is now my wife’s so I’m stuck with a car that is on it’s last legs :(. I’m also really struggling to hold back my depressive tendancies as I have had it for about 16 years.
So yeah, i’m having a hell of a time at the moment, but I will get through this for my little boy if nothing else. I have to.
*awkward pat on the back*
That’s brutal man.
Got nothing but supportive words I can offer, but you have all of them.
*hugs* You’re a good dad and a nice guy, just remember that. It’s something.
Oh damn Haggis. Not a great weekend. 🙁
Just keep trying to stay positive. It could always be worst and even more importantly will always get better. If you know what to look out for re. your depressive tendancies that’s really good. Keep a close eye on them and don’t slip back in to it!!
Great job on getting the car working again at 11pm! That’s some quick/good thinking and good actions at a time and place where that’s probably the last thing you wanted to be doing.
Also, FUCK her friends. Excuse my french.Here’s to a much better week! *clink*
Got some mates you can chill out with to distract you? Shoot the shit over some games? You play on PS4, Destiny or Diablo or stuff? Wii? We got people who play games. You should play too. When things have been rough with loss etc, I’ve always found some mindless controller-bashing/KB&M precision can do wonders for taking your mind off things, transporting you somewhere else.
If you have proof of the transaction where you put all the money in to the loan, you should be able to get it back, depending on how long you were married. Less than 7 years and you should be ok. She can’t take all your money like that to house herself and leave you with nothing. There are laws there to prevent it. You’ll possibly need to talk to a solicitor/divorce lawyer to check the details, but you should be able to get at least some of the money back.
This is going to sound like a weird thing to bring up right now and I hope you don’t take it the wrong way but I loved my step dad. He was a huge positive influence on my life and I’m better person because I knew him. However that didn’t take away from my relationship with my dad in the slightest. The things he was there for that dad wasn’t were all things dad would have missed anyway*.
Loving one person doesn’t take away from another. Your son can, and will, have plenty of other people in his life. Even if your ex-wife never goes on another date again he’ll probably still have a family of his own some day. You don’t stop being his dad when his family grows like that and you won’t stop being his dad if your ex-wife gets remarried and his family grows that way.
I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it is but try not to let yourself get hung up on it. It’ll only end up clouding your judgement and making you frustrated with your ex-wife. The last thing you want is to be frustrated with her because it’ll feed back into how you interact with your son.
*It should also be said that I don’t hold anything against my dad for missing out on things and looking back he let me down a fair bit. Turns out those things that parents think are important aren’t really the point. I barely remember learning to ride a bike but I do remember hanging out with my dad building a computer, renting videos and generally just killing time.
Although he made a real effort to get along with my mother and her family so he was always there for special events. That helped a lot too I guess.
*hugs* if theres anything we can do to help my friend, just let us know. Your not alone and if you ever need to talk about anything just ask alright
Oh man, that sucks. Having a son myself I can only imagine how all this is making you feel. Keep your chin up man and don’t let her get you down. Don’t worry about her or her friends, the more you think about it the more it’ll get you down. Don’t let her beat you, make the most of every second you have with your son, and make sure he knows that you love him and that none of this is his fault.
Also, a leaking radiator doesn’t mean that it’s on its last legs, don’t know what sort of car you have, but for my car a new triple core radiator is about $150 bucks on ebay. If you can’t fit it yourself, or don’t know anyone that can help I would assume that it probably would cost the same again in labour, so it shouldn’t cost you more than $300 to get it fixed.
Oh, and definitely see a lawyer, or at least talk to Legal Aid 1300 792 387 (not sure where you live, so I just posted the Victorian number). Make sure you get bank statements and stuff to prove how much money you put into the loan. Sounds like she’s the kind of person that will take everything if you let her, make sure you get back what’s yours.
*hugs*
Thanks all, I don’t have a lot of friends due to the depression and social anxiety that I’ve had through my life so any words of support are greatly appreciated.
At this stage, I don’t know if things will get better, it’s been 5 months since I moved out and nothing has changed for me, I still love my (ex) wife so much but I am trying to move on and I hope one day that I can. All I can do right now is to make sure my little boy is happy and try to enjoy my time with him when I see him.
Cheers all!
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but where are my fellow “travelling to Melbourne for the PAX weekend” buddies staying?
I won’t actually be attending PAX, but I’m intending on going to Melbourne anyway for the weekend to catch up with/meet as many people as I can.
PAX last year I stayed at the YHA Hostel between Flinders and Southern Cross stations, and I’m considering doing the same this year… Four person dorm for four nights for $172.
I think @mrtaco and @freezespreston were looking into a group dealio thing. They might have some info
Hmm. That would have been a group of four as-is with me, Freeze and my two friends. But I guess a 6-person room could be possible?
That place @morkai mentioned seems to be both cheaper and closer to the place than Space Hotel, so that could be worth looking into. Can’t seem to find details on their rooms though, outside of that tiny little picture you get when you hover over the information “i” on the bookings page. At least not from a quick look.
I’ve made mention it to the others though to see what they reckon, hopefully they’ll actually respond. Organising sucks.
What sort of info were you after? When I stayed last year in a 4 bed dorm, it was a pretty basic room with 2 bunk beds that seemed to be king-single sized, there’s a barbeque area up on the roof, common bathroom areas down the hall etc.
Just found my GameBoy, GameBoy Pocket and copy of Pokemon Blue in the garage while looking for some cables. For some reason I thought it was a great idea to store it with some AAA batteries inside. Amazingly they didn’t go bad but they’re also dead. I guess it’s time to raid some remote controls and see how this plays out.
Holy crap. My save game is still there. Mew and all. I thought the internal batteries on this thing would have died years ago.
They last a long time when they don’t have to keep track of what time it is in-game! Mine are all still going strong too. All my Gen 2 and 3 carts are “dead” though.
Nice find! Now the real work begins – transferring from gen to gen to get that Mew over to Pokemon X/Y! Wait, is that even possible?
I don’t think so. =( I’m considering breeding duplicates but knowing me my original team would have just been six Legendary Pokemon.
Still, I’m happy to find them. I’m saved halfway through the Elite Four with a bunch of Pokemon I was leveling, so I’ll have to finish that to get to my PC to see my real team.
Oh wow, I didn’t know it was possible for batteries to *not* leak.
So I’ve been watching Arrow. Man that show is terrible.
I’m up to episode 13 and loving it.
It’s one of my favourite shows in a while. Season 2 it really finds its own identity and takes off.
Is it just me or does the lead look/sound/act a LOT like a much taller/better-looking Tom Cruise?
Just you.
Aside from the height thing. Dude is clearly taller than Tom Cruise.
Aha! I looked up Tom Cruise and Arrow and I got image search results comparing the two. It’s not just me! The Internet is always right!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/06/crowdsourcing for great relevance.But Tom Cruise has had old man chest since Mission Impossible 4!
…
In hindsight I don’t know what this has to do with any thing. XD
I stand by the post, though. *decisive nod*
Well, see, I was thinking of the face and voice rather than the body. Because clearly that is not a REAL body on the guy from Arrow, it is a store mannequin animated by foul sorcery and forbidden science.
I got into the show at first because it was clearly trying to be Batman Begins The Series without bringing along any of the baggage that comes with the Batman name, and that was interesting in itself, but at some point that turned into actually liking the show.
I mostly just appreciate that they don’t drag everything out (and when they do draw something out you can count on it being resolved or wrapped up from a story telling perspective by the end of the season). They seem to be one of the first groups that understands they have literally decades of source material to draw from so there’s no need to dwell on particular characters and stories. In Smallville they made Doomsday the main villain for an entire season because he’s a big deal and it really ruined the story/character. It feels like the Arrow writers would have been happy to make a great three part episode with ‘real’ Doomsday and then move on to the next guy. It’s not like Superman was at a loss for enemies.
Got halfway through season 2. Despite the poor acting at times, and the poor dialogue, it is a fun show to watch with my brother.
Also, Ra’s turns up in season 3, according to the trailer.
I think I’ve figured out my hashtag and the name of my daily experiment, now. #projectsnapandquilt.
It says everything I need it to say. It’s a project so it’s ongoing, and inclusive. and it’s about snapping pictures and quilting them. Plus, it keeps with my unintentional alternative name theme. #napandquilt #oldladystrange. 😛
<3
SNAP AND QUILT! \o/
Strangest Itches.
I’m not even angry that you didn’t use any of my suggestions! 😀
…
Just disappointed 🙁
I’ve been staring at that hashtag for five minutes trying to find a joke name for it. The best I could come up with is Napan, New Brunswick. Maybe if you add an extra ‘a’ I can make panda jokes.
The Family Guy/The SImpsons crossover was a nice chance to revisit Springfield after all these years. Take in the sights and sounds. Reminded me of another time. It was pretty decent.
So that cross over it’s supposed to be an hour long, I assume they mean first episode of each programs new seasons, yes?
Nah, The Simpsons is its own thing. Family Guy just had a double episode. You can tell that it’s The Simpsons in Family Guy instead of Family Guy in The Simpsons. (Writing wise.)
Hmm fair enough. Strange how I can only find episodes that run for 21 minutes. When I keep seeing every where it was an hour long episode?
Oh, I feel like my post might’ve been worded in a misleading way. It’s the Family Guy ep you’re looking for.
Oh well bugger that. Don’t particularly like Family Guy 😛
Nah not your fault, i’d been seeing across Facebook that The Simpsons had an hour long special which featured Family Guy characters, not the other way around 😛
The opening couch gag for The Simpsons was creepy as fuck.
Don Hertzfeldt did it, yes?
Not sure but it was very much his style so probably yes.
It was. I had a feeling it was but when I saw hair-clump Marge with matchstick arms and legs there was no doubt left in my mind. Saw it on Reddit this morning. I thought it was pretty brilliant, and kind of touching.
Now I’m off to the store, for some reason I have an overwhelming urge to buy some Sampsans Mating Gel.
Funniest thing I’ve seen on The Simpsons in a looooooooooong time.
Just watched it. Couple of laughs but the whole thing felt a bit forced.
Guess that’s a symptom of Seth McFarlane though.
My guess is it’s more than likely that the simpsons is still on TV after 25 seasons and counting, probably struggling to come up with ideas, I haven’t really watched it since about season 12 or 13.
It’s a Family Guy episode written by them. Simpson writers weren’t involved. I really don’t find Family Guy all that funny so I don’t know what I expected. It purely relies on mean spirited shock rather than any cleverness.
Giggity!
That’s Family Guy in a nutshell.
How did you watch it? Foxtel? I thought that it wasn’t going to be screened on free to air until 8:30pm tonight.
So glad my son goes to bed at 8.
…
*flees*
http://imgur.com/gallery/4CHXnj2
Awww… :3
Typical border collie 😛
*flailing arms*
*sinking feeling*
*runs in circles*
I can feel a crisis of time building up and it has nothing to do with an arcade shooter!
I’m getting a vibe that I have too much on my metaphorical plate and I think I’m about to drop the plate.
Spoilered because wall of text.
To summarise my space right now both me and my wife work full time, daughter (2 in January) is in full time day care, I’m back at Uni via distance, at work our team has someone on annual leave or completing relief for another office for the next 8 weeks, I’ve just got a promotion within my team and got news at work today that our team will be one short for 2 weeks starting next week and we’re not getting any additional relief.Our team does a heavy chunk of admin work/reporting that is very process heavy and requires a slightly higher than normal grasp of Excel and the ability to quickly troubleshoot reporting errors and deliver advice/feedback to stakeholders. We’ve had someone come into our team to complete 9 weeks of relief who knows the why but not the how of our team. She was meant to be trained by someone else but that someone else has just dropped the ball and is offering only the barest amount of coaching and support so I’ve been filling the gaps on top of my own workload which has shot up significantly in the last 2 weeks after promotion so stress is slowly building there plus having to deal with one of the team who seems to have taken my promotion badly and I think is going to be… trouble… down the track despite being completely fine when we were in the same role.
Then from next week we’ll be a team of 3 with 2 regulars and our relief who will only be 2 weeks in and still very very green. Finding time for regular assistance and reviewing her outputs to ensure our data, tracking documents and filing is all correct is burning through the better part of 2 hours in my 8 hour day… And I can’t stay late/arrive early because I do pick up/drop off for day care… so basically from next week our outputs need to stay at 4 ‘trained’ people and will be done by 2 trained people and someone who is still well and truly learning. Shitty thing is part of my promotion is to bring someone new into the team to build some capacity again so we don’t end up in binds like this in the future… it’s shit that this is the first thing I’m going to have to ride the team through!
I’m also a full week behind in my uni work (watching week 4 lectures at start of week 5 tonight!) and this time around it’s microeconomics – I’ve never done an economics subject (even in highschool so I’m blind to the concepts). It’s pretty dense stuff that means I’ve actually got to dump a reasonable amount of time into to wrap my head around the content. I’m juggling the family time from when I get home around 5:30 till about 8pm and then doing uni work till 9:30-ish 3 nights a week and then an extra 2 – 3 hrs each Saturday and Sunday.
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Yes… I think I’m starting to stress…
Sorry for wall of text (those who sat through it).
My rant is done..
If you’ll excuse me I now have to go listen to a shitty lecturer talk about ‘Market Elasticity’ for 80 minutes and rush through the last 10 slides because they got sidetracked (if it’s anything like the last few weeks of lectures!)
Oh man, that post made me lose some hair on my head. There’s new frown lines too.
*mental hug*
*savours mental hug* (that’s not creepy right…?)
I also realised upon a little more reflection that some of the stress also has to do with me not being able to do stuff that helps me unwind a little because I don’t own a time machine.
Taking my dogs for a walk…
Fixing my yard…
Clocking some game time…
Getting some sort of exercise in… (even just situps/pushups at this stage would be nice)
Spending an afternoon cooking some extravagant food just because I feel like it…
PS: I’m posting because my lecture video shat itself and now I have to re-download it. *le sigh*
Err…yikes!
*hugasaurus*
If you need general advice on microeconomics, I did study it at uni and have a pretty good working knowledge. Even if you just need a sounding board to chat about the odd concept to you.
Thanks for the offer. May take it up a little later if I get stuck and the single discussion board tutor for something like 100 students is being tardy in replies.
Was going to take the kids to see Guardians Of The Galaxy tomorrow night, but we only have free tickets for Hoyts and the one near us isn’t showing it, only the Event cinema is. Guess we’ll have to wait for the bluray now.
So instead, we’re going to see The Boxtrolls. Anyone seen or heard anything about it?
You could see if Event will honour the tickets, since they’re apparently (word from my mate who used to work at Hoyts) taking over Hoyts, worth a shot maybe!
Buzz I’m hearing is that it’s quite good
Wife took the kids to see it and said it was really good.
Boxtrolls is by Laika, the studio that did Coraline and Paranorman. Supposed to be excellent.
It’s Laika? Shit, I need to bump it up my priority list.
Laika!
My sis took her two little boys on the weekend and gave it a thumbs up.
Thanks, guys! Seems like it might work.
It’s difficult to take all of us to the same movie because it has to be okay for both a teenager and a five year old. Plus, I don’t enjoy most animated movies. According to DeeCee it’s because I’m a monster. 😛
According to DeeCeeit’s because I’m a monster. 😛Fixed that for you
Guardians is out on Blu-Ray on the 3rd of December.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/action/guardians-of-the-galaxy/616889/
Also, The Boxtrolls looks pretty good, keen on watching it myself, gonna take my son later today.
It’s said to be pretty good, but kinda scary for little kids.
It was indeed pretty good. My son was not scared and halfway through even exclaimed “I’m gonna BUY this one day!”. 😀
@beavwa: if you were seriously interested in the coffee table, my mum is saying $300 neg. It’s pretty big – 122cm x 92cm x 46cm – and it’s apparently mahogany stained rather than actual mahogany. AFAIK really good condition aside from a couple of minor scratches. Can provide photos if interested.
That sounds really decent, but I think it’s a bit outside our budget right now. Sorry 🙁
So it turns out the water pump has started to fail in the car /o\
Thought it was the radiator (again), well saying that the radiator had gone, since one of the coils expanded and blew, which is most likely due to steam in the radiator and the cap not letting it out fast enough, so it found another way out.
Thankfully the radiator is only 7 was still under warranty so dad took it back to the bloke who did it, he swapped it out and claimed a new one on warranty, even though the water pump was technically at fault, but he’s an old mate of dad’s & was happy to do it for him. Plus it makes him & his business look good doing such for customers & we were only had to pay for labour & coolant.
Still need to replace that pesky water pump though >_> Looks like i’ll be doing that Wednesday or something.
Meanwhile between all that gotta help dad fix the trucks tray up so it can pass roadworthy on Wednesday, so we can then renew rego for a few months then sell it. Cause 1200 a year with third party is just insane for a vehicle that you can still drive on a regular C class license…
On the bright side I bought Garage Inc. by Metallica today (since it was finally cheap) & one of my mates at JB told me that their new store (a JB Home variety to boot) up the coast a bit is opening soon and is looking for people so I applied for like a million positions they’ve advertised, so hopefully I can score a job there. Always wanted to work at JB.
Garage Inc.’s pretty awesome. Water pump’s not too hard to do. Took me about 3 or 4 hours to do mine (fairly decent for a first time I think), took the thermo fan out as well to make it easier.
Also, good luck with the job my friend.
It is, possibly the best covers album i’ve heard. Vince Neil’s comes in at second i’d say!
It’s at the front of the engine, basically have to remove the serpentine belt undo a few bolts (but first drain the radiator of coolant cause don’t wanna lose $50 worth of coolant now!) remove & clean the gasket, put new sealant on the gasket, replace gasket & pump, replace belt & boom done in theory 😛
Cheers, even though the store is about an hour away via bus (cause no license heh) i’d happily do that especially if it meant working for JB which would allow me later on to xfer to the one across the road from me heh.
Just a tip if you haven’t done a water pump before, make sure you take pictures of how the belt goes so you know which way to put it back on.
Dad knows how, his car i’m just the help 😛 Plus his mate who can change them in 20 seconds flat is a phone call away lol.
I was going to do some Five Nights at Freddy’s streaming, but it won’t display the game in the stream window. 🙁
Don’t know if anyone has seen this, but this is all sorts of fucked up :/
How did these kids get so messed up? 🙁
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/abc-2020-reveals-slender-man-attack-victim-as-payton-leutner/story-fnihsrk2-1227072886907?sv=16d8be1bd934ad9a25ac2d7b3c6f67bd&&net_sub_uid=111084806&nk=01ea6d41223021eb1660d3a45748671f
“All sorts of fucked up” is one heck of an understatement… I feel ill just reading that.
Wha… Really? Kids would do that? The curtain of innocence is now gone, revealing the grotesque monsters within.
Pokemon Masters – I need your help!
I’ve just reached the Elite Four of LeafGreen and obtained a few Pokemon that I’d love to transfer to Y. Somehow. I’ve beaten the Elite Four in Y.
However I also own Platinum, White and White 2 – all three pretty much unplayed. What are my options here? Do I continue and complete each one in order of release and work out the transferring later? (Pal Park, dual-slot, Transporter and whatnot) or should I just make breeding my main priority within Pokemon Y and then trading via the GTS perhaps?
Or something else?
I’d probably just play through and trade within Y. There are enough people out there that have done all the transferring themselves that you can get almost anything eventually
yeah you can pretty much obtain everything via trades within Y its waaaaaay too much effort otherwise especially when the pokes you want to trade over probably are fairly easy to get.
Annnd now my webcam is screwing itself. 🙁
I probably should go to bed.
Just saw that xbox price cut article and realised something rather depressing. I just spent an xbox 360 on nappies
RRoD? Might need some powder.
Hi TAY
Been playing so much Hyrule Warriors, Finished main story, played a lot of adventure mode and unlocked all the characters, Got my main dude up to lvl 50. Finished the first picture by finding the Skultullas and the level it unlocks is pretty crazy bullshit hard. I like most of the characters and only really don’t like Midna and Agitha their moves are weird and leave you vulnerable too much (even using evade to skip animations), also really surprised at how good people’s alternate weapons are and they have a whole set of moves for each one, Link’s glove/mace combo is amazing amd looks hilarious. Oh yes and due to not reading the manual I learned yesterday that ZL is block (not centre camera behind you like I thought) and that if you hold evade after dodging you immediately sprint. Played 90% co op and would really recommend it, so much less stressful. I’ve also lost all will to return to Destiny now that I’m so far behind everyone (curse you full time work).
Woo, more people in Adventure! I want more link Links to turn up that I actually know…
I think I have you on my friends list? If not, I’m on TAYnames.
yeah, I haven’t seen a single person in there, Do I have to enable any settings. Not sure if your on my list, will have to check. Some of those adventure mode maps are crazy hard, have you unlocked any new maps from Skulltullas? The one I unlocked is psycho, you pick an ally from all the heroes then everyone you didn’t pick attacks you all at once, I sided with Zelda and got my but whooped by a swarm of Link, Lana, Impa, Durunia and Midna, I think I just need to grind a bit more, I was dealing pitiful damage at about lvl 45 with a five star weapon with around 250 attack power.
I’m coming up on those ones now, but there’s already been a few that are either hard or really hard to get an A on.
Whenever I jump into Adventure it asks to connect to the network, I say yes and it takes 2 seconds. Then a network Link appears somewhere between 5 minutes and two hours later. I’m yet to see a friend one, though apparently I turned up on @sernobulus’s map yesterday.
hmm, will have to check what’s going on, never been asked to connect to the network.
Day off work, gonna take my son to the show, then go and watch The Boxtrolls. and Family Guy marathon tonight.
Does it get any better than this.
Only thing that sucks is that the Top Gear Festival Sydney and Sucker Punch are on at the same time. Oh well, you can’t win ’em all I guess.
If you’re going to the animal nursery I would suggest getting there as early as possible cuz I went there late in the morning, about 200-300 people in queue out the door.
This is the country, doubt there’ll be that many people, thanks though.
Sons of Anarchy peeps (@virus__ @nomad @f4ction if I recall correctly) (@dc, you’ll probably dig this too)
Great profile piece on Kurt Sutter. Actually, anyone might enjoy this – it’s a legitimately fascinating look at the guy who made Sons of Anarchy. Personal and disturbing. Learned a lot about the guy, and discovered some surprising sympatico with him.
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/the-original-son-of-anarchy-kurt-sutter-20140929
Edit: possible season 7 spoilers in this article.
My bad, I thought it was talking about season 1 when Otto got eye-gougedI haven’t seen any season 7 eps yet.Great article, moar please
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH IT’S GARGAMEL, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll try to remember to add you to my mental SoA tag list for when discussions about the latest season commence (I’ll probably start watching S7 in about eight weeks time).
me too 😛
There is a reference to season 7 in there.
Though it’s merely the
death by forkpart.For some reason, I reworked it in my mind so that the paragraph was discussing what happened to
Otto in the first season, when he got his eye done in prison. There’s remarkable similarity between the two scenes (at least as described in the article).Sorry about that.No big deal.
Climbing last night was pretty good. Managed to nail my first 4D in about five weeks, and made awesome progress on an E after that which I should be able to get next week.
But while I was there, I noticed this familiar looking guy there. Short and stocky, backwards baseball cap, sporting a handlebar. He was only up there bouldering for a little while before going up to the gym with his friend, but later on he ended up coming back. I saw a chance to approach, so went up and asked “…you’re Paul Fenech, aren’t you?”
Usually when it comes to celebrities my policy is AVOID AVOID AVOID because past encounters are just absolutely cringe-worthy. I mean I already have enough of a problem talking with strangers as it is, but with them it’s even worse because of the whole lop-sided you-feel-like-you-know-them-but-you-don’t-really-and-they-don’t-know-you-at-all thing. But yeah, I said that I didn’t really want to bother him while he’s doing his thing but me and my friends were massive fans of Pizza back in highschool. Actually I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this here before, but at one point the worst “stooge” entered my vocabulary and refused to leave. Like, completely involuntary, the word would just pop into my conversations (both as verb and noun) whether I wanted it to or not. I don’t know how I managed to shake that habit, but I’m glad I did 😛
But yeah. Managed to not be totally retarded, and he was nice enough to put up with my mostly-controlled rambling. Asked my name, shook my hand and thanked me for watching, I thanked him for making it. He mentioned that there was a Fat Pizza + Housos movie coming out in November, apparently featuring basically all the old cast, even Sleek. Said that if I liked the early stuff then I should love it. Think I’ll have to round up the guys and see if they’re up for a catch-up and to check it out when it hits.
Oh yeah, then he told me to quit bludging and get back on the wall 😛
Sleek???????? No way! Man, I was so bummed when he left the show.
Yeah, I was surprised when he said that. I remember being told back in the day that the two of them had a pretty massive falling out after that, dunno how accurate it was at all. Mostly though I’m looking forward to more Bobo 😛
That’s awesome, I remember as a fresh faced 11 year old watching the first season of Fat Pizza with my Dad laughing for an entire episode lol. Glad to hear he’s a cool guy!
I met my idol once and tried my best to not sound like a friggin lunatic, you did well mate!
Same here. I only managed to catch it by chance, I remember I was on a trip down to Victoria via Griffith, with my grandparents and cousins. I have no idea where we were at the time, some kind of caravan park staying in cabins but I was in one with my Nanna and one of my cousins, and they had SBS on the TV. The first episode of Pizza just happened to come on after whatever they had on, and I thought it was the greatest thing. Every Monday night from then on I’d be ready, setting up the video machine to record it. Still got the three seasons of it on tape I think 😛 And yeah, I used to watch it with my dad too! He doesn’t really watch much TV, especially much of what the rest of us watch, but he always seemed to enjoy catching Pizza when I was watching it.
😀
Sorry i haven’t been talking much. Not much to report, really.
I haven’t been able to take as many photos as I would’ve liked of the cosplay progress but I’ve been far too busy. Sorry.
How’s the progress going, anyway?
2 at 90% completion. Nob’s is armour and shoes. Gorzy’s requires armour and gloves. Elsa will be started today. Mine is..mostly I guess.
Man. I’m stressing pretty hardcore over having not even started mine yet with so little time left, I have no idea how you’re coping.
Barely.
just barely.
Oh wait. Denial. Denial is how I’m coping.
Any of you sweet TAYsters running 40+ grifts in D3? None of my cohorts are interested in such stressful enterprises, and I’m totally over random public games. I need motivated individuals for totally awesome fun times*!
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* NOTE: Levels of fun and awesomeness may vary.
Possibly if my dude is up to the challenge. How hard are 40+ rifts? (also do you mean lvl 40+ ? like run through 39 floors first, sorry if I misunderstood) I have a lvl 70 Paragon 75 ish Crusader currently playing on torment 4 and seem to able to hold my own. Also play 90% co op with my sister who is a similar level monk so we’d likely join together.
Edit: What platform too, I’m PS4
Anything over 30 can be hard, and 40 is where the real challenge starts. If you’re not running T6 already (and not dying) you will struggle.
The best way to gauge yourself is run a test grift, upgrading the key at the end instead of a gem, and just keep going until you can’t finish one.
EDIT: And this is PC, not console, too btw.
aha, well. Wrong platform and it sounds like I’m not ready for that yet. I’ve hit a bit of a wall, don’t seem to be getting much better gear but the enemies sure are getting tougher,
Just did the “Which Nintendo character are you” test. Apparently I’m Olimar.
“You use others – you always have. You’re a worthless, ineffective lump, who has only been able to accomplish anything by exploiting the values of others to your own means. Their needs and desires be damned – your narcissism demands your wants always come first.”
Well, I never!
Link?
…
Wait, I mean, can you post the link please? 😛
http://www.dorkly.com/post/69013/quiz-which-nintendo-character-are-you
LINK!
I actually did get Link. Fortuitous joke-realisation there!Well, there go my dreams of being a writer. Damn.
I got Link as well. 😐
Me too!
I’m Mario apparently:
“You think you’re the center of the universe – but judge yourself honestly: you’re out of shape, you’re far past your prime, and no one respects you. People think they can take things away from you with no consequences, others are challenging you constantly, and the truth is that you’re about as middle-of-the-road as they come. You’re nothing special, and you’re the least interesting one in any group.”
Ow… 🙁
Same, sounds about right for me haha
Talk about hamfisted descriptions to make you feel worse for your day 😛
I reckon haha damn mario
Ha, I got that too.
Wow, that’s brutal.
I’m Yoshi.
Essentially I’m always hungry, yet no matter how much I eat I can never fill the void inside me and am entirely disposable.
*Looks at job situation*
*Looks at empty chocolate wrappers*
Stupid quiz probably not accurate anyway.
Curse you IE8 denying me my chance to complete an internet quiz when I should be working. *shakes fist*
I’m glad I don’t suffer in IE8 purgatory alone at work. *lowers gun from monitor*
I got Mario, yeaaahhh
Pikachu :/
You are a slave to others – bosses, significant others, friends, relatives, and obligations. You have never been your own person, and you will never be. The best you can hope for is the brief pleasure of sleep, when nothing is asked of you, until that inevitable moment when you’re awakened – and the real nightmare begins.
Mario.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Donkey Kong.
Well, I certainly don’t know how I could’ve gotten that result.
You must really like Bananas :p
“You like throwing barrels! You like wearing a tie but otherwise you’re naked! You’re trying to outrun a past that haunts you every day! You like bananas! What a goof you are!”
Yoshi
You eat and eat and eat – but nothing can fill the void within you. You’re a disposable part of society – you have usefulness to be exploited by others, but you have no agency over yourself. You are the world’s Kleenex – except your ultimate fate will not have the dignity afforded to a used Kleenex.Feeling sad and useless now. Also hungry
Link. Well, that’s depressing…
Ouch that hurt… I’m mario.
“You think you’re the center of the universe – but judge yourself honestly: you’re out of shape, you’re far past your prime, and no one respects you. People think they can take things away from you with no consequences, others are challenging you constantly, and the truth is that you’re about as middle-of-the-road as they come. You’re nothing special, and you’re the least interesting one in any group.”
I’m going to go cry into my beer belly now 🙁
Well, I got Mario… Aw…
RE-ROLL I GOT DONKEY KONG I AM THE BAST
Good morning friends, today I write to you from the awe inspiring Olympic Park Precint in Sydney.
For any Sydney folk who have been seeing drunk youths wandering around in costume… Yes, your worst fears have been realised it is Australian University Games time. I’m here for the week coaching men’s and women’s futsal (indoor soccer for the uninitiated), so far we’ve won every girls game so far but our boys are 1-1 currently.
I’d very proud if I was a Sydney-sider of your sports Precint!
So that’s why I’ve seen people in sports-looking uniforms all around the trains/stations.
Yuppp that’s why. Are they behaving?
Well, one of them from La Trobe was sitting on the ground at the station which is kinda weird. Dunno why you’d wanna touch that.
Lack of sleep and alcohol will do that I reckon lol
which uni are you coaching?!
Coaching Australian Catholic University’s men and women’s teams. Are you playing?
no, just asking :P. Now I have to resist urge to stalk ACU people to find you >:)
Lol we wear blue and red if you are out and about!
Great results so far!
Thanks! I’ve lost three games so far today so I need to arrest the slide somehow :s
Good start by the sounds of it! Any crazy incidents for you to deal with yet? I saw the Monash University piling in to a hotel on Elizabeth St last night when I was running home. Wasn’t sure what Uni you worked with so I was staring intensely at them all thinking it could be you. :p
Lol nothing too crazy, I’ll have to share some highlights with you over a couple of beers. Are you floating around tomorrow by any chance?
Yeah I’ll prob be finishing work 6.30ish and can catch up somewhere near your place if you fancy it!
I’m in Pitt Street, if you’re not knackered afterwards. This sun has been smashing me to the point of napping daily so understand if you’re flat. I can do anything around then, suits me!
Sweet mang. I’m locked up in an office all day so the air conditioning has been quite the saviour past couple of days. I know where you are, there’s an alright rooftop bar (nothing special compared to Melbourne’s) close by in a place called Hotel Sweeney’s. Can chuck you a message on here when I’m finishing and meet up there?
Sounds good mang
In fact, I actually have a team dinner tomorrow night lol. Are you free Thursday?
Bugger! Thursday’s tough. Gf’s parents are arriving to stay with us from NZ and we throwing a little welcoming thing. Depends though, what time do you think you’d be likely to be free?
AAARRRRGGGHHHH I’ve gone and traded one obsession for another, now I can’t stop playing Fantasy Life. It’s just so damn addictive, I must master every single life!
What, there is actually a story to follow in this game? I don’t have time for that, I need to forge the perfect blade, sew the most fabulous shirt and cook the most scrumptious meal!
Not quite the typical barbaric character I normally play in these games… but as I said, just so damn addictive.
For those currently playing this game, what critter gives animal hides? I have slaughtered half a dozen species to the edge of extinction, but no hides and in a games where every other resource can be harvested I know some lifeform out there must be holding the next ingredient to fuel my addiction.
I think the Red Wolves drop animal hides? The ones that show up in the first field at night.
Thanks for the info, I must have very crappy luck when it comes to drops because I have killed them, but no hides.
Still, any excuse to go on a hunting expedition!
I think you can buy them from one of the shops in the first town too! (Might have to get the Shop+ Bliss bonus first?)
Just found that by accident, never thought to check the wood seller… still, I don’t think those wolves will just go and kill themselves, I had better go and help.
Oh, and I switched to the Tailor job last night so now I’m just playing Fashion Life full-time now. Who cares about stats, I want to wear this new hat I made.
Also, notice for people wanting to do multiplayer: Make sure you’re not in the middle of a story quest! It won’t let you join with anyone while you are! (and they can take a while to get through)
Ugh
Ugh. There’s too many games coming out that I want to play! I want to pick up Fatasy Life but Shadows of Mordor drops tomorrow, I’m still going with Hyrule Warriors and Theatrhythm, and there’s more stuff out in two weeks.
I feel like I’ve barely touched Fantasy Life/Hyrule Warriors and Smash Bros 3DS is already coming out this weekend!
Buy them all!
Smash Bros on Sat too!
I’m in a same position. Have Xillia 2, Hyrule Warriors, Destiny, Theatrhythm and FIFA, Warriors Orochi 3 (both unplayed)… but then I was all screw itttttt! and just got Fantasy Life anyway. Didn’t have time to play it and was kind of regretful but it’s awesome 😀
(and there’s nothing else to do in Perth)
I’ve decided to wait for the Wii U Smash. I know I’ll like it more and it means I have room for other games 😀
I’m considering this myself… I’ll wait a little while at least.
That was my plan but I’m too impatient to wait so I guess I’m getting both (and free soundtrack!)
wait Mordor tomorrow? I thought it was next week.
PC tomorrow, I think the console versions got delayed.
Yup, PC is set because it’s Steam. Mine’s actually preloading at the moment. 35GB download 😀
aha, oh well I’ll just have to play some of the many games I’m playing through atm.
The only infuriating thing about GMG is they seem to insist on sending me my game keys after I walk out the door to head to work – today I got it on the train. So much wasted preload time… >_
I’m surprised you didn’t just install the fantasy life mod for skyrim
I am obsessed with a few different things, my mum and grandad have addictive personalities and i think i might too. I DRINK SO MUCH COKE ZERO, like a unhealthy amount, if it was regular coke i would be soooo fat. Ive tried to stop or just drink more water but it lasts a few days before i get bored with water.
A question for your Tuesday, What are you addicted to?
(yes i stole this from askreddit sue me, its still interesting)
Pepsi Max. So similar, yet so different.
Pepsi max actually tastes better.
Why Coke Zero then?
i dont even know any more, reflex, maybe im used to the taste now?
SKYRIM! Ha, perfect setup. Plus a growing addiction to Fantasy Life.
Pepsi Max is my soft drink poison.
Internet.
Blergh. Me too. Reaching for my phone when I should be sleeping.
Refreshing the same websites all day.
Looking at excessive amounts of… uh… TAY?
I might as well face it I’m addicted to love.
i know you spent $600 on me. you have a problem.
I’ll say. My wife is starting to ask questions I’m not comfortable answering.
Coffee and kippers.
Not necessarily at the same time.
I have a particularly odd addiction towards room temperature iced tea, a specific brand named Arizona Iced Tea. It’s 99 cents for 680 ml (23 fl.oz.) and I buy it every time I go to work and a majority of the time I go out in general. Like I said, room temperature. It doesn’t affect the taste or anything, but my enjoyment is greatly diminished if it’s cold. But damn, it’s 99 cents.
Also, crack cocaine.
i used to drink lemon squash luke warm as a afterschool treat.
Cigarettes (still).
I love that bitch, but I gotta face facts – she’s trying to murder me slowly.
I do miss the coffee and ciggy combo at times, but kicking them to the curb feels far better.
4 years now, and not even a drunk text!
Finding love
, feeling needed is very addictive.
Indeed, it’s more the lack of that you get withdrawal symptoms as if it was an addiction
Defining addiction as compulsive engagement in rewarding behaviour despite adverse consequences… I’m addicted to nothing.
Maybe pedantry.
Writing.
Every time I try to break that habit, I become extremely difficult to live with. That’s the clearest sign of an addiction, I believe.
undad is based on you isnt it??
…tasty braaaaains…
Peanut butter Oreos and Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups
Bass.
Ooo-wa oowa-ah.
Totally.
Internet. Badly so. I can’t let things slip me by. It started out with forums, I need to make sure I don’t log in until I have enough time to read all the new posts since my last visit. Now I’ve got TAY to keep an eye on and skim over for new posts since last viewing the page, I’ve got Skype sitting there with huge group convos that need to be trawled through when I get home and sign in, I’ve got a few other sites that I like to keep an eye on as well that demand my attention for fair bit of time. This is part of why I always steered myself away from Facebook and Twitter and the like, simply because I don’t want to take on yet another stream of information to have to obsessively process and keep up with.
Otherwise my addiction is adding to my Nintendo collection. Especially when it comes to weird peripherals.
Food.
Not even a particular food, just, food.
I eat so much.
Like, so so much :3
Food and my phone.
I feel naked without my phone, but not in the fun way :\
Tea
Milk and one sugar please. 🙂
Collecting stupid crap.
I’m addicted to the bite of the bubbles in Coke more than the caffeine.
Which is why giving it up never works for long. Nothing else bites like that. I find with so many foods I’m supposed to avoid now that keeping the one food-related vice makes it easier to cope with missing out on the other foods I love that make me sick.
I’ve also found that whether it’s Zero or just Coke it has no effect on my weight. I don’t put any on when I’m just drinking Coke. I don’t lose any when I’m just drinking Zero, either. And I have a three can a day habit.
I’m also addicted to fabric. Not unhealthily yet, but I’ve overspent on fabric before so I know I have to be aware that this could become a dangerous addiction and now I make sure I have a specific list when I visit fabric shops and stick to it.
The other thing I’m addicted to is online learning. I know so much about so many different textile arts through paid official classes, free online quilt learning sites, and youtube that I’ll never have enough time to try all the things I’ve learned, but I still can’t stop. At least this is a healthy addiction though. If I didn’t discover this one, I’d be spending all that learning time sitting around and being in my own head too much which is why I was struggling so hard to get over my depression. Now that I have “productive” downtime it’s easier to manage.
About that fabric addiction…I was informed yesterday that Whimsy Quilts (http://www.whimsyquiltsandfabrics.com/) have FREE international shipping for the rest of the year, as long as you fill a satchel (approx 13 yards, you’ll have to check the particulars).
You naughty enabler! 😛
I’ve actually been looking for a way to fill out my stash of solids to give me more options in design, as well as coral and mint prints for an already designed complex quilt. This looks like it might be the way. AU$130ish for 13 yards of fabric (all on my list, nothing impulse-added to the cart :D) delivered. To get that much of those quality fabrics here at my local quilt store would cost at the very least $200(and that’s a very conservative estimate because most of the prints are at the $24 per metre mark).
I’ll talk to Mr. Strange when he gets home. You may have saved me from a very expensive trip to the local. 😀
Internet, cigarettes (only when drinking now), drinking.
Oh yeah, I think I kind of have an addiction to meeting people. Like, online friends and stuff, if an opportunity pops up where I can meet a whole bunch more than I haven’t met yet, I’ll jump at it. It’s almost like I’m collecting them, marking them off a list or something. Was particularly bad a few years back, it seems to have cooled down more now that I’ve “got” most of them.
Still gotta figure out how to get @dc to PAX though.
I ain’t a Pokemon! You can’t catch ’em all! 😀
CAN TOO
*throws rocks*
You are a Familiar, though….
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/374483949667364864
I find that offensively awesome. 😀
Entertainment. If I can’t be constantly entertained, I go into some weird mood swings. Sad, angry, hyper. When I get bored, my brain does some pretty desperate things to entertain itself. I’ve even started randomly singing just to stave off boredom. There was a period a few moths ago where I managed to channel my boredom into creative things, but that doesn’t happen so often anymore.
Also, I’m weirdly obsessed with AFL Live 2 at the moment.
So I typed up a long post about my weekend then accidently pressed close browser…. Here’s the short version
Had to sleep at a friend’s house to attend weekend’s kendo competition (Australian Uni Games) because of trackwork. Slept on the floor.
Saturday was individual comp. Got knocked out in pools. Very disappointed in myself. One of our guys won gold medal.
Sunday was team comps. Coach placed me as reserve in Kyu team (lower level comp). He was probably worried that I was feeling down from the day before. Kyu team won Silver. Next was Open team (higher level comp). didn’t get to play in pools because opponents didn’t have enough members. We got to the final. I was placed to fight against other team’s captain. Mission was to hold against him for 5 minutes. Did really good for 2-3 minutes, then had to change to a spare sword. Lost all concentration. Lost the match quite quickly after that. Urge to cry rose but managed to supress it. Later found out that the guy was 4th Dan. I’m 5th Kyu so he was literally a decade ahead of me. Didn’t feel like he was that far ahead of me though.
Then we went over to Sensei’s house for dinner. Every dinner at Sensei’s place is awesome. He told us off for not winning gold. Well deserved. Then we got drunk and went home. Massive headache on Monday morning.
Ya did good, kiddo.
If you were within arm’s length, I would ruffle your hair.
Metaphorically.
I don’t like touching people.
can confirm
wait kendo is the ones with the swords, holy fuck you went in a sword comp??? you are now my hero and i will call you “Legedary sword zapper”
Not exactly swords. Usually they’re bamboo poles made like swords.
WELBOT THEY ARE SWORDS. IF YOU CRUSH MY DREAM OF BECOMING A PRO SWORDSMAN I SWEAR TO GOD.
I’m not out to crush anything. Just providing accurate information! The skills translate directly to real metal swords too!
HE CANT CRUSH YOUR DREAM IF YOU CUT HIM DOWN!
I THINK I FALLING IN LOVE WITH THIS CONVERSATION
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
It doesn’t matter how powerful you are, you can’t take this! *stabs welbot in the knee* NO ONE CAN RECOVER FROM A KNEE HIT!
Tis but a scratch! Just a flesh wound!
well it wouldn’t be really safe to cut people with katana 😀
Kendo mainly means “I can f#$% you up even with a branch if I need to” 😛
I approve of this translation. 😀
yeah it’s the one with the bamboo sword called shinai.
Oh just saw this! Good effort I think is in order, you fought a pretty worthy opponent so you did well. You’re still out and about or are you at home lol?
I’m at work right now (sneaky TAY posts \o/). I live in Sydney so I’m always out and about :P:P
I did Kendo for a bit but I was too poor to keep it up (at university at the time) and couldn’t attend enough sessions per week to keep up. Also had a lot of issues with balance due to fallen arches and being overweight. Kind of wish I’d continued with it though, always seemed pretty fun.
It’s never too late to return 🙂 It’s quite understandable that you felt discouraged to see other guys who joined with you getting ahead. From what I saw from beginners of my club, almost everyone has trouble with basic footwork. It’s all about “practice, practice, practice”.
Welp, I finished Ethan Carter last night. Turns out I was literally fifteen minutes from the end when I stopped yesterday, which may have ruined it for me. Spoilers below.
When I resumed last night, I’d just turned the valve on the dam which, had I explored, would have allowed me to cross the water to the final area. I discovered this path almost as soon as I resumed, which meant last night was essentially purely the ending… which likely soured my overall impressions of the game. Right up until the end I was looking for answers… even supernatural stories tend to have some sort of logic to them, and this was a game centred around exploration and investigation, so I expected an explanation that made sense within the logic that the game had built up. That ending was so unsatisfying that it just ruined it for me. Oh, everything I’ve experienced, the whole reason I’m here, the whole reason I even exist, is to chase your stories? That’s as lazy as a book ending with “…and it was all a dream”.Also, the puzzles seemed to be extremely front-loaded – the final investigation doesn’t even require you to reconstruct the scene, and the chronology was so simple it may as well have just been a cutscene. The other three were somewhat interesting – reconstruct the scene, figure out what happened, have revelation about what actually happened, follow Ethan.So, as much as I love how the stories are presented, and how they suit the respective family members (the older brother who wanted to be free of small towns, the grandfather drowning himself in drink, etc), I just can’t find anything redeeming about that ending, other than it showed me I missed an area. The game is pretty, and the gameplay is decent, but for a game so concerned with a child trying to express his concerns through stories, it did a lazy job with its own.http://i.imgur.com/XyKwFOb.gif
best gif
It’s lunchtime. People only waste time on TAY when they’re being paid to work.
Yeah, where’s all the TAY I was going to read over lunch. I don’t even know what to do now.
*throws food in bin*
*co-workers circle the bin to steal food and make small talk about it*
*female co-workers hiss and scratch at each other to try claim his food to take home to their secret shrines of Gooky*
*male co-workers quickly run to kitchen to make popcorn*
I’m too busy applying for jobs, houses, and other things I can cry about when I’m declined.
You’re moving to Wagga Wagga. Isn’t that enough to cry about?
House husband?????
Is he going to be the bald one, the business one, the sports one or the gay one?
All of the above.
I’m not bald, I don’t wear suits, and I don’t play or watch sports much these days.
…huh.
@jocon
You up to run another nightfall sometime after the reset? I got like 5 weapons I got to upgrade so the exp buff would be useful to get early this week =)
Yeah man, can give it a go tonight if you want.
You be Redrathi right?
Correct, after several embarrassing deaths I now realize fists of havoc isn’t very useable in Night Fall :S do you have a 3rd in mind?
Heh, seems it could get you into some awkward situations.
Not specifically but I’m sure I can find someone.
Emailed the CEO to speed up this Transfer request, now we play the waiting game.
…. oh god he hasnt replied its been 5 minutes im totally gonna get fired
So I need some unofficial feedback on an idea that I’ve been kicking around for my Undad Kickstarter. Basically I just need to know if you think I’ve gone off the deep end here (I suspect it’s possible).
If you’ve read Issue 1 of Undad, there’s not really spoiler fodder here:
I was thinking about putting together a reward tier that focused on some gag merchandise, basically an Undad-tier:* A blood-stained tie (not real blood)
* Some Undad-branded cufflinks
* A spattered World’s Greatest UnDad mug
* Undad-themed pen
* Brain-shaped branded stress ball
* And the bit I need feedback on: a real rabbit’s foot keychain, which I would touch up with red paint prior to sending out
Is this too dark? Too wasteful/offensive? I’m going for amusing here, but it’s on the knife-edge of acceptability for me, and I just want to see what you all thought.
If it eats too far in to your time / profit margin then, yes, too wasteful. Otherwise it’s very much in the spirit / tone, so not too dark or too offensive.
The real question is it practical financially? Seen a few projects go bust because of underestimating physical rewards in news feeds.
If I buy in bulk, it’s a very cost-effective thing. Have checked prices, it’s very affordable.
Shipping to backers?
Nah, they’re tiny, and would only be shipped alongside other items. Have investigated. Negligible cost.
Can the pen be one of those ones with the slidey things in the liquid at the top, and when you tip it over he… uh, I dunno. Rises out of a grave or something >_>
Haha, I’d love to have one of those, but it might not be quite so cost-effective! 😛
I feel like this is wasting your money. Don’t spend all your funding on unnecessary stuff. 🙂
I’ll budget for it. I’ve got this really elaborate Excel sheet that calculates all costs associated with each tier, and how I would need to price it to come out ahead. I’m being careful! 🙂
Edit: for context, all the Kickstarter advice I’ve read (and I’ve read a lot) says that thematically-relevant merchandise often is the difference between success and failure for a campaign.
I’m not a fan of reward tiers to be honest. The finished product should be reward in itself.
But I’ve never run one before and choose to live in a naive world of unicorns and rainbows.
I’ve only run one before, and I didn’t offer any merchandise and I FAILED. The conclusion is obvious. 😛
I think if you offer some merch that can only be found on your Kickstarter, and won’t be available anywhere afterwards it could very well make the difference. They’re the kinds of things backers appear to get excited over more so than for the project itself. I know in one of the only things I’ve backed I went a higher tier than I’d originally planned, just to get an exclusive, one of a kind painting painted just for me.
So more exclusive things might work best, as opposed to just mass-produced novelties. But those mass-produced novelties will probably be better than no novelties at all. I don’t think just offering copies of your previous books will be enough.
Also, if you would like me to make a one-of-a-kind UnDad t-shirt or cushion cover or something, just let me know. 🙂
Agreed! Exclusivity is definitely key to this thing. Thanks for your offer – I will definitely let you know 🙂
I don’t think it is something I would back as it just seems like clutter to me and I have enough of that already.
The rabbits foot is fine, although you could lose some backers if they are sensitive about that sort of thing, I would think that if you are vegetarian for ethical reasons you wouldn’t back somethign like that.
What percentage of your potential backers that could be is for you to decide.
If reaction from local friends is any indication, I think vegetarians are probably going to feel a little alienated by the contents of the freely-available Issue 1 anyway. 😛
Thanks for the advice!
That was my thought but then I know vegetarians that really like the walking dead so didn’t want to generalise.
As far as actual rewards I’ve been tempted by I am more likely to want the frames, laminated, somehow protected version of the original drawings. Or a portrait drawing of you and Undad, one of a kind commissioned style piece.
Sadly, the artwork is all digital, so originals don’t exist.
However, I am offering customised pics as a perk, so there’s that. Thanks again!
Yes to the collectibles if it makes financial sense, but no to the rabbit’s foot. It’s taking it a touch too far.
Do you think it would make a difference if I offered each backer a choice between a synthetic foot and a real one?
Probably not. The kind of person turned off by a real one would most likely not go for a fake one, either.
@shane
Agreed, I don’t think the rabbits foot is a good idea (real or fake).
Just seems, cruel :'(
Having never backed any kickstarter before, I would say that I’m more likely to back based on the overall project, not the rewards for backing.
Saying that, I would make the tier ‘rewards’ more like “thank you for backing”, not, “here’s some stuff for backing”, so I’d go no mug and pen, to be honest.
Maybe add something a bit more personal?
Hand written / signed letter of appreciation with delivery maybe?
Signed copy (if physical copy), etc.
Just inputting things I’d like though :3
Oh yeah, those options are all in there too! Just wanted to also add one reward option for the merchandising-enthusiasts.
Thanks for the feedback re: foot, though. The response is divided, by the looks of things.
Probably a bit late here, but I’d advise against it. If it’s on the knife-edge of acceptability for you, it is unacceptable for the general, easily-offended populace. We don’t want a co-ordianated tumblr attack campaign. (Tumblr has been set off by milder stuff) Or maybe we do – it’ll raise awareness.
Good afternoon TAYbies – I have some cosplay progress! This is my dress for Princess Unikitty.
http://instagram.com/p/tjZvlYgSY3/
http://instagram.com/p/tjZh5RASYl/
Still have some tweaking and accessories to finish, but the hardest bits of sewing are all done.
I dunno. Where’s all the cardboard boxes and square edges? This looks way fancy 😛
If Unikitty was a human, she’d be a lolita. That’s pretty much what I’m aiming for 😉
Hope I didn’t come off as critical or anything, my smartarsery tends to misfire like that. It’s looking really great!
Man, that Shadows of Mordor download is huge. I’m now glad I have slightly faster internet, though it’s still going to take 20 hours as it is.
I’m looking at another 10 hours of downloading. Should be done just in time for bed.
35GB man. I started it this morning as am glad I did!
EDIT: No worries, @rize just answered it. Faaark I’m stuck at work, with the key on my email and I can’t begin the download from here.
Is your computer at home on? Remote download!
I wish, but I thought GMG wouldn’t send the key so soon (when I ordered Batman AO through them they didn’t supply the key until the day of release) so I didn’t turn the comp on this morning.
Wait a second.
I have a wife at home.
OHHHH yeaaAAAHHH
This is the entire reason for getting married, yes?
RPG people!
This exists.
It’s basically Humble Bundle for pen and paper RPGs and looks kind of neat. A quick glance at the RPGs in the mix only shows one or two interesting ones (just like the Humble Bundle!) and I don’t really know if it’s a good idea to pick up so many new RPGs in one hit.
Still, Cartoon Action Hour looks kind of rad.
Speaking of, we should Fiasco again soon
We should. I’m free all week, aside from maybe Friday.
Hmm, week’s a little busy for me, but could do possibly sometime on the long weekend (this w’end here)
CJ’s staying over here this weekend but I’m sure that there will be time. Or he’ll get roped in. One of the two.
While you’re right that they’re are a few standouts on offer, buying that many RPGs at once would probably be a bit overwhelming. It’s nice to see Humble Bundle bring out something new.
I don’t think Humble Bundle is running this. There are a ridiculous amount of Bundle sites of all varieties out there these days. This just happens to be one that Shut Up & Sit Down mentioned in their news post thingy today.
So… mediocre JRPG developer Compile Heart’s ‘Galapagos RPG’ group have a new game for PS4 out in Japan this week. It sounds kind of interesting, yet at the same time completely strange. Apparently it’s a combo idol management sim and JRPG.
I’ve beaten down many JRPG antagonists over the years, but never via an epic choreographed song and dance number. Why did it take until 2014 for this to be a thing?
It’s probably completely shit and probably won’t get localized 🙁http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake#mediaviewer/File:San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg
Every once and a while I like to look at this picture. Craaaazy. Be sure to zoom in. It’s San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake. City was decimated. Awe inspiring.
One day DC, one day
So my engagement party on Saturday night went really well. drank a lot of beer had some awesome cake. Drank some champagne. Opened my bottle of Jonny walker blue label that has been sitting there for 2 years. Now that is a dam nice scotch still have some left. Had some more beers also more cake. Surprised myself I was still standing at the end of the night. Woke up with a slight headache Sunday morning. Ate more cake.
It’s Tuesday, I’m Popdart5, and this is my AMA.
Supanova, 2013. You approach @shane and @dc. Thoughts? Impressions after you left?
Got any plans a-brewing that you’re waiting to implement? What?
Something you’ve wanted to tell us TAY folks, but have never gotten around to it?
Favourite food?
Favourite colour?
Something you want to do so damn badly but haven’t yet?
Something you wanted to do so damn badly and have done?
What’s new?
First off, damn you two were/are tall chaps with impressive facial hair. You were both really cool to hang with and super friendly (although Shane’s friendliness may have been due to me buying his anthology :P). I missed the infamous hand in pocket event but you guys acted like great friends despite living in different cities.
Oh I have plans that are a-brewing but mostly they’re RPG related and are full of spoilers. Suffice to say that things are going to happen. Real life wise, just trying to save up enough money to hopefully buy my own place.
TAY folks are the best folks and I’m glad I made the jump across and started joining in the fun when I did. Definitely worth it.
I can’t really go past a quality steak sandwich that’s just super juicy and dripping with goodness. I don’t care if there is a mess just GET IN MAH BELLEH.
Green funnily enough. Obligatory @greenius tag. 😛
Have a long-term relationship honestly. Never seemed to have gotten past six months with anyone yet but that’s mostly just a compatibility thing. I’m pretty realistic about it so I don’t try and force it and just let it happen naturally.
Living by myself and proving I can do it. My family doubted I could move out of home at the tender age of 18 and they were really concerned when I started living by myself. It’s worked out well though.
What’s new? I bought a new cheese grater the other day and I was delighted to find a storage compartment for it to collect cheese. Technology these days.
You’re okay, Popdart. You’re okay. My first impression of you: I admired your confidence and taking meeting TAYbies in your stride. I was crazy nervous the first time. And every subsequent time.
Green is an excellent colour too and steak sandwich is an excellent food. You’ve done good.
Green is the colour for upvotes! \o/
But green’s the colour of spring!
Woot, I found a new enemy!
How good is Revelations?[/copout]
Really really good. Story was goofy at times but still better than other RE games. The giant creature fight was a lot of fun and it really felt like a nicely contained setting on the ships.
I’m now reasonably hyped for Revelations 2 now. I’ve missed Claire action since Code Veronica.
If you were a Doctor Who companion, where would you make the Doctor go?
Another planet. Just anything not Earth.
If it had to be Earth, take me back to the Roman Empire. Always loved the feel of their civilisation so it would be awesome to experience it in person.
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
If it were me, I’d call the cops and try to prevent anyone from starting the bus 😛
Assuming the bus hasn’t exceeded 50 miles an hour, just stop the bus and get out. 😛
If it has though, get everyone on the bus to grab a parachute, attach booster rockets to the bus, achieve sufficient altitude, and then parachute to safety. Flawless plan.
That would make a good movie, you could call it “The bus that couldn’t slow down”
Patent pending!
Most overrated movie? Most underrated movie?
Overrated: Titanic. I don’t like love stories in disaster movies. Titanic clearly is a disaster movie. Clearly.
Underrated: I tend to watch movies often ages after they’ve come out so I can’t really tell what was/is underrated. I enjoyed Enemy at the Gate though but I think that was pretty well received. Yeah I’ve kinda blanked on this one.
Best advice you’ve been given? Best advice you could give to others?
Best advice I’ve received: It’s okay to ask for help. I tend to try doing something first and then asking for help when it would help everyone to just ask for help at the start and deal with it quickly.
Best advice I could give: Don’t hold onto negative thoughts and feelings. I’m a fairly apathetic person by nature so I just shrug off stuff a lot of the time and don’t feel a lot of stress. Generally this boils down to ignoring or powering through the things that make you unhappy to focus on the stuff that makes you happy.
Second advice is good. I like to be like that, but I also have OCD which makes me obsess about things and can make following that advice tough. Words to live by though!
I have almost the opposite in that I tend not to get overly invested in stuff or really care about certain stuff. I’ve been told that I’m almost unemotional at times due to not flipping out at stuff.
It’s kinda the reason why I don’t really get into the whole huge massive arguments and stuff because I generally don’t care enough about it. It’s served me well in a way because I’m sure I would complain a hell of a lot more if I let things get to me.
Are you now or have you ever been?
Both?
Why Popdart5, and what happened to the other 4 Popdarts?
Popdart was taken and I immediately defaulted to 5 because of that stupid Mambo No. 5 song. Kind of stuck since then.
No idea what happened to the other four but they’re out there somewhere, plotting evil as we speak. Maybe. Probably not.
Let’s see, seeing as you are the TAY “RPG guy” I should probably ask you a hard RPG questions …
Favourite Tabletop RPG?
Urgh, don’t make me choose between everything I’ve played. I can’t narrow it down to a “favourite” favourite because there are simply too many. I couldn’t pick a favourite but I can tell you that I’ve had the most crazy awesome adventures in sci-fi RPGS simply because there are so many more possibilities and options than a standard fantasy one.
My favourite one that I have read about and would like to play is Call of Cthulu however that is more of a pie in the sky ambition as not many people want to deal with that much Sanity loss.
Call of Cthulhu is rad if you’re playing with a group that understands that they will not win but they will be driven insane and/or killed.
Oh yeah, you need to have people who understand that you will not win. Unfortunately the people I generally play with do so to build characters with some sort of actual power and agency so Cthulhu doesn’t really suit them at all.
You’re stuck inside a video game, what game do you choose and why?!
What is your favourite album?
Would you rather have a pet snake or a pet tarantula? What would it be called?
If I was my ordinary self, I would like to be stuck inside the Jade Empire game. Such a fascinating place to be.
I don’t have a favourite album. I own zero music whatsoever, digital or otherwise, and I rarely spend time listening to music outside of driving.
I would prefer a pet snake and I’d call him Hoop. For reasons.
Awesome. I want a hoop snake.
I have to confess, I’ve never played Jade Empire. I used to own it on XBox, but I got rid of my XBox and all the games before I played it,
Just put it on my Steam Wishlist
Never got around to playing Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath before I got rid of them all either.
Jade Empire weirdly plays best on PC with mouse and keyboard. STRANGE, I KNOW!
Having played it twice on Xbox, I’m afraid I can’t believe you. Don’t know how that would adapt well to a mouse at all.
We need a new Jade Empire.
Apparently the game doesn’t work on anything other than Windows XP, and the store page doesn’t mention it at all.
I read the TAY RPG wrap up every week, and it sounds like a lot of fun. I’m newish here though and don’t know much about it, so here are my Q’s:
– Is this something of your own creation or are you using a RPG template?
– Do you play online or in person?
– What is the purpose of the RPG, and is there an end game?
First off, thank you for reading them. They’re not particularly well written but it does give a bit of insight into what we do.
All of the RPGs that we play have rulebooks and things printed for them so I’m not aware of anyone doing anything that is 100% custom made. The settings and NPCs and other story elements are predominately our own creations.
For the TAY RPGs we play online using the Roll20 program however a bunch of us have separate offline RPG groups that we play with as well. Personally I don’t have a bias towards one or the other as different groups of people excel in different environments.
The purpose of the RPG is, in my opinion, to create story that is shared and built upon by a group of people. It allows a pretty easy and open way to roleplay characters and settings same as how some people roleplay when they play video games. The end game of a RPG is basically the end of the book or movie however nothing prevents the end of one book or RPG campaign to not be followed up by a sequel or different story entirely.
@mrtaco did you end up getting rid of Wonderful 101?
I didn’t want to outbid people
Yeah, I ended up giving it to Shane. It makes up for the guilt of taking his games and DVDs 😛
sweet, yeah, if it wasn’t shane I woulda outbid the shit out of that. Dude deserves nice things.
Aw man, I’m sorry. And to @mrtaco too. If only you guys knew how much of a jerk I really was…
not at all man, I probably wouldn’t have played it for months, it has gone to a worthy home.
Just watched Edge of Tomorrow. It was better than I expected. Not too sure on how I feel on how it ended but I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed that you enjoyed it. :’)
*backs away slowly*
nice view
Got fries with that shake, Freezey?
Re: ending
I reckon they could have scrapped the last five minutes or so. Everything after Cruise bombs the big thingy. Having them revive at the start again really cheapened the ending for me.Holy crap Windows Phone 8.1 is leaps and bounds ahead of 8.0! So.damn.good!
Also hi Tay! Been a bit quiet recently because I frankly don’t have anything interesting to talk about… Still lurking though, so don’t worry 😛
Hows mrs pixel??
She’s… Coping :P… Old meds was doing dick all, so she’s on some new stuff but yet too see if it works… Still got a long way to go though me thinks… We’re slowly adjusting to this new lifestyle though, the difficult part is this constant stress I have about money… I whine about it way too much as it is so I won’t get I into it but that part sucks 😛
/rant (sorry)
How are you and your better half?
Im pretty well, stressing about stuff but i deal with stress better now i can just tell someone when i am stressing. They usually make me see I’m being silly. She’s pretty okay, she’s kind of down because the employment market for graduates in the creative arts are non existent and she’s scared that even in regular jobs she might be descriminated against. But mostly we are very happy, we smile and laugh a lot so thats good.
Keeping the mood up is the main thing! And being able to share laughs is crucial! And trust me I know all about stresses over nothing! Kinda feel like its been dragging me down more then it should, so I’ve been trying to stop it in its tracks :P… I’m trying not to get into it too much with people because I know it’s silly and constantly talking about it is starting to annoy people I think… Anyway why am I waffling like this? We where talking about you :P… Looking forward to PAX?
PAX IS GOING TO BE GREAT
going down with my buddy and it should be amazing fun. so excited to see all my other buddies.
Howdy neighbour
New episode of TFS is out, seen it yet?
Nope not yet! Will have to check that out once I get home, thanks for the heads up! 😀
Rye? Some!
Yup! *nods*
I’m unreasonably keen for more Borderlands 2 at some point, and I reckon we should start pushing your highest level character towards the end so you can experience all the great stuff there.
However I’m not available between 8 and 10pm tonight…
Yeah me too but I think tonight is out for me as well… Wednesday?
Does it do T9?
I wish! It does do Swype now so that’s something 😛
WP8.1 is indeed awesome. Brings in some much needed features.
Ooh boy. Flooded office tower and shopping centre atrium, with fire brigade and angry building management all looking to me for answers.
Not my fault, but still not the way I wanted to end my work day.
“It’s my first day!”
Sorry to hear that, buddy.hahah i saw the simpsons ep where homer pulls that line on Mr Burns the other day! So funneh!
Faulty alarm system?
Yeah something like that; sprinkler system activated when it was not supposed to. Not sure exactly what went wrong yet but thankfully it’s not my job to find out.
Scribbletaku! (TV Show edition)
Edit: All will be revealed tomorrow.
Commander Riker in a hat, with glasses!
I’m so good at this. \o/
Heizenburg?Bonanza
Stargate Atlantis!
Today has been pretty great. Wife is at work all day and my mother has the children. Meanwhile I have today off work.
So far I’ve spent the entire day in my underwear watching movies, playing games and stuffing my facehole with buffalo wings and potato gems.
Best ever.
Sometimes we need our own time to spend in our underwear, eating food and just taking a brain time out.
I’ve spent entirely too much time watching The Veronicas music videos. It reminds me of uni. XD
Remember this? SO CATCHY!
Flash photography in a moving vehicle?
They’re definitely not going to live 4ever.
We could just pretend. We could just pretend, yeah, yeah.
Oh god, right in the nostalgias.
Damn dude. 2005, eh…. was kinda starting to pull my life together at that point. Crazy times.
I like the Veronicas, but I despise their new song “You Ruin Me”.
Such a whiny song.
4ever is definitely their greatest song 🙂
I remember even when I was pretending I didn’t like them cause I was so cool that I appreciated the hooks in their songs. Now I know I ain’t cool and still appreciate the hooks in their songs. 😀
It’s silly pretending that you don’t like things that you like, Dan 😉
You’re cool no matter what you like 🙂
Yeah, but I was young and stupid. I’ve since come to that realization. I was trying to reinvent myself after high school though. 😛
Remember Pussycat Dolls? They had catchy hooks too!
I think I’ve told this story before. When I worked on Big Brother we got plenty of mileage out of this censored song cause we were dorks. XD
Eh, I don’t like the term “re-invent”, and if anything, I think you invent yourself in highschool, then get to be who you are when you leave 🙂
That’s not re-inventing, that’s freedom 😀
Yeah, but that came after. I made a conscious choice to act in different ways for a little while after high school. 😛 Then I stopped and realized who I really was! Not either of those things!
So long as you realised who you are and know who you want to be, then I’m happy 🙂
Should we hug it out? I’m not sure I’m comfortable with that! 😛
What’s to hug out, haha?
And we’ve already hugged several times, I don’t know why you’d be uncomfortable this time 😛
I happen to own a certain number of Pussycat Dolls songs. They hold special memories.
NOT GONNA GET US- TaTu watch it, its amazing.
Oh man, that and All the Things She Said
Too bad recent remarks have kind of killed that song.
Oh god…
“I have many gay friends.”
Stop there.
You’re done.
She doesn’t have them any more, I’d wager!
Hopefully…
Her entire opinion on the matter is just disturbing. I’d love to believe that she’s a minority both in Russia and the world in general but I’m feeling rather pessimistic about it all…
Reading through that it sounds like she doesn’t actually know what she thinks. Just some vague concept.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of it was a protective measure against the government policies currently being pushed in Russia. If you are know for being one of the chicks that did that gay kiss in that video clip you might want to distance yourself from that a bit.
Although reading it it sounds almost like conversations I’ve heard guys have down the pub
“Two chicks is hot but two guys is icky”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA bitch.
Nah, I’m at that point about this subject where I’ve given up and have started thinking, let bigots be bigots.
There’s no changing them, after all, better to just ignore them.
Not the best mentality, I know, but it’s tiring hearing about stupid peoples obviously stupid opinions about your lifestyle.
Better to shrug it off then get hung up on it.
Wow, I forgot they were even a thing. I don’t remember liking them, but then again I hate all music anyway.
There’s a lot of sudden empty moment on TAY today. Did I miss something?
I linked to The Veronicas. This changed everything. :'(
Let’s man it up a bit.
Wait, that didn’t work at all!
So manly. So manly. I raise the manliness stakes with this:
Amateurs!
This is how you man it up.
Ahh, 2000’s music. So terrible, but charmingly so.
We all decided we hated each other and now we are just trying to stay quite to see who will win the spite war.
Middle of the day was pretty quiet because maybe people were actually *gasp* busy.
@dc watched the first ep of “Transparent.” It’s very good
Yesss. 😀
Truly these are men with an understanding of music videos far beyond our ken…
I can’t tell if they’re Scandinavians that didn’t inherit the genes to be gods of death metal or if they’re Canadians taking the piss.
Bleugh, feel like I’m about to vomit… 🙁
Ahh! Your screen name is terrifying!
Wow, so there is a new TAY… it just doesn’t have the talk-amongst-yourselves tag.
Hey all.
*need to remember to book PAX flights*
Got around to playing the Bioshock Infinite ‘Burial at Sea’ DLC over the weekend – quite enjoyed both episodes, very worth checking out if you’ve played through all the Bioshocks.
Also, tentatively bought/started playing some Sherlock Holmes game that was on Steam; it’s much better than I expected.
Mostly just been circling the GW2/TSW/LoL wagons, though.
P.S. Long weekend are great.
Oh is that why TAY is so slow today? No one can find it? @markserrels
It’s in the sidebar…
Hey, look at that – and it’s actually the most recent (?!)
I tend to ignore the sidebar because usually (at least on Mon/Tues) there’s two TAYs there and then I have to mouseover each and do some hard™ maths to work out which is the highest number.
If I just bookmark the URL from my prev post I can usually just go to the most recent post with that tag and avoid much actual thinking!
P.S. Long weekend are still great.
As a general rule when there are two TAYs, the bottom one is the most recent one.
Thanks for the heads up!
I played Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper on 360 because it was cheap and the name sounded insane. The game was disappointingly sane, but still decent fun.
It’s this. Steam says I’ve played 2.1 hrs.
I grabbed the sequel which at the time gave you a free copy of the original if you bought before release.
Im shocked..its this late on a tuesday and we havent even made page 6..letting the team down TAY the WHOLE TEAM!
anyway repost of my other post..Natural Doctorine aka the dark souls of tactical turn based strategy and the game that takes all the best things of fire emblem and xcom…PS3/PS4/Vita cant decide between PS4 or vita version HALP!?
Someone must have an anti-page 6 agenda… but who! *arches hands*
That someone is the most dastardly villin of TAY #monstergene
Nvm.
Gone are the days when we’d be lucky to make two pages across a whole week…
Natural Doctrine was torn to pieces in Japan and it’s getting very middling reviews so far. I was kind of interested maybe, but I looked at it carefully and it looks like a JRPG developer trying to make a Western PC RPG but not quite getting it. Also looks fiddly and frustrating as all fuck to play (if anyone dies on your team it’s game over, apparently).
Decided to skip. Especially since I’m sitting on Tales of Xillia 2 and Neptunia Re;Birth, Fairy Fencer F and Ar noSurge just released, and in the next 3 months we’re getting Tears to Tiara II, Tales of Hearts, Dragon Age Inquisition, Persona Q and there’s a good chance we might get Trails in the Sky SC this year too. Already have a surfeit of good or reasonable RPGs of basically all shapes and sizes with that list.
Embarrassing question… asking for a friend. Yeah, definitely not me…
Anyway, how does moderation actually work on Kotaku for n00bs? I know about the link limit, but is there some amount of time or number of comments or something before you stop needing to have every single comment approved? Apologies if this has been answered many times before, but I’m a terrible lurker nowadays.
Remember. Totally not me asking. A friend.
If you edit your comment and submit again it should appear fine. Maybe.
I don’t think this has ever been explained by anyone.
We don’t know what the threshold is for an account to stop needing approval. It might even be a manual thing where the person doing the moderation hits a checkbox of “approve all future comments”.
There are ways people can lose having their comments approved automatically. I know mass downvotes on a single comment can do it and it’s almost definitely a moderator tool as well.
Posting multiple links is a separate thing that I think bypasses the automatic approval stuff.
Fair enough – black magic.
I actually ask because a guy at work is keen to join in the community, but finds that his comments lag behind the conversation and hence he loses interest in participating. Yet here I am with my fancy schmancy auto-posting comments, and I can’t explain to him what the difference is. I may have to harrass @markserrels for answers on twitter during the work day tomorrow.
Actually it has been explained, people reporting your comments & getting downvotes attributes to your comments having moderation more often. I think it was Chris over on LifeHacker had to explain that to someone just the other day.
Edit: or you could be like me one time and have your name end up on the black list for unknown reasons, Ben was pretty confused when that happened lol.
Yup, that bit has been explained but not the initial approval process that let’s someone post without needing moderation.
Random chance basically 😛
Have you made your daily offering to Draba-Kumi, Dread lord of the pit, dead puppies and internet moderation?
That’s how I stay unmoderated anyway
I spent most of today thinking it was the first of October. Imagine my delight to find out it was still September.
I don’t get it, what’s wrong with October?
I get older! AGAIN!
30 days until PAX. 30 days to make 4 costumes.
You can do it! A week for each
There’s also another 2 that have to be done by the 15th for Armageddon
Nearly the end of No Swear September? Already?
That actually went by really fast.
It went by in a f***.
Flit?
I think it must be fish.
Flub.
Font.
Just found out that this is a thing.
OMG! WE WANTS IT! MUST HAVE THE PRECIOUS! TAKE MY MONEY NOOOOWWW!!!
This set is still nicer.
https://ebgames.com.au/ps4-201675-Dragon-Age-Inquisition—Inquisitors-Edition-PlayStation-4
Already got that pre-ordered. What I linked to is actually the strategy guide. Looks freakin’ sweet. The only places I can find it is Amazon and Gamestop. Amazon doesn’t have a price and Gamestop has it at US$119.
By the way Dragon Age peeps, does it matter if I haven’t played either of the previous games?
So are people still getting Smash Bros on both platforms?
Seems like all my 3DS buddies are leaving me 🙁
FANTASY LIFE FOR LIFE!
I will, probably pick up the 3DS version this week, but I won’t be able to play it because no 3DS. Gonna buy one of the “New” 3DS XL’s when they come out in November.
Just Wii U for me!
3DS for me, but not straight away.
The 3DS smash money just got spent on a second copy of fantasy life, so, dunno.
$44 at target is probably the cheapest it’ll be for a long time, which might be enough to tip me over.
Wii U version with a new GameCube controller is a given, whenever that is.
I’m gonna hang out for the Wii U version – can’t really afford to get both.
Have seen @Greenius banging on about Xenoblade for a few weeks and have been growing interested. Then last week saw that he linked to available stock on OzGameShop… umm’d and ahh’d over the weekend and even had it in my cart on Sunday.
Got sidetracked for the rest of the day, Monday blew up on me… today grabbed a new set of rechargeables for my Wiimotes. Loaded up OzGameShop tonight to finish purchase…….
…
…
…..
…….
………
Xenoblade Chronicles Solus is no longer available.
I just died a little inside.
Edit: Found it… https://twitter.com/sunsoar77/status/516903610198663168
Greenius will show no sympathy. Only judgement at not buying all Xenoblade, all of the time! D:
This is the next cheapest I think. 20 bucks more.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Xenoblade-Chronicles-Brand-New-Sealed-see-photos-Aus-Seller-/191352036271?pt=AU_PC_Video_Games_Games&hash=item2c8d785baf
Found it at Dungeon Crawl… Same price as your link. And thanks for linking to ebay… Reminded me that Dungeon Crawl often times carries similar stock to OzGameShop.
Yes! But I told you all to buy it at OGS! Ughhhh
@liondrive
Spelunky is a cruel, cruel game.
I’m working my way through and trying to get all of the achievements in the game. I’ve got most of them now, including some of the trickier ones like Speedlunky (beat the game un under 8 minutes) and The Entire Gang (unlock all bonus characters, which involves beating the secret final boss and a host of other things).
There are now only three achievements I need to get: Big Money (earn over $500,000 in a single run), Good Teamwork (complete a co-op game without anyone dying) and Low Scorer (beat the game without picking up any money).
Big Money is kind of trivial, I just haven’t played well when the right circumstances came up. Hell, if I wasn’t actively trying to get over $1,000,000 on those runs instead of shooting for the bare minimum, I’d have it already. Going for more money means taking bigger risks, so I tend to die on those runs.
Good Teamwork is tricky but do-able, even playing solo. You just plug in a second controller and carry the second player to the end. I can do that. Alternatively there is the Frozlunky mod which will let me co-op with someone and we can just shoot for it.
Finally there is Low Scorer. Fuck Low Scorer. I’ve been working on this one for a few days now and come annoying close a few times. The first time good run I fucked it up by picking up a gold bar in the first level of the Temple (the last section of the game). The second time I almost made it, I died to a Mummy in the Temple (Mummies are jerks). The third time, which happened this evening, I was working on the boss fight and a random fleck of gold hit me in the face while I was exploding a hole for Olmec to fall into.
Literally the last possible chance for the game to screw me out of the achievement and it took it with gusto. So much gusto.
Fuck you Spelunky.
I wish Halloween was a bigger event in Australia :'(
It looks so pretty, and fun, and I love dressing up and decorating (yadda yadda yadda, typical gay, shuddup).
I even want to hand out lollies this year, but I live behind another house, so I don’t expect many visitors, and there’s no point in decorating cause you can’t see my house from the street :'(
You all have to hand out lollies for me and decorate and dress up! 😀
http://movieworld.com.au/fright-nights.aspx
Four new Fright Nights mazes – The Evil Within, Cannibal Clowns, Wolf Creek 2 and The Ripper.
@dc, @dkzetgeist, @sughly
@dkzeitgeist
Ahh, would love to do this again! As terrifying as it was for me. Budget cant afford it this year though, might have to hold off til next one 🙁
I’m interested but not super keen after the disappointing mazes last year.
The Evil Within maze is at EB Expo this weekend though so I might see what people think and then decide.
Oh, thanks Freezy, look at all these amazing things I can’t go to! :’O
Move to Brisbane?
Mrs. Freeze went to last years as an Alice Corpse.
I wouldn’t move to Brisbane for Movie World 😛
I’d move there for you 😉
Halloween is the best holiday.
COSTUMES FOR ALL!
ABORTIONS FOR ALL!
Miniature American flags for others!
And always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!
Halloween is the only thing I would go to the effort of making a costume for 😀
I would go all out for Halloween if we did it properly! 😀
Someday when I live in America…
Someday 🙂
I can’t think of anything I haven’t more or less gone all-out for 😛
I’d love to be in America for Halloween someday.
There is a Zombie Shuffle in my town for Halloween (for the second year running). Think we’re gonna be running a Zombie movie for all the participants at the end of the night. Considering dressing up for it.
I gotta figure out if there’s gonna be one around here… so I can hand out Undad Kickstarter flyers.
Look up “Zombie Walk” in your city, they run them every October. I used to go when they’d close off main streets in the city and let us stagger through the city, Now they’ve moved it to a park and the walk is poop.
Send some over, I’ll hand some out if you want.
Dang. Got a good thread for white, and one that seems ok for green. There’s one that’s kiiiind of alright for red but I dunno. And nothing at all for yellow or orange. Especially orange. Think I’ll gotta make another trip. Although those are the extra colours, the main ones are covered. It can probably wait.
Need to get cracking on design :/
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader complete for another session. Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r @gingerchris86
Watch it here.
GM Summary: I hope you guys got those bad rolls out of the way otherwise things are not looking too good for you.
I feel bad for being an Eldar now. I should have gone with an ork boy.
Don’t feel bad. I just get to twist the knife a bit more when you kill your fallen kin. 😀
Failure seems to be a running theme of this campaign.
One can only appreciate the highest high after experiencing the lowest low.
I was rolling Okayish, so no doubt next time I will roll uber bad
Man… dat reroll… I’m still depressed about how horrible my luck is 🙁
Fantasy Life!
Just played some multi with @powalen
Seems like Bountys are shared. But chests and ore deposit loot is individual? You can’t do story stuff either so it’s more for derping and questing. Seems to be the same deal just with another person though!
I tried a bit last night – at least over local WiFi, drops seem to be instanced, but bounties / gathering is world based and a matter for first in.
Does very much seem to be a ‘derp together’ sort of system. No attempt at balancing or allowing for extras, which in one sense is nice since it’s all not too serious like the game as a whole.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
At this stage, still WED 7:30 SA Time, but I may need to pull the plug- family stuff.
will let you know!
cc @popdart5 @tech_knight @blaghman @novacascade
Also, @negativezero was considering a return to the adventure!
Ooh nice to hear about Neg. And yeah, if you’ve got stuff on that’s cool.
I won’t be able to make it tomorrow. Another product launch with work is on tomorrow night. Hopefully its the last one of the season
Not this week 🙁
NO SWEAR SEPTEMBER IS OVER!
Happy No Outrage October, everyone!
Good luck, @transientmind 😛
Heck yeah! #failtober 😐
ugh reply fail
*fistbump* Thanks buddy.
This is doable. Totally. I’m sure.
…
http://youtu.be/kCUIzs8i9EU
Man, you know that thing where you organise something, and then don’t think about it for 2 months, and so you can’t remember who was invited? Yeah.
@hugo-the-hungarian-barbarian, @novacascade (plus one), @cakesmith, @powalen and theoretically @alexpants and @cj *Prays I got at least half of those correct*
Reminder that we’re seeing Wicked on the 18th of October, at 2 PM, at the Capitol Theatre. Remember to wear your best clothes!
What do you mean “nobody else does theatre clothes, Blaghs.” YOUR FACE DOESN’T DO THEATRE CLOTHES!
I will probably come up on the Friday, so is anyone willing to put up with a crashing and burning Blaghs for 2 nights? I don’t need the internal stress I dealt with last time, where I only thought to try and organise things 2 days beforehand, and then changed my plans completely once I reached Sydney.
Yeah, of course it’s Hugo I fuck up. @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
Do you own a dinner jacket?
Theatre Clothes?
Oh, you mean my nice blue singlet? – The wifebeater without any stains?
Also, posting this has reminded me that I have two sets of double pluggers (thongs). One are old and dirty for around the yard but the other is actually a good pair that I wear when I go out dressed up.
#BoganLyfe
Oh hey I think that’s when Mum and my aunt are going. There’s been an envelope pinned to the notice board for a while now with that date on it.
Are you being serious about the fancy clothes? It’s a bit hard to tell… 😛
I’m always serious, Powalen.
Gonna have to do something about that stupidly long @ thingy.
If you’re willing to come out to Merrylands I got a room you can crash in.
Though it is Merrylands so…
Wicked!
Happy Birthday to Bawble! (Can’t remember what his tag is)
As long as it’s not that beeawwble fellow. Hate that guy.
Hey!
Oh, hi! Didn’t see you there.
haha nah Bawble is Dawdle’s other half!
Could be a happy accident, but it looks like Shadow of Mordor is available on Steam… minus the Australia Tax. Yeah, $50. Anyone heard anything about this?
Ohh, that’s going to piss off a lot of people…
Also, yeah, it was released yesterday even though Steam originally said today. I was playing it last night!
Apparently the US release date was moved to September the 30th.
Good for you master racers, bad for us console peasents.
Lucky bastards 😛
US and everywhere else except Australia, apparently. 😛
I was going to get it for PS4, but I’ve changed my vote. Price and timing matters.
I paid less than $50 as I got it from GMG where it was on special, and I added a 20% off coupon. \o/
Isn’t it amazing? We are still not on page6
Edit: well this is awkward.
You mentioned it, your fault 🙂
How do turtles have sex?
In…
KNOCK KNOCK U ABOUT TO GET SHELL SHOCKED
I hate myself……Out
So Shadow of Mordor is a pretty cool guy. Having a lot of fun with it so far.
Something that I didn’t know was a thing: I was running around killing stuff and having a grand old time and suddenly get a message that @f4ction had been killed and I should avenge him. I was like “shit yeah!” and bolted over to the target location, set the guy on fire, beat the crap out of him, then poked his brain with a sword.
Good times.
But I haven’t been killed :\
Yeah, I wasn’t sure if you actually died or not to have this happen. I’ll be honest, my first thought was “He died already? Maybe he’s on a higher difficulty…?”
I just wish I could see the notifications. I seem to be completely unable to see anyone else’s real or fictitious deaths/avenges
Same, it’s really annoying because everyone else is getting multiple notifications.
Oooh, that’s a bit rude. I can imagine some people being upset at losing their ‘street cred’. 😛
Still downloading…. hopefully should be done by tonight
can’t wait for the console release. Sounds like a lot of fun.
Ohh damn. @transientmind pointed this out, and just I confirmed for myself: Shadow of Mordor is back to $50 on the AU store. Either they were forcing people to buy a different version till now (like the premium) or a lot of people are about to get really pissed.
i want to get it now, since the price is right but 35 gb is waaaay to big a download. so to JB for the disc version
Also still under $40 at g2play!
$40.99 inc. Dark Ranger DLC at Ozgameshop. Steam was getting beaten everywhere.
Australia Tax removed? On Steam a week before console? My wallet knows how to vote.
(Edit: I am kind of wondering if I should’ve sent in a tip or mentioned it elsewhere… I would hate to discover that this was an error and that the Australia Tax goes back on once they realize they’ve accidentally stopped fucking us.)
I say tell @markserrels
Wow, I knew it’d be out today, but it’s a kick in the face to anyone that preordered through Steam… I imagine it’ll be “fixed” pretty soon.
Note: It’s still $37.50 at GMG with their September 25% off coupon for another few hours yet. Ends at 6pm UTC (4pm Sydney time).
OMG! Euro Truck Simulator 2 now has Steam Achievements, and 66% off to boot. I’m so buying that.
No, I really am 😛
http://store.steampowered.com/app/227300/
Anyone not got Torchlight II yet. It’s 75% off on Steam right now at $4.99.
If you don’t have it there really aren’t any excuses now, not mentioning any names.
*puts hand up to mouth and whispers*
@phlanispo
*shifty eyes* 😛
http://store.steampowered.com/app/200710/?snr=1_7_15__13
Edit: Spelling, it’s too damn early.
Damn, I won’t be able to buy this before the sale ends. I don’t have a Paypal account, so I have to get Mum to do it and pay her back. Thaty’s going to be rather difficult, as she’s in Indonesia right now.
Rewatched wolf children last night while eating udon noodles. It was the best night ever.
EVER
About to go out. Just in time to be able to skip Page Six when I get back. \o/
Have fun with your puns and bad jokes, kids!
Remember those of us who weren’t as fortunate as you and have to endure this hardship.
*claws on walls of page6* take me with you!
Don’t lie, you love it.
So, the next version of Windows is Windows 10…. wait, what!
Someone at Microsoft really has trouble with numbers.
XBox, XBox 360, XBox One
Windows 7, 8, 8.1…10
Seriously WTF!
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/10/all-the-new-stuff-coming-to-windows-10/
Also rather troubling how quickly they’ve moved on.
IIRC, didn’t they do the same with Vista? “Hmmm, that didn’t work…… WIN7!”
Win 7 works. 8/8.1 flop…. “WIN10!”
It’s mostly a re-branding due to the negative press surrounding Win8. A lot of people are labelling a Window 8 patch.
The Red Dwarf system of numbering!
Not as big a leap as when MSN jumped from version 9 to version 14 or something.
Sad that the most exciting feature to me is being able to paste into command prompts with Ctrl+V. Finally, I don’t have to use my mouse to do stuff in the terminal! Oh, and I guess that task-view thing looks pretty neat…
Although it will likely lead to accidental script killing when I try to copy something… Yay, more inconsistency! Why didn’t they just do what Linux does – Ctrl+Shift+[C/V] in the terminal to copy/paste.
Up until now it was Windows 9…oh well.
Up until now people were *calling* it WIndows 9. But it wasn’t announced as Windows 9. Threshold was the internal code name.
NT3.1, NT3.5, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Since every second Windows is terrible, (Vista, Win8) they decided to skip 9 and go straight to making a bad OS.
Played some Fantasy Life multiplayer with @greenius last night! (cc @jimu)
It was… okay. Just basically the exact same game without any quests (so, worse :P). It was good that all loot seemed to be shared though. Green was killing monsters and I would swoop in to steal the loot, thinking I was being sneaky… turns out he didn’t even notice because he got items as well 😛
I did laugh when I accidentally killed his captured bounty as he was trying to drag it to the Bounty Lady though!
Also at that point I hadn’t played as any combat classes so I was chipping away at monsters doing 5 damage in my finest tailored shirt and bow-tie while Greenius is doing fully sick whirlwind spin sword attacks with lightning and fire and death.
I think I’ll wait a while before I do it again though. There isn’t much to do while I’m at such a low level. All of the monsters were either easily beatable on my own or way too powerful for both of us (I guess these are the ones that multiplayer is made for). Other than the big bosses there’s not much to do that’s any different to single player.
Tell me more about this bow tie…
It was ugly!
I’ve been up since 4am trying to get Shadows of Mordor to work.
The download corrupted itself.
I’m re-downloading.
I have drunk three coffee’s, am stuck at work and the wife just texted me to say that the internet was playing up so she paused my download. She says she’ll turn it back on when she leaves for choir at 4pm.
I had 5 hours left to download. I’m going to go home to 4 hours left to download.
There is no dad joke here.
Only the gaping hole where Assassins Creed: Middle-Earth Stabby Stabby Edition should be.
Grab the download off someone you know?
Sorry @rize, what was that? Sneakily set off remote download once in a while? If she notices and turns the download off, I’ll just blame Steam for “auto downloading after pausing”?
Don’t mind if I do, @rize. You’re such an ideas man.
“Wait, that’s… that’s not what I–”
“SUCH AN IDEAS MAN, RIZE.”
Shout out to the people who want to know what the opposite of in is.
Destiny! We did the thing!
Smashed through Vault of Glass last night. Some of us got a lot of shards/energy. Others got gear. There’s no need to name names.
I’m not entirely sure how the process works, but I think as long as I’m not the “Fireteam Leader”, I can still join another group and they’ll still get loot. So I am keen to run Vault again if anyone needs a 6th.
Can confirm you can only get loot from vog once. Do it again and even chests don’t give you anything. But others will get stuff.
Other teams should be trying again on the weekend. Maybe. Hopefully. If they have time.
:/
Likewise, if someone needs to pad out an incomplete roster, they have my
swordrocket launcher.Also, you guys.have not completed hard mode yet? Slack.
:p
We need to get some raid gear pieces and level those up. Except @dkzeitgeist keeps hogging them. 🙂
Same here – if anyone needs a sixth for the VoG over the weekend, hit me up. I’ll be happy to help out.
Putting me down as a ringer too.
I don’t know if there’s any loot left for me anyway…
I’m hoping I can gear up and find some people that still want to run the raid by the time I’m good enough 🙁
What level you at man? Ps4?
Apparently I have nothing better to do than play this game so let me know if you want a hand with anything.
20.
Well, first things first let’s get you some queens guard stuff while the event is up.
Apart from that, the fastest way to get lvl 20 blues (next best thing to purple) is pvp so feel free to join me when I’m doing that.
I don’t PVP.
Sure ya do.
Seriously, at the end of pvp matches players get mostly randomly awarded stuff based on your level. It is a way faster and more reliable way to get the level 20 rares you need than hoping for drops in strikes. Puppets went from level 20 – 24 in a day from hanging out with a couple of us in pvp.
Don’t even worry about winning or doing well, it really does not matter – doing good gets you sweet fuck all anyway. Just grab a couple of bounties, jump in some clash with us, flail wildly and talk shit till it gives you the stuff you need. Then you never have to do it again.
Also, so you know, this is the light level progression:
A full set of level 20 rares, fully upgraded will put you at 24.
A full set of legendary gear, upgraded without using ascendant shards will get you to 27.
Then upgrading two of your armor pieces fully with the shards will put you to 28.
After that you need raid set gear to advance to 29/30.
Queens wrath will get you legendary helm/chest so you can be 26 in no time.
No, I mean I really don’t do PVP. I just don’t like it at all. Especially when it’s over the internet on consoles with random people. I’m never good enough to enjoy playing it, the playerbase is almost invariably hostile jerkbags, and I find it incredibly stressful in general.
I don’t even really like doing PUG runs for normal PVE stuff. So many bad experiences in other MMOs.
@negativezero
Fair enough, well if you want company doing the queens wrath stuff or strikes or what have you, let me know.
Do I have you on friends list?
@jocon: I’m not sure. atomiclemon.
Eh psn is being screwy, won’t search for you.
I be Jocon89 if it’s working for you.
Ooh, so there’s a rumour going around that the next 3DS update (the one that is bringing the custom themes) is going to have a system screenshot functionality too (it’s about time :P). There’s a new button mapped to Y in the corner of the top screen: http://i.imgur.com/A1wxoVF.jpg
Would be pretty great for games that don’t have a screenshot function built-in like Pokemon.
Oh god yes. As someone who loves the screenshot function in Steam games, this is sorely needed.
I glanced at your steam screenshots once or twice, lots of hilarity to be found there xD
Thanks!
Sometimes it’s just too easy to get a laugh out of the ridiculous stuff that can happen in games…or just taking epic shots for later use as wallpapers 😀
My main issue is I forget to take the screenshots when they happen, but I have a few on my own steam page 😛
Yeah, quite often I’m too entranced by a game to remember to take some. But hey, I’m too busy having fun so I don’t feel bad about it 😀
Most of my screenshots are Mass Effect 1 and making fun of how models break through the use of the Pull Biotic ability xD
I still remember that deer picture from XCOM: The Bureau. Good times.
Yessss! No longer will I need to get my camera out if I want to record my favourite lines in Ace Attorney! 😀
Did you hear about the new restaurant on the moon? The food is great, but there’s just no atmosphere.
Well technically…
What did the mountain climber name his son? Cliff.
A man was caught stealing in a supermarket today while balanced on the shoulders of a couple of vampires. He was charged with shoplifting on two counts.
This one is fantastic
I gave all my dead batteries away today… Free of charge.
Velcro… What a rip-off.
BUDDY STAHP just put them in a reply chain to yourself, otherwise the page will change and i wont get to read any more glorious puns
He doesn’t respect the chain of command
You know what the chain of command is?
It’s the chain I go get and beat you with ’til you understand who’s in ruttin’ command!
/jayne
Ah the hero of Cantin, the man they call Jayne!
Where does batman go to the bathroom? The batroom.
Why don’t skeletons ever go trick or treating? Because they have nobody to go with.
What did the late tomato say to the early tomato? I’ll ketch up
Got yelled at by my sister last night for having leftovers instead of cooking something for the three of us. Dammit they need to get eaten. Not my fault you disappeared with no word of when or if you’d be back, so I planned food assuming you wouldn’t be around 😛
There’s still enough leftovers to get me through lunch and dinner today, and lunch tomorrow. But then it looks like I’ll need to cook something for tomorrow night’s dinner. Which, funnily enough, is the night my friend’s girlfriend is coming over. Gotta impress? 😛 Gotta make something that’ll give me lunch for Friday. And maybe dinner for then too. Man, I don’t even know how to think of things to have. Wonder if there’s something easy in the freezer.
If I ever had a girlfriend, I would never ever want them to meet you in fear of you turning into Fabio and whisking them away.
You know, just FYI.
Jokes on him I don’t have a girlfriend for him to whisk away! Hahahahaha… hahaha… haha… *starts crying*
This sounds like it’s about to turn into an epic challenge in the TAY Iron Chef Kitchen Stadium
Well we all know @blaghman is going to win an Iron Chef throw down.
I hope that it does happen. Just on the off chance that it would cause me to suddenly grow hair again.
If there were enough leftovers for three meals then why’d your sister yell at you?
You wouldn’t lie to us, would you, Gooky?
If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say she probably expected something a bit more fancy than re-heated left-overs for her arrival.
So you spoon leftovers into her mouth until she’s physically unable to complain
Because the leftovers are kind of old and they didn’t want to eat them. And they were all small servings of a bunch of different things. Two enchiladas that I think were from Thursday, half a serve of some kind of curry thing that was from earlier in the week, five dumplings of some sort that must’ve been from some point over the weekend while I wasn’t home, and one serve of risotto from way earlier in the week. There’s also three slices of pizza left that I guess they must have had on Saturday, but they don’t want that either.
Easy solution: Chuck all the leftovers in a pot with some stock. Soup!*
* Flavour not tested.
“And then they never asked me to cook again.”
I like the way you think, Pow.
All I’m hearing is “banquet”
A pasta dinner is always a good option when cooking for other people, and when you want leftovers. If you want to impress, lasagne or cannelloni are both good.
Heh, if I really want to impress with lasagne I need my sister around. She’s got pasta-making down to a science, perfect every time.
Pasta is a decent fallback, though I have no idea where any of our recipes are. Also would probably have to cook it tonight, since it’s at its best when the sauce stews away for hours. Actually there’s a good chance there’s some frozen pasta sauce squirreled away in the freezer, as Dad tends to do. Hmm.
Actually, vegetarian lasagne or cannelloni are very fast to make, cheap and always taste amazing. Use the fresh pasta sheets and a basic tomato sauce and you can have it in the oven in 30 minutes.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17107/spinach+and+ricotta+cannelloni
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17720/pumpkin+sage+and+ricotta+lasagne
Does fresh pasta sheets mean ones that aren’t dried? We’ve only ever had the dried ones when using store-bought pasta for them, I wouldn’t know where to find anything else.
In the fridge section of the supermarket are fresh lasagne (and cannelloni) sheets. It will be with the other fresh pastas like tortellini and ravioli (the garlic bread is usually nearby too). They can be cut to size and rolled easily, and don’t take long to cook (only about 15-20 mins in the oven). They’re more expensive than the dried ones, but taste much closer to freshly made.
Jamie Oliver’s Cauliflower Macaroni bake is absolutely amazing and takes very little effort to cook. It’s in his 30 minute meals book.
You’ll have enough for dinner for 3, and left overs for lunch!
Let me know if you want a picture of recipe.
I love this recipe, and I make it (or variations of it) all the time.
I am super skeptical of his claim that of 15 or 30 minute meals.
I can pretty much guarantee you that that half hour will actually take me an hour and a half to complete 😛
You can do this by itself in 30 minutes without rushing. It’s one component of a bigger meal set.
We just eat it by itself and forget about the salad and desert that’s meant to go with it. 🙂
Ok, so maybe just an hour then 😛
(I am really, really.
Really.
Slow.)
Cannelloni are the tube things right? When I want to impress I make crepes, which are basically cannelloni in pancake form. Make up a spag bog or carbonara meat/sauce mix, roll it up in the crepes, cover them in cheese and bake. Pretty good, plus with your leftover crepes you make bacon pancakes, making bacon pancakes – You take bacon and you put it in a pancake. Bacon pancakes that’s what I’m gonna make.
baaaccoon paaanCAAAKKEESSSS!
So i’m now the proud owner of a massive roll (somewhere around 300m) of cat 6 cable, i’ve no idea what i’m gonna do with it, but hey it was only 30 bucks!
Weave a bee keeper outfit out of it!
Or maybe a beehive hair do, how classy would that look!
Network things?
Don’t be silly. I’ll obviously use it as tie down rope 😛
Stealing internet wirelessly is for chumps. You need to break into a neighbor’s window, hook that bad boy up to their router and run it back to your house.
Fuck yeah! Now if only any of my neighbours had internets 😛
You mean thirty metres, right?
Nope. It’s industrial size spool of it. The stuff electricians buy 😛 as you can see here.
Only paid 30 bucks for it, considering it’s solid core Cat 6…
Whoa!
Yeep 😛
Daylight Savings ends this Sunday at 2am…didn’t realise we were already up to it again.
Doesn’t it start this weekend? I thought daylight savings was a summer thing.
……maybe?
Let’s go with “Daylight savings does a thing this Sunday”.
Noop. Always started first week of October!
Holy crap but is Spotlight busy…
Arrrgh. There’s a million people in here and I have no idea what I’m doing.
It’s always like that, but don’t hesitate to ask. What are you looking for?
Lincraft & Tweed Centro is always dead, shoulda gone there 😛
Lincraft are terrible though – they have no where near the range of Spotlight, and are generally more expensive.
Accidentally put a pair of headphones through the washing machine. They’re producing a good clean sound now.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeHilariously enough I have accidentally put earphones through the washing machine once and they still work 100% fine 😛
I prefer the ‘squeaky clean’ variant on this punchline myself.
SHANE! NEW PROFILE PICTURE! *flails arms*
AND ALSO PAGE SEVEN. ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD AGAIN! :’)
ALL CAPS, ALL OF THE TIME! I’M TAKING CAPS BACK FROM ANGRY PEOPLE! NOW IT’S FOR ENTHUSIASM PURPOSES!
@tech_knight ISN’T ENTHUSIASTIC ENOUGH! HUGS?
okay caps might be too aggressive how about no puncutation
Yes. I appear to be too overly stimulated. I will calm down a bit. I’ll be back though. Probably.
Hw bt n vwls?
#badgrammarpagesevenHoW aBoUt CrAzY cApS?
L33T Sp3ak?
The excessive use of caps irritate me 😛
Stop shouting
That’s how I feel about puns. I can’t stay mad at you. 🙂
But Techie, that’s how all dogs communicate.
Dog: HEY! HEY! YOU! PAT ME! DOG! PLAY WITH ME!
Ahhh, so that’s why dogs won’t use the keyboard. Someone really should tell them there’s a capslock button.
Also their long nails make it difficult to type. Maybe if they had a bark translator.
A dog is a dog, they’re an exception here since they don’t have opposable thumbs or able to communicate in english usually 😛
Yes, but they talk by barking. I imagine everything they say is yelled for that reason
Yep. Sorry about that. It was time, though.
Aw, people are misreading what my caps means. It’s enthusiasm, not anger! :'(
I downvoted the second comment because the puns should never stop.
SHOULD.NEVER.STOP!
Because they shouldn’t start in the first place? Can’t argue with that logic! You’re okay, Nobs!
Don’t make me downvote you again! >=(
Don’t make me twist your words against you again! 😛
I knew that. No one flails their arms if they’re angry. It was clearly a Kermit-esque reaction.
You get me, Shane! THIS IS WHY I TRIED TO PUT MY HAND IN YOUR POCKET!
…
Also to give back change. But the story changes a little every time it’s told, like all good legends.
Except now I think you’re Rocketman for a split second every time. 😀 It’ll pass!
Edit coming through soon. Not to worry!
No more confusion. 😀
But how will TAY get its dose of pink gravatars? We need a balanced diet of colours to avoid descending into anarchy!
Ooohhh. Checked my email and this was in it.
Huzzah!
So much
hate envy despair jealousy longinggood fortune! Enjoy!TELL US EVERYTHING.
Ok, this at a minimum.
TWITCH EVERYTHING!
I wonder if I would be allowed to?
\o/
Wow – so awesome.
*grits teeth*
I.AM.SO.HAPPY.FOR.YOU.
*small stream of blood comes out of nose*
What did the pun joke say to the other pun joke?
“What has @dc got against us? I mean, classic adventure games were all about the puns. Heck, some puzzles in Space Quest, Zork and Myst relied on puns. What’s his deal man?”Not actually picking a fight DC. Just unable to understand your lack of appreciation for the unsubtle, groan inducing pun.*adds exclamation mark against Stan’s name on the list*
OOOOoooooo. I’m so scared.
*borders up house and makes a makeshift rocket launcher, occasionally peeking out the windows just in case*
@freezespreston made a similar observation about Tex Murphy, though. It’s nothing but puns. I don’t know what to tell you, Stan. I don’t know what to tell you.
I personally think the rubber ducky puzzle in The Longest Journey ruined some deep part of you and it can never be repaired.
It got me too. I did it by myself without walkthroughs. Took me three weeks of clicking madly, and tears.
Any thing can be repaired. Like the rubber ducky puzzle in The Longest Journey, a pheonix rising from the ashes. I have a twisted love of weird puzzles like that. (Including the infamous mustache/cat hair pulling/passport puzzle from Gabriel Knight 3. :D)
Why the fuck would you make a makeshift moustache only to have to add one to the photo because it didn’t have it to start with!
Sssssssh. 😛
Gabriel Knight 3 also had the best puzzle in Le Serpent Rouge, so it all balanced out. 😛
The cat-hair mustache puzzle is what I trot out as an example of everything wrong with adventure gaming!
It’s wrong. I can’t defend it. But it’s also in an exceptionally good game apart from that. It’s the ladders in pockets I use as my go to rant. 😀
You leave Guybrush’s pants out of this!
@dc is like an onion. He has layers
And causes tears from those around him.
And if you leave him out in the sun, he will get all brown and start sproutin’ little white hairs
And I’m pretty good when caramelized!
I feel like we’re losing the metaphor a bit.
I know one thing.
If I cut you, I’ll cry.
How about a cake? Everyone loves cake.
A cake with layers?
Are you calling me fat?
You know what ELSE everybody likes? Parfaits! Have you ever met a person, you say, “Let’s get some parfait,” they say, “Hell no, I don’t like no parfait.”
It seems like it’s a thing. I have a friend who loathes my puns, to the point where he’ll usually punch me in the shoulder when I’m in range.
But then he loves Rocket Slime, a game bursting at the seams with puns. And is a huge fan of many other pun-heavy games like that. And continually comes to me for pun-based ideas on names for the games he’s been making at college.
Something about he who doth protest too much? I don’t know. Pun haters are weird.
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
North. It’s a thing.
Going to need to see a map.
You can’t map the heart. And that’s where Pax North lives.
Unless you have access to some sort of cardiologist?
Or a sharp knife >:(
If you come that means we can get a room for six!
That doesn’t look right. Where’s the World of Tanks taking up 1/2 the entire Expo Hall?
Is it just me being blind or is there no massive Sony area?
You’re right. Looks like they’re not turning up. Odd.
Weirder: Media Molecule are a Sony 1st party and they have a booth.
Maybe it’s that big long unmarked rectangle?
Don’t worry, League of Legends is still taking up the most room.
Well you know where I’ll be.. 🙂
I assume this means they’re going to promote world of warships instead, and that that will involve driving a WW2-era destroyer up the Yarra and anchoring it beside the convention center.
EDIT: Note, if they actually did that it would be the raddest thing ever and I’d totally go and look.
That would be amazing
I don’t know if there’s actually many WW2-era vessels left in the world though. A few of the US ships were kept as museums, but most of the German and Japanese ships ended up at the bottom of the sea somewhere or taken by the Allies and used to either bolster fleets until they were scrapped due to obsolescence or they were used by the US to test nuclear weapons.
Exciting!
Apparently I’ll be spending a lot of time in the Handheld Lounge for this Gym thingo. Let’s hope they’ve got lots of power outlets 😛
What are the food options like around the Exhibition Centre, by the way? I’ve never been. Hopefully we’re not locked into using the PAX Cafe.
You will have you badge so there is no reason you can’t duck across the road into crown. Big food court plus heaps of actual restaurant type places. Food will be no issue
The map also says the some of the restaurants in the area are giving 10% off if you show your PAX badge
I will be going past Woolies at Southern Cross station to get bread rolls, sliced ham, sliced cheese, fruit snacks and a packet of rice crackers everyday. That will keep all three of us fed for lunch and all we have to do is grab cold drinks/coffee to keep us going. Definitely taking a water bottle for everyone.
But then again, I’ll be taking a three year old with me who is constantly hungry and doesn’t like waiting in queues for too long. If I have a lunchbox full of snacks, everyone is happy.
I should probably pack some food like that. I’ll be taking a 27 year old who is constantly hungry and doesn’t like queues or people.
…it’s me.
Just get one of your Gym followers out on an errand!
Or that weird nerdy guy who always hangs out right at the entrance.
Has anyone actually received their passes yet? I’m getting concerned about mine not getting here yet…
Not yet. I think they were sending them out this week?
In the article somebody said they were posted on Monday
Nawwww, I got a pro to look over my press release, and they edited out all the puns 🙁
*flips table, cancels everything*
That reminds me… I have to pay someone… on an unrelated matter. *cough*
Doesn’t really sound that professional to me. Just saying …
Having it pun-laden could be a hook to get people to keep reading. Without something like that to create interest people who are not interested to start with may just pass it over.
I’m no writer or publisher but my 2c.
Nah, it’s okay. The new version is way punchier. Though I guess without puns, it’s just chier.
What’s the deal with Square Enix Collective? It’s like Steam Greenlight to allow stuff to be crowd funded so a publisher can profit from it. Sounds dodgy as all hell. Or am I misreading it?
No, that’s exactly what they’ve been trying to do. Square Enix’s investors in particular have been bitching and moaning for years about how it takes several years of investment before any of their products start to see a profit, which can be delayed and run long, costing more money, none of which they can monetize. Some of their investors were pretty candid about trying to find ways to charge during the development process so they can see steadier returns.
People meddling in my business today. Didn’t they learn anything from Scooby Doo? Meddling gets you nowhere I tells ya.
But… meddling almost always saved the day.
I think he just confessed to being the villain, quick unmask him.
It was me all along. Hahahahaha! *flees*
Old Man Popdart!?
Jinkies! Zoinks! Awoo?
Meddling and shit plans, seriously, they always caught the bad guy by accident. It was just bad planning. Just carry a TASER GAWD
Who… the kids or the old men?
Porque no los dos?
Spiel incoming read at your own risk.
starting to feel really down again about the whole situation at home… I hate whinging about it to you or anywhere but I feel like when I try to talk to other people about it, it falls for deaf ears… I thought things were getting better, and to some extends it is, but my general mood keeps dropping below the floor boards and I don’t understand why… I keep feeling like I’m an annoyance and a burden to the people around me… I feel inadequate not being able to provide everything needed for my family… I constantly feel like I’m alternating the people around me due to my situation, even my closest friends… I keep telling myself to get the fuck over it, and some days I’m fine, other days I’m just constantly dragged down by these feelings… I would like to apologize to everyone’s that keeps having to put up with me (@rize and @cakesmith) who constantly have to listen to how “poor” I am… It’s not fair on you guys, you’re amongst my best and closest friends and all I do is complain… I’m trying to get over it and just move on but it’s not easy… I am really truly sorry for being like that… I’ve typed this up about 10 times now, but keep deleting it or editing the post before people get a chance to read it… At least with mobile I won’t be able to edit until I get home from work 😛Sooo… How about Dem vidyagaemz?
Firstly
You arent a burden, you ARE NOT A FUCKING BURDEN, you know who is a burden, fucking birds, you arent a bird, you are a man pixel. A man with a complicated situation at home that you are doing the best you can to get through. Hugs. Also if you need ANYTHING you tell me, I mean anything. I are more than willing to help you out in anyway i can.
ALso those feelings of isolation and being a burden are the exact same feelings i got when i was depressed. If you can go see a doctor. It might not work but at the very least its a start.
Bird-uns?
fuckerMan..Birdman is gonna be devo
As a rational human being:
Depression is frequently anything but logical, which can make it hard to deal with. Just be aware that if you need to talk to people about it this is probably one of the best places you can do it. I would say most of us here have personally dealt with it at least once.As a white male Australian that grew up in a rural town:
Talking about your feelings? Nah, you’re just a big girl aren’t you?Imma see you in a few weeks an we gonna cuddle.
Cuddle
*hugs*
*hugs*
Also what Rocket said, about the doctor thingy. It might not help, but then again, it might.
Dude firstly your awesome, never forget that.
Secondly dont ever feel like a burden on us or anyone your not a burden!
Thirdly *hugs*
And finally you want some taquitos
GROUP HUG
Huh, this was my 3,000th comment. Worth it to make @pixel_the_ferret_viking happy.
Everybody! Quick, stop what you’re doing! Go watch this movie on SBS On Demand.
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/46185539670/get-ready-to-be-boyzvoiced
Thank me later.
WE ARE THE PLAYMOMEN (ohwayoh)
We are old enough, let us drink cerveza!
PAX people: apparently my badge will be arriving within the fortnight so I assume others will be arriving in a similar time frame.
Thats cutting it soooo fine.
Yep. Talk about stress for anybody who has issues
Especially when you need to book tickets so far in advance.
Really? Wow. Even a small postage issue could cause some major dramas there.
Like moving in a week and a half.
Who would be silly enough to do that
….shit
Which reminds me that I still need to book time off work haha.
Oh well, I get back in a week and a half, I’ll see the relevant people then.
Oh yeah, something I totally forgot happened at climbing. There were a couple of others trying the same 4E I was doing, one of them is this guy who’s one of the regulars, been around for a fair while now, training pretty hard and getting crazy strong. He’s damn good, way better than me, but during this he turns to me and says “you make that look easy”. Um, excuse me what?
That’s exactly what I say to other people. In fact I’d just said it earlier that night to the crazy little Filipino beast who flies up the wall like a cat. Yet here was this guy, someone I more or less look up to as one of the guys with all the answers for anything I’d get stuck on, and he’s saying it to me.
One time before, a new couple who I’d offered some tips to commented to me that I looked like I was dancing my way up the wall. I felt pretty awesome then, because that’s exactly how I used to describe the way my sister’s boyfriend would climb, back when I first started out. I think this one’s managed to eclipsed it.
You leveled up 😀 !!!
Wall Dancer Skill Acquired
OH MAN ELITE’S BETA 2 IS UP IT SOUNDS SO COOOOOOOOOL IWANNAPLAY
Its weird, I have a bunch of games sitting around at home that I want to play, but when I sit down to play anything, I end up wanting to play Destiny instead. I’m thinking about it in my spare time. Yet I’m still not even sure I like the game.
Haha, I know that. I have so much rage towards parts of this game but yet I still play it every moment I get.
Sounds like you like the game but are far to anxious to properly enjoy it? just relax.
Probably the case.
I jumped into one of the strike playlists yesterday. So much fun just to team up with randoms and kill dudes.
I’m still too scared to jump in with randoms, at least for my first few times through the strikes. Performance anxiety. 🙁
Seriously, most strikes involve very little strategy. Mostly just kill your way through to the boss, find the boss weakpoint, and shoot away. Some strategies come into play as modifiers get added, but deal with those when you get to them.
Matchmade strikes require zero communication to complete, from my experience.
Also, this has some useful info: http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2hwmsb/to_the_people_who_jump_into_matchmaking_for/
If the worst you do is desperately run around trying not to die, you’ll still be better than a significant number who kamikaze into death then sit around not being able to do any damage because they’re dead.
…I kind of fall into both camps depending on my sugar levels.
I recently decided it’s time to see what all the fuss about Ghibli is. The Totoro one seemed like a good random starting point.
Walked into JB yesterday, went to the section that would have Ghibli, and they all seemed to be there, but … 38 smackeroos. For one?!?
Bit steep for an older movie like that.
Howls moving castle, start with howls.
It is one of my favourite movies ever.
Yeah australian release of ghibli movies are MAAAD expensive. I think @negativezero has a bunch of old ghibli movies on dvd and he upgrade his to blu-ray? maybe ask to borrow his or buy them off him?
I usually hate english dubs, but Howls was killer! Billy Crystal was perfect for his role!! 🙂
Ghibli’s movies have great dubs. And I say that as someone who normally hates dubbed anime. Disney hired actual actors rather than the usual shitty anime voice actors and had proper direction on them.
I actually enjoyed watching The Cat Returns more dubbed than I did subtitled.
But… If I start with the best one, won’t all the rest be worse?
They’re all equally awesome in their own right. That one in particular has a special place in my heart too though!
There are no bad Ghibli films.
Even which one is the ‘best’ is a matter of debate. Totoro is the best for small kids. Kiki was the one that first made it big. Nausicaa is iconic. Spirited Away’s the only one that won an oscar. Only Yesterday is one of the finest examples of the Japanese artistic concept of Mono no aware. Ponyo has amazing animation. Grave of the Fireflies is one of the most depressing animated films ever produced.
They’re all very varied in content too, so often the ‘best’ comes down to which one you enjoyed the most. 🙂
That’s why Whisper of the Heart is the best one!
(In my opinion :P)
Madman seem to re-release them every time a new one comes out, so they never really “age”.
They play them on sbs occasionally. My fav two are definitely howls moving castle and spirited away.
Wait for a DVD sale. They also seem to vary in price a bit. I’m pretty sure I got some of the older movies for $20ish at JB a while back (probably during a sale, can’t remember)
Though I think Spirited Away is the best starting point for Ghibli stuff anyway!
Part of my cunning plan is that it won’t just be me discovering these movies, and if I start with more kid-friendly ones, that also can be useful on the teachery side of things, or something…
Very Kid-friendly Ghibli:
– Ponyo
– Kiki’s Delivery Service
– Totoro
– Spirited Away
Maybe okay (more mature themes):
– Nausicaa
– Laputa: Castle in the Sky
– The Cat Returns
Takahata’s films (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, The Yamadas, Princess Kaguya) are more aimed at a sophisticated audience. They’re arthouse films that happen to be animated. Grave of the Fireflies is probably the most interesting from a purely historic perspective but that film is harrowing even for an adult audience. Only Yesterday is a crystallization of a Japanese artistic concept, ‘mono no aware’, and if it clicks for you it’ll be one of their best films, otherwise it’s boring as shit and most teenagers would hate it. The Yamadas is a slice of life comedy adapted from 4-panel newspaper comics. Kaguya is a really artistic take on a classic Japanese folk tale. Pom Poko is just not very good.
For a lot of the same reasons I wouldn’t recommend Only Yesterday to a younger audience, I don’t think Whisper of the Heart or Poppy Hill would really appeal. They’re similar, they’re all about basically watching normal people do normal things. There’s not that traditional idea of a story there, because that’s not really the point. Kiki’s Delivery Service is actually a bit like this as well, but at least there, while it’s a slice of Kiki’s life, there’s somewhat more of a narrative involved, plus there’s an element of the fantastic to it.
Porco Rosso is an amazing film – if you get a chance, do yourself a favour and watch it with the French dub, because Jean Reno absolutely nails Porco. It’s also one that really is intended to appeal to adults more than children, but it’s full of dogfights and crazy aircraft and stuff so it might also work for kids. Maybe.
Mononoke is I think still my favourite Ghibli film (I swap between it and Laputa). It’s very good, fantastically animated and has a lot of depth. Like Nausicaa, the underlying message is all about environmentalism. The issue is that it’s also fairly violent. I couldn’t see a school approving of it unless you were talking Year 11 or Year 12 and they were studying it as an example of amazing animation or something. But even there, Spirited Away would be more appropriate.
Earthsea is straight up not very good. Don’t make it your first exposure. I liked it, but it’s about on par with Pom Poko and is definitely one of their worst efforts as a studio.
A lot of people like Howl’s Moving Castle but personally not a fan. I’d also suggest it’s one that skews a bit toward an older audience. I’ve only seen it once and I think maybe I went in expecting something different.
Arrietty is a hard one to pick. It’s great and it would certainly be kid-appropriate, plus it’s adapted from a well-known kids book (an English one!) and the animation in it is amazing – Yonebayashi as a much younger director understands how to integrate CG and traditional animation better than Miyazaki did. The issue is that it kind of peters out at the end, doesn’t have a fantastic climax.
Have not yet seen Kaguya, The Wind Rises or When Marnie Was There. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Marnie. @markserrels seemed to really dig Kaguya but he also really likes Ponyo and I’m not that much of a fan of that so different strokes I guess?
I think if I were asked to introduce Studio Ghibli’s films to someone, I’d probably recommend Spirited Away as the starting point more than anything else. It’s a general-purpose example and it generally will work for most people. The only real issue it has is its dub. Everyone is fine except the main character – Chihiro / Sen’s dub actress was a little girl so they could sound ‘authentic’ but she’s also not a very experienced or particularly good actress and her lines are often quite shrill and lacking emotion. JP dub is superior because of that.
I’m surprised you haven’t seen The Wind Rises yet! I loved it!
I’ve owned it for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. Just haven’t felt in the mood for it. Around my place it’s fairly hard to get TV time at all, let alone a 2 hour or so block to watch a feature film. And I don’t want to be tired and stuff so I can enjoy it the most.
I’ve got a big backlog of anime films I want to watch, actually. It’s just one of many.
FWIW it took me about 9 months to get around to Poppy Hill after I obtained my copy of that too.
Be sure to check out Princess Mononoke, one of my favorites. Laputa is another awesome one. What am I saying, just go watch em all 😛
I can’t remember which of my DVDs I already gave away and which I still have, they’re all in storage, but I’ve got most of the AU Ghibli releases on DVD and don’t want them any more as I own everything from Nausicaa through The Wind Rises (except for Ocean Waves which it looks like they might not update 🙁 ) on JP Bluray. I’d be happy to throw some your way. Also @liondrive admitted he hasn’t watched any either, so maybe I can do a split.
I’d also be happy to loan you some of the BDs or arrange a viewing one day.
Also Cinema Nova in Carlton is playing Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, The Wind Rises and Princess Kaguya this month…
That’s what got me thinking it’s time to catch up a bit – all the extra stuff with those screenings might be a bit much for a first time experience.
Offer is greatly appreciated, I’m looking to see *one* to get a gauge on how much I want to chase down / own all the rest.
If you can only see one, then it should probably be Spirited Away. Since Totoro is actually on in cinemas, watching it via home video seems like a waste.
Spirited Away has all the classic Ghibli elements. Great score, strong female lead, decent plot, a lot of time devoted to depicting everyone’s daily life, lush backgrounds, amazing animation… Few of the others are as well rounded.
You could do a lot worse than just starting at Nausicaa (technically not a Ghibli film) and then if you like it, going through the subsequent 21 in release order though.
I’ve just started my girls on them and they are entranced everytime I put them on. Totoro and Arrietty they adore but were a bit less keen about Spirited Away. To which I say “Pah. Stupid kids don’t know any better”. Kiwi’s Delivery Service they were a bit wish washy on too.
Think Ponyo might be next.
Also also I found the Japanese Bluray for about $1350 for the set which works out $77 per movie….
I figure the ‘suitable for kids’ ones like Totoro could be a good starting hook. Are they G or PG?
Mostly G with a smattering of PG and the odd M (Tales of Earthsea, Grave of the Fireflies)
Grave of the Fireflies should be rated “You will not feel good for a week after watching this”.
@beavwa: Grave of the Fireflies might be ‘M’ for content, but it opens with the american incendiary bombing of Tokyo and follows a kid and his little sister as they are made homeless and struggle with a completely desperate, hopeless situation as their country falls apart at the tail end of WW2.
Ergo it is not a kids film at all unless you want to increase the youth suicide rate.
It’s not even the most harrowing anime film set in WW2 either. If you want something truly horrifying, then you could track down Barefoot Gen. I think that the opening part of it is on Youtube. One of the few animated things I’ve ever seen that made me feel physically ill.
Oh and Tales of Earthsea is rated M for Michael. Because the villain is totally Michael Jackson.
“Your broomstick is sweet as, bru.”
I’m so close to giving up on Android and going back to iOS purely because of SwiftKey.
Change to a different keyboard/input method. There’s a tonne of free options on Play.
EDIT: Hell, I bet there’s an iOS input rip-off on there somewhere.
Ninja Scroll!
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Millwife? WTF is a millwife?
7:30 SA TIME
ALSO STREAMING
cc @popdart5 @blaghman @tech_knight
Oh Blaghs. *canned laughter*
Shadows of Mordor is fun, but the nemesis system seems a bit screwy. I got attacked by an orc captain, who I killed. He was on the ground dead, the orc captain menu told me he was dead and I looted his body. A bit later I got ambushed by him again. He had a metal patch over his eye and in his dialogue he blamed me for its loss. Okay, so maybe he was just pretending to be dead the last time. I can buy that. I killed him again, and like before the game told me he was dead and I looted his body. A short time later he showed up yet again, and I had to kill him a third time before killing two more orc captains who attacked me because the games combat it surprisingly easy given what reviewers have been saying about it.
I’m really hoping this same orc doesn’t show up a fourth time. I was under the impression that an orc had to escape, or kill you, for the nemesis system to take effect, but if the system just works around killing a guy and then they magically show up again slightly stronger then the whole thing feels a bit cheap.
What you’ve described is what I expected the “nemesis” system to amount to so I’m not surprised that that’s the case, just a tiny bit disappointed after the early reviews suggested otherwise.
Of course it’s probably preferable to the alternative.
Sounds kind of pythonesque. Does he dress all in black? ONLY A FLESH WOUND?
Happened to me also. Some Poisoner guy.
I fought him three times – first time he killed me, but almost died himself.
Second time I mauled him to death with a caragor (which he was afraid of).
Then he turns up and whines at me for leaving him for dead and not finishing the job. So I killed him. Again.
The best thing about this semester is that the first response I get from pretty much everyone when I talk about what I’m doing is “aren’t you doing IT?” and I can finally actually get people to half understand what info systems is and why it’s not IT 😀 It’s only taken the past 2 years to get to this point!
Pretty sure I saw Ron Pearlman’s double today at my local shopping centre.
My attempt at dyeing a top is looking more and more like an abject failure.
Thinking they may have given me the wrong dye and not enough of it since it’s a nice even colouring but extremely pale.
Just hoping that its not irreparable and something I can redo.
It is cotton right? if you want a stronger colour, keep it in longer
65% Polyester 35% Cotton.
*Taps 65%* Hmm, yep. Now, see, there’s yer problem.
Grrr…I responded to this but Kotaku ate my post.
Do you know what dye you used?
http://shop.dylon.com.au/colour-change/dylon-tropical-green-fabric-dye-hand-use
Okay the problem is simple. That only dyes the cotton fibres, not the polyester ones, so it’s only dyed 35% of the garment
http://www.jacquardproducts.com/idye.html iDye Poly will dye the polyester fibres
I just want to add you can get iDye Poly at Lincraft and Spotlight
Sounds like a lighter shade is very light
I’m thinking of buying a shade darker and more of it and trying again to see what happens.
That won’t work D=
Yeah, I just saw your link up there. The website says to get a poly and normal for a blend and use them at the same time.
Sounds like the best idea. I wish you luck!
Got some distressing news about my mum today.
My sister (who lives with my mum) put on Facebook that apparently mum’s been asleep for the past 3 days. I know that she hasn’t been getting much sleep at all for a very long time. I did a bit of Googling and apparently chronic sleep deprivation can cause someone to slip into a coma and die. Does anyone know if this is actually true (@freya). It sounds to me like she’s in a coma, and I’m starting to get extremely worried.Aw man. *hugs*
If you’re worried, get a doctor out there. If it turns out she’s okay, then what have you lost? Nothing much. Better to put your mind at ease then worry yourself.
I don’t know how, she lives in America, I’ve asked my sister if she’s had the doctor out, but I don’t expect an answer for at least 4 or 5 hours, because it’s about 4am over there. I really don’t know what to do.That makes things difficult. I’m sure your sister will look after your Mum. I have no idea how things work, so I’m not much help. Sorry
I don’t know, my sister has always been very dependent on my mum.
If you’re that worried, get your sister to call 911 & get an ambulance there.
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It’d be a pretty long trip.
I made my previous comment based on my (hopefully correct) assumption that your mum and sister are in the same house in the USA. I realise that it might be the middle of the night right now, but really, if you’re scared for your mum’s wellbeing and your sister can’t get her up, then get on the phone to your sister, get her to call an ambulance to the house and get your mum checked out asap.Feeling for you right now, I hope it’s all ok.
I don’t have a phone number for them, don’t even know if they have the phone on. The only way I can communicate with them is via email, or Facebook.
🙁
I can’t really give medical advice as I know even less about the context than you.
Chronic sleep deprivation is more associated with death from side effects such as lack of concentration, or increased cardiovascular/stroke risk. It’s extremely uncommon for it to cause you to “slip into a coma and die” unless you are one of the (extremely rare) cases of fatal familial insomnia.
However, if you are concerned about her, get her checked out by a doctor. Or at least get some more information off your sister.
I wanted to try and get Dark Souls working again on my pc, but I think the net is capped. D:
And Eliza released as a new Skullgirls character.
Double D:
I have come to the conclusion curb stomping should be more prominent in video games. Sure i could shoot you but im trying to conserve ammo, if I stab you youll probably scream but if i bash you with my fists goddammit im gonna curb stomp you
I’m hopped up on so much sugar right now! 😀
I feel like a kid who just had their first hit of red cordial! 😀
Make sure you drink plenty of water before you go to bed or else you’ll have a heck of a sugar hangover tomorrow.
@morkai @freezespreston I got a hold of the other guys and they seem to be ok with going YHA instead, should make things a little easier being closer to PAX I guess. Though if we get one more person we could fill out a 6-person room? I’ve got like one more person I can ask, I don’t know if anyone else here is still looking.
I have no idea. I’m just going to do what the leader (aka you) tells me to do.
Oh god how did this happen what am I doing /o\
I’m pretty sure, even if you select the 6 person dorm, it will only allow you a max of 5 guests, otherwise it’s effectively a “private room” and they charge more.
Though, I would also hope that seeing as 5 out of the 6 people in a room are on one booking, they’d avoid putting others in unless they totally booked every space.
P.S. are you guys all flying in on the 31st?
Oh, really? Last year there were 8 of us that booked out an 8-person dorm at the Space Hotel, nobody seemed to mention anything like that happening there. Seems kinda weird though.
Yeah, I’m not sure why, but I just tried it again, and when you select the dates for the 6 person dorm, then the number of guests, it only goes from 0-5.
http://imgur.com/qQJQfoR
Oh man. The Bloodborne Alpha starts tonight and the time difference between here and Europe means it goes from 4am-7am in the morning tomorrow, 3rd and 5th.
Errrgh. I hate early mornings… Tomorrow is going to be a tired tired day.
Fannassy Live!
We gun be multi buds
I’m guessing that’s fantasy life? I might try and get it.
@jimu tlk funi sumtines bt he ok guy!
AFL Live 2 get!
This is the first AFL game I’ve played since AFL Premiership 2006. I loved that game, and I wanted to relive the feeling. First thing I noticed was the awful music. Who thought pop music was a good idea? The soundtrack should consist of terrible rock anthems, not club music!
Then I noticed the graphics. Not much better than AFL Premiership 2006. I think AFL 2006 actually looked better, because the colour palette worked better.
First match! Gold Coast vs Collingwood. 8,3 – 51 to 17,1 – 103
I did not fare well.
Set it to easy. I won 137-32. I think I’ll set it back to medium difficulty.
COULDN’T REMEMBER THE ONION TRICK
EYES DYING
CHEW GUM
Or these:
http://www.wikihow.com/Chop-Onions-Without-Tears
Wash them with cold water, or stick them in the freezer for 5 minutes.
Or just bung the lot in the food processor and get it chopped fast.
What do you do while your eyes are in the freezer for 5 minutes?
Chill.
Chill the onion, use a properly sharp knife and cut it quickly as possible. The other ‘remedies’ like holding a matchstick in your teeth and stuff never work for me. It’s like ripping off a bandaid – do it fast and do it clean.
If I try and apply any more speed I will likely lose a finger 😛
It just took me over 15 minutes to peel and chop and onion and two cloves of garlic.
@sunsoar77 Just to show you what I’m working with, and that I wasn’t at all exaggerating.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Well, @blaghman managed to escape the predicament he was in of taking a millwife- a local girl as his wife – by convincing the good but oddly similar looking people of barrowtown that he had muscleitis, a terrible condition that means his muscles impinge on his brain. Heartbroken, his poor bride to be Chandra will only be able to console herself through her job at the mill.
TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR MORE TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
Thanks for playing!
cc @popdart5 @tech_knight
With how Blaghs was playing his character I was half expecting the doctor to tell @blaghman: “You’re pregnant” to match the setting
*dramatic camera angles* *fade out to theme song*
I wouldn’t be surprised if the story ended up being a massive simulation where Blaghs is the main character of a sitcom.
So far what I have made for my cosplay is less Great Saiyaman and more Portly Gay Jedi.
But that lightsaber is fabulous
Pics plz
@jackunit13, hey mate I couldn’t reply to you for some reason. I’d be free after 5.40 tomorrow (huge fixtured days lol). Shoot me an email with your moby and we can tee up either tomorrow or Friday: n_s_mclean@hotmail.com
Tak3n?
TAK3N!?
SERIOUSLY?
TAK3N!?
T3KKEN?
I know right! It should be T4k3n
74X3N
Fe-three-ar
Atleast the second one wasn’t 2 Taken 2 Furious
I’d still go see it.
There’s something not right about this sauce. It’s missing… something.
Almost feels like it doesn’t have enough tomato? Maybe I used a crappy can instead of what we would usually use. But other than that it’s also missing some of the “deeper” flavours.
Added in more of pretty much… everything. Another bay leaf, another pinch of basil, another pinch of sugar, more salt and pepper, another pinch of chilli, even threw in a pinch of oregano. Oh, and also got the ladle out and skimmed out a whole load of the excess oil. But I think what was most important was the extra squirt of tomato paste, it’s looking far less anaemic now. I don’t even know if that’s the right word but it feels like it should be. Taste seems to be coming along too. Might actually turn out ok!
Unsure if you’re aware it’s after midnight… #helping
It sure is!
Wondering if it’s still too hot to put in the fridge, or if I should just leave it on the stove til morning and put it in there then.
Game Soundtracks of my Youth! Back in the 90s, the best stuff had rad electric guitars and stuff. Industrial music was trendy and all the game developer nerds were into it.
I still think this Quake II piece is one of the best headbangers I’ve ever heard in an action game.
I probably spent more time listening to the badass Descent II soundtrack than I actually did playing the game.
For something completely different, I somehow came into possession of the Ecco the Dolphin SegaCD soundtrack back then, and it’s got one of the most beautiful, swirly, relaxing underwatery soundtracks ever. Still sounds great. Kind of reminds me of The Dig, which also had a rad soundtrack.
Maaaaaaaan. I been fighting the urge to install Q2 and play Lithium for a couple of weeks now, and you come along and post this. NOT HELPING! 😉
Well I’m bad at real life sports AND virtual sports. 8 losses in a row. No wins. Struggled to get past 30 points scored in most games. Fun.
You were playing as gold coast, yes?
With 2011 stats, yes.
So you’re pretty much RPing properly.
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Back to Melbourne tomozza! Pls let me stay for more than 4 days… My console games need playing!
Looking 4 Destiny buds to kill everything for me. 😛
What level are you?
12 and just reached Venus, but I don’t mind if a high level person joins to wreck everything for me :). On PS4 too
Im about your level and finished venus, happy to help out 🙂
Are you a Xboxer?
PS4some
Is there anyone here who wants a 3 day pass for pax? My mate is selling his. Last i spoke to him it was going for $160 (postage included) let me know if you are interested 🙂
Edit: Sorry, never mind. I just realised I can get Friday and Sunday only passes still.
Hey duuude. I’m just checking with a friend who might want it if it’s still around?
sure 🙂 It’s still around
Crraaappppppppppp.
I miscalculated the time difference and the Bloodborne Alpha goes from 3am-6am not 4am – 7am. I got up at 6 to have a go but it as already closed. Looks like I’ll be doing it Monday morning since its a public holiday.
Interestingly when I launched it the PS4 informed me the Share button had been disabled. And it had been. No screenshots to Twitter it seems.
Thats why we have camera phones now..to circumvent this
This month’s PS+ lineup is shit again 🙁
What’s wrong with DriveClub? Granted it’s a watered down version, but it still looks the tits.
I’m keen to try out Driveclub and see what they’ve done to it. Also, Arkham Asylum, I only have on PC so would be handy to have on PS3 as well.
It’s a much better month than the last couple of months anyway. The indie games that have been on offer really haven’t been that great. Dust looks worthy of a solid session though
It’s a demo. They’re pretending it isn’t, but it’s a demo.
Ack! Dilemma time!
Alien Isolation on PS4 or PC? PS4 involves me stealing my sons PS4 in the middle of his Destiny grind, and PC requires a video card update (i’m thinking my poor 7950 will cry). Why does it need to be so hard?? 🙁
I’m leaning towards PS4 and playing only at night in short bursts to preserve the thing.
And also late-night atmosphere.
Goes without saying. 😀
First ever Masuda Method shiny! Only took 800 eggs to get there.
Totally worth it, since shiny Charizard looks *amazing*
Beavwa, doing his part for the pokemon population to save endangered species
I’ve already released over 700 charmanders into the wild so far.
If that was ever able to influence what you’d find on routes near the town you released them for both you and players on your friends list (If that’s ever a thing) that would be a pretty neat feature
Maybe but that sounds like it would make rare ones even harder to find as they wouldn’t get released?
Well only a one-way style, where released pokemon can start appearing in a route you don’t expect because a fair few pokemon were released in the town nearby by other people.
Could be an interesting feature if they ever do an MMO.
Nice! Good IVs too I assume, very nice!
Yeah. Could have been worse since the female was only a 5 (got a 6 to drop in the same batch of 100).
I might switch it up to a different nature for another one.
Update on my Mum if anyone’s interested.
I’ve been informed by my sister that apparently she hasn’t been sleeping for 3 days straight, but she has been sleeping a hell of a lot. They’re obviously not too concerned about it because they haven’t had the doctor out. Apparently there’s only one doctor in town, and his office is closed on Mondays, and they couldn’t get her an appointment today (Wednesday US time), no idea what the hell they were doing on Tuesday (sitting on their friggin’ hands by the sound of it. I guess I’ll find out what the go is tomorrow morning after she’s seen the doctor.Glad to hear she’s sounding ok for the moment at least! *thinking positive thoughts*
Sounds like they might have just been waiting to see and the message you got made it seem much worse than it was. Sounds much better than the last message so hope the doctor’s visit goes well
Yeah, kinda pissed that I was led to believe that things were worse than they probably are, but at the same time relieved.
I hope you slept okay. =( I was telling my mum about it last night and she was wondering (along with me) why they hadn’t got a doctor out)
Hyped for DriveClub. Looks pretty sweet.
Holy carp am I surly at work today.
FreezeSFuckface at your service! Whadda ya want and don’t be retarded about it!
Something like that? 😉
New catchphrase!
Closer than you’d think.
Me in a week. It’s ‘No Outrage October!’ There will be… no venting. Just repression.
I’ll start printing flyers for Mental Health Awareness November.
Really! They can’t be serious!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/hidden-camera-in-bra-reveals-how-many-people-check-out-a-womans-body/
You go out with your Bra exposed like that of course people are gonna look.
Yeah, that was pretty dumb. They should have hidden it inside a big hat.
Then people might tell you they’re worried that there’s a bee in your hat
that hat was one day away from retirement
Yeah I saw that on the bottom of the page and I was thinking “Wait… so your bra was exposed? Isn’t that going to make this whole experiment next to worthless?”
Not to mention the bright colour against an otherwise grey outfit. If someone’s wearing fluro pink sneakers, I’m gonna glance to see what the hell this unnaturally brightly coloured thing is in my peripheral vision.
Good morning! It’s October, holy moly, and I have the best song ever to be stuck in my head.
“She put de lime in de coconut and drank ’em bot’ up… “
To me that song means Practical Magic, which means being on the plane to America, getting to taste some Bailey’s (thanks, Dad) watching a whole load of movies. Particularly Rush Hour, can’t remember much else of what there was. Other than my sister being stuck over with Mum who only let her watch Simon Birch and I think they had Disney’s Christmas Carol going too.
Man that was forever ago.
I think Rock-tober is quietly weeping right now. 😛
I said, Homer!
I can’t listen to that song without thinking of the Muppets. It’s as chaotic as you’d expect.
Lucky. I’ve got “Wake Me When September Ends” in my head. My subconscious is voting for 12 months of hibernation, it seems.
You throw the can away!
Edit: Shit! Repyfail @janexo
A loyalist Thousand Sons Librarian, an Iron Hands Techmarine, and a Raptor Devastator crash land on a planet.
Well this Deathwatch game looks like it’s going to be interesting.
I just want to say thank you to everyone for their kind words yesterday… It helped a lot more then you might think… I try the best I can to be positive about everything and done weeks it just isn’t happening… It’s been a particularly bad week at work so that’s definitely not helping my general state of mind… Had a long chat to Mrs. Pixel yesterday, which helped a bit but it’s still a bit up and down… Big props to @rize, @sernobulus and @cakesmith for distracting me with borderlands 2 last night… It was great to take my mind off things… Oh and this:
http://imgur.com/MLoMg2h
Happened yesterday too… Seriously who does that? You guys are honestly the greatest bunch of people I’ve ever had the pleasure to call friends! I’m sorry for rambling but thank you for putting up with me and being generally amazing!
You should talk on here more often. What are friends for? We all have our ups and downs and coming on here to whinge about it certainly helps.
Sorry for offering you a beanbag, it’s all I know. D= I can’t really offer money. Or games. I’m sorry.
Haha I’m not expecting people to give me things just because I’m down… You listened and cared enough to acknowledge it and let me let it out, and that was/is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much!
I can’t help but feel there is a hint to answering this question in that image if we just look hard enough.
The BUTLER did it! J’accuse!
Good to hear you’re feeling better!
this weekend you say? WELLLLL
DESTINY! (( mark I joined your clan (cult..?) on fb pew pew pew add me man ))
want to tackle the VoG add me peoples psn (ps4) IIAzuriLII
EBEXPO2014! ill be there with my trusty camera man doing some indie games coverage and interviewing cosplayers 🙂 come say hi if your there! youtube.com/swinnyshow (cheap plugola)
then an american style bbq with work mates on sunday in the old slurry hills 😀
oh did I mention destiny?
TAYlist request time! Go.
Radar Love – Golden Earring
Beck – Loser
Soy un perdedor.
Coconut – Harry Nilsson
I SAID DOCTORRRRRRR.
The Power Of Love – Huey Lewis And The News
Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys (need to stay positive)
or the Secret Chiefs 3 version but I doubt you’d have it.
Please not the Marky Mark version, that’d just be weird.
I get Around was always one of my favorites.
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People
Double-up request.
First:
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)
followed immediately after by:
Warren G feat. Nate Dogg – Regulate
You know you want to.
Something by the killers
Heart – Crazy On You
The mother we share – chvrches
Air Hostess – Busted
What a blast from the past.
Paperback writer – Beatles
Symphony No.94 “Surprise” – Joseph Haydn
Closing requests now, thank you everyone for your song picks.
Just had a customer refuse to push the Savings button on the Eftpos machine because she’s “not the one being paid to do it”.
O_O
She probably needs to save her thumb strength so she can share cat photos and ban the burqa posts on facebook.
should have asked if she wanted you to enter her pin for her too,
Best.
Ooh ooh, have you ever had anyone refuse to do paywave or chip payments because of being spied on and paranoia? My partner had a customer who had cut the chip out of his card because “people can steal from you with paywave”. He didn’t have the heart to tell the guy that the chip isn’t what activates paywave.
What does then? D:
The newer cards have an antenna built into the “swipe” strip on the card – it’s just that all the newer cards also have chips as well, which is why people think that’s what paywave uses.
The chip is for the smart reader where you insert the card. Paywave/Paypass is a hidden RFID tag in the other end of the card where the wifi-esque icon is.
Cool! I never knew.
Wow. No. Never had that. Those metal wallet things seem to do a brisk business from how many I’ve seen though. Plenty of cards wrapped in aluminium foil as well.
Had plenty of people blow their stack because I didn’t have paywave though.
I’ve lost my shit twice already just reading about her. Oh man.
To be honest I feel a bit embarrassed when a cashier asks me if its cheque/savings/credit and then pushes a button. Like I’m clearly incapable of doing that myself. I’m an adult and I can read and pressing a button is not difficult.
This lady makes me angry.
Notalwaysright.com
God I hate that site! Sooooo many of them are clearly made up.
I roll my eyes frequently (“everybody started clapping… yeah, right.”) but I still get a frequent chuckle. And we KNOW Freeze’s story is true. Unless he’s making it up. Which seems likely. Because he’s Freeze.
Urgh, I’m like the third worst person on this site.
@McGarnical
The best ones (which I usually see when they’re posted on /r/thathappened) usually involve long drawn out speeches/tirades which the poster has somehow remembered verbatim, jaws dropping, deafening silence, and large groups of people spontaneously breaking into applause/cheering.
Like I seriously wonder if these people are literally masturbaring while dreaming up these delusions.
From my experience when I “put a customer in their place” it generally involves more me losing the plot at them and a lot of awkward silences,eyes in the floor and complaints to head office.
Without fail the best way to deal with a problem customer is to just smile and nod, do whatever they’re asking and get rid of them as quickly as you can.
It’s the internet – people are literally masturbating to everything.
Hey @redartifice We’ve got this weeks TAY tag down pat!
I get that instinct too, but man… I saw some things in tech support that no-one would believe. So it’s hard to say.
Fuuuuuuuucking biiiiitch.
Ha! She left her card behind.
As a reward, she now has a subscription to [insertfilthysitehere.xxx]
Make a key out of it.
see, should have gotten that pin.
Careful, she’ll accuse you of stealing it. Ugh, you know what, don’t give it back to her.
The upshot is that if you shred it into a billion pieces, she’ll never know what happened to it. (Less legal ramifications than stealing and using it)
Edit: But Karma is just awesome. Faith restored.
Call her bank and send it to them ASAP. Maximum inconvenience for her, but you’re still a good person 😛
You. You’re evil.
I like you.
That’s deviously brilliant!
Eeeeeeeeyikes! I keep coming back to this, convinced that I must have read it wrong, but nope, there it is. Amazing.
Bored Games \o/ (@trjn)
Played Battlestar Galactica and The Resistance: Avalon last night. Two games with a large emphasis on subterfuge and betrayal. And they were hella fun. Acting incompetent all throughout Battlestar Galactica only to reveal myself as a Cylon just before the team reached home was awesome. The turn prior to that I had convinced the others that someone else was a Cylon and had them sent to the brig. Complicated game but fun once you get the hang of it.
I’m really keen to try out Battlestar. It’s exactly the kind of backstabbing game I’d love 😀
way to sound like an asshole cufcfan616Backstabbing is fun – especially when you can convince other people that someone else is doing it!
Does Merlin change the game a lot for Avalan as opposed to regular Resistance? I’ve heard it can make things even more chaotic which sounds absolutely glorious.
It was awesome – I was Merlin once, and the trick is to give everyone else information but not too much as there is also an Assassin who can win the game by picking who you are. Really adds to the confusion when there are several people yelling stuff as though they are Merlin and know who the baddies are.
The roles in Resistance: Avalon make the game significantly better, Merlin being the most important of them. It tends to take people a few plays to get into the game but once they do, playing with the various roles is simply the only way to go.
You can add different roles if you notice that one side is winning more than another.
BATTLESTAR
BSG is fantastic. I wish I could bring it out more often but the rules are a pain in the arse to decipher and teach.
That’s the reality of Fantasy Flight games…
That they take 2 hours to play and 6 to set up
The absolute best Cylon thing with Battlestar is if you get the goal thing that says basically that if the fleet makes it to their destination, you win and they lose. So you’re actively helping them and seem like a buddy and then if they actually reveal you they’re all like WTF?
CLAP your hands everybody
If you GOT what it takes
‘Cause I’m Kurtis Blow and I want you to know
That these are the BREAKS
now I wanna play Vice City
I forgot this was on that soundtrack! Definintely my favourite of the GTA soundtracks. Some classics on there.
yeah, I reckon their sound tracks have gone down hill, but it’s music so it’s a matter of opinion, the only song I can even think of on GTA IV is “Goodbye Horses”. GTA V had a couple of good ones,
@strange
Hi Strange 🙂
Not sure if you are still playin gor not but the alliance in mavel puzzle quest looks liek it will do well in this current event (dark avangers)
Not sure if you will get any reward if you havn’t participated so if you jump in and complete a a single mission in the dark avengers story missions you should score some hero points at the end of it
Also thanks @platinumurchin
Thanks for the heads up! I actually noticed you guys were doing really well and wondered whether I should leave your Alliance and make room for a more dedicated player. I’ve only been playing only one mission a day and don’t want to be letting you guys down.
After 10 straight losses in AFL Live 2, I got my first win of the season. I am the blurst.
You’re not playing for Melbourne are you?
I think he said he was playing Gold Coast. And being AFL Live 2, that’d be Circa 2013, unless he’s got the 2014 update.
It’s sort of a running gag with me towards Melbourne. I get genuinely surprised that Melbourne don’t make the front page of the newspaper whenever they win a game because that’s miracle levels 😛
Might have to start replacing them with Steak (= StK. = St. Kilda.)
I thought they were Saint Kentucky Fried Chicken. (St. Kilda Football Club = STKFC)
For me it’s Steak because a friend came over a few years back while watching St Kilda vs somebody else and they saw the STK abbreviation on the TV scores and said “Who’s playing? Steak?”
They’ve been Steak ever since in my head.
Holy crap, after 10 losses, I get two wins in a row! I won by a point with 88-87.
Didn’t expect this.
The only way that could be better is with a goal after the siren to win it by 1 point.
Three. Three wins in a row. I foresee a Richmond-style rags-to-riches-to-bitter-defeat scenario here.
Where you finish in 9th?
Well, after my fifth win, I rocketed to 16th place. So that glorious 9th place position seems like it may be possible.
Four? Four wins? Okay, I’m convinced that the game set me to easy mode after 10 losses. There’s no way I can beat a top 4 team by 59 points on medium difficulty.
The five game winning streak ended with a 46-111 loss. Finally regained my old rhythm.
THIS WEEK IN COMIC BOOK TV SHOWS
GOTHAM
Difficult second episode. the series needs to, pretty soon, settle on a tone- the baddies seem to think they’re on batman 66, but the goodies are playing it fairly straight, which is fraught, and Alfred is tonally off. Lili Taylor was a cool villain, but again the villains are operating on high camp whil selling children into…. something. slavery? cannibalism? weird. Also, Bruce Wayne listens to Death Metal.
3 murdered parents out of five.
AGENTS OF STUPIDLY LONG BACKRONYM
Better than last week. Really last week part two, as it picks up straight away, this episode focuses on new guy Hunter, and starts to get into deeper questions like loyalty. the return of a major char from S1 is also welcome. The show still looks like it’s shot everywhere you’ve already seen in Los Angeles- bring back more of the globetrotting from S1 please. Next week looks like it’ll be an interesting episode.
3.and.a.half.acronyms.out .of.5
Upvote for murdered parents voting scale
Another Undad update that no one asked for!
I’ve decided to forgo the rabbit’s foot merchandise pack idea in lieu of a limited edition handwritten Brett Buckley’s diary, with photos, documents, blood stains, and all around awesome collectability. This thing gonna be amazing, and pretty cost-effective too.
Also, I can FILL IT WITH PUNS. *dies happy*
The 6th page of that diary is going to be INSANE.
What. I would never make light of this. Death is a grave matter.
You can’t spell slaughter without laughter.
is Brett Buckley undad? or is this something else
Yep, he’s the Undad
http://shanewsmith.com/undad/
So how many moneys am I gonna throw at you for a top tier reward?
Top tier reward is currently set at $500, and it’s pretty epic. It’s called the Family Feast, and includes:
Paperbacks:
The Lesser Evil
Peaceful Tomorrows 1 & 2
The Game
James Flamestar
Undad 1 & 2 (+ any others made under stretch goals)
Brett’s diary (handmade by me) (limited to 100 worldwide)
Digital
Academaesthetics
Digital Artbook
Undad 1 & 2 (+ any others made under stretch goals)
Early access to Triumviratus #1
A custom sketch by an Undad artist
Copies of the Undad scripts
Other perks
Your likeness in the story
A script analysis by me
Early access to each page of Undad as it is completed
World’s Best UnDad mug
A whole James Flamestar? Do I have to feed him?
Only if you want to. Don’t water him, though, as his paper back might wilt.
Awesome, that’s pretty crazy. When are you hoping to launch your campaign?
Might as well announce it here first: HALLOWEEN, baby! \o/
I finally got Dark Souls working! \o/
*credits roll*
Get killed by all the things \o/
The ultimate game of “oh god, why do I keep doing this to myself?!?”
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
It’s the internet – people are literally masturbating to everything.
Good spot @quiz_b!
You have Manny Calavera as your avatar… I couldn’t help myself… I’M ONLY HUMAN RED! I HAVE FLAWS!
GodDAMMIT when does this remake come out?!
I don’t know but I honestly can’t wait.
“Sorry for the wait Mr Flores, I’m ready to take you now!”
Nah, kudos need to go to @mawt for that one!
/o\ have to move my things to a different room in the house soon. The room is just enough to fit a desk, a double bed and a wardrobe so no space for my random wild sword swinging >:( The upside is that I can connect directly into the router and be the evil overlord of the home network >:)
Those of you who live with someone (be it your parents, or partner), what do you like to do when you’re home alone? I have a couple of evenings coming up when I’ll have the house to myself, and I’m rather excited. I usually have Sundays to myself at home, but there’s something about being home alone at night that I particularly love.
I think I’m going to order in Chinese and watch When Harry Met Sally.
Hide the bodies.
Quiet you!..get the shovel
I have the internet. See above.
It’s getting warmer, don’t ya know. That means it’s No Pants season.
EDIT: But I live alone so it’s not as special 😛 And I keep a pair of emergency pants near the front door because I’m paranoid.
When you live with your partner and have heating, all seasons are no pants season.
I use the opportunity to play some accordion, because I don’t like playing when people can hear me. That’s usually just on a Friday night when my parents go out for dinner with friends, so I’ve only got a couple of hours to do whatever.
When it’s for longer periods of time though, the last few times I’ve gone over and made use of the TV + stereo for playing games. Last time I hooked up Elite to it, and discovered the wonder of space battles with a subwoofer. Itching to give it another go, especially with Beta 2 out now.
I really wanna pick up an old accordion and try it out! I’ve heard it’s one of (if not the) hardest instrument to play. My late Grandad used to play though and I gotta see what it feels like.
I dunno, I think guitar seems pretty hard 😛
Actually I should probably specify piano-accordion, since a chromatic accordion is much harder. PA’s fine especially if you have a good understanding of chords, since that’s basically all the left hand’s buttons are. Third and root notes on the first two rows, then four rows that have your major, minor, 7th and diminished 7th chords (on a 120-key one, anyway). Then in columns they go up in fifths/down in fourths. So it’s actually really easy for basic songs that only use a I/IV/V chord progression.
My two great uncles were ridiculously good piano-accordionists, really wish I’d got into it sooner and actually learnt off them. I blame Mum for not taking me around to visit more 😛
Well TIL! Seems easier than I thought with you explaining it like that. Since you mentioned it, I just searched a picture of a chromatic accordion…*shudders*
Haha, that’s what I thought on seeing them too. But I’ve been told that it actually makes certain things a whole lot easier to play. I have no idea how, but I guess if I ever get a chance to sit down with one and study it for a while…
I borrow my brother’s (really mine, but he’s a shit about it) computer and play vidya gaems.
Iiiii honestly don’t know what I’d do… Probably watch all the
terriblegreat movies I can’t get away with normally because my taste in movies are not appreciated 😛 *eyes off Godzilla vs. Mecha-Godzilla*Eat whatever I want and play video games.
So basically nothing different.
Uh, nothing really changes (sit in cave playing stuff on computer), but I wear pants even less, as hard as that is to believe.
I’ve become such a hermit I’ve got the opposite problem of not knowing what to do when people are around.
I guess the only difference compared to when someone is home is that I have no pants on…
I think Bun sleeps most of the time when I’m not around.
When he’s not around I tend to hide his stuff in a way that I hope just annoys him but he doesn’t seem to notice that I’ve done it.
Sometimes my wife will go to her aunt’s place for an afternoon and I usually use that time to clean because I never clean otherwise. I find it hard to do when she’s around because I like to potter about from thing to thing and have music or a movie on and it’s just easier if there’s noone in my way and I get it done way faster.
Once I’m done with that, I might put on a movie or game or something. One time she was gone for literally 10 hours because a morning visit ahead of lunch turned into watching a movie and staying for dinner. I ran out of shit to do and took a nap despite having a ton of unplayed video games I could have gotten into uninterrupted.
I pretty much play any games i couldnt play if my partner was there like payday oh god I love payday.
Also unceremonious amounts of junk food..unceremonious amounts
I always have plans to eat all the junk food and watch all the shows Mr. Strange makes fun of.
But in reality I usually end up paralysed with indecision because there’s too many options of what to do, so I just hang out on the internet all night, and get scared of the dark because I’m home alone. 😛
When I’m home alone during the afternoon I like to have a nap, pop on a game and chuck some sport on like the NFL for background noise. Nothing differently now I have typed it out, except my family turn it off and watch the bachelor instead lol
Man, longest meeting ever this morning. Well, it went for maybe an hour or over a little, but then chained straight on to a one-on-one afterwards discussing how we’re going to set up another game.
Also, the boss mentioned that he wants to speak to next-boss-up about having me and my friend extended here, told me he’d like to have me on to the end of January. If I want. Then kind of looked to me for a response and I derped, was all like “well, I haven’t exactly got anything else on then?” and I don’t know. On-the-spot answer required, where it felt like the answer should have been a given although part of me would like to take the easy escape.
And then just now I got given a pair of tickets to EBX on Saturday and the Good Game Live thing they have after it. Had to check whether my sister would be able to pick up my parents from the airport, but she’s fine with that. On the other hand though, I’d kinda rather skip it and stay at home and force myself to get something done with my costume. Could maybe give the tickets to my friend’s girlfriend tonight, and just let the two of them go. Payback for taking her place at the symphony the other week 😛
Oh yeah, the sauce was a lot better by the time I went to bed last night. Extra paste and time worked well.
What do you do for work? Sounds pretty interesting! You should go to EB! It’s fun and the Good Game Live shows are good for a laugh too, although I am very keen for you to finish your costume and show us 😀
I’m at the ABC, a game designer for their Active Memory program. Really, it’s a pretty sweet gig. Fairly laid back and flexible, not overly demanding, not all that inconveniently located or anything, and I’m doing pretty well at it, they do seem to like me here. So I’d be stupid to just throw it away. But I dunno, I also feel like I’m not really doing all that much/not putting my time to good use. September flew by ridiculously fast, if you asked me the other day how far into it we were I honestly would have told you maybe a week and a half. And that scares me 😛
EBX is… ehh. I went to the first two, the running joke was that I got in for free both times and still felt like I paid too much. But then I do have friends going (same ones I saw last weekend) who were bugging me to go along and/or come back to their place after for more D&D… who I shot down because of the whole costume thing, actually 😛
the ABC…. THE ABC building in Ultimo???
The ABC!
that means I might have been passing you on weekly basis! Now I have to stalk everyone in there to find out which one is you 😛
StreetPass? 😛
don’t have a DS 🙁 might grab the new 3ds when it comes out though
@zapz Well if you ever noticed a guy in a dark blue beanie with a black backpack, then it could have been me. Dunno if the beanie will be getting much use any more now though 😛
Do you work there too? Or just nearby, passing through?
replied all the way from here because having to tag constantly is annoying 😀
I actually study in UTS 😛 taking shortcut through the ABC. I don’t usually pay attention and haven’t seen any beanies passing me.
Ever seen average height Asian guy with glasses dragging a black bag? Probably me
Lots of you 😛
Been studying there long? The last two years I was studying up Wattle Street at AIE, so I’m still taking the same route as then. Just with a bunch less walking now, which is nice.
Almost finished 3rd year now. Already feeling tired of all the academic stuff…
If you were on Twitter you’d already know that a bunch of us are going to the EB Expo on Saturday evening.
Oh, that makes things easier then.
*sets fire to tickets*
I’m around the corner at Olympic Park, what exactly is the EB expo for?
Just a games convention held by EB. Kinda like a mini PAX I suppose.
Actually, you know what, maybe I’ll watch Die Hard, instead. I need to start thinking about Christmas, and that’ll probably help get me in the mood.
It is literally the best Christmas movie.
Shadow of Mordor: y/n
for PC or PS4?
My PC only sorta meets the recommended specs so I don’t think I can squeeze any more out of it than I will get from the PS4 version.
I think it looks neat; I’ll probably pick it up on PS4 as well.
I wasn’t really interested until the article about the gameplay being similar to the batman games, which i love the fighting in
Yep that has almost sold me on it too.
Also does any retailer have a kick ass deal on this game? $60US on the PSN or $65US on Steam, happy to pay a little extra to avoid the massive download
Cant believe I missed the chance to pre-order it for $53 from DSE yesterday, god damn
Y
Think Batman Arkham combined with a touch of Assassins Creed.
Nemesis system is ok at first, but when you unlock the ability to play orc chiefs off one another, you can literally stack the board (it’s presented like a board) to make all orc chiefs susceptible to your play style. For example, if you are a stealthy player, you can stack it so all the chief spots you need to kill are filled with ocs that can be one-shotted via stealth kills. Also, if you have to take down a chief in a really busy area, you can set another ‘clan’ off to fight them first – turns the area into a battlefield, most mobs are busy, meanwhile you’re hanging off a ledge above an aggravated and distracted chief…
Graphics are good. Storyline so far is so so. Voice acting good. Collectibles are up there. K&M controls take a bit of getting used to.
In short: Get it, but it’s up to you which platform as I don’t have a PS4 and can’t comment. The only bonus I can think of is you can get PC right now, whereas PS4 is a week or so.
Oh it isn’t out for console here yet? I use the US PSN and it’s out there alrerady so I just assumed, that makes getting a physical copy harder, which might be ok as I really should be concentrating on catching up on what Destiny sucked me away from lol
Not quite yet – out on the 8th here in Aus, but digital PC (i.e. steam) is out already.
US PSN is out already. It’s just Aus that they are holding back on.
Started playing on PC last night. Combat is amazingly visceral, but still getting used to the controls (non-rebindable controller is annoying – keep pulling RT to try to sprint away from enemies, but instead drop into sneak mode and get slaughtered – AC this is not). Captains are unfortunately spongy, though – even the least powerful ones seem to take a hell of a beating compared to other enemies, unless you focus on their weaknesses (caragors, stealth kills, execution moves, etc).
Nemesis system looks like it has a lot of promise, but not had much experience with it yet as I’m only 4 missions in (a bit worried about longevity, considering I’m nearly a quarter through the story at the 3 hour mark).
Definitely get it. Whether you get it on PC or PS4 is shrug. The PC version is very good, it doesn’t feel like a shitty port, though without some re-mapping the controls can be awkward. (Too much reliance on left-shift, left-control.)
I definitely won’t be playing this as long as I played Destiny, but the time will be better-spent, enjoyed more.
Just finished reason The Long Mars, the third book in the Long Earth series (the middle one was the Long War).
Honestly, I cannot recommend these books at all. They fall into a simple narrative structure: fantastic event happens, people meander about, something happens to wrap up the meandering, catastrophic event happens suddenly that was kinda sorta hinted at but wasn’t really related to the rest of the books.
In The Long Earth:
A new technology is released to the world that lets people step into parallel earths. It turns out this dude is pretty good at it, so he goes in a blimp with an AI that is the reincarnation of a Tibetan motorcycle repairman. They travel the parallel worlds until they run into this big monster thingy called First Person Singular. Something happens, blah de blah de blah, they go home and someone who doesn’t like the stepping technology detonates a nuke.In The Long War:
America’s government is annoyed that everyone is buggering off to parallel earths and wants to collect taxes. So they send out a fleet to do some census stuff and make it look like a war is brewing. At the same time, China is doing a massive expedition to explore the parallel earths (the directions you can go are given as East and West, oddly enough the Americans prefer West and the Chinese East). The main character from the first book loses a hand. The volcano from Yellowstone National Park erupts and sends the original earth into chaos.In The Long Mars:
The guy that released the stepper technology onto the world decides that he’s going to Mars to look for something. He goes with his daughter (a prominent character from the other books) and another dude by using a parallel earth where the earth isn’t there. American goes on another expedition to explore the parallel earths. The Mars expedition was to find the technology for a space elevator. It turns out that there was a group of super intelligent humans that call themselves the Next. The US government arrests them, they escape with the help of the first book’s protagonist and then the people from the US expedition decide not to nuke them. The AI from the first book (who has been around in the background) redirects an asteroid to destroy the parallel earth that most of these super smart people come from but nobody dies.They’re really not good. It’s such a case of “and then this happened, and then this happened and then this is the big conclusion but we forgot to really build to it.”
Bugger. I just started the Long Earth.
It’s an interesting concept but that’s about it. If you’re in it for more Pterry goodness, his mark is barely visible. I get the feeling he wrote a plot outline and let Baxter do most of the work here.
The big problem with the catastrophic events at the end of the books is that they don’t really matter that much in the later ones.
I was planning on grabbing them because I’m a fan of Stephen Baxter. Maybe I’ll give them a miss.
Your second opinion is now mandatory.
It’s pretty middling. There are some neat ideas (Like the space station in place of the missing earth) but it just plays out like a boring road trip whose participants attempt to ply on far too much meaning to their journey.
Then I started the Discworld series and I felt much better.
http://windows95tips.com/
Dying.
That reminds me, I haven’t checked my e-mails in a while.
Dying. Dying
http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mchaxhLm1j1rehruqo1_500.png
There’s a horror movie script there.
I love the doll one.
@mrtaco since I’m staying with you and you refuse to use Twitter I should grab your phone number off you.
Binoter with the hot males is my email.
He really should be on Twitter. Remember when I resisted for the better part of a year and then signed up and then two years later I got 20.6k posts. D:
…
There’s an endorsement for twitter in there somewhere. Maybe.
Well if you’d just come to PAX…
No. I still don’t see how you joining twitter is connected with this! 😛
It is the gigantic compromise that I make in return for yours 😛
Twitter is more a quality of life thing. YOU’RE SUFFERING AND DON’T EVEN KNOW IT!
Me going to PAX would be horrible. I almost had a panic attack at Supanova last year and PAX is worse! D:
It’s a quality of TAYmeat thing. You can’t have a TAY without DC!
SURE YOU CAN!
SOMEONE LINK THIS MAN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY FROM LAST YEAR!
it just confuses and confounds me, I keep trying but the interface on my phone is extremely un user friendly.
You got iPhone? If so the App is okaaaay!
PAX is better. You could just sit at a table with TAYbies and play board games all day.
Bored games? *shudder* 😛
@dc: SOUNDS LIKE YOU NEED A PROPER BOARD GAMES EDUCATION.
Holy crap, you have so many more tweets than me.
But you’ve gone outside more times than me!
Make sure to call him every time you need to talk. Never text.
That’ll learn him!
Haha… Hahahahahaha this week can f**k right off!!! Had car rego and insurance due (bye bye $1500), everything that can go wrong has gone wrong at work due to shitty systems and other people not doing their jobs… Aaaand my missus just told me she got a speeding ticket!… Touché Murphy you got me!… On the plus side you guys are awesome 😀 *head desk**head desk**head desk*
*hugs* x2
I’m good now, I got that out of my system 😛 hugs are always welcome though!
*mental hugs* x 1,000,000
+1
I condone the amount of cuddling going on, carry on!
I count over 1 MegaHug at this point
Or as some folks call it… the hugasaurus!
Damn, still a lot to go to reach the 1.21 jigahugs required to achieve maximum hugage!
I’ll add one tentative hug to the tally. But that’s all, and no more.
*places cushion on pixel’s desk*
I can totally relate to work being an utter pile of crap, also my girlfriend got 2 speeding tickets because douche bag tyre company put the wrong size tires on her car and it’s thrown her speedometer out and they are refusing to accept liability. I’m just trying to keep positive, at least games are always a comfort.
would offer hugs but I don’t think we know each other well enough for that 😛
p.s I actually wrote about 20 variations of a response to your big post yesterday but just couldn’t get my wording right so hard work made me quit :P. seriously though I hope everything improves,Thanks man, I don’t mean to keep writing “poor me” posts, just found the last part kinda ironic, I was laughing out loud in disbelief to be honest :P… Also thanks for your support! Hugs are always welcome, I know your name so that’s close enough :P… Com’ere!
*gives awkward hug* (the standard hug from Gutsoup)
Don’t worry, if you need to vent then vent, I never took it as a “poor me” post, sometimes getting it out can help relieve pressure (I know I’m a compulsive bottler, for every 1 thing I share I bottle 100 more, it’s not healthy). I just thought I’d respond because we’re in pretty identical places at the moment, even the speeding ticketed girlfriend bit. We can suffer together 😀
Suffer friends! o/
Also sorry to hear that! That kinda really sucks!
Ouch. What’s her driving record like? For a lot of first offenses you can sometimes get off or have the fine reduced. Also if you wait until the last day the fine is due to lodge your appeal they give you an extension while the appeal is considered and then (assuming you aren’t successful) reissue the fine with a new due date – so you can buy yourself a month or two if you’re coming up short.
Yeah had a look into it and we should be able to possibly get off with a warning due to it being her first revert offense… We’ll see how it goes 😛
Ow, fuck.
My head really hurts.
Cutting lawns whilst having hayfever is not a very good idea…
🙁
got any anti histamines? If not I’d recommend cocaine, even if it does nothing to help I’m sure you’ll feel better 😛
can confirm
So I’ve been away from TAY again for a while but time for a quick type up!
First things first! Shout out to @distantdrop @blaghman @saturday @jocon and @dire_wolf for making it on Saturday and Sunday! We made it to Atheon on our first try, brilliant teamwork, co-ordination and determination by everyone!
Special mention to Jo for giving us appropriate heads ups whenever we’d get stuck =]
We’ll be back at it again this Saturday between 12pm and 5pm with new strats and hopefully more powerful gear! On this note can everyone make sure to have a level 20 rocket launcher (ideally blue or higher) and please make sure to have a secondary weapon with void damage.
If anyone wants to run sniper rifles as their secondary I think it will help in bursting Atheon and the Templar during the dps phases; but do so at your own discretion since I realize it comes down to how proficient peopl are with their weapon choices!
@jocon I’ll be on between 7.30 and 9.30 today if you want to hold off till then with PvE and PvP bounties? Maybe some playlist tiger? If anyone else wants to join in just gimme a shout!
I recently got a exotic sniper, but if i’m on portal adds it probably be a hindrance? I guess I have to wait and see the new strats are I guess.
Also if anyone needs some rocket launcher advice the best ones to go for are usually Field scout/larger clip if you plan to use synthesis or if you don’t plan use ammo packs MIRV/Cluster Grenades are better.
Synthesis?
Don’t really use rocket launchers.
just the technical name for the heavy ammo consumables. refill/ammo packs
Sure man, shall wait for your glorious attendance.
I have an Oracle killing shotgun leveled, however it is Arc damage. Will work out if that or void damage is more useful on the fly. Usually roll Voidwalker in the vault so I have that anyway.
Also have a partially leveled legendary rocket launcher and working on upping my shiny new void machine gun.
Also, was it you I was talking to about strats? Getting everyone proficient at all parts of the Atheon fight and alternating portal teams to maximise the buff? Also having one of the non-portal team distract Atheon as portal team comes out so they can unload/cleanse without being instagibbed.
Anyway, we should do that.
Doesn’t the entire team get the buff? usually if you don’t get the buff it just means you missed an oracle.
Yeah but the Portal team comes out facing the boss while athe team is busy defending the plate.
So a distraction will provide the time Portal team needs to cleanse and put damage on the boss, the they take cover. Meanwhile athe team can get into position to do damage ect
Couldn’t you just use a defender ward of dawn just as they come out? not to mention you can specialize in weapons of light and whoever has the bosses attention use it as cover.
That can also work.
I actually looked up this strategy, seems ridiculously simple, when relic is out everyone head to mid and relic user holds onto cleanse/protective shield and when times vengeance gets to about 2-3 seconds you throw down dawn so portal team get a weapon of light buff and rinse repeat.
@freezespreston Would you be able to email me a copy of all your Japan flights? Need to make sure someone will be there to meet you when you arrive.
Will do. Seems to be in wife’s email so once she finishes I’ll forward everything on.
Cheers
Twas the month before unemployment and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse
As I slay some more orcs through stunning then a flurry,
My mind, as it often does, began to worry.
The last 24 hours had gone in a flash,
I was accepted into studying (so lost a lot of cash)
A Post Grad Diploma of Info Technology,
Business Systems and other terminology.
Next morning at work as I sipped my hot drink,
My mobile rang as I stood next to the sink.
I can’t be arsed completing this poem all the verses, all the way,
But in short: Is I was offered gainful employment for many more days.
So let us rejoice, my savings are intact,
My little boy won’t starve and lose all his fat
My family will eat, we will drink, and goddamn am I merry,
Happy days to all *raises virgin mary* (it’s not 5 o clock yet)
These happy days are yours and my happy days!
“Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse”
I chortled
HOOOOORAY! 😀
I swear, the best move that Microsoft made was allowing Paypal to be a payment method through XBLA. I’m always too lazy to go digging for my wallet and input my credit card number (and don’t want that stored anyway), but one-click Paypal purchases are just so damn easy and it doesn’t even really feel like spending money at all.
Have bought so many cheap digital games recently: Monkey Island ($2.50), Valiant Hearts ($10) and I just ordered Beyond Good and Evil HD ($2.50). @dc stop recommending games to me please kthx
In other news, it’s apparently Mental Health Awareness Month this month (I think they need a Mental Health Awareness Month Awareness Month, because I wasn’t aware of this and made a factually inaccurate joke to @transientmind earlier today about making November MHA Month). My department is taking it very seriously and is commemorating it by holding an Odd Socks Day, because ‘anyone can have an odd day’.
I feel like my mental health is in good hands. But that’s because I leave it here with you lot.
For all the jokes aside, I for one am very appreciative that TAY is such an open place where we can lay down our issues and not be judged.
Now then. Tell me more about this Beyond Good and Evil HD edition, please.
It’s like Beyond Good & Evil, but in HD. GAME OF THE YEAR.
YOU MISSPELLED DECADE
That’s how I spell decade. It’s a regional thing. Just like stealing shoes and punching people in the sternum.
Which region?
PROPAGANDA
I would think BG&E would appeal to your Nintendo loving sensibilities?
I’m a fake BG&E liking guy. 😛
@dc MONSTER!
Actually it’s pretty much the same as my fake Grim Fandango liking guy thing 😛
No, I love BG&E and know the song. Just not the name. SHAMEFUL. XD
@dc It’s like the one lyric that’s actually in English!
http://majornelson.com/2014/09/30/weeks-deals-gold-12
BUT YOU HATED MONKEY ISLAND. YOU ALREADY BOUGHT IT. REMEMBER? D:
Valiant Hearts and Beyond Good & Evil? You’ve done so good! You make me proud! :’)
I’m currently on a recommending movie phase. 😛 WATCH THEM, SHANE. WATCH THEM.
I know, but for $2.50 I thought I would give it another chance. It’s $2.50 after all. (I know, I’ve got a sickness)
Valiant Hearts is pretty cool. I like the game design and puzzles, but the story’s yet to blow my mind. I fear it may be the victim of overhype… or maybe there’ll be something at the end that’ll bring it all together. I’m expecting to cry, and if I don’t, I’ll be well disappoint (and it’ll be your fault).
Re movies: YOU CAN’T MAKE ME SPEND MORE MONEY >:(
It’s not so much the story but the sum of all parts working together. I loved it. 😀
MOVIES, SHANE. MOVIES.
Valiant Hearts made me cry. So good. I bought the soundtrack, too.
They’re not odd socks. I have another pair just like them at home.
BUT NO ONE CAN SEE THE SOCKS. WHAT’S THE POINT?
@shane works in a very casual office where everybody wears shorts and singlets and says “dude” all the time.
And go surfing at lunch time? HE’S SO PALE THOUGH!
The world is fantastic today! Absolutel…
The guy in the cubicle beside me is eating fish pie.
…
Nah fuck’it everything is still ok. Just smellier than before.
So judgemental of fishy smells for a fish monger, Stan! Shouldn’t you be mongering some fish?
In my mind, Stan is a fishmonger.
Or a ship sales man. Who also works by the ocean, so should be accustomed to the smell of fish… AND THE OCCASIONAL RED HERRING. HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I don’t know where I’m going with this.
I’ll tell you where you’re going with this.
You’re going with this lovely boat, slightly used, no noticeable damage at all, such a steal, you should buy it.
Not enough arm flailing. >:|
There was arm-flailing in my mind.
Pun.
Dang. Boss just came over and said he could use one of the EBX tickets after all, now I’ve only got the one 😛
That’s when you start the water works!
I’d rather the electric company.
That’s not Mr Burns at all!
You really don’t. Trust me on that.
But you can’t make tesla coils out of water 🙁
TAYlist for the 25th of September 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by October name changes for spooky day, featuring lazinessSavage Garden – I Want You
Golden Earring – Radar Love (Requested by @FreezeSPreston, 5 minutes on the mark, you’re lucky I like you, Freeze)
Genesis – Misunderstanding
Grinspoon – Premonitions
Peter Chapman – Statistics
Mika – Kick Ass
Beatles – Paperback Writer (Requested by @shane, again…)
Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Requested by @gutsoup)
Huey Lewis & The News – Power Of Love (Requested by @cufcfan616)
Beck – Loser (Requested by @Steve-o_the_Deve-o)
Roxette – Dangerous
Crowded House – Chocolate Cake
Heart – Crazy On You (Requested by @piat, cool track, did Eminem sample this one time, I remember he had a song titled the same)
Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks (Requested by @quiz_b, the most cheerful song about school shootings you’ll ever hear)
Killers – Human (Requested by @scree, it was the first song of their’s that came to mind)
Birds Of Tokyo – The Gap
Yeah apparently he did sample it, “crazy in love” is his track
That’s a distinct lack of both “Yacht Rock” and “Hip-hop feat Yacht Rock groove” 😛
YESSSSSSSSSSS \o/
You know whats annoying…hospitals..oh god how annoying they are im forever waiting for a doctor..its been nearly an hour and i still havent had my check up im 5 minutes away from sleeping on their waiting couch
…
Cam takes a nap and wakes up naked in the morgue with a toe tag.
Seems legit lucky me the morgue is in the brand new building A they just opened..so clean..so nice
Until Cam wakes up and someone shouts… OH GOD! THE DEAD! THEY’RE WALKING! 😀
I was parient zero of the un undead zomie apocalypse
I was at one from 5pm to 10pm last night because my son fell over and split his gum/lip. Last minute surgery which was booked for 3pm didn’t happen until 7pm.
Also I have this weird cough that only happens whenever I’m at a hospital.
Yes, I too loathe hospitals.
Working in a Perth hospital is annoying too!
“Ugh, sick people. Why can’t they go somewhere else!”
Hasn’t even opened yet 😛
As someone who works in a medical centre, we make a joke similar to that basically every day. Sometimes it’s the “can’t people just stop getting sick?” thing instead.
Inspecting a unit later today. Really hopeful about it. Ticks all the boxes in terms of requirements, great location, looks really nice and well-kept in the photos. Feeling excited and confident enough that I’ve got the application form and supporting docs in a plastic folder ready to hand over during the inspection if there’s no major gotchas (hopefully scaring off anyone else that’s interested).
Probably headed for disappointment. 🙁
Hope it all goes your way, buddy!
Yes. Get in early, agents love that. If they can clear your references and get your offer accepted by the owner straight away, they can then ignore the rest of the applications, and get the same amount of money for less work.
Yeah that’s what I’m counting on. Place only got listed last week, isn’t even available for another 3 weeks (which I’m totally cool with), and this is the first inspection they’ve done.
Well, everything always looks worse than its photos if the estate agent knows what they’re doing. They actually take courses on how to photograph interiors and photoshop the lighting and colour balances to make them seem fantastic. 🙂
Also, speed and efficiency seems to help with getting a place. Apparently a few folks put in offers on the place my brother and I are in, but I guess we were just faster and had better documents/references.
I learned a while back that the more of their work you do for them, the better. So I’ve got stuff in my packet like some payslips to confirm my income so they don’t have to ring up my employer, my boss is both a business and personal reference (two birds with one stone) and stuff. Plus covering letter with some extra info that’s not on the form but makes a difference eg. not a smoker.
heh, ‘unit’
if you likesie, putsie in the applicationsie formsie in asap…sie…The term I really hate is ‘townhome’.
I can imagine a bunch of marketing clowns highfiving each other when they came up with that term.
“Suite” is funny too. Don’t try to make it sound fancier than it actually is! It’s just a flat.
Don’t forget ‘studio apartment’.
‘How can we make a tiny room at the top of a building sound desirable?’
‘Make it sound arty?’
‘Brilliant’
I’d never heard that term before and I already loathe it.
Town house is just a really fancy unit mostly ones that are 2 storey
I know what a Townhouse is, but ‘Townhome’ is some kind of wankery real estate bullshit.
Townhomes does sound wankery..not as wankery as a loft but.
Right in the memories.
I even had the toys.
Man, that show always felt kinda ‘off’ to me. Freaked me out a bit, every now and then. I was probably reading too much sinister subtext into it.
You’re not alone. It was off-putting for sure.
In some ways I like the original theme better. Always has a soft spot in my heart though cos Eazy E had a.. slightly more adult version on one of his albums 😉
Took some pills and now I’m feeling all floaty. They said Cold & Flu relief but I’m starting to question it.
Feel pretty great, though.
Any hallucinations set to Here Comes the Sun yet?
doodoodoodoo
*loads video, strokes screen*
Codral Cold and Flu? It has codeine in it and that’s the magic stuff.
Opiates! \o/
Nah, the magical part is the pseudoephidrine. Ah yeah.
Yay pseudo \o/
I don’t know about colds, but isn’t Flu relief just listening to his voice?
Hey @rize, looked up Face McShooty earlier today just to check the dialog I missed out on for being too quick :P… I’m now sad I pulled the trigger so early 😛
When I first met him I laughed so hard I nearly fainted.
“IMMA SING YOU A SONG, SHOOT ME AT THE END OF IT! DADADA DA DA BONG!”
Finally gonna see Guardians of the Galaxy tonight! So expect me to appear tonight and tell you everything that was wrong with it, and why I was wrong to give Marvel another chance.
#HopeI’mWrong
#GrumpyOldShane
I-I-I-I’m, hooked on a feeling!
No I’m not >:|
#GrumpyOldShane
Come and get your love!
I am Groot?
I’ve spent half of today being paid to work on my cosplay. Sometimes this job has its perks.
Woops.
Ogawd. E-mail came around asking about any upcoming leave anyone had planned, so I made mention of PAX. Boss came over and said he’s going too, and that we should catch up while down there.
Where I plan on being all dressed up in costume.
If it doesn’t entail a skirt you’re going to be oooookay…. If it does he might like it and you’ll get a pay raise and you’ll be oooookay!
Should’ve said you were going for the Melbourne Cup…
Hey, at least a) you’ve got the leave approved, and b) your boss approves of your leave!
It’s nice when your boss is supportive. Once I went to the Nationals with my dragonbaoat club and came back with three gold medals and no one gave a shit, just hassled because I was half a day late because my flight had been cancelled and rescheduled.
Where you’re going to be dressed up as…?
Tell me!
A wild Gooky!
Ugh!
Are you Survivoring this season? 😀
Dunno. Depends if mum ends up watching it 😛
You never know, he may end up being more wildly dressed than you.
http://i.imgur.com/8Tg0mGs.jpg LOL
Heh, did basically like no work today, ugh so over Perth :P. I left the office way earlier than necessary too so now I’ve got over 2 hours to spare before my flight.
No lounge access this time though but I’m thinking of Fantasy Life or a book or something…
Unit was alright. Location makes up for any minor deficiencies. Internet might be a pain but hoping for the best there. Worst case, it’s not that far from the exchange so probably 5-6mb ADSL which will be a bit of a shock after having Cable out here. Hoping like mad it’s not on pair gain or a RIM or something (place is a bit older, block of units, couldn’t see a Telstra pit anywhere in my quick inspection outside and it looked to have overhead wires into the block).
Handed in my application anyway. Now I’m having a few second thoughts but I think that it was partially because of the stress of getting there (caught in traffic so was nearly late!) and also the fact that there was a bunch of Chinese people outside talking really loudly plus someone wandering around with a crying baby. :\ Also I’ve never lived out of home so it’s kind of a daunting step I guess.
The lease is up here at the end of next month and we’re not gonna stay. I am not looking forward to leaving my 100mbps internet behind. I HIGHLY doubt I’ll be seeing those speeds again for a very long time 🙁
Fucking Tony. And Malcom. And Puppetmaster Rupert as well. 🙁
So that’s @pupp3tmast3r’s real name 😛
So Telstra’s site says I can get 100mbit cable there… Which is a surprise but awesome if true.
AFAIK cable doesn’t even exist in Tasmania 🙁 Would be good though if you can get it!
Good luck
Also, participation in the TAY Grand Magical Mystery Japan Extravaganza is all but confirmed \o/ Sent payment through to @novacascade just now.
Anime Nerd Side Note: We’re going to be visiting Japan during the same year that Evangelion was supposed to be set during. Hopefully the world doesn’t end!
On that topic: Yourself, @jocon, @transientmind and @novacascade
Shirt sizes pl0x.
XL
Or maybe Large depending on the fit. I’m big across the back and shoulders.
…
And belly 🙁
…medium? small? Go small.
What are you up to?
Really hard to tell. Uhm. Let’s go with Medium. Even if it’s too tight, hopefully it’ll look like a muscle shirt.
…I really need to get into better shape.
Man you guys all suck. *hides XXL tag on own shirts*
I’ll be an L.
Good luck jolly travel man @novacascade: Let Us Journey Well Ex Plus
My Travel Agent Can’t Possibly Be This Good?
It’s ok – 2nd Impact was supposed to have happened in 2000 and we’re still here.
Or maybe it happened and we just don’t know?
Had to laugh today, I was going through one of our sorting tables out the back (I volunteer at the local Salvo’s for those who don’t know) and someone had put this in amongst it all, when it came in from a donation of goods. I guess no one decided to actually read what was on it & assumed it was for children, heh.
I…erhmm….wut?
Yep 😛
Someone also donated an apron with a print of Michael Angelo’s David on it, was amusing.
I’m still stuck on the rubber duck thing :P… “rubber ducky you’re the one, you make bath time so much fun” well no shit Sherlock 😛
Now there’s a new light shon on the rhyme!
Rubber Ducky I’m awfully fond of you =S
childhood = ruined 😛
Looking at this reminds me..i need to get a massage
Happy ending too?
Always have a happy ending when i get a massage
the pain in my shoulders and back goes away which leaves me happySo, did you buy it? 😛
Lol.
Threw it out tbh.
Is anyone able to sign in to PSN? I can’t even login via their website o.0
Just tried to access the SEN website and it won’t even load up.
What’s the bet some idiot “hackers” are involved?
I immediately thought you meant the radio station, instead of PSN.
My bad.
Yeah I’m having the same. Seeing Alot of people also having it too 🙁
Nah, no dice here either.
Not working for me either, bummer.
I finally have TV time and am able to play Destiny again for the first time since Sunday and PSN decided to shit the bed 🙁
This is still going on? Sad panda
I’ve gotten a massive dessert craving….
Something Chocolate-y, preferably…
90sec microwave choc pudding in a mug
Max Brenners.
Finished AFL Live 2 with 7 wins and 15 losses. The game didn’t think to tell me, but I think that I came 17th. Annoying, the mode I selected was season-only, which I didn’t know. I was hoping to play a second season.
If that was the real 2013 season you finished between 15th (Western Bulldogs, 8-14) and 16th (StK, 5-17). Ahead of Melbourne and GWS.
So basically, around where GC finished in 2013.
Pretty much. They were equal with Bulldogs, ahead on %.
well I just preordered Shadow of Mordor for PS4, I hope you’re all proud of yourselves
I went from knowing next to nothing about it a couple of days ago to guaranteed first day purchase. The last game that did that to me was probably Arkham asylum, which is a good sign.
Going down to Dick Smith tomorrow to put a pre-order on that, Alien: Isolation, DriveClub and The Evil Within.
How can I resist at $60 each.
DINNER WAS GREAT SUCCESS!
Nobody died! And it actually tasted pretty much right too!
Also she is spazzing out over baby photos. Send help.
I wish I could have a dinner where nobody died…
*kicks a soccer ball around sadly*
*runs past and boots the ball* RONALLLDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOO *explodes*
Yet…
What did you cook? Instagram or it didn’t happen 😉
That just means “take a photo”, right?
If you want – I just like hearing about successful cooking adventures 🙂
Tonight I made a “chicken and leftover veg from the fridge” massaman curry and my 3 year old ate all of his \o/
http://i.imgur.com/sDmuhBP.jpg
This doubles as a picture of my lunch for tmoorrow. Enjoy, @powalen 😛
Also I am nowhere near as good at taking pictures as you.
Yum! 🙂 I can see why dinner was a success!
Oh man that new episode of South Park was great. Ripping on Gluten Free diets. And a Randy focus guarantees a good episode.
Did the dye work?
Wife in bed early, a chunk of study done, time to see if I can finish Tomb Raider…
And… Child won’t sleep… /o\
So who else is getting Skylanders: Trap Team, and or Forza Horizon 2?
HYYYPE!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/what-would-happen-if-every-human-on-earth-died/
Balance would be restored. Meaning: Apes would take their rightful place as rulers of this miserable planet.
So, books are pretty cool. Haven’t read anything for such a long time. Started reading A Game Of Thrones again the other day, actually making real progress this time (up to page 112), and it’s really sucking me in. But, we just got the movie Gone Girl at work, and I want to watch it because it sounds interesting, but I thought it’d be better to read the book first. So I went out and bought the book, It’s only 460 odd pages, and shouldn’t take too long to read, but I don’t want to leave GoT.
I recently got around to actually reading all of 1984 for the first time, I picked it up in high school but only got through part 1.
I guess all the cultural allusions to 1984 that I’ve experienced over the years have dulled me to it because I really didn’t find any of it shocking or confronting. The third part lets the whole thing down really, I expected something far more sinister than simple cruelty/fear.
Always wanted to read that.
It’s one of those books you’re supposed to read in high school so when you’re in your thirties people are all “lol, you haven’t read that yet? What’s wrong with you?”
In my school we read Brave New World instead. Which I should probably read again at some point soon. Right after Animal Farm, which I’ve also never gotten around to.
I remember having to read To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Merchant Of Venice in High School. Only thing I remember about it is the characters name Shylock, and that he was a Jew.
Always wanted to read Animal Farm too.
#toomanybooks
I remember some dude needs money so he makes a deal to loan money from a Jew (Shylock) and if he doesn’t pay it back Shylock will take a pound of flesh. Buddy can’t pay his loan so Shylock comes around looking for his pound of flesh, eventually the guy gets his buddy to lawyer Shylock out of the deal by saying if he doesn’t take exactly one pound of only flesh (i.e.: he can’t spill any blood either) then he’ll be in breach of contract and, I dunno, executed probably. This was taught to us as an allegory for reading the fine print or something, but I think the point was supposed to be more along the lines of “look how badly we can rip this fucking Jew off and there’s jack shit he can do about it”. I never really gave it a lot of thought though, so who knows. There’s probably someone out there who agrees with me.
That reminds me of a poem we read which was about war and included a reference to “balding non-coms” which my teacher explained referred to “non-combatants” and was alluding to how innocent people suffer in war etc. While that was indeed thought-provoking imagery I’d recently joined army cadets and having learned a little military terminology felt “non-coms” more likely referred to “non-commissioned officers”, hence the inclusion of the qualifier “balding” to refer to grizzled senior sergeants, warrant officers, etc. I pointed this out to my teacher as I felt it really put the entire scene in the poem in a different light and wanted to discuss it. She said “that’s interesting” sarcastically and moved on.
I’m pretty sure that’s the moment I stopped caring about school.
HELLOOOOOOO!!!
Was expecting Robin Williams, not disappointed however.
So my favourite moment in GotG was right at the start when
the massive title comes up on the screen, and the main dude (whose name I’ve already forgotten – Peter or something) is really tiny, dancing around the cave right at the bottom of the screen. That’s when I knew it would be a fun movie. And it was. Solid 3 star movie. That makes it twice as good as the Avengers.I Didn’t really like Drax, but Star Lord, Groot and Rocket more than made up for that, a pretty solid movie, very enjoyable. Glad you liked it.Drax was my favourite
I felt like he talked too much, it kinda ruined the character a bit for me.i thought Drax was… OK… he didn’t really add alot to the overall movie, but he had some pretty funny lines sometimesYeah! It’s totally underrated.
Maybe just be me, but I went to see GotG blind; didn’t know a thing about it apart from a trailer or two.But when it starts off with that serious opening then throws in that silly opening credits, it set the tone of the movie. Of what I should expect. A silly, mostly light hearted romp through the galaxy. And it delivered exactly that in spades.
I hadn’t even seen a trailer. But yep, totally agree with what you said.
I was trying so hard to be cynical about the film, but that bit won me over.
BOARD GAMES
Introduced my parents to Resistance:Coup Reformation and Dominion Intrigue. Mother got the hang of Coup (first time I’ve played it, only got here this morning) and Dad did pretty Ok at Dominion.
I enjoy showing my parents Board games. Last time I did that Mum asked for a copy of 7 wonders 🙂
The two that have really been a hit are ticket to ride and Carcassonne
My mum really liked Settlers of Catan. 🙁
Catan is Ok.
Not after you’ve played 2-3 games every lunch break for 6 months at work it isn’t. The game is almost completely dominated by initial placement and who rolls a 7 first.
You should come up to Dubbo this weekend for BOARD GAMES bonanza!
I’m going to a board game thing on Sunday
Survivor Episode 2 Discussion! @greenius @sughly @strange @phoenix @f4ction @mashaa2932 @mrtaco
Hahaha! Okay, we’ve officially got our new ‘dumbest person in the game’. That John dude, wow! Why did he think it would be a good idea to volunteer for the reward challenge that involved balance and maneuvering through small obstacles? Has he seen the size of himself!? haha And he knew he would be playing against his wife. So funny.He’s going to be great in challenges. Seems like such a sore loser judging from the platform challenge and the next-episode preview, it’s going to be good.
Also Val is dumb too. Why would you say you had two idols? That’s just crazy. And how did she not find the idol when she had the clue! It was the clearest clue ever! So dumb. It’ll be good to see her husband’s reaction when he finds out she’s gone though.
Dammit @masha2932! Fancy getting the numbers right but not the name 😛
Ha ha, I should unify my Twitter and Tay usernames.
John is hilariously terrible. Racist, sexist arrogant man on a show with people from diverse walks of life? Great idea! Next week’s preview looks great. And yep, I can’t believe Val. The whole time I’m just “…what. I’ve only watched one season and even I know not to be that stupid”. Hubby gon’ be maaaad at John.The reaction from the mum when she hit her daughter in the lip though 🙁 I felt bad for the mum. You could see she just wanted to bow out and give her a hug.
Yeah that mum/daughter was bs. Daughter was so proud of herself after, as if the mum had even made an effort the second time around. Poor mums 🙁You have to catch up on Survivor, man!
But why watch them when they’re already done 🙁
Broooooo, totally worth it!
Trust meeeee (I very recently went through season 1-13 and 14-22 a few years before). Been watching episodes as soon as they air since then 😀
I know, right? Val and Baylor playing way too hard. Baylor probably shouldn’t have flipped on an alliance so early. They need to be thinking about the tribe at this point, and winning challenges.John seems like a bit of a dick as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rocker#Controversies
Loved Jeff negotiating. “Half a sack of beans for flint? I don’t think so. You’re on my island now.”
” one I think can be collectively agreed upon is the undeniable fact that the Holocaust would have never taken place had the Jewish citizenry of Hitler’s Germany had the right to bear arms and defended themselves with those arms” …. wait, what?I want to read :'(
Yeah in all fairness, she was being pretty bad at this game. Good riddance, you were about as interesting to watch manoeuvre in the game as… something not interesting. But ugh at macho man finding the idol, UGH. Also I was happy Dale won at his turn so the tribe doesnt think hes completely uselessYou guys!… seriously…you guys!
I am at a loss for words!
@rize, @sernobulus, @scree, @gorzilla and @cakesmith has to be some of the greatest people i’ve ever met!
These guys all pitched in together to pay for a Sunday Ticket for PAX for me…
I honestly don’t know what to say, when Rize first told me i was gobsmacked, and i may have gotten a bit emotional… because i was cutting an onion… YEAH THAT’S IT, I WAS CUTTING AN ONION…
you guys are seriously the kindest, most generous people i’ve ever met!
You guys have certainly managed to cheer me up a lot over the last few days, i honestly don’t know what i’d do without you… this is by far the greatest community ever, and i’m humbled by how awesome you all are!!!
I don’t know what i’ve done to deserve this, but damn! THANK YOU SO GOD DAMN MUCH!
Nawwwww! No one asked me for donations. Basterds, all of them.
The worst community.
Sorry, I didn’t really know who else to ask and it was kind of a last minute thing.
I was just kidding. It’s an awesome thing you did! 🙂
Pixel has been kind and helped me a lot. It was the least I could do.
It’s all a ruse to lull you into a false sense of security.
IT’S A TRAP!
Ugh, those guys are the worst! THE WORST I TELLS YA!
*jumps out window*
Awesome people are awesome.
A gift well deserved – you’re a pretty rad dude yourself.
Cutting an onion?? But there were tips on exactly that a few pages back! THERE WERE TIPS!!!!!!
@scree
Dye results
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/517660008922628096
Looks a lot better
A wild @greenius imposter appears
I’m off to bed.
See you all tomorrow.
Yes, yes, no doubt we will see you on the morrow. Toodle pip.
Love that scene, so funny. Think I’ma watch Alien now.
This is really annoying me. I was saying a few weeks ago about the coffee project thing my group is doing for one of my classes, and I legit need to know how cafe’s work and the ins and outs of coffee. I can do the actual technology implementation bit but fucked if I know anything about coffee other than how to make it in a drip filter or plunger :l
PS Today I made bread! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/By8pzaFCUAA9_LI.jpg
And it only took me 6 hours and like 5x the amount of money it would have cost to just buy buns from the shop! They’re pretty friggen good though, I must say.
What kinds of things do you need to know about Cafes and coffee making?
I used to supervise a Cafe, and am a trained (albeit, very rusty) barista, and have made more coffees than I can count.
Would be happy to help out if I can.
Is it mostly the process flow you need to analyse?
Some coffee places queue up orders on a screen from the POS system (kinda like maccas), others go a little more low tech and just write the order on a cup, and the cups are queued up for the person working the coffee machine…
I drink too much coffee at too many wanky Melbourne cafés, and have noted process flows when I go places, so happy to help expand your knowledge if I can.
(@liondrive) Yeah, just the process flow. How orders are managed and the attention staff pay to complicated orders. The whole driver behind the project is that apparently at least in Hobart staff get orders wrong a hell of a lot.
Hmm, where I worked orders went from the register and were printed out on little paper dockets per order to each respective section (hot drinks to the Barista, cold drinksand cakes to Cold Larder, meals to the Kitchen) upon payment.
It depends on whose taking orders, who’s making the coffee, who’s waiting tables and the training as to how thoroughly the orders were checked.
Ok, so the general process is as follows:
Step 01:
The cashier would take the customers order, and read back the order, making sure to confirm any complicated changes in detail.
Step 02:
The Barista would then get the docket printed to them upon payment, and look at the docket (with all coffees for that order on it), and see if any changes were needed (skim, soy, warm, extra hot, etc), which would be printed under said coffee, and then make everything required as per the docket.
Upon completion they would put the docket with all the drinks and yell “coffee’s up” to signal that there was a coffee order that needed to go out (for dine in customers).
Step 03a:
The Runner (wait staff specifically designated to taking out orders) would then come over, check the docket to make sure everything was right, double check which was special (if there was say a skinny latte and a regular latte on the same order), then take the coffees to the table.
The Runner would ask if there was anything else, in case anything was missed.
After around five minutes, the Runner would then go ask if everything was alright (in case something was wrong with the order).
Step 03b:
If the order was take away, the Barista does everything the same, except they yell out the customers name instead of “coffee’s up”, upon order completion, and read back the order to the customer, making sure everything was as ordered.
I think our process was probably a bit more thorough than most, but there was hardly any errors. Most errors occur when it is busy, and most commonly happened at the register, or at the running (taking wrong orders to the wrong tables, etc).
The Barista themselves hardly ever made mistakes with making the coffees, except for occasionally putting the wrong docket with the wrong order. Barista where I worked were trained to follow each docket to the letter, since coffee is mainly what a Cafe is about.
Hope this helps 🙂
Yeah that’s quite helpful! Thanks man 🙂
CJ is a barista if that helps
I believe @CJ would be about to help you. He seems to know what’s going on when it comes to coffee.
I do like coffee.
My bank card arrived in the mail! \o/
*sigh* i’m such a whimp 😛
Even with a comical overlay i’m pretty sure i wet myself a little bit watching this
Get a few people to either watch with you, or watch someone else play
Aw man, that is gonna be one scary-ass game.
Even though I know it’s going to happen it still terrifies the heck out of me, every. Darn. Time
Edit: Their Five Nights at Freddy’s did the same thing to me too, it’s going to happen, still scares me every time… fricken hate it
I was going to watch that afterwards bit looked at the time and “nope” :P… I heard PT was scary but daaaaaaamn!
It’s just the jumpscare at the end is what gets you with the noise it makes. It’s one of those “something pops out in your face then a loud screeching noise floods your headphones” things
Yeah, I find that kinda stuff is so much worse with headphones.
Even when you know that it will happen just not when, it still fracking gets you -.-‘
Did Shadow of Mordor just go up $26 on Steam? I’m sure I saw it at $49.99 on the frontpage yesterday
Edit: $16. Don’t do rudimentary maths before 7am
Ah, straya tax. Thought the early launch and US pricing might have been someone forgetting the AU tag.
I was shocked to see it at $50 at launch. Should’ve realised. At least at $66 it’s still not the full Strayan Tax amount (unlike something like Beyond Earth) but still. I’m gonna keep an eyr out in the future though for new launches 😀 and at least it’s still $50 on greenmangaming
Still $42 for a Steam Key on OGS.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-with-the-dark-ranger-dlc-cd-key-download-for-steam
yeah, saw that as well. ogs have some really good deals for Steam keys. Using Beyond Earth again as an example, but I think I saw it for $45-50 the other day. If only I had money…
So…it was $40 when it went up, then went to $71, then came down to $50 on release, and is now back up to $66???
It would appear so yes. Maybe Valve is trying out a new supply and demand based market price for games. More people buy, the price goes up, the fewer people buy, price drops
Went to see my mum in hospital yesterday. Took her some KFC for lunch as it’s her fav!
Got there and she was so doped up on morphine she could barely speak. Dad fed her some potato and gravy and chips and stuff, and she kept dozing on and off, so we left after a little while. Last night mum called me, almost in tears, saying how thankful she was that I made the suggestion to my dad. Despite her being barely able to move her lips when we went in there, she remembers the whole thing, and said it was the best meal she’s had in months! Just couldn’t thank me enough!
*almost burst in to tears myself at that point*
It’s little things like that that make your (and her) day.
Aw man, all the feels. Must’ve been hard, but at least you brought her some happiness. It’s amazing how something so small can mean so much to someone.
*hugs*
I swear I’m just about to give up on puzzle quest ;| Fucking infuriating game. New event starts, I fight one battle, then come up against 2 thugs and a maggia don. (all lvl 54). I fought them with a lvl 70 character, and 2 lvl 65. On the 4th turn, the don wipes out my whole team with one move. No chain, no combo.. just one fucking tile. Absolute bullshit.
You need to sacrifice a goat to the match 3 gods
heh I’ll say. I did eventually get through it, only to be greeted by a pansy lvl 43 Sentry… who proceeded to get enough red matches in 2 turns to unleash supernova, and wipe out my whole team in a single blow 😐
Ahhh sentry, such a badass if he gets a run on. Although I still find storm to be the worst for a team wipe if she gets going
Yer if you hit her team while she’s not the lead character, you’re in for a beating!
Then a lightning strike to generate a bunch of AP for some body will low cost abilities like juggernaut.
The new episode of Brooklyn nine-nine was pretty great, I’ve been yelling “STARE INTO THE MAGGOT DRAWER!!” frequently. I could totally see Dethklok doing that as a song.
My gf won tickets to see the Dead Kennedys tonight, I won tickets to see Sepultura tomorrow, my team won our footie match last night (I scored the winner with 10 seconds left) and I won $14 on the Powerball last night.
Being in a good mood is a strange feeling, one I can definitely get used to though. Oh, and a long weekend for us QLDers to top it off 😀
Dead Kennedys?
I didn’t even know they were touring D:
Awesome luck though man, good things do sometimes come to good people.
Long weekend :D, I’m gonna be so lazy.
My plan for the weekend
Slobbing in the morning, followed by slobbing in the afternoon, then a bit of a snooze before the main evening’s slob? Dave Lister style, now I just need to stock up on Vindaloo and beer.
Man, now I wanna veg in front of the TV and watch the Dwarf for the next 3 days. Dwayne Dibley?
Yeah, Dead Kennedys are touring. No Jello Biafra though which I didn’t realise. I’m not a massive punk fan but the missus is but I’m happy enough to see them
that’s kinda funny, both bands you won tickets for are missing their original singers.
I approve of the will to watch Red Dwarf, I was a little worried when they started back up that it might be weird or not very good, I was glad to be shown otherwise, they’ve still got it.
It’s a little weird without the laugh track. I really didn’t notice it when I would watch it when I were a lad. I don’t think I’ve finished watching the new stuff yet though. Something I must sort out
Red Dwarf XI is coming. Filming is starting this month!
Never watched Red Dwarf, my older sister’s mad on it though.
Winning!
Cool. Hope they are still good sans Jello
Long distance relationship is hard…. 🙂
Yep…
oh shit… sorry man
It’s okay, don’t let what happened to me stop you from speaking out about it.
*brohug*
The problem with this sort of thing is almost always communication.
I’m sure you’re trying your best, but whenever your partner speaks, you’re miles away.
#PageSixResurgence!
*taps mic* Hello? Testing, testing… is this thing on?
Seriously, though, sorry to hear about that.
Been there, done that. Me in Leeds, UK, girlfriend in Brisbane. 6 (7?) years later, still going strong although slightly less long distance now as we live together 😀
Me and my wife live in the same house, but we might as well be on opposite sides of the world.
I now have this problem sometimes as well 😀
How often did you guys travel over to each other’s place
We actually ‘met’ on Myspace talked as friends for a year or so and then somehow some form of feelings developed and realised we both liked each other. Took me about 6-9 months to save up to come over. So answer to your question is we didn’t until I moved over here 😀
It’s not your traditional long term relationship, but then again, what is? If you both really want to make it work though you’ll find a way to make it work. If it does work though, all the shitty hard times will seem inconsequential. It’s good to have something to work towards though like visits or when it will no longer be long distance
How long a distance? Not that it really makes that much of a difference over a certain threashold, but still 😛
Did that one, Sydney/Adelaide. It was kind of alright I guess, but I’m more than happy to never do it again. Ever.
Sydney/Ha Noi (Vietnam)…
Now you all know where I’m from 😛
Jamaica?
Antarctica. I’m sure you will love my homeland come visit sometime.
Got the day off, and I’m gonna pick up my copies of Skylanders: Trap Team and Forza: Horizon 2, but I can’t until my pay goes through in about 3 or 4 hours. Not sure what to do. Not gonna do an MQFT because that tends to go nowhere, so I’ll be more specific.
Should I,
Read more Game Of Thrones
Start reading Gone Girl
Play Costume Quest
Play Lego: Marvel Super Heroes
Play Skylanders: Swap Force or
Play Forza 5
Play GAEMS!
More specifically Skylanders
hey you popped up on my Adventure mode map, I totally helped you, it said you should receive something for it.
g) The Lesser Evil
Wasn’t buying them enough? Now I gotta read them too.
Geez! You don’t want much do ya? 😛
Nope! Don’t even want the money. Just your attention … and your eyeballs #TempleOfDoom
I make lists of possible things to do like that sometimes. Then I check my computer’s clock and it’s two hours later and all I’ve got is a weird internet search history to show for it (no, not weird like that 😛 )
Costume Quest! It’s a fantastic game and doesn’t take too long to complete.
Play costume quest
Stayed up way too late talking.
No more sleepovers on a work night.
*Fryeyes.gif*
Not sure if I should grab popcorn or not
*Puts popcorn in microwave just in case*
Hm? Sorry, I was sleepy and not concentrating.
I smell popcorn.
…Is Gooky talking about girls again?
No!
…just the one.
“Talking”
The couple in the next room are agreeing with each-other quite loudly.
There’s no agreeable discussion when Mario Kart is being played.
Morning guys, due to my unfortunate accident two weeks ago – I will no longer be attending PAX. I have two free Saturday passes if anyone is interested. I’m not sure when they will arrive in the mail, or if transference is even possible but if anyone wants to try for it, speak up.
First in, best cosplayed.
@dc
Aw man, that sucks, sorry to hear that.
That sounds bad, hope you get better soon man.
Oh man, that’s really tempting, but I don’t have someone to go with, so I would only need one. Also, accommodation would probably be an issue.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-296/comment-page-7/#comment-2970155
And if @dc takes the other, we can grab an 8-person room…
you okay?
I’m mostly upset I won’t be attending PAX; a little upset about my written off vehicle but $10k compensation eases that pain a little; and my muscles have been aching for about two weeks now but apart from all that I’m pretty good.
Maybe give it to Pixel so he can go to another day? But that’s lovely of you to give away your passes.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking ?
No no, no no no no no no you guys have been awesome enough without doing that! I couldn’t possibly do that! Surely someone else have no passes at all and would benefit more than me?
Dude, I read your post two pages back – everyone is currently benefiting more than you! You need some fortune this week – take the tickets!
Can I at least repay you somehow?
Nah. 😀
Just pop me kind email to benbonnici at gmail dot com with the address you want the tickets to go to and I will send them as soon as I receive them.
Email inbound… Seriously thank you! Many man hugs coming your way when I see you next!
@dire_wolf would you be able to give me confirmation re tomorrow’s raid by today lunchtime? I’d like to put a shout out to fellow TAYbies if anyone else would like to jump in if you can’t make it! =]
Sorry man, working both Saturday and Sunday (again).
*sigh*
What’s the score? 12pm Sydney time again?
Yep 12-5 like last weekend if everyone is up for it! Dire mentioned he might be going away this long weekend so…. D=
Indiana Jones… ON THE BIG SCREEN!
http://www.hoyts.com.au/movies/2014/indiana_jones_and_the_raiders_of_the_lost_ark.aspx
Damn, and $10 is cheap for Hoyts
The Star Wars trilogy marathon was only $25, and it was one of the best days I’ve had in years.
Awesome. Our trilogy screening didn’t end up happening. Gonna have to start pushing the boss to make it happen.
@crazyguy1990 the beanbag is on it’s way!
Sounds like some sort of code…
The henhouse is in the nuanced lettuce volley
Cheers, scree!
🙂
And I hope your stress goes away quickly.
My Wii component cables arrived today.
Been doing some recording tests via my Roxio, and it works smoothly. 😀
New Doctor Who current season overarching story theory (putting here instead of twitter to hide spoilers)
Mysterious figure is collecting people from the doctor’s timeline as they die. Latest episode showed that they stuffed up and grabbed someone that hadn’t met the doctor, but was close – that’s why they were fobbed off to the assistant instead of talking to the top lady. Also shows potential desperation / pressure if they’re starting to get sloppy with *whatever* the process is that they’re carrying out.Theory:
The whole thing is a decade long Rick roll. Final episode will reach a crescendo then cut to Rick Astley then credits, black screen.I like your theory.
Mr too
Could you imagine the explosion on the internet?
Yeah, don’t really know what’s going on there. At first I thought it would be a ‘she’s collecting all the baddies as they get defeated and going to get them all to come back at the same time for the final episode’ but she’s also collecting good people as well (that space lady that sacrificed herself a while back). Just have to wait and see I suppose!You make a fine bow tie, good ser, but yout theories are lacking.
😛
I like this theory
Yeah, basically people the Doctor has killed or let get killed. I think it’s all to do with Missy confronting the Doctor and there being some judgement on him about whether he’s a good person or not. I say that as so far he’s asked a lot about whether he’s a good person or not.Also, it’s possible she’s a Timelord (the Doctor’s her boyfriend apparently so maybe they were a thing back on Gallifrey before he ‘stole’/’borrowed’ the TARDIS?)as well seeing as how they made a ‘return’ in Time of the Doctor and that there hasn’t been a mention so far of the Doctor looking for Gallifrey yet after Day of the Doctor, I think she might be a kickstart to trying to restore Gallifrey, probably to be the main story for the next season?
Lots of speculation 😛
On a side note on the season so far, I’m a bit disappointed in that we’ve seen tiny glimpses of Capaldi being darker than Smith, but it hasn’t really come across well as he’s still being written I feel with a light hearted side as well (possibly because he’s got a new set of regeneration and knows that Gallifrey hasn’t been destroyed). There’s a lot of focus on developing Clara and her relationship with Danny as well which, tbh, is taken up a lot of screen time. In previous seasons that would be done alongside stories going on but so far it’s been the monsters/aliens that have taken a backstep for Clara to be developed more (most obvious in last week’s episode where the robot thingo was almost incidental, blink-and-you-miss-it). I’m not against developing a companion, on the contrary, companions are one of the most important things in Doctor Who, but I can’t help feel that development of the Doctor and any main story arc (or minor story arcs for that matter) is being held back as a result.
I really enjoy the clara/ pink relationship and am glad to see the Doctor not being romantically involved with anyone anymore.
I think its being done really well and therefore not taking up too much screen time 🙂
I looked at that Lebowski pinball table this morning and I’ve had Creedence’s Looking Out My Back Door in my head all morning.
If I had $8500 at the moment I wouldn’t if you catch my drift.
Haha I have Just Dropped In stuck in mine because of the same article, if I had $4250 I’d go you halves lol
Dooo dooo dooooo etc
Just like if I had a spare $10k, I wouldn’t. Because I would own that Metallica Master of Puppets Pinball table, I want it so bad Q_Q
I need an NBA Jam cabinet before I can even start thinking about pinball tables.
Always wanted one of those, and an Addams Family pinball table as well.
Oh yes, one day they will be mine.
I have a standing search on eBay for any NBA Jam machines within 100km. One day.
Even googling searching the world I can’t find anything but custom builds, nothing original.
That’s the biggest issue. 🙁
If I had $8500 and somewhere to actually put it…
Autocorrect can go die in a fire
Why the duck would you say that?
Beveridge et. Twirl
*because it’s terrible.
Looks like I might be alone in the office for the entire day! And it’s school holidays and a Friday, so nobody is going to call. Going to be a looooong day! Might have to sneak in some Fantasy Life if it gets too boring.
Given its now October, must be almost time for TAY HALLOWEEN NAMES
Dibs on “that embarassing thing you did eight years ago”.
ok my first choice was more than 30 characters so..
Boo-ob will look even more like bewbs than it does now.
It think B-obbit would work. Or B-orn Again.
Negative associations with Lorena and ABBA respectively.
B-ospookyghost.
B-obZombie?
B-omnipresentcreepingsenseofyourownmortailty?
B-ob-omb?
Good enough.
\o/
Bloo-odd?
It’s a long-standing tradition!
Are you the Dark Magician?
I think you’ve already put more thought into it than I have if you got past “nonspecific witch” 😛
This one feels weird.
Buh-buh-ba-bum. *click click*
THE MAMUSHKA!!!
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ooky
So I made a good choice then 😛
Oh, so that’s why everyone’s changing their handles.
Ok, something Halloween themed, hmmm, I’ve got it, Evil Monkey… oh wait.
I could’ve sworn you’ve been around here for longer than a year. This is the third year we’ve done it!
My memory’s not that great so, I probably just forgot about it.
Evil..-er Monkey?
*nonspecific slurrr*
*nonspecific overacting scream*
Am I doing it rite?
I suck at creative naming and puns, so I’ll stick with the Halo theme.
NOS42r2
This is what I get for using a short acronym for my handle…
N-os4R2 might work, though it sounds like a vampiric astromech droid.
I still don’t know how to change my name.
View your profile ad there is an edit profile button on that page next to your avatar and name
Go here https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/profile/ and then click the button that says “Edit Profile” – it’ll be there under Display Name.
PS: Flayer might work. Especially given your easy access to surgical tools…
Go to your notification thingy place & press edit profile next to your gravatar, then put whatever you want in the ‘display name’ place to change it!
Mine’s kind of hard 🙁
That’s all right. Dealing with difficult theoretical numbers is enough of a nightmare for most people already! 😛
DivideByZero?
NegativeFear-o
Last year IIRC I did Type-0 Negative but I don’t want to repeat it.
√NegativeZero
That’s just 0 though. 🙁
Doesn’t i need to be in there to get you a negative from squaring something?
Better grab a hoodie
well that was easy (and also lazy)
Jumping on the bandwagon…thing…
Calling and leaving a voicemail at work? That’s cool, I’ll look into it as soon as I get the chance. Calling every 5 minutes and then calling colleagues to see if I was there for half an hour? No not bloody cool. I’m going to ignore you because your issue isn’t urgent and its rude for you to expect me to drop everything straight away for you.
We always tell people they have to send an email describing their problem before calling if they need tech support. So now people send an email, then call immediately to say “did you get my email?”.
Even better the ones that send an email: “will call in 5” 😛
I do the same. I actually got a whole functional mailbox set up just for this. But there’s always a handful who think you’re around just to serve them specifically.
Generally when someone calls and they go on some lengthy spiel at the end I just say “so…can you put that in an email and send it to the team?”.
Ok who slipped an extra hour into this morning? It feels like it should be lunchtime now.
“It’s 12pm somewhere in the world!”
It should also be after 5 somewhere in the world so time for some alcoholic beverage of some sort
It’s also pushing midnight, so margaritas for everyone!
It’s also 5 o’clock in the afternoon somewhere, which means time for alcohol!
I have to do a 3-4 paragraph mini essay for a language, literacy, and numeracy assessment. :\
I miss homework. Kind of.
I
Write
Good
Yes?
Never specified how many words in each paragraph.“This is a sentence in English with 10 words and 2 numbers.”
I’m not sure what you would do for the other three paragraphs, but this should help.
Patch downloaded, cash added. All that’s left to do is wait for Smash to release on midnight.
I found this hilarious.
Oh god, his brain was just
“To hell with this” then
“I wonder if things are normal, mmmmm nope, cya”
My PAX pokemon team is pretty much done, i suspect ill do some tweaking though because not being perfect is kind of urking me. I mean when i started i was planning on just getting the pokemon i wanted and levelling them up and leaving it. Then i thought, ill get good move sets too i guess, and i may as well EV train it looks pretty easy. Then i looked at the natures of pokemon i had already leveled up and i was like “Hmmm i should fix that too and there are a few egg moves i want too”
Last night i considered starting from scratch and seeing if i could IV breed perfect Evee’s but I took a long hard look at myself and decided against it. I mean the planning of the team and even the grinding was enjoyable and im definitely gonna try some wifi battles with some other teams because competitive pokemon is actually really interesting. But when it comes down to it my free time is limited and i wanna play smash bros.
Eevees?
Why yes, I do have 3 boxes of them.
Maybe you would like to peruse my wares?
Tell me about it, I’m tempted to go back and redo half the team with better IVs, but that could take weeks. I still have to fill the last 2 spots.
Alright final call out regarding Destiny raid tomorrow arvo (12pm to 5pm). Existing raiders please confirm attendance via reply. @jocon @saturday @blaghman @distantdrop @dire_wolf
Interested raiders please register your interest via reply, I believe there’s a good chance we have one open spot tomorrow.
Minimum requirements – Level 26, void damage secondary weapon, level 20 blue or higher rocket launcher, carry secondary and heavy cartridge synthesis (at least 5) and have your mic/headset.
Edit: We’re up to Atheon, probably clear him this weekend.
Ugggghhhhhhhhhh yeah, let’s do it. Rocket Launcher part is pretty optional, methinks. I imagine half of the team will be using their fancy launchers they got last time.
If there is a spot open tomorrow then I could be up for it as long as it doesn’t run too late 😛
Hey cuf we run from 12 to 5pm so 5 hour stretch and we’ll probably take breaks as necessary! Chances are we’ll reach Atheon around 2, break for lunch and then just spend the rest of the afternoon learning the fight and hopefully clearing him.
Let me know if you’re confirmed for tomorrow’s time frame and I’ll close the spot!
Screw it, I’m in. Whatever plans the missus hasn’t told me about can wait.
If people need to add me on PSN, cufcfan616 🙂
I’ll be there with all the things.
Not going to be geared up in time to sit on the bench. 🙁 Wish the game hadn’t been down last night.
I can make it.
I’m up for it if you need a sixth – 28 Warlock with void primary and secondary.
Post-Apocalyptic Urban Decay @dc
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/the-myth-of-an-untouched-chernobyl/
@dc should read the full article that’s linked from that one. Very interesting read.
So, since Destiny really isn’t tickling my fancy in any way and I’ve formed no attachment to it does any one want the contents of my ghost edition? It’s bulky and probably a nightmare to post but I don’t really want it and there’s some of you here that are pretty into it.
What was included in said edition again?
Apart from the season pass DLC, the Ghost (which lights up and makes whooshing sound effects), an armament guidebook, and some art inserts, mission patches, etc.
If no-one else wants it then @freezespreston I’ll take it, but keep asking around first.
.. I’ll take… the DLC? can I even do that? probably not.
I’ve already redeemed that. I mean purely the physical stuff.
The road to being a cheapass is a long and arduous one. Ah well. I’d be keen to grab all the physical stuff honestly but y’know, Canada. Probably be easier to stuff it all into a glass bottle and chuck it into the sea.
…
seriously.
I assume you’ve already redeemed the Collector’s Edition/Season pass DLC codes? I’ve been slightly bummed I don’t have my fancy Ghost shell/ship on the second Xbone because my wife redeemed the codes on the original.
Might be interested in grabbing that ghost model thing.
How much?
Whatever the postage is?
Sure, that would be grand.
Okay donkey. You and @cufcfan616 can sort it out since he asked first but did the whole I want it but don’t thing.
Jo can take it if he wants 🙂
Only if you’re sure man.
yeah, I don’t have the room for another statue/thingo atm anyway
But I would really like it.
I have a trend of buying the collectors for games that end up not meeting expectations and not getting it for games I end up loving.
@freezespreston send it @jocon ‘s way 🙂
Pistols at dawn.
autorifles at sunset
Then tacos for dinner aaaRRRRIIIIBAAAAA
actually @coldcamv I’m having tacos for dinner tonight, no joking 😀
I had a burrito last night..its like a taco only better
Do you wish me to email you my deets? If you are still happy to throw it my way.
Binoter with the hot males.
For the longest time I’ve been wishing that there was a game along the lines of the Ace Combat series (up to AC6, because fuck Assault Horizon with a rusty shovel) but instead of having all those new-fangled cutting edge jets and Macross-style missile spam, having jets from the 1950s throught the 1970s, so instead of starting out in an ‘old’ F-4 or something, you’re starting out with P-80 Shooting Stars and jets like the F-4 are the absolute top end, and the bulk of the time you’re flying those rad cold war era aircraft like the Super Sabre or the Starfighter. Closest we’ve ever gotten was Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat back in the 90s, but that only had Sabres.
So I was kind of excited earlier because the shitty free to play Ace Combat game is doing a crossover with the anime/manga series Area 88. That’s full of late-model jets, with the main character spending most of his time in an F-8 Crusader (at least in the anime).
Turns out they’re just skins for modern aircraft. 🙁 So my dream game still doesn’t exist yet. 🙁
I’ve longed for a great Ace Combat game since Belkan War (Because ever since they moved off PS2 it’s been really rocky on the overall game quality). Maybe I should get the PS2 going again and start playing Squadron Leader and Belkan War again.
I really liked AC6 despite the utterly naff plot and everything. It played well and didn’t have a goddamned fucking trench run sequence. I never finished AC5 because of that stupid tunnel bit and nearly smashed a controller in frustration trying to do it. Also AC6 actually has checkpointing!
AC6 mainly irritated me with the low framerates, everything else I loved about it but unfortunately the framerate issues pissed me off so much that I never finished it. It just felt sluggish to fly in general, the sense of speed just wasn’t there like it used to be. That tunnel section in AC5 I had to go to non-cockpit first person view to be able to get through that alive. It was pretty stupid, especially with the obstacles, but the first person view made it way easier, just keep going at high speeds but not too high so you don’t lose control of your plane.
That’s the thing though: you have to survive like 20 mins of dogfighting first, so you’re quite limited in aircraft selection if you want to survive the initial bit. Plus you’re being chased by motherfuckers so you need to go a reasonable speed. But the biggest issue is that you lose track of which way is up and which way is down inside the tunnel. :\
Hmmmmm so I order this cable from America that will let me record chat audio if I ever decide to do raids in destiny, I look at the shipping confirmation email this morning and it turns out that the shipping is surface mail and it’ll take a month to get here. By then everyone will have stopped playing destiny. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll find a use for the cable and it was only a few bucks
I thought Destiny is for 10 years?
The contract is ten years, like 4 games.
Way to ruin a joke. I had already wrecked it enough my own thank you.
I didn’t know they even did surface mail from the US any more. Thought I’d heard that it was all by air now, and that was why it’s always so damn expensive.
Probs not as much but I reckon peeps will still jumping on occasionally for raids/ events and such. I likely will.
Think people will jump back in with the DLC
Good work Fast Way, don’t even come into the yard, and run away when the dog barks, thanks.
Plus I don’t even know what the fuck it is you’re trying to deliver to me.
So last night I was pretty deliriously tired and started to think of Destiny as “Des Tiny” being the hero of the story (maaaaybe it’s Peter Dinklage for obvious reasons). I came up with this whole stupid story about him. Man I was sleepy, haha.
Des Tiny and the Moon Wizard.
10/10, Would Read.
I just… I don’t even… Wow… This community… Wow… I have no words… I seriously fucking love you guys… I went from originally not going to PAX at all a few month ago to now going all 3 days… I’m honestly floored
Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me….
Hooray!
I didn’t do anything but I still got credit!Psst pixel. In case you haven’t worked it out this community seriously fucking loves you too
Still shaking my head in disbelief of all of this… Trying my best to remain composed while at work but seriously!!! So much huggage is going to happen when I see people!
Maybe now you can tell your mind to shut up. =P
how else we gonna hug all the time. me you and @freezespreston
3 man hug party..theres a good cosplay idea
Or this
SO.MUCH.HUGGING!
Don’t get my hopes up without cause Rocket.
I vow to not snob you this time around 😛
@strange @cookingmama @scree @othercraftsytypes
Question for you guy in regards to sewing type stuff. Mrs Tigs and I are looking at something like this for Tiglet. It it around $80 so figure we could probably make something that will do the job for cheaper.
What we are wondering is do you have any suggestions on what we could use as a washable, waterproof backing. Also we are potentially looking at using some pretty polarfleece type material for the front.
You can always tell new parents 😛
1st baby: Eyes on at all times, baby proofed house and all toys and equipment triple checked for safety and materials.
2nd on:”Where’s the baby?”
“Eh, it’s around here somewhere”.
I fell asleep on the couch this morning with my first who woke up at 4am today. Later found out she’d gone to see mummy and show mummy her de-tangling hair spray and hairbrush.
Who knows what she was doing in between me falling asleep sometime around 5am and 630am this morning… I’m hoping she was watching ABC Kids.
Is your hair all nicely de-tangled?
You’re probably right. The main thing I liked was somewhere to put her down without a nappy so she doesn’t pee all over the floor
I was the same for the first one. Natural instinct.
Newspapers.
Works fine for pets, should be fine for babby, right?
Put a big beach towel under her if you’re just at home – if she does anything, you can just chuck it in the wash.
A friend of mine has three. “Where’s the toddler?” is usually followed by “Find him before he destroys something!” – one morning he decorated the house with cinnamon.
Kids are screaming and crying I’m not worried, it’s when they go silent…
To be honest, if you need a mat for crawling around on, just get a picnic mat that rolls up – you can leave it in the car, they fit nicely in the pram, and they’re waterproof/washable in case of spills, pukes or whatever else. They also double wonderfully as emergency change mats for the back of the car! I got mine from Katmandu, and I think Aldi still have some from last weekend if you’re lucky.
To make it extra comfy, grab some polar fleece in your favourite print and just throw it on top. It won’t fray, so you don’t even have to sew the edges.
Bunnings has one too: http://www.bunnings.com.au/coleman-150-x-200cm-extra-large-blue-tartan-picnic-rug_p3240469
Maybe ask at Lincraft or spotlight
I haven’t got you a gift for Tiglet yet…do you want it to be round? What colour would you prefer? Patterned fabric or a solid colour? Do you want it in jersey(t-shirt fabric) like the one you linked to (it would be 100% cotton jersey), or is organic cotton good? Edit: Polarfleece is only good until you wash it, then it pills really easily. Jersey is better but still pills really easily, that minky stuff is also apparently good but I’ve never used it. The waterproof stuff will be inside, not on the bottom, so you could have one side in a soft, fluffy-ish fabric, and one in a practical (but beautiful!) cotton.
When I quilt it do you want it in a grid like the pictured one, or a prettier pattern like flowers or feathers or something? They are both the same amount of effort so I don’t mind which type.
Any option you choose will be completely washable, too.
Edit: I can make it up in around two days, so coupled with postage I’d say it would take about a week to get to you.
You are the nicest lady ever 🙂
I just got home from work drinks and this is the nicest reply I have ever received. You are amazing.
I’ll wait until I can show this to Mrs Tigs because I will be sure to answer wrong but just wanted to tell you how much it means to me that you would offer to do this.
<3
Ya dun good strange
Anything you think, will be perfect. You are the expert (in both bubs and sewing) so whatever you feel would work best, will work for us.
Eek, no crying allowed! 😛
If you could pick one or two colours that you guys like, that would be handy. I don’t want to make something you guys hate!
Greens and purples are good. Teal and turquoise.
We are not really big fans of pinks
Oh good! Those are all my favourites. My main worry was that you’d expect something pink. 😛
I’m not even sure that Mrs Tigs owns anything pink. Tiglet has a bunch of pink clothes but not much else that is pink.
Operation fix-and-refresh desktop PC has begun…
Placed order last night for;
– a new CPU cooler – Cooler Master Hyper 212 (stock intel coolers pins don’t hold so CPU cutting out alot)
– Radeon R9 270X to replace my GTX260-216
– FractalDesign Define R4 case to replace my 9 year old Thermaltake Soprano that has been through 3 hardware refreshes since purchase. That case is alike an old friend that is old… It’s just not working like it used to.
– 120GB Intel SSD for OS
Plan was to put it next to the TV for media centre/gaming box but think I might grab a Chromecast and leave it in the study running Plex.
Excited!
I miss the days when I had disposable income to upgrade my PC 🙁 soon it will happen again. I do need a SSD and additional HDD though
My desktop has been out of action since March this year. Biggest road block was wifey… Until she asked why we don’t have any new TV series to watch.
Also got some lucky breaks with tax returns and child care rebate refunds, so told wifey I was ear marking $500 to get it back on its feet.
If the pins wont hold, are you sure you installed them correctly? I’ve seen a hell of a lot of people try and install them in all manner of ways that are just flat out wrong before. Amazes me what some technicians think is the correct way to pin them!
I think I broke this one… =)
It’s the stock cooler and I had issues when I first installed it and had to look at a few videos to get a feel for how much damn pressure the LGA1155 coolers needed.
I’ve reseated it twice since and the last time one of the pins on the cooler wasn’t turning and clicking into motherboard like the others. On closer inspection I think I might have stripped off one the little plastic lips on the end of the clips when I was cleaning the fins on the cooler (my house is very dusty with 2 dogs and diesel coal train line across the street).
ahh damn! they can be a bitch to get in, especially after you’ve installed them the first time. You have to pull the centre pin out and clamp the clips back together a bit, or often it wont fit back through the hole properly!
That motherboard flex still freaks me out when your pushing down really hard on a pin waiting for the solid click.
I usually do it on a flat surface with a little extra support around the underside of the hole (before installing it in to the case). Especially if it’s one of the cheaper boards. The higher end ones tend to be ok, especially the ones with the copper innercore through the pcb.
This’ll definitely be a table top job. Full clean and tidy up. Try and consolidate the 4 or 5 hard drives in there, clear the dust and cobwebs out, try and bring cables under control… it’s at this point I’ll again regret not shelling out a little more for a modular PSU.
For the 100 bucks that CPL charge me, it’s worth it to get them to put it together rather than having to do that part myself
Turns out the new Sherlock Holmes game is pretty great! Despite the fact I hate Sherlock Holmes with a passion! It has a DC adventure game fanboy endorsement, for whatever it’s worth. 😛
You should play Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with the crack investigative team of me, @gingerchris86, @trjn and @Freya.
I think you’re forgetting that I hate Sherlock Holmes and boardgames. 😛
It’s the adventure game elements that carry this. 😀
Consulting Detective is pretty much an adventure game
Well, so’s your face! 😛
I’m less sure about that. Still, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective really is right up your alley. It can even be played solo!
Here’s an enthusiastic review.
What about Sherlock Holmes do you hate, the character himself or the overhyping of the various recent adaptations?
All of the above! 😀
@pupp3tmast3r not going to be able to make it for raiding on the weekend. Good luck to you guys.
All good man! Always next weekend =]
Dinner passed another test. Work guy came up to me when I had my lunch and said “You again! Your mom’s (he’s Canadian :P) food always smells so damn good!”
Corrected him, of course 😛
How do you know your mum doesn’t cook for him?
Oktoberfest! SOON! *flails arms*
Where “SOON!” is quantifiable as “1 week from today”!
I wanted to go to that, but my friend of 25+ years is getting married and he wouldn’t change the date.
Some friend… Gave him a whole month’s notice and everything…
It’s your turn to be the shit friend, maybe? You’ve put up with so much, Flu. So much. :'(
BEEF ERA!
Surely no one could hate themselves enough to marry #MyShitMate?
EDIT: Also, #MyShitMate’s a goddamn groomsman while I’m sitting with the plebs. He assured me though “Don’t worry, I’ll be sitting next to you during the reception.”
Oh… joy.
YA USED ME SKINNER… YA USED ME!
No wait, that’s Scotchtoberfest. Carry on carrying on.
My birthday soon too!! 11 days to go!! ROCKTOBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rocketober
Everyone remember to pour a beer over DC as soon as you get there so he can have a guilt free drink.
And an extra for me!
Everyone remember to pour two beers over @dc.
I thought Oktoberfest has slowly crept forward to actually occurring in September?
Maybe the real one. We’re doing the fake Brisbane one though. 😀
Hmmm, I should probably book a hotel for that or something.
I haven’t even thought about getting home after this.
Gonna play the high-stakes pick-up game, eh? Meet someone or sleep in the streets? 😛
So few do. That’s what results in fun crashing on peoples’ couches. 🙂
Yeah, I should get on that as well.
You by yourself or with the wifey?
Wife’s coming but she may be driving home after since she doesn’t really drink so if so we might be able to offer a lift home if you like. I’ll have to talk to her.
That would be awesome man.
I watched the From Dusk til Dawn film for the first time last night – very enjoyable and OMG I can’t stop thinking about that Salma Hayek snake dance scene.. sooo good.
Love that movie… Been so long since I’ve seen it though!
CON: Got absolutely smashed with work and stupid problems for several hours.
PRO: The weekend just got a whole lot closer and I barely noticed the time passing.
CON: Feeling a bit worn out and tired after that
PRO: I’m within 10 meters of a coffee machine and some super sugary cheesecake shop cheesecake.
*kicks cons in nuts*
Away with ye’ I got no time for the likes of you.
all this does is drum up that scene from the Simpsons fat homer episode, where marge and homer list the pro’s and cons of him being overweight! 🙂
that’s a good thing, I’m glad to have played my part :D.
Holy amazeballs! This looks FANSTASTIC!
wow, I actually did a double take. Farking impressive.
Shiny.
Amazing! And according to articles around when they demoed this, it’s done via DX11/DirectCompute, so it’ll work on AMD cards too. Yay!
Purdy!
PUPPY!
Is my new display name scary enough?
needs more bacon
A step too far, man. A step too far.
Jesus, man, we were just having fun but this is terrifying.
Someone always has to take it too far …
Okay, I think I’m becoming ensnared by AFL Live 2. I started a new season, this time in the career mode. After 4 rounds, I am 3-1, with the best percentage and best defensive stats in the competition. I’m really enjoying myself.
What team are you using?
Gold coast last season, not sure if he stuck with them
Gold Coast Suns.
I don’t usually like Subway’s one off fillings but the Smokey BBQ pulled beef one is pretty fantastic.
Really? I saw multiple people over the last week or so on twitter saying they hated it and it made them want to hurl. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE.
It’s pretty strong flavoured so if smoke and BBQ isn’t your thing it’s going to be terrible.
The Caramelised Onion one made me feel a bit queasy.
I think it would work better if there was less sauce.
Maybe it was just the artist’s vision for the piece?
I didn’t say anything on Twitter but I would fall in as one of those people.
I’ve had it twice. Loved it the first time, felt sick the second. Won’t go for a third.
Crap, I saw that at lunch and I was tempted to get it but went with my usual Italian BMT with hot sauce instead.
Had it on Monday – it’s pretty good, but too much liquid for my taste. I’d imagine it’s better if you prefer your subs toasted.
Desert Golfing’s hole 2118 is the devil. 30 god damn strokes.
Surprised there’s no chafing…
I’m up to 30 stokes on hole 93. It’s like a pyramid with hole on top. But if you use enough power to not roll back to the start it rolls off the far edge. About near murdering my phone.
This was a similar sort of thing, but with a step-up to get on to the pyramid. That was my highest ever number of attempts. Not happy.
Hahaha, 30.
Cute.
My highest was 70, from memory? I think that was at about hole 2450 or so, but I could be misremembering.
Oh shiiiit. Kind of excited, but nervous to try that. How far are you now? Is there an end?!
I’m at hole 3400 or so, and the game has essentially ended. It’s still letting me putt along, but I haven’t had a difficult or interesting hole in 400 holes or so.
Did I miss something about name changes?
‘Tis the season.
…to be ghouly?
I suggest scabsores77
sunsore77?
time to bust out the ol halloween costume!
Oh oh… Exciting!
Better?
Yuck.
Too far? Haha
Well…it’s far better than nomorebacon.
Nitpick/self-sanity-check about Shadow of Mordor:
Am I the only one that finds it irritating that Shadow of Mordor has bad guys that can clearly speak the tongue of Mordor, yet the only lyrics in any backing music is the inscription from the One Ring? One cutscene’s backing music is literally a chorus singing “Ash nazg durbatuluk… etc” (as far as I can tell, with terrible emphasis points). That passage seems like it’s extremely overused.Soooo you’re now reading the post of the Bronze Medal winning futsal coach for Women’s Division 2 at this Australian University games.
It has been a long week with plenty of 2am phone calls and hospital trips, but we are the (3rd placed) champions, my friennddssss.
Woop woop. Looking forward to hearing about it!
Doing a pet tag for a new kitten named Isis.
Wonder if I should say something…
Adjust the tip?
Weeeellll cats are pretty evil!
Give them a link to this: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/767/932/805/
When will the madness end?
Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children?
Seems to be #SimpsonsQuotePage13
You offended me.
I like that.
LANA!
I also think that exact line whenever I play Hyperule Warriors and see Lana.
Fuck terrorists. Egyptian gods trump terrorists. It’s a good name.
Unless they’re SG1, then the gods don’t stand a chance.
Unless you’re transferred to Universe. 😛 THEN EVERYONE BEATS YOU.
They’re not terrorists, they’re refugees!
Name Updated to be Seasonally Horrific
Horrific? Horrifically hot in here or just me? *loosens tie*
it just got hotter 😛
Psh, I must be desensitised to that. Happens every time I shower.
is that better? :p
Psh, I must be desensitised to that. Happens every time I shower. 😉
I seem to be incapable of coming up with a scary name for myself… The closest thing was “OutOfBeerWhichIsAMinorInconvenirnce” but sadly it didn’t fit… Any ideas? 😀
EDIT – Some great ones in there but Dead Pixel won out for being devilishly simple and one of the worst things on a new monitor
Rabid Pixel
Pixel Murdering Ferret?
Dead Pixel?
But then we might have to RMA you.
Oh that’s good! How’d I miss that?
\o/
Pix hell fear it
Pixel the feral viking
Pixel the ferret vampire
Pixel the feral vampire
Pixie the fabulous dragqueen
Ooh the last one is very awesome
Haha that is scary as hell indeed
It was my favourite
Reply fail. 🙁
oh good, for a second I thought I was drunk and seeing double.
I’d probably hang on to that feeling.
Terminology question
Do the Irish drink Scotch or whiskey?
Whiskey
Sometimes out of a jar.
I feel like I just answered this. 😛
And it was appreciated
Irish Whiskey is different to Scotch. But given how little of it is made compared to Scotch I imagine the Irish drink both.
Wikipedia indirectly suggests that it was invented by Irish monks and also that the difference between it and Scotch is that it’s thrice-distilled rather than twice, and that they don’t use peat in the process so it’s smoother.
No! Noooooo! The long weekend was so close and then…
“Quick! We absolutely desperately need these changes to our website done before the end of today! And no one else is in the office to help so you have to do graphic design stuff for us as well that isn’t part of your job! And we’re going to drip-feed you the updates we need done today because we haven’t decided on them all yet! Okay thanks.”
Was going to have an early mark, too! D:
“Sorry, I’ve got another call.”
[hold]
“Uh, that was the hospital. My wife and son have been in a car accident.”
[footsteps, slam door, tires squeal]
(faintly)”Yabba dabba doo!”[…]
“Waaaaaaait a minute… He’s a childless bachelor!”
Hell. Yes.
Seriously fark people who think they can just dump work on others at 4pm on a Friday.
YYYEEEAHHHHH SMASSSHHHH TIIIMMME-
“downloading software…”
t-tiiiimmmmmeeee….
…..
🙁
Update- YYYEAHHHH SMMMASSSSSHHHHH
Ok, seeing my previous name change was too scary for some, I have changed it. It’s still in theme, but not as scary.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*scrubs eyes with steel wool*
It could be worse
That would be rad.
Unless he had an unpunchable forcefield around his face
NOT THE BEES
Yeah, baby!
THE HORROR!
I was hoping for something along the lines of Zombie Freezus.
‘Frozen’ is pretty horrific. Do it, Freeze. Do it.
OH DEAR GOD!
Like you can talk – yours is terrifying.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
*Runs off to PC case gear to order new graphics card*
My immersion! MY IMMERSIIIOOOONNNN!
All I’ve done in Smash so far is spectate matches.
YYYEEAHHHH.
I’m not sure who really gives a shit about this, but here’s my old car if anyone is curious about the situation/wants to put a bid down later in the month. A bidding war against me!
Just note; that I had the option to purchase the wreck back for $1500 but didn’t so I won’t be bidding anywhere near that. I probably won’t be bidding at all, truthfully. It’s goodbye, old friend.
Was thinking it’s not that bad and I’d totally buy it and fix it up until I saw the warping on the passenger door. That’s the chassis gone. That car is done for.
It’s supposedly a $4k quote to fix the suspension as that front passenger wheel has been pushed back two inches.
If you had another similar model or even the base one it would be more than worth it buying for spares and upgraded parts.
True, but I don’t really have anywhere to store it whilst I wait for things to go bung on the Territory.
Am I doing it right?
Give it time….
I’m liking our Halloween creativity this year. True horrors.
Argh! I had unexpected spiderwebs in my face the other day! I’ve discovered that it’s especially bad with a beard. I suspect at least one dude crossed the street to avoid the crazy person (me) snarling and clawing at his own face.
It’s insidious.
Holy crap Transverse crowdfunding failed so hard it ended up like a massive hole in the ground… I kinda feel bad for the guys at PGI 😛
Nice informative website for it.
https://transversegame.com/about/funding
As soon as they killed funding (7 days early I might add) they pretty much nuked everything… Essentially it seemed like they are trying to jump on the ZOMG SPACE SIMS! Bandwagon like Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous… Except after nearly 2 months they had a total of 132 backers raising $11,000… A far cry from the $500,000 needed 😛
To be honest it did seem like a half arsed attempt at copying Star Citizen… To the level of the proposed ships resembled some of Star Citizen’s ships as well… But still, there’s definitely some deflated egos at PGI at the moment
Friday. 5:15pm. Before a long weekend. Was just packing up my things to leave…
*ring ring*. Office phone.
“No… no… please…” Answer it, just in case.
“Hey, I need some updates done to my website”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(Happy ending though, I told them to jump off a cliff. In a nice way.)
It’s like a comedy. Or a tragedy. Tragicomedy?
The true nightmare of multiple monitor PC gamers!
Thats…thats just evil
Screw you Diablo III, making go fullscreen, instead of full screen windowed mode like WoW lets >_>
I cant wait for Omega Ruby. I didn’t enjoy Gen III all that much so am looking forward to an improved version.
The remakes are always great.
Gen IV is gonna be a hard sell on me.
Not to get me buying it, but convincing me it is needed. I love IV too much.
Still, can’t wait til they re-do IV!!!!! 😀
Platinum is yucky
You never even played, at least I tried Xenobladder.
MUNSTER
I’ve got work tomorrow, but I don’t care. It’s Friday, I’m getting pissed tonight \o/
It really is the scariest thing ever.
Even…um…uh… even I…uhh… agree, and… ah, well, that’s… um, that’s saying something!
The true monster here is you for disparaging it.
It legitimately put me off all cheese from when I was in primary school up until a couple years ago when I found out proper parmesan cheese is actually really good. It actually scares me this stuff 😛
I grew up on it and acquired a taste. It’s not parmesan by any description but whatever it is I actually like it.
Don’t go to Italy then, this replaces salt in many eateries
Noted!
You’re the true nomoreTheatrhythmmultiwithGreenius monster :'(
eeeewwwwww.
Only thing worse would be if it was sprinkled on that deb instant potato mash stuff
EVERYONE CHANGED THEIR NAME AND PICTURES AND YOU’RE ALL DIFFERENT
I guess I could be Bloodius again but ehhhhhhhhh (effort!)
Online clothes shopping: The one shirt I was worried about fitting ended up fitting the best and some other shirt ended up a bit too big :P. But 3/4 shirts fitting well is good enough!
haha my effort was minimal. gravatar was still saved from last year. login, select pic. done!
Gangreenius
I bought jeans the other week online and apart from them BOTH being the wrong colour, they’re the best fitting jeans I’ve ever owned and they offered a full refund but I think I’ll keep them cos they actually fit me 😛
Man everything is spooky in here.
Me and some mates tried the vault of glass in destiny for the first time last night. Got all the way to Atheon, spent a couple of hours trying to kill him to no avail. Planning to re-group and try again before the weekly reset.
Man, I’m glad I switched to PS4 for multi-plat, got Forza Horizon 2 today, been probably half an hour already and I’m still not playing (update downloaded, and 40% installed)
So PAX AU decided it would be a good idea to retweet some people’s photos of their passes.
Now I’m even more worried because I logged into the ShowClix site (where the tickets are sold from) and mine haven’t even shipped yet. :\
All arrivals I’ve put a location to today are Sydney based? They probably posted them from there.
Give it until Wednesday next week, then start getting worried.
I got mine today, so maybe you’re right.
EDIT: Actually, definitely. Return address on the envelope is Chatswood (Sydney)
Just checked mine. My order also says that they haven’t shipped. Uh-oh.
Yup. Not Shipped apparently for mine.
Gonna get an SD card and try to get Project M working. 🙂
Only two achievements to go in Spelunky now.
Oddly enough, this mean I’ve got the hardest ones without getting a relatively simple one.
Woo, PAX tickets get!
They’re all in a weird plastic envelope on top of the normal envelope.
Whatcha going to PAX as?
😛
Also, I think I have a dodgy Wii U Pro Controller (it keeps getting weird every now and then) so I think I’ll need to… call Nintendo at some point D:
But I dun wanna! I’m also interested in the updated Wii U GamePad battery they supposedly sell…
I DON’T WANT TO CALL NINTENDO, MAN!
I got some insider information on the train this evening! ;D
Sharing is caring!
But you don’t care about me :'(
(pls give me Pokemon demo codes)
They’re not going to be giving out spares of the Pokemon codes! I’ll be mildly upset if I don’t get one!
FEAR ME! Destroyer of couch sitting! Wrecker of playtimes!
Stopper of boats?
Wait, that’s me.
You only stopped the boats because my brethren died in your vibrating fist!
I don’t think cup and ball had batteries…. I, uh… think they were hand powered… like I am….
My wife is a monster… She hid my rum.
Or she is a pirate & drank it all?
So I think I need some changes in my life.
I find myself becoming too down to regularly lately (yesterday was a particular low).
I can identify what I need to change, but every time I go to, something comes up :\
I’ve been meaning to quit my job since August, for instance, but every time something gets in the way (no alternative jobs available, no job offers, save enough but sudden expenditure, etc).
I even planned to do it this coming Monday, but I just found out that a roommate is leaving, meaning that my rent will go up by half of what I’m paying already, so being jobless ain’t good :\
Soooo, I’m going to make small changes in the mean time.
Firstly, I’m going to scrap my 5 year plan, and instead make it into a 5 year goal! 😀
Having it as a plan is worrying me because I’m terrified that it won’t happen, and that I’ll just ultimately fail at life :\
Making it into a long term goal opens up short term plans, which are far more manageable (pass this semester of uni, learn to touch type, draw more often, etc). This mentality has already cheered me up a bit, and being close to my goal at the end of it is better than failing my plan 🙂
Secondly, I’m going to ask to at least cut back the amount of work I do. What started as a 18 hr a week job has turned into a 30 hr a week job, which isn’t so bad by itself, but I feel it’s effecting my uni study too severely. So I’m gonna get one of my weekday shifts off so that I can focus more on studying (I’m think get the Thursday off).
Thirdly, despite never hearing anything back (despite having a pretty decent resume), I’m going to apply for more jobs more diligently. I kinda got content there for a bit, and stopped looking because I got rejected a couple of times. Rejection be damned, I’m still gonna keep applying! 😀
Fourthly, I’m going to do my best to stop living so far in the future.
This one is hard, cause I want to be older (since that’s when I’ll start living how I want), and since most of you guys, who are the guys I talk to most frequently and are my friends, are all (generally) a fair bit older than I. I wanna be one of you guys! It may sound silly, but I want to fit in with you guys (particularly the Brisbane TAYbies, who I met and know in person), but whenever I think of it like that, I’m always the young’in :S
Buuut, I’ll always be the young’in in that situation, so there isn’t anything I can do, so I should stop worrying about it.
Also, I’m going to do my best to enjoy the small things.
I get too caught up in the big picture of things and end up missing all the good things :S
Like music! I never knew what good music was until now!
the Killers? So Good!
Lorde? She has more than two songs!
Arcade Fire? THANKS A BUNCH DC!
Ooooh, and Arctic Monkeys are my new current fave!
So anyway, just wanted to write it up, more for myself than anything else.
Sorry for rambling! 😀
I saw Arctic Monkeys live in 2007. Arrrrgh, so good.
You’re awesome, Stewie. Being the young’n ain’t a bad thing! 🙂
GOOD CHANGES.
Haha, thanks Deecee!
I know being a young’n isn’t a bad thing, but I want to be “one of the guys” kinda thing, haha!
I think I am, but I always go “I’m just the kid in this group, and who wants to hang out with the kid?”. Silly, I know, that’s why it’s on my list to change 🙂
And I’ve never been to a concert!
I’m holding out for a good one though, that I can go to with friends. I don’t want to waste my concert-ginity after all :3
That reminds me of something that amused me a while back… A few years back when he was still alive, my Grandad joined an older men’s group for walking, drinking beer, tooling around in sheds and generally doing guy things away from the wives, finding friends when the old ones are dropping off, etc. He was the ‘new kid’, the ‘young fella’. Depending who you hang with, there’s always potential to be the youngfella. 🙂
Couple of things
1. 5 year plans are stupid. 5 years from now a lot of your priorities change and what you want now will probably seem silly then. Set a goal and pursue it. Just don’t keep giving up like I seem to.
2. I never really think of you as a young ‘un. You’re just a guy I’m friends with. Age doesn’t really matter all that much.
Yeah, can’t say I really think about ages when I hang out with any of the TAYbies. Even #OldManStrange. 😛 (Who looks way younger than me. :D)
It’s only a five year plan because I’ve already gone through the first eight years of it already.
It was a 13 year plan…
Did I mention I lived in the future a lot. Like, a lot :3
And age is always a thing for me.
I view it that way too, but I get paranoid that others just think of me as a kid, which I hate.
I know I’m young, and probably come across as quite young and vapid too, but I am more than capable of being mature. I’m more mature than not in the real world. My mature side is just rarely seen.
Why on earth would anyone want to be old for 😛
Old as in 27-ish 😛
And multiple reasons:
– Because I associate being older with the kind of life that I want to live in.
– Because I can see myself enjoying adulthood.
– Because I don’t want to be a “kid”, and (spoilered for potential overshare)
– Do you know how everyone has a “type” they’re attracted to?I’m attracted to like, men, not boys, so guys around the 27-ish mark take my fancy. So potential proper relationships, in my mind, start at around that age, cause what 27 year old would want to go out with a 21 year old uni student? 😛
That’s why I want to be older! I’ll get there though, some day 🙂
Sitting in your Batman pyjamas giggling to yourself over twitter racism and waiting for a videogame to download?
Don’t forget posting shirtless selfies on Twitter, Freezey. That my sister happens to see as she walks into the room. Thanks for that, btw. 😛
I’m a man of many talents.
You’ll catch up even if most of this stuff isn’t really about age at all. Enjoy where you are now and enjoy being there then!
All that stuff is about age! :O
It’s also more about not fitting in with the kinds of people I want to be friends with too, though.
I get shoved into that “21 year old” bracket, but I’ll let you in on a secret, I don’t even like clubbing that much :S
I would take hanging out at a bar like we did, or going to the movie, or playing games / watching a DVD on the couch over clubbing any day 🙂
Hanging out in a bar is better in my experience, unless you’re trying to pick up. (I strongly suspect that’s why they always play the music so damn loud. So that everyone has to lean into everyone else’s space to yell into their ears to be heard, and it gives an excuse to ‘get out of here’ and have a proper conversation.)
RE: Spoiler bit –
I can’t remember what or how much exactly I’ve shared here, but I”ll just say that what you’re saying and who you’re saying it to right now is entirely hilarious.Yeah, age is a thing made up by Hallmark to sell greeting cards. Or something.
Hmm. Reading this back now it sounds like I find your ideas laughable, but all I meant was that the circumstances were. Like sitting down and telling someone how much you’d like to have a drink right now, except they’re a recovering alcoholic 😛Bah I forgot to @liondrive
Yeah, you’re a real jerk, you jerk.
I have no idea what you were talking about, so kinda ignored it, haha! :3Oh hey, now that this is old TAY I can be a little less cryptic, since I am infuriatingly vague most of the time (not usually on purpose). But basically the age gap between me and Pillowmaker is greater than your example up there, also I have a bit of a “reputation” (though sort of more a running joke) of chasing after younger girls. Even though it’s actually them doing the chasing, not me. Although generally I tend to hang around younger people in general, not on purpose or anything, I just seem to keep meeting new people around the 20 mark, even though I keep getting older… and yeah. Hence why I found it all so hilarious, that you gave that example and directed it at me of all people 😛I was just answering your question on why I wanted to be older :Please
And I thought that you are were mid to late 20s?
Age itself doesn’t concern me, more circumstances.
Like I said, what 28ish year old would want to date a 21 year old uni student 😛
I’d be happy to date a 28 year old, but I can’t see it happening.
I’m not sure, but I feel it’s slightly different with the whole gay thing (guy to girl age difference seems less relevant), unless I’m over thinking things again 😀
@liondrive Well if you believe Blaghs and co I’m more like mid-to-late 60s 😛 But yes, mid-to-late 20s. Leaning more to the side of late than I’m happy to acknowledge >_>
I’m pretty much no different to a ~21 year old uni student anyway in terms of life circumstances though, so I guess that’s why I seem to fit in with them so much more than my own age group.
I must be positively ancient then.
Almost 40, and still a man-child.
Hahaha, I’ve never been concerned with any one else’s age, just my own in comparison.
BUT IT’S ON MY LIST OF THINGS TO CHANGE! :’O
When I see “five year plan” it always seems a bit Stalinesque
Heheheh. That puts an entirely fresh spin on the ‘five year plans’ that I was always seeing referenced by the women I met online dating for a while.
(A few years back when me and the lady parted ways for a while, I promised to do it. It was… not an entirely satisfying venture.)
You’re only 21 once, don’t forget that when you’re setting goals and priorities. My social habits were very similar to yours… Dreaded clubbing and would have preferred to goto a nice pub beers, steak, few games of pool get drunk and enjoy the company instead of having the music drown out the conversation.
Also music! Arctic Monkeys! *swoon*
I have a
bit of ahuge man crush on Alex Turner…If you haven’t already have a listen to Tame Impala (and they’re from Perth!)
Bringing 2 of my favourites together… Go listen to this: http://youtu.be/4RZDFQ3oYbg
I only heard my first Arctic Monkeys song a couple weeks back (Do I Wanna Know) and now it’s very high in my rotation. Lyrics that needed to be in my life like… ten years ago.
Does this work?
Edit: Kind of. Anyway, I guess Obama’s virus fighting outfit is getting dusty and neglected.
Can’t…… breathe…..
The #Ebola tweets are amazing. Do these people even read what they’re saying?
People are always on the look out to justify their racism, even if it makes no sense to any one else. :S
brb abusing ignorant Americans on Twitter again.
No freezy no, why did you link me to that
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1287579779/art-of-making-santa-company-a-complete-guide
This seems like a really interesting Kickstarter. An anime film (which was successfully kickstarted a while back) plus a DVD + BD set where they go in depth explaining the entire process of producing the animation from constructing the initial pitch on through the animation process.
“This includes not only the explanation on how anime is drawn, but the process of planning, and the explanation on the production committee system, and about the current anime industry in Japan, and its future.”
I love you guys so much.
Yeah, I’m drunk, so what, It’s beautiful!
I’ll be honest, each time i read your name it’s in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice
… That’s not a bad thing by the way, just makes me giggle 😛
At least someone thinks I’ve got massive Testicles 😛
“You’ll be a seven year old, walkin’ the dog, no house motherfucker!”
Love delerious so much! 😉
Video Games: The ONLY place it’s ok to drunk drive.
Only if your Xbox is from Ukraine
FIFA! 😀
:DDDDDDDDDDD
Wanted to play FIFA again after the World Cup but figured I’d hold out for 15. Good ol’ Dick Smith had it for an insane price of $45 delivered at launch so I couldn’t say no. I figured my hype would’ve died down but after playing it I’m all 😀 because it’s fun and SPORTS and YEAH!
TOUCHDOWN!
It’s a home run. No wait, it’s out of the park!
Ball is in..parking lot..
Man, just as I thought I had a little faith in humanity, the Internet shot it down.
I heard snippets of the Japanese national anthem, but not the full thing. I ventured forth to YouTube, and listened to it. I thought I’d check the comments for some reason.
Highest density of racism I’ve seen in a while, and I live in Australia.
EDIT: By the way Japan’s national anthem is freaking awesome. Why is ours so terrible.
I actually quite like our anthem. It’s just the way it is sung that can be annoying at times.
I created a bunch of custom players in AFL Live 2. I made them look as stupid as possible, (the character creator is incredibly detailed) and gave them some very stupid names. Say hello to Donnie Desura, Damo Hopkins, Ataro Ace-Prime, Tony Calzoni, Nick Brick, Kaito Maxamillion, and J.J. Slenderman. (I made him 215cm tall and as skinny as possible)
I wish I knew how to build custom teams. All I can do now is edit existing teams, so I’ve been messing with the Japanese team. (That’s why half the custom players have Japanese first names)
I thought I’d change the ol’ screen name for October, because all the cool kids are doing it. Some day I’ll be popular.
You know what makes Cox n Crendor in the Morning such a good podcast? It’s incredibly forgettable! I can rewatch an episode I watched 10 days ago and feels like it’s as new the first time I watched!
Sigh… it’s Talk Amongst Phlanispo again?
I guess I should stop posting when it’s 1AM for most people…
Nah.
Techie and I are going to check out the new room at Kingpin today. Hopefully it’s good. =D
NEEEEEERDATE! 😉
It’s my Mum’s birthday, so she’s coming too. =P
awwwwwkward!! 😉
Seriously though, Happy B’day Scree’s Mum!! (Mine’s in 10 days too! I believe Techie’s is not far away too right?)
and mine and mine and mine. Somebody organised a party for me, something called PAX
oh for realz! so many b’day buddies!!! Just a shame mine’s tainted by sharing it with a former Prime Minister! At least it’s a good one though! (John Howard) If I shared it with Abbot, I think I’d commit hari kari! ;)`
I also share my birthday with a John, but mine is much better, John Cleese.
HAPPY SMASH DAY
….relative ease
w00t! A good friend of mine from Polycount just gifted me Shadow of Mordor on steam as an early b’day present!! SWEEEEET! 35gb download though! YIKES!
Niiiice!
Yeah, big downloads are great :p
at least it’s not on playstation, or I’d still be waiting for it to download come my birthday! 🙂
Ps3 yep, PS4 isn’t sohorrible if you leave it on stand by
Still, yes.
I aint fortunate enough to have a ps4 yet anyway. anyway.. #masterraceftw!
I poopoo you and your mastah wace!
you’re just jealous 😉
Trials Fusion get! 😀
And it was only $9.99!
\o/
Chromecast get!
I like this toy already! Can’t wait to get PC back up and running with Plex. Might be able to retire the PS3 from media streaming duties soon.
The only thing stopping me from getting one is how useful it’ll be for streaming, also whether it supports MKV subs.
Subs! That’s my only issue with PS3/360
The 360 doesn’t transcode subs?
I thought it did.
I know the PS3 didn’t, but I think you could try Vuze to get them working on 360.
The PS3 could handle subtitles with a bit of farting about and it was very touchy, but possible
How? I thought they both only did hard subs?
@crazyguy1990
i used to use subs with my 360, but you do have to fuck around a bit. I streamed mkv’s through my xbox for a long time though
I used to use ps3 Java media server, don’t remember the exact configuration I used
PS3 Media Server can handle sub’s but it’s still a pain.
Can’t turn subs on/off while streaming… which is a pain if you have movies that only need them for a few scenes and they’re not hardcoded (for example, in The Avengers Scarlett Johansson’s opening scene) because you end up stuck with English subs the whole way through the movie which I personally find incredibly distracting.
Plan is to use Plex and from what I’ve been reading it appears that ChromeCast doesn’t support subs out of the box, so when you request a file with external subtitles Plex transcodes the subs on the fly and then ‘casts’ the media with subs included with the video stream.
Currently using PS3 Media Server and I’ve never had much luck with subs. Can get them working but it’s a b*tch to get them working consistently.
Also, using Plex should fix any MKV issues as Plex is on the list of apps supported, so I assume if the server tries to throw an unsupported format it’ll transcode on the fly to something Chromecast supports.
Should have PC refreshed by end of next week. Will need to try some subbed content and see what happens!
So @benny , still playing Mystery Dungeon?
*crosses fingers*
Yes. I mean no. Smash Bros is out! One day I will play it, buddy – fret not.
http://giphy.com/gifs/NnJ2OrLkj4YOA
Okay, so checked the facility. Pretty awesome. However we need to know what alcohol people want. Also non-alcoholic drinks. They need to stock the bar.
30+ year old scotch plz.
Are you going to pay for it?
Are you kidding? It’s hundreds of dollars per shot!
We just need to class up the joint 😛
Ginger beer!
Are we still doing the bowling thing or have they overtaken that?
We’re still doing bowling
Did they let you know what beers they have on tap or bottled?
Still have no idea if I can make it but if so I’ll probably just have a couple of beers.
Ginger beer is also good, ideally the cascade variety
They have ginger beer and a variety of beers. I’m not sure if they have it on tap upstairs
Been anticipating this long weekend, had planned to put some hours into Fantasy Life
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I’m levelling mons in Y instead :-/
What’s a long weekend?
:'(
A weekend that is longer than the usual length, usually by a day but sometimes more 😀
I wish I could experience one!
Smash feels weird. Can’t seem to figure a control scheme that feels right.
I turned off tap jump and everything feels a-okay!
I wish I could use the d-pad as movement though (is that an option…?)
Why does everyone keep talking about doing that? I mean I know tap jump was able to be turned off in Brawl, but there was hardly any mention of it. Now though, I’ve heard dozens of people talking about how they turned it off. Weird.
Speaking of weird, I need it on though. Once I was stuck in a comp where the controller I was given had it turned off, and I realised through that that while I generally use button jump to move around the stage, I actually use tap jump to try and get back on it. So I spent the whole game just falling to my death whenever I was thrown off the field 😛
And yeah, I don’t think you can use d-pad controls for movement. They didn’t let you do it in Brawl, which sucked. Didn’t seem like there was any reason you shouldn’t be able to use the Wii remote’s d-pad controls for the d-pad on the classic controller or something, which would have allowed you to use an arcade stick to play, which would have been really cool. Fingers crossed it makes its way into the Wii U version… doubt it will though.
I don’t mind analog sticks on normal controllers but the 3DS’ nub thing is pretty terrible. I’m always scared of it breaking and falling off 😛
I made a friend in Marvel Heroes 2015 today! Mashaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
???
I’ve never played Marvel Heroes before but I hope my doppelganger played well.
:-p
Aw shit… Smash Bros was extremely laggy for me in the few games I tried out online 🙁
Is it laggy for anyone else?
Got some of the materials for my costume today, still trying to find leggings that will fit me… 🙁
Stupid long legs….
Don’t you love it when advertisements for video games brag about how many E3 awards they have won to convince you to preorder? Buy this game because this vertical slice of gameplay and a CG trailer shown under very controlled conditions looked nice!
I’m throwing my wallet at the screen but nothing is happening.
What if I…
cd D:\money
wallet.exe
Pretty sure DOS got retired before some folks round these parts were even born. 🙂
dott.bat
Mm, .bat files are a great source of love and hate. The first day of school holidays when Quake came out was when I learned everything there was to know about DOS (slight exaggeration). Because somehow the Quake demo got written into our autoexec.bat file, meaning Windows95 couldn’t start up.
Oh the panic. You have no idea. Quake was good, but I didn’t want to be playing the demo for the entire holiday and I knew my parents would lose it if they couldn’t do non-gaming things in there. The guys from the PC shop were useless (they’d held on to the PC for two months in the past to install a CD-ROM driver), so I pulled down the 1,000 page DOS manual from the shelf and got to learning.
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @vonsack @beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k @beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__ @bdkiaf @blaghman @rize @shane @fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks @ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilburJust want to let everyone know there is a pax after party happening at Kingpin bowling on Saturday the 1st of Nov from 7 to 10pm. Cost is $48 PP and includes food, a game of bowling and a drink. There is singing and games afterwards in a private room with bar. The reason for mass tags is I need confirmation. If I’ve already spoken to you, disregard.
Won’t be there. Thanks for thinking of me, though. 🙂
Wish you could be.
What he said 😀
Can I join you two for PAX North?
It’s a thing!
That you didn’t even attend!
I was there. Lurking nearby Phantom of the Opera style.
SING TO ME!
LALA LA LAALA-AAA ♫
Me and @DC always attend PAX Nurths
Are you not going to be in Victoria?
I didn’t think I’d spend 6 weeks in Perth so I honestly have no idea where I’d be in the future 😛
But I’ll be in QLD in mid-November (14-16 I think?)
I’m not going to PAX so night stuff in the city isn’t really convenient for me so I’ll probably pass on this. Have fun though! If there’s any other day gatherings planned I could probably pop in 🙂
Grren-QLD-Meat!
But isn’t Sunshine Coast too far for you dudesss?
It’s like an hour drive from me & @dc because we’re mega north.
Everyone else would be longer.
So it’s possible-ish
@greenius
But you have to come 🙁
OH GOD WHY DID YOU MENTION ME I TOLD YOU I CAN’T AFFORD TO DO ANYTHING. NOW I’M CRYING DELICIOUS SALTY TEARS.
Sorry =(
IIRC I pitched in for a couple of extra people early on, perhaps that works out?
Yes, it would. Pretty sure i told f4ction that, but he may have forgotten.
Ha. That’s why I was asking down there if I had paid for two. Was going to say @f4ction could be my wife for the night if I had.
IT’S A TRAP!
Only after I put on the new dress I bought :3
That’s no moon…
I’d come to Melbourne just for this if I could afford if. I miss that place D=
Did I pay for two? Myself and wifey?
You paid for one.
That sounds rad; I’d love to come but I won’t make it to PAX unfortunately. I did just get back from Sydney where we went to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. Perhaps I should have postponed a month and chosen a different city, but I think she would have caught on 😛
Congratulations on your 10th anniversary!! We just had our 10th too 🙂
Thanks for organising everything Scree (and @tech_knight !)
I will definitely be there (and anything else that gets planned too) Have I paid? I know I sent you something ages ago but can’t remember what for.
You paid $50, Pow. I will be annoying you all for food and game preferences soon.
Powalen likes Xenoblade!
There’s a Pow approved game preference for you 😛
Thanks Scree!
Err…no idea why you’re tagging me. I’ve never expressed any interest in PAX! So yeah, I will definitely not be going to the PAX after party. 🙂
It was a lot easier for me to just tag everyone. I didn’t want to accidentally miss out on someone.
You didn’t tag me. That’s ok, I can’t go anyway. You guys go and have your fun, I’ll just stay here and see how many envelopes I can lick in an hour.
You’re not on Taytags then =( So I’m guessing it’s a no for pax meat
Ahh that explaines it. I wish I could but I can’t hope you all have a great night
Sorry, we’ll try to take photos/videos.
No need to be sorry it is all good.
Why does @strange suddenly appear?
Every time you tag her here?
Just like me, she longs to be…
Close to TAAAAAAAAY.
That song always reminds me of Mirror-Mask, now. Best use of it ever.
(You should totally see that film if you haven’t.)
Parenthood, Rick Moranis for me 😀
Never appears for recent Survivor talk :'(
Strange holds a grudge. I hear you didn’t wear green this one time. That’ll do it.
Ash and I will definitely be there. My Ash, not @ash 🙂
We’ve paid right? I’ve forgotten
I believe the other Ash has already called dibs as your date, Nova. Sorry. Thems the rules.
You’ve paid. =D
You mean @sughly ‘s son?
I don’t remember giving him permission for this!
Sneaky little fella
They grow up so fats! *teary eyes*
I’m not coming to PAX. Have fun, though.
Sorry to hear that. Maybe next time.
I’d like to, one year. But I don’t see it happening in the next few years, sadly.
What about when it’s in Sydney?
Either way, cost is high, and I’m still abandoning my wife to look after three little
terrorsdarlings without any help… I feel bad enough just doing the ‘mandatory’ career stuff like comic conventions. A weekend away for fun… it’s just not on the cards.Completely understandable
Cant wait \o/ im 90% certain i paid…80% certain..some level of certain
You paid $100
YES! I knew I paid l was only 60% sure
Fraid not, interstate trips are not on the cards at this point.
Ok – it has been decided that I am going to this, so that @batguy can go see Tripod on the Friday night at PAX. Where do I send the money, and also, I’m happy to drink beers, Carlton Black is acceptable.
Just for you, or also batguy? send me a message on facebook, on twitter or email me and I can give you the bank details. scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Pretty sure I’ve paid, yeah? Let me know if not.
You paid $100. So you actually paid extra
Sorry, not coming.
Confirmed for 2, already sent money.
I VOLUNTEER. what do I need to do
message me on twitter or email me. scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Nope.
I wont be there sorry
I will be there! How do I throw you the monies?
Send me an email, scree(at)y7mail(dot)com, or else direct message me on twitter
@liondrive what’s your Steam name? I did a search for Lyonflux (from TAYnames) and nothing came up :/
Don’t think he’s a PC guy when it comes to games.
But how else do I gift him games to repay him for Chinese food I didn’t pay for? 🙁
Hugs?
*sends patented “D.C. to Pixel” mental hug*
I’ll see you in patent infringement court!
*sends patented “D.C. to Shane” face punch*
Now I’m assembling an anti-Greenius class action. WHO WANTS IN? HAS GREENIUS WRONGED YOU IN SOME WAY?
@dc Well, this one time he wasn’t wearing any green! D:
@strange That’s a serious accusation. *strokes beard* ASSEMBLE THE PITCH FORKS AND ANGRY TOWNSFOLK WIELDING TORCHES!
I bought a green shirt online but it didn’t fit (it was too big D:) so I went in-store today and Mr. Store Guy said he’d order in a smaller size.
http://www.connor.com.au/HUDSON-SHIRT.aspx?p518333&cr=ejln__103043 it’s kinda lumberjacky too I guess?
I’M TRYING!
It’s clear you’ve been advised by council to soften your image with lumberjack shirts! CLEVER!
Me @dc Greenius keeps telling me Xenobladder is good even though it isnt and also for SHOESHIVERSSS
No can do, good buddy. No Outrage October. 🙂
That’s outrageous! Well played, good sir!
When dinosaurs ruled the Earth…
*Jurassic Park theme*
Where’s my upvote, Powalen?
Rubber is a cool movie and everyone should watch it!
Baccano!!
Bug Pokemon rulz!
Where’s my upvote, Powalen?
Actually, I just read a couple of lines of the Rubber plot and I mean you weren’t wrong about Baccano!… I guess I’ll acquire it now 😀
HANDS OFF, HIS UPVOTES ARE MINE… MINE!
I watched Rubber. It’s amazingly surreal. I dug it.
STOP LYING TO WIN POW’S FAVOUR!
I’m not wrong about a lot of things!
Bo-Bo-Bo-Byuun!
Baccano was boooriinnggggg :3
Mate…
No…
🙁
I wanted to up vote, but seeing as you then asked for one…
That reminds me, who’s in for Pax North? Tickets are only 7 installments of $29.95 if you confirm in the next five minutes!
I’LL TAKE 0!
Man, this PAX North thing is getting too out of hand. EVENT CANCELLED.
Also this is totally like the old days of a quieter TAY when Greenius and D.C. would have a comment fiesta
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? TEMPORAL ANOMALY!
Okay, I can take a hint.
And now its more like a comment Siesta! Ammiright Ammiright
Do we get a ballpit to sooth the blow?
There’s a precedent set. Seems to be the thing to do.
Must supply own balls and pits, though.
The severe lack of @dc at last years PAX North event left a sour taste I’m not sure I could overcome.
What’s your returning customer loyalty program offering to retain our business?
A second screening of Only God Forgives?
PAX North.
No longer a thing.
I just arrived in my Time-ma-bobble “The Next 5 Mins” and I am leaning out the window confirming 😉
Remember Shane? He’s back! In tag form!
@shane
Here’s a true story, the song Hand in my Pocket by a young Alanis Morissette has spooky parallels to events that transpired years later.
Tales from the front lines: Shane once ate seventeen cheeseburgers and two milk shakes from Hungry Jacks and then criticized my eating habits.
Shane fact #204: He was so excited to see a train that he took pictures. It was embarrassing.
Strange, Shane and DC all had the same plan to turn up at our meat early to psych up. It backfired when we were all standing next to each other.
Shane’s a real gent and don’t let any one tell you otherwise. What a gent.
Shane convention fact: He’s known to dance on his con table every fifteen minutes. If you miss one of the scheduled shows just ask and he’ll oblige!
Shane fact #272: Shane and George R. R. Martin suspiciously gave each other the cold shoulder at Supanova. They only hugged warmly four times. Trouble in paradise?
Shane fact #453: DC mistook him for a drifter when he came to town and killed him. He felt guilty and has assumed his identity to keep up the appearance he is still around.
@freezespreston Anyone who knows the true Shane knows he would never make a zombie comic. Ever.
I’m sorry for spamming. I just get so lonely. 😛
Spam-C <3.
I know a way to cure that loneliness!
Promiscuous hookups?
You know it,
D.C. stopped
🙁
Commence Talk Amongst Phlanispo?
HELLO
HEIGH
I started a blog thingy for my prop building so I won’t bother people on twitter any more! http://f4props.blogspot.com. You guys should totally do the things so more people see it. I don’t know, I don’t know blogs.
I dont know how to do that either but if i did and you find out how to, tell me and ill spam the everlovin outta it
I don’t know if anyone’s still up or will even see this when this becomes old tay. But I just finished the VoG in Destiny!!!!!!
it took 3 nights and probably close to 9 hours total but we got it. The sense of relief was only matched by the excitement of finishing it.
Got me the shader, a fancy fire scout rifle and like a bazillion ascendant materials.
Congrats, hopefully we can follow suite tonight
Guess who forgot about daylight savings?!
Not me!
Do the clocks on our phones auto change? Because for the next hour im gonna be freaking out!
They should! Most of them are set to automatically set the time by default. I always just check against a 3DS or wall clock that I know doesn’t change 😛
Yes, they do.
Wait… daylight savings? Oh dear. That explains so much
Did you wake up stark naked on the beach?
I didn’t not do that
*high five*
Oh man, I hate daylight savings. Living in the past sucks. This must be how Perth feels all the time.
I honestly thought people were joking but it’s totally true 😛
Yep perth is so far back in the past they don’t know what a joke is
You get used to the horse drawn carts for transport after a while
Everyone! \o/
Heading down to Fremantle to run a half marathon. Only $48.50 short of my fundraising goal. Anything you can spare would be greatly appreciated. https://freohalfmarathon.everydayhero.com/au/running-for-those-who-cant
Greenius is just the best. Good luck with the marathon, bra!
BOARD GAMES ALL DAY WOO
What are you playing?
SAYTAY board game date?
Hoorah, it’s that time of year again where I hear nothing but complaining about daylight saving for the next 6-7 months cause I live on the border of NSW & QLD.
Does anybody want a Battlefield: Hardline poster fresh from the EB Expo?
It is extremely wrinkled from being absentmindedly kicked, kneed, thrown and dropped throughout the evening.
A must-have for any collector!
If Battlefield Hardline makes you that angry maybe you shouldn’t have picked up a poster.
It was free, Nob! Free!
Did anyone back Hyper Light Drifter on KS? I just played the preview that is running this month and man is that going to be one slick game when its finished.
Oh, completely forgot about the preview thing they sent out last week.
For realsies, let’s play Destiny? (PS4)
Yeah?!
OK!
But on PS3 :S
I actually didn’t relaise when I bought Destiny that there isn’t cross play between ps3 and ps4 🙁 I kinda assumed if FF14 could do it then Destiny could too 😛
Don’t suppose there is a TAYbies PS3 Destiny group?
I think there was but it seems like everyone is over the game by now (except for farming and PVP)
No one wants to help lil’ ol me power through the story 😛
I would…..
But I don’t have said game in question….
So I cant…..
:'(
Are you totally getting Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate? Wait, that’s not a question. YOU ARE GETTING IT.
*woof*
Maybe…
Hopefully I have a job by that time >.<
If so then it will be a hell yeah…
If not Hmm well then dont hold ya breath
I will definitely be getting MH4U, can’t wait to get that sweet sweet online going, though hopefully it performs better than Smash Brisbane supposedly is
Hey Ash, I don’t know if I have added you on psn but feel free to add me and we can play together. PSN ID is my TAY username – just write TAY on the message and I’ll add you.
@redartifice and @f4ction own the game on PS3 too.
well why haven’t those bastards added me yet? psn= Ashley_x_Rise
@redartifice@f4ction
I haven’t really played the PS3 version since I bought my PS4, to be fair 😡
Also, my PSNiD is shyaru
That’s very fair!
I’m still playing it heaps. Psn is red_artifice
Day 2 of the great move…dear god when did we get so many boxes! For every two boxes we empty 3 more take its place..we are starting to struggle as the storage we thought was in the house is non existant now and we need more shelves oh god so much more storage we need!
I just found these awesome TMNT posters in our cupboard. Looks like they’re screen printed or something, one’s got the four guys coming out of a manhole under the logo, all just in black outline, the other one has the logo above “II / THE TURTLES / ARE BACK”, this one also with red and green print. Must be a poster for the second movie or something.
I thought it was just a roll of spare paper that I was about to use for stuff, guess I gotta find something else now 😛
Roger, @greenius , Phlanispam has been let out of its cage. Or should it be called Spamispo? Questions, questions.
Anyway, I managed to cook food last night that actually tasted good. I’m stunned.
I rarely cook, but when I do, I just combine random things from the cupboard mixed with mince. It’s usually burnt and terrible, and edible only because I’m determined to wolf down the food I spent so long making. I think I’ve only made food that actually tastes good once before in my life.
Basically, I took frozen mince. I did the thing where you submerge the container in water to defrost it quickly. But that was taking too long, so I pierced the mine container with a fork and let water get in. Clean water came in, red/brown water came out. Once it was defrosted, the mince had changed colour. Good sign.
I chucked the mince on a frying pan, tried to prevent it from burning. Then I made 2-minute noodles. Chucked the noodles in the pan. Tried to collect the juices from the meat to turn into gravy, but couldn’t find the corn flour. Doubt there was any flavour left in the mince anyway, it had all gone down the drain.
Panicking, I realised that the concoction probably had no flavour whatsoever. The best sauce I could find in the cupboard was sweet chilli, so I poured half the bottle in the pan. Stirred it. Added mixed spice and cumin, because I have no idea how to add flavour to things without adding spices.
At this point I realised everything was cooked a was entering the burning phase, and I hadn’t put the Three Bean Mix in. I needed something pre-cooked. So I grabbed the Harvest brand Hearty Irish Stew. I used the can opener correctly for once, and poured the mixture in. I immediately realised my mistake. This Hearty Irish Stew, surprisingly, was meant to be added to stew, not mince.
I had 20% of a tin of Heinz baked beans, so I chucked them in. Added mayonaisse in the fray, because it seemed like a good idea at the time. More stirring. Realised that the mince was a minute from turning into charcoal. I turned off the stove. Chucked the stuff in a plate. Put the plate in the microwave, because, knowing me, the food is probably both burnt and cold.
Ate food. Gasped. Flavour! Didn’t expect to see you here!
So yay me and my 1337 cooking skills!
EDIT: Grammar
Interesting choices of ingredients, and you get points for trying. I can teach you how to make a easy, awesome curried mince that probably tastes even better than your concoction, and won’t use every bottle in your mum’s cupboard 😉
Cooking definitely takes lots of practice, so keep cooking and sharing 🙂
Probably the most important cooking tip I can give you is a fairly simple one: learn the appropriate temperature to cook things at. Full bore is for things like steaks and stir fry. Most of the time, about 3/4 of max heat is about right. Particularly when browning things like mince or chicken.
It takes a bit of practice to work out exactly what temperature is best for what.
Also, don’t be afraid to have the temperature be a little too low. Too much heat is definitely worse than too little in most cases. If you think it’s too high, take the pan off of the stove for a moment and adjust.
Oh and try to get everything ready before hand. It’s called mise en place and will make your life infinitely simpler.
You’re definitely right. Cooking on a low temperature takes longer, but your food will get cooked without getting burned. High temperatures will end up with food burned on the outside and raw in the middle, unless you know exactly what you’re doing. Even a BBQ should be on a medium heat.
On top of that, longer cooking time means that flavours get more time to develop. There’s a reason a stew that cooks all day will turn out better than one you whip out in half an hour.
This is why I was still talking about my pasta sauce at midnight 😛
@phlanispo This man speaks truth. Also less is more. A thousand ingredients and spices is for overly fancy restaurants with incompetent cooks trying to sound good. All the greatest chefs usually use 4 or 5 at most and the art is in balancing and complementing them. Let each flavour speak for itself instead of hiding amongst a crowd.
I am a huge fan of simple flavours, including in restaurant foods. One of my favourite things that I’ve ever eaten consisted of bread, feta, fresh basil and fresh tomato with maybe a dash of olive oil.
Now I’m hungry.
Sounds delightful! And I’m full of pizza and not even hungry 😉
Oyako don is one of my favourite simple meals – egg, onions and chicken very gently cooked and served with rice. So delicate and balanced, but still satisfying and moreish.
Not even Slash performing at the NRL Grand Final interests me enough to watch it or even enter Soundwaves competition about it.
That, and the F1 being on makes it pointless for me.
If it doesn’t get rained out 😛
But yeah I remembered after I posted that the F1’s are on \o/
So Rooster Teeth partnered with Warner Bros to distribute RWBY to Japan and China. That seems so weird to me.
The gigantic entity that is Rooster Teeth just weirds me out. First it was a machinima company operating out of someone’s apartment, and now it is this entity with 50+ employees, 3 podcasts, several subdivisions, one of the most popular YouTube channels that exists, shows that fill every possible niche of gaming, their own anime series that is distributed by Warner Bros, their own convention, they own and operate a social media network, they are making a freaking movie, and produce their own reality competition show.
And they operate out of a gigantic warehouse, which is their fifth office, as they grew too big for the other four. Perspective.
50 employees is still considered a small business and in the same category as 3 or 5 employees.
Somewhere like IGN has near 100.
The company I work for employs over a thousand.
Microsoft’s 2009 Annual Report says they had 93000.
1/6th of the population of America has worked at McDonalds.
Under Australian law, 20+ employees is a large business, so that’s what I use as a reference point. But Rooster Teeth is different from IGN in that the employees of Rooster Teeth have less specialised roles. Jill from Accounting is also a podcast regular, frequently appears in sketches and also voice acts for RWBY. So they employ less people, but they do more varied work and (hopefully) get paid more.
Plus, the 50 employees statistic is about a year and a half old, and since the company is private they aren’t legally required to disclose their employee count. I can’t find a current statistic anywhere.
EDIT: I was just watching the Rooster Teeth Podcast, and Barbara mentioned that there were currently 80 other employees in the building.
Mmmmmm no. The qualify as a large business you have to have over 50 employees who don’t have a stake or ownership percentage of the company and also revenue over $25 million per annum. By Australian law definition they’d be a small business since they are estimated to pull in about $1.5 million per year.
Interesting. I remember vividly early this year that my Business teacher was showing a graphic of how many employees you needed for the size of your business to be defined. I remember that 20 was the number for large business, and thinking it was insanely low the time.
You’re probably the correct one here.
Yeah, I think they’ve been around 80 since they moved to the new office, and they’ll probably ramp up for production on Lazer Team. That said, a lot of these people are probably going to be contractors.
20 plus might statistically be a larger business by Australian standards, but it’s definitely not a large business. Hell, 200 is still SME level
Even the largest aus businesses are tiny by global standards
So I put battery’s into the ice giant statue I got when I grabbed disney infinty 2.0 collectors edition and it does look pretty sweet when it is all lit up
It’s been fun watching the stream of photos and tweets from the EBExpo this weekend. Can’t wait for PAX. Speaking of which, I’m spending the afternoon sewing cosplay bits and watching football. With beer.
Got to love a lazy sunday afternoon 🙂
Anyone up for some Smash Multi tonight?
4 player online with randoms was super laggy for me and I’m reading reports that it’s happening everywhere which is super disappointing. So I’m interested in seeing how 4 player with friends turns out.
I just played a bunch of 1v1 matches with a friend online and it was significantly less laggy but there was still a teeny bit of lag 🙁
Tried to ombre dye Elsa’s skirt. Either I did it too well, or not well enough. I can’t tell the difference between the turquoise and light blue.
Okay so the dye didn’t take on the fabric too well. My hand otherwise is blue. =/
The joys of working with dye. I always forget to wear gloves when making playdough and end up with coloured hands for a day from the excessive amounts of food dye I use to make it.
I am just so annoyed that the dye didn’t take at all, especially when I followed instructions.
It might have been something to do with the fabric – perhaps it was treated with something that didn’t quite wash out. Or it might have to do with the hardness of your water? Lots of chemical elements that are hard to control.
I used Soda ash and also washed the fabric before I cut it out
We use a recipe that uses jelly instead of food dye. BONUS: the play dough smells amazing!
Link: http://www.modernparentsmessykids.com/2012/05/play-dough.html
Ah, I see – the jelly is replacing some of the salt, and the food colour. I make playdough about once a fortnight for Playgroup, so I have found a super fast recipe that doesn’t require cooking. I can make it in about 15 minutes during breakfast. I actually don’t mind if the playdough doesn’t smell that nice, it discourages the toddlers from eating it 😛
It’s based on this recipe – although I’ve never found that I’ve had to use more than 1 cup of boiling water. I almost always add a bunch of glitter, and I either use the Queen liquid food colour in copious amounts and combinations (yellow + pink makes a lovely shade of salmony orange), or I break out my Wilton paste if I’m after a special colour, like purple.
http://theimaginationtree.com/2012/04/best-ever-no-cook-play-dough-recipe.html
Got to chat with Slash on Thursday in a Soundwave chat fan dealy, really cool humble guy. He’s always pleasant to talk with though!
One thing from that chat I just realised stands out and that was, he was asked what he was playing at the NRL grand final and he said it was Bent To Fly off his new album.. Makes me wonder who the hell is his backing band and singer, since Myles Kennedy his singer is off at some festival according to his Instagram, makes me wonder what’s the point if the actual band isn’t there to perform the song which they all wrote & recorded together :/
Blaghman, na na na na nanananaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Blaghmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
zinobleydddd
FF VIII
Diddy Kong’s Quest
Symphony of the Night
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Dragon Age Origins
Resident Evil 2
Bust-A-Move 2
Shenmue
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest IX
Super Metroid
Mario Kart DS
Pokemon Platinum
Metal Gear Solid
Persona 4 Golden
Silent Hill 3
this could go on for ever…
I think that’s my top 5, @dc
In no order
That’s more than 10!
😉
Mario Kart 64 or DS, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
PLATINUM Top 13
Man, I missed this for three and a half hours. I’m slipping!
You used to be here more than @dc!
Spent the past 6 hours digging trenches and shifting 5 tonnes of bedding sand and pavers.
I feel like I’m about to die…
Not surprised having done it in today’s heat! Clearly being Freeze wasn’t enough this time!!
Oh, what you doing?
Building a pathway down the side of the house connecting the two gates.Using 400×400 black concrete pavers and they look pretty good now we’ve done a chunk of it. Nearly halfway.
Be easier if the ground wasn’t the consistency of clay.
The family house up in the Bay was built pretty much entirely on clay. Much to our delight and the dismay of the builders. When laying down the foundations for all the neighbouring houses (all built roughly at the same time – new area), they dumped all the excavated clay into a giant mound, which became the neighbourhood kids’ de facto playground. Clay, glorious clay.
They probably had digger though yes? I’m stuck with a pickaxe and a shovel.
Oh yes! Great, glorious machines! Which somehow nonetheless managed to get bogged and break. It was a great thing for a kid to see, though I imagine it was somewhat frustrating for the builders.
I’m no engineer, but all I gathered from those days is that clay is hell on those machines. Hah, I can’t imagine how it’d go for you. How long are you working on this? Want a hand? I wouldn’t mind a weekend’s hard labour sometime. I haven’t worked with my hands in far too long. (Yes. I sell myself so well.)
Had to drive to the airport and back, ie through Canturbury. Soooo much blue and white and horn-honking and flag-waving.
Those damn Scots!
Jules Bianchi has been involved in a serious incident at the Japanese Grand Prix.
He has been driven to a local medical facility.
Will give more updates as they appear.
Terrible news 🙁
Most tragic end to a grand prix… Fingers crossed for good news, but slamming into a truck sideways is certainly a serious hit!
…my first reaction to this was to look for the dad joke punchline >_>
What have you done to me, TAY 😛
Yeah, not a good race, that’s for sure. Hopefully the guy recovers okay
Hey guys need some advice, I’m thinking about trading in my Wii U in 3DS there just not my kinda thing but I can’t help but shake the feeling I’ll regret it especially the Wii U with Bayonetta out soon, but what comes after that? If I trade it all in I could pay off most of my games but the money isn’t the issue it’s just having too many console so much to buy for, would love some input
If you want Bayonetta, why not get that and then trade the Wii U in afterwards?
So The Charming Squire and Deep Seas exhibition in Brisbane are both pretty awesome. Content at exhibition was way above my daughters head but she had a blast all the same.
And the James Squire pub is phenomenal (especially when the kids asleep in the pram!) a bit pricey but thoroughly enjoyable.
They have some beer and beef appreciation night coming up and they cut up a the carcass of the cow while your sitting there! I like knowing where my food comes from but not sure if I’d be comfortable knowing knife to plate was less than 30mins!
Hey that Deep Oceans looks rad aaaaaaannnnnnnddddd it wraps up tomorrow.
Y U Do Dis 2 Me?
Me so sorry Freeze… 🙁
If it’s any consolation the $12 admission is worth it!
Wifey only told me she wanted to go on Friday! It was dead today which I put down to Grand Final day.
Also, this is a cool vid: http://youtu.be/Z-BbpaNXbxg
James Squiew tasting nights are always good fun. Went to one years ago when the pub in sydney had just opened (it’s still there but not squires anymore) and they served chocolate cake with the Porter. *droool*
I was playing those video game contraptions, when my mum asks me to turn to Channel 9. Apparently the last 10 minutes of the NRL grand final were being played. This is the first time I’ve ever watched anything to do with rugby in my life, I think. I believe I played it for sports class for a few weeks back in 2009, but that’s about it. No wait, I think I watched 10 minutes of an international game back in 2010.
Yeah, this isn’t my sport. I think it’s partly because I don’t know the rules at all, (so… they run across field with a ball..?) but it doesn’t appeal to me. There are a number of reasons I can come up with as to why. I am not a sporty person at all, and the fact that I am so enthralled by AFL right now perplexed me until 10 minutes ago.
The reason I like AFL is the reason a lot of people hate it. AFL is a very varied sport, and is very inconsistent in how the ball gets from one side to the other. Sometimes it’s played with short, controlled kicks. Sometimes it is played with long, uncontrolled booting of the ball. Sometimes it is played in the Rugby style, with running long stretches of the field and handballing to teammates. I’d imagine this inconsistency would turn a lot of people off. However, for me, this maintains this engagement. If AFL used only one of the playstyles listed above, I’d get bored.
Another reason I like AFL is how often a team scores. To me, it strikes a good balance between basketball’s slamdunk-every-45-seconds and soccer’s goal-every-45-minutes. Rugby seems too low-scoring of a game to maintain my interest.
But right now all I want to do is get back to my video game contraptions.
A Sunday TAY Question:
What sports do you follow, and why does this sport appeal to you?
I might repost this in Monday TAY if not too many people reply.
F1, surprise! I’m European 😛 comes with the territory… Pretty much any and all motor sport, though I still don’t follow the V8’s dedicatedly yet, but like watching the odd race… As for any sportsball? Eeeeehhh I don’t really care enough to watch it unless my missus forces me to 😛
Oh and it’s a tradition in my household by now to watch all 24 hours of Le Mans every year… which usually includes hoodies, blankets and generally camping in front of the TV surrounded by snacks, and moving as little as possible…
I guess the reason why enjoy Motor sports so much is because i love cars… i love the spectacle around the events of each race (we go to Albert Park every year (five years in a row next year!))
I enjoy the sights, the noise and the smell that comes with these! you don’t get the full atmosphere watching it on TV, but it’s still pretty damned great (and yes, i have come to adore the new sounds of F1 as well, though i still miss the good ol’ screaming banshees from yesteryear)
Oh man, there’s no way I could make it through the entire 24 hours 😛 I usually watch a few hours of it but I think I’d get too bored!
Formula 1 aaaaaaand that’s about it. I like it because it’s professional and expensive and there’s a hell of a lot of skill involved and it looks pretty (Singapore GP in particular :P)
I honestly don’t think I could bring myself to like any Australian sport. I can’t stand bogans, and if there’s one thing that becomes shockingly apparent when you see any sporting event held in Australia, it’s that they’re made for and cater to bogans.
Singapore GP!
😛
ONE YEAR!
+1
I can’t stand Rugby League… What game has a rule where you stop a guy with the ball by driving him to the ground all of a sudden means you pause the game, let everyone regroup and put 10m between each team!?
Player 1: Got all, must run!
Player 2: Hurr…. Tackle man with ball!
Player 2: Got you!
Player 1: Alright then, give me 30 seconds and 10m to sort myself out before we play again.
Player 2: Okay…
Talk about a stop/start game!
Kinda follow the AFL for similar reasons. Game has so much variety!
American football gives them a lot more than 30s. The game is made for commercial breaks. I can’t stand any game that is better on TV than live.
Where you’re from makes a big difference. If you’re from NSW or QLD, then the NRL is a big deal, and only the State of Origin competes with the Grand Final as a big event.
In our house, we’ll pretty much watch most sports – anything is better than daytime tv or braindead shows like The Block. But in general it’s NRL in winter, Cricket in summer, F1 whenever it’s on, tennis if Roger is playing, occasionally the rugby union (usually Bledisloe Cup), AFL if the swans are winning, and soccer if it’s on at a watchable time (not like some friends who’ll get up at 5am to watch Premier League matches). We even watch things like the Tour de France.
There’s lots to like about sport – it’s exciting, there’s grit and determination, and a lot of appreciation for people doing incredible things that require years of training to achieve.
For a while, Origin was bigger than the GF. At least in Queensland, they were the only games a lot of casual fans would watch. Well, it was until we got bored with all the winning. Now NSW has won, I guess it might be relevant again? I don’t know.
Sports? Sports is something that happens to other people. 🙂
I don’t even esports. Such a bad nerd.
News that Bianchi suffered head injuries:
http://en.espnf1.com/japan/motorsport/story/178131.html
This week’s Doctor Who was pretty great