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I need my fix, man, I need my fix!
Also,
Morning all! How did the weekend go? I finally got a heap of Skyrim happening, as well as a bucket of shots on Friday night, and hookers on Sunday!
What?
Oh!
“HOOKAH”
MORNING!
Weekend went well, I partied hard (went to a mate’s Buck’s night) and got a bit of Dark Souls time in as well. Managed to ring the second bell, SUCCESS, and now I’m trying to defeat the Great Wolf Sif, NOT SUCCESS YET.
I rang the bell and went straight to Sen’s Fortress. Then I died.*
*Repeat 12 times.
So I think I’ll go spend some time in the gardens and see about this so-called “Great” wolf. (Actually, he’s awesome. I genuinely don’t want to kill him, but then I’ve read that you can get an amazing shield with his soul.)
Yeah I don’t think defeating him as anything to do with the plot, it’s more like I wanna defeat him because he’s there. I guess there are a few areas like that like the Ash Lake and the Demon Ruins.
Demon Ruins aren’t like that. you have to defeat the Boss to get to one of the final game areas. I think I’m going to leave Sif alone. He’s so pretty, he can live.
Really?
Poo I was hoping I wouldn’t have to go there hahaha.
Yeah Sif is pretty badass, but I’m all up in his grill now so it’s either me or him.
I finally spent some committed time PvPing in Dark Souls, gravelording it up in and around Smough’s arena, as well as just plain old invading.
Damn good fun, and I don’t apologise for any killing I committed, or how much grief I caused.
If I was going to let any creature live for being pretty, it would be the Moonlight Butterfly.
But I murdered it horribly, so now I may as well kill everything else.
also would like to thank Stevo for recommending said bucket o’ shots, ’twas indeed a tasty affair
My bike lost traction and I crashed last night. That was a fun way to cap off a week off work. Luckily it was at low speed (about 20-30k’s) and not while I was going 100 or something. My ribs feel bruised, I have a small headache and it hurts to breathe or bend my back. I also shredded some of my tattoo (sadface and by far the worst part) but the bike seems okay, barely a scratch on it. Getting back on and riding home was easier than I thought… I expected that I’d refuse to ride for a while.
The first and hopefully LAST time I come off it.
How about NOW, young man!
Also, I know how you must feel about your tattoo. 🙁 *hugs carefully*
Sucks to hear, but chicks dig scars*, so it’s not all bad 😛
*still under scientific study
/o\ !
Don’t die, f4ction!
Remember!
You’re a survivor! You’re going to make it! You will survive, keep on surviving!
I know, right? It just doesn’t feel like the day has started until TAY appears on Kotaku.
and WHERE have you been TAY??? i’m pretty sure the work day started at 8!!! i am disappointed with you, you could at least have called and told me you’d be late…
i had coffee for you… but… but now it’s cold
*sobs*
WE’VE BEEN WORRIED SICK!
We rang all the hospitals just in case, DON’T SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN TAY!
BAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA!
Think I just freaked out my office with how loud that laugh was 😀
Epic call, Puppy!
*phampf*
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+good morning Di11, sorry for my bad grammar but it is hard to type with your face, how are you this fine morning?
how ya doing pixel?
i too feel as if i could slide my face along my keyboard. but im too tired to AKLjfahoweuhrzshdfhushfoijaehsdnvu2
whoah hey who what was that *looks around to see if anyone noticed*
i’m goood…. gooooood…
*sluuuuuurp (sibs coffee through a straw)*
what? i’m too lazy to lift the cup… it’s VERY hard work before the completion of my first and what will hopefully become many coffees for the day
Morning Taybies! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend filled with gaming….to make up for my lack of gaming.
Had the wife’s work xmas do on the weekend. Lets just say, Doctors know how to put on a good shindig. Stayed in the city, then had a bunch of other htings to do, so really only go an hour or 2 on call of duty, and no time (or energy) for anything else.
This week should contain some more cod, some more space marine, and debating going back and playing some more NFS hot pursuit just because.
Hi everyone. How were your weekends? I spent mine running around Constantinople. Boy, am I tired.
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations? Jealous.
If I don’t get it for Christmas I’ll be mad because I was told not to buy any games after Skyrim for myself before Christmas.
ALSO:
http://www.game.com.au/assassins-creed-revelations-special-edition/playstation-3/ACREXCPS3
Hint to your gift-giving relatives if you cannae buy it yoursel
I haven’t even left Jerusalem yet 🙁 I’m so far behind.
Is it safe to skip AC1 and just move straight on to 2 and Brotherhood? Or will I be missing something major?
I asked the Kotaku peeps a while back for advice on this: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/community-review-assassins-creed-revelations/comment-page-1/#comment-446961
Consensus seemed to be AC1 could safely be skipped, although I was advised to play it for a bit to at least see how far the game had come. I ended up just skipping to AC2.
Ok, I’ll do that, when I find time to get away from everything else I’ve got to try out.
Second game has a ‘previously on Assassin’s Creed’ opening too.
That “previously on” sequence really didn’t help me.
That “previously on” sequence was beyond useless. Luckily, I enjoyed the plot of AssCreed enough to play it until the end. And while I’ve finished Ass2 and AssBro, it was not due to the plot, because man, there’s nothing there.
“A story of revenge, and some more revenge, and revengeyMcRevengeface.”
Look Ezio, I get it, you want revenge, now how about some character development? No? Templars are evil, and that’s all you need know? *sigh* Fine.
I skipped 1; didn’t finish 2 and now have brotherhood.
I’ve not missed much except for the ending of 2 but you can pick it up really easily if you watch the cutscenes at the beginning of brotherhood.
I went to a lot of effort to clear my inbox last week and was rewarded when the only stuff waiting for me on Monday morning were garbage office memo type emails that didn’t require my attention. Between that and my boss being off sick. I might actually be able to wind down after things being so hectic the last couple of weeks. Hooray, I might have some time to TAY this week!
I’m having friends over on the 17th and in my eagerness in looking forward to that and the break I’ll enjoy over Christmas I completely lost sight of the fact that I’m in fact turning 29 THIS WEEK. I would like to thank my wife for reminding me I am getting older much faster than I thought.
But what really concernes me is the future. Next year, I turn 30. And I cannot think of anything cool or interesting to do to celebrate this. Are there any other old people who’ve enjoyed a 30th and done something interesting to comemorate it? I need suggestions.
Hire out an entire arcade joint and have like the old school time zone super sessions. 😛
They still have meatworld arcades? I haven’t been to one since they closed Playtime on George Street (which was thankfully immortalised in the Looking for Alibrandi movie, so I can show it to my children).
“This is where daddy used to DDR after going to anime conventions.”
“Oh God, please shut up.”
“Oh, and that’s the alley where my friend was chased by a poop-flinging hobo!”
“It’s going to be the alley where our dad was murdered, if you don’t shut up.”
Anyway. I know that Galaxy World is still there, but for some reason I never liked the place. Maybe the machines didn’t get updated as much. Maybe I didn’t like the people who hung out there.
Interesting idea though.
I could buy Halo Anniversary and have a 4-player co-op campaign marathon.
On Legen…
dary difficulty.
Then again that’s something I could do this year.
But everyone lugging a TV and console over to your place? In this age of Xbox Live, it will surely take something pretty special to make that happen.
I miss Halo LAN parties…
I wonder where I can find 4 old-school xboxes.
I wouldn’t go that far! I think some Reach system link would suit just fine.
If a thing be done, it must be done right. I’ll also need 16 ‘Duke’ controllers, and some 51cm TVs with refresh rates that make my eyesockets ache.
First time I played Halo 2 (I didn’t know at the time that its online functionality would forever destroy the LAN party), was at a LAN party on a projector. It was about a week before it came out. Someone had “obtained” a French copy. It was very exciting.
Well i’ll be 30 at the end of the month, i’ll let you know how that plays out. I may decide to go back to being 25 again.
I’m hopnig to be visited by aliens and/or genies that will allow me to revert back to age 21, and also have lots of money. In fact, that’s my birthday wish, so it has to happen.
Sorry, wishes only come true if you don’t tell anybody about them. It’s in the fine print of the contract
Remember everyone! Kotaku Kristmas Meat is on december 17th! Register intent at link_windwaker13@hotmail.com DRINKINGAMINGOODTIMES ! Btw its in Sydney!
I should be able to confirm 100% my attendance one way or the other by this afternoon. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it, I’ve been looking forward to it a lot
I wish I could go, but I can’t. Due to the whole slack-arse broke guy thing. So, I’ll drink a beer(probably a glass of water, I can’t afford beer), and toast to all you cool people.
I’ve made the switch to PC for Skyrim. Can’t really explain it, but I’m enjoying it so much more. I’m a platform agnostic, so this unsettles me.
I’m sticking with my xbox Battlefield though as I really hate it when my opponents have got mices. I don’t seem able to take advantage of the “extra accuracy” I am informed comes with a mouse, but my opponents certainly do.
I too am PC-ing Skyrim… but it’s for the mods my good man, the mods.
But, now, it’s started crashing to desktop instead of loading the game… anyone else encountered this?
I figured the good mods would take a year or so to work themselves out. I’m really not interested in too much fiddle faddle and only really want one or two great ones.
In New Vegas, I’ve got Project Nevada installed. It is a thing of beauty.
I thought I could hold out for a PC GOTY in a year or two and in the meantime rock the ‘box. But it just wasn’t grabbing me. I couldn’t get past the framerate and it just felt sluggish and awkward to point my crosshairs at things I wanted to pick up. And sword fighting just really didn’t work for me. This is the first time I’ve felt the PC genuinely gave the superior experience.
So this week’s TABTOL showcases 20 pages of Blaghman-broken, Plainview-farewelling, Trjn-ranting madness (seriously dude, 12 thousand words??). Harli showed all the pretenders who’s boss. I’m sure there were some other important themes in there but I know I was just too damn busy to keep up last week. Let us all know in the replies if we missed anything else of significance (with permalinks if possible!)
TAY December 2, 2011: 3685 comments
1: Harli 280 posts (7.6%, 3893 words)
2: Trjn 264 posts (7.2%, 12300 words)
3: Pixel the Ferret Viking 242 posts (6.6%, 5837 words)
4: Rize 218 posts (5.9%, 4115 words)
5: Effluvium Boy 150 posts (4.1%, 2502 words)
6: Sughly 137 posts (3.7%, 3633 words)
7: Steve-O The Deve-O 113 posts (3.1%, 2264 words)
8: Bish 111 posts (3.0%, 2396 words)
9: Chuloopa 103 posts (2.8%, 1616 words)
10: Plainview 102 posts (2.8%, 3038 words)
11: Splicer 97 posts (2.6%, 2463 words)
12: Di11enger 96 posts (2.6%, 3018 words)
12: Shane 96 posts (2.6%, 5280 words)
14: Dr What? 93 posts (2.5%, 3123 words)
15: D.C. 92 posts (2.5%, 2296 words)
16: Morkai 90 posts (2.4%, 2550 words)
17: Rocketman 89 posts (2.4%, 2312 words)
18: PuppyLicks 80 posts (2.2%, 1474 words)
19: NovaCascade 72 posts (2.0%, 2641 words)
20: Strange 67 posts (1.8%, 2605 words)
21: NegativeZero 60 posts (1.6%, 3762 words)
22: DAN! 59 posts (1.6%, 857 words)
22: Phoenix 59 posts (1.6%, 1329 words)
24: AlexPants 54 posts (1.5%, 1804 words)
25: Jo 52 posts (1.4%, 1505 words)
26: Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian 50 posts (1.4%, 1340 words)
27: NotoriousR 49 posts (1.3%, 957 words)
28: Crazyguy1990 46 posts (1.2%, 1174 words)
29: Blaghman 41 posts (1.1%, 1689 words)
30: lambomann007 35 posts (0.9%, 870 words)
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33: Freyr 31 posts (0.8%, 480 words)
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Post #1: Batguy at 08:31 28/11
What a depressing 3000th post. I feel guilty now. Sorry all!
We all have days like that. Hope this week treats you better!
Yay top 50!
I always hit the ground running with TAY, but at about page 4 I lose it and then miss out for the rest of the week.
That is a pretty sad effort on my part last week, although i was pretty damned busy most of the week, so i didnt get anywhere near as much tay time as normal. Hopefully this week will be a little bit more TAY friendly.
I think that word count thing is slightly off, I did two ~1000 word posts and then slightly more verbose than usual ranting. Seeing as I normally sit around 5-6k, this seems a little excessive.
Also, Harli cheated so I’m disqualifying her and claiming victory for the whole thing. I didn’t make spam posts on earlier pages to boost my post count. Everything I posted was legit.
*conspiracy alert*
someone call the government and by that i mean serrels
*shifty eyes*
sidenote you where very verbose last mr trjn 120.3 k words… someone likes the sound of their own voice 😛
and by that i mean last week and 12.3k words. lol
The sound of my own keyboard, mayhap.
But most of that rambling was done at work on my somewhat silent Apple keyboard, instead of at home on my super mega awesome fun (and a bit noisy) mechanical keyboard.
Really, I was just having a very slow week at work. Oh so very slow.
in which case it just goes to further proof how IMBA they are
What do you mean Trjn, that was a totally and completely legit conversation
*innocent look*
You’re just scared Di11enger. Granted I had a lot of help from Harli, but once I have enough power, I won’t need her anymore.
MWAHAHAHA.
*cough* I mean, I love you Harli, you have nothing to be worried about 😀
oh my
*hides in pixel’s skirt*
You’re not safe there Di11, you’re not safe anywhere…..
*farts so loudly the windows shake*
damn straight!
*dies*
One down…
I went from 55 in my first week, to 20 last week, to 16 this week… MY ASCENT IS SLOWING, MUST SPAM MORE!!!
Psst, this comment is the secret to boosting yourself into a high position, like a manly man boss man. Just reply to everything, even when you have nothing interesting to say(aka, every comment I’ve ever made).
I should also point out that only about 5 people will read this, and the odds go down once I’m past page three, assuming that we’re at about page six by then. Strange will probably read it, no matter where I post, but apart from that? Ehh, there’s a couple people. Though it was mostly me, before the Calamity, of course.
I wonder if the post numbers are thrown off by posts made on earlier pages?
So if someone makes the 1000th comment and then someone posts something in reply on an earlier page, does TABTOL count the original 1000th post (presumably by sorting by timestamps) or does it bump every post afterwards making the 999th post the 1000th?
The posts numbers are all chronological. So a reply to post #1 now will still be number #3800+. Can’t guarantee that the word count is perfect, bug I’ve used some standard approaches that have served me well in the past. Would have to check, but it’s conceivable that it counts apostrophes as word breaks? Whatever the case, your relative verbosity is undeniable 🙂
The word count definitely feels a little excessive. Oh well, I can’t complain. Nobody is going to beat this record for quite some time.
Unless I get really bored at work again.
LADIES AND GENTS!!1
THIS IS YOUR LAST WEEK TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE KOTAKU KRISTMAS PROJECT IF YOU ARE NOT!!!
LAST WEEK!!!
email me at troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail(dotcom)
Everyone else – abso-bloody-lutely stellar job, guys and girls. you’re all amazing
For those who haven’t done phase three – please remember that this Saturday is the cut-off date. If you don’t have the time to do it, let me know and i’ll try and make time to do it for you.
Thanks guys
G’mornin’ to yee TAYbies, your weekends all sound positively swell, except maybe for F4ction and his tattoo-shredding crash 🙁
My weekend was awesome, had a work dinner for a bunch of people who’s last day was on friday, got up saturday and went into the city and wandered around Circular Quay for a bit, harassed the staff of the Apple Store on George St (:P) and bought a few christmas presents.
Sunday was tops the lot I must say, I took a new ladyfriend with me to the Happy Feet 2 Premiere, and shall we say, things went extremely well, and I’m almost certain the kiss at the front door as I dropped her home means I’m onto a good thing 😀
I didn’t break nuffin’ and you can’t prove I did!
You call that a break? Why, in my day we didn’t get breaks!
True story.
Mark had to moderate every comment by hand, while I was outside, playing hoops with a stick.
A STICK!
nah, they both came into the cinema and made their little speeches etc, but I missed actually meeting Mr Williams… George I’ve seen around the building over the last few months, he’s a really cool guy, and I’ve always been jealouse of the bomber jacket and scarf he wears most of the time 😀
Should be a good week on the gaming front. Batman: Arkham City patch hopefully will be certified. Spike VGA’s will unveil some new games, hopefully on par with last years. New xbox 360 dashboard. Man, I got to get me a life. 😉
Should I be excited about this new dashboard?
I could certainly do with some better functionality. I don’t know anything about this new one.
yeah I’m keen to see what the new dash looks like, as well as how many ads they’ve managed to jam in there.
Youtube access on your Xbox.
That means Epic MealTime on your xbox.
That means BACON ON YOUR XBOX.
I think I have made my point.
whatchoo know about bacon on xbox?
WE’RE CHANGING THE GAME
New dashboard is….different. Good though i wish they’d tweak the ad sizes (oops not meant to talk bout it) NDS my ass! 😛
Strangely I find myself excited for the new dashboard even though I don’t like it very much right now. I think its mostly to do with the fact that I’m so very bored of the current dashboard. But then I’ve always hated the current dashboard!
Xbox Live works well with the current dashboard too, one of the clear advantages over PSN in my opinion. I liked the original dashboard too.
The worst part about Jack and Jill, apart from the fact that it looks like one of those movies that would not be remotely interesting except for the playing multiple characters gimmick stacked with the crossdressing gimmick, is that I can tell just from the POSTERS, what the movie will be like:
‘Jack’ will play the ‘straight man’, probably something of a cynical/sarcastic family man who people associate with because he feels so put upon.
‘Jill’ is a crazy wacky fun loving free spirit who who get all up in Jack’s business and screw everything up and make Jack angry. At which point Jack will realise he’s a huge tool who needs to loosen up, and Jill will realise that she’s Adam Sandler in a wig and kill herself.
No, not really. She’ll promise to be more serious and controlled but she’ll still be cheeky and mischeivous, and there will be some stealth prank waiting for Jack after he has waved Jill off in her car or at the airport or whereever they use as the setting for their heartfelt goodbye.
If I’m wrong, I will be amazed.
You know what I want to see? Jack and Jill, but where Jill is just a figment of Jack’s imagination and sometimes he cross dresses to play the role of Jill while imagining Jack getting mad at her, but she does evil things on purpose to get revenge on Jack for being mad at her. The rest of the family, who are all substance abusers, think this is harmless self expression and indulges the fantasy, which is why no one reacts to this extremely odd behaviour.
At the climax of the movie JackJill throws herself down some stairs and handcuffs him/herself to a boiler, where he/she beats herself with a cane and begs for forgiveness. It’s revealed that Jack created the Jill persona because he had a sister who was raped and murdered and he has spent his life carrying the burden of witnessing the crime because deep down he wants revenge, but he has also mentally blocked the incident from his memory.
You got a little Fight Clubby at the end there, but aside from that methinks the premise works pretty well.
Get yourself a contract with Hollywood and make that shit happen.
Now that you’ve pointed out the similarity to Fight Club, I can’t even figure out how I wrote that without it even occurring to me. Wow, I’m visualising a mashup of Fight Club, Psycho and I Spit in Your Grave.
HEY ‘CUZ!
How’d the weekend LAN thing go?
Did you win? Because that would be fully sic, brah.
If buy ‘cuz you refer to harli, they seemed to have steamrolled everyone.
Of course, if you had twitter, you’d know this.
Your subconscious mind is telling you to buy more games, you have no other choice.
Obey. Obey. Obey. Through obedience is order, through order, peace.
Good morning all. I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a great time, despite not getting to spend any time in Skyrim. Saturday we had my sister’s engagement party at our house. It was a fantastic day, we got really lucky with the weather, almost everyone invited was able to make it. And sooo much food, don’t think I will eat again until at least lunchtime. Sunday was spent cleaning up and watching the Kiwi’s get knocked over in the cricket.
How was everyone else’s weekend?
I don’t know anything about D&D. except that I’m 99.9% sure that no one in my area plays it. Or they keep it very underground, which is also likely I guess.
What’s it like? How do you play?
It’s pretty good, actually! I’ts a lot like if you were playing an MMO in person with other people. You have dedicated roles (I was tank/DPS) and stuff, but there’s a lot o customization and freedom involved. Basically, you play a zero-graphics RPG with other players, and you can do whatever you want. Quests and dungeons are the main things you do though.
Perhaps a better description would be if Skyrim was infinitely more liberating, and you can play with other people, and your characters have backstories.
So i watched Captain America last night, i am honestly not sure what to think. i cant quite put my finger on it but something felt a bit off. thoughts anyone? also is green lantern as terrible as people have told me? or do you think its awesome?
To me it just sort of…ended. Like they were building up to something that never happened.
I think what they’re doing is making movies for all the avengers, to explain why they’re all in the same time period and whatnot, then they’re going to make an avengers movie.
Hahaha, I’ll give you my thoughts – it was crap! Heh, there you go.
No but for reals, characters that went nowhere and that I didnt care about, random acts of not really very interesting action, and then uhhh shes all like no dont die and pretending to cry and I was like ahhhh please hurry up and die please.
Wow late start to the week of TAY. Morning every human/meatbag, Welbot and Bish
I’m only going to be posting this week once so I want to get a few things cleared up. Strange, I want to thank you for last week’s noms and your words. I did read it and I don’t want you blaming yourself for what happened. The last thing I want to do is to make a nice lady such as yourself sad. If anything, I blame myself for letting it all get to me.
I don’t know how many people would remember this, but LoL talk actually started with me. I came on one morning and talked about the game and how much I enjoyed it. Soon others got interested in trying it out and before we knew it, over a dozen people are playing this together as teams via TS. When people started complaining about the amount of ‘LoLchat” in TAY, I felt responsible for this and got defensive cuz I thought I was making a contribution to making our community stronger by playing a 100% team-based game together. I wrote up an apology to you and everybody else about my overreaction and I didn’t get a reply in any way shape or form, but still certain individuals taking a snap at LoL, and I took that as a kick to the teeth and didn’t feel welcome here anymore as I tried to remedy the situation that ultimately I caused and to me I got ignored.
So I decided to leave TAY so that I don’t risk making things worse and also risk the worst thing and end up dividing us, like with Rocketman’s attempt. At the very least I wanted to come back with a clear head, but then I realised I haven’t been able to do that from my high school history either. I don’t know whether or not I will come back, because right now I still feel like if I do, I’ll infect this place with my negativity and overreactions. Hopefully I can find my own way without damaging what this great community has become, so I’m going to say farewell for now. I will still be on TeamSpeak and always up for a chat on Steam if you wish. I’m not going to be avoiding the friends I’ve made here.
Take care of each other humans.
you’re a knight, being protective is your thing.
also i love you because your a robot with a sexy voice ( totally not meant in a creepy way) and even though none of it is directed to me you are teaching me alot about a game i thoroughly enjoy on TS and in TAY so thank you very much.
side note: i could never go back to my school and not hate the majority of people there, so even though it feels like a repitition of events i honestly think they are completley unrelated and not similar at all. School was hell for you and no one had your back, this is more like an argument with friends about which type of pizzas you want for pizza night a group of people want something new and different you want to stick with the regular (hope that analogy works and is not read the wrong way)
anyhooo hope you feel better soon 🙂
and i hope to hear your voice in TS and TAY again soon
🙂
Techy, if you don’t get on here more often, I’ll continue to harass TS with my terrible, terrible (so very terrible) humour, more OR less often (depending on which option is perceived as a threat) 😛
Seriously though, we all love you and you’ll be back. No one goes cold TAYkey!
I’ll respect your decision, but I gotta say that you shouldn’t feel like you’re damaging TAY by being yourself.
Thats what TAY is all about, sometimes we joke, sometimes we come on here and just vent our spleens about what crappy days we have, and sometimes we have public spats at eachother because we’re all cranky on a monday arvo.
The fact is that we all do things like that, its only human (wink), and after all that we all have a laugh, kiss and make up, say we’re sorry for being in the middle of a coffee crash, and we carry on, because we know that we’re all friends here, warts and all.
So if ya need time off, indefinitely or not, that’s your decision and thats okay, you do what you gotta do. But if you decide to come back later down the track just know that you’ll have a community here that’ll welcome ya back with open arms.
Peace, Techy
Also at least keep lurking here or get on Twitter so we can give a heads up when the next Melbourne Meat runs around 😉
ok, this morning I have discovered 2 things…
1) cold coffee is bad.
2) I should not put chewing gum in my mouth before drinking coffee, spearmint does not go with coffee…
Spearmint really doesn’t go with anything. Which is why I rarely have gums. I like food too much to ruin the taste
Yes I rarely have gums, my teeth just sort of float around in my mouth…
Its too early for this
1) i don’t understand this statement… coffee, bad? should never be in the same sentence 😛
2) coffee with anything in your mouth is considered multitasking and all the cool kids do it
well comment 1) was a coffee I had made at 8:30 and was attempting to drink at 10:15… so, cold and nasty.
on a completley unrelated note http://www.news.com.au/world/eight-ferraris-tangle-in-most-expensive-crash-ever/story-e6frfkyi-1226213870366
prius gets revenge for everyone calling him cheap!!!*
*probably not what actually happened
Thank god the Diablo looked the least damaged. I’m much more likely to forgive the ferrari’s getting damaged, but you write off a Lambo(man?) and there’s no coming back from that
iseewhatyoudidthar
I think I should start the RSPCL (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Lambos) 😛
Would this group liberate lambo’s from their oppressive(dickweed) owners, and give them to caring houses? Because I would totally be up for that.
I was just glad there were no Astons or Porsches in there, you destroy my dream cars (FYI an Aston Martin DB9 or a Porsche GT3 RS) and I’m gonna have to choke a bitch.
Just buy a 911, the only way people can tell them apart is if someone says…
“no, that’s a new porshe”.
Good news everyone!
I finally finished Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood over the weekend. To be honest, I was disappointed by it. The last stage in particular felt incredibly rushed. I can’t help but feel disappointed in the same way Red Leader felt disappointed when he missed the target exhaust port on his first Death Star assault.
I would have been greatly disappointed by the one-memory long sequence 9 there if it weren’t for the 20 minute Desmond sequence after it. As it stands I’m just somewhat disappointed. The big problem with the end of that game though, is the fact that halfway through sequence eight it just says ‘yeah no all those weapons you’ve got and that whole brotherhood of assassins you’ve trained? We’re not giving you access to them anymore! You have this macguffin thing, use that in roughly three or four identical memories that you can’t decline at all anymore’.
Yeah, that bit was unnecessary. Ezio would know better than to use the thing, and he could take enemies down better with his normal skills anyway. So stupid.
You say that Ezio would know better, but just remember.
Ezio, is a twat. There, I said it. If I knew anyone like him in real life, I would either a, punch them, or 2, disown them like I did every other friend of mine.
Good morning, TAY. (suddenly whenever I say that I feel like I’m one of Charlie’s Angels, ‘good morning, Charlie!’ TAY’s Angels? Whatever)
Hope this week is better than the last. Its day ten of my irritating cold, and when a cold lingers for this long I just get annoyed.
So on Friday I went to a farewell party for some friends who are moving to America. One of their friends brought along an entire set for Guitar Hero 5, and I spent the early part of the night fiddling with the drum kit, because I have never used one before. We only have #3 at home, which I must say has a far better music selection on it. Anyway, I’m no good with the drums. Maybe it was the drinking I was doing, I was good at any regular patterns but the instant more than three of the colours showed up on the screen I started flailing. When we finished playing Sultans of Swing, I retired from the drums forever.
Also since Skyrim is still SKYRIM and whatnot I spent Sunday fiddling around with that. Mostly College of Winterhold/Dark Brotherhood questlines, which were pretty fun as smaller narratives. But one thing I’ve discovered and hope isn’t only affecting me, dragons show up at the worst possible times. Leaving my house in Whiterun? Blood dragon! Stalking a Dark Brotherhood target? Dragon! Fighting two giants and a bear? Two dragons!
I have hardly had any dragon attacks. With the exception of the story attack outside Whiterun right at the start, I’ve only had one random dragon attack – outside Riften. Luckily there was plenty of town guards to help, even if they wanted to attck me more than the dragon.
I had one more encounter, just as was leaving a dungeon. Two dragons showed up, but they were struck with the reverse flying glitch and after firing a lot of arrows at them (that mostly missed) they back-flew halfway to Solitude and I never saw them again.
…And then I found 50 gold coins.
Yeah, I went a long time without any showing up, but suddenly they’re a lot more common. How far into the main quest line are you?
I’ve been to High Hrothgar and met the Greybeards. They sent me off to find the Horn of SIr Unpronouncable, but I haven’t gone after it yet. So not very far.
Decided to do some dungeon-diving and join the Thieves guild/ Dark Brotherhood to get some money/decent equipment behind me first.
I’ve got it on DVD in the cupboard and have been meaning to watch it forever. Haven’t got around to it yet though 🙁
I only watched part of it and recorded the rest since I was sweepy.
Pretty damn good though. Makes me want to watch Red Cliff (Have the BD and have been meaning to watch it forever. Haven’t got around to it yet though 🙁 )
I was interested in red cliff but then i found out that the theatrical release in Australia (maybe all western releases) was only half the film. They literally cut half the film out.
So figured I would try to get the full film and watch it one day
I watched Mongol when it came out at cinemas, it was an interesting film, if maybe a little unfulfilling. I think it was more interesting from the cinematic standpoint, really seeing the different culture rather than the story itself.
Nice, I meant to go and see this when it was showing at the cinema in newtown, but by the time I had a chance to go and see it, it had stopped showing 🙁
that movie is amazing, i saw it the other week… some very brutal stuff in there actually..
also i’ve been meaning to ask, is there any other F1 fanatics like myself out there on TAY?
Anyone see these? http://www.bigw.com.au/offer/biggamebargains
A couple of good deals there.
NO!
I know that’s how they usually work, but the website says “Deals available from the specified date until Dec 12”. *”from*!!!
I was all like ‘meh’ and then I saw this:
http://www.bigw.com.au/bigw/search/bigw_search_results.jsp?search=tournament-fightstick
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Morning all. It’s a bit of a late start for me but hopefully I can catch up with my work. Over the weekend I go Bioshock 2 and I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed it. The atmosphere is still as good and IMO it’s a better shooter than Bioshock 1 the shooting and plasmid use seems much better.
I reckon the story in Bioshock 1(and the twist at the end) was better than 2. But graphics, gameplay and mechanics a lot more solid in 2 😉
Now Ken Levine must bring us Bioshock Infinite! NOW!
Bioshock 2 is sitting on my shelf still in it’s wrapping.
Saving that baby for the next gaming lull or shameless gaming month 🙂
My copy has pride of place on my pile of shame, right next to Mass Effect 2.
I think I shot myself in the foot by starting it on hard. I finished Bioshock 1 twice, the second time on hard, so I thought I could take it. Evidently not. Will need to power it up again, this time on normal.
As for ME2, I have no excuse.
ME2? What’s wrong with you man… 😀
Dante wrote that there are seven circles of hell:
First Circle (Limbo)
Second Circle (Lust)
Third Circle (Gluttony)
Fourth Circle (Avarice)
Fifth Circle (Anger)
Sixth Circle (People who haven’t finished ME2)
Seventh Circle (Violence)
Eighth Circle (Fraud)
Ninth Circle (Treachery)
Yeah Bioshock 2 is tough. I’m playing it on normal and the fights with the Big daddys and big sisters are still tough, they are rewarding though. Another fun thing to do is to use the hypnotise plasmid on a big sister and watch her fight a group of splicers or watch her go against a BIg daddy which is epic to say the least.
I’ve finished Bioshock 2, never finished the first. I made the mistake of playing the second game first, and I could never get over just how awkward the controls in the first felt. It also didn’t help that I was attempting to play it through on the hard difficulty, without using the resurrection chamber things.
Yeah, I loved that cool rivalry that develops between Ryan and Tenenbaum too. I can’t wait to see Irrational’s sequel, but it was good to see Rapture one more time too.
I loved Bioshock 2. I really enjoyed the father/daughter relationship the story was telling.
So I had planned on playing a shitload of Zelda at the weekend.
And working on some art.
Instead I did this… http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/Zelda-2.jpg
So you combined the two and made some Zelda art? 2 birds one stone, all that jazz.
That is seriously impressive. If it was me, it would be more like a stick figure with a vaguely triangle-shaped yellow blob over its head.
that is quite impressive doctor, i be maighty impressed…
speaking of which, any news on our lovely MC server? i’ve been poking it with a stick all weekend but it doesn’t seem to budge
also is it just me or is the hideout on the left very similar to Nupraptor the Mentalists retreat in Blood omen?
No idea. I played on the Kotaku MC server once. Went on to teamspeak too. No one else was playing MC and everyone in the MC TS channel was talking about LoL. Never went back to either. 🙁
Come back on some time. I’m usually on MC here and there in the evenings, and TS on weekends. I’ll love you up real good.
MC TS channel wasn’t really Minecraft chat back in the day. As it was the default channel it had the honour of serving as they general chat.
A couple of hours? The right side is hollow with stairs and platforms up to the eyes and up to the triforce. Quite the tourist attraction 😛
So I watched my husband play a fair bit of Dark Souls over the weekend. I saw him get invaded by Black Phantoms a few times.
One was so cheap and tried to take him out with arrows from afar but when they saw it wasn’t working tried to lure him into other enemies to have them do the work. My husband fixed him with an epic backstab.
An other invader made me feel bad. My husband was in the Painted World. He’d been Toxiced and had no Blooming Purple Blossoms or whatever heals that so he was on his way back to the bonfire to heal. Someone invaded but noticed his character wasn’t well so they dropped two healy things for him and sent him a message to take them. He took them, but didn’t even gesture a thank-you or anything to his honorable opponent, just proceeded to kill him. It made me mad and I even considered divorce. Seems I married a bastard. 😛
The invader sounds like an honourable player.
Personally, I run around hollowed partly because I don’t want to get invaded (but mostly because being human doesn’t last me long anyway).
Hang on though, what are these “healy things”? I really wouldn’t know what to drop to heal someone. Maybe some blooming moss and some humanity?
Sorry, I couldn’t remember exactly what it was but yes, Blooming purple moss clump. The guy even dropped two of them, so there was a spare.
And yeah, a lot of invaders are not honourable. Like the ones that invade players who are trying to kill the Bosses in Anor Londo and have reversed the hollowing so they can summon help. Then BAM! invaders. So sucky.
Woah wait I just cauht the details of this. Mr Strange! Wow. Thats on a, like, teens screaming over the mic on Counter Strike level of douchebagery.
Pshh, it was probably all a trap anyway, you know what they say “It’s a tarp!”
A funny word that, tarp. For some reason I always think of a carp crossed with, well, a tarp. I’m not sure why, it doesn’t make any sense, given the named element is actually there, but hey, who am I to try and understand my brain? What am I, a Rocket Surgeon?
Harharharrrr!
No but I just went back and read through it all and now I’m sad :'(
Brings me joy that he posted this amazing video though – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C2WVCruPM
:'(
Does this mean we get to learn his secret identity now?
I want to know why? I’m hoping it’s because he’s laying the secret identity to rest.
And don’t you know who Plainview is, Cracks? You live near each other so I just thought you knew.
Nope – never bothered to find out. The mystery was always enjoyable.
Actually yeah this! Blaghman, Harli, you guys know – speak up! Might as well no?
Wait… its not Tech Knight is it?
I’m way out of the loop on this one sorry, why did Plainview leave and who is this mystery man?
Can you link me to this? I think I saw some of it but I don’t have time to look for it.
I have more important things to do! Like… write news articles about Mario!
I wrote that in bits and pieces. It took all morning!
Best I can gather is it commences here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/comment-page-18/#comment-462373
And then Plainview pretty much owned the next three pages of TAY.
What a wonderful game. If you’ve got the equipment, and the rest of the household is out, turn up the surround sound really loud in a thunderstorm. It’s amazing. 😀
The thunderstorms didn’t really surprise me all that much, as I’d already experienced the crap out of them in GTA4, and they were largely unchanged(though improved quite a lot) in Red Dead. Still, it’s a beautiful game, roaming the countryside, killing all the things. Skinning all the things. Mounting all the things on your mantelpiece. Forcing your wife to wear the flayed skins of things as you create snuff films, followed by reliving the skinning moment.
Truly, truly, beautiful.
Can someone please explain how to add an avatar? I don’t feel like a big boy without one.
Yeah, set it up at Gravatar but just make sure you use the same email address you use here. It will take a few posts to show up, too.
Give it time!
Nevermind, it works now. I only hope it lives up to Bish’s expectations.
*puts on fedora, horn rimmed glasses, and draws goatee on*
“This piece…”
*strokes goatee (ink)*
“… is beyond the metaphysical metaphysicism that words can describe.”
That is to say that I don’t know what it is.
YEAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhh…..!
The money shot is at 0:46
YEAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhh…..?
But is it really ‘k?
HAHA, it’s a joke you see, because it’s like a shortening of OK and it’s funny! Right guys, funny?
Man, I have lost my touch.
As I’ve neglected TAY for the last month due to work commitments, I feel I should try to make amends.
So with that said, here is some BREAKING NEWS.
PRINCESS CAPTURED, POLICE BAFFLED
In a crime the likes of which has not been seen in almost 14 days, the beloved Princess of the kingdom has been kidnapped from her castle. Local law enforcement officials dubbed the ‘Koopa Troopers’ by local residents have visited the scene, and provided the following statement:
“While we hate to be the bearers of grim news, we currently have no leads, or for that matter any trace of a crime,” said Sgt. Cooper Halfshell, from beside a fresh hole in the castle wall “and for the safety of all concerned we would appreciate your co-operation in not engaging in any private investigation services or conducting any personal searches. Please leave this to the professionals.”
Asked my reporters if they would investigate the giant lizard prints in the fresh mud leading from the hole and the trail of pink scraps tied around tree branches at regular intervals, Sgt. Halfshell shrugged and said “yeah, sure, why not.”
In unrelated news, a series of mysterious fires across the city have resulted in an astonishing number of homeless plumbers, left to sift through the wreckage of their homes. One unlucky victim was quoted as saying “Mamma mia. I’ve lost-a everything. Where will I go now?”
Since this piece is lacking replies, I feel I should say that I laughed. I didn’t actually laugh, it’s very rare for a piece of text to elicit that response from me, and the majority of the time that I say that I did I’m lying, but I did find it amusing, and isn’t that the point?
Contemplating sending my boss an email:
Dear (yer face),
Due to the increase in workload I have experienced recently I am currently unable to keep up with my TAY commenting responsibilities. As you would know, this is an unreasonable degree of lost anti-productivity due to corporate expectations. I would appreciate being given some extra time, to better match my required TAY output, and therefore, dick around heaps, aye.
Rize
Haha these tv shopping things are so hilarious. ‘Heres some cream for old people. To prove it, Ive brought in an old person to rub on themselves. Go ahead old person, rub it on! Dont you see the difference? Oh… you dont? Rub in more old person!!’.
Also seeing one half of Lano and Woodley on that Circle crap is pretty much one of the saddest sights I’ve seen in my entire life.
I know right? I went and saw Frank’s one man show a few years back. It was great! Also saw Colin’s one man cabaret show thing… it was alright. I have their show on DVD. Happier times…
Wait, how has nobody made the requisite Silence of the Lambs comment? I don’t understand!
I’ve got two now. I’m going to sell the one I just fixed though. Need to be prepared for the Steam Christmas Sale 😛
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-most-elaborate-dick-moves-in-online-gaming-history_p2/
The one from Asheron’s Call is freaking hilarious.
I was reading this thinking ‘If they don’t mention Fansy I’m out”
Then I was like “YAY FANSY :D”
Anyone got any pro-tips on getting white deoderant stains out of black shirts?
(I know I can just Google it, but thought I’d ask anyway)
I recommend black paint…
but you’d need more deoderant to combat the smell.
So get lots of black paint, because you’ll need to go over it a second time
use non-marking deoderant? Srsly though, you need to salt it. Get your tshirt wet, then scrub some salt into the stains and let it sit for a few hours or overnight. You can also try vinegar but I’ve had limited success with it.
@Effluvium Boy
i noticed you are planning on watching Red Cliff do you have the version that is split in two (original asian release) or the american version (simplified and squashed into one film)
if you have the american version i suggest you watch the asian release as it is absolutley insane in the membrane. it is almost twice as long though and there are lots of characters to keep up with. if you watch the chinese versions you have to watch them in a marathon. I really enjoyed the american one dont get me wrong but the chinese version is obviously way more indepth. only watch it if you have the time and interested in the full story though
Ive heard the American one is very much a bastardized version and to avoid at all costs, but that the original is amazing. Still planning on getting it at some point…
I saw the international release at the cinema, and enjoyed it. Bought the two-part asian release on DVD – so much better. The plot made more sense (but I’ve played me some Dynasty Warriors, so it already made sense :P), and there was far more story to love – roughly 2.5 hours per part, as opposed to the ~2 hour international.
It’s just a cut version though, right? Nothing done to it apart from the snippity-snip?
Here we go, this is what the all mighty Dave and Margie had to say:
DAVID: Having seen the complete version I can say that this abridged version, despite its qualities, is a pale shadow of the original. Margaret?
MARGARET: I’m glad you say that because I felt, at two and a half hours, this film was interminable and it felt like it was missing out on something, like, character development. It was like the bare bones of something and, with the substance missing, it became really interminable for me.
DAVID: Well, I mean, characters have been removed, subplots have been removed and the battles have been edited up and so on.
MARGARET: And it looks, as you say, fantastic. I mean, it really is a good looking film.
DAVID: It is. I mean if we were sitting here reviewing the complete version, I would be giving it a very high score because I think, of its type, it’s one of the great epics…really a great epic.
wat?
Shanks.
also i think red cliff is loosely based around the book called Romance of the three kingdoms with John Woo putting his own spin on it. there is a TV series that my friend from HK is sending over to me based the same books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_%28TV_series%29
there are a ridiculous amount of characters in this series lol
i will get my friend to send me over originals! (watched it with him when he lived here) and forward it on to you then!
no worries let me know by end of week if you cant find it.
he is sending over Romance of three kingdoms next monday
Wish I had some motivation today. Can you guys like pass some through to me, through the interwebs? Thatd be appreciated.
Better yet, I’ll write it out here!
Commander returns, impregnates the President (who is probably a woman), and aliens take over the world. The end.
Damn it, Sughly.
Look, if theres aliens its always gonna be about the President anyways. THE President, as in, no other President matters. Right?
Could you let creepy postman have a cameo in one of your games? That’d be awesome 🙂
🙂
Hahaha, man I should do a whole game just about him really.
You could have him just staring in to Anna’s room at some point…or just hanging outside the spaceship hatch in Egress…
If you were to design a game for Postman, what would the premise be?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*channels motivation through keyboard*
*keyboard gets up and dances, then runs out the front door and catches a bus to Sydney. Searches through office type buildings looking for Sughly. Finds Sughly and repeats same dance. Returns home*
balls i knew it.
*keyboard rests at home, prepares for epic journey around australia looking for sughly too rocky soundtrack*
*di11 recieves call from Sug.H.L.Y aka Sugar honey loves you aka a prostitute called Sughly in sydney*
*slaps keyboard for stupidty*
*keyboard sulks, then sets out on epic journey*
lol! What a coincidence, I’m a prostitute in Brisbane!
I knew it! You whore!
If you do some stuff that you’re supposed to do, I’ll let you design our cheerleader uniforms. Pink hair and all.
Only a prostate check.
Why u no do pachacuti?? Or maybe you are doing the pachacuti, and that’s what’s stopping you from replying, hmm?
Hey remember when the SNES was the newest console and we played games that were awesome? I miss those days…
I remember forcing myself to love the games I bought.
Like Cool Spot for the Master System.
That game sucked. So hard.
I had a crappy karate/ninja game on the MS.
Thought it would be awesome, ’cause, y’know… ninja.
Tried to like it…
Like when I bought the South Park FPS for PS1.
I paid $80 of my hard earned Christmas money on that pile of garbage.
Still stings to this day…
Hahaha! I rented that lame-o garbage on the SNES. I made myself pretend to like even the rented games, since it was pretty much my whole weekend.
Nope, but I remember when the PSX was my newest(first) console and I played games that were awesome!
Oh man, Soul Reaver. Still one of my most favouritest games ever. There’s nothing else like it out there.
I keep meaning to buy that Raziel playARTS figure but I always think of it when I have no money. Like now. 😛
i find it sad that the Legacy of Kain games don’t get much loving anymore, so i do what i can to spread the love… those games are epic, both in intricate story lines and awesome characters…
when i was younger, i played through the Soul Reaver 2 demo probably about 100 times, to the level of me being able to (still am) recite the entire introduction between Raziel and Mobious…
DAMNIT… now imma have to go play them… again 😛
I LOVE Soul Reaver on PSX. I never got round to playing the second game though 🙁 Hopefully they’ll rerelease it on the PS3 and I’ll grab it.
The game did disappoint me a little. I had an issue of the American magazine PSM that did a massive feature on the game before it came out and quite a few things mentioned were dropped from the final game. I think it had a walkthrough too, so you could play through the game and be heartbroken when you got to a bit containing awesome, only to find a wall or empty room.
Soul Reaver is available as a PSOnce Classic on the Playstation Store.
I know.
“I never got round to playing the second game though 🙁 Hopefully they’ll rerelease it on the PS3 and I’ll grab it.”
Soul Reaver 2 was a PS2 game. I’m waiting for it to become a PS2 Classic.
Whoops, sorry. 🙂
i’d actually go as far as saying that SR2 is leaps and bounds better then SR1… but that might just be me… i just remember being blown away by the characters
What’s even more sad funnier is that the only experience I’ve had with RPGs is about 2 hours of Oblivion…
Its even funnier caus you’ll be like ‘this elder scrolls 16 is nowhere near as good as the elder scrolls we had back in the day. Now Skyrim, THERES an rpg!’ and they will be like ‘What the hell is skyrim?’
But… but… KoTOR.
James is right. KotOR… KOTOR!
(Although I personally think we haven’t even reached the golden age for gaming yet. Best is yet to come and it’s gonna be good.)
Oh Skyrim is awesome, but man: Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 1 – 6 (when they still had fresh ideas), Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, Illusion of Gaia, Breath of Fire, Front Mission, Bahamut Lagoon, Star Ocean…
There are tonnes more, I just can’t think of them off the top of my head
Illusion of Gaia is AMAZING! Man, the game just throws so many curve balls. I’m on a shipwreck fishing? AMAZING!
Tales of Phantasia, terranigma, Earthbound, Super Mario RPG, Lufia, Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre (gawd those were hard, not young kid friendly).
I’m really glad that I bought Chrono Trigger on the DS. Its one of the few older game that I’ve bought on re-release since I’d heard such amazing stories about it. Hype was justified
I just play SNES games on an emulator on my laptop, I get strange looks on the train, but it’s totally worth it 😀
If there were ever a reason to have a PSP (obligatory ‘has no gaems’), it would be SNES and PSX emulation.
All the best RPGs you’ll ever want to play right there in your hands.
My mum came over on the weekend to set up a Christmas tree. (She knows that if it was left to me it would be in the garage still.) She saw me playing Heavy Rain and had a Vietnam-like flashback to Christmas Day ’94. SNES? Check. Donkey Kong Country? Check. Best Christmas ever. 😀
Donkey Kong Country is still one of the greatest games ever. The soundtrack is just amazing.
You are 26 then, I presume?
That’s right. Back in the day we used to huddle around Amiga monitors and play this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIulLXPyetA
Jealous? 😉
Oh man I did that too! Excpet I had to go to the neighoubrs house. But we were all scared playin this. I went home and had nightmares about one of the Laura Bows when theres a Psycho-esque shower murder. Traumatised.
Hmmm, maybe I’m a sociopath then. Me and my brother used to love finding creative ways to kill Sierra characters.
>Climb down laundry chute?
SUCCESS.
Haha! Actually now that I think about it I think I was the only one scared. They were always laughing when something was gonna happen, while I was screaming ‘NO DONT SHE’LL GET KILLED OMG THERES SOMEONE COMING INTO THE ROOOOOOM!’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCu3txSxzaQ
Well here’s something for old times sake. It’ll be sure to haunt your dreams!
OH MAN THATS IT! I thought it mightve been Colonels Bequest! Argh, so scary… just look at that, how could a kid NOT be scared!? And theyr banning Mortal Kombat these days, they got no idea…
OMG I found JEEVES! 😀
Reading through all these comments, I gotta say, thanks guys! You make me feel YOUNG!
Hmmm. This requires further investigation. Come Dr. Bishson. We have a mystery to solve.
Stop walking so fast you jerk, you know I have a bad leg.
You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you!
>:C
Time waits for no man, Bishson. Every moment we dally, the criminal has a better chance of getting away.
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Unless of course, he has a bad leg like you…
Hmmm…
There appear to be one set of footsteps heading towards the cake furnace, but none heading away…
Intriguing…
This weekend of tennis and basketball has killed my legs =(
I’ll just sneak away, that way you won’t see me on your radar!
How did you know I have a radar under my hat??
The Cake knows all… Except the true date of when Trine 2 comes out on XBLA. Those points better come in handy tomorrow!
I’m eating cake right now. Not The Cake though, that would be wrong.
And no, The Cake, I am not excited about Trine 2 because it’s not my kind of game. It does look really pretty though, so I hope my husband gets it and then I can watch him play.
I miss having cake actually. Probably been a week =(
Oh well I have ice cream! Hersheys chocolate syrup goes so well with it. Oh Costco, you’re the bomb!
You live near a costco?! They keep saying they’re building one up here but it never happens. 🙁
Yeeep! I’m about 2-3 minutes away from the Auburn one in Sydney. Trust me you wouldn’t want it that close to you though. Traffic was at a snail’s pace the first few weeks it opened. Made me want to boycott it, but then I saw 1.5kg of hersheys blocks at $15 or so… =3
No, I guess I could do without it being that close. Yikes. But one anywhere in Brisbane would be nice.
Next time you’re in Sydney, I’ll steal my sister’s Costco card, and we can gawk at the incredibly cheap awesome stuffs together. And then go “:I” at all the incredibly cheap junk they have there too.
I’ll tag along to that, I love Costco, I’m about 25 minutes away from the one at Auburn.
I would be, except that games that are bought online and I have a bad history. Mostly due to me being destitute.
New Peocrastoonation – Game of remembering lots of names http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/122
Ah, ER. What a great show. I’m currently watching season eight for the first time. I sure hope nothing bad happens to that nice Mark Greene doctor. There’s an episode coming up called “On the Beach” — that’s bound to be a pleasant adventure for all involved! :S
Nothing bad happens, right? RIGHT? 😉
(Watching on 111 Hits on Foxtel, so won’t actually see until next week sometime.)
Oh hey, that reminds me, Star Wars The Clone Wars Season 3 is on ABC 3 every Sunday morning from 10 to 11 AM.
Not that it’s relevant to the current discussion…
it’s totally relevant. My sister makes me… uh… acquire that show for her every week. Never saw the appeal in it, though…
Your sister aged between 15-17 by any chance? I think I want to date her 😛
Smooth Lambo, like a piece of sandpaper wrapped around the crags of Tel’Nasha(renowned for their exceedingly rough surface), all of which is attached to a giant face-scraping thing of stuff… and lack of smoothness.
What was I saying again?
Soooo I realised that even my brother’s car speakers are better than my PC ones, which makes me extremely sad. Whats a good quality set of 2.1’s that are sub $200?
Uh, Logitech maybe? I’ve got an old set and they’re pretty good. Cost me $70 I think. I don’t know what the new ones are like though.
I have a Logitech set. They were pretty good but I haven’t used them for years because I have no PC anymore. Just a crappy laptop. 🙁
Oh hey, Sughly you want mine? They’re just taking up space in the spare room. I doubt I’ll be able to afford a proper computer again for years.
Awww nah thats alright, I have Logitechs already but I’m bein fussy and want BETTER! But the offer is mega nice!
Okay, then in that case… http://www.ht.com.au/part/Y8529-Altec-Lansing-Expressionist-Ultra-MX6021-PC-multimedia-speaker-system/detail.hts
Not under $200 but you may be able to find cheaper elsewhere. I’ve read good things about these. 🙂
I would’ve thought you’d have more success with a good pair of headphones for that money? I know that’s what I do.
Yeah probably… I kind of do want headphones, but I spend most of time wandering the house and like to have music playin soooo, yeah. Speakers are probably better
I know you’re already running Logitech’s, but I have these http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XH9905/logitech-z523-speaker-system and they’re quite good, certainly some of the better 2.1’s you’ll find in the price range, though the 360 degree sound, is, in my opinion, a waste of space.
That moment where you realise you need to teach an HM to one of your pokemans, but none of them want to learn it.
But man people call you in this game with the most messed up problems. This one guy was like ‘Yeah I think I spend more time with Pikachu then with my kids’ and then hung up. Why you callin some random kid and telling him this man! Far out…
Then another kid called me and told me he watches me. Yeah thats… creepy dude. Please stop.
I like the ones where they call you up to describe a difficult battle they just won…against a Magikarp, or a Rattata. “Oh man we barely scraped through!”
What are you talking about? I ring up small children and talk to them about Pokemon all the time.
You gotta be careful Bish, in some places thats considered a felony. If you need to talk about pokemon, just come find me
Don’t worry about it friend, Bish is cool with all this stuff! He spends a lot of time driving slowly past schools, playing “Every Breath You Take” so he has a lot of experience in these fields.
So. Weekend, huh, where did you go?
I’ve found it difficult to motivate myself to play Skyward Sword. I think I’m right near the end, but it’s becoming a bit of a grind. The revisit-areas-1234124132-times mechnic is something we can say has been tried, check it off the list, and never use it again.
Dark Souls: 0 minutes played.
Skyrim: Up to level 28 or so, made no progress through main quest – just been doing side stuff. Such a wonderful world. I’ve been having issues with Skyrim… it would occassionally cause my PC to reset during play (!). No BSOD, no crash, just *BAM* power reset. Temperature seems fine (got temp monitor on second monitor) and power is overspec’d for my machine (afaict?)… so, randomly tried disabling multi-gpu/sli in nvidia’s control panel (card is a dual-gpu 295) and suddenly I get better performance in-game and could play for hours without crashing.
Thanks, Nvidia. Thanks.
Hello All! Happy monday!
Hope you all had an excellent weekend, I will read up when I get home tonight
*Surprise Hugs*
How was everyones weekends? did anyone do a zelda marathon with no sleep like my brother?
Was anyone else at Homebake?
Getting tired of kotaku’s page pimping where the adverts follow my mouse pointer and intercept clicks meant for regular links.
I don’t usually use AdBlock for Kotaku but a while ago I had to turn it on for something similar to what you’re talking about. I keep forgetting to turn it off again and now I’m glad.
So, Board Games everyone!
Has anyone played Dust:Tactics? It had a really interesting write up on RockPaperShotgun and I’m keen to try it now. Saw the core set for $96 on Bourke St here in Melbourne, but would like to hear from anyone who’s played it.
I really want a set of The Great Grape Escape.
I was talking about it last night and it got me all little-kid-jealous that I never got it.
Oh man, that board game looked so great.
dust has been getting really really good reviews. I’m sort of interested.
models are excellent quality, and warseer seems to think its good?
let us know how it goes..
I’m reticent because I like my board games to have as few rules as possible because I’m into them way more than anyone else I know, and I need to be able to rope people in. Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne have all been successes. Risk less so, but mostly because women don’t like it (in my experience). Most complicated game I’ve successfuly played with my gang is Pirate’s Cove, but I mostly blame it’s complication on the badly written manual. I’ve never before this game wanted to write a “fan manual” but I’m tempted for this one.
I’ve never played any of those type but I liked Carcassonne on the 360 so I’ve asked for it for Christmas in proper board game form. I think it’s good to play something non-digital every now and then, especially with the kids.
Carcassonne is a wonderful game! I also very much recommend the Ticket to Ride games (the Nordic version is my personal favourite). And Pirate’s Cove is a really nice game too.
http://www.gateplay.com is a good site to get info about games you might want to try, if you’re looking to appeal to – no offence – anyone other than the BoardGameGeek crowd.
For example:
http://www.gateplay.com/pirates-cove-board-game.aspx
http://www.gateplay.com/ticket-to-ride-nordic-countries.aspx
Greetings all! It is Noobheadshot (or Nobshot as I have been named in teamspeak) from the world of work!
I have been really insanely busy at work thus haven’t been able to get onto TAY for a fortnight 🙁
Did we all have a good weekend? I had my works christmas party on last Friday. I got pretty smashed, i remember drinking and dancing … thats about it.
How have we all been going? What did I miss? Did you all miss me :D? (or atleast notice my absence :P)
You missed everything and nothing, the most important things, and the most trivial details, and then nobody replied to you, leaving you feeling alone and afraid in a cruel, harsh world. Abandoned by those you considered your friends you took solace in your only true friend, alcohol. Drop by drop, day by day, you continued functioning, another cog in the clockwork machinations of the world, rusting away, but working still, until, eventually, you could take it no more. All it took was a swig of alcohol, a handful of pills, and briefly, ever so briefly, the world stopped, for you at least, forever. Then you were replaced, a newer part, fresher, faster, chrome plated. And so, you were forgotten.
Wait, what are we talking about again?
After all that talk of SNES RPG games, I’m trying really hard to not play them again (for now) due to the sheer number of new games I own 😛
HAI GUYS, long time!
Got my RSA today, I can now legally serve booze in the state of NSW!
Now that’s smart!
One of my favourite Simpsons quotes!
Rofl, that’s what my old man said when I told him. he was being a smartass as per usual.
Hungry for hot pot! Hurry up hometime!! Gonna go and stuff myself stupid!! Will just have to make a half batch or something of the soup though. Hopefully it wont be too fiddly! Hooryar for going home early though! I love flexi time! w00t!
Quite busy at work today, but I just wanted to a ‘hello’ to everyone. HELLO! Last Friday night saw me sneak in 45 minutes of Skyrim…and….that…was…it…for the weekend. Boo.:-( Still, I had a delightful time away mountain biking with my ladyfan and enjoying some time in the jacuzzi and sauna. Hot rocks and spa jets FTW.
My name is Patrick Bateman. I’m 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial masque which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me. Only an entity. Something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply *am not there*.
And there I was worrying that no one would get it.
Probably doesn’t help that I’m 27 so I naturally identify with this slightly.
/wishes he could do 1000 situps/
I’m sure others would get it but they’re busy returning some videotapes.
I was refreshing for the “what the hell is wrong with you” reply.
27…those were the days. I do have my own business cards and I do own a nail gun.
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You’re not alone: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-159/comment-page-2/#comment-463204
Happy face! =D
Best part is the image applies to everything you’ve written before. You can go to Kotaku posts from two years ago and the picture is there!
Listening to music from ’06, it’s like time travelling… I’ve got to warn the world of Rebecca Black… and Hitler…
man, I’ve been listening to Limp Bizkit lately, I’m kinda surprised that I still know almost all the words 😀
Cooked up an english muffin, some bacon, tomato and scrambled a couple of eggs for breakfast. Eggs smelled funny post-cooking though, threw them away. Didn’t want to risk it. No other food in the house as I had not planned a bad egg contingency. 🙁
On the way out the door an Australia Post delivery guy arrived. Actually attempted to deliver a package for once, normally they pretend to and just card the thing and force me to visit a post office staffed by the most hateful old women in Melbourne. And you can’t pick it up until the day after either. Package of extremely nerdy stuff. I need more shelf space.
Got in to work and there’s a box. New seconday monitor. Fantastic. I’ve got no spare power sockets though, had to disconnect the power for my super-secret development hardware. Going to have to requisition a facilities-approved power board but god knows who I have to interrogate to find the correct intranet site to order that. Might just go buy one and expense it. Might get a network switch at the same time, piggybacking off my cube-mate’s at the moment while he’s on holiday.
Another package just now, delivered to work. More nerdery. Unfortunately I discovered that there are methods for working around Amazon Japan’s ‘won’t ship outside Japan’ problem (hint: they won’t ship some stuff to you, but are perfectly happy to ship it to someone else that will). Wallet will not appreciate this.
Ended up screwing around all weekend. Played some Skyrim. It’s wierd. I don’t really care about the game, it doesn’t occupy my mind when I’m not playing it, but when I do I completely lose track of time. Same as when I play MMOs. I think that Bethesda managed to steal some ancient tome from the Blizzard offices where they detail the correct blood rituals to make your games insanely addictive. There is probably a quest like this in Skyrim, actually.
Also played some Skyward Sword. Has anyone noticed how many of our games have titles that begin with A or S? Anyway, made the mistake of allowing it to upgrade my firmware. Last time I had a ‘you need new firmware’ problem on my Wii, updating was ok because it only installed the new IOS stuff. Nintendo seems to have wised up to this, because I suddenly found myself upgraded from System 3.1E to 4.3E and my Homebrew Channel and BootMii wiped 🙁 Re-hacked the system. Still just as trivially easy. Somewhere along the line the update also fixed whatever was wrong with my Wii’s wireless for all these years, because it magically connected to the internet again. I had assumed the hardware was broken.
Skyward Sword is not so great. I typed up a wordy thing in the appropriate thread about this, but in short: the Zelda team at Nintendo needs to hire someone who is not sixty and has played non-Nintendo games at some point. Also I am uncoordinated and don’t like motion controls and those damn kids are on my lawn again. (Actually as an aside about lawns, FUCK YOU to the neighbour who decided to mow his lawn at 8:30am on a Sunday). Several times while playing Skyward Sword, I actually started contemplating how many other games had done elements of its design better. And without motion controls. And while letting me jump when I want to, not when the game wants me to. Also, they say that your first Zelda is always your favourite, but Wind Waker was my second one (deprived Sega-and-Sony dominated childhood).
Assassin’s Creed has been staring at me the whole time as well. I need to play it, and also Skyward Sword and try and get both done before my copy of SW:TOR arrives. Time constraints. 🙁
And now, back to writing unit tests.
I’d expect the AU launch will be around Feb-March at the latest, no reason to sit on it.
I’m going to respond to only the most important part here: You should always eat the stuff. Trust Bish and I on this, it always ends well.
Always.
Was hanging out with a friend all morning. Grabbed some coffee, went to DFO and I bought a new wallet, jeans and kitcheny stuffs. Then we headed back to my place and wandered about the local stores. Turns out that the local comic book stores are quite awesome.
One is well stocked in Magic cards, Warhammer and D&D stuffs as well as the usual new releases. The other was more of a thrift store feel with a bunch of random things like old Phantom comics and some 60s Iron Man. Not as awesome, but I picked up a new copy of Kingdom Come for $15 so I’m rather happy.
Then we had some pub food for lunch, watch random fashion show stuffs and headed back home.
Now NASL grand finals are on, so she went home and I’m watching Hero vs Puma. Awwww yeah.
I need to find a decent (read: good, and not too expensive) D&D store in Canberra. I’ve found a couple of stores, but no nothing about them. Does anyone have any knowledge of stores in/around Canberra?
I’m not knowledgeable about that stuff in any regard.
Then again, there was mention of getting a TAYbie D&D group going up here in Brisbane. So maybe there’s someone who at least has an idea what to look for, even if they don’t know where you should be looking for it.
Oh, I have the “what” part sorted out. I can get most of what I need online, but was hoping I could get a decent local-ish place for small stuff (like new 7-sets).
Thinking of getting into GMing for 4th edition, and I have the books as pdf’s, but man…using actual books is so much better for so many reasons.
On the other hand, searchable PDFs seem like a godsend if you’re dealing with rule lawyers.
Unless you happen to be a competent GM who uses that old “fuck it, that’s stupid you can’t do that” rule.
Uuuuggghhh…played with a rule lawyer in a campaign once. So freakin’ annoying, and slowed everything up. Needless to say, only played with him once 😛
PDF searching is the main advantage to having files of the books, but I guess I just really love the feel of the books.
Have you played 4th ed.? Using the ability cards really cuts down on reference time. Helps when you play with someone who is ALWAYS a spell caster, and never remembers his abilities 😛
I only played the Baldur’s Gate games. Nothing else.
Well, to put it simply, the new version of rules took away a lot emphasis on player dice, and more on skill points and GM work. This is the main reason many people still play the old version (3.5).
I think Baldur’s Gate was 2nd edition…
2.5
And yeah, I heard that 4th edition is a lot more newb friendly and somewhat modeled on the WoW style levelling.
Not sure I like that. For me, the entire idea of D&D is that the players are battling against the DM and the dice gods. It just seems like how things should be.
Then again, I have heard just how retardedly overpowered Druid and Clerics are in 3/3.5, and that just sounds like something I would enjoy exploiting (I like support type roles that can also have fun in battles).
Baldur’s Gate was AD&D. Baldur’s Gate 2 came out around the point that 3rd Edition was just being released I think, so Throne of Bhaal had some 3rd Edition additions (eg feat-inspired special attacks like Whirlwind Attack). AD&D was fun, except for calculating THAC0, that often got mind-bending.
Yeah, I remember those epic feats or whatever they were. The thief ones were ridiculous.
Use any item, including the Paladin only ridiculously overpowered infinity +1 sword? Oh exploitable.
And yeah, THAC0 was just plain weird. The instruction booklet for Baldur’s Gate games was always rather impressive, there was so much to explain and they even included it as a PDF in the DVD re-releases. So many little things that were just plain weird and the armour system was easily the most difficult to get your head around.
The problem with THAC0 is that no one could actually explain what the hell it actually was. Even TSR.
As a rule lawyer I have to respectfully disagree. I played with a Rogue in 4th Edition and you need to know the rules back-to-front, everything you can exploit, you must exploit. Attacks of Opportunity are the lifeblood of the class, because so many of your attacks will do three or more times the damage from that position. Being able to slide into flanking spots and maximise your damage is vital. It should actually speed up the game, not slow it down. You kill the monsters faster and spend less time waiting for people to figure out their next move when everyone knows the rules fully.
Sorry, I’m probably not applying the correct context to my opinion of being a “rule lawyer”. What I mean is, in instances where D&D says “X = Y + (GM input)”, this guy would read as “X = Y”. He basically took everything by the letter, which resulted in a lot of hold ups while we had to have a 10 minute conversation PER ATTACK for all variables.
…that’s still not really clear 😛
“One example is the rules lawyer, who knows the rules better than you do, constantly quibbles with you about them, and tries to leverage this knowledge to his character’s advantage”
– from the Wizards website, talking about crappy players
Basically, it’s someone who isn’t there to play the game. They’re there to win, be better than everyone, etc.
I have decided when my copy of Skyward Sword (limited edition with controller) turns up from ozgameshop, I’m not even going to bother buying another Wii… I’m just going to run the game on my Asus G53 connected to the TV via the Dolphin emulator… Then I’ll at least get to experience Skyward Sword in the magnificent HD it deserves. All I’ll need to buy is a Nunchuck and wireless sensor bar which I can pick up for under $50.
It’s a real shame the Wii U won’t upscale games (unless this changes by the time of release).
I’ll be doing the same thing pretty soon, I love the way Mario Galaxy looks on the Wii, let alone how it will look at 1080p with AA enabled 😀
Is it actually playable on Dolphin? I know other games are, but Skyward Sword is basically using the entire motion toolkit…
I’m not sure, I haven’t looked into it… I hope so, then I can buy the game and rip it to an iso to play it.
Gah, and after all that talk of wanting a more TAY friendly week, it has started bad, with our network having some catastrophic issues this morning. Finally back up and running properly for the first time at 3:00pm.
So, TF2, who wants to play 😀
I am actually kinda psyched, scored some upgrade parts at work today, now i just need a decent gfx card, and i can finally stop relying on my 4-5 year old laptop for games.
Was skimming TAY and read “scored some underpants”.
Imagine my disappointment when I read the whole reply chain to see that there was no scoring of underpants.
yeah I’ll play TF2 for a little bit tonight, I’m not sure if I have any TAYbies on steam though.
I just joined then.
Cools. We need to roust up some more TF2 players.
I’ll jump in if I can update it quick enough. Pretty sure its up to about 7GB, havent updated in over a year I think
lol i still have to remember what my steam id is. But it is on my laptop i know that much.
Apparently they’re remaking Starship Troopers. Already. This makes me angry. Why does Hollywood always try to make me angry? What did I ever do to them?
They did that already. It was a CG TV series and was much better than that abortion of a film. Closer to the book.
I care not for the book. I care about people getting ripped to shreds by giant alien insects.
Paul Verhoeven would be rolling in his grave if he were dead.
My friends and I tried to see this in ’98. But nooo, they wouldn’t let us. Instead we had to see An American Werewolf in Paris which was somehow more appropriate for 13 year olds. 😉
When I was in year 8 the media teacher showed my class An American Werewolf in London (which is rated R) without bothering to tell anyone, including parents, he was going to do it. I thought it was awesome but my Mum was a bit angry he hadn’t asked for permission first.
I liked the over-the-top pulp feel of the first adaption, but this one has one thing going for it — the writers of X-Men: First Class. (A damn fine film, in my opinion.)
They want your money. Always. Even if you keep on giving it to them, they’ll keep wanting more.
More.
MOAR!
I finished Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves on the weekend.
I know his shtick is poor charactor development and lightning narrative… but the first few chapters of this book must have been taking the piss, surely?
Also, Call of Duty multiplayer… it really is good for that ‘one more round’ style gunplay.
@Strange: woah, those speakers look pretty futuristic! All see through and whatnot. I’ll keep them in mind, but I think the man to hunt down on this subject is Pez…
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You’re on my friends list so I think you should know… I’ve whored a lot of achievement games. Some shovelware from the rental store uptown uh.. some downloadables maybe 5 or 10..
um that Yaris game I found on LIVE Arcade. I left it on my hard drive along with some doritos T-Rex game.
I played King Kong, my old game, with 1000 achievement points, and some game…. some old casual game with cars last week! I beat another game with a cheat book…
*sobbing*
I had to, I almost didn’t get the points, *sniff* and something else there I can’t remember maybe a movie game… but that’s beat too.
And uh Avatar. I played Avatar for five minutes straight, the disc is collecting dust on a shelf in a preowned store! I don’t want to leave anything out here… I guess I’ve played maybe 20 shovelware games, maybe 40. I have youtube videos of a lot of it, *sniff* uh some of the guys on my friends list have seen the videos. *sniff* I even, um….
*gagging*
I bought a hacked controller… and I tried to cheat a little.
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Tonight I, uh, *laughter* I just had to get a LOT of achievements! And um… I’m not sure I’m gonna get away with it, this time. So I mean…. ah, I guess I’m a pretty uh… I mean I guess I’m a pretty cool guy….
So, if you get back tomorrow… I may show up on TAY, so… you know…
keep your eyes open.
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So how many have you got?
I’ve got one terribad game that is on my list which I could easily get the remaining points and round it out to 1000/1000 with, but it’d be the only 1000-point game on my list and it’d be very obvious and embarrassing so I haven’t done it yet.
I only have two 1000/1000 games.
Modern Warfare 2 and Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth.
The second one is because I tried to do a Let’s Play of it without getting any gamerscore. You can see how well that went.
I’m also amazingly close to getting 1000/1000 for Modern Warfare and Mass Effect 2. Just missing Mile High Club in Modern Warfare and I had the achievement for beating New Game+ and beating the game on Insanity, plus a few minor skill usage achievements (and I guess the DLC needs to be done as well now).
So I’ll go back and get the ME2 ones back after I finish ME3 and play through the entire series again as a paragon.
My only 1000/1000 is King Kong, which my brother completed on my xbox. Bioshock 1 is almost there, as is Oblivion. I am slightly tempted to put them in to get the completion, but only because it’s weird to have King Kong as the only “complete” game when i didn’t even play it! Would this make me an achievement whore? I think it would. Also, I would totally need a game guide to get the Bioshock one because I have no idea where all those radio recordings are!
IIRC, my only 1000/1000 is Halo: ODST.
I have only one achievement left for Oblivion (1200/1250), part of the Shivering Isles stuff. But I haven’t played Oblivion in ages, and would probably have to redo the entirety of the Shivering Isles to get the cheevo – not worth it, now that Skyrim’s out 😛
I actually meant, how many points, not how many 1000/1000 games.
My point tally is fairly modest, just over 21000.
Oh, well that’s less interesting.
I’m sitting at 23096 and I have actually had to go out of my way once or twice to make sure that my gamerscore didn’t end in 0 or 5. I like that it appears somewhat broken.
Rather impressive.
I just went through my games to see how I fared and there are more than a few games that I feel like I’ve done all that I’m going to do and only got a hundred or so gamerscore for.
The disparity between the gamerscore given for beating some games is annoying. Like Alice Madness Returns, I only have something like 375 gamerscore even though I beat it and got a decent chunk of the collectables. What more am I meant to do dammit?
Or Homefont only gave me a bit more than a hundred for beating it in a single night!
Yeah, I’d like to think two playthroughs should get you pretty much all of them. I played through RE5 I reckon 7 or 8 times in a two-week period and have something like 600gs for it.
This really irritates me when half the points are allocated to the tacked-on multiplayer they put into the game to justify their $10 online pass. I don’t like multiplayer very much, I’m not good enough or dedicated enough to get good enough to enjoy it, which is why I buy single-player games. I especially don’t like playing multiplayer on Xbox Live, due to the amount of random dipshits you have to deal with.
Example: I have completed more of AC: Brotherhood than AC2. However I have 905/1000 points in AC2, but 620/1000 in Brotherhood, despite having spent more time in the latter. I could spend more time, but I still don’t think I could get more than about 700/1000, wheras similar effort in AC2 would get me to 1000/1000. I wish Multiplayer and Single Player were considered separate games and had their own achievements or something.
my current tally is around 44,000 I think, and I’m pretty sure the only 1000/1000 I have is King Kong.
I’m not actually an achievement whore, I just wrote this to be clever a while ago and thought I’d share it with you here 🙂
I’ve only gotten 100% on two games: Halo Reach and Virtual On 😀
Did the reply button fail you while you were trying to shake your head at me? Because I bloody well earned that 1000gs on Avatar. Suffering through that game is not an experience I would inflict on many people, so being rewarded with 1000gs for my pain is at least something.
Not unless I’m a Time Lord – head shaking was at PuppyLicks. You, on the other hand, deserve a round of applause for failing so spectacularly to get 0GS on Avatar.
Are you a Time Lord?
I may or may not be a Time Lord…
I’ve been out doing things like buying new jeans and a shiny new wallet. So I couldn’t contribute my normal verbosity to help things appear to be slightly more interesting than they are.
This is what happens when I’m not at work.
okay who killed mr. Shady’s MC server?
must be dead good, cause i have not been able to get on all weekend…
not that i’m an addict or anything…..
*rocks back and forth*
Yeah, there was just a minor problem, in that the guy who is meant to pay for it (HINT(said guy isn’t Shady, long story)) failed to do so.
So the new X360 dashboard is out “on the 6th”. Does anyone know whether that means we get it in Australia tomorrow? Or is it the 6th in the US, i.e. our 7th?
Ah I just posted in that thread that I was confused. I think the real question is if it is a worldwide release?
I’m gonna assume it’ll be sometime on the 7th for us.
Although I didn’t realise the 6th was tomorrow, wow. Time is really flying by right now.
34: scree 30 posts (0.8%, 755 words) This is insane. Two weeks ago TAY didn’t even know I existed!
I didn’t even spam that much either o_O
Well, this is awkward. He’s not on TeamSpeak so I can’t yell at him to come and post.
It almost worked…
I’m sorry, I was busy cooking dinner!
I believe the email you’re after is mark(dot)serrels(at)alluremedia(dotcomdotau).
I sure hope that’s right, anyway.
Done =D If it’s not the right address somebody is getting a weird email.
While technically that is Mark’s email address, I do believe he prefers them directed to mark(dot)serrels(at)kotaku(dot)com(dot)au, as that bypasses his spam filer.
Oh bugger. Now I have a dilemma. Do I write it out again and risk mark getting two emails or wait and see if the first one worked? D=
I’d wait for a bit, he’s better at replying to emails than he used to be, so give it a day or two, and if he hasn’t replied, bug him in Ask Me Stuff, or send him another.
Alright, thanks for the help. I’ll wait and see ^^
Its my second week too, and I was up to 19th. I blame Harli for keeping me trapped on page 3 🙂
Speakings of which, where is Harli today? Has she finally overdosed on TAY posts and in rehab?
Well considering I only come on at night it’s a pretty good effort. 19 is incredibly impressive though
From what I can tell some people talk on TAY while at work.
Well my weekend was ok, finally getting around to playing bastion and enjoying it so far. Although was getting some RSi to to the constant running at angles. Was that a console port?
Also I’m not sure by but for some reason this picture reminds my of you Bish
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/funny-dopamine-dump-14.jpg?w=500&h=631
Also yes, I do believe it came out on XBLA first. Though I wouldn’t say is so much of a port (well, at least with the negative aspects associated with the word) as much as just that being how the game is. Not much to do about it when you have an isometric view like that, really.
AlexPants casually spills curry powder all over the kitchen counter, vows never to cook again.
Five minutes later, spills corn flour all over the curry powder all over the kitchen counter.
Ugh.
Well luckily there was plenty of non-spilled-on-the-table powder/flour to use. Just ridiculous how clumsy I’m being tonight!
Alright, to those who looked at TAY over the weekend, and saw the smashy smashy of stuff, Mark has now approved my crap, so you can see what I typed: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/comment-page-18/#comment-462114
It was not worth it.
But it really was.
Also, Strange, I do not know the true identity of Plainview, I prefer it as a mystery.
I’m sorry Notty boy, but what would your parody be, BlaghmanR? BlaggoriousQ? I don’t even!
Wait a second, bad memory. Sughly made the comment saying that I knew, not Strange. Bad memory, bad. No treat for you! *Starts whipping memory, which, due to the fact that it’s located in my brain, which is in my head, simply results in pain*
Mmm! Also, what was this point you said to have made? That we talk too much about reply buttons? Caus, well, I guess thats a pretty good point.
I planned to do my SC2 placement matches over the weekend so that I could officially be a Bronze leaguer.
I have not done that yet and don’t really feel like doing it tonight. Oh well, maybe a bit more time playing against bots trying to not be completely terrible would be a good idea.
NAAAAA na na na na na na na KATAMARI DAMACI! (can’t be bothered getting the right number of “na’s.”
I hope by “Katamari cushion” you don’t mean a cushion with some sort of Katamari-related pattern on it, but just a spherical ball of foam/padding/filling you plan to roll everywhere. Sit on it, throw it at people, whatever.
I’m agraid it’s the first one. I know a Katamari in my house would be full of dog hair XD I have been told to make one by using velco but god, I hate sewing that stuff
What sort of dog(s)?
My short-haired German Shepard cross’ fur gets everywhere (EVERYWHERE), except our old long-haired German Shepard was never any problem.
It’s strange, I had always thought that short haired dogs would shed less fur. Maybe this dog just has simultaneous balding and excess fur problems.
Border collie cross Lab. I think we need Katamari’s in these cases XD
so…tired…
all my stuff is in boxes including my computer 🙁 posting from a netbook! How can I get in my mandatory game playing time?? HOW WILL I LIVE?!
#firstworldproblems
How do I live without yoooooouuuuuuuu, I want to know! How do I breathe without yooouuuuuuuuu something something something something!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsg8XNFSNr4&feature=related
Click the first link, and then open the second link in a new tab whilst the first one is running. Freaky, huh?
So I joined the KotakuAU steam group and added everyone I recognised…
so…many…TAYbies…
http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/Morkai_AU/cafb1c6f.jpg
Ahaha! Clearly, despite your enormous presence in TAY, I have somehow beaten you in this little game! *Dons monocle, top hat and cape, flies away to evil lair*
I just searched the group, and there ain’t no Bish in the steam group, so you musta had some kinda fancy falutin’ name!
well there you go, thank you Harli.
I’d like to join, but it’s all in JIS characters. I’ve only done one year of Japanese D=
>_< How'd OI manage to miss the giant JOIN button, I'll never know
Did you organize all those windows yourself or did they show up like that?
Also, whatever happened to tonight’s TF2 stuff?
also, I was inspired by you and did pretty much the same thing. I am sorry for spamming everyone’s friend list.
Just when I thought our chance had passed,
You go and save the best for last
I had no idea such a thing existed! Maybe… just maybe… my Steam friends list will grow to a number higher than zero 😀
IN YOUR FACE, CHAOS WITCH OH-GOD-WHY-IS-ALMA-STICKING-OUT-OF-A-GIANT-LAVA-SPEWING-SPIDER
*happy dance*
So yeah, I’ve been stuck on her for about 2 weeks. Not only 2 weeks of playing Dark Souls trying to beat her, just a few attempts every few nights.
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I really want to know what you are talking about. But my copy is still sealed.
(…I’m too scared to open it.)
Basically there’s a boss that’s a giant lava-spewing spider, and out the top of its head is what resembles the top half of adult Alma in the FEAR games.
Dem Japanese character designs, you know?
I DEFEATED
Except now it’s “VICTORY ACHIEVED” So lame. 🙁
You want scary? TRY THE NEW LONDO RUINS! I WENT THERE OVER A WEEK AGO, AND I HAVE BEEN INCAPABLE OF SLEEP SINCE! ALTHOUGH, IT HAS GIVEN ME THE ABILITY TO TALK LIKE RAYGUN BROWN, WHICH CAN ONLY BE A GOOD THING.
I refuse to go to the pier in that place, it’s the most dark and depressing place in a dark and depressing world.
Oh I hit level 50 last night, DING!
I’m only SL 26. I get so little time to play.
I keep alternating between trying to defeat the Hydra, the Capra Demon and the Moonlight Butterfly. I want to go to the depths because I’m a Pyromancer and want new spells but Capra keeps kicking my butt so I think I’ll defeat the other two first which will make me strong enough.
Also, I finally managed to get my hands on a Pyromancer’s Flame, after accidentally killing the main teaching guy.
How do I increase the number of slots for my magicks?
Put points into Attunement.
Quelaag is the last boss I defeated. We might be at similar spots!
Quelaag is (I believe) the next boss I have to face, I got over my fear of Blighttown, and so I’m making good progress since I’m overleveled… Though man, that framerate…
Quelaag is mad creepy/sexy, mostly creepy.
Defeated her friday night, and last night I defeated The Great Grey Wolf Sif.
HIGH FIVES ALL ROUND!
So where I go now? Sen’s Fortress maybe? The abyss? The Catacombs?
I would say keep going through the demon ruins if you can.
Deep in there is an item that is REALLY handy for the catacombs and when you defeat the boss in Sen’s Fortress you get taken to Anor Londo and the boss there is ridiculously hard and you cannot leave until you win.
You can leave Anor Londo. It’s by the same way you got there. just go back to where you first entered. The place you can’t leave until you’ve gone all the waythrough is the optional Painted Realm through that huge painting in anor Londo.
Really? I guess I never tried that. It looked like there was no way back when I first arrived and never went back up there.
Do you know what time it is TAY?
CAFFEINE TIME!
Whatever your poison, however you take it, may we all raise our hands to our ever-quickening hearts, and pledge allegiance to the one true god? To Caffeine!
I am offering a double prayer to caffeine right now, i the form of a 500ml can of V
So work is insanely busy just now. Yesterday the day I was working on had over 300 ads to be entered.
So it looks like I’ll have to give up on TAY for a while 🙁
Unless someone want’s to employ me to read TAY… No? Oh well…
Yeah I’ll be on less and less. I’ve got so much happening from now until the rest of year that if I keep up with TAY properly I’ll never get anything done.
I played 6 hours of minecraft last night….
All i got was 4 double chests of cobblestone, 2 double-chests of dirt and some gravel…
I used up approximately 120 pickaxes and 80 shovels!
Morning TAY! Here’s hoping all those people that were missing yesterday are here today. It was very quiet…
MC related:
Blaghs, how’s your hole lookin’? *wink*
I’ll still be missing in action for the majority of today – i will pop in here and there, though.
It’s that time of year when things are getting pretty insane for the distribution business…
I need your help fellow gamers. I need to know how to get one of them credit cards that are not attched to your account….the type you can use without fear of having your account details stolen online. The problem is I can’t even remember the proper name for them let alone where I can get one but I do know that I have seen chats where you lot seem to be in the know.
Thanks in advance.
Are you talking about PSNetwork Cards and MS Points cards, or maybe Prepaid Visa Cards?
I suspect the Prepaid cards?
If that’s the case ANZ sell them. Apparently there’s a $5.95 purchase fee, but from what I gather, walk into an ANZ, slap down your money, get card, walk out.
Thanks guys 5 minutes and question answered. It was the prepaid visa card I was after…I may not have explained myself too well but you guys came through. Cheers Bish.
I am slow today.
Heyyy guys and gals!!!
I know you’re getting totally sick of me talking about it – but there is a new thread on the KKP that you may all be interested in.
Also this week is the LAST WEEK for the ‘Phase 3s’
Seriously F this time of the year in the A with a rusty spork…
My nose is so red and itchy and dry from constant hayfever for the past week…
I feel your pain Loops, Strangely enough I only started suffering after I left school. But it one of the most frustrating feelings on the planet
I’m the same, but with my eyes. They’re so red and itchy and watery. I always look sad, but I’m not, I promise!
I woke up with the Skyward Sword theme from the Nintendo commercials stuck on loop in my head. I haven’t played the game, so why must you torment me? (Actually it IS kind of catchy…)
OMG GUYS!!!! AWESOME NEWS FOR THE MUSIC NERDS! (Rocketman you might lose your shit) NEW ORDER ARE COMING BACK TO AUSTRALIA!!!!!
http://www.futureentertainment.com.au/futuremusicfestival/index.php?city=Sydney
I know! But I guess they have to have something that makes them feel special. I mean, they must feel so jealous that you and I managed to win Kudos many times without having to resort to stupid penis tricks. 😛
“stupid penis tricks. :P” HAHahah!! Gold!
haha i am not worried bout kudos (in all honesty i forget to read them most of the time) Just thought it was funny, and honestly remember that post,
I saw a video about this stuff once.
It was pretty horrific…
What I’d like to know is how you ended up at said video..
Friend said “Hey watch this video”
I said “Hmm? Ok… What’s that? Whoa!? What’s he doing with that scalpel!? HOLY FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…”
The images are still so vivid… o_o
Ahh, good ol’ friends.
I’ll have a rummage and see if I can find it.
I’ll have to go deep, down into the dark abysses of the net.
I’ll wade through decapitations and beastiality to find it, but find it I shall.
Anything to keep the TAYbies entertained.
I, too, was ambushed by a friend with a similar video. The horror…
Mwahaha, VICTORY in this week’s TABTOL! All I ever wanted was to be number 1, and now I can step down peacefully for the rest of my life. Satisfaction. I’d like to thank the academy… and NovaCascade.
Haven’t you won several times in the past using similar tactics? :p
I’m going to claim an immoral victory anyhow. Just because I can.
HARLI!! You’re back. Thank god. I was so flustered yesterday, I didn’t know what to do. I was talking to all these different people but none of them were you, and everyone could see what I was writing. It wasn’t secret, it wasn’t safe.
Ok, calm down Nova, deep breaths….
In… Out…
Ok I’m good now. Congrats on your tournament wins too.
Learnt from the best, shame Plainview’s not here anymore to see how far I’ve come 🙂
Recorded an all random KvK last night in LoL. Rocketman and I provided the commentary and we got to see my brilliant observing skills in action.
Well, I got to see them. You guys can see them in a few days when I upload everything. Just got to do the Magicka video and probably do the Batman one as well (except I need to record extra stuff for that and I’m not looking forward to it).
Damn, missed it. I look forward to watching it though. Who won, who played as what and how did anyone feed if Rocketman wasn’t playing?
Techy got Kennan. You can pretty much work out the rest from there :p
Gorzy tried to solo Baron and then later on he made a run into the other team’s fountain. Suffice to say, he was not on Techy’s side :p
Just the latter I think. Needs more character development, and a distinguishable villian to drive the plot
It’s so early when he gets to work that the lights are all still out. The air is toxic and eats away at his soul. He’s lost weight since he started working here; although he’s always been pale and skinny, now he looks gaunt and exhausted.
He always shivers when he steps out of the elevator, no matter what temperature it is.
How many times has he done this? The realisation that he has passed through these doors more than a thousand times stops him in his tracks for a moment, and then he continues the trudge to his desk. Nothing seems to bother him anymore; no highs, no lows. Just one long middle.
The days and weeks and months flash past, his life in blurry fast forward. The hours and minutes drag on forever, an eternal conundrum.
At times like this, he casts his mind back in time, to the days when the world seemed to contain limitless potential, rather than constant malaise and frequent disappointment.
There are no answers; just more questions. He questions everything.
Long story short: I didn’t get the Book 2 grant (http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grants/creative_australia_book2) so I’m stuck at work for the forseeable future 🙁
Dang.
Still, you’re not without talent. I’m sure that if you keep at it, someone will give you money for more books.
Yeah this! Also, you like the word malaise. It reminds me of an Interpol song, which is a good thing, so feel free to keep using it!
Sorry to hear that mate, don’t let a setback like this stop ya, you’ve already got one book out the gate 🙂
Hey guys, how are we all? Late start to the week for me but I have a legitimate excuse! I took a sicky to get drunk yesterday with a friend from Townsville. Lots of work has built up for me now though and I have to attempt to tackle it hungover. So tempted to take another day off, but I would need a doctors certificate (looks at Freyr pleadingly)
I always wanted to be a gynecologist but my grades weren’t good enough.
I still like to dabble a bit in my free time though. One can never study too much.
i was training to be a gynecologist in high school. i plan to open my own practice in uni res when i move in next year.
Funnily enough though I was having a conversation earlier today about how awkward it is when you need to do those kinds of examinations on patients that you have literally just met. Like you are all “oh hi, you have come in with a problem there? And it sounds serious enough that I should look at it?…
…
…
um. Please take off your pants”
AWKWARD FOR ALL
Better hope your boss doesnt read TAY 🙂
Still sounds like a perfectly reasonable excuse to me though
Friend from Townsville? Was it the Mayor? I can see you being friends with the Mayor.
Watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes that are Rising last night. Surprisingly good. Was expecting it to be awful. Also, Andy Serkis has the best job in the world! 4/5 potatoes.
I actually liked the movie too. Was quite impressed with it. Shame about not a single real monkey in the whole movie though.
I liked this movie a lot more than I thought I would. I mean… I knew I would probably like it, but it was great. Such a shame not many of my friends like Sci Fi at all 😛 They psyched me out!
My wife does that to me all the time. The number of movies i have missed and never got around to watching.
John Lithgow was amazing in it too, but he’s one of those actors that can do any thing and do it freakin’ well.
Only thing missing were the musical numbers:
“I hate every ape I see, from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z”
😀
Yeah it was pretty good. Still had way too much ‘I’m gonna pull the plug’/’But no, this important SCIENCE!’/’This is my first role since Harry Potter and I am doing nothing to help sense of diversity’.
…who here has dealt with WSUS 3.0 SP2 permissions errors in Server 2K3?
*waits for crickets*
It’s funny you should mention that, because that is the exact sort of error that I have never had to deal with in my life.
Ever.
Isn’t that funny?
Can I help? Of course I can. I was built for helping. Or was that Bish? Ah, yes. I was built for Walking, and that’s just what I’ll do.
On another note;
(Please see other note)
So last night I’m watching the latest episode of ‘Once Upon A Time’ and there’s fight with a dragon. This would be cool enough by itself but the road leading up to the dragon’s lair was littered with burned corpses and overturned wagons, looking just like a Demon’s/Dark souls bridge, and the actual fight was reminiscent of a Skyrim dragon fight. Super-mega-awesome-cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series)
It’s not bad, it’s a good diversion. It’s actually better than i expected it would be though. Plus Carth, I mean, Raphael Sbarge!
Positive
The show also has a similar premise to Bill Willingham’s comic series Fables, to which ABC bought the rights in 2008, but never made it past the planning stages.
Not so positive
the new show contains allusions to Lost, and is expected to be a continuing theme throughout the series.
But does sound interesting
Those “allusions” are more like Easter eggs. Just some of the same numbers or brands of stuff, not actual direct references or any sort of recurring Lost parallels.
ok, thanks for the clarification, I guess that makes it nothing but positive.
Will have to check it out
I couldn’t sleep last night because there was a single mosquito buzzing around my head, so I: Got out of bed, turned all the lights on and waited, ready to slap it. Couldn’t find it, went to go back to sleep, more buzzing. So I went and got all the bug spray in the house and gassed my room. Then, I couldn’t get to sleep because I couldn’t breathe.
On the plus side, I woke up to find a dead mozzie on my desk and I held it above my head in triumph before flicking it into the bin. The end.
BRINK FOR $9 ON ALL PLATFORMS FROM GAME!
http://www.game.com.au/search?search=Brink
Buy it on PS3 so I can Co-Op with someone.
Made me lol. Possible response for the Steam sale that just happened ($7 for Brink and all DLC)?
I bought it day 1 (PS3)
Before anyone laughs – Worth every penny.
PSN: Effluvium-Boy
I got it day 1 too, but a friend in the US gifted it to me because I refused to pay the full australian price after they jacked it up.
I thought about getting it for Mr. Strange but every time I click ‘add to cart’ nothing happens. Thought it may because I needed an account but I can’t find where to register.
Guess the universe is trying to tell me something.
Don’t know if anybody caught this League of Legends cosplay, but it’s pretty amusing.
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/12/c3323c255ff382998458e02e98b20a55.jpg
Noted.
Harli how did your tourney go? i was away on the weekend so i did not hear the results
short story: congratulations
long story: can’t wait to hear it
side note: i found your blog and read about your adventures on the way too the event, hilarious!
i know nothing of lol, but that cosplay is kinda impressive. One day i’ll be depraved enough to cosplay. 😛
Bought a new wallet yesterday.
When I was emptying out my old one, I found $5.
Past me is such a bro.
Something like that.
It’s weird, past me is normally a complete dick. Always leaving things for future me to deal with. It’s nice when he does something that works out well for future me.
wat.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-159/comment-page-4/#comment-464046
blaghs time travelling o.0
oh wow i need coffee.
i totally read the time on his post as 12.43 pm not am so i was all like dude its not even 12 yet!
sorry for confusion 🙁
Ah. I get it now. I thought I was missing something due to my advanced aging or something.
Helloo lovies!
I came here to meet (Or “Meat” as you say round these parts) my ol’ buddy, Rize to help deal with WSUS 3.0 SP2 permissions errors in Server 2K3. Man, good times.
Anyway, I thought I’d say hi! I’ve posted once or twice before, but not as Crickets. No, that’s just Rize’s pet name for me.
I’ve used other names many moons ago. In other times. Like a ninja, I appear and leave my mark and like a ninja, no one notices.
But wait. Many moons you say? Surely there has only be one moon. At least one that ‘s relevant to us, the dominant inhabitants of this magical land we call Narnia. Sure, some people call it Earth, some even call it Doreen (But NEVER to it’s face) but isn’t that what we’re all about here? Embracing one another’s quirks and silly habits.
So how about that LoL? Man, it’s awesome. This one time I was this guy, and there was another guy. Or girl. Or cross-dresser. I didn’t perform my standard, patented “Grope Check”)
I kid, guys! I’m a kidder. Like Margot. That’s one for you film buffs. I’m looking at you, DAN! *wink*
So what should I go by? Crickets is fun, but hardly encompassing my digital self in one, easy to remember label. No, not at all.
I once tried to capture myself in a label.
This resulted in my ejection from the local Officeworks.
So who am I? That is a fine question! I was friends with a philosopher once. He wasn’t Socrates, but let us say, for now, in order to reign tightly on to the ever slipping anonymity the internet offers us, that he was in fact Socrates. Pronounced Soh-Crates. Man, that gets me EVER time. Party on Wayne. Party on.
Anyway, Socrates, he walks up to me, trying to walk nonchalant but coming across more as constipated.
“Hi, Buddy. Are you constipated”? I asked, a look of polite disgust upon my face.
“Not today” he replies nonchalantly. “I’m nonchalant.”
“I see. So what can I do for who?”
“Who am I?” He asks. I can tell from the lines on his face he has pondered this question greatly, and also that he has a great deal of free time to draw lines on his face.
“You are Socrates” I tell him.
“That’s not what I meant.” he replies tartly. “And I’m not Socrates.”
“Indeed” I reply, taking his tart and tasting it. It was blueberry, to which I am allergic. “But for the purpose of this story, you are, in fact, Socrates.”
“Ludicrous!” he cries.
“Why are you crying?” I ask.
“Socrates always makes me think of that movie.”
“Bill and Ted?” I ask.
“That too” He replies. We embrace.
And I think we’re all a little bit wiser after that tale.
So, I don’t know you guys that well, so can you help me pick a new, slightly more permanent handle?
So far I’m thinking of something like Jamesmacusedmyhandle. You know, ‘Catchy’.
Effluvium-Boy knows what I’m on about. I can see it in his eyes.
Redux always makes me think of the Emilio Estevez vehicle, “The Mighty Ducks Are The Champions”.
“Emilio” I said to him over cheese and wine, “Emilio, This fine vehicle needs to become more. Might I suggest a film?”
“Which film would you suggest?” He responded.
“Why, what about the ‘Fish out of Water’ cowboy laugh fest,City Slickers?”
“With Jack Palance?”
“Yes, invite him too.”
And that’s the story how Emilio, Jack and I made our fortune and history was made. As was a film about a rag tag ice hockey team.
That movie was, of course, “Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice” Stephen Baldwin and Gary Busey. Available now at that video rental store in the alley way that smells faintly of faeces and still believes VHS is the superior format (When we all know it’s Beta Max).
Need I say more?
All’s fine unless he starts claiming that he’s your father.
And then cuts your hand off.
You may want to start running then.
But not yet, he hasn’t acted that weird yet.
We’ll be keeping on eye on him though.
😛
Also, was “Wayne” intentional? I have yet to gauge your sense of humour.
If it was in jest, I apologise for tarnishing your joke with a request for explanation.
Also, prepare yourself for the Oar of Thorns!
Also…
Is your brother awesome at Magic: The Gathering?
I see.
*ahem*
“He would as he flies the majestic condor over Winterswijk”
*prepares for secret hand shake*
It’s like I’m a member of the Stonecutters
Dearest Effluvium-Boy,
You ask about my “Wayne” comment. Was it in jest? Although you don’t know me at all, I feel you know me well enough to know that I know what I’m talking about. I know you know what I mean.
In truth I was referencing the forgotten John Wayne Classic, “Dude, Where’s My Horse?” in which the titular hero (Pamela Anderson) and her compadre, Western film superstar John Wayne, wake to find the events of the previous night completely erased *Long pause with Doc Brown’s patented Serrel’s stare* from existenz (directed by David Cronenberg). They then adventure through time collecting rock stars for a concert Wayne (Pamela Anderson) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are throwing.
That that paragraph was, primarily, majoritorially, a lie and a possible untruth.
Although within every untruth, as I’ve heard it told, exists a tiny nugget of chicken which are then sold to Serrels and Dr What to sell in their Scottish themed restaurant.
Hungry Jack’s.
Where the burgers are better, and, if you utter the special secret pass-phrase, “Och aye, ah’ll huv wan o’ them buhrguhrs”, deep fried.
I hope this answers all your questions and raises all new, yet equally valid ones which I shall endeavor to answer.
Also, no one can prepare themselves for the paddly goodness that is the Oar of Thorns and should Harli wish to perform her unspeakable acts, I shall be waiting in her “Rape Cage” although, because today was just an introduction, perhaps one of many, perhaps not, and not by any means my first post in the fine halls of wisdom you call TAY, I may not be eligible. But, in the words of the Reginald Monopoly Guy Waddington , “I’m game, if you are.”
BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER! – Soh-Crates
I see…
I guess the collision of Wayne’s World and Bill & Ted just caught me off guard.
That was, in fact, my intention.
Using my long winded explanation I lulled in you in to a false state of security. You believed I was talking about the movie Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventures starring happy-go-lucky scamps Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter and then, just like famed sanity guru, Charlie Sheen in the movie Major League I threw you a curve ball* when I said Wayne.
I’m sorry this cause confusion, as this was not the intended goal. I was merely trying to create a narrative that better expressed my nature and sense of humour for future (or past) reference.
*Charlie Sheen’s character, Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn didn’t throw curve balls, but a high velocity fast ball. His lack of accuracy was the subject of a great deal of hilarity until it was discovered that Rick was actually suffering from a serious ocular disability which gave the film it’s sombre tones. Thankfully, like life, all was fixed with a pair of hipster glasses.
This next song is for you, DAN!. Stay hip.
Well played.
It’s not a bogus name…
Well, that wasn’t as funny as I’d hoped.
That is an excellent introduction 🙂
Welcome, And I hope you find a name, But I hope you take less time than the doctor to find it, http://bit.ly/uSIFL4
Tried to watch the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on the weekend.
Got an hour in, decided it was a good idea to abandon it for now and watch it another time when I was more in the mood. It seemed rather good, but I was just not mentally capable of processing Teletubbies on Sunday evening, let alone something like that.
Pet peeves: dammit, the plural of ‘Lego’ is ‘Lego’ and not ‘Legos’. The only Legos out there is pasta sauce.
The weddings back on!
But I want a divorce!
Actually, if you’re going to be a pendant about this, it’s Lego bricks.
On a similar note, you don’t Photoshop something, you edit the image using Adobe Photoshop.
Branding and the English language are fickle allies, so this is one of those few cases where I think the pedantry is unwarranted.
Google and it’s Googling still gets me…
when we go to Yahoo are we doing some Yahooing then?
or Bing! and do some Binging?
i normally go to google and search for stuff, but that’s just me
Binging? Sorta. Microsoft’s turned bing into a verb now.
“Xbox, bing ‘your face’”
😛
i bing stuff, but mainly the crazy super-michael-j-fox-doc-in-scrubs binging, not M$ binging
That was such a great episode.
Something I always find funny about Scrubs is that they made an effort to have all of the main cast of Spin City show up at one point or another.
The hypochondriac that sued Turk after the less than stellar shoulder surgery, the drug company rep, the drug addict who became an addiction counselor (to steal drugs from other addicts) and a few others that I can’t remember.
Pretty awesome.
i think it’s probably the high light of that entire series when Michael J Fox appears… i think it is awesome of him to even decide to appear…
MJF is currently playing a recurring role on The Good Wife, goes completely against type and is kind of evil. Outstanding.
Yeah, now Bill Lawrence is doing the same on Cougar Town with Scrubs vets.
You know, I’ve heard good things about Cougar Town and still haven’t really found myself willing to watch it.
Something a show with that dumb of a premise, which abandons it because they’re aware of how dumb it is, seems like it should be fun. Yet I haven’t watched it, even with Abed’s amazing monologue to try to convince me.
It’s not bad, but every time I watch I get the distinct feeling I’m not in the shows target demographic. 😀
*all* of the main cast of Spin City?
Charlie Sheen says otherwise 😛
I’ve actually always wondered what the past-tense of Bing is. Binged? Or Bung?
People actually refer to searching by any search engine as “googling” which is why Microsoft decided to change tactics with their search engine and make “Bing”. The main purpose was to try and take hole of people’s vocabulary so that their product was associated with searching instead of Google’s.
Of course, they were too late to the party.
Anyhow, it all comes down to how companies want to protect their trademark. Having the company name fall into common usage weakens the trademark but I think Google gets around that by offering other services that keep the Google name.
Damned infernal muscle memory.
You’d be amazed at the typos I make rather frequently. I think the frequency of the typos actually makes me continue making them even though I know that it’s a mistake.
So very odd.
Does anyone know how long it usually takes for MS to certify patches for 360 and GfWL? There’s a leaked beta patch for Arkham City which is apparently undergoing that process as we speak. Should I just wait or try ’em out?
I have no idea how long it takes.
*sigh* I wish a patch would ‘fix’ my old graphics card…
How’s it running for you? Even though it’ll be good eventually I can’t help but feel that I should’ve just bought the game six weeks ago on my 360. :S
Quite oddly, actually. Running around the open world is fine, no framerate issues there, but when I go indoors, the framerate just plummets. I have no idea why, you’d think there’d be less for it to render. I hope the patch fixes it.
Anyway, I finished the main story on Monday last week. I need to go through and get the riddler trophies now.
Apparently the patch fixes lots of these things. No one has mentioned if it fixes the lip sync problem I’m having. If it doesn’t it might just trigger a Hulk-like rampage.
I’m looking to get Mr. Strange Arkham City and/or Uncharted 3 for Christmas but obviously I have to get them from Australia now.
So if anyone sees a great price for either of them can they let me know please? 🙂
we have 3 copies at the video store of AC and 2 of Uncharted3 normally after a couple of months we downsize it to 1 of each. ill ask my boss if i can have them for cheapskies, if you dont mind an ex rental xbox game will be cleaned of course probly 25 bucks?
Except Adam Sandler.
Have you SEEN his new movie!? Breathtaking piece of art.
ahh id have to check but last time i was in we got Assrev, Bf3, MW3, HaloHD, AC, Unchart3, Gears3 and a couple of others. will let you know if i find anything else 🙂
oh yeah they are for both consoles
Lemme know a price on a MW3 for PS3, yo.
that one might be a while coz its so popular with all the teens about to go on holidays. will see what i can do though
All good, mang-salad. I’ll prolly get my parents to get it for me for Christmas anyway.
Still, lemme know if you do swing something.
HaloHD? That’s anniversary, right? Could you get a price for that? For me? *bats eyelids*
I’m listening! We promised to only spend $200 on each other this year so I’d probably only be able to go about as high as $50.
Saw the Dardenne brothers new film, ‘Kid with a Bike’. Amazing. Far out those guys know how to make good films. So so good.
If anyone of you dont know who they are, do yourselves a favour and get the palme d’or winning ‘The Child’. Then follow it with ‘Lorna’s Silence’. these guys are amazing…
Oh hey, I saw District 9 for the first time this weekend, at Welbot’s place.
Was pretty good. The alien weapons look like big nerf guns though. Also, it doesn’t count as course language if your accent gets in the way of pronouncing it properly 😛
Also, Welbot know’s how to put on feast. Man the food, so delicious, and so much of it. 🙂
Dammit! I forgot the hot pot thing.
Had another social gathering I had to attend. So sadface that I had to miss out. At least I managed to introduce some friends to Better Off Ted, so it wasn’t a complete waste.
I think I have PTSD from working in retail.
Around this time every year I can’t get tacky Christmas songs out of my head.
I was mumbling Santa Baby in the shower this morning. Tried to push it out but ended up with All I Want for Christmas Is You.
Christmas songs are the worst songs. They are usually horrible, they’re overplayed, and they stick in your head for an unbelievable long time.
im going to order this tonight! hopefully it arrives before my work christmas party on the 16th then i can play it in the bus on the way to the party and make all of my colleagues pay for playing those horrible christmas songs!
The music on that Target commercial makes me want to smash the TV every time. Can’t imagine the horrors of having to listen all day…
the girl sitting opposite me in my office has been playing Justin Bieber ft mariah carey all i want for christmas repeatedly this morning. i countered with Game-Martian Vs Goblins, she hit back with Justin bieber-mistletoe. i returned fire with Metallica-King nothing…i almost dread the response but at the same time cant wait to hit her with In flames
You could catch her off guard with I Farted on Santa’s Lap or Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
oh christ the woman just said “i like rock music too” with a smile and played Nickleback.
she must be trolling.
I will not be silenced by Nickleback!!!!!!!
damn youtube at work! what is it strange?
Alice Cooper: ‘Santa CLAWS is coming to town”.
From the Metal Christmas CD i linked to before.
awesome 🙂
Hey it could be worse, you could have The Pachacuti stuck in your head.
Anyway, this is my favourite Christmas song.
Relient K – 12 Days of Christmas
“I drink from their skulls”
“Do the Pachacuti!”
“Pull out their teeth whole”
“Do the Pachacuti!”
“Turn teeth into charms”
“Do the Pachacuti!”
“And make flutes out of their arms!”
“Pachacuti!”
TELL WORK YOU’RE MISSING ALL THE POOPS AND GIGGLES WHICH IS NOT FAIR….
ALSO WHY ARE WE YELLING?
I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT
IT’S FUNNY CAUSE SOMEONE IN THE OFFICE JUST TURNED ON A NEW SERVER TO BUILD IT, AND NOW WE’RE ALL TALKING LIKE THIS!!!
HUH??
…WHAT???
HOW!?
OH, THERE YOU ARE!
…
…
…WHAT???
YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THAT THING YOU DO… YOU KNOW THAT THING THAT REALLY ANNOYS ME…
WHAT?
I ANNOY YOU!?
…WHAT? 😛
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT!
HE HASN’T LOOSENED HIS GRIP YET SO YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT DOING IT. REMEMBER? BACK AT THE WATERFALL?
…
WHAT?
Okay that line doesn’t work so well out of context. :p
YOU KNOW THAT THING YOU DO… AT THE WATERFALL EARLIER…. WITH YOUR MOUTH?
WHAT?
OH EM GEE, I WANT FUN STUFF! MY PHONE WILL NOT DELIVER TEH FUN TIMEZ. SOME ONE KIDNAP ME FOR TEH FUNSTUFFS
oops, I was off work sick yesterday and today ive been doing stuffs… next I know I’ve missed 5 pages of TAY.
Minecraft server is back online again after being down for a few days.
hope y’all are well!
Hey Shady! Server is nice and healthy again.
Thanks for all effort you put in for the MC server! I’ll build you a small box in my MC house for you to live in as thanks 😀
Im a simple man, just build a small underground room, with one chair and a book case and just a trap door entrance… I’d like that!
hope your feeling better! dont over work yourself because you might get sick all over again
i was minecrafting last night on a mates server, was fun.
I created a “FORTUNE DIAMOND PICKAXE!!!”
Hey, whatever happened to TF2 last night? I was so pumped for it. Blood Apathy, I’m looking at you.
haha, my bad, had a computer flop , spent 2 hours trying to cannibalize one computer to resurrect another and failed. Dr Frankenstein i am not. gave up and went back to cod on the xbox.
I was on my PC, keen to play, I was even talking to NovaCascade about it… but, yeah… ended up playing MC and BF3… man, knife only servers are so much fun to troll 😀
Thanks (in part) to Shane I have settled on a handle. At least for the next five minutes.
I was unable to adopt your full suggestion, as well as Strange’s, because the esteemed Plainview has only recently left us all, and despite my long winded humour being some what slightly similar, I would hate it said that I was imitating or, heavens forbid, taking credit for a great man’s work.
In truth, I am a simple man. A flawed man. A man with a mighty beard the likes of which a Canadian hunter might dream of one day felling and mounting on his mantle.
While I was content to post with countless pseudonyms the recent(ish) revamp with the instant approvals yet moderation required for new handles has left me mired in a quandary of undiluted angst. My desire to remain anonymous, to leave messages and post comments who’s authorship would cause both puzzle and merriment unable to be fulfilled.
So, decides I, a name I shall take. Something nondescript yet semi-permanent. More often than not, I will probably change my name and attempt more humour, but, for now at least,
This will do.
Also, I think I made it through a whole post without a single movie reference.
This wednesday, buy an xbox for $170. That’s cheaper than most CE’s!
Sure, but if you were on Day 3 of Ellen’s 12 Days of Christmas, you would have gotten one for free.
How do like them apples, Oprah!?
Wow, I may* go for that. I mostly use my seXbox for a media centre, but it’s having optical drive issues. For that price, might as well just get a slim.
*will
I don’t own an XBox. Is it worth getting one at that price? with only 4gb??
Or should I wait for the star wars edition one…?
TAY, I need help. I don’t know what I want for christmas, and people don’t know what to get me. Any suggestions? Preferably online items.
its like an old school Master Blaster (boombox)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geek-kids/3-7-years/e740/?srp=1
BUT ITS A BEARBLASTER!!!
Bought Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land just now.
Last night, I found and charged my 3DS.
This evening, I think I shall attempt to drain my 3DS battery the correct way, by many hours of gaming. As opposed to the standard way I have been draining it, through neglect.
I just bought it too!
From Play Asia.
Definitely did not think through this buying-US-3DS plan.
But then I ate an orange and it was ‘k.
I lie, actually. It was a peach.
I have Mario Kart. I have yet to pick up Mario Land though. I’ll probably put it off till after Christmas.
Sigh, back from lunch and just can’t be bothered right now. Could easily crawl under my desk and sleep.
Should be running up a terminal server. Instead I’m browsing TAY.
Damn you deliciously tasty food!
Man, I feel like that basically every day and I don’t even take lunch. 3 hours left in my day. On the upside, I don’t have any work right now. I’m just kind of chilling in anticipation of a flood of new stuff this arvo.
This terminal server prep is the only thing I have to do today so I’m dragging it out as long as possible.
i honestly can not remember the last time i didnt eat my lunch at my desk in front of my computer while still doing work.
Yeah, that’s what I normally do. Today I decided to go for a walk though and grab something to eat because 1) it’s a nice day and 2) I woke up late and didn’t get time to make anything before I left the house this morning.
you’re wrong… you’re wrong form the bottom of your hoofs to the top of your pitchfork
We should mark this occasion by me telling you that I think your avatar kind of looks like a controller making a :C face.
I view it as the head of an insectoid alien/controller hybrid, ready to please you(with games, clearly) and then bite your head off.
Think about where you’d normally be holding a controller, relative to your body.
“Ready to please you and then bite your head off” indeed.
It’s actually a cross between a controller, space invader and a metroid. I made the logo myself in uni =D I hope that also explains my username too.
Hmm, I just had a weird thought.
They should put Rollcage Stage II and Destruction Derby 2 on the PS Store as PSOne Classics.
Just a thought.
i had a weird thought too…
it had marshmallows in it…
…
that’s all go back to work
I can’t think of marshmallows without thinking of Penn throwing them at Teller to make his limbs blow off. When then makes me think of the time they ran Teller over with a truck. When then makes me think of marshmallows as big as truck tyres. When then just makes me really disappointed by the size of actual marshmallows.
If you ever meet me, hand me a marshmallow. All of the above runs through my brain in a half a second, so at first I am like 😀 and then I go all :(.
inb4 that’s what sh… bah, nevermind.
The only cure is marshmallows as big as truck tyres. Someone once handed me a marshmallow as big as a car tyre, and I got to angry that I smothered him with it and fed his body to some pigs.
Then I ate the marshmallow, because waste not, want not, you know?
Whew! Glad I chose the right Christmas present, then!
I loved Rollcage so freakin’ much, it was possibly the most fun arcade racer I’ve ever played!
Arcade? I’d call it the most realistic driving game ever!!!
😀
I actually had an RC car years ago that was very close to the Rollcage cars. Mine didn’t shoot stuff, though.
*Runs in in a puff*
Someone (‘Flu) mentioned Christmas songs! http://soundcloud.com/blaghman/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-kotaku
BAM!
Blaghman, away! *jumps out the window, hitting the ground 1 metre below*
Wait, I guess I should clarify, they were talking about horrible Christmas songs.
So this one still fits.
*standing ovation*
THIS REALLY GOT ME INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!!!!! <3<3
The lyrics.. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! When you said, "ooooooo FatShadyyy" I burst out laughing HAHAHAHAH
That was truly… wow.
I never knew how good Mariah Carey’s version of that song was until I heard yours :p
I’m open to suggestions, that song, and jingle bell rock are about the only two Christmas songs I know that aren’t carols, and doing carols properly is hard.
12 days of christmas. Kotaku style 😛
Make it sound like this too, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA6QsHdXwdI
I can’t watch youtube from here, and also, if I remember correctly, Chuloopa did a 12 days of Kotaku song last year, so no dice there(also, it’s a really boring song to sing, I’m just sayin’).
Happy XMas (War is Over) – John Lennon/Yoko Ono
He did? I’m going to have to go find it… 😀
Week before Christmas last year(I think), we probably would have had around 700 posts in TAY, though I’m not sure if we got a new TAY the following week, so it may have been a bit longer(Though we were still well below 1000).
Hahaha, oh, the days where we rejoiced at getting 1000 posts.
Silly past selves.
Oh Holy Night.
Do it.
“Je-sus was born and so I ge-et preesents. Thank you Je-sus for be-e-eing booorn.”
I prefer ‘God rest ye gerry mental-men.’
Mental-gen. *tips hat*
Ah, good memories!
Thanks for the Christmas spirit, Blaghmang, I needed it!
I’m supposed to be decorating the Christmas Tree with the kids this afternoon. I’ve been meaning to do it for almost a week now but I never feel festive enough. The kids are getting a bit annoyed at me. 😛
Oooooh, Fatshady!
The earliest we ever put our tree up was about the fifteenth. It’s not Christmas for another few weeks people!
Yeah, you’re actually supposed to put it up on Christmas Eve and only leave it up for 12 days or something like that.
But it’s so much effort for such a short time so the recommended day to put it up is now the 1st of December, when you start with your dodgy chocolate Advent Calendars.
Bah, Humbug!
(Canberra and surrounding regions unite in hatred of Christmas?)
I don’t plan to OWN a tree before the 15th…
Can-bahhumbug-ra.
It’s not letting me Permalink the actual comment, but somewhere in the comments for http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/01/community-kudos-12/ you’ll find the lyrics!
Yay!
Thanks to my incredible skills in deduction, I have deduced that you have changed your email address sometime this year…
That is correct, I migrated over some time after Mark’s birthday, because i no longer really used my old email address, and because this particular one fits with my name better.
That depends. Is it a squid that was transmuted into a chicken and then cooked?
If yes, then Y. If no, then N.
i say no, because squid comes from in the water, and in my opinion anything that comes from under teh water should stay there. Blerg!
I kind of 70-80% agree with him, I like Calamari, and Prawns, but I don’t like the majority of fish.
I dislike fish as well. Don’t mind other seafoods (or raw fish i.e. sashimi, oddly) but wouldn’t go out of my way for them.
Possible strange correlation between TAY participation and dislike of seafood?
I’d say a loose correlation, I used to be the most talkative person here(It’s funny because in real life/face-to-face I never open my mouth), and I’ve mentioned my talkiness in TAY.
Hmmm, maybe age is a factor, given the good Doc and Strange are both noticeably older than me… Hmmm, I’ll need to get back to you on this!
(Actually, the main factor for me was unemployment, and just how much free time it gives me…)
I’m rather similar, sometimes.
When I am trying to suss out what’s going on, or just feel like it, I’ll sit there and barely say a thing. If I’m comfortable in my surroundings, I’ll be the one driving the conversation.
Weird how that works out.
You don’t drink coffee and you hate seafood too?! You’re like my dream man!
When my husband and I first got together he didn’t drink coffee but when I was pregnant I drove him to it, or something because now he loves it. Now I’m just waiting for him to say “well, actually, I really do love seafood”. 😛
You should probably listen to her Bish.
Not only is she a doctor but her gravatar is also a doctor (somewhat) and she is probably willing to pretend to be a doctor on TV.
What more do you need?
I honestly cannot think of any counter-arguments to any of those points, so you must be right.
Even if you could come up with counter-arguments, I’d still be right.
Of course he is right. I am also right!
Finally warmed up to the idea of “Midget Doctor”, then?
Is there no other TV show option? 🙁
Well, the producers were against the idea of “The Sexy adventures of Blaghman, as he is awesome with women, and amazingly good looking, just like in real life.” So I guess the midget doctor is our best bet!
Oh Blaghman, I’ve missed you.
seems to me that you may have a tay hangover where eveything taste like squid (or you plunged your head into a sink full of salt-water)
Come at me, not-quite-right smelling food.
This one time, I poured off milk into my cup of tea and consumed it all. That was before I knew off milk curdled, though I suppose the fact that it went semi-solid should have been a sign something was wrong.
This reminds me of a friend of mine, while living in Saudi Arabia(Not really relevant to the story, but whatever), he and some friends decided to try and make their own Baileys at a party thing, except that they didn’t give it enough time to sit and mix, so the milk curdled in their stomachs.
Sounds like fun times!
I did that a few weeks ago. It may or may not have involved me ending up staying home from work…
Afternoon guys,
I have been doing lots of work over the last day or so, Also feeling kinda down christmas always makes me feel this way though. MY dad died a couple of days before christmas so everyone in my family becomes insanely depressed which is kind of a drag. I understand but i also know that it was over 15 years ago. I am trying hard to make sure they know that but they did know him longer than i did. Also no holiday in Brisbane over xmas as i expected. How are you guys?
Don’t worry Rocketman, tonight we will cheer you up as you listen to our merry banter and try out the new free week champs.
It’s a good week, this free week. It’s Shen, baby! Also 9 other champs too.
I am here right now, so it is a good day for me!
And yeah, what Bish said, we’ll distract you from the misery of relatives, by being exceedingly flippant about death!
No wait, I’ll do that, and make you feel really bad. Hmmm. I should probably leave it to Bish to help.
Hey Rocket, my girlfriend flies down to NSW for an engagement party next week and pretty sure she wont be home next weekend (17th/18th). As I will have the weekend to myself, I was contemplating a road trip up to Townsville to catch up with my mates (and the bar he manages). If you want to tag along, I could pick you up if you want something to do (drink for cheap at his bar then play Xbox on his two 60″ screens), or at the very least I could stop at a pub in Ayr to catch-up for a few beers.
When you finish with your current job you can move to Brisbane and get a better one and you can come and hang out at my house every second weekend because on the others you can go to Welbot’s place for him to cook you some Hot Pot. There will be no need to mourn holidays to Brisbane because you’ll already be here.
Also, sorry about your Dad, and your family. *hug*
oh rocketman *hug*
Strange and Steveo have the best ideas in this thread. You should move to Brisbane! And have fun drinking! 😛
hope the others cheer you up a bit tonight man!
*jumps up and noogies you*
I don’t know what to say aside from this: like all the other Taybies, I’m here if you need to chat to someone.
I think you’ll find that only most of the Taybies are here to chat with him. Bunny and I are only here to deliver snarky comments and to post cynical observations.
Whereas I’m only here to verbally abuse him.
That’s a sort of talking to/with him, right?
Precisely!
It’s more talking at him, but near enough as makes no difference.
*Big Hugs for rocketman* Like a lot of others, if you want to chat, or want awesome music, just let me know 🙂
Go with the gender neutral “mang” like Bish, or just the straight up confusing “Mentlegen” like me! Neutrality for all!
What dudette could possibly blast bears?
Would you like to say that again!!!? 😛
I actually put flameshield HTML tags around my comment, but they didn’t show.
Flameshield tags?! Us “dudettes” laugh at your paltry flameshields!
/Guffaws mightily
Foolish boy! No flame shield stands a chance against this Oar of Thorns!
Hey, even Blaghmans can have gender.
Wait…
I have calmed down enough to report that I am ok, my house is fine, but some stuff is broken. My lawn also exploded a little.
I tried pushing the bits of lawn back into the ground. Seems to have worked well. The glass I was holding cracked when it hit, which doesn’t sound too bad except it was a nice gold-trimmed one I got for my 18th. Some windows are cracked, I think the underground sprinkler system has been ruined, but the important thing is that the internet and power still work fine.
Also, typing this out makes me feel a lot better.
If it makes you feel any better, one time my wooden house in Minecraft got struck by lightning, and it burnt to the ground. I was all HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AMAZING, and then I was sad, and then I was hungry, so I ate some food, but then I was still hungry, but I’m always hungry, and I’m sure eventually I went to bed.
Remember when Q-bo nearly burnt down the whole server that one time? 😛
Man, that fire lasted for weeks…
I think you mean “remember those times“… Oh Q, I miss you buddy! You’re in a better place! By which I mean “Stop doing your art stuff and trying to support your family, and get back to Minecraft!”
Lol 😛
I was talking to him the other day and he was saying he might come back and start commenting again during the holidays, when it’s not so crazy here 😛
“the important thing is that the power and internet still work fine.” Ehhh, I dunno, I might consider your wellbeing above that… Nah, who am I kidding, priorities, people! 😛
The glass you were holding cracked? Wow, that must have been a close one. I’d be still shaking for days if that happened to me!
Yeah, right in front of me, I was making a sandwich for lunch and it hit my backyard.
On reflection, I realize that nothing else could possibly compare to the epicness of that moment. This makes me both sad and extremely relieved.
Henceforth you must pretend that you saw everything explode(it has to explode) in slow motion, like a well filmed version of a Michael Bay film.
Know that I have read this comment, and have thought about the poor bears, then slapped myself for thinking such thoughts. When blasting, you must show no mercy. No remorse. No hesitation.
I read the title of that and instantly thought this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1b6ko1I00A
That’s exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote it.
Good to see that everybody subscribes to the same ‘old-Simpsons-quotes-are-always-relevant’ idea that I do.
Or maybe that’s just the entire internet.
Violent? No. I find that when someone suffocates in their sleep it’s really rather peaceful.
(I’m just trying to top my SIDS joke so that Strange can see that I’m horrible in relation to everything, not just babies…)
I like dem vidja gamez. I was all playing Dark Souls, and I beat the spider-lady, and I did it on my second attempt, and so now I’m trying to kill The Great Wolf Sif guy face, and I’m failing horrendously at it. (My corpse has like 23,000 souls and 2 humanity on it, and every time I fail to kill him, it gains another 7000 souls!)
Oh hey, did you know that one of your creations has come alive and is running rampant, wreaking havoc among TAY and all TAYkind?
😛
It’s a bit funny. Most people (that I’ve seen) tend to go all withdrawn and passive when they get depressed. Me, I go into SUPER PROACTIVE OVERDRIVE (possibly because withdrawn and passive is my normal state of being).
Yesterday, I got some bad news that affects the direction I hoped my writing career would go in 2012. I fell into a sort of desperate despair and self-pity. (Sorry to all of you who had to put up with it back on page 4… and a bit last week too). Yesterday was the low point.
Today, I have:
* completed two pages of artwork for my comic, and will do more tonight
* resolved to prioritise my writing above video games for a while
* spent the day whoring myself on Twitter, and got myself to 500 followers
* put my name forward to contribute to some potential future comic anthologies
* asked for a payrise at work, and gotten some cautious optimism in response
Not feeling much better, but progress feels better than not-progress.
Artists are best when they’re unhappy.
Just look at Daniel Johns. When he was anorexic, he created some of the best grunge music around. He got over that and started making some truly horrible music.
Good to see you’ve managed to use this to fuel yourself.
At least you’re working towards something there! You’re not sitting around saying ‘oh woe is me’ without doing anything about it. Any progress is better than no progress, really.
Not that there’s anything wrong with voicing your feelings like that, TAY is like a support group in some ways. You’ll get by! We’ll all be here yelling at you, anyway.
While we’re on the subject of you:
Don’t name any of your offspring Michael W. Smith 😛
The only reason I can think of to not name a boy that, would be so that he didn’t get letters addressed to S.&M.W. Smith. Though I somehow think that you’re referencing something far more specific…
Okay, I keep seeing the words ‘hot pot’ all over the place and its making me oh so hungry.
Also, I seem to be quite stuck in the main Skyrim quest line, but I can’t remember the link to that secret code thing people were using a few weeks ago, so I can’t ask for help yet without potentially throwing around spoilers. So…anyone remember that code…thing…thingy?
It’s basically a pot of stock or water on a portable stove set in the middle of table. Around is is a rather diverse bunch of edible things, varieties of raw meat and veggies, and you basically cook whatever you want to eat. The method of cooking is particularly notable because by the end of it, you have this stock/soup/broth which has the flavours of ten million things having been cooked in it, and it is magnificent.
damn, that sounds amazing… where can I get it Bish? huh? come on buddy, don’t hold out on me… come on man, I need to try it… come on BISH *shakes bish by the shoulders*
Thanks guys, let’s see now…
V pna’g nqinapr gur ‘Frnfba Haraqvat’ dhrfg nalzber orpnhfr V unir n dhrfg sbe gur Fgbezpybnxf va cebterff (V qvqa’g jnag gb wbva gurz ohg V uvg gur jebat qvnybthr bcgvba naq pbhyqa’g or obgurerq gb punatr vg fb V whfg yrsg gur dhrfg va zl ybt sbe ntrf) Abj V pna’g gnyx gb Hysevp nobhg gur crnpr gerngl be jungrire.
Fb V jrag gb svavfu gur dhrfg va dhrfgvba ohg gur dhrfgtvire ershfrf gb npxabjyrqtr gung V’ir qbar vg. Fb V pna’g fgneg n pbairefngvba jvgu rvgure bs gubfr punenpgref gb svk gur ceboyrz. Nccneragyl guvf vf n ovttvfu oht ybbxvat ng gur yvaxf OrneOynfgre cebivqrq.
This is very annoying.
Also, UBG CBG!
V unq n fvzvyne ceboyrz, gubhtu vg nyy znantrq gb jbex vgfrys bhg va gur raq, ivn fbzr xvaq bs zntvp(frevbhfyl, vg whfg fgnegrq jbexvat). Vs lbh’er cynlvat ba CP gura lbh pna cebonoyl nqinapr vg guebhtu n pbzznaq yvar guvat, vs abg, gura lbh’er cerggl fperjrq(Naq ba CP lbh’q cebonoyl qvfnoyr npuvrirzragf naljnl).
Ewww I tried protein shakes a few years back when I went gymming. Couldn’t stand the taste of it..
I have now accepted that I shall forever be scrawny.
hahahha
MMmmm… Cream! I could do with some of that
lol, im not using them because im scrawny but more as a recovery tool (i run and gym 4 times a week, no, not to bulk up but to remove fat because I eat too much.)
I just realised I’ve pissed away like 40 minutes on Thinkgeek.
Oops.
Also, related: http://www.thinkgeek.com/clearance/on-sale/9be6/
On special for US$150?! Wow, I need to start making these and selling them for $100.
Well then, if you need someone to test one of yours, I know a guy* who’d be willing to now not buy one from ThinkGeek…
*me
I also know a guy* who likes free things. That’s open to anyone, by the way, feel free to send all free things to me, forever. 😛
*me
Free is good, too 😛
Well when I’m caught up with my backlog of stuff (Blaghs, did you ever send me your measures?) I might try one of these. I’ll let you know when that is. Probably be at least a year though. I am the lord of procrastination.
I never did, Miss Strange, but that was because I forgot what measurements you were actually after, and then when I requested that you tell me what they were again, you never responded.
YOU DIDN’T RESPOND! I THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SEE EVERYTHING! *runs off crying*
Oh, that’s right, I remember now. I was mad at you for forgetting and couldn’t be bothered typing it all out again just then…and then I forgot about it. :p
Forgetting about things is the best excuse.
H-uh, and there I was, thinking that its worst feature was being Internet Explorer.
(Bish, NotoriousR, or anyone else who enjoys doing these things, would you please insert a Zoidberg here for me?)
Hah, that’s what I was going to say. Thought Theft.
Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised recently when coding up a website design and going to test it in IE… it didn’t explode in a mass of ugliness like it usually does. Either my skills are highly evolved or IE is finally getting things working right. I choose to believe the former.
(\/) (°,,,°) (\/) WoopWoopWoopWoop
God I hate IE9. It is the worst browser ever. Seriously, it’s like microsoft wants you to hate them.
Mark, Tracey, would one of you kindly delete this post and the one above it?
Many thanks.
Chrome does that. You can remove any of your “most visited” from it in Chrome, hopefully IE copied that as well.
My favourite IE9 feature is the way it locks up for 30 seconds or so while you start it, then tells you you could speed it up by disabling extensions.
Except I don’t have any extensions.
So, that new Magicka DLC:
Cu’atyhv ztyj’ansu Pguhyuh E’ylru jtnu’anty sugna!
Vn! Vn! Pguhyuh sugnta!
Pguhyuh E’ylru sugnta!
Sure we do – but only during thunderstorms, and only if lightning strikes the right place.
I takes two dozen men with arcane technologies to capture the lightning and store it’s mystical power. When we’ve collected enough, we turn on the Christmas lights in town.
THE CRACKS, QUICK! I think they need more lightning jars down by the old mill!
I’M RUNNING AS FAST AS I CAN!
Also, the ‘The’ in ‘The Cracks’ isn’t necessary when addressing me, and is largely optional when discussing me. ‘Cracks’, ‘Cracker’, etc, are all appropriate.
Personally, I call him Cracklelacklekins, or some variant thereof. Best name.
News just in: Army of slimes invading invading Perth. See aerial time-lapse sequence: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR703.loop.shtml#skip
Clearly the invasion has made me hysterical!
There’s no point debating religion or politics. Especially online.
That being said, I don’t believe religion has anything to do with what I’m currently arguing about on Reddit, and its only political because laws need to be written.
Gay marriage. Fun times.
As soon as someone refers to marriage as a Christian institution, I want to slap them. If they dare mention something about same-sex couples not being able to raise kids, I have to wonder how the hell they think that’s relevant (ignoring the fact that it isn’t true).
I’m not some activist trying to spark a debate here. I’m sure there are people who disagree with me here but dammit, if you’re going to argue against giving people equal rights, at least have an argument that is both relevant to the issue and isn’t dismissed by a quick look at Wikipedia!
I honestly can’t understand why gay marriage is even an issue – let them do what they want! It’s crazy that something like this can command as much public attention as global conflict or environmental issues.
They’re called wedge issues and whoever it was that realised that you could win elections by arguing them needs to be rectally violated with a cactus.
Sometimes I think that I should gather a small group of people such as ourselves and take over government (legally, of course), and fix everything that’s wrong with politics.
Then I shudder at having to deal with politics.
It’s a nice thought, right up until you get to the point where you realise what you’d have to do in order to actually run the world.
Yup. Screw that.
Actually, I propose we follow this step-by-step guide:
In NSW parliament a few weeks ago, they were arguing about changing/removing Daylight savings in certain parts of the state.
It’s critical stuff, man.
Srs business.
Actually, daylight savings is rather serious because the timezone disparity makes interstate business relationships rather tricky. So making it not applied uniformly across the state will actually have a rather negative effect.
The problem is that it isn’t necessary but people seem to still like it.
I’d wager the solution would have been to never implement it in the first place but it’s a little too late for that.
See, I do get that it is rather screwy, especially in places like where Virus lives, where most of the people who live there work over the borders.
But man, NSW has a mountain more problems to deal with first.
They gotta start thinking long-term with this stuff. Maybe they should go hardcore with the saving of daylight for a while. Get the sunlight economy to the point where the interest that is generated by that saved amount provides enough sunlight annually, without the need for further savings.
Then buy all of the plants necessary to survive the zombie apocalypse.
_o/
buy ALL the plants
Indeed.
I like Daylight Savings. We work with guys in the US quite closely, and they also observe savings. But just as we go onto it, they go off it. As a result, 9am conference calls are magically 11am conference calls in the summer. Glorious.
No, I mean it. I’m. Not. A. Fan.
Clearly, you must be CRAZY to not like those two games! #cwhatididthar
TAY I need some help D= And I’m sorry it’s not game related (maybe next time).
I have a neighbour who keep “reminding” me that his dog could rip my dogs throat out. It’s a Japanese Tosa x shar pei and I don’t doubt that it could. However, the guy’s way of being responsible is to just have it on a lead.
I’m not sure what to do as he seems to enjoy intimidating fellow dog owners as long as they’re female.
Thanks TAY, even if you just stopped to read it
Petty revenge?
No, that’s not very helpful. Unfortunately, my common strategy is to simply confound them with superfluous verbosity, and trust that they’re too stupid to be able to respond with sufficient proficiency.
It would work if I could respond. I tend to just take the comments and then feel guilty. (He is cruel)
The thing is that Japanese fighting dogs are a restricted breed. His dog should have a muzzle, but I have no way of going about it.
Okay, inform them about the dog or the person? I know it’s a stupid question, but I need to know ^^;;
I mean he hasn’t actually threatened me. I just want to make sure I’m doing the right thing before I act.
I’d say both.
You say he hasn’t threatened you, but he sounds like he’s being purposefully intimidating. Also, he’s claiming his dog is dangerous himself, so you’re not out of line to express your concerns.
I may have to speak to them next time I’m near one. Thank you for your help.
That seems like far too logical a response… Who are you and what have you done with our spam eating Smelly one?
Perhaps that spam I ate contained some kind of taxoplasma-gondii-esque brain parasite…
“MAH DAWG CAN TEAR YOUR DAWG TO BEETS”
“Did you now that over the past few years all of the states have been upsizing their dangerous dog laws? For example, in Victoria, a few months ago, ‘Ayen’s Law’ was introduced, which sees owners of dogs who have killed be jailed for up to 10 years, and even if there isn’t a fatality, they can still serve up to 5 years. In NSW, a dog attack can have fines of $20,000. So it’s a good thing you’ve tied up your dog. Fascinating.”
No, that’s probably a bad idea.
What state do you live in? In VIC there exists a phone line where you can essentially dob in dangerous dogs. Maybe some Googling can rustle up if your state has one.
Victoria. But the law is for dogs who are dangerous to humans only, isn’t it? Apparently this one only kills other dogs. I may have to find out what his address is (as the flat is on a corner and I’m not sure which his is) first.
What I do know is that because his dog is a restricted breed it is required to have a muzzle on whenever it leaves the property.
This guy has also said, while in an off lead dog park, that if another dog comes up to his, and his dog murders it, that he’s not responsible.
This is my dog btw http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2923/p1250030w.jpg
1300 101 080
I’m not familiar with the legalities of it, but I’d say his off leash park excuse is bullcrap. It’s the responsibility of the owner to control their dog, and just because they’re off leash doesn’t grant him legal immunity.
Haha, I clicked on the picture. My dog does teh exact same thing! She squirms around on her back on her bed and then just decides to sleep like that. Odd thing.
Thanks. I will call them up tomorrow. The hotline shuts at 6.
He knows it too XD he runs up to people expecting pats.
WHOOSHAWOOSHAVOOSHA PUPPY!
(The best thing about Guinea Pigs as pets is that they’re too stupid to understand just how adorable they are)
Be sure to get Mufasa, so you can listen to his dulcet tones. Don’t get Scar, he’d form an alliance with the neighbouring dog against you.
Probably not best to get Simba either… At least not for another 2 years
But what about Zoidberg!?
“neighbour who keep “reminding” me”
“enjoy intimidating fellow dog owners as long as they’re female”
I have deduced that you are, in fact, female. :]
That I am. But it’s true, so far he’s upset at least 4 female dog owners (myself not included).
I honestly did not expect that. It made everything better now.
I’m glad I was able to rectify messing up your comment. I only found out about the websites existence the other day. It’s been around 5 years. o_o
http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=5411436
Oh wow, that website’s pretty cool 🙂
HOLD IT!
What evidence do you have that the neighbour is intimtading scree, as opposed to wanting to pass on the reminder/intimidation to a lady friend of scree?
EVIDENCE? I have no use for your petty evidence!
And, as you can see, I was right and you were not. So THERE! 😛
Report it to the police and the RSPCA. Doesn’t matter if it’s humans or animals, if something is threatened by this dog, report it. At the very worst, if it escalates (hopefully doesn’t) then you will already be in the correct position to have it dealt with immediately.
This is pretty good advice. I wouldn’t mind it except the guy is pretty much telling me not to walk in front of his flat. It’s ridiculous.
I’ll ring up the dangerous dog hotline first and go on from there.
Thanks everyone ^0^
Good luck, and hope everything goes well for you and everyone else involved.
Except for the jerk with the dog.
Hey, I’m a little vindictive. Don’t mess with TAYbies! 😛
I’d suggest you speak to the 4 people you mentioned up there ^ and get their opinion on the matter too.
This. Always a good idea to let people know they’re not the only ones dealing with the issue 🙂
I think I just had TAY eat two comments… I can’t see any “waiting for approval” things or anything… they’re just not on the page *peers*
Maybe this is a change to stop the huge temporary breakages that occur when people reply to their own unapproved comments? :S
Oh you uncultured little brother, you. The ‘block’ in my name has absolutely nothing to do with Ken Block!
Seriously, kids these days.
Wow I didn’t even notice it said block. I noticed the Holmes 007.
Which reminds me, new Sherlock is on tomorrow, yes!
You mean old Sherlock?
It’s a repeat of 2010’s season 1 🙁
Season 2 was pushed back to 2012 *shakes fist*
Still, good series!
That’s probably because Dr Watson is off frolicking with the sheep in New Zealand having a generally good time being the size of a small child.
Noooo! B-b-but America has it! =( This makes me sad. I don’t want to have the cliffhanger again >_<
Yeahhhh, dat ending.
Still, I’m sort of seeing it as an opportunity to rewatch and brush up on the series for season 2. Don’t want to be watching and miss things I’ve forgotten from season 1.
Scheduled to air for early 2012 on the BBC! May in America, soooo…. March/April, perhaps? Maybe there will be, uh, ways to watch it… on the internet. Yes.
I may as well re-watch too first.
I saw advertising for the new season online I got pretty excited. I’d rather they take their time and it be better for it
New sherlock? Is that that modern day sherlock miniseries? If so, where is it on? Apparently it’s quite good.
Or are you talking about the new movie? Inquiring minds want to know! 😛
Thanks 😀
8:30 pm. i kind of forgot to add the time. XD
Am I not preeeetttttyyyyyy enouggghhhhhh
something something somethiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnggggggg
should I try a bit harder? I think.
I know Art of the dress better then this XD
Am I not pretty enough?
Is my heart too broken?
Do I cry too much?
Am I too outspoken?
Don’t I make you laugh?
Should I try it harder?
Why do you see right through me?
Geez you guys, way to disappoint me(I had to learn this song in primary school, and it has been ingrained in my head ever since).
Mine was Bohemian rhapsody. It stayed in my head too. Mind you about 10 years later when I had left singing long behind, my brass band decided to play the same song. XD
Yeah, I just know Bohemian Rhapsody, but thanks to Primary School I can sing the “Star Trekking” song, some song about a cockroach(not la cucaracha), You Sexy Thing, of course, I know the Nutbush, and that’s pretty much all I learned in 6 and a bit years of Canberran Primary School.
You guys should be grateful you’re not at school now, lest you be forced to learn something like LMFAO “Party Rock Anthem” like these poor souls.
btw Bish for your christmas song this year how about one of these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_songs#Traditional_Christmas_carols
… … … C’mon, why do people keep confusing our names? Are we that alike?
(To clarify, this happens far too frequently on TS)
Sorry. I was replying to a lot of Bish’s comments at the time. Then I realised I got it wrong and double checked just in case.
It’s the B’s.
Everyone always blames the letter B, but I’m Normal, and Bish isn’t, this is a well established fact!
Like I said, I was tlaking to Bish at the time, so my mind immediately thought Bish. Then when I read the comment I went, wait, it’s was Blaghman D=
And then I corrected it.
Sorry again for getting it confused.
I can never forgive you.*
*You’re forgiven.
I am so Asian.
Bish you have been summoned.
Dare you walk away from this challenge, you can’t deny your destiny
Not really, actually. It’d be easy to find a doctor who can reach his foot and fix it, but one that can reach his knees? Man, that’d be one pretty tall order. 😛
I see what you did there XD
Unless you can find a chicken doctor. A doctor who is a chicken.
Chicken Doctor?
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A NEW SITCOM IDEA
Sick patient: What do I have doc. Give it to me straight.
Dr. McChicken: Bock-bock.
Sick patient: That’s sounds bad. How long do I have left?
Dr. McChicken: Bock. buuuurck.
Sick patient: Oh god. I-I need to say goodbye to Elise and…and little Timmy… *sob*
Reminds me of a Paul Jennings story involving hypnosis and a mathemachicken…
Paul Jennings & R.L. Stein are my literary heroes.
Paul Jennings & Roald Dahl
NEW SHIRT!
IT’S LAME! 😀
http://chuloopaoverload.toctopus.com/shop/view_product/Poison_Arrow?n=2431303
Yeah – i have accounts on 2 tee-shirt websites.
That one is my experimental page – everything goes a lot cheaper and i somehow make more profit, but the print quality is slightly less, although still acceptable in most cases.
the other is a redbubble account which i make jack-squat off but the quality is pretty much perfect (aparently) – but only my best stuff goes there.
I bought 5 shirts from toctopus. Not one one of them ended up being even “passable” when it came to quality 🙁 Not sure if it’s because it’s coloured work or I got a bad batch or what, but I’d never use them again after that.
I’m also one redbubble. But I found RB quality was bad o_o
I have pretty much crap on here, but feel free to add me if you want http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog
Added you. Will take a look at your stuff later 🙂
If you get deodorant stains at that height I really have to question your hand-eye coordination during application.
Perhaps I just have expansive armpits.
AND PERHAPS I’M ALREADY SELF CONCIOUS ABOUT IT! THANKS A LOT BLAGHS!
*Runs off crying from his pits*
ITS SO MAGICAL AND AWESOME AND UNICORNS WEEP IN ENVY….
is what I’d imagine I’d say when I go back home and install it.
I’m a bit tired. And a bit bored.
Ah.
Boredom you say? Just imagine a fictional or real world character acting like Jack Sparrow. For example, Darth Vader. 😀
I’m now imagining Darth Vader singing Moon River…
I’m now imagining famous Darth Vader quotes in Zoidbergs voice.
… Ok guys, we need to stop, this can go no further, we’ve peaked. We can’t top this.
Zoidberg quotes by Darth Vader.
” Luke, Han, robot. No matter what it is you’re doing tonight, I’m available.”
Luke, I am your father!
Nooooo!
What? You mean you don’t love me? *starts sobbing*
*Cuts off Luke’s hand*
FRY DID IT!
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP
It’s delayed until later today apparently, but some folks are probably using the beta RIGHT now.
Honestly, after previewing it, im not that psyched. Although the preview didnt have the full set of features admittedly. I will be happy once i can youtube on my xbox.
Ah, just when the Batman patch seemed imminent:
“Hey folks,
We are aware of the issues that have been pointed out in this thread and on the forums in general. Until we have a resolution to the various issues, there is not much that can be said other than acknowledging that we are aware and investigating, which we have done in several threads.
As soon as we have more information on any of the mentioned issues, we will post the updates here in the forums.”
Atleast they broke their two weeks of deafening silence. :p
Anyway, that’s the last time I’m gonna rant about Batman here. I’ll only post about it again when I’ve can triumphantly play the damn thing and gush like a fanboy on how awesome it is. The end.
Feel the power of the glorious master race… *sigh* And Arkham City on PC was so well done, too, excluding the whole, GFWL thing, of course.
Just checking, had to make sure you weren’t mocking me with sarcasm. Then I’d have to cry myself to sleep or something. :p
I tend not to mock people…
I usually just insult them straight up.
I somehow just ended up at lastweeks TAY. Was trying to figure out how we did 15 pages yesterday 😛
Anways morning all. Looks like me buying skyrim may be back on the cards after the wife flat out said im not getting it for xmas. I am worried by the time i play it, i’ll know so much about it im going to be uninspired.
@lambomann007
I have to know – it’s been bugging me all night…
Why not Michael W Smith???????
(It’s not really on the table, but I still have to know!)
I guess if you don’t want to be confused by this guy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Smith
Yep. Every time I see your full name, Shane, I can’t help but think of that guy. 😛
am I using an outdated marketplace or something? Is that even possible. Because I searched “Minecraft – Pocket Edition” and it says there are no matches. I then searched Mojang and Minecraft Pocket Edition, same thing. :/
Ah, mystery solved. My version of Android not compatible. No love for the older models.
Even though I’ll probably never play it, I just bought it as well. Can’t pass it up for 10c. 😛
exactly… i’ve already justified the $14 i paid for it in alpha. Probably over 200 hours of gameplay baby, the only game i spent close to that amount of time was gran turismo 4.
Other reason to get the pocket edition:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/survival-mode-coming-to-portable-version-of-minecraft/#more-479570
House music style Christmas carols! My work mate thinks its appropriate. i however find them a little annoying. Still better than beibers Christmas album. But way less cool than the killers Christmas EP
I have banned any form of carol or festive music in my department. I am on edge at the best of times. carols just make me want to murder.
I’m wearing a beanie. I feel homeless and stupid but incredibly comfortable. Its like I’m flashing back to July or something.
Haha, oh man, do you have hobo gloves too?
The beanie & hobo glove combo for cold weather gaming is great.
Don’t go out with it and a hoodie on though. Maaaaaaaan, I got some looks. It’s cold, people, I don’t want to stab you or anything.
So, I’m going to open a discussion with people with more common sense that the average Kotakite (TAYbies). Today’s topic:
Seriously (and I mean seriously), what the f%*k is with the sheer amount of aggressive, violent comments directed towards KotakUS? Granted, some of their articles are not great, but holy hell, talk about an overreaction.
I’ve got to say, I agree. I enjoy reading Luke’s Fine Art and Total Recall stuff. Kirk’s always got something insightful to say. Sure, I prefer the local content but I never understand the hostilities eitiher. :S
Apparently it’s cool to hate KotakUS these days.
I don’t have any problem with the KotakUS articles, it’s just that the two sentence articles can be a little irritating sometimes. Can’t they even write a small paragraph about the topic for us to read?
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I don’t like that stuff either.
In general, I prefer KotakAU, but it’s the degree at which people abuse KotakUS. It’s not uncommon to see massively foul language and threats of violence on the US articles, and it only seems to be the past year that it’s really gotten bad.
I dunno, maybe I’m just so used to the TAY side of Kotaku that I forget that this is the Internet…
Quality content fosters good community. Putting out absolute drivel discourages those who want to make meaningful comments from saying anything, leaving only the twatwaffles who think that the only way to express themselves is by insulting everyone.
I just ignore most of the US content these days. Much simpler.
Also, I insult people in a fun way. Out of love, happiness and a need to make use of this ability to be rather sarcastic.
“Quality content fosters good community”
Sums it up perfectly. 🙂
I think a lot of people feel the need to try and prove their superiority and intellect, and what better target than a 6 word article by someone who seems to be payed to write 6 word articles.
But yeah, people do seem a bit over the top about it, yeah guys, we know that Plunkett was on Reddit when he found that, congratulations, half the time they feel the need to point it out when he’s linked to Reddit at the bottom anyway. Yeah, Bashcraft is a hack, you’ve just proven that you have the mental acuity of a vole by noticing it, and the fact that you had to point it out for the twelfth time prevents said acuity from going higher than that of a Magpie.
In short, people are twats. I agree with them that a very fair chunk of the US stuff is crap, I just don’t feel the need to point it out at every available point.
I hated them before it was cool :p
Seriously though, it’s because the vast majority of the articles out there by them are poorly researched fluff. There will be two line articles that are just excuses for T&A and then there will be lengthy articles that completely miss the point of what they’re meant to be talking about.
Kirk Hamilton seems to be doing rather alright so far, but he’s the exception not the rule.
Also, Gawker media are rather dickish and known for being rather shameless in their quest for page views so there is a general internet backlash against them.
They’ve been spoiled by the stand up journalism of Mark Serrels :p
In all seriousness though I do get a little tired of it. The posts by the Kotaku US team aren’t always the best, true, but they do come out with some good stuff every now and then and even if it’s only one line and a video link it can still be interesting. If they must hate on them then they can at least try and make constructive posts rather then pointless raging and swearing.
I will admit, some of their articles piss me off. Either for the quality or content (or lack there of at times) But i just try to avoid them.
People like to complain about things.
That’s why you get people commenting on articles about Felicia Day just to say how much they don’t like Felicia Day.
I remember being particularly annoyed at a Kirk Hamilton article a few months back that had a significant Arkham City spoiler in both the headline and its corresponding picture. No effort was made to change the title after a lot of complaints about it.
But that’s about it, and even then, the spoiler was…different…in the actual game, so in retrospect it isn’t as annoying.
At the end of the day, we all complain about bad journalism, weather on Kot US, or herald sun. Bad journalism is a frustrating thing, especially when its about video games in major outlets. I know that i take my hatred from those outlets on to others. I just think that if you are getting paid to do something, do it professional, i can point to an article on the front page of kot au that has things in it that i REALLY am not impressed by. Dont know who wrote it, just read it, and got angry. But i avoid commenting unless it is genuinely something that is not just bad by my opinion.
The one thing that really gets my goat is when they post their “Gut Check” articles, and only 2/3 people writing the thing have played it… Sorry, but you’re not qualified to give an opinion on a game, as to whether people should be buying it, if you yourself have not even played the game.
Yes these are among the articles that get on my nerves. Some of them are so badly written they dont even give you any actual argument for and against. Some of them literally just describe the game. Then give some personal opinion along the lines of “i hated it” The end. I can do that ! can i get a job??
OMG, this Wurrawhy show, SO MUCH INNUENDO! Theyre talking about tunnels, tunnels that are fun to play in. Then the girl presenter is like ‘I have a tunnel thats fun to play in!’, and the guy is like ‘can I have a go in your tunnel?’. Then she’s like ‘here’s my big box’, and then he’s like ‘It’s a tight tunnel!’.
Oh man… I’m dieing here…
Just googled that show title, as I’d never heard of it.
Was not expecting to find out it was a kids show…
I woman walks in to the bar
She asks the barman for a double entendre
So he gave her one
Played some Mario Kart 7 last night.
I highly recommend it.
Played through all of the cups on 50cc and got my 3 star rating, did one or two of the 100cc cups for the 3 star rating as well (I want to 3 star all of the cups and going back to the early ones after finishing mirror mode is painful).
The new tracks are brilliant. Both visually exciting and quite interesting to actually race along. They’re made even better with the introduction of the new gliding mechanic, which opens up new paths to race along and even helps spice up the older tracks that have been reintroduced.
Kart customisation is done by unlocking new parts as you collect coins. Each race you can collect up to 10 coins and every 50 will get you a new part. Unfortunately, there are significantly more than 10 coins in each track to collect and getting hit by anything will cause you to lose some coins. So you can race perfectly, collect damned near every coin in your path and then get hit by the traditional (oh, they’re just about to cross the finish line? Let’s harass them!” barrage and end up with only a coin or two for your efforts.
Mario Kart 7 brings the racer count back to 8, from MK Wii’s 12. This works out rather well for those of us who spend ages sitting at the front of the pack. If only because there are less people sitting in positions where they can get Blue Shells. I still managed to get hit with the infernal blue shells three times in a single race but it’s nowhere near as bad as the bombardment that you endured in the Wii version.
I’ll write up a proper review later, once I’ve finished the game (ie, unlocked everything) but don’t wait! Go buy now.
But I have bought it!
It won’t arrive for maybe a week.
WHAT IF THE POSTMAN GETS BLUE SHELLED???
Then you’re in a spot of bother, aren’t you?
I picked my copy up from JB for $50. Told them Target was selling it for that much and they price matched it. I don’t know if Target was actually selling it for that much, but they price matched it anyhow.
Silly Bish.
I agree; the tracks are great! I’m really liking the new tracks they have added, and the old tracks are a mix of my favourites from previous iterations. The tweaks to the old tracks are pretty solid as well, so I’m quite happy.
I’m also running through the cups from 50cc up, getting three stars as I go. I think I’ve done three or four of the 100cc cups now.
There are one or two tracks from older MK games that I’d have preferred were left out. Waluigi Pinball, Coconut Mall and the autumn one with the giant caterpillars from MK Wii are the ones that stick out the most to me (there was a lot wrong with the Wii version, the tracks were part of it).
Other than that, I think they absolutely nailed it. When you buy a Mario Kart game there are expectations of how it should go. MK Wii felt like it deviated a little too far from that, MK7 has gone right back to what worked and improved things with a few important little tweaks.
Having tracks that are simply one long stretch with three sections instead of having three laps is a welcome change as well. Gives a bit of variety and allows for longer tracks without dealing with annoying 10 minute long races.
I actually like Waluigi Pinball. It’s not super exciting, but I like the theme, and I find drifting down that track rather pleasant.
And I haven’t actually played the Wii version of Mario Kart, so any tracks included from that are all new for me, and I will have only played them once so far. For now, I was impressed by the visuals from the Autumn level.
Definitely agree with you on the longer tracks. Great idea, especially for Nintendo who are trying to put Wuhu Island in the spotlight.
Sure they’re interesting but I have issues with the obstacles. They’re just too damned intrusive.
Oddly enough, Mushroom Gorge was easily one of my most despised tracks in Mario Kart Wii. Jumping across the mushrooms at the end was a nightmare because of all the AI opponents constantly bombarding you with items (there have been times where I’ve fallen off three or four times in a row after being blue shelled mid jump, then lightninged as I started to go again, then red shelled, then rammed and then when I was finally clear, I didn’t have the speed to make the jump).
It’s better now, especially with the new path that uses the gliding mechanic. It turned a frustrating track into a relatively simple one, simply by fixing one section.
Is that what I could hear you guys playing last night? there was conversation about picking up coins, and for a minute there I thought you were talking about LoL, but then I heard the *ting* sound as someone was picking them up…
After what seems an eternity (though is probably just a week)
I HAVE RETURNED!
So… how is everybody?
I don’t have much to report.
Still constantly being distracted in SKYRIM!, everytime I go to finish a quest, some new random encounter or undiscovered location pops up and I find myself busy doing something totally different for the next hour or so.
Mmm, what else… urg, got so drunk at my mates birthday we all ended up singing along with his wife’s copy of Glee Karaoke. I now feel so unclean.
Also, trying to organise a month long trip around the Australian Eastern Coast with 6 other people is a bloody nightmare. I don’t think any of us have agreed on a single thing yet.
I also have to go christmas video game shopping for my nephews. Ah, the dilemma of buying age appropriate game for them, while avoiding spending all my money on games for myself.
I have set up a massive undertaking in skyrim and minecraft. not to mention the missus has begged me to finish all the furniture i promised to make her this year… Decisions Decisions!
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He he.
Had to make a comeback in style.
SKYRIM! style 🙂
Oh and about the 6 people around Aus. Delegate the most enthusiastic person to organise it. Then sit back and say “how much and when.”
Easiest way to get out of it and if you don’t like anything on the trip, you can whinge and moan all you like.
If you don;t like something on the trip, this will also give you an opportunity to set up your own itinerary in places where you spend more time
I considered this, but the two most enthusiastic about this trip mainly talk about all the shopping they will be able to do *shudder*
Still, the more shopping they do, the more pub crawls my mates and I can do.
I think the key is to not lock yourself into any thing, filling up every hour of every day. Plan some, uh, ‘set pieces’ (Yup, I see the world through Uncharted!) and leave the rest for random adventures.
A very smart idea… which means it has no way in hell of working with our group.
Disorganised mayhem is probably the best we will be able to arrange.
Mmm Skyrim. I hope the new patch comes out soon, the lack of resistances thing is really killing my desire to play it.
lack of resistances thing? Is this one of the bugs? Aren’t resistance spells/potions/effects working??? I am totally freaking out!!!
Yeah pretty much – all resistance’s do not work at all as of the last patch. Also occasional backwards flying dragons, stability issues and some enchantments don’t work properly.
Great considering my game had no problems before this and I had just enchanted my armour with resistances and bumped up the difficulty to compensate :/
I have it on PC, and my Nord frost resistant seems to be working fine.
More specifically, any dragon with icy breath fails fairly hard for me, and ice mages scream a lot 😛
Guess you’re lucky then. I have maxed resistance stats and I still get two shotted by random mages.
Mmm, thanks for the info. I haven’t had any problems with any most bugs, however I may have to check my resistances as I have noticed being blasted to smithereens despite magic resistant Daedric armour.
Speaking of Skyrim bugs I found a person swimming through the air yesterday when I was playing. It was pretty funny.
Oh Flu, I’ve missed you too.
*attempts sprinting dive tackle Barbarian Bear Hug*
sometimes i think you should add Ft. Skyrim to the end of your name. or something to that effect.
buy the nephew anything but MW3 and BF3 and i think your safe in the age appropriate area*
*what. i dont like getting beaten by anyone even close to half my age and then having to listen to them tell me about it.
Hmmm. . . something about the accompanying image to this article screams ‘PHOTOSHOP’ yet according to the ever diligent people at Herald Sun the image is ‘A scene from Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombie’
Now now now, you expect far too much from the Herald Sun if you’re expecting them to not made egregious errors and spout ridiculous hyperbole.
I think I’ve come to expect too much for all the commercial news outlets in Australia. . .
I like how the Herald Sun tagline is “Stories Start Here”.
I should start a media empire, and my tagline will be “I just make shit up.”
These days I find reading any thing on News.com.au like watching Fox News clips on The Daily Show. It’s fun to spot the spin and laugh at the insanity of it 😀
Image is gone now. 🙂 I think they got flooded with messages saying “douche bags are douche bags”
Maybe I’m too late to the story, but there’s no mention there of COD, Black Ops, or Zombies at all, except in the google ads at the bottom, everything mentioned is about DLC and the Total War: Shogun 2 “Blood Pack”
Yeah, you are a bit late unfortunately. They’ve already removed the image after it became apparent to them that they didn’t actually check their claims before making them, as well as not noticing when something has clearly been photoshopped. . .
A question for the wise and knowledgeable people of TAY.
I have a NAB debit card which is about to expire. Does the bank automatically send a replacement card or do I have to request another?
I know they send normal banking cards, but I am unsure about the debit card.
they did for my cousin. but he got it like a week and a half after the original expired. pester them about it otherwise you might be waiting a week or two.
How long does it have left.
Usually you get the replacement a week or two before the exp. date.
Coolio, thanks peeps for the Info.
Looks like they usually send around the time it expires, for some reason I thought they sent it the month before.
I’m with Bendigo and the generally keep it in the branch and send you a letter to come in and pick it up
Zombies Walk Among The Living
We have today uncovered conclusive evidence that the undead – zombies – do indeed walk or possibly shamble among us.
Early this morning, people began to flee from the city centre in terror as shots rang out from the bell tower of Sydney Town Hall. The person responsible, 19 year old James Nim, has barricaded himself into the tower, and refuses to negotiate with police. At this time he has made no demands.
Police enquiries have been unable to locate the source of the zombies, but have filed a statement from Henry’s narcotics supplier that allegedly consists of the phrase “I seen some shit, dawg.” repeated seven hundred times.
When approached for comment, Henry screamed “Zombies! ZOMBIIIIIES!” and hurled a molotov cocktail. His claims are substantiated by the growing number of corpses littering the intersection of George and Park streets.
This sounds like a case for Lamblock Holmes 007!
Come Dr. Bishson, the game’s afoot!
Sigh. That bethesda PS3 article has already turned into a PC/console fanboy war. Why can’t people just get along? Seriously, feels like gamers are some of the most angriest bunch of people out there.
HAHAHA DIRTY CONSOLE PEASANT, LOOK AT MY GLORIOUS 4xMSAA WITH SUB EDGE PIXEL DETECTION IN 1080p NOT YOUR FILTHY 720p!
Notch hands over responsibility to Jeb once minecraft goes 1.0? YOU SELL OUT NOTCH, YOU STOLE MY MONEY AND DIDN’T FIX EVERY DAMN THING I WANTED!
PIRACY IS BAD FOR PC GAMES BUT I’M GOING TO JUSTIFY ME PIRATING A GAME BECAUSE I DISAGREE WITH THEIR TERMS OF SERVICE THAT COMES ATTACHED WITH THE GAME
Okay. Rant over. Need a way to calm down. Why not Zoidberg? There we go. Time to read everyhting in a zoidberg voice again.
I like to think this is either Bish or Zoidberg.
Or Blaghmangs.
I’m going to go with Zoidberg doing this.
“HAHAHA DIRTY CONSOLE PEASANT, LOOK AT MY GLORIOUS 4xMSAA WITH SUB EDGE PIXEL DETECTION IN 1080p NOT YOUR FILTHY 720p!”
Read that in Zoidberg’s voice, and laugh your arse off.
One of my pet peeves is when someone writes off a developor they formally followed like a cult, just because of one decision they didn’t agree with. Threaten to boycott, justifies pirating, etc. Insanity. 😀
I’m not sure if Skyrim will run on my PC so I’m going to pirate it to test it out. I’ll need to play through every part of it, of course. Then after I’ve finsihed it, if it all works ok, I’ll buy a copy. Pinkie swear.
Haha, is that really the attitude some people had with Notch leaving Minecraft? If so, hilarious. Freakin hilarious.
It’s pretty bizarre when you stop and realise that Jeb is the guy who fixes things, whereas Notch is the guy who likes introducing new things and breaking all the pre-existing things.
I kid you not, an alarming amount of comments in the reddit thread were along these lines. They then try and edit and say: ‘I just feel he lost his way and wanted to get it done as soon as possible’. Because, you know, >2 years in alpha and beta for a game that’s just basically lego is clearly not enough time.
LOLOLOL! Ohhhh man… people scare me. Like, seriously. These people walk around and have jobs. Some how they do these things. They are even responsible for things related to us. They could be your electrician, or car mechanic, or something that could end up being life threatening to you.
I imagine a large amount of them are your IT support workers, so the rage is somewhat justified :p
If I start to think like that, I just want to hide in my house, lock the doors and pray that my builder at least had enough brains to keep four walls up.
thats when it becomes extra handy to live near Amish people, or be related to them…if thats possible in Australia or at all
I don’t read the news. Anything video game related in the news is about how we’re training mass murderers, and news in general is some bullshit study like the number of jellybeans is proportional to your chance of heart disease.
Or it’s just full of depressing car crashes, cost of living hikes, war and death.
Or even worse, something about some celebrity getting married/divorced.
Looks like MLG Providence was a bit of a viewing success.
That’s rather impressive.
I dare say this whole esports thing might actually have some traction.
I imagine the 3.6million hours of footage watched was slightly boosted by MLG gold members who watched the quad view streams (that’s right, they have a thing where you can watch four streams at the same time, it’s awesome).
As someone who did that, I have no qualms inflating the numbers in such a way. Hell, I was even watching on my TV.
Hi Alice,
Can you please water the candy canes before you leave today. They are low on zinc and riboflavin.
Also, I noticed that the sheep in the laundry are only assembling eight DVD players a day! This is only two per sheep! The albatross in the rumpus room pumps out twelve a day on his own!
This needs to be addressed ASAP. Perhaps some V will help.
In regards to your question; Sandra can’t do the washing up on Thursdays, or any days, since she has no thumbs. I realise thumbs aren’t entirely necessary when washing dishes. I tried it out myself and managed, albeit with some complications. However, it would take far too long and would result in a clean far less thorough than that achieved by a thumbed individual.
Might I suggest Geoffrey takes over from Sandra? He eats the more than any of us (more food equals more dirty dishes).
If you have any qualms with the above issues please let me know.
Kind regards,
Effluvium Boy
A friend of mine used to do a webcomic called Riboflavin where Riboflavin was a superhero/detective and he was aided by his sidekick, Niacin.
Unfortunately he stopped updating it around 9 years ago and the site seems to have been mostly destroyed in the transition from keenspot to comicsgenesis.
Dear Master Flu,
I believe your concerns about the productivity of the sheep may relate to the extra caution they take regarding their wool, and static electricity.
We all remember what happened to Jerry, back in VCR days.
Don’t actually work here,
Rize
Dear Rize,
Of course! That must be it..!
I’m so glad we decided to outsource. You’re a valuable asset.
Kind regards,
Effluvium Boy
PS – Poor Jerry…
I only just realised that the music that plays on farm tracks in Mario Kart (like Moo Moo Farm) is the same as the music that plays in Zelda when you do the horse racing mini games (particularly Ocarina of Time).
How did I not notice that before?
Anyone know if there is an ad blocker that will load the ad and thus give the website it’s revenue but not display it and be annoying.
I think that pretty much defeats the purpose of the ad blocker… most add-on blockers can be configured with an exception for specific sites, like my AdBlock is set up to allow everything on Kotaku, and a few forums where I know the ad revenue helps them keep the site up, whereas it blocks basically anything else.
A delivery man just arrived and is bringing new supplies into the office. On his first trip back to the truck the girl next to me whispered, “why do i always get that pre-rape vibe when he is in here”.
i nearly fell off my chair.
Just looked a few things up with Mario Kart.
Looks like to unlock all characters you just have to beat all the cups on 150cc.
Unlocking all of the karts, wheels and gliders is a bit trickier. Apparently it takes about 3000 coins to get them all and what you get is random. I guess that’s okay when you have 60 things to unlock but it will take at least 300 races to get everything, more if you aren’t getting 10 coins per race.
Apparently you get 50 coins for winning a cup though, so that would speed things up a little and would mean that you get 1600 coins for beating all cups on all difficulties alone plus the potential to earn 40 coins during the races of each cup (meaning that if you play optimally, you will still be 300 coins short once you finish all of the cups on all of the difficulties).
Interesting…
If there was ever a game that I would love some DLC, it would be Mario Kart.
Just add another two cups (one new, one retro) a few months after release and I would most definitely buy that.
<o\ Is amazing. I can't believe i didn't think of that before.
I will use it ALL the time! <o\
Jesus Christ out.
For those that aren’t following the references, I’m just gunna leave this here:
*NSFW language*
HAHAHAHA!
Waitress, four whiskeys!
Welcome to DJO. 😀
i have a soup kitchen in my pants… i’ll make you some soup and woo you after
FYI, Orcs Must Die! is only US$3.74 on Steam at the moment. Thought I’d give it a try at that price.
After reading my comment, I realised I forgot something: You CAN give your wallet to steam…
http://store.steampowered.com/steamaccount/addfunds
Also, I never really looked to far into this game. It actually looks really good. I’m definitely adding it to my list of new games I haven’t played yet 😛
Steam wallet is awesome. You put money in and then we you want to buy something you just use your steam wallet and it doesn’t cost you any money \o/
I did that last year when the aussie dollar finally hit parity, I dumped about $150 into my steam wallet in preparation for the steam sale, just in case the exchange rate plummetted before the sale.
On a related note the guy I work with just took a week off for his honeymoon. When he got back he was asking how many games I bought while he was gone.
I had a quick think and then figured I better check the account.
hmmm that doesn’t count, it is just DLC. But that does, and so daoes that. Oh yeah I got that didn’t I
Ok so it worked out to be 7 games and some DLC which he thought was amusing.So he asks was there ever a month I didn’t by games. Which is ridiculous because obviously I don’t always buy games.
So I looked back through my purchases to see when the last month I didn’t buy a game was. And back, and back and back.
Turns out I didn’t by anything in September.
What? Is it really relevant that it was September 2010? Oh well they know now.
i need a better paying job. Or atleast one that doesnt pay monthly, i have had no money for the last 2 weeks 🙁
get a job on the side…i work in a video store, free dvds plus an extra 180 a week for two shifts.
it definetly helps with monthly pay and it only takes out 12 hours of your week
Hi everyone, I need the advice of someone more knowledgable than me about these things.
As I’m sure you’re aware, I run my own portfolio website, shanewsmith.com and have an email address [shaneATshanewsmithDOTCOM]
Recently I have been unable to send emails from that email address to my work email address. They bounce back to me with a message saying that my IP address has a bad reputation, and that I should contact my ISP. Recently, I got the same error message from Hotmail – and when Hotmail is blocking you, you know you’ve got problems.
I use this email address to confer with my publisher, and now I have no way of knowing whether all my emails are getting through.
Do I contact my ISP or do I contact Hostican, who are hosting my website? Is there an easy fix or am I f***d?
Thanks
best to contact everyone involved, your ISP, your host, hotmail, your publisher etc.
get all the information you can.
Especially important to tell your publisher through other communication channels, in case there is an issue. That way, they know what’s happening as early as possible.
Yes, I intend to Facebook message them as soon as I get home tonight. How sad that Facebook is the most reliable communication channel open to me right now 😛
It will depend on who is setup to send your emails. Which depending on your setup could either be you ISP or your email provider.
The important thing to remember her is that your website hosting and your email hosting are different. They could be done through the same company but often the person managing your emails is different to your website.
Do you have your emails setup to send from outlook/thunderbird or do you use an online webmail program?
You need to check Account settings which will be in a different location depending on your version
So it will probably be under file or tools in the menu.
Once you are in your settings you need to lookup to see what your outgoing mail server is. This is the server that is actually sending your emails and it is the one that is being blocked.
The first people to call will be whoever is listed here. If it is your ISP you should also contact your email provider and ask them if they have a webmail account you can use until it gets sorted
Thank you – you’re awesome!
Question re: Android Marketplace!
If my phone has not yet been updated to the latest firmware but I want to buy some apps that require the latest firmware, is it possible to just buy them now and install them later? And am I able to download this to my computer in the meantime whilst I update my phone, as the marketplace seems to link to a separate account?
I really want Minecraft Pocket Edition but don’t have time to update my phone today!!!!
Yeah, should be fine. In fact, it may still install fine without an update, and just not run properly (though this is speculation).
Actually it won’t show up on the marketplace at all, and when I try to click direct links to it the page is not displayable so I may have to resort to updating. I just don’t want to miss Minecraft.
Do you think I can buy and download it to my PC to keep in the meantime?
how long is it 10 cents for? i wantz… NAY i needz it
one day I think! that’s why i’m in a rush to get it
yoink, straight on the tablet for me then
Yeah, they’re doing an daily sale thing for 10 days.
@Harli, I’m a little unsure of how it works for Android, but if it’s like iOS apps, downloading to your computer will work fine, and let you chuck it on your phone next time you hook it up.
Anyone else know what account Android apps tie to? Is it your Google account, or something else?
10 days the sale goes for
AFAIK you should just be able to purchase it through the web marketplace, then it’s attached to your account forever, and you can download it when your phone is ready and compatible.
This app is incompatible with your phone.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Minecraft PE is fairly dull unless you’re purely interested in building. There are no mobs, no real mining, no day/night cycle etc
🙁
There was an article this morning that they’re adding “Survivial Mode” to the Pocket Edition, so it will get better over time.
i dont know how i missed this yesterday.
lol
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/shortcuts/2011/dec/06/muppet-movies-communist-plots-revealed
Communism is best -ism!Except for spoonerism, because spoon very helpful! Otherwise very hard to eat soup off of plate with fork, da?
I was going to, but I figured even once the name went through moderation, only 4 of you would get it anyway.
Once you use the name, as long as you use the same name and email, it won’t require moderation.
“The discussion that followed […] threatened to usher in a whole new paradigm of stupid.”
Best summary of Fox News ever
also more wat the fuckery
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/movies/these_birds_only_have_left_wings_pEaxXeMMm02f9s96HGe2HO
i think it was Morf who was working on this movie. So i has a question even though you may not be able to answer it. Did you feel as though this was all an allegory for leftism? and where you making a leftwing propaganda film?
fethinglol
I’m the one that works at the Happy Feet studio, you got pretty close, Morf is almost like Morkai 😛
certainly entitled to make their politcal views known, though since almost all of them are sadly benighted liberals they are almost always wrong
Dudes… so happy.
I had a second 2006 ‘fat’ xbox that i used when i wanted to use kinect or as a dvd player.. it was rubbish, loud and the disc tray never opened… and last weekend the disc tray stopped reading discs altogether so i decided that with the new dash update it was time to replace it. Also my old console was modded and I have always wanted to get this one back on live. Its not banned but keeping up to date with the mods was a waste of time so didnt bother. I have not been a dodgy game pirate for about 2 years and couldn’t be happier. Just pick up a game for $50 and play it.. no hassles. Anyway,
xbox 4gb slim – $158 at HN
media remote (the good ones with the TV learning feature) $28 at JB
Even as a DVD player that is a bloody cheap one, then you combine it as a gaming device and media streaming, and foxtel if you want and also movies via zune (again if you want to..)
thats a damn good deal right there.
This is truly the year to be a gamer!
Im so going to have a 2 player LAN game now!!! (do any games still support sys link?)
Gears of War and Halo should do system link. I think you can system link for Spec Ops in Call of Duty (I did in MW2 but haven’t bought a COD game since).
As someone who quite enjoys system link co-op, particularly where you’re on the same couch for optimal bro-fisting, I recommended taking advantage of this.
Yeah, i hate split screen because it is just not the same, regardless of the size of the screen.. so this would be ideal. Im looking forward to fisting my mates…
wait…. what?! lol
I’m gunna grab one of the 250GB bundles from wherever has it cheapest. Comes with 4 games, 3 of which I will probably trade in immediately for (probably) $30.
So far that’s looking to be around $300 including a 3 month gold membership (…yay). I’d like to get Kinect, but seems to be too pricey still.
The kind that had pork karaage in it for some reason.
Still, rather nice and now depleted.
Collection addictions.
At the risk of outing myself as an enormous nerd (inconceivable!) I have a terrible admission to make: I am addicted to collecting Japanese Nendoroid figures. Super-deformed 10-12cm or so tall figures, mainly from games & anime, with enormous heads and interchangeable parts.
They keep making more. And I keep buying more. And now they’re making video games out of them too. I can’t break free 🙁
I want to break free
I want to break freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I want to break free from your lies
You’re so self satisfied I don’t need you
I’ve got to break free
God knoowwss,
God knows I want to break freeeeeeeeeee
I want to be the very best,
Like no one ever was!
DUN DUN DUNDUN
To catch them is my real test,
To train them is my caauuuusssse
DUN DUN DUN!
I will travel across the land,
Searchin’ far and wiiiiiiidde.
DUN DUN DUNDUN
Each Pokemon to understand
The power that’s insiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!
Pokemon!
It’s you and me!
I know it’s my destiny!
Pokemon!
Oooooooooooooooooh you’re my best friend
In a world we must defend!
Pokemon!
A heart so truuuuuuuueeeeeeee
Our courage will pull us through!
You teach me and I’ll teach you!
Poooooooooooooo-keeeeeeeeee-mooooooooooon!
Gotta catch ’em all, gotta catch ’em all!
POKEMON!
To be honest, only the second last line is really relevant, but I think it needed the whole rest of the song to encapsulate it.
aaand now that song is stuck in my head for the rest of the day…. thanks 😛
I’m sure the little schoolkids you frequently hang around will love it!
indeed… wait, why does it sound creepy when you put it like that? 😛
Unfortunately there’s a lot of them which were limited release or convention exclusives or bundled with games so catching them all is very difficult and incredibly expensive.
It’s no so bad… if you live in Japan or the US where they frequently have their special event Pokemon.
It’s not like there are anymore Pokemon players in the rest of the world, right? Certainly not. To celebrate, we’ll have a Darkrai event!
*shakes fist*
I was talking about the figures actually. I’ve actually never played a Pokemon game. Given how compelling I find collecting sets of things to be, this is possibly not a bad thing.
“never played pokem-” *faints*
*slaps pixel with a wet Goldeen*
Don’t worry buddy, i might be dead to you but you’ll never be dead to me.
hitting me with a wet Goldeen is a way of asking for forgiveness…. well my Magikarp is a way of saying You’re FORGIVEN *Magikarp uses splash*
oh well you know it really should be you asking for forgivness because you mis-read the post which you responded to by proclaiming my death…but you know my Krabby just wants you to know its ALL OK *Krabby uses bubble*
*re-reads comment*
oh… well *cough*…. Voltorb USE SELF DESTRUCT
*BOOOOOOM*
*cries*
what have i done
*PUFF* Tadaaa… i’ve been practicing that for a while
*puts out flame in the whiskers*
Oh right, yes.
Nearly 700 figurines would probably be a bit pricey, I imagine.
Any theme to your collection? Or do you just watch an anime/play a game and be all “That would be awesome as a Nenodroid”?
There’s lots of stuff I’d love to see Nendoroidized. But generally I grab ones from stuff I like. But I also get stuff from things I don’t like or am unfamiliar with if I like how they look. And they generally look pretty good since they’re a pretty similar style overall and all pretty cute. Or at least I think so.
The only event I’ve ever been to was the one giving out Celebi for Pokemon Silver/Gold. I thought I was so cool (and was).
…then while I was away at a school camp, my brother saved over my game.
…and they never gave out a Celebi ever again. D:
Dear wallet,
Sorry for causing so much pain to you.
Regards, Crazyguy1990.
Just went fishing, managed to catch two snapper, but they were both under size.
And I got mild sunburn. \o/
You’re really floundering here, I squid you not.
Someone is going to have to school you in how puns work.
Dam? I thought you could only find snapper in the ocean.
😛
Ohh you’re good.
A True Story by Dr What
So I forgot to bring lunch with me today and thought ‘what the hell!’ and off I went to Hungry Jacks. On the way there was a man. He was smiley and had a clip board and looked very much like an unwashed student so, utilizing my array of deductive skills, I came to the conclusion he was collection for a charity.
“Here’s a guy who’ll stop and chat!” he calls, his accent a thick southern English. Most likely around London area.
“Sorry.” I lie. “I only get 20 minutes for lunch.”
there’s a look in his eyes. A recognition of sorts.
“Where are you from?” He asks.
“Scotland” I reply as I walk bast him.
“No way!” he exclaims. “I’m from America”
I stop. I stare. He thinks.
“Oh, I mean England.”
I laugh as I turn and leave.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I was in London and a charity dude came up to me.
“Sorry, I’m on my way to meet someone” (Not a lie)
“Wow man, you’re voice is deep”
“Yeah, like a black man” (Gestured “Large Genitals”) (He was a black dude)
“Haha, yeah! Say “Hello there children””
“Hello there children” (Chef voice)
“HAHA! Alright man, seeya!”
You do have a rather deep voice. But I’ve never really thought of it as “like a black man”, as he so eloquently put it.
Oh, my mistake. As YOU so eloquently put it.
It’s funny because you sound manlier than Rocketman and you don’t even have “man” in your name!
pah, Flu has no need to need to reassure himself, no offence Rocketman
I meant you, but that also works because the smelly boy is manlier than the rocket man.
Me? Oh stop it you. /blush
man that pisses me off, I catch the train to and from work at Redfern station in Sydney, where there’s almost always charity/donation people hanging around, and for this reason, I almost always have headphones in while I’m walking across the concourse (I don’t always have anything playing, I just have the headphones in :D)
Anyway, point of the story, one time a few weeks back, I was walking towards a mob of them, and one started talking to me, even though she could see I had the ‘phones in, so I waved my hand to indicate that I wasn’t interested, and she kept at it, so I tried walking around her, and she stepped in front of me and pulled on of the earbud things out of my ear and tried to keep talking.
Now, this has never happened before, typically because people see me coming, and don’t want anything to do with me (y’see, I’m roughly 185cm tall, 140kg and at the time, had a massive beard, which I’m wishing would grow back faster after Movember) so it shocked me beyond belief that this tiny girl had the gall to try it. Of course, being so shocked, I kept walking, put the bud back in and walked down to my platform, and forgot to get her name or the company she worked for 🙁
yup, the only people that normally do want to talk to me are security at the airport… they’re all “sir, please come this way, we need to do a random explosives check”
pssh… it’s not random at all, they see my beard and think I’m a terrorist! 😛
When I went to London in ’07, I didn’t shave the entire time. I looked pretty dodgy. Only time I’ve ever been pulled out line. Now whenever I fly, I’m always clean cut. 😀
You’re welcome. 😉
I like the general aesthetics of it, but get the feeling it would control a little better with Kinect. Plus the achievements are in a less intuitive area. (I don’t know what bothers me more… the extra steps to get there or that this bothers me in the first place… I’m no achievement whore. *cough*)
The Bing search is kind of cool…
Did the 360 always have streaming previews on the game pages on Live? If not, I like it a whole lot. The screenshots and trailers really separate Live from the blandness of the PSN store. (Although too many ads, damn it.)
Just picked up Brink for $9 and Dungeon Siege 3 LE for $28. Regular Dungeon Siege was $38… go figure.
Oh and I picked up some crap for the nephews. Not sure if it is what they wanted, but it’s what they’re getting now.
I also had no idea it was so confusing getting Pokemon card game thingies. Several different packs for different things, but no 1 pack was okay by itself and something about booster packs… bloody hell, when I was into cards you only had to pick up a small foil packet that held about seven cards and you were right to go.
Bloody kids and their fandangle paraphernalia… that should also get off my damn lawn!
*shakes fist*
The other day, I was hanging out with a friend and she asked me if I’d lost weight.
We hang out reasonably often and I don’t think my body shape has changed much in the few weeks since we last hung out. So it was just a little bit out of the blue.
That and I have recently been considering signing up for the gym again. Get back in shape and all that jazz (I used to work out a bit and stopped after I hurt my shoulder).
Still, as good as working out feels there is the slight issue that I tend to feel like crap afterwards and then for the next few days I’m rather immobile. It doesn’t really seem worth the effort.
So I’m still deciding if I should go to the gym. Methinks I can get away with not doing it for now.
I watched a doco from the UK called “Why Are Thin People Not Fat”
It was an interesting perspective on weight loss/gain, since it studied skinny people trying to put on as much weight as possible (and then lose it)…
Anyway… This asian guy, even though he was nomming down calories like nobodies business, put on hardly any weight.
He gained muscle.
Wizardry!
I don’t have any muscle, though.
I probably have tapeworm or something.
That’s almost like having muscle.
Close enough.
All the foods <o/
Why exert effort to lose weight when you managed to lose weight out of the blue like that?
I don’t think I’ve actually lost weight :p Then again, there are no scales in my house and I haven’t weighed myself in months. Maybe I am becoming skinnier!
If you’re immobile because your muscles hurt go two days in a row, then one day off, two on, one off, etc. You can keep doing that or stop, doesn’t matter, but it should stop you from turning into a statue.
No need, as they say it is the thought that counts
You were thinking about going and it had a noticeable effect. So just keep thinking about going
Don’t go to the gym, do something more fun, like rock-climbing or martial arts or something.
Can’t say I’m much of a fan of that stuff.
Did some wrestling/boxing with friends when I did work out. More because it was just part of our little exercise regime than anything else. Although I think the main reason I didn’t really enjoy that was because my main sparring partner was both taller, heavier and more experienced than me at that stuff.
Swimming has always been my go to “fun” exercise but it’s just so much damned hassle. Maybe I should find a local pool and do laps once a week.
Yeah, that’s how I see it. Easier to make the effort if it’s something you want to do. I don’t see the point only getting results on something you will never intergrate with day-to-day life. Might as well get fit doing something you want to do on a daily basis.
Have i mentioned lately how much i hate computers?
Work pc has decided it no longer wants to talk to our dns on the network. So it will refuse to look at websites unless i plug in the ip number. Yet every other machine on the network is fine, and settings are fine. Reboot fixes it for a few hours, then off it goes again.
Debating if its a corrupt tcp ip protocol. hmmm.
Network connection remains up the whole time?
I know I’ve dealt with this is the past, but struggling to remember cause and solution…
yeah i can even ping http://www.google.com out of the command, but type that in as and address, no joy. Put in the ip and it works. Did a flush dns, made sure i had the right gate way, proxy settings all the usual. But yeah, just goes from working to not working with no warning.
So, midway through my tasty pizza sub lunch, I got a call from a number I didn’t recognise. Turned out to be my bank, and they were checking up on some “suspicious activity” on my card over the last few hours.
So there I am, sitting out in public thinking someone has had some fun with my money. As it turns out:
“We’ve notice on your account, and on a great deal of other peoples’, there have been transactions of exactly 10 cents to mojang.google, and are just checking up on the validity of the purchase…”
At this point, I burst out laughing.
5 minutes later I had explained the Minecraft app sale that was happening, which resulted in them not calling anyone else about it.
Best fraud check ever?
hahaha, thats pretty funny actually, they woulda been freeking out. Banks all over the world having a huge WTF moment. millions of people spending 10 cents.
Often credit card fraud begins with the criminal making a very small charge on a card – less than a dollar, usually – in order to check whether the info is still valid. A charge that small often won’t get noticed by the cardholder, especially on a heavily-used account. It’s not surprising that this would be flagged.
Yeah, actually had it happen early last year to my partner. The fun part is that we were on holidays at the time.
That’s hilarious!
…though kind of disheartening that my bank doesn’t flag/ring me about this kind of thing. Oh well. 😛
Thanks to Tigerion, I have been able to investigate some issues with my email account, and have discovered that my host’s email server has managed to get itself onto some blacklists.
I’ve already put in a couple of feeler emails to alternate hosts, but I’m going to give them 24 hours to resolve it. If this was the first issue I’d had with them, I’d give them longer.
Thanks Tigerion, you were mucho helpful
Out of interest, why are you using an actual email host instead of a hosted service like google mail?
Because until recently, I thought it would be a good idea to have an email address that contained my domain name 🙂
Pretty sure you can do this via google, though I’m hazy on the specifics. I have a few domains hosted here and there and have gmail with emails @ my domain if I want them (don’t use them very often, but useful for signing up for throw-away things)
Really? I had no idea gmail could do that – Is some less hazy person able to elucidate on the process please????
Microsoft also provide a similar setup for Hotmail/Windows Live. At least I think it’s similar (I’ve never used it) which might be easier to set up:
https://domains.live.com/
For Google, you need a Google Apps account, apps.google.com (free would work fine for you, it’ll try and sell you the business one)
Then you just need to be able to edit your domain’s DNS records to point the MX entries at Google instead of wherever you’re hosted, I think. I haven’t done it in a while. Google’s generally got pretty good documentation on the process I think.
(standard disclaimer: I work for Microsoft)
Just stopped in to say hi – pretty busy at work today, between that and playing minecraft 😛
Also a big shout out to Effluvium-Man and Rocketboy! o/
Oh man, what a great surname that would be.
JAMIE! We must get married and hyphenate our childrens’ names!
Hmmm, I am thinking there must be more to Minecraft then just jumping up and down on the one spot. Damn chubby finger aren’t made for touchscreen.
Maybe if I mash my fingers all over the screen something will happen.
Then you better inject it between my toes ’cause my mom checks my arms!
Hmmm, a lifeless TAY, mysterious 10c transactions, and smashed screens. It could only mean one thing. Give me a moment while I try to deduce what that thing is.
…
…
…
It started early this morning, a mysterious article appeared on Kotaku advertise a game for only 10c. By lunchtime, this game had effectively taken over the country. Bank managers were starting to get worried. What could have caused this mass exodus of money from their banks! As the afternoon wore on, people started disappearing from the public gaming forum known as TAY. Despite the best efforts of the remaining members, more and more poeple started disappearing, one of them commenting that he was about to smash his mobile’s screen.
But thanks to my unmatchable deduction skills, I have solved the case. The culprit if this nefarious crime was none other than, Mojang a group of super criminals kidnapping innocent people and transporting them to an alternate dimension, a rather crude replica of our own. Now the only thing left to do, before everything is back to normal, is to shut down Mojang! Come Dr. Bishson, we have work to do!
The lollies that came with the stationery order are not as good as the last batch. Such a shame, guess I’ll have to change suppliers. I hear that some of them send Starburst!
We usually get cheap lollipops.
Jelly beans on a good day.
Man, I would order all the stationery (<o/) for some jelly beans right now…
possibly… <__> It’s nice to be in the thick of TAY as I’m usually on when everyone is busy with their lives…
This is the happy TAY time where everyone is on and talking and stuff.
It’s always a good idea to try and be here when that’s happening, regardless of the consequences in reality.
This is definitely more important than reality.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHUHUHUHUHHAHUAHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahaaaa… “Lives”…
I like the way you think!
Just noticed Outland costs 400 points on XBLA. Has anyone played this game and is it worth it?
Outland is indeed worth it, I love that game soo much, if you love metroid – get it!
Cheers mate, now I’ve gotta figure out where I placed my points card!
Does the game have local co-op?
Also if people from Kotaku add me on RedBubble let me know via bubblemail so i can add you too!
hey harli you should totally give us a write up on the lan thingy you where just at. sounded pretty fun.
I was about to say “What have you done???”
Now I’m wondering how much effort Steveo went to pose as Harli…
😀
OOOOOR…..
Is this another case of Harli bumping up her post count by PRETENDING to be an imposter, and then talking to herself?
Hmm…the plot thickens…(it may need less flour)
We need Lamblock Holmes!
just pour some beer in there, beer batter is the best batter…
It would appear that someone has made a replica of Harli using flour. Witnesses suggest that Steve-O may be the culprit, but I have reason to suspect otherwise.
…
…
I blame Cakesmith. Who else would be able to make such a perfect replica of Harli using flour as one of the main ingredients?
Next he’ll be trying on my clothes and makeup.
OMG my posts aren’t going through because kotaku is telling me that I need to slow down on my commenting.
There are several directions this can go. All of them should prove entertaining.
One sec, grabbing a camera!
Dammit doppelganger me, at least Trjn-proof your posts.
Dont worry, i often argue with myself. But then Burke comes out. We don’t like Burke.
The Scrubs infestation in my mind appears to have grown. I’m OK with this.
Dum da-da-dum da-da-dum da-shiny scalpel.
Shame they had to try and make that spin-off show. It might have worked if the cast of Scrubs wasn’t awkwardly shoe-horned in.
Either way, I’ll no doubt be marathoning through every episode of Scrubs some time soon.
*Mental Five*
Scrubs (TOS) is awesome, although it sorta lost momentum in season 7 and 8 i reckon… but sooo many great moments… plus the shot buckets seems to help the entire affair along nicely 😛
NBC cancelled Scrubs after the 7th season and ABC picked it up for an 8th season so that they could finish off all the little story threads that had been left dangling.
Then they realised that it wasn’t really profitable to only do one series, so they went for one more season that changed the setting and had the old cast only really show up every few episodes in supporting roles. It was a spin off in every way possible, except for the bit where it didn’t have a different name.
The set was also disappointingly small. They used to have free reign to an abandoned hospital, then went to a one room ER-like set. (Only not as good.) I like to forget Season Nine existed. 😉
It was also just missing all of the bits that made Scrubs good.
Such a shame after season 8 had been a brilliant return to form after a bit of a slump in some of the later seasons (basically when the imagine spots got a little out of control/weren’t imagine spots and when JD got Flanderised).
The perfect season 8 finale was totally diluted when J.D. suddenly came back the very next episode…
I was willing to forgive them that if they managed to make the 9th season rather good.
After 4 or 5 episodes, I stopped watching. They were not forgiven for that slight.
I personally lost interest in Scrubs around season 5. Season 4 was kind of meh for me and season 5 seemed to go a bit off the rails. I wanted to keep watching just to see what happened with the characters and all but at this point I feel like I’d be better off just reading episode summaries on Wikipedia. I catch the occasional episode here and there on comedy but sometimes it’s episodes I haven’t seen, sometimes it’s episodes from season 3 or 4.
Maybe I should just torrent it and get it over and done with.
I’ve actually never watched any of season nine. I prefer to think of season eight as the definitive end for the characters. Sounds like I’m not missing out on much, anyway.
unless you are into spin offs that complete fuck over and ruin the original premise of characters and settings and then anally rape you while you watch it… SURE go for it 😛
Went to grab a coffee, decided to check Twitter while waiting.
It appears that there has been a campaign to get #esports trending worldwide and it was rather successful.
go find dog who likes to sneak off to the park. Come back and find another half page of TAY
He’s locked inside now,k because he’ll sneak off again when he thinks I won’t notice.
I’ll check on him constantly, but as soon as I stop, he nicks off.
Smart dog problems D=
I have a large back yard. He’s actually looking for other dogs (with owners) who have ball throwers, or if he can’t find that, soccer/afl balls.
Well, basically, anything with some kind of inflatable skin that is designed to be kicked or thrown.
But I can’t code D= This simple fact is ruining my life =(
Do what all good* programmers do, steal the code from somewhere else!
*average
I hate doing that. I do try using tutorials, but flash really, really hates me. =(
That is so freaking awesome.
+1
The forward thinking lazy peeps go to great effort now to avoid doing so later.
Wish I was one of them.
That was one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen in any tv show ever. I loved it.
I kno rite!
The end of page 8 was all crazy and disturbing, with evil doppelgangers and strangeness. And then page 9 is all normal as if nothing happened.
And I tried to post about this asking if the Postman was responsible and I got a 404 when I submitted the comment! I’m trapped in a horror film D:
The guy who repairs furniture in his garage that fixed my mother’s chairs warned me about this. The lizard people, they wear human skin. But they’re really evil reptiles that run the world in secret. The British royal family, they’re all lizards. Obama too. They’re controlling us from inside the hollow earth, periodically flying out of their secret base in Antarctica with their Nazi UFOs.
You’re one of them aren’t you? D:
This sounds like V combined with Doctor Who. Remove the former part of that, and I am totally cool with it!
I thought the UFO’s were American? Wait, i didn’t say that. <__>
Mmm, yes, well assuming she hasn’t gone stark raving mad, I kind of think full copying of one’s ‘account’ should be a no-no between us. Of course it’s all in the name of fun, but these sorts of things always eventually seem to go further and further. Hopefully it never gets that far with us, though.
so that’s what happened? I have to admit I was confused. It shouldn’t be allowed, not without informing people at the end of f the joke, but it could seriously be upsetting
It’s fairly easy to pretend to be someone else and there’s really no way of stopping it with the current system.
We’re on a bit of an honour system and I don’t think we’re all that honourable.
I’m not a fan but methinks the best course of action is to just go with it.
I guess there’s no point in trying to do anything about it. I mean, what can you do? Still it would be frustrating
Step one, use an attached email that no-one can guess(like mine(not like mine(mine’s just my name at gmail, and I share it with all the TAYbies))), step two is to wait for them to add user accounts.
Which may take a while.
Hm, mines pretty easy to guess too. You’ll not it’s not me if I don’t apologise profusely for upsetting someone.
Also, how come Kotaku doesn’t have forums?
We (the old guard of TAY) consider it a rite of passage to force yourself through TAY, and comment in it. People have tried to set up forums before, and all attempts have failed. Our main problem is that we set up this thinking when there were considerably less than 1000 posts every week, and have not updated our thinking, due to the fact that we’re all internet old.
So you don’t like the new fangled web 2.0?
Are you also telling the kids to get off your lawn by any chance?
Blaghman’s like that old guy in the neighbourhood who actually has a sickle and cuts every blade of grass with it.
(That is to say, crazy and too much time on his hands)
It’s true! (There’s something comforting about this system, it’s weird and difficult to manage, but it’s also TAY)
Don’t get me wrong, as I said, all in the name of a good laugh, and this is probably just the crusty old man in me talking, but I’ve seen situations where it’s gone out of hand. Though it does help that none of us have any mod or admin powers over others, so that’s always good. I guess I just like to be cautious about these sorts of things.
Before time began, there was The Oar. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born.
*PHWAP*?
yes phwap… that is the sound the oar kissing you on the lips makes yes?
@Strange
I think I have a fair idea who the perpetrator is, and all I can say is.. well played.
I prefer mine lightly browned, then simmered in wine. It turns it into some sort of delicious biscuit.
It doesn’t really matter, no one is willing to admit that wine doesn’t really have a taste.
I shall politely disagree with you, sir.
Arkham City PC patch is available now on Steam according to the forums, no word on GfWL yet.
Patch is available over GfWL now, assuming you can log on too. Good luck fellow Arkham City folk. http://community.batmanarkhamcity.com/forums/showthread.php/11700-Latest-PC-Update-Today-s-Patch-details
have they gone for the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” approach? if so i need to get this
Even better.
They knew which parts weren’t broken and didn’t need to be fixed, which parts could be improved and which ones needed to be overhauled.
Having 12 players in the Wii version meant that you were punished for succeeding because the item system meant that there were going to be a lot of Blue Shells and Lightning coming from those behind you. Bringing it back down to 8 meant that things are a lot more reasonable.
The gliding system allows for some neat new ways to bring in shortcuts and they’ve changed drifting so that you can’t snake but there is still skill involved.
All in all, it plays like a Mario Kart game should play and is damned fun despite the existence of blue shells.
and i’m guessing it only works on 3DS? :P… darn me and having a normal DS XL
Well, it is a 3DS title :p
There’s even 3D in it, but I turn that off because it doesn’t really add much to the experience.
Hai guys, god I have been too busy/tired to keep up with TAY past few weeks. I am sorry D: I am sure you all miss my input!
@loops, I need to email you about the christmas thingy before the 10th, I keep forgetting. Sorry man D: I might do it now whilst I wait for Mythbusters & Sons of Anarchy to finish downloading..
Hows this I managed to download last weeks episode of Sons of Anarchy 🙁
Ooo! Awesome 😀
Might I advise purchasing Season 3 from Amazon or similar from over seas. Because it could be a while before we actually see it on our shores here, mainly because One HD are being right assholes & probably aren’t going to show it for a while which means it will be until then we won’t see the DVD/Blu-Ray release.
Nah, haven’t seen her since Friday when we were all getting pissed to celebrate the end of that horrible TAFE course we all did. She’s also busy with her boyfriend, who’s finally moving in \o/
I get to hang out with Christine this weekend though wewt! Also The Choirboys are playing a free concert at a local establishment so hopefully i’m going to that, cause The Choirboys are awesome!
Also any spare time of mine has been taken up by the new Warcraft patch “Hour of Twilight”
Alright, minor gripes relating to AssRev follow, minor plot spoilers follow, though, they’re quite minor as I’m not very far in, and I’m sure something else follows. Maybe my companion from Skyrim, no, wait, she took an arrow in the knee.
BX, fb, jr nyy xarj orsberunaq gung guvf tnzr jnfa’g orvat eryrnfrq sbe gur fgbel nfcrpgf, vg’f nyy nobhg snssvat nobhg va n arj naq rkpvgvat pvgl, ohg fgvyy.
Rmvb vf tbvat ba n dhrfg gb tngure xrlf gb bcra n guvat, naq gur Grzcynef ner nyfb frnepuvat sbe fnvq guvatf, gubhtu engure hafhpprffshyyl guhf sne. Jung V qba’g haqrefgnaq, vf jul Rmvb vf obgurevat. Gurl’er obhaq gb fgneg svaqvat gurz riraghnyyl, cnegvphyneyl vs ur tvirf gurz n urycvat unaq, vs ur tnguref gurz uvzfrys, gura jr xabj ur’f tbvat gb rvgure n) unir gurz nyy fgbyra, naq gura unir gb enpr nebhaq, qrecvat nsgre gur grzcynef, be o) tb gb gur qbbel guvat, naq unir n znffvir snpr-bss gurer, riraghnyyl sbepvat uvf jnl guebhtu.
Fb, jul qbrfa’g ur whfg uryc gurz n yvggyr, yrg gurz tngure rirelguvat gbtrgure, naq xvyy gur ybg bs gurz orsber gurl bcra gur qbbe? V xabj gung vg’f n irel genqvgvbany gnxr ba gur “Dhrfg” vqrn, ohg ruuu.
Bu, naq ubj unf Rmvb znantrq gb zngher rira yrff guna shgher Qrfzbaq npebff gur pbhefr bs gur tnzrf?
Bu, naq jung vf jvgu guvf cnvashyyl boivbhf ybir vagrerfg, V zrna, gurl arrqrq gb qb vg, qhr gb ubj vasbezngvba vf cnffrq ba(zbfgyl) gb Qrfzbaq, nf Rmvb vf hanoyr gb unir n puvyq hagvy gur raq bs uvf tnzrf, ohg fgvyy.
Lrnu, V’z abg ranzbherq bs gur fgbel zlfrys. Vg’f n ovg jrnx ba gur tebhaq fb sne (V guvax V’z nobhg nf sne va nf lbh). V jnf vagb gur fgbel rabhtu va cerivbhf tnzrf gung V oyvgmrq guebhtu gurz jvgu zvavzny snssvat, ohg gur snssvat vf ol sne gur orfg guvat guvf gvzr nebhaq, naq V’z svaqvat irel yvggyr zbgvingvba gb cebprrq jvgu gur fgbel hagvy V unir ab bgure bcgvbaf.
I don’t think this needed to be ROT13’d but I did it anyway.
What you’re doing with this one sounds a bit like the way I was with Brotherhood.
I didn’t really care about the story, but I had so much fun running around doing my own thing that I kind of got annoyed when there wasn’t anything left to do and I had to continue the story to get more fun stuff to do.
I faffed plenty in Brotherhood too, but at least there were some nice long Desmond sections (his story is the most interesting to me). Not so much this time around (at least, not yet).
Have you done any of the Desmond missions yet? The one’s you unlock with animus fragments?
Those ones are major trippy. I’ve unlocked the last two now, but haven’t done them yet.
I knocked them over pretty early on (Did a lot of fragment hunting when I started). I enoyed them. They’re the right length as to not become a pain in the bum.
Damn that Sons of Anarchy season finale.. I don’t want to wait for season 5 damn it!
I hate Kurt Sutter & his way of ending a season. It always makes me want MORE!!
Kurt Sutter was an EP on The Shield, one of my all time fave shows ever. I might have to check this show out. How does it compare to The Shield?
I typed up this big comparison but my browser crashed…
Basically; watch the show. If you liked The Shield you’ll like SOA.
Breaking Bad <3 Season 5 is going to be one hell of a finale for this show, i'm glad they're going to end rather than drag it out.
Out of Curiosity, does anyone here watch Burn Notice? I was starting to get a bit meh about Season 5 before their mid break, but when it came back, omg it's gotten really good!
Also Dexter has gotten really good especially with the twist I was not expecting with the new serial killer. I'm still trying to work out what Dexter was seeing as well o.O
Any of you watch Treme? Also got some pretty heavy The Shield connections. It’s a slow burn kind of show, but also pretty damn outstanding.
I really enjoyed Homicide LotS. Might have to check this out also!
I was thinking The Wire, not The Shield. Still a damn good show. 😉
I have never seen The Shield I think.. I might’ve seen an episode or 2 if I have. I need to see if a mate has any rips of it.
The one time TAY is on time and I end up late…
Also, where is everyone else?
Also, MORNIN’ TAY!
A wild coffee bean appears
Pixel uses GRIND
Wild Coffee Bean is Paralyzed
Pixel Uses water gun
Wild Coffee Bean is Soaked
Pixel uses Ember
Wild Coffee Bean evolved into COFFEEEEEEEE
Pixel uses Consume
IT’S SUPER EFFECTIVE
Currently have my mouth wrapped around a coffee cup (all of it). Leaves my hands free for typing and whatnot.
Caffeinated caramelly goodness!
I have a bottle of V in the fridge… but it is like 6 metres away. May as well be on the other side of the universe.
Hell, it took me about 5 minutes to type this out using my tongue cause I’m to tired to move my arms.
My keyboard tastes funny.
Funny weird, not funny ha ha.
if you lick the right keys the may be some residue left over from previous caffeinated goodnesses you’ve had…
that or asbestos… but i’d be willing to take the gamble
HUGO! I was going to tweet you a shoutout on Sunday on PopAsia but I woke up too late. I’m sorry!!
Morning all
how are you today? I feel like buying a ridiculous amount* of new games on my lunch break today and am open for suggestions, must be box related though.
*probably 2-3. so not that much lol
Farming Simulator 2011
Street Cleaning Simulator 2011
Truck Driving Simulator 2011
you know you want to
Haven’t heard from Zumba Fitness and Train Simulator Fan recently, so I’ll speak for them…
… if I only knew what they’d say.
on a serious note, i quite enjoyed my time with mirror’s edge and it’s fairly cheap atm, so if you don’t have that already i’d suggest getting it
or join the cool kids and buy SC2 from blizzard.com
Im picking up mirrors edge this arvo, thanks for the tip…but im getting that for free from a friend.
cant be SC2 unfortunatly because im restricted to my console box
i could just buy a whole lot of XBLA games…but that burns precious internetz ahh who am i kidding ill be doing that as well anyway
one important note about mirror’s edge, it is amazing, however if you are prone to motion sickness (<—- this guy) then you can't play it for too long… i can play for a good hour maybe hour and a half before i need to take a break 😛
also i may/may not be a weakling but vikings were never meant to leap across roof tops
More notes about Mirror’s Edge.
It’s a good game or at the very least the idea behind it are good, even if the execution is lacking in some areas.
most accurate description of the art style i ever did read:
“Mirror’s Edge has a refreshing use of clean, bold colours. It almost looks like an IKEA catalogue come to life.”
also just realised that it was you that wrote said review….
*pats self on shoulder*
it’s still early so i’m going to be writing off as i’m naggered 😛
on the bright side that was a spot on review, you’ve pretty much summarised my feelings of the game
Was the fact that it was posted on Trjn.net a bit of a hint that I was involved somehow? :p
Dungeon Siege 3 LE $28 and Brink $9 both at Game. They may be a bit “meh” but for those prices… well thay are cheap meh.
is mirrors edge like brink but with less guns and more pretty?
to run with my simulator jokes, it is Parkour Simulator, with a bit of punching involved… seriously it is so well done with the Parkour stuff
+1 this. It’s worth playing. I reckon they got the running/jumping mechanics of Parkour spot on 🙂
Never got around to playing mirrors edge. It has been sitting on the top of my growing pile of shame, mocking me, taunting me and sometimes abusing me. One day *sigh* one day.
Hit it up! Aside from the fact that it’s an epic game (I freakin’ loved it), you can knock it over it a few hours.
It’s about 5 to 6 hours. Maybe more if you don’t use guns, maybe less if you don’t suck.
Of all the games I played this year, Mirror’s Edge is at the top of the fun list, alongside Arkham City, and above AC: Rev and Uncharted 3. I was thoroughly impressed by its ambition and totally loved it, despite its occasional shortcomings.
In response to the bad media rap we gamers have been getting lately, I suggest you hit back with a strong stance to prove our integrity. Track down a copy of The Bible Game!
Play The You Testament instead
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/12/04/crap-shoot-the-you-testament/
Not sure if this has been posted above but…YOU CAN LISTEN TO MARK SERRELS ON A PODCAST.
Head on to http://au.gamespot.com/pages/features/ozspot/index.php?tag=topslot;title;1 and listen to Mark, Bajo and game Arena editor Joab Gilroy discuss game criticism.
ahh cool, I follow all the people involved on twitter, and read that they were doing this podcast, but I didn’t know it had gone up, thanks.
I’m listening to it now at work, and I keep losing focus on my work and concentrating what they’re saying 😀
i know we are a violoent lot and a group of evil doers but really?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/six-hundred-million-gamers-could-be-war-criminals-red-cross-says/story-e6frfrt9-1226216184190
also because im afraid no one aka harli, sughly and loops will come back until i say this i did the nasty yesterday afternoon right before i left home with the full intention of revealling myself when i got home through tay and TS however our net was being ridiculous and silly so i couldnt do anything until this morning. my apologies, i like pranks and chaos, if you would like me to leave i understand 🙁 i dont want to ruin a wonderful community through my off beat sense of humour.
So you were the imposter? What did Skyrail ever do to you? 😛
Chaos is cool, I didn’t mind it. I’m glad you owned up though, everyone probably assumed it was me.
Lol dude, I wouldn’t get mad over that. That would be hypocritical of me because I did the same thing to Blaghsy a loooong time ago. The time before Oars.
Also well played, except for the part where you made a spelling mistake.
And you have my email?!!?
stevo posted it ages ago i think. i remember weird things, plus it could only be one of 3 options minus extra numbers and such.
ima sorry 🙂
*opens arms for hug*
*lambo decides not to say how many people he could impersonate*
Does that include me(This is an imposter)?
(This will get super awkward if I get it wrong, but I will not give up, I will not surrender!)
Wow! That was not the image I expected!(Still an imposter)
I feel super hawkeward about that bunny related image, what is that thing? Is it poisonous?(This system really is ripe for abuse, and also hilarity due to my failure(And again, still impostering))
Alright, well, I’ve had my fun(not all that fun). There’s so many more people I could do(like vengeance against Harli), but I just can’t be bothered. Super best friend apologies to all those involved in my shenanigans, but at least I’ve learned something here.
Power is only fun if it’s in Minecraft, and I can fill people’s houses with TNT.
hey look i’ve developed my alter ego again… i call him Steve… he’s a champ…
HEY STEVE *Flails arms*
l.oL!!! are we randomly churning out people’s gravatars now?
I was just guessing people’s emails, it seems some people are smart enough to use a different one when they correspond with me than when they post stuff on TAY, though I somehow think that most don’t. Though some people are confusing(Bish, Shane, Doctor What?!) as they have used multiple email addresses while doing things with me.
True story. And then I found ten dollars.
Looks like I’m the only one that bothered to set a joke gravatar for their known email though.*
Sadly, it appears that most people aren’t familiar with Nigel Lappin :p
*I actually set that up for something entirely different, but it works well for this purpose.
It does work very well as an excuse, so I’m going to pretend that that’s actually what happened, as it gives me a chance to pretend that you defeated me, and so I can back away from the game of “being a twat” with dignity.* I’m proud of you bunny, you beat me at something, it’s just like everything in the real world except for the possible exception of Starcraft!
*I still have no dignity
Don’t worry, one day I’ll beat you at Starcraft as well.
I think that gravatar was actually set up when a friend made a Onion-esque gaming site and I wrote one or two pieces for it. So I found that goofy looking picture of Nigel Lappin (one of my favourite AFL players) and used it because it just worked for the tone of the site.
Damn right you’ll beat me at Starcraft, as it is, you’re upsetting the balance!
(Fun story, I went into my gmail account to check the emails of people I had talked to, so I could pretend to be them, and a little message popped up at the top of the screen, warning me that thousands of online identities were stolen/faked every day. Goddammit Google, stop being so omniscient!)
Regarding that article, what obligation do story-tellers have to stick to what is legal in their tales?
Fictional characters often break any number of laws in all mediums, some justified by the context of the story, other times it is used to establish villains or cause emotional anguish for heroes.
As for glorifying war, methinks there are a few other places that make a much better attempt at doing that. Not least of all the recruiters for military forces.
I think Serrels did an excellent job putting that “glorifying war” line to rest when he did that piece about soldiers in Afghanistan playing COD because it was a distraction from actual war and it was funny to them.
Making a claim that Fictional material is an enabler to law breaking and general evil doing is a crock. Fiction at most can be an outlet for emotions we dare not share with others but it is never the cause of people breaking the law. If they decide that video games should be outlawed because they promote violence and wrong doing then by that effect religion would be also outlawed. Of course it is the red cross so they actually have no real power, but it’s still terribly annoying becuase now people will reference this investigation and not in a good way when ever there is debate about wether or not video games are bad for us
I’ve given up complaining about crappy “Gamers are Satan” news stories. There’s no satisfaction in pointing out that stupid people are stupid.
I think it goes without saying that if I got the chance to say it to the author’s/”scientific” study group’s faces, it would be better than sex 😀
My favourite part of that news story is how they’ve mislabelled the RE4 artwork as being from Infinity Ward/Activision, since they’vbe clearly just reused the same caption as from the Call of Duty screenshot from higher up in the article. But they still identified the Bioshock screenshot as from Irrational Games.
Ugh. Not going to be on TAY much for the rest of the day. Meetings, Christmas lunch, etc etc.
Can someone post a TAY summary around 3pm for me??? 😛
*shakes head at rize*
it’s called a SMART phone, get with the times and sort your priorities man 😛
Jesus will be watching me. I’m not keen to whip it* out in that circumstance.
*my phone, you perv.
ahh whip it whip it good.
dun dunna duh dun duh dunanana duh dun dunna dun dun duh dunanana
Let it Whip
Whip it baby, Whip it right
Let it Whip
Whip it baby, Whip it all night
It’s just a trip
No no, child
Let it Whip
Come on Whip, Come on Whip
On behalf of all the Deve-Os, I demand royalties!
“Hey look it Jesus…. HEY JESUUUS”
“Hey look it’s Jesus’ Death Army… something about what i said doesn’t sound right”
Mario Kart 7 is proving to be far too enjoyable. I don’t care that I’ve done this a million times before, I’m doing it a million times again because it’s so damned good.
I’m making my way through the 150cc cups now. Finally get to unlock all of the characters. Each character is unlocked by finishing a specific cup in 150cc. I was using Koopa Troopa until I unlocked Lakitu, then I switched to Rosalina as soon as I unlocked her.
It’s a little weird playing the way I play with a heavy character like Rosalina, but it most definitely works. Almost like using Bowser in MKDS.
Because those damned fundamentalist Christians think that their definition of marriage is the only one that should be legal!
Don’t worry, I’m lobbying the federal government furiously about this. Well, inbetween races I’m considering doing it. That’s pretty much the same thing, right?
if there was ever a bad combination of ailments, migraine and hayfever has to be among the worst possible every day ones. My brain hurts every time i sneeze.
On a side note, just downloaded the xbox ios app. Glad they finally have one, Not sure how useful it is, but does mean i can harass my xbox friends when not at home 😀 i love being a pain.
So I went from nothing to do on Tuesday to pure chaos yesterday. Have I missed anything good since page 5?
We cured cancer, but ‘Flu from the future warned us that the world wasn’t ready for it, so we sealed it away in a paper bag and I left it in one of my filing cabinets.
now would be a bad time to mention that i blew up your filing cabinets when i was attempting to science
mmmm cheesecake.
*returns contents of all cabinets*
😀
oh i forgot to mention that i took everything out first
Are there… bite marks on these recipes? I don’t remember them having these before.
*cough*
ahem
i don’t see bite marks? no those where silver fish…yeah silver fishies
Just as a general FYI and a little bit of WTF, the Skyrim 1.3 patch fixes nothing on my game. All that stuff already worked for me, excluding “Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles”, cause I couldn’t say yes or no for it.
Oh on skyrim patch issues, since the 360 patch, I am now seeing backward flying dragons!!! I thought that this was the main bug they fixed?
I haven’t had any backwards flying dragons yet, but my problem is that the arrogant bastards are now ignoring me.
Whenever I see one I have been having to run around the place like a madman shouting at the top of my lungs, but only 1 out 3 can now even be bothered to notice me.
Damn snobby flying lizards.
Me too! I run around and magic them trying to get their attention but it doesn’t work! I have to hope they get distracted by something else and decide to attack it so I can get their attention with my axe while they’re distracted.
I hate it when they just fly off, I always have to reload because I’m afraid they’ve just flown off to some town and incinerated it.
I only bother killing dragons if they deign to attack me. Otherwise, they can do whatever they want, as far as I’m concerned.
Talking about incinerating towns, I had another issue with riverwood (damn dragons love that place) where everytime I exited the inn the place would be attacked by an ancient dragon. Now those bloody thing are actually a bit of a nuisance, especially since they just tend to sit on top of the rooftops and blast everybody in town.
Four times I reloaded the save because each time at least 3 npcs would be killed off.
It actually got to me a one stage, because no matter how many times I travelled to the past (reloaded a game) and tried a different tactic, I could not prevent people being killed.
It ended up being so bad I loaded a save from about 40 minutes earlier just so I could aviod the whole situation.
I’ve been having that happen since I started the game. Sometimes they’ll attack me and sometimes they’ll just circle over head a bit then fly off. What’s most annoying is when I do manage to engage one in combat and everything’s going fine but then they get distracted by a random creature half the map away and go off to attack that leaving me to chase after them.
Well, consider it from their perspective, there they are, fighting the dragonborn, and losing. They know that they can’t win, but they want to live, so what do they do? Go attack that random mudcrab, kill said mudcrab, declare themselves victorious, and then fly off to drink some mead, and chase some wenches.
May I rant a little…
I bought a new 360 yesterday as they were cheap, mainly as a media streaming and DVD player and also there for kinect (as my other 360 is next to my PC)
So i bought the official media remote, that has the added feature of learning your TV signals too!. Awesome i thought, one remote to do it all.
TV sync was amazingly easy but here is my rant worthy issue. My couch is about 3m from the TV. The remote should work up to 9m away, but it wont work at my place from that distance. It works fine for the TV but not the xbox??? I have to stand up and walk to within 2m for it to pick up the xbox! Now seriously, there is only one thing that a remote has to do… just work from the couch! If it can’t do that right im taking you back to the store!!!!!!
If you are interested, I have this one
http://thecoolgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Xbox-360-media-remote.jpg
Anyone else have this issue with it?
if your too lazy to return this might help*
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-increase-range-remote-control-425542/
*may or may not be more effort than just returning and replacing
Me um, wait I’ve got this… carry the 1.. err… divide by the GDP… ME 3!!!
Get it anyway! The PC version has other stuff in it, like portal turrets or whatever! I recommend this game to all!(I bought it when it first came out, but I only finished it the other day…)
I wanted it on 360 too, but I bought it for the PC because $5!
It was my last $5 too, so I hope nothing else awesome is on sale before Saturday when I have more monies.
Blaghs! I oughtta spank you, young man!
Please can we stop with the impersonatings of people?
We need to be able trust that each comment is from the person it says it’s from. TAY is already unmanageable enough, but if we start impersonating each other by using their email addresses and Gravatars it’s just a slippery slope to complete and utter chaos and nobody trusting anything anyone says.
I know it’s amusing but it’s still amusing without impersonating completely.
I’m pretty sure we can blame me for the last few, though feel free to blame Harli instead! Why Harli? Because she’s the secret troll here. Not like Steve-O, now he’s a good, honest, upfront, burning down people’s houses in Minecraft, troll.
Sure thing, Ms. “impersonate Blaghs and then not own up to it for months.” 😛
Heh, foiled again.
How do you know that it wasn’t all just a ploy by some evil force to blame me for the woes of others?
Oh right, yeah, because that would be silly.
And aye, I’m done with impersonating, it was a good life, but at my age you begin to reflect, to look at what you’ve done. I’ve counted my chickens, though they ain’t hatched, but I’ll be looking after them a sight better than I did before.
(It was really tempting to post this as fake bunny…)
He may have tried and failed.
I’m fairly sure that I have the right emails for quite a few people around here, but I promised to use my powers only for awesome.
It was very tempting, I’ll admit, but I decided against it in the end!
And at least give me credit, I was not at all subtle with my impersonation. Subtlety is for noobs, I’m more like a 3 gate Zealot all in, pushing at the front of your base!
The funny thing about the email you used to impersonate me is that I used to post with that email and changed it :p
Yeah, I’m kind of sad because I changed which email I posted with earlier this year, which made it way easier for people(Harli) to pretend to be me. And I gathered that you used to use that email, because it was insta-proved, if it hadn’t, I probably would have abandoned the whole endeavor, and hoped that nobody noticed!
I think that’s the part that makes this whole thing to brilliant. There are multiple emails that can be used to insta-post as Trjn. Only this one has the right gravatar but the other one (which I’d wager more than a few people could guess) will result in Nigel’s head bobbing up.
I quite like when impersonations go so wrong it turns out rather awesome.
I’m quite tempted to try and turn fake bunny into a thing, what could possibly go wrong?
Everything?
Exactly!
What is real? What is not?
When is a Harli not a Harli? When it’s a Di11enger? When it’s a moped?
When it’s a-ccidentally crashed into a river?
Hey, I didn’t write “Hey, I didn’t write that!” but I did write the first one.
Confused yet? Wait, it gets better.
See, this is exactly what I was talking about. If we don’t make a stand and agree not to do that then we can’t trust anything anymore. 🙁
I agree. Impersonation is silly and is a technique that will get you arrested if you use it to pick up young children.
(PS I wrote all three of the above bizarre comments, but you probably guessed that already)
But are you the real you? Or was it the fake you pretending to be the real you pretending to alternate between real and fake?
Am I the real me?
Actually, the answer to that last one is “yes”.
I am a genuine fake real me impersonator.
I choose to impersonate poorly. Everyone knows that the funniest impersonation is a bad one 🙂
You’re the real fake Bunny?
Yes.
I’m not confused, but then, I didn’t write this comment!
(I’m guessing, based on the time of posts, that all three are really you Shane (also because it seems like the kind of thing you’d do), as such, for maximum trollage in the future, I recommend giving it a minute or two between each post, because not everyone has the time to be constantly refreshing TAY)
I was making a point that Strange helpfully elucidated for me. Wasn’t trying to troll, was trying to show that impersonation is silly.
i stopped after i did it yesterday afternoon, wont be happening again by me 🙂
I’m aware, I just felt like being silly about it.
Thank you for saying this First Lady Strange. It was only a matter of time before things spiraled out of control.
I don’t know, while I agree that it’s a bit silly, and I’m cool with Strange expressing her opinion, I really don’t think that it would ever become problematic, not here at least. This is TAY, remember that. So far as I can imagine, about 2/3rds of the people here would never even bother attempting, or even think of attempting to impersonate someone else, out of those remaining, I can’t really see anyone genuinely abusing the system. I was curious as to what it felt like, the power of other people’s names in my hands, so I gave it a crack, making it very clear that I was not who appeared to be posting, the only reason I didn’t alter their names to something else is that then it would end up being moderated, and that kind of ruins the point.
What am I saying again? Oh yeah, I trust that the people here would not be dicks.
So I’m naive, better to live with faith in humanity, than to let the few dicks out there spoil your views on everyone.
But isn’t it best that we nip it in the bud now? I mean what if newbies turn up and see all this, assume its okay, and who know’s what will happen in the future?! ZOMG! /flails arms
I trust in the power of the oar. It’s like the sorting hat, only spikier, and less fatalistic.
Autobarn are riffing on Austin Powers for their new ad??
Really?
I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be THAT far behind the times. To be THAT out of touch.
A lot of marketing “geniuses” think its ok to be retro. What they don’t realize is at what times retro = lame.
There’s quite a difference between retro and being completely out of touch.
Mostly, it comes down to self-awareness.
The whole point of Austin Powers was that it was retro. Referencing it is not retro yet though and I assume that’s what you meant.
/pedant.
Are you sure you don’t mean “/pendant”?
I also meant that.
After all is said and done…
You’ve never walked, you’ve never run,
You’re a WINNER!
Harry Morgan has passed away, age 96.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/07/us-harrymorgan-idUSTRE7B61WI20111207
Come on, Steam. You know you want to download that Skyrim patch. Please? This 0 bytes per second download rate is depressing me.
So last night Mr. Strange had to go out to get milk and mentioned he’d probably pop into JB HiFi to check out the sale. I suggested he buy us a good anime series if there was any greatly reduced ones. He came back with “Tears to Tiara”. Anyone watched this?
This story did not contain nearly enough of Mr. Strange stabbing people who helped him.
What? The anime? No idea!
I hear it was one of dem naughty-naughty Japanese adult games before being adapted to anime.
Think “adolescent” and you probably know everything you need to know about him. 😛
It’s actually based on the non-hentai PS3 remake of the game if memory serves.
Rather than just take out the naughty bits for the console port as some companies do, Tears got a full make-over. Even had a new character designer.
Also there was a lady hanging around the Anime section (when I went last night) buying Studio Ghibli films. I wanted to high five her, but then didn’t. She picked out Howl’s Moving Castle, and I was all “I’M BATMAN” in my head.
Had you said worsest Miyazaki film, I’d have put that down to personal opinion and said nothing.
But, srsly? You think Howl was more boring than Only Yesterday?
WAT?
Oh but yeah I did mean Miyazaki. To be honest Ive barely seen anything that wasnt Miyazaki. Except Arietty, that was amazing.
But then again, Miyazaki wrote that didnt he? So, there you go…
People rave about Miyazaki/Ghibli but they’re kind of the Avatar of anime. Very pretty, and give you warm fuzzies, but there’s very little substance there. I loved Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke and My Neighbour Totoro were ok, but Laputa? Kiki’s Delivery Service? The Cat Returns? Blah, blah, and double blah. They’re slice of life in a bad way because they kind of drop you into this strange world you can’t really relate to and then something completely ordinary happens. It’s the kind of thing that you’d like, when you got home from work you’d discuss it with your wife in a “I saw this happen today”.
You wouldn’t write a book about it, you know?
I get a feeling that those ones are probably a bit better if you’re Japanese or have a much better grasp of Japanese culture than most of us have.
I think Miyazaki and John Lasseter are two of the best story-tellers in the film industry today. When they get things right, boy do they get things right and the level of mutual respect between them has to be indicative of something.
WHAAAAAT, how can you say that about Laputa!? Its one of the most touching, magical, moving, neautiful films I’ve ever seen.
neautiful? Ahhh man, whatev
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Yes.
Watch it in English!
Worst Scottish accents EVER!
Also, no naughty bits.
Basically it’s an alternate take on Arthurian Legend. Wasn’t bad.
But dem accents! Oh GOD!
I was actually disappointed when he brought that home. There’s a lot of series out there that we’ve spoken about wanting to see but waiting until we could get them cheaper. It cost $60 and I’m sure we could have got have got any number of the ones we’d been wanting for that price.
We watched the first episode last night and I fell asleep. I may go and rewatch the last bit in English now. 😛
It’s a shame you don’t live in Sydney! You could just pop round and borrow some stuff.
That would be epic! Especially if I *accidentally* dropped ’round just as you were making one of your famous curries….
Shotgun not playing if pyrean and freyr are on the same team. I think they enjoyed watching me die. I swear they were laughing at me. On another note I am playing corki more. Not because he is good or i am good with him. Because he is riding around on a duegong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bws_eVfFoU
Waiting for a suitable time to use that for AGES.
I see many opportunities for it, just last week I was discussing the state of mermaids with a sea-captain friend of mine, and how fortuitous it would have been had I access to that particular video. Alas I did not, and so our conversation was much worse off for it.
We spend our first 12 matches getting rolled, and get forced into ELO hell.
(Which wouldn’t actually happen, because ELO hell is only really prevalent in solo queue ranked, due to its nature, but still)
How does ELO work? Is it static based on the first few games or does it improve throughout the season if you consistently win more?
As far as I know, it constantly changes based on your performance, its main problem is that the matchmaking tries to give you both allies and opponents of the same level as you, and so if you perform badly initially, you end up with terrible allies, thus the “hell” thing, as it’s a lot harder to get out of the bad matches.
Ah fair enough. Still, with a full team it should not be an issue so you might as well give it a go. Make a couple of teams based on similar skill and stick to them for ranked.
I think you can have like 8 people in a ranked team or something, so that you don’t require 100% team attendance to do things, or something. Also, it will probably put teams against teams, so we are going to get so rolled initially. So rolled.
I don’t think you guys will do that poorly.
IMO just make sure Tech Knight, Steve-O and Bish are in and you’ll do okay.
Yeah pretty much this – have the best of us on a team and stick to that roster for ranked games. Normal games it doesn’t matter that much if there is a skill disparity but for ranked…
Just go Stevo, Pyrean, Techy, Bish, Blags, Freyr (once she hits 30), Crabjiffy when he comes back.
The rest of us can start another team, get rolled and never do it again.
Aww thanks Jo 😛
But yeah, I figure we can probably create multiple ranked teams, so we should just start one up and go from there…
Our main problem is team comp, we create teams that look good on paper, but when they come into play, they’ll often collapse. Particularly, we’ve had quite a few games recently where we’ve dominated the laning phase, but our opponents either a) outpush us, or b) roll us in team fights. It’s really disheartening to have your score go from 4/0/3 to 5/8/5 once the group fights start.
Yeah, maybe need to think about how champs can work with each other rather than “Hey we need some AP, this one will do.” Set team comps kinda thing and a plan for team fights.
Maybe have people who do certain roles with a few champs they can rotate in that role if one gets banned like the pro teams do.
And working on teamwork.
Get a CC/stun combo, I find they always win out. Add 1 heavy carry and 1 full support for wards and you’ll have the classic MOBA team lineup.
Aw 🙁
And by that I mean i’m sad that I’m not considered one of our good players.
I presumed your involvement since it was kind of a reply to your original post.
As in: F4ction, start a team and add these peeps.
I understand now, Jo-con (are you a convict?). I’m going to continue this on page 11!
Re: pesky Skyrim dragon discussion from page 9:
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Damn it, Blaghs. There’s something about not knowing that makes me want to know. And thus I get this. You got me good.
Well, it was being said that maybe you didn’t need to ROT13 some of what was written, so I decided to post something that definitely didn’t require coding.
I’m very sad. Tecmo Koei have acquired Gust. Most people won’t care about this, but it’s a huge shame. Gust were one of the few Japanese success stories this generation. They’re a very small independent developer (around 15 employees) who have been around since the PS1 days, developing fairly niche but enjoyable JRPGs for consoles. They transitioned to the PS3 really effectively, by using Sony’s Phyre engine as the basis for their tech. Every game they released improved upon the previous ones, both technically and critically, and it was really strongly reflected in sales. They were never amazing games, but they were fun and I liked them a lot.
And now Tecmo-Koei sweep in, buy them out with the stated desire to ‘exploit a strong IP’ in Gust’s Atelier series. And they’ve already announced the intend to begin this exploitation by doing a series of social games.
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
This makes me sad.
What’s that?
I think it’s the sound of the Atelier and Ar Tonelico games being flushed down the loo 🙁
Yeah, that’s what it sounds like to me too. Except that Ar Tonelico won’t be affected because:
– The best game in the series was the one that had the absolutely ruined English localisation
– It was actually a Gust / Banpresto dual-ownership thing, and Banpresto is now owned by Namco Bandai
– It was planned as a trilogy anyway, and is now ‘over’.
On the upside, Koei aren’t that bad. They actually run distribution for NIS America anyway, and most of the earlier Atelier and NIS games that got published in Europe were published via Koei directly, so they actually have some history with the brand. Additionally at least we should still get Atelier Meruru, since NISA already announced a release date and everything so that should be basically a done deal. My worry is more for the independent nature of the developer, that they might be closed down once Tecmo sucks up the IPs, and that they might prevent them from making new settings or exploring new games like they did with the Ar Tonelico series. Or that they might simply run the franchise into the ground. On the other hand, being part of a bigger developer might actually be an advantage. They were only fifteen full-time employees, most of their work was subcontracted out and they struggled to do big expansive games like Ar Tonelico without outside financial assistance as a result, because they simply couldn’t afford it (thus the Banpresto / Bandai connection).
At least they didn’t get bought out by Namco Bandai, I guess. Koei is much more likely to let their games still be released in English. Namco just sits on their Tales games despite them being vastly stronger and having much more sales potential, it’s quite maddening.
You make some good points. Koei Tecmo might be good for Gust, although who knows. It could bode well for more crossover games if NIS are so well connected and the Koei Tecmo/Bandai Gundam games show a willingness to work together there.
Don’t get me started on Bamco and the Tales Games.
And Tekken. When Namco Bandai came into fruition is around the time the Tekken games started getting really broken and stupid, so I like to blame it on them.
Have you picked up Tekken Hybrid yet?
I watched the movie then played Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue. You can pick from Alisa, Xiaoyu, Devil Jin and Devil Kazuya, then in arcade mode you fight the same four characters in different combinations over and over again 🙁
Hard to tell what they’ve changed from T6 just from that.
Haha yeah I have a review copy which is AWESOME!!!
I was more pumped about Tekken Tag HD then tag2 prologue (even though Xiao is my main) because Tag was like the more perfect tekken ever. Still gotta watch the movie though!!
The movie was pretty silly. And the English dub is beyond bad. Still, much better than the live action film and anime that came before it.
I haven’t played Tekken Tag HD yet. Still trying to decide who to main. Back in my old Tekken 3 days I played as Jin and Lei. Might try and resurrect that duo then turn it in to a Devil Jin/Lili team for TTT2.
Dammit. Is it a case of words that do not match the lip sync? I can’t stand that. Need original Jap with subs.
Yeah. It’s got a pretty good lip sync to the Japanese dialogue and the English just doesn’t work.
In saying all that, if you liked the OTT action of the Tekken 6 intro, you will love the fights. Also, the Devil/Devil Jin fight. I have been assured that this is the hawtness (assuming you like your guys all demony).
haha. I’m not really a fan of the OTT slow-mo fights that are all the rage in Japan nowadays. Bring back the old school stuff!! It’s all Final Fantasy’s fault.
I blame The Matrix 🙁
I blame society.
I blame the parents.
Then again, I suppose that song is pretty cheerful…
This http://youtu.be/1cNyg2BbTi4 is more apt.
BetaFreq Lan Comp Write-up
Howdy! So as some of you may know, last weekend I hauled my PC to participate in the BetaFreq LAN comp. My friends and I ended up entering for two main reasons:
1) It was local (10 minute drive)
2) It was FREE!
As is traditional with all comps we seem to turn up at (with the exception of this one magical time) we rocked up to the event late. Wasn’t as bad as SGL though. The first comp (counterstrike:source) was due to begin at 10am. Due to the nature of how these things run, comps like these always need to start early in the day. Which is why we always turn up late/sleepy/zombie-like. We setup our PC’s and loaded up on supplies and food. Tournament mode was a go.
The comps were all 3v3 and we had 3 players and 1 sub on the day. Our first comp, CS:S, went pretty well to say the least. We had all expected players of a high calibre but… well, our opponents left me wondering if they even played CS:S to be honest. We won our first match vs Clan SOS 16-3. This match was casted LIVE.
LINK HERE: http://www.gamestah.com/file/view/5355
^ I haven’t watched the cast yet but do let me know how it went if you do!!!!
So after essentially rolling the opposition in that match we had a rest period in which we all hung around, ate lots of junk food, played random LAN games and had a blast. It was then that I was told to my utter shock that we had made it to the final. LUL WUT? It turns out only 3 CS teams had entered, LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
And to make it even better, the team we would vs in the final would be the one we had just defeated. Oh, this was going to be good.
Before the CS:S final came the DOTA comp. This was also 3v3 and would be played on captain’s mode. Since only 1 other team had entered (I lul’d again) it would be played as best out of 3 games. We subbed in our best CS:S player for our DOTA player for this one.
For the DOTA players out there, this is the hero lineup we ended up rolling with.
Pollywog Priest (caster hero with lots of CC)
Spiritbreaker (tanky stun hero)
Fuzzy Wuzzy (AD-based carry) – me
The opposition rolled Sven (tanky hero with a stun), Chronos (carry, proc stun and a HUGE AOE ulti that freezes everybody caught in it) and I forgot the third.
I don’t remember much about this match except that we won. Still got the replay somewhere if somebody wants to watch/cast it though.
Next up was our CS:S FINAL! Very exciting. It was played on the same map and unfortunately the caster had to leave so the final was not casted, which is a shame because we all played very well. We won this, final score 16-4. Clan SOS were good sports.
Our second DOTA match was where things started to get more interesting. One of the guys had to go because he had some sort of RL thing going on which was okay. The plan was for him to leave his PC and have our fourth guy sub in. Except our sub randomly got a call and had to go attend some family matter quickly and then come back. Basically, we were down a player for the 3v3 DOTA game.
I stalled for as long as I could but they were pushing for us to play soon. I knew they wouldn’t let us play a 2v3 game so instead.. I pretended to be our third person. Yup, I ducked over to his PC and pretended to be him, starting up the game. Funnily enough our opposition was sitting right across from us so if they had looked up and over the tops of our PC’s they would have noticed there was nobody sitting there. I took as long as possible to choose our heroes, desperate to stall for more time.
Then the game started.
I’m not going to lie – those first 20 minutes we struggled. Maltesers (my teammate) and I not only had to play our own heroes, we had to juggle between dashing over to our teammate’s computer to pretend to be HIS hero and then make a mad dash back to our own. Because Maltesers was sitting in the middle, he did most of the leaning over and making-our-third-person-jungle. Then I would lean over to stop Malteser’s hero from running into the fray and dying, and micro my own hero. It went pretty well all things considered. Except in ganking moments, when we forgot about our third dude and accidently let him die to neutral creeps. Lol. We died a few times to the opposition, feeding their carry.
And then I realised we could share control units in WC3, (/facepalm) and things got MUCH easier, controlling our teammate’s hero from our own PC’s.
This time around our lineup was:
Lion (caster with lots of CC)
Venomancer (jungler)
Naga Siren (AD with disables) – me
They got Sven (tank, stun, potential huge damage output), Bloodseeker (AD Carry) and I forgot their third again, lol.
When it looked like we were going to lose, lo and behold our third teammate came back! From there on out we staged a pretty exhilarating comeback and ended up victorious. HUZZAH! We shook hands with them, they were really nice but it was obvious that the captain was absolutely gutted about losing. Hahahah. Poor guy.
With a long day of competitive gaming behind us, we were presented with our prizes on a small stage.
MC: And here we have DYRM, winners of the CS:S comp..
Maltesers and I: and DOTA.
MC: …and the DOTA comp. They cleaned us out!
HAhaha, overall a great time was had. Harli happy. Can’t wait for the next comp!
Peace.
“HUZZAH! We shook hands with them, they were really nice but it was obvious that the captain was absolutely gutted about losing. Hahahah. Poor guy. ”
lol
You forgot that you can share unit control in WC3… Geez Harli, I think you’ve been playing other MoBA’s too much, you clearly need more practice with the original(it’s not really the original, but we pretend it is anyway) and the best.
loool yeah I think it’s obvious my LoL’in had been dominant! I was like OMG A COURIER? and there was a time when I completely ignored denying one of our towers, despite it being on a tick of health.
/shakes fist
darn’d LoL
Yes yes yes.
But ponies are still imba.
Unicorn stampeeeeede.
Nice work Harli. We really need to hamachi a dota match between my old lan crew and your clan one of these days for shitz ‘n’ gigglez.
Also, Pollywog Priest? Is that a new hero? Or did you mean the shaman with the snakes?
Yeah we should! It was only after playing it I realised how much I miss DOTA and how much I prefer it all the other MOBA’s.
Hahah oops, I’m getting all my MOBA heroes mixed up. Yeah I meant the dude with the snake wards ulti and hex and net. His name is Pollywog Priest in HoN. Forgot what he is in DoTA. Shadow Shaman?
Shadow Shaman – That’s the one. I hate his combo – lightning, hex, traps you in snake wards, shackles then one more lightning to finish melting your face…
That’s the one. altogether his CC adds up to 7 seconds of being unable to do anything, plus the cyclone stick and sheep stick and you’ll have one deadly combo. No surprise he was the first ban of the second game.
it’s too bad you don’t have tourneys up in Nth Qld, I’d like to see how you’d do in tournament play. It’s a very different feel to pubs.
Nice work Miss Harli
The cast looks good, even if he does randomly jump between people a bit to much at times. It is funny listen to you guys piss yourself laughing in the background
Heya peoples again. SO i have been watching some tv shows lately. I am kind of scared at my taste in TV shows. I have been watching Pretty Little Liars. I think it is based on a book or something, but i am quite enjoying it. I don’t know wether it is a mix of drama and mystery or the fact that the girls on the show are quite attractive but i can’t seem to stop watching it. There really needs to be more tv mystery shows like veronica mars. That was a awesome show.
Veronica Mars was pretty awesome. Well, the first season was.
The second season was a complete mess, and I haven’t seen the third yet…
STOP RIGHT THERE!
If you thought Veronica Mars S2 was bad, spare yourself season 3. It’s (comparatively) horrible. I gritted my teeth through it because Kristen Bell is amazing, but it’s one of those series where you can pick the point where they were told it was going to be the last season, so they really just threw out all the dice.
In advice to Rocketman, Revenge (new series, so you might have to wait) is very good, along the same kind of vein as V.Mars, I also don’t mind Rizzoli & Isles, though it does get a little policey-crimey at times.
Yay it has finally stopped raining, it hadn’t stopped in the last 24 hours >=[
It better not be raining tomorrow or Saturday! I would like some bloody sun, so my friends from Melbourne get to experience the nice part of the Gold Coast!
Strange as it sounds, I’ll be spending the weekend on the Gold Coast as well.
My friend is having a birthday thing. Booked a hotel room or two so that we can all go down, get rather inebriated and then not have to worry about coming back to Brisbane until a later time.
Probably.
I don’t actually know what the plans are. Kind of hoping my housemate (who is also going) will fill me in on the details before we start driving down :p
Maybe it’s not a party for your friend, but a surprise party for you \o/ and this is just a convenient cover!
No, it’s definitely a part for a friend. I just haven’t bothered to see what all the details are because I can rely on my housemate to find out :p
I’m rather good at being lazy about this stuff. Years of practise.
Aww bugger!
When I grow up I want to be just as lazy as you \o/ haha
I’m proud of myself, I’ve already achieved this level of laziness, unfortunately, unlike Bun-Bun, I’m not employed.
Oh well, there’s always later…
Ah yes. Unemployment sucks, I know cause it’s where I am atm D:
Question Yo
are people from canberra/sydney doing anything special on the dates 28th-1st of this/next month? im going to be bored and not working apart from morning of the 31st and i want to party/play lots of games!
I am in a similar boat to Shane, although I’m getting back at some point around the 31st/1st ish. Probably. But that doesn’t help in the slightest.
Im going to a place without consoles or a PC for almost exactly those dates.. no help here sorry.
Finished my final presentation. Finally. So now I don’t have to worry about uni until next year. Gonna go home and play me some batmangs!
I actually remember putting that Wiki edit in about Virus like 2 years ago, good to see it actually stayed there.
so this is your true identity
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/VirusDBZ2009-C7.jpg
thats AWESOME!!!!
It all comes out, i’m a famous rockstar for an internationally famous band & I thought I had you all fooled I was a 20 year old gamer from the Gold Coast 😛
But Virus is a really cool dude, I met him 2 years back this month actually I also met the drummer of Dope too, he was an awesome bloke.
But honestly they’re fucking awesome guitars. I’d totally take up guitar again if I could afford one of their custom models.Like the one that’s my wallpaper. http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/9558/wallpapervd.png
\m/
I know someone who genuinely believe the lyric was “Dragon, Dragon, F**k the Dragon, Dragonball Z.”
I wish I wasn’t drinking water as I read that, bahahahha that is hilarious
You say that like it wasn’t?
Yesterday afternoon had to stay late at work due to an electrical storm and when i get home it lookes like my router and modem are dead any suggestions on what should i buy to replace them.
Blue! No, yellooooooww!
You know where there are some cool shirts?
Never fear, I will do it.
I’m thinking Mario needs to go Moose next time, with real big antlers.
Or maybe electric eel.
It was going to happen one day. But the point is that he’s still making games right? Which will always be a good thing.
I actually think this is awesome. I mean, he’s working on smaller more personal projects he says… how is that bad! That’s AMAZING!
I was in Coles the other day, and walked past the gift card section – they have MS Points and XBL Gold subscription prepaid cards in there now. Very weird.
This is the best Christmas album ever, it contains oneof Ronnie James Dio’s last studio recordings too outside of his solo band work & Heaven & Hell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Wish_You_a_Metal_Xmas_and_a_Headbanging_New_Year
Yep. I was just talking about this a couple of pages ago. I have no need of any other Christmas CD.
I appreciate sunshine for its role in creating an sustaining life on Earth, but man, I wish it would back the f*** off sometimes.
Like right now in Sydney. If this cool weather carries on through summer I will be rather chuffed.
Thanks for the new additions to my house in minecraft, whoever put them in. The new bed for Garrus was a nice touch.
In an interesting coincidence, whoever happened to steal my bed and screw over my spawn point can eat a creeper.
You have a Garrus?
I should try and log on tonight and see if anything weird happened to my house. I feel bad that I logged on, made a house, and haven’t been back.
Unfortunately no, but there’s a sign outside my house proclaiming that I do keep a “naked Garrus” inside my house.
I started a Bank. It’s full of materials and equipment that new people to the server can use 🙂
I also have a 0% interest rate!
And no repayments til 3011!
Also, it looks like Bowser’s Castle from SMB1
Thank you doctor.
I thought it was awesome! You guys have crazy creative stuff going on there. I’m going to have to get my wife to teach me how to do pistons and circuits effectively. Or convince her to sign on herself (she says she’d feel weird logging on with my account to play with strangers).
yeah someones been messing around with stuff, WHICH I DON’T APPRECIATE… honestly fine if you pull a prank, but make sure you know the person is okay with it, cause some of us has put a lot of time into our work
don’t get me wrong, some of the stuff is funny… but some of the stuff Rize showed me, and people messing with my constructions, is enough to warrant me not to bother going on that server anymore, which would suck cause it’s more fun having people to talk to…
it’s like the kid that ruins your sandcastle, unless your sandcastle was complete and you wanted it to happen IT FREAKING SUCKS….
That sucks 🙁
That’s the main reason we have a no griefing rule. You can do some mild funny trolling, but if you mess with peoples structures, you’re gone.
When people start doing that, the game stops being fun.
pretty much… oh well, i’ll just remove what i don’t like and i’m sure the person responsible will realise… if not my hints will become less and less subtle
A fair few things I found at ground level were obviously creeper explosions, which falls under the s*%t happens category. I have blocks missing, stuff has vanished from my chest…as an FYI, no monsters have ever been in my house.
Might just dump some lava on my tree and go make a small shack. Much more manageable 😛
Taking stuff from people’s stashes should also be a no-no.
Whoever has admin rights – I think FatShady made f4ction admin? – can check the log and see who has been online at what time and what they were doing. Whoever did all the damage can be accounted for.
Someone stole a stack of 64 gunpowder from my alchemy chest, so it’s quite possible that someone is being nasty with TNT. Also Harli, I didn’t do the signs (why do you have a chest of pornography starring me? :P) but I accidentally blew up your bridge – someone planted TNT under a pressure plate that I didn’t see.
I saw the pressure plate and knew to avoid it. Man, that’s really uncool. My bridge.
Okay this is now reaching the not-so-funny threshold.
I saw a pressure plate somewhere when I was checking out other people’s buildings last night…might have been at Harli’s, but there was also one at Gorzilla’s(?) place too, near the animals. Didn’t touch it because I’m paranoid by nature 😛
I think whoever did this stuff is best off owning up now, so this doesn’t get any worse…
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock. I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second you’d be back to bother me
well now go,
walk out the door
just turn around
now, you’re not welcome anymore
Weren’t you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye?
You think I’d crumble?
You think I’d lay down and die?
Oh no.
Not I.
i will survive
yeah
as long as i know how to love,
i know i’ll be alive
i’ve got all my life to live
i’ve got all my love to give
i will survive,
i will survive
yeah, yeah
It took all the strength I had not to fall apart.
Hept trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart.
And I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry, now I hold my head up high.
and you see me
somebody new
I’m not that chained up little person
still in love with you
and so you felt like dropping in
and just expect me to be free
now I’m saving all my loving
for someone who’s loving me
*DIES*
I am extremely proud for starting this.
I promised (some time ago) Dan and Strange I’d let em know when my video game music band had our next gig. 17th of December at the Beetle Bar in Brisbane. Also, we have a youtube channel now:
Some fond, messy memories of the Beetle Bar – Stroking the furry wall. It’s a smaller venue, but should make the gig more fun given the proximity to the crowd. If only I was in Brisbane – Hope your gig goes off!
That’s OK, we are only playing for 30mins anyway. We were tossing up the idea of hiring the old museum and putting on a gig there at some point early next year. I’ll be sure to post here if we end up doing it.
Anyway, thanks for the nice comments!
Oh, and more videos soon! I’ll try and get Tom to edit together Pokemon Gym Leader Battle or Sonic Lvl 1.
I’m starting to think that I would get more done if I had less free time. The more free time I have, the easier it is to procrastinate until I can trick myself into thinking there’s not enough time left.
If I were busier, I could instead be telling myself “sweet! Now I have two hours to play some Dark Souls!” as opposed to “dang, only two hours to play Dark Souls. That’s nowhere near enough time.”
This may have been a train of thought that initially left the station back during Shameless Gaming. Evidently there have been some delays.
My housemate has just completed Skyward Sword. This means that I can now play it.
Huzzah!
@LoL talk page 10
So who’s on level 30 now anyway? And of those people on 30 (or very near it) what champions do you prefer?
Re: last post page 10
Funnily enough convict was a nickname of mine a few years ago but Jocon was just made up in a hurry and stuck.
And I am only level 24 and won’t be able to tackle ranked without a lot of improvement.
I am nearly 26 but i was hopping to get to level 30 by january if i play over the holidays. I really only want to do it because it has taken so long and it is kinda a achievment. I need tonnes more practice at any other champion than malphite to be competitive in ranked!
f4ctions, I’m sorry if I offended!! I haven’t seen you play enough to be honest. I shall analyse your technique more in the next KvK.
Oh man, I don’t remember the last time I won in a KvK. I have bought far too many champions for this whole ‘random’ thing to be effective.
Well I’m sitting around 23 at the moment I think. Can’t see myself playing enough to get to level 30 anytime soon.
I think you can be on multiple teams so if there is possibility of a “feeder team” then I might consider joining that
I’m level 30 and prefer AD carry types or AP mages. I can also play support with Karma. I need to practice tanking with Alistair, but my skill with him is no-where near playing ranked. I can semi-tank with Garren with an Atmas/Warmogs build.
Champions I’m confident with are Tristana, Gangplank, Garren, Twitch, Tryndemere, Veigar or Karma.
You and I have exactly the same preference.
For me it’s Trynd, Pantheon, Irelia, Malzahar, Karthus. Trynd easily my top preference, though.
level 16, wants to play ranked but way off target.
might start playing every night, if i can find the time.
prefernces are lame but at the moment they are all i have:
Veigar and that is all.
seriously though practicing until i am good with him then probly going to jump around and work on Jax, Brand, Xerath, olaf and twisted fate. random huh 🙂
I LIKE PLAYING VOLIBEAR BECAUSE HE IS A BEAR
Oh, I’m not any good at him in PvP (although the level 30 Ezrael we were laning against with his built-in flash might have had something to do with that), but it doesn’t matter because IMMA BEAR
I totally want to play once I finally reach 30…
And you already know my preferences. Planning to spend the rest of my time until 30 attempting to learn some other roles 😉
Hey Virus__, remember how I offered to sell you that xbox once I fixed it? Well, I fixed it last weekend, and I’m just wondering if you’re still interested.
I am interested, how much do you want? Might be able to convince mum & dad to buy it for Christmas for me 😀
I was thinking $120, it’d come with the console, the power cord, the AV cord, a 20gb hard drive, but no controller though. You can get them off Ebay for $30 though. I’ve done that before and the controller was legit.
This is where I got mine from http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wireless-Black-Controller-Microsoft-Xbox-360-games-/220863626225?pt=AU_Video_Game_Accessories&hash=item336c7f7bf1#ht_4207wt_905
Also, I can put the latest dashboard update on it too.
Ah cool! I’ll have a word the folks & let you know. Can’t make any promises though, so sorry in advance if I can’t.
Re: Minecraft griefing from page 10.
I have admin rights and I can clearly see the logs of who is on when, if you know the approximate time and day I can track who was online.
Hopefully the conversation from page 10 was enough to make people realise that they may offend people.
When this server was initially started up we had a core group of 10 people who were playing. Since then, we have kindly opened it up so that our whitelist has over 20 people on it. You are all trusted TAYbies, unless you prove otherwise.
I would like to think that this was not intentional and that it will stop. If now, im more than happy to dish out some FatShady punishment.
In the spirit of cool DRM solutions to get rid or piracy.. I will make an equally cool punishment if anyone is caught griefing.
I will create an obsidian prison and remove your ability to tp. I will leave it up to the rest of the guys to determine how long you have to stay in there…
sound fair?
this i can respect, i’ll be happy to keep an eye out for unsavoury stuff…. it’s just a shame that it has to come to this
I think some of the trolling may have accidently been me.
I hadn’t been able to find any sheep for wool so I could make myself a bed to act as a spawn point. Because my default spawn point was in the middle of no where and I didn’t want to end up there everytime I died I decided to use one of your beds as my spawn point until I could make my own. The closest to the tower I was building was Rizes. Last night I accidently despawned the bed (or whatever to term is when you turn something back into its block form) and then was killed by a monster before I could put it back. I ended up respawning at the default location that was ages away and so by the time I got back the bed had disappeared. I thought it would be ok for whoevers house it was (I didn’t realise it was Rize’s house until I read the comment on the other page) because there was still a bed there. In retrospect maybe I should have left an I owe you note.
I’m really sorry I screwed up your spawn Rize and I can replace the bed if you want (since I finally found enough sheep to get the wool to make my own bed).
As for the TNT stuff I have no idea. I don’t even know how to make TNT. I did take some stone and dirt from those chests outside that giant hole since I figured no one would miss them but if you want them replaced as well I’d be happy to do that. I probably should have asked before taking but I didn’t know who it belonged to and I was sort of at my lengths end after being killed for the millionth time by a monster and I didn’t want to have to mine out all the mats I’d need again to build a few pickaxes and dirt to help me get around the world. It’s still no excuse and I am sorry if I upset anyone doing that.
while we’re at it, i don’t mind your monster tower, but can i please take the roof down 2 blocks? 😛
each time i go to the top of my tower i invariably get attacked by skellies because they can see me and they stand on top of your tower 😛
Go for it. When I started on the tower it was my goal to make it at least as high as the building you’d made but if it’s causing you monster problem you’re welcome to try and fix it. I also joined our buildings together with a walkway at two points. I’m not sure if the monsters from my tower can cross them and go into your home but if they do you can destroy the walkways if you want.
lol righto i will assess the situation and change… i like the idea of the tower cause it’s easy XP 😛
The monsters were actually unintentional. As I mentioned to Blaghs last night though I’m just going to pretend it was what I was planning all along.
bahaha it’s our very own oldschool RPG dungeon… Diablo style… 14 levels hack’n slash 😛
i decided to read that as winger… and as it is minecraft, i’ve tried this many times and i still haven’t found a way to succesfully fly in survival mode 😛
Thanks. I’m still relatively new to the game and I’m unsure on all the etiquette of playing with other people. I’ll try not to annoy you guys but if you see me doing something you don’t like, such as building too close to your house or sleeping in your bed, just let me know so I know to stop and not do it in the future.
If you’re not sure of anything, just ask. We’re all happy to help.
Except Halri. What a troll, AMIRITE?
*hides from oar-related injury*
who’s Halri? haven’t met this person yet, but sounds nice
or a potential terrorist… THAT EXPLAINS THE TNT
I’m going to smack you with a giant tree.
are you saying you’re going to slap me with your wood? and which case…
no thanks, i’m good
Hey Dire Wolf you’re welcome to any of the beds in my house or to even stay there if you’re being attacked. Plenty of beds to spare.
inb4 jokes about Harli lending her bed out to everyone in MC
*Glares at Rize*
*ahems*
also just re-read my post and in case I come off as acting pompous.. I’m not trying to be. Just a given that anybody is welcome to use my house for shelter but wanted to reiterate it for the newbies to the server 😉
I can’t read “ahem” without thinking of the Seamstress’s guild. Talking about having beds available doesn’t help matters.
lol that is very nice Harli, TAY spirit right there, i was just being my usual jerkiness and trying to poke fun at Rize
I found a new t-shirt for you pixel
http://www.redbubble.com/people/bakedbunny/works/5965321-old-school-goth?p=t-shirt
bahahahah…
…
HEEEY 😛
Is the spawn point for the server still in the swamp? Or did it change? I might make a welcome hut with minecarts so people can check out the skyrail/everyone’s houses before they decide where to begin.
it’s changed to about half way across the world i think… i had no idea where i was last time i spawned there, i was running around for 30 minutes and didn’t see anything familiar
Next time there are people online if someone dies and removes their bed (spawning at the new point) I will TP to them with lots of wood and a compass. Then I can start making a sky-rail back to my spawn point to join up with everyone else.
Joy. Dodgy email purporting to be a facebook message from my Dad last night. Email him, tell him the usual.
Email from my Mum just now. Same thing. She doesn’t have a facebook account but she blindly clicked a link saying it was a message on her facebook account.
ಠ_ಠ
God knows what she’s done, but I’m at work and I’m sure as hell not clicking that link to find out until I can get into a VM. Guess I know what my evening is going to involve.
aahh the joy of ICT Support… support family members outside of work… stoopid ID 10 T errors
It’s worse than that for me, I actually work on security software so I can’t pretend I don’t know.
question related to minecrafty stuff.
If i log on to an account and save the server details on my computer are those same server details saved to the account so that everytime you log in on what ever computer you log in to you can access said saved server?
oh good i thought there might be a possibility of the trolling coming from my account as it is my friends as well but the details are only on my computer so it cant be me i havent been on in a week. my solution if it was from my account would be to buy a new account.
Keep it away from our houses 😛
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/mythbusters-cannonball/
I’m still alive
everone get warmogs
Gangplank is Tankplank
new jungling is new
everyone can jungle
This is all!
A friend bought it for me, but I only played it once because I couldn’t remember how to make any tools =/
Yeah i always think, I should really get around to playing it again, it seems to be the kind of game I would enjoy…And then I go back to playing Aquaria or Muramasa (So close to 100% completion!)
Hmmm, you seem to be implying that flu already knows your account name and password. This requires further investigation! Come Dr. Bishso-oh wait, you’re of the suspects…
Don’t worry, you should get it either tonight or tomorrow. \o/
I hope so. I’m terrible with heat.
Aha! Undeniable proof that Australia has, in fact, not been magically transported to the Northern Hemisphere, as some have suggested!
Astute observation, Holmes! How on earth do you do it?
*genuinely not trying to sound snarky or sarcastic with that
Years of studying the art of deduction, and plenty of experience. It’s not something you can learn overnight. Also, video games may have helped…
Gasp. I play video games too! When I grow up, do you think I could be a brilliant detective like you?
Follow your dreams, never listen to people who say you can’t do it!
…
…
Of course, the odds of you becoming as brilliant as me are practically nil.
…oh.
Well…maybe I’ll grow up to be an evil villain or something. And I’ll unfairly blame my evil ways on you for something arbitrary and nonsensical.
I dress up and pretend to be a productive and enthusiastic member of my workplace, does that count?
Also, pics?
Not exactly cosplay, but I have once made a transforming Transformers costume, and a Mandalorian costume too, both made out of cardboard.
They both sorta fell to pieces though…the sticky tape didn’t stick with the transformers costume, and the little sticky velcro things I used to stick the mandalorian armour to my clothes didn’t really stick either.
My Mandalorian helmet is still in one piece though.
Hot glue gun I’d say =D
Jo, it counts because you have a job =D
I will upload pictures if you really want to see them o_o
I made a suit of Samurai armor out of bubble wrap once and held it together with liquid nails. The cop that pulled us over on the way to the party was most confused.
If you want, would be cool to see your mad cosplay skillz.
Oh yes. Cops and cosplay are quite fun, except when it come sto gun props. Victoria police have a shoot first ask questions later if your prop doesn’t have a little bit of coloured tape around the nozzle of the gun to prove it’s not real.
Me as Madoka from Puella magi (or Mahou shoujo) madoka magica.
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4818/p8270052.jpg
Me as Taokaka
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3293/taostanding.jpg
Sorry I disappeared, ninja dog
That’s pretty cool!
Bubble wrap Samurai!?
This I have to see.
My friend asked me to make her a cape. I had to refuse as I cannot make capes yet. Well at least I wouldn’t be able to make a very good one =(
You and Strange could join forces to create the ultimate wearable something-or-other. She has mad sewing skills.
Also, cape making pro tip:
Get a tea towel and tuck one end down the back of your shirt.
*WHOOOOSSH!*
That’s what I use when my good one is in the wash!
Super Nerd! AWAAAAAAAY!!! ~o=
*WHOOOOSSH!*
I’m not that good yet as I’m learning with each cosplay. You can see the outfits once the comment is approved
I’ve dressed up as Vash The Stampede before. Strange can attest to it, she’s seen it. There’s a photo, hold on…
*digs*
*rummages*
here: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a63/canberra_boy/IMG_3452.jpg
That’s a fairly decent cosplay, But did you make the cosplay? If so 10/10 =D (if there was props and wigs, 11/10)
Er no, the jacket’s the only impressive bit and I bought that off eBay. I cut up a metal pipe to get rings onto the leather gloves, but beyond that, I did nothing.
I think cosplay is an amazing art to look at and admire. That being said, I have often said to my friends I will never be caught dead in cosplay and still stand by that.
Man, I have missed so much in the last few days. I keep meaning to come here and leave a few comments, but I’m always getting distracted, because you know – SKYRIM. Seriously, I have put a bunch of hours into it the last few nights. Working through a lot of the faction quest lines now. Thieves, Mages and the Dark Brotherhood are all getting a workout.
In other news, I finally managed to get out of working next Saturday so I will be at my first Kotaku Meat. Cannot wait for it.
Pfft, Jellicent. Carracosta all the way Bish. Or even Eviolite Tirtouga. Things a tank (as long as you keep it away from special based grass attacks)
Nah, Best pokemon is Bisharp. He’s made of blades, arms, chest, forehead, all blades. He’s like Adam Jensen, but better
Wait, when Bish evolves… Will he become Bisharp?
Haha, totally missed the connection there. But yes, most definitely. Bish evolves into Bisharp. At level 52 if I remember right. Although I would prefer my Bish to stay as he is. If he evolves, there’s no telling what madness might be unleashed.
Should name all your Pokemons after TAYbies.
Last year I bought a limited edition annual bear from Harrods for my friend’s son when he was born. It was early in the year, so it was easily available, and my friend was living in London at the time, so postage was no problem.
Now he’s had another son…
It’s the end of the year, so the 2011 bear is no longer available from the store, just the 2011 Christmas bear (not really interested in that one). Also my friend has moved back to Sydney, so postage is more expensive.
I felt compelled to get this freakin’ bear so I’ve been hunting around the web looking for collectors/dealers. I found someone on eBay who was selling them (for a high, yet reasonable, price. They’d sold out.
So I emailed the person and politely asked for some advice on where I might find one. I explained my situation (rookie error, I should have been on my guard) and acknowledged that I knew I wasn’t bringing her any sales but would really appreciate the help.
She replied that she had some in stock, available in her eBay store.
I went back and found the bear. In stock. For a “Buy it now” price (the only option) marked up almost 250%!
He’s a good friend. So I bought the damn bear -_-
But not before I emailed the lady back:
Hi Rita,
I see you’ve boosted the price by over 235% just for me. That’s awfully sweet of you.
You’re clearly a cunning businessperson, taking advantage of such a situation.
However, I understand the laws of supply and demand, and, as you’ve obviously noticed, I am quite keen to acquire this bear, so I surrender.
It’s a good thing the AUD is stronger than it used to be.
Thank you for your help. I truly do appreciate it. I was worried I might have to settle for the (far less dapper) Christmas bear.
Let’s just hope my friend doesn’t have any more kids! Haha.
Kind regards,
Effluvium Boy (Didn’t really sign of as Flu)
This kid had better appreciate the effort I went to, to get this curse-d caniform! (Almost $200 all up)
Nice guys finish last…
As man that’s crap. Put her rating down on Ebay and explain why to all the costumers that may possibly want to buy from her in the future. It’s not savvy business, it’s just greed.
My first draft was a lot more snarky, but I didn’t see the point.
Would rather make her feel guilty by being nice, than make her feel cocky by being antagonistic.
I didn’t mean speak to her, but leave a review explaining what happened and warning others not to bother being honest about it.
She should feel guilty. Greed is bad. =(
Not a bad idea.
She’s got pretty solid reviews, 4.5-5 stars accross the board, so I imagine she’s not completely evil.
I sort of respect her for being sly.
Respect her in a hateful kind of way.
…
You want me to sort her out?
I’ve got you on speed dial if it comes to that.
Even so no situation excuses putting it up 200% especially when you know the person really wants it. Just warn others not to do the same thing you did but then point out the good points.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just a bleeding heart.
Oh crap you reminded me, I need to rate the person who sent my Ukulele!
I’ll sleep on it. I might be angrier in the morning.
Ukulele? Groovy. I know it’s not a banjo, but you gotta bust out some Rainbow Connection.
It’s not about being angry it’s about preventing others from falling into the same trap. Perhaps she’ll realise that she did the wrong thing and that she’ll never ever get away with it again. Do the review as normal, but also add the warning and actually write WARNING so it grabs peoples attention.
Sometimes these things are even more powerful then money
Good point.
I hope I have helped in some way =D
btw Ukulele is a Christmas present and I don’t know how to play yet. I also get my OOT replica! I picked up how to play my plastic ocarina pretty quickly though.
I appreciate your counsel. Thanks.
Pretty sure you just wave your hand in front of it and it outputs chilled melodies…
Also, you might want to get that heart problem checked out. doesn’t sound healthy.
I have to reply to this because TAY won’t let me reply to the other one.
Um, What heart problem? OOT= Replica Ocarina of Time. I have two, one is plastic and the other one is ceramic. It’s a bit of a musical Christmas for me.
I always think “what if this happened to someone else” that’s where my advice came from XD
“Bleeding heart”
Could be a ventricular septal defect.
(It was a joke)
I get you now XD
I can be so dense sometimes
Not to put too fine a point on it Flu, but the kid is less than one – I’m not sure he’s even aware what effort is 🙂
But I’m sure your friend will definitely appreciate it. And its a story to tell when your old and grey, talking about the good old days when there was such a thing as “the internet” and “computers”
He just squeezed his way out of his mother’s uterus and took his first breath.
He knows what effort is.
Dear G-unit,
Bears can get THAT expensive?! zomg. You’re amazing.
Regards,
Harlitron 5000
Hells yeah… Although that one would usually cost ~$60
Bear collectors/enthusiasts are some of the craziest people around.
When I worked at Harrods there was one lady who, whenever she visited the store, would bring along one of her many teddybears so that they could see where they came from (even though they weren’t manufactured in store…). She alternated which one she’d bring, so they all got a chance to visit.
The member of the toy department who managed bears (Lot’s of events – Teddy Bear’s Picnic – and new releases) was always expected to be the most suicidal.
When my son was born a friend of ours sent us this awesome teddy bear with a customised jumper on that had his name and date of birth. Not sure where they got ours from but this place seems likely: https://www.myteddy.com.au/Occasions/birth
If your friend has another kid, you can maybe get one of those instead.
I’m sure your friend wouldn’t have expected another Harrods annual bear from you, but I’m also sure that the kid will grow up treasuring that bear.
Yeah, some stores have Teddy Bear Factories (Like Hamleys) where you can make your own bear.
You can even put a “voice box” in it with your own recorded messages (which can lead to much hilarity).
My daughter’s been asking me to let her make one of those bears for years. She’s now getting a voucher for her birthday from my mum.
Something tells me she’ll probably make one of those dragon or dinosaur ones and put a “roar” voice box in it.
Dear Bish,
I’m sorry for my insensitive comments on TS.
You didn’t have to leave. We could have talked about it. Got some resolution.
Or I could have left, since I was the guilty party.
Remember, we said we wouldn’t go to bed angry.
Love,
– Effluvium Boy
PS – We’re out of milk.
I actually went to go switch computers but then I got distracted by being hungry so now I’ve eaten a whole box of Shapes and had a cup of tea and now I’m sleepy and too lazy to TS.
I shall be sleeping very content tonight.
Farewell for now, TAY! It’s been a good run, but I’m going to a magical land with no internet for 6 weeks. See you when I get back!
So, massive Skyrim CE, huh? And only $115, huh?
http://www.game.co.uk/en/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-collectors-edition-146557
I’m too poor, but someone might benefit (haven’t confirmed they will post to Aus, so buyer beware)
That art book looks like quality. I don’t think I’ve seen Bethesda concept art before. (Except for the Fallout 3 concept art the news networks insisted was a terrorist plot… :S)
Why does work have to be so busy this time of year?!?!
i have no idea what’s going on! lol
Oh well – Guys – this is another reminder – tomorrow is the last day to get your KKP Phase 3 stuff submitted!!!
Please make sure you do so asap.
Thanks guys
I’m buying Arkham City on the 360 today. I have mixed feelings about acquiring the game for a second time, but it’ll be nice to sit on the couch and explore on a HDTV. (Scratch that, it’ll be nice to actually PLAY the game. Full stop.) Some folks argue I’d be rewarding WB Games for releasing a bad PC version if I bought it again, but I prefer to think that I’m rewarding Rocksteady for creating a brilliant game I genuinely want to play. That’s how I justify it to myself any way… 😉 The conspiracy theorist in me ponders whether this is what they want in the first place. Abandon the PC for consoles. :S
Any one get the new Xbox 360 app for iOS, I think it actually controls a little better than the new dashboard update. That’s probably due to the touch controls, I wonder if the dash would be more intuitive using Kinect.
I did that with New Vegas. Got it on PC but it was so terrible and buggy that I then went and bought a 360 copy so I could play it for longer than 10 mins without it crashing.
Of course I then got bored after a couple of hours and never touched it again :/
What’s wrong with the PC version? Is it GFWL being terrible, or is it the game itself runs like crap on a PC? Aren’t there cracks and stuff out there to bypass the GFWL stuff?
Also, installed the dashboard update. Mad me rage. Took me 15 minutes to figure out how to change the bloody theme. Not to mention the fact there’s giant ads that are bigger than the play game button/square. This is why I like the PS3 XMB design. It certainly has room for improvement, but it’s very simple, efficient and easy to use and as a result, they’ve left it at something that works. While I commend Microsoft for trying new stuff to refine it, it’s just really annoying to have to sift through crap to play videos and to connect to windows media center.
Venture into the tech support forums to be schooled on how people go bad when they things they want don’t work. 😀 Some folks can run it fine, but no matter what I do with it there’s trouble. No lip sync, people’s lips will animate for up to ten seconds after the dialogue finishes. Stuttering and general lag. Don’t get me started on DX11 either, even after the patch that barely fixed a thing. :S Same computer I’m running Skyrim on Ultra. 😀
On the Xbox front I don’t get why they show ads AND have a premium Gold fee. Shouldn’t one off-set the other?
Yeah man, i just want to play games so 90% of the dash is annoying BS to me.
DC: I agree, Gold subscribers should not have to deal with ads. Classic M$ assholery.
That’s what annoys me the most. PSN doesn’t even have that many freaking ads, and you can play for free. I pay for gold and I have to deal with remembering how terrible the green lantern movie was. Gorram it.
Shane, it’s got to be said — you’re awesome AND generous. 😀 Class act all round. haha. Thanks for the offer, but I’ve found it for a cheap enough price nearby (plus I gots me a gift certificate to off-set the cost a little.), so might just bite the bullet. One of my quirks is buying the same games on different platforms. Got two identical Mass Effect play throughs on the PC and 360. Even got the original Arkham for a second time on the 360. I probably would’ve gotten this one again eventually too, so I don’t feel TOO bad about getting it again.
Jo: I loved Fallout: New Vegas, some how my PC version encountered almost no troubles — every PC gamer has their burdens though. 😀 (My sister had plenty of PC related horror stories for New Vegas too. People shooting before offering quests. Constant crashing. Not good.)
Pshaw, I’m just angling for Kudos noms (it is Friday after all)
And with that, I shall share some good news! Yesterday I was informed I have been granted a permanent position at the school I’ve been working at! Or as permanent as it will get anyway. 12 month contract extension which will renew every year! w00t! Pay will also go up every 12 months! yippee!!! Even though I do love this job, TGIF!! Sachiko comes back from Tasmania tonight!!!
Congratulations welbot!! that is fantastic news 🙂 I’m glad things are going well for you.
So, I have a spare copy of Bastion and (I think?) Metro 2033 on Steam.
Whoever entertains me most can have them.
*makes midgets joust at wedding reception*
No wait, that wasn’t me.
Never mind.
PS: I don’t have Steam.
I’LL ENTERTAIN YOU WITH:
*Drum roll*
\o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\
THE STEVE HOLT! CARTWHEEL
How ’bout some authentic pirate ditties…
“Once my old man spoke to good king Triton,
And asked why all this senseless fightin’,
Why can’t we men express emotion,
Now I’ve got a friend in the ocean.”
“I’m hooked on you baby,
But the seas keep us apart,
And there ain’t no eye patch big enough,
To cover up my broken heart.”
“Oh there’s a monkey in my pocket,
And he’s stealing all my change,
His stare is blank and glassy,
I suspect that he’s deranged.”
Actually I already got Bastion. Just had to get that out of my system. :p
I wouldn’t say “super scary”, but it is rather appropriately atmospheric.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so terrified at the prospect of venturing out into daylight after lord knows how long of those claustrophobic tunnels.
Great game, if you don’t have it it is well worth the time to entertain somebody
I’ll just repost my comment from all the way back on page 7
I woman walks in to the bar
She asks the barman for a double entendre
So he gave her one
oh and I already have both of those 🙂
I just bought Bastion with my last $5 yesterday!
I’m looking forward to all the entertaining responses you get though.
…So a guy walks into a bar… Ok i got nothing…
Though I spent a good 5 mins laughing at this T-Shirt…
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/158/wordsofwisdomym7.jpg/sr=1
Yeah I’m tired…
i’ll finish those for you:
2 guys walked into a bar….. IT HURT!
2 baby seals walked into a club….
….
….
HAI… yep love em, moving through Silent Hill Homecoming atm (THANKS HUGO!) and are seeking other successfull and creepy game out there…
amnesia the dark descent still has me by the gibbly bits because it scares the crap out of me for pure ambiance… okay i like horror games but i’m not very hardcore, i’m easily scared 😛
I love a good scary game, the kind you want to turn off because you’re so unnerved. (But secretly loving the whole damn thing.) I prefer awesome atmosphere kind of scary over the ‘jump out in front and scream at me’ scary, though. I’ve been meaning to play Amnesia.
bahaha as stated above, i’m moving myself through it slowly, keeps leaving it every 20 minutes in a sulking heap going “WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF” and then play it again 10 minutes later 😛
as i said, i am probably just really weak minded, but there’s something about walking around an old castle, in the dark, with the wind howling down the corridors and creaky floorboards/doors that gets under my skin 😛
same reason why the Orphanage level in Thief III scared me to bits
If you like that kind of scary I highly recommend Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It’s really, really good. Like Pixel, I need to take breaks every 20 minutes I play. It’s pretty damn intense.
No shame in that, when I played System Shock 2 I hid in the morgue for five minutes when I heard approaching shuffling. Turned off the game and didn’t play again for two weeks. 😉 Up there with some of my favourite gaming moments of all time, even though it was just a random encounter. Not really that scary, but the atmosphere in Condemned: Criminal Origins was pretty amazing too.
bahaha i LOVED that game… most memorable moment is when i grabbed my first locker door in the school and knocked someones teeth out… looked amazing and i laughed… hard… but man that game was insane… never played condemned 2 though… anyone know if it’s worth it?
The school was pretty intense, burnt out library too. Didn’t get the second game, mainly because I thought the first jumped the shark at the end. :S Reminded me a bit of Silent Hill: Shattered Memory on the Wii.
pretty fair assessment, yeah the ending was a let down…
i’ll just spoiler proof this just in case, but i don’t think it’s too spoilorific
v jnf trggvat n srryvat nobhg unys-jnl guebhtu gur tnzr naq v gubhtug gung jbhyq unir orra gur orfg gjvfg rire. v pna’g ernyyl erzrzore jung jnf npghnyyl tbvat ba, ohg v erzrzore guvaxvat “bu… jryy bxnl gura”
v guvax vs gurl unq tbar naq gnxra vg fb gur cebgntbavfg jnf npghnyyl ybfvat uvf zvaq naq unq orng hc n ohapu bs vaabprag crbcyr naq ohzf jbhyq unir orra na rcvp gjvfg, gb ernyvfr lbh jrer onggyvat lbhe bja zvaq…
bu jryy…
still a excellent game despite of that
I forgot what system you TAY guys use to hide spoilers, just went on a twenty minute hunt. 😀 It kind of reminded me of Fahrenheit where the game is presented one way and then suddenly out of no where… ‘plobetf bhg gb qrfgebl gur jbeyq’
yeah Fahrenheit had some proper W….T…..F moments… such as:
nsgre gur plobet ehva gur jbeyq naq vs lbh cynl lbhe pneqf evtug, gur puvpxl (v sbetrg ure anzr) qrpvqrf gung fur yvxrf lbh fb zhpu lbh arrq gb unir pbvghf jvgu lbh…. qrfcvgr lbh orvat grpuavpnyyl qrnq… svefg tnzr v’ir rkcrevraprq jvgu arpebcuvyvn va vg
Yet, still a great game. Heavy Rain had less of those WTF moments. Quantic Dream are learning. 😀
Reporting for scary/horror game duty!
*salutes with Clubby and gets knocked unconscious*
Dead Space scared the crap out of me, and I only got about 15% through it. It may not be my best genre 🙂
Dead space i enjoyed for the “OMG WHAT ARE THESE THINGS” moments…
Dead space 2 was… okay… but missed the whole horror flair because you knew exactly what was going on most the time…
i’ve ALWAYS pushed myself through the horror games, even to the level of “okay, keep moving forward but look away from the screen till something happens” moments, just to get over a particularly scary part 😛
That had some amazing atmosphere, piecing together what went down through audio logs and etc — it would always unnerve me when I had to look at the map, but the game didn’t pause. Exposed. Vulnerable.
Dear Harli
I love Horror. And games. And when those powers combine, I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!
Also
I”M POSTING FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!
Kind regards,
Dr What?
I remember when we were talking about Silent Hill 4: The Room. Oh god it sounded awesome.
regarding my house: O_O
Also What? whilst you’re there can you please take out the trash I didn’t have time to do it last night thx!!
Doctor Wha-at!
He’s our he-ro!
Gonna take your fever down to ze-ro!
…
That’s a bad thing…
Now you’re dead,
And the coroner’s gonna have his head.
Yeah me! Been meaning to start the Res Evil series from the beginning again, starting with the gamecube remake. Bought RE2 and 3 and the psx recently so now I have no excuses.
Probably doesn’t count as horror but my scariest game moment was in Might and Magic, dark messiah. The section when you need to go through the spider caves.
Too many cobwebs and very realistic looking spiders, creeping and crawling in their wiggly wonky gait, seeking to feast on my flesh. I couldn’t get through it
Fire alarm going on right now. Everybody in my new office ignores it and just keeps working through. We’re such rebels.
If I burn to death and you never hear from me again, Serrels can distribute my gaming collection to the community…
I bags the burned, crispy carcass of Batguy… purely for co-op purposes I swear.
*slowly backs out of room*
Sorry, the rebels won out. They stopped the fire alarm after a couple of minutes and we were never consumed by flames. Gonna have to wait till the next time Hugo.
i se your 3 coffees and raise you 2 v’s and 2 cokes. bout to have another v, and a no doz.
*pours coffee grains into mouth and start chewing*
IMMA RACE YOU
*munch munch munch*
its friday, i has migraine, ima blast through this day using the power of caffeine! CALL ME CAFFEINE MAN! RAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHGGGHHHAAAHHHAHAHA.
DAMN YOU AND YOUR HUMOROUS YOUTUBE CLIPS MY WORK FIREWALL BLOCKS! *tries to load said video on his iphone*
Funniest part of that whole movie, if baffles me how that was a feature film with such average 3D. Patrick Warburton made that movie worth watching.
Patrick Warburton makes everything worth watching.
i concur, the animations were pretty medieocre, i don’t know if it was the alcohol* or not but i was laughing my rear end off the entire movie…
but yes, Patrick Warburton, yes definitely…
same in open season… that guy is a legend
*it was the alcohol
Emperor’s New Groove.
Enough said 🙂
ok so i really wish caffeine had that effect on me. I think i was born like 3 coffee’s short. So takes me 3 energy drinks just to be on par with everyone else.
what evil alchemy is afoot here! you are destroying perfectly good energy drinks!
The more caffeine I put into this one drink, the more explosive its effects!
I wonder if V or redbull could dissolve a no doz tablet…..or 5.
Sounds like something for our crack science team to investigate.
We do have a crack science team in TAY, right? Or should I call Lamblock Holmes?
If we dont have one, we should have one. And we can do our own version of the mentose in coke bottles, and things of that messy nature.
One of my cases had to do with a giant feline that nearly destroyed half of Ipswich. Turns out the feline had gotten that huge and crazy by drinking the concoction you just mentioned. Needles to say, the cat’s owners never tried that again.
Equivalent exchange, EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE! D:
Bastard must have a philosophers stone!
*claps*
On Monday, I bought two pairs of jeans. I only tried one of those pairs on because the other was the same size and whatnot.
The pair I did not try on does not fit quite so well.
I am sadface.
clothes shopping WITH A GIRL *shudder*
it’s… it’s like time doesn’t exists.. it’s a wormhole in time… i lost entire days being dragged around like a zombie in dead rising 2 to all the clothes shops
I personally think dragging along your significant other when you go clothes shopping, or any shopping for that matter, drains all the fun out of it.
There’s nothing worse than looking forward to buying new stuffs but having a constantly sighing person follow you around groaning every time you look at something.
yeah fair enough too… i just get the “but i needz your opiiiiiiniiiiioooonz” puppy eyes and then i have to give in otherwise i’ll sleep on the couch 😛
i always get revenge by dragging her into a games workshop/jb hifi or something and sighing at all the shiny technology 😛
I did go shopping with a girl when I got these jeans.
We were just going to grab coffee and hang out but then I remembered I needed kitcheny stuff so we went to DFO. She also forgot her wallet and isn’t one of those people who enjoy shopping.
So somehow, I found the circumstances to go shopping with a girl without it sucking. Huzzah!
(This wasn’t the first time pretty much the exact same scenario occurred. Last time I ended up with two new watches).
Unfortunately I’m usually the guy that makes the clothes shopping trip so damn long. I don’t want to, but I buy clothes so rarely that when I do I make sure I won’t have to do it again for a long time. That means scowering heaps of stores, going back and forwards. :S
i have this problem all the time. i can vary 3 sizes even within the same brand. its stupid.
Maybe all that weight has drained from you face/torso and sunk to your booty area.
I know that feel, bro, I know that feel.
…No? Just me?
Guess I’ll just go order a barrel of lard then…
Welcome to the world of retail clothing.
It’s even worse for girls. Even different styles of pants the same brand and size can differ greatly. Oh and your so-called “size” is actually two to three sizes smaller than your real size(the actual size your measurements make you, according to sewing patterns). It’s complete madness.
The only difference with these was the colour. One pair was prefaded, the pair I’m wearing is not. You’d have thought that it would be relatively simple for two pairs of size 32 jeans to actually be size 32.
ok that is a little messed up, if they are the same brand and style they really should be the same size.
That was the assumption I was working under.
It doesn’t matter too much. They’re too long anyhow (new jeans always are), so I’m going to get a few alterations done. Might as well get the waist taken in a bit as well.
They possibly are the same actual physical size, but the materials and the dyes they use to color the denim can change how flexible the fabric is so eg a pair of black jeans will often be ‘tighter’ than a standard blue denim even though they’re the same physical dimensions.
I second this – girls clothing sizes are just nightmares. I have a size XS shirt that is too big for me, and an L shirt that is too small. Wut?
i think all clothing sizes are a bit ridiculous, i mainly fit into medium but i have a small that is too big and a large that is too small… so similar but not as drastic.
i dont know why but i enjoy clothes shopping when i has the money. i buy new stuff wear it constantly for a month then never wear it again… maybe i should be a woman o.0
then again i only have 8 pairs of shoes compared to my step sister who has 70. yep thats right 70 not even over exagerrating. so that makes me not so womanly right ?
My shoes are all either Chucks, thongs or fluffy bunny slippers.
Oh and a pair of cross trainers.
I get what is comfortable and that’s it.
Heads up: Big W is selling Dead Rising 2: Off the Record for $28 today – http://www.bigw.com.au/bigw/search/bigw_search_results.jsp?search=dead-rising-2
No idea how that price compares to UK import sites. Was going to buy it, but I’ve decided that I’ve bought way too many games simply because they’re cheap. I have a pile of literally 20 unpaid games bought for that reason. So not this time!
And it’s not just today. It’s online only and up until the 12th, with delivery only after then. Oh, and they’re currently behind on delivery, so a before-christmas delivery is possible, but not guaranteed.
I got the impression it was a one day only thing, but reading it again you’re right. Still, this particular deal only started today. I’m hanging out for the discounted fighting stick tomorrow though!
http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGameBargains for those who are interested in the lot.
Played some MvC3 last night, finally figured out how to extend combos with OTG moves.
Landed a triple tag combo, leading into a OTG-Xfactor Cancel-Level 3 hyper insta-death combo.
So obviously I have just ordered UMvC3 as of five minutes ago 😀
My housemate was telling me that Strider is a pretty cool dude in UMVC3 before I went to work this morning.
Kinda tempting, then I remembered that I suck at this sort of thing.
Although I can do OTG combos :p
That’s another thing.
Carlos bought UMVC3 on PS3.
My arcade sticks are 360 only, his six button controller that he bought for SF4 is 360 only… we’d be forced to play with Dual Shocks!
Fanatiq plays controller, no stress 😀
Yes. He does.
A 360 controller, if I remember correctly. The new one with the fancy d-pad that actually works.
He also has about a decade of MVC2 experience.
seriously dude, i need to come to your join and have a fighting night. You can teach me some tricks.
You should dress up as Captain Falcon and yell “SHOW ME YOUR MOVES”
I don’t think that’s really worth a trip to Brisbane (you’re from somewhere that isn’t Brisbane, right?). Especially because I’m not that good.
Good enough to get a perfect with Ken against someone who has never played while a sausage dog rests its head on my wrist but I don’t actually have anything resembling talent :p
I’ve actually played on easy mode using a rockband guitar and drum kit. It works surprisingly well 😀
That sounds like a challenge that I could accept.
Every person that has worked in IE to make it the giant piece of crap that it is can burn in a very special level in hell. A level reserved for child molestors. And people who talk in the theater.
Seriously, wtf? Chrome, Safari and Firefox all work fine. Put it in IE9 and it makes me want to cry.
Compared to the old accounting software that we used, MYOB is the best thing ever of all time.
That probably says more about our old accounting software. I’m fairly sure it was DOS based (luckily I only ever had to use it once or twice before we made the switch).
I share your pain. I’ve made it my personal mission to wean all family members and friends off IE, in the hopes that they will spread the good word.
Can we put the bastards at Adobe that decided it would be a good idea to be able to embed Flash and Javascript inside PDFs there too?
Just wanted to drop by and say hi!
Intermittent intertron problems at work is seriously hampering my progress today. So I have a quiet moment to pen this note.
I had a rare window of gaming opportunity last night and found myself reveling in 3 glorious hours of Skyrim. Yes, despite pretty much the whole world banging on about it, I am loving it. My now Level 7 Redguard,dual-wielding ‘Weaponmaster’ in traning named Risk is a good 6 or so hours in and I haven’t even talked to Gerdur in Riverwood.
Fun times indeed.
Finally managed to crawl up to some caffiene, and get myself on TAY.
For the people who are wired on coffee and the like, join me:
I should probably try to drag myself away from SKYRIM! for at least a little while this weekend, so is anyone interested in some GOW3 Horde mode action sometime?
So.. has anyone downloaded the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection?
If so, is it worth it?
Morning TAYbies. I’ve not been around much this week, & I can’t be bothered reading through 12 pages, so I’ll just assume that everyone is caffinated & awesome.
So, I finally got paid & I have monies! So I’m gonna remedie this by purchasing games tonight. Opinion required – Skyward Sword or Arkam City?
In other news, Future of the Left (Welsh rock band made up of ex-Mclusky guys & a few others) played the Annandale last night & they are always amazing. Go check em out if you get a chance. & I discovered that Omar Rodriguez Lopez is doing the rounds. more awesome.
More other news, I have a job interview next week! I’m not gonna get it! but still… yay!
that is all. stay sexy TAY.
So glad I forked out the extra $3.33 yesterday for the Bastion soundtrack when I got the game. So awesome.
The Last Story. Feb 24. Looks like my Wii won’t be retired after Skyward Sword after all.
Oooooooh man… Strange! Help me! First day of holidays woes :'(
This kid has the attention span of… something with a very low attention span!
I spent one school holidays in grade 8 watching all day the cricket test matches and was thouroughly entertained. Its kinda awesome cause you dont have to pay lots of attention but its enough to keep you entertained!
I too would have approved of this, but we’re playing New Zealand. Which means the match is a foregone conclusion.
My advice: Wait until we face India. That should be a much better series.
Growing up, when the Cricket “happened”, you know, the world cup or whatever?
Well, that.
BB2 basically became the cricket channel. That meant that good shows like the Simpsons and Star Trek were gone until someone scored a touch down or whatever and finished the game for the year. Only that took at least 3 months to happen.
Also, it messed with the programming on BBC1.
So effectively we were a channel down with an injured player till someone won the cricket and it finally went away. Also, this wasn’t just me and some freakish dislike for cricket. This was pretty much the whole country.
It’s the only sport I’d celebrate England winning, because that meant the cricket would be over till, well, the next time cricket happened.
Not saying there is anything wrong with Cricket. It just isn’t a sport we care about in Scotland. I only ever knew one guy who cared about cricket in the slightest. He got his son a cricket set. We used it to play baseball. Once.
True story.
One major problem with this – he didnt do his homework the last few weeks of school so I punished him… by taking away video games for a week.
His punishment has become my punishment!
I would always be bored after the 3rd day of holidays. I just kept myself entertained by a mix of pokemon and hearing stories from my grandparents. Things have changed so much lol
Step 1: Tell child that you’re gonna be playing a game called ‘break out of prison’
Step 2: Lock said child in a cupboard
Step 3: Do your own thing
Step 4: When you’ve done your thing, release child & tell them that they won. Their prize is a cupcake.
With a bit of training, said child will develop a pavlovian responce linking being locked in a cupboard with a positive outcome, ie cupcakes, and will eventually voluntarily spend time in the cupboard, leaving you time to yourself.
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I don’t know, it sounds like a pretty brilliant idea to me.
Then again, there’s probably a good reason that I don’t have a spawnling of my own. Aside from the lack of a partner, that is.
It’s a little bad that I was thinking of ways to tweak this idea to make it awesome for everyone…
I can help by giving you my kids too if you like? 😛
My kids started the day well, one was in her room (I thought she was watching Buffy but she was actually playing Wind Waker) and the other was watching a Wibbly Pig DVD. That allowed me to have some breakfast in peace.
It didn’t last long. They’ve since drawn all over each other with pen and then driven me to distraction with screeching at each other. They’re now snuggled up together eating a snack and watching Toy Story. I don’t think this will last long either.
Do some drawing with him.
Get a bunch of paper.
Get a bunch of drawing implements.
Draw.
You can make it awesome by drawing a crazy battle scene.You draw pirates and he can draw ninjas.
You draw a pirate.
He draws a ninja throwing a shuriken at the pirate.
You draw a pirate firing a pistol at the ninja.
Etc. etc.
Ninja’s are awesome so, naturally, they will win the battle.
Yep. And then there’s the other favourite: “Can I have a snack?” Every 10 minutes. Grarggghhhh!!
lolol! ‘If youre so hungry why did you only eat half your breakfast!?’
I love that game!
I used to play that with a mate from school, using stick figures and a different coloured pen (each). I think we stopped because we didn’t share many classes for year 11 and 12… 😀
I believe it’s time you an I sat down and created an app for this…
OH S***!
aahh yes we used to play this on a blackboard… only difference is that we always started with a hill, and we called it Offline Worms, because it was turn based attacking 😛 and most the time we spent digging through the hill to lay devious traps for each other
I just realised that I acquired Adobe Premiere because I was sick of iMovie not working properly and was going to muck about with it this weekend. Except I won’t be at home this weekend to muck about with it.
Oh woe is me!
You won’t get any better if you don’t practice.
I put in many hours to get as good as I am. Although I was definitely aided by a family that considered snark to be the preferred means of communication.
Heading to IKEA tonight. It’s the only place in Melbourne that I don’t enjoy going to.
IKEA is basically the worst shopping experience if you do it wrong.
The way to do it right:
– Go early, before the crowds of 17-kid families, men in wheelchairs with broken legs, little old grannies that can’t walk properly and dazed and confused morons have a chance to achieve critical mass inside the Rat Maze. This also makes finding a park in the tiny carpark a lot less stressful (assuming you’re going to Richmond)
– Do not go on a limited timeframe. Presume you will spend many hours there, even if you don’t.
– Do your research beforehand. They have a good website. Figure out approximately what you’re going to look at. If you’re after something specific you can actually ask someone at the entrance to look it up for you and they’ll check stock and give you the location to grab it from, allowing you to bypass the Rat Maze altogether (I use this when I need to buy eg Billy shelves or Detolf cabinets)
– Don’t let yourself get hungry. If you go and eat something reasonable before braving the Rat Maze, you’ll have a better mindset and get less stressed out by the stupid idiots wandering around in there.
Apparently there’s a new Justin Bieber christmas song video thingy where he’s dresed like Ezrael from LoL.
And for whatever reason, Bieber does some drumming.
Still not quite understanding this whole pop music thing.
It’s simple. Avoid pop music at all costs, find a band or bands you enjoy, and only listen to music by said bands.
I already do that.
It doesn’t change the fact that I just don’t get pop music. Especially when I like to pride myself on being able to understand most things that I put some effort into trying to understand.
There are no patterns, no interesting bits. Just some vaguely pleasant noises with a hefty dosage of autotune. How the hell is that interesting? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
“There are no patterns, no interesting bits. Just some vaguely pleasant noises with a hefty dosage of autotune. How the hell is that interesting? It just doesn’t make sense to me.”
Exactly. Maybe kids these days just have no taste in music. It’s all manufactured by a machine for moronic tweens.
I can’t find many examples of pop music since the Beatles that doesn’t fit that sort of description :p Hell, the stuff I listened to growing up was pretty terrible but once I was introduced to better material I never looked back.
Admittedly, that better material started with Linkin Park and System of a Down, but it was a step forward.
How about this?
There are exceptions.
Mainly caused by pop’s incredibly all-encompassing definition.
Are you guys talking about pop music or popular music because their are quite a few good pop bands if you know where to look. For instance architecture in helsinki’s new stuff is quite poppy and awesome. Also gypsy and the cats album is one of the greatest pop albums i have ever heard. If you haven’t heard it go on youtube now and look them up. I saw them live earlier this year wow they blew my mind.
Popular music.
I have noticed most of the stuff on the charts is electro house music. Of course alot of it is generic but if you enjoy that genre like i do there is alot of good music too. But it is all a matter of taste. One mans junk is another mans perfection!
One mans junk is another mans perfection!
No additional comment required 😉
hahaha I didn’t even do that on purpose.
Architecture in Helsinki rather annoys me. Contact High used to play all of the time on Triple J and it suffers from basically everything that I was complaining about.
They may have good stuff, but what I’ve heard does not give me high expectations.
You want Minecraft talk? You can’t handle Minecraft talk!
Had LoL been ousted and once more replaced with the delightful digressions into dramas detailing daring dalliance, deposition of dirt and derring do.
I refer of course, to MineCraft.
I played Minecraft, so I did. Back in the day, you understand. Not professionally of course, but I played fairly regularly.
My crew consisted of a rag tag group of regulars. Battle-worn and cynical as they come.
Old Andrew, a hobo of sorts, old and wise and smelling faintly of urine and inexplicably of used sanitary towels.
Black Amanda, who was neither black, in terms of skin colour, nor named Amanda and was in reality a Caucasian lounge singer by the name of Hugo Sweet.
And the last of our foursome was Jimmy “The Nail” Powalski. An ex SAS operative and our teams survival expert. He once survived for 13 weeks in the African jungles by sucking the pollen from the legs of bees.
Sadly they don’t appear in this story, but colourful characters they are.
So there I was, I had set up residence on an western peninsula, a mountain to the left of me had proved to be rich in oar for mining and soon, thanks to a rich diamond deposit amongst other great finds.
Unbeknownst to me all MineCraft activity is monitored by the Multi-Operational Juvenile Activity Necessity Group and, after I achieved the highest score ever, sent out a team of black suited agents to apprehend me.
I was bound, gagged and being tortured mercilessly when the agents burst in to my apartment.
After untying me and letting me slip in to something less leather, I was sat in an inconspicuous government car and whisked off to a secret location. Well, not exactly secret. It was a disused KFC restaurant in Sydney’s western suburbs, the smell of old grease assaulting my nostrils, stale fried chicken littered the counter, the dining area devoid of human occupation.
Now that I think about it, that described every KFC, so it may have still been in use.
I was ushered into a backroom, a shadowy figure waiting for me. He was an older gentleman, distinguished looking, his suit was as white as his hair and beard. Using my keen observational skills I deduced that he was ex military by the way he introduced himself as “Colonel.”
It was there that it was revealed to me that Minecraft isn’t JUST a game, but a recruitment tool the Government were using to influx of blood diamonds.
I asked what a movie about Leonardo DiCaprio being South African had to do with everything.
Luckily he had a 3.5 hour power point presentation explaining that very thing.
“We have been watching you” he said.
“What? All the time?” asked I.
“Not all the time..” he began.
“What about in the shower?” I queried
“No.” he began. “Just in the game.”
“What about if I shower in the game?” I posed in a questiony manner
“In that case, yes. We would spy on you.”
“So what do you want from me?” I said, my tone shifting at the end which implicitly implied that this was something which required an answer.
He stood up and placed his hands behind his back. “The video game ‘MineCraft’ was created to determine your innate level of mining and crafting. Your ability to punch dirt and use the dirt you punched to make piles of dirt impressed us.” He said, his arms moving in to a large, open gesture. “This much.”
“We are going to send you to Democratic Republic of the Congo where you will single handedly mine diamonds for us. First with your bare hands as you acquire the necessary components to build increasingly better tools.”
Later that night I was already on a plane making my way over continents and oceans till at last, in the dead of night, I dropped in the the Congo.
Sadly I was blown up by a creeper not two seconds after landing and respawned back in my bed at home.
Oh, how we laughed!
It was around this time that I met my future wife. Sadly that didn’t work out as well as we’d hoped. It’s hard enough being in a relationship with a woman who remembers every bad thing you’ve done without remembering all the ones you haven’t done yet.
next time I’ll marry a woman from this time plane and call her my present wife. I’ll also never give her a gift and, on her birthday, while she cries, I’ll explain why it’s funny and why I’m such a great catch.
So, what’s new, pussycats?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8387108/cop-clings-onto-bonnet-for-5km
Wow, that officer is ballsy.
Now it’s time for the most frequently asked question on TAY. (that doesn’t involve pants)
and/or @alluremedia.com.au
Both should work, though they seem to take it in turns to fail 🙂
yeah… kilt/loin cloth/nothing…
we used to go without anything… many years ago… i’m bringing it back
Okay this ‘The Last of Us’ tease has me interested now.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=454275
The way Geoff Keighley is carrying on about how people will react to the game reveal means that either:
A) He’s just talking game hype and hyperbole
or
B) The game is based off an existing IP, a book or a comic or a movie or something.
It just seems like a huge deal to make on a game that is just pretty. There’s something else, some sort of nerd cred to this that is going to make this game a big deal. I’m thinking maybe The Day of The Triffids.
I was thinking Triffids too for some reason, playing as one of the seeing folk captured by the blind… Or The Stand.
Nah it wouldn’t be The Stand (if you’re referring to the Stephen King story), that was a virus and there’s a heavy focus on fungi and Cordyceps here.
(Still thinking Quantic Dream too. haha.)
I’m too hard up for money right now to turn down $50 if you’re absolutely sure you’re willing to pay that much. Happy to take less 🙂
I get moneys tomorrow so I’ll transfer it then. I’d rather pay my money to you than some shop.
So i am thinking of moving out next year but i am a little unsure. I hate being lonel but i don’t have any friends who live around here permanantly. SO i have to live by myself or with my grandparents another year! I Dont think i can survive that!
It’s possible to transfer apprenticeships.
Very definitely worth looking up how to arrange that, I’m sure there are Brisbane based firms that will be pretty awesome to work with and more than happy to take you on.
This!
Do it, Rockets, you know you want to!
playing lemmings at work…hmmm counter productive i think not!
now if only these little bastards would go where i want them too
aahh lemmings, the cause for my firsts rage quits as a kid
*wipes tear*
the memories
This is not completely true until they remake DinoRiders and/or reissue the toys.
But yeah Hollywood et al have basically ruined everything I ever loved aside from that 🙁
or bikermice for that matter! or that show with the shark head peoples!
my taste its weird.
Great, now I’m not going to sleep tonight
There’s a Hollywood executive under my bed and he is looking at my dinoriders. And thinking it needs to be more like a mashup of Ben 10 and spongebob squarepants
Oh god and looking to make the comment above I just saw that they had rebooted thundercats.
The new Thundercats is actually pretty good.
Not all reboots are bad, but they are often unnecessary.
Played Magicka last night with Gorzy, Techie and Rocketman.
We did the challenge maps that came with the new DLC.
The first one, Outsmouth, was a ten wave survival mode where you faced ten waves cultists and creatures from the Cthluhlu mythos. The twist was that you started with just the heal element and then randomly re-earned all but two of them.
Unfortunately, I was the only person to ever get the lightning element needed for the Revive magick. This, coupled with my focus being more on killing things than staying alive, meant that we had more than a few occasions where Gorzy was pretty much the only person alive, slowly left trying to whittle away the enemies he faced.
Things got better when we did The Shrine, which was just a normal challenge map.
On out first attempt, we unlocked the Vortex magick pretty early on. From there, it was rather simple. Right up until the point where we weren’t paying attention and died.
The next attempt went even better. We got thunderbolt. Everyone who has ever seen me play Magicka knows up much I love me my thunderbolt.
Good times.
RETURN OF THE SQUID CHICKEN
I figure if I microwave it for long enough, it kills everything that could cause me harm. Except maybe for a razor blade, but I feel like I would probably notice that.
Funny story from yesterday, actually. I made a hospital cafeteria lady mad at me because I paid for a sausage roll before she realised there weren’t any sausage rolls left. She was deeply displeased with this revelation, sighed and muttered “take a pie”. When I offered to pay more to pay for the pie she literally threw the pie at me (it was one of the ones that was individually wrapped in plastic) and waved me off, giving me a look that said “Get the **** out of my cafeteria”, so I scurried out. I suppose she got the last laugh though. I may have gotten a cheap pie, but it is possibly one of the worst things I have ever eaten, and one time I thought it’d be an idea to try some cold, tinned dog food.
So yeah, squid chicken.
i’m confused, is that a chicken with tentacles or with 8 drumsticks, cause i’m in if that’s the case 😛
That’s a bit mean. Sure, she was scary, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say nau-
Oh! You meant the food.
so i just got a call from ANU. I have been offered a position the digital arts and media degree for 2012!
ahem scuse me
\o/ -o- \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ -o- \o/ \o/ \o/
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO
PARTY TIME!!!!!!
well, you’re just the cause for me having celebratory drinks in your honor… all alone… it’ll be good 😛
congratz Di11, that’s epic… how long is the course? one year or?
Three-Four Years depending if i do honours (probly will)
I might be going out on saturday and if i do i would like to invite all Canberra Taybies 😀 (its in civic so i understand if you dont want to because of seedyness) but still getting really drunk and dancing like a white boy in the 90s!
Awesome! Grats on getting in!
Not sure if my other half has taken control of my weekend yet, but if I’m free I’ll shout you a round 😀
…Pixel will too, cause I said.
thanks Rize 😀
oh dont worry about shouting save that money for games! i think ill be buying a couple of jugs. but i will let you guys know what im doing…have two basketball tournaments tmorrow so its still a maybe.
but but… you just said you were going to ask me fiiiirst
Thank you Sir. I dont believe we have met are you new? 😀
*motions for pixel to summon Harli*
you might need this *quickly wraps NinjasinPyjamas in Bubblewrap*
Congratulations Di11, I too will toast some form of alcoholic beverage in your honour tonight.
hahaa thanks Harli 😀
by the sounds of it you drink almost* as much alcohol as i do.
*you would drink me under the table.
oh man that totally was not meant to be rude. hope you didnt take offence to that. sorry
I did.
Sexist.
I don’t get it?
You see, because of your gender, something something something irrefutable logic.
*runs*
i thought that might come off as calling you an alcoholic.
Sexist? o.0 *insert random joke about women in the 20s*
hahaha I have been called alco many a time and it never offends.
also i play hon so nothing offends me
She isn’t a real doctor, she is the star of the hit tv show”” Midget Doctors from outer space.”
You’re only kidding because she won’t sign the rights to make that show over to anyone. So it’s sitting in development hell.
Kinda like vaporware?
Kinda aside from the bit where the vapor is lacking the tangible qualities that differentiate it from air.
She is sitting on a gold mine i mean who wouldn’t watch that show just to see what it was about. Plus if we get Bish to tell his tales i can imagine everyone would keep watching!
I’ve already moved onto the idea of Chicken Doctor, man. Gotta keep up in the world of showbiz.
Por que no los dos?
You know one day you will go to a hospital for some reason and it will be Freyr and she will be all “Well hello Rocketman!” with a snap of rubber gloves and an ominous closing of the privacy curtains.
I vote when he gets a colonoscopy. or anything that area related.
from what i have deduced on TS She has to be a Gynecologist.
Methinks I might start doing game reviews again.
It wasn’t terrible when I did it before and there are plenty of games out there that I wouldn’t mind talking about in some fashion.
Obviously, I’ll be starting with Mario Kart 7.
I don’t think it really matter what the subject matter is i think you just like being verbose. Wether it be talking about starcraft or writing about games. I think it would be good to have a friend like you who breaks all the awkward silences i create.
I’m somewhat different in person than I am on Teamspeak or in here. A lot of social situations basically demand that I sit back and watch what’s going on. It’s very easy to drop out of a conversation and just pay attention to what’s being said.
Sometimes, if I feel like it, I’ll take part either passively by putting in a few comments, or try to start leading the conversation.
So sure, I like being verbose. You just happen to see me in the environments where that is the best course of action to take.
Also, not necessarily that relevant to reviewing the vidja games :p
And no, this is not a unique trait of mine. I’m fairly sure most introverted people are similar if they learn to recognise these situations.
Post a link when you’re up and running, would love to check it out.
Don’t worry, if this happens I shall be spamming Serrels with my work in the hope that he puts it up here.
So far I have a 50% success rate with that. Seems good enough to me.
I often have lunch at my desk, but if not I try and take 30 mins or less for my lunch break. Any more and I feel I’m skiving*. If I’m leaving someone alone with the phones I try and minimize my time out of the office.
The girls at work clearly have a different ethic.
They just left together to have lunch (leaving me with the phones) and were gone 90 mins. This isn’t unusual, but it’s starting to irritate me.
They know I prefer to have lunch later than them (somewhere between 13:30 & 14:30), but occasionally I’m stuck in the office until 15:00 while they’re off talking about diets while eating muffins and s***…
* I realise I’m skiving by being on TAY all the time, but that isn’t noticeable and I can do work at the same time.
Of course that is meant to be ‘you and I’ – I don’t know why I thought ‘me’ was a good idea.
Or… should “I” be “me”?
…Do I have a choice?
boom boom
/MASH joke. RIP Harry Morgan.
Well, that was random.
i know what you mean flu. I am the service phone bitch even though there are 5 people in here who can awnser the phone and help people. I like to call the game phone chicken. Who will feel the most guilty if they dont awnser it. It is usually me.
Tell me about it…
We have a couple of cordless phones for Skype in the office.
There is one upstairs and one downstairs.
For some reason I’m always expected to answer this phone. If I’m busy they just let it ring out while calling my name. If, through some bizarre circumstance, someone else answers the phone they immediately ask if the person would like to speak to me (regardless of who’s calling for whatever reason)
Similar Problem in my office. However the trouble makers are older than me and if i am 5 minutes late i get questioned though they frequently take hour long breaks to go shopping.
irritating and rude.
I’ve learned that being late at the start of the day is easily the worst crime imaginable in an office setting.
Yet it’s totally fine to disappear for fifteen minutes to grab a coffee after being at work for ten minutes.
As long as you get there on time.
Oh God, there’s the one girl in our office who rolls in at 9:05 every day, then at 9:15 she’s all “hey, anyone want a coffee?” because I guess if she gets coffee for other people then it’s not bludging.
I’ve been late once in the last 6 months, and that was legitimately because the trains got screwed up. Most other days I’m 15-30 minutes early, so my boss is pretty chill with me rolling in late once in awhile.
Oh Flu don’t you realise they are just participating in an activity by which a group of like-minded people recognize, create, or act upon opportunities.
And you should know by now, those diets don’t break themselves
Listening to the OzSpot podcast.
Observations:
Mark’s voice is deeper than I would’ve thought, noted. 😀
The communities the writers discuss doesn’t really compute with how I see a community like Kotaku, but there’s interesting insights on gamers in general from the perspective of those who provide content for us to read.
There seems to be a tone of frustration on preconcieved opinions on gamers, kind of reminds me of venting at the pub after work with liked minded co-workers.
I like it, though. Interesting stuff.
Marks Scottish brogue warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart. Also he stares at cameras.
I’ve only met one Scottish person before, so just assume they all speak in a similar way until proven wrong. The more I listen to the podcast, the more I’m glad Kotaku doesn’t review traditionally…
Man Doc Whats accent is also awesome. I bet when those two meet it would be full on awesomeness.
It’s really bizarre.
Jamie’s fine. He’s understandable. Mark… gets worse? It’s like he’s all “I don’t need to speak English anymore!” and the thickness of his accent just slowly increases until it eventually becomes a series of grunts and headbutts.
They’re understandable until they start talking like neds, but they do that on purpose just to spite us.
It might be like when you meet an Australian tourist overseas. The accents do get thicker, it’s odd and amusing.
I try to be as un-Australian as possible when travelling.
Nothing worse than witnessing a fellow countryperson acting like a complete f***head.
Being Australians fine, it’s just when they turn themselves into a stereotype.
I have heard from back-packers that it’s great being recognised as an Aussie: we are well liked most places and then you are not confused with being Americans, who are often quite disliked.
Yeah… no.
I am just about finished the mammoth third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series.
Quite apart from it being hands-down the best fantasy series I’ve ever read, let me just say that I would never attend a wedding in that world… ever.
Still working my way through Clash of Kings.
Is good stuff, I need to keep powering through.
Such a epic. I stop reading after the second novel to read some comics and stuff. Looking forward to getting back into it.
Why no weddings?
Is it because everyone gets crazy drunk and wakes up the day after extremely hungover and find that \they’ve gotten face tattoos and have a baby they need to take care of, just like that film, Three Men and a Baby?
I bet that’s exactly why.
I loved the HBO season so much I decided to hold off reading the books until after the show, some people might say I’m not a true fan and I say pffffffft….
The HBO show has one thing the book can never recreate as well as the show.I mean my mind is good but i can’t imagine stuff like that.
It’s interesting watching with my sister, who’s read the book. We both get something totally different out of watching the show. It’s all new and compelling to me and it’s incredible to see come alive for her. Everyone wins.
I watch it by myself for obvious reasons!
Dude. Too much information.
The obvious reason is my grandparents dont like fantasy stuff.
I feel sorry for any one who watched the last Boardwalk Empire with their mother. 😀
boardwalk empire hmm i have that show. I guess it is time i give it a watch!
I can only imagine how awkward things would have been.
I watched American Pie with my mum not so long ago.
It wouldn’t recommend it.
I*
referring to boy bits?
I read Game of Thrones after watching the series.
My plan was to avoid reading Clash of Kings until I saw that series.
Now my plan is to just read all the things.
I finished Clash of Kings about a month ago and simply couldn’t bring myself to read any more for a while. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, but rather because it was such a long book and I powered my way through it in less than a week (which for me is pretty impressive given my atrocious attention span).
Clash was a lot better than the first book, which to me was still top-notch quality for the most part, but began to feel drawn out in the last hundred or so pages. The fact that i read Clash in a week shows how much I was invested in the book this time around.
I finished the third one (Storm of Swords?) recently, and decided to read a few other books (read: significantly shorter) before slogging on with Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons. Such an epic series.
George RR Martin must be like <o\ 'kill ALL the characters!’
He is like ” The people reading this must have to much emotional investment in this character, i must kill them to give the other characters more attention.”
@D1llinger – Congrats mate! Sounds like an awesome and interesting course! I’ll have many beers on your behalf tonight.
@Bish –
One fine day with cluck and some ink
A baby was born and it caused a little stink.
No midget doctor – there’s no sick in
Eatin’ lot’s of shapes and a bit of SquidChicken.
SquidChicken, SquidChicken, gettin eatin by an Asian is a little CatDog SquidChicken!
Alright, I’m out. Grats to Kudos winner etc etc.
Catch you on the flipside, TAYbies.
Also, nobody pull a Plainview and bail over the weekend, mmmkay?
I completely forgot it was Friday until I saw this, Crackles. Just had to hurriedly send a nom to Sir Serrels.
Yesterday I kept thinking it was Friday, but today I have no idea what I was thinking.
Caution: LOL talk
a couple of uss were just watching the WCG stream and the commentators just mentioned that the next LOL game will include the Australian team. Not sure when exactly that will be though. Sounds like it’ll be Starcraft the rest of the day.
What’s the team name again? SQL Gaming?
also Australia has a LoL team???!!! this is news to me
Aaaah. I remember now when I finished reading the last page and moved onto this one that the last comment of the previous page was now the first of this one. And then I forgot to go back and read the comment that bumped the other one to this page.
@Strange: did you ever email me re: the Valkyria artbook? atomicstrawberry(at)gmail(dot)com
Oh wow, I totally forgot! I’ve been so busy and so tired these last few weeks. 🙁
I’ll send it now! Sorry.
Thanks, but you still can’t move back in.
I spoke to your Mum as well and she’s on my side.
SO I just had the best end to a really busy week/ day!
I’m talking to a customer, and she said “I’m always so happy when I hear you answer the phone, because I know you’ll always get it resolved” 🙂
This made me happy, and reminded me why I do this job 🙂
its not about the money, its about making people happy….
this is where i lie and say I’m a prostitute….. :p
HUZZAH!! Finished my Christmas shopping today. I feel so organised. This never happens, I’m usually one of those people rushing around on the 23rd or 24th screaming “WHAT DO I DO?!?!?” But not this year. This year I am prepared. Now I just have to hope my family and friends can forgive my male-style wrapping (ie terrible)
Kind of like this, but in a shopping centre?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRDiCm-3FpY
Warning: NSFW swearing
Sorry Scree, I don’t do horror. As soon as I saw that it was from Amnesia I had to close it. But I can imagine, so I’m gonna go with yes.
Fair enough. Not everyone likes horror. I’ll give oyu the gist of it. It a guy screaming at nothing and then shouting What do I do?!” Multiple times before claiming that he’s leaving, multiple times.
I have to wrap up my presents too. I keep meaning to do it, I really do.
I was going to wrap presents, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
No idea how well that excuse will go down XD
Brilliant! Inspired! A perfect excuse not to wrap presents! Although if I ask if someone on here actually has a real bow and arrow, it will likely not end well. Hmmm….
Got it – I used to wrap presents, then I took an oar to the knee. Much more civilised
@Lambo yeah I can’t purchase the xbox man 🙁 since I got Soundwave & Big Day out Tickets for my Birthday/Christmas present. Which i’m really stoked about anyway 😛
So we had a team building day at work where some ‘corporate challenge’ dude sent us on a scavenger hunt of Sydney to get photos of local landmarks and other random stuff. It was surprisingly fun and thankfully the sun appeared today so we didn’t have to traipse around in the rain. There was also beer afterwards.
However, my feetsies hurt. 🙁
Anyway, so that’s why I couldn’t TAY today.
I’d say it’s better to blame the TAYbies, as opposed to TAY itself. I’ma just sayin’.
Dearest Effluvium Boy:
I noticed you replied to a comment I made, referencing the fact that wine does not have a taste. Quite reasonably, you disagreed. I feel that this whole misunderstanding would have been made clear from the start if I had been eating some kind of delicious biscuit(preferably a coaster) as I had said it.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Morkai:
I usually get the “random” security check at the airport too.
But that’s because I always seem to be wearing some sort of vaguely menacing shirt(like an Alice Cooper tour one, or something), and because I’m an idiot, and often seem to wear my studded belt through security.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Scree:
Unfortunately, I have come to the realisation that there is no such thing as a good Christmas song, and that what little comes close is completely unsuited to my task at hand, thank you for the link however. I will most likely end up clutching at straws and making something up at 3am that half the TAYbies will miss. Again.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Di11enger:
If you do decide to do anything to celebrate your uni thingy face McGee (Congratulations, by the way), feel free to send an email to blaghman at gmail and you know the rest. Or don’t, if you post something here I will probably read it, and the odds of you actually reading this given it’s a weekend are fairly slim.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest F4ction:
I know I’ve said “Yours Truly” to multiple people here, but it does not diminish the dream team. The dream team is forever and ever, and there’s nothing at all weird about it.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest TAY(bies):
It occurs to me that you may not understand what my next letter is talking about, as I have not been on here nearly enough recently, and so my memory is struggling to remember just how much the regular TAYbies know about me, and how much is TeamSpeak knowledge. As such, now is a good time that I am a proponent of the storytelling technique where you tell a tale that’s a little bit shite, and end it with “And then I found ten dollars” so as to make the story seem much better to those who are forced to listen to my voice. That should hopefully clear up any confusion.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Bish:
I’m sure you remember how I told you about that twenty dollars that I somehow managed to lose. Well, there I was, sitting at my computer, when I decided to readjust my seat. I noticed that there was some crap underneath one of the legs, so I removed it.
And then I found twenty dollars.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Coffee:
I know we have our ups and downs, I know that I abandon you for long periods of time, only to return like an amnesiac pigeon, but as of right now, I think I love you, man. Am I allowed to say that? I think I am. The ACT is looking to allow civil unions for homosexual couples, and it doesn’t look like it will be shut down by the feds this time, so hopefully, one day, you and I can be together, forever. But not really forever, because I honestly prefer some other sources of caffeine. But about as forever as anyone really means it when they get married.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Strange:
Did you really expect anything else from me? No TAY and continued no TAY make Blaghsy something something. Go Crazy? No, just a bit odd. Anyway, you can’t go somewhere if you’re already there, you can just change your location within the area. Silly English language. What was I saying? I don’t think it mattered.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Dark Souls:
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m stumped, where am I supposed to go now? No, really. You showed a thing with that place opening, but everything there is big, and hard to kill. Seriously, I might as well just go back to farming those guys in the Moonlight Garden. Man, they are great for farming, probably about 20 of my forty-something levels are from them. Best system. I should point out, I think I’m terrible at you, luckily, I’m good at grinding which makes it so much easier. Anyway, I’m going to the catacombs now, I have a blessed sword, so it should be all good. Right?
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Bastion:
You are fantastic. Not in the way that Coffee is, but in a totally different, also amazing way. I know, I put you down not long after I got you, and I left you there, half finished, but now you are finished. Well, finished once, like all good things you’re raring up for a second go the moment I’m done. Also, I love your soundtrack, people mentioned it before, but it really is amazing. I know, I chose the wrong ending for my first playthrough, and I kind of killed what might be considered the canon, but it doesn’t bother me. I am proud of the choices I made. I am proud of what you made me do.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest George Michael:
This post probably won’t be moderated, so I feel like I should tell you, you are an idol to me. I’m really not sure which of your songs is the manliest. Is it Faith? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3VTngm1F0 Is it Careless Whisper? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ Or is it Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A&feature=relmfu I don’t think it matters. What does matter is people questioning your sexuality in youtube comments, there seems to be two things they’re unaware of. The first is the 80s, and the second one is wikipedia. People really are stupid.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Sughly:
Welcome to TAB, week 2, the returnavengeancifyer. Like many sequels, I feel that this one is either avoiding the style of the previous film, or simply missing the point. Hopefully we can consider this an Aliens to last weeks Alien, as opposed to The Matrix sequels.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest English Language:
I appear to have forgotten how to use Apostrophes, which should go well with my considerable over-use of Commas. Yes, now I’m just doing it to be mean to you. Don’t take it personally. I’m mean to everyone.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Blaghman:
<3
Yours Truly,
Strange.
P.S. Watch out for floating skulls and pillars that try and spear you when you're in the Catacombs.
Dearest Strange:
It just took me three attempts to type that colon. But that’s just because I am tired, and I figured that everybody would want to know. I have met those exploding skulls. They seem a little mean. Maybe they just want a hug. I will probably never know, as my current technique is to try and aggro them, and then to run like a little girl.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
You may now refer to me as Bish, the future telling wizard guy from now on.
It all played out exactly as I said.
Dearest Blaghman,
<3. Pyrean, Gorzy, f4ction and I should try to keep you awake beyond your bedtime more often. It has hilarious conclusions.
Truly Yours,
Freyr (not a midget doctor)
Dear Lord Bishington, the future telling wizard guy:
Truly, you are amazing. Although, I may have lost the money again. Because I’m amazing like that.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest last message I typed:
I hate you, and you’re wrong. You’d think that I would be able to remember the format I used for all of the above messages, but apparently falling asleep ruined everything forever. I can never forgive you, brain.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
I’m guessing this is a reference to black books? Otherwise I’m just seeing black book related stuff everywhere o_o
Dearest Scree:
Yes, yes it is. Though seeing Black Books everywhere is not a bad thing!
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Blaghman,
Sorry for ruining your current theme on this thread.
Yours truly,
Scree.
Dearest Scree:
It’s okay, I forgive you. Bish had already ruined it anyway, so I cannot really fault you. There is also the slight problem with this current method that if I have nothing to say, it simply looks a little awkward. As such, I am going to keep typing out words, and hope that nobody looks at this too closely.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Blaghman,
With two of us talking nonsense it may seem a little awkward. With an evening that may consist mainly of sewing, I don’t mind assisting you.
Yours truly,
Scree
Dearest Scree,
I did a typo just then that turned your name into “Screem”. Sorry.
Also, I was wondering if you could do my sewing for me while you’re doing your own? 😛
I was stupid enough to say I’d make a quilt for my mother-in-law when I’ve never done one before (I’m only about halfway done), plus I decided I’d make handbags for my sisters for Christmas and I’ve never done that before either.
On second thoughts, next time I talk about sewing things I’ve never sewn before for gifts, remind me it’s a bad idea.
Also, I bought Deadly Premonition early this year but I still haven’t gotten around to playing it. Maybe I should play it now so i don’t feel bad that it’s being wasted just sitting on my shelf.
Yours truly,
Strange.
Dearest Strange:
Do you have a quilting frame? I’m going to guess that you don’t given you said that you haven’t made a quilt before, and so, if you decide that you enjoy quilting I would recommend getting a frame, as it makes the actual quilting part significantly easier. Certainly, since getting one my mother has significantly upped her quilting output. As an example, it took her eight years to make a quilt for me as a gift, whereas now she is outputting one or two a year. Admittedly, there were complications with my quilt, but I will choose to ignore that for the purpose of this discussion.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Dearest Blaghman:
No, I do not have a quilting frame. I’m not a huge fan of quilting which is why I’m kicking myself for suggesting doing this quilt, so I’m hoping I will never make enough quilts to have need of one.
Yours truly,
Strange.
Dearest Strange,
I believe this is the first time we’ve really been on at the same time. I don’t really mind being called screem. It’s close enough.
I’m afraid I’ve never made a quilt or handbags before. I’m still a newbie at sewing so I’m unsure as to how much I would be. My sewing is video game themed cushions for friends, for Christmas.
Agreeing to sew things that you’ve never done before is always a bad idea as you don’t know how to pace yourself. I do wish you good luck with you’re sewing endeavors.
Yours truly,
Scree(m)
Dearest Scree(m):
I’ve only been sewing since about May this year and I’m surprised how much I like it. I started out just wanting to be able to make all the awesome boy-shaped music and game t-shirts into girl-shaped ones but I’ve since tried making loads of different things. I even made sort of an Assassin’s Creed II Ezio jacket: http://flic.kr/p/aiqRsd
So basically every time I’m sewing something It’s pretty much the first time, I just have to remember not to try it for a gift the first time I sew something!
Please show us some photos of your cushions when you’re done!
Yours truly,
Strange.
Dearest Strange,
You must really have a talent for sewing! I have done cosplays including a frilly puffy dress, but I’ve always had help. I congratulate you on your stupendous ability. I envy it.
I will show pictures of the cushions because it is actually my first time doing them. It seems I need to take my own advice.
Yours truly,
Scree(m)
Dearest Scree(m):
Your new title reminds me of the Ellison short “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.” I think this may be due to the fact that I’m really tired, but I figured you should know.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
What can I say, I like to help!
Bam, I bet this is so far down the page that this post gets awkwardly wedged between the Scree and Strange conversation.
Hi guys!
o/
Dearest Bish,
Hi! And nope, you’re just at the end, well, you will be until I post. Then I’ll be at the end. X3 I’m such a spam queen.
Kindest regards,
Scree
I challenge you for the title, appropriate gender be damned!
Well Bish, I’d say that you’re a different type of Queen. Hey-OH!
It’s true!
I was once in the band. The mysterious 5th member.
I hate Valve, they make me really want an iPad 2 & iPhone 4S now with their new line of Portal 2 skins & cases for them >_>
Stevo, in relation to minecraft, I just had a very bad experiance in your rape dungeon.
A creeper related bad experiance.
I may have been in daid dungeon due to a previous creeper related experiance upon stepping out your front door.
Evening Tay!
I’m getting so absorbed into Heavy Rain. I’m pretty glad I bought it, but it makes me think of Twin peaks, so I can add that to the list of games that do.
Games that remind me of Twin peaks:
Silent hill
Alan Wake
Heavy rain.
I hope it’s not just me.
Try playing Deadly Premonition, it’s weird beyond all belief, from what I’ve heard, but it should also remind you of Twin Peaks(for obvious reasons).
I’ve heard good things about it. I really want it, but it’s a matter of actually putting money on my card and ordering it. Christmas has left me broke =(
It’s about $23 on OzGameshop if I remember right.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last few weeks its that being a TAYbie is bad for your financial well-being. There’s always talk of some game/movie/tv show/book etc etc that sounds good and I feel like buying.
Curse you TAYbies.
I think that this year has been pretty big for games. It costs so much for everything.
There are so many games, not enough money D=
Have I told you about Shapes?
They’re delicious.
So are Pringles. =D
I really want some now Bish. Question is what flavour?
Haha, you’re saying that like you’re not buying 6 at a time, so you can just have all the flavours.
Silly Nova.
I so want to do that now. O_O except ants also like Chicken Crimpys. =/
As someone who frequently manages to gorge myself on a whole box of Shapes in one sitting (oh man, if I ever get stuck on a island after a plane crash or something, my rationing skills are going to be the best), I don’t understand why you’re leaving them around for so long that ants get to them.
Dammit Bish, how did you know? Do I really have no secrets already?
As the Postman would say:
⊙◡⊙
“…”
Alan Wake really embodied a lot of Twin Peaks, in a very good way. I should get around to playing that again these holidays.
Also, whoo Heavy Rain! You must tell us the final outcome of your game. Its always fun to see how different other peoples experiences were with that game.
Yes, i really liked Alan Wake. I know a lot of people hated it and it depreciated pretty quickly, but I really enjoyed it. I found it a challenge even on Normal, mainly because Alan gets out of puff within seconds.
On Heavy rain, I think I will most likely get a good ending as I try to be a goody goody two shoes in games. If I’m ever presented with an option, I always pick the moral high ground.
Alan Wake was so much fun on nightmare difficulty. You had to be quite conservative with your ammo in a lot of instances and sometimes it was safer to bail from an encounter and hope the enemies didn’t catch up to you, which was really intense in areas where it was especially dark and windy. Plus, the DLC really played around with a lot of the game mechanics, so it was really fun even if it didn’t provide much of a serious extension to the game’s narrative. It was probably my favourite game of 2010.
As for Heavy Rain like you I tried my best for a ‘good’ playthrough, but it really fell through in the last hour or so, though that was more because I failed a few important sequences. It made the story so much more brilliant though, to be doing so well for most of the game and then fail spectacularly right at the end.
I do that too! It makes for boring gaming, quite frankly. Most games with moral choices I always imagine the ‘evil’ choice would be infinitely more fun, but I can never bring myself to do it. Sometimes the saviour of the world/galaxy wants to be a jerk too, you know?
It was probably my favourite game of 2010 as well. I need to go back and play it on nightmare difficulty, but I seem to forget I can dodge. I had questions so I got the DLC and boy, do I love lighthouses now! =D It was interesting not only the way they changed the game play but also how the narrative took the more psychological turn. But still, so many questions and no freaking answers.
For example, I don’t understand Mr. Scratch. It wasn’t him lying in the cabin, so are there 3 Alan’s? @_@
I hope I don’t fail with Heavy rain, mind you if I do I will restart the game as I have already been doing so. I wish they didn’t keep moving the QTE’s all over the screen because I have serious trouble reading and then reacting in time. And the six axis movements are a major pain, except for the highway sequence.
Bish, I don’t care if the world’s hero wants to be a Jerk, not my my watch =D I’m the same. Fable, every single one of them I was incredibly good. Bioshock I saved all the little sisters. I just can’t help it. I know people like playing the bad part but…I can’t.
Also, the game is usually easier if you play the good person.
Well actually in Bioshock it eventually pays ‘better’ to save the little sisters, due to the unique plasmids you got.
It’s moreso in RPGs though. Fallout, Mass Effect, Dragon Age. I suppose in terms of actual Role Playing, there’s a certain consistency to my characters, but I feel like I shouldn’t be so samey, if that makes sense. Try to play it more as a game, and be more liberal with my choices.
Where’d you get the third Alan from? My understanding is that there was Mr. Scratch and Alan himself. Maybe I’m forgetting something, but hey, that sounds like an excellent excuse to replay the game. Mr. Scratch really was just vaguely referenced right at the end, huh?
Ah, so you’re using the standard controller for Heavy Rain? I found it much easier with the Move controls (which I must defend myself for having by saying it came in a bundle with my PS3) although there are definitely some spectacularly difficult sections towards the end that still proved too much on the first attempt.
On Bioshock, I watched a scene on youtube of someone harvesting a little sister…could never bring myself to do that in my game. Saving them just feels so much more rewarding. Likewise I watched a friend play an evil Commander Shepard for a while, the idea of talking down to the squadmates to such a degree was depressing, too. The problem then is that my Shepard is this ridiculous holy paragon of virtue and righteousness that can do absolutely no wrong.
Except for the times he’s punched out that reporter on the Citadel.
I thought that might confuse you. During the writer, Alan asks if the guy in the TV is Mr. Scratch to which Thomas Zane replies no. So there’s the rational Alan, asleep Alan and Mr. Scratch. Rational Alan and Asleep Alan eventually reunite (then making two) but there was 3. Because Rational Alan was able to make it to the cabin, which is in the dark place he does exist, even though Thomas basically says he doesn’t. Thomas is too cryptic sometimes.
Yeah I decided with the wii and the 360 having things in front of the TV another one may make my mother kill me (even if she loses a carer, hey, death insurance). I could’ve got the move as there was a more expensive by $80 ps3 bundle with the move, but I was worried I wouldn’t be able to pay it off. Now I may have to get it >_< So that's why I'm using a standard controller. Still it'd be helpful if there stopped moving the QTE's all over the screen.
I don't find being good all that boring. Sure it'd be fun to slaughter everyone but then you get no quests =( Most protagonists are good anyway. So we're just really playing the way we were brought up to. The only way I would play an evil game is if I were only given that option and then it'll be hard. Let's see how I go with Golden Sun dark souls then! (getting it for christmas X3)
Yeah, I’d completely forgotten the third Alan from the DLC. Can’t believe I could forget that. As for Mr. Scratch, did you see the announcement trailer for the new Xbox Live Arcade Alan Wake game at the VGA’s today? That trailer made it sound like Mr. Scratch is most certainly evil.
Also, the conversation train below keeps mentioning Mr. Strange and I keep confusing it with Mr. Scratch.
I also don’t find being good is boring, not at all. My problem is more that when I play a good character, I take every good choice possible, even if I’m interested in exploring the other options available. I think, ‘no, this character is fundamentally good, this is what they’d do’. So I’m in eternal conflict with my construction of the character and my own interests. That may sound strange…but its the way I seem to play games quite often.
No i haven’t seen it yet. I thought that Alan Wake night springs was coming out first? It’s possible this is the one you’re talking about. All we really know about Mr. Scratch is that he is Alan’s replacement. I’m not sure how it works. They better make a sequel with answers soon because it is driving me insane, slowly.
Btw i got the collectors edition from Gametraders (got a free flashlight =D) but the book doesn’t really explain anything. *starved of information*
I agree that it’s not boring. Bish said it was. As i said, I think in a way it’s ingrained in our minds. Almost every game we play as we grew up was a good person. And when we think about it, the option to choose whether we’re good or evil is still quite new. There were a few instances of it, but not a lot. I think stars wars, Fable and Morrowind were the only ones who did it in the past.
It doesn’t make it boring, it does make it easy, but it can’t be helped as kindness breeds kindness, if you’re a dick, people want nothing to do with you.
I am so, so tired. For the last two night my husband’s been getting work calls at like 11pm, 12am, 1am, and 2am due to being on call and things breaking. So neither of us have had much sleep.
On top of that we had a mini-Christmas celebration today with some of my husband’s family so I spent all morning cleaning up and cooking yummy food.
On the plus side, the kids ate so much junk food this afternoon that they don’t need any dinner. I’m sending them to bed soon. Yay!
Gotta love that mad Christmas season rush 😛
Once you get the younglings to bed, nice relaxing game time?
I think it should be “mad intense Dark Souls time.”
That game scares me, but I can’t stop playing…
Mr. Strange is about to do the final part, so I’m going to watch him finish it and then I’m going to go and play Skyrim whilst wishing I could play Dark Souls on weekends instead of him. 😛
In house let’s plays! I got very confused for a moment there when I read “Mr. Strange” My mind instantly said “But isn’t Strange female? Huh?” And then it caught up and I felt very stupid.
Why can’t you play it?
We have Dark Souls forPS# and our PS3 is in the loungeroom, I have Skyrim for 360 and that’s in our bedroom.
I don’t mind watching my husband play games, but he doesn’t like to watch while I play (and I don’t like anyone watching me, anyway) and when he’s home he basically sits in the comfyest spot on the lounge so I can’t play anything when he’s home because he’s in the way. So yeah, basically the loungeroom’s his domain when he’s home and if I want to play anything I’ll have to play it in the bedroom on the 360 after the kids are asleep.
Fair enough. It would be a waste if you bought the 360 version as well I guess. As long as you get to watch.
I would be even worse if there was only one TV. At least you have 2 so you can play Skyrim.
Think I’m finally going to grab Dark Souls, after all the love TAYbies have been giving it 😛
Funnily enough, EBGames has the limited edition on sale for $69. It’s the same price as the normal edition
It’s damn fun, though I’d recommend starting a character, playing through the opening bit, and some of the next bit, and then rerolling once you’re used to it. Because I didn’t balls up my second character nearly as much, I ended up at twice the soul level in the same amount of time, and way further along. And now I’m grinding, which helps me be OP.
So, Mr. Strange just finished Dark Souls.
The end was actually pretty anti-climactic because when fighting the final boss he got glitched which made him essentially stuck inside a rock thingy. He could damage the boss, but the boss couldn’t damage him. Which was great until he defeated the boss and still couldn’t get out.
He had to Homeward Bone it out of there. Luckily it just warped him to the boss room, but not stuck inside a rock anymore.
When it’s actually a series of atoms shot so fat through a badger spawned from an improbability drive that momentarily turns it into a door, before being further transmogrified into a Snuggy, the Vatican (yes, the whole thing), magic, a youtube clip, and then eventually into a pot plant.
Saw you were playing PS3 games so added “Scree” on PSN.
Turns out it’s some French dude with 8 platinum trophies (unless that’s you)
Good morning TAY, Hows things. Good? thats good. have you looked at the moon recently? Well… on the east coast at least. I’m sure you have. Coz thats what all the cool people are doing at 1am on a sunday morning.
So, I think you should all check out Le Butcherettes (it’s a band [with amazing stage presence {especially the singer (who I have no doubt in saying is the sexiest person I have ever met [& I dont just mean that she’s gorgeous, true attractievness is all about the vibe a person has {and I’m just throwing this last bit here in to even out my nesting}])}])
Ahh… its late but I’m not in the mood for the snoozing yet. I’m gonna have another beer & watch the eclipse… good times.
JENGA!
BOGGLE!
BINGO!
I’m terrible at English phonetics. Good at Japanese ones =D
Well, I’m off to work!
The people I work for are clearly retarded, so I have to go and wipe their arses.
Tally-ho!
People at my work, for some absurd reason.
Just needed to sort out some server issues (IT is not part of my job description) so not a huge deal, but still annoying)
You might like this list at Cracked then
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-guy-whos-fixing-your-computer-hates-you/
They’re weird, working on a Sunday. Only certain necessary places are open like hospitals, police, electrical maintenance companies…
The company I work for is not exactly emergency services…
Home Time!
*Picheeeeew*
*Effluvium Boy-shaped dust cloud*
I saw bananas for 2.50 a kilo today.
As Lobo said, it’s reducing
Fuck yeah had an awesome day with Christine, we finished off her visit with seeing the Aussie rockband Choirboys play at a local establishment, they can really pull off an acoustic set! I recommend seeing them!
So my dog is pretty smart, I mean he outsmarts me all the time, (being a Border collie x lab means I don’t have to be ashamed of that), but he can’t seem to understand the concept of “catch food before it hits the floor”. o_o Sometimes it has to bounce off his head before he’ll eat it.
I was going to suggest using clicker training to teach it how to eat food, but that relies on a system whereby it is actually able to eat said food.
He can eat food, but for some reason he has this thing where it has to hit the floor before he can have it. Sometimes we have trouble coaxing him to eat the food out of his bowl. He seems to think he can’t have it yet. It’s possible he may have been abused before he was given to the lost dogs home as he has several unusual behaviours
My dog can only catch things if she’s in WOOO HYPER FUN YOU’RE PLAYING BALL WITH ME mode. Otherwise she just airswings. Or just lets it drop because she’s lazy.
Tay is slow tonight then. Sorry i didn’t respond to your comment on the band, I don’t know them. I haven’t been to a live gig since the reel big fish under 18’s one in 2006
Ah that’s fine! You’d probably know their song Run To Paradise, it was their biggest hit in the 80’s.
I think I do know it. I don’t know names but I know melodies
Yeah it’s a pretty well known one. Like I even knew it before I knew who they were.
Growing up with gold 104.3 means I know lots of melodies and not the names.
Hey is it just me or have some of the commenters on threads been snarky lately?
Ah, yep. I have never been a big listener of the radio, it makes me so out of touch with todays music lol, maybe that’s a good thing.
Must be the lot from the Gizmodo articles popping over to be bitter lol.
It’s the golden oldies station, nothing from after the 80’s. The only songs I know are from TV.
Maybe. But first people had a meltdown about the weekend author’s opinion, and now I’ve been attacked because people misunderstood my post. >_<
Ah yep, the 80’s the last decent decade for music.
Oh I saw that article. Yeah people got a little off. But oh well, i’m just excited that there’s a little bit of news about Half Life honestly! And it was only an opinion that Logan had, who cares. I didn’t take it to heart 😛
I meant to say the only new songs I hear are from TV.
Yes, people completely over reacted, then they would claim they are not fanboys. I know when you really love something, it’s hard to step back and easier to just defend it to the death but it’s not very nice. Logan must’ve felt awful, which is a pity because he’s been fixing stuff up for us on the weekend.
I wasn’t sworn at, but people insulted me when they misunderstood my comment on the arrow to the knee tattoo article. >_<
Do what I do, make inflammatory posts, then fly away, never to look at them again! If you never here about people insulting you, you’re indestructible!
So basically Troll?
Troll? What? How dare you accuse me of trolling! The nerve! Why I oughta! 😛
Yes, Troll then. =D
I’m am offended by your cruel accusations. I would never troll. Of course not, that would be silly, and I would never be silly. Never.
You read that right, I’m am offended…
…
… Proofreading…
JOHNNY! We were always best of friends,
stick together and defend,
but you run to paradise!
(I love the Choirboys(I’m sorry I didn’t mention this earlier))
Man they’re awesome live, and it was the original 3 guys too! They got back together just last year, first time since 91′ they said they had been together. How about that.
Nice. I tend to avoid live music, not for any real reason, just that I’m lazy. I’ve seen Metallica, because they’re Metallica, Alice Cooper, because it’s Alice Cooper, and Elton John, because hells yeah. Elton John was great, even though it was an outside concert, and it rained like a bitch.
I think the only people I would jump at to see would be Dire Straights, though that might be a tad difficult. Where was I going with this? I guess I just like old music. Because I’m old, clearly.
You don’t have to be old to like old music. I like old music and I’m in my early 20’s. One of the best parts of Alan wake was some of the older music.
I dunno, Bish is an old man, and I’m basically the same as Bish, so I must be old.
Old is an attitude, not an age =D
Precisely, my attitude is that I’m old, and therefore I am. I may be relatively young in body, but I am so old in mind. So old.
Damn kids with their rap music an-GET OFF MY LAWN?
Sorry hi, I heard my name. I tried to run over sooner, but my old bones creak.
Old music from when before I was born! \o/
I still maintain Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics on AM radio is mind blowing. 1983, guys, from stations stuck in the 50s, where everyone is white, religious, straight, with the looming threat of foreigners and women’s rights.
I can’t top Alice & Metallica since i’ve only seen, Wednesday 13, Dope & Slipknot.
BUT my Uncle did have the pleasure to play golf with Mr. Cooper here on the Gold Coast several years ago.
Can’t wait to see Alter Bridge at Soundwave omg!
I have lost count how many times I have tried to see Alice Cooper & it has never happened & I was too poor to go see Metallica lol!
I was playing a game of LoL, thus my silence. I always have things to say, most of them inane and stupid. And by most I mean few, and by few I mean all.
True Story.
Speaking of true stories, today (this afternoon-ish) I polished off a box of BBQ shapes and tipped the extra flavour into my mouth, like any other person would do. I just went to brush my teeth and wash my face, and there were a few sprinkles of flavouring stuck in my hair.
tl;dr I went the entire with Shapes flavouring in my hair.
And yet I always get shouted down by my friends when I say that older music is better than todays. How can any era with the Eagles not be considered amazing?
Unrelated to the old v. new argument, but, relevant to the Eagles:
I have a friend who once told me that Hotel California was overplayed, but that Stairway to heaven was an under appreciated gem.
I think I may have cried.
I was brought up listening to 2WS (a 70’s/80’s radio station in Sydney) and I will agree that Hotel California got played A LOT. Certainly not my favourite Eagles song, no that is definitely Desperado.
But really? Stairway to Heaven an underappreciated gem? Not a chance in hell is that “underappreciated”
It’s so underappreciated that most guitar shops have band people from playing it.
Also did you know that the song Hotel California is actually about how horrible the music industry is? Everyone thought it was about Satanism.
*banned sheesh I can’t spell
LOL, yeah okay. If they think that then they need to stop and think what they just said.
Both are amazing songs, yes both are over played, I don’t care if they are. They’re two songs everyone knows from LZ & Eagles! The more people know from iconic bands the batter if you ask me.
People disgust me when they say older era music isn’t relevant or decent compared to today’s music. if it wasn’t for that music today’s music in the fashion it is would not exist!
I also love a lot of older music, my Last.fm says that I think 😛 even though I like a lot of newer bands, they draw a lot of their influences from the older stuff I really like.
What is this last.fm thing? I’ve seen people talking about it but I’ve never really looked into it. Do you just link it to your itunes and it shows everyone what you’re listening to?
it works with most media players, not just iTunes. You download a little program called a scrobbler & it documents all the stuff you listen to & uploads it to your Last.FM it also if you own an iPod track what you listen to on that. I think it’s a neat program!
I’ll give it a go, but I’m pretty sure my music tastes are going to scare the hell out of some people 🙂
Is it nothing but Kylie Minogue songs?
Because between you and me and everyone else reading this, I am not oppose to a good Kylie singalong.
Two hearts, beating together~
I’m in love (Ooooh!), I’m in love (Ooooh!)
I should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky! I should be so lucky in looooove!
there is one reason modern can be considered inferior. Autotune. It’s awesome when used to enhance someone that can sing, but back in the good old days of analogue, you had to get it perfect when recording or else start all over again.
Oh man, Black Eyed Peas performing at Superbowl.
Autotune does not work well in live performances at all.
I mostly assumed modern music was rubbish because it lacks that gay 80’s vibe. It just added a little magic to it all.
I’ve already professed my hetero-man love for George Michael, because, let’s be honest, that was some of the best gay 80’s vibe.
And man, talking to my parents, they’re all “we didn’t know that Elton John was gay!” Best music. Best musicians.
Man, I forgot about David Bowie’s pants. Man, those pants. That’s pretty much all I can remember about “Labyrinth.”
Then again, there pants are close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3VTngm1F0
So manly. So, so manly.
dance, magic dance! Jump, magic jump!
Truly I checked TAY, saw all the posts, then frantically checked the calendar to make sure it was not Monday and I had missed work.
You are completely welcome =D
Although Bish will have to work harder to gain the spam queen title.
So much awesome music talk in TAY! I approve!
Next time we talk about Heavy Metal & who originated it, was it Black Sabbath like many claim or was it Lemmy & Motörhead like Ozzy Osbourne states in the movie ‘Lemmy’!
Why did Microsoft name their search engine after Matthew Perry’s character from hit sitcom, Friends?
There’s a story here, involving lies, betrayal, reunions, heartfelt apologies and tearful farewells. It’s a story that, when told on the silver screen, would have the Academy reaching for their shiny mantues (Statue of a man. Current rules dictate that if an object some how relates to males, the word “man” must be portmanteaued in there to make it trendy.) and throwing them at the director/principle cast/gaffers/SFX gents/John Williams.
But instead, let’s imagine that Michael Bay directs the movie.
INT – OFFICE – DAY. Man enters carrying a briefcase.
MAN
Sir, I have urgent news from the Pent…
SUDDENLY THERE IS AN EXPLOSION. THE EXPLOSION THEN EXPLODES AND BECOMES A DOUBLE EXPLOSION. THE FIRST EXPLOSION IMPLODES WHICH CASES A THIRD EXPLOSION WHICH MERGES WITH THE SECOND EXPLOSION TO CREATE A MORE POWERFUL EXPLOSION. SOME CHICK IN A BIKINI WASHES A CAR. THE CAR EXPLODES. THE GIRL IS OKAY. HER BIKINI GOT EXPLODED A LITTLE BIT SO SHE MAKES OUT WITH SOME DUDE. A GIANT ROBOT GOES TO THE MOON TO EXPLODE SOME STUFF COS THAT’S WHAT IS MAKING THE EXPLOSIONS HAPPEN.
-End scene.
I like to imagine that Bay looks over his screenplays and adds corrections in crayon while making “keplow” and “badoosh” noises when the explosions happen.
Ah, Michael Bay. The man is a genius. He makes films that, by and large should be nothing more than summer seat fillers. Movies that takes things that most people agree a good film would require, like “subtext”, “character development”, “cohesive plot” and throws them out the window, where they then explode. Yet, when he does it, they become hits. Not just some mindless holiday fun, but bona fide insta-classics. It’s like the man made a deal with the devil, or has a mutant ability allowing him to tap in to the modern zeitgeist, to generate a true meme that spreads from person to person like a virus. Every one has to see the ‘splosions!
If that were true, it would make so much sense. If not, it would make a killer movie. Michael Bay should direct it.
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