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Goooood Morning!
How is everyone today!? I have to do some uni work and assignment this morning but get to play some sweet Borderlands 2 later on 🙂
This was supposed to be me posting links to my comics for sale on gumtree, but for some reason gumtree froze my account.
Joy!
How was everyone else’s weekends?
Yo, speaking of comix, I finally finished the Alan Moore run of Miracle Man.
It’s pretty good.
Smashed the first Gaiman trade as well which was way more interesting.
I got as far as the very graphic birth scene. Maybe towards the end of Moore’s run. I was trying to read it when it was out of print & in lawyer heaven.
I really should go back & read it all properly, wonder if the library has it..?
I didn’t read any of Gaiman’ s stuff. Wanted to. Does that start with him in his own, self made city or country or something?
It was too long ago..
Gaiman’s stuff is six inter-connected stories after the Miracle Age happens.
So Miracle Man etc are just side characters.
They’re all different styles and one of them is about 17 robotic Andy Warhol’s hanging out in a version of Hades.
It’s real cool.
Trust Gaiman to write something barely related to the main character.
Sandman was just his excuse to write about whatever tickled his fancy at the time & loosely thread it together with Morpheus & family.
Gotta give home credit though, it works Damn well.
My favourite comics of his are the two Death miniseries, Time of your Life & The High Cost of Living and The Eternals. Eternals is essentially him reintroducing an old Jack Kirby IP to the marvel u.
Coincidentally, I’m selling the single issues of all three of these tales when FUCKING GUMTREE REINSTATES MY ACCESS.
Good morning TAY
Last song played game time
Burn the Witch by Radiohead.
BTW, DOOM is amazing, absolutely love it, even playing the levels again to hunt down the secrets isn’t boring, it keeps the momentum
Let You Go (Brookes Brothers Remix) – Chase & Status
Morning everyone!
Bellusira – The Fire Song.
Secret-hunting has made me take a lot longer with Doom’s levels than I probably should. Other than that, I’m starting to really love the combat.
I mentioned below, those first few minutes gave me a loregasm, and the characterization of the Doom Marine as soon as you get your first ‘briefing’… perfect. Just perfect. Apart from a couple crashes (thanks Nvidia!) and some frustrating checkpointing, this is shaping up to be a winner.
I’m on Xbox one, I have had no problems at all, and I have not noticed any FPS drops or anything.
Secret hunting is great, but going back into the levels when I’ve finished and haven’t discovered everything is really fun, you get all your guns and unlocks and everything and it doesn’t ruin your current save/progress.
And yes, the characterization, damn Doom Guy is bad ass
‘Welcome to the fight, soldier. The situation i–” FUCK OFF. *crunch*History is telling me that it’s Win (Multiple Winners) from Mario Party 2.
Alexander The Great – Iron Maiden.
I’ve always thought Bruce Dickinson & Steve Harris for that matter could teach an ancient history & modern history class given how many songs Maiden has written over the years cover some important events in history.
Hmmmm… would have been in the car… I know it was Steely Dan……. *checks*
Steely Dan – Only a Fool Would Say That
Something from my wife’s playlist on the drive home, no idea what though
Sound of Silence by Dami Im
Because Eurovision was pretty damn great.
…Or I could talk about Doom in reply to Spaghett.
Mornin’ all.
Stellaris on Friday night was fun. It was good being able to drop in late and fill the boots of a weird alien race who I never would’ve generated myself. 1am, though…
Looking forward to future weeks and following the saga of Trumps in Space. (@highperformance)
I can’t dig it. The “locked in a room until you defeat all demons” gets old sooooooo fast.
But killing them all is so fun, so visceral and so so satisfying.
But to each their own I guess
Really? I found those the least problematic, given that by those points I’d been crawling around picking off random stragglers here and there without a real, proper ‘firefight’. Those locked rooms make you bounce around like a demonic heavily-armed rabbit in a meth-addled rage, and should really only ever last about one, maybe two minutes. Just like the original!
I’ll keep going and see if I can get into the groove. My expectations were pretty low going in, but asides from pretty graphics I wasn’t overly impressed. Maybe I need to dig a bit deeper before it feels better.
Really enjoying Doom, myself – a lot more than I thought I would. That intro set the tone really well – ending the intro music with the shotgun was what sealed it for me. Loving the pace of the combat, and the sense of escalation – “Here’s a miniboss! Okay, you barely managed to kill them… Here’s three more… and a few Hell Knights.” Some of those rooms can be surprisingly strategic, too.
Coming from a Halo background, I’ve always scoffed at the idea of “you can’t play FPS with a controller”… but thus far, I’m actually wondering if it plays slower on a console. I’m having a bit of trouble keeping up in some areas with KB/M 😛
Actually picked up the game this morning running errands. Besides the quick odd play I’ve never really played the first Doom.
But given that the PC version doesn’t have the whole game and I have to download 44 GB over ADSL, is it worth my time playing the original before playing the new?
I’ve never played the originals either – closest I came was seeing a friend play it and thinking “that’s dumb” before moving us to Monkey Island or Worms 2. 😛 Didn’t get into FPS until Halo on Xbox, and didn’t come back to PC until 2011/12, and only really got pulled into ‘classic-style’ PC FPS via Wolfenstein TNO in 2014.
However, I did try Wolfenstein 3D while waiting for TNO to download … which reminded me that old games are hard. 😛 Didn’t finish it, but it was a great way to pass time while waiting for the large download.
The Trump Collective will rise and will make Space Great again.
I particularly liked, “We’re gonna build a space wall, and we’re gonna get the Glaxxnor Hegemony to pay for it.”
Morning. How was your weekend? I didn’t get any gaming in but Uncharted 4 and Doom this week. Nice.
Morning. Last night My brother went out without his car and didn’t bother to tell Mum or me. This meant we stayed up, trying to wait for him to get home, so I could park in front of him in the driveway. This is because he goes to work at 6 am so his car has to be the last one in the driveway.
I waited up until 11 pm, but I was falling asleep and couldn’t stay awake. I ended up going to bed and telling Mum to wake me up when he gets home. She got to about 12 am before also going to bed.
Needless to say, we were incredibly pissed off. Our car stayed parked out the front, which means if it gets scratched, it won’t be covered by insurance. He’s a bastard.
He doesn’t have a spare set of keys?
I have them, but if I touch his car, he may blow up.
That sounds like a solution not a problem 😛
I mean, blow up in anger and attack me.
Shh I am picturing him as a smouldering crater and it is a pleasing image.
“Our car stayed parked out the front, which means if it gets scratched, it won’t be covered by insurance.”
My curiosity is getting the better of me. Why does the location of the vehicle matter in this instance?
Because we told the insurance company it sits in our driveway at night. It’s why our insurance is a little cheaper
I can’t imagine you wouldn’t be covered if something happened to it while it happened to be parked on the street, as long as it “usually” sits in the driveway.
Insurance companies love loopholes
This is general advice only and does not take in to account your personal circumstances – consider the PDS provided by your insurer for further details.
Depending on how the policy is worded they wouldn’t be able to refuse a claim just because your circumstances changed for one night. “Normally” you park your car in the driveway, but extenuating circumstances mean that changed for a night. It would be the same thing if you took the car for a holiday to the coast and parked in a hotel parking lot for the night. That’s not your “Normal” circumstance, it’s just what happened to occur for a night. The other 364 days of the year your normal circumstances apply.e.g. from Youi’s PDS (emphasis added)
In my personal opinion only, having no knowledge of your insurer, you’d be well within your rights to both make a claim should you need to, and dispute it with the Financial Ombudsman if they reviewed your premium as a result of said claim.
Blah blah blah insurance.
My brother still needs to stop being a dick
Yes, that point notwithstanding. I feel that point is a constant. :p
DARK SOULS (at least one of us is still playing)
Looks like I’m going to have to respec into luck instead of strength and do hours and hours of grindtastic farming for rare drops to finish two covenants for the last rings and miracles. It’s a pity that the multi code seems to be utterly busted – I can stand in the area where blues are meant to do their thing and invade to my heart’s content, but auto summon just doesn’t function.
Also, NG+ seems easier than I expected. Guess I’m a little more used to knowing the levels and just running through, but still, I’m burning through the area progression *fast* when I’m not trying to farm covenant stuff.
When I was having connection issues I’d just reset my router. Not sure why on Earth that would make any difference to Dark Souls III but it did. Also way back when it launched I had to be downloading another game or else it would time out on the retrieving the calibrations.
The only one I’ve had a big problem farming so far is the Vertebra Shackle. The rest dropped reasonably quickly with the Mimic head equipped.
What platform are you on? If you’re on XBOX One I can put aside some time to try and help you grind them out.
PS4, but it’s not a connection issue since invasion and faithful work fine, it’s just a problem some people are having with blades/sentinels and wolves.
I’ve done my run of invasions for the 30 shackles and had a lot of fun with it. I can recommend giving it a go and just being a bit silly – you are a mad spirit after all.
Guy offers HBO $10 per Game of Thrones episode he pirates, references @markserrels recent article:
http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2016/05/12/aussie-man-offers-hbo-10-per-game-of-thrones-episode-he-pirates/
The battery in my car failed this morning. I died a little inside. 🙁
I think we need an Uncharted4 photo thread to cheer me up. I’ll go first…
http://tinyurl.com/hhos5rd
Sorry, I don’t have uncharted 4.
You could always pretend and draw one on a post-it. 😉
You overestimate my drawing abilities
Good idea!
http://i.imgur.com/BmSvFCC.jpg
Oh, that was the wrong picture.
http://i.imgur.com/2mN6bw4.jpg
Such a good game
So apparently did your car. 😛
Hi everybody, just thought I’d rise from the dead to let you know that both Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Editions are 85% off on steam $3USD each. Or you can get the bundle which includes both games plus Dead Island: Retro Revenge for $9.78USD until the 1st of June. Pretty great deal if you ask me, although it seems there is one catch, you have to own the originals to get that price.
Also, how good is Better Call Saul.
Bye everybody.
The dead island games make me sick. Litterally. They set off my motion sickness. I managed to play the first, but the two others made me so sick.
I tellya, if I hadn’t been spoiled by Dying Light, I might’ve gone back to Riptide… but I think that ship has sailed. I’ve had a taste of the better things and I don’t think I can go back.
Never been more smashed off of Cocktails in my life. Started mixing and drinking them around 3pm. Carried on until 1am, my SO’s 23rd. Had the party at a mates place in the country which was wiiiiiiiiicked. Great Saturday day all in all.
Fruit tingles are the reason I can’t remember the end of the 90’s.
Fruit tingles are one of my strongest memories of the 90s.
Always fighting to take the white one with the speckly multicolours. Until eventually the speckly multicolour came in other colours as well, and suddenly weren’t as special any more.
Hah, I wrote myself off on cocktails last year at a birthday. Not one of my finest efforts
What a weekend. Been stuck with some kind of flu/cold thing since Wednesday or whatever last week. Think i’m finally about done with it, since I don’t have a runny nose, not sneezing, throat is basically not sore, my sense of taste & smell have almost returned to normal likewise my hearing, Made work hell I must admit with next to no energy. Would’ve taken it off sick if I wasn’t a god damn casual.
So how’s everyone else?
*No longer infected five*
Pretty sure I’m back to normal and just tired from a weekend of being sick.
Hoorah! I felt like I was gonna pass out friday/saturday night at work, thank god I didn’t have a massive amount of shit to do.
HOLY FUCK FINALLY
Should’ve got a Vive 😛
Nah I have it on good authority that the Vive sucks.
Well that was nothing but cringe.
I thought it was hilarious 😛
Fantastic, you have gone from waiting for email to waiting for email
From waiting for an e-mail about waiting for an e-mail, to waiting for an e-mail about waiting for a box!
Stepping up in the world.
Happy babby making simulator week!
Hm? I thought the only important games for this month already came out. (Stellaris, Doom.)
Mirror’s Edge.
That’s this month? Noooo my budget…
*Hesitantly grabs popcorn*
But I haven’t finished my spreadsheets yet!
DAMMIT BISH!
You guys are going to be playing it before me!
And I’ve had my copy since February. But they managed to torpedo my interest in the game so badly I haven’t bothered. Still in the shrink wrap.
My babby making simulator special edition was delayed by a week /o\
Man, was my week eventful. Such as the time when I
Sat in the same position for 7 hours, waiting for
I went on my computer yesterday evening, and was about to
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
Friend just linked this to me. So damn pretty.
I think one of the guys on here put it quite well:
Only just noticed the username afterwards. No relation 😛
So many customers demanding to know why charges have still been ticking over or whatever. IT’S BECAUSE YOU LACK BASIC READING COMPREHENSION AND THE FREE BIT DOESN’T START TIL TOMORROW.
At what point can I switch from being passive-aggressive to just regular aggressive?
Heh you can tell that Stellaris has gotten to the later game stages when you think to yourself “I’m going to have to transfer this save to my desktop because my laptop just can’t handle the strain anymore”.
I’m in a war with a fallen empire and thought it’d be wise to bring my entire fleet, what I forgot is that the rest of the federation tends to follow the biggest concentration of your ships so there’s a LOT of stuff going on
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685465135
It certainly creates a bit of an orbital traffic jam
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685465425
That’s less of a fleet and more of a space hulk, it’s probably full of orks & genestealers
So like… some kind of space jam?
Delicious, delicious space jam…
If that’s not a doomstack, I don’t know what is.
Boo. Slipknot Pre-sale for Outside The Nine doesn’t start until 1PM. Not that it bothers me, I can’t afford tickets until the Telstra pre-sale tomorrow night haha.
Oh. I introduced myself to Crusader Kings 2 last week. My god. What have I been doing with myself for the last 4 years.
May I also introduce you to;
Europa Universalis IV (Not quite as narrative driven, there’s a lot of historical accuracy in a game like this and if you’ve ever wanted to colonize America as Austria this is the game to do it with. 300+ hours played, what a game).
Stellaris (The space version of the above, really loving it so far).
SPACE TRUMP WE WILL TEAR DOWN YOUR WALL
I always try to help Russia take over the world by the 1900s.
I can’t decide who’s worse, between the papal states and… well, the entire middle-east.
I got recommended to start with CK2 before I get into Stellaris. Think I’l give CK2 about 100 more hours before I push anywhere else. I’m loving the ASOIAF mod. That and being able to play as Scandinavian Jarls and such… Dreamgasms everywhere. I’ll keep Eurpoa Universalis in mind, cheers lad!
Really should get back into EUIV at some point. I’d just colonised Australia as Japan.
Hahaha holy shit that’s amazing. I colonized Perth and Victoria as Byzantine lol.
I had Perth and Adelaide, I think someone else got to Queensland first but you can bet I’m scrabbling for Melbourne.
I actually owned most of Indonesia at that point, and had just westernised, so the Portuguese instantly hated me.
YESSSSSSSSS Young Padawan
UUUURGH! Why does DOOM have to go and look so damned good?
Now i have to break my “No Games for 2016” to go acquire it! :\
I’ll have to wait for payday though because i need moar monies.
The positive reactions floating around the place are making me more and more curious.
Though I can’t help but look at the install size of games like that and just let out an exasperated sigh.
Haha yeah it’s rather huge!
But i’ve been watching random twitch streams and let’s plays to talk me out of it, but it really isn’t helping… if anything it’s selling me on how much i “need” this.
Boredom weekend, spent most of it doing nothing. Though when I wasn’t doing that, I was playing Elite, hanging out at Farseer Inc in the beta and re-rolling to check out weapon effects. Then testing them out with other players there, tried a few duels where I lost spectacularly. Sunday I had another go at rigging up a dual-stick setup, and think I’ve mostly got it mapped out fairly well. The main thing I don’t like about it is power management, tapping on the hat repeatedly with my thumb feels awkward and nowhere near as fast as using my fingers on the base buttons.
Also spent a lot of time returning to the piano, finally started re-learning another of my long-forgotten pieces. Made it about halfway so far, pretty good progress. I forgot just how wild it was though, gotta be the hardest thing I ever learnt and I’m wondering how on earth I ever managed it in the first place. It’s just so difficult to maintain control and not let it get away from me, no matter how slow I start out it almost always ends up racing. Need uber concentration, or jedi-like reflexes to get my fingers to actually do what they’re supposed to do.
Also also, still got my scheduled Sunday night message from Aerialist, this time excitedly proclaiming that tomorrow would be Monday. On questioning this deviation from the regular person’s dreading of Mondays, she explained “those people don’t climb at St Leonards together”. I don’t understand this girl.
What sticks are you using for dual setup? T16000m?
Yeah. Though tried using that TARGET thingo to set them up, since that lets you use axis curves and I felt like I could use a little lower sensitivity for fine aiming, and it decided to be weird and not detect the stick with the handedness switch set to Left as the actual left stick. So it thinks I have two right-hand sticks plugged in. But then decided to start detecting their inputs separately so it kind of works now? Just in the opposite way it’s supposed to.
I use the trigger, left, right and hat-up buttons on the left stick as shift keys to do stuff with the right stick’s buttons, pretty much. Then leave the bottom button for boost. It’s really hard to shake the habits of my single-stick setup though, the instincts are strong.
As much as i love my HOTAS setup, a second stick, just during combat or something, would be of huge benefit for maneuvering… I currently use the 2 dials on the top and bottom of the X-55’s throttle for vertical and lateral thrust, but doesn’t really give me that much fine control.
Dials? Sounds weird 😛
Honestly the single stick by itself is probably more than sufficient, especially in a game like this where there is so much momentum to your ship that you don’t really need much control beyond a hat switch for lateral movement (and I say this as a user of the smaller more nimble ships :P). But it is kinda fun to use two instead of one, even if it does take a bit more mental wrangling to get things working properly.
That standalone throttle they showed off the other day has me rather interested though.
For directional thrusters you really can’t do any better than the Logitech G940, full stick and rudder pedals for the standard movement and the analogue hat for fine thrusters, it means you can be pulling a constant skid style movement whenever you’re in a dogfight and spend vastly more time with your guns on target.
Hi everyone, weekend was cool; playing Stellaris with a bunch of TAYbies was pretty great, used TeamSpeak for the first time which was cool to hear some TAYbies for the for the first time.
Apologies to @freya who I could hear but in retrospect, I think I had set my headset to be headphones rather than headset so my mic wouldn’t work lol.
I also saw that @cakesmith had paid for the channel, that’s pretty awesome of you man!
Yeah, cake, let us know if you want some $$ towards maintenance
I also concur.
I finished Doom 4.
Wow, it’s been a very long time since I’ve had so much fun with a videogame.
This game is one giant middle finger to every suits, bullshit decision in the gaming industry for the last decade. There’s no aiming down sights, no regenerative health, no static gameplay as the player duck behinds the same piece of concrete for every encounter.
You’re in the meat of the fray, with a huge arsenal of weapons, using your wits and reflexes to make it through. Dodging enemy attacks and projectiles, switching between weapons on the fly for the appropriate situation. Carefully balancing your health and shields, going for glory kills when you need them. This game respects the player.
There’s no hand holding bullshit, you figure your way through the areas, you find the secrets and discover how to defeat your enemies. Exploration is highly encouraged and there’s no pointless Ubisoft magic orb of nothing to collect. Every secret results in upgrades or challenges. You want to find them to get more options in combat, so you have more variety in dealing with demons.
I had a huge smile throughout my whole run, jumping with joy at my own maneuvers and playstyle. I was clapping with delight when I fought my first boss and the final scene in the game left me with the biggest grin I’ve had in videogaming for a long time.
The problems I had with the game were minimal. Ledge grabbing can get finicky at times, sometimes it doesn’t work but normally it was fine. The loading times could sometimes take a while. The map and weapon challenge difficulty were inconsistent. Sometimes they were so easy you’d accidentally complete them and other challenges I didn’t complete because they were such a grind. eg. Get a double kill, 30 times with the super shotgun.
Another issue was that there sometimes weren’t any indication of a point of no return in a level. Sometimes a door you just walked through will remain closed, so you have to explore some areas fully before moving on.
If you like to consider yourself a gamer than you owe it to yourself to buy this game. It’s gaming in its purest form.
I touched the multiplayer for a bit and the first thing I noticed was that my ping bar was full. Does that mean it’s designed to connect only to local players? I’ll look more into it.
If you like to consider yourself a gamer than you owe it to yourself to buy this game. It’s gaming in its purest form.
Eh, too much face shooting. Where do I hand back my “Gamer” nametag?
Over at that booth where you can exchange it for a “Pussy” tag.
*manflex*
*fishgiefflex*
This is for the PC die hards in here.
On the weekend, I finally got around to building myself a new PC. Worked OK on Saturday but not long into Sunday morning, the ethernet port on the mother board died. The lights are not coming so it’s safe to say the circuitry there is dead but I have still gone over the usual steps of checking the drivers and putting a newer BIOS on the board.
Still doesn’t work anymore though.
Is there anything else I can try before having to take the whole machine apart to take the board back? It’s proving an interesting exercise for me as it’s also my first time building a SLi rig with liquid cooling.
The fact the fans tend to really get into high gear at anything even a simple file movement from one SSD to another has me concerned that there is something wrong with other components in the board.
The only thing I can really say is that on every single game’s support forum I’ve ever been to, there’s usually a few articles about how the game fucks up on SLI configurations. You’re a braver geek than I.
I had my ethernet onboard port get fried on my previous computer when a lightning bolt struck my house (Both the green and amber lights were stuck on, even if no cable was connected), and I ended up resorting to using a PCI Ethernet card instead, which did the trick for years, as that was the only thing that got damaged.
I’m currently getting my motherboard replaced after a major ordeal that happened over the Anzac day long weekend. Started with the onboard sound crackling then dropping to around 10% volume levels, which happened on both the back sound port (My headset) and front panel sound port (Speakers). That ended up fixing itself after I reseated all the wiring. Then strangely my graphics card (Which is also next to new) was failing as if it was overheating, so I switched to onboard graphics which fixed it for less than 24 hours. The final nail in the coffin was on the Sunday night, where everything froze, both monitors went black, recovered after 5 seconds or so, but the OS was completely frozen, mouse and keyboard wasn’t working, no sound was playing (I was on a youtube video during this), nothing was working. So I thought “Okay better reset and check the logs to see what that was about”, then I noticed my reset button was no longer working, so I tried the power button, nothing, this wasn’t turning off. So I had to resort to switching off via the power supply, and now it won’t turn back on.
So yeah, I had to go in and get it RMA’d, still waiting on the vendor to get me my replacement for the next few weeks at least. Hopefully yours doesn’t go as bad as mine did 🙂
@transientmind and @tech_knight: Thanks for the prompt comments so far champs. Sorry I forgot to mention this earlier but the board in question is a ASUS Z170-AR.
Has anyone had issues or have heard second hand issues on this board. I’ve been using Gigabyte boards for years and have never had an issue but wanted to give ASUS a try.
Also, like I said, this is my first setup with SLi and with liquid cooling so I don’t know if the inconsistent fan revups are normal or if there is something wrong.
I’ve gotten away with basic setups but (despite how it looks) I built this system big so I can play with CUDA, etc, down the track when work stablises and so I can get a good number of years out of the machine even if gaming quickly out runs it.
My board with the fried Ethernet port was an Asus P5K-E w/ Wi-fi onboard. The board did serve me well for at least 8 years, it had a really really good run. I don’t know of that board specifically, my current one is a Z170 Gaming K6+, made by ASRock, and I got that in January, now it’s being replaced. So in terms of motherboard survivability, Asus is winning by a landslide.
Hmm… that one with the fans regarding file transfers doesn’t sound good, are your drives installed close together or are they fairly spaced apart?
The case I use is a Fractal Design Define R5.
If you look at the case from the front, the SSD is on a mount on one’s right of the case, effectively putting it behind/underneath the motherboard.
The HDD (I have the SSD for apps, the HDD for installers) in the case’s bottom front cage next to a 120mm fan.
Hard to say about the file transfers. Could be any number of things. May also be a complete non issue.
As for the ethernet, only thing I can suggest is check device manager. If it reports that it’s installed and working correctly, check the cable, and have a look at the pins inside the port itself. Sometimes they can get bent and not make contact properly. If all looks ok, and different cables don’t work, then either get a pci-e card, or RMA the board.
Sounds a bit weird having the ssd mounted on the backside of the motherboard mount, but it shouldn’t technically cause any problems unless it’s generating heat.
Check your BIOS fan controller settings, and also make sure you have the fan connectors plugged in to the right ports on the board (CPU – CPU, Case fans – AUX or however they’re marked on your board – check the manual)
Also, if you’re running any Asus software in the OS that allows for tweaking of fan speeds etc, get rid of it. Waste of time.
My fans are set to be auto controlled in the BIOS, and they do spin up when I do file transfers or such, but nothing major (doesn’t sound like a jet taking off or anything, but you notice the difference.) Even when I’m in Flash, and drawing vectors, everytime I start drawing one, I hear the fans spin up, and then when I stop drawing the line, they slow down. Very difficult to determine why yours might be doing it without knowing a lot more about your system.
Cheers, mate. I actually do keep spare NICs on hand for this occasion (it’s how it’s working now via wireless).
Will check the port again on the weekend (it’s under the desk and if I find something I might get distracted from work trying to fix it).
Also, in terms of ASUS software, I’m one of those cheats that only uses the driver CD for the board to install the NIC drivers and then lets Windows Update to the rest. Will check again (later) but as far as I know I don’t have any of the usual bloatware.
But thanks for the tip with the BIOS. Just need to find said settings. The BIOS UI for boards is getting ridiculous these days!
Again, thanks for the advice.
Yeah especially the new ones with the UEFI ones. There’s usually a way to set them to some kind of legacy mode which generally makes it easier to find stuff.
As for the ethernet, if you do find that some or one of the pins is slightly out of alignment, if you bend a paperclip in just the right way, you can get it behind the pins, and pull them back in to alignment.
Also, while I normally advise letting windows update drivers, Asus do tend to use some weird stuff in their drivers at times. It might be worthwhile going to their website, and downloading the latest drivers from their site to install. Especially if you have an Intel PNY ethernet. They are connected directly to the CPU via a PCI-e bus, so it might have something in the Asus drivers that isn’t present in the windows update ones. (You can almost bet that the drivers on the CD are out of date when you open the box)
Looks like the board is Borked. I’m now getting cases where I select shut down in Windows, all the devices poweroff but the machine itself won’t turn off unless I hold the power button down.
It costs me more but I buy my stuff from a brick and mortar store so it gives me some extra leverage when upholding my consumer rights.
But once again, thanks for the tips. Just need to research a new board now.
I know this was a while ago but I just tried something that seems to have settled things.
I know it sound down right silly but it is working at time of writing.
Talking to an old friend, he suggested I check the power management setting. And what do I find in there?
Intel Thunderbolt setttings.
Turn that off and now the machine powers off when I tell it to. Oddly enough this echos what I read a while ago when Gigabyte we selling expansion cards to add Thunderbolt support to non-Apple PCs.
The review were mostly around the same complaint: “I CAN’T TURN MY PC OFF!”
It’s unlikely, Welbot, but if someone else encounters a similar issue, see if this above trick helps them.
@wisehacker yeah I’ve come across this before myself once. Didn’t really come to mind though at the time as hardly anyone I’ve come across has thunderbolt 🙂
Glad to know it worked for you though 🙂 Always great when a fix is nice and simple 🙂
@welbot He knows everything*
*Probably does not know everything, but to me it seems like he does =P
I meant to say this, this morning, but I want everyone to know on here that I normally I do not show people the workings of my art. I don’t normally show the sketch part of my drawings, but I don’t have an issue showing people on here. I normally would never post it to somewhere like facebook or Deviantart, because people can be dicks about things.
Another thing? Everyone on here is so goddamn supportive and the only person negative about my work, is me. =P
If there is any criticism, it’s always constructive. I fucking love that. Do you people know how bloody rare that is? People either heap on the praise, or criticize without being constructive. If you guys see an issue, even if you don’t know what is wrong with it, you give it your best shot.
I guess what I’m saying is, i love you guys. =P
Of course it’s a page get.
GRATEFUL PAGE TWO!
Read that as
and i was like; SCORE, i’m included in something!
You’re more skilled than you allow yourself to realise and all of things i’ve seen you churn out tends to be amazing… Self-criticism isn’t always a bad thing, only when you take it too far and are never happy with what you’ve produced… which is where we come in! 😀Well, you know i tend to argue when people say things are good. =P
Also, if I was including you, I would add your name. I definitely do not think you are a dick about things, in fact, the complete opposite. (Not a dick about things as opposed to a vagina about things…Is that how it works?)
Weeeeell calling me a vagina about things is probably accurate with some things!
also i was just trying to be funny in my usual terrible-not-funny-at-all-silly-danish-humour style way 😛
But yeah, there’s more than enough people here with the skills or knowledge to provide constructive criticism…
I’m terrible at giving criticism because i look at something going “Wow, that’s neat!, and way better than anything i can do” and therefore struggle at finding flaws with it 😛
I will give you all the flaws =P
And no, i understand as I misread things all the time. I’m quite terrible.
Aw, Scree. That last line put a tear to my eye.
I love me too.
I often wonder if you are secretly Deadpool in disguise.
Deadpool is Canadian. Ryan Reynolds is actually Canadian. I’m Canadian. Coincidence?
Yeah. It is.
Had a bit of romp in Destiny over the weekend with @rize and @cakesmith.
By golly i’m enjoying that game… It’ll probably wear out at some point, but for the price i’ve paid i’m perfectly happy with it so far…
Playing as a Hunter, and really digging the long range game, nothing like nailing someone from across the map with a sniper rifle… Very satisfying indeed.
Also @trikeabout, finally relocated all my assets to Kunti over the weekend, and done a bit of trade prospecting.
Got a decent route laid out starting in Xuandua (Spelling) netting me about 5.5mill for 6 hops in the T9… pretty happy with that.
The core gameplay of Destiny is amazing. It only really starts to fall off after spending extensive periods of time at end-game with very little to actually do. Still super fun to play with a group of friends.
I love moving around in that game so much but the way end-game progression is structured kills it for me. I think I would actually like it better if there was nothing to do rather than being pressured to progress under a system that’s just weaponised filler content.
Running around shooting stuff. So fun.
Aha – this might be a reason for me to come back in Destiny. Except you’re xbox? or PS4? If PS4 I’ll happily come help you power through an alt. 😀
Trade route: Buy Imperial Slaves from Chujohimba. Take them to Noli Gateway in Pancienses. 11.13ly. One hop. Over 4k profit per tonne. Go back empty, but in my T9 that’s 2.1 million for two hops. 5 minutes a trip.
Also… I’m out of Elite for the next couple of days. I’m trying to hitch a lift to Beagle Point with Jaques. I’ve docked at Jaques Station, in a full Exploraconda. Here’s what I’m flying…
http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/03A5D6A5D5A8D5C-1e1e—–0202——3h121105040404v6432i2f.AwRj4yvZWo==.Aw18aCMEyQ==
oh nice! haha that’s a great idea!
Also yep, on PS4, complete with Taken King DLC… Currently a lvl 19 Hunter.
Feel free to add me on PSN: Dider88 (uuuurgh i wish i could change that)
Excellent – there are a few people still playing. I just need a reason to go back. Blowing shit up with n00bs is that reason. 😀 Strangely enough, my PSN name is… Trikeabout. 😀
I’m Starting to think I may need an actual tower rather than running off a laptop that just runs loudly all the time. Any suggestions on pre built? or should I go Self made (I could do it )
my Budget would be 1K- 1.5K and would need to include a monitor.
BenQ monitors. You’re welcome.
Yes.
Having had a small look at whats out there. I Like the look of this, but honestly I’m out of the game on motherboards and processors and such. Is this even any good?
I Like my strategy games, so something able to run XCOM2 and Stellaris is what I’m after.
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/34731/pccg-carbine-960-gaming-system
@welbot He has helped most people on here
it would play games, but you’d be better off getting a 960 with 4gb of memory. not much more price wise. If you priced it up yourself, you could possibly do slightly better, and maybe get a small ssd in there to run the OS off. Don’t really need a case with LED strips and such. Keep it simple.
Such good advice! Maybe a donation wouldn’t go astray, eh, @gingerchris86 ? =P
@gingerchris86 I just want to add, it’s in jest. Don’t feel like you need to, because I said it. Of course, if you can throw an extra couples of dollars Welbot’s way, I’m sure he would really appreciate it. But only if you can afford it.
All good, I have been meaning to anyway so it’s a good reminder 🙂
Thanks for the advice, Helps a lot.
So I dug a little deeper and found this one.
http://www.msy.com.au/SYSTEMS/INTEL-MiniITX.pdf
I’m guessing now I just look at pricing it myself 🙂
That looks great! It’d be hard to beat MSY for prices. If you were to buy their $1259 one with those specs, it’d probably be close to the cheapest you’d find!
And on that note, Heres what I’ve found.
Gigabyte GA-H170N Wifi motherboard – 199Corsir Obsidian 250D mini ITX Case – 129 ( I like the idea of the smaller form)
ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Strix Direct CU II OC 4GB – 309
Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 – 75
Samsung 650 EVO 120GB SSD -65
Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM001 -99
CoolerMaster B2 Series 600W Power Supply 89
BenQ GW2255HM 21.5in Widescreen LED Monitor -175
Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32bit/64bit USB Flash Drive -149
All coming to 1289 (this is through the one supplier so I could probably do a little better than that still)
and just realised I forgot the actual chip *headesk* add 275 to that so 1564
Firt off, if you don’t plan to overclock, you may be able to get slightly cheaper ram if you go for some that’s 2133 MHz instead of 2666. If you’re not overclocking, the faster ram will do nothing for you at all. MSY sell 8G Kit (4Gx2) 2133 Kingston HyperX FURY for about $59.
Also, the ASUS Strix cards are overpriced. You could easily find a Gigabyte or MSI with the same specs for cheaper.
Only other suggestion I would make, would be see if you can find an m.2 PCI-e (not sata) SSD.
That motherboard has an M.2 port in the back, and supports both sata and pci-e drives, but the pci-e drives are much faster. They do tend to cost a bit more, but if you juggle things about, you might be able to fit one in, and you won’t regret it if you can!
Also, one thing you might want to check if you’re keen on a Mini ITX case, is to make sure it has adequate room for the GPU. Some cards are quite long, and may not have enough room to fit in a Mini ITX. Usually the case will list what the maximum length for GPU is, so find that out, and compare to how long the cards are. (I had to go for the MSI in my case, as it was the only one that would fit in the space my case has.
Recently I’ve noticed the M2 drives are very close in price to the SATA ones, if not the same. I was surprised, pleasantly so (as I’m just putting together a new build for me…). 🙂
Also, I really enjoy your PC advice posts, ’cause they’re the sorts of things I think of too. GPU length! So useful, so easy to forget.
That would be the sata M.2 drives though, wouldn’t it? Eg the Samsung 850s, rather than the 950s? Last I saw the 950s were about the same price as the 850s but with half the capacity.
well the thing with M.2 is, they come in 2 different flavours. SATA and PCI-e. The SATA ones are limited to 6gbps as per SATA 3 limitations, by the PCI-e ones can push upwards of 10 (provided to get the 4X and not 2X. Even still, the PCI-e ones are connected straight to the CPU as opposed to the SATA ones being routed through a controller chip first.
If I swapped the Corsair case for a coolermaster rc130 I could save money too. I just don’t know what to look for in a case these days.
Overall it looks like a good build (once you add the processor), I do think it’d probably be worth getting a GTX970 if you can stretch the budget that far. It’ll probably last a few months more than the 960 before you need to replace it, I’ve found that a good benchmark is that the top card of a generation will last about 5 years before I get too irritated by having to run things at medium like a filthy casual, each step down from the top of the range seems to knock 6-12 months off that time. Unless the price difference is too great, I usually try to push the budget slightly over the limit just to get the extra time out of it.
YOU DON’T KNOW MY STORY!
😛
The option I’ve gone for recently is just select all the components and get the store to assemble. Saves tiem and effort and unless you are wanting to get in and tinker I found it a great option. I did mine through CPL and was under a hundred bucks for them to put it all together for me.
Another option to consider
Okay, the last of Techie’s series of Lol characters is done!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog/works/21862547-full-metal-jayce
That’s pretty bad ass, and I’ve never even seen a LoL game.
I just drew what Techie told me.
And here is the beginning of the Overwatch stuff.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog/works/21862650-mercys-wings
Just keep in mind guys, this design is supposed to be on the back. Redbubble has limitations that prevent the wings being the size I would like. I would rather that you contact my email scree(at)y7mail(dot)com, I will give you the image to get printed up yourself.
This one doesn’t have any art. Sorry. I just felt I should post a third time. In a row. I know I posted at the top, i am well aware. Stop telling me what to do, you’re not my real father!
Just following the rule of three.
Or 4, if you include my first post. I was hoping people would join in and say what they’re grateful for, but nooooo, you all had to compliment me, YOU MONSTERS!
What is wrong with you people? Don’t you get tired of being NICE ALL THE TIME?
Mind you, I am a nice people, so I guess I’m terrible too.
We are all terrible! \o/
You…are not wrong. =P
Or am I?
Oh god, Mum did say my father wasn’t my real father, so, are you?
I don’t know I have amnesia.
*gasp* Not…amnesia! *dun dun duuun*
Explosive amnesia!
I am really disappointed in myself.
The correct response to this would have been something along the lines of “search your feelings, you know it to be true”.
there will always be next time =P
What a horrifying thought.
System Shock is getting a remake! Coming soon to Kickstarter :\
:/
Well. Kickstarter isn’t certain doom for a project. Quite a few actually get made! And some of those are even good!
I am always disappointed when something cool-sounding turns out to be a kickstarter, though. The first thought is always, “That sounds amazing and cool! I wish I was hearing about it as pre-release marketing hype instead of a faint possibility of happening in five years time.”
There’s no fucking way they need to go to kickstarter to fund it. That’s what annoys me – when Kickstarter’s used as a proof of interest / glorified preorder system.
I finished DOOM, and I actually see myself replaying the levels for fun (as well as missed secrets)
Last song played time
Go It Alone by Beck
What was YOUR last song played?
Amore – BABYMETAL
Pls no judgement
Judgement? I love BABYMETAL 🙂
Just because I am listening to Beck doesn’t mean I don’t rock out hahaha
I think we’ve already established that Babymetal are awesome.
I judge you: awesome
John Mayer – Vultures
*sung along to in the car with a weird voice that I’ve never tried singing with before, which reminded me of Tay Zonday, which made me laugh*
“Chocolate Rain”
*I move away from the mic to breathe in
Also: Chocolate Rain
Does youtube count? Because I played this for Batboy and he was very impressed.
Yes it does, my last song played game is very inclusive 😀
King Nothing – Metallica
M83 and Sussanne Sundfor – Oblivion
I’m still reliving the concert from last night
Papers, Please – Mick Gordon, from the Wolfenstein TNO OST while eagerly awaiting the DOOM OST.
I need that DOOM OST, especially the bits with the Gore Nests/when it locks you in a room to kill everything.
Such heavy, awesome bits!
The Sun is Dead by Dragonforce
Europe – Cherokee
Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen
A message from 8:04 this morning demanding to know why the games hadn’t been made free yet.
I HADN’T EVEN GOTTEN ON MY TRAIN TO GET TO WORK YET, COOL YOUR JETS GUY.
And now it’s done. RIP.
BUT WHY WEREN’T THEY FREE!? WORST GAME EVER 7/10
Ahem. Excuse me, Gooky. What time do you think Tuesday starts? Is it Tuesday before 8am? Why yes, yes it is!
You should know better. Tsk tsk.
I know that Tuesday doesn’t end for another 13.66 hours so there is plenty of time to procrastinate yet 😛
…Touché.
[Doublepost]
Also, you’re a monster. People chasing discounts have needs, man. NEEDS.
Right, so here’s a little commentary of how my new Playthrough of Crusader Kings 2: A Game of Thrones.
Pretext: Started just before Roberts Rebellion. I’m a still a noob learning the mechanics, so I’ve got some extra $$ for mercs. I designed my heir, modeled after myself and ‘a descendant’ of Sigurdr Ring. Yeah, bringing in some Scandinavian stuff into the GoT era. Lets do this.
http://imgur.com/zcKRuYF
Little black box is where my territory is. Part of the De Jure of the North (Mountain) Clans. Lord Zade Sigurdrsson rules over Arrendal (?). Obviously has ties to Lord Eddard, Paramount of the North.
I get a wife, she’s 8 years younger than I at the time (24). When she gets of age, she gets pregnant. 9 Months pass child is stillborn. RIP Ragnar I … Zadesson? I don’t think I thought that through. Hmm.
Next year. Preggers again. 9 Months pass. Gyda is stillborn. RIP. Zade develops depression. 6 Years pass while trying to fabricate some claims on the neighboring clans. Wife falls preggers again. 9 Months pass and hurray – this one is not stillborn (female). Can’t remember the name though. Great, some bloudy good news for this bugger.
A year passes and the wife falls pregnant again. Awesome! Unfortunately 6 months into this, I (zade) karks it due to depression. Well. That’s awkward isn’t it. My heir at this stage is my 1 year old daughter. Shortly afterwards, Zades fourth child is born – Ragnar II. Not stillborn. This is great. Turns out that he’s a little shit anyway.
Anywho, she was 2 when Ragnar II was born I think. 14 Years later she is now Lady of Arrendal. She presses a claim on the southern clan and successfully takes it. I’ll post a pic of the proper map later tonight.
Throughout this, notes of interest:
– Viseryon was the last Targaryan born to Aerys (No Dany).
– Robert Never married Cersei – still betrothed (not married, betrothed) to Lyanna(!!)
– Robert Baratheon died, passed the Throne to the Mannis.
– Ned and Catelyn had three children, none of them Book Cannon.
– Ned dies, Catelyn inherits The Reach
No idea what that acronym stands for…
Crown’s King 2: A Gambit of Townships
Woops! Crusader Kings 2: A Game of Thrones. It’s a mod for Crusader Kings 2. Hopefully you can piece together the rest 🙂
…I didn’t even read the post other than skimming over the start. Can’t believe how close I actually got.
I originally bought Crusader Kings because I’d heard about the GoT mod.
I’ve never played the mod, I was enjoying the original game too much. Most recent game I started as Charlemagne and it’s going OK, but that was a while ago.
*tips hat*
It took me hours to get that hat just right …
*rudely knocks hat to floor*
*leans back and sips coffee*
Morning TAY!… well… good day TAY!
My day today consists of the best (Sarcasm) function in all of IT…
Documentation writing!… Of 5 new systems we’re going to be supporting!
helpOur systems are all documented in a wiki. Well, five wikis, cos more is better, right? And no standard structure or hierarchy, cos who needs that. Right?
Finding how something should be working in order to fix it takes longer than tracing the dependencies manually and figuring it out myself.
Here is your 100% accurate recap of Game of Thrones for the week. Disclaimer: any relation to actual TV show events or characters is coincidental or a weak attempt at a pop-culture reference. I love you.
Season 6 episode 4: The Book of the Recap
Jorah and Drogon find the man they lost Daenerys to in a poker game and are unsurprised to discover that she has won her freedom and most of her former owner’s possessions through increasingly high-stakes games of snooker. They quickly rescue her before she can rob the man of his dignity as well.
Jamie is kicked out of the Imperial army when it is discovered he’s not a natural blonde. He is however spared execution because he did not expose his commander’s secret that he is secretly two children in a long coat. Bronn is welcome to stay but awkwardly explains that he can’t because Jamie is his ride, otherwise he’d totally be happy to chill with everyone a bit longer.
Waking up with a severe concussion, Sansa spends the episode relearning how to talk and speak. Unfortunately her new captor deliberately teaches her incorrectly, so all her dialogue is now riddled with titillating double entendre.
Cersei and Margaerey conspire to bring down the Faith of the Seven but their plan mostly consists of them ranting incoherently into a camera and uploading the unedited videos to YouTube with provocative thumbnails.
Jealous of all the time Sam and Melisandre seem to be spending alone these days, Jon starts dropping subtle hints about having a girlfriend. When Sam points out that there are literally no other women within a hundred miles, Jon says they wouldn’t know her because she’s from Mereen, across the narrow sea.
Feelings of guilt keep Brienne awake at night after her selfish actions completely robbed Podrick of his libido. She tries to give him a pep talk but he’s completely unreceptive until she gets frustrated and becomes extremely sarcastic and condescending. Podrick trembles before her vicious onslaught of words, but Brienne’s annoyance quickly turns to vague disgust as it quickly becomes apparent that Podrick now has an overactive sexual response to being humiliated and his trembling had nothing to do with fear.
Tyrion and Varys secretly invest in Arya’s bar instead of just paying their outstanding marriage counselling bill. The incredible success of the business brings Arya nothing but misery as she is forced by the board of directors to expand her bar into a chain of family-friendly bistros. At the end of the week Arya pours herself a tall glass of rye and reminisces about the time she was a poverty-stricken street urchin, hoarsely whispering “those were the days”.
Hi all!
Long time no see! I’m back at work now, which means I may be able to TAY a little more.
IMO Uncharted 4 is the best of the series, an absolute masterpiece. The landscape p0rn was just astonishing, and there was so much of it. I was enjoying Dark Souls 3, but Uncharted 4 takes my GOTY award. No question at all. Best gaming purchase I’ve made in ages.
I’m probably going to hold off on UC4 until I play through the remastered 1-3 so it’ll be in the bargain bin by then I’m sure, but it’s encouraging that everyone seems to be liking it.
I picked up Doom on launch day and so glad I did. It’s been a real blast.
I heard that the washington post gave it a 4/10 so I have decided it is a terrible game so will not even consider buying it
Combat’s still crap. Writing is the best it’s ever been. Super pretty. But the set pieces haven’t stuck with me like Uncharted 2 and it’s a bit overly long. Not sure if I rank it the best of the five or not, I think Uncharted 2 might edge ahead slightly still.
Fair enough. I’ve never really been very good at Uncharted combat, but I love the lock-on auto-aim option in 4. Gives me a chance to focus just on the rest of the experience.
For my money, Uncharted 2 wins hands-down at astonishing set pieces, but it also drags on a little too long and had a couple of truly bullshit battles against nearly-invincible enemies.
All five Uncharted games would make it into a top 50 list for me, though, no doubt. Maybe even all of them in a top 20.
The combat’s the best it’s ever been in those games.
It’s still shit though. 🙁 At least the enemies aren’t all bullet sponges though and they don’t have a million copies of That One Dick With The Armor And A Shotgun That Just Rushes You. Too many of those in the earlier games.
They still have some seriously finnicky controls – taking cover on the wrong side of things, jumping to something I didn’t aim at etc – and the combat encounters don’t have enough options for bypassing them or stealth, but it’s still a step up and there’s less of them too. I really, really needed the ability to distract dudes to a location by throwing a rock or whistling or something though. When Assassin’s Creed has more options for stealthy gameplay, you know you’ve done something wrong.
I think I was a bit disappointed with the plot (not the writing, which is fantastic). The whole pirate treasure thing felt very much like a re-tread of the first game especially the back half of it.
Also holy shit, by the end of it I was getting pretty snarky. “Here, boost me up” they’d go, and I’d be like “ARE YOU GOING TO FIND A BOX UP THERE FOR ME TO MOVE?” If Uncharted 1 was about their water rendering, and Uncharted 2 was about snow and ice, and 3 was about fire rendering, then the big tech explosion for Uncharted 4 was their OMG SUPER REALISTIC BOX DRAGGING PHYSICS because they use it almost comically often.
I had a lot of issues where the game wasn’t particularly good at showing me where it expected me to go too. Times when stuff looked too far to fall, but it intended you to fall. Or stuff where it looked like you were meant to go one way and actually needed to go another. Stuff where you needed to do the thing from one spot and not the other spot that looked like the correct place. Shit that looked like a cutscene so you take a break and then suddenly random button prompt that causes an instant fail if you don’t do it.
Lots of cases where the checkpointing was unfair too. Fuck up and start right back at the start of the combat encounter. That really made me sad. The game is so good when it works, but when you’re left trying to figure out the director’s specific intent, and especially when you fail and have to do stuff over, you see the man behind the curtain and it ruins the whole illusion the game spends so much time doing. You want it seamless and you can’t help seeing some of the seams.
It’s a great game though.
So, my brother has just screamed at Mum because she used a whipper snipper near his plants. Had he kept the grass around them short, she wouldn’t have had to do it. Not to mention, he didn’t ask permission to plant them anyway.
I got 2 dogs who love to unearth plants as they are fun chew toys! Want me to bring them around? 😛
Only if they chew Bradley
If you find some way of smearing peanut butter all over his things, socks etc. i’m sure that can be organised 😛
“Plants” you say…
Native trees
Dammit I was just about to post this =P
Well that’s a little bit rude. Presale for tickets to Slipknot for Telstra customers are priced higher than general sale & the presale for the fan club. So $15 on top of the base price. Typical Telstra. Now I think i’ll just wait for general sale come Friday, but i’m at work Friday so fuck..
For anyone who is at all interested, one week to go for Total War: Warhammer.
Team Vampire Counts is going to kill everything.
Keen but that will be a down the track purchase for me
Yeah the price tag is a bit of a hit but I’d rather get it early rather than going through the stupidity of DLC Chaos.
I’m still wary though since the last Total War I bought on release (Rome 2) was completely buggy and rubbish for the first few months. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again.
Between Rome 2 debacle, my backlog and lack of time there is no point me getting it. Will be half the price (at least) before I get around to playing it
FOR CHAOS
Do they have real undead or just the poncy vampire bellends?
From what I’ve seen, they have ghouls, zombies, skeletons, skeleton dragons, vampire bats, and a few different versions of vampire as well. So it won’t quite be all team sparkle all the time.
Friends!
Our friend @welbot, is not well and is STILL WAITING for his surgery to be scheduled. In the meantime, he still needs to eat, pay his rent, put petrol in his car and generally do all those things that we take for granted when we have an income.
If you can, please consider donating to his fundraiser to help him get through. Even a little donation will make a difference.
https://www.gofundme.com/f6j6232k
Hope you get scheduled soon @welbot.
Thanks man. Hoping so too, but got a letter yesterday saying it could be anywhere in the next 365 days. :\ Really don’t think I could last quite that long 😐
It really is ridiculous. How much would it be to go private?
likely around the $10,000 mark? maybe more?
This is bonkers. It’s seriously affecting your quality of life. Do they not understand that?
Apparently not 🙁
Is there a place you can get a second opinion?
Not without spending even more money. The diagnosis isn’t really the problem. More the timing of it. I saw him prior to some of the symptoms cropping up, and also prior to being told I wasn’t allowed to work, so he’s a little out of the loop in that respect. Hence why I’m trying to follow up on it.
JUST GOT FEDEX SMS
RIFT DUE NEXT TUESDAY
Lucky it’s not DHL, that’d be another 6 weeks at least for delivery time 😛
The thing that would suck most about that is I could have not bothered doing anything about a new PC and just left it til the Pascal cards came out.
and should’ve 😛
Well if I’d know that would be happening just a couple of weeks after I’d get my Rift rather than another six months… 😛
Haha. Oh well. You got a GTX 970 yeah? Still a pretty solid card though.
Yeah, just need to remind myself it’ll do me fine for plenty of time to come, and I’ll probably be able to skip these upcoming cards for the next ones in line 😛
That, or when Nvidia announces the GTX 1080Ti 6-12 months down the line pick up a 1080 for cheaper off some fool who wants to get the Ti model 😛
Great, just great.. Work has not paid me properly this week, I have gotten around half of what I expected from the hours I worked. According to the fucking payslip I worked 12 hours less than what I actually did, well that’s fucking bullshit. There goes my plan of buying a ticket to Slipknot this week until I can get this bullshit sorted out.
Welp, I think I’ve gotten rid of this bug.
All I have now is chronic lethargy.
Good morning TAY
Last song played game time
Future Foe Scenarious by Silversun Pickups
what was YOUR last song played?
Battlecry by Digitalism
Thorn Within – Metallica
Green-Eyed – Amberian Dawn.
Based on what I said earlier in the week, here’s a sketch of the next shirt design
http://imgur.com/TvpOTrd
Sorry, double post
@lucifer9783 found this on imgur
http://imgur.com/a/d0MdT
It’s an overwatch thing =P
Well it’s good to know i’m not the only Woolworths/BWS employee that was paid incorrectly, apparently it was a national error so everyone only got paid for around 8-10 hours work, and we will be paid the rest tonight. Even so how the hell do you manage to do something like that.
Woo the NDA on the GTX 1080 has lifted now to go binge watch all the tech reviewers reviews on it & then to dream of owning one.
It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine. Sold a bicycle to raise the funds.
SO HYPE.
I know right? I gotta find some shit to sell now 😛
Oh god the 4k benchmarks Linus Tech Tips did are amazing especially for a single card. Also apparently Dimitri from Hardware Canucks got a 2.1GHz overclock on his 1080.
Kidneys? You only need 1. Sell a kidney. No. Actually, don’t do that.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, anybody want to buy a kidney? I got a fresh B+ one.
Hahaha. I can err sell bone marrow, right? I can always make more, yeah?
But holy shit, just watched the Hardware Canucks video on the 1080 their overclock of 2126Mhz resulted in the 1080 out performing 2 SLI’d GTX 980Ti’s in games. That is awesome.
WTF. Can you please share a link?
Sure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLYn937ZFE
Also from other videos i’ve watched 1440P seems like the sweet spot for maxed out settings for 60+ FPS in games for this card on factory clock speeds.
wooo. 🙂 I’m upgrading from a GTX 680 which I think I’ll leave in there as a PhysX card… Tomb Raider is going to be sooooo pretty.
Everything is gonna be so pretty! 😀
I’m going to be upgrading from a 670.
Not sure I want their silly Founders Edition though. It’s not binned any better than standard, the design is completely reference and doesn’t have overclocking or anything, so why is it $100 US more?
But it does.. You can overclock it out of the box & get some pretty impressive numbers.
I mean it doesn’t have factory overclocking. It’s not an OC/Ti card, it won’t offer any performance increase over the $600 one.
Oh right, sorry got ya. Yeah fair enough.
It’s mostly about offering a) early access and b) the reference card to consumers. They’re doing it because they know it’ll make them easy money, not cause it’s a good deal 😛
Also this time around Nvidia have plans of offering the reference style card for it’s life time, instead of being available until the board partners flood the market with their after market coolers.
But they’ll have the $599 reference card available as well. The founder’s edition one seems to be an extra $100 for absolutely nothing except that it says YOU’RE MORE SPECIAL THAN THE OTHER PEOPLE on the side
It is pretty tempting but I’ll probably wait till there’s a big shiny game soon to hit. Maybe Star Citizen.
My 670 is chugging along fine for the moment.
Yeah, but shiny new tech 😀
Yeah but I’m also gonna need to buy a fancy $900 moniter to go with it.
And I play half my pc games to my TV, so I’m gonna want to upgrade that to 1440p/4k before then.
Ect.
True. Something I should do before investing in a new GPU I think lol.
ELITE: DANGEROUS
Dammit, Frontier have said that no-one gets to hitch a lift with Jaques to Beagle Point.
Well, my Exploraconda is ready to go, so I think I’m going to start my Grand Tour tonight, by saying goodbye to Jaques, and heading for some nebulae. I’ve been to Sag A* already, so a trip to the Far Rim will probably avoid the Core.
36ly range on a full tank, and still have some shields and a couple of lasers.
Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast…
Probably because stuffing such an impossibly large number of ships into his hangars would have exceeded his drives’ mass limits. And/or made him only able to jump part of the way there before having to call on the fuel rats again.
Yeah. But LOGIC BE DAMNED. *shakes fist at logic*
Yet again a major update will drop while I’m in the Black. 🙂
But you’re always in the black 😛
I won’t be after I buy that GTX1080…
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I will probably head out afer 2.1 lands, so i can get a better FSD on my 25LY Clipper, which will be my exploration vessel from now on because why not?
Should be good… Beagle point is far away but who knows? i might get there one day. I expect me to be even slower at exploration now that you have the SRV to explore surfaces, which i will probably spend waaaaaay too long doing.
If you have an idea for an overwatch shirt, please let me know. Some of the characters I’m not so well acquainted with, so it’s hard for me to come up with shirt ideas
Tracer + “Nothin’ at all!” caption.
If you have the time, please do Pharah.
“Death rains from ab-aargh!”
I love it when they die as they are saying stuff
Talk Amongst Yourselves
I love it when they die as they are saying stuff
I feel so out of touch with games. I haven’t bought a game since Fallout 4 last year. Like i’ve been meaning to buy Heavy Rain/Beyond Two Souls for PS4, still haven’t got around to getting it..
Uhm.
…Buying Heavy Rain/Beyond will not solve your ‘out of touch with games’ problem.
Yeah. But I liked Heavy Rain & never really bothered with Beyond Two Souls so them both being on PS4 is relevant to me 😛
And thanks for doing so, we are still playing it 😉
Oh yeah totally forgot I did that hahaha. I was only thinking of myself 😛
Obviously not, back then. 😀
Good man.
Something along those lines 😛 It’s a damn good game. I should invest in the DLC at some point.
They’re on sale right now on PSN, but not for much longer. Right now.
They aren’t for me..? Full price of $54.95 which is more than JB want & about the price EB have it for :S
Haha, oh man, sorry. The sale ended six minutes after my post. My bad. Really sorry!
The price was $29.95 for both together or $22 each.
Hahaha. All good. I’m not a huge fan of digital downloads on console anyway, always preferred disc since I can return it, trade it in, lend it to a mate or sell it down the track lol.
Guys, guys!
How are you?
I’m back at work after 3 weeks off.
I’ve managed to get on top of my inbox and now have about 15 things to follow up.
But it’s almost lunch time.
Also, my dog escaped this morning. Still no call from anyone.
Ahhh that sucks. Our last chicken died yesterday & last night I buried it with my son.
I didn’t want chickens, I hated having to look after them, but when they die it’s really sad.
Hope your dog’s ok. 🙂
Pet deaths are hard. Is your son old enough to grasp what’s happened?
Haven’t heard from anyone about my dog yet, which is unusual, normally would have had a call by now. I took the unprecedented step of calling council to let them know he was out and about.
If he’s not back by tonight it’ll be the first time he’s been out overnight… 🙁
Yeah, it’s the last of a few & the last two he understood. It’s an important lesson even if it is sad 🙂
Select all & delete, right?
Damn, hope your dog’s ok.
Just trawling the preorder section on the EB Games website, there’s a few games on there i’m quite interested in like Mafia III, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, South Park Fractured But Whole, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst & Detroit: Become Human that sounds alright.
I had to look up Detroit: Become Human because I had never heard of it before. I’ve become rather interested in the idea the more I read about it.
On a side note, along with Deus Ex that’s two different cyborg-focused games set in or featuring Detroit in the cyber future. There must be something about Detroit and cybertechnology that I’m not aware of.
Ask @dc about it, it’s David Cage’s next game.
ALso, from memory, protagonist is an Android, not a Cyborg.
Don’t say anything to DC about it. He is going in totally blind, on full media blackout. He hasn’t even watched the trailer
Wow, really? Like, not the initial teaser trailer when the title was announced?
Although I’m sure everyone’s seen the PS3 tech demo (‘Kara’) that inspired it, right? That should be worth a few re-watches.
He has seen Kara and knows the that that tech has been used
Spoiler trailer talk so dc doesn’t see
The emotions based trailer, with the android chick walking with her voiceover he hasn’t seen and doesn’t plan to. Isn’t reading anything. He knows he will buy and play so wants a pure surprise playthroughNot everyone 😛
WATCH IT, HEATHEN.
Er… I mean. Oh hey! Look over there… puppies/kittens!
Ew, gross! Almost as bad as that person that brought an actual human baby into the office today.
Dammit Gooky. -.-
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Watch the damn clip.
Yeah, I saw it was by the makers of Heavy Rain/Beyond Two Souls, was enough to pique my interest 😛
Ugh. Somebody’s stolen a bunch of weights from my apartment building’s gym. I’m mildly steamed. Might stab a dude. Might stab two dudes. Might stab a dude twice. Possibilities are endless.
As long as you can do 3 sets of 12 reps of either activity, it doesn’t matter!
Must’ve been their first time lifting.
Someone asked them ‘do you even lift?’ and they completely misinterpreted.
So you guys know how my Brother was carrying on about his native trees yesterday?
He said to Mum “I’m embarrassed to even share the same DNA as you.”
I was so angry, but also terrified. I was worried his anger would boil over and he would attack one of us.
The worst part is Mum has been feeling awful ever since
Maybe he should go somewhere far, far away where he no longer has to be reminded of this fact.
Or has to remind you.
Don’t you technically have an active restraining order against him? might be a good idea to remind him of this
It’s run out, I’m afraid
Then i will say the same thing as i did last time… If at any stage you feel threatened under your own roof, do NOT hesitate to involve the authorities.
Remember, verbal threats of harm is classified as assault just the same!
Him being back to being like this is not OK, and needs to be handled accordingly!
Couldn’t agree more, ungrateful human. You gave him a room to sleep in, a house to live in, even let him back in after the first time this happened. The fact that he’s doing all this crap again, if it were me I’d ensure he’s gone and never allowed back in again. You gave him another chance and he’s squandered it.
Edit: Nobody and I mean NOBODY should feel threatened in their own home, especially by one they’ve let live under their roof out of charity.
The worst part is, he’s acting is if everything is normal now, while I’m seething.
You shouldn’t be putting up with this shit and neither should your mother.
Imo he needs to go. And I think you should talk to your mum and make her see this.
Seems like she’s won’t do anything because “oh, but he’s family” but that’s not enough. Blood ties don’t give you a free pass to be an abusive fuckhead.
Talk to the cops. Talk to your mum.
Get him out of your lives.
Edit: and talk to her now, while its fresh in her mind. Not in a few days when she’s had time to forget and gloss over it. As harsh as that may sound.
We’ve been talking. I’m thinking I will write a letter outlining rules he cannot break. If he breaks them, he’s out
House rules:
Rule 1 – Don’t be a C**t
Rule 2 – See rule 1
I mean, i’m not the sharpest hammer in the toolbox, but i think even i could follow these rules…
Pixel, I hate to be the one to tell you, but hammers aren’t meant to be sharp
… DAMMIT! 😛
Nope. He’s ALREADY been given enough rope.
Why can’t he hang himself already?
What an awful situation.
And if he’s so embarrassed to share DNA, he can FRO and stop sharing the same house/utilities/oxygen…
Hope you get it sorted.
Thank you. I’m hoping it gets sorted too.
Grunt. I ain’t gonna tell you what to do. I hope you and your Mum are able to take whatever steps keep you safe.
I read it. I understand. If it gets bad, i’ll let you know
“Morning tea will be provided. BYO tea.” … English is weird.
@welbot and other TAY Technicians:
There is something wrong with my computer and I’m not sure how to diagnose.
– Have had a few hard locks while system is under load, but I also am running a pre-release Windows build so I assumed this was software.
– About a week ago, I came to it and found that it had rebooted for an update and decided that rather than booting my Win10 SSD, it wanted to boot off an old HDD on my machine. I re-set the drive priorities (don’t know if they’d been fiddled with or not) and disabled all the other drives from booting at all. Seemed fixed for a bit.
– A few times recently I’ve left my PC on for a bit, only to come back to it and find it’s zombified. No display activity, no response from keyboard & mouse. It’s on (can hear the fan running) and it isn’t sleeping or hibernating (I have those disabled). When I hit the power button it immediately turns off, suggesting it’s not booted into Windows as that usually should need the button held for 5 seconds.
– Periodically also finding the machine has rebooted for some reason (not sure why, maybe updates) and it’s still hitting the issue with not finding the boot drive. Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn’t fix. Drive appears fine in Bios. Power cycle always seems to fix.
– Not sure what’s causing the reboots but doesn’t seem to be anything sinister looking in the windows event log.
To my mind, the most likely culprits in order are the PSU, SSD, RAM, Motherboard, CPU.
Quick disk check finds nothing wrong with my SSD. SFC /scannow reports no errors, so I don’t think the SSD is failing. Have not yet had a chance to memtest the RAM.
The PSU is a really good 85W Seasonic modular but it’s getting long in the tooth – checked and I purchased it in April of 2010 for my previous PC build. It seems the most likely culprit but hard to be sure if it’s causing the issue or not.
Any ideas what might be causing this or suggestions for diagnosing would be helpful.
I’d use a multimeter to check for variations of voltage output from the PSU.
Unplug the PSU from everything and use the paper-clip trick to simulate the power button, then just keep an eye on the readout for fluctuations on each volt rail… It’s been ages since i’ve done it, but from memory you should barely see any variations at all on a healthy PSU.
… or, you know, go the easy route and use a PSU checker if you got one handy 😛
those symptoms sounds like a PSU issue at minimum to me :\
Since the PSU’s older than god and 750W 80Plus Gold PSUs from Corsair are next to nothing over here (and free next-day delivery from Amazon!) I just ordered one of them with the hope that that fixes it but still open to suggestions in case it could be something else.
Dang you & your cheap components! To me anything around $100 & rated 80+ gold is “cheap” haha..
Well, it’s $110 delivered including sales tax. But that’s pretty cheap for a high-quality PSU.
Yeah true. Considering that $100 price point here gets you some pretty alright ones.
Wind 10 does have issues with hybernation that causes issues like this. Try disabling all sleep/hybrid sleep/hybernation options and see if it helps.
Also might be worth running ADWclean scan to check that your boot sectors haven’t been tampered with, but if you’re running a UEFI system, chances are minimal. Always worth a look though. It should tell you if the MBR has been altered, in which case, you’ve got yourself a rootkit.
Also, just for the hell of it, run a full scan for bad sectors during a reboot one night when you go to bed just to be sure. Doubtful it’ll find anything, but won’t hurt.
I guess I should add, that if you have any USB drives plugged in, unplug them as well. Some PC’s (mine included, even though it’s old) always seem to want to attempt booting from USB drives if they are connected, despite being set to boot from SSD or HDD in BIOS)
No USB devices (just keyboard & mouse & USB hub on my monitor that has nothing attached to it) and as mentioned the PC never sleeps. UEFI system. I just updated the Mobo firmware in case it’s some weird feature creep in Win10 (I’m running bleeding edge internal dev builds because I like to live dangerously). I very much doubt it’s a rootkit but worth checking anyway.
EDIT: As expected, ADWclean sees nothing. The drive actually boots fine, it feels like the problem is that the BIOS isn’t seeing it sometimes and won’t boot it.
Hoping it’s not the motherboard as it would mean new CPU & Memory to replace it, since it’s a few years – i5 4670K. Would mean not upgrading my GPU for an extra 6-9 months.
Still loads of LGA1150 boards available, so if it is the mobo, you can replace without a CPU/RAM hit if that’s the best option.
I feel like replacing a bad motherboard and not upgrading would be throwing good money after bad, especially when the latest ones are the same cost.
Yeah, that’s reasonable. It’s really a judgement call. Hope it’s not the mobo. 🙂
@popdart5 @blaghman @tech_knight
NUMENERA
Tonight 730, will do it on TS and use roll20 as a static gaming table
Ahh, shit, forgot about this. Unfortunately I have a work dinner (farewell to my boss of 3 years), so I won’t be able to make it. Good luck though!
@tech_knight @popdart5 happy to carry on reblaghsless?
I’m okay to continue, as long as we’re not fighting you-know-who 😉
I’m happy to carry on as well if that’s cool with everyone.
Coolo, we’ll press on then
STAYLLARIS
So, Friday for peeps? Shall we defeat Space Trump?
Sounds good to me
Good, because you hosted the last one and have the master save file 🙂
It looked like it was sending it to everyone but it’s a good thing to remember if I can’t make it one time…
I think we all have it, I’d just rather not monkey about with it too much
We don’t have any space monkeys do we? I don’t think the trumps have evolved that far yet
Eww, primates. The Reptiles of Space Morocco (which I realised I’d made a typo in in-game) eat monkeys sometimes.
Yep yep yep.
Keen to see how many science ships I can loose this time!
The space gods were not kind to you.
Space gods hate space science, @jocon angered them with his hubris and they sent the ferris wheel of divine retribution
I don’t know if people can join mid-game, but hit me up if you guys ever play on Saturday or Sunday daytime!
Canada time permitting.
You can join an AI empire, @transientmind did this in the last session. You should establish an embassy on TrumpWorld(tm) so you can help make space great again.
When Space Morocco sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing unhappy pops, robots to food tiles, faction leaders. They are illegal space immigrants.
Decided to go all out for dinner tonight & did home made chicken & mushroom sausage rolls with mushroom & onion gravy & white and orange mash
Sounds tasty! I made fried rice tonight.
Fried rice is awesome, nice one!
and yeah they were tasty! Used filo pastry instead of puff pastry was a nice chance!
Yeah, I just had basic vegies in the fridge and remembered I had a tin of prawns in the cupboard. Meant I could put off grocery shopping for another day.
The less shopping needing to be done the better I say 😛
I had a weird dream last night. It consisted of accidentally nearly inhaling a hornet or wasp (not sure which) and then trying to work out hat to get it to fly back out of my mouth without it getting mad and stinging me.
I think you have to send a spider in to catch it, then a bird to catch the spider, then a cat for the bird…
But I thought wasps killed spiders to fed to their young. Are you suggesting I start breeding wasps in my mouth? I guess It would guarantee in win any shouting match…
That’d be the shortest ever shouting match, they open with an insult and you respond with a face full of WASPS!
I once had a dream that I swallowed a pin and had no idea how to get it out of my throat without making things worse, then I woke up while I was freaking out and couldn’t tell if I actually had something in my throat. I spent like 5 minutes laying there trying to figure out how to check without risking pushing it in further.
Someone actually inhaled a pin. She had to go to hospital for an Xray and removal.
Good morning TAY on this the 19th of May, the eve of Fallout DLC (CAN’T WAIT)
Last song played game? You know it’s time
Anaise! by Smashing Pumpkins
A lot of bushfire smoke here in Parramatta today, I can smell it from inside the building
Yeah it’s smoky up here on the Northern beaches too.
I thought it was misty when I got on the train, being slightly earlier than usual and also a bit chilly. Then I got to the city and it was still there, and this time could smell the smoke. Welp 😛
Don’t worry, it’s smoky as all hell here in Northern NSW as well.
Also, Socio by Stone Sour.
Not worried, smells amazing, grew up on the Central Coast, house threatened by bush fires throughout my life, also who doesn’t love sitting round a fire pit on a weekend?
Well as long as it ain’t my house burning down, me! 😛
MARSHMALLOWS
Altar of Ire by Hadal Maw.
Melbourne-based technical death metal. Rhythm section is rather nice.
Somedays – lostprophets.
Yea, could smell the smoke where I live and in the CBD… a little worrying.
Morning everyone.
I’m trying to decide if I should get Overwatch from EBGames or JB hifi
I was a naughty hype monkey and bought it from Blizzard like a month ago hahaha
I would, but it’s $10 more that way
I budget obsessively and figured I could afford it, also as discussed, hype monkey 😀
This is the first game I’m getting in a while, so I want to get it as cheaply as possible
Makes sense, video games for me (after my bills, including food) are the only real thing I spend money on, so I tend to buy a lot of the triple a’s coming out along with indies.
A mix of responsible budgeting and disposable income I guess 🙂
I have little to no disposable income, so that’s my problem
Where is it cheaper? Or is Big W cheaper again?
$79 at JB, Big W and Target. EB will price match though
I’d just go eb and price match.
When’s it come out anyway?
The 24th so sometime next week
Just be cautious, I’ve heard that EB sometimes won’t price-match the really superduper stupidlow priced Big W/Target sales. They go through the whole process of calling to make sure there are still copies left at that price, and I’ve heard (but never experienced) some have straight-up said they won’t match that low.
It’s $10 off. Not exactly stupidly cheap
So, this new manager we have at work is a real nasty one behind our backs it seems. He’s already expressed to me he doesn’t like me working nightfill to which I replied “I need x hours a week to get by & nightfill helps me get there” which he backed off cause he didn’t realise, bullshit I can’t live on 10 hours a week which is less than newstart at that point..
But then one of the other guys I work with was telling me this morning that said manager was bitching about me and how I should be only in one department & I shouldn’t be allowed to work elsewhere, and that he hates me for working elsewhere. God that pisses me off. For a fucking start mate the nightfill manager treats me well & everyone in nightfill seems to like me & enjoy having a chat with me when I work in there with them, which makes me feel welcome & part of a team, something that’s rare in the liquor department I must say.
I like my job, but god damn it, I only like it when I work with the old guy who I get along great with, or by myself.
Maybe ask for a transfer?
If I went elsewhere permanently they’d be understaffed & screwed. Plus I can’t every other BWS in the area has more than enough staff lol.
That sucks. Sorry to hear it
There’s a simple solution he addresses the problem of the casual who constantly gets customer complaints against him & rarely does his job properly & then hires someone who is competent, but he has already said that ain’t gonna happen >=[
That was the problem with maccas. Shitty Managers
I’ve found when a good manager comes along, they vanish pretty quickly, but the shitty ones hang around for an eternity.
Something I observed in a very short stint at Woolies as a teenager, is that most of the (medium-long term) department managers are still department managers because they’re not very good. If they were any better, they’d move up at Woolies, or sideways into another business.
Height of unprofessionalism to bitch behind your staff’s backs in such a way that it can get back to them. Anonymous complaint?
Technically he’s the store manager since we’re BWS, but being NSW & that we’re an attached store i’m employed & paid by Woolworths, so much fun, I wish we were ALH like Dan Murphy’s are so much easier. But he won’t last he’ll go back to Queensland since he seems to dislike it here a lot. He’s also very bad at managing his staff, he’s had several complaints about another worker & he hasn’t even addressed the issue yet. Says it all I think.
Man that sucks. The department 2IC I always had to work with as a kid was a terrible manager, and a terrible person. Woolies called me 6 months or so after I quit and asked why I left and, when I told them it was down to that one guy, told me he had left and asked if I wanted my job back.
What dicks. I was treated well until this bloke showed up. He doesn’t do a very good job all round, which pisses me off. I’ve had plenty of good managers, sadly they move on too quickly because they’re treated poorly 🙁
That sounds like such a weird complaint to have about you working in multiple departments. I know when I worked at Woolies years ago that the people who could be slotted into multiple different areas were good to have in emergencies in case anyone got sick.
It sounds like the manager is just complaining because he probably doesn’t like having to do the smidge of extra work that comes with the department budgets and rosters.
He has nothing to do with me working in any other department, that’s all on that departments manager & their wages. It doesn’t impact him at all, he just wants to be greedy & keep me all for himself so he can have me on 3 days a week at 10 hours, which is fucking bullshit.
I also told him months ago when I lost my Saturday shift cause the other casual had it taken from me that i’d just pick up nightfill & he was fine with that then, but now it’s all changed because I accidentally did 7 shifts in a row one week and my 7th shift was in BWS and they had to pay me overtime for a 3 hour shift.
Don’t wait it out virus; if you’re unhappy put some effort into moving into another job. Shitty staff especially in retail/hospitality stick around for a long time because they can’t afford to get a job somewhere decent.
Given that you spend a large portion of your life at work it’s not worth the aggravation or stress. You seem switched on and hardworking, more than enough to make you a desirable employee so defs worth having a look around if it means there’s even a 5% change you’ll find a better place.
I’m not unhappy, i’m just pissed off that he’s useless & thinks he can tell me where I can & can’t work when i’m employed by Woolworths & that they pay me, since he’s from Queensland BWS who are owned by ALH it’s hard for him to understand how stuff works down here in NSW, so yeah. But I told him I am always available if he wants to give me the hours, to which he didn’t want to really agree to & instead complained about the other new guy & how he shouldn’t have been hired etc. He’s not very good at his job I can tell you that. He also still hasn’t told me he’s the new manager or that our previous manager quit when she was on leave. Says a lot doesn’t it?
Also another job is pretty hard as it is, it’s just dead here, i’ve seen a few applicable jobs since I started here but there’s not much going. Plus I am a 5 minute walk from where I work, it’s awesome. I have plenty of friends who have more experience & other shit than me who can’t find work, so yeah.
Sounds like he is a little king-maker, and if you work for somebody else it lowers his kingdom as he can’t claim you as ‘his’
Yeah sounds about right honestly lol.
Ended up watching a YouTube vid on Bethesda’s history after watching that one on Quake that was posted on kotaku a few days ago.
Actually, I watched one on id & one of FPS and a shit load of others.
Anyway, point is, ended up throwing Oblivion in the PS3 last night & creating a new character.
Beat the tutorial dungeon & saved.
I should really jump back into Elder Scrolls Online again.
Also, as soon as I get a decent computer, I’m playing Morrowind with a compass mod (that exists, right?)
According to the tracking info, my Rift is now at the Alexandria depot. Still says scheduled for a Tuesday delivery though.
May have to make a detour on my way home.
Went to Archer Trivia last night and came third!
So much fun!
And now I have a migraine this morning
SO.GOD.DAMN.FUCKING.PROUD.RIGHT.NOW!!!!!!!!!
Pixel-Waifu has a job!!!!
Yes, it’s “only” a casual position 10-15 hours a week.
Yes, it’s “only” temporary, estimated 3 month contract.
But she committed to making a call and doing an interview, AND THAT’S WHAT COUNTS….
SO.DAMN.PROUD!
….
Sorry i needed to get that out.
How are you TAY this morning?
Boo and indeed Yah!
That is amazing news! Tell her congratulations! The first step to doing something like this is so hard. I am proud of her too! Hours and stuff don’t matter. It’s the small victory that matters
Tell her congratulations from me. Having just done the same thing after 4 years being out of the workforce, it’s intimidating making that step and it’s easy to undermine yourself by thinking you’re not good enough or don’t have a chance. It’s tough and she’s done it! 🙂
Cool!
You know that thing when you get some great news and you throw your arms in the air and let out a cheer?
I may have just done this in the middle of an open plan office. I scared the shit out of some other colleagues.
The news is this: WE’RE GOING TO WEMBLEY!!! WOOOO.
AFC Wimbledon in the League 2 play-off final. *dances around*
As you were, everyone. As you were.
So I haven’t been at work and hence on TAY since last Friday, my girlfriend’s mom passed away in an accident and we found on Friday. Since then it’s been a never ending rollercoaster of emotions and responsibilities. Partly because our partner visa is still outstanding (after 4 years of living together and the visa being in play for 3.5 years). Because the department of immigration can’t make a decision in 3.5 years she can’t go back home without forfeiting the existing application and starting from scratch from India. So yeah. Fuck the department of immigration and nazi lovers.
Anyways DOOM is a pretty cool guy.
Oh dude! That’s really rough :\
Sorry for your (and her) loss!
And yes, department of immigration can eat a d**k…
Been through that entire thing before and i’m so glad i never have to deal with that again…
Wish i could do anything to help… I can offer hugs if necessary!
So, who here is gonna pick up Overwatch?
I’d be keen but only if I have peeps to regularly play with.
I preordered it after the first day of beta, but initiating groups isn’t a strong feature of mine.
Always more than happy to join one though.
I did much the same. I can imagine it becoming one of my popcorn games to have a few rounds in every once in a while.
Won’t be picking it up myself, but I will suggest that so long as you check these threads and make sure you’ve got everyone invted, you’ll probably do really well if you take the initiative for group invites like Puppet on that beta weekend.
PACKAGE IS NOW AT RYDALMERE!
“Not due for delivery”
Humbug.
Alright, called them up. Apparently they still need to break down the shipment first into individual units which is why it’s not scheduled for delivery til Tuesday, so I should be getting a call either some time today or tomorrow once they’ve got that done so I can go and pick it up.
FINGERS CROSSED!
STATUS JUST CHANGED TO “HELD FOR PICKUP”
ASDIHWSEIOSUYHWJRTWOS(*UAOIJRTW$GRQ&OUI#H%jw$tre
I’m just gonna get a new phone and Google Cardboard, sure it’ll be just as good.
Best make it a GearVR, just to be sure.
A Thursday Taydrenalin shot: Urban Fantasy, yay or nay? I love the Dresden Files, but some other examples have left me cold. What say you?
Urban Champion was the best fantasy. Or at least I imagine it must be, why else would Nintendo constantly wheel it out every time they make a bunch of NES games available on yet another platform.
Can’t stand real world fiction. Find it boring as hell in any medium.
Dresden Files is one of the few exceptions. Amazing series.
FUEGO
I’m not a huge fan of urban fantasy as some of the stuff feels a bit forced to meet a mostly normal reality. That said though, I’m perfectly okay with urban sci-fi and even urban cosmic horror like Lovecraft. I guess it’s the idea of wizards and stuff that doesn’t seem to fit, even when there’s a convenient masquerade or something to excuse the fantasy stuff in the real world. Dresden Files was good because the fantasy was fairly low key compared to Harry Potter which begins to fall apart considering how much magical stuff there is in the world.
Well I did greatly enjoy both Buffy and Angel which I guess counts in here.
Was it the mortal instruments series that they did a movie of recently, forgetting the name. That was enjoyable and one that I quite enjoyed.
Trying to think of some other examples but think my exposure to it has been limited
Love love love the Dresden Files. Have you read any Robert Rankin? More absurdist, but similar themes of the extraordinary hiding in the ordinary. A bit like Doctor Who, but with Barry the Time Sprout instead.
Have you seen the trailers for Cleverman on the ABC? Looks great – and was just reading that it’s an AUS/US/NZ co production. Very intruiged, looking forward to it.
Couldn’t get into Rankin, too gonzo.
Cleverman looks Ace, super keen
There’s some pretty great anime examples that hooked me fairly well.
Iron Druid? Just got Staked from BookDepository, just have to wait for my wife to read it before I can get into it.
Mate of mine is big into that series, I haven’t read it yet
Not sure about the definition, what is and isn’t urban fantasy?
Fantasy in a contemporary urban setting? The (ostensibly) real world, but with supernatural or fantastical elements? Not high fantasy/low fantasy?
And this is a loose prompt, not a “it has to be this” thing. You can do urban fantasy in historical settings, for example.
Extremely common in Japanese stuff and sometimes can be quite good. Runs the gamut there from stuff like Durarara which is more of a character drama with some supernatural elements on the side (one of the characters is a Dullahan looking for her missing head, etc.) to something that goes balls-deep on the concept like, say, A Certain Magical Index which has a sort of current or near future urban setting but involves various characters with magical or supernatural abilities.
(Those are both novel series, by the way, that have subsequently had anime adaptions etc.)
EDIT: Japan also has a love affair with Urban post-apocalyptic settings plus supernatural / sciencey supernatural stuff in one go and that can be even easier to find than your standard urban fantasy.
HYPE! Far Harbor 12am tomorrow so I’ll be able to play that tomorrow afternoon
But I am also wondering if I should new game plus The Witcher 3, and then once I get to it (naturally) play blood and wine, or do I want to play blood and wine on release and forgo a new game plus?
Decisions decisions.
Overwatch, Stardew Valley 1.1 (in the future), The Division 1.2, Homefront (I still want to play it) Far Harbor and Blood and Wine, pretty good month so far, and that’s not even including DOOM which was glorious
Edit** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bxGMB9YCsc
Far Harbour is pretty good. Picked up one of the new weapons and have been sending Raiders’ head into the stratosphere. Also want to pick up a sweet looking helm but it’s 22k caps. WHO EVEN CARRIES THAT MUCH AROUND!?
*raises hand*
Hi. My name is Transientmind and I suffer from raging, uncontrollable kleptomania and hoarding in Fallout/TES games.
90% of my playtime in those games is spent schlepping my over-encumbered ass to the nearest drop-point/vendor.
I usually do but survival mode punishes you for being over encumbered.
Breaking into the Hlaalo Manor in Morrowind’s Balmora and storing *everything* on Ralen’s corpse, followed by spending countless hours arranging all my nice shinies I’ve collected on every conceivable surface within the house.
Good times, good times.
EDIT: Oh, and ensuring they were all appropriately illuminated by matching light sources.
Hell, just give me that as a standalone and I’d be more than happy.
How good does Skywind look, right?
Thanks for the reminder! Arrrgh it looks so good.
OCULUS GET
RUNNING ON FLOOR IN CIRCLES
GOT HOME TO FIND AN E-MAIL ABOUT A THING
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING
I have a mental image of you going woop woop woop like Dr Zoidberg.
Accurate!
If I could stop myself laughing at this, I’d hate you to pieces! *totally not jelly at all – nope.. not one bit…..*
Congrats man, look forward to hearing what you think.
Haven’t fired it up yet, but damn is it sexy.
The plastic wrap cables ties are damn annoying though. Should probably have just cut them rather than trying to peel them open, industrial-grade adhesive.
THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN DK1
Well if you don’t want your DK1 anymore…
PARTY AT GOOKY’S PLACE!
No it’s a mess and I don’t want to clean up!
Party at someone else’s place 😛
It’s a VR party, just spray some terrible deodorant and nobody will even notice the mess. =P
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Are you suggesting I start breeding wasps in my mouth?
And then when he talks he can shoot wasps out of his mouth!
…so FedEx just sent me an SMS informing me that package has been delayed.
Unfortunate.
Had a mental image of Gooky sharpening a knife while saying, “Unfortunate.”
Alterna-universe Gooky was probably doing just that.
Good morning TAY
I was wrong, Far Harbor was released yesterday morning at 12am so I got to play it last night
Enjoying it so far, really want to sit down and smash through it tonight
Which puts a Witcher 3 replay on the back burner.
Last song played game time
The Middle by jimmy Eat World
What was YOUR (yes you!) last song played?
Wrath of the Norsemen – Amon Amarth
Crave You (Reprise) ft. Kylie Minogue AND Crave You (ft. Giselle) by Flight Facilities.
The 1:12 reprise before the actual track gives me goose bumps every time. Such a great lyric and Kylie just makes you believe she’s talking about you……. *stares into distance*
Jackie Onassis – Stay In
I like. Never heard until now, but always good to stumble across Sydney based acts. Early thoughts are they remind me a little bit of Asher Roth.
It’s deeply (and in all likelihood uncharacteristically) chill. Perfect for tonight. Well. Except I am actually going out for a bit. But THEN I’m staying in. To Stellaris.
I started listening to Hilltop Hoods and since then I’ve been letting Google Music point me to other Oz rap/hip-hop/rnb. And surprisingly (to me) I actually like the Oz stuff better than the US stuff for the most part. A LOT more self-aware/self-deprecating/laid-back, in general.
It’s not my genre of choice but us hip-hop does seem to take itself pretty serious.
Don’t mind me some hilltop hoods though. Helps that they grew up a suburb over from me – Hilltop referring to the top of O’halloren Hill in Adelaide.
I’ve been neglecting the aussies for too long again ><
Been focusing on queer artists/themes and have found some awesome, awesome stuff.
Outside of that I’ve been on a huge Flatbush/Underachievers/A$AP kick this past year or so.
I should really get on Google music and expand my musical horizons. But 99% of my music listening is in my car from my phone and man does streaming destroy your data allowance.
Yeah screw that, thankfully I’m almost always at home.
All These Thing’s That I’ve Done – The Killers
That would be murders, then?
Live The Dream – Cast
1 6 4 8 – Sabaton
Been a while since I had sabton listed in here, was the only thing I listed for about a dozen of them the last time you were about regularly
Yeah I was gone about 3 years
Farther than the Sun – Alter Bridge.
ONE OF US IS THE KILLER – The Dillinger Escape Plan
Burn The Evidence – Billy Talent.
TAY
IN
SPAAAAAAAACE
Tonight 7:30 SA Time! We must defeat Space Trump!
If you missed the first one but still want to join (@gingerchris86) we can accommodate you
cc @spadge @highperformance @blaghman @transientmind @aliasalpha @jocon @os42 @anyoneI’mforgetting @spaceisbigIcan’tremembereveryone
Will be there! And I think my mic will be working this time.
Oh yeah, I have a mic now too.
So you can all hear the glorious sound of me not talking at all.
I just want to hear you scream in frustration the next time your scientists blow themselves up
There are things that man was not meant to know @jocon
It has just occurred to me I’m at my buddies housewarming tonight 🙁 Next week the Trump Collective will rise again!! (Unless we play until 1am then I could play lol)
🙁
Well, it’s likely we will be still playing then. If you can’t make it we can declare an armistice on Trump Collective for now
Or we could take the opportunity to strike while the defences are down, we have to get there before that 100%-definitely-going-to-happen wall goes up or @highperformance will somehow work out a way to make us pay for it…
Would you mind shooting me the TS deets again? I’ll join and see if you’re playing, The Venerable Emperor Trump could be drunk this evening.
Will send them through
Anton’s volunteered us for something tonight but when we get home I’ll hop on and listen to the hillarity
We can still join you in whenever you are available
Hit my first real brick wall in Bloodborne last night
Shadow of Yharnam can get stuffed! It’s the only boss i don’t feel like i’m making progress with every time i engage them… So damn annoying… YOU SHAN’T DEFEAT ME!!!Seriously though, first time i meat them:
– Hey 3 guys?
– Oh cool, this melee guy is super easy to parry
– Okay, okay it’s a tough fight but feels fair, just wittled this pyro guy down
– *SPLAAAAAAAAAAAARGH snakes pop out*
– OH COME ON!!!!
The Supremes? Kite kite kite. Get the Melee guys first, then come back for the ranged fighter.If you get really stuck, I’ll happily summon in with you
Thanks! Yeah figured i’d kite the shit out of them to behind the tombstone, but kept getting myself locked in a corner because i wasn’t paying attention and then candlestick guy could kill me pretty much instantly even while wearing the charred set XDI’ll give it a few more tries tonight but if i get too frustrated i’ll give you a shoutout for sure!
I know other people have had difficulties with them, but I actually really enjoyed that fight. My killer fight was still Martyr Fucking Logarius.I assume, much like the Four Kings, that once you understand the fight it’s good… For now it just felt chaotic and i panicked XDOh, I edge-of-my-teethed through it, no doubt
Yeah, that’s where I dropped the game.
Between getting caught on terrain i couldn’t see because of BB’s awkward camera, their attacks clipping through cover and them going super saian randomly instead of when they are supposed to, I just wasn’t having fun anymore.
If Dark Souls has taught me anything it’s try and try again 😛
Have a new tactic for tonight to try out that i’m sitting here at work and strategising… I’ve never felt the fight was cheap or anything, every time i’ve died it’s because i lost track of one of them or didn’t time something right/got greedy, so i can see where the fight is heading…
I SHALL PREVAIL AND EMERGE VICTORIOUS!… one day…
This probably isn’t helpful, but… I blundered into that after having done several laps of the surrounding area, and the fear-adrenaline from the idea of losing all those
soulsechoes probably helped in one-shotting it. Kiting was important. Not taking EVERY parry that you get, but making sure you only parry when fireball-assholes are out of the way. And snakes… farm that area enough and you’ll probably get so used to fighting them that they pose no challenge. But if you get REALLY stuck… KIRKHAMMAR! The hammer-smash works wonders on them.oh i’m already using Kirkhammer of hammer time! And managed to get a few charged hits on Fireball arsehole, but yeah, as i said above panicked and not paying attention getting stuck on tombstones etc so flamethrower arsehole would get to me XD
I just need to be more mobile and pay attention to my environment more
And expend a truly frustrating amount of stamina on rolling. Yeah. :/
Mum and I saw the psychologist today. She thinks my brother may get worse. He has one more chance, and it’s just the one, before he is forcibly removed.
The fact you’re giving him one more chance is too generous in my opinion 😛
It’s for Mum rather then me
LUNCH TIME – what’s on the menu?
Getting my car serviced/fixed today so I’m at a different office… my choices are (as far as I can see)
– Subway
– Nando(n’t know how to cook fast food and takes 20 mins to get a meal)
– Fish & Chips
– Woolworths
– Kebab
I’m have a frozen meal which is parma. Actually quite good
Disney merchandise is getting way out of hand.
I have a $0.9 Mi Goreng noodle cup!
That’s a bit cheeky
Ask @rocketman – Moorooka Nando’s is this whole new experience: slowfood.
I once ordered chips. No burger, wrap or salad. Just chips. Took 8 or 9 minutes.
“fresh to order” = we grow the potatoes while you wait!
I GET THAT REFERENCE! I’M LIKE THE YOUNG PEOPLE!
We’re gonna go to an Indian place
Time is an illusion etc.
Time, time, time See what’s become of me
While I looked around for my possibilities
I was so hard to please
Subway, because you can eat all the footlongs.
Coffee… *twitch*
I had a Nutella sandwich.
Lunch today a trio of us got out of a stupidly frustrating dev team meeting in which our resident assburger declared that we shouldn’t have tests that run at lower priority and that he’d delete any test that ran more than 1 minute (side note: last dev meeting he wasted thirty minutes of our time trying to argue for adding a magic file that acted like a backdoor, turning off all our hardening and protection if it was present, so that he could save 5 minutes and not have to run a script when setting up a new test machine) so we decided we’d go off campus and take a long lunch to bitch about him. And we bitched. I had some pretty good tacos.
Was at work late. Been ordering from Munchery recently for dinners so I didn’t have to cook. Today’s delivery was a burger which was pretty good. Probably shouldn’t have put the onion in though, red onion and I don’t agree on much (but I like the flavor 🙁 ).
Reckless VR joyriding through canyons in a hotted-up iEagle = amazing.
Although despite the added sense of depth and everything, I sure seemed to end up crashing into the ground a whole lot more than usual. Might take a little more practise. And less staying up til 5am.
Fallout 4 DLC, Witcher 3 DLC, Total War: Warhammer, Homefront…
Lineups like these make me miss the days when I could afford to go to bed at sunrise.
Arse. They switched over to using local currencies on the Oculus store last night. Which is kinda good, but The Climb is now about ten bucks more. Knew I should have bought it then.
For those interested, so far the Far Harbour DLC for fallout 4 is a tonne of fun. This feels more like an expansion pack then DLC with added perks, weapons, armour, legendary effects, enemies and a giant new map. So much fun, although I would probably advise against playing it on Survival unless you enjoy repeatedly dying.
Getting more of a Fallout NV feel from it aswell with things like SPECIAL point checks, multiple ways to tackle a quest and multiple factions to align with.
@welbot @virus__ @pixel_the_ferret_viking PC Update: I just swapped over to the new PSU. Feel like I got significantly faster boot times (windows 10 spinner did a half-revolution only, where previously it was 2-3) and much faster from log in to usable. Remember this sort of speed from back when I built it originally, but thought it had dropped off due to the install getting old and crusty. Maybe that wasn’t what was going on at all. Seems more likely now that the PSU was randomly undervolting stuff (thus the case of the disappearing drive) and maybe not actually pushing through enough power to run the CPU at full.
Fingers crossed this solved my issue.
Bonus: PSU’s way quieter too. My NAS is really noisy and is now able to 100% drown out the noise of the PC running. Plus now I’m fully modular and ready with more than enough power to run a 1080.
Oh god, Do I get this guys?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1915792245/load-the-board-game?token=06ffcba9
Who would play it with me?
I would not play it with you, if that helps. Not big on miniatures
Ohhhh, that looks pretty, maybe I should back-NO! BAD NOB! YOU SPENT $200+ ON THE DARK SOULS BOARDGAME! BAD! BAD NOB!
I’d play it with you.
Is this basically LoL/DotA the board game or what?
If I wasn’t expecting to drop $700 on a new graphics card in a week and hadn’t just dropped a bundle on Dark Souls I’d probably bite on this. I know a few people that might play it.
Well that was a lot of money I just spent on a concert ticket.
I misread that as concrete ticket and was thoroughly confused
That’s the spirit haha.
My brain works in weird ways when I skim read
Er… was there a timewarp or something? I swear I posted about going off to see X-men. And taking the Rift along to my friend’s place. And having the “just friends”/not-actually-a date tomorrow to finally use up those Lego tickets. But it’s not here or in history or anything :/
Maybe you never clicked Submit.
Is that for The DC Lego exhibition at the Powerhouse?
Come to think of it my internet was being pretty shitty yesterday, so it probably got submitted to the void.
And yes, at the Powerhouse.
We saw that one, it’s very good!
The dude needs to lay off the burritos.
Bloodborne stuff:
*clears throat*I DID IT!I DID IT!I DID IT!I DID IT!I DID IT!I DID IT!I DID IT!I DID IT!
Shadow of Yharnam is down for the count! Only needed one try last night, not sure what happened but they could barely get a beat on me!
By the time it all was done and dusted I still had 11 blood vials left…
DAT SOULS-GAME FEELING!
Praise the su-dammit wrong game!
FEAR THE OLD BLOOD!
PREY SLAUGHTERED
Well done 🙂
Just another quiet Saturday in a country town, working from 7-3.
Thankful that Kotaku isn’t blocked, nor is Youtube. That and the crooks are sleeping in today.
PINBALL FX VR IS FUCKING AWESOME
I’m resisting the temptation to make a joke about balls on your face…
On your face, in your face and all around your face!
…seriously. When did I get so retarded at replying properly?
Meant to be for @aliasalpha.
It’s probably concussion. From the balls on your face.
Cool. Lamb of God is the support act for Slipknot on their Australian tour. Was worried it was gonna be some band I don’t like.
Bored@work=Quake2 DM server running on the Ubuntu test box. Break times are about to get violent…