Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Favourite shapes flavour?
I would have said Pizza hands down, pre flavour nerf, but over the weekend, I had some damned good Nacho Cheese ones. Either that or I just kept eating them whilst I was dead in TF2, so they had a soothing effect.
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Yeah pizza used to be awesome, sadly no more.
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Cheese and Bacon.
I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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*gloveslap*
I demand satisfaction!
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*slap*
DERRINGERS AT DAWN, SIR.
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*Krogan Headbutt*
PIZZA!!!! ALL THE WAY!! EVERYDAY!!!
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Krogan headbutts are rendered useless by the fact that I have Garrus as an ally.
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Although, this is entirely moot, as I agree, Pizza is the best Shapes flavour.
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*krogan headbutt*
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Pizza flavour. All the way.
I see Pizza as the OG Shapes flavour. They probably weren’t the first but they are to me god dammit.
Are we counting Sensations, or kicking it old skool?
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Yeah those sensations ones are craaazy good. My favourite is called Mexican or something, totally blew my tastebuds away.
Old school Pizza is still my number 1 though.
Also, I’m going to be stopping by Coles this afternoon. THANKS A LOT BISH
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My sole existence is to bring people joy and happiness through the power of food! Cheap food is better! I HELPED!
Also, I would have said old school, but I’m pretty sure Texas BBQ and Italian Woodfire Pizza aren’t part of the originals, but also aren’t under the Sensations label, so I guess to be fair, all flavours are included.
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Texas BBQ ones smell like armpit.
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I’m eating Cheese and Bacon ones right now. I think it’s a toss-up between those, Nacho Cheese or Vintage Cheddar and Chives.
I have a fondness for the original.
Many a time I’ve woken in a sleepy stupor and stumbled towards the pantry.
Then I wake up coated in delicious red and green dust 🙁
PIZZA!!! Tastes good on my tongue.
I’m going to go with the one with the stuff.
You know, it’s delicious!
OK, I don’t know. This looks like a job, for a randomised (no randominity involved, I’m afraid) trial!
Barbeque pre-flavour nerf was my tastebud drones’ pick of that year.
Barbecue is by far the best flavour. Pizza just doesn’t taste as good.
Damnit, the real old-skool shapes were around even b4 the stupid old skool nonsense. Back then, those bastards were fried, YES FRIED. The greasy hexagons left a coating of greasy perfection down your throat holes and the flavour you could see, was ACTUALLY VISIBLE ONCE UPON A TIME.
Then, I remember the sad gloomy sunday, when they told me they had changed them. They took the last true snack, and ruined it. Baked. Asshats.
*goes back to creaking on porch*
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I was going to say something about this but then I remembered you’ve ranted about it before so I figured I’d leave it up to you. You didn’t let me down!
I watch ads all day. I laugh in th eface of their commercial propositions. Like this “HA HA HA HA HA!”. That kind of laugh. That’s what I do when they try to sell me stuff.
Then you and your talk of Shapes comes along. ‘I can deal wit hthis!’I tell myself, but the more I read, the more I craved the delicious shapey goodness.
Soon the lunch hour is upon me and I find myself outside, walking purposefully towards 7eleven. I enter and walk passed th edeals, ignore th ecrisps and find myself before the Shapes. TWO BAGS FOR $2.50! it yells to me. ‘That’s not as good as Coles’ I ponder to myself, ponderously. But halt! Whao there! Steady on! 2 bags? But there are 3 flavours present! BBQ, Pizza and Cheese & Bacon. Which to pick. I select Pizza… then I put it back. I rushed in. Gotta think this through. AP swears by the Cheese & Bacon, so that is pack one. Pizza or BBQ? BBQ or Pizza? I reach out and I reselect Pizza. Playing it safe.
Now here I sit, victim of your savoury biscuit discussion. You have succeeded where countless advertising exectives have failed
Well played, Bish. Well played.
Om nom nom nom nom.
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I don’t even get paid for Arnott’s PR!
I would be more outraged at this, but I just bought 6 more boxes of Shapes, and Iamokaywiththis.png
I thought Brisbane was meant to have nice weather, not whatever this is.
Fun times were had at the meat. Much rocking out ensued, Mr Strange belted out “Bring Me To Life” while one of the Strangelings bopped along.
We all watched in amazement at the madness that was the Catherine demo and there was fairy bread.
Fairy bread is awesome.
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Fairy bread IS awesome!
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Meat was indeed fun. Thanks to everyone who made it (Jimu, we missed you!) and especially to The Elusive Endu for his extremely thoughtful surprise.
I don’t think Mr. Strange expected everyone to be so, well, cool. He had a great time with you guys and was especially happy Bunny played pool with him.-
There’s a place on Kessels Rd that I play pool at most Fridays with some friends. Haven’t gone lately so I was more than happy to join in for a little cramped pool playing, as was the little Strangeling :p
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I’m pretty sure I single handedly ate half of the fairy bread on offer. I regret and apologise for nothing and noone.
WHATUP BIATCHES!
Got back from Bris late last night.
Meat is win.
***SPOILERS ABOUT MASS EFFECT 2 FOLLOW, SO YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T READ THIS IF YOU CARE ABOUT MASS EFFECT 2 AND HAVE YET TO COMPLETE IT***
*** Seriously, there are spoilers***
Okay, so I finished Mass Effect 2, bringing my Pineapple score to 3. But I don’t actually care about that anymore, I’m just glad I played Mass Effect 2. I suppose I should thank you Trjn, for getting this Shameless Gaming thing together, because without it, there is a high chance Mass Effect 2 would’ve stayed in the shrink wrap and my Mass Effect 1 save would have remained at Virmire. Although Wrex would be alive still. Hence, it’s your fault Wrex died Trjn. Don’t questions my logic though.
Anyway, so ME2. Loved it. Great game. Only Jack died in the suicide mission, which is great, because I though Jack was the stupidest ‘companion/teammate’ and didn’t fit in at all with the Normandy Crew. Garrus lives, which is pretty much all that matters to me though. I found that because of the Suicide Mission I played with a lot more teammates, such as Tali, Mordin and Samara, and I kind of regret only playing with Garrus and one of Thane and Miranda. They should totally make your squad size bigger, to be 3-4 people. That would be pretty freaking sweet. I love the characters and the story though, and definitely can’t wait for Mass Effect 3 now. I can definitely see why so many people were reviewing about it, and it’s definitely GOTY for 2010 for me. Even though I played it in Mid-2011. Shutup. Also, decisions. I decided to keep the collector’s base, as I thought it made the most sense. Though in the epilogue, the illusive man does sound somewhat sinister as to what exactly he’ll be doing with such techonology. And walking around on the ship, everyone sounds disappointed and questioning me as to whether I did the right thing. I DON’T KNOW. I’m half tempted to replay the suicide mission just to change my decision, but I suppose that kinda ruins the point of it, doesn’t it? That you have to ‘live’ with the decisions you make, such as letting Wrex die, the council die, etc. I don’t know.Still. Fantastic game.
*** END SPOILERS ABOUT MASS EFFECT 2***
Now, onwards with the pineapple!
Do I:
360
– Get some of the Mass Effect 2 DLC (I have 900 points, and I heard Lair of the Shadow Broker is the best one of the bunch, but costs 800 points)
– Play past the first 5 minutes Limbo because I got stuck at a puzzle and then was distr – Ooh, shiny thing!
– Play ilomilo
– Finish Halo Reach (though I’m kind of tempted to wait until Halo CE Anniversary edition comes out so I can play them back to back. Also, the original Halo was pretty awesome)
PS3
– Unwrap the shrinkwrap off of L.A Noire and start that
– Ratchet and Clank Quest for Booty from the PSN Welcome Back dealio
– Start Sly Cooper Collection again
PC
Maybe I should resign myself to the fact that I’ll never end up playing Bioshock. It’s not that it’s a bad game, the atmosphere and the story seem really well setup, it’s just that I can’t be bothered. I don’t really know why I can’t, and it’s not that it’s a crap game and I force myself to play it, it’s simply…..cbf? Can anyone else relate or am I rambling lunatic?
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But, but… Shepard, my friend. You look well for dead?
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Ironic that the man who says that is dead….
NOT MY FAULT. Go blame Trjn.
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Fcuking Ashley and her sitthy existance. I DIDN’T WANT HER TO KILL HIM! SHE JUST DID!
What a bovine.
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Re: Bioshock, I am exactly the same. Played it for an hour, didn’t mind it, couldn’t figure out why I never picked it up again…
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Congrats on taking another slice of the pineapple.
Also on beating a simply fantastic game.
I’ll take all of the credit for encouraging you, but none of the blame for [SPOILER]’s death. I can guarantee that they didn’t die on my watch, so it’s your own incompetence that resulted in that little mishap :p
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with Bioshock, i know what you mean. I was playing it on super-hard, about maybe 3hrs in, ran out of ammo, and fighting a big daddy, so i’ve also given up there…
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While skimming over what you wrote there because I’m still playing ME2 (have just done Miranda’s loyalty mission and am about to find Thane) I totally agree with you squad sizes, you should be able to bring more people with you on some missions.
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Yeah almost the whole the point of the game was assembling the best team ever, but then you always have to leave most of them on the ship?! Stoopid.
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Exactly. Especially towards the end, there are a couple of cutscenes where you see half a dozen of the team shooting at the collectors, and it just looks absolutely insane/hectic/like an actual battlefield, and it make me sad I can’t actually fight with all of them at my side. I wouldn’t even care that I can’t control all of them and their powers, I just would like them to fight with me!
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Poor Wrex. 🙁
Congrats on finishing it, ME2 would be one of my favourite games from last year.
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Do you have XBL Gold? If so, wait till the DLC goes on sale later in the week!
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Seriously? That’s awesome! How much % off?
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Don’t know, but probably 50% given that’s the discount for this week’s GTA IV DLC.
I really enjoyed the DLC missions for Mass Effect 2, so I’d say it’s definitely worth grabbing a few of the better rated ones if they’re half price.
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I know a lot of critics didn’t like Bioshock 2 (thoughts were mixed), but I managed to complete it, while the first still mocks me from my pile of shame…
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Bioshock 2 was just Bioshock 1 without the plot twist.
Also, I used bees in Bioshock 2. So that’s a plus.
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Oh aye, but its controls were so much more fluid. I could not get over how awkwardly the first Bioshock played.
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Is Jump still mapped to the Y button? That always felt pretty bizzare to me.
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I’m the very model of a scientist Salarian.
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Lair of the Shadow Broker is well worth the points. I would also recommend getting the Arrival, it’s a nice set-up for the Reaper invasion and also worth the points IMHO
Best game of last year by far, can’t wait for 3.
I can’t believe you killed Wrex though, you bastard! *Krogan Headbutt* 😀
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HE HAD IT COMING! (Not really. Blame Ashley. I refuse to accept responsibility for his death.)
I heard Arrival wasn’t that great though, and that it was Shepard all on his own, which is kinda crappy… But then again, I love the story of ME, so does Arrival deliver on that front?
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Its not AS good as Shadow Broker, but I definitely enjoyed playing as JUST Shepard, it’s a different vibe to the rest of the game but not an unwelcome one, and it does extend the main plot quite nicely. If you’re keen to see a glimpse into the Reaper invasion of Earth it’s a must-buy.
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First Blood has been drawn – the mouse which has been terrorising my computer wires and food staples has been slain! It has been a war of attrition, including a standoff involving me trying to corner the thing with a bucket at 2 in the morning. Scarily the trap which scored the kill was put up high on top of the fridge for when my 2 yr old nephew visited – that mouse was ninja! The trap however put a ro-Dent in his plans (lame, couldn’t help myself).
Also in gaming news, I completed Prototype and can remove it from the pile ‘o’ shame. Am going to attempt to finish of New Vegas next, which should be possible provided I can resist spending precious gaming time on LoL.
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That story was an epic tale nonetheless, and love the humour :D. Now you have about 30 seconds until that mouse respawns right? Faster if it has Revive? Who knows you might get called Dominating soon.
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I’m not so much worried about a rodent revival as I am about rodent reinforcements – hopefully he was solo. I didn’t get away without any casualties though – my front USB are gone, as it chewed through the mobo connector wires but it could have been worse.
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My Wife bought me a 3DS for my bertdaye.
I wander around the Brisbane CBD somehwre between the hours of 12 and 1 (lunchtime) trying to catch streetpasses.
Just so you know…
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Awesome! I’ll have to email you my friend code!
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Best loot ever. You’ve trained your wife well, I see. 😀
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Happy bertdaye!
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Happy birthday Jimu!
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Congratumalations, I hope you got the tramampolines!
*Stares completely straight faced*
Happy Birthday!
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Pokedex 3DS!
Birthday! \o/ -
Happy belated birthdayyyy! Unless it was today, in which case its not belated at all!
WHERE WERE YOU ON SATURDAY?! *glares angrily*
I was already given an explanation, but… I still wanted to yell.-
Being a responsipple farter.
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Teeheeheehee!
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Some Brudda you are, his birthday was last weekend. One week ago, Patricia!
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YEah… I knew that… just ah, testing you guys. Haha it worked! Suckers.
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Yay! Happy birthday!
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Happy Birthday Jimu sir! Good to see you posting again!
Also, Efluvian Boy, I think your macabre birthday greetings are awesome and all, but that knob in Oslo totally spoiled my birthday now forever soiled with tragedy. 🙁 Speaking of which, what happened in Oslo is horrible, truly horrible, thoughts go out to them.
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I’ll be good 😐
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ATTN: SMOKERS.
If you smoke, please have the courtesy of NOT smoking while you walk… and, if you absolutely cannot resist one else your family die and the apocalypse come (for that’s the only valid reason I see to smoke-walk), then please make sure NO ONE IS BEHIND YOU.
I have no issues with sit-down or stand-up smokers; you guys are cool.
Regards,
Tad
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What I really hate are the smokers that are walking along, light up and then just merrily waltz along with their cigarette in hand, never taking a puff.
If you’re not going to smoke the damned thing, why are you making me walk behind it?
It’s the main reason I started walking quickly through crowds. That and impatience.
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I’m pretty sure Elly is the only dirty smoker amongst us.
Or at least, she was… did she quit this month?
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Due to “Dry July” she’s stopped, but there are a few other smokers here, IIRC.
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I smoke, but I don’t walk-smoke in crowded areas. I always try to make sure my stationary smoke area is downwind of groups and I make an extra effort to keep my smoke away from children.
What I dislike is when people enter MY personal space while I’m clearly having a cigarette then start fake-coughing at me.
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+1
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Just in case it looks like my +1 was for Matthew Kermeen’s post in the mobile phone version, I was actually agreeing wholeheartedly with Tadmod’s post.
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I totally agree!
I’ve been burned twice in Sydney by smokers walking with their lit cigarette at their sides and not paying any attention.
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Do what I’m planning to and that’s get a gas mask module to wear over your mouth.
Seriously with humans like them, second hand smoke victims are even worse off than the humans that MADE the choice to do it!
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*Krogan Headbutt*
Walk further back, or in front. I’m a goddamn smoker and you’ll not extinguish me 🙂
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I smoke, and do agree it is annoying when other smokers light up in a crowd.
I’ll always try to get out of the way, get in an alleyway or something, even smoking outside of a train station as opposed to at the edge of the platform.
But I totally agree with Matthew Kermeen, smokers in a crowd are rude, but people coming up to a smoker who is out of the way and all but abusing the poor sod with snide looks and fake coughing is a symptom of a hideous personality.
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But you know what’s annoying?
Many things, but I think I’ve made that joke many times before.
But when smokers are all “I know, a good place for a group of five of us to sit and smoke is at the bottom of a stairwell! Nobody uses stairs in a car-park, right?”
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I agree, that’s not cool.
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gee. . . who could see this coming. . .
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Good old Herald Sun.
First 3 sentences are the actual news story, then the entire page is copypasta from other stories about the attack.
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That’s a really, really sneaky subheading. Linking the two is stupid.
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I despise the Herald Sun because of dribble like this, but I have to read it in the morning cuz my parents like it… urgh!
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Noooo D:
Read The Age instead! At least it has actual news!
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Read “the internet” because it’s far more up to date, typically more accurate, and you can find a place with articles that have just enough bias in the direction you lean so that you view them as unbiased.
In a related point, biased (to the left for once) and hilarious: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-22/crabb-freed-from-facts-abbott-goes-ballooning/2806640
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(You probably won’t read this, but I’ll reply anyway!)
I loved that article, yeah. Annabel Crabb is probably my favourite Australian political journalist. She has an amazing way with words.
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I would be more inclined to read The Age or The Australian if they published in tabloid size.
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just because apparently one scaremongering article isn’t enough. . . I present 2 more of nearly the exact same thing.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/no-video-game-ban-in-wake-of-norway/story-e6frf7jx-1226100709107
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/fears-for-kids-as-video-games-get-new-ratings/story-fn6bfkm6-1226100114566and what the hell, have the same thing from the Australian. . .
because everyone knows that vidya gaems are the cause of all the bad things in the world. . .
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Let’s have a look here…
The Herald Sun, The Herald Sun, The Australian.Why am I not surprised that these attacks are coming from Murdoch’s papers?
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COME AT ME BRO!
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Its not just Murdock’s papers though, here’s an article from the Sydney Morning Herald
This article actually makes the inevitable link to the No Russian mission. . .
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“But critics fear it could lead to inappropriate material finding its way to children.”
Makes me wonder how those critics justify saying that, since that pretty much directly insults all Australian parents in terms of raising their children properly
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There’s one thing I said in an earlier article on this: Has there been any evidence provided to support the claim he was an avid CoD fan?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he owned the game, however it seems to me the media found out about his WoW accounts (one of the articles actually calls World of Warcraft a violent and offensive video game, which goes to show the level of research they put into the article) and then thought it was a great way to further terrify the masses. The use of Modern Warfare 2 also intrigues me, Black Ops is the more recent game however it was released with barely a whisper for the mainstream media, in comparison MW2 had to endure the all encompassing moral panic sh*tstorm when it was released so maybe using it rather than Black Ops work better to achieve the desired effect.
There are 2 things that reign true when it comes to news:
1: Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story
2: It’s their job to keep you terrified.
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He did play Modern Warfare 2.
More terrifyingly, he said that it was “good training” for himself, and he said that his supposed addiction to WoW was a good way for him to spend time planning the attack, as he could pretend that all the time was spent grinding.
He wrote a 90? I think, page manifesto detailing all this, which is quite worrying.
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Yeah I’ve been reading more into it, hopefully O’Connor will be able to hold his ground on this one.
There were many issues this guy had, the rampant Xenophobic Neo-Nazism, Fundamentalist hatred of Muslims. It’ll really suck if all the other equally valid points are brushed aside to conjure up the old ‘vidya gaems are teh evils’ argument that’s been done time and time again.
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Yeah, I just checked, and the manifesto is 1,500 pages.
Jesus, how many ways are there to write “I am psychopathic”?
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After spending the weekend in the mountains with my 3DS and Zelda 3D, I have come to what I consider the ultimate correctness on the best dungeon/temple in the game. The best temple is the Spirit Temple and anyone who disagrees is clearly wrong.
A weekend full of trying to fix my PC, 5 different blue screen errors. Long story short, TechStation has become a mess and fingers might point at something Trend Micro failed to protect me from, surprise surprise…
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Many times to no avail sadly. I think I’ve crushed most of the bugs though… though a few may still be at large.
Seriously I’m not going to be back on League of Legends until I go 5 days without a blue screen -.-
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Whilst talking about LoL – was thinking of purchasing Mordekaiser as my next champion. Have tried him a few times against bots and he goes well as an off-tank/pusher/ap melee. Havn’t tried PVP yet though, which is where I’ll prob fall down as he seems very item dependent, so if I start of poorly I’m pretty well screwed. Might also wait to see what the next rotation brings.
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Mordi looks very interesting when I read up on him, though I already have a melee DPS which is Master Yi. I might change to another champion someday down the track, but first,I gotta complete my lineup. Already got:
Single unit magic DPS/Ganker – Warwick
Single unit Attack DPS/Ganker – Master Yi
Mage carry team basher crowd control king and can solo a fricken top lane against two (Successfully took on a Garen and Poppy)! – Kennen
Tank – Rammus (My next buy)
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Where to start? Shameless gaming was a bit of a bust this weekend. Spent most of my time working on shirt designs and opening my store.
What? You want a link? Okay, but only because you asked. http://holycarp.toctopus.com
Aaaanyway, on Sunday my PC started acting up. Shotcuts went a bit wonky so, thinks I, time to restart.
PC shut down okay.
Had some problems with the starting part.
So now the light is on (literally) but no one is home (figuratively, unless tiny martian men have moved in and I wasn’t aware). Fan is working too. The fan is super important right? But sadly no magic pictures are appearing in the viewing box (sorry for the technical jargon). I think maybe one part broked and is making the rest not work. Problem is, despite my obvious technical prowess, I don’t know which bit. I think it might be the samoflange.
And YES, I tried hitting it. It didn’t help.
Anyway, the kindly AnonymousPessimist has taken it upon himself to help me in this, my hour of need, by helping me build a new rig.
Which amazingly ties in to the begining of my post. You see I have done a few more shirt designs and started others but they are trapped on the hard drive now. I’m assured the HDD is airtight which means they may not have long before they suffocate on the data fumes. How can we free the shirts? Well, oddly enough, if people BUY other shirts, that should ease the financial burden a purchase of a new PC can be thus the shirts will be released sooner.
It’s a win/win situation for everyone.
Visit http://holycarp.toctopus.com to see how YOU could make a Difference
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Hmmm, a conundrum.
I only want the frankontroller shirt but in order to get it I have to buy a different shirt? I smell bribery!-
Did you just want the controller on a shirt with no text, or with a witty slogan?
I can make it editable so you can position it till your happy too…
Well… I can, once I get access to it.
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No text. Slogans get old really fast, even if they’re awesomely funny to start with. An image is forever winning.
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haha I LOVE the “trust me, I’m a doctor” design.
Also, my condolences regarding your PC.
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It was a random doodle I did at work and I thought that I’d make it in to a shirt for me to wear but that most people wouldn’t get it/want it. So far, it’s EVERYONE’s favourite. My sister even asked for one.
Just goes to show.
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Your technical prowess never ceases to amaze me. [slow-head-shake]™ 😛
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I’m going to have to buy a “holy carp” shirt. But I may have problems, due to having to buy them via my parents…
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I see your problem. Obviously your parents will want shirts too, yes? Don’t worry! They come in a range of styles and colours to suit everyone.
Phew! Crisis averted.
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Played a little SSFIV online on the weekend… again.
Came across an El Fuerte player who was as good with him as I was. God damn he was a slippery little bastard!
I must make people rage all the time when I play against them as El Fuerte. (feels good man)
So with that in mind, and to fire up some monday morning conversation, who’s your favourite SF character? (or favourite fighting game character in general)
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SSFIV – Crimson Viper
There’s a top Australian player called Robsux who mains her, he’s amazing.In general – Hmm. That’s a tough one! Maybe Angel from the King of Fighter series? I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
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Akuma.
Because you feel like a god when you land a Raging Demon.
Shameless gaming took an interesting turn. While half way through uncharted 2 I started a new game. Not stopping Uncharted at all, but got into NFS Shift(1). Really enjoying both. Now u guess I gotta finish both this month?
About to hit Tier 4 in shift and am 11/26 levels into uncharted. Shameless no more!
It’s safe to say that the Tour de France has seriously damaged my ability to get to bed on time (as has my discovery that Day 9’s videos can be viewed on the iinet freezone) and has also really eaten into the time I could have spent working on Shameless Gaming.
Still, it was totally worth it. What a brilliant couple of weeks of sporting madness. Cadel Evans is a machine. One of the greatest Australian sportsmen in history.
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I was mostly watching it for the pretty mountains and castles, but by the end of it I was amazed at Evans’ determination.
The last mountain stage was amazing.
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Those Alps… man, both pretty and pretty damned exciting.
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Hey Qumulys, I now it may be a bit late, but I made you a gift http://steamcommunity.com/id/lamboman007/screenshot/578929139944464562
Happy Late Birthday! (Is that how you’d say it? or should it be “Late Happy Birthday!”?)
And Rocketman, I’m going to make something for you too 😀
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ROFL, that is all flavours of awesome! Can I unwrap it? Or did you hide a creeper spawner in it?? 😛
And another Sam and Max game “finally” bites the dust! Only 13 more to go… 🙂
Due to my XBox being finicky about what discs it will and won’t read, I am unable to proceed with the older games on my pile of shame – no amount of coaxing convinces the thing that there is a disc present.
So as a result I took advantage of sales at JB and EB to get myself a copy of Duke Nukem Forever and Battlefield Bad Company 2.
Thus I embarked on what I can only refer to as the weekend of terrible games.
I am saddened that after all that, Duke Nukem Forever really was poor. It was a mechanically solid game but those mechanics don’t fit with the Duke. The humour or attempts at thereof sadly fell far too flat.
Now I’m a big Duke fan, and I enjoy Duke’s humour. I do not think Duke’s humour is out of place in today’s world. The problem is that the dialogue and jokes were simply badly done. They were full of a persistent effort and maybe I missed this playing DN3D 14 years ago but they make the Duke sound insecure, like a juvenile tryhard.
Now this would be an interesting character dynamic except Duke has it all. He’s the king! He’s got two hot pop stars, he’s rich, he has international fame, every woman wants him! He has absolutely no reason whatsoever to feel insecure.
That was what made the game feel childish. Duke in DNF was a bad character. I could forgive the two-weapon system, the frustrating and bland level design, the uninteresting boss battles, the constant jibes at other (better) games and the occasional references to pop culture memes… really, a Leroy Jenkins joke in 2011? Come on! Mass Effect did that in 2007.
But Duke fell flat, a sad ghost of his former self scared that no one can see him even while all eyes are turned his way.
I couldn’t bring myself to finish it. My wife finished it, determined to plough through it with the intent of squeezing as many achievements out of it as possible before I try to return it. I watched most of this and failed to be impressed at any point.
After turning my back on DNF I turned to Bad Company 2. This was the rival to Modern Warfare 2, a game that I am told was far greater, more interesting than MW2 could hope to be. A game that required skill, teamwork, strategy and tactics. I was dubious, but thought now was the time to try. It was only going to cost me $30 to find out for myself.
I am convinced now that people have deluded themselves into liking BC2 just to spite the Call of Duty franchise.
The combat and gunplay is far more generic and uninteresting than in MW2. The single player campaign had some interesting ideas thrown in, but it felt too much like “let’s throw this in because it’s interesting and try to make it make sense”, like the part where you slowly freeze to death in the snow level with the sattelite unless you make it to shelter.
I quickly grew tired of the way in which Bad Company 2 was basically the same game as MW2, but with some arbitrary changes. I could almost believe DICE took MW2 as a template and set out to prove they could do it better.
The Russians have a plan to bring down the US power grid and invade? Really? That makes more sense than jamming a sattelite to sneak their forces in over the ocean?
Instead of a mission where you wirelessly download data from a computer, your characters crash a sattelite so they can just steal the data server from inside it. This would almost have made me laugh at the sheer audacity if fans of the Battlefield series had not ruined my perceptions of the game by constantly harping on about how the Modern Warfare series is “like a Michael Bay movie”.
Sure, MW2 had a special forces captain fire a nuke to discharge an EMP and knock out the Russian forces and that pushed the boundaries of ridiculous. But some grunt with a hardon for killing has the knownhow to knock a sattelite out of orbit and crash land it within walking distance? Sure, ok, that’s not at all over the top.
Oh, and after this you do a driving set piece where you shoot at pursuers. Pretty stock standard FPS fare these days. You can pretty much just spam grendades which is the only way to reliably stop the vehicles anyway. except you get to a point where you can’t get a bead on the vehicles following you. You have to survive until your driver takes an alternate route, then when you pull back onto the main road there’s a scripted event where they crash into each other. I realised at the point you simply cannot take out those vehicles before that point.
My problem with that? THOSE VEHICLES CAN STILL KILL YOU.
I had to do that sequence 7 goddamn times because the invincible, impossible to hit pursuers that were part of an upcoming scripted event were still capable of killing me!
I carried on through the campaign a little longer and tried out the multiplayer.
One of the big criticisms I hear about the MoD multiplayer is that as you level up you unlock better stuff which gives you advantage and makes it harder for new players. I heard complaints about overpowered killstreak rewards and perks. And those are semi valid complaints except in MW2 you have the most reliable weapons from the start – the UMP45 is the best SMG, the M4A1 is the best assault rifle and the FAMAS is the best burst fire. On top of that, levelling up takes no time at all.
In BC2 I was running a 5:1 k/d ratio, capturing flag points like a champ, even got the rewards for being the best player in the game on my first ever game of Conquest. It still took me about 2 hours to level up once. My rewards for finally hitting tier 2 of engineer and recon? For the engineer I finally get the power tool so I can actually do my job. For recon I get a proximity detector. Well, now we’re getting somewhere.
then I was playing a game of conquest on a ridiculously large map, and lost badly. Why? Because for some reason there was only two people on my team – myself and my squadmate. We were covering each other well, but could not capture a single point. Some guy at level 18 had a UAV that would rain rockets and gunfire down on us every time we tried to take one. He held us off single-handed. Occasionally I’d get killed by his buddy who was neatly sniping us off spawn, but mostly I’d get his by a rocket from the UAV. I managed to snipe it from the sky three times, but it always came back.
This is tactical combat and teamwork? This is the game that doesn’t reward people for ‘lone wolf’ behaviour? Sorry, I’d rather get quickscoped and put up with chopper gunners than that nonsense. At least to earn a chopper gunner a guy has to get eleven kills without dying.
I was pretty excited for Battlefield 3, but I’ll want to see some major changes before I put it on my must-have list.
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Woooah, what is this! Summarise, go!
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Duke Nuken Forever wasn’t very good and Bad Company 2 was a MW2 rip-off that makes the anti-CoD fanboys look like raging hypocrites.
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He said that Duke Nukem Forever was a drity shisno, and then bitched about Bad Company 2, and all the people who said it was better than Modern Warfare 2.
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maybe this could best be told in the form of a knock knock joke
knock knock
Who’s there?
you are
You are who?
you are a dirty dirty shisno
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Fair assessment IMHO
I think MW2 was a seriously unbalanced game and probably the worst in the recent CoD franchise.. Black Ops fixed the majority of criticisms and complaints (ie quick scoping, overpowered killstreaks)
My experience with BC 2 was largely the same. The single player storyline was boring as hell (still struggling to finish it out of sheer apathy) and every time I have played multiplayer I either get sniped from across the map when trying to assault an objecting or blow up by a tank or something.
I never found it a fun game, and the MP discourages interacting with random people and making new online friends through its stupid insular squad system.
The Bad Company brand failed for me, but I am hopeful BF 3 will fix a lot of those issues.
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Me too. I’m a pretty huge Modern Warfare fanboy (I really haven’t liked the other COD games that much) but I’m concerned that Modern Warfare 3 won’t turn out any good. I’m going to need somewhere else to turn if that’s the case since I don’t really play Halo anymore.
I know as a confessed MW2 fan my assessment of BC2 might seemed biased and maybe I’m being too hard on it – really, it’s the fans of BC2 that have ruined the game making simply outrageous claims about it.
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Here’s my take on it – if Call of Duty is what you love, you actually may not get that much out of Bad Company 2 – it can be ridiculously hard sometimes (I’m talking about Multiplayer here) especially when facing off against a team proficient with helicopters and tanks.
Having said that I didn’t come to Bad Company via COD
My online multiplayer experience started in 2010 –
I tried Halo 3 – didn’t like it so much, found it full of floaty jumps and cheap melee kills – my opinion has changed since getting better at it.
Bought Call of Duty 4 – loved it – first game this generation which I finished the campaign on, and the multiplayer was something else, fast, realistic feel, easy to get into a match.
On recommendation from Friends bought The Orange Box, got addicted to TF2 (on the Xbox) for the rest of that year.
In Nov 2010 finally tried out Bad Company 2 on my brother’s insistance (he got both it and MW2 on release and quickly became hooked on Battlefield)
I find coming from Team Fortress 2 to Bad Company 2 was an easy transition, the idea of Medics, Engineers and Snipers as their own classes was an easy sell for me, the whole addition of vehicles and destruction was different but compelling.
But the real thing that hooked me in – the spotting! On Modern Warfare – even on a big screen I have trouble picking out the guy 50 metres away with a sniper rifle dressed in camo in a desert, by the time I’ve even figured out someone is there – I’m dead.
TF2 has no such issue because the characters stand out so well, you always know what you’re up against.
Battlefield hits a pleasing middle ground between the two – everyone’s still in Army fatigues – but with those orange markers over people’s heads you have a fighting chance of taking out distant snipers and campers.
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TL;DR
Plainview wants his schtick back.
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What schtick?
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So is that special pre-order version of Xenoblade Chronicles with the red classic controller only an instore thing, or will I get it if I order from Ozgameshop or Zavvi I wonder?
So, I finally got around to installing a dictionary into Firefox. This should mean a reduction in spelling errors of about 0%…
Oh, and I took Kyoto, and held it, and became Shogun.
And then nobody declared war on me.
I HAVE A MASSIVE ARMY! It’s just chilling by Kyoto, smoking some cigs, having a beer or two. Damn AI, don’t make me crush you under my iron fist!
You know when you wake-up your vision is all fuzzy and then having a shower usually gets rid of it?
I skipped a shower this morning because I had one at like 1 in the morning last night after sitting in bed terrified that someone in my family line had made a deal with the devil for wealth in return for the first born male.
I figured if I was gonna get taken by a demon in the night, I may as well be warm and soaking wet.
So when I woke up, sans demonic episode, I decided to head to the bus without showering and start my day early.
Everything was going fine until I stopped at a set of traffic lights and I saw those weird dots/squiggles in the corner of my eye.
Usually I’d just ignore them or play that game where you try and catch them by blinking only to have them squirm their way back to the top of your vision and start their descent anew, but my lack of sleep coupled with my extreme paranoia led me to believe that someone was approaching (I’m not sure why I settled on a person, surely a demon/ghost would have made more sense in this instance) me from the rear, intent on causing me harm.
Instead of spinning around like a normal person, or moving, or ducking or thinking “You’re in public, on a busy street, in a major city. No one is sneaking up on you, you maniac” I simply shrugged my shoulders violently upward and yelled incoherently “Niiiaaaoooowwwww” which sounded like the sound middle aged women make when they see a new baby.
I also clenched my eyes/butt cheeks tighter than I thought possible.
After the panic subsided and I opened my eyes to the wealth of bystanders looking at me like I’d just acted like a middle aged woman around a baby, I quickly ducked into the closest business.
Point? Three Sisters Art House Cafe has great coffee on Melbourne Street in West End.
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lol
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Ahah. You entertain me.
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But… Uhhh… What?
OK, sure.
I guess I can only pretend that I’ve never done anything weird in public.
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You’re a hipster!
That makes your story even funnier.
You and your crazy fringe.
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I’m the hipster equivalent of a self-hating jew.
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Steven Seagal, Great actor? Or Greatest actor?
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Also see: amazing cop.
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That show is so amazing. He’s the man of a thousand skills and one face.
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AND ANOTHER THING!
OK, so, correct me if I’m wrong (and I’m talking about my thoughts here, so I’m correct in the sense that I “thought” something, it’s just that what I thought may in fact have been incorrect), but when the R18+ is introduced, weren’t they not going to reclassify games that had been refused classification? I’ve seen all the people going “yay, I’ll go buy Left 4 Dead 2 now!” but won’t we still be stuck with the cut down version, and with the fun, gory version, stuck in this weird moral gray-zone?
This leads to my second point, lots of things are saying that currently MA rated games will be reclassified. Firstly, even if the terms for what should be an MA game are changed (which they will be), it implies that some of the decisions made by the classification board were dodgy to begin with (which they were). Not to mention, if they’re reclassifying MA games, then they might as well reclassify the ones which were refused ratings.
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A game needs to be resubmitted for classification to get a new rating once the R18+ classification comes in.
Do you really think publishers are going to bother resubmitting MA15+ games to get them bumped up to R18+?
Left 4 Dead 2 is a weird case where Valve may resubmit, but there is no evidence to say that they will, just that they could.
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That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t really sure. People do seem to have a habit of letting their mouths run away from their brains. Or even with their brains, where they just don’t think it through.
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Nothing currently classified will be reclassified without being resubmitted. This means publishers of an RC game can request it ber reclassified and therefore it might be given an R18+.
Anything that is currently MA15+ is unlikely to be re-rated, though it is possible for interest groups to force a review of the rating by lodging a complaint – this is essentially the same as resubmitting it except it’s being done forcibly. In that case a game can be re-rated up to R18+ in view of the complaint (kind of like how Dead or Alive Dimensions was bumped from PG to M15 after the issue about it being classified as child porn in Finland or something).
Got a double mocha despite being late to class.
So sleepy and my eyes aren’t feeling focused today.
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See my story on previous page. If that doesn’t happen to you, your eyes are fine.
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O_O I don’t know what to say.
Being sleep deprived is a horrifying experience.-
Thinking of Dan having a shower is equally horrifying for this reader.
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Horrifying because of the confusing thoughts it makes you think?
Don’t fight it.
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Confusing? They’re not confusing. Mostly awesome.
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Didn’t we see him in the shower in one ‘Lucky Dip’? Oh wait, he was the one shaving.
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No, no. That was me in the shower… Hairy man-nips all over the place…
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Wait, there were hairy man nips? TO YOUTUBE!
(as an aside, I think I got you one extra view on “planking” because I linked to it on facebook. I’m helping!)
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You’re alright Blaghman.
We were featured on This Is Photo Bomb as well so that’s helped it out.
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Yes, I saw that! (When bored I tend to look through the stats of youtube videos I’m watching…)
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I’m pretty sure Karl was brushing his teeth, with Dan in the shower.
Double mocha = double win!
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Extra shot for only 20 cents, a bargain too hard to resist! ;p
Are you KIDDING me?! THE best. Simply, the best. For all those unlucky enough to have missed this on the weekend, watch – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoE03XT1U6k&feature=player_detailpage#t=57s
It’s pretty much the best waking up from a coma acting performance ever.
Also, Shiggy drew this accurate depiction of my love for Seagal – http://twitpic.com/5v30nf
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Nooooo, I hit the reply button I swear! Also I didnt know I was replying to Shiggy in all honesty, so yeah… I gues you already know about the drawing :/
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I don’t get how his beard is so perfectly trimmed. It’s amazing. He must shave while in a coma.
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lolol! Actuaslly, I shouldv started a few seconds back where the nurse decides that bringing him a kitten will help him wake up (evidently she was right about that). But yeah, she seemed rather taken by him (I mean, who wouldnt right?), so maybe she was trimming it for him.
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*waves*
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You betrayed me! I clicked you, but you thought you’d make the fool of me. Well, know this – I’m on to you!
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There are still about 10 Krispy Kreme donuts, half a full-sized homemade cheesecake and 2 large slices of tiramisu at home. *fatness for bawble/CrabJiffy*
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I just pictured your head on Jabba the Hutt.
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Hahaha!
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You’ve never seen Star Wars!?
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Never. Watched. Star Wars?
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But…
But…
*faints from shock*
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You caused my system to crash with that statement and I had to reboot! Darn you Dawdle how is it possible that you never watched Star Wars!?
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Man I had a sic burn all lined up but I figure dissing Star Wars will get me lynched.
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@lambomann, Blaghs & Tech Knight:
I know I know. My brain capacity has only enough space for one epic fantastical universe. And it has been occupied by the one created by JK Rowling. Sorry :/-
OUT! Be gone! Never seen Star Wars?! How is that even possible?!
Your mission is to go and watch the Original Trilogy. Immediately. Then perhaps the prequel trilogy (yes, they exist, they’re canon, deal with it).
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I apologize for this “problem”.
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May the Force be with you.
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Good man Bawble 🙂
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Has she watched Indiana Jones?
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This.
That’s Dr Jones to you, lady!
I hope HindenLagen shows his face in here – he hasn’t seen ANY Indy. Or Die Hard.
Still attempting to rectify this, but life gets in the way at times.
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Ooooh no no no, you DID NOT JUST COMPARE HARRY POTTER WITH STAR WARS.
Don’t mind me some HP, but… splutter… gah… speechless…
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dawdle! I normally don’t support violence, let alone violence against women
BUT..
*KROGAN HEADBUTT*
What? Don’t blame me people, I play violent video games!!!! /sarcasm
TOLKIEN!??
Speaking of cheesecake, Coles has one, and it’s just like part of the crappy coles line of things, but it’s actually really good.
*Morbid Obesity for Blaggles*
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The best prepackaged cheesecake is made by Sara Lee
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Fair point. With enough of that stuff I have no need for women!
Or they a need for I…
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Sooo apparently the 3DS doesnt play DS games that well, which dashed my intentions of trading my dying DS Lite in for one. Sooo instead I’ve found a $175 listing for XL’s on Myer which EB is gonna price match. Just telling you all because I’m super excited and my girlfriend doesnt care. WELL I DONT CARE ABOUT GOSSIP! So there, woman.
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Where’d you hear about 3DS not playing DS games well, and how would you define ‘not well’?
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Indeed, it only has 2 differences that I know of, initial boot-up time is slightly longer (a coupla seconds, not enough that you’d notice), and the fact that it upscales the games to run on its higher resolution (you can force it to run in native resolution, but it looks pretty small due to the higher dpi).
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Yeah this. I watched a fair few videos to see and the opinion that they looked a bit blurry and a bit dodgy was pretty resounding. And yeah, the 1:1 thing looked tiny.
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Nice price! Awesome bargain-hunting skillz. Yay for XLs!
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I know rite! I got my bronze thanks to you, and its so big and pretty and smooth and shiny and I LOVE IT! *hugs XL*
But oh my is the top a fingerprint magnet. Wiping it every two seconds to keep its pristine appearance :'(
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Ugh…mondays. Has anyone here heard the new Living End album? Is it good or not?
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It’s a good album, heard pretty much all of it on triple j last week.
Blah, another weekend two short I’m in a foul moood (hence all the Krogan headbutts on page 1 😛 )
Not enough gaming either… got through Interval 01 of FEAR 3 and I must say I am very impressed! I’m liking the cover system and the enemy AI is brutal, they communicate with each other and you can’t stay in the same place for too long – especially the shotgun wielding enemies, who advance and flush you out of cover quick smart! I ended up turning off my flashlight most of the time and running from cover to cover to confuse the enemy, which seemed to work, and I felt like a total bad ass turning on slo mo, throwing a nade towards the far enemies, jumping out of cover and shotgunnin/stabbing/slide kicking the closer ones.
It’s really fun/scary playing in the dark with my Sennheiser’s on too!
Played a bit of Dragon Age 2 as well, almost ready to go down the Deep Roads with my badass Force Mage.. amazed at how much the new patch (1.03 PC /1.02 on consoles) nerfed Elite enemies like the Arcane Horror…
I just bought Limbo. I forgot I was planning on buying Bastion and bought Limbo instead. Oops.
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I got Bastion, now I wish a Southern-accented guy would narrate everything I did.
I might just do it myself for kicks.
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You could try it yourself and do a Let’s Play with a southern accent replacement for the narrative 🙂
I’d watch that!
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Get Jeeves to narrate your life!
I imagine he has a snooty upperclass English accent, where pretty much everything he says sounds condescending.-
John Cleese was a butler in Fable 3. This is how I would like my life to be.
Or maybe Michael Caine a la Batman Begins.
Or maybe Chris Barrie a la Tomb Raider. For shits and giggles.
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Eek! A Spider!
Me and my mates are having a movie night in our backyard and theres going to be like 30 people. I came up the great idea of making fake trailers for non existent movies before the actual movie starts. My trailer is basically a huge take off of 1940s movies and the lulzworthy things they say. We gotta make 2 more but we need genres people! GENRES! Any ideas?
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Old school street racing, with or without gangsters.
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Western and Noir would be fairly simple to parody. Post your work here when done?
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Don’t worry I’ll upload it when it’s done. But I won’t get it done till the weekend probably!
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Take it back to the 20s and make a trailer for a silent film.
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Michael Baysplosion!
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Great now you have me screaming BAYSPLOSIOOOOOOOONS!
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The trailer HAS to start with “In a world…”
And use the gravely voiced narrator from all those trailers.-
In a world where all men are guilty until proven dead, one man stands as our only hope in the fight against…
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Hey Mark (and anyone else who reads the guardian…),
You read Charlie Brooker’s column today, what did you think?
Best one he’s done for a while? (I surely think so)…
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Brooker is 100% correct here. The media are too quick to jump on assumptions to make it seem like they have an idea of what is going, when they are completely clueless.
Why can’t anyone admit ignorance anymore?
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I agree with this article completely.
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See, and now I just look silly.
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I tried to reply to this earlier, but it may have been eaten…
I pretty much agree with everything in the article. I’m just so sick of sensationalism, and the need to place blame immediately.
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I’ve just had the chance to read this now, and I completely agree.
Like Brooker I was watching the events pretty much live, and it was just ridiculous to watch a procession of ‘Al Qaeda experts’ line up on BBC news, CNN and Al Jazeera to comment on the situation.
One ‘terrorism expert’ knew literally nothing about Norway, couldn’t answer any questions about it when asked by the host, and seemed to be on solely because everyone had already concluded it was an al Qaeda attack despite all evidence to the contrary.
It’s a cautionary lesson in media ethics that the initial conclusion shouldn’t be so hastily assembled. Especially when it’s being milked for anti-Islamic sentiment by the tabloid press.
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So, does anyone want the following games, still left over from last week.
Playstation 2 Games (PAL)
* NBA 2K11
* TMNT Smash Up
These games are FREE, and I’ll even throw in postage to anywhere in Australia. I don’t care what reason you have for wanting them (especially because they have little or no resell value), just take them away! 🙂
Register your interest by clicking on the Reply Button!
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GIVE ME EVERYTHIIING! WHY ARENT YOU LISTENING TO MEEEE!!
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Okay, Sughly, they’re yours, to look at or burn or play or whatever you like! Shoot me an email: shaneATshanewsmithDOTcom. 🙂
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Oh ok, I win! Ok, let me see… NBA 2K… and, ah… TMNT. Oh. Hmmm… this is awkward… um, pass? As the Joker would say, I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it. You catch my drift? *shuffles feet awkwardly*
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So I’ve been reading about Shameless Gaming all month, and have been meaning to start getting into it, but a combination of moving house/reformatting the PC/general life stuff keeps getting in the way.
Can anyone offer a little motivational help?
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Do it.
Do it.
Doooooooo iiiiiiiiit.
Was that any help?
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Very much so, I can’t wait to get home from work now!
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I am a master of motivating people to play games.
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Yes, my shameless gaming has been so successful under your instruction. I’ve finished one game, and bought countless more…
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That’s because you’re not a person, you’re a Blaghman. I only motivate people.
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Fair enough?
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You can do it!
Don’t move house. All of your loved ones will still move but you will have the place to yourself. Tell them you’ll see them in August. Play games.
You’re welcome.
Other than that, I suggest going for games that you are either really close to completing so that you get a couple of ‘quick wins’ and this helps for motivation. Alternatively you find a game that everyone says is great, but you have not got around to. Chances are it will be good and you will want to keep playing it.
Set a goal and stick to it.
Find a co-op game you have not played and tell a mate that you want to play.
That way there is someone else involved.
OBJECTION!
Stop slacking off to play games and get back to work!
so friends have now gotten me to play League of Legends, so if any other players want to add me my name is: GrandmasterBFunk
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bawble said, “see the power of your boyfriend!”
wait… what?!
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Awesome! Another potential member for the KotakAU LoL team! How are you finding it? My LoL name is Steveo The Devo, will add you when I get home from work.
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Yay.
I’m Blaghman. (which, out of context would seem to be the stupidest comment)
But I only have it installed on the other computer, so I shan’t be playing it much until whenever my dl limit resets…
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Do you need your download limit to reset to download the game on another pc? If thats the case you can copy it from the pc you already have it installed on and it works fine – I did it to one of my spare pc’s to play with my mate.
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The problem is that my Portable HDD is fecked, and won’t talk to my computer.
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Unlucky. If it’s not working anyway you could try opening the external casing and hooking it up like a regular hdd or just reseating the usb interface. Best-case scenario could be its just the hdd-usb interface which is damaged or needs reseating.
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The main problem is that I’ve mostly been using it through Firewire, and somehow its usb connection thingoes have died (it’s the technical term).
Also. Derp. Why didn’t I think to try hooking it up to my mobo. I’m supposed to be good with computers. I haven’t opened up my pc yet, so soonish may be a good time!
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I’m pretty sure that most (if not all) portable hdd’s are regular desktop hdd’s on the inside – this saved my ass when my external hard-drive which has the only copy of my sisters wedding video decided to take a plunge off the pc desk (aided by my 2 yr old nephew). Luckily it was just the usb interface that cracked, plugged it into the pc and was all good!
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Yeah, I’ve taken this one apart before(because I was bored), so it should work, I just need to gain the enthusiasm to go about doing things.
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I am always up for teaching new LoL disciples, you can add me via TechKnight
Got a remix from an indie artist I’m hitting up tonight… she’s not too brilliant on the songwriting front (has a grand voice but the songs are missing hooks and general catchiness) though so CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Time to completely warp and mangle the vocals to fit my own nefarious purposes. Stay tuned, I’ll give a before and after so y’all can see how I awesome (and modest) I am.
I originally posted this on twitter but I think I’ll put it here for the benefit of everyone. I know a few people have expressed interest in me recording my songwriting sessions to give a bit of a view into my crazy world and how things work. I’m going to take a look at the webcam on my netbook tonight and see if I can take a few videos on it. I’d like to do things live but given the length of time these things sometimes take, doing a big batch video now then editing it into smaller, less boring chunks is probably the way to go.
We’ll see how things roll tonight and I’ll post back with info tomorrow.
Failing that, does someone in Sydney want to lend me a digicam that I can video myself with? I can’t promise pants but it will be good viewing. Also, music.
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HEY AP CATCH! *throws Flip Mino at your face*
720p good?
Maybe I should just film you next time we’re in the studio..? Because it’s like watching magic?? Which is awesome??? MAGIC???
actually wait, i DID film you last time we were in a studio!! Let me find the videos and see if I can put them somewhere when I get home.
Seriously guys, this man is MAD TALENTED. That’s why I call him ‘The Talent’
I’ma stop now, before his head inflates a little too much.
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How goes your mash-up dude??
And MORE DUB thanx WOBWOBWOB 🙂
P.S. If neither of the above happen, you get a
*krogan headbutt*
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Going to be doing some orchestral/cinematic/tribal dubstep with this new remix, good sir! Should be rather interesting. Got my epic percussion lined up, you ain’t heard nothing like I’ll be cooking up tonight.
The mashup is coming along well. Didn’t get a chance to do anything over the weekend obviously, but by Friday night there was over 25 different tracks that had appropriate sections chopped, pitch matched and most were looped accurately.
I’m hoping to have drafts of both down before the week is out.
WOBWOBWOB… stay tuned.
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Yay! If I was an unborn chicken I’d be very egg-cited right now..
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*krogan headbutts himself* SO LAME I KNOW!
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Hi all,
Hope you had a good weekend and stuff…
I need some advice. If anyone out there is good with the photoshops and knows about some of the more technical aspects of enlarging images so that they do not lose quality, let me know. I think I need to chat to you.
I am designing some images that will be used on the side of trucks (those curtain ones) and I just want to confirm my understanding of the process so the image quality will be good.
Any help is appreciated team! Cheers,
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Your best bet with upscaling is to use an external program to do so, or possibly add-ons within photoshop.
Now, depending on what you’re attempting to upscale, you may want a different program. Most of them have a free trial -which will leave your images watermarked- which should give you a decent idea of what they can do.
From what I can find, Reshade: http://reshade.com/
or Genuine Fractals/Perfect Resize: http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/suite/perfect-resize/?ind
may be your best bet, but I’ll admit, it’s something I haven’t attempted in a long time.Alternatively, if you have a lot of free time, the edges of the images are the part that give away a size change, so if you just scale it up normally, then clean up major edges, you can get a passable result.
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Thanks Blaghs but I think I have the answer. I spoke to my cousin who does graphic design for street machine and who works with photoshop daily. He suggested that the guys there have an image that has the same size ratio but scaled down, but they save as PDF. Upscaling a PDF will not actually reduce quality like other image formats do and this is what they send to their printers…
I’ll let you know how i go.
@Shane – having a hard time with those two! Donate to a charity perhaps? Or just leave them on a bench at your local shopping centre LOL
BTW TAY.. I still have my FREE GLASSESS GIVEAWAY
To update, Blaghman IF you go and get your prescription updated I can hold it for you, as you are poor and in need of new ones, apparently.
Jo – I’ll keep you in mind if no needy people come forward
COME ON TAY – You’re all guilty of countless hours squinting at computer screens/TVs for your gaming love, surely there’s some broke-ass TAYer who actually NEEDs a new pair of glasses for FREE (basically free anyway)
Details:
STAMPY’S FREE GLASSES GIVEAWAY
I just received my new pair of specs from http://www.clearlycontacts.com.au and included was a friend gift card for a FREE PAIR OF GLASSES
I’ve been a loyal customer of this site for years, for contact lenses, glasses and sunglasses and much $$$ has been saved thanks to these guys! Essentially you are getting full quality optical products without the tax/optometrist markups..
Anyways, the gift code will go to the first poster with a genuine need for a new pair of glasses!
Couple of things:
1) Code will give you a free pair of frames and lenses. The lenses are standard 1.5 index lenses, which are good for minor prescriptions. People with bad eyesight like me will need to upgrade to a 1.61 or 1.67 index lens, $29 and $50 respectively, which makes the lens thinner and less coke-bottle-y
2) scratchproofing/uv treatment etc can be done for an all inclusive $9, and shipping is $16 for 3-5 business days delivery time. So even though they’re free, you will actually pay between $16-$66. That’s still a wicked deal for a nice pair of new specs!!
3) You will need your eyeglasses prescription details, including the PD (distance between pupils value)
WHO WANTS SOME???
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I’d like to argue that staring at screens and the like will really only cause retinal degradation, which glasses can’t fix, and that environment only has a very minor affect on Myopia or Hyperopia, if any affect at all.
But I digress, someone else can have them, as I can just con my parents in to paying for new glasses for me (given they had to buy my sister like 6 pairs because of how quickly her eyes degraded and the fact that she lost them multiple times (ok, the number was 3 IIRC)).
Dear Bish,
Why would you lie to me? ;(
Regards,
Harli
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Dear madam,
I do no such thing!
http://i52.tinypic.com/qzku52.jpg
I am insulted, nay, wounded that you would wilfully believe that I would deliberately mislead you when it comes to the matter of delicious snack goods. 🙁Melancholic Regards,
Bishington-
Dear Bish,
How is it you knew exactly what I was talking about??!?!?! You can read my mind?!?!?
Regards,
Harlip.s. I went to Coles in Wynyard and they were full price. /wrists
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Dear Harlis-a-lot
Usually when people accuse me of lying, it is usually when I tell people that I do not stalk them or steal their laundry. Seeing as I am already full up with Pessimist’s and Blaghman’s undergarments, I have no need to stalk you, so I assumed it was not that. But then I figured that Bob Hawke(ing) rhymes with ‘not stalking’, who once famously said “Any boss who sacks a worker for not turning up today is a bum.” which seems an apt quote for today, considering Cadel Evans’ victory, who must surely be a man of near peak physical condition, in which you could probably say that he keeps himself in shape, which thus brought me to the conclusion that you must have been talking about the edible delectables that are Shapes.
Confused Regards,
Esquire BishingtonP.S. Stupid city supermarkets
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I am so annoyed.
I went to my local Coles, Shapes at the forefront of my mind, and what did I find?
A crap selection, that’s what.
They didn’t have Nacho Cheese. They didn’t have Cheese and Bacon.
So I just bought five boxes anyway…
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So last night after I was all “OMNOMNOMNOM OH GOD I AM NEARLY OUT OF NACHO CHEESE SHAPES OH GOD IM SO FAT OMNOMNOMNOMNOM” I figured today I’d go out and get some more since I was running out. Came back with 6 boxes, but saw that I had a hidden stash of 5 other boxes. So I have a stockpile of nearly 2KGs of Shapes.
I have no issue with this at all.-
My main problem was that I finished one packet in less than two hours, and immediately started eyeing the next one.
*While shoving food in his mouth*
Oh god, I’m so hideous. *starts crying while eating*
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Dear Bish,
So, what was Jessica like?
Kind regards,
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Dear ‘Flu,
Pretty okay I guess?
She seemed confused when I wished for her to have a good day. I guess she doesn’t get that a lot, like the people in my area (this was local Coles) are jerks or something.Regardly Regards,
Esquire Bishington III-
‘Flu?
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It’s gotta be the worst part of electronic checkout thingy things.
You don’t get the fun of confusing the checkout chick by being all happy and stuff.
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Snake sammich was surprisingly awesome!
You missed out, Pessimist.
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Uh…wuh….why…..how….
Who would try such a strange thing? (Elaborate more on how it tasted. I am kind of curious now. And what type Snakes/Bread was used?)
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Because she’s…. STRANGE! AHAHAHAHAHA!!
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OMFG, YOU DID IT
*bows down to your awesomeness*
How was it?
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And the snakes are so professionally laid out too.
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It was all Pessimist’s idea.
I used Natural Confectionery Co. Snakes on white bread. It tasted like warm jelly on a sandwich. It was great. but afterwards I felt a bit sick. 😛
Also, why did nobody warn me the yellow ones are banana flavoured!??!! Eww.-
That’s practically like having fruit in a sandwich right?
Because Natural Confectionary company is like 1% fruit juice!
Healthy sammich to boot!
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Hey i think something has gone wrong with my browser, my replies are generally not showing up as pending after I’ve submitted them. And they’re not being published. Is this normal?
KOTAKU
is swallowing my replies!! none of them have appeared thus far since this morning. 🙁
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Oh, uh, hi.
How uh, how are you going?
Pretty good? That’s good, that’s good.
… So this is pretty awkward, huh?
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*clears throat*-
Um.. I… I like you.
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The whole Oslo/games thing is frustrating.
The question is not whether or not MW made him do it, the question is whether he still would have done it had he never played the game. And the answer to that is unequivocally ‘yes’.
Someone or something is breaking Ms. Harli’s attempt to post to TAY…
Tad/Serrels/Elly, are her comments showing up?
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Hmmm. Lemme have a look.
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Meanwhile Mark is hoarding all the comments into his own folder. ‘Noone can have Harli but ME! NOONE!!’
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I totally just snorted into my mug. Ahh, irrigated nostrils.
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Yessss! Success!
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Woohoo! I can see they have appeared now. Thank you Mark, much appreciated.
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Yeah sorry about that. If anyone ever thinks their comments have been swallowed whole by the big bad spam filter just shoot me an email!
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My whole day’s comments have just appeared – thank you!
I feel productive again 🙂
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While everyone’s in an industrious mood, the tag for this TAY is misspelled.
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If I can’t beat Trauma Center on Normal tonight, I’m just going to take the hit to my pride and drop it to Easy so I can be done with it.
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Don’t give up too easy, you can do it! You can do it!!
(giving back some of that awesome motivation)
I’m all jittery. Waiting for developments from my publisher is like waiting for the Best Parcel Ever in the mail x1000.
Anyone else get this feeling? How do you fight it?
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Fight it by organising the CANBERRA MEAT!
Featuring like, three people, tops.
OK, nevermind, I got nothing.
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Blaghs, if you organised a Canberra Meat I’d make an effort to come!
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Could we get you to cook?
I have a free house in September…
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Dude I can cook. I CAN COOK ALL OF IT!
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If ShiggyNinty is cooking I will BE THERE!
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If someone else is cooking and hosting, and I’m free, there’s a chance I can come (if the wife says yes). 🙂
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So, has anyone else laid claim to Klutar’s old graphics card? No? Good, cause IT’S MINE!! ALL MINE!!
😛
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Sorry my Ovis aries friend, but I do believe Q got it. In fact, he may even have it RIGHT NOW!
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Ah well, he probably needed it more than I did 🙂
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Aww man, its already snuggly warm humming along nicely in its new home! It sorted my random squares popping up all over the place, and no more bsods, *hugs it*. Sorry man, I can cut it in half if you like? *starts chain-saw*
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So there’s like a few different threads I could post this to, but I cbb.
Commence ridicule kthx.
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Ok then, ridicule… hmmmm…
The ACL are a bunch of half-witted morons who could not tell the difference between their collective arse from their collective elbow. Blaming any accident with even the slightest connection to video games, on violent video games, earns nothing but hatred and disrepect from gamers and non-gamers alike
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““If there are even a few deranged minds that can be taken over the edge by an obsession with violent games it is in every Australians interest that we ban them.”
That’s just it though. Deranged minds are deranged minds. Video games or not, this man is clearly not your average mentally stable person, so where does video games factor into this.
Also, the actions of a few do not speak for the many. If, by their logic, that an obsession with Videogames can influence people to do this kind of thing, can’t you argue the same thing with any obsessions? An obsession over a person turns you into a stalker? That’s as stupid as saying that all muslims are terrorists because of a few religious nutjobs, and we all know how stupid that sounds/is. And where is the mention that the man in questions was also a christian fundamentalist?
Arghgarejkirjhlka whatever. I’m over it. Deranged people will continue to be deranged, idiots will continue to be idiots and ignorant people will continue to be ignorant.
I agree with Blaghman on Page 3, I’m just not going to talk about this anymore.
Hey guys, this is just a general request, I know I’m guilty of doing the same thing, but, can we stop the talk about Anders, his realtionship to games, and how the media is portraying it?
We all know that it’s nothing new, the media will always sensationalise things, it’s unfair, it’s stupid, but most of all, it’s human. This was a huge tragedy, and I think we should focus on the immediate, human ramifications, rather than the media’s response.
So, can I humbly request that, for tomorrow (tuesday), we make no mention of how stupid the media and its portrayal is, and any discussion relating to the disaster be about how terrible it is for the people involved?
Feel free to ignore me, but I feel like the tragedy here is being lost, and as I said, the media being dumb is nothing new.
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But… but mocking mass media is what I’m best at. You’ll be putting me out of a job, man!
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I agree.
There is nothing videogame related about this tragedy. Discussion about it should focus on other things and take place elsewhere.
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This is probably a good idea.
It’s a distraction from the tragedy of the situation.
Though seeing it cynically exploited by lobby groups for their own ends makes my blood boil.
Never mind that 90 children died; if it can be used as a pawn in a debate over domestic video game laws, someone’s going to opportunistically grab at it.
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Co-signed.
So, a parcel arrived today for my husband. I idly wondered what it was but figured it was just something else metal-related. He gets home and opens it…and gives it to me. It’s a treasure box!
http://flic.kr/p/a6NMik
And here I was thinking because I’d bought him the Fallout: NV DLC today that I’d be the hero tonight. Wrong. I’ve been out-heroed. 😛
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Holy awesomesauce kickass parcels batman!! D-man.. you have really outdone yourslef! That’s one killer piece of kit!! Jelly!!
The cake is a lie! I think!¿
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Words cannot describe how much I want that cake. I wish had mad cake making skills. All I have is a dodgy oven and a tin that leaks out cake mixture.
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Blaghs secret that I stole from my Dad about making excellent cakes no. 1: Get store bought sponge cake, cut to size, cover in lots of icing.
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….that’s a cake?!
Oh yeh, the latest JB HI-Fi catalog:
So that Sunrise segment…it was pretty short.
Poor Seamus. Not only did he get half the screen time of the ACL guy, but he had to play a FPS in front of the camera, and get called ‘those people’ on national TV.
I have to say that sadly, the ACL guy ended up looking pretty convincing. He may or may not have 112 academics, blah blah blah… but he did correctly call Seamus out for his cheap shot against Christianity.
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“I am Jim Wallace. I have SCIENCE, guys. Look, it’s here, in my hand, I have 5 sheets of paper stapled together. There are highlighted bits. There are hand written bits. SCIENCE, so you know I’m right!”
I disagree with you, though. If the ACL wants to link this to video games, it’s an equally valid link between Breivik and Christianity.
Bah, I feel so dirty for emailing Sunrise, but I thought I should try to counter the amount of crud the ACL and members are spamming their inboxes with.
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I’m with Bish here.
All he said was that the manifesto contained far more references to Chrtistianity than to games, and that it would be just as unreasonable for him to suggest that religion was what made Anders do it, as it would be to suggest that games were the same.
Jim Wallace then called his statement a cheap shot, which draws attention away from what he actually said, and puts focus on the rest.
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I’m not usually one to speak up about rubbish like this, but the whole thing is just bullshit the way they portray it. The game he used to “train” has nothing to do with WHY he did it. That’s like saying the army invades countries because they train on virtual reality simulators.
Last night, I finished Trauma Center: Second Opinion.
That was far from an enjoyable experience. I swore so violently that my parents (who were downstairs) asked if everything was alright. So I dropped the difficultly to easy, blitzed through it and shall never play that game again.
Then I played Alice and had one or two points where I couldn’t tell if I had encountered a feature or a bug.
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My question is: why did you keep playing it if you hated it/didn’t enjoy it at all?
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At first it was to see if it was comparable to the DS version, which I love. Then it was to see if it would improve, which it didn’t. Then it was out of sheer pigheadedness because I had only two missions to go before I had finished the game.
I’ve completed a few games out of spite in the past, Afro Samurai and The Force Unleashed for example.
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Force Unleashed wasn’t that bad. And I understand what you mean. I did the samething with Bulletstorm. I don’t know why I played past the first hour or two of the game, I was convinced that it would get better. My friends reassured me it would. They lied.
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Force Unleashed was because of poor level design and some serious glitches. In on boss fight, the boss fell through the floor of his level to his death but because he had to be there for the next cutscene, I was stuck.
That’s what stood out the most, but there were other frustrating moments.
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I scored my first Ace in LoL last night, most excellent.
Mordkaiser is really powerful mid-late game – I should not be able to take the enemy on 3-1 and push them back to their turret, even if they did suck.
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Nice. I’ve played a bit as Mordekaiser myself and find him quite good – provided you get off to a good start. If you do however, like you said can take the enemy three-on-one. What champions have you purchased so far Jo? If we’re gonna form a KotakAU LoL team down the line I figure its best if we don’t overlap too much.
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Rammus and Singed. Singed may have been an unwise choice but oh well.
Thinking of buying Mordkaiser, unless you be going for him.-
Well you only need one tank per team (Especially if that tank is Rammus) so more than one of us mastering Rammus isn’t a bad idea. However much later I’m thinking of using Amumu as a secondary tank.
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Maybe I shall leave Mord for stevo and look into mage/support for my next buy.
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I recommend you read up and try Brand next time he’s free to play. The main point about squishy mages, hit them from as far away as you can reach, you never EVER run in… unless you’re Kennen xD
But yeah Brand is bloody awesome especially his ultimate which is BOSS when you’re chasing down two champions, it bounced between the two of them doing mass damage to both 🙂
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Well I’d like us to be able to perform a team role while playing the champions that we enjoy. Gorzilla plays Sona now as a pure support champion and he enjoys playing support, which is awesome. I’m not 100% sure what a standard team would be but there should be 1 tank, 1 support, 1-2 carries and the rest as DPS fighters. See this is why I’m trying to master multiple kinds of champions so I can perform almost any role that is needed (Say in a solo game, nobody picked a tank? That’s fine, I know Rammus and can use him so: sorted!)
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Oh god, I hope we just throw it all together. Do you know how much effort goes in to competitive LoL? Once we start teaming up, and filling certain roles, it’s a short road to actually competing properly, which is kind of worrying.
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haha the American human friend of mine that first got me into this wanted me to join him in making a competitive LoL team some day xD
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Besides the fact that probably only Techy is good enough for that, it could be fun!
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*ears perk up*
My Harli senses.. they are tingling.
Did I just hear the words “competitive” near “LoL”? Now I am intrigued.
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Remember Harli, LoL is played in the WCG. Using this logic, it must be a good competitive game.
Right…
Yeah, because Warcraft 3 is played in WCG and it’s /such/ a balanced game…
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@ Harli
Read: Dreamhack League of Legends tournament 2011 that happened months ago
Grand Prize: $100,000
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Oh ye$, I’m well aware of the money it can bring. But if you guys are serious on getting… serious… about the game, I would be more then interested in joining you!
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And I’ll add in this last statement too, you could all play characters you love and get your kill scores up, yeah that’s fun. But proper team line-ups with everybody playing their role will go a LONG way to ensuring a good game win almost every game (I exclude matches with the opponents that can do better team line-ups than my teams :P)
On ranked games, both teams can ban 3 champions each, so they can’t be used in the match. This is where the “Me being able to perform multiple roles” comes in. Say the opponent bans Kennen and Rammus among the three. Now that would kill Jo’s chance to play his awesome Tank for Rammus and myself to be able to play a good Carry for Kennen. I could easily switch roles with Jo, I play Amumu and he plays Brand (If he chooses to take it up) and the issue is now completely gone, no dent to our line-up.
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Well technically the grand prize was $50,000, with $100,000 in the prize purse in total (Which included second and third)
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I dunno if I have what it takes but I would be interested to try.
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Don’t get me too interested in competitive play, I’ll start pulling out spread-sheets.
Okay, no I won’t. I’ll get my friend to do it!
Maths your way to victory!
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I like the Idea but my irregular work hours would make me rather unreliable as far as being online for games is concerned 🙁
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I’m keen! Never really played competitively though – the closest was playing Alco-Dota with my LAN group: If you die, you have a shot. Your whole team dies, the team takes two shots. Once your losing team is too drunk to care anymore, you can make the winning team all take a shot by completing a succesfull fountain run. Its a flawed system (bad players get worse as they get drunk) but its fun!
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@Gorzy
I work full time, so my time isn’t as free as I’d like either. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to try though 🙂
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I was thinking Mordekaiser or Garren as a melee. If your thinking mord then I might buy Garren – I’ve only played him twice but I went well both times.
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Oh yeah, if you do go for Mord I recommend starting with a regrowth pendant and then building into a Warmogs armor.
Then Sorcerers Shoes and stack AP.He is indeed fragile early on so yeah hang back and snipe with E until Warmogs is up and you have the health to play with.
Seamus kicked arse on Sunrise.
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DAMN EARLY STARTS!!
Anyone got a vid posted?? or will be posting??
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Yes damn the whole day job thing, hoping the link will be up by lunch time 🙂
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Looks like it’s gonna be another crazy week! Page 3 on Monday evening… 3000 posts by Friday?
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I’m totally addicted to TAY. It’s like crack. Or something.
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Pshh, Crack is nothing compared to this.
You can go a day without cocaine. I felt bad when I left TAY for 30 minutes to go buy shapes.
Ugh, how did I survive my job?
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Pretty poorly!
You came back at 5, drained of energy, and went to sleep at 10, like some sort of old person!
“Night? No sir, I don’t like this one bit. *shakes fist*”-
I’d typically get home at about 4:30… I was just too drained to turn on teamspeak until 5.
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No jokes, my parents were like “Aww, is having a job tiring you out?”
My response: Yes. Of course. But that’s because -unlike your jobs- mine requires me to SPEND THE DAY LIFTING AND MOVING DIRT.
They laughed at me.
My parents are mean.
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hahah you’re quite right.. although TAY is more like a support line for, steadily keeping me afloat as I slug through this workday like the collared drone I am.
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Just need a way to condense it into a fine powder that I can snort up from my desk at work.
Friends on LoL and TS, I’m afraid my PC will be out of action over the next few days, after getting my 11th different BSOD error I finally caved and decided to reformat. An even sadder thing was that it blue screened AGAIN while I was trying to back up my fricken files -.-
Hopefully it worked this time otherwise I’ll have to copy the files to my external drive manually. So I won’t be on TS or able to play LoL for quite some time. I apologise Blaghman for leaving while we were talking last night but you can guess what happened and I spent the rest of the night running diagnostics and finding absolutely nothing :'(
Congrats on the ace last night Jo, Steve-O and I talked about Mordekaiser yesterday, he was going to be a possible pick for the future, but I’m more leaning towards Renekton now. But still going for Rammus first so I can have a tank.
You guys have fun on LoL and spend this time catching up to me 🙂
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No not the screen!
…but yes the frustration is there. On the plus side as I said earlier, you guys have more time to catch up to me.
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I’m getting better at Sona slowly. Last game I played the only kills I got were ones where they would have escaped otherwise. Now I just have to cut down on my deaths early game. I get to carried away.
I’ve also been teaching myself to play without the camera locked so I can watch what enemies are doing better.
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Case and point why I don’t use it! Awareness of your surroundings is key to surviving when pushing alone/with an ally, you remember those times where I kept saying to back off, I’m watching the other lanes while we move towards the next minion wave on our turret push and I saw a few run into the jungle towards us.
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Head’s up guys, Shattered Horizon is only $5 on steam today http://store.steampowered.com/app/18110/
Zero gravity combat FTW! 🙂
Aced a game of Team Slayer on Reach last night.
20 kills, 0 deaths. Got hold of the plasma sword and got a Slice and Dice commendation for it.
Haven’t played that well in ages, Feelsgoodman.jpg
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Nice! Mad props.
WHAT THE HELL IS LOL?! WHY ARE THERE ALWAYS POSTS ABOUT LOL?! GAH!
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p.s. this is rhetorical
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lol
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Read: League of Legends… google it… now!
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You can’t make me!
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Almost every human and even a dual uzi wielding battledroid on Kotaku is talking about it. Come on… you know you want to!
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Well, when you put it in those terms, it looks like I’ll have to get into it to 😛
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Do you have any prior experience with Dota?
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None, absolutely none.
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Good start!
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LoL has a tutorial to teach you the basics, then you got vs. AI games to practise playing the champions, and in PvP you start at level 1 Summoner, meaning you face off against others near your level (A.K.A other starters). It’s got a good learning curve to get any player started IMHO
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Just don’t do what I did – I struggled early on because I kept playing against bots without playing PVP. This raised my summoner level without giving me the chance to play PVP at an easier skill level.
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vs AI I only consider acceptable if you want to get first impressions on champions you never played before IMO
So yes follow Steve-O’s advice 🙂
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On the off chance anyone cares, tried a couple of troubleshoots last night. Pretty much confirmed that it’s the motherboard that went. Someone online suggested a new battery but I have no idea how that would work 🙁 Any suggestions from techy types or should I just give up the ghost and let it rest in piece?
Anyone feels like helping out, buy a shirt from http://holycarp.toctopus.com or http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr
What makes it worse is that I was seriously thinking about grabbing a Wacom Cintiq. There goes THAT money 🙁
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Do you need a mother board… I may have a spare… No promises but I currently have a PC that is in parts and im not using. It is nothing special, but is only about 12 months old… Let me know.
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The main problem with mobo’s is that they can be frighteningly specific.
Jamie, if you could post what your current mobo is, and what type of RAM, CPU, and GPU you have then one of the actually smart tech people may be able to work out whether or not something would be a suitable replacement.
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Fair point. Not sure what hardware he wants to keep…
I actually have mobo, cpu, ram, PSU, tower, DVD burner, DVD Rom, HDD…
come to think of it… I have an entire PC sitting here… Let me know what you have/want to keep and we’ll see what we can do.
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*cough* Uh… yeah….
Well, it’s a prefab maching. Compaq Presario SR5490AN-
I can already tell you that my mobo wont work with some of your gear as you have DDR2 and im using DDR3… But still. If you want a PC that works, I think we can work something out?
I don’t know much about this stuff either.
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Actually just remembered, I have 2 mobos and PSU’s but dont know much about the other one… I know thats not helpful, but im trying to help?
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Ooh, the colours and styles on redbubble look amazing! I particularly like the Docter one in the v-neck style, and the Summer of 64 one looks so brilliant in blue I’d probably buy the girlie for once instead of a man’s size to cut up and remake.
Unfortunately I spent way too much money this week so I won’t be able to buy anything until next weekend. 🙁
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They have some awesome colours. Also, hoodies!
I just wanted to thank Shane who sent me Metal Gear Solid – the package arrived yesterday! Talk about speedy post.
What shocked me further was just how good condition the game is in, it’s freaking PRISTINE man.
So thank you Shane, for sending me such a wonderful game and in such beautiful condition. Can’t wait to bust out my ps1 🙂
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No worries – enjoy!
So today is my third wedding anniversary, and I have no idea what I’m going to do about it. I want to get my wife something nice – according to a few minutes of googling the theme for 3 years is either leather or glass.
So yeah, I’m completely without ideas.
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You should have waited a few days to get that new Xbox.
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Damn, my tax return just had to show up a day early!
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“Honey, look what I got you! A wad of cash from the ATO minus what it cost me to get a new Xbox!”
Should work a charm 😉
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Congrats dude. I am rubbish at gifts so can’t help. If I think of anything i’ll let you know.
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Congrats! I have no ideas, sorry, but I’m in the same 3-year-boat in 36 days, so let us know what you end up with! 🙂
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Leather, eh? Whips and chains?
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I’m glad I am not the only one with my mind in the gutter..
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That was a popular suggestion that cropped up during my google searching, but where am I going to find geniune leather manacles?
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Just get some weird glass sculpture thing. They look expensive (usually because they are, but ignore that) and classy. Though they do kind of reek of “IHADNOIDEAWHATTOGETYOUSOHEREHAVESOMEART!”
Depending on what you’re spending (I’m guessing this is the lower end, but I have no idea) you could get a Galileo Thermometer. They’re glass, look pretty cool, and serve a function.
But really, I doubt I’d be much help.
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A LEATHER MONOCLE!
Thank me later.
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LEATHERED GLASS
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Left it a bit late didn’t you? 😛
As far as something you don’t have to order goes, you should be able to find some nice jewellery featuring glass or leather. There’s some really nice colours of glass jewellery around and leather doesn’t have to be black, or punk/metal looking. There’s some really nice soft white leather accessories around at the moment.
Also a leather handbag, wallet or shoes would also fit the bill.
If she likes to read a leather-bound book-cover is another idea.
Or if she loves to cook, there’s lots of glass kitchen things. This is not a good idea unless she’s obsessed with food and chefs and cookbooks and stuff. Otherwise she’ll just think you’re telling her to get back into the kitchen, barefoot where she belongs. 😉
There’s always glass or leather photo frames or albums. You could put an awesome picture of you guys in a frame.Basically you just need to think about what sort of things she likes and adapt accordingly. I’m sure she doesn’t mind too much what you get her, she wants to see that you put a lot of thought and/or effort into it.
Hope that helps. 🙂-
Oh! And make sure it’s something that shows you know her well. Don’t get something YOU want her to have, think more in terms of what SHE would want. So if you’re getting jewellery or accessories, think about her style, what she already has and make it fit in with that.
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I didn’t intentionally leave it late, it’s just we’re not really gift buying people. However I suddenly felt compelled to do SOMETHING – 3 years bridges the gap between your first anniversary and the next REAL landmark which is 5 years.
A leather-bound book sounds reasonable, though I have no idea where I’d find that kind of book in this day and age.
However, I have just recalled there might be a new book out in her favourite series. I shall hit up Kinokuniya at lunch!
Thank you for releasing my brain juices!
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Buy her a cow with poor eyesight.
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lambo-gift-making-007
What you’ll need is
– 1 leather hat
– 1 bottle of super glue
– 5 glass tumblers
Now, first, take the five glass tumblers and throw them onto the ground. Next cover the hat in super glue. Finally, roll the hat around in the smashed fragments of glass. Leave to dry for a few minutes. And Viola! You have a glass coated leather cap! The perfect third anniversary gift!
😛
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I’m so sorry Reply Button, I didn’t mean to… 🙁
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This is the best gift idea I have ever seen.
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Just make sure the glass goes on the outside of the hat…
Hey!
Nobody answered my question on Page 1!
“So is that special pre-order version of Xenoblade Chronicles with the red classic controller only an instore thing, or will I get it if I order from Ozgameshop or Zavvi?”
Does anyone know? I’ve put some money aside for this but I want to make sure I get the good version and those websites have no info about the game, and pre-orders only went up a week or two ago.
If I don’t find out soon I’ll have to spend the money on Dr. What’s t-shirts instead!!
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Purely speculation: Chances are you won’t be able to grab the bundle w/controller from Ozgameshop. From reading their Whirlpool rep’s posts, they find that any bulky stuff turns out to have pretty terrible postage costs, which severely cuts into their profit and the savings any customer would get. Though I’ll throw in a post on Whirlpool asking anyway.
Zavvi… I’m not sure. I think I’ve read that some collector editions can go through, but other times it’ll pop up with a message that “This item is only available for delivery in the UK” or something similar. -
No idea. Try emailing Ozgameshop, or ask on the Whirlpool forums (probably in an Ozgameshop thread, the Xenoblade one is kind of dead). There’s an Ozgameshop employee who frequents those boards and seems to be mighty helpful with these sort of questions.
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Combo pack is exclusive to GAME and Gamestation in the UK.
Both stores are owned by GAME, so their prices are exactly the same. Gamestation definitely ship overseas and I’m pretty sure GAME do too if you’re interested.
No word availability in Aus.
Hope that helped you out 🙂
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Try emailing Zavvi, they’re usually pretty prompt with replies. Provided they’re awake, given the time difference.
Hello Taybies,
I daresay my shameless gaming month has been a tremendous failure for myself.
I have, however, gotten a phenomenal amount of music work done.
I actually rage quit a music remix last night. The singer was so horrendously terrible and the acapella was stitched together like a frankenstein of autotuned madness.
I wanted to punch myself.
Are people still interested in doing recurring Borderlands gaming? There hasn’t been much interest in it lately so I’ve skipped the past two sessions and nobody has really said anything.
Also, are we still on for doing the Hot Pursuit and Trackmania sessions?
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I will probably be busy tonight, but I’m still interested in the recurring Borderlands thing. Though I may start from scratch, as I’m guessing the character data is locally stored.
And you rage-quit a remix… Wow.
What possessed you to attempt such a thing in the first place?
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im keen, but its hard to do this during shameless gaming time as ive been working on that.
Im keen for a trackmania challange though… Ill get back into borderlands once July is over.
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so if I set a date in early August for the trackmania gathering, what’s a good time for you?
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Trackmania is good for anytime after 8-9pm for me.
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I’m in for trackmania, fo’ sho’ (free version of course)
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I was thinking of Hot Pursuit for tomorrow night. Will that work?
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Tomorrow is good for me!
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Awesome, tomorrow is grand for me!
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eyeskimming the page i read this as you tried to remix a Kei$ha song and wanted to touch yourself ;P
Was worried for a second there…
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Worried about the remix or worried about me touching myself?
Because I’m doing one of the two, but I won’t tell you which one just to make it more interesting!
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Acually the remix!
the other is pretty much just assumed 😉
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haha. Who was the indie artist?
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L,aura warwick…
Never doing that again 😐
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Team Fortress 2 playdate nao!
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Well, I’m still interested in regular Borderlands gaming, if you are. Although, my next two weeks are a little packed full of things.
Last Thursday, I made an attempt at hassling you about Borderlands, and then you abruptly went offline. You might have come back online, but I didn’t notice. I just ended up lurking in a TS conversation for the rest of the night.
Yesterday was a different story. I was, unfortunately, not at home.
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Oops, my apologies. That totally wasn’t intentional and I missed your message.
I spent the night switching between my netbook and laptop as I was getting the games on steam ready for my Brissy trip.
Didn’t mean to ignore you!
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Wow. I’m really not feeling very good at the moment.
Having my lunch (sushi) and just feeling completely off kilter. Damn you body! You better not be infected with GUILT because I doubt any doctors in Brisbane have the Healing Touch.
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Wash it down with a questionable taco!
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I don’t see how fish tacos are going to help.
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Or a Kebab! Might have to wait till early morning to get the good ones though.
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Hey,
So I kinda got access to the US XBL. Im wondering if anyone else has it and if so, what indie games are MUST haves?
Anything else of note on US XBL that I should get?… does Kinect Voice work?
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I haven’t bothered to buy any indie games but I MADE A GAEM WITH ZOMB1ES IN IT!!11!! (or whatever) is an amusing demo. There’s a whole bunch of indie Rock Band songs that you can’t get here. Some of the demos are exclusive (e.g. Catherine at the moment). You can also get free avatar items and so on when they run promotions (Reese’s Pieces Halloween. Woo!). I’ve heard that Kinect voice control works but don’t have one to test with.
So on the whole there isn’t a whole bunch of compelling exclusive content, but you can still get all the same stuff as here for less money. So that’s a win for me.
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Woah – insta-approved comment? I’M MAGIC!!!
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He’s a witch! A witch!
Burn him!
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Oh, and that Doritos game that wasn’t Crash Course is US only. Harm’s Way I think it was called?
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Cool.
I will try out Kinect over the next few days with it.
Im also going to try out fortresscraft demo, just to see how minecraft would play out on a console (I think not well).
If anyone else thinks of anything, let me know. I’m only using it for exclusive stuffs so doubt i’ll use it often, and even with the higher price of points, i will stick with the aussie store for now.
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Has anyone watched the latest episode of Breaking Bad?
If yes, what did you think of Badger and Skinny Pete’s detailed debate about the various zombies in video games?
I think Badger’s wrong, just because Left 4 Dead calls their zombies “infected” doesn’t mean they aren’t zombies.
Remember that day when they stopped approving comments? Good times…
Just met my new little niece for the first time. Her comedic timing is perfect. We were halfway through eating sandwhiches and my girlfriend offered to take her so that my sister could eat. The mistake was passing her over the table, and at the moment of exchange, the little one decided that she indeed had too much milk in her little tummy and decided to remedy the situation.
Her ‘remedy’ went all over the majority of the food on the table. Luckily I had already eaten, and did not take as much offence as the other family members present.
I’d say that it was legen-dairy, but that may be milking it.
Got Darksiders in the mail today Shane!! Many thanks indeed! I shall give this game the love I’m sure it deserves!!
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If you were to truly give it the love it deserves than you would never take it out the box!
*BA-DUM-TISH!*
Thank you, thank you, I’m here all night. Well, not really. Just ducking in and out every now and then.
YAY got my AssBro copy in the mail today!! Can’t wait to go home and get some of that AssBro action…
On another note, has anyone here got a copy of Fear 3 on Xbox? WOuld love to go through the campaign co-op if anyone’s interested??
And on ANOTHER note, no one wants a free pair of glasses????????? WTF????
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-118/comment-page-2/#comment-325061
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I think “AssBro” is the greatest abbreviation in the history of video games!
My wife is hiding a copy in the house somewhere that I don’t get to open until Sunday and I can’t wait – even though I haven’t finished II – I really want to try out the Multiplayer.
Dear Kotaku.
Please approve my comments.
Especially the one about me touching myself.
Thank you.
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Dear Kotaku,
Please don’t. For the sake of the children.
Oh won’t someone please think of the children!
Thank you.
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Dear AP,
*Krogan headbutt*
You’re welcome!
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Dear Schtamperrific,
A little lower, and a lot softer.
Thank you.
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Dear AP,
*Canine belly rub*
I feel dirty.
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Any further responses to this will give Kotaku an R rating and ban it from Australia.
Let’s hold off while NSW gets its political shit together, and we’ll come back to this comment when the rating is in place.
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I think Mark might have some stickers for you to put on it….
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*slaps on a sticker*
So, Schtampy ol’ boy… seeing as you’re down there, is a red rocket out of the question?
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Gnawww chest snuggles!
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I tried chest-snuggling someone once, it didn’t go down to well. The random mid-twenties girl I chose as my victim thought it was “inappropriate” or some such. My face really hurt after that…
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Dear AP,
Disregard job, acquire time to complete remix.
Thank you.
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But new job gives me so many moneys!
Shapes, I’m out of shapes!
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Consult Bish, the Shapes-master!
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New shapes needed STAT! Be there… or be square. Maybe you need to use a triangle to call for more shapes. I dunno, I’m just giving what I think to be well-rounded suggestions.
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For a brand of biscuit called shapes they don’t have any circles. What did they think that the regular shapes like circles, squares were to plain?
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They wanted more of an edge.. so what do they do? Add more edges! Hexagons!
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bahahaha!!
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Two words:
Chicken Crimpies.
I don’t even know if I’m spelling that right… but it brings back memories of shape binges in my youth.
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Pretty sure In A Biskit did round ones. Potato flavour.
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Potato flavour? Like chips? So they’re like chip-flavoured biscuits?
I am confuse.
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I think we are all too addicted to shapes!
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My snack drawer has never been so full!
http://i56.tinypic.com/sfdtex.jpg
(Now with more graininess and blurring!)
I’m paralysed by choice!-
lol dear lord you’re ready for a war, aren’t you?!
Not that I can talk, mine is in a similar state, except with Tim Tams. God I love tim tams.
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I was going to be all “COME AT ME, BRO!”, but then I google image searched, and figured it would turn out like this:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2090bix.jpgAlso, I would store stuff like Tim Tams in there too (Oh man, Tim Tam Slams with tea, yesssss) but in Summer the drawer pretty much sits in direct sunlight, and boy, from experience, I can say chocolate and candy does not like 40+ degree heat.
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We’re not so different, you and I.
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I am going to steal that. All of it.
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COME AT ME, BRO!
Totally works this time.
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In the process of moving shapes from the packet to ones mouth, does one become a shape-shifter?
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Talk to Blaghman, he might share.
I could have sworn there was an article bout the 3DS on Amazon on the front page a moment ago….
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Oh…it’ on page 3.
Don’t you hate it when you leave your computer unattended and someone comes and moves all your tabs so they can check Facebook!!!!-
Yeah, or midget amputee porn. Then they leave it up on the screen so people think YOU were looking at it…
damn other people… yeah…
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Hahaha here’s a completely loaded “interview” with Jim Wallace ACL and Katherine Spackman (who happens to be the ACL’s PR Officer)
What a load of tripe, seriously!
http://australianchristianlobby.org.au/wp-content/uploads/PolSpot110726-Part-1.mp3
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I can’t bring myself to listen, but the words “echo chamber” come to mind…
Ok Page 4 belongs to the Stamp apparently..
I just realised…
It’s Tuesday..
and there’s something missing from TAY this week..
DUBSTEP INTERLUDE!!!!!
WOBWOBWOBWOBWOB
Ok my disclaimer is FIRSTLY I don’t class this as dubstep per se, it’s Borgore and he really DID ruin dubstep.. not a great producer and it’s his dirty lyrics that keep him in the limelight..
So why am I posting this track? Cause the video was shot entirely in Sydney when he toured here a few months back, and my really hot friend Lana features.. you will see her as the first chick miming the chorus. Pretty naughty song/clip, so NSFW mode is [ON]
Artist: Borgore
Track: Someone Else’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rydzmD5aL2Q&feature=player_embedded
Enjoy!
WOBWOBWOBWOBWOB!!!!
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Really hot eh?
Perhaps one-on-one dubstep tutelage sessions are in order? Wobbity wob?
I’m tempted to click even though I’m at work. What’s a good way to explain away dirtiness?
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Wanna hear a really dirty joke?
No seriously, it’s really, really dirty.
Read on…
There was this really white, purest white you could ever imagine, piece of paper. It was like, full white.
It fell in mud.
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So, this humour thing…
not so easy amirite? :p
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Harli, this is a frickin’ family channel, you should be ashamed!
I bet it was all those violent video games you play that made you do this… 😛
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what can I say I’m a regular menace to society
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Research????
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*click*
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Say it’s Transformers pron.
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please please please bring chaterine to aus ma15+, as i don’t think we’ll get R before it comes
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Import, yo.
S’what all the cool kids (sans-Sughly) are doing.
Link for your pleasure
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/catherine-game-ps3
I’m not sure on the situation on the 360 front. I think it’s only available in the States & Japan, so it’ll be region protected.
Failing both of those you can come to my house, stand outside my window and watch me play my copy. In the rain. While hiding in a bush.
I hid in a bush once after I drunkenly walked a girl home from a bar. She asked me inside and I declined but then went and stood in the park next door to her house and watched the lights go on behind her curtains.
True story.
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Sometimes I get a bit worried that I let you anywhere near my kids. 😛
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I think after the “MY CHAIR” shenanigans on the weekend, Dan should be afraid of your children, not the other way around :p
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I’ll be honest, I’m more surprised that she wasn’t so worried about having you near her children.
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I am afraid of micro-mini-strange. He had a look in his eye when he claimed that chair…
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In other news, last night I removed the caps lock key from my shiny new mechanical keyboard.
I can disable it in OS X but I don’t know how to do that in Win 7, so simply removing the infernal button seemed like the best option.
Who needs cruise control? WHEN I ENGAGE COOL MODE I HAVE THE PEDAL TO THE METAL YEAH! Shift into overdrive and other such things.
BTW, this does not physically damage the keyboard in any way. I’m not that stupid. Almost that stupid, but not that stupid.
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In Alice Madness returns, Caps lock is the ‘lock on’ key, so if I was ever talking to someone whilst playing, I’d be all HEY LOOK I AM SHOUTING
oh whoops, sorry, playing alice
SO HOW ABOUT THAT THING
augh wat, stupid alice
ANYWAY god dammit i need to rebind this key
*next day*
HOWS IT GOING
DAMMITTrue story, currently in talks with J K Rowling to dramatise it. I guess she has nothing to do these days, and probably didn’t get much money from her last series.
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But you know about the major downside of not having a caps key, right?
When you attempt to type your name using only your nose, you don’t get to use a capital letter at the start!
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You could use Sticky/Filter Keys… and take a really long time.
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This is main reason that humans evolved tongues.
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Really? I thought we evolved tongues so we could perform cunni-…
nope, this is too easy.
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A secondary, and somewhat necessary, reason for evolving the tongue was so that the :p emote makes any sense.
Somewhere long down the list is the ability to taste, communicate and sexually please women. Mainly the hitting shift while typing with your nose thing though.
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*pleasing
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Now, I’ve got quite a limber tongue, or so I’ve been told (ladies), and my nose isn’t exactly small, but I think I’d need to use my ear to hit some keys…
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it is also a thermometer that warns you if food is way too hot way too late.
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lololol
Too true.
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Countdown to Jelly… in 5… 4… 3…. 2
I am 1/2 hour away from starting 2.5 weeks of leave from work. I have a party this weekend to get ready for (wifey and I both turned 30 within 9 days of each other) but then I have 2 solid weeks where wife is at work and son is at day care where I really have no plans… Gaming and other stuff…. AWESOME!
…1…. You may now be Jelly.
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Me = Jelly TAYbie
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Was just going to post a picture of jelly, but this is much better:
http://thesomewhatambitious.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/stpauls2.jpeg
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Not so jelly because I just finished a month’s break between semesters not so long ago. 😛
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I’m more jealous that you managed to type all that in less than a second!
Them’s some mad wpm you got there.
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Tad. xD
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So… borderlands again? 😀
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Jealous I am.
Citizens of Kotaku, I’m feeling sickness coming on. WAT DO.
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Do what I do when I’m feeling sick, stop feeling sick, and be awesome instead!
Also Bacon. I doubt it will help, but always bacon.
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Get a dozen packs of the high strength cold and flu (you may need to get one or two packs from multiple stores, just to, uh, stock up), and fire up your chemistry set, preferably in a clean environment, but a grungy garage with blocked windows will also suffice.
… If you guys never hear from me again, it probably has nothing to do with the police arresting me for googling “How to make Meth with cold tablets” researching for this joke.
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It’s all them vegetables in your diet!
YOU NEED MOAR MEAT!
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Serz Answer: Garlic.
Whenever I feel the onset of illness coming on, I start eating garlic like crazy. I throw it into everything I make; omelettes, chicken, on pizza etc.
It is highly recommended you do not partake in any social endeavors afterwards, though.
And remember, always wash your berries before you eat them.
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Bacon, meth, garlic and no vegetables. Sounds like the perfect friday night.
Hmm, I’ve been too quiet the though the latter part of today…
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Huh. I have nothing to say. I feel so un-cool. Do you know what I spent today doing? Reading Kotaku, eating shapes, and winning (losing) at Shogun 2. I… I think I need a job… (but a desk one this time, more than 2 hours without TAY makes me sick)
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“the though the”
Uhhh…
I think that’s supposed to read as “through the” but I honestly have no idea. I really should start proofreading…
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I too like to throw random words into my sentences to see if vestibule anyone is paying attention.
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bawble has completed Portal 2 singleplayer and co-op! One game off the shameless gaming list : )
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Anyone has Portal 2 on 360 for the “Friends List With Benefits” achievement?
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Ive seen you play Portal 2 and gone awww I wanna play! But sadly I don’t have the game 🙁 I hope to remedy that soon! But in answer to your question no I don’t.
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I do.
I don’t use my 360 much at the moment but if you want to specify a time I’ll jump on and get you some chevos.
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Come on get down with the sickness.
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Open up your hate and let it flow into me.
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And we’re the three best friends that anybody could have!
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Just imagined the lead singer of distubed swapping in your ‘updated’ lyrics Harli.
Made me snort into my coffee.
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It works surprisingly well when you try the Richard Cheese version.
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Wow. What is this…I don’t even…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2704914069624298394#
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Oh man, I thought for a moment we had accounts for Kotaku! The new Kotaku AU Mobile site uses your WordPress Avatar thingy, so my face is visible on mobile site. I was a bit creeped out, so now it’s the penguin. In theory. The main point of this post is to see if my avatar has changed on the mobile site.
Just ignore this.
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Also, the new mobile site is somewhat buggy. It keeps asking for an allure media login, everytime a page is loaded. When you submit a comment, it produces a dialogue box that says ‘www.kotaku.com.au Your comment was posted successfully’. And there’s no text saying it’s awaiting modification.
Oh god. I’ve been writing test cases at work for an the company is developing, and now it’s bleeding into TAY. Help!
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For an app, that is. Also, when I say it makes a dialogue box that says ‘www.kotaku.com.au’, it would probably be better to say something like ‘comment submitted, is now waiting moderation’ or something. Okay, i’ll stop now.
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So does this mean my cat-in-chicken-suit can make an appearance?
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And just to clarify, anyone who has me on their steam list knows that this (for once) is not a dirty reference.
I am a cat in a chicken suit.
and I am gorram adorable.
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Steam you is considerably cuter than real life you.
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Yes, your cat in a chicken suit will appear on the mobile site if you have a wordpress account thingy with its avater as a cat in a chicken suit. And you also have to use the same email when commenting on here as your email with your wordpress account.
Yep.
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Rightio, I haven’t forgotten about my writing “duties”. Look, here’s a hastily written blog post about Shameless Gaming.
Also, I don’t know if my keyboard has input lag or if Chrome just doesn’t like how fast I type but this is started to get a little annoying with my trying to type and seeing that the words aren’t keeping up.
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HELLS YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you played Zork Nemesis, Strange?
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I own Zork Nemesis, but I first played it when it came out, and I was young, and confused, and it scared me, so I haven’t played it since.
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I am the same. Looking back now in hindsight and reading the storyline, I can see why. The asylum place scarred me for life.
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I never got past the very first are bit, with the people and the stuff…
I think it was all a little too complex for my six year old brain…
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Holy mother of… this man is just genius. He’s done a whole series of TMNT paintings and they are just… just, perfection.
Gallery here: http://davidrapozaart.deviantart.com/gallery/
My personal fave – an absolutely stunning pic of April. Just amazing. GAH! http://davidrapozaart.deviantart.com/art/April-O-Neil-202996505?q=gallery%3Adavidrapozaart%2F8512856&qo=10
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Wow. Those are absolutely incredible. That April pic is incredible, but the turtle ones are just… wow. The amount of work that went into them must be staggering.
Thanks for sharing!
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Dave Rapoza is quite amazing, I first saw his stuff with Super Meat Boy:
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/07/super-meat-boy-pc-box-art-is-a-nightmare-made-tangible/
Talented man is talented.
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Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooah.
That April one is incredible!
Also Splinter. And Casey Jones. Oh hell, they’re all amazing.
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Seen these on RampagedReality
They never cease being awesome
Hello, I’ve unexpectedly been asked by my dad to come down and help him in his small business for most of the day today. Yay. So, I probably won’t be able to write cheapskate today. Is anyone else available to do it for me? Please? Pretty please? 🙂
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“Be really cheap, don’t buy stuff!”
Or are these things meant to be more than six words long?
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Time is money, and typing out more words means more time, hence more money. So bsaically, you can write a cheapskate as follows:
Buy cheap games.
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Just sharing. I got a tweet from the Backbreaker people asking for more videos. So i decided to make this. Quality is rubbish as i used my phone for the capture but I still like it.
I must invest in video capture cards…. Is there ever going to be a competition where a video capture set up is the prize.. that would be sweet 😉
I did the recording and editing and compression last night and it took MUCH longer than I expected. *sweepy*
Anyway, here it is.
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Yeah, you’d be surprised just how much time it takes to get a video ready for something like a Let’s Play.
I have to record it, convert the video with Handbrake (depending on length this takes from half an hour to a few hours), import the converted video to iMovie (which again can take several hours), edit the imported movie, export the video and upload to YouTube for group recording, record audio, edit audio in, adjust sound levels, export video and then upload the final video to YouTube.
In hindsight, I should probably find a better way to do this, but these are the tools I have available to me.
Does anyone know how to schedule downloads in Steam? I need to stop using up my peak download quota but there are a fair few games I need to redownload. Halp?
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Not doable yet.
They said it, as well as differential patching and improved download capacity and stuff was coming though.
Most people have using Windows Task Scheduler as a substitute, so maybe there’s something similar for Mac?-
This is for my Windows machine.
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Thanks. That looks like it should do the trick quite nicely.
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I think my first reply got eaten by the spam filter, let me try that again.
I don’t think the internal option has come yet, it will come sometime soon though. I use Shutter to schedule downloads right now, http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=882373&page=2
Mrs Strange!
I posted a reply for you on the last page but I’ll do it again in less detail here
The Xenoblade + Red Classic Pro combo is exclusive to GAME and Gamestation in the UK.
Both sell the game online so if you really want it, you’ll have to order it from them.
Hope this helped.
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Also, OzGameShop’s Whirlpool representative says:
“We will definitely be stocking Xenoblade (it’s already available for pre-order on the site in fact) but we’re having some trouble getting stock for the special edition. However, if we do manage to get it, it will definitely be on the site ASAP.”
Bit of a non definite answer, but I suppose the exclusivity of the bundle explains why they’re having trouble trying to grab stock of it.-
I’m like… 12 hours late here…
But I love that OzGameShop have a ‘Whirlpool representative’.
Send an emissary to the geeks! \o/
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Oh! I got busy yesterday and forgot to reply. Sorry.
Yeah, you were super helpful. I was really impressed seeing as I mentioned I’d have to use up that Xenoblade money on your shirts if nobody helped me. 😛-
No worries, you can always buy a shirt later.
Also, you might feel more inclined to buy if I’m helpful 🙂
I’ve ordered from Gamestation.co.uk before and have no complaints. I’d grab this if it wasn’t for the fact that I currently have twice as many Classic controllers as I have wiimotes.
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Yay, Batguy was right!
http://majornelson.com/2011/07/26/coming-soon-to-the-xbox-live-marketplace-7/
50% off of ME2 DLC (talk about perfect timing), for Lair of the Shadow Broker, Kasumi’s Stolen Memory and Arrival. All 3 add up to 960 points. Should I get all 3 of them? I plan on getting LotSB, because everyone says that is awesome, but not sure about the other two.
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Get them all. Arrival is sort of meh but Kasumi’s mission and Kasumi herself are pretty cool.
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Kasumi is really cool, I’d love to…..
WAIT dawdle is watching me!
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I was asking a friend about this just last night!
He found Kasumi more ‘fun’ than Overlord, and enjoyed her as a character, and Arrival seems important story-wise.
But bah, PC version. I need to fumble around with Bioware points. /o\-
But you have a drawer full of Shapes! \o/
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THIS IS TRUE
I opened two boxes last night, Tomato and Chilli and the fancy Salt n’ Vinegar one.
So good.
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Haha, oops – I just posted this without reading through the previous pages! Oh well, guess it will only improve the chances of helping somebody out.
Glad I was able to save you a few bucks.
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bawble/CrabJiffy got the Arrival DLC last night! 50% off seems too good to pass : )
I bought street fighter 4 from zavvi a few weeks ago and it arrived yesterday. I pit it i’n my xbox last night and it wouldn’t read,Took it out to clean. The disc was scratched. Not happy wanted to play
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Hey dude, is that the one with Ken and Ryu on the cover.. I think it is.
You have been such a champ to me personally. I wont go into details but you have been so generous that I’d like to repay you. Seriously you have always impressed me with just how quickly you offer to help.
So hows this, I’ll give you a 360 version of Street fighter IV and a WWE Brawl stick… all yours, for free!
Let me know where you are mate and i’ll try to organise getting it to you.
Before you say anything, the brawl stick was a prize from the WWE comp and while I love it, I never play fighting games. I actually bought SFIV specifically for the stick but then realised that I dont do fighting games all that much.
So yeah, its yours buddy, just send me an e-mail with the details.
Here it is
http://i52.tinypic.com/r0cxdx.jpg-
I love this place. You are awesome.
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Wow that’s awesome FatShady! A heart of gold you have good sir 🙂
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To start with, OMG this place is rad, tell me any other place on the internet where people give things to other people just because they are generous people.
Secondly Fat shady Dude you are the Kotaku champ. I can’t believe how generous you are. So you know what I want to be generous as well. Out of nowhere your gonna get hit in the face with a present. Send me you details by email though :). I will not send you my details until you send me yours. Because a Rocketman always pays his debts and random acts of kindness.
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Step 1) Go to EB Games.
Step 2) Buy Street Fighter
Step 3) Swap discs
Step 4) Return game for refund
Step 5) WIN!Also add “????” and “PROFIT” steps if needed.
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Hmmm – would work well unless they check the disc and see no “PG” marker. Then again I once bought a second hand copy of Crackdown at game and the attentant put in a new copy of Crackdown 2 by mistake!
I didn’t complain!
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Matthew Kermeen, how did your anniversary gift-giving go? Did you try Lamboman’s amazingly awesome DIY idea? 😀
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No, I wound up getting her a book. While I don’t know how I’ll go another day without a glass-coated leather hat, the book was more practical and presented a smaller risk of serious eye trauma.
Neither of us are fans of eye trauma, which is why the “Eyes Cold Lemonade” episode of Happy Tree Friends is the only one that makes us uncomfortable.
Blaghzy, I’ll be down at Canberra Hospital tomorrow if you wanted to.. I don’t know. Just thought I’d mention it.
Also I read how cold Canberra is at the moment. Does not want.
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Meet up and play Time Crisis!
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I’ll go down and stab him early tomorrow morning.
He’ll meet you there.
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Pshh, Canberra’s fine at the moment, it’s about 7 degrees! WARM!
And AP, I have ways of getting inside the hospital that don’t involve personal pain. However Harli, I can’t really think of stuff to stuff stuff stuff…
Believe it or not, that sentence made sense in my head…
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You can play Back to the Future!!! Isn’t Canberra stuck in the 1950’s? 😛
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I thought that was WA!
I hear they’ve got this new fangled ‘dial-up’ these days! -
I don’t know what era we live in, but, no jokes, 50% of the working population of the ACT are employed by the government. HALF! WHY? More importantly, why can’t I get a cushy government job?
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Harli walks out of hospital as Blaghman rolls by on a skateboard, holding the back of a passsing pick up truck. He waves nochalantly with a casual hairflick.
Harli : “He’s an absolute dream…”-
Sadly my hair’s too long for a casual hair flick, it just looks like I have a twitch. It’s all or nothing, baby.
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NotoriousR (and anybody else after half Mass Effect 2 DLC):
The Arrival, Lair of the Shadow Broker and Kasumi: Stolen memories are all half price.
Go get them, you won’t regret it!
So it turns out that making a US XBL account was insanely easy.
I have indie games now which i can play on my Aussie profile. Not sure if there are any worth getting, but I did take Batguys advice and DL harms way as a freebie.
There is not much difference and you still cant get ESPN for example as it can detect your location (via IP I guess) but the downloads are fine. Just need to buy some US mspoints. I just wanted to see what the quality was like for indie games. Pretty decent. App store rubbish but a few gems in there. I think it is funny, but heaps more integration with Avatars when compared to the other non indie games.
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Yeah, I set up a US account a long while back. Keep forgetting to use it despite the awesometacular name, TankeeDiddle.
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*YankeeDiddle
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I just went with the boring option of “Batguy US”. I do love the random names it comes up with though, they’re gold. My brother’s handle is AssortedBiscuit, and randoms I have taken in the past include UnivalentFaun and WeedyKookamunga. Kerazy.
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My brother uses his ‘recommended’ name from XBL… TaxingJellyfish.
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lol…
I went with FatShady LiveUS. Just easy to remember
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I prefered the first one. Had more “Tank”.
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Just make sure the yanking consents before any diddling begins.
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if you’re in need of American PSN points I can help you there.
I have a small export service I provide and regularly get cards for Jamie What? all the time.-
Sorry, What? corrected me, I can also get XBLA cards for people that need them as well
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I am interested in getting a 1000 US points so let me know what you got and what price. Let me know what the 500 and the 1600 go for, not sure what cards you can get?
thanks
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I’m also interested, particularly if you can beat http://maximuscards.com/ (my usual source).
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Unfortunately I might not be able to beat them all the time and only match them. Right now I can get XBLG for 48.99
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I can get you XBL or XBLG, the first I can only do in 1600 (19.99USD) and 4000 (49.99 USD), and gold for 3 month sub for 20.00 USD and 12 month sub for 50.00 USD. Some times I can get them a little lower than that too, and I can email you the code ASAP. I do ask for a small fee but that depends on the price and is nothing too dear.
They used to allow gifting options on XBL which would have increased the range between 400-4000 but it has since disappeared:/ -
so if you’re still interested let me know and i’ll check the price and just grab the card and only charge you for what the amount is for the card, entice you to buy other things from the states ;D
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Shameless Gaming Month Update
Haven’t finished anything. I still maintain my theory that Valve added the Summer Sale just to mess up Shameless Gaming Month.
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Also AHAHAHA at everyone who are stuck in the past on page 4.
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who is*
I think.
Arrgghhh now I’m talking to myself.
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I don’t understand what you are talking about.
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Stop laughing at me! (runs off sobbing) 🙁
😛
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I will jon your group of shameful gamers with no pineapple slices.
I’ve been busy making beautiful music to serenade people on balconies with*.
*not really
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D’:
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It’s alright person on balcony…
AND I-I-I-I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU-EEE-OOO-EEE-OOWOOO I CAN’T HELP LOVING YOU!
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***Stands under persons balcony, in the rain, boombox aloft***
IN YOUR EYES!!!!THE LIGHT!! THE HEAT!!!
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Well, I can comment again, meaning that the hazing of the Kudos winner seems to be over, though the dozen or so comments I made yesterday are still in the ether…
Mark has said he will dig for them (thanks Mark!), but don’t worry, I don’t think you missed much.
Harli and welbot, I’m very glad you received your games! 🙂
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Mine still hasn’t arrived but that will be due to the fact that I live/work in a remote area. Will let you know when it does!
That or Jan, the 60 year old admin lady had stolen it. I bet she’s a closet gamer. You may fool everyone else with your niceness amd grandma-like charm, baking cookies for everyone..
Cookie? Why thank you Jan, now where was I…
…I’m onto you Jan!
A reply to fatshady and his giant heartbone.
To start with, OMG this place is rad, tell me any other place on the internet where people give things to other people just because they are generous people.
Secondly Fat shady Dude you are the Kotaku champ. I can’t believe how generous you are. So you know what I want to be generous as well. Out of nowhere your gonna get hit in the face with a present. Send me you details by email though :). I will not send you my details until you send me yours. Because a Rocketman always pays his debts and random acts of kindness.
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Was that last sentence a Game of Thrones (TV) reference?
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winter is coming
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OK, so im on leave today and I am finally a bit relaxed and getting back to my normal self.. so I’m giving stuff away!
Next item:
Forza 2 (Xbox 360 obviously)…
Anyone want it just let me know…
Seriously work has been so damn hard lately it has taken a toll. I have actually got grey hairs (on my head AP.. you dirty man!) I finally have some time up my sleeve so want to give a little back!
If there is more than one person that wants it you will have to either fight to the death, of just do something funny?
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Hahaha, no way. Of all the games to pick – here’s what I think of Forza 2!.
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PS: In no way is my scoffing a reflection on your generosity. In fact, I look forward to exploitingImeanbenefitting from it at some point today!
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Funny. It is actually a really good game… it can also be used as a frisbee.
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The reason why I’m using it in that way is actually deducible from the picture… can you work it out?
Funny coincidence though, as it’s the only game disc I have with me at work.
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Well done, you get a prize! FatShady is handing them out below.
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OK, next item (I should say that this is in part inspired by Shane so thanks to you also buddy)
Deco Devolution: The Art of Bioshock 2
It is a 167 page hard cover book that details the art of the game. Anyone who has played this knows that it has a very unique and detailed art style and the book was very interesting. Im not a big art guy but I know that many of you would be interested in this.
http://i53.tinypic.com/2u9ljdx.jpg
So again, let me know. If there are more than one… you know the drill…
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As someone who own it, it is a sexy, sexy, art book.
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Dear past Blaghman,
putting tense into words is very important, because without it, you end up looking like an idiot.Cheers,
Present Blaghman.P.S. Stop procrastinating, it just makes life harder for future us.
owns*
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I do like sexy, sexy art (it’s sexy, right?) and I enjoyed both Bioshocks, so I should probably put my hand up to say that I’m interested!
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It’s yours! E-mail me your details and I’ll try sending it off this week. Unless you are coming out campbelltown way any time soon?
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It’s a bit belated but I just wanted to publicly thank Anonymous Pessimist for being such a non-scary houseguest. I was a bit nervous as I’d never met him but it turned out I’d had no need to be.
Pessimist, you’re part of the family now and if you don’t come back and visit K will be devastated. 😀
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You thought I was scary?
I’m gorram adorable!
I had a lot of fun though, thanks for having me! The Kmeister is quite the feisty little bugger, though we have differing views on nap time.
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I’d also like to add I’m vey proud of not swearing for an entire weekend.
Anyone who knows me knows how difficult this was.
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Well I know you’re adorable NOW. 😛
And yes, nice work with the G-rated language. Before I had kids I had a mouth fouler than a fishwife and it was really hard work reining it in.-
We say the letter F alot in our house.
“F! I just kicked my toe!!!”
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Isn’t nap time all the time? Or is that just me(I only got up at 11 today, god I suck at this)?
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Some would say that being able to get up at 11am on a Wednesday is doing it right.
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This would be why you can’t get the govt job 😉
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… Damn.
I’d like to point out that I managed to get up for 7am starts at my labourer job, it’s just that unemployment does this to me…
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See that’s where the cushy gov job would be handy: get up at 8 or whatever, go to work, sleep sitting at your desk till 12, have lunch, file some papers, go home satisfied that your day was nonetheless productive.
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Man, I dunno, I might get roped into “Morning Tea.” My uncle (who used to work in the public service) was telling me about how some people managed to stretch out their Morning Tea for three hours. And then they’d complain about how swamped with work they were.
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Hey I used to work a govt job!! AND I was constantly busy. Tales of morning tea and extended breaks? I feel lied to.
Actually wait, we did have an abnormally large amount of afternoon tea farewells/birthdays…
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But was it a cushy ACT public service job?
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hmm… I don’t think so.
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Unfortunately the ACT public service isn’t all morning teas and breaks either. I am disappoint. Also, if you wanted an ACT pube job doing IT I think we have some going up soon possibly.
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BDKIAF,
I would be very interested in any jobs available, just remembering that my only qualifications are a year 12 certificate. If you do find out anything, I would be very thankful if you could pass it on.I really need employment…
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What, because I don’t take enough naps?
You government people set a high standard in napping.
Totally not just you.
And when I was your age I used to sleep from 3am to 3pm. I miss that.
Before having my second kid I used to just go back to bed for a while after taking my daughter to school. I miss that too.:P
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Bahahaha.
Nice.
I always find it hard to get back to sleep once I actually leave my bed, but so long as I don’t get up, I can slumber quite easily into the afternoon.
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I had the same sleeping pattern during my first uni holidays. Slept on a couch down in my parents shed in front of a tv and xbox. I lost many hours in Morrowind, and only really ventured out for snacks and beer.
I miss waking up to cocopops at 3 in the afternoon.
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Man I miss that.
Vampire sleeping patterns are the best. So much quieter and relaxed.
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Agreed, human.
*sparkle sparkle*
It’s more the staying at AP’s house I’d be worried about as I’m still not entirely sure what that noise insulating foam is for 😀
Last item I can find…
Ghost Recon 2
Advanced Warfighter (xbox 360)
Anyone want it let me know. This one is scratched but last I played it, was working fine… Your getting it for free so if its rubbish deal with it! lol
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Got any handheld games?
I’m thinking about selling some of my insanely huge anime/manga collection to help fund my new PC 🙁
Anyone be interested in that?
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Oh man, two weeks ago I had $1000 and would have totally taken some of that off your hands. Unfortunately I’ve since pretty much spent all of it (it was sooo much fun!) and won’t have a bunch of money to spend on myself for about another year. 🙁
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Why do people only sell things when I don’t have any money to buy said things with?
One of the great mysteries of the universe.
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If I hadn’t just bought a pc, I would totally get in on this. You seem to have the worst timing. :/
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How dare you, sir!
My timing is impeccable!
My PC’s timing however, leaves a lot to be desired. Things should die when, and ONLY when, I’m not going to be inconvenienced. Some people/things are just damn selfish.
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Manga? I have a friend who is pretty insane on that stuff – if you can post a list of what you have I’ll send it her way and see if she’s interested.
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What’s on offer?
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Not sure yet. Have to wade through it and see what makes the kull.
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Oh and judging by your sadface I’m guessing this is a super-reluctant sale?
You need to weigh up your need for a new PC and figure out if it’s really worth getting rid of things you love in order to get it a bit quicker.
I know from experience that selling things like that never gets you as much as money as what they’re worth to you personally, and is often an action you regret later.-
This is very true. Reluctant sales suck.
You’d almost be better off taking out a personal loan at stupid interest and paying it off slowly (though this is not official financial advice, as I don’t know your circumstances).
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Got any handheld games, per chance???
ORRRRRR, Now and then , here and there! I love that one!
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PS: If you do, shoot me an email, I’ll never see it in here!
Theres work to be done and
LUNCHTIME HAS ENDED!!!
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I hear you enjoy your intimate time in the company of ferrets.
Take THAT, Mr. “I can’t see this”!
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Man.
These Balsamic Vinegar and Sea Salt Shapes are weird.
Also, I think we should officially rename TAY to TAS. Talk About Shapes. Thanks Bish.
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The best form of edible shape is the sphere. Frugos, Jaffas and Chocolate Coconut balls. You can’t beat the sphere when it comes to edibility.
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Don’t forget fried icecream.
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I thought that once until I dared my little brother to put a whole packet of those Wonka mini Gob-Stoppers in his mouth.
He put them all in, and we were laughing, bonding, making jokes about his sexuality etc. Little did we know that sucking on a mouth full of mini-gobstoppers can cause them to stick together and make an uber gob-stopper, too large to be removed from one’s mouth.
Cue hysterical laughter. This was the best thing ever. However…
Have you ever sucked down nothing but sugary spit for 15mins? I have when I went for my first job interview and trust me, it sucks.
So there he was, a belly full of sugar-mucus and mouth full of balls (ha!) when his body decided to rectify the former.
Now remember, he couldn’t get the massive ball of sugar out of his mouth that his stomach contents were rapidly approaching. Guess what happened all over his room?
I swear I saw some come out of his nose…
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Marvelous!
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You have the best stories.
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I don’t know, I think they have just the right amount of flavouring; The vinegar isn’t too strong or weak, and it has crazy crunchiness.
ALSO
I just bought 5 more boxes of Shapes, because I figured 11 in storage wasn’t enough.
Except the guy (Daniel) charged me full price ($2.60!) for a box of Pizza Shapes! The rest were $1.30, but not them Pizza Shapes. Let me tell you, he was no Jessica. Also Renee was nowhere to be seen, again.
Tsk.Also also because I’m too lazy to make another comment, Tim Tams at Woolies is $2 a pack (99c off). Not as great as half price Shapes, but hey, cheap Tim Tams.
HAVE AT IT, PEOPLE-
I will buy more than your 16 boxes of Shapes.
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I will buy more than your buying more than his 16 boxes of shapes…
And I will hit on the checkout chick as I do it!
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20, if you count the ones I’ve already munched my way through.
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Man you’ve just convinced me to go down to woden(because they have both woolies and coles there).
The weird thing about the 2 coles I go to is that I know a moderate number of the people who work there, as for some reason people who went to my schools seem to end up with crappy checkout-chick jobs.
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Also, I said weird, not bad. They’ve certainly grown on me, and they do have a huge amount of delicious crunch.
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The shapes or the checkout chicks?
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This cheapskate junkfood-eater article was brought to you by Bish, and the letter E.
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Because everyone likes to snack or have a drink whilst gaming.
Preferably something that you don’t need to touch, either, so you don’t grease up your controllers/kb&m. Good thing Shapes come in foil packets.
Although this one time I drank some tea forgetting I had my headset on. Wet microphone? No so effective.-
The last time I attempted to use the foil packaging to my advantage (by upending it into my open mouth), I got a faceful of sharp biscuity edges.
Shapes should come with tongs.
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You’re not opening up the whole top, are you? that would be silly. If you open it from an end to about halfway, it’s a pretty decent funnel-size.
Either that or buy new face with a bigger mouth, I guess.
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Daniel? HA! Jessica is a checkout goddess compared to the likes of Daniel.
I’m starting to worry about Renee. Her heart’s just not in it anymore. It’s a shame really…
Ever have those days where you do nothing all morning and then when it comes time to actually do stuff you can’t be bothered cause you now feel so lazy?
Not productive at all.
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Yeah.
I’ve been meaning to go down to Woden (small city centre) to pick up some stuff, but I just can’t be bothered…
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You live near Woden?!!? Awesome. Whilst you’re there could you pop down to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs and apologise to a lady named Joanne on behalf of me.
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Sure thing!
Should I ask why?
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If she asks, just punch her in the nose and run away. With arms flailing.
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Well, I hadn’t read that at the time, but that’s what happened anyway…
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I call those days “days”.
All the time. The longer I sit around doing nothing, the more difficult it becomes to do anything at all.
This is why I wish I still had a PC instead of a laptop. It makes it a bit more difficult to just sit on the couch all day.
Stop describing my life! You with the laziness, and the people above talking about napping.
Yeah, it’s called a workday.
HA-CHA-CHA!
I have yet to encounter a weekday where I’ve been able to do nothing for any period of it.
+1
You just explained my life prior to marriage.
This is most definately me today. Yesterday I was thinking, I’m gonna wake up and draw like, 20 comics and just upload them and everyone will be like WOAH! And then I woke up and went meh.
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I thought that said you woke up and did meth.
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If only! Do you know how may awesome comics he would have uploaded by now if that was the case…
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It would look like Mohammed Ali did the drawings, with Uwe Boll writing the dialogue.
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*scribbles down notes – 1. source out meth dealer…*
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There’s this guy called Walter White, used to be a high school chem teacher…
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LIKE WOAH!!
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Yessss, I didn’t even have to do anything!
I have decided I am wasting my Sega megadrive that I just unsealed and now I need to sell it. Anyone here want to make me an offer before I have to eBay/Gametraders it up?
New (as in, only opened about three months ago!) with it’s boxes, manuals, a poster and an after-market RCA cable, 2x controllers and a bunch of games: Syndicate, Alien 3, Micro Machines Military, NBA JAM, Jurassic Park, Bubsy, Sonic 3, World of Illusion, Toejam & Earl. I think that’s it?
Following the links in this Gizmodo article lead me to discover Amaysim.
Haven’t heard anything about them before but for $39.90/mth you get unlimited calls and 4gb of downloads (with iPhone tethering available by default) with restrictions on things that I don’t do (international SMS etc). In terms of value, I’m struggling to see anything better than that.
Anyone know anything, positive or negative, about these guys? I’ve been looking to switch away from 3 for a long time and most telcos don’t offer great value at the $30-$40/mth price range (which is what I’m willing to pay).
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Reading Amaysim’s website does not fill me with much confidence:
Travelling overseas? International roaming is convenient and easy-to-use but can be costly. Think abotu suing a local mobile provider if you’re visiting only a few places.
I’m really starting to lean towards TPG right now, simply because I don’t use my phone that much so $20/mth seems pretty decent when it looks like I still would not use all of the $330/mth cap.
Seriously, why do they make it so hard to compare the pricing between companies? Cap dollars are effectively imaginary units of currency. For $45 you get $500 of value! No, I don’t. I get $45 worth of value but you’ve listed your prices based on that $500 figure so now I can’t easily compare that $45 plan with a competitors $39 plan which comes with “$400” worth of value at different rates.
Seriously. The cheapest option seems like a winner right now.
I love handhelds and I loathe anyone who thinks they are no longer relevant!
HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
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Do Kindles count as handhelds? Because they’re still relevant ;p
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Handheld whats?
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Any device that will play Angry Birds……
Sorry Jimu 🙂
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o/
Best part about the 3DS?
Most of the DS games on Play Asia have gone down in price. Where most decent selling DS games hung around the $30-$40 mark, most everything bar new releases have dropped about $5.
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I didn’t mean to upset you Jimu 🙁
Have just been busted checking out TAY whilst I was meant to be working. I managed to smooth it over and ‘upgrade’ TAY whilst I was at it – TAY is now a tech forum! Also if anyone asks Shapes are programming tools and the flavors are nicknames for the corresponding language, hence all the ‘tech’ discussion. I have no doubt my manager doesn’t believe a word I said, but I think he was impressed enough by my creative story to not care 🙂
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Smooth.
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BEGIN
Shapes
IF
Shapes = Nacho Cheese
THEN
Consume
ELSE
Throw a tantrum, beat table to a pulp and dance the hula
ENDYeah it’s been a while since i last programmed anything, forgive my terrible structure.
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NO SHAPES?!
SO ANGRY IMMA FLIP TABLES
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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A meme? Imma flip you for that!
(╯°□°)╯︵ ʇsıɯıssǝdsnoɯʎuouɐ
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WHILE Shapes > 0 {
Shapes —
Gloat ++
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No, no, nacho cheese didn’t work. Maybe reboot using a barbeque.
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TAY = intellectual discussion on video games, technology.. and everything about this universe. Yea.
Alright, so I got around to at least being a little bit productive today. New Procrastoonation – http://www.procrastoonation.com
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Nice.
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As always you’ve hit the nail right on the head with that one 😉 So glad you decided to start up this site! Keep up the good work!
So, I started watching Tron: Legacy last night, and I really am wondering what the animation team was doing.
Half the time, it manages to have some of the crispest, most realistic (in the sense that what it’s showing is horrendously unrealistic, but the way the “camera” picks it up gives it a great sense of reality) 3d work I’ve seen in ages, and the rest of the time? It’s Clu’s face (and the driving segment where Olivia Wilde is driving main guy thingy to his father). But seriously, why did they ever think that face was a good idea? And more importantly, why did they use straight mo-cap data? His mouth only moves in about three different ways. It’s terrifying.
But the music is good. I’ll definitely give the film that.
Sughly, I like your newest Procrastoonation!
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Absolutely agreed. I’m loving the whole series. Methinks we need to spread the word.
I’ll start by posting it on twitter!
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Thirded – i lurve you surgehellyeehehhyyy
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I also love sughly.
In a purely platonic manner.
…OR DO I?
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;D
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Nawww thanks! You guys are awesome 😀
Hey guys – obligatory Wednesday afternoon “I’m still alive” post.
I’m STILL counting at work.. it just doen’t stop.. i’m so drained and over it – all my bones hurt and i am starting to get ‘hookers knee’ from kneeling on the cement so much.
Other than that, when i’m at home i desperately struggling with uni work to try and get ahead a bit.. i really need some good scores this trimester..
On the plus side i have had some great new ideas for tees, but no time to execute them, unfortunately.
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Hooker’s Knee. Gold.
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Aww poor Loops.
I hope the counting ends soon! -
How’s that soul patch going?
Well thanks to TotalBiscuit I got some good details on how the LoL ranked system works alongside with what I already know.
After you hit level 20, a Ranked mode is available, however you can still play a Normal game which is unranked (Like what we play now) and is less stressful overall, and in Normal apparently is where you do your experimenting on your champions builds on. So no worries on ranked stats in a normal game. Ranked is also where the champions get banned too I think and not normal.
This is just for people who are not entirely aware how it works yet 🙂
Killers may play video games, but video games don’t make killers:
http://techland.time.com/2011/07/26/norway-attacks-killers-may-play-video-games-but-video-games-dont-make-killers/
Sorry to those who are weary about hearing the connection major news outlets are making between video gaming and the Oslo massacre, this is another good piece by Time.
Alright, bit late on this but here’s a short wrap up of the Bris Meat shenanigans – http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/brismeat2.jpg
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Iiiiiiiiiii like Aeroplane jellllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Aeroplane jelly for meeeeeeeeeeeeee-
*hinthintcoughcough* Real jelly for next Sydney Meats! *ahem*
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I… I guess that’s possible?
Maybe a small esky with an ice pack in it?
but then you run the risk of it being to cold and the jelly will go all gross and rubbery.
wat do /o\
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I lol’d, especially at how Dan got told off.
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I can totally visualise Endu spilling his food.
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I think it made me laugh even more since it brought back memories of a friend literally spending hours carefully choosing his lunch before dropping it all in a similar hand spasm sort of way.
I’m such a jerk.
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I fear you may have underrepresented the importance of fairy bread.
For shame.
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Haha, oh my… I did too! I intended to do something around that. Even as I drew pieces on Endu’s plate I thought yes, I have to do something on fairy bread. Meh, it’s something we all carry on in our hearts or something.
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This week’s TAY has a distinct lack of Q-Bo.
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Hmmm… you know, now you mention it, I don’t believe I have seen much if any of Q in my every so often skimming of TAY…
Talk to us Q! Show us a SIGN!
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I think he’s busy making sweet love to his new GPU…
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Week’s been made up of patchy clouds so far.
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Q-bo’s got an architect at his house today trying to figure out what they can do to make his life easier. He is alive and well, just very busy!
This update has been provided by the wonderful steam chat service and your friendly neighbourhood welbot!
Ahahaha, Sughly posted this on twitter:
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/brismeat2.jpg
Hilarious, even if you weren’t there!
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Damn, day late dollar short etc…
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Sughly.
Always.
Delivers.
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Sydney Meats has been missing your presence.
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I only missed the last two! I’m toying with the idea of a BBQ at my place but I’m worried a zillion people will turn up!
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Hell, for something like that I’d even wear pants.
Maybe.
No guaruntees.
(We didn’t have that many at the last meat, around 10 tops?)
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Ask Strange how she did it!
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In style, with fairy bread.
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Easily solved.
SELL TICKETS. Or give them to Kudos winners! 🙂
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I’d go to Sydney for that.
But only if you made butter chicken in the style of that video you did.
Because that was great.
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this is amaaazzzing!!
Oh wow, nice Zelda shirt! http://www.redbubble.com/people/pertheseus/t-shirts/7477000-the-triforce-and-a-bit-of-darkness
Following the meat, it occurs to me we need a pronounciation guys for TAYbies handles.
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Most of the names aren’t that tricky and I enjoy finding out new ways for screw my name up.
I wish to continue sheltering people in ignorance for my own amusement :p
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Tymczasowy Rzad Jednosci Narodowej?
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LOLOL!
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Close enough.
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truh-jay-en?
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When I first read your name I thought it was pronounced “Train”.
Then there was talk a few TAY’s ago about working out people’s names from their handles.
That led me to think your name was Tom because of Thomas The Tank Engine.
Then I was gonna suggest you call yourself Voldemort because of the “Tom Riddle” in your handle, and I had that line all setup for the first meat and Endu was all “This is Trojan”.
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That definitely ranks as one of the more tangential ones.
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I’ve always said Trojan. It’s stuck with me now, hope you’re fond of being associated with a giant horse!
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also, condoms.
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Fun fact: An alt account I have on an old forum is CndmBunny and I’ve been called other variations, my favourite is Prophylactic Hare.
Unfortunately, dropping the vowels from prophylactic makes Prphylctc so it isn’t necessarily a great name when the same logic used to get my current name is applied.
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As long as it isn’t the way Loki is associated with Sleipnir, most men (including myself) are perfectly fine with that association.
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*shudder*
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Shar-NAY.
Hope that helps!
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I’ll respond to anything that vaguely starts with a “duh” sound as well as my real name, for those who follow my twitter.
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Dingus?
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Duh-ingus?
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…”Bish”.
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Uhhh…
Blaghman…
uhhh…
But, just pretend the “h” isn’t there. It only exists to trick you.
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I still prefer thinking of you as “Bla”. Like someone who pops up out of nowhere and shrieks “Bla!” in your face.
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I may have done that a few times in my life…
But it’s generally more like the demented cartoon movie.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/dementedI honestly wouldn’t recommend watching that. As much as I love it.
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Gaaaah, having a lot of trouble trying to finish up some of this puzzle design in my design document for my game. So I’m calling on all you people to inspire me!
If you guys can just quickly write down either something you love about a Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen story, whether it’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of them, or whether it’s an interesting character or situation you think of, just reply dammit! Hopefully some ideas might spark for me…
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Cutting off toes to make feet fit in shoes.
…what?
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Haha, I loved that about the original Cinderella. How did Disney miss this detail?! It’s pretty much the best part.
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All witches are ugly, old and evil (not true).
As if witches were real… *sigh*-
Sure, witches SO are true, and ugly, and old. Fact.
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All except one, Hermione 😀
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Hermione is a wizardette, thank you very much.
Don’t you go calling my Hermione a witch. Them’s fighting words.
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Why don’t we build a bridge out of her to be sure?
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Ahh, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
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Well human it IS called “Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry”, so why the hell is “Witchcraft” in the slogan of Hogwarts if it’s only meant for old and ugly people… I didn’t see any of them that weren’t teachers. Perhaps you could elaborate human?
Also, “my Hermione” you say? Pfft, I think she would like a dual uzi wielding battledroid more than a pessimist that never wants to reveal his face to the public… well that’s what I gather from your handle 😛
(Oh yeah, a human challenges me, I am not backing down :P)
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Neither can date me while the other survives…
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*loads uzis and charges shields*
Challenge Accepted…
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Neither can have her whilst the other survives.
You two must fight to the death for your Granger!
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Sweet!!! How did this go so quickly from Harry Potter to the end of Double Dragon?
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Well, while they’re fighting over a fictional character, I’ll just take Emma Watson, we call cool with that? kthxbai!
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all*
*sigh* I really do live up to my title…
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The tin soldier and the paper ballerina always made me cry when i was a kid…
The little match girl was the first sad christmas story i heard.
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Ah yeah, not too familiar with the tin soldier one (I thinked I skimmed most of it, was TL;DR heh) but the matchstick girl is pretty tragic and sad.
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There are some cool elements from story or characters from Tin Soldier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steadfast_Tin_Soldier
Nice quick plot summary from wiki.
Was thinking of a constantly lighting matches game mechanic for the little girl…-
Ah yep, I like how you’re thinking! That does have potential there for sure…
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Also the Tin soldier story is quite interesting. I love all those random encounters, like the boys who put him in a paper boat or the rat who demands a toll. Then of course the situation of the soldier falling for the ballerina since they both stand on one leg, nice kind of poetry to it.
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Brothers Grimm -> Terrible movie -> Heath Ledger.
Did… I help?
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NO! >:(
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Not even for “Reasons Why I Hate The Cinema #3”?
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LOL. Ok, maybe a little.
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I love dark fairytales.
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You know I have to admit, I started this ordeal with the same thing in mind – my love of dark fairy tales. But sadly somewhere along the way I started thinking of target markets and kids and havent put much in. That’s about to change! Screw the kids.
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I think people underestimate how much “darkness” kids can handle.
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You clearly missed my comments about how freaked out I got by Zork Nemesis on page 4. That game scared me so much.
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Disney music.
What?
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Hermmmm… yeah, ok. Story wise?
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If all else fails, pull a Lion King and rip off Shakespeare.
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*scribbles down notes*
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Umm, I just found out that the PS3 plays PS1 discs. MGS TIME!!
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Oh Veegee!
*cue laughter track, then family sitcom music*
Wow, talk about a dick move…
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-comics-for-comics-flashpoint-110726.html
How long before EA or Activision do something like this…..?
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Did someone call my name?
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I really hope there is a man out there by that name who looks out for people being jerks, then sidles up saying “Hello!”
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“Hi, I don’t think we’ve been formally introduced yet but you seem pretty familiar with me. I’m Dick Move, here’s my card.”
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Any Avatar fans out there? (Not James Cameron’s Avatar)
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/25/the-last-airbender-legend-of-korra-teaser-video/
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I meant to post that earlier.
So awesome.
Why must it only be 1:42 long? I want the whole season. Right now. Actually not now, at some point in the recent past so that I will have watched it and am still feeling all gushy over the awesomeness.
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YES! More Avatar is always a good thing.
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Excuse me.
I need to change my pants.
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Since when did you wear pants?
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I had to leave the house today to buy some Shapes. Thus, pants.
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Dear Kotaku,
Could you please send me my username/password for “Allure Media Border Authentication”. I seem to have misplaced mine.
Warm regards,
Harli
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It’s –
WAIT A MINUTE!
(Yeah, I know. We did some major transferring of stuff to other stuff last night. I don’t know the details, but we’re still ironing out some stuff.)
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I think the username is admin and the password is password.
I’ve been using that for months to occasionally rig Community Kudos and other such shenanigans.
Err… I mean, can’t help you there.
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Hello!
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Greetings! My friends are well-associated with you.
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My router password is almost “awesomepassword”, because I figured smart people would figure even stupid people wouldn’t have “password” as part of their password.
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Is it “Aws0mePassw0rd”?
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I was going to quip that that would be silly and that it is in fact [password here], and the joke would be that it’s an equally terrible password, but I’ve honestly forgotten what it is exactly. I have it written down on a piece of paper next to the computer somewhere, though.
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Is it “Abacus”?
It it “Activity”?
…..
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Is it “Beer”?
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Oh! Hey look, I found the piece of paper with the router details.
“awesomepasswordhere” is actually all crossed out. I guess I thought “hosshumpassword” was better. -
You should keep your password outside your Dwarven mine enscribed in a rock. Will save any young scorcerer an hour of his time trying to guess it!
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It’s “Blaghman”!!! Next!!
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Man, I was skimming this, and I totally thought it said that your password was “[password here]” I am disappoint.
(I’m, also disappointed with myself, I only bought ten packets of shapes, and the male checkout-chick didn’t even question it, so I couldn’t pull out my terrible joke that I was buying them all to “get in shape”)
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🙁 Devastated
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Border Patrol, starring Seamus Byrne!
My local Asian grocery store apparently can’t tell the difference between the label “only contains 29kcal/100mL” and volume of 500mL. Paid just $1.70 for my favourite Japanese drink – Calpis Water of 500mL in bottle form! BARGAIN FOR ME. I thought all Asians were good at math, pfft!*
(* is Asian and terrible at math herself)
If you don’t know what Calpis water is, Google is your best friend.
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Whenever my sister sees “Calpis”, she chuckles at the fact that it almost sounds like “cow piss”.
She’s nearly 30.
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At least I’m not the only one!
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According to wikipedia it’s called “Calpico” in the States cos they thought it sounded like cow piss….
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At least it doesn’t taste like it (not that I’ve ever tried cow piss before). HA!
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It’s like human piss, but with less of a tang.
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… apparently.
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Pocari Sweat?
Cow Piss?
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hehe…cow piss
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Yes! Calpis is win! And Pocari Sweat, and every single coffee they put in a can. I haven’t had Calpis since I went to Japan last year though.
By the way, for those who don’t know, there’s a coffee brand in Japan called Boss (there might be other stuff under that brand, but idk), so you can imagine how it tastes.
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Fun Fact #2879
Because of it’s cloudy white colour, the Japanese use Calpis as a slang term for seamen.
True story.
Hey guys, do you know what time it is? It’s time for the HUMBLE INDIE BUNDLE 3!
http://www.humblebundle.com/
Featuring “spikes” the game which gave us teamspeakers no end of joy while Rocketman played it, Hammerfight, a game which is just goddamn badass, and Crayon Physics Deluxe, which features only three puzzles that cannot be completed using a “braaarp.”
Go buy it now, and pay what you want.
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Oh goody. Buying these somehow makes me feel good, even though I know I’m probably being stingy…
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It’s weird, demand for this one must be pretty low, as the average is way below the usual amounts. Still, if you payed more than the average, you’re a good person, if you didn’t, then, well, I can’t really criticise you.
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Wow, that is low.
I paid $10 each for the first two, and will do so for this one (probably tomorrow). Does Santa love me now?-
Santa always loves you.
Because he’s always watching.
Through a hidden camera.
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The last packs had way more awesome games though.
The only real standout in this is hammerfight.
Best way to play hammerfight is with a trackball. Either way you cut it, you are going to damage your forearm tendons playing this game.
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Crayon Physics is pretty damn awesome, and the man of rocket would recommend spikes, so, I wouldn’t exactly call it disappointing.
What’s disappointing is that I haven’t downloaded From Dust yet.
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Quiet you!
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Did notch pay $4,048 for the bundle? What a champ.
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He originally payed $2048, but it took ages to go through, so he thought that it hadn’t worked, so he payed another $2,000, and then they both went through, and he had the amounts combined.
I have obtained it.
Weird thing about this is that I paid $10, which is what I initially planned but I almost paid $25 (what it defaults to) until it gave me time to think about the amount.
If it just went “wanna pay $25 and not bother with these sliders and all that?” I probably would have just gone “sure, here’s my money”.
Not sure I can work out why either.
So who else has got the Humble Indie Bundle? Thanks to Blaghman for telling me about it because holy awesome hell the games are sweet. Totally in love with VVVVV!
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I just emailed the guys for an interview – massive fan of their work. 🙂
Also, Crayon Physics Deluxe is where it’s at! 😀
just so you know, the series was so good that i’m reading the books. AWESOME!!! also, sorry about the lack of uppercase, i’m writing this on my 3ds browser from the comfort of my own ‘throne’ if you know what i mean…
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and AP, it’s not ferrets it’s gerbils, get with the times, man!
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I’m assuming you’re talking about Game of Thrones…
I loved the TV series so much that I had to pick up the books, found the first four online in a box set for $32.
It’ll take ages to get through them all but he’s a pretty awesome writer and the intrigue is amazing.
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I paid $35 inc shipping for the box set from Amazon, but they stuffed up and it’s been over a week late, so they’re refunding me the $15 shipping fee. Four books for $20! Never mind that I’ll own two copies of Game of Thrones.
And in local bookstores, they charge $20 each book. And one of the books is split into two, each part selling for, you guessed it, $20.
So I just got $100 worth of books for $20 via Amazon. Yay!
Still waiting for them to arrive, though…-
The local prices are awful…
I pretty much only ever buy books online.
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Wait, they split the books in two?
Although I haven’t started reading them yet (my book pile of shame…), I own the first four. I didn’t pay for them, but I think they were all of seven dollars a pop from the UK.
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Just the third one, I think – A Storm of Swords.
It was so long that the UK edition was split into two books. But my box set seems to have the original huge one (I guess the US edition?)
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Interesting.
Mine was ordered from the UK, and it’s in one book. I assume they must have changed it… Or they just gave me the American version via the UK.
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I haven’t seen anything on Kotaku about this, but I was just wondering…
Is anyone planning on getting the DA2 DLC Legacy? If not, why not? Do you think it’s possible to fix some of the worst problems the game had?
I might pick it up if it gets good reviews, despite everything I want to give Bioware the benefit of the doubt.
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i still haven’t finished the main game. i finished da o 3 times through and have done awakening 1nce and a half. they really should have brought it to a handheld and then i wouldn’t have been so dissapointed by the repetition and could have finished on the way to work.
if i had more personal time on my hands i would have done it. even if it isnt as good i did preorder the bloody thing.
i bought da o a second time so i could get all the dlc on disc, wasn’t that excited by it. leliana’s was prolly the fave cos it had that sweet gypsie music.
they all seemed just a tad too short for my tastes. would have been dissapointed if i picked them up individually.
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D/L’ed it last night.. haven’t played it yet.
Apparently it’s a solid couple of hours PLUS more if you do everything in the DLC…and you walk away with a nice weapon for your class. Worth 800 M$P, IMHO.
Ahoy all my gamey cuddle bears! Yes, sorry, has been a distinct lack of me on the internets this week. So much is happening! Was given the absolute, hands down, best ever freebie in THE HISTORY OF KOTAKU! A beast of a new graphics card from Klutar, what a guy! Its stopped my random boxes glitches from happening, so no more alt-tabbing out and bsod’s! Also, it fixed my media center tv card too which plays super smooth now, no more tearing! Even though its like 5 buckets of vegemite faster than my old card, its actually quieter! Double bonus!
Also, the freebies keep rolling in! As welbot mentioned on the other page, I’ve been dealing with OT’s and architects and testing some new wheelchair designs. Which is leaving me superly drained, but some of the house changes might make life easier for me, so I guess its worth it.
ALSO, then, out of the blue, this afternoon I was offered a free holiday to Tasmania! But I had to decide asap cause I’m leaving next week! No internets though yet at my relatives house I’ll be staying at (but might be soon, so I will say hi and describe the local specimens of people to you, I hear they are 9 ft tall and can play chess badly with nothing but nasal hair).
So yeah! I’m here! *mexican waves*
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Sweet! Good to see you’re still alive!
Here’s hoping those architectural changes make an improvement for you. You deserve it.
Have a fun holiday! Yay!
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Good for you Q-bo! And thumbs up to Klutar as well! Also, I saw a man wearing a cookie monster shirt this morning. WHY DON’T YOU MAKE COOKIE MONSTER RELATED COMPETITION THINGIES ANYMORE?
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Are you getting spinners on your chair?
You definitely should.-
I second this motion.
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“Gamey cuddle bears”. That’s why we miss you, Cloudman.
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Couldn’t be happening to a better person, imho 🙂
I hear Tasmania is a beautiful place to visit
Just played a little more Alice: Madness Returns. Not a great game, has some serious flaws and is very unpolished but I’m stilling enjoying the game overall. Probably the best part is that I’ll be done with it tomorrow so I get to claim it for Shameless Gaming Month.
Huzzahs all round!
Also, if it’s possible to go back and do sections over again, I might very well take some screenshots and use them for a review. If I can’t, I might review it anyhow, although it will be hard to stretch “unpolished but still worth playing” into ~700 words.
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Is it weird that Assassins Creed 1 is in my Pile of Shame? I did beat AC2 and AssCreeBro…
Almost finished AC1 (I think), which will be kind of good. Despite the awesomeness, it is a repetitive game, and the story presentation is a little haphazard and vague. They made some serious improvements when they went to AC2.-
for me AC just got too same samey after the first few missions. and no subtitles? i couldn’t hear what anyone was blubbering 80percent of the time, so there was a big lack of immersion.
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I’m fairly sure you can turn subtitles on, they just aren’t worth it because the plot is some meandering heap of jibber jabber.
There is a reason I say that a game with a good premise but poor execution suffers from Assassin’s Creed Syndrome.
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Nope. You cannot turn subtitles on.
I found this out the other day when I tried to tell my daughter to put them on so she didn’t need to have it so loud.Oh, and I’ve found out she’s more mature and able to tell the difference between real life and a game than I am. She’s running into people and wrecking stalls left right and centre as well as giggling when she accidentally kills an innocent and when I expressed my sympathy for the game characters she just shrugged and told me “It’s only a game, Mummy!”.
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It’s a shame about its story, because while it is a meandering mess, it does have some great elements that AC2 and co. are lacking. Particularly the whole “who is good and who is evil?” thing. The Ezio tales basically just follow Ezio as he stabs the the people that Ezio wants to stab, and revenge or some such. Did I mention that Ezio is basically Zorro? Because he really is.
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Yeah Ezio’s a thug. I don’t like being Ezio.
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I wouldn’t call him a thug, but he’s barely a character. Altair, for all his flaws, had a character arc. Ezio really hasn’t. I’m hoping he’ll have a bit of one in the new one, since he’s old, and they really can’t get past the fact that he really is old. But I doubt they will. He’ll just Ezio his way to victory…
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AC2 was a massive, massive improvement.
The story wasn’t so frustratingly repetitive, and the wider variety of locations was really nice.
I’m not sure how I missed this one, but somehow I did, so apologies if anybody posted this before me (hell, it could have appeared on Kotaku itself, and I probably wouldn’t have noticed…), but damn, this is a pretty good trailer for Deus Ex:HR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEJvCmB4CWY
It also helps explain some of the technological divide. Kind of. Although, given the history of Deus Ex and drugs, I wouldn’t necessarily consider what’s mentioned to be true.
Anyway, badass trailer. Thoughts?
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I haven’t (and can’t at work) seen the trailer, but just thought you should know that DE:HR has officially gone gold. How many people are excited for this game? I know I’m ready to pick it up….during a Steam Sale!
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It was on Kotaku a few days ago 🙂
But yeah, absolutely stunning trailer. I’m even more impressed by the setting now. They’ve really captured the ‘conspiracy and fear’ vibe from the first game.
It looks mature and intense enough to maybe, just possibly, have a decent story that isn’t cliched or toned down for a younger audience.
ozgameshop are selling the Arkham City collector’s edition for $89. Even Amazon are selling it for $100!
EXTREMELY limited stock (apparently)
http://www.ozgameshop.com/search/batman+arkham+city+edition
They will take your money now, however…
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I love you. You’ve just saved me $60. You legend!
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I hope you got in quick, they’re all sold out now.
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Wow, that was fast. I got my order in – anyone else?
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I did, thanks very much. My boss caught me and gave me funny looks but I showed him the price difference and told me to go go go!
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Awwww i just emailed that to Mark.. looks like someone is quicker than I 😛
Amazing how everything that is wrong with the world seems to be because males did it. At least if you believe a particular woman in my office.
Apparently a lot of things I do are “typical male” actions as well.
Not sure if I should be insulted or amused, so I’m going to go with amused.
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As a card-carrying member of the oppressive patriarchy, I bid thee welcome to the club.
My wife works with a second-wave feminist, and she is quite frankly terrifying to be around. I wouldn’t want to be her husband – yes she is married :O
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H-uh, and there I was, thinking that the best part about a strong feminist was that they’d never have children.
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Yeah Bunny, you really do seem like such a typical male. You really exude that air of manliness and testosterone. I should know, I worked on a building site!
(When doing that let’s play you swore about as much as the average tradie does usually…)
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Maybe I should do another video with me not swearing :p
But I don’t want to play that game again, so bugger that for a lark.
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Does whining and complaining about ‘Typical Male’ actions count as a ‘Typical Female’ action?
Also, she’s sexually discriminating you at work, you should totally let her know.
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I’ve called her on it a few times, mainly to poke holes in her attempts at logic, but I don’t particularly care.
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*facepalm*
People are actually agreeing with the Bad Dating Tips article in the comments!
I think either a very few supremely insecure girls are giving the rest of us a bad name, or boys who can’t get laid are using “girls only go for assholes” as an excuse. Maybe both.
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Sadly it’s logically plausible when I look back at my horrible love life, I’ve only ever had one girlfriend and she cheated on me a few months later, and since then I’ve lost count how many times I got friend zoned. I’ve given up on the whole “try to get a girlfriend” thing pretty much. It’s one of the many things I’ve observed that drew me to fully believe that I am a robot and not a human.
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Friend zone is not necessarily friend zone. Lots of times I thought a guy I was interested only liked me as a friend so I kept hanging out with him just as a friend only to find out later when it was too late that he’d actually been interested me also but had thought I was the one who just wanted to be friends. Relationships are confusing, but you do need to take a risk sometimes.
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I do tell them, while they’re single too, and I usually get “like a brother” responses. I mean yeah thanks, putting my heart on the line time and time again really seems to pay off.
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Maybe you should get a Buffybot then? One who understands your robot needs?
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Didn’t watch that much Buffy to know there was a BuffyBot! Thanks to a bit of a youtube search, I can say “Now THAT’S a lovely robogirl!”
…what?
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I was “like a brother” to my ex.
I persisted, and won her over. Silly me… -
Unfortunately with my heart crushed after I hear that, I lost all my momentum to even think about persisting. Then it usually just gets more and more awkward by the day since now the girl knows, up to the point where we don’t even speak to or see each other again.
Lucky you to have more human stubbornness than I
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Disclaimer: We were living in the same flat at the time. Makes it difficult to avoid someone.
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How did you ever think that that would end well?
Ahhh, right, yeah, the “think” part was probably missing. 😛
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Sounds like a case of synchronised friends zoning :p
You both unintentionally friends zoned each other because you thought you were getting friends zoned.
I think we can all agree on the “relationships are confusing” part.
I’m a nice, quiet, shy guy and not exactly (or not at all) model material but I’ve managed to do okay. I should write up my own guide for gents!
Step 1 –
Draw well. This ALWAYS seemed to help me out.
Step 2 –
Black leather trench coat. I got one and I swear to god, it was like cat nip for ladies! The FIRST day I wore it, it worked its magic.
Step 3 – If you performed step 2 correctly, you won’t need step 3.
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Hmm, I can’t draw…
Will a green cloak do? Because that’s about the best I can do in terms of dramatic clothing…
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I approve of number 2 wholeheartedly!
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I knew the coat would work but didn’t realise how well or how fast. Seriously, the first girl I met while wearing it.
Upped the stakes later and got my lip pierced.
Also ripped metal band shirts.
Granted, I only attracted a certain type of girl, but that was the desired effect.
Still have that coat….
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I feel like there’s a movie here…
-Tailer splash screen, rated R-
What happens, when one massive d-bag…
DAN! – Sorry I’m late, I was brushing my teeth and got some on my shirt now it looks like I’ve been blowing dudes.
And one super nice lady
Strange – *rolls eyes*
With differing ideas on relationships
DAN! – AND STAY IN THERE! -slams dungeon door-
Strange – You know she’s gonna need fresh air one day.
Try to get a ROBOT! A date
-Strange DAN! & Tech Knight are in a convertible that is doing a massive jump as flames explode behind them-
Tech Knight from the backseat – DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Coming this holiday season, a story of love.
-Tech Knight with massive headphones in a restaurant as Strange and DAN! fight over a microphone.-
Tech Knight – I’m gonna kick your ass!
Date – What!?
Tech Knight – No don’t say that, tell her she’s pretty.
Date – I’m confused…
Tech Knight – Yeah pretty ugly.
Date – pause. Wanna get out of here?
A story of action.
-Tech Knight slow motion jumping with two uzis. As he gets to the bottom of his jump we see they are tethered to an arcade cabinet. Strange has her head in her hands while DAN! furiously gives him the thumbs up.-
Based on the super popular article on Kotaku the commenters are KRAZY about.
-Tech Knight and DAN! emerge from a clothes store dressed exactly the same. Tech has Ray Bans, a side part and waaaaaaay too tight jeans-
Tech Knight – I feel like a dickhead.
DAN! – Don’t worry, it’ll pass.
THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF DATING!
Coming soon.
credits.
POST TRAILER SCENE
-Tech Knight and DAN! are getting pelted with things at a medieval fair while in the stocks-
Tech Knight – This is the last time I take your advice!
DAN! – *with an italian accent* ME-AH SORRY!
-zoom out to reveal STRANGE in the stocks next to him-
Strange – Stop talking like that!
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Take. My. Money.
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Is it bad that I’d watch that?
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Hahaha! Typical trailer, giving too much of the film away.
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Tech Knight finds love, and both Dan and Strange learn something about themselves in the process.
Leading to the sequel where both of their characters have inexplicably regressed to where they were at the beginning of the first film.
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You should try my strategy Tech Knight!
I’ve never been Friend Zoned!
Because I’ve never asked out anyone…
Or propositioned, or whatever the correct term is…
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Wayyyy ahead of you on that, granted it always hurts inside thinking about it, but at least the pain won’t increase anymore.
Wait, you mean the latter isn’t true?
Aww crap, now I have no excuse.
As an aside, I think a lot of the ideas about women as insecure stems from the historical ideas, and biological origins, of how dating and its eke work. It’s the males job to initiate stuff, so regardless of what the underlying facts are, we get a warped idea of the truth due to the singular perspective. Okay, so that sentence made no sense, but I understand what I mean, and that’s what matters…
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Oh, and the right ear thing is actually… SCIENCE!
Except that it’s not specifically for picking up. It’s just that people tend to listen better with their right ear, and for some reason are more likely to agree with you if you speak in to said ear.
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People have a dominant ear, which is normally the right one. The trick to finding out is to stand directly behind someone, say something softly and the side they turn to is their dominant ear.
This information has literally no value whatsoever and yet I know it! And now you do too.
You learned it, you can’t unlearn it.
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I was aware of ways to check for ear dominance, but not that particular one.
Now I know, and will never ever use it.
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Ilk* Not eke. Jesus Blaghs, stop using words completely wrong, you know what they mean for a reason.
I’ll join you in the /facepalm.
I think it might be both. I know the asshole thing happens. I didn’t believe it till I saw it.
It’s kind of depressing, but I’ve known some jerks for whom techniques like that have yielded results (i.e. one-night stands). And they were assholes, so it might yet be true 😛
But I skipped all that crap and landed a wife by being a nice guy, and I’m proud of that.
It might be a different story picking up some drunk bimbo in a bar, but that takes a certain type of male (asshole) AND a certain type of female (insecure)
… and certainly shouldn’t be used as gospel advice for dating in general (or to be more accurate, dating at all).
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Hey! I used to be that drunk bimbo in a bar! 😛
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So then… At the risk of asking for too much information, what worked on you back then?
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Back then? Probably just needed to have long hair and be into metal. 😛
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Seriously though, if you could make me laugh, then you were halfway there.
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Sadly the Blaggles brand of humour isn’t so effective on that front. Apparently “god I’m hideous” isn’t all that amusing. 😛
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Made me chuckle. Sadly, I’m spoken for…
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Pfft, women, who needs them anyway…
*Waits for Strange to dispense advice*
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You know what? The only advice I can give is keep trying.
Things that help are being yourself, which is important in attracting the right kind of girl for you and putting some thought into how you dress. I’m not saying be all fashionable and metrosexual and stuff, just figure out what your style is and rock it. Don’t just wear the same clothes your mum bought you years ago because you can’t be bothered thinking about clothes.Having met you though, Eff, I’m pretty sure this advice is not something you need. You seemed pretty relaxed and owned your own style when I met you. So yeah, just keep trying.
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I think what she’s saying, ‘flu, is that while sweater-vests aren’t for everyone, at least you’re showing individuality by wearing them.
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Well.. I reformatted my PC, went through the annoyance of trying to backup my files without it BSODing on me, reinstalled Windows, put on all my drivers, updated all over again… all for fricken nothing… it’s still BSODing as much as before! -.- I guess it is the RAM that Windows can’t use effectively. I’m not trusting memory diagnostic programs like Memtest anymore… it lied to me 🙁
So all in all this has been a gigantic waste of time and effort just trying to get my operating system to coexist with the new RAM -.- ffs…
Did anyone else check out the JB FF sale last night? I picked up Mirror’s Edge (360) and Prototype (PS3) for $21 together. Win.
But the 20% didn’t apply to pre-orders. I expected this, but was still disappoint. 🙂
I just looked up prices for the Leapster Explorer for my son. AU$120, or US$70.
Even kid’s consoles are ridiculously marked up here.
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Leap Frog make some awesome gear.
Had a bunch of fun matches with Lamboman last night playing hot pursuit… despite getting pwned in all of them 😛
Match again tonight at 8pm! Be there!
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I like to think of this sentence as code for you guys committing arson.
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I never said it wasn’t!
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NEW SPACE MARINE CINEMATIC TRAILER! 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhGQqJu7BQ&feature=player_embedded
FOR THE EMPEROR!
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Now, this is in no way a slight against the game, I’ll admit that it does look pretty damn rad, but:
I am really getting sick of generic “dramatic” music. Adding a choir will not help! You either need an all male, super deep, manly chorus line (à la Skyrim), or a creepy children’s choir (à la Fable 2).
Ok, that’s me done.
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You should youtube the music from chaos gate – that was EPIC!
Very overly dramatic and the choirs sounded awesome.. 40k games have been doing it for tens ofyears, so i guess it won’t change anytime soon lol
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Thou shalt not suffer the witch or heretic to live.
“Get your PS3’s ready as Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team will launch on PSN Aug 2nd in the US & Aug 10th worldwide!”
From @spacemarine on twitter 🙂
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What are the odds that the PSN version of Kill Team gets online co-op? Stupid XBL not having online co-op…
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Yeah i’m still tossing up on whether to get the games on PS3 or 360.. it’s just the PS3 has free multiplayer *hmph* i don’t know… 🙁
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sweepysweepysweepy.
And from my facebook status:
4 guys chilling on the grassy lawn in front of the science theatre early in the morning & ROASTING A WHOLE PIG.. what?!
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OMG
In these conditions, I can drive to uni within an hour.
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*Totally wants to join the morning spit BBQ*
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@Bish/Mr Explody: not sure if they were planning to share though…
Doing first year Micro Economics, a thought has occured to me that doesn’t occur to most gamers as they might not have had the same insight into the way the economy works.
The price of video games in this country are not the fault of the distributors and publishers, but rather us for paying what they tell us to.
it’s all about supply and demand, people. If people were to stop buying brand new games all together for the period of a few months, prices would certainly drop… the sad thing is that this just won’t happen as people just can’t seem to hold off and wait for a lot of games..
Of course there is more to it, but it’s a fantastic surface to start scratching at… Econmomics is a fantastic and interesting subject… i just really wish i could understand it.. man am i struggling! lol
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There’s a bit more to it than that. I did a similar course a few years ago and my memory is a little faulty, but competition plays a big role there.
Retailers charge what the market is willing to pay but people will often end up paying whatever the asking price is because “that’s the price”. So if there is no competition (say a monopoly or duopoly at some point in the supply chain) then the prices from that point on will be inflated beyond what the market would balance to if consumers had the choice to pay less.
Err…probably.
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Which is why I either buy day 1 at JB, where it’s cheap, or wait for the price to go down somewhere along the line!
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Yeah, it’s about the elasticity of demand for the product.
If people could easily switch to substitutes for games then retailers, publishers etc would be forced to drop prices, since demand would fall when they were costing more than people are willing to pay…
But there isn’t a substitute for, say, a blockbuster and unique popular game, so demand is relatively inelastic. Retailers can charge what they like and people will still buy it in droves.
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Pfft supply and demand. I learnt about that by playing Neopets when I was 10.
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ahh, neopets, LOL. I remember that game.
Archmage was more my style though.
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GAME.COM.AU HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THE SAINTS ROW 3 PLATINUM PACK!
http://www.game.com.au/saints-row-the-third-platinum-pack/xbox-360/SROW3CE360
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I think we all know what needs to happen. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/10/competition_saints_row_2_giveaway_wannabe_gangsta_stylez/
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Wait… the headset is NOT Live compatible? What the…?
Wooo! …I have no money, that is always my answer to stuff I want 🙁
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NOOOOOOO! That was supposed to be a reply to Chuloopa. This hasn’t happen to me before, there must be something wrong with me! Wahhhh!
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I’ll say! There’s definitely not a problem with me!
Don’t forget to click me! I’m finger-clickin’ good!
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Hotmail = worst customer service ever
Go to log onto my account last week to find it’s been blocked and they need to send a validation email to the alternate email address I put down when I made my account. Only problem is there’s a typo in the email I put down. To get around this I have to fill out a form and submit it. They say they’ll get back to me within 24 hours. One week later and I still haven’t heard from them. They don’t even have an email address or phone number I can contact them on.
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You know what they need?
Welbot customer service.
He’s all “Just checking in to make sure the computer I built for you is awesome.” As well as “well, if you need help with anything, give me a shout, I’m always happy to help.”
It’s weird, it’s like he’s been training at my local commonwealth bank! (to clarify, they are scarily friendly, they were handing out Easter eggs around Easter time, it was terrifying)
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Those eggs probably have interest on them. They’ll give you one now and next Easter you give them three back.
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I agree with what you say about Commonwealth banks. Every time I go there in my home clothes and messy hair (because the bank is just 2 minutes walk away), the staff there ask about my day, and I have to come up with something, but there’s literally nothing that has happened since I stayed at home for the whole day.
*social awkwardness*
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*wanders into bank*
HI HOW ARE YOU HOW CAN I HELP YOU DO YOU NEED HELP WITH THOSE BAGS SO WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO THE TELLERS ARE OVER THERE IF YOU NEED THEM THEY’LL BE HAPPY TO HELP YOU IN ANY WAY YOU NEED
Uh, just came in to check my internet banking stuff…
OH SURE OVER THERE OH WAIT THERE IS A PERSON ALREADY ON THE COMPUTER OHGOD I THINK YOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT A MINUTE OH GOD IM SUCH A FAILURE BUT TO RESTORE MY HONOUR I WILL PERFORM SEPPUKU
You really don’t have to-
I FOUND MY SEPPUKU BLADE NOW
No, no really it’s fine, the guy is off the computer already. *finishes using computer, stands up*
HOW WAS YOUR INTERNET BANKING EXPERIENCE, SIR??????
Fine? I’m, I’m going to go now.
HAVE AN AMAZING DAY AND GOOD FORTUNES FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, AND I HOPE YOUR LOINS PRODUCE MANY OFFSPRING THAT BRING YOU UNPARALLELED JOYI know they’re trying to do a customer service experience thing since people hate banks now, but holy crap. That level of cheeriness should be outlawed.
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My local one is at that lovely point where they’re all really friendly (including flirting with the tellery person), but without being in your face with it. If you go in all business like, they’ll respond with efficiency, and let me do my thing (which is usually “Uh, hi, I know I’m not using my account correctly, but just give me some money.”).
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As an ex bankee, I can tell you that those behaviours are non-negotiable. You need to meet certain criteria with every customer interaction. Any customer could be a ‘plant’ and if the criteria is not met you get to have a performance dicussion. We were expected to record on tape at least one customer interaction per day for debriefing. One of the main reasons i left….
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Yeah, it’s just weird because five or six years ago they used to very much just be “the bank.” They were brutally efficient, and that’s about the best I can say for them. Whereas now I have no problems going to the bank.
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I totally visualised that as a Oatmeal comic.
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Same!
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I have just re-read that for the fifth time, and I am laughing at it for the fifth time.
I think I’m broken.
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Then we taybies all share the same broken sense of humour.
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HotFAIL is terrible. Gmail FTW dude, have used it for about 4 years and I reckon it’s the best webmail service out there.
Hello good folks of Kotaku! This is your friendly neighbourhood welbot back with another community message, this time on behalf of Enduwolf! He says to say hi to everyone and to let everyone know he hasn’t perished since the Bris meat! All is well and he’s doing a huge community service (well perhaps not community so much as personal) by helping me pimp my site with googles and the likes. I hereby officially nominate him for Kudos this week due to his endless efforts and emails he’s working through with me. The guy’s a dead set CHAMP! (I’m nomming here cos I’m too lazy to email Mark aswell 😉
I shall be hosting a dinner in his honour as a thankyou aswell, but seriously, this guy’s going all out to help me, and I’m eternally greatful to him! Thankyou sire!
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Endu is also a champ at Pinball. Just saying.
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I have to admit, I’ve never nommed before. Does that make me a bad person? I think it does. I should. I’m gonna nom! I nom… Sughly, because he likes free stuff. The end.
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You should get a permanent nom for always delivering.
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Yesssssssss! Auto nommed!
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LOLOL! Link vs. Link – http://artsammich.deviantart.com/art/Link-vs-Link-244990147
In the style of Trjn’s awesome shameless gaming month, would anyone be interested in a ‘Kotaku Gameclub’ where each month we pick a game to play through and discuss our thoughts and experiences?
We could even braid each other’s hair and have sleepovers if you are that way inclined.
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I was really hoping to have something like that go on during Shameless Gaming Month. The problem was I couldn’t work out how the hell that works.
Luckily, Shameless Gaming Month gives us a bit of data about what games people have sitting around unplayed, so choosing games for this is easy. It’s just the rest of it that is hard.
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Can we just skip to the hair braiding? I love hair braiding!
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I’ll admit it, I think my hair would look pretty damn awesome braided.
So consider that a “sure, why not?” from me.
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I’d be down with that. I haven’t braided hair in ages. I used to be so pro.
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I love that we’ve all latched on to the hair-braiding part. The most important part of any group gathering.
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First game sould be Braid – Then everyone can partake in bad puns to their hearts content.
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Heck yes, sounds awesome.
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August pick: Deus Ex Human Revolution
“I punched a hooker!”
“Me too! o/”-
I used wordplay on the hooker so she gave me the information I wanted.
Then I punched her!
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You’d have to offer multiple title (~3), and we’d vote on which to play. Multiplatform preferably, so more can join in, and we can compare between platforms. And Mark would need to create a special page for our comments. New games are also good, because it’s more likely that we’ll get fresh playthroughs.
I could go on, but I think we all got the idea…
LOLOL! Goomba comic – http://paperbeatsscissors.deviantart.com/art/Why-Goombas-Don-t-Party-244962996
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Wait… no one is doing the nude thing anymore?
Saw RocknRolla last night – amazing! To celebrate, here’s one of the best dance scenes ever made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_ZtXQBO48
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Everything about rock’n’rolla is pure win.
I want the sequel, dammit.
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Yeah I was wondering about that, the whole ‘so and so will return for the real rocknrolla’ at the end. Enticing! I won’t wait 3 years before watching it this time if it does come out.
Also listening to the OST at the moment. So good.
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Guy Ritchie is awesome. His gangster films are awesome. Stop making Sherlock Holmes movies, and start making the Real RocknRolla
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I dunnooooo though, I still like his Sherlock. Imdb lists his next film s Excalibur though… eh? That sounds… odd… but that was what I said when I first heard about Sherlock I suppose.
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Sherlock worked because it was great actors, having fun, and making what was essentially just an Indiana Jones film, but with the setting shifted. I’m not willing to judge Excalibur, as I know next to nothing about it, but I’d be hoping for a great cast to make it work.
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Mark Strong was Pinbacker in Sunshine?! Blind. Mown.
He is also a purple man in Green Lantern. Cool.
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If a slap don’t work, you cut ’em or you pay ’em, but you keep your receipts, cos this ain’t the Mafia.
Mark Strong is one of my favourite actors.
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For seven years I spoke with God. He told me to take us all to heaven.
Yeah agreed, he’s pretty darn awesome. Very subtle actor.
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So we’ve got a new dvd coming out, an intructional motocross one with Ryan Hughes.. don’t worry who he is. lol
What i did come across, while looking for a promo clip, was this clip of Ken Block’s training regime… it’s insane!
If you think Ken has skill in a car, check him out in the gym!
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Phwoar!
Alright folks. I have me a new laptop. As I go about getting it up to scratch, I need softwares.
List some essential software. Go. (Don’t list browsers or OS, but any handy things you take for granted but couldn’t live without).
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Privoxy.
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Daemon Tools
VLC
uTorrent
And depending on how dedicated you’re feeling, the firebug add-on for firefox. -
Teracopy
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DVD Shrink is always there for me, but apparently I’m the only one who rents still
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BetterTouchTool, Alfred and AdiumX are the essentials that I installed first thing on my latest laptop purchase.
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OSX? Eeewww.
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Handbrake
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Oh and MetaX because I’m crazy organised with my files.
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If there’s one thing my father taught me, it’s to never turn down a free taco.
I’m excited by the Dark Knight Returns costume for Arkham City. So awesome. I think I might play the whole game wearing it.
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I too wear a Dark Knight costume when playing Batman!!!
Wait…what do you mean that’s not what you meant?-
I wear my batman onesie.
Totally doin it right.
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I mean this.
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My room needed a little decoration, so I went to this store called DVD King that has opened recently.
Grabbed me a classy A Clockwork Orange poster as well as an Indiana Jones poster that’s pretty damned nifty looking. Should go well with my giant The Dark Knight banner (one of those ones that go up at the cinemas, you can buy them after they take them down).
They also had a fair few bits of memorabilia, including a scale model of the DeLorean which I had to fight the urge to buy (although at $90 I can probably find a cheaper one).
In terms of range, it looks like they’re better stocked than most. Hell, they had Primer on shelf. Primer, an ultra low budget hardcore Sci-Fi film that is simply awesome but impossible to find if you don’t just buy it from Amazon.
Nifty place that, they’ll definitely be getting more of my business.
When I fail my HSC, Imma blame it on TAY.
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Oh noes, youre doing that thing> Man I hated that. I put more work into that then it took to finish a Bachelors and a Masters. Stupid compulsory Maths…
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Surely the third time is the charm, right?
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Then you can play video games 24/7!
Uni life/work takes away precious gaming time, you wouldn’t want that. ;P-
Then you should be THANKING us!
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She speaks the truth!
As an unemployed university drop-out, I fully endorse this lifestyle!
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The semester hasn’t even started and I’m already struggling with my Law elective. Smooth move, Tad…
*climbs onto marble dias while dark clods gather overhead. Thunder cracks farther away before I speak in an almighty voice*
BUT, ON THE GRAVE OF MY DEAD BUDGIE, PETROS*, I WILL CONQUER YOU, O GREAT “APPLIED COMPANY LAW”.
*We never named him ‘Petros’ (I made that up), and he’s been dead for almost 12 years.
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Who is this tadeo, I only know tadmod
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Noone, ignore him.
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Oh noes!
Now that I know your last name let me go hunt down your dad.
Cue awkward moment in 3… 2… 1…
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Well… this is awkward…
😛
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I hate dark clods.
Son, you should be studying. Disappoint.
Tad Edit: I edited his name out. I’d honestly prefer it didn’t get revealed. Sorry AP 🙁
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That’s cool dude, I felt a bit iffy about posting it too.
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‘Sall good.
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Ha! I saw his name! Now I can do……nothing. Well crap. That was pointless.
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LOL 😛
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Props to Tad for not deleting all this 🙂
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haha, There’s no harm in it!
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I’m sure Jim Wallace has a different opinion about that :p
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Yer darn tooting right I do! Young whippersnappers! It’s thinks like this that lead to depraved and violent acts! Like tootsie rolling and german right-wing suplexes! Filth! And don’t get me started on violent games! When I was a lad, a violent games was when a tiddlywink struck you in the EYE! Then we BANNED tiddlywinks! Now the floodgates have been opened with the R18 “thing” I’m sure tiddlywinks will be back! All the kids will be playing it! ANARCHY IN THE STREETS I TELLS YA!
Also, don’t support them violent games and DO NOT buy a shirt from here! http://holycarp.toctopus.com
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Your name is awesome, Tad. : )
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Thanks! 😀
Can CM Punk get anymore awesome?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2NAvDqglbAE
Apparently yes, i know this is a worked shoot but wrestling is finally interesting again!!
The worst thing about an online shopping spree is you spend a crapton of money but have nothing to show for it and you then spend your days hanging forlornly around your mailbox waiting in vain for the postman to bring you your awesome stuffs. 🙁
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Agreed!! I usually buy so much stuff that i forget at least one item is still coming and then get an awesome surprise cos i think it’s all here and then BAM!!
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I bought something on Amazon and then, unwisely, chose the cheapest shipping option.
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OCTOBER, GODDAMNIT! -
I ordered some shirts a little while ago. They still haven’t arrived. This makes me sadface.
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But it’s offset by the delayed gratification that spontaneously appears when your stuff arrives!
I’m still waiting on my Song of Ice and Fire box set from Amazon. Supposed to be delivered by the 19th. Oh well, free shipping (refund)!
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Weird. Amazon is showing that my books were delivered at 8:42am yesterday. Um… No they weren’t.
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+1
Or should that be -1?
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Yeah but at least its only a couple of hundred buck tops.
Imagine spending near $7000 on a motorbike you have never even seen and then having the shipping delayed another week for inexplicable reasons.
Was so freaking out.-
In the past few weeks I’ve spent over a grand. I can’t even imagine how stressful that $7K purchase would be.
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I ordered a thing from China last week.
Guess which button I’ve pressing every 3.49 seconds when looking at the Hong Kong Mail Tracking service.Though I honestly don’t know what’s worse. The fact that I know it sat in Hong Kong for nearly 5 days doing nothing, or not knowing it did nothing for 5 days and being all “oh gawd its been 5 days did they lose it I think they lost it oh no why did they lose it who do I call /o\”
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GHOSTBUSTERS!
WAAA WAH WAAA WAH WAAA WAH WAAA WAH NAH NAH NANANA!-
This song to be included in your next mashupy remix thingy please, Pessimist.
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Stop suggesting terrible songs just to spite me.
This reminds me, I really need to finish off the groundwork for that remix so I can turn it into a song.
Currently the vanessa carlton metal remix has taken up all my attention and time.
WEEKEND HOOOOO.
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Ghostbusters theme song… terrible?
Get out.
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Excuse me… terrible songs? What!
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This.
If you’re anything like me, this usually leads to a further backlash where you go out shopping in the real world and spend all the money you ended up saving by shopping online (and then some) just so you have something to show for your day..
Yup! I like it when you get two packages – ordered from separate international sites – on the same DAY! Got a hat AND AC: Brotherhood like this last week, was soo stoked!!!
I just ordered a pair of Turtle Beach X41 gaming headphones from Amazon, 8-16 days wait D:
Speaking of AssCreed, here’s a funny video for y’all I was reminded of when playing the latest one. Saw this when AC1 came out, pretty funny!!
So true. I bought ME2 Arrival, lair of the Shadow broker, Kasumi’s stolen memory, The bastion demo, the from dust demo. That’s like 5gb download right there.
And from the internet in the past 24 hours, I just bought Arkham City CE (Thanks Shane!), and have to wait 3 months for that, Batman:Hush Unwrapped, and a History of violence (the graphics novel).
That’s the only downside of buying from the internet. There’s no more excitement, there’s just crushing disappointment when you realise the postman hates you for some unknown reason.
Or spending all day madly refreshing the postal tracking page!
KFC without the Double Down is like LotR without Gimli.
All the main players are therre, but one stout, meaty bastard is missing and it just doesn’t feel right…
*becomes overwhelmed by sadness*
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Thank F*CK they don’t sell that anymore.
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Harden the f*** up!
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We’re screwed no matter what happens, so we had no problems with it!
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Just buy two burgers with cheese and bacon and throw away the buns.
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No way! KFC buns are the best! All white and fluffy and sugary. Hmmm… this gives me an idea…
*opens stall with sign – KFC bun donations here*
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Ubisoft have done it again:
http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/07/27/driver-san-francisco-requires-always-on-internet/
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So you don’t read Kotaku anymore? This was on this morning’s front page :p
I won that 3DS game Comp thing.
Too bad I don’t have a 3DS.
Who knows, I might wait a year until the library makes it worth getting one.
But i can confirm that the boxart for Resident Evil is very flashy.
This seems like a good purchase, I need protection from meteors: http://cgi.ebay.com/My-Magic-Empty-Xbox-Box-/230652002411?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b3ee406b
Should I buy it?
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Let’s look at this objectively:
1) Will protect you from meteors
2) Might make fish fall in love with you
3) Has been enchanted by a drunk wizard
4) Proceeds to go towards possibly unnecessary surgery
5) It costs $4000.I don’t think this needs any further discussion. Pro pro pro pro pro. BUY IT NOW.
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PS: Lifetime money back guarantee. What have you got to lose???
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If you don’t I will…
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Previous purchases includes a $75 flip knife. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
What I don’t like about having a netbook with a shiny gloassy finish is not only because it’s a fingerprint super-magnet, but also the screen glares and the sides reflect sunlight too easily. Ouch, my eyes.
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Oh the woes of us gen y folk…
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Don’t worry, I have the same complaints about my new DSi XL, keeps getting all smudgy and fingerprinty on the top >:(
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You should wear gloves.
Not the rhinestone ones. They scratch up the screen.
Don’t ask how I know this.
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How do you know this?
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TADIUS MODERANDI
NFS: Hot Pursuit tonight.
You need to be there because Lamboman is continually embarassing me by whooping my ass.
I need someone else to play who isn’t god-skilled so I at least stand a chance of not finishing last.
1.5 hours to go. I can’t be bothered. Entertain me?
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Here’s a little something I prepared earlier. Warning: NSFW language, so headphones are recommended.
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*awkward feeble attempt at dancing/entertaining*
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I thought that that was my job!
*Sigh* Now I’ve been outdone at everything.
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*Shoots at feet with magical revolver that appeared out of nowhere*
Dance girl, dance!
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Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_ZtXQBO48
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Steady, you’ll throw my rhythm.
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Anon. Pess. (cont. from last page): I’ll be on, but I warn you, I’m 10x better than lamboman at Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit *pokerface*.
Everyone Else: GET NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT!!!!
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I am guessing 360 does not count?
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nope.avi
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foreveralone.jpg
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I have it on 360!
But I don’t have gold, so it’s a bit of a moot point…
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You really are doing it wrong. Dude.
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Patron saint, I can’t help it!
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I have it on 360! You’re not alone!
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wat 😐
Maybe you should… not play then.
I did threaten to eat your babies. I’d hate to be made a fool of following that calibre of statement.
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pfft, no!
I suck! 😛
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Oh good.
By all means, join in. Bring your babies.
And salt/pepper.
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I am SOOOOO late to the party on this one.
But yes I agree I should pick this up sometime soon. Like, real soon.
I just farted a poo in some shit and it was all crap…
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erm…
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wat
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I’ve seen plenty of frape (facebook-rape) where someone posts on your account something silly when you forget to log off/clear your details.
Is this the first incident of krape or trape?
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I suppose quality over quantity isn’t the case with Jimu?
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Wut…
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I just read that again and found myself loling a bit.
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Yo Dawg
RANT
So my morning was going fine, as usual I answered a bunch of phone calls, fixed some stuff and trained the new guy . I come back from lunch intending to fix one of these electric masts http://www.constructiontradex.co.uk/1w315h225_trimble-em21electricm-536379-1.jpg
It takes ages to do and it was pretty much half done already. I go there and a bit of metal got broken of the bottom. Now it wasn’t me who done this and it was fine before I left for lunch. I’m sure someone else broke it and didn’t say anything for fear of trouble. So now i’n raging.
Tl;dr
Someone broke my repair and won’t own up
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Is that your electric mast or are you just happy to see me?
Am I helping?
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You know, those things look big from afar, but once you get closer, well, they’re not as big as they look.
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lolol!
Also… whats an electric mast? Is it what Daft Punk would use if they were pirates?
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Went out to a Singaporean restaurant last night. The waitress suggested “Rubbery Chicken” and “Deep Fried Ass Cream” as a dessert.
Food and service were great, just one of the better cases of ‘engrish’ I’ve come across.
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Reply button. I’m sorry I used you. You deserve better.
You could probably use a chuckle by the sound of things anyway Rocketman 🙂
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Blame the new guy. It was probably his fault anyway, and if not, it will still make you look cool for all the other blokes at your work!
*ASSASSINSCREED!!ASSASSINSCREED!!ASSASSINSCREED!!ASSASSINSezioIShotCREED!!ASSASSINSCREED!!ASSASSINSCREED!!ASSASSINSCREED!!*
Hopefully that caught the attention of all Assassin’s Creed fans.
If any of you (especially in NSW, but other states are welcomed as well) are interested in official Ubisoft AC merchandise, UbiWorkshop has finally announced the preorder of 3 types of Desmond hoodies! As well as the white version for the official Assassin’s Creed encyclopedia!!!! 😀
LINKY LINK -> http://www.ubiworkshop.com/post/?pid=3014
International shipping costs a lot, so bawble/CrabJiffy and I were wondering if anyone wants to share shipping together. PLEEEEASE? If you’re considering to get anything from UbiWorkshop let us know!
[hinthint at AnonymousPessimist wearing his non-official assassin scarf thingy… and other AC fans]
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But they don’t have the ezio hood 🙁
WHYYYYY
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Oh man, I really want one of the black ones… Oh man… So tempting… But I have so little money… But I’d look so ridiculous, it would be amazing!
Consider me interested, but I’d need to get back to you…
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I haven’t decided if i should go for the black or the white hoodie!
What do you guys think??!!??!-
Don’t be racist, get both!
😀
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Oh good, I was waiting for them to release the encyclopedia…
Unfortunately I’m in Vic 😛
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Holy moly, those things are expensive!
I’ll just stick with generic white zip-up hoodie I have at home…-
But do the generic white hoodies look that bad-ass?
I think not.
I mean, sure, I could just embroider the thing on myself, if I wanted to (I say embroider, I mean use the sewing machine and cheat), and it would cost like, half as much, but still, that would require effort!
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I’m considering just getting the normal version of Revelations and the encyclopedia separately. Will keep you posted, but might be interested in said shipping sharing 🙂
Should have gone for that second coffee, now Pour Boy is shut I can’t get any more until tomorrow. Sadface.
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I’ve having my second coffee today and my day is AWESOMEEEEEEE. You should never go against your caffeine tingling instincts.
Shane!
I got your package, still in the wrapping and everything!
Cheers!
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How about you unwrap Shane’s package?
Take your time… it’s good to do these things slowly.
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That’s what she said
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So… You got that thing he sent ya?
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Oh dear, oh dear. That’s where it got to 😛
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Ahaha I walked right into that and didn’t even notice.
GAH! TWO PAGES IN ONE DAY! EVERYONE STOP PROCRASTINATING SO MUCH!
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ALSO MARK YOU NEED TO CHAIN TAD TO HIS DESK SO HE HAS TO APPROVE COMMENTS WHEN YOU GO AWAY TO DO FUN STUFF.
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I’M APPROVING! I’M APPROVING!!!!
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APPROVE FASTER!
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NOT FAST ENOUGH! GO EAT STEROIDS AND COME BACK WHEN YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF A REAL APPROVER.
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I, uh… I just used algebra at work.
Something I learned in high school actually just came in handy. Go figure.
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Yeah, a really big thing in my Maths class (and probably every other Maths class) is thinking of real-life situations where we might have to apply algebra and other boring maths stuff. Like using the unitary method to cure an epidemic and applying the quadratic formula in case of nuclear war.
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Oh, God, I should have paid more attention in Maths Classes, instead of playing the IRL game
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Last time dawdle! compares HP with Star Wars. Then I found this!
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m640/ttw2007155/1310669200.jpg
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BAHAHAHHAHA, love it!
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SPOILERS, MAN
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It’s late (or early?) but I just finished DA2 Legacy and was actually quite impressed. Commence long rant of slight praise…
Gameplay wise it fixes a lot of the most glaring issues (repetitive environments, waves of enemies) and the combat is more fun than in the main game. A lot of DA2’s issues can’t be helped, but it’s pretty clear that they’ve got the message that repeating an environment 68 times doesn’t make a game.
The story almost entirely abandons Kirkwall’s internal struggles (yay!) which is a great thing. The lore of Dragon Age, with its darkspawn, magisters and archdemons, has always been the best part of the story and it made Legacy seem far more important, epic and fantasy-esque than most of the main game itself.
I’m slightly concerned that Bioware appear to be so haphazard in their development, radically changing many things (narrative and gameplay-wise) from Origins to DA2, then frantically (I’d even call it panic) reversing on a lot of this once it became clear that it was pretty much a disaster. Legacy seems like a quest out of Origins story squeezed awkwardly into the universe of the sequel, as though Bioware felt compelled to chuck in anything and everything that would remind players of the first game.
Still, the quality of this DLC is easy to see (there’s a huge amount of dialogue and the mini-plot is revealed really well) and I have to at least give Bioware credit for improving on a lot of the stuff that I found tedious in DA2. If nothing else the tsunami of vitriol (probably mostly undeserved) that came Bioware’s way post-DA2 might’ve shocked them into abandoning some of the crazier, alienating gameplay, narrative and marketing ideas.
My optimistic side hopes that DA2 was an ill-judged and rushed blip, and not something that’s going to become standard for Bioware in the future. It’s obvious (given some of the vitriol going around) that a lot of players are very cranky, and kudos has to go to Bioware for at least trying to improve on a lot of the issues people had with the second game.
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Harry: But Dumbledore said you killed my father!
Voldemort: No, Harry. I am your father.
Harry: That’s not true! That’s impossible!
Going to see the Hives tonight.
Just need to get out of this god forsaken office!
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The Hives! HOT DAMN BOY! Get your ass in to gear!! 😉 Lucky lucky!!
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There’s an ointment for that, you know.
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I am filled with such jealousy right now.
SUCH JEALOUSY!
Ok, well, what an intense day! I’m off to Tasmania tomorrow morning now! :-O Talk about shock! Madly packing and will be staying with relatives in a 100 year old mansion which may or may not be haunted!
Also, can ppl constantly nag Sir Markasauraus for me to make sure he got my email? (Also one from last week). Maybe I’m sending them all wrong? But if he searches for jeffkent in his mail thingies something should come up.
Also, Klutar totally played with my balls this week! Then I beat him. It was awesome.
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Are you staying in Hobart, or somewhere more rural?
(And good luck(?) with your trip!)
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I read ‘rural’ as ‘urinal’.
I then proceeded to chuckle heartily.
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So, energex is repairing a powerpole near my house today. That means I’ll have no power all day. Yay.
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Lol… I have No idea what so ever! All I know is my aunty and uncle have only just moved into a ‘new’ place somewhere in tasmania, then said, come. The place is new to them, but its actually some 100 year old mansion, ex governor type thingy or someone very wealthy had it. Its in dire need of repairs, but it has 41 doors and 7 fire-places and a servants quarter! I know its near the sea, thats about it. Hopefully they pick me up at the airport, or I’ll have no idea where to go! Will certainly be interesting though, always wanted to see tassie, so will take my camera and get some snappy shots.
Strange. 1 week. No kids. I’m sure you can appreciate the grin on my face right now! \o/
Ok, all packed and sorted and off to bed. Love you all, be good boys and girls, check your mails Mark, nobody destroy the net while I’m gone, I need it.
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Sorry I missed you on steam late last night Q-bo! Really hope you have a good trip! Hope whatever you wanted help with wasn’t too urgent!!
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Blaghman,
I figured I’d comment here as you may not be checking the last few pages. I got my traineeship position with my current workplace with only a year 10 certificate, so I wouldn’t worry about qualifications. Plus you finish up with a diploma in IT, so that’s nice.
Hit me with an email and I’ll let you know when some jobs go up.
ryanmchalker(at)gmail(dot)com
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Cheers mate, I sent you an email!
Allure is hiring, even though I doubt I’d get it if I did apply, I don’t think I can apply because of my damned full time employment.
You teases :p
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I’d apply, if it weren’t for the fact that I couldn’t write articles, would be outclassed by anyone else applying, and I’d be terrible at the Lifehacker part of the job… Kotaku is just mean.
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I applied.
If you like technology I don’t see why you wouldn’t apply for this. Even if you don’t get the role it’s good experience.
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Damn you peer pressure!
I might as well put something together over the weekend and try my chances, slim as they may be.
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Just had an EPIC Hot Pursuit match with Lambizzle, Tadius and Jargon (Tadius Friendius).
I don’t think I’ve laughed that heartily in a while.
Srsly, you all need to get this game. Many lols.
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‘Twas hella fun.
Jargon is a kotaku reader, but isn’t a poster.
We’d both played with lambo before. we got owned. Really hard.
Must do it again some-time, work and uni permitting.
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But, but… MTG? Trackmania? I have lols in MTG… sometimes. Well, once I did.
OK SO THERES NO LOLS IN MTG! I dont care! *runs off crying*
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Wait, can Scott Pilgrim be played coop over Live? I’m not sure… because I want to! This idea is AMAZING! Who’s with me*? C’MON!!
*may not actually work yet, needs more investigation/googling which I’ll do later. Maybe.
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Don’t think it does. Which, like, totally sucks and stuff.
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A little while ago now there was an update to Xbox 360 consoles which rendered some older ones unusable.
A short time after this I purchased my first 360 secondhand.
After the recent update this week I was having some troubles with my console with screen freezes and such. I consulted the xbox support site and tried a few things but nothing worked.
I called xbox support to see if they had any further suggestions, and put it to them that as my console is an older one it may have been the latest update which caused it as everything was fine up till then.
I was informed that it isn’t likely, but that the console has never been registered, but they could do that on the spot.
After troubleshooting I was told that firstly my console was still under warranty (odd considering it was an arcade model) and that I could send it away for free repairs, but considering it was probably an internal memory issue they would have to send me a new console.
So this got me thinking. How many other 360’s are out there that haven’t registered and that won’t work properly with the latest updates?
I honestly cannot fault Xbox support (can’t believe I’m admitting it:/) for their help, but I also have an active Xbox Live account that I was sure I would have been emailed on if my console was faulty.
I don’t normally register new products with a company when I get it home, but this has me wondering if it’s worth it in future for product recalls and faults?
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I learned pretty early on the registering an Xbox ASAP is almost a necessity. It makes things so much smoother when things go wrong.
And I agree with MS Xbox support being awesome. I’ve had to deal with them two or three times since 2006, and each time they’ve been quick and easy to access, and solved my problem efficiently and to my benefit. Easily one of the best customer service experiences I’ve ever had.
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Working for a place that fixes stuff i will tell you, it is a pain when customers don’t register products. I then spent so long tracking to see if it’s warranty.
Just finished my fourth game of Shameless Gaming Month, Alice: Madness Returns.
Not a bad game, could be better, could definitely use a little bit more polish but overall quite enjoyable.
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Did I mention that I bought another game yesterday?
This means my pile of shame has increased by twelve games this month (more if you count the expansions as separate), assuming my maths isn’t totally shot (which it is).
I…
Yeah, I don’t know what to say…
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No wait, I forgot about the 2 games (and one piece of dlc) I got on xbox live. *sigh*
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Nobody can say that you haven’t earned your moniker.
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Dammit! I was hoping to hit four! I’m on 3 at the moment. I think I might try and knock off Limbo or something on the weekend…
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You have all weekend to knock out one more game. It isn’t impossible.
I’m going to try and push to get Darksiders done so that I can claim five completions in the month. Should have waited a week longer to finish Infamous, then I’d be aiming for six, but alas, I finished that in the last week of June 🙁
No wait, that was a good good 🙂
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^ Awesome work Trjn
I just finished my third – Splinter Cell Conviction – incredible game – I recommend it to anyone who has an Xbox and likes to feel like a badass!
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Huzzahs are in order for everyone!
Except FatShady and Batguy because they’ve finished more games than me this month :p
I ended up watching Breaking Bad last night up to episode 4. I am hooked. The acting and writing is brilliant – I also don’t think I have ever felt as much empathy for a fictional characters.
Sorry Jo! I got sucked in and forgot all about getting back on LoL…
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That’s ok, I got hooked reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen 🙂
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That is why I call it the best show on TV.
The best part? It gets better.
In the latest episode (being spoiler free here, don’t worry) right as the credits were about to roll, I’ve never wanted to reach through my TV and give a character a hug as much as right then.
Please excuse this brief Blaghs interlude:
HOLY NUGGETS IT IS COLD!
The brass monkey doesn’t need to worry here, because even if he splits, his balls have frozen together!
*cough*
Sorry, it’s about -8 here atm, and the heating in my room is sub=par…
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It was actually rather warm this morning. Monday was about 0 degrees at 6 am… That… was horrible. I am NEVER leaving the house again without 15 layers of insulation.
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Soo *shivers* Jealous… Warm… RAGE keeps me GOING!
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When i landed in Canberra yesterday it was -4.
I’m never going to complain about Sydney weather ever again.
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Pshh, -4? WARM! *twitch*
Sometimes (all the time) I hate Canberra.
How was your work meetingy thing?
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I was drwoning myself in music last night and it got me to thinking.. I know roughly what some of you like, but I’m keen to see what people think. What are your top 5 most listened to albums. Like what do you always rely on to sooth your soul after a shit day. This is not a competition to see who can be the most obscure or anything, I’m just interested to see who likes what and who has similar tastes etc!
For me
#1 Have you ever noticed that Gordon from Sesame Street looks exactly like Errol from Hot Chocolate? – The Melniks These guys are a small Brisbane band, but oh so close to my heart. This is one album that I will take to the grave!
#2 The Doors In Concert – Pretty obvious really. It’s the double cd of the doors recorded at several different gigs, but there’s something magical about this album for me.
#3 Flood – They Might be Giants. For me, there’s something strangely calming about this album. It always managed to cheer me up when I’m in a crap mood!
#4 Come with Us – The Chemical Brothers. Anyone who’s listened to this before would instantly know why 😉
#5 Music for the Jilted Generation – The Prodigy. This one is just great when I want to take my mind on a journey. It always manages to create fantastic imagery in my head when I hear it!
Ok guys.. so what about you? Lemme know!
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What if you don’t listen to albums? When I get into a band I chuck their whole discography into a playlist and gradually cull songs I don’t like.
Though I will chuck the band Before The Dawn out there as awesome.
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Murderer! This fills me with much sadness :'(
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Actually there is an exception to this:
Spineshank – Height of Callousness.The first album I ever listened to where I loved every song and still enjoy playing it right through in order.
In fact I shall do so right now.
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Billy Talent II – Billy Talent
Back in Black – ACDC
Day One – Birds Of Tokyo
Out of Exile – Audioslave
Willy and the Poor Boys – Credence Clearwater Revival
Off the top of my head – I’m sure I’m forgetting some but pretty much anything Rock!
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LOve Birds of Tokyo. I listened to universes Like 100 times. I also saw them live.
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I’m not so big on their latest album – they seem to have taken on more ‘pop’ leanings – but Universes was great! Have seen them live twice – at big day out earlier this year (they were horrible) but another time a few years ago in a small pub here in Mackay – Broken Bones almost caused a riot!
Have you tried Karnivool Rocketman? It’s a darker,heavier side-project of the singer of the Birds.
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I’m in a musical drought right now and being a rock lover myself, am going to check these out. Thanks for the suggestions Steve-O!
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Billy Talent has three albums Harli – I was initially a rock purist so it took me a while to get over their punk/screamo influences, but once you do there is not a single song of theirs that I do not like (Pump up the volume on their song ‘Cut the Curtains’, gives me goosebumps everytime)
Also while I think of it, check out the Dropkick Murpheys – They’re an Irish Rock band with some small bits of Irish folk thrown in. A lot of songs about fighting in bars and getting drunk (not Irish at all!). My personal favorite of theirs is one of their more ‘romantic’ songs, Kiss Me, I’m Shitfaced:
So Kiss Me! I’m Shitfaced!
I’m soaked and soiled and brown!
In the trousers, she kissed me!
And I only bought her one round!You might know their song ‘Shipping Up To Boston’ as an AFL advertisment theme song:
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Gah, not a big fan of screamo. Makes me feel like I’m damaging my vocal chords just by listening to it. But I’ll give these a whirl when I’m home later tonight 😀 thanks Steve-O.
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Mr Welbot they did a article on this yesterday. But if you just want TAYbies to join in here they are. I warn you I’m don’t really know that many obscure bands.
1. Yeasayer- Oddblood
2. The wombats- This modern Glitch.
3. Arcade Fire- Funeral
4.Johnny cash- Any album-
Funeral is pretty damn amazing.
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Total respect for the Johnny Cash man! Absolute legend! Orange Blossom Special is one of my all time favourite songs!
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GAW! Nice thread! Being a bit of a music buff myself I’m ashamed to say I’m not familiar with any of those albums 🙁
I will rectify that in the near future!As for mine… that’s tough. Changes from time to time, but at the moment I’d saaaay…
1) Radiohead – OK Computer
2) Sigur Ros – ()
3) Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
4) Cat Power – You Are Free
5) The National – High VioletTough choice between OK Computer and Amnesiac, then The Suburbs and Neon Bible. Meh. Prolly will change tomorrow.
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Radiohead is one of those rare bands that as they keep going the music they come up with gets better imo.
I had really high expectations for Arcade Fire. Maybe that’s why I was disappointed when I finally listened to the album. It was meh to me!
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GAAAAASP! Blasphomy!
Wait, I’m meant to have left already. Ah, hmmm… awkward… *runs*
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo… ROCOCO! *ooo-oooooooooooh*
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That hoestly surprises me man! Of all the people here, given what I’ve heard of your taste in music, I’m surprised you have never heard of any of the ones I listed! Given that you do have the taste you do, I can alsmost guarantee you’ll love them though! 🙂 We should definitly have a music chill sesh one of these days.. just sit around like the olds did back in the day and play songs off albums and drink and be merry!!!
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I’m always terrible at choosing top things, but I can probably manage what I use as soothing music…
Toxicity – SOAD
The Wicked Soundtrack
Tarantism – Dahahoo (you haven’t heard of them :P(is there a “hipster” smiley?))
American Idiot – Green Day (Don’t get me into arguments about this, it’s just frustrating and won’t go anywhere)
And John Cale’s version of Hallelujah (Not an album, but more than any other song, I can put this on repeat, and let my mind wander)
I’ve woken up to disappointment today.
After the rest of Capcom’s antics lately, they’ve now decided that Sengoku Basara will never leave the eastern shores again because Sengoku Basara 3 only sold 100k copies in the west, despite being effectively the first game in the series to make it here and not getting a dollar spent on advertising it.
Some might call such sales a resounding success, especially when considering it only sold 500k copies in Japan to begin with. But no, not Capcom. Capcom wanted it to sell over 600k in the west, entirely by word of mouth.
I don’t even know what to say. Capcom have the most unrealistic expectations in the industry now.
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Capcom are fail in the ‘west’. If they spent the time, effort and money pimping their games over here, they’d see far more success than they think, though maybe not as much as they’d expect…
Take Monster Hunter Tri, for example. I had no idea that game even existed until Tim from Ctrl+Alt+Del mentioned it (pre-launch). It’s one of my favourite games, and makes me want more Monster Hunter. Capcom did almost nothing to promote sales over here, which is a shame because I think a lot of people would enjoy it if they experienced it. Honestly, if I hadn’t read about it on CAD, I wouldn’t have even looked twice at it.
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I am so glad Level-5 US is ‘gauging interest’ in Layton X Phoenix game.
Sure, it’s in no way definite, but it’s a heckuvalot better that Capcom doing nothing.
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“WHELP, I guess new IPs in the west didn’t pan out, so we’ll go back to what we know works. Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade DXtreme edition anyone?”
To show my love for all you guys, I wrote you a song. I’ll post the lyrics here for you all to fee special inside.
Ode to Taybies (By Dr. What?)
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Sorry, it’s an instrumental piece so some of the effect is lost. But at least you all know how I feel!
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*wipes away a tear*
Beautiful.
Is someone cutting onions here?
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………..I feel the same way! 😛
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/standing ovation
Pessimist, perhaps you should remix this too!
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Needs more bagpipe.
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I’m writing an accompanying bagpipe piece now. To enhance the emotional impact it’s designed to be played with all the reeds removed.
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Nothing need more bagpipe. Ever. Except maybe bonfires. I stand corrected. Bonfires need more bagpipe.
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You’re lucky James Mac isn’t around to see that.
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The Hives.
Yes.
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AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
SO JEALOUS!
Friggin’ Splendour meaning no Brisbane show.
Did they play new stuff? Is it amazing?
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They played a good mix of new and old. Absolutely rocked it!
Pelle had the crowd under his total control, as usual (At one point he had everybody sit down on the gooey floor)
Encore performance. Hate to Say I Told You So. They took a break mid song.
Pelle reads a note that had been thrown onto the stage:
“Can I play bass in Hate to Say I Told You So?”
“Yes! You can!”
Young guy gets pulled up on stage and rocks out on the bass!
It was nuts!-
AGHHH!
Patience from The Grates tweeted a pic of them doing a custom set list for the few people who were waiting outside when they started sound check.
The classiest dudes in rock and roll.
Oh man. Killing myself waiting for the new album.
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DID YOU GO TO SPLENDOUR?
/ends caps
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Nope. Small sideshow gig at the Enmore.
🙁
The Hives at Splendour will be a level of awesome beyond the reckoning of science.
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Finished Bastion last night.
God that game is beautiful, it’s art style kept reminding me of Braid, and thats not a bad thing.
And that song at the end! AUGH!! I have to download that from somewhere like right now. So haunting!
Alright, I’m going outdoors to do work/buy RocknRolla/watch Capn USA. The consumer in me is calling. Congrats to whomever wins Kudos (you got my nom didn’t you Mark? For that Sughly guy? He’s so awesome…). Adieu!
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+1 for RocknRolla.
Also, I want to see Cap.
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Outdoors?
*Shrieks in horror!*
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LOL
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AMAZING.
Hey peeps, as i have no 3DS there’s really no point to having this game. I may as well give it to one of you guys. If you want Resident Evil 3D let me know on Twitter.
So who’s home this Fri night? TF2 anyone? we need a Kotaku TF2 playdate already.
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Sadly I’m still in the process of getting all my games back on my PC after the reformat, so I might have to miss out 🙁
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Do you mean tonight or next friday night? Either way count me in, I won’t be online till 8:30ish though due to footy training.
Also how would a TF2 playdate work? Would we arrange for our own server or find a random one and all join the one team?
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I’m tempted, but I haven’t installed it on my new(ish) PC. So I probably can’t play tonight.
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I can’t justify downloading ten gigs worth of hats to play a game which I barely played to begin with, sorry!
Maybe once Valve actually fixes how Steam works…
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But hats, man!
I would totally pay $70 for a monocle (EVE Online style wooo(not really)) so that I could outfit my Pyro with a monocle and tophat.-
Sorry, EVE is still implementing a top hat. You can buy the thread to make it when it’s implemented but, it’s only $1 a thread! any idea how many you need for a top hat?
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Shall I set up a TF2 playdate for tonight at 2030 aest on the Kotaku group?
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Yes please.
And yeah I meant tonight! Let’s DEW IT.
I can book a server, depending on how many people we get. Well, 1v1’s can be fun too can’t they AP? /angelic smile
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They can but I don’t like making girls cry 😉
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Just had a mental image of you two running around 1v1 in your own server as spies, pretending to be each other.
It made me lol.
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Doesn’t work because some 3rd person always joins in to ruin the fun >:C
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This sounds like the exact type of person that I am.
An asshole!
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I JOIN TF SERVERS WHERE 2 PEOPLE PLAY,
AND THE SPIES ON EACH SIDE ARE GOIN’ INSANE
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A. S S. H O. L E – Everybody!
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Hey how ya doin’?
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So we are making a Face/Off parody, no?
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I may be up for it, depending on how many people are playing LOL or WoT or Sogun 2
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I am up for LOL!
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Wooo!
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If I can get back online in time (Will be focusing on getting LoL back first) then I’m in 🙂
Yeah I’ll join in. Sleep deprivation = Win!
I might have a go.
Yesterday I fiddled around in my backpack and crafted a Black Box.
I feel so dirty.
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Wooo, without the TF2 context that came with missing the Reply Button, that is a weird, weird thing to say.
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Thats what she said!
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/brun/pubs/pubs/Kiddon11.pdf
I love how this link is an actual published paper on how to code a program that can understand double entendres and then produce “Thats what she said” where appropriate 😀
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Wow, that’s impressive.
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Engineers tackle the problems of the world, y’know.
Also, that’s actually quite a decent read.
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Science. It works, bitches.
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I think I’ve been bitten by the Hot Pursuit bug.
I can’t stop thinking about it. Getting all hot under the collar.
It’s the most fun I’ve had in a game in quite some time!
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You’ve got The Need, The Need for Speed
😛
Has anyone finished FFXIII?
How long am I supposed to grind when I reach Gran Pulse? Does the game expect me to get all the characters to all level 3 roles? because that would take me about 20 hours.
How close to the ending am i?
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Andrew, you’re pretty close to the end.
I ground for about 2 hours, and that was plenty. The game is actually built so that you can pretty much go on without doing any of this stuff.
Obviously, the more you grind the easier the rest of it will be, but I don’t think it’s necessary at all.
You can return here after beating the game, that’s the attraction.
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Just got to Gran Pulse? So… start of Chapter 11?
Another maybe 20ish hours if you do a few sidequests.
My time estimation skills are amazing. Just ask Trjn.As for Grand Pulse grinding, I don’t think the game ‘expects’ you do be anything. Just be at a stage where you can comfortably take on things, whether by brute force, or just knowing how to manage your characters.
Pretty sure some enemies scale, anyway. I was stuck at the Chapter 11 boss so I went back to grind… and the boss just got harder when I went back. /o\-
Bish’s time estimation skills are without equal.
Why, only last night he told me that I probably had a bit over an hour left to go in Alice: Madness Returns. Nearly two and a half hours later, I let him know about his slight miscalculation :p
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I don’t think you need to grind that much, and you can skip a whole lot of it. But, if you are going to grind, then the best place to do so is at the end of the first area, where the two big monster things are fighting one another, because they go down easily, and give lots of xp.
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I can’t remember my exact finish time, but it was either just above or just below 40 hours. I grinded (ground?) for a bit, did ~25-30% of the side quests, then went for the ending.
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I got distracted at that stage trying to get a particular item. Spent 10 to 15 hours grinding to get enough credits to buy it.
As soon as I got it I moved on to the next part of the game and the first mob I encountered dropped that item X(
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I might just get on with the game then
Overall FFXIII wasn’t as bad as i thought it would be, but it still won’t go down as a classic.
Time to move onto Bayonetta (getit?)
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Assassin’s Creed Revelations Collector’s Edition $99 at Mighty Ape. Limited stock
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Very tempting! *Ran home from class from class to ask for dawdle’s permission*
All manly-ness was lost……-
So i have to ran home “from class” twice for that…. lol
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On the difference between ‘math enthusiasts’ and mathematicians:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2320#comic
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I love SMBC.
Fellow Kotakuens, this is my friend Pyrean. I’m encouraging him to partake of the joy that is TAY. He’ll hopefully join us on games including LOL. This is a good thing as he is much much better then I.
Pyrean, say Hi before TadMod inserts forever_alone.jpg
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Hey Guys/Gals im new to TAY but i look forward to gaming with you guys and joining in on the shenanigans = P
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Howdy Pyrean!
Look forward to lololol’ing with you!
(Laughing Out Loud On League Of Legends)
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Welcome Pyrean. Another human on TAY is always welcome
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HI PYREAN
Now you must be subject to the rite-of-passage. Do you have a high threshold for pain tolerance?
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Ritual one is to sit through the entirety of this.
If he is still capable of thought, then he shall be allowed to continue to ritual number two!
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I passed with flying colours.
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Haha, He passed. I was talking to him on steam whilst he watched it.
I explained that you are, whilst completely insane, an awesome person.
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You know what’s hilarious? I can’t actually pass that test. I get about a minute in, and I can’t take it any longer. And you think I’m an awesome person? Man, I must be better at lying than I thought!
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Geetings and Salutations!!
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Wait, were you the friend who bailed on us, making us lose that 3v3?
If so, I’ll probably cry.
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just focus on the important part, we were winning until that point 😛 (much better then me)
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Welcome!!! Now let’s rock and LOL!!!
*looks at watch*
Tad, you’re late.
Pyrean?
More like… SLOWLEAN
*chortle*
I hear crickets.
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What? Where? I must find them, I’m hungry!
Also I think my timing was horrible, seemed the mods went to lunch not long after I posted.
lol i was curious about the youtube link, he should have dressed up like Rick Ashley ><, yeah and i still blame my GF for that loss Blaghman
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I forgive you, but mostly because we were only winning in the first place thanks to you!
Saw Dylan Moran last night. Was awesome, poor guy was sick as a dog (and drunk), but well worth it. Anyone else going/gone?
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I saw him ages ago, was well worth the money.
He wasn’t sick, but he was definitely drunk.
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Saw him last Sunday. Hilarious. Found the second half funnier than the first, but a great show all up.
“Women are likes canoes… filled with soup.”
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…I don’t get it
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(From memory) At first you think they’re ridiculous. But then you absolutely must have one.
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Another Perth dweller? Seems there’s more of us than I thought…
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Yay Perth!
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You know he’s never actually drunk on stage? It’s just an act. I had my blind mown when I found out!
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Hilarity. Yeah, I can tell he’s not drunk on stage, it’s just his Irish comedian mannerisms. Probably from playing Bernard Black for ages.
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A blow to all who aspire to be a high-functioning alcoholic.
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I’ve always wondered…maybe he has toned it down a bit. He polished off a bottle and a half of red on stage first time i saw him…
Next you will tell me Eminem doesn’t pop pills on stage every night and Alice Cooper survives 🙂
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Of course Alice Cooper survives, after his first death he is reborn, after the second, he is fueled by vengeance to continue living, after the third, he returns as a spider king, and over the hours until the next show starts, the spider-curse wears off, so that he’s ready to be killed all over again multiple times in the next show!
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That… Makes a lot of sense.
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I saw him on Monday night (Perth). He was awesome. 3rd time I’ve seen him, now. His hands were a little shaky, and some parts of the performance felt a little flat (others were brilliant, though) – maybe early signs of his sickness?
STOP!
Coffee time!
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(That first part is actually a lie. You need to be doing something in order to stop. Hooray for Friday!)
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STOP!
Ramen time!!
Whooooooaaah, whoooaaaaah
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STOP!
Shapes time!
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*foot shuffle right*
*foot shuffle left*
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Ahhh, good old Friday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPVTl9K0lqc
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What is that, your song? You’re addicted to it.
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Shameless gaming update… (and I’m done!). I dont have anything that I can get finished in a day and I have to get organised for my party.
Im still counting LA Noire, as it was in my pile, had not been played in weeks and only got back into it in the spirit of pineapples but actually completed on 29 June…
Then this month,
Operation flashpoint Red River
Backbreaker Vengeance
Fallout New Vegas
Need for Speed Shift
Uncharted 2
Overall a great month of gaming. I actually enjoyed each and every game, and because the genre’s were all so different, It was actually a pleasure to keep on playing.
I did just one game at a time mostly, but NFS Shift was not even technically on my pile but after a multiplayer night with my cousin I was hooked so much I had to finish it.
Thanks to Trjn for the awesome idea dude. It has really got me back into gaming. My pile of shame is MUCH more manageable now.
Getting Dirt 3 from ozgame and then have some more time to kill before the October/November rush so may just keep going with this.
Can’t wait for next year!
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So six games! and not small one’s either! Impressive effort man!
Holy crap – i need your help, guys and gals!
I have my lord shepard shirt up on threadless.. so far for 92 votes it only has a score of 1.92/5 – thats really bad 🙁
I REALLY want to get it on the site, so i need you guys to help me get the scores up by pimping my shirt with me.
IF it gets on, i’ll basically get $2000 cash for it… which would be super neato.IF it does get on i would only be able to assume it’s with your help that it has.
THEREFORE – if it does indeed make it, i’ll use a portion of the moneys to buy a cool prize or two to be competitioned off for everyone
HALP!!! 😀
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The model really doesn’t help matters.
you got my vote!
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I voted! At least I think I did. I pressed the big 5 on the side. Anyway, here’s hoping it gets on 😀
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I’ll give you a 5! 5 is good right?
Hmm…. $2,000…. That would pay for my new PC…
Shame I can’t actually do a design for it as they’re all on the old, dead, comp.
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I can’t access threadless from work… 🙁
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So am I supposed to click the 0? Lalala joking, 5 pressed!
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I voted. Like Harli said though, that model really isn’t doing you any favours, neither is the placement of your design on said model. It’s all sideways. Do you get any say in that, because if not, you’re kinda screwed unless enough of us can vote for you.
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I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favorite shirt on the citadel.
So the weekend is nearly here and I have no plans, suggestions?
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TF2 on steam tonight with the Kotakau gang?
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Stole the words right out of my keyboard.
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And then you took the words right out of my keyboard
Oh-it must have been while you were typing them
You took the words right out of my keyboard
And I swear it’s true
I was just about to say Kotaku
KotakuuuuuuuI’m sorry meatloaf…*sobs*…I’m so sorry…..
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I would love to, except i don’t have it installed and my downloads would be shot to high heavens.
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Play video games?
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Well i already was planning on doing that.
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Play more video games?
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ROAD TRIP TO CANBERRA!
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Sounds awesome, Ill fill my car with shapes drive 20 hrs to canberra, spend 4 hours there and then drive back. Sounds awesome. Thanks for the offer blaghs.
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No Problem!
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One day i will visit Canberra, I will fly there.
on my pig with wings.
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It’s true!
He’s a ROCKETPIG!
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You know, that was way funnier in my head.
Let’s just hope it’s so high up on the page that nobody actually reads it.
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It’s not. I read it. I’m watching you.
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Send me an e-mail with your details. That would be a good place to start.
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DONE! You mighty sire are too kind. Bards will write songs of your how generous you are.
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Now send me an email… >_>
With your credit card details… <_<
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Go see Captain America.
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That would be cool, If the cinema i lived near stopped playing shit movies. I swear the movie Ausralia has been playing there for like 2 years.
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**Australia
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WHERE IS YOUR SENSE OF PATRIOTISM
AUSTRALIA IS AN AMAZING MOVIE
Please Baz Luhrman, let us award you with a swag of honours and trophies just because if we admit that it truly was a terrible movie, that somehow reflects badly upon us! -
I saw the movie and it was meh. But they still get people watching it. That and transformers cause nothing says hickville like lots of pointless explosions.
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Don’t they have DVD players up in Woollamallo, Bruce? :p
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Makes me think they know their audience pretty well.
A – “Hey Bruce!”
B – “Yeah Bruce?”
A – “You know what’s movie is tops, Bruce?”
B – “Yeah Bruce, that Australia movie, ay?”
A – “Damn, right Bruce. Shame all those tossers overseas can’t admire the bewdy of our backyards.”
B – “Too right Bruce. We should go see that again.”
A – “Couldn’t we just admire the bewdy of our backyards from our backyards, Bruce?”
B- “Nah Bruce, that Baz fella that made the movie, he make our backyards look even more like our backyards than our backyards.”
A – “Too true Bruce. We should round up the kid and go see it tonight.”
B – “Righto Bruce.”
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I don’t know any bruce’s but that pretty much describes 90% of my town. One day i will also post a picture of the big snake in my town with me sitting on it and you will all cheer.
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Th-that’s what she said…?
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All Aussies are called Bruce, less confusing that way.
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God I love that sketch.
masturbation and coka cola. Not together and in no specific order.
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Why not together?
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Master-TAY-tion?
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Just put it in the cup.
It’s what they call a ‘Boston Tingler’
Effervescent!
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Just checking if Mark has been keeping an eye on his trash folder..?
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What did you just call me?!?!?!
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Mark?
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Okay, this is the third time I’ve tried to post this D:
(Had an epic battle with Reply Button last night, posted it in the wrong place, asked Kotaku gods to ninja-pull it but I think they got the other one I did that was in the right place)
(Sorry for long post)
I just finished DA2 Legacy and was actually quite impressed. Commence long rant of slight praise…
Gameplay wise it fixes a lot of the most glaring issues (repetitive environments, waves of enemies) and the combat is more fun than in the main game. A lot of DA2′s issues can’t be helped, but it’s pretty clear that they’ve got the message that repeating an environment 68 times doesn’t make a game.
The story almost entirely abandons Kirkwall’s internal struggles (yay!) which is a great thing. The lore of Dragon Age, with its darkspawn, magisters and archdemons, has always been the best part of the story and it made Legacy seem far more important, epic and fantasy-esque than most of the main game itself.
I’m slightly concerned that Bioware appear to be so haphazard in their development, radically changing many things (narrative and gameplay-wise) from Origins to DA2, then frantically (I’d even call it panic) reversing on a lot of this once it became clear that it was pretty much a disaster. Legacy seems like a quest out of Origins story squeezed awkwardly into the universe of the sequel, as though Bioware felt compelled to chuck in anything and everything that would remind players of the first game.
Still, the quality of this DLC is easy to see (there’s a huge amount of dialogue and the mini-plot is revealed really well) and I have to at least give Bioware credit for improving on a lot of the stuff that I found tedious in DA2. If nothing else the tsunami of vitriol (probably mostly undeserved) that came Bioware’s way post-DA2 might’ve shocked them into abandoning some of the crazier, alienating gameplay, narrative and marketing ideas.
My optimistic side hopes that DA2 was an ill-judged and rushed blip, and not something that’s going to become standard for Bioware in the future. It’s obvious (given some of the vitriol going around) that a lot of players are very cranky, and kudos has to go to Bioware for at least trying to improve on a lot of the issues people had with the second game.
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I don’t like you!
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The feeling is mutual.
*frosty eyes*
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^ I don’t like it!
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I don’t fear the reaper.
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I LOVE oysters!
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Just had some oysters and other awesomeeeeeee seafood at fish market a while ago with bawble!/CrabJiffy a week ago! 😛
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DA2 Legacy is already out? I’ll have to give that a try after I play through Witch Hunt and Leliana’s Song on Origins. I love BioWare games but for some reason I never seem to get around to playing the DLC.
You mentioned combat is more fun then the main game. In what way? Last I heard they were going to make it more like Origins so have they done that or have they just made DA2s system better? Personally, and I know many would disagree with this, I found DA2s combat a lot funner then Origins and can’t say I really like the idea of the series going back to that system.
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It’s the same system as DA2, but the waves of enemies randomly jumping from the ceiling have been cut back a lot. I guess when they say ‘more like Origins’, they mean enemies being on the ground ahead of you instead of spawning in random places all the time.
Enemies are less numerous but tougher (like Origins) and it feels a bit more realistic. Overall it was pretty fun combat, except for some of the bosses.
I just laid down some quality comments here:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/were-looking-for-a-weekend-editor/
Do yourselves a favour and read ’em.
Especially Trjn and Watt?!
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Is it about poo again?
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Inspiring.
I like this job. Boss was bored, so he took my friend and I out for lunch. They had beer (I don’t drink) and we all had a giant parma each. Seriously, this thing was huge. But extremely, extremely tasty. And it was on the company credit card. Then when we get back, he tells us to take it easy ‘cos it’s friday. And now everyone is playing Mario kart on the wii they have in the office.
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You must be confusing job for something else!
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I HAAATE YOUUUU!!!!
Not really, just jealous. What is this awsome company and what do you do there out of interest?
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Odecee Software! We do corporate computery things!
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Not spellcheckers, I hope 😉
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I meant to spell computery things as computery things.
Seriously.
Now if you’ll excuse, my Yoshi has a race to win.
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I meant the company name :p
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Their excuse for the weird spelling is two-fold: all the characters (except the o, but that could be argued because it’s a 0) is in hexadecimal notation.
The other is that you’re more likely to remember the weird spelling (half the people pronounce it as ode-see, as opposed to the correct ‘odyssey’ pronounciation.)
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WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA…
…you don’t drink?
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Nope!
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I bet you and Tad would have rousing games of solitaire together.
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What’s wrong with solitaire?
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The lack of explosions, for one.
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Coming Fall 2012:
Michael Bay’s
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I laughed. SO hard.
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I would add in a plot synopsis, but, you know.
Michael Bay.
Plot.
hahahaha
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He has a point, it is Friday. Maybe I should just tell my boss that.
What’s a Parma? you mean the village?
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What do you….I don’t even….
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Chicken parmagiana…?
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I think he means the cheese.
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Couldn’t resist.
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Succesfull troll is successfull.
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Well played madam.
May we rematch during the night of TF2 we have ahead of us. Are you guys going to be using the teamspeak magics?
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I was about to respond with horror, but luckily it appears many already have!
A parmigiana is essentially a schnitzel, but with cheese and tomato (paste, typically) on top.
Just in case you were unaware.
It is of course completely different from the Italian dish that it originates from, but that’s fairly standard for food.
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Chicken parma takes the best parts of a chicken schnitzel, then vomits all over it.
YEAH, I SAID IT.
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You are henceforth banned from here. Tad, make it so.
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Absolutely.
Chicken Parma is amazing and anyone who says otherwise is not cool!
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FIGHT THE POWER!
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YEEEEEAAAHHHH BOYEEEEEE!!!!
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Parmi, i!
Right there in the spelling of parmigiana.
Parma, pft.
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Pshh, Parmi just sounds dumb!
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WHAT!!!!!
parma sounds like you asking for a handjob… :O
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That is pretty awesome! I am way jelly. But hey, I spent today browsing 3D models on DAZ3D, so I guess I can’t complain too loud.
Sore throat today.
I finally start to enjoy watching bawble!/CrabJiffy play LOL… which makes me think: am I more of a gaming spectator rather than a gaming person (since some of us don’t like the label “gamer”)? It’s just like how to stand behind people who pwn at games in arcades. It also related to the explosion of game commentaries on Youtube.
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relates to*
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This is why Let’s Plays and streams are awesome. You’ll love this weekend, biggest weekend of streaming of the year. Both MLG Anaheim and Evo are going on, shall be quite spectacular.
Also, check out LP Archive for more awesomeness of that sort.
Hey LOL people!
I have been playing some tanky action! Which champion do you prefer to be on your team: Leona, Moderkaiser or Rumble?
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Leona!
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Havn’t been on the same team as Leona yet, but played against her last night. She has a stun which is very annoying, plus helps her initiate and set up a gank target as shes tanky enough to go in first and disable them. Mordekaiser and rumble are also both very good though.
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Leona is new, expect her to be nerfed in the near future if she turns out to be too powerful. Rumble is pretty overpowered according to others I know, so he might get nerfed too but no sign of that yet. (Rumble gets banned a lot in ranked games too apparently) Mordekaiser is pretty cool, some of us have got interest in already, he seems bloody good for his role of fighter DPS as well as some tanking.
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Played a few with someone else as Leona, they were good tanks.
Mordekaiser I see as more of a durable fighter than a tank.
Just over an hour left in the day. Makes me realise how little work I’ve actually done.
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You don’t need to do any work when you have an Order!
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Damn straight!
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I got a surprising amount of work done today and left just before 4pm. Fridays are good like that.
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I guess everyone else couldn’t be bothered today either, which means little to no work for me 🙂
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So I took the afternoon off sick, and I’ve spent it on the lounge trying to finish Perfect Dark for Shameless Gaming. Got to one of the last missions over 10 years ago, gave up on perfect agent difficulty, haven’t been back since.
Anyway, it’s hard to get used to the controls at first but, damn, I forgot just how cool this game is. It really feels like a spy movie come to life. There’s guns, explosions, disguises, hacking, aliens and a guy who almost sounds like Sean Connery. It’s what most modern FPS games wish they were.
If you haven’t played it, you really should get it on XBLA and do so!
I need this weekend so badly right now.
Seems like my kids used up all their good behavior last weekend and I am exhausted! So if I don’t get some good gaming time in this weekend expect me to be extremely cranky next week.
Just warning you all. 😛
In the lead-up to this year’s Evo tournament, a documentary about Mike Ross called Focus has been released.
You can view it in full on the G4 website.
I believe in Mike Ross.
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I think my linking skills need a little improvement.
Try this link if you want to watch.
Or just this:
bawble!/CrabJiffy is test streaming some League of Legends action on justin.tv if anyone’s interested:
http://www.justin.tv/crabjiffy
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Nifty. I’ve been trying to look into how to stream, see if I can pull it off with console gaming and whatnot.
Okay, looks like I nabbed the last comment on page 9 but I want people to see this so here it is again.
As build-up for this year’s Evo (which is this weekend, watch it dammit!) a documentary about pro Street Fighter player Mike “Mike Ross” Ross called Focus has been released on the G4 website
You can view the whole thing for free and so far it’s pretty interesting.
I believe in Mike Ross.
Monkey Magic just because:
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Ahhh so good – you “sissy poofter”! Still can’t believe the ABC used to play it.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8279240/star-wars-ewok-dodges-jail-over-sex-act
Knew the sneaky lil bastards were suss right from the beginning!
Hmmm…you know if i was weekend editor these comments would be approved by now. 🙂
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What comments? There are no comments! This place dies over the weekend, and it kills me inside!
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Which is my point exactly!! With me as weekend editor it would be a bountiful garden of comments and information, a literal hotbed of news, comedy and insight swirling into a delicious symbiotic soup of weekend wonderment.
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Three metaphors in one sentence! Plus alliteration! Winning!
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That’s a hell of a pitch. If I were making the decision, you’d have the job. :p
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Y SO KWIET, TAY?
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Hi GAMERS, This is a must see!
Go To youtube.com
Type in: Gears of war game chamber
CHECK OUT VIDEO UNBELIEVABLE and it’s for sale
Regards Daz
So HoN has gone free to play.
Interesting.
Can’t link my damn nintendo club account to my 3DS, keeps telling me password or email is incorrect and I should go to nintendoclub.com to ask for my password. That is totally suss because it should say nintendoclub.com.au…A frikkin U!
What the devil is going on???
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