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Guten Morgen Taybies, how were your weekends? Mine was mostly filled with work. Re-post from old TAY.
So, we’ve got other things we should probably be spending our money on but, the evil monkey family is coming up to Brisbane for a few days.
My Grandma’s getting pretty old, it’s been about 7 years since we saw her last, and my son has never met her, so I thought we should go up and see her before it’s too late. Don’t know if anyone is keen for a meat, or how keen my wife would be on the idea… thoughts.Think we’re gonna do the theme park thing one of the days, and maybe go into the city one of the other days.
We are coming, you have been warned.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Also @benny XD
We’ll be there on the 10th of December and leaving on the 14th.
Also, Melbourne TAYbies, we’ll be in Melbourne the night of the 14th of December, before heading back the next night.
@beavwa @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
If anyone’s interested in a meat let me know.
I might be up for it…
Put me down as a tentative “Yes”.
If anything changes, I’ll let you know. 🙂
I’d be up for it certainly
Sure. I’m sure I could make it
I don’t really know what’s around Melbourne, so if any of you guys can suggest a good place to eat for the dinner meat that’d be great. Keep in mind we’ve got a 6 year old, and he doesn’t like spicy food.
Also, not sure how my wife is going to react when I tell her that we’re meeting a bunch of my internet friends.
Alright alright, I’ll keep the axe at home… geez humans can be sensitive at times
Possibly, most likely not. Monthly pay on the 15th 🙁 you never know though
Yeah man, I’m keen, just not sure what I’m doing that far ahead.
Keep me updated and I’ll let you know cloooooserrrrrrrrr!!!
I can Try and make it so put me down as a maybe
Yes, food &/or drinks in the CBD, please.
Sheesh, how many times do I need to let you know I’m interested in meeting you before you finally start to believe me?! 😛
Well, I’m really not that interesting, so, you know, maybe one more time 😛
Also, was too much effort to edit people out that have already expressed interest.
Depending on what gets organised I might be available, just mid-week stuff tends to have that silly “work” get in the way.
Mornin’
Somewhere it’s still afternoon, evening or even nighttime. Don’t be so timeist 😛
It’s also 5 O’Clock somewhere 😛
ayy lmao
*yawn*
*slaps face* wake up dammit, this no time to sleep
Any time is time to sleep!
Especially after waking at 5:30 for no reason :/
Have some kids, then 5:30 always has a reason.
Usually the reason is you got to sleep-in!
Oh, hai! I didn’t see you there.
A reminder that TODAY is the last day you can get the $32 reward tier in the Undad Kickstarter. It will be decommissioned tonight.
The $32 tier will get you copies of Just a reminder that The Lesser Evil, Peaceful Tomorrows 1 & 2, The Game, James Flamestar, Academaesthetics, Undad Issue 1, Undad Issue 2, and the exclusive artbook.
That’s a huge amount of content for the price. Just $32 for today only. Don’t miss out.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2
We’re charging at a sedate pace towards our first stretch goal. Hitting that will mean the series will have an ending.
I’ve still got some cool stuff in reserve, including some amazing new reward tiers that will activate later this month, so stay tuned if you’re looking for an excuse to drop some moneeeeeeeeeyz.
PS: DON’T FORGET THAT EACH TAYBIE PLEDGE EARNS YOU A STRANGEST ITCHES GIVEAWAY ENTRY! AND A TWEET WILL GET YOU ANOTHER ONE.
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I appear to be back online. Huzzah!
So how are you, then?
I thought that the 1st stretch goal only unlocked issue 3 of 5?
Yep, but: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/posts/1049098
Congratulations for successfully being funded!
Thank you! \o/
@freezespreston @transientmind @highperformance @bdkiaf
Reminder: I need those reference photos of you pretty soon, please! Issue 2 can’t enter production without those images! Thanks.
Please send a headshot and a full-body shot (at least) to shane[at]shanewsmith[dotcom] or point me towards some cloud-stored pics.
Omfg I’m having Draenor withdrawal symptoms… this shit hasn’t happened to me since I first got into WoW….
I got in straight away this morning it was a miracle /o\
Bloody junkies lol
Look who’s talking! Aren’t you level 100 already?!
that’s… efficiency, yeah, that’s it
………
Time to roll a second toon? =P
……. My lock is almost 20
So got Dragon Age: Inquisition from EA Access in the weekend, I have never played the previous 2 and I’m not sure if I’ll get this one after playing it, I just didn’t enjoy the combat, there is only 1 attack button then your specials (maybe I need to unlock more) a heavy/light attack or even a block would have been nice. I went duel wield daggers because it said I could use a bow as well, but I didn’t realize you can’t just change in the heat of battle so if enemies targeted me all I could do was shoot arrows at them point blank while retreating (this might be where changing party character comes in). Tried multiplayer, obviously designed for 4 people, me and a mate played for about an hour and really struggled to get anywhere was disappointing you couldn’t bring in your singleplayer character. Graphics were nice and some pretty deep character customization. Made my choice of Farcry 4 allot easier this week.
Never liked the combat in Dragon Age, always felt like I was watching my characters instead of actually controlling them.
Filthy Heathen you’re not allowed to have dissenting opinions on…
Oh wait, this is Kotaku where it seems there is no hivemind that you have to suck up to.
Let me know how FC4 goes, I’m interested in that as well!
(Edit: What I’m actually trying to say is thank you for writing that out, I’m interested in word of mouth on both these games to see which one I’m getting!)
I thought the hivemind will allow opinions as long as you like Dark Souls 😛
I still haven’t finished the first one or even booted up the second oneDragon Age, I just downloaded Origins again to try and get in the mood again
I tried to play dark souls for the first time in ages. God I have forgotten how to play. Also I think because I was at a road block I’ve switch my inventory about so it doesn’t even feel like my character either
I’m not a huge RPG player anyway, never finished Mass Effect, never played Dark Souls, Skyrim was the first RPG I actually really enjoyed, The Witcher 2 and Dragons Dogma were a few of my other favourites, so my opinion may not hold much weight.
Ah, that actually explains a lot.
Don’t listen to him, True Believers! This is the kind of heathen who actually has EA Access! Which is not only EA *makes sign of the cross* but also only available on the inferior platform which shall not be named!
DRAGON AGE IS GOING TO BE AMAZING DAMMIT. *plugs fingers in ears* lalalalalalala
It is, for those of us who enjoy slower moving RPGs
It’s sounds like your reviewing an action game…
Did it I get my opinion wrong again? sheeeeiit!
Just a slow combatted rpg made for those of us who can’t be bothered.
I get all my jollies from convo in Bioware games
Yea all good, its just not for me obviously, I’m sure fans will love it.
Sounds like most of my favourite games ^_^
So I put in a few more hours last night, trial is almost up, perhaps I passed judgment a little early. I changed back to duel wield from archer and unlocked a few moves, enjoyed it allot more, the graphics/world is pretty amazing I can see myself getting it at a later date.
Ah cool, how are you liking conversation?
I’m a little lost on the lore etc, but seems ok, I really hate my characters face and voice though, I want to start a new character when I get the full game.
So, TAYKart tonight? Who’s in?
If I remember and my net lets me connect, I’m in!
Who has the new DLC? We need to do a DLC TAYKart sometime!
Downloading the DLC now…
It took me ages to DL.. How’s it going for you?
DLC represent! TAYKart will be very disappointing if we don’t do HyruleRoadLand at least once.
Obligatory Sonic All stars Racing Transformed is better! comment.
Will be there under my ‘Scram’ pseudonym. I’ll be the guy voting for Mt. Wario rain, hail or shine. (I do love the new tracks though)
Mayyyyyyyybe.
Depends on how much cosplay work I do.
Yerp.
Time spent trying to play AC:U this weekend: About 3 hours
Time spent in AC:U – about 2 hours
I am not a smart man.
Haha why couldn’t you play? Ubi issues?
Constant, random crashes. Frame rate is actually okay (GTX 760) but the crashes every 10 minutes suck
That sucks, here’s hoping there’s a fix for you soon!
Argh, Lego keep releasing pictures of the Minecraft sets.
I will not I will not I will not…
Wait, the wife loves Lego.
LET THE BUYING COMMENCE!
…and the shop has crashed. 🙁
How I wish I kept all my random lego blocks (about 2.5 large storage boxes), as well as all my other childhood toys come to think of it
My mum kept my Duplo, which (when he is slightly older) I’ll hand onto my son.
Lego just seems to survive anything. A post-nuclear war world will be filled with cockroaches and Lego.
Also, it now sucks how you can’t just pick up a massive box full of random pieces for cheap. It’s all sets now.
Look for LEGO Creative Cube/Bucket and LEGO Basic Bricks. They’re just a big pile of LEGO. It’s a bit hard to find considering how many categories there are, but there’s one called “Bricks & More” that should suit your needs.
The thing I always liked about Duplo is that when you grow out of it you can still use it with your regular LEGO when you want to make something big. It’s like having a cube of four 2x4s.
Hey look, Brisbane didn’t burn down. Most likely a combination of stupidly high temperatures, scare-mongering all the residents away and then begging us to return after they realised there’d be no-one in front of the cameras, protestors not being able to afford to come over here because it’s too expensive and too far to travel and finally because Brisbane peoplr are mostly talk and no trousers and too lazy to actually organise demonstrations.
Now onto the serious stuff; GTA V or Dragon Age?
Also, a good morning to all
GTA V.
Pretty sure you’ve mentioned before that you’ve already played GTA V on last gen, so in that case I’d go for Dragon Age,
Also, why no Far Cry 4 love?
I’ve never been a fan of the Far Cry series. I played the first one when it first came out (somehow not melting my PC in the process) but when it got all monstery I lost interest (much like I did with Crysis when it got all Alieny). Far Cry 2 I just couldn’t get into it, boring setting and Far Cry 3 pretty much the same tbh. The only Far Cry I really loved was Blood Dragon.
I did have GTA V on PS3, but I really wanna play it first person 😀
FAR CRY 4 😀
It was surprisingly subdued even around Hendra where I was staying, not even a sliver of traffic! I’ll be purchasing Dragon Age I think, the hype has got a hold of me.
Pokemon.
Dragon Age & Pokemon
Dragon Age.
So hype.
And yeah, I was pretty confident that the locals wouldn’t kick up much of a fuss on account of it being pretty well publicized that the government has written out any rights people THINK they might have for the duration of the event at least, and the fact that it’s way too hot, no-one cares enough, and Australia is REALLY hard to get to. You’d need to not be poor, to fly to Australia. And something protestors are generally defined by is lack of wealth. That’s why they’re protesting.
Oh yay the neighbours are fighting.. Wish they’d just fuck off or kill each other or something, gettin’ real sick of their shit.
Reminds me of dinner every week at the in-laws. Ah, good times. 😛
But i’ll presume those inlaws weren’t centrelink bludging, drug abusing criminals 😛
Well you know what happens when you presume.
ummm you make a pre out of sumethingOf course not, you’re right. But still, I’m with you – it isn’t very nice being around that crap. Not a feel good environment and definitely not a good place for the little ones to be at.
I’m just messin’ with ya haha. I just find them annoying to be quite honest, though the other week the cops rolled up, I still wanna know what that’s about since one of sons next door doesn’t have license plates on his car, and hasn’t for about a week or 10 days now lol.
Kickin it off early this week are they? High temperatures atm really do wonders for keeping people calm as well…oh wait, no they don’t. Sucks that people have to fight but also that you have to put up with their domestics as well 🙁
‘Tis the week of Dragon Age: Inquisition! I’m probably more excited than I should be. Finished DA2 yesterday so I’m all geared up and ready to go!
Also… Can I go back to bed now? No? Doh 🙁
Take your bed with you. Get one of those sleeping bag suits that Serrels tried out the other month
How’s you go with DA2. I found after the combat was patched& I avoided unnecessary quests it was actually a really ssolid game & finished it twice
I love it. I’ve actually played it multiple times but this is the first time I’ve seen it right through til the end. Did every possible quest I could except the Mark of the Assassin and Legacy DLC quests.
Yeah, I didn’t buy those dlc because I didn’t Luke the game on the first try & it seems to late to care now.
I really came to appreciate the improvements to the story & relationship s even if the reuse of dungeons made exploration less fun.
Great game in the end.
Yeah I agree. Having an actual character instead of a mute with a blank expression was much better.
Ah, see, I preferred the silent protagonist. I have trouble believing that’s me when they sound nothing like me.
it was well done though.
I referring to the friendship gameplay being either love or rival. I think that’s better than love or hate. The rival love interest I had in my second game had this horrible feel to it, made my sstomach sink. Was really well done.
MONDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! *shakes fist*
*MONTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
*shakes fist*
Well that’s just great. I thought of something to talk about the other day but had to wait until this article was created to post it but now I can’t remember it.
So how about that *insert football team name here*?
I did find this though.
TAY still happens on weekends. Just a lot more slowly. It usually gets reposted every day.
Do the ads on this site cause a lot of lag for anyone else on a retina screen? I really don’t want to use adblock since I like this site but the lag on the front page today was crazy.
They’d cause a lot of lag for me on a regular screen.
It’s causing my entire browser to lock up on my underspec’d work laptop
adblock is great
Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent-ish webcam? I’d love something that does 1280×720@60. Doesn’t require a mic as I already have a Snowball. Cheers!
A snowball doesn’t sound very effective since they’re just frozen water 😛
If you do use a snowball, at least don’t attach it to the top of the monitor. Condensation and melting and all that
And some of the world leaders deny that global warming exists!
Hi 5 for Snowballs! (I have one also) I’ve actually really liked some of the Microsoft HD ones. I have 2 different ones (home and work) and both do a good job.. but I’ve not really looked around much.
Morning lovelies. I am still sick and good god was the weekend ever a trial – just the heat, I mean. I was sweltering and coughing and sneezing and aching. It was no fun. I am actually very glad to be at work in the powerful air-con and chilled water on tap. But still, go away sickness 🙁
In better news, Far Cry 4 this week! Awww yisssssss.
I hear that Far Cry 4 is almost as good as Costume Quest 2
Hope you feel better soon
Hahah, oh my heart. Thank you <4 (THAT MEANS FAR CRY 4)
I can feel myself starting to get sick again. My throat’s starting to get scratchy and all bleh 🙁 also, this weekend was the perfect time to decide on spring cleaning and moving of furniture up and down stairs, especially when we have a tin roof with no insulation
Get some Codral, tout de suite! Also, your weekend sounds laborious and awful!
It’s just the English in me liking to whinge. I’m a sucker for living up to stereotypes 😀 I am loving how much space we’ve found just by playing furniture tetris. The tin roof was most unwelcome though
I’ve had a bit of that as well. Slightly swollen glands around the throat, sore throat, slightly runny nose, a bit of sinus pain… but nothing particularly major, and it’s only starting to rise every couple days. I reckon I’m probably flirting with sickness but somehow fighting it off. Even though I’m eating crap and not sleeping properly. If I actually bothered to take care of myself, I figure I probably wouldn’t notice the symptoms at all.
Oh gawd. It’s that time of the year again. So many good releases… so little time. :O
Hey, good to see you commenting again! You disappeared for a while
Yeah, but now @dc has disappeared, coincidence….
Hope you’re ok man.
We… I mean, I… I can’t either confirm or deny that we are the same person.
Thanks. 😀
Whoo, survived the blistering heat over the weekend. So much hype this week,
Far Cry 4 looks so f#$%ing good, everything from Far Cry 3 plus new weapons, animals, vehicles and environmental stuff like AVALANCHES!! I’m gonna bury so many people then wing suit into a tree.
Dragon Age: Inquisition. AAAAAAAHH!! gimme nowwwww!
GTAV, really wanna play it again but might wait for it to go cheaper. I sorta borked my single player game and never did a lot of the side quests.
Now I just need to come up with an excuseto stay at home and play games.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
No mention of Dragon Age or Pokemon, huh?
I think our 15 (20?) year friendship is over.
Oh wait, one sentence on DA, ummmmmmm, a week of scowls for you!
DA sells itself, my words would only tarnish it, that’s why I opted for simple excitement. As for Pokeymans, sorry wrong week I already had to get a bank loan for my DA:I special edition.
A bank loan???!!! Why not just go normal? I was going normal until I got a healthy tax return
I’m being a dickman man, sheesh. But seriously I think it’s the most expensive collectors edition I’ve ever gotten, and what’s this talk of normal, then I wouldn’t own useless things that I look at a few times then put away forever.
TWO weeks of scowls!
I got $1.20. Well, that was the claim, but I got a whooping $9 when they actually sent me the money. Hells yeah!
FUCK YEAH!!
FAR CRY 4, RIGHT?! Like, I watched some vids online of missions (omgggggg they look incredible) and I made the terrible mistake of reading a few comments (WHY), and everyone was just like, “Ugh, it’s just FC3 again”, “Oh boo hoo all the animations are pretty much the same” blah blah blah.
THAT’S WHAT WE WANT! Far Cry 3 was soooo good (even if the characters were douchebags) and all I want is the same gameplay in a new setting and that’s what we’re gonna get! Yesssssss I cannot wait to release the bears into those friggin’ outposts.
Exactly what I thought, it’s a great formula for fun, don’t wreck it. I’m unreasonably excited for it, the only thing that stopped me from playing more Far Cry 3 was I had absolutely nothing left to do. Can’t wait to see what all the new features bring to gameplay, especially enemy controlled animals, I can see hawks wrecking my plans for stealth a lot.
We’re gonna share so many stories, my friend 😀
Are you on PS4? We should be friends then we can make our stories together :D. Interested to see what co op will bring to the mix.
Yeah! What’s your PSN name, and I’ll add you 😀
Gutsoup
funny thing I’ve had this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3OoPCRxfc in my head for like 2 weeks, it’s a song they used in the Far Cry 2 promotional trailers and I still get it in my head whenever I think of Far Cry.
Picking up my PS4 copy tomorrow, asked you for your PSN ID a few times, but I don’t recall you ever giving it to me.
I put it in the google chart thing you sent me! I think it was you? I’m positive.
@janexo Ah, cool. I’ll send you a FR shortly then.
I’m with you! FC3 was real unadulterated fun. This looks the same, with more cool stuff thrown in.
GTA V is 64 on release at Target 😛
*opens wallet*
Damn you, I have like zero restraint 😛
Man 2 people in 2 days, first Nob now you. I wonder who else I can tell to spend money 😛
Also if Target doesn’t have it for that price tomorrow, JB has it for $69 😛
yeah, I always sorta knew I’d get it but I’m in denial or something, gonna be hard to juggle all these games, can’t I just quit my job and get free money?
Win the lotto, that’s your best bet of “free” money & being able to quit your job 😛
Secret SanTAY: A Weird And Graceless Exercise That Could Have Been Something Great But Instead Highlights Petty Domestic Issues That Are Irrelevant To What’s At Hand.
Guys, last day. Going to draw everything up and assign people tonight, so if you haven’t sent an email to binoter at hotmail or haven’t sent me your address (looking at you @pupp3tmast3r) do it today otherwise it’s going to be awkward for the both of us.
DONE! =P Sorry Freeze!!
Oh yeah, you wanted me to join didn’t you?
The more the merrier!
I won’t be joining in this year. However, if it turns out someone has to back out or someone didn’t get sent anything let me know and I’ll do something for them.
I’ve barely read TAY the last few weeks. (I hope you missed me!) Didn’t know this was going on. Shame.
Ehh, I’d never be able to keep anything secret anyway.
Good morning all! How was the weekend?
I had a X99 PC build disaster. The first motherboard went up in smoke. I checked everything, couldn’t see a reason, took the board back and got a replacement.
Was triple careful this time, and the same thing happened again.
The second time I assembled just the CPU, Cooler, RAM on my wooden dining table. Now I’m worried the CPU or RAM might have fried as well, the 970 GPU works okay.
I tested the power supply on my old i7 system, and it works fine. I’m a little scared to try a third time.
I’d like to offer some assistance in figuring that out, but not really possible given what you’ve said. Not enough info really. How did it die? Did it work at all for a minute and then die, or did it fry the second you powered up?
First one turned off half a second after turning on.
So I checked everything for shorts etc. and tried again. Same result.
The extra 12v molex connector at the base of the board wasn’t connected, so I thought maybe that was the reason. I connected that and started up, and the smoke came out near the power transistors.
I disassemebled everything and re-checked but couldn’t see any reason for it happening.
The board went back, I tested the power supply on another machine and the PS works fine. I tested the GTX-970 and it is also okay, I can’t test the CPU and RAM as I don’t have another X99 platform to try them in.
The replacement board arrived, same thing happened, but less smoke this time. Gigabyte X99-UD4.
hmm very odd for a Gigabyte board to do that kind of thing. Seems stupid to even ask, but I assume you’ve checked that the PSU is not one of those switchable voltage ones, and that it’s set on 240 etc? Really not sure what it could be apart from a power related issue. Especially given the smoke came out of the transistors area. Entirely possible they just had a bad batch of them go in to a batch of boards, but 2 in a row is pretty rare for that sort of thing to happen. Do you have another PSU that you could try in it? I know you’ve confirmed that your psu works on other puters, but possibly it’s just not liking that board? Did you try it with no gpu first, or at all?
My first instinct is it’s supplying too much power to the board but not sure how that could even happen
I tried the same supply on a different machine, even checked it with the scope and meter, the power is clean. There are some reports online of Asus and MSI X99 boards doing the same thing…
Yeah, tried it with no GPU first on the second board.
Defo need more info. When you say “went up in smoke”, was there beeps or anything to indicate an error or did it literally go up in smoke? 😛
No beeps, just smoke!
Damn. The only time I’ve done that I was looking at my housemate’s PC, took out a stick of RAM and put it back in and the whole thing just went dead with a smell of burning. I was thinking that was from static electricity
Update, the X99-UD4 board had a bug in that version of the BIOS causing it to fry with certain power supplies.
WTF!?!?
Updated the BIOS on the *third* replacement board, and low and behold, it works without the smoke coming out.
It took out two of the RAM sticks though.
Morning TAY! Welcome to POKÉWEEK! Also New 3DS week! GET EXCITED. I SURE AM.
Weekend was pretty quiet. I went and bought a fancy new “Smart” TV which is actually pretty great! I was sceptical, but it’s convinced me. Catch-up TV streaming straight from the TV (great now that my PS3 is dead), streaming video from my PC built-in, support for videos with subtitles (Rejoice,
ForeignAsian Film Club members! @sughly!)Plus it’s my first-ever 1080p TV (though it’s still pretty small. I really don’t need anything bigger than a 32 inch TV in my little flat :P) – Mario Kart looks like a whole new game! So pretty.
I remember getting my PS3 from signing up to Optus but we still only had a crappy small 14 inch CRT. Then someone took pity on us and gave us an old 20 inch CRT. Then I got a tax return and got a 40 inch HDTV. I was so happy 😀
Ahaha, I was so happy when I found out my tv did subs too. Yours might do them better than mine – the only problem that happens with my tv’s sub reader is when there are more than one set of subs on screen at once (usually on anime fansubs when they are showing the name of a sign or something at the same time as someone talking, so the tv just shows one). But for me, films have never seemed to have this problem.
Also I went on a big hunt for films and have many lined up, will let you know of my findings! Any to pass on my way…? Mine are mostly stabs in the dark so who knows…
Not really I’ve just been catching up on your recommendations from last time! Watched Like Father, Like Son last night which was pretty good. Didn’t like the main father though 😛
I’ll let you know if I come across anything decent.
Yeah the main father was an a-hole, big time. I’ve seen the parents from the other family in a few other films now, I really like both those actors. I have one lined up where that other dad seems to be some kind of crazy serial killer? Probably wont be good 🙁 Main father was all over billboards in Japan advertising Asahi beer too ^^
@jocon @piat guys who’s pyrean in TAY?
Now there’s a name I have not heard in a long time.
@somejerk
.. wait, that didn’t work?
@pyrean
?
But he does not really Tay. You would be better off trying steam or teamspeak.
Haha got it, just needed to lock him in as War dps; if you’re online on bnet could you confirm with him that’s the toon he transferred across?
Now that my Bayonetta 2 CE finally arrived, I thought I’d give the first one a spin.
As someone that has never really played spectacle fighters it seems pretty decent, and I started to get the hang of it. I am having fun regardless of the fact I’m pretty terrible at it though.
Played the first three chapters, but I’m hesitant to play any more yet since it’s a different control scheme from everything else I play, and I feel like I’ve got too many other games on the go from the pile. Might come back to it after I’ve finished a few other games.
I went back to Hyrule Warriors yesterday after playing nothing but Bayo 2 for ages and it twisted my brain. So different.
The bayo dodge mechanic feels halfway between a traditional dodge and an arkham counter. And I already have 3 different buttons I use for those, let alone trigger for bayo.
Picked up a bunch of movies at JB’s sale over the weekend, watched Gravity, liked it.
Played some Destiny. Played some Halo. Didn’t get around to The Wolf Among Us even though it was my number one objective this weekend. Had some weird illness onset last night that made me shaky/weak and ravenously hungry, ate too much home-made pizza, experienced pizza regret, slipped into a coma for 10 hours.
Kind of wish I was still in bed as I’m still feeling weird and shaky but I had a sick day two weeks ago and am self-concious about having too many too close together.
I also picked up some movies from JB on the weekend. I watched the Lego Movie which is as awesome as I remember. Also watched Speed which I completely forgot how awesome it was. EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
On Friday I dropped in and picked up like 4 movies for $40 (2 for $20 + 2 for $30 – 20% off) then yesterday my wife and I went out and we picked out a few more together.
I think we got about ten movies for maybe $96 all up?
Can’t remember all of them but we definitely got:
Gravity
Lego Movie
Apollo 18
28 Day Later + 28 Weeks Later (2 in 1 deal)
Moulin Rouge!
Romeo + Juliet
Scarface
The Nightmare Before Christmas
It’s driving me up the wall that I can’t remember the other two…
I picked up a couple
Nice. How much was the Indiana Jones set? I didn’t really venture beyond the bargain bins apart from Moulin rouge and Romeo + Juliet which I didn’t pick up last time but have since been like “man, I really want to watch those!”
It was about $60 (before discount). Not too bad for 4 movies.
Not a bad deal at all.
I want to pick up Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Lord of the Rings but while I’ve had many opportunities to buy them cheaply/individually I keep telling myself I’ll buy them in some sort of special edition box set then balk at the price and say “maybe later”.
It’s like when I go shoe shopping. I replace my work shoes maybe once a year, max, and wear them 10+ hours a day, 5+ days a week, 48+ weeks per year but when I go into the store and see a $150 price tag I’m like “fuck that! I’ll get a $40 pair from Payless!” then a month later when they’re already feeling uncomfortable and showing signs of wear I remember why I spent $150 last time.
That said, I got some really good airflex runners on the weekend for like a third their normal price so I’ll probably be a total tightarse next time I need to replace those too.
TANGENT!
I read the entire post though…
Pizza regret? No such thing, must of been the virus talking!
Especially homemade pizza. I’ve been extremely lax with not making pizza and just getting Dominos. Now that is proper pizza regret
I don’t know why Domino’s still exists, it’s terrible.
I would rather resurrect and go to Pizza Haven than go to Domino’s.
Pizza Haven was the bomb. I’d say Eagle Boys is the best modern equivalent.
Our local ones we got from at least were pretty awful, that’s what made us change to pizza hut 😛
Admittedly I’ve only tried them once, I’m guessing they were around Fairfield, and that was only because we were sick of the decline in quality of Pizza hut and Crust hadn’t expanded into the region.
Crust are my preference, but they’re all fancy gourmet and whatnot, way above how I remember Pizza Haven.
@kermitron I think our Pizza Haven was somewhere around Yagoona. The main characteristic I remember of theirs was gigantic cheese puddles on their pizzas.
Crust is pretty good, and have some interesting stuff. But I prefer our local woodfired place, their pizzas are great.
To the best of my recollection, quality of pizza (in order) sorted by time period/where I was living:
Lidcombe (1989 – 2004)
– Berala Pizza (10/10)
– Pizza Haven (early 1990s) (8.5/10)
– Arnold’s Ribs & Pizza (early-mid 1990s) (7/10 but 11/10 for their ribs, holy crap they were amazing)
– Pizza Hut (late 90s) (7/10 – 9/10 – 6/10: they improved over time to compete with Pizza Haven & drive them out of business, then declined again)
– Domino’s (1/10)
Regent’s Park (2004)
– Pizza Hut (7.5/10)
– Local Lebanese bakery (7/10)
– Domino’s (2/10)
Summer Hill (2005 – 2010)
– Crust 10/10
– Local kebab/pizza place (8/10)
– Pizza Hut (7/10)
– Domino’s (3/10)
Carramar (2010 – Present)
– Crust (10/10)
– Eagle Boys (8/10)
– Local wood-fired pizza place (8/10, went out of business but a new one is opening soon)
– Pizza Hut (7/10)
– Domino’s (3/10)
It may seem like I spent a lot of time on this, and you’re right in the sense that I have dedicated too much of my life to the acquisition and consumption of pizza. For the most part, those days are behind me.
The home-made pizza we had last night, I would give an 8.5/10. Shredded ham, mild salami, sun-dried tomato, capsicum on a soft flatbread base.
Wait a minute, Regent’s Park – were you the one I’d talked about Liza’s with before? I know it was someone on here, or could have come up in Lifehacker/Gizmodo comments actually.
Don’t think we ever got pizza from there before they’d remodeled and everything a few years ago, but they’re my favourite now. Also I think I remember my friend down the road used to get Arnold’s when we had sleepovers at his place.
Blah, @kermitron
I don’t think we’ve talked about Liza’s, I certainly don’t remember the name. It was a Lebanese bakery a few doors up from the pub, which was an extremely sad affair back in 2004. I’ve driven through Rego a few times lately and it seems a lot more upmarket these days. Considering moving back there if I can afford it, actually. Carramar is a hole and I’m only still living there because my mother owns the unit and I get cheap rent. I think if I’m not going to buy the place (which I have no plans to anytime soon) she’d be happy for me to move out so she can sell up and get a mortgage on a house where she’s living now.
I find that Eagle Boys has one good pizza, (bbq meatlovers) followed by a list of passengers that were created just to pad the list.
Pizzahut $5 pepperoni, ye cannae go wrong!
I wasn’t talking I swear!
I re-watched Gravity too. Super good. Also, I hate that sick day guilt feeling, even when you’re genuinely sick 🙁 Feel better.
I think my problem is that I take a preventative sick day when I start to feel bad, rest, feel better. Then if I get properly sick in the next month I feel the need to soldier on because I feel like I need to atone for slacking off when I was only kind of sick.
Maybe I should knock off the preventative sickdays and be soldiering on when I’m only kind of sick, saving my sick days for when I’m truly miserable.
JB sale also finally put those $75 headphones at $60, so I picked up a replacement set and can now listen to things again! Only been waiting about 6 months for that.
Also figured the 20% off is the best it’ll get for those ghibli movies, so the collection has now been started.
Which Ghibli film did you buy?
Totoro!
Watched it last night.
POKEMANS!
DRAGON AGE!
FAR CRY 4!
*flails arms excitedly* WOOOOOO!
NEW 3DS!
Does pokemans use the c stick thingie?
I don’t even know what it could be used for!
Maybe camera angle, every time I play Pokemon on my 3DS my right thumb instinctively goes for the second stick to change the camera all the time, especially in Lumoise city.
Dedicated dance buttons!
GOTY
How great would it be if they implemented a taunt system you could use mid-battle.
No
The only game I’ve heard doing anything is Majoras Mask which will not graphically upscale but will contain some NEW only features.
Links Awakening DX had a whole extra dungeon on GB Colour
*looks at empty wallet*
yeah, woo.
So apparently tickets for PAX Aus 2015 go on sale in first week of December.
It’s annoying how early they make you plan this sort of stuff…
Rumour or any official info?
They just tweeted it!
Hmmm… Oct 30 – 01 Nov.
Same proximity to Melbourne Cup.
Again? That’s kind of a shame, means it’ll probably be bad timing again for all the guys who couldn’t go this year because of exams.
I guess it’s the only way they can swing a booking of the entire convention centre less than 12 months out.
If they booked PAX 2016 or 2017 now, they might get a better weekend.
I was thinking of going next year, now I don’t think I want it if it’s that time again Q_Q
Planning is easy
1. Buy 3 day pass
2. Ignore it for 9 months
3. Plan everything at the last minute
4. Obtain conflict in schedule
5. Attempt to reschedule PAX
6. Get laughed at
7. Give PAX tickets away on TAY
Wait, you were supposed to go to PAX? 🙁
Nah, man. I was just trying to help others with their planning.
Yikes, that’s early. My budget is beyond shot right now, so guess I won’t be going next year either.
What happened to all those sweet, sweet piles of Undad cash? 😛
I know you’re joking, but serious answer: they’re being invested in Undad, along with a whole bunch of my own money.
I don’t even know what I’m doing next week let alone a year from now.
You do now!
Interstellar was some amazing moments contained within an ambitious and competent, but bloated and predictable film. 8/10. DISCUSS.
I liked it. Discuss? I wrote something about one of the scenes revisited twice somewhere here on TAY, let me try find it.
Here it is!
That’s interesting!
When I was watching that, I actually believed what she was saying: that the message was from the ‘ghost.’ I think its placement after the weird dust co-ordinates cemented in my mind that they were onto something: there was a ‘ghost’ of some sort. I still loved the moment when he’s in the blackhole infinite timestream and he’s begging his daughter to “make him stay” – total tearjerker.But I’d already figured out ages ago that he would end up being her ghost (the actual moment was very early on when he said “I can’t be your ghost for you” or whatever he said right at the start of the movie), so it wasn’t an OMG moment. It was just such a weird line and it stood out like a sore thumb, so I assumed it was there as foreshadowing and ham-fisted misdirection… and it was.
And to be clear, I liked the movie too. Not as much as I hoped I would, but it was a good way to spend three hours, and was definitely worth skipping work for.
I enjoyed it a lot whilst watching it,
but then the more I thought about it, the less I liked it. Like, I felt like it was overambitious and the science wasn’t there, and he just comes across NASA and they’re like, “Oh you’re here, well then you can fly the ship.” I also felt like Wes Bentley’s character’s death was really silly, and they just had to get rid of him quickly. I don’t know, man. I don’t mean to rain on your parade, and I’m glad you liked it, but yeah, just… not great for me. The little girl who played Murph was pretty good, though.Oh noes! Someone didn’t like something I enjoyed. Parade successfully rained out.
Kidding. I agree with pretty much everything you said.
But I didn’t go into the film expecting any kind of scientific accuracy. Although I do have a passing interest in the stellar sciences, I like my sci-fi to be light on the sci (Red Dwarf/Star Wars), and big on the character study, so I’m okay with whatever crap they want to tell me about timey-wimey wibbly-wobby wormholes and black holes.Ultimately, like I said, I thought it was a bloated and competent film with some amazing moments (I loved the first half hour, the messages scene just after the water planet, and the part of the infinite time tunnel bit when he’s screaming at Murph to “make him stay, make him stay!”), so basically the father/daughter relationship carried the movie for me.
I haven’t seen the whole thing yet, but I’d be interested to hear everyones thoughts on the sound.
It’s so damn loud that we have to turn it down, but you can only turn it down a little bit otherwise people wouldn’t be able to hear what’s being said in quiet sequences. I’ve stuck my head in a few times, and when anything’s happening or the music starts it is just unbelievably loud and you can’t hear a word of what any of the characters are saying.
Appparently this is not just our cinema, it’s the movie itself and they’re having this problem all over the world. I’ve been super keen on this movie for months, but from what I’ve heard of it so far, the soundmix is absolute crap and really brings the whole film down.
That’s a Nolan thing. The music in Dark Knight Rises was ridiculously loud and overpowering, and was overused everytime the movie failed to convey adequate drama 😛
But it’s a movie, not a book?
Hey, don’t get me wrong, I love soundtracks. The first CD I ever owned was the Star Wars soundtrack, and it was the only one I owned for many years.
But when a musical score drowns out dialogue, when it rises out of the background to such an extent that it overwhelms you so entirely that you can’t even concentrate on the visuals, that movie has a problem with music.
I have not experienced this. The only person I had trouble understanding is mask face or are you talking about Interstellar, I ain t seen it yet.
Something “competent” and “bloated” gets an 8 out of 10?! What are you, a games reviewer? 😛
The good bits were SOOOOOOO good. It gets extra points for making me weep on four separate occasions. It might be the only movie ever to achieve that.
@dire_wolf and @negativezero (yes yes I’m the devil on you shoulder)
Sorry guys, I just needed to confirm your class for our raid group, dire you were good to go heals were you still doing shammy heals? Negative repost from the last TAY (sorry didnt see your tag till today) are you comf going as a healer? or would you prefer to rdps?
Neither. I’m awful at ranged, and I’ve never healed before so sorry – you’ve got a DK, because that’s what I know how to play reasonably well and it looks like Frost has barely changed since WotLK.
Ended up getting in last night around midnight and played to 4am 🙁 It’s all happening again. 🙁
EDIT: FYI I will probably roll an alt at some point too.
To all those who recommended Persona 4 Golden to me last week, you guys suck. I’m like 40 hours deep right now and I’ve only just rescued Rise. I’ll be lucky to get any work at all done this week. =P
Who is your favourite waifu (thus far), and why is it Yukiko?
Because Rise isn’t available yet.
C’mon man, Rise? Have some taste. You could have at least said
“Naoto”.“Boy with hat”, you ain’t fooling no one.Fine. Answer changed.
Marie.Hey, all waifu answers are correct. Unless you say Chie, in that case you are super incorrect.
At least Jimu knows that he’s got Chie all to himself.
Wow, this conversation is super creepy when I phrase it like that.
second we argued about waifus all semblance of normality was lost. Next tier down involves body pillows and I’d rather not delve into that particular darkness again.
Die, monster!
They’re going into the TV world in the hopes they’ll die so they won’t have to deal with Chie any more. Torturous death by demons is preferable to 5 more minutes in her company.
Die die die!!!
Also what if your answer is Teddy?
Teddy’s the middle of the male tree. Kanji is the most desirable… maifu? Yosuke’s obviously the least. Not even a competition there.
Man, if Yosuke swung that way I’d ship Yu and him as OTP. No joke.
EDIT: I just used the terms ‘ship’ and ‘OTP’ casually. My god.
@saturday
I had to look up what OTP stood for (I gathered its meaning, just didn’t know the words), so I think you’ve gone too deep.
I BLAME THE YOUTH AND THEIR HIP NEW LINGO.
I think @jimu might want to have words to you 😛
Edit: ha, shoulda refreshed before this post. SEE!!
You’re incorrect you monster.
Rise was just always trying to get in Yu’s pants & can’t close her legs. How is that attractive?
*sigh* I knew this day would come but didn’t think it would be so soon.
Jim, it’s time for the Talk.
*sniff* They grow up so fast. So fast.
You see Jimu, when a man and woman love each other, they unanimously agree that your waifu is a shit and that Rise is best waifu.
I have a feeling I’m about to cop a lot of flak, but Chei and Marie seem to be the interesting ones so far. Chei may sound annoying but at least she’s funny. Yukiko’s just sort of bland. I haven’t really interacted with Rise much yet.
Granted I’m an old, old man now so it’s about notalgia rather than high school romance fantasy. Chei reminds me more of my girl friends than my girlfriends.
Best. Game. Ever.
CHIE BEST GRILL
I throw my snag on that barbie 😉
Hey, almost forgot. I finally have something to brag about on TAY…even if it was my wife’s doing.
My wife baked a killer cake for a 1st birthday we went to yesterday.
Seriously, it tasted as good as it looked.
Chocolate all the way through. MmmMMmmm.
Gojira?
Was meant to be, but like hell we could make the cake stand up. You can tell by the legs that that was the original plan.
So…sleeping Gojira it was. This also meant it survived the 20km car trip to the party without falling over.
Did you save us all a piece?
Yes*
*but I ate it all after we brought back leftovers. I may have some rainbow jelly here I can send you via post.Whoa! That looks amazing!
You celebrated your 1st birthday? Woah, they grow up fast these days.
EDIT: Dammit spellckeck! Stop telling me how to spell my exclamations of surprise!
Good morning everyone. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Yesterday was an exercise in trying to stay cool which didn’t quite succeed but oh well. Stayed up a bit too late running Slag Mines and Iron Docks in WoD where I realised I’m a terrible healer after my long absence. Also played some RPG on the weekend so that was cool (damn meddling players getting in the way of my schemes *shakes fist*).
On another topic, Pokemon this week. Which one are you guys looking to grab and what starter? I kinda want to go OR and start with Mudkip but I have never played R/S so I will have no idea what I’m doing.
Alpha Sapphire and Treecko.
Stop copying me!
Get a room.
& then trade!!!
Mudkip. His mega evolution be swole, yo. I’ll probably get Omega Ruby because Team Magma & Kyogre.
This may be my first ever ‘first playthrough’ that doesn’t involve picking the fire one.
Stupid fire chicken.
Also I think it’s been declared that I get the crappier ruby one from buying both.
Torchic is easy-mode in this region anyway!
He is? I used him in Emerald & had a torturous time. Was stuck on a gym with Makuhia for a while.
Emerald was the least fun I’ve had in a Pokemon. 🙁
Fighting moves for first gym, Flying move for second gym, Fire/Fighting moves for third gym!
I dunno, seemed like a slow slog for me. Glad I did choose it then.
What? There’s other choices besides the fire one?
Is that a thing? Is the fire one the most popular?
I seem to change about each gen.
So I’ve heard. Yet to experience this.
Squirtle!!!!
Empoleon!!!
The snarky looking Snake thing!!!
Crocodile from gen two! (Gen 2 has THE worst starters)
Never heard of them :p
Omega Ruby and I’m thinking Mudkip. I do like Treecko’s earlier evolutions though. I wonder if anybody is going to choose Torchic after XY. I should probably put more thought into my team and throw a bunch of eggs over from XY.
Omega Ruby (looks at steam id, psn id, xbl gamertag, nintendo username, etc…) and Mudkip (cos I feel I overused Torchick in X).
OR with Treecko but maybe Mudkip. I played through emerald as the chook.
I’m grabbing Omega Ruby and going with Torchic as my starter, as that’s what my original playthrough of Ruby was. I’m going for MAX lvl nostalgia here. Ruby being my first pokemon game n all.
Dragon Age Inq & Pokemon, yes.
Serrels hates Inception, no.
The heat was nuts. Nuts!
Nuts
Movies I watched on the weekend:
Pokemon 267 – not bad, exactly same as the last 266 movies but I seemed to enjoy it more. Perhaps because it was only my second trip to the cinema with my son.
Coherence – don’t wanna say to much, solid sci fi concept. Really well made. Get it watch it.
Limitless – a lot better than I would have guessed. Some great visuals. Realistic depiction of drug addiction & related was well handled. Ending was possibly not the best but I enjoyed it. Watch.
Planet of the Apes 2 – the latest 2. I really enjoyed the original 5 as a teen. They did get worse each time though. This I found boring & I didn’t care for either side. Switched it off halfway after skipping some scenes.
sex Tape – I did laugh at a few jokes but the entire premise is flaky. Switched off halfway
Europa Report – I really wanted to like this but the documentary style was getting to me. Switched off, May come back one day.
Movies I didn’t see but really want to:
Interstellar
Ooh, I want to see Coherence too. I liked Europa Report, but understand your objection.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like it. I really want to finish it. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood.
Coherence is so great
Hola Taunton (autocorrect this week)
Went home last wed to play with my parents’ new puppy Lucca, pic: http://instagram.com/p/vSLJGnibwD/
Then spent the weekend alternating between packing and Skyrim, for 6am tomorrow I fly to Cambodia! (well, Bangkok, but I’ll be in Cambodia soon enough) excite!
A Monday morning question: skyrim has several joinable factions. Favourite faction or group in a game?
@f4ction is the best faction.
Probably the Thieves Guild. I couldn’t/didn’t get into the Blades, and destroyed the Brotherhood (in my main 400 hour game), but I always meant to go back and do that stuff in a bad-girl playthrough.
PUPPY!!!!
Probably the Brotherhood Outcasts. They get super badass power armour and energy weapons and actually use it to help people instead of collecting all technology and hiding it away.
SUNBROS. PRAISE THE SUN!
Hmm, let’s speculate as to where @DC is today.
Walk of shame home.
What’s happening? Is he OK or is there a new adventure game out?
I’m going to assume he melted into the ground in yesterday’s heat.
[In the forests of Bolivia, DC & female companion stand on the cusp of an infinitely steep cliff, the jungle in front of them and it’s inhabitants quick on their heels. The sounds of raging rapids can be heard over distant war cries.]
DC: Damn, that must be a 50 foot drop!
Female Companion:
Indy,DC, What do we do?DC: We jump.
Female Companion: We jump?!
DC: Yes, we have to jump-
[The sound of the natives grows increasingly louder]
Female Companion: Nope, no way.
DC: We have to, goddamnit-
[The natives leap out of the brush, no more than a stone’s throw away from DC and his Female Companion]
DC: Ok, new plan.
Female Companion: What?
DC: I jump. You fall.
Female Companion: WHAT?!
[DC pushes his female companion off the cliff, and he jumps off right after her.]
Female Companion: DDDDDDDDCCCCCCCCC!
I NEED MORE 😀 😀 😀
DC should be BC: Butch Cassidy
Dammit, twice as fast, and twice as good.
I’ll get you next time, Saturday.
I dunno, if you have written it as a short story or a script and then added a part along the lines of
[DC & Eco-Terrorist are thrown to the ground as the ice cracks. Their knives are flung clear into the water.]
Eco-Terrorist: You never will never stop the bombing of that icebreaker, DC! It will never reach it’s destination in time!
DC: Oh, don’t worry.
[DC rams himself into the chest of the Eco-Terrorist, sending both of them careening towards the rapidly descending edge, fully breaking off the ice shelf.]
Eco-Terrorist: Damn you! We’ll both die!
[DC gives a smug smile; his hand reaches towards a hidden cord attached to the back of his suit.]
DC: Like I said, don’t worry.
[DC activates his hidden parachute, propelling him to safety as the Terrorist plunges into the frigid waters.]
DC: This time, I’m the one to break the ice.
He’s gonna be so happy when he reads these 😀
I don’t think we should expect DC to be around 24/7.
He’s actually a secret agent.
All of his self-deprecating comments, allusions towards his hermitness (hermitage?), and talk of evil cats is obviously a cover. He can claim that he spent a day hermitting it up, when really he was free-falling into an active volcano, trying to disarm a nuclear missile that was about to detonate.
Based on his comments about air-conditioners on twitter over the weekend, I can only assume that he’s currently in Antarctica, having a knife fight with a deranged eco-terrorist on a collapsing ice-shelf. In a few hours when he’s safe from harm, he’ll sit down and contemplate the irony of his victory, as Philipe Belgardo slipped on some ice, and fell to his death thanks to what he was attempting to prevent.
Now I think on it @transientmind has been awful quiet as well.
Hmmm.
HHHHMMMMMMMMMM……
Have you ever seen them posting at the same time?! Mmm? (Ooh, now I’m imagining them as a pair of sexy spies, mmmm)
[Cut to a plane spiralling out of control, smoke billowing from its left wing. TransientMind can be seen struggling with the controls, D.C. is sitting in the gunner seat.]
(I’ll let Saturday do the rest)
Ok, yeah, for Transient I had to really think hard for this one, for the fantastical adventures he normally gets up to outstrips my stories in terms of whimsy and wonder. That being said, I have a story that I think truly tells an ‘Impossible Day’ in the life of Transientmind.
[5:00. Belgium. Transientmind is sitting on the couch.]
Transientmind: I should order take-out.
[A pause.]
Transientmind: Hmm, too lazy.
I know such journeys are impossible to imagine when it comes to our resident adventurer, but if you use your imagination i think such a thing is possible.
@transientmind’s obviously the lead of this duo, such wisdom, a history of wooing many women, and just plain badass.
You have no idea 😀
(yes I’m objectifying the bejeesus out of Transient)
I have seen them both in the same room at the same time though!
Or HAVE YOU? *smokebombs it out of here*
Yep 😛
Off somewhere being the Most Interesting Man On TAY
I’ve still got all those stories saved. I read them whenever I want a good chuckle.
Same here.
Hey @Bish
Fighting the White in the forest. Pretty rad, pretty rad.
I for one do not endorse race-related assault, but whatever makes you happy.
Kill all the white man!
Wait, already?
You travel fast, hombre.
Know what ending you’re on track for?
Been trying for neutral but it’s so hard when they force your hand.
They claimed I was neutral after I couldn’t choose it. The option I went with they said I couldn’t because I already chose or something. Their dialogue is purposely unclear.
Fingers crossed I got neutral because if I replayed being either of the other choices is easy.
Fast? I didn’t touch it much on the weekend & there wasn’t much to do in the alternate places. I did get lost looking for a place in the alternate Tokyo.
I’unno mang, whole thing took me 80 hours, and it seems like you have less spare time than I do.
Also, yeah I like neutral paths in SMT games. Lets me fence-sit and it’s more of a challenge since you usually have to beat both Law and Chaos.Yes! A million times this.
Its always bothered me that there was usually only a light & dark path. When balanbalance to me has always been the ‘true’ good path. I’m loving this aspect so much!Stuff like in FF the 4 heroes of light have to stop the dark to retain balance, but they’ll never do a game where the light has too much power so the 4 heroes of dark have to step in!
To me it mirrors real life much more convincingly as I’ve yet to see a group tthathas anything other than their own agendas in mind. So good!
I think it’s a great factional balance in the sense that one side is clearly not in the “right”. There’s no clear cut morality so it doesn’t persuade the player’s chosen path by a sense of ethics. Both Law and Chaos stand for something understandable, but they’re both dicks about it (more prevalent in some SMT games rather than others), so you’re not swayed towards one side or the other based on their in-game actions.
I like it a lot, and it’s a shame other games haven’t pick up something like this. Morality systems should have better shades of grey, like SMT does.
I’ll check my playtime. I haven’t been doing EVERY side quest. I can also flog through handheld games way quicker because of my 40 min train ride daily. (In each direction)
Definitely will be working my way back through the earlier titles after this. I’ve really enjoyed this game.
I loved P4G but only liked P3, I guess because Persona’s hook is story, character & social links & the cast of 3 didn’t resonate as much with me.
Mainline SMT seems to be more aimed at solid gameplay.
The PS2 games have been floating around on the NA PSN store (for PS3) for a while now; Raidou Kuzunoha is an action-oriented spinoff, but the amazing SMT III: Nocturne should also be there. Heard great things about Digital Devil Saga too, been wanting to pick that up on sale.
From what I read the Digital devil sagas are a tad easier, so I was thinking to start there then try 3. They’re only $10 each I think & on sale often. Just wish PS2 played on PS4 with Remote Play.
If I like them then I’ll move onto others.
I have a Rom of Strange Journey I’ll check out, if I fall in love, eBay.
So it appears everyone else is doing way better deals than EB on the New 3DS and Pokemon OR. Like $36 worth of savings kinda deals. Guess where I have my pre-order? Ugh.
Rule #1: Never pre-order Pokemon!
if i dont preorder im scared i wont get it day one.
POW WHERE DO I BUY IT FROM????
Target is the best price at the moment I think. I don’t think Kmart have revealed their hand yet though!
Kmart does THE best poker face. The best!
Target & I’ve never seen it sell out. One shop will always have copies.
Now I weigh up crappy little preorder figures vs $30 of price matching savings.
They always win don’t they, no matter how crappy.
The only thing that would have had me pre-ordering & paying more was that tin.
Pratch mice!
Didja play DAO yet, didja?
I played it like 4 years ago? 😛
*slow clap*
Slow so you have time to notice with that obvious learning disability.
Hi all! Hope you all had great weekends! The time that was foretold (a few months ago) has arrived! Far Cry! Dragon Age! Pokemans! Never Alone… which kinda snuck up on me… but I’ll run with it. \o/ … |o| … /o\ Where will I find the time?!
Spent my weekend swapping between Destiny and Halo: CE (Anniv. ed). Spoilered for length, and to spare the disinterested.
Gotta say, as much as I like Destiny’s combat, Halo’s is sublime. Man, I’d forgotten how fun it is to just run around punching Grunts in the face :D. No sprint, but movement speed is very high – makes me feel like modern games slow their players down solely to justify the sprint mechanic… Weapons are a mixed bag – AR still feels weak (unless it’s shooting you), sniper rifle feels weak (still trying to figure out why…), but the magnum and the rocket launcher are amazing. And the AI is so fun to mess with! Even had a blast going through the Library for, I think, the first time ever – I always hated that level, as there’s just so many bullcrap ways to get killed instantly (plus the constant stream of Flood makes it hard to get your shields recharges), but grabbing a shotgun and a rocket launcher early on makes it surprisingly fun. Also, I think I found that pretty much every door on the Truth and Reconciliation reminds me of Destiny’s Cyclopes…Going back to Destiny each night for story missions was a bit jarring. Movement is frustratingly slow, and the limited grenades mean you get to have fun with the AI far less often… but every weapon except the rocket launchers feel more powerful than Halo’s equivalents. That, and the addition of double-jumps mean verticality is more a two-way street, which is great fun. Xur was a mixed bag, too – I finally have Last Word (an awesome 8-round hand cannon that can be emptied in about a second and a half) but the helm engram I was hoping to use with my Hunter instead decrypted to a second Light Beyond Nemesis… aww. Time to dismantle my first exotic… 🙁EDIT: Also, finally hit level 30 on my warlocks. Kinda underwhelming, tbh… I guess it’ll be a huge difference in the Vault tonight, but running normal missions it feels no different to being 29, because of Destiny’s damage scaling.I didn’t realise Never Alone was so soon!
Any idea why Bungie went with using Imperial units in Destiny? There are at least 2 occasions when “miles” is used and once when Cabals are “900 pounds and highly militarised”. I guess when the Traveller came to Earth, it decided to accept Imperial units and erradicate the metric standard?
Also, English accent with American pronunciation is weird. Pronouncing lieutenant as “loo-tenant” (rather than “lef-tenant”) in an English accent sounded weird.
That is the strangest observation ever. But its more than likely that because bungie is a american company they used what was familiar too them and their fellow americans.
MERICA
Wait are bungie American? i just assumed they were. Its weird if they werent because like 4 countries in the world still use the imperial system.
4? I thought it was down to Liberia and the US, nowadays…
Oh, did Myanmar give up?
Yep, last October, as far as I can tell.
Cos 1760 3-foot yards to a mile makes more sense than using powers of a thousand? Somehow? *clutches at straws*
Cos you’ll take mah miles and inches from my cold, dead hands, gawd-demmit! Lousy commie pinko socialist frenchie metric crap! We fought a war to be diff’rent to the English! Changed out dicshunries an errything!
The Brits use miles & pounds when measuring weight & distnce to be fair, but then they also use stone & kilograms. Bloody confusing lot they are.
I have commenced unemployment. I have a interview at 12 today and then my schedule is free for like 7 years.
Im thinking of starting a twitch channel and stream myself playing games because me playing shooting games is literally the stupidest thing ever. 😛
Also gonna paint a bit and do some gardening and walk my and the girlfriends dogs and mow my yard and fix my car anf my god i have needed a break to catch up on stuff that falls by the wayside 🙂
Did your last day go okay? Left on a decent note I hope!
Good luck with your interview!
Well i left on a okay note but something weird happened
STORY TIEM
I worked in a service department of 3 people, myself, the cranky dickhead service admin and a lovely if someone slow old german man. Now on Friday the old german guy had a half day because he was moving, He has also had some weird stuff trying to get citizenship happening and he was on the phone to his lawyer. We didnt have any service jobs and our manager really didnt care what we did as long as all our work got done in a timely matter. The Admin bloke however being a control freak came into the room saw the german guy on the phone , went over to him and smacked the phone out of his hand saying that he shouldn’t be taking personal calls on work time. I thought this was a bit far so i told him he was being rude and that if our manager had a problem with it he would say so. Well then he started calling me every name under the sun. Our manager heard this and asked the service manager to see him in his office. A short time later he was fired.
So my l left on a decent note. Im not sure that the service admin guy did. Im a little angry that i had been suffering under this dickhead guy and on my last day something was finally done. But its okay. That place was more poisonous than just the staff, the whole company attitude is a bit horrible and although i did like working with some of the people alot of stuff i didnt like.
So yeah im happy now that i dont have to be involved in that drama anymore.
Woo, unemployment, yay
It’s a heck of an achievement in the modern world to take unemployment in stride.
Also you should totes stream yourself so I can hassle you in chat and say “TITS OR GTFO.”
You’re hired! Can you start tomorrow? 😀 Wouldn’t that be weird huh.
It wouldnt be possible because the job is in perth 😛
Melbourne? 😀
Nah he said he’s got a few job offers in the past. Like before they had electricity. I personally think it will be hard to find a time machi-ohhhh wait. No, my mistake he said job offers in Perth. You realise how I could get the two confused though,
C’Mon, Perth is at least up to 1980s by now.
As of last Tuesday we officially entered 1983. We’re moving up in the world!
All the best with the interview!
What sorta dogs? 😀
She has two Japanese spitz’s which are both dickheads, i have a German shepard who is sitting under my desk in the airconditioning shedding everywhere. He is awesome. 🙂
Haha, they aren’t the aggressive sort of small fluffy dog though?
German Shepherds are awesome, one of my favourite breeds of dog. I’ve always wanted one, but I think if I had one it’d eat my neighbours LOL.
Mine is pretty non aggressive, nearly to a fault, i had some fuel stolen from my car and he didnt even bark. 😛
They arent particularly agressive, they just bark and everything and dont do what i tell them.
Oh wow, that’s a well behaved dog you have yourself there. Mine likes to at about anything that walks past the front gate, and she especially hates the bush turkey’s who invade the front yard heh.
That must drive you insane? lol
Because they are companion dogs they love company and because my gf’s dad is out of town they kind of go crazy. They are very affectionate though.
Ah fair enough.
Hang with Blaghsy, Nob, Trjn, F4ction with the occassional appeareance by Pyrean and myself!
Multiplayer gaems???
Old lady just walked up to the counter and demanded to know if I was born in Australia. I said yes and she immediately relaxed and started talking about the job she wanted done.
I don’t know what is sadder. The fact that something like that just happened or the fact that I am not the least bit surprised.
I would think being white would be enough 😛
Don’t be silly, he could be Jewish with that dark hair, then what would she do???
Next time you lean up right to her face and whisper
“Si, Senorita.”
Though I imagine this would be infinitely more effective in the states.
By the grace of Allah, I was that fortunate
LOVE IT!
“Were you born here?”
Must resist urge to say “Yes” in a fake foreign accent
Yes comrade, I was of the born here, in the Australia.
By the many arms of Kali, yes. PRAISE ALLAH! *bows and pours tea*
The census is getting more aggressive every year
WHAT A FUCK HEAD
Hahaha. Should’ve asked her if SHE was born in Australia, and when she says yes give a sigh of relief 😛
Tell her you’re a white christian ethnic Pakistani. Just to see her process each of those steps in order.
“I can’t remember”.
“Tony Abbott wasn’t…”
That would’ve been my response 😛
Oh gods…my sister in law often asks me questions like “are they Australian?” and I have to struggle to keep the horror off my face as I pretend I don’t exactly what she means.
I hate having to pretend I don’t know what people mean by that. I tan easily so I don’t look anywhere near as white as I am (some German way, way, way back is about as crazy as my background gets). It puts me in a situation where I have to somehow answer the ‘are you Australian’ questions without implying that I agree that it matters or getting into a fight.
I had the same problem with people calling me gay as a kid. It’s very hard to correct someone in that situation without sounding like you agree that the accusation they’re making is a bad thing.
No. But even if I was, you wouldn’t be my type
I always liked Denzel Washington’s line in The Siege.
“You might actually be stupid enough to believe that’s an insult.”
Although you probably would get into a fight.
Say yes, but most of the goods I’ll be using are made in China
Okay lets try this again…
Anyone up for a run through the Vault Of Glass with myself and 2 mates? I’m currently assuming that Saturday night would be the best day since it’s usually the day we normally have free but it might be subject to change, I’ve not yet heard back from the other 2.
@transientmind & @jimu, were you still interested?
Can I wear boots?
Just to be clear, I was making a terrible joke about protecting my feet from a place I presumed would be filled with broken glass.
nope gotta do it John McClane style. Die Hard or nothing 😛
Yipee Kai, aye?
I’m interested, but I’m only available at certain times. Got any specifics?
I’m pretty easy, long as I know in advance. A time would be great.
Bah, looks like I’m not getting email notifications. Is this happening for everyone?
Anyway, @transientmind, @jimu, @Saturday, we’re thinking something around 20:30 – 21:00 (NSW time, you’ll have to work out any wacky time zone variations yourselves), it’ll give everyone a chance to have tea & let the game get the daily reset shenanigans and it’s associated disconnection errors out of the way.
Roughly how long does it take to do? Would it be practical to do it on normal and then have a go on hard if we blaze through it?
Yeah, I’m not getting them either. I just thought I’d flubbed a ‘move to trash’ action on my phone and accidentally moving something to spam, which I could sort out later.
Anyway, when you’re experienced and going smooth and everything is normal, expect it to take about an hour. But for the first time going in, learning the fights, getting familiar with the patterns and how you work with your team-mates… maybe 3-4.
Oh well, we’ll assume we can manage a single run on normal then, you never know we might ace it and kick some arse but then again we do have a fair few exotics that have apparently been turned into waterpistols and tinfoil with the latest derp-patch so who knows, we might not even manage to get inside…
Ahahaha, that’s 1:30 at night for me.
… So I might be able to make it, I’ve a work shift that day that’ll fuck up my sleep schedule proper. I’ll get to you on wednesday.
Err yeah, I can see that might be a trifle inconvenient. No drama if you can’t make it at that time. What would be a good time for you, we might be able to do it in the afternoon if everyone else is good for it
So I was serious before & no one answered, I’m guessing presuming I was cracking a bad joke.
But what is happening with @DC today?
Probably busy with something I’d assume. He has more of a life than he let’s on.
Or he was arrested at a G20 protest 😛
Or maybe @dc killed a drifter and is laying low for a while.
Imagine the tales he will have once he returns, he might challenge @transientmind’s amazing tales!
WORST.HERMIT.EVER. etc…
Let’s all leave him notifications so he comes to visit!
@dc
Yes! Then he may get worried about why we’re talking about @dc all of a sudden and come look.
Haha. But @dc knows we love him and only say good things about him!
Hahaha some dude is on a downvote binge in the latest WoW story. Just about every comment, has a downvote from him
I feel like going and upvoting everything, just to cancel him out.
I know I did xD
But if two of you up vote, I’ll have to down vote to balance it all out.
Then i’ll just have to downvote all your comments with a +1 on them Jimu 😛
Won’t take long
Why cause no one up votes your stuff? 😛
Correct, I’m the loud annoying cousicousin of Kotaku.
To the upvote machine!
Upvotes all around \o/
Ya think that’s bad? Stick your head into the World of Tanks community review article.
Poor Shiggy. That’s his sense of humour. 🙁
Ouch.. Yeah that sucks.
Haters gonna hate.
That or he was upset by the neckbeard remark in the article lol
I just had to wrap my office desk in Christmas wrapping paper. Like, not even for a prank.
Sounds festive.
Pics?
It’s really not, haha. I picked the plain wrapping paper so I can draw on it. I can’t think of an easy way for photos, either :/ But I think I have a photo somewhere of the Santa and reindeer I cobbled together to get into the spirit. I’ll see if I can find it in a bit.
HR’s attempt to cut down the Christmas budget by getting everyone to gift themselves their own desk?
and with this one comment, I realised how much I’ve missed TAY 🙂
Lost about half the weekend to playing more Elite. Even though I said I wouldn’t. I found my A-grade shield generator though! Then just went bounty hunting for a while. Got some announcements from them, including a few extra goodies for early backers which is cool. Gamma incoming this week!
Also finally got around to catching up on some Dr Who, I’d totally forgotten we were onto the old guy now. In other “finally”s, also got my sister’s birthday present from last month sorted. Picked up The Princess Bride from JB, and when I was looking at a whole pile of far too many shirts that I was thinking of getting, I found a couple that she’d probably like. So threw two of those on the order and *dusts hands*.
Spent most of Sunday afternoon trying to get my speech done for my friend’s 21st this weekend. Don’t think I like what I’ve got so far, it’s probably going to be way too rambly.
I made a Christmas decoration: http://i59.tinypic.com/2weywig.jpg
Candy cane string \o/
NES cartridge post it notes, where do I buy them?
This is important, Jane.
They’re from Fangamer! http://www.fangamer.com/products/cart-notes
BUT they are sold out at the moment. That’s not a bad thing though, because these are a little… not great. They’re not like regular Post-Its and the glue isn’t very good. I think they’re getting them remade with a different method soon.
Thankyou, I was trying to remember which site I bought my Psychonauts buttons from.
I lost one of them at PAX so I’m going to buy another set
Oh god! Santa’s face! HE ISN’T BREATHING!
Suffocated by his own beard… Shame.
Haha, he does look rather like he’s choking, doesn’t he? Waving his arm about like, “help me, help me!” Ahaha, I like it even more, now.
Monster!
No wonder you fit in so well around hereDecided i’d watch Bob’s Burgers cause I wanted to watch an animated series from start to finish that wasn’t South Park of The Simpsons. Eh, i’m upto the 4th season, whilst it’s okay and has its moments, I don’t find it as amazing as it’s made out to be, and the fact that Bob Belcher is voiced by H. Jon Benjamin who voices Sterling Archer from Archer makes me think it was gonna be better than I have found it to be. Still it’s not the worst animated show, but I just thought there would be more laughs in it than i’ve had lol.
Ooh, really? I LOVE it. Like, it’s my favourite animated show since Futurama. I just love the dynamic of the family, and the humour is mostly so good and solid and not crude.
I actually really don’t care for Archer :/
Yeah, I really like Lousies character she’s quite amusing & Bob has his moments but, I just am not finding it as good as I wanted to lol.
See i’m the opposite I love Archer 😛
Both have very different humor from one another but I still love them both.
You. You I like.
Yes! I adore Bob’s Burgers. It’s humour is so downplayed and it’s nice to watch a show without any mean spirit sometimes.
Now go watch Rick & Morty if you haven’t already, that’s my favorite animated show in years, f@#$ing hilarious.
Tina is one of the most hilarious characters in any animated show.
The only episode I saw was the Archer crossover one. Brain-breaking.
When I saw that episode of Archer I had no idea he also voiced Bob from Bob’s Burgers 😛
Oh wow where does time go.. It’s 12:50 already, I should go do lunch I guess..
YEAH LUNCH GET!
Actually 11:50. WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CURTAINS!
and cows 😛
Started reading Elantris this morning, it seems pretty good from what I’ve read thus far, but rather interestingly (to me), it shares a lot of superficial similarities to Dark Souls.
People get “cursed” with undeath, and are shipped off to one place (the city of Elantris). A lot of the people have been stuck in madness for so long that they just spend their days lying on the ground moaning. The city used to be a place where “gods” roamed. It’s only similar in a “first glance” sort of way, but I still found it interesting..Loved that book, even though some concepts were so sickening/horrifying I had stop reading for a while… Interesting portrayal of religion, and as always, Sanderson’s logically-consistent magic systems are second to none.
I re-read the Mistborn trilogy and The Alloy of Law recently (The Alloy of Law was the first Sanderson I read, and it was nice to finally read it with Mistborn fresh in my mind) and read The Rithmatists yesterday, and it’s struck me that there seems to be a lot of very negative portrayals of religion in his stories. Not “His Dark Materials” negative, but still.
And yeah, I love Sanderson’s approach to magic.
The latter parts of the book (especially Hrathen’s part) show his views rather nicely, I think. Although I think Warbreaker does a better job of exploring his concerns regarding organised religion.
I watched two movies over this long weekend. ‘Pacific Rim’, which I enjoyed the heck out of (so stunningly pretty!). And The ‘A-Team’ which was execrable.
Then last night Mr. Strange went to see Accept play and I got stuck staying home with the kids, and melting. I went to take that opportunity to catch up on some Vampire Diaries but discovered he’d skipped downloading the episode I’m up to. So I used his laptop to grab it and discovered he was already in the process of downloading some porn. 😛 So I messaged him to tell him I’d used his computer to download Vampire Diaries but didn’t mention the porn so I could make him stress out wondering if I’d noticed or not. 😛
This morning I realised we’d forgotten to buy fruit and bread so I had nothing to pack for my son’s lunch. I have no cash and the website used for ordering their lunch online was down so I just kept him home. Then I went to take him on a bus to the shop so we could get some food and discovered my daughter had taken his bus card as well as her own. Dammit, Monday! Why can’t we be friends?!
I remember enjoying The A-Team. No idea how it compared to the original or whatever, but it was big dumb stupid action and I found it fun.
I love big dumb stupid action! This was way too stupid though.
Makes me wonder what my threshold for too stupid would be 😛 All I can really remember is laughing my arse off in the flying tank scene. That was great.
Who still downloads porn? Streaming is where it’s at!
Much safer! Just clear browsing history and you’re done. =P
Pfft, incognito tab.
Actually not a huge porn consumer at all, but still.I’m more a fan of Private Browsing.
Does what it says on the tin!
Just average?
They’re pretty old so still sticking to the old fashioned way.
I refuse to watch The A-Team movie, ever.
No Mr. T as B.A. Baracus, no dice.
It’d be the same if they did a Walking Dead movie and had some other actor play Rick Grimes, it just wouldn’t feel right. Some things should just be left alone.
Also, that’s kinda funny about the porn how long are you gonna let him stress over it before you say something? Poor Mr. Strange.
I’ll probably leave it a few days and then just casually namedrop the thing he was downloading. 😛
Now my mind is boggling on how you will work in those names into ordinary conversation.
“Honey, would you like some sexy cheerleaders for dinner?”
“WHAT?”
“I meant burgers.”
“I was looking at nail polis colours online and noticed Essie have sasha grey and stoya ass to ass on sale. What do you think?”
“Sounds lovely dear.”
“I knew you’d like it, weirdo.”
“…huh?”
Pacific Rim delivered exactly what it promised- giant robots beating the crap out of giant monsters- and for that reason it rocks.
I really wish I just went off and saw it at Imax. Missed its theatrical run, but then one day wandering down the harbour I saw it on the sign out the front. Thought sweet, I can still catch it! Then totally forgot about it and it was gone.
PACIFIC RIM! ACCEPT!! PRON!!!
That’s my kind of weekend
Pacific Rim was the best movie ever. Except for the Australian accents which were not just ‘bad’, but were so bad that if I ever watch it again, I will contemplate muting the movie for any time they’re on screen. Or just fast-forwarding to giant robot fights. GIANT ROBOT FIGHTS FUCKYEAH!
Hey Lana.
Secret SanTAY: 100% Free To Play Until You Actually Want To Play Then It’s Up To $20 To Participate Using The Email App On Your Phone But Free To Sign Up No Credit Cards No Bullshit Due To Overwhelming Female Presence Men Join Free
Last day to get involved. Don’t make this weird. Just send an email to binoter at hotmailso everyone can move on from the awkward silence.
Thanks for organising, Freeze!
Unsure if genuine or snarky bite.
Yes, I’m feeling guilty.
*Thanks for organising, Freeze…
That should clear it up.
I probably shouldn’t put serious thank you messages in the same format as the “Thanks for x, y!” joke…
Thanks for helping me realise my mistakes, Freeze!
[Guilt panic intensifies]
“Overwhelming female presence Men Join Free” Hey waitaminute…. you already took my money!
Hola TAY!
I am gearing up for my annual LAN and am starting to acquire copies of games. I have a few solid ideas for games, but thought I would ask the TAY brains trust for any recommendations of gems that may otherwise be missed. Given that not everyone is going to have a super rig, I would like to keep it to pre-2005 or non-intensive games. The most graphically intensive game we normally play is Farcry2 as a benchmark.
Staples that we normally play:
– FarCry 2
– Warcraft III Frozen Throne (And Mods)
– Aliens Vs Predator Gold
– The Ship
Considerations:
– Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Just found this on Good Old Games and seems like a quirky but fun multiplayer game)
– Jedi Knight II
Also, paging @stickman and @rocketman (and any other Kotaku peeps near Mackay interested in a LAN) you guys are more than welcome and I can arrange for beds if you need to crash. I’m also in the process of getting some 10% Belgian style beer and alcoholic Ginger Beer brewed for the night. If lugging your PC down from the ville is an issue rockets I can arrange for a loaner.
Battlefield Vietnam because it’s the best battlefield game!
Hmm I remember having that somewhere from when we played it on tunngle(?) that night. Will have to see if I can find it.
Seeing as you are all in a LAN it should work without that terrible tunngle program.
EDIT: Just make sure you all “acquire” different keys.
STARCRAFT (Brood Wars!) is my LAN game of choice.
I tied to get it working over LAN ages ago but ran into issues as it was reliant on the IPX protocol. I’m sure there is a workaround out there now though.
May I also suggest Flatout?
Honestly one of the best LAN games around, supports up to 8 people.
That series would be great at a LAN
Looks good – Haven’t really found any racing games so will be good to break up the pew pew.
AOE2
My LAN games were usually Jedi Knight 2 (So good), No One Lives Forever 2 (Its superweapon mode is rad, though since it’s from 2002 I don’t know if it runs on Windows 7/8), Myst 2 & Marathon Infinity (probably both a little too dated), and yeah, Warcraft 3.
Something with short and sweet rounds can be a really good idea at aLAN, cause a lot of things usually played can take 1 hour+ for a round/match. Stuff like Counter Strike, or any decent racing game is a good way to mix it up.
Also, Jedi Academy was amazing for duels and battle royale. Seeing JKII on the list is making me want to jump back in to JKJA…
Quake 3 is still one of the best LAN games.
Dude. … Dude.
How is Jedi Outcast only a ‘consideration’?
It’s a gorram ‘must play’.
HAI GUYS AND GALS!!!
*waves enthusiastically*
*soils the rug*
*runs back out*
Hey! Git bek in here
Who’s this guy. #obligatory
Who’s THAT guy?
Just some asshole. Ignore him.
So it is.
What a absolute asshole.
He’s back! o/
\o
*explosion*
My lord Primarch Chuloopa! Welcome back sir! 🙂
THE EMPRAH PROTECTS!
That was my favourite rug.
Well this mug had a tug on your rug like a thug
It really tied the room together.
It’s not a rug, it’s a toupee. Great, now I have to find another way to cover up the bald spot
HEY LOOPS!
Ummm, hi TAY. Long time lurker, first time poster. Just wanted to say a quick hello to everybody and then disappear back in to the shadows. You all seem like pretty cool people.
OBJECTION!
You say first time poster, but your user profiles proves you to be a liar.
Thus, we a forced to conclude that you! Mr B-ob! ARE INDEED THE MURDERER!
And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!
Hahaha I didn’t even need to click on the link to it was Ace Attorney =P
Go back to where you came from!
I did. It was a return ticket. Oh, wait, you mean… the place of which we shall not speak. :O
I meant Thailand. You looked like you were enjoying it and very relaxed. You should go back.
Oh, yes, well a return trip is hypothesised. Had a wonderful time. Super relaxing. Being back home is difficult.
Cool?! Not in this weather!
Ugh, I know. Stepping out of the airport last night at ~1:30 it was more humid than (most) of the time in the tropics.
You seem like a cool guy, everyone around here is pretty cool except that B-ob guy. Ugh.
=PB-ob is still a lurker?
Oh. My. God. The teleporter sent me back in time!
Whatever you do, do NOT make you mum fall in love with you. However becoming your own grandfather has potentially positive side effects when faced with giant brains, so weigh that one up yourself.
Is it bad that I still associate being your own Grandpa with that awful Tom Arnold movie before Futurama?
Is it bad that I think I know what movie you’re talking about even though you used as vague a statement as “that awful Tom Arnold movie”?
(and that I do the same thing)
The power of a dance number.
Was on The Muppets first.
It’s actually a really old song
Unfortunately The Stupids was the first thing I saw it in so irrevocably linked.
The worst bit was I didn’t even watch that movie. It was just one of those “someone else happened to be watching it while I was around” things and that was pretty much the only part of it I managed to catch.
Now it’s just there. Forever.
Interview went really well, the guys seemed lovely and impressed that i knew my shit. I really want this job.
wont find out for a few days, now all that’s left to do is wait for a email
Clicks refresh 400 times.
Soon you will have a job! \o/
and you will have to move to Perth … wait that’s not positive …
Soon you will have a job! \o/
It’s a shame – it sounds really promising, but we both know you’re going to have to decline to attend my LAN.
Better luck next time.
Fuck it, we’ll have a LAN in Perth.
AND IT’LL BE BETTER.
Okay, maybe not.
But you get the idea.
Sure, those fancy Mackay LANs have their personal computers and video games, but we have ball in a cup!
Ohhhhhhhh so tempted to copy paste the ‘belongs in an opinion blog, not a news article’ comment from the abbott-putin article into the rock band article, but even with sarcasm tags, colon pees everywhere and 10 lines of all caps disclaimers about it being a shit joke either side, someone would still take it the wrong way.
Ah well, back to my work cave.
Wow, just looked back into the comments in there. It got nasty.
This is why I love you TAY.
I dunno. It’s just a bunch of people discussing rhythm games. Not one mention of Theatrhythm though… I guess that’s pretty disappointing.
😛Hey gang, I am still alive mostly… Been having a pretty rough time with work and home life so I haven’t done a whole lot of anything… Hope everyone is well? Have I missed anything?
Blaghsie and i are now in a relationship. Not in the traditional sense though. We are friends without benefits. Which means that we talk to each other a lot but never ever say or do nice things for one another.
Sooooo… You got married?! 😛
*badum tish*
HI PIXEL!
… that’s all I’ve got
Everytime you say that I get this weird urge to play Just Cause 2! 😛
Suddenly BERING!
Also, Bah BahBah Bah Bah-Bah Bah-Bah BAAAAAAAAAAAH
BAH BAHBAH BAH-BAH BAH-BAH BAHBAAAAAaaaaaah *BOOOOM!*
did you see Just Cause 3 got announced? HYPE!
Upvote to cheer you up.
\o/
HEY PIXEL!
Thinkin’ of you’s workin’ up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight.
Rubbin’ sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
And the thought of rubbin’ you is getting so exciting.
Missed ya buddy.
Sky rockets in flight!,
Afternoon delight…
AAAAAaaafternoon delight…
Thanks man, things have been hectic so I haven’t had a lot of time, but you guys are always in my thoughts 🙂
I’ll try and be better a bit more again, it’s always so uplifting…
Afternoon delight
*leaves the room*
WAAIIIT! COME BACK!
We need you. Hell, I need you. I’m a mess without you. I miss you so damn much! I miss being with you. I miss being *near* you. I miss your laugh!
I miss your scent.
I miss your musk… When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together!
PIXEL…..
PIXEL!!!!
http://reductress.com/post/8-sex-positions-that-will-blow-his-mind-and-destroy-his-penis/
This is fantastic. I can’t stop laughing.
Is this needing a NSFW notice? Pretty obvious.
*takes notes* 😛
Not going to visit that at work but I will spend the rest of my afternoon speculating about the other 7.
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 7:30 pm AEST, 8 pm ACDT, and 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
As far as I’m aware, no one is currently overseas or without internet as a result of moving house so we should have close to a full party tonight. That said, you have no idea who these mysterious assailants are or what they want to achieve by storming into the gala by breaking through the windows on the second floor of Duke Darlington’s estate.
I blame @rize he brought out the wrath of the crow whom is working in league with the stag!
Beware the Dread Crows on their Hellfire Stags. They are the harbingers of the apocalypse!
Yeah, my intarwebs are fine.
Is @redartifice going to make it though? IIRC he’s flying to Cambodia super early tomorrow
Don’t need to know who they are. They all look the same with an axe in their face.
Alas, I can’t- have to be up at 4am and have my travelling companion staying over.
Ah that’s a shame. Don’t worry, your super secret thievery will (hopefully) proceed as planned.*
I make no such guarantee. PC happens after all. 😛I’m in, time to burn some assailant hands and make them drop their weapons mwehehehehehe!
Thanks for the chest armour Blizzard.. My kidneys are screwed if you think this is acceptable!
Aw man.
I’m trying to find a working link to Stargazers for an Undad interview, but it looks like all the songs, purchase options, and the JFlamestar website have all been taken down.
Sad now.
@pupp3tmast3r
Put me down as a priest.
@shane
I have a favour to ask. You know how I got you to write me that recommendation for the TAFE course (which I got into and it’s been great, btw)? Well a group of us from that course are all going to try and get into a uni writing course at Swinburne together. I was wondering if you could write me another recommendation? It’d just need to be the same thing as last time, only with a date that’s closer to now.
I dunno man, that sounds like a lot of work…
No problem. Are you able to email me what I sent through last time, just to refresh my memory? The email address is shane[at]shanewsmith[dotcom]
Cheers!
*psssst @shane, bleed more money from @dire_wolf for the Kickstarter before you write the recommendation. Go on, sell your soul that little bit more to the pre-funding gods.*
It’s okay. I was going to work it into the recommendation letter. More people gonna see it that way 😛
ETHICS IN COMICS PUBLISHING!!!
Got it! lol thank god @phoenix is going mage otherwise we wouldn’t have heroism in the raid =P
\o/
http://traubeck.bandcamp.com/album/years this is pretty rad.
“A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture).”
It’s basically using the rings of a slice of different types of tree to generate music.
That’s barking mad.
Leaf it alone. That’s a branch of humour that has roots in soiled ground. Next time, please count backwards from tree.
I vote to synthesise a response however I please 😛
Having actually checked it out now, that really is barking mad. As in all kinds of amazing.
Spent my 13000th comment talking about Tom Arnold.
The worst thing about PAX ending is that Streetpass Quest is back to being difficult >:
There’s a guy somewhere around here who I’ve met >60 times. He helps get through those Reaper Commanders fast. Too bad they’re capped at level 7 =(
Thank you random StreetPass stranger. Thank you.
After having yet another Hash Brown Double for lunch I think I’m done with then. Bleeeerggg.
Actually I think I’m done with junk food full stop. Tired of feeling this awful, I’ve put on far too much weight and hate seeing myself. Time to do something about it.
Complain about it on the internet? Seems the thing to do these days 😀
Ohhh, that’s the step I’m missing. Thanks, man.
Anytime! That’s all Tumblr, Imgur & Reddit seem to do, so I guess that’s the way you go about things now 😛
Worst part is with Summer approaching, exercise outside of a gym is getting pretty exhausting, too. I mentioned I noticed my pants feeling too tight, last week… It’s just frustrating as hell that the only thing I can think of is boredom-eating.
(Edit: Gonna have to bite the bullet and do it anyway, and preferably without grumbling (because that’s ALWAYS attractive), but man… *shakes fist at body*
At least it falls under the category of first world problems. Always helps me internally chastize myself, “Suck it up, princess.” Which, uh… may not work for everyone.)
I’m in that mindset, I now just need my body to catch up with my mind
Grunt. Drowning in paperwork. The most tedious paperwork devised by man to be unable to be processed by machine. Even when I calculated out how much it will cost them to have me do it, and suggest that amount be spent on system upgrades… no dice. I keep having flashbacks to The Shield.
Speaking of the Law, I did briefly spend some time in the city to check out G20 related things, and cop cars with flashing lights on every corner. It was boring. And hot. I really felt for the protestors, standing together, unified (in some cases in actual uniform, like the Falun Gong/Free Tibet/I don’t know yellowshirts)… and completely and utterly ignored. By everyone. Cops, passersby, Very
self-Important Peoples locked safely behind barricades and guns in air-conditioning. Contrary to expectations, I was only stopped once. I expected it to be more. Guessing the heat was sapping everyone’s energy for everything.@Saturday’s guess at my weekend exploits is closer to the truth. The deep and numerous scratches on my arms are most certainly NOT from tangling with undergrowth while assisting with clearing unexploded ordnance in the Mekong, but from house/cat-sitting. The little devil gets a bit too enthusiastic when play-fighting.
DRAGON AGE HYPE.
So hype.
Fingers crossed for a DA:I street-date break. I’ll feel guilty that it gets someone in trouble, but overjoyed that it will mean only two sleeps until best fun evar!
I just finished The Last Court browser game and am interested to see how Serault gets reflected in the world. It’s kind of surprising but I actually started to really grow fond of those weird characters and their quirks, can’t wait to see them represented in more detail.
How’d your Last Court playthrough go? I had 20 of each resource (Secrets, Vivands, Trophies) and was having a grand old time at the Divine’s feast until they figured out I broke through their super-secret door and I subtly chose the “Eh dick it I don’t give a fuck option.” The Chantry just straight up said “FUCK YA’LL SERAULT GETS ETERNAL SHAME” and shit.
I’d completed pretty much every side-quest you could think of and got loads of favour, passing most of the milestones. Had shit-tonnes of viands, secrets, trophies etc, so 10 favour for the Divine guaranteeing Serault’s future prosperity in perpetuity was pretty much a lock. Was pretty happy to have finished up with 100 in dignity, freedom, prosperity, etc. Had a bit of unrest, but not too much – once you know what the cards too, it’s easy to course-correct.
On the unsealing of the Chantry being detected, I had two options. Beg forgiveness (100% success), or lie (98% success). SO OF COURSE I FAILED. GAAAAAHA FUCK YOU GAME, GOD DAMMIT I DON’T HAVE TIME TO DO ANOTHER PERFECT RUN I WAS ONE POINT AWAY FROM PERFECTION GAAAAAAAAH and so on and so forth.I’ll do a second run, because I just dicked around the first time.
I’m not sure I’ll go through the Chantry door again, though. It’s a one-way road to crazyville.
I do wanna ‘recruit’ that NPC, though. I wanna see if she turns up in DA:I.
I have no idea what I’m doing in The Last Court.
Like, I’m trying to bang all these people and it’s not working?
I thought this was a Bioware game???
If it’s anything like Fallen London they’ll cheekily allude to sexy romps but in a bid to keep their gothic horror game family friendly, not actually include any content that’s even remotely tanatlising. Instead, you are being slowly transformed into a squidperson while you hurl yourself bodily into a well filled with broken glass in a bid to scar your soul.
Do any of you babes have a Sodastream? I’m trying to decide between the Element and the Revolution.
My parents had one about twenty years ago. I never used it because I don’t like bubbles. #HELPING
I do!
Note: The soda stream branded flavours are… Just awful.
Can’t be any worse than Lifehackers experiments, like Vegemite ffs.
I just use cordial…or lemonade
What do you get when you sodastream a milkshake?
This wasn’t a joke. Someone please try it and tell me.A great awful mess, according to Wingman.
Although she said that they filled up the bottle too much. I was curious to try it for myself on the weekend I had the place to myself, but didn’t quite have a litre of milk spare. Need smaller bottles for experimentation.
…
Carbonated olive oil?
I saw a video on YouTube of Heston Blumenthol using one to make his wine sparkling.
Ah Heston.. I swear he’s borderline genius/insane with the stuff he does & comes up with.
Ooh god, I would not try that :/
But I said “please”! 😛
Also a video of the tasting would be ace too. Thanks, Jane! 😀
I do.
I don’t know what it is. Or how it works. It sits somewhere in my kitchen. Watching, waiting.
Dad picked one up the other week for some reason. I don’t know what what you said means.
Our one is red. I presume it goes faster.
The Revolution is over $200 because…. um… reasons?
Digital LED readout; shows exactly how long the carbonation will take, how much gas remains in the cylinder, and has an extra level of carbonation (turbo).
Wait… Really? It takes all of 5 seconds on the Dynamo I have and has an overflow valve to let you know it’s done. How much more do you need?
Totally unnecessary gimmicks. Basic one and a spare cylinder. That’s all you need. Cylinder lasts ages, even with Other Half who likes bubbling all the drinks.
Also, Ginger cordial. Instagingabeer.
Red ones always go faster. It’s a fact.
“Oh yeah… speed holes…”
I’m still working out the difference between the Source and the Play. Big W has both.
Yeah, I couldn’t quite work out the difference there. I think Play comes in packs, which seem good value.
Yes. I’m guessing it’s the cheap one. I think it was because she filled it up past the line but my missus had it go off in her face (easy now dirty minded people :P).
At the end of the day I prefer buying soda water and adding cordial
Haha, thanks, idiots <3 😀 I worked it out. I think we’re mostly going to use it to make sparkling water.
So soda water? 😛
Last chance to get 1,500 pages of comics for just $32! This reward tier is just hours away from deactivation!
Oh FFS. Did you guys know that Santa had NINE reindeer? Man. I made three, and now I have to make six more. Bah humbug.
Everyone knows that!
Cupid, Blitzen, Donna, Bonna, Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy, Dopey and Doc!
You forgot Tom and Dennis Rodman.
Came *this* close to being unable to contain a snort.
I’ll get you next time.
For real I heard the rhyme like a bajillion times during my childhood and let’s see how well I can remember it without looking it up:
Now Dasher, Now Dancer, Now Prancer and… Vixen(?!)
On Comet, on comet, Donner and… Blitzen?
And Rudolph, the bullshit reindeer nobody likes because HE’S A RED-NOSED DRUNK. YOU KNOW IT. I KNOW IT. WE SWORE HE’D NEVER FLY AGAIN AFTER ’64 BUT EVERY YEAR HE WHINES TO SANTA ABOUT BEING KICKED OFF THE WATER POLO SQUAD AND SANTA LETS HIM FLY LEAD TO MAKE UP FOR IT. IT’LL END IN TEARS WHEN WE CRASH THROUGH LITTLE TIMMY’S ROOF AND HE’S REMOVING A WOODEN TRAIN FROM HIS DADDY’S SHATTERED SKULL, I’M TELLING YOU.
Why did I write Comet instead of Cupid. I know better than that.
Also Bitzen is a stupid weak forced rhyme for Vixen and I think Vixen is a questionable inclusion to begin with since deer, members of the ungulate family, have nothing to do with foxes, who fall squarely in the canidae family.
I dunno what you’re making, but you could always do what I did last year… fold up a bunch of paper and cut out reindeer chains to string up, made out of documents to be destroyed. 🙂 There were little pairs of them rubbing noses. Adawwable. Fine work on antlers and hooves can be a little finicky, but worth it.
I made these duders – http://i59.tinypic.com/2weywig.jpg
Awwww! They’re so ky00t! Er… I mean.
*manly grunt of approval* Good job, xo.
I think I know which one’s Rudolph!
Still got Guile’s Theme playing in my head, since that Tony vs Putin article this morning.
Thanks, Mark.
So great. I just looked at that. What a pleasant and good natured comment section.
Well it seems as though I have progressed yet again in the pursuit of employment with Optus, but still not yet a guarantee! :\
Apparently having done the direct interview, they have given me the greenlight for employment, but they have to submit that to their parent company in Singapore, and that could take several weeks to come back with the result. Positive news is always good, but man.. so sick of waiting!!!
That sounds like an unwieldy way to run a business :/
yeah tell me about it.. still, it’s nice to know I’m on the right track! Glad to know that at least the Australian side is happy to employ me! That’s a plus!
Sounds positive, I’ll have my fingers crossed for you dude.
It’s a telco in Australia, efficiency is not their forte. Plus Singtel are not the most efficient mob according to my uncle who has done a lot of dealings with them from his time in Asia heh.
Grats on getting that far dude, when I had an interview with Optus I was 1 of 2 people out of about 8 who showed up for the interview and they didn’t even have the decency to tell me thanks but no thanks 🙁
Fingers crossed. It should be all good for you. Big companies usually have to trawl through the red tape.
Just got a job offer for nightshift work with Coles. Casual 20-30 hours a week, sounds good to me..
nightshift sounds good, you won’t have to worry about customers, congrats!
Yeah only the armed robberies \o/
Well at least it probably wouldn’t be likethis unlucky armoured truck bloke D=
Night shift for that many hours a week should net you some nice cash! Penalty rates every night! w00t!
Yeah, that’ll be the best part. Means I would be able to afford my new PC pretty quickly xD
Oh and get my license and save toward a vehicle etc..
I really miss working nights, sometimes.
Kinda makes me idly entertain stupid, insane thoughts about applying for security/bartending positions for after work. 😛
(Incidentally, you ever thought about doing a security course? It’s not bad stuff.)
I have actually, I guess to get the most of the concept i’d need QLD & NSW certification?
The Cert 2 in Security Operations is the most basic bit of what you want. At its shortest, you’re probably looking at a 3-5 day course. But you’ll probably find that for not much more, a few places will do your senior first aid at the same time, which is a great idea.
I’ve even seen that some training places partner up with certain security groups to guarantee a job after completion of your certification, but I don’t have any experience with those. Couldn’t hurt to check them out and what the ‘guarantee’ entails.
Oh, also I missed the other point, pretty sure cert 2 is nationally recognized.
Oh cool, that’s handy & useful.
Fresh WoW Meat! @jocon @negativezero @piat @dire_wofl ? Since you guys are the returning addicts (or playing new raid roles) here’s a meat and potatoes list of WoW Add-ons you probably want to familiarize yourselves with. You can usually download them from Curse (google Curse WoW). The steps are fairly simple just extract the zip files contents in the Add-On folder into your WoW directory.
1. Deadly Boss Mods (Warlords of Draenor) – This mod gives you sound effects and prompts for boss mechanics, absolutely compulsory for any raid.
2. Recount – DPS/Healing/Tank Stat tracker; it’s primary role is for raid leaders to keep track of where a raid group is failing; however everyone should have it as it acts as a feedback tool for all classes.
3. Omen Threat Meter – I’m not sure how essential this particular mod is anymore for all classes but I would say it’s essential for tanks, especially in boss fights where there’s a lot of tank swapping involved.
4. Auctionator or Auctioneer – Both of these are your basic price tracking tool for the Auction House; worth getting if you’re looking to make money trading there.
5. Healbot – I cannot recommend this add-on for our healers enough; it basically tailors WoW’s entire UI for a healer’s perspective.
6. Gatherer – Finally a completely optional tool that records the position on your map every time you mine/pick a herb/mining node. It makes your map a little cluttered but gives you ridiculous insight on where nodes are likely to spawn.
Feel free to add or amend if TAY thinks I’m missing anything!
*cough @dire_wolf cough *
ta =P
I like _NPCscan for alerting you to rares, bagnon for cleaning up inventory (though it doesn’t yet handle the reagent bank very well), and a cooldown count mod. Handy-notes is pretty good for scooping up treasures, too.
If you’re an altoholic, then grab the mod… altoholic.
Actually, even if you don’t have alts, it’s incredibly useful for tracking all your inventory, bank, mail, and skills, so that your hover tooltips are populated with information on how many copies of certain items you have, and where they are in your inventory/on your alts, or which toons can learn which recipes.
Don’t know if you’ve got the right crafting materials in the bank? Open your craft menu and hover over the material and find out! It’s pretty damn great.
Also, as a career tank, I probably wouldn’t bother too much with Omen. That hasn’t been particularly important since before wrath days. It’s nice to know when you’re losing threat, but if you’re even moderately geared you shouldn’t even be coming close to having same-level DPS pull aggro, and DBM is far more important for alerting you to tank-switching debuffs. A good taunt will pretty much always close the gap in any threat differences you have. Tanking has been made a lot easier with a few good blood boils pretty much gluing adds to you. That said, if you want to tank and cleverly manage your threat, the mod ‘tidyplates’ is pretty great. Colour-based nameplates for individual mob threat levels, so you can easily smash some single-target DPS onto any of the ones which look like coming unstuck, at thresholds of your choosing.
Yeah I use tidy plates myself but figured people can opt in and out of that particular one given it’s part UI change and part threat and dot tracker!
Does the Blizzard launcher thingie surface the name of the character we’re playing on so you can invite etc. ?
I’m semi-regretting blowing my +90 levels upgrade on a DK right now. My guild transferred server somewhere so my old Paladin on Proudmoore (Alliance) is chilling at 85. Tempted to server & faction change her over and just push through the MoP content. Maybe once I’m 90 on the DK (halfway into 91 currently).
The garrison stuff is rad and I need to unlock more of it.
Not in the Battle.net launcher. But in game you can just invite via Battle.net friends. It’s really done away with adding peoples characters to your friends list lol.
MoP took my pally like 6-7hrs with full rested and she was in bad cata gear so its pretty quick
I always found that a lot of addons made my game unstable so I would only use a minimal set. The base game provides a lot of stuff that used to require addons. But yeah, most of those were ones I used back in the day too, except Healbot.
By the way, what’s your Battle.net tag? It’s not listed on TAYNames and I wanted to add you.
Btag –
Chyrone # one one zero zeroAny particular place you recommend getting them from? Of just the top of Google.
I recommend getting the Curse client. It does all the installation/removal for you, and keeps a library for updates. Smooth’n’easy.
What transient said, alternatively if you’re averse to installing programs on your comp like I am you can just download the zip files from Curse and extract them to the Add-Ons folder in the WoW directory
As a recent returnee to the Cult of Warcraft, this is relevant to my interests.
Gonna have to download WoWMatrix again…
Aww chart of dogs and their social rankings – http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2014/11/12/big_data_dog_graph_popularity_of_dog_breeds_mapped_against_their_overall.html
My boys are in opposite corners.
11/10 Would look again.
-10 for no Maltese.
+10 because I found the Maltese because I’m a knob who refuses to wear glasses even though he needs them.
+1 for errant cat.
What dogs you have? Mine isn’t on there boo. Well I guess she kinda is given she is cross Border Collie, but wouldn’t pick it looking at her.
Labrador and Irish Wolfhound 😀
Ooh a wolfhound awesome!
Staffy is overrated? Obviously they know nothing about dogs.
This is reinforced by their assertion that Staffys are clever. My dog is a complete and utter dickhead.
I can second this, when we had a staffy she was thick as two bricks.
They’ve listed all breeds of spaniels as clever.
My family has had a springer and cocker spaniel. Both habitually ran into walls.
That just means they were distracted, probably solving differential equations in their heads.
That’s one interpretation of events.
An entirely incorrect one but it still an interpretation.
Poor Dandie Dinmont Terrier!
yesterday my dog let itself out of the laundry using the door handle (we put air con on inside and brought them in to help with the heat, they’re mostly outside dogs) ran over to their pool (one of those half clam shell things), turned the tap on (may have been accidental but I have seen her nosing at it before) and lay in the pool. Yep they deserve their smartness rating.
Once my dog came racing out when we called him from out the front and lept into the boot of our car. The fact the boot wasn’t open didn’t dull his enthusiasm one bit.
Sid’s in the hot dog category.
Today, Mum and I had to go to the hospital and came home at 5:10pm. Sid was looking out the window, watching all his friends playing at the park. I let him out and he went and said hello to Mum before looking at me as if to say “can we go now?!” I told him to go and he bolted off to the park, but not before he made sure I was following.
Oh! Another Sid story.
The Monday before Pax 2014, @sernobulus and @gorzilla were at my house to work on their costumes. For dinner we decided to have fish and chips and like most fish and chip shops, we ended up with way too many chips.
Now, Sid is an overweight dog. Mum tends to feed him too much. He’s also part Labrador so he loves his food.
Nob had finished and asked if anyone would like any chips. Sid got up and started to head over, at which point Nob said “Does anyone but Sid want any chips?” Sid went back to where he was laying, looking dejected.
I have no idea how he understood any of that.
He’s part border, yeah? If so that explains it all, they’re so damn smart, sometimes I reckon too smart for their own good lol.
Half lab, half border collie. All fat.
He’s just a food enthusiast 😛
I have decided that Sid is an Animorph that spent to long as a dog and is now stuck.
And yet still loves the ball.
11/10 Brittany Spaniels on the hot dog list.
Why are Newfoundlands overrated? Yeah they cost a fortune to buy/own/maintain and you have to devote about as much time to them as you would running a business, but still! It’s worth it!
The poor old bulldog
Calling bullshit on their position of Old English Sheepdogs. They are amazing animals.
Christmas shopping for me right now is trying to source a decent Christmas turkey. Hosting the missus’ family means big responsibility. It’ll soon be time to don the Christmas chefs hat and ‘one sherry for you, one for me’, only that’s being sung to the Christmas pudding rather than a guest
Which city are you in?
Brisbane. I found a decent organic food shop online with ‘reasonable’ turkey prices. Will order a couple of boxes first though to see what their produce is like 🙂
Mowing the lawn when its 35 degrees is not a good idea Ross
What were you thinking
At least the front lawn is done. Ill do the back tomorrow. So all the dog poop dust can go in my mouth.
Something something Hotross.
Sexytimes With Hotross
So all the dog poop dust can go in my mouth.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
So all the dog poop dust can go in my mouth.
Dammit Red. Way to make me look the fool.
At least you didn’t Act A Fool.
Home time home time. I’ve not heard anything, but I’m hoping Far Cry 4 broke embargo and my boyfriend is going to bring me home a copy 😀 But if not, this time tomorrow oooooh yeah!
I’m really starting to consider a midnight launch and a sudden case of the I can’t come in todays.
And get GTA V whilst you’re at it? 😛
I will, I think I knew I always would :P. Unfortunately I decided to go to work, now I’m going to be here all day dreaming of all the games.
I’m placing bets that the PC port will be crap.
Just watched the latest episode of The Newsroom:
Didn’t they spend all of last season dealing with lawyers and whatnot? At least this is a bit of a more direct approach. Really enjoying it though.Bonus Sorkin points: An FBI agent named Molly played by the Mary McCormack (the deputy National Security Adviser who was far too young for her job in The West Wing). The Molly thing is from a season finale where the president’s daughter was kidnapped and one of her Secret Service bodyguards, named Molly, was found dead outside the nightclub.Secret SanTAY: As Narrated By That Guy At Work Who Won’t Stop Talking About All The Women He’s Having Sex With While No One Is Around
Final call. Going to be sorting it all out in about 90 mins. If you want in email binoter at Hotmail
Make sure it’s fixed so everyone send me gifts 😛
So, just got a messeage from EB Games saying that my Far Cry 4 Kyrat Edition will be ready to pick up tomrrow. It also said that if I buy the season pass at the same time that I can get it for 20% off. Not that I’m actually going to buy it, but when did they start doing things like this?
I’ve never gotten texts like that from EB. I only ever get texts telling me when I can pick pre orders up, like GTA V tonight.. Not that i’m going to, i’m gonna get it wednesday and have it price matched to JB..
I get them every time I pre order through them, every time they spell my name wrong, I’ve even double checked the spelling in their system and it’s fine.
So tempted to watch some Far Cry 4 vids right now, but I don’t want to spoil my first experience. Hopefully some TAYKart will be enough to distract me for a while.
Ooh is that on?
Like Donkey Kong.
Edit: Well it appears no-one else is on, but I’m keen.
Couldn’t join because no-one else was on, so I made a new Tournament, kinda had to anyway to include the DLC tracks.
So the new tournament is TAYKart 2.0
Code is 1126-4582-1756
I wanted to play, but I haven’t done any sewing D=
Sew, play anyway 😛
I did 2 tracks
Wish you could’ve stayed longer.
Sorry. I would’ve liked to stay longer myself but unfortunately I had to keep hand sewing. It takes forever to do D=
Have you ever walked up to a mirror and thought “Woah, this mirror runs at a higher resolution than life itself?
I usually walk up to a mirror and either go, “Eww”, or, “Dayum” depending on my mood.
Hey Lion, join in TAYKart, it’s just me, @shane, and @gemini right now. The more the merrier.
I don’t have the DLC. Sorry!
I don’t really plan on getting it (for a while at least) either :\
EB Games have 20% off eShop code cards starting on the 20th. Use that to buy the DLC!
Nah.
I’m not super interested in it anyway, to be honest.
It was fun, thanks guys!
I walk up to a mirror and it breaks into many tiny pieces.
@shane I sent you an email earlier. Did you get it?
Got it, man. I’ll reply tonight.
Dun!
Flying High is on One HD right now, surely that can’t be right.
It is right, and don’t call me Shirley.
I’ll set ’em up, you knock ’em down.
Hahaha um what.
Read this thread on r/smashbros about “The Legend of FalcoMaster3000”.
Apparently this guy showed up at a local Smash tourney in a mask, staying silent the entire time, and went on to win it.
When they asked what to put his name as, he replied, “FalcoMaster3000”.
http://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/2miumw/he_didnt_say_a_word_for_9_entire_hours_beat/
Dear TAY,
I have just received in the post an epic new reward for Undad. Only one will be available ever.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/posts/1054452
Oh man that’s sweeeeeet!
Also, who backed at $500+? D:
My parents 😛My die-hard fans. They exist, ok?And yeah, it’s soooo cool. I kind of half-hope that no one claims it, so I can keep it! 😛
Azazel is my main man.
< 3
True Detective. I’m five episodes in and to me it’s a mix of Se7en and Twin Peaks.
So. Damn. Good.
Isn’t it just?
The longshot through the streets… how amazing is that shot? I know the show and the episode were both more than that, but it’s still a pretty dazzling technical feat.That scene was tense and then the very next episode is nothing short of explosive. I’ll be honest, the short season of eight episodes definitely lured me; I’m a fan of the Sopranos-like, hour long episode short seasons.
Very nearly all of the best TV shows have seasons of less than 15 episodes a year.
Yes indeed. The very best.
Been getting back into Trials: Fusion today, went to start it back up, and it’s doing a 1.83GB update. No idea what it’s for, didn’t think there was any more DLC due out yet. All I know Is I’m not waiting up for it to finish downloading. My bed is calling me.
Night TAY.
TAY RPG Pathfinder concluded for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: A tough fight but the villains got away with the Orb of Darklight. What does this mean for our intrepid Monday Knights?
FYI Red, you gained 1,050 experience tonight so that should bump you up to level 4.
It means we get paid for the guard job and it’s then the Duke’s problem.
A VERY steep fee will make it ours again I’d say. Seems only fair.
Sweet. Did I get the amulet?
You got me sad – if you’d been there maybe they wouldn’t have gotten the orb. I threw it right to you with Mage Hand and you couldn’t even pick it up, you bastard. :'(
As what B-ob said, your single-minded devotion to acquiring the amulet overrode every other concern. So yes, you got away with it you meddling kid.
Secret SanTAY! \o/
I love love love Christmas 🙂
I have exercised incredible restraint in the last few months when it comes to the Humble store. But the newest bundle is too good to pass up.
Always Sometimes Monsters, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Blackguards, AND Saints Row 4?
All Secret SanTAY emails have been sent off. That took a more than a few hours to sort out. Hooray for lots of participation!
If you didn’t get one let me know. If I screwed up somewhere let me know. Any problems down the track let me know. I’ll try to fix everything I can.
Have fun kids.
Is there a time frame/deadline for this or is it just “try and get it there before Christmas”?
Sometime before Christmas.
How many people signed up this year?
Nearly 40.
What’s the limit, I saw an earlier post mention $20-ish?
Wait, secret SanTAY? This is the first I am hearing of it.
*jumps out window*
Oh yeah, I didn’t get one.
You never sent me one.
This trip has been in the works for months, but I may as well announce it now. From the 10th of December through to the 17th, I will be in Melbourne to meet family. (The same family that started the Yoghurt-Lamp saga, mind you)
Chances of meats are very unlikely, but I may as well announce it.
TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!
MY SUITCASE HAS POOR VENTILATION!!!
I’LL DRESS UP AS A DOG AND GO IN A DOG CAGE, JUST TAKE ME WITH YOU!!! :’O
What a coinky-dink. we’re going on a holiday leaving on the 10th too, we’ll only be in Melbourne for one night (the 14th), so hopefully you’ll be able to attend the meat.
The taybies could just kind of, uh, show up when you guys are out having lunch or something =P
You should totally just stage a broad-daylight kidnapping at a Melbourne café.
News Reporter: A Perth man visiting Melbourne was kidnapped today.
NR: The man was having lunch at a Melbourne café when a group on unknown kidnappers grabbed this man and drove off in their van.
NR: Not much is known about the them although apparently one of the kidnappers kept repeating the word “sorry”.
“Suspects also include a robot, a boy dressed entirely in green and a tall assailant that goes only by the name “Tigs” according to witnesses”
One of the assailants stayed at the scene playing with a 3DS, but the police are unable to get anything other than “Just one more level, then I’ll talk to you”.
We can always be at the nearby table causing his family to be disgusted by us and leave, it’s worked in the past we just need @chuloopa 😛
Guys, Skullgirls is $US5.09 on Steam for the next 29 hours!
Grab a copy so we can do a MultiTAY sometime during the week!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/245170/
Also, I bought another Energizer Wiimote charger in time for smash, after the one I got on Friday wouldn’t work with my Wii.
So, now all I need is one more Wiimote and a Classic Controller/Classic Controller Pro/Wii U Fight Pad Controller, and I’ll be all set. 😀
And possibly two more Gamecube controllers and the adapter.
I fully support what this man says.
SMASH HYPE
I’ll just leave this here:
WowCraft
5 pages in one day?
It’s lookin’ good for my sweet, sweet page 18 🙂
I miss it’s rough, passionate embrace.
I remember the good old days when two pages in a single week felt like a massive accomplishment.
How old are you?! 😛
…
Get off my lawn?
First TAY post was back in May 2010. 4 and a half years ago.
Holy crap.
Hey mine was around then too. I have known you sods for a while huh.
Back in the days before we had upvotes, and before we had accounts, when every post was moderated. *nostalgiaglasses*
I remember moderated posts. Back then every post in TAY was about five times longer than they are today.
Eyup.
For the first time since I started the game when I got an undead warlock to level 12 before deciding to reroll a night elf rogue, a Horde character is now my highest level character. Feels strange.
DA:I has been set to preload. So hyped for that game. I expect my WoW leveling will be put on hold for a while while I play it. Rest assured fellow guildies though, I will be leveled up and geared for raiding by the time we’re all ready to start doing that.
Is cool I’m giving all guildies a 1 week pass to be off WoW starting on the 21st of November =P Partly because I won’t be on that much myself xD Oh Dragon Age how I’ve waited for you…..
Edit: That said I’m still hoping to get a group of 5 100’s going to guild dungeons on Saturday arvo!
Happy Far Cry 4 day \o/
Turned on the PS4 to make sure all updates were out of the way for when I go and pick up FC4 shortly, on top of the 1.83GB Trials Fusion update that started last night there’s also a 2.44GB Destiny update, which apparently is the first in a series of updates before the release of the first DLC.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14901-Destiny-s-Enormous-2-44GB-Update-1-03-Goes-Live.html
Also, @liondrive, free DLC for DriveClub \o/
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14894-Evolution-Offers-First-DriveClub-Premium-DLC-Packs-For-Free.html
Also also, Hunger Games: Mockingjay hype, should be good.
I would kinda like to Far Cry, but I’ll be Dragon Ageing and WoWing.
(Dear work filter: These are not sex acts. No matter what UrbanDictionary tells you. UrbanDictionary thinks EVERYTHING is a sex act.)
I figure it’s something I can save for later.
So this morning I discovered my tried and tested rain jacket for many years has made the transition to being just a jacket. Exactly the time to be wearing a white shirt underneath it too
Same! Seems all the seams don’t block liquid no more.
‘Have at thew, Snake!’
There’s something to be said for carrying spare dry underwear with you as well…I just wish I had done exactly that today. This morning is going to be most uncomfortable
Woo woooooo! Nips.
To be fair, give me a couple of tequilas and there will be nips for all to see 😀
DAY 2 UNEMPLOYMENT WATCH
time moves slower now, almost at a rate of 1 second every 1 second.
Also i sorted out what im getting some people for christmas, im going to attempted to build a music box. I havent worked with wood that much but making a box can’t be too hard. Its a box.
hopefully you wont get to month 4 like me 😐 i dunno what it is with me, but 4 months seems to be the magic number for me. Last time I was out of work, it took me 4 months to get another job too
Play an MMO. It’ll be nightfall before you realize it.
Two weeks ago I took on a temporary management role at work to prove to the higher ups that I’m capable of a senior position. I haven’t really achieved anything yet – but this morning I’ve got our whole team going union and demanding RDOs and standby rates. That’s gonna help right?
I dont think you know how this works man.
YOU HAVE TO PROTEST
Far Cry 4 get \o/
Opened the box and found I have The Keys To Kyrat, which apparently allows me to play co-op with up to 10 friends who don’t own the game, ah, the benefits of owning a PS4.
So who wants in?*
*note – must be on my PSN friends list, or a regular TAYbie (no lurkers, your friend requests will NOT be accepted), and must own a PS4 (obviously).
Go!
Wait, what? That’s fucking rad.
I take it by your surprised exclamation you’re in?
For sure. I’m not sure if I’m going to buy it yet, so I’m keen to get some time with it before I do.
Apparently I have to send you a key over PSN, you have to download the game, and you only get access for 2 hours (well that’s kinda sucky), better than nothing I s’pose.
A good old fashioned timed demo then 😀 I’ll grab a key if I’m allowed 😛
Count me in as jumping on the aforementioned band wagon! However I doubt I’ll be able to put some solid time into it until the end of the month!
That’s.. something. I’d like to give it a go.
Although a steady internet connection will prove to be a greater dictator than whoevers in the game.
Its a tarp!
Wait, Alex Hinkley gets fired from the Examiner for writing an article claiming game development execs get paid too much and are driving up costs of games and now he’s on Twitter having a meltdown trying to protest accusations of homophobia?
The internet makes my brain hurt sometimes.
What gets me is this:
Journo writes article.
Editor reads article.
Editor publishes article.
People/industry/critics/The Man doesn’t like article.
*Journo* gets fired?!?
Surely it should be:
Journo writes article.
Editor reads article.
Editor rejects article.
Journo goes back to desk and writes something else.
This is why I strongly suspect he got thrown under a bus for reasons other than those stated.
Hm. Without knowing what’s going on or seeing the meltdown, I’d say it seems unrelated, but who knows what’s going on in the background. Sometimes management is just looking for an excuse and they pick the wrong one.
Like my youngest brother who pissed off the HR manager by asking the HR girls not to cackle like harpies (well, he used nicer words, just asked them if they’d mind keeping it down) because clients were complaining about being able to hear the noise on the phone with him. Of course, they took offense and believed he was asking them to not have fun. HR manager had it in for him ever since, and when she got promoted to branch manager siezed on the opportunity to fire him on a bullshit excuse. But she fucked it up because he had all his managerial contact documented, so he got an unfair dismissal payout and an apology, and they got a fine.
People are @#$&s.
Mind you, even if it was legit, “Our advertisers weren’t happy with your opinion piece,” is still a very shitty reason for firing a journalist. Like… what the fuck was the editor doing?
“I couldn’t stop him! He overpowered me and the sub-editors and used my login to approve his article!”
If a published piece goes against the publications values, the buck does not stop with the author. It stops with the editor who should have rejected it.
Still not sure you can rule out the homophobia.
Without divulging specifics, I know several people who’ve been denied promotions, responsibilities, seniority, whatever, because they’re gay.
But because it’s something that people hide, you can’t really prove it. But what else would explain a bunch of borderline geriatrics failing to promote or reward their most provably talented up-and-comers? Several of them reported success when moving on to other areas that had more diverse staff. It’s fucked that even though it’s illegal, that discrimination is still out there.
A LOT of it flies by on the excuse that managerial positions are all about people skills and networking and handily unqualifiable personality, and there’s just ‘something about that person’ (hint: the gayness) that means they just won’t synch with the people they need to be synergizing with (ie: bigots).
Today will be a long day, but thankfully it is a rainy lovely grey day, and I’m on correspondence (yay). Also, I had a nice little interaction with a game dev I have a bit of a crush on, so that was a nice start to the morning, hahah.
I’m watching the Far Cry 4 download bar slowly work it’s way past my screen.
*taps computer screen*
COME ON DOWNLOAD BAR MOVE FASTER!
Have you tried elbowing your computer screen like the fonz?
The screen broke, for reimbursement I expect this.
or hugs … actually just hugs.
Is there a single 4K monitor under 27 inches?
45 minutes gone already and I’ve achieved very little. Alas, I have not had interactions today with people I have a crush on 🙁 where’s Jennifer Lawrence when you need her and why isn’t she ringing me up asking why her waste collection invoices haven’t been paid?
She’s probably hanging out with Emma Stone wondering why we haven’t met up with them for our brunch double-date. We probably didn’t get their messages.
This is the conclusion I have come to as well. Damn, I hate leaving famous women wondering where I am…
oh man, so long. So distracted I’m not getting anything done.
Rainy days are best days. It could be a little chillier, if it was aiming for perfection, but it’s almost summer… I’ll take what I can get.
@pupp3tmast3r do we have a shammy or make yet? Was just thinking that we might not have a lust if not.
We have bloodlust in the form of time warp through phoenix’s mage. Even if we didn’t as a leatherworker I can make the war drums that have the same effect.
Also it’s pupp3tmast3r get it right! =P SHEESH
I got the bloody l33t spelling right without double checking, baby steps
You could always just tell @jocon to tame a Nether Ray or Core Hound, hunters are extremely versatile when it comes to group utility.
@Piat
Nether Ray coming Up!
My dog also has a 5% int/ag/str buff if the above does not stack.
I’m 610 geared now
how’d the silver go?
it’s bullshit, it relies on me having to move mobs into lava pools, which would be fine except when you try and position the mobs the just spaz out and dont stop where they are meant to, so I end up having to run through too much lava to stay up or run out of time because they dont drop fast enough
Also, was considering boosting my druid with engineering/leather since it is taking so damn long to level profs from scratch.
How far into leather are you?
@bish
So yeah, just quests to go then I’ll have finished SMTIV, but of a slog now. The quests are really vague, I need a guide.
killed the pacing 🙁
@distantdrop Have they announced server maintenance for tonight? Currently I haven’t seen anything confirming Tuesday night maintenance =O
Doesn’t always happen, we’ll see I guess.
Well this just got even weirder.
Big ol’ nope with that.
Pretty much. I mean they don’t even know or have any reference for what I look like, how is photo ID supposed to help?
That said, I totally just realised that I sent off the support e-mail from the wrong address. When I placed the order I hit the box for Country, typed AU to get to Australia then hit Tab to go to the State box and pressed N for NSW. Only I didn’t realise that it didn’t take focus and stayed on ACT, so sent them a message to make sure it gets fixed. But from a different address, because derp.
She’s too embarrassed to just ask for your photo, so she tacked that credit card bit on. I’m sure it’s fine. Just send her a shirtless pic, and all will be well.
*popcorn*
No, if he sends her a shirtless photo, she won’t send ANY shirts because she so likes what she sees. And then she’ll work out a way to destroy all his existing shirts, too!
DILEMMA
Well, in that case, @mrtaco, I have no suggestions for you. I think you’re in quite the pickle.
Maybe a pantsless pic.
Oh no, the worst kind of naked!
Yeah, but at least it’s quite the pickle. #Entendre
King of the single entendre, you.
Seems as legit as that panel van with ‘free candy’ graffitied on the side of it.
Whatever happened to Order Number or Receipt of payment? :/
See above reply to Popdart.
I replied to them making mention of the e-mail screwup, so I guess we’ll see what they have to say in response.
The Westworld TV series has been ordered by HBO 😀 Now to go and watch the film again. One of my two favourite films I remember from growing up, the other being the Yellow Submarine
Sounds intriguing!
I just ran some sums. If my Kickstarter campaign doesn’t raise any more money, I’ll end up pocketing around $700. This is not okay. I want to hit that stretch goal so I can send the money away and get Issue 3 made.
#UndadGate #EthicsInKickstarterFunding
I can only imagine the giveaway your guilt will make you do if your money stops just shy of the next funding goal. 😛
Seriously though, I’m sure if you get an amount between what is necessary for goals you can use it for something like your next convention’s expenses.
Oh yeah, there’s tonnes of stuff I can use it for. I borrowed quite a bit of money from my parents to fund this writing gig, and I could pay some of that back. I could book plane tickets and accommodations for 2015. All sorts of things.
I’d think that’d feel pretty damn good, cutting a cheque to pay them back thanks to profit from the gig they helped set up. 🙂
Who wants a PS4? You get a PS4! You get a PS4! Everyone gets a PS4!
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I think if it gets much closer, I’ll just say “screw it” and reduce the ‘goal’, funding the difference out of the lint in my pocket. The beauty of stretch goals is that they’re not set in stone the way the main funding target is.
I talked to someone yesterday about this project, and they seemed genuinely surprised when I said that if all goes to plan, I didn’t stand to make anything out of this and that I wasn’t looking to cash in. It doesn’t seem all that weird to me that I’m in it for the art, but maybe it is weird.
It is kind of weird. I understand your need to create, but at some point you’re going to have to attach a monetary value to your time.
I’ve come to the conclusion recently that my work is of good enough standard now that I won’t ever just give a quilt away again, starting next year. I realise I’m going to keep making quilts because I’m kind of driven to it, like if I don’t create I’m a horrible person to live with, but that doesn’t mean I should keep making them indefinitely with no chance of getting any money from it. I feel odd making people pay for stuff I do, but I’ve spent a great deal of time and money honing my skills so I should really start cashing in on them.
I think I’ve reached the conclusion that I’ll never be able to replace my current salary, which was the goal for my writing. So now, as long as I can break even on any investment, I can move on to the other priorities: better products, bigger audience. If the money comes one day, it comes. Otherwise, *shrug* art.
Are you sure this isn’t a case where that’s actually happening, and you actually have the money coming in?
Also don’t forget that there’s always a percentage of the pledges that don’t come through at the end, and also that you will probably have under-charged for a few people shipping-wise to get their stuff to Uzbekistan or wherever they’ve backed you from.
I’ve budgeted properly for shipping, don’t worry! So far, I’m not sending anything overseas. Uzbekistan has yet to weigh in.
That article about DA:I being pulled from India has put me in a sad mood today :'(
For all its flaws, we live in a pretty decent place compared to everywhere else.
Give it time.
🙁
I agree with you there.
being an immigrant from a fucked up nation I have a lot of appreciation for Australia.I knew before even going into that article that it would be because of the homosexual relationships you can have in BioWare games.
Fucking backward elitist bigots; like they don’t have 500,000 other more important issues that need solving.
I don’t think it’s the 500,000 that’s the problem, it’s the 500,000,000 issues living in poverty that’s the problem
numbers roughly rounded up. Apparently a definition of poverty in India is living off less than $1.25 per dayEveryone knows if you’re below the poverty line you don’t count as being part of the nation’s population! Isn’t that how capitalism works?
Today I am going to go to my favourite fabric store for the first time in at least six months. This no doubt means I won’t be getting Diablo III again this week. 😛
Also, has anyone here tried screenprinting before? I’m wondering how potentially messy it will be. Like do I need to have a dropsheet or something? Keeping in mind I’m pretty clumsy, I should probably set up a room like Dexter’s kill rooms. 😛
I did a bit in high school, and at home afterwards for co-curricular crap. It was pretty messy, but not so much for the surrounding area as much as my clothes and hands. Depending how you apply it, stuff can flick up. I did it out on the patio anyway. I think fumes may have been an issue, too? It’s difficult to tell how much of the mess was due to being an uncoordinated/careless teen.
(…Actually, I wasn’t all that uncoordinated, though. Did pretty decent at teh sportz. Just feels like I’m more comfortable with how my body moves through this world, these days, and how to control it, by comparison.)
Ooh, good tip about the clothes! I don’t have enough clothes that I can afford to ruin them with paint so I’ll make sure to wear old horrible ones. Thanks!
I think I read somewhere that some of the ink you can use will burn your fingerprints off so plan a crime spree soon and you might be able to get Diablo III after all
A Dexter room, G20, fingerprint-free fingers… @strange’s true plan begins to take shape….
Yay, my best friend set the date for her wedding! See you in August, England!
Oooo whereabouts?
The wedding will be in Derby, but I plan to spend some time in London and Guildford as well. Hopefully I might be able to tack a European Contiki onto this. Have to do some investigating.
The first time I holidayed in Derby (as a teenager going through the hormonal motions), the first lass I saw was absolutely stunning. I then had it in my head that all the girls in Derby where just as stunning. I was wrong
Go to Alton Towers though 😀
Thanks for the tip!
Was the tip dont fall in love with ugly women?
I think you’ll be okay.
It was more about Alton Towers, but I will take this on board as well ;D
6 hours to Far Cry! 😀
:\ 😐 :/ 🙁
:’ ( Six hours is too long.
*cries*
Less now.
Hooray!
Hmm… I’m a little concerned about this week. Got Far Cry 4 code last night, redeemed code but had to wait for this morning before I could start the download. Hit 30 in Destiny over the weekend, finished VoG Hard mode last night and got a Mythoclast (man, that thing is awesome!). To top that off, my phone finally got the Lollipop update this morning. However, I also woke up this morning with a minor eye infection, caused by some undetermined debris that flew into it yesterday.
My luck generally seems to self-correct pretty quickly, so while I’m hoping that DA:I and Pokemon acquisitions will go off without a hitch, and the eye and my AC:Unity experience (still leaving that until December, to await download quota and bugfixes) will be enough to offset those two, experience tells me I should probably be on the lookout for falling pianos… just to be safe.
Depending on whether I get hit by a piano, this will either be the best birthday week I’ve seen in a while, or the worst. 😛How about… you’ll get all the gamez, but your eye won’t let you play them. That’s balance, and that way you don’t need to watch out for pianos.
Technically, if my eye won’t let me play games, it also won’t let me see potential falling pianos on the off-chance that blindness isn’t enough to balance it out. It also introduces a myriad of new, far more probable ways for the universe to screw with me. Traffic, for instance. 😛
Level 29 and weapons are getting good now so another crack at the VoG is due…
I’m leaving Unity a bit too. Installed Rogue last night so might have a play.
It’s my birthday week too! ^5\o 🙂
Hope you get your full vault run soon – sounds like it’s way overdue. Have you got a regular group?
Sort-of-semi regular group of TAYbies and friends of TAYbies – although @xxryan has been kidnapped by Blizzard. But I’ll tack on with any group if you need a 6th who doesn’t rage and can follow directions. I’ve got both left and right control points outside the Vault reasonably down, the right conflux area for the Templar I know quite well, and I’m starting to get the hang of Atheon.
You’ve seen my Titan when we were running about the other night. My Hunter needs a bit more work upgrading armour and the skill trees. Warlock’s a piffling 13, got a way to go (although it should jump really fast from 20 as I’ve already got warlock legendary armour waiting).
Your titan should have no trouble in the Normal mode vault – above about 26 or 27, not much really seems to change, and it’s all down to coordination and strategy. And yea, Blizzard are surprisingly good at kidnapping raid groups – I lost my entire alt group to the great WoD’ning of 2014 😛
I think our raid groups are full, unfortunately… If we need a sixth, I’ll put your name forward, but people are being annoyingly dependable :P. We run pretty much straight after weekly reset on Tuesday nights, in any case. Offer is the same to you, as well – if you ever find yourself one man short, I’d love to help you guys out. Especially as 2-3 months ago, I was about two TAY posts away from never even touching the raid. 🙂
Coordination is my issue. I have periodic and usually hilarious lapses in it… 🙂
I have to wait… eight hours, ughhhh.
That’s approximately 2 more TAY pages!
Hmm, just gotta pace myself.
hey it’s page six! Get ready! \o/
What’s the difference between a cop car and a cactus?
The cactus has the pricks on the outside.Open-choice page six dad jokes! Something different! 😀 I like it.
Oh, it’s something to do with pricks, I’m sure.
My version:
What’s the difference between a cop car and sitting on a cactus?
There is no difference. Either way you end up with pricks in the back seat.
Pricks in the rear?
No thanks.
That’s a bummer.
One’s a straight up prick, the other’s driven by pricks?
Had some unpleasant brushes with the law, have we?
I’ve had a few prickly encounters.
Not personally, but I have witnessed cops booking someone for doing an illegal U-turn, then as they leave they do the exact same illegal U-turn they booked the guy for. Also seen cop cars going 10kph over the speed limit without sirens going, weaving between lanes, one could easily mistake that being a stolen cop car or something.
I know of about eight police officers that turn up to work drunk every morning and get behind the wheel of a police car. And the higher ups are aware of it and do nothing.
HFS
OHS Compliant.
Police officers are allowed to drive faster than the speed limit without sirens by about 10-15km/hr, if they’re on their way to check something out.
If it’s a high priority they put the sirens on and go as fast as they safely can.
It’s called “Priority Driving”.
Priority three = no urgency = casual driving
Priority two = need to go to ‘x’ = faster driving
Priority one = crime in progress = drive as fast as you can w/ sirens
They all go through extensive driving practice as well 🙂
The illegal u-turn thing is kinda dumb though :\
I’d chalk that up to just human error / not thinking.
Jail ain’t so bad. You can make sangria in the terlot. Course it’s shank or be shanked.
*Weeps* Of course.
Wall of text
Lately I’ve been feeling pretty eh, my body aches, I dont want to get out of bed, I just feel empty alot. I figured it was just a once off thing and id bounce back but its been 2 weeks and I still feel that same emptiness.lately I’ve been putting it down to stress of moving and everything else, between bills and plans we are just barely making it by. I’ve been rejected by the past 5 jobs ive applied for and Cathryn might possibly have a job they said they would call her, that was a week ago.
Im working for my dad now but even with that if im lucky I’ll get $500 a week which $200 goes to rent, $100 set aside for bills $80 for petrol and another $70 for food for the week. After that we save $50 in case of emergency but that leaves no wriggle room to do anything, we spend our weekends taking moni to the beach for an hour and spend the rest of our time sitting on the couch doing nothing.
I hope this feeling goes away soon
Enough of that, how many video games are you currently playing through? Mines something like 10
Pretty much just Skyward Sword, Curse of Monkey Island, the Far Cry games, and Sam and Max: Hit The Road at the moment.
Good old financial stress, I know plenty about that. All I can say really is keep trying to be pro-active with job hunting as much as it sucks and brings you down
Games, I really tried my hardest to limit myself to one at a time until I’ve 100% it, but in addition to a new Skyrim save I recently started playing Destiny again although I might give that a rest again after tonight, loaded up a new Dragon Age Origins save last night. hmmm, I thought I was playing more right now. It turns out only 3
Dude. That emptiness sounds a lot like depression. Have you talked to Cathryn about it? Its sometimes hard to talk to people about this stuff but it helps. Hugs man, if you ever need to vent we are all here. in the meantime try and stay positive. Everything is temporary.Yeah I spoke to Cathryn about it and she’s been trying to help but its hard because I can tell she’s already stressed as well and my stress and feelings ontop of hers is making her reclusive basically not wanting to go or do anything its like a crazy scary cycleThanks man, I’m trying my best just keep telling myself its gonna get better
Yeah i understand that, i hate putting my problems onto people, i mean i do it all the time but i dislike doing it. But just make sure you ask her if she is ok too. Life is hard sometimes and two of you carrying the problems makes it a bit easier. But hugs man. Lots of hugs.Horrible. Depression, whether situational or chronic/clinical is so insidious and nasty.Sharing with the other half isn’t about putting it on her, it’s about communicating that you’re in pain, and if she is too, sharing it. It’s the same cause for you both.Not having money to do stuff just compounds things, but I’ve always found that setting a routine helps a lot – getting up, making the bed, reading the news over brekkie, going for a walk round the block before a set couple of hours of job applications, lunch, chores, then do something fun (play a game! tease the cat! bake muffins! stuff you can do together!).
Hope you get to the other side soon. 🙂
<3 I’m sorry to hear about that. I really hope things turn around soon for you both.
I’m not playing through anything! I deliberately wrapped up all my loose gaming ends so I could be completely focused on Far Cry 4.
I felt struggles like that back when my wife stopped working and our income got cut in half overnight. It wasn’t easy but I’ve been fortunate enough to climb back up out of that mess and one day the present turns into the past, you just keep moving forward no matter how small the steps.
I’m currently playing Destiny, I have made a small amount of progress in Alien: Isolation but need to revisit it, I plan to play a lot more Halo in the near future (though I think I’m going to skip the original campaign, I’m just not “feeling it”), and I’m 3/5 episodes through The Wolf Among Us because I keep getting sidetracked from finishing it. I also have to spend some more time with Binding of Isaac: Rebirth which I still feel is a step down from the original somehow.
Those are just the games I haven’t formally set aside or am yet to commence.
Dude! I can sympathize, empathize and relate to all of the above…
it’s been said time and time again, but just make sure you both talk to someone… Financial stress sucks! But being that pretty everyone in the world goes through that at some stage in their lives, you might be surprised how much support you can get from family and friends… I’m in a fairly tight spot myself, but I wish I could do anything to help you guys… What kind of work are you looking for?Also I’ve mainly just been drooling over my Avenger in Star Citizen and playing through Borderlands the pre-sequel! Tons of fun
Pile of shame is growing.
Playing toooooo much Destiny.
@pupp3tmast3r out of interest, what classes & specs do we currently have? I doubt I’ll be hitting 100 for a few days but I’m halfway through 92 on my DK.
(I’m asking because I’m seriously considering either server transferring or just rolling an alt)
At the moment we have the following –
2RDPS, 3MDPS and druid, priest and monk healers. Pally Tank and DK OT.
That’s not too bad a spread, awesome.
Are there any classes we don’t have represented?
We don’t have a Warlock so no health stones I guess?
Well ideally I would like to swap one of those MDPS for RDPS, it’s going to be a bit trying on the healers to have 5 people in melee range…
Has anyone got a laptop with an elan touchpad?
I’m trying to work out a problem with the scrolling on my new one. After a week or so of struggling with the moronic 2 finger gesture (which made me want to do an entirely different 2 finger gesture to the designer of the touchpad software), I managed to find something close to the default elan drivers that finally allowed me to enable single finger scrolling but when I do it brings up some weird special cursor which is basically an icon of the scollbar with a small arrow where the normal pointer end is.
It’s obviously designed to show that the scrolling feature is happening but it has a problem with focus in full screen Win8.1 desktop applications, whenever I’m in a game or other full screen application that has complete system focus and try to use the scroll, this cursor pops up and it’s like it’s still in the desktop layer rather than being captured by the application and nothing is registered.
It’s most obvious, and annoying, when playing XCOM, that’s got it’s own cursor and uses the scroll to zoom (at least that’s how I use it), but when I try scrolling on the laptop; Bam! game cursor vanishes, scrollbar icon appears, scrolling does nothing at all and I’m pretty sure that’s because the focus is not on the game window.
Has anyone had and solved a similar problem to this? It’s about the only issue I have left that’s annoying me with the new laptop (at least from the ones that I can fix, the physical construction of the buttons as a single rocker switch prohibits the whole use both buttons as middle click thing)
using touchpad for games at the best of times is a nightmare. since it’s going through a 3rd party driver hack kind of thing just to get that function to work (at least that’s the impression I get from what you’ve said), it’s not likely to ever work in game. If it was a native gesture you might get lucky, but I doubt you’ll be able to get the game to recognize it. It would probably need to be coded in to the game to allow it to be recognized. Does the normal 2 finger scroll work in game?
Oh no it’s not 3rd party, well technically it kind of is in as much as it’s from a different laptop OEM who don’t lock down the driver controls as much but its drivers for the right touchpad from the manufacturer of the touchpad (think installing a HP synaptics driver on a dell synaptics touchpad, same deal).
The gesture scrolling didn’t work in games at all and really didn’t work that well in windows, given that MSI use the same touchpad in their gaming series laptops I’m really quite surprised at how crappy they seem to be. I can only guess that they assume anyone playing games will automatically abandon the touchpad as a bad idea and be using a mouse anyway and went with the cheapest option available.
Interesting aside, I just discovered a new (to me) feature in Windows 8, something called Steps Recorder. I was looking for a way to capture an image of the special cursor and saw a reference to it and it’s a program built in to let you make quicky tutorials for people, records steps and it saves to an MHTML
Have you guys tried that SFC take away from Coles? It looks like KFC, but pre-cooked and you reheat it at home?
I’ve tried those hot Chicken Fingers from Woolies, they’re pretty cool. And cheap.
What does the S stand for?
The answer will determine whether or not I want to try it!
I think maybe Southern? Like, instead of Kentucky?
JINX. Ohwait. What’s the statute of limitations on that? Two minutes… ennnnh.
I’ll allow it.
South-australian Fried Chicken?
Hm… Not sure about this.
I’m going to take a guess at ‘southern’. Not quite Kentucky, but you can see what they’re getting at.
Slipshod Fried Chicken.
I bought a bucket of that because it was like… five bucks. I haven’t cooked/heated it yet.
We bought some last night, and I cooked up a few pieces for my boyfriend (the spicy stuff, so I couldn’t eat it), but it smelled so good. (thank you wellbot 😉
*smelled – Smelt is something you do to metal!
Oh how embarrassing! Thank you! (A smelt is also a fish!)
yes that’s correct 🙂 Don’t be embarrassed though! Given how people say “smelled” it’s an easy mistake to make! Just thought I’d point it out, cos it made me giggle to think of smelting chicken!! 🙂
Obviously YOU never heard of the roast chicken sword!
That makes me so sad.. “because it was like… five bucks.” This is true, and yet I still couldn’t afford it! What did I do to deserve this!? I must have been an outright monster in a past life or something! 🙁
I saw that stuff last week when I was at coles. Certainly made me curious, but I couldn’t afford it. I would probably give it a go though just to see what it’s like.
It’s severely disappointing. Tastes like chicken wrapped in cardboard. Bread itself has more flavour so not entirely sure how they pulled it off.
I was so keen to try it too.
I tried the bucket of chicken pieces one and it was disgusting. Also, at $15 for just 7 pieces of chicken completely not worth it, even if it tasted okay.
If you want awesome fried chicken you should try Country Chicken. We go to the one at Browns Plains once a month when we do our Super Butcher meat shop and it’s the best takeaway chicken and chips ever.
Edit: Oh yeah, forgot you recently discovered you couldn’t eat those tasty things. Err…never go to Country Chicken! The chips are rotten. Like, literally. 😛
Hahah, aww, it’s okay. I still sneak one or two every now and then 😉
Watched The Lego Movie last night. I enjoyed it. Some parts were genuinely hysterical. I kind of rolled my eyes towards the end where
they did the whole “real world” thingbut after the initial groan of annoyance I thought it was really nice, andI didn’t hate will Ferrel in something for a change.Yup, totally agree on the real world part. I expected it to be a bit trite, but it was pulled off fairly well.Haha, yeah.
I was really surprised no one had spoiled that for me, to be honest.I hated that song though.You’re supposed to hate the song! 🙂
Oh. Well, good! hahah.
That was the best bit!
My best mate’s kid is so into LEGO. Recently he asked his mum
“Mummy, am I a Master Builder?”So sweet. 🙂
Everything is Awesome!
Now you get my PAX cosplay 🙂
http://instagram.com/p/u31oN4gSXF/?modal=true
I mentioned this to someone else the other day, but I simply love the passion, detail and effort that went into this movie, when it could have been an endless abomination like the Barbie movies.
Unikitty and her distraction skills are the greatest!
Today’s http://www.threepanelsoul.com is very Page 6.
HA! Brilliant.
Oh so that’s where DC is..
Falchion Rebirth: A Euro Truck Simulator 2 Story
Part One – The Resurrection Returns
Lavernius Trucker decided to quit his job as a gorillagram to pursue his dream; driving trucks in Europe.
He moved to the Czech Republic and started his new business. And on that day Falchion Uprising was born. Sadly, it did not end well.
Lavernius burned the evidence, and relocated Falchion Enterprises to Austria. Falchion Enterprises blossomed, and avoided any prosecution of insurance fraud. Then the demo timer ran out, and he had to buy the full game. Bummer.
Falchion Enterprises has been reborn again, this time in Slovakia. Lavernius is back on the roads. God help us.
So, half of our Super Sexy Spies duo is still missing today 🙁
He’s on Twitter, you should be too!
cc @mrtaco
I already did the twitter thing. It’s on to the next project now.
Myspace rebirth?
Someone told me about this thing called “bee bow”, or something.
You don’t use it though!!! :'(
Did too!
Once doesn’t count!
You need to use it obsessively! 😀
Does so too count!
I only have room for so many obsessions. TAY already takes up a pretty huge slot 😛
Espionage takes time, Jane!
<3good god what have i done…. i have started a discussion on the internet in defence of halo 4…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/11/watch-8-minutes-of-glorious-halo-5-multiplayer-footage/
its interesting to note that people are upset over 343 for making so many changes to MP and arguing that the MP should never have been touched from its slow paced roots. then they yell go play cod if you want to play something different…
isnt this the whole point about COD??? that it keeps rehashing the same old tired formula?
The diehard fans of Halo don’t want innovation. And the diehard fans of COD don’t want innovation. Only those peering in from outside the hysteria can see the stagnation.
you hit the nail on the head.
It’s not about Innovation. Halo 4 was wildly different from Halo: Reach, and was far far worse because of it. It lost the majority of what differentiated Halo from CoD, because they changed the focus from a map knowledge/skill area, to a loadout/skill/map area. There’s a huge number of differences between Multiplayer in Halo 2 and 3, as an example, but they both retain the core of what makes them Halo, and while I think fans are overreacting (though since 343’s history of ruining Halo multi, it may not be that big an overreaction) to the changes, I can understand that they’re worried that these changes will just turn it into a mediocre version of what other shooters are doing better.
What do I know. I haven’t played either franchise for more than a few minutes. I’m just spouting generalisations.
You have the right general idea.
Fans of one series are fans for a reason. When developers change that series to incorporate ideas from another series, that annoys the fans because it dilutes whatever appeals to them. The payoff for the devs is that there’s a chance to bring in fans from the other series or just new fans in general.
It’s the difference between taking a niche and making it your own (Dota 2) or shooting for a middle ground for as wide an appeal as possible (Heroes of the Storm).
Halo isn’t for multiplayer. Halo is for fuelling my Cortana+Master Cheef shipping.
All I ask of Halo is that it makes it much easier for me to bring together 7 mates, 2 couches & 2 TVs for some rocket-launchers only oddball, like I could when I was at Uni. Put that in a box and I’d buy it straight away!
Other than that…online MP, not for me unfortunately.
You’re missing the point there, which is that most people who still play Halo play it because it plays like Halo. If they wanted to play a game that plays like something else then they wouldn’t be playing Halo any more, because it’s not like there’s a lack of other shooters out there!
So changing Halo to play like another shooter is really serving no one. People *like* the fact that Halo is slower, more dependent on skill and experience and less on whether you’re a poopsocker who spends every waking moment playing.
Halo 4 blurred the line between the two way too much and people didn’t like it. 343 seemed like they understood that but then you see leaked footage from Halo 5 and there’s iron sights and shit. That’s not Halo any more. That’s a bog-standard generic shooter with a Halo pastiche slapped over the top.
negs, im not saying it needs to be like every other shooter. all im saying is that at some point, it needs to change; not to be like every other shooter, but to find its own unique footing.
What your saying 100% contradicts everyones view on games like COD. NOBODY has been fine with them using the same old tired mechanics since MW. In that instance, everyone should be happy they’re releasing the same game year after year because it feels like COD.
Also to add: my defense for 343 doesnt carry over to Halo 5. Im glad they got rid of loadouts and ordinance packages, but im not a fan of sights, even with the zero penalty to hipfire…
I require assistance from the great TAY collective. I’m volunteering for Supanova in two weeks time as RPG Dungeon Master Extraordinaire and I feel like mixing things up. I want to randomise the adventures that I run and that requires scenarios, dungeons, and villains. That’s where you all come in. Throw your ideas at me and I can use them to randomly roll up adventures for players. All I need are the following four aspects:
1. Environment. Where is this adventure set? Spooky forest, bustling town, frozen tundra? Take your pick out of your favourite fantasy settings!
2. Dungeon. What do the adventurers have to explore/conquer? Forgotten tomb, barbarian encampment, etc.
3. Reason. Why do the adventurers have to journey to this place? Stolen magical power, kidnapped children, or just phat loots?
4. Villain(s). Who will oppose the adventurers? Devious cultists, Orc shaman, or just Phil from down the street?
Feel free to throw extra elements into the mix if you want. Have fun and I will be extremely interested to see what you guys throw in.
Is the goal to run adventures for existing players or to pull in new players? If it’s the latter I suggest you want to have a few little hooks in there that might make them want to come back.
Suggestion: you could go through all the Pathfinder Society one-off adventure modules and figure out those four elements from them and use that to build up a set of each, then assemble those elements randomly.
Brand new players in a short 2-ish hour session. Short, fun and exciting are the intended feelings from the adventures.
Go with tropes and stereotypes then. There’s enough to learn in mechanics and everything without having to deal with weird settings etc.
Yup.
The group meets at a tavern, wanders to a cave/tomb and makes their way down to fight the beast at the end in order to claim the treasure.
There’s a reason it’s the stereotypical set-up, it just works. More importantly, it’s self-contained.
EDIT: If you really want to mix things up, make it a raid on a castle. Depending on alignment, you can make it about overthrowing a despotic king, stealing everything in the building or having a bunch of cutthroats trying to claim power for themselves.
It’s the same idea structurally but allows you to get a bit sillier.
1. Environment: A large secluded island in the middle of the ocean.
2. Dungeon: Braving the treacherous waters that are known to just turn boats back to where they came from, obviously there is something there people aren’t meant to know about. The final dungeon where the villian is, is in a place known as Parlent Hoose.
3. Reason: Defeat a worldly-known Tyrant trying to one day rule the world with a brutal iron fist.
4. Villian(s): A hobgoblin named Toneh Aboot, after first defeating his generals Jo Okeh, Pynneh and Scoot Mors’n.
Oh lord, what a nightmare!
Ok, ok, ok.
….
It has to involve butts.
I got nothing else for you. Just… butts.
The dreaded Butt Monster or Uranus it is.
Ok, it’s a slow day in the gym and I’m procrastinating from my bigger projects 😛
1. A run down old village in the spooky forest,
2. Haunted mansion and haunted hedge maze… or just a haunted hedge maze lol.
3. The town is haunted, with passersby going missing every time they stop by. The villages mayor has promises of access to a loot cave with many
engramstreasures for those who find out the mansions spooky secrets.4. The townsfolk are all in on the spooky mansion, including the town mayor who wants to eat your brains for nutrients. End game is you defeat all of the villagers and the mayor in an epic showdown.
Maybe you could have rolls for recruiting townspeople to your cause by finding objects that re-humanizes them, or gathering items in your quest it helps you defeat villagers later on/get out of jams like spiked floor trap doors 😛
Scenario:
A leisure cruise has encountered an unforeseen storm, and has capsized, leaving people adrift at sea with no means of communication, no supplies, and no sign of immediate rescue. The storm washes up one group of survivors on a remote island, seemingly inhospitable from the stone covered shore, but homes a forest at its centre.
Environment:
A medium size deserted island with a dangerous lush forest in the middle, and a safe cold, stoney beach surrounding it.
Dungeon: the forest on the island. The beach is a safe zone, but due to it mainly being stones and sand, nothing grows there and there’s no shelter, meaning that in order to survivor until rescue, survivors need to obtain food from the forest.
Reason:
Kindling and basic supplies can be obtained from the outskirts of the forest for little risk, but food and supplies are deeper in the forest. There’s even signs of crashed aircraft, leading some to believe that there may be radios, beacons or flares they can use for rescue.
Villains:
Wild life, Environment and Paranoia. There’s not much actual risk on the island other than the occasional snake, forest cats (panthers, jaguars, etc) and packs of wild animals, etc, though there is poisonous plants (berries (food?)), deadly occasional storms, and the grim setting plays on people’s minds. The further into the forest they go, the darker it gets, the more they think they see something, the more they think they hear something, etc.
Played right you could have players turn on each other if they don’t agree on something, and Paranoia could lead to one player attacking another if they get split up in a storm and react to hearing a noise before thinking.
Weapons would be sourced from the environment. Wood clubs, stones, metal wreckage, etc.
Have one player find a gun though with six shot and anything could happen.
Disclaimer: I have no idea how RPGs work, so this might not work :3
That sounds like an excellent scenario for a Fiasco game.
cc @redartifice @trjn
A quick glance of the available playsets and it looks like nobody has done that yet.
How has nobody done that yet?
Gilligan’s Island is a pretty rad setup for Fiasco.
I just had a look and No Luck Atoll seems to hit the mark relatively nicely. Not entirely official but it seems to be pretty good. Bad Habits looks absolutely hilarious as well.
I’m more surprised that a pirate-themed playset doesn’t seem to be available.
Ooooh Castaway the RPG. I friggin’ love it.
I was more inspired by Lost :3
I love me some Lost! 😀
Plus an RPG grounded in reality rather than fantasy seems like it’d be more fun to play (for me, anyway) 🙂
Ooh, fun!
1. Environment: Small fishing village, in a valley that skirts the edge of a crystal quartz forrest. Sunset and sunrise are marked by a beautiful pink aura that emanates from the forrest. It also draws wonderers from the mountain settlements above. Though very beautiful, the village struggles to keep itself safe from occasional raids from the drunken bandits who live in the mountains, and fishing is hard work.
2. Dungeon: A cavern, deep within the crystal forrest. Deep below ground, and with many different-coloured chambers, it has connected to a fresh water lake, and a salt water lake. Over thousands of years, the salt-water lake has dripped into another chamber, filling it with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites, that have become strangely coloured due to the quartz mixing with the salt.
3. Reason: Long-held rumours in the village state that there is a way through the cavern that will lead to another land, lush and peaceful, where one might live out their days in safety and happiness.
4. Villain(s): Bandits will try to stop you from entering the cavern – not because they know of the folklore, but because they are bored and mean. They will try to steal your gear. Once within the cavern, the enemy is the beautiful, but sometimes deadly, environment. Staying still for too long will cause crystallisation to set in, and you will not be able to move again unless someone can douse you in fresh water. Other areas of danger are crumbling cave floors that can give way to rooms filled with sharp stalagmites, and walls of crystal that are as thin as fresh ice, and can break if there is too much motion, causing a rush of water to flood the chamber.
1. Set in a deserted kingdom with no other human inhabitants for an unknown reason. Occasionally random talking animals will appear and give quests or cryptic advice or whatever happens in a pen and paper RPG. Also give the players the opportunity to
antagonisetalk to ghosts or whatever.2. The deserted towns. Each town is guarded by a boss or whatever.
3. To find out what happened, I guess?
4. Baron Arch-Count Sir Mustachio van Dyke.
I’m just throwing shit at the wall, so feel free to discount my ideas.
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update 18/11
So this event is absolutely ruining me. I hadn’t played in a few weeks – I had slowed down due to other commitments and then stopped completely when I moved out due to no internet. Right after I get back online, they start a two week event. Which is okay and everything but I was so not ready for that.The event is four maps long and I have no expectations of clearing the fourth map which is an extra hard ‘expert’ map. But I do want to clear the first three.
As with the previous event, they’ve recycled some mechanics. Firstly, there’s Combined Fleet for E1, E3 and E4. Combined Fleet makes you take all the ships of fleets 1 & 2 combined, so it sucks fuel and ammo down like no one’s business. It’s actually a cool mechanic and I like it a lot. However the other thing they’ve brought back is lockouts. Once you send a ship on a fleet to E1&E2 that ship can’t be sent to E3. This meant I needed to have at least 24 ships capable of the journey. Additionally E2 required a light fleet of 1-2 cruisers and 4 destroyers, which meant swapping in a couple extra. Pain in the ass as I was unprepared so my Destroyer fleet is a bit shit.
For E1, my primary fleet was comprised of 4 battleships – Kirishima, Fusou, Yamashiro, Nagato – a single carrier, Souryuu and a heavy cruiser, Myoukou. For the escorts I sent Suzuya as flagship, along with Naka, Kiso (torpedo cruisers turn out to be amazingly useful in combined fleets!), Hibiki, Murasame and Yukikaze. Stomped my way to the boss and cleared it pretty easily, aside from one bad run where one of the battleships took a hard hit at the pre-boss node and had to turn back.
E2 was a different story. This one requires a light fleet with at most 2 cruisers and the rest being destroyers. Since I knew I’d need 3 destroyers for the escort fleet for E3 I was kind of limited here. Cruisers and Destroyers are my big weakness in the game as they’re utility ships that are great for use in certain maps but overall don’t have the general firepower of the rest of the ship classes and are often crit magnets too, so I just don’t have much time for them. There’s also a metric assload of destroyers and I’ve ended up splitting my time across dozens rather than focusing on a few, so that’s annoying. Anyway, I only had 3 destroyers at decent levels left, and I’d earmarked all three for use in E3, so I filled in the missing slot with Ushio, who had only just hit her Kai remodel at level 20 but this meant she was able to at least take an extra radar. In the last few months she actually got a Kai-2 remodel along with Hatsuharu and Ayanami, but my Ushio was the only one of the trio to be remotely high level enough.
After a few false starts I got my legs on E2, but found that I was struggling a bit to get through to the boss and when I made it, I wasn’t really clearing it that easily due to the DD’s low firepower. Countered this by running support expeditions. Had a fair number of runs where someone took a crit and the fleet turned back, but I also spent the time sparkling everyone so that their evasion was peak so that only happened twice. And then E2 was cleared. Akizuki is a nice reward but she’s not really the star of this event.
The true reason for wanting to do this event is E3. The third map rewards a new heavy cruiser, and that’s significant because all the IJN heavy cruisers (except for Ibuki, which was laid down as a heavy cruiser, converted to light carrier in construction and never finished) are already in the game. The new cruiser is the fourth foreign ship to be added to the game, Prinz Eugen. Bismark’s partner in crime. I wish to add her to my fleet. The fact she’s super cute makes that even more important.
E3 is kicking my ass though. They’ve done something to the ships in it. I’m taking a really capable fleet – my top two battleships, Haruna and Kongo, my highest-level Carrier, Hiryuu, my top heavy cruisers, Tone, Atago and Haguro. My three best destroyers, Shigure, Yuudachi and Shimakaze, my two highest-level ships, Kitakami and Ooi, and my lowest-level ship in the fleet, Sendai, is there because I needed a cruiser to make up the escort fleet. For some reason though, I’m doing big cut-in attacks that should absolutely murder the targets but getting 3-5 damage off my battleships firing at destroyers. It’s kind of disheartening to have a massive awesome fleet and then have them do sweet fuck all to the enemies. 🙁
The bigger issue though is just the map itself. There’s two routes my fleet takes at random, and if they get redirected North after the second battle, they will not have enough fuel and ammo to fight the boss which is amazingly frustrating. I’m being redirected there more often than I get the other route. Then the second issue is that on the route that actually takes me to the boss, there’s an enemy Wo class loaded with those crazy meatball planes. If I fill Hiryuu with fighters she’ll get air superiority against the Wo, but that requires pulling out one of my Torpedo planes and I’m finding that the opening torpedo attack is more effective at taking out enemy destroyers than my fucking battleships are (oddly my heavy cruisers seem to hit harder, especially Haguro). The issue is that without air superiority, the Wo class has the ability to absolutely wreck one of the main fleet ships and I have to pull back when that happens. And it’s happened three times now.
Managed to get to the boss but I’m running 2 shelling support sorties at the same time because when that hits it can make things significantly easier. This means that I’m draining out 1200-1300 ammo every sortie and I’ve realistically only got maybe 5 more goes before I’m out of resources. I’ve done maybe 14 sorties against E3 now, made it to the boss 3 times and sank her all three. Two more to go. Hope I’ll make it. I don’t think E4 is happening though. It’ll be way too hard plus the reward (Nowaki) is another destroyer and my roster’s pretty full.
So far I’ve had nothing useful as a drop. I did get another I-8, my white whale that I spent most of this year trying to obtain before finally getting her a month or two ago, and it felt terrible to use her as remodeling scrap but I needed the slot for her 🙁 Everything else has been shit I don’t want or need like more Kongou-class battleships or Tone/Chikuma. I also managed to get a second Harusame for clearing E1 which would have been nice if I hadn’t played in the previous event. What I’m hoping is to get Kiyoshimo (missed her last event) or Asagumo (new this event, random drop only) or finally get a Taigei or a Akashi. Akashi might be obtainable by other means though. The one upside so far has been getting some extra medals. Combined with E1 to E3 I should get a blueprint and a half this month, so I’ll have two blueprints. One for Bismarck Zwei and then maybe one to upgrade Taigei to Ryuuhou? Or Chikuma Kai-2, or maybe Bismarck Drei though I can’t see myself getting her to the right level for that before the end of the month since I can’t run PVP even, my resources are just too scarce.
On the upside, I did finally get Souryuu to Kai-2 last night. Level 78 remodel. That’s taken a lot of work. Worth it though, her upgraded art is awesome.
How often do you get new art of the warships? If that was a level 78 how I am assuming that it wasn’t 78 different art pieces to get there. Although there could be
It depends.
Generally speaking all the ships have an initial form and a ‘Kai’ remodel. Most of the ones that have been in the game for a while just have that, and the art is the same for both.
Some of them have minor changes at Kai. Sometimes this reflects a historical thing, eg Zuihou and Zuikaku both go from having traditional white & red shrine maiden-esque clothing under their archery armor to having green and brown, reflecting the fact both were repainted with camouflage later in WW2. Sometimes It’s a reflection of changing ship type too – all the Heavy Cruisers and Battleships that remodel to Aviation Cruisers/Battleships have art changes where they start holding stuff that looks like flight decks or similar. Yamato is another one that has a minor art change, when she hits Kai she gains a bunch of extra small guns and one of her thighhighs gets a Japanese phrase scrawled on it which matches a flag that her namesake had when she set out from Okinawa on her final sortie.
Chiyoda and Chitose have the most art changes. They have six remodels – seaplane tender kai, then submarine tender, then carrier, and carrier kai, plus base version of seaplane tender, and all six have minor art changes.
Every ship to hit Kai-2 except Bismarck, Z1 and Z3 have completely new art. Those three technically have ‘Zwei’ versions where the art changes in a minor way. Bismarck actually has a third remodel, and Bismarck Drei has a new set of art which is significantly better than her base art.
Originally when the game launched, there was only one single Kai-2 in the game, and that was Hibiki. When she gets to level 75 you can remodel her into Soviet destroyer Verniy, reflecting the fact that she was handed over to the Russians who continued to operate her as an anti-sub destroyer into the 50s.
Most of the time the Kai-2 art is a big step up. The artists involved probably shat out the original sprites on a low budget but now that the game is big they’ve been allowed to go back to several and give them significant work. The only one to go significantly backward in quality was Hiei, who went from looking badass to looking like a monkey with massive ears. 🙁
Some of the time, they had intended to give a ship a Kai-2 version but they decided not to for various reasons, but the art had been created anyway. Or maybe they just wanted to do an art upgrade. When the artist involved made Kai-2 art for Yuudachi and Shigure (making especially Yuudachi go from being really bland to being an insane badass) he also made updated art for their sister ships Murasame and Shiratsuyu. Neither got a Kai-2 but their standard Kai art got updated to the new versions anyway.
There’s also a few that got similar treatment and then also got a Kai-2 remodel. I think Ryuujou is the only one to have unique art at all three stages of her progression without changing ship class.
They seem to have generally kept Kai-2 remodels for three purposes: Ships that aren’t being used and should be, to rebalance them (Isuzu, for example, got a Kai-2 remodel to be the best anti-sub cruiser to encourage players to hang onto her – players were just leveling her up to 12 where she gets her Kai remodel and then using her resulting +5 anti-air stat boost to modernize other ships), Sometimes they do it with ships that are super popular online for various reasons. Ryuujou got new art each time I think just as a tease, because there’s a running joke about her being self-conscious about her flat chest and hoping she’ll get bigger with a remodel, but it never happens. Naka, similarly, got an art upgrade and is actually a fairly good cruiser now, but used to be reviled as an annoying trash drop that a lot of players would aggressively scrap rather than using her to remodel others, which I always felt was a bit cruel. They’ve also tended to be leaning towards Kai-2s for ships that distinguished themselves in some way. Yuudachi gains a slightly insane-looking ‘ferocious hound’ look and the highest firepower of any destroyer because of her participating in the sinking of multiple ships in the Solomon islands, for example.
As time’s gone on, the level requirement has gone up. Hibiki’s crazy level 75 remodel aside, a lot of the early ones were in the 50-60 range. Souryuu has the current highest at 78. I think Naka has the lowest at 48 (but it had to be 48 because she’s Ship #48 in the game and is patterned as the ‘fleet idol’ all as a reference to the AKB48 idol troupe)
I have a few Kai-2s. Yuudachi, Shigure, Kongou, Haruna, Hiei, Hiryuu, Souryuu, Kiso, Kitakami, Ooi, Naka, Tone, Haguro. With Souryuu done my attention is going to swing back to the others I was working on, which are Sendai (currently at 47, needs 65), Hibiki (48, needs 75), Myoukou (49, needs 70). After I get each of them done, I’ll probably start working on Ushio, Chikuma and Jintsuu. It was going to be Hatsuharu for the Destroyers but my Ushio is kind of special as she was the first ship I got in the game aside from the starter and she was my flagship until I got Yura.
I used to dislike Matthew McConaughey, now I’m starting to really enjoy his work as of late.
Anyone else share a transition similar to this with either someone or something?
Leo DiCaprio, from what… The Aviator onwards? Wait no, Catch Me If You Can, maybe.
Personally I’ve never seen a movie with Leo that I didn’t like, and he always turns in a strong performance.
Relevant: wife and I watched Romeo + Juliet last night and it was still amazing.
God, The Aviator is one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen.
It was pretty fantastic, hey.
Matt and Leo have both seen a very strong revitalisation of their careers in recent years. George Clooney and Sean Connery both got better with age, too.
Yeah, Zardoz was his best
I’ve pretty much always hated Tom Cruise’s smug, self-satisfied idiot-grin, but lately he’s been playing a bunch of flawed, asshole characters, and doing it pretty well. I guess ‘work with what you know’ is working out for him.
I liked Rainman, but pretty much hated everything else he did until I saw Magnolia. Holy moly.
I never disliked him, but for a while there he only really did romatic comedies, and I just don’t tend to watch them, so he simply didn’t register as a notable actor. Then I watched True Detective! Wow.
I’ve had a reverse transition with Harrison Ford. Liking him less in each new movie 😐
Fark… got a green light from Dept of Education now. Kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to what to do now.. Dept of Ed want to sign me on asap, but got an almost certainty from Optus too, but could take a couple of weeks! BLARGH!!!
WHAT DO HIVE MIND?!
I’ve just emailed the guy from Optus to see if I can get more info regarding the certainty of things, as I’d kind of rather take the Optus job if possible, but I don’t want to turn down work if there’s a chance it could fall through!!!!!
That’s awesome things are looking up, and good move by updating Optus as they may move faster to secure you if they think they might lose you.
It’s definitely a good idea to contact Optus and let them know about the other job offer. It might make them move quicker, and may even lead to a better offer if they’re REALLY keen.
Kudos man.
I was in this position with my last job and this is exactly what I did. Got an offer from the one I was less interested in and knew the other place was going to take their time. So I pestered the one I was more interested in.
Most importantly, I was upfront with both companies about my position.
It worked out well for me.
That’s what I’m hoping for! 🙂
Good luck.
Happened to me similarly. Was job hunting. Had an interview for a permie position that looked really good, had said I was available to start straight away. Got an offer on a one month contract. Really needed the money at that point. Called the permie place straightaway, told them I had an offer for a contract for 4 weeks, really could not turn it down, this would affect my availability, and I hoped it wouldn’t go against my chances for this role.
Day I started the contract, I got the other offer. Took it, started the Monday after my contract finished. They said my professional attitude and honesty went a long way in helping me stand out. Still there nearly 8 years later.
Don’t take anything for granted until you have it in writing from either of them (and even then). I had an interview with the Apple division at IBM, agency told me I had the job and was due to start the next week, Monday comes around, call from the agency, everyone who was due to start on that day was now postponed a little bit, never heard back from them to confirm a new start date. From the multiple people I know who’ve worked at IBM though I reckon I dodged a bullet with that one.
Not saying that’s what’ll happen to you, but I tend to ere on the side of caution until I’ve signed a contract or had written confirmation with a start date. Definitely push Optus though for confirmation.
Btw, whenever I’ve been job searching I usually end up with 2-3 places offering me a position. A month after I applied for a job at wotif I got a call from them asking for an interview hahahaha some places just take the recruitment process more slowly than other unfortunately
yeah I’ve had delayed interviews like that before. I’ve never had 2 where I’ve done several interviews, and then been confirmed as wanted at the same time though.
Reply fail.
Who needs doing work when you can internet argue over Guitar Hero instead.
Rock Band is the best.
The best at sucking!
I can’t hear you over the sound of having every single song from all Rock Band games available without having to change discs.
Or the sound of me rocking out.
Probably the second one. Because Rock Band is better at letting you rock out. By a lot. Because it’s better.
In less hyperbolic serioustalk though, I really don’t like what I’ve played of Rock Band at all. Granted I haven’t seen what the single player mode offers at all, but purely on a comparison of playing a single song on each of the two… GH all the way. I find RB’s note highway far too hard to read, especially the “special” notes. Plus their charting doesn’t seem that great either, I know people like to pull up GH on it having non-existent notes or whatever, but they feel like overall they make more sense to me and are more fun to play. Also the songs themselves, RB’s always felt like leant for more towards the softer/pop side of things that I find make for more uninteresting play. Whereas GH tends to go for the more exciting stuff.
The Beatles Rock Band is pretty great.
Apart from the Beatles part.
I don’t care for the Beatles at all 😛Well, that explains why you like GH better. You have no taste.
@trjn What’s the best Beatles song there is to play in Rock Band? I want to look up a video of it and see how it goes.
I honestly don’t remember which tracks I enjoyed playing in that game.
More than any other GH/RB game, The Beatles: Rock Band was more about just relaxing and enjoying the campaign.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps is just an all-round fantastic song though.
Haha, I don’t want to pick sides. I like both. Guitar Hero has Metallica, Rock Band has The Beatles.
@benny I dislike Metallica too 😛
Though from the looks of things, their songs are at least more interesting to play than the Beatles’.
You just lost major attractiveness points.
@freya I’m flattered to hear I had any to lose 😛
Just… never really understood why people liked the Beatles. Well, seeing videos of their interviews and stuff where they’re being all smartarses and everything, those were pretty great. But musically they’ve never really done anything for me.
I played a lot of both games. Seriously, a lot. There are 11 Rock Band and Guitar Hero games sitting on the shelves next to me and I used to be able to play most songs on Expert (even 100%ing a few of them).
GH charting makes sense if you’re used to GH. There’s a certain logic to it. If you only play GH, it seems like the better option or at least the gamier/more arcadey option. Considering that these are arcade style rhythm games, that’s not a bad thing.
Once you start playing a decent amount of both though, RB is the one that shines through. The charts feel more accurate to the music (a series of notes rising in pitch will almost always go left to right in RB but will go in either direction in GH as well as no phantom notes) and it’s just more polished in general.
As for the song choice, RB wins handily here. Sorry, it just does. The DLC library for Rock Band is just insane and there’s a huge mix of genres. While you might prefer the on-disc songs available for Guitar Hero that’s only a fraction of the overall experience and if you’re not getting the DLC, you’re just missing out.
There are personal preferences scattered through all of this but I’d argue that as an overall game experience, Rock Band takes the cake.
That being said, I actually preferred the GH controllers. I someone has as few spare GH5 guitars lying around, I would like to give you moneys for them.
Rock Band has awesome metal DLC.
Rock Band?
More like … Rock Bland
I love them both but my favourite things to play were the free Christmas Carols and National Anthems on Guitar Hero. So weedle-y. 😀
@distantdrop can confirm the shat rares are daily, went back to that one we did yester day and he was able to drop for me again, but didnt 🙁
I think my copy of Far Cry 4 has some kind of anti-piracy thing in place despite buying the game legitimately. I can’t switch weapons so I can’t finish the tutorial mission. I was actually really looking forward to giving the game a go before I started work today. =(
🙁
That really sucks. I hope it’s just glitching out on you or something.
That’s just what a pirate would say!
“legitimately”
Whaaaat? Oh no. What are you playing it on?
You on PC?
I played on PS4 this morning and had no such issues. Can’t wait to get back into it tonight.
There was a 500 odd Meg update though.
Why in god’s name did you buy a Ubisoft release at launch on PC?
Days
3 Days
Only 2
I was counting this afternoon/Friday morning as an extra Day!
I’m not talking about Pokemon. That will be only 1 day wait.
Nights
Into Dreams
Of our lives.
E.
=mc2
Gone Bye.
…y Duck.
Days? 1.5. Nights? 1. Until DA:I street-date-break. Because it’s going to. IT HAS TO.
You know it 😉
of the Dead?
2 and a bit hours to go till Far Cry time.
Hype engine engaged!
Unless you pirated* the game.
paid for*PC gamers are all filthy pirates – wasn’t that the default position of some companies a few years back?
They were right to do it.
I hope there are no issues on the PS4. I got the Collectors Edition with the statue and stuff, gonna be an expensive week, Collectors Edition of FC4, “I’m gonna need a bank loan” Edition of DA:I, GTAV and I’m sorta interested in Pokeymans too but my bank account might implode or something if I do.
Edit: I just looked at the contents of the DA:I Inquisitor’s Edition again, even more hyped, it even has an inkpot and quill *faints*
Less than four hours till I’ll be in Kyrat! Eeeeeeeeee.
I’m so excited, I had the best time with Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, can’t remember the last time I got this hyped for a game.
You said it was 6 hours! You liar!!!!
1 hour, I just keep lying!!
And now it’s yesterday. Your web of deceit knows no bounds.
I come in here to spark up convo with thought out , meaningful questions or topics & nothing.
The time I accidentally write a single word?
5 responses!
Yo
Hi
Six now. You’re welcome.
It would appear that single words have more meaning than sentences.
We should have a TAY page where you can only post single word comments.
No.
Sure?
Ehh.
That would be over (and get annoying) very quickly…
It could be fun, everyone would think long and hard about what word to post. Or not. You could daisy chain words to make stupid sentences.
It would be art.
We tried that once. Not sure if art is the applicable term.
http://talesoftay.tumblr.com/post/18176857832
Haha, that is awesome.
Page 24 by a Friday? Those were the TAYs…
I miss the Kotaku Chronicles 🙁
Hahahahaha I had completely forgotten about that!
Codswallop.
Agreed.
Welcome back m9!
Sorry, I’ll try this again:
m9
Thanks!
The random adventure generator is complete! Thanks everyone. If you want to have a taste of what it’s like, simply select four random numbers between 1-20 or roll a 20-sided die four times. I can tell you what basic adventure is crafted from your numbers.
11, 7, 4 and 17.
Environment: Obligatory lava level.
Dungeon: Hallucination/tripping through the mindscape.
Reason: Something is attacking people and needs to be slain.
Villain(s): Professional assassin.
Sounds like you’re fighting Freddy Krueger while going through a psychoactive hallucination from the steam from a volcano.
The volcanic fumes send me a on a mind trip… nice.
That sounds like a pretty hard RPG, trying to fight Freddy when you’re losing your mind… you’d have to roll some pretty absurd numbers to win lol.
Yeah well it all depends on how things play out. The imagination is a potentially fraught place however it could turn into a semi-Matrix like scenario where they start imagining stuff that helps them.
Just as a side note, I do also have obligatory ice level as a potential environment. 😛
Krueger is an assassin who murders his victims by entering their dreams, inception style. The party is hired to track down this evil assassin – his next target goes to sleep and the party uses magic to step into the dream world and then fight him.
Final boss fight occurs on the crater of an active volcano.
Let me consult my dice.
One. One. One. One.
Yup, right on average for me.
You should play 40k RPG.
Oh yeah 96, 91, 98, 94… *rerolls with fate point* 28…
Environment: Large secluded tropical island.
Dungeon: Native encampment.
Reason: Overthrow a despotic tyrant.
Villain(s): Tribe chieftain.
Invade the island and defeat the chief of the primitive tribe and become their god.
Oh dang, I think I wrote mine after you posted this. Oh well. Thanks for the creative writing exercise!
Ah my bad. I kinda had a brain surge of ideas and just wrote them all down. I can imagine your story being one of those beautiful Asian mythic journeys to the Land of the Gods or something like that. It really seemed to fit a mythical Three Kingdoms feel.
8, 14, 2, 11.
Environment: On the high seas.
Dungeon: A great tournament.
Reason: Local travellers are disappearing and the local officials are offering a reward for someone who can figure out what’s going on.
Villain(s): The environment.
The ocean itself is swallowing up whole ships and you must compete against the God of the Sea to calm the ocean’s fury and release the captured ships and return life to normal.
Oooh I love it.
In relation to @popdart5’s scenario if it sounds like your jam, there’s a magnificent book by my favourite author Matthew Reilly called ‘The Tournament’. It’s a story about a chess tournament in 1546 that works along these guidelines except for the environment 😛
Ooh I have The Tournament on my Christmas wishlist. Now it’s heading to the top!
That’s a pretty cool sounding story. I’m not a huge fan of Matthew Reilly but his stuff always seems interesting in the blurb.
The high concepts are very interesting, I can see how his formulaic approach can put some readers off with the Scarecrow and Jack West books:
Spoilered for those who haven’t read:
Introduce a plot twist, a character dies. A new plot twist, a character dies. Repeat…I love it though 😛 The Tournament is very different from this, it was the first book I smashed out in one sitting which I haven’t done in a LONG time. 9/10 would recommend.It did prove he’s a little inept at writing sex scenes but it’s rare that they ever are handled anything but awkwardly in literature.
I forgot there was a sex scene :S Maybe it was so bad I repressed it from my memory.
A? There’s like six.
The companion she has, Elsie or something? She’s purely there for them.That’s right! That damn little harlot trying to corrupt Elizabeth. I felt a little sorry for her in the end though!
Good books for smashing through when travelling, but he’s a bit “and then, and then”.
Yep, see your point! I remember taking my car to a car wash and didn’t want to leave when they finished cleaning my car because I was enjoying it so much, lol.
Nothing wrong with it – I love the gripping page turner that’s easy to read. Brain fodder.
I tend to alternate between something telephone book sized, intense and sci-fi (Peter F Hamilton’s new one is awaiting my attention, Kim Stanley Robinson, Stephen Baxter, the late Iain M Banks all faves), something history or science based – last pop-sci I read was about the discovery of Vitamin C and the defeat of scurvy called “Limeys”.
And then I’ll read something lightweight and silly like a john Grisham, Matthew Reilly, Tom Clancy, Kathy Reichs. It’s the mental equivalent of a few pints and a curry.
Butts.
How do you kill a circus?
Go for the juggler.Thought it was time I popped my page 6 cherry, so to speak.
Haaaaaaa. We have a weekly joke in our staff meeting, so I might bust that one out.
Ya did good kid! Should make @Shane proud!
Making dad jokes?
*sigh*
That’s another name crossed off the potential boyfriend list.
Given that I’m probably old enough to *be* your dad, it’s probably not the jokes that’ll put you off… 🙂
That, and I’m very much taken! 🙂Also, page 6 is dad jokes, no?Page 6 is dad jokes, but I dislike dad jokes 😛
Sorry, you’re off the list 😛
I’ll get over it. I was probably on page 14 of Volume 9 of the list anyway. 🙂
Elder Scrolls 6 should be set in a tropical locale or other different non-classic western fantasy setting.
Yes?
YES.
I really want to see Argonia, Elsweyr, or even the far off continent of Akavir.
Akavirpleasekthanks
Was Argonia the lizards & is that tropitropical jungle & swamp?
Yep. Also known as Black Marsh.
BLACK? I don’t like the sound of that. Green? Vibrant red marsh?
Is hasn’t been called Argonia since the First Era. Keep up.
😛What, you think Generic Northern Europe is overdone?
>.>. ……maybe
YOU TAKE THAT BACK! VIKINGS ARE AWESOME!
*runs out crying*
They are & Skyrim is awesome. But the next game. The next!
I forgive you!… This time!
<3It’s because mountains and pine trees are easy to draw.
Gum trees and red soil are easy too!
Article wasteland. Big flat featureless expanse of white.
Kotaku.com.us
ZING!
I’d like to thank autocorrect & Patricia Hernandez
Yes. I hated the overworld in Skyrim 😛 Also I really like tropical settings.
Listen to this man!
EDIT: Also I’ll be able to go PC for the next game! Mods and such, hoorah!
I loved the really snowy bits but it was a tad too similar to Oblivion I reckon.
Who has time for mods, those games are already forever long!
Books that you haven’t read glow. My gods, saves so much time
That is handy.
I found my pocket guide to the empire that came with the limited edition of Oblivion and was flicking through it. Made me wanna get ESO so I can explore everything but then made me want a game that features at least a little bit of one of the other continents like Akavir
Elsweyr or the Black Marsh.
Vibrant RED Marsh >:-|
No love for Valenwood? I’d really like to explore that place. Elsweyr is like, half desert, I don’t know why anyone would want to go there.
NotEurope!
It’s more South America than it is Europe.
No I mean Skyrim & Oblivion were Europa
Sonic Highways has a fair bit of an Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace mixed with One By One feel.
At least that’s what I’ve taken from it so far…
It’s quite a good album, but I also feel to understand and appreciate the songs you have to watch the TV series, which will instantly have people dismiss it sadly.
I really like Sonic Highways. Feels longer and slower than other Foo Fighters stuff. Not very good for radio play, but great to listen to as an album.
Every time there is any sort of an article mentioning Pew Die Pie there is a huge amount of hate…
…I actually enjoy some of his videos and have a giggle – mainly because I know there is nothing to be taken seriously there..
Surely I’m not the only one?
Everyone just seems so ready to hate on EVERYTHING these days…
Never read the comments!
Words to live by!
Especially Pow’s.
I thought you weren’t going to read them?How do you feel about indifference?
Meh.
*RAGE*
I’ve not watched him unfortunately, but I do read the comments section of my favourite Let’s Players and see a similar type of vitriol.
I think that in this day and age extreme views get the most reaction, and in a medium like social media and on the internet those that have the most outlandish views get the most attention. Look at the rise of meme pages on Facebook, Instagram, etc. that demonstrate the rise of this form of communication over the past 5-8 years.
I tend to approach comments on internet with a more composed thinking, but I must say I really enjoy comments like ‘would ruin my life again/10’ and like posting those sorts of things myself 😛 I perhaps am the anti-thesis to comments because I don’t flame things I don’t agree with and I don’t engage with people because I don’t want to feed the trolls.
TL;DR: I hope that eventually we move away from the hate and become a little more introspective about why we don’t like something, question ourselves as to why we don’t like it and then address it in an appropriate way rather than questioning somebody’s sexuality or accosting their mother.
He is making $4 million a year. Pretty sure you aren’t the only one
HI CHULOOPA!
HAI GUY!
Who the hell is pew die pie? Actually.. don’t bother. Think I’m happy just to remain oblivious.
Serious case of post-holiday blues today. May go have a couple of beers at Spawn Point after work, check it out and watch some Goldeneye.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/11/pay-day-menswear-picks-to-see-you-through-the-silly-season/
I am so far beyond not understanding fashion it’s not even a joke any more.
I felt a small amount of pride seeing those shoes because I already own a similar pair. I’m suddenly fashionable!
Then I saw how much their ones cost and was even prouder that mine were a fraction of that price 😛
Pooralen.
Nobody is denying that.
But you work in computers so you make all the money, right?
Well, really it’s more like Cheaparsealen
It’s true. He doesn’t even buy the expensive lunches at work.
I know right, some of those I wouldn’t even wear if you paid me, and who on earth buttons their shirt all the way to the top unless they’re wearing a tie. Looks so stupid.
I wear my shirt button all the way to the top!
What a nerd.
I would post a photo to prove that I am not a nerd, and my glasses are actually cool, but I don’t want to give up my secret identity. Not yet.
“Fashion” is just marketing to get you to pay for overpriced clothing made by underpaid labourers.
If you understand your own style, then you’re all good.
Slob, & yes.
For a couple hundred, you can get T-shirts with designer Dorito dust already on it
😀
😐
😮
D:
You didn’t like the clothes picked out? I thought it was all quite good, actually. Probably because it’s more or less what my boyfriend wears, haha.
They’ve never worked for me. Even when I was super skinny I had a big chest and broad shoulders so the sleeves end up in my armpits. Despite my protestations about how fat I am I’m not really, only 95kg at 6’1, but I wear XXL to XXXL shirts. So T-shirts and a comfy pair of jeans is what I tend towards.
Plus my teens were in the 90’s. I certainly wore my share of ridiculous looking fashion 😛
Flannel shirt and black jeans?
Uh. Sure…
Certainly wasn’t a stupid hat, Hypercolor and tie dye with ripped jeans and hi top sneakers. Nosiree.
That was my everyday outfit for a fair few years. 😀
Urgh, the bathers were horrible! X’O
Everything else was quite (except they said black jeans go with everything, which they do not).
Also, that guy with the tattoos and beard needs to trim his beard.
That thing is horrible 😛
Apparently that style is ‘in’ right now. That, in combination with ridiculous amounts of slick in your hair.
Yeah, the beard is too thin and ratty. Also, his expression is annoying.
Even the Bondi Hipsters couldn’t make this look any worse.
I stopped trying about 15 years ago. I hate jeans but know they’re a necessary evil to go out in, don’t like any design whatsoever on a shirt unless it’s a band shirt or something off riptapparel or one of those other stores and I wear my trainers anywhere. The only person who should be telling me what to wear is my missus (or my mum) and even then that’s taken with a pinch of salt as I put on my footie shorts to go pretty much anywhere these days
I hate jeans. Haven’t owned a pair since I was 11
Whoa, what do you wear? I liiiiiiive in jeans (except for Monday-Thursday). I cannot imagine wearing anything else.
Pants & shorts.
Jeans are so uncomfortable & why would I want to wear the same uniform if I don’t have to?
TWINSIES!
God I hate jeans. Why do people wear them? They are about as comfortable as your average lamprey. I have an unnatural hatred of them due to a childhood “accident.”
What happened?
I just never found a comfortable pair
Zippers, man. Zippers.
Frank & beans!
Granted, I did not pay attention to the brands or prices, so I can understand if that’s what salts you.
There’s fashion, and there’s looking nice. They are not the same thing.
I’d rather be unfashionable than look like another Kim Kardashian wannabe.
Yup.
I know what looks good on me and I know what’s comfortable. I also know where those two areas intersect.
Where that sits in relation to fashionable is beyond me.
$92 for a t-shirt.
I just got like five times as many shirts for that amount of money.
But have you ever seen a plain, grey t-shirt for less than $92?
You have to pay for that level of fashion.
uscheckout.apc.fr/browse.cfm/4,3379.html?nav=kanye
Gotta look your Kanye Best.
The tie is $110.
Oh. The suit is only $1662.
That’s cause it’s Burbory, old man Freezy 😛
I thought it was blue.
I’d call it navy.
That’s what I said. Blue.
I could get 9 shirts for that price.
I’m only 20 and I don’t get it…
Are all guys meant to look like the perfectly manicured and groomed men that you see modelling clothes? I think they all look ridiculous.
And when did man bags become an essential?
And coloured hiking boots. (Well they look like hiking boots)
And doing all the buttons up on a shirt.
I think the only thing out of that I’d wear is the grey t shirt. I have an awesome thin stretchy grey t shirt that I got for free from New Balance and it’s probably my favourite piece of clothing I own 😛
The only reason I haven’t got a man bag yet is because I can’t find one I like yet.
Your wallet, phone, 3DS, PSVITA, headphones and charging cables for all of above WILL NOT FIT IN YOUR JEANS POCKET AND I AM NOT CARRYING IT FOR YOU IN MY LADY BAG.
Just get a man bag for your stuff already.
AMEN SISTER.
PREACH FOR ME GUUURL!
I’d wear most of those things except for the shirt, I like knitwear so I’d probably go with something like this instead with dark blue jeans and the shoes: http://shop.tottenhamhotspur.com/product/spurs-button-shawl-neck-jumper/mk05aw12?TRE00011
Ooh I like that. It would look very nice under a pea coat.
I had to look that up! I’ve got one of those! =D
Haha, like anyone has a PS Vita 😛
That’s the one thing I hate most about modern phones though. They’re too god damn huge. I miss my old candybar which I could slip in that mystery narrow inner pocket on the right, out of the way of your wallet and keys. And freeing up your left pocket for the 3DS.
HEY!
HI!
US$90 for a plain grey t-shirt? Fuck that.
But don’t you want to be fashion!
Nope.
THE SLANTED SEEMS, MAN.
That’s racist.
Nearly as racist as being called gook(y) 😛
It’s a coincidental homonym!
Oh, this reminds me!
Remember when Mrs Freezy said I should take you shopping sometime 😉
I could help out with that! 😀
I… Uh…. Ahhh.. *throws @dc in front of me*
Hey, DC, Strange and I all had a good day, and we all saw how good he looks in his new clothes, so throwing DC infront of you only shows why I should take you out for new clothes ;P
God, I want a montage of this so badly.
I decided to play Always Sometimes Monsters, which is supposed to have some pretty heavy themes.
…and I can’t talk to one of the NPC’s because the A.I. kitten got stuck in front of him.
Always Sometimes Monsters Choices part 1
I chose to be the blonde chick who offered the white whine, and I chose the black guy with the glasses as my boyfriend.EDIT: The spoiler tags didn’t work the first time.
It already took me half an hour to choose my character, and I haven’t even decided on a name yet. This is going to take a while… To BehindTheName.com!
I chose a name that seemed fitting for a human female. Now I have to name my boyfriend as well! Oh no…
Naming characters is the worst. Especially in an MMO when you’re like OMG I HAVE THE BEST NAME FO–oh, it’s taken. WELL I GUESS I’LL USE THIS OTHER AWESOME ONE TH–oh. 🙁
Then 30 mins later give up and put down something shitty that goes through first time.
Or hit the inbuilt ‘random’ name generator 50 bajillion times because all of the ‘random’ names are taken.
This game doesn’t let you wash your hands after going to the toilet.
12/10 Worst game.
Less than 100 minutes to Far Cry 4! See you babes tomorrow for stories of glorrrrrrrry.
Also, come back @DC we miss you.
Picked GTA V this afternoon and was met with some sad & in my opinion horrible news, my boss from EB has resigned 🙁 which sucks, cause she’s easily the best manager that store has had. But she’s off to a better so that’s always good.
Oh yeah, finally beat Smash Classic Run on 9.0 last night! ROB’s my homebot.
Only got Luigi and Mario left to beat it with, then I need to figure out if I’m missing any other characters.
Far Cry 4 Kyrat Edition Get!!
It’s pretty cool, probably overpriced but meh, the statue is decent although the guys face is a little off, there’s even a secret* compartment with a rolled up little bit of paper with a proverb on it. Now to install and play 😀
* really obviousWho’s up for TayKart Tuesday?! No one?
Okay. D=
I am…Oh, okay. Well I guess you’ve just answered for everyone and we can’t play now 🙁
ISAAC TIME!
I didn’t think anyone would be interested.
I could do some games seeing as I can’t really play Far Cry 4
Anyone having trouble joining public servers in GTA Online at all on ps4?
I am.
Apparently you need a PS4 and a copy of the game to do it. Very annoying.
Apparently it’s completely broken all together currently. My mate said Xbox One is the same..
Cool to know, I put up with a week or two of it with the 360, I’m sure I can put up with it for a little while with the ps4, teething issues…
Or you know, maybe they should’ve *had this shit sorted out* by now given its been out a year *sigh* lol
Agreed dude, i’m glad I didn’t pick up a PS+ membership this arvo when I got my copy..
I feel so bored with Brawl…
Just have to wait 11 days….
D:
8 player smash… *drools*
Always Sometimes Monsters Choices part 2 ( I have gone through one night)
-I helped Darkeff with setting up his band equipment. Had to do it several times because the instructions are vague as shit.-I did not give Darkeff the heroin. Damned if I know whether he took it anyway.
-Went on the path where I get happy pills for the girl outside The Phoenix, but pulled out and loaded a previous savestate when I realised this path seemed incredibly rapey.
-Too late to help clean her apartment, I had dinner with old Ms Terwillager. Talked about my relationship and a bit of her past, but I ended the conversation early because I worried I was being to intrusive. She let me have a vintage baseball card for being a good person
-Only took the single baseball card that was given to me, even though I had the opportunity to steal the rest.
-Slept on a dirty mattress in an alleyway
-After spending a night sleeping on the decision, I chose to sign the contract without the mystical Sam. Damn you Macroshaft and your unreasonable data plans!
Spoilery Discussion
Why do I want to go to my ex’s wedding, anyway? Fuck him. Wasting all my money on getting a bus to San Verdano, really? I should focus on paying off my rent and ensuring Darkeff stays off Heroin.So far I’m enjoying this game. The writing could be a bit better, and it’s TOO self-aware.
What’s it about Phlan?
I had a few paragraphs on this game, but I accidentally deleted it. So I’ll give you the tl;dr version:
It’s an RPG about homelessness, desperation, and the question of whether your decisions make you a bad person. Covertly robbing that old lady will mean you don’t have to sleep on a street.
Sounds good! On Steam?
It’s on Steam, but there’s a Humble Bundle with it right now, so you can pick it up dirt cheap.
https://www.humblebundle.com/
You the man, Phlan!
Secret SanTAY stalking initiate!
… Except it appears I got someone with awesome taste that likes everything that is good. Could be a different kind of difficult decision.
Right? I’ve looked through ~200 comments, and I can’t decide what to do.
Terrible.
Buy them Hanabi.
Or Cards Against Humanity.
Or a good game. Like Hanabi.
Something handmade? Something delicious? Something fun to do?
Just get me whatever.
HANABI FOR EVERYONE!
I was the same today, I only had to look about 7 pages back to find something for my secret SanTAY but I’ve done gooooood!
Repeat after me: Hanabi for E V E R Y O N E
The annoying bit of secret SanTAY is not being able to discuss all my awesome ideas because someone is going to see!
You only need one idea.
Right. Hanabi.
Now you get it!
I’m not doing it this year so you can discuss them with me! 😀
This is also true!
I’m also not participating but I’ve made my thoughts on the matter perfectly clear.
Heh, that’s where it’s nice that two of us are doing it this year, so we can talk ideas.
Might have been a bit awkward if one of us had got the other though.
Thanks for saying I have awesome taste man <3
I know it’s not me 😛Destiny \o/
For @mashaa2932
There’s not really a good measure for how long Iron Banner ranks will usually take right now. So far the event has only been run once previously. And after the feedback, they’ve changed the format a little bit this time, and going forward.
Rep
Old IB: IIRC, I ended up hitting Rank 3 late on Sunday night, after playing each night that week (that is, Destiny week of Tuesday to Monday).
Rank 3 was the cap.
Rep gained from wins only. Banner, Emblem, and Class Item gave stacking 10% bonus rep.
New IB: Rank now caps at 5. For this time only, previous rank carries over, but in the future Rank resets at the start.
Rep gained on win, as before. For a loss, you receive an Iron Token, which is consumed on your next IB win, granting bonus rep. There’s a limit on Tokens you can hold, maybe 5?
Additionally, there is a 12-hour buff that can be activated once per Iron Banner, the buff increases Rep gained and its effect is scaled higher the later in the week it is.
Lastly, rep items work the same as before.
Items
Old IB: rep items available at different ranks, and then “standard/dungeon/27 Light” Legendaries available for purchase.
“Light 27” Legendaries are the Legendaries that drop in strikes, and can be bought from the Tower factions. Light 27 refers to the Light bonus gained when you max out a piece of armour.
By comparison, Raid Legendaries and Exotics are “Light 30”, and 4 pieces of Light 30 are required to hit Light level 30. (12 Light = 1 Light level)
Items available in first IB were Gauntlets, Chest and Machine Gun. Both Armours were 27 Light.
New IB: Apparently raid equivalent gear is available. I assume these will require Rank 5, but should be Light 30. I believe this time the armour pieces are gauntlets and boots.
@strange, what was the name of that t shirt store with the really awesome subtle Final Fantasy designs on them?
http://www.gametee.co.uk/
Might actually get me a couple of them.
Disturbing lack of Souls shirt designs.
A Souls tattoo freed me from the desire to buy a Souls shirt. However, there are some not bad ones at http://deathmtn.com/collections/all
Oh wow..they’ve done so much more cool stuff now!
Like this one…http://www.gametee.co.uk/product/the-mage-t-shirt <3
OMG VIVI!!!!!!!!!!
Annnnnd 29000th comment… successfully wasted on post-counting.
STOP CATCHING UP TO ME!
Jeez. This is only my 8998 comment. PALINDROME!
I neaaarly used the 29000th comment in the article about boy/girl Toads, commenting that they all just look like penises to me. I think the fact that I didn’t shows just how much I’ve grown.
Just like a Penis? #BoysClubPage*GlancesAtBottomOfPage*Seven
Do I really have to wait for the NBN before I can stream videos?
To watch streams? No.
To stream your own content? No, but it’d help a lot.
There are people who aren’t on NBN (although the whole MTM thing means that maybe the government considers them to be on NBN) that are capable of streaming. Just depends on your upload speed and the quality you’re trying to push through. A low bitrate stream of Binding of Isaac isn’t much of a challenge, even for some ADSL2+ users. A decent bitrate stream of Halo or Dota… not so much.
Watching them is still fine. I have pretty shit internet and can watch high quality streams.
Upload speed is only like, 0.7 >:
That’s about what I have. My attempts at streaming resulted in thousands of dropped frames. Considering the stream was only up for a few minutes, you can guess how many frames weren’t dropped.
11!
Close enough.
OH. MY. GOD!
http://comicbook.com/2014/11/17/arnold-schwarzenegger-might-do-a-running-man-sequel/
I think I just wee’d myself just a little bit.
by the time they get around to it, they’d have to call it strolling man!
“Only in a rerun!”
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msaus/en_AU/pdp/Xbox-One-Assassins-Creed-Unity-Bundle/productID.307223800
HNGRH! So tempting!
Would be an instant buy if I didn’t have a PS4 or a gaming PC since I can get Ryse and AC: Unity on there for like $5 each sometime down the line :P. I’m happy for Sunset, Forza and the extra controller but I’ve already finished AC4 on PC 🙁
I want me some Halos too!
My, that sure would make a nice gift! If only someone had an excuse to buy it for me. Like a sort of currently-running Secret Santa or something.
*phew*
Good thing I’m not a part of that!
*Clears Xbox One for Powalen out of cart*
A good way to earn halos is to buy people nice things.
Considering the quality of this year’s Assassin’s Creed… I wouldn’t recommend it.
Dammit, why did we have to be playing on a fucking PVP server? 🙁
Ew.
Yup. Never touch the stuff, myself.
Always Somtimes Monsters
Woo! The ad agency liked my pitch! I got a whole $300! I can eat food tonight! It’s been a while since I’ve been so giddy from something happening to me in a video game.Now to put it in my bank account before I get mugged. Are muggings even a thing in this game? They must be.I spoke to soon. The next line of dialogue said that I could only get the money if I delivered stuff to a jaded ex-employee that has a penchant for guns. Gulp.Holy shit! He freaking shot himself! Holy crap, I did not see that coming. I contacted the police immediately. Sullivan didn’t seem all that bothered by it when I talked to him. At least he payed me. That’s all that matters, right?Dear god, what have I become? This game is revealing aspects of my personality I’d rather not know.
Did you rob the dead mans house and take some guns?
No well the your good
Yes then go rob a bank as well.
I may have to look this game up.
Ok I have to look it up.
Always Sometimes Monsters (Hey, I spelt it correctly this time!)
Man, this game is getting intense now. I won some reward, and some punk kid offered to buy it from me. I agreed. Turns out he stole this sum of money from a homicidal drug dealer. I had to pay the drug dealer the money I had just recieved to keep that kid from not getting his head shot off.I’m sure there was an option to take the money, run, and let him get shot, but I didn’t take that option obviously.
Was that a typo or did that drug addict really suggest I should give a doctor a handjob to ensure did an actual good job at doctoring? There’s a big difference between “give him a hand” and “give him a handy.”Holy shit, when giving advice to a drug addict, one of the options is ‘Kill Yourself.’ Jeezus.Dammit, I nearly cleared 9.0 with Luigi on my first go! Then totally got hardcore double-teamed by the hands, they did their whole chain-combo-to-death thing. Several times.
Still, Luigi seems rad. About time I found someone else I can kind of use.
Can’t remember if I’ve cleared it on 9.0 yet.
Luigi’s a bit of a weird one. Most of his moves seem underwhelming to me, but very powerful in capable hands.
I’m maining Zero Suit Samus at the moment. Find her moves have a good combination of speed and strength, with some stuns and range attacks for good measure. Particularly like her down+b flip move for it’s high mobility and strong kick. Very versatile character.
Ike is probably my second most competent character. Very different playstyle, though, given that Ike is a bit slower and most of his moves have significant wind-up and telegraphing. When he hits, though, oh boy.
Greninja’s not bad, now that I’m getting the hang of his moveset.
I’ve only been playing through Classic, trying to beat it with each character and ramping up the difficulty each time I clear it with no game overs.
46 characters down now, just beat it with Mario. Unlocked Dr Mario, so he’s next. I pretty much suck at the game no matter who I use. I did alright with Ike in Brawl, but here he’s… nope. I was useless with him. I think the only ones I’ve done ok with were Falcon, DK, ROB and Luigi. Though it’s hard to remember for sure since there’s SO FREAKIN MANY OF THEM.
I’m attempting to do the full clear as well and I think the best I’ve done is 8.5 for G&W. I tried doing Palutena last night and could not get her kit working correctly at all. Ended up getting knocked down to 5.5. 🙁
I think I’ve gone through about half of the cast at this stage. The final bosses really encourages someone who has good aerial moves or projectiles like ZSS or Toon Link.
DK absolutely cleans up. Up-B up-B up-B up-B up-B dead.
http://www.gog.com/promo/big_fall_sam_max_bundle_171114
For the next 73 minutes, the Sam & Max Season 1-3 games are $11 on GOG!
Just bought these:
http://www.gametee.co.uk/product/shadow-series-thunderbolt-t-shirt#.VGtEO8nkifA
(Next link in comment below)
Mainly because they look cool. Also I have no Pokemans shirts, and only one Zelda one. With MM being remade, it seemed like a nice fit.
http://www.gametee.co.uk/product/shadow-series-skull-kid-t-shirt#.VGtEP8nkifA
They’re pretty neat aren’t they. They had a really nice Balamb Garden one but looks like they don’t do it any more.
That’s actually pretty cool!
Good night
Good night Crazyguy 🙂
Always Sometimes Monsters
After spending 7 nights sleeping on a dirty mattress in an alley, I was able to pay for an apartment. I’m moving up in the world! I can even buy food most nights!
Far Cry Good!
Sleep bad.
TAY, I demand you purchase Always Sometimes Monsters. It’s great. It’s in a Humble Bundle at the moment, so you can pick it up dirt cheap.
@dknigs has the US Store workaround been patched? Tried preordering both GTA and FarCry4 and it wouldn’t work, then I found this.
http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/2mncjs/cant_buy_dragonage_on_us_store/
Yea, you purchase method has to be in US$ now, if it detects an international transfer, it rejects. So no AU CC, no AU Paypal, etc.
Apparently you can set the home currency on the load and go AMEX from Auspost, but presuming you’re in NZ so that wont work. Otherwise head to http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Xbox-Gift-Card/productID.289171900 and buy a US gift card, instant email delivery, and use that to buy games. Or buy them from ebay for less, but that wont be instant.
Son of a…. I just bought 2TB external for my digital future! Moving to Melbourne in a month so might look into it then, guess its back to discs for now.
Buying the gift card is only two extra steps, the purchase and redemption. Did it yesterday to buy GTAV. Plus you can save money if you plan ahead and buy them on ebay or similar, just make sure it’s a seller who emails and doesn’t post.
Yea I just had a look and seems pretty easy, cheers man.
My mate just did the gift card option and he redeemed a $60.00 US one but then it said he didn’t enough funds and ended up buying another $20 one, now he has $15 US credit and checked his statement said $103 NZ taken, the game is $82 at the shop here so may just go discs if its gonna cost that much. A $65 Us gift card is $82NZD.
Ah he had his state set to one that charges state sales tax. go to commerce.microsoft.com and change your address to somewhere in Oregon. No tax.
Ah right, I thought we were no tax state with Fargo North Dakota, cheers.
If you need any help/advice on moving to Melbourne, feel free to ask – done the Melbourne n00b thing myself. I also know quite a few recent Kiwi migrants and go to rugby a fair bit if that’s your bag.
Cheers man, my wife moved over last week, has apartment sorted, booked my flights the other day I head over on 21st December, still have a few things to sort out over here.
Epic. Safe move and all that, catch you at a meat sometime!
Saw a news article this morning titled:
Watch: fur seals caught having sex with penguins.
Um. No.
And the worst bit: you know that’s fodder for someone’s spank bank.
No, that didn’t come to mind. Thanks!
Good morning TAY!
Here’s a question to get hump day kicked off.
When do you put up your Christmas tree?
I usually aim for the first weekend of December.
I think the more relevant question is, when do you put up your Aluminium pole 😛
Happy Festivus 😀
It’s a Festivus for the rest of us.
When are we airing our grievances?
After the feats of strength.
First of December I go for. If i can have an advent calender I can have Christmas decorations 😀
That’s my ideal but every shopping center had theirs up a week ago leading my girls to panic that we had to have it up now or Santa won’t come so we did it last night.
We saw Santa at the shops for the first time yesterday. Batboy nearly asploded with excitement.
I don’t bother since I live alone, but my sis always puts hers up as early as possible in dec, and doesn’t take it down til the end of the 12 days of xmas.
My wife likes to put it up on the 25th of November and take it down on New Year’s Day. My nutcase Dad however keeps his up all year round, because he reckons that’s what Ethel Merman used to do.
Mid December, usually.
Last year (the year before?) we stuck a tree up on the 23rd.
Our Christmas tree is a living hoop pine so it’s up all year, we just throw some decorations on it, one Christmas a bird poo spider made a whole lot of eggs on it and they were speckled red and white and looked like decorations so we left them on. My mum has specific dates to put up and take down, something to do with the 3 wise men’s journey even though she’s not really religious.
I try to keep Mrs Shane to a December-only arrangement. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. It’ll be up by the first weekend in December, though, no question.
Whenever we get around to it. Which seems to be getting later and later since my sister’s been more absent from home, she’s usually the one that ends up doing it 😛
Never! No seriously I’ve never put up a christmas tree; mom was always super religious and believed trees and presents were the commercialization of a religious holiday. You know how it goes =P
#helping !
As long as it’s not before December 1st, go nuts!
Though I don’t put up a tree/decorations anymore D: Bit of a waste when I always go back home for Christmas rather than people coming here.
My birthday is the 1st so I would get annoyed if our tree went up before or on that day, had to be after. The two events are close enough as it is 🙁
Mid December sometimes a week later.
Yeah, we put it up first week in December. Anything earlier just feels wrong.
Last year. Took it down February when the wife & son were out, they put it straight back up again when I got home. Is still up, is bullshit.
I don’t. But anything outside of December is madness, and no time for Christmas.
Shops disagree with me on this point. As a result, we are not on speaking terms for most of November.
Back when I lived with my family we usually did it the first week of December.
Living by myself I don’t really bother. Plus I don’t actually own one anyway.
I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since the first year my wife and I lived together which was maybe 2005? Her mother passed away on December 23rd of 2006 so we didn’t “do” Christmas for a few years and have fallen out of the habit.
I don’t put a tree up these days, my Aunt though hires a company to put the biggest tree up in the street though with Reindeers and the Sleigh on the roof, usually it’s in the last week of November.
They put heaps of decorations and lights on the tree so that there’s something like 4 electrical cables that need to be used to light the whole front yard… it’s bedlam. I’ll put a photo up here when it’s all finished lol.
It should go up 1st December and down 6th Jan.
I don’t bother, for a number of reasons, including but not limited to:
1) I’m not a Christian and decorating for Xmas makes about as much sense to me as lighting a menorah or fasting for a lunar month…
2) Yes it’s a secular holiday, but blatant commercial exploitation annoys me (Christmas adverts in Oct/November and stuff in the shops in September? Get stuffed) . Won’t have anything to do with Valentine’s for that reason too.
3) I have 3 cats, two of which climb up everything. A Christmas tree would not end well…
4) Growing up in the UK, Australia summer doesn’t feel like Xmas. It’s cricket season!!!
I celebrate the solstice, and I also celebrate Annual Eat Too Much And Fall Asleep In Front Of A Bond Movie Day, which just happens to fall on December 25th.
According to most shopping centres, around about September.
That wasn’t the question. When do you put up your tree.
Unless you live in a shopping centre. In that case, carry on.
Who else wants a Key To Kyrat? 2 hours of Far Cry 4 co-op goodness. Still got I think 5 left.
Also, @@cufcfan616, what’s your PSN ID (can’t find it on TAYNames) so I can send you a friend request so I can give you one.
Ah yes, same as on here, cufcfan616
Cheers 😀
If you run out I’ve got another 10. Played a good chunk last night, it was pretty great, just need to get all those pesky early missions out of the way so I can go wandering.
Spawn Point Bar is pretty fun. Wasn’t too busy last night, but it would be great to watch/join various 4 player battles on the different games if more people were there. Apparently Saturday got really busy.
My only gripe was the lack of a tap beer/cider.
I played Double Dash for the first time ever and that was really fun.
Double Dash is great. Co op Karting is awesome 😀
3rd best ever Mario Kart!
After Super Circuit then DS, right?
God no, DS>64>DD>who cares
Well two out of three ain’t so bad 😛
After spending so much time with Super Circuit then SMK, going back to MK64 it felt like complete garbage. Only one I hate more than that is MKWii.
Well, at least we can hate Wii together. I didn’t much like the controls in Super Circuit. Felt like it didn’t know if it was either SMK or 64.
64 I played more than any. Including battle mode, block fort is the best!
Yeah, I played tonnes of 64 back in the day. Just can’t seem to be able to revisit it now 🙁
Definitely haven’t had as good a battle mode since. Which is actually… damn, I never stopped to think about it before. How do they keep messing it up? I mean Double Dash was ok I guess, and I don’t think I even had a chance to play Super Circuit’s because equipment, DS was alright except for the weird balloon/mic thing and CPU players everywhere. But then Wii had that stupid teams thing which just no, 7 didn’t even have battles? And 8 is Nintendo what are you even doing (though admittedly it’s nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be).
Six iterations and they still can’t seem to crack the formula they once had :/
@mrtaco Yeah, I’ve stepped off the MK fan band wagon
I’d didn’t think Super Circuit was shit. Nice inclusion of the SNES tracks.
Possibly 4th.
Woooo! Netflix just tweeted that Australia will get Netflix in March next year! It’s about time!
I’m excited! (But cautious until they reveal exactly what content they’ll have available :P)
That might be a really bad thing if it means they cut off any Australians (like me) that are paying for a US account and using an unblocking service.
Also based on other non-US Netflix lineups I expect the AU offering to be ten times the price with a tenth of the content.
I’m betting on three times the price and a third of the content.
However, that’s a disclaimer that allows for a tenth of the popular content. I strongly suspect they won’t have much trouble providing us with the 90% back-catalogue of shows no-one watches.
(Edit: And yes, I’m sure you were exaggerating, but I’m not. I’m betting on triple the price at worst, double at best.)
That might not be that bad. I mainly watch documentaries and periodically old films on Netflix.
So I got two emails in my inbox from CD Japan about them shipping my preorders to me I thought it was a little strange that they sent me two so I looked up my order history.
Turns out I preordered the exact same item in September and early November my memory was so poor in early November that I couldn’t remember already placing one months ago =/
#goodmemory
What did you order?
Can’t remember
X’Mas Collections Music From BRAVELY DEFAULT, I’ve been buying all the music and drama CDs for Bravely Default for collection reasons.
This is a worthy cause. Especially since the music in that game was rad.
Still kind of disappointed they dropped Revo for the sequel. Ryo is a good composer and Bravely Second will have a nice piano-heavy soundtrack but Revo’s style was perfect for that sort of game.
Now I get to spend all morning trying to sort out bank accounts. Woot for being a high powered business man *cries*
I may or may not have bought a 4th copy of Dragon Age Origins because it was $8 & I may or may not now own it on 360, PS3 & PC.
I may or may not have started 3 different Origins in indecision.
I may or may not regret grabbing Awakening on PS3 when it was on special even though my 360 is freely available.
I may or at not be highly anticipating Dragon Age Inquisition.
I may or may not have not read or read this.
It is undecided if I did or did not read , re-read or not read the reply that you allegedly may or may not have made.
You sound really unsure and indecisive.
That may or may not e a ruse
DA:I certainly does look pretty. I think I need to talk to my wife about whether I’m allowed to play origins by myself. She enjoys the games and doesn’t want me to play without her but never wants to play them *shakes fist*
I may or may not suggest accidentally on purpose starting a game when she’s not around & claim you were just seeing if it ran & got addicted.
DRAGON AAAGE HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE!
So hype.
Woah… it’s Wednesday.
Dude
Woah
So two things. Was a big adult man and signed up for my own health insurance which was confusing.
Secondly, holy shit Australian retail prices for stuff is shithouse. Want to buy a camera lens, Amazon sells it for $400, every Australian store sells it for $550 or more. WHAT IS THIS COUNTRY.
I don’t have health insurance
After the age of thirty when you DO eventually sign up for health insurance (which you really should do when you’re older, because you’ll need it), your premiums get an additional percentage surcharge added, for every year you were without it.
I HAD to get insurance when I hit 31 or face truly, stupidly crippling costs when I do need it down the track.
On the plus side, by not having insurance for the beginning of my independent adult life, I probably saved somewhere between six to fifteen grand.
I’m 32 spent a lot of time in hospitals & doctors with various ailments. Have no problem making use of free services the government provides.
Australian hospitals are amazin.
I’m more thinking of dental. I have great teeth, but the free 6-monthly check and clean is almost worth the price I pay, and if I take after my folks, I’m probably going to need some expensive work done. Same for the elective stuff with my gut.
Australian hospitals ARE amazing, and I’ve had lacerations, suspected broken bones, gastroenteritis, and suspected concussions dealt with swiftly and professionally, but non-emergencies? Not so much.
Hey, so…what does health insurance provide other than private rooms & faster service?
It’s often the only way to get access to optional or non-emergency treatment. Probably not an issue for you right now, but just as an example from personal experience: some OB/GYNs for instance require you to have insurance.
Also, if you have glasses, you can hit up Specsavers for two new pairs every year for no additional cost.
OB/GYNs?
Obstetrics and gynecologists. Usually for pregnancy-related stuff.
I had a child, they did all that stuff free of charge & immediately.
My wife was really impressed by the whole experience.
This will be the only reason I end up getting healthcare, I think.
@janexo just be aware that they have increased the waiting periods on these to 12 months now I think. So get that all sorted before you start down that path. Otherwise you will find that your cover comes into effect 2 months after your baby is born.
Not that I would know anything about doing that *shifty eyes*
@janexo – @tigerion’s got that right. Gotta be careful ’bout dem wait periods.
However, I’m pretty sure that if you ask, you can often get wait periods shortened or eliminated for certain procedures as a joining incentive, depending on the salesperson.
@tigerion @transientmind – thanks, duders <3 (Got a few years to go, anyway).
Health insurance is a discount card. A fucking expensive one.
Upgrading to dental is a pretty sensible idea, and if you have eyesight issues and need to see optometrists/get glasses; that’s usually a pretty good bonus as well. You can run a bit of a scam to include physio/massage and gym membership if you care about that and killing two birds with one money-stone.
After a while though, it’s about the waiting lists. Got plenty of friends and family with non-emergency day-surgeries and the like who would have been in pain and discomfort – but not emergency – for months, if relying purely on the public system.
Additionally, medicare doesn’t cover everything. For example, if you need dental work done, that’s out of pocket unless it’s an emergency (like some bogan just knocked your teeth out). Which actually can have a lot of knock-on effects on general health even when there’s low-grade problems.
Hospital cover is definitely the biggest reason, as Transient says below, any non-essential or non-emergency surgery has a pretty hefty waiting list in the public system, especially things like knee and hip surgery.
I’ll be 40 next year, and I flat out refuse to pay for health insurance until Medicare has been abolished and there is literally no other option.
That’s how I’m doing it. Working well so far.
I meant to get Health insurance last year because they start bumping up the price based on your age after you turn 31 and I didn’t get around to it.
I should really at least get ambulance cover or something.
I thought ambulances were covered by rate payers now?
Weren’t arsehats racking up giant bills in drunken brawls & never paying because they went to jail or wherever?
No, well at least in vic we still have separate ambulance cover
Also a PSA for people relying on their health cover for this, you should get your ambulance cover on top of this. Most funds only cover the first trip so if you happen to be out in the country somewhere and get rushed to the local hospital that is covered by your health insurance. If they then need to air lfit you to a city hospital you are hit with the bill for that flight.
I thought you needed to apply for totally seperate travel heath insurance?
Talking about just general insurance. Country as in a small country town without a critical care unit like like Bendigo, Orange, Bundaberg or Canberra. Although just as applicable if they airlift you from the Monash to the Alfred because the Alfred has a better burns unit.
Most health insurance policies will say they include ambulance, but that can be the trap.
I had health insurance until about three months ago, but then my dad cut me off as soon as I cut contact with him. Not really sure what to think about the whole ordeal at the moment, I’ve avoided thinking about it.
Australia Tax! \o/
Food, booze and Bunnings are the only retail shopping I do anymore.
For everything else, there’s the internet.
I’ve used Camera Paradise for all of my gear. Heaps cheaper than Australian retail, and pretty quick shipping.
Oh man, thank you. Been scouring everywhere for a decent online place.
@shane tag here for making extra sure all bases are covered: Kickstarter photos are sent. Lemme know if they need to be re-done/re-sent elsewhere.
Got them. Thanks, man! Reply email sent.
Reply email: I said topless god damn it
@gutsoup and @janexo, don’t know how far you’ve gotten in Far Cry 4 yet, but I just finished Act 1, and it came up that co-op play has been unlocked, I would’ve thought that it would’ve been unlocked from the start, or at least after the prologue.
hmm, I must not be that Far in, I’m only up to the first outpost. I got very distracted chasing animals with a bow.
After you do the first outpost, that’s the end of Act 1.
Go to takeover my first outpost in Far Cry 4, and there’s an Elephant standing at the gate.
Give him a bullet in the ass and sit back and watch the carnage.So awesome.
Did you have a sniper rifle yet? God, that’s my favourite way to take down an outpost; let an animal loose and pick off the rest if needed. Sometimes I could headshot two guys with one bullet! GLORY DAYS.
Nah, no sniper rifle yet.
I kicked the cage open and he trampled me to death 😀
Good morning, good morning! SO. FAR CRY 4. (no spoilers, don’t worry)
Wowowow what a beautiful world! Oh god. And Pagan Min is already such an awesome character, and the main dude of The Golden Path is super good looking too. GOOD FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
Now, the funny part – I’ve started the game three times. I played once to get the silly secret ending thing out of the way, which was great. Then I started again, just up to taking out the first radio tower, then I let my boyfriend play some GTA V since he picked it up on PS4, as well.
Then this morning, I got up early to play some more, and realised that there is only ONE save slot this time! Wut. And because I was playing on our joint-account (by accident), I had to restart it on my sign-in on the PS4. OH WELL. Good thing it’s super fun to play 😀 😀 😀
Getting up early just to play video games seems weird to me. Then again, I usually just stay up late and be super tired for work so I suppose everyone is different for squeezing in their gaming time.
I’m with Jane, getting up early to play a game (on a non-work day :P) is the best. You feel like you’ve played for ages and ages, look at the clock and it’s still only 10am or something.
On weekends 10am is usually when I wake up. 😛
I’ve actually done the whole game through the night and witness the sunrise while playing which is a pretty great feeling. So I can understand the morning gaming situation, although from a slightly different point of view.
Yeah, I know? Haha, but I wanted to squeeze in as much as I could to tide me over till tonight!
What secret ending?
SPOILERS!
At the beginning when you’re dining with Pagan and he goes off to use the phone, and tells you to just sit tight – if you literally just sit there, and ignore the prompt to get up and explore (like, just idling for 10-15 minutes), he comes back in, all chuffed that you’re there, and tells you this big sexy story and then takes you to scatter your momma’s ashes and tells you a whole OTHER story (that I will not spoil here in case it comes up in the main story later) and then he’s all, “Let’s go mess shit up!” and cue credits.It’s pretty great.
Ah, gotcha.
I started watching Star Wars Rebels last night. About four episodes in and I think it’s pretty good, better than Clone Wars I reckon. Although the subtle and not-so subtle Star Wars references are starting to grate a little bit.
That said, the characters are pretty cool although goddamn Steve Blum being in another damn thing keeps taking me out of the show a bit. Also I sincerely wish that they made Stormtroopers semi-competent at least once because it starts to strain belief that the Empire is even able to be held together with such poorly-trained soldiers.
Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.
Well they are! They’re actually good guys protecting their “targets” from invisible aliens that are about to jump and maul them.
Let me guess, gruff-sounding voice again? Anything’s better than the “Trying to sound Australian as well” gruff voice that he tried to do in Dead Island though.
Yeah. His voice is so damn distinctive that I can pick him really easily in newer stuff. Plus the fact that it barely changes between characters kinda seems a bit odd when you see/hear other VAs who have a much more diverse range of voices behind them.
His is way more unique and easy to spot though cuz of the grating in his voice. Don’t get me wrong, he does it very well but there is such a thing as doing it way too much that it’s just dull, and it really makes him sound like a one trick pony voice actor.
I saw the first episode and thought it was decent. I haven’t watched past that yet, though. Will probably just wait for a DVD set of S1.
An ‘Empire’ that only lasted somewhere around 20yrs isn’t much of an empire.
Just one of many sins that the prequel trilogy committed.
The bigger sin is the widespread disbelief/dismissal of the Force as ‘an ancient/hokey religion’ when in the same generation, the Force was the central point behind an intra-galactic order of space wizards as the Republic’s special police/diplomatic corps.
Yup. The entire thing is utter nonsense.
My periodic check for a Beatrix figurine announcement has once again proved fruitless. I will continue in vain hope that one day they will come to their senses and do the best FF character the justice she deserved.
Question: Figure you would sell your children to get if only they would make one. Which would it be?
Hmm. I was strongly considering spending too much money on a Samus figure a while back, before the Figma thing happened. But couldn’t justify it.
Now that I do have a Samus though, I’m not sure what would be up there as my most want. I guess a badass Captain Falcon figure would be pretty awesome, although for what you’re describing it would have to be fairly sizeable, at least 25cm tall, and highly detailed and articulated.
Other than that, some kind of awesome Battletoads diorama would also probably suck my wallet dry.
There’s a beat statue coming out, but it’s the JSR design and not the JSRF one =(
I HAVE NO CHILDREN
but i really would like a Levi Figure from Attack on Titan. But i am not getting it because im scared ill buy 400 of them.
I quite like Beatrix. Far better than most of the cast of IIX.
Where the devil did that extra I come from.
The Christmas tree stuff reminded me that I saw my first lot of Christmas lights on a house on my way home Monday night. Too early for those also 😛
Then I saw something fly up on the power lines which I thought looked like an owl which made me wonder if we even have owls here since I’ve never actually seen one before. I like stories.
Back when I was a young’n we had a miniature poodle puppy who was really tiny. One evening we went outside to grab him for dinner and there was an enormous owl sitting on our fence staring down the little dog who was hiding under a chair.
Lucky we went out when we did or that owl might’ve had a lovely dinner 😛
Aw that poor owl.
There are lots of native owls. We get the lovely Tawny Frogmouth ones around our house, and we can hear them hooting at night. A much more pleasant sound than the possums, which sound like a parrot being strangled.
Just looking at the trophies for Far Cry 4 and 0.1% of people have got the platinum….WAIT… WHAT! Who the hell could’ve platinum’d it already.
Advance copy reviewers, maybe? Game devs? Streetdate breaking Gamestop employees?
I’ve never seen a trophy at 0.0% , there’s always someone.
I did, just now, the platinum for The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth.
Rocketmans list of skills he really wants to learn
1. Welding
2. How to use ableton live (Seriously im sure its good for people who understand the user interface but its so confusing)
3. Woodworking
4.How to use my DSLR on not auto mode.
THATS ALL FOR NOW
I downloaded some ebooks on using my camera but i suspect the only way to learn is by taking 400 shit photos of trees and birds and slowly getting better.
Okay, step one for the DSLR, switch it to either aperture priority, or shutter priority. If you leave the ISO on auto it’ll be similar to auto-mode, but you get control over either how wide your Depth of Field is, or, obviously enough, the shutter speed. Practice with that for a bit, and then go take some shit photos of trees and birds. It’s what I did!
Maybe saying that it’s what I did mightn’t be the best recommendation…
Based on my experience in 7th grade woodworking seems to be a matter of owning or not owning the tools. You need a wood-turning lathe, a manual lathe, chisenl, files, saws, hammers, drills, a variety of lacquers, sandpaper, screws, nails, etc etc. After that you’re limited only by your imagination! (and your capacity to buy loads of suitable wood)
As the Baron said, the biggest hurdle to woodworking is tools.
But it also depends on what you want to do. Woodworking is a broad category.
Probably something along these lines
Watching DA:I preload on my laptop at work reminds me just how shit my home internet really is. Averaging 61MB/s… Time spent downloading: about 6 minutes. Time spent eagerly awaiting tomorrow night when I’ll actually be able to play it: 2580 minutes. *sigh* /firstworldproblems
Sarcasm? because im over here in north QLD getting 400kB/s
Sorry, edited: I’m at work. My home connection gets maybe 1MB/s. I realised after I posted that it could have been read as humblebrag.
hahah its cool
Man that’s shit, I’m lucky if I can get 1.1 MB/s
Edit: Damn edits, well now I just look like a jerk.
My fault. This is why I spend like ten minutes re-reading all my comments before posting – the one time I don’t, it gets easily misconstrued and I sound like either a moron or an elitist. Expression ain’t my forte.
Chill dude, I sound like a ten year old all the time. Mostly because of my inabilty to use english correctly. You are fine dont be so hard on yourself.
Inquisition is 9.5 Terabytes?
?? 61MBps for 6 minutes is roughly 21GB, by my math, and that’s what Origin was telling me.
Oh, the 2580 minutes I won’t be able to play it – preload won’t unlock until late tonight, so that counts for work today and tomorrow.
How big is it?
DL is about 21-22GB, install size is 24.3GB. I actually expected it to be larger…
Awesome. That’s smaller than I thought it’d be too, I’d been assuming it’d be 40-50gb.
Still will have to uninstall some stuff to fit it on my SSD though.
HI GUYS.
FUCK WORK. ITS BULLSHIT. ALSO, BILLS. THEY’RE SHIT, TOO. & REPLACING ALL THE STUFF THAT DECIDED TO BREAK SIMULTANEOUSLY. ALL THE ANGRY, ALL THE TIME.
ANYWAY. GONNA HAVE THE GREATEST WEEKEND FULL OF NOT DOING A GODDAMN THING OTHER THAN PLAYING DRAGON AGE AND FAR CRY.
YEAH. SO HOW’S THINGS WITH YOU LOT?
EDIT: HELL YES. SWEARY ALL-CAPS PAGE GET.
EDIT #2 : I DECLARE THIS ALL-CAPS PAGE NINE.
YEAH, FAR CRRRRYYYYYYYYY.
CRUISE CONTROL OR MANUAL?
MANUAL ALL THE WAY
AARRRRRGH HOW CAN DA:I NOT HAVE BROKEN STREET DATE YET WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THIS IS TORTURE
If it does, I’ll get confused but please tell me if it does, if it does!
WHY IS IT ALL THE CLOTHING STONES ARE FULL OF NOTHING BUT A CERTAIN FASHION YET NO ONE IS EVER WEARING IT?
EDIT: BECAUSE IF PEOPLE WERE WEARING IT, THE STORES WOULDN’T BE FULL ANYMORE.
ALL. CAPS. PAGE. NINE.
I AM SINCERELY SORRY AND HOPE THAT I HAVEN’T OFFENDED YOU WITH MY OVERSIGHT.
THANK YOU, SHANE. YOUR RAISED VOICE IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
MY PHONES AUTOCORRECT REALLY REALLY DOES NOT LIKE ALL CAPS! EVERY SENTENCE IS A STRUGGLE!
IF YOU HAVEN’T PLEDGED TO UNDAD YET, NOW IS THE IDEAL TIME.
WHY? BECAUSE I SAID SO. NOW CLEAN YOUR ROOM.
ALSO, TAYBIES GET ENTRIES INTO A STRANGE GIVEAWAY.
hey guys what’s going on on this page
DONT BE THAT GUY, POW.
ALL. CAPS. PAGE. NINE.
I’VE BEEN DRESS SHOPPING FOR LIKE TWO HOURS NOW AND I LITERALLY CAN’T EVEN.
i don’t know but i think we should keep things nice a calm here. no yelling or anything
mellow > rage
DRAGON AGE ISN’T OUT YET YOU HAVE TO WAIT MORE.
*twitch*
HOW DID OCTOBER WORK OUT FOR YOU IN THE END?
I think I cheated a little. In the face of certain issues of glaring injustice I substituted outrage for snark, which was certainly calmer, but no less petty.
On the whole, however, it was probably a good thing for my blood pressure.
I remember an episode of M*A*S*H where Colonel Potter had high blood pressure, and they tried to keep him calm, but their efforts made things even worse. The point was that suppressing angry responses is even more unhealthy than letting yourself be angry. I hope that was fiction though and your blood pressure is indeed better.
#ThingsMASHTeachesYou
WHAT?
YOU’LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP
YOU FORGOT “GET OFF MA LAWN”
I vant some taquitos…
You sunk my battleship
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thimbleweedpark/thimbleweed-park-a-new-classic-point-and-click-adv I assume that @dc already backed this?
Is that a link to Undad?
It’s a link to a spiritual successor to Maniac Mansion done in the same old SCUMM style by original designers of Maniac Mansion, Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick.
Scumm!!!
HMM…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thimbleweedpark/thimbleweed-park-a-new-classic-point-and-click-adv
\O/?
DAMN.
OH WAIT I AM AN IDIOT AND DID IT AROUND THE WRONG WAY
I did 😀
Fun fact! I’ve never Kickstarted any thing! Too poor!
THAT’S NOT FUN. >:(
It’s a little fun. Once the descent into madness kicks in and you can’t support your friends and feel like a terrible person. FUUUN. 😛
Lunch would be nice.
I’m going to the awesome vegetarian place Tea Master.
If you pass a filthy hobo, don’t stop to give him money. That was Brett’s undoing.
Ha!
I don’t get it.
http://shanewsmith.com/undad/
Oh right, I thought it was gonna be a TV reference & then I was gonna make a gag about how I remember TV for adults from back before I had a child. But I won’t make that gag now because it wouldn’t work.
Sorry. Hey, remember that scene in… OZ… where they did that really violent thing.
Return to Oz is pretty creepy for a kids flick
#oblivious
I started playing Koudelka on an emulator on my phone. So far so good.
Probably, closest comparison is Parasite Eve
I’ve never ‘eard of it, I played Parasite Eve once for 30 seconds in Black & White and you were there!
Actually, I came in after & was really disappointed because I wanted to play.
I bought it years later from eBay.
Both games are like a cross between PSX FF & PSX RE
You must have seen either myself or Old Snake playing PE2 at some point. Surely!
Capcom better rush that Resident Evil HD remaster out the door because it has a similarly vague release date of early 2015 same as Revelations 2 & I don’t have time in my life for 2 REs in the same month!
seems to be the way with releases lately, big voids then a cluster of games followed by another void.
Stupid. Plenty of games I would have grabbed duduring the void but they miss out because I’ve moved on.
I just watched TB’s WTF is on “This war of mine” and it looks absolutely fantastic.
I’m trying to resist buying games until the Christmas sales but that game is making it hard. Looks like it could be my favorite war gave ever (keeping in mind I haven’t played valiant hearts yet.)
The only reason I haven’t given in and got it yet is I’m trying to finish pokemon Y.
SEVERE LACK OF CAPS ON PAGE 9 CAPS PAGE MAKES ME YEARN FOR ONION RINGS.
ALSO, HURRY UP WEEKEND!
HURRY UP WEEKEND INDEED. OR JUST HURRY UP 5PM.
STAY AWAY WEEKEND, MY SPEECH ISN’T READY YET
ALTHOUGH I THINK I’VE COME UP WITH A PRETTY GOOD ENDING. JUST NEEDS THE REST BEFORE IT.
I played a bunch of WoW the last few days but last night I got into Gorgrond and I felt my progress start to feel very stymied. Probably didn’t help that I was ganked twice. But also so far the zone feels like everything I didn’t like about WoW in one place. Does it get better?
Seems everyone has their own taste for zones =p I personally enjoyed the crap out of Gorgrond but Piat didn’t like it all that much; however he loved Spires of Arak and I hated it =,=. Let’s just say each zone has it’s own personality when it comes to quests and bonus objectives.
That said to date I haven’t once engaged in any form of PvP while levelling so it’s been a very peaceful zen like experience ^^ Also worth noting if you aren’t enjoying a zone and you’ve unlocked quests for the next zone just skip ahead =] I think there’s enough quests in WoD that you can skip pretty much 80% of one zone of your choosing e.g. I’ve just finished Spires of Arak and have 6 bars to 100.
I did everything I could find in the opening area because it was great. Maybe I was just tired and the ganking (both times while I was fighting a mob :\) plus the fact I was also trying to run through the KanColle event at the same time (and failing because the goddamn compass fairy sends me North after the second battle most of the time and prevents me making it to the boss) maybe I was just feeling stressed.
Currently about 20% of the way to 94 and haven’t done much of Gorgrond yet. Leveling’s pretty fast.
Have you got the guild set up yet? Feel free to invite if you see me on.
Yep guild’s set up just send me a PM when you see me online; pretty sure I accepted your Bnet Invite last night =]
I didn’t mind Gorgrond much, but my preferred zone so far is the zone-formerly-known-as Terokkar Forest. Nagrand is much the same as it always was, with some highlights, and there have been a few nice surprises and a few ungodly frustrations in the Spires of Arak – the part of Outland which fell into the nether. (The north part of Arak is Skettis – the southern part of Outland.) Apparently the Allis get Shadowmoon. Not sure if I’ll eventually end up there or in Tanaan Jungle.
Also, not being on a PVP server makes questing/mining/exploring/everything SO much more enjoyable. Levelling up on PVP server is something akin to setting your phone up to play a klaxon effect every fifteen minutes, which can only be temporarily deactivated by answering math problems. I’ve done it before out of curiosity, and am no longer curious. Outside of that, I don’t know why anyone would do it, and I never will again. Ever.
Now to be fair, this is the first pvp server I have played on.
But in my journey to 100 I have died to pvp just twice. Once to a ganker when I was afk at a flightmaster and once when someone shot the wrong target in a quest cave full of players of both factions.
Other than that, everyone has better things to do and just ignores the other side.
Hell I’ve accidentally set my pet onto alliance peeps at least a dozen times and they’ve just politely waited for me to call him off.
Lol this! I’ve accidentally fired moonfire on allies and they just ignore it unless I go out of my way to attack them. To date I’ve been part of zero PvP skirmishes while questing. WoW has become quite peaceful in it’s old age… =]
I’ve found Gorgrond to be fairly open to both Alliance and Horde so I can imagine playing on a PvP server would be annoying.
I rolled Alliance on Saurfang and I’ve really enjoyed the zones so far. I can’t compare to the Horde starting zone but Shadowmoon was a blast.
Frostwall is pretty cool, especially if you are into the horde lore.
Have they invented a cure for sleep yet?
Edit: that isn’t narcotics
Cocai….
Oh.
…Coffee?
I think I’ve become immune from drinking liters of coffee every day.
Yeah, I’ve asked pharmacists about that before. Sleeping cures exist, they are all either ineffective or illegal. Because I don’t know, The Man is an asshole.
oh well, narcotics will have to do 😛
You can try the Russian ‘No Sleep’ hypothesis:
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment
Hey I read about that before, I … I Don’t think I want to do that.
O_O
I think I prefer my insides on the inside, thanks.I know right
I wanted a cure for sleep not life 😛So I’ve put over 45 hours into Theatrhythm, apparently. How on earth did that happen? I just play it on the bus to and from work, and then a bit at night, and sometimes when the kids are watching TV, and then occasionally first thing in the m… Oh.
I feel myself slowly getting caught in the do nothing trap of unemployment. NEED TO DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE.
Watch Coherence
That was fast!
I know, it took me two months before I started to think to myself “Maybe tomorrow I’ll put pants on”
AW WHERE DID THE NEVER ALONE REVIEW GO
COME BACK
Got a call from the Optus guy this morning regarding my email yesterday. He said he was about 30mins away from calling me with good news, but got told to wait. Sounds like offer details may come through on Monday, so I might be able to pull this off after all!! Fingers and toes crossed!
I never uncrossed them from last time, life has been awkward 😛
Where’s my Dragon Age! *runs off crying*
YOU’RE BACK!
Literally, in the same room as mine & @gutsoup s I’d say.
You suggesting a JB Hifi heist? We’ll need some wheels, bolt cutters and a devil may care attitude!
You also need to enlist the help of eight other lovable rogues, and formulate a needlessly complicated plan, and then secretly put into action an entirely separate plan that no one else knows about to further a personal agenda. *nods*
Dragon Age is a cover for my beloved dance simulators!
Oh, I got mine from EB because of that mad trade in deal after E3. Awkward.
Well it’s in the same building atleast. We’d just have to make a heist detour! Maybe visit the pet shop opposite at the same time to see some cute kittens! Make a night of it!
That sounds like a good plan. Donut zking is on the way too, we can have milkshake
Fun fact; the JB Hi-Fi my partner works at has been ram-raided! Twice!
Ooooh! Maybe he can hook us up with heist people!
– The kid wants Dragon Age.
– We don’t have the damn Dragon Age.
– Don’t whisper into the mike.
They’re playing the Dragon Age song! I love that! Reminds me of Dragon Age!
Powalen’s Adventures With Clients At Work! *jingle*
Client: “Oh hey, we need our website logo changed to a temporary Christmas design”
Sure, we can do that!
Client: “Great! Change it to that now, then on December 25th we need it reverted back to the normal design”
You… you want to take down the Christmas-themed logo ON Christmas Day?
Client: “Yup. Obviously we won’t be in the office on that day, so we’ll need you guys to make sure the logo gets changed on that date”
…Yeah, sure, I’ll get right on that. Who needs a day off for Christmas!
Question
Am I the only one around here that actively, often replays old games and also checks out other old games that I missed?
I did it with SNES emulators til I ran dry (that’s a lie, just found some fanslations of SMT 1&2) & these days I hunt down old PSX games.
I did play old adventure games constantly until I played everything I wanted. Now it’s just a few shameful oversights… like Fate of Atlantis. PIPE DOWN, FREEZE! DON’T YOU JUDGE ME!
Sometimes! It’s probably more true to say that I tend to buy them and not play them though.
I emulate before I buy. Most of the ones on the to play list are not PAL
I finished a lot of my favourite SNES games on emulators, stuff I already loved but never actually completed. (We rented games out when I was a kid and rarely had them long enough to 100%.)
Stuff like Yoshi’s Island and the DKC3.
Same, same. It’s how I started but then I found stuff like chrono trigger…
I’ll periodically go on binges where I play through games that I enjoyed a while ago. Not old games, just games that have left the current spotlight.
It’s a fun way to keep perspective.
Yeah, I think that’s important, helps keep from developing that entitled attitude.
I’ve already got one of those :p
Actively and often? Maybe 😛
I’m like what Shane said. More often end up buying an old game I missed, but don’t get around to playing it.
I play old games more than new.
I like u
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At the moment, I’m alternating between P4G, FFXIII and Super Metroid.
Ahhh, FF XIII, I recently jumped back in after having a pleasant experience with Dragon Age II the second try.
I did not enjoy it:(
Super Metroid & P4G are in my top ten.
Yeah, FFXIII is a bit of a slog the second time around for me too.
I got right to the end the my HDD died the first time.
apart from the graphics & some music, there isn’t much I find interesting enough in that game 🙁
I play on my PS1 all the time. I’m almost done 100%ing Spyro the Dragon!
I JUST BOUGHT GTA V FOR MY XB1 AND I AM EXCITED TO PLAY IT TONIGHT.
THERE WAS 1 COPY OUT THE BACK OF THE DICK SMITH STORE LUCKILY. IT WAS ONLY $70.
DID YOU MAKE THEM GO OUT THE BACK TO GET IT? DID YOU ASK THEM TO GO OUT THE BACK?
I’M SURE SOME OTHER STAFF MEMBER OF DICK SMITH’S IS NOW FUMING THAT THEIR HIDDEN COPY, STASHED ‘OUT BACK’, HAS BEEN SOLD BY ANOTHER STAFF MEMBER.
THAT MAKES ME SMILE.
Monster!
ALWAYS SOMETIMES YES
Also this all caps page nine is getting to me. I need punctuation in my life.
WHEN HE SAID TO ME THERE *MAY* BE ONE COPY LEFT. I STARED DEEP IN TO HIS EYES AND SAID ‘I’D LIKE THAT PLEASE.’ HE GOT THE MESSAGE AND RETURNED WITH IT IN HAND. HAHAHA.
You got him lost in your eyes for trickster purposes? YOU MONSTER!
I AM ASHAMED.
I really feel like lying on the couch all afternoon playing games since I’ve spent all morning dress and shoe shopping with the wife.
Only chance I’ll get to see Interstellar though so I probably should go do that.
3 hours though….
Remember when 2 hours was an absurdly long time for a movie to run?
Didn’t feel like three hours which is always a good thing. 🙂 (Your mileage may very, Freezey.)
No?
http://www.randalolson.com/2014/01/25/movies-arent-actually-much-longer-than-they-used-to-be/?r=1
So yes?
#OldManFreeze
Ooooh! This for weekend shindig? I best pick out my finest clothes! *lumberjack shirt with missing button*
Is that the one you killed a bear in with your bare fists, or was it the one that you killed the lion in, with your bare fists?
Drifter. Didn’t want to be punched in the sternum. I sure showed them.
please don’t ever leave us again we love you
<3
Enjoy, man.
I got to confess that I’m really enjoying Taylor Swift’s Blank Space. *dances*
Dammit it’s stuck in my head now!
Its pretty fantastic, her facial expressions are so good.
I find this new album amazing. So self aware. She knows her reputation and embraces it. 😀
YAAAAAASSSSSSS. Oh god, when she stands on the horse?! Magic.
Just finished delivering training to a very genteel, softly-spoken woman with a faint English accent.
I now feel like I am the most ocker 3-ruted-out-cars-in-the-front-yard bogan ever.
To be fair, I don’t think you can compete with those out in the rural and mining areas. My sister went out to work west of Mackay and everyone there thought she was English because she “didn’t sound Australian” to the locals.
That’s Mackay!
*cue sitcom outtro*
Saw “Interstellar” this morning, holy crap what a weird film.
Good, though.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/11/17/here-s-the-full-track-list-for-grand-theft-auto-v-on-xbox-one-and-ps4.aspx
New songs in GTA5. Some of these will be amazing for driving about. The thing with this game is you don’t even have to like to songs to appreciate how they fit. Driving around downtown Los Santos with Gimme More playing was a highlight of that game for me.
Midnight City in particular will be amazing!
AND CHRVCHES
Non-Stop Pop got a major upgrade. Wowww I’m so keen for this.
West Coast Classics REPRESENT
Such a G.
Oh man, Non-Stop-Pop FM was already my station of choice, but those new tracks have made it even better.
We went to about 30 clothes stores today. They are torture. Wife couldn’t find anything she liked and everytime she asked the shop girls a question they just mumbled and waved her off or just flat out ignored her.
Ended up n a shop called Blockout and holy crap the difference was amazing. Soon as we walked in was greeted by everyone and they immediately started chatting to her about what she wanted, what would look good on her and enthusing about her birthday with her. They then ran about picking out a whole bunch of different outfits for her, mixing and matching stuff. Didn’t hurt they were all drop dead gorgeous in a very girl next door sort of way 😛 (hey, I’m still alive aren’t I?)
Ended up walking out of there $300 lighter. Difference attitude makes with customers.
Do clothes stores put you to sleep?
Clothes stores put me to sleep.
How funny that a shop called Blockout was the most welcoming.
HEY GUYS WHAT’S GOING ON ON THIS PAGE
Proper grammar Page 10.
i Think Ill like it hear
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
New project! Calling every EB Games and JB Hi-Fi in the Greater Brisbane Area to check for secret breaches of street date. Jesus, of all the release dates to actually KEEP…
I get it ‘Keep’
#DragonAgeHumour&/orObsession
Oh man, I’ve spent entirely too long on that damn keep. My character seems perfect, but I bet the first scene in the game they’ll make reference to something that never happened. YOU BEST BELIEVE I’LL BE SHAKING MY FIST!
I put in way too long setting up an evil & a goody in anticipation of replays. Realised I need to do it all again in my Aussie account just in case something gets lost on the US one (like au dlc).
But I can share stares can’t I?
Or states
There’s a share button. I’ve never clicked on it. Remember to lock your ‘world state’ once you’re happy with it so you don’t accidentally auto save over them. I am a man who speaks from experience! 😛
Oh yeah, I did my good save then saved over the whole thing with the evil save.
I’m sure I live tweeted this.
Uuurrrgh. Midnight launches. That’s why they’re keeping it. It was apparently important enough to KEEP (@jimu -five!) for midnight launches. BAH. Fine. Guess I’ll have to keep playing WoW/GTA5/raid Destiny. Hmph.
Fuck these middle of the week midnight launches, I have gossamer work to attend!
Usually I justify that I don’t care about street breaks by saying it needs to unlock on Steam or Origin and I won’t be able to play it anyway. (MASTER RACE!) When it’s out everywhere else in the world I just get sad. :'(
Only one game I’ve ordered locally bbroke stretch date, I think maybe ninokuni
Gossamer? Autocorrect is getting farncy
Get back to work!
I love that particular episode, but what?
The orange guy is named Gossamer D:
Really? All this time & I had no idea. Thought he was just monster or some generic shit.
There you go.
Is that in the toon or credits or did they come up with it later?
You’re right! According to Wikipedia he was given that name in a cartoon in 1980! Just “The Monster” before then.
The more you know.
I had been procrastinating to apply for a particular job for a week and a half. Got the nerve to apply on Sunday evening. Went to do it. Saw applications closed two hours ago that very day. I was sad.
Glad you tried. Just take it as motivation to try earlier next time!
Ideally you should be applying for something as soon as you can! (Easier said than done, I know :P)
The sucky thing is when you haven’t worked in a while almost every single job on Seek has been ‘fancied’ up to sound like you need ten degrees to apply even for retail job. It can get to you, my friend. 🙂 I want an honest job site!
I once saw a job ad that had a subtitle “Great for Uni Graduates!”
Minimum Requirements: 3 years experience. …Yeah, okay Job Guy 😛
I ended up getting frustrated and just sending my resume in to those sort of things anyway.
I’m almost tempted to join the army, but I wouldn’t pass psych assessment. XD
Plus pacifist and not blokey enough. 😛
If i dont end up with anything in a few months im going to join the airforce as a electronics tech. It requires me to be able to run. WE CAN TRAIN TOGETHER
Oh man, that’s a slapstick comedy movie waiting to happen! 😀
I can make funny noises too, we shall call it TOPGUN ACADEMY
The air force is a seriously good idea, by the way. Less ‘blokey’, better career mobility, lower workforce attrition. Got a mate who just finished his application really looking forward to it (and trying to convince me to join him – but I stand resolute!).
I’ve seen Stripes already.
This. Just send resume to everything. Most of the time they’re saying all that stuff to try and attract higher qualified whether needed or not.
Every job the ladyfriend applies for requires at least 2 years experience according to the ad. That is for a junior graphic designer. Are there levels below junior. Even unpaid internships arent available. CRAZY
my offer of assistance still stands if you want some help! happy to lend a hand in whatever way possible!
Thanks man, but I think the only obstacle at the moment is my own mind stopping me from doing things. Congrats on the job offers, though. So proud of you, buddy.
Yeah dude, just apply for them anyway!
Worst case is you don’t get the job, but you’re also not going to get the job if you don’t apply. You might be lucky!
Next time!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/11/why-not-work-for-the-classification-board/
My friend I worked with at Big Brother actually worked there a whiles back!
I just read through that, I thought doesn’t sound too bad.
First point of the selection criteria.
i. demonstrated involvement in the community and the ability to reflect broad community standards
I’m a hermit, so nope
Last point on the criteria.
Experience with children, whether as a parent or through former work experience, will be highly regarded.
I realized a few months back that the last time I even held a baby was my cousin who is now 20. So Nope.
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *looks again*
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *faints*
Sorry to hear that, bud.
There’s not much more motivational talks I can give you though, unfortunately.
I think I’ve said all I can say.
You know I fully support you though.
The only thing holding you back at this stage is yourself, which I fully understand, but it’s something you’ll need to work through.
I hope you learn from this though, and hope for all the best for you for future opportunities.
I sincerely hope the best for you 🙂
Haha! That last paragraph sounds like something from my report card! 😛
Thanks Stewie. You’re one of the good ones. Not like that other TAYbie.
It was supposed to be heartfelt and optimistic :’P
Aww buddy :/
Dragon Age hype!
I am hyped.
As are I
What race/class are you planning on playing as?
All of them.
but to start maybe an Lady elf mage.
I’m torn between a female elf mage and a female qunari mage for my first character. I predict I’ll spend at least an hour in the character creator making multiple characters before being able to choose which one to play as.
Yep, yep, yep.
I kinda wanna do Qunari because it’s new but think I’ll save it for later.
it is hard, I never actually beat Origins with a dwarf, so that hangs over my head.
I keep getting told Dwarf Noble is an awesome game.
Dunno – I kinda like the “eff all you humans” stance I took with my City Elf.
Yeah, City Elf was my first game. Loved it.
AAAHHHHHH DRAGON AGE HHHHAAAAIIIIIIIPPPPPPEEEEEE!!!
Invite to work’s Christmas party. Haven’t had one of those before.
Hmm.
If you don’t go I’ll be very disappointed!
I can’t tell if this is supposed to make me not go out of defiance or if I’m supposed to think it’s a trick and that not going is the end goal, then actually go so that you don’t win.
And now I don’t know what to do AND my head hurts.
It’s a “please go, get drunk, and flirt with all the women at your workplace” comment.
But they’re all like… well out of my age range.
Flirting knows no boundaries.
I make up an excuse every time 😀
It’s always really close to my birthday so I usually use that.
But then I can’t relate to or even have a decent conversation with the people here.
Yep, screw dat
Do you haveta go?
Mine has one where you have to register for it so I was all “screw dat!” and then I think someone asked me to go with them and made me their +1? So I guess it’ll be my first work Christmas party too 😛
I think you have to register, yeah. Also pay $20.
But my friend is going so there’d be at least someone I know there.
I miss @janexo! COME BACK! I MISS YOU!
You don’t suppose her and @strange are sexy spies?
My internet mum isn’t a spy. I dont give her experimental Lasers. Shutup DC and mind your business. 😛
I sniff a distraction tactic to take away attention to your sexy spyness.
I don’t classify as sexy. (Though I was checked out by someone the other day. I SPENT HOURS AFTERWARDS WONDERING WHY. I SUSPECT THEY WERE MENTALLY ILL.)
After seeing your sexiness, who isn’t?
But you do rate as handsome. Hence the checking you out
Also love the original comment 😛
I like to think wearing tuxedo next to @transientmind whilst doing espionage would bring up the handsome quotient just by
swooningbeing in his presence!Killing in the service of your nation isn’t pretty.
That’s why I’m here.
*Blue Steel pose*
You have a nice smile! They probably saw that and was like, “Oh, dang”.
*blushes reach catastrophic levels* I MUST GO!
Haha, oh you! *Winks then disappears in a flash of pink smoke*
<3 It was nice being missed. You’re awesome.
Hey TAY, I know it’s a smidge early to really think about it, and I know it’s a longshot that anybody would actually want to join me, but can I convince anyone to join me in a group TAY version of Do they know it’s Christmas? (Yes, it’s super lame, that’s the point)
Singing ability would not be required, a way to record your voice, and enthusiasm are all you need.
SATIRE!
I got it!
I’m choosing to believe that any response means you’re interested. Thanks D.C.!
You can sample my Party in the USA thing on Instagram if you must, but there’ll be hefty royalty fees!
Absolutely.
Not.
DICK
nah he’s all right.
nah
I dunno. How turbo would it be?
If you were involved? At least 40% more turbo than it otherwise would be.
Which is, unfortunately, still 0. It’s not a very turbo song.
I need to get your mic back to you. I’m an awful person.
You’re alright.
(Get Leph to organise a dinner or something, and give it back to me then)
Hm
That’s a yes.
Also, upvotes from Jimu and QuizB also imply a yes.
Any response is a yes. Even silence. I’m so glad that everyone wants to get involved with my stupidity.
Can I do it in dramatic spoken word style for my section?
Is the Pope Catholic?
This is a serious question, I keep asking it, and nobody ever tells me!
Kind of dug myself into a hole with Always Sometimes Monsters. Apparently buying myself out of homelessness was a bad idea, because I can no longer afford the bus ticket to take me to another city that has work. So I guess I have to grind money by killing pigs for the abattoir. This game IS an RPG.
This would be better if this game had audio options. I could simply run it in a window with the audio off while I listen to a podcast.
Use the Windows volume controls to mute the game’s window.
THANK YOU
Can you browse the internet while slaughtering pigs in real life?
Probably not.
TRUE RPG
(seriously though I am so buying this game based off your write-ups alone)
Humble Bundle!
https://www.humblebundle.com/
The Water Diviner?
Wat.
More like The Oscar Diviner with how hard it looks to be trying.
Cinematography looks pretty spectacular but.
Midpelled Butt
Misspelled mispelled
Crowe’s butt is pretty spectacular.
Ayup
It. Looks. Shit.
Birdman looks pretty good.
Looks fucking amazetesticles!
Naked Norton fight!
does that have anything to do with Harvey Birdman?
Nope
Does it have anything to do with Stan Burdman?
Maybe?
I cannot believe it won’t be out here till January!
I know, right?!
I actually thought that might be a decent flick. Definitely Oscar bait though.
Confirmed. Still get the urge to throw things when I see the word Tak3n.
Neeson hurting bad guys is always fun though.
Walking out of Gone Girl with the Other Half, I spied the Tak3n poster.
“Oh no, they’ve made it AGAIN.”
“What?”
“Well they made the same film twice already.”
“…you’re right, they did, didn’t they.”
🙂
So does anyone want to discuss the Jim Sterling independence thing? It’s quite the interesting topic.
I have no idea what that is. Quick summary?
Jim Sterling went independent.
I have no idea what that is. Quick summary?
Jim Sterling.
Jimdependence.
Basically Total Biscuit if he established himself through traditional media outlets. TB and Sterling are actually kinda rivals and have some very obvious similarities. They also have some very major disagreements on – what they consider to be – fundamentally important issues.
They already settled it in the arena.
Jim Sterling, a dude that did video content for The Escapist, left The Escapist because he was unhappy with how the site has handled Gamergate (the “what devs/female devs think of GamerGate” articles, acquiescing to some demands of Gamergate and several other things).
He set up a Patreon and now puts all of his content up on Youtube.
I don’t find it all that interesting. Sterling knows that he’s in a position to set his own price and left The Escapist because he wasn’t happy with the site. It’s a power that comes from being an established name with an audience that follows him and not the site he puts content on (Escapist has a serious problem with his).
I’m surprised Yahtzee hasn’t tried to branch off and work independent as well but I guess he doesn’t really bother with the hassle. I know Jim had a smallish presence on YouTube while working at Escapist but as far as I know he was the exception. Basically what you said earlier: he was big enough and popular enough to do it and not have Escapist try and pull him into line.
If Yahtzee did, Escapist would be in trouble. He’s pretty much their only big drawing card left. Most of their other content is stuff people stumble across after going to see Zero Punctuation.
Escapist is weird. They’ve never felt like a site worth going to but instead a site that kind of curates other content. It just so happens that other content is made by people who work for The Escapist.
I think Yahtzee is a little too settled to try and branch out. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that would do something that risky.
Jim stated that the reason he parted ways was because he wanted to separate the critical content and the business side of things. He didn’t want “The Jimquisition is sponsored by Mountain Dew” to be a thing. Maybe he’s alluding that the Escapist wants more native advertising.
Also – Yeah, the Escapist is screwed if Yahtzee ever leaves. He’s the main reason people go to that site. He’s the reason I went there in the first place, and then I discovered Jim.
I don’t think Yahtzee will ever leave though. Watching all the episodes of Let’s Drown Out on his YouTube channel, I think I know his character and his beliefs well enough that he wouldn’t like the idea of Patreon. Remember, Yahtzee is the guy who considers review code to be a concern of integrity. He’ll never promote Mountain Dew, though.
Jim Sterling began his career as a reviewer for Destructoid, but he is best known for his consumer advocacy show (i.e. talking about how shit the games industry is to people who already agree with him in the first place) on the Escapist called the Jimquisition. It’s a great show.
A year or so back, he cut ties with Destructoid and started putting his reviews on the Escapist. He branched out, and started a small little YouTube channel on the side.
Suddenly, Jim Sterling has completely resigned from the Escapist, and announces that all his stuff is going to be on the YouTube channel, and all his written reviews are going to be on his website which he created a few days ago. He is using the funding model created (not particularly successfully) by Matt Lees. On this model, he is paid completely through his Patreon, and nowhere else. Neither his website nor his YouTube page will have ads. It’s kind of a shit business model for a fan like me who can’t afford to give him money, but is happy to have ads play.
But it clearly is okay for other people, because he now makes eight grand a month through Patreon. That’s pretty insane when Matt Lees is barely surviving on 3 grand per month.
Matt Lees’s girlfriend has cancer and has been in and out of hospital for a while.
His circumstances aren’t exactly typical.
Really? I didn’t know that. Best of luck to his girlfriend to make a speedy recovery.
He talks about it on Twitter somewhat.
I don’t give money to his Patreon but I do donate to a site he contributes to, Shut Up and Sit Down.
Sometimes my gravatar bums me out with how it’s just black, compared to all the colourful gravatars.
Then I remember that it’s a kitty and I smile 🙂
It’s iconic!
Haha, wha?
Have I even been around long enough for it to be iconic?
I hope people don’t associate me with a scowling black cat :\
Shut up, Ubisoft. 😛
Sometimes my gravatar bums me out with how green it is. It’s the worst colour.
What, no way! Green is great.
Yessss. Another member for our green alliance against other colours! Especially orange!
What’s your problem with THE MOST SUPERIOR OF COLOURS?
Orange Five! o/*\o
GET A ROOM! THESE DISPLAYS IN PUBLIC ARE JUST UNSEEMLY AND MORALLY WRONG! 😛
Just the way we like it.
Orange is pretty gross.
Burnt Sienna is the only acceptable form of orange.
But it’s so warm and inviting!
I hear it’s the new black. DOES DC HATE BLACK PEOPLE?
Hey he’s only humanBlack and orange is a pretty rad combination.
It can be a great combination if done well. However, I think black and yellow or red and black are better colour combinations.
Aw, I still like orange, but just in touches.
I only singled orange because it’s Pow’s favourite colour and we’re frenemies.
I’m just glad you remembered :’)
I could never forget something like that! IT’S IN YOUR PSYCH ANALYSIS!
@STRANGE @JANEXO
ASSEMBLE!
It was! Until it was ruined.
I feel the same way about orange!
I think we just became best friends!
I tried to make a gravatar but things went wrong 🙁
I had one for a small while, then I got self conscious because it was a picture of me zombified so I burned it with fire.
Masamune Shirow
just clicked your profile link to get a bigger pic of it, you’re almost up to 20 000 posts you madman.
Been years, I’ve known @sughly & @strange for years
Can any one ever really know @sughly, though?
Yes?
I picked it because she looks bored typing.
Also funny, it’s from a poem comic so she has no pants!
Ha ha ‘poem’ yes, that’s what I typed, heh.
I think they have to be G-rated.
I hope it was the Gossip Girl logo (due to the ‘xo’) 😀
From what I remember when I did mine – you set your gravitar image then change the rating to PG and it showed for me
I have a different avatars at every place that’s gots em
Mine doesn’t read well at this size but I use it for pretty much everything, so it stays.
I sometimes consider swapping to earlier/later generations of mine based on how awake I feel that day… Considering the time it took to generate, I feel bad for not making use of the intermediary images.
My gravatar never bums me out. It is superior to everyone elses because @effluvium-boy made it.
Paid off my Smash Bros Wii U pre-order!
\o/
Woo! Nice work 😀
Went to pre-order a copy yesterday when I picked up Far Cry 4. Wanted the one with the Gamecube adapter “sorry we’re sold out of those”. Guess I better just order the regular edition then, “oh, I’m sure we’ll be selling the adapters separately”, yes I’m sure you will.
Sometimes when I listen to Tegan and Sara I think it would be nice to have someone to harmonize with! #DCthoughts
I’ve been working on my Countertenor so that I can get a proper 2 part harmony with myself, but I can’t pull it off. As it is, I always try to just harmonise by ear, and I’m thoroughly mediocre at it.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
LET’S ALL GO GET SOME FROSTY CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKES!
I’ll have a strawberry one.
I respect your choice. It takes a true individual to veer away from the popular choice. You’re okay, Santino.
Why have the popular choice when I can have the delicious choice? 😛
Also, REAL NAME ALERT!
It’s a pretty good name, though. Can we call you Tino for short?
I prefer Nti.
Also there wasn’t any need to change it 😛
Just felt… weird to be called that here.
@mrtaco: I only did it cause you mentioned it last week when talking about Italian names and family origins, but it is weird and I felt weird posting it. So Santino it is. 😀
Aw man, I missed my 1337th comment. I was gonna to leet speak and everything and link to a doge meme.
Shucks. Effing last couple of weeks have been terrible in the first place, now I have to deal with this first world problem?
*shoves hands in pockets, kicks can down street*
My cans! My precious antique cans!
It’s like that time I got a bowl of choc chip ice cream instead of mint choc chip ice cream. The waiter won’t ever make that mistake again. *stares menacingly into the distance*
Burfday!!!
From the missus I have received some chocolate from Haigh’s, the new Pink Floyd album (in some sort of limited edition box thing), and GTAV on PS4.
Triple win, and perfect gifting. 🙂
I hopefully will receive several beers after work also, as I will be in the pub.
Happy birthday Trike-o!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLD MAN TRIKEABOUT!
Get off my lawn.
Birtdee hyappii
Sami Hyypia?
happy birthday!
Happy birthday mate, hope you get some good gaems and riding in this w.e!
Thanks!
Haven’t really ridden the carbon in anger since the Around The Bay. Just had a dicky bearing in the rear hub fixed so it’ll be riding sweet and true this weekend. Need to stretch the legs. 🙂
Happy birthday! Have fun at ye olde pub.
Thanks! 30 degrees, perfect pub night.
Happy Birthday!
Nice, sounds like a good day so far.
Happy Birthday!
Wait, new Pink Floyd album?!
EDIT: Holy shit. Buying that!
I shall review it and post here once I’ve had a listen…
…as it is, GTAV is taking FOREVER to install. :/
FYI, I’ve read it’s all instrumental until the final track.
I’m cool with that. Post-Waters Floyd is better when there’s no lyrics. Dave Gilmour is an amazing musician but he’s not an amazing lyricist. Some of my favourite stuff of theirs is largely instrumental.
Gala gala happy!
*puts on short shorts*
dammit Jim, it’s in my head now, it’ll be there for days.
This week’s episode of The Walking Dead is probably in my top five eps of all-time. Just amazing character study.
Also:
It was nice going back to Atlanta, good and proper. Feels very The Last of Us-like. I feel like they are giving us a goodbye to this setting properly before heading off to DC.I don’t watch the show but,
I like the Carol and Darryl dynamic. I’ve seen gifs and read things, haha.me and my girlfriend were saying how it was one of the best episodes, was incredibly engaging, I really like Carol, she’s had the best transformation, started as such a timid victim, now look at her, saving the whole group, surviving completely solo, just amazing.Somehow I read that as The Walking Dog as I scrolled past.
I like to think that would be a show about a yoyo champion.
I’m on hold with a doctor who doesn’t actually have a hold function on his phoneline. So, he just put the handset down and seems to be pacing back and forth in heavy-soled shoes on a wooden floor.
um, hey someone. Kotaku gave me your comment, got told I posted a duplicate comment and this was in the box, I didn’t write this *flees*
yeah getting into heroics is all down to RNG at this point. it took me about 20-30 normal runs to get to ilvl 610.
The Phantom Replies Strike Back! D:
That hasn’t happened for a while.
Oooh hello video game weather 😀
provided it doesn’t knock the power out.
*charges portables*
Nah, it doesn’t seem that strong. *crosses fingers*
It went berserk!
Hey @dc, great to see you back my friend.
Also, @dc how many notifications did you have when you came back? A MILLION?
Not many actually. Only about eight. Haha! HEY @EVILMONKEY! STILL EVIL?
Here, have another @dc!
Always.
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2014/11/19/miyazawa-model-exhibition-autumn-2014-part-1/ an animu figures blog in which Kahotan displays images of all the things I’m going to be wasting money on in the next few months. 🙁
Nendoroid Kirishima (where’s Haruna though? 🙁 ), Kumano and Suzuya will all be mine and I shall most likely also be purchasing TOSHINO KYOKO provided that she comes with a tub of rum & raisin icecream. Also that Archer as he’ll be a nice counterpoint to Saber and the fully posable Nendoroids are awesome. May swing for the Musashi scale figure but it will depend on how the Heavy Armament Version looks (I’m assuming just extra guns) and how far clear it is from the Yamato one which I’ve had ordered for a while. I don’t have Musashi in the game though so interest is much lower than Yamato was. I’ll be considering the Miku Senbonzakura Nendoroid but I have a lot of Mikus already.@rocketman you might (or might not) want to look at this based on your comment on page 8, as there is a Levi scale figure.
Those figures are amazing.
DAMMIT NEG THIS IS WHY I DONT LOOK AT STUFF LIKE THIS 😛
I think he might be part of GSC & Max Factory’s new super-awesome scale figure line. They debuted it with an incredible Yamato, some dude from some girls anime with immaculately sculpted abs and a crazy, creepily detailed yet weirdly proportioned Colossal Titan.
Alright kids, I’m out for the day. Drive safe in the rain Brisbabes! TO FAR CRYYYYYYYYY I GOOOOOO.
Seriously people, drive safe. Looking at the road outside the office, I’m seeing pretty damn deep water on the road. Dem cars look like motorboats at the moment.
A few of the more sadistic types set up shop by the windows to watch co-workers leaving, to laugh at their huddled figures struggling with umbrellas and the deluge.
…It’s pretty great.
Coro Drive was starting to look like it did in its heyday in January 2011.
NOW I SEE A RAINBOW 😀
Sa Wat dee Tay. In Bangkok, spent all morning looking at temples. How are you all?
At an embassy party in Istanbul. Making friends with a handsy diplomat! We all have problems, Red!
Istanbul? Not Constantinople?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Turkish Delight on a moonlit night.
People just liked it better that way!
Kostantiniyye.
In the inner perimeter of Anthracks III scoping out farlarks.
getting in on @DC stylesPretty sure I heard on the radio this morning something about a guy being killed at a nightclub in Cambodia.
Then they said he was from Sydney, so it’s ok.
Oh god, having this comment right above evilmonkey’s…
HIVEMIND
You have now entered the twilight zone.
Just heard an Australian died in a fire in a nightclub in Cambodia. Take care @redartifice.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-18/australian-man-dies-in-cambodia-nightclub-fire/5901484
Channel 7 has just reported that the government will be cutting the ABC’s funding by 250 odd million dollars. I’m sure they’re very upset about that.
Is there anything the Government hasn’t cut funding to at this point?
Their pension?
What do you think the chances are of an Uncharted PS4 collection along the lines of what MS released on the Xbone for Halo? These games are calling at me again for a replay. (After Dragon Age, of course.)
I’d say highly likely, that way Sony can put off making new games for another year! 😀
(But seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised to see one next year)
Yeah, especially in the lead up to UC4. I think you’re right. *strokes beard*
There were reports of it a while ago http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2014/10/29/report-uncharted-ps4-collection-accidentally-leaked-sony/
It’s highly likely anyway because free money! but I’d say them accidentally having that picture and then removing it, makes it a tiny bit more likely!
Oooooh! Thanks buddy!
I hope they clean up the character models from Uncharted 1. Great game, but like, 98% of the people in it look like creepy waxwork figures.
They should fix Elena’s eyes in 3 too! She looks so different, mannnnn
I’d be keen with the addition of auto aim from LoU, I can’t hit the broad side of a barn!
Uncharted 2 was sooo good. I’d be up for another round, sure.
Um yeah. Think I’m going to need a little bit to process that.
At times it was some of the greatest cinema I’ve ever witnessed, and it is undeniably a powerful film. Occasionally though it seemed to lose itself in its own grandeur and got a little painful.
Pretty certain I loved it but there’s something niggling at me that I can’t quite place. Like it was missing something.
Personality?
Yeah, sterile was the word I was thinking of. Not a whole lot of warmth or connection between characters.
So the radiation from space made him sterile? SO MANY LAYERS TO THIS FILM!
Wee I’m Dick Tracy! BAM! Take that, Prune Face! Now I’m Prune Face. Take that Dick Tracy! Now I’m Prune Tracy! Take that Dick….
Went to buy more coffee today, and the place I get it from has bumped their prices up $8/kg to $44/kg :l It’s good coffee but it’s not $44 good. Might have to give some online places a go I think.
for $44 a kilo you can probably find somewhere that will roast the beans to order.
Tell him he’s dreamin’
Ugh… so tired…
I think I might go to bed.
Goodnight.
Prinz Eugen.
And now I’m going to take a break from the game. Because I have to. I’ve run out of resources. Fucking event map was the worst I’ve done so far. Finally got to the boss for the fifth attempt at sinking her after about 20 attempts and I knock her down to 20/480 HP and Shimakaze does 2 points of scratch damage as the final hit and doesn’t sink.
Then it took another 3 goes at it to get there which wiped me out of resources. Touch and go on the final one too, Previous event’s 2nd map was frustrating because it was hard, this was frustrating because the fucking map constantly routed me to a path that I literally couldn’t get to the boss on about 75% of the time which is just annoying.
Not going to bother with E4 as a result. Nowaki’s not a great looking ship. Also E3’s very much not farmable and literally dropped nothing I wanted from the boss node either. So fuck it. 🙁
Hello
For leather? Bells? Bat out of?
Typing eror
HI JIMU! THAT IS A NICE PIECE OF CLOTHING YOU’RE WEARING. DID YOU LOSE WEIGHT? YOUR HAIR LOOKS NICE. I HOPE YOU’VE ENJOYED THIS SHOUTED FLATTERY!
I do *blush*
‘Tis the eve Of the Age of Dragons.
Must sleep but so keeeeeen
I told Mr Strange if we got Dragon Age Inquisition in the next couple of days I’d stop pestering him to get me Diablo III. His response was “:) :P”. I have no idea if this means we’re getting it or not. 😛
I just had a look at that story about the Badgers Of Far Cry 4 and this was all I had in my head.
Now you do too >:)
BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!
MUSHROOOM! MUSHROOOOOOM!
I had a group of 6 allies fight off heavily armed enemies. A few seconds later one yells out “LOOK OUT! A HONEY BADGER!” and they all ran for their lives.
Remember that time when @JaneXO joined twitter and followed me and I just noticed and I went on TAY to tell you guys? Good times!
Nope, don’t remember it 😛
Ah, I could’ve sworn I told people! I’m sorry! Accept my apologies, good sir!
Only following you?
Someone’s clearly got a favourite 😛
Also, oh no! Real faces and names! :’O
You’re using your real name? OURS ARE ALL DECOYS! 😛
I knew Dudley Chesterson was your real name 😛
You mean Studley Chesterabs
Yes, my real face & name. I noes
I don’t remember. #Killjoy
#Killedthejoyfirst
I’ve must’ve had this page open for ages before I replied. That’ll teach me.
Teacherius!
I do that a lot.
Hahah you finally saw!
I’ve conditioned myself not to pay attention to follower counts. It makes me sad when they leave me, Jane. Don’t leave me. Ever. 😛
Okay, so this is a sample pattern for a beanbag that I would like to do in the future.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/jsrf_sample_pattern.jpg
JET SET RADIOOOOOOO!
So the beanbag would be adorned with these 3 images in a repeating pattern. If I decide to make them quite small, they would be simpler, however, if I make them bigger, I can add a lot of the details that are on here and make it look more cel shaded. What do people think?
Hmmm, it’s hard to picture, but I reckon bigger would be better.
Here’s a mock up I quickly whipped up
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/example.jpg
Yeah, that looks good.
Thanks for taking the time to check it out.
@freezespreston, @greenius, @beardymcmuttonchops, @strange, @dc and @coldcamv I’ve sent you all Keys to Kyrat, enjoy.
Oooooh, thanks man, but I’m fairly certain my sister is keen to buy Far Cry 4 tomorrow when I go get Dragon Age: Inquisition! And I live in the same house as my sister and can mooch her copy of the game! XD Thank you for thinking of me. 🙂
Keys to what what?
That’s what he calls his heart. You’re in!
I don’t know what a Kyrat is but Keys are cool so thanks!
(seriously though, what is it and what did you send it to me on? I have no home internet tonight.)
It basically lets you play Far Cry 4 co-op for 2 hours without having to own the game. You have to download it first though, don’t know how big the download is, but I assume that it wouldn’t be the size of the full game.
Oh! Okay, then. That’s actually a pretty cool thing. When we get internet back I’ll see how big the download is. Thanks! 🙂
Cool…..
What do I do with it?
See my above reply to Strange.
Cheers dude! I hope the coop is good, and the game in general ive heard good things
Tomorrow is Survivor day! WOOO!
My TiVo is in league with the enemy and has deleted my Survivor episode I needed to catch up on.
Who is the enemy, you might ask? I don’t know. It could even be you for all I know. Secretly in league with orange lovers or something. 😛
*vomits everywhere*
The thought of that sickens me!
Going to sail the seas? 😛
I think I might have to!
OH GOD WHYYYYY. DO NOT WATCH THIS.
THAT’LL TEACH ME A LESSON FOR WATCHING SOMETHING FROM THE “SPORTS” CATEGORY YOUTUBE RANDOMLY SHOWS.
O_O
YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
*watches video*
*immediately regrets watching video*
and POP! goes the weasel
I’m just going to assume she’s a sophisticated android with a slight imperfection. THAT CAN’T HAPPEN TO NORMAL PEOPLE! D:
I laughed at that, then remembered I just watched…
…a girl get her ear punched off.Now I feel real bad 🙁
SPOILERS!
I do wa I wan.
Confirmed. Liondrive hates women.
It’s like, get a penis, am I right!?
Saying that though, @strange(y) is pretty cool.
She let* me put coins in her cleavage, and still welcomes me to dinner! 😀
* I don’t think she let me, I think she just had no idea what was happening.
I like to think she was too enraged to stop you! 😛
@dc
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look her in the eyes again without dying of shame :3
I’m not sure if I want to know the story behind this.
WHOA!
DUDE!
Damn.. That’s gotta hurt.
OH FUCK. NO.
DON’T WATCH THE VIDEO. 🙁
u do wa u wan 2?
OH GOD WHY
…
*watches again*
Pfft, it’s allowed on YouTube, they have moderation, how bad can it…
…
…
🙁
Phew… saved by a DMCA copyright claim.
So in my adventure to cook something using whatever I had in my fridge/pantry, I made a nacho toasted cheese sandwich.
It was quite nice actually.
@mrtaco – Powalen asked me to call Nintendo.
Like that’ll ever happen!
Maybe you should!
I’ve always wanted to do a single type or themed kind of run through a Pokemon campaign but it’s been annoying with the whole single save slot thing :(. Never wanted to lose my progress!
I reckon I’ll go for a GRASS type only run through Alpha Sapphire though. It helps that it’s a remake so I won’t be missing out on much but I dunno… HMMMM!
There’s an easy solution to the ‘one save slot’ thing – buy another game.
May not be as easy as you thithink for Ol’ Tightarse Joel
😀
So there was a big scary storm tonight. And of course Mr. Strange is in Sydney again. And of course the power went out. Twice. 😛
And even though it’s on, I have no internet. But it’s okay because for two months now I’ve been one of the cool kids with phone data plans. \o/
It’s pretty amazing! I still can’t fathom that I had no smart phone this time last year! It’s changed how I do things day-to-day in lots of subtle ways. You guys lost power? Whoa! Wasn’t that bad here.
My son was scared by the thunder for the first time ever! And the bolts of lightning were right in our yard.
🙁 Oh man!
It was really cute though, he snuggled up to me and hid under a blanket! 😀
Hey, are you caught up on Sleepy Hollow yet? I watched the latest one last night.
I’m two eps behind again. Midseason finale is coming up so I’ll catch up before then!
Falchion Rebirth – A Euro Truck Simulator 2 Story
Part Two: “The Truck Is Only 40% Destroyed!”
After successfully driving for two kilometres, Lavernius Trucker had all the training he needed to travel across international borders with valuable cargo. Everything went well until he missed a turn. Instead of continuing to travel the road until he reached a turnoff to have another go, he turned on the grass and in the opposite lane.
Back on track everything was going swell until he had to turn again. Like a good citizen, he used the turn signals. Another car sped in next to him and disappeared. Instead of checking the blind spot to see where the car was, Lavernius blindly turned at 80km/h, crushing the car into a wall with 10 tonnes of force. Oops. Lavernius made sure to check in the rear view mirror as he sped off to see if the car was okay. All the windows were smashed, and there was no signs of life. Too late to help, he had places to be!
With his arch-nemesis the slight turn no longer in sight, Lavernius was successful at driving in a straight line for a solid 3 minutes. Then a pylon on the sidewalk jumped in front of him and he crashed. The internal diagnostics determined the truck was 40% damaged, and he should contact a helpline immediately. Computers were dumb, so he ignored it. The truck still worked!
…Except for the times when the engine would randomly die whilst driving, but those weren’t a big deal. It was a rental car, anyway. He doesn’t have to pay damages probably I think.
More driving and he arrived at his destination. He pay got docked because 10% of the produce was destroyed. Pfft, that produce was probably expired anyway. And he didn’t have to pay for the repairs of the truck, so it is a win-win for all parties involved. Lavernius told the company to spread the word of Falchion Enterprises for doing such a good job.
EDIT: Added some words that weren’t there but should have been.
Should be asleep…
Can’t get to sleep…
🙁
*sneaks up behind Crazyguy and hits him over the head with a rubber mallet*
Sorted, nighty-night.
I declare this the funniest video I have seen at least in the last 45 minutes!
I didn’t watch it but I saw GNW and Akmal. I trust your judgement 😛
I didn’t realise I missed that show until now. Good News Week… Chaser’s War on Everything…
All the classic Australian comedy shows of the late 2000’s are gone.
This is what you get for being a kid.
Damn my youth. It’s a curse I tell you! A curse!
So, Dragon Age Inquisition day is here & I’m heading in to work for hours of torture while some of you lucky ducks get to pick it up as your local store opens or may already have started playing after a midnight launch.
I will be sitting at my desk trying to pay attention to the boredom.
Weep for me.
Ha! 1st world problems page get, classy adult right here!!!
I’m going to drop in to the New 3DS / ORAS midnight launch tonight… Then go back to moving house. Might be able to to give it a go Sunday at the earliest.
Won’t you be sleeping?
I went to a midnight launch once, for Tool’s Lateralus.
this is back in the day when I was unemployed & completely nocturnal.
Because it was quite popular & I had to line up for a while & then get back home etc. by the time I put the album on, I was so tired I fell asleep.
I woke up when one of my mates put on the free sampler CD of some terrible local band , it was horribly confusing so I went to bed.
True. I might sleep on Sunday. Not sure how much will happen before then.
But, yeah, gonna have to make another special trip because I just happen to be working to far to walk from stores that sell games etc.
so I’ll grab Pokemon Friday lunch, play on the train home from work & not touch it again til Tuesday morning on the way back to work.
Speaking of work, I’d better go have a shower etc.
Shoulda taken a day off!
I am, Monday though. Works better for work.
I noticed @markserrels was playing it at aboiut 9 or 10 O’Clock last night.
BASTARD
I’m with you there, today is going to be a long day. Which version of the pokeymans are you getting?
Omega Ruby, don’t like the look of the whale for some reason. If it were a killer whale…
Thursday morning moving inspired question – plates up or down?
We seem to alternate every time we move as to whether plates will be below the bench or in a higher cupboard.
Plates up for us. Pots n pans fill up all the space under the benches. Also, anything that can be broken needs to be kept out of kiddy range.
I have my plates up, but only because my kitchen is stupid. I’d much rather have plates down in a wide drawer.
Plates down for us at this place. I think it really depends on your storage
We don’t have that much up space, so one side of cupboards is dedicated to cups and glasses while the other is for small bowls and stuff that hardly get used.
Plates are down. They go in a drawer which, come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve seen at any of my friends’ places. Hmm.
Up. My sister moved my stuff in for me when I moved here (I had to go do a bunch of stuff so she came over and unpacked my kitchen for me as it was all brand new) and she put them down low and I had to swap everything around because it sucks shit to have to bend over to see what you’re grabbing. You get out cups and plates way more often than you get out pots and pans.
Plates down. The upper cupboards are for food.
It’s a sad day for the miners.
Because today’s the day the teddy bears had their picks nicked. #errypageispage6 #hai@strangehttps://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/170681
Smash Bros Wii U $58. Bayonetta 1 and 2 $64. Amiibo $15 @ Big W
Shame, the closest Big W to me is about 2 hours drive away.
Want me to pick something up and post it to you? I’ve got one a convenient five minute walk from my office.
Nah, that’s cool man. I appreciate the offer, but that’s one game I want to pick up on the day, no doubt there’ll be TAYSmash tournaments all over the place, and I’d rather not miss out on that action. Should be heaps of fun.
8 Player TAYsmash…
58 but no adapterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Real pros can play on any controller! *
*except the 3DS
Or the wii remote.
Now just waiting for $12 Amiibos at Target…
Hells yeah.
Holy crap! That’s amazing, I’ll definitely be getting a $58 Smash 😛
For my understanding, one would need to walk in at opening time to get it right? I think I did this for Mario Kart lol
I think so! They generally don’t have too many copies. I just do an EB price match in the morning
Morning all! I’ve sent the script for Undad#2 to my artists. It’s the first time I’ve ever done something like that. Exciting, but also a little unnerving to just hand over control like that.
While I’m on the topic, here’s a grateful shout-out to the TAY likeness brigade for getting their photos to me in a timely manner!
As it’s Dragon Age day and I’m new to the series, I thought I’d leave this here in case there are other newbies,
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/11/tips-for-playing-dragon-age-inquisition/
I only ever played the first one for about an hour or two, and then for whatever reason stopped, It really irks me going into something like this blind, especially seeing as how it’s so lore heavy, but I just don’t have the time to go back and play the first two, even if I did own them.
I highly recommend doing the ‘Dragon Age Keep’ website. It does the cliff’s notes version of lore. There’s details you’ll miss, but the broad strokes of how the world is and what’s happened is in there.
The tapestry will fill out the rest of the details IF you keep the wiki nearby to look up the related characters/decisions. It doesn’t actually take that long to brush up on those things either – depending how much you read.
I intend to read through the website, my pile of shame containing COD, Alien Isolation and Monster Hunter 4 has stopped me from doing so lol.
At absolute worst it plays a 5-10min minimalist animation with voice-over (like an animated storybook), with pivot moments giving an indicator in the corner which allows you to pause the story a moment to change the events retold. 🙂
5-10 minutes!
I’ve just started Origins again as the only other time I loaded it up I got past the tutorial area (for a dwarf) and didn’t play much after that. I figured I might as well play through that first and then pick up Inquisition when I actually have money
Sunk about 7 hours into DA:I last night. It’s pretty good. Only real complaint I have of it is how they handle character creation. The creator itself is good, but having you pick race, class and gender, then making you sit through a loading screen and a short cutscene (admittedly the cutscene barely counts as a cutscene because it’s only 5 seconds long) before you actually get to edit your character is pretty annoying, at least if you’re like me and want to play around with multiple races and genders before making a choice on character.
I found that too… There’s quite a few jarring load times at the start.
Keep doesn’t work too well… but it was midnight and I wasn’t going to stuff around with it.
Started a mage, I still dislike Varric as a character. Combat on difficult isn’t all that exciting but i’m only Level 2 so we will see.
Dislike Varric? Noooooooooooo
I’m more of an Oghren type guy…. Don’t get this “Saturday Night Fever” dwarf…
I love them both. Varrick has a lot more going on beneath the chest hair. Ohgren is great but super obvious.
One thing I do know, there are far too few dwarf companions & far too many humans
Personally I’m a bit bummed that the politics of the dwarfs got a back seat (ie completely ignored) in 2 and am wondering about 3.
2 had a very specific story to tell, 3 seems more worldly, so there’s hope!
Varric was important in setting up a dwarven society above ground though.
Man, got no sleep last night. Decided to read all night, because I’m an adult.
I say no sleep, but like, I got an hour’s sleep or so. Was pretty bad, refreshed me like a mo-fo though, I was flagging bad. I do not handle sleep deprivation well, so like, if you’ve ever captured me and want to know information, well, I’ll probably break after 2 seconds of any form of torture, so this hint is a bit worthless.
Anyway, completely unrelatedly, I heard my new favourite Christmas song yesterday, and it’s pretty wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxYDEVIe7E
Woo, time to Knight’s Move my way down to buy Dragon Age!
Oh, Blaghs, you forgot. You are like, super Hitler.
Well, yes Me, we knew that.
No, no, new reason this time. The fact that you actually really like Assassin’s Creed Unity. Ya friggin’ idiot.
But it’s fun! Has some utterly moronic design decisions (the companion app springs to mind), but faffing about Paris is so much fun!
You know there is a actual term for being disappointed when visiting Paris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
Maybe Assassins creed unity isnt bad, Paris is just really shit.
edit: I should disclaim and say that this syndrome is almost exclusively gotten from Asia tourists who have culture shock because of the informal nature that French people communicate. Or so says wikipedia. A source that i shall never question.
Is there a name for how Americans feel when they come to Australia and discover that we’re not all a bunch of hicks living in mud huts with pet kangaroos – that only about 80% of us are?
We had some American exchange students at the tiny high school i went to and they expected us to be riding in the pouches of kangaroos. 16 year olds thought that.
The Dundee Fallacy.
The car needs two new tyres, the dog needs a shave, we need to head interstate for a wedding… Bye-bye PS4 fund. I got 10% of the way there!
AND MY FUCKING COMIC HAS A LOT OF BACKERS (is that how I do it, Rocketman?)
MY FUCKING COMIC HAS A LOT OF BACKERS AND PEOPLE GENUINELY ENJOY MY WORK.
edit: Everything is bad when you put a bad spin on it.
Your car will now be safer and easier to drive
Your dog will look like a dog again
You get to see some loved ones get married and enjoy yourself at their wedding.
Is this a new tactic? Browbeat optimism into people by screaming at them? 😛
I like it.
Edit: agreed re: car and wedding.
But the dog doesn’t much resemble a dog anymore. Plus, he looks deeply ashamed 😛
My best friend gets down on himself a lot, to counter act this i try and be more positive than he is negative. I achieve my goal by being louder.
Your dog needs a shave?
Yep, or my wife will kill him. We haven’t groomed him properly in a while, which means dog hair EVERYWHERE. Also, the kids sometimes make games of throwing their soggy weetbix on him (doesn’t matter how quickly you intervene when that happens, you’ll never prevent an awful mess).
AAHHHHH I need to go pick up Dragon Age NAOW! But work is standing in the way 🙁
That’s a strange way of saying “I need to run a bunch more normals so I can do heroics”
More like “I have to grind dailies before I get a chance to step through the portal”
Shhhhhhhh. I’ll run some normals tonight and a bit tomorrow =P
Seems to be a common trend today.
Let us unite and revolt against our oppressors, who is with me?
*covers face in stamp pad ink to resemble war paint, clutches firmly onto letter opener*
CHAAAAAARGE!
I think this is become Python Monty the page
NOW GO AWAY, OR I SHALL TAUNT YOU A SECOND TIME!
I fart in your general direction
YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER, AND YOUR FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES!
GIRLFRIEND IS BACK TODAY
SHOULD HEAR ABOUT JOB TODAY
JUST REALLY EXCITED ABOUT LIFE.
HEY YOU
YES YOU GUY
WHERE WERE YOU ON PAGE 9?! =P
Get me 50cc of motivation stat!
so an ice coffee???
Meh, can’t be bothered.
YOU’RE GONNA BE IN A COMIC.
Big tits
50cc huh? Is that even a legit size?
(Seems like something that, as a red-blooded male, I should know already. :P)
That sounds small?
I DON’T KNOW. And I probably shouldn’t Google it at work 😛
I did it for you, according to this chart you can’t even get 50cc implants.
http://cosmeticsurgeryforums.com/images/MentorSaline1600.jpg
It’s just a chart, no pictures of tits, I promise.
No I would assume if it was an actual size it would be around a large D cup
You live on the Gold Coast, every second person you deal with at work should be able to sell you some meth to help with this problem.. 😛
I can finally live out my dream of being a Qunari with a big bushy beard.
But is it a great big bushy beard?
You mean like this.
I never expected the dragon age inquisition
NOBODY expects…
& now for something, completely different…
Any idea on how well optimised for PC DA:I is? I’m debating with myself whether I should get it on PC (mine comes in a bit above min specs) or for Xbox 360.
Still haven’t decided which next gen console to get (although I already have a Wii U).
Get PC if you don’t have a bone or fore.
I imagine long load times etc
I think you’re right.
@greenius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmbgCBZ86z4
Ended up buying a new PS3 power supply last night. Going to have a go of replacing it myself! It doesn’t seem too hard to do from the videos I’ve watched. A little bit worried I’m not getting a ‘proper’ one though because I expected it to be a lot more expensive. Ah well.
Fingers crossed it just lasts long enough for me to play Catherine. Then it can die in peace.
As long as you dont stick a screwdriver inside the PSU you should be ok.
But how else will I know if there is electricity in there!
Good point. Get a knife instead
Use your tongue. Less damaging to the PSU.
Make sure to hose off the room before you start
Easy peasy, you’ll be fine. Like others have mentioned, it really is just removing some screws.
Yeah, the actual process will be all good. I’m just hoping that my issue is actually PSU related in the first place! I’ve just assumed 😛
I just had a buttload of sugar and i am sure that im on a sugar high. MCDONALDS FRAPPES ARE A GOOD WAY TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK.
Tried to play Shadow of Mordor again last night. I really wish I could like it half as much as everyone else. I really do. But the entire game seems perfectly designed to irritate me. Think I’m going to stop trying soon and just write it off.
Damn, I will borrow it from @gutsoup after I return Wolfenstein
Good, it’s hell fun.
You’re looking particularly pretty/handsome today, random TAY user!
Why thank you.
What are you doing later 😉
What you got in mind? *slowest of winks*
If it’s the slowest of winks wouldn’t it just look like one of your eyes was falling asleep?? D=
Sexy!
I’m wearing a new shirt today. Not that you noticed.
Don’t be that way, Pow. I’m just busy and can’t be expected to keep track of all your latest impulsive whims. Your pursuit of fashion is tearing us apart!
Man he was getting all the stares in the Melbourne CBD because of his fashion choices.
Is it orange and gross?
Orange is gross.
I don’t even own an orange shirt!
Wear an orangeish one to the next meat!
You mean you don’t buy coloured shirts specifically for meats so that people aren’t all “you’re not wearing [colour]”?
D:
😐
🙂
Well I did shine my armour and blaster this morning, thanks for noticing 🙂
How could I not?
Euphemism?
If so, I might need to go to a doctor…
Well I do declare.
*bats eyelids and drops handkerchief*
No I’m not, what do you want?
*swoon*
Same to you, man. I really like that shirt you’re wearing right now.
Where’s the cheapest place to buy the dragon ages for the pee cees? Digital ok.
JB was $69, and I have no idea aside from that. #Helping
No go on GreenMan, $50 on g2a.com but unsure how comfortable you are with using that site.
To clarify; approximately US$50
Okay so OzBargain is reporting it’s now AUD$48 on G2A.
Ozgameshop has it for around $50.
Oh. Nvm. Looks like it’s up to $62 now… for some reason.
$59 digital, I went with them because they’re the cheapest that I know are trustworthy.
Downside is I won’t get my key until this evening when they wake up since they’re posted manually. 🙁
EDIT: I was wrong, got it just now \o/
*waves*
*rips*
*drowns*
*farts*
*flips bird*
*cries*
It’s time for the tale of Jane’s Hell of a Night Getting Home!
(Under a spoiler to avoid a wall of text for you babes).
I work just outside of Indooroopilly, and left at 5pm. Forgot my umbrella, but the rain seemed to have lightened up enough, and after all the heat, walking in a little rain seemed very pleasant. But then, of course, it poured again and I got soaked by the time I got to the station. Some male commuters seemed a little too pleased about that, until I all but hissed at them. Anyway, I jump on my train and then the announcer says, “Yeah, nah, Roma Street station is SHUT DOWN, and the City and Valley are flooded, so we’re not going anywhere for at least an hour.”Right. Well, eff waiting, I have a date in Kyrat, dammit! So I think, “I’ll catch one of those awful bus things that are always about.” Head to a stop going north, where a bus is pulled over. There’s total gridlock, but I figure being on the bus is better, given that it’s started to rain again. The bus driver would NOT open the doors, even though I was knocking. Just shook his head, then ignored me. Other passengers were like, wtf dude, but nothing happened. So, I decided to just keep going. 90 wet minutes later, I ended up walking to Central station, where I was told the trains were running to Bowen Hills, then there’d be buses. Great! Get down the the platform and get told, “Lol, nope, no trains, no busses, no taxis.”
Right. Keep walking to Fortitude Valley and waited with a big group of people for a bus that was “five minutes away.” Half an hour later, nothing. So I keep walking. I ended up nearer to Bowen Hills when a bus headed to Toombul arrived. The driver laughed when I got on because he said I looked at him like he was my personal jesus. At that point, he was. The bus took awhile as it had to avoid all the train lines, because a bunch had power lines down, and one had a roof from a local store over it. Lots of swaying, and I was already feeling unwell, but I became so nauseous that I thought I was going to throw up. But I didn’t! I made it to Toombul where my boyfriend was able to finally pick me up and take us home.
It was awful by the end. My newish shoes are ruined, it’s reignited my cold, and I just feel like trash. BUT. In trying to keep things positive; a few times, I pretended I was playing/living The Last of Us, exploring a messed up city (I went past a lot of construction) with my backpack in the rain. I also got to see some parts of the city I don’t normally go through, ever, and a few times I got a bit lost.
You know what I do when I get lost in my own city? WACKY ACCENTS TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS IS WHAT!
So, really, all’s well that end’s well, but it was exhausting. My normal 45 minute commute took FOUR HOURS. And I didn’t get to play any Far Cry 4 🙁
The end.
tl:dr I always knew I was a babe! Thank you for confirming this hypothesis! =P
Contact Brisbane City Coucil either by letter or call 3403 8888 & make a formal complaint about that driver.
They will have words with him, it will go on his permanent record.
This is the best thing I’ve read on the internet this week.Glad you got home though, your story was very Last of Usesque!
Damn, that really sucks. Makes me really appreciate that I can get home from work in 5 minutes or less.
Also, I really hope the weather picks up up there before we come up for our holiday. Hope you can attend the meat, wherever that may be.
Ok now I’ve read it…. Just think of how much you’re going to savor Far Cry 4 now that you’ve had to go through hell to play it =D
I’m planning on studying for a few hours this weekend before I let myself play Dragon Age…. Just going to build that anticipation up until I get giddy ^^
*Start up Far Cry 4*
“Huh, you think you’ve got it bad, being trampled by elephants and shot by militants; you should hear what I had to go through yesterday…”
Wow you are more persistent than me. I would of cried. Like right now its threatening to rain and i dont even have to go anywhere and im getting weepy.
Oh god, when I got home and finally had a shower, I cried. It was a combination of things, but mostly exhaustion and disbelief, haha.
I had something similar happen on my trip home yesterday. Usually I fall asleep on the train and always wake up a stop or two before mine. This time I did that again, but fell back to sleep and missed my stop (only about the third time this has ever happened), and woke at the stop after mine. Which isn’t so bad, since it’s actually closer to my house. Only I woke as the doors were closing, so had to get off at the next one, and there wasn’t a train going back in the other direction for a long while. I haven’t walked home from that station before, so I figured I can at least figure out how long that takes. Turns out it’s only a little further away than the station I normally use, probably about the same distance only with more hills to add to the effort. But I got to see a whole bunch of things around my neighbourhood that I never really noticed before, and thought that was kinda cool.
So really it wasn’t that similar at all, other than that one tiny aspect you mentioned.
I’ve done that & it was either a 30 min wait or a 30 min walk. I walked.
Haha, no that’s still a good story.
I forgot to mention that yesterday morning, the doors wouldn’t open at my stop! Like, I hit the button and just nothing. I dashed to the other door, and still nothing! So I went to the next station, got out, jumped on the next northbound train that the station master said was all stops – nope, it wasn’t. Express back to Milton. So I then had to get off there, then wait 15 minutes for the next train!
Trains and I hated each other yesterday.
Oh yeah, you crazy other states with your whole “I have to tell the train I want to get out now” 😛
That said, people down here are often quite fond of removing the warning stickers on the doors and placing them across the join so that they can’t open. And I have had doors just plain old not open for me before, even if only on the older model carriages.
Trains suck. But at least they aren’t buses.
My experience in Melbourne was the same deal with trains lol.
That sounds almost as terrible as my day I’m currently having 🙁 *hugs*
*Hugs*
Yuck, that sucks.
Aw, glad you got home okay. This would have been an excellent adventure to live tweet on Twitter. Just saying! 😛
My phone battery was so close to dead! I had to preserve the precious time I had. But otherwise, it would have been, yes.
Good call. When things take a turn for the unexpected, I give any current conversations a ‘low power warning’ and wrap things up, including reading news sites, etc. Turned out to be good policy yesterday when I also got caught in the rain. I actually waited out the madness for a few hours, but when I re-emerged and saw that the madness was still in progress, I ended up walking about half the way before calling my brother and seeing if he’d got back home yet (he had) and could come pick me up in the car.
Turned out to be pretty quick. I should’ve called him sooner. Because the traffic actually wasn’t that bad. Public transport was just utterly fucked because the trains were dead EVERYWHERE and the bus network at peak hour can barely handle the bus commuters, let alone the train commuters as well.
When it was bucketing down and transport was crowds of commuters spilling into the street, standing room only, I just ducked into a Japanese bar and chilled out for a few hours drinking and eating gyoza, chatting with the bored staff. It was surprisingly empty – I guess people get desperate and panic or try to beat the crush or something instead of realizing now is the perfect time to chill.
Try that, next time. 🙂 Go to a bar, load up on nibblies and a bit of tipple.
I was looking quite a mess, but next time, I might just 😉
Messy is interesting. People give you weird looks, you give ’em a crooked grin and a wink. 😉 You are the master of your circumstances.
I must have super lucked out with my trip home yesterday. I work in the city and left at about 4:50. I usually catch the bus home but the one I normally get was packed by the time it rolled up to my stop (which is only the third stop from where it starts). I ended up catching a different bus that still ended up taking me an hour to get home with about a 1km walk as well. Doesn’t sound nearly as bad as what you went through.
My mum also had a terrible experience and just sat around waiting at Fortitude Valley waiting for the trains to start working. She said that there were no announcements, no staff, nothing to say when anything would be fixed or when alternative arrangements would be put in place. It was only by about 6:30 that they finally had trains working but only as far as Bowen Hills (which QR neglected to mention until the train had left the station). They said that buses would be arranged for everywhere from Bowen Hills north to Geebung however they were “still on their way” when the train pulled into Bowen Hills. So I ended up picking my mum up from there as there was no other way home for her. Also saw tonnes of people just start walking home from the station as well. Apparently the rail crossing at Hendra was also out due to the storm and a train was stranded on the tracks without power so things went absolutely crazy everywhere.
Yeah, my bus had to go this long way around Hendra, and when we went by the station, there was like, six cop cars all lined up with their lights on.
I’ve started playing XCOM The Bureau, because I picked it up for $5 some time ago.
It’s… imperfect, but not yet awful. It has a significant lack of polish, though, which is a little sad but not a dealbreaker.
Example of an imperfection:
Having a conversation with some communications scientist. She stood absolutely still, arms at her sides, facing my character, and delivered her lines. Then my character gave her some equipment calibration instructions, and without moving so much as an eyelid towards the banks of equipment in the background, she said, “Nothing yet… oh wait, there’s a signal!”No one likes you.
In the game that is.
I mean, I like you.
Not like like.
You’re okay.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
I’d try to put my hand in your pocket again, but I’m just scared of another rejection. My ego can’t take that.
Understandable. The MC seems like an abrasive jerk so far. Perfect for slaughtering hordes of aliens and burning through a bunch of anonymous grunts, but not so much for making friends.
Reading his dossier gives some clues as to that. It is intentional, at least. Whether that’s a lampshade over a poorly-written-protagonist inevitability, I dunno.
Oh, I know. He’s a jerk for a reason. I’m not saying they failed to make a likeable character. But they haven’t really succeeded at making a compelling jerk, either 😛
I keep meaning to go back to that one. So flawed, but also really interesting.
I hate that it Abiliteases you though.
I don’t know what that means! So far all I’ve done is shoot stuff and give a couple of orders to other guys to also shoot stuff.
An Abilitease is when a game shows you how much fun and how great it’s going to be in five hours, when you unlock all the abilities that it gave you in the first mission and then took away from you.
There were abilities in the first mission? Wow, I really suck at this game.
They’re all like “CALL DOWN AN AIRSTRIKEORBITALLASERTHINGY”!
That’s the only one I remember. >.>
WHAT THE HELL. Seriously? How did I miss all this?
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o/*\o
oXo
Anyone going to watch The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 today/tonight?
I reckon we’re gonna be heaps busy at work tonight, but luckily I’ve got the night off, so I might go and watch it.
Who has time for Hunger Games when Dragon Age is out?? Priorities monkey! PRIORITIES!
Yeah, but I can’t pick mine up till after I get paid tomorrow.
No monies today :'(
Maybe this weekend. Should be pretty good!
I may have a superpower.
I drank lots of beer last night, and my missus got the hangover. Muahahahaha.
Strangely I discover the older I get the less hangover I get. It’s weird and off-putting and welcomed. (Though after Freeze’s 30th I was… not good.)
To be fair you drank A LOT. And that’s before I even turned up.
I just noticed that my lunch today is like… almost entirely cheese-based. That’s probably not good.
Sounds gouda to me!
Ugh.
Pretty cheesy, huh.
They’ve got you too? NOOOOO!
Don’t Stilton his destiny, dc.
Nah, actually it’s pretty Krafty
Haaaaaaa.
That’s unBrielievable.
Hope you’re ready for all the bad cheese jokes you can stomach =P
Hope you Camembert it.
It’s grating that your lunch is making you board? Cheer up. You have some fondue to come your way.
Even I hate me after that…
I love cheese and I don’t give edam what anyone else has to say about that.
I don’t understand any of these puns, it’s all like you’re speaking Swiss to me.
The pronunciation of my last name is often confused with Bocconcini, by others, for some reason. True Story. True pronunciation is bonnie chee.
Or is it bon knee chee? I don’t even know, myself.
Is it spelt Bonici? I think you got the pronunciation right the second time.
Bonnici. It’s Maltese.
I’m guessing you get a lot of people saying bonni-see as well.
The most common one. ;D
Also, if you’re Maltese, do you have a family member who makes amazing pastizzi? *nom nom nom*
I can’t stand when people add an extra N in there and call it “bonkin’ chini” 😛
Wouldn’t surprise me if I’d heard that at least once back in school.
Both my mum and sister do it all the time. Not sure if dad does too.
Sounds Tasty.
Not good? It’s got cheddar new ricotta cheese-based puns in TAY!
Aw, not even a downvote.
I’m being taken to a seafood restaurant. I continuously self-identify as someone who hates seafood but I put this down to one bad experience as a child because I eat a pretty broad variety of seafood several times a year and never don’t enjoy it.
Since I’m going into today cautiously optimistic I will probably get food poisoning.
I don’t like seafood either, except for prawns, and even then, not on their own, unless they’re crumbed or something. Or in fried rice.
Good luck!
http://www.cracked.com/article_21764_5-video-game-puzzles-clearly-designed-by-hateful-people.html
That just made my day.
Awesome article. I really enjoyed the whole thing.
That was good. That was NOT even the hardest Professor Layton puzzle though, haha.
I’m intrigued – what did you think the hardest one was?
(I suck at spatial awareness, so a lot of the puzzles are DS shattering to me)
Cracked is blocked at work (who the fuck am I to complain) but I’ll come back to this later. I stopped reading Cracked a couple of years ago but sometimes the light of the internet gleams off the exposed corner of a gem poking through the surface of the shit.
I borrowed a cracked book from the Libra ry which was just the better article’s collected.
That was better than the crapshoot that s the site for me.
Is that the one that has something to do with zombie plans or something? I bought that, it’s a few years old and comes from a time when Cracked was much more consistently better than it is today.
Can’t remember…they have a few out now.
Now I remember it was “you might be a zombie”. It was their first one.
That sounds familiar
Oh, I love that puzzle in Zelda & figured out all by my lonesome.
After reading about it, I know that puzzle would have broken me.
It took a while, the reason I think I cracked it was because I was so keen on the way phantom used every part of the dS.
Folding it in half was the only thing left.
To me it was the first game that could really only be done on a dS.
It was just like checking the back of the case in MGS
Except that they tell you to check the back of the case in MGS 😛
They tel you to press the map on the chart in Zelda too. It’s just a matter of remembering you’re actually in the real world
I remember looking at @gutsoup & saying ‘FUCK OFF!’ when we cracked the case. ( oh that’s good)
Was fortunate they copied the cover as we’d hired it.
I thought it meant an in game CD case, we had a couple in our inventory, I kept looking at them.
The guy who tells you, just handed you a CD seconds before
misdirection 😐
I loved it too. But for the list, I think there was a similar-but-worse one which would outrank it.
Another Code: Two Memories. I’ll spoiler it because I think it’s really cool and wouldn’t want to spoil it for someone who was going to play it, but
there was a part where you had to find a code for a door or something, and one of the thing in the area available to you was a photo frame you could examine, the hinged kind with two panels. Each panel had three symbols on it I think, and to solve the puzzle you had to partially close the DS and observe the reflection of one screen superimposed over the one you were looking at. The two images combined would give you the numbers you needed to unlock the door.My most favourite and absolutely most mind-blowing puzzle I’ve ever come across in a game.
I finished that game in a few hours, loved it. Don’t remember that at all…
Oh god I had flashbacks to that Phantom Hourglass puzzle. I was stuck on that for a full day.
Have you been playing much Iron Banner @highperformance? If so, any shweet loot?
Also, GTA V……………………………..?
I haven’t played ANY iron banner, I’ve been exercising a fair bit this week so I’ve not been getting onto the Xbone that much this week. Case in point; I played for 30 mins on Tuesday and 20 mins at 6.30am yesterday lol, I was actually trying out COD which I’m finding interesting but I’ve not contracted HypeGlycemia yet from it quite yet.
GTA V in first person isn’t getting me hyped either 🙁 I actually confused myself that GTA San Andreas was the first person game, now THAT I would be hyped for but I confused myself 🙁
I’m gonna try play Destiny at some points this week, but I am torn between playing COD or actually pumping some time into Alien Isolation this week and making a headway on my pile of shame lol. If you’re keen to play Iron Banner though I’d jump on and play sometime though.
Sweet well yeah I been thinking about hopping on to Destiny at some point over the weekend for either a couple of Iron Banner matches or just to get some strange coins. Will keep you posted.
Got to play some Far Cry 4 last night, as I tried to distract myself from the greyed-out DA:I cover taunting me from Origin. I didn’t have high expectations – FC3 was alright, but rather underwhelming after FC2, and FC4 looked pretty much like FC3 with new assets. And to some extent it is… but the wildlife! I was kinda sceptical about hearing people getting attacked by eagles… it’s a bird. I’ve seen sea eagles back home; how bad could they be?
Last night I watched one land on a goat, and then fly off with it. O_o Birds are scary.
I’ve managed to fight my way out of some crazy situations without dying. But so far I’ve been trampled by an elephant, swooped by an eagle while rappelling and fell to my death and the best one was while I was admiring a badger through my binoculars it turned vicious and charged me, I quickly tried to switch to a weapon while walking backwards and was taken out by a passing truck. All the animals are in cahoots with Pagan Min.
Downloading DA:I from Origin at 9.4mb/sec \o/ Obviously no one around here is home using the internet during the day
These Pretzels are making me thirsty!
I just saw a guy eating M&Ms with a SPOON!
Lucky guy.
Was it a chocolate spoon?
No it was a Seinfeld quote!
ah, I was never a Seinfeld kinda guy *slinks away in shame*
Ha!
So. Cubic Ninja, huh.
I want to hack my 3DS!
I only just read about the whole thing last night in bed. Upon quickly checking eBay and Gumtree, yep, all listed $65 plus.
If you’re serious about that, pick up an R4 card and keep your 3DS off the network.
I’ll never try it though. I did it with the DS previously, but that handheld was never on the network.
Nah. I don’t really want to do it.
So annoyed the news came out during the week instead of the weekend where I could have hunted it down in the shops.
Gonna try my luck both at lunch now and on the way home tonight (got to the station near my shopping centre too late to check last night), but I don’t like my chances. Ebay listings went ridiculous overnight.
Same, I’ll try at lunch but if nothing I’m not going to break a leg to find it.
I’ll break any legs that get in my way 😛
You got a link to a full explanation?
Sure thing, bud.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/3ds-homebrew-exploit-causes-popularity-surge-for-obscure-2011-game/
I know I’ve seen it at local targets or big dubyas, I might have to have another look.
I finally heard back from the STAT test I did a month ago. I’m not sure if everyone that did them this year was also not on their “A” game or something but I did manage to score in the top 84 percentile which is nice. It also made me realize I am much better suited dealing with mathematical problems then language problems. I guess it makes sense though, I’ve always been good at problem solving but terrible at writing / interpretation and the like.
EDIT: Percentile not percent. I finished in the top 16% though.
Good work buddy!
I told you you’d have done better than you thought 🙂
What does this mean for the nursing course you want to do?
Nothing really, it’s basically just a test to help me get in. I could still not actually get into any of the uni’s I applied to. (Which is what I am going to start stressing about next)
Huzzah! Applying for the course?
Yeah I applied before I took the test then realised It would help my chances to take the test.
So going for the RN level?
I guess so?
EDIT: I am going for a Bachelor of Nursing. They don’t really list it as RN level or anything.
You need a bachelor for RN. EEN and below is a Tafe course.
Do you mean the top 16% or the top 84%?
Either way, I’ll say congrats, so I guess it doesn’t really matter 🙂
Maybe he means, ‘in the top, 84%.’
Intriguing! Is this a maths problem or a language problem? 😛
Badum tish!
Language. It’s percentile not percent. Nib’s theory holds true! \o/
Top 84% means he scored better than 84% of people who took the test.
It’s why the highest you can get is 99.9%, cause you can’t do better than yourself.
Actually, that’s not what it means at all, if you want to apply a literal meaning to “top 84%.”
I’m sure that’s what he intended to say, but “top 84%” means that only 16% of people did worse.
Yes, I am stupid. I think we get the point. =P
You’re not stupid. You’re in the top 16%! \o/
That’s what it means in this sense.
Poor wording aside (which is not Ser Nobulus’ fault, that’s how they word it themselves when you receive your results), that’s the intended meaning of the sentence.
Literally, yes, it doesn’t make sense, but even then it’s a pretty common way for important test results to be returned.
I think the sticking point is the “per cent” vs “percentile” thing. They mean entirely different things.
Edit: ah yep, that is indeed what it was. Nobs updated his original post.
@shane
I’m well aware that percent and percentile mean entirely different things.
Regardless, when you get your results, they’re written as x%, meaning percentile rather than percentage.
I’m not sure if the two are interchangeable with the same symbol, and I’m relatively sure they’re not really, but that’s how it has always been with these particular kinds of tests.
Confusing, granted, but I was under the impression that it was common knowledge.
I did better then 84% is what I meant. It’s worded weirdly
Ah, then you’re in the 84th percentile. Congrats!
Scoring in the top 84% means that if there were 100 people, 83 of them finished ahead of you 😛
Yeah, I that’s how I read it at first and though “well that sounds about right” but then realised it was the inverse. God damn english why can’t they just say top 16%?
You guys know how I do that radio thing, if you’re interested you can hear me at http://www.5yyy.com.au by clicking on the listen live tab
Wooo! We can now listen to TAYlist live! \o/
EDIT: Fixed, VLC was being a dick. Setting the audio file defaults to Foobar 2000 worked.
Oh god, I don’t know what’s going on.
You clicked on the one on the top of the page, right?
Yeah, it was just VLC being dickish.
Works just fine under Foobar 2000. 🙂
There’s also and integrated flash player on the right hand side, if you don’t use an external program.
Can confirm, this is working great.
She got-to be love…She got-to be luuuuuurve
Unfortunately didn’t get into the photo comp I entered. But! It’s a good learning experience and get to learn off the other competitors stuff which is always good. Better luck next time I guess!
Next time get @rocketman to blow on your photos for luck.
If you win all the awards on your first lap around the circuit, what are you going to do for the rest of your career? You’ll get ’em next time!
I found it really interesting that I wasn’t immediately soul crushed and that I was pretty positive about it all! I think that’s good yeah?
It means you’re in this for the right reasons! That’s ALL good.
Yep, just keep trying! It’s the trying that’s important.
Have you every tried http://www.dpchallenge.com/?
I haven’t! I will now though!
I think it’s something you’ll really love. The weekly challenges are just the thing to keep you working on new pictures, you can build up a portfolio on the site, and there is a very active community of experienced photographers who offer advice on each image. I had a friend who was very enthusiastic about it a few years ago.
Actually, I’ll tag @freya and @blaghman in this too.
I totally missed this article the other day. It’s amazing. I can’t believe this is real.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/11/barbie-fks-it-up-again/
I dunno, a friend of mine is a civil engineer that designs bridges and roads and what not but a screwdriver confuses him.
Designers don’t do the grunt work. They’re paid too well for that.
Yeah, but she’s self-identifying as a computer engineer, not a designer 😛
WHY DOESN’T SHE KNOW HER JOB TITLE?
After reading the rest of it it’s less misogynist and more the writer is utterly clueless about how computers work.
It’s not the blow for feminism it could have been, but I don’t think it’s openly misogynist either. It’s just ridiculous and extremely poorly written.
*checks pay*
🙁
That’s what you get for working for the ABC 😛
If he worked for Channel Ten he’d have to give THEM money 😛
My job as admin is mainly me showing highly paid degree holders how to make the computer go.
Man, Dragon Age Inquisition is so good. I’m not even worry about doing quests I’m just randomly wondering around. Haven’t done that in a game since Skyrim.
I’m not ashamed that my first hour of Skyrim consisted mostly of chasing and catching butterflies.
I killed a chicken in the first village I came across.
Don’t do that.
The folks in Whiterun are some of the most aggressive animal activists I’ve ever encountered.
My only horse killed itself
One of the reviews on steam simply says:
“I killed a chicken and the townsfolk banded together and killed me”
10/10
Bob was cracking me up already, but this is the point where I audibly lost it, unable to contain mirth with only a hand over my mouth.
I had to hide my amusement because no-one around here would even begin to understand. There are only two other people on this floor who don’t consider admitting to being a gamer as something a few steps lower than admitting to wetting the bed.
SHUDDUP I HAYD YOO
Is pokemon Alpha Sapphire & Omega Ruby really $94 each at JB? Cause that seems way over priced for a pokemon game…
Website says $49 for me.
Interesting, got an email from them stating they’re $94 each, someone cocked up! But the site does say $49 each.. Shame it wasn’t a lower price they might just have to honour it otherwise 😛
Fun fact:
In the US, if there’s a pricing fuck-up, they are legally obliged to honour it, and chalk it up to bad luck.
But here in AU, there’s no such obligation. They aren’t obliged to honour accidental typos or other mistakenly advertised prices. (Sometimes they’ll do it for PR reasons, but that’s a different matter)
But they tend to anyway for good customer relations. Well for however it usually goes that way.. Mostly at JB, where staff missed changing a price sticker after sales have ended.. To which I just thought was the regular price until it came up as more at the register 😛
The best one I had was picking up Fallout 3 vanilla when GOTY was out as well but when I went to the counter there wasn’t any copy of the vanilla game so they bunged in the GOTY disc at no extra cost 😀 Saved me $60 on DLC prices
Sure that’s not for the bundle that has both games?
Says each
/facepalm. Doofus here didn’t see the image link. 😛
There’s a link?
I just got the same email…
The imgur link in @virus__’s post. http://i.imgur.com/2lUYUSA.png
In any case, I don’t think the bundle’s being sold here. It’s probably just a typo – right numbers, wrong order.
Grump-o mood, activate!
*crosses arms vehemently*
*scowls angrily*
>:(
GRRRRRRRR!!!!
I shall join you in Grump-o mood! Now if we manage to get 4 more people to activate theirs we can combine our Grump-o moods into one giant Grump-o CRIME FIGHTING ROBOT!
…or just take your grump out on Atheon. 🙂
Who dat??
Someone you need a team of 6 to fight…
What’s gotcha all huffy?
I dunno.
Just the mood of the day.
I don’t like it >:(
😀
🙂
:}
Turn that frown, upside down
:)>
You’re half vampire?
Just got an email from JB listing new Pokemon as $94! Bargain!!!
Deja vu? I feel like I just read this conversation….
No, I’m a totally original thinker dammi t
Dragon Age Inquisition update:
Still at work, have yet to collect game from store.
hey I’m up to the same bit.
Woh!
Hah! I’m one step ahead!
Ok fine… I’m not =,=
Got home at 9:30PM, game is sitting in post office to be picked up.
*Sob*
Oooo. The Inquisitors box is pretty.
Also much much larger than I expected.
Did anyone else get the Kyrat Edition of Far Cry 4. if yes I have 2 questions.
What did your note say inside the hidden compartment of the Statue? I’m curious if we get different ones or if it’s just the same for everyone.
Secondly have you gotten your codes for the Yak farm and Harpoon gun? I registered my code on their site, got a confirmation e-mail saying they’ll send me the code on the day of release, that day has come and gone and I haven’t received any codes yet.
Stuffs gonna splode
Just retweeted a bajillion .gifs on Twitter, should lose me a few followers
*unfollow*
*fistpump*
*report for spam*
=PI disable retweets from everyone.
I have in the past disabled particular individuals RTs after they let me down. Most people RT funny &/or interesting stuff.
For some reason though, the options button for individuals has disappeared in the app since the last update.
I am not fond of this no proper internet thing. Especially when I’m used to streaming music most of the day.
You struck me as the type to own a lot of music legitimately.
too lazy to choose &/or switch discs??
Spotify isn’t legitimate?
Taylor Swift says no.
I know it’s become a big joke but she’s not wrong.
Well according to the interview a label exec did with Nikki Sixx on his radio show, that is far from the truth. But then again label execs are slimy bastards so who knows.
Barely. You’d be better off buying some official merch than paying Spotify because the artists see fuck all.
WTF?! That’s kind of rude, Jimu!
Not only do I buy all my music, sometimes even multiples, I also pay for an all access subscription to Google’s Play Music.
I just don’t have a CD player in my workroom, so I can’t play any of my CDs, I don’t have all my CDs ripped to my hard drive because my current laptop has no disc drive, and anyway, my current favourite albums’ physical copies are all on their way in the mail.
What? I said legitimately not illegitimately
Fuck I hate the internet when this shit happens
yep, and the english language doesn’t help matters.
Fucking internet
I understood you perfectly. It was the lazy part that was rude.
Well, I apologise. It wasn’t meant to be. I don’t look on laziness as a horrible thing. I consider myself to be very lazy, more than most.
when gutsoup named his Snorlax Jim, we all had a laugh.
I’m not trying to say Strange is wrong in anyway (so don’t get the wrong idea plz) but I got what you meant. I guess it’s just the way we tend to word things in casual conversation. I took it to be a general colloquialism, that makes no assumptions as to what she might have been doing, or the reasons why music couldn’t be changed) (Does that even make sense? Now I’m questioning my own ability to even explain myself!) :0
How the Charles Dickens do I trigger the Divine’s visit in The Last Court?
I got a billion secrets, and a handful of Viands and Trophies, and I promised her Trophies.
Here I am sitting on a massive stack of clues and at least 90 Dignity, Freedom, and Prosperity.
What do?
(@transientmind @saturday @freya …@freyr? @freyface?)
The daily ‘market day’ should count down from 7 to 1, then the day after that, the Divine visits and all your other options get locked out. It’s automatic from playing cards on that day.
You may need more Viands and trophies though for the good ending.
http://diehardgamefan.com/2014/11/19/unboxing-the-dragon-age-inquisition-inquisitors-edition/
This is exactly how mine opened up with everything a jumbled mess except it was the eagle that was broken into 4 pieces (his was the keys). I ducked back into EB and they opened another one to replace it and it was a jumbled mess with the eagle AND keys broken. Next one had keys broken so they gave me the good eagle. Hooray for great staff.
So uh, yeah. If you got the Inquisitors edition be sure to check it as it seems very common.
I like the map and the steelbook. Question: where do you keep/put all that stuff?
I mean, does it go on show or stay in boxes hidden away?
Nice statues and things go on display. Odds and ends usually end up in the box on top of the bookshelf unless they’re useful (Tomb Raider’s waterproof survival pouch has come in handy a few times as has Diablo 3’s notebook.)
Thanks
Hmmm… Thinking I might give that midnight launch a miss tonight.
Local store hasn’t got half the accessories yet, and confirmed that they won’t do any price matching at midnight. That’s quite literally 10% off the console and 25% off the games with a price match.
I, for one, welcome our new aqua-haired virtual overlord
TAYlist for the 20th of November 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by online streaming at http://www.5yyy.com.auChristina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle
Billy Joel – A Matter Of Trust
Savage Garden – The Animal Song
Operator Please – Back & Forth
Pink – This Is How It Goes
Jenny Morris – She Has To Be Loved
Dami Im – Super Love
Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman – Starlight
Spice Girls – Wannabe
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
Jimmy Barnes – Lay Down Your Guns
Jessica Mauboy – Can I Get A Moment
Rory Gallagher – Ain’t It Good (By request from a local listener)
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (As above)
Birds Of Tokyo – Wild At Heart
Sia – Chandelier
Cassette Kids – Spin
Prepare for the future of TAYlist, plugs every Thursday, Listen to TAYlist before it’s the TAYlist on 5YYY.
New page PSA
http://diehardgamefan.com/2014/11/19/unboxing-the-dragon-age-inquisition-inquisitors-edition/
If you have the Inquisitors edition check it before you leave. 4/4 I’ve seen opened are a mess with something broken inside including mine.
Mine was a mess but all that was broken is the little bowl thingy in the castle figure.
I did notice that the slip case said the lock picks open a secret compartment.
Other then that it does not look to bad.
Whoop, mine was ok aside from a small scratch in the faux snakeskin, scattered everywhere but nothing broken, the feather was a little trashed and I thought I was missing lock picks because they’d fallen behind the red felt stuff. Really like the cards and map. Is the “secret compartment” just the coins that you can get to with your hands anyway?
No idea. I can’t find it or even see where it could be. Must be pretty secret.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/is-brain-training-a-waste-of-time3f/5905370
Fun times in the office right now, with the others having just found this being posted. Oh dear 😛
Isn’t your office part of the ABC that makes a brain training program?
Yup. They were already talking about something that went up on the 7:30 report last night talking about brain training games (I think reporting on the benefits of it?), and how they only mentioned Lumosity and not us at all. But there was also talk of what this thing’s talking about, how they’re ineffective when done on your own rather than in a group. Apparently the study they’re referring to was actually saying that they don’t work because of problems with the users being unable to operate the computers or whatever, rather than the actual training programs themselves. Or something like that. So yeah, bit of damage control at the moment, with a fair few people calling in to ask about it and stuff 😛
They only work if you pay us lots of money to supervise you.
Is it that the games don’t give enough instruction on their own or that people don’t bother to actually play the games if they’re not being watched?
Something along those lines.
…which one? 😛
Yes!
OOH! I don’t know what his name is, but that really handsome Egyptian newreader (his picture is on the page of the article), hoo boy. I was looking around the Dr Who exhibit in the ABC foyer last year and wandered down to where they were reading the news or whatever, in a glass office? I was watching him, and he totally smiled at me, and I blushed and ran away.
COOL STORY.
#OhJane
Waleed Aly? Whose name is right beneath his picture there? 😛
Yeah! I didn’t see his name because I was lost in his eyes…
Spoilerized cos why not.
I’m really a bit dumbfounded by today.. so much heartache, and so much joy all at the same time! One part of me want to cry out of frustration, and another part of my wants to cry out of sheer happiness!I was chatting away in irc this morning, with a bunch of modelers and artists I’ve known for many many years, about various things, none really related to my troubles today, but someone asked me how I was, and I just explained that I was frustrated with the govt due to them fucking me around. No more details than that..
Suddenly, I get an email from the owner of Polycount.com (I’ve known him since he started the site) saying he’s sent $100USD to my paypal! :0
No sooner had I typed a thankyou to him in irc expressing my gratitude, and I get another email from one of my buds at Ubi Toronto, saying he’d send my $100CAD to my paypal! Total wtf moment!
Then I get a call from the recruiter for Dept of Ed, saying he’s got the job offer details ready to send over, and needs me to submit ID’s for a police check etc. HOLY SHIT BALLS!
Soon as I hang up the phone from him, phone rings again, and customer who I did a job for week before last, says he’s 5 mins away, coming to drop off cash to pay his bill!
Also, explained the whole two job offers to the Dept of Ed guy, and said I’m hoping to get the offer from the other job on Monday, and he said he’s happy to tell Dept of Ed I’m gonna think about it over the weekend etc! BAM!
Considering the absolute shite I went through this morning, this day has done a total 180 on me. If it wasn’t for the preceeding wall of text, I’d say I’m speechless.. but.. well.. I think you get the point!
I have the greatest friends!
I imagine that you’re running around the house in a fit of excitement after all this.
Random limb flailing and all.
Congrats.
hahaha that’s what I feel like inside, but I actually feel more like a nervous wreck atm! Still, inside I’m jumping for joy, and that’s what counts I guess! 🙂 Cheers!
\o/
Dude, top stuff.
Yaybot!
Awesome news man. I’m happy for you.
That makes me feel so happy for you after reading how crappy your morning was.
*hug*
It was the most unexpected end to my day! More than I could have imagined!
Everything’s coming up Welhouse! \o/
For anyone interested in my seafood restaurant adventure after my post this morning, I had a fisherman’s basket which included crumbed calamari, tempura prawn and soft shell crab and it was friggin amazing. Also I probably shouldn’t have eaten all of it. Sweet jesus, that was too much food.
Food coma!
Soft-shell crab?
Good ol’ crab. Evolving a nice, soft shell to make it easier for us to eat them.
Yeah, never understood how that was an adaptation that helped them in the wild.
EDIT: So I looked it up and it turns out that it’s all crabs! It’s just timing, right after moulting their previous shell their new shell is still soft.
The More You Know
—===*
Mmmmm soft shell crab!! I haven’t had that since I was in Shanghai! Oh sweet sweet memories!!!
I’m glad it turned out well!
Oh! A whole lot of people started following my dumb Twitter! I didn’t even realise – I’m still trying to get used to the app I’m using; it doesn’t appear to care for notifications. Hi!
Blame @dc 😉
It’s totally weird and creepy, right?
Says the person who barely touches Twitter. 😛
WITH GOOD REASON
YES!!
YOU HAVE A TWITTER AND I WASN’T INFORMED!?
https://twitter.com/SnrTaco
Oh shit @mrtaco there’s a second tweet! OMG
Pfft see you weren’t even paying attention what’s the point of having it there 😛
GOD IT WAS ALL OVER PAGE… SOMETHING, THE OTHER WEEK
KEEP UP
I have randoms follow me every now and then, but they get pissed off and leave fairly quickly because I’m boring and don’t tend to post much. Which is fine with me, I’d rather they didn’t follow me in the first place.
Anyone notice how @miketarno has disappeared now @dc is back.
It’s a mysterious mystery.
Super sexy spiiiiiiiiiies.
Needs a theme song.
But DC called you and @strange super spies as well. I am mega confused right now. Who is the real spy? *dun dun DUNNNNN!*
Screw it, everyone is a spy. It’s a lot cooler that way anyway.
Monkey… Evil Monkey.
If everyone’s a spy, is anyone really a spy?
The spies who spy on other spies spying would be the ultra spies. They’d be the only true spies.
I’m definitely not a spy.
Will Super Secret Spies do?
http://youtu.be/tfOdCbFiATk
I hear some really hot and talented dudes made that film clip.
Hey it’s @dc! I mean, Mike… *whistles*
Holy sheeeeeeet! Talk about a rollercoaster of a day. Such lows this morning, to such highs this afternoon, and now I get a call from my sister, telling me that the doctors were unable to clear a blood clot in my Grandmothers leg, so they’re going to have to amputate 🙁
While this is saddening news, I’m honestly surprised that she’s even lasted this long. She was admitted to full time care about 4-5 years ago, in part due to dementia, and in part for health reasons, and she was only given several months to live, so she’s certainly had a good run, but I honestly don’t know if she’ll have it in her to pull through an amputation. That’s a pretty massive trauma to the body of even a healthy person. Here’s hoping for the best anyway!
Holy crap man, sounds like it’s been one helluva day for you.
*hugs*
Sure has.. can I get off the rollercoaster now?! I don’t need any more of this!!
I guess I should put word out to @freezespreston, that this may impact on my ability to make it to the shindig on Saturday. Depends on the outcome of this situation. If it goes well I will likely still show, but I just have to play it by ear now. Keeping fingers crossed that I can still make it. Would love to see you all again!!
No drama man.
Shit man 🙁 You’ve had a massive day, I hope you can sit down and have dinner in peace and just get a chance to get your head around things.
Aw, dude.
I know right? :\
Bye taybies! Enjoy your day. It’s not raining and I’m going home to video games and a gin, dammit! <3
#ohjane Enjoy 😀
You know you can post here when you’re not at work!
All the cool kids do it…
:'(
Well, that must make me the coolest kid around, I pretty much only post on TAY when I’m at home. Very rarely do it when I’m at work.
Aww, I know. But I try to stay off the internet a bit when I’m at home, you know? Like, I’ll check a few things, but I try to focus on my partner and dogs, or video games or reading or cooking; things I can’t do at work 🙂
A gin drinker! Even though I don’t drink anymore, Gin and tonic will always be one of my fav drinks to remember! 🙂
Ooh. What’s your gin of choice?
Haha, whatever I’m gifted? I don’t know that I’ve ever bought myself gin before – people bring it when I invite them for dinner, haha. Right now I’m on a bottle of Vickers.
Damn, I wish I knew people that brought me gin 😛
I had someone introduce me to Hendricks, in a gin and tonic with cucumber. It became my favourite pretty much straight away. Got myself a bottle duty free when coming home from Japan, been slowly chipping away at it since. And now kind of got my mum and sister onto the G&T (or in the case of Mum, back onto it), though neither are a fan of cucumber so they have other kinds with lemon or lime. Found this one as a present for Mum once, since it sounded interesting. And I think it was this one my sister got given as a present? Both are pretty damn good, would recommend checking them out.
Ooh with cucumber sounds so refreshing! I like it with tonic (did not even know this until I order a gin and lemonade but was given a tonic instead by accident), or just about anything really. If I’m being trash, I drink it with Coke, hahaha.
I’ve never tried really expensive alcohol, so I honestly couldn’t say if it would make things any different. I don’t drink enough to bother with the expense, I guess.
Happy accident! One night I ordered a G&T and nearly spat it out when I went to drink it. They’d run out of tonic water so hooked up the tap to soda water instead :/
With these, it’s not so much about the expense but just the flavour they have. But yeah, it’s not exactly easy to just say oh hey I’ll throw down seventy bucks on this thing I’ve never tried at all 😛 I don’t know how common the non-Hendricks ones are to find in bars at all to be able to just try, you pretty much just need to know someone who has a bottle already.
Gin is just the best. @beeawwb has ruined gin for me like he ruined Scotch by introducing me to some really nice stuff and now I can’t ever go back to the cheaper stuff I enjoyed previously 🙁
PS: Bob, they have the Hibiki 17yr at Dan Murphy’s for 140 I saw yesterday. Also the Barrel Nikka. Was tempted until I realised we already had spent too much. Did grab a bottle of Socho though.
Slow TAY is slow. 🙁
I’ve had to do actual work today because you lot weren’t distracting me enough.
Can’t decide whether to start DA:I or continue WoW, but then I remembered the answer is to pick neither: I’m going to my Mum’s for dinner. Which is great and everything but those vidya games don’t play themselves (unless they’re FFXIII)
Had a painter over this morning to paint a wall that was damaged by previous tenants. But I had to move all my TV and stuff out of the way and that meant disconnecting all the speakers that I’d spent ages positioning just right.
I understand your predicament. Gonna pick up DA: I tomorrow, obviously gonna want to play it ASAP, but I’m having so much fun with Far Cry 4 right now I feel like I should keep going till I’ve finished it, otherwise it’s gonna be a really long time before I get back to it.
EB currently have a heap of PS4 games for $30-50 and some good deals there.
You know what’s still $50? Ground Zeros. Whyyyyyyyyy?
I got an email today that had a voucher for JB Hifi. If you spend $100, you get either 10% or $10 off.. can’t remember which right now, but if anyone wants it, gimme a holler!
It’s wicked cheap for a digital version on PSN if that “floats your boat”.
“Boils your oil”
“Powder’s your chowder”
I don’t think that last one’s a real thing…
Pretty sure the original TMNT movie (1990) and The Addams Family movie (the first one) were never released for sale on DVD in Australia, if anyone’s interested I found Cheap As Chips selling them at $5 with the Australian rating on them and everything.
Needless to say I snagged a copy of each.
Tonight at Kmart while walking past the DVD shelves I spotted TMNT: The Next Mutation. I was like, wtf is this.
But also sort of wanted to pick it up.
Apparently it’s a TV show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Turtles:_The_Next_Mutation
Might have to pick it up, my son would probably love it. He seemed to enjoy the movie I picked up when we watched it tonight.
I might have just played Dragon Age 3 for seven hours.
BLOG COPY AND PASTE 😛
I’ve got things to do. (DRAGON AGE! :P)
But how was your day?!
Best day.
😀
Nuttin’ wrong with that.
WHY DID YOU STOP!?
I started playing at about 8:00 and stopped at about 1:30 because I had to go to work.
I’m the same with Far Cry 4 at the moment. Only stop for work, sleep, and when my son’s home.
You’re working again? WOO!
I miss all the cool TAY news now 🙁
Just Christmas Casual nothing fancy. I finish up in January.
How much of that time was spent in the Character Creator?
Um, so I made a mock up of a Jet set radio future beanbag, but considering the lack of reaction on here, I probably didn’t choose the right game. Any suggestions?
XENOBLADE!
Aside from that one. =
MOAR XENOBLADE :p
I thought it was pretty good. I liked the Zelda one you gave to Crazyguy too. Pink’s not my colour of choice, but a Kirby one would be pretty cool.
I was thinking of a few different designs for Zelda. I also have done a few mario ones
BINDING OF ISAAC!
I thought this too!
Repost it please, I missed it!
Here http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/example.jpg
Hmm, not bad.
I don’t really know the subject matter though.
If you had one large logo covering the main section of the beanbag it’d look like a seat, which I think would be cool.
Then you can surround it with spray cans.
Just friendly suggestions 🙂
My pattern doesn’t really have a dedicated seat. I just used that as idea. It’s a teardrop bag so your generic beanbag shape. Thanks though
Senran Kagura!
All the boobies!
A boy and his blob!
HUG BUTTON
THAT UNLOCKABLE VIDEO OF THE DEV’S KID
DAWWWWWW
SPOILERS!!!!
I didn’t see it, but Jet Set Radio Future is awesome. Kudos on having good taste.
You didn’t say what it was, just said “here’s a beanbag I’m thinking of making.”
This is quite different from HEY GUYS JET SET RADIO BEANBAG WHO LIKES IT.
I did say earlier that I’m looking for advice and trying to test whether it would be worth making to sell.
Damn it, give me the next Volume of Saga already!
Why can’t it be December yet?
I can’t wait either. <3 BKV
Solo boozing is the best. Character building stuff. Am sat in the middle of Sydney supping on my super dry partaking in one of my favourite hobbies. People watching. That may sound weird, but it’s really not. It is one of my favourite past times just seeing people going about their business! Maybe guessing what profession they do, guessing what they are doing for the night, guessing their name/age. Humans are such interesting creatures to observe.
I am not an alien.
See, I never really got why people would do that.
It feels it’d be kinda arrogant.
Also, humans aren’t that interesting when you’re surrounded by yobbos.
Depends on your mindset going into it I suppose, if you are guessing why you are ‘better’ than them then maybe it’d be arrogant.
A lot of animals do it watching one another, I think it’s an exercise in sociology or maybe psychology as to why we have an interest in one another rather than an arrogance :p
Arrogant to watch other people pass by? I’m not sure understand crazyguy!
And I completely disagree that humans aren’t interesting irrespective of who it is. I love observing and just trying to get in to the psychy of others no matter who they are! I was raised by mental health nurses and always fascinated by psychology though.
Not so much about them passing by, more like categorizing and just judging on a five-second glance.
Otherwise, fine.
Judging is a very strong word. I said guessing. I could never judge someone until I spent time with them one on one.
1 of 1 exams finished. 1 more assignment to finish and hand in. Second year is almost over \o/
Celebrate with Survivor \o/
AW YIS, CUBIC NINJA GET
My little secret out-of-the-way shop pulled through again 😛 And only ten bucks!
Gonna go on the hunt for that tomorrow between shifts.
Best of luck. I went through two other shopping centres afterwards just to see if I could find any more, but nothing.
There aren’t that many shops that sell games here, basically Harvey Norman, Dick Smith, Target, Kmart, and EB Games. So it won’t take me long to check things out.
And that was after having checked one place at lunch, and another on the way home too.
Oh yeah, it seems that Target has Batman #Blackgate for $20. Anyone know if it’s any good/worth the lowered price of admission?
Two Tweets and he’s already hashtagging!
@dc liked it!
Ooh, cool, I do want to play that.
So, in preparation for Smash for Wii U, I’ve been playing a fair bit of Brawl, Project M 3.5, and Melee.
Still going to main Link. Only figured out today that you can charge his Up+B whilst standing.
Makes for great projectile reflecting, and will KO at 120%. 😀
#ChaosKass
#Chaosius
Survivortalk! @sughly @f4ction (is anybody else actually watching it? :P)
Love a blind-side! Jeremy was kind of annoying me so I’m sorta glad he left 😛The challenges this week were pretty cool too. Something a bit different for once with the foot challenge!
There’s not much to discuss, really. I don’t know what it is about this season but there really hasn’t been anything huge to talk about each week. Maybe it’s because we’ve seen the Blood vs Water thing before? (and I think it’s worse this time because there was no Redemption Island – Exile Island is boring)
Also, I’ve never really noticed it too much before, but the Survivor folks totally go through makeup before each shoot, right? 😛 They all look too clean! And all of them have glowing white teeth.
Thank you! I am also glad Jeremy is gone.hashtag blindside :P. I liked the challenge too! I agree that this season just isn’t very… discussable? Oh well! 30 should be killer 😀@sughly @strange
Yeah heaps good challenge! I was a little bummed to see Jeremy go actually, I thought he was one of the better players left. I think it was a kinda dumb move too – john and christie (is that their names?), they don’t even have numbers. Them with baylor and missy, 4 against… 5 is it? Just seemed too earlyJacyln? 😛
Yes, WHATEVER
Also, they have Reed!
You reckon he’s with them? I dunno, I cant see why he would trust them…
I dunno! He did vote with them this time though but Alec, Wes and Keith seem like crappier allies 😛
How do they possibly look crappier than John and Jaclyn though? They flip on everyone! So does Baylor for that matter!
Also
See @f4ction, the last season was amazing!
Tomorrow will be better 🙂
That’s what they all say…
Such an optimistic view :\
Well it is Friday tomorrow.
Friday means little when you work weekends 😛
Ahh.
That sucks.
POKEMON DAY
I got a free pokemon yesterday from EB games. Might try and get more codes today
8 sleeps till Smash Bros.
6 sleeps til I get my Gamecube to USB adapter for PC so I can play Project M to tide me over til Saturday… 😀
1 sleep till Pokermans.
All the varied and interesting reponses to my Christmas tree question have reminded me of this:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/christmas
And also this one, which is for anyone celebrating Thanksgiving next week (and equally applicable to christmas)
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/thanksgiving
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2014/11/20/four-versions-of-the-18th-scale-musashi/
She sure does have extremely large equipment.
Ernie award page get.
I see that the president equipped his daughter with ballistics.
5 mins into Dragon Age Inquisition and I have to restart purely because of how much I hate the male’s voice. It’s awful. A big bearded two handed warrior a who sounds like he’s on the verge of peeing himself. Even the threatening tone has a laughably empty quality to them.
Edit: @dc pointed out there was an alternate voice and it is amazingly better.
Were you British or Americano?
Mine sounds too posh for a dalish but Americano just sounded wrong
I started with a male one as well, but I’ve abandoned him. 2H warrior, square jawed and bearded with a deeper voice… and a thin, tiny pencil neck. Also, something about the introductory sequence must have your character looking perpetually puppy-dog-eyed in innocent, pants-wetting, pathetic confusion. So much for any idea of handling amnesia with stoicism.
Goodnight, folks.
Nighty night, cray-cray 🙂
http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/20/7253339/final-fantasy-13-2-pc-dlc-release
If anyone was holding out on the PC release of FFXIII-2, this might help you over the line: looks like most of the DLC including all the extra story DLC is included in the game. It’s also dual audio like the first game on Steam.
@sughly
@DC. :p
Ohhhhh dual audioooo :O (thanks greenius!)
XENOBLADE HAS DUAL AUDIO TOO
Xeno what?
If you want some fun, read the comments on any ScrewAttack Death Battle video. It’s nothing but fanboys disputing the results. Loudly.
That doesn’t sound fun…
Dragon Age is great fun.
One issue, my Deluxe dlc code was accepted by PS store but no download was initiated & I can’t seem to find any record of the transaction or the dlc on my PS4.
Who do I contact in with this problem?
@dc. :p
@sughly
did you try turning it off and on again? 😉
Yes, actually. Unrelated reasons though
it’s not the kind of dlc you have to actually trigger in game is it? I’ve had some games like that before, though not on console. Any menus in game to view extra content or anything?
It is, but usually there’s some kind of record of my transaction. So without knowing where it is, I don’t want to spoil the game with a guide, it’s a mystery as to its unlocking.
Even the smallest download s register somewhere on the system
If you check in Library does it have an add on listed with all your Dragon Age data?
Tha little windowt wasn’t updating Dragon Age for some reason. I’ll check again tonight.
I thought there was a place in the store with a list & I should have received a receipt email
I’m not sure if they send you a receipt for DLC?
If you double check and then send Sony or EA an email/tweet, I’m sure you’ll get it resolved.
TODAY
Yay?
It sure is!
Hey guys and gals!!!
So some awesome stuff and some stuff I’m just sick of.
Awesome stuff:
– Work gave me a samsung galaxy tab 3 for doing such a good job. Soo stoked. It’s sooo nice to feel appreciated. Finally something to play Shadowrun on! 😀
– Went to Big W to print a card I made for Bee for our first wedding anniversary and while waiting went to look around and found Starcraft 2 and its expansion in the game section. FOR $10 EACH!!!
– IT’S MY WEDDING ANIVERSARY ON THE WEEKED! Taking bee out for a super fancy dinner that is going to be deeee-lish!
Stuff I’m sick of:
The whole game industry in general.
To be honest I haven’t been playing many games recently, other than World of tanks and playing the hell out of First Strike on my HTC (a great game, btw). And I think it’s mostly because of how much things have changed in the last few year (in my opinion for the worse).
Firstly – I’m sick of installing a game and then having to wait for multiple updates to install – compounded by the fact that i barely ever buy at launch so I get slugged with a few gigs worth of stuff. On my shoddy connection it takes forever. Why can’t these things be optional, especially as i rarely even play online!? JUST LET ME PLAY!
Secondly – Early access. Got an email for the “early access” for the new Mordheim game. So let me get this straight – you want consumers to pay to BETA TEST your game, but you’ll change the name so they don’t think they are beta testing it. Seriously, developers, don’t fart in my face and tell me you’ve just sprayed some chanel no. 5 and I should be thanking you. Apparently they are giving a 20% discount if you are part of “early access” – which has far less content to start with than what the end product will. You want me to pay to sit through and report your bugs for you?
Back in my day early access was a reward option for people that Beta Tested a game> “hey, guy! thanks for beta testing our game – here, have early access to the final product if you decide you want to continue to play and start paying”
Screw you, games industry.
Totally understand the early access thing. Personally I’ve only ever done one early access (Carmageddon Reincarnation) cos I just really wanted to see what they were doing, but at least it seems that if you do pay for early access, when the game’s released, they do tend to give you all or most of the dlc for free when it’s available. Either that or special items that aren’t available to non-participants. Personally, for the most part, I feel it’s a pretty sad state of affairs when they have to rely on stuff like that to develop a game, but I guess people feel more secure in signing up for something like that, than they would to a kickstarter project. At least with the early access, you can actually see the work they are doing as it’s developed, rather than placing your money and faith blindly in a company until release date.
It’s really no different to pre-ordering though, except with pre-orders you often end up blind about the product when you get it.
Yes physical pre-orders you can cancel, but many digital ones you can’t, but there still hasn’t been this sort of backlash against the pre-order system, which I personally find interesting. What is it about putting your money down and getting to play along with the games progress that is so much worse than paying for the game and waiting to have it released to play it? This is not a sarcastic question or a jab, genuinely interested.
For me, it was just my sheer interest to see what they were planning to do with Carmageddon. Having loved the previous games so much, and been waiting so long for a new one, I couldn’t help myself but sign on for the early access (it was actually cheap too considering.) I really wanted to see if it still felt like carmageddon, in the way the cars handle and all that sort of stuff. Given that this is the first carmageddon game in a long time, I figured if I got in to the early access, I would be able to provide feedback on the development from the eyes of a diehard fanboy, to try and make sure they did a good job with it. So far, I have no regrets. They’ve been releasing new vehicles and tracks throughout the process, which keeps me interested, and although I suffer from the odd crash every now and then, I totally expected it to be that way. In fact, I expected it to be worse than it has been. Only thing I want them to hurry and implement now, is multiplayer so I can play with my gaming buddy!
So yeah.. from my point of view, with this game, I guess it was important to me that the game was good, so I wanted to ensure I could provide good feedback to help them get it right! 🙂
I make it habit to throw the disc in as I walk in the door, let it do its thing while I’m busy changing, peeing etc. I check on it periodically during this because there’s always something.
So then, whenim good & ready to play, sos the game
On a slightly different note, thank you for informing me that a Mordheim game is in the works. I was completely unaware of this until now.
My hype meter is currently set at “Intrigued”.
I generally buy all my games digitally so I always figure I will need to download. So the patches and the like aren’t a big issue for me. The bigger issue is when Mrs Tigs plays a round of bejewlled in the morning and then leaves it open on the menu all day so that nothing downloads.
I have no issue with early access. I just don’t buy it. If done right it can let you be part of the development process, to experience a game as it is being created, login in to see what has changed with the latest patch. Some people like that.
The main issue I see with early access is people buying it expecting a full game and then complaining. Either wait for release or take part in early access.
I’m not philosophically opposed to Early Access unless the developer uses it as an excuse to get their money early then never deliver, because ‘fuck you, I got mine’.
I am however reluctant to get into them too early or often, even ones I’m really interested in, because my experience of them so far has been of playing the incomplete/inferior work in progress, and burning out on it when it’s still haphazard, poorly-formed shit, ruining the experience for me when it is finally polished and complete.
Far Cry 4 adventures.
Just took down 3 Elephants, and then I get attacked by a Honey Badger, man those things are mean little fuckers.
I know literally nothing about this game, but if this was on the box I would buy it.
Those honey badgers are tough as nails, I put 3 arrows into one and it still latched onto my arm, the animation is great where you hold it by the scruff of the neck while it wildly swipes and snarls at you. Encountered my first tigers too, I grappled up a cliff side and it was literally 2 feet from my face when I got to the top, a grenade launcher made short work of it though :D. Discovered that they can climb the radio towers too, thought I was being smart and climbed one and sniped a tiger with my bow, it swiftly climbed the tower and things got messy. Those towers were like safe havens in 3 now it’s crazy time all the way up, eagles keep attacking me on the way up. Having such a good time with it, also got my WiNGSUIT!!! and proceeded to leap off of everything, it’s the funnest way to get around.
I hope the elephants can climb the towers too!
I really hope they do a Dinosaur game this time if they’re doing another stand-alone expansion.
yeah the “dragons” in Blood Dragon made me realize how much I want another decent dinosaur game, Dino Riders the game would be pretty sweet.
I would just want it to be exactly the same as Far Cry 3 except with less crazy tribes/pirates, more crazy scientists/corporations and dinosaurs everywhere.
did you play Blood Dragon?
Not yet. It’s installed and ready to go, just haven’t had a break in new releases to get around to it!
You should it’s Far Cry with dinosaurs (only one type though) added craziness, fun and an awesome soundtrack.
Edit: this is still possibly my favorite trailer ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dofacvjRkc
“The apocalypse has had an apocalypse”
I really need to get back to that, only played through the start in the chopper, which by the way I think was one of the most awesome moments in gaming ever, and then I think the first mission, and I got busy/distracted by something else and never went back.
I own it on PC (thanks to @freezespreston), 360 and PS3, but yet I’ve only gotten that far, so ashamed right now.
@evilmonkey
WHAAT? How? Once I started I couldn’t put it down.
Kickstarter for Designasaurus reboot!
The idea of The Stomping Land was so cool.
yeah, looked fantastic. I know they had major issues, did they abandon it completely?
Not sure, I only vaguely remember there being something about issues and reading it on here.
Dinos is rad
Good morning TAYbies! 😀
*leg humps*
I bet you wee a little every time the doorbell rings! :p
A little?
Who wants a belly rub?
You’re such a good boy…
😛
Right, so my eyes are noticeably bloodshot. I think that’s my cue to step away from the computer for a bit, because I was looking in the mirror before and I’m basically on the verge of becoming the new Dark Lord.
heh suuuuure.. computer! I’d believe that! (put down the bong 😉
Puff puff pass!
Awesome. My Pokemon/New 3DS pre-order wasn’t shipped because… sometimes that happens? EB’s advice, go out and buy it in a store, then return it when my pre-order eventually arrives sometime next week. The worst part is I can’t even vent my frustration on them because the only point of contact is some girl working a call center job relaying information. Great start to the day.
That sucks, hopefully moving forward they can let you know that the order isn’t coming on time so you can cancel your pre-order and purchase the game on day 1.
That’s kinda stupid, why would they even suggest something like that o.O
A small teaser for Telltales GoT’s game if anyone’s missed it.
http://youtu.be/xZeJfIvy3Ck
“There’s squid in the wolfswood and flayed men down the kings road”.Graphics look pretty good, actually! Looks less comic-booky but still stylised. I like it.
I don’t know if I’ll be playing this one though. Never watched Game of Thrones so I’ll probably be lost the entire time 😛 I’ll wait for some impressions from people who aren’t fans of the show.
You should just watch Game of Thrones, man.
Um, watch GoT. It’s a really well wriwritten, well directed, well acted drama that is way more about politics ( all of them, not just the governmental type) than it is fantasy.
You really are missing out on one of the best made television series ever.
the hype isn’t just hype, it’s actually very, very good.
The first couple seasons anyway. I got bored by the third season.
Probably some kind of nihilism. On realizing that favourite characters can and do die at any given moment, I lost the enthusiasm or even will to care for any of them.
My two faves were stil living at the end of the latest book.
One of my second tiers may or may not be alive CLIFFHANGER
I like some permadeath in fiction after too many years of super hero comics.
That Tyrion Lannister though!!!!
How soon is soon? Before the end of the year? So god damn hype.
Right!? I like the setting, a dangerous place to be in Westeros.
I believe episode 1 is intended to drop before the end of the year.
Definitely didn’t double post. Nope.
I’m seeing double ……. four Krustys?
Apparently it will run alongside season 4 of the show, starting just before the end of season 3 and end at just after the start of season 5. Given the usual 1 episode/month schedule Season 5 will probably be about half-done by the time all the game episodes are out.
And after all of that Georgie boy will have written 2 pages for the winds of winter.
As predicted the senior person on our team is moving into the manager role in the wake of our manager being promoted. As predicted, this led to a few looks in my direction when there was talk of the senior role being resourced – the one I am highly unlikely to be offered or succeed in obtaining.
I think my go-to response to any probing questions from my colleagues will be to play dumb and point out that the role being vacated requires a high level of experience.
If you want it, then I hope you made yyour intentions clear to whomever does the hiring.
Sitting back and hoping it will come your way is less successful.
Good luck with it!
Nah, this is a follow up to a thing I posted a few weeks ago. I want the promotion but the circumstances aren’t right for me to move into this role at this time. It’s more likely they’ll hire a more experienced person to move into the vacant role, with a possibility that I will move up in a year or so.
I should clarify, I haven’t been told I won’t/can’t get this role but I had a discussion about career advancement with my boss a few months back and it was made clear to me then that I lacked the depth of experience-based technical knowledge to succeed in the role. There is a vague plan about me undertaking some formal training in the new year which I will discuss with my “new” manager, but I’m in no particular rush.
The reason I’m remarking on it is because other members of the team who’ve only joined us recently assume I am a shoe-in to move up, but it’s more complex than that.
Wow, in the government there’s no just moving up. The role has to be fairly advertised for all. Just being in the right place at the right time is never enough
The senior > manager role was advertising internally, the guy who got it was the best internal candidate. Anyone could have applied but they pretty much tap you on the shoulder and tell you to apply if you’re “the one”.
Promotion from claims specialist to senior claims specialist is on the basis of budget and business need. They need someone as experienced and skilled as the guy vacating to move into his role and that person is probably going to come from outside the company – there’s one potential candidate I can think of but he’s in another team and might not be interested in moving across.
There’s no reason I couldn’t still be promoted later if they had a need to give me more responsibility.
I’m gonna be that guy and say that it probably would have been best for you to express some interest in the position to your higher ups.
Even if you didn’t get it, or if they said that they were employing to fill it, it would have shown that you do want to move up in the company, and that your confident in yourself.
Seems like it would have been a good idea was all.
DA:I is a big step up from DA:2.
But definitely needs a controller to play at the moment keyboard and mouse is too clunky, and the tactical view is balls and useless indoors (invisible ceiling yay!).
So Bioware…. Focused development for PC = Nope…. Tactical like origins = Nope….
Not a bad game at all, but Bioware aren’t really telling true stories anymore.
I’m playing with Keyboard & Mouse. Not really having any problems except the UI is pretty terrible. That definitely was designed for consoles and they just didn’t bother to redesign it for PC.
I loved DA2, but I’m there for the convo.
My only complaint is repetition.
Inq is so fun so far!
Yeah the mouse and keyboard controls are utter balls. Right down to the default buttons being nonsense. Going to play it with a controller when I play next.
Tactical view is a joke because of the awful camera.
@negativezero @sernobulus I held out as long as I could but changed over to my wired 360 pad… It just made everything control wise smoother and this may be a placebo effect but it looked like it ran smoother.
It seriously made a big difference to me. But part of me died inside.
There really needs to be an ‘advance time’ toggle in tactical view instead of this ‘hold a button’ bullshit.
Edit: As for the storytelling accusation… the fanboy in me wants to refute that, but I don’t yet have the evidence to back it up.
I’ve had trouble getting into the story so far because there’s so much game cluttered around it. I’m pushing the ‘search’ scan button every .75 seconds out of an anal retentive fear of missing vital resources, and exploring every nook and cranny (of which there are many) to the point that it’s really dragging out the time in between conversations or fights.
It doesn’t help that the DA Keep didn’t actually import my carefully-curated Tapestry the first Inquisitor I created, so I had to go replay the prologue again to make sure that Varric doesn’t refer to Hawke as a ‘he’.
Not a spoiler but a once seen can’t be unseen:
Lip synching seems out a fraction as well…@evilmonkey did you end up getting to watch Mockingjay?
I did. Really pissed off.
They literally just finished the movie when the time was up. Haven’t been this pissed off since Back to the Future II.
So now have to wait for part two, but I might wait for it to come to Netflix or something, the Part1 left a really bad taste.
The “Part 1” in the title didn’t tip you off to the fact it might not be a complete story?
Yeah, it’s one book split into two parts, I expected them to drag it out as much as possible, and end on a cliffhanger.
It sucks that they split movies based on books into two, or sometimes even three parts *cough* The Hobbit *cough*, but apparently it’s what they do now.
Shh we get to see more of Jennifer Lawrence as a badass, that’s fine by me 😛
My problem with the hobbit isn’t that it’s split across 3 films, it’s that they took a lighthearted children’s book & made it tough & gritty.
& the chapter in the woods with the spiders is one of the actual scary bits & they just bolt through like it ain’t no thing
I understand that some of the extra stuff is from appendices but the whole tone of the films is OFF
That is one of the big issue I have with the film, I didn’t just realise until you put it like that. The tone doesn’t feel right for the story. I understand why they did it, it is a ‘follow-up’ film to LotR trilogy so wanted the same sort of tone.
The big issue I have is that even though the stuff might have come from appendices and stuff, so much of it just feels like filler.
Spoilers from the hobbit film
The who section in the goblin tunnels with the fighting was about 5 times to long. The stupid chase the rabbit while we sneak around was pointless. So many things that were there but did nothing to advance the plotI can’t compute the added romance
Well duh, why else would the wimminz watch a movie if not for the kissing parts
Sounds like it wasn’t too enjoyable, I’m hoping to give it a look in myself in a few weeks trying to sneak in using a gold class pass 😛
You don’t like Back to the Future 2?
Nah, couldn’t be bothered going back to work last night after I’d already done a shift.
More Far Cry 4 adventures.
Was just driving along to my next objective, and that radio announcer guy, Rabi Ray Rana (or whatever the hell his name is) was jabbering on, as he tends to do. And all of a sudden he says
I know that Honey Badgers suck a huge dick!Literally made me laugh out loud.
I love this game.
I like the one where he talks about “undesirable” things.
“I find poop very undesirable, I wish I never had to shit” I was in stitches.
hehe that takes me back to the talk back radio in vice city and gta3! man some of that stuff was just golden!
GTA radio had some of the best moments. I loved in the very first one when the music was dictated by the vehicle you were in, I remember the pick up truck had a hilarious song about a gold nugget mine with some great lines like “the men folk found their woman scary ’cause they were so big and hairy”
Then at the end of the song their excuse for looping the same track “Yeehaw, well that was so good I think I’ll play it again”
I looooooove the things the enemy NPCs are saying in this! It’s almost like they’re self-aware that they’re dumb? Like, “What was that? Ohh… probably nothing, just a noise. Nothing to worry about.”
Good morning! I got up early to play Far Cry 4, and I finally got to eff stuff up with an elephant 😀 and then I had to come to work :/ and then my iPhone has stopped working D:
I guess the iOS 7 update didn’t protect it against all that rain that happened the other day 😛
Haha, oh no, I know it’s not the rain. I had my phone in a little plastic snap-seal sandwich bag, and then inside a plastic bag! I’ve seen far too much water damage in my days to fall for that.
Oh that’s good. I once lost my Nokia 3315 to the washing machine.. Well it sort of worked afterwards, but never fully again =(
This seems crazy to me, because I don’t have a case for my iphone, walk around in the rain with it in my unprotected jeans pocket. I know it gets wet, I’ve had it get wet from handling it shortly after heavy condensation on a can of coke or washing hands in bathroom etc, and it still works great. I kind of figured they’d increased the phone’s resilience against/tolerance of water.
🙂
😀
😐
D:
Well that was an emotional roller coaster.
Also a reply fail
Been listening to stuff in my music collection (holy crap I have a music collection??) other than Judas Priest lately, this week The Living End came up on the rotation.
Haven’t listened to them in ages, I forgot how rad they are.
#TurboLover
The Living End are one of the best bands i’ve had the pleasure to see live, their drummer Andy is such a nice dude, too. I hope they do another retrospective style tour. That was the best 6 nights of my life.
That’s a lot of nights.
And yeah, they’re awesome live! Seen them twice I think, not sure if there was a third time at all. I think the first one wasn’t too long after Andy had joined, they made mention of him being fairly new I think. Should probably try catch them again sometime.
Sort of, but was only an hour or so a night, since they were playing their albums in full. From memory they were playing I think 10 shows in a row at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne & 5 of those shows was solely the self titled album in full.
Wow. Kinda jealous.
😛 it was awesome.. I even blogged the 7 days I was in Melbourne for it lol.
“Hey Batguy”, you may ask, “why do you have two New 3DS XL in your backpack?” Why, that’s a good question!
I pre-ordered one with EB the other day. Explicitly checked whether I could trade in my old XL for $100 AND price match. “Sure, just bring in the price you want to match”. So this morning I head out early, go to trade in, manager says in a really rude way “If you price match, we’re not doing the $100 off” (can’t really convey it, but I was taken aback with how he said it). So I thought about it a bit, decided “fuck you”, went to Big W and bought the $248 incl Paper Mario and charger bundle.
On the bus on the way to work, I thought about it a bit more, realised that in the end, the $100 trade-in, plus $60 worth of games I had to trade too, was the better deal for me at the moment. So I went to the EB near my work and bought another one! The staff there were much nicer, and the manager explained that “Look, I’m sorry, we can’t price match consoles”. Wasn’t especially happy with that answer, but was much happier with how it was all handled.
So now I have two 3DS sitting there in my bag! I can build a little house out of them. Going to take one back to Big W tomorrow, unless somebody in Sydney wanted to buy one standalone for $220?
I was going to ask but figured you were taking a flight and needed a spare
Hope there’s no connecting flights.
This is a fair assumption.
Any deals around for the old 3DS now?
Don’t lose both!
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAYS!
TILL WHAT.
I’m gonna guess til the TAY group Japan trip.
TILL TAY CAUSES AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT!
What a fiasco! Glad Giovanni isn’t going..he no like planes
Ooh ooh I nabbed a Firewatch poster this morning! So psyched.
I’m starting to think that you’re female DC…
Think things through Freeze. You’re not always funny.
Now I wanna know what you said!!! :’O
I didn’t see what this said, but there’s a very solid chance I would not have been insulted, if that’s what you’re worried about.
I have an inkling that he was more wary of upsetting old man DC 😛
Hey! I’m older than DC! Hahah.
Old lady Jane! 😀
Almost everyone is old compared to me 😉
The benefits of youth is I get to tease all you old codgers 😉
You whippersnappers with your walkymen and pokymon and bubblygum.
@janexo Bubblygum is now my word of the day.
@mrtaco @janexo
Yeah, I’ve never heard of bubblygum before either, haha!
Old Lady Jane is showing her age on that one 😉
@mrtaco mine is sodie pop
Dude you’re old as fuck…
Nothing insulting. Just didn’t sit right with me
Alrighty 🙂
I know the feeling..did you eat thai food last night too?
New modem/router/thingy get!
Mr. Strange got home from Sydney last night and spent two hours with his phone tethered to his laptop to try and figure out what I’d already told him…the lightning fried it. 😛 So he went out and bought a new one first thing this morning.
After skimming through TAY and seeing all the Dragon Age love, I’m mad at myself for not making him get that while he was out too, now.
Fun Fact: Diablo 3 RoS is $57 at EB for PS4 at the moment.
So much want. May have to finally pull the trigger and get a PS4.
I find that if there’s a sale on something at EB, you can be guaranteed to get it cheaper elsewhere within a day or two. Sounds like there’s a publisher price drop, so it’s probably $55 at JB and $50 at Big W.
Upon checking it’s 69 at JB and 78 at Big W.
Dragon Age is SO GOOD!
*goes back to playing Dragon Age*
I made Bun go get it for me today.
Welp, the other shoe dropped last night as I finally figured out why I’d been unable to update my desktop’s graphics drivers for the past few months. Long story short, Windows Update was utterly boned,. for reasons best known to itself. Couldn’t even check for updates. Repair didn’t find anything wrong, refresh failed (“drive locked”), so did a full reinstall.
Thankfully that machine’s mostly for gaming, so not much to reinstall – most of my data is not on my C drive, and Origin and Steam recognise exiting files. Main downside is I essentially need to download FC4 again at some point (cos Uplay), so I won’t be getting back to that for a while. Not too fussed, tho – DA:I runs about 10fps higher on the new drivers, and still managed 3 hours last night, even with all that palarva.
And a whinging page get. The fates are certainly fickle this week. 😛
Windows Update doesn’t usually break unless something breaks it, so nuke & reinstall is probably the correct option.
EDIT: Assuming you’re on an SSD, keep an eye on it. I had similar issues with a PC I built a while back where the SSD was randomly corrupting system files over time.
Yep, on an SSD. I’m going to make sure everything I install is off C drive from here on, so I don’t need to go through too much to reinstall Windows, should the need arise again.
Windows update issues are certainly a tricky beast to figure out a lot of the time. Sometimes it’s cos your clock is out, sometimes malware either stopping it communicating, or even tricking it in to thinking there’s no updates available (like one of my last jobs GRRR)
I have personally never had issues with it on my own machines, but then I know what I’m doing too, and like you, probably don’t subject my computer to the copious amounts of bullshit installs most people seem to just allow to happen due to simply not reading prompts on the screen properly! 😉
Had you run a graphics driver removal tool in the past? My machine had very similar symptoms once after using an AMD driver removal tool before installing new graphics drivers.
I fixed it in the same way though, and just stayed away from that particular tool. This is after using it once and reinstalling Windows not knowing the cause of my issues, then using it again and having the same problems. Painful.
Might have caused it, come to think of it. Ran their tool when trying to update to 14.9, and it didn’t seem to do anything. Then the 14.9 install failed. Just used the uninstall this time around, but it’s possible the damage had already been done. The sequence of events fits, and if rather it be that than my ssd dying. 😛
You don’t need removal tools. When you install nvidia drivers, all you need to do is go in to advanced options, and select “Clean Install”. It’ll blow away all previous install info and start fresh! Removal tools should only be required if the uninstall process fails for some reason.
At least where things like nvidia and amd drivers are concerned anyway.
When you’re dealing with things like Norton or AVG Security toolbar, you NEED removal tools 99% of the time cos they’re cunts!
Plans for the weekend, everyone?
Going to finally stay up proper later tonight to play some Far Cry. Saturday I probably have to go by Apple to get my phone replaced again (and disguise myself, lest I run into a former coworker), and then we’re taking our dogs to my boyfriend’s parent’s place – they’re out of town and have a big pool – the dogs are gonna go for a swim 😀 Then more video games yay.
Gotta clean the house. We trashed it last weekend while hiding inside in aircon from the crazy heat.
Oh, I probably should do that, too. I haven’t mopped my floors in forever, eep.
I’ve just forced myself to do it by inviting friends over on Sunday.
Big plans, we have a mothers group BBQ that will bring all the Dad’s together for the first time. Time to update all my page 6 material.
Otherwise not much. Standard work on Saturday and probably a bit of cleaning up. Need to start working out what we are going to do with Tiglet’s room, getting close to time for her to move out of our room and into her cot
Don’t worry about decorating Tiglet’s room too much – leave it plain and comfy, by the time she’s 2-3 you’ll start working out the things she likes and can start decorating then. No point in going all out with the mauve daisy motif if it turns out she really loves elephants. I would never have picked sharks for Batboy’s room, but he loves them.
Decorating is still far from the main issue
The 2nd bedroom is currently the study/geek room so my PC, and related stuff is there along with the desk and bookshelves. Currently not room to even put up the cot, without worry about what I’m going to do with the PC and stuff. That’s going to be the big change, still don’t know what we are going to do.
Try and figure out just how much drink is appropriate to have at my friend’s 21st tomorrow.
Kiiiind of overdid it at our other friend’s one earlier in the year. Although it led to a rather amusing phone recording. Oh yeah and either tonight or tomorrow morning I need to finish writing this stupid speech… (spoiler: it won’t be tonight).
Late night Dragon Ages followed by early morning Soccer practice with the boy then more Dragon Aging
Sumo suits, a mechanical bull, adult themed pass the parcel, BBQ, Taybies and a shit tonne of alcohol.
Was that this weekend? Uhhhh … awkward.
It’s Freezes 30th all over again.. 😛
I really need an organizer or something.
Siri? 😛
I don’t let the machines know my plans! It’s like you’ve never seen a movie where the machines take over the world! =P
But you’re coming tomorrow, right?
@virus__ unfortunately my cousin (whom I’ve been friends with since as long as I can remember) is having an engagement party the same night so probably not.
Fair enough, you can equally as plastered there so all good 😀
@virus__ no mechanical bull or sumo suits though. =(
Did you think this was a competition or something
You winDragon Age: Inquisition!
I do need to go to my cousins engagement party tomorrow which while it is very cool she is getting engaged it will take my precious DA:I time away from me! =P
Working till late tonight, then 3 day weekend. So, Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
That is all.
Yes, also 3 day weekend, yes!
Noodle night markets tonight and Sunday, got that dumping hype!
In gaems, hopefully sinking some proper time into Alien Isolation. I haven’t died by the hands of the Alien yet 😛
Shopping for a gift on Friday night, then some Dragon Age and WoW, Saturday morning some more Dragon Age and WoW then Mrs Freeze’s b’day. Late trip home in order to greet Dad for Sunday before he leaves the country again. Likely followed by some more WoW and Dragon Age. Woo, packed weekend! I keep meaning to pencil in some sleep there, but there’s just not much room for it.
@nomad – argh… just booking the courier and realised i left your address at home…. can you shoot me a quick email?
Done!
Pew pew!
Tonight! Melbourne Victory vs Brisbane Roar. Hope it’s a better match than last weekend’s bore-draw with Sydney. Wow that was a dull match.
Tomorrow! Adam Hills at the Comic’s Lounge! Awesome.
There’s only one team in Melbourne, City 😛
Melbourne Victory 5 – 2 Melbourne City. That Melbourne City? :-p
Hehe I maintain to this day the club went down hill after I finished up as an intern fitness coach 😛
haha! Fair enough.
Aside: got my steed back from the bike doctor today. Rear wheel needed some TLC (and some new bearings…), so it’s feeling much more planted now. Need to get out in anger on Sunday, maybe a Beach Road run.
Nice, I’ll be out on Saturday morning so I’ll smooth out Beach Road for you 😉 27 on Sunday and Sunny, looks like you picked a good day!
Yeah. Should go out tomorrow but beer, football and presumably gaming when I get home make it a little unlikely…
Had a really productive morning with my novel for NaNoWriMo. I’ve written 1103 words and finally hit the 5000 mark. Motivation is an amazing thing.
Good job, percentage points not in to double figures.
What are you writing?
It’s ostensibly an alternate history novel about WA seceding from the Commonwealth of Australia set in 1954, but most of the stuff I’ve written is character stuff about my main character, John Smith. That name started off as a placeholder, but it fit his everyman nature, so I kept it.
Alright, since I got like, 2 upvotes, and a whole bunch of apathy (the gift that keeps on not doing anything), if anybody would like to join me in my horrendously stupid TAY version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” could you send an email to blaghman(at)gmail(dot)com. That way I can divvy up parts between Rocketman and myself.
Good luck, man. 🙂
I’m going to need it.
I actually haven’t even listened to the song yet 😛
Does not matter. At all.
@tigerion @coldcamv @gutsoup @silverrat23 I mailed out those Ghibli DVDs earlier today. Standard post, so expect them to arrive in a week or so.
@beavwa: I have a feeling I may have some more in a box in storage somewhere. Since you also expressed interest, are you interested if I do find any more?
Thanks!
Thanks man, you are awesome!!
Thanks dude cant wait to check it out
Yes, definitely interested.
Dammit I forgot to put the parmesan on my pasta when packing my lunch last night.
Now I am sad.
I will never ear parmesan again.
Feel better?
Or eat. But my ear will forever be parmesan free 🙁
And I didn’t even notice the typo til I got to this post.
So so sad.
That is even sadder.
Someone had parmesan in the kitchen next to me yesterday. Gross as hell. It reeks of vomit. Which makes sense, given that a major component of both vomit and parmesan is the same. Butyric acid or something.
I don’t want to know my cheese is made of the same stuff as vomit, old man Transient! :’O
Well, it is. You shouldn’t eat it, it’s fucking gross. 😛
Honey is bee vomit
So what you’re saying is, I could have vomited on my pasta first as an emergency substitute?
Dammit where were you before I ate it?
I used to work with a fella that would put it on bread then toast it under the grill.
Good god it stinks when people do that.
Every time he did we would shut the door to the kitchen and walk away.
Missus has permanently thrown me off Parmesan by telling me a short story about how when her and her sister were little they hated Parmesan because and I quote, “Parmesan smells like sweaty feet”.
Can not unhear this for the life of me. Especially when I see grated parmesan
Funnily enough, the cheese that most smells like sweaty feet is blue cheese. Again, it’s a specific type of bacteria used in the culturing process of the cheese which is identical to the type of foot-loving bacteria.
The best parmesan and the best salami both smell like sweaty feet.
Doesn’t stop me from eating it though, just confirms we got a good one 😛
@greenius:
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/20/xenoblade-chronicles-x-director-says-game-almost-complete/
\o/
Misquote, says “The game is almost complete shit” :p
@greenius
Hyper burn! That was like the sun just got all up in his face and whispered “your gonna sizzle”
You just don’t like good games. >:(
I recommend it to Sughly just this week.
But it’s true, a lot of my favourite contemporary games score lower overall & the games I can’t stand often make the most money
Hipster jimu.
It’s true, only without the ironic fashion ( I’m just a geek)
I’m a nerdster
Nah ily
You’ll hate me yet! *shakes fist*
I’m thinking it’ll be out in October next year for us. Earlier for Japan. That’d be great! Hopefully they’re already working on localisation.
I hope so. I hope it’s dual audio like the last one too because the UK dub drove me up the wall within seconds.
Japan has a ‘Spring 2015’ date which probably means around March-April. Might be able to pick up a JP copy during the TAY Magical Mystery Japan 2015 Extravaganza. Though of course the system is fucking region locked so couldn’t actually play it. :\
Pick up a Wii U too!
I already own one and I wouldn’t buy a JP one just for Xenoblade when I know it’ll come over. There’s nothing else on the system I want to play (though if they localized the new Wii U Fatal Frame / Project Zero I’d seriously consider it)
So it’s my graduation today. I’m trying to avoid stressing out.
I thought graduation day is the opposite feel ing?
It’s more the sitting on a chair for two and a half hours with no toilet that is worrying me.
No toilet? Where is it being held?
Some kind of basketball stadium, I think. There might be a toilet, but I’ll be strongly directed to not use it, as I could be in the toilet when they call my name to pick up my graduation certificate thingy.
Not sure if anyone here likes Wednesday 13 or any of his other work apart from his solo stuff, but I think i’m done with supporting his work. Spoilerised because ranty/longish??
Back in January he announced a really rad collectors edition of an acoustic album he was putting out of his work, which came with a shirt and other stuff, so I pre ordered it for a June release, it was meant to arrive whilst I was in Tasmania. June had come & gone, nothing, it hadn’t even been fulfilled according to the website, no contact from his merch company as to why it was delayed. I tried to contact them, couldn’t, because there was no way on the website, so I resorted to his Facebook like page, got a one sentence response stating the shirts had been mis printed and had to be re-done this was something like 2 or 3 months AFTER the initial release. I didn’t even get a follow up to anything else I asked.What pisses me off most is between that supposed release & now he’s realised MORE material a live album and I believe some demo albums AND announced a new album, whilst completely disregarding everyone who pre ordered that bundle.
I’ve been a fan of his & followed his work for almost 10 years, I never expected to be shafted by someone who claimed he was always for the fans and loved what he did because of the fans.
And whilst i’m at it Soundwave is a little bit annoying.
I’m still waiting for the signed Alter Bridge CD I won from Soundwave over a year ago, but i’ve given up on hoping i’ll ever see that since it was supposedly posted out many months ago and they get really aggressive & defensive if you ask about any prizes on ANY of their social media. Let’s just hope they don’t lose my ticket when they get posted out next month..Maaaaaaaaan. Elite: Dangerous beta 3.9 is out now. I WANNA GO HOME AND SEE ALL THE COOL NEW STUFF!
So Dragon Age is a pretty cool guy. Very shiny.
Could really do with a couple of things patched in tho. Like the ability to rebind controller buttons :/ And disable tutorials. And de-consolefying the entire interface…
But Qunari toon! Aw yis.
You PC guys and your anti console sentiments, shucks.
But yeah, needs the ability to switch around buttons. I played some Remote Play this morning & it’s off.
Hey I like console gaming.
Just not in my PC gaming.
So, funny question, but do you guys remember those canvas knapsacks kids used to take to school? Like, a cross-body bag in that thick cottony material that was very easy to draw on, and were usually a light brown/khaki colour, or black, or pink? I see bikers with them a lot, with patches sewn on.
Do you remember what I mean? I can’t find a picture online, but I really want a black one to use for my adventures and not care if it gets messed up.
I was going to say “sort of like a messenger bag?” but then a google image search said that that word did not quite mean what I thought it meant.
Hahah, thank you.
I found it! It’s called a web haversack! http://www.armysurplus.com.au/showProduct/BAGS/HAVERSACKS/HV0002/Jungle+Force+Web+Haversack+-+Model+Wh-2
Thanks, though 😀
Ah. Then to answer your question no I do not remember any such thing 😛
Also that seems really cheap.
Yeah, I got one from another site, because it’s slightly larger, and with shipping was less than $15. Exactly what I wanted.
Nice job, I was looking for a bit couldn’t find it
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib/282/media-282652/large.jpg That was the one I was thinking of
That’s what I pictured in my head.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Just the more rugged version, I think.
Thank you for trying 😀
Yep
Got my New 3DS! EB didn’t kick up a fuss about my wooden case pre-order either which was good (the one where I pre-ordered it at $18 then the price changed to $40 :P) – apparently it was always meant to be $40 but the website just put them all up for the same price at first.
Also got Pokemon by price-matching Target (he asked me what price it was but didn’t bother to check. Should’ve said $20 or something :P)
Just… 4 and a half hours (plus however long the system transfer takes) until I can actually start using it… D: Hurry, time! Hurry!
So you got it for the $18 then? Nice.
Yup. I don’t think he wanted to give it to me at that price but at least he didn’t get all huffy about it 😛
Should’ve waited til Xeno, send Ninty a message with your wallet!
Eh. If it was a new console I’d agree with you, but I got this for the improved hardware. Smash Bros is already New3DS-enhanced too.
Mine took forever and I don’t even have much on it. Damn those lazy Pikmen.
Did you do the Copy SD card via PC option? Apparently it’s a lot faster!
Nah. I didn’t think it’d be that long so I just went with whatever it put in front of me. I actually had a bit of a panic moment when I realised I was seriously draining the batteries of the old 3DS and I didn’t have a charger to go with it. At least it’s done now and it’s done properly. Everything carried over fine and the New 3DS XL is running like a dream.
Now I’ve just got to get used to the new left stick. My thumb isn’t quite gripping it like my dirty old 3DS stick. Although I’ve been playing a lot of PS Vita lately so going back to a circle pad might be part of the problem too.
Gaming Heads hates me. It really really does. Especially my wallet area.
http://www.gamingheads.com/index.php?option=com_myphp&Itemid=3&product=190
Holy crap that looks amazing.
I don’t have DA:I yet so hopefully by the time I get it they will be sold out
I thought I owned some expensive figures but I’ve never paid that much for one. Even the couple of cold-cast resin statues I had weren’t that expensive. :O
A lot of Sideshow Collectibles are that plus much much more. And they are so freaking amazing looking. I would stab a man if it meant I could afford the Poison Ivy one they do. The detail, size and quality of them make all the cheaper ones look like shit.
So TAFE is over this year. I’ve had a blast this year. Amazing stuff. I’ve learnt a lot about myself and what I want to do. So to celebrate, here’s my Show Reel! http://youtu.be/iefLO952YJM
Yay!
Omega Ruby get!
Sweating like a pig though.
Was quite the mad rush.
img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120204022748/finalfantasy/images/f/fd/FFX-2_Mad_Rush.png
Dragon Age: Inquisition get a bank loan edition (@gutsoup), new 3DS XL and Smash bros. 3DS get. \o/
Just got paid, and I’m broke again. The water bill can totally wait till next week, right…. RIGHT?
#responsibleadult
This is killing me.
SWAG!!!
That’s some good loot, I’m getting really tempted by those new 3DSs, you sound as responsible as me, we should hang out 😛
Totally, come to the meat in December.
Not you too!
Wait for a goddam game!
Wait for next year’s New XL that has the faceplates.
Yeah, can’t understand why they didn’t just do that now.
Other than to up sales of course
@transientmind, @jimu, @Saturday, regarding our possible vault of glass attempt, what do you say to changing the time to about 1400 (nsw time)? Is that better for you Saturday?
Go right ahead.
John McLane
no boots
*obligatory
My jokes
no one gets
on the internet
Real life
being serious
people laugh
And that’s my beatnik poetry quota for the decade
Woman… woe-man… whoooa-man. She was a thief, you gotta believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Betty, Judy, Josie and those hot Pussycats… they make me horny, Saturday morny… girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins… I want to to be Betty’s Barney. Hey Jane… get me off this crazy thing… called love.
God almighty I love that stupid movie so much. *blows out candle*
Holy crap. I completely forgot that I have Freeze’s missus birthday party this Saturday night. It wasn’t a conflict last week, but it is this week. That didn’t click for me when we rescheduled. Sorry, man. I’ll ask a couple of the guys I normally raid with Tuesdays…
By which I mean, @dkzeitgeist, @mawt, and @os42 plus the other two and myself. 😛
cc @aliasalpha
ah, hmm, I will be out for 1400. Would probably be ok for an evening run, but that might be not so good for international grouping. :\
Sorry gang, I’ll be at Mrs Freeze’s Birthday Bash too.
cc @aliasalpha
I know @trikeabout has been itching to complete it, tho I’m not sure about his availability – give him a shout. Otherwise, I can unglue myself from Dragon Age if you need an extra hand – pretty much any time’s fine by me, just let me know.
Winnah! Good man. 🙂
ITCHING. I’ll need Bungie ointment if I don’t finish it soon. 😉
If you see me on there give me a shout, or leave a message on the clan page. I’m busy tomorrow evening but may well be around otherwise.
Did it!!!! 🙂
Arggh, at that time frame I’ll be only available for an hour, maybe hour and a half. Possible but not probable for me to join in, I’m thinking.
@transientmind, @jimu, @Saturday how about we just go for next weekend if everyone is free? sounds like it’d be a lot simpler
heh, sounds good to me.
Is the 1400 time going to be okay for you next weekend or is that always a bad time?
s’ perfectly fine. Starting anywhere from 1400-1800 is great for me.
*shrugs*
TAYpreciation!!!!
Praise be to the gods of chance and fate that I come here. I know I don’t make many interesting posts and probably annoy more people than anything else but your stuck with me now :P.
Having a really bad work day but every time I read through a couple of comments a smile returns to my face and I can keep going. You all remind me that nice people exist.
*sticks in headphones, puts on loud metal, ignores real life*
Nah, I reckon you’re pretty awesome man, and I haven’t even met you, so that must mean that you’re an absolute legend in person.
Know what you mean about real life. Reality and people (except TAYpeeps) suck.
#hermits4lyf
Nah, guys a jerk.
It’s all true!
*steals candy from a baby, trips old woman, farts loudly
I audibly farted in the car park behind Valley station the other day thinking no one was about.
Looked over & realised an over weight gentleman was looking my way.
We locked eyes.
And he knew, he knew.
I am silently shaking trying not to laugh at this. Haaaaahahahahah.
We love your stinking guts 😀
I need this in my life.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/11/i-love-this-philips-beard-trimmer-because-of-the-built-in-vacuum/
Honey, I know what I want for Christmas.
If I could grow a beard I’d totally want one.
I actually was going to go hunting for a beard trimmer this weekend (I’ve got a few areas that are a bit thick and have some stray hairs that are sticking out that are way too long) and that article was very timely. Probably will get one of those esp. if Shaver Shop have a discount.
That is really good. Maybe I’ll get one for my partner and then use his trimmer thing for myself.
If you do, don’t let him find out. It really shits me off if I find out that the missus has been using my razors.
I might duck across and grab a New 3DS. Can’t hold out.
@jimu
Fuck off! :p
QUACK!
Ah so tempting. I’d settle for the superceded model for cheaper
How much are the old3DS now?
I keep wanting to get a New 3DS but keep telling myself I really have no need for it. No need until Majora’s Mask comes out that is.
What if the unlockable content is shit?
Hopefully not, just a little hypothetical situation.
Unlockable content?
I see…
I cancelled my preorder purely on the off chance there’s a Majora’s Mask limited edition XL when it comes.
They love their Zelda special editions so I’d say it’s a pretty safe bet.
Ugh. I just know there’s going to be only a special nXL and then I’ll have to get both a console and game that I don’t want.
/me looks at his DSi XL and *mumble mumble*
On the plus side you’ll have saved some money by skipping the 3DS if you decide to upgrade (or you’ll get an old 3DS cheap if you want to go that way).
Having used the dsi xl, I couldn’t move on to any less than an xl. Would feel way too small! But yeah.. I’m certainly glad I didn’t get a 3ds xl only to find out a new one was coming! 🙂
I have a 2nd gen DS around here somewhere without a charger, lets mumble together buddy!
heh yeah! I gots my picross 3d. I’m good! Who needs new fangled games! pfft!
YEAH! Who needs that stuff!
*goes off to play GTA V on PS4*
Whenever I comment on Kotaku anywhere outside of TAY, people seem to think I’m a guy? Haha, oh dear.
Lol I thought that for the first time and then your very next post was something devilishly girly, and then I thought maybe you were a lady or effeminate! 😛
Edited: Too many 😛 faces!
I’m a tomboy through and though, but still a girl. I didn’t think Jane was confusing, but I guess people might link it with Jayne from Firefly, haha.
‘jane xo’ is pretty much a straight up a girls name, I should have known better but I thought it might be a pop culture reference I didn’t get as well 😛
If it happens again I’ll change my name to JANE KISS HUG for awhile.
For some reason my mind just turned your handle into Jan Exo.
You aren’t a dude!?
=PI’m disappointed the spoiler didn’t say “How Strange”
Oh, I’m still a dude. Just a girl dude 😀
*bro-fist*
Serves you right for going with such a manly name
that’s weird, the only male Jane that springs to mind is the one in Firefly and that’s spelled differently anyway
Whenever I think of male Janes I think of The Punisher.
Maybe they just assume you’re Adam Baldwin?
#girlgamergate
I feel like you can usually “hear” from the way a person writes whether they’re a girl or a guy (used to have an awesome hit rate in picking them :P), and find it kind of strange how some people are totally unable to pick up on it at all, even with the most obvious ones. But then maybe I’m the weird one. Probably.
Gooky knows how to pick the ladies. Nobody fall over in shock
Huh, the name should be a dead giveaway…
Shoulda seen the confusion when we all discovered that Sir Eats-A-Lot wasn’t a guy, but was actually @harli.
^_^
This is not good hold music when I’m this sleepy
Guy is going to come back on to the phone to hear me snoring
I got my first Christmas hold music today. No good.
Oh lord! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!
This is the only acceptable Christmas music, well there’s a few others but that’s the best.
I think the time has for me to check out of TAY and get this work done that desperately requires my attention for the next 2 hours 😛
Have a happy weekend TAY!
Edit: :O 800 posts and first ever page get! \o/
Enjoy your weekend 😀
See you in an hour or so!
Hey, you don’t know anything about my work eth-…. Oh.
😛
Yes, work…
Really scared to check the main page of Kotaku. All these Dragon Age articles, it’s only so long before a spoilerific title appears.
Makes me glad I have precisely zero interest in the game! I don’t know why..Considering how much I love RPG’s.. I really tried to like Dragon Age, but.. I just can’t.. :\
Happens, I liked everything about Xenoblade except the combat which I found so boring I couldn’t progress.
usually I’d slog through but wouldn’t happen.
Everything? 😀
Except the combat…
Taking a food break from Dragon Age 3 otherwise I won’t eat and you’ll find my skeleton next to the computer! HEY GUYS!
Which TAYbies are going to Mrs. Freeze’s party? I need to prepare conversation starters! THIS IS IMPORTANT!
I’m not, but I’d appreciate the effort you would go to anyway.
Jurassic World trailer next week. BAM.
“So Pow, the new trailer is coming next week!”
“Is it?”
“Yep”
“Cool”
*silence*
Nah, I’m good at rambling and filling in silence. I’d talk about the director’s other films. Chris Pratt. The books. This would give me atleast twenty minutes.
You’ll have to keep that script locked and loaded for if I ever visit one day (January isn’t looking like it’ll happen anymore sadly :P)
Aw, so no Pow, Taco and Greenius explore Brisbane holiday? 🙁
Wait, I swear you haven’t been to any Brisbane meats but then how do you know that?
Whilst I don’t care for Chris Pratt, Jurassic Park is one of my favourite movies ever, so I am excited for more dinosaurs.
You and I are no longer friends.
Chris Pratt is the dreamiest of dreamboats, and I won’t hear a word otherwise.
He has got a body like ‘phoar‘, a face like ‘swoon‘, and the attitude of just a regular joe, which is soooo attractive!
Looks be damned when it comes to a good attitude! 😀
Hahah, aww, Lion. Don’t get me wrong! I like him well enough as Andy in the Parks and Rec, but now he’s super thin and playing these roles that seem just… I don’t know. Like, the roles are being written for him to be a hunk? He just doesn’t float my boat (and I think his wife is a bit dumb), but I’m happy that you like him, and hope you two meet some day for a romantic interlude.
Now you’re insulting Anna Faris?!
You and I, have a problem.
I reckon he’s way more fun in a goofy role like Parks & Rec or like the LEGO Movie where he played whatshisname.
Aw man! I dunno if we can be best friends anymore.
I’m hoping to, but still awaiting updates on my Grandma :\
I will be making an appearance via astral projection
I will prepare remarks about Assassin’s Creed!
Remarks is vague. I’m worried.
*insert remark about looseness of controls and equating them to your mother’s promiscuity here*
Ah, the internet and the anonymity it affords…. Oh shit! He knows who I am and likely where I live :O
*readies muon trap*
SOS & I’ll be there, bruh.
PREPARE YOURSELF!
The Party Danimals
I’m not, so you can cross How was the post apocalyptic urban decay in SMTIV off your list
We’d bond over Dragon Age and how Freeze is determined to keep us away from it! MONSTER!
Damn him! *shakes fist*
I will be there. Gird thy loins.
I’LL BE THERE! We can sit and nob decisively at each other whilst we drink!
keep your nob to yourself thanks! :p Unless you meant SirNob.. in which case.. how the fuck does he decisively?! 😉
I meant nod damn it D=
I r not gud at the typing.
I won’t be there.
Be sure to occasionally yell “BOARD GAMES!” on my behalf.
My certificate of completion for my Cert II traineeship arrived in the mail yesterday! I can’t scan it for some reason.
Cause you dreamed it? D:
Far too sane considering my history of dreams.
I’ve managed to get into a good pattern with my bike riding. Previously, I couldn’t use my bike for shit because my area is nothing but hills that tire my legs out before I even get a chance to exercise. However, I managed to find a path of stable elevation that allows me to ride further and get more exercise.
On a related note, cold showers are incredibly underrated.
Except in my house on days like today. They are supremely overrated. It’s a worry when you try to have a cold shower, and the water coming out is almost the same temperature as the hot tap!
BIKE BUDDIES!
Ridin’ em round!
They ring their bells,
Ummm something… something… mound?
…
…
BIKE BUDDIES!!!
Ring-a-ding-ding!
They pedal harder,
And they always sing:
BIKE BUDDIES!!!
-and then, like, girls in those high waist bikini bottoms that my Mum wore in the 70’s pull up in a Suzuki convertible 4wd and throw us a beach ball but we can’t catch it because we’re on our bikes!!!-
-they’re also wearing bikini tops-
(C) Cool Dude Songs
Well great, now I have this in my head.
Mwahahahaha!
Made up a flimsy excuse to escape work and hour early. Take that jerks, now to acquire snacks and caffeinated products on the way home to fuel a gaming frenzy.
Your home planet needed you?
I need to buy pornography from the pornography store
buy? Aint you never ‘eard o’ the innernet
You said flimsy
http://urbanstray.com/images/webcomic/on_civilization.jpg
From the unpublished webcomic that my brother and I make.
Umm, you left your 1 year old child alone with your cat, but you forget to check your cats credentials and you’re afraid that he doesn’t have a valid working with children certificate, even though his previous references all gave him glowing praise as s a babysitter, but you feel uneasy about it now and would really like to confirm that he does, indeed, having his working with children certificate, because anyone can say they have one and you’ve been burnt before by the last cat you previously employed as a babysitter who said he had his certification, but turned out it was three years out of date, and so you can never trust anyone at face value ever again?
I just have 2 500ml V’s i’m gonna be buzzing all night and i’ll crash at like 3am and then feel seedy as shit come 8am when I have to be up to go up the other end of the Gold Coast hahaha 😛
Urgh, not feeling so good about this interview coming up :\
I went into the store today just to have a browse, and it’s so big and uppity!
I’m not the fanciest of guys, despite liking me some fancy clothes occasionally :S
Still, I hope I get it, cause it’ll be good experience, but I won’t be bummed either way 🙂
Might try and hand out more resumes though :\
I believe in you, buddy!
Thanks DC!
It’s super uppity there though!
I don’t know if I fit in well :S
Only one way to find out though, I guess 🙂
Like the staff are uppity? Pfft, don’t let that fool you. If it’s the kind of store I’m thinking of, the staff who work there probably can’t even afford to buy their own stock. You’ll be fine 😀
The interview is at David Jones.
I bought clothes to look the part (not that I didn’t already have clothes to look the part, but shuddup), have heaps of customer experience, and know I can work in fashion, but they seem really posh there was all, haha!
I’m sure you’ll do great, man. Is it retail? In my experience, they’re usually looking for friendly+cheerful+’bubbly’.
Obviously I’ve always had problems with the latter. But I’ve been known to fake something passably similar to it when desperate for employment, in my youth. I’m sure you could manage, too. Maybe it’s not as much of a requirement at a more snooty place? Fingers crossed, either way.
Given your picks for DC, I’d say you’ve got a talent for the clothes thing, anyway.
Hah bubbly, I always see that as a requirement for the receptionist positions at the local brothels..
All 15 of them
Hahaha. I think it’s a few more actually 😛
You’ll do great dude, i’m sure of it! If they don’t see you’re the right person they’re after then they’re obviously blind or something along those lines!
You’ll be fine dudeeee!
gluck
^With the content from this video in mind, what would you want from a good horror game?
Puzzles, atmosphere, less combat than seems the norm these days.
I did not watch the video sorry
I love horror games. However, there is a massive problem these days with it. There is no tension. Tension drags you in and makes you feel uncomfortable. It’s tension that make generalized anxiety disorder so tiring. Jump scares don’t work without tension and neither does horror games. Wondering whether something is going to jump out at you or not, it creates tension.
The other thing that really annoys me is that for some reasons developers are forgetting to include stories. The two horror games I played at Pax lacked both Tension and story and they both disappointed me in that regard.
I just want to add that horror games appear to be going the route of American horror movies as opposed to their superior Asian counterparts.
Also an over reliance on gore.
Okay, I have to get something off my chest.
I’m sorry if I appear to be an attention whore by posting the beanbag designs. The thing is that it would cost me a lot of money to try and get a stall at a convention so I need to make stuff that is guaranteed to sell. The people on here are pretty much similar to my target audience, so if people on here like it, it’s more likely to sell.
I’ve spent most of the day feeling bad. Yes, when I was a dumb teenager at about 15, I used to bait people to look at my art to make me feel better. The beanbags are easy to make, but the art will require a ton of effort, but I enjoy that sort of thing. However, there’s no reason for me to spend so much time on something that’s going to end up costing me a lot.
Most people have been nice and I really appreciate the help. Super appreciate it.
(@f4ction looking at the blinding of Isaac beanbag sometime in the future).
I am in no way a business person, and I have a tendency to sell myself short. I need to know if this is worth the time and effort, and I can’t do it by myself.
I must have missed your initial post about this! I think it’s a pretty neat idea, but if you’re worried about a customer base (like, having enough people to do this for), maybe do it on a by-order basis on something like Etsy? That was you don’t have to worry about making too many or too few of a design. You could maybe make one of each of the designs you think would be most popular, and set up an Etsy store, but then take those to a convention as an example (and maybe sell there) and take orders?
Due to the expense of australia post, it’s not really viable at the moment. I’ve used Etsy before and have never sold a thing on there. I don’t really have much faith in it.
Pricing your own work is hard as hell.
Wish I could help, but even to this day, I haven’t been able to get a real handle on it when it comes to any work I’ve done of a creative bent or outside of the comfortable enterprise-bargained agreements and nationally-regulated awards.
The last time I sold a painting, it was priced for me by a friend who knows the business better than I ever will, to a company I don’t know, and all I really know is that while the sum I got was initially staggering compared to my expectations of what it was worth, when I sat down and did the math on how long it took me to make, the dollar per-hour was definitely NOT enough for me to quit my day job. Maybe I could ask for more? Maybe I could learn the sales biz? I haven’t wanted to, because it’s scary/hard/confronting.
Modesty doesn’t so much wage war as engage in a free-for-all brawl with pride, ambition, guilt, fear, and self-doubt.
Wait, you’ve sold paintings too? #mostinterestingmanontay
I was thinking of pricing them at $50 as most beanbags are $30 just for plain ones, more for the ones with more details. It’s not so much the pricing but rather what will sell.
Do it for fun, not for money. Otherwise you’d get too caught up in trying to make a profit etc. and it’ll take away from what you enjoy about it.
Jane’s by-order basis idea could work as well. Weren’t you doing that for the rupee cushions?
I made the rupee cushions beforehand and ended up with some that I couldn’t get rid of. I ended up having to give some of the less desirable colours away at a loss.
I don’t think anyone thinks your idea is bad, or that it can’t be done.
Spoilered because wall of text
Think about shows like Recipe to Riches. Between having an idea, and having something you can sell, there is a lot of work to get it right!
The first thing you need to do, before choosing patterns or selling methods, is to prototype your product. Make 1 beanbag, and keep a process diary (scrapbook, folder, spreadsheet, blog, whatever works for you) of how you did it, any problems, records of your materials, what everything cost, and how long each step took.
Then give it to someone for a month and get them to test it. No point in painting beautiful art on a beanbag if the paint you use cracks and breaks off the first time someone sits on it.
The process diary will help you to decide whether a design is practical, or too time-consuming to be cost-effective. It will help you work out how many hours of your time you spend on it, and how much all your raw materials cost. It will help you to refine your process by reducing waste and mistakes. And it will help you to replicate your product consistently.
You might decide that making the beanbag is too much effort when you can customise a ready-made one. Or you might decide that you can get your design professionally printed (on spoonflower, for example) for an acceptable price, and then you just have to make the beanbags from the fabric.
TL;DR Advice from an crafter with an engineering background. Prototyping first can save you from disaster later.
I’d already made the beanbag for myself. It survived. I plan to make a few more to test, but the problem is that there’s no point testing it, if the interest isn’t there. So for example, the JSRF one doesn’t seem to be well known, so there’ not much point in making it.
I know the paint is fine because I’ve used it a lot before on many things including cosplays.
I saw that Legend of Zelda one you made and it looked nice. That stuff isn’t really my sort of thing but it looked good enough that I have what I think is a pretty clear memory of it (it was dark blue with a golden Triforce, right?). I’m not sure about how viable it would be as an item in a convention stall, however the worst case scenario is that you end up losing a little money on a stall and going home with a bowl of rejection ice cream to put the excess stock in a closet.
That wouldn’t have to be the end of it though. You’re here so obviously you know how to type out a message and create an account, so what would happen if you tried to sell any leftovers on eBay (or some more craft centric version of it. I can’t think of any names but I’m sure there’s a big one I’m totally forgetting)? You have to be careful not to set yourself up to be burned on postage but the tools are out there to clear stock globally.
Perhaps that’s not what you want to actually do, but a back-up plan like that might help reduce the risk. If it took three years to sell them all and make your money back, not including time spent making them and the cost of the first attempt at a stall, would that be enough of a safety net to make you feel comfortable investing in a project like this?
I don’t really want them hanging around tbh
Warlords of Draenor, Dragon Age, Pokemon, and today the copy of Alien Isolation I won just arrived. It feels like the game companies are conspiraring against me to never leave my house again.
At least Pokemon is the ultimate public transport game so you can squeeze in a bit of gaming when you wouldn’t usually be able to.
You mean they weren’t before?
Currently playing through Warlords of Draenor, Lords of the Fallen, AC Unity, Sunset Overdrive, Shadows of Mordor, Alien Isolation, Smash Bros 3DS, Destiny, Master Chief Collection, Bayonetta 1&2… Thinking of picking up Far Cry and Dragon Age after work. Maybe Pokemon as well.
How are you finding lords of the fallen?
It’s quite enjoyable. Very Souls-like, but not as refined in the combat which can feel clunky (and enemies seem to have incredibly good tracking with their attacks, even during the attack o.O). Weapons feel significantly different from each other, which is awesome. Everything looks awesome – very much digging the aesthetics. It’s hard to describe, but it has a… colour? warmth? vibrancy? that I found distinguishes it’s visual appeal from the Souls games with their bleak, yet stunning, landscapes.
If you can pick it up reasonably cheap, it’s worth playing.
Workthoughts:
1. Oh my god, this guy’s first name is Wolf. He must be the biggest badass on the face of the planet.
2. …Working in State government. Hm. Maybe not, then.
3. Oh no… if even I thought that someone named Wolf would be a badass, what do his PARENTS think? They must be so disappointed!
4. I wonder if he was raised and trained as a badass but discovered that his true calling was paperwork. I wonder how that conversation would’ve gone. “Sorry, Father. I em no longer livink the lie. I do not vant to be hunter of men… I am vant’ink to hunt process inefficiencies for public good. I do not take lives, I take notes at business improvement meetinks.”
Depending on his age, it might be a curse or a blessing. Imagine if he grew up right in that time when Hungry like the Wolf was popular. The man would have been the most bullied kid in town.
As long as there’s no-one named Fox, everything should be fine.
Or Spooky.
SPOOKOY!
@dc
Unless it’s his last name & his first name is Lucius.
I’ve honestly considered Wolf as my (future) son’s middle name. Henry Wolf – so he’d be HW.
Middles names are pretty damn great for inserting the awesome badass totally-would-get-made-fun-of-and-regret names that you kinda wish in a perfect world they could use as their first names.
My middle name is a snore fest. Only ever got dragged out by my Grandmother when I was naughty! At least my name makes me sound like a sith lord, so that kinda makes up for it 😉
Same for your daughter? Of course, she’d have to be called Virginia for it to really work! 😉
There was a guy in my school who’s first name – not his nickname, his actual name – was Tank.
He was pretty beefy too.
At my previous job, one of my colleagues was named Guru! You can imagine, as a pc technician, that must make life rather hellish! /edit One of the other guys who worked there was named Dragan! (Serbian name) but everyone just called him Dragon! Would be a pretty badass name to have!
See post below, guy was actually named Dragon, no Serbian spelling lol
In my last job I had a client named Dragon
@liondrive was right. Today has been better! 😀
I thought yesterday was alright since it’s Survivor day and all, but I was feeling pretty tired and ehhhh at the end of the day.
Heard some really good feedback from my boss today and I’ve got Pokeymons! :D. YEAH!
My God…
This must mean…
I’m Psychic!
Also, whenever I see you’ve mentioned me in a comment, I automatically assume you’re coming back to Perth.
My heart can’t take much more disappointment, Greenius 3
Oh god, did you just refer to him as Greenius 3?
SOMEONE’S FIGURED OUT THE CLONES QUICKLY DESTROY ALL EVIDENCE
*pours gasoline on floor and lights match*
It ate my broken love heart, but I’ll keep it as is.
Makes it seem like he’s the third Greenius in my life.
He’s not as special as Greenius 1 and Greenius 2.
Well the project managers and other high ups did ask for me again when I saw them at the conference last week… 😛
But someone in my team is leaving so I’d have to cover their work, so it seems very unlikely that I’d head up to Perth again for this.
Enjoy your theme park day thing 😛
Then why do you want him to come back to Perth?
Because me and Greenius 3 had fun bitching about that a-hole @powalen.
Sending him ALL the museum pics!
Although at least Powie replied 😀 (stoopid Lion >:|)
I was in a grumpy mood, and still have no idea what that picture is of XP
At least I took pictures of stuff that old man Pow would like!
That was the idea. Pics of stuff that you’d like! Like ugly deep sea fishies 😀
You guys know me so well…
:'(
I get disappointed everytime you don’t invite me.
I don’t need to invite you.
You’re welcome anytime 🙂
Though accommodating 4 people might be a stretch :\
1 or 2 would be fine, but 4 and you’re in a hotel 😛
Let me know when you come over though. I miss hanging with my Freezy! :'(
Awesome news sire! Good feed back is always such a buzz!!
Apparently the General Manager in New Zealand liked me too!
Injustice, why aren’t you on sale?!
D`:
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Goodnight TAY – off to drink cold beer and commence work on Project Secret SanTAY!
So Link is getting a new costume with the next Hyrule Warriors DLC update. http://abload.de/img/l_546eeb1650a8d3wfo9.jpg
D:
(:
So.
Damn.
Adorable.
😀
I now know what I’m wearing to PAX Aus next year… 🙂
Holy short shorts batman!
@f4ction – this is the best
Heh… I just realised Slakoth = Slack off
And how cute is the sneaking animation? Dawwwwww
EDIT: And I’m glad the “Pokemon in this area” feature from BW2 is back 😀
Things I have eaten today:
1 fun size Picnic bar.
1 yoghurt topped meusli bar (strawberry flavoured).
1 flat white (coffee is totally a meal).
I should probably have dinner.
Welp, I might head to bed.
Goodnight, TAY.
Good night, sweet prince :’)
Hmm, it’s 10pm.
I should probably get dinner, or go to bed…
*proceeds to put on entire interview outfit*
…
I feel pretty…
….
*puts on fancy jacket*
…
I feel so pretty…
I tell ya… My Grandmother.. What a trooper! Not only did she survive the operation, she’s still as cheeky as ever!
So yeah… providing she doesn’t take a sudden turn for the worse, I shall be attending the festivities tonight in good spirits! w00t! I should add that I wont stay the night, as my Uncle is coming up tomorrow to see my Grandmother, and I need to pick him up from the airport in the morning, but I will at least be there til as late as I can possibly handle, while still remaining confident I can survive the drive home! 🙂
Awesome will be good to see ya dude!
Happy birthday Mrs @freezespreston!
Hope you have a good day, and that you and all the TAYbies going to your party have a fun night tonight 😉
(please relay)
It’s not freeze’s b’day is it? I’m sure it’s his wife’s! 😉
That’s what I meant, you just shuddup!
*dies of embarrassment*
I’ve been up since 5am, cut me some slack!!!
*dies even further of embarrassment*
I was up at 5 too. Too hot to sleep any more, also too bright. 😉
His birthday is April 4th, I think? Same day as @Sughly’s I think..
It’s his lovely wife’s birthday today!
Sure is!
Woo go me!
Happy birthday, Freeze.
Hey VIC people:
Do you need a legitimate reason to do early voting? Something like travelling interstate, won’t be able to make it on election day etc.
I don’t have one, but I just want to get it done now and not waste time next weekend (SMASH BREWS!)
Nope, just show up to an early voting centre
I vote early every election, simply for the fact that I hate waiting in the queue for an hour to vote on the day.
But what about the cake stall and the sausage sizzle?
YEAH! Or laughing at the irate pricks giving us polling assistants a hard time or the old people bailing us up for a chat to tell us all about their life story and how it affected their vote on the day 😛
I always thank the polling booth attendants. You guys do an awesome job.
I’ve only done it once, the best part is actually when the booths are open I reckon. The worst part is counting the votes xD I had the sorest lower back after that since the tables we were using were a fair bit lower than waist height, it sucked D=
I’ve never seen cake stalls where I’ve been to vote. Sometimes they’d have sausage sizzle, but usually run by the p&c at the schools, and charging a couple of $ for fund raising. Would rather do it at my own convenient time, then go home and make my own sausages! 🙂
The last time I voted (state election) the sausage sizzle was run by the school and they wanted $3 for a sausage in bread…
A shitty homebrand sausage in bread ain’t worth $3, sorry kids 😛
THIS!! ^^^
Well I’mma go try now. If it doesn’t work I’m blaming you two!
They don’t check your reason, if that’s what you’re asking. Just say you have to work that day.
I’ve never been asked why I’m voting early. Just walked in, tell them I want to do an early vote, and the only thing they ask is your name and address. So good!
It worked and there’s like no lines. But I’ll still blame you two for everything!
EVERYTHING
Sorry
@jocon @pupp3tmast3r @distantdrop
Well halle-god-damn-lujah Blizzard saw sense and are reversing the damn hotfix, with a bonus of guaranteed drops from the last boss of an instance through personal loot.
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/351039-upcoming-dungeon-chnages-and-hotfixes/#post2531
Hallelujah indeed.
What time you usually on and wanting to Dungeon run? I’ll make a point of setting DA:I aside and doing a few.
Also, we intending on trying to get in on this Molten Core action?
I won’t be on again till tomorrow evening, but keen to hit some up then. Sometime in the next week sounds good for MC, it is apparently almost as long as old MC (they kept all the same mechanics just bumbed the lvl) so we should probably set aside a good couple of hours for it.
We won’t need 40 players tho right? That will be hard to arrange.
614 gear level currently, will be able to make my 640 gun in a few days so I should be ready.
Nah it’s all through Looking For Raid, which means all empty slots will be filled by randoms, so hopefully we can have 4-5 of us just to stack the odds better.
I finished leveling my hunter to fool around with and generally just PvP with.
It’s disturbing how fast you can gear 620-626 with PvP alone, I might consider doing a little on the side for my Monk, you might want to look into it as well. i’m only been 100 for today and already 616+
Gonna pick up a Wii U pro controller today 🙂
Might even get the Mario Kart DLC, since I wanna play worth my friend tonight, and it’ll be most fair if we both don’t know the tracks.
I hate it how the price of Wii U games doesn’t go down though!
They’re still selling the Mario games for $60-$70 dollars :\
Woo! Page 18! 😀
I missed you!
Never leave me again!
yerp. tendy games are always that way :\ first party anyway. Can’t see it changing any time soon. 🙁
Nintendo are the worst offenders. They never lower the prices of their first party games.
Why should they though? I mean, just as a general question. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that games drop in price as crazily as they do, I love swooping in a few months after release and picking something up for $20. But like… games aren’t food. They don’t go off. They’re still the same thing they were the day they came out, why do they need to just suddenly become worthless after a certain (and relatively short) time threshold? It always struck me as an odd thing.
Because they have no inherent worth and only are as valuable as people think they are.
This statement could easily apply to prostitutes.
#PageR18+
Well, in this example I think it’s safe to assume that, as with most commodities, games depreciate in value over time.
When newer games are released, it makes sense to lower the price of older games.
This is to make it more appealing to consumers to purchase an older game.
Think of it like this (and this is a general example).
Say there’s Battlefield 4 and CoD: AW.
If both were $80, you’d probably pick CoD, because it’s new, whereas Battlefield 4 is quite old in comparison.
If Battlefield 4 was $50 though, it’d be a harder decision, cause yes it’s older, but it’s also cheaper.
In respect to Nintendo’s first party games, by not lowering the price, it’s putting me, as an educated consumer, off buying one of their games because I’ll be able to get a new game for the same price, so why would I buy an old game for a new game price?
If it was even $20 lower I’d pick it up.
Also, by not lowering the price of first party games that are quite old, it encourages consumers to buy second hand copies.
Where a retail copy still goes for $70, you could probably pick it up second hand for $30ish.
Of those options, I don’t want to get either.
I’d happily take a $50 retail copy though.
Lastly, this is quite long…
My penis.#PageR18+
#SexyPage18
I wish that was true 🙁
Choosing between Battlefield and CoD though, from what I gather they’re mostly multiplayer-centric games aren’t they? So that would be more of a contributing factor in choosing between the two, I’d be inclined to think that the newer game would attract more people and that the older one would be more likely to have support for it dropped.
For standalone single player games though, I feel like I’d be choosing the one I was more interested in, based on the game and the developer behind it 😛
I don’t think I’ve ever used the gamepad since I got my pro controller. It’s 1000x better 😛
I’ve had my Pro controller since before I got my Wii U and I actually haven’t used it once. I just keep forgetting it’s there.
Really want to buy a Gamecube controller too for Smash, so I probably won’t get to use the pro anytime soon.
I haven’t used mine either. I had a brief go with a friend’s one when we played a bit of Rayman at his place, and from that I think I don’t really like the shoulder triggers. They feel kind of loose and yuck.
I just use the gamepad for everything.
The stick placement is gross too. But dat battery life 😀
I don’t think I need to say anything here.
#SexyPage18
Dat battery life.
;D
Yeah, I don’t understand what guys find so appealing about them…
#NotSoSexyPage18
#Page18+
So, Smash Bros. 3DS is a pretty cool guy. Time to go out for a walk to earn some play coins to buy trophies with, then finally tidy and organize the spare room before hitting the PS4 tonight.
I want to play Dragon Age, but I’m having so much fun with Far Cry 4 I kinda want to finish that first.
So I officially graduated High School last night. It did not go as I expected. At first, I thought it was going to be an hour long. Then I was told that it would be two hours long. It ended up being three and a half hours long. The weirdest part? That didn’t bother me.
At first, I was stressing. I had no legitimate reason to, but I stressed nonetheless. Before all the speeches and stuff could begin, we were greeted by a bagpipe chorus. It was tolerable. Then some teacher talked about life or some crap. Then the actual name-calling thing began. A teacher would call out the names in alphabetical order. You walk on stage, collect a velvet sash thing with everyone’s name on it from the Year Coordinator, then strut off the stage in style.
The first wave of people went by. I started to stress some more. A student
mumbledperformed some song thing on an acoustic guitar. The second wave began. Eventually, my name was called. I successfully walked in a straight line without tripping. This was a triumph. I walked off the stage, and all the stress and gut pain vanished. I was able to simply enjoy the next two hours.Next was the awards. As to be expected, the Head Boy won pretty much all of them.
There was another performance by some students, this time an Indian song thing with two dancers. I will admit that Indian-style music is growing on me.
They showed the graduation video slideshow thing, but periodically interrupted it for student performances. One of them was a band with a drummer a electric guitarist and a bassist performing an instrumental version of that one song you know about but can’t quite recall the name of. Another was a piano-duo act that was about eight minutes too long. I’m pretty sure one of the pianist’s was the Prince. The last part of the graduation video played.
Then the Year Coordinator gave some speech thing where she described each student individually in a sentence. Considering the size of year groups these days, it is admirable that it only took eleven minutes.
And then it ended. All the kids shook hands and made their final goodbyes. I only knew the names of one of them, so I tracked him down and shook his hand. Everybody then tracked down their parents to have pictures taken. I spotted my father in the crowd. He waved. I waved back. And that was all she wrote.
I took some photos with my mother and my grandparents. I tried to track down my father, in case he was waiting for me somewhere to take photos with me. I could not find him. He must have left.
While my family was putting stuff in the car, I stared at the water fountain and comprehended stuff. I thought I had already accepted that school was over. After all, I had four fake-out endings for school. On Monday, I completed and handed in all my work. Once I got home, I received an email from a teacher saying that I had to complete an assignment that she forgot to hand out a week ago. Oops. Tuesday, I went to school to pick up the assignment. She wasn’t there. Wednesday, I came in and collected the assignment for real this time. Thursday, I handed in the assignment. Walked home. Walked immediately back because I left my bag in the library. In that irritating week, I thought I accepted the situation. But until you are on that stage, accepting a velvet sash from a middle-aged lady with a crew cut that has been your Year Coordinator for five years, you haven’t accepted it at all.
Hey, stuff happened and you remembered it!
Did you provide a shoulder for the pretty girls to cry on? ;D
Urghhhhhh. Earlier this week Oliver got sick and now I’m sick and he wants to go to KFC tonight to get a Double (this will be our third) so we’ll both be even more sick and ugh. I hate being sick.
In other related news we watched Scarface last night and holy shit he wasn’t kidding when he said GTA Vice City borrows a lot from it.
The last time I ate the hash brown Double Down thing my ear got really badly infected…
SO I BLAME SCREE AND WELBOT
The first one I had this month I felt awful all night
The second one went down fine
The third one (this one was with mum) was a bit dicey
Hopefully tonight’s fourth one doesn’t kill me 😛
…I don’t know why I keep eating the things.
I was going to relate this to penises, but then it got a bit incestuous in the middle there, so decided against it 😛
#ReallyNotSoSexyPage18
#Page18+
Looking over my post I think I can tell where you were going 😛
wha?! What have I got to do with that?! :p
I’ve had two Doubles so far.
Also, upvote for Scarface,
Damn, now I could really go a Double…
A Double Penet… no.
BAD ME.
BAD LIONDRIVE.
I’m more partial to a double tonguing.
Good guy Pervius! 😀
Still never seen Scarface.
I’m pretty sure I have a copy on bluray lying around somewhere.
Watch it! It’s totally worth it.
One time we had a substitute teacher for a history class in high school and I just remember someone shouting out “can we watch Scarface?” …so we totally did
It had nothing to do with anything we were supposed to be doing but yeah!
Liondrive gets excited by basic business principles!
Who wouldn’t?!
*whispers under breath*
Accounting.
UghhhhhhhhhHHHHH
I’ve been thinking about doing some finance/economics units next year. I get the feeling that’s going to be even worse than accounting 🙁
Nah man, they’re better! Econometrics is good too if you can handle basic maths 😛
I was getting worried that I might need to do a CPA or something since like everyone at work has one or is getting one D;
One of my secret shames is that I rock at maths 😛
But my brother is doing an economics degree and all his work looks SOOOOO BORING! I feel like it would really help doing at least some of the level 1 units though.
And I guess certifications are good, I think. Are they? I dunno 😛
*semi*
Econometrics.
*fully*
*barfs*
*semi*
I think I need to be kept away from page 18.
Like, somebody should tie me up.
Maybe even smack me around a bit.
Gag me?
…
Yeah, gag me too.
…
whip me.
This should make you moan like crazy.
I’d say I’m going to go take a cold shower now, but I think we all know it’s a bit to late for that.
So tempted for a choc waffle cone from Macca’s…
Either that, or a Double from KFC…
I’ll probably be staying up for the F1 qualifying from Abu Dhabi.
Also re-downloading Wolfenstein, even though it’s 50GB. D:
I really want to get Five Night’s at Freddy’s 2, but I want to finish the first game…
Probably best not to purchase the game while it is in Early Access. The game you would be playing right now is far worse than the product you will eventually receive.
I think it’s out of early access.
This is a full release.
Hi Tay. Angkor Wat is fucking incredible
Hi Red!
I’m really jealous!
Sounds like you’re having an amazing time.
Ehh, the buff it provides is rather pointless relative to the point at which you acquire it. It would be better if it was available during the Classical Era. The Great Engineer points are decent, though.
Boooooooooooooo
So I saw the International Rules match, and hey, it’s not bad. Too bad I missed the first half.
You know what was bad? The Char Kway Teow I ordered from the Asian restaurant. It was simultaneously incredibly overcooked, slimy and bland. I might try and fry it up later to get rid of the sliminess, but it won’t fix the blandness.
You know, with so many films these days lasting 3+ hours, am I the only one who wants movie theatres to bring back intermissions? A piss break would be welcome.
EDIT: Grammar
According to foobar2000, I have 6 days, 17 hours, 8 minutes, and 37.495 seconds of music.
😀
Also, I got the G510s screen working with it.
It now displays the currently playing song info on it.
😀
There’s so many things that I want to do, that I wish I could, and that I’d love to do, but that I can’t do.
Feels bad, you know?
Feels pretty real shit, actually.
Hopefully someday.
Oh man, stayed up til 1am watching the F1 qualifying…
I should probably get to bed.
Night.
Oh man, Cricket and F1 today! \o/
Wow! What a mixed bag! The fastest, and slowest sports go head to head! lol
w00! Just got home from @freezespreston’s! what an epic night! very funny stuff! I had to leave just as they were about to do pass the parcel! I so wanted to stay to see what was in them, cos given how the rest of the night went, I can imagine many a laugh would have been had! Unfortunately, I have to be up again at 5:30 to get to the airport! Great time to be going to bed! 😉
Dunno how likely I am to sleep, but I really should give it a try. Cheers for the funx0rz taybies! So good to see you all again! 🙂 Also, hope Mrs Freeze is not too terrible tomorrow! Glad I’m not in her shoes right now that’s for sure! 😉
fux0rz aye? 😉
lol! missed the n! oops! edited! Given what time it was and the journey I’d just been on, I’m surprised there weren’t more errors 😉
@freezespreston and @virus__ almost got fux0red though! They totally smashed head first during their sumo battle! Must have killed!!!
Sumo battles!? Bris meats sound intense 😛
yep! big sumo suits and stuff! I’m sure vids will follow in the coming days. I would have taken some myself, but my phone is just rubbish. @transientmind and @dc managed to get some good vids I think! Can’t wait to see em!
Booze, food & sumo suits. Pretty much the norm up here.
It wasn’t that bad, hurts a little today, but I think poor Freeze hurts more, sorry dude 😛
w00! Just got home from @henryisntamemberhere’s! what an epic night! very funny stuff! I had to leave just as they were about to go to bed!
*ahem*
But yeah, speech-saying went well. Didn’t end up writing anything down, just winged it and forgot half the points I thought of mentioning but it went down pretty well, and it worked out awesomely too because his girlfriend was cued up next to say one after me and I had a joke in mind to finish on that would have embarrassed her. It did. Excellent.
Feeling pretty good now, both because that went well and because I totally socialised like some kind of socialising person. Self-five.
I socialized for the first time in a while last night too! Was so damn good to be able to attend for once!!! As long as everything in my life stays stable for a change, I look forward to this trend continuing to improve!!!
Welp, there goes Sunday. Badly want to stay up now, but no that would be silly.
And… now I’m wide awake…
Shit.
Hey Pokefriends, can anyone please trade me a Seedot or other GRASS Pokemon? (so far I just have Grovyle, Lombre and Shroomish).
I’m doing a GRASS only run, so it’ll help! 😀
Nope. To busy still playing y
I wish they would re-release all the old guitar hero games as one package for the current gen systems, I would buy the living heck out of that bundle, why are they denying me a guitar hero remaster
Used to have so much fun with GH and Rock Band. Rumor has it that GH is coming back next year.
http://www.psu.com/news/25063/Guitar-Hero-is-back-Live-crowd-scenes-set-to-deliver-new-level-of-realism
I wouldn’t bank on them doing remasters though, they’ll just release all the tracks as DLC and make us pay for them all over again.
Really hoping the rumor is true.
Yeah I heard about that, hope it is true. As long as the DLC is reasonably priced I’ll be all over it
It’s so hot today, I think I’m going to melt and die. I’m afraid to play games on my laptop too, since it’s been overheating and crashing on me this past few weeks. I cleaned out the fan yesterday but it’s still idling at ~75C. =(
When you say cleaned out, do you mean you opened the laptop and physically cleaned it, or did you just vaccuum/blow it out with an air compressor?
If the airflow is good and it’s properly clean, you might need to re-apply some thermal paste to your cpu/gpu
I did open it up to clean it. But I derped and forgot to buy thermal paste before I did that so I had to make do with whatever leftover paste was there. I think next weekend I’ll go and buy some thermal paste and try again. There’s nothing taking up much CPU processing while it’s idling. Anyway thanks.
Also, check what’s running on your task manager. Perhaps there are programs hammering the cpu in the background that aren’t really obvious at first (make sure you press the “Show processes from all users” button.)
Unsure of what to get what with all the purchases this week? (what do you mean it’s a bit late to talk about releases be quiet) I gotcha covered.
GTA: BODACIOUS
FAR CRY 4: RADICAL
POKEYMANS: BALLIN’
DRAGON AGE: HOLY SHIT EVERYBODY’S HAIR IS HORRIBLE I MEAN SERIOUSLY I’M RUNNING THE GAME ON HIGH SETTINGS IS THERE A MAGICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ULTRA AND HIGH THAT MAKES THE HAIR NOT LOOK LIKE PLASTIC BUFFED WITH WAX
So I wake up, start catching up on some of the websites I missed, like usual, when I’m scrolling through Facebook to see a suggested post.
Usually I just ignore them, cause they’re just spam, but this one really pissed me off.
“Tell us what it’s like living with HIV” it said.
“Take the survey for people living with HIV”.
Like, that’s pretty offensive.
Pretty really fucking offensive.
I do not have HIV, and just because I’m gay doesn’t mean it should be assumed that I have HIV.
It’s kind of a serious thing.
That’s actually made me really angry.
It’s basically scanned my profile, seen that I’m a man thats interested in men, and said that therefore I must have HIV.
Fuck off.
Fuck right off.
My blood is boiling right now.
Blergh.
Lack of responses on either here or Twitter makes me think people don’t really see it as an issue.
Whatever.
It’s quite offensive, at any rate.
@welbot here’s what was in most of the pass the parcels.. http://i.imgur.com/dPiysmf.jpg
Sally ended up with an amazing apron with some tits on it lol.
lol! classic!
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/171152
Smash Bros Wii U + GC Adapter will be $79 at Target! Normal Smash is $59. Amiibos for $14 too!
Seems like the adapters are going for a nice price on eBay in the US. As much as the game by itself 😛
Awesome news, might have to cancel my standard edition pre-order from EB and get it from Target.
Try price matching first! Wouldn’t want to cancel first only to have Target run out of stock 🙁
Talked to my local EB before about price matching, and they basically refuse to do it, even with Kmart next door.
:/ but isn’t it their policy? 🙁
Might depend on the salesperson
I know it’s their policy, but they don’t seem to care.
I recall mentioning on here last year when I got Assassin’s Creed IV, I was in Kmart on launch day at about 9am I was about to pick up a copy and the second in charge of EB came into the aisle, and started flipping through the copies of AC. I said hello, because we usually talk a bit about games and stuff when I go in, and I asked whether or not they’d be price matching, he said, “Nah, Kmart will be sold out in half an hour, and if they’ve got no stock we don’t have to do it”. Despite the fact that there were about 8 copies of each platform on the shelf (and God knows how many more out the back), and nobody else anywhere near the game section.
I used to be a pretty regular customer at EB (I’m a level 4), and they wouldn’t have even price matched for me, even though they knew that Kmart had plenty of stock at the time.
Closest Target to me is about 50 mins drive. =(
Road trip \o/
aren’t you at beenleigh? there’s a target at springwood! wouldn’t take that long to get there!
Hmmm, didn’t think one was there.
yeah. where woolworths is on fitzgerald ave? I just went down there myself, though not to Target 🙂 It’s in the Centro Shopping Centre
Last night was awesome. I think I need to lie down though 😛
6 sleeps till Smash Bros.
If you can sleep, that is…
I can! \o/
I’ll have to go suit shopping soon ._. (bye bye money!) bleh… I can’t be bothered!
But I can also buy a new green tie 😀
Mrs Freeze’s party was awesome fun! So fun! I sumo wrestled Dan and taught myself a valuable lesson in the process!
Which was? Share your wisdom!
You might have to tune in to the next episode of Dan and Sally’s Treehouse to find out! 😉
It’s a Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist spin-off! Just announced! 😀
Played about 8 hours of Dragon Age. Got bored. 🙁 Too much boring stuff to do, plot and characters are way too uninteresting to care about advancing them. I hope Mass Effect 4 doesn’t follow this structure.
UI is a mess and PC port is generally shit as well, which is sad considering that it was supposed to be lead SKU on PC.
So I’ve gone back to WoW. The expansion has had a better plot and has been far more fun to actually play than Dragon Age is.
I’ve heard some personalities claim that Dragon Age Inquisition plays like a single-player MMO.
It really does in a lot of ways.
It stuns me that whilst I have a 3DS, I game on my Game Boy Colour far, far more often. Like, it’s a 9:1 difference. NEXT GEN!
Such a hipster.
Classic @chuloopa !
Didn’t see that until now :D. Win any competitions lately? 😛
No.. no comp wins lately 🙁
Bum grapes, I tell you! BUM GRAPES!
Smell you all later.
Does it smell like Chanel No. 5?
Now wait a minute.
Oh, my mistake
I went on Facebook and posted for the first time in months.
It was scary.
THE END.
Dangit. Thought I was onto a good thing mining me a whole load of palladium, then went to jump home only to find I didn’t have enough fuel left. And then accidentally jumped to another system. And then didn’t have enough to get back. While being stuck in an unexplored system with no stations.
Poop.
*nods*
I felt like I’d been injecting far too much context into my posts lately.
Elite Dangerous?
It’s gotta be that or girls, right? 😛
So, now I’m staying up, watching the final F1 race of the year. 😀
@greenius
I only just found out via e-mail.
Thanks a bunch, greendude! 😀
See you all in new TAY, folks. 🙂
Huh, no new TAY today…?
We’re turning this TAY up to page 20
Redacted for derp.
Wait, is there a new TAY? OH GOD IM LOST DADDY IS THAT YOUUUU
Why am I watching a Twitch stream at 2:40am? Questions, questions.
Why am I posting in the wrong TAY? Questions, questions.
Woah, I didn’t know Yahtzee Croshaw was a part-owner of the Mana Bar.