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Sorry, no TABTOL today. Somebody changed the site design and broke my scripts! I’ll try to get it back by tomorrow.
RE: Tabtol
NOOOOOOOOOOO
RE: Ben White
Howdy thar
RE: Title name thingies
My new goal in life is to get one that says: “Hot Stuff”
Will give you some more time to update the scripts to base it on word count for notable November
Is it Friday yet? I’m beginning to get inordinately excited about Skyrim. If I listened to the theme music I think my head might explode.
I was taunting Pyrean at work last night by playing it several times. Then I realised I was taunting myself just as much.
SKYRIM \O/
SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
*head explodes**
I am nervous that it will be a crappy console port with console GUI… Stop living in the past using 5yr old tech and BUY A PC!!
I missed out on getting the limited edition copy of the game, so I miss out on all the extra goodies.
I guess I’ll comfort myself with a BIG FREAKIN’ RPG.
I just wanted the map. but I didn’t want to wait for an overseas order and I didn’t want to pay stupid amounts of money so I’m just going to go into K-Mart on Friday. I think I’m kind of nuts. WHAT IF THEY DON’T HAVE ANY?! I’m freaking out a tiny bit.
I meant what if they don’t have any copies of the game. I’ve come to terms with my loss regarding the map.
I’m still weighing up my choices with where I’m getting it. Can grab it from Steam, considering I’ve missed all the good physical stuff, but it’s now actually slightly cheaper to grab a retail copy.
Might do what you’re doing, and if I miss out, grab it on Steam
If I was getting it on PC I’d get it from Game online.
http://www.game.com.au/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/pc-games/ESSVSPC
It’s $88 for the game, the map and two novels, delivered free on release day.
…HOW DID I MISS THAT?!?
Cheers for the heads up, think I’ll chase that up today!
I went for that one, though I really want the notebook that EB is giving out. I’m hoping to talk one of my firends into giving me his.
You could also get it from GreenManGaming, it’s $53AUD atm I believe.
Nice price. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to buy a digital-only copy of a retail-released game though. I like to be able to have a tangible product for my money wherever possible. Or I’m just old and set in my ways.
I have to try and finish Arkham City before Friday so I can devote my whole weekend to SKYRIM \o/
I’m almost done but I keep getting sidetracked by Riddler objectives.
Morning all! Hope your weekend was good.
I was bored friday night and decided to resume my playthrough of GTA4 that I had put down years ago and never played again. I find myself now asking why I stopped in the first place.
The city just sucks you in and is so full of life, I forgot how much character Liberty City has, it’s the sort of environment that you can just bask in. And after visiting NY last year it gets me all nostalgic in parts.
Last week I was simply curious, but now I am VERY interested in how GTAV is turning out.
I did this as well!
Got about halfway through the game a few years back and never bothered finishing, started again a few weeks ago and I’m loving it.
Well, Skyrim might be being released tomorrow. I was talking to a manager at EB Games yesty, and he said they had wanted to do a midnight launch for Skyrim, but head office said no because they thought the release date would be pushed forward (possibly street date, i dunno) because of how big the launch Modern Warfare 3 was.
So, keep your fingers crossed, and you may be playing Skyrim tomorrow!
By the Divine, I will really be shocked if that happens. With all the promo stuff about 11.11.11, you would think they would really be coming down hard on any early releases.
That being said, I WANT THIS GAME NOW!!!
I hope not! I don’t enough money for it until Thursday, so it comes out before then I’ll be all ragey.
Flu is Super Nerd?
I don’t know anything about that, he’s just MY hero. 😛
He does have a hero look about him.
And that voice *sigh*
I need to get a hero’s haircut.
Your hair is long and luscious. Why would you cut it?
It’s sort of like a cape, and if the Incredibles taught us anything; “No capes!”
“that voice”?
you mean Effluvium Boy is Nolan North?
No wonder he’s my hero! Also, kinda creepy that I’m him nearly every time I play a game….
My 3.5 day weekend:
Started and finished Uncharted 3
Played a fair bit of inMomentum
Played some Arkham City
Got back into Deus Ex (Arrived in Montreal for the first time)
Drank 10 bottles of Ginger beer (Needed more)
Had a tub of Ben and Jerry’s (Deliciousness)
Had 2 Kit Kat Cookies and Cream
Had a box of Brunch Bars
Had an entire cheesecake
Successful weekend of laziness is successful.
The only problem I had with the camera was with the scenes where you had to run towards the camera. There’s about 3 or 4 of those moments in the game, and I always ran the wrong way and died.
Also, the other problem I had was when if someone sees you, even if you kill him 1 second later, EVERYBODY gets x ray vision and knows precisely where you are, and bombard you with grenades/rockets/bullets/armoured men with shotguns. FFFFFFFFFFF
Other than that, fantastic game! I should write a reader review. Or not. Lazy weekend has made me more lazy.
There are those parts, and there are some of the more cinematic moments where it’s all HEY LOOK AT THIS, WHOOOOOSH! while you’re in the middle of climbing something.
It’s annoying, is all.
Also, yes, their Sniper X-ray vision. Especially in that level in the middle of a sandstorm. Wat.
WHO’S UP FOR MULTIPLAYER SHENANIGANS??
For sure! Co-op? I suck at competitive, I get excited if I don’t die more than I get kills.
I can’t aim with dual thumbsticks so I’d probably be pretty bad at competitive too. o/
I was actually curious to try that plane level though. That seemed pretty cool.
I’ll see your Uncharted/Batman/Ginger beer, and raise you a Sonic Generations/SKYRIM/beez neez (closest to mead I can afford).
Oh, and I’ll end my 4 day week on thu by WINNING 500BUCKS! (probably).
Any further news on on Port Royale 3 or Just Cause 3? My weekend involved working towards my second service star for the tank in BF3. Today will involve completing a PCA for university entrance.
I tend to use windows media player to listen to a bunch of music when I’m playing games. Some of it is auto only and some I have video clips for.
Anyone know if it’s possible to have it so when audio only is playing it stays minimised so I can see teamspeak, kotaku or whatever else I’m doing with my off monitor but if a video comes on it’ll maximise, then minimise again when it finishes?
I couldn’t get it to play my videos at all for some reason. Didn’t like the format I think.
Try VLC media player? It’s probably one of the most versatile players out there. I’m not too sure of the customisation, but since it’s an open-source program, it should have plenty of options for tweaking around.
Yesterday, I played through Rock Band 3’s Endless Setlist. I think I may need two replacement lists, and a replacement brain to ever stop me from doing something that stupid again.
WTF That was meant to read two replacements WRISTS, not lists. >_<
WELCOME TO MONDAY. EVERYBODY SHOUT!
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell…
You know you make me want to SHOUT!
Kick my heals up and SHOUT!
Throw my hands up and SHOUT!
Throw my head back and SHOUT!
Come on now, SHOUT!
SHOUT
SHOUT
LET IT ALL OUT
BROKEN WRISTS ARE A THING YOU CAN DO WITHOUT
C’MON
I’M TAYKIN’ TO YOU
C’MONNNNNN
*Clearly the superior Disturbed version of the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WdmDHor-dE
Is there anything that mario paint CAN’T make look awesome?!
I remember playing the Endless Setlist from the first Rock Band. That was somewhat torturous even though the percentage of songs I liked in that game were pretty high. The tracklists for the second and third games were so woeful, (not to mention that they’re much larger) that I’d rather shoot myself in the face than attempt to do the Endless Setlist for either of those.
I honestly didn’t realise how sucky it was until I got to about the 45-mark. I realised that every single decent track I had in my library were DLC 🙁
Hi TAYbies! o/ It’s been so long since I last posted. Hope everyone’s having a cheerful morning. Mine certainly is with a large cup of iced coffee! This weather is way too hot to drink regular hot coffee.
Here are a few YouTube awesome video highlights for my weekend:
Pop Medley 2011 (Sam Tsui & Kurt Schneider)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZCOtpWa7Cc
* Sam Tsui’s singing and Kurt Schneider’s music arrangement makes all the recent autotuned generic pop songs sound like dancing heaven.
In Your Arms – Kina Grannis (Ofiicial Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0DuxFAT0
* This is much, much more than just a music video. It took 2 years to complete. Stop-motion jelly beans. ‘Nuff said.
♪ M.I.L.K. Fan-made Song and Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M3tmmP2DHc
* For all Yogscast’s fans and people who love Steve Holting \o/
Ooops, I forgot to remove my Halloween costume… ;x See, that’s how long I haven’t posted… 😐
I removed it from my handle but I always dress up on mondays. It’s good to mess with people who think they’re just tired and are seeing things.
Hey my first borked reply!
Dang it, since SuperNerd’s identity was revealed the Reply button has gotten out of control.
Nah, it should appear fine after my initial post goes through moderation… >_> Had links in it.
I don’t recall this ever happening… Ever.
While on the farm over the weekend, I found myself chopping wood in time to my humming of the theme song of SKYRIM!
I have the odd feeling that… I REALLY want this game.
Four more days, four more days.
lol funny you say 4 more days. I was chattin’ to the guy at my local EB yesterday and he said they’re not having a midnight launch because it’s likely to break streetdate.
Will not cave in before GOTY version releases
*meditates to hold impulses of getting the game on 111111*
So here’s the thing: MW3 comes out tomorrow, but if it comes out tomorrow my wife is going to be raging all day because she has to wait until I get home from work with it to play it, probably watching all her friends playing it for hours and hours. What really needs to happen is that it needs to break street date today, 2pm or so will be fine. If someone could get on that, it’d be really appreciated.
I will be very upset if it breaks street date at this point. I am all geered up to get home finish one more prestige in mw2, chillax, before skulling a slab of energy drink running out at midnight, and getting my game.
So I managed to see a great deal of Dark Souls on the weekend. Shame I didn’t get to play it myself though.
I had fun laughing at my husband. One death of his had me in stitches when he was running away from two enemies to try and get to a narrower spot so he could take them on one at a time. Somehow he managed to get confused and when he was almost there he turned around and started running back the wrong way, straight onto the swords of the enemies. 😀
Since you all seem to be suffering some sort of brain damage, I’ll have to correct you:
ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS! ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS!
Everything’s a reply to me in TAY, no matter where it ends up or who it pretends to be replying to. 😛
Like this one?
(Hi Strange!)
Arrgh! No more, it’s almost Dark Souls time!
I STILL haven’t played Dark Souls!
You must. Quickly, before Skyrim, and Skyward Sword!
Agreed. Dark Souls is awesome.
(Hello Strange)
But I still have to finish Demon’s Souls! SO MANY GAMES!
This is when my one-at-a-time method pays off (Sort of, not really, since I miss out on so many games…)
It’s okay Flu, we’ve got the entire weekend and the next Monday to bombard everyone with Assassin’s Creed Revelations!!
I started playing Atom Zombie Smasher over the weekend.
MANNNNN that game is gooooodd… but it gets STUPID hard… being able to pick what units i take with me would be a massive bonus, i tells ya
Yes!
Although if you enable some of the game mods that allow that sort of stuff, then it becomes insanely easy after a certain point, because one of your upgraded units just smash everything.
There is a chooser mod build into the game, take that and you can select which unit you want
Also the Alt spawning mod is cool, the zombies start in the middle of the map rather than coming in a fixed places at the edge, makes things a bit more interesting
Happy belated birthday to the giant TadMod & The Cracks over the weekend!! Just caught it on the twitterland.
I decided to grab Fable 3, Bastion, Breath of Death VII and Cthulu saves the world this weekend. Been playing Breath of Death VII a bit and it’s pretty funny, it’s like an old school NES-style RPG that parodies itself, very chuckleworthy but I heard that Cthulu Saves the World is funnier so I’m playing that once I finished the other. The game is getting pretty difficult as I’ve been playing through it, really keeps me on my toes.
I played the series on 360.
The special feature that was most talked about for Fable 3 was supposedly every decision you made affected the world into good or bad, but I don’t find it implemented well enough. It just made the game seem silly.
I enjoyed running around on my big pile of treasure… that was pretty much it.
I loved Fable 3. I really only had three complaints about it.
1: They pretty much removed character morphing.
2: Lack of different weapon types.
3: The ending felt very lackluster.
Other then that I loved it. Story was interesting, characters were interesting, the setting was interesting, combat was fun, running around these huge enviroments (huge when compared to the last two games) was fun and playing a voiced hero was great.
It did have its flaws, as I mentioned, and I can certainly see why someone would be disappointed in it when compared to the other games, to be honest I was a bit disappointed myself (especially with the character morphing), but I think the good easily outweighs the bad. My hope is that Fable 4, which I feel is inevitable, combines the best elements of all three games, the voiced character and wide open world of Fable 3, the emotional story and character morphing of Fable 2, the setting and boss fights (the end bosses for both Fable 2 and Fable 3 are lackluster when compared to the Jack of Blades fight as the end of Fable and Fable:TLC), to create the best Fable game ever.
Anyone else feel wierd being advertised to about Johnnie Walker at 9am? Not sure how I feel about alcohol being advertised here? Not sure why, I love to drink… just feels wrong?
I know the average age of the gamer is 32 or so now, and that it is slightly skewed toward men (presumably JW demo) but it just feels wrong.
Perhaps its the time of day, or something else… anyone else notice this??
Nope, doesn’t feel weird at all.
*takes a sip from his Wild Turkey*
While i am very impressed with your feat of drinking out of a turkey,
*claps*
well done sir,
i am less impressed cause everyone knows that in the morning the only accepted alcohol is Mead… with oats… or cornflakes of you like that sort of thing
How do you know I am not drinking mead out of a hollowed out wild turkey?
By Baldur, i had not considered this…
this show why you are clearly the superior to me good sir
You can bend the long neck like a silly straw!
and for the good times hollow out the rear and use it as a Mead Bong?
wow, so many applications of turkey i was not aware of…
If you have a ipad, get an app called Splashtop… awesome remote desktop with media streaming.. actually streams rather well with decent video and audio. Allows you to view flash and also stream content from websites… plus your own media… not bad for a few bucks.
Wait Flash? On an apple device? WHAT MAGIC IS THIS?!
Oh wait… Apple… right… magic 😛
OK i have to do it MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3 MW3
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*waves little flag*
yaaaaaaay -_-
i’m sorry, i know some people are excited but i haven’t played a good CoD game* since… erhm…. when did number 1 come out?
*by good i mean one i actually had fun in
Yeah i dunno, i was resistent to cod when i first got my xbox, but then someone convinced me, and i just really enjoy the MP in it. And above all, i am actually good at it, so i enjoy it just for the sake of beating down noobs i guess.
lol fair enough, i guess my issue is that i’m always the noob getting beaten HAHA 😛
i dunno i think i’m just over the whole modern shooter thing… but obviously it’s a good series otherwise it wouldn’t have the hype and following it does… i just don’t see it…
in conclusion this must mean that it’s my mind that are either superior or inferior to everyone elses… i’ll go with inferior cause they seem to have more fun… chasing red balls and running in front of cars…
i’m sorry what were we talking about?
I wont deny there are “better” games out there no doubt about it. But i think COD caters to the lowest common denominator. Means that its not just top rank american people playing on the servers. so Less lag, more locals, better spread of skill levels. I mean, i’ll top the leader board a fair bit, but there is always those hand full of guys who I fear when i see their gamer tag in the lobby.
Seriously should have jumped in MW2 with me, Harmo, Jonny and Zer0. I still don’t consider myself a COD fan, but man, it’s great fun with the right people.
Wouldn’t that be more ‘HOOAH” than ‘SQUEEEEEEEE’
That said, if the Marines in MW3 squee that would make it GOTY for sure.
TAY 2000 – A very disturbed cover
TAY! TAY!
I’ll be here all day
It’s not really as if i need the pay
come on
I’ll just be talkin’ to you
so come on
TAY! TAY!
I’ll be here all day
It’s not really as if i need the pay
come on
I’ll just be talkin’ to you
so come on
On my monday…
the first place to which i will go
But end up breaking threads
With youtube clips i got to show
(gotta try to slow)
It’s tabtol time
rewards you for being a posting whore
break down and cry
Could’ve been top with one post more
(POST POST POST POST)
You shouldn’ve posted (TAY) just once more (TAY)
TAY! TAY!
I’ll be here all day
It’s not really as if i need the pay
come on
I’ll just be talkin’ to you
so come on
A cesspool of senseless posts…
a type of trash that doesn’t smell
A clip of vanilla ice (now dance to ice ice baby)
Mark’s tags will piss of Elle’
Gonna have to answer (TAY) to Elle’ (TAY)
TAY! TAY!
I’ll be here all day
It’s not really as if i need the pay
come on
I’ll just be talkin’ to you
so come on
There can be no doubt
HUH
Once you get inside you’ll never get out
There can be no doubt
HUH
Once you get inside
you’ll never ever ever get out!
will you never shout?
HUH
I feel as though I know you’re never gonna get out…
And when you’ve taken down your guard…
Surgly will draw you with no pants…
And you’ll win a barbarians heart
(TAY TAY TAY TAY TAY)
You’ll win ol’ (TAY) Hugo’s heart (TAY)
TAY! TAY!
I’ll be here all day
It’s not really as if i need the pay
come on
I’ll just be talkin’ to you
so come on
TAY! TAY!
I’ll be here all day
It’s not really as if i need the pay
come on
I’ll just be talkin’ to you
so come on
TAY all day let me TAY TAY let me
TAY all day let me TAY TAY
TAY all day let me TAY TAY let me
TAY all day let me TAY TAY
well great, now i will have this stuck in my head all day…
on the other hand, THAT WAS AMAZING
Can someone explain why Skyrim is a Steamworks game? Not a complaint, mostly just curious.
Zenimax/Bethesda decision?
RAGE, Fallout: New Vegas were Steamworks, too.
And really, as far as DRM goes, Steam is probably one of the more widely accepted ones.
moooorning TAYbies,
i see the theme has already been laid down for this week so i will add to it
ZOMGSKYRIMISGETTINGREALEASEDIN4MOREDAYSICANTFARKINGWAIT…
i think i’ll get slightly more excited after i’ve had my morning coffee
imma bit tired
*yaaawn*
I’m thinking if Batguy succeeds with getting Tabtol working again next week’s one should include the number of times ‘Skyrim’ was mentioned.
the way Kotaku was last week i am pretty sure that would literally kill the servers… permanently… you know… cause SKYRIM!
I’m not sure I underSKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
*sigh* sorry that was me
i broke him
again
my bad…
i should know better then to say Skyrim
cause SKYRIM is clearly a bad word…
Skyrim…Sky….RIM…
..
…
Skyrim… thats a funny word…
did they put a rim on the sky?
oh well
at least he doesn’t put a paperbag over his head like the bedsales man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpn1anVPZsc
sorry, always makes me smile
Waaaaaarrrrrrhhhhhhhhh
\o/
Lok’Tar
Ogar!
Dabu
…joowantaxe?
…my tummy feels funny….
Yub yub.
I have Tuesdayitis. I must have missed a day somewhere.
I’d like to miss tomorrow and go straight to Friday.
I like the way you think.
(Hey Strange!)
My new PS3 arrives on Friday so I agree! Although no one will be there to accept the package. Anyone want to wait at my house for the day and collect my delivery?… No?
Been playing Deus Ex: HR. Great game. But those bosses, seriously, you can’t begin to imagine how terrible they are.
Couldnt be any worse than the final boss in space marine. Talk about anti climax.
dude… better start running before Loops hears ya…
I’M NOT KIDDING DUDE RUN!
i doubt it could be much worse than the ones in DE. Eidos let another company make them and it really shows. They feel so out of place. To be forced into a firefight with someone when you spent the whole game being stealthy and killing no one isn’t my idea of fun.
***SPOILERS BELOW***
It wasn’t that it was just a boss fight, it’s a SMALL area boss fight (Well the first one was anyway, haven’t gone that far in). When you basically have to cheese to beat the boss without dying (I basically threw a grenade at his feet then pumped a full rifle clip into his face after failing about 15 times trying to fight more legit), that’s just stupid
*** END SPOILERS***
I found the best strategy for each boss is
***SPOILERS***
First fight: Dance around a piller and shotgun him in the face. When he throws a grenade at you run to a piller on the opposite side of the room. Throw a grenade at him as he walks towards you and then start moving around the piller again to keep out of his line of site. Pop out every now and again and shoot him in the face with a shotgun.
Second fight: Stand in a corner with the stun gun out and wait for her to run towards you. Stun her before she can attack, switch to shotgun, shoot her a couple times, run off before she becomes unstunned (use this time to reload your stungun) and repeat.
Third fight: Do laps around the room to avoide all his attacks. Every so often shotgun him after he jumps over a wall before once again proceeding to run around the room.
***END SPOILERS***
Nah, best strategy for Final Boss fight is:
1) Take cover behind the small cover ahead of you to the right.
2) Blindfire with Heavy Rifle.
3) Proceed to next cutscene.
Best strategy is to hack the turret earlier in the map and take it into the fight with you and let it gun the bastard down while you hide in cover. 😛
*spoiler for space marine*
Hey Space marine was a freaking mini game for the final boss. Like, seriously, you fight all those evil nasty things that killed me many many times, then play a minigame to finish it ??? WTF!
***SPOILERS***
Oh yeah… Melee, melee, melee, JUMP!….
Melee, melee, melee, JUMP!…
Melee, melee, melee, JUMP!…
STUN! (OMG IT’S ON NOW! A THIRD BUTTON APPEARED!)
…areyouf***ingkiddingme.jpg
***END SPOILERS***
It really was a pitiful end to what was otherwise a brilliant game. I think in so many ways they got that right. But as a lot of people have stated. It wasnt so much a major release as a beta for another game.
They could’ve at least refined the multiplayer for PC version more than just a lobby system that screams out “Console port”
I can;t read any of that. I’m only about 10 hours in.
The Elder Scrolls has the best theme soundtracks!
Let’s go back in time –
MORROWIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWuNf4gxwuM
OBLIVION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3EOibiVzq4
(remember I used to listen this on loop for ages while I left the 360 running on the Oblivion start screen :P)
SKYRIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S44YlJFh8Sw
… And a bonus fan remix:
The Imperial Guard Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_2Jduxc2P8 (for the lolz)
Hey guys!
Hey, Gentleman Watt!
Woo! Party over here!
(Hi Strange!)
There better be cake!
I’m still waiting for the cake….
STRANGE!
Dear Steve-O and Bish,
I don’t care what you guys say about Short Stack, they are awesome and hottt and I LOVE their music.
Regards,
Harlitr0nic 5000
(as named by ShiggyNinty)
Dear Harli.
Short stacks are just for putting bacon and maple syrup on and eating.
Regards,
-Strange.
Dear Strange,
I like the way you think. Excuse me, I need to wipe the drool of my table now with some handy dandy antibacterial wipes.
We should totally make a huge batch of pancakes together sometime. It would be awesome. That was not a euphemism, by the way.
Regards,
Harli
WOO! PANCAKES!
(Hi Strange!)
I missed pancakes? D:
I might make some proper ones (ie: not from a shaker thingy) when you’re up here.
Aww… More reason for me to fly up… Hmmmmmmmmmm :\
(Hi Strange!)
YOU SHOULD DO IT!
YOU REALLY SHOULD!
HE SHOULD INDEED!
By the frozen pits of Hell, I now want pancakes, bacon and maple syrup.
*starts drooling and collapses*
Oh noes! The barbarian has fainted! He’s going to need reviving. Somebody FETCH ME THE OARR
I just finished my breakfast of bacon. And then I realised I had one of those pnacake shaker mixes in the pantry. I could have had pancakes with bacon and maple syrup!
Have you had those pancakes yet?
You could have had them for breakfast yesterday, or even today. If not… Lunch is approaching.
(Hello Strange!)
I was going to respond to your previous one and tell you I’ll probably have them for lunch today but then I saw this one so I’m putting it here.
I’m confused. Did you eat the pancakes or not?
Not yet.
But soon!
(Hi Strange!)
She may not have, but EMBRACE IT!
I totally read that as short black, and to my disappointment, it was not coffee you were talking about.
Dear Harloo,
I respect that you may have different tastes in music than me, and apologise for laughing in your face when I thought you were joking about liking them. I believe for now, I will just stick with Serif-style colon-I face, which unfortunately does not work with this sans serif based font.
:I regards,
– Bish
Dear Bish,
I think 95% of TAY has different tastes in music to you. That being said, I do appreciate your honesty in laughing in my face. I would have laughed too!
Regards,
Harlitronic 5000000000000000000
What do you mean by that? I have the best taste in music.
I think you’ll find ‘Flu, f4ction and Blaghsy agree with me here.
😀
Come on baby, do the locomotion!
Everybody’s doin’ a brand new dance now…
Bish speaks the truth. His taste in music, which incidentally coincides with my own taste, is perfect.
oi you got page 2!
There seems to be something missing on this page…
OHYEA SKYRIM.
Does it even matter I’m not getting the game anytime soon?
HARLIIIIII!
I secretly hope CrabJiffy leaves his old laptop here in Sydney while he goes to Hong Kong over summer so I can play LoL whenever I get free time. 😀
That would be awesome! You should totes play more.
Yes! Moar LoL to be had!
*points to Harli*
What Harli said
How about some anticipation for Assassin’s Creed Revelations? \o/
Would you prefer that? 😛
I dunno, I have never played Assassins Creed, or Oblivion for that matter 😛
And that should say “The Elder Scrolls” not Oblivion, even if Oblivion is the 4th in the series.
Stabby-stabby \o/
Oi, mind the stabbing! I wanna attend Dreamworld next week thank-you!
Damn Dawdle! beat me to it…
curse you and your caffeinated reflexes…
and what’s this, less Skyrim… i don’t think there can be enough rimming the sky…
SKYRIM…
*cough*skyrim*cough*
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sky…walker HAAA got you there
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skyrim
*sneezes* oh mw3 me.
well Skyrim you good sir, that seems like some AssRev bad hay fever you got there
“caffeinated reflexes”… I like that phrase.
Pixel, your comments are always so…
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vast.
myapologiesohgreatSuperNerdiwilltryandshrinktheminthefuture
pleasedon’thurtme
Anyone else laughing at how much the marketing team behind the new mechwarrior game are trying to defend the F2P model?
I’m on the fence about the new game model, but hey at least I don’t have to pay to try it out 😛
I spend 3 years playing an f2p game. i did probably spend 20 bucks on “items” in that time but still 3 years of game play for 20 bucks isnt bad. And that was totally voluntary.
\o/ I actually am not sure what assignments I have to do anyway. Other than I know they’re for my Friday class. I think I have a CMS thingy to do 🙁
*Yawn*
*Makes morning coffee and sits at computer*
*Opens TAY and sees there are already 2 pages*
*Spits coffee on the computer screen, then realizes that coffee is a precious resource and starts licking the screen/desk*
Didn’t get much gaming done but I went to the movie and same Drive … man that movie. Also after the movie I went to JB and they had the 3 season of Arrested Development on DVD, so I bought that. I have today off work so now I get to spend most of today watching some more Arrested Development and playing some Uncharted 3.
\o/ STEVE HOLT!
I don’t know what to do about Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. I want to get it ASAP but I have no idea when I’d get to play it. I haven’t been back to Deus Ex since my holiday, I’m still going with Dark Souls, and it’s Skyrim week.
I know Skyrim can be played over a month with the slow levelling and vast areas to explore, I’ll wait until there’s less game releases and after they’ve released a GOTY version to play it.
But I definitely need to play ACR on day one. Last game for Ezio as the main character :'( This video pretty summarises it:
You know what? Not really. Also, what the hell happened to his thief girlfriend, Rosa? Did she die and I’ve just forgotten? I thought he was moving on from his puppy love of stupid Cristina but then we had those ridiculous Cristina memory missions in Brotherhood. Barf.
I haven’t finished Brotherhood yet, so I can’t really comment. I didn’t find Ezio particularly thuggish.
I like Ezio but I’m sort of glad his time is coming to an end. I’d like to play a different character and setting. I think Victoria era London would be pretty fun to run around in and assassinate people. Also it could be cool if we got to play as one of Desmonds female ancestors instead of another guy.
Play as jack the ripper and discover that all his ‘victims’ were actually part of the templer order as the evolve with more modern times
But in the other games hookers are goodies.
It should be set in WWII-Era Malta where our hero Assassin will hunt both the Templars (Malta has a rich history of Templar activity) and the Nazis and Fascists who are attempting to sieze control of the island by bombing it into dust.
Yes.
And unfortunately for the game but fortunately for me I think War in the North will be in the bargain bins all too soon, so when I’m ready for it I’ll be able to pick it up cheap.
I don’t think it’ll be the break out hit of 2011 but I think a lot of people are selling it short. There’s some big names behind it and they have the support of the Tolkien estate and I think the film franchise. That being said, it can really go either way. Hopefully it’s a solidly constructed game that does justice to Tolkien’s world.
Good morning everyone! How was everyones weekend? Mine wasn’t too bad, didn’t get a LOT of gaming done but played a couple hours of Arkham Asylum. Mostly just watched some Shippuuden on Saturday. I’m so excited for Skyrim this week. But I don’t know how I’m going to get my copy. My friends preordered it for my birthday but they preordered it at a store that’s pretty much on the other side of Perth from me. And I have training all day Friday so I don’t think I’ll be able to get it. I’ll have to call in a favour from a mate and get him to pick it up for me I think :/
Hopefully from the start of next week! Still won’t be as much as I used to…I have to work at my new job :p but I’ll be able to post a lot more.
OK, so im going to ask, are midnight releases at EB worth while, or should i just stick to going to my local 24 hour kmart and avoid the crowds?
I’ve only ever been to one (San Andreas) and it was kind of a weird atmosphere. People just got their games and left. I can see how it would be fun if you bring a friend. But i wouldn’t bother.
24 hour K-mart? I so much miss living in a normal State! We don’t even have 24-hour supermarkets. And if you haven’t bought your food by 5:30 on weekends you’re pretty much screwed. 🙁
If you’re going to be out at midnight I’d say do the EB thing. It’ll be more fun than going to K-Mart, plus K-Mart might not even have theirs on the shelves yet.
Well i went to 24 hour kamrt last year. its only like 15 mins away from my place. So probably more convenient than EB. Plus, don’t you have to pre order to get to eb, or you have to wait forever?
If you’re planning on bringing it home and playing it instead of just going to bed then definitely closest is better.
Sleep? on release night? not until at least 3 in the morning.
Last midnight launch I went to was for GTA4, there was a queue and a lot of people just hanging around. Then we all got the game one-by-one and went home. Not a big deal.
I hear nowadays some stores do midnight launches a bit better and have giveaways and all that sort of thing.
Did bugger all this weekend. Have today off and plan on continuing my weekend activities.
NaNo is going terribly. Actually, that’s not a fair description. It basically isn’t going. Decided not to care about word count and then just kind of forgot to do the whole writing thing. It isn’t unsalvageable but I need to pick up my game.
Unfortunately, Uncharted 3 and Dark Souls are more appealing games than writing right now.
This. I’ve got so much to catch up on, but my gaming pile of shame is soooo perty at the moment! 🙂
Morning all!
So over the weekend, someone apparently jumped the fence in the middle of the night and swiped a $5 folding chair that was near the clothesline.
I don’t begrudge a man in greater need a chair, but seriously – who steals a chair?
Sometimes a man really needs to be able to sit on something different.
One day you’ll understand.
The current Skyrim trend here has made me think we should be approaching this situation with a Smurf way of thinking.
Skyrim can be used in place of other Skyrims, and still Skyrim out as perfectly Skyrim sentence.
Gargh.
So I started as an full-time employee at the end of September and even though I was contracting here for over a year I still need to do a 3 month probation (purely a formality). So anyway, it turns out I’m eligible (nay, required) to have business cards. HOLY BALLS, THIS IS THE BIGGEST MOMENT OF MY CAREER TO DATE.
Anyway, the receptionist/office admin sends out emails once per month asking who needs more cards, this happened on 17 October.
I wasn’t sure If I should order them yet, because probation. After three days (i.e.: on the 20th) I checked with my boss and he was like “well duh, you’re full time now, go get ’em.”
I shoot back an email that afternoon advising I will need some and could I please be included.
The response (which came a day later) was “sorry, you missed out this month, you’ll have to wait”.
Me: sadOK.jpg
A few days later I was talking to the receptionist and I happened to bring up the business cards thing.
Me: So how often do you place orders, once a month?
Her: Yeah, I send out the email and you have a week to get back to me.
Me: pokerface.jpg
I checked my emails and sure enough, I’d responded in 3 days and somehow missed out. Decided it was not worth maknig a thing out of it, so I figured I’d just wait. Of course, now there’s a thing I have to do this week and my boss is all “you got your business cards yet?”
Me: Uh, well, no…
Him: Email (receptionist)
Me: I did, she only orders them once a month. I missed out last time.
Him: No, email her, CC me in, we’ll get it sorted.
Me: *Sends the email*
Her: Ok, no worries!
Me: areyouf**kingkiddingme.jpg
And that’s today’s White Whine, brought to you by the letter K, and the number Δ.
Actually I think I’m the only person in the office she likes, maybe because I’m the only person who actually wipes up their own spills in the kitchen and don’t bitch her out whenever the milk is delivered late.
Man, the more I talk about my workplace the more it sounds like I work with a bunch of princesses. I really do like it here, honest!
In that case I think it is just her ploy to ensure that you have to continue to communicate with here. (And that can totally be a euphemism is you like)
her *
*sigh* off to the coffee room again
CC: The king of getting people to stop being slack.
BCC: The king of getting people into trouble for being slack.
I wish that wasn’t so painfully true. But it’s hard for me to complain about the work ethic of other people when I’m sitting here reading TAY.
In all fairness though, I have gotten a lot of work done in the two and a half hours I’ve been here.
I love the world of office politics – where people fight to the death to protect or project their own sense of their self importance by denying things to others.
Why are people so petty?
Lol Hugo, my friend was attempting to sort of rick-roll me into checking out that PopAsia channel thing over the weekend! Thankfully I was distracted at the time, but not before he got me with a song from Girls Generation.
EM PLEH
Because of the stupid farm with no stupid electricity, I missed out on the Glory that is PopAsia.
Will most definetly be watching it next Sunday, it is just so… addictive.
Give in Harloo, you know you want to.
I tried to get Mr. Strange to bring me one home with him later but he won’t do it.
Guess I shouldn’t have laughed when he died in Dark Souls. 😛
Not as mean as him: he ended up going out later with our son and getting one for him. 😮
I missed getting my free Slurpee. 🙁 It would happen on a day I take off.
I need to get my driver’s licence so I can go out and get my own.
I’m still on my green P’s 🙁
One day I’ll be a man!
(Hi Strange!)
I’m going to avoid free slurpees this time around. Last time I got there around 11am and the machines were already so overworked that they weren’t producing ice anymore. Plus, the floor was incredibly sticky.
/mini-rant 😛
I love having unlimited downloads.
Young Justice would probably look better in HD, redownload all episodes in 720p.
Parks and Recreation apparently doesn’t suck, download 3 seasons.
Can’t be bothered getting up, watch several hours of SC2 streaming.
I was pretty liberal with my net usage when I was under the threat of being capped. Without that threat, I’m just going to download all of the things. All of them.
Ever since we moved to a 500 gig plan, I’ve been considering getting rid of Foxtel.
I am completely shameless.
Do it! Get rid of that infestation! You can easily download all your favourite TV shows in HD without the ads!
And for the money I’m spending on Foxtel every month, I could afford a 2TB external hard drive.
Yeah! Even if 2TB externals are something like 200 bucks now due to the natural disaster in Thailand 🙁
Oh, now I remember why we haven’t gotten rid of Foxtel. With no Foxtel we have no TV signal whatsoever. Granted, you could argue we don’t need one since there’s nothing on TV anyway, but still.
Oh that’s the same kinda crap my grandparents had at their place in Currumbin Waters, TV signal was weak to fuck all, so they needed Foxtel. That sucks dude.
I like having the TV & all that, means I can watch the Aussie shows when they’re on, since I don’t really like the quality iView & other ondemand services spit out & most of the shows are never seeded on torrents 🙁
I had Foxtel for a while at my parents’ place. We had it for the footy because the coverage for that is rather shit here.
Then we realised that it wasn’t worth it.
Even with a 100/100 plan, we managed to get a fair bit of everything awesome.
Yeah that would be quite a mission since like what more than a 3rd of the internet is dedicated to porn?
Anyone remember the name of a random game that was previewed a while ago and the guy panned it for being too different?
It had a bit of steam punkery, and you could turn into a rat or something…
Never mind. Found it.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/dishonored-is-a-somethingpunk-shooter-for-everyone/
Has anyone watched the new Beavis & Butthead yet? I watched it last night, is it meant to be in 4:3 or was that just the rip I got D:
Also it wasn’t that funny imo, all I heard from mates was that it was hilarious. I did not laugh once D:
Also i’m getting rather bored of The Big Bang Theory x.x
I quickly got bored of The Big Bang Theory. They seem to repeat the same handful of story lines over and over again. Though, Sheldon is a babe.
I tolerated it to season 4, I haven’t been that interested in season 5. Yeah that’s how I feel it is, they’re repeating too much of the same thing.
This latest season has been pretty good so far. They recovered well from a kind of huge cliffhanger at the end of season 5 and while the characters seem incapable of any kind of personal growth, it doesn’t feel as formulaic or saccharine as some other sitcoms.
That’s what I thought of it before Sam made me watch it. She was reluctant to get me to watch it. But I guess I had nothing better to do. I ended up enjoying it enough to continue watching it.
I dunno, it’s quite funny at times. I like that it is obviously written by people who know their stuff, rather than hack writers throwing together gaming/science/miscellaneous-nerd-terms that they know nothing about.
e.g. it’s the only comedy where I have actually been amused by an accurate depiction of iPhone application development!
I’ve found that when it comes to comedy shows like Big Bang Theory, Community, The Office etc it’s best to only watch an episode every now and then rather then watching them every week or watching a bunch of episodes all in a row. That way they seem to maintain their funnyness.
The IT Crowd is (was?) one of my favourite comedies. D:
I don’t mind The Big Bang Theory, even though Sheldon pretty much carries the entire show. (I haven’t seen much of the newer seasons, so that might have changed). When I first watched it, it did make me laugh but I kept thinking “if he wasn’t in the show… there would be no jokes”. xD
So apparently I’m bad at video games. I got so frustrated with Uncharted’s combat I had to drop the difficulty. And even then, I’m finding I get stuck in a few spots. 🙁
This is part of the reason I’m just glad to let my husband play the Uncharted games while I watch.
I see the waves and waves of unnecessary enemies and find it ridiculous. How the hell do the bad guys have enough money to pay all these minions!
I played it on Easy.
And even then, so much death in the later levels.
I do like Uncharted, really, but console cover shooters I just can’t play very well.
i thought it had been at least 15 minutes since the last post like this and we were due for a new one…
SKYRIM!
Finally got around to watching Game of Thrones last night. Got up to episode 6, and decided I’ll watch the rest leading up to Friday. It’s seriously put me in the mood for some full RPG in Skyrim.
Character creation begins today!
DO NOT watch that show with your mother in law and/or mother in the house… feels awkward during the bewbs… the fighting is fine though
Truth be told, when the HBO logo popped up, I burst out laughing. Partially cause I’ve seen True Blood, partially cause I was alone…
I couldn’t get into Game of Thrones when I watched it. I actually fell asleep during the pilot.
Noooooooooooooooo, i’m fragile D:
I’m sorry D: it just didn’t grab me. I have seen the scenes with all the bewbs though. A mate was watching it at TAFE.
I did too grab you!
Oh wait.
Yeah, the first thought I had during the pilot is that I’d probably get more out of it had I read the books first. Never the less, ended up enjoying it.
The one thing that still weirds me out is how some characters are killed off without any build up. It’s like “By the way, knife in your face”. Haven’t decided if I like that or not, but I think I do.
Holy IBM x3650 Super Nerd!
are you singling them out to save them? or to point them out to the mercy of Harli?
Surprising as it may be, Scandinavian Super Sleuth, despite my status as super hero and protector of nerd-kind, I fully endorse the oaring of TAY tyros.
aahh i see, well if a Super Hero as prestigious as yourself approves, i see nothing wrong here…
*shifty eyes, hoping Harli will not remember who slipped under her oar-dar*
*Joins the shifty-eyed Viking in eye-shifting*
I’m watching you two…
WHAT’S THIS?! Some people slipped through without the initiation? This simply will not do. Now we must think of something to make for it – a “late” initiation ceremony, mayhaps?
hmm… something with Roaring fires? Malt Beer? Ripe Meat of the Bone?
sounds like a plan…
sounds..like…a…plan
*takes 2 steps backwards and one to the right, cleverly positioning Rize between Harli and myself*
‘Sup Tigerion,
Diggin’ yo’ Gravatizzle.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Bizzle
P.S. Please ignore my pointless jive-talkin’
* pointedly ignores flu *
A pleasure to provide a veritable oasis of green in that depressing sea of brown
Hello sexy people How are we all?
I got Uncharted 3 yesterday for an undisclosed amount of awesomeness 😛
Enjoying it so far, but that camera is starting to shit me alittle.
How was everyones weekends?
Also – Thanks Chulloopa for stalking me back!
well you’ve missed heaps…
mainly SKYRIM!…
and some SKYRIM!…
also SKYRIM!
then there was a little bit of MW3
and some AssRev going on
but then SKYRIM!
Running backwards with a shotgun and smokes on Office for an hour or so. Went surprisingly well.
How are you finding UC3? Got into the MP side yet?
I played Team Deathmatch about an hour ago.
Always the possibility that I’m super terrible, or maybe the perk system really boosts your ability, but I’d be shooting a dude with the AK, and he’d just turn around and kill me. So then I’d try punch someone in the face, and I’d get a punch in before they got their punch in but they’d still KO me.
I think I might try stick with co-op and play with people as terrible as me.
Finding it good, except for the cinematic camera angles while running in chase scenes. As for MP, havent tried it yet, maybe this afternoon. 🙂
Grr, just love it when previous assignments go missing especially when I need to refer to them at a later date for another assignment, cause I have no idea what I said in it to begin with >_>
Dropbox is blocked at TAFE 🙁 I have emailed my teacher every other assignment this semester but I think I actually printed this one off. It then magically went missing from my external hard drive & TAFE computer.. Nothing is safe /o\
…that sucks. Can’t even get there through the web interface?
Nope, they even block Hotmails SkyDrive, like what the.. Oh they also blocked the Steam website too x.x
Mail them to yourself at a gmail account.
Oops, Amazon link was supposed to be
http://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim-Collectors-Pc/dp/B0050SZ7LO/ref=sr_1_4?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1320627357&sr=1-4
mwa ha ha ha
such an evil laugh! What did you do?
So I saw the Skyrim ad on Prime last night about five times.
Got to say, the ad is pretty bloody awesome.
I didn’t see it but I did see the Assassin’s Creed:Revelations one when I was watching Angel before going to sleep last night.
I loved this season of Angel first time round, and love it even more now.
How awesome is it?
I’m still loving it, but I keep getting sad when I see Lorne because Andy Hallet passed away. And also sad when I see a certain character that doesn’t make it. :'(
Did you ever read through the comic series after the end of the TV series?
Nope. It’s one of those things I want to do but never get around to. One day!
It’s totally worth it, but steer clear of Wiki and anything else that can drop huge spoilers about it.
(Unlike the Buffy comics, which just turned stupid)
They just took control of the LA branch of Wolfram & Hart
I think that’s the end of season 2/beginning of season 3, isn’t it? Or maybe it’s end of 3/beginning of 4. That show only had 4 seasons and I can’t remember if they had the Wolfram & Hart building for very long.
I think that was season five actually. One of my favourites, especially after the horrible season four. (In my opinion. Relax. haha.)
Has anyone noticed that PS3 games don’t seem to have mandatory installations and a bajillion updates required before you can play them?
Not sure if I approve of this or not… change is weird.
That would be a good thing if you’re on a crappy cap/slow interwebs for the update thingy.
Duun-Dun Duun-Dun
DUN-DUN DUN-DUN DUN-DUN!!!
I’m expecting them to be testing this apparent new USB CFW hack that was announced a month ago or so.
Got to give them props for locking down the problem for so long, if the hack is actually true.
That aside, mumblings indicate that they’re working on a big feature update to launch just before Christmas – likely to tie into the PSV and all that jazz.
We can hope!
Seriously why must Steam taunt me? It peaks at a nice speed when downloading, but never stays at that, why? My net is more than capable of staying at the speeds it peaks at but never stays there 🙁
I’m not gonna say i’m getting bad average speeds. Just I wish it was more the 1.2mb/s it taunts me with. Also more people on Steam = more demand for bandwidth I guess? Also entirely depends on the game I found out too. Like a Valve game I get max speeds, other games not so much.
Time to test RIFT out, lets see what this game is like. Even though I technically don’t have the free time at the moment. I don’t care =D
So, had a barbecue on the weekend for some people.
First, barbecues are awesome. Everything tastes better barbecued.
Went for a smaller selection this time – home made lamb sausages, supersecretspiced lamb cutlets, potatoes, corn, and chicken skewers in a spicy peanuty sauce (not stay).
What would you say is an essential food to have at a barbecue, or at the very least, is the best barbecue thing you’ve ever had?
Supersecretspice?! Now I’m all curious and won’t rest until I know it!
Must have for a BBQ, and often overlooked is great bread to go with all the great meat you’re cooking.
Best thing I’ve cooked on our Weber is smoked beef rib steaks. The really thick ones with the bone attached. Made them last Christmas and they were so melt-in-your-mouth awesome.
you have got to stop making me drool this much, all the students are getting suspicious
Man, I’d kill for some good beef ribs!
Do you have trouble finding a butcher that stocks them?
Not as much as I have trouble justifying buying them. It’s like a week’s meat budget just for two beautiful steaks.
I’m not really a steak person, but a top notch steak cooked juuuust right (rare) is quite excellent.
(Hello Strange!)
It’s been too long since I ate a perfect steak.
I’m a fan of the old wagyu steak. Om nom nom.
Agreed. I do think wagyu burgers are kind of stupid though. A waste of good wagyu beef.
I had wagyu party pies once.
They were delicious!
(Hi Strange!)
Marinated kangaroo roasts slow cooked in the bbq
mmmmmm why does lunch seem so long ago
you know what’s also awesome?
Hookah… i have finally bought myself a Hookah and it is glorious… goes well as an aftermath to a huge glorious feast of barbecue everything ever
Hookah/arghile/water pipe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah
Pretty big thing in ME culture. That, and coffee.
always good fun to tell people i bought a hooker that i’m smoking… i get some awesome looks, then they remember “aaahh Fyshwick, that makes sense”
Decided to play some Uncharted 3, I’m in a section with boats, water and dudes with sniper rifles.
Clearly, I need to sneak around and take them out one by one. All stealthy like.
Unfortunately, Nate is not Batman. So what happens is I take out two or three guys without hassle, then I get spotted, people shoot at me and suddenly bad guys are spawning from where I just took someone out.
Can’t say I appreciate that.
Yeah, later on, there’s another level which is way better suited for stealth. I go around meleeing people, and I take down two guys in quick succession with silenced pistol headshots, real Splinter Cell like, but because the second guy manage to see the first guy drop for a brief half second, that meant I was ‘detected’ and suddenly there are guys spawning on top of shipping containers, and guys in armour with shotguns coming from around corners I had previously cleared.
Was it always like this? Or am I just noticing it now?
The respawning in the game is absolutely crazy. They like to have guys appear right on top of you too.
I got stuck in the exact same spot, because of the exact same thing. Clear out a bunch of guys and suddenly wave 2 is there in areas I cleared out, with absolutely no way for them to have appeared there (eg I was standing at the bottom of the ladder that is the only way up!). It really breaks the immersion.
Honestly I was hoping they’d tone the amount of combat down, because there were a bunch of bits in Uncharted 2 where the same sort of waves-of-respawning-enemies thing was going on toward the end and they were fun-killing roadblocks. Instead of fixing those, they added more. I’m maybe halfway into the game as of last night, and I had a lot of sweary moments already. “This is not fun”. If the other elements of the game weren’t so damn good (because the game is great when it works!) then I’d probably have shelved it.
I suspect that Naughty Dog aren’t doing the obvious thing and collecting telemetry. They should know how many people are getting stuck, and where. If people are dying repeatedly in the same place, then they should be fixing those elements next time.
Doesn’t help that whenever I’m confronted with a stealth situation I want to switch to detective mode to see where everyone is and start planning out which gargoyles to jump to and grates to hide in :V
GAH.
A Russian website has leaked what they say is some of the plot for ME3. I’ve read it (there’s about four major planets listed) and even with terrible Google translation is sounds legitimate and correct.
This’ll be all over the interwebs, so… if you don’t want to be spoiled on some huge plot points and character information, I’d stay away from ME3 stuff until March.
Incredibly bad leak. I feel sorry for Bioware -___-
A leak that big you would need to stay away from that whole “interwebbing” business those kids seem to be talking about these days to not find out those details.
Curse those sneaky Russians
Is this related to the leak of that alpha version with the new dashboard? Or a different leak?
I think that Bioware had previously leaked or hinted at some of the content anyway. You go to Earth! OMG spoilarz.
Personally with ME3 I’m going to do pretty much what I did with ME2. Completely ignore everything about it until the game arrives. I’ll be buying it regardless, so it’s not as if any info on it will make me change that decision, even the addition of multiplayer and the sneaking suspicion that the game is being focus-grouped to hell and marketed to the Modern Warfare demographic by EA.
It’s unrelated to the first leak – and it goes way beyond Bioware’s already released stuff, if it’s true…
Not really…it’s back up now but I had about 12 customers ring to say their net was down. So that was fun. Especially the one guy who had a go at me when I said there was nothing I could do because it was a nation-wide Bigpond outage.
Ah that explains what happened to my net just before. I thought Telstra was doing maintenance in the area at the time lol.
Skyrim!
Also, dawdles back! \o
Also, I’m hungry. How many people would like to play Uncharted MP? I was thinking maybe we can organise a match so I don’t get pitted against level 80’s and get constantly owned. Or co-op. Co-op is fun!
This game looks super slick. Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole. (Yes that IS it’s full name)
A 2D puzzle platformer thats self described as the bastard child of MGS and Super Meat Boy.
I’m going to go make my son a soft-boiled egg for his lunch now. With toast soldiers to dip in it.
I haven’t had a soft boiled egg in YEARS.
I stole one of his toast soldiers and dipped it in the yolk and was immediately transported back to childhood.
Good times…
Vegemite on the soldiers?
(Hi Strange!)
Never thought of that. Although i’m not sure how good it would be. Even though I love vegemite it might upset the wonderful balance of buttery toast and perfectly cooked egg yolk.
You aussies and your vegemite.
Have some funny marmite ads! (That’s relevant, right?)
http://youtu.be/hC_r-dC4PqA
http://youtu.be/JFLHialhZ8c
http://youtu.be/tjSER4WWaOs
http://youtu.be/XyIb6olr1uc
http://youtu.be/jsMAJZAMUuo
ENJOY!
IPL4 qualifiers are going to be cast live any moment now. They were meant to start 20 minutes ago but did not.
My day is pretty much set. Just going to laze on the couch and have SC2 play on my TV. Good times.
Yes, that’s right, I connected my PC to my TV purely to watch SC2. I feel no remorse for these actions.
The best thing is that if it keeps getting delayed, I can just watch Day9 live instead! \o/
I really shouldn’t be excited about this, and I’m really not, but my plans for the day have significantly improved because of this.
IPL was delayed, Day9 was delayed. Started to watch Canada Cup instead.
Had Day9 on my TV anyhow for when it started and he decides to kickstart his stream by making moaning noises.
The important thing is that I don’t need to move from this couch to be surrounded by entertainment.
IPL stream is terrible and bad and laggy and terrible.
Day9 viewer battles to save the day!
So I’ve finally managed to get myself a PS3. While I’m pretty much set for what retail games I’m interested in, does anyone have any suggestions as to what PS3-exclusive downloadable titles I should check out?
Apparently Fat Princess and the Pxeljunk games are pretty good, but I haven’t checked them out myself. The only PSN game I’ve bought is Wipeout HD and I got bored with it pretty quickly.
I got some isometric zombie shooter for free due to the PSN outage awhile back but I can’t remember what it was called. Kind of irrelevant, because I wouldn’t recommend it. It was crap.
I second this. Flower would be the game I chose to show someone if I had to give an example of a video game as art.
Duly noted.
One of my guilty pleasures is a game called “Super Sonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars”. It’s basically car soccer.
Also has an very catchy XMB song haha
LOL talk \o/
Point 1 – I love playing Galio
Point 2 – I suck at playing Galio
Point 3 – ????
Point 4 – IP
Point 1 – I love playing tanky characters
Point 2 – I already have a few tanky characters
Point 3 – I forgo buying fun champions in favour of spending IP responsibly and buying runes
Point 4 – sadface.png
When did I become this guuuuyyyyyy, I don’t like how responsible he is /o\
Me too, Galio is only getting some love this week as he is free
I am well on my way to being able to afford him, think I am at around 5 k IP at the moment. Although as soon as I have enough I’ll have to try and decide which of the 6 k champs I actually want to buy
Hey Virus, to fix your Steam downloading issues change your server to Vancouver. When Space Marine came out it was downloading at 300kbps on an Australian server, switch to Vancouver – 1.2mbps. I have a theory that Vancouver may in fact be inside the internet.
I’ve found the best for me (in WA) is the 3FL WA mirror – with iiNet, it’s fast (and freezone too, iirc).
Hmm, I have it set to Toronto at the moment. Will change it to Vancouver see if that changes things.
Interesting switched to the Vancouver server, average speed went down, then switched to the NSW Telstra server and am getting around 400kb/s. Weird.
It will depend on what you’re downloading as well. Some games are only hosted on certain servers, so even though it’s your server preference if it’s not on it, it will get it from another one.
True, very true.
That post of mine is semi-incoherant. I blame Monday…and the lack of sleep I got over the weekend. Damn you social life.
Made perfect coherent sense!
Hi TAY!
Spent the weekend looking at new apartments, and found the perfect one…now just to hopefully convince the real estate agent I am clearly going to be a good tenant.
URGH. sadface. #firstworldproblems
So, playing Dark Souls.
Progressed a fair way through Blighttown, went down, then up, then across… somewhere, and now I’m in Valley of the Drakes.
Then it hits me.
I am miles from my nearest bonfire. I have ten thousand hard earned souls at stake. I have one Estus Flask left. My armour, and weapons haven’t been repaired for quite a while.
You know what this is? This is a survival horror game. I am currently petrified of trying to play any further at the risk of dying, because all of this progress I’ve made would be wiped away.
I don’t know whether to commend this game or to /o\ and stop playing because I don’t want to rage at it when I do die and have to start at Blighttown again.
Also, I’m hungry.
While I guess this would technically be considered ‘cheating’, could you not back up your save file to external media, and then copy it back over if you do end up dying?
That is literally the only way to save scum.
Who said save scumming was bad? Even if the name does somewhat imply it.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD, ENGAGING SUPER SECURE ENCRYPTION:
Gurer’f na ryringbe sebz gur inyyrl bs qenxrf hc gb qnexebbg onfva j/ n obasver cerggl zhpu evtug arkg gb gur ryringbe. V’z abg fher ubj vg yvaxf hc va inyyrl bs gur qenxrf – V cerggl zhpu jrag qbja, fnj gur thlf qbja gurer, naq jrag onpx hc jvgubhg rkcybevat (unira’g rkcyberq ibgq ng nyy).
Vg’f bx npghnyyl.
Nf lbh pbzr bhg vagb gur inyyrl gurer vf n guva oevqtr n jnlf gb lbhe evtug. Tb npebff gura yrsg naq guebhtu n qbbe gb n gbjre. Lbh jvyy abj or va Arj Ybaqb Ehvaf.
Va gur gbjre pbzcyrk guvat lbh ner va gurer vf na ryringbe gung tbrf hc gb Sveryvax Fuevar. Gurer fubhyq or ab rarzvrf gb svtug ng nyy (gur qhqrf va guvf svefg cneg bs AYE qba’g nggnpx lbh)
Nyfb, qvq lbh svaq nyy gur obasverf va Oyvtug-gbja? (Gurer ner 3 fbeg bs.)
Ab! V qvq fhfcrpg V zvffrq fbzr, orpnhfr vg whfg srryf yvxr V’ir geniryyrq fb sne, naq gung gurer fubhyq unir orra n obasver nybat gur jnl.
Jung’f gur org V urnq gbjneqf gur ryringbe ohg qhr gb zl bja qreclarff, znantr gb whfg snyy bss?
:C
Augh!
By dose! Ib bleedig!
Helb! Harli it tryig to gill me!
As always, spoilers.
Lrnu gung jbhyq fhpx, whfg tb fybj.
Vs lbh frr na haqrnq Qentba lbh unir tbar gbb sne (QB ABG ybbg gur fghss va sebag bs vg hayrff lbh jnag lbhe snpr rngra 🙂
Obasver ybpngvbaf, vs lbh jnag:
1: Ba n fgbar yrqtr va gur ovg jvgu nyy gur jnyxjnlf, bccbfvgr fvqr gb gur pyvss.
2: Va gur cbvfba ynxr – unysjnl orgjrra gur ragel cbvag naq gur ovt jurry ba gur fnzr jnyy gurer vf n ovt qenva cvcr.
3: (Frperg nern!)
Sebz gur #2 obasver tb onpx cnfg gur ragel nf sne nf lbh pna tb hagvy lbh frr n ovt gerr ebbg. nebhaq vg gurer vf ybbg ohg vs lbh tb hc gur ebbg gurer vf n ubyybj va gur gerr.
Uvg gur onpx jnyy – frperg purfg! Uvg gur jnyy oruvaq gur purfg – frperg irel uneq nern! Jvgu n obasver ng gur fgneg.
Nyfb n obff – va gur juvgr zbhaq jvgu gur fcvxrf.
Well played!
ahhhhh critplank how I have missed you. Although I think f4ction would be upset if I joined and played him 😛
I’m out tonight but will prob jump for a game around 10:30 – 11
My friend was using Dragontits on the weekend. He’s uninstalled LoL on his home computer so that he doesn’t get distracted (he’s at the end of his PhD) so he’s been coming over here and playing on his girlfriend’s (and my housemate’s) PC. He’s played on mine a little too, while I was playing Uncharted in the same room.
I never left miss Harli, only just playing less cuz it’s causing more stress that stacks with what work puts on me 😛
Patrick Weekes has confirmed the story leak for ME3.
I’ve read most of it, and… practically the entire game is spoiled. Every mission, every sidequest, a few character deaths, the whole main plot.
It’s a little out of date, apparently, but mostly accurate.
Disastrous. I feel so sorry for Bioware. Four months out and the whole plot of the game is on the internet, in detail.
HEY VIRUS
Beavis & Butthead is s’posed to be in 4:3 (to captcha that delightful 90’s feel)
BDKIAF!
How great is Drive!?
HARLI!
Short Stack?
EVERYONE ELSE!
I smeared peanut butter in my ‘stache this morning.
While on the bus with no access to table spreads.
That sounds like a bad version of MSI…
Anyway, each to their own. I like Paramore so I can’t really talk.
Oh that Haley. -tingles-
DAN!!
iknorite?! So not what I was expecting, once Chest Breastington went down the whole thing got awesome.
HOLY CRAP! AND SHE WENT DOWN LIKE A BITCH!
Man, before that though. The tension. Oh so well handled. AND THE COLOURS! AND THE TUNES! AGHHHH SO GOOD!
My local 7-11 was out of cups… not a very good 7-11 day at all!
To be fair, my local is on Geprge Street in Sydney CBD right now so i guess that is to be expected. Might take my son for a trip to our local at home tonight…
OUR GLORIOUS ASSASSIN’S CREED MERCHANDISE HAS ARRIVED ALL THE WAY FROM CANADA!! \\o//
I may turn up to the next Kotaku meat in a gaming-related tshirt next time, YAY. 😀 Sadly it may be too hot to wear the doctor hoodie. :\
Still, much happiness for the rest of the week leading up to the release of AC: Revelations!!
So I know I said LoL tonight but I didn’t notice that No More Room in Hell is out so maybe I’ll play that… I don’t knoooow. I just… ZOMBIES, people! ZOMBIES!
Hey guys I have TAFE all this week so commenting will reduced as the iphone browser and Kotaku are not that good together. But in other news in a attempt to be completely bored all week I have nothing but my mums shitty computer and my iPad to use. On the plus side she has awesome Internet so I can watch tv shows. On the bad side no LoL’s or other games this week. Also I have been making a effort to make friends. So far not to bad maybe I am more awesome than I think. So what happening with you guys?
Unforetunately I am no ladies man like Virus_. The very thought talking to women my own age scares me a little. Not because I am trying to pick up because all of the women I have ever met in lfie share no common interests with me. What am I meant to talk about the weather?
This guy gets it.
Hence me being waist-deep in vulva
lawl.
Well, what’s to say that these girls won’t share any interests with you? Besides general small talk i.e weather is a great ice breaker. Also, speaking as a girl compliments work even better. But then again, no randoms sits next to me in lectures haha *single tear* so maybe I’m not the best person to be giving advice.
Why not be the random, instead of waiting for them to come to you?
Also compliment boys.
We’re so vain. (vein?) (vine?)
I bet you think this song about you?
Don’t you?
DON’T you?
DON’T YOOOOOUUUUUU!?
Oh, you.
Singing a song about me.
*blushes*
You never fail to both amuse and make me think you are awesome. Also I was watching your YouTube stuff when you put a wig down your pants, I didn’t even think it was weird I though meh that’s Dan
It won’t be the last time I stuff a wig down my pants on the innernette, that’s for sure.
I appreciate the advice however I am pretty sure that being the random guy who just approaches strangers is not my style. Sure people I share class with or a hobby or something but not strangers especially if I don’t have anything to say. Also I agree with flu, you should totally be the random.
I know how you feel bro! I’m the same. Unless i’m in a social environment where I know we have something in common (TAFE class, a mates party or similar) then I suck at making friends/approaching people.
I have something to declare, so you had all best brace yourselves.
SKYRIM!
Shocking yes?
that was an attempt at pretending I have not heard anything about it.. but then i realised that it is also a reasonable question and my attempt at internet funny is not actualy funny?
I already have it pre-ordered..
BUT i am excited about it, but unlike many of you, I have NEVER played a single elder scrolls game, in fact ive never seen any. I have it pre ordered as im getting into RPG’s and can’t wait… but i’ll sadly get it in about 3 weeks thanks to our mates at ozgame.
I’ve enver played an elder scrolls game either – well… beyond maybe 30min in Morrowind and an hour in Oblivion after picking them up for cheap on le steam.
I’ve played Fallout3 and FalloutNV quite a bit, though… so I’m tentative about preordering and/or getting Skyrim on day1 when there’s inevitaly going to be a GOTY version around the corner. It’s not like I’m really hungering for an additional timesink at this time of the year.
So far, I have managed to ignore the hype and resist the urge to preorder. Hopefully my resolve will hold 🙁
In related news, in this painful waiting period before SKYRIM! I have started finishing a few games that have been left on the side, for who knows how long. During this, I have discovered something rather odd, nearly all of them were only about 10-30 minutes from the end.
It seems, by my rather strange way of thinking, that in enjoying the game, I did not want to finish it because that would mean the end of the game, so instead I stopped playing it.
I am curious if other people do this. Play the game, enjoy it and to avoid ending it, stop playing it.
…
…
…
Um, anyone.
…
Just me then.
…
Oh.
I was like this with Fallout NV, but I was not enjoying it. I was about 45 mins from the end, but only completed it because of shameless gaming.
I do something similar with RPGs, and end up replaying the beginning a hundred times, trying to figure out why I restarted…
I do this all the time. Especially with RPGs. I get close to the end and then go around trying to finish all the sidequests and stuff before doing the final boss. Unfortunately, often another game comes along and I forget to finish the first one.
If only could come up with some sort of event that takes place over a month where people try to finish those games…
Yes, yes, if only could.
Dangit, I accidentally a word again.
That IPL4 thing I was getting excited about before?
Still haven’t seen any games from it. Ended up watching Day9 instead and now that I’m back to trying to watch IPL… they’re faffing about between games and most people in the chat are just complaining about the lack of any information at all.
Watching the first game now.
An Aussie Terran vs a Filipino Zerg.
I’m supporting a Terran that isn’t MarineKingPrime in a non-TvT game. Something is horribly wrong here.
Oh, Rossi! I got a chance to interview him this year at the blizzard invitational. He’s really nice.
I’m not sold on this new form of cricket, I mean how can you consider it a proper game if you don’t need to take meal breaks
Blegh. Someone keeps playing with the sound settings on the stream.
They’re upping the volume on the in game music, the in game sound effects… everything but Tastosis which is the bit that I’m trying to listen to.
Resigned from my job today. Always a scary thing to do, even when you have something solid lined up to move on to. Was feeling sick in my stomach about it all weekend. But now it’s done and I’m feeling much more relaxed.
So long finance! Welcome back into my life web services!
Congratulations! Hope the transition to new job goes smoothly for you. And hey, at least you got something lined up, right?!
Also, finance. *shudders* Numbers scare me.
Because there’s a guy we call Numbers, rite???
Wait, what?
I don’t get it then.
I think so. Have been working at a hedge fund for the past 3 years, but I never felt the excitement about my work that I have in previous jobs. So I’ve decided that I need to move now, or stay stuck in finance for the rest of my career.
I’m going to a company that analyses trends in social media and publishes web APIs to access the aggregated information. I find the type of work, and the potential it has, to be far more exciting. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations!
Yay!
My job isn’t really going anywhere at the moment but I don’t have any beter options right now.
I want to see/join in the Dark Souls talk on the last page but I don’t know the code because I’m old and slow or something.
I finally got to play again today and made some progress. I killed the Taurus Demon without losing any health which I’m pretty happy about.
Oshi-! The secret is out… um… um… maybe I’ll use some double-strength encryption… ROT26, here we come.
I think it was ROT13. Just pop that into Google and you’ll get a translator. It’s basically just shifting the alphabet 13 places, that way you can just apply the exact same rotation to get the original text.
Yay! My Heroes.
Also, as I suspected, the help I would have given Bish was given already. I haven’t got very far into the game myself, but I’ve watched and helped my husband play a fair bit so I pretty know my way around pretty well.
Doc is Super Nerd!? :O
(Hi Strange!)
Ben is Glory?!! :O
Yep. I’m a Pyromancer so the first time I tried to kill him with that and died because even though it does great damage, casting is way too slow. This time I just climbed up the ladder and jumped on his head 3 times, swinging my axe. I kept thinking he was going to get me as I was climbing the ladder but he seemed fairly slow to recover from my attacks. So yeah, I was lucky.
I haven’t tried learning/buying/whatever any spells/magiks/whatever yet. The game’s confusing enough as it is…
(Yo Strange!)
Just go with it. And wiki the hell out of anything you’re not sure about. This is the only game I consider knowing a lot about it in advance a bonus, not a spoiler.
I agree. A wiki-worthy game indeed.
I beat Havel last night (big dude downstairs before Taurus Daemon). Felt good.
(Hi Strange!)
Oh, so that’s his name. I hate him so much! I was dtermined to defeat him before going for the Taurus Demon and we must have killed me at least five times. Then one run through there I decided to try and jump off the bridge where those guys keep firebombing you to see if I could get to the item on the balcony below. It worked but this big guy ran up to me and skewered me before I could get away. Next time I went to go take on Havel I noticed there was no itemy glow behind him and realised it must have been him attacking me on that balcony. So I never bothered trying to kill him again. I really want to go back one day and kill him for being a bastard though.
Wait, my mistake, that’s not Havel, that’s just a scary no-name knight guy. Hmmm, maybe I’ll try and get Havel next.
HAI GUYS!
Steve-O here, back in Mack-town after an awesome but exhausting trip. Was meant to be back at work today but I ended up sleeping in for 8 hours. 8 days of continuous partying and binge drinking will do that to you. Will attempt to make a summary of the trip and the meats for you guys who are interested (I just need to go through all the suss-photos first!).
Glad to hear you had a awesome time talking And hanging with the tabbies and your footy mates
I have some photos of you playing that dumb gun dueling game with TechKnight as well, if you want them. I’m a bit of a hamfist at photography though.
Random email from the government, shit they must be on to me. Quick! Destroy the hard drives everyone!
Yey! teamspeak server is back up again!
Also i’ve just discovered my 2 hour namp turned into a solid 8 hours sleep.
Melbourne KotakAU, friends and I are doing this Thursday night:
1930: beer deluxe at fed squ has a giant hamburger and a beer for $9.50. Good terrible dinner.
2100: fluid oz backpackers bar for cheap beer and awesome trivia night. Mc is a great dude and decent comedian, and its VERY easy to win free beer. my team once went 2.5months without paying for a single beer.
00:30 trivia ends, stumble home, install skyrim, play all day friday.
Anyone want to join rock up/give us a yell. Good end to the week, and start of skyrim-weekend.
Taking Friday off. Haven’t taken any leave all year, so thought it would be a good time to.
Is 15 days worth of leave for 13Months work the norm in IT? This is a new job, and I’m hardly complaining, but it seems kinda low. maybe.
I would love to have a burger from the 1930s.
Hopefully in the 1930s. Maybe not so much a 81 year old burger.
Part 1 or Part 2/3 DeLorean?
Because if he could pick me up from Sydney, that would be rad, although it might take a while via roads.
Hell yeah 24h Time, Me and NotoriosR once made up the best-worst CUO Team the Army Cadets ever saw!
And If I had a Delorean, I wouldn’t be catching an 8hour train to Canberra in a few weeks…
…AND I’d just travel to Friday. No where else in time is important, right?
ohhhhhh haven’t been to beer deluxe in a while so very tempted
Trivia tonight for me at the Arcadia on punt rd. Trivia twice in a week, is there any rules against that?
Count me as a maybe, I’ll have to speak to she who must be obeyed
I’ve been to the Arcadia Trivia night, it wasn’t so Hot.
Fluid Oz asks a broader range of questions, from Science to weird news to Sports to Tech to History.
Arcadia seemed to just focus on pop culture?
Sounds good, we were looking for a new trivia place but around the south melb area. At the moment it is pretty good, a fair bit of pop culture but only around 30 or 40 %
Look like I will have to give this one a miss, apparently there is some “women’s rule” that you have to see your wife on her birthday. Why is it this is the first time I have heard of this.
Hoooooooooooooooooooooogggggggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!cos(o)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD-BREAKING-WEBPAGE-STYLE-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s plenty broken on a 800×480 resolution netbook.
http://www.pedestrian.tv/jameson-james-week
It’s James Week everyone! As I am James this is officially my week. James Week!
James. Week.
Crazyguy drank beer!
It’s not very effective…
Crazyguy drank water!
But it failed!
Crazyguy drank coffee!
It’s super effective!
Alright guys, obligatory post that will get lost: I had some stuff to reply to people, but I’ve forgotten already.
So, I was wondering: Canberrans (or people from the surrounding areas), would any of you be willing to have a Christmas(ish) time picnic or something similar? I’m suggesting this because I know that we’re all nerds, and I think it would be interesting for us to meat in a way that doesn’t involve sitting around playing games.
Anyway, just an idea I had, feel free to shut it down or ignore it, but… yeah.
And while I’m here, SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
…Sunlight?
Get out. No, wait.
Er… get in?
All that glare will disrupt dat DS/PSP/3DS playing!
this does not seem like such a bad idea at all…
Skyrim i mean…
no seriously though
skyrim…
but yeah, imma away from the 16th to 21 of december but anything beyond that BRING IT ON!
I don’t think I’ve met any of the Canberra TAYans as of yet…but sure! A picnic might not be such a hot idea though, as you’re relying on people to bring stuff (requiring at least a certain amount of people to come), and hoping that what is brought is edible and shareable with everyone.
Everyone could just bring a few boxes of Shapes. Done.
(Hi Strange, just me again)
It’s never “just” you! And your Shapes idea is win.
They should have “Picnic” flavoured shapes that taste like everything.
(Hello Strange, not just me again)
That would be the best Shapes flavour ever! I tried some chips from USA Foods this week that were called Earthquake Flavour. apparently all the flavourings got mixed up together one earthquake and it tasted awesome so they just kept making them like that.
attempt #2, trying to stop it eating whitespace…
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What what, “symirk” is not a word.
*smirk*
wait, I mean…
*sy-mirk*
Just realised that Inheritance cycle book 4 “Inheritance” comes out tomorrow, so i’ll be reading about dragons, and ill be shooting people in MW3, then come friday ill be shooting dragons in SKYRIM. It all makes sense now!
There was a Huntsman in the kitchen late last night. I helped him/her into a plastic container and set him free outside, away from the lizard who sleeps under the stairs.
So just applied for 3 jobs 2 with Telstra & 1 with BP, god I hope I get somewhere with all this. It’s stressing me out not being able to land a job here 🙁
Don’t worry mate, you’ll be fine.
Are you going for a Job in IT/Programming?
If so, have you heard of Thales? I head they *might* be hiring at the moment as well.
Luck!
At the moment i’d take almost any job, but IT would be preferred! I wouldn’t mind either of the jobs I applied for at my local Telstra shop though, they involve technology and I love technology & I am comfortable around it.
I pressed submit too soon D: I haven’t heard of Thales, but I shall check them out.
Thanks!
You’ll probably miss this but:
If you like computers and shit, and are happy not becoming bffs with your co-workers, then MSY and CPL are pretty much always hiring.
Not the best conditions, but decent pay. Or so I’ve heard. And they’re in pretty much every state
@Strange and Zap
Re: Angel season 5
I liked season 5. I think part of that came from finally being done with the whole Connor and Glory thing. I really hated those story arcs. Also season 5 has Spike which is awesome. My favourite Angel eps though are the first few seasons before Connor comes along.
@F4ction (and anyone else who’s interested in LoL)
Re: LoL
I played a begginer bot match last week where someone on our team got 48 kills with Gangplank. He was either one or two shotting every enemy champions and taking huge chunks off the turrets health.
Keeping with the pirate theme I played with Miss Fortune a lot last week (if you know what I mean) and found her really fun. I think I might have to purchase her, though I should probably try out a few more champions to see if there’s any I like more before I make that decision.
@Everyone
Re: Mass Effect 3 plot leak
I think it really sucks that this happens. I’m going to be trying to avoid spoilers as best I can but the game’s still months away and you know some troll arseholes are going to be going around and posting the spoilers all over the place.
@Everyone who cares about Batman
Re: Arkham City
Just finished the main story. That Ending. Also maybe I’m an idiot and don’t get how the story worked but it seems like there’s a huge plot hole with the main story line. Still a fun game though.
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Nyfb V whfg unir gb cynl guebhtu AT+ abj. V gubhtug gur raq fbat gung cynlf qhevat gur perqvgf jnf njrfbzr ohg jung lbh qrfpevorq fbhaqf rira njrfbzre.
Sorry, but I read this part of the page first, and..
Trippy.
Did you notice that the bottle is in his left hand, he blacks out for a second and suddenly it’s in his right?
(Being vague deliberately)
I read most of it while everyone still thought it was fake; unfortunately now I’ve spoiled most of the game for myself. It looked like really detailed fanfiction at first, or that some over-eager Russian fan had written a fake script. But sadly it was a real leak.
Thankfully some of the plot is out of date, and many of the missions and character fates have been changed since the leaked version.
It still sucks, though. There’s no mystery left about the main plot, any of the sidequests, the locations or many of the characters. I feel thoroughly spoiled, heck, I even know the ending. ;___________;
Yeah, big fan of season 5. I think they ended well, and continued better in the comics that followed.
Telstra, you make me sad. 🙁
Ran out of 3G credit on my iPad. Went to top it up again (with their 12gb for 365 days option again). Unexpected error, call Telstra.
Which is code for ‘wait in queue for half an hour before you get transferred to a call center in India where you will explain your problem five different ways and still not manage to make them understand, much less fix the problem. Also we have charged your account but we won’t be giving you any extra credit.”
Right now my home internet is pretty much screwed, some kind of line noise issue with the wiring inside the house but I haven’t managed to have time to have a sparky come over and isolate / fix the problem because I have to be home to explain it. So I’ve been using the iPad’s 3G a lot. Now I can’t. 🙁
HEY GUYZ
TWO MORE EXAMS LEFT UNTIL FREEDOM!
AND GUESS WHAT I PRE-ORDERED TODAY!
THATS RIGHT SKY————- ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3!!
my cunning plan to get it early was foiled by the fact that it’s coming out on the 17th in australia, not like the 15th in america 🙁
Have you done your English exam yet?
Do they still get you to write a essay on the play “Away” or a bunch of poems?
sadly (and by sadly i mean, extremely lucky) there were no poems, however there was an article in the WA newspapers about our exam saying that it’s questions were really shit, and it was true.
one of them seriously asked you to write about a memorable summer… seriously… in a stage 3 exam…
We can hope that the National Curriculum takes the Maths/Physics from WA, the English from NSW, the Science and History from Vic and ignores QLD completely.
That would give everyone the best education.
Those who wanted the PC version of Skyrim:
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/YG1063/pc-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-preorder-map-pack
$69.94
Also, Harvey Norman have the console versions for $78.
http://www.harveynorman.com.au/page/search?q=skyrim
Hooray for Huckle is almost finished which means it’s almost my son’s nap time which means it’s almost Dark Souls time!
Hooray for Huckle? Any good?
There are some awful kid’s shows around these days (and some good ones)
Hooray for Dark Souls!
(Hididdlyho Strangerino!)
I’m not a fan, and I’m pretty sure my son only insists on watching it to delay his nap as much as possible. It is set in Richard Scarry’s world though, which is pretty cool. Some of my favourite books growing up were Richard Scarry ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53A4GyB96RI
This is pirate metal, apparently.
Yes, I’m completely baffled too.
I’m not baffled. In fact, I saw them live on a cruise ship. 😛
Alestorm are a more piratey pirate metal band though.
What Strange said – Alestorm are the kings of Pirate metal. I saw them live when they first came out here last year.
THEY
ARE
AMAZING!!!
Best of Alestorm for the uninitiated
Captain Morgan’s Revenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYq-7zAQFA&feature=related
Heavy Metal Pirates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GjaXszYMUo&feature=related
Leviathan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49slS1_vFc&feature=related
Wenches and Mead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DBa7L361o&feature=related
Nancy the Tavern Wench
There are moments in Uncharted 3 that are just straight up not fun. Chapters 13 and 14 are lining up to be such moments.
A stealth section, where you swim around a destroyed boatyard type thing? Sounds like great fun. At one point, I got to a turret at one end of the map and died because someone spawned on top of me. Then the checkpoint spawned me back near the beginning of the section but I had already been spotted. Seriously not fun swimming around trying to pick off all the enemies.
I am on this bit now. Have died three times. Keep getting drawn into fisticuffs just as the rocket launchers come out. 🙁
How is a person without a disposable income meant to get through November with monies. I have bought batman as well as getting skyrim, I want Zelda and ass:rev as well as Mario kart and super Mario 3d land. I will have to go bargain hunting I think. Lucky I have no major monetary commitments since I payed my car off. Still why so many games in NOvember ?
Serious answer: Prioritise. What do you *really* need, and what can you hold off on? What game are you most anticipating, and what can wait a couple of months until it’s like half price? If you say I want all of them, well that’s a lie, because you’ll only end up playing one or two of them at a time.
Also, this advice may or may not work, I’m being a giant hypocrite. That, and I have enough monies to buy which games I want and don’t quite need to be as frugal.
What NotoriousR said. I know I won’t really want to play another game while I’ve got Skyrim, so that’s the game I’m getting. When I finish that, or if I find a deal too good to pass up I’ll be getting Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Everything else, for me, can wait until a time next year when not much is coming out.
You just need to know yourself and your playing preferences and then you’ll be able to prioritise in such a way that you won’t even miss the games you haven’t got yet.
Well I will definitely getting sky rim on Friday and I am going to pick Zelda up for my best mate and let him play it first , it is like His favorite thing in the world. So In lou of getting him a birthday present I lend him my wii and Zelda for his uni holidays. I think he appreciates my generosity. Yea I am awesome.
I think the old people in my area would fal for it to I don’t look like a thief. ThankS for the i.
No worries, buddy!
You know I’m always good for giving out eyes.
I’m not a Mexican doctor for nothing, you know.
You know when I come to Sydney next year I am going to hug you right. It’s gonna be long an awkward in a public place. I am also much bigger and stronger so there will be no escape. I thought I would tell you so you have time to prepare!
Oh, I’d love to come and meet you, but unfortunately on that day my niece will have put some IKEA furniture in the microwave, and you know how reassembling melted plywood is.
Shame, really.
It’s okay I will come and help you and your niece I love helping those less able then me. By that I mean Asians <3
See guys, we’re not making up this “Rocketman is racist” thing.
His words, no coercion or out of context quoting necessary.
It keeps things amusing.
Just wait, soon it’ll be December and you’ll have to buy Christmas presents!
Wait, soon it’ll be December and family and friends might…buy…you…video…games!
***NSFW***
Okay then, so my mate just posted this on Facebook, it is the most WHAT THE FUCK I have seen in a while regarding a music.
Note it is HIGHLY NSFW, so don’t even think about clicking it if anyone around you is offended by female anatomy. Cause that’s all the video is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMlszxGaPoc&feature=share
Seriously, who thinks of shit like this.
Aha – despite Ben’s best efforts, we now have last week’s TABTOL. Fight the power! Now with new, thoroughly untested features! Rejoice! Loud noises!
Seems that Chuloopa put in a mighty effort to stay on top, despite being away from home for part of the week. But what’s this? The new metric (at Tigerion’s request) shows that Jamesmag was actually the most verbose poster! So who is the real winner? That’s not for me to deciiiiiide…
I think I will go to bed now.
TAY October 28, 2011: 3444 comments
1: Chuloopa 295 posts (8.6%, 5562 words)
2: Jamesmag 233 posts (6.8%, 7546 words)
3: Bish 185 posts (5.4%, 4004 words)
4: Rocketman 156 posts (4.5%, 3634 words)
5: Effluvium Boy 146 posts (4.2%, 1612 words)
6: Trjn 140 posts (4.1%, 5131 words)
7: Virus__ 139 posts (4.0%, 3294 words)
8: Harli 121 posts (3.5%, 1589 words)
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10: Strange 111 posts (3.2%, 2862 words)
11: lambomann007 100 posts (2.9%, 2914 words)
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13: Tech Knight 95 posts (2.8%, 2101 words)
14: Dr What? 88 posts (2.6%, 1615 words)
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16: NegativeZero 79 posts (2.3%, 2982 words)
17: Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian 78 posts (2.3%, 1805 words)
18: Steve-O The Deve-O 70 posts (2.0%, 1717 words)
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Post #1: PuppyLicks at 08:37 24/10
Post #1000: FatShady at 10:51 25/10
Post #2000: Harli at 15:13 26/10
Post #3000: Zap at 11:05 28/10
Post #3444: lambomann007 at 07:14 31/10
Wait – that can’t be right – are you sure you did the right tay?
I seriously remember only doing about a dozen posts last week – i was barely on even when at work…
Iz zis not ze TABTOL of ze veek before?
Vhy yes! I have suddenly turned Germann! Thank you for noticing, ja?
Wait. Wasn’t Afromags doing his training and really busy? How the hell did he come second?
I believe this may be the week before last week’s because I got 20th last time.
Unless I’m just super consistent!
Hahah Batguy, I hate to burst your bubble (even though I love bursting bubbles!) but I think this is the wrong weekk…
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…. Guess that’s what happens when you post before going to bed in the wee hours of the morning, rather than when you wake up the following day.
I blame Ben. He’s done some awesome work on the site but I think some of the changes were specifically to fuck with me 😉
Would also explain why Chuloopa won despite being on holidays.
Back to the drawing board then. I shall recalculate and report again tomorrow!
*waves at everyone and then faceplants the desk*
morning everyb- zzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz
*sneaks up behind a sleeping Pixel*
*readies Oar*
TASTE THE OARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had the worst nightmare, Harli was stalking me,
and there was oarOMGSHESHEREIALWAYSKNEWTHISDAYWOULDCOME
*braces for the impending paddling*
So was playing uncharted 3 this morning with the sounds down so as to not wake up the housemate… and a spider comes out of nowhere. I may have screamed, I may have turned everything off and gone to work….
ohhh man, that part freaked me out.
Played it just before I went to bed … after I checked my room for spiders.
Wow, Bioware sent NeoGAF a Cease & Desist order on their Mass Effect 3 spoiler thread.
Sh*t be serious, yo.
I don’t know why people bother – i mean why would you want any game, ESPECAILLY Mass Effect, spoiled?
Some people like to know.
Some people are just curious and desperate enough to want to read what happens, or just curious enough to take a peek and then have all that information flood them.
*smiles and executes the bow protocol* Thank you Harli 🙂
So I beat Uncharted 3 last night.
Man what a game, loved every minute of it (although some of the x-ray vision guards just annoyed the hell out of me)
So Almah
Never heard this band before today – but i just watched this clip, and you know what i really loved?
It’s as if the lead guitarist and Bassist looked at the number of strings on a regular guitar and bass and just said
“No, this just won’t do”
“We need more strings to be more metal”
“Make it so, oh forge master”
And lo, it would be so
So last night my neighbour decided to work on his motorbike at 11:30pm until midnight, revving it outside my bedroom window the whole time. If it happens again I’m calling the police.
THEN to make things worse I was woken up by my cat jumping on my stomach at 4am in fear. Turns out an old surge protector powerboard caught fire and was arcing electricity through my lounge. There was a small fire on the new carpet 🙁
The powerboard is _liquified_ and it had my PS3, xbox, megadrive and surround sound system plugged into it. It’s too old to claim warranty on anything (but I’m more concerned about almost dying).
holy hell man.
That’s insane!
I know it’s cliche but at least you’ve still got your life man.
Sounds like your cat saved you some damage by waking you.. wow.. you should reward it!
and oh, those bikies ;P
Crikey that’s serious! Glad to know you’re okay, sorry to hear about the gear though.
But yes, that cat should be given treats for that 🙂
So you lost all your consoles? Shit dude that’s horrible!
But I’m glad to hear you averted something much worse, your cat should get an extra treat tonight.
I missed 5 pages yesterday!
Hey guys! How are you all?
here’s my weekend update:
PS3’s fan was starting to act up, getting very loud after a few seconds of play, even in a cool room. I decided to try and clean out any dust with a can of air and a vacuum cleaner. I also used some electrical contact cleaner to help…
I then decided to use the same products to clean out the disc drive… Now the PS3 won’t read blu-rays (Games or movies) but is fine with DVDs.
Called Sony and they want around $200 to repair it. Ended up buying a new PS3 slim for $250. What does all this mean? It means I haven’t gotten any further in Uncharted 3! 🙁
I’m also doing a full backup of my PS3 (which took 9 hours) before reformatting the HDD to see if that makes a difference. Doubtful, but the Sony Techie suggested it. To do that, I had to partition my 2TB ext drive, and reformat the partition to FAT32 so it was compatible with the PS3… Fun times!
Did it fix the fan?
I’m running a phat, and it’s a bit noisy when on. It seems clear of any/all dust, but still whirs like nothing else.
Woah… holy shit…
A dude that looks like THIS should not have a voice like THAT!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-xRNZwQ3WQ&feature=relmfu
If you ever wondered what a penis would look and sound like if it’s testicles were removed and stood 6-odd-feet-tall… this would be it
I hate to admit this, but I played Battlefield 3 multiplayer last night. Whats worse is that i had a little bit of fun. That is totally not like me and i feel ashamed
I just had to confess this to you all.
Maybe i need to give it another go.. the beta was just so “meh” it completely turned me off it…
Then again, i’m sure i’d come around if i had a jet lol
Butt hen again.. .there are soooo mnay other games that are more worth my attention /sighbloodychristmasseason
I agree. I only got it as a filler of sorts. I have a few mates with it so i can jump in and play… but it wont be my thing!
I currently have the following sitting on my desk to play
Uncharted 3
Rage
Day sex
Forza4
BF3 SP
I also have the following coming in the next few weeks
Saints Row 3
Skyrim
I agree, BF3 MP is not my top priority…
I misread this as “I got a few mates with it…….”
Was thinking that is one hell of a CE
its more that i have historically not player FPS games. I dont usually enjoy competitive multiplayer (ie deathmatch type stuff). But this game is really solid and i had fun.
So again, that doesn’t seem anything to be ashamed of.
It’s like me saying “I don’t usually like sports games, but I enjoyed playing, say, FIFA 12.” BF and MW have solid gameplay.
The turnoff is the communities the FPS-genre seems to breed.
NEW AARDMAN SHORT!
Pythagasaurus
Starring Bill Bailey, Martin Trenaman and Simon Greenall
BRILLIANT!
Tigerion,
I tried Galio for the first time last night. He’s a lot of fun. 12/2/27 or something. Except we lost in the end. Those Koreans.
Also I think* I’ve fixed my internet problems!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
*protip: Don’t let Harli near your router. Things will happen. Bad things.
My second PvP with Galio I had 8/0/22, he is a pretty fun tank, though I like rammus more cuz I love Armadillos 😀
Haven’t tried Rammus before, hopefully he comes up in this week’s lineup. Did you gets do a Kotaku game last night? I saw SteveO, Bish and Blaghzy on.
Harli’s scaredicatness had an adverse effect on the game itself. I had to fill in as the tenth player and ended up using Jax.
Jax!
My mains are Janna and Morgana, there is no hero I can think of more different from what I’m used to.
Kassadin?
I don’t know, I imagine Riven would be pretty bad.
She has that whole jump in the direction of the cursor thing? And is melee.
Jax is reasonably straightforward.
Survive early, mid game. Trigger dodge stun. Jump in. Stun. Smash face. Zoidberg out.
Yeah with Riven you either roll, or get rolled, there is no middle ground, not to mention you need to get the timing of her abilities and powers down-pat, to make sure you’re never wasting stacks of your punchy-face ability.
Pffffffffft, come at me bro!
I’ll be on tonight hopefully with no connection problems.
Also I got Tarick(Torick?), and all I did was just stunned everyone repeatedly.
Correction: You stunned me as a primary target… repeatedly!
I’m sorry my non-human friend but Graves is soooo scary. Think of it this way, you were the most threatening so I needed to target you 😛
Taric is awesome and SHINY!
lolololol SteveO randoms Garren… go figure! hax!!
Hehehe. Was a good game. I think i got 27/3/10 but don’t remember exactly.
DEMENNTTIIIIIAAA!
*evil grin*
I would stun then Steve-O would SPIN-TO-WIN. It was a crazy combo and I stole First Blood from Steve-O (Flash FTW =P)
Practicing the TAY initiation ceremony on your router?
Also Galio is pretty cool, a nice combo is flash out of the brush and use his ulti. The enemy team are thinking “WTF Giant gargoyle thing and why is it forcing me to attack it”.
I love his slow skill. Requires skill to aim and predict and stuff. And throwing balls is fun. hehe.
Not that I am experienced playing as tanks, but Galio seems to be a very good one. His ulti, a large aoe taunt for 2 seconds can potentially disable an entire team whilst your own goes to town on their asses (with oars and other things).
“Not that I am experienced playing as tanks…”
Don’t worry, just keep practicing and you’ll get better eventually ;P
Galio is great fun, and has the added advantage that if you are feeling crazy you can go a full AP build. Easy to counter but so WTF if you manage to get fed early.
Glad you liked him, but you should also check out Rammus when he comes round. Very similar gameplay, main difference is rammus has much quicker cooldown on his ult. But the plus side is he isn’t very expensive, at least not compared to Galio
What race will you guys be playing for skyrim? do they still affect stats or with the new system does it no longer matter?
I;”ll be rolling Khajit or Aragonian (what I played in oblviion) the new models look sooooo much better.
OMG (and I never use OMG online!) you have just made me realise how much of a NOOB I am and will be when it comes to skyrim.
I hope it wont matter that I have never played a single game in the series to date???
It won’t matter. You’ll get all the information you need about specific races during character creation. Apart from that, if it’s anything like the previous games you won’t need to know anything about prior games to play, it’ll be all about the current story.
I am also an Elder Scrolls noob. Thinking about getting the game, but more interested in Ass:Rev at the moment. Maybe later.
(Hey Strange!)
If that’s the case you’d be best off waiting for the inevitable GOTY version.
Thanks for the advice 😀
(Hi Strange!)
I know nothing about any of the races’ strengths and weaknesses. I’ll be playing whatever looks good. But even in saying that, aren’t the native race of Skyrim Nords? I think it would make sense to play through as a Nord.
I don’t know what I’m going to play as yet. Part of me wants to play as one of the human races to fill the classic role of a human fighting dragons and monsters and the like and because armour usually looks best on them. On the other hand some of the other races look really cool and it is a fantasy game so I may as well play one. I forsee me spending an hour or more in the character creator just trying to choose which race I want to play and then even longer customising that character.
I don’t really care about the different races stats or abilities too much unless I’m trying to build a certain type of character, for example if I was making a ranger I might role a wood elf. Since it’s going to be my first play through though and I’ll be trying to do everything I can on the one character the stats don’t matter.
I’m tossing up between a Nordic warrior, or a human(whatever their technical term is, you know, the most boring of the people) paragon of justice.
I’ll probably go Nord just so I can smash things.
I’m going to play as an Ork, with a LOT of points put into melee. ORK SMASH!
Then maybe I’ll dabble in a little necromantic magic as well, it was great fun summoning buddies to help me out in Oblivion 🙂
I’m thinking I will play my typical sneaky assassin type, so will probably play as a Khajit, Bosmer or Argonian. I don’t really care what I look like as long as I can run around naked shanking people from behind.
Every time I listen to the Skyrim theme, I struggle to think of playing as any other character than a Nord smashy-something, probably 2h.
Guys i need HALP!
My xbox live connection keeps dropping out and i’m pretty sure it’s to do with my modem…
How do i fix this?!?!
I think i have to do something to do with ports or something… i forgot the exact term.. haha
I tried to contat my modem manufacturor (billion) but they still haven’t gotten back to me and i REALLLLLY would love to be able to play a game without getting disconnected
I was hoping nobody would notice the irony of this, given I had only given out my protip moments beforehand.
Do you mean Port Forwarding? It could be an issue, but shouldn’t really make the connection drop in and out.
is it just your sexbox or everything?
if the modem’s flapping it could be a line fault and/or faulty modem…
if it’s the router, look up what ports sexbox live uses and set up port forwarding rules for it, or do a reset of the router to default settings
If I recall correctly you mentioned it wasn’t wireless, your Xbox was connected to your modem with cable? First thing you should do is try a different ethernet cable if you have one, to make sure it’s not just the cable.
It’s not great for my performance but it boosts morale, so I’m sure it’s ok.
Also, who are you? My boss?
(Hi Strange!)
I’m pretty sure my official title is Boss Of Everything.
Harli – No. Modem. It’s connected via and Ethernet cable.
Dr What? – YES! Port forwarding – thats the one! After googling like a madman it’s the last possibility i could find.
FatShady – i am VERY close to hitting it.
Pixel the Ferret Viking – It’s just the sexbox – my normal internet connection is fine and i called my ISP and they can find no faults or recorded drop outs
Strange – Yeah it is on ethernet – but it’s a fairly newish cable…
Maybe i should try buying a wireless addapter?
Could it be my security settings?
in that case The Xbox Live service uses UDP ports 88 and 3074 as well as TCP port 3074, so you need to forward these ports to the IP address of your box, you’ll find it in the network config of your system setup…
okay simple steps to port forward on billion modem/router:
1. use your pooter to navigate to 192.168.1.254 (default router IP)
2. login as admin, password
3. go to “configuration”
4. go to “virtual server”
5. go to “add virtual server”
6. set protocol to tcp/udp (might vary from router to router what it is called
7. In external port put from 3074 to 3074
8. In redirect port put from 3074 to 3074
9. if possible add another port forward to of 88 to 88 (i don’t fully know the firmware i’m going off the manufacturers instructions here :P)
10. for internal IP insert the IP of the sexbox
11. ??
12. Profit
if that doesn’t work it’s not to do with the router
i’d suggest the same as Strange and look at the cable/ethernet port on the sexbox, could be damaged or the sexbox could be on it’s way out
*sigh* i really need to start reading these before posting, use a web browser to navigate to 192.168.1.254
If you can’t figure it out, I can help you out this afternoon/tonight. I’ll show you how to get it all done!
I used to have SO much trouble with this. Networking is such a pain.
First of all, have you tried messing with your router settings in the past?
If yes, can you remember what tried doing?
If no, check the link below to open up your ports, you should be able to find your router model in the list that should give you a step-by-step on using the router menus.
http://portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/Xbox_Live_360/Xbox_Live_360index.htm
Go to portforward.com for all the guides and info you would need to port forward. It doesn’t sound like that’s your problem though.
Played some Starcraft 2 with Blaghs, Pyrean and Gorzy last night. 4vs4 against two medium bots and two hard bots.
Blaghs went mass Thor, I went Zealot/Archon and I don’t know what the others were up to. At one point, the bots attacked Blagh’s expansion while my Zealots stood idly by. After about 20min, I had a maxed out Zealot/Archon army with 3/3 upgrades so I just 1-A’d to victory.
This was despite the fact that I kind of forgot to build an Assimilator before trying to build my Cybernetics Core (which requires gas).
I was so jonesing for SKYRIM! last night that I put in Morrowind and played the Bloodmoon expansion. It is still awesome, but not as awesome as (yes you guessed it) SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
Man, we are all going to be so disappointed with the inevitable flaws in Skyrim(I mean, it is a bethesda game). Still, while I’m here.
SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
flaws? i can’t possibly see any flaws… oh bethesda… gotcha
*sits back down*
Flaws? FLAWS??? I no not of what you speak! I am sure all the clipping through walls and getting stuck in floors and suddenly being hit while nowhere near an enemy is all perfectly explainable.
A wizard did it.
That… Makes far too much sense.
(Side note, so, one time I was playing Oblivion, and I went inside this dark cave, and it was all scary like, and physics objects in the cave kept moving around, and it made the whole thing terrifying, and I was sitting there, thinking to myself “Damn, this is well designed!” It turned out that the physics engine was just on the fritz, and all the stuff wasn’t supposed to do that. I was so disappoint.)
I just hope the level scaling isn’t as bad as Oblivion was. Fallout 3 was better so I’m hoping they carry the lessons they learned across to Skyrim.
Every game has flaws but are Bethesda games known to have more flaws then usual? I didn’t really notice any at all when I played Oblivion of Fallout 3.
Really? In terms of straight up bugs, Oblivion is the worst game I have ever played, on both pc and 360(at least I could fix the pc ones for the most part with patches). Admittedly, I do avoid really buggy games, so it’s not a great measure, but it was bugged to hell for me. Add on top of that the backwards leveling system(you should specialise in skills you don’t use to maximise your statistics and control your levelling), and the awkward way combat was handled(peddle backwards swinging sword), and I would call it a very flawed game. I still loved it though, spent ages just running around doing crap, and I never finished the main storyline…
Maybe I’ve just been really lucky? My 360 version of Oblivion, PC GOTY edition of Oblivion and PC version of Fallout 3 were almost completely bug free. The only bug I ever really encountered was the one that let you duplicate items on the 360 version but that was easily avoidable if you didn’t want to do it.
The only real problem I had with the leveling system was that everything else in the world leveled with you. I thought combat was fine.
Based on my past experience with Bethesda games I’m not worried at all about encountering any bugs. Now if it was an Obsidian game I’d be worried but it’s not so everything’s good.
Great Scott! All you Taybies appear to have jumped forward in time 1 whole day! Oh, wait, never mind…
Yes, I will make it rue the day it messed with Blaghman, King of the Blahs, Blags, Blaghs and Blaggahs! *Draws sword dramatically, stands in a pose for just a little bit too long*
You might not want my crown, it’s uhhh… well, it’s made from the flesh and bones of my enemies. And I never really cleaned it properly…
*looks at crown*
ooohhh Beef Jerky
*starts munching on crown*
Morning all
howdy doody?
ive been away for a week on work it was an emergency apparently so my tay time was destroyed 🙁
also at work every now and then i can’t access kotaku at all 🙁
just wanted to say i miss you all… oh and RIM of the SKY!!!!
Dear mr. Di11enger… work sucks…
you’ve been missed…
ditch work and come back to us?
surely money is not that important*
*money is that important
i had to fly to townsville and dag nabbit it was hot -.-
your right money is not that important*
*money is that important
i hear that there are bears in townsville… DROP BEARS… and hippo races… you should go to the hippo races
i witnessed a hippo race of sorts…in a night club on flinders st
2 slightly overweight wemon getting chased out of the club by bouncers for kicking a guy in the balls*
*said man called them fat and other nasty things
The hippo races were cancelled due to an infestation of drop bears at the hippo racing center. Now they just hold illegal cage fights between the hippos and the bears. Think they call it animal-kaiser or something like that.
There are no hippo races here. Where do you get this stuff from.
http://www.virtualoceania.net/australia/travel/silly-questions.shtml
it’s all true man, i’m telling ya
I managed to get my parents to take the kids for the night on the 19th.
So I won’t have to get up super-early the morning after the Meat, and whoever has to sleep in the family room won’t be woken up at 5:30am by my 2-year-old jumping on their bed. 😛
So being a very foolish person and not previously not being sure on wether or not to get SKYRIMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!! collectors edition I missed out on getting it locally. So I ordered it from Amazon so now I have to wait a week for it to come out.
Oh well, totally worth it for that statue (and other goodies). At least my pile of shame will decrease by 0.5-1 game.
i dont know if anyone has seen this but it sounds like it would be funny
mw3 ad with jonah hill, sam worthington and dwight howard?
http://www.callofduty.com/mw3/videos/vet_n00b
cant watch it at work must wait till i am home
I posted this on the last page but no one replied. So I’m posting it AGAIN. It’s too awesome to miss.
Pythagasaurus
Starring Bill Bailey, Martin Trenaman and Simon Greenall
BRILLIANT!
same…
*grumble**grumble**grumble**grumble*stupid proxy*grumble**grumble**grumble*
I am bored out of my skull but for the sake of my education I must continue. Why is this subject sooo mind numbingly dull.
Just realised that Inheritance cycle book 4 “Inheritance” comes out tomorrow, so i’ll be reading about dragons, and ill be shooting people in MW3, then come friday ill be shooting dragons in SKYRIM. It all makes sense now!
Anyone getting the book today? (i posted it a few pages back but it got lost)
I’ll be picking it up some time this week, but probably not until friday/Skyrim breaks street-date, so I only have to leave the house once…
Oh right, you even said so. I should read the whole thing before opening my big mouth, huh? 😛
Eek! Now all my mistakes are even being commented on!
It’s like wishes. No one thinks about all the consequences and then it all goes wrong.
Not that wishes are real.
Except in the Disney documentary “Aladdin”.
bahahaha sorry, shameless repost because this still makes me laugh so hard
http://www.virtualoceania.net/australia/travel/silly-questions.shtml
being a foreigner myself, these are legitimate concerns people!
also i am shocked at the amount of people unfamiliar with Douglas Adams’ view of australia so here:
http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/01/21/douglas-adams-guide-to-australia/
educate yourself
I think the last of the “Typical Australian Sayings” is my favourite.
And it’s sad that he missed out on our snakes, I mean, the fierce snake (inland taipan) is fantastic!
See Also: “Deserts: How to die in them”, “The Stick: Second most useful thing ever” and “Poisonous and Venomous arachnids, insects, animals, trees, shrubs, fish and sheep of Australia, volumes 1-42″
Pure class, love Douglas Adams’ sense of humour
I still one of my favourite is this one http://cloudburst.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/you-know-youre-australian-if-still-and-more/
Because you know it makes sense
LoL!!! Hilarious find, thanks for sharing. It led me onto this.. http://australianmuseum.net.au/Drop-Bear
“There are some suggested folk remedies that are said to act as a repellent to Drop Bears, these include having forks in the hair or Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears. There is no evidence to suggest that any such repellents work. ”
0.o
…
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can dispense rattlesnake serum. (USA)
A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from. All Australian snakes, like taipans, blacks & adders, are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.
BRILLIANT
If you like humour about Australia, you must read Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Last Continent’…it’s awesome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Continent
you sir, deserve a gentlemanly pat on the bum
*pats bum*
i like the way that you think
Nord
Breton
Argonian
Imperial
Khajit
Dunmer
What?
This is a LoL lineup, it makes me laugh out loud with joy 😛
If I can make at least one Ferret Viking laugh, then my day is complete.
’twas a whole-hearted laughter, and i tell you, that’s a unique sound when it’s from a rodent… something similar to a 2-cylinder scooter that won’t start…
now i need Mead, WHERE’S MY TURKEY?
I’ll have my people contact your people and we will draw up a contract.
First clause:
Both parties agree that two men having a child will not result in a similar outcome as it did in “Junior”, despite one person being similar in nature to Conan.
I heard that there will be a selection of heroes that cover most, if not all, of the current archetypes.
My fat PS3’s fan goes to LOUD mode after about ten minutes of playing. Is this generally a precursor to massive YLOD problems, or is it behaving the way it should?
I’m playing Uncharted 3 in 15 minute bursts (with half hour breaks) and it’s really messing with my sleep :p
Happens to all phat PS3s. They sound like an airplane about to take off when the fan kicks in. Didn’t seem to affect mine, I’m pretty sure my YLOD came from my son constantly turning it on and off in quick succession.
Also, we’ve had our PS3 Slim for over a year and since day one it has started to whine in a really annoyingly headache-inducing high pitched way after a few minutes of being on, but other than that we’ve had no problems so far.
Cool, that makes me feel a bit better.
I just got used to bad news with my 360. Loud fan = imminent RROD
Will be marathoning UC3 tonight!
Mine started doing this recently too. I tried to fix it and made things worse.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-147/comment-page-5/#comment-430346
I saw that, and no longer intend to try to fix it.
Headphones might help? I don’t have the fan problem with my PS3, but I played Uncharted 3 with headphones so I didn’t spoil the other crazed Uncharted fan in my house — pick up on all kinds of sounds that you don’t hear over the speakers too.
Thanks, I would love to do this, as I play late at night without sound atm, and feel sad.
What’s the cheapest way to go about this?
Bah! Tried to reply twice, but I assume the attached link blocked the post! (And they’ll inevitably appear seconds after I post this one.)
I’ve just got a cheap pair of ‘Sony Closed Type Deep Bass Stereo’ headphones which you can get at JB Hifi for about $49. They’re pretty damn basic, but comfortable and do the job. Just make sure to crank up the volume. Noise cancelling headphones would be ideal, but they’re much more expensive. (When I worked on Big Brother back in the day we used these and they were exceptional.) Just make sure you don’t mutter comments to yourself, because you’ll sound insane. (“Whoa, cool!”, “Holy craps!” and the like.)
Is this them?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BRAND-NEW-SONY-DEEP-BASS-STEREO-HEADPHONES-MDR-EX85LP-/150693642997
Do they just plug into the PS3 directly?
(Also, posts with 2 or more links need to be moderated, so your other replies will appear eventually – thanks by the way! 🙂 )
Oh, right. Now I’m gonna be known as the comment spammer when they arrive. Damn! 😀 They might be the ear bud equivilient, not sure, but the ones I’ve got are the kind that cover your ears fully. I’m sure there’s better ones out there too, these ones are just like a trusty friend now though. I plug mine directly into the headphone jack on the TV. If you’re using a monitor you might need an adapter or use the port you currently plug your speakers into.
Oh, also make sure the cable’s long enough to comfortably reach where you game.
TVs can still do that?
Would you believe that I never thought of that
I remember old TVs used to have terrible sound from those headphone jacks, but my LG HDTV sounds great — I’m not sure if all new TVs have those, but mine does for what it’s worth! 😀 Served me well. I remember playing Heavy Rain in the pitch black at 3 am with the volume up high. Awesome.
Glad I could help!
Now if only my new PS3 will hurry and arrive so I can play more Uncharted 3!
I’m considering getting something like a laptop cooler pad and strapping it on in some way.
My thinking is that if there’s extra pushing power to extract the heat, OR extra power forcing cool air in, then the thing won’t need as much internal fan work
Some sort of coolant mod would probably be the best way to fix it, but tricky. I wouldn’t know where to start.
@ Noobheadshot, that Taric Stun combo Steve-O and I used in a 3v2 KvK we had, me and Steve-O on 3, all random, I was randomed Master Yi and we did win, such a devastating combo, he stunned one then I rush in with red buff, highlander, smack smack smack, dead!
Oh dear god. Someone on YouTube was trying to argue with me and their spelling & grammar was making it hard to understand wtf they were saying. I mentioned something about their grammar, they just said they have no idea what grammar is.
There is no hope for humanity D:
So you made a comment on Youtube, therefore it’s your own fault.
Then someone replied to your comment and you felt the need to acknowledge them by replying. Again, your fault.
But I liked the video & wanted to comment D:
It’s YouTube. If you get the same issue over at the NaNoWriMo forums, for example, then the world is doomed. Until then, leave the illiterate watching their videos, where they can’t hurt anyone 🙂
So…SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t wait!
penicl?
Skyrim?
Precisely.
Hey man local EB has contacted me saying that Skyrim has broken date and they’re selling their pre-order copies.
That was extremely nasty and I feel that I must now cry.
*runs off sobbing hysterically*
I am sorry Hugo. I’ll promise to stop trolling for the next hour.
*HIDES IN BRUSHES AND WAITS FOR PEOPLE TO PASS THEN CHASES THEM*
DEMACIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
*computer crashes*
Wrong type of Rage?
A user from a company, who is IT himself, Not getting all the details before calling… and giving me I dunno or 1 word answers! not helpful *headdesk*
So a lot of changes coming to LoL.
First of all they are doing a complete redesign of most of the summoner spells. Flash’s range is being reduced and it’s cooldown is being increased. Clairvoyance cooldown is being increased and it’s duration is being reduced.
Also Heal & Cleanse are being buffed are being in some way (hasn’t been specified). They are also removing Rally & Fortify and adding 2 new spells called “Surge” and “Promote”.
Secondly supposedly for this second ranked season they are adding in “Ranked teams” to do in Ranked games (sorta like a clan/guild/something else related to the previous 2 examples/etc…)
I think promote was in Summoner’s Rift way back in the beta, but they removed it because nobody used it, or it was OP, or something(I have no idea), but they’re reintroducing it thanks to its success in Dominion. Or I could be completely wrong.
But yeah, the flash nerf is a good thing, as much as it pains me to say it, and I think they said Heal would be buffed so that it scaled better, and the cleanse change… Ummm… I remember it… That it would remove exhaust? I think they said they’d make it useful v. other summoner spells or something. Though my mind may be playing tricks on me.
Also, ranked teams would be interesting, we should have a few level 30s soon, so we could sit down and work out some proper strategies, instead of our current one of “do some stuff and win hopefully.”
What, how dare you mutilate my name, which is something I would never do to anyone ever! 😛
So we could create a clan officially? That’d be pretty cool!
Really unhappy with fortify being removed, in our 5vsrandoms we usually picked that up when rocketman was with our teams and it served us well
Well, im not quite sure if it actually is a Clan per-say. Riot seem to be sticking to the term “Ranked Team” so my understanding is a Clan with limited features? That’s just my opinion though.
Well down the road we’ll have WAY more than 5 level 30s to have in our team, unless we start splitting off into permanent teams of 5 for practising together, having proper champion lineups, etc and practise against each other
To buff Heal, all they need to do is make it heals X+ y% max health (so something like, heals 200 + 5% or whatever the numbers work out, probably something a little larger)
Yeah, I actually checked the post and they say they are going to make it “scale much more strongly into late game”.
Liking the idea of what they are doing with heal. Basically they are making it scale much better so it actually has a use after about lvl 8.
The main change to cleanse is it will also work on summoner spells, so basically a direct ignite counter.
Promote is the same as the old promote spell, transform standard minion into super minion. Difference is you can only promote cannon units so no more bringing 5 summoners with that and converting an entire creep wave.
Surge appears to be rally but aura around a player rather than dropping it at a fixed point.
I’m curious, what are peeps going to do when DoTA 2 comes out?
Guessing most will switch to that.
I would probably prefer to stay with LoL, but I will follow you guys to DotA2 If decide to move to it.
I already have 2 weeks of leave set aside for when DoTA2 arrives so yeah, I can say I’m making the switch.
I’ll play both, but which one gets most of my time depends on how much I enjoy it and whether or not other TAYbies are playing it. At a minimum I will play DotA2 just enough to defeat Harli 1v1 😀
Oh you’re such a comedian SteveO ;P
I think HON has more to lose, they have always had a much more hostile, rank focus community than LOL. I’m sure there will be some loss but unless valve are really shutting down on the competitive play I think it could become a really toxic place to be.
That is my feel on it, although it might be slightly biased based on DOTA.
Most likely 99% of HoN will go there since it’s closer to DoTA than LoL is, so I’m not going to be touching DoTA2 with a 50 foot pole cuz of how that community is. At least with LoL I feel useful at times
Unless all you guys go to DOTA 2 I’m going to stick with LoL. I’ve only just started playing it (started a few months ago) and I’m really enjoying learning the lore and trying out different champions and stuff. I don’t really fancy giving it all up and starting over again with a new game.
Quicksilver Sash-style Cleanse would be good.
I mean, as it is, it’s kind of a half-arsed debuff remover.
When are these changes going through? I’d hate to miss out on using Flash before they nerf it, I’m only two levels away from unlocking it.
For the last few days my internet has been really slow, as in dial-up slow. I finally found out how to fix that…I just place my mini-wifi modem on the floor… :/
@Chuloopa re:XBL
Try disabling any ‘DOS Protection’ settings – sometimes XBL can trigger those and disconnect you. Fixed my constant d/c problems with Halo Reach.
A user from a company, who is IT himself, Not getting all the details before calling… and giving me I dunno or 1 word answers! not helpful *headdesk*
Just read a pretty awesome Joss Whedon interview:
http://rookiemag.com/2011/11/yay-geometry-an-interview-with-joss-whedon/
Seems like the interviewer didn’t need to say much. Joss is a chatterbox.
(Hello Strange!)
I wish I could interview Joss Whedon. I’d impress him with my razor sharp wit and we’d become fast friends. he’d invite me to his house to meet Nathan Fillion and Alyson Hannigan and I’d live happily ever after!
You can do anything if you put your mind to it! Or something.
I get the feeling ME3 will be a bit too third person shooter for my tastes. I don’t want them to strip away any more of the RPG element. The fact that EA are touting an even more streamlined “Action epic” game is worrying.
As long as it features an interesting story and dialogue choices it’s RPG enough for me. I actually like that they’ve stripped away a lot of those “rpg elements” like having heaps of items and stats. I like those sorts of things in games like Elder Scrolls or Dragon Age but they never felt like they belonged in Mass Effect.
But that’s why the first one was so awesome. It was a Sci-Fi RPG! Now the Mass Effexct series is just a Sci Fi shooter and it makes me sad. It also made me angry. Some of those shooty setpieces in ME2 were horrendously done. If i wanted to play a shooter I’d play one. Don’t make the first game in a trilogy an RPG and then just turn it into a cover-based shooter for the rest of it, it’s a betrayal of the people who bought your first game, who enabled you to do your 2nd and 3rd games.
Part of the reason I love Mass Effect so much, aside from the story and characters, is it combines my two favourite genres, RPGs and shooters.
I know many people disagree with me on this but to me an RPG isn’t about stats and levels and all that stuff, it’s about the story, the world and the way you interact with those things.
When I read posts like yours Strange I can’t help but shake my head a little. More and more it seems like people just don’t care about stories anymore and that RPGs are expected to have clunky and poor combat to be true RPGs. I loved Mass Effect but its combat was very poor. It was unresponive and unenjoyable and made you feel removed from the world. ME2 fixed it and it looks like ME3 is going to make it even better. By having a streamlined and easy to use combat system the world becomes so much more immersive.
As I mentioned in my original post it’s not that I’m against stats and gear, I think they do have their place in games (not just in rpgs) and I really can’t imagine something like Skyrim without all the gear you’ll be able to pick up, but for the sort of RPG BioWare was making with Mass Effect, an rpg with a huge focus on story and characters and a streamlined and fun combat system that made you feel more immersed in the world, gear, stats and levels don’t really have much of a place.
I know this comment seems a little aggressive, inflammatory and like I’m having a go at you and I apologise for that. I normally stay out of any sort of conversation that could cause me to have an argument with you guys but there are a few things where I just have to stand up and state my opinion as fact even if it goes against what the rest of you think. It is my opinion though and you are welcome to disagree with it.
Even though we may have different opinions on this I hope we can all still stay friends.
I guess it depends on what defines RPGs for each person – the story or the mechanics. Cause sure; RPG technically means a story game but it is also means the type of game-play you usually find in them – the leveling, skill trees, loot, customisation etc.
ME2 did good on the story front and better on the combat but on the RPG Mechanics side of things – which a lot of people enjoy and played ME1 for – it was very lacking.
ME2 would have been better if it was not a sequel to ME1 – it felt like a RPG being shoehorned into a shooter and not doing great at either.
If they had started with a solid 3rd person shooter from day 1 and than gave it all the story and conversation elements it would have worked better and not caused a ruckus changing halfway through the series.
You misunderstand me. I’m all for story in games! That’s why I’m mad. To finish the story of the Mass Effect trilogy I now have to play a genre of game I don’t like. I didn’t find the combat in the first game any more clunky than the second, I just really happen to enjoy the extra RPG things that allow you go deeper into the sense of the universe you’re in and truly make your Shepard YOUR Shepard.
And if “gear, stats and levels” didn’t have a place in the ME universe, they shouldn’t have even put them in the first game. They definitely have a place in MY Mass Effect universe.
Soo… Do you like Mass Effect? (just a guess)
(Hey Strange)
To tell the truth, I’m not sure anymore. I’ll still be playing ME3 through a few times though. I’m just strange like that.
I went from ME2 to ME1. Haven’t finished either. I think I’m doing it wrong.
Yup. That would be rather confusing, too.
I have no issues whatsoever with how they handled the RPG elements in ME2.
Having incremental boosts to random stats/skills works in some situations, but what they did still held the general idea of leveling up without making it a focus of the game. They stripped it back to what it needed to be.
How they handle it in ME3 is up in the air. Obviously they’re going to have stuff in place so that people who don’t care at all will be catered to, but I doubt it will be at the expense of people who do want to manage their leveling.
Based on the leaked details, it sounds like you can pick and choose the degree of RPG you get in a game.
Meaning that they’re targeting the game at a demographic that doesn’t play RPGs. You know the old adage about trying to please everybody…
That said, I’m sure it’ll still be a good game. I enjoyed both of the previous ones a lot, though what I enjoyed in each of them was different.
You know what I miss though? Going down to the surface on random planets and exploring them in the Mako, stumbling on random stuff and everything. That whole exploring a new world thing really worked for me, I wish they hadn’t killed it off and had expanded it more so there were more things to discover and more things going on in general.
Portal’s end credits made me laugh. Arkham Cities end credits made me sad.
Both were great.
You should have acted. They’re already here.
The Elder Scrolls told of their return.
Their defeat was merely delay till the time after Oblivion opened.
When the sons of Skyrim would spill their own blood.
But noone wanted to believe. Believe they even existed.
And when the truth finally dawns. It dawns in fire.
But there’s one they fear. In their tongue, he’s Dovahkiin: Dragon Born!
Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin,
Naal ok zin, los vahriin,
Wah dien vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal,
Ahrk fin norok paal graan,
Fod nust hon zindro zaan,
Dovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal.
Ahrk fin kel lost prodah,
Do ved viing ko fin krah,
Tol fod zyemah win kien meyz fundien
Alduin fyen do jun,
Kruziik vokun staadnau,
Voth aan bahlok wah diivon fin lien.
Translation
Dragonborn, Dragonborn,
By his honor, is sworn,
To keep evil forever at bay,
And the fiercest foes rout,
When they hear triumph’s shout,
Dragonborn, for your blessing we pray,
And the Scrolls have foretold,
Of black wings in the cold,
That when brothers wage war come unfurled,
Alduin bane of kings,
Ancient shadow unbound,
With a hunger to swallow the world.
So in Teamspeak last night people were worried about what to call me (i.e. I may be offended by the name “Noob”) in all honesty I would prefer to be called “noob”. I’m actally use to being called that by my friends, not by my lack of skill (at least I don’t think so) just by my screen name.
Methinks that the end result is that people will just call you whatever is easiest.
Hence nicknames like Bunny and Numbers :p
I will call you “guy”, or “mang”, not to be confused with the half dozen other people I call “guy” and “mang”.
*nods to self*
I know when you will be referring to me Bish because I will hear the love in your voice.
Love is in the air, every sight and every sound~
Except less about the sight, and more about the sound.
How could I forget the name of my first Kotaku pardner?
Which reminds me, who did I dump you for last night? I forget.
I think it was Freyr. I was so sad, you ruined our melee brotherhood of having no range.
We’ll always have the memories.
Like when we were chasing Teemo and you taunted him and I stole the kills of both him and Kennen off you.
Good times.
That was great, and then we were all “Hey, where’s the rest of the team? Oh, they’re all dead. Awkward.”
damn man, almost died from laughter when you came up with that in teamspeak last night.
huh… so i just learned that i am eligible to become a citizen… i did not know this, i didn’t think that was for at least another 3 years…
but if i become a citizen i am no longer legally Danish because i have to basically renounce the danish one as they do not allow for dual citizenships… what to do? decisions decisions
Ok, which group is cooler, all of the Danish people you know, or me?
You know what you must do.
maybe we should just start our own nation:
TAY-NADIA
where the glorious Mark Serrels rules with an iron-fist, none of this nanny-state stuff..
and all citizenships come with a complementary biscuits and coffee…
i’d live there
Step 1: Build Arrmy
Step 2: Invade Tasmania
Step 3: Rename TAYsmania
Step 4: ???
bahahaha AWESOME IDEA!!!
Look, you’re really cute, BUT I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYING…
on an (un)related note, i probably will get the australian one, mainly because i have no intentions of leaving
Exactly.
Hell, if you do exactly what they want you to do, they’ll give you the factory afterwards.
And then crazy stuff with an elevator and four old people in a bed.
Excuse my french, but that book was fucking weird. Seriously. So weird.
Roald Dahl? Weird? Never!
I think it stands out as being weird, even by Dahl’s standards, which really is saying a lot.
How was it weird, I mean just because the grandparents had been bed ridden for 20 years and that was the only bed in the place and Charlie was around 12.
I can’t see anything weird about that at all
I could make a bunch of jokes, but I’m just going to say: get the citizenship here. Also, I don’t the TAY collective can afford a meat in Denmark, unless it was in Lolland, because we all know that’s the happiest place in the world.
lolland is pretty great, and not just for the name… also you know… LEGOLAND
Half the reason for bringing it up was to spread the knowledge.
And knowing is half the Danish!
If you’re planning on spending any time in Europe, Danish citizenship would definitely beat an Australian one.
If you are planning on mainly hanging out around here, then there’s no reason not to get the Aussie citizenship.
Pro/con time:
* What do you get if you’re a citizen of Australia that you don’t get as a permanent resident?
* What do you lose if you renounce your Danish citizenship?
Wait, who don’t allow dual citizenship? My parents and my sister have dual citizenship and two passports. I haven’t gotten mine yet.
silly denmark for sillienes sake does not condone having dual citizenship… i think they suffer from Small Country Syndrome (SCS) and are chucking a tantrum for me leaving them
I haven’t played it, nor do I plan on playing it but here’s what I assume most reviews will be like:
Single player – pewpewpew! Shit asplodes! More shit asplodes! And then it was over.
Multi player – pewpewpew! Shit asplodes! People make you asplode! Gah noob! Perks and stuff.
9.5/10
We all know it’s going to rate well.
It’s just odd that they haven’t been putting reviews everywhere.
Normally they’d be pimping it like a mother.
MW3, a Blaghs review:
The plot of this game is a meandering mess, failing to plug the holes that the previous game created, and adding a few new ones into the mix. The characters are exactly as you remember them, with a few new ones who are only there to replace the ones killed off in the previous game.
However, if you can get past the fact that its plot is about as logical as a brothel in a monastery, it has some impressive set pieces, and the gun-play is more or less the same as in the previous entries. It follows Battlefield 3’s footsteps though, and the campaign does railroad you immensely, and there’s a distinct effort on the developers part to keep you out of any failure state, unless it’s by your own shooting.
Sound Design in the game has been improved, and while it doesn’t come close to the eargasm that is Battlefield 3, it’s a nice step-up from the previous game.
I don’t like multiplayer, so I have no review of that.
Overall, 6/10. Because I don’t like multiplayer. And I haven’t actually played the game. And I probably won’t until it’s like $10.
Leeeeeeaaaaaaaaague free week!
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1458293
Amumu, Fiddle, Kayle, Nasus, Teemo, Veigar, Warwick, (It’s) Shen (baby!), Olaf, Caitlyn.
MUSHROOMS EVERYWHERE
Also Techy, we played against a level 30 Kennen last night. He was good, but you do him better. You trigger stuns and Ulti in the face better than this guy did.
Jus’ sayin’.
That Kennen still managed to carry their team for quite a while, if Veigar hadn’t gone afk it would have been damn close.
This one time, I laned mid against Nasus.
By end game, I checked one of my deaths to him, and he dealt 1152 damage in a single Q.
Good times.
I’m going to assume they chose to make Olaf part of the rotation in celebration of SKYRIM!
May I ask why you feel that way?
I thought it was a lot better then inFamous and it fixed all the problems I had with the first game.
In terms of gameplay part 2 it was better. But i think the developers really cut corners in other areas. For example the morality system in part 2 was a mess. Part 1 had you be evil for legitimate reasons (feeding yourself over everyone else) Part 2 just had you be evil for no reason at all. I mean, beating up a street drummer? It made no sense.
Plus the character of Nix was terribly written, I actually ended up hating her towards the end. I saw no reason to help her at all.
The combat was also a little lacking. It starts off well enough, but by the end of the game when you have to fight those same insect things with the giant lifebars over and over, it gets a little repetitive.
I went good in both games so I can’t really say whether the evil missions were better or worse. I agree with you on Nix though, I absolutely hated her.
I enjoyed the story a lot more then the first game though. I liked how they cut back on telling the story through comics. I get what they were trying to do in the first game with the comic cut scenes but they made the story feel slightly disjointed and lacking. Like all the important stuff was happening in the comics instead of getting to experience it yourself ingame.
In terms of gameplay I liked the greater range of powers you got and the greater range of enemies (I thought the first game had a huge lack of enemy types). The combat also felt a lot better, though that may be because you are given more stuff to play around with.
I loved the more diverse setting of the second game (specifically flood town), but enjoyed the first game’s origin story more. The stakes seemed bigger and the mystery more… uh… mysterious. Gameplay wise I think they were on par with each other.
Some things about Infamous were better (I preferred the feel of the Empire City setting) but as a whole, Infamous 2 was the better game and a great continuation of the story.
I think Empire City was on par with New Marais. But the people in New Marais were pretty bland, they sounded like GTA rejects.
I had a long reply half written out but I’m too busy to post it.
Woe is me.
I want it to be friday already,
Dire Wolf! I responded to you on the previous page.
It made me sad to think you thought of me as a person who doesn’t think story is important in games. 🙁
Strange, I wanted to mention my thoughts on ME2, and I figured here’s a good place to do it.
For me, I liked the first Mass Effect, I played through it, but I found the combat clunky, and the way it presented a lot of itself felt… Dated. In the loosest sense. These were the two things I wanted improved in the sequel, so, they kept the good characters, and added more, they made the combat flow a LOT better, if only from a pure design standpoint, and it felt funner to me, and they way it flowed between game and cutscene, and the presentation of the cutscenes was improved(They still weren’t perfect, particularly the lip-synch, but still).
Yes, they removed a lot of the RPG elements, which was kind of a shame, but I never really payed attention to any of them anyway, thanks to the terrible inventory system, so it didn’t change that much for me, excluding the level up options, of course. So, for me, it changed from a shooter with RPG elements (it was never an RPG shooter, no matter what anybody wants to say), to a shooter with less RPG elements.
So, personally, I found the second game to be a vast improvement over the first, even if I do slightly fear that the third game will be a bit too much of the same.
The biggest difference that I noticed between the games is that all of a sudden, my dexterity with the thumbsticks suddenly mattered. In the first game, all I had to do was point the gun in vaguely the right direction and let the dice roll.
I miss that kind of game. Would be great if ME3 has a option to toggle that style of gameplay back on 🙂
All in all, though, I preferred ME2 to ME1.
See, I found the first one a hell of a lot more immersive than the first one.
Also the story was just typical part two of a trilogy filler. It baffles me when people say Mass Effect 2 had a great story, because it barely had one at all. You spent 99% of the game just assembling a team and making sure they were loyal to you and your cause. Hell, half of the people who played just assembled a team and didn’t even do the loyalty missions. Because they were playing it like the shooter it had appeared to become, a type of game where you don’t need to talk to people to experience the best of the story. And then they were shocked at what happened at the end for them.
I don’t think the first game was anywhere near perfect and there were things they could have done to make it better without turning it into a Gears of War type game. I agree it was never an RPG Shooter, it was an RPG with guns and it was described as an RPG in all the interviews leading up to the release of the first game and marketed as such. To then shift focus and make the second game a Shooter with a small RPG leaning is bizarre. It’s as bizarre as if the third game becomes more of a RTS game.
Strange,
You may like Alpha Protocol.
Weapons are based on skill points and it has a interesting story.
There’s some inventory… and some minigames.
On the subject of Mass Effect.
I liked both. I missed the inventory from ME1(I like being able to change my parties gear, and buying new gear was something I used to aim for… its removal was one of my big issues with Dragon Age 2). The scanning minigame in 2 was an abomination…
I preferred the story in one, but if you look at them as a 3 game deal then number two makes a lot more sense.
I enjoyed some of the party members from each game (Mordin, Wrex, Grunt, Ashley, Joker, Thane) but some of them existed as pure sex objects (Miranda, Jacob, Jack) and whilst I enjoyed the charector development of both Garrus and Liara… they, along with Tali, have never been interesting to me.
In terms of immersion, 2 was the better game… but I’m not completely happy with the price we paid to make it so.
I like a good story, but what about Borderlands and Magicka? The story in both were lackluster at best but they were both very enjoyable games.
Well Borderlands showed promise and hinted at a story early on. But then fell flat on it’s face. I felt like I played that whole game waiting for something to happen. Can’t comment on Magicka, never played it.
Ah Portal, great game 🙂
Althought story is somewhat minimal, I don’t think it really needed a strong story as it brought something new to the table.
Personally, I much prefer a game that has a great story over graphics etc but there are games that are great to play for the sheer fun of it.
I used to think that Vlad was a Vampire, but then he told me he wasn’t. Boy was I mistaken!
THANKS FOR THE SPOILER ALERT BLAGHMAN
It’s only an inequality.
He’s only stating that story ranks higher in regards to the other game elements, not that it’s the only important factor.
NEVER FEAR, I KNOW MATHS, GUYS
You did study it at university.
Narrative > everything.
In strongly story-oriented games, that narrative is mainly the story the designer put in there. But I guarantee you people will be going crazy for Skyrim later this week, and it’ll have a barebones, generally uninteresting main plot. But that’s not what makes the Elder Scrolls games work, it’s the narrative that you experience as a player. All those side things you encounter.
I guess what I’m saying is that what counts isn’t the story, and it’s not the gameplay either. It’s the overall experience.
It’s not so much that I thought of you personally as a person who didn’t enjoy story but more people in general. It’s a biased view I hold that has come about from playing WoW for years, a game were story often takes second place to gameplay and that’s how a majority of players like it, hearing how a majority of people don’t finish games and seeing how popular games like farmville are. There’s probably some other stuff that has sullied my view of humanities love of story but I can’t recall any off the top of my head worth mentioning.
As for the rest of your post I can see why you’d feel that way. For me though I never really felt like I was exploring deeper into the universe because the items and stats felt like they were there for pure gameplay reasons. In ME2 it didn’t really feel like that, at least in regards to items. For me ME felt like Shepard going “Do I choose this weapon with its 5+ to X or do I choose this weapon with its 5+ to Y?” whereas in ME2 it felt more like “Do I choose this inaccurate weapon with a higher rate of fire or this accurate weapon with a lower rate of fire and lower ammo capacity?”. Obviously to me the second one felt much more like it belonged to the story and universe.
I think my feeling on items in ME also in part comes from my feeling with guns in general when it comes to shooters. I’m the sort of guy who likes only having to use one sort of gun that’s all round average. Medium range, medium damage, medium ammo clip etc. I like having a single weapon that I can use for the whole game. I can’t really say why I feel that way, I just do.
In regards to the Shepard thing I never really felt like I had to try and make Shepard my own because straight from the get go I felt like Shepard was my own.
Guys, you know what we’re doing? We’re having a mature discussion on the internet. And actual discussion, not an argument.
I…
I have no words.
yes, YES KEEP GOING PEOPLE
the IQ is still waaaay to high in here
You guys are all noobs? Ummm. Something racist, followed by something accusing you of racism? Oh, and homosexuality.
Am I doing this correctly?
close enough, need help?
copy/pasta any comment from youtube… anything will do
Your mother is a classy lady.
Also, you’re opinyun is not teh sam as me so u suck.
Something to do with Hitler.
*Someone who thinks they’re intelligent misusing the term “irony” to describe the inevitability of hitler in an argument.*
I’ve played through both games at least twice (I think I finished the first one 3 times) but with vastly different Shepards. My first playthrough of a ME game is always with my holier-than-thou pure Paragon male Shepard, and my second is always with my no-nonsense, does whatever each particular situation requires FemShep. I put a lot of thought into how each of my Shepards look and how they’d respond to any given situation so the more I can customise them, the better.
I love a lot of things about ME2, especially the little touches like Alenko’s letter to my Femshep apologising for his behaviour when they met up again, I just feel that for me, as a whole it is a less enjoyable game.
I doubt you’re a bad person, and not playing ME does definitely not make you one either. Also, I don’t think a bad person would go through TAY answering my unanswered comments!
I dunno, Flu has an evil streak…
I’ve seen him bowl. Very sinister…
Also, Mass Effect is much fun! I need to get more free time so I can finish ME1 and resume ME2.
*Shifty eyes*
Is he left-handed?
I’m going to butt in with my 2 cents again like the opinionated jerk I am.
I see your point and kinda agree but I think they took it too far.
I played the sniper class so Pistols and Sniper Rifles were my options and in the 80 hours I played there were two choices for each. Two. And only basic upgrades and no mods for them from memory.
As for armor I think I changed two or three pieces throughout the whole game because there were so few options.
Call of Duty has more options and customisation than that FFS!
It just made is so very sparse. In ME1 you had a sense of the rest of the universe and a greater economy with all the brands and products available. But in ME2 everything you saw was there specifically for you.
You never stumbled across an enemies stash of weapons or looted them from their dead hands. You “found” the one item lying in the middle of an empty corridor on an otherwise empty planet placed there just for you to pick up.
TL;DR – I hope ME3 is a middle ground between the first two, but I doubt it.
The rest of the guns were DLC.
Also one of the rifles was only obtainable in harder difficulties, during Tali’s recruitment mission.
I’ve been checking the older articles, pre-redesign, and everyone’s website links still work. So when are we getting the Website field back? Or are we never getting it back?
Also I got teh twitters (I had it since 2009, but never used it), so what’s errybody’s twitter so I can stal-… I mean so I can “follow” you guys. Mine is naturally @nightFlarer.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/skyrim-director-substantial-dlc-already-in-the-works/#more-474821
Woo!
If they wanna move away from small DLC, why not go back to calling it an expansion?
I guess because an “expansion” is something you buy in a store, but DLC, well, isn’t.
I reckon that line has been greyed out, but I guess what I’m really trying to say is that I want expansions to become more common that small DLC, like it used to be.
I can’t really speak too much on this subject. I’ve been spoiled so much by all the free updates Valve does. I guess it just annoys me that they can do that, and others can’t (excluding smaller groups)
I stabbed two this morning because i have a meeting tomorrow and may not get a chance. Look, you take the extra one from this morning and i’ll just make time to stab another rat tomorrow.
So last night, with great trepidation due to other people’s horror stories, I pre-ordered Skyrim from Harvey Norman. I was sent a pre-order confirmation number last night and today I received an invoice number. *crosses fingers*
To be fair, when the guy told me they were actually out of the SE edition of Uncharted, he sounded pretty pissed. In this store at least, the previous five times the publishers hadn’t given them enough, and he was growling that he was going to have some words with them. Seemed nice enough, and was apologetic.
So it’s not like they’re entirely incompetent.
I was this close -> <- to doing the same after you linked to the HN online preorder yesterday. Dark Souls distracted me from staring at that page and talking myself into it.
Caved and got MW3 on my lunch break. $69 price matching Target. I’m probably going to regret this…
This guy has been doing custom repaints of the battlemech concept art for Mechwarrior Online, while I’m on the fence about the game itself, this art is looking preeeety snazzy. Already saved a bunch of these 🙂
Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It’s a kind of bear and lives in trees.
A: It’s called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of gum trees and scratch & bite anyone walking underneath them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine, purchased at the pharmacy, before you go out walking.
BAHAHAHAHA!!!
Pixel – you bastard – you’ve made my day! 😀
*lifts skirt-erhm i mean kilt and bows*
you’re welcome, glad i could help
I thought I saw someone talking in the previous page that no details about spectator mode for LoL had been released. I just read this and it mentions that spectator mode will be available in limited beta periods, similar to how dominion was released I think.
Also, new champions – Keen to try Olaf, Warwick and Teemo, but fiddlesticks should be worth a try also.
Oh, sometime last week, it was up until about 11AM our time.
I couldn’t figure out how to actually spectate though, so I just gave up trying.
Tru story.
It’s going in chapter 17 of my memoirs.
I hatr playing against good waricks they Just tear teams to shreds with their suppress and chasing, soooo annoying
SLUT! (Rocky horror Callback reference)
I wish I would of brought a book with me. I want something entertaining to do. Stupid being away from home
aaahh blaghman, always got the perfect answer for everything… on a side note wanna make a trip to the school i’m supporting?
i got a few students that could use your “solution”
I’d only be able to get there if it was my local primary school, which I somehow doubt, what with me being in the inner south. Damn rain, ruins all my fun, oh, and my inability to drive, that too.
what? can’t drive? haven’t you played GTA?
press “y” to steal the car, right trigger is accelerator, left is brake…
trust me it’s exactly like that in real life <– awesome driving instructor
I tried that, I no longer have a license.
well then you need to play Burnout Paradise, they issue a license 😛
Oh, I have that one, but since my Xbox’s date had reset it thinks I got it in 2005, which is earlier than I got my other license which expired…
then last option is jump on the shoulders of the nearest person and exclaim “Hi ho Silver AWAAAY!”
Yeah, again, I’ve tried that… I’m not allowed back to my old Primary School…
okay that’s it, i’m out…. god forbid someone have to do this “walking” thing… whenever a game makes me “walk” i always sigh
That IPL4 qualifier I was talking about yesterday? Complete catastrophe.
It took forever for there to be any matches, at one point they had CheekyDuck and her sister casting (they weren’t terrible but they were far from good) and then because there were more “technical issues” they had CheekyDuck and her sister play each other on the stream.
I gave up after that point. Apparently the Naniwa vs Sen match was good, so hopefully the replays of that get put out for someone to cast properly.
Turns out that PPSL (the organisers) were basically screwing everyone with it. There was an Aussie qualification for the event where the top 2 would be sent to Manila to compete in this. One of the top 2 couldn’t go because of exams and instead of sending the number 3 person, they tried to bribe Sexy Glade to go instead (as long as he joined the organiser’s team for 3 months).
IGN has apologised and said that they were basically screwed as well (which they were) and it looks like the people behind it all are now completely untrusted by the community.
Oh and there was a big HON tournament that was meant to go on at the same time, cancelled without notice so there were a bunch of HON players siting around for 9 hours not knowing what’s going on. It appears that the tournament organiser may have just straight up stolen a few grand from one of the sponsors on this one.
Yay for drama! Anyone interested can just go to Team Liquid or r/Starcraft for all of the juicy details.
I actually like Cheekyduck. She’s nice and doesn’t buy my troll jokes! I felt bad for the reception she got on the Team Liquid boards, but it comes as no surprise. They seem to hate on female players/casters a lot over there!
Bad move by the organisers. Sucks to see it all go down so badly, it really damages eSports in general.
What HoN tournament was supposed to run? Man, I haven’t followed HoN in ages.
I hate it when they use females that clearly have no idea what they’re talking about, I can’t remember which particular thing it was, but there was some token female there, and it pained me to know that she was only there for one reason. On the other hand, CheekyDuck doesn’t seem terrible, so I’m cool with that.
I think Bunny is the only person who is going to understand what I actually mean in this, because we’ve already discussed it at length…
I can’t remember the event itself, but we were talking about this last night.
There are only a handful of women in the SC community who appear to actually have a decent amount of game knowledge. Most of them were involved in IPL3 and I think IGN has done well to give attention to those who actually deserve it.
That being said, there are token females who are there to be just a pretty face for the nerds on the stream to masturbate to. I don’t approve of that in the slightest (I don’t like it when it happens in actual sports either) and it ends up with awkward results where someone like TLO is being asked what he thinks about TvG matchup.
Don’t hire someone because they’re a pretty face, hire them because they know their shit. If they happen to have a pretty face, all the better.
Where CheekyDuck and her sister (I should really look up her name…) fall on this, I don’t know. It’s unfair to judge them based on this tournament, where they showed some game knowledge but their apparent casting inexperience and poor overall quality of the stream made it hard to know if they weren’t that good or they didn’t have a chance to be good.
All I know about CheekyDuck is the bit with Destiny and their streams.
I was under the impression that she was there to host (like Seltzer) and was just thrown into the commentary box because Tastosis were tied up. Turns out she was bought over to cast the event.
As someone with no experience, it looked like they really had no idea how to cast together. They’d speak over each other (to the point where the end of the game I saw them cast was just a bunch of noise) and would keep saying “right about now”, which I put down to nerves.
The hate in the stream chat (and now Team Liquid) would have happened regardless but it wasn’t helped by the fact that people had been waiting for hours to see Naniwa vs Sen casted by Tastosis. As a viewer, it just seemed like one more thing that had gone wrong in a serious of complete fuckups.
They don’t deserve the hate. They did about as well as they could have in the circumstances. But the event sucked, they were a very visible part of it and they’re going to cop a lot of flack for it, unfortunately.
Yeah, at least they didn’t dump that stupid girl who had no idea about Starcraft from whichever event that was. I don’t care that other sports do it as well, but people who have no idea about the game, should not be there presenting things relating to it! Is it that hard to look up the names of the people you’re talking about beforehand? GRRAAAARRRHHH. I should probably stop…
dumpt that girl blah blah words … into the casting desk, that would have been infinitely worse.*
Stupid sentences, not finishing themselves.
Oh I totally agree by all means. Nothing gets me more riled up then the token “pretty face” who knows NOTHING and has NO SKILLS in the game she is talking about whatsoever. However, having met Cheeky, spoken to her and watched her play I know she knows what she’s doing, though I doubt she’s on the same level as some platinum leaguers.
Personally, I prefer a caster who is good at casting and not-so-good at the game over a player who is leet at the game and terrible at casting to do the commentary.
There is yet to be a female SC2 player/caster who is on the same level as Artosis/Husky/etc.etc. I remain faithful and will give it time.
Also Cheeky’s sister’s gamename is Bee. Hence the ‘BeeDuck’ when they cast together! Also I think she’s going out with MoonGlade.
Generally, casters are split into pairs of two archetypes.
There’s the play by play guy who just calls what they see and tries to make it sound interesting. That’s Husky, TotalBiscuit and djWHEAT. Those sort of guys.
Then there’s the analysis guy. That’s your Day[9], Apollo, Artosis and Tasteless. They tell you what’s going on and what that will lead to.
Admittedly, Tasteless, Artosis and Day[9] can do either role depending on who they’re casting with but I think you get the point.
Bee and Duck fit more into the first role, doing the play by play. So sticking them together doesn’t really make sense when you think of the casting dynamic because neither has the crazy game knowledge to try and explain the next step, making the commentary a little shallow.
I just made all of this up but it probably makes sense!
I think Husky is the perfect example of someone who isn’t necessarily the best player, but is a fantastic caster, although, he does work best with someone like Day[9], as the analytical style of Day[9] works brilliantly with Husky’s ability to talk very quickly. And I think the lack of female casters can relate to the game, I mean, I can’t think of any genuinely high level female players, and no top level players, the closest I can think of is Tossgirl, who hasn’t played since the BW days. (And played Terran competitively. wut.)
looooool. Sorry I honestly forgot I had a different handle on this time – I thought that it was the email addresses that got us auto-approved.
… *Glares*
And this isn’t even the first time I specifically have been used as a guinea pig for people to steal my name. Is that all I am to you people, a Guinea Pig?
WELL I’M NOT. Latte is a Guinea Pig, he is not very bright.
Maybe I should switch back to my old email address, at least very few TROLLS know what that is. 😛
The guilt is eating away at me. It was me Blaghman. The first time the auto-approval of comments came through, I was curious. I needed to test how it worked. And well… yours was the easiest to remember.
Considering that many of our email addresses are known to each other, I request that you use this power only for lulz.
Bahahaha, I gathered it was you, and I don’t really mind.
I agree with Bunny though, we must use these powers only for evil.
EVIL!!
BTW someone impersonated me the other week on The Remember this post, was it one of you guys??
Oh and Hi everyone, been a bit busy with work and have only been popping in. Will cave at some stage this week and buy that Skything game that everyone is getting so excited about.
Was it the correct answer?
Cause if it was, then it was me, otherwise I blame rocketman
Wow Tigs, you’re learning nice and quickly how this system works. 😛
I am puuuuure evil
Well this could be interesting.
/facepalms
Was that you f4ction. It was you wasn’t it?!
Would I do something like that? Just imagine I’m looking all cute and innocent right now.
You know what LoL champion skin i really like?
Brolaf,
“Chuga-a-lug, Chug-a-lug!!!”
Astronaut teemmoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
At it can be yours for about the same price as CE skyrim
I have decided.
The day that skin goes on sale for less than a billion Riot Points, it will be mine.
Then I will never use it because people will think I am skilled if I do /o\
Hey harli I was reading some comments earlier and I saw that you like short stack. I to once like short stack. There first song I heard was stuck in my head for like 2 weeks. “your finger is on the trigger so say goodbye” I now see the error of my ways but I wil always have time for a guys who has more epic hair then most!
OMG! Shimmy Shimmy Go Go. I fsking love that song. Your fingerrr is on the trigger so sayy goodbye, goodbye!
Their old look isn’t so good. But omg, their NEW look.. the singer is so hott.
With all this talk of rats, and of SKYRIM, I keep thinking of Oblivion…
“It’s always ‘rats’ for the new associates. Is it some initiation test or something?”
I use conditioner, and then the following day I’ll have lots of ringlet like hair things, instead of my usual amorphous blob of hair…
Have you tried punching it?
Then again, when I had long hair, I used to use a straightener because it was easier than brushing.
Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I tried to use a straightener on my hair, and it just did nothing. It was rather odd, and saddening.
Small chunks of hair at a time, make sure the thing is nice and hot.
This has been haircare with Blaghs and Bunny. Join us next time where we get manicures and shit.
Which reminds me, manicures are just plain weird. Just a straight up weird sensation that isn’t really pleasurable. Cost me as much as a damned mobile phone too…
Wait, you mean that there are people who don’t just chew off their fingernails?
Weird.
You could think of it as a way to get a cute girl to hold your hand and scrub you feet for a while. Except when she started working on my feet, I flinched and she spent the whole time fearing that I would kick her.
Also, one of my friends got his mani/pedi from a rather effeminate dude. The worst part was that we didn’t feel like we could mock him over this, because we had just had our nails done.
Oh the debauchery we got up to on our little trip!
In regards to the foot flinch: Smoooooth.
In regards to paying out your friend: Ehhh, I would have done it anyway, situational irony is fun!
I’m smooth as silk, yo. Also somewhat ticklish.
Don’t worry about the paying out. There were plenty of other opportunities that were capitalised on.
And how many of these involved traps?
A not unreasonable number.
‘…which cause the penicl to rise and har-den!’
It sounds better in a John Cleese voice 🙂
Bahahaha!
…do pay attention!
MW3 used Harden.
Posting has slowed down.
Can only mean one thing. We are bored with page 7
Bring on page 8!!
Was going to say “Nope, Chuck Testa”. Then I realised that I hate that meme.
Also it doesn’t really apply.
On top of that, it appears that this list of names sitting on my desk contains someone with the surname Testa. Their first name is not Charles or any derivative of it.
While I agree with the sentiment, I feel that it is not in the spirit of Notethingy November to spam. So with that in mind. Something.
I am so eloquent.
I’m sticking to my usual methods of posting. If I can be bothered to type it, it must be noteworthy!
Logic, I kind of understand the concept and choose to ignore it!
On this computer, if I’ve gone to the effort of typing it, then by god I am going to post it, no matter how stupid it seems.
Shane tried to get the first post on this page.
Then Crazyguy1990 tried.
Then I tried to fail, and succeeded before realising that I could just start the new page and went for a lame joke.
Wait, Bish, is that sarcasm, from you?
No, no way, I refuse to believe it! 😛
You wound me, sir.
Like a dagger to the heart.
Or like throwing an uneaten box of Shapes out.
You know I would never throw away uneaten Shapes.
To follow in Rize’s footsteps I hope this page is filled with Skyrim, because I don’t think that’s been done enough lately.
I think Day Sex: Hot Redheads was a damn good game. Definitely in my top three for the year.
I fully suspect Skyrim might sneak in a place in your top three too (and many others), unless it’s pants on head terrible.
But, why in good green gumby’s name, have you got my pants on, inside out, back to front, and on your head!
Now back to avoiding quoting songs, My top three thus far isn’t really cemented, but I’d say that Portal 2 and DE:HR are both in it, I can’t say for certain about a third. In what’s upcoming, I expect AssRev to be good, but it will really have to wow me to get into the top 3, Uncharted 3 sounds like it’s a bit too poorly designed for unco’s like me, Halo Anniversary will be fun, but just prettier Halo, Isn’t the new Aliens game supposed to be out sometime soon? I don’t have high hopes for that, and I can’t remember what else I’m supposed to be excited about… Because I’m awesome.
I don’t even remember what I had for breakfast, let alone games that have been/will be released.
Oh! That game where we went around shouting “SHAMEFUR DISHPRAY” was pretty fun.
Yeah, I forgot about that, what a Shamefur Dishpray.
Also the Aliens game I was thinking of I think is the DS game, and I think my brain just got confused, as it is wont to do, and hmm, I’m sure I should be able to remember more…
Actually, Batman might be in my top, I did 100% the main part of the game… This is difficult, I’m never trying it again.
No, the mandatory mention has been made. There will be no Skyrim talk, or I will make it so that there is no Skyrim, period.
Damn you internal editor. You should have stopped me from posting that, but you were asleep at the switch.
I’m not anti-Skyrim. I will probably even buy it one of these days.
@ Ruffleberg/Strange/Jo/Dire Wolf/Trjn/the people I forgot about from the other page talking about ME3 (sorry)
From what I’ve read of the leaked story (sigh) before I knew it was real – which was practically all of it – , the game has quite a few non-combat missions that help with defining Shepard. Sure, a lot of the game is combat, but they’ve tried to shake up the mission types and have things like negotiations, interviews with reporters, fetch quests and detective sequences.
They’ve also reintroduced stats for guns and upgrades (though not nearly as many as ME), and there seems to be a lot of conversations that allow Shepard to say “well, I think this…”.
It’s certainly a much different game to the first one (the tone has gone from retro sci-fi to bombastic action/thriller epic) – but it still looks like an incredible game.
+1
This made me laugh and reminded me of a section from Jolly Rover.
To paraphase
NPC: Will you accept this quest
You: Only if it involves rubbing random objects against each other
ahhh point and click goodness
They make sense in the context of the story 😉
(Not like DA2’s “oh, you’ve found a nun’s corpse, bring it back to the Chantry” o___O)
The sidequests are actually quite nice, they’ve designed them around “themes” so that they play and look like small snippets of a dozen genres. There’s even a developer comment that says “mission X is based on Han and Leia on Endor, without the Ewoks” or “based on [random move sequence]”.
Well clearly, it is a pure gold ring and the guy that will by any scrap of stuff you loot off a corpse wasn’t interested in it at all
Oops, just saw the *other* discussion on Page 7 about ME2’s story.
Strange: I agree, I didn’t like it. It felt too much like filler. Not enough moving on with the main narrative, and ‘assembling a dirty dozen’ felt stupid after the urgency of the first game. Even though the characters were amazing, the main story lacked impact.
ME3 is – from what I can see – a lot better in this regard, and without spoilers. It has a clear arc that it follows through in terms of a goal or objective, plenty of twists and turns, some really nice changes of pace (combat sequences then intense diplomatic negotiations in between missions), a lot of sudden, urgent missions (go here now!) and heaps and heaps and heaps of sidequests.
There are some things I don’t like about it, or find baffling (especially the ending) – but it seems like there’ll be a lot of explanations in game about the mysteries of the universe, and that helps explain a lot of the plot.
It actually moved into my pile of shame for exactly that reason. I will get around to finishing it at some stage there was no real drive to get me to the end.
There is some long term objective I am aiming for and I need a team to complete that but in between there isn’t much of a story to keep me interested.
Started interestingly but from there it has been “put a team together” and I have spent 20 hrs just doing that with no progression in the story. It is nice that they are trying to flesh out the characters a bit more and give them some background but to do that totally outside the main story just didn’t gel with me
The developer commentary for want of a better word sounds interesting, so maybe I’ll check it out after I have played the game.
Yeah it felt like as soon as I had finished gathering everybody and pursued relationships with half my crew we were off to save the world in the final mission. I mean shouldn’t you spend a larger portion of your time with all party members and stuff before heading off into the world?
OMG I feel like making a Kotaku TAYbies RPG game now..
That was the problem with ME2 being in the middle of the trilogy. The game is 90% recruitment and what little story parts were in the game were pretty far apart. Hopefully all the recruitment is out of the way for the third game.
I suppose contextually it makes sense.
It was always a recruitment mission to find the very best (LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS, DUN DUN DUN DUN!) to find, investigate and combat the Reapers. It’s a different team dynamic from the first, where you were trying to utilise your small team as best you could, now you have a multitude of characters (relatively), just to be used as tools and means to an end.
Don’t get me wrong, the ‘story’ of assembling a team then flying off into Reaper space was definitely rubbish, and sure I would have liked a bit more extra team time to hang with my bros/broettes, but there was always that cold, heartless Cerberus mentality of using your team mates, rather than being chums.
My biggest gripe with it was almost the lack of team dynamics. Each mission is pretty much pigeon holed off, get this person and then like children fighting the draw an line on the floor of the the ship
“This is my area and your not allowed in here”
It really needed a sub-plot main story line (That totally made sense in my head) to follow while you are collecting the crew. Sort of a lets see if we can actually work together and get blah blah done before we decide to head of as the sole chance to save the universe.
Yeah, though they did try with deepening the teammate-Shepard link though. Did quite appreciate that, although labelling it as a “Loyalty Mission” kinds of cheapens the effect, I suppose. I would have helped Tali and Garrus even if there was no reward.
Also, more on the team dynamic; Miranda vs Jack, Tali vs Legion? I like that they indicated fractures within the team, but boy, I’m not sure it counts as a ‘resolution’ when you just tell both parties to STFU.
As I understand it, a lot of the flawed structure in ME2 was actually because Bioware were designing around the file size limitations of the Xbox 360. They knew they were going to have enough content that there was no way it’d fit onto one disc, but they didn’t know until quite late in development where they were going to make the cut between the disc content, and so they deliberately kept the overarching plot with that very flexible structure (i.e. with plot events gated by the number of missions you had completed). It also made it easier for them to slot in the DLC, I guess. But the issue with it is that if you want to save your whole crew, you essentially have to do everything in the game except recruit Legion, because recruiting Legion triggers the endgame and if you do more than just his loyalty mission, all the useless mooks on your ship will die before you get to them. Which really sucks because Legion was IMO one of the most interesting characters but I hardly got to use him at all.
All my characters lived. I’d done absolutely everything I could before recruiting Legion, so I did Legion’s loyalty mission and then the endgame. Not because I knew what would happen if I’d done it a different way, it’s just the way I normally play games, trying to finish everything I can before the final mission/boss/whatever because I know once I’ve seen the ending I’ll lose my motivation for completing the other incidental stuffs.
Hah, yeah.
I don’t know if it’s just people like us or what, but as RPG Gamers, I feel like this maybe makes us bad Role Players.
For the most part, there’s a degree of urgency for all the story missions, and I suppose a hero Shepard would jump straight to them, but I see 2 more sidemissions and go “Nah, I’ll complete those first”, just because that’s they way I’ve been trained to play traditional RPGs.
I suppose there’s some sort of hilarious irony there.
This for me too.
Although it does have a downside – if you do *every* single mission including sidequests then recruit Legion, you don’t get to hear all of his conversations with Shepard.
Apparently you need to leave 3 or 4 of the minor N7 missions to do after the game (plus some DLC) in order to hear the ending of Legion’s conversations. They’re actually pretty interesting.
I’m sure it will be a great game. But I don’t want to see it become some generic cover based shooter.
Oh man, I just had that Toyota ad that’s on the side of the screen sometimes decide to go full screen on my computer. Let’s just say that it didn’t end well.
No, you know what, I’ll explain what happened. It took ten seconds for it to pop up, and then another 30 before I could actually scroll high enough up that I could close the ad.
Of course, it’s not really the ads fault. This computer has a single core 1Ghz processor, half a gig of RAM, and a 64MB GPU. Still, it’s aggravating. #Firstworldproblems (I am the 99% of the real 1%)
My netbook has decided to stop registering the use of the y,n,o,d,r, and n keys.
I am typing this with a USB keyboard wider than the netbook itself.
So…My new billing system is finally in use and it has billed a total of $20,000 less than last month. Guess who’s nuts are getting squeezed (and not in a good way)?
How is it your fault that the program you made isn’t getting money. It is like telling the guy who makes cars that it is his fault they aren’t selling?,
Well it depends on if the cars are exploding. Then it is pretty much the manufactures fault.
So the question is, exploding programs or easy scape goat
I’m investigating it at the moment. I’m not %100 certain but I think the previous version may have been over-billing customers for some time. Otherwise I’m under-billing and am knee-deep in it.
Well I would offer to help but I don’t think your company would be too impressed with you sending your financial info to other people
But if you do need to run something by someone let me know
i felt empty inside all day
and then i found this http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/index.html
Wait, so a company named Cyberdyne is creating a product called HAL? I can’t see that ending well at all.
Uncanny, I browsed my browser to that same page myself on this very day…
I blame TV Tropes…
Nothing is going right for me today.
I should have known better than to play Dark Souls on a day like today.
Lost two and a half levels worth of souls plus a fair bit of held Humanity when a large knight in a tattered brown cloak who usually doesn’t bother me if I don’t bother him snuck up behind me and brought his large sword down upon my head when I was within sight of my blood stain. :'(
I feel your pain.
I fell off a bridge.
Wasn’t even fighting anyone, or skillfully evading anything. Just got up to the edge and accidentally walked off.
Best death, I suppose.
Never give them the satisfaction of killing me themselves.
Or something.
Sigh.
Daily Activities( standing up from a chair, walking, climbing up and down stairs)
Thank god, I always have trouble standing up from my chair. From now on my trips to get coffee will be much more efficient
Is that like some twisted version of Power Rangers where they yell out “It’s PADDLIN’ TIME!” and then morph into gimp suits and start paddling the bad guys?
…<_<…
More like morphin into Harli-zord Paddling style….
damn now i have this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbEZSH5ogMo
stuck in my head
yeah same… it was farking awesome
They are amazing. And simple to make!
You need:
– Hash Browns
– Salt
– Vinegar
– Cheese
– A microwave
– A Griller
Method
1. Grill Hash browns until golden brown.
2. Cut grilled hash browns into strips
3. Place Hash Browns into a large microwave safe bowl.
4. Cover Hash Browns with cheese.
5. Microwave Hash Browns until cheese is melted.
6. Add vinegar and salt (in that order) to taste.
7. Mix through with fork.
8. Serve.
9. \o/
i don’t mean to sound creepy… but will you marry me? you get the pleasure of making those for me all day long plus on very special days i’ll let you rub my feet… how about it?
Sounds like a good deal… I’d take it if I were you.
My Skyrim Collectors Edition Preorder was cancelled because they overallocated. From EB. What the hell. What’s the freaking point of offering pre orders IF YOU CANT FREAKING FULFILL THEM? AND WHY WOULDNT YOU LET ME KNOW EARLIER SO I CAN LOOK ELSEWHERE? FFS.
They’re downgrading it to their EB Exclusive edition. I’m just going to cancel it and put the money towards AssCreed, and then once that’s out, do my best to never ever set foot in there again. As for Skyrim, I’ll either get it off ozgameshop or wait for the GOTY edition.
That’s really lame. If I didn’t really want my map and notebook I would cancel my EB pre-order as a matter of principle.
But yeah, they really should have told you earlier, like, a lot earlier.
After some site wizadry by Tracey, the lost TAY has been returned and TABTOL tabulated. Heeere, weeee, goooo!
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Post #1: f4ction at 08:30 31/10
Post #1000: jamesmacusedmyhandle at 14:17 01/11
Post #2000: NotoriousR at 09:12 04/11
Post #2361: KiwiMrT at 08:17 07/11
I’m not going to even attempt to add up the numbers for people in costume. Somebody else can do it if they’re keen.
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Did he actually post on TAY!?
As Steve Holt once said, “You’re probably wondering what these footsteps are. Well, this is my second take.”
Alas, my third self languishes at the bottom dragging the two of us down.
Normal me, I am disappoint.
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Also yes, I am talking to myself.
Sup fellow twice in the top 20er.
This will be our exclusive little club.
We can wear tophats, and monocles and drink tea and turn our noses up at all these other plebs.
oooooh boy. Best Madness.
Highest word count!
This is most definitely not something that should be encouraged because it just means that I’m going to slack off at work being al verbose and stuffs. So many words. I’ll just be like words, words, words, yo. I’ll be like word up. Word to my word word word.
Seriously. Don’t encourage me.
You were encouraging me and I advise you to stop. Because this is what happens when you don’t and nobody enjoys this. I don’t enjoy this, you don’t enjoy this, your mother definitely does not enjoy this. Unless she does, I’ve never met her but she’s probably a classy lady.
Words.
Hey I equaled myself, like two sides if the same coin
Either that or I was much slacker than usual on Monday
Thanks for the wordcount batguy even if we may now get words words words from some people maybe notable November will produce some indepth discussions as well
So I saw Dark Souls on special at GAME for $28 but then remembered that I have not yet opened another 6(!) PS3 games and really should start/finish/at least open those before purchasing Dark Souls.
…or should I??
TAY YOU DECIDE FOR ME
When you’re not working!
And when you’re not playing League of Legends with us!
And when you’re not drunk!
Soooooooo… never!
Mighty fine cases to have on a bookshelf, though.
Bish, I am dissapoint. I thought I had taught you well. Being DRUNK is the best time to play games…
Kids these days…
I second Steve-o’s motion. Except for maybe LOL. Unless you like being raged at, which can be amusing at times
So i’m thinking for my 21st a private event at the Mana Bar. I blame my mate for giving me the idea & funny enough it’s not that expensive for a group of upto 20 starting at 300 bucks (which includes a 300 dollar bar tab) for the evening. I was thinking sounds totally plausible!
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ARRIVED!
THIS COCKROACH ON THE CEILING INCHES CLOSER AND CLOSER TO ME
I have yelped like a little girl and it does not seem to be afraid of that and now I’m out of ideas WAT DO
You need to hire a mercenary cockroach fighter.
It won’t be pretty, but it’ll end your torture.
I BSOD THE COCKROACH! I’m helping?
WAIT! I’m the bad guy, I shouldn’t be helping!
I was driving once, and a cockroach crawled out from inside the car door through the gap for the window, and then back in before I could somehow coerce it to fly off somewhere.
I considered ditching the car and just burning it.
There was a rather large spider in the corner of my room once. I tried to poke it but it fell and disappeared behind my desk. Everytime I need to look behind my desk I wear gloves now.
You’ve got to be kidding me, Batman AC is now $100 on steam 🙁
http://store.steampowered.com/app/57400/
But you get 20% off if you already own LEGO Batman or Arkham Asylum? My head hurts, that’s just so stupid (especially when you consider that AA is $20 anyway)
Yeah, when I spotted that, I decided I can wait a year or two before grabbing it. Seriously tired of seeing that happen on Steam. It’s also not out till the 23th.
FYI, it’s still $50 in the US Steam…
damn beat me to it 😛
who’s is it?
it’s mine isn’t it?
oh god it’s mine…
i swear i used protection…
i had an axe there
..
on a serious news gratz man, that’s exciting
Yup, the morning sickness is frickin killing me.
(Also, the wife is a bit ill for some reason)
/rehash of last week’s joke
Should be awesome, you’re gonna love it. And it may not be all that long till the future gamer actually starts gaming!
Awesome post is awesome.
Your son is so cute! And I don’t usually think that of babies that aren’t mine. 😛
He looks quite concerned.
(Hi Strange!)
So cute! We have photos of our first doing that, but mostly she likes to hit the power button on the front of the 360… 😛
Congrats Shane, always an exciting time
Not to worry you or anything but everybody I know currently that is pregnant is having twins. So depending on how you feel about that you might want to pretend you don’t know me
@Batguy: I love the look of the second t-shirt. I am such a sucker for buying cute t-shirts for my nieces.
gooooood morning VietTAY…
always wanted to say that… not much new from my end, it’s another stormy/rainy/OMGishouldbestayingathomegaminginsteadofgoingtowork
day…
how is everyone else this fine morning?
what shenanigans have people been up to?
Good thank you for asking. Although I am a bit tired from staying up a bit later last night. However, those LoL games made it worth it.
GG’s Pyrean, Noobheadshot, Blaghzy and Jo!
Nooo! I missed out on LoL 🙁
Stupid internet doing its stupid breaking thing stupidly because it’s stupid.
Great games last night guys and Bish I hope you got that roof cockroach situation solved.
Don’t worry Steve-O, I filled the void of getting a little fed. Was playing akali and I think I got to about 11 stacks of Myjai’s.
*sigh* i guess i’ll have to give in to peer pressure and actually play said LoL so i can be one of the cool kids huh?
I’m no CoD fanboy, I enjoyed MW1 and 2 but never played BLOPS, but this is ridiculous.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3/user-reviews
Tall poppy syndrome, anyone?
Also, Steve Price on The Project last night on Modern Warfare: “Only idiots play that game huh?”. Like I didn’t dislike that turd enough already.
The internet is full of @@@holes. But does anyone actually pay attention to user reviews on metacritc?
Also, who’s the Steve Price guy I keep hearing about? Does he even play dem vidja gaems?
He’s a radio DJ and speaks on The Project sometimes. Usually anything that comes out of his mouth is angry and ignorant, so his comments don’t really surprise me but still, what a dick.
Wow, that’s a bizarre lot of reviews. and most of them seem to be disappointed that it keeps largely the same game mechanics as previous games. Maybe they weren’t expecting it to be a shooter… I don’t know.
Well looking at the m\comments it appears that the main issue they seem to have is it is the same game as MW2. Now personally I don’t think that it is worth a 0 score for that but if I forked out $100 on a game that is the same as the one I forked out $100 on last year then I can see them being pissed off.
But the first 0 review I read said wait for Skyrim so based on yesterdays posts I believe it must come from an intelligent and well adjusted individual
I was thinking, always a bad idea,…
Why do we spend RPG’s assembling a party, when we can only bring a few of them with us at a time?
I love collecting party members in RPG’s, but why can’t I use all the members of my team?
It just seems like outdated thinking, or am I wrong?
Because people like to have the illusion of choice. Also, directing 9 people to execute actions at once in real time may get a bit messy, no?
I shouldn’t need to direct them.
Let’s look at fantasy as an example.
Ranged peoples should automatically hang back and shoot arrows / magic.
Tanks should get confrontational, or protect the player charector.
It can all be handled by establishing how you want them to act (this was an option in DA-O (I think FF calls them Jobs).
Indeed that kinda bugs me too.
Even if you just have the option to send them off to do side-quests like the assassins in Ass:Bro instead of them just loafing off you.
Yeah I really liked that in Ass:bro and it would work well in say Dragon Age.
Could have each character better at certain kinds of missions and you have to judge their personalities and histories so they don’t clash with the people you are sending them to.
Would mean you actually cared about the rest of the group for more than random conversation.
best implementation of the ‘you can’t take them with you’ mechanic was in AC: Brotherhood I think, where you could send them on missions.
Would love a Final Fantasy game where the whole party could do battle against huge waves of enemies. Some epic fights could be had, and there might be a whole new untapped level of strategic gaming to be found.
Or even if you can’t directly control all of them have the rest in another squad you set up beforehand and give general orders to in mission.
See, in Mechwarrior (which admittedly wasn’t an RPG) you’d hire an entire company, appoint lance leaders (they had special training) and could issue instructions to them by lance.
I’m not a fan of it either. I’d love to be able to bring all my party members along.
Its so you can only take the awesome ones with you, while pretending the annoying ones don’t exist. 😛
Personally, I like the way FFX did it, where you could tag any of your team into the battle whenever you wanted.
The only drawback of FFX’s system is that if you wanted your characters to get XP, they had to fight at least one round. This meant, for me at least, artificially prolonging every battle so that useless Rikku could steal an item and Lulu and Yuna could cast ineffective spells.
:O
my party was Rikku, Yuna and Lulu and they were AWESOME. Of course it may have helped that Rikku broke the damage barrier with 99,999 attack.
I have not the RPG skills to play well. My strategy is to hit enemies with swords first, work out what else I need to do to win later.
I maxed out my aeons and battled largely using them. Was pretty crap at the end when you had to fight them though.
HAHA, I was the opposite. The aeon’s frustraited me so I never used them. Which lead to me one-shotting them in the end 😛
If only I could ignore the entirety of FFX.
/troll
/sortof
/didn’tlikeitverymuch
/iguessthatbeastguywasprettycoolthough
Kimahri was a pretty cool dude – so cool he even made an appearance in DotA.
LOL
Many of him there were.
I didn’t mind X, it was XII I wish I could forget existed. What a useless, useless game. There was barely any story and it felt even less like a FF game than even XIII.
I was about to type “HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT VIII”
Luckily I re-read your comment again and saw you said XIII.
True story.
Silly Romans and their numerals. A crazy world where their letters are numbers. Probably why they’re extinct today.
I would never say anything bad about VIII. It’s one of my most favouritest games ever, and definitely my most replayed.
VIII is the only FF I really got into.
Actually, it’s because of VIII that my old TV blew up 😛
(Hi Strange)
VIII blew up my Playstation 🙁
I still prefer VII and IX
It’d probably be hard to balance a game around five, six, nine party members and still have it feel cool.
It’s like a cold war arms race:
If you have five heroes who all do awesome damage and have awesome abilities, and as a result of that can combine to do a ridiculous amount of damage and destruction, then you need enemies that pose a challenge to that level of combined awesome.
Which means cheap attacks, or stupidly powerful attacks, to the point you need half your party healing non-stop and the others hoping that the omega-strike doesn’t come.
Think of Emerald Weapon as the standard low to mid level boss, and an entire game balanced around multiple instances of that sort of fight. Then think if it’d be fun to play a 60 hour game like that.
Lost Odyssey let you have 5 in the game at any one time. That didn’t suffer. When the party got bigger, they split them up into mini-parties and sent them off. This is a good compromise IMO.
That sounds pretty interesting.
Did you get to manually control the other party, or was it just like the AC:Bro scenario?
Yeah, you control everyone. They have separate chapter for quite a while, and you have to learn how to use everyone – it’s a great system.
Then when everyone gets back together briefly, you have to artificially shrink your party in the afore-complained about manner… but mostly, you’re in sub-groups chosen by the game based on the story.
With high fantasy games, you always seem to be fighting an army anyway…
I just don’t see why we can’t have a game where we recruit an actual army, and then lead it into batle.
I have visions of sweeping across a plain, on horseback, leading knights also on horseback, a swarm of arrows firing at our backs… charging towards an another group doing the same.
I just think of the large scale battles that happen in other games (Biowares Dragon Age for one) and how 20 guys standing round doesn’t seem grand enough.
Mount & Blade.
You do exactly that, though it has no story.
I love mount and blade, although I still haven’t got around to playing with fire and sword yet.
But as a true fantasy sandbox you can’t beat it. And there is a story of sorts.
Plonk – ok you’re here, now go do stuff
Warband is one of my favorite games ever.
I set out to make myself king of the whole land. A daunting task indeed but I have two towns, 3 castles and numerous associated villages so far.
And Many enemies.
I suppose I was buying a new laptop for the Old Republic anyway.
Thanks people.
Warband is a huge improvement on vanilla. I was doing well until the Khergit Khanate and their damn horse archers ruined the tactics I had in place.
Might help if I could just focus on a single game but playing multiple characters at the moment
Loyal knight who serves a king – mounted lance combat
Robber baron – Archer (previously factionless but now my own faction)
Dub Dub my dumb tourney champion – 2h + throwing
Yeah I just rock a heavy knight with the biggest weapon I could find. (Great Long Axe is the best imo)
Was serving the Vaegirs against the Nords but then betrayed them, stole the freshly captured towns, set up my own kingdom and sued for peace since they were too beat up to fight a 3 front war.
I too hate the Khergit. The only way I can ever beat them is by backing right up the the invisible wall or a steep hill with a tight line of infantry and archers. They charge in, hit the wall and then you hack at them as much as you can before they escape.
I just remembered about The Last Remnant. You had loads of characters in that game. And you commanded them all at the same time by giving out orders to whole units of people rather than individuals. Was quite an awesome battle system.
It’s an under-appreciated Square-Enix game. And yet another one I didn’t finish because I got too caught up trying to do all the extras and forgot what I was supposed to be doing for the main story.
I had a dream last night.
I stood on a snow covered hillside, air misting with ever breathe I took.
A small wooden fort lay in a valley below, the clarion call of a bell reaching out to me like a cry of despair.
A sudden shadow passed over me and with crack like a whip, great wings buffeted me as a vast creature descended on me from above.
With a qucik roll to the side, I avoided a lightening quick sweep of great talons, then I stood to face the beast before me.
Looming over me, a creature of legends returned stared balefully at me and with a sudden bound, the mighty dragon launched itself at me bellowing;
SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
I too am excited but now I am a bit scared thanks to NotoriousR’s story about how they cancelled his limited edition preorder. I mean, if I don’t get all my extra goodies I am going to storm in EB and morally destroy the first worker I come across.
I also asked my friend to pickup my preorder for me and he responded “Why yes I can pick up your limited edition preorder of Skyrim for you *evil smile*”
I am.. unnerved.
but I am more ZOMGOOGLIES I CANNOT WAIT
You asked someone else to pick up your limited edition SKYRIM!?
*shakes head*
Oh Harli.
You are going to work on SKYRIM! day?
Isn’t it like a public holiday?
You may want to do an inventory check when your friend … sorry IF your friend hands it over to you.
I cant wait until it arrives in our house! I’ll sit and watch the housemate play it all day 🙂
Morning everyone!
Text-wall ahead.
So I was watching Good Game last night, and I really like the show. I like reading/viewing reviews that are done by Australians (aka: locals) in an Australian context.
There was a review of SR3 last night, which is a game I’m totally excited for. I thought the guys did their usual good job of highlighting flaws or “could be better” aspects rather than just saying everything is super awesome.
However, while Hex was raising some good points about where – in her opinion – the game was a let down with constant crudeness (in particular: giant purple dildos), that then devolved into a discussion of “Is this *really* what our industry has come too? I’m not a prude, but….”, which then fired on a tangent into the fact that you can attack civilians with the awesomebutton, which might end up faceslamming them into the ground.
The main concern here was that you could do so to female civilians, and “What’s next, violence against children?”
I don’t know – I guess I was kind of disappointed with this sort of commentary. Bajo did point out that “You can’t suggest that we limit the creativity options of developers”, which lead into a difference of opinion on whether being crude is a creative choice by developers or not. He also offered that you don’t have to go around clobbering people with a three foot dildo.
I think Hex raised some good context issues that the game might be crude or rude – but the entire series has been that way, and they go out of their way to emphasise that point. Wouldn’t that context be taken into consideration?
Also, I was a bit thrown that it’s apparently alright to faceslam men NPCs into the pavement as either a male or female MC, but to do so to women NPCs is wrong. That seems a bit inconsistent – either doing it to NPCs with no real risk mechanic is wrong, or it’s not; in my opinion, gender shouldn’t come into it. It’s also curious that smashing them with your car doesn’t matter, it’s only the hands-on part that seems to be an issue.
Following on from this was commentary that a mission sees you rescue a crate of prostitutes from the docks, and you have two options: make them your own, or sell them for a quick profit. I can understand the comment that maybe a third option to set them free might have been nice, but this again isn’t a gritty realistic GTAIV, it’s an over the top game that celebrates criminal gangs and all these extremely black moral areas. Again, shouldn’t the content be taken into account?
…so this turned into a min-rant, I guess. To end it, let me say that I think the show is great, the review is great, and the points raised are relevant – but I think that decrying the state of the industry over a game that is, by design, over the top and crude, is deeply disappointing. The industry surely does highly mature games that appeal to higher intellects and culture, but that shouldn’t mean that games can’t go for the crude and rude approach if they so choose.
I think we’d all be worse off it games had to meet some sort of maturity measure going forward.
Anyway, take a look at the episode yourself on iPlay, and happy to hear opinions on this!
YES. I was kind of raging at that (not really, but I was miffed). They started sensibly with “well, it’s your choice, these are just the options you have available” but then Hex dropped the “oh, but this is a game with a giant purple dildo, it’s so crude and immature, it shouldn’t even be there, is this where we want our industry to be going?”
THIS IS JUXTAPOSED WITH FOOTAGE OF HER MERRILY DRIVING ALONG THE SIDEWALK SENDING PEDESTRIANS FLYING IN ALL DIRECTIONS, FOLLOWED BY COMPLAINTS THAT IT’S A LITTLE TASTELESS THAT THEY LET YOU BRUTALLY ATTACK CIVILIANS WITH YOUR FISTS.
So here’s how it is people:
Running over civilians or shooting at them with laser guns = ok.
Hitting the civilians with a purple dildo or faceslamming them into the ground = not ok.
REALLY?
What annoys me is that they’re contributing to the perception that all this game is about is violence against innocent people, and Hex even had the gall to pose the question “what’s next, violence againt children?”. One thing they really should have stressed here is that violence against civilians is something the game will rarely if ever require you to do. The only time I can think of that it was valuable to me to harm civvies in SR2 was during the Mayhem missions, and only because they happened to be in the way of the property I was destroying.
At least Hex had the decency to admit she’s a hypocrite, anyway.
I’m a little perplexed by Bajo raising the point about the prostitute rescuing mission where you can either use the prostitutes for cash flow, or sell them off for a one-time lump sum. That I can see as frustrating to someone who might (despite playing a game where you lead a gang of criminals) would prefer not to run a brothel and would therefore let the women go free.
But his real issue? Some of the containers contained not prostitutes, but fisting machines.
It was really baffling that they decided to get all moral and shit. You know what? I probably won’t use the dildo. I’ve always liked the baseball bat or katana. It’s not like the dildo sexualises the violence in any way, it’s just one blunt implement among several that you have the option of using.
My question is, where were the objections to the dildo-as-a-weapon in GTA san Andreas and Dead Rising 2? Why is it suddenly not ok? Because SR3 has the misfortune of being released at a time that sexism in games is a hot topic?
Here’s a Question…
Are you able to do to men the same things you can do to women?
Are they all being faceplanted, or is there a seperate button to punch someone in the overies?
Because if everyone gets treaded equally, then that’s equality.
You attack males and females in the same way, which includes punches to the groin which (traditionally) are more effective against males.
The game does not behave differently based on the gender of the nameless NPC civilian you are attacking.
The whole point of a show like that is you can the personal opinions of the reviewer and they will tell you what they like and didn’t like about the game. You might not have a problem with any of the content but clearly Hex found it a bit too much and it was right for her to say so. I was raised to view violence against women as worse than violence against men, the merits of such beliefs is beside the point really. So I would probably view this differently so some other people on this forum.
I know my wife would not appreciate that sort of ‘humour’ or crudeness so Hex saying that was probably the most important part for the review for her.She went from thinking all this character gen looks kinda fun maybe I would be interested to thinking that no, this game isn’t for me as I will not be able to get past the crudeness in it.
I had no issue with anything she said, to me it appeared as a mature discussion about the design choices of the developers that she disagreed with. “Is that the path we really want developers going down?”. A valid question, and for her the answer is no. For me it probably is as well. But it is a vote with wallet thing rather than a legislation or anything like that.
As for the shipping container thing, I think the issue they had with that was more the fisting machines where in the SAME containers as the women being sold into sex slavery. And that was the point to far for Bajo
And Hex did give it an 8 so it wasn’t like it was a huge issue for her. To sum up I would much prefer my reviews tell me what they actually felt and liked/disliked about that game rather than give it an arbitrary score and talk about polygon count and frames per second
I don’t disagree with their right to discuss points they did or didn’t like, but they launched into a pesudo-debate on morality in game design that detracted from the purpose of the piece which was to review the game.
I really feel like the lingered too long agonising over whether something was tasteless or not, and insisting “I’m not a prude, but…”.
I don’t approve of violence against women either – in general I am a non-violent person, but I particularly dislike violence against women. Nonetheless, this is a game about over the top mayhem and the ‘women’ civilians or generic gang members aren’t portrayed as women so much as they are a female-shaped sprite. They’re not given any personality and I imagine this was as much deliberate choice as it was a constraint of the design of the game.
I’m not trying to defend the appearance of a dildo-bat as anything but crude and tasteless humour, but I think a reasonable person going into a Saints Row game is able to take that in stride. I appreciate as a female Hex may have been more sensitive to what she perceived as violence with a gender bias, but the points raised that she and Bajo used in their discussion were baffling. Raising the issue of violence against children is sending a strawman down a slippery slope.
So it’s a bit crude. It’s also a very small part of the game and I do not think it is in any way indicative of “the direction the industry is heading in”.
Also, I’m pretty sure Bajo specifically said the fisting machines were in the containers that weren’t filled with prostitutes. I can understand why he might be put off by the idea of a bunch of women being trafficked into Steelport in a cargo container, locked in with only each other and a sex toy, but I don’t think that was the case.
I understand what you are saying and don’t think they had meant to imply that this one game was proof of the direction the industry is going. But I agree that it went on for too long.
My opinion is that Hex was having trouble with feeling it was wrong (well not wrong to crossed the line she would rather it didn’t) based on her personal morals but still overly enjoying the game.
Your probably right about the containers, it i probably heard it the way I did as that would be on the wrong side of my line.
The arguments – if they can be called that – were baffling, even now I am not sure exactly what the point they were trying to make was, and honestly I don’t think they knew either.
That’s where I ended up, which is why I wrote this this morning.
I don’t get what the end point was meant to be, and it left me confused as to the actual point being raised.
I didn’t see the episode, but I do know I avoid the Saints Row series because I know it’s just not my thing. I have no objections to its adolescent silliness because I don’t have to play it.
However, I imagine if my job was actually to play and review it I’d find it so difficult to look beyond those actions you can do in the game which are out of character for me, even when I’m playing a game (I’m so pathetic I’m even scared to hurt NPC’s “feelings”) that, like Hex I’d feel the need to wonder if they’re necessary.
“even when I’m playing a game (I’m so pathetic I’m even scared to hurt NPC’s “feelings”)”
Hey I’m the same, I’m a Knight that doesn’t like to harm others in-game and out-of-game 🙂
I can totally respect that point of view, and I’m similar, in that there are games or gametypes I know I’m not going to find enjoyable, so I avoid them.
You’re also right on the money that being then forced to review a game I disliked is going to have me raise the same issues that drove me away from that sort of game as a gamer, and it’s important to point them out.
I guess the implied hypocrisy between “GTA is awesome” and “Boo, SR is immature” kind of stuck out for me. There were constant comparisons back towards GTA for the game (naturally) and what was done better in SR’s only real competitor in the genre, which was much appreciated and very thoughtful.
When you can do very similar things in two games in a genre, then only pick on one of the games, it just seems a bit unfair to me. Sure, complain about the genre and casual ultra-violence, but do it for all games in that area if that is what the issue is.
I believe that creativity should never be limited. I had a look at the article. and have to say that I more agree with Bajo than Hex, yes the ability to do that sort of thing is there, but It’s your choice as to whether you do it or not.
Look at Deus Ex for example, you could go and shoot everyone if you wanted, but its not like you are actully going to go cause a mass murder in Hengsha now is it?
In short I believe the choice should be there, and in doing so allowing the full creativity of the developer team to be used.
Is violence against a female sprite worse than violence against a male sprite? Does the answer change if the player’s avatar or the player herself is a female?
Should female sprites have more rights?
Personally, I don’t feel like any meaningless violence in games is necessary regardless of female or male. But I know there are loads of people who have fun doing that, hence the popularity of games like GTA and Saints Row, and who am I to say that they should be denied the satisfaction and amusement it gives them?
I love the GTA and Saints Row games too, but in my stats, civilians killed is always a single digit figure and as close to zero as possible.
I think my point was that if I was out to cause mayhem, would I distinguish between a male and a female civilian? My guess would be no, and I think the same would be true for most people, simply because while rampaging, it simply isn’t practical to just shoot men and hold your fire for everyone else.
Same. I also have fun in GTA – especially 3 – trying not to run lights when there’s a cop nearby and drive by the road rules, especially if there’s no story reason why the character would be cruising down the road in a tank crushing all cars.
I also try hard not to collect collateral damage in NPCs, I think it’s a way of artificially increasing the difficulty of certain missions and making them more rewarding.
im the opposite of you shane i <3 mayhem especially in the GTA series, my number of murdered citizens is generally high. its not really an intentional thing, i just end up mowing down people where ever i go ingame. do i specifically shoot more females than males? no. do i hunt down more hookers than pimps? no.sometimes in game im walking down the street with an AK i dont care who is in my way im going to shoot thems (probably makes me look like an asshat/bad gamer but i find it hilarious).
Thanks, exactly my point.
In a truly equal society, we would kill and maim equally 🙂
although to be honest i do try to play the game like both Shane and Zap. It becomes less hilarious but more intense/thrilling?? the only time i will speed, run red lights, mount the curb etc. in GTA is when a mission calls for it. just dont give me a high powered rifle near high npc population areas
So My housemate and I finished resistance 3 last night, Whilst glad that the saga was over. I was thoroughly disapointed with the lack of storytelling in this one. Any one else feeling the same?
I actually liked Resistance 3 alot, its a great game, but at the end I felt really disheartened because its what Resistance 2 should have been in the first place instead of the generic pile of shit we ended up getting.
I found the storytelling to be decent, but it was a bit linear compared to the first Resistance. It would have been alot better if they kept the narrator from R1 imo.
Shane, you were having fan trouble with your PS3?
The loud fan is normal on my machine, it has survived one YLOD and two extra servicings, it will usually go away after 10 to 15 minutes, get a nice pair of noise canceling headphones.
Thanks! I got some very helpful suggestions like that yesterday, and discovered for the first time a headphones port on my TV! Huh, who knew. 😛
I had to sit very very close to the massive screen last night, but I got game sound and didn’t notice the loud fan. Was a good night!
Interesting and I agree Dark Souls is about the journey.
I didn’t find myself grinding that much though, except near the end where I obsessively wanted to forge every boss soul and needed materials.
Most of my leveling came from gradually amassing a pile from the enemies on the way to bosses.
I remember them saying on Facebook last night the site would be down for maintenance or somesuch.
“We’re upgrading our web server later on today. As a result, the website will be offline for a short period of time from around 2AM (EDT)”.
Guess they’re still working on it.
*sigh*
great, now we have to wake him up… again…
FETCH ME DA TURKEY, STAT
*awakens to a stream of mead, flowing from a hollowed out wild turkey*
I really hope that is coming out of the right orifice.
Now, where was I? Oh right.
SKYRIM!
*passes out again*
right… WE NEED A BIGGER TURKEY… AND MORE MEAD…
*drags in a dead shark*
Will this do?
a live one would probably be better, but we can try
*pours mead into the mouth of the shark*
SOMEONE CUT OFF IT’S TAIL
*fetches axe, cuts off tail*
BUT NOW IT’S JUST A FUNNEL!
Oh, right, yes. Now I see. Carry On.
Starting to realise a broken street date doesn’t mean much to the PC crowd. Last I checked, it’s a Steamworks game, which means it’s probably locked on the Steam end. I could be wrong…
Aye, but if you have the time, you can sit in front of your computer until midnight, clutching the game.
At least, that’s what I’ll be doing…
If I have the time? I’m going to make the time! With the lemons! I’m gunna get some engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns the Skyrim doors wide open!
Sadly I cannot provide pics as I have not seen it with my own eyes. It’s just the word on the tubes at the moment
SKYRIM! happened… that is all you need to know…
it’s 8 pages of skyrim…
i mean there was a bit of paddling going on thanks to Harli,
but it was mainly a precursor to more Skyrim
Sughly, I’ve been meaning to do a voice recording for your thing, but last time I tried I attempted to say some stuff, and I found that I either said it completely dead-pan, or over emoted to the point of ridicule, I’ve forgotten how to speak normally!
I’ll try again soon, I’m sure I can at least fill in one of the minor characters…
“Maybe I’ll get Tad to voice everyone..?”
“…everyone..?”
“everyone..?”…
*sobs*
</3
*covers Sughy’s ears*
I quite enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean 4
*uncovers Sughly’s ears*
as did i…
mainly cause i watched in 3D at the movies
and the only thought each time Penelope Cruz came on was
“Wow… Bewbs… in da face”
i mean…
me neither… but… bewbs…
come on guys, it’s like a coke and pepsi…
you might state a preference but you’ll take whatever is on tap
Looks like Starcraft 2 has patched again.
Protoss upgrades are cheaper and EMP has a significantly smaller area of effect. Just Blizzard’s way of saying “Protoss are getting pwnedface right now, let’s make them shut up about it for a little while.” There weren’t any other buffs/nerfs.
It will also help infestors, they can go back to mad FG spamming…
Anyway, we all know that the way to get protoss to win more is to switch their name with the terrans!
It basically makes everything that uses energy and shields more effective. Seems like a good thing to me.
Play is not necessarily the most accurate way to describe my relationship with SC2.
That being said, after that 4v4 game the other night, I’m rather keen to start playing properly. Maybe not laddering but playing some random 4v4 games or custom maps.
Really, it’s because I didn’t suck as much as I expected to. I did suck and I don’t even have to watch the replay to know where I went wrong (idle Nexus, not using chrono enough, supply blocked a few times, too many gateways, no scouting), but I was able to curb stomp 4 armies practically by myself with a maxed out 3/3/ zealot/archon mix and I think I could make use of that sort of tactic.
Holy run on sentence yo.
Also, you’re just happy that you beat me in score, while I was going for mass Thors. 😛
I was happy I had a lower average unspent resources than you even though I spent a decent chunk of the game maxed out on three base :p
The score was a happy bonus.
I was massing thors, about the only thing I could have done to get rid of those mins would be to build thousands of CCs. Also, I suck at Terran. Oh, and resource management… It’s so much easier as Brotoss.
SCV RUSH… yeah i’m good at SC2 😛
Just imagined a Kotaku 4v4 match.
It was glorious, with hundreds of gatherer units attempting to rush each other. Until Blaghs and Trjn who actually know how to play wipes everyone out.
We should make this happen!
That’s funny, you think I know what I’m doing.
In reality, I’m the equivalent of the guy at the back of the crowd mouthing the words to the national anthem. If you see the mass of people, I wouldn’t stand out as someone completely clueless but if you actually look at me, I look like a right knob.
I can see it now, two players both try to cannon rush each other, ending up in a base-trade scenario, while someone else masses void rays. DTs run out, causing havoc to the detectorless masses, and nukes fly down everywhere.
It’s beautiful.
imagine that: a massive grassland area surrounded by huge cliffs three small passageways are cut into those cliffs at the other of these are three valleys with untold minerals, the earth shakes the grass dances and then suddenly drones rush in from the left entrance, SVC’s charge through the right entrance and Probes pour in from the top entrance. the epic battle has begun!
2 terran v 2 protoss v 2 zerg builder units only! all upgrades available! who will win?
All upgrades available? Zerg wins because they can burrow to regen health :p
The important thing is that I spent most of the game at <1000 min. Sure, I pooled an absurd amount of gas at the start but that was deliberate because I was going Zealot/Archon and just wanted to get a ridiculous amount of Archons going as soon as my Templar Archives was up.
I actually liked that build a lot. Was something like 3 gate, double forge, expo, Twilight Council, shitload of Gateways (I think I had 12 at the end), Templar Archives. Might throw a Robo into the mix for an Observer (and get the double forge after the expansion) but I do like the general shape of what I was doing.
Might try to avoid delaying my Cyber Core so long though, get gas at 14 supply instead of 18 :p
I was massing up my void rays
in their base
destroing their SCVs
In my defense, when I first heard of TvP I thought the P was for ponies. Wanting to win, I went with what I thought was the imba race :p
Boy was I wrong about that.
Man, imagine what PvP would be like if it was Ponies. Two imbalanced armies rushing at each other, with the deciding factor the toss of a coin.
So basically the same as 4 gate vs 4 gate.
Exactly.
Why not? They’re not much bigger than two metres
And when Green Day was decent! None of this political bullshit!
I like modern day Green Day, I also like old Green Day, but I have weird taste in music.
Apart from a few minutes of dabbling, I’ve never played a CoD game.
Anyone getting it on PS3? Should I?
I might get it.
Dunno, they’re pretty silly. MW has always been the serious kind of silly. Also they say Oscar-Mike a lot. So that’s pretty annoying.
For those who can’t see, some guy pulls a Chris Hansen and calls out a pedo – while dressed as Batman.
If we have enough people interested, we might be able to try and do something crazy like SC2 KvKs. I know there are at least 6 of us who have the game (Blaghs, Gorzilla, Pyrean, Steve-O, Harli and me) so that’s enough for 3v3.
Could do something stupid like Kulas Extreme or Monobattles.
Man… Kulas Extreme team battles. We need to do this.
I got it too but I’m horrible at it, only one I can play with SOME degree of skill is Protoss and I stress the word “skill” as well
Don’t worry, even though I know what a forge fast expand is doesn’t mean that much. I don’t play enough to be good.
So let’s just play and see what happens.
I getting rather sick of LoL, might as well try to convince people to play something that I like instead :p
I can do things like Zealot/Immortal (Which makes no sense I know!) and it did work on my colleague who was a turtle terran with bunkers and all
Actually, Zealot/Immortal isn’t a terrible composition. It’d be a good idea to throw in some other Gateway units though. Then you’ve got a anti-armor deathball (so a Terran relying on Bunkers/Seige Tanks is screwed! Although all they need is one Banshee…)
I like Zealot/Archon because one is a gas heavy unit and the other is mineral heavy. So I can just pool gas and make a crazy amount of Zealots early on and then once I’m ready to get Archons, make a crazy amount of them as well. Turns out the two units work well together as well.
I’m pretty sure we’re all quite terrible, I’m probably the closest we have to a competent player, and I am so bad…
I’ve played three bot games against the easiest difficulty. That is my extent of that game.
Give me Red Alert 1, however…
Company of Heroes!
Yeah man! If we’re going to have a SC2 game we need to have a CoH game too!
Trust me, being good is not a prerequisite. Think of it like LoL. Most of us started out pretty terrible and after playing don’t suck completely now.
It’s the same thing. We’ve got one or two people who know what they’re doing, people like me who know what they should be doing but aren’t doing that and then people who are just mashing their faces against the keyboard and hoping that it works.
It’s all for fun anyhow.
And monobattles don’t require skill. Just the ability to go with a completely retarded build.
like previously stated “builder units” only all in war*
*name for said units is probly not builder units
oh yeah i dont have it but i do play it at the local internet cafe occasionally
Well, you need worker units (probes, SCVs and drones, if you care) to be able to do anything. So monobattles basically mean you can make workers, defensive structures and one type of attacking unit. Fairly sure Queens are allowed for larva inject.
would it be possible to have a drone, probe and scv war? or is that just to silly
It could be done and I doubt it would be too silly :p
too*
oh and i have played those before i just didnt know they where called monobattles the people i played with where like here pick an offensive unit and YOU CANT USE ANYTHING ELSE!!! and i was like mmmkay… and proceeded to be massacred
I’m on holidays after today so I should be around alot more for gaming and, whore that I am, i’m usually up for anything.
Don’t worry, by the looks of things everyone but Blaghs is trying to prove that they’re the worst player :p
Don’t worry, by the looks of things everyone but Blaghs is trying to prove that they’re the worst player :p
The competition is too fierce, he has had to bow out.
In my defense, my memory is abysmal.
I only remembered that Harli has it because she mentioned on Twitter that Sexy Glade smurfed on her account.
That is indeed correct. I have not signed into it since, but I will always* be up for a game.
*after catching up on 3 months worth of patches.
Okay, that’s it. I’m going to try and get people to play SC2 instead of LoL tonight.
Prepare to be photon cannon’d in!
BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BC BCB CBC BC C BC BCBCBCBCBVCBBCBCBCBCBCBCCBCBCB
It’s still bc right?
I play with Grid hotkeys, so maybe?
Protip: shift queue all of the cannons. b > shift + c > click click click click click click click.
omg macros in SC2?!?! What is this magic sorcery from the devil?!!?!!?!?!?!?
It’s even better than that. Anything command you issue while holding shift will come after all orders already issued to that unit. So if you tell a mining probe to warp in a pylon while holding shift it will finish mining then make that pylon.
Because who needs to rush when they’re already supply blocked?
I do this far too often…
oh I know about the action queue – HoN has the same thing, and WC3 has it for very basic things but yes MACROS MACROS MACROS!!
The same time most LoL shenanigans happen? Some time after 6pm?
Sughly is just an appetiser for Hugo…literally. He’s going to eat you for that, to gain your courage.
Ohhh yeah heh, I also did one that Loops came up with like 4 days ago that I should go upload…
So I buy a 3DS to play Zelda. The Nintendo give a big F$#K YOU and a kick in the nuts to those who bought the console by dropping the price by $100.
Now they’ve finished the job by announcing a limited Zelda 3DS FIVE MONTHS later. When every big Zelda fan would have bought a system already.
Way to punish the fans, Nintendo.
But… but… I’m a big Zelda fan and I dont have it yet 🙁
No but I know what you mean, it is pretty suck. Only reason I didnt buy a 3DS yet is caus I was jobless until recently. Maybe Shiggy was just lookin out for me? He was all awww yes, Sughly has a job! Quick, release the Zelda 3DS!
I suppose Imma have to sell me 3DS and get this 🙁
I have the Zelda DSlite and Zelda GBA Sp
I was looking into GBA SP’s caus theyr cool and I never got one before. So I was all yeah I’ll get a sweet blue one for like $25… and then I saw the Zelda ones. Now I cant accept a simple blue one. Despite the fact that ppl are selling the Zelda ones for like $90 :'(
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/Zelda.jpg
And that isn’t even everything I have. I REALLY want the Zelda 3DS!!!!
Don’t bother getting this Zelda DS either. You just know a Zelda 3DS lite is 1 year away.
Don’t forget the Zelda 3DS XL they will eventually release. Because making a handheld device bigger always makes sense
…
right … RIGHT?
Have those enterprising hackery people found a way to make it not region locked yet? Because I’m not getting a 3DS until I can import games for it, no matter how many triforces they print on it.
I’ve been replaying God Of War 3. It’s like zero original thought went into this game.
I started playing the first one finally a little while ago. I was all WHOOO this is cool! Big chains, whip whip!
Then I was all whoo… big chains… whip… eh… whip…
Now its collecting dust.
Part 3 is basically part 2 with a HD upgrade. The original director (the guy who made part 2) quit 2 weeks into development and the guy that took over was pretty much hopeless.
Don’t get me wrong, the game is a technical wonder. It looks brilliant, has no load times and has a tiny install. But where did all that creativity go?
You can’t deny how awesome the Chronos battle was.
Although looking back it does kinda seem like the Colossus of Rhodes fight ramped up to 11.
God dammit! Ok, I bought a goddamn shovel. I went into Bunnings and bought a goddamn shovel. I took it home and dug a goddamn trench. I even googled ‘phone line trench how to’. It is done. I have blisters and shit, but it is done.
Telstra… where the FRIKKIN HELL ARE YOU TO INSTALL MY FRIKKIN PHONE LINE!?
Hmm, when I first started reading this I was thinking you must have bodies to burry. Is this phone line thing a cover story?
By install I mean come and spend 2 minutes putting a cable down in the hole I spent hours digging and then I will pay you hundreds of dollars :/
heheh don’t be surprised if they show up two weeks after they say they will! Telstra are such slackers!
I think symptoms include your… arr… rim…. turning sky blue.
and breaths fire…. wait-what? 0.0
yeah i think I’ve heard of it
It has something to do with flying cars if i remember correctly.
“Your face …” insults ALWAYS make sense
Well played Lambo
…
well … played.
Oh yeah, I think I heard of that, I’m considering it, though it’s not really on my radar atm.
Zeldaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr! Is gonna be the very best, like noone ever was… DUNDUNDUN, to buy it is my real quest. To play it is my cause…
New Zelda game?
Is that even possible?..
Honestly, people complain about CoD being remakes of each other.
If we go down that tangent we could say most games are rehashes of something else. Essentially Skyrim is just Oblivion with prettier graphics and dragons…
*troll grin*
🙁 Looks like no invite for me.
Last time they had an Australia beta test, I got invited and they usually send emails out at the start of the week.
I needz my fix.
Oh dear god…I hope (if I get accepted again) that I actually have a net connection so I can play it.
Oh wait, I’ll have SKYRIM!
I may possibly have opened a second tab of TAY whilst still on TAY. I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
I do that all the time. Sometimes I have 3 TAY tabs at once. I like to see if anyone replies to me. They usually don’t though, because once a new page happens it’s like the previous one/s never existed.
See, that makes sense. But I was on the same page. Reading the same comments I had just read in the first tab.
man i can’t even scroll to the top of the page when there’s too many posts… sorry top posters, you get neglected because of my laziness
Wait. You mean all my attempts to BSOD previous pages of TAY have failed? >:(
I saw. I’m all sad now 🙁 So much for my good deed.
Soryy Docbro
*Sorry
I think you’ll find every post you’ve made in this week’s TAY so far has been replied to…
(Hi Strange!)
So many posts!
(Hi Strange, Hi Flu)
Sometimes I wake up next to my PC, sprawled on the floor with my netbook over my head, with both computers opened at TAY pages with no recollection of the night before.
so after reading about IPL4 qualifiers in the philipines that Trjn Mentioned yesterday. i am shocked by the treatment of players by other players and event organisers is this how esport events and tourneys work? i have thought about getting into competitive gaming over the next couple of years but this is a bit of a turn off, sledging and stuff i can handle in online matches but what those guys “allegedly” did to players like YoonYJ is just cruel
This looks to be the exception rather than the rule. Most small tourneys apparently have issues where they take a while to pay out winners but generally, it seems like things tend to go rather smoothly.
is the competitive scene of gaming worth getting into? i mean i wouldnt really be interested in money but i like the challenge of beating tougher and tougher opponents instead of just duking it out in lobbys. dont get me wrong i love playing with mates and just for fun but i have a feeling i would really enjoy more than just that
What state are you based in? Sydney tends to have a lot of events, I can help point you in the right direction. What games you looking at?
i play alot of shooters and dota style games (played Dota alot when i was 12). it probably is not plausible because unlike most people i have no specific game yet but it still interests me greatly. oh im in canberra 🙂
The best advice I can give is just to jump straight in and DO IT! Admittedly, it’s much easier if you already have a team who are willing to jump in with you.
Unfortunately being in Canberra is a slight disadvantage to you – I haven’t heard of events in Canberra before but the beauty of the internet is that you can participate in online tournaments! Find comps, work your way up ladders – stuff like that will get you noticed. If you keep practicing then you WILL eventually succeed.
I’m more of a spectator. Harli’s the one who actually plays against real people.
The way I see it, if you enjoy playing and you enjoy playing against people, why not go to a tournament and see how you go? If you suck, you can still meet people who play and learn to suck less.
I read about it too, it’s really sad the YYJ (one of my favourite guys) got jipped so badly. PPSL killed what should have been a good tournament and stuff like this is generally embarrassing for eSports.
Did you see Dox’s version of events? Looks like Rossi was pretty much the only person not to get screwed (and he got top 16, so that’s nice).
Ah, no I have not. Link please? I’m scouring the SC2 sea forums but there’s a lot going on. At least somebody like Rossi got through.
r/starcraft and Team Liquid were going a little nutty when all this happened. Plenty of stuff floating around there if you’re willing to look.
Jesus christ, I’m going to have to give Dox a gigantic hug next time I see him.
Hip Hop ers
Immoprtal technique is likely to announce an Australian tour later today.. I’ll update with news as I get it.
This will be a MUST SEE show.
Sorry spelling is horrible when i try and post quickly.
His name is Immortal Technique and if you are at all interested, here is his latest album. It was released for free, you can legally obtain a copy from anywhere, so here is the link!
http://www.mediafire.com/?bm0wfu4wk8l9zzk
Seriously check this out, it is awesome.
Ladies, gentlement, people of indeterminate gender and Bish, tonight I welcome all that are interested to join in some Starcraft 2 related madness.
Seeing as we are all rather terrible at this game, I suggest that instead of just doing a straight up team battle, we do something ridiculous.
We can do team monobattles, where each player can only make one type of offensive unit. We can do free for alls, where everyone can make alliances freely (and break them just as freely). We can try playing on Kulas Extreme, where there is a ridiculous supply cap and infinite resources so you don’t have to mine or make workers.
Sound like fun? No? Too bad. Get on TeamSpeak tonight and we’re going to do this. Even if it means I’m going to be monobattling with myself.
Sure.
If you agree to never eat Shapes again and whenever you are tempted to eat Shapes, you send me a pallet full of them.
what’s the TeamSpeak server address? anyone willing to talk to me? 😛
if not willing to share here send to my email on
jacob[dot]didriksen[at]gmail[dot]com
Normally I’d jump in here and help, but this computer is too slow for me to send emails… So, Bish, it’s your job, be a good little helper. 😛
\o/ wooo i’m involved… wait… now i have to actually talk?.. well… damn… now you guys will find out just how unfunny i am 😛
Just remember, speak clear and concise.
It would also help if you learned English…
shaddap… that is all
I’m still busy mulling over Trjn’s proposition.
My lawyers tell me it is a most excellent deal, but I’m pretty sure I don’t have lawyers, and I have never seen these people before.
Imma bish you real good, y’hear?
By which I mean I sent an email, if no one had already done it.
thanks Bish…
also intro song huh?
hmmm… i’m leaning towards imma barbie girl…
but i dunno… hmmmm decisions decisions…
on account of accent… i am not sure… most people say they have to listen for it to hear it… or maybe i’m just covering it up with excessive swearing… in other words i speak australian 😛
You know what?
I think that song would do very nicely indeed.
(Note to people who aren’t Pixel: I told him it’s compulsory to sing when you get on TeamSpeak. Sssssshhhhhhhhhhhh)
i feel a plot in the brewing…
but it couldn’t possibly be a ploy that Bish is deceiving me so that i may make an arse of myself on TS debut could it…
naaaah
Are you telling me that it isn’t compulsory? WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 9 MONTHS?
singing “YOU GOT THE TOUCH, YOU GOT THE POWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER” a bit too loud and having an awesome time doing it?
We could also try a game-type like Phantom, I think that could be fun with a bunch of people on TS.
(Assuming that it’s the right name, that’s a game mode where one person is a phantom, and their job is to wipe out everybody, and everyone else just sits around trying to work out who they are, and accusing people, and stuff like that)
I like the idea of just doing any custom game until we find out that we like.
The idea of doing something like a 4 person FFA on Kulas Extreme will be amazeballs. Total anarchy.
Oh, I just went the standard build. Built 15 NExus, 50 Gateways and 20 Stargates before getting a Mothership and attacking with 3/3/3 Sentries and Carriers.
From what I’ve seen, Protoss build mainly cannons when they’re monobattling.
Especially if they’re using a gas heavy unit but even more especially if they’re playing Protoss :p
If I can get online I’m keen. But meant to be having dinner tonight with my girlfriend and my sister and her boyfriend. Pretty slack for that though.
clearly you need your priorities straight, gotta let people know where they stand man…
Repairriers!
You guys have to do the repairriers tactic to see if it really works.
Carriers + SVCs + Medivacs = Repairriers
SCVs repair the Carriers, Medivacs heal the SCVs, Carriers swarms everything.
imma try command centre rush… build command centres, upgrade with defensive cannon… flood enemy base… rinse, repeat… i see no reason why this wouldn’t work
Planetary Fortresses (Command Centres upgraded with the cannon) can’t lift off. You have to make the CCs, float them into your opponent’s base and then upgrade them.
Repairiers work but I saw something funny last night on Day9. Someone had a Stalker backed into a corner, surrounded by ally SCVs set to autorepair. The poor Zerglings trying to attack didn’t stand a chance. The SCVs acted as a self-repairing wall.
Whaaaa?
That’s genius!
Oh yeah! Aquaman is coming to LoL1
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/champion-sneak-peek-%E2%80%93-fizz-tidal-trickster
If he has an AOE water nuke ability like Annie’s incinerate, would that mean the enemy team would suffer from a sea-man spray?
he wears shark on his head. it funny.
I hate wishing people on Facebook a happy birthday. It’s so awkward and impersonal.
That’s why I don’t! If it’s someone’s birthday and I want to congratulate them for living for 365 days, then I may as well just give them a call or something.
Yea, but you know how people are. Sometimes they get the shits if you don’t, now i gotta come up with some witty and clever way to say Happy Birthday.
But if I can get it tomorrow, then, at least I’ll be able to install it at midnight at the start of Friday, whereas if I don’t, I won’t be able to until 5pm on Friday. DO YOU SEE MY DILEMMA?
I need it to break street date by tomorrow. So I can pick it up Thursday night, otherwise I have to wait until Saturday 🙁
ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV ASSREV
Less than a week!
BOOM! Well done, sir.
I have not preordered, but I’m excited nonetheless. *Stabby-stabby*
awesome and classy page get…
this receives my patented mark of Ferret Approval
It may be awesome, and classy, but do you know what it’s not? SKYRIM!
Or, alternately, PENICL!
If you like penicl-adas, and getting caught in the rain…
THAT PICTURE IS BURNING MY EYES!
I was gonna go with boring old standard edition from OzGameShop.
But their really slow delivery of Daysex made me kinda wary of using them for big new releases…
And honestly, I’d rather pay a bit more for all the extra goodies in the Animus edition and get it two weeks earlier.
I can’t stop thinking about Uncharted 3.
So far, I don’t mind it when I’m playing – it’s a cut above average, but far from my fave game – but when I’m not playing, I can’t think about anything else!
Are they altering my mind with subliminal something? What’s going on?
SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
Sorry what was the PuppLicks? I wasn’t paying attention.
No no you’re fine mate 🙂
Game deprivation lately?
It’s like when there was nothing in June/July/August and then Juice Shmex Hamburger Rotation (?) came out and it was like the second coming of the great sky wizard’s son.
Remind me to use the phrase ‘sky wizard’ more often.
Mystical zombie is also a favourite.
I think you’re just broken.
Uncharted 3 is a bit of a disappointment for me. It is a good game but I liked the second one much better. Especially because there are points in UC3 that are simply not fun. It’s like they didn’t pay attention to what made the series bad but decided that the few hiccups along the way (fighting against retardedly strong enemies in particular) were what really made the game stand out.
You know me, always here to help.
That was my impression too. I still need to finish it though, maybe it improves. But there were a lot of roadblock-ish sequences where the difficulty spiked and the absolute worst elements of the previous two games seemed to be emphasised twice as hard, and I found myself wondering if in their admitted mad rush to finish, perhaps no one had actually bothered to play-test the game. Or maybe they did, but the only testers were people who were generally far too close to the production of the games.
In general something I’ve noticed with sequels is they often up the difficulty because they assume if you played the previous one, you want it to get harder than that one did. I don’t personally agree with this philosophy at all. Especially with a story-driven game. I expect difficulty to escalate as I progress, but I also expect it to not escalate to the point I want to punch the designers in the face. And Uncharted 3 makes me feel punchy. 🙁
The fact that the aiming is completely broken doesn’t help much though.
Yeah, the difficulty spikes are really bugging me, and I’m playing on EASY 😐
I spent more than twenty minutes in that first damn *SPOILERISH* shipyard area, hiding where they couldn’t get me and incredibly slowly and methodically cleaning everyone out with my pistol, because I found I couldn’t win if I tried to make the fight exciting.
One good thing to offset this is the added emphasis on melee combat. The melee 30 enemies trophy was the first trophy I got in the game, and I’d only shot four guys at that point 😛 but even that has its downside…
Like the circle button (normally evade) being mapped to an attack in melee mode. How many times have I been engaged in combat, had a sniper beam on me, and wanted to roll out of the way…? Answer: a lot. 🙁
The one where you have to swim around all stealthy like until you get spotted and chaos ensues?
Yeah. That sucked.
Got spotted, died. Ended up near the beginning and had already triggered the “everyone shoot at me” flag. Probably meant to be an exciting shooting sequence but it was not.
That’s the one. Took forever to clear, after many frustrating deaths caused by forced melee pushing me out of cover and into the line of sniper fire.
I love how in that sequence, you kill the dicks with the sniper pistols up on the top of the boats, kill some more dudes, and then more snipers magically appear out of thin air on the top of the boats again with no plausible explanation how they arrived there. I assume they were beamed in from the Enterprise and Uncharted 4’s main quest will be tracking down Picard’s lost hair. While riding in a go-cart of course, since Uncharted 4 will be a racing game.
I’m playing on Easy too. I dropped it down halfway into Syria because I was getting so irritated with it. Specifically how bullet spongey the enemies get. The bit that really pissed me off was the point where you’re getting rockets fired at you by multiple guys who are all amazingly accurate, there’s no cover, and the broken aiming means you can’t line up a sniper shot before you need to de-scope and dodge. Died so many times at that bit. So unfun.
It’s a point of pride that I beat this thing on Normal.
Damn my pride.
That bit was HARD. Especially after death when you spawned right into the line of fire *ragequit*
eh single player was a bit lacking, but multiplayer was a f**king riot…
no really… there was a riot
@Harli sorry about the late reply (grumble grumble work grumble) and thanks for the awesome advice :). i like driving so for events in sydney i could definetly make the effort, im leaning towards LoL and CoD although at the moment id prefer Halo or BF over CoD. but i cant seem to find anything behind halo or BF on the event level…maybe im going blind…
That’s cool Di11enger!
If you like driving in for events you should totally come to the next Sydney Gamers League. It’s scheduled for January next year and is going to be huge! They have a multitude of comps for a lot of different PC games.
Competitive Halo is…………. something I hear very little of to be honest. I’ll not say anything else about it.
BF3 might gain some steam eventually (cwatididthair?) but COD on the other hand I’ve already seen one MW3 tournament lined up.. perhaps time will tell.
I know there are bi-weekly DOTA ones here. Just small ones but the people competing are CRAZY good.
LoL is starting to pick up (there’s one this Sunday).
HoN gets the least love. /sob
Although I’d say SC2 gets the most love.
SC2 gets the most love?
You should most definitely jump on that bandwagon. Forget teams and whatnot, go forth and spread creep!
I have considered this before, but in the end my love of team happyfuntimes won out.
I would honestly love to see you and Pyrean mocking the other team in a tournament and seeing how they react.
hmmm might have to stick to LoL hahaha. im not good enough at tekken to even consider it, i thought fighting games would have a much larger fan/competitive base than shooters. (icwatudidthair) what games do you compete in harli? or anyone else for that matter?
I want to get into competitive SC2 but I haven’t really taken the first step and hopped onto the ladder.
Fighting games do have large base here in Sydney (SF and Tekken specifically) but there’s less international stuff to aspire for. I guess that’s the only downside and that’s what is holding the Aussie scene back. Fighting games online is just terrible. It’s downright shite. Nobody in the arcade scene touches that nor takes it seriously.
As for what stuff I compete in, please refer to the clanpage! 🙂
http://forevergamie.com/dyrm-clan-page/
cant get onto the Sydney gamers league site at work 🙁
also you can compete in tf2 and source still??? thats awesome!!!
hmm. looks like SGL is down atm.
TF2 has frequent ladders AND online tournaments going on if you are interested – refer to http://www.ozfortress.com/
I think the SGL website is down atm for an upgrade? It’s been down for a couple of days now.
btw i likez your clan name
Why thank you. It was born from one of our many trolling moments.
hilarious.
that was meant to be “hilarious i assume :)” maybe one day ill get to play against you in tf2 or something but for now im stuck to my slow net and sexbox until just after new years
That’d be fun. Haven’t touched TF2 since last time we attempted a Kotaku pub game, which was fun.
Yeah a good net connection + mid-tier PC is kinda needed if you want to pick up games competitively ;P
I’ve always wanted to play a game competitively but just never had taken the first step to do it. Wouldn’t mind getting into some LoL competitive games just to see how much I suck at the game.
My advice – just do it man 🙂
Those are all team games, so it’s probably best to try and get a group of people together (online or in meatspace) before trying to get into tournaments. Not a major hurdle, just play a fair bit and it should be easy enough to meet people who are keen on joining you.
At least, that’s how my friends did that.
Not too sure.
It’ll end up being whoever shows up in TeamSpeak. We’re rather good at getting things going from in there.
okay awesome… my TeamSpeak Debut
*clears throat and starts to warm up my manly vocal cords*
Oh, so I have to be ingame 🙁 Well I guess that’ll have to wait until I get home them! Thanks, Trjn, you’re Bishing!
I try not to Bish at work. My co-workers tend to not approve of such actions.
If you log into battle.net, go to the SC2 area and mouse over your pic you should see the code.
Jocon
403
Logged onto Battle.net to test that out, it’s saying my code is 635. So if 643 doesn’t work, try that.
It also let me upgrade my US account from starter edition to the full version. So I can play on the NA server now. Yeah!
Nevermind. The 635 is the achivement score thingy I have. I should go get more of that simply so that I don’t get confuzzled :p
Just got an email from GAME saying my Skyrim is packed. Who knew someone could get excited over the fact their game was placed in a box… Also… I haven’t been on here in ages. Its so new and shiny!
I’m really disappointed with the Thomas and Friends theme song.
Then I found this mash with the old one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJpP7ZId-mc
<3
Are brick-and-mortar retail copies of Skyrim on PC steam powered?
I assume ‘yes’, but I thought that surely someone who reads TAY would know something about this obscure title.
fwiw, my question was not so much about street-date-break as me having a preference for things being on steam… I remember a few years ago buying fallout3 and then rebuying goty later on to get it properly integrated in my steam games list.
The system requirements say that a network connection is required for Steam activation. So yes. Don’t bother getting a street date-broken PC copy, you won’t be able to play it.
So.. Skyrim huh? What’s the deal? I see a lot of excitement but I’m just really not sure why.
Not trolling btw, I’m legitimately asking, I know almost nothing about it.
Basically Skyrim is an open-world Fantasy RPG where everyone is very ugly and you fight lots of dragons and the main quest is really boring but the world is very rich and lots of things are always happening to make you more interested in fucking around and not bothering with the quest. I have not played it, but I am fairly confident this will be completely accurate.
Honestly I’ve never really understood the hype either. It seems like it’s a legitimately good game, but they told me the same things about Morrowind and Oblivion as well, and I found them pretty boring. But I ended up buying into the hype and ordered a copy anyway, since way back in the 90s I played and enjoyed Daggerfall a bit. I didn’t really get engaged much by Fallout 3 either though, and I like JRPGs, so maybe it’s just not made for me. I guess I’ll find out in December when my OzGameShop order arrives 🙁
re: everyone is very ugly [this (or similar) appeared in a kotaku article some weeks/months ago, iirc]
http://www.emgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Oblivion-and-Morrowind-vs.-Skyrim-Characters.jpg
Better lit, detailed and animated but still ugly and dirty. Because that’s ‘realistic’.
Hopefully they won’t have that horrible flat dead-eyed stare going on any more though.
so apparently Anonymous managed to force a mexican drug cartel to release a kidnapped member of Anonymous, normally dont care for hackers and such but if its true thats a pretty big feat lol
I heared about that, they treatened to release to the public the names of everyone who sponsored, accepted bribes from, tacitly supported or had dealings with the cartel…
The cartel in question released the hacker, with the counter-threat that if any of that information was released… they’d kill the family of the hacker the kidnapped.
thats insane, i say america sponsors the kid and his whole family to move to the US then Anonymous releases the info anyway*
*probably not a feasible option
Dear TAY,
I finally have Internet at home. Keen to find out who among the masses plays TF2 on a semi-regular basis.
OOH OOH OVER HERE
Also, I stopped playing just before hats launched, and recently got back into it.
Pyro, medic, and engie main, in that order.
I stopped playing recently but I might play a bit more when I’ve got some time off in a few weeks.
Soldier, Pyro, Medic in that order.
Generally Sniper, Pyro, Medic and Demo, though I’m nowhere near as good as I was pre-Mann Co.
If I was getting a better sync I’d set up a TF2 server.
I surely do!
Steam stats tell me my top 3 classes are:
Soldier: 56.4 hrs
Scout: 48.9 hrs
Pyro: 37.7 hrs
I’m normally to distracted with my precious gaming time by LoL to play. But I do enjoy TF2 and play Pyro, Pyro and Pyro in that order.
Count me in
Get one of the admins to post it in the steam group
Heavy > solly > pyro > medic according to my steam stats
With a total of 1:08 minutes as spy
I remember someone (f4ction?) gifted it to me the week before it became free. I’ve spent the most time playing as the Heavy.
aside from rize who almost plays every class, does the sniper not get any love? or is it one of those if you play sniper your a jerk? lol
I tend to rotate the classes a fair bit, but Mr. Snipes is my second-least-frequently used, having clocked in only 11.3 billable hours.
I find a sniper on the opposing team is mostly just a minor annoyance, except if I’m a sniper myself. Then it’s like the snipers vs. the snipers are having their own war until a wild pyro appears in the sniper nest.
When I played, I used to troll Snipers with my Flare Gun.
Setting them on fire from a distance was always amusing. I even won a few Sniper wars (ie both of us shooting at each other) with a Flare Gun.
For the record, that doesn’t mean that I’m good. Quite the opposite in fact, it means the people I beat were terrible :p
Nah, I just prefer support or mid-level assault classes. Also: shotguns.
I don’t have the patience or trigger finger for sniper classes. Even in CS, I’ve pretty much never purposely bought an AWP, I just pick them up from my latest shotgun victim to gift to the team next round.
Sniper is generally a class where if you don’t kill, you’re useless. I know that sounds odd, but think about the other classes. They’re much more prone to assists, etc.
The other part is that if you’re a sniper, you need to be at least as good as the snipers on the other team, cause they’re always after you above all else.
So As exciting as this week is for gaming (A good Sky rimming and A few AssRev’s anyone?) I have to say I’m more excited about seeing The National and Portishead this weekend!!!!!! anyone else going to Harvest?
Your comment made me go and google assassin’s creed for the release date, but I googled Revolutions instead of Revelations. EZIO IS THE ANOMALY.
After fixing that up, turns out its release is the 15th, next week.
Unless you know something I don’t.
*fry-eyes.gif*
I had heard the 11th, Oh well, this is fine, I really just wanted to get rimming and assrevs in the same post :p
Yes they are, after the third album came out in 2009 they are touring here for the first time in 14 years! so Excited!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEARLY A WEEK UNTIL ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3!!!
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!! GONNA GET MY PHOENIX WRIGHT ON!
oh wait, i’m the only person that cares…
Steve-O, I’m not sure I want the answer to this (in fact, I’m doubting myself just typing this), but WTH is your avatar? Is it as NSFW as it looks in thumbnail size??
It’s a grotesquely overweight naked dude at a computer.
Has seen some use as an image macro (I think normally the caption is “a/s/l?”) and isn’t that bad. But there’s no need to sate any curiosity you have :p
It’s safe for work. If you look closely you can see that he’s wearing underwear. It’s just the profile pic I put on my Facebook to stop random people from adding me. I’ve also managed to convince people I used to go to school with and haven’t seen me for ages that it’s me at work.
I just had my best run on Dark Souls. Guess I’d better do that code thingy in the unlikely case that someone’s not as far as me.
V jrag sebz gung obasver gung yrnqf gb gur favcvat fcbg jurer lbh pna fubbg gur Oevqtr Qentba’f gnvy gb trg gur fjbeq, nyy gur jnl gb gur obasver arne gur Oynpxfzvgu va gur Haqrnq Cnevfu (lnl, zl svefg gvzr rira znxvat vg gurer!.) Gura V pbzcyrgryl pyrnerq gur puhepu, vapyhqvat gur fpnel tvabezbhf oynpx xavtug naq gur zntvp-uheyvat obff-vfu thl jvgu nyy gur haqrnq zvavbaf, naq serrvat Xavtug Ynhgerp(fgvyy qba’g xabj vs V fubhyq unir, rrx!) orsber tbvat onpx gb gur obasver arne gur Oynpxfzvgu gb ervasbepr zl jrncbaf naq ersvyy zl Rfghf synfx. Gura V pyrnerq gur puhepu naq vg’f fheebhaqvatf bhg ntnva naq V’z pheeragyl fgnaqvat ng gur ynqqre yrnqvat gb jung V nffhzr vf gur Oryy Tnetblyr Obff onggyr. Nyy jvgubhg qlvat bapr. Gura zl fba jbxr hc.
So next time I get to play I probably won’t be in the zone anymore and I’ll die immediately or something. 😛
Since Dark Souls is still on my to do list, i have no idea what this code thing is. This comment reads like something jumped on your keyboard.
Lovecraftian incantations…. or possibly just rot13 (google should find some decoders). It’s mostly just so people don’t accidentally glance at spoilers while scrolling/skim reading rather than to make the content super secret.
And it works so well. But where were you and this code when everyone was spoiling Deus Ex for me?! 😛
Good going!
V unq ab vqrn nobhg gur oynpxfzvgu (naq nffbpvngrq obasver), naq gung cngu ybbxrq yvxr vg jrag bss gb n arj (ernq: fpnel) nern, fb V raqrq hc gelvat (ntnva naq ntnva) gur eha sebz gur qentba-gnvy-vfu obasver guebhtu gb gur puhepu (gur ybat jnl, abg guebhtu gur tngr), naq guebhtu gur puhepu jvgubhg nal obasver-ntr… V qvrq gbb znal gvzrf, qrpvqrq V jnagrq gb tb naq qvr va n arj nern, naq jrag qbja gur cngu naq sbhaq gur obasver. V sryg irel fvyyl.
I probably wouldn’t have ventured that way as soon as I did if I didn’t see a message on the ground telling me it was there.
I doubt it. I do have a slight advantage in having seen my husband do some of it though. And this is also a game that patience and my wimpy tendencies hold me in good stead. I tend to wander around everywhere very slowly, holding my shield up in front of me.
But anyway, that was the first time I’ve ever had a run like that, I usually die fairly frequently.
What’s up playa’s?
I really wish I’d brought more lunch to work, or that the food vending machine accepted credit cards like the drinks vending machine does. Instead I just took advantage of the free fruit and the fact that it’s cake day 😀
Anything interesting happen that I’ve missed (fingers crossed for Skyrim Street Date)?
I’ve been on today! And yesterday, too… That’s news, right? I’ve just been sitting here, refreshing the EB facebook page and Kotaku main page, hoping for Skyrim to break its street date…
I’ve had When I’m Grandmaster stuck in my head for a bit so I decided to listen to it.
Somewhat glad I used headphones because paying attention to the lyrics, I realised just how convoluted the slang in the SC2 community is. What’s worse is I understood it all. So it’s a good thing I didn’t have to try and explain what a bonjwa is to my co-worker who would struggle with the idea of “gg”.
Straw poll:
Have any taybies read the Mass Effect 3 spoilers? I wanted to stew for a bit (and Bioware’s forums are a cauldron of insanity at the moment).
ROT13 (spoilers for ME3!)
Zbfg bs gur fgbelyvar ybbxrq ernyyl tbbq naq npgvba-cnpxrq, naq gur inevrgl bs ybpngvbaf vf vzcerffvir.
V jnf ernyyl naablrq jvgu fbzr bs gur nccneragyl haceriragnoyr punenpgre qrnguf, rfcrpvnyyl gur pubvpr orgjrra Yvnen naq Xnvqna/Nfuyrl. Vg whfg frrzrq ernyyl haarprffnel zrybqenzn. Cyhf gur snpg gung X / N gehfgrq Hqvan – HQVAN! – bs nyy crbcyr znqr zr jbaqre jung gur jevgref jrer guvaxvat.
Bs pbhefr, vg’f irel whzoyrq naq gurer’f n punapr ybgf bs vg jnf punatrq orsber eryrnfr.
How is this language translated? Just for arguments sake if I want to make another spoiler contented post about DE:HR or something without being a douche to TAY?
ROT13 = rotate the letters 13 places in the alphabet. Just google ROT13 and the first result will be a translator and it goes both ways (plain text to ROT13 will become plain text again when you do it again).
@Harli: Hahahaha wait no! Not everyone! :'(
I should have said everyone… except the guy from the ending. Who is Harli. Who is a girl, not a guy. So that girl from the ending…
Awwww sheeeeet.
Every time he messes up, give him a reassuring pat on the back.
With a rake.
Or an angry dog…
Kotaku AU powers that be: can we maybe have some spoiler tags or something to remove the need for lovecraftian ritual text in TAY etc? I’m worried I’ll accidentally hit the right incantation to summon some kind of lurking horror that may consume our minds and drive us all insane.
My praise solely for using the term lovecraftian.
Yeah, a way to hide spoiler text without resorting to gibberish might be handy. It’s hard to copy and translate ROT13 on a phone, etc.
Full disclosure:
I… I… have not played any Mass Effect properly.
*hides from projectile tomatoes*
I have both on steam, and have played the first hour or so of the first one.
I currently have MANBAT, Dark Souls and various pile-o-shame fillers to consume, as well as various pre-xmas releases that are going to bloat that pile larger.
With the amount that people go on about the series, I expected the first hour or so of the first one to grab me a lot more than it did. I feel like I’m the only person not all “zomg <3 mass effect".
Is the first hour or so of the first one generally considered to not be that engrossing?
Am I the only Mass Effect ignoramus around?
YES.
…I mean no.
I was actually pretty hesitant when I bought ME1. Basically just after it had come out, spotted it on the shelf a couple of times before deciding on buying it (purely because Bioware) Turned out I loved it. I’d say you should give it a little more time, and a little more love, and see how you go.
Yeah, the first few hours to ME 1 is fairly slow.
I honestly couldn’t blame you if you decided to turn off.
Agreed. Replaying the Citadel again and again makes me want to kick something.
But it gets much better.
I too am a Mass Effect Ignoramus, dont own it probly wont play it unless my friend loans it too me
Mass Effect 1 is very much a slow burn. The opening is not very exciting really, since it’s basically an extended tutorial mission followed by a long RPG section on the Citadel. Well, it can be short, but if you want to get the most out of the game you’ll do a ton of questing around there. Plus you need to pick up your initial crew and stuff. Stick with it until you can leave the citadel and see if it’s still not grabbing you. If not, skip it, there’s no shame in not liking games other people do.
Can I ask whether you played Knights of the Old Republic and if so, what you thought of it? Failing that, have you played any of Bioware’s other games? Mass Effect is a lot like KotOR and Jade Empire, from the gameplay right down to the actual game structure. Being deliberately vague, you have a main plot mission at the start to act as a tutorial and set up the world etc, introduce most of your characters and so on. Then it opens out, you’re given most of the galaxy to explore at your own pace. You can travel to distant star systems, hunt sidequest stuff, explore new worlds (I loved this, everyone else hated it) and generally faff about. Your main quest breaks into three sub-quests, and once you finish two of them, a fourth planet opens up with an extra quest bit. Finish all four subquest areas and the endgame opens. I actually recommend doing as much side content as you can early on, because it has a sort of dynamic difficulty where the amount and difficulty of enemies ramps up relative to your level, but gear drops don’t scale as well since you need a decent amount of stuff to be fully equipped. If you rush into the main mission stuff, you probably will hit a difficulty spike that is very, very hard to get over.
For me, I was sucked in right from the start, but Mass Effect basically ticked all my buttons. ME2 may be more to your liking if you’re not a big RPG person. It has far better characters overall, the entire cast is a lot more interesting (and most of the first game’s interesting cast carries over anyway) and a lot of the gameplay cruft got taken away. Unfortunately IMO it lost some of its atmosphere too, as well as possibly streamlining too far. It’s a much more accessible game but some of the magic is lost.
*pulls up Bioware wikipedia page*
I have played no KotoR, no Dragon Age, no Jade Empire.
I guess I’ll keep it in mind if I’m getting frustrated with my current gaming focus and want to ragequit it for a while for something a bit different. Given the what-you-do-in-ME1-affects-ME2 thing, I would be very hesitant to jump straight to the second.
You can jump straight to two or three, and it predefines those things for you, but you still miss out on some stuff. Plus, the obvious disadvantage of not having a say in how the story plays out (i.e. if you play your cards right you can kill off a lot of NPCs)
Skip ME1 maybe. ME2 might work better for you. All the platforms now have the “Mass Effect: Genesis” interactive comic thing they developed for the PS3 release of ME2, which is basically a comic book that summarizes the first game, allowing you to make the same key decisions and then creates a save game you can load into ME2 to make it aware of what you chose.
Just read a pretty interesting article about Skyrim and a rumored new race for DLC. Seeing as everyone is a bit uptight about spoilers:
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Guys – i have been really busy at work and uni – so unable to get on here until now – but i have something realllly important to go over with you guys – but can’t go into detail here
The team at kotaku are awesome – so this christmas i want us all to give back.
Email me if you want in – and i hope you all do.
Spread the word – the more people who help – the better we can make this.
troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail(dotcom)
when i get time i’ll set up a private forum for this.
If you enjoy kotaku as much as i do, this is your chance to show how much all the effort the gang put in is appreciated
As a side thing, maybe people would be interested in arranging a TAY Secret Santa?
Possible, for sure.
But i’d like to see this come to fruition before anything else – we ALWAYS get stuff from this place – whether it be comps, kudos or even the enjoyment of EXCELLENT articles – and the team never ask for anything in return (i mean it is their job, afterall lol) – but i think they deserve a tangible token of our gratitude.
Well, looks like the PPSL kerfuffle continues.
Here’s an apology from the guy who caused this chaos. The best bits are the responses that point out how he’s failed to address pretty much anything. It all boils down to “the money went missing”, which isn’t a great excuse when you’ve got a US$12,900 debt hanging over the head of two subordinates who had to be bailed out by someone that was flown in to help the event.
Someone tried to host a major tournament with big name players, the best casters and the backing of IGN (who recently hosted IPL3, one of the best produced SC2 tournaments).
He didn’t know what the hell he was doing. Everything broke.
Ok.. i have to ask…
HARLI – IS YOUR AVATAR A HAPPY PENIS-PIG HYBRID??
IT’S VERY PENIS LIKE!
No one… NO ONE can make classy page starters like ME!!1
Really, though. It’s exactly what i’d imagine a penis-pig to look like if they existed.
Also – Happy penis-pigs are oddly heartwarming.
It’s like bacon, only MUCH more erotic
I just realised..
IMAGINE if summer sex, insead of smelling sweaty and musky, smelt like BACON COOKING!!!
My GOD it would be amazing!!!
BABY BOOM!! EVERYONE WOULD BE DOING IT FOR THE JOY OF SEX AND LOVELY BACON SMELLS!!!
What about the vegetarians?
So I just finished costume quest and trying to work out why I liked it so much.
It was sort of amusing at times and combat was basically just a string of quicktime events. In the end I think it just came down to the fact I am a big kid and the concept of unleashing a child imagination in battle got me through.
Has anybody else played it through and if you enjoyed it why?
I’ve seen a friend play it a little bit. It looked like it had an appealing art-style and the combat seemed reminiscent of the old Mario RPG where the quick-time button events weren’t essential but could make your moves more powerful. I haven’t purchased it myself but it looks like something I would enjoy.
I enjoyed it – it does an ok job of not needing the grindgrindgrind that I typically associate with that sort of game, and the art style is clean. It’s fairly short, but I’m ok with that!
Now… we just need to convince Double Fine to do a sequel to Psychonauts… >_>
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Guys – i have been really busy at work and uni – so unable to get on here until now – but i have something realllly important to go over with you guys – but can’t go into detail here
The team at kotaku are awesome – so this christmas i want us all to give back.
Email me if you want in – and i hope you all do.
Spread the word – the more people who help – the better we can make this.
troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail(dotcom)
when i get time i’ll set up a private forum for this.
If you enjoy kotaku as much as i do, this is your chance to show how much all the effort the gang put in is appreciated
Figuring out why I am receiving missed call text messages when my phone never rang. I think Telstra is on smack!
I did a drawring! Its Ryan Gosling in Drive. Because hes so dreamy… http://sughly.deviantart.com/art/Drive-268040912
*sigh*
as a massive fan of fighters and capcom.. i get really annoyed at all the “Super ultimate marvel vs capcom 3 arcade edition 2012” jokes…
yeah i can see how people see it as a rip off or whatever, but i really like the fact that i can still continue playing my favorite fighting game with a shit ton of new features that extend the length of the game.
sure you can call capcom “cashcom” or whatever, and say that all they care about is money, but i’ll defend them on decisions like these forever, because what’s so terrible about them putting out a similar, but also very different game, for cheaper than a normal game?
and i hate to be that guy, but COD and FIFA do this every year, and charge full price, but no one complains…
anyway, yeah i’m just sick of it,thats all…
(also, james mac, don’t think that it’s all because of your comment before that started this, you were just sort of the trigger that made me want to talk about this :P)
“what’s so terrible about them putting out a similar, but also very different game, for cheaper than a normal game?”
Because one could argue that with the previous games they’ve done this with, the additions have never/barely justified paying lower-tier price games for what many perceive to be able to be bundled as DLC.
People (we) complain about CoD plenty, and only soccer/football nutters buy FIFA games annually, and you’ll find man of the non-nutters have already gone through the arguments and now choose to ignore them.
12 new characters, an overhauled system, a new game mode…
considering that the price of DLC characters is usualy about 5 dollars, to get every character would very much be the same as the average price for a new game in america…
but i understand what you are saying, people do complain about COD, however what annoys me is that the guys who like COD enjoy these new games, yet so many Marvel Vs Capcom fans chucked a big hissy fit about ultimate, so really i should be more angry at the community, than just the general public…
also, looking over my comment, i probably came out as a dick about COD and FIFA, i’d like to set it straight that i’m not a COD or FIFA hater, i see how others like it, the games just aren’t for me
I’m not offended… this was actually the first time I made a joke based on that theme.
That said, I’ve heard such jokes before… and every joke has an element of truth to it.
Having seen the latest Skyrim trailer… Notch’s new game is a major graphical improvement over his last one.
Have fun \o/ also should see if you can spot one of those vending machines that sells
hot canned corn! Yeah you all thought I was gonna say something else perverted, i’m not like that :O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsfUbbxir9g&feature=related
I don’t know whether to laugh or to rock back and forth in the corner…
Oh the internet where nothing is sacred. But this website I just stumbled across some how is made of win!
http://kittiesntitties.tumblr.com/
Pictures of cute cute kitties & titties! Oh yeah it is NSFW, so yeah. I’m full of NSFW this week D:
I’m at work, I saw the word kittens and clicked on the link then was like Woah!! so not SFW! then I read the rest of the url and realised I should have noticed that. Then I read the rest of the post and realised I really should have noticed that.
I’m not a girl and my bred isn’t buttered on that side so I might not be the best judge but… did someone replace cute with ‘generally ugly’?
Nope. Not ugly at all, they’re just normal guys. But everyone’s cute when they’re holding a kitteh!
Ok, maybe ugly wasn’t the right word. I’m not ‘I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-butter’ guy myself. I was thinking as in the standard for pictures of thins that are supposed to be hot on the internet. Then again it did say cute, not hot.
Not sure why I’m putting this much thought about guys. I guess I need something to distract me from Skyrim.
OMG! SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM!!!
I spent way longer then I could reasonably explain (that being any time more than about 10 seconds) on that site…
So did I my friend, so did I.
I spent long enough to see and be mildly disturbed by a picture of a baby with a cat in amongst all those nekkid girl pics.
I spent long enough to find the picture of a cute chick with a great pussy!
I should clarify, that it was a baby duck (we’re pretending that it’s a chicken for the purpose here, but most people don’t seem to know what baby chickens look like), and a baby cat.
Procrastoonation, brought to you by the letter Z and the TAY member Chuloopa! http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/107
Nice!! Very cool collaboration… and a great punch line I would not have gotten if I had not just heard the word spoken aloud in Uncharted 3 not three minutes ago. 😛
man… i f**king love these guys:
http://www.youtube.com/user/dayjoborchestra#p/u/5/l7X6Orlc73g
may be considered NSFW but who works this hour anyway?
I do 🙁
On the bright side I finish in 20 min
On the dark side the holidays I thought were starting after tonight are now starting next Saturday.
This looks more like a nipple than a cupcake with a piggy
So… at least two weeks until ps3 owners can get Daytona USA…
Dear Sega,
Xbox users in the PAL region are already enjoying Daytona USA, so why couldn’t the game be released on both consoles at the same time?!
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
Oh, right. You can’t hear me because you’re too busy counting the wads of cash given to you for all those half-baked Sonic games that were churned out from 2003- 2009.
It’ll be the last game I ever get from you.
Bite me.
Crazyguy1990.
http://drinkify.org/alice%20cooper
Oh man this website is awesome! The Motorhead drink is so incorrect!
OK, this is annoying. Too excited about Skyrim to sleep. My copy of BF3 arrived today so I gave up trying to sleep and installed it.
Decided to have a go at the campaign to get my eye in. I’ve now died 6 times at the first enemy.
Apparently, my guy doesn’t know how to shoot.
I can run around the train, I can right click to aim, I can crouch, but I can’t shoot. I’ve even tried pressing r to reload in case the gun you pick up of the guy that gets knocked out in the cut scene isn’t loaded. Won’t let me load.
Tried rebinding the fire key to left mouse button (it was already on that) still can’t shoot. The first instructions that come to screen is lmb to shoot, rmb to aim. I’m assuming it does want me to shoot this guy but I can’t do it!
Trust me to buy the only copy of battlefield 3 where the main character is a pacifist!
Worked it out. Apparently you can’t play with a joystick plugged in as battlefield then decided to ignore most of the keyboard/mouse bindings. Good thing there is nothing in battlefield a joystick would be useful for such as plains or helicopters… oh wait…
Gorzilla, I have not had that problem with BF3. Took me awhile to realize that you need to plug in or turn the controller on before launching the game or it won’t recognise the controller. I use the controller to fly choppers and jets. I use an xbox 360 controller and a wireless connector.
It was a joystick rather then a controler. The game did seem to recognise it the problem was it then stopped recognising all the keyboard and mouse commands.
Unlike a game pad it would be really weird to play the fps parts with the joystick.
There is sooooo much stuff i want from think geek… but you know what?
The freight charges to get it to Australia is just bloody insane!
I just bought my wife her birthday present from there. I find if you get enough stuff the freight actually works out fairly reasonable based on the savings. Think I paid about $4 an item which while expensive is still much cheaper than trying to find the equivalent item at one of the boutique stores.
Humunga Stache – so worth it
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/pets/d5e5/
Just wait until they take it down and you’re refreshing an empty page. Then they put it back up and then you have to work and then you’re 3-4 pages behind. *sob*
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I agree.
Woo!
Got my copy ready to go. Now I just need to motivate myself enough for work to avoid calling in sick tomorrow…
Morning all. Hows that weather in other parts of the country? It’s sunny & all that jazz here!
What the. That’s just well facepalm worthy. I can’t recall last time I used a cheat code in a video game.
Capcom games as far as I remember rarely used cheat codes, they were always bonuses unlocked after beating the game.
That said: WTF
I’m going to pretend that’s what it is, because if I said I’d just google searched godzilla and picked the image of him and King Kong fighting that’d be boring.
Normally yes, but as this came from a ginger, I am guessing all others are “those People”.
I quite like the idea of being a “those people”. I just imagine some fancy party where people are discussing something when the comment “those people” come up, I then stand up and wave to indicate who they are talking about 🙂
Or maybe a “they” people. People always say; “they say it is going to rain” or “they say SKYRIM! will break street date”. I can then act all smart and prophetic as I am one of “they” who can magically predict things.
Wait, what were we talking about?
No It’s worse than that, the… you know…. *uncomfortable eyes*
…
…
*Hushed voice*
Teamspeakers
Ohhh, right I see then. Those who shall not be named, in other words.
DARK SOULS ARRIVED!
FINALLY.
After over a month of waiting (I hate waiting by the way) the game has finally arrived from TheHut.com, via Germany. Seriously, the box has Deutsche Post stickers on it.
Well that explains the delay at least, and it justifies why I will never shop through TheHut or Zavvi again*
*unless it’s some $10 game that I can’t get anywhere else that I can just to throw on my backlog and don’t mind waiting a month for
My Dark Souls from Zavvi had Deutsche Post stickers on it too. It arrived within normal Zavvi postage time. Guess you were just unlucky.
But yes, if you’re wanting to play a game any earlier than 3 weeks after you buy it, probably best not to buy it from Zavvi.
As I tried to sleep last night, I was awoken by a massive lightening storm.
Across the grand vastness of the sky lightening flashed and pulsed.
I stared, transfixed by the beauty of this raw spectacular.
Then I began to notice something, there almost seemed to be a pattern to the ferocious display of nature.
I took up a notepad and recorded each strike, amazed by what I discovered.
The lightening was striking in morse code!
With equal parts of fear and excitement I translated what the lightening code was saying.
SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
It was a Red Dragon Disciple?
I quite literally couldn’t sleep last night. I really hope it breaks street date because I’m hoping that if I’ve played it for at least a little while I’ll get some sleep tonight.
Christ. Can’t a Valve post on Facebook just for once go without the deadshits asking for episode 3, they they construct their sentences looks to me like they wouldn’t even understand the Half-Life universe anyway.
I love the Half-Life series & I want to see the third installment in an episode or fully fledged game. But I don’t see the point of asking/demanding every 5 minutes to hear something about the development or whatever of the game.
I know it will come when Valve is ready with it, nothing more.
tl;dr, sick of people whining about HL: Episode 3 on unrelated Valve Facebook postings.
All I read from this comment was Half Life 3, so I’m assuming you’re posting to tell everyone that Half Life 3 broken street date 😀
Yep! This is correct 😀 I will be taking the next week off to replay all the Half-Life series games including Blue Shift & Opposing force!
Waaaaaait! I hope that is on PC brother! If so why pay the 100 bucks at EB, when Valve will sell it to you on Steam for 50!
Probably $45 with a 10% pre-order discount, like with Portal 2.
But I like having game cases/boxes 🙁
I do as well, I did buy The Orange Box retail for that sole reason!
But I can’t resist Valve tempting me with their awesome pricing 🙁
Jokes aside, considering how smart Valve’s games are they do have some real dumbsh*ts in their fanbase (I guess all games do really).
At a convention a few years ago Valve were having a Q&A and one guy gets up and asks ‘Is the cake really a lie?’.
He actually asked that.
He got up in front of everyone, many who probably had some great questions to ask the one of the greatest developers in the world, and he spouts an old meme at him.
*facepalm*
I agree, for a company that has an amazing portfolio, they have some the most moronic fans I have come across.
I blame Left 4 Dead & TF2 for all the idiots, as much as I love both games, god do both those games have some real wankers in them.
And seriously they asked that shit? Valve already answered that back in like what, 08? They even told us where the cake came from & what kind of cake it was.
Hah, yeah.
What was Yahtzee’s only complaint about Portal? That it created such an annoying fanbase or something?
Though I feel it’s partially a testament to Valve’s… I don’t know, humour and interaction with their consumers. Their laid back attitude to things and ability to forge such brilliant announcements (by which I mean most of the posts on the TF2 blog) is great. They feel less like a developer and business, and almost a bit more relatable, especially when the CEO gets random emails and he emails back with a free hat or something.
It’s a bit of a wacky business relationship they’ve forged with us, so much so that someone would ask them such a terrible question, but if that’s the price paid for them being likeable, then it’s not so bad I suppose.
It’s Facebook. This is the place where if a band posts anything, no matter what (even things like hey, one of members has cancer) the comments are full of “when are you coming to….. ?” and “OMG, you’re singer is teh hot and I want there babbies!11!”.
Yeah I mean jesus christ they even invade the DoTA2 crap just to scream for HL3. I mean come on. You don’t want to get involved with the DoTA2 crowd man.
Thanks to Strange posting stuff by Alestorm the other night, me & my mates now love their hilarious Pirate Metal music!
You sure did buddy 😀 *gives sticker* I only crack out the stickers for those who truly deserve them!
Oops wrong one! here have this one instead, champ 😀
#1 mum??
NEATO!
Hey! That’s MY sticker! 😛
Calm down! There’s enough for all, I buy in bulk! \o/
But…but…we can’t ALL be the “#1 Mum” can we?!
I believe in equality!
Happy Mother’s Day \o/
There’s another Brisbane-based pirate metal band called Scuurvy. I would highly recommend checking them out.
The DBZ Barchetta is a beautiful guitar, even more so when it’s been through their custom shop :O
Nah, it’s the initials of the company’s CEO Dean B. Zelinsky, he was the founder of Dean Guitars, which has now gone to hell since he left.
When i first read this i thought
“Dragon Ball Z Brochetta? As in the yummy itallian pizza bread??”
I clicked the link – and not only was it nothing to do with DBZ – but it was a guitar and completely inedible!
I think I’m slowly turning to the dark side…
By that I mean I’m slowly turning away from the PC and becoming an xbox gamer :'(
Okay I missed a whole page of TAY. You guys are on fire.
@Chuloopa
No, my display pig is not a penis-pig-monster incarnate. It is in fact a Chansey. Yes. The pokemon.
CHANSEY!!!!!!!!!
http://en.gravatar.com/forevergamie
Here’s a full res pic!
I don’t care what you guys say its chansey and i will love her forever and ever and ever
Nah, I only played up to Fire red yo. oh wait, Skarmory was in fire red aye?
I even made an pink pokemon team that was affectionately dubbed as “the most annoying team on Earth” by my friends. Blissey, Clefable, Wigglytuff etc. etc.
It depends, really.
If you need to sit there and stall for, say, Toxic, she’s the much better option.
So I got an email from EBGames saying my order of Skyrim has been ordered and the money has been taken out of my bank account … even though I cancelled my order through them.
I swear, theres something wrong with them at EB. Must be in the water.
So, having recovered somewhat from last nights SC2 i can honestly say that:
woooow i sucked.
i mean i had an incredible amount of fun… Mainly my TS debut, though sorry i disappointed Bish, my lack of distinguishable accent and no intro song obviously brought everything down a notch… i will make sure to make more Swedish Chef references when i log on next time…
so SC2… monobattles was sooo much fun… i mean i constantly had the lowest score and always made sure that the team i was on lost… but YAY for consistency right?
Sorry pixel, the only strategy I know in SC2 is to rush. But hey, it worked! I crippled Trjn and destroyed you! ZERGLING RUSH FTW!
hey i still had a blast, i don’t care if i lose… I WAS INVOLVED \o/
lol… clearly i have to train just a little bit on my macro skills… cause you know… it is bad… very bad…
yes i am one of those that like playing as Terran, and i would like to get better at them… or the Toss, but terran are good allrounders… well when you can utilise them properly… which i can’t…
I was already crippled simply by virtue of being me :p That was really unnecessary.
Hell, I was mono-ing Phoenixes. Phoenixes! And you ran zerglings into my expansion?
Dick :p
I got distracted by LoL. Then I got distracted by dinner. Then I got distracted by ‘desert’ if you know what I mean. My girlfriend goes on shift tonight so I had to get one in, but that also means that I’m free for the next 4 nights to do whatever I want – LoL, TF2, SC2 plx?
i think the suggestion of ALT-TAB’bing between the 3 similar to last night would work perfectly well *nods*
FIRE FIRE FIRE PYRO FIRE FIRE FIRE PYRO FIRE FIRE FIRE
SO HOY RIGHT NOW
sure, i can do TF2… i have at least played this game for *looks at watch* 5 MINUTES…
I’ll be trying to play again tonight. If we don’t do FFA monobattles on Kulas Extreme, we can find something equally retarded to do.
I’m up for anything that doesn’t result in me being dead in the first five minutes.
We could always just do vs bot games, because the bots pretty much put in one attack around the 7 minute mark. It isn’t a thing, that’s just how bots work.
Or we can just play each other. Seeing as I play Protoss and suck quite badly at it, any attack before the 5 minute mark would literally be a Zealot and a Stalker just cruising through town, seeing what’s going on.
STOP SAYING YOU SUCK…
it makes me feel… bad… somehow… mainly because i manage to lose to you within the first 5 minutes… so if you suck, what do i do then? 😛
Don’t worry. I do suck. You might suck somewhat more, or somewhat less.
The only way to change it is to play more. I just have a reasonable amount of game knowledge because I watch streams fanatically and tune in to Day[9] almost religiously.
Methinks just playing more will solve both of our sucking problems.
BTW, Huk was amazeballsingly awesome in the GSL last night. So good to see some Protoss love there.
i don’t care if i lost to that, that was FARKING EPIC… all you saw was void rays… void rays covering my base… void rays leaving… no base… all in one smooth movement… it was amazing
Reminds me of that video where some guy was playing zerg with like a hundred Overlords.
MY ARMY WILL BLOT OUT THE SUN!
Then when the Overlords left, the base was destroyed. Trololol.
FOR THE SWARM… yes that was amazing
lawl!
THEN WE WILL FIGHT IN THE DARK
It was funny cause as Trjn started to attack me my oven timer went off so I just left, got food, came back to find I had won and then a-clicked the corner of the map and proceeded to eat dinner.
400 supply of (presumably) fully upgraded Void Rays beats 400 supply of fully upgraded Stalkers.
Who knew?
Pony-Rays to be sure.
So imba.
To anyone thinking about upgrading their PS3 HDD, don’t!
My 500GB took 10 hours to back up, then another 10 hours to restore. And the restore KEEPS crashing!
🙁
I know 🙁 My new PS3 arrives on Friday. I don’t want to think about what’s going to be wrong with it.
Looks like BitMob has taken up the lance against that EB Games ad as well.
The editor’s note is particularly hyperbolic: “Tristan exposes an extraordinarily sexist marketing campaign launched by EBGames in Australia. Never mind the retailer’s audacity in excluding a significant percentage of the market…the ad itself looks like a student film.”
It’s just a badly written ad. This overreaction is somewhat disturbing.
I’m starting to think a lot of the offended responses are people like you who would normally be saying “meh” but figure that because there is an outrage, they should be outraged.
Steve-O’s Epic Trip Part One!
I started off the trip at Mackay Airport doing what I do second best – drinking beer. This continued on the plan and at Brisbane airport, where we were informed that our
flight had been delayed by several hours. Several beverages later, we stumbled onto the plane and arrived at Sydney, where we stayed at the Coogee Bay Hotel. The place was
pumping for a Thursday night, so we joined the throng of revelers, meeting some very nice (who weren’t actually that ‘nice’) girls who invited my group back to their room for
‘further partying’. I was hungry though, and had to make the choice between going to the girl’s room or the kebab store across the road. Choices, choices – One had meat
hanging out of both sides, stinks and you only eat it when you’re drunk. The other was a Turkish delicacy. I chose the latter and crashed in my own room.
Friday! Friday! Gotta’ get downtown on Friday for it was the day of the first Sydney Meat. I crammed in some breakfast, unsuccessfully attempted to interpret the bus route information
and finally called for back-up from Crabman. He kindly offered to pick me up, and 2 whiskeys later I was in the car with the man himself and Dawdle, attempting to sneak a
heart-starter here and there from my hipflask in-between conversation. We then went to a little noodle shop where I ordered the Bukkake Noodles. Imagine my disappointment when
I was informed that there wasn’t even a circle, let alone a girl with daddy issues. The meal however was delicious and I washed it down with some cow-piss whilst we were joined
by Bish (You’re right Rocketman, he’s not normal). I even attempted to eat with chopsticks, and succeeded in the end…after managing to somehow poke myself in the eye with them.
With our Wizard of Oz sized crew complete, Dawdlethy, Crabtin, BishCrow and the Awsomely Deve-o Lion (that’s me!) skipped down the pink-dot road towards Galaxy World. We made
tracks, shot some stuff and once we were done sharing needles we even played some games. DISCLAIMER: NO DRUGS WERE ACTUALLY INJECTED. We were soon joined by the good ‘scotish’
doctor, Dr. Wat?, the Pessimist of Anonymous identity and Harli, who surprised me by not being fat. Well mostly not fat. After some awkward introductory conversation where I realised that I was the
only person there who was not Asian or wearing glasses (I AM NOT A MINORITY!) we all decided to go on a bit of a pub-crawl. Harli got drunk after a few drinks (2 drinks Bish! 2 Drinks!)
and decided she wanted some ‘hot nuts’ at one of the pubs. We then moved on met up with the Effluvium Boy at a seedy, deviant-looking Irish pub. I felt right at home, but unfortunately
we didn’t stay long as Doc Wat decided to dribble alcohol down/through his chin and Harli was pelvic thrusting Dawdle.
We made our way to a Japanese restaurant, where I was to try proper Ramen for the first time. There was a bit of a line-up outside so I took the time to go relieve myself at a
‘nearby’ toilet. I got lost. And distracted. 20 minutes and a failed attempt of a photo with a midget later, I ran into the others who guided me back to the restaurant. It may
have been the poorly designed layout or the consumption of the whiskey in my pocket but I was having a hard time maintaining my sense of direction. After being seated, we all
ordered Ramen (except for Bish who is a Fatty and ordered something like 17 different meals, and yes Rocketman, they included rice). AP and Doc Wat added copious amounts of
chilli to their meals, which had my eyes watering just from the fumes. I bet Johnny Cash was playing on repeat the next day, hey fellas? The Ramen was delicious, and I would consider
flying down to Sydney just to eat it again (and also enjoy the fine company of the TAYbies).
The next stop was, lo and behold, another pub. Everyone bantered casually whilst Harli and I stabbed the Mexican’s wife – Tequila! A few more shots followed and everyone was
getting merry but unfortunately the lovely Dawdle had to leave. Much sadness befell the group as the shining light of the party left the pub. Oh and AP and Crabman left too.
Although a few of us were just warming up, we decided not to risk the dance-floor (me-thinks the guys were just scared of my sweet, sweet dance moves) and instead decided to go
do something that we could all agree on – play games. We found a 24 hour LAN cafe, pretty devoid of life except for some more Asians and a fat guy with a huge bowl of noodles
who probably lived there. Flu, Dr. Wat and Bish entertained themselves whilst I took it upon myself to do what I do best (remember drinking is what I do second best) – Crush a poor girls dignity at 4 in the morning whilst
we were both intoxicated. Get your minds out of the gutter – The DotA challenge was on!
Harli playing as Fuzzy the Ursa Warrior, a close range carry who could melt faces in a few hits, which she did a couple of
times early in the match. I was playing as the Viper, a poison-dragon thing who can attack at a range. I eventually wisened up to Harli’s melee prowess and took to harassing her
from range. After I noticed she couldn’t actually hear my taunts through her headphones, I decided to do it in game as well. The game was close, but a couple of key item
selections by yours truly turned the tides, with Harli dieing a few times as she came into melee range to rape my face. Eventually I managed to kill her and pushed through the turret
and barracks giving myself super creeps. I could see the sadness in her eyes and the deflation of her ego, so I let her kill me one more time before I came back and finished
of her ancient. All I could say afterwards was ‘Oh Harli….’. With our epic match over, and Harli’s soul crushed, we joined the others in the minecraft server.
I used my admin powers to make penises and troll everyone, including locking poor Flu in a iron bar rape cage and flooding it with water. Unless you’re reading this FatShady,
in which case I was awsome and helped everyone lots with my admin power! Finally the time ticked over to a bit past 5, and we decided to call it quits. The guys kindly escorted
me until I found a taxi and I arrived at Coogee Beach at 5:30, with the sun just beginning to rise. I decided to be a bit of a romantic and sat down on the beach to watch it. The
next thing I know I was being poked and prodded by a early beach runner who, by the smell of me must have thought that I was dead. Embarrassed, I stumbled back to my hotel room
and crashed, the first epic meat of the epic trip behind me. I had little over an hour sleep before I was woken up to get ready in order to board the PNO Cruise, but it was worth it.
Thanks to all the guys who came to meet me, and a special thanks to those who ‘came’ to ‘meat’ me. Crabman/Dawdle, thanks again for the ride. I probably would have ended up
somewhere random like Maitland if I tried to get there myself. Also special thanks to Harli, who I believe organized the meat itself.
” I bet Johnny Cash was playing on repeat the next day, hey fellas?”
0.o
*twitch*
BAHAHAHAHAHA
“and it burns, burns, burns,
the ring of fire,
the ring of fire”
Seriously, that fat guy.
He looked waaaaaay too comfortable for someone at a LAN cafe at 4AM.
Maybe he had a sleeping bag too.
And a cuddle-pillow or whatever they’re called. You know, the ones with the semi-naked anime chicks and the white stains all over them.
Honestly, who eats noodles with mayonnaise.
Also, I promise next year when you come down I’ll be off my restricted license and have drinks with you, Steve-O. Girly drinks (Alize!), but drinks nonetheless.
Alize is excellent, I won’t hear no dissin’ of it. And Pez liked it!
Alize, lemonade and some other nonsense makes a cocktail that tastes like gummi bears.
My friends and I discovered this by accident and then in Thailand we found out that it was a real cocktail. But we forgot the name because it was buy one get one free and we had a lot of free cocktails…
What, I’m not dissing it.
I quite enjoy the ones that taste like soft drink.
Mostly because I like sugar.
Also I saw an ad for alcoholic Ginger Beer the other day. But Bundaberg is pretty cool, so I am content with sticking to that.
… COOL STORY BISH
Blue Alize with a shot of vodka and topped up with lemonade. It’s good. And on the plus side it glows bright blue under UV light.
Sounds healthy.
I actually tried one of them and it was quite tasty. My only concern is the alcohol content. I can’t really talk about girly drinks though because I spent the majority of my time on the cruise drinking cocktails with umbrellas and pineapple hanging off the sides.
see, I have taste!
There are photos to go with this as well, but they’re on my laptop at home. Will Upload them tomorrow.
Now Harli, what photos could I possibly have that you would consider ‘incriminating’? Do you mean the ones with the hot nuts and you licking the DotA poster?
Oh is that all? That’s fine ;P
Such an Epic. Night.
Some things I feel warrant a mention..
I WAS NOT DRUNK AFTER 2 DRINKS.
Thank you for the addition of the rape cage in my minecraft house guys, it’s very decorative and makes an excellent conversation piece.
Steve-O: (To me) Rocketman said you were normal!
He did?
Despite multiple attempts, Dr Wat could not squirt liquid out of his piercing.
Effluvium Boy’s real name is pretty damn rad!
I… lost in DOTA.
The invention of the word “HOY” occurred that night. For those not in the know, it came about from Pessimist’s misspelling of the word “HOT”. So now we say THAT RAMEN WAS SO HOY. HOY HOY HOY!
I lost in DOTA because I was impaired by mind-altering substances. (totally.)
Steve-O knows how to tell really entertaining stories.
There are a lot more bars along George street then you think.
CrabJiffy/Bawble, Dawdle and Bish do not drink. Conspiracy?
Overall one awesome night. Thank you so much to everybody who came along and joined us for the ride – you guys are awesome, party on, etc. etc.
“CrabJiffy/Bawble, Dawdle and Bish do not drink. Conspiracy?”
Dem Asians! *shakes head*
“The Spectator Mode Beta is now available for Custom Games!”
*join custom game as a spectator*
*nothing but sitting in the team lobbies for 20 minutes while no one does anything*
This is great!
How many spectators can you have at once? Maybe I should spectate you spectating the team doing nothing for 20 minutes? It may just well teach me a bit about spectating – Do you have any pro spectating builds/strats?
Two spectators.
So far I’ve been going with the “Join game and get impatient and quit after 2 minutes” strategy, and unfortunately, it seems like you can’t use the chat as Spectator, so my planned calls of telling them terrible builds probably won’t pan out.
Pick up your game, Riot, yeesh.
Surely they wouldn’t implement spectator mode for ranked or normal games right? All you would have to do is have a friend on teamspeak jump in to spectate and let you know the other teams positions.
I suppose that makes sense, but limiting Spectators to only Custom Games… what would be the point? Normals and Ranked is what you would typically want to watch, and most players aren’t just going to jump into a custom game to entertain two people.
Honesty system? Trusting people not to cheat? Not something to be relied on, I suppose.
That said, I would totally be keen to spectate a KvK. Have the netbook on the side logged into TeamSpeak as well just to hear both teams, too.
Then you can record it
Cast it
Stream it
get noticed
become a professional caster
.. profit!
People like it when casters randomly burst into song and talk about completely unrelated things, right??
I am gud caster!
That’s pretty much all Tastosis do… Oh, and they talk about Dragonball Z. A lot.
Tastosis commentary is basically just those two having a friendly conversation about whatever comes to mind and occasionally Starcraft happens.
Was great last night when they were actually talking about strategy during the July vs Puzzle match. July had just destroyed Clide and then decided that 6 pooling was the best way to make it to the next round.
It was a terrible 6 pool that Puzzle defended by FFEing and pulling probes to his expansion (he didn’t expand until after the lings were dead). July kept move commanding his lings and Puzzle managed to destroy them.
Instead of giving up, July decided to go for the Nydus network. Morphed in an overseer to try and see where he could put it down freely… drops it right next to a pylon. Then puts another right next to a patrolling probe. Then another in plain sight in the main.
Tastosis spent the whole match saying how everything July was doing was completely wrong. They were right.
Which means somebody could join in to commentate our KvKs! 😀
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I could see you doing that most Bunny with maybe Harli, you’ve already shown you perform good play-by-play commentary xD
Why thank you kindly Tech Knight. However, with such limited LoL knowledge I do not think I would make a good commentator. Perhaps somebody with more hero/lore knowledge would be more suitable.
Oh yes, my play by play…
“He’s been punched in the face and now he’s punching that dude in the face. Oh a successful counter, that’s rare but oh no! A failed counter! Batman just got hit in the face with a pipe. Now he’s kicking the guy who hit him and stuff”
Yeah that might be me or Noobheadshot (500+ normal wins, if he doesn’t know all the characters by now WTF eh? :P) perhaps
Game knowledge? Trust me, that stuff is overrated.
Yeah I’d love to do some commentary, I assume being half drunk (drunk enough to be really loud/excitable but not drunk enough so you start slurring every second word) is a prerequisite for casting?
Indeed, being inebriated does help.
As a side note, the fact that we know each other would really help with the casting, so we can say “OK, Steve-O got billy Bob McGee, that’s good for him because he has such an aggressive playstyle, I’d expect the other team to focus him hard early game” and things like that. The main downside with casting MOBA style games is that there’s very little in the way of overarching strategies, you can look at item builds, but that’s really about it, the majority of the game is play-by-plays.
@Blaghman
Well knowing what items can build into you can sort of make a prediction on what he/she is trying to build that into, say I get a specific AP staff. I know it can be built into things like Rylei’s crystal scepter and Rabadon’s Deathcap.
I’ve seen casters use that strat too when they see players RTB.
Fun fact: I’ve almost always had a beer or two before doing the group commentaries for Batman.
@Blaghs
What I got from your post was “We need to do more KvK matches”
I like your thinking
Being inebriated helps when casting? I’m practically qualified! I would like to give it a go, I know most of the champions now and pretty much all of the items. But then again I also really like actually playing the game….
@Noob
You know me, I’m full of wonderful ideas.
Also, we should put Techy on the winning team for once, he really has had a bad string of luck(and I keep being on his team too, never a good thing).
The only reason I like the idea of casting the games is that it gives me an excuse to not be in the game :p
@Steve-O
I assume we would take turns at the casting because, like you, I also enjoy actually playing the game (crazy huh?)
Just a thought but I could make a dummy smurf account on my laptop and use LoLreplay while spectating the matches so therefore really anyone can cast it should they choose 🙂
Following on from Pixel’s SC2 debacle, I dragged him into a poorly planned Dawn of War game. After remembering what the hell I was doing, it was awesome fun sitting back and using drop pod support repeatedly to save his army 😀
Nothing like 2 termy squads and a dready dropping in unexpectedly.
BROADSIDES…. tis was good fun… but i’m starting to see a pattern here… i suck… at any strategy game i get my hands… all i can say is
F**K YEAH \o/ FOR CONSISTENCY!!! GO ME!!!
also as a side note, that thunder storm last night was an AWESOME backdrop for some DoW… just seemed to go well together… dunno why…
…
peanuts
You just need to remember: be aggressive, push power and capping right at the start, and BROADSIDE THE S*#T OUT OF EVERYTHING!
i will be acquiring this later because i am in need of a decent DS game to take up my time and i saw talking about it here
This game will take up time. The game can get a little grind heavy. But it never feels over the top because you keep on getting new monsters.
It is even more classy when someone else notices your fly is down aNd tells you. Because that definitely didn’t happen to me!
To which I typically reply ‘I think you know why!” Before proceeding to nod my head and wink at them.
At least you can fix that! I have 2 holes in my pants! :0 Lucky for me they’re in a spot that’s not so noticable, but I’m still scared they’ll get bigger and then I’ll be in big trouble 😉
yeah.. normally LittleJJ would fix this sort of thing for me, but obviously that aint gonna happen now. I’d do it myself, but she also took all the needles and thread, so I’m gonna have to get my mum to do it for me!
The classier decision would be to take off the pants completely. I mean they only restrict us guys.
I just got up to a part in the battlefeild 3 campaign that makes no sense at all to me.
Spoilers ahead, though most of it is spoilt by the fact that events occur out of chronological order in the campaign anyway.
I’m playing as an American GI or Marine or someone from America with a gun at any rate. I run into a Russian special forces solider who gets me at gun point, explains that he’s captured the person we were trying to capture but it turns out the guy didn’t have what we were after so we should work together to stop the world ending in nuclear war. Then another American solider comes in and is yelling at the Russian (who by this point as voluntarily handed me his gun and has his hands in the air) to get on the ground.
I can follow it up to here but what I don’t get is why, when another the unarmed Russian is just standing there with his hands in the air and I’m standing there looking at my friend, is my friend scripted to shoot me in the face if I don’t’ shoot him first?
It seems like they needed to include a plot twist somewhere becasue the whole story starts off you you under arrest for shooting this guy, but it never really explaines why you were suddenly forced to do so. wtf/
For the most part. Just finished the whole thing. I have to say it’s got to be the worst campaign mode I’ve ever encountered on a shooter, including Duke Nukem Forever.
If anyone is considering buying this and doesn’t plan on playing online (lol) pick up any other game instead.
New Procrastoonation! They call me the wanderer… http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/109
*cries uncontrollably*
that’s it, i don’t care how bad the box looks when i receive it, i will huggle and cuddle it just because it made it
Hey guys I booked a TF2 server tonight if anybody is interested in doing a KvK on Steam.
Maps will alternate between capture and payload:
cp_granary
cp_gravelpit
pl_badwater
pl_goldrush
Insta-respawn. Crit enabled. Team balance on. All talk on.
Name: TAYBIES
Password: pants
Starts at 8:30pm! See ya’ll there!
hopefully I’ll be able to join, granted I won’t know what the hell I’m doing 100% of time, but still will want to play nontheless
Oh oh oh! I should SOOOO play! Oh but… wait… I need to download the game… and I’m on capped net… :'(
If there’s nothing else going on, I might join in. Have TF2 installed but I imagine that I have about fifty bajillion gigs up hats to update first.
It’s been a long while, last time I played was during the Sniper update.
Sweet. Count me in. One question about the levels though:
WAI U NO LIKEY DE_DUST?
Gold and Bad, I’m going to give my sniper skills a kick-start and see if I can still do it.
Apologies to anyone I consistently massacre. I have a tendency of hitting a single person every time they show their head, while missing everyone else 😛
i shall be there! mainly to annoy people… it’s FFA right?
wait.. Team Fortress hey? sure… i’ll be a team player *winks at the nearest person*
Ok This is my last post in normal text. all subsequent posts for the day will be in the form of song lyrics. Enjoy the hillarity thaat will ensue…
Nooooooooooo!
Isn’t there already more than enough of that crap on Facebook? Don’t do it here!
I was going to do it intelligently, but if its going to be annoying, then, I wont. do it…
I’m intrigued – Do you mean you will attempt to converse only by quoting existing song lyrics, or will you make up your own songs and ‘speak’ in rhyme?
I like the second idea better than the first.
But anyway, contrary to what I like to think, I’m not the Boss here so if you want to do it, GingerChris, go right ahead.
I was going to do the first, but I could do the second… hmmm…. ponders…. I might save this idea for next week…. yeah…. watch out next week. it will be fun…
PENIS PIG!!!!
Sughly – sorry to have upstaged you. I can’t help being so good at the artz
*shudders*
imagine that thing stalking you in the bushes…*snigger* bushes…
can just imagine a David Attenborough’esk commentary to the pigs daily life
Wooo! My PS3 cleared customs!
I only bought it on Monday night and it came all the way from the US. THat’s some pretty swift shipping.
I can’t help but worry. I’ve had so much drama with TWO PS3s this week. I JUST WANT TO PLAY UNCHARTED 3! *sobs*
Cleared Customs? in less then 6 months?
nah, i sense magic here, it is not possible
depends, if it was a female and weighs less then a duck…
BURN HER! BURN THE WITCH
Just how many consoles do you think will be getting a rimming tomorrow?
I know my PS3 will be getting a right ole’ SKY-RIMMING!
*stops with the sexbox half into the back of my pants*
OOOOOHHH Skyrim, right sure *cough* well carry on
just occurred to me… this page has a distinctive lack of something.
what is it… had something to do with Rims… and… and clouds? maybe…
i dunno… maybe Hugo our lovely Barbarian remembers?
that and a new page… well this clearly lacks everything as opposed to the last one that just lacked something… oh well… carry on
I think I know…
SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS!
I know, I know. I’m a month late, but my copy just showed up and I’m excited. Give me a break 🙂
ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3! ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3!
DEAR GOD WHAT DID I DO?
I just realised that the only way to stop worrying about Skyrim breaking street-date is to shut my laptop, ignore Twitter and just go ahead and do everything I wanted to do around the house before Skyrim begins eating away at my life. that way, if it starts selling before I’m ready, I won’t know so it won’t matter.
So see you all when I’ve finished the housework!
Is it bad that every time I see “Target” I pronounce it “Tar-jay” (soft j sound, not a hard one)?
Yes.
My sisters call it that.
I don’t understand why you would try fancy up how you say Target.
It’s Target.
I do it mockingly.
I think their boat in one of the Sydney to Hobart’s was called the fancy way of saying Target, with a thing over the e. I laughed.
I mockingly call it Targét. Have no idea how that one started either but it seems like such an easy target to mock that I can’t help myself but take a few shots.
Clearly, had I done this around Bish, I would have missed the mark.
I don’t get it??
It is actually more a mockery of people who are willing to pay an extra $100 for a shirt because it comes with a designers label on it and looks basically the same.
i have only heard it used in relation to clothes
Blaghman! I need you to keep refreshing the Kotaku page and the TAY page and then let me know immediately once Skyrim breaks street date! I will message you my number on Facebook 😛
Actually do it. That would be hilarious 😛
Alright good sir, that I shall do.
Cheers dude. If I don’t answer, don’t worry about calling me back. I’ll count a Canberra number missed call as being a notification that Skyrim is out. I’ll try answer though.
I FINALLY got my CE of Arkham City last night. The statue is slightly damaged. Batman has scraped away the black paint on his forehead somehow… careless bat.
In other news, I blitzed through several chapters of Uncharted 3 and suddenly I’ve nearly finished it. Were they all this short? Surely not…?
The games or the chapters?
Uncharted games are about 10-12 hours long on Normal. With ~25 chapters.
Probably a little shorter on Easy when there’s a lot of fighting sequences.
Another re-post in case anyone missed it
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Guys – i have been really busy at work and uni – so unable to get on here until now – but i have something realllly important to go over with you guys – but can’t go into detail here
The team at kotaku are awesome – so this christmas i want us all to give back.
Email me if you want in – and i hope you all do.
Spread the word – the more people who help – the better we can make this.
troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail(dotcom)
when i get time i’ll set up a private forum for this.
If you enjoy kotaku as much as i do, this is your chance to show how much all the effort the gang put in is appreciated
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Also – Penis pig
That is all
I had just assumed it was penis til Loops said it was a pig 😉
*sigh* lets just be frank here and call it what it is… it’s a d*ck-pig
actually, a dick pig is a name reserved for one of my ex’s…
dirty dick pig…. *angry face*
oh alright then, fair enough, P-Pig it is then, we can’t have duplicate names existing, that’s just not on
I meant to send you an email when I got home yesterday and didn’t. Can you shoot me a DM on Twitter?
My people, they have sent your people an email… or, I will punish them.
*fetches flail*
The 11.11.11 date is such a big part of Skyrim’s marketing that they would be pushing really hard for retailers to keep to it.
Yeah, but a large number of European retailers have broken street date, a couple Targets I think did, and there are people saying that some Big W’s have started selling, so it doesn’t seem all that likely that the big retailers will stick to 11/11/11. (Not to mention that very few places are actually doing midnight launches for it, given the MW3 ones more recently, which removes a retailer reason for sticking to the date.)
Big W wouldn’t – their system comes up with a reminder if any staff tries to put the game through in a sale.
And you doubted me. For shame Harli, for shame. 😛
I feel lied to!!! stupid EB employee who are always so trustworthy and everything.
Finished Arkham City!!! Glad I had subtititles on, voices glitched out at the end. Was playing on 360, anyone else have that problem??
Am now torn as to buy Skyrim or just wait for AssRev on Tuesday…
Also does anyone think or care if Assrev will break streetdate?? It seems to have gotten lost in the mix a bit amongst Syrim and MW3.
JM the second!
I did not have that problem with Arkham City, and I would suggest buying Skyrim, but then, I may be a little bit excited for this game. Just a little.
And my guess is that AssRev won’t break street date, given the Tuesday release they probably won’t have stock for all that long, though I may well be proven wrong.
I think I will cave and get Syrim today…
AssRev will be a first day purchase, I got pre orders at every major retailer cos my best friends kid is a lil obsessed with it.
Tend to knock over the AC’s pretty quick, so will be a break from skyrim.
To each one’s own.
Really? I spend quite a lot of time on AC games. Partly because I try to do pretty much everything… Or maybe I just suck.
I finish them usually within the first week. One of the few games i can play for 6-7 hours straight. Sleepless nights ahoy!! AC was the whole reason I got a 360 in the first place. 🙂
It was the first game I played on my PS3
ARGH!
My boss just found an original edition of The Silmarillion lying around at work. It’s worth over $1000…
damn, knew i should have taken it when i had the chance 😛
i did see it there
Yeah, I’m going to go poke around in that box of books, on the slim chance there’s something else there.
Hey I just remembered that Sydney is ahead by 1 hr. so tonight’s TF2 thing is 8:30pm Sydney time start, 7:30 for the QLD’ers, WA’ers etc.etc.
I’m pretty sure that’s like 5:30 for any WA’ers, and 8 for SA, and I can’t remember what time NT is on.
Hmm, not sure, I thought they were 3 hours behind us* but I may well be wrong.
*Not referring to you and me as us, but us as in the places with DST near the eastern coast
Bahaha!
I had an old friend back in school, who was given the nickname “Perth”, because he was always 2 hours behind…
NT doesn’t do daylight savings… because it doesn’t work with sundials.
So, they are 1 hour behind Adelaide.
Same amount of photons going around anyhow. Just a matter of how many I have to be awake to endure.
Wow.. 25 of you have already emailed about this Xmas thing – thanks everyone!! I can’t wait to get the ball rolling on this thing.
It’s going to be…. wait for it… awesome…
I think i did that wrong…
I’ll be number 26 but just work has got me flat out so I can’t send an email till later, apologies human.
And I may be registering my car in Victoria… http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/11/09/dc-comics-license-plates-australia/
I agree with Tech Knight. It is a bit embarrassing. It’s not like we’ll even be able to play it early.
The difference for me is that I’ll be able to install it the moment it unlocks, instead of 17 hours later. Not a huge difference, all things considered, but shh.
Can’t you just pre-load it on Steam?
I’m buying a physical copy, so no. And even if it allowed me to pre-load it, I would have to download it (urghhhh), and then I wouldn’t be able to validate my download until 5:01 pm on Friday. My life is so hard. 😛
Can’t say i’m overly bothered by it myself. Most games I buy are from Ozgameshop or Game’s online store(who ship it VERY fast)…I haven’t set foot in a physical store in ages.
We despatched your ozgameshop.com order to you within the last 24 hours. You should receive it within 4-12 working days.
SKU Qty Item
PCG1183 1 The Elder Scrolls V 5 Skyrim Game + Premium Map
\o/
Now to wait. 🙁
Moar ME3 leaks. Romance options, apparently, with all their first draft dialogue.
This game is like a sieve.
Stop looking at it!!! Seriously, do we need to do an intervention? Haven’t you spoilerised yourself enough? Stop punishing yourself. 🙁
I’m going to be honest: if Skyrim breaks street date, everyone should rush out and get it. Once you have your copy secure, punch the face of the person that served you.
Street breaks ruin the massive anticipation and build up, and exchange it for rabid purchasing, which leaves a sour after-taste.
The worst part is the justification that stores tend to use: “Store X did it, so we can do it too”. I punched you in the face. With your logic, everyone else should punch you in the face too…
/rant
…sorry bout that.
But it’s not really the fault of the person serving you either, it’s the fault of the people over at whichever places headquarters. And I kind of like the guy at Woden’s EB, he’s a bit of a hipster, but at least he knows about games and stuff.
Hey, my arms are of limited length. I can’t reach far enough to punch people at various headquarters 😛
Occupy corporation headquarters? Followed by “Occupy punching people in the face.” (That makes about as much sense as any other Aussie Occupy protest…)
“We here at occupy punch face…people…in…are devoted to the cause of if not and or maybe, and are 100% committed to the removal and/or addition of an entity that can and or/can’t not do something about face punch in people. Thank you.”
Are these people we’re punching douchey teens?
No, but I guess we can go and punch some of them too.
In that case, it’s open to interpretation, i.e. you CAN, in fact, “hit that”.
The girl at my old EB was hot to a point that it was unfair to the rest of the human race.
Man, there was a hot chick at my local EB, and one time she gave me a discount on release date for a game, and I was thinking to myself “Is this game really discounted, or is this some strange form of mating ritual?” I then walked away and enjoyed my game.
I like games.
The guy at my local EB isn’t overly attractive.
I’m sure he has a great personality though.
We’ll make it work.
Some chick at my local EB once gave me a “Aren’t you a little too old for that?” look when I was buying Pokemon.
I don’t think it could ever work out between us.
Such a shame.
The guy at mine once gave me a preorder bonus when I wasn’t supposed to get it. I might be seeing him this evening to arrange a possible AssRev Animus Edition.
Expect a “Save the Date” in the mail next week.
When I was still living in Newcastle I walked into an EB shop and found out the manager there was actually someone I used to know. So I kept going back to that particular store and he’d always give me discounts and he even let me have Wind Waker a day early because I was going away for the weekend and couldn’t pick it up on release date. He also gave my parents good advice on what to get me for birthdays/christmas. I miss that guy.
When I was about 21 I made the mistake of saying ‘yes’ to a date with a guy who worked at my local games shop. The date was bad and I could never set foot in that shop again. 🙁
I’m really out of it today. Felt like I didn’t get enough sleep last night and now as the day goes on my brain is feeling fuzzier and fuzzier.
Not particularly good.
Drink more coffee(I’m trusting you’ve already had a fair amount). It will do you good, trust me, I’m a doctor.
Given how large that pile of change you had was, I imagine that you’ll pass out before you run out of money.
That pile of change is at home. I am not.
Sadface.
You mean you don’t carry it around with you everywhere you go in a big sack with dollar signs on the side? Maybe that was why I got mugged…
I’d be considerably more muscular if I did that.
And I’d jangle more.
Is it mould?
This one time I ate a fuzzy bit on a piece of bread.
It was fine, see I’m perfectly fine.
A combination of this stupidly hot day and hayfever is ruining my plan to GET STUFF DONE.
OH MAN, how great is having Hayfever that triggers with weather changes?
Not sure how it is up there, but down here for the past few days it’s been sunny in the morning then cloudy/showery in the afternoon.
Wake up, sneeze for the next few hours and adjust to weather.
Clouds and rain roll in, sneeze all night.
It’s great!
Whenever my co-worker wonders why something went wrong, normally asking why something isn’t working or someone did something stupid, my response is “don’t bring logic into it”.
What’s sad is that it isn’t that snarky, we just deal with a lot of people who don’t understand basic logic. So it’s our mistake to assume that they are using logic when doing these things that are causing us hassle.
*****************Uncharted 3 spoiler warning*******************
The aiming of the gun is rubbish
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I honestly don’t think it’s a big or drastic change.
Though I suppose, I was playing on Easy.
PS3 controllers and shooting mechanics.
A combination that often ends in me being sadface.
I’m not having too many problems. Pistol is good for long distance (though sometimes takes a few shots to ‘aim’ it right, and point-blank shotgun and melee for anyone closer. What else do you need? 😛
my issue is the movement. It does not recognise 45 degree angle inputs, so it lags in one direction and as a result you go too high or sideways… not fun, the gunplay itself and weapons are fine, but man oh man the aiming is killing me.
I’d be pretty amazed if Skyward Sword broke release today, just as a point, it’s not going to be out for quite a bit.
Haha actually that came out a whole lot more bitchier than I meant it to! I just wanted to join in all the hoopla! :'(
Apparently unlock for Skyrim on Steam = 11:41:33 a.m. Thursday November 10, 2011, based on US time. So I guess that means midnight tonight?
so i can’t see page 11 or 13 because of this error:
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site may be experiencing technical difficulties, or it’s content may contravene company policy.
but every other page is fine…this same error pops up randomly when i try to get into some sites.
im scared. and lonely 🙁
any hoo this is my post hoping page 14 will come along soon just so i can finally see what you are all talking about lol.
You know who I blame? Society. And the children of tomorrow(that’s the babies of today, who /apparently/ I’m not supposed to make SIDS jokes about *shrugs*), oh, and douchey teenagers with their stupid hair and ice-cream.
It’s all their fault.
Frankly, I’m not surprised those pages contravene company policy… what with Harli’s dick pig and all.
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I do believe that’s a facepalm! Nice work Harli! Looks cool!
Looks like a reeeal thick penis, with no head, that is bent, being handled.
I am very relieved that it’s a facepalm, but I thought the same as you PuppyLicks. :S
COME ON GUYS!
Slow work day today, so I spent a bit of the morning and lunch break making a Gravatar.
Success?
Hmm, I dunno, I think it needs more Zumba, but hey, you’re your own person, do what you want!
Bit small, but it’ll do considering it’s shabby Paint work.
Don’t quite like this page get business, so I think I might just step back into the shadows…
(also, in before SKYRIM)
So, that PS3 I bought from the US on Sunday night?
The one that cleared customs earlier today?
“With delivery courier SYDNEY – AUSTRALIA 13:24”
CAN I GET A \o/ ?
There’s no gravatar so is someone impersonating you here , JamesMacUsedMyHandle?!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/tell-us-dammit-111/#comment-434217
It’s me!!!
The 80’s hip hop reference should give it away 😉
Norton prefilled the comments box with the wrong email after i cleared my history.
Oh and thanks Strange! 🙂
Been meaning to ask your thoughts on Skylanders?? Do you have it?
Haven’t got Skylanders yet, giving it to my daughter for Christmas. I actually really like the idea though so I hope it executes it well.
I’m going to get it for a friends youngest, but it’s really so i can play it.
Really just not feeling great. Going to try sticking it out one more hour, then I might head home sick. No idea what’s really going on, I just feel really out of it. Rather bizarre.
Same thing happened to the ladyfriend yesterday. Was violently ill overnight. Then today woke up feeling good. Sooo, mebe you’ll wake up aight tomoro?
Dr. Sughly! Now lets hope I dont end up like that guy whpo was a doctor for that guy who died and is now going to jail…
LOL!
Played Dark Souls for the first time last night, I am REALLY digging it.
Fought the Taurus Demon, took me about 5 tries before I got the hang of it.
On my 6th try, I approached the demon, stabbed him in the head (SOTC style oh yeah) and then dodged and defended as best as I could, bobbing, weaving and stabbing him here and there, whittling his health down bit by bit.
I was holding out, better than any other attempts before, ‘I can beat him!’ I thought to myself.
Then the Taurus made his move, his power play, jumping back to make some space for a devastating attack, he lost his footing and fell of the side of the bridge.
He fell to his death.
…
VICTORY! 😀
Well done sir.
Hoisted by his own petard.
I guess you missed out on his axe then?
FORGETTABOUTIT.
It requires loads of strength and by the time you’ve levelled up enough you’ll probably have something more awesome.
I died in fire at the same time I defeated another boss and missed out on some loot too 🙁
Ah it’s all good. I’m after a large sword anyways so I can make my Guts character complete.
…Can you get capes in this game? 🙂
Decided i’m going to go back and play all the FF games from 7 onwards…for nostalgia. Ah memories…
So much love for 8! But even more for 9. 9 was so underrated. So good…
Why cant the new FF’s go back to the types of characters/worlds/style of 9!?! :'(
7 and 9 were and are my favourites out of all of them. I still have love for the rest (excluding 13….my god, what happened there???).
Yeah srsly, wtf. It just makes me scared that they think they did things well on the back of releasing a part 2 of 13 :'(
I thought they were releasing XIII-2 to appease the haters, not because it did well?
O relly? I wouldnt really know, I hardly know anything about 13-2. So if theyr appeasing thr haters… does that mean Vanille is gone!? p.s. I never finished 13 so if she is gone in that game somehow then dont tell me. Despite the fact that I will never play it.
All I know is that Lightning’s insipid sister is in it, so that’s likely to almost be as bad as Vanille. Oh, and everyone’s costumes seem to have been cut in half, they’re all sexified.
I liked 13 (even though I still haven’t finished it). I haven’t played any of the other FF games though so I don’t really have anything to compare it to.
And therein lies the problem. It’s a great game if you forget it’s a Final Fantasy game. I had a lot of fun playing it, it just didn’t feel very FF-ish.
I really can’t get over what is essentially a one button, one option combat system. Sure you can go manually, but it slows you down considerably.
The combat was so much more than that. I understand but don’t agree with people who complain about the linearity, but people who say the combat system is shallow, or automatic just confuse me. It’s like we played a completely different game. There were so many options in the combat and figuring out what strategy to use where was loads of fun.
I guess in part it’s a grumpy old-style FF fan complaining about change. Just ignore me and I’ll go away 😛
No no, you’re entitled to your opinion, it just confuses me is all. I would have thought people would complain more about XII’s abominable combat system. You didn’t even have to do anything, not even press a button! Any game that you can leave on overnight and have your characters continually fight without you and gain loads of experience is broken, in my opinion.
This. The combat system in FFXIII was my second-favourite system ever, second only to Lost Odyssey, which is unbeatable imo.
You need to play Resonance of Fate. Best JRPG combat bar none. Plus, you know, it has dress-ups. \o/
I have just purchased Resonance of Fate. Can’t wait to play dress-ups.
Final Fantasy XIII had a pretty interesting combat system, and I quite liked the game. (Again, I’m one of those people who hadn’t played a numbered Final Fantasy game prior to XIII.)
I assume that the people who thought the combat was shallow didn’t play too far into the game, because it took a while for the game to challenge you enough for you to need to explore the combat options.
Sure, you let the game automatically select attacks for you, but the challenge and strategy lies in the characters you take into the battle, their class and upgrades, the equipment they use, and the paradigm switching. And I found these systems rather compelling. Although you sometimes end up in long and tedious battles with enemies with far too much health.
Hmm, I think I saw that cheap the other day. I will keep it on my watch list. 🙂
Yay for VIII ! Was my first Final Fantasy game and a catalyst to download emulators and enjoy all of the old ones.
While it’s on topic, did anyone else get stuck for hours looking for that damn White Seed ship in the peninsular area? I could not find it for the life of me.
Oh hells yes! Every damn time I play it I spend way too long trying to find that stupid thing.
what White Seed ship?
haha, the older and more mature me laughs very muchly at that sort of name.
The one with the Ninja SeeD and whatsherface. You know, the one that could give you vision into the past, sort of.
Also yes, took me ages to find that ship.
Ellone.
I’m not even sure what I’m going to name my character, let alone what they’ll be. The character selection screen is going to take me forever…
Steve is always a good choice… EVERYONE needs to have a character called Steve… my dog in dragon age is called Steve… my first Pokemon is called Steve… if Penicl-Pig had a name i’m pretty sure it would be Steve
An Argonian knight called Jason.
Then you can be Jason of the Argoknights.
*waits for applause*
Oh dear.
Press X to applaud.
*presses A*
*explodes*
JASON
not to be creepy but everyone needs a Steve in their life…
i mean i walked past a place the other day called Steve’s Takeaway and i instantly wanted to buy something cause you just know it’s going to be top quality…. might have been in a grubby back alley in Charnwood, but you know you can always trust a guy called Steve…what kind of world would we live in if you couldn’t trust Steve
Sorry Steve-O, I was considering more along the lines of “Dr. Crunkle”(he’s a Doctor), or potentially the high Fantasy character “Gh’threndorne G’blorckstar of house Hic’tl’frac’tl.”
This. I’m probably going to fall back on my stealthy acrobat class from Oblivion, but it’s very much in the air so far.
you should call him Link so you can pretend youre playing a soon to be released and better game.
Argonian! You can be a lizard who goes around and kills other lizards to become king of the lizards.
My first character will most likely be a Barbarian Nord.
Second, Battlemage Bretton.
Third, Barbarian Orc.
Fourth Thief/Ranger Khajit.
Fifth, Warrior/Cleric Redguard
Sixth, Assassin Argonian
Seventh, Battlemage Dunmer
I should probably stop there, I could quite possibly keep going for hours.
Also.
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Argonian wielding shortsword and shield. Called Lizalfos.
I’m going with a Dunmer, methinks, in keeping with my first characters in Morrowind and Oblivion.
I will probably build a Assassin-Mage again so Cat or Lizard probably.
Really regretting not taking tomorrow off.
I would be madder if it didn’t just load up to an image of the Bacon flavoured ones.
“PROUDLY baked in NZ”
Man this is like when people on cooking shows say “Use your best Olive Oil”. Someday I think someone will say “Use the worst Olive Oil you have”.
“Begrudgingly made in NZ >:C “
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/PS3/Deus-Ex-Human-Revolution-Collectors-Edition/10514332/
If I already have the Augmented Edition, is it worth the upgrade?
Anyway, it’s $70 for those who don’t intend to answer my question 😛
Is the statue and getting the Missing Link DLC for free worth $70 to you? If so, then yes.
I read this article and did a spit-take:
There is a company named Cyberdyne making humanoid-shaped robotic exoskeletons? I hope they’re not up to the T-1000 model yet…
Either this company is made up of the biggest bunch of dedicated trolls ever or we better start digging bunkers and working on time machines…
This just makes me think of this… 🙂
Stitch… I mean Fizz has had a mechanics preview.
He can make people get eaten by sharks … SHARKS!!!
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1465383
Awesome. Sounds like he will have an interesting play-style.
Also, did anyone see the 2nd comment after? Quite disturbing
Actually this is probably the best thing about Skyrim… http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/skyrim.jpg
Hey Di11enger turns out competitive Halo does have a scene here in Australia. Who’da thought?
If enough people play it, there will be a competitive scene.
Hell, there’s a Smash Bros scene, so why not a Halo one?
Admittedly, I know someone who was a part of the Halo scene (he moved on to COD) so I knew already.
….and it looks as though Skyrim street date is broken….for real…
Check the last few comments on the article…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/skyrim-being-sold-in-select-stores-across-australia-street-break-could-be-imminent/comment-page-3/#comments
Yeah, the EB FB page has gone nuts, still waiting on confirmation though, I trust in the Serrels above to guide me when the time is right.
EB Games Australia
@EBGamesAus EB Games Australia
It’s official! #Skyrim is NOW RELEASED! Available in all stores! RT and spread the word. What race are you going to be 1st?
Argh, I finally got an email back from EB Games asking why they have charged me for my cancelled order of Skyrim. They reckon I can get a full refund if I return it within 7 Days of release.
While this is good that now means, I have to hold Skyrim (when it finally arrives) in my hands, sigh to myself and hand it back to EB Games for a refund and wait until next week until my CE from amazon arrives.
CURSE YOU Skyrim CE!!! in all your awesomeness!!!
I was thinking that but doesn’t that sort of ruin the CD-Key?
I.E. The next person to buy it the CD-Key wont work? Wait do they sell pre-owned PC games?
Shane writes books.
Shane has impeccable grammar & spelling.
I don’t think he would’ve made 2 errors in one word.
Ya get where I’m tryin’ to lead you?
They don’t sell pre-owned PC games for just that reason. One thing to be careful with, though, is that they may kick up a stink about it being an “online component” game for the purposes of a return.
Ah, PC game. Bad luck buddy. (Sorry, I assumed console and got a bit excited)
DAN! alas, I make mistakes aplenty. See above for one such example 🙂
Soooooo what you’re saying is, life isn’t like a Dan Brown novel with hidden messages in everyday words? Also bad-spelling & grammar?
Yeah, that won’t work. A Steam key can only be redeemed with one steam account. And, no, they don’t sell pre-owned PC games at EB.
So what do they do with returned PC games? Do they just bin them?
That raises a good point, will they even accept a PC return?
Yeah, they do take them back. Far as I’m aware, it’s returned to headquarters, and probably processed as “faulty” or some variant of returned and they get issued a new key. Part of that is speculation, though.
I have no idea…
Well, so much for that TF2 playdate tonight…
Wait. Everyone buy PC Skyrim. That way you won’t be able to play it till tomorrow and you’ll be able to play TF2 tonight instead 😛
It amuses me greatly that initials of the guy in charge of Microsoft’s C++ Standard Template Library are STL.
It’s weird how sometimes you find people with names which are stunningly appropriate for their profession. For example, one of my grandparents used to go to a dentist who’s name was Mr Molar. Another of them went to a GP named Dr De’ath which was a bit more unfortunate. I also recall recently making this observation when watching a documentary where one of the talking heads was Dr Mann, who was an expert in anthropology.
Sorry I keep posting about it (wait. damnit, free speech and all that):
But wow, dat ME3 script.
I’m actually really surprised at some of the stuff in there. Fox News and conservative bloggers nearly had a heart attack about the original game’s sex stuff back in 2007, but there seems like a lot more (sex based) controversy in this one.
Also far from being dumbed down, it seems enormous.
Yay Bioware?
FemShep gets a mixed-species harem instead of a monogamous relationship with a blue girl this time?
Something like that 😉
It’s just very surprising. I hope a backlash doesn’t happen from pissed-off teenage boys and fundamentalist bloggers.
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good thing you wear a loincloth otherwise you may have had to change your pants
So my husband just offered to take me to get Skyrim when he gets home from work. Poor guy doesn’t realise what he’s in for, he’s never seen me in full-blown Elder Scrolls immersion mode: “Kids, what kids, I don’t have any kids, I’m too busy trying to save the world and picking up everything I can find and cramming it into my (obviously magic) backpack…ooh, a spoon! Yoink!”
i would like to apologise for my apalling use of “you’re”, instead of “your”, i am deeply sorry and i hope all of you can forgive this treacherous mistake
Remember in Disc World when you had to put an ice cube up your robe so when the Dr took your temperature, ahem, rectally, you could be classified as dead?
Do you mean Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge? ‘Secret of’ is just the first game. And I am pedantic.
Lego. Keep them occupied for hours, but without hogging up the TV. Plus it teaches valuable spatial skills, develops finer motor control, and teaches that large things can be achieved through simple iterative steps.
Ooh, this is a great idea! My son has only just discovered Lego is good for more than throwing and leaving all over the floor. 😛
I can imagine the arguments 😀
“Come to bed? How can I sleep when TAMRIEL NEEDS ME?!!”
“Take the kids to school? Why? Are there dragons there? Is this a quest?”
TEST
Here is a bit of the kindred history and explanations of certain concepts…
Caine
Name: Cain/Caine
Gender: Male
Born: Prehistory (roughly 8000 BC)
Mother: Eve
Father: Adam
Children: (Possibly Enoch)
Sire: Directly cursed by God
Childer: Enoch, Irad, Zillah
Cain: The first son of Adam and Eve; becomes the first murderer when he murdered his brother Abel.
In Vampire: The Masquerade, Caine is the father of all vampires. He is, in fact, the Biblical Cain, although the final ‘E’ is always added when referring to the Vampire. Until the formation of the Camarilla, most vampires refer to themselves as cainites.
Caine’s History
The bulk of Caine’s history is covered in the Book of Nod and an alternate telling, the Erciyes Fragments, as well as the Lilithian Revelations of the Dark Mother and the Luciferian Days of Fire. Those books conflict on Caine’s motives, but all agree he killed his brother Abel. Days of Fire describes how Caine gave himself a “gift,” and the gift was delusion. Using this gift, he thought he killed Abel in an act of love when it was really an act of hate. He used this gift to make pride out of shame, and was expelled from Eden.
According to Demon: The Fallen, the concept of murder didn’t even exist up until that point. It wasn’t that no one had thought of it, it was simply impossible because murder, as a concept, wasn’t part of reality. When Caine murdered Abel, it sent a ripple throughout reality and suddenly the war between Angels and Demons became a much bloodier affair, and ended in the actual deaths of many on both sides.
Nod
After killing his brother Abel, Caine was punished by God to wander in the lands of Nod, east of Eden. While wandering there, Caine encountered Lilith, his father Adam’s first wife. From Lilith he learned the basics of the Disciplines. Caine was then visited by four Angels, agents of God who offered him the chance to repent for Abel’s murder. Caine rejected each angel in turn, only to be cursed for each rejection: weakness to fire, vulnerability to sunlight, thirst for blood and constant betrayal from his own kind.
Enoch
Caine abandoned Lilith and continued to wander for some unspecified period of time. Until he came to the city Enoch, founded by descendants of his brother Seth (all kine are descended from Seth). Caine seduces the city’s king, Enoch, converting him into his first childe.
For centuries, Caine rules Enoch as its king and god, demanding worship and sacrifice from its population. He embraces Irad and Zillah at this time, creating the Second Generation of vampires. His childer in turn embrace others, the Antediluvians. Eventually Enoch grows in power and wickedness until God strikes the city down, sending the Great Flood to wipe out all living creatures on earth.
Post-Enoch
Caine disappears from the narrative after Enoch. Apocryphally, he appeared in the Second City and cursed his descendants with the characteristic weaknesses of each clan, however he has never appeared in a verifiable form.
Gehenna
Noddist mythology claims that Caine will return at the end of time to judge his descendants, the Antediluvians and all vampires descended from them. This will be the end of Gehenna and the vampiric race in all likelihood. The Sabbat’s epithet, The Sword Of Caine refers to their belief that they will aid Caine in striking down the Antediluvians when Gehenna comes.
Alternative Interpretations
The Camarilla denies the existence of Caine, and modern Kindred are generally skeptical of Noddist mythology. The Gangrel scholar Beckett is particularly known for interpreting Caine mythology as a conflict between farmer and hunter tribes.
Game Material
Appearance And Abilities
Caine’s capacities are outside the ability of the Storyteller system to model, it is reasonable to assume that he has completely mastered all Disciplines and may possess the ability to create new Disciplines on the fly. Basically, whatever Caine wants to do, Caine can do.
Almost anything else about Caine’s attributes follows the Biblical description: if Caine is harmed, the damage is returned sevenfold. In addition, Caine is marked with a sign of God’s displeasure.
Alternatively, Caine can have the following history and abilities:
Caine: The Father of All Vampires. Following the Biblical tradition, Caine was cursed by God and otherwise obeys common lore about vampiric origins. For those more inclined to play according to evolutionist theory, Caine evolved as a separate branch of humanity – the ultimate thinking and hunting predator. He has access to at least level 5 of all Disciplines, with specialty in Obtenebration, Potence, Fortitude, Presence, Domination, Celerity, and Chimistry.
Canon Appearances
Caine figures in one scenario in Gehenna, where he is explicitly targeted and drawn out by Lilith for vengeance. In that scenario the Biblical curse does apply, and Lilith prepares a victim to strike the killing blow on Caine and then get squashed by the ineffable thumb of God. Caine is mentioned in passing in two other scenarios and presumed dead in the remaining one.
Caine also appears in the Gehenna Novel, in a general positive interpretation under an assumed name. This Caine travels with Beckett while witnessing the end of vampiric civilization.
Interpretations
Common interpretations of Caine are:
Dark Father: Emphasizing the eschatological aspects of Noddism. This Caine is a dark god who wreaks havoc and judgement on his descendants.
Fisher King: The standard ‘regretful Caine’. The Fisher King interpretation feels remorse for his actions and now seeks a way out.
Antedeluvians
The Antediluvians are the founders of the thirteen vampire clans. They are attributed to be vampires of incalculable power, each of whom survived the Great Flood (ante, before; diluv, flood: hence antediluvian, one who comes before the flood) and who are believed to either be in torpor, manipulating the Jyhad, or dead. Technically, the term Antediluvian can be applied to any Cainite who dates before the Great Flood, such as Caine or the Second Generation, but it normally refers to the Third Generation.
There are a large number of myths and prophecies surrounding the clan founders, many of which are contradictory and suspect. However, certain beliefs have prevailed throughout vampiric history, particularly in regards to their actions in Gehenna. While some clans regard their progenitor favorably, as a whole the Antediluvians are often portrayed as boogeymen that will rise and devour their descendants. There are rarely reasons given for this, but clanwide purges have occurred in the past and Gehenna is seen as a time of blood and reckoning for Cainites.
Perspectives
Individual opinions regarding the Antediluvians vary widely, but are largely divided along sect lines between the Camarilla and Sabbat. The Camarilla asserts that the Antediluvians are dead or never even existed, and actively persecutes those who publicly say otherwise. This is part propaganda part genuine belief on their half. Those Kindred who believe the Antediluvians are alive rarely have any real information regarding them and are prone to act rashly and with paranoia, such as by joining the Sabbat or a Gehenna cult. Furthermore, very few of the sect’s members are over five centuries old and have thus missed the last period during which the Antediluvians were visibly active. As secular knowledge becomes prevalent, more and more Kindred view the story of Caine and the Antediluvians as creation myths, nothing more.
The Sabbat adheres to a pseudo-religious creed claiming it as their duty to destroy the Antediluvians and their servants. Most believe they are in a war for their very survival and that if the ancients are not stopped all vampires will be enslaved or devoured by them during Gehenna. The sect preaches that the Antediluvians manipulate all Cainites through the Jyhad, and that the Camarilla and surviving Methuselah are their pawns. While generally accepting of the Antediluvians’ existence, the knowledge of the average member is not necessarily much greater than their Camarilla counterparts as much of what they are taught is meant to ensure their fanaticism in going to war. Despite the theoretically god-like power of the Antediluvians, the Sabbat claims the noble heritage of having slain two during the Anarch Revolt and most members truly believe they can be defeated.
The majority of the Assamites and Followers of Set not only believe in their clan founders but are indoctrinated to be loyal and even worship the mythical figures. They tend to disagree with traditional Noddist lore, however; some Assamites claim Haqim is a member of the Second Generation, while the Setites believe they are not descended from Caine but from the god Set of Egyptian mythology, with some even going so far as to state all the other clans are descended from him as well.
Abilities
Presumably the Antediluvians are of such age and potency of blood that they possess nearly god-like power, and in fact some of them may be deities. Very few records of such power being used exist, but legends typically portray them as undefeatable. Some even theorize that the only way for such creatures to be killed is if they desire it or if it is at the hands of another Antediluvian. Whether that’s true or not, they still seem to suffer from the traditional curses of vampirism, including damage from sunlight, thirst for blood, and the ravages of the Beast.
If the Antediluvians survive in the modern nights they must possess sufficient abilities to hide their existence and activities from the world, particularly considering the monumentous effort that has been put into locating their havens by Cainites of many different factions. As they are commonly believed to be directing the Jyhad, they must also possess an incredible level of influence or knowledge, and perhaps even the ability to manipulate those who bear their blood. In fact, blood lineage is often cited as a factor in an Antediluvian’s power, and most assume that each is concerned most of all with their own clan. There are also some examples of ancient vampires bestowing portions of their power to other vampires, and while few of the ancients are described as being actual thaumaturgists, they seem to possess a great deal of versatility, which is evident in the various artifacts created by the clan founders. Otherwise, members of the Third Generation are often attributed to having complete mastery over their clan disciplines, though this may not be true for the youngest of the Antediluvians, and it is difficult to state clearly which disciplines apply when considering bloodlines and clans that have changed disciplines over the millennia.
The Vampire: The Masquerade Rulebook states that members of the Third Generation can have traits up to 10, can hold an unknown number of blood points, and can spend an unknown number of blood points per turn (possibly infinite, but definitely greater than the Fourth Generation). The Vampire Player’s Guide Second Edition includes examples of Level 10 Disciplines, as do a few other pre-Revised Edition supplements. These systems were replaced for Revised Edition in the Gehenna supplement, which provides suggestions for the capabilities of Antediluvians as well as guidelines for Level 10 Disciplines. The greatest example of an Antediluvian’s potential power may have been during the Week of Nightmares, during which time the Ravnos Antediluvian woke and was eventually destroyed.
Names of the Clan Founders
Traditionally, Antediluvians are simply referred to as the (clan) Antediluvian, such as the Gangrel Antediluvian, Tzimisce Antediluvian, and so on. An alternate usage is to the describe the name in square brackets (i.e., [Tzimisce]), to denote the fact that the names of the Antediluvians are unknown, and there is evidence to suggest that pursuing their real names is an easy way to draw their ire. On the other hand, Noddist scholars in the past have arbitrarily derived names from the clan name, such as Malkav from Malkavian, which have since come to be accepted. Some records do exist of names believed to have been used by Antediluvians, though it is well known that they have gone by many aliases in their travels and it may be impossible to ever know their original names. Regardless, several names are commonly accepted as valid and are listed below:
Clan Assamite: Haqim
Clan Brujah: Troile
Clan Followers of Set: Set, Seth, Sutekh, Typhon
Clan Gangrel: Ennoia
Clan Giovanni: Augustus Giovanni
Clan Lasombra: [Lasombra]
Clan Malkavian: Malkav
Clan Nosferatu: Absimiliard
Clan Ravnos: Ravana, Zapathasura
Clan Toreador: Arikel, Ishtar
Clan Tremere: Tremere
Clan Tzimisce: [Tzimisce]
Clan Ventrue: Veddhartha, Ventru
Also, for the former clans-turned-bloodlines:
Clan True Brujah: [Brujah], Illyes
Clan Cappadocian: Ashur, Cappadocius
Clan Salubri: Saulot
Other names mentioned as possible Antediluvians include Dracian, Lucian/Lucien, Mekhet, Namtaru and the names of the four Aralu in Enoch: Nergal, Al-Mahri, Loz and Ninmug. These are presumably other names for the clan progenitors, though they may be Antediluvians who opted not to sire clans, such as Shaper, who is an optional character from the Gehenna supplement.
Fallen and Risen Antediluvians
Despite legends of their immortality, several Antediluvians are believed to have fallen through diablerie, including four within the last millennia alone:
Cappadocius: Diablerized by Augustus Giovanni
[Lasombra]: Diablerized by Gratiano de Veronese
Saulot: Diablerized by Tremere
[Tzimisce]: Diablerized by Lugoj
Likewise, a small few believe that the original Brujah Antediluvian was slain by Troile, though there is no record of diablerie. Troile may in fact be the lucky one since it seems that the four usurpers above may have been tricked. The true Antediluvians could be beyond life and death, and thus the actions of their diablerists would likely be part of an extended plot. More information can be found within their individual entries.
Speculation on the Number of Antediluvians
Canonical Noddist lore holds that there are thirteen Antediluvians, one for each of the clans, and that each was Embraced by the Second Generation, meaning that they are all nominally siblings or cousins. Some of the clans believe in very different creation myths, however, particularly those that originate beyond Europe.
While most assume Caine had only three childer and thirteen grandchilder, this may not be the case. Several sources have offered different accounts, including:
The Erciyes Fragments states that there were more Cainites at the time of the Great Flood, but presumably few survived during the time which they had to feed on one another for blood. In particular, it cites the childer of Caine to be Enoch, Zillah, Jabal, [[Adah], Tubal, and Mehujael. It also suggests that the differences in generation came from a curse levied by Caine and did not appear until after his own childer were slain. (VTDA: Erciyes Fragments, pg. 81).
In a letter from Vlad Tepes to Mina Harker, Vlad stated that, in his research, he has come across various writings which state that the Third Generation numbered at 9, 27, 100, and 0. He wasn’t sure which one was correct. (VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition, pg. 13).
Ravnos lore claims that their founder, Zapathasura, was created by the gods and sired five childer: Black Mother, the Rakshasa, Chandraputra, Ravana, and Ramessu. Since this tale is incompatible with traditional Noddist lore, these childer may be members of the Third Generation, or they may all be faces of the same individual. (VTM: Clanbook: Ravnos Revised, pp. 18-19).
One Setite legend holds that Set became a vampire on his own, and that the Egyptian gods (actually the Gnostic Aeons) created the Antediluvians of the other twelve clans to thwart him. (VTM: Clanbook: Followers of Set Revised, pp. 54-59)
Angra Mainyu, a Baali High Priest claimed to have visions revealing that Caine had five childer, not three.
Gehenna(Event)
In Noddist mythology, Gehenna is the Kindred Eschaton. It is the time when the Antediluvians will rise from their slumbers and devour their descendants.
Noddist Description of Gehenna
Gehenna scenarios are fairly well outlined in The Book of Nod, the Erciyes Fragments, Revelations of the Dark Mother and other sources, so much so that Gehenna cultists can provide Jack Van Impe style outlines of the events leading up to the end of Kindred society. While certain signs (notably the prophecies of Octavio) outline peripheral events, the main sequence from the Book of Nod is roughly as follows:
The Time of Thin Blood. Caitiff and Thin-Blooded Vampires become more common, leading to Caitiff Princes. This particular warning is used by Princes to rationalize offices such as the Scourge, eliminating out high-generation vampires.
Increased violence by Garou and other traditional enemies.
The rise of ancient vampires, notably the Crone, until the Antediluvians themselves rise and “break their fast on the first part of us”
The darkening of the Sun
The return of Caine to pass judgment on all Vampires from Enoch, followed by a duel between the Dark Father (presumably Caine) and the Dark Mother (presumably Lilith).
A thousand year reign from the city of Gehenna, with “no love, no life, no pity/the mighty will be as slaves/the virtuous will be made foul” through the Dark Father’s agency.
The arrival of the Last Daughter of Eve who will decide the fate of all creatures.
The Erciyes fragments provides additional commentary and extensions on these events.
Secular Justification for Gehenna
Even without Noddism, there is ample reason to believe that Gehenna or something like it will eventually occur. As vampires age, they must sustain themselves on increasingly potent blood. Vampires of low Generation are more powerful than their descendants, and there are various potent Disciplines which have particularly strong effects on an elder’s own descendants and other higher Generation vampires (which, good little Camarilla vampires should be by virtue of not staking and draining their ancestors). Given the power gap between vampires of 8th and 7th Generation, imagining a hungry Third Generation blood god isn’t a large leap.
Reactions to Gehenna
Vampiric culture is broadly divided on Gehenna. Officially, the Camarilla doesn’t acknowledge Gehenna, Antediluvians, ancient blood gods, or Caine. Conversely, the Sabbat is a Gehenna cult – its raison d’etre is to provide muscle for Caine’s return to judge the (un)dead and the living.
While the Camarilla ostensibly observes a “no-Gehenna” policy, it doesn’t enforce that particularly heavily – princes will use the Book of Nod to justify decisions, and various clans (notably the Nosferatu) openly prepare to defend themselves against their Antediluvian.
Given this, there are a variety of visible (insofar as a paranoid secret-mongering race of nocturnal monsters makes things “visible”) Gehenna cults throughout recorded history. Given that Kindred are on the whole pragmatic, self-interested and secular, these cults can loosely be viewed as making sure that when the Antediluvians come, there will be someone else available to eat. So maybe there isn’t a Caine, but if sacrificing a virgin every Walpurgisnacht ensures that grandsire doesn’t devour your unliving soul, the world can stand a few less virgins.
Gehenna Events
Starting in 1999, Gehenna became a pressing concern for many Kindred. With the appearance of the Red Star and the actual rising of Zapathasura (Ravnos Antediluvian) during the Week of Nightmares, Gehenna stopped being a matter of speculation and more a matter of survival. The Week of Nightmares was a wake-up call for Kindred on both sides of the Gehenna fence.
For the skeptics, Ravnos’ rise was disturbingly violent proof for the existence of Antediluvians (or some kind of unimaginably powerful, vampire-devouring blood God, at which point Noahide distinctions are largely academic). These new events led to an upsurge in Gehenna cults and the purchase of heavy weaponry among the Camarilla vampires.
However, for Gehenna cultists, the results were equally disturbing, most notably for the True Black Hand. For centuries, Gehenna cultists had been waiting for the Antediluvians to return. When one does, it barely lasts a week and during that time, didn’t pay the slightest attention to them. For true believers, this was a horrifying possibility, not just because they might be wrong, but because it may imply that no matter what happens, they might be lunch.
Another in-game mechanic for Gehenna involved misinterpretation of the Book of Nod. The rationale for destroying the Thin-blooded came from the Book of Nod’s prophecy that a rise in high-generation vampires was a sign of Gehenna. However, the actual event was the deaths of large numbers of vampires; since high-generation vampires die easily, they die more often. The constant slaughter of Ravnos in India caused by wars between the Ravnos and the Infinite Thunders Court led directly to [Ravnos]’ rise — a detail unknown to Princes pushing pogroms for the last generations.
Gehenna As Game Tool
Throughout the revisions of Vampire: The Masquerade, Gehenna was an event that was always incoming. Gehenna mythology was progressively elaborated through a variety of supplements, most notably:
Book of Nod, an ostensible transcription of all the major fragments of the original Book of Nod.
Erciyes Fragments A Dark Ages supplement written by C.S. Friedman which provided an alternative description of the events in the Book of Nod.
Time of Thin Blood, a Year of the Reckoning supplement which details the Week of Nightmares, the rise of Gehenna Cults, the thin-blooded and the office of the Scourge.
Gehenna. Well, duh.
Vampire supplements from 1998 onwards are fairly Gehenna heavy, notably Transylvania Chronicles, and The Red Sign.
Gehenna, along with most extensive metaplot was excised from Vampire: The Requiem. Gehenna has always been a bit of an albatross for the Vampire storyline, and the consequent ahistoricality of VtR vampires eliminates that problem by removing both the origin and eventual end of the Kindred.
Gehenna cult
A Gehenna cult is a group of individuals (almost always vampires) that is devoted to influencing events leading up to or during Gehenna, often with the objective or stopping or aiding the Antediluvians. While these cults vary widely and are often in opposition of one another, in general each focuses on one or more similar activities including:
Searching for Noddist lore and prophecies.
Discovering the location and activites of the Antediluvians.
Observing and destroying Methuselah.
Spreading their message and recruiting others.
The term is used somewhat derisively, as most Cainites do not believe in the Antediluvians and many Gehenna cults are pseudo-religious, fanatical, and lacking any trusthworthy information. Many assume that they are created by Elders to dupe younger vampires into unknowingly taking part of their personal schemes. The entire Sabbat could be called a Gehenna cult (and often is by members of the Camarilla), but the term is normally reserved for much smaller groups.
Clan Assamite
Name: Assamite
Plural: Assamites
Pronounciation: ah-sahm’-iyt
Nicknames:
Antediluvian: Haqim
Faction: Independent
Disciplines: Warrior: Celerity, Obfuscate, Quietus, Vizier: Auspex, Celerity, Quietus, Sorceror (Dark Ages): Assamite Sorcery, Auspex, Quietus, Sorceror (Vampire: The Masquerade): Assamite Sorcery, Obfuscate, Quietus.
Organization
1.) Haqim
2.) The Eldest: The office of Eldest began in the Second City as an unofficial honor. When Haqim left for his frequent journeys, he would place one of the his chider in charge of the affairs of his home. After the Children of Haqim founded Alamut, the position became a formal one. The Eldest (colloquially known as “the Old Man” even during the two occasions when a female held the position) was the oldest childe of Haqim interested in directing the clan in the ancestor’s absence. During those times when no fourth-generation Child was available to take the Black Throne, the du’at chose one of their number as Eldest, with the two council members who did not become Eldest choosing the Eldest’s replacement. The Eldest can be deposed by a unanimous challenge from all three du’at members, though this has happened only once in the clan’s recorded history.
As defined, the Eldest is the supreme leader of the Assamites, answerable only to Haqim. Throughout the centuries, though, most have recognized the impossibility of exerting “control” over all their “subjects.” Only a few have tried to bring the dispossessed to heel, and these met with universally dismal ends.
The last Eldest was Jamal, a warrior who held the Black Throne from 1494 to 1998. When ur-Shulgi arose, the ancient chose to test the Children’s loyalty from the top down. Ur-Shulgi claims that Jamal refused to renounce Allah and was thus “sent…to meet his young god.” Jamal was the first Assamite to die in such a fashion, and many schismatic warriors consider him a martyr. Ur-Shulgi refuses to take the mantle of Eldest, referring to Haqim himself by that title.
Ur-Shulgi (refuses to take the mantle, but technically holds it power); formerly Jamal
3.) The Du’at: a council that is traditionally the heads of the three Assamite castes: the Caliph of the warriors, the Vizier of the viziers, and the Amr of the sorcerers. It is the clan’s observed authority on matters of policy. Alamut’s records put the formation of the du’at as a formal body at approximately 2000 B.C. The du’at was the Eldest’s closest circle of advisors, though council members often drew information from their subordinate specialists. The council also collectively arbitrated crosscaste disputes that threatened the stability of the children as a whole.
With the destruction of one member and the subsequent departure of the other two, its unlikely that a du’at will be re-formed in the foreseeable future. Al-Ashrad currently seeks to restructure his followers into an organization more palatable to the Camarilla, and secret clan councils have no place in such a body. Ur-Shulgi refuses to acknowledge a new Caliph, Amr or Vizier among the loyalists, apparently preferring to allow its followers to sort themselves out without its guidance.
The Caliph: The warrior caste’s leader is known as the Caliph. He is, in theory, the greatest combatant among the Children of Haqim, though few Caliphs have been masters of every form of combat. The Caliph’s primary duties are to advise the Eldest on matters that pretain to the defense of the Children as a whole and to guide the warrior caste in its defense of the clan, its holdings and its mortal subjects (when the Assamites had mortal subjects, at any rate). Additionally, should a trial by single combat arise whose outcome affects the entire clan, the Caliph is the Cainite who fights on the Children’s behalf. No records of such an event exist, though the fact that this is the duty of the Caliph suggests that such circumstances arose at least once before.
Culture
Assamites are divided into three castes, which often have a semi-antagonistic relationship with each other. They also have different Disciplines and weaknesses. All Assamites grow dark with age, have access to Quietus as a clan Discipline, and have a weakness related to some form of lust so powerful that it stains their aura.
Warrior Assamites are the primary fighters of the clan. They are the Assamites most likely to take assasination contracts and most likely to adhere to the Path of Blood. When other vampires think of Assamites, they are most likely to picture a warrior.
Younger Warriors typically came from Islamic countries, and may mix the tenants of the Path of Blood with Islamic ideas about holy war. They are often fanatical and ready to die for the cause. Elder Warriors may come from other religions entirely, and see themselves more as judges (and executioners) than as holy warriors or assassins.
Their weakness is an addiction to vampire vitae and an aura stained by diablerie. Even if they have never actually engaged in diablerie, their aura shows their blood lust clearly.
Sorcerors are the the smallest caste, but the second most recognizable. They claim to have practiced sorcery since the time of the Second City and to have been created to counter the dark magic of the Baali.
Their magic is partially based around Babylonian and Sumerian magics, with some more modern components thrown in. Sorcerors usually need to send themselves into some sort of altered state of consciousness in order to focus their magics. This may involve consuming drugs, whirling themselves into a trance, ritually wounding themselves, or even more exotic methods.
Their weakness comes from their lust for magical power. A sorceror’s aura is so stained with magic that there is little way to mistake him for anything else. They also have trouble using powers to hide themselves due to their blazing auras.
Viziers are the least well-known caste, but allegedly the oldest caste (according to them). They are the scholars and artisans of the clan. In many ways, they are similar to the Toreador, but where the Toreador become lost in contemplation, the viziers explode in frenzied creative activity.
Viziers lust after knowledge or artistic perfection. They suffer from an obsessive-compulsive derangement that causes them to pursue their art with the tenacity of a pit bull. A vizier in the throes of his Derangement will persue it to the exclusion of all other activites. His aura will blaze with madness. Vampires with Auspex may be able to discern exactly what it is he so doggedly persues.
The Schism
The Assamite castes split apart during the Schism. Ur-Shulgi demanded that other Assamites give up the worship of other gods and only revere Haqim. This resulted in many Assamites being killed, and many more opting to leave Alamut. Ur-Shulgi was particularly vicious towards Muslim Assamites, and killed several elders for refusing to renounce their faith, including the head of the Warrior caste.
Some Assamites joined the Camarilla. Most of those that joined the Camarilla were viziers and sorcerors. Warriors that joined the Camarilla are generally seen as loose cannons who must be supervised by their more restrained (and non-vitae-addicted) clanmates. Sorcerors in the Camarilla find their skills in high demand as an alternative to dealing with the Tremere.
A small number of Assamites, mostly Warriors, joined the Sabbat. While the Assamite-antitribu who had been with the Sabbat for the last 500 years were entirely from Warrior stock, the Warriors opting to join the Sabbat were not entirely welcomed with open arms. Many of the Assamite-antitribu elders, particularly in the Black Hand, had defected and left the Sabbat to return to the main clan. This meant the Sabbat was not entirely welcoming because of the recent betrayal. Few sorcerors or viziers joined the Sabbat.
Some Assamites chose to go completely independent and avoid all the sects. They also drew away from the main clan, primarily for religious reasons. Few Warriors chose this option. Most Dispossessed Assamites are Viziers or Sorcerors.
Many Assamites stayed with the main clan. Most of these were warriors and sorcerors. Virtually all Assamites on the Path of Blood chose to stay with the main clan.
Embraces
Assamites typically try to embrace someone who will be ‘useful’ to the clan as a whole. This most often means someone who be willing to fight and die for the clan’s (or at least their sire’s) goals. However, during the long period that the clan labored under the Tremere curse, people may also have been embraced for knowledge in a specific (often obscure) area. Typically this had something to do with sorcery or medical research involving blood, but may also have included more obscure areas of research as well.
Assamites typically choose people with somewhat obsessive personalities for the Embrace. As they are typically involved with either hunting down miscreants or conducting obscure research, they tend to be highly motivated individuals. This often results in Assamites picking individuals who are fanatically devoted to a cause, religion, theory, or activity. The various caste flaws and the training they undergo after the Embrace tends to accentuate this even more. Thus Assamites can be said to select childer that will be eager to chase down their prey no matter how long it takes or how far they must go. That prey may be a physical target, an obscure piece of knowledge, or even pursuing the perfection of an art form.
The Assamites draw most of their childer from the Middle East and surrounding areas, but this does not mean they are all Arabs. They also Embrace childer from North African tribes, Persians, central Asia groups such as the Uzbeks and Kazaks, and various Mediterranean groups. Assamites from European or far Eastern ethnic groups aren’t unheard of, but are not common.
When thinking of the Assamites, most other vampires assume they will be Muslim. While they do draw the majority of their childer from the Middle East, and thus Muslim countries, this does not mean all Assamites are Muslims. While most are, and some Assamites from pre-Islamic times converted, it is not considered the official Assamite religion by any stretch of the imagination. Many elder Assamites come from pre-Islamic cultures practicing some form of animism or ancestor worship. Some are Jews, Christians, or Zorastrian, as these were also common in the area before the coming of Islam, and are still present in the modern era, though to a lesser extent. Virtually any religious background is acceptable for an Assamite, being a Muslim is just most likely.
Assamites tend to Embrace more men than women overall. In 1st edition sources, it was even indicated that they did not Embrace women at all until roughly 200 years ago. Later editions refuted this. They still tend to embrace more men than women. The exact ratios have varied with time and depend on caste.
Warriors typically embrace far more men than women, and may be the source of the rumor that the Assamites actually banned embracing women. Women are less likely to have the skills that warriors favor. They also tend to be physically smaller and less aggressive than men. That they were typically married off young and were raising children also limited the number embraced as Warriors. Female warriors thus tend to have unusual skills or backgrounds that lead to their Embrace. Some may have disguised themselves as men to fight, be skilled with more subtle means of assassination (such as poison), or less physical aspects of warfare (such as diplomacy).
Viziers and Sorcerors are less focused on the physical skills of their childer, and thus more likely to embrace women. The number of women embraced waxed and waned based on the overall attitude towards educating women. In periods where women were rarely taught to read or write, they naturally took fewer women. However, even in periods where few people were educated, a vizier might take someone for their skill with art or social acumen, even if they were a total illiterate. Similarly, a sorceror might embrace someone who showed some innate knack for magic, even if they could not write their own name. Childer could be taught to read and write after the Embrace, afterall. Men typically had a head start on education however, making them a more likely choice.
Agewise, Embraces were also skewed by caste. With their emphasis on physical pursuits, Assamite warriors typical favor the young and fit. Thus most warriors with an older physical appearance were propably embraced for their skills with leadership or tactics, rather than raw physical might. Older warriors may also have been embraced for skill in an area that takes a lifetime to master, such as blacksmithing, constructing siege weapons, or more obscure weapons and fighting styles. It is unlikely that a warrior would Embrace anyone with a severe physical problem.
Viziers and Sorcerors typically place greater emphasis on learning and mental skills. While an exceptionally smart or artistically talented individual may catch their eye while still young, they are more likely to select someone who has spent a lifetime learning or perfecting their skills. Thus many sorcerors and viziers may be of an advanced physical age reflecting years of study before their embrace. As Auspex can also help compensate for the slow loss of hearing or sight with age, viziers in particular may consider embracing an individual with a sound mind but infirm body.
Version Differences
The Assamites have gone through MANY revisions. In 1st edition, they were generally presented as an all male fanatical sect of Muslim assassins. In 2nd edition, sorcerors started to make an appearance, but they were poorly defined and a tiny section of the clan.
Vampire: The Dark Ages initially presented them in much the same light as 2nd edition Vampire: The Masquerade. Libellus Sanguinus originally introduced the concept of the three Assamite castes.
Revised edition Vampire presented the Assamites of consisting of the warriors and the “viziers”. In that context, the “viziers” were actually the sorcerors. The three caste system was introduced as “optional” in the Revised edition Assamite clanbook.
Dark Ages: Vampire presented the Assamites as three seperate castes without the disclaimer than the castes are “optional”.
With the version changes, there were also several changes in weakness. 1st and 2nd edition Assamites all suffered from an allergy to vitae due to the Tremere curse and had to tithe vitae to the clan. Revised and Vampire: The Dark Ages Assamites suffered from the Warrior weakness, addiction to vitae. Revised edition “viziers” (sorcerors) had to pay an additional blood point to use Thaumaturgy. Assamites in Libellus Sanguinus, Dark Ages Vampire, and the Revised Assamite clan book have the standard three caste flaws.
In Libellus Sanguinus and Dark Ages: Vampire sorcerors get Assamite Sorcery, Auspex, and Quietus as their primary Disciplines. In the Revised edition Assamite clan book (modern era) they get Assamite Sorcery, Obfuscate, and Quietus. The Viziers and Warriors have the same Disciplines in the Dark Ages and modern era.
In all versions, Assamites grow darker with age.
Clan Brujah
Clan Brujah is largely composed of rebels, both with and without causes. Individualistic, outspoken and turbulent, Brujah hold social change near to their undead hearts, and the clan’s ranks contain some of the most violent of the Camarilla Kindred. Most other vampires perceive the Brujah as nothing more than punks and miscreants, but the truth of the matter is that genuine passion lies behind their polemics.
The Brujah Clan Symbol
Brujah Kindred adopt pet passions and causes, which they support with volume and vitriol. Some brujah follow charismatic members of their clan, while others prefer stances of blatant, defiant individualism. The clan claims a history rich with warrior-poets, and it has adapted this concept into the modern night; many Brujah are glad to have an opportunity to speak their minds, then indulge in a bit of destruction afterwards to illustrate their points. The Rabble’s espousal of change unites them, albeit tenuously, in their nightly crusades. Given a common enemy, Brujah with vastly differing ideals will join side by side to oppose their foe. After that foe is defeated, however, all bets are off and it’s back to business as usual. A common Brujah theme involves the foundation of a Kindred “Utopia,” or the re-creation of a mythical one from nights past, though each Brujah vampire has a different idea of what said Utopia is.
Brujah rely on chaotic behavior and upheaval to get their ideas across, and the Rabble are allowed a certain leeway that other clans do not have. In fact, Brujah are almost expected to be incoherent and bellicose; this stereotype works to the advantage of many eloquent, well-spoken members of the clan, who have no need to resort to violence when making their arguments.
Respected for their martialry and readiness to rally under a banner, the Brujah are the phyisical strength of the Camarilla. Of late, however, many Rabble neonates see their role in the Camarilla as an institution unto itself, and more than a little unrest circulates among the clan.
Sect
The Kindred often think of the Brujah and the Anarchs going hand-in-hand, but in truth, such is rarely the case. While the Brujah may not like the Camarilla, they certainly acknowledge that it serves its purpose. The Brujah are a part of the Camarilla because it gives them an envelope to push and boundaries to test. While the ranks of the Anarchs have no few Brujah, most Brujah consider the Anarchs redundant. If rebellion itself becomes an institution, what point does that rebellion serve?
For this reason, Brujah among the anarchs often tend to fit in one of two distinct camps. For some Brujah, the anarchs are an extension of their own revolutionary sensibilities. Ironically, these Brujah become almost conformists among the anarchs, following strong rebellious leaders and lending their strength to packs and gangs that hold dear similar ideals. This sort of anarch is probably the origin of the leather-clad biker archetype, the anarch who’s a part of it just because it gives him a channel to vent his rage and kick a little ass while he’s at it.
Other Brujah are at the forefront of the struggle, often as idealists or champions of the cause. Their legacy of being the loyal opposition fosters in them a genuine desire to make a change for what they see as the better. These are the gang leaders, the intellectuals, the firebrands — in short, those who shape the struggle with ideas and actions. In this sense, the Brujah are some of the greatest contributors to the anarch cause, if not in numbers, then in its personality and direction.
Brujah among the anarchs tend to either be quite old or very young. Most Brujah Ancillae who were once a part of the anarch cause either grew frustrated with its continual underdog status and eventually settled among the Camarilla or died in some conflagration fighting the injustices of the system. Those wise enough to avoid Final Death and impassioned enough to stave off the “I can’t beat them so I’ll join them” mentality often rise to great heights in anarch esteem. It is a testament to the Brujah legacy of progress, a tribute to their origins as philosopher-kings, that the Brujah make up in fervor and achievement what they lack in numbers among the Anarch Movement
About the Brujah
General Appearance
Brujah vary widely in appearance, though many adopt radical styles and bold looks. If dismissive stereotypes are to be believed, the typical Brujah wears a biker jacket, tattered jeans, combat boots and a fearsome array of high-maintenance hair. In truth, few Brujah fit this image. Youthful, fashion-forward dress and noteworthy hairstyles are indeed found among many Brujah, but others favor tasteful wardrobes that encourage others to take them seriously. In the end, a Brujah’s appearance often suggests his attitudes: A skinhead bravo is likely an open rebel or anarchist, while a bespectacled pedant in a tweed suit is probably a reformationist or liberal. It should be noted, however, that given the Brujah penchant for nonconformity, any assumption of ideals based on appearance could be potentially dangerous. Brujah look how they want.
Usual Havens
Wherever they damn well please. Are you going to tell them to leave?
More so than any other clan, the Brujah keep the company of other vampires, and one haven might house an entire brood. Brujah Kindred also keep multiple safehouses and boltholes, as their conflict-driven exitsences often make single locations inhospitable. Some Brujah Neonates even carry on the urban practice of home invasion, Dominating or killing a home’s occupants and taking over. Like other pursuits, however, home invasions rarely sustain the Rabble’s interest, and the vampires often move on once they grow bored with the locale.
Common Backgrounds
Brujah prefer those who espouse change in one form or another, and often recruit from college campuses, political groups or oppressed minorities. Young Brujah may hail from any background and often have a pet cause or issue of burning personal importance. All types of dissidents find their way into the ranks of the Brujah, from bomb-throwing biker anarchists to vociferous fascists to nihilistic radicals. This is, of course, part of the reason the clan is so disorganized — hatred between Brujah is often more bitter than hatred for those whom they mutually oppose.
Organization
Clan Brujah is far to fractious and torn by internecine conflict to have true organization, and the clan never meets formally. Two conventions the clan does support universally are the Rant and the Rave. Rants are just that: informal meetings of Brujah (and other insurgents, Kindred and Kine) at which anyone who can scream loudly enough can have her opinions heard. Raves, named after the all-night techno dance parties started in England, are social gatherings in the guise of huge-scale musical or entertainment events. One usually leads to another, and clues to the locations of the events are often hidden in the media of the gathering in progress. These meetings almost invariably degenerate into riots, further eroding the organizational base of the clan.
Character Creation
Brujah often have violent, criminal Concepts, but they are as likely to be intellectual or socially adept. Natures and Demeanors tend to be aggressive and similar, as Brujah wear their emotions on their sleeves (when they have sleeves…). Physically predisposed characters are predominant among the clan, but some favor Mental Attributes. Likewise, Skills are favored, with Knowledges running a close second. Any Backgrounds may be appropriate to a Brujah character, though many in the clan cultivate Contacts, Allies and Herd. Very few Brujah claim Mentors.
Clan Disciplines: Celerity, Potence, Presence
Weaknesses
Fiery passion is at once the Brujah’s blessing and curse. Though they are quick to adopt a cause, they are equally as quick to fall to Frenzy. Of course, the Brujah rabidly deny this penchant for excitement, and become quite hostile when the issue is raised. The difficulties of rolls to resist frenzy are two higher than normal for members of Clan Brujah.
Bloodlines
Brujah antitribu of the Sabbat are, ironically, almost bastions of stability. In a sect devoted to chaos and destruction, the Brujah are the most dependable of the monsters who populate the Sabbat. They are viewed less as impassioned rebels and more as brutal shock troops. Sabbat Brujah tend to be less intelligent and discerning than their Camarilla brothers and sisters. Their causes fall by the wayside at the promise of new havoc to wreak.
Little more than a whisper among paranoid Elders, the mysterious bloodline known as the True Brujah are supposedly the original descendants of the Antediluvian of the Clan. Emotionally detached, and possessing some strange ability to manipulate time, these Kindred once served the deadly Tal’Mahe’Ra or True Black Hand, until its fall circa 2000. There are whispers that the bloodline seek out vengeance against the descendants of Troile, who some account as having Diablerized the Brujah founder.
Clan Followers of Set
The Followers of Set are one of the most universily reviled clans. Although not much is known about this secretive clan, much of their lore and history hints at a dark origin.
Clan Disciplines: Obfuscate, Presence, Serpentis
Antitribu
The Serpents of the Light
Notable Followers of Set
Ruhadze, Hesha
Aabbt Kindred
Celine Chevalier
Count Ormonde
Danny Larkshill
Khay’tall, Snake of Eden
Nefertiti
Nehsi
Qufur am-Heru
Samat Ramal-Ra, Archon
Sarrasine
Sir Marriot D’Urban
Sutekh, The Dark God
Non-Canon Notable Followers of Set
Alexander Markova of Portland, Oregon
Clan Gangrel
Name: Gangrel
Plural: Gangrel
Pronounciation: gang’-grehl
Nicknames: Outlanders, Beasts
Antediluvian: Ennoia
Faction: Independent (formerly Camarilla)
Disciplines: Animalism, Fortitude, Protean
gangrel: Middle English, “A vagabond; a drifter.” Possibly from gangen, “to go.”; Nordic myth (the “Prose Edda”, Penguin Classics, by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Jesse Bylock, copyright 2005) – “Gylfi named himself Gangleri, saying he had travelled over trackless paths…”, pg. 10
Theme Song: “Reborn to Be Wild”
Of all the vampires, the Gangrel are perhaps closest to their inner nature. These nomadic loners spurn the constraints of society, preferring the comfort of the wilderness. How they avoid the wrath of the werewolves is unknown; perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the Gangrel are themselves shapeshifters. When a mortal speaks of a vampire changing into a wolf or a bat, she is probably speaking of a Gangrel.
Like the Brujah, Gangrel are fierce warriors; unlike the Brujah, Gangrel ferocity does not stem from anarchic rage, but from animalistic instinct. They are among the most predatory Kindred, and love to lose themselves in the thrill of the hunt. Gangrel have a keen understanding of the Beast in their souls, and prefer to spend their nights in communion with the animals whom they so emulate. Indeed, Gangrel are so attuned to their Beasts that, after losing themselves to frenzy, animalistic features often appear on their bodies.
The clan itself has little contact with, or regard for, the rest of the Kindred. This might be due to a desire to avoid the snares of the Jhyad, but is more likely the product of simple disinterest. Certainly, Gangrel are popularly viewed as quiet, taciturn and reclusive. Although there is no more truth to this than there is to any other stereotype, the clan as a whole displays little of the ostentation found among lines such as the Toreador or Ventrue.
To quote Bertram Tung (Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines): “Gangrel can walk upright. They just choose not to.” Any true Gangrel will take this as a compliment.
Disciplines
The central Bloodline of Clan Gangrel relies upon the Disciplines of Animalism, Fortitude, and Protean. Animalism refers to the ability to communicate with and manipulate the animal kingdom; powerful practioners of this Discipline have also been known to be able to influence humans and even other supernaturals. Fortitude is a vampire’s natural resistance to harm and effects of the environment. Protean has a variety of useful abilities, such as being able to turn oneself into mist or grow bestial claws for battle. Protean has its roots in the ancient Grecian stories of Proteus, a god of the sea that could shapeshift at will. Gaelic myth also makes reference to sorcerers and shaman possessed of “great and protean power”. The aggressive and carnivorous nature of these Disciplines has allowed the Gangrel to survive all over the world. Gangrel possess traits that allow them to tear apart their enemies while avoiding damage from the same, traits that make the Gangrel respected and sometimes feared by other Clans.
“City Gangrel” provide the second most prolific Bloodline, primarily among the Sabbat and younger generations. City Gangrel are predators adapted to a different style of environment – that of the urban jungle. Their Disciplines reflect this change, turning them from hunting predators into ambush predators. Protean, Celerity, and Obfuscate allow them to attack quickly and without warning from the shadows, slaughtering their enemies and fading back into the darkness to strike again.
Obfuscation in particular has proven of great use to the City Gangrel. Given the Clan’s instinct to frenzy, and the animalistic mutations that spawn from it, being able to disguise oneself becomes very important to those vampires surrounded by gun-toting mobs of kine (and sometimes, other Kindred aren’t much better). Coupled with the shapeshifting powers of Protean, some City Gangrel manage to give the Nosferatu a run for their money as spies (or even the occassional contracted killer).
Camarilla Gangrel, as a necessity of existence, sometimes opt to learn about the Domination or Presence Disciplines. In salons and meeting rooms, it is considered poor form to beat the nearest snot-nosed Toreador into submission, so sometimes a more subtle route of establishing dominance is required. Sabbat Gangrel might be interested in learning the basics of Vicissitude for the same benefits as Obfuscation – or at least to “know thy enemy” where the Tzimisce are concerned. Low-key rituals of Blood Magic have been taught to the few Gangrel that serve as pack Ducti or Prisci by Tremere antitribu. Beckett is believed to know a few rituals that he has found useful in his archeological studies. Elder Gangrel have likely picked up a few tricks that help them survive in the Final Nights, but – depending on their mental state – may be unwilling or unable to share them with younger Clan members.
History
Dark Ages
Image:http://www.white-wolf.com/darkspiral/ASSETS/VTDA clan shields/Gangrel.jpgVery few records are kept of the Gangrel during the Dark Ages, for obvious reasons. What is known has been passed down from sire to childe for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. The Gangrel have a bloody Clan rivalry with the Tremere, since the Tremere are believed to have used Gangrel in experiments to create the Gargoyles. Sometimes, the Gangrel and Tzimisce make alliances of convenience against the Tremere, but these pacts seem to disintegrate with relative ease once the immediate threat has been dealt with.
The Gangrel are most often found in populations that make their homes in Northern Europe – Nordic tribes (modern day Denmark, Sweden, Norway), the Picts (Scotland), the Welsh (England), and the Celts (Ireland). Given the Clan’s propensity to wander, Gangrel can be found among peoples in almost any region, including the “Anda” from Mongolia, scattered communities in Africa, and various other individuals brought into the Clan from all over the Old World.
During the time of the Inquisition, those Gangrel that travel close to cities are often singled out as being “spawn of the devil” – sometimes by other vampires. Like the Nosferatu and Tzimisce, the Gangrel grow to be some of the most obviously inhuman monsters of the night. Ventrue, Toreador, and Lasombra Princes, eager to set the hounds of the Inquisition on another trail, are willing to sacrifice members of the “Low Clans” to prove their own piety. It never helps that most Gangrel are Embraced from populations that follow religions other than Christianity; as such, they are just as often hunted down by for being pagans as much as they are for being vampires. Often, this persecution comes at the hands of Clans that took to Catholicism – the Ventrue and Lasombra. These attitudes merely confirm a long-held belief of the Gangrel: the other Clans aren’t worth the trouble, and most of them are backstabbing, holier-than-thou curs to boot.
Victorian Age
In the rapid growth of cities and technology that marked the Victorian Age, very few Gangrel had any interest in staying in towns and hamlets that became industrial centers almost overnight. Additionally, though there were few documented cases of mortals possessing “true faith”, the growth of religious influence made many Gangrel cringe, wary of another round of the vicious Inquisitorial practices of the Dark Ages. Only the scholar and theology debator Beckett was known to have any regular dealings with “proper” Kindred society during this period; most other clanmembers hied it to the wilderness to wait out this newest burst of human ingenuity and religious fervor.
There is some debate that this period in time saw the rise of the “City Gangrel” bloodline. Gangrel historians point to the Victorian Age as a “new era in Gangrel evolution”, arguing that just as mortals grew more urban-centric and technologically skilled, so too did the Gangrel adapt to hunting in cities with larger concentrations of Kindred and Kine. It was also seen as the very beginnings of Gangrel as political and economic powers. The old, out-of-the-way regions rich in metal and fuel resources fell directly under the province of Gangrel packs and elders. Even if they did not profit directly from such findings, the influx of mortals with loose morals proved good feeding; likewise, richer persons moving to the country to get away from the city light and noise may have found themselves automatically under the supervision of Gangrel trying to hold on to their territory.
Final Nights
The Gangrel survive and thrive in the Final Nights, as is their wont. In 1999, Xaviar, the last surviving Gangrel Justicar, removed his entire Clan from obedience to the Camarilla, calling the Inner Council liars and manipulators. However, as is usual for the Clan, each member has decided for him- or herself where their allegiances lie, and many have stayed with the sect. Others, now freed from the Traditions, find purpose in their unlives as members of the Sabbat or do as they damn well please as Independents.
In the Final Nights, several Gangrel have made names for themselves as warriors and survivors. In California, one Rick “Gentle” is believed to have destroyed the Camarilla Prince of Los Angeles, and rumor has it he’s undertaken a crusade to wipe out Kuei-Jin influence from the West Coast. Ramona, a young female Gangrel, has taken it upon herself to spread the word of what really happened in New York in 1999 – the event that caused Xaviar to remove the Clan from the Camarilla. Xaviar himself has gone into hiding, and many young Gangrel attempt to seek him out and join his pack of followers. Karsh, Warlord of the Camarilla, has taken Xaviar’s defection as a personal insult, and punishes any “wayward” or “traitorous” Gangrel with a heavy hand. Beckett went missing for a few months in the mid-2000s, and since he has shown up again, his skeptical attitude about Gehenna and the destruction of the world appears to have evaporated; now he is a major agitator for preparing against the End Times. Mark Decker remains Prince of Milwaukee, holding off the near-nightly attacks of Lupines from the Great Lakes region, keeping nominal ties with the rest of the Camarilla when given the chance. A group calling itself the Valkyrie (led by one “Brunhilde”) have sent representatives around the world from their home base in Scandinavia. These Gangrel warrior-women believe that Ragnarok is nigh, and are preparing the Clan so that they may survive the Twilight of the Gods. Little has been heard from the wise elder Inyanga, but it is assumed that she is on another one of her world tours, perhaps back home to her native Africa.
Organization
Antitribu
Strictly speaking, as of 1999, there are no Gangrel “antitribu”, since the Gangrel are no longer officially tied to any of the major factions. Die-hards among the Camarilla still refer to Gangrel that have joined the Sabbat as “traitors” and “malcontents” – but then, they probably called the Gangrel that anyway.
The most (in)famous member of Clan Gangrel in the Sabbat is Jalan-Aajav, the leader of the elite Black Hand.
City Gangrel and Other Bloodlines
The City Gangrel most likely split from the main Clan sometime during the mid-to-late 1800s. Certainly no Gangrel before then evinced the same combination of Disciplines as the City Gangrel do – Celerity, Obfuscate, and Protean. Gangrel are free to study and adopt other Disciplines just as any other vampire is, but Clan Bloodlines generally include Fortitude and/or Protean at the very least. Regional adaptations in the disciplines of shapeshifting and survivability are common, resulting in variations on the basic Clan Bloodline.
Elder Gangrel – those who have been around for a few hundred years – tend to look upon the City Gangrel with some suspicion, since this Bloodline marks a definite departure from the standard “old blood” of the Clan. Camarilla Gangrel, at least, have good cause to be wary, as most City Gangrel tend to arise from the Sabbat.
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A story related by Klaudius Reichmann, a German 9th-generation Gangrel. One may assume that he is a “Country” Gangrel:
“There was once a City Gangrel and a Country Gangrel. The Country Gangrel invited the City Gangrel out to his estate on the banks of the Rhine. They had a grand time of it – drinking, entertaining, hunting for sport. The City Gangrel had such a good time that she invited the Country Gangrel to her townhouse in the city. The Country Gangrel arrived, and the City Gangrel took him out for a night on the town. They were ambushed by a group of hunters, and the Country Gangrel barely escaped with his life. Later, he found out that the City Gangrel had negotiated with the hunters in an attempt to have the Country Gangrel killed so that she could take over his property on the Rhine.
The moral of this story is: don’t ****ing trust the City Gangrel!”
Culture
Gangrel reject the idea of a clan-wide “culture”, instead relying on meetings of clanmembers called “althings” (from the ancient meeting capitol of Iceland) or “gatherings” to share news and reinforce unity between individuals and Clan. Clan loyalty is important to the Gangrel, primarily because only other Gangrel can potentially understand exactly what it is each clanmember goes through as part of their clan “flaw”. Even though they are considered outcasts among proper Kindred society, the idea of a pack or herd comes naturally to the animalistic Gangrel, and these gatherings are as much social affairs as they are political or martial. Aside from gatherings, however, most Gangrel are content to let each other alone. After all, too many predators cooped up in one space for too long only begs for trouble and bloodshed.
Gangrel are predators in the most literal sense (or at least scavengers). Rites of combat to establish hierarchy are common place when Gangrel first meet. Only very rarely are these carried out to the death; generally only sect rivals are willing and eager to risk ashing a fellow clanmember. These rites are instead used to create a pecking order – the more clanmembers you defeat, the more influence you have at the gathering. Anything from simple staring contests to all-out, no-holds-barred brawls have been known to occur, but once the order is established, it is likely adhered to strictly – younger clanmembers, especially, do not have any particular desire to be beaten again. It is considered bad form to use guns or other weapons; if a Gangrel can’t survive and fight with her own two fists, then they’re obviously not well-equipped to make it in the World of Darkness. Weapons can always be lost or taken, but claws are forever.
Gangrel views on property vary widely from clanmember to clanmember. Some are very territorial, and refuse to allow anyone else to use what is “theirs”. Others adopt a more easy-going attitude: “I’m done using it, so here you go.” The only universal constant in Gangrel possessiveness seems to be with prey and kills. If a Gangrel is interrupted during feeding, they grow especially rude and prone to violence (even for Gangrel). Likewise, if a clanmember interferes in another’s duel, there is a fair chance that instead of being thanked for their help, they’ll be next on the victor’s list for needing a good smackdown. Pushy, greedy vampires are no-one’s friend, and in Clan Gangrel, those are useless personality tics that need to be beaten out.
Given the distinctly rural nature of Clan Gangrel, the observer may be surprised to learn that many higher-generation Gangrel are adept at managing modern technology such as cell phones, computers, and cutting-edge vehicles. Clan Gangrel has realized that knowledge of technology is an important aspect of survival in the modern nights, and even the eldest Gangrel know how to work a microwave.
As a Clan made up of mostly independent and self-assertive vampires, Clan Gangrel has a healthy respect for the individual. This said, there is widespread prejudice against Clans such as the Toreador (who are regarded as effeminates that don’t dare to be what they are), the Ventrue (who have taken on the worst aspects of humanity, and discarded the better animal traits), and the Tremere (whom the Gangrel just plain don’t like). This respect is tempered by a keen awareness of the relative power between individuals. “Omega” Gangrel, like wolves of the same rank, are not quite second-class citizens, but they are as close as the comparatively progressive Gangrel come. Likewise if, as an individual, someone chooses to point a gun at a Gangrel, the Gangrel will, as an individual, take appropriate offense and make aggressive attempts to en
you read it. The Gangrel will make aggressive attempts to en. They’ll en all day if they have to.
It’s my fault the Skyrim street date broke…
see?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/skyrim-being-sold-in-select-stores-across-australia-street-break-could-be-imminent/comment-page-3/#comments
It’s rather hard to not put my head down and sleep until home time. Especially now that the person I share an office with has gone home for the day.
Tonight shall be an interesting night if we play TF2 or do a KvK with commentary…
Duck season!
I’ve been fighting so hard to avoid doing that, cause I felt it would ruin Skyrim slightly.
Turns out it didn’t, because SKYRIM!
Have just been invited to a Bruce Campbell appreciation night at a workmates – playing will be Army of Darkness and Bubba Hotep. They told me to feel free to bring booze and crash the night – I wonder if they know what they’re in for.
AoD gets a lot of fan love, but I think my favourite in the series is Evil Dead 2 – the first was a bit too film-school-project for me and AoD kinda gives up on the scary stuff and goes all out for the comedy angle.
Fun Factoid You Probably Already Knew: There are two different endings to AoD.
So, because I couldn’t go and get Skyrim yet, I played some more Dark Souls. Just defeated the Bell Gargoyles, was still human due to my awesome not dying run yesterday so I summoned some help and they took the boss on directly, leaving me space to be able to spam the bosses with Pyromancy. This made it the easiest Boss ever!
Now I’m having trouble deciding where to go next.
I went to Darkroot Gardens after the Gargoyles. (Back past the blacksmith.)
What Soul Level are you? I did a bit of farming in that area (mostly from the knights) both for SL and to upgrade weapons/armour.
Yeah I thought of that, but from what I saw of my husband doing that area, it was pretty scary. I have the Basement Key so I’m tempted to try the lower Undead Burg also.
And I have no idea what Soul Level I am. Maybe 19 I think?
Heh, I found Lower Undead Burg way more challenging (although I die all the time while playing – doesn’t bother me too much to be hollow 😛 )
I don’t think I’ve ever been Human, actually.
Being undead isn’t so bad.
A lot of people still treat you the same.
Same working conditions as everyone else.
Put on some armour and people won’t even notice your decayed flesh.
Once they invent soap in the land of Dark Souls (is it still Boletaria?), the undead are going to see a lot more discrimination.
Here, take this red soapstone…
How’d you get so far? I’m as far as you.
I had hired help for the Garg’s too. Not sure where to go now either (It’s all too scary).
Luck, and being a scaredy cat.
I think my run yesterday on a normal day would have taken me a few of my son’s naptimes to get through, I have no idea how I managed not to die. I still haven’t died.
I think I am getting over my being scared of people thing. I went to the shopping centre by myself and had a conversation with a bunch of people about skyrim. Next fear to conquer all other things
Good for you!!
Although your success is really dependant on people wanting to talk about it 😉
I’m not trolling. I just imagine you walking up to random groups of people and saying “So how bout that Skyrim??”
There I was, walking through Woden, when I passed a guy saying “I can’t play Skyrim 24/7” and I very almost yelled “YES YOU CAN!” at him, but I didn’t.
Cool Story.
I just find it funny that Skyrim – a single player, large-timesink game, actually helped someone expand their social experience. 😀
I’m a stone’s throw away from finishing Uncharted (I had to finish my session last night prematurely because my family members got angsty about the amount of angry swearing I was doing), I already finished with Batman and my Skyrims are at least a week away.
This means I’m going to have to dig into the pile of shame for the first time since about September! :O
I was sorely tempted a few times. Goddamn settlement in the desert. Interminable, completely unfun and absolutely pointless to the plot as well 🙁
Stick with it. There are more annoyances coming (but also some cool bits!), and I think the very last cutscene makes it worth it.
I’ve noticed this a few times…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/man-shoves-xbox-360-down-his-pants-gets-tasered/
http://kotaku.com/5858129/man-stuffs-xbox-down-pants-tased-for-his-troubles
AU one was > 4 hours before the US one…
Is the USAU cross-posting/attribution thing only one-way? ಠ_๏
Who’s going to have a terribad day at work tomorrow after staying up way too late playing Skyrim??
WOOOOO!!!
We’ll be playing with friendly fire on right?
I didn’t mean to kill you, I was spy checking!
I got Skyrim as soon as it was street broken, just been playing for about 3 hours now. It’s so AWESOME!
Seems the Encyclopaedia in the AssRev Animus Edition is paperback…
The picture makes it look like a hardcover.
Sneaky bastards…
Got my Skyrim EB Steelbook dealie.
I have decided that all games should come in Steelbook cases from now on.
Also, I’m thinking of using the accompanying Skyrim notebook to record the story.diary of my first character. Thoughts?
I got a steelbook/case edition of Yakuza 4.
A bit cheap feeling but it is a heckuvalot nicer than the regular PS3 plastic cases.
Also my PC version of Bioshock came in a steel case. That was nice too.
Yeah, I really like steelbook cases, too. I prefer them over both plastic cases and artbooks that double as a case (looking at YOU, Arkham City).
Yeah, that Arkham City artbook = game case thing was weird.
Also weird is the fact that Skyrim came in a plastic case, but an empty Steelbook case came with it. So now I have an empty plastic Skyrim case…
When I got the Arkham City CE… I mean… when a good friend of mine who is definitely not me got the Arkham City CE, they had a few moments of terror thinking the game was not bundled in the packaging at all. Also, the animated BD disc took a few days to actually discover.
I was going to write my own tales and post them here, like I did with LA Noire, but then I saw this book, and it’s so shiny, so I was considering the same thing. :/
So, I went down to Woden, picked up Skyrim, the fourth book in the Inheritance Cycle, and I was going to grab “A Dance with Dragons,” but the store didn’t have it, so slightly less draconic than I wanted, I walked home.
Only to find that I left my keys inside.
/facepalm
At least I got to start reading Inheritance.
Finished Game of Thrones, was going to wait until watching the TV series until reading Clash of Kings. Changed my mind.
Then I discovered that the Coles near the train station is significantly better than the one on the main road that I’ve been going to since moving here. Like woah, what is this? Range? Giant sections full of meat and bread? Yes please.
Shame I had to carry my loot home. Lousy Smarch weather.
: (
Allow me just one moment to explain this please, Trjn; there is no mystery here.
Hobos frequent train stations. Hobos steal meat and bread products from supermarkets. It makes sense the “train station Coles” would provide the hobos with the kind of selection they so often demand from the very capitalist system that stole their “metaphorical” meat and bread products in the first place; this is the cyclical nature of financial/economic ecosystems.
The water runs down from the mountain into the ocean and then evaporates into the sky before precipitating again atop the the far away wild mountain river. Just as the hobo leaves the train station, mistakenly ends up in Coles before again returning to the train station. This is the nature of all things.
And this is the basic Coles business model: steal “metaphorical” bread and meat products from the hobos, open attractive supermarket near train station, let them steal back what is rightfully theirs.
It’s basic supply and demand: “supply” hobos with an adequate range of meat and bread to discreetly tuck into their rucksacks or “secret trouser compartments” and they will “demand” cigarettes from the people outside the supermarket. Then, the potential shopper, having forfeited their cigarette stock, is not unlike the water drop again returning to the mountain top. The end closest to the beginning, the best Coles closest to the train station.
The machinations of the corporate swine are not without homeless motivations.
Occupy the train station (and maybe Coles later on, I mean, if we run out of cigarettes or something),
Plainview *do you have any spare change?*.
oxxox
I enjoyed listening to this, CrabJiffy. I mean, I don’t know what it was I was listening to as such, but I enjoyed it all the same.
Do you think perhaps the gentleman in the video could’ve gone to greater effort with regard to his attire? I think his sartorial enthusiasms are tepid if not altogether without any kind of motivation. Entirely without direction. It’s not a big deal. Frank Sinatra didn’t sing to Las Vegas in his swimming trunks, that’s what I mean to say.
Also, and more importantly . . . i love you.
Tally-ho,
Plainview.
So, I went to Harvey Norman and got my Skyrim. Just had to tell them my name, didn’t need to worry about the numbers they’d told were so important I had to write them down. 😛 Also got a cute little poster in a tube. The “cloth” map is not cloth though. Not at all. So I can’t sew it into something awesome to wear. 🙁
Now I have to wait until dinner’s done and the kids are in bed before I can play. It’s kind of torture!
Also, why is something that’s supposed to be a “pre-order bonus” sealed inside the gamecase?!
Quote from Bethesda:
“The map is a high-grade material that has a feel similar to burlap, and will be available in North America and Europe. There will be a regular paper map included in all copies of the game, but if you want to get the premium map, we recommend pre-ordering the game.”
STOP BEING SUCH A DICK, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.
But…but…what else am I supposed to do? I’m the bad guy!
Noodles. You change your name to Noodles, that’s the first step. Noodles is a happy name, that’s kind of the point. Step two: you become Noodles. There is no Blue Screen of Death; only Noodles. Step three: ask yourself, “What would Noodles do?”
Is ‘Blue Noodles of Death’ close enough?
Uh-Huh. Yes.
So we don’t count as Europe? I guess there was no reason to pre-order then if we don’t get any freebies, at least I didn’t get anything.
Got two books from GAME but man am I cheesed about that map.
My ability to join in on TF2 tonight may be somewhat hampered by my inability to log into steam…Oh wait, it’s working now…
WHY STEAM WHY?? WHY MUST YOU UPDATE AT A SPEED OF 1% EVERY TWO MINUTES?! GAH!
I think I was playing Uncharted yesterday with a very negative mindset (ha!) because I picked it up just now and finished the last hour and a half or so, and had no real issues aside from some frustrating aiming problems due to the aim bug making using scoped weapons a bit annoying. I’m wondering if maybe a lot of my problem in earlier areas was simply trying to force my way through a bad route rather than eg searching for some more powerful limited-ammo weapons like the higher-end pistols or the M-32. And then getting angry that I was dying from doing it wrong. I wish it gave me the bolt-action sniper rifle more often, that thing is actually fun.
So in conclusion, I should probably avoid Demon’s / Dark Souls. 🙁
okay so… what i’ve managed to prove tonight:
i don’t suck in strategy games… i suck in games… all games… ever… BUT AT LEAST IT’S CONSISTENT… thanks for the games guys it was fun…
Yeah, great game everyone. Loved the mix of players, wish we has a couple more 😛
Definitely have to do it again, once we work a timetable around SKYRIM!!!!!!
Was this a League of Legends match? I’m kinda tempted to try it out, but games like that scare me cause I never know how to operate them 🙁
it was good fun… except there was this jerk that kept capping me…. what was his name again? *glares at rize*
*BANG*
Thanks fah standin’ still, wankah! *waves*
Sniper <3 Might see if my mate will lend me some sniper stuff
I kinda half finished that sentence. Oh well. I forget what I was gonna say anyway.
Ah poo! I was busy *sigh* TF2 is fun, fun, fun! Needs more hats though, my hat fetish is not satisfied yet!
Things didn’t go so well on my end, but I’m sure everyone else had fun :p
That being said, 900 ping Huntsman Sniper is good times.
As long as you have fun doing it my little viking friend
Sorry I missed it, but dinner with the wife for her birthday clashed and it was over and done with by the time I got online. Hopefully I will be able to make the next one
Since I have work tomorrow I’ve dumped the LOLReplay I recorded from the game we just had…
http://www.mediafire.com/?ala6h5d16mta7hk
If someone wants to record it or whatever that’s cool. I can do it myself but it will take a while as I have a late one tomorrow.
So Skyrim is out. Do we now get to spam about a decent game?
*ahem*
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We’re out of regular black tea at work. Had to make do with Earl Grey. With milk and sugar. Because THAT’S how I roll!
Classy new page get!
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Okay, that’s the last time I’ll do that. It was annoying as hell when it was Skyrim, it’ll be annoying when it’s Zelda.
That’s right.
ANNOYING.
I think it’s only annoying if you’re not excited for a game. I didn’t find the Skyrim ones annoying because they just got me more excited for the game.
I’m looking forward to Skyward Sword but I’m more then happy to wait so yours aren’t really doing anything for me. Plus, they’re longer than almost all the Skyrim ones were. 😛
I find it annoying even if I am excited for a game 😛 And there were “SKYRIM” spans a lot longer then my Zelda ones.
And you have me confused. “more then happy to wait”? You must be mistaken. I was talking about Zelda. You know, ZELDA!
A new Zelda game.
I’m sure this misunderstanding is all cleared up and you realise that, being ZELDA, this is a day one purchase.
Because Zelda.
SKYRIM SWORD: THE RUN VS CAPCOM REVELATIONS 3?
I fully endorse this, Dr What.
I am really hyped for Skyward Sword!!!! So there is nothing wrong with that post.
…
Actually it could USE MOAR SKYWARD SWORD!!!!!!!111!!!1!
i saw a movie like that once…
not what i was expecting, but they had free popcorn so i stayed
Finished Uncharted 3 last night. ROT13 analysis:
V yvxrq gur tnzr, ohg va grezf bs urneg-guhzcvat, zvaq-oybjvat frgcvrprf, vg ybfrf bhg gb vgf cerqrprffbe. Gurer jrer nyfb frireny haarprffnel frpgvbaf gung nqqrq yvggyr/abguvat gb gur fgbel, yvxr gur cvengr fuvc frpgvba, ohg guvf vf abguvat arj gb Hapunegrq 🙂
Jura Angr fgnegrq qvttvat vagb gur jngre va gur crahygvzngr puncgre, V uvg gur qbqtr ohggba nobhg n qbmra gvzrf. “ANGR”, V jnagrq gb fubhg, “jung ner lbh qbvat qevaxvat jngre gung lbh lbhefrys nqzvggrq vg’f jrveq gb svaq urer???” Yb naq orubyq, Angr jrag penml naq unq gb svtug fbzr sver qrzbaf.
Va grezf bs gur Angr/Fhyyl fgbel, V’q fnvq gb zlfrys rneyvre gung nsgre nyy gur frg-hc (“Fhyyl jbhyq sbyybj lbh gb gur raqf bs gur rnegu. Qba’g nfx uvz gb” rgp) vg jbhyq or n znwbe fgbelgryyvat sbyyl vs Fhyyl qbrfa’g trg uvzfrys xvyyrq.
V oerngurq n fvtu bs eryvrs va puncgre 21 jura Fhyyl tbg fubg, naq tebnarq jura ur ghearq hc nyvir… gubhtu uvf qvnybthr va gur ynfg puncgre jnf fghaavatyl shaal: “Guvf vf jul jr pna’g unir avpr guvatf!” Fhyyl fubhgf nf gur ragver napvrag pvgl pehzoyrf nebhaq gurz. Nyfb, gur svany phgfprar znqr zr nyy zvfgl-rlrq, naq cebonoyl erqrrzrq gur ragver tnzr sbe zr, naq V jrag gb orq jvgu n fzvyr va zl urneg.
Birenyy, vg ebfr nobir vgf synjf fbzrubj, naq V’z zber guna unccl V cynlrq vg guebhtu.
Thanks to Strange, I now have Demon’s Souls, which is next on my play-list. I think it will be a bit jarring going from a game with very forgiving checkpoints and a generally easygoing difficulty level (spikes notwithstanding) to Demon’s Souls… we’ll see how it goes 🙂
Oh yeah, SPOILERS. Kind of implicit in the ROT13, but just in case… the above has SPOILERS for the ending!!
My *SPOILERS* thoughts on Uncharted 3:
Qvq nalobql rkcrpg vg gb gbc Hapunegrq 2? V ybirq Hapunegrq 2 orpnhfr vg jnf n uhtr yrnc sebz HP1, naq unq znal nznmvat frdhraprf, naq gurl anvyrq zber be yrff rirel nfcrpg bs vg. Hapunegrq 3 jnf n snagnfgvp tnzr va zl bcvavba, ohg V qvqa’g rawbl vg nf zhpu nf HP2. Hapunegrq 2 envfrq gur one, Hapunegrq 3 zrg gur one. Vg qvqa’g znxr uhtr yrncf sbejneq, ohg V gubhtug gur npgvba cvrprf jrer ernyyl tbbq. HP2 unq gur pbyyncfvat ohvyqvat naq gur genva, HP3 unq gur Cynar, Pehvfr fuvc, gur qrfreg, gur ubefvrf, gur pungrnh; V ybirq vg.
Fgbel jvfr, V nyjnlf gubhtug gur fgbel jnf nyjnlf n ovg jrnx. HP2 naq HP3 unq zru fgbevrf, ohg, orpnhfr rirelguvat ryfr (gur phgfprarf/punenpgre qrirybczrag rgp) jnf fb jryy cbyvfurq gung V xvaq bs qvqa’g pner nobhg vg. Jub jnf Gnyobg? Jul ner gurl nsgre gur jngre guvat vs Gnyobg pna nyernql qb gung fghss? Qba’g ernyyl tvir n fuvg gubhtu, orpnhfr gung’f xvaq bs jung V’ir pbzr gb rkcrpg va Hapunegrq. Ohg fghss yvxr jura Phggre arrqrq gb gbc hc uvf zvahgrf, jura Qenxr erfgf uvf urnq va ryranf ync be fgnegf ubyqvat fhyyl’f unaq: vg’f fghss yvxr gung vf jung znxrf Hapunegrq fb tbbq sbe zr.
Birenyy gubhtu, v gubhtug Hapunegrq 3 vf n oevyyvnag tnzr, naq bar bs zl snibhevgrf V’ir cynlrq guvf lrne. Abg TBGL, ohg fgvyy n oevyyvnag tnzr.
Er: Gnyobg
Lrnu!
Gurer jnf gung gvzr Phggre fubg uvz ohg ur fubjrq hc 2 zvahgrf yngre cresrpgyl svar.
Gura ur zvaq pbagebyyrq Phggre naq gura qvfnccrnerq.
V gubhtug gurl jrer tbvat gb gel yvax vg gb fhcreangheny gurzrf, ohg va gur raq gurl whfg… raqrq hc abg rkcynvavat vg?
V jvfurq gurl chyyrq gur pnzren onpx naq lbh’yy frr Gnyobg whfg uvqvat haqrearngu n yrqtr, ubcvat gb tbq gung Qenxr qbrfa’g frr uvz.
Take it slowly and always keep your shield up when going around a corner. And if you want it to be easier at the beginning, play as a Royal.
Also, http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/ is your best friend.
Royal it is. Thanks. 🙂
I might refer to the wiki eventually, but I think I’ll let the game surprise and frustrate me for a while first!
Following on from Shane’s comment… more Uncharted end game spoilers :
Ab znggre ubj gur tnzr gryrtencurq Fhyyl’f nccnerag qrngu, gur fprar jurer ur trgf fubg V guvax jnf qbar oevyyvnagyl. V jnf gehryl fubpxrq ng gur noehcgarff bs vg naq jnf uvg ernyyl uneq ol Fhyyl’f ynfg jbeqf ‘…jung?’
cebccre grnewrexre zngrevny & vaperqvoyl jryy-jevggra.
Gehr. V jnf yvxr. Bu fuvg. Gurl xvyyrq Fhyyl? ZBGURES****EF! V JVYY PUNFR LBH QBJA! Naq gura Qenxr fgnegrq punfvat gurz qbja. Avpr.
Nterrq. Gur ‘qrngu fprar’ jnf irel pbby, va gung gurl ersenvarq sebz purrfl ynfg jbeqf.
Naq gur rafhvat onggyr jnf bar va juvpu V ena nebhaq yvxr n yhangvp, oynfgvat thlf ng cbvag oynax enatr whfg orpnhfr V svtherq Angr jnf gbb natel gb gnxr pbire… naq V qb yvxr gung gur tnzr yrg zr qb vg, naq rira rapbhentrq vg jvgu gubfr jrveq synzr-urnqrq thlf gryrcbegvat nebhaq.
NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN! NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN!
So, who did everyone create in Skyrim?
My hero is the descendent of my Khajiit from Oblivion out to seek fortune and glory like his ancestor. Looking like I will end up as a light armored warrior-mage.
It’s Skyrim, so I couldn’t go past ‘Nord’.
I couldn’t make him as pretty as I wanted though, all the nose and mouth options sucked. 🙁
I’m an Imperial who clubs things with maces. I found it quite difficult to customise my character’s face because of the lack of lighting on the right side of the face. Or maybe its just my TV, dunno.
No, the whole thing was pretty difficult to see, especially as you say the right side of the face. I found it rather frustrating.
Of course. and up as well. The right side of the face was never very clear though.
Fair enough, did not bother me that much but I guess fine details are not that noticeable when you are covered in fur and giant sideburns.
I tend to make my characters bald and clean-shaven while I’m making their face, and then put hair back on them afterwards.
Made a Nord fighter and had a quick stomp around last night, though I’ll probably hit the game much harder with a Khajiit or Bosmer ranger.
Nord…
I don’t really know about his speciality yet… but given my love of loot he’ll probably be a thief with some mad bow and lockpicking skills. So far though I’ve been using a sword and shield like a diva.
soooo 111111… isn’t something meant to happen today? something big?
oh wait, yeah someone screwed it up so now it isn’t happening anymore… i are disappoint
are we not supposed to have high fived an comet/asteroid by now? or been decimated by some dramitic change in the weather aka nukestorm? or do i have to wait for 11.11am/pm? or is it australian time or american time?
i’m pretty sure that at 11.11am 111111 i giant purple dildo is meant to slingshot around the planet…
so look to the skies…
true story
More like people at work who just want to play Skyrim will talk abnout wanting to play Skyrim.
Those who are playing Skyrim probably won’t come up for air for a while.
that would probably be the most accurate statement i think…
i myself am holding off till i’ve built my new computer so i can enjoy the gorgeous world at full blast…
if i got it now it would eat away in the back of my mind that while it looks good it could/should be prettier
I’m more excited for AssRev to come out. I think i’ll get hyped for Skyrim when I have 2 months of holidays before uni to play skyrim and witcher 2.
I have a question for the TAY regulars, or anyone really.
I may be showing my ignorance, but what is the origin of the name Kotaku?
It sounds Japanese, but I dont speak that language & my interpreter (google) isnt working today.
I always assumed it was a derivation of ‘otaku’ which Otacon explains at unreasonable length in Metal Gear Solid.
If Mark had named Kotaku, I would put money on this being its meaning.
tl;dr: I don’t know.
I think Kotaku is kind of supposed to be a pun on ‘otaku’ meaning fanboy/nerd and ‘ko’ meaning eternity… but since it’s not a real word I’m only guessing.
FOREVER ALONE.
Enjoying Skyrim, but man it is HARD.
I played last night, and this dragon roasted me on a bridge after some undead archers nailed me with arrows.I died.
Then some mutant rats attacked me and I don’t take them too seriously UNTIL THEY POISON ME and I die.
And then I fought this giant boar that was armor plated, but I killed it! In one attempt as well 😀
Oh wait, I’m playing Dark Souls.
Well, is it coincidental that that has all happened to me in Skyrim? Exlcuding the armour plating on the boar…
My housemate decided to go say hello, and not attack this giant in a campsite…. He got killed in 3 seconds.
at first i was like SKYRIM!… then i was 0.o
now i wanna play Dark Souls…
…
i should probably buy it first…
…
now i just need to find money…
Everyone – please check your emails, if you haven’t already done so.
I have mailed out the details for the KKP – hope to see you all on there soon!
I found true love last night.
It was such a special night, though I knew that I had found the love of my life, boy was I nervous.
Everything felt new and more beautiful, but as you know new can be scary.
But as the night progressed, my feelings of joy grew by leaps and bounds.
And as the night came to an end, I knew that I had found my one true love.
So, my new found treasure, the light in my life, the joy in my heart, the love of my life, I now scream your name from the rooftops, so that the whole world may know of my true love.
SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
Oh, and that is the last time I will do that I swear.
Mainly because I will be to busy playing SKYRIM! to be able to post something like that.
go forth and conquer my fellow Barbarian, may your ventures be fruitful and woman plentiful…
we’ll miss you…
*sobs*
and now to capture the turkey… or a chicken i suppose would do too 😛
A few quick questions:
Is there a way to turn off the weight limits?
Does the charectors weight effect how much they can carry?
How come I can’t ‘quick travel’ out of a dungeon if I’ve killed everyone?
Are there seperate exits to each dungeon, or do I have to back track to the entrance?
Does money have a weight?
hey,
i don’t mean to be too straight forward…
but i think i love you… VIKING STYLE!
i want to have your brain babies
*puts on viking helmet*
wow, people usually scream and run away in terror…
alright then… HAVE AT IT
*charges forward like a rampaging bull*
..
man that was great.. how was it for you?
should- should i buy you breakfast or something?
I’m in for a bit of that action too Sughly.
But then you already know that.
Well, at least according to the restraining order, you do.
lol! Oh hey I only just noticed your gravatar! Its so liddle! But I see it, all the way in there! ITS A ME!
I just had to have you with me… always.
Okay I am even beginning to creep me out… and I like it.
So, I’ve come to a cross-roads … Since I wont get skyrim until the med/end of next week I might polish off one of the games on my pile-o-shame. I’ve narrowed it down to 3 choices:
Driver LA (I’ve heard that this is an amazingly underrated game)
Gears of War 3
or (finally) finish The WItcher and start on The Witcher 2.
Any suggestions?
i doubt that you’ll get Witcher finished in that time, at least to an acceptable level, and if you start witcher 2 just means you’ll have another started yet unfinished game…
Gears is straight forward but will keep you entertained and will be a break away from the RPG thing, so you can be fresh and good to go for SKYRIM!…
well that’s what i’d do anyway 😛
hmmm good point, Scratch Witcher of the list (I swear I’ll finish you oneday my love).
Didn’t think I would ever say this but I think I could take a weeks break from RPG’s 😛
it’ll just sorta pump you up for Skyrim :P… at least that way you’re not worn down by some grinding RPG and just do some more shallow gaming for a while
I REALLY like your thinking
tiiits
*mind drifts away*
wait sorry, what were we talking about?
So last night I got dinner and the kids out of the way early and went to play Skyrim, but then I realised I’d washed the bedding and hadn’t put it back on the bed (our pretty new 360 lives in the bedroom) so I had to do that, then I realised that after such a hot day I was probably to stinky to get into the nice clean bed so I had to have a shower, then my son woke up so I had to wait for him to go back to sleep but then finally I got comfy on my bed and loaded up Skyrim.
And there was an update. Seriously, for a game that isn’t even supposed to be out yet to have an update is not something I expect. Luckily it was only like 3meg so it took but a few seconds. So I start up the game, stayed on the title screen way too long just to listen to the music, before eventually pressing “start” to begin the awesome.
They ask me to look around, but then I look up when I meant to look down. Its default Y axis setting is inverted?! Witchery! So I press ‘start’ and fix that, and while I’m there I put the subtitles on so I don’t have to have it up super-loud and then FINALLY, I can play.
I created my character (it only took me 45 minutes, usually it’s at least an hour but I just didn’t find there were enough good-looking options for boy Nord characters), and then played. This guy kept wanting me to follow him but I just wanted to look around because it was kind of pretty. After about half an hour of this I started to feel guilty that I hadn’t spent any time with husband so I went out to the loungeroom so we could do something together. But he just kept playing Dark Souls for another hour. 😛
So yeah, all that trouble just to play for Skyrim for half an hour. But was it worth it? Hells yes! 😀
Arrggghhh! Too stinky, not to stinky.
This comment box makes it way too easy to overlook mistakes now, with its tiny fontage. 🙁
Hey was there any proce on that Zelda 3DS console yet? I WANTS ONE! If, you know, its not too much…
Not sure what a proce is but when you find out, let me know. 😛
I’m also thinking I would like that Zelda 3DS. It’s so preeetttyyy.
omg its actually a link. wtf
I clicked it.
Hahaha, that’s hilarious!
at least we have an answer to what proce is… but now the sentence makes even less sense:
“Hey was there any Providing Continuing Education on that Zelda 3DS console yet?”
Which part dont you understand?
*stares blankly at the sentence*
oooohhh now i see, yes that makes perfect sense..
…
I AIN’T STOOPID…
*drools*
Haha, that Skyrim pic on Kotaku is so funny. RAH I KILLED AND A DRAGON RAAAHHH! AND IM SLIGHTLY CROSS-EYED RRAAAAHHH!!
Can you set your character in Skyrim to have a bung-eye?
If not, FALSE ADVERTISING!
Hi Sughly how are you? Did you know that before the invasion of the Scourge, a race of intelligent bears called furbolgs cultivated a quiet spiritual society deep in the heart of Azshara. With most of their kind murdered and corrupted by the Undead, the normally isolated furbolgs were forced to flee to the Sentinel for protection. In return, the furbolgs have sent their mightiest Ursa Warrior into battle on the Sentinel behalf. Enraged by the defilement of his people’s sacred land, Ulfsaar is able to channel his fury into a series of extremely quick and brutal swipes, using his razor-sharp claws to overpower his foes and literally tear them apart?
Also every time I see your avatar I’m reminded its been way too long since I last saw PP girls
Mmm we should have went with the first instincts and captain Harli….
Akali put her rape-face on.
Nah Steve-O you’re a very gud captn. Juz plz keep ur mind on teh game, I kno it’z hard bt u need to stop lookn @me.
/salutes
For Steve-O!
DEMENTIA (??)
*DEMACIAAAA
Fun times on TF2/LoL last night. TF2 was a hoot, so much fire, so much explodeyness. Did get a bit repetitive by the end but made for a good excuse to switch to LoL. <3 Garren. The draft mode idea was good, although it did mean no Garen or Veigar for Steve-O 🙁 Thought twitch would have been alright, but was extremely hard-countered by Akali's burst. Damn you NobShot! Twas fun though, plus thanks to Freyjr, Nobshot and Tigerion for backing up after for a good game against randoms to get the first win IP bonus.
i had an absolute blast in TF2… i may or may not have had any clue to what i was actually doing… may have been something to do with that it said the most time i’d spend in game prior was 20 minutes…
Sorry Trjn if my noobness, and constant “running-the-wrong-way-and-waiting-on-gates-to-open-that-is-never-supposed-to-open-in-the-first-place” got annoying… i still had fun though… and i’m pretty sure that i at some point had the highest score on my team… how did that happen?
Don’t worry Pixel. I was waiting at those same gates for about 5 minutes at one stage.
i think at some stage it was just you and me wasn’t it? standing there while the timer was going… the round started and we kept standing there, wondering where all the others were, cause we were clearly the only ones that knew the map 😛
Yeah I think the timing was good. TF2 then to LoL. Made for some excellent fun times. I couldn’t get admin commands working no matter how much I tried though. Good thing we’re all cooperative and are willing to switch up the teams ourselves.
If anybody wants to play more tonight I’d be happy to book another server again.
LoL, on the other hand………………. I was trying my best to put on my zen face. Calm. Not frustrated. Not raging. I am a leaf on the wind.
I <3 Akali 😀
When you got me first Steve-o I thought to myself "yup this is it im gonna feed soooo hard".
Also your stealth annoyed the hell out of me, you escaped too many times 🙁 … but oracles fixed that 😀
I think that hindered me more than anything – I got cocky. I knew I had to try out-lane you, which I think you did, but it didn’t matter – you killed me in seconds with only a Doran’s blade! Have been looking up strategies for Twitch vs Akali and the consensus is to put my head between my legs and kiss my rat-ass goodbye. :/
y u ban teemo
Also:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/FattyFattyFatFat/screenshot/612716295132471783
Also also, you know we spent, like, 4 hours playing games?
2 and a bit of TF2, almost 2 of League.
I like that this community has come together to the extent that we can play games with each other for the whole night.
Man I would have loved to join in. Of course, my broadband just had to die, didn’t it…
you were dearly missed… we’ll have to get together another game with more people i reckon… more people i can piss off with my noobness 😛
Of course Kennen was banned and I was sadface, so I decided to go Rammus and just PUNISH Steve-O for it by using a build specifically designed to troll Twitch xD.
It’s good to see my strategy of having multiple roles/champions mastered works for draft mode. You ban my strongest, fine I’ll tank with Rammus. You ban both Kennen and Rammus, I still have the choice of Caitlyn, Skarner, Master Yi, Warwick and Kayle (if I was desperate).
Then we must ban Steve-O and Noob, and then we can have our low-level/low-skill games and be like “wooooo I dead \o/” while they go off and have their ridiculously good games.
So annoyed we missed the KvK, got home from dinner logegd and and saw lots of people online. “Sweet”
Looks to see them all in game “awwwwwww maybe some of them will finish soon”
Discovers all TAYbies Ingame for 3 mnutes “Fuuuuuuuuuuu”
Was a pleasure to play with you guys after 25 minutes of ingame chat “Suck a cylindrical object” “kindly go away” and “Your mum’s a classy lady” followed by a rage quit
This song is so dang amazing, havent stopped listening to it since Conatus came out… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMSTg4gStOE
i just found that this page lacks something…
PENIS-PIG…
http://twitpic.com/7cjh46
okay go back to work
Blame Loops, he’s the trendsetter, i’m just the mindless puppet that hooks on to said trend
*pats Di11enger on the shoulder*
it’s okay man, it always starts as curiousity
*Flings hair in a slowmotion move*
Morning Chaps and Chapettes!
last night a friend and I ventured to the barracks in the city for a couple of games of LoL. he told me that a LoL team in HK recently won a competition and the team is called LoLadies i thought that was awesome!! anyhoo we played a couple of games he dominated i just assisted and was the veigar equivelant of damsal in distress aka bait. got dominated by a brand who talked more shit than a politician, laughed alot because he trolled the other people on our team to the point of tears. then had to leave at 8.30 and go to basketball. all in all im having LoL withdrawls even when i was playin nba jam onfire last night at 1 am and i want to get back into LoL properly as soon as possible
Yay another Loller! So how long have you been playing Di11enger? What level are you? I’m keen to get some games in tonight, maybe if some other guys jump on we can roll a 5v5 against randoms or have another KvK.
That is, if everyone isn’t running around the Nord’s homeland…
No last night’s game went so poorly I am willing to forego Skyrim just to redeem myself. LET’S CRUSH RANDOMS.
I even woke up at 5am this morning and wondered if I should get a game in before I left for work…
Man, dat LoL.
well i’d like to say lvl 14 but i’m not sure if i’m confusing that with another similar game. I used to play alot at the start of the year and a bit of last year (i think). i would love to have a game tonight but alas i r working my second job 🙁 at the moment i am very busy so LoL time is very restricted. KvK’s sound awesome and hilarious. if y’all want to add me its Di11enger, i think i may already have Bishington and someone else ( yes the stalker vibe permeates through me 😛 )
Yay join us join us. And hey you’re higher level than me!! 😀 /thumbs up
so that’s already another person you are better than.
higher level maybe. better hahahahahaha umm no.
i played with veigar last night and had 6/5/9 or something terrible like that. i am sorry to dissapoint
i think i should practice more. its been a couple of months since i played. anyway what level are all you peeps at?
Frighteningly close to level 30.
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
thank you for successfull making me fall off my chair with laughter
damn you letter y, so close yet so far. *successfully
GOOBLE GABBLE GOOBLE GABBLE
Ohhhh maaaaan…. I was gonna release Egress today, but something occurred to me. Everyone in the whole world is playing Skyrim 🙁
\o
I would put aside Skyrim and Dark Souls to play your game Sughly!
Mainly because unlike those, I can still play it while my son is hogging the TV. 😛
You must release it! I am super eager to try your game, and surely you would want to appease a stranger that frequents the same site as you (and barely posts).
Also, it’s perfect timing, since I finished Uncharted 3 last night, and am yet to buy Skyrim.
Ok ok I release today! Man I wish I had Uncharted 3. I should go buy Uncharted 3 today…
YOU ARE A JERK! SUCH A JERK! HOW DARE YOU WANT TO PLAY MY GAME! >:(
So I’m sitting here munching on my breakfast of Chipotle Cheddar Chex Mix and Coke Zero trying to figure out which game I’m going to play when my son’s nap time comes around later. I have equal love for both Dark Souls and Skyrim. I’m kind of on a roll with Dark Souls now, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of Skrim so I’m itching to get back into it too.
Hmm, maybe I’ll keep Dark Souls as my naptime game, and make Skyrim my night-time game. Or I could just play Dark Souls until I get mad because I died too much and then switch to Skyrim. 😛
“play Dark Souls until I get mad because I died too much and then switch to Skyrim.”
This.
Hard choice indeed. If you played Skyrim would you ever get around to finishing Dark Souls?
I’m not sure Skyrim will be my biggest obstacle in finishing Dark Souls…I still haven’t even finished Demon’s Souls. Not even close! I get scared and doubt my ability to progress so I kind of give up for a while.
I never finished Demon’s Souls either but I think in Dark Souls it is easier to smoothly progress through the game without grind.
The weapon stat scaling is far less than what it was in Demon’s so it is less dependent on leveling up to do more damage. Every fight is more about patience and attacking only at the right moment.
By the sounds of it you have the patience and skill (way more than I did) so you should be fine I think.
Also: Weapon pro tip:
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I am now coveting that weapon!
Hey Facebook users!
Is it rude to delete a friend because they spam CONSTANTLY with “funny” pictures of animals, vegetables, minerals, people and other random/annoying shit that makes it impossible to read anything else?
No. If they spam as much as you claim they are likely more self-centered and will not notice if you delete them.
I realised if you click on [subscribe] you can untick EVERYTHING. So they are still your friend, but you NEVER have to hear from them!
WINNING!
You don’t find my pics funny?! I’m sorry, I’ll try and keep it to just one every hour from now on. 😛
I’d love one an hour.
It’s like person spends an hour or two in some funny pic site and reposts EVERYTHING to their FB.
I was planning on doing one per hour for you for most of today but I really can’t be bothered trawling through “funny” picture sites so, sorry.
D: I was all exited and kept checking back. When I got an alert I’d rush to look and find it was just some crumby nobody liking something or replying to me…
You can make it so you don’t see people but I’ve taken to just straight up removing someone from my friendslist if the crap their posting is that crap.
Particularly religious crap. I don’t mind the Muslim guy posting inspirational quotes that refer to Allah, I do mind the Christian guy copying and pasting strawman arguments against abortion. I also removed someone who posted Nickelback’s latest song.
He said “they’ve still got it”.
I cannot allow someone who is capable of being so wrong on my Facebook.
Did he say what “it” was?
I have a friend who still has “it”. They have to use a cream.
i wholeheartedly agree with the blocking of douchey christians, them and racist “overly-patriotic” australians.
i got rid of the majority of mine, unfortunatly a few relatives occasionally post a mix of of the two but slightly watered down. If I block them my mum will complain lol
I haven’t added any older relatives for this very reason.
Lol, that reminds me of a documentary I once heard of called ‘Lord, save us from your followers’ 😛
Just do what I did and delete your facebook account entirely! Stops pesky updates ala “omg work is boring lol!”, “soooo drunk!” and the rest…
I use the option to hide updates from users. I’ve ‘blocked’ about half of my ‘friends’ in this way, and they have no idea. 🙂
hehe LittleJJ deleted me from her facebook last week.
She’s so dumb though. She gave me back her mobile phone and got herself a new one so I wouldn’t know her number, but the dumb shit had the bill sent to my home address, so guess who’s got her new number?! LOL I’m gonna chuck all her bills in the bin too so she never gets one and ends up having to pay late fees! Not that I know where she lives anymore to send them to her even if I wanted to! Still can’t believe just how dumb she can be at times though 😉
Are the bills addressed to you? I only fear that trashing someone else’s mail might not be completely legal. Whether that matters or not, I’m not sure.
I never said he should actually USE it 😛
Don’t lower yourself to her level. You just going to give her more ammunition and you will ultimately regret making your life harder. Keep the number and wait…
Yeah chances are I wont throw them out yet. I have it stashed in a drawer at the moment.. I’ll just keep it there for 6 months or so! 😉
You sure it’s spiderweb? Maybe someone snuck into your room while you were asleep and decided to give you the ol’ Kurt Cobain.
So, looks like I’ll have to buy a new 500GB laptop HDD.
Anyone know what a cheap but realistic price for a cheap drive would be? Spent so much money this week and I’d lick to spend as little as possible.
And yes, this is MORE PS3 woes 🙁
Everything you own needs to be licked at least once.
Enjoy sitting on my moist furniture next week.
My furniture is ALWAYS moist 😉
CPL has the Samsung or seagate for < $95
If you prefer samsung you are probably better just getting the 750 for an extra $15
Is someone in the process of recording last night’s LoL game? People talked about it and recorded the TS chat etc… ?
Just curious, I want to watch our game while I’m at work 😛
One person from each team recorded the team’s conversation, and I think there was at least one replay through LoL replay that was saved on each side.
Oh, and Blagh’s used FRAPS.
I don’t use FRAPS (although I want to test it out later), but I imagine simply converting the files to another format would do the trick. Record in FRAPS to get the high quality originals and then use Handbrake to bring it down to a more reasonable size (probably 2-3gb, even smaller if you drop the resolution to something like 480p).
Not an area I have expertise in, but that’s what I’ve noticed.
Hmm… might use my 1TB portable as the main station of storing this data I think, unless I want to reformat and RAID-0 my 2x250GBs that still have my old XP OS on it.
I use FRAPS. The files that it produces are massive – they’re uncompressed. 4GB per 10 minutes or something I think. Usually I just throw them into Vegas as soon as it’s done and convert them to another format. Saves gigs of space.
Yeah I’ll have to make sure I got my portable drive plugged in so I can save it to there right away. I don’t want to risk my C: overflowing in-game, that could be disastrous
Also , repost!
“Since I have work tomorrow I’ve dumped the LOLReplay I recorded from the game we just had…
@Harli
If the observer thing starts working for our custom games, I’ll take the kick as a chance to livecast 😛
Yeah I’d be really happy if you did take it up, at least you’ll still be part of the LoL KvKs but not actually playing
I’d have to start doing a little bit of research so that I actually know what things are though :p
Just read up on the items and have reads of champion abilities 🙂
The good thing is that select items are used in a lot of builds so they won’t be that diverse.
Awww Harli, too bad I can’t give you a robotic hug for that, so this’ll have to do
*Robotic hugz!*
Yay! *le pop*
Me gusta! :-}
omg I LOVE BUBBLE WRAP!! /girly squeal of delight
now i’ll just roll around and hear them go pop-pop-pop-pop-pop
My human mother is crazy about bubble wrap. Every time I get bubble wrap, I gift it to her and she loves it 🙂
I went to a party in film school once.
When we arrived, the host gifted us all a piece of bubble wrap.
That should’ve been an indication for the kind of party it was going to be.
I think I left around the time 2 of them made us all be quiet and watch them set off sparkler bombs in the back yard.
Worst. Party. Ever.
That’s a pretty lame party.
Guess I won’t bring a roll of bubble wrap to the next meat.
most disturbing yet entertaining mental picture ever…
tech-knight: “huuuuugz”
Harli: “pop pop pop pop pop”
I imagine it would be something like Sughly’s drawing of a Hugo hug.
I have an obsession with chopping wood in SKYRIM!
I don’t know why, but I do.
Millions of things to do, learn and Club.
But here I am chopping wood.
…
…
…
I think I might be broken.
so many “got wood” jokes springing to mind…
but for some reason i have the urge to buy this game now so i can do the same thing….
while playing “the Lumberjack” song…
I also have an obsession for catching butterflys.
But that is just perfectly natural.
man i want this game now… not that i didn’t want it before but i’m trying to be strong and hold up till i have a worthy computer for it… but all the stuff i can do…
Or, alternatively, give in, and LOVE IT!
Now THIS I can relate to. One flew past me last night.
…
…
…
20 minutes later I remembered I was supposed to be fighting some guy.
Yeah, I had a moment where I was chasing after a butterfly totally distracted from everything else, when I was suddenly attacked by a pack of wolves.
Blasting these mangy pests into smithereens, I looked around for the butterfly, however it had disappeared, I stood there… alone.. all :`(
Did you go fishing in the rapids, diving after salmon? The fun part is when the current sweeps you away, and you watch all the wild animals glare at you from the banks as you float by.
YES! I channeled the jumping power of the little fishies and continualy tried jumping up the rapids with them.
I then found out it is much easier to catch them downstream near the bridge.
But still, RAPIDS JUMPING!
FISHING CONTEST! 😛
My god, I wish this game had multiplayer! Forget the story, and the plot. Just give us multiplayer with a big-arse random encounters world.
And animals. Lots and lots of animals.
The random encounters are great. So far I have been attacked by wolves, killed by an dodgy imperial patrol that wanted me to pay a “road toll”, hunted foxes with some random hunter and found a horse just chilling with its previous owner a few meters away with his head crushed under a tree.
I just spoke to the guy telling me I could chop wood.
Do I need to find trees, or does he mean that great big pile of lumber by his mill?
Grab the Woodman’s axe from the table near the large sawed logs, then there are two stumps on the ground that can be used to chop firewood.
You actually get pretty good pay.
So I’m driving into work this morning and I pull up behind a school bus. You know that standard thing that kids do when you’re behind a bus, where they wave or otherwise get your attention and then flip you off or whatever? This group was different. I look up, and they whip out an A3-sized printout of trollface. I laughed. A+ for Effort.
Yep, trollface is far more acceptable than being flipped off by a little punk. Kudos to them 🙂
So. . . Did anyone read the enlightening article The Australian released regarding the Introduction of the R18+ rating. Not only do they appear to be taking pointers from Channel 7 but they also (according to an article on the ABC website) appear to take a comment made by child psychology expert ridiculously out of context.
if anyone wants to numb their braincells the link is below.
http://www.google.com.au/#q=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/legal-change-may-allow-killer-games/story-e6frgakx-1226190660639&hl=en&prmd=imvnsu&source=lnms&ei=A2q8To7CAdCRiQeez4SSBQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=1&ved=0CBgQ_AUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=38016e1b6a6bc7ca&biw=1680&bih=949
(the above link is to a Google news search for the article, you’ll need to click ‘legal change may allow killer games’ the one in the smaller font – the reason for this is it should allow you to read the article past The Australian’s paywall.)
I was going to post a reply trying to understand their point of view (and justify it to myself), but really, there’s no reason to. So many idiots have media access these days…
hmmm dunno if anyone knows about this place…just found it a minute ago while i was looking for my friend. http://www.lolstatistics.com
here be my stats: http://www.lolstatistics.com//player/na/21331774
not sure how up to date/accurate this site is though
Skyrim Questions!
I’m playing on xbox is there a way to turn off the weight limits?
Does the charectors weight effect how much they can carry?
How come I can’t ‘quick travel’ out of a dungeon if I’ve killed everyone?
Are there seperate exits to each dungeon, or do I have to back track to the entrance?
Does money have a weight?
Q1/ No.
Q2/ Stamina determines how much they can carry, player weight doesn’t (but don’t quote me on that).
Q3/ You can only quick travel outdoors.
Q4/ Depends, some larger places have 2 entries/exits some only have 1.
Q5/ No.
If you mean the weight of items, no.
The weight at char creation is just cosmetic.
Dunno, have not tried it.
Depends on the dungeon, the bigger ones often have more than one if it is like Oblivion.
No, neither do arrows.
So is it just me or are exclusive-to-a-particular-store pre-order bonuses becoming even more ridiculously ridiculous. I mean the FFXIII-2 one even has an exclusive-to-Amazon Boss battle. WTF?!
This. The boss even joins the party afterwards. Is that entire thing omitted from other versions of the game??? ???????
I’m glad i’m not the only person who thinks that these pre-order bonuses are getting ridiculous. Especially since my’bonus map’ was sealed inside the game case…
o_O
It was called a bonus when I pre-ordered Skyrim through Game. Since it technically isn’t a bonus if everyone got one, pre-order or not.
Yeah it also said it was made of cloth. *Shakes Fist*
I think special skins are acceptable bonuses, and maybe a little something else, but missons (even if they’re side missions) should be included in all versions or not at all.
MLG has announced the SC2 lineup for Providence: take a look here.
Anyone who watches a few SC2 tournaments, particularly GSL will be rather impressed. This is going to be a flat out ridiculous tournament. Practically every player that you could consider to be “one of the best” is in there. Particularly the ones with names starting with QIM (which for reference is a partnership between Incredible Miracle [IM] and Quantic Gaming [QxG])
The most ridiculous example of name tomfoolery goes to DRG. Or as he’s known here coLMVPDongRaeGu. These Korean/Foreigner team partnerships are getting ridiculous.
Speaking of clan tags, if I get serious in SC2, I think I’ll have to start my own clan: IMBA Ponies. Not sure what the tag will be but I imagine that any clan tag stuck to the front of TrjnRabbit will look reasonably confusing.
You’re welcome, human 🙂
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Dr What!?
I just licked my colleague.
She didn’t work better.
Actually she took the rest of the day off.
Now I’m in the boss’ office…
I probably shouldn’t use his PC to post on TAY.
Definitely shouldn’t.
I’d better get out of his chair now. He looks pissed.
clearly you are not reading people right, the looks he’s giving you is a look of acceptance… what you have to do now is lick him aswell…
*nods*
yeah i’m helping
it is the taste of acceptance… if you keep going you will score a pay rise… i guarantee it
Pixel, you are simultaenously hilarious & a terrible influence.
HEY!
i will hear no doubt that us vikings, particularly of the Rodent kind give sound and true advise in all aspects of life… why do you think there are so many of us?
oh wait
I don’t want to burst your bubble, Pixel, but ferrets aren’t rodents…
Oh man Pixel, your whole life has been a lie… neat.
i know Hugo, i’m dead inside now…. i have to live entirely differently now… THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING… oh hey, cheese *munch*
you dare question my viking wisdom? oh wait, you’re right 😛
They’re just as awesome though, so \o/
this is true, also i forgot to mention that viking wisdom boils down to how to hit/burn/rape things…
Don’t forget the pillaging.
You don’t know what your colleague is doing at home. You know what’s she’s doing? Working better.
She’s not at work for a start. That’s pretty good. I wish I wasn’t at work.
I can’t stop watching the Toyota ad on the right hand side of TAY. Unsafe merge, twice. That’s all I’m taking from it.
just seeing Sughly’s drawing of Hugo reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI
still makes me laugh
wait, that wasn’t meant to be a reply… DAMN ME FOR CLICKING EVERYWHERE
So that League of Legends playlist discussion we had a few nights ago?
I rustled up a few theme/lyric related songs.
http://www.mediafire.com/?tzqk093i9vfgqtv
I stripped the file details just so that each song would be a surprise.
Enjoy?
What’s this? Actual LoL based songs or songs to listen to whilst playing to pump you up?
Farewell sweet TAY.
Know that I shall think of you fondly, as I prance across the snow covered mountain tops of SKYRIM! chasing butterflies.
REMEMBER US… tell your companions and butterflies tales about us around the bonfire…
I can’t believe I forgot to post these updates.
The little one is fine. Current 12.5 mm long, and yet to shed its tail (YES, embryos have TAILS!!)
And Annie said ‘Love you’ for the first time yesterday, and it was to me.
#DaddyWin
Then I made her say it to my wife and we both cried. The end.
TAILS????? WTF…i was kind of distracted in biology class by ms bewbs*
*dont actually know her name*
oh to be young and foolish again…wait a minute
I shall call it Tails! Because, not only does it have more tails than it’s supposed to, I also don’t know whether its a boy or girl either! 😛
Great news Shane! Keep us updated on the progress(except during the birth, that would be…awkward, for all concerned)!
@Bish
I take my hat off to you for your excellent taste in music, and your excellent integration with LoL themes.
Then I slap you with said hat, because I subconciously started singing Disco Inferno and my workmates were hiding outside my door laughing. Also, I now feel like playing LoL.
Also, any suggestions for who my next champion should be? I do enjoy playing as Twitch, but after playing as him I have to agree with the multitudes of opinions that he has been over-nerfed, and is lacking too much in survivability and damage output. Preferably an AD champion, as I have AD/Crit runes. Was thinking Tryndamere – He’s only 1350 IP right?
Don’t cry Harli – We shall refine your Amumu skills and rape face against randoms tonight!
Turn that frown upside down:
(╯°□°)╯ ︵ 🙂
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I fought a Twitch 1v1 the other day as Alistar and out auto attacked him. Alistar!
Jax maybe? Though Tryn has more sustainability.
There must have been I guess but I had little farm and maybe 1 kill and a couple assists so it would not have been by much.
Maybe he just sucked.
After last night’s game I’m going to use Trynd a lot more. All those bot matches with him have paid off! (about 30 or so).
BOT MATCHES! Wooooo! Also I like PvP when I have fellow Kotakians online.
Can you people help me?
Im considering making my way into NAS drives. I have got about $250 to spend on it (without HDD).
Im looking for storage, media server stuff so i can browse and play my movies and tv on 360/PS3/appleTV/PC etc. Also must have bitTorrent client built in or available. These are must haves.
I would ideally like internet access to this drive, and anything else that you think is cool, but really can’t justify spending any more than this amount. I could go over a little but not much.
Any suggestions, there just seems to be so many options out there!
I resent being referred to as “you people” and thus refuse to offer assistance.
Not that I have any assistance to offer.
You know what, after I typed that i did realise that came across a bit poor. Im flat out at work and as always, posted without thinking too much! Sowwy!
but by you people, I was referring to a group of tech savvy consumers who’s opinion i trust.. if that makes up for it at all?
I was replying to Trjn but its cool.
It’s too late. I’ve already taken offense. I don’t know how to give back offense once I have taken it :p
change to defensive mode?
Okay.
I put my trap card face down in defense mode.
Yahtzee.
Having just gone through this myself (though with a bigger budget and more larger space requirements) what I concluded was:
QNAP are the best if you want to run your own software. They’re linux based, so if something doesn’t work right you have to be willing and able to roll your sleeves up and tweak stuff, they’re not quite turn-key. However they are more flexible and I imagine for a lot of stuff they’d work right out of the box. They have fairly strict hardware compatibility, and they do *not* play well with Western Digital’s drives at all, especially the ones with the larger sector size.
Thecus are cheap, not particularly flexible, fairly reasonable, wide compatibility. They make stuff themselves. Generally their machines have quite good specs, but you haven’t got much customizability so that’s less useful.
Synology are okay, a bit more expensive but not as expensive as QNAP. They don’t like to tell you what hardware they put in, just vague specs, I assume so they can swap stuff in and out to chase the best price point. They have a very strong developer community and you can do a lot of software fiddling if that’s what you want.
I’m not sure I’d trust my data to the smaller manufacturers.
Your other options are to investigate the turnkey-solution NAS offerings from the hard drive manufacturers directly but I suspect you’d miss out on some of the extra features.
Media Server wise, BitTorrent is a pretty standard thing, most of them have UPnP media server support as well. Adding internet access should be just a case of configuring it to allow that, I know my QNAP box can do that with a couple of button clicks.
Questions you should also be asking yourself: How much storage space do you need, do you need data redundancy, and how will you back up your data (if you back it up at all).
Awesome post man, thanks heaps. I was looking at a dual bay QNAP for just under $300 which i think is the same one you showed me (Scorp would have $30 shipping for me in sydney so its the same really.)
Im not really one for tinkering with this stuff as I am not that good at it, so ideally the best out of the box solution is what im looking for.
Still not sure but I appreciate the guide man!.
Well it was pretty much turnkey for me so far (just got a QNAP TS-439 Pro II+).
Plugged the drives in, turned it on, set up the RAID and it got to formatting it (9tb RAID took ~11 hours to build) and then upgraded the firmware, installed QPKG, Python, and then Transmission because their built-in torrent client is kind of bad and Transmission is much better, plus it has a nice remote GUI program instead of having to use a web interface. Plus it can be integrated with FlexGet.
Transmission didn’t work out of the box though, I had to enable the web server option and then reinstall, because it relies on Apache working and Apache wasn’t running. That was the only real hiccup aside from some initial issues where it couldn’t find the DNS info and stuff because it was pulling all the network-related info from the primary NIC and I had plugged in the secondary one instead (wouldn’t be a problem for the lower-end boxes, they just have the one network jack). Have set up FlexGet but haven’t had time to write up a big configuration file yet, however that was all fairly easy too.
I think generally if you’re going to just be using what is already included in the system or via supported addon packages, QNAP would be as good as anyone else.
You have just confirmed why i buy and use out of the box stuff.. half of that reply only kinda made sense.
But I ended up getting a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo for $200. Dual bay drives and looks solid and has plently of features… happy with that… but thanks man, glad i could chat.
that was….. scary… and cold…
BAD KOTAKU, DON’T EVER DO THAT AGAIN
*slaps computer with a wet newpaper, then hugs monitor sobbing*
Meh. I just played Dark Souls. Got me the Drake Sword and then went slashing with it down in the Lower Undead Burg.
Why did it have to go down during my lunchbreak?! I had to go to places like google news and theage! I’m going to go cry in a corner now.
i…i had no where else to go… I WAS STUCK IN A GLASS CAGE OF EMOTION!!!
@Bish
I am listening to your playlist and it’s awesome. You certainly do have impeccable tastes in music good sir. /salutes
Also some of your choices made me LOL so hard. I half expected an emo whiny boy band for Amumu but sadly there was none.
“I half expected an emo whiny boy band for Amumu”
You mean like Short Stack?
Haha actually, yes! I won’t deny what they or, or the fact that I like them.
Other acceptable replacements could have included My Chemical Romance, AFI or Alexisonfire.
I have more, too!
Though I think I should consult with Blaghsy and f4ction on some other ones.
I’m quite proud of Poppy’s one. Because the song title is all about her Ult, and the artist is like her weapon and I was all everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg
Also, @Steve-O, from your earlier comment:
I do my best!
Could be worse, I’d assume singing “Aaaand I will Runaway (runaway!) runaway with yoooouuuuu” would get you more of a mocking.
Also, I was thinking for Annie:
Are You Old Enough – Dragon
Awww, what, that’s not right, you should be ashamed for suggesting that Steve-O. Tsk.
There are probably like two people who care about this, but new Nightwish. Damn good stuff.
I was going to post this the other day but people don’t often care about my music so I just posted it on Twitter. That and the fact that I’ll be seeing them three times in January….
Once in LA, and a couple of days later twice on a cruise ship: http://www.70000tons.com/home.htm
@ Steve-O
A good AD/crit champion I have always liked is Gangplank. My reasons are because:
1. He can buff the teams attack / movement speed.
2. His Parrrley smashes face when it crits
3. His ulti has amazing field presence
and (most importantly)
4. HES A MOTHER ****ING PIRATE!!!
Really pro ones know when to use his break CC ability (scurvy) which makes him really difficult to kill.
Along with being more usefull in a team fight, hes a hell of alot less squishy then critamere.
Interesting, he’s only 3150 too which puts him in closer reach. Might have to wait for him to go free-2-play though.
I’m happy to let you log in as me some time if you want to give him a try. He was just in the rotation a week or two ago.
Also, I have a skin for him. That instantly makes you pro.
I can always solo Gangplank with Kennen mid-late game. Late game my ulti can kill him on it’s own
Apparently if I don’t log into LoL soon they’re taking away my account name. I’d kind of forgotten I even had an account. Repressed memory I guess.
Bad first impressions, then?
I don’t know, once you get past the:
– “Y U NO HELP GANK??” when you’re near death and not even an offensive character
– PINGS EVERYWHERE
– People leaving
– PEOPLE TYPING IN ALL CAPS AND SCREAMING IN YOUR FACE
– Derping randoms
– Seeing box characters in chat late at night
– People who seem to have a broken ‘C’ key when typing the F-bomb
– Terrible matchmaking system
It’s not so bad.
…Really.
I should be a salesman!
No, see I suck at video games. I couldn’t beat the bots so I never even bothered playing against real people. Mainly just don’t have enough spare time that I’d want to spend on it, especially when I have so many other games to play. Also at the time I was still playing WoW most days.
Oh! I forgot!
Josephine wandered by the other day and dropped of a copy of LotR War in the North. Thanks Mark!
Unfortunately it is for Xbox, and I do not possess such a device.
So it is up for grabs.
To be in the running to win this marvelous prize you must post a small (or large – whatever) story of a memorable journey you have experienced.
The journey can be physical, emotional, metaphorical, musical, or anything… as long as it’s a true story (fantastical embelishments, such as the odd stegasaurus here or there, are welcome, as long as the journey itself was real)
Be aware that you could be competing against Bish, so, y’know… and then I caught a bus \o/
The end
(Either that or I’ll just give it to someone, meh)
I fell out of my bed the other day.
Twas a grand journey from being half a meter off of the ground, to being on the cold, loveless, wooden floorboards.
Mind you, I don’t have a 360.
Just thought I hadn’t told a story where I had injured or embarrassed myself lately.
I went to the post office. To get my copy of Skyrim. I waited in line. Then I got it. There was much rejoicing. I don’t have an Xbox 360 either. I just wanted to share my story. SKYRIM!
Deep.
I can tell you’ve really grown as a person since you started that journey.
That’s why I’m a terrible story teller.
when i left midgard*, i jumped on an Austrian Dragon** which took me half way across the world, to a crazy country where the animals come in 3 categories: poisonous, odd and sheep…
true story
*Denmark
**Boeing 777
‘To ye olde bottle-o!’
*Charges off waving battle-axe, riding a velociraptor*
aaahh Good choice in your steed, i see you went for the Odd one…
*jumps on a Sheep and charges off with a reverbing BAAAAAaaaaahhhh*
Someone permalink one of my stories.
I’m not gonna do it.
Reminds me of this one time, I didn’t wanna go to class because I was really tired.
I went, but class finished at 5pm so it was in the middle of rush hour and getting a seat on the Gold Coast train was impossible. I managed to snagasaurus (eh?) myself one and promptly fell asleep.
I woke up about 45 mins later, with every single person on the train looking right at me.
I politely waved and stared straight ahead for the rest of my journey home.
I still don’t know what I did on the train that afternoon.
(This is all true btw. I think some of you think I embelish all my stories. Like the time my GF passed out inside the hoodie I was wearing or the time my undies fell out of my pants on Victoria Bridge. But it’s all true, yo)
Another train story, my pal fell asleep in one of those 4 person seats where the two seats face each other.
So it was me and him on one side and 2 hawt lahdeez on the other. About 10 mins into out journey he awoke with such a start and weird, almost gutteral, scream that any chance I thought I had with said hawteez went promptly out the window.
Also I still looked like Chris Farley at that point, ‘cept without the direct line to coke.
Whens this compy end? I’ll have a story up here by monday, probably on sunday though
A cool breeze was flowing through my hair as i sat atop a metal frame, with friends I shared laughter and general amusement. Suddenly there was a jolt and time stood still, I no longer sat atop a metal frame but rather in the void of nothingness that is air. I thought for a moment about the happenings of the evening and what to do for the rest of the weekend, but that ended almost as quickly as it had begun. Time did not just resume instead it slowly inched forward as if it was stuck behind a slow moving lorry on the highway. The Breeze was transformed into a great rushing and the few hairs on my head pulled away from me. Abruptly the ground appeared before me and as instantly as it did everything turned black.
and that is the story of the time i fell out of my friends car at our graduation afterparty. dunno if this is classed as a journey but hay i tried 🙂
^ TL;DR. I was really drunk my friend got in his car with a bunch of girls (taking them to the alcohol shop) i thought he was going home without me, so i sat in the rear drivers side window talking to the ladies, less then 300 meters down the road he turned the car really quickly i fell off and bounced.
The first steps were always the hardest.
He’d awoken, dazed and confused, rubbing sleep from his eyes but aware of the urgent need that was filling every conscious thought, a symphony of a thousand voices screaming for one thing.
The path was short, really – no more than a few metres – but it felt like an eternity. One step after another, he reminded himself, trying to block out the cravings. An image formed in his mind in those first few moments – something hexagonal – and he knew it was his target. It had to be.
As he left the room, his surroundings became familiar. The family home. Safe. Warm. Comfortable. But utterly alien if he didn’t get what he was so desperately searching for.
He reached a wooden door – it felt reassuringly solid under his half-asleep fingers – and he knew, with a sudden rush of relief, that he’d arrived. He paid no heed to the cold tiles or the soft light of the digital oven clock in the darkness, its illumination doing little except to show a glow-in-the-dark stegosaurus magnet on the fridge.
The realisation hit him suddenly. The kitchen. That meant the pantry! With a cry, he wrenched open the wooden door and grabbed at what lay inside, nestling his prize lovingly like a new born baby. The urges were stronger now. Tear. Consume.
The next few seconds were a horrifying menagerie of torn cardboard, barely-human grunting and pure hunger. Then…
It was over. He raised the box – lips and hands covered in fine flecks of red and green dust – and shouted triumphantly. Broken shards of whatever he’d been searching for littered the floor, but he ignored them.
“SHAPES!”
Bish, I am loving that playlist.
I’m also looking forward to playing Modern Warfare 3 (PS3) cause nos (my little brother, to those not on teamspeak) went and bought it yesterday
Reading up on the Steam forum hack that happened. I expected the usual s%tstorm of scaremongering for this, but it’s a little disappointing that some of it is on Kotaku (KotakUS).
i guess you could say that:
it’s a leaky Valve *puts on sunnies* YEEEEAAAAAH…
i totally stole that from someone
…the hell did my post go?
Anyway…
From here?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/what-the-psn-outage-tells-us-about-the-steam-hack/
Of course I’m sure some people needed to…
*puts on sunglasses*
…let off some Steam
YEEEEAAAHHH…
It’s not posted by KotakUS, the posts are from KotakTHEM!
…’cause they aren’t Aussie …I’ll show myself out
I find it incredibly difficult to be disappointed by KotakUS. That implies some kind of expectation.
I think most people give them way too hard a time. Having said that, some of the stuff that goes up there is kinda terrible. having said THAT, we ARE comparing them to the likes of Master Serrels.
This.
I am so glad I decided to use Steam Guard. All these online services need something like that or Blizzard with their Battle.net Authenticator etc..
Protip: Don’t play a Professor Layton game, unless you want to come to the realisation you aren’t as smart as you thought you were.
Which one though?
Curious Village and Pandora’s Box have some BS ones which you can’t really knuckle down and strategically try to solve them (unless you’re a motherfreaking genius), and are partially just luck (The chess ones where you move the knight around every square, anyone?), but Lost Future and Spectre’s Flute are pretty solid.
I just started playing my first game (Curious Village) I really love the logic puzzles. But some of them seem like Luck is your only option.
i live under no delusions of my intelligence… although funnily enough, i made the most progress was when i was under the influence of a few too many tequila sunrises
Layton has a Knight’s Tour puzzle (I haven’t played it) and you think that involves just luck?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour
It’s very easy to solve once you know how. 🙂
Ah, that’s the one.
But that’s what I mean. It’s luck in the sense that you can’t expect your average to solve a 8×8 Knight’s Tour by devising a movement strategy to try solve it, so what do you do? You start moving semi-randomly and seeing how far you can go. It becomes trial and error.
Bad example though, I suppose.
I hate the ones which are like “Can you spot the monster in this painting”. Because it’s just some abstract shape and you’re al “What.”
Let’s dance put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Let’s dance to the song they’re playin’ on the radio!
/dances
I was singing Space Oddity in TeamSpeak the other night.
No one but Blaghman appreciated it. 🙁
it’s not that it wasn’t appreciated, merely that everyone was mesmerised by your lovely Tenor tones… wait was i there for that? i think i was?
GOAT?
I only heard today that they are remaking footloose and now you reminded me of that fact
sadface.jpg
These references would not be lost on me.
Plainview; I wanna tell you this shit right now while this f*ckin weed is in me
I don’t know if I ever told you this, but I love you dog
I got your motherf*ckin back, just know this shit!
3 weeks to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Plainview
Hilltops/Lil Wayne/Eminem in 3 weeks.
Sorry got a lil excited when Plainview posted lyrics 🙂
Eminem is touring soon? Sydney & Melbourne? I don’t know nothin’! Where are you seeing him?
I don’t listen to him too much anymore, not since the Marshall Mathers/Slim Shady LPs, but he is still one of my favourite writers/poets; he has such an innate understanding of syntax, like nothing I’d ever seen before. Outstanding! Hope it’s a good show for you.
I’m going to Melbourne and Sydney 🙂
Seeing Lil Waynes solo show here in Adelaide too and currently deliberating on second Sydney show…
Yeah, but Kanye isn’t coming to BDO!
808s and Heartbreak & My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: best albums “of all time”.
I’m going to let you finish but…wait…I agree wholeheartedly!!!
***Kanye shrugs***
OFWGKTA got “asked” not come. I reckon that’s why Kanye really pulled out. Supposedly they going to come and do solo shows anyway. Will keep you posted 🙂
You’d love Arnott’s Shapes Roadies Sizzling Pepper Steak flavour, then.
(Honestly what more do I have to do for you to hire me, Arnott’s!?)
i used to use those on the way to primary school every morning and im not much older that your brother
I had no idea what the connection was then it clicked, cause seriously, who just didn’t use this finger? lol.
oh right i just glanced at it and was like yeah we had them in our car. i also used my finger
I’m more worried about the english literacy skills of whoever made that image. ‘This two objects’?
http://leaguecraft.com/news/xypherous-talks-about-fizz-abilities-42.xhtml
Here’s an interview about the upcoming champ. Apparently his passive allows him to move through creeps (like ghost but no movement speed bonus).
Janna’s W gives a movement speed buff as well, but yeah, she can walk through minions once she has a level in it.
Playing her as one of my first heroes made it annoying to learn to move around creeps.
If there’s anyone who hasn’t bought Skyrim yet but was planning to pick it up soon, it’s $63 tomorrow in JB’s ‘Super Saturday’ sale.
I sent Mark an email re. the cloth map thing. He said he might look into it on Monday.
If he does it’ll be interesting to find out what’s up.
In this short-lived break from Skyrim, I think I’m going to start writing my Skyrim character’s diary. I’ll probably type it out first so that I’m happy with it, and then write it into the journal thingy (and while I could do some poor caligraphy, I think I’ll just stick to normal handwriting). When I have some done, I’ll post for everyone to see. It will be spoilerific, though.
I’m thinking of making my Dunmer a descendent of my Dunmer Nerevarine from Morrowind, giving him an anti-Imperial bias of a semi-personal nature, and have him struggle to accept his heroic destiny. This will be fun.
I am like in awe at the moment. My friend Caitlin is aiming to come to Big Day Out 2012 with me & you guessed it, Sam 😛
This is like the best thing ever cause my birthday is the next day!!! She lives in Hamilton, New Zealand so it would super fucking awesome if she came out here.
Even odder.
I’ve just stolen TP from the office stock. I know there’s some at home, but I can’t be bothered finding it. This way when I get home I’ll already be locked and loaded.
Careful there, smeliferous one, lest this turns into a habit, spiralling out of control until you turn to a life of crime!
Should that day come, I will take you down…
I’m not an expert on these “games” thingies the kids are all talking about nowadays, but…
Any chance ASSREV will break street date? Is it that big of a release with enough competition and shenanigans from the retailers?
Struggling to wait until Tuesday.
So I think I might learn to play as Amumu since nobody else does, for bannination purposes.
YES HARLI I WENT THERE
PS I may be very overtired from a ridiculous shift *sob*
Amumu is a pretty cool guy.
That Ulti stun can really change team fights, and he does damage.
Damage! From a tank! What is this world we live in.
and what’s more is that he does gradual damage to people with his Despair spell, so he can just run along beside them and not even hit them, taking damage (see TANK) and doing lots of damage (woo!)
Now I want to play LoL but I am having to be an adult today 🙁
Ambrose The Fourthtest!!! Where have you been youing man? We’ve been worried sick! Blaghman even killed you off in a story! http://talesoftay.tumblr.com/post/11389898449/blaghman-witty-title-here-part-one
Hi, dude-bro. I’ve got a lot of things I want to say. I don’t even know where to start.
What’s the word? More importantly, what’s the world coming to? Forget about it, it’s not important.
I don’t know what to say. Before when I said, “I’ve got a lot of things to say,” that was just misdirection without an exit strategy, subterfuge without the necessary window of opportunity. That’s cold, hard truth. No kidding, I literally don’t know what to say.
So, cornered and alone as I am here now, I’m just going to include this tweet from popular Australian television personality Daniel MacPherson.
RT @DanMacPherson: I’m officially an unemployed actor. #Wildboys will not be going to a second series. It was a load of fun, thanks for all your support 🙂
There’s a lesson in that for everybody. “Smiley face.” “Fun.” “Wildboys will not be going to a second series.” Et cetera and so forth and forever onwards, like some kind of encyclopedia of all life and times.
Hemingway? Orwell? Dickens? In this, the burning bright sunset twilight of 2011? Forget about it, AmbroseIV. Twitter is the place to go for intelligent insight and the very vanguard of modern literature.
To detour into literary escape is to lose oneself in wisdom’s deepest oceans and distant seas.
RT @mattpav29: Weather incredible today in #NYC – great for a run later this arvo!!
Bravo. Another masterpiece. Do you see? The radical expression, the revolutionary spirit, and the grammatical dexterity! Do you see?
Huh? Say again. Well, I don’t care that you don’t care, AmbroseIV, I’m just trying to help out here.
I’ll stop right there. I didn’t want to make any trouble. Looks like trouble took a dangerous wrong turn too fast and found me.
What? Don’t be like that. I don’t need to be here, AmbroseIV, sometimes I think you forget that.
Welcome back, I guess. I really thought you’d be more supportive. Turns out I was wrong. Like a wrong turn. Like misdirection without an exit strategy; this is how it always ends.
RT @kylieminogue: So, I haven’t been filmed out in public the last 2 nights & suddenly it is “reported” I cannot move my face????? #whataloadofrubbish #annoying.
No? Not even that one? Forget you, AmbroseIV. I was just trying to help.
Love,
Plainview.
ooxooxxxxxoo
I’m about to start a new job where I chronicle Twitter, then analyse the influence that luminaries like DanMacPherson have on the lives of others.
You have made me realise that this could well be The Most Important Job In The History Of Mankind.
Awesome. Awesome to the max.
The IGN Prime subscription I got years ago and keep forgetting to cancel has finally come in handy. Guaranteed SW:TOR beta access.
I was more so relating to the fact you can get MW3 for 70 bucks instead of 100 with that guide which costs 20 buck. Makes no sense.
Silly Steam!
I’ll repost this tomorrow in new TAY if I remember. But these kids are EPIC.
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