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How was everyone’s weekend? It was absolutely too damn hot to do anything here so I felt like a snake all weekend just soaking in the sunshine
#lazytayget
Good thanks! I felt like a hermit, venturing out in to the sun for only about 3 hours. 😀
Slightly hungover.
So glad I’ve got the day off.
Ugh.
Luckyyyy
“Canada has it’s own thanksgiving?!”
– Me every thanksgiving
We’ll have our own thanksgiving, with Blackjack.. And hookers. In fact forget about thanksgiving
Rough day ahead for me. Mum’s funeral today. Gonna be a lot of faces I haven’t seen in a long time, and that scares me.
Sending good thoughts and strength your way, man.
*emphatic hand on shoulder*
I know what you mean. Death seems such a ethereal and strange thing by itself that having vaguely familiar faces accompanying it seems.. haunting, almost. That’s what it’s like for me, anyway.
But that’ll pass by quickly. They’ll be as sombre as you, and you’ll pick up on that. Misery loves company, as they say. It’ll pass.
I’m sorry I can’t say anything more helpful.
I should pack my conversation cards. It’s mostly the whole.. “I haven’t seen you for years, what have you been up to” that I hate :\ Then having to feign interest in them too, when I really don’t give a rats about most of them. I’m sure I’ll survive, but I’ll feel like the king of awkward by the time it’s over!
hmm, first part off, second part still applies. There’ll be awkward small talk, the catching up will be slow, but honestly all contact can be limited to just a sentence or two. Sombre mood, after all.
Ordinarily this would be the case, but I think the nature of funerals – especially as one of the immediate-family bereaved – is such that if you don’t feel like talking, you don’t have to talk.
I can only hope. It’s not so much the actual funeral I’m worried about. It’s the wake afterwards. My mum would have wanted everyone to party hard! That’s just how she was. “Don’t cry cos I’m gone, party cos I was here!”
Being a person who lost a father at a young age, I have to say that the worst thing about a funeral and pretty much everything after is the fact that people treat you differently and pity you. On second thought this sounds quite self centered…
I don’t think I’d feel a lot of guilt in shutting down any conversations I’d be too exhausted for with a simple, “I don’t know. I’m not thinking about that right now. I miss my mum.”
That’s rough man. Don’t know what to say, so I’ll just give you hugs instead.
*hugs*
Here’s hoping that some of your family can help you get through today, all the best mate.
Thoughts are with you, notsowelbot. Chin up and may your mum rest in peace.
Stay strong man 🙂
*hug*
*hugs* stay strong bud and remember that it’s okay to cry thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
I didn’t realise your mother had passed away – I’m really sorry to hear that, but I’m also relieved that this painful time in your life is almost over. Good luck with the funeral. We’re all here for you xox <3
Hugs man.
It’s your Mum’s funeral mate, don’t deal with any shit that you don’t want to.
If they start going into that chit chat stuff just say excuse me and walk away. people should be showing at least a slice of understanding and just be asking how you are holding up.
Thoughts are with you from Mrs Tigs and I
Our thoughts are with you today man. I hope you get some time to decompress.
*hugs*
hey bot-man, stay strong mate. things might seem tough now, but they do get better man…
Look after yourself.
oh no :(, I wish you all the strength and courage in the world to get through today *hugs*
X COM
I had to abandon my Ironman playthrough after DC murdered his squad.
In order to keep the challenge going (which I think is part of the appeal of the game), I upped the difficulty to Classic, but removed the Ironman modifier for my next playthrough.
This is gonna be pretty rough (resources especially are tight), but it’s fun so far. D C, Freeze PrestonIcequire, Jane Not Quite XO and Transient Mind make up the backbone of my team, and they haven’t lost a squadmate yet. Strangest Itches got wounded early on, and hasn’t been back in rotation since.
typical DC
He shot Strange in the face. If ever there was an appropriate time for a “DAMMIT DC” that would be it.
You only hurt the ones you love shane… you only hurt the ones you love. So don’t hold it against DC =P
Edit: WHAT THE HELL SHANE, I DON”T MAKE THE TEAM?! It’s like P.E in high school all over again =,=
I’m the only puppetmaster here. Don’t need the competition! >:(
How did that happen? The team turn into a bunch of ‘lid zombies or just a really crap rocket shot?
He got mind-controlled, shot Strange in the face, and everyone else panicked and started running out from cover and shooting each other.
Aaaaaah yes of course, sectoid commander I imagine
No, this was something new, about four months in. Like a thin man, but with psi-powers.
I’m on your team? Awww yeahhhh.
The spread of male/female soldiers pretty much demanded it 😛
That said, you were a pretty integral part of the last team I assembled. You were a medic/support in the first playthrough and the second soldier to be promoted to Colonel. This time, you’re a sniper. You haven’t yet proved yourself as a sniper, but you were a wicked medic.
I’ve never run a TAYbie squad in XCOM. This description really tempts me to.
Despite having finished it a couple times already, I kept feeling drawn back to Enemy Within.
I don’t think I’d be having half as much fun in the game without that.
Morning all. Hope everyone had a good weekend. I ended up getting called into work last minute Saturday morning. Which interrupted my time playing destiny. I’ve started getting bored of my 27 Hunter and decided to re roll a titan which I’m enjoying a lot more.
I spent Sunday telling myself I’d wash clothes which I never did. And I ended up watching Bathurst. Was losing my shit at the shear volume of ads. They were worse than YouTube on a bad day. But in the end it got really good and I was happy to see the blue oval win it. Than I concluded the night with more destiny and now I am heading off to work again. Not a bad weekend and am loving shadows of mordor
Good Morning Team Tay! POW!
Skip to 0:31 seconds for the unofficial TAY intro song!
Hope your weekends were all filled with good times. Personally, I got to meet five 48 hour old Shar Pei puppies. I know the parents well and it was amazing to see the dynamic between the new mother, father and kids.
Got to level 27 in Destiny and now equipped with two legendary weapons (Invective shotgun and Bad Juju pulse rifle.) I still don’t feel like slowing down. I hopped in to the Raid just long enough to complete the Templar stage with a group. Got up to the final bit where you are opening portals, but we were struggling and I had to leave.
Other than that, I don’t think I have too much to report. I had a really weird/bad dream last night me and my gf were on holiday and took Big (our kitten) with us. We were all on a beach and he was roaming around exploring the place. We managed to get a ride back to the area where we were planning on staying the night from some random people. They were driving down a highway and loads of crazy shit was happening: swooping magpies, trucks reversing and our driver driving on the grass at the side at about 120ks.
Anyway, we got out of the car and found another one parked in the middle of the highway which was empty. We got in and drove off to try and find somewhere to stay. We parked up and realised that Big wasn’t with us. We had left him in the car with those weird people! We wouldn’t have been able to find them and they didn’t know where we were going so as to find us. We’d lost Big. :’(
Dream world was too stressful at this point, so I had to wake up and called for Big just to check he was ok. I was calling for about 5 seconds and then I feel his arm stretch out and tap me on the head. He was sleeping behind my pillow. :))))
Good morning to you too.
POW!
RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
You mention seeing puppies yet don’t share a picture. So cruel.
Monday morning mistake!
http://imgur.com/a/Km2w6
I approve of the new TAY song. However, it will have competition, with @dc ‘s karaoke skills.
Morning folks!
Had a pretty good weekend, tried the Vault of Glass Level 26 Raid on Destiny with @jackunit13 and @blackdahlianz and got rekt. It’s steeled my resolve to level up by the end of this week and just get past the first part, I will not be defeated by this thing, no damn way.
I also bought Alien Isolation, but after watching Matt Melvin stream the game live on Twitch this morning I think I’m going to NOPE out after a few attempts and regret not buying Shadow of Mordor instead lol.
Have a great Monday!
Any horror game has me like NOPE. I’m gonna get Shadow of Mordor soon hopefully too.
Yea I can’t do horror either, Mordor is awesome though.
So did you attempt the raid again? I ended up buying some armour off Xur but still only level 25.
Yeah I got invited in to a team of 5 as someone left. So I joined after they had already gotten in to the Vault. Helped kill The Templar, went through a big maze avoiding the death stare of some mythical harpy sort of things and got to the final(ish) stage of the Vault. Gave it a few attempts, but we struggled and I had to go.
The bits I was part of though, there was at least 1 person who truly knew what we needed to do, otherwise I could see it being an absolute nightmare.
Yea I don’t think I’d try again until we had a full team of level 27+
Dude how ridiculously hard was that?!? we were still chuckling about your outburst of JEEEESUS!! hours later. Stag Doo saturday so no more gaming for me in the weekend, lots of movies though.
The Minotaur scared the absolute shit out of me with it’s teleportation trick when I was hiding behind a rock thinking we’d killed all of the Vex lol.
That works for me, I’d be keen to play with you guys when I have gotten a few pieces of Legendary armor next fortnight lol.
I’m getting a lil sick of the grind might jump back into Mordor for a while.
Welcome to Vault of Glass gents! =P What were you guys getting stuck on?
Please don’t judge me, I was a level 24 dragged into the fracas of getting 6 raiders for the vault 😛
We couldn’t get past raising the spires lol.
@pupp3tmast3r, have you completed it?
My wife, who loves all the scary/creepy games like Silent Hill, Amnesia, etc. said this morning “I really want Isolation but I’m worried it will be too scary even for me.”
So obviously I’m going to buy it on pay day this week.
The humble deep-fried potato you get at the Fish and Chips shop… Why does NSW call them “Potato Scallops” and VIC calls them “Potato Cakes”?
Because they were trying to drum up some publicity for the food by igniting a cake/scallop debate in the same vein as the epic and ongoing Jaffa Cake/biscuit war.
But no one cared enough and they’d already printed up all the signs…
Jaffa cake/biscuit war? Never heard of it.
Now kebabs vs yiros, THERE’S a war.
Kebab War? This shit just got real 😛
You didn’t see the juice box vs popper war, the things I’ve seen…. The things I’ve done
Is that the same as SA’s potato fritter
If you’re talking about a slice of potato that’s been battered and fried, then yes.
I just had a bit of a look on wikipedia and it wasn’t terribly helpful, so just as an educated guess, I’d say it’s because it’s to indicate that it’s made a with sliced potato, rather than being a hash brown which is made with diced or mashed potato. A potato bake is often called scalloped potatoes, and it refers to the way they’re sliced and layered up.
I’ve always taken ‘Scalloped’ Potatoes to be the whole shebang, up-to, and including, the cheese/bechamel sauce that accompanies them … (which are delicious BTW)
No idea why it’s called a potato cake, I’ve had this argument with my wife who is Victorian, we live in NSW and it’s embarrassing going into a take away place and she stubbornly refuses to say potato scallop, asks for a potato cake and the person serving just looks at us like we’re from another planet and I have to jump in and say she means potato scallop.
Upvote for your wife
Because people from New South Wales are weird
No YOU’RE weird *in best impression of a 10 year old I can muster* but seriously, it’s a scallop of potato deep fried, it’s not much of a cake is it?
You mash up the potato, pat it down in to a cake of it, cover it in batter and deep fry. At least a cake is vegetarian. If I order a scallop I expect some nice seafood.
I don’t remember getting a potato scallop that was mashed it’s usually just a slice of potato deep fried. That sounds like a hash brown
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cake
“An item of savoury food formed into a flat round shape, and typically baked or fried:
a starter of goat’s cheese and potato cakes”
Potato cake is British English. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a ‘scallop’ of potato. Do you mean it’s shaped into a scallop shell or something? You NSW people are weird. I’ve heard of ‘scalloped potatoes’ but that’s a regional name for gratin.
Oh next you’ll wanna lecture me on flake and hake lol
I think Queensland has different names depending on the size of the potato that is deep fried. The smaller ones are gems and the larger ones are scallops.
Cakes are just weird.
Potato gems are balls of grated up potato, usually, much closer to a hash brown than a scallop
Ah that would be why. My bad.
The world of fried potato is complex and serious business
I’d have thought those would be called hash brown or potato fritters or croquettes depending on the style?
Tay, pls. My twitter feed was all afroth with this last night! I come here for a safe potato-free zone and… this. Sadface.
Deep-fried bits of potato? I think we call them “chips” in WA.
Incidentally, this popped up in my Facebook feed last night – http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/scallop-war-2014?s=mobile – we’ve entered the next great stage of thought evolution!
I hit a rough patch with the cosplaying and ended up going to bed early last night. I was extremely upset by the fact that I’ve dyed the Skirt for Elsa 4 times and that some of the dye hasn’t taken, or has faded. I will try one last time, but after that, I give up.
Today I’m just going to work on Nob’s stuff and my own, I think.
I’m trying to sew my Link hat, but I can’t figure out how to work the sewing machine.
Hand-stitched it is, then. 🙂
Youtube is a great place find machine tutorials – it’s how I learned how to thread my overlocker, and those are tricky beasts.
I was going to suggest the same thing. =D
I’ve had to learn how to use my sewing machines because I am TERRIBLE at hand sewing.
I am good at hand sewing, but I am very, very slow
Also, if you’re working in felt or fleece, hot glue can certainly do the trick!
Is the fabric still useable for the costume or will you have to source more?
Still usable. I’ve actually bought more dye because I am a perfectionist
PAX is stupid because all hotels were booked out a year ago.
If the last minute booking websites aren’t helping, you can try a travel agent. Often our suppliers are holding an allotment of rooms, so they may have some still available even if the hotel is showing as sold out
I got mine a month ago but it was fucking expensive. Good luck man.
Yep. Melbourne Cup weekend. I’ve got a few mates crashing on my floor, and I know one bloke (international) who’s booked Mercure in Geelong and is going to commute on the train back/forth each day … not a bad option considering the Geelong train takes you to SX and PAX is at Jeff’s Shed this year. 🙂
Tune Melbourne. <$150
Ah man parking fees.
What Nova said, and also, try calling the hotels directly. I was resigning myself to bunking with half a dozen other people last year and when I went to go pay, they told me a private room had opened up that day, which hadn’t made it to the website listing yet. I snapped that up quick-smart and it ended up being cheaper, nicer and larger than many hotel rooms I’ve been in.
Book via the PAX website. They must have reserved a bunch rooms from a selection of hotels and I booked not that long ago for a decent price. Until I had to cancel.
Vibe Savoy, three nights was going to cost me $600 or something.
Was dead tired on Friday night so just sat around and played Smash for a while. Halfway through the second last row now, then I’ll have tried out every character running through Classic. Then maybe I can try decide who I want to play as (HA!).
The entire rest of the weekend was dedicated to getting things rolling with my PAX costume. Here’s a progress shot – I have pants now! Pictured on the lower-right are the first pair I made (read: screwed up) that featured in that lovely other photo you may have seen on weekend TAY 😛 These ones have the stretch going in the right direction and feel *much* better.
Think I should just have enough material left to do the shirt without going back to the shops for more, but only just. Especially if I harvest some stuff from the practise pants.
Pants?! I am disappoint! You know pants are a no no here! 😉
Normally I would agree but with that photo I’ll make an exception, Dayum
What are you going as? Or is it a secret?
It’s sort of a secret I guess but I’m mainly being cryptic and avoiding saying it just because @greenius was asking.
Worst guy ever.
He’s going as Zero Suit Samus.
Nothing at all!
Just got an email from EB saying “We heard it’s your Birthday! That’s the perfect excuse to spoil yourself rotten!”
I’m like… ooo do I get a voucher or discount or something? Noooooope. Just a happy birthday, now come and spend all your money here! :\ That’d be great if I had any EB! Thanks for nothing!!
(Also it’s not my b’day today, so don’t start happy b’daying.. (it’s tomoorrow))
Happy birthday… (for tomorrow)
hahah you dufus!
Haha, serious? That’s pretty bad marketing.
“Hey, we know it’s your birthday sometime around now, because our automatic system retained the information you sent us. SEE HOW MUCH WE CARE – NOW GIVE US MONEY.”
Maybe EB thinks you’re a hobbit, so is hoping to get a present from you instead of the other way around.
I’ve got their present right here! *points to anus*
“Gimmie a minute and I’ll work your gift out”
Happy birthday!
Cheers man!
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was busy. On Friday Cathryn’s mum came down to check out the new house and see how we were doing, I spent the entire time playing Mafia 2 as after she had a tour of the house she sat down talking to Cathryn and knitting so I’m like “welp I’m gonna go do something else” so yeah.
Saturday my family came down to check out the new place and stayed for lunch, while they were down my dad and brother helped hang a few paintings and dropped off my bedside tables as well as suprising me with an early Christmas present being a brand new BBQ \o/
On Sunday we had originally planned to drive to Mornington shops but as we were getting ready to leave Cathryn’s dad pulled up and dropped off his old coffee table for us as we didn’t have one yet. Then my mate popped down as he was in brighton killing time and wanted to see the place so we hung out till he left at 2 and got lunch on the beach then drove to London Bridge to take a whole tonne of photos and me nearly lose my thongs to the waves it was crazy and heaps fun.
A Monday question because of all the moving around a few taybies been doing, if you could have one room to be yours (man cave/girl cave/gaming room etc) which room of the house would it be?
Kitchen
Is that because that’s where the food is or because you like the social aspect of the kitchen?
Kitchens to me are like the engine that keeps the house moving, so much of my time is spend talking to my mum in the kitchen, its a more informal way of talking to someone i think. Also food.
Garage. It’s big enough to fit a desk, a huge TV, a daybed, and all my books.
And I’ve got it \o/ #brag
That’s what I was thinking our garage used to be a bedroom so no cars have been parked in it. But I think it is more likely going to be turned into a home gym.
Off to a good start with a reply fail :S
I’d probably like to have a crafting/sewing room where I can go and make things. But really, I have the kitchen already, where I also like to make things.
Secondary kitchen? Half tiled have carpet so you can cook and create on one side while you sew and create on the other
No carpet in my house, but what you describe pretty much happens already. When I have craft/sewing to do, I end up taking over the dining room table.
Thats the best way to do it or build a sewing station
My living room is my gamer cave. I say gamer cave and not man cave because my wife and I equally contributed to the design and decoration and slew of consoles/gaming paraphenalia.
Now give me a proper house and a fat budget and I’ll convert a basement into a gaming lounge that will blow your mind.
Only if I can live there!
I own a high-set house, and basically all of the ground level is my man cave. There is a closed in room that I have my PC, Consoles, TV and futon in but I’ve got enough space for a few tables outside which we play tabletop/card/board games on.
I wish I had that kind of room haha
Every room in my place is my man cave.
All three of them! 😛
o/
A library.
All them books, or is it because libraries nowadays dont exist
All them books. Bought four more today!
My entire house is my man cave essentially.
Tis pretty rad.
I need me a house like that
We already do sort of have rooms to ourselves – our house has a rec room off from the living room that my boyfriend claimed, and then I have one of the spare bedrooms for my stuff. Granted at the moment it’s filled with junk from the move that we still need to sort, but still.
But, to answer your question, the kitchen.
Everyone wants the kitchen
My whole entire flat, as the benefits of living alone yesssss I will play this game for 16 hours straight and no one will complain.
Except your body the next day when its curled in the fetal position crying for sleep
Finished Diablo III on the weekend, I guess i’m at the start of the Reaper of Souls content. Managed to finish the game at level 41 so I guess it really is a bit of a faceroll on Normal but every time I bumped it up to Hard I found the elite encounters frustrating. I guess it doesn’t really matter what difficulty I play it on, I guess I just expected that I’d be level 70 around the time I hit the end boss. Or at least in the 60s.
There is just so much endgame content that the story mode isn’t even half of it. Everything changes once you hit Adventure Mode including drops and crafting materials. You’ll go from a 400 dmg weapon to a 2500 in the space of half an hour, new monsters, quests and you get access to the rifts. It all changes again when you hit 70. And yet again when you bump up to Torment.
Well fair enough then. I figured there had to be a fair amount of endgame stuff since I can’t even train my blacksmith or jeweller any higher without some material I haven’t seen in the game yet – I assumed it was from the Reaper of Souls expansion or something.
I think the rifts only just got added to the console ports though, or were there rifts before and the ones just added are an addition?
I think I played through the whole game on Master difficulty (or was it expert?) and ended up at around level 50 after the core content. It almost kinda expects you to play on a harder difficulty because you get better drops as well.
I agree though the elite encounters on the harder difficulties get downright ridiculous and can feel incredibly cheap.
I think on the weekend Freeze was mourning the loss of his level 65 Witch doctor on a hardcore run because he entered a new area and got one-shotted by some bullshit.
Even on a non-hardcore run, I just don’t have the patience for that.
The bathroom. It’s where I do everything!
everything.
Reply fail!
….
actually, no, this comment can stand on it’s own.
Ipads built into the walls of toilets
I knew I heard flushing in the background during yesterday’s hard mode run!
The stress gets to my stomach, y’see.
You literally shit your pants in hard mode? =P
lots of bodily fluids could have been observed during that period of time, yes.
I probably spend as much time gaming on the toilet as I do at my desk.
Out of curiosity anyone own and fly Quad copters?
i ordered myself a WL toys V222 6-axis on the weekend with some spares as i’m keen to learn to use them, looking for beginner tips, local suppliers for spares (places like hobbyramma are massive ripofs), or anything specifically on AUS/QLD law on do’s and donts?
I don’t think Qld has any specific laws regarding drones. They haven’t caught up to it yet surprise surprise.
Right, let’s try this again.
If you missed it late last night, here’s the last pic of my PAX cosplay progress. Just have a few little finishing touches here and there still to do. http://instagram.com/p/uC6dY_ASbr/
That looks awesome! I love how well the stencil worked it looks amazing
Thanks 🙂 Going to wear it with my big fluffy petticoat underneath.
So cute! You could wear that all the time.
I probably will 🙂
MORNING!! What a weekend!!!
4 year wedding anniversary on Friday. Gifts and flowers (and flours) were exchanged!
Saturday we went to see The Lion King – it was f*cking AMAZING!! We saw it 8 or 9 years ago in Sydney and the show we saw on Saturday was all sorts of different and awesome! Our daughter (nearly 2) sat in our lap absolutely riveted for the entire show. She was clapping along with everyone else… and then clapped when Mufasa dies… and then clapped when Scar took over… I believe she has an evil streak in her somewhere…
One of the best shows (if not the best) I’ve seen at the theatre in the last few years.
Sunday was spent with the dogs, studying, chores, clothes shopping and finally getting my desktop up and running… Been the fiddly-est build ever. Also, getting SABnzbd, Sickbeard, Couchpotato all up and running on a fresh install took faarrrrr longer than I anticipated. No doubt I’ll spend the next few weeks ironing the kinks out of all the automation…
Also… another 4 day week! Woo! Off to Sydney on Friday for a wedding and weekend away shenanigans!
Happy anniversary! And good to hear The Lion King is excellent – I have tickets for Christmas Eve.
Thank you! 🙂
The show’s script has evolved so much and has some great laughs in it – plus a Disney cross over. The Australian cast are amazing when compared to other countries… We watched some videos on YouTube later on Saturday and none of them really compared.
We were toodling around South Bank afterwards and one of the ensemble cast saw us with the merch bag and came over to say hello, asked about the show and how our daughter liked it (as she was clutching her Pumba plushy)… I’m almost ready to buy tickets to see it again.
Good morning handsome and beautiful TAYbies.
Friday night started well – on the train coming home and found out my oldest and dearest friend is engaged. Her girlfriend proposed to her in front of the Eiffel tower on her 30th birthday! So romantic. They live in London, where same sex marriage is legal, so I guess I’ll be heading to the UK next year! Yay.
The Wagyu meal went perfectly – gently seared wagyu, buttery garlic green beans, stacked potato cards and a miniature caramelised onion and mushroom tart. Boyfriend was very satisfied and it’s going to become part of the rotation of fancy dinners, haha.
Tried again to play Alien: Isolation, but I just can’t. As much as I wanted to think I could handle it, I cannot. I’ve only just seen the alien once and that was enough, haha. I just really don’t like the map/direction. I feel like there’s not enough clear instruction. Either let me roam around freely with enemies I can actually battle, or make me stealth with proper directions.
Congrats to your friends and to you for a UK holiday \o/
That makes 2 now that have given up on alien isolation, you have a new compadre @evilmonkey
Haha, thanks! And I should have known, really. I actually bought it hoping my boyfriend would play it and I would watch, but that backfired. I’m going to return it and use the money to pre-order Far Cry 4 (yesyesyesyesssss).
Dragon Age? Dragon Age?! DRAGON AGE?!?!?!?!?
I… I don’t like Dragon Age?
I wish I did; I expected to? Like, I dig on Bioware (Mass Effect is my true love), and I love RPGs and fantasy, but I just didn’t gel with the first one. I’ll probably try it again sometime, but not soon, I’d imagine.
*gasp*….. You’re dead to me! D= HOW COULD YOU?!
*runs away crying*
I’ve finished and loved it, but holy damn… Tense.
I agree with that map, though. There was a time I spent twenty minutes getting to the other side of the map where the mission objective thing was only to realize it was on another deck. HAD TO GO ALL THE WAY BACK THROUGH THE ALIEN AGAIN. D:
Hello. I ended up going on that rainforest wilderness ride on Saturday morning. Oh man. 😀 So intense, so fun, slightly sore from my injuries lol.
Shit was intense, second half was barely 30-40cm path, with vines/trees/ferns/etc all over the place. First little bit was sweet – I turned up to threat of light sprinkle and rode the first bit through rainforest with everything wet. So good. Took a tumble when trying to take off (stupidity) and almost had another bad fall where I was hanging over a 2-3m drop by holding onto a vine. Cool stuff. Finished the ride and had a nice pie meal + beer at a pub along the way. 😀
Sunday saw Step Up, was alright but the previous movies were better I thought. Overall, decent weekend! You?
Excellent. I stick to the bitumen but I love Tales Of Singletrack from my MTB comrades. Where was this?
Eungella National Park, QLD.
Oh beautiful. There’s just endless amazing landscapes up that part of the coast. Well, in between the hundreds of km of cane anyway, which does get a little tedious from a recumbent… I can’t remember exactly where I stopped along there as it was 2005 and the memories fade, but I did see some amazing stuff. Remember being wet for 4 days in a row north of Bowen.
So after having lunch with my friend it is blatantly clear that her boyfriend has another girlfriend and she is just on the side.
It’s amazing how strong denial can be to hide the blatant truth.
Yikes. She’s going to bail on that loser, right?
You ladies and your codewords. If I remember rightly ‘bail’ is to nail his balls to the kitchen table right?
Nope. In her mind there’s still a tiny chance that he’s not doing this so she won’t bail unless she catches him red handed.
Ah denial… The lies we tell ourselves are often the hardest to perceive.
What kinda reasons can you see for it to be blatantly clear, if I may ask?
He drops plans constantly. Like they actually paid for a hotel room at The Star over this weekend and he then told her last minute that he was busy with some stuff (wouldn’t elaborate) this weekend and won’t see her.
He told her he was going away for 2 weeks to New Zealand. Day 4 she ran into him in the city.
He won’t tell her where he lives and she’s never been to his house. Sometimes he gets messages from a female at 2-3am asking when he will be home. He says this is his Aunt who he lives with.
He went away for the long weekend last weekend and didn’t bring her and went with some friends. The stories don’t match up between him and his friend over who organised the weekend and why his gf couldn’t come (other guys brought their gfs).
Wow, that’s pretty significant amount and depth. 🙁
I’d put money on it that he’s married.
Anyone played the “Crew Expendables” DLC for Alien Isolation? The Alien just seems to know exactly where I am at all times, had about 30 attempts and it just keeps pacing back and forth everywhere I need to go, I didn’t have nearly as much trouble in the main game.
I haven’t played the game so don’t know anything about it, but maybe you’re supposed to lure it away somehow…?
yeah in the main game it works but the DLC is in a really confined space, takes the alien like 10 seconds to run end to end, I’unno I’m sure I’m doing it wrong. There aren’t many components to make lures from that I can find either.
I don’t think I can play Crew Expendable. Atleast not yet. Nerves all rattled after complete game. Despite the fact I loved it so much, I was glad to see the credits roll.
Morning y’all.
Morning Virus, how did the weekend treat you
It was alright. Did a whole lot of nothing, tried to watch Bathurst but due to poor TV reception that didn’t happen so I watched more of Daria.
How about yourself, Tigs?
Pretty good, worked on Saturday and after I finished we took the little one to a ‘french village fair” thing that the nearby school had on. Bought a few books for her and a couple of Clive Cussler ones for me. 5 bucks fill a bag 🙂
Had some tea and scones before heading home.
Sunday was nice, went to camberwell and checked out the market for a bit. Had to get a few presents so did that there, got me niece a nerf bow. Played some transistor, watched the last half of bathurst on and off, bathed Tiglet and had a roast dinner before heading to bed
So a rather relaxed and enjoyable weekend
So we attempted hard mode VoG this week and were promptly stomped on repeatedly for about 90minutes without making any solid progress. It would seem the Vex have bested us this weekend D=
Unfortunately hard mode requires the team to be a minimum level of 29 which is impossible to reach without at least one piece of raid or exotic gear + having all your armor maxed out. So a rough estimate would require approximately 35-40 ascendant shards.
Due to this a few of us have started thinking about running a second raid group (with alts to farm mats) over the weekend (most likely on Saturday morning). @blaghman @saturday @jocon @distantdrop @dire_wolf You guys all get first crack to register interest of course!
For anyone else interested couple of minimum requirements – Level 26, have a level 20 blue void fusion rifle/shotgun, have a level 20 blue rocket launcher and finally have a headset! =P
There’s my answer! 😛
Haha yeah we got past Atheon 2 weekends ago and now we’re finishing it on normal mode in about an hour? Maybe a little over an hour? Hence why we thought we’d start a second group to farm mats and gear!
If you or anyone else is interested it seems we have a minimum of 2 spots open currently. One for the raid from 12pm – 1.30pm on Saturday and one for the 10am-12pm time slot same day.
I haven’t touched it yet so I’d like to do it. I’ll have to gather the weapons though, I’m missing rocket launcher I believe.
Very well we shall put you in for a spot! Seems that only 10am is available atm on Saturday (sydney time). If you don’t have a rocket launcher you can also use a blue machine gun with high range and stability! I believe Hannibal-E is a good example!
While I might be up for that at a later date, I’m afraid I’m busy this weekend, so I’ll have to skip out on you guys again. :/
*cries into hands* WHY BLAGHSY WHY?! Waitaminute… Is this the secret Sydney meat that’s getting in the way of raid time?! =O
Ah bugger, next time then.
@Piat do you want to shotgun blagsies slot? We usually start around midday Saturday.
Sounds good to me, I can manage that
Cool that’s 12pm locked in =]
Up to level 24. Getting there! No signs of getting tired of it yet. Working on Exotic bounty…
Can’t play this Saturday as I’m doing the Around The Bay on Sunday…
It’s a funny thing going from stomping normal to being completely denied the first checkpoint on hard, I guess the level damage suppression is to much to handle.
This would probably work better if you just grab a large chunk of Kotaku AU on your friends list and whenever 3-4 of the core group are on we can run a 2nd group with other randoms who are on. since we can do it in 1-2 hours which isn’t a large commitment.
You’re the RL I guess, your decision in the end, I’m sure you already know I have shown interest in running it twice, however Saturday morning might be a little tricky for me :S
Yeah the only way I could kill things was with icebreaker, my assault rifle would basically take a whole cartridge just for one goblin/hobgoblin kill >.<
In regards to the teams for the time being I have you, Jo and myself on both runs. With timing for the second raid I’m more than flexible! We can start it at 11 and probably have it done by 12 if that’s a better time for you! Or we can try for after 1.30pm, I’d like to be more accommodating to the core group for each raid basically!
With contacts and the problem with friends list on the PSN is even if I get people added to my list I’ve found people aren’t always online during our raiding timeframe. I.e. it took us about 20min to find one person when blaghs couldn’t log on Sunday. By doing the registrations on TAY it gives me some inkling as to if we’ll have a full group and recruit replacements if necessary before the weekend hits.
Finally… I hate recruiting people over the completely un-intuitive slow and retarded messaging system that comes with the PS4. It’s easier to type in TAY or in our clan in Destiny than to either message people and wait for it to get sent via chat in PS4 or blindly invite people to the party and ask them if they can raid over voice-chat.
How is lunch still so far away ;_;
CURSED GET
Lunch is a state of mind. Any time can be lunch time if you’re feeling it in your heart… AND MIND.
I only feel it in my stomach.
They do say a way to a man’s heart is his stomach which means your basically feeling it in your heart.
I only just woke up maybe 20mins ago. =D
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Oh that’s so appropriate today, the 35th anniversary of H2G2’s publication.
Also appropriate was the work shower room having no towels this morning…
Weird. Borderlands was one of my favourite games of the generation and 2 was pretty fantastic but I have near zero interest in the PreSequel.
It feels like it’s a step back to me. All grey all of the time, just like the first was all brown all of the time. After the colourful second game I think it’d be tough to go back.
Way more interested in Tales from the Borderlands.
I’m pretty keen for it! Which reminds me, @pixel_the_ferret_viking @cakesmith @rize and I should really book a day to play the hell out if it
@rize is going to be difficult due to moving and no net :/
I can see how you’d think that, but then here we are.
(Initial disclaimer, Borderlands falls into the same category of games as Saints Row, where I hate how they play, and think that they’re about as mechanically interesting as painting a wall, but I buy the new ones anyway so I can spend all my time hating on the mechanics or something)
A friend of mine is an ex-2K AU dev, and after the stories I’ve heard of what happened there I feel like I have some weird sort of moral obligation to not play the game, or not support 2K, or, I don’t really know. My brain is dumb, and it should feel dumb.
I’m curious to see how cringe-worthy the accents are in Pre-Sequel. Apparently Pandora is Space Texas so therefore the moon is Space Australia because reasons.
Go space Broncos.
Space australia!
Or spacetralia?
I think you mean SpaceStraya!
Hmm, you dislike something that I like. Well that’s okay, I’m sad you don’t get the same joy I do get out of this game but everyone has their own tas-wait a second … this is the internet.
OMG GO BCK 2 CASUAL GAMES LOLOLOL
That’s old internet. New internet means you send him a tonne of rape and death threats until he calls the police and leaves home. Then claim you’re not angry at all and you’re just fighting against journalism corruption.
There are very few games I will pick up on last gen that weren’t out prior to then, since my pile of shame is big enough and I hardly use the 360 as-is. Borderlands definitely doesn’t make the cut. I probably won’t pick up Assassin’s Creed Rogue unless they port it to current-gen sometime after I’ve finished Unity… which I don’t plan to buy for a few months since I’m already swamped.
So people of TAY, I have stories to tell. Tabletop RPG stories if you will.
It turns out I really, really enjoy being a malicious scheming evil trashbag of a GM because I ran a game of 2nd Edition 40K Dark Heresy on Sunday. Mr Burns fingers and cackling laughter were had, particularly when the group discovered what was the main driver of all of the activity on the planet they are on.
Papa Nurgle says hi :P.I think I’m going to have fun with this one. 😀
So while I was tormenting people with mystery, intrigue, and mutations, how was everyone else’s weekend?
Pretty good. Oktoberfest! Alien Isolation! Fightin’ crime!
I drank a lot of beer and ate a heap of sausage.
I dug a hole.
I found out my drivers licence has been expired for over a month unbeknownst to me.
Holy crap that can be a bad time if you’re driving with that thing!
We got pulled up by the cops just after we dropped @SerNobulus off at home. I’d been drinking heavily too so
luckily my wife was driving.“It’s filling up with water…”
Freeze dug a hole. Tell ’em, Freeze.
When I last renewed my license I opted for the longest possible renewal time so mine doesn’t expire until like 2019 or something. I just know that when it happens I’ll forget.
That’s what happened to me. For some reason Qld has decided against sending out renewal notices.
Can I just say… I’ll be there for tomorrow’s session!!!
Excellent. Slight time change due to daylight savings but I’ll throw up a post later in the day with the details.
Saturday Night I did what is becoming a worrying tradition in Shadowrun: Get shot once, and have that drop me to one point on my health track. We also fought a regular old goon who was a god among men. He dodged 4 of 6 attacks, and only took stun damage from the other two, then proceeded to jump out of a window with such skill that even with a perfect roll I couldn’t have hit him without spending edge, and it made me sad because shooting things is what my guy does best (and running away from combat).
Another person I know who plays Shadowrun says that the fought a boss in their last session who was an insane netrunner in a dinosaur onesie. Apparently he kept going “rawr” whenever he attacked and was utterly ridiculous.
Then they beat him, stole his onesie and his cybernetics while he was still alive. 😛
I don’t think my group knows what the meaning of “alive” is. We’ve captured people to interrogate them before, but bar that one case where he jumped out a window, we’ve always followed up the questioning with a murder.
And I wish we could be so lucky with targets. Our last fight was against a quite powerful troll (He had 2 machine guns built into one of his arms), and 9 of his goons (Thankfully our mage managed to kill 6 of them (before he died horribly) by pulling pins on their grenades remotely).
Random nob thoughts I’ve been having lately.
– Considering starting studying health, more specifically becoming a nurse.
– Considering moving out of Queensland, not to sure where to though. I enjoyed Melbourne when I went last year for PAX so maybe there.
Oh man! Awesome on both fronts! Sounds like the makings of adventure, right there! I vaguely remember you talking about nurse stuff at Oktoberfest but I was too busy drunk dancing. XD
You were too busy hugging people.
Canberra is the place to be.
It’s getting pretty big these days. Like double digit population big!
Nah, we came close, but @rize is leaving.
DAMMIT RIZE!
Double whammy, study at The Australian Catholic University: 98% employment rate within one year of finishing a nursing degree, and it’s in Melbourne!
Melbourne’s great, if you’re a coffee/cafe man you can have a good time.
But too many Catholics, I’d wager! 😛
*runs*
Canberra has an ACU as well.
Just sayin’ is all.
We sure do, they have Nursing course as well. Beautiful little campus, nice and quiet with a pool too!
That’s precisely the reason I like the idea of living in Melbourne.
Brisbane also has an ACU campus. 😛
Yes it does, and Nursing as well! I manage the gym up there, great campus 😛
A+ ideas!
It seems like half of TAY is moving to Melbourne. \o/
My weekend was pretty okay!
Tested out my bike on a grocery trip. Worked pretty decently! I have a little wire tray/baskety thing that attaches to my rear rack so I can go to the further-away/better supermarket and stock up on doughnuts! Was going to test-run a ride to work as well but I couldn’t figure out a good route to take.
Also made the trip to the ol’ DFO to go clothes shopping (ugh). It’s really not as cheap as people say. Most stuff was exactly the same price as the regular stores. I like it there though because everything is in one place and is usually so packed with people that the staff don’t bother you 😛
Games-wise, the only thing I played was Hyrule Warriors! I’m starting to get a bit down on it at the moment due to how hard Adventure mode is. I feel like I need to do a lot of grinding to get my characters up to the level each battle needs which isn’t very fun. I wish there was a better way of getting items/rupees/good weapons. I really want to use specific characters but they just don’t have good enough weapons to be effective. Luckily it’s still pretty fun though.
Just wait til you get a Road BIke, you’ll be at work in no time at all! =D
I do have a road bike!
It has already begun 🙂
Optimum number of bikes owned is always: n = n + 1.
Where n is equal to the number of bikes already owned.
Damn, we’ve spoken about this I know it!
Probably when I mentioned getting the thing last week 😛
Dear @dc,
There is a hotel bed and a PAX ticket that no longer have anyone to use them. You should totally come to PAX so that they do not go to waste.
Love,
Ooky
Nah, but thanks. 🙂
Pretty please?
Nah. No PAX or Melbourne or interstate meats until I have a job and can afford to pay my own way. 🙂
Your kindness is noted! 😛 *makes note*
But I wanna meat nooooooooooooooooow.
Dear DC,
I would like to employ you as… a Beta reader or something. Payment is enough $$ to travel to Melbourne + Gooky’s tickets and one half of his hotel bed.
Your silence indicates consent. Objections indicate consent.
Consent indicates consent.
Yes. Perfect!
We are commissioning a Year Of The Hermit PAX writeup.
Oh yeah. That would have been better.
I retract my offer and substitute this.
I don’t know, you will need to cover the costs of the popcorn and that’s gonna cost you a lot.
What day ticket is it and is it selling?
It’s a three day pass, I can’t remember if he said he’s put it up on eBay or would be doing so soon. Should be able to get it off him though.
I’d be interested if he’s selling for less than $110 which probably isn’t likely. I have a Saturday pass but now have nothing to do all Friday and Sunday but those days are still selling in the site for $55 each.
Actually it would be stupid to sell it for that so I wouldn’t worry.
Nah, I can ask him anyway.
Greetamings TAY. Finding myself in a bit of a gaming slump at the moment. Been going through my collection and nothing is really appealing to me at the moment.
Even the ever glorious SKYRIM! only seems to hold my attention for half an hour or so.
I know many here have gone through these same periods, so my question for the mighty TAY collective is;
What do you do when you find yourself in a gaming slump?
Oh gosh, I get gaming fatigue a lot these days. I kinda have it at the moment. I guess I just read a lot about games I like, games I’ve loved in the past, games I’m looking forward to playing. I replay old favourites (but sometimes they don’t hold my attention either). I don’t really have a good answer, haha, sorry!
Tried playing some old favourites, even downloaded some games from the deep dark past, but like you, they don’t seem to hold my attention either.
I think part of my problem is, is that there seems to be a few current games that look awesome, but I am strictly low end PC and last gen console.
Still, Shadow of Mordor sounds good and it is coming out for last gen next month, I haven’t done much reading of it, so going through some stuff on that might just reignite the flame.
See, you did have a good answer after all 🙂
Praise Jeebuz and do some writing.
Writing? That requires thinking doesn’t it?
What?! Are you trying to kill me?
My approach isn’t for everyone. In fact, I wouldn’t really recommend it at all! You only asked what I would do!
True.
Still kinda hoping you would solve all my life problems and reveal the meaning of life for me.
Is that really to much to ask?
😛
No, that seems reasonable. Sorry to have let you down, man.
I haven’t quite reached the level of fatigue that sounds like you have attained, but being on TAY and seeing how hype people get for games usually gets me back into playing. I didn’t plan on buying Alien: Isolation at all, not even in a bargain bin 5 years from now.
I accidentally walked into JB Hi-Fi and bought a copy on Sunday. Damn you @dc!
I’m sorry I’ve added so much stress to your life! D: D: D:
Much like you, I hadn’t really given Isolation much thought of purchase, more straight up and fight kinda gamer then stealth, still like you said, TAY hype can turn things around.
Might wait for Shadow of Mordor though… still that is a whole month away… would need something to tide me over until then…
So I’m not stupid, Shadow of Mordor was just on PC this whole time and I couldn’t find it because it didn’t exist on Xbone lol?
Should have been released last… Wednesday? on Xbone and PS4, last gen release is further down the line.
Nothing, usually. Wouldn’t be much of a slump otherwise 😛
I usually read or take the time out to watch some television that I’ve been neglecting.
Worst comes to worst though, I usually break the slump by playing something I really, really enjoy. Metal Slug usually does it for me because it’s simple, fun, and oh so visually bombastic.
Actually going through X-Files at the moment, so that is definitely helping.
Just find it odd to have the gaming itch, but no interest in playing anything.
Though your suggestion does raise an idea, most of my games are large RPG, open world affairs.
Maybe I need something more compact and intense. Try something outside of my usual gaming habits.
Intriguing.
I still have my X-files mug in the cupboard somewhere.
This seems like a good time as any to plug Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a gaming slump. D:
Gaming keeps me sane. If I had a fuller life I imagine I’d have slumps, but I don’t…
VIDEO GAMES ARE MY LIFE! 😛
I’m exactly the same. =P
Makes me wonder if I need to do something with my life.
I completely stop buying new games and go back and work on my backlog, or if nothing is biting, I will go and re-play an old game I really liked to remind myself why I enjoy the hobby. Last time it was Okami HD.
Play something short and sharp that you have had your eye on.
Something like brothers or thomas was alone if you haven’t played them, Jump onto team speak and play whatever other people invite you too if you have it. Even onion dino shooty is fun with a bunch of friends
Good idea, I haven’t played multi in a while, so that would certainly be a change of pace.
Would you know who I get the teamspeak deets from?
Anybody on the server will have them
DM’d the details which I think are rightHave now accessed, Thankee kindly Tigs!
I just do other things until the mojo returns. Had a MASSIVE slump after TLOU. It just took it out of me. Amazing experience but sucked all my gaming mojo.
Just need to recharge sometimes. Read a book or do some gardening. 🙂
I’m getting close to the point of buying myself a new laptop to replace this underpowered piece of crap asus, has anyone here had any experience with MSI laptops? The current frontrunner is the MSI CR61, I don’t suppose anyone here has that exact model do they? I’m mostly wondering if they have an mSATA port, I can’t seem to find any solid info on this model. Lots of info on similar MSI models implies it’s relatively standard but I don’t want to make an assumption about it and be left with an mSATA I can’t use…
Why laptop? I’d have to have a good reason to buy a ‘gaming’ laptop, they’re so overpriced.
Oh it’s not a gaming laptop, it’s going to be for general use and video capture, that’s why it’s not one of the swankier MSI ones with the dedicated GPU. At most I might be trying to play stuff like civ or xcom on it. I have a real computer to game on!
Pax meat people. I need to sort out the menu. This is per 12 people.
What we will have
Assorted Sushi pieces (vegetarian)
Salt and pepper PrawnsHoney and Soy chicken skewers
Mini lamb and rosemary gourmet pies.
We also have a choice of the following
Prawn and coriander conesHome style sausage rolls
Steamed prawn dumplings?Southern style chicken tenders
Fish and chips
Garlic chicken Kiev balls
Pesto pasta (vegetarian and served cold)
Cheese and spinach pastry puffs (also vegetarian)
Gourmet pizza slices.
We have roughly 3 lots of 12, so we have a choice of 6 items.
No prawn allowed. Shellfish free zone!
Can’t really go wrong with Pizza Slices.
Maybe the Pesto Pasta just in-case someone wants a vegetarian dish?
Just putting it out there, even touching prawns has a tendency to hospitalise me.
You have a shellfish allergy? If so, i need to let them know.
Yeah. I’m okay with calamari, fish and fairly certain octopus is okay based on some tentative trials.
Prawns, lobster, oysters, bugs and mussels destroy me for certain.
I will avoid the prawns and other shellfish. As long as I let them know the day before, it’s all good.
If people still want prawns that’s fine. Just as long as there’s a plate without any on it. Or anyone that eats them doesn’t try to make out with me.
You have ruined my night, Freezie.
I would rather not risk it.
Eh, I grew up with a family that ate a lot of shellfish and learned to avoid it while letting others eat it.
@freezespreston accidents happen. So far, no one has said, “I must absolutely have prawn!” It’s 3 items and I’m certain that no one really minds that much
Meh, people can have prawns on their own time. I wouldn’t worry about it.
Now you have to adjust the menu! My god that is so shellfish of @freezespreston.
#NeverTooEarlyForPage6
Any of that sounds good for me, Scree! Seconded the pasta though for variety.
The only thing I’d steer away from is the Fish and Chips, just because fish and chips don’t taste very good unless you’re on the beach 😛
You guys know this isn’t really helping, right? Tell me what you prefer, not what you don’t want!
Is the “6 choices” including the three you already have up the top? If so, my choices would be Pizza, Pasta and either sausage rolls or kievs. Just trying to get as much variety as I can.
EDIT: But seriously, you’re never going to get everybody to agree. Just cover the allergies and diet needs and it’ll be fine. Everybody will find something to eat out of that many options.
No, the 3 up top is what we get. We then get to choose 6 of the other stuff
Wouldn’t they get all sandy?
#InlandUrban
Hence the invention of the large newspaper packaging!
But even if that fails, it just adds some much-needed roughage to your diet.
I’m not fussed at all. Not a huge fish person so wouldn’t personally have the fish & chips but I wouldn’t stop other people having that. The pesto pasta sounds a bit gross to me.
If I had to pick, I’d go with the three you’ve already picked out plus sausage rolls, chicken tenders and the cheese & spinach pastry puffs.
I agree that the Pesto sounds ick =P Those three are the ones we automatically get. No options with those
So we get those three and need to pick another six?
With the Anti-freeze stuff removed, there’s seven options there and one of them (cold pesto pasta) sounds awful… just saying.
I’m with you, cold pasta salad does not sound like party food to me. Sausage rolls, now you’re talking!
Southern style chicken tenders
Garlic chicken Kiev balls
Home style sausage rolls
Pizza sounds ok but slightly worried about the gourmet in front of it. Makes it sound like it will be goats cheese and rocquet, or 4 types of onion.
Who wants to play a game? It’s called, “Help Jane find another pair of those shoes she really loved and wore to death!”
I bought a pair of red Vans Authentic lo pro Gore slip on shoes about four years ago, and man, they made me feel pretty rad whenever I wore them. Like, they’re nothing special, but I loved them so. Like most canvas shoes, I wore holes in the toes and the heels and they got to the point where they were deemed gardening shoes. I’m a ladies 8.5 and obviously need somewhere that ships to Australia.
They look like this: http://www.dogfunk.com/images/items/900/VAN/VAN1105/JESREDWH.jpg
But they can also look this: http://images2.confidentielles.fr/dl/base_photos/5/8/5/5/12/125855.jpg (that blue is pretty dreamy).
I’m hunting for these today, but my network is pretty slow at the moment. Boourns.
I’ve had the same pair of shoes for something like 5 years now … I should probably buy a new pair.
Haha! I always replace my shoes with identical ones as well, so it’s like I’ve never bought new shoes. 😀
I’m a total Pair and a Spare girl. Everything I get and love, I go back and buy more of. I have three pairs of the sames jeans, and like, 18 of the same v-neck t-shirt in four different colours (mostly black). It makes me scared to think they’d ever stop making these!
Oh good I thought I was weird for doing that. My wardrobe is made up of like 4 different pairs of pants & like like 3 different shirts, all of which I have at least 2 of.. Minus the over the top abundance of band shirts.
You’d make a perfect cartoon character with that kind of wardrobe! 😛
Canvas shoes are the bane of my job. Just accept they’re poorly made and can’t be repaired people!
But they’re so coooool looking.
Buy them, wear them, just don’t try and get them repaired once you wear a hole in them
When I was in Melbourne err 5 months ago, I think? I stumbled across this place in Southern Cross Station (well next to it) shop called Roadhouse and they had a massive selection of Vans, I ended up buying a sweet ass pair for only $50. They have outlets up this way, I believe there’s 2 in Brisbane. So you could check them out maybe?
They also have an online store, it doesn’t seem like they have much in range of Vans online though :/
That blue really is fab.
I’m not sure if they’re the exact style you’re looking for, but scoopon have vans on sale today: http://shopping.scoopon.com.au/event/42170/?utm_source=SCPS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=scps2a_20141013&utm_content=cms
Season Five of The Walking Dead starts today! WOOOO!
Korl!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aM9Ch97U8 I will just leave this here
Hi all, so yesterday I did the half-marathon in Melbourne for a cause very close to me and managed to raise $506 for Beyond Blue. Thanks to the TAYBIES @shane and @sernobulus for their donations! There may have been some tears at the end, this one meant a lot to me.
Awesome work, dude. You’ve done a good thing.
Well done, congrats on making the distance
Thanks! I think anyone can do it, I couldn’t even run 500 metres without stopping when I started training 🙂
How long did it take you to get to that level?
It took me probably 18 months but that was with a back injury and a stress fracture in my foot. I took my time getting there as well as I didn’t want to get any soft tissue injuries, plus I’m not a natural runner 🙂
Well, that was an interesting morning… urgent trackwork meant morning trains were cancelled, so had to go to Ashfield to catch a train to Central, which was a bit of a pain; while waiting at Ashfield I was surprised by “The Search for Rommel’s Treasure” starting (I’ve said my music library is an odd place) – I didn’t even know I had The Goon Show on my phone, and that had me in hysterics for the half an hour it took to get to work. “We must bury the black box ten feet above the ground.” / “Ten feet above the… but people will see it!” / “That is a chance we will have to take.” So good! “Hands up or I’ll draw my rations!” XD
Anyway, hope everyone had a good weekend!
I spent Friday night watching Alien – man, I forgot how good the direction is in that… so many shots of the alien hiding in plain sight. Which inspired me to continue with Alien: Isolation on Saturday… Made it to the fifth(?) mission and got extremely frustrated with having to go back to the beginning every time I died, so had to stop before I broke something. Went and played Destiny for a few hours, levelling my Hunter alt. Unlocked Mars at level 11… and did strikes until I hit 13, then checked Xur’s inventory. Ice Breaker – an exotic sniper rifle with regenerating ammo. Holy Shit. Quick swap to my main to purchase it, then called it a night.Got back on on Sunday, intending to continue with Mars, but almost immediately got a message from @pupp3tmast3r inviting me to the raid, which was fun. No loot, but good practice, and it was very interesting to see the strategies you guys use – completely different to our approaches in most cases. After trying Hard mode for a little while, we split, and I went off to comb Mars for iron to upgrade my helm, and to use the 17 shards I had left over from Tuesday. I am now level 29! That achieved, I stopped and went back to Alien, where I discovered two save stations on my route I’d walked blindly past in my earlier attempts, which allowed me to get through with less frustration. Now stuck on the following mission, ybbxvat sbe n genhzn xvg, jurer gur Nyvra unf yrneag gb ybbx va ybpxref. FML.So I went back to Destiny, and started Mars. I really think the loot system is still borked – I’m running low on sapphire wire cos I’m suddenly getting blues at level 12, while my warlock had over 100 Hadronic Essence by the time I needed it for upgrades… I had maybe 5 greens drop all weekend, but my ‘lock wasn’t in full blue gear before level 20, while my hunter is in full blue at level 15.EDIT: spoilered for text-wall; that turned out far longer than I intended.
Thanks for joining us man! =]
So, do TAY folk still do Fitocracy? I’ve discovered that I’ve put on an alarming amount of weight quite suddenly, and I’m looking to get things back under control a little.
I don’t know what this is, but I’m on board.
https://www.fitocracy.com/group/14940/
Gamifying fitness
*points at Shane chanting* Fatty fatty two by four can’t fit through the kitchen door!
*ignores own expanding waistline*
Well, most of us only hop on during challenges, but we could always start one so that Liondrive can make us all feel inferior!
Yeah, if I go in any other ones, I’m limiting myself to 500-1,000 points a workout (even though my current workout stands at 2,500 points a day).
Still feel guilty at the mention of Fitocracy :S
I REALLY need to get onto it TBH… My current weight is ridiculously alarming health wise and am putting myself at risk….It is so friggin hard to do… /o\ tried several times over the last 7 years to no avail…
I too struggle (being able to cook is a curse) and it was even harder after my little boy arrived, but 2 things have made a massive difference for me
1- myfitnesspal calorie counter
2- parkrun/couch-to-5k
I went to Costco last Sunday and bought 70 Freddo Frogs. They were gone by Thursday. I think exercise probably should be on the cards for me too. 😛
Remember about a week ago, when those 300g Cadbury Creation (you know, the ones with bits of candy and stuff in them) blocks were 1/2 price at Woolworths? I bought ten of them. I only have four left.
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Actually, I can’t say anything.
20 donuts and a whole Lasagne in 3 days :’S
Oooh at North Lakes? I want to go there; mostly for buying dog food in bulk, but also, 70 Freddo Frogs.
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/518563284761325568
In case any one thinks I’m exaggerating. XD
Man I should probably jump on that kinda thing too.
But the list of things I should do is kinda long ya know?
Fitocracy is a great idea 🙂 I’ve managed to lose 33 kg’s but through my own routine of lots of running, gym, tennis and ballroom dancing. It’s something I have to keep on top of however, this is the second time I’ve lost 30+ kg’s, its very easy to put on weight 🙁
Congrats though, on being able to do that! You obviously have excellent will power 🙂
It helped that I had a little boy 2 years ago and I have a slipped disc so I needed to make sure I could keep up with him and be fit and healthy 🙂
I’m in the group, perhaps another challenge is needed! We may need to restrict it to running/cycling (otherwise @liondrive will just blitz us all again) because the points are stupidly skewed in favour of weights.
That’s fine with me, I can still compete with my treadmilling, and won’t feel guilty since I don’t do much cardio 🙂
Alternatively, you guys could pair up to out-score me :3
Or, I’ll just limit my points to around 500 a workout if weights are included 🙂
Article about a woman receiving death threats and being forced out of her home and that Chobi guy writes thousands of words to say nothing but feminism is terrible and he’s being victimised.
WHUT ABERT TEH MENZZZZ
Now for the fun bit: find a pro-gamergate comment back there that doesn’t rely on this fallacy.
Hoorah, that new show Sonic Highways about Foo Fighters or something is gonna be shown on GO! here in Australia this Saturday (18th), the same day it broadcasts in the US (Friday 17th).
Will I still torrent it? Yes, because a) I don’t get GO! b) I would like to watch it in HD c) I would also prefer to watch it ad free.
Plus it’s on in the afternoon when I most likely will not be home boo.
Sooo…I was supposed to get my phone line connected in two days. Plugged in my router to get the LAN running and it turns out my Internet is already connected.
@cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking @sernobulus Borderlands is back on the menu!
EDIT: Internode have no idea why or how I have a connection.
Yes! Time for some Pre-sequel multiplayer HYPE!
Woohoo! I see you already have four there, but if anyone else is interested, I’ll have it on thursday.
I haven’t heard many other people mention that they’re getting it on TAY, but I assume there’ll be a few across all platforms.
Multiple platforms? There is only one true platform #pcmasterrace
RE your phone line, it might be a situation where the previous owner’s connection hasn’t been cut off yet and you’re using that one. It’s unlikely but it might be what’s happened.
Or maybe Internode/Telstra/whoever was in charge of connecting you has just done it already and forgot to record that they had.
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions, Parts 1-3 (reposting from last week)
Watching the new season so you don’t have to.
Akatsuki no Yona
Or ‘Yona of the Dawn’, so called because she has red hair I think? Like a sunrise. This was one I actually had my eye on going in, because while it’s a show pitched at girls (very obviously so, the whole central cast aside from her appear to be exquisitely-crafted manflesh) I tend to have a bit of a thing for girl-oriented eastern fantasy stuff. And that’s what this is. Yona is the only daughter of the king of a small province, and she’s basically a spoiled pampered brat. She spends most of the first episode moon-eyed around her cousin and childhood friend Soo-Won, who’s not really interested. So uninterested that her sixteenth birthday present involves him staging a bloody coup, murdering the king. And I presume the show will revolve around her escaping, wandering the country to gather a cadre of loyal and amazingly attractive men who will then assist her in retaking her kingdom. And I’m pretty fine with that. Probably going to be a regular watch and I hope it stays reasonable.Ai Tenchi Muyo
How the mighty have fallen. What went wrong, Tenchi? You used to be one of the big, high-profile dumb harem anime. You used to be cool. You were one of the first shows I ever saw. Now you’re a daily 4-minute episode show. 🙁 Actually despite the fact that 4-min shows are utter shit for doing anything with any substance at all, this wasn’t too bad so far. Bunch of new characters and everyone’s had their art re-done a bit by Suzuhito Yasuda, who is an artist I really like. I just wish it was proper length episodes, I’d watch it without hesitation. Instead I think this will be one to do in bursts.Amagi Brilliant Park
Kyoto Animation always delivers. In this case, they’re delivering an adaption of a light novel series by the creator of Full Metal Panic. The story opens with the main character being invited on a date by the girl who just transferred into the school. At gunpoint. Their date takes place in Amagi Brilliant Park, a sketchy run-down amusement park which it seems the protagonist may have a history with. Stuff happens (including the surprise reintroduction of that bear thing from Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu, which is still one of the funniest anime ever made) and somehow our hero finds himself roped into taking over management of the park, tasked with turning its fortunes around and saving it from having to close down. Also magic may be involved. I really like the look of this. KyoAni doing their usual character design style, high quality animation, great direction and timing and generally entertaining. Definitely on my list.Cross Ange
I don’t know how many people were into trashy fantasy novels in the mid-to-late 90s, but Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman at one point shat out a trilogy called Darksaber. The premise there, as in here, is that in the weirdo fantasy land, everyone can do magic except the people that can’t. ‘Norma’ people ‘reject’ magic and so they are totes scary and horribad and we must be cast out. And because they’re all women (and because it’s anime) they need to be sent off to some prison-like spot where they wear really skimpy clothes and ride mechs and fight dragons or something. The titular (heh) protagonist is a princess who somehow never noticed that she can’t do the magic thing because her parents covered it up. If you looked up ‘inconsistent tone’ in Wikipedia this should be in the ‘see also’ section. The art is generally bright and appealing and half the episode was fairly standard and the whole illogical way they treat the ‘norma’ is almost comically absurd. And then suddenly our heroine is strapped naked to a table and on the receiving end of what looked for all the world like a good hard fisting, leaving me with this weird “what the fuck did I just watch?” feeling. I dunno, maybe the other chick was a really extreme chiropractor and it was just an emergency spinal re-alignment or something. Not sure I’ll watch any further since it was kind of shit (though not shit enough to be an instant drop), but I kind of want to know what the hell was actually going on at the end there so I guess they succeeded with whatever it was they were planning? But I guess we know why Ange is Cross, at least…Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai
I wasn’t expecting much out of this. It’s a visual novel adaption, and not of a hugely good one. However I was still pretty disappointed at how awful the art was. Not just the low budget, it’s the fact that the actual designs are good (the game’s character art is by Bekkankou and I’m somewhat of a fan of his work) but the way they’ve colored things is weird. The palette is all weird and washed-out, eye lines drawn in light brown instead of the usual dark colors and generally the effect is that it feels like something that’s over-exposed or is being viewed through an amber filter. Not a fan of that. Plot-wise it’s odd too. The main character is a bookworm, but he’s also been picked out by a mysterious watcher, the ‘shepherd’ who seems to be observing everything and sending cryptic mails and stuff. The story gets going when he has a sudden premonition that there’s going to be a train accident and he rescues a girl who would have been flattened by it. Some stuff happens and he ends up joining her club, which has the vague charter of ‘making people happy’. It also seems that behind the scenes, the ‘shepherd’ is setting him up as a candidate to be his successor. Don’t really know how this is going to turn out, not sure I’ll stick with it either. It was a bit unremarkable and I think there’s other stuff I’d watch ahead of it.Danna ni Itteiru ga Wakaranai ken
Or “I don’t understand what my husband is saying”. 3-minute episode show about a girl who married a complete nerd and has no idea what the hell he’s talking about most of the time. Wasn’t hugely into it. Way too similar to ‘insufficient direction’ but that was actually based on real interesting people (Manga author Moyoco Anno’s stories about living with her top-shelf grade-A prime-quality Nerd husband, Hideaki Anno, i.e. the guy that directed Evangelion). Plus the 3-minute format shits me, it’s just too short to really be interesting.Denki-gai no Honya-san
I enjoyed this one a fair bit. It’s not great – what it feels like is basically a poor man’s version of comedy anime Working (or Wagnaria in the US for some reason). It’s a gag comedy set around a bunch of misfits and weirdos who work in an Akiba manga store that appears to mainly specialize in pornography. You can already sort of see how most of the gags are going to go based on the characters nicknames, but I think that Sommelier may be the most amusing of them. He never speaks, but just by looking at someone can find them material that exactly matches them. I suspect this will end up being a regular for me for a bit but then fade away as the jokes get stale, but will see.Donten ni Warau
This is pretty much crap. I didn’t last the whole episode so I’m not sure what’s going on. Seems to be set in Meiji Japan and follow some family of idiots with crazy hair who may or may not be magical or something. Some bullshit about them being responsible for ferrying all the evil criminals who wouldn’t give up their swords to a prison on lake Biwa. I think I got about 8 mins in, maybe 9, before giving up on it. Not in my strike zone and not interesting either.Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works
Right off the bat, I want to admit that this was easily my most anticipated new show, as I’m a big fan of type-moon’s works. ufotable are also easily one of the best animation studios in Japan right now (up there with IG, PA Works and Kyoto Animation IMO) and more importantly, when they do type-moon stuff they absolutely nail it. A quick primer: Fate/Stay Night is a really popular visual novel with three major story arcs. Years ago, the first arc was animated into a TV anime, but the studio involved did an extremely poor job capturing the feel of type-moon’s works. Subsequently they did the second plot arc, Unlimited Blade Works, as a film. It was okay but the series has always deserved better. Ufotable got into type-moon stuff when they adapted their earlier Light Novel, Kara no Kyoukai / Garden of Sinners as a 7-part movie series and hit it out of the park, then they adapted the prequel light novels, Fate/Zero, and also did a great job with that. Now they’re re-adapting the game’s Unlimited Blade Works arc again and it looks like they’ve done a great job as expected. The first episode, Episode 00, is actually adapting the prologue of the game which is common to all three story arcs. It follows Rin, a mage and the only surviving heir of a prestigious family of mages, as she prepares for the upcoming Grail War. This war happens periodically, where seven mages will fight each other in order to obtain the Grail and have their wish granted. The mages fight each other with a summoned servant, each a great hero from one of seven classes: Saber, Rider, Lancer, Assassin, Caster, Berserker and Archer. All of the servants but Saber and Archer had been summoned, and Rin was intent on obtaining Saber, considered the strongest of the seven. However she makes a mistake and instead summons Archer. Subsequently Rin and Archer get into a fight with Lancer while investigating dangerous magical seals that have been established around her school, but their fight is witnessed by another student, who Lancer mortally wounds and leaves to die. Rin uses up one of her strongest magical talismans to save him, because he’s someone she knows and likes – Shiro, who is actually the protagonist for the games. This is absolutely a must-watch IMO, and my biggest worry, that the material wouldn’t gel as well with Fate/Zero (IMO the third route of the game, Heaven’s Feel, is more consistent with Fate/Zero’s dark tone) seems not to be much of a problem.Garo: Honoo no Kokuin
Garo was a live-action Tokusatsu show a while back. Think Kamen Rider or Power Rangers, except it was a lot darker in style. The setup is that there are Horrors in the world who kill humans and then take their forms, and only a select group of people are able to seal them. This takes things back to a medieval setting, where the king of a small country is conducting an inquisition, unknowingly hunting down and killing ‘witches’ that are actually those with the power to seal away the Horrors. The series opens as a convicted ‘witch’ is burned at the stake. As she’s set on fire, she gives birth to a son, and that son is rescued from the flames by a knight in CG armor. That knight escapes on a horse straight out of a Final Fantasy game, and many years pass. The knight has raised the child himself, grooming him to become Garo, the Golden Knight. Not sure where the plot will go but it seems like the King’s vizier is actually a demon or something and is pulling the strings so I’m assuming he’ll be the end boss. It’s a fairly standard mid-range action anime and it’s not terrible. In a different season I might follow it, but there’s enough this season to watch without it. Additionally the action sequences are all CG and during those bits everything is all shiny and rendered and it looks quite jarring. I guess that jarring jumps between normal and fights is a tokusatsu thing. Also it has the requisite JAM Project opening, but it’s nowhere near as good as their amazing opening from the original GaroGrisaia no Kajitsu
Adapted from a Visual Novel and it shows. Apparently the stuff it’s based off is extremely good and is popular enough to have spawned another three games in the series. Also apparently the ‘all-ages’ (i.e. porn removed) console version is coming to PC in English on Stream at some point. So I’m kind of on the fence about even watching this since the game will be better. So far it seemed like a fairly standard VN. Dude that seems like the very definition of a Gary Stu (he’s a fast-talking good-looking badass guy who is some kind of secret agent or something despite being a high schooler?) somehow finds himself the only guy in a special school where the rest of the students are girls. And they’re all apparently special. Hasn’t really had a chance to show if it’s got much of a hook yet. It’s nice to hear Ai Shimizu again, she hardly does any anime now. I’ve also heard that they may just be recycling the VN’s recorded dialogue, but I’m not sure if that’s the case or not. Anyway, I’ll probably give it an episode or two to see if it gets a hook in or anything, but otherwise might just wait and play the game’s localization.Gugure! Kokkuri-san
I actually got halfway into this and then stopped a few days ago. Finished off the episode. It got better as it progressed, actually. Kohina is a lonely girl who refers to herself as being a ‘doll’ that doesn’t have any emotions. While playing the traditional ‘game’ Kokkuri (which is basically an invocation or seance ritual where you summon Kokkuri, a kitsune / fox demon, to answer questions for you) she actually manages to summon an actual kitsune, who proceeds to ‘haunt’ her in the most inept way possible. Turns out no one asks Kokkuri questions any more because it’s faster to google it (‘gugure’). This is basically a kind of black comedy and at first it wasn’t really working for me, but I suspect that with some time it’ll improve especially as they add a few more characters to the mix. And honestly I was thinking of following it just because Ryou Hirohashi’s voice is so nice to listen to. But we’ll see. I can also see myself watching for a bit and dropping.Gundam Build Fighters Try
Gundam Build Fighters had absolutely no right to be as excellent as it was. With this franchise, Sunrise basically gave up pretending that Gundam is anything but a lengthy commercial for their plastic model kits. Build Fighters is basically a battle anime aimed at 10-year-olds. Borrowing basically the entire plot of the late 90s’ Angelic Layer, kids build gundam models, then put them into a magical energy field thing that animates them so they can battle against each other. The show’s hook is compelling, it’s chock full of interesting Gundam design variations (with 35 years of shows to pull from, and a huge bunch of custom designs by people who have thrown multiple kits together) and a huge amount of references for older fans, down to the fact that there’s a random old guy that’s basically Ramba Ral wandering around. So far, Try looks like it will continue the same basic idea. It’s seven years after the first series, and the former protagonist Sei’s school’s Gunpla Battle club is about to be closed down because it only has one member – the Gunpla Builders club who don’t battle at all have poached all their members. And in a massive break from tradition, that one remaining member is a girl. I’m almost positive that this is the first time ever that a Gundam show has had a female lead. A random dude who looks a lot like the first season’s Reiji transfers into the school, and when he expresses disappointment that there’s no martial arts clubs, she introduces him to the wonder and mystery of Gunpla Battle. They’re going to go to the tournament – which apparently is now a team battle instead of individuals! – and win it and keep the Gunpla Battle club around and stuff. I’m sold. I was already sold, because I like Gundam and Build Fighters was so much fun to watch. More of the same is fine by me.Gundam Reconguista in G
Talk about extremes. This is the first proper Gundam TV series in a while. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Gundam, Sunrise have exhumed Tomino from whatever crypt he’s normally in and forced him to make a new show set in the Universal Century timeline of the original mainline gundam stuff. First time they’ve done this since the early 90s with Victory Gundam. So, the guy who directed Gundam back in 1979 is back in the saddle, directing a brand new one. Should be rad, right? Well… not exactly. Fuck me, this show feels archaic. It’s like something that was actually made in the 70s and just thawed out now. The direction is slipshod and inconsistent. Characters are given no characterization, I don’t even remember the names of anyone. There’s some dopey Lalah Sune ripoff who spends all the time yelling about G like she’s mentally retarded, the protagonist is an unrealistically talented shit who also appears to have zero empathy and it’s already trying some heavy handed TRAGEDY OF WAR bullshit (which the series is known for). The animation is clunky and looks roughly on par with Zeta Gundam from the 80s. The shots are all disconnected and rough. The casual misogynism (Almost all the girls are Cheerleaders. Their introduction is when they crash a training session to cheer on the boys in the hope that they can pick up a boyfriend or something. Yes, really) is utterly tone-deaf. Truth bombs: Tomino was never a good director. He used to have okay ideas, but he’s basically George Lucas. Thing is, being a mediocre director with revolutionary concepts in the 70s and 80s was absolutely fine. The medium has evolved so far from then, and it’s clear that he hasn’t at all because this show is basically looking like complete shit so far. Which is disappointing because I kind of had some hope for it. But outside of the 08th MS Team (which is fucking incredible because it’s basically to Gundam what the X-Wing novels were to Star Wars) I’ve never been into the UC timeline anyway.Hi-Scoool! SeHa Girl
So this is… uh. Okay, so it’s a ten minute episode 3D-animated series where the characters are all personifications of Sega hardware. I don’t know if the cast will expand, but right now it’s Mega Drive, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast. They’ve all just transferred into a new school where the curriculum appears to involve reminiscing about the past back when Sega were actually a thing. Mega Drive is a blonde with glasses, the serious one. Dreamcast is a pink-haired ditz. Saturn has twintails and heterochromia and is basically the straight man for their gags. They spend most of the time animated in a form that is basically Nendoroid – Saturn even looks like a Miku Hatsune repaint. Which might be deliberate, wouldn’t be surprised if they’re using the models from Sega’s Project Mirai games which are similarly cute. Anyway the episode ended with them all being sucked into Virtua Fighter and I’m not making any of this up, it’s a real show that actually exists. Watching the shit out of it, it’s like a train wreck in slow motion.Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka De
Aka ‘When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace’. This is Studio Trigger’s third production after Little Witch Academia and Kill la Kill and I have to say I’m not much of a fan at all so far. Part of it is likely that unlike LWA and KLK this is an adaption of a manga / light novel series, so not something they have full creative control over. The setup is basically that the literature club suddenly inherit superpowers and then are engaged in fights with said superpowers. So what it says on the label. I’m not really into any of the characters and the animation wasn’t anything that exciting so far either (most of the real animation rockstars at Trigger aren’t involved). Comedy felt flat and predictable too. But it appears to be at least fairly well made and maybe it’ll grow on me. Going to give it a couple more episodes to prove itself, but otherwise I can’t see myself watching it long-term unless it grows a decent plot hook.Madan no Ou to Vanadis
Another trashy-seeming fantasy show. The protagonist is a duke or something, and also an amazing archer. He finds himself in battle on the losing side, with his companion forces routed due to the opposing forces being lead by a ‘War Princess’ who appears to run that country or something and is some kind of super-powered valkyrie type and she captures him because he’s pretty good and it turns out she’s totes nice and stuff. I have absolutely no idea where this will go and I’m pretty sure that it won’t be anywhere worthwhile. But I might watch a bit more and see how it goes, timing dependent.Magic Kaito 1412
This is a spinoff from Detective Conan / Cased Closed, which I’m not a fan of at all. Never watched or read any of it. As such, I have no idea what the characters or conventions of the show are like, and I suspect that will make a huge difference to how this is received. I didn’t even finish the first episode. The main character is a complete douche, the animation’s low-budget kids stuff and the character art is ugly. Nothing at all here grabbed me. It’s probably actually not that bad if you’re into the franchise, and it’s an enormous one so it’s fair to say I’ve pissed off a lot of people by not liking it. But this one’s definitely dropped for me.Nanatsu no Taizai
Aka “Seven Deadly Sins”. Fairly generic (so far) shounen action anime that looks fairly enjoyable so far, though nothing that amazing. Years before, seven knights slaughtered hundreds of Holy Knights, becoming wanted throughout the land. They all disappeared and haven’t been seen since. The Holy Knights are basically super-powered one-man armies so these Seven Deadly Sins are even more powerful. Now the knights have basically staged a coup, and the princess of the royal family is attempting to track them all down and enlist their help against the knights. I’m not really sure about the art style, but the rest of it seems like it’ll be a fun watch. Protagonist might be a bit OP but that can be okay if done right. Also with Hunter X Hunter having finished, the only show like this I’m watching on the regular is Fairy Tail and I like having two, they’re great for just switching off and enjoying. So this is most likely a regular for me unless it develops badly.Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji
I was already kind of prepared by reading some other impressions, but holy shit. Everything that’s wrong with shoujo manga in one show. The main character is a weak-willed idiot. She’s just started high school and finds that almost everyone in her class has already grouped up, so in order to fit in she starts a complete web of lies, pretending to have an amazing boyfriend and so on so that she can fit in with a pair of complete skanks. Because yeah, they seem like great people to hang out with. They start to get suspicious when she’s constantly cagey about showing them a photo of the guy, so she just takes a photo of a random hot guy she sees and tells them he’s her boyfriend. Trouble is, he actually goes to her school. And when she explains the situation, he agrees to pretend to be her boyfriend, but it turns out he’s a massive asshole and is going to treat her like a pet. But that’s okay because he’s totally hot and he must have a deep and compassionate side to him if she looks hard enough. :\ Dropping.Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu
This has to be one of the most daft and only-in-anime things I’ve seen in a while. The main character is a guy that is obsessed with twintails. Doesn’t matter what type, as long as a girl’s tied her hair up in two places, he’s obsessed with it. While he and his childhood friend (who has twintails…) are hanging out, they’re approached by a slightly shady girl, who informs him that the world’s twintails are in danger. An evil alien race of lizard people or something are invading, and they’re draining energy from humans. Think something along the lines of the classic magical girl anime plot, like Sailor Moon. Except they’re draining the energy of girls twintails, turning them into girls who wear their hair loose! THE HORROR. Luckily our hero is around to save the day. Using a magical bracelet he undergoes a magical girl transformation, becoming a walking stereotype: a short girl with long red twintails, Tail Red. Yes, this show is utterly stupid. It has surprisingly high production values and actually fairly nice art as well. From the opening and ending it would seem that there will eventually be three twintailed magical warriors, but I won’t be sticking around to see it because this thing’s… how was this even greenlit?Orenchi no Furo Jijou
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t like 4 minute shows. This is one. In a nutshell, it’s a gag show about a dude with an effeminate merman living in his bathtub. It’s also not very funny or enjoyable and there’s so little here I can’t really say anything beyond the one-line summary. Not my thing for sure, won’t be watching any more.Parasyte
This show is weird and gross. Ages ago I remember seeing some manga posted somewhere which I assume was from this, involving a dude’s face splitting open into like a 10-jawed mouth and biting someone’s head off. Basically the idea is that some kind of highly intelligent life form (alien?) has entered the population, consuming body parts and then posing as those parts and integrating themselves into the subject’s body. Ideally they get into the brain stem then replace a person’s entire head, working their body like a meat puppet. Grade-A horror stuff. In the protagonist’s case, he’s attacked by one of these parasites but it burrows into his hand after failing to get into his head, and instead replaces that. Because he’s retained his own brain, the protagonist and the thing in his hand are now symbiotes and have to figure things out. And his hand can change form and is super strong and stuff. So I assume he’s going to become some kind of crime-fighting superhero that goes around destroying the other parasite-infected humans or something. I dunno though. High production values but the content makes me feel a bit squicky. Might not watch more.Rage of Bahamut
Went in with very low expectations. Anime tie-in for a shitty free to play card battle game for mobile phones. The one thing that Bahamut the game has going for it is that it has a lot of extremely pretty art. Not seeing that here. The protagonist is… well, weird. He’s got a red afro and scars and stuff. And he’s got some rivalry going with another guy with equally odd hair. And there’s an attractive devil girl. And they’re going to Helheim. I dunno. This actually reminded me strongly of Blade and Soul, the similarly unnecessary adaption of a free to play Korean MMO. That actually turned out fairly okay. I think this one won’t though. Main character is ugly and gives me the irrits. Probably dropping.Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
I went into this expecting a crap shoujo, but I got way, way more than I expected. The protagonist, Kousei, was a childhood prodigy. Trained extremely strictly by his mother, he was an amazing pianist. When his mother died when he was 11, he found himself unable to play and quit. To him, the world is colorless, monochrome like the keys on a piano. His childhood friend Tsubaki invites him out one day to meet up with a classmate of hers, Kaori, who has a crush on his other friend, Watari, who is the captain of the soccer team. Kaori wants to be introduced to Watari, and Kousei was invited simply so that Tsubaki wouldn’t be the awkward third wheel. However when Kousei arrives to their meeting place in the park early, he has a fateful encounter: a girl is standing on the top of the kids playground playing on melodica for a group of kids that are gathered there. It turns out that this is Kaori, and she’s an also a musical prodigy, an extremely talented violinist. He basically falls for her on the spot. This show has excellent art and despite what is a pretty simple and obvious concept (spoiler: she’s going to teach him how to feel again) I think this is really going to develop nicely. The clincher for me was that the whole introductory scene for her was a Laputa reference. She plays Pazu’s Fanfare, and one of the kids watching complains that the pigeons didn’t start flocking, while another suggests you need a trumpet instead to make that work. 😛 Definitely a regular for me.Shirobako
Another one that I went in completely blind on. All I know is that it’s PA Works and I generally really like their productions. They have a realism and grounding to them and feel more like an animated form of a live-action drama than anime. This one is doubly interesting, because it’s a behind-the-scenes look at anime production. The five girls comprising the school’s animation club, having produced an animated short for their school cultural festival, swear that together they will form an animation company. Two years later, the protagonist, Aoi, is production assistant for a small animation company, and the episode opens as their studio’s first TV work in seven years airs its debut episode. However there’s no time to rest – one of the other assistants has screwed up, and the key animation for a major scene in the third episode, which is due to be dubbed the following day, hasn’t been completed. They have to rush around and find a key animator at short notice, and end up asking the animator who was supposed to be animation director for episode four. It’s very much an inside baseball style look at what’s really going on inside an animation studio, the first time something like this has been done since Animation Runner Kuromi back in the 90s, and it looks to be done much more accurately and at a much larger scale. PA Works are themselves a small studio and it’s an original production rather than an adaption, so I think a lot of this will be anecdotes that actually happened during production on their work. Really, really liked this. Another regular watch for me.Sora no Method
Aka Celestial Method (which sounds like some kind of yoga style or something). This is another one where I’m not sure what the heck is going on. Girl moves back to a town she lived in as a child, meets a weird clumsy girl who is all OMG YOU’RE BACK but main girl doesn’t remember her and then some stuff happens and main girl is like OMG ALL MY HATE but she realizes she’s just being a bitch and they make up and then the wierd ufo disc thing in the sky starts glowing and CUT TO CREDITS WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. Combined with the fact that all the main girl’s former friends are around and they’ve all grown up and grown apart and stuff I can’t help make the inevitable comparison to Anohana, and this comes off looking pretty terrible in comparison to that. However on the other hand, Anohana had way too many feels for me and I dropped it, where this feels maybe like it’ll be a bit lighter in tone. But it’s also a bit hammy in terms of predictable plot and stuff. So who knows. Giving it an episode or two to establish a plot but it hasn’t hooked me at all.Terraformars
Humans started to terraform mars by seeding the planet with blue-green algae and cockroaches. Subsequently, a strange virus has begun affecting the population on earth, and the origin of the virus has been traced to Mars. The protagonist, meanwhile, is a karate champion who finds himself fighting in a cage match for prize money to pay for an organ transplant for his childhood friend, who is terminally ill with that same virus. However the whole thing is a scam, and his final bout is against a massive bear. On the verge of death, he enrages – it turns out that he’s a mutant and can summon forth superhuman strength, which he uses to kill the bear with his bare hands. The virus I mentioned can’t be cultivated on Earth to experiment and find a cure for it, it will only reproduce on Mars, so the protagonist along with several others undergoes surgery to allow him to survive in that hostile environment, and a group of a hundred men and women is sent to the planet to perform the research. However there’s another problem: the cockroaches Earth sent there have mutated into enormous, man-like monsters which have killed every team sent to the planet previously. It looks like a fairly reasonable action SF show but also fairly gory, and the big issue is that the broadcasts so far appear to have had said gore pretty heavily censored. Big areas of black fog and stuff. So while this might be a reasonable watch, I think it’d be a better idea to hold off and wait for BD releases or an uncensored release.Trinity Seven
Crap. Chuunibyou as fuck, by which I mean it looks exactly like something that a 12 year old would come up with as being the most awesomest show ever. Some kind of magical dimensional rift shows up and starts sucking people up and so our hero’s childhood friend who turns out to be a mage saves him by giving him a magical grimoire which he can apparently use because he’s got the ultimate power of plot armor. And then some stuff happens and he ends up in a magic academy where all the other students are girls because apparently girls are better at magic because they’re weird. And now to rescue his childhood friend he has to get good enough at magic to collect the ‘trinity seven’ – the seven top students in the school – and add them to his harem or something. I’m hazy on the details here. Show is shit. I’ll probably watch it. 🙁 I don’t know why I do this to myself. I watched all of Blade Dance last season as well, and that was awful too. What is wrong with me.Ushinawareta mirai o motomete
Another visual novel adaption. Was also disappointed with the art here. I wasn’t expecting them to do anything remotely approaching the quality of the game’s art (which is absolutely stunning, some of the best VN art I’ve ever seen) but I couldn’t put my finger on exactly what was annoying me but throughout the entire show, something felt ‘off’. I might have to re-watch but I suspect what was going on was that about 30-40% of the character shots were 3D models instead of hand-drawn. It could also have been that the backgrounds were CG? I’m not even sure about this, maybe the animation was just crap. It’s just that there were some movements and shots which had that distinctly stiff, uncanny valley look of keyframed 3DCG. Plot-wise this seemed super generic at first. Bunch of friends, obvious love triangle. Girl finally confesses, dude is non-committal because of course he is. Girl had previously sprained an ankle and is walking home and I go “He didn’t respond so I bet she’ll be hit by a bus or something” and fucking called it. And then all of a sudden the whole thing resets back to about 1/3 the way through the episode and the timeline seems to have been altered and suddenly there’s a naked chick passed out nearby and there was a glowing cube thing and I don’t know what’s going on. I might watch some more of this but not holding out a lot of hope for it. If I had to pick one of the VN adaptions this season to watch I’d pick this over Daitoshokan, but pick Grisaia over this, simply because it has the best quality reputation and appeared to have decent animation with a reasonable budget.World Trigger
I lasted 9 minutes. Awful show. Monsters from another dimension are attacking the town but random dudes with powers can beat them. And life continues as usual even though everyone could get eaten by a giant alien slug-thing at any moment. I don’t think this had any redeeming features at all. Bad art, bad plot, bad animation, bad designs, bad everything.Still to air / have a chance to watch:
– Ronia the Robber’s Daughter (aired on the weekend, no subs / simulcasts yet)
– Girl Friend Beta (CR simulcasted ep 1 overnight)
– Yuki Yuna wa Yusha de Aru (apparently aired on Saturday but CR’s ‘simulcasts’ haven’t started)
– Hitsugi no Chaika: Avenging Battle (Direct continuation of season 1)
– Log Horizon 2 (Direct continuation of season 1)
– Mushishi Zoku Shou Part 2 (Direct continuation of the previous half of season 2 which you should already have watched because Mushishi is awesome)
– Psycho-pass Season 2 (Direct continuation, also I never got into the first one so won’t be giving impressions)
– Selector Spread WIXOSS (Direct continuation, didn’t watch season 1)
There’s also some short-format shows and kids shows which I won’t bother with.
I’m watching Amagi Brilliant Park, Fate/Stay Night UBW, Psycho Pass and Trigger’s new anime this season.
Really enjoying whats out so far. Still not sure about Trigger’s anime (what is the short name to call it?) might have to wait for a few more episodes before I can say I like it or not.
Yeah, jury’s still out on Inou-Battle (I think that’s the ‘official’ short form of the title?) for me as well. Trigger’s a great studio but it doesn’t look like a great show.
My watch list right now looks like:
– Akatsuki no Yona (probable)
– Amagi Brilliant Park (definite)
– Denki-gai no Honya-san (definite)
– Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (definite)
– Grisaia no Kajitsu (tentative, may drop because Sekai Project are doing a Kickstarter soon for localizing all three games)
– Gundam Build Fighters Try (definite)
– Madan no Ou to Vanadis (probable, and yes it’s crappy)
– Inou Battle (tentative)
– Nanatsu no Taizai (tentative)
– Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (probable)
– Shirobako (definite)
– Ushinawareta mirai o motomete (probable)
– Mushishi (definite)
– Chaika (definite)
– Log Horizon (definite)
Also have Argevollen, Fairy Tail and Akame ga Kill as ongoing stuff. May end up following one or two more as well, esp. if Ronia is good (I’m assuming it won’t be)
Where do you get your animes from?
I’ve mostly been sailing the high seas for fansubs so far. I’d prefer something more reliable and such if it exists. Tried Crunchyroll but not a fan.
yo ho, It’s best to go straight to translation sites; I use horriblesubs myself, they’re always punctual with releases and have a pretty decent backlog of popular anime to torrent.
Horriblesubs aren’t a translator, they just rip crunchyroll’s releases.
Really? that’s horrible on a moral level.
and still convenient.
EDIT: Huh, they were pretty vocal about ripping off CR/Funimation but nowadays they’re adamant in saying that they do their own translator work. Interesting.
Sailing the seven seas is your only option if CR doesn’t work for you.
HorribleSubs rip all of CR’s releases and also most of Funimation’s streams. A few fansub groups are still around that do some stuff properly but they’re a lot thinner than they used to be. Many groups out there also take the CR scripts and re-edit them to be more accurate since CR’s subs are sometimes not great.
There’s a group, Deadfish, who do 8-bit hardsub MP4 encodes of the ‘best’ releases from other groups. I believe most of their releases are playable on PC. I’ve used them before because my laptop has something wrong with it and the 10-bit encodes that anime groups all have a hard-on for make my laptop’s CPU choke. 🙁
Seeing it altogether that there is a mighty fine impressions list, Neg. Kudos.
If it were up to me, I’d just say “NO JOJO THIS SEASON 0/10”
Motherfucking show ended on a cliffhanger too. They’d better do the rest.
Sora no Method seemed pretty clear cut to me from the first ep so far.
Hints and allusions at magical disc which turned up in the sky, which is probably linked to Noel. A group of grade-schooler friends practice a rumoured ritual to summon a being related to the disc (Noel), but fail repeatedly until one day protagonist girl succeeds alone, in secret, made desperate by the (unshared) knowledge that she will be moving to Tokyo soon for her mother’s medical attention. She and Noel make a connection, enjoying a song. Girly promises Noel that she will bring her mother back to sing it even better, but gets dragged off by a worried father before she can make good on the deal. She doesn’t return until after Mum has died, what seems like five or six years later. Tragically, it seems Noel took the promise and urgings to wait literally, meaning six years in an abandoned observatory. Fortunately she’s an alien, and such things are trivial, and she’s still keen to see protagonist girl, who doesn’t yet remember her. Protagonist girl is puzzled by the familiarity of a stranger who fucks up the photographic memento of her mother, so she shoos her off, but when Dad reveals he fucked up the picture himself, guilt causes the memories to come back, and protagonist girl runs off to apologize to the alien for assuming she’d fucked up the precious picture. In the process of finding her, the back-story is revealed, and it turns out the alien is quite forgiving and is actually here to grant wishes. Preview! Friends have mixed feelings that she’s back. Friends will react in different ways, but largely annoyed or upset then dismissive of the friend who couldn’t even make the time to say goodbye to them. Protagonist girly will likely use alien girl as leverage for their curiosity and nostalgia, and a heft dose of dead-mum-guilt to win them back.Yeah, pretty sure that’s exactly how it will develop.
What song is in your head right now? I have “Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl” from the first new episode of Bob’s Burgers – Carly Simon sang it at the end, and it’s so good. I’m practically shouting it in my head and it’s all I can do not to get up and yell-sing it across the office.
Someone mentioned this on Twitter. I had to see it!
Not quite a song, but stuck in my head:
Hunger games, ya ya ya
That episode was amazing.
Hallooween episode should be out today! 😀
Not sure they can top an underground guerilla protest performance of a one man Die Hard musical.
I’ve fallen behind on Bob’s Burgers. Mostly because Netflix is really slack and won’t get new seasons.
It’s probably my only negative comment about Netflix, that being that they only upload new content whole seasons at a time once they’ve finished airing on US TV, and sometimes (in the case of Arrow) when the next season is beginning to air on TV.
Listening to the Goons this morning got this stuck in my head. Written by Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error.
Shake it Off – Taylor Swift
http://instagram.com/p/uCaHVmrtWx/
I love it, so many people doing clips to Taylor Swift at the moment 😛 It’s quite an addictive song lol
That was the first song that came on when I put it on, as I was beginning to fill the bottle. Good timing. 😛
Currently East Jesus Nowhere by Green Day, that the opening chord progression is catchy. Kinda got hooked on the song after I saw them perform it live earlier this year, never overly like their 21st Century Breakdown album.
The Spanish Bar song from Beyond Good And Evil.
Don’t even know where that came from.
Mastodon “Once More Round The Sun”
I’ve been listening to the album pretty much non-stop for the last 2-3 weeks and the moment I switched it off and turned on Triple J, they played it too…
Whalers on the moon – Futurama S1 EP2
My boyfriend has had that in his head for like, a month!
Now I have the Legend of JonTron stuck in my head.
Hey, TAY.
Hey crazyguy!
How’s things?
How’s the Magpie going?
Dude is getting better.
\o/
Yes, his name is Dude, as in The Big Lebowski.
I bet he doesn’t care much for eagles.
He’s more of a Dire Straits bird.
HA!
Halloo!
Damn you @rocketman
Since showing me that online Pokémon battles aren’t as horrifyingly scary as I thought they’d be, I willingly opened the battle interface last night against some randoms.
And I beat some of them…
How long until you got to the 6 Mega Garchomp team?
Someone actually threw a legendaries + mega garchomp team at me, I thought “here we go, this will be silly to try to beat”, and then I won.
You’ll find that most people who use legendaries in regular battles are scrubs 😛
They’re probably all swearing and calling me a hacker with my all shiny team.
This is something I do need to be careful about when it comes it PAX.
Heh, yeah, I can imagine some people will definitely think your team was hacked in. Good thing you can show them that they were hatched/caught in X/Y. You can’t hack that!
I’m very carefully complying with just about every common ruleset around – not just the PPL ones.
Well, except my final decision for #6 is one that isn’t in the Kalos dex. Oh well.
But yeah, all Kalos bred by me, so I am the Original Trainer, nothing considered OP and banned from some play (sorry aegislash, my favourite gen 6), no duplicate items, no stall play, and up until now, all Kalos dex (#6 is still a safari mon at least).
Plus when I battled @rocketman, it showed my stats of hundreds of hours played and thousands of eggs hatched, so the groundwork is quite evident.
Nobody would be rude enough to confront you about it anyway (I would hope) but it’d be pretty easy to throw it in their face if they did kick up a stink. Just please tell me if this is happening because I would love to see their reaction haha
Also “no stall play” is great to hear. Nobody likes that!
yeah i played a guy with a shiny lugia and i was like. Sure bud, im sure you didnt hack that.
@powalen It does state that gym leaders are well within their rights to refuse to battle if they think someone is using hacks. Hopefully my ‘look how much pointless effort I can put into this for the occasion’ approach doesn’t backfire on me.
So I got a little excited with the prep. I’m a shiny hunter damnit.
I don’t think you’ll have any trouble. All the leaders seem like decent enough people. They’ll probably be impressed if you tell them beforehand you made a shiny team specifically for PAX. The hacks rule is more for impossible abilities, moves, etc I would think.
(I might mention it when we all first meet up to give them a warning too :P)
Moving into my new unit on the 24th. Looks like I’ll be able to get cable internet \o/. Also managed to arrange to buy the previous tennant’s fridge so I don’t have to go buy a new one and worry about timing the delivery such that I can live in the place. \o/
Still have to hit up a whitegoods place for washing machine & dryer (and also a Microwave, thinking about it), but that’s not an urgent day-1 issue as I can always do my washing at my mum’s place for a week or two.
I thought washer and dryer were a standard inclusion in rental contracts or is that just Qld?
Must be a QLD thing. I haven’t rented a lot of places but never been to one that had washer & dryer included. I did look at one apartment that had them, but that’s because they were integrated into the laundry area and would have probably required dismantling it to replace.
When I was renting, I always had to provide my own. I’m pretty sure that’s what’s standard.
It’s a mixed bag. Some places have them, some have just a dryer but most don’t. At least in my experience.
Not a standard inclusion, but in areas where you generally need a dryer they’re frequently included.
Every place I’ve rented hasn’t included one. I think generally they only include one if it’s too built-in or difficult to swap out easily.
I imagine that what’s included with the lease generally depends on the owner, like with electricity or hot water being included as part of the rent. Some places do and some places don’t.
My apartment came with a dryer, but supply own washing machine.
Which suited me perfectly, tbh.
Not standard in QLD either? Brisbane maybe…?
Fucking lol, should have checked the replies before posting.
Never had or heard of washer/dryer provided in SA.
I have one I bought off of one of dad’s colleagues for $100 that’s still running strong.
I think in NSW the landlord only has to provide a dryer if there is no washing line available. In most nsw tenancy agreements you can also get into trouble if you hang your washing out on a balcony (we always did though)
Can highly recommend appliancesonline.com.au
Used them for washing machine, fridge and about to grab a dishwasher through them.
Hands down best online-to-in-person shopping experience I’ve ever had. Prices are spot on, delievery time frames are somewhat flexible, they arrive when they say they will, install new machine (washer/dishwasher etc) and they take away all the packaging and old machine if you need to for no extra.
Almost bought one from there, until I talked radio rentals down on the same model. Heard very good things.
Just a tip on buying a washing machine/dryer. Buy the biggest capacity and best efficiency model you can afford. A smaller model might cost less upfront, but it will cost you more in the long run because you will have to do more loads.
Also, get a washing machine that spins 1000rpm or more. Your clothes will come out much less soggy and are faster to dry (again, this will save you money if you have to use the dryer).
Just picked up a used copy of Crackdown 2 for $6.
If it’s got half the jumpy shooty orb-collecting of the original, it’ll be money pretty well spent.
$6 is an okay price for it. It’s nowhere near as good as the original, sadly.
Ah well, if it doesn’t gel, I’ll just give it away on TAY. $6 is not a loss I’ll tear my hair out over.
DID SOMEONE SAY ORBS?
ORBS.
OOOOOOOOOOOOORBS!
I didn’t know they would, but they ended up using the theme from Voyager to open the funeral.. I was done for as soon as I heard the first few notes. :'(
Hope you’re doing okay, brother. Sending good thoughts your way.
Yeah I’m as ok as could be expected I guess. *hugs for everyone*
Oh man.. too early for page 6, but fuck it. I couldn’t help but laugh.
What’s black and screams?
Stevie Wonder answering the ironApparently he got a silver coated nutmeg grater as a gift.When they asked how he liked it, he said it was the most violent story he’d ever read.
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader tomorrow night at 7:30 pm AEST and 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @gingerchris86
The Dark Eldar have arrived and they look like they’re going to be very Dark Eldar-y.
If by Dark Eldary you mean with a face full of rockets then yes.
I can neither confirm nor deny such a possibility.
@sernobulus runs into combat.
A slight breeze brings him down to 1hp
@sernobulus runs away.
Fate Point! 😛
I never understood what AEST and the various timezone acronyms meant, which one’s Sydney dammit?! =P
Edit: It’s 8.30 isn’t it… dammit stupid effing daylight savings.
AEST- Australian Eastern Standard Time. When DST (Daylight Savings Time) comes into effect all of the eastern seaboard Aussie cities get the same time. I forget some states are half an hour in front or behind, I forget who :p
Queensland is the exception because of curtains and cows. Also to me personally DST seems pretty silly when the sun rises at 6 and sets at 7 in Brisbane but I can see it being more necessary in the south.
…..and Nope!
I am going home.
Take me with you good sir! TAKE ME WITH YOU!
I feel so heavy today. Not as in fat, just… high gravity. Leaden feet. Actually my feet and legs in general are pretty sore. Too much time spent standing up over the weekend, constantly leaning over the table measuring and drawing and lining up and everything. Probably should have been wearing something that would give me some kind of arch support or something.
Maybe you’re just being exceptionally dense today.
It’s the aircon vent blowing air on you which is pushing you down.
Interesting. Area and State manager suddenly popped in. Apparently someone is looking to franchise every shop in South East Queensland. If he decides he wants to bring in his own staff we’re all out of a job.
Wait that’s not interesting. That’s awful.
Time to grab your bug out bag and … bug out?
Replacing everyone seems like an unlikely course to take.
Why replace already trained staff, after all.
Still, might be a good time / sign to look for other jobs (since you’re unhappy with your job anyway).
Bring on staff at lower wages or the more likely option use said trained employees to train new employees and once they are trained retrench the old employees
It’s my final day. I’m shortly to go and have my farewell thing, organised by my boss who doesn’t even know who I worked with. She’s invited all these high up people – when I worked with the plebs. None of the people I actually worked with are going.
Oh man this is going to be so goddamn awkward and I’m going to hate it.
On the plus side, free cake?
Crash it with all the plebs! \o/
Saw a kid while on my lunch break today that looked extremely familiar for some reason. After several minutes of intent, stalker-like staring I realised he is one of the kids featured on the homepage of one of the school websites I maintain.
I was really tempted to go and tell him that I’ve been looking at a photo of him every day for months.
Noted. Pow spends all his free time intently looking at kids and all his work time at photos of kids.
*picks up phone*
SATAY Meat!
@ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @trjn @freya @wilbur
As stated last week, SATAY meat at mine on Wed arvo/evening, to board game and eat pizza. General format: lob any time after 3, bring anything you want to drink (I’ll have some softies) and maybe some snack stuff, and we’ll chip in for pizza. Lob whenever- if you’re one of those employed people after work is fine 🙂
Hit me up on the twittarz or red_artifice at the neither cold nor lukewarm mails for address details
Also, unfortunately @tech_knight @blaghman @popdart5 @novacascade this means I will have to skip this Numenera session, we’ll readjourn in a fortnight (just before PAX)
BOARD GAMES!
BOARD GAMES
I got roped into Munchkin yesterday, I need to wash the bad taste out of my mouth.
Blergh, Munchkin.
One of my friends plays it regularly and therefore has all of his own edge cases.
I figure if I wanted him to rules lawyer at me for two hours I’d rather just play D&D
I hate just about everything about Munchkin personally.
If the other four people hadn’t been keen, I’d never have played it.
Avoid it and FLuxx wherever I can
You’re not going to serve satay chicken at the SATAY Meat?
I have a jar of peanut butter and there’s a KFC nearby.
BOARD GAMES and physical people do take precedence, I guess. 😛
I’m sorry I have been unwell and couldn’t attend. I hope everyone had fun 🙂
So I had a weird weekend. On Saturday my parents sold the long time family home at an auction for lotsa dollars, to a builder’s family. So in 6 weeks my Mum is leaving Sydney and not long after that the house will almost definitely be demolished. Talk about the end of an era.
But then I did my tax yesterday, got $1100 back and found that my trip to PAX is most definitely a legitimate tax deduction, because it’s an industry conference. So I guess that makes up for Saturday… right?
Are you attending PAX as an exhibitor or something? Working in the Wargaming booth?
Booth Babe?
Oh, if only. PAX banned them. 🙁
There were booth babes?!
I’m pretty sure PAX banned Booth Babes outright well before PAX Australia was a thing.
I’ve never been, but I was wondering whether they were like the ladies that work at auto shows posing alongside cars lol.
Pretty much. It became an industry standard thing to have women in bikinis or vaguely cosplaying something from the game enticing people to their booths. PAX decided this just wasn’t appropriate especially since they wanted PAX to be an all-ages event and inclusive as possible, so the barred booth babes. Some devs/studios tried to get around this by hiring attractive women to work as presenters and giving them an education around the product which I think mostly got through but it becomes a discussion point every year.
IIRC Jessica Nigri drew some flak because she was the official spokesmodel for Lollipop Chainsaw and as an avid cosplayer had a couple of different Juliet outfits – the outfits (which were skimpy/revealing as hell) were canonically correct as far as the game was concerned but it drew some complaints since she was still borderline booth-babe and the other booths that were told “no babes” called bullshit so she had to cover up.
No, but simply working for Wargaming is apparently enough. I will learn more about my industry while attending, can potentially make some contacts, etc. So work-related education and networking = totally valid conference!
I’d be crazy not to go every year, now!
Not a great feeling, losing the family home. Dad’s selling the place we spent most of our lives, too. Feels like a real shame. There’s a lot of history and memory tied up in that place. Every inch of it has a memory.
Then the stupid fudgers who buy the place come in and cut down every bloody tree in the place leaving it weird and barren looking.I mean really, who move out of town to a nicely maintained, tree filled property and the clear fell it. GAH!!!!!!!
Yeah, especially if they’re older, native trees. Got mad respect for developers who keep mature natives. Probably didn’t gel with their ‘vision’. Feh.
It was pretty much all of them. The poplars and the cyprus down the driveway. Spent so much time in those cyprus trees growing up. The gums from the front and back. I think they even clear the ‘orchid’. So many plums consumed down there. No idea what they plan to do, trying to get new trees to grow from scratch will take ages and it looks total turd right now (Well last time I saw it anyway)
ALSO: After visiting four Salvos today, I have finally bought brown pants for my PAX cosplay. Now I just need my cap complete and my gloves to arrive and I’m done.
Well, I might make some cardboard bacon.
New Walking Dead was amazing. Great episode. Loved the new opening credits, too.
Just watched it.
Season 5 spoilers
I actually really like the two army guys and the scientist. And how badass is Carol? I’m also really glad Tyrone didn’t die, I really like him.Yeah, that was just a great premiere. I’ve loved Carol since the first season, but holy damn, that’s redemption right there. That look of thanks from Rick and that hug between her and Daryl. So awesome. It was an amazingly tense episode. It always feels more brutal when they’re taking on other people instead of zombies. Got a real sense of kill or be killed. Found myself disturbed at my own blood lust. Feeling happy when Rick took out the mofos. Really confronting.Spoilers for walking dead season 5 and telltales walking dead season 1 episode 2
Yeah, the fact that Rick is like “You’re forgiven” without even saying it. Seriously, it’s really messed up. There’s no way I can watch the slaughter scene twice. Most of the time, they didn’t even kill the people, but rather let the zombies take care of them, which is a fate worse then death.I like that Glenn is trying to keep the humanity though. I wish the young guy with blonde hair wasn’t killed, it’s horrible when you think they only came there to seek refuge, after surviving all those walkers, only to be put to an end like that. In some ways, I found this much more confronting then the game one.
I’m surprised so many of ‘our’ people made it out. It’s a huge group we have now. I worry that won’t bode well for them. More targets. More vulnerable. Like you said, I like how Glenn guided Rick to try and save the people. “This is who we are.” There was a point those other people made the other choice, which is all kinds of messed up. I think this will scar everyone. Can’t wait to see what’s next. Uncharted territory, any thing can happen!I also liked that they did not let him go back in to kill them all. Although I think going back in to get all their weapons would have been wise. I mean, I know Rick was angry, but if you end up just like the people you killed, does that make you any better then them?Yeah, but at the same time stopping people like that could save more lives down the line, but he probably wasn’t thinking with a clear head any way. That shot of Terminus on fire with all the chaos was just amazing to watch, though. Really nicely filmed.Mr. Strange is in Sydney all week so I have to wait until the weekend to watch it. D:
Or… you could watch it now AND THEN WATCH IT AGAIN PRETENDING YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED IT!
…
I’d be far too deceptive for marriage. 😛
The thing is, if you’re with someone long enough they can tell when you’re being deceptive. 😛
Well, if it makes the wait easier I loved the episode and a DC endorsement on the TV front usually means you will hate it. (We do have some The Leftovers common ground though. :P)
That was such a good episode! All the things happened!
I like how far Carol has come. No one can doubt she has the group’s best interest in mind, even after that incident at the prison. She’ll do any thing for her people. Really wonder what’s happening with Beth, though?Carol is an awesome character. She always gets stuff done! Think we might be finding out about Beth next episode from what the preview looked liked.Who was the guy at the end? Is he the guy with the son who Rick first meets?
Didn’t watch the trailer for next week!
Ah whoops, didn’t know! D:
The preview at the end of each episode always hypes me up throughout the week.
Don’t worry about it. Didn’t feel spoiled or any thing. 😀
Just can’t speculate about those plot points, is all. Haha!
I’m dying for a burger…
Must be a pretty important burger.
mmm burger! Dunno if I could actually eat one atm or not though. Feel really ill :\ Not sure if it’s something I ate, or just haven’t eaten enough. Either way, it’s not pleasant.
You probably just need a good cup of tea.
I had a few plain potato chips, then slowly sipped a cup of coffee (had no tea left). Feeling a little better. Not sure I’m quite ready for a meal yet though. Maybe another hour or two. Mouth wants a nice toasted ham and cheese sandwich or something, but everytime I get out the stuff to make it, I start wondering if I’d even be able to finish it! Really wish I had some more chicken noodle soup. All I have is French onion, but anyone who knows me, will tell you the aftermath of that will go down in history as the most potent human generated pollution known to man!
Stress tends to fuck up my gut pretty good.
Never really had this kind of thing from stress before. I really didn’t eat much today, so I’m guessing that’s a big part of it. Problem is, now it’s difficult to eat without feeling worse! Getting there slowly though. Some Shippuuden on the couch, and a few more light snacks here and there, and I’ll come good I reckon!
HOLY SHIT GUYS RASPBERRY WHITE CHOC TIM TAMS (AKA THE BEST THING EVER) ARE ONLY 50C A PACK AT COLES!
I bought 6 packs, regret not buying more 😛
Whoaaaa Bayonetta 2 seems to be doing really well with reviews atm! (insert sad reference about bad sales in Japan :'( )
The first game really surprised me with its awesomeness. A really well made game 😀
Was it that it sold bad because there’s not really that many Wii U’s out there or did it sell bad even for a Wii U game?
Both I think 🙁
Console gaming is almost dead in Japan. The Japanese market is all about handhelds and mobile gaming.
Somewhat long and rambly video about Bayo2 and the Japanese sales (it’s also available split into two parts, can’t remember which was most relevant to this part), but he has some interesting points to make about it. Like how Platinum’s games *always* sell low in Japan (save for MGR, because Metal Gear) while selling much better in the west. And a few other things I can’t think of.
To me that seems weird because Platinum and Clover before them always seemed very, very Japanese in their design and wacky factor. The fact that they don’t sell well in Japan probably just reflects on the Japanese market though with their super-saturation of portable consoles and mobile games.
Maybe they aren’t actually very Japanese at all and are just a stereotype of what the west thinks is Japanese? 😛
I decided to have some chilli, hot chips, and rice.
Goddamn, this is so much better than a burger…
*drool*
Make them into a burger!
Win-win! 😀
Sounds like it would be an awesome burger
Anyone who has had a decent streak going in Pokemon’s various Battle facilities has at times been subject to what can charitably be described as phenomenal bad luck, most likely described as outright cheating by the games AI. Inaccurate moves landing without fail by enemies, while never hitting at all on your side, outrageous amounts of confusion/flinch/crit hax etc etc. But never have I had the game blatantly ignore its own mechanics to screw me over.
My pokemon used Knock Off
You Knocked off your opponents Quick Claw (an item that sometimes activates to allow the holder to disregard the turn order and go first)
Opponent kills my pokemon
Send in new pokemon
Opponents Quick Claw activates allowing it to move first and KO my only remaining pokemon.
What the hell Game Freak?!?!?!
As I said on twitter, it’s a hallucination at an opium den.
The pokedex never registers any pokemon that you ‘see’ and ‘battle’, there’s no space to actually battle with how the room is set out.
Ah, Hax Maison. So dodgy with how they coded it.
So today was an interesting day. Went and worked at a schweppes bottling plant and spent the whole day re packing pallets of drinks. Ok so maybe not that interesting at all. But it was still good to be working again after being without a job since June. So the cert 3 in warehouse operations that I am doing atm must be paying off. Also for some jolly news. My partner is up the duff. Only 7 weeks atm but as we found out yesterday from her mother. There are twins on her side of the family. So we go for a date scan on the 20th. The other half is stressing that it might be twins. Only time will tell now.
Hey hey hey! CONGRATULATIONS!
Congrats on both fronts!
Wonderful news 🙂
BABBBBBBIES!
BABBY AHOY!
Congrats, Mrs Tigs has twins on her side as well so that was a concern for us as well. As you say, time will tell.
I don’t know what up the duff means but it’s probably something to do with beer. So, congratulations on getitng beer!
YES
SMASHED THAT 4E I COULDN’T DO LAST WEEK, FIRST GO (after de-chalking it)
THEN CLIMBED MY FIRST EVER 4F
LEVELLING UP
Anyone tried Steam Streaming thingo? Getting some games coming down on new machine and noticed it in the options there… Nothing to try it with yet, but wondering if anyone has?
Yeah, I’ve done it. Seemed to work a treat. My brother’s laptop has very low grunt, but we hooked it up to the TV and were able to get a couple things working on very nice main-PC-quality power.
@freezespreston I asked about the ticket, apparently he’s put it up on eBay already but it isn’t seeing much activity. He said he has til a little after midnight tomorrow to take it down without penalty, and would be happy to do $110 if you’re up for it. Cut out the eBay fees and express postage and all that.
Can’t sleep. Alien’ll eat me.
o.o
I haven’t played the game yet myself, but upvote for simpsons ref! 🙂
I was going play last night but had some clients this morning at 5, couldn’t risk a 3 hour sleep 😉
X COM
DC was wounded in an early mission, so Freeze was promoted above him, and has usurped him as leader of the team. DC is returning to duty tomorrow, but I can’t decide whether or not to warn Freeze about what happened to Strange in the last playthrough…
Jane Not Quite XO (who actually is the XO now, so she might be due for a name change) is a gun of a sniper. She climbed a treacherous ladder to a totally exposed billboard and took some heavy fire, but she didn’t panic, and proceeded to destroy two floaters and one and a half scurrying spider things while her teammates retreated under the concentrated onslaught. Her contribution to that mission saved 17 out of 18 civilians – unbelievable effort.
Strangest Itches has come into her own since I swapped her machine gun for a laser rifle. Now she’s all about the PEW PEW PEW.
Transient Mind likes shooting rockets. And he’s pretty good at it too.
The game gave me a character called Ben Jackson. I didn’t even bother changing his name, but he now looks as if he hails from Tasmania. He had a stellar first mission, including some dangerous advance recon duty under heavy fire that landed him three kills.
The team liberated a sergeant called Greenie US. He has yet to prove himself in combat, but his positioning on the battlefield so far leads me to conclude that his preference is to stay well away from the others as they advance.
You make me want to play this game Shane lol
You should – it’s pretty rad! If you have trouble finding it, my local 2nd hand place has 360 copies for $12.95. Can get one and send it your way. Let me know.
I actually got it in a humble bundle, I have always intended to play it but I’ve been playing Europa Universalis IV way too much when I put Destiny down. I’m just enjoying reading @dc’s and @freezepreston’s valiant efforts lol
I saw a 360 copy of the South Park game for $19.95 yesterday, and I nearly bought it. But then I remembered that I haven’t watched South Park since 1998, and probably wouldn’t understand any of the references. I don’t find crude humour all that appealing either. So I put it back on the shelf. Right choice?
Good choice, the humour of the shoe has changed a lot since then. The crude humor has given way to a more topical, deliberate kind of comedy.
You’ll see some characters and think, who the hell is this guy? Which even just the the fact that certain characters show up is part of jokes. I’ve kept up with the show and loved it, a real fan service.
@batguy bought it recently, he might give you a better perspective on it too!
Spent over 2000 on a pc I can finally play games on with two monitors new keyboard and mouse and all I am playing is EU IV.
What a great game. Played about 20 hours so far. Nearing the end of my first play through with the ottomans. Hoping to get close to dominating all of the middle east and Asia and a large part of Africa now that my army is so strong. Westernized pretty early compared to the ai. Anyway great game. must use graphics card for something next time.
I harp on about how magnificent this game is, the history lesson you kinda get strikes a cord with me.
You’re playing as the ottomans right?
Sure am, Easy way to get into it. Just going to war all the time.
I do it the other way round, I started off as Byzantium and took over most of Europe and the Ottomans with Russia taking a couple of small parts.
We had an alliance the envy of the world, but then the damn Ruski’s got greedy and wanted like 23 of my provinces and broke the alliance and our royal marriage.
@redartifice, are you an EUIV fan or was that a supportive upvote? 😛
EUIV fan, though I quit in disgust last time I played after my france fell apart.
@piat and the rest how’d you guys go last night?
Jocon disappeared about the same time you did, we found two more however we wiped a bunch on Atheon summoning for various reasons it got late so we called it.
I learnt it’s important at least be 27 to run the relic out of the gatekeeper, you simply die to easily as a 25 =/ I could kill the gatekeeper… just couldn’t make the sprint out.
As a hunter blade dancer invis get to the relic and run it out?
Only had my hunter for 2-3 days I havn’t even maxed out my gunslinger subclass yet.. blade dancer subclass is completely untrained, not even sure if you can stealth with relic as well.
Just looked it up and it’s actually the strategy being used a lot in hard mode at the moment. 3 people go in bring GK down to low health, a bladedancer does invis runs to the relic and picks it up. Even if you lose invis you’ve basically done half the run without any aggro, now you just bolt it back to the portal with the relic and gg =]
Starting to seem that hunters are the indispensable class for Hard mode, Gunslinger for dps on oracles and bladedancer to help with gatekeeper phase.
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AHHHHHHHHHHH III NNEEEVVVERR THOUUGHHHTT OOOFF THIIIIISSS
Yup what red said, thanks heaps to all you guys for doing tha, was a massive favour (on my phone or I’d tag everyone)
Dear @welbot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncySiTOMAHc
PS: Your name is now Paulie.
Hey buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuddy!
Hey @miketarno
Nice Entry in the Alien Comp, is it me or…..
is there a bit of a fight club reference in there at 1:06 ish?. *squints eyes*I’m denying everything! (Yes, yes there was.)
Yesterday i was down because i was worried i wouldnt have a job in Melbourne.
Yesterday a Laser Company i emailed enquiring if they had any jobs emailed me back offering me a job.
Yesterday was a good day.
Awesome, man! Fantastic news.
I haven’t said yes yet but the guy said he would call me this week to work out details.
Now that is awesome news. Congrats
\o/ congratulations my friend! That’s absolutely awesome!
Congratulations Buddy, thats excellent news 🙂
That’s funtastic! Did you rework you CV with any of the suggestions I made or just send your old one around, unchanged?
I had sent the old one before i talked to you about it a a few weeks ago, they guy had been on leave so he only saw it yesterday. 🙂
I did change it up though after you gave me some suggestions 🙂
That’s so great to hear! Wish you all the best with making a successful move if you do accept!
(I just got shortlisted for an interview this morning as well! Hopefully we can both get good jobs!)
JUMP hi 5
That’s FANTASTIC!
@welbot
Happy belated birthday man, hope things only get for you from here on out
Not belated! Today is that day! #evenoldermanwelbot
Also thanks! 🙂
Happy B’day man! =] Hope you have a great birthday!
Happy birthday welbot. Hope yesterday went as well as it could and hope you have a good day today !!
Hope you have a good day old man
Thankyou thankyou! By the sounds of it my sis and bro-in-law are taking me out for ribs and onion ring lunch! Should be a winner I’d say!
Score!
Happy birthday!
Happy old day @welbot!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! 😀
Happy birthday, man!
Happy name day!
Looking for 2 Destiny peeps (27 or 28 please) to help me do the Nightfall and Heroic weekly tomorrow evening around 7.30! @jocon @distantdrop (titan not hunter =P) c’mon… you know you want to!
Unless its a easy Nightfall like Nexus its usually better to stick with 28 or above.
I don’t mind either way… after tonight’s reset or tomorrow at 7:30.. advantages for me doing it twice anyways
Reset is tuesday night? Argh. Who wants to help me with the current Weekly tonight? 🙂
As I said man: satay meat tomorrow, I won’t be on.
Whoops soz! @piat you’re up to bat! =P SAY YES =@
Yeah, I said I’d help out yesterday lol, just hit me up on PSN if I’m not on already
I can probably help with the weekly – I’m only L24 Titan but got all the way to the final battle against the Archon Priest on my own last night, just couldn’t quite manage to survive long enough on my own to finish it (bloody servitor kept pincering me)… Anyway if you see me online feel free to grab me.
At the very least I can hide cowering up at the entrance to the battleground so the other two can respawn in safety… 😉
Happy birthday Mr @welbot. Never forget that you will never be as young as your are right this second….
Dam ageing every second non sense.
Yes indeedy, happy birthday @welbot. Hope it’s a good one.
Happy Birthday @welbot 🙂
Happy birthday @welbot. My gift to you is this:
you.regettingold.com
God damn it phlaiman, where was this site when I was asking for details for the anniversary speech I had to make.
Another jacket day.
Stupid air conditioning.
It’s really stuffy here, and I’m struggling to stay awake. I think a jacket day would be quite welcome 😛
It’s really smelly here, and I’m struggling to breathe. I think a sleepy day would be quite welcome 😛
The very good reviews mean that I will almost certainly be getting Bayonetta 2. Full marks from Gamespot is a rarity.
Just don’t know what to make of the voyeuristic nature of the game. Couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable playing the first one because of it, particularly whenever the wife was around.
I loved watching Mr. Strange play the first one. Such a hilariously insane game. And the gameplay kept him so I busy I’m pretty sure he didn’t even have a chance to ogle. 😛
I didn’t really dig the gameplay of the original, and while the titular character didn’t really fit my ‘type’ in the first place, I have doubts about the voyeuristic nature… My impressions from playing it was that all of the power in any way, shape, or form, was unquestionably in her hands. Good voice-acting and posing? I dunno, I barely got a tenth of the way through the game, I think.
A rather simple MQFT for you all today:
P, O, U?
U
P.
It can wait, but l’ve heard that if you hold it, it can damage the prostate gland, making it very difficult to get an erection.
I’m noticing a pattern here. Every time there is the slightest possibility of a devious answer in a MQFT, you come along with your wittiness. It’s like you have a sense for these things.
High five!
O
Deciding vote…
*panics, jumps through window*
O
U.
I was never a fan of The Block, or reality television for that matter; but my wife is. Anyway, back when the current season had started she told me that we should do it. I was like, ‘No way, I don’t like manual labour and I don’t want to be on tv.’ She was all like, ‘but everyone made half a million dollars last season!’ and I’m like, ‘Still not worth it.’
Cue to present, and of course everyone that has watched the show will undoubtedly know the situation. My wife still can’t believe a handful of the contestants walked away with only $10,000. I asked her, ‘Would you have gone on if you had known you’d walk away with $10k?’ ‘No way.’
It was one of those I told you so moments. I like those, they make me seem smart. Er.
Also, I’m still not going on television; for anything other than something along the lines of Sale of the Century. Or Million Dollar Minute.
I’ll follow up with a question: would you go on television? if yes, for what show?
That $500,000 bubble was never going to last. It was an anomaly that I’m sure someone got fired for – because that’s something like $2m that the network/producers didn’t get to enjoy as profit (of course, they profit plenty in many other ways, but it’s still a big chunk of change that they absolutely would not have wanted to let go of). It might have been good publicity for them once, but they were never, ever in a million years going to let that happen again.
Also, as an aside: being selected for reality/gameshow TV is one of my worst nightmares, because I’ve spent my entire life constructing this very flimsy veneer of intelligence around myself, when really I know almost nothing about everything. So I’d be well humiliated when that veneer crumbled to pieces the instant I was forced to exhibit any kind of talent or knowledge. And I certainly don’t have any personality to fall back on for the interaction-type reality shows, and don’t think the editing process would paint me in a particularly flattering way.
I’m not sure I would even go on TV for a book interview, though I probably should say yes if I get asked…
Big Brother contestant, I am not.
A stint in the Bog Brother house would just be video evidence for the courts of how I planned to murder 11 other people.
Sometimes your highly inaccurate view of yourself breaks my heart.
I’ve done enough (2) trivia nights to know how badly I would bomb in a gameshow 😛
Would I go on television? Am I a self-centred narcissistic prick? Why yes, yes I am.
Sure, I’d avoid anything that forced me to interact day-to-day with other self-centred narcissistic pricks (like Big Brother, or whatever), but I’d be fine doing anything else.
Oh, and it’s worth noting that the people on The Block were paid like $1400 a week while they were on the show (can’t remember the exact number, saw it in passing), add on top of that the money earned from magazine deals and the like, and all of a sudden they’ve earned a whole lot more than the ten grand shows.
Serious? They’re in the media bitching that they took months off from their lives and have mortgages to pay and they’re in the red – obvious inference is that they had no pay. Whining pack of so-and-sos.
There we go, found the number: less good than I thought, since it’s $700 a week per contestant, or $1400 for a couple. But if they can’t make money out of this, then they have no sense.
That’s more than I’m earning at the moment.
Survivor would be cool. But I’m not good with the whole scheming, vote manipulation thing, so wouldn’t last very long.
Still.. would be at least a few days in a location I’d probably never visit otherwise.
Probably
Something like the amazing race would be fun, travel the world, get to do interesting things, crush your enemies. I would rather not go on any of the sale of the century, eggheads kinda thing as I don’t have the memory and make silly answers when put under pressure.
It’s hilarious that they’re all acting like it’s a surprise. It would have been all in the contracts they signed and they would have known what they were in for.
Also, Takeshi’s Castle would be rad to go on. Humiliating and terrifying but rad.
Also also, my cuisine would totally reign supreme.
I tried out for the first lot of Beauty and the Geek when it started up here. Didn’t make it though (obviously), totally didn’t sell my geekiness enough. Always reckoned I’d be able to smash most of the challenges 😛 I think Survivor would be a lot of fun too, though like mentioned above I’d be useless at the whole manipulation and strategy thing. Otherwise though I’d most like to go for Amazing Race, that one’s always looked great.
That said, I absolutely hate being on camera and would cringe horribly any time I saw myself on TV.
“I’m a handsome, accidental ladies man, who has acceptable fashion sense and keeps fit. Why, oh why, was I not selected for Beauty and the Geek!?”
I was none of those things then 😛
Also was sitting next to Xenogene while waiting for my go. Even more outclassed!
Oh god. I remember the Beauty and the Geek people rounding up volunteers at our Uni earlier this year. I believe I spent about five minutes trying to find a polite way to tell them I wasn’t interested, and the next five looking for a polite way to tell them to piss off.
The beauties/geeks on that show play up their stereotypes SO much (at least for the ads that are currently running now) it’s a bit cringey. (Though that’s probably the work of the producers rather than the contestants)
Yeah, I remember one of my friends mentioning that a friend of his was on there a year or two back, and they got told to do that. Like in the time between tryouts and the show, grow as much beard as possible etc.
Hey, there’s a plus. I’ve got loads of experience playing up to a stereotype now 😛
Maybe when they have a reversal with a bunch of geek girls and a handsome lady’s man, you can go in drag.
I (along with a lot of the twitter fanatics) was asked to go on TV a few months ago for that If You Are The One special SBS2 made.
Had a “I’d love to join!” email ready to go and everything but ended up not doing it because I chickened out 😛
Technically I’ve been on, as an extra on an ad for my gym. Not exactly a boost to my career but I got a month of free gym out of it so better than nothing
Not sure, I think I’d be too terrified to do anything. Maybe a Japanese game show. Dodge boulders on a tricycle whilst wearing a tanooki suit? Can do!
I started rethinking my pokemon PAX team, from all the breeding and experimenting i think its in as good a place as it can be, i have all the abilities i want on them, i just need to get a airballoon for my sweeper who gets fucked up by earthquake. Seriously fuck earthquake. My problem is that all the eveeloutions have not a lot of coverage. After PAX i think i wanna make a new team for proper wifi battles.
side note:
Protean is the most bullshit ability in the game besides mega kangiskhans ability.
I’ll be ready for some practice battles this afternoon if you are keen
Get ready to win. I have all the coverage of a post it note. 😛
We’ll see. I think the first few wins I had with this team might have been beginners luck. The last few battles I’ve had with it have been pretty bad. Having said that, I’ve been going against full OU teams with my mixed bag of favourites.
Do I have your friend code?
I believe so, if not ill chuck you it on twitter tonight. 🙂
Themed/Unique teams are way more fun to battle with and against. You’ll be making it a lot more interesting for us at least!
It gets boring when everybody has a Garchomp and a Talonflame and a Rotom Wash and a etc etc etc.
I still have good memories of my blind nuzlocke team that beat Pokemon X.
Golduck, Swalot, and Miltank. Such a fun experience and I’m keen to go again for another blind AR/OS.
I like the idea of blind Nuzlocking OR/AS, but Ruby was the first game that I spent a ton of time on, so I probably still know it inside out.
Might have to see if I can come up with another way of making it a challenge for my first run through
No attacking moves. Must win be using status moves only! 😛
Or maybe a Solo run, only using a Linoone or something ridiculous
I never played Ruby or Sapphire so I’ll be completely blind. Also I got the names back to front so it shows how much Pokemon knowledge I have. 😛
I’m not sure if I want to repeat my Purity Blind Nuzlocke with OR/AS but I’ll try and think of something cool to do. Maybe do a Wondertrade run if that’s a possibility.
Or make it a WonderLocke. Catch the first pokemon I can, instantly trade it away and thats what I’m stuck with…. Hmm, it has potential
Mono-type WonderLocke! If the thing you get back from Wonder Trade isn’t the right type, you can’t use it!
I really like that idea.
I think I’ve seen people do that before and start out with some really weird things. I probably won’t try it because a Wonderlocke means you might insta-trade your starter and get back a level 40 something so it can kinda break the game.
@popdart5 You do have to deal with disobedience though, particularly early on. Though if I’m getting the game soon after launch, people are all going to be wonder trading the same crappy things from Route 1 anyway
Ooh just had a thought: Alphabet nuzlocke. You are prohibited from catching Pokemon or have evolutions of that Pokemon that have the same starting letter as Pokemon or evolutions of Pokemon that you have in your party. I can see that being pretty restrictive, particularly with the triple-evolution ones.
Also if you caught an Eevee you would be massively screwing yourself over.
So if I was to catch an Eevee, you’re saying the rest of my team couldn’t have a member that at any point in its evolutionary chain starts with E V J F E U G L or S?
Or if I chose Torchic for example, I couldn’t use another T C or B pokemon?
Wow… that sounds pretty neat. I think we have a winner
It’s incredibly restricting but I think it could lead to quite an interesting team. Granted I would probably toss my starter the moment I caught something because having an all caught team makes things more interesting in my opinion.
@popdart5 Yeah the starters are usually pretty over powered for most of the game
Fairly sure at least half my team I’ve never seen used on wifi, or on youtube battles. Maybe I can catch people off guard?? Right?????
I got my arse handed to me by a protean greninja last night. Note to self: earthquake the bastard right out of the gate.
Generally anyone with a Plan destroys me, and anyone that just battles head to head I generally hold my own against.
Got destroyed by a team using nothing but Assist last night too, which was just an exercise in frustration – it degenerated to the equivalent of someone going ‘all in’ every hand of poker before the cards are dealt.
@jocon @pupp3tmast3r
Sorry if your already seen this
http://www.bungie.net/7_Hotfix—10142014/en/News/News?aid=12283
auto rifles nerf, shotguns nerfed, scout rifles buffed, hard mode VoG exploits removed. this is a huge hotfix.
LLAMMMMMMMMMMMEEEE
I think that only means the far left platform has a 4 second turnback, you can probably still snipe from the spawn during Templar/Oracles.
However if theirs a 4 second turnback on that platform were on during legions… that sounds really lame.
Yeah, no sitting on that platform anymore.
Gonna have to do it proper like.
Maybe lvl 29 isn’t good enough anymore? maybe we need a group of 29’s with 300 primarys and specials
Yeah a 300 primary is a must. A good heavy would help against the legions too.
Specials are kinda situational weapons tho, but a strong fusion rifle would be useful all round in VoG.
Would need two people to run Icebreaker for the Hobgoblin during oracle stage but outside that fusion rifles would be the weapon of choice. Ideally at least 2 people on the team run void fusions to break the praetorian shields and the rest can get away with pocket infinity.
Ideally I’m sure we can all agree the general consensus is… every in the group needs a 300 primary and 267/274 or above Specials and Heavy.
I don’t even bother with a void fusion anymore tbh. The shields are not the hard part on killing them and a good shotty is better on the damage, especially when they charge.
But I don’t have a legendary fusion I guess.
Yeah saw that.
Auto rifle nerf does not seem too bad, tho I was expecting a range nerf not a damage one. Shotgun nerf seems fair.
Mad keen on the scout rifle buff.
Totes expecting the VoG exploit fix tho; no way they would leave that in.
The 1.25 critical debuff to auto rifles is going to hurt like a bitch… The stability and damage reduction shouldn’t be too bad… but damn that critical 🙁
Scout Rifles still don’t look too appetizing… All depends on how much they buffed target acquisition and recoil.
Shotguns needed a nerf and speed reload should make pocket infinity more appetizing. Where’s the fixes for Bad Juju and Thorn though?!
Also does this basically mean we can no longer exploit our way through Templar?…. Wtf is kill volume?!
Kill volume is the 4 second turnback thing
https://twitter.com/Bungie/status/521808123720257536
I hope they’ve also decided to buff Invective. Especially if shotguns are getting nerfed.
Hand cannon buff.
Yesssssssss
Just buff to accuracy while airborne.
Which is kinda handy with how I play sometimes.
I am a hand cannon fan. Favourite gun in the game.
Oh yeah, never pack anything else.
It’s certainly fun. Makes me feel all Dirty Harry. “Do you feel lucky, Vex? Do you?” 🙂
That nerf… 2% damage loss is no great loss, but dropping the crit multiplier that much and a 4-17% stability loss? That seems harsh.
What’s scout rifle crit multiplier?
1.5x, I think.
Edit: http://destiny.wiki.fextralife.com/Weapons
If that’s correct, scout and pulse rifles are 1.5x.
Drowning in emails, somebody throw me a life ring
i threw it and i missed by a bit. it went out the window. Sorry tigs
I’m tempted to jump out after it. It’s only a one story drop
I’ll email you one!
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Perfect
@jocon @distantdrop We’re going to need a new set of minimum requirements for hard mode now that the exploit is out. Not to mention a new strategy. Gimme your thoughts on the following –
Straight off the bat as you guys have said – Spawn point should be safe to snipe from. We can’t stack on the left jumping platform during Templar Legions or during the boss fight itself. Bear in mind the mobs are still level 30 meaning level 29 is still going to end up in us doing nerfed damage against them.
Off the top of my head before we even think about attempting the oracle phase we’re going to need to have a full team of 29’s. Maxed out Legendary or Exotic weaponry and be proficient in both your subclasses.
I think when we hit the legion phase we can’t afford to fight the fanatics and harpies head on. We’ll definitely die even at level 30. Off the top of my head I say we stack and then kite the mobs around the battlefield until the boss despawns them (i.e. the age old LoS raid mechanic). For the templar we’re just going to have to do this the hard way; possibly block two teleports per shield break to get sustained dps on the boss. Burn minotaurs between supers and rinse-repeat.
Edit: Final note I think we should start adding an extra objective for easy mode. No one is allowed to die except for Sunsingers (this will help us practice the 0 deaths mechanic on hard mode)
Mmm, the Minotaurs are gonna hammer us if we are not careful. There will be more of them remember. I’d stick to one tp block until we know what we can handle.
In any case, not much to discuss really: we all know the mechanics, it’s just a matter of gear and practice.
The harpies actually clump up in 4s, usually 2-3 rockets should kill all immediately before they unwind, and I believe they come from the hidden entrances near where the boss rituals from which might be camp able.
Edit: another option is I could go blind helm and we can try and find a choke point that should buy us 20 seconds of free time.. and if we super the adds when the bubble breaks I might be able to have enough super orbs to do it again.
Hmmm, that idea has merit as well. However logistically we’d need to figure out a way to clump all the fanatics together as they spawn in bursts and then blind + AoE dps them.
Or we find a choke point, you ward of dawn and we stand outside of the shield forcing the adds to get into closer range and we unleash hell with fusion rifles? Also I believe the Warlock vortex and solar grenades penetrate the shield giving for added dps.
With my experience in blind. we don’t have to make any effort to clump them, they usually stand in the bubble doing nothing when you have the blind helm, best choke point would be the stairs where I normally defend, so we would have to kill the fanatics that spawn nearby apart from that I believe that space is a perfect choke point.
Edit: Maybe this isn’t an option…all the orbs will be in pools.. making it impossible to pickup?
A couple of weeks ago I bought a rug for our loungeroom to cover up the gross carpet from when my son was little and made many a mess that I was not in a fit state to care about cleaning up.
I rearranged the furniture in there as well, when I put the rug in.
Why am I telling you this boring stuff? Unforeseen consequences. My family has done more things together at home in the last few weeks than the rest of year combined. The way the lounge is now means more people can sit on it, and it also means there’s a sunny spot for me to hand sew during the day while Mr. Strange plays Xcom (on weekends). Mr. Strange and our son have been playing a dominos game on the floor, laying on the rug, and they’ve even been doing more stuff together like playing the PS+ dungeons and dragons PS3 game together. There’s enough room to snuggle both my kids at the same time, and I’ve been down on the floor playing games with our son as well.
Best $99 spend. Ever.
Similar story: we redid the lawn out the back recently. It cost an absolute fortune, but in the last few weeks, we’ve all spent more time outside playing than we did in the entire twelve months before that.
I remember a similar thing happening in our house when i was a teen.
Mum put the computer in the same room as the tv, i initially scoffed because it would be a distraction from our school work. but it turned out to be a stroke of genius, because we all helped each other with assignments while the others were watching tv and it also wasn’t distracting because the other 2 kids often did their homework at the same time being reminded by the one who had to use the computer. It also meant if mum wanted to do work stuff during the night we could still talk to her.
Spending time all together is good for the soul too.
Hmmm. Marvel announced their plans for Captain America 3, which will begin to adapt the ‘Civil War’ plotline from the comics back in 06/07, dealing with the government registering superheroes for regulation purposes.
And also on the comic book side they’re just straight up re-making the whole event.
On the movie side, it *could* go well if they roll it into Avengers 3, maybe. It’s a big topic, and there are some interesting ideas behind it.
On the comic book side, I laugh heartily. There’s a *lot* of flaws to be addressed if they want to redo it for the purpose of making it better. Also, considering the state of current marvel, I find it hilarious that they’re going back to *this* story, which shook up the status quo a fair bit.
? They’re doing another Secret war, not Civil war
hahahaha they’re doing both, I believe? I enjoyed Secret War, though. Wouldn’t mind a expansion of that.
Oh god, hadn’t seen that.
Umm, weird. Guess is it’s a flashback that ties into something new.
Dammit which is it >.< Why do both? Secret War brings aliens into the mix while Civil War is a much more interesting concept. However for it to really carry weight they’re going to have to expand their current movie roster….
Edit: Nevermind I’m mixing up Secret War with the Skrull Invasion *facepalm*
Weren’t there some major death-of-characters and other-characters-taking-up-the-mantle things in the civil war stuff? (Haven’t read, but have heard comments about it)
I can’t see that sort of thing being done in the movies to bankable characters now that they’ve hooked up that franchise money making machine.
In terms of casualties It was mostly the fair amount of character assassination that ruffled people. Not much actual death.
Never seen character assassination like Spidey in House of M, though.
His mini-series? Because his mini-series in M was… something. Otherwise I’d argue it’s his last best moment before… the rest of modern marvel?
Ok, lunch time game
The protagonists of the last 3 things you read/watched/played are members of your zombie apocalypse team. How screwed are you?
Marvel puzzle quest so basically the entire marvel stable of heroes
Trudi Canavan novel so magic users
And Eureka so brainy science folks in the most advanced research facility in the world
I’m feeling good
X from Megaman X, Amanda Ripley, and the Fringe team. I am so safe it’s ludicrous. In the course of a forty two minute episode we find the cure, save a lot of people, build some things from spare parts, and shoot stuff with an arm cannon.
Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
Mike Moore (from Frontline)
Kerry O’Brien (Four Corners)
Honestly, I could not be more screwed.
Kerry O’Brien would wreck those zombies’ faces. You can see it in his eyes, his journalistic practice would allow him to disconnect himself from empathy, turning him into a killing machine.
I sort of want to see Lorelai Gilmore in the zombie apocalypse!
Commander Shepherd.
William Thackery (Surgeon from The Knick)
The Doctor.
I’m set
Like The Doctor would let Shep in the TARDIS
Pfft, we’ll just cruise in the Normandy.
Also, I think Paragon shep and the doctor would be fine.
I haven’t watched a lot of new-Who, but I kinda get the feeling the Doctor would totally geek out at getting to meet the Shepard.
Actually, my reall issue would be Thackery’s crippling Cocaine addiction. I hope Medi-gel can fix it.
Yossarian- Catch 22
Joey- Friends
Jolteon-Pokemon
4 minutes of survival tops
TOPS, before jolteon kills me and the other 2 die in a bad joke/sarcasm contest.
Yossarian would survive, though. He survives everything!
He’d be paddling out to sea in a half0inflated raft, fishing for cod twenty feet from the beach while the zombies feast on Joey and rocket’s charred remains.
A trainer with a fully bred and trained Pokemon Team
Harry Potter
Mike and Sully (Monsters Inc)
Could be a hell of a lot worse
Mike and Sully would be rad, I would love to be at the end of the world with Mike and Sully.
Stalin is real good at killing large swathes of his enemies, so I guess that is a plus…or i may just end up in the Gulags.
McNulty from The Wire will just generally just piss off Stalin or get drunk.
Destiny guy can shoot a whole lot of stuff I guess…if you count the personality of a plank of wood as a protagonist.
May beat the zombies, but then end up screwed for the next 40 years under an opressive regime.
Hahahaha, McNulty.
Tha fuck did I do?
Link from Super Smash Bros 3D
Lightning from FFXIII
Raiden from Metal Gear Revengeance
Actually I’m feeling pretty good, too. 😀
All the swords, all the time
Female Demon Hunter from Diablo 3.
Reynold and Wren from Costume Quest 2.
Archer from … Archer.
I don’t know, I have a feeling that we would make a plan but then Archer would screw everything up, get us killed but he would survive.
(Edit: I haven’t really read any kind of book / novel / comic in a while so I just used 2 games.)
Demon hunter puts crossbow bolts through wren and reynold because they were dressed as monsters.
Destiny – My Warlock =P
Star Wars The Old Republic comic – Zayne Carrick Jedi drop out
Star Trek Voyager – The ship and the crew? I mean really the ship is the only protagonist that counts.
I think we’d just leave Earth and bomb a continent from Orbit or something and reclaim it =P
Last played: Smash. And I was last playing as Sheik.
Last read: Teen Dog
Last watched: Uh. I don’t even know. Castle? Unless you count Joaquin Phoenix’s forehead.
I think I’m pretty well set, actually.
Link from Skyward Sword, Alana and Marko from Saga, and a chibi vampire who makes blood (Karin).
Should be interesting…
My Destiny character.
Castle and Beckett.
The Agents of Shield team.
I’m feeling safe, unless some of the Shield team turn out to be working for the zombies.
A Destiny warlock.
Pug from Raymond E Feist’s Magician.
Protagonist of Macross Frontier.
Pretty Damn set really.
The entire stable of Skylanders (including villains)
Eddard Stark, Robert Baratheon (and anyone else from A Game Of Thrones). Oh, and the direwolves as well.
And Denzel Washington in The Equalizer
Interesting combination, no?
Amanda Ripley
My Warlock (Destiny)
The Doctor
So… pretty good, given it’s a zombie apocalypse. We have the Doctor, so the zombies would be neutralised after 45 minutes via a bumbling sequence of pseudoscientific gibberish.
Ocean at the End of the Lane – a 10 year old boy. Nope.
Pokemon – awesome team of monsters that would decimate the hordes initially, but all the pokemon centres are derelict in the apocalypse so they’d be worn down and overwhelmed.
Doctor Who – The Doctor. That would make me an expendable side character that the current doctor would give no shits about, I’d probably just get a gruesome death to highlight the danger of the situation for the main characters while they try to save the 10 year old boy.
Amanda Ripley from Alien: Isolation.
Talion from Shadow of Mordor.
Nameless Titan from Destiny.
Two of those are literally unkillable.
LIterally unkillable but literally unturnable? Is it still turning when you become a zombie, I don’t know
I think they’d both probably be immune, due to the nature of how they ‘resurrect’.
Reading: Childhood’s End, so a super-advanced alien. Useful.
Played: Destiny. Zombies have no chance.
Watched: Great Australian Sandcastles: Peter Colquhoun. So at least when it’s all over we have someone to design new buildings… (and teach us to surf…)
Let’s see… I think the last three would be a couple of anime (Log Horizon and Fate/Stay Night?) and Vib Ribbon.
I’d be fucked 🙁
Amanda Ripley from Alien: Isolation
Alicia Florick from The Good Wife
Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead
I’d do okay!
I love this:
Level 25 Hunter – Destiny
Queen Victoria Circa 1839 – Why the West rules the world, for now
Mile Jedinak – Be a player mode, FIFA
I think the Hunter would be OK because he has an exotic pulse rifle, but Queen Victoria would be good (potentially) for helping rule post apocalypse. Mile Jedinak, he’s a little slow so hopefully there are only Zombie walkers and nothing else lol.
Played: If I hadn’t had a round of Desert Golfing at lunch I’d have my Destiny Titan backing me up but instead I get a shithead whose idea of fun is playing golf in an endless fucking desert.
Read: Winston Smith in 1984. Oh dear.
Watched: Cal Lightman from Lie to Me.
I have two drooling idiots and a narcissistic deception expert. Against zombies. I’m beyond fucked.
The entire Gold Coast Suns team from AFL Live 2
Sheogorath from Minecraft (custom skins count, right?)
Isaac Clarke from Dead Space 2
Well, I think I’m screwed. Having to feed 40+ football players seems quite difficult.
Sheogorath is just as likely to kill zombies as he is to increase their power. Plus, insanity.
Isaac will probably be confused when shooting the arms off of zombies does nothing. Plus, insanity.
You see mouths to feed, I see sacrifices to allow you to escape
I like your thinking. You would make a good parent. 😛
Aiden Pierce from Watchdogs
Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout Tactics
Raymond Redington from The Blacklist
Either they will all work stupidly well or fuck up completely granted BoS are good at building bunkers
I’ve been playing more and more Marvel Puzzle Quest to the point where it’s the first thing I do when I get a chance to sit down for a minute, and the last thing I do before going to bed. I even did pretty well in the last event (I was in the top 50 in the Deadpool one. So much fun), to the point where I began to be happy I wasn’t just dead weight in the Kotaku Alliance any more.
I think I may start Puzzle Quest, or Puzzle Quest 2 again now.
No, don’t dilute your time, we need those sweet sweet alliance points.
Oh and if you didn’t realise all story missions give double ISO at the moment. I went through and replayed all the missions that give 500 ISO which was getting me 1,000 instead. Which was good for a some upgrades. Not sure if I want to finish off all the 500 rewards before it drops back to 250.
Oh don’t worry, it’s just to play while I’m waiting for my Marvel heroes to heal up! 😛
Also, if you could DM me your address on Twitter that would be super handy for later in the week….
NEW ANIME ROCKET HAS WATCHED REPORT
TERRAFORMARS- Imagine a world where everything good about attack on titan had been stolen except the plot. I watched the first two episodes and honestly its alright and ill probably keep watching because it is semi interesting but how about we dont introduce 50 characters in one episode and have the main character have the stupidest most generic backstory ever.The art is basically AoT but worse. Music is nothing special.
Wait for a bit on it, CR will be doing an uncensored stream at some point which will improve it a fair bit. Right now it’s near unwatchable due to black fog everywhere.
I shall. I got fate zero to watch for a bit anyway before i watch anything from the new season of stuff 🙂
I’m planning on watching Fate/Zero after I finish Fringe, so we need to compare notes, brosephine.
Shall do, i always enjoy comparing notes with you.
Fate/Zero is super rad. Really the definitive chapter of that franchise in terms of characters. Takes the basic ideas and really makes something with them.
Be warned though, it kind of sort of has some spoilers for the original series around some of the characters who are major characters for the game (and thus the current Unlimited Blade Works anime). Not hugely major but once you know the relationship between the two of them, a lot of things fall into place that are not so obvious if you don’t know. Zero will also give you IMO a lot more sympathy for Sakura since you’ll know her background.
Which arsehole keeps cramming extra hours into my morning? Swear it was about 3 not 12.
I’m getting that feeling as well. It is far, far too early in the day for what it feels like.
That’s just your body telling you it needs daylight savings like the rest of us.
Look at your curtains. Look at them. Do I want that? No, it’s a sacrifice I have to make.
I feel like it’s already been a 5 day week… *passes out*
Pizza, noodles, or make-your-own with grocery ingredients? Dinner. Which?
Him card read good.
Make your own pizza. They always turn out rad.
Make your own
Pizza.
They always turn out rad?
Sorry, I just thought this was the next comment in line. It’s funnier if you read all your comments to this post all at once.Make your own pizza. Put some crispy noodles on it as a topping.
Pizza make your own, made one on the weekend and looked like baws. You can too!
Even better: Make your own pizza on Lebanese bread. Perfect crispy base!
I do this fairly often and it’s pretty rad.
Awesome! Finally DriveClub let me create a club. It’s KOTAKU AU and invite only, from memory @saturday, @coldcamv, and @janexo showed interest in joining. If you guys still want in, let me know and I’ll send you an invite. Also, I still need your PSN ID @janexo so I can send you a FR first.
Anyone else wants in on the club just let me know and I’ll send you an invite.
Still not sure, when the free version’s gonna be out though, but I guess it wouldn’t be too far away now it seems like the issues have been fixed.
ANNNND IIII
WILLLL ALLWAYYYS LOOVEEE YOUUU
Destiny 3rd subclasses and details on new raid.
Only a rumour.So the rumor is Titans get a Kamehameha?….. =_=
Sounds like it! I may have to start a titan class if this truly is the case. Although the potential 3rd subclass for my Hunter would come in so useful in boss situations.
Making them nearly as OP as Warlocks and Blade Dancers then \o/
Say what now?! Do you have any idea how OP their shield is in Skirmish??? And their Fist of Havoc is basically the same as the Warlock’s voidwalker blast except warlock’s can be shot out of the sky while charging it up and Titan’s cant =_= Even bladedancers can be shot down but I’ve never seen a fist of havoc interrupted!
I’ve certainly had my fist of havoc interrupted! You can only compare fist of havoc to the voidwalker blast if the Titan has the Headstrong perk equipped, which isn’t always the case. The shield is great for objective games until the moment a bladedancer waltzes in and wipes your entire party out while you’re hiding inside it unable to shoot out – of course if you’re wearing the Saint-14 Helmet enemies entering the shield are blinded but this is an uncommon scenario since Saint-14 only has that one very limited application in PvP and isn’t as versatile as other exotic items. Maybe it’s just lag but I’ve emptied entire clips into rampaging blade dancers and watched them stroll merrily away via my corpse-cam.
Hunter subclass doesn’t look very fun. I have no idea what I want but it’s not “restrict movement”. Sounds like it’d be suited to Warlock better ….
Yeah, but the Void aspect to it rounds out the Hunter’s elemental type powers (as do the other two 3rd subclasses for their guardians.)
I mean it sounds about as fun as a Defender class and people seem to be really enjoying that. It could also be pretty useful in PvP considering how much people jump around sometimes.
Bungie- “SO, CAPTURE MODE IN PVP. WE NEED TO MAKE IT MORE BULLSHIT BECAUSE TITAN SHIELDS WEREN’T ENOUGH.”
Holy shit if I get to Hadouken people I will drop my Hunter Class right this very second
Warlocks get a pet Van de Graaff generator. Just what I always wanted. /s
I’ve gotta say, that one may be my favourite. Just because it is like a pet as you say.
I dunno, the titan’s super sounds like this, which would be pretty awesome. Well, if it didn’t have the 4 minute charge time, at least.
BUT SPACE PETS
Won’t follow you around tho, sadly.
Well, I never said the generator had wheels. 😛
A moving oracle that shot chain lightning at surrounding enemies would be sweet. As it is, however, it sounds like a great move to get post-mortem kills, considering you can only summon it close-by. Which… actually sounds like a rather apt antithesis to the Sunsinger’s self-res, I suppose.
Sounds more like the dot upgrade for nova bomb, but point blank range and no burst damage.
So useless really.
Interesting.
I’d give the new Warlock a Least Useful Super award, Titan a Coolest Super award and Hunter a Most Interesting All Round Package award.
Maybe I should roll that Titan after all.
I’m torn. I quite like the Warlock one. I dunno how it would work, but it would be cool to send that in to battle as soon as you arrive at the scene so it can wipe out some grunts!
As a Hunter, I’m pretty excited by that final grenade set. Sounds great for PvP. The super charge will be much sought after as well in Raids/Strikes.
There’s a fair bit of skepticism in thec omments, but I quite like the sound of it all. And the Raid.
Oh man, escaping an Ogre on sparrows? Sounds amazing.It (Lock Super) sounds cool at a glance but in practice it would work like a giant aoe dot grenade thrown directly in front of you. And those grenades are utterly useless in PvE and an inconvenience at best in PvP. All enemies move around too much to make static dot attacks useful. Even the aoe dot upgrade on Nova Bomb isn’t useful even against bosses.
The raid does sound cool tho.
Still trying to figure out how they’d do the Ogre thing. Ogres are a) slow moving, and b) fire a stream of energy blasts in a straight line. Doesn’t seem to lend itself to fleeing on a sparrow, as you’d either a) outrun it very quickly in a straight line, or b) turn a corner and escape its line of fire. That said, they mentioned changing the movesets of Wizards in the raid, so maybe the ogre will be different, too.Personally, I call BS. I think the 3rd sub-class will be second DLC for sure, way too early to chuck something out like that now, they will want to hold onto it to drag people back for the second DLC. Secondly, the subclass details just don’t sound right at all, thats just a feeling I get from reading them, they don’t seem to fit the direction bungie has gone with subclasses so far. Not to mention the names for the warlock and hunter subclasses aren’t close to in line with the current names, “trapper” is way too simple and “arc thrower” is just plain dumb.
I agree that those names sound a bit dumb. I think the classes sound ok though. By December a lot of people will have maxed out both subclasses so maybe a third would make sense?
It would make sense from a player pov, but not from Bungie’s and a longevity pov
Angry rant here:
OMFG. I’m feeling pekish at work so I run across the road to the shitty little food/store place (they use gloves to prepare food. Then handle money. Then prepare food. Never getting food from those fuckers again). I walk in, grab a 600mL Dare and two Mars bars. They have a $5 EFTPOS limit so I figure that should make it. As I wait in line I think about how they don’t have prices marked and how they’ve ripped me off before. Get to the front. “That’s $9.”WOW. Fuck me. $9?!?! Whatever, I hand my card across cos I want me some snacks. She grabs EFTPOS machine, keys price in, selects credit (cos I’m a retard, right??!) and gives it to me. As I go to press first PIN digit I look at the price – $10.
“Uhh, this says $10?” Bitch walks back over to my stuff, goes: “Ah yeah it’s $10. $5 milk, $2.50ea chocolates.” “But you said $9” “Yeah sorry.”
Fuck it, I want my snacks. Not wasting more time by walking back to work empty-handed. I pay.
Fuck that bitch, fuck that place, and fuck their everything. Never again going to that shithole store.
P.S. I’m mad as hell but not really. A lot of this is over-exaggeration of my madness. But still, fuck them. :3
Troubled young man. 😛
Yes I am. Can still be angry at getting ripped off though!
As stated on fb, I’m totally with you on this one. These eftpos minimums are a crock of shit. Even if it worked under the old system of having to pay 50c to dial up and verify the transaction, there’s no need to make you pay $5-10 minimum. Store policies like that should fall under the same kind of scrutiny as stuff like warranty and returns/exchanges. There’s just no need for it in this day and age.
$2.50 for a mars bar I can understand, but $5 for a dare chocolate milk? GTFOutta here!
Man, the best thing about being at uni here is when I’m hungry or want a snack Woolies, Coles, and Maccas are the closest places to uni to get food. Well, except for the food places on campus which qualifies for the most expensive/worst value food in all of Hobart. But yeah, the supermarkets are cheaper for snacks than anywhere else by a mile! Fuck people who say supermarkets are horrible/killing society/murdered their children. They’re cheap and that’s all I care about! Small shops that sell chocolate bars for $2.50 can go die like they deserve to do.
PS There’s a place back in Launceston who does the whole handling money and food with the same glove. Somehow they still exist even after making people sick.
Yah I wish a store was close. It’s driving distance unfortunately.
Getting (seemingly) so angry over something so trivial seems a little stupid.
Just take what you learned and move on. No need to be so angry.
Oh, and a cashier making a mistake by $1 is not an excuse to call her a bitch and say “F*** that bitch”.
I’m inclined to agree, but at the same time I want to reassure Stickman that I don’t think you’re bad person or any thing. Not attacking you. Just not worth angering the blood over, is all. 🙂
It wasn’t meant as an attack or anything, just that it is not something to get so angry about, and that I hope he’s anger is overstated.
I mean, he now knows that it’s over priced, so rather than get angry, just don’t go back.
At the end of the day, it’s roughly only an extra $3. Nothing to get angry about.
And the cashier is just a person.
Just, treat people a little more kindly.
I just don’t like people being mean, especially over the mistake of getting something wrong by $1. That’s not an excuse to call someone a bitch.
[Sorry for bluntness. By-product of bad mood]
Re: bitch. I’ve had many encounters with all of the staff there. I usually don’t randomly call people names from one-off things… But yeah that place could be a case study on terrible customer service heh.
Re: everything else – see below.
I think Stickman put it out there that some of the content was exaggerated for greater audience engagement. I know I put a little bit of extra emphasis on some of my words here to seem cooler 😛
Yeah I know. I have problems. But I was srs with what I said in the OP – I’m not really that mad. In fact, I’m over it now. I just posted the story because it might be entertaining to some. I’ve learnt, and I’ll legit not go back to that place.
Tbh I’m slightly happy with myself how I handled it. I was never super-angry about it, I just imagined how it could be. And it definitely used to be like that. So overall I’m glad I can BLAAARGGGHH into some words and post it as a story and not dwell on it – an improvement in my life.
Tuesday afternoon TAY question (because I’m trying to figure out the answer myself)
Would you choose existing happiness and stability or give it up for a shot at more happiness or possibly more misery?
I think it’s never a good idea to get too comfortable no matter how good you have it. Change is adventure and adventure is happiness. So to answer your question! I DON’T KNOW! D:
Would you give up hermit life for a shot at companionship?
Like a Doctor Who companion? Clara would find my adventures so boring!
“Hey Clara, you wait here. There’s something I must do in the other room.”
Good point. I overlooked that part about actually doing things whilst in another’s company.
I’m gonna spoilerize this in case people haven’t watched.
I swear to god if Clara doesn’t stop threatening to leave the doctor, I’m gonna stop watching!!! It’s heart breaking! Clara needs to stick around for as looooooooong as possible!!!I think they’re all good now after Mummy on the Orient Express!Yer! I almost rage quit the show until I saw the end, then I was all like *phew*Stop duckin’ questions 😛
I ANSWERED! 😛
No you didn’t even!
You’re duckin’ again!
What? WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT, STEWIE? 😛
@dc
No duckin’ allowed.
No misinterpreting allowed.
No answering the question with a question.
Would you give up hermit life for a shot at companionship?
Stewie. No one chooses to live like I do. I’m a hermit because I have no money. I’m a hermit because I have no job. I’m a hermit because I am socially awkward. This isn’t happiness or a choice. I’m a hermit because I’m stuck in a pattern I can’t seem to break away from. Who would choose this? I don’t date cause I have nothing to offer at the moment. Simple as that. 🙂
I make jokes because Benny’s question lends itself to the above emoness! 😛
@dc My question was a hypothetical; if you could somehow break away from all those things. I really didn’t want to press the question if you don’t want to answer.
Who wouldn’t? 😀
Dear @dc everyone has something to offer at any point in their lives. Even when they’re 2 week old babies and all they do is poop or cry they’re offering something.
I was about to say something.
What? You guys are taking questions too seriously! IDIOTS! 😛
I firmly believe that if you’re 100% of the time living a happy live and everything is stable, you’re delusional. The world doesn’t work like that, you have got to be brainwashing yourself somehow. Our whole range of emotions exists for a reason.
Interesting thought!
Spoilered response for length:
Whilst I don’t intend to humble brag, I feel that I am the anti-thesis to your thinking on this. I ‘m pretty with everything at the moment, I have some close friends whom are in poor health but these are the only things I feel I could complain about. My family is in pretty rude health so I don’t worry too much for them at this time.I remember doing that recent ABC online party chooser app, to find that I sit right smack in the middle of left and right sides of politics on my views on things.
I like my job, I have a loving girlfriend and family and I am happy with myself I suppose. I will say though I’ve lived a pretty sheltered existence, maybe this stops me from not having really strong emotions on things you may be alluding too. I wept like a stuck pig when I split up with my last girlfriend, but I think that was genuinely the last time I felt like my emotions were incredibly strong.
Nice reply, and that’s probably what most people would aim for. But, you proved it yourself that you aren’t the anti-thesis! 😛
There’s always something! Hence you’re not 100%, but maybe 95%! 🙂
I mean, like someone knocks your phone out of your hand. If you simply smile and ignore it happened, I think that’s delusional. It’s perfectly normal to be feeling angry/upset at it – it is human. This ranges from “ah dammit” to *murderous spree*, of course, and there’s a socially acceptable level you can take this.
But, if a smashed phone and friends who aren’t feeling in great health do absolutely nothing to your emotion and it doesn’t falter from 🙂 -state, then something is wrong.
Good to hear about your current situation being great.But with that train of thought you can never have a successful relationship or a stable job right?
Your partner is not a clone of you, and even if they were you sometimes get mad at yourself anyway. There’s no possible way to co-exist with someone and have zero problems. If you act like there’s zero problems you’re lying to yourself. There’s always something, no matter how minor. We can of course get past some minor things by thinking about it ourselves, but it’s unhealthy not to at least acknowledge it.
I’m more talking about ‘happiness’ here, but it lends itself to the ‘stability’ part too. I can explain more if you’re interested b ut I don’t wanna right now. 😛
I probably should’ve phrased my question better I meant it more as overall happiness, i.e. bumps in the road but still for the most part smooth sailing. Would you trade that in for the chance at more happiness or hold on to what you have?
I always play it safe.
…except when I don’t?
I would totally live comfortably ever after on a farm with Kelly Brook.
Upvote for Deuce Bigalow 😛
Women.. pay me to give them pleasure.
Should totally be Gooky’s motto. 😀
I gotta get better at monetising.
It was more the character of Antoine and his voice that I was alluding to, not so much the words and meaning exactly.
Nearly downvoted because Deuce Bigelow.
I wanted to say upvoted for Kelly Brook but we are in the presence of ladies! 😛 Glad you gave me BOTD lol
Hmmm. I’m not quite happy enough with my current stability (hence my manic desperation to build a writing career), so I guess there’s your answer. This path seems to be equal parts happiness and misery so far – I’ll let you know which one wins out in the end.
Taking chances is usually a good self-development exercise, too!
I’ve taken a very consequence be damned approach for most of my life and it hasn’t got me very far. It’s down to weighing up the potential gain against the potential loss and seeing if it’s proportionate from my experience.
I think there will always be times where you have to take risks.
You have to weigh up what’s to gain from success, what’s to lose from failure, and how likely you are to succeed.
Happiness isn’t something to take for granted though, but striving for more is part of human nature.
Okay, so on a serious note I firmly believe that everyone looks to better themselves at some point in time and it’s all thanks to inflation. A nice pay rise today easily becomes insignificant in five years and unless you’re in the public sector with automatic pay rises for inflation, you (I do anyway) usually have to fight for them.
Err, replace firmly with loosely. 😛
..aaaand out of context that reads really badly. Don’t mind me, just digging my own grave, here.
Comfort and stability until I can’t stand it anymore and sabotage myself and everything around me for an almost-forgotten taste of reckless adventure, power, and freedom. A taste which ultimately proves less satisfying than expected, nothing ever really able to sate that fire in the blood that wants… more.
It is the human condition
the question is interesting, because choosing the former would imply I’m happy as is. 😛
So the latter, I guess.
Depends on the context.
Talking job wise? Relationships? Lifestyle? Living situation?
And “everything” is not a good enough answer because life is made up of many things and all you do in life is try to find the right balance of those things for you.
Also, never bet what you can’t afford to lose. Not just financially but with all life choices.
its cheesy but you can find happiness in most things. So the idea of “more” happiness is a bit weird to me. As if its some sort of real thing that you can keep track of how much you have. I think its more of a state, you cant be happy all the time, sad shit happens and other emotions do exist. But you can be happy even when shit stuff goes down. Just be thankful for what you have and dont have expectations. Expectations are the thing i think that makes me sad the most.
It guess it depends on your current level of happiness, your life situation and how much you have to lose.
Also need to consider the happiness of those around you and what the impact on them would be
Good question.
Currently I’m pretty content with life and I like it that way. Engaged, nice house, good job, enough money, get to do what I want to a large extent.
Would I risk this for more money? Probably not at this stage. I like my life, and going out to make a fortune and risk what I have doesn’t appeal.
However, I’ve already done a lot in my life that means I appreciate what I have, and I’ve already changed my life around in a major way a few times – went to good school in UK and lived in plum house, wealthy parents. Went to uni, parents lost nearly everything in one of the big crashes and moved abroad and retired.
Had a shit period after that, a bout of homelessness, serious depression. Survived, decided UK was going to kill me if I stayed there, and moved abroad and started a business.
Pootled along for a few years, then decided to do One Insane Thing with my life and actually fulfill one of those crazy dreams we all have. So I did – I packed up, shut up shop and spent a year cycling around Australia on my tricycle (hence my handle). Wound up moving to Melbourne at the end of that year, and been here since.
Had lots of highs and lots of lows, pretty much rebooted my whole life 3 or 4 times and I think I can now appreciate a happy medium!
@dc, just to put it out there, have a guess where I was when I started dating Mrs. Freeze?
If you guessed unemployed with no future employment likely and living in someone’s empty shed then you would be correct.
Don’t short sell yourself based on your insecurities. Because I can guarantee you that if someone was dating you purely for your job and status you’d more than likely not be wanting to date that person anyway. Mrs Freeze saw something in me (still no idea what) and that’s what she wanted. Not my current life status.
She saw your
massive ding dong in your jeansSeriously though, you are a good guy, thats what she saw moron. A good guy with a big heart.
@dc what Freeze has said, don’t stand in your own way. Trust me life has plenty of other things to do that for you =]
Im sure DC appreciates this and i dont want to talk for him but i think DC has been pep talked enough for a lifetime. THe only way to actually do stuff is just to do it and one day when he is crazy lonely and wants sex he will download tinder and start being his charming self. He just doesnt want it enough yet. 😛
One day he’ll cage a David.
I’d just turned 21 with a dead-end job at Kinko’s when I got with my wife. We kind of improved each other. Really, I improved myself because I had her in my life.
I don’t know where I’d be if I didn’t have her. Not working in liability claims. Probably still sponging off my mother, who would still be working accounting jobs she hates, constantly getting passed over for promotions, because she wouldn’t have been living alone for the first time in 21 years and been compelled to start dating the man who she’d eventually marry and start running a business with.
Sometimes you just have to go with the flow, because it will take you to the most unexpected places.
Oh yeah, repost of thing that got lost on previous page:
How about them video games, huh? Actually, I have been playing 8-bit of them lately. Pun: intended. I’m back on board the FFXIII train, hoping to ride this one out to the finish this time.
Interestingly, as mentioned before; a post about FFXIII was my first on TAY. Back in 2012.
Bit of a boring get tbh; I would have went with Freeze’s. It’s way more motivational-speaking.
I want to go see Bill Bailey on Thursday night, but I am broke this month. For anyone who enjoys comedy and music, I highly recommend him.
A bunch of his shows are on youtube. Sensational stuff.
I’ve got ’em all on DVD! He’s very talented and apparently has perfect pitch.
There’s an English music trivia/comedy show called ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ which has about 27 seasons all on YouTube! He’s a team captain in about 12/13 of the seasons.
Managed to get to one of his shows last week, well worth the price of admission.
Nice…aww man so tempted to dig in to my savings. May have a last look on gumtree on Thursday.
Its not like it’s something you can do next month, I say dig into the savings and build those up later
Next shiny Pokémon get! Egg 473.
(For the record, previous ones were 780/810 and 270)
@mrtaco if he’s happy than I’m happy. Do you need to do any changes to name registered to tickets or anything? I’m not really familiar with how they work.
Also sudden craving for tacos….
Pretty sure that as long as you have the physical ticket that’s all that matters. Address / name changes would only be needed if you’re collecting tickets from the venue in which case photo ID is required.
Successfully delisted. He’s gonna drop it off for me at some point this week or next when passing by my work. But yeah, like above – there’s no names or anything on the badge itself, it’s just a piece of plastic you wear on a lanyard or something.
Hmm. Would you want it mailed up to you, or just hand it over down there? Although I guess that’d depend on what time you were making it down there and everything.
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to see if anyone was still wanting a PAX ticket, My mate hasn’t been able to sell his as yet, and is still not able to go. let me know if you are interested.
I think saw on the PAX Cosplayers facebook group that there are still people looking for tickets, maybe he can try there too.
Lol Ubisoft. No purchase from me on any of their games until a good few weeks post-release.
I don’t get it …
EDIT: To be clear, I don’t understand why people are screaming bloody murder over this. Sure, you miss out on games being prettier but they are saying to get it at 1080p on release then some of the gameplay may have suffered. At the end of the day most people are playing a game for the gameplay not to look at the landscape.
The only reason I know what any game’s resolution is running at is because the internet tells me.
Quite forcefully.
There’s nothing to get apart from “Ubisoft are liars and full of BS”. The linked stuff contradicts what they initially said, and they’re just digging a hole.
Really? Because it seems to me like you’re just grasping at anything you can find to help fuel your incessant hate machine.
K.
I don’t know what they have said at first to start this whole thing. All I get from what they have said here is that they prioritize gameplay over graphics. Also that they will probably release a post release patch to up the graphics for the appropriate machines. From someone on the sidelines it seems like Ubisoft is telling people that they can’t have everything in the world right away and the internet is screaming “I WANT IT NOW NOW NOW!!!!!!” while stamping their feet and waving their hands.
Nah. Short story is:
Initially said both are 900p to prevent console wars. Obviously one system is being held back. Then in the link they ‘clarify’ that they were misunderstood, that they never nerf games from their max potential etcetc. Just one game, watch dogs, proves em wrong. So it’s funny to watch their PR burn with the crap they say.
And because of that, and watch dogs, I am gonna wait until games are thoroughly reviewed, as it’s too risky to buy at launch.
I would love to get the actual interview. All I can get is what media let’s out which isn’t always the whole story.
I don’t think that limiting the game to 30fps is prioritising gameplay over graphics. To me, it seems that they would rather improve a texture than up the resolution. Whether this is a good practice is based on personal preference.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
I think this is all part of Ubisoft’s scheme to push preorders by showing impressive preview videos. People watching the YouTube video won’t be able to notice the framerate, and due to the way YouTube videos are encoded, the viewer is more likely to spot the fancy lighting effects than the resolution, because the video has a 1080p option, so it must be a 1080p game.
I notice the hell out of resolution changes on the PC, but on the console… it’s harder to tell but you suck it up because… what’re your options? (Other than playing on PC.)
What this shit is really reinforcing is that unless there’s something compelling about a console such as exclusivity (TLOU/Destiny), porting issues (Dark Souls, Alien), or controls (often related to porting issues – eg: Assassin’s Creed), then PC’s still the way to go. Especially for shooters.
Batman (aka Douchebat) from The Lego Movie is getting his own movie.
Intrigued.
My Mr 3 will be overjoyed at this news. Because Batman.
Everything is Batman!
EVERYTHING’S got the potential to be AWESOME provided the script is strong and the animation is tight.
As long as Will is voicing him again I’m confident this will be amazing, it’s such a good parody of the character as it had to remain within the G-PG range
Will Arnett is still voicing.
However the writer is the one who did Dark Shadows which is… less good.
Tsk. The trouble with being in a two-person team is that since my boss is off indefinitely with her own injury, I can’t really afford to take an, ‘I’m a giant wuss’ day.
(Also, I have realized that one of the most important benefits to having a girlfriend is being able to moan and sook to her and actually get sympathy instead of just losing Man Points.) 🙂
Awwww, you’re still calling her girlfriend :3
I’m glad that you are 🙂
*cough* Er. Well, the reason I realize this thing is because it’s one of the things I miss.
Well … this is awkward.
*in a ghostly voice*
“yooouuu shooouuuld goooo beeee wiiiith heeeeer slaaaaash viiiiisiiiiit heeeeer, ooooooohhhhh”
What was that?!
I don’t know where it came from, but it sounded like good advice.
Unless it’s bad advice, then it was a ghost.
Stupid ghosts.
#CoveringAllBases
Well-intentioned bad advice. 🙂 That was actually the plan, but it caused problems.
Sometimes all the gumption, pluck, and determination in the world isn’t enough.
*hand on shoulder, knowing nod*
*drops a disco ball and everyone starts to boogey*
Surrogate girlfriends are good for that too 😛
So I’m going to play Alien: Isolation right now, I will not nope out and am determined to give a five live tweet event right here on your favourite TAY channel. See below for my updates:
Won’t that break the immersion? I THINK YOU’RE THE REAL MONSTER HERE! *hides in locker from highperformance*
Initial thoughts: I have opened my case and am looking at a yellow disc, which I like because how many yellow game discs are there, really?
Nb.: having never watched the Alien movies, I think this experience may be lessened for me. However, as a perennial reader before seeing a movie this may be cool to see it from a game first experience then movie.
I think it will stand alone nicely, actually. That’s something I was impressed with.
Update 2: 1781mb download on a 800kb download connection? Nope.
Haha. I’ve had so many games where I was super stoked to play, set aside time and then had to wait 2 days for download to finish.
The beauty of the PS4 is you can play while a patch downloads. THE FUUUUUTURE.
Not with online features though.
On… line?
@dc
MARIO KART!
Update 3: Got to 25% which is enough for ‘Ready to Start’ so I’m ready to play. Going to try and have my girlfriend watch who detests violent video games, she gets scared of the day/night cycle in minecraft so I’m bound for some LOLZ!
Update 4:
. I thought this wasn’t the case? Opening screen is spooky, the gf has asked me to quit. I press on anyway.It saves from time-to-time after a loading screen, but you save manually for the most part!
Update 5: Selected medium difficulty, I’m finding looking around clunky. Seeing not only your feet but walking is a cool touch. I still haven’t found my clothes yet .
Update 6: Required content is not yet available.
Damn, that’s what happens when you play 25% completed games :p will play some more tomorrow!
Why not play it with the oculus rift for proper immersion?
I fear what will happen to my under garments if that were to happen. I want to try it out with the kinect sensor on so the alien can hear me breathe :p
Don’t watch Rubber!
Some other @powalen approved things I agree with:
– Xenoblade
– Baccano!
– Dinosaurs
Didn’t like it?
Yeah, wasn’t really a fan :P.
Didn’t particularly hate it either though, it was just kinda very eh
Been meaning to watch that for ages now, can never remember the title of the movie about the car tyre, cheers, Greenius.
🙁
Masha laughs at your pain!
Tuesday afternoon hypothetical question:
If you could restart your life at any point of your choosing, would you do it?
I’m in one of those moods where I would, were I able.
I wouldn’t even with the power to do so. Only because I am who I am right now because of everything that has happend. I think I am a champion….
Not quite right in the head but a champion. So yeah… Nah I would end up doing every the same.
But an interesting question.
Would you do it?
Why would you do it?
What point would you change it to?
I probably wouldn’t. There’s a heap I regret but there’s plenty more in my life currently I wouldn’t want to give up.
My go-to time is usually 2004.
I think one of the key things in doing this though would be to know what happened the first time around. Both so that you don’t make the same mistakes, but more importantly so that you have some idea of the parts you’d still want to make happen 😛
Invest in popcorn stocks!
I’ve made many mistakes in life. I’ve often wished I knew sewing/quilting was my thing way back in my late teens. But to change even one little thing would possibly lead to one or both of my kids never being born. And any life without them would be a shallower thing.
The only point I can think of where I completely regretted something was being rushed so much on my wedding day that I was led to believe I didn’t have time to stop and do up the corset laces on my dress properly after feeding my then 9-month old son. So if I could go back to that point and fix my dress so my boobs weren’t practically hanging out in all my wedding photos that would be nice. 😀
Nope. I decided at a very young age I’d always go into every big decision that I’d live like I had nothing to lose! Even if things turned out badly I’m grateful for it because it made me who I am today =]
In fact my current dilemma is the first time in my whole life I haven’t been able to choose… That said I’ve got like a year before I need to make my choice =P
After careful research and taking good notes? Yeah. I would.
It’s not so much a regret thing… there are people I could save, and I would do that. But even the hardships brought me closer to other people who I’m not sure I would’ve without, and I would never want to give them up… but what’s a life worth? What could you achieve better? More? Knowing what I know now, I don’t know if I’d ever be able to have those same treasured friendships and loves, but who knows what miracles I’d find in their place? To live twice would be nice.
Probably early childhood. To get the best running start at so much more change.
As in load a save game or inhabit your previous self with present knowledge? If the former then there’s no point because I’d screw up the same things I screwed up and the latter would be too weird because I have a feeling that I’d screw up with foreknowledge. I’d want to go back & get psych treatment way sooner but knowing pretty much exactly what I need, the chances are I’d look weird asking for that specifically and be steered onto something else on the assumption I was after antidepressants & amphetamines for addictive reasons
My head is wrapped in gladwrap and I look like some kind of fetishist.
Nothing suss.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
My head is wrapped in gladwrap and I look like some kind of fetishist.
Was just about to tag you for that 😀
Are you keeping a copy of all these somewhere?
No, I haven’t. Might have to ask the TAY archivist @dc.
Nah! I’ve had self-pity to focus on lately, Red. I can’t be expected to do this as well! 😛
Am I supposed to have no idea what’s going on?
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Am I supposed to have no idea what’s going on?
It’s one of the ongoing series of TAY taglines.Basically anything incredibly disgusting, hilarious out of context, or outright bizarre.
This is possibly all three in one.
Just had a tasty dinner. Decided to do meatballs in a nice tomato based sauce with risoni.
Even made a nice sauce to go with it which had, mushroom, onion, home-grown eggplant, along with grated zucchini & carrot. Was pretty damn tasty must say.
Wish Rob Zombie used Kickstarter for his crowd funded movie. I’d be more inclined to back it since the page wouldn’t look nasty & unorganised like the fanbacked.com one does..
Saying that I might back it for the blu-ray reward…
TAY RPG Rogue Trader completed for another night. Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r @gingerchris86
Watch it here.
GM Summary: I think we have a prophet amongst us. Unfortunately he was a little short of the mark. 😛
Plus I didn’t mention that my corpse would get blown up by @freezespreston
Have you not been paying attention to my character? Everything gets blown up! 😛
@pupp3tmast3r Nob took over your character while his was lying on the ground mostly dead and proceeded to crit every roll and melt a Dark Eldar to goo.
About time my character did something aside from rolling 90+ on every fricking ballistic check!!
I feel as though I would have had better survivability if I went an Ork Psyker.
Melee seems very last resort and underpowered in this system.
Yuuuuuuuup. Melee seems super weak. =(
*Nob hits enemy for 12 damage*
*Freeze hits enemy 8 times for about 14 damage each*
Once Freeze runs out of ammunition he might be at an issue.
Also a close-range or enclosed encounter will be where you shine.
Actually thats a good point @freezespreston What’re you planning on doing once you run out of ammo? =P
I can still use standard ammo just not as effectively. Think I lose the full auto ability?
Yeah, full-auto missile barrage won’t be possible once you run out of Reaper missiles.
It might be possible to convert the Reaper launcher to fire human grenades but that is a bit of a stretch. Techie might be able to pull it off though.
So I take it we didn’t end up in the Dark Eldar slave dungeons? Did we manage to capture the skimmer? =P Was there LOOTZ?!
Well if by “take the skimmer” you mean “@freezespreston shot it like 5 times with his reaper launcher” then, yes we did!
Bedtime.
G’night.
Anime!
Just watched Shiro Bako and can tell that this is a must-see for me. I’ll be watching this one closely for this season. I’m already in love with this shit.
And to think, I actually said to my brother after watching the manufactured whimsy of Sora no Method, “This feels too much like it’s just pushing the buttons and pulling the levers. I get the feeling I’d love this if I had never seen anything like it before. I wonder if this is the by-product of simply having watched and analyzed too much, and nothing will ever capture the magic of seeing something I thought was really special…”
Then Shiro Bako comes along. Yup. Still possible.
@negativezero’s summary on page 2 was bang-on.
Nah, I think it’s simply that Sora no Method is mediocre and by-the-numbers.
Oh hey there tempting expensive gaming purchase. It’s about time you showed up.
In my head, gaming replies: “So coy. You keep saying, “We can’t keep doing this,” but when it happens every week, why don’t we just call it what it is…”
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Nintendo-Virtual-Boy-3D-Display-Game-System-1995-STAND-UP-MODEL-/361074880652?pt=AU_Consoles&hash=item5411bd708c
It’s been a while since one of these popped up, and I’ve *never* seen one being sold from within Australia. But I think I’ve talked myself out of it, I don’t really even have anywhere to put it until I clean up my room (and that ain’t happening for a long while). Plus that’s a whole load of money for what amounts to essentially just a Virtual Boy, and it’s not really like I need a third one.
TAY magic players who are PAXing
1. TAYDRAFT- anyone had a look at the schedule? I have a nice gap on the friday arvo from 1, a bunch of times on Sat and Sun arvo. Thinking we see if we can draft the Conspiracy set, which is a multiplayer draft focused one. Let us know if you’re keen, I have mates who can fill out spare spots.
2. EDH/COMMANDER I’ve also thrown together my very first Commander deck if people are interested in that.
I am so far removed from what Magic is these days. I have no idea what those words mean. I’m still playing the game as it was 20 years ago :/
Yeah, I don’t know any of the new rules / cards etc. Last time I played seriously was during the Zendikar block (2009-2010) and some of the Mirrodin series just after. Have promised myself I won’t get back in to it again. Could be dangerous.
If you were playing in Zendikar you’ll be more than fine in Conspiracy.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Which words? Draft? Edh?
Yes. And Commander and Conspiracy.
What happened to owning your own built decks and playing the damn game?
Drafts are heaps of fun though.
Also the game hasn’t really changed that much since the old days. What happens now is that every year they launch a new core system and some expansions, and for tournament play, the previous year’s cards are invalid. Means they don’t have the crazy power bloat and feature creep and the need to errata things all over the place.
Pre-constructed decks are still a big thing, but for more casual play, drafting is more fun. You basically get a bunch of packs and get in a draft group and open each pack, take a card, pass the pack to the next guy and they pick a card and so on, for each pack. Then you build a deck out of that (plus land cards which are provided separately) and play a standard 1-on-1 knockout tournament.
You can do that too. Commander is a good way to use all of your old expensive cards, and conspiracy was a special expansion they put out earlier this year for fun drafting.
Draft- you open a pack, take one card, then pass the pack to your left, and select another card and pass and so on. You do this for 3 packs, then you build a deck. Pts everyone on an equal power level and is a fun game in itself.
Commander- a MP format where you have a deck built around one legendary creature, your commander, and exactly 99 other cards that other than basic land are all different and in your commander’s colours. Fight. If your commander goes down, you can recast them for 2 more colourless.
Hmm. That Draft thing actually sounds kind of interesting.
Is the Commander game the one with those packs with the single giant card in it? I was wondering what those were.
That’s the one, yeah. They have 3 commanders to choose from in each one actually.
And of course you can mod the decks to your heart’s content.
I’m the same. I played Magic back before drafting was actually a thing.
Keen for both – although I don’t have a commander deck yet. I’ll also bring down a couple of standard decks, including my patented ‘piggies of death’ deck.
I’d never even heard of EDH/Commander – like drafting, it must pre-date when I played Magic (I played from Revised through to Ice Age, roughly) but that sounds really fun. How hard is it to build a deck for it though? Do they have premades or anything?
THere are premades- there’s been two sets of Commander decks so far, and a third launching later this year. I’m going to probably pick one up at PAX.
One of the best parts is that even though EDH is a sanctioned format these days, Wizards don’t actually manage the banned list for it- it’s entirely community run.
I’d be up for both btw. Don’t have a Commander deck though, would have to get one.
Mine is cobbled together, dunno how good it is (if at all). I’m probably going to buy a pre-gen one there.
My commander is Narset: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=386616
I wish I still had my old deck, I gave it away years ago. It was a white/blue combo at a time when everyone played red/green or black/green for the big creatures. Common wisdom among people I played with was that you went for big creatures (so you’d see Sengir Vampires, Shivan Dragons, Force of Nature and Lord of the Pit a lot) and that also meant that a lot of players would go green for the defensive side. If you weren’t building big creatures you were going for a burn deck, loading up on fireballs, disentegrates, ball lightning etc. and using green for defensive creatures (like Wall of Ice).
So I built a deck around Lifetap (get 2-3 down and they were fucked), lots of counterspell / elemental blast etc for stopping big damage spells, and flyers. Back in the day, Serra Angel’s ‘attacking does not cause this creature to tap’ text meant she didn’t have summoning sickness so could attack first round, and also could attack one round and block the next. Seraph was fantastic as a defender too, especially since White has so many buff effects you can apply. So basically I used those two as my mainstays. I think the only non-flyer in the deck was the Prodigal Sorcerer (does 1 direct damage, really useful).
I thought I had completed all of my schoolwork and had the rest of the week off, but then I got an email telling me I had an assignment to do that I have never heard of. I guess I need to go back to school tomorrow. >:/
I lay awake last night thinking about the cosplays. In the end I decided to work on everyone else’s and not go in cosplay myself. Mine probably needs the most work aside from Elsa, and there just isn’t enough time to do both.
🙁
Just do what you can, your doing amazing work don’t forget that! Also this reminds me @f4ction hows the mask coming along?
Can you wear the costume you made last year at least? Better than nothing if you still wanted to go in cosplay!
Nah, don’t really want to do Elizabeth again
That’s unselfish of you, but I hope that you get the chance to go.
So Sunless Sea is on sale today on Steam, anyone had any experience with it? I played the browser game it’s based on, which was actually pretty interesting for a browser game, fairly well written and a deep lore about it.
I think I saw @transientmind playing it. He might know.
Is great if you enjoy Fallen London/Echo Bazaar. It’s the same style of writing and the same world, but instead of taking place in London, it takes place in the Unterzee which surrounds fallen London. The stats and the like are a little different, and it’s kind of rogue-like in that you are expected to die… a LOT. There is some light progress saved between characters, but not much.
Last I played it there was a quasi-turn-based/timer-based combat system, but it was a little rough and occasionally boring, but there’s been a major overhaul just recently to completely re-vamp combat and now I have NO IDEA what it is like. Additional areas and such were added too, which is a bonus.
NOTE: IT IS EARLY ACCESS. It means it. There’s various placeholder bits here and there. It’s fully playable as-is, but you can tell there’s more to be done.
I did enjoy the writing and I do enjoy roguelikes so I’ll have to give it a go
Let us know how it is. I thought it looked pretty cool but I’m always pretty iffy on buying stuff on early access.
So I bought Slipknots new album from Japan (showed up this morning 2 days before release so yay) and well the mob I bought it from sent it like this I was confused at first, but turned out there was a poster in it as well.
So just because #danandkarlszeitgeist is on break doesn’t mean i am. If there is any current news you think i should be covering. Just drop us a DM on twitter and ill see if i can cover it on HOTROSS REPORT
The dilemma with the chicken crossing the road is a serious one.
It’s certainly a wake-up call for the health industry in the field of mental health. The chicken decided to cross the road to get to the other side. What compelled it to try to reach the afterlife? How could this have been prevented?
Even more pressing is the twinkling little star. Why is it twinkling? Will there be a supernova?
Stupid storm. I was just getting used to the warm weather again and now we’re back to cold and rainy! Make up your mind, Earth. (On the plus side, free trip into work today because the power was down at my station \o/)
Also, some PokéNews got announced today! (spoilered for new mega evos)
Mega Steelix and Mega Glalie! Mega Glalie looks almost scary D: It’s weird that we’re not getting any new Hoenn Megas though. I suppose these are all post-game! I really like Mega Steelix, looks pretty cool. Looks like they both stay the same type though. Boo! Mega Glalie should’ve been Ice/Dark or Ice/Rock! I like it when they gain new types. Oh well.I’m hoping that if/when we get a Mega Butterfree that it becomes Bug/Fairy type and gets Dazzling Gleam or Moonblast. That’d be awesome. I’d also settle for Bug/Psychic. Really, anything but Bug/Flying 😛
I’m also getting pretty excited for Bayonetta 2! Everybody should go play the demo on the eShop!
Yes, stupid cold. Bring back warm!
Booo. Other way around. Need coldness, heat is bad.
I am a lizard, cold is bad.
Oh, also the PAX Pokemon League gym leaders will start being revealed today at noon! One per day from now on until they’re all revealed! They’ll have a short bio for each leader, plus their character art (which I haven’t even seen yet) and badge art. Get excite!
http://www.paxpokemonleague.net/
I am meant to be doing this. No time D= I need a flippin’ time machine!
If you really want to, there’s plenty of people also working on teams now. I’m sure they’d love to help you out if you told them what you need!
Make one for me as I don’t have time to find X
Have a think about who you want on your team and I’m sure @beavwa and I (and others I’m sure) can put it together for you 🙂
@scree Indeed
As has been pointed out numerous times today, this time last year the blue mountains were on fire. This is marginally better.
I dreamed about drowning in an ocean made out of orange soda last night. It took me a while to work out it was just a Fanta sea.
Without geometry life is pointless.
What’s the advantage of living in Switzerland? Well, the flag is a big plus.
Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the TV.
“Doctor, I’ve broken my arm in several places”
Doctor: “Well don’t go to those places.”
Thanks to our offices being on the 2nd floor, and 1st floor having renovations – free butt massages!
I don’t get it? #page6 :p
Excavators and drills and jackhammers errywhere! Vibrations all through the floor lol.
you don’t get jokes! 😉
Yay! I have a clear desk!
I have a white desk!
Mine is blue.
Mine’s white AND blue
Mine’s desk.
Racist.
I saw on Gizmodo recently that Microsoft is really having trouble selling any versions of Windows in Germany.
Seems they’re all under the impression that DOS ist gut. #page6 #finally #slowTAYIn other news, Baker’s Delight has reported an unexpected 300% increase in Tasmanian profits.
Analysts have suggested it’s because they’re all in bread.And finally, we report on the recent spate of tool thefts at the building firm of Paddington, Rupert and Pooh.
When asked for comment the police responded that today’s the day the teddy bears have their picks nicked.Why Pooh though? Yogi makes more sense 😛
To be fair, any would work. Yogi does have a certain ironic hilariousness to it though.
Yeah 😛
Last time I went home I had to help my dad clean out his bottleshed by crushing cans.
it was soda pressing #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeA kleptomaniacal actor got kicked out of a stage production.
He kept stealing the spotlight.
Adam Baldwin has done the impossible. He’s made it okay that Firefly was cancelled and I don’t need to see Jayne again. That guy’s twitter feed is craaaaazy.
Dude is right wing of Genghis Khan.
Pity, too, because I am rewatching firefly and he’s perfect in it.
Eh, you gotta divorce actors personally from their work eg: Tom Cruise being a complete lunatic but a pretty phenomenal actor.
It’s takes a certain personality to want to dedicate their lives to pretending to be something else and it’s not always a balanced one.
Senor Ding Dong in name only.
This is exactly what I yell when people tell me they won’t see movies if Tom Cruise is in them.
Yell at them & spit in their face.
Just, so loud.
My mum is certain he is a bad actor, I make sure to remind her that he is a terrible person not a bad actor.
Straaaaaaange!
Your Mum sounds lie the one who’s a ding dong.
Holy mackerel, I’m having a Hot Ross day for grammar today.
Shes consumed so much she probably has become one, after all they say you are what you eat.
Jesus…
Yes, my son?
There are a handful of actors who I’ve really enjoyed seeing glimpses of their actual personality in rare, non-junket interviews.
Matt Damon as basically a big kid, Hugh Jackman as a well-meaning but incurable socialite, Viggo Mortensen as a slightly bewildered normal guy who didn’t expect to be doing this and really just wants to do his work and go home without Hollywood madness infecting any more of his family’s life than it has to…
And Vin Diesel is a giant nerd with an obsession with Carthaginian history.
I received an email from Nintendo with a code for the Pokemon ORAS demo! 😀
Ooh, me too!
…And I won’t get home until 9ish tonight! D: No spoilers, please!
I too won’t be home until around 9pm so no spoilers from me!
I also got a code, but I don’t have time to play, so does anyone want it?
@beavwa?
@novacascade?
Not for me thanks, I’ll wait for the whole game. I played Hoenn to death back in the day.
Thanks for the offer though
This demo is completely separate from the story, apparently. Might still be worth a play if you get a code.
I got one too! Might have to check it ou…
OBJECTION!
…out after I finish playing Ace Attorny. Really enjoying these old DS games that I missed.
Me too! Might have to check it out… I really should finish those games, one day. Last (only) one I finished was the original Red, I think…
Last year’s X and Y are amazing! First Pokemon game I ever finished!
I started Y, and got to just after the fifth gym, I think. I really need a 3-month holiday away from my PC and PS4 so I can concentrate on finishing some of them (like that’ll happen any time soon). I’ve started Gold, Crystal, Pearl, Soul Silver and Y, and have the cartridges for Platinum, Black and Black 2… only thing missing is the time to dedicate to them.
I should get around to playing anything past Gen 4.
Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat says to the other, ‘You stay here, I’ll go on a head.’
*sigh* page six again? well, alright.
*taps microphone*
So what’s the deal with limos? I mean, you know what I never got about limos? the tinted windows. Is that so people don’t see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who’s in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it’s either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each.
My sleeves on my longsleeve work shirts are shrinking slowly with each wash. 🙁 Some almost to the point of looking funny.
#talldudeproblems
Lucky you don’t live in Seattle or else you’d be SLEVELESS IN SEATTLE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT!!! What’s happening to meeeeeeeOOOOOOOOGGGGHHHHHH -turns inside out- RAGGHLLLLLFDDRRRRR -sprays blood mist from mouth- AARE YOU HERPY NOW!!! DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU’VE DONE!!! THIS IS NO WAY TO LIVE!!! GRAAAGAHHHHHH -etc-
Sit down with a sandwich and turn on *shudder* daytime TV.
Oh hey! Batman. Being… Lassoed by a biker Santa… while a mutant Easter bunny claws at him….
Fucking Calender Man.
Is it sad that I know you’re watching the Batman Brave and the Bold episode where Batmite makes his first appearance?
Batman Brave and the Bold was a pretty great show so we forgive you.
Outrageous!
I’d say no since it wasn’t bad. I’d never seen it before.
You’ve never seen Batman Brave and the Bold or just that episode with Calendar Man and Batmite?
Brave and the Bold.
You should check out more of it, if only to witness the glory that is Aquaman.
The show also pays a lot of attention to the less well-known DC superheroes so it’s quite a cool thing to see everyone. The show is pure Silver Era so it gets corny glorious at times but it’s pretty great.
I don’t know anything about the show other than having played through the Wii game by WayForward.
From that I can only conclude that the show is all kinds of rad.
Yes. Thoroughly re-examine your life and the decisions that brought you to this point, and go on a vision quest of self reinvention.
(Honestly, it probably doesn’t matter what you’d have said, I just like recommending that every now and then for no particular reason because I think it would be freakin’ awesome.)
I’ve only watched one episode of Batman The Brave and The Bold, and in it, a Nazi T-Rex tried to win WWII for the Axis with his army of mind-controlled dinosaurs, and Batman was there for some reason to stop him with a bunch of X-Men clones.
@mrtaco what’s the situation with the accomodation? Any chance you could email me soonish? I’m holding off booking the flights until I know this is absolutely concrete.
Oh, sorry. Yeah it’s concrete, the room’s booked and paid for.
Ok cool, did you want to send me your details so I can transfer the money now, or are you happy for me to pay you cash when we get there?
*EDIT*
Sorry, I don’t mean to keep bugging you, but I’m just trying to get things paid for so I can sort out spending money for the weekend 😀
Whichever suits you best. I’m not fussed on when it happens or anything though. Also I still need to figure out how it breaks down in terms of cost for each person.
Oh and also I have to get rid of that extra booking now, since @dc is a monster that doesn’t want to help me out 😛
Extra booking? You mean there’s a space in our room?
I booked 5 beds in a 6-person dorm (you, me, Freeze and two of my friends), but one of my friends has since decided he can’t go any more.
I have a friend who’s decided he’s staying out in Cranbourne because it’s free with a family friend, but I’ll ask him if he’s interested. Any idea of the split cost for the 3 nights?
His booking was for Thur/Fri/Sat. I *think* it might have been somewhere around the $160 mark for that. If you friend wanted Fri-Sun I’d have to call up and get it changed.
@dc isn’t a monster, it’s just that he’s delivering the keynote speech and all of the panels as well as organizing the entire thing for PAX North (it’s a thing).
<3
So I looked at my play time of Shadows of Mordor and I’ve already put 35 hours into it……. since it came out a week ago, I should be ashamed that about a day and a half of my life in the last 7 days was in a game but I am not, Time well spent. (I’ve also put a number of hours into other games during the last week).
*Escapism* keeping Gutsoup from going postal
Oh. also close to getting Pladernurm trophy for ME:SOM
I have put 121 hours into Destiny so far apparently :/
That’s impressive.
122 here lol
Anybody done any research on webcams?
Mrs Tigs folks are over in Europe so thinking of getting one so they can see Tiglet while they are gone. The place around the corner has logitec ones. Not sure how much difference there is between a $50 and a $100 camera.
Any brand, models people recommend or other advice?
For skyping only? Or would you also want to use it as a baby monitor?
We don’t have a baby monitor atm so that could be an option but very secondary
Get one with a remote.
Could pay dividends when times are tough.
If skype: you’ll get compression up the ying zing. Pay for pro account and you may get 1080p, if both ends pay. A cheap 720p cam will suffice. Just pay attention to the microphone part of the reviews, that’s what matters.
Thanks that helps.
Since I got a 3 day pass for PAX now (@mrtaco, do you want me to send money anywhere?) I have a Saturday pass sitting here that I can’t use. I couldn’t be bothered selling it so I guess free to good home if anyone wants it?
@dc?
Nah but thanks. 🙂
My brother may?
His if he wants it.
I will ask him and get back to you
Tell him Señor Ding Dong wants to give him a free pass and wink at him.
It’s my brother, he’d roll with that punch
Smash Bros talk. What’s everyone’s favourite character to play as? I’m seriously digging ZSS for her aerial juggling but I do also enjoy Wii Fit Trainer for some nice ground combos. I’m still in the process of unlocking everyone but the core cast is pretty great.
I’m not too well-versed on the technicals so I can only talk about characters that *feel* good to play as. Luigi has always been my main man, although Palutena’s normals seem pretty dynamic, I’m liking her. Little Mac is a heck of a character, satisfying to pull off but damn he’s easy to screw up with.
I used to play Brawl semi-seriously so I know a bit of the lingo and techniques like DACUS and spiking. Melee was far too technical for me but Smash Bros on 3DS is a nice blend that I’m enjoying.
I have a mate who used to only use Luigi and would dominate with the torpedo side-special and super up-special. Was pretty ridiculous to fight against someone who knew the ins and outs of one character so well.
His down+b is good, too, didn’t like that mario’s got moved to a down air attack. Which by all means should seem like a upgrade but sure didn’t feel like it.
Is that Fludd? I thought that was still a down+b for Mario rather than a down-air?
My friend finds the best use for Luigi’s down+b is for vertical recovery but it does decent damage.
ah, should have more specific, that tornado thing mario did in melee was replaced with fludd in Brawl, but it was moved to his down air. Luigi’s stayed the same.
Yeah Fludd sucks and I’m pretty certain no-one likes it but I guess it’s thematically appropriate so whatever. There doesn’t seem to have been many major changes in characters’ movesets from Brawl which is nice in a way. New characters bring more than enough spice into the series for me.
Don’t even know yet, I’ve still got a whole row of characters left to work through and am pretty sure I’ve still got more to unlock.
Last night I saw another stage for the first time, despite having played for over 15 hours now. Paper Mario, I think.
So much stuff.
I know right. I like that Sakurai brought across the achievement/challenge board from Kid Icarus because it’s a nice way to keep track of trophies and stuff.
My favourite stage that I’ve played on so far is probably Ferox Arena from Fire Emblem. It reminds me of the old Pokemon Stadium stuff which was always fun to play on.
The challenge board in Kid Icarus was brought over from Brawl wasn’t it? Though had a picture added to it there rather than just being a bunch of blue cells.
And the menus can be traced back to Kid Icarus then to Brawl then to Kirby’s Air Ride… definitely no DNA running through all his games, hey 😛
Yeah my bad. I completely forgot Brawl had the challenge board but I guess I didn’t really spend much time trying to complete so it wasn’t very memorable for me.
I like that Sakurai’s style of making games is so obvious at times. It really feels like “This is a Sakurai game” rather than generic developer/producer/director XYZ. It’s the same thing with Kojima and a bunch of other Japanese developers as well which is nice although I don’t quite get the same feeling for Western games. Tim Schaefer is probably the big one for me that I can think of.
Rare games used to feel like that 🙁
I haven’t been able to play much because I technically don’t own it (my sister ended up buying it). From the little I have played I do enjoy playing as Zelda, great close/mid range character.
Her juggling capability is pretty great too with a powerful up-smash. I’m glad they split her and Sheik off into separate characters to give some greater variety to each of them.
Yeah, I tried playing as Sheik and didn’t really like her play style.
I haven’t played Smash Brothers in aaages. But this is how I played:
piiiikkaaaa! *CRASH*….ding….
That was you Smash ‘A’ing someone when they fly into the top of the screen right?
Yes, in the first smash Bros Thunderbolt was almost a guaranteed KO
*I have not played the new one*
In Brawl my favourite character for a long time was Ganondorf. When I picked it up again two years later, Lucario became my favourite.
A conductor was struck by lightning.
The audience applauded.
That’s a shockingly bad joke sire!
At least he can’t tell it twice
Spare him the rod.
yeah, it’s not conducive.
Breaking News: ‘No Outrage October’ was temporarily imperiled today, when a… *twitchtwitch* person calling a coworker’s unattended mobile didn’t seem to understand that after it rang out the third time, it was probably going to ring out the fourth and fifth times as well.
Fortunately, there was a nearby coke can to crumple into a tiny ball, reducing the outward signs of outrage.
What is the etiquette on answering someone else’s phone, anyway…
“I haven’t got your damn drugs, now fuck off and stop calling me!!!”
I dunno about official etiquette, but my stance is that you don’t touch other peoples’ stuff if you can avoid it.
After all, who knows where it’s been?
I hate that people don’t have their phones on silent in an office. It’s not that hard people.
If I put it on silent, I won’t notice until three days later. It doesn’t matter though, since nobody wants to call me anyway. *holds back tears*
Good morning Aus post courier turned up with my copy of Slipknots new album “.5: The Gray Chapter” (2 days ahead of local release, fuck yeah!) it also came with a bonus poster. I’ve spent all morning listening to it. Really loving it. Can’t wait to hear these songs live in February!
Also the new WoW patch 6.0 went live this morning, which means there’s only one month until the new expansion which is cool. Shame the new character models look kind of fugly for the human females. However I can make my male humans look like Lemmy Kilmister, I am okay with that.
Jumped on WoW before for a bit to check out the new models. Most of them are rather disappointing.
Oh yeah, well the ones i’ve seen (just human basically) are disappointing, though saying that my horde characters the Blood Elves still look nice, heh.
Clever timing of their releases on WoW’s part means I’ll probably be subbed another 3-6 months, depending on if the new expansion’s got legs on it.
I re-subbed just the other day in advance of the Horseman, but I’m sure others would’ve subbed for the patch and pre-expansion events. So there’s Horseman, Patch, pre-expansion events, 10yr anniversary, then the actual expansion. Way to spread re-sub interest over 2 months.
I’m kind of looking forward to seeing the changes made by the stat squish and talents/skills. Re-learning my favourite class should be fun. Familiar, yet different. Also, hoping the toybox has made it into the patch. I haven’t heard anything about blood elf re-models yet, so guessing that particular joy won’t be there yet, but it’ll be nice having some of the prettier other race models around.
No toybox yet, it looks like. I was hoping it had.
Seems like a much better launch for this unlike cata & mists, where it screwed everyone up and you basically had to re-learn your class. Saying that i’m a bit annoyed as a rogue that i’ve lost yet another poison and a few spells I used quite frequently. If only I could recall names 😛
Toybox is in. It’s under the same menu option as mounts and pets.
Ooh cheers! 😀
Last night I couldn’t sleep because the episode of Primeval I was up to featured giant man-eating cockroach things. So I watched the rest of that season afterwards, and then the first episode of Primeval:New World which put me to sleep around 5 minutes from the end. Maybe I should have skipped to that one so I could have had a good night’s sleep. 😛
I routinely couldn’t sleep after Alien: Isolation sessions. I don’t have nearly enough hiding places in my house, Strange. Or components to build traps! DID YOU WATCH THE WALKING DEAD YET?
As I become older I find I can’t sleep if I do anything requiring my brain to be switched on, like play a game or sew things right before bed. So even non-scary and tense games make me not sleep if I play them late at night. And I can’t check Instagram before going to bed because seeing all the pictures of other peoples’ sewing and quilting projects gets my design brain inspired and then I’m just designing quilts in my head all night.
Friday will be Walking Dead night for me. After all this build up it better be worth it! 😛
You’re gonna hate it! 😀
I always reach for my phone when I can’t sleep which makes things ten times worse. *shakes fist*
I used to reach for a book but the problem with books is that I can’t stop so I’d read until it was practically time to get up. Not so much a problem before I was a parent, when I had no responsibilities.
These days I get up and watch one of my classes on Craftsy because even if the content is inspiring, the constant drone of just one person talking always makes me sleepy. I should have done that last night but I only have half a class left that I haven’t watched yet.
I know you guys all mean it in a fun way and all good natured like, but I’d really appreciate it if you stopped mentioning me with PAX. 🙂 Thanks pals!
*runs away crying*
I knew PAX North was a lie! 😛
sorry. We just want you there with us
I know and I really appreciate that. 🙂 No need to apologize!
It just makes me feel like a loser every time I’m mentioned. I know that doesn’t make sense but things aren’t good for me right now. Every time I get a mention it reminds me of how I can’t afford to do any thing or go places or be like my friends. I’m finding it harder and harder to shake this feeling of sadness I wake up with every day and it’s the little things like this that piles up. :SThat might have been too much information, right there. Haha!
I kinda felt like I was doing this each time I bugged you about it, and hated it. But at the same time was really hoping I’d be able to convince you to come down, so kept at it anyway. Sorry >_>
I get the feeling though, and totally relate. And also understand that from the other side it would feel so impossible to accept an offer like that, I don’t think I could do it either. I am probably a gigantic hypocrite 😛
Alternate perspective though: each time you’re mentioned, it’s specifically because you’re not a loser. If you really were, then nobody would care enough to even bother trying to get you to come along, let alone be prepared to actually go through with it.
🙂
Dear Daniel
If I hear you think of yourself as a loser again I’m going to come to Brisbane again and slap you around screaming “YOU’RE NOT A LOSER” till you’re black and blue, and have stockholm syndrome and start believing it, cause you’re not a loser, and it’s quite saddening seeing you think of yourself that way, though no matter how much I scream it at you you’re the only one that can convince yourself otherwise, I fear.
And yesterday, when you were all like, “I have nothing to offer”, that’s a straight out lie.
I am envious to the amount you have to offer.
I wish I was half the person you are.
You’re not offering your circumstances after all. It’s who you are as a person as to what you offer.
And as people go you’re pretty top notch, and anyone who doesn’t see that is either blind or not worth the time of day.
So stop associating you’re circumstances with who you are. They are separate things.
I hope you come to your senses and realise that you’re a good bloke, and turn this down mood around.
Love Stewie
P.S.
I’m only being blunt cause we’re friends, and I care about you.
Not a loser, <3 you
Kthxbye
I’ll get you next time, Gadget. NEXT TIME!
So… I got a job interview tomorrow for a similar role to what I’m in at the moment but with about 10k more in pay per year =P WISH ME LUCK?! I NEED THE MONEYZZZZ D=
You got this, buddy!
Good luck mang!
As mentioned on TAY previously, I’m moving out of home (finally!) end of next week. I’m trying to figure out what to do regarding internet & phone for my mum.
At the moment, I pay for internet access & phone line. We’re on Telstra cable because the house is about 5km away from the exchange, right on the edge of the coverage area, and I estimated that the best we could do on ADSL2 would be about 2-3mbit (versus the 70-110mbit we get on cable). I’m thinking Cable is still the best bet for her, but not paying the extra for 100mbit (the standard 20 or so is fine) and on the lowest usage plan because she’s not a heavy user like me.
The bigger issue is the phone line. Mum’s the only user of it. I was on a $15/mo. line rental plan (which gave a $10 bundle discount off the cable, so it was really $5/mo.) but you pay for all calls. She doesn’t really make local calls on it though. Primarily she calls my Dad in Thailand and has a weekly call to New Zealand to talk to my uncle. Also periodic NZ calls to talk to extended family eg my grandfather. Those tend to add up and the calls are about $70. I tend to just pay it and not really care, since I barely pay any board (one of the reasons I can afford to waste all my money on stupid shit like figures and video games) but I don’t think she’s going to be able to afford that.
I’ve talked to her about using Skype to do the calls, but she’s very resistant to using a headset. Wants a handset instead. Also a calling card is apparently too hard.
I feel like there has to be a decent solution to this. Anyone have any ideas?
Pretty sure you can get a handset shaped headset. Would that solve the issue?
What about one of those Skype handsets?
Could you setup a VOIP phone handset?
Yeah, VOIP man. Skype account or something, it’s awesome.
If you are able to get the other involved parties on-board, I recommend ‘hosting’ a demonstration Skype call for her.
I have a few otherwise tech-resistant family members who have embraced Skype wholly after experiencing being able to see their loved ones on the phone. Especially when it comes to seeing grandkids and neices/nephews. Some of them are now more savvy power-users than me.
Go into a Nephalim Rift in Diablo 3 and all of a sudden I’m playing The Last of Us.
Like literally. Clickers, Bloaters and such ripped straight from the game.
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/522215789265293312
They know what the people want! Next level is just gonna be Colobus Monkeys!
ThereIsNoColobusLevel
Oh … The Last of Us is in Diablo 3 now.
…
excuse me for a second.
*deletes game from PS4*
STUPID GAME ENGINE WHY YOU NO WORK
? What game engine?
In-house one.
You can display randomly selected elements by creating a Channel and attaching a Cue Pool to it. But a Channel has to be attached to a Mode to be activated… only I have the Mode activating but there’s no mention of the Channel doing anything at all. This is all despite it being set up exactly the same as the other ones that I’ve already got working. Unless maybe there’s a limit to how many I have, and I’ve now exceeded it.
could be something like that. Have you tried cloning one of the working ones and changing the parameters to see if that works? I’ve had weird shit like that before when making new things refuse to act the same, but cloning and changing works fine.
Heh. Turns out that the problem was the cue pool was empty 😛
I remember now that just as I was about to populate it I got called away, thought I’d filled it but had never actually hit the Update button. Derp.
Kick ass! Glad I could help you figure it out! 😉
All this Pokemon talk keeps reminding me that i need to sort my PAX team, i should pick a theme considering i just want to have fun with it.
My friend who im going with is going a Ninja Turtles team consisting of 5 turtle based pokemon and a ratatta or ratcate.
I was thinking going a pun or Famous person based team led by Vin Sneasel.
I should have started this earlier.
I just googled a list of turtle Pokemon and found someone asking the same question about a TMNT themed team. Hope it helps.
Shuckle is mold, man! He’s a fungi! And good at parties.
If I was dedicated to the cause I could have put together the TPP team, cosplayed as RED, and spent an hour running into walls and spinning on the spot before challenging a leader.
But I’m far too lazy to actually execute on an idea like that. Funny, but, eh, effort.
Still funny.
Still better than the original! 😉
What with all the controversy going on, I feel like Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus has come out at a poor time. However I will freely admit that I was anticipating it and have it downloading on my Vita right now. Life and hometown etc.
And now for a Special Message from the Producer, Kenichiro Takaki:
The Senran Kagura series will continue to run non-stop.That is the calling of a NINJA.
They run faster and jump higher than anyone.
They can easily jump over people’s expectations.
These games still have the potential to grow big and large.
Just like the girls’ chests.
Controversy? What is the controversy?
GamerGate and so on.
I had no idea that was related in some way… did the developer weigh in on it or something?
…Or is this just the general vibe that some people might hysterically mistake fan-service/softcore porn for misogyny and sexism or something, as opposed to targeting a specific demographic?
The latter.
Enh. Seems tangential to the controversy. I think we’d see a pretty different public discourse if some crazies decided that people shouldn’t be allowed to look at boobies anymore. This current controversy shouldn’t stop developers from making niche games. It would be hugely hypocritical and self-sabotaging for folks to scoff, “Oh, calm down bigots, we’re not coming for your games… we just want more to be made that either cater to everyone everwhere, or more to be made that target different demographics!” then in the next breath demand that games targeting specific demographics not get made.
It seems like some of them have it in their head that that is exactly what the rational side of the debate are after though. Meh. I don’t really care what a bunch of loons think.
IMPORTANT TAY POLL: Life or hometown?
I vote hometown.
Future
Children?
You sicko!
Haha. I guess I didn’t think through my ‘third option that tried to fit the theme’ very well 😛
Motherland?
(soviet russia joke here)
Depends on proportion relative to everything else.
LIfe
The 20th Anniversary edition of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is out tomorrow. One of the best damn adventure games of all-time. *flails arms like crazy person* Also, Jane released a short story last week hinting at where she would take GK4. It’s looking like the success of this remake will influence a new installment. If you’re a fan, this is the best news! 😀
Then Book One of Dreamfall Chapters is released next week, the continuation of The Longest Journey series. Red Thread Games have indicated that after Zoe’s story concludes in this game they’re planning on doing a traditional 2D game with April Ryan!
PS4 people! Does anyone know how to check the “install” progress of games for the PS4. I swear Sleeping Dogs has been “installing” for 5 hours but have no idea how far along it is nor how long it is going to take.
Okay despite the PS4 saying “this game is downloaded” if I check the games info it’s only downloaded 7GB/18GB.
So PS4 has a thing where you can download a small amount and the game becomes ‘playable’ and ‘installed’ but the download hasn’t finished. I suspect you’re getting hit by that.
If that’s the case, that is really misleading.
Sweet! Just figured out a problem my PS4 was having whenever I tried to connect it to my home network via wired LAN. Download speeds are so damn fast now.
Don’t think there is a way. The progress meter is only for the “initial mandatory install” portion. A ton of devs blatantly don’t give a shit about this and have further installs in-game too that’s mandatory.
Yeah, seems the only way to restart the download for Sleeping Dogs is to launch the game and try to load my saved game then it tells me “NOPE can’t open, need to download”. Then it starts downloading.
I’m thinking about applying for a job as an entry level Book Maker. I like numbers and I like sports. Has anyone got any knowledge of the job/industry that they could share?
Ask @beardymcmuttonchops
I hear he made a book recently
not the bookmaker he means.. I think he means bookie… as in horse betting!
#notpage6 #igetjokes
I’ve got this…
Double-fan adhesive binding starts off with two signatures of loose pages, which are run over a roller—”fanning” the pages—to apply a thin layer of glue to each page edge.
Nailed it. (And reply-failed-it at the same time /o\ )
Y’all ever get that thing where all this great wonderful stuff is happening to other people who you love, and you are genuinely so happy for them. So “happy” that you find yourself bawling your eyes out in a big bubble bath?
Sometimes it’s good to let it all out. Maybe play some music to yourself as well? I find that listening to music that I love mostly cheers me up when I feel a bit crapola.
Can’t say that I do, but then I traded in my emotions and empathy chip for an upgraded English language puns subroutine.
Worth it.
I can honestly say I’ve never been that happy over someone else’s happiness. But, uh, grats, I guess?
I think with all the italics and quotations she isn’t really happy at all.
See, this is what happens when taking a writing course trains you to look at italics and quote marks differently from how they’re used in internet commenting. Hope you feel better soon, @janexo.
Words are tricky. I say we should all communicate in the form of instagram interpretive dance!
Ye-
Wait no. The only time I was bawling my eyes out in a bubble bath was because I’d gotten soap in them, and have long since moved on to exclusively having showers.
Big girls don’t cry. NO ONE EVER SAID BOYS CAN’T THOUGH!
The Cure did.
Hm… bawling eyes out with pride and love and gratitude to the world for the tragically rare instance of something good finally happening to someone who deserves it, or ‘why doesn’t mine look like that’ despair and envy with a dollop of guilt?
Self-pity. I’m a big jerk.
Being jerks is what holds TAY together! WE’RE ALL JERKS IN OUR OWN WAYS! :’)
<3
I’m such a jerk that I killed @sernobulus last night. I clearly have the monster gene.
Not often, but yeah, in the past, I’ve definitely felt some resentment for like… happy couples seemingly rubbing their happiness in my face while I was facing heartbreak, for example. My reaction tends to be more Homer-like than crying in ze bubble-bath. (I don’t think I’ve had a bubble bath in twenty years.) Different strokes for different folks.
That has got to be one of if not THE most favourite Simpsons clip of mine ever. Both for Le Grille and Why Doesn’t Mine Look Like That.
The Hank Scorpio episode might be the best Simpsons episode ever, but “WHY DOESN’T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT?!” is probably one of the best scenes ever.
By “Hank Scorpio episode” you mean Who Shot Mr Burns Part 1, right? Right?
No, but that’s mainly because I haven’t taken a bubble bath in like 20 ish years.
Seriously though, I know what you mean. I sometimes find myself feeling a bit down when I read about how everything is going good for other people and I’ve been out of school for 6 years and achieved nothing.
It’s a horrible feeling but atleast we can all appreciate we’re monsters when we feel those feels. That’s what separates us from the true monsters. 😀
Also, seeing all the other responses to this, the proper meaning of this post totally went straight over my head. I am tops at interpretating.
You used the word “tops” and that warms my heart.
It totally weirds me out because it’s not a turn of phrase I use at all. In fact I’m not sure I’ve even heard it since back when my sister used to watch The Footy Show, years upon years ago.
Yep… I’ve always held the view that it’s better to take a bit of time for yourself to work it through, let it out if you feel the need; partly for your own sanity, and partly so you don’t inadvertently mar the relationships you value with those people. Just remember, their happiness doesn’t detract from yours, and you shouldn’t judge yourself by anyone’s metrics but your own. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that.
Meeeehhhh, I probably should put some pants on and start the day…
WRONG.
Well, when you put it that way with such valid points.
I know, right? I’m glad you’ve seen the error of your ways and decided to remain pantless and day-un-started.
But then they won’t have Senor Ding-Dong!
*rimshot*
How goes it, TAYfolk?
Pretty okaaaaaaaay. You?
Does anyone know if DriveClub is more of a driving sim, or more arcade like?
I’m interested in it, but I’m not a fan of racing sims, but love arcade racers 🙂
Reviews say arcade-ish with some pretty bleh restrictions. Like if you go off-road too much or bump into cars too much it’ll penalise you.
@evilmonkey has the game.
Thanks 🙂
@evilmonkey, once I start playing I would love to join your crew 🙂
I picked it up today, but haven’t started yet.
Just give me a bit to learn how to play and everything first 🙂
Sorry I didn’t get back to you with any info about the game before you bought it, I was at work, and I don’t tend to post when I’m at work.
I’ll send you an invite to join the kotaku club. Won’t take much to learn the ropes. It’s basically your typical arcade racer with the two differences that @stickman mentioned. Also, you can’t upgrade cars, you can only change the paint job, which is a bit sucky.
Hope you’re not as good at this as you are at Mario Kart. I would like to win a race every now and then :p
Hahaha, arcade racers are my bread and butter 😀
It’s a little sim-like, but I’m getting used to it 🙂
I’m glad that I don’t have to tube my cars, that’s too much hassle 😛
I’m glad I get to play around with the paint jobs though 😀
And if we’re in a club together, isn’t it better to be a good racer for if / when we go up against other clubs? 😛
Hey man what was the result of impulse triggers on Forza Horizon 2? 😛
Jeez that was fast.
Went to a meting at one with a temp placement agency. It’s now nearly 4pm and I’ve just had a phone call about a role!
Is it the part you were born to play?
JUMP HI5
BACKFLIPS
Not quite yet, still needs to go through the processes, but a 4-week placement before I go O/S would be grand.
No call from Melbourne Job guy, i feel like im waiting by the phone for a girl to call and ask me to prom.
Seeing a female friend tonight for dinner and the lady friend thought it was suss. I never really thought about that before when i was single. Its not like i would try and hit on my friend anyway but i see where shes coming from. RELATIONSHIPS!
See your friend! That’s a good thing to establish early in the relationship! Being forced to abandon all your old friends is a terrible thing, so don’t do it no matter the pressure you get!
I would never abandon anyone. But i can understand that two people going to dinner together alone can be misconstrued.
Offer for her to come along! Worst case scenario: a gamma-ray burst causes a galactic extinction event.
…What? I said worst case scenario.
WELL WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, ROCKET? *Waddles off crying*
Remember that time when you and rocket abandoned me at PAX? Good times 😛
Hahahaha.
Yeah.
:/
Never abandon me.
*clutches shoulders*
Ever.
At least you’re not inviting her around for a sleepover while you’ve got the house to yourself.
So, just because it’s been out a couple of weeks and no-one seems to be talking about it at all: Destiny.
Did my first Weekly strike last night. Initially ’twas myself and a UK friend. It was not going well. Then @xxRyan joined in. It continued to not go well for a liitle bit and we all died a couple more times. Sudden change of strategy (involving xxryan hiding in the Hive tunnel and me and my mate catching on…) and we got through that section! Cut a long story short, eventually we made it and killed Sepiks Prime despite two of us being dead a lot and my UK mate managing to somehow hang on and finish off both the walker and prime by sniping from a hideyhole. So thanks to xxryan. Fun chatting too while we were dead (although for some reason only two of us could talk at a time). Reckon we need a warlock on team next time… Time to start levelling. 🙂
One thing I’m noticing is how many sci-fi, cultural and gaming references there are in Destiny! Just last night, got a patrol mission in Russia called “Verbal Space Program”. Anyone else spotted funny ones?
I do enjoy the patrol mission titles. The only one that springs to mind right now is ‘Shanks for the Memories,’ as an assassination mission to take out a Shank.
Keep talking about it, people need to hear about this great game.
I joined a friend on a heroic strike last night and was getting one shot ‘meeled by a level 26 Dreg. We were playing the Sepiks Prime mission, we died about 15 times each in the three wave section and then beat the next two parts with the Walker and Sepiks with no problem. What level are you now and you an Xbox guy?
It’s so so good. SO good. All the criticisms are utterly valid (let’s face it the story is execrable) and I just don’t care, I love it, especially now I’m starting to make friends with some TAYbies and doing strikes with other people. 🙂
Yeah, the 3-wave section is hard. Managed that strike last night with a random and we finished it with just 2 of us. Got utterly murdered in the 3-wave a few times then sorted it out by keeping plenty of separation – I went back down the tunnel and he/she went up on the gantry behind the containers. We got killed in the final battle once, after I had a total Leeroy moment and through sheer incompetence managed to get us both killed. D’oh. On the respawn, worked out that if one of us was in the open-ended container to the left popping at Prime, and the other was using the room at the back for cover and kept the hordes at bay, we could do it. Wound up with a similar kill count but the other Guardian got all the spoils (a rare sniper and 3 strange coins), I got NUFFINK. 🙁 Great match though.
PS4
L21 Hunter (Awoken male)
L24/25 Titan (Human Female) – Striker maxed out and defence subclass about 1/4 done.
L5 Warlock (Exo Male) – just started him.
Was running around on patrol in Russia last night and doing public events with all these L26/27/28s and lil ol me tagging along, which is cheap XP. I went in the crucible for one match, but realised I probably totally cost my team a win (as it was effectively 6 high 20s vs 5 high 20s and a L3 with no double-jump! LOL) I may not go back in there for a bit. I apologise if anyone here was on that team. Sorry.
Good times man.
There seems to be a bit of an issue with the voice coms, which is why heaps of people use the PS4’s party chat instead of destinys system.
I’ve managed to get a few legendary weapons now, so that’s making life much easier. Looking forward to hitting up the raid soon, maybe you can join us?
Yes! I’m levelling up the Titan. Levelling up the Legendary weapons and armour, and ought to have another piece of legendary armour in the next day or two. Bring it on. 🙂
Hello my friends, hope you’re all well… Apologies for my lack of communication, mix of being in a blergh mood and work getting in my way…
How is everyone?
I’m happy, and for the simplest reasons. It’s nice.
I’m doing great. I’ve got my own servant. Do you have a servant? Mine’s name is Nail. He’s kind of a tool…for my amusement.
I purchased a sewing machine!
So far I’ve sat in front of it for 20 minutes staring at it despairingly before wandering off.
What sort of sewing machine? Give us the juicy deets. I need to go “Oooh” and “Aahhhh” while not really understanding because while I know how to sew I haven’t used a machine since grade eight.
http://www.spotlightstores.com/sewing/sewing-equipment/sewing-machines/semco-stitch-go-sewing-machine/p/BP80275477
A red one so it goes faster.
Ahh, a cheapie. Don’t worry, you’ll be converted soon enough.
Pretty sure we have a car’s value in sewing and quilting gear at my house.
Ooh, colours. Mine’s blue!
I don’t actually use that one because I need to get around to grabbing a power converter for it >_>Did the gameboy come with it?
It’s part of it, yeah. You select stitches and stuff by plugging it in via link cable and using the provided game cart.
That’s aqua! You lied!
*runs away crying*
Helping!
– Put thread on the bobbin. That’s the small plastic thing.
-Put bobbin in (I don’t know if it’s a drop bobbin machine or the other one)
-Follow the sequence of numbers, following the instructions to thread the machine
Now you can start
I’m pretty sure he sews with his job, though. I took his post as more procrastination? 😀
each sewing machine is different. Domestic machines are all different, and then industrial machines are even more complex.
I stitch leather and canvas. Sewing cloth is a whole different thing.
It’s like how soccer and rugby are completely different yet basically the same (two teams try to get ball to other side).
I have the top thread all done and the bobbin half done but the instructions appear to be
Step A
Step B
*scene missing*
Step Q
What does the manual say?
give me step B to Q
It’s all good. Found a YouTube video with a lady running through it. I don’t know exactly what I did but it’s working! \o/
Glad to hear it
That’s pretty much me going through most of life … excluding the “working” thing.
I think I just found the same tutorial. It’s a very cute little machine. I have my mum’s janome which is probably close to 20 years old and in desperate need of servicing (it’s very clackety).
The hardest bit really is getting the threading nice and clean through the machine, and getting a nice smooth stitch going.
In terms of sewing leather/canvas vs cloth, the principles are the same, and most cotton based fabrics are a piece of cake to sew. Things only get tricky on very stretchy, or very thin fabrics.
#OldLadyFreeze
What I remember from high school sewing class: “Lift, Pivot, Presser-Foot Down, Carry On Sewing”.
Dude, I think you took a dance class!
I said ‘Step pause turn pause pivot step step,’ not “Step pause turn pause pivot step pause!
I’m ever so pissed!!!
I used to have to sit and watch my sister’s after-school dance classes for a couple of years but the terminology was different and there was a lot more counting to 4 repeatedly. That shit’s stuck in my head to the point that if I hear the music she used for different exercises and stuff I can actually hear her dance teacher’s voice in my head calling the shit out, and I wasn’t even participating (I sat out the back and played Magic: The Gathering with one of the other guys who often got stuck in the same situation most of the time)
No, this is actually a weird thing from our sewing teacher. Her little thing she’d talk about all the time when you needed to turn a corner when sewing.
The woodwork teacher was similar. Imagine a super-thick scottish accent yelling “DON’T SAND ACROSS THE GRAIN OR IT WILL SPLIT!”.
I wish my school had cool stuff like sewing classes.
Gooky was schooled in breaking hearts!
I had zero attendance but still came out of it with full marks ;_;
My intermediate in NZ had sewing, cooking, woodwork and metalwork, though we didn’t get to do much metalworking because the teacher got some kind of illness about halfway into my first year and never reappeared so I only have one piece of metalworking – a crappy book-end – where I made multiple useful pieces in wood – the spatula I made lasted my mum about fifteen years and she still has and uses the tray I made. My sewing was a bit shit but that’s because the stuff we made wasn’t interesting. Cushions and placemats.
Also that stuff was mandatory for all students which is pretty cool. My high school here in Australia, cooking was the only mandatory thing. Everything else was elective stuff where you had to pick between slacking off in ‘computer’ class or doing woodwork or something.
We had mandatory Design And Technology for year 7 and 8, there were a few different things in that. Some woodwork where we made a moneybox, and soldering with this “water tester” thing. Oh there was some kind of battery powered car, for more woodwork. Can’t really remember there being much else though. I remember my sister’s school doing some sewing and cooking, also metalwork where she did bookends as well.
Woodwork was the shit in high school.
I made bookmarks, a tiered chessboard (Two end rows raised, dropping down a level at the third row on either side); a cabinet to hold my DVD’s, Blu-rays and Playstation games; and a little miscellaneous item holder (wallet, deoderant, phone, etc).
Eyyy
So who got email codes from Nintendo about Smash Bros and Pokemon demo codes?
They say it’s a select thing but it seems like a majority of TAY people ended up getting one so I’m just wondering whether I’m having bad luck (because I didn’t receive any emails) or whether I accidentally unsubscribed from Nintendo emails. Thankfully TAYfriends hooked me up on both accounts (<3 you).
They used to send me Club Nintendo related things but I haven’t seen anything for a while so I don’t know what’s up. Just wondering!
Didn’t get Smash, got Pokemans
I only used club Nintendo to get both the game and watch for the DS. They are still sitting there wrapped in plastic. Never to be opened.
I received neither. Generally I tend to opt out of email newsletters and the like, though, so that’s probably why.
Got neither!
Got both (and fairly regular marketing emails whenever new games/news come out)
I don’t remember! I don’t think I got them, because I ended up using someone else’s demo code.
Check your Spam!
Nothing there!
Well today I traded in some games and scored enough to pay the last little bit of far cry 4 CE and get a copy of metro redux also shadow of mordor the steel book which looks awesome. Also pay of the new borderlands and pay off dragon age with all the DLC’s and put some towards the new batman game. But I am tempted to change the dragon age to the big CE copy and wipe out the new batman game. Yeah I will do that tomorrow. So today was good. Hopefully make a start of shadow of mordor tonight.
@alexpants, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @cakesmith, @novacascade, @powalen, @cj
Alright guys, probably the final reminder, Wicked’s at 2pm on Saturday. We should probably meet up before that, so I, dunno, meet at like Midday at Kino, or something? We can grab lunch, you can all remember that you can’t stand being around me, you know, all the good stuff. Or else, like 1:30 somewhere, just to make sure we’re on time. I don’t know, I’m bad at this planning thing.
Was thinking we could grab dinner afterwards, so I guess @35 @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @vonsack
Any of you feel like eating food and/or drinking alcohol on Saturday night? I’m sure we can work something out.
It well may be… that we will never meat again in this life tiiiiime…
So let me say before we part: So much of me, is made of what I’ve learned from you, you’ll be with me, like a handprint on my heart.
(I am now living in fear that this won’t live up to everyone’s expectations, because I’ve hyped it up so much because it’s my favourite musical and oh god what if they hate it?)
I got Lion King in two weeks and Wicked in February. 😀 I’ll adjust my February expectations based on how this meat goes. 😉
Oh dear.
My family’s bought Matilda tickets for August, so I need to find a stopgap show so that I don’t have 10 months of hype generation.
NIGHT NOODLE MARKETS IN HYDE PARK. YOU SHOULD GO GET FOOD THERE. & POSSIBLY RUN INTO ME THERE. THEN GO AND GET DRINKS SOMEWHERE AFTER. I DONT KNOW. WHATEVER. I THINK THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA.
I LIKE THE WAY THAT YOU’RE ABLE TO SUGGEST SOMETHING!
They’re still there after last night!?
yeah, they run through til the 20-somethingth I think
Oh good. Was worried the storm had blown it all the way to Brisbane…
Midday at Kino sounds good to me. Ash and I will probably hang around for a while afterwards if theres a plan…. Who am I kidding, of course there won’t be a plan. I guess we’ll hang around anyway 🙂
We should go to that awesome cheap Japanese place that I like where there probably wont be enough seats for all of us cause its small and busy
OIDEN! thats the name of the place. Mad feed bro, choice as.
Ah’ll be thar.
Sorry man, I’m down past Kiama all weekend at a wedding 🙁
YAY!
Welp, I only just saw this. Sorry Blaghzy!
Oh Harli. 😛
That’s alright, everyone was terrible and so didn’t turn up, so it was quite a subdued night.
Hmmm…
EDIT: Removed.
Don’t know what to do. 🙁
MQFT!
– A, S, D, F, X
I could also do B or W I guess.
I saw the options before they were edited. But as I don’t know anything about any of them, I’ll say F
X(enoblade)
S for Love Hina Sim Date RPG! (Explanation here)
I have no idea what all this is about so I will say all of the above
I hope so, I just have to figure out the order.
@negativezero (and others)
Getting Hearts R?
Xillia 2 is on pause for me at the moment and it’s kinda meh, I’m assuming Hearts will be better but still pretty average overall. Might wait a bit before getting that. There has definitely been a Tales release overload recently :/
I wish I could. But no money \o/…….
Oh wait that is bad…..
I am confused time for beer and sleep…..
Absolutely getting Hearts R. Hearts was considered easily the best of the three DS games when it released so assuming it’s transferred over well. I’ve heard some mixed impressions on the combat, I know the translation will be up to par (it’s 8-4 like the others, not whoever the lazy fucks were that did Sword Art Online) but there’s been some utterly odd name changes, Shing renamed to Kor for example. It’s not even remotely the same.
I haven’t started Xillia 2 yet. It sounded like everything I was worried it was going to stumble on ended up being a problem. I’ve got Ar nosurge and Fairy Fencer F and a few others that are going to get priority.
Got my free Xcom key today, thanks for the heads up Kotaku!
I’m going to play it today, excite!
Enjoy! What an awesome freebie 😀
Have you played yet? Only played part of the first mission, I accidentally rocketed myself so I quit out at that point lol
Not yet, should start though! CS and DOTA won’t let me though haha. I’ll at least try not to rocket myself 😉
I was playing random games on Newgrounds, and I came across the best game ever.
Love Hina sim date RPG. It is glorious. To start off with, there is a spelling mistake every other sentence. Second, it has a battling mechanic, an essential part of any dating sim. If you talk to one of the girls, there is a random chance she will try to beat the shit out of you and you have to throw your shoe at her until she runs out of health.
Third is the actual girls themselves. They are insane in their own way. One has built a robot that kicks people in the shins. The girl I wooed over is addicted to watermelons, and I have to constantly buy cigarettes for my aunt, so I can get her to share her grey market watermelons for me to give to watermelon girl.
Best dating sim ever. What’s that? Katawa Shoujo? Never heard of it.
This is the funniest shit I’ve experienced in a long time. Experience the craziness here. (Don’t worry, it’s completely safe for work)
EDIT: Huh, newgrounds says the game is 18+, even though I don’t think there is any nudity in the game.
The anime is alright. It has its moments.
Many of which I found very funny.
By anime you mean the flash game, right? I’m a little confused.
Nope. Not the flash game but the anime on dvd. I think I have a box set of it I think.
Love Hina is a really well-known manga series by Ken Akamatsu, ran for 14 volumes (I know because I own all of them in Japanese, what the fuck was I thinking?) in the late 90s. It had a TV anime adaption, 25 episodes if I recall correctly, plus two OVA specials, one was a summer special that was all service, and the other was a Christmas special that I remember nothing about other than it having a relatively ok plot and Naru looking good in a Santa outfit. I have a vague recollection of some other later OVAs as well that had odd animation. The TV anime wasn’t a great adaption of the source material though it was miles better than the freakshow that happened when Xebec adapted Akamatsu’s subsequent work. Megumi Hayashibara was in the cast and sang the opening and ending which I recall being pretty good, though that was at the height of her popularity.
It was one of the formative harem manga series really, though that genre has its roots in Rumiko Takahashi’s 70s and 80s work like Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku. It also came out right when the second US anime bubble was going on in the late 90s and early 00s and for a lot of people was their first exposure to the style. It was also extremely popular – the manga sold in the millions and made Ken Akamatsu very successful. He’s a big name in the business now and is also married to a model.
Basically the protagonist… I want to say it’s Keitaro or Keiichi, I think Keiichi is Ah! My Goddess though? He ends up being roped into managing a traditional-style Japanese Inn which has been subsequently turned into a girls’ dormitory. He’s there because he needed somewhere to stay while studying for entrance to Tokyo University, which he’d failed before several times. Turns out his grandmother who owns the place has fucked off somewhere and left him in charge. Also all the girls living there are walking stereotypes and also varying degrees of crazy. Additionally he has the uncanny ability to trip over and fall on them in such a way that they expose their panties to him or he ends up gripping their boobs or whatever, it’s that sort of thing.
Also Motoko is the best girl and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Oh, thanks for clearing that up. I didn’t know that Love Hina was already a thing. I had a feeling that some of the assets in the game had been ripped off. Also interesting that the fan game on Newgrounds is less pervy than the source material.
The manga was great when I was a lonely fifteen year old.
Now it makes me a bit sad.
Anime wasn’t a good adaption but it was an okay watch.
Never read the manga and only saw the anime out of randomness. Like a lot of the anime I have watched over the years out of a whim or cause it looked interesting.
I got into the manga in a big way, it appeared right when I was getting heavily invested into anime & manga and was before the anime happened. Scanlations. I don’t really do manga a lot (especially not buying it, it’s over too quickly) but it got me pretty heavily. I can understand why too. The anime plays up the zany comedy angle more, but the manga has a more romance-comedy feel. I want to say it’s good but I find my taste from when I was that age (I got into anime in year 10 with Evangelion, so about 15, and I think Love Hina would have been when I was a bit older, 16-18? It ran for a while, it had just finished when I went to Japan in first year university and that was 2002) was… lacking, sometimes. Not always though, some of the stuff I liked back then is still good. Maybe Love Hina was legitimately good?
The first anime I saw was ninja scroll back in 1998 on vhs. A couple of years later I started buying anime on DVDs and always bought anything that looked interesting. Same with manga I will read anything that looks interesting.
I enjoyed love hina.
But then there isn’t any particular type of anime I do really enjoy so I can enjoy all types. From fruits basket to berserk.
They tend to grab my emotions a lot more then movies do.
I used to play this crazy game as a young boy running around in a school finding tools and stuff, trying to shoot these deranged kids who shot up the school. Pretty violent and graphic, but I didn’t know any better lol. Have you played this game??
No, sorry.
Probably a good thing mate, didn’t rot your brain like it did mine lol.
Newgrounds Confession:
One of my favourite strategy games is a NSFW flash game on Newgrounds about managing a brothel. It had some really addicting strategy and management aspects. I was constantly trying to min/max to train the most efficient prostitutes with the best stats. I was the best prostitute-pimp combo ever. The actual NSFW stuff was almost tacked on, as the game could have been entirely text-based without losing anything.So yes, I already rotted my brain.
Ok, looking for a bit of advice again (It’s just stupid workout stuff, so feel free to ignore, though any feedback would be good)
So I’m aiming to work on pecs and bum primarily, but don’t want to be out or proportion, so try to work all over, kinda thing.
I don’t want to be ripped, I don’t want to be chiseled, I kinda just want to be like, toned, a bit.
Healthy lookin’ kinda thing, you know?
Arm Day (Mon, Wed, Fri):
– 5 sets / 10 reps 95kg Chest Press– 5 sets / 5 reps Pullups
– 5 sets / 5 reps Bent Leg Raise
– 5 sets / 10 reps 85kg Pectoral Fly
– 5 sets / 10 reps 85kg Lat Pulldown
– ^^ repeat
– 5 sets / 10 reps 165kg Seated Leg Press
– 5 sets / 20 reps Situps (holding 10kg ball)
– 5 sets / 20 reps Cross Situps (elbow-to-knee)
– 5 sets / 10 reps Pushups
– 10 minutes jogging at 10.5km/hr, 5% incline (2, 1 minute walk breaks)
– 5 minutes walking at 5km/hr, 15% incline
Leg Day (Tue, Thur):
– 5 sets / 10 reps 165kg Seated Leg Press– 10 sets / 10 reps 75kg Glutes Machine
– 5 sets / 10 reps 115kg Seated Leg Curl
– 5 sets / 10 reps 75kg Leg Curl
– ^^ repeat
– 5 sets / 10 reps 85 kg Pectoral Fly
– 5 sets / 20 reps Situps (holding 10kg ball)
– 5 sets / 20 reps Cross Situps (elbow-to-knee)
– 5 sets / 10 reps Pushups
– 10 minutes jogging at 10.5km/hr, 5% incline (2, 1 minute walk breaks)
– 5 minutes walking at 5km/hr, 15% incline
Basically, I don’t know what I’m doing :3
Am I overworking it?
Is there such thing as overworking it?
Is less more, kind of thing?
If I’m trying to put on a bit of muscle / weight (cause apparently I’m quite scrawny), should there be specific things I should eat?
Also, if you guys do a Fitocracy thing again, would you want me to join in (you can say no)?
I’d be more than happy to cut out the gym and only do things that I can do at home / the park, to make it more fair to others, and to be a bit more motivational, or only count cardio / limit my points 🙂
Otherwise you can tell me to piss-off and not join in, cause that’s fair too (totally wouldn’t be offended) 🙂
Edit: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :’O
http://i.imgur.com/7srNpsH.png
Teehee.
I think it is possible to over do it. But then again I don’t like to think to much.
I wish I was scrawny but then most of my jobs has been physical labor.
If you are worried about what plan to do ask one of the trainers at the gym. They will give you advice and feed back.
But then try and sell you a plan. You can just refuse the plan politely and then take there suggestions on board and go from there.
If you lived closer to where I am I would most likely join you at the gym.
For motivation and I would like to lose some weight.
You anywhere near Mt Lawley?
That’s where my gym is.
Sounds like another Fitocracy challenge is in order at any rate.
That’s about 4 people now who have acknowledged that they need to be a bit more active 🙂
Ahh I am down in port kennedy.
No clue. I just ride my bike absurd distances. 🙂
I should buy a bike. One day I shall.
I would be up for another fitocracy challenge 🙂
Ok I typed up a big blurb so I’ll reduce it to point form –
Things to keep in mind when working out with weights
All weight oriented workouts shouldn’t last for more than 40-45min, beyond this point you get diminishing returns on your routine.
If you’re looking to tone and not build muscle I recommend reducing your sets and weights and increasing your reps. Aim for 12-15 reps which is a more toning oriented setup. The opposite is true for bulking, increase your weights and do smaller sets.
With legs if you want to focus on your bum introduce free weight squats (Make sure to get an experienced trainer to show you how) as well as free weight leg dips.
Finally listen to your body, if it feels exhausted don’t keep pushing yourself in your routine. Your body knows when to stop and when to push yourself.
That’s a good reply, guy. You’re a PT? @liondrive I second these statements and would just add one little exercise in on arm day: Seated upper back row or a ‘green press’ exercise. These are great for strengthening your rhomboids that may get pulled forward by virtue of doing a lot of frontal plane exercises.
Hahah no but I lived with a PT for about 2 years so picked up lots of info from him =]
That’s funny, cause I was messing around with that Back Row thing yesterday, cause I thought I may not have been doing enough on my back.
Decided to swap it in instead of doing the Pectoral Flies on Leg day.
Do you think I should cut back to just one lot of everything (rather than repeat stuff)?
Depends how long you’re spending, I think some muscle groups like biceps or triceps might only need 1 exercise. Find a small muscle group (maybe get rid of the sit ups for the back rows!)
Ugh, I just found out I have to fill in a 4 page survey for every game I add to Club Nintendo 🙁
Yep. I can’t stand doing that.
That is why after getting both game and watch collections I stopped doing it. To many questions
It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t jumble up the 20+ long list of radio buttons for each of those three “where did you hear about the game?” questions 😛
So I have 2 assignments due on Friday, which means it’s a perfect opportunity to do some good ol’ procrasturbaking.
Except today it was procrasturbaking on steroids. Adriano Zumbo raspberry white choc Tim Tam muffins. The kitchen smells like artificial death, they look like artificial death, but my god they taste so good.
http://imgur.com/a/wmaxw
OMG. So good, yet so bad.
Partial to a cheese and bacon muffin myself. The SO makes a particularly good one with spinach and corn too. Lots of parmesan. Wow they’re good.
Damn, I so read that wrong the first time around.
Was quilting away nicely and ran out of bobbin thread which this late at night I usually take as a sign to stop. But I didn’t stop. I wound another bobbin and kept going. And now I hate everything I did after the new bobbin and am seriously thinking of ripping it out tomorrow. Next time I’m heeding the “stop” warnings in my head. 😛
Maybe I’ll just go to bed and play some Marvel Puzzle Quest. I clicked the 50 Hero points Daily Deal thing on a whim earlier and ended up with that four star Dinosaur. \o/
I don’t understand those words but huzzah for Dinosaurs! \o/
I ran out of bobbin thread when doing my pants the other night, two thirds through doing the crotch seam. Stupid thing. Thankfully it happened after the hard part in the middle but it was still super annoying to have done that whole last part only to realise that I’d done nothing at all.
Nothin’ at all.
I swear bobbins are sentient and choose the worst possible moment to run out. 😛
Curse you, Bobbin Threadbare!
Skim read bobbins as boobies.
I prefer it reading as boobies.
You seem pretty obsessed with boobies, Lion. 😛
What can I say, they’re funny lookin’ 😛
I have been doing the daily deal just to try and get the 2900 coins or the 20000 iso-8 you can win with a very small chance.
Congrats on getting devil dinosaur \o/
I was actually trying to get a Moonstone cover so I could level her up some more. Happy with Devil Dinosaur and his 5000 hitpoints, though! I mainly use just the one-star Storm, Iron Man and Black Widow because their powers are the handiest out of all my characters, so to have a four-star alongside them to take all the hits has been pretty handy.
Sorry, @liondrive, it appears they’re still having problems with the DriveClub servers. I’ll send you an invite as soon as they’re fixed.
Happy to come for a drive too if that’s cool, once the PS+ version goes live…
Cool man, no idea when that’ll be though. I think you sent me a friend request a while ago. I’ll accept it shortly.
No sweat. It’ll happen about the same time Gran Turismo comes out for PS5… 😉
First attempt at making gloves since apparently I have gargantuan monster hands that no one makes gloves for.
Massive failure. Not even close.
Gloves are hard. My first lot turned out pretty bad, but the second ones were much better. That was still when I was getting mum to help out though, haven’t tried them myself yet.
You know what they say about guys with big hands…
They need big gloves.
Wow… I read that as
I need more coffee…
I’ve graduated from gladwrap and window markers, and am now just drawing straight on myself in connector pen.
Deviant.
So, doing proficiency tests in a java window thing is really friggin annoying.
@FREEZESPRESTON My brother will take that pass if it’s still available. Sure you don’t want anything for it?
No problemo.
Just your undying love. Your. Undying. Love.
So I started playing some of shadows of mordor tonight and yeah enjoying it so far. But need to play more.
Since I have only identified 2 captans and killed none. Will have to set aside a good amount of time over the weekend for it.
But then borderlands the pre-sequel.
Hopefully I get some game time at all this weekend.
Speaking of that. Anyone else getting borderlands the pre-sequel for PS3 and wants to party it up?
Oooh, sounds tempting, I was gonna get it on PC. If I can get it cheap enough I might grab the PS3 version too. Not that I’ll get a hell of a lot of time to play it on the weekend.
I will be surprised if I get more then an hour or two of game time this weekend.
Protip you dont unlock all the cool spells till mission 14 in the story. Basicly the ability to turn orcs to your side and build an army.
Ahh awesome.
The first thing I have decided to do before the main story is kill a lot and get a few skills before taking on a captan.
I have one skill atm that lets me blow up things so that will be fun.
@transientmind Hank Scorpio: Greatest simpsons one-shot character in greatest simpsons episode. Discuss.
He loves German beer!
Discuss what? Everything you need to know is right there.
Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn’t I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there’s four places. There’s the Hammock Hut, that’s on third.
Also obligatory “I moved here from Canada and they think I’m slow, eh”Ralph-clone: I start fires!
Whats there to discuss.. this is simply a fact.
Also. Look, I’m posting in TAY 🙂
It is known
Con: Believes that the Denver Broncos are an appropriate gift.
He was trying to inspire Homer to apply himself and motivate the Broncos the same way he motivated his team back at Scorpio’s power plant. However he was sacrificing his ambition to return to Springfield where his family could be happier, and turning down this opportunity was symbolic of his commitment to this.
*sigh* You just don’t understand football,
Marge@kermitron.Huge claim. It’s a great ep, though it’s not my favourite episode. I’ll let you have the one-shot character, however… at least for now.
So close to side-vote, but I’m going to take your reluctance as self-denial.
Working for a boss like Hank Scorpio would be fantastic. Aside from the threat of military intervention. He really CARES about his employees, taking time to get involved in their lives and wanting what’s best for them. If I ever seize the East Coast through doomsday device, I hope I can live up to his example.
edit, fail.
Apparently I’m @phlanispo-ing atm and talking amongst redartifice. Hi Red, how are you?
Hey Red, I’m good. Had SATAY meat earlier, that was good fun. Played Qwirkle and Sushi Go and 7 wonders and Suburbia with @banderdash and @jocon and @jacksonwryan and @freya and @trjn!
Man, sounds fun. You know, that talking amongst yourself thing could be seen as a sign of madness?
Shut up, you’re the crazy one.
Hey, pipe down you! I can’t hear what the other guy’s saying.
Face it all three of you and the monkeys on your shoulders are crazy….
*coughs* I mean why is that monkey on your shoulder not wearing a small top hat?
My monkey has a top hat and a bow tie….
Is it an @evilmonkey?
I dunno about that.
I always talk to myself when I drive anywhere and then sometimes when I am around other people.
Which is why people think I mumble. But it is only when I talk to myself.
Was fun, good to finally meet you.
Also great to meet bunny and freyr again, they good people.
I think I have a date on Friday, and I’m freaking out just a tad…
OOOOOOOO
Liondrive’s got a boy-friend
It’s one date, settle down! :O
Are you like, hopped up on Red Cordial, or crack, by the way? 😛
Liondrive and someone sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
*runs away giggling*
Thats how Giovanni makes his Red Eye!ask @redartifice he’ll understand
I’m not gonna be that guy to tell you to calm down, because I used to do that all the time, and that would be hipocritical.
I normally get to the date and am completely awkward. all I can say is be yourself, there’s no point in trying to be fake to be liked ( a trap I fell into a couple of times) I feel i have done better when I’ve gone in with a this is who I am approach.
If excitement gets too much as it approaches dont forget to breathe.
all in all, good luck 🙂
I don’t know, passing out and getting mouth-to-mouth could be a viable tactic.
Therefore, I say if you’re panicking and can’t breathe, just go with it. Make it work for you.
don’t ever change :p
My clothes will get stinky 🙁
Also, I was hoping to wear PJs to bed…
I like this. I’ve always felt that people who are confident in themselves hold an inherent appeal. Honest self-awareness is like… the cousin of self-confidence and shares much of that appeal.
Embracing some nervousness may not be the epitome of James Bond swagger, but it shows enough confidence in oneself to not rely on pretense.
Interacting with people in a sexual/romantic context is so rare compared to our regular social interactions that it should totally be enjoyed for its novelty and uniqueness, and even relative ‘failures’ could be considered worthwhile for that. Have a blast, @liondrive.
OoooOOOOooOOOoooh
I’m only going on a date to make you jealous, Pow 😉
Make sure you tease him about his name and pull his hair.
It’s… It’s been a while since I last dated.
I thought you were supposed to push them over into the mud and call them “stinky butt face”.
Woah, slow down cowboy. It’s only a first date.
DAmmit! So that’s why my dates aren’t working out.
Does he have boobies? 😛
Jeez Strangey, such a perv! 😛
Way to go, buddy. Hope it goes well!
I’ve been watching a lets play of Hyrule Warriors. As someone who hasn’t played much Zelda I think I’ve worked out a significant part of their world.
A long time ago Someone made a deal with the dark gods to bring magic into their universe so they could use it for their own ends. However there was a price for bringing magic to the world. Every living being lost the ability to speak. Whenever they try to say something only jumbled nonsense comes out. After decades of chaos and confusion they eventually worked out that they can use their new magical abilities to broadcast subtitles directly into each others minds whenever they try to talk.
See? It really does make sense when you think about it!
So after much serious thought (about 2min so far) I’d like to propose the following series of events for VoG this weekend.
1st group 12pm Saturday for about two hours (I’d like to practice a few hard mode tactics) – @jocon @distantdrop (your hunter) @piat @saturday and @dire_wolf
2nd group 12pm Sunday for about an hour – @jocon (alt?) myself (alt) @distantdrop (your titan) @piat ? + @blaghman if he wants =] and possibly stickman or trikeabout for the last spot!
Saturday I’m definitely in, Sunday I’m definitely not available lol
dammit Tag @distantdrop I keep using your PSN name! >.
K.
Saturday, yeah. Sunday.. hmm, I suppose now’s a good time as any to get a alt up.. 😛
Do it. =P If you don’t show up for the alt run who’s going to entertain us with their witty banter?
I’ll make a recording. I’m a pretty simple guy, so the combination of the following played on repeat should suffice-
“FUCK”
“SWEET FUCKAMOLE”
“FUCK ME UP THE FUCKING TREE”
“GODDAMNIT RAID GIVE ME RAID GEAR”
“IT’S ALL GOOD WE GOT THIS”
“BULLLLSHIIIIIT”
“HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND”
“DUDE”
“DUUUDE”
*15 minutes of high-pitched screaming*
actually you know what, let’s just cut it down to “FUCK” and the fifteen minutes of high-pitched screaming and you’re good.
Saturday’s are best for me since my gf works. But would be cool to make a full run sometime, thanks for semi-invite lol.
So yesterday I finally got around to getting back into my Gunpla as I have almost $300 worth of kits in various stages of completion, I don’t know when it turned into a chore but trying to find the fun again. I think it was around the time when I decided I wanted to get really nice finishes out of them, and the tediousness of getting that done.
Last night I might have fired up Pokémon Diamond just so I could catch something with the right pokeball for the next breeding project in X/Y.
I may have a problem…
I was considering getting pokemon bank so i could get a sylveon with HYPER VOICE. So much effort though.
My bonus $7 credit for ‘buying’ the free digital game that came with Mario kart paid for a year of the bank.
If you are in the mood you should get me a Hidden ability evee with hypervoice and heal bell 😛 Fucking move tutor.
Dont really though because its actually a fair bit of work and i would feel indebted then 🙂
I have no idea how to get HA before X/Y, and I don’t think the move tutor moves pass down through breeding, so I can’t get it then breed it in to a good HA one.
I’m only really set up for X/Y breeding, sorry.
DONT BE SORRY
I actually had a new idea for a team i might start on before pax and swap between the two depending on how im feeling 🙂
Lemme know if you need any KB stuff – I’ve had some pretty good luck with cranking out a specific nature, specific ability, 6IV within about 50 eggs.
Dear @tigerion.
Depending on weather, I should be finished and ready to post your baby thing tomorrow. Monday at the very latest. Probably gonna need your address, though. 😛
I’m about to walk up to the servo for
fuelCoke Zero. These are the desperate measures I have to take when Mr. Strange is away.YOU COULD JUST GO SHOPPING AND GET A BIG BOTTLE OR SOME CANS??
My bus card is low on funds, and I forgot to buy some while I was out yesterday because I am a huge doofus. I usually have a couple of boxes of cans in the garage but we forgot to check how many were left before Mr. Strange and his driving abilities went to Sydney for the week. 😛
I have a job interview today. I really hope I get it, and that I earn enough to be able to move out cause I dont want to be dragged back westward again. Which is an unavoidable situation that is deffiantly gonna happen some time in the next few months.
Especially if its back to that tiny house in Seven Hills again.
You’ve got this!
Remember, don’t throw boiling water in their face.
dont?! since when?
When you type something in italics it means you ignore it right?
Lukewarm water is preferable.
Good luck, Friendo.
Don’t say ‘doing your wife’ don’t say ‘doing your wife’ don’t say ‘doing your wife’…
Doing your….son?
New Gabriel Knight game! Today! *flails arms* Okay, it might be a remake of the first game, but it’s still something. It’s been a while since I’ve had new GK game feeling. 😀
More importantly though, Grimrock 2!!!!! 😉
ogm it’s so good so far!!
Good morning petals.
I spent an hour last night watching, and rewatching, Far Cry 4 trailers and I am sooooo goddamned excited. It looks just like Far Cry 3, but better! Ughh I could barf I’m so thrilled.
I have the house to myself tonight, so I think I’m going to trrrrry to play the Alien: Isolation DLC, because I understand there is more “free time”, as it were, before imminent threat? I predict it will not go well.
Here’s a weird tip for Alien: Isolation. Break the immersion a little with music in the background. During a particularly tense moment I accidentally left Arcade Fire playing on my computer and it lightened the mood. 😀
I sometimes listen to funny podcasts when I’m playing a game with no dialogue/that I know pretty well. Maybe I’ll try that, too.
System Shock 2 actually had this built into the game. If you found it too scary you could turn on the horrible techno soundtrack that killed all atmosphere. 😛
vehicle to vehicle take down followed by a drive by then escaping by driving off a cliff bailing out wing suiting away and landing in a rice patty next to an elephant!!!!!
That crossbow! Oh god, silent takedowns with practically no load time and minimal aiming! The kukri! Oh just all of it looks so frigging good.
Let me get this right,
you are going to play a scary game, at night with no-one home.
hahahaha
you arent sleeping tonight.
I probably can’t even play it in the middle of the day, in full light, with multiple people around!
HUZZAH! For being a coward!
I played P.T. while constantly asking Blaghs to reassure me and hiding behind my girlfriend who was hugging me and saying it would be okay.
IT WAS NOT OKAY. I GOT SCARED AND THEY BOTH LAUGHED AT ME
I prefer to play games with no one home, haha. But also, it will less scary, in a way, because there won’t be weird phantom noises in the house caused by other people.
There are 2 words as to why Far Cry 4 is better then it’s predecessor.
ATTACK.ELEPHANT.
Me too, I went to play last night but I just couldn’t do it to myself. From watching a lets play there is some time to have some free time before insta-death.
The alien will be introduced to you, but from this point on it is you and he and any wandering and enjoying the view can be punished 😛I shouldn’t buy into hype, but damn those trailers are so frickin’ pretty.
(I am slightly disappointed that when they announced the setting I totally called it about blowing up an ancient temple and running from an avalanche, but y’know… certain boxes need to be ticked.)
I played FC3 and expansion in the wrong order, dabbling slightly in FC3 but getting frustrated at it, fully embracing Blood Dragon for its goofiness while craving the additional breadth and depth of FC3, then finally losing myself for WEEKS into FC3. It scratched so many itches that I’m really looking forward to the sequel.
Also WHAT THE FRIG IS THAT ARENA?! Oh man. I’m gonna die so many times in there 😀
*jumps on hype train*
I’m gonna wingsuit into everything 😀
Good luck with Isolation, the DLC taught me one thing, if I was trapped on a space station with a Xenomorph I’d die a hideous death.
I believe that if I were trapped in an open environment with a Xenomorph, even with a million places to hide, I’d still die a hideous death.
Heffalumps!!
Nah, man. It’s all about the woozles. Although jagulars play a pretty big part, too.
Today is A special occasion on two counts! First it’s Cathryn’s 21st birthday today so hooray for her being old.
Secondly today we pick up our new puppy!! Pictures will ensue on the twitters and the instagrams!
Hooray for Thursdays
I was 21 once.
and still am
*hand on shoulder* we all are in..our hearts
But… i really am
That’s because you’re a druggo, and all those years that have passed since you were 21 have been merged into a single narcotic fueled jumble.
GETTING SERIOUS! NEW HOUSE! PUPPY! ACKNOWLEDGING BIRTHDAYS! 😀
I KNOW RIGHT!?
WHEN I MOVE WE SHALL ALL GO TO DINNER AND TALK ABOUT PUPPIES
DOUBLE DATE STYLE
WE WILL THOROUGHLY ENJOY THAT WHEN ARE YOU MOVING DOWN
START OF NEXT YEAR
HOORAY
PUPPIES!
I watched Lost in Translation and Her (which I had already seen) back to back last night. *swooooooooon*
I didn’t like Lost in Translation much, but I enjoyed Her.
I thought Lost in Translation wasn’t quite as good as the hype would have you believe, but still enjoyed it. Beautifully shot and acted. 😀 Her is one of my all time favourite movies. I would definitely fall in love with an AI. DEFINITELY.
Haha, EDI?
I’d be too scared. That voice and Cylon are linked forever! D:
I love Lost in Translation but really can’t bring myself to even watch Her.
I don’t know why, it’s easily the best movie I’ve seen in years. :S
MONSTER! *runs off crying*
I saw it with @dkzeitgeist and @sughly. We all liked it plenty! PLENTY! THIS IS WHY WE DON’T TAKE YOU ON OUR RARE MOVIE OUTINGS, FREEZE! WHAT ARE YOU THOUGHTS ON THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES?
Also, Freeze took me to see Transformers 4. He’s a monster, plain and simple.
I’M NOT DEFENSIVE! YOU ARE! 😛
Everything about it makes it seem like the most unappealing thing ever for me.
You know me. I’m all over the place and completely inconsistent with my movie tastes.
Place Beyond The Pines? Decent. Would watch again.
And I didn’t want to see Transformers! I was desperate to see Edge of Tomorrow but Brisbane decided the Transformers was the only thing that should be on! It’s your town! Therefore your fault!
You. Me. Parking lot. NOW. 😛
Didn’t even put out either! :'(
Let’s never fight again, Freeze. Even if you are so wrong about Her. 😛
To be fair, you suggested we see World War Z on our first man date. OUR.FIRST.MAN.DATE. No relationship could be repaired after that movie. *runs off crying*
It was to set the tone for The Last of Us!
It’s not my fault you’re crazy. 😛
I guess it’s true. It does set the mood for terribleness! *jumps out window*
So did your face! IT WAS A THEME!
😛
Her is admittedly the better movie by a long stretch, but just curious about what you didn’t like from Lost in Translation?
I rewatcher HER the other week with the ladyfriend, we both agreed that spike Jonze is a fucking brilliant bastard.
Also he wrote the screenplay for Bad Grandpa, which i also watched and was pretty okay.
I haven’t seen Her (god that one of the stupidest movie titles ever) before. I feel like I should probably correct this.
Why isn’t Bayonetta 2 out yet? *paces*
Did the try the demo?
No, I prefer to wait until I have the full thing. Given that the first game was my GOTY back then and Platinum can nearly do no wrong I’m confident.
You won’t be disappointed from what I’ve played. It’s really good!
PS Vita TV was only compatible with Dualshock 3. Now, the PS promo material says it’s DS4 compatible. Yet PS3 and PS4 can’t use the others’ DS’s. What?
Actually you can use a DS4 on the PS3. Even wirelessly now.
Oh, right, now you say that I vaguely remember something. No DS3 on PS4 though right, since missing button?
XCOM!
My team is becoming a pretty big deal. A major deal, at least, as I ran a mission last night where Transient Mind, DC, Freeze, Jane Not Quite XO, Strangest Itches were all majors, and bossing around Ben J(ackson), who was only a captain. DC won the race to colonel, by stealing everyone’s kills from a great distance away.
It’s funny how they have all kind of developed personalities for me. Strangest Itches loves to open fire at anything, and hates being the team medic. Freeze panics under pressure and always misses shots at crunch time. DC likes to hang back and annoy his teammates by stealing their kills with squadsight. Jane Not Quite XO loves being in the thick of it and loves to shoot point-blank with her sniper rifle. Ben J(ackson) definitely has a death wish or something, because he takes crazy risks (though always walks away without a scratch). Transient Mind loves to explode stuff. Greenie US is standoffish, but excellent at defending his teammates. NONE OF THEM HAVE GOOD SENSE, and most of them don’t seem to actually want to play in their assigned role.
I’ve even starting roleplaying them like this.
Actual game details, so spoilers:
Ran a terror mission last night that threw six spiders and three cyberdiscs at me all at once. After a couple of genuinely disastrous false starts, I managed to get through it without a single fatality.Also, I thought I was going to lose a couple of countries in the third month, because I’d timed the building of my latest satellite relay poorly, but it turned out that I could advance the story far enough and fast enough to assault the alien base by month’s end (1 day to spare), and so managed to not lose anyone. First turn in the alien base, my team got jumped by two groups of three spiders. That was a crazy intense battle. Again, no fatalities!
*decisive nod*
I can play through the missions quite well and with very little problems in Xcom but I am fucking awful at the metagame in between. Ruins every run I make.
Took me a while to figure out what were the most important parts of the metagame, and which parts could be delayed. Interestingly, the primary objectives can be delayed indefinitely. Satellites and interceptors, paramount.
Yep you need both to keep terror levels down and farm your other resources! =]
Yeah, this is me as well. The actual combat is fine as long as you’re careful with positioning, make sure everyone’s line of sight crosses and you use overwatch a lot. The only time I lose guys is when absolute fucking bullshit happens like your dude is covering behind a car door, shoots a laser, misses target and hits the door, and then the car explodes and kills him at the end of the round because the game doesn’t even warn you the car’s about to fucksplode (note: this is when I quit playing X-Com and never went back).
The issue I always hit is that the game suddenly ramps up the difficulty way before I feel like I’m ready for it to do so and I always feel like I’m not playing it right and setting stuff up for failure. Like I’m already fucked when playing and at some point I’m going to get hit by an impossible mission that results in wiping out half my squad and then be fucked forever.
Also the fact that so much of the game is random means it can kick you in the balls really fast. Like, 3 terror missions in a row where one of the options is on the same continents and you can only do one so suddenly everyone is bailing out on you because the game randomly fucked you right from the outset. Might as well just start over when that happens. I don’t have time to waste on shit like that.
That’s eerily accurate. 😀
So how many crew members have you lost and is Cam the Cold VI still alive?
I don’t think I’ve lost any this time around, actually. Mostly luck and preparation, occasional loadsavecheat (as in the above example).
Because of that I haven’t had to recruit Cam the Cold. He’s still chilling on his private island, pina colada in hand, waiting to be called into service.
Finally got around to playing this game this morning! I made it to the second mission before I rage quitted lol.
Somehow I had my upgraded squaddie with the rocket launcher shoot it at a building an injure himself, I was trying to tab out and give another squad mate a turn. Sooo annoying!My oven is broken. I think I can justify these Kettle chips for breakfast! ANY ONE DARE TO JUDGE ME!
*glares at everyone*
I hate a Ice Break, it was great/terrible.
Have you tried Barista Bros. yet?
That stuff is so HORRIBLE, I don’t understand how they managed to make it excessively sweet whilst being disgustingly bitter with no flavour. It’s even worse than what Dairy Farmers call iced coffee..
You use your oven to make breakfast?
Heeeeey, yeah… what gives, @DC? Breakfast is a stove-top business! Y’know, for making your belchamel sauce, poached eggs, and steaming your spinach and smoked salmon! I mean, I guess you could use the oven to crisp up some turkish bread, but that’s going a bit overboard isn’t it?
I suppose he may cook his bacon in the oven?
Croissants with all of the above ingredients stuffed inside!
Suddenly my bowlful of Toobs is not very tasty.
So tempted to hop a bus to my nearest coffee club for a quick eggs benedict.
Salmon Avocado stack > all other Coffee Club dishes.
Ergh. Too much butter for my liking there haha.
Breakfast? Cooking?
Well I guess a toaster technically counts as cooking…
Bacon & eggs require cooking, they’re the ultimate breakfast foods.
Cooking requires effort. The ultimate how-can-you-even-have-that after having just woken up.
No, he uses his oven to store his microwave. Which he stores his bread in.
Of course! Where else would you store your bread container!
That’s not the point Virus, it’s broken therefore kettle chips!
*decisive nod*
He could’ve picked a better chip if that’s the case!
Broken oven calls for at least Red Rock Deli chips.
Exactly!
I’m about to have a bowlful of Toobs and a glass of CokeZero for my breakfast. #whatgrownupseat
Fry them instead!
So I mentioned it on twitter, I might as well mention it here…
I have decided I will be getting the PS4 Camera with the sole purpose of Streaming my experience with Alien Isolation. I Should point out I have much experience at screaming and jumping and freaking myself out. So this will be streamed on twitch, and hopefully recorded for everyones enjoyment.
Cool! Can you try something for me please, when you get it? Can you hide the camera self-view on the screen? Meaning you’re streaming everything but playing in fullscreen.
Despite Shadow of Mordor being the most fun I’ve had in a solo game in a long time, I’m really getting tired of it.
Probably something to do with losing my save game progress after hitting 90%. Twice.
Maybe to do with the fact that it now won’t save at all.
Have they said when the next patch is coming?
Hopefully never. A patch is what did this and honestly I don’t want them to try any more.
So Monolith are turning into the new DICE?
I just still don’t understand why they changed the save points / save system when it was working fine.
So? Just complete it in a single sitting
I tried that, it crashed, and that’s why I lost a second lot of progress.
Well, single sitting as in didn’t close the game even if I was doing something else.
Since posting my first picture to Instagram on July 30th I’ve now got 124 followers (most of whom are complete strangers!), have joined in on two swaps and am now going to quilt a NZ lady’s quilt. This joining in thing is scary!
Just don’t drink the Kool-Aid
Pokemon demo peeps:
Anyone else get completely owned five times before realising you just had to throw a ball at the damn glalie?Dammit, I may have to buy yet another Pokemon game I doubt I’ll ever finish… It looked really good.
Haha, the first thing I did was throw the ball. So, no.
Demo is pretty damn cool though, I’m really hyped for Omega Ruby now!
But… ingrained actions. And… he said you have to prove your strength before it would accept you… I eventually threw the ball just cos nothing else seemed to work, and defeat didn’t seem to lose me anything. :/
I did the first time! haha Especially because I had a Sceptile. After I lost Steven is like “Just throw the damn ball!” 😛I loved the new music too. And the new area around the spaceship in Mossdeep! :O The remakes are always so good. I love seeing all the changes.
I had Sceptile, too… yay for getting one-shot by any ice move ever. 😛 Can’t speak for the changes, as R/S/E was a generation I got about 3 hours into before I stopped playing pokemon games for (literally) a decade, but it does indeed look great.How might I go about obtaining said demo? I’ve only just created a Club Nintendo account, so I’m still kind of new to the witchcraft and sacrifices that Nintendo require for internet functionality.
Honestly, no idea. I think I got a code by having registered Pokemon Y last year. From what I hear it’ll be available publicly on the eshop next Tuesday…
EDIT: But I also hear others saying it’s only available through Club Nintendo from yesterday, or by getting a code at some retailers from Nov 3rd. So, can’t find any reliable info, sorry.
Yup, that’s right. You probably missed the Club Nintendo email blast yesterday @morkai (if you ask around someone might have one spare), but you’ll be able to get a download code from retailers in November – probably EB.
I haven’t heard that it’ll be on the eShop, but if it is it probably won’t be the “special” demo (same as what they did with the Smash Bros one – where the only diffference was the lack of a play limit, so not a huge loss)
Saw that on Polygon – announcement yesterday saying the demo “will be available on Nintendo 3DS Oct. 21”; I assumed it was via the eShop. It might just be the US retailers getting it a couple of weeks earlier than us.
@transientmind Can you please email me at work, or reply here about your flights for Japan. Trying to get as much sorted out before I finish up here in a couple of weeks. Thanks 🙂
Oh, right! My brother and I booked flights with Jetstar from Brisbane to Osaka (Kansai IX?) early morning on the 19th for ludicrous cheap. We haven’t booked flights BACK yet, have been waiting on some specials. If we don’t see any soon, we’ll probably pay regular fares or something. We’ll be aiming for leaving on the 3rd/4th.
How much out of curiosity?
After baggage and booking fees I think it was somewhere around $400 each? I let my brother handle the booking so not sure on the specifics.
Ah, I don’t feel so worried now. Ours was about 475 each. Was freaking out you may have got one for like 200 😛
There were some ~$250 flights floating around. No baggase, so $280-300 in total I guess.
No worries, can you email me through the details of what you booked so far? Need to leave as much info as I can for whoever is looking after this when I’m gone.
Will you need me to get the hotel organised for you for the extra 2 night?
Hopefully not. If we’re lucky, one of my brothers’ local friends will put us up for the night. I’ll get him to mail me the flight details.
No worries, let me know as soon as you can. If you do need me to organise something, the sooner the better 🙂
Work is so boring.
I have had nothing proper to do for at least 2 weeks.
Just stupid tasks to pass time. I just want to fix Lasers so my day goes faster.
Get work with an evil/mad scientist/villain type, plenty of laser work then! They may even have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their frickin’ heads!
The laser wouldn’t be effective underwater, too much defraction
Whilst a valid point. These people are most likely mad, so sensible & viable doesn’t come naturally to them!
So invent a better laser, gosh.
MQFT!
C
P
B
P.
B
B!
B
C
Wow, a fast AND decisive response?!
Mr. Strange sent me some money to buy myself “a treat” so I’m trying to decide whether to buy a class, a book or a pattern.
Looks like I’m buying the book. And if I make it the e-book version I have enough leftover to get the pattern as well. \o/
And if you use the TAY20 coupon, you get 20% off!
http://shanewsmith.com/shop/P
GRIMROCK 2!!!!!!!
Anyone else playing?
Oh man, I haven’t even gotten around to playing the first yet.
I need to finish the first!
I have died horribly many, many times in the first! 🙂 I feel like I haven’t yet tapped the full potential enjoyment to be had in repeated party-wipes from the first one yet, so not in any hurry to jump into the second. The great thing about retro is… it keeps.
lol. secret is you can’t stand still. need to lure creatures to an area where you can run circles around them!
Yay! I found my cartridges of Locks Quest, Scribblenauts, Pokemon Platinum and Mario and Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story last night!
As if I needed more incomplete games to add to the list…
PUPPEH!! https://twitter.com/ColdCamV/status/522551744643862529?s=09
Pretty cute furball!
What breed is that? Looks like a touch of ruby Cavalier in there…?
It’s a Puggle so a Pug crossed with a Beagle
That is so damn cute my head is going to explode!
Edit: Also, what is his name??
Her name is Moni haha
Anyone getting Sunset Overdrive? I don’t see much hype for it! I don’t have an Xbone but I gotta say the game looks like a fun romp. 😀
I don’t have an Xbone either, but SO, Forza Horizon 2 and the new Crackdown were the games I would be buying one for.
I think it looks pretty fun. It’s one of those “I’ll get it if I get an Xbone in the future, but won’t get an Xbone specifically for it” kinda things.
Yeahhh, that’s my thoughts. Like @morkai above, Horizons is appealing to me too. Perhaps Halo collection. $350 with 3-game bundle is my line.
It’s a case of too many games, too little time. Halo, CoD and GTA all take preference to SO for me and the little time I have to game will be devoted towards them and Destiny/Fifa!
I may give it a while and see if it comes up in a XBL sale.
I really like the look of it but don’t have an xbone so kinda irrelevant to me
It looks good but I think it’ll be like Borderlands 1.
Fun and different but the sequel will refine everything and turn it into something amazing.
Eh, it’s never really grabbed my attention. I’m probably judging it unfairly but it looks like mayhem for the sake of mayhem and I don’t see the point.
Ok, I’m having trouble restraining myself…
Cheapest place to pre-order Beyond Earth still OzGameshop?
Probably!
Screw restraint, it will be rad.
The only reason I’m resisting is that the time I have had to put towards gaming has been sporadic at best, so it’s been quite some time since I’ve picked something up at launch. BUT, I literally go on 4 weeks leave starting the 25th, and SMAC was one of my favourite games ever. My excuses don’t hold up.
What’s been happening peeps?
Hey, Mikey T!
Hey hey! Your avatar keeps reminding me to play the HD remake of Grim Fandango.
Soooooooooooooon
@quiz_b calls his manhood the Yardstick
@35 calls his manhood February 29th
@rocketman calls his manhood Princess Sofia
@blaghman calls his manhood Seany’s Dick
@trjn calls his manhood Wang
@negativezero calls his manhood Sir Francis Bacon
@freezespreston calls his manhood Early Access
@coldcamv calls his manhood Jimmy Record
@Shane calls his manhood Stupid Boy
@mrtaco calls his manhood the Gookenhammer
@stickman calls his manhood Mr. Winkey
@highperformance calls his manhood Duracell
@powalen calls his manhood Prince Ali
I think that about sums it up.
It’s -an or -in’, not -en.
Your files need tidying.
Holy shit, @35.
Brilliant.
If there was a reminder of be careful of what you put on the internet, this is it.
Is it just me or do these names look eerily similar to Destiny’s Legendary/Exotic weapon names?
I refrained from telling you at the last second, and I think I made the right decision.
(The decision came more down to not finding a way to make the pun work than embarrassment)
I farted.
I played a game at one point.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking is now a citizen of Austria!
It takes surprisingly longer than I’d have thought to go out and come back for a quick shop run during lunch.
TEEN DOG #2 GET!
Martin Place is where it’s at right now! Foodbank are putting on a BBQ, handing out copious amounts of fruit and being all roung good guys for a small donation. I got two apples, 2 pieces of bread, loadsa bacon, a sausage and a beef patty for 3 dollar! Alriiiiight. Keep the good times rollin, Foodbank.
Oh so you tell me this *now*…
Well, twenty minutes ago but whatever >_>
2 lunches is perfectly acceptable in my book.
Two ~hour long breaks is not in my work’s book 😛
2nd lunch is a thing!
GIF rant incoming.
You know what I’m seriously hating right now? I mean, moreso than how many articles are accompanied by annoying gifs, and front page gifs, and all that crap. It’s gifs of video content in articles about video content! ARRRRGH.I mean, seriously. Let me watch the goddamn video without having it bookended by gifs from the actual video I’m watching! I came to watch the video. You already got me in! I don’t need looping sections of the video I’m about to watch while I’m watching the video.
Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. I’m watching most of these things at work, where by a strange quirk we can watch embedded videos but not access actual YouTube. Maybe if I was at home I’d just click the video to go to YT and watch it there, and it wouldn’t be an issue. But for what I’m doing, it’s just driving me bonkers. I was just watching the GTAV plane flying vid on the front page, looked away for a second and then had trouble figuring out which was the video and which was the gif when I looked back, since they were at the same sections. I really wish all gifs would go die in a fire.
End melodrama.
I do 90% of my Kotaku browsing on my phone at work. Sometimes you’ll open a page and have it download 100Mb of gifs and you wave goodbye to a good chunk of your data allowance.
Yeah, it’d be a lot worse if I was browsing on my phone. I get 1GB a month of “non-social” data, and I don’t come close to using it but if I was suddenly forced to Kotaku/TAY on my phone that’d change in a hurry. (Also helps that I’m on a non-4G phone)
I’m on a 4g phone and have 200mb left to last me until October 26th, I don’t think I’m gonna make it
Mine just reset today. All is well in the world again.
See, I don’t mind them if they’re pretend GIFs (so, h.26…4? running a short looped video in html), and if they have a play button so that you can stop them from looping constantly.
Oh, right, so I’m not against GIFs as an idea, just as a practice.
But for things like Cinemagraphs they’re pretty great.
See that’d I’d be fine with. Give me the option to start / stop the animation at will and I’d be perfectly fine with it. But when you’re watching a movie and there’s four separate streams of motion happening (the movie + 3 gifs in my peripheral vision) I want to punch my monitor. And the website.
So… the video content bit that they link *after* the header gif?
I agree with the rant above!
Waitwaitwait.
Are you saying this site has articles?
Articles are written by @markserrels et al. The rest is gifs from other sites.
I’m normally pretty chilled, but this one gets me too. Use a still shot! If we want to watch the video, we’ll watch the video!
Grrrrrrrrr.
These fucking gloves are going to be my undoing.
I have to try and bleach, then either dye or paint mine.
Kinda hard when you feel like you’ve got no motivation… 🙁
Fucking gloves? Normally you wouldn’t need to put the protection on your hands…
You’re going to use the gloves for what?
I’ll see you at PAX.
No you’re supposed to be doing them up!
For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction…
For a while, my favoured answer to “Why aren’t you doing anything?” was “Newton’s Third Law”.
I usually just use a sock …
Ankle or footy?
I played a bit of Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus this morning. Jumped in and ran through the first two tutorial levels with Yagyu. I can already tell I’m going to spend a fair bit of time with this game. It’s basically what I was hoping the original 3DS game would be like – effectively it’s Dynasty Warriors with boobie ninjas. Looks really nice for what it is too. Also should be heaps of content since there’s three groups of five characters (and possibly a fourth group since the opening and everything has the first game’s antagonists everywhere but they didn’t seem to be selectable at the outset) and based on trophies it seems each has their own storyline to some degree.
So far my only complaint is that it was telling me to hit the block button right before taking an attack to do a parry and acting like that was really important, but I couldn’t nail the timing for the life of me. Maybe Yagyu’s animation is too fast or something, dunno, but I’d usually block too early, or hit it just a bit too late and get hit instead. The times I pulled it off felt like a fluke.
Ok, I bit the bullet and pre-ordered Beyond Earth.
And while I was there also ordered the 7 Wonders “Leaders” and “Cities” expansions that were on special. I have problems.
Are the problems that you can’t play them all right now?
Pretty much. And that as soon as I unleash the wallet it just goes and buys other things.
MQFT redux, because last night’s was inconclusive:
A, S, D, F, X, B, W, H
B!
…again
Too many options!
I’ll go for A!
F
assuming Fairy Fencer and that game looks pretty radIt does, and it does.
Haven’t played Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers in years and it’s amazing how well I remember the solutions to all the puzzles. Haven’t been stuck once. 😀
Before I go and drown myself in the world of Grimrock, anyone out there who’s been playing shadows of mordor… man are those un-skippable intro movies annoying! Or at least.. they WERE til I figured out how to disable them completely!!
If you got the shits with that as much as me, and haven’t figured it out, rename or delete all the files in SteamApps>Common>Shadows of Mordor>Game>Interface>Videos>Legal.
Also In the same folder where the Legal folder is, rename intro.vib, and the vibs with nvidia and WB in their names. (just add an extra character or change the extension)
#MasterRace
I mentioned it on the last page, but look at these Destiny gun names as if they were random developer’s nicknames for their manhoods.
“77 Wizard”
“Crypt Dweller”
“Steel Oracle”
“Hide and Seek”
“Pocket Infinity”
“Thorn”
“Final Boss”
“Unfriendly Giant”
“Jolder’s Hammer”
“The Devil You Know”
“Ice Breaker”
“Invisible Hand”
“Strange Suspect”
“Truth”
“Invective”
“Thunderlord”
“Patience and Time”
“Universal Remote”
“The Comedian”
“Doctor Nope”
Dammit Bungie you stole Doctor Nope from me. And Unfriendly Giant. And Strange Suspect. And Pocket Infinity. Screw it I’m taking all these names.
I must have Doctor Nope
I MADE IT! To the second and final round of interviews tomorrow morning! It’s now me and 2 others…. Time to win this!! =@
3 GO IN. ONE COMES OUT.
THE ONLY RULE IS…….. THERE ARE NO RULES.
Tune in to this season’s greatest reality hit, Dothraki Employment Agency! Only on Fox!
But then that means there is a rule…
Well this is just chaos.
You can do eeeet! I’m hoping for a similar result for my own interviews!!! Let’s combine our powers of awesome and make this shit REAL baby!!!
New raid strat for the waves part of Templar hard mode:
(won’t actually work)
Similar to how we beat the gorgons ey =P
Yeah there can only be one (new employee)
@pupp3tmast3r I’m not going to be able to make any Destiny raiding on saturday due to real life commitments.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *sobs in corner* (Do you want to come for the Sunday 12pm run?)
Hey @stickman interested in locking in 12pm Saturday?
I can do sunday.
Now we’re one big happy family again =P
Sure man.But remember I’m probably not up for hard mode tactics ..
All good!
It’s funny how sometimes one game can cure a gaming slump.
Tried playing almost a dozen different games and couldn’t play any for more than 15-20 minutes.
Then I fired up FTL.
Now my gaming passion has been reignited.
Just one short, fun game managed to bring back the competitive streak in me.
The great thing is, this has also spread to all the other games I tried.
Gaming slump officially over!
Yep, just got to find a game that reminds you why you like playing and it’ll all fix itself.
FTL is awesome. It’s in the humble mozilla bundle at the moment – you can pay what you want and play it in your browser. Don’t know how that would be any good though, the only place you would want to not install it would be at work and you wouldn’t play games ther…..
*three hours later*
OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE!
OH GOD WHY DID YOU TELL ME ABOUT THAT? I’m unproductive enough as it is!
I always work Thursdays and have Fridays free, so scheduled a date for Friday.
I arrive at work today to find that this is the one week since I started where I have Thursday off, but work Friday.
FUUUUUUUUUUUU…
Bring your date to work day.
Flipping through a Jaguar XJ handbook and where it shows you how to change the keys battery.
Riiiiiggghhttt….
I wonder what a dealership would charge for a $5 battery.?
Jaguar now own all battery standards.
“Well see, we don’t actually stock that battery any more, but we can order one in for you from our supplier in the UK. It’ll take 2-3 weeks to arrive though.”
And then you’ll get charged $50 for the parts and $200 for the labor.
http://www.theshovel.com.au/2014/10/14/fax-machines-are-our-future-says-abbott/
I lol’d heartily.
I’m so glad that site has a truthful ‘about’ page. I mean, some things you can intuit, but other things are unsettlingly plausible…
I… what… even… idiot…. *blood vessel pops*
Edit: Thank god.
The Fax Machine’s nothing but a Waffle Iron with a phone attached!
*picks up remote control*
HELLO!… HELLOOOO! Stupid cordless phone, I’ll try the old fashioned model.
*picks up Iron*
Ah, that’s better. How ya doin’ Gertie?
*sizzle*
So I discovered that the front door at my new place has a bent and broken strike plate and the door frame is split around it, and someone/previous tenant jammed a big wad of blu-tac in there to fix the problem. I reported this to my real estate agent and the response was “Is this really an issue? It still closes.”
Sooo…is it now socially acceptable to smash in the front door of their office to help them understand the issue, or should I continue to try and be polite?
It’s clearly already been fixed with Blu-tac. Honestly, some tenants and their demands…
Tell them you’ve reported the problem and do it in writing.
Attach this http://www.tenants.org.au/factsheet-07-locks-and-security
Specifically point out the part about Rent Reduction.
So far the most honest thing I could send them is “This is no longer and issue, as I’ve smashed out the strike plate with a hammer so it does it’s job again and will just replace the fucking thing myself for $2 tomorrow morning.” but I feel like that might spark a debate.
Cheers for the info!
I’ve missed you, TAY
*touches TAY’s face*
*awkward silence*
That’s…. That’s not my face.
Shhhh….
“That’s an awfully long nose you have”
And it’s growing. Are you sure you’re not Pinocchio?
New Tomb Raider is currently $4 on Steam, and so, so worth it:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/203160/
I can vouch for this statement.
Worth getting the DLC for another $3.50?
Probably.
From memory, the DLC is multi only (maybe some weapon unlocks as well?), so no.
Went through line by line. There was 1 single player item that wasn’t an outfit. The “Tomb of the Lost Adventurer” single player map, for $0.59
Oh, right, forgot about that (since I pre-ordered). Might be worth 60 cents? I dunno, the tombs were generally pretty fun, but really really brief.
Yeah, I’m willing to find out for 60 cents.
I think there’s also some boosts to getting stuff showing up on the map and how quickly you earn experience and junk.
The Evil Within get \o/
Let the pooping commence.
Sounds like your evil within won’t be within for much longer…
Man I wish I could get all the games you get *cries*
It is both a blessing and a curse my son.
Sorted.
Finish work at 6pm.
Go on date at 7:30pm.
I can have it all!
*cries into tub of icecream*
That sounds like a normal friday night drinks sort of thing.
That’s the plan! 😀
Finish work, then go out for drinks 🙂
Uni assignments be dammed!
*cries into tub of icecream*
If anyone’s curious about the Fighting Chance Pack for The Evil Within. Apparently all the items cannot be used until chapter 3.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/16/world-of-diving-bismarck/
There’s a ‘World of Diving’?
Just saw someone tweet about musicals (not a TAYbie, but a TAYbie in spirit).. With so many of you loving musicals, how has no-one yet come up with TAY the musical?
We already wrote dark souls the musical
Considered it, but I’m bad at writing music & lyrics, only half decent at modifying existing songs.
One day Rocketto and I will write our musical though. One day.
So a Rocketto Libretto?
There could be entire songs about page 6!
YES! THIS! SO MUCH THIS!
Survivor Ep. 4:
Keith is an idiot. Drew is a bigger idiot.😛
@sughly @powalen @f4ction @phoenix @strange @masha2932 @mrtaco
Man, that was pretty much word for word what I was going to say. I can’t even understand the stupid they showed this week
You gotta watch the other seasons!
Seriously mannnn
It’s too hard to find torrents without accidentally seeing who won. And I’m lazy
The seasons seem to come out so frequently there’s no point watching past ones 😛
NO!
I yarghed because I’m impatient 😛 yeahhhhh Drew, ergh, I saw that coming a mile away when he threw the challenge. I’m surprised it didnt happen easier than it did. I suppose from the girls perspective it kind of did haha. I like that trio of girls on the team, hope they continue to do well, caus those guys are all over the shop (discounting Julie caus she does seem a bit less on the ball)Hahahah! Oh man, I love when people are stupid. Just… hilarious. There was barely any strategy this episode so there’s not much to talk about. Just people being dumb. So, so dumb.@sughly @f4ction @phoenix @strange @masha2932 @mrtaco
Now that my Pax Pokemon team is finished, I’ve started breeding and training a few back ups so that I can mix up my team based on the Gym Leaders types.
I think @beavwa is contagious. I now have a breeding problem too
Aw man. I’ve no chance to win if you’re specialising!
Nah, not specialising anything. Just a few more of my favourites that I was planning on using, but then reshuffled my team so they didn’t make the cut. I already had the breeding partners mostly lined up, so its just to have some reserves in case a particular battle goes horrendously badly. I’ll still be using my ragtag team of strange things for the most part 🙂
You’ll probably be happy to know that I traded away that shiny fletchinder I caught (for an event legendary in the ‘living dex’), so no Talonflame here.
Anyone else getting Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel on PS3 besides @platinumurchin, or is everyone else pretty much on PC?
@platinum-urchin
I picked it up today. So hopefully after dinner I get some game time with it tonight.
Cool, picked up The Evil Within today, didn’t have enough to get both, so I got them to put their only copy on hold for me till tomorrow (pay day).
Are your deets on TAYnames? if not, let me know your PSN ID so I can send you a FR. If you’re free tomorrow night I’ll be available.
I think they are. If not my psn is PlatinumUrchin.
Cool, I’ll send you one in a jiff.
I will eventually (like, within the next month)
Cool. Give me a hoy when you do.
PC
Isn’t the internet wonderful, right in the middle of these god awful online tutorials the website that hosts them completely shits itself, I should of just stayed playing games instead
I take it your not watching something on Khan or Udemy then? 🙂
What tutorials?
It’s LearnKey, an outdated Network+ tutorial for reasons I guess, my guess is they are too lazy to purchase access to the latest ones.
Legend of Korra game is out on Steam in 5 days!
Anyone else getting it?
When is it set in relation to the series?
In the three weeks between seasons 2 and 3.
Ooh, that’s about where I’m up to
Oh crap, that came out of nowhere. I’m going to be grabbing it.
I’m thinking I might hold off for reviews and until I’ve finished watching season 2. I still haven’t finished season 1. :/
Edit: to clarify, if it reviews well I will probably push through the season 1/2 episodes to get to it faster.
Undecided on whether I’m happy or sad that The Doctor on Triple J is finishing up at the station in December.
I’m leaning towards happy… but I think that’s mostly because his ‘jingle’ makes me want to push a sharp pencil in my ear.
I’m not sure who’ll be the replacement… Thinking it’ll be between Veronica & Lewis, Gemma Pike or a stranger…
Ronnie and Nazeem were pretty good the other week.
Maybe now he’ll get his arse back to the pet food factory and finish the next frenzal album!!!
Frenzal really should stay in my teenage years where they belong, I had a on going love hate relationship with the band but I’d like to preserve them where they were.
nah man they’re like whiskey man.. they just keep getting better with age!
Theres been calls for him to retire for awhile now alot of people didn’t like his radio personality thats why they’ve been giving him alot of “vacation time” to try out different presenters in his place. The next one to go will probably be Lewis Mckirdy
I don’t mind McKirdy too much. They can give Matt Okine the flick first… He was a bad choice for breakfast was the Alex. His jokes are atrocious, his technical skills after 9 months are still garbage, he regularly reads the time wrong, gets back announces wrong…
Yeah Matt isn’t good, my guess is they had no one really else with a stand up comic background willing to fill the slot
Thought I read earlier today that PS4 controllers can be used on PS3. Is this correct? Think it was @stickman and @freezespreston talking about it.
Also, @stickman, in regards to Forza Horizon 2, I couldn’t feel any vibration through the triggers, so the answer is no. Still a good game though, if you played the first one I’d definitely recommend it.
Yup you can!
Sweet! Hate the PS3 controller, but the PS4 one is a massive improvement.
The battery life isn’t as good though 🙁
I haven’t tried it myself but I think the PS button on the PS4 controller doesn’t work? (at least it didn’t the last time I looked it up).
Yeah battery life on the PS4 controller sucks balls.
That’s interesting. Forza, Xbone exclusive, no rumble triggers. I’ve got a couple hours on first one so I’ll finish it. 🙂
Not even through the first mission in The Evil Within and I’ve died about 5 times already. Obviously I really suck at stealth games. Had enough of it for now, might go back to it one day, but for now I guess it’s back to Shadow Of Mordor.
I went back to shadow of mordor today, tried to do 2 separate power struggle (or whatever they are called) missions and both times got gang banged by an additional 2-4 captains. Cracked a massive tanty over it and shut my PS4 down for the night.
Well, it’s bed time.
Goodnight, TAY.
Goodnight, Crazyguy 🙂
Well, having been through the twitter reporting process, it’s a bit shit
Aw, troubles?
Some pustule of a person got abusive. Blocked, but they copied a couple of my pics and appended them to things and referenced my blog, all of which are public but are clearly trying to intimidate me. So I filled out the proper procedure and we’ll see
Sorry to hear that, buddy. :'(
It’s not me I’m concerned with, it’s that they replied to a bunch of tweets with you fine folk in them. Don’t want other people subjected to silly nastiness.
*hugs*
Not fun.
Thing is, I blocked them after the third tweet, and they proceeded to tweet at least another 15 times at me and appropriate my photos for god knows what. Seems friggin weird that you can still @ mention people who’ve blocked you
The thing that sucks about Twitter is that blocking someone just means you can’t see them, when it should mean that they can’t see you.
@strange yeah, seems weird that it makes me clap my hands over my ears, not shutting them up.
This person will hopefully get bored or get shut down. Or get professional help
I saw all that weird stuff going down.
That guy is clearly not right in the head.
I wouldn’t give it a second thought.
How did that even start, if I can ask?
Hah
I liked a tweet of someone else (mark pesce) shutting them down. Next thing I get is “youre a c…” I respond about twice, then blocked.
It’s now about four hours later and they’re still reuploading pictures of me that they’ve found (my profile picture on twitter and another one) and my friend with “commentary” (mostly middle school level sexuality insults directed at me and calling my mate fat).
How pathetic.
I wouldn’t worry about him if I were you or your friend.
It’s clear how petty he is, so don’t bother giving anything he says or does the time of day.
As for using your photos, after looking at his profile, I still wouldn’t worry about it.
More just annoying than harmful it seems.
I’ll report him too though for you 🙂
Oh, I’m not worried (but thanks for your concern). I’m actually kinda fascinated. I’ve been using the internet my entire life and socialising on it for at least 12 years, and this is the first time I’ve had such directed vitriol at me. It’s pretty novel.
Had a quick look at the scenario.
Dude uses the c word excessively and without regard to meaning. I have also filed a report against him. Hopefully multiple reports gets things moving a bit quicker.
It’s really weird when it happens. I was the owner and mod of an email group back when they were a thing. My style is very simple – no direct abuse. One time, a relatively new member had become a little feisty and was skating close to the edge, so I quietly reiterated the rules and let them know they were veering very close to the acceptable conduct line…
*BOOM*
Suddenly I was the target, and everything was called into question – my honesty, my sexuality, my denying them their “right to say anything they want”. Mental. Several emails of vitriol.
Fortunately they rage quit and I didn’t have to use the ban, which I’ve still only done once ever.
It’s not nice though. No matter how vehemently one disagrees, it’s simply not cool to be abusive. And the intensity with which the target is stalked is just horrifying.
(I’ve been guilty in the distant past of losing my temper online – too many beers, getting too heated. Can take a while to learn to be calm and remember that there’s no hurry, can respond later after a few deep breaths or some sleep.)
Hah.
There’s a good argument for free speech, but not a good one for consequence free speech.
Also, the weird part was that this was a random whom I’d not said boo to, and they opened with abuse. In retrospect should have blocked without responding
Yeah, I saw what happened (had a look after reading this, it wasn’t hard to find). How utterly bizarre. Not pleasant. 🙁
What the hell. Really?
Also, how many vines of The Project can you upload in a single day? Jesus, it took several minutes of scrolling to even find one of his/her posts not from October 17th.
Turns out I was pretty damn close to the end of the first Chapter of The Evil Within when I gave up. Oh well, might give it another crack tomorrow night.
You know what’s fun? Going to a website and Firefox telling you that it prevented 8 pop-up windows from being opened. Running anti-virus scan immediately.
Stop looking at porn man XD
I was actually trying to look at third-party NHL streams. There’s probably more shame in that.
Loving season 04 of The Walking Dead 🙂
I think the character centric approach they took was exactly what it needed after the slightly disappointing season 03.
Splitting the group into smaller more manageable groups was a smart decision.
Spoilers for season 04:
I’m so glad that they finally got out of the prison. The constant prison setting kinda ruined season 03 for me. I know it was to contrast with Woodbury, but it just didn’t work as well as I think they thought it would.I’m also super happy that they finally killed off the Governor (without dragging it out). Dude should have died ages ago.
Just a random point in season 04, but I was borderline on the point of crying when…
Lizzie killed Mika, then Carol had to kill Lizzie as they both cried. Lizzieand Mika were two of my new favourites :'(Overall, it’s either my favourite, or second favourite season (after season 01).
Looking forward to catching up so I can start watching Season 05 🙂
Based on season premiere alone, s5 could be the best yet! 😀
I only have the finale of season 04 to go 🙂
It’s cool, cause the way it was structured made it seem like not much happened, but so much happened, and there was so much (needed) character development.
Really good season, which I hope season 05 continues on with 🙂
Welp, I’m wide awake and completely alert… whilst still in bed. 🙁
Did you get a new puppy too? Because that happened to me as well
Good thing you’re not allegeric to adorableness. Otherwise puppies can be deadly.
Its taken a poo 6 times on the carpet and wee’d another 10..she may be adorable but she has the bladder the size of a peanut
So sore today. So sore that i cant move. I think i screwed my back overnight 🙁
I know that feels dood. Did it myself the other day. Woke up with the remote control for my tv right under my spine. Back was killing all day. Hope you can get to see a doc or something. Call one of those home gp services perhaps. A lot of them bulk bill these days!
We’re all doomed!
http://www.theisraelidaily.com/isis-releases-snippet-new-nickelback-single-threaten-unleash-full-song-demands-met/
So last night I had a bad panic attack while trying to sleep. Luckily my Mum was there and was able to help calm me down. I have most certainly bitten off more then I can chew with the cosplays. I know, that people won’t mind if everything is not completed, but, I don’t want to give them incomplete costumes.
I will work hard to try and get them all finished, no matter what obstacles I encounter.
Hope you’re feeling better now, Scree. *hugs*
I am, but I feel like I’m close to losing it all the time. Mum will try and help me.
I am feeling increasingly certain that I’m not going to be able to get mine done in time, and it’s driving me nuts. Would be so much worse if I felt like others were relying on me too.
At least now you sort of have enough experience to know how much is too much, so it’ll be easier to plan next time! Hope you feel better, Scree!
I think the most important thing here is your personal health instead of getting cosplays finished. As you said, people will understand if they’re not finished.
Absolutely this. Listen to Nob (Never thought I’d say that)
But, it will probably drive me nuts either way
With such a short window of time left, it’s time to be realistic and negotiate with your friends about what you can deliver. If it comes down to having a completed dress, but no accessories, do that. If it means using glue instead of hand sewing, do that. Be upfront and honest. I know personally I’d be happy to put off a cosplay for next year/next con if my friend was having panic attacks trying to get it done for me.
@blackdahlianz @highperformance
So ready for Destiny this weekend. Raid?
F*** yeah maynnng. I made it INTO the vault last night.
I know, get jelly. I opened like three chests and got ascendant shards with everyone, no sweet raid gear lol. I’m keen to play tomorrow, you guys free at like 6?
So keen. Missus goes away at 12pm with some friends to Jervis Bay. So I will be on from then until 12pm Sunday.
Congrats on making it in. That’s pretty sweet bout getting all them shards! Are you level 26 now?
I just wanna beat Atheon and get that shader. XD
Hey dudes, unfortunately I haven’t played at all so I’m still level 25, and with PvZ being free on EA Access me and the boys were gonna give that a whirl, could turn to sh*t and we’re back in Destiny, I really want to get through Shadow of Mordor too.
No problem, we’ll get you in the vault next week then 😉
do either of you have EA Access? or PvZ?
I have PvZ. Got it when it was released as there was nothing else. Gardens and Graveyards mode is pretty fun, would be great with a bunch of mates. I haven’t played it in about 6 months though!
Should hopefully get 4 of us on it tonight, thats my only window for gaming this weekend, will try level up some more in destiny during the week.
Nope, never played PvZ and don’t quite know enough about EA access to get it. I have a 50gb download limit so I very rarely purchase digital content 😛
I wouldn’t bother with PvZ, we lasted about 20min last night and then went back to Destiny, EA Access is pretty awesome but you’d def need more gb’s $30 for a year and access to the vault, 6 games at the moment, PvZ, Need for Speed, BF4, Peggle 2, Madden, Fifa, think you also get early access to some EA games and 10% off all EA DLC/Purchases.
Nah, still stuck on level 25, about 3/5 of the way to 26. I need to upgrade my chest and leg armor (with some helium filaments I need to collect) and I’ll be level 26 I reckon!
I have a pretty good loop for helium on the moon, get about 30 in 20min
What’s Shadow of Mordor like? Was gonna get it but it wasn’t in stock at JB last week lol
So good man, best adventure game I’ve played in a long time, imagine assassins creed with batman style combat but very brutal.
Yeah I’ve got my Spinmetal and Hel Filaments farming down pat now. Not too flash on Venus/Mars, but haven’t had a need as of yet.
I’m after Relic iron now, looks like there is farm loops for everything so that’s good but asendant shards elude me.
Seems like that’s where the vault comes in handy!
Not really…. The Vault will give you either loot OR ascendant shards/energy so its entirely possible to complete it and only have 2 shards to show for it =,= Trust me. It happened to me last weekend.
The most surefire way of farming shards is to do the weekly heroics/nightfall/daily public events/level 28 daily story. Those are much more likely to give you shards than the raid!
(End game tip – Farm Spiritbloom, all the raid gear and raid weapons need spiritbloom to upgrade so you’ll need about 300-400 easy)
I’ve got me a sweet Iron Relic farm route
Got me relic iron last night, I’m a smidge off 26 now.
Saw you guys on the raid, did you complete? I’m almost 27 now just gotta farm some helium.
We had a good go. We got from beginning up until the gatekeeper section. Found 3 chests along the way, got some shards and I managed to randomly score ‘The Universal Remote’ exoitic weapon which I’m still creaming over.
I’ve got a checkpoint there, so I may hop back on tonight and see if I can round up at least some experienced/high level people and friends who can help complete the last bit. (@highperformance if interested tonight.)
Yea I saw you had that, Shotgun as primary? whaaat?? I got bad juju bounty active now. Damn not sure I can get on tonight either, would like to do it from beginning with other mates too.
Man it’s so good. Infinite shotgun ammo basically! I’ll no doubt run through it again after the reset, but I really want to at least get to Atheon today and see him in the flesh/metal.
Bad Juju bounty is sooo time consuming.
Sweet man, the wife is kicking me out the house this friday for a girls night, so while they have pillow fights in their knickers I might head up to Nortons with console and set up a monitor there for the night if you guys were keen to give it another go? Should hopefully get Max and Jimmady on again too.
Sounds good. Will keep an eye out for you guys then.
I’m happy to join in on the bounty as well, I’ve got the Thorn bounty I’m trying to get some help with in doing a level 26 Summoning Pits with Epic modifier so I’m trying to get maybe someone like yourself and @jackunit13 to carry me!
sweet man
I’m happy to join again after the reset, I’m in desperate need of some shards so shoot me an invite when you kick off from the start,
I’m keen
I’m so torn, picking up Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel today and I don’t know what class to pick. The first game I chose Lilith, I don’t usually play as a female character by choice, but I really liked her. The second game the choice was easy, the Gunzerker, I’m a go in all guns blazing kinda guy. But this time around I’m finding the choice that much harder, I’m really not sure who I want to go with yet, except Claptrap, I mean, I think he’s awesome and funny, but I don’t know if I want to play as him.
I would appreciate some input from anyone that’s had some time with it.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking, @sernobulus, @blaghman, @aliasalpha.
Claptrap is amazing in a party, no idea about solo.
I think Wilhelm is the solo sort of character, and might be a good choice for you cause you haven’t played the soldier type in previous iterations.
I’ve only really played as Wilhelm but alot of his skill trees are built around making himself a bullet sponge.
Besides him … I don’t know, Athena maybe?
I’ve only played a bit but Athena seems pretty solid so far, the shield looks to be a handy super which is mostly defensive with a final offensive throw at the end and she seems to be the only character that can spec towards anything resembling a medic which I always play in coop games
I looked in the mirror in the lift on the way up to work this morning and my hair looks GREAT today!
That is all.
That good hair feel, SOOO good!
I’ll just take a lock of hair to remember you by.
It’s just you and me now lock of hair.
I feel like my hair is cheating on me now
It’s always wonderful when I’m going through a job application and I have to answer diversity questions.
“No, No, No, English, White, Male.”
White Male Gamer. According to Twitter we’re an oppressed minority. You’ll be a shoe in.
A shoe, in what?
“Woah, a 30 question application!? They must want to know a lot about me!”
Question 1: Are you -insert ethnicity here-? If No, skip to question 30.
@redartifice I just had a look at that Twitter thing and it made me far angrier than it reasonably should. Especially since you don’t seem too worried about it :/
Which twitter thing? I want to be outraged too.
I can either sit here and be upset, or ignore a crazy person.
I’ll be keeping an eye on them for the next day or so just to make sure, and I’m also watching my blog closely just to make sure they don’t start there.
Had a run in with a thoroughly unpleasant person last night on twitter, who basically opened with a torrent of abuse. I engaged very briefly, then blocked them. Person then spent about 3 hours spewing more abuse including taking and reposting screencaps of my photos, so I reported them. See the end of last page.
Anyone having trouble logging on to PSN with their PS4? I’ve been getting a few different error messages for days now. Wifi connection is otherwise fine and PS3 – which is right next to the PS4 – connects fine.
Nope, all good for me.
Sony have mentioned on Twitter they’re aware of some issues – I’m wondering if it’s Destiny related since I only saw that tweet because Bungie retweeted it.
I had mad connection issues on Sunday, but I was fine the one time I’ve tried since then.
For those who missed it on Twitter last night *coughgookycough*
Something cool got revealed!
EDIT:
(I feel like I should say that this is my leader profile for the PAX thingo. Shouldn’t assume that people would be able to recognise me :P)GOOKY! GET ON TWITTER! YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO POST IF YOU DON’T WANT TO! JUST FOLLOW!
YOU KNOW THE DEAL 😛
Guy looks like a loon.
Seriously.
Why do you want Gooky to cough?
I don’t know much about the Pokeymons, but that sure is…..something, I read words \o/
As you get older it is something that doctors say to you
That looks lewd.
Seriously..
What’s he doing to that poor Caterpie?
Wait, I thought you were going for the Bug Pax Leader thingy?
Is that the guy who beat you?
Pfffft, that dude looks like a wiener, Pow, you would have done a better job than that chump.
You’re right, he does look like a winner. And a champ.
Hmmm, now let the guessing games commence on what exactly your team is. The Swarm badge hey?
Beedrill, Beedrill, Beedrill, Beedrill, Beedrill, Beedrill. 😛
I recognised the costume haha.
Alright time for impromptu recruitment for Destiny’s VoG!
LF2M level 26-27 peeps to run VoG on normal mode for 12pm this Sunday (Sydney time whatever GST/EST/PST that is). You will need the following – A level 20 blue void fusion rifle.
Syyyydney…. daylight savings there?
Yep
What’s the time now? 😀
Ummm 12.13pm =P
If you need someone, I’m up for another run. But only if you find someone that hasn’t completed it yet this week – I welcome the practice and XP for my gloves, but I’ve hit the loot limit for normal mode this week, and I don’t want to deprive someone else of raid loot they could get.
Morning dumplings! I didn’t play Alien last night. I did my nails and watched The Mindy Project and then played Hotline Miami. Soooo yeah. But I will totally play it this weekend. Absolutely. No, really. I also feel like playing Gone Home again.
Hotline Miami is so good. Can’t wait for the second one.
Really looking forward to it for the new soundtrack too. I work out to the old one.
Gone Home. So good.
I just love that house so damned much!
How good is The mindy Project. I started watching because i knew Mindy Kaling was a writer for the office, but its just so funny.
It’s so good! She’s just so funny, I love her.
Mmmmmm, dumplings.
I went to Dumpling King on Tuesday night. I want to go back already
Mmm…dumplings.
Also, what colour did you do your nails?
Iwannagohome.
Come for dinner tonight with me and Blaghs and Cake and Pants and Doc! Meeting in Kino at 6ish. Not going out afterwards, just dinner then home!
No one ever invites me :'(
There must be some sort of common denominator here…
😛You’re all jerks?
It’s ok freeze no one invites me either!
I’m looking forward to when I’m working in the city and can go to these things.
You guys would totally invite me, right? Right?????
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Riiiiiiiiight?
Who’s this guy?
Can’t, I’m on strict hermit mode for the rest of the month. Every hour is precious, and if I get out of here on time I could be getting home at 6.
I wouldn’t, it’s kinda empty here after I took your furniture.
That’s what you always say! =P
Sorry, the captain’s still ashore, you’ll need to call for him and ask if he’ll let you.
https://soundcloud.com/rocketmanboom/old-timey-hotross
HOTROSS REPORT
NEWS BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
TUNE IN EVERY FRIDAY AT 9:30
IN CONJUNCTION WITH DAN AND KARLS ZEITGEIST
Wait…
Did Oscar Pistorius really get sentenced to only house arrest?!
That’s like saying, “Bad boy, don’t murder your wife, go to your room!”.
I checked 3 sources and apparently he did, i was going to make a joke about it but i felt it would be bad taste.
Hes currently on house arrest until the sentencing verdict has been passed which wont be till next week I believe
FUCKING ABC LIED TO ME
Bad taste is what the Hotross report is all about!
If you could have anything – anything – for lunch today, what would it be?
I’d have a nuclear reaction, thanks.
So fission chips?
A magic pill that satiated me and made me lose 20 kilos.
I’m a simple man. Simple tastes.
Mongolian Beef. Sure I’d sweat like a pig and my mouth would be on fire but it would be so gooooooooooood.
Given my post upthread, dumpling king
Oh god, I need to figure out if Wagga has a good dumpling place.
…and then test it for lunch today.
A Chiropractor to fix my back
I’m assuming you’d eat them after they fix your back?
Depends on how hot they are and figurative eating or literal 😛
A big fat chicken burger and chips at a pub. And then not going back to work the rest of the day 😛
I need work friends to do lunch with! It’s weird going for a pub lunch by yourself.
Maybe a nice laksa or something similar
Well missed the laksa but figured I would try the indonesian place and got a beef Rendang curry
Decent for a 12 buck special
Is this, like, whatever you want, with no consequences?
I’d raid the cheesecake store near my houseand try every cheesecake.
If there is consequences, I could still really go a cheesecake 🙂
I’ve just seen some sandwiches in a Letterbox Deals catalogue that look delicious!
Tacos. Amazing proper tacos.
SURF AND TURF
IS IT SURF AND TURF OR REEF AND BEEF? I have never known what the difference is if any.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beef-and-reef.html
Apparently, they’re the same, and apparently “reef and beef” is the preferred term in Australia. WHO KNEW. Certainly not I.
I really want 2 sausage rolls from my primary school tuck shop. Thanks to luck the place that used to supply my old schools tuck shop is like 2 kms down the road. SO I WILL HAVE IT FOR LUNCH
English Chippy (Fish and Chip shop.)
I’d have chips, mushy peas, chinese curry sauce, meat and potato pie and some pieces of scampi.
Tough question. Probably a 30-course feast of delicacies which keeps me occupied until home-time.
Purely on taste factors? I’d love a Big Breakfast, but my gut couldn’t really handle it. Maybe something rich but light’ish, like that eggs benedict that I DIDN’T get the other day and really kind of hanker for.
The finest food, stuffed with the second finest!
Lobsters! Tacos!
Normal food.
Had a tooth pulled yesterday 🙁
Yikes! Get better Crack-a-lackin!
Mad Mex, God I miss that since moving to the sticks
At least 60 hours.
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/519369419948978176
Woo!
\m/-_-\m/
So I had a kick in the nostalgia last night. I saw the entire Gothic series was on sale on Steam for less than $10 so I thought I’d give it another whirl because I really, really enjoyed the games when I first played them years ago.
Fast forward past the installation and holy crap these things were butt ugly, the UI is terrible, and certain mechanics are completely whacked. Sound is still good and certain mechanics are still great but yeah, it definitely feels weird to go back and see how the standard in video games has progressed.
In that theme, for a Friday question, what game made you seriously question your younger self’s taste in video games when you went back and played it?
Goldeneye. Those controls…
You know you could change it to what is now the accepted standard? You could have the c-buttons as movement and the analogue as look/aim.
I never owned it, only ever played other people’s copies.
Nah man. Dual-controller layout. TWO ANALOGUE STICKS!
I played through the rest of Perfect Dark using that a couple of years ago, it was awesome.
I tried that and, though it did actually kinda work, it was still a bit too weird for me.
It worked best with my most unused controller in the left hand. Smooth, unworn control stick. So nice.
Oh man. This.
Played 4-player on a 64 with three friends over a year ago, and we had zero co-ordination. Unco central.
A game I had on the N64 called Tetrisphere. Enjoyed it at the time, but I went back and played it again a few years ago and just thought what the hell did I see in this.
Leisure Suit Larry…
Rugrats: Studio Tour 😛
I thought that game sucked as a child. That probably says a lot. So I revisited it about two months ago, and yes, it sucks.
Any Playstation game before dual analogue sticks. I mean seriously the controls on those games are terrible
None of them. I’ve only ever had excellent taste in games.
Or to phrase it more lazily – I don’t know 😛
Hard to think of any. I mean I can go back and play games and wonder how on earth I ever managed to do it as a kid, but I don’t think I’ve no longer liked the games that I played then. Would probably have to go home and stare at my shelves to find something.
None of them. When I revisit my old PS1 games, they are just as good as I remembered them thanks to the wave of nostalgia and my favourite pair of rose-tinted glasses. Stuart Little 2 is the best platformer evaaaaaaa!
Now that I think about it, maybe the Simpsons Wrestling. I loved that game as a kid, but everyone seems to hate it. I haven’t been able to revisit the game, as I no longer have the disc. Can’t justify spending $10 on ebay to ruin my childhood.
MORNING ALL.
Today marks the commencement of the two-week countdown to the Undad Kickstarter. Lots of hard work going into this campaign. I want it to go a lot better than that All The King’s Men campaign that went down in flames in May.
But here’s the update you’ve been waiting for.
XCOM
Pretty much everyone in my core team is a colonel now, except for Ben J, who just became a major. Greenie US, who rotates in and out, is a Captain, as is Mashaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa and SORRY Scree. Team’s in good shape, for sure.
DC, Strangest Itches and Freeze are all Psi-Adept. Last playthrough, out of all my soldiers, I got one adept. Now I have three. Random numbers make a big difference, people! But of these three, Freeze is pretty much useless as a gunner (no idea why, but he misses more shots than anyone), and DC never gets close enough to enemies to grow his psi-powers, so it kind of feels like a waste there 😛
There’s been a big difficulty spike in combat the last couple of game-months. Some missions, my guys don’t even get to find cover before they’re under attack from a half dozen elite floaters and a couple of muton beserkers. Keeping everyone alive in those missions is insane, and really requires everyone to be able to hit their shots. I’ve already lost track of the number of times that automatic-proximity reaction shot has saved my guys’ lives; it’s a big number.
Mum?
Clean your room.
One tactic you might not have considered with xcom is not giving assaults the shotgun class weapons the game defaults to. I find rifle based assault troops to be the best all round infantry choice, when you combine the perks that the vanilla game gives to assaults with the range and power of especially late game weapons like the plasma rifle, rifle assaults are amazingly versatile. Not to say that shotty’s are useless, give me an assault with an alloy cannon and titan armour and I’ll give you anything on the map dead shy of a sectopod but there’s no denying that they’re extremely limited by their range.
If you plan to have another game after this one is done, one tactic I suggest is rushing alien containment and the arc thrower then stunning a thin man in every mission you get the chance, at least until you have 5-7 of them captured. Even if you don’t have the containment facility, you get the light plasma rifle intact and once researched, your units can use them and they give you the same damage as a laser rifle with a +10 aim bonus which in the early game is an amazing boost to your rook’s shooting. I can’t remember if the rifle you research is consumed or not but best to have an extra on standby just in case. If there’s no thin men around to stun, take a sectoid because the plasma pistols are still handy as a sidearm when your primary weapon is out of ammo and also good for snipers before you have long range rifles that are worth a damn (I actually tend to use early snipers more as gunslingers and grenadiers to build up their kills since low ranked snipers suck so hard before squadsight, scopes & laser sniper rifles).
Good advice! I’m manufacturing all my own plasma weapons as soon as they become available. Yeah, my guys aren’t using shotguns. I noticed the +10 aim bonus when I was trying to decide whether to outfit my guys with light plasma rifles or normal plasma rifles. Light plasma rifles for all!
Light plasmas are good for lower level troops because its like having a free scope, if you have rookies and give them a light plasma and a scope, they suddenly get +20 aim and shoot like competent troops, it’s a really nice way to plug a gap in the roster and/or train up a newbie without them being simply useless.
The main advantage to full scale plasma rifles is the sheer boost in damage they give, when you come up against something with an insane amount of health, you’d need to focus the entire squad’s fire on it for it to reliably die if you have light plasmas whereas with full size plasmas you might well manage to drop it with 3 troops worth of fire and a lucky crit leaving you free to engage a second target. One thing I would recommend is with the heavy, definitely take HEAT ammo if you can, comes in damned handy against cyberdiscs & sectopods
@pupp3tmast3r
Done some research and apparently theirs still two spots we can hide during legions post nerf, one is the large column on the left side (the rebound wall near where I camp at.)
The second place is ‘a cave heading down to the gorgons where the spirit bloom chest spawns’ I’m not sure where this is exactly but I’m sure we can find it.
You know when you face the Templar from the start… on the left hand side there’s a set of stairs going up to a kind of doorway where things spawn from.
As you face those stairs, there’s a gap on the right where the oracle is, and the way down to the cleansing pool. On that corner, on the stairs-side, there’s a hole in the wall, which you can jump up a bit to. That’s where the spirit-bloom chest is.
I think that hole only opens after the Templar is defeated, I don’t think that’s it =/ I believe the chest their talking about is on the scenic route to gorgons.
Well, in that hole is a chest with spirit-bloom, and if you keep moving through it, you end up at the gorgons, after a LOT of travelling. I haven’t encountered any others that fit the description, so I strongly suspect this is the spot being referenced and it’s accessible enough to hide at least, or someone posted bad advice.
I’m not sure when and where the barrier is in effect/when the hole appears. @dkzeitgeist would know, he did some exploring.
In the hole in the wall, there’s a section of floor that moves out of the way when the Templar is defeated, allowing you to progress through there to the Gorgons.
Sounds like we can hide in the hole in the wall, we just can’t progress to the labyrinth without killing the templar… It’s going to be interesting getting to that hole in the wall though! Not exactly accessible….
Apparently not all the platforms have kill volume.
A strategy for oracle phase is to have 3 people on the spawn platform and 3 of the best geared on the right side killing the 4 oracles the snipe point can’t shoot at, apparently with this strategy you only have to worry about one hobgoblin for the ground team.
The new cheese strategy for Templar is to have the relic user on the ground alone. 2 people on the spawn platform and 3 people on the sniper platforms on the right side (Apparently they don’t have kill volume.) the relic user kills the two hidden oracles at the back and whatever harpies show up. super boss, snipe, win.
Or we could just gear up and learn to not suck so that when all these exploits get patched we can still smash it.
I just want to see a Kotaku group make it past hard mode :S unfortunately the tuning of legions was obviously a DPS check which I’m starting to wonder if even 29s can even do…trust me I’d love to take a legit angle on it.
OR hear me out… OR we use the exploits to gear up even faster so that when they get patched out we can still smash it decked in our awesome raid gear and (slightly less awesome) vex mythoclasts
Sure, but it will only get us so far. I honestly don’t think that we will beat Templar as things stand no matter what exploits we use. Until all 6 players are 29 with at least a 300 primary and know their shit back to front it’s just gonna be a road block.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m in for whatever goes down and want gear as much as the next guy. But until we have a team that meets the above criteria I’m not gonna hold my breath. Thus the alt.
Foxtel’s launching a boxset channel next month where they only air entire seasons of television shows. I could see this becoming my favourite channel. I wonder if they’ll be able to show stuff like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards back-to-back close to the U.S. release?
I’m gonna watch The Newsroom so many times. So. Many. Times.
When’s season 3 coming out?
November 9th!
Oh, that’s soon! Hooray! Something to watch after the Sons of Anarchy finale!
Very short season, though. It’s Treme all over again. :'(
Oh that’s bad.
Now you say, “But it comes with a free frogurt.” 😛
Personally, I’d say my interest in it would depend on whether the ‘channel’ is On Demand or not.
I’ve lived many years now being able to watch what I want when I want. Letting myself be shackled to someone else’s schedule for the sake of moral high-ground isn’t going to happen.
Both! They’re launching it live and on demand!
Constant rotation of Mike and Molly, King of Queens and Becker.
‘Hatred’ game reveal.
Phwoar.
How incredibly distasteful…
I can’t even imagine why people would think that making a game like that would be a good idea :\
It’s not going to sell well, and it only reflects poorly on anyone involved in its creation :\
I dunno. I never really thought Postal had much appeal either, and it seemed pretty similarly distasteful, but it sold well and retained a cult following. There’s a market, I guess.
True, but with focus lately on violent videogames, terrorism, shootings, yadda yadda yadda, I suspect that trying to release a game like Hatred, or even Postal today, wouldn’t be well received by the public (for good reason).
Just seems like a stupid thing for a developer / producer, or even an individual, to attach their name to.
“I made a game purely about mass murdering civilians and police” doesn’t look great on a resumé from an ethical standpoint.
I’m still confused though as to who would want to play a game like this, and why?
A clue seems to be in their statement put on a Polygon article.
They declared it a push-back against overzealous political-correctness. With progressive social awareness ‘infiltrating’ a hobby, there’s obviously some folks who see the calls for gaming to ‘grow up’ and are replying, “Dammit, I don’t WANNA grow up,” who will flock to it…
As for the ‘why’? No idea. Since the dawn of time, since humans have been able to leave an indelible mark in their surroundings, mankind has used that power of communication to draw penises. The oldest recorded ANYTHING is chock full of cock, extending from graffiti across the centuries to what game developers actually refer to as ‘TTP’ when giving the users the power to create anything – TTP: Time Til Penis. There’s been a lot of ink devoted to why this compulsion exists, and it’s theorized that a part of it is the flaunting of taboos.
I wouldn’t be surprised if something in the id of people who embrace this stuff is somehow linked to the seemingly primeval compulsion to draw dicks on things.
In the old days it used to be Time Til Crate. And most games were less than ten seconds.
Sadly, it’ll sell enough. The angry loser basement-dwelling gamer stereotype didn’t materialise out of thin air…
I’m probably going to get some disapproving looks for saying this, but I’d argue that Hatred is as worthy of the “art” label as those first person strollers like Dear Esther and whatchamacallit that people often use as examples. I’m not saying it is art, or the other ones are for that matter, but I’d throw them all in the same pigeon hole.
Admittedly, from reading the website, the devs come across a little childish, but they appear to be achieving what they wanted to achieve.
Oh, it’s art, but part of being art is people being able to say it’s shitty, hamfisted and puerile art, created to be “controversial”
Which, in turn, validates it further.
No.
Crappy exploitation films, snuff fiction, rape porn are all “art,” in that they’re designed to provoke or provide commentary. That doesn’t mean that we have to give them the time of day or that we can’t condemn them as dumb.
I’m not saying you can’t. I’m just saying that, if the intention of a work is to elicit a reaction and you react, you are validating it. You’re powering the concept.
perhaps, but my reaction here and on twitter has pretty much been laaaaaaaaame rather than shock, which I doubt was their intent.
@redartifice That’s fair enough. I’d say you’re definitely not alone there.
I Just find it interesting.
My stand on the argument that games are art is that they’re either all art, or none are.
I think they all are, personally.
Saying that though, there is a difference between works by Da Vinci and a four year olds finger painting.
Not all art is good art.
Thought it’s subjective as to what is good and what is bad.
Not all art is good art…
But if the purpose of the work is to evoke a reaction, and if this game is doing exactly that, then the work is a success (artistically if not commercially). It achieves it’s goal. It succeeds in evoking a reaction and is therefore “good.”
Intention and aesthetic don’t always run parallel.
Do you think these guys set out to get a reaction, though? Or at least, was their intention to stir up controversy for the purpose of discussion? Or did they just want to make Columbine: The Game?
I’m not sure the purpose of this game is to shine a spotlight on random violence for the purpose of fuelling discussions on social policy. Does that matter when it comes to the ‘art’ thing?
Yeah, I was wondering that. Personally I’m leaning towards the Columbine: The Game side. There’s definitely some intention to stir up controversy, but how much thought went into it is questionable.
I’d say that does matter. Depending on the reaction, could it transcend bullshit and become ‘artier’?
Intriguing academic question!
There’s a school of thought that the meaning of art is generated entirely by its audience, in which case the intentions of the creator are absolutely irrelevant. I don’t particularly like this perspective, largely because it encourages artists to absolve themselves of responsibility for their work.
There’s another school of thought – albeit largely outdated – that the original intention is the only thing that matters, and that any deviant interpretation is invalid and wrong.
I subscribe to more of a middle ground, one that isn’t backed up particularly by any academic perspective. It’s one where both creator and audience can bring their own baggage to a work. That an audience can interpret a work, but are largely constrained by the finite boundaries that the creator has put in place.
In that sense, I’m happy to accept Hatred as an artistic expression, but I don’t think I’ll be able to engage with it on any meaningful level, regardless of the intentions of the creators.
@shane That fence looks awfully comfy, I may have to join you.
The intention of the creator can’t be entirely irrelevant, because surely intention is a requirement of art. Otherwise anything can be considered art as long as it’s declared to be so by the audience… But… then… the person making the declaration is the artist themselves, not the audience. Interesting…
In that case I suppose art can exist without intention: A person unwittingly declares something – which, until then, had just been a ‘thing’ – to be art. The thing is regarded by an audience who give it meaning. The thing therefor is art, unintentionally. Such a scenario makes the first school of thought you mentioned seem a little bit silly.
Don’t mind me. I’m just twisting my thoughts into a pretzel.
I don’t expect to engage with Hatred directly, but the reaction of those who do and those who don’t will be interesting. That is if there is a noticeable reaction apart from what we’ve seen today. It could very well fade into obscurity, which will be a tad boring but possibly for the best.
I think we having differing views on what good and bad mean in this instance.
Evoking a reaction is one way to look at it (evoke reaction = good, no reaction = bad), but I view good and bad, in an art sense, as what will sell.
It can evoke a reaction as much as it wants, but if it’s a bad reaction, I won’t buy it, and therefore deem it bad.
You wouldn’t look at art you hate, say you hate it, and buy it just because it got a reaction, therefore making it “good”, after all.
Someone can spout out that their goal is to get a reaction, good or bad, but truth is that their goal is to make money.
So I base good and bad on whether I would buy that particular art.
Again though, my good and bad isn’t someone else’s good and bad.
It’s subjective.
Oh, totally. I denounce art I hate all the time. As far as ‘fine art’ is concerned I look at Mark Rothko’s work and say it’s dumb and worthless, or some of James Gleeson’s paintings and call them repulsive. I wouldn’t buy them (I’m not that rich) but can I call it bad art? Maybe. Definitely Mark Rothko, that’s stuff’s garbage.
The thing is, I’m elevating this particular ‘art’ *cough* to the status of Conceptual Art. It probably isn’t, but if it is then commercial success isn’t important.
Hatred could be a dull blip on the radar and be a distant memory by tomorrow. I think it will be far more interesting if it isn’t.
Either way, it’s birthed a couple of conversations that are more interesting than what everyone’s having for lunch (Except @mrtaco. That guy’s lunch is always interesting.)
Today was the leftovers of a beef casserole, padded out with a pair of leftover chicken and vegetable pastizzi.
@mrtaco Exactly.
I think this is fair.
Our response to this game is largely a matter of taste and/or moral outrage, both of which have deep intrinsic links to the art world at large. Art is capable of being crass, immature, upsetting, disturbing, profound, uplifting, derivative… or all or none of the above.
Of course, what people usually mean when they invoke the word ‘art’ with regards to high-quality works like whatchamacallit are the principles of ‘high art’ which are typically more positive, subtle, subliminal and challenging.
I dig this comment.
This company is disgusting.
Wow. That’s… gratuitous. :\
“Sign in to confirm age”
Uh… is there a synopsis or something?
Game trailer. Guy strapping weapons to himself.
“I hate the world. I hate everything. Today is a good day to kill. A good day to die. I begin my genocidal crusade. It’s a good day to die.” Something like that.
And then he just unleashes on crowds of innocent people in increasingly gory and gratuitous ways. Isometric perspective, with close-ups of ‘special’ kills.
I switched it off halfway through.
Odear.
If the NRA can run anti-video game propaganda based off a 15-year old flash game called “Kindergarten Killer,” they are going to lap this shit up. This is what I worry about more than anything else. It’ll set us back a few years, that’s for sure.
Man don’t drink often but after this week I think I need to obliterate some brain cells. Retreating to my hermit cave and not resurfacing until Monday. There will be games, games, booze (maybe), eating and sleep (also a maybe), that is all.
edit: oh man of course I get a get, so not get worthy
Double Edit: Might annoy my neighbors and break out my drum kit too, a dude loaned me his double kick last night might have to have a go 😀
Oktoberfest hermit-style!
Lately everything I do is hermit style and I think I’m getting cabin fever.
I might join you… in spirit..
There’ll be spirits alright, most likely bourbon 😛
Two and a half hours of solid typing later I’ve finished writing out the selection criteria for a job application. Then I get told I won’t hear back till next month…ugh.
Regardless, here’s hoping I get it. I’m perfect for the role and it pays really well.
Now to play borderlands all day while watching bub?
Weeding first because nobody likes
Bindi Irwinbindies.Do what i do with the dog shit in our yard, mow over it and get it in your mouth.
Laughed out loud.
Thank you, Rocketman :’)
Wasteland 2 log:
Just got brutally murdered by a group of nuns.
Business as usual.
So, you were actually playing the Hitman trailer?
Were they guarding a bridge?
Were they saying “Nun shall pass?”
Okay, but what happened in Wasteland 2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrHinL1kEZ0 ?
They sound about 13 in the intro
Oh I hate those bloody nuns! Took me forever to save a guy on the back of a truck they were going to execute (for eating shellfish) and the one time I managed to save him, I didn’t manage to save the other guy I wanted to save who helped kick the fight off in the first place. Well, inspired the fight I suppose, if you want to get really technical the fight was actually kicked off by Vultures Cry putting a 7.62 into the skull of the priest on the back of the truck to save the innocent guy’s life. It exploded in a very satisfying way, much like a blood sausage!
Special edition of Hatred: Enter the code GamerGate and get the Limited Edition which comes with a sock and a jar of Vaseline.
:/
A sock or sock-puppet?
That wastes so many socks
I feel like I need a hug. A ten minute long hug. Maybe longer.
Only if you buy me dinner first.
Edit: no, that’s mean. Have a hug. Are you okay, man?
be careful, that’s how babies are made…… I’ve been led to believe.
I thought that happened from holding hands!
Only if you don’t wear your jacket!
I hope you feel better soon DC.
Seeing you down is quite heartbreaking :'(
If you ever need to talk, about anything, just message 🙂
If I lived near you I would find you right now, and hug you for days (hyperbole is easy when it doesn’t have to be followed through). And out of respect for you I’d only grab your arse a little.
*crash tackles monitor in barbarian bear hug*
Um, I think I may have done that wrong.
My ribs! My virtual ribs!
Poor @sughly
Huh? I feel like this is possibly made confusing by dc edit..?
Nope. I don’t get it either.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m glad somone feels for me though, I appreciate it
One day I hope to have that. :’)
Whenever I see a Hugo rib crushing hug it reminds me of the comic you did
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Now I geddit
My hugs usually last less than 5 minutes leaving at least one party unsatisfied, but for you I’m willing to try for 7.
Hugggggggggggg. One g equals one minute.
You got it buddy. One hug coming up.
I usually don’t give out hugs more then once a month, and you did use your allotment at Oktoberfest but I feel like I could give another.
Me too man, me too. Unfortunately no one wants to.
Shall I fly down? We can grab a cute dinner date, take a stroll along the foreshore, go see a cheesy movie… go back to yours?
You know where I am.
Can we watch TV at the same time? I need a distraction or else I’ll get handsy.
If you promise to hug back I will hug the shit out of you!
Sounds like you need a *hugasaurus rex*.
<3
We should have another date in the city where I bore you with Museums and bring you a packed lunch.
That sounds great. I wish I could join in.
*hugs*
I’m good at giving stupidly long heartfelt hugs, so I’ll extend one to you 🙂
Shit, just woke up to read this,*big massive hugs man*
*Punches dc in the Sternum and steals his shoes*
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Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you said thug 😛
@benj
http://www.consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/south-park-releases-full-version-of-lorde-spoofing-push-feel-good-on-a-wednesday-listen/
Parody or not, I kind of love the song. 😀
ya ya ya!
It is a pretty cool song tbh
I don’t know what they’re ramping up to, but this season is shaping up to be one of their best in a long time.
Last Played Song Game:
Really digging You + Me at the moment. Really interesting to hear this side of Pink.
Break the Cycle – You+Me
Na na na (na na na na na na na) – My Chemical Romance
Was listening to that yesterday
This one is good too. All folksy like and speaks to my current mood.
You and Me – You+Me
Dan black- You+Me
its amazing DC, you’ll love it.
Shadows by Sabaton. LotR metal \m/
And now that’s my last played song, too. \m/
<3 Sabaton
Down In Flames – Reel Big Fish
God I loved RBF in high school.
I still love them now 😀
Banks- Begging for thread.
also Cosby Sweater-Hilltop hoods
Its a really clever song. So many amazing lines.
Magic carpet ride – Steppenwolf
Nice.
Lounge Act – Nirvana
Just put Nevermind on for a spin. Damn that album holds up well, even.. (counts)… 23 years later. Man, I’m so old 🙁
Sah gerd. Lounge Act is a great song. I don’t think there’s a bad song on the album.
Latest song stuck in my mind: An Idea for a Movie – The Vandals
Dunno where this one’s come from. Been ages upon ages since I’ve played Aggressive Inline though.
Lard – They’re Coming to Take me Away
sticking with the theme “Gutsoup’s decent into insanity”
Lift a Sail – Yellowcard
Let There Be Rock – Acca Dacca Live at River Plate
Unsurprisingly, it’s from Kill la Kill. Crazy, right?
I Want To Know – Kill la Kill
The more I listen to it, the more I like this this song. It’s really quite heartbreaking when you start to deconstruct what the song is about and which character is meant to be singing. Didn’t really expect to like a folksy song this much.
“Used For Glue” – Rival Schools, because this morning it seems I was 17 again.
Here’s your reply flail:
http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/18649.jpg
Haha, I read that as reply FAIL at first… but I still don’t get it? 🙁
The picture is of a weapon colloquially referred to as a flail. It is also presumably your punishment.
Colloquially? I thought that was its proper name.
It might be! I’m not knowledgeable enough to commit to that statement!
You are correct. 🙂
Is that to say he doesn’t like my song?
I want to give you a hug for reminding me of this song. I used to be obsessed with it.
Does anybody know where I can get a USB to 3DS charger cable? I bought a portable battery charger for PAX, now just need the cable!
Anybody used OzModChips before? I guess for $4 and $2 shipping I may as well just try them out. http://www.ozmodchips.com/3ds-dsi-dsi-xl-usb-charger-p-342.html
I had one lying around somewhere, but have no idea where it is. I could have a poke around over the weekend and see what turns up.
But buying one may be a better option anyway.
Yeah, I just bought the one I linked a second ago. Can’t go wrong for $6. Unless… you know… they sell my card details or something 😛
The generic multi charger we bought from EB (or JB? Can’t remember) at one point (for the EU Animal Crossing XL) was a hydra of plugs terminating at a USB point, and then there was a power plug with USB adapter. Not sure if their current generic offering is still like this though.
I was looking at one of those monstrosities in JB at lunch today! Except this one had a car charger bit too. Skipped over it because there was a bunch of cables that I would never, ever use on it.
Both of my 3DS chargers are like this. One from JB, one from EB.
I’ve bought some, errr…
*glances around suspicuously*
stuff from OzModChips before. Shipping was pretty prompt, even up to backwater Mackay.
*wink wink nudge nudge*
Oh man, I laughed at this headline, and now I feel like the worst piece of shit ever :'(
Maybe not ever, but you certainly get the award for today 😉
You would. What with your “abs like damn and pecs like phwoar.”
Seriously, I ate a tub of icecream for dinner last night (after my McDonald’s).
What’s worse is I smooshed peanut butter and chocolate sauce into it.
I don’t have abs.
*content smile*
If I do that I’d put on 2kg almost straight away. 🙁
Same. Assuming it was 2kg of food.
I was assuming a 500g tub.
I think I gained 400 grams just from reading about it.
I lost 100 grams!
True story! 😀
I haven’t read the article because Dr. Nerdlove makes me cranky, but I saw the picture for it at the bottom of this page with “I don’t think I look attractive” and I think that’s a key thing. A lot of attractiveness comes from within. If you think you’re attractive and worthwhile relationship material, it usually comes across in your bearing. It’s a bit like the old “fake it ’til you make it”.
I know I’ve had years upon years where I didn’t feel attractive (and it stunned me how much it meant to me that I was. I guess it came from being super-skinny and media-approved attractive in my youth), and always when I decided to just go with it and accept whatever size and appearance I was, standing up straight and telling myself I was confident and the same person inside where it matters most, that was when other people responded and found me attractive as well.
That is basically the advice from the Dr. If you think nobody will be attracted to you they won’t be because you are pushing them away or ignoring signals. Media approved beauty isn’t everything and while people might state an ‘ideally’ they are not locked into only that body type.
I lol’d at the first sentence, dude can joke about it.
Went home from work early today because Mrs. Pixel is sick and feeling down in the dumps… It’s hard being an emotional rock when you’re feeling down in the dumps yourself!… Oh well, here’s to sucking it up and being a good hubby!
*dons cape*
*realise that the cape kinda looks idiotic*
*removes cape and moseys off*
*hugs*
Rye?
Do!
*retrieves cape, runs off holding arms in superman pose*
Capes are surprisingly heavy. I don’t blame you for removing it.
*collapses from exhaustion*
no one told me it was Piccolo’s training cape.
What? Capes don’t look idiotic, they’re almost as cool as cloaks! And cloaks are rad! I definitely don’t have a bias here.
I went to one of those Q&A things with Billy Dee Williams and someone asked if he could have kept anything from the star wars set what would it have been, he said the cape, he is a good guy.
Well, the only two options were the cape and the name.
Lando Calrissian is a badass name.
NO CAPES!
@beavwa
Just curious as to how you obtained your classic starters Charmander, Bulbasaur and Squirtle for Pokemon XY? Was it transfer from previous generations?
I lost the Bulbasaur you sent me. Or I traded it. Either way, I was looking to see if I could generate another one myself in Platinum and send it over if it isn’t too much work.
I’m messing around with Pokemon breeding for the first time; it would probably just be easiest to trade one of my Charmander offsprings for another Bulbasaur.
You can search for anything you want on the GTS!
Do you think breeding boxes of Charmanders to trade will suffice?
Is Charmander desirable? Worthy of a trade with, say, legendaries? Or is there an unwritten rule that states legendaries can only be traded for legendaries? Hmm. Too much Pokemon pondering.
Doesn’t hurt to try. Just go for a browse and see what people are offering for what.
River-pattern (Australian) Vivillon is also a pretty great way to get whatever you want. They usually get snapped up relatively quickly.
You probably won’t get a legendary for a charmander, unless it’s shiny.
But say, a bulbasaur for a charmander, that’s a pretty fair trade, someone will come to that party pretty fast usually.
Some of the annoying trade item evo stuff is about as far as I’ve found I can push the AU vivillon. But if you’re going to breed boxes of stuff to trade, vivillon is the way to go, as @powalen said.
Every time i want anything from there they always want legendaries. Im sorry but a shinny umbreon is not worth a legendary.
The problem with any reasonable trade, it won’t take long for someone to say “that’s reasonable” and trade.
Anything past very recent listings will be those unreasonable event legendary requests.
Trading initially when no transfer capability was up – breed a bunch of what you’ve got, offer them for what you want.
Option 2 – there are catchable second forms of all gen 1 and 6 starters in the friend safari.
Option 3 – Acquire in earlier game, bring forward via generations of transfer bridging methods (including paying for Pokémon bank for the final span) – most costly / time consuming / annoying approach.
I have lots of bulbasaurs if you want another one. Did a stack of breeding for them recently.
Thanks. I think I keep looking into this way too much. I’ll likely just keep breeding what I have and use the GTS a bit more.
I do like the idea of pure, untraded Pokemon; much like with the breeding you’re doing, transferring move sets and whatnot. Ultimately, I think I must concede it’s a bit over my head.
i have most starters so if you are interested give us a shout and ill breed some for you.
The thing with the ‘purity’ is that the onus is on the player not to use hacks if they want to participate in events and things – best way is through caught/bred yourself, or knowing the source.
It’s a good rule to stick to so you don’t have to toss out mons you might have got attached to if you get the urge to go compete in something.
I suspect a few things I’ve traded for might not be legit, and I always explicitly disclose if it’s a global trade, origin unknown one when trading, or they become breeding stock.
Mr. Strange is back from Sydney tonight, so I can finally catch up on the TV shows from this week we usually watch together.
I also decided to make Cactuar and Chocobo cushions so that will be my weekend project. I even went to Spotlight and spend my lunch money on green and yellow fabric. But now I’m hungry. 😛
make a salad out of the fabric offcuts, the yellow can be capsicum
https://123d.circuits.io/shop/circuitscribe#kits-bundles
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER
probably super dangerous too. Actually the more i think about it the more dangerous it seems. PAPER CATCHES FIRE
Fire good!
Oh wow, I remember seeing I think a Kickstarter for this 2-3 years ago. Must have succeeded.
A quick google tells me that the auto-ignition point for paper is 218 to 248 degrees Celsius. While it’s certainly not out of the realms of possibility, what sort of circuit would you need to build with the ink in order to get an area of paper to ignite?
EDIT: Yep, Kickstarter back in January. More recent than I thought.
“The ink can support a maximum current of about 175 mA on standard copy paper. Higher currents cause joule heating and a subsequent drop in resistance due to sintering the particles (up to around 8x decrease in resistance if controlled). Currents exceeding 400 mA may break the trace on standard copy paper. High currents can be achieved with photo paper, near 800mA.”
Going to say that that means the ink would break down well before you produced enough current through the circuit to set fire to it. Resistance isn’t going to be that variable – probably only depending on the size of the circuit – so if you increase voltage (they say > 36V not recommended for safety) you’re going to increase the current proportionally and ruin the circuits.
I backed it on Kickstarter.
I have a Basic box in my bedroom.
I have yet to use it.
You know what? I feel like going to Adventure World, Perth’s only theme park. I have a coupon that lowers the price if I bring 3 other people. i.e. Ticket prices go down from $54 to $41.
I’ve been thinking about this for the last week, but I was too nervous to say anything about it. I don’t know when Greenius will be in Perth next, and I don’t want to exclude him if possible. But, if I didn’t say anything, I’d miss out on a romantic rail ride with a TAYbie.
(There was no way I couldn’t make it seem like a sex thing, so make your jokey jokes Freeze)
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks @greenius
Holy shit that roller coaster sounds raaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
You should try and get something like that in Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist World.
It just goes up and down in a boring circle, never delivering thrills.
And so would the roller coaster.
Hmm depends on when this day of adventure will happen.
Only due to the fact I will have to save up what little money I don’t have.
Don’t feel pressured to come if you don’t think you can afford it.
Depends on how long I have to save up for it and all that. If I can make it I will be there and if not I won’t be
Oh I see how it is… organise all the cool things when I’m not around :'(
I’ve been told by my manager that they need me to work on stuff back in Melbourne so there shouldn’t be any more Perth trips… but then again I also received an email from the Perth people saying something along the lines of: “come to Perth as soon as possible” so who knows!
So they will clone you and one will be in Melbourne full time and the other in Perth full time
I’m not happy with the amount of sad people here which also includes me! Let’s all get together and hug! I hope my disproportionately
large bicepssunken biceps aren’t uncomfortable to anyone.I am squishy…..
Ok I am kinda round…..
Well round is a shape so I guess I am in shape \o/
Also I have been told or heard or imagined that people like hugging squishy people….
Join the club!
Slow reply is slow, but you should get some of this.
GROUP HUG
FRIENDSHIIIIP
It’s amazing how you can get different service from different people, depending on the person and their mood at the time you call a customer service line.
Just got a scary letter from the ATO about failure to lodge a bunch of tax returns. I don’t have any personal income beyond the Family Tax Benefit so I don’t actually need to lodge. I was telling the lady I got the first time I called about my situation and she said I needed to lodge a paper form advising non-lodgement which was the first I’d heard of it, and to go online to download the forms. So I go the website to grab the forms and it tells me I don’t need to lodge the non-lodgement forms, and specifically “In these situations, the agency that paid you will have provided information to us that shows you do not need to lodge a tax return.”.
So I called the ATO back up again and explained my situation again, and this time the guy I spoke to said he could fix it all up over the phone for me. And he did.
It is always good when you get someone that is helpful like that.
I love that stuff, it just shows how good some people are at their job. They go the extra mile to help you.
It shows good customer service that many don’t have and to few have.
I didn’t get the job 🙁 And now I’m feeling ridiculously down 🙁
*sigh* I think I’ll go homw now 🙁
*hugs*
Aww. 🙁
Rejection sucks! The trick is in picking yourself up after one. *hugasaurus*
You know I don’t mind being rejected at the start of the process so much anymore… It’s when you get right down to the finish line and your hopes are up and that’s when it brings me down 🙁
*punches something*
I’d look at it the other way. You were a serious candidate because:
– You made the initial paper sorting.
– You made shortlist.
– You made first interviews.
It means you gots da skillz. Much better than getting your resume thrown in the trash for unknown reasons. Get some feedback on why you weren’t hired, learn, apply for other stuff.
Ow! That hurt.
Aww.
My nails @strange Brisbane Bronze by OPI. DualShock 4 by Playstation ;P
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Holy awesomesauce! Love that colour.
You should have a silver nail too, a accent nail if you will, usually done on the ring finger on each hand. It draws the eye.
I would a do black accent nail to go with that bronze. I think I need to buy that bronze nailpolish, now.
You make a good point.
Im going to go and eat jerky and spit on stuff to regain my man cards.
Man cards are stupid. I wanna eat jerky and spit on stuff without the threat of gaining a man card hanging over my head. 😛
They’re pretty easy to get rid of. Just be nice to people and you’ll quickly clear the whole deck.
My wife cooks steak waaaaay better then me. *holds card up for forfeit*
Strange, Jane and Rocket Nail Polish Purchasing Meat!
Feat. DC!
Arms folded, standing with the other husbands/boyfriends! 😀
Battle for the dad chair commences.
Thanks for waiting for me like this hun
You could use some nail tape and do a black or silver undercoat with that bronze ontop, and leave a pattern. Otherwise that colour would look amazing in a water marble effect
They remind me of christmas beetles. (I hope you like beetles or that could be seen as an insult, I just mean that the colour is pretty rad).
Looks dope. very nice colour.
Very pretty! But bronze always looks a bit weird on my skin.
You’ve reminded me that I really need to get on and do my nails again. I’m feeling summery so I think I’ll break out some OPI My Paprika is Hotter Than Yours – it’s a fabulous shade of orange
Man, tinypic is such a dodgy site. Every time I get linked there, either my antivirus tells me that it blocked a virus, or Firefox tells me that it prevented a pop-up window from being opened.
I am finally getting stuff done. Woo! Mum has been a massive help. She’s been helping me attach the sequins to the bodice and cut out the vinyl for the gloves. I’ve almost finished Nob’s shoe covers
I need to say something about this, because I’ve been stressing about it for weeks.
I have my graduation some time in November, and I’m scared shitless by it. The ceremony is going to take place in a freaking stadium, with a lot of onlookers. It will be incredibly hot, and I will be forced to wear winter gear. I know I’m going to spend the entire time being paranoid about needing to go to the toilet, and not having any means of going to the toilet. This sort of crap has happened before, as my brain freaks out even in 15-minute long assemblies. Something about not being in control of a situation causes by brain to freak out and start inventing reasons for me to leave. And if that isn’t enough, my brain will even change bodily processes to make these excuses real.
Even if I don’t actually need to go to the toilet, the stress will cause my stomach will start digesting food super fast so I actually have to go. I’ve been coming up with insane strategies to counteract this, such as not eating that day so I don’t have anything to digest.
I really don’t want to go. I don’t think the ceremony is ever going to be worth the stress , as I’ll forget it all happened pretty quickly. The ceremony isn’t even a requirement for graduating. But I can’t back out of it. Even though my mum hasn’t bought her own ticket yet, she will want to go. She will remember the ceremony. She will want to gush over how her little boy is all grown up. Am I being selfish for not wanting to go? Argh, I just had to get this off my chest. It’s been bubbling for weeks. Sorry if it’s kind of gross thing to talk about.
Think of it as your reward for finishing school!
Anxiety? It’s been brought up before. If you can’t handle this stuff on your own there’s people you can talk with man. People here, professionals, I dunno. You probably need to improve this aspect of your life in order to function reasonably in the world (going from what you’ve described).As someone who overthinks, FUUUCKING HELLL
mate, i have a bit of advice and i know i cant really help because anxiety is fuccking shit and whatnot but ill say it anyway.
Thinking about the worst case scenario for something like this is silly, mainly, because even if it does happen which is pretty freaking unlikely you have forced yourself to relive it twice. I know its hard but think of the positives. Graduations are good, i liked mine and i disliked school. You’ll be fine just try not to stress. It just means your one step closer to moving away from your nutso fam bam.
Get some Depends.
People won’t be able to tell under the layers of winter clothes.
Oh man, if only he was sweatin’ about sweating.
Me and you would have him covered, like our damp, sodium rich bodies, in no time.
Man, the last stuff I bought was amateur crap. Pits are precipitating as we speak. I think one of my colleagues has started work on an ark.
Dude, donned the ‘hosen and my right, just my right, pit went bananas.
Right pit is always super keen.
Speaking of ‘hosen, you gotta print out those photos, put them in bottles and drop one in the river each day for a week or so. Gradually introducing Karl (in ‘hosen, obviously) into the photos.
Eventually, as they’re discovered, media attention will grow and it’ll get published in the Brisbane Rambler or whatever. The person you’ve been texting will recognise you and call your phone.
Which is why you set up your voicemail as a Zeitgeist promo!
BAM!
One new listener.
Dan and ‘Flu are a wicked, scary, combination.
Never change, gents.
Yes you are being selfish and stressing over nothing
Don’t even worry about there being onlookers, nobody is paying any attention to anybody but who they are there to see. It is a nice bookend to your time at school and yes, very important for you Mum to have a chance to see the result of the time, money and effort that went into your schooling.
It sounds like you are stressing over the fact you are stressing. Think of it as the result of your schooling and a final chance to see the people you went through all those years with who you might not see for a decade. If it helps you can think about it as the last time you will see those people for a decade. Try to relax and enjoy it, after all you did it, you are graduating
Do you have similar issues when you go to eg movie theaters? I went through a period where I was the same, I had to leave a movie once because I had a panic attack about 2/3 the way through for no reason at all.
All went away when I changed jobs away from a crap situation. What might be going on for you is something similar: you’re stressed about something unrelated, and it comes out in those situations.
Have you figured out what’s next for you after graduation?
Anxiety attacks aren’t really something that happens all that much to me in movie theatres, as the movie is often enough to distract me. Anxiety attacks are often the result of boredom more than anything.
I rode the bus and the train for years, but just this year I’ve started getting super anxious about it. “There’s no bathrooms on that thing. What if I need to go?” etc.
However, I did have a minor anxiety attack during the Guardians of the Galaxy movie meat. I had to go in the middle of the movie, which isn’t a big deal. I only missed about three minutes, and it was during the generic “We can do it” speech.
I have a plan for after graduation and where I’m going to study, (I’ve already applied, but I won’t hear anything until January) but it kind of falls apart if I think about it to much due to the sheer amount of things I don’t know. So I’ve endeavored to not think about it at all. Perfect solution.
It’s weird, as my depression has reduced to the point where I question whether I ever had it, anxiety has taken its place.
Don’t think of it so much as something you aren’t in control of.
Instead, look at it as a well planned and scheduled activity with your role already set out, so you don’t have to control anything, just sit, follow instructions, and it’ll all be over with minimal effort on your part.
The power of laziness compels you.
If it helps, I could tell you about how I fucked up mine. Yup. Me. 🙂
I’d recommend saving that story for a less empty TAY.
Trying to arrange contents insurance for my new place which is slightly less straightforward than it could be because most insurers have a really low limit on claims toward games hardware & software and ‘collections’ like the approximately 9 years worth of anime figures I’ve accumulated (I guesstimated I’ve spent about $16-22k on them since I started working which is kind of nuts).
So going through getting quotes and stuff. Against my better judgement because I loathe their advertising and the smarmy prat they have doing them, I tried Youi. Just on their website trying to get a simple quote. Get halfway through the form and it’s texted me an ‘authentication code’. Which seemed odd. Then out of the blue they call me up on the phone because I was “identified as a preferred customer”. No way to get a simple online quote, railroaded on their forms and they’re instead going to ring me up on the phone without asking.
Hung up and crossed them off my list.
I’m probably weird like this but I hate calling people on the phone. It’s really strange but it makes me incredibly anxious and stressed. I don’t have many problems interacting with people in real life face-to-face or anything, and talking to people I know on the phone is fine too, though even at work with Lync and stuff, I’d rather get up and talk to them face-to-face or send an email / text. Phone conversations are way too scary.
<– Socially retarded nerd, apparently
Jebus…
EDIT: Oh, that’s just a remark on the $16-22k, not the social retardation. I’m alright with most phone calls, except for two scenarios. 1. When #MyShitMate tries calling me. 2. When I’m at work and a contact calls my mobile instead of the office landline. I don’t get it. On my email signature the office number is right there up the top in big font and my mobile is further down in miniature digits… Why go for my mobile?
Haven’t updated this in 2-3 months IIRC:
http://myfigurecollection.net/profile/Negs
Mainly my collection is Nendoroid, which I have over two hundred of. I stopped buying scale figures about 18 months ago as I had run out of space, my cabinets are in storage until a week from now. I have some figmas and some other stuff too. Nendos are generally around $50-60 each plus shipping, some are more and some are less, but even those alone are over $10k worth as a collection, and also some of my older ones that were limited runs have become quite valuable if GSC hasn’t reissued. Scale figures are a lot more expensive,
Individually there’s nothing that’s insanely valuable, but they’re also hard to replace, expensive if you need to buy them now, and as a group they’re pretty valuable so absolutely something I need to insure for enough that I could afford to go and re-purchase as many as I can and re-start the collection.
I feel like I should also point out that spending $22k (which is a high-end estimate) over a 9 year period is $2400 a year or $200 a month, and that’s pretty easy to do when you’re preordering stuff six to nine months in advance (otherwise you miss out), it costs a restocking fee if you cancel too late and it’s a bunch of smaller items.
Commbank allows estimates. Allows you to put in specific items too for quote purposes.
I actually hadn’t looked into any of the big banks, assumed they’d ruin me with fees and stuff. Should probably get a quote.
Budget Direct (who also have terrible advertising, as an aside) are currently the front-runner in terms of quote amount and they do allow adding extra stuff (any insurer does) but it looks like you can’t call that stuff out unless you’re actually signing up and I’m not sure how well they’d actually end up covering it.
Will give Commbank a look.
Forget Youi. Everything you spoonfed them online, they were only going to rehash over the phone back to you anyway. Time wasting pricks.
Yep. Turns out their smarmy asshole spokesman is actually a valid reflection of their business!
Youi refused me home, car or contents insurance because I live within 5km of the ocean.
Seems like they keep their premiums down by only insuring people who absolutely will never need it.
I know it sounds awfully malicious but I would love to see footage of their TV ad guy slipping over and falling on his face or something. Maybe stubbing a toe.
I also hate phone calls.
I would also be giving a giant NOPE to any company that started ringing me while I was trying to get an online quote.
Phone conversations are scary.
Sorry, I need to get this off my chest.
How about instead of focusing on whether games are sexist or not, let’s focus on making games that are fun. Who cares if the protagonist is male or female. Most of the protagonists are gender interchangeable and aren’t actually integral to the story. Instead of making games for men or women, girls or boys, let’s make them for people.
I don’t disagree with you but I think that that’s a lot of the reason why people are asking for more diversity and everything. It can enable more fun and interesting things for our games.
As a good example: Persona 3 Portable. I had a lot more fun playing as the Female Protagonist than I did as the standard male one. There’s angles
Additionally I expect that for some people (and I’m guessing here, I don’t know for sure as I’m a straight, white male and I fully admit to owning and enjoying games that are absolutely not diverse or particularly positive), being constantly shoved out of the game they’re playing because it’s not reflecting them well or what have you then that probably isn’t fun. Or it’s less fun than it could be.
I think the discussions around these sorts of issues are really important because they encourage developers to have the guts to do exactly what you’re saying: make games for a wide range of people, not for a small segment of people. I also don’t think every developer should be targeting all people. Knowing your audience is really important. But in the end, more developers thinking about these things means more developers making games for a wider range of audiences which means more people playing them, more cultural acceptance of people playing them, and a more positive and inclusive community around them. Everybody is enriched by that.
I don’t mind discussion, but it seems to have become a screaming match between “Games are sexist” and “No, they’re not”. I think we need less debate about sexism, and rather have a debate about diversity. Publishers tend to stick to the white, male protagonist, because in their mind, that’s what sells. However, at the same time, I don’t think it’d be any different if Nathan Drake from Uncharted became Natalie Drake. It wouldn’t change the story.
Technically Natalie Drake’s name was Lara Croft, but I don’t disagree with your point. 🙂
EDIT: The big issue that I see is this exchange:
Person A: There is not enough diversity in games. Hardly any of them feature a non-white female protagonist.
Person B: Beyond Good and Evil and Mirror’s Edge! See, there’s no problem here at all.
And it’s utterly missing the point. A few counterexamples don’t invalidate the overwhelming general trend.
No, it doesn’t. But developers aren’t the complete problem. As I said, publishers are generally the ones pushing the buttons. From what I’ve heard, most developers are told by publishers that the game won’t sell well with a male, black, gay protagonist, change it to a white burly male, it sells.
Women are 50% of the population, and if they’re not being represented well in games, then other minorities have even less of a chance of being represented. It goes beyond whether or not the main character is male or female. What NPCs do is important too. Are there female police officers, or are all the women in the game just prostitutes? Are women always shown with big boobs and tight fitting clothes? Are traditional “male” values like strength and agression always rewarded over “female” values like gentleness and caring?
None of these things are going to be addressed in the short term. Even film doesn’t have it right yet, and it has a good head start on games as a medium. When was the last blockbuster film you saw where the hero kissed his boyfriend at the end? Or showed two people over 60 being intimate? Change starts with acknowledging that there’s a problem and talking about how it could different, and better. There are a LOT of people who are still at the point where they can’t see a problem, and just ignoring them won’t make them go away.
Every now and again a game comes out where things have been done a bit differently and it’s those glimpses of brilliance that show us there can be something better than just another Uncharted or Call of Duty.
Here’s a few that spring to mind:
Journey
The Last of Us
Heavy Rain
Valiant Hearts
As I said, the problem tends to be with publishers. A lot of the time indie games are able to have more diversity then the bigger games. Having this argument, doesn’t help anyone. If we really want to see more diversity, we may have to send it to the publishers, rather then arguing among ourselves.
I think a big part of the problem is in considering it things like: ‘even film doesn’t have it right yet’. Right? What’s ‘right’? Portrayal of how things are/were, tapping into memes that people recognize with historical parallels, relying on the familiar? Or portrayal of how we’d ideally like things to be? If something’s right, what’s wrong? Why is it wrong?
Is art imitating life, or do we want life to try imitate art, with art showing what we consider the ideal?
And even then… who’s ‘we’?
Because that’s a pretty loaded idea…
Wall of text like you wouldn’t believe.
Because as a testosterone-fueled male, I don’t necessarily want to see my aggression-filled, titillating blockbusters and pin-up girls replaced with ‘female’ values of gentleness and caring, in modest attire. So ‘replacing’ shouldn’t happen, or you get the resistance from the ‘they’re comin’ fer our gaems!’ crowd, angrily supporting the status quo.
So we need more studios? Or am I just going to buy fewer games?
And problematically for equality in representation, publishers know full-well that I already spend a shit-tonne on games. It’s very, very, very easy to go after my money, because they already know it’s there. It always has been. But we’re going to shame developers for doing what I like and going after my money? For taking the easy option in an industry that’s already incredibly difficult to succeed in with no guaranteed formula for financial reward? Should I be ashamed for what I like, too? Why? Are feminine values superior to masculine ones?
That’s where this stuff starts to devolve into something more ‘us vs them’, and things start getting combative. Because it’s pretty easy to see that “there should be more feminine representation” complaints all too frequently correspond directly to the latest most egregious example of catering to the masculine demographics (MY demographic), or point at those examples as something ‘lacking’ or ‘bad’ when I think they’re fine. Because I’m male.
Obviously it’s not as black and white as that, with all the utterly genderless games of huge success (the most popular game in the world, across all time, is Tetris), and for all the testosterone that floods my veins, you probably wouldn’t believe how much time I’ve spent on Magical Diary, trying to win over the heart of a certain boy. I almost exclusively play females in any MMO or RPG that allows me the choice. Femmeshep is quite clearly the ONLY Shepard. (…Except according to the 85% of gamers who played broshep. But what do they know?). I consider the game character to be their own entity, the story to be their story, not mine. I don’t play for self-insertion. I just think that females typically make better protagonists in those types of games, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is partly thanks to the subconscious underdog factor in terms of physical power, or their role in historically patriarchal societies making their accomplishments feel more impressive.
Personally, I don’t believe that representation influences purchasing power as much as people like to believe – publishers who are terrified they’ll lose the straight-white-male dollar OR activists who believe that there’s a female market who hasn’t been buying games because the protagonists aren’t female.
Which, incidentally, is a terrible, terrible, terrible argument to posit by anyone who actually wants to see better representation and not scare publishers off from the idea. Because if you believe that people buy games based on representation of their values or gender, and that the female market is un-tapped because of a lack of feminine gaming/protagonists but will suddenly spend more with their addition, then the logical extension of that idea is that the male market is tapped because of the presence of dudebro attitudes and protagonists, and without that representation the male dollars will disappear. So if you made a change, you’d gain females and lose males… and not end up with any more than you already had, because women only make up 50% of the population, not more than that. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. It’s the worst argument as an incentive for change (which is risky and/or expensive in the first place), and should be avoided by anyone who actually believes it, because it will not help their cause one bit.
But as I said, I don’t buy it. People are more complicated in their desires than that. Tomb Raider and Hitman have different gendered protagonists and sold roughly about the same… mostly women buying Tomb Raider, mostly men buying Hitman? I doubt it. I think mostly AAA game fans buying both, and fans of violence and aggression. Lara still mows down hundreds of dudes. The feminine ‘values’ you mentioned don’t make much of an appearance. It’d be interesting to see how it’d sell if they did. How does something like Minecraft compare? Tomb Raider and Hitman famously sold a ‘disappointing’ 3.5’ish mil each. Minecraft sold about 54mil. The gender options expanded in September 2014, during which I think they sold another what… 1 million? Was it important in that game? What are the demographics of who plays it?
And how do we find out? Who’s going to have the stones to ask?
We have so many more questions than answers, all unexplored because it’s terrifying to explore them, because what if we get accused of having an agenda while asking? What if we discover something that’s not politically correct, or doesn’t conform to what ‘we’ want? The staggering majority of gaming enthusiasts I know are male. The overwhelming majority of women I know consider gaming to be a male pastime not worth their attention. Is this because I’m male and thus more inclined to meet males, in a culture where women feel disinclined to reveal themselves out of fear? Is this because of generations of social conditioning setting the expectation of gaming as a male pastime? Is it because of the vicious circle of females being disinterested because there’s so little on offer for them? They don’t see other women in gaming, and thus don’t consider it socially acceptable? Is there a difference between the demographics of gender in AAA gaming space compared to the casual/social/mobile spaces? Women at work are crazy about Candy Crush, far more so than any men I know. Why isn’t this difference reported on? What do we gain? What do we lose? How can we tell how it all fits together?
I watched the ‘kids react‘ video about the next-gen console releases and I saw a bunch of excited boys and disinterested girls. One of them actually said, “I don’t play video games; I’m a girl!” That broke my fucking heart right then and there, and if I had a daughter, I’d probably have taken up a placard then and there. This attitude is still out there.
I don’t talk about this stuff often not only because I’m currently in the position of privilege and I like being catered to, but because there’s more unknowns than knowns, more opinions than facts, more guesses than truths, as many assumptions as there are assholes, and far too many idealists in opposition to each other, fighting for domination over the hobby I partly rely on as an escape from all this bullshit. There’s so little productive talking going on, so little examination, just soldiers marching out to advance their agenda, collateral damage be damned. Which is why we are where we are. Which is why I’m ducking my head, avoiding the screaming match between two idiotic packs of extremists too busy fighting to talk, fucking up my chi to the point that I don’t give a shit what ANYONE involved has to say, I just want them the hell out of my house.
tl;dr I agree with Scree insofar as, I don’t give a damn what race, religion, or gender my game characters are, as long as I get to solve puzzles, explore fantastic worlds of other peoples’ imaginations, or shoot some fuckers in the face who deserve it. If everyone else wants to argue about the hows and whys, that’s their business, just keep the bloody noise down, I’m trying to game, here.
*slow clap* (I read the whole thing)
You know what, the people who actually dictate what happens in our games have been completely silent about this. I wonder what publishers opinions are.
I think a massive problem for change is that the people who put money towards our games getting made, don’t actually play games
Games should be made to fun to play and made for everybody to play regardless of said persons background.
Just got asked by mum if I’d gotten anything for my sister’s birthday. Which I’d totally forgotten was a thing. Even though they were about to go up to Brisbane to see her this weekend because of it. And now she’s coming down here instead because her boyfriend couldn’t make the trip like he was going to.
Welp.
Voucher time!
I mean it, get her something lovely like a massage or a facial or dinner for two at a swanky restaurant. You can buy it online at the last minute (and sometimes even on special) and not look like you forgot at all 😉
She’s no massage or facial girl 😛
Usually I can cop out with a Futurama DVD. Although I think that’s usually the Christmas present. Can’t remember what i do for birthdays.
Also, her being here means I can’t stay up all night costuming, since she’s down the back half of the house here, and her bedroom’s next to the laundry too so that late night sewing machine wouldn’t go down too well :/
Experiences are better than things. You could also always ask if there’s something she wants / needs.
I always prefer birthdays to be everyone coming to an ultra-expensive restaurant meal that they normally couldn’t afford. I need no gifts – they can spend that money on their meal. That way we can all do something novel and different and hopefully high-quality.
Speaking of birthday’s, it’s Lamboman’s b’day tomorrow!
I seriously love the puzzles in Grimrock! Dunno if anyone else is up to it yet, but ones like “The 4 Plagues” are just so satisfying when without instruction, solve the puzzle on your first try!
Ugh, fuck.
Can’t be arsed doing this costume anymore.
I mean at all.
Or going to PAX.
Fuck everything.
Considering getting Dark Souls 2 off of G2A for $36 instead of $55….
Also, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor for $38 if anyone’s interested:
https://www.g2a.com/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-steam-cd-key-global.html
What’s the problem?
Too much other shit getting in my way.
Every time I want to try and work on it, I’m too busy worrying about everything else.
🙁
If hemming is an issue, there’s a tape that can bond hems with an iron if that helps
I feel you. I’m this close to throwing it all in the bin. Mainly because the gloves are doing my head in.
It has given me a newfound respect for the more dedicated cosplayers here. One relatively uncomplicated one is pushing me over the edge yet these guys and girls are doing multiple more complicated ones. What is wrong with you people?
“…Edge? Is that what that was back there?”
Precisely the reason why I have zero interest in any sort of armour or weapons building. If I can’t sew or hot glue it, it’s not happening.
I’m not sure if that is directed at me, but if so, sorry.
Also, what are you having issues with the gloves? Is it just sewing it together, or is it because it’s not stiff enough to stick out like it does is DBZ?
Sorry for what? It’s admiration for your skill/dedication/level of crazy.
Its more just trying to find a base that actually fits for the gloves. Seems to be only midgets wear them. Trying something @CookingMama suggested and ordered some boxing gloves liners so hopefully they’ll fit. Boxers tend to be somewhat solid fellas.
Alright, well, if you’re using cotton, your glove cuffs will be limp. If you want to make them stick out a bit, use a heavy iron on interfacing (you can get it from spotlight and Lincraft). Iron it on the cuffs and then sew them.
I think it’s less skill and more like bumbling through, learning from one mistake at a time.
Welding gloves? I used them as the basis for my steampunk gauntlet and iron man glove
Sydney TAYbies!
@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 (if your name isn’t tagged here and you want it to be, let me know so I can add you to the tags list)
We’re going to a thing with @blaghman tomorrow and will be free afterwards. You should all come for dinner and/or drinks tomorrow night! We’re meeting at Kino at 5pm and going from there (it’s fine if you’re later then that, just contact Me/Pants/Cake/Blaghman and we can tell you where we are) Grab dinner somewhere. Go for drinks somewhere. Talk somewhere. Other stuff!
You should come! If you let us know you are coming ahead of time we will wait for you before going to dinner!
Maybe when I become more social my name will be on the list /o\
If you want to be on the tag list for these types of things all you’ve got to do is ask. It’s not an invite-only thing! 😛
I’ll need to get added to the Sydney list again too 🙂
Oh damn, I’m literally one hit away from defeating the Asylum Demon.
I know you have to time the attack from the air and keep healing, but every time, he gets an attack in and I’m out of estus. 🙁
Roll.
That’s what I’ve been doing!
Rolling and healing, but I keep running out of estus. 🙁
Wait, which Asylum Demon? If it’s the first one roll into his attack as counter-intuitive as it sounds. Shouldn’t even need to heal if you time it right. If second one stay behind him and try to bait him into his downward plunge. Keep attacking his butt.
That’s exactly what I did. 😀
I’ve beaten him!
\o/
\o/
♥‿♥ ♥‿♥ ♥‿♥ ♥‿♥ ♥‿♥
Help, @dc’s been hacked!
Quick, punch him in the Sternum XD
Someone on twitter mentioned how they were surprised they came up red…
Dumb question (for you guys, not for me), but are they actually red (on here or Twitter), or was that just sarcasm…?
On your phone on the default Twitter app they will be red should be the same on Twitter.com, but in the application I use on my PC they come up black. Likewise here in Firefox in TAY they’re also black.
Thanks.
Think I might get myself to an optometrist sometime in the near future :\
Oh, by the way I just watched The Walking Dead. Not bad. 😀
Finally. Ugh. 😛
Plot discussions on Monday TAY! Page two or three I think. I’d get you a link but I’m sleep TAYing and definitely not use my phone instead of sleeping. *shifty eyes*
I just looked at them. Page 3. 🙂
Good night, DeeCee. *hugasaurus*
Night Straaaaaangey!
Spoilers….
Carol is badass.You are!
Asylum Demon defeated!
I just had to divebomb him at the start, circle and dodge, and keep stabbing him in the arse!\o/
Stabbing things in the arse, welcome to the Souls games lol
Forgot how great The Addams Family movie is.
Man, what a depressing way to end the semester. Most of my friends are out drinking and I’m stuck at home cos I’ve had to finish writing about our friggen coffee idea 😛
On the upside apart from exams I’m done for the year! Now I get a stupidly long break in which I have to find something to do to stop myself going insane until February! And I don’t even have any alcohol on me to celebrate 🙁 I guess I’ll go make a coffee instead
Ah, the long Uni breaks…
Prepare for our Singapore meat!
Find a job to pay for our Singapore meat! 😛
You’re going to find a job to pay for our Singapore meat? Whatta guy!
Don’t forget about Pixel!
As long as you pay for the Formula 1 tickets!
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
😀
I nominate Pixel!
I’ll just tell y’all which food is extra tasty
While it’s quiet and weekend TAY dies… my middle brother pointed me at http://wildelifecomic.com/comic/1/
I’m really digging it. It’s only a couple weeks old, but this is great so far.
The text on the first page is pretty fantastic.
“There’s this funny thing I’ve noticed about people — you never really get the story you expect. Ask them about what they have, and they’ll tell you about what they want. Ask them to tell you about love, and they’ll tell you about heartbreak. Ask them about death, though… and they’ll tell you about life.”
Barbara Yaga?
Cute.
Man, page 36… bit of familiarity going on there.
Wait… Did a comic just attempt a jump scare?
Sleeping Dogs Malibu Stacy is pretty great! Very pretty and a lot of fun although there are still some … issues.
Do you come with the boat?
*giggles*
Oh you.
Well, obviously not because I got thrown from the boat and died.
NOB.GETS.REFERENCES
Because 70000 Tons of Metal is sailing from Fort Lauderdale this year instead of Miami, it’s leaving on a Thursday instead of a Monday. So we thought we’d go early and spend a few days somewhere else in the US, as we’ve only seen LA, Miami and Orlando before.
And it looks like Atlanta is the place, due to the ease of getting there, and from there back to Florida.
So yeah, I may be going to Atlanta. Anything know anything interesting to do there?
CNN! Coca Cola factory! Massive airport!
Reenact The Walking Dead!
There’s a 6 flags in Atlanta I think! Thrill rides ftw!
The cdc! You can try your very own luck with Ebola!
Sister’s boyfriend gave her her birthday present early. It was a skateboard.
Now all I can hear in my head is LIGHTS OUT! TURN ON THE RADIO!
Do-do do, dodo, dodododo do…
Hate being that guy, but do you mean lights out, guerilla radio? Or is there a joke I’m missing?
The joke is that things don’t always sound like what they are.
TURN ON THE RADIO!
The hint is in the name of the song 😛
Like I even knew the name of the song before googling “tony hawk lights out turn on the radio” last night to get a youtube video to play after the board was unwrapped 😛
:O
What? They don’t announce the name of the song nor the band, there’s no way to know either of those just from hearing a song played on its own (other than taking a guess if you can properly understand the song’s chorus lyrics).
Sorry, just a bad assumption that everyone knows Rage Against the Machine, dunno if that’s my ignorance or age haha
@piat I don’t know anything about popular music. And I knew even less back in the Tony Hawk days 😛
Only reason I’d know a song’s name and band would be if the guy on the radio decided to announce it, and I was also paying attention at the time.
Cowabunga dude!
So anyone want to help me beat Destiny? (PS4)
😛
No….
(I don’t own it)
🙂 I might be on a bit later…
Watched Tucker & Dale vs. Evil last night, that’s a good movie.
I found it very amusing.
Been told how good it was and after seeing .gifs of it across the net I now believe the hype haha.
I had not heard anything about it before I bought it so I got it more because I could. Have now watched it 5 times since I got it. Would watch again.
It does give an interesting take on the whole don’t judge people on there looks deal. Aside from all the laughs that is the other thing I liked about the movie.
Yeah, you think “oh they’re just a couple of dumb rednecks” and then they prove that stereotype wrong completely lol.
I know I have that movie, but I’m not sure if I recall watching it. I may have started one night and fallen asleep during it possibly. One day I’ll get around to watching it properly!
Should give a watch, was a good hour an a half of rofls.
Starting on Elsa’s cape today. It is a massive job. Massive. 8 metres of fabric to cut out and then stitch back together
Cape day! \o/
I doubt I’m going to get up to my cape today. Hopefully will at least get the pattern for it sorted so I can do it tomorrow.
I have no idea who else in TAY likes Slipknot apart from me, but their new album .5: The Gray Chapter is just amazing. I wasn’t sure how they’d go with new music after the unfortunate passing of their bass player 4 years back & having to fire their drummer Joey. But easily it’s their best effort since Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses, but probably their best album in their entire career. Can’t wait to see them in February!
They fired their drummer?
Huh.
Yep Joey got fired. They can’t talk about why for legal reasons, but Corey said in an interview that it was a hard thing to do. But sounds like he’s gone off the rails, with drugs or something & he was causing issues internally, shame.
Today is Cathryn’s 21st party, im gonna get sahhhh afternoon drunk anyone in the beach area should pop round
I desperately want someone to make a video of the Port Adelaide v Hawthorn preliminary final with Kill la Kill music. It would show Port Adelaide being beaten with Before My Body Is Dry (aka Don’t lose your way) is playing. Then Port Adelaide fight back just as the chorus kicks in. The rest of the song plays until the game ends. Then the song suddenly changes to “I want to know” and shows how sad the Port players are. That would be amazing.
(Port are losing)
In the dusty basement where we met
May you surprised me so much
Because you’re talking now
I gotta find the truth from many fights
But I’m all alone
You’re the only one who can help me out
We’ll be as one
We’re ready to fight
Look over there
They try to kill us for stars
Our bond has got much stronger than before
(Port start fighting back)
DON’T LOSE YOUR WAY
WE HAVE TO BE AS ONE
DON’T BE AFRAID MY SWEETHEART
THIS IS THE WAY TO BE MORE STRONG
HARBOUR MY DEEP SECRET
IT MAKES ME SO BLUE
RUN THROUGH THIS GAME BEFORE MY BODY IS DRYYYYYYY
(Port lose)
You’re alone in the rain
Been thinking of you
You can’t stop your tears
When you stayed with me just before
I want to know
Do you love me
How long you had to wait for me
You can’t think of yesterday
I got in a fight
When you saw me
But I couldn’t talk and sprawled out on the floor
So it’s too late
If I had any sort of editing skills, I’d totally make this.
Fer frig’s sake. Every single time I go to pin stuff together, I pin them in the wrong direction.
How much does pinning suck? (I hate it)
It can be a bit of a prick.
Do you mean you put the pins going the wrong way so they’re impossible to take out as you sew? If so, try pinning so the pin is at right angles to the fabric, then it’s always easy to take out.
Yeah, exactly like that 😛 Well, I can flip it over and do it the other way but then everything’s bunched up under the arm of the machine. I like doing it straight though because it seems to help me guide the line towards the needle better.
Dailymotion recommended its most popular channels. One of them only had a single follower. Kinda shows how much that site is struggling.
Wait, that channel had zero videos. Why was it a recommended channel?
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/DragonWasp.jpg~original
There were these funny dragonfly-looking wasp type things buzzing around when I was outside. They looked pretty nasty, but seemed fairly docile.
Thought this picture turned out kinda cool.
Haha sweet
@35 @gorzilla @beavwa
Oh man dat USD exchange rate… yeouch!
Reminds me of the old Monk theme (before the Randy Newman one).
I was forced to listen to the radio last night and… I liked one of the songs that was playing? What sort of trickery is this? Now to start hating it as it plays on the radio constantly.
Were you all about that bass?
Did you shake it off?
Called the cops on the neighbours this morning. Turns out there’s a couple in a wonderful relationship next door (I’ve never met them thank god), and they were screaming their guts off because the guy was sick of her not cleaning the house and leaving shit everywhere and he was trying to get her to put her clothes in the washing machine (this went on for 2 hours).
Only problem was, all she cared about was not having any cigarettes and she wasn’t gonna do anything without them. I thought the guys request was reasonable. Clean your shit up (her response was she was gonna take it all outside and burn it later), but unfortunately threatening to bash her isn’t the way to go about it and at that point I called the cops. Apparently there was a paddy wagon outside their house a couple of weeks ago so I’m guessing it’s not the first time it’s happened! Not sure what happened after that. Didn’t hear anything.
So yeah, great neighbours!
I don’t know whether to upvote this!
Something I have found that’s very annoying with Sleeping Dogs is when trying to catch a taxi there’s about a 60% chance you will steal it regardless of if you press (and hold) the correct button.
FREAKING HELL! The game just crashed 1/2 way through a mission. I really hope the autosave feature is good in this game or I’ve lost a few hours of progress.
Bah.
A little annoyed at DriveClub.
Great game, really pretty too, but I spent 2 hours doing this drifting competition to get my score pretty high.
Currently ranked around 400 in the world with a score of 7,637 but managed to get a score of 8,650, putting me in the top 30 globally.
Buuuuuut it didn’t update my recorded score.
Bah.
Couple of wasted hours >:(
And it won’t update my score at all when I beat my recorded one >:(
Bah.
Other than that, great game 🙂
The great thing about progress shots while costume making is that you just know the final result can’t possibly be any more demeaning.
Also I have no idea how girls deal with boob tubes.
Bravo.
wth are you making?
A costume!
A terrible mistake!
Is it Ghirahim?
*adds to list*
Best page get!
That photo has a great name.
I definitely saved it for posterity.
If that’s what you want to call it 😉
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=wilma&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3R5CVKqmGsbDmQWWqYDgBQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ ???
Damn you got me.
What is it realllllly?
😛
A costume!
I actually did a flintstones group one back in HS.
I was Barney Rubble.
Is hairy! Like animal!
Oh yeah.
@liondrive, here’s a more visual answer to your question 😛
Nothin’ at all.
A friend imported a Japanese New 3DS XL and I checked it out today.
Whoa! The 3D and headtracking totally works and is actually awesome. The second analog stick is like a laptop’s… dot thing so it doesn’t actually move but it worked fine for when I briefly tested it out as a camera stick in Monster Hunter 4 (which looks awesome too!).
It’s really glossy though and is a fingerprint magnet :(. BUT OH MY GOD THOSE PATHETIC HINGES AND POWER BUTTON PLACEMENT AND NON WORKINGNESS WHEN FAT FINGERS COVER IT ARE DISGRACEFUL. GROSS. *VOMIT*
😛
BASHCRAFT GET OUT
How sensitive was the 3D to rotational tilt (ie like a steering wheel)? And how did it compare in feel to a regular XL, in terms of body and buttons?
Whoops! I didn’t rotate it, but it did just naturally feel like a regular XL since it’s only very slightly bigger.
EDIT: Friend said it works until about 70 degrees.
So tempted, do you or anyone know how the transfer between 3DS units works?
Yup it’s easy enough. Just make sure both systems are connected to chargers because I half panicked when one of mine had the red “low battery” light come on :O.
Try to delete as many things as possible first since I forgot to delete some demos and they just added to the time it took. If I recall it didn’t take too long (maybe 20 mins?) but that’s with a relatively empty 3DS except for the Ambassador Games.
Absolutely no idea what happens if you try to transfer to a new console with pre-installed software though, but I’m assuming you’ll lose it since it does a clean wipe.
In the end your old/current console will be factory reset and the new (console you wanted to transfer to) 3DS will have everything the old one had. And then I think I did a quick copy/paste with the SD card and everything was a-okay!
EDIT: This was a few years ago with my original 3DS and the 3DS XL. I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to do a transfer with different regioned consoles (US, JAP etc.)
I think with preinstalled stuff I’ve heard people say they’ve been told by Ninty that they merge. But only so long as you haven’t connected the machine with the preinstalled stuff to the net yet, and spawned an account because of it. Something along those lines.
I was researching it a bit a while ago but no one seemed to know the answer then. That’s the thing that’s been stopping me from getting all the cool limited edition/pre-installed consoles 🙁
Call Nintendo!
;_;
Nintendo’s “account” system is so terrible. Why can’t I just have an account I can transfer 🙁 I’d rather sell my 3DS xl before the price bottoms out on them, but don’t want to lose my digital games
I wish I could figure out how the safe in Dead Space 2 worked. I have ammo for weapons I do’t have yet and its taking up my inventory space.
Whaaa, I just realised they changed the pulse rifle so that it shoots a minimum of 3 shots when you pull trigger. This reduces the effectiveness immensley, as the pulse rifle in Dead Space 1 would be fantastic with ammo if you were careful with each shot. I think I’ll probably be using the pulse rifle less in Dead Space 2 than I was in Dead Space 1. Shame I already committed 4 power nodes to improving it.
Huh, they also changed zero-gravity. Think I prefer this version.
Grr, I’m stuck. I need to move a power pack from one powerpoint to the other, but doing this means I’m locked in the room.
Ugh.
Fuck nosebleeds.
🙁
No that’ll make it worse!
It’s becoming harder and harder to avoid stumbling across other people’s mines on the Minecraft server. Damn it, @kermitron , I built my house in the middle of the the ocean so this wouldn’t happen!
On the topic of mining, I’ve perfected my mining technique. Y’all are doing it wrong. You make hallways two blocks wide and two blocks long, and have two blocks worth of wall in between the hallways. Avoid dungeons, they ain’t worth it.
That’s how I do all my mining! If you visit my hole and run to the bottom of the main shaft you’ll see I have mines running off in each direction exactly as you describe, though one block wide is generally sufficient.
Anyway, I’m not territorial about my mining. As long as I find diamonds occasionally I’m not really fussed about hoarding resources. Right now I’m stockpiling wood in the rare sessions I get on between all the Destiny I’m playing.
One block wide and 2 torches worth of light deep with 2 blocks between is my usual method
Jeebus. It was a slow burn to really sink in to any kind of horror outside of comedic, but Broodhollow has really started to hook me.
Some of the concepts really freak me out.
So many games… so little interest… 🙁
I know that feel bro 🙁
So far in Sleeping Dogs I have: assaulted, murdered, drug trafficked, stolen, kidnapped, ransomed someone’s wife, impersonated a doctor, break and enter, but I refuse to do the side mission that requires me to get a low score on Karaoke! WHO DO YOU THINK I AM SLEEPING DOGS? SOME KIND OF CHEAP PROSTITUTE THAT WILL FAIL KARAOKE IF YOU GIVE ME SOME MONEY!?
And that’s Fantasy Life’s story completed! I can’t be bothered doing the side stuff anymore since it’s all a bit repetitive 🙁
Next up is Destiny which I’ve resorted to just finishing on my own (foreveralone.jpg :P). It’s one of those games that’s okay when playing solo but it’s much better with friends… too bad everyone is ahead of me :D!
Bayonetta 2 next week as well 😀 YUS! And I’ll also make a return to Tales of Xillia 2 which is still kinda ehhhh. Although sometimes I like it when I don’t really care too much about a game. It means I can just kinda sit back, tune out and just do whatever without paying too much attention.
By the time i’m done with them Pokemon and Smash Wii U will come out too as well as a bunch of other stuff >_>. I haven’t masterraced for a while *shakes fist at Perth* so I’ll want to do that sometime again as well. I’ve got a nice stockpile of games waiting for me! (Wolfenstein, Dead Rising, Shadow of Mordor …and more I’ve probably forgot about 🙂 )
I figured I wouldn’t buy a new 3DS until there was something worthwhile on it I wanted (possibly Xenoblade in 2015?) but after seeing a friend’s I might as well get one whenever. Might help motivate me to get through my 3/DS pile of shame. I swear I’ll play you one day Ace Attorney 5 🙁
The Amazing Super Powers webcomic is usually pretty good, but what sells it is the description under each webcomic. Here is an excerpt:
Injustice is $9.99 on Steam.
But I’m too busy eyeing off Legend of Korra…
Fuuuck….
Also, X-Blades is $0.99… it looks like a poor man’s Bayonetta.
Do they actually have a price up for Legend of Korra yet?
No, unfortunately. 🙁After some Googling, it appears to be US$14.99
It’s listed for digital pre-order for $19.99 on the XBL Marketplace (Xbox One, anyway).
Th’hell, I just got a nosebleed :/ Blew my nose and then started getting the dip drip drip. I used to get loads of nosebleeds (some really bad ones too) when I was a kid, to the point where I ended up having a cauterisation done in my nose, but I pretty much haven’t had one since then. So weird.
I blame @crazyguy1990.
You fucked it, didn’t you?
😛
Call-back! Heyo!
So hard *bro-fist*
LOLZ
Perfect.
I get them relatively frequently when I ski. Had to awkwardly explain it to a hotel person once when I woke up to a blood covered bed. :/
You know what would he hilarious? If Hatred ended up being one of the best shooters ever made, a true genius of mechanics, content and theme aside.
I kinda hope it does. I like the idea of a game that makes you want to stop playing, but keeps you coming back for more. Kind of like scary games I guess, but a little different.
I’m going to have a hard time not comparing it to stuff like Dead Nation and Postal (gameplay wise, not thematically).
Nah man, Bombshell is shaping up to be the best shooter ever made.
So my mother is buying chickens, even though we have a dog. This’ll end well.
If the dog tries to eat the chooks, tie a dead chook around it’s collar.
Our dog would attack our chooks a few years back, but he seems to have stopped now.
My dog has only eaten one of our chickens so far.
Chickens are tougher than you think. They can be viciously aggressive bastards.
I remember when we were looking after an old guys place a few years back who had dogs and chooks. The chooks roam(ed) free and one of the dogs managed to get to them. There were no more chickens after that…
Good times 😛
Eh, really depends on the dog and how you introduce the chickens to them.
Saying that if we had chooks my dog would chase them for sport and probably try and round them up.
My dog is completely untrained and dumb as a brick. Considering the innards of all his former stuffed toys adorn the room within a week, I don’t trust this dog at all.
I have finally found a decent glue for the sequins! 3 glues (and about $15) later, finally got one that I am confident in the bond, that doesn’t eat the damn shine of the sequins.
I am also about to start french seaming Elsa’s cape and it’s a pretty huge job. Being super careful not to make any mistakes because of the type of fabric it is. Then after that, hemming and decorating! So excited, yet so terrified!
In a cooking kind of mood, so am going to experiment and try and make a Prosciutto wrapped seared Chicken Breast with a Garlic Basil Butter-Sauce, Thyme crumb, and Roasted Pumpkin and Fetta salad 🙂
I should been a cook 😛
You’ve got the technicals down, but can you handle the pressure?
THIS CHICKEN IS SO UNDERCOOKED I’M WATCHING IT AND WONDERING WHY IT’S CROSSING THE ROAD
OH THAT’S RIGHT TO GET AWAY FROM YOUR BAD COOKING.
I used to be the head cook in a little kitchen 😉
I can cook under pressure juuuuuuuust fiiiiiiiiine XP
OH, A LITTLE KITCHEN, EH? WELL CONGRATULATIONS, EASY BAKE OVENS ARE HARD TO OPERATE EVEN BY LITTLE KIDS.
(I’ve worked in restaurants so I’ve mad respect for kitchen staff.)
THIS CHICKEN IS AS BLAND AS YOUR CONVERSATION!
I really wanna cook too but I don’t have any ingredients to make anything 🙁 I’m thinking of making some apple and cinnamon muffins maybe.
Y’know, when I was young I always wanted to be a chef, but I was clumsy as fuck and just ended up dropping everything on the ground (ALWAYS), so gave up that idea. These days, I kinda like the idea of being a cook again 😛 People seem to always like my food if they try it. I dunno if they’re just being nice, but even my brother liked my food the one time he had something I made and he’s the kind of person that would bitch and moan and nit pick every single thing wrong with something he can find, so I’m doing well!
That and I like cooking. Although my mum seems to think I’m barely even capable of sticking something in the microwave (she legit thinks I live off of frozen chips) and insists I buy premade hamburgers instead of mince to make my own cos ‘I don’t know how to’ :l
(sorry I’m rambling :P)
I kinda wanted to be a chef for a bit there, but running a kitchen, while fun, left a sour taste in my mouth for it (bad experience towards the end, hence why I left).
Fell out of love with cooking after that, and only recently started cooking again.
Cooking for yourself and cooking for others are different things 😛
I like cooking for me, but I wouldn’t want to work in a kitchen again.
I’m really loving this arrangement 😀
This is what you should’ve linked in your comment last time!
But then I wouldn’t have been able to do it this time!
Also, I totally can’t remember what caused it exactly, but back in ~05/06 or so when I’d first heard about Pandora I threw some kind of song into it that was giving me all these…. gypsy jazz songs? I forget what it was called exactly, but something like that. Was really digging the sound, but like I said – absolutely no idea what would have sparked it or why I would have searched for it (especially since I don’t even listen to music, and did even less so back then), but it’s the only thing I’ve ever used Pandora for.
I might as well ask again… 😛
Does anyone feel like playing Destiny with me tonight? I’m up to the 2nd mission on Mars which is around level 16.
I still haven’t done any of the Strikes on the Moon or Venus though so I don’t mind doing that too.
I think the reason you’re not having much luck is that once you hit level 20, the game stops giving you rewards for doing normal missions, so there’s a lot less incentive for others to help you.
Also because we’re terrible. Actually, it’s probably mostly that, to be honest.
I know 😀
🙁
For me, I just found I had no desire to go back to the game after I finished the campaign. No interest at all. D:
Yeah, I’m not really into the game so I just wanna get it over and done with 😀
Which is at least in part because of your terribleness.
It’s alright, we’re all in this together.
Always interesting to see all the comments on the articles from people saying how they hate Kotaku and they’re never coming back. From the same people over and over again.
It’s just like when we all quit TAY, Freezey. Don’t be too harsh on them! 😀
Hey now, some of us are just too lazy to quit TAY, so don’t dump us in the same category.
It is known as the Warcraft cycle, and it is eternal. Resistance is futile.
Does anyone know when we will be able to watch the Kill la Kill OVA? It was released in Japan at the end of September, but I don’t know when we get it.
I’m really curious as to what it could possibly be about, since pretty much every story arc has been resolved.
Unless it turns into a harem anime with Ryuko and Gamagoori fighting for Mako’s affections. That would be hilarious.I know where you can get some excellent subbed copies
I’m really quite annoyed about these chickens. This is the third time mum has gotten a pet without telling me about in advance. Mum didn’t tell me until after she had made the decision, which means my reasoning for not getting them was not taken into consideration. And even though I didn’t want these in the first place, I’m going to have to take care of them.
I’m already getting concerned about noise. The chickens are in the backyard right outside my window, and they are rather loud. But let’s take away the ‘me’ aspect. What about the neighbours? They didn’t ask for this. That just doesn’t seem fair. Now I’m the asshole neighbour with the loud animals.
The biggest question is why? Why did we need these things? A few months ago, mum said that she thought I was intolerant to eggs, and stopped buying them. Is she trying to save money on a product she no longer buys?
Also, I have to name one of the chickens, and I can’t decide. Performance anxiety!
As a guy who worries too much I got to say… you worry too much. Life is too short to worry. Life is too short not to be impulsive from time-to-time. Life is too short to reject being surrounded by animals. Quit your belly aching.
But life is the longest thing you can do!
I dunno, the Great Maze in Super Smash Brothers Brawl is probably longer…
Colonel Cluck.
Dinner? Lunch? Snack? Drumstick?
Killer, alternatively Foghorn Leghorn
I’ve decided. All shall be revealed… tomorrow!
I’m thinking of rolling another character in Civ 5. Trying to decide what to be. First I was Kieth, the hyper-religious merchant sitting on a pile of money.. Then I was played the TES mod, and was Kiergo the Khajit, a warhungry scienceperson. Then I was Marv the coward, and tried to play the game without any army to speak of. That last one didn’t end well.
So what should I do now? Culture? Merchant? Warlord? I’m thinking of avoiding war if need be. Maybe I’ll just let nature take its course, and do what I feel like at the time of important decisions.
Be the middle eastern guy who gives you trade buffs.
Or do what I’m about to do in CK2, and play as Genghis Khan
I chose the Dutch guy. I already played as the middle-eastern guy, so I didn’t want to repeat characters.
I like the colour green.
I love the colour green. Let’s be friends!
I also like Survivor!
XENOBLADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
annnnnnnd that’s my 30,000th comment. I can retire from TAY now.
Your turn @shane
If you had Synaesthesia, would you like the smell of the colour green?
Sure, why not!
Watched Maleficent. I feel like a lot of the events of the last 20 minutes were forced to give us the ending they wanted but the first three quarters of the movie weren’t really building to. That said, generally enjoyable to watch.
Let’s go fly a kite and send it sooooooaring!
Man, I haven’t seen Mary Poppins in ages.
My parents went and watched the show when it was on in… Melbourne? I dunno, somewhere, but I didn’t get invited. Very disappointing.
Watch Saving Mr. Banks too! 😀
Yeah, I need to watch that. Should load it onto my tablet for PAX.
It’s pretty great. I don’t care if it’s not 100% historically accurate. Still made me feel feels. Happy feels. 😀
Re-downloading Company of Heroes 2…
It’s 14GB… D:
Fortunately it’s only an hour til off-peak….
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And a page-get.
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After shaving, (for the first time in a month) I didn’t have any aftershave or skin cream for my cut-ridden face. Remembering how toothpaste is good for bruises, I rubbed my face with toothpaste.
My skin burns.
It still burns.
Next time you’re going to butcher your face into a mass of blood, have a shower straight afterwards. Anything still bleeding after a decent shower wouldn’t have been stopped by aftershave / cream anyway.
Grow a beard. It’s the only solution.
Happy birthday!
It was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.