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TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
WHAT
YOU.
PAID
FOR?
Genius.
The full film has a scene where Harli spreads vegemite on the toast. Then she eats it.
Also Blaghman eating a burger.
Woah, hey, spoilers!
For god’s sake, now it’s just ****ing ruined for me.
I hope you’re happy.
>:C
So Guild Wars 2, Torchlight 2 and Borderlands 2. So many things to play and so little time to play them.
Mooooorning!… Apologies for the grumplies, but I’m pre-coffee and work has cancelled my leave for Saturday which means no meats for me T_T (still sorry Scree)
NO NEED TO BE SORRY!
I CAN PRACTISE DRESSMAKING AND CAKE BAKING =D
This means next meat I will wear a dress and have a cake =D
YOU SHOULD MAKE 2 DRESSES AND I CAN WEAR ONE TO THE NEXT MEAT!
Wait a second… okay no, my legs look terrible in dresses
Zombie movie = good movie, zombie movie + taybies = BEST ‘EFFING MOVIE OF ALL TIME
MORNING OL’ CHAP!
PIP PIP AND ALL THAT JAZZ.
Yeah, no. Obligatory Monday Morning complaint followed by statement of addiction that must be controlled lest withdrawals occur. Also work colleagues. Who needs ’em, anyway?
*monday morning explosion five
And what’s up with *think of random topic* old people huh? Them and their walking sticks
Had to take today off sick from work. Some rather epic stomach cramps. I’m going to blame Nobs pie. I knew there was a reason we never ate it 😛
Already did and sent link to a bunch of mates.
You’ve made my second favourite type of movie after 80’s action. 😀
\o/
The finished film won’t actually look so… dated though. It’ll be in crisp, ckear 1080p and look, hopefully, awesome.
*gasp*
Must have been the pizza. Possibly Karma for screwing Sughly (and me) over repeatedly in Munchkin. =P
/o\ Hope ya feel better soon man! Meanwhile that means you can steal ALL the things from that drive of mine!
I’ve been threatening that Sughly character ima put Anna’s Quest on The Pirate Bay, worked well in Munchkin, he never once screwed me over \o/
I’d never do that to him though, i’m too kind.
37 hours in Borderlands 2 and only level 39 -.- was sorta upset too since I was shooting for the All Done achievement and when the campaign is done a level 50 quest showed up 🙁
Yeah, you can’t get the “All Dont” achievement in the first run though. You have to do a second play through to get it.
Hello New TAY!
I had a dream last night that I was playing a Metroid/Metal Gear Solid crossover game. I was in a morph ball rolling around collecting claymore mines. Yeah, I don’t know either…
Also, I watched Cabin in the Woods the other night as well. It was excellent! Makes you think, you know? It also gave me strong Scooby Doo vibes in a weird way, which was awesome.
Anyway, hope you all had a good weekend. If you weren’t around (and are interested), a bunch of us have new TAYlocke stories up! http://powalen.com/taylocke
Man, dat Borderlands 2.
Got an orange drop yesterday. An assault rifle that shoots rockets. Rockets which drop a grenade after exploding. Best. Game. Ever.
WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ROCKETMAN EXPLODE? WWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY???????
Probably best to ignore me.
Wow, late TAY is weird. I get in here, and there’s not already three pages. I don’t understand.
Hi fronds!
The meat was pretty epic, lots of Ticket to Ride and Munchkin was played (\o/). I won a game of ticket to ride (\o/) but didn’t win by only one point (/o\). Eagle Boys actually got our order right (\o/) but they took like an hour to deliver it (/o\). My pie was eaten (\o/).
Final tally:
\o/ x 4
/o\ x 2
(Even though not related I may as well post here) Nice trailer man, enjoyed the whole VHS vibe on it.
Oh btw guys, I played Spec ops the line on my PS3 and got through the whole demo with no Motion sickness.
On the computer I lasted about 30 minutes
ANNA’S QUEST
http://www.kramsdesign.com/2012/09/24/annas-quest-vol-1-out-now/
Get it, and watch Doc What’s video while it’s downloading.
I’d play it today, but I have no moneys until Thursday. We’re all opposite and stuff. 😛
Man, first Sughly on twitter and now you. Stop guilt tripping me for playing Borderlands, damn it. *sobs*
😛
I am going to enjoy watching all this Borderlands 2 discussion slowly turn into Anna’s Quest discussions #Sughly’sImaginaryWorld
You’re celebrating the loss of a child? I…
I don’t know what to say.
You’ve changed, Strange. You used to be cool.
I had to do do research to learn how to make a link like that, it’s my first!
I did that for you, and because your trailer made my morning (even though your spelling of the word lurks horrified me 😛 ).
I know it may sound like a fake excuse for bad spelling, but lurcks was spelled wrong deliberately. I thought it added to the cheesiness.
I too was loath to spell it like that, and everytime I watched it I was worried people would think I couldn’t spell “lurks”.
I had a feeling it was something like that. (That or you got Rockets to do the wordy bits 😛 )
Like I said…it horrified me. Good for a horror movie, right? 😉
They’ll be needed at around 7pm.
There will be Bulldogs on their back all over the ground…
FRONDS! I have finally started doing this “Twit” things the kids are talking about. Not quite sure how the whole thing works but I have started following some of you (NOT CREEPY!).
I haven’t actually gone through TAYnames yet. Just adding the random ones that appear at the side of the screen.
Hey, don’t judge me too harshly. I’m an old man and old peo….
Hold on a sec I think I hear kids on my lawn, gotta go yell at them.
HEY MAN! Thos clouds are evil, like the moving pictures!
or the automatronic-mobiles
Torchlight 2 – lots of fun, feels so much more open than 1, and I’m enjoying bashing monsters around with my massive hammer as my engineer 🙂
Dragon Age Origins – was forced to put the game on easy to progress, cuz I suck pretty much, and the game crashes often too 🙁
LoL – Haven’t played for over 10 days and it was like I never left. Dominated both games last night, thanks for the fun gents 🙂
FTL – OMFG GAHHH I thought I won the game, then I found out there’s multiple phases to the last boss and got torn to shreds in round two… I cried afterwards cuz I got so far :'(
That’s my weekend 🙂
It is a mage spell: makes target invincible but cannot do anything, should be able to get any mages in your party to learn it.
You can win pretty much any fight by letting your tank get aggro, heal him, FF him and then laugh as the enemies continue to flail at his invincible self.
Nuke, rinse and repeat. Have two mages with FF for best results.
Another mage tip: don’t use the Storm Of The Century spell combo indoors 😐
That really sounds cheap haha :P. I just always love being the dodging dual wielding choppy choppy angel of death against the humans. I’ve never seen a game where I can be an elf being so brutal towards the human overlords. I’m enjoying it so far.
I guess you need a warrior to do that right? Rogues can’t?
The spell can be used on anyone but keep in mind that during the spell the target cannot do or be affected by anything and when it wears off peeps are still going to be hitting you in the face if you had aggro.
I would recommend a tanky warrior for that role and keep your Rogue as dps while the foes are thus distracted.
And yeah, pretty cheap but some fights I just don’t know how they could be done any other way.
Yeah but my only warrior can’t take a lot of aggro either, he gets ripped to pieces in less than a minute too, as if it were me. It just keeps feeling like I’m way UP and underlevelled.
I found crowd control so very important in that game. You really do need a mage or two to heal and keep your party from being mobbed. Also pause and micromanage your party, prioritise targets set up orders ect.
Another useful thing is have a mage cast Glyph of Paralysis and then Glyph of Repulsion on top of that – causes a big explosion that paralyses people in a wide area.
Torchlight 2 is freaking brilliant so far (only a few hours in).
as far as DA:O is concerned, until you get a healer in your party, you’re gonna die. a whole bunch. I found the best setup for me was two tanks, a healere & a rogue to do the hurty bits.
yeah best I can do is go choppy choppy with my longsword/dagger combo. Am I doing it wrong or..? I hate dying, cuz you get the death penalties that you need a kit to heal, only to die again in the next fight… so frustrating to be so weak.
until you’ve got a healer, playing as a rogue is all about three options :
– getting your opponent stunned so you get auto crits. use low blow etc, circle round & get the backstab bonus too.
– use a bow with pinning shot. slow them down while your tanks whittle their health away.
either way, its much much easier with a healer.
also, manage your AI. make sure they’re healing at the right time & helping each other out.
& dont hesitate to take control of your party members if they’re in trouble or doing something stupid.
oh & that 3rd option that disappointingly disappeared was to have your tanks use taunt to generate aggro while you flank & backstab the hell outta your opponents.
I’m melee focused in this playthrough, using dual striking to maximise my damage which sounds like a bad idea with what you’re telling me. I got a few abilities that stun like dirty fighting and riposte but not a lot.
@Doc What
Are you really going to get rid of the whole 80’s VHS vibe from it? It makes everything at least 67.38% more awesome. There’s something about the way the old style looks that always makes all the gore and violence a touch more disturbing to. Not sure why but that’s what I’ve found.
It was my intention….
I might run the finished film through the VHS anyway and see what happend. Or try and replicate the colour bleed and what not.
I’m honestly not sure. the cheesy trailer was just supposed to be silly.
I watched Die Hard for the first time on the weekend. It was a pretty good movie. I couldn’t help but think of Alan Rickman saying “5 points from Gryffindor Mr. McClane” while watching though.
See I’m the opposite. I kept expecting Alan Rickman just to shoot Harry in the face.
Did they ever say he wasn’t?
You watch. They’ll make an eighth Harry Potter movie featuring Jeremy Irons as Simonus Grub who leads Harry on a quest full of riddles and tests of his wizardly skills.
Haha. That was brilliant.
So for those not in twitterland, my game Anna’s Quest finally has volume 1 out TODAY! Woo!
http://www.kramsdesign.com/games/annas-quest/
If you can spread the word anywhere and everywhere it would be GREATLY greatly appreciated! I need all the support I can get 😀
Enjoy!
That’s old news. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-185/comment-page-1/#comment-806285
Also, congrats! And I bought it already
Did you see the person complaining about the pacing in the game.
How impatient must you be, I bet they skip all the cut scenes in games as well 😉
Engi cruiser Layout B (yep, I failed a fair few times to unlock this one)
Ingredients: Prioritised shield development
Massive ion weapon (original equip)
Laser cannon (original equip)
All the original crew, and folks picked up along the way (all trained to ** in their jobs), as well as two spares for repairing duties.
Ion Blast II (4 second charge means constant stream of fire) (found out in the stars by chance)
Fully upgraded engines for maximum evade
Defence drone
Anti-ship drone
Strategy:
Get lucky with the equipment. Having two ion weapons was a lifesaver. Kept the enemy’s shields down permanently, with occasional spare fire to disable missile weapons. Laser cannon permanently aimed at weapons systems. The real benefit of this weapons layout is that it only takes up 7 energy slots, so you can focus your upgrades elsewhere.
Took next to no damage in the first two rounds, and STILL almost perished in the final final battle. Be prepared to open your airlocks to suffocate unwelcome visitors if you get the chance – blast doors help in this regard – so that they’re half-gone by the time they meet any of your crew.
Prioritising ion weapons sounds like it’ll prolong the battle, but really it made things so much quicker after the first couple of combat rounds.
I really want to win with that one, I got it unlocked too and the concept is pretty badass. Also cuz Engi are awesome. I only had the default ion weapon, single shot heavy laser and hull missile 2, but it kept dodging which was annoying. Then phase 2… oh god… the swarms… they’re everywhere! I just didn’t do damage fast enough for their missiles to end up disabling vital systems for defence, including my shields and drone control. Once the missile systems were permanently disabled the fight was easy in phase 1.
It’s not good to rely on missiles in a long battle like this because you’ll run out really, really quickly.
Drat… thought as much, I had about 30 when I began the battle, died with 21 remaining since i only wanted to target shields with it, then laser everything else starting with weapons
good way to beat the swarms is to get stealth and upgrade it once… then pop the stealth just as the drones come.
Only problem is that I think it doesn’t recharge quick enough to use it on every single swarm
I managed it in the Red-Tail (layout B of the starting ship). As Shane said, prioritise shield development. Make sure you use the same pilot the whole game so his evade skill is maxed out.
The real godsend was a breach drone that I was able to launch into the enemy ship. In the second round it luckily hit the shield room and wreaked enough havoc in there that I was able to hammer their drone launcher with my lasers. Eventually they just ran out of drones!
Also, it’s most devastating weapon is controlled from the weapon room immediately to the right of the cockpit. ASAP, beam two crew members in there to overpower the guy manning it and disable it.
The third round wasn’t really that bad. Special shields meant no beaming or breach drones, but I was able to hold out until the special shields were down and take out that weapon again. With no drones or cloaking it was pretty much cake compared to the second round.
Yeah it’s an awesome game. I’m loving it.
Only beat it once on easy so far. The first stage of the boss is easy… it’s the other 2 that kill me every time.
4 shields and a defence drone to punch through is brutal.
I know it was posted twice on the previous page, but hey, here’s another one:
http://www.kramsdesign.com/games/annas-quest/
Sughly’s game Anna’s Quest is now available! Old school point-and-click. Beautiful art direction!
I’ll reiterate what Shane said on the previous page: Season Pass! We’d definitely buy one.
I’m certainly a fan of this idea.
Also, I’m sorry for saying the old man was Milhouse, Sughly! Don’t hate me!
Finally on the board!
Howdy tayberinos!
I am on holidays! Yaaaay!
Which means I’ve of course come down sick, boo
A Monday morning question: which game world would you like to holiday in? If the politics wasn’t so unstable, I’d holiday in panau from just cause 2
I dunno, man. If we’re going by vidya game locations… well, think about it. Your vacation is degenerated to a crappy Sims spin-off, eternally surrounded by low-quality playboy bunnies who can go no further than to strip naked and give you lap dances.
Man, that’s hell.
I’ve never played it so I wouldn’t know, but I thought the point of the game was to sleep with them and turn into Hugh Hefner…?
Anyway, since my holiday destinations should be family-friendly, I’m going to rescind my original answer. I think it’s taken up too many comments as it is 😛
*shrugs* I’m relying on youtube videos, so yeah.
Actually It’s a sims clone with a bit of a buisness sim combined. So if that’s your idea of a good vacation..
Jurassic Park: The Game – because dinosaurs
Mass effect – So much cool tech to play with
Assassin’s creed brotherhood – Rome in it’s post fall glory
Blood bowl – cause grand final fever
Tiny bang story – So adorable
Skyrim – because I want to meet Hugo
NEW PAGE!? REPOST!
TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE ASKED!
2 Cuts will be done of the film!
Original and “1981”
Because you all wanted it so badly.
Also, copies of the VHS version will be available on both DVD AND VHS!
I should do a kickstarter or something 😛
So I’m guessing every second post in TAY this week is going to be about Anna’s Quest or Doc’s zombie trailer, right? 😛 (not that that’s a bad thing)
I finally worked out what the W in your name stands for
It’s “What?” isn’t it
You are both marketing machines
Shane What? Smith co-author with Doc What? of the best selling book TAY marketing 101
Hey Doc! Want to write a book? 😛
NO! But let’s do it anyway!
At least until the inevitable crossover where Anna and Julie team up to fight the undead.
ANNA’S QUEST 2: JULIE’S UNDEAD NIGHTMARE!
It’ll be a nice reprieve from those two games that everyone’s been playing. Who plays games and talks about them, anyway?!
Hey, so umm… I just realised that I play almost NO gaems. Ever.
This needs to change. At some point.
But I need your help! Multi with me, people!
Errm, preferred platform is PC.
Games I really want to put more time into/start/finish are Borderlands 1, Spec Ops: The Line. Even a game of TF2 every now and then would be awesome though 🙂
Have you got the TAYnames doc? I’m on there, and you can find me on raptr under ‘Mythamphetamine’ if you want to check out which games I have 😀
I’m a go for TF2 and Borderlands, although my internet connection varies and I’m just starting out for Borderlands. Adding you on steam now.
Just starting out suits me fine man, I lost my save so have to start again anyway!
friend request sent, you can ask me anytime for a game whenever I’m online.
Also, I should correct myself. My internet connection is horrible. I need to a hire a scholar to make a appropriate metaphor for me, cause it’s really that bad.
yoyoyoyyooyyoo
I’ve been meaning to get through the original’s DLC at some point but I can never find people around my levels. I think I have a level 19 and 25 on PC.
I’m.. level.. 17? 18? so I should be up for a game.
Cool bananas, add me on Steam when you get the chance (Greenius). I have the GOTY edition so I have all the DLC and I’ve only done Zombie Island of Dr. Ned so everything else will be new to me too :). I beat the game multiple times on Xbox though.
Question is, how easy will it be to get back into the original after beating the beast known as Borderlands 2… 😛
I have no motivation to do single-player usually, I find I just go to sleep or watch youtube. I’m the worst at this /o\
Yeah what this guy said, play Space Marine and terminate the Xenos in Exterminatus mode with friends 🙂
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/80436
Borderlands 2 for $17?
I know some of you were thinking about it and it’s a steal for $17 but I have no idea whether that site is legit or whether you can play with other people :P. From skimming the comments it seems to work fine and is a Russian version (in English though) but people are unsure whether you can play multiplayer with non-Russian versions (I read a comment that said you could though but one confirmation doesn’t mean much :P).
Buy it at your own risk but dayummmm $17 is good enough just for the single player!
They’re also selling the season pass for 10 bucks.
Oh man. Oh man, I dunno if I should get in on this. Oh man.
There were some comments about it but it’s hard to tell since it’s not out :/. Risky as shit! But then again worth it for just the single player content (I played the majority of both Borderlands and 2 single and it was still fun).
Да!Рублевая стоимость является крошечным по сравнению с удовольствие вы бы.
CONTROL EX TO DAH VEE BOYEEE!
Eh looks kinda dodgy to me. If something is too good to be true it usually is, especially on the internet.
I shall wait until there’s a solid wave of approval, but this honestly tears at my heart.
I’ll be buying it tonight, and will let everyone know the outcome 😀
…I should start a kickstarter 😛
Good. Guinea pigs are always good.
Another thing to keep in mind is that buying things in rubles is a great way to get your credit card locked by bank security.
So don’t do it if you plan on urgently needing to use your card
Yeah, Russian keys = only work inside Russia for MP or those with the same key, and it’s so cheap to combat the piracy. I’d be so on to this if it wasn’t for the whole doesn’t work for MP outside of Russia kinda shit.
g2play (who are respectable)
http://www.g2play.net/store/Borderlands-2-RU-Multilanguage-Region-Free-Steam-Key.html
they’re selling for $36…
OH OH OH I just remembered that I read somewhere that once you have a game from a region you can’t add it again or remove it. If I recall BL2 uses Steamworks so if you do buy this and it’s dodgy then it locks you out from re-buying it again. Better to make another account if you want to be sure but from the comments it seems like it works fine.
Just a warning to Aleph (and others)! But still, $17 for single player is awesome.
Had a great game of Munchkin last night. Combined the vanilla cards with the Cthuhlu cards and madness ensued. The early strategy was to screw Sughly. Then somehow everyone got to fairly high levels and it was all out war.
My strategy was to get everyone else to waste their stuff on stopping everyone else from winning so that I could sneak through victory when they couldn’t stop me.
It worked!
I tried to point out to everyone that if they kept screwing me on my last go it would just let you win. They didn’t listen. I tried mentioning that they should let me win because I’d be far less insufferable about it. They didn’t listen 😛
So yeah, even though everybody pretty much would have guessed…my unnamed project is quite obviously a quilt. A TAYbie quilt.
I’ve started on it and here is a picture of Sughly, Pez and the beginnings of Greenius’ quilt blocks: https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/250045586886246400/photo/1/large
I really wanted to throw myself in the deep end because that’s how I learn the best so I’ll be doing all sorts of new things to try and do justice to all of the pictures you guys have sent.
Also, I still need more if its going to be complete. I may have to make two quilts in the end, but I really want everyone. So please, if you haven’t already, send me a self-portrait to add to it.
Green is my favourite colour…I was just sad that that was all the greens I could find on the day I shopped for this!
Awesome! 🙂
Will the names be sewed in as well as captions under each picture or just the pictures themselves?
I haven’t decided yet. I’ll either do that, or print off a collage of the original pics with the names on them to accompany the quilt.
Meant to tell you: Tigerion got a page get in TAY last week with some pics. Not sure if you saw…
I did indeed see that. Thanks for letting me know though, I’m paranoid I’ll miss submissions!
I admit it. i forgot. but I will send you something soon.
I already said this on twitter but I’ll say it again, good luck and I hope it turns out well.
Btw do you have a blog strange, where we can keep up with the quilt’s progress?
Also I’d love to see all the pictures TAYbies sent in on one page or on a slideshow on your blog. If the TAYbies don’t mind that is. 🙂
Oh yeah that’ll be sweet! Kind of like scree’s blog with updates on how it’s all going so we can all see the process :).
It’ll be a lot of extra work though so it’s up to you!
But seriously, that’s an awesome endeavour!
I know it’s going to turn out fantastic, because it’s by Lady Strange!
Or better yet! Exclude me from it completely and just make me into a tiny cushion slip and place me in the corner. Or kitchen!
Admittingly, I’m not sure why they drag him out, but leave him in his “snow-angel” state. I guess it’s cause they don’t want to disturb the body in fear of injury, but it makes me think “Ok guys, we saved him. On with our lives!” and then they left him as is.
But.. uh.. fantastic. Yeah. Faith in Humanity +10.
Well without proper medical training of any sort, you can’t really tell how bad of a state they really are, best to just make sure he isn’t burning to death under the car at least.
Yeah, I gather you are not supposed to move people unnecessarily after a major accident, could worsen injuries and stuff. And it looked like emergency services had rocked up by that point.
Did look kinda odd tho.
Yeah this, in a situation like that he could have spinal injuries and even the slightest wrong movement of the body can make that escalate from a healable fracture to irreparable spinal cord damage or even death depending on where the damage actually is.
Guys I finally got a HDTV! Wooo \o/ \o/ \o/ I can finally read the damn text on all the games and of course view the games at their best! \o/
The XMB on the PS3 looks awesome, I can finally see how my wallpaper and themes complement each other plus I can also read the game descriptions on the PSN store. Weirdly enough, this is the stuff that has excited me so far.
I’m sure the games also look awesome but I have only played Pacman: CE DX on it , the game is fantastic get it, but I’m hoping to try some Split/second later today.
But Masha you have no job and you are on a strict food-transport-job search expenses budget, where did you get the money for a TV? Well if you must know some guy my landlord knows just gave me his unused Samsung 40 inch TV.
HOW AWESOME IS THAT! SOME GUY I BARELY KNOW GAVE ME A TV. WOW. SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST AWESOME.
Weirdly this happened the same week Flu was to be getting his TV as well. 🙂 New TV bros?
I’m still figuring out a lot of stuff but it’s exciting. Hopefully my electricity bill doesn’t get too high because of it.
Anyway, I’m having a few issues and I’d love your help. I’m not the best with technology and some times I just like having something that plugs in and plays so most of this stuff is not as frustrating but I just get bored with it. /o\
Explanations aside the main issue I have at the moment is calibrating the image quality, aargh! I’ve spent most of the time in the brightness and contrast settings. On one hand TV looks ok but when I watch a movie it looks weird. When my PS3 is on, I have put it on the ‘game mode setting’ and it looks good but then if I want to watch a movie on my PS3 it looks weird. Sometimes it’s too bright, sometimes it’s too dark. Other times certain colours look weird. You can imagine it can get daunting after a while.
Also what does the sharpness setting do?
Second question for PS3 owners, is the PS3 louder when using HDMI cables? I know this sounds dumb but for some reason my PS3 sounds louder than usual now. It could be general age of course or maybe it could be because my PS3 is in a different position so it might be closer to me now.
Finally if there are any general tips you have learnt over the time of owning a HDTV or some websites that could help I’d be happy to learn them.
Thanks 🙂
P.S.
PS3 owners go to your consoles Internet browser and check out the new formatting if you haven’t. It looks really cool. The browser is still very slow though.
Wooo! HD gaming is amazing!
I can’t really help on some of the things you mentioned as I don’t know anything about it but are you using the TV’s speakers? It might be that your new TV just has a louder volume in general, I know the Plasma I use for games is a lot louder than the old TV.
Oops should have been clearer on the second question /o\ I meant the PS3’s fans.
But to your point, the new TV’s volume levels are really high.
Oops! WERDS CONFUS ME
I think it’s just your PS3 saying “Masha, please delete some demos!”
Let me know when the next PS+ stuff rolls out so I can grab anything I might’ve missed (Double Dragon thingy) in the mean time before it goes and then we can swapsies :).
OMG HALP
I usually just set it to Dynamic and leave it there. Seems to be a good setting. Some games can seem a bit dark but I just slide the in game brightness up a few notches and happy days.
As for the noise I couldn’t say. I’ve only ever used a HDMI for it so no idea.
But woo for free TV! I’ve actually given away 2 TVs now simply because when upgrading have no room at all for the old ones. Big TVs are great until you figure out how much room they take up.
In regards to electricity bill, how many watts is it?
The reason for the shifting contrast is because of the setting you’ve got it on. Disable anything in the LCD that’s doing post-processing, be it game mode or movie mode or whatever, and set the brightness / contrast up yourself. You might lose some dynamic range but you’ll also get better response times.
I haven’t done anything with mine yet apart from watching a few minutes of Futurama.
Thanks for the advice guys.
I’m not sure how many watts it is freeze. I’ll let you know when I check.
Finally uploaded that DayZ thing – “Josh” thanks to being on cable again. http://t.co/W4mHILyb
I’m only a couple of minutes in but I know this is going to be an interesting video. Dude sounds shifty as 😛
Ha good times.
I should play this again some time. Might wait till the full game release…
I COME BARING DEALS!!!
http://www.gog.com/en/promo/atari_weekend_promo/?pp=1d513c0bcbe33b2e7440e5e14d0b22ef95c9d673
Man A LOT of those games take me back.. such wonderful, wonderful titles!
On a side note – got lots of painting done on the weekend – yay! 😀
Desperados 2: Cooper’s Revenge and Total Annihilation would be my recommendations from that list
So i’m going to try and make part of this dress today \o/
I have to vacuum first /o\
Maybe I should just draw instead? =P
I really have nothing of interest to say, so that’s the reason for this ^^;;
No, BL2 will only distract you!
Make the dress, make the dreeessssss!
Then play BL2 afterwards.
😀
Or Anna’s Quest. Man, I hope this game is good, or I’m gonna feel like a bit of a tool 😛
I can’t just yet. I’ll get really depressed playing it (Sorry Sughly!)
I’ve always wanted to make my own games, but I lack the ability to program
I’ll probably do the dress =P It needs to be done by the 5th so I can wear it to Mum’s birthday
Splicer, I need your email address so I can ask you for your physical address so I can attend your meat.
If he doesn’t see or reply to this before a reasonable time (before the meat :P) I can pass either his email or actual address along?
Speaking of which… if you’re still here Inquis, are you going and can I still take you up on that lift? I can give you my email or we can talk through Steam or something.
Yeah man I’ll talk to you on steam….
I’m having some doubts about my availability for the meat, lots of stuff has come up, but I’ll try to get there. I’ll probably know more during the week and I’ll let you know.
Yeah, no problem, thanks again.
If you have a lot on your plate, don’t feel obligated to go just because of me though. Since it’s during the afternoon I probably could get a lift from my parents but I figured it’ll be a bit weird asking them to drop me at a random stranger’s house :P. I thought since you’re going there anyway and you (hopefully) don’t live too far away it might be easier if I tagged along.
If it works out that Inquisitorsz can’t go then I’m happy to drop you back if needs be. And give you a ride there we can meet somewhere halfway too if you need.
He staged a coup and overthrew Serrels.
well, that’s certainly something.
I swear Serrels is just sick, not dead. I promise. I could never be as good at his job as he is anyway
GOOD LORD!
Does anyone know of a place in Melbourne where I could get a semi-faulty Dreamcast looked at? I tried to use my old one a week or so ago and was having problems where it would tell me it couldn’t read the VMU all of a sudden, and it would start up games only to crash out to the Dashboard suddenly. Also back when it was working last, I was having issues with the laser giving read errors. Also also, I had no sound out of it (but this might have been an issue with my VGA adapter or my TV / Receiver setup and not the system).
There is a place around the corner from me that repairs all consoles.
Otherwise try places that will put chips in wii’s and stuff.
Terrible secret: I put a chip in my Wii myself. It was super easy too. Just required attaching ribbon cables through it and taping it down.
Borderlands 2 folk! Have you found any awesome orange weapons/grenades/shields yet?
I’ve found one, from the very last encounter of the game. It’s a sniper called a Monstrous Volcano, and its flavour text is hilarious. “Pele humbly requests that you provide him with a sacrifice.. if it’s not too much trouble”
I also found The Bane, the cursed gun that was posted on an article a couple of days back. It’s not orange, but it is hilarious.
Yeah that sniper was in the first one too, though he was demanding a sacrifice back then.
I hope they have another Combustion Hellfire SMG. Burn ALL the things!
One weapon and one head customisation.
The head is SPOILERS: Wnpx’f znfx which is weird because I got another one of it but in Blue. It didn’t say I’ve already used it so when I used it again it just didn’t do anything.
The weapon is a pretty awesome corrosive pistol which I used as an assault rifle since it’s pretty accurate, had a massive magazine (something like 120?) and dealt double the damage of any assault rifles/SMGs I found around that time. I can’t remember her name or location but I got it by killing ____ White and her 7 midgets in The Fridge(?).
My favourite gun so far is one from a quest from the robot who wants to be a human. So damn good!
I believe this flavour text is intended to contrast with that of ‘Volcano’ in the original Borderlands.
I got an orange shield which was inferior to the green one I was using in every way 🙁
I got an orange assault rifle which fires rockets. The rockets also drop a grenade on impact.
I got this about an hour ago: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/937004266037019977/634121A4FDE6737D66C6AED0E6718E63EBA5A1F5/ DEM LINKS
I DID MY STRANGE PICTURE TOO!@
https://twitter.com/Chul00p4/status/250069715333021696/photo/1
afternoon all!!!!!
hope everyone is well and had an awesome weekend! hopefully this week is better than the last???
so ive been getting my borderlands (1) freak on with my bro and bro in law, just hit level 16 and the game is awesome so far…..
aside from that been doing LOTS of digging around the Minecraft Survival mode server (see TAYLIST for server details!) been finding SO MUCH crap!!! also started building a house on top of a mountain 🙂 SO MUCH COBBLESTONE BEING COOKED!!!!
for anyone joining theres a base at the spawn point with some chests full of stone pickaxes and stuff to get people started, my only request is that you guys replace it once you’re settled in 🙂
also, been reading about the patent sony just filed re: ID’ing a user on the console… load of crap… i was all set on grabbing the next ps4 console, but seriously, if this is the direction they are heading with nexgen, this crap makes UBISOFTS DRM seem like a godsend. I shall officially state that if this is what things have come to, i will be boycotting the next console gen, and sticking with the master race…. and then when that goes ive got about 15 gaming consoles, and a SERIOUS BACKLOG on my pile of shame that will literally last me a lifetime!!!
Hey Zet! You might’ve missed my comment above (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-185/comment-page-2/#comment-806572) but I’m keen to get through the original Borderland’s DLC one day. You guys are soon approaching my levels so if you ever need an extra, just let me know :).
I can’t remember but I think I have a 19 Mordecai and 25 Brick. It’s been a while since I’ve played. I finished it multiple times on Xbox but haven’t had the motivation on PC :P.
I’m in no real rush though and I do have Borderlands 2, so don’t feel obligated :).
But how good is it!? I assume neither of you have played the sequel yet? It pretty much improves on the first in every single way so it’s going to be hard for me to go back! 😛
awesome man, add me to steam and ill pm you when we jump on 🙂
Speaking of Borderlands, do any 360 players want to start up some co-op?
By which I mean new characters as I pretty much have not played it :/
I find myself curious why so many people, including myself, seems to be okay with the Wii U’s price in Australia. I was talking to someone today about the Wii U and he said he was interested in getting it until he learned the price. I pointed out it wasn’t that bad then he pointed out that when compared to the US price, yes, it is. We’re paying $80 more for the delux edition than they are even though we’re at parity with the US. I find it funny that we’ll all kick up a fuss about paying an extra $20-$40 for our games, but then we’re fine with being charged an extra $80 for the console to play those games. I wonder if it has to do with the price being triple digits rather than double. Does the difference between $60 and $80 feel like a greater gap than the distance between $350 and $430? That the more money that’s involved the less the difference between the tens, the hundreds and eventually the thousands seems?
We’re used to paying more for hardware I guess. Also it’s a once-off purchase vs a constant one. Also the bulk of the people buying one at launch are Nintendo fans who would probably buy it even if it was $1000 because OMG IT HAS MARIO AND PIKMIN AND THERE WILL BE ZELDA etc.
I can’t remember but I think the Wii was $400 at launch, 360 was $700 and PS3 was like $1000 (rough estimates on the latter). What Neg said, we’re used to paying a whole lot more for hardware and while yes, it’s still a lot more expensive than it is in the US, it’s less of a mark up than previous hardware releases have been.
The PS3 was so expensive here that I was able to import a Japanese one with some games and courier shipping and paid less than locally. :\ To be fair that was when the Yen was a lot weaker too.
Additional shipping costs for larger bulky items can be understood is one of the main reasons.
When it comes to games it is easy to ship via airmail for next to nothing so if we can do that then retails should be able to more economically than that.
Don’t forget in the US the ticket price is not the real price. they get around 10% tax added on at the registers when they buy stuff. And also, GST is included in our RRPs.
Realised I had been stalking TAY all day without saying anything. So…uh…hello.
Doc and I saw three of the ReelAnime films last week! From Up On Poppy Hill was definitely the best, but the other two were also pretty good. We had to go to Newtown to see them, which is a very interesting place…lots of random bicycles with flower baskets on them, and this really weird Oportos that had no doors or windows.
Also, dat Borderlands 2. ‘spretty good.
I really wanted to see Wolf Children but I think I’ve missed my chance. Already own the other two on Bluray (haven’t watched yet though), they’ve been out in Japan for a while, but Wolf Children is literally brand new, only hit cinemas in Japan in IIRC July and hasn’t even got a home video release scheduled yet.
Remember what Spider-Man says, son.
With great power comes great, um, something. It’s probably not that important. As you were.
You mean Spiderman right?
how can you have lived in Sydney for [X amount of time] and only just be discovering that Newtown is a ‘very interesting place’?
I walked through Newtown and Redfern at midnight on NYE, and all I got was a couple of rips in my t-shirt.
Newtown is one of my favourite places in Sydney. But Redfern, while its reputation is worse than the reality (and everyone has a story of something that happened to them or a friend in Redfern), is just not my cup of tea.
Still, I’d much rather walk through either of those places at night than through Gosford. Or Blacktown.
I prefer Redfern or Newtown to Angurugu once the sun sets 😉
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape.
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
EDITORS UNITE
In related news, this is not meant to be happening and all will be revealed soon…ish
Now nobody gets a dot. You got our hopes up Nova, and now they’ve been dashed (or at the very least, un-dotted).
I plan to console myself with ice cream or pizza.
also, holy shit. theres an actual edit button!
Yay, ice cream and pizza. Wait, I got undotted too, where’s MY ice cream and pizza?
People from Sydney like to edit things.
Mystery solved! Well done everyone, have some Scooby Snacks.
Magic.
Ben sent an email out to a select few people. These people followed said instructions and had to change their names, deleting special characters and spaces but now have the ability to edit comments
D:
I’m going to say their own comments and they’re trying out a new system to be implemented soon.
CONSPIRACY
#goddit
AlexPants is the best.
Last Edited September 21, 2012 2:30 PM by AlexPants
WITCH!!!!
It’s not the 21st.
TIME TRAVELLER WHO CAN EDIT COMMENTS BEFORE THEY APPEAR
WITCH!!!!!
Damn it! The one time I needed to NOT get a typo 😛
*nod of approval*
And now I’m offended I wasn’t one of them! What’s the point of being a First Lady if you don’t get privileges like that? 😛
Well that’s just my theory :P, it could be wrong though! (it’s not – I’m amazing)
P.S….not actually offended, just joking around. 🙂
I know :)! Just seemed like a good place to emphasize it being a theory :P. Heh, that way if it’s right I can brag the shit out of it. And if it’s wrong? You saw nothing.
Success, bitches!
Except no space. More compact Pez. More efficient. Das ist der German Pez.
Ja.
And no special characters. I am no longer Doc What?… *sniff*
Although *whispers* ouyay ancay editay ouryay isplayday amenay *wink*
Yeah, that’s a worry actually :S
I know, I don’t want to die!
WHAT’S GOING ON? WHY AM I GOING TO DIE?! I DON’T WANT TO DIE
/o\
D:
T_T
And more I can’t be bothered posting…
OHAIDER!
Also WAT. Logging in? Is this a thing? CAN THIS BE A THING! I WANT IT AS A THING.
ALSO CUDDLES. CUDDLES NEED TO BE A THING.
But more to the point, why am I not an editor?
Exclusivity is only annoying to the excluded.
NEW PAGE REPOST!
TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
Amendment:
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape.
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
I remember it from 1982. I was minus three years old, and this was one of the first thirty movies that I was exposed to in the ether of non-existence. I also saw Star Wars Episode VIII and the eleventh Indiana Jones film, not to mention Clerks III, Back to the Future 4, and the only film in which Hugh Grant plays a role that appeals to a macho male viewer. Julie vs the Dead was the best of these.
Good ol’ nega-childhood. I remember being on my Dreamcast 360 and playing now-then classics such as Starfox 2, Half-life 3, Starcraft Ghost, Megaman Legends 3, and Earthbound 64.
Good times.
At first I chortled heartily. Then I was reminded of the reality of those games’ existence . Then I stopped chortles.
NO IPHONES IN 1981!
Seriously though, really nice work on the retro look. Looks awesome!
Shane! I see on a previous page you finished FTL! I am very keen to that as well. Really need to play it more. How long did it take you? I see Kermitron spent like 12 hours in the game before finishing it. I’m about three hours down and got to sector 8 or so in my best game (my first, incidentally).
Mandatory NAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW 😀
Seriously, that is one cute baby. How’s it all going?
He’s pretty awesome. I think we got a good one 🙂
I think as far as babies go he’s very good. He has a lot of long stretches of 5 or 6 hours of sleep and has only screamed like three times. When he’s upset he tends to just wriggle and complain really quietly. We have to be really attentive because he just sort of tolerates having a dirty nappy or being hungry. One night he went 7 hours between feeds. He has bad periods, like being up every hour for 24 hours but usually he’s a little champ. He’s starting to be really attentive now (he’s around 11 weeks old) and making “coo” and “ahh” noises at us and smiling a lot. He’s discovering his hands, and is starting to grab onto things more and more. I’ve been reading him Winnie the Pooh stories and he really seems to pay attention and focus on the pages of the book.
It’s such a big amount of work though and it never stops! It’s really not up to us whether we watch a dvd or not, and it can be trying when you just want to flop on the couch after a long day at work. But I can already see how worth it it is, and I do look forward to having board-game nights and teaching him how to use gameboys/xboxes and stuff 😀
Becoming a parent is the best! And the worst. 😛
So true 🙂
Edit button? Pfft
WHERE’S THE LIKE/UPVOTE BUTTON, because this post earned one.
Okay, that post could have used an edit button.
Almost home time \o/ benefit of starting at 6… Afternoon will consist of Monty python on teevee and poogiemans on the free dee ees
Do what you want ’cause a Pirate is free – you are a pirate
Yar Har Fiddle dee dee
Being a pirate is all i would be
Do what you want ’cause a pirate is fee
You Are a pirate!
Yo Ho Ahoy and AVAST!
Being a pirate is really bad-ass
Hang a black flag at the end of the mast
You are a pirate!
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part,
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates all are well-to-do;
But I’ll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King.
HEYLO TAYO! Whats all this about editors?
Also ya for shot on shiteo zombie film with toast! (Cept not really cause its all editing and lies)
Let’s have some editor fun!
We all know the regular news posts are quickly becoming a wretched hive of scum and villainy, so with that in mind, if you were an editor and had the chance to replace flame and troll posts with any other text – what would it be?
Would it be text?
Would it be a picture?
Would it be a high explosive made of pool supplies?
What would you do to troll the trolls?
“At the behest of our moderators, this post was deemed annoying and/or offensive, and did not attempt to contribute to the discussion in any way, shape or form. Freedom of speech doesn’t exist here, but don’t be upset; we are benevolent dictators.”
“I will go away and think about what I just thought of saying which was highly inappropriate” 😛
……
http://danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_724737/
Holy crap… how am I only finding out about this now?!!?
This is surely a must for consumption when listening to Alestorm?!
Speaking of Alestorm, did you see this new shirt of theirs: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151321459948054&set=a.10150311678013054.372114.215568008053&type=1&theater ?
….that….
….That’s beautiful!!!! 😀
I can’t wait for January!! Melbourne is where they are filming their first ever DVD!!!
BRING IT ON!!
YARRR!!!
Hey, you know what game looks awesome? Anna’s Quest! (http://www.kramsdesign.com/games/annas-quest/) You should totally get it!
emphatic ‘yes, i thought the trailer was great’
also, if you can provide (peer reviewed) evidence that you are awesomest, then I’ll agree to that too. but til that time, I’d say its inconclusive.
No. I hated it and am thoroughly embarrassed to have clicked the thumbs-up icon in Youtube.
And I got to be really quite mean in the process.
This just has ‘win’ written all over it.
I thought it was a bit odd, fishing for non-specific praise like that… antennae, you have earned a steak dinner
😀
I totes pulled a trick!
I was going to change it to “Are you poo heads”? But I felt bad.
Ha! This is why I never answer just yes or no. Also, I would have given the only correct answer!
*Rocky fists in air*
Exactly. Which is why I think maybe these guys testing out their new powers weren’t actually supposed to let us apparently less important TAYbies they had them…. 😛
Apparently they all forgot to sign the NDAs.
Either that, or KotAUku is sittin’ pretty after claiming all those broken NDAs 😛
Once years ago when I was in my teens I was a moderator for a crazy active forum. Made a joke post with my powers. All hell broke loose. I resigned my position. I know the temptation all too well. 😛
… :'(
I figured that cat was outta the bag at this point. the fact that every one became an EDITOR kinda gave the game away.
If there was a game.
I accidentally a word.
Gee, I reckon an ability to edit would be handy right about now. 😛
Btw, WHY DON’T I HAVE EDITING POWERS LIKE THE OTHERS??? Am I not good enough or something? 😛
It’s okay, Ram. I don’t have editing powers either. It’s obviously because our grammar and typing skills are so amazing we don’t need an edit button. 😛
Shush! 😛
Hello TAYBIES!!! How are we all? I spent the weekend keeping my partner awake through the jetlag to aclimatise him back to proper daytime \o/(I’m an evil boyfriend). Also went for a picnic in daylight and didn’t disintergrate \o/… also came 5th in a card game tournament\o/. Then came back to the realisation that I still do not have a job despite 40 odd applications in the last 3 weeks/o\
So in short, a very good weekend
Here’s the rules I think should apply for editing comments. If you have a reply, you cannot edit. Ben, make this happen. Now!
Else TAY will become unreadable.
I’d like to think most people have the sensibility not to abuse an ability like editing (bar today). 😛
Nah, I think people’ll settle down after everyone has the editing powers. The kids’ll need something to entertain themselves if they can’t use all their fake and trolling accountnames, after all. 😉
It just means that creating fake account names requires an email address.. who hasnt created a fake email before? :p
But what if you typo and someone replies before you fix it? 🙁
Ultimately editing the comment doesn’t do anything (Hell, I asked for specific replies and ebven that meant the joke didn’t really work) and people will ignore anone who keeps playing jokes by editing their post.
I propose a mutiny.
I back this mutiny and propose myself as the new leader.
I agree to an extent, but you run into trouble when people can’t edit typos and things just because someone replied.
(Plus, edited comments have a “Last edited on…” sentence stuck to them, so there’s no confusion. Or at least, there won’t be eventually :P)
Yeah, in cases where I’ve edited my comments in other places I’ve usually added an “Edited because I suck at typing” comment in to make sure people know why I edited.
To avoid trolling they just need to add a little note at the bottom that says the comment’s been edited. That way you should be able to tell if someone’s trying to pull a fast one on people or not.
It says it at THE bottom. In grey so you can’t fake it. 😛
“Last edited September 24, 2012 XX:XX pm”
I just replied to a post by a TAY member on another website. Felt weird. Like your high school and uni friends hanging out. 😛
Not related to Allure! I promise I’m not stalking, though. I’ve been a member there longer than they have, so if any thing… they’re stalking me! 😛
EDITOR MESSAGE
We’re not really editors. We’re beta testing the new Kotaku, complete with accounts.
If you want in on the beta, please email Ben White (ben.white[at]alluremedia.com.au) and he’ll set you guys up 🙂
This is not a scam!
Last edited September 24, 2012 3:26 pm because it’s a scam*
*It’s really not. I felt bad about only Sydney TAYbies being included, so I asked if people could join and and he said yes. So go do it!
I may as well add to this that this new stuff will be rolled out by the end of the week anyway (at least that’s what Ben said they’re hoping for). So you’ll all get it eventually.
Reminds me of Monday two weeks back. The great TAY gravatar swap, just on a bigger more catastrophic scale. 😛 (Although a user account appeals to me. :P)
I guess an edit function means we can fix tay breaks ourselves?
Not the ones that are caused by replying to your under moderation comment. I’m assuming here that editor powers don’t include approving your own comment.
Quick…someone give Lambo an edit button! 😛
If it was used in responsible ways like that, then that’s great. You could close the HTML tags manually if it goes that far in editing.
Won’t fix unmoderated comment TAYbreaks though, unless you get those powers too?
I guess having accounts would stop that though.
An example would be if a TAYbie decided to pose as “The Reply Button” for a cameo appearance. If they logged back in with their main account, would they still see that comment in moderation since they were the ones that posted it from their computer like before or will they vanish being on another account? Only then will TAYbreaking will really be extinguished.
Hey all! Sorry to anyone who missed out on the first email batch – I just grabbed a few of the latest Sydney meat lists. No offence intended!
The idea was a small release of a few people to get the major issues out of the way first, that’s all 🙂
As the doc has mentioned, just shoot me an email if you’re keen to help test – I’ll send you a beta link.
Also, this is the one (and only) time that I’ll actively encourage TAY breaks. We’ve previously fixed the sneaky open/openclose tag, and Rob also sorted the ‘reply to awaiting moderation’ in the beta, but I’d love to see what you guys can come up with next 🙂
Have you had a chance to look into posts randomly being silently eaten (not going to moderation) when posted with ROT13 text in them?
As the person who accidentally discovered the open/close tag, I feel a little nostalgic about this.
*sunrise, sunset*
Yes, good, throw them off the trail so we can get back to the real task at hand here.
It’s all scary and stuff here. Almost as dark as 6pmish, super windy and thundery. Just started to rain, too.
Agreed, luckily we got our BBQing needs out of the way. Man that was a tasty, tasty lunch!
Have any of you guys heard of Lapfox before?
I saw it mentioned in the comments section of an Alestorm video, and lo and behold it’s actually not metal – so no idea why they were talking about it (the mysteries of Youtube) but rather some form of electronica/techno/whatever the hell you call it when electical aplliances copulate.
Regardless, this song is pretty bloody fun.
Those were the days.
Remeber Ambrose?
What the hell happened to him?
And Mr. Explody????
That’s just a Myth!
With less words though 🙁
Twitter would explode without the character limits
It barely constrains him as it is.
This comment is so mean I reported it!!!!!
Actually since we are testing and TAYbies are too nice there probably won’t be another comment that gets reported
And you have a capital in your name ZOMG?!!! How is this so, did you ask Ben nicely or something?
I’m here to help!
Woah man this new layout is different, but I like! But no capital for my name /o\ I am less important now!
Edit: Yay page get!
Things not to use your newfound editing powers for #4386: to make comments like “First” and “Page Get”. 😛
He’s right! Tag closeage breaks have been fixed! What about reply to moderation comments though?
Moment of truth…
Oh I guess I’m not in the Beta so that “reply to moderation” thing is still going to happen :P. DON’T REPLY TO MY COMMENT BELOW.
Apologies for the breakage but he did encourage it. The way I see it is if we get it all out of the way now he can help to find a fix and it won’t happen again 😀
(first time I’ve participated in the “reply to moderated comment” shenanigans)
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TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape.
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
“Man, I should have started a kickstarter or something…”
Anyone in the beta…. don’t click on your name. It will go to the profile page, and it will show you how many comments you have on all Allure Media sites.
It’s scary….
Like typing /played in WoW
must not have linked your emails properly or something. I have something like 800 on kotaku alone
I linked the email I use for all 3 sites though /o\
Also, also, that’s only ones from July 2011 onwards.
Also also also, I misspelled “paid” in one of my old comments. Man, stupid old me was stupid.
I’ve seen old comments from you before and it had evil Blaghman so maybe you used that email previously? Oh man my first comment was on March 23, 2009. Wow…
March 9 actually*
Wait I totally could’ve edited the comment above!
My first comment for my other email was supposedly December 18, 2008, though that one appears second last on the list of previous comments, which is a little weird.
Yeah, I did used to use it, but I’m sure that the first comment it shows is not the first I made under this email.
Actually tracking back through your comments is pretty cool. Easy to find stuff again. I like!
If anyone was still wondering, you can click on your name then edit your display name in your profile. This allows you to get capital letters and all your funky symbols back.
Oh yeah true! I saw Virus ask Doc about it and thought Virus just went a little mad :P. But I guess this shouldn’t be a problem when it’s all implemented and everyone has it. There’s something about having things non-capitalised when they usually are that makes it feel “off”. I always type my email with capital letters in the right spot, even when I don’t have to 😛
hmm doesn’t seem to do much.
Doc_What, did you get any special message or anything?
Maybe it just links to twitter?
@inquisitorsz test
So with an account 2 links = moderation still, and you cannot reply to a post in moderation! Not sure if bug or feature..
Greenus’ replying-to-a-moderated-comment TAYbreak doesn’t appear in the beta, so they must’ve fixed it. I can see it on the mobile website though. (They probably just set it so replies are invisible until the comment gets approved)
Yeah and this new layout the reply button is greyed out until it’s obviously moderated!
Well the only one I can see says “Moment of truth…” and it’s stuck at the bottom of the page like other TAYbreaks have been (only on the mobile website, of course)
Ah, so you don’t actually see the comments in the beta? Is it just “He’s right! Tag closeage breaks have been fixed! What about reply to moderation comments though?” followed by “Moment of truth…”?
We can see them now, but the “He’s right…” one wasn’t there either. Just “Moment…” which was down the bottom of the page like regular TAYbreak posts.
Yeah, that.
(It took me a while to figure out what you were was asking, Greenius… I’m thinking “Aren’t you in the beta now? Why are you asking me what I can see?” :P)
But the person who made the moderated comments can see them pending so I was wondering if anyone else in the beta could see them as well.
I know in normal TAY it all looked ‘normal’ where the broken comment appeared down the bottom (did the break before I joined the beta)
By the way, how far do nested comments go in the beta… I wonder if they wrap back around like they used to…
The Reply Button just told me to slow down. I was posting too fast! D:
Anyway, one more…
I was wondering this too and was going to post in the old TAY to test it out but if you go to page 1, Flu already did it 🙂 (although it seems we have already reached the limit here)
I’m a pioneer.
Strange how the “He’s right” one wasn’t there, pretty sure I had my name back to normal for that one. Was wondering how it looked in the beta though. I know that I changed my name to show “GreenMang” (which wasn’t approved and thus went into moderation) but now all my comments just show my display name, “Greenius”. This is good cause it prevents accidental email/name typos causing moderation. But then poor Pez and his 50 account names :'(
Wooooo I just sent Ben an email and he replied really fast. I’m now in the Kotaku Beta!! \o/
Stats
0 gizmodo comments
3 Lifehacker comments
2691 Kotaku comments
Hah, my stats are similar to yours as well. I like that my only ever comment on Lifehacker was on this article
To actually be somewhat helpful though… I bought a cheapo D-Link brand modem/router that I’ve never had any problems with. It was very simple to setup, but it might be a good idea to check your ISP’s website for supported brands in case something goes wrong.
Thank you, that was somewhat helpful.
The real trick is making sure there’s enough RAM in the thing that it won’t flood itself and die horribly if you even glance at bittorrent / blizzard downloader / anything else that uses BitTorrent protocols and opens lots of connections really fast. My old Billion used to slowly run out of memory because it kept track of all the connections it had opened for too long and had to be restarted every 2-3 weeks, plus periodically it would be overwhelmed by what was going on and just stop responding.
Replaced it with a Fritz!Box a while back (intent was to set up some DECT handsets through it and use it via VOIP to save a bunch of cash b/c my parents like to make overseas calls a lot) and that thing is awesome but pretty much overkill for my internetz.
Go overboard, find a good mid-range Cisco router, and then realise that you need literally none of the extra features on it, and you may as well have just bought a normal one.
#NotHelping #WhatMyHouseHas #HashTagsForHarli
Get a Cisco router so they can dictate what you’re allowed to share through it and use it for?
So you can switch between the old theme & the new beta theme, I can break TAY in the old theme with an account by the looks!
Also how far reaching do you think the changes will be?
Will we have fully featured accounts allowing us to post our likes and dislikes, user blogs, user reviews and other stuff like that?
I’m not sure about that but I’m guessing a form of LIKE/UPVOTE system will be implemented for comments or notifications to let us know when someone has replied. Or at least that’s what I’m hoping for anyway 😀
And a spoiler thing as Powalen has reminded me of! I think it’ll also be cool to have other tags in there as well to prevent breaks but I guess there’s no point now since manually typing it wrong no longer causes breaks :).
A Like button, Notifications (when you have replies/somebody @ mentions you) and an in-built spoiler tag are my top 3 wants!
Those sound great. I love how Giant Bomb handles the spoiler tag. Notifications would also be really useful.
Another feature I’d like is the ability to watch videos while on TAY. It’s a small thing but really helpful.
I’m drowning in spam.
Dammit people, I spend one day off playing Borderlands 2 and come back to this? Bah!
So, I need to change my email linked to this handle because my last one was an old one and I just got my ISP to shut it down after spammers got a hold of it. Anyone know the best way to get my email adress approved for commenting?
Try sending Ben an email at ben.white @ allure usual stuff .au or try support @ allure usual stuff .au
If you asked because of the whole account thing, just enter in your new email and it’ll link up to your new email address :). They said you can email the support address above to merge multiple accounts into one but I’m not sure how that works.
Or if you just asked because you wanted to avoid being in moderation for a while I guess just tweet/email one of the editors to approve your comment. It’s a bit late now though 😛
The most recent 8-4 Play podcast, specifically part 2 of their SNES retrospective, has made me feel like I really missed out on that system. Now I want to track down a US one and all the games. Or get an emulator. :V
Also on a more practical note I don’t like the fact that your login name is your display name. That’s dangerous. Plus it means I’ll lose my capitalization and my handle looks crap without Camel Case. 🙁
You have a login name and a separate Display Name. My display name is capitalised in the beta layout, for example 😉
I’m not participating either.
And I believe when everyone has accounts, capitalisations will be back to normal. Apparently people have been changing their names to capitalised versions and others in the beta can see it.
A ragtag group of survivors, besieged on all sides by a sea of lowercase letters, fighting till the inevitable bitter end.
There’s an account name which is shown next to the display name. I guess showing the account name is the same sort of risk you were worried about and I don’t really like it either but everyone has the same one anyway :P.
The account name is uncapitalised but you can change your display name back to normal with capital letters, symbols, spaces etc. but for now it only shows up to other beta users.
I dont have an account =( Mainly cause I cant be bothered to send an email so Im just waiting for the roll out. But I’d like to share this song with people so clicky click
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X4sO_yGV4A&feature=plcp (Its in Swedish so yeah)
Since I was lazy during the day, and too busy to comment, I would like to present:
Blaghs’ Contextless Catchup
(You may need to pump your sound up a bit to hear it properly)
1. I beat the first boss in probably 4-5 hours. Not sure, was difficult, but when I beat him, I smashed him.
2. That game is awesome, and I’m not just saying that because I helped test it. >.>
3. But it had a cheat code which gave them massive breasts, I think. GOTY!
4. Even though I have number 2, I’d be up for some of that action.
5. That looks awesome, can’t wait. Wondering if I should re-do what I sent you though.
6. I haven’t seen any orange ones.
7. The price of a console is not solely decided based on the dollar. We’re a smaller market, and we do have more money.
8. I still agree that that game looks awesome.
9. I’m sure someone said this already, but there’s totes a guest system, though yeah, you do need a unique email for it.
IT’S GLORIOUS!
If I’m correct and “5” refers to me, you can re-do it if you want. But I like it the way it is. I was actually planning on starting yours this week so let me know soon if you’re planning on changing it.
It does refer to you. I don’t really know. I think it’s probably best if I just leave it as is, as anything else will surely be worse.
Fair enough, I will leave it as it is then.
Hey Strange, how exactly are you re-creating our pictures for the patches? Stitching them or something? I couldn’t really make it out from your picture before.
I am indeed stitching them. For yours, I’ll be stitching the outline first, and then colouring it in with fabric paint.
Sorry for making it so complicated! haha Though I guess it’s a cool way to practice different techniques by having to recreate all these different styles.
Exactly. I figure by the time I’ve finished the TAYbie quilt I’ll be able to sew almost anything. 😀
When is the deadline for that cause Im lazy and prolly wont send anything in till the last hour
The deadline is in 24 hrs, Run Kiefer Run
😀 Best answer.
I think she said mid-October a few pages back on the last TAY?
Yeah, ideally I’d like all pictures in by then so I can plan the quilt out properly and not just randomly throw things together.
I think #4 pertains to me, in which case yes, it sounds awesome. I believe we’re connected on that platform, so we’ll see how it goes!
Any preferable dates/times?
If this is Borderlands, I’m keen for DLC funsies (normal game as well I guess!) if you’re around my levels just holla :). 19 and 25 I believe.
Yeah, I think I’m maybe… level… 3? Something like that.
Hope you don’t mind me posting to test out this account thingy.. also, if anyone wants Borderlands 2 on 360 action let me know
FatShady Live
Also kinda thinking I should have used my twitter account for this rather than just FatShady??? would make it easier as it looks like twitter anyway right?
Oh, the power of editing!!! I am in you, comment!
Ok Now I just created a new account using a different e-mail but I think it will look better with my twitter handle as the user name but the regular FatShady as the display. You lose all your history but I think this looks better.
You can change your display name in your profile dude. So you didn’t need to do that =P
No, he’s talking about the @fatshadylive thing (the account name). Good idea to have it the same as your Twitter but it’ll be hard for a lot of TAYbies whose handles aren’t their Twitter names. I wonder if they’ll ever hide that, seems kind of pointless at the moment to show everyone’s account name 😛
Oh right, yeah.. I was using the previous theme for Kotaku, cause this new one throws me off.
Haha! Only one person on my friend list on Steam is playing Borderlands 2 and they’re about 14 levels ahead of me. :'(
😀 I’ve spent probably just as long as you have on the game. I just play crazy slow. I rarely fast travel either. Probably explains my 120 hour Fallout New Vegas play through. 😛
I think I had ~38 hours the last time I checked. The only people who had similar play times were Pez (who had slightly more), Ynefel (who had slightly less) and f4ction (who was a few hours behind).
Once you reach 31 I think that’s enough to get you the 2nd turret 😀 (but only if you focus in that one tree). Remember respeccing is cheap, so experiment when you can 😀
Feels a little like cheating to re-spec. Is it just me? Once the die is cast, who ’em I to change it? 😛
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo D.C……..! It’s part of the gameplay! It’s fun messing around with different builds, especially when playing with others. In the original Roland could become a healer/medic class which could heal allies by shooting them! (I think…)
I don’t play it like a game, though. I like decisions and character creation to last, damn it. DAMN IT! 😛
For us non-testers, your comment just looks like a regular comment but your name has no capital letters in it.
I’m also kind of excited to see how this account thing works. I’m looking forward to the big reveal.
So the Wii U just got confirmed to have region-locking in Famitsu. Not really a shocking announcement at this point, but I really hope that we at least get bundled with the PAL region like we are with the 3DS. It’d be horrible if we couldn’t even import from the UK (they haven’t announced what the regions are yet, as far as I know).
I hope we’re still bundled with them and it seems likely given that’s just how things are :P. It’s pretty disappointing but somewhat expected. I wish they’d introduce accounts so we can have all our purchased content linked. I’m still paranoid about losing my 3DS and all the cool ambassador stuff and not being able to get any of it back 😛
I’m less annoyed with getting lumped in with Europe nowadays. Ever since the Xenoblade fiasco Nintendo EU have really stepped up!
Obviously no region lock would be the best thing, but it could be worse 😛
Oh man. Know what I just discovered in Borderlands? Rocket Launchers. I’ve decided that nothing else is good enough. A game of multi was going rough until I had a rocket launcher that shoot 3 rockets at once and set people on fire.
Then it was just 2 hours of me and two other guys rolling around with ROCKET LAUNCHERS blowing everything up.
So fun. So very, very damn fun.
Also yay kotaku beta don’t really care but yayifications nonetheless.
well is there a sniper rifle that shoots rockets? Cause if there is, I will be a very happy guy.
Bah, who needs a rocket when you’re sitting miles away on a cliff face, staring into the scope at an oblivious enemy. 😀
Oh yes, that’s always a pleasant feeling. But having a massive explosion afterwards is always a nice bonus.
While I don’t think you can really get a rocket launching sniper rifle, I think you can get explosive damage on one, which is basically the same. I could be wrong though.
Weapons with explosive damage pretty much shoot out mini rockets anyway although I’m yet to see an explosive damage sniper (or use one at least).
You can, however, get rocket launchers that turn into rockets when you run out of ammo. Fire rockets. Reload. Throw launcher away, launcher turns into rocket, more explosions. Happiness.
I got a pistol that can do that too. Threw it away when I manually reloaded in front of a wall. Blew me up good and proper.
Yeah, Tediore(?) weapons do that but most of them just act like grenades. The launcher propelled itself forward which I thought was pretty snazzy
I found a rocket launcher at level 12 which does 1290 damage per shot and sets everything on fire. Bosses have been a bit easy since then.
Pretty alright for a Monday night.
But wow, I don’t look at TAY for one day and what happens? Sughly nas a game out, Dan posts an awesome trailer, and Kotaku has a new commenting system in beta.
That’ll teach me 😛
Silly me!
From what twitter tells me, he launched a podcast on the weekend. So there’s that too. 😛
I’ve got about 6 Potaku’s to catch up on already! My podcast subscriptions are getting out of hand. It may not be such a bad thing that TOFOP and Pure Poison are finished.
Do I really need to listen to Dr Karl on both JJJ and BBC?
Actually yes – yes I do.
So sad TOFOP is no more =( Not that I ever made it past like episode 30 lol. Dirty Puppet Fucker is still my fave ep, was just hilarious.
So I still haven’t really started that assignment due tomorrow :P… oops! Last time I was in this situation I was really stressed out but for some reason today has been a great day. A lot of interesting events have happened, in and out of Kotaku and I’m still feeling okay despite knowing I’ll be up for ages doing this thing.
Woooo!
Ya know what gang? All y’all are alright in my books! <3
😀 Good luck with the assignment, pal. You’re alright too, Greenius. You’re alright too. 😛
Liking the new pic Blaggles!
Did you set it through your profile or change your Gravatar? I wonder if setting a pic through your profile will affect your Gravatar or just posts on Kotaku. Would changes show up on non-beta TAY? Hmmm… *philosoraptor face*
Derp! 😛
You just wouldn’t be you without these last-minute essays 😛
Keep up the good work Greenius!
Thankfully it’s not an essay, that would be death otherwise!
Sort of a Econometrics (maths) kind of thing which isn’t really too bad since I can just look at lecture notes for similar questions and follow whatever technique they used but they make us use this weird program called EViews which I don’t really know how to use :P. I bought my book second hand so it didn’t come with it in a CD so I had to acquire it through other means and I hope it doesn’t crap out on me or give wrong results…
Worked fine for the first assignment though! (at least I think it did! :D)
What’s the deal with Virus’ post. Is TAY broken. If so, it’s the most orderly break ever. 😛
Testing stuff out I presume!
Fun fact: his comment doesn’t appear at all in beta Kotaku!
It’s like a sign saying “Wet paint, do not touch”. You just know sooner or later someone is going to want to test it for themselves
My workplace recently had a new power-management system installed. Giant orange boxes with warning notices plastered all over them. One box has a huge lever on the front that is labelled along the lines of “Master Switch – do not touch” It is soooooo tempting! 😀
Does anyone at work suffer from dyslexia? If so, pull the lever and blame it on them.
The perfect crime!
Right. That yuplay site didn’t like my card, so I found the Vault Hunter’s edition, and threw my wallet at the screen ’til something happened. Now to wait.
Also waiting on my e-cig to get here.
Patience is a virtue, although no-one’s called me virtuous before.
It’s selling for boatloads on ebay. I was going to buy 2 copies, but I’d rather let someone else grab it at the right price. AusTax is harsh enough at times, we don’t need scalpers too!
Oh well! At least it’s guaranteed to work now! (well until they fix connection issues :P). Where did you end up buying it from and how much?
play disc at the dotcom dotau, for $119 inc shipping seemed fair* by comparison to the ebay prices!
*I can’t believe I somehow ended up spending $120 on a game I was planning on spending $17 on… Gorram it TAY marketing machine strikes again…
Wowza it’s so much cheaper elsewhere for just the digital edition but… digital editions suck :P. I want my physical goodies!
So, it appears that whilst trying to upgrade my pc with a new graphics card, I have overlooked the fact that this one requires a connection to the power supply.
Looks like I’ll be getting a square 4-pin cable tomorrow…
Also, what’s this I hear about a beta?
While you’re getting a 4-pin cable, you may as well get a couple spares.
Oh, and since you’ve got a spare, why not throw another GPU on there? 😛
It’s a dual-DVI and HDMI card, one of the larger ones.
So it doesn’t really need another GPU. 😛
Grrrahhhh!!!
Ahhhh, that feels better…
My stomach is no longer ravaged by cramping.
Oh, hello there, humans.
What’s up?
If doesn’t work I’ll kick myself….
Also, I really hope this doesn’t break anything….
Hmm has this been happening to anyone else? Whenever I posted a reply to someone on Page 5 instead of just refreshing the page and bringing me to my comment it’ll just revert back to page 4 :P. I remember this happening once a few months ago but not sure if anyone else does…
I haven’t made a new ‘discussion’ comment on page 5 yet but hopefully it doesn’t go back to page 4. Not really a big deal but I guess I should let em know since they need feedback :).
Nope that seemed to work, maybe it’s just the replies bugging out for me? 😛
(excuse the excessive comments today, just testing out stuff and procrastinating)
I think the excessive commenting is excusable, considering the beta and all that jazz 😛
With regard to the test posts though, it’d sure be interesting to see what it is you’re testing though?
Oh it was just some basic TAYbreak stuff a few pages back :P. Ben said he encouraged TAYbreaks to see if they were fixed (and they kinda were!). The only thing that still seems to be broken is the whole replying to unapproved (moderated) comments. The incorrectly closed tag stuff and hitting submit more than once causing duplicate comments seems to be fixed.
If you were curious about the beta just send Ben an email. Deets are on page 3 if I recall.
Weird! There’s like 6 already (including this one). I did notice some of my comments missing on other articles too when I was on normal TAY but other people have replied to them since then…
Interesting! (I wonder if this will show up?)
So, it seems that Channel 31 has started showing Oreimo at 11:30 on Monday nights….
Not that it bothers me, since I already have Season 1 on DVD.
Also, on an unrelated note, I’m browsing TAY on my PS3 with a keyboard and mouse.
It may not be a computer, but it’ll do for now…
I had an idea for a new TAY adventure
I could start a new Minecraft server on hardcore mode so we only get one life each and not cheating. We’d have a day and a night to gather supplies, but as the sun goes down on the second day we’d have to pack up and chase it in search of a magical promised land (I’m thinking Brigdoon or Candy Mountain but I’m open to name suggestions.)
So essentially each day we can spend gathering materials but the dusk and night we have to spend heading as far west as we can get. The adventures would then be chronicled either in text format or you tube vids (depending what seems like the least effort)
Anyone like the idea? I’m about to head to bed so I probably won’t reply promptly but I’ll check when I get up this afternoon.
I like the idea, but i cant go back to minecraft anymore, I have done everything i want to do in that game. Its just not appealling to me anymore. But you guys have fun. 🙂
Good in theory but it would actually be a bit boring. Not much to do in Minecraft unless you stay in one place and easy to not die if you just keep moving.
You could instead have a project to build a train line west. Build a town at the start and stations every time you stop.
Though like Rockets I am kinda minecrafted out.
Ohh, that sounds like fun. Sorta like the old Leather Cap Tours? I just need to get Minecraft working on this computer first. Stupid Toshiba laptops not working with the drivers from the AMD website >:(
SUGHLY
I am playing Anna’s Quest and enjoying it heaps, but it’s reminded me just how bad I am at puzzles in adventure games. 😛
I’m currently stuck at the part where V’z gelvat gb bcra gur ybpxrq qbbe oruvaq gur cnvagvat. V nyernql gevpxrq gur eng (V srry onq nobhg gung) naq tbg gur jvgpu’f ibvpr ba gncr. V’z cerggl fher jung V arrq gb qb abj vf fghss gur cvyybj jvgu gur jvgpu’f unve juvpu vf fghpx va gur cvcr, ohg V pna’g trg Naan vagrerfgrq va bcravat hc gur cvcr qbjafgnvef. Fb V urnqrq onpx hcfgnvef naq gevrq gb trg ure gb svyy gur fvax jvgu tehry orpnhfr V guvax gung’f n pyhr, ohg V pna’g znxr ure jnag gb trg nalguvat qbja bss gung furys!
Don’t give me the solution – I want to figure it out myself. Just thought I would share my progress. Thoroughly thrilled with my purchase – totally worth $5. Also, the music is INCREDIBLE. You guys are operating in a whole new plane of professional-looking creative output that I can only dream of. I’m in awe, and jealous.
Well done!
Kind of glad I purchased day one, because no one’s had time to write a walkthrough yet… and I totally would have cheated 😛
Sughly has been working on it for most of the time i have been on TAY, i had high hopes and i wasnt disappointed with the result. SO far of the half a hour i have played it looks fantastic. He is quite amazeballs ole krams 🙂
I’m gonna out use my use of ‘awwww’ in the next couple of days but thats just how I keep feeling dammit! Thanks so much Rockets 😀
I have a walkthrough from playing the beta ;D Shamefully, I did have to use it at that exact section you’re on now 😛 I tried so hard not to!
I know how you feel. I was stuck for a while in the very first room. Needless to say, I felt like even more of idiot for not trying it sooner when I finally figured out what I needed to do. 😛
But yes, the game truly is great. The attention to detail and humour are so charming, and Pez’s music really brings the world to life as well. I’d love the game even if I didn’t know Sughly and Pez.
Awww man, you guys… you guys are the bestest 😀
Haha, oh dear, I can say this much then Shane – the hair is for something later in the game and not for that puzzle. I didn’t think about that crossing into that puzzle now though, which in hindsight seems rather feasible. Crap. But no, the solution lies elsewhere! Possibly in something you’ve already had to interact with…
TAY! I can breathe again.
Also, for any of the beta testers here that haven’t seen it: the new 404 page is pretty hilarious http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/powalen-is-the-best/
Anyone know why EB games site removes some games? I have a preorder on one, but its dissapearred from the site, and ussually they just say “not in stock” when they sell out..
Which game is it? Development of the game might have been cancelled, or the release date may have been pushed way back.
Hmmm…that’s a bit weird. Did you try emailing them about it, or asking on Twitter? The person who runs their Twitter account is usually prretty good at answering questions.
Yeah, I bother the EB Twitter account all the time and they’re pretty fast with responses.
if its a collectors ed. that has sold out & they wont be getting any more in, it makes sense that they’d remove it from their site. Don’t want to confuse people too much.
Edited for spelling. & also just because I can now.
This is fact. Limited quantity special editions (ie: actual special editions) that sell out are removed from the web store so you don’t get your hopes up.
Last night my friend had a birthday dinner thingy. We were meant to go to this hot pot place called Little Lamb.
Booked a table for twelve and that was our first mistake. The tables only seat 4 people. The other mistake was thinking that booking made a difference in our ability to actually get seated. After half an hour of waiting, we went next door to a Korean BBQ place.
They had a fairly normal setup but there was a section off to the side which was just a raised platform with four of those tables that you sit on the floor for. Kind of nifty but the best part was that you had to take your shoes off for it. So the waitresses had to keep taking their shoes off to give us more kim chi.
I think we’re going to have to organise dinner at Maru some time soon.
I’ve had it once, and it was really cheap stuff that Bish gave me. It wasn’t very good.
That stuff was nasty.
I hope you burned it.
This training is so much fun, I might pass out from excitement. Soo…what’ve I missed?
Also, ACCOUNT GET.
EDIT GET.
I’m one of few that appear to like the capitalisation in my handle, it would seem 😛
I created the account with a capital and it vanished, so I just added it to the display name.
It’ll all go back to normal once everyone is on the new layout.
It may appear as such to you, but believe me, he has a capital. Once you’re part of this not so elite club, you’ll see.
*puts on elitist shades*
Accounts are so mainstream now. I’m retro-chic. You’ve probably never heard of it, I guess it was a bit before your time.
I choose not to be a part of this not so elite club. Not because I’m lazy but because I’m lazy and apathetic!
Everyone has migrated so now it’s no longer elite but now mainstream.
Sheeple.
*Hipster glasses*
Hi guys, I hope you’re having a great morning. Quick question, why does the PSN store sometimes lock you out of content? I was trying to download the resident evil 6 demo and a message came up saying that I did not have access to the content. Why is that?
I’ve seen this message in the past but I guess I didn’t bother asking about it at the time. Thanks.
80’s music = Man I’m happy, let’s be friends.
90’s music = I’m sad because nobody wants to be my friend.
00’s music = I’m better then everyone around me and I don’t need douchebags like you as friends.
10’s music = herp derp *sweaty panting and drool* baby.
All the genres I’ve put to that seem to fit, too. Except rap. But that’s all about not playing by the rules and poppin’ caps in asses and whatnot anyway.
Actually no, rap fits too.
You forgot “wub wub wub screeeeee wub scree scree blarararharhara wub wub” under 10’s 😛
PAGE 5 REPOST
TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape. (although expect the VHS version to appear quite a bit later)
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
Man, I should have started a kickstarter or something…
Anyone else getting big grey rectangles covering some of the comments on kotaku articles? I see bits of the kotaku ‘K’ in some of them too.
I’m using IE, so yeah…
I’ll send Ben an email about it, just wanted to know if anyone else was having these problems or if it was just poor IE using me 😛
So I’ve been recently thinking about how insanely successful Gamefreak (makers of Pokemon) are. These guys consistently make games every 2 or so years that sell around 15 million copies. That’s an EA/Activision wet dream and lets face it, the production values are really not that high and I can’t imagine they have the huge numbers of staff that other major developers have. Could it be the most profitable gaming franchise?
I’ve got no figures to back it up, but Pokemon would definitely be up there. From memory I don’t think it outsells Mario (though Mario stars in a lot more games).
By my numbers, and these are only approximate, Main Series Mario games (starting with Super Mario Bros.) are somewhere around the 250 million mark, and we’re looking at about 16 million sales a pop, on average(This is a very rough guess). Pokemon on the other hand is about 115 million sales, and I have no idea how many games we consider the Pokemon series to have.
Surely there are less Pokemon games than Mario games. I think Mario would probably have more developers involved as well. It is very likely a toss up between those two though. I can’t think of any other franchise even close to these two (and if there are, it’s probably another Nintendo entity).
Pokémon has been described by Reggie as the mist important franchise to Nintendo because it is a gateway drug “makes gamers for life”. That is, the kids that start off playing Pokémon can/will transition to other games and platforms. Even if they buy Xboxes or Playstations when they get older, people who play video games are important to keeping the video games industry going.
It’s an interesting perspective.
Page 4 is currently being worked on by Rob this second, shouldn’t be broken for too long.
Consider yourself BETAED.
I sent you an email regarding getting BETAED earlier Ben!
At least, I think I did 😛
What’s the worst day of the week?
I was just thinking to myself ‘hey, it’s Wednesday, the worst day of the week, because it’s the middle and there’s still so much more to go’, but of course Mondays suck pretty hard too, and Sundays are bad because Monday looms over it like a nagging parent. And now I can’t decide on which day is the worst.
Or maybe they all suck equally. Except Saturdays. They’re pretty alright.
I’m teaching my son the days of the week and to do so I’ve made Tuesdays into “Tickle Tuesday”. Best day in our house. You should implement Tickle Tuesday at Uni and then it won’t be so bad. 😛
Man, I wish I was back at uni. Best years of my life. Hope the same isn’t true for you by the sound of things.
It’s not that I don’t like Uni, I’m just really over it at this point. 😛 4th year blues, I guess. I’ll be all done in a few weeks, so I’ve just got to power through!
I’ve got a theory.
Monday is bad, but JJJ tried counteracting it a while back with ‘happy monday’ so I just sing that themesong, and it all works out.
Tuesday night is Schnitzel night.
Wednesday is the day before Friday eve.
Thursday is Friday eve.
Friday is Friday.
Saturday is Friday’s Boxing Day.
Sunday is lazy Sunday.
I guess Friday is the best day, but I’m not sure if any of them are ‘bad’ per se.
Haha, I was wondering what you were thinking there. I’m just such a nice guy that I thought I’d leave it alone. You’re welcome.
Made a typo on Twitter, now I’m posting football related Edgar Allan Poe parodies.
Go the Poes!
I always wished I’d taken a screenshot of original TAY before the first round of changes.
I wish I’d known this test was happening, then I could have taken a screenshot before everyone’s names went all decapitalised, and before the big change at the end of the week.
My name is capitalised on everyone’s screen. Because I’m not joining you testers so I don’t have to deal with more change yet. 😛
LOOKIT THE PICHURS! It looks the same! But with slightly smaller pics and the reply button isn’t pink and is underneath. Infact, New Kotaku looks more like old Kotaku now that the changes make Old Kotaku weird and usernames are all wrong!
LOGIC!
Joiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnn uuuuuuuuuuussssssssssssssssssss……..
Also, no more TAY breaks!
I wish there was still screenshots of really old Kotaku. Man, I don’t even remember what it looked like!
It was beautiful. I miss it. *sniffle*
Nobody’s name has an editor on it for me. I missed that, and only just caught the end of people having dots instead.
Good morning TAY~what’s the happy haps?
Long weekend for me, finally got my BL2 on yesterday. I swear I was in the game for no more than 10 minutes and BAM! TAYbie invaded(Hi Mr. Freeze!)! So we rolled around for a bit, I kinda felt like a loot whore, then Freezemang gave me a sniper rifle and we killed the first boss. Then he left 🙁
But that BL2…wow…as a huge fan of the first one I give it 3 thumbs up(#birthdefect)!
Hmmm…what else…theres something….oh right, SPLICED MEAT ON SATURDAY!
Is also the sportsball grand final or something. Meh. *shrugs*
Send me the mails of the E-variety to Splicerkid at the gmail.com if you don’t have the address(totally looking at you NegZero)…
So um yeah, 3 day weekend was great, had a good friend of mine come down from Sydney for the weekend and we went comic book shopping(Buy ALL the Batmans!)…until yesterday when I found out my son will need more surgery in the future 🙁
That put a dampener on things but hey, we’ll get there eventually 🙂
@Scree and Pixel-that sucks you guys can’t make it to the meat!
@Scree-we could ask around on TAY to see if anyone else lives up your way and is driving?
@Strange-the quilt is gonna be EPIC! #highfive!
@Sughly-Awesome work on Anna’s Quest! I’ll have to get on board really soon!
Anywho, 5 pages down, good work for a Monday!
WTF? Looks like best time travelling page get ever! Or it took me a long time to write the above…
This is like a special club for people with names starting with ‘S’
Splicer sends @’s to Scree, Scree, Strange and Sughly.
You might even say it’s a S Club party….
There’s already a Shuloopa.
He’s my evil twin.
He killed me and is now living my life as me as part of his evil plan to be mediocre.
…Wait.. what?
Jooooooiiiiinnnnnn Uuuuuuuuusssssssss!
It’s too late, buddy.
You’ve now outed yourself as a racist.
A shane racist
My gulty secret…
I’m Shacist.
That’s totally a word now.
But it’s ok, because your Shacism stems from your lack of ability to ever be with a shane.
Your overwhelming desire has manifested itself now as Shacism – so powerful is your love that it is being confused with hate.
I accept this. It’s a widespread documented phenomenon.
Also – I meant to tell you earlier, as i was hoping to make it to your meats, but a few weeks ago i stupidly booked in a dentist appointment on the closest possible Saturday, which happened to be that very Saturday, which makes me a sad panda.
Bee is heading off to Adelaide not this sunday or the next sunday, but the sunday after. Would you and anyone else be interested in the possibility of a city meats????
Not this time around, sorry – but as i said, I’d like to organise somehting in a few sundays time if anyone could manage? We could go to that thingie at ACMI and nerd out at mind games n stuffs
I’ll let you know…October is mega busy for me but i remain nevertheless cautiously optimistic!
Whenever it’s something involving me it’s always best to be some form of cautious.
Aww man, I should have joined your session. There are more TAYbies playing BL2 on PS3 than I had expected.
Hey guys – i have 2 unclaimed codes for $5 off at Ozgameshop from last years big xmas dealy – i’m not sure if they are still valid, but i was wondering if anyone here might like one, rather than have them go to waste (if they haven’t already)
Thanks man, if it’s still available, I would like one. Thinking of pre-ordering me some Dark Souls New Edition.
PAGE 6 REPOST. I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD TO THIS…
TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape. (although expect the VHS version to appear quite a bit later)
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
Man, I should have started a kickstarter or something…
I’ve been having the worst case of deja vu all week… Maybe it’s all that dejan mustard i’m eating…
I’ve been having the best case of deja vu all week…. 😀
(And I haven’t even been eating dijon mustard!)
I don’t need to click that link to know what it is, so I’ll just go ahead and ask.
… Why?
Y’know, I actually saw that a couple weeks ago.
I don’t know why, and I REALLY don’t know why Lambo is linking me to it. WHYYYYY /o\
He’s linking you to it because it’s awesome.
Also because my hair was really short in it.
OHHHHH, gotcha. In which case it’s totally relevant, and quite possibly just made my day infinitely worse/better.
See, the song itself is terrible. The parody has a guinea pig.
It could go either way 😀
Fortunately, no.
The cable I’m after is much, much smaller, and doesn’t smell as bad….
😀
How convenient. There appears to be a period of 3 hours between when EB Expo ends and when I have to be back at the airport on Sunday, October 7th. Meat, anyone? 😀
I want to meet lambo, i would have to bring googles though. I dont want to get kicked like a fan.
Pffft, goggles? You’d need more than that. Like maybe gridiron pads and a helmet 😛
We (Shiggy and I) MAY be at the Expo (If EB give us a media pass).
If not, def up for a meat!
@blaghman
I’M TESTING A THING! Do @ mentions work now we have @ names?
-EDIT- The answer to that would be “no”.
Not yet! They’re probably to be used when we get notifications and other fun features 😀
It’s interesting, Inquisitorsz tried the same thing back on page 4, and used your name. Does this mean I’m supposed to try it on page 8?
I have a problem.
Whenever I see that written down, I’m forced to belt it out. Badly.
It’s a pretty awesome problem, to be honest.
And it moooves us aaallllllll!
…Now I have it stuck in my head. Thanks a lot, Pow, ya jerk!
What a jerk. *shakes head*
So having an account gives you access to every post you EVER made on Kotaku. I found some of my old MadWorld comp entries and, well, I thought I’d share.
Enjoy!
MADWORLD: Once You Chop, You Can’t Stop!
MADWORLD: It’s like Catz, Petz and Horsez but for bigger kids.
MadWorld: Someone out there is seriously messed up
MadWorld: Eyes taste delicious when toasted
MADWORLD: You can blame it when you go on your shooting spree
MadWorld: Buy it or your mother dies.
Madworld: Gawd damn mother fucker!
MadWorld: Get it before the parent groups find out.
MadWorld: It’s his time of the month and things are going to get a little bloody.
MADWORLD: Come get some!
MadWorld: Not for pussies.
MADWORLD: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
MadWorld: Groovy.
MadWorld: Holy s**t! What the f**k is that?
MadWorld: That’s Gotta Hurt! Look at all that blood! It’s like a river of blood. Or a bath. A blood …
MadWorld: It’s a Wii game that’s actually pretty good.
MADWORLD: Prepare to bleed MADNESS from your anus!
MadWorld: An educational game for the whole family
MadWorld: I’m gunna wear you like a glove
MadWorld: Let’s see what you’re made of…
MadWorld: Show your grandmother what video games are all about.
MadWorld: A Somewhat Violent Game
MadWorld: All work and no play gives Jack a dull blade
MadWorld: It’s not Sin City
MadWorld: If you don’t own it then your masculinity WILL be questioned. Poof.
MadWorld: Gory as Hell!
MadWorld: Is that a chainsaw in your ribcage or are you just happy to see me?
MadWorld: I’m gonna cut you bitch!
MadWorld: A reason not to hate your Wii
MADWORLD: We have no clue how this slipped by the censors but it fucking did!
MadWorld: We had to remove most of the colour to fit all the shades of BLOOD.
MadWorld: We’d like to thank Jack Thompson for making this possible.
MadWorld: Paint the World RED!
MadWorld: Give Blood. That wasn’t a question.
MadWorld: The best chainsaw massacres happen outside Texas.
Madworld: Jack has a problem so he’s gonna cut it down to size.
MadWorld: Time to cut back.
MadWorld: Jack loves you to pieces.
MadWorld: When you play it you can hear Germany cry.
Madworld: Gotta Catch ‘Em All.
MadWorld: We need to ensure that killing and maiming people take priority rather than modern and civilized values.
I don’t know if this glitch has been fixed yet (or if it even showed up on the AU store or just the US one). But maybe at least worth a look if you don’t already have it and won’t feel guilty about depriving the poor, starving waifs at EA of a few bucks.
http://bf3blog.com/2012/09/battlefield-3-premium-available-on-ps3-for-free-due-to-a-glitch/
Does anybody want borderlands 2 who cant afford it? I have a copy i dont want. I will give it to someone.
OH MY GOD ME ME ME ME ME
/Suave I would like to take your copy off your hands my good sir.
saturday.morning.funk@gmail.com
seriously though, this is pretty awesome. I’m gonna have to make you one of my personal gods here. Mind you, you have to share the list with bumblebee and I only offer goat/sheep sacrifices, but.. yeah.
Oh god, don’t do that, it will get to his already swollen head. Do you know how up himself Rocketman is already? HE’S PROBABLY THE MOST OVERWHELMINGLY CONFIDENT DUDE EVER! THE END IS NIGH!
too late, might have to hunt you down for blasphemy.
Ha, I know I’m safe from that. Nobody would ever visit Canberra willingly!
gotta admit, it’d be the weirdest religious crusade ever. Alright, in the near future when I’m off on my little backpacking trip, I’ll catch a ride there,shank you, ride off into the sunset.
Maybe get a drink, I dunno.
I hope you used the word confidence so that i could segue into “i have confidence” from sound of music.
Dont worry about it, people do nice things for me, i do nice things for others, we are like the worlds best example of that movie pay it forward. i will send the email off tonight.
Wait, wait, I’ve finally got a good one(This sentence makes more sense once you know that I’ve spent twenty minutes here trying to think of something witty to say).
“Giving away Borderlands 2, Rocket? God, you’re such a Nob.”
Harli just asked for any professional SC2 players in Sydney that play Protoss.
Does she not know that Australia is basically Char?
I too, understand electronic-sportsball, and therefore know exactly what you are talking about.
WCS Australia had 7 Zerg, 5 Toss and 4 Terran.
WCS Oceania (made of the top 6 Aussies and top 2 Kiwis) was 5 Zerg, 2 Terran and 1 Protoss.
Watching those two tournaments over one weekend, pretty much every match had a Zerg in it.
The majority of pro Aus players are Zerg, it’s probably only around 50-60%(wild ball-park figure), but that does mean you see a lot of ZvZ.
It’s also because the best (and most prominent) players are Zerg. Moonglade is the only player really known outside of the SEA scene, unless you count Targa who we’ve claimed as an Aussie (he was studying here and just moved to Poland) and had a good run at Dreamhack this weekend.
I believe the Australian system is “if they’ve even visited here, we may as well call them our own.” So yeah, Wooo, Targa! Best American player!
Let it be known that I hate the timed quests in Borderlands 2. A throw back to old school games when design was crappy. 😛
Do I scare you, DC? I’d offer to play with you, but I know that such contact would be against the rules of the hermit code.
Tempted to play coop, but I don’t have a microphone and my ADSL connection is crap at the best of times. :'( Thanks, though!
Just communicate through an elaborate system of levers and pulleys. Easy.
You don’t need a mic man. Even on Teamspeak, that’s what the chat box thingie is for 😀
Greenius is the best example of this.
Anyhow, you can type away in Borderlands. Microphones aren’t needed.
Oh, cool. Out of hermit curiosity (it’s a thing…), what level are you guys all at?
Axton. Level 24 here. 😀
25 Siren over here.
I’m only like, 17, I think.
Level 25 too. You should join Bunny and me!
I am playing as Zer0 BTW
Sounds like we’ve got all bases covered, except for Gunzerker. But the socially inept idiot that I am stills resists the idea. 😛
Had four seconds left on the clock. Was at final letterbox. Somehow the game wouldn’t let me jump one step needed to reach it. Then I rage quit. First time I’ve rage quit a game in years!
Oh. Ouch. Yeah, I… Well, it wasn’t a rage quite, but I quit out of frustration last night. Was in the arena thing, first time, because I really wanted to get a crit kill, I died to a single enemy who had half a bullet worth of health in them, and since they were short, and limping around, I couldn’t finish them off. Second time, it glitched out and enemies stopped spawning(terrible QA here, apparently it happens if something else kills something in there), so I had to kill myself to escape.
Oh, man. That arena. :'( There’s no way I’m going to able to finish that.
Yeah I tried the timed package delivery one and said ‘fuck this shit’ and moved on. Timer is way too short given that you can’t tell for sure where to go and I am not going to repeatedly do that damned thing, it’s not fun in any way.
First ever comment (using this email address), in a Bargain Hunter article, was:
Crono: April 15, 2009 5:02 pm
@Steve
Madworld is only $69.98 and it comes with the soundtrack. That’s not too bad, especially as it hasn’t been out a month.
@Cheuk
I did the same. I’ve emailed them to ask about when they’ll get more in stock. I had Valkyria Chronicles on backorder elsewhere for over a month 🙁 I cancelled it today hoping JB won’t take so long and that they will get more of the art book back in.
First TAY (which was 4 months earlier than I originally believed):
Crono: February 9, 2010 8:11 am
Does anyone know what’s going on with Dragon Age Origins: Awakening on PS3? The US seems to be getting a disc but I can’t find any EU listing anywhere.
Facinating stuff. What was YOUR first comment?
I think my second one on this email is better.
“Announcing Weekly Prize For Kotaku’s Best Commenter
April 1, 2010 3:53 pm
I’m not going to lie; I’m a bit disappointed in not being able to win 2-month old (possibly unrefrigerated) burgers. =( “
First comment on this address is relatively recent, July 2011, and bitching about my sister(and other things, mostly my sister).
First comment on my other email account is from December 18, 2008, where I start name dropping(It was an article talking about consoles and K-Rudd, and I had a vaguely relevant story to do with Marcus Rudd).
“AlexPants NOVEMBER 14, 2011 9:37 AM
Good morning folks! I finished my last uni assignments for the year over the weekend. Was a bit stuck afterwards wondering ‘what to do now?’. Then I remembered the ridiculous amount of games coming out! Goodbye social life.”
Although in the end, it was more like ‘hello social life’ because now I spend a lot of time hanging out with you guys! 😛
Jimu?
Apparently my first comment was: “Blister packs are the world’s worst form of packaging to open…” :\
I’m sure I started posting earlier than December 2010 though, just under different names. I’d really like to see my first comment in TAY, actually. But I can’t remember what usernames I used to post under (it wasn’t this one). All I remember is that my first post in TAY, nobody replied to it. Made me wait a while before I tried again 😛
Yeah, I always feel bad when I see a name I don’t recognise post something, and nobody replies to it.
Not bad enough to do something about it, though.
The statement is in reference to his first post never being replied to, but is ironic in the fact that my order is a reply to his comment, contradicting my own order.
I understand the premise. I was simply rejecting your order.
It finds all your usernames (which have been changed to Powalen now). It’s every post you made with the email address you signed up for. If you want to see what username you originally posted with, paste the URL into another browser.
Hi everybody, how is the going of all of you?
I am currently FREAKING OUT!!1!!
I have been avoiding doing stuff for my job application, and now I have to get it all done by today… and I have no idea what to write.
It is especially annoying, since the job application is working of a new method being developed and your cover letter has to match a certain way of writing, otherwise you do not even make it to the interview stage.
Please excuse while I go and have a massive panic/anxiety/TOTAL FREAKOUT attack.
*curls up in a foetal position under desk, simultaneously screaming, mumbling, drooling, crying, giggling and twitching*
I haven’t even been watching this season, so I couldn’t really pick them.
Would prefer Sydney to win, just because I don’t particularly like Jeff Kennet.
I’m a swans fan, so I’ll be going for them. Hawks did cause dome trouble for us early in the season, so I’m a little worried. Should be a good game.
I love this video. It has a good song and cool visuals but also I can relate because I’ve done/thought similar things. Sometimes when going through an automatic door I’ll give a slight wave with one of my hands and pretend I’ve opened the door with my powers.
When I go through automatic doors I pry them open with my hands because they don’t see me half the time. It’s a conspiracy I tells ya.
Stop looking like a sith then, the doors think you can use the force to open the doors 😛
I decided to bring my DS to work today and am sneaking in some Poogiemuns in between customers. Of which there are few.
Employee of the month here.
Gold stickers for you next meat!*
*I may have forgotten about this by then or do not have any gold stickers in supply, you have been warned.
Hey, do you know all those cool little references and hidden Easter eggs that amaze you and make you giggle? You do? I do too! Do you know what’s even better? Having that feeling of discovery constantly taken away by having constant articles posted spoiling it with the headline and picture. Man, nothing beats that apathetic oh there it is moment when you find it in game after already seeing it.
Darth Vader features in Borderlands 2! Have this picture of him with Hello Kitty and a Pikachu killing some bandits near Sanctuary!
Oh, and spoiler warning.
/sarcasm
Man, I was pretty tragic in BL2 last night. Connection started chugging and I kept running off cliffs and missing melee hits.
At least you had an excuse. I’m still trying to come up with one.
You were teleporting All over the place on my screen. It did make me laugh when it took you 3 attempts to break open a Bullymong pile. So much for the master swordsman 😛
Oh, man. That annoys me too. Zetrox and I were talking about that on Steam yesterday and I accidently spoiled one for him. :'(
Now that the games I’ve been waiting for are out, the last thing I want to read is someone else telling me what’s in them before get to that bit.
Mostly just going to avoid the main Kotaku feed until I’m done, TAY still seems mostly safe.
The joys of actually buying things on release.
Whoa. Maybe it’s time I got me one of those edit buttons. Probably won’t help anyway… By the time I get a sentence written on mobile TAY, it’s been 10 minutes and the first half isn’t visible any more.
I also don’t like those “How to play …. the best way” articles. They come out before the game comes out and even apart from the fact that the title is really condescending, do we really need to have this stuff laid out for us? Whatever happened to discovering things for yourself in games?
I just found out why all my comments were being moderated on Gizmodo.. My name & email had made it on to the blacklist, Ben kindly removed it, legend ^_^
Now I wonder how I got there o.O
Early submit button… I swear, this has never happened to me before…
Anyway, as I was going to continue: a site that reports on technological advancement is clearly using a filter that assumes that spammers and viruses introduce themselves by name before getting to work destroying virtual infrastructure
Well, it only happened recently and I mean last 6 months if that.. So it was just wtf. Since i’ve never had an issue on Life Hacker or Kotaku.
Well, there was that ‘incident’ at the end of last year… 😛
Yeah, but I wasn’t exactly involved and I was only moderated months after that. So weird!
I’m never going to live this down /o\
I still think I made an enemy on Gizmodo with some other commenter and they reported a bunch of my posts or something lol.
I’d say sorry but I’m not because it’s too much fun to continually refer to you as that spoilery guy. It’s our thing. 😀
Haha, you have nothing to apologise for! Also Dexter starts up next Monday, i’ll be sure to keep quiet about it!
4000+ words and hours upon hours of ‘work’ and complete and utter bullshit that doesn’t make sense, this goddamn assignment is complete! 😀 :D:D D :D:D:D 😀 😀
Now to make the 2 hour trip to Uni to hand this mofo in…
but then BORDERLANDS 2 TIME YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
When did the XCOM demo come online!? Only found out about it while seeing the members in the Kotaku AU group on Steam. Someone was playing it! 😀
😀 Dishonored and XCOM will have to fight to death next month. This might help choose sides. 😛
Got a call from my mum waking me up to say
“Child can you got get my new video game pre order the man at the store is expecting you”
So… If I sign up to the Beta (been getting the emails, but been busy) do I lose my space and upper case letters?
I might just kick it old school.
Well your login name can’t have uppercase or spaces, but your display name like mine or Doc What’s can!
Groovy
I gather that if you don’t have an account the names of people who do are all lower case.
Perhaps we are seeing the login name and not the display name?
Yeah, pretty sure that’s the case.
I think all the people in the Beta can see the capitals in your display name, but people who aren’t in the beta just see the login name which has no caps or spaces.
It works like twitter. You’ve got your @ name and your display name. Your @ name is what you put in when you sign up, it can’t have spaces or uppercase letters. Afterwards, you can change your display name so it does have spaces and uppercase letters, and you can change it as many times as you want. Can’t change your login name. On your comments it’ll show your display name, then your @ name beside it in small grey letters.
I swear the cleaners time everything to my biological clock. Every time I need to go take a dump the toilets are being cleaned. If I try and pre-empt them by going earlier than normal they appear mid-crap. It’s quite annoying.
I have actually spent 3 hours sitting on the can once recently. In my defense, the actual business was over with quickly and the majority of that time was spent playing Lumines.
NegativeZero’s DS pile of shame update: I am at 102/135 puzzles completed in Professor Layton & the Curious Village. Chapter 8 of an unknown number, I think I figured out what’s going on in the town but we’ll see if I’m right. I think I currently have around 3500 picarats from the puzzles I’ve done. Not sure if that’s good bad or average. Around 8 hours 45 mins played.
So far only one puzzle has stumped me completely and that was because the problem description was so fucking poor that I didn’t understand what it was actually asking me. :\ Really really hate the ‘how many shapes can you see in this picture’ or ‘find this shape in this random jumble of lines’ puzzles. Also some of the geometry puzzles instantly make me want to derive the correct answer mathematically, which I will often do, get the puzzle correct, and then find that they arrive at their answer through some kind of completely bogus bullshit hand-waving instead.
Should finish it tonight and then I’ll need to grab something to play off the stack again (not buying anything new I intend to play for the rest of the year so I can try and catch up on my pile a bit)
Inb4Greenius and Xenoblade
From 2 onwards (I think it started in 2?) they added ‘super hints’ which pretty much tells you the solution. This was awesome for this really bullshit puzzles that gave me the shits and meant I didn’t have to scour a solution in the middle of the night just to progress. Me and Blaghs said it last time so not sure if you saw it but thankfully the puzzles do get better later on as there’s less stupid solutions.
Since you’re nearly done, my vote is to just finish it but don’t immediately play the others unless you want to puzzle yourself out. Besides there’s other games you own that need playing 😉
There’s one in number two, I think, which is like “what’s wrong with this picture” and the correct answer was the second last option, after I just started circling things at random.
So I’m hoping when I get home this afternoon I’ll have web-ter-tubes access running at my new place and then I can actually attempt getting in to some Borderlands 2 co op fun. I’m about level 14-ish on PC if anyone’s vaguely near that mark.
I’m 17, I think, so I’d be happy to drop in and play, assuming there’s room. I’ve mostly been playing it solo thus far… Much better than the first when you’re by yourself.
Some of the bosses might be a bit better in co-op, though. They’re pretty damn tough.
Level 18 here! Making real slow progress…
I haven’t had any problems with bosses thus far. I just drop my turret and it does all the work…
:D! Are you going for the shield? Makes a huge difference. I think you’ll get it around 21
Nope, I’m going all offense all the time! Rockets, bitchez!
I have heard that more pew pew leads to less QQ.
True story.
I’ve been playing as melee Zer0, and it’s been making the bosses…manageable. Slam into them with sniper, let them get close and unload shotty, Deceive and reload, melee out of it and unload shotty again.
…then run like hell and wait for Decepti0n to cool down 😛
Nobfrond has been using melee Zer0, which goes rather well with Maya for boss fights.
I phase lock an enemy, shoot them a few times in the head with the sniper while he melees them. If I’m close, I’ll just shotty spam them instead.
We haven’t really had to use more advanced strategies for boss fights. Although there was one where you can’t lift them with phase lock, so I just shot them in the head while they moved around and used phase lock to do ~2k damage every time it came off cool down.
Phase lock is pretty awesome.
Phaselock is hilarious in pvp duels: use Phaselock, shoot once. “Oh, you’re dead already?”
It’s also just great fun when dealing with annoying enemies. Phaselock and then run up and punch them until they die. It lasts so damned long.
And for a general purpose pause button. Out of ammo/shields/health or backed up against a cliff/wall or have a badass in your face? Zap, reload, reposition, maybe go get a drink…
Even better when you have the version that heals a percentage of your health while someone is in that little bubble. Just phaselock someone and run away.
Only got 2 level 8 characters so far that’ll be good for dropping in on new starters.
Because Torchlight.
I’m really tempted to respec from the healing/supporty tree to the elemental damage focused tree.
Hitting as hard as possible with elemental damage just seems more efficient.
:O there was a guy sitting infront of me on the bus playing Borderlands 2 on his laptop. We totes could’ve had an awkward bus conversation but too bad I only noticed it as I was leaving 😛
Also school holidays is the worst… So many punk ass kids :'(
Don’t get me started on school holidays!
(It’s amazing how quickly school holidays turn from “awesome!” to “awful!” once you leave school :P)
I have that song about Pearl Harbour from Team America stuck in my head. That’s a good movie.
“I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school…
He was terrible in that film…”
Love it.
I could have gone through my life without seeing that extended scene and been happy. So there’s that.
When you say “that’s a good movie”, I assume that you’re referring to Pearl Harbour, right?
You can still look forlornly through my window.
So, for some reason, I can’t get power to one of my monitors….
Why does this have to be so frustrating?
Something something consoles just something something more like pasta race something something and that’s why I can never return to a Curtain Wonderland.
Hey Scree I can drive you to the meat. I actually live close to Splicer but going through the city to retrieve you shouldn’t be an issue. If it’s better I can pick you up from your preferred station to and then drop you safe and home. yes?
Ah, I mean you coming over wouldn’t be an issue but I can drive you to your doorstep on the way back. I can also do both ways if you’d like. #thatswhathesaid
If you don’t mind and if it’s not too much hassle.
I wouldn’t be able to take the 360 though =P
Awesome cakes, I’ll pm you my phone number on twitter. can’t someone else bring an xbox? I was under the impression that only heathens like me don’t have an xbox?
So I just tried to play Rock Of Ages on my PS3 but every half-minute or so it would come up with a message that I’d been signed out of my online profile and kick me to the main menu. My PSN account was online the whole time though. :S
I’ve just taken it as a sign I should not be playing games and instead should be working on my TAYbie quilt. 😛
So i Have been watching anime and came up with a list of my 5 favourite animated movies, there isn’t any order but i am curious to what you guys favourite ones are.
1.Lion KIng
2. Spirited Away
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Beauty and the Beast
5.Toy Story
1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. Ponyo
3. Beavis & Butt-Head Do America
4.Toy Story 3
5. Persepolis
1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. Ponyo
3. Beavis & Butt-Head Do America
4.Toy Story 3
5. Persepolis
*) A Goofy Movie
*) Toy Story 3
*) Finding Nemo
*) Over the Hedge (only non-Disney in the list)
*) I guess Toy Story, but cutting out so many gems (like Monsters Inc and Lion King)
Toy Story
Toy Story 3
Up
Aladdin
The Incredibles
I don’t think I could number them though.
hehe it really was worthy of repeating the whole song 🙁
Interesting question, I guess if I go with stuff I’ve watched multiple times and remember really vividly and enjoy watching every time I see them, it would be:
1. Nausicaa
2. The Place Promised In Our Early Days
3. The Lion King
4. Macross: Do You Remember Love?
5. The Land Before Time
– Wall-E
– Finding Nemo
– Monsters Inc
– Alice In Wonderland
– Toy Story
Man that was hard.. I could not pick a 5th, so many good ones D=
Out in orange for an interview. The owner pretty much said the jobs mine if I want it. Now to decide if I want to move out here…
Also I wandered into EB afterwards and found Spec Ops in the bargain bin already – $35. I bought it. If its as good as people say, it’s sad that’s it’s been discounted that quickly
Must… resist… fanboy… endorsement…
Oh, man. That’s awesome about the job, good to have options even if you’re not 100% sure!
Orange isn’t too bad, depends on your current situation though 😀 Congrats on getting the position though!
As for Spec Ops, I managed to grab it for a steal at $25 with 2 other games. Amazon had a bundle a while ago. I’d have happily payed well more than that. I think it’s actually quite underrated, possibly due to how confronting it is.
Helpius!
It was $20 actually. Since Bioshocks are like $5 each, Spec Ops for $10 was awesomesauce. Hurry up and finish it!
The problem is people either didn’t buy it because is looked like anothe CoD/Battlefield clone or they didn’t buy it because it wasn’t CoD/Batlefield.
They all missed out.
There is a third reason, they skipped it because they heard the hype and honestly didn’t believe that it would be able to live up to it.
It sounds very much like a game that you want to go in with no expectations. Homefront tried to mask itself as a serious shooter with a serious plot for serious people about a serious threat to a serious nation that should be dealt with seriously. It was shit. In pretty much all aspects.
If it was possible to go into Spec Ops with no expectations, then it could exceed them and I could be happy. People have talked it up as being rather good and I just can’t help but expect disappointment, so I’m taking the easiest (and laziest) option.
There’s something to this.
Also, the sydrom of Homefront Hype Fatigue was a real thing. Oh yeah, it’s another shooter we haven’t heard of promising us a ‘serious’ story. Yeah, yeah, I bet.
Wonder what would’ve happened if Spec Ops had come first.
PS: I haven’t played it.
Er, yes… sydrom is a REAL THING.
Sydrom is Syndrome’s (from The Incredibles) less intelligent alter-ego that he briefly tried to use as a way to mask the fact that his powers are derived from technology.
It did not go well.
Anyhow, Homefront was just a convenient example. There are far too many games out there that are billed as having great stories (or have people hyping them up as having great stories) but are often quite shit. Too often they’ll fall on the same trite cliches, formulaic twists or worst of all end up being executed horrendously.
What’s the point of the good story if you can’t tell it well enough to be appreciated?
I suspect I’ve contribued a whole lot to that hype. I’m sorry for that, because you make an excellent point. I went into the game knowing nothing and was completely blown away. I think my efforts to convert more… uh… followers might’ve back fired. :'( It’s well worth playing, though, don’t punish the game for my hyping. Sounds like you’ve lowered your expecations already! 😛
I understand waiting until it’s cheaper, though. The campaign is fairly short.
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TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape. (although expect the VHS version to appear quite a bit later)
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
Man, I should have started a kickstarter or something…
I swear to Odin, these monitors are doing my bloody head in.
I’ve installed the graphics card, plugged in the monitors, and yet I can’t seem to get them working apart from the middle one.
I can’t get anything to display on the side monitors.
Are any TAYbies proficient in triple screen setups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Is the card certified for eyefinity, also is there any software needed for eyefinity you might be missing? That’s about the extent of my knowledge, Alpeh I think has a 3 monitor set up? He might be able to help out here.
From what I’ve noticed (and am yet to rectify) you need 3 identical display controllers, which typically means 3 identical monitors in terms of make and model. There are caveats to this, although it’s safer to buy 3 monitors at the same time, from the same manufacturer.
You’ll also need an ‘active’ DisplayPort adapter for one monitor if they don’t accept DisplayPort connections.
Keep in mind this is for Eyefinity, not Nvidia’s solution, whatever that may be.
I’ve not had any luck thus far, and won’t be looking to fix it until I’m once again settled on the mainland or something. If you’ve got more questions though, feel free to hit me up!*
*All experience is anecdotal.
Well, looks like all those hits and what not have paid off because POTAKU is off to the EB Expo! And not just off, EB are scheduling uus some interviews! WITH HOLLYWOOD A-LISTER TOM HANKS!!!!
Wait, no, that’s Tom Green. And the guys making Halo 4.
SO ANY WAY! If any of you guys have any questions, could you email them to me?
I’m worse at keeping secrets than Strange. 😛
TOM GREEN!!!
Can you ask what the fudge is wrong with him then punch him in the face?
In seriousness (even though I kind of was) that’s pretty awesome news. Comframpurashins.
I am sad you and shiggy aren’t meeting Tom Hanks.
Still that is amazing stuff. Well deserved though. You both work so hard to make a amazing show. 🙂
AND WHERE THE HELL IS MY GRANDE ULTRA LOW FAT SUPER SKINNY DOUBLE SHOT MOCHACHINO FRAPE LATTE?!
Almost there, you gotta threaten the guy that brings you your latte and it would have been prefect.
I’m waiting on him bringing it to me. Then I’ll throw it at him, burning his hands and face. Then I’ll insult his mother/manhood.
Perfect!
I said it on Twitter already, but congrats!
For those that are going: Is there going to be some sort of EB Expo Meat (or anything like that). I’d just like to know in advance if anything is going on! 😀
Yep, you can still get general admission tickets, $40 per session. The Sunday session is when you should go because that’s when all the cool people (me) are going 😛
You going with a group of friends or by yourself? Not sure if its too sad to go forever alone style.
I’m still trying to work out if I should go or not. The decision will almost definitely be made at the last minute.
I’ll go if there’s a TAY group going. Not interested enough to go by myself 😛
I will definitely be going … so that makes me so far.
Just me, my younger brother and my dad.
so i only just updated my graphic drivers and got physx running on high on borderlands 2, it looks freaking amazing, if any of you guys on the master race haven’t got physx should really try and get it working, i spent ages just playing with liquids and cloths. i also reccomend using maya’s action skill with physx on, it’s super awesome.
It’s super awesome right up until the point you want to headshot someone and can’t tell where there head is because all of the PhysX objects are fluttering about in the way :p
I had to turn it to Low purely because of that.
I’ve got a GTX 670 OC and I’m getting very good framerates and stuff, but it auto-detected and set my PhysX to low. Should I push it up?
660Ti, as in the cards that got released bout 3 weeks backs, or is that a typo and you mean 560Ti? I kinda want to upgrade to a 660 card, even though my 560 is plenty atm…
Yup. Those ones.
I upgraded from my 560Ti to a 660Ti a couple of weeks ago. Only really did it because my friend bought my 560Ti off of me.
Ooh nice!
FWIW was your 660Ti also running at 2560×1440? Because I suspect I’m pushing my machine fairly hard as it is.
Nope, just the usual 1920×1080.
Nope, just the usual 1920×1080.
According to the benchmarks I’ve seen, you should still be averaging about 60fps on your card at that resolution, however, it’s apparently quite CPU limited in terms of performance, though if you’re running it fine now, I doubt pushing PhysX up would make a difference.
The recommended for PhysX on high was something or other in SLi or something silly, but most people I know are running on medium/high with cards lower than yours and haven’t had issues.
Do you have to be connected to their wifi at all times and get kicked out the expo if you lose connectivity for a second? I’d call that Ubisoft’s fault
AH but they’re getting rid of that.
Nah they sent me an email saying I could play certain games and I thought what the hell.
*sigh*
So, after trying to download the drivers for my new graphics card, I’ve found that I’m simply being given the drivers for the other graphics card….
I’m about to punch someone through a wall in a minute….
I may have missed it earlier in TAY, but what is your actual set up.
Do you have 2 GFX cards? Crossfire or SLI? Or are you trying to run 1 monitor off the motherboard and the other two off the GFX card? I’ve tried that before and it doesn’t work
No, I’m running two monitors off of one graphics card, and the third off of another separate card.
(2x DVI, 1x HDMI)
But you can also use the inaccurate maps application like every other 3GS or higher iPhone user!
@Nova
Even though Orange may be a bit far out, it’s the job experience that’s worth more than any money or inconvenience. You could go there for a year or two then head back to wherever armed with the industry experience and it will make you so much more competitive.
Cue the eyeroll and “I know that grandpa, stop lecturing me. I’m not a child.”
Afternoon Tay!
I’ve been wrestling with servers all day so now its time to eat!
Then possible read the past 3 pages from today….
And reply to the emails waiting for me…
Why does everything happen at once??!?!?!?!
Can’t complain too much though, invoices are pilling up!
Urgh hungry….
I’m repeatedly creating and blowing away VM servers while trying to stay awake. Training funtimes!
Swap??
You can work with the physical servers, leaving me with the VM servers!!
Alrighty then.
I’m going to revive that aborted attempt at a theme park meat because theme parks are awesome and they all have a bunch of new rides I wouldn’t mind trying out.
Say in about 3-4 weeks time? And if no one turns up I’m just going to go and meat myself.
Anyone interested?
As long as it’s after school holidays. Going during school holidays is just asking for queues.
There is not!
I’ve been on it and I can confirm it is awesome!
As for theme parks, I think I’ve been up there 3 times in the last 3 years. But BEWARE!!!! Do not go during an school holidays (and preferably not during weekends) because you will spend more time in line than actually doing anything. When you spend that much getting to the GC and going to the parks, you want to get the most out of your money.
DAN!’s going to be out of the country until the end of October. I think the original plan was for just after he gets back?
Also, I can only go if it’s at Movie World or Sea World because I have season passes to those and can’t really afford to buy a single Dreamworld ticket.
Im not going, no themepark kinda guy. If someone hosts one of those gameplaying meats I’ll try and show up.
I’m not a themepark person either. We can chat while everyone else is getting the bejesus scared out of them. And we can take take videos of them screaming with funny looks on their faces. 😛
Or, you could meet up with us wherever we go after we’re finished at the themepark. Themepark food is kind of yucky and expensive so I guess we’ll be having dinner elsewhere afterwards.
Sup TAY?
Sorry I have been absent for the last two days, I spent yesterday sleeping and recovering from the marathon with a GOOD game, Borderlands 2 (spoilers, it’s the tits), and today has been a mod busy day at work, but it’s the good kind of mad busy so I can’t complain there.
I just wanted to personally thank all the guys who got supported the Lame Game Marathon over the weekend, I was busy playing some shit games but I did hear quite a few of your names being thrown around by the hosts, it was a great moral kick to know that TAY had my back, so thank you, you are all super awesome 😀
Now with that said, Gunzerker with dual explosive shotguns is SIIIIIIIIIIICK 😀
It seems what I thought was going to be a relatively quick and easy process of sorting out internet for my flat has not come to pass. I need to set up a new phone line first (which adds 10-20 days to the process starting Monday) and then convert that new phone line to naked ADSL.
The current line has a dial tone and I have a phone number for it, but it’s still considered inactive/deactivated/whatever. So I have to pay two sets of set up fees. Then it looks like I’m being charged line rental for the first month even though there is no line rental with naked ADSL. IT’S TOO DAMN CONFUSING.
It might be simpler (and cheaper) to get an ADSL and phone line package. That’s what we did at my place.
Wait…why do you need a phone subscription if you’re getting Naked set up? If the line is “inactive”, it can be activated by the ISP, and they’ll then establish the connection (based on exchange connection availability).
Tell me more…
That’s what I thought was the case, and that’s what I asked for, which was fine yesterday. Then today I received an email saying the line was inactive and it couldn’t be converted.
Hey everyone!
I kind of need help (As usual =P)
I’m currently using the trials of Illustrator CS6 and soon photoshop as well. The trial for illustrator has completely run out and I kind of need the full version, but the price is too much. (who has a spare grand, huh?)
I’m sure you get what I’m saying.
Google Peerblocker and the PirateBay
You’re welcome!
That being said getting pirate versions of Adobe stuff to run properly can be quite annoying. Make sure you read through all the comments on the torrent site to make sure it’s a working version and which serial keys to work properly etc etc. Usually you have to disconnect the internet during setup to stop it auto authenticating and auto updating….
A few years ago I remember GIMP being something people who couldn’t afford photoshop and didn’t like sailing the seven seas would get.
http://www.gimp.org/
Knowing nothing about this sort of thing though, I don’t know if it does what you need.
I know of GIMP and while it’s great, I’ve been using photoshop for years.
I would buy the student edition, except it’s still stupidly expensive.
Demonoid was good because it was popular and trustworthy. Pirate Bay has a lot of dodgy stuff so you have to be wary, can’t just take the first thing with a decent amount of seeds.
I have a PRE-PAID CREDIT CARD. I feel TRENDY and HIP and now I can BUY STUFF ONLINE AND STUFF.
my god, I never realized there was a crap-load of stuff I never got/did in my life before heading to australia. I have a CELLPHONE! I’ve been to a ZOO and a AQUARIUM!
Oh man I am going to enjoy life until I head back home to Canadia and face the crippling prospect that is school.
Alternatively, pirates could be why Adobe charge so much. Only about 1% of people I’ve ever known to use Photoshop had a legitimate copy.
I bought a legitimate copy once.
That was on mac.
Still cost a grand.
If it were a couple of hundred, I could handle it, but I can’t actually prove I’m a student. Or a teacher.
Yeah, the only people I know who have a legit copy of any of the Creative Suite stuff had it covered as a work expense. Not that I’m encouraging piracy or anything though 😛
Like I said, i would buy it if it weren’t so bloody expensive
Actually I’m not sure if it IS adobe but some company doesn’t mind there product being pirated. If you think about it the people you want to pay you for your product are big companies. If you have a free version of said program at home on your computer, chances are you will buy their product for your work.
Update on the job front – Apart from Orange going well, I also got a call about the interview I had last week in the city. I’m on the short list for a second interview, however my recruitment agency contact said some of the feedback she got was that I didn’t seem overly enthusiastic, that I didn’t seem to REALLY want this position. Personally I thought I was, but my question is how do you seem enthusiastic without just spouting off what the interviewers want to hear and coming off as faking it? Dad interviews a lot of people at his job and the one thing that turns him off someone straight away is faking something. Talk about rocks and hard places….
Also DC, don’t worry about over hyping Spec Ops. I worried about doing that with Xenoblade. Lucky I was never as bad as He-Who-Is-Green 😛
This article may help: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/08/the-interview-question-that-is-always-asked-and-how-to-nail-it/
By showing interest in the company/your potential position, you automatically appear enthused without even trying 🙂
Ah, that’s not the best. It sounds like you’ve got a couple of options though so chin up!
Well, I believe these are kinda generic answers, but how you word your answers, your tone, posture are ones that stick out to me.
Oh, man. Sounds like playing it cool backfired. 😛 Here’s hoping you get the one you want more! 😀
One thing that tends to go well with companies is a follow up call or email a week or two after the initial application. Shows that you’re keen and interested.
Just be careful not to be overly demanding or needy. I would leave it for a week and a half at least.
Otherwise another good one (depending on what the add says) is to call the HR person or recruiter and ask a few generic questions like what the hours are, where are they located (if the company name isn’t given) etc. Again this shows you’re interested and not just applying for every position that comes up.
And for God’s sake, in an interview, ASK QUESTIONS!!!!
As for faking it – if you have to fake it in an interview, you probably don’t really want to work there in the first place….
Finished “To The Moon” last night – Tracey’s GOTY last year.
Had a few complaints, but there’s something special about it. Totally recommended.
I got halfway through that but got distracted by something else new and shiny. I really should go back and finish it
Oh yeah…I keep forgetting about that game. May have to try it when I finish Anna’s Quest.
Oops it was more in reference to the article and the other pictures on it, not my comment 😛
Hey, man. It’s not all trees and rocks. Why, I distinctly remember- no, that’s trees. Well to the east is- wait no, that’s rocks. But ah, we have wate- oh shit, yeah.
…..
I am glad you were not offended \o/
well it’s true :/
I’ve never been outside Australia, so i wouldn’t know =P
Spoiler for Canada: It’s true.
And snow. Craptons of snow. We could make giant robots or anything, and I dunno how much snow you guys got here, but Snow is really damn cold, so we really can’t do much with it. Maybe load up catapults or something, but in the face of modern warfare Snow Catapults are frowned upon.
Then again, Canada’s army ain’t that great, so maybe Snow Catapults are what we got.
But the snow there is glorious to ski on!
In Australia, we clear all our runs of rocks, and trees, and all those other unfun things, and then groom the hell out of them.
In Canada I was just skiing over rocks, because the snow was deep enough! IT WAS FANTASTIC!
I think I out Borderlands’d myself :/
Not much motivation to play it at the moment :'(
Rest, my friend. Your desire to shoot people in the face will rise again soon enough.
I haven’t played anything for a couple of weeks now. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, just no drive to play games.
Did you get your assignment in today?
Yup, it’s quite horrible :P. Literally had no idea what I was doing for a lot of the questions and just made stuff up that’s completely wrong.
Hah, that’s fine. No rush.
I haven’t played mine in ages either. I’m drowning in work at the moment! I better hurry up if I want to beat the Elite 4 before B2W2 come out 😛
I was going to play my 3DS today on the bus but then I didn’t want everyone looking at me because ….go away people! I know whenever someone else has a fancy gadget out I’m interested to see what they’re doing 😛
Hahaha, I know exactly what you mean. It’s even worse with a 3DS XL. You may as well be carrying around a widescreen TV that flashes “LOOK AT WHAT I’M DOING”
Ha ha true.
Although sometimes I was the opposite. When I used to have long commutes on the train I used to hope someone would see me playing a game and he/she would approach me and we would have a long discussion about games till I reached my destination. However, because I often woke up early to go places I was often irritable and I didn’t want anyone sitting next to me let alone talking to me.
Yup, I was weird like that( Maybe I still am) /o\
I was like that too Masha, don’t worry, we can be weird together o/
Ha ha weird bros high five \o
Today I have revieved the same email THREE times from THQ telling me to pre order Company of Heroes 2
Best anime. I could watch it again and again and again.
I’m about due for another watch, actually! So good.
Can you give me a brief non spoilery overview? Its one of those series’ that seems to show up on peoples favourites lists a lot, but I have no idea what its about
Well, the basic story is that Haruhi creates an after school club that exists solely to find Aliens, ESPers and timetravellers. Unknowingly, she gathers one of each in her club.
And that’s the unspoiled version.
Intruiging… I will have to track this down at some point. What sort of genre is it?
Slice of life/supernatural. They are the same people who made Lucky star if you know of that.
I’ve watched very little anime. I think a grand total of 3 different shows. Lucky Star isn’t one of them 🙂
NOVNOVNONVONVONOVNOVONOVAAAA
Watch Baccano! it has 2 of club Xenoblade’s members’ seal of approval!
And if there’s one thing the Xenoblade Club members are known for, it’s good taste!
(But really, that’s my 2nd favourite series. Very different tone to Haruhi, but very good!)
It’s a mix of genres. Slice Of Life/Supernatural, like Scree said. But it’s also got some good doses of Sci-Fi, Mystery and Parody (is that even a genre? :P).
I do highly recommend it though. It’s a lot deeper than it first appears!
Also, the English Dub is very good if you prefer it (I tend to. I find it more enjoyable, though a lot of people wouldn’t agree :P)
I’m a sub person.Lucky star is slice of life/parody =P
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s not a lot to spoil unless you get into specifics for an individual story or character; the point left out is like, the main drawing point for the show.
She’s god. There, I said it. She be god. No beard or throwing lightning powers, but yeah.
Depending on who you believe ;D
then we head into spoilerths.
but hell, when I heard about this, I was like “Oh, that’s kinda cool.” Then I heard the god part and I was like “Oh, that’s actually pretty damn cool.”
Then I hit Endless Eight and I died inside.
Oh god! I hated that series.
Japan hated it too, but it became the fastest selling blu-ray. Go figure. =/
It’s kind of weird because they say she’s not really god, but she is.
Personally, I don’t subscribe to that theory. 😛
I like this post. I have my allegiances that I won’t go into here for spoilers sake!
(This is why I love this series! Go watch it now, everyone!)
Allegiances, eh? Man, now I’m curious!
QUICKLY! INTO ROT13!
Maybe “allegiance” was a bit too strong of a word, but…
Zl snibhevgr FBF punenpgre vf Zvxheh ol sne! Fb V graq gb fvqr jvgu gur Gvzr Geniryref orpnhfr bs vg. V whfg ernyyl yvxr gur zlfgrel oruvaq gurz, lbh xabj? Yvxr… ubj zhpu nera’g gurl gryyvat hf? Gur snpg gung Zvxheh whfg unccraf gb or sevraqf jvgu Gfhehln vf rabhtu sbe zr gb guvax gurer’f zber gb gur fgbel!
V qba’g rira pner vs gurl arire erirny vg, gb or ubarfg. V whfg ybir gur zlfgrel!
I could go on and on about this series. I think that classifies me as a fanboy 😛
Crefbanyyl, V qba’g gehfg Xbvmhzv. V xabj jr’er onfvpnyyl sbeprq gb guvax gung jnl, ohg ur’f gbb nzovthbhf, naq xabjf fb zhpu ohg frrzf gbb qrgnpurq sebz zbfg bs gur tebhc’f nagvpf. Zvxheh ng yrnfg vf vagevthvat va gung gurer’f gjb irefvbaf bs ure naq rira gubhtu bar bs gurz onfvpnyyl xabjf rirelguvat, gur jnl fur erirnyf vasbezngvba qbrfa’g unir gur fnzr nve bs pbaqrfprafvba gb vg gung lbh trg jvgu Xbvmhzv.
Abj Gfhehln, gurer’f gur zbfg vagevthvat punenpgre ol sne. V ernyyl yvxr gung fur’f nyjnlf ba gur sevatr bs rirelguvat. V yvxr ure jnl zber guna Xbvmhzv!
THE BOOKS ARE BETTER *hipster shades*
no but really the anime is awesome, the movie was great
Ah! That explains it. Thanks Lambo 🙂
I think one of the band members’ nick name is Cray?
Not that that helps much.
But it’s nice to see C Rock has evolved beyond Amy Grant and Stryper. Not that there’s anything wrong with Stryper!
I’ve never heard any of Stryper’s songs, and only 2 or 3 of Amy Grant’s :s
Petra on the other hand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Ux9Sp66b8 I grew up listening to that song 😀
By the time Petra were the big thing I was into heavier stuff like Vengeance Rising. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wFXlpkyu4
Here’s some Stryper for you. They were huge in the 80’s! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA13wsBFgvQ
They used to play this at my local roller rink for the speed-skate session. This or “I See Red” by Split Enz
So now you know – I’m really old! 😛
I replied earlier, but I had two links so it’s in moderation. Here’s the main bit;
Here’s some Stryper for you. They were huge in the 80′s! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA13wsBFgvQ
They used to play this at my local roller rink for the speed-skate session. This or “I See Red” by Split Enz
So now you know – I’m really old! 😛
Hey, I know one of the people who works at my local rink. I should see if she can put Cray Button on the list of songs they play 😀
Also, I’ll have to listen to that song tomorrow because my internet becomes slow at nighttime and when it’s cloudy, and right now it’s both :\
I like crayfish too, but I prefer lobster. Hell, mudcrab’s better.
But really, I don’t geddit. Not at all. Wy drp leter?
Because it’s a cray cray thing to do. But seriously, I don’t have a clue. Kids these days, or something. *shakes walking stick*
I’m almost finished with my graphics woes!
I went out and bought the cable for the graphics card….
Only to realize that I a needed a second one of the exact same type for the other monitor…
/o\
As I’m typing this, I’m writing and watching South Park.
All on the one computer.
F**k yes!
\o/
I didn’t think I could do it but I found the strength within me.
FOR YOU, TAY. FOR YOU.
YOU ARE THE WIIIIIND BENEATH MY WIIIIIIINGS.
This further reinforces my hopes that all my ‘experiences’ are to be taken a little less seriously 😛
Also, I couldn’t stop laughing at this. I mean, I’ve stopped now, but I- oh, shut up and watch it, it’s worth a giggle! 😀
Haha! I can’t ever imagine a situation where a loss of control like that would be welcomed. I like my control, damn it. Why willingly lose it? Bah! 😛
Just finished watching the Ace Attorney movie! (that live-action Japanese one that came out a while ago). It was good, but not amazing. No major spoilers, but I kinda wish it was slowed down and just focused on one case instead of two. Just seemed to skim over a lot, is all. (Also, April May doesn’t appear. What’s with that? :P)
It’s funny though to see the difference between the Japanese adaptation and what I imagine an American one would be like. It’d be interesting to see, even though it won’t happen.
Well… almost definitely. But in my mind it COULD be done well even if they make it more realistic.
I SHALL BECOME A FILM DIRECTOR!
YOU HEAR THAT, SUCKERS?
I GET TO LIVE.
Some of them can’t hear you…
They’re were sent away, you see…
You mean to the farm where all the old pets go to run and play, right?
Oh, they must be having a great time!
No, you see… there’s this little place called R’lyeh, and is… pure hell… if you’re not me, that is….
Hahaha oops! Someones secret identity just got discovered!
Saw that as “I love my balls” and it made me think of Pure Pwnage, thanks Crazyguy that was a good way to end my night =P
Also yay new monitor \o/
Did… Did Cthulu just accidentally give his secret identity away up there?
There are some things man is just not equipped to know.
And here I was thinking (hoping) that it was just some random person who came into TAY every night pretending to be Cthulu.
I first read the above in a sleepy haze, and I thought to myself ‘hey, how come he gets safe travel through R’lyeh and we don’t?’
…sleepy Aleph isn’t always on the ball.
Seriously? Wasn’t it always obviously CrazyGuy? He always appeared only when CrazyGuy was around.
I didn’t think it was him :/. I knew it was someone who was up late so I thought Blaghman or something.
Hmm…maybe I should CrazyGuy to send me a Cthulhu picture for the quilt. 😀
That would be fun….
There really isnt a better way to start a morning then listening to arcade fire in a empty office with nothing to do. I could nearly stay here forever. Such a wonderful morning. Its weird being so relaxed at work.
Work is terrible when no-one’s there, because they all seem to expect the same output, with a distinctly smaller workforce /o\
Everyone is out so its just me,my apprentice and we both just sit and talk. We try and find stuff to do and clean and shit but, nothing really new to fix.
Thats pretty much my misson statement to the apprentice kid.
btw never did get that borderlands e-mail.
btw I was completely serious about sacrificing a animal in your name for it. Alright, it’s not as serial-killery and demented as it sounds. Ok, it does sound that bad, but I promise you it’s on a farm so it’s all cool.
Are you insinuating that a lesser sentence – or, a criminal sentence at all- will be given dependent on the geographical and/or socio-economic location? If so, I’d be curious to find where these locations are 😛
FIIINNNE, It’s not a sacrifice but a routine slaughter of a animal for a farm that my relatives own.
now it’s not cool anymore. 🙁
Plus, are you kidding? have you ever stabbed a animal in the Arctic? who would charge you, the penguins? I doubt their law system is organized enough to put you away for a significant amount of time.
Morning everyone \o/
I’ve been drawing again, which I hadn’t been doing for a while.
I was also able to pull out a drawing, fix it up without deciding it was a piece of crap.
I thank you all for helping me with this =D
Huzzah! What’s the project you’re working on Scree?
Aside from fucking rupee cushions 😛
Ponifying a horror game =P
I’m also making a dress for Mum’s 60th for myself
actually I won’t go into detail on the others but I owe Rocketman 2 things and BDKIAF one huge one =D
No, because I’m just mean. >=D
Of course you will, if you want to
So mean D:
Also, I look forward to it 😀
I better finish it then =P
I’m just waiting for the adobe suite to download
World of Warcraft was pretty nuts last night. I love being around for the launch of MMOs and their expansions. I just love seeing so many people around and knowing that at any moment the servers might explode. They did explode last night, once, when the expansion went live. It was fixed in an instant though and there were no other server problems that I’m aware of for the rest of the night. The server problems actually benifited me. I was 1000 in the queue to get onto the server but since the problem kicked everyone off the server, including those in the queue to get on, I was quickly able to log on and get onto the server before another queue could build up. Good thing too since I heard the queue ended up being around 2 hours long.
I rolled a panda monk first and went through the starting zone. I have the admit that when I first heard the next expansion was focusing on Pandaren I was a little apprehensive, but Blizzard’s actually done a really good job, or at least from what I’ve seen so far they have. The starting area actually reminded me a bit of the start of Jade Empire, which was cool.
Next I jumped on my level 85 mage to go and check out Pandaria. I made it all the way to the very first quest on the continent, well technically I’m not even on the continent, I’m on an airship above it, but there were just so many people around (my fps dropped from 60 down to 20 there were so many) that I decided I’d log off and try again another day when things have died down a bit. Got back on my Panda and went to do some quests in Westfall. Now the problem became cross realm zones. I think the idea of cross realm zones is pretty damn cool, but with WoW’s current system of mob tagging it’s also really annoying as there a heap of extra competition for quest objectives. Ended up spending a lot of time standing around waiting for mobs to respawn and then desperately trying to attack them before someone else could. It really made me miss the way GW2 does things. By this time it was getting pretty late though so I logged off and went to bed. Hopefully when I get back on this evening things will have died down a little and I can get some stuff done.
I’d love to get back into it, but I somehow can’t be bothered. I think I just can’t dedicated the time any more. Though I do want to check out the poke battles….
Breaking down and crying in front of workmates is never a good look. My wife got some pretty shitty news yesterday from the doctor. It’s very unlikely that we are going to be able to naturally conceive children together without some outside help. And by outside help, I mean hormone therapy and medication, without the guarantee that it’ll actually work.
I left early yesterday to be with her, because she was pretty upset. I pretty much just locked my computer and ran out after I told my manager what was going on. As soon as I got to the office this morning, my co-workers made jokes about me sneaking off to play Borderlands (which is fair enough, cos it’s all I’ve been talking about since Friday last week), but the thought of discussing it openly with my whole work team was just too much. Cue waterworks. So now I’m sitting awkwardly at my desk, with an awkwardly silent workplace cos I don’t want to talk about stuff with them. Hooray.
That’s horrible news. I hope you manage to get past it. If it makes you feel any better I’m an IVF kid and I turned out alright. The only problem is it’s expensive. =(
As for breaking down in front of your workmates, it’s their fault for joking about something that emotional. I wouldn’t worry about it as you had a very legitimate reason for breaking down.
I’m sure they’ll be okay after a few days.
I don’t hold it against them whatsoever. Normally we’r e apretty jovial bunch, and there was no way they could have known anyway. It’s just gonna be an awkard day :/
Sorry I misread and thought they knew why you left.
Maybe you should explain to them that you’ve just heard some terrible news and while you can’t share it right now, maybe later when it doesn’t hurt so much.
Man, that’s horrible. I don’t know what to say. If you wanna talk or anything we are here.
Oh, man. we need a TAY hug. WE NEED A GODDAMN GROUP TAY HUG.
now, my ability to deal with situations is quite frankly horrible, but.. well, you could tell one person so that they can relay the message that you need your.. respect? A uncomfortable work space is one of the worst things you can have at this point.
Heart’s out to you, man.
Dude that sucks so bad bu dont give up, there are lots of other options.
On the awkwardly crying front i have done that more than once. What is worse is, i punched a guy in the face, ran told my boss he told me to take the afternoon off. I got back the next day and everyone had heard what happened and the guy i punched came to me and called me all sorts of dreadful names until my boss stepped in and told him to bugger off. Cue crying again. So now whenever someone teases me they play the fun game of lets bet how long it takes for him to openly weep. Luckily i haven’t cause i basically dont care anymore.
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I did have a point to that story but i lost it now. If you ever need to talk man, we are hear, it might seem really bleak now but you and your wife will get through it. You are a fantastic guy and i believe you can handle most anything.
Sorry to hear the bad news mate, that’s terrible. Perhaps copy/paste what you’ve just wrote into an email and send it around? Sure to break the awkward tension at least? Even if you don’t want to talk about it with your workmates, i’m sure they’ll sympathise at least.
Sorry to hear that, man. That’s really terrible news, and even worse that it’s not something you can share with those around you. 🙁
My wife and I also had difficulty conceiving naturally and she had to resort to an expensive and painful round of drugs and daily blood tests for several months. It’s a scary time and profoundly isolating. I hope it works out for you as well as it did for us, but in the meantime, I really hope you keep us up to date (if you want to) on how you’re holding up.
PS: If you do want to tell your team, but don’t want to say it aloud, an email might do the trick.
Also, I don’t know where you are with this, but it’s so tempting to build a cocoon around your family while you go through this. My advice from experience: don’t do this. It can seem from your perspective to be an embarrassing (right down to the genetic level) and taboo subject, which I think is our evolved biology warning us not to admit that we aren’t perfectly suitable mates, but you’re probably going to need support, and quite a lot of it. And from the outside, people are incredibly sympathetic to folks in your situation, because it taps into a cellular fear that (almost) all of us have. It’s a hard thing to do in a situation like yours, asking for help or a shoulder, but I really encourage you to build a strong support network to see you through this.
Damn man that’s horrible, hopefully things will work out for you guys. I have friends going through similar problems and while it is very testing there is always hope. Not to sound like a preachy hallmark card but you can’t give up hope on this, there’s always a way.
And if you ever need to vent, TAY has your back.
Really freakin’ sucks to hear, man. I hope you guys have an easy time with whatever path you choose. Just make sure you know that TAY is here to support you and your wife.
Us being nice to you probably isn’t going to help much with the waterworks, but still: *supermegagigantic hugs*
Not gonna lie, that really sucks mate. I’ve a 75% chance of being sterile, but really it’s apples and oranges.
The silver lining’s always there though, right? As Scree said, IVF can work, and you’ve still got one another.
As for the workplace, they’re usually a jovial bunch but it got too much for you. They’ll understand, and they’ll probably be kicking themselves a whole bunch over it.
Hope you and your wife are alright. My heart goes out to you both.
There’s no part of that that’s good.
You two are still awesome people, this news doesn’t change that.
Please accept all the hugs in the world, man. You’re awesome and there’s nothing wrong with being emotional in a situation like this. All the best for you and your wife.
🙁 I don’t really have any insights to share, but I’m sorry to hear this buddy.
Let us know if there’s any thing we can do to make you feel better. Even if it’s just being a sounding board for you.
*hug*
Oh man that’s terrible news. I can’t imagine what you’re going through. Don’t even worry about your workmates, they aren’t important right now. My thoughts go out to you and your wife.
Sorry to hear that. I can’t offer any help or advice but you know we’re all here for you if you ever need us.
Thank you guys so much for your words of support. It really means a lot to me. My supervisor has offered an extremely early mark today, and I think I’m going to take them up on it.
Damn dude I feel for you and the wife.
Saw something on twitter so thought i’d jump on and just say that I’m thinking about you guys. Really sucks. Spend time with your family, don’t worry about work peeps and you will get through this.
While it’s no comfort right now, there are plenty of people that have been through this and more importantly heaps of work from a medical side of things to assist people getting through this. (Yay science!) so try to stay positive and just work through it together.
I’ve not read any other comments but im sure everyone will say that they are hear for you man and so am I.
So this morning I woke up late, got ready on time, went to get in my car to leave and discovered my bin had been stolen overnight. Welcome to the neighbourhood…
So I have a look around, don’t find it, and drive off. halfway round the turn off my street I sideswipe a bin some jerk left on the road.
Oh.
So now I have my bin back.
And then I found 100 yen.
Back in my day, 80c could buy you a whole heap of stuff.
Also, despite writing that sentence as a joke, I just realised that I really did use to buy a bunch of stuff with less than 80c…like Paddle Pops…
When I was younger (in Canberra) we used to roam around searching for wheelie bins to steal. Turns out when going ~80km/h the wheels fall off.
Stupid, I know. Cheap thrills etc.
Perhaps the same thing is happening in Queanbeyan?
I wouldn’t know, I moved 😛
I’m actually surrounded by overly large, overly nice houses now, so I assume it’s just bored teenagers.
Well hang on, Queanbeyan had some rather large, rather nice houses. For dirt cheap, relatively speaking.
Location, location, location 😛
That’s because they’re made of dirt.
Rize has moved on from the wilds of Queanbeyan Null, personally I think it’s just payback for Rize spitting on the children as he drives past all superior like.
Ummm, I think he’s talking about the Swans winning AFL and the Storm winning NRL 😛
Seconded. Although It has to be Storm; even as a Sydney-sider, I don’t want to have a whole year of Bulldogs supporters talking about how they’re premiers.
I have only just got out of bed. I haven’t had breakfast, and I’m not even hungry. I fear something’s wrong with me. 😛
I feel like we should hire Shiggy to run around Australia delivering bacon to people in need. Mostly just to TAYbies, though…
…I’m in need. He may need some serious swimming lessons though. And croc repellant.
Apparently there is going to be a worldwide bacon shortage soon….. Run for your lives!
Yep, that’s a big case of the awesome-day-make-everyone-jealous-itis that I wish I got more often 😛
That’s because I only tell you the good parts. I tend to leave out the details like why I had to stay in bed for so long in the first place. 😛
I woke up about two hours early this morning feeling refreshed and whatnot.
So I went back to sleep and woke up two more times before my alarm went off before finally stumbling out of bed ten minutes late and feeling crappy.
Can someone not in the BETA check something for me?
When you press reply, does your cursor automatically go to the reply box and you can start typing, or do you have to click on the box first?
Yesterday I sent a tweet to That Game Company and their online store asking if they were going to sell Journey prints/posters.
The store replied a few hours later saying that they can’t do licensed stuffs. Then they followed me.
I am disappoint.
But the Art of Journey is on preorder again, so I might pick that up.
After all, you only need to find $10 ten times, and you’re all set. The way these stories run rampant on TAY, that’s only about a week’s worth of finds.
Hmmm out of curiosity, how many of you have ACTUALLY found $10? I can recall 3 times I found a $10 note. But the most I’ve ever found was $30 (a 10 and 20) fair few of my friends have found $50 :(, I was even there for one of these magical moments.
Every time I mention it, it’s absolutely true. You mean the rest of you have been LYING? 🙁
I’ll often find between $20 and $150 in my jeans pockets after a wash. I like to think that the washing machine is magic, but really I think I’m just lazy and forget to empty my pockets properly. I have no idea why I don’t keep money in my wallet.
That’s not too bad but yeah, still a bit expensive. If I recall the book was $60? I saw it a while ago so I’m probably completely wrong. Any way for combined shipping? That would be pretty sweet :D.
$60 for the book, $17 for shipping. Maybe they do combined shipping, I could look into it.
There are no carriers available that deliver to this address.
ಠ_ಠ
Changed the order to one copy and it would let me ship. Multiple copies apparently aren’t allowed.
I’d email them and check if you’re keen on +1 copies.
Was just seeing if that was an option. I just placed an order for a single copy.
It should be okay for me to share the pic I made for the Atari comp here, shouldn’t it? I can’t wait until the winners are announced to show it off, need to show people now xD
So I was really excited for AssCreed Liberation on Vita until I heard the reports out of TGS about it. Apparently it’s the Uncharted Golden Abyss of Assassin’s Creed. Simplified core gameplay from the console versions wrapped in all sorts of fucking irritating vita bullshit involving gyroscopic controls, back-touch rubbing, balance beam bullshit and everything that they could think of to make the experience frustrating to play. 🙁
Why does everyone do this? Why can’t we just have games where we use the buttons and the sticks and maybe the touch screen for navigating menus? It’s the early days of the DS and the Wii all over again
The Vita’s backdoor fondling concept still seems like a horribly gimicky thing to me. I don’t own a Vita, so I’m not talking from experience.
Has anyone actually found it to be cool/useful?
I only thought it was cool with that one game where you control a ball by raising hills, and where you press your finger on the back of the vita, is where a hill pops up to push the ball down in a certain direction
So far the only thing I’ve found which uses it in a way that doesn’t make me want to hurl the thing across the room is Lumines, and that’s because you just tap it and it’s optional.
Sadly I’m not really that surprised, as this is what made me shy away from all new handhelds since the DS Lite.
My birthday was earlier this month. So far I have been given a Pokemon eye chart and a contribution towards the SSD I bought.
This is the price I pay for being a hermit with parents that decided to spend the last few weeks in India and a girlfriend that spent the last few weeks in Europe.
Good thing I don’t like to hype up the whole birthday present thing. I’m difficult to get presents for because I just buy things for myself if I want them, so nobody ever knows what to get me. Which often means they don’t get me anything and I go further down this spiral of not getting excited about birthdays.
Maybe the Jehovah’s Witnesses have this one right :p
I still can’t remove the thought of calling them “Jenovah’s Witnesses”. Also, birthdays aren’t about presents. They’re about having a poor pretence for some sort of party 😀
That’s exactly why I said “some sort of party”. A one-person party is still pretty great 😀
Actually, I should count the pretzels Strange bought to my board game meat as a present. They were delicious.
It’s a weird thing, this growing up business. As a kid, I used to always get excited about presents. Once teenagerhood hit, the lustre wore off.
Do people still get excited about birthday presents as an adult or is this fairly typical and I just missed the memo?
It’s tricky. In the early days of my relationship with my wife, I found that the excitement rekindled a bit, because she would manage to surprise me with something that I didn’t know I wanted. Now that we are actually married and have kids, she doesn’t have time to invest that kind of thought, and this will be the third birthday running that will be a non-event. I’m still trying to lower my expectations, so I guess that the actual excitement hasn’t fled entirely.
PS: The excitement I guess was rekindled by the thought that went into it, rather than the actual gift itself.
I still get excited about presents. Probably because I usually get awesome presents. Or maybe because I’m an eternal child. I still bounce around in an annoyingly excitable manner on my birthday and on Chritmas morning.
And yes, I was about to mention I made you pretzels for your birthday. Don’t forget I also made you a cake with a candle on it which then gave you the amazing present of Sughly singing Happy Birthday to you. 😀
Yes, Chritmas. It’s new. You probably wouldn’t have heard of it. 😛
*goes and hides in embarrassment*
Critical Hit-mas!
I don’t really.
I actually don’t like receiving gifts much. I subscribe to the “If I wan’t something, I’m going to work for it and get it myself” school of thought. I used to as a kid of course but over the last few years it just feels awkward. My partner and I still get things for each other occasionally, she doesn’t actually shop much so it’s a nice surprise she isn’t used too when I get her something.
Yeah similar deal here. I like the system my mates and I have: just don’t bother.
Giving each other gifts is essentially just exchanging money when you get right down to it, during high school some of us would end up giving the other the exact same $20 note we received as a present earlier in the year :/ So why not just cut the hassle and be done with it?
Shame others like family would be too sentimental to jump on that idea.
Imagine if that $20 was still going around in ten years time. Occasional scribbles added to it and whatnot.
That’d be awesome.
HI BUNNY! Happy belated birthday, if I had known woulda wished you one on Sunday at the meat /o\
That’s okay. I got spammed pretty hard on the day and we had cake at the board game meat thingy that came soon after.
And pretzels.
I send you pictures, its not my fault you hated them.
Also
Obligatory
YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.
Really? You should see the way you two act around each other. I’m surprised you haven’t asked for her hand in marriage yet! (kidding) 😛
I wouldn’t describe that as suspect :p
It’s just not something we talk about openly.
Trjn and Freyr sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
Immaturity FTW 😛
I’ve always wondered why people would climb a tree to make out. Surely you’d be too worried about falling off to really enjoy things.
Yeah. Also, if you’re trying to do it in secret, up in a tree where everyone can see you probably isn’t the best place.
In fairness, people don’t look up much.
It’s funny, the only emotion I thought you were capable of expressing was sarcasm. You and romance? I never would have guessed 😛
Sarcasm isn’t an emotion, it’s a way of life.
Fair enough, but I still think sarcasm and romance don’t go easily together. How do you sarcastically voice your love for someone? “I hate you and everything you stand for /s” 😛
You’ll work it out when you’re older.
Facebook has kind of ruined that. It’s almost tempting to change the date of my birthday on Facebook every few months and see if anyone notices.
I deleted mine in October 2010. No one e-mails me any more. :'(
Who needs friends and presents when I get this on my birthday. 😛 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3CoLqxCEAAv0nj.jpg:large
You’re a dog? :O
😀
I don’t know if this is new or part of the BETA
http://www.kotaku.com.au/randompagethatdoesntexist
I LoL’d
reply here with what you see…..
Non-Beta folks lose out, apparently. Sigh.
But we are custodians of the Old Way, so we win moral victory.
Just realised I could have edited my comment…
For those who can’t see it – it’s a normal “page missing” error but the background is a cat scratching at a monitor. Probably won’t work on mobile, and I would guess it might not work on some browsers. I’m using Chrome.
I noticed there is actually a link the the cat video
You’re welcome =)
Cause I’m lazy when it comes to reading past pages. Who’s going to EB Expo? I’m gonna buy a ticket and I dunno which day I should go.
Well shiggy and Doc have the advantage of being able to see peoples faces. Advantage them.
INTERVIEW ALL THE CROTCHES.
I wont make a joke because i consider us to be good friends and i wouldnt sexualise you.
lol jokes
So just like a normal weekend for you ey becca?
Ha! Weekend.
7 DAYS A WEEK, INTERVIEWING CROTCHES.
IT’S A LIFESTYLE.
You should interview people who don’t want to be interviewed.
It’ll give a new definition to sticking your nose where it isn’t wanted.
Interview like Kyle does.
(See the previous videos I’ve posted. Or I’ll link one in an hour or so, when I’m on break :D)
I don’t know if I’ll be doing that here. I think I’m just helping out with junk. ALL WILL BE REVEALED.
All part of the plan. Rob them? Sacrifice? Take them out for a nice dinner? All of the above in that order? Who knows.
I believe Shiggy & Doc What are going in the role of highly professional podcasters. interviewing people & stuff. and not just random people that they find on the street. which is a nice change.
I will be there working at a Ubisoft booth thingy about Trials Evolution. Its basically a demo trailer with about 4 or so consoles set up playing the games. There will be competitions running for the weekend and prizes… should be good. All TAYbies MUST come past and say Hi at some point.
I’ll try wearing my Trials Evo shirt that also has my gamertag so you will know its me. I think the set up will be outside near where the food and stuff is in a trailer/truck type deal that has been fitted out with gaming gear.
I’d laugh if me and Ms. Sunday didn’t end up having a bitter divorce.
All the kids were distraught. Friday ended up going to rehab.
🙁
Played five minutes of coop with Greenius this morning Borderlands. I felt all awkward and weird. :'( On the plus side, timed quest completed. 😛
YOU SHOULD NEVER PLAY ANYTHING WITH GREENIUS, HE IS LIKE THE BIGGEST TROLL EVAR.
But he is a pretty cool guy still.
Haha! I don’t know where the reputation came from. Unless being friendly to me is just an elaborate trolling setup! :O
He has a slight addiction to rather… troll like behaviour. Like spawning dozens of squid, in the air, so they glob around, or putting penises all over the temple of time you have spent hours making.
Hmmm, my first instinct when he appeared in Borderlands 2 was to shoot him in the face good and proper. 😛
to be fair, time penis is pretty funny.
And this is the part where he comes in proclaiming “I AM HELPIUS”.
Yeah, Bish knows what’s up.
Pffft I am the biggest helpius ever!
And finally, the last nom, from Bish. Firstly to Greenius because “apart from being super creepy and being in my Terraria house cave ALL THE TIME STARING AT MY CHEST(S), he’s been a real helper, assisting others, making a hole to hell and an underground tunnel.”
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/community-kudos-77/ you said so yourself : D
But no one seems to remember all the times I helped them build things or give them materials :'(. And the ‘trolling’ is far from bad since the animals despawn and are harmless. I hear stories of other people blowing up people’s things or setting them on fire :P. And then there’s Cakelike people who were much, much worse… (I’m still scarred by what happened).
As for temple of time penis… Shiggy’s golden penis was there first!
Totes 100% a Creepius though.
One action is not mutually exclusive of the other.
Is he playing as Zer0? That would allow him to sneak up behind people and stare at them.
He’s Axton. I was Axton. Everyone was Axton!
I was under the impression he’d be the least popular!
Actually it seems pretty even across the board. Seems like there’s less Gunzerkers and Zer0s on PC but I hear they’re all the rage on console.
Like always, Shaun of the Dead comes smashing back into the ol’ skull. 😀
Wow.
Meanius.
You haven’t met his friends :'(
Heh, he’s not being mean; it’s a Diablo 3 reference.
I have a tendency to go off on my own, stumble into a pack (or two) of difficult Elite enemies then come running back to the group, foes in pursuit, saying “I found some friends!”
Which is why we told you to stop making friends.
He can’t help hiimself, he’s way too popular!
My guess is that you posted a comment then edited to include more than 2 links hoping to get out of moderation? Did it work? That would be a nifty feature 😀
There’s somebody called Trjnidad commenting in the Question
time article. I’m all confuzzled. Is it Bunny? Is it Bunny’s dad? Is it a typo? Is it someone who saw Bunny’s name and thought it was pronounced “Trin”? Confuzzleation.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/question-time-rebecca-fernandez/comment-page-1/#comment-809036
There’s something bunny hasn’t told you. He’s a dad now.
And.
The child is yours.
Don’t ask questions. Just go with it.
I really want to play Bioshock.
But it always super freaks me out.
I might have to boot it up and and jump on TS. YOU GUYS WILL COMFORT ME, RIGHT? AND NOT LAUGH AT MY CRYING?!
I am working, so as much as its would make my day hearing you get scared. I can’t unless its after 4.
It wasn’t as bad as System Shock 2, though. I hid in the crawl way of the morgue for ten minutes. 😀
play amnesia for a few hours then start Bioshock, it will be a pleasant and enjoyable change man.
I played the demo and was freaked out the main character shared my name enough to quit and never play again. 😛
Haha, that’s like in Benjamin Button when they start reading his diary, and his last entry is the day I was born. I was sitting in the cinema all “whoa…” Keanu Reeves-like
SUGHLY IS BENJAMIN
Now it all makes sense! (Excellent freakin’movie, though. In my top ten of all-time!)
Yeah, its pretty awesome
I was the same way at first haha Slowly creeping around waiting for things to jump out at me. It doesn’t help that the start of the game has a couple of jump scares thrown in.
It gets a lot better once you get more powerful though!
But man, that was a good level.
Can’t say Bioshock was particularly creepy personally, but the claustrophobic nature of the city was pretty well done.
So, if someone with an account edits a comment, do people commenting the old way see the notice that the comment has been edited?
e.g. This sentence is edited in.
I don’t think so. I haven’t seen anything that indicates whether or not a comment has been edited.
…tempted to use this to have fun with the jerks that frequent article comments, but I guess I’ll be responsible.
My neighbour left a bunch of things out on the street (presumably for people to take). I’m amazed how many people have come by to look! They turn up in cars! How does word travel so quickly that a random house is giving away stuff!?
It’s pretty funny watching (spying on) people though. The one that’s here now is just taking everything and squashing it into his car. What use he could have for some of that junk, I don’t know.
Perhaps he’s a cannibal and he’s going to put the junk outside his house as bait. People will be drawn to it like moths to a flame, because it’s legitimate junk. They can tell if it’s fake junk and get too edgy and cautious.
Damn, the comment system won’t let me reply “Perhaps.” to all of these comments. You’ll have to use your imagination.
‘I’m craving,an-an Ottoman! And a-a-a nice side table to go with it! Perhaps some doilies on the side!’
Or maybe his wife is a robot with a malfunctioning voice box?
Hmmm….doesn’t explain the junk though….
Maybe she’s like Wall-E and she eats the junk and turns it into little boxes.
And befriends cockroaches?
Perhaps the stuff belongs to him and your neighbour left it out for him to collect after an ugly breakup.
I’d be one of those petty people that would leave *half* the couch outside to be picked up.
I guess that’s one reason I’m not married ;P
Just realised I havent opened 3DS letters in weeks. Am truly terrified of going back there now…
Don’t worry, the craze is basically over now 😛 I haven’t received a letter in days!
It was fun while it lasted!
I haven’t opened it for a good while then opened it yesterday.
*braces self for the many letters*
You have 1 new letter.
🙁
Maybe!
Haven’t actually planned the next one. If people are keen, I can host another or someone else can host and I can bring the games.
WHOA! I totally forgot about that 999 sequel and guess what? it turns out there’s a PAL release announced and it’s coming out soonish (November)!
I also wasn’t aware that Paper Mario: Sticker Star was coming out so soon(ish) as well!
!!!!
My love for my 3DS has been rekindled <3. Weegee’s Manshun and Fyremblm were delayed until 2013, right? 🙁
I also forgot I bought Theatrhythm a few weeks ago (it only shipped recently) so that made me happy when I remembered. I’ve played the demo for a lot longer than I thought I would’ve and finally managed to beat a song on the highest difficulty.
Oh really? :O I haven’t even heard anything about it for ages! Googling tells it’s called “Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward” now. I kind of miss the ‘999’ name, though I guess it wouldn’t make sense to keep it 😛 Cool!
And yeah, Weegee and FIRE EMBLEM are 2013 D: (I didn’t know you were excited for FIRE EMBLEM!). Also Paper Mario \o/. Probably won’t get it straight away though.
FIRE EMBLEM.
FIRE EMBLEM!
I played the GBA ones on emulator way back whenever they released but didn’t really get far. I can’t remember which one but I really liked it until one of my favourite people got killed permanently so I never played it again…
The 3DS game has an easy mode that gets rid of the perma-death mechanic, so there’s that! I’m so excited for this game, it better not be terrible 😛
Would you be playing on it? I’m on a fan of games with perma-death because it makes me feel like I’m losing progress but easy mode seems like a good safe barrier :D. I just hope that’s the only feature they add and they don’t actually make it easier. I generally play games on the default/normal difficulty anyway.
From what I’ve read, there’s Normal, Hard and Extra Hard difficulties, plus the perma-death toggle. So you can still have no perma-death and not have to play at some super-easy baby difficulty.
I’ll probably be playing with perma-death on, just because that’s how the games have always been. But it’d be cool to have the option of turning it off for a map or two just to clear some really hard sections (not sure that’s how it will work though).
Greenius really is helpius. Didn’t realize I hadn’t activated my Borderlands DLC until Greenius told me. Then I found $10.
I keep track of all the ‘helpius’ mentions I see. I did actually send kudos noms in one week for you directly attributable towards the amount of ‘helpius’ moments, but I think it got lost /o\
This was like, a month ago, mind.
BUT HELPIUS! \o/
Still loving Anna’s Quest. Now I’m at the bit where I have to punetr gur nzhyrg jvgu n shyy zbba. OHG GUR ZBBA VFA’G SHYY, JUNG QB ABJ! PS: Don’t tell me.
Alright, I won’t tell you… That part isn’t too hard anyway! Or maybe I just got lucky.
Man, if I knew how to put words in italics I would totally pick a whole bunch of random words to throw you off track.
aw.
Similar. It’s just HTML tags (same with the text links as well).
You mean:
Awwwwwwwwwwww…
Awwwwwwwwww…
It’s html, rather than… bb code? Can’t remember. So it’s <> and <>. Except that I probably did that wrong.
Nope, nope, <<>i> and <<>/i>. Hopefully. How do I always forget how to do this?
I give up. Again…
Wait, actually<i>.
Haha! Man, I love hearing folks talk about the game, its so rad. Youre such an awesome ambassador for the game too Shane, I give you like, a million internet hugs!
I really am enjoying this game. I would be enjoying it if I didn’t know you personally. I probably wouldn’t be pimping it as hard, but I wouldn’t be enjoying its whimsical style and engaging personality any less.
I accept your hugs, but they are unnecessary. You have made a thing of beauty.
Daydreaming about Borderlands 2 again.
Man that game is good.
Funny thing though, I see all my friends playing online but nobody is rocking the Gunzerker like me.
I had the same thing happen when playing as Brick in the first Borderlands.
Go figure.
For a game all about the guns, having a character who’s special ability is not using them was kinda odd.
Man, but Brick is a punching wall of punching death.. awesome. I also plan to rock Gunzerker when I get number 2, just to hold two rocket launchers at once.
But seriously, I ended up punching players 10 levels higher than me to death with brick. The eff?
And that Bezerk button, instant heal.
Although I admit it sometimes feels kinda easy to heal up like that when the character is already a tank
I know Pez is gunzerking it up. Pretty sure he’s nearly finished his second playthrough, too 😛
So truth be told, initial sales on Anna’s Quest are TRES slow, really because it’s only word of mouth still so far. It seems like quite a few well known sites and at least one magazine are biting at it, so I’m hoping some articles from them will give it legs. HOPEFULLY!
In the meantime, if there’s any place you can think of pimping the game out please do! Even if it’s putting a link to my site on your facebook or something. As long as it’s getting people to talk about it/share it around, it can only be a good thing! That being said, there’s been huge support from you guys already, so thanks an absolute heap for that. I owe you all!
Just use the Krams Design page for links? I’ll update my status on facebook every hour, on the hour until Anna’s Quest goes Quintuple Platinum!
Or i’ll just give a hearty endorsement on Facebook. Whichever works man 🙂
Haha! Yeah sorry I didnt see your reply way up here! Its indeed just the kramsdesign website, and/or the anna’s quest game page. Thanks so much!
well, uh, one link is from the original game, one link is from the adventure of link, one from a link to the past, etc.
Sadly the only people I know who would be interested are all on TAY 😛 I’ll be buying a proper copy eventually though! ;D
Is there somewhere that I/we can write a mini review or something? That might help?
Yeah its true. Ehhh I dunno, maybe on the indie db page you can submit a user score? Might help… http://www.indiedb.com/games/annas-quest-vol-1-winfriedes-tower
In regards to a review, am I morally allowed to, given I helped test it? I don’t know. I JUST DON’T KNOW!
I did anyway! So rebellious.
(If there’s any more of these types of sites that need ratings, let me know!)
It just occurred to me that my post sounded like nobody outside of TAY would be interested in your game… :\ I meant that not many people I know outside of TAY play games at all!
HAHAHA! No I knew what you meant XD
AWWW MAN! YOU GUYS!! :’)
bit out of the loop on this, so I don’t know what things you’ve tried already, but have you considered putting it on steam greenlight or something similar?
ask someone to do a review & see if Mark would be willing to post it on the front page?
add Anna’s Quest to the List of Adventure games page on wikipedia?
Yeah, not sure about greenlighting it at this stage since its just one part of a series. I dunno, maybe that would an intelligent move…
As for Kotaku, it seems like something will happen, not sure yet… but it’s something!
I propose an online petition to get Sughly onto Pozzible to fund a Kickstarter to pay for him to get his game onto Greenlight.
lol! Actually, it’s very much something on my mind. If things don’t pick up enough, my next step will probably be a pozible campaign using the first volume and a season pass as funding tiers, and using concept art and story teasers to get more attention and funding. We’ll see…
I noticed that you got mentioned on Rock Paper Shotgun but they were only looking at the demo.
Also, is it PC only? Because my sister would love it as an adventure game fan but she only has a Mac 🙁
I’ll post a review on the Adventure Gamers forums when I get a chance to play, man. I’m looking forward to it. I would’ve already played it now for sure if I wasn’t the kind of guy who only liked to play one game at a time. 😛 Hope things pick up, pal. You deserve all the success in the world! 😀
So, thanks to D.C. linking a Disney song further up the page, I started sitting in my room, singing songs, being manly, all that stuff.
I went upstairs to get a glass of water, and there are still builders in my house, doing their thing.
Awkward.
Sing even louder. Eventually, move upstairs and continue singing. Start serenading them.
Eventually it’ll be more awkward for them than it is for you.
Sadly they’ve left the house, so I can’t follow through with this. Next time, though…
Wait, actually, I think I hear one of them. I wonder how my Megara impression’s going?
PPPFTTT, the man(lier) thing to do is to make all the builders join in at once.
Oh shit, make them sing the “we’re going to the mines” song from Snow White.
As someone who has worked as a labourer, I know how difficult it can be to get builders to join in the singing. Particularly when you start singing Asians in the Library and walk around a corner into a Chinese sparky.
I didn’t know that rant was a thing but wow :P. Like I get what she’s saying and people shouldn’t be noisy in the library, she even says it at the end but there’s plenty of other ways to say it.
I did read her apology though which sounded sincere but eh, who cares! EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE AMERICAN MANNERS
Also that Jimmy video is amazing!
ahahaha, I remember that.
“You’re so feisty they should call you Alexander the Great… wall.”
Woooooooo \o/ \o/
I finally have a job!!!!
It’s at my local petrol station which is a five minute walk from home. \o/ for no long commutes. I will be manning the till and stocking shelves.
I was doing some training last week(that’s why I was barely on TAY, sorry) and I just had to wait until this week to see if the manager liked what I did and for him to officially hire me. I’ll be getting 3 9hr shifts on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Also if anyone gets sick or is busy the manager said I could have their shifts \o/ My shifts are from 5am-2pm so I have to wake up a bit early but I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
The pay is not the best-$14 an hour. I know as someone who is older than 20yrs I should be paid more so I’ll keep looking for other jobs while I do this.
I’m a bit behind on my rent so whatever money I get from this job will be used to pay that and in the future maybe I can pay the rent on time, buy better food, pay the power bill and maybe buy a game or two if I save.
Of course I’ll keep looking for work that is more relevant to my degree( I did Marketing and maybe I regret that a bit) but for now I’m happy with this. (As usual if you know anybody who’s hiring hook me up 😉 )
Thank you to everyone for the encouragement.
Now that Greenius has a job as well, I think it’s just NOVA and GINGERCHRIS left on the unemployed TAYbies list (sorry if I forgot anyone)
YOU TWO WILL FIND WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S.
I live in a factory suburb and working at the store has made me realise how much people smoke and drink energy drinks here. Wow. We have to restock the cigarettes and the Mother energy drinks every few days.
You forgot me. THE ETERNALLY UNEMPLOYED!
Oh yeah, and congratulations! I’m good at this…
SPEND ALL TEH FOOD MONEY ON GAEMS
That’s one of my favourite TAY stories. Rocketman EB one is still my favourite though.
AWESOME! TIME FOR A HIGH JOB FIVE.
Without somebody else, though. I’m looking a job as we speak. 😛
Actually disregard High Job Five that just sounds like a trick gone bad.
Grats man! Awesome news!
Remeber, never regret pay rate (as long as it’s legal 😛 ) when you’re going from zero income to some sort of income.
Congrats Masha! You’ll get used to waking up early. I’d rather that than having to work the night shift, personally.
Thanks.
True. I worked one night shift during training and it wasn’t the best. You have to deal with the fuel pumps and count the day’s till total. I’m not up for that responsibility yet.
$14 an hour is below the minimum wage. Pretty sure that’s illegal. Might be worth an anonymous call to the Ombudsman when you get your first paycheck.
Congrats!!
Yeah, $15.96 for 21 years and over IIRC. Obvious issue with complaining from the word go is usually the loss of the job, but still worth looking in to and taking some action.
Thanks Shane.
Yeah, I had a feeling that the pay was not up to standard. The other guys who work there tell me we will be paid in cash as well so that is extra creepy.
I could make an anonymous call but they’d know it was me. To be honest I’m fairly desperate at the moment and I know I should not allow this to happen but I’ll keep looking for other work at the same time.
Thanks Green man, You’re still buying Okami 🙂
Ha ha, the list. I don’t think I’ll be earning that much but over time I’m sure I’ll cross some things off.
My PS3, for example, has been really loud lately and I swear I’m tempted to get the slims. I know it’s not worth it but still.
i was just seeing what would happen if you deleted all the text in a post. thought it might delete the post, but it throws an error instead.
but a single full stop is allowed.
I’m just enjoying the edit contest,
Also, I think it’s probably a good thing you can’t delete posts. It could mess up reply chains, and potentially allow trolling, Facebook-style.
Random stuff:
Did… I just watch someone die? Apparently yes. Guy in robe, please stop jumping off the Eiffel Tower!
Stumbled upon this while watching that Ching Chong Ling Long Asians In the Library video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1x8Ll62QE&feature=related nawww that made me happy :D. I’m still never going to go to chatroulette though…
Yeah. He was trying to prove that he could make a parachute and died in the process.
I don’t really like seeing it, and I knew what it was.
I’m not sure if it’s still around, but there’s a site by the name of ‘documenting reality’. Lots of that sort of stuff.
Please though, don’t go there if you don’t like nasty stuff etc. I’ve not linked to it for a reason.
Also chatroulette. Don’t go there if you don’t like nasty stuff etc.
But Peacock is still one of the greatest things EVER.
That kinda looks like I’m joking about the first bit. I’m not. It’s not for weak stomachs.
Chatroulette is just dicks, and lots of them. I tried trolling on there by playing televisual-gay-chicken. I lost.
Really, it was just too many dicks.
Also guys beating their meat.
But yeah, Peacock. Go watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o71kCuva4B4 RIGHT NOW.
(Potentially NSFW)
in hindsight, Peacock was thanks to Omegle, not Chatroulette
I have not!
Hero of tiem plox!
Oh yeah and there’s another one of a guy… doing you know what and then the girl suddenly pulls out this fake wall and he’s doing it live infront of thousands of people in some festival. I think Gizmodo or one of Allure’s sites posted a link to that one, quite funny indeed.
I saw that one! That was sheer BRILLIANCE.
I really don’t understand what he was thinking though. He’s displaying exhibitionistic tendencies, wouldn’t it be even more appealing doing it in front of hundreds of people you don’t know, as opposed to one?
Silly man.
oh man, this week is slowly turning into one of the worst weeks i’ve had in my life….. and here i was hoping it might get better. Nothing going right…. reminds me of that saying, “Everything can, and will go wrong”. i think im going to lock myself in a cave till the week is over…
I think it’s ‘everything that can go wrong, will’. It’s up to you (and us!) to ensure that as little as possible has the opportunity to go awry!
Hope you’re alright buddy.
MASHA
I understand the need for work and everything, but $14 hour cash is a HUGE red flag. I’d bet both my testicles that your employer won’t be paying superannuation or deducting income tax, provide any kind of paid leave, or have any kind of official paperwork that identifies you as an employee in case of an accident. This last one is most important, as it’ll most likely torpedo any Worker’s Comp arrangements you might need to access should the worst occur.
I’m worried for you, man. I truly and sincerely hope it works out, but fear that this is a toxic arrangement that’ll bring with it a decent share of misery.
Also something something you’re entitled to shift loadings for early morning work something mumble. I’ll stop now.
Shift loadings? What is that?
/o\ Oh dear. I should have really looked through all this stuff beforehand /o\
No don’t stop, this is some helpful advice.
You’re right. No paperwork or paid leave and the injury part as well has me concerned especially since we deal with LPG and fuel products. Also it’s fairly risky in that we could be robbed at any time, especially during the early morning and late evenings.
I’ll keep looking for something different but for now I’ll try and keep this as short-term as possible-A drowning man clutching at straws and all that 🙁
If worst comes to worst I think I’ll just go back home. I know my mom has struggled enough as it is bringing me here. /o\
I agree with Shane. Obviously depends on your age and qualifications, but that does sound very low. I’m sure Maccas and Supermarkets pay more than that.
I admit I only skimmed over your job post but maybe you can give some more info so we can “vet” it for you =)
Also getting paid in cash is very dodgy for a petrol station gig. Is it a big chain petrol station or a small independent. There is a lot of safety things that need to be considered.
My soon to be brother in law works at a petrol station (a woolworths caltex i think) so I’ll ask him how things are supposed to go.
Coles pays around $22 an hour for 20+ years, that’s including 20% casual loading, so the base rate is around $18. How that relates to the minimum wage I’m not sure.
My 2c is that something feels dodgy
Thanks Inquisitorz, I’m curious what your brother in law says. It’s an independent petrol station btw
Edited Curios to curious
Shift loading means you get paid extra for working so early. For Coles you get and extra 50% for any work between midnight and 6am.
Ah, I see. That’s kind of cool actually.
Thanks for the advice guys and I’ll be leaving this job as soon as possible. It seems obvious now that something is not right.
Yeah, that sounds incredibly dodgy.
There are a lot of places like that that are incredibly suspect and prey on international students who don’t know any better.
Unpaid training is also another big dodgy thing. If you worked the hours, they owe you the pay for it (even if it’s a reduced training rate). Shift loading probably doesn’t apply for after 4am. Depends on the award and well, this doesn’t sound like a job that worries about awards.
You should really see if there are any temp office gigs. Data entry, call centers and the like. The work sucks but it would be more reliable and you’d have better safety nets (such as the recruitment agency you’d almost definitely have to go through).
Well that was the most painful 10 minute walk from the train station to home I’ve ever taken. Curse my bad knee.
EB Expo stuffs.
When is everyone going? I’ll be arriving in Sydney around midday on Saturday and am currently thinking Sunday is the best time. Wouldn’t mind some sort of meat happening that day although I’m definitely not organising it :p
Lambo was asking about having another board game meat. We could do something this weekend but I wouldn’t mind if someone else stuck their hand up to host.
There’s a vid up of a guy playing the demo on youtube, just frantically everything on everything as fast as possible. Quite humorous actually. At one point Anna comments on how she should look at the headgear and he’s like “OK WELL LOOK AT IT THEN!”, but then proceeds to keep clicking everything else…
How people play adventure games these days I guess.
I decided because it’s so close to Mum’s birthday I better not go to the meat. =(
Tigerion, I still owe you money. Which way would you like me to give it back to you?
Come to a meat and buy me a drink.
Seriously don’t stress about it, just give it to me (or get me a drink) next time you see me
Hopefully the next one. I should organise one in October because I can’t come to this one.
Howdy TAYberinos!
I hope y’all are fine and dandy.
I have three days off now, so I’m just peachy!
Hmmm first shift EVER tomorrow from 10am-2pm (same shift on Friday). I’m not really nervous about just having or doing a job but the job itself is going to be kind of… hard I guess?
As a Brand Ambassador (fancy!) I’m supposed to promote a product but the target market is very, very small. I honestly don’t know many people who are on a pre-paid smart phone so it’s going to be harder to find, and then show them this thingy. Another product on offer is a free month of mobile Foxtel. Cool right? Except you need to put in your payment details and I don’t know many people who would be keen on that :P! They also want us to take between 3-6 photos of people using the product for each day.
I think it’s going to be hard enough to find them, and even harder to find ones who want me to show them the product, let alone get them to agree to have their photo taken 😛
There’s also the whole talking to people thing but whatevs! 😀
I got the t-shirt which is part of the uniform today in the mail. It’s a white shirt with GREEN wording on it 😀 OOOO YEAHHH! Other part of the uniform is just dark blue jeans and white shoes which you have to provide yourself :(.
I’ve briefly said it before but basically I’m talking about Tapit (NFC) and QR codes which people can use for Telstra services. Groovy!
Anyone going to be near Chaddy to help me get some easy pictures? : )
I MAY be able to swing by, but it would be near the end of your shift, or I might even be too late.
Do you know where in Chaddy you’ll be? Nearest big store? I don’t know it well and that place is huge!
Outside the Telstra store… but I don’t know where that is 😛
I hear it’s near the other stores and near EB? I haven’t been around to Chaddy for a long time.
That’s OK – Telstra store should be enough for me to find you should I have time to swing by before 2PM.
If I don’t catch you tomorrow, good luck Greendude!
Cheers Smurfy! If you do go I’ll be the Asian dude :P. We’ve never met before so it’ll be interesting! There’s a meat on Saturday if you weren’t aware. Just tweet or message Splicer on TAY for details :).
Just walk in shouting “GREENMANG”.
It’s how I meet new people.
I’m more a fan of them both wearing bright green shirts. So when they spot each other in amongst the crowd, they can slow-motion run towards each other and embrace.
I’ve got the obligatory grand final BBQ to attend on Saturday. I’m not really into the footy, but grand final day is usually a fun day at my mate’s house.
The only thing I really don’t like is that so many people think it’s OK to drink-drive home just cause it’s in the hills so not many cars. I’ve been tempted to call the cops, but they are pretty stretched on grand final day already. Still – might do it this year anyway, even if I lose a couple of friends.
Better than losing them to car crashes. ):
I still think this tops it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o71kCuva4B4 (re-link from last page) although technically it’s omegle, so your statement still stands 😛
All these things just make me think OMIGOSHILUVINTERNETPEEPZ. Seriously. Everyone I know in ‘the real world’ just works, sleeps and drinks (not necessarily in that order. I’m also included in that group).
But yeah. That was awesome 😀
Also Smurfy, check yo’ mails bruddah!
1, I agree with your assessment of the interwebz
2, Not so sure about your vid – bloody funny, but… it lacks the high style of Gangnam.
3, re; email. Choice Bro!
Hey Sydney TAYbies.
A Christmas thing. Let’s do it. Or NYE. You choose. Just… let’s do one of them, yeah?
Also, I may or may not need accommodation. Preferably with a TAYbie. Because creepyinternetfrond. Or you could recommend a place nearby to festivities and such. I may or may not be willing to pay for it (I’m more than willing to pay for it and will proffer sexual favours and/or domestic duties should you refuse cash).
This is in lieu of the roadtrip. Because buying a car is silly, albeit fun. I shall repost this to TAY too.
Love and kisses,
Aleph. The one you’ve never met.
etc.
I saw this on Twitter but waited for the TAY post ;D /cool
New Years would be better than Christmas. I don’t know about anybody else, but Christmas is family time ’round these parts!
Even if it’s not for NYE (some people might be busy? I don’t know :P), late December/early January would be cool too. Anything to meet you, Aleph! *swoon*
It’ll be amazing. My relatives will be visiting and they’ll have the best looks on their faces when I invite a bunch of internet friends of varying ages over for an epic alcohol-fuelled party. It’ll be so different from when they visited for my 18th, where everyone was relatively quiet and well-behaved. They’ll turn to my parents and be like ‘WHAT WENT WRONG’ and my parents will be equally horrified and my sister will just be lounging on a pool bed with a beer or something and my other friends will be standing in a corner not knowing what to do.
wait, will this be after or before the cast of TAY turns your house into a Mad-Max Colosseum of death? Cause, you know, I reckon we might need your permission to set up a thunderdome or something.
I’m good for a fight to the death!
No house renovations. You can build that over the pool.
Greatest idea ever
And someone will skype so the rest of your internet friend can join in!
No?
Okay =(
ahaha, we should actually set that up.
“Dad, hold my laptop so everyone online can see how much fun we’re having.”
I like it. 😛
I freed myself up for that period and wouldn’t mind going as well so if you want to split something accommodation wise…
Goodbye Sky Blue Rape Van =( (I saw one just like to today actually cept it had no windows)
Whoa, dem responses!
Sounds freaking awesome.
@Pants, my only issues regarding dates thus far is that I need to be back on Eylandt for the 18th for my little brother’s 21st, although I don’t think I’ll have that much leave up to be honest.
My current plan is relying on work ‘closing’ for 2 weeks over the Christmas period, and I’ll be taking one week off either side of that (WOO 1 MONTH HOLIDAY \o/). The only issue at the moment is that they still haven’t decided on the dates for it.
That does mean that the 5th will work though 😀
@Freeze, I’m more than happy to split accom man, I’m thinking (again, still very up in the air and open to suggestion) of staying in Sydney for 3-4 days or so, as TAYbies will really be the only reason for my being there. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it though.
@Scree, where do you live dear? I don’t even have a smartphone to keep up with the twitters and the skypes and such either 🙁 Hopefully we can figure something out to include as many as possible though!
@Saturday
I may not be very bright, but I can lift ‘eavy loads*. I’d love to help you build a Thunderdome-esque deathtrap atop Alexandhispool!
@CJ
I’ll be on the lookout while on the mainland for a car for the purposes of a ‘work vehicle’ up here (More along the lines of a demo-vehicle for my stereo business, should my brother decide he wants in) so a sky-blue rapevan is still not out of the question! I prefer boarding up the windows myself however, as it adds to the creep-factor.
@Pow
Ignore what I said up top. I’m only coming down to see you <3 *swooooooon*
*I’m a 5’5″ 52kg stick. I can’t lift shit.
Wooo! What happened to Thailand? Thought you were going?
Scree lives in Melbourne. Northern side I think? But it’s okay because someone will drive us all to this epic Christmas/NYE/holiday meat where all of us can hangout 😀
Surely that someone would be you Greenius?
After all – won’t you have a car by then? ;P
I’ve had a car since Friday but…
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 😀
I still haven’t driven by myself for more than ~10 minutes to the usual place where I catch the bus to Uni.
Western. Pixel and i are the only westerners, but my Nan lived int he northern suburbs so i know both well =P
Close enough! 😛
I’m too lazy to get my passport (my living situation was rather volatile for a few years, and apparently you need to state exactly where you’ve lived for the past 10 years? I can’t actually answer that properly, methinks :S)
So TAYbieville shenanigans shall ensue!
Man you’re tiny! lol As opposed to me, 5’10” or there abouts and prolly twice that weight or a bit more!
4 days sounds good. Be a bit easier for me to swing the time off work. Unless you want to do like 6 and do 3 Sydney and 3 Melbourne. Meat all the peoples.
This could also work! What’s your preferred mode of transport, man?
(send me a DM on the twitters and we’ll get the nitty-gritty sorted via email if you like :D)
You’re not fat :P. Pretty sure he’s just super skinny. I’m about 173cm (so not that much taller) and I’ve been ~65kgs for years. I think the minimum average weight is supposed to be 70kg+ for someone my height :P.
Damn this amazing metabolism that lets me eat whatever and not exercise and still not gain weight :/
Ha ha ha, I’m you’re height. And far too close to twice your weight. Goddamn I need to start running again.
And by running I mean “staggering around, gasping for air.”
Or dancing, maybe. Last time I was in a show I lost like, 10 kilos…
I still maintain that the best cardio I’ve EVER done was DDR. Holy shit, does that work up a sweat.
Half an hour on that baby and you’re ready to collapse, crying out for your mother. Awesome 😛
As for actual dancing, DDR *is* dancing, right?
Otherwise, I can dance to a total of 3 songs.
The Nutbush.
The Macarena.
The Timewarp.
I’m the best at this.
I may still remember half a dozen dances from when I was in Grease, but I can definitely do The Macarena, the Buttermilk, Vogue, Timewarp, The Nutbush, and I can pull off a decent Waltz, and a half decent Tango. I blame my wanky Private School education.
Next two dances I need to learn are the Gangnam style dance(gotta do it properly), and the dance from “Gee” because shut up.
Did you have to learn some dances for school? My school had an optional year 10 presentation ball or ‘debutante’ as the fancy shmancies liked to call it. T’was pretty fun actually!
Although it was scary dancing with that buff netball chick. She scares me.
@Blaghs
We shall Gangnam dance in the streets of Sydney like the hoodlums and gallivants we truly are. Or die trying. Because Sydney, also because can’t dance.
@Person of Green
We called them ‘socials’ whereas the end-of-year senior’s thing was a ‘formal’. Yup.
I remember doing my hair for one of the socials. I’d always had a mop for a head. The in thing was to do it in the ‘ski-jump’ style, (Gel was still in vogue) so I gelled my fringe up, combed it dead smooth and all. My hair was rock-solid thanks to the gel, and as embarrassing as it is looking back on it, I was KING SHIT that night. Thanks to the mop, I had a 6-7 inch ski-jump.
I was popular due to some stupid bloody hairstyle that I ROCKED for a single night 😛
Also, no idea how/why I started raving about hairstyles. I blame Pez.
Because Pez.
Damn that Pez! Yeah, we had the year 10 deb, and year 11 and 12 formals. Deb was more formal since we had these crazy suit things and girls had to wear white. We also had partners and had to learn dances whereas formals were just go there and do whatevers. It was also one of my friend’s birthday on the same night so we lifted him up and let him crowdsurf :D. Haha at King Shit hair 😛
pics? 🙂
Also, didn’t you say you used to have blue hair?
I’ve had some stupid-crazy hairstyles/colours 😀
Just recently I had pink/blue in my hair, and it’s all faded out now, leaving these funky highlight sorta things in my fringe.
I started colouring etc. in primary school, because DBZ. I wanted to be a super saiyan. It didn’t work (turns out you need a shitload of toner).
My most radical style would’ve been a bright red anti-mohawk with long bangs down my face.
Think Keith Flint, only slightly longer, and red.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fe9yJdDmfQ0/THmgkKelPjI/AAAAAAAABcQ/Ar_D-ks3JUI/s1600/keith-flint.jpg
Obligatory ‘you’re not fat’ comment 😛
Also, I’ve never seen you before, so I can’t really comment on whether you are or not, though I dare say you’re not. We’re about the same height, and probably both insecure about our weight although perhaps for differing reasons. I’m just a twig, is all. I’d love to be able to hit 60kg.
While not technically a Sydney TAYbie, I can probably attempt to come up to Sydney for some shenanigans. I do love me some shenanigans.
OMIGOD can we go see a live band? I don’t care who/what (okay, I kinda do, but whatevs) I just wanna see a proper, loud, live band again.
And maccas! Can we do late night maccas runs?! With all the regret and stuff that comes from eating cardboard flavoured carb+fat slurry?
They’re open 24 in the big smoke, aren’t they?
Oh and I need to go to a shopping centre again. Because people. Also hairdressers and stuff.
But mostly because shopping CENTRE. THERE IS A CENTRE. FULL OF SHOPS.
I DON’T EVEN.
Oh yeah I saw your post about a haircut. Shave your head or let it grow out to be as majestic as Blaghman’s mane.
It’s about as majestic as a mop at the moment :S
A friend kind of had hair like that sometime in high school. It was kind of long but he still wanted to put it up so it kinda just flopped down around the sides and looked like a tree/mushroom thing. Everyone, including himself made fun of it, yet he still did it anyway. The fuck?
You can be totally gangsta with the shaved head though! And it’s super easy to just get a shaver thing and do it whenevs
But alien head! Really, I couldn’t shave my head. It’s all mottled and icky lookin’.
Tell you what. If I get a little too tipsy this weekend, I’ll do it and blame you.
I suppose I can always wear a hat, provided work takes pity on me 😛
Well it doesn’t have to be fully shaved :P. There are various lengths so it’s pretty much just short hair!
Aliensgula!
rocketman has given me Borderlands 2.
so uh i’ll be gone for a while. Take care of the farm, son. I’ll see you when you become a man.
*Rides off into sunset with rocket launcher*
Saturdaymorning I think? He’s on my friend list so you can always find him through me. I’m keen to drop a new character (probably Zer0) and roll with you guys depending on my mood. I’ve really played a shitload of Borderlands 2 in such a short time :P.
But then there’s D.C. who has 50 hours and less days to play and Pez with a crazy 57 hours!
There’s also ynefel with 45 and f4ction with 41 and a fair few in the 30s.
I’m the ‘bestest’ cause I’m the highest level for the amount of time I’ve played.
My 21 hours feel positively pathetic. I blame the fact that I was busy all Saturday.
:'(
No friends. No life. Plenty of time.
No friends – WRONG
No life – WRONG
Plenty of time – RIGHT
:'(
🙂
🙂
Wow, Tay looks rather nice on the iPhone 5’s screen. It’s not much but the extra real estate makes a big difference.
@scree I don’t know if you know (you probably do) but I was talking to a friend and he told me you can sort of rent all the Adobe software. About $50 a month you will give you access to their entire product range. Still not cheap but much cheaper than buying them outright.
@Trjn I’m happy to host if people are willing to come down here. Don’t know but the offer is there.
Tired as fuck and it’s making me feel meh! Other than that i’m great lol. How about yourself dude?
Not bad went to class today after missing the last one and it wasnt a problem caught up got everything handed in. Cept I have to wait till Dec 17 now to do my last prac day, which is 10 days after my last class.
\o/ for catching up but that’s balls your last prac class being that late in the year! Whatcha studying, if you don’t mind me asking?
Im doing a Cert II in Animal Studies at Taronga Zoo. So I get to work at the zoo for 10 days throughout the year as part of it and my last on is Dec 17. *sigh* I hope it’s not hot.
Oh cool man, that sounds interesting! And yeah December, and the way we lead into spring (at least up here in Northern NSW) it’s gonna be shit house.
So I’m a stones throw away from finishing the first Professor Layton game and I think I should move to another DS game, thinking maybe 999. Assuming I go that way, since it’s basically as I understand it a visual novel, is it worth playing with a guide or a flowchart or something to optimize my playthrough and get all the story branches with least amount of effort? Or should I try and wing it?
At least the first play through you should wing it, in my opinion. And maybe wing it again for the second (the branches are VERY distinct, you get a clear choice of 2 or 3 things each time) so it’s not hard. Though I did use a spoiler-free guide to help me through which choices I needed to make to get each ending once I only had a few left.
So it doesn’t have any gated endings or anything? I’ve played quite a few visual novels over the years and it’s not uncommon for decisions to be non-obvious, require specific combinations to get certain endings, or achieve specific endings to unlock the ability to get to other ends (and in games like that often needing all the standard endings to unlock the ‘true’ or ‘grand’ route to the best ending)
It’s been a while since I played it, so I could be mistaken, but as far as I know there’s no hidden values that affect routes. Most of the decisions are choosing which door to go through, or choosing which character to follow, etc.
Also, you can’t get the ‘true’ ending until you see the ‘normal’ ending (there’s a bunch of other endings that don’t affect anything), so there’s not really much point in using a guide for the first time anyway. The way I did it was played through blind once, then used a guide to get all the other endings, saving the true ending for last.
I should probably finish that game :P. Last DS game I was playing before Pooogiemangszz
SUGHLY,
I finished Anna’s Quest! Turns out that I arire sbhaq gur yraf rzorqqrq va gur punve. *urnqqrfx* Qnza guvat unq orra gurer cerggl zhpu fvapr gur fgneg bs gur tnzr! 😛
You’re committing to a monthly schedule with these chapters, right? I don’t have to wait too long for the next instalment… right?
Oh, yeah, and it was awesome! You should be proud, it’s a real achievement (*Bloblooop* – unlocked)
Unun! Rire fvapr gur png-cvyybj zvav chmmyr fghzcrq zr fb onqyl, V jrag nebhaq ba n pbyyrpg-n-guba whfg pyvpxvat rirelguvat V pbhyq frr. Zbfg bs gur gvzr V jnf fghpx jnf orpnhfr V’q zvffrq na vgrz fbzrjurer…
Damn adventure games! Still fun though 😛
Man, Ted has the best ideas! I can just use my Telemeneus to explode the wall away!
…I guess it wouldn’t be much of a game if that were the solution though.
Great game Krams/Sughly (I really took a long time to make the connection that you were the same person). I’ve spread the word some for you!
Aww, now I’ve got “Hot Patootie, Bless my soul” in my head….
Guess there’s only one way to get it out…
Surely if you were brain dead all you’d be saying is:
“… … …”
Then again, I guess you’re not Squall…
Aleph!
I’d DM you but I can’t seem to get twitter to work on this new phone. It just hangs every time I try to sign in.
I think mobile twits was down or something yesterday. Whenever I tried to refresh it would ask me to log in. =/
Mornin’ Ladies and gents.
I still have one $10 code for ozgameshop left over from the KKP.
If anyone would like it let me know – first in best dressed 😛
I started playing Anna’s Quest, i had to force myself to stop, the animation and voice acting are amazing. The music sets a amazing atmosphere and the story is curiously unfolding and i am super interested in it. Hopefully i can finish the game tonight or friday. I can’t believe i only paid $5 for it. It really is a top notch production.
I wonder if sughly will let us buy all the episodes in advance like walk dead style?
I want the same DLC.
Four hours til South Park…..
But I’ll be in Melbourne…..
And I’m down to my last $100…
:`(
@Loopy poopy
I don’t really need to buy anything but if no one else wants or has a need for it I guess I’ll take this burden off your hands ;). Do these voucher coupons stack? I think I have two $5 ones but I’ve never bought anything from OzGameshop since they implemented it.
Alternatively to get the best use out of it just give it to someone who wants Xenoblade ; D
Mass Effect Trilogy edition announced! 😀
Perfect methinks, exactly what I was waiting for since I don’t own any of the games!
…none of the DLC
… D: guess my wait for the ultimate sexy edition with everything still goes on
Yup! Which is what I’ll wait for I guess :/. Question is… What platform? I’m master racing lately but have no idea whether they’re good on PC or if Origin is really that bad 😛
Origin’s actually pretty decent. The main problem with it is the price they charge Australian’s for their games. Other than that it functions quite well.
Wait, they aren’t including ANY dlc with it?
That’s just nuts.
Well either wau you should snap that up, they’re great games and the Mass Effect universe is a fantastic Sci-Fi universe that is worth getting sucked into 🙂
Doesn’t look like it. Oh I’ve played ME1 and 2 which I borrowed off a friend but I’d like to do one of those continous runs through all 3 games. I kind of rushed 2 cause I forgot what happened in 1.
SPLICED MEAT!
Hey all! If peeps could reply to this post to let me know they’re definitely coming to the meat, that would be awesome. Cos I really have no idea what i’m doing as far as meat etiquette (meatiquette?) goes!
Damn tram. That would be at gmail..Not sure if I can make it, my wife’s team made it in the sportsball so may have a BBQ on
We’ll be there. No idea about meatiquette either… We can bring some baked goods for consumption, any other things that need bringing?
I’ll be there.
is there anything in particular you want us to bring? other than drinks & games & food stuff?
Hey I have a BBQ to go to but I might be able to swing both.
perhaps DM me the deets on the twits? 🙂
Just BYO drinks and a nibbles you might like I guess! We’ll probably have pizza too. Pretty sure i’ve emailed everyone the contact details now. If I’ve left you off, sorry! Email me at splicerkid at gmail for the info!
Aleph! I’m never talking to you again! 😛
And whoever was talking about starting 999 (Neg0?), I completed it yesterday. I loved the game so I would heartily recommend it as your next DS play. I had a great deal of fun piecing together all the clues from each playthrough to try and figure out what was going on.
I played the first time through without any guides and then used a spoiler-free guide to get the other endings. The guide was just to see which order to do things in to get the ending I was after.
The only things the game is particular about is you have to get a particular ending first, before you can get the “true” ending, and one or two choices will need to be a particular way in your “true’ ending playthrough. But after playing one or two of the other endings, it will be pretty obvious what things to say or do to make sure the “true” ending turns out.
Finishing 999 also means I’ll finally be able to play my first Pokemon game. I’m scared now after all the hype. 😛
😀 Here’s some spoiler-free tips for a first timer:
1. Try to train/catch a variety of different typed Pokemon. The best way to win is to have type-advantage over your opponent! (This chart can help you out if you’re not sure!)
2. Talk to EVERYONE you see. Some people give out free items and things.
3. Have fun. This one is mandatory.
Pfffft, only have fun if you’re a casual. You know what happens if you don’t take it seriously?
Pokemon get hurt
I only found out about the sequel yesterday. 😀
Thanks for giving me 999 Bishy, I had so much fun!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was worried that if you didn’t it would be the worst birthday present ever and I’d be all /o\ but it was not so \o/!
If I was talking to you I’d say it was because you abandoned the Queensland part of your trip and skipped straight to Sydney. 😛
You’re in Brisneyland? I’m planning on being in Townsville for most of my month off, So we’ll have to do something somewhere around then!
I don’t know where/when though…
Lul Townsville, that’s what 1,700kms from Brisbane..
They better bring Harmo Knight to the EU eShop! I love these type of rhythm games. (Especially this one considering it has Pokémon tunes thrown in :P)
I tried to do a sneaky edit-my-comment-to-try-and-get-two-links-in-without-moderation, but it didn’t work 😛 Here’s what I wanted to link: Pokémon tunes
Tempting, but so is a WiiU (when it comes out) and a 3DSXL… so many choices, so little money.
I’ll be waiting for the ‘next gen’ consoles, and even then I think I’d prefer to wait for the PC release of games. I’d rather upgrade/exchange parts in a multifunction box 😀
How about you mate?
Yesterday I spent $400 on that new tritton warhead 7.1 true wireless headset at JB so I’m suffering alittle buyers remorse atm and with WiiU coming around the corner I would be stretching it.
I was never interested in the PS3, and with the WiiU on its way I have less of a reason to get one. That and the current-spec PC, the 3DSXL and the 360 means I’m overly saturated in games. I’m bad with money…
Of course you do i am adorable.
I only bought the PS3 (ages ago) as a media centre and blu-ray player.
Now that my PC lives in my lounge room, and I’m building a new HTPC, I haven’t turned on my PS3 for probably 6 months cept for playing F1 games (which I can probably migrate to the PC now anyway).
OK, a month after purchase, I got my ecigarette yesterday. Have been using it since I charged the battery, and it seems to be working well. I’ve burned through my first atomizer because I didn’t prime it (that’s a bad thing) so lesson learned.
On the plus side, I’ve not touched a cigarette since 4pm yesterday \o/
You want me to be proud of you for something i don’t do everyday, kids these days.
Good job man, hopefully you can get yourself off them completely.
The plan at the moment was to cease smoking. I realise I’m a nicotine addict, and I’m ok with that for the most part.
If I can maintain my addiction with less negative health effects, I’m gonna give it my best shot 😀
Dammit, the story would’ve been better if I concluded with:
I was putting on my shirt this morning, and then I found $145 \o/
O_o
Man, if you ever come visit the ACT I will totally do your laundry*.
*not a euphemism
New plan: When he comes to Sydney, we shake him upside down and grab all the money that falls out.
BAHAHAHAHAA!
I… I don’t like this idea very much 🙁
Hahaha! I just read up top 😀
I responded up thattaway ^^^^^^ too!
But yeah, I gotta do something to get Mrs Strange talking to me again 🙁
I have met miss strange before. She is a pretty okay lady i guess. if you like that sort of thing. 😛
Awesome. All the best with this.
Take extra notice of your nice fresh breath the next few days and really enjoy tasting food again. Hold onto that for when things get rocky! 🙂
I’m already noticing I can take deeper breaths, and I didn’t wake up trying to catch my breath today. Only day one, but it’s awesome.
Apparently in a week or two all the gunk in my lungs will start loosening, and I’ll start coughing up far more than I’m used to :S
Thanks man 😀
@Green
I should be fine to make the meat so I can give you a lift. Might not be smack bang at 3pm though. And you’ll probably have to find your own way home because I have 2 other gatherings to get to that day so I’ll probably have to head off about 6 or 7pm.
@ Crazyguy
Are you coming to the meat? I keep forgetting to send you that extra copy of F1 2010 that I have lying around. If not I’ll get your address on steam.
3DSXL with accessory pack and some rubbish game I could probably fob off onto my nephew as a birthday present for $248… very tempting. Especially dangerous considering today is payday.
*Stares at Borderlands 2 halfway downloaded*
Yes. Yess. Yesssss. Wait, shouldn’t I be looking for a job? No, Priorities.
Was all set to have a real productive day, then something got majorly screwed up and I’ve lost that enthusiasm. So today’s big question is now: Borderlands 2, or Sleeping Dogs? Which do I devote too much time to today?
You should play more…uuhhh…both.
I want to get Sleeping Dogs, but currently have BL2 and TL2, Dishonoured is almost out, and then AC3 will be.
All of that album is brilliant. I particularly like the track
“Its no0t my fault i am happy”
not a particularly cheerful song but still so good.
Take a walk is brilliant to listen to when you are flustered. Thanks man. 😀
I want to hug you so hard right now.
Hug is the right word for strangulation right. 😛
Alternately, if you have Spotify access: http://open.spotify.com/album/0v32KiYtvM8jNVgDxXsh7h
I love that, i have to watch the muppet movie again. I watched it when i was in a bad mood and thus judged it like a grump. I am sure it is delightful. Plus i love musicals.
I find it delightful that you use the word “delightful” in conversation. I’d pat you on the head if you weren’t both taller than me, and really far away.
Hey man just trying to use positive language. ALSO LE MIS IS OUT SOON
WE SHOULD TOTALLY HAVE A GAY MAN DATE AN WATCH IT. THEN THE HOBBIT STRAIGHT AFTER.
Yeah man, we should totes do that, it will be manly as shit!
feeeling so sick i don’t feel like playing video games.
that’s when you know you are really sick
No, no, you know you’re really sick when you start hallucinating games of “N” being played out, while believing that it’s part of your body’s fight against disease. Or maybe you were actually playing N. You’re not sure, because you were that nuts(at one point my walls started melting).
Shane!
After your recent bone marrow registry call-up I thought I’d look into the process.
It’s very easy to join, took 2 minutes to fill in an extra form at the blood bank this morning, and they took some extra samples while I was donating. Easy.
I’m a little surprised that it isn’t more widely advertised, I wasn’t even aware of the possibility until you brought it up.
Thank you for the Halo 4 spoilers on the front page Tina. That’s just what I needed. I’m normally not one to complain about the US guys, but come on. What makes the whole thing even stupider is she goes and warns that the screenshots might contain spoilers in the post while at the same time giving away what I’d consider a massive spoiler with the heading of her article and the accompanying image.
She’s always a bloody problem with spoilers. I swear to god I’m tempted to email her/US editor and bloody beg to screen her articles.
Spoilers that Halo has a flood multiplayer mode?
If it deals with campaign… then it’s a spoiler, anything else is not.
Zombies mode in Black Ops… not a spoiler, Zombies in Black Ops campaign… spoiler.
Men With Attitude?
Well, I guess it’s politically correct.
Doesn’t really have the same ring to it though, does it?
It’s the sound women make when they pretend to kiss each other.
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Seriously, holy heck… your support has just been so amazing Shane. I seriously can’t even begin to say how much it’s meant. You’re so so amazing 😀
PAGE UH…. 11? REPOST? MY SPAM IS SLIPPING!
TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape. (although expect the VHS version to appear quite a bit later)
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
Man, I should have started a kickstarter or something…
😀
Apparently Australia is getting a redesign to our money: http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/bank-note-designs-cash-in-on-youthful-image/story-e6frfmd9-1226482261212
Personally, I hate it whenever anything tries to be more “youthful” because to me it almost always ends up looking terrible. Those proposed designs in the article for example look like play money.
Why the hell would you want your money to look youthful? What moron proposed that!?
I don’t have an issue with a redesign, but I’m not fond of what they’re showing. It looks tacky and will swiftly become dated. Even thought the polymer notes were colourful they maintained a fairly classic design.
The middle borders just throw me off. The fireworks are fine on the 20, but the rest.. eh.
Yeah that does look a little silly. The middle borders are all native plants (though I can’t make out what the $10 one is, if anything). The things on the $20 are likely wattle flowers 😉
Play money will stimulate fun spending, save the retail sector and the Australian economy
Until you hit boardwalk, then the bastard who owns that space takes all of your money.
Eh, I dunno. I kinda like them in a way (though I guess I’m basically the target market for ‘youthful image’ things :P)
But what about my addiction to trace amounts of psychoactive substances found on the notes I have?!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN /o\
Not really liking it, it is a bit to youthful (Git orf me lawn) but more than that I think it is too…what a bunch of middle age consultants think youthful is.
That said I do like the little clear window things with the different animals
With our currency as valuable as it is now, it makes sense to curb counterfeiting by redesigning the notes periodically
Potaku
It’s a much loved instituction that has been around for, well, WEEKS!
Now, like an out of control Shelby Cobra GT 500, we’re changing direction. Like en enthusiastic child who just dicovered where the chocolate is kept, we are expanding!
So where do you come in? Well, we’re looking for people in the community (Because that’s really our whole point) who’d like to write about games. Weather it’s a summary of what’s going on in tay or genuine news that you want to report or share your feelings on, Reviews and scathing pieces on the industry today or maybe you just want to help us out, possibly manage some things. help with possible comps (which we seem to be running a few of) or do a little web designey stuff.
If you have any interest at all in joining the Potaku Family (Like the manson family, but with better beards) then if you could shoot me an email at the usual address.
Or if you don’t have the usual address: cronotriggr[at]gmail[dot]com.
Whoa, whoa. Expanding? this sounds like a cult to me.
I for one welcome our new Potaku overlords.
I’m thinking perhaps more integrated within Kotaku itself? Regular posts, comps etc.
I really don’t know though.
@Doc
Email sent!
If it’ll be on Kotaku there’s problems with that too. I love Kotaku AU and I love Serrels, but that’d essentially be exploiting the community for free to deliver content. (Haha! All just speculation.) If they were to launch a site I’d recommend splitting off from the Kotaku thing. But I don’t wanna rock the boat so will shut the fuck up. 😛
Eh?
There are already community/reader reviews, and other content authored by readers and provided free of charge.
Don’t mind me and my non-sensical ramblings.
It would be like TAY, but a bit bigger. A bit more freedom. Whatever we did, it wouldn’t compete with Kotaku, but perhaps offer the community some extra room to say anything they want to say.
Like, and this is all hypothetical because it’s really just ideas at the moment, but say some guys here held a LAN event and wanted to do a proper write up. They could do so.
Or if someone wanted to write about how much they hate Bioware etc, etc etc.
Sounds cool, man. Good luck with it! 😀
Does this mean you’re breaking free of Kotaku? If so, is a name change required?
Or is the bond becoming stronger?
Given that we are OTAKU with a Podcast, i’m pretty sure we could argue the point if we broke away.
But that’s not really the point. It’s just about offering the Kotaku community something extra while remaining a opart of the Kotaku Community.
In saying that, we’re looking for a Redditor in the US to repost stuff.
How much do you guys like spelling mistakes and pointless rambling? If you do like that i am in it like a chicken dinner.
Did you see the person complaining about the pacing in the game in your review article
How impatient must they be, I bet they skip all the cut scenes in games as well 😉
I like it when I pay for something and receive lesser amounts of money back. How do you feel about this?
So how ’bout that edit button?
I forgot that it had been mentioned that the Kotaku front page had a Halo 4 spoiler on it, and have now been spoiled. Seriously, does Tina not think about this stuff, or is she just a horrible person? It’s ALWAYS her.
Yeah, I saw it too. Holy crap.
I mean, that’s freaking awesome, but I think I’d rather have found out whilst playing.
Hey everyone!
Instead of reviving dudes in metro last night, I beat SSL into submission!
TAKE THAT SSL.
But that’s kinda beside the point. Having SSL is great and all, but loads of other tweaks and fixes mean the sites are ready for OPEN BETA LOL.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/?action=opt-in-beta
Get in!
Sometimes homepage wont refresh correctly, but click about and it’ll come up soon 🙂
I guess the main point would be to register your user BEFORE THE OTHER NEGATIVEZERO DOES!!!!!
That other guy is a real dick.
I’m watching you Other James Mac!
I doesn’t like ‘James Mac’… is that because it’s two words?
Think of your username as a twitter handle. You can change your display name to whatever.
(Well, anything you can see on your keyboard).
By Jove, that seems to have been the solution!
Thank you gentlemen.
To Industry, HUZZAH!
Yep. Underscore it, then after account creation, change you display name to have a space.
Oh, register. Duh.
Suggestion: you need to have a ‘confirm password’ field. I use fairly complex passwords and sometimes typo them…
Good call, we may make changes based on how many failed registrations occur.
We just wanted a suuuuper low barrier to entry, hence no duplication of data entry.
You don’t need to store extra data for that. Just have a second field and on submit run a quick JS check to ensure pass1 == pass2 and fail to submit the form if they don’t match.
How so? Did you get the email? Or the did activation email not work? Any errors given?
Email got sent twice, the links lead to page with “Sorry! We couldn’t find the page you’ve requested.”
I’m guessing because I did the registration on my work PC and then tried to activate on my iPhone (don’t have access to that email here). So my iPhone hasn’t switched to the beta and thus can’t see the page to activate.
That is exactly right – will only be an issue while in beta.
Sorry for the hassle!
Just used the opt in link on my phone and it all went well.
12606 posts under this account, I don’t want to know how many I did on my old email address. Probably many.
Oh, is there any way to merge two accounts? I recently changed from Hotmail to Outlook. @danfortheages is the Outlook one and @dc is the Hotmail. Ideally I’d like both to be @dc but it doesn’t matter if it can’t be done. 😀 Thanks, buddy!
We have a script to do just that, but it’s currently in dev test. Should be ready soon!
Oh, cool! Thanks man!
Nope. Just redirects to mobile homepage. Issue could lie with iOS 6 being silly perhaps?
No beta for mobiles just yet, sorry! This is desktop version only.
The homepage may not refresh right away, just click into another category or story and it should update 🙂
Dude check this out, will totally blow your mind!
https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/edit-profile/
I take back what I said human sir, well played 🙂
Ben, when the new stuff fully launches will there be an option to change our usernames so they can have capital letters and spaces?
In, I have opted. Account, I now have. Like Yoda, I am speaking. The new ways, I blame this upon. Edited this, I now have.
Lowercase name, I HAVE??!! How does it look to everyone else? Confidence shaken, sanity crumbling, permanence of new arrangement beginning to sink in like concrete shoes in the river.
you should be able to head up the top right area of the page, click something up there & change your display name back to what it was & once again be a capital bloke.
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…is the score 35?
As I understand it, if I register with the email I’ve been using for all my previous posts I can view my history and whatnot. Right?
Is there a way I can change my email after registering, or would I have to re-register?
You can change your email at any time after registering, but if you have 2 email accounts that you want to merge, we’re working on that.
Okay, cool. I was just worried, because I’ve always posted with an old email that I don’t check often, so if I’m going to get notifications, etc. I’ll switch it once I’ve registered.
Nicely done!
My tweet:
@DarrenClose27 I think you’re right. I really need to focus on jettisoning that pesky full-time job, so I can put my socks back on for good!
Instant response from @1tJessie:
@Shane_W_Smith We see you need a job we will hire you right now just go to @YourNewEmployer
That’s some clever spamtacking.
Well, there’s another change.
Embedded images:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-185/comment-page-11/#comment-810641
Whhhaaaaatttt!
EDIT: Hm, comment seems to have gobbled my attempt… Maybe it doesn’t like gifs? 😛
EDIT2: OK, just doesn’t seem to work for some reason D: HTML, you have failed me!
Heh, tag joke fail. And I’m on the mobile site, so no edits for me.
I need to learn the conputer training.
A link to page 12 but no posts on page 12. How odd.
EDIT: and now there is.
EDIT 2: Testing:
EDIT 3: Nope, can’t inline an image. 🙁 Must be for special people only.
hey guys, sorry about my crappy mood yesterday, thanks to everyone for all the pats and errr….man hugs?
just been a really crap week for me in practically every aspect… on a bright side however, i discovered that as of the 4th of November my car is officially paid off which means an extra $800 more monies every month for games, and me and wifey holiday time. So a round of beers on me on the next meat courtesy of the extra monies 🙂
Congrats on the car being yours mate 😀
On the plus side, there’s not too much left of this week?
So is our account avatar still pulled from Gravatar? Or is it now part of our accounts?
I kept meaning to ask that.
At a guess, I’d say it’s still pulling from Gravatar, but may switch to being a part of the Allure accounts in the future.
Same but it isn’t supported by anyone anymore and that makes it rather hard to do a new installation. Damned ancient software.
Turns out that there is a Windows XP mode on Win7. The only problem is that it requires an internet connection on the computer doing it.
This computer lacks that pesky requirement.
I tried about two years ago to downgrade from Vista, and gave up because I just couldn’t find a decently priced copy of XP.
i bought an original disk from the market brand new and sealed for $2. no serial but the disc is 100% brand new and legit. It comes in handy as i do after hours tech work so winrar! if your curious and are amelbourne TAY, it was at the laverton market in the indoor section.
not so sure about the new layout, not sure if i like change
which makes this clip relevant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TtGQnyPZ6g
I think there’s a bit too much wasted space in the comments compared to the old theme TBH
I started ze Pokethingys. First thing I had to do was make a decision?! An uninformed decision?! Eek!
I chose the grass one because green.
I also have obviously succumbed to this newfangled Kotaku thingys. I held out as long as I could, but panicked when Mr. White mentioned the possibility of someone else taking our usernames. 😛
Hahahaa
Its funny cause green sucks in pokemon at the start. when in doubt always go fire. 😛
WHo would steal your handle? A monkey with a grudge?
Aw maaan. :'(
But the other two were ugly.
And there is this guy called MostStrange who posts in articles. He may have been lazy and decided to just type “strange” in the username field of the registration box. 😛
What version are you playing. Cause the fire pig and the water otter are pretty dreadful.
I thought you were making a joke for the “uninformed decision” thing because the first choice you have to make is if you are a boy or a girl haha
Anyway, I chose green as well ;D
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Not really a decision. I always choose “boy” unless it’s a game with uberawesome customisations for characters so I can make a very handsome lady character.
you chose WHAT?!
Just kidding, you and that Snivy* will get along great.
*I’m assuming you’re playing black/white.
Ignore those suckers, Strange. Bulbasaur rocks!
(I don’t know the starting Pokes from them newfangled games)
Whoa now. Compared to the awe-inducing behemoth that is Squirtle, why would you choose Bulbasaur?
What’s that? Squirtle isn’t very impressive? Well, no, not until he grows up to be a GIANT TURTLE WITH CANNONS ON HIS BACK.
All the starter fire types are boring looking and are always fighting/fire anway. Pfttt.
So uh I dunno about you guys but that… edgecountries? boundryplaces? borderlands 2 game is actually pretty good and shiz.
Who knew? cause you know, I sure didn’t.
Greenius, Greenius, Greenius, buddy.
You missed a little something. Where’s the mention of high quality Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion? How about Parallax Occlusion Mapping? Bokeh Depth of Field? Ubersampling? Tesselation? What kind of Master Race supporter are you if you don’t mention at least some of those things?
Gizmodo Comments: 5, Kotaku Comments: 2439, Lifehacker Comments: 0
Oldest comment was from April 4, 2010 in an article about Halo Reach:
This sounds bad. One thing I loved about Halo 3 multiplayer compared to other FPS such as the recent MAG and Bad Company 2 is that you started of with an ok weapon but could pick up any weapon you wanted around the map. You could use the assualt rifle and kill a few enemys before grabing the rocket launcher of one of their corpses and shooting down a banshee. You could then run over and grab the sniper from its spawn point and start shooting down enemys across the map. With load outs people will be stuck in roles. MAG and BC2 are good with there load outs but for a Halo game I dont think it will work.
My first comment was from April 1st, 2009
“oh very farny… veeeery farny. you had me for a sec.”
Considering the date you can guess what I’m responding to 😛
Also I got 4987 Kotaku comments, man I’ve been busy.
Uh oh, did I break TAY?
Edit- I DIDN’T YAY!
Edit again – Hey and I can fix my borked link now. I’M MAGICAL!
I haven’t clicked on the link yet, but going by the date it has to be an April Fools article. Possibly HL3 related?
My oldest comment is apparently from November 2010, but I know it’s earlier than that, because I won a Bioshock competition during the Wildgoose reign, and was a semi-regular by then… maybe I was using a different email, but I don’t think I was…
Edit: And I’ve had 7512 comments on Kotaku. 10,000 by December 31st, FTW.
Gizmodo: 133, Kotaku: 2811, Lifehacker, 46
Oldest comment is from a Lifehacker article November last year,
As a former payroll officer (now resident IT dude) for a rapidly expanding company, I must say yes, it’s an horrendous job. Hand-filled timesheets from 350 employees each week is far too much stress for one person. I loathe to think of the poor sods that perform the role with more pays to worry about.
I’m sure automation and streamlining of the procedures would help some, and that’s certainly an attractive pricetag. But there’s no way I’d be caught dead going back to that job. I love where I’m at, and what I’m doing.
Gizmodo Comments: 19, Kotaku comments: 5913, Lifehacker Comments: 18
Oldest comment tracked by this system was April 14, 2009, with a comment about simulation sickness:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/04/au_diary_resident_evil_5_made_me_sick/#comment-118
Pretty sure it’s not my earliest comment but I think the earliest that can be tracked this way.
Mine’s from the Wildgoose days.
News Aust Govt Adds Video Games To Proposed Web Filter
Reply James Mac @banderdash June 25, 2009 4:57 pm You
Wonder if it’s the same complaint based system they use for adverts?
Because that’s going to work great.
Some kids on his mobile to one of his mates saying how he totally killed this dude on couterstrike, his grandma overhears and rings a toll free number… it’s going to be just great.
Total posts:
Giz: 381
Kotaku: 6343
Lifehacker: 4
I’ve really got to pick up my game.
Giz 10, Kotaku 2705, Life 1
Thankfully it doesn’t show the sugar stats so my masculine reputation remains untarnished
1st post: April 23rd 2010
then it took until September 12, 2011 1:13 pm until I dared venture into the swirling vortex of TAY
It was a response to Loop who was, believe it or not, talking about space marine. How things have changed
First TAY post:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-141/comment-page-7/#comment-423645
“I agree, I just came away from the article with the impression that I had been vilified or categorized for something that doesn’t really apply to me. (Although I guess that’s part of what she’s saying in the article, making assumptions and what not.) For what it’s worth I regret even commenting.”
Haha! Worst first post ever. Although Shane and Strange were the first TAYbies I spoke to. I remember thinking for a long time that both of them hated me. :'(
First Kotaku post: “A Pictorial History Of Australians In Video Games” July 13, 2010 3:16 pm
“There’s also the Australian pilot from the adventure game Broken Sword 3. Within minutes of starting the game he crashes his plane and has to be woken up with the smell of beer. Enough said.”
I’m pretty sure there was an earlier one, but I used a fake e-mail address. 😀
I just looked to see what we said that made you think we hated you…
…we were agreeing with you, you doofus! 😛
Haha! Not from that post in particular, just a general feeling I had. I’m intimidated by authority figures. 😛
:'(
My first TAY post:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-78/comment-page-1/#comment-180503
So my pre order bonus code for the Tribal Pack for New Vegas on PS3 isn’t working. I’ve gone to the site it tells me to on the card the code came on if the code isn’t working and sent tech support an email. Hopfully they can help me out.
I’ve played about 8 hours of New Vegas so far. It’s pretty fun though I think I prefered the green of Fallout 3 over the yellow of New Vegas. Not just talking about the HUD either but the actual colour of the landscape. New Vegas unfortunately has not fixed the problem Elder Scrolls 4 and Fallout 3 had, that it is really hard to make a good looking character.
Also can’t wait to start playing Fable 3. I wont be able to pick up my pre ordered copy for a few days though. Between that and New Vegas my gaming needs are taken care of for the rest of the year.
So does using @personsnamehere actually do anything or is it just for show?
That wasn’t meant to be a reply.
Just for show, I think. It goes to my twitter account, though. (As soon as I can merge accounts I’ll be using th @dc one though.)
Apparently this was my first TAY post:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-66/comment-page-1/#comment-122884
It’s a boring first TAY post. I guess I was just testing the waters. 😛
Edited (\o/) to add: I’d been reading TAY since it first began but was scared to post. I can’t believe it took me so long!
Even then you were helping people! 😀 I’ve been browsing Kotaku since the Wildgoose years, but always avoided that off-putting Talk Amongst Yourselves thing. Too many posts. Too tight knit. They’d never accept me. 😛
So apparently you can change the HUD colour in New Vegas. I just learned this. Thanks DannyC. It took me two years to get the message but the important thing is I got it in the end.
Oh! Just occurred to me that Sughly was the first TAYbie I spoke to. Just not on Kotaku! 😀
Jeepers, you guys are a wordy bunch.
My first Kotaku/TAY post:
“iCult”
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-92/comment-page-1/#comment-232502
Trying to make a good impression early on:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-127/comment-page-4/#comment-237023
You know it!
I’m on my phone so I can’t check but I did the other day and I have something like 8200 comments (all Kotaku). First post was in March 9, 2009 for the MadWorld competition (didn’t win :'( ) and can’t remember the date of my first TAY post but it was somethint like June 2010, asking about what job everyone had since I was unsure what to study/do (I still am!). Funny how I considered doing law cause Phoenix Wright games were awesome :P.
Yeah, me either. Got an email from Danny Allen asking if they’d arrived so I would guess the movie company was supposed to send them out but hasn’t. If they don’t hurry, it won’t be playing anywhere.
Finished at 2, stupid bus didn’t turn up so I had to wait an extra 15 minutes for the next one 😛 (which was late!).
Job was fine. What I thought was right and the target market is very small (pre-paid smartphone users with Telstra). It was easy enough being non-hermit but getting them interested in the product was hard :P. Had to stand for 4 hours though and my back and legs are sore :). No lunch break either so I was uber hungy by the end of it.
Who’s this danfortheages chap? I miss D.C., he was pretty cool.
Hooray! I’m now richer than I would’ve been if I sat at home all day doing nothing. Hopefully Theatrhythm has arrived by the time I’m home 😀
And Borderlands. Don’t forget Borderlands. 😛
People need to hurry up at reach Pez and I’s levels! 4 player co-op would be funsies
Just hit lvl 30. Gonna be a long while. 😛
You are going to have a copy of Theatrhythm? I hate you 🙁
Also are you needing transportation to/from the Spliced Meat on the weekend?
“So here we are, a bunch of writers and gamers. All contributing, in our own little ways. We bring into the fold other things, a love of music, or books, how it feels to sew, or to ride a motorcycle. We impart wisdom, and tell stories. A tale within a tale. Or should that be a TAYle? We read, as we all must, we laugh, we console and we cry. TAY goes beyond all of us.
So, here’s to you all. The readers, the writers, and the gamers. To those we have lost, and to those that will come. To all who contribute to the tapestry of TAY. To those willing to read through this mess in its entirety, and to those who say “I’ll do it later” but never do.
Like with all of you and TAY, I started writing this post with no idea of what would happen, I let it write itself, for better or for worse, and that’s all we can do, be swept away by the tide of TAY.
To All of You. Enjoy the soppy love letter of a sleep addled brain, and while normally I’d tell you to never change, I fear that that would defeat the purpose here. We hit a thousand once, and we’ve hit four thousand since, so TAY, always change. But only for the better.”
Holy shitballs blaghs was fucking tired. Also this is one of my favourite things ever written in TAY
That was sweet <3 Blaghs you romantic monstrosity, you!
You wanna know my favourite thing in TAY? It involves hotross and his stories :D.
If you like him so much why don’t you marry him. Actually don’t propose he might mistake you for a chick and accept because he has a lonely heart.
That was before i found out you were asian. 😛
Of course it still holds up. You will be like replacement bish. Except allow people to touch you.
Racist hairless manchild wog!
Not sure where you got the ‘allows people to touch you’ from. Getcho filthy hands off me.
Nope. I got cranky with it and haven’t been able to bring myself to return yet. Need some space so I don’t get cranky again.
The new comment (history) system made it real easy for me to grab a copy of those old fake “Remember This?” images I did for a while. I was annoyed that I had not kept a copy as I made them, and was too lazy to go back and trawl through every “Remember This?” post for them. Problem solvered! 😀
@Benwhite, just noticed that when you collapse the starting comment of a chain it only collapses the first reply and replies to that. not all of them.
Dunno if that is intentional.
Also when you refresh the page, it expands them all again. Is it going to eventually stay collapsed and just indicate if there’s a new post?
I think ideally we would see new comments and replies without having to refresh… that would be the ultimate goal I think (kind of how twitter does it I guess).
That way it would only refresh if you moved to a new page or something like that.
is that correct @benwhite ?
I’m probably considered too young for TISM.
BUT TISM.
Seriously, my afternoon has picked up so much now \o/
“Where will I get my next drug action?
Odds on it’ll be Michael Jackson
14 years too early but they were still right.”
The TISM comments sections are pretty alright 😀
That’s gold!
Aussie pub-rock vids are usually pretty safe from the usual Youtube-comment-drivel.
These lasted the longest at least. Oh well, guess I’m going to have to put up with the humans on the train tonight and tomorrow until I get them replaced
Hermit Code #172: Even if they don’t work, wear them on the train any way. You won’t get hassled by people. (I do that all the time when I’m in the city. :P) That sucks, though.
Well it half works still, so my right ear will be fine, left won’t be…
I got it! I’ll sit on the far left of the seats so the only thing to my left is a wall! 🙂
That’s why you earn the big bucks, my friend! 😀
Don’t have a Razer but with mine the left goes dead if the volume control on the cord is set too low. Could check that.
Nah mine didn’t have the volume control. I refuse to get those kinds of earphones with good reason, cuz the amount of possible points of breaking the earphones double with a volume control panel down the line.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-48/comment-page-1/#comment-139955
That is where I decided I loved Bish. Which led to me exclaiming “OH! I love you!” upon finding out who he was at the very first Meat. Which led to him being very embarrassed, I think. 😛
So today I jumped on a family members WoW account and ran myself through a Panda Monk up till the joining of the Alliance.
+Panda starting zones have the best music in the game. This may be due to my bias for Chinese Huqins
+I could be a red panda all be it tail less
+Once I reached level 10 and was able to pick a specialisation I found the class to really open up and I quiet enjoyed my DPS spec monk with his punch really fast at everything attack. (Also no more buying skills you just get them
-Lack of tail
-Alot of running (but I could roll all over the place)
I haven’t seen any Jack Blacks but there are a lot of panda, chinese and kung fu pun names.
Can you punch monsters really fast while yelling ATATATATATATATATATA and then stop for a second and say an awesome line while they explode?
I don’t know about the exploding part but Windwalkers get an ability where they punch things really fast.
@Green
I guess you were at work so didn’t see my post on the last page
here is a repost for your convenience.
“I should be fine to make the meat so I can give you a lift. Might not be smack bang at 3pm though. And you’ll probably have to find your own way home because I have 2 other gatherings to get to that day so I’ll probably have to head off about 6 or 7pm.”
@Greenius If no one else closer to your way is available to drop you back I don’t mind.
@Inquis – Literally just read that while catching up and was just about to post on this page, good thing I refreshed!
If you’re not too far from me I wouldn’t mind a lift there. Cheers :). We can also do what me and Neg did last time and meet somewhere midway like at Glen or Knox. I’m not really doing anything so I don’t mind going in earlier/later.
@Neg – You sure? It’s a bit far out for you but thanks anyway. Seems like you’d be the closest one out my way.
@Both – Cheers guys! I haven’t actually asked my parents if they could take me there or not but if it’s just easier for everyone I can probably just get them to drop me off and possibly pick me up depending on what time (they like their sleep :P). It’ll just be less awks if we rock up together rather than one of us randomly stumbling around. What does 3/4 mean anyway? Apartment? Who knows 😛
Thanks again.
So is the plan to link accounts here to twitter based off your account name? b/c I screwed up if that’s the case. 🙁
I don’t think so. Rob mentioned further implementation of a notification like system, or at least something that informs you if your posts gets a reply
Today is my last day on holiday – I fly back home tonight. Holidays \o/, end of them /o\
I don’t want to go back to my job /o\
I don’t have a job next year /o\ (no moneys) and \o/ (because I will have enforced holiday)
overall \o/=2, /o\=3
Although I do not think this is the fairest method of assessment of my life.
My life will be overall winning if I somehow manage to score another free upgrade on the flight home.
You’ll find a job \o/
It might be better than your current one \o/
I’m just going to put another \o/ here to up the tally further.
Cheating by adding even more \o/
That’s four more \o/s for you to count.
Edit: Make that five.
It’s easy. Firstly, call yourself a doctor. Secondly, compliment the gal at the sign in place. Thirdly, have a huge amount of luck, or a really good card with whoever you’re flying with.
Can I live out my days as a recluse and just watch X Files forever?
I don’t care if it means not being a super famous lady archaeologist/historian.
Essays and exams and nup. Mm-mm. Bad.
It will be mine soon!
So Melbourne TAYfronds: looks like we’re having a meat at the Melbourne Showgrounds in July.
Maybe I’ll fly down for the weekend and join you all! ;D Assuming I have money by then 😛
Those guys are stupid. Brisbane would have worked much much better.
Actually, I take that back. Wifey wants to ditch the kids and head down for a weekend so Melbourne works absolutely fine.
I propose a Melbourne meat next July.
Because of reasons…
Good reasons.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/pax-australia-is-heading-to-melbourne/
=( but…
What what in the butt
@benwhite Not sure if you guys care too much about issues with the older ‘Tech Network (French Maid)’ theme, but… in the toolbar that appears at the top of the browser frame, with “Howdy, [nickname]” in the top right, after you hover on the howdy->click ‘Edit My Profile’, you get thrown at a password-protected /wp-admin/ link.
Borderlands 2 is amazing on PC because of the high quality Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Bokeh Depth of Field, Ubersampling and mother flipping Tesselation?
MASTER RACE
U JELLY GUISE?
(totally not just a copy/paste of Blaghman’s master race ramblings to please him)
I’m much happier, except that Borderlands 2 has… None of those features. It has depth of field, but I’m fairly sure it doesn’t have Bokeh, it uses the standard SSAO, its AA options are pathetic, so Ubersampling is right out, not to mention the complete lack of Tessellation and POM.
I thought the point was just to blabber on about all the fancy PC features, regardless of whether the game actually has it or not 😛
Get a hair cut.
Hippy.
But that’s where all his powers of song and dance comes from!
She tied me to a kitchen chair,
She broke my throne, she cut my hair.
And from my lips she drew the Hallelujah.
Well I succumbed and betaed the hell outta this bizzach. Turns out I have 2 Gizmodo comments, 5378 Kotaku and 0 Lifehacker.
And wow I’ve been here longer then I thought. First ever comment was on Tay! Yay. June 17 2009.
Mike
June 17, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Just been playing FF7 through again. Nostalgia’s sake.’Thought I’d have a read of some reviews online….
Why are there a craptonne of people complaining about the graphics? One reviewer actually compared them to Gears of War 2. Why why why?
There were 22 comments FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK!
Wow old skool TAY was a very different scene :P. I think my first TAY was something like 70 comments but my first comment was over a year before.
Also WHY would one compare FF7’s graphics to Gears of War 2? wuttt
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-5/
Still busier than Whitenoise. 😛
“Still busier than Whitenoise” hahah
Also, the first TAY 😮 Sad to see none of the modern-TAY regulars in there! Though I do recognise some of those names…
Am I the only one who thinks Whitenoise could use a little TAY lovin’ ?
Is someone planning another invasion?
Invasion is a little harsh.
Lets call it an incursion.
No wait – it’s more like just spreading the love…
Only in an invasive/incursive way 😛
When does white noise post? I’m happy to hang out there for a while tomorrow. Brighten up the place a bit, maybe vacuum, open some windows, the basics 🙂 Oh yes, and chat of course.
I don’t need to be put back on the Gizmodo black list lol!
But they’re the enemy…
(Not really, I just don’t follow Gizmodo enough to have anything to say there D:)
Hah. Wildgoose bring accused of being a shill.
It’s weird, Q-bo is the only one of those I actually know, though Hot Damn! comments here and there. So weird.
Yes. It’s not a great game, in fact it’s barely a game. But it’s an interesting idea that was executed pretty well if not exactly written all that well.
TORCHY MCLIGHTERSONS
Also what Freeze said. Probably better for a rent/borrow depending on how much you can buy it for. I felt it was kind of short and didn’t really have motivation to go through it again.
Also dat voice acting :/
I don’t know if they removed it or not but there was a demo on the PSN store you could try first before you buy.
I’ve never played Heavy Rain but I enjoyed their previous game Fahrenheit and I’m assuming Heavy Rain is a polished version of that so it should be good.
I really need to finish Fahrenheit, I never did it before( I have a problem, I really should finish more games /o\)
Yes. It’s got a great story. It’s more an interactive movie than a game, but there are some action scenes that are really intense.
Yeah, I loved it. Definitely an acquired taste, though. There’s a demo on PSN that sets the tone nicely, might be worth playing.
Words I typed when I was bored:
thing 1
As I was going to my car today to drive home after work I saw a bee just chillin, no biggie right? WRONG. I opened the back to chuck my bag in and the buzzy little mofo decided to buzz in the direction of my car. I decided to slam the door shut in an attempt to stop it from entering but I accidentally trapped it inside. PANIC MODE. Luckily I was still outside but I just knew it would take a while for the little sucker to buzz out if I opened the door and if it did, it might be mighty pissed off. Luckily it didn’t kill me and flew out before I quickly hurried into the safety of my beeless car.
Shieeeeet.
Ya know it might’ve been a wasp (EVEN WORSE) or just a fat fly. I don’t like bees/wasps :/
thing 2
So my work ‘uniform’ consisted of a t-shirt they sent out and just any dark blue jeans and white shoes. I had a pair of white shoes for a while but being white shoes they’re hard to keep clean yet mine were fairly clean. By the end of the day my co-workers’ shoes had some marks on it and were not completely white but mine were still going strong. Now the second I step inside I notice a little bug on my shoe. After the bee incident I was all “NAH” and squished it with my other shoe. Now there’s a smudge of bug guts all over my otherwise white shoe :(.
thing 3
I’d rather post this up there but since there were two posts describing the same thing, I wasn’t sure which one to reply to and just made my own :P. I’ve never been to one of those geeky/nerd conventions before but I’d be keen on going just to meet up with other TAYbes. I hate waiting in line though and those things look like they have a whole lot of waiting in line just to try out some new game. It’s still far away so it’s hard to say whether I’ll be hyped for anything around that time, but who knows! If there’s a new Zelda or Monolith Soft (developers of Xenoblade!) game then I’m going to line the crap out of the line.
thing 4
Played a looooooot of Borderlands 2 since getting it a week ago. 51 hours as of typing this. I’ve barely played today and Monday so take away ~4 hours or so and that’s like 9.5 hours a day. Wow I just realised that number…. wow… Not much motivation in the 2nd playthrough since I literally only did the same quest a few days ago! Diablo 3 was the same kind of thing but I guess I didn’t really feel the repetition since I played with so many different people and used the different classes. They finally managed to patch my connection issues but Pez is the only one at my level :P. 4 player co-op would be awesome!
Did Powalen the Caterpie send a Beedrill to take out Greenius?
IS THIS WHAT THE NUZLOCKE CHALLENGE HAS MADE US BECOME?
Dear Scree,
I just watched ep 1 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimaya.
I don’t even. Seriously, that’s gotta be THE MOST alienating intro to ANYTHING in the history of EVER.
Dat 4th wall break. It was a little shaky to begin with, then it kinda just got shattered all over the place. Then they reconstructed it.
…only to smash it into pieces again at the last second.
I… wow, HALP /o\
I’ma keep watching it, but man. I’ve NO IDEA what is going on at this point. I kinda like it.
Many thanks and salutations,
CONFUS-Null
I love that first episode. It throws you right into the deep end. It also does an awesome job of future-proofing itself, as you’ll see later on in the series ;D
What episode-order are you watching the series in, by the way? You should have 28 episodes all up and there’s a couple of different ways they can be watched (There’s not really a wrong way so don’t worry, I’m just curious)
Whoaaa? You can watch them out of order? Are you supposed to do that or is it one of those ‘crazy fan-theories’. That’s pretty nifty though!
From what I’ve gathered, the original airing schedule didn’t actually follow the in-show timeline correctly. Thus, two different ‘ways’ to watch it, I guess 😀
I’ll be watching it in televised order, followed by ‘chronological’ order \o/
Yeah that’s right. When season two rolled around, they re-structured the series to fit the chronological timeline. So there’s basically two ways of watching it (though nowadays most people just watch chronological so they can watch season 1 and 2 in order all at once)
Broadcast order is vastly, vastly better than chronological order, at least for the first season.
Also the best viewing experience is where you watch the first, middle and last endless eight episode. Because watching that shit eight times sucks balls and nearly killed the whole show.
I am watching them in aired-order, not chronological, I believe. It’s… not the most welcoming introduction I’ve had to an anime 😛
I started to get the humour in it about halfway through, so I think I’m onto something here 😀
I’ve only ever watched the ‘mainstream’ animes, I think. Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Neon Genesis: Evangelion, Ranma 1/2, Appleseed etc.
My all-time favourite would be a very close tie between NG:E and Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040.
Always open to suggestions though! 😀
That’s fine. Here’s a list of the chronological order though, now that there’s 2 seasons out (more for Greenius than you, but anyway :P). Though you should always watch “The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina: Episode 00” first, in my opinion. I just love it as a first episode 😛 http://myanimelist.net/anime/4382/Suzumiya_Haruhi_no_Yuuutsu_(2009)/moreinfo
(Also, there’s a movie as well that must be watched after all of these episodes. It continues the story, it’s not standalone)
Yeah, I think I may have watched 00 first, as Mikuru was the protagonist’s name, not Haruhi.
That opening theme was AMAZEBALLS 😀
I am obtaining it now! I remember some friends saying it was the best manga ever and if I was to ever read one (I’ve never read one) that should be it. A different friend also started watching the anime recently and now it’s been talking about in TAY a lot so TAY marketing gets me again 😛
BACCANO! 😀 (you’ll love it Aleph)
I’ve seen about 3 episodes. I was confused but little by little I began to understand what was going on. And I was really enjoying it. Which is why I was cross with the people discussing it on here. Even those saying their description of it was non-spoilery were way spoilery. They laid out some things that are discovered naturally as part of the progression of the show. For me (and you) to not be able to discover them for ourselves as we watched means the show has been spoiled.
I wrote a big rant about this on the morning I saw the Haruhi discussions, but I hit submit and and it didn’t post because that happened to be at the time TAY was taken down to be re-posted for the day. So you guys are lucky. 😛
Yeah, I’m a little disappointed by knowing what appears to be a pivotal piece of the story, but hey, I spoil things for people too, so it’s all good. At least no-one here has Salami for a surname!
Oh man, really? I feel really bad now, but I’m not entirely sure what we could’ve spoiled. Was it me? I think I fuelled the spoiler brigade, heh. What exactly did we spoil?
“Best of luck to you, Mikuru! Take back the customers stolen by the giant store that opened last year! The revitalization of the local mom-and-pop stores rests on your shoulders!”
Yakuza Dead Souks is on special on Play Asia!
I will buy it because Yakuza and I am genuinely curious as to how bad the shooting mechanics are.
I will not play it because my PS3 is in Australia.
Good plan?
Mashaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! made me change Sunglasses Squirtle to Rockin’ Scott. Also, accounts = awesome.
Watching Gruen Planet and they brought up a good point about that Samsung ad. Samsung isn’t trying to win anything against Apple with it. They can’t yet. They want to win Android and position themselves as Pepsi to Apples Coke.
I should get back to watching that show. I really enjoyed it. I haven’t watch it since it was called the gruen transfer. I think it’s because I rarely watch tv these days.
Also, I found my first TAY comment…
It’s not what I expected it to be….
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-65/comment-page-1/#comment-101057
Ah, back when we were all rallying for the R18+ videogame rating…
Those were the days…
Join usssssssssssssssss CJ, the zoo animals demand it 🙂
CJ means constantly joining after all
Also Strange, not embarrassed. Just… Surprised. I am not typically greeted with pronouncements of love.
Twas a memorable introduction though.
BISH i have something to say that i have been thinking for the longest time and i just want you to know.
I wub you.
Dude, you sent him a text saying that you’d never forget him. We all knew that already.
1) WHy the hell are you up?
2) I have a bad memory, so that was like reaffirming it in my head?
3) I will probably forget the rest of you. Nah i will remember you when i am old and have like 8 cats. I may even name them after you and play games with them.
Number 3 was the most romantic thing I’ve heard all day
“Okay guys we can win this game we ca-damn it Pyrean stop running in and dying.”
“Meow!”
“Yeah, yeah I know we have late game.”
Bahahaha.
That is the best thing i have ever read.
1. It’s a secret.
2. That’s a terrible excuse, true love is forever, it trancends the boundaries of time and space.
3. You couldn’t forget me if you tried. My hideous visage will forever be seared into your mind.
It’s just guy love.
Betweeeeeeen
Two
Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuys
IIIIIII WILL ALWAY LOVE NOB wooo oo ooo
EVERYONE LOVES OLD MAN NOB!
I should make a sitcom called “Everyone lives old man nob”.
Or maybe called “everyone LOVES old man nob”.
I don’t think it’s even possible to not love Old Man Nob.
My mouth gets a go around almost every night, thanks to Old Man Nob.
I honestly can’t think of any more innuendo, thanks to Old Man Nob.
@Masha
Not trying to labour the point, but this document (recent survey by the ACTU) might have some useful background for you re: your work situation.
http://services.thomsonreuters.com.au/cpdnews/docs/Workforce/Cash-in-hand_research-Sept_2012.pdf
Don’t worry about it, you’re not labouring the point. Actually I appreciate the help. Thank you very much.
Wow, kind of surprising how much this stuff happens. I guess information is the first step to preventing it.
I’ll be quitting then having a long conversation with my mum about our options.
Thanks Shane.
(Edited comment to fix spelling mistakes)
Doesn’t necessarily mean you have to quit. If the company steps up and everything is done above board, keep working there…and stay in Sydney!!
So, Melbourne PAX huh?
I admit I was hoping if it came down here that it would be at Jeff’s Shed, after being to Supernova at the showgrounds I was a but nonplussed with it as a convention venue.
But regardless, PAX!
I’ve never been to any form of convention, and wouldn’t be going *for* the convention… but when is this?
Also… how many people per sq/m? I’ve noticed that after a year and a half here, I tend to get a little sociophobic/apprehensive even in a shopping centre :S
Lots of peeps, I had a panic attack when i was in sydney on a relativively quite street so i know what you are talking about. But after a while it usually stops and you calm down a bit.
I never understood why many people consider getting apprehensive from being surrounded by a bunch of strangers to be an abnormal thing. I wouldn’t say I get sociophobic, but I sure as hell don’t like it.
It’s more I used to be fine with it, but I’ve been so secluded for a while now. The pub had ~30 people last week, so I went home because it was ‘crowded’.
There’s just… too many people :S
Well… shit.
I ‘spose I could just have all the other TAYbies surround me like some sort of meatshield?
PEOPLE WHO HAVE SOLD HOUSES!
I have questions
Do you need to have insurance when your house is on the market?
Also, should Gas and Electricity be cut off?
If your Real estate agent has lost interest in selling your house, should you pay the advertisement fees and change?
If the house burns down before you sell it, you definitely want it insured. Keep the insurance.
If you’re not living in the house, you can save on the gas/electricity/phone. Disconnect… unless you plan on having open home inspections, in which case you might want to be able to at least turn the lights on.
Re: real estate agents, I have no experience, sorry.
Thanks. The insurance is ridiculously expensive. And we can’t change because the house is empty =(
The agent isn’t bringing anyone through.
If the agent isn’t doing anything to get the house out there, talk to them about it, ask for evidence of the work they’ve done in getting the house sold (politely). If they continue to suck, or can’t prove they’ve done enough work, file a complaint with them. Hopefully won’t need to go further than that.
Thanks, that’s really helpful. =D
No worries!
Just remember, always try to polite approach first. Even if it doesn’t work, you can take comfort in the fact that you tried for a nice resolution. It also lets you know what sort of person you’ll be dealing with should they respond rudely…
Well, it’s my Nans house and the cost of it is too much for Mum and I. We’re having to take money from our food to pay for the bills for a house no one is living in. =(
One alternative (that I couldn’t say would be a good/bad idea for your situation): you could try renting it out to someone, potentially via a real estate agent? Would provide some income.
I need to stress that I don’t know enough about your circumstances/the house in question etc. etc. so can’t say how viable this option would be.
Renting wouldn’t help. Being pensioners, centrelink would consider it an income and take part of the pension from us
Ugh…good point. As soon as Centrelink is involved I can’t possibly offer helpful advice. I’ve given up trying to understand their practises.
Go with the selling thing 😛
Saturday! Apologies the borderlandsing did not go so well? Thanks for coming and dying repeatedly with me anyway, was fun. I shall loot you a rocket launcher.
My planet needed me, so I had to leave.
That and my internet connection died on me. *shrugs* I got to keep the rocket launcher though, which is good, because I would’ve raged so hard if I didn’t. Plus, you got blessed by hearing my voice for like, 5 whole sentences.
Oh no i made a book that nearly everyone who reads it enjoys poor me. (That is you that is what you sound like)
Honestly man, you are a great writer, you can’t honestly say that you thought you were going to sell a heap of books. That shouldn’t of been why you wrote it. You should of wrote it because you enjoy the hell out of doing it. So what if you only sold 200 so far thats 200 people who have enjoyed your writing. Honestly have a bit of faith in yourself. People don’t not like your writing. It’s just a hard market to break into. You are still young and who knows the Lesser EVil could become the next big thing (hehe) How about having a little more faith in yourself. We all have faith in you, its time you started to aswell.
Thats natural, also i was a little harsh. But sometimes friends need to tell harsh truths. The truth is i like your writing, its just graphic novels are a niche’ market and alot of the indie stuff gets glossed over even if it is good. Alot of the time its more to do with luck then how good your writing is.
Oh no, you deleted your post?
Anyway, I agree with Rocketman. Don’t lose hope, your current book has 200 readers maybe the next one will have 400 and the 400 will tell their friends and before you know it your books are everywhere. 🙂
Edited to add a sentence.
Maybe, if you’re in Sydney at some point, you could try and get a quick interview/plug on Kapow! (http://bit.ly/PGjCFD). Their interviews are pretty brief and they probably only average around 400 views an ep, but it would be free publicity to a targeted audience.
Just a thought.
Thanks! Not likely to be Sydney-bound in the near future unless this bone marrow thing happens, but will definitely make room on the schedule 🙂
My evil TAYbreak plan worked. Now everyone has to reply to meeeeee
In honesty, I have no idea what’s going on.
And there I was, thinking that your response had been edited in as a commentary about authors spamming about their work.
That story you could have written yesterday can still be written today. I have a thumb drive full of half-formed story ideas and fragments of manuscripts just sitting there, waiting to be turned into fully-fledged stories.
The publishing scene is something I’m very wary of at the moment. I’m working on a novel that I’m hoping to self-publish, but with a market full of Twilight and Fifty Shades, I doubt my type of fiction would ever be successful.
But you’ve achieved something that most writers never do. You’ve actually been published, and that’s something. I guess it’s just trying to work out where to go from here, and to find the motivation to do so. I hope things work out with Dark Horse for you man. That would be awesome.
I have a google docs page filled to the brim with stupid story ideas that i have thought of and jotted down. The thing is, no one would ever like them but me. My brain is weird and i think up stuff nobody would like. One day i would like to write a whole story and just make one copy for me. That is my writing goal. SO you guys who can actual think and write fluently have a gift us mere mortals revere. 😀
No, its full of bad spelling, bad grammar, unlikable characters and horrible plots that usually end up with the main character dying.
BUT THAT’S THE BEST PART!
As far as I’m concerned, a novel is an excuse to see how much shit you can make a character wade through before you kill them. Hell, for the one I tried to write for last year’s NaNoWriMo, I started things by killing them.
So basically it’s like playing The Sims?
Exactly like playing The Sims, except you have far greater scope for cruelty.
I’m one of those fruits who think that every day – every moment actually – we leave behind an old self and become someone new. And no two versions of yourself will put the same words together in the same way and feel the same thing. So I see every lost moment as a missed opportunity. That’s what I believe, anyway.
I read a little. Your stuff is awesome, but I understand where you are coming from. It’s very hard to always be so positive in your work. But here at TAY, people will tell you the truth so if they say it’s good, it is. We’re not just being polite.
If it helps, when I was reading your summary of your latest books, I was completely absorbed. It wasn’t what I would usually read, in fact, I usually get bored pretty easily, but I couldn’t stop reading what you’d written. And that was just a summary!
I wish you the best of luck as you deserve it.
Poorly written deleted rant, gave no hint of the original subject and whilst it may serve to tease who are curious, many will find it infuriating and will demand revengeance cupcakes be sent to the author.
I give this my lowest score ever, 3 thumbs up.
Thanks everyone. Considering that my dumb rant only existed for 6 minutes, a lot of folks weighed in. I appreciate all of you.
Except for Bish.
And this is the danger of editing powers. You should have left it there. Don’t have such an itchy delete finger next time. You know from experience that we won’t judge you and will always offer support.
And I’m not just saying that because I missed it and didn’t get a chance to read it, I just think if you chose to hit “Submit” in the first place and it wasn’t offensive or harmful to anyone , then it was a valid comment and you should have left it there, If only as a testament to “Shane-That-Was’ ” feelings.
Shane-that-was is gone. Shane-that-is will soon be gone. Transience and change, ebb and flow, give and take. The wind blows, but do the trees take notice?
PAGE uh… what page is this now? REPOST
TRAILER IS DONE!
Submitted for your viewing pleasure, I present:
(Actual finished film won’t look like a cheesy horror film on VHS)
Because of high demand, I’m here to announce:
Julie VS The Dead (2012) and Julie VS The Dead (1982): 30 Years of bad movies special double bill!
That’s right! For the low, low price of $0 you too can see not ONLY the lovely, crisp HD version of the movie, but a completely seperate entirely new cut of the movie ripped straight from VHS tape. (although expect the VHS version to appear quite a bit later)
I’ll also (possibly) be making the film available to anyone who wants on authentic VHS tape.
Man, I should have started a kickstarter or something…
You aren’t.
The hos look for me.
Resident evil 6 is officially out early…Spread the word to the fans.
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/games/resident-evil-6/
https://www.ebgames.com.au/any/any?q=resident%20evil%206
@Greenius
It means Unit 3, street number 4.
So you look for number 4 in the street, then unit 3 at that number.
Make sense now?
#halping
MELBOURNE TAYBIES
I’m headed to Soundbytes at LaDiDa tonight for some chiptunes and beers, anyone keen?
http://dpadproductions.blogspot.com.au/
$15 at the door, starts a 8, all welcome 😀
FRIDAAAAAYYY
Gang.
Zeitgeist S02E02 – Smurfing Emotions has hot the innernette.
Wiggle your pig over to http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2012/09/28/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e02-smurfing-emotions/ and listen, rate or comment blindly.
Also subscribe on iTunes.
This week’s about Smurfs, Dino Riders, Star Wars & Tears.
Get it up in your ear holes.
Love,
Dan
Smurfs.
Ninja Turtles.
Confusing Romeo Must Die with The One.
And now this Guantanamo Bay nonsense (Yes, it’s in Cuba) and forgetting key points in the plot of Bad Boys 2 (ie. They go to Cuba to rescue the sister/girfriend. Not just to kill a dude)
Do you guys pay attention to anything!?
DINO RIDERS YOU SAY?
Best toy line ever. I’m surprised Hollywood hasn’t discovered it and pillaged its corpse yet. Dinosaurs with guns on them!
Mornin gang! How are well all this fine Friday mornin? Onto my 3rd coffee already – Played with army men (Warmachine Miniatures) till the wee hours of this morning (games are fun, but take soo long). Feeling like crap now, guess that’s what I get for drinking on a school night.
MORNING
Glad it’s friday, spent the night cooking pies until 8:30 (I’ve never cooked pies before, they turned out quite okay) then spent the night with a couple of beers playing Borderlands 2 with the girlfriend. Good night but I’m half hungover today.
Might jump on to coffee #2 right now 🙂
I always prescribe 3 things for hangovers.
1) Toast. I dunno, I think it’s just the dryness. That, and I love me some goddamn toast.
2) Prairie Oyster. Swear to god it works. Google it if you don’t know what it is.
3) Actually the best way is simply water and aspirin before you head off to bed.
I did! And it wasn’t what I thought it was! Still, don’t think I could handle raw egg…
I’m curious as to what you think it was.
Also, there’s always toast. My best friend. The food too, not some guy named toast.
My loins are well and truely quivering at the thought of PAX being in Melbourne.
guys… I AM EXCITE!!!!
SO FECKING EXCITE!!!!!
It is a little odd that it isn’t at Jeff’s shed.. but there may be a previous booking or it may be wayyyy more expensive to book out the whole thing.
I’m with you guys, though, a massive taybie meat is on the cards for this one – especially handy seeing as i’ll probably be going alone 😛 lol
Yeah I was hoping for Jeff’s Shed too, seems odd that they wouldn’t pick there, must have been booked already or something.
But yes GIANT PAXTAY PARTAY.
…I’m copyrighting PAXTAY PARTAY right bloody now.
I was thinking the same…
I’ve never cosplayed before.. what say you guys? Cosplay meat?
COSPLAY MEAT, YES PLEASE!
ALL BOARD THE HYPE- wait what do you mean I move back to Canada before then
D:
Well eff you guys, I got PAX PRIME.
I came here just to post about this. Very much looking forward to it. I hope tickets aren’t some stupid $200+
Actually I just read the article better…. Showgrounds? Are they going to have it out doors or something (in July)? There aren’t any big enough buildings there imo….
Also TAY PAX Meat is an awesome idea. We should get T-shirts
Cosplay.
We can all go as kotaku super-heroes.
We need to film this and interview people as if we fecking matter! 😛
I was planning to use my Elizabeth cosplay again =(
The showgrounds is a pretty good venue. They use multiple buildings for it, at least, that’s what they do for manifest
Why won’t it stop raining?
First I wake up and there’s thunder, then it starts raining, then it clears up, and now it’s raining again…
Make your bloody mind up, weather!!!
Um, what the?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/resident-evil-6-has-broken-street-date/
Unexpected to be sure…I thought it wasn’t out for ages yet…
Gang.
Zeitgeist S02E02 – Smurfing Emotions has hot the innernette.
Wiggle your pig over to http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2012/09/28/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e02-smurfing-emotions/ and listen, rate or comment blindly.
Also subscribe on iTunes.
This week’s about Smurfs, Dino Riders, Star Wars & Tears.
Get it up in your ear holes.
Love,
Dan
Maaaan what a week :/ haven’t had time for anything… Some roughly 10 hours of overtime at work so far and I stall have one more day to go /o\…
I did get a $500 in my last paycheck though \o/ so I will be rewarding myself by buying torchlight II on Sunday \o/
Overall \o/=2 and /o\=1
So I’m guessing its not so bad… How is everyone else’s week going? Have I missed any Tay births/marriage/divorces/deaths? TELL ME ALL THE GOSS!
Thaaaats why everyone is no longer people XD
I’m guessing its a side effect of the beta test? I’m using mobiletaku at the moment because its blocked at work
Oh man, funny that you mention birth/marriage/divorce/deaths…
craziest wedding ever man, you should’ve been there. On the other hand 90% of TAY is now involved with a police investigation, so yeah.
Naw maaaan I always miss the fun… It was Pez and Rize again wasn’t it?
Most were wiped out in the Parmagianaplocalypse. There’s few survivors. Some have banded into groups, others prefer their own company.
The Second Coming of the Schnitzelless is impending, so for now we wait. Preparations are in place to fend off the evil, although there’s not much hope.
Vealthulhu help us.
I forget, was this before or after the giraffes enslaved us and ate all the trees in the world?
Sounds meaterrible! I guess we’ll have to crumb together and start caching our resauces to start a resistance against our foes!
Shane! I did a reply thingy to you on the previous page.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-185/comment-page-13/#comment-811705
D.C. should probably read it too, I know both of you seem to stress overly much about your comments and I don’t want to see a bunch of “comment deleted because I think I’m silly” posts. It’s a slippery slope. 😛
*hugasaurus rex*
Irony not lost.
Edited to say: I am editing this comment to prove once and for all that I am a bit of a hypocrite.
I like to commit to my mistakes and by mistakes I mean intentional errors that I make for the sake of humour.
Yes. That’s it.
I don’t want to see it either, which is why I was against an edit function 😛
Same way I’m against an Easy mode in Souls games. I’m weak, and take advantage of such features. Much better to just leave them out.
Edited to add: Rewriting is not just an author’s perogative, it is his sacred duty 🙂
Or show some self restraint. I don’t put my hands in my pants at work as much as i might want too. Think of the edit button as not putting your hand in your pants. Only use it if your leg is itchy.
I am also weak, but now having spoken up against deleting things because you think you’re silly I have more incentive to not delete my own comments when I become paranoid about them. 😛
In my version, me. In your version, you. 😛
As a person who has probably offended the most TAybies out of everyone i feel you guys are overthinking this.
Ah, my friend…maybe underthinking is your problem then? 😛
ARE YOU CALLING ME STUPID?
WHAT THE HELL STRANGE?
You are probably right, but i over think about so many other things i don’t really want to moderate my random thoughts as well.
So very tempted to edit my previous comment, now. 😛
Do it, make my day.
Eh if i offend people i apologise, I like to think of myself as blissfully naive, I never offend people on purpose.
Well, you’ve never offended me.
Except for when you do, very intentionally.
I personally don’t think you should. Part of being friends is accepting people for who they are, random offensive thoughts and all. 😉
I agree, someone might say something over the line or stupid but you all listen to me bitch and moan and whine and when someone goes out of their way to make sure i am fine. I am always going to be on their side.
PAGE 14 REPOST (I swear today is the LAST day I do this :P)
Mix it up? HOW ABOUT SOME RUSSIAN!? YOU ALL KNOW WHAT IT SAYS BY NOW ANYWAY!
TRAILER сделано!
Опубликовано для вашего удовольствия, я представляю:
(фактически закончили фильм не будет выглядеть как дрянная фильм ужасов на VHS)
Из-за высокого спроса, я здесь, чтобы объявить:
Джули VS мертвых (2012) и Джули VS Мертвых (1982): 30 лет плохие фильмы специальной двойной счет!
Это правильно! Для низкая, низкая цена $ 0 вы тоже можете увидеть не только прекрасные, четкие HD версию этого фильма, а совершенно отдельная совершенно новый срез фильма разорвал прямо с ленты VHS. (хотя ожидаем, что версия VHS появляться совсем немного позже)
Я также (возможно) делать фильм доступными для тех, кто хочет на подлинных видеокассету.
Человек, я бы начал Kickstarter или что-то …
Is good, da?
I demand a second director’s cut with poor Russian dubs!
And a third in 80’s VHS with poor Russian dubs!
Subs are going to be in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th director’s cuts of all the above editions… right, doc?
And it’s still going to be free, and out by deadline right?
The right to start new conversations shall be spread throughout the glorious red banner of the united people of communist Russia!
(I’m not good at being communist)
In communist Russia Comment replies to you. Or something like that. Shut up i am tired.
That would explain the syntax.
For good of party, to further communist cause, all comment must be made separate so that all are equal.
We take down the elitist reply chain capitalist pigdogs, comrades!
I have discovered that I am cursed when it comes to finding weapons in Borderlands 2.
For the last 5 missions and two levels, I have been using the same weapons, as everything I come across SUCKS, when compared to my current loadout… and my current stuff wasn’t that good to begin with :'(
Using one of my golden keys is now looking VERY tempting.
Either that or throw a massive hissy fit and go back to playing SKYRIM!
I have just been clubbing them with my weapons.. shoot people you say?
Sounds kinda fancy, but I’ll give it a try.
Huuuuuuuugoooooo *waves* hi!
I have nothing to ad about borderlands topic but I just wanted to feel included 😛
PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXXEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!
I was listening to Cradled in Love this morning, and I thought of you 😉
Then I found $10
True story*
*not all facets of this story can be considered “true” in the strictest sense of the word.
I had that blaring in the car on my way to work, then I cried a little knowing I missed out on duet singing it on the last Sydney meat /o\… Damn adult responsibilities
One day we will meet at a meat, and at that moment we shall belt out a rendition of this song, so mighty and glorious, that our combined voices would put the Dovahkiin to shame.
And much mead will be consumed that day, and ripe meat off the bone! … As soon as I find somewhere to procure mead 😛
I know that feel. Well, no, I ended up using a key, got two pistols that were better than anything else I was holding, then for some reason the next time I played I still had my same two keys that I had in the beginning in the game. I was offline at the time, so I dunno.
.. I realize that this comment might not make you feel better. We’ll have to ask the rest of the TAY Borderlanders to chip in for weapon donations.
Sits on street corner with sign reading “please be kind, donate big arse weapons”
And then it rains and the last word on the cardboard sign drops off and runs into the gutter…
Edit… not unlike this comment actually.
Still works for me.
This comment reminded me of an old XKCD comic, and now I can’t stop reading it as “…donate big arse-weapon”
That “Success!” every time your post is successfully posted now makes me think of Dark Souls. “YOU DEFEATED!”. I miss that.
I miss that too. I’ve got a mini rant that’s been brewing for a while about changing games after release. It’ll likely end up in TAY one day when I have a keyboard. And effort.
It’s Friday! Almost a LONG WEEKEND! Yay! Is everyone excited about football and such? I think we’re on the Swans bandwagon now, and will grudgingly go for the Bulldogs only because we hate the Storm more. How about you?
I like the swans for the AFL
and i am going for the storm cause half there team are QLDers
What do I get?
Thanksgiving in a week and a half.
What is that holiday even I don’t know. I am not some wordcrafter who gives out thanks like they are in plentiful supply! You must hoard the thanks! The economy could go at any moment, eh?
It’s the same as Australia Day here, I believe. Celebrating the wholesale slaughter of natives. So it’s the one day of the year you’re allowed to say, “Thank goodness I’m a migrant.”
Then what’s Canada Day for then!?
(For realz, there’s a Canada Day. How preposterous, having a [INSERT COUNTRY HERE] Day. So uninspired.)
Is it a “Thank goodness we’re not America” day?
In a nutshell. It’s basically the 4th of July except instead of fireworks and booze it’s polite comments and booze.
And you’d be surprised how those two things mingle.
Maan, I swear we just ripped it off america just so we could have a extra holiday. Something about pilgrims and natives and John Wayne, I dunno.
I had no idea there was a public holiday coming, and my branch manager said that I wasn’t a true public servant.
It was one of the best moments of my life.
And then I found $10.
\o/ SPORTSBALL… Man I love when the guys from [insert random bird related team] gets their hands on the ball and coordinate their golf bats properly to get it through the hoop to get a point…
…
Okay I’ll be honest I know nothing about sports but I had you fooled for a second right? RIGHT?
Oh man did you see the last sportsball game were the referee called a foul so the other team got a free kick of the cricket ball and scored a slam-dunk-touch-down.
Well what was the coach doing puttin Newell in that early anyway? Pfft problem with them is they always try to walk it in!
IT CROWD!
BLUFFBALL! Tomorrow I’ll even get to say “didya watch that ludicrous display last noight?”
\o/
\o/
ZOMG you can post the same thing twice now! As long as the second time, you put something different in, and then edit it.
You’re a witch!
You’re a witch!
Who needs the edit button to pull of such sorcery anyway?
WHAT THE
I’m a social manipulator that clearly wins at everything because of my insane ability to be convincing about everything… Clearly 😛
Swans all the way. Not interested in the NRL but if I had to choose, probably the Storm. For no reason at all
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Galileo-sustermans2.jpg
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/BigPictures/Galileo_9.jpeg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Galileo_Galilei.jpg
http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/images/galileo.jpg
http://www.crystalinks.com/galileo.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Le_Figaro_logo_1826_-_Gallica.jpg
Magnifico!
Gorramit Rocketman!
GALILEO FIGGARO
MAGNIFICOOOOOooooooooooooo
I now get quite a few sales calls at work. The latest one was from someone apparently from Dell asking if I was interested in something to blah blah blah optimise end user experience.
I didn’t understand what they were trying to sell, so I just flat out turned them down. Buzzwords only really work when used in a sentence composed of non-buzzwords. Even then they’re a bit dicey.
But you have to maximise your optimisation if you want to build positive flow into your fundamental keynote parameters!
If we brainstorm we might be able to come up with some flowmapmindchart abomination that will take over the world!
You have to optimise parameters while setting parameters optimally. Push the envelop outside the box pragmatically to synthesize parallel solutions to workflow occurrences in unoptimised end user interfaces situations. While addressing key performance criteria that concentrate our assets in areas that further set our goals to be the best in the industry.
Synergistically.
With gusto.
Don Watson’s “Death Sentence” is one of the best books. Sounds like, if you haven’t read it, you would dig it.
Does it go on about pushing envelops? Because that would be radtacular.
It’s a book about how management-speak has sucked all meaning out of the English language and life in general. I’m sure it mentions envelope-pushing.
I was mocking my typo but yeah, I’m going to have to look that up. I love me some empty language.
Did you see that SC2 article I posted the other day where the guy treated it like a high school essay where you drop in as many excessively verbose terms to look smarter? ‘Twas hilariously bad.
Yup, saw that 🙂
I kind of regret not just saying “I’m fairly sure 90% of what you just said was gibberish. Good day, sir!”
So I come back to Twitter/TAY and there’s all this magic happening with accounts and editing and I’m so scared and confused.
Things I did:
Go camping (Very awesome)
Lose internet for the weekend (Not so very awesome. Had to tether my friends phone so I could activate BL2 on steam).
Watch Cabin in the woods (Which was awesome)
Watch Dark Knight Returns Part 1 (Which was also awesome. Loved Peter Weller as Bats)
Loved Anna’s Quest! It also made me feel stupid. Probably because I am. Shush. Also the mooosics was also pretty good. But nobody tell that Pez kid.
BL2 is pretty great fun.
DISHONORED IN A FORTNIGHT! \o/
Doctor Who finished for the year on Sunday! /o\
If Rory dies i am gonna go to BBC studios and slap someone.
Probably not, but i dont want him to die.
I have a idea about how Amy & Rory depart, & if I’m right i think it’s a very fitting way for them to go.
As long as it’s better than last weeks episode, im not gonna compain though
RIVER KILLS THEM BOTH.
I actually didn’t mind last weeks episode. I am particularly fond of how they realised they beat all the suspenses episode format with a stick last season and have made none of the episodes so far about fear or being frightened. its good. It was starting to feel like doctor who was transforming into a horror show. Which it isn’t.
not to be a party pooper, but i’m really not interested in dishonored…
like i’ve seen the videos, and i think “yeah that’s cool” but i have no motivation to play it….
I can think of at least two ways to pull that off without the edit button. I did one of them above and am going to try the other right now.
I can think of at least two ways to pull that off without the edit button. I did one of them above and am going to try the other right now.
W-I-T-C-H!
Waiting at airports is exciting. No wait, theotherthing. Its boring. Very, very boring.
Still, not at work is a nice bonus. & having a week &a bit off is even better.
How’s stuffs with you lot?
My stuff is okay, You should think of a excuse for me so i don’t have to go to a family bbq tonight. Its not that i hate my family. I love them quite alot however my uncles family are dumb half wits who annoy the shit out of me. He is awesoem but his family are borderline mental cases. Also i can’t really do stupid shit with people other than my family around.
If we are all meeting at PAX for a super meat( hopefully tickets are affordable) I suggest we all come with a $10 note. When we are all together in a group we will all drop the ten dollars at the same time then you have to pick up a different $10 note and not the one you brought. This way we can all ‘find’ $10 at the same time.
Also if the TAY quilt is finished by then we can put it down on the grass then all sit on it and have a picnic. Or maybe use it as a flag as we walk around.
Finally, someone needs to create an official TAY logo so we can have T-shirts and everything. Any designers/artists on TAY?
Ok those are all my random thoughts for now. I daydream too much 🙂
We have many artists. Doc and Sughly spring instantly to mind, but there are heaps. TAY logo would be epic. It should happen.
http://chuloopaoverload.toctopus.com/shop/view_product/Jeeves?c=333568&ctype=0&n=1980593&o=0&pn=1
we should all buy these shirts instead.
Toctopus shirts are the WORST
Also, we know who Jeeves is.
Yeah i know, but inside jokes are awesome. 😛
Working on one right now. 😀
Might need some improvements, but it’s just a basic idea to begin with.
http://fav.me/d5g77tm
I started a TAY logo. I was SUPPOSED to be designing a new banner to replace the Monkey Island one. But I like the Monkey Island one…
To Resident Evil 6, or not to Resident Evil 6?
What was the question?
I miss the earlier RE games. They were pretty awesome.
Still, like a lot of franchises, it was bound to evolve sooner or later.
after playing the demo i will be picking up the game soon, sadly not today as i’m sick… but soon
The amount of replayability for Torchlight 2 is going to keep me gripped for so long. I’m enjoying the hell out of it. The only irk I got with it currently is trying to click on an object when there’s an enemy above or below it nearby (That isn’t reachable cuz it’s actually another floor) and it keeps trying to attack said enemy that’s unreachable instead of interacting with the object. Other than that, really loving my engineer. 🙂
Also, two hander weapons have never felt more satisfying to use before with how much you see explode from your one attack.
I’ll roll with a different character when I join up with you guys cuz I’m one of those that wants a solo experience and multi experience separated entirely. Plus don’t give me anything, I just love using what I find and put together myself, not what I’m given 🙂
Not sure what I’ll go in that case. Maybe I’ll roll Outlander with you guys 🙂
I have a electric mage. SHe is so squishy. Its funny how fast her health disappears. I have to kite so much. Still fun though.
Will Blaghsy tank or shall I roll a Beserker then? 🙂
Get up close and bash with my gauntlets! 🙂
The similarities between tl1&2 and Diablo 1&2 are awesmazing, more so when I realised that the similarities also really highlighted the difference between them
Gorram posting from my phone. Also, Ben and/or Rob I appear to have been able to post as a guest using the same name/email combo as my account. How’s that for wizarding?
“Express Queues are reserved for the EXCLUSIVE use of Express Gamer and Ultimate Gamer pass
holders. If you are found accessing these queues with a media pass EB Games Express Queue staff will be ask you to leave the line.”
EB Games do English good, da?
The worse part is that i didn’t realise the mistake until i reread it like 3 times 😛
Rocket good at da grammars
If you’re already breaking the rules, surely you’re just going to say “No” when they ask you to leave.
Oh, man. I love Borderlands 2, but I just want the game to end. *sobs* So damn anxious to start Anna’s Quest. :S
… I keep reading your name as danfornications… Don’t know why I wanna share that but there you are
:'( Just like the BioShock Boozehound/Dog with balls on chin all over again.
I’ve got the @dc name linked to my other account. Will merge ’em soon. If you’re in the beta it should be D.C. any way. 🙁
Yeah, it is. I think I appear as mythamphetamine instead of Aleph-Null, to the uninitiated.
I’ve been meaning to complement you on that name, btw. I like it. 😀
😀 Thanks!
Sorry didn’t mean to offend, makes me chuckle due to my juvenile mind… It’s all good though its probably just my twisted mind anyway, think nothing of it 😛
Haha! Not offended. Just always wonder how I’ll screw up next and then it happens. 😛
Wouldn’t call it screwing up, I just have a very juvenile mind and take any chance I can get XD
😀
Sign up to the beta, damn it. DAMN IT! ;P
how do you sign up for the beta?
I have but haven’t tried on mobiletaku which is what I’m limited to at work T_T
Oh, that’s right. I read that before, but one of those days where the info didn’t compute. 😛
Zetrox, Ben posted details a few pages back. Just go here and sign up! 😀 http://www.kotaku.com.au/?action=opt-in-beta
Yeah, they moved the Queen’s Bday to Oct 1 and made the other one a Jubilee holiday or something. Man, we really need to become a Republic. (And keep the holidays. :P)
I think it’s somehow the Queen’s Birthday holiday again in Brisbane, don’t know what’s up with that.
Us Victorians don’t have monday off. Pretty much everyone else does though.
Still, Melbourne Cup day is looming on the horizon.
Oh see how it looms. With it’s….loominess.
November will be great for me!
Cup weekend at the start, then a week in noosa at the end! 😀
Aye, me too frond!
From the 3rd of Nov until the 10th, i’ll on a cruise around the Pacific Islands, then from the 10th to the 17th i’ll be at Surfers Paradise for a week. November is gonna be epic 🙂
Possible meats while i’m Surfers?
Bee and i don’t leave for noosa until the 19th, unfortunately 🙁
Ok, so it’s a sequential invasion?
I set em up, you knock em down!
Yes,no?
Soubnds like a plan!!!
Pants optional, yeah?
ONLY ALWAYS!!!111!!!
State thing.
We have to work.
Someone has to pick up the slack for all these lazy sods 😛
state…. basically different states have some public holidays at different times.
Read here:
http://australia.gov.au/topics/australian-facts-and-figures/public-holidays
Haha! Oh, man. I could’ve gotten that one but I haven’t checked in ages. Assumed it’d just be obscure stuff now. Congrats, man! 😀
😀
First one in ages that I’ve known straight off.
I guess Mark was influenced by the thumbnail for that Gizmodo article 😛
I think that picture was on the back of the box. I studied it in awe 😀
Edit: Hmmm, just checked. It’s not on the back of the box. *shrugs*
So my lunch break was a little odd.
First of all, I went to Dymocks. That’s odd in itself. Then I bought something Shane recommended (Death Sentence by Don Watson), that’s not so odd. Then I picked up the new J.K. Rowling book that has nothing to do with Harry Potter whatsoever and the new Terry Pratchett book that has nothing to do with Discworld whatsoever.
Finally, I bought a curry with no meat in it at all.
I’m not sure I’m even me anymore.
On a sidenote, does anyone else in the beta keep hitting the “You are starting a new discussion” thing instead of submit? It just seems to be in the right place for clicking.
I accept no responsibility if you dislike the book. A little late to make that disclaimer, I know, but it has to be said. Hope you enjoy it though.
It’s a solid premise and looks like a fairly brief read. I’ll probably knock it out this weekend and let you know what terrible taste you have.
Just checked the Wikipedia article for The Casual Vacancy (the new Rowling book):
The Casual Vacovel published since the Harry Potter series, her first apart from that series, and her first novel for adults.
What is this I don’t even?
It’s been made a big deal because people still seemingly insist Harry Potter is for kids, and her not writing about Harry Potter is a OMG thing.
“The Casual Vancany is J.K. Rowling’s first novel published outside of the Harry Potter series and her first novel targeted at adult readers.”
Is that so hard?
And no, I refuse to edit that in because the horrible, horrible sentence amuses me.
You should edit your edit. You got the title wrong. 😛
I’ve been doing that every single time I have typed “Vacancy” today.
Watched a news report on it last night, they were trying to dodgily stir up controversy of disappointing children and the like. Pfffft. Let her do what she wants do do!
So maybe neither of us really got meat in our curries!
At least, not the meat from any animal you’d like to eat the meat of.
Whatever animal I am eating, it is delicious. Hopefully it’s not human.
I just finished Volume Ten of the Sandman comics.
Would you believe I’ve never read them before? (I know, I know, what self-respecting practitioner in graphic literature could possibly avoid them for so long)
The specific memories of the overall story are fading, a bit like a dream, but it’s really left its mark. This series will linger, I think.
I’d like to call myself a Gaiman fanboy but I haven’t read them either.
The pirated versions just don’t do it justice and the physical volumes tend to be rather hefty. One day I will get around to it, Gaiman has a knack for creating his own mythology and weaving it through more familiar things.
Am I the only one who has brain breakage when using the DS/3DS when a game prompts me to press a specific face button? Especially A. I’m so used to A being the South button in the traditional NESW layout, but on the DS/3DS (and Wii U?) it’s East.
Oddly if they were coloured I suspect I’d have no problems. And I prefer the confirm button being O in PS games due to having used a JP PS3 for so long…
In Japan, O (maru) is ‘correct’ and X (batsu) is ‘incorrect’. So those are mapped to Select and Cancel in menus in PS games. There was a whole bunch of logic that went into those four icons actually.
Then SCEA fucked it all up by swapping the buttons around for the US for some reason.
I was used to confirm button being O from FF7, which resulted in me changing the controls for 8 and 9.
I never had a problem wIth A and B but X and Y confused me since I was used to the Xbox’s layout. Don’t get them mixed up anymore and it’s pretty easy to remember 😛
YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!!!
NO LONGER SHORT STAFFED! PEOPLE ARE BACK FROM HOLIDAYS AND PICKING UP THEIR SLACK!!! I CAN BREATHE AGAIN! …Also, this means MORE TAY TIME!
My week has taken a massive turn froma bit of a bad streak….
happy days 🙂 ive been absolutely swamped for the past two weeks, hence my single daily comments and lack of contribution…. I now have time to scratch myself, but I’ll re-allocate that time to TAY… maybe some simultaneous scratching 🙂
Also, I’ve played through Abobo’s Big Adventure…. would have happily thrown some cash at it if it were possible.
I struck up a conversation with some of the guys in the late night 3D art class, while on brake from my late night after hours programming class. turns out the dude ive told some of you about over the last few weeks, the one who claims to be Jesus and can walk through walls, is in their class…. apparently he must be on some “weird shit” (duh) but there is also another guy in the class that thinks he’s like the antichrist or something? so basically Jesus and the Anti-Christ are doing an after hours Arts course, in the same class….. I swear theres some really screwed up people….
Going camping after work,no enthusiasm for it but its one of those obligations… bro in laws birthday. My missus and i feel rather uncomfortable within their group and circle of friend… its one of those “lets all get hammered and boozed up groups”. there is more to life then alcohol. Its impossible to strike up a conversation with anyone, unless its a conversation about some stupid crap you did when you were wasted, so my wife and i end up feeling way out of place.
In other news, for nostalgias sake, I’ve been trying to get a hold of a reasonably priced PS2 fat, and i found 2 at a market… he offered me $70 for the two with no cables or controllers which i wasnt fussed about. anyway, since i only wanted one, i inspected the two of them and i noticed the warranty seals were sliced. i suspected one of them was modded. anyway i grabbed it and i offered him $30, resulting in a counter offer of $40 to which i knocked back. I went for a walk, and on my way out i stopped by again… He offered me $50 for both. I grabbed 4 official PS2 8MB memory cards and asked him to throw them in and we had a deal… SUCCESS. Got home, plugged them it and it turns out I was right! One console was modded, (REGION FREE GAMING! AND BACKUPS!), and to sweeten it all up, one disc tray had an ORIGINAL of Shadow of the Colossus, and the other an original of Final Fantasy X!
WIN WIN WIN.
speaking of which, i found $20 on tuesday inside a pair of pants i havent worn for 12 months 🙂
I’d prefer jesus and buddha living in a dorm, but in general we need more TV shows about higher-level deities and all that.
I would be happy to watch a sitcom based on the gods from Discworld.
Epic, it would be.
Wow, Awesome find with the PS2. You should have a PS2 split-screen meat 🙂
About your camping, at least you’ll have your wife to talk to if you get bored.
Edited: I changed take to talk.
‘Elementary’, the American adaptation of modern Sherlock Holmes is… Okay.
The pilot still relied on ‘oh look, magical case breaking realisation’, which after the mostly excellent writing of the BBC version is a bit of a let down.
Potential for Watson, here. As much as I liked Martin Freeman, i don’t think they utilised him very well.
Still running with the eccentric, socially inept Sherlock here, but where Cumberbatch’s Sherlock borders on autistic, this one (I forget his name but he’s familiar) has some understanding of societal norms. Not sure how this will play out.
I think I prefer the relationship with Cumberbatch and Lestrade. His Sherlock thought the police incapable and only had faith in Lestrade. This American cop has a brief, seemingly meaningless relationship with Sherlock.
Generally though, too generic American crime show. Pilot’s crime was better than average, but not stellar.
Will keep watching, for a lack of anything better to do. Put that as a box quote on the season DVD, huh.
I for one, won’t be editing 😀
Unless I cock up particularly bad an end up offending a whole bunch of people, in which case it should be reported and removed instead :S
So no, I won’t be editing either way 😀
Gorramit, now I want to edit my typo :S
HA!
Also, there are so many jokes you can do with the edit button!
Edited for seniors
BOLLYWOOD EDITION! *cues music*
पेज 15 repost
ट्रेलर किया जाता है !
अपनी खुशी को देखने के लिए प्रस्तुत है, मैं वर्तमान में:
(वास्तविक समाप्त फिल्म वीएचएस पर एक घटिया हॉरर फिल्म की तरह नहीं लगेगा) हड़ताल>
क्योंकि उच्च मांग की है, मैं यहाँ हूँ की घोषणा करने के:
जूली मृत वी.एस. (2012) और जूली वी.एस. मृत (1982): खराब फिल्मों के 30 साल विशेष डबल बिल!
यह सही है! कम, $ 0 आप भी न केवल सुंदर, फिल्म के कुरकुरा HD संस्करण है, लेकिन एक पूरी तरह से अलग फिल्म के पूरी तरह से नए कट वीएचएस टेप से सीधे खींच लिया देख सकते हैं की कम कीमत के लिए. (हालांकि वीएचएस संस्करण काफी एक बिट के बाद प्रकट करने की उम्मीद है)
मैं भी (संभवतः) जो प्रामाणिक वीएचएस टेप पर चाहता है किसी के लिए उपलब्ध फिल्म बना रही हो जाएगा.
यार, मैं एक Kickstarter या कुछ शुरू कर दिया जाना चाहिए था …
My loony bun is fine Benny Lava!
Minor bun engine made Benny Lava!
Anybody need this sign? Benny Lava!
You need a bun to bite Benny Lava!
Is it sad that I don’t need to watch this to know it’s Van Damme?
It’s sad isn’t it?
I feel sad I knew that.
HEYA LOOPS
I read the comments in articles on kotaku sometimes.
They make me thankful that you lovely people exist i mean. some of the comments on the PAX article, its like people are trying to start fights. Like daring others to be provoked. I don’t see what is fun about that.
You learn alot of ways to laugh getting beat up off when you are a smart ass little kid who cant defend himself 😛
For some reason all my friends used to get in the road before anything happened at the pub. Not that I actively seek trouble (I’m actually quite timid) but there must be something appealing about targeting the weaker ones. As such, trouble finds me!
But yeah, I’ve never gotten into a situation I couldn’t get out of 🙂
I sometimes stop by the comments section on some articles.
I can’t help they need a sign sometimes saying ‘Here be trolls’.
You know what….. we should officially change the word “comments” to “Here be Trolls”
That would be awesome imo
Yep, it’s fair game after that point. You’ve been warned about feeding the trolls, so you got no excuse.
Not that i’m an advocate for trolling. Unless it’s well played and funny without hurting anybody. Then I guess it’s OK.
From what I saw, some of it were pretty valid concerns like having no official confirmation/announcement yet but it was stupid of them to take it further and be all LULZ KOTAKU JERNALIZM CANT CITE DEM AS SAUCE…
Most of the ones i thought were stupid were like LOLOLOLOL MELBOURNE IS AWESOME
then someone was like
LOLOLOL MELBOURNE IS SHITE LOLOL
I have no allegiance with any state/territory. I actively detest some, but am mostly completely indifferent.
Makes it difficult when State of Origin comes ’round 😛
You need to understand that when choosing a sports team to support, the point is to choose the team that will irritate the most people around you. Especially when your team wins.
NSW IT IS! \o/
Also, choose the team that you’ll be least irritated by people around you. Especially when your team constantly loses, year after year. 😛
DAMN GOOD FOR NOTHING GOLD FARMING BASTARDS!
Thankfully i use a different password for my GW2 account and email. wake up call to everyone:
just changed my GW2 password and steam
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A log-in attempt from the following location is currently awaiting your authorization.
Address: 121.204.179.77
City: Taipingyan
Region: 07
Country: CN
This location is approximated based on information provided by your Internet Service Provider. If in doubt, deny the request and try again.
If you are certain this log-in attempt was not made by you, then someone else knows your log-in credentials and you should change your password immediately via Account Management.
For security purposes, we alert you each time your account is accessed from an unrecognized location. To authenticate this log-in attempt, please click the link below:
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–The ArenaNet Team
They had a similar thing last time and people mentioned it and complained that some of it was actually pre-owned stuff (which CoTD never mention). Most of it is a bit overpriced to what you can find online or on eBay anyway.
Currently ranting in my head about his views on Windows 8. To me, it sounds like the guy needs to understand what he is talking about before he makes a comment on it. Saying by not certifying Minecraft for Windows 8 will stop people going to it is just silly, not to mention Minecraft would run fine on Windows 8 as is, only thing is it wont be available through the Microsoft App Store,which is what he is actually complaining about, but instead of saying its the App store that’s the problem, he goes on to say its Windows 8. They are not the same thing, Windows 8 doesn’t care if you get your software from the app store or elsewhere, if you put it on the app store, you get to be Metro-fied, instead of being accessed by the desktop.
The crazy thing is that Microsoft asking if he wanted it ‘certified for windows 8’ is very likely NOT putting it on the App Store. It’s more likely offering to set him up to be able sign his code, or to make sure it works with Win8 properly so he can say that it’s ‘Certified for Windows 8’.
Minecraft is Java. It’d need to be rewritten to get into the App Store. :\
Disclaimer: I’m pretty biased on this since Windows 8 has my code in it. 😛
EDIT: It wasn’t my idea though
I’d love to see the Xbox version of minecraft on win 8, taking advantage of the whole cross platform support in xbox live. Playing on my PC or tablet with friends on Xbox? That would be awesome. Although it would cause confusion if people have that version, then don’t know why they can’t get these mod things everyone talks about to work. Maybe call it Minecraft Live or something? 😛
That would actually be pretty awesome.
Indeed, I’m unsure of how much WinRT and Java have in common lmao…
I like Minecraft but I agree, Notch needs to pull his head in. Essentially he was a guy who made an indie game right when the indie scene was beginning to explode, and he made a whole lot of money off it. That’s all. He’s got a sort of Cult of Personality growing up around him which is getting quite irritating and slightly worrisome since he has so many terrible ideas and opinions to go with his good ones.
What sort of demented universe do you have to be living in to think that Microsoft will just one day close off Windows and only let people run apps from the app store?? That’s like Microsoft deciding that only games made by themselves will work on the xbox 360, all other games will just not work anymore. It’s just not going to happen. People would abandon it in droves if they did.
Anyway, anyone else notice how ‘public opinion’ of windows 8 seems to be becoming more positive? As in, most comments I read on articles about windows 8 seem to be pro windows 8 and not against. I decided to do a quick count on the comments in that Notch article: 20 comments for, 11 comments against, 16 unknown. There is no way I’m going to count the comments on an article from someplace like The Verge, that would just take forever 😛
People had the same concern with Apple when they introduced the App Store for OS X. Before then, the best software on Macs was all open source. I honestly don’t know if anything has changed.
Well, they do have a thing that only allows apps from certified developers to install. You can turn it off though, but it’s turned on by default http://www.apple.com/osx/what-is/security.html
But anyway, I like what Jordaan Mylonas had to say in that Notch article:
“I’d just like to point out, as a software developer AND the resident tech-guy among my family and friends, having a walled garden AS AN OPTION is fantastic. Now I can just tell my less tech-savvy friends/family to get apps only from the app store if they want to be sure of being safe and virus free.
Regular desktop development remains, and I will surely use it, but for those who aren’t good at figuring out what is / isn’t suspicious, or even from where to find a program to do what they need, this is a great addition.”
Edit – Why didn’t my quote tags work?? Whyyyyyyy??
It’s an option for now. What happens when OS X.10 Tabby Cat comes along and they decide that you shouldn’t be allowed to change the Gatekeeper setting?
(Bastards stole our Defender / MSE logo for that thing too incidentally 🙁 )
I was wondering why the logo looked so familiar 🙁
Apple are way more likely to go balls-deep on the whole Walled Garden approach, it was Steve’s stated ideal from the beginning
You have to be a conspiracy theorist to think Microsoft would make Windows a walled garden, when the whole reason Windows is so popular is that you can write crazy software for it and still have it run mostly correct ten years later after the original company that wrote it has gone out of business.
Exactly! How many companies rely on custom software to operate? (IDK, I’m just guessing it’s a lot :P)
I think we are just smarter than everyone else.
That has to be the reason we understand the differences displayed here.
I cannot think of any other reason.
Well, some people don’t have time to think about these things and rely on what the media and internet tell them, so blame the media. Also, Microsoft for releasing the Developer Preview. I think a rather large majority of the hate for metro stems from that, because frankly, it was quite awful then. I’m just glad the internet at large seems to be starting to understand what windows 8 really is now.
Something like 46% of Windows users are still on XP, and a good proportion of that is businesses that haven’t upgraded.
@Masha
I talked to my bro-in-law.
He works (worked?) and Caltex/Woolworths servo. So a big chain one. He said about $20 per hour is fairly standard but probation period can be as low $14 per hour.
Other than that – everything else is above board. You get super, and annual leave (even while part-time like he was) and your employment is completely legal and on the books. You should get in house training and there should be some forms to sign. Do not skimp on the paperwork side of things because of the safety issue. Especially around stupid customers and petrol.
He said that while working there is nothing special, woolworths at least looks after it’s workers. There is even a union if things got really bad, they could possibly help.
TLDR – avoid anything dodgy. Woolworths/Caltex is pretty good. Overall avoid petrol stations in general if possible
Hope that helps
Thank you very much Inquisitorz this is some very very helpful information.
So I’m basically being paid a probation period salary as my base salary, that’s not right. Without any of the super, annual leave etc. I’ll be seeing the manager on Monday.
Thanks again and thank you to your brother as well
My above comment seems to be in moderation permanently so ill try a repost with less detail…
some dude in Taipingyan logged onto my GW2 account but didnt have the email pass to allow his IP in. His 3rd attempt in 3 days apparently.
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A log-in attempt from the following location is currently awaiting your authorization.
Address: 121.204.179.77
City: Taipingyan
Region: 07
Country: CN
This location is approximated based on information provided by your Internet Service Provider. If in doubt, deny the request and try again.
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just so you guys know, if you get a similar email with a logon from an unknown IP or location, it means they have your GW2 UserID and Pass so CHANGE THEM!
I’d love to know how they’re managing to get people’s passwords. Did you enter it on a phishing site or something? Because other than that it sort of suggests somewhere else you used that password has possibly been compromised. Either that or they’re getting in via social engineering hacks which seems hard to do over the phone to tech support from China…
People use the same password on many sites. One site gets hit and there are thousands, if not millions, of username/password/emails out there for people to try in other places.
nail on the head… the password i was using was VERY common amongst many accounts. ive just changed most of them…. the main ones at least, including my steam account…. cant lose that
When it comes to MMOs I always use a different password to the rest of my accounts. For shit I don’t care about I have one or two standard ones but everything else gets a unique one that’s at least 20 characters if I can.
I can normally spot phishing sites and scams from a mile away…. suspecting a keylogger or something similar.
About half the time I log in I have to go through the email authentication process. It’s always the same region and IP address, but the city listed keeps on changing. I think the authentication thing is a good extra level of security, but I’d like them to fix it so it remembers my IP.
The fact that our region ran out of IP addresses quite a while ago doesn’t help, they’re going to get more and more fragmented over time.
yeah i got one, luckily my email password was different.
i usually have the same passwords for accounts, but have a different one for my emails for this very reason…./
If you use gmail you should really consider adding two-factor authentication to your account. Can set it up to text you a code when you log in the first time on a new machine, or use a program on your smartphone to generate an access code.
I think Hotmail has something similar but I don’t know if it’s as robust.
Just on passwords – anyone know a good “random generation and saving service”?
I tried lastpass but found to it be annoying and not work properly half the time.
Oh and also – is there one that can be windows based so that it works with game launchers and other programs not just basic websites. Lastpass even struggles with pop ups or any site that has a changing log in URL like banks since it uses the URL to determine what page you are on.
Well Crazyman is in Geelong so I’ll assume there :P. Were you badly hit last time there was death hail the size of tennis balls? I know Lysterfield/Rowville got hit the hardest so smashed windows, damaged roof tiles and dinted cars everywhere 😛
BAM!
YOU JUST GOT FREEZED…FROZE….FROzenended…fraze….
Fuck.
I’ll leave.
Just read Zetrox’s story up the top there and I think ‘and then I found a PS2 with original games in it’ is the new ‘and then I found $10’.
Besides that, you can’t talk to me that way you’re just a dirty guest account. >:(
Hey beta dudes, check this out!
https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/edit-profile/
You’ll know what to do 🙂
If you have already signed up with 2 accounts – submit a support ticket for us to remove the one you don’t want.
That’ll free up the email address, and you can add it there 🙂
But if we do this won’t it suck in all our silly gimmick accounts and rename everything to be us, thus unmasking everyone?
Hey guys, missplaced my Teamspeak server details, someone care to reshoot them (mytag) at the hotmails dot com?
Hi everyone.
I am tired.
I put RE6 limited edition on layby when I really shouldn’t have but shiny.
The end.
Peeps! Is anyone getting/have RE6?
I thought the announcement trailer was awesome but the more gameplay I see of it, the more ‘meh’ I get towards it. I pretty much started with 5 and appreciated it as an awesome action game rather than a survival horror game. I think the only other RE I’ve finished is Revelations and that was also fun.
I still have 4 and the REmake on the pile but I know I’ll like them. I’m just wondering about your thoughts about the game and what it’s like (more action/survival horror?). I kind of want it but I just know there’ll be a sexy edition announced later on with all the DLC…
Capcom…
(edited cause I can!)
I’ll get it but mostly because I got all the others. I’m not all that excited about it.
YOU ARE THE WORST FOR EDITING, Gosh Editius.
Anyway knowing Capcom they will release a “Deluxe” or “Super” or “This-is-what-you-get-loyal-fans-that-payed-up-the-ass-for-all-the-DLC” version. So if you aren’t in a huge hurry to get it, I would hold off a bit.
I just call those ‘sexy editions’ since they always have too many stupid names. GOTY/Ultimate/Gold/Complete etc. etc.
I might get it eventually if the reviews are good. I thought RE5 was pretty meh. RE6 sounds like it will be better but after my experience with RE5 I can’t see myself jumping back into the series soon, especially since I’ve still got loads of other games to play.
Yeah, one of the only bad things about having a release date before the US or other major regions, THERE’S NO REVIEWS! 🙁
Luckily I have hooked my sister into the series, so she pre-ordered it quite some time ago. She’s nuts about it, and she’s played both 4 and 5 (along with those light-gun ones on the Wii.)
Personally? I don’t give a eff. I liked 4, but that’s it. Least when I play it it’ll be for free.
i’m a huge fanboy, so obviously my opinion doesn’t count at all
but yeah i’ll be getting, and if i wasn’t so gosh darn sick i would have run out and bought it today!
you really gotta beat 4 though, when someone at my work asked me what my favourite game of all time was, nothing really stood out as the sole contender, but RE4 came up in my mind the most, i actually just bought the HD version because i was craving it.
REmake is also great, a fantastic example of what a good remake should be like.
but yeah, from the demo of 6 i thought it was pretty cool, whether it can top 4? i highly doubt it, but it still has some potential, and has a crap ton of content being 4 campaigns and lots of different modes and such, i really think i’d get my worth out of it.
oh and yeah, seeing as capcom, no doubt there’d be a dlc inclusive release in a year.
I like the idea of having different campaigns. From the announcement trailer it looked like Chris and… uh that guy… Jake? (I have no idea about names) were more action orientated while Leon would be more survival horror. Seems like that might not be the case any more, as from what I’ve seen of Leon has been a bit actiony. What’s the other campaign? Ada? I think she was more puzzle which is also a cool idea. Always nice to have a mix 😀
I assume you’d know about it but there’s campaign co-op similar to 5, right? I also saw something where you play as infected or something, trying to hinder other players? And do they still have Mercenaries mode? I wasn’t super keen on it so haven’t read about it much :P.
Just let me know how it goes, biased or not :). Did you ever beat Anarchy Reigns? How long was the story for that? I’m still keen for that whenever it comes out… 😛
okay so to answer your questions
Chris is definately more action based, think more huge set pieces with massive bosses (the demo had you fight a two story tall monster thing and i don’t think it was technically a “boss”, so yeah)
Jake is more action-ey, but they are also kind of doing a nemesis vibe with his campaign, as you are being chased by some huge invincible guy (if you’ve ever played dota or diablo, he’s a bit like pudge or the butcher)
and obivously leon is more classic RE with zombies and less resoures and such. apparently there are still some actiony bits in leon’s, but they are quite in line with his story. i saw a video of him having to find a crank to open a door, it made me smile.
and yes, the fourth campaign is Ada, which you get after beating everyone elses campaign.
yeah, the campaign co-op is in, there are also points in the game were it can be 4 player co-op (when certain character’s stories meet).
and yeah, i forget what it is called, but there is a mode were you play as teh infected against people, which was a huge surprise to me that capcom bothered doing that, a pretty cool addition if you ask me, very much made me think of left 4 deads versus, although i don’t the RE has a scoring system in theirs.
mercenaries is back in 6, i think EB had some pre order maps or something, and i’m pretty sure that they’ve got this REnet thing that collects your statistics throughout the entire game in all modes, and lets you unlock costumes and such.
i did beat anarchy reigns, i made a review, but either mark didn’t like it or it didn’t send, but its single player was alright, the story was confusing for multple reasons, however the story can be done over and over again with different characters and to get higher scores and stuff, so their’s replay value in that. also, even playing the multiplayer offline was a ton of fun. i still reccomend people it, but it might eb a bit better when you can play online with others and not have to deal with japan lag.
THAT WAS A LOT OF TYPING AND I CAN’T BE BOTHERED CHECKING IT ALL SO IF THERE ARE MISTAKES THEN DEAL WITH IT.
DEALT WITH IT AND IT WAS FINE
Cheers for the answers :). Me kind of wanty but Capcom… DLC… ugh!
to be far, capcom’s evil dlc has come from their fighting games, the dlc for 5 was mostly alright.
however, that might be a reason not to get it immediantly, seeing as the dlc might be story related…
i personally can’t wait that long i mean, me, the guy who couldn’t wait for a western release of a game so he imported it from japan, wait for a dlc-inclusive version of one of his favourite game series? yeah not happening.
Oh, man. It’s times like these I’m glad I’m not a Resident Evil fan. Too many great games in such a short amount of time. I’m going to enjoy the calm before October hits with XCOM, Assassin’s Creed and Dishonored. :S
Just finished Borderlands 2. 63 hours logged on Steam. :'( Great game. I’m all Borderlanded out, though. Can’t wait to start Anna’s Quest tomorrow. 😀
Wowza! 53 hours for me and I’ve just bought the Slab King back to Sanctuary so getting near the end of the second playthrough 🙂 hehe.
But I know that feeling about being Borderlanded out. Too much Borderlands in such little time!
Yeah, I played extremely slow. Rarely used fast travel. Ran every where instead of sprinting. Admired the scenary a whole damn lot. I reckon my next play through would be a fraction of this one. Won’t be for a long while, though. 😛
Ok, so rocket launchers aren’t as spammable as they were in Borderlands 2 than in the first one. Regret. But give it time, I suppose.
Also, I have to worry about ammo now. Man.
I’m telling you, man. Sniper rifles and turrets go together hand-in-hand. Close enemies get taken down by the turret while you can focus on the mofos in the distance. 😀
Is he playing as Axton though :P? Moot point if he isn’t, heh :).
Also Slag is amazing with dual shield rocket launchering turrets.
I know the Commando (Axton) has skills specifically with increasing explosive launcher/grenade damage but nothing as specialised as Brick.
He seems like a reasonable, level headed guy. Of course he’s playing as Axton, right? RIGHT?
What’s better than one rocket launcher
TWO ROCKET LAUNCHERS
(Gunzerker if you didn’t get it by then)
Well, you’ve made your choice. I’ll respect it, but I don’t like it. 😛
You’ll respect the rocket launchers as well. If you makes you feel better I’m rolling with Roland in the first Borderlands, and I’ll probably hit up Axton for my second walkthrough.
I’ll still use rocket launchers, though. If you haven’t noticed I like rocket launchers..
Axton’s turret can have 2 rocket launcher things added. And he can also have 2 turrets. So what’s better than two rocket launchers?
FOUR ROCKET LAUNCHERS
shotguns and melee, playing as a melee focused zero has it’s advantages, one time i hit someone for 20k damage, and i was only level 22. well, it was because i have a billion melee buffs, and my weapon doubled my melee damage…
actually i need to find a shotgun that gives me bonus melee, that would make my build complete.
That would be the WORST idea I’ve ever read…
What would be fun about wearing bras, chasing a balloon and HUGGING and COMPLEMENTING your opponents…
GAWW…..
;D
I don’t even understand normal sarcasm =(
Good night folks, I’m going to watch the new Grey’s Anat- uh- Revolution or The Last Resort. 😛
Shane! I finally got around to reviewing The Lesser Evil! http://gamingwithpants.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/review-the-lesser-evil/
I will probably try to put up a slightly abridged version on, say, Amazon or Book Depository, because my blog only really gets read by other TAYbies. 😛
Basically, I’m really impressed with what you’ve made.
So all this RE talk made me grab the RE6 demo (Dragons Dogma edition).
Leon – I liked it. Tense, slower paced and great atmosphere. If rather melodramatic. In other words, Resident Evil. I ran out of ammo in the first encounter too.
Chris- Freaking terrible. Just point and jam the trigger down until everything is dead, move to next way point. Bunch of random military guys shouting “Bravo Alpha Two Zero Hooah!” They could at least have made the foes not have guns and just made it a shooter. Occasionally one might grow a mutant arm but that’s it.
Jake – The Nemesisy thing is pretty cool. Huge stalky stalky roar crash through wall. Panic while trying to take it down. Actually enjoyed it. Very much reminiscent of parts of 3.
I’ll probably grab it. Even though my pile is getting a bit large. May skip the Chris section. It was actually a trail to play and I just wanted to get through it ASAP.
in the other demo, when i played as chris, and saw i had a billion guns to choose from, i was like NUP DIS AINT RESIDENT EVIL.
sadly though, i will have to play chris’s campaign to unlock ada’s, but i think i’ll play the games in ascending order of how much i want to play them, so chris’s first, then jake’s then leon’s, might as well get chris’s out of the way ASAP
Arrrrgghhh! I hate shopping for cars.
Every time I go looking online I get sidetracked by cars that appeal to my silly side. I’ll set out looking for cheap hatchbacks, and find myself spending an hour looking at old Jaguars – I love Jags for some reason.
(Did you know that for less money than a 10 year old Commodore, you could buy a Jaguar Daimler XJ12 with a clapped out engine and drop in a brand new chevy engine and drive-train?
I do, and it’s very distracting!)
Just last week I convinced myself that what I really needed was a VW Kombi van. 4 hours I lost to that stupid notion!
So yesterday and today have been spent in serious car hunting. And I hate it.
I’ve inspected and driven 6 cars, and only one of them looks like it might be worthwhile.
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Serrels is a chump. ACIII is so next month. I’ve been playing ACVII in full VR beamed directly into your brain. It’s the future and you can have access is you’re a someone. Like me.
How do I get to the login page for the awesome new Kotaku? My home machine still connects to the old and busted version 🙁
Unrelatedly I just gorged myself on sake and Japanese food. Maedaya in Richmond is awesome.
While I hunt up the link for you, have you ever been to Mamasita?
I’ve seen it mentioned here and by several people elsewhere.
Oh, man. I live such a sheltered life. Closest thing I’ve had to Japanese food outside of sushi is MOS Burgers in Queen St. (Basically their McDonalds. :P)
Thanks, so the opt-in is on the machine and then you can create an account. Interesting.
Sweet. Got a corrosive Fuster Cluck in Borderlands 2. I’m not sure why I find that so funny.
Not sure how far into the game you are Freeze, so I’ll rot13 this:
Gur penml nagv-fbpvny enzoyvatf bs Gnaavf fgehpx cerggl pybfr gb ubzr, V’ir tbg gb fnl. V nyfb ybirq gur ebobg jub jnagrq gb or uhzna naq gur vaahraqb ebobg gbb.
Bonerfart
Bonertoot!
Best mission.
My favourite so far: Gur bar jvgu pyncgenc fcbhgvat bss nyy gur serrmr chaf naq trggvat natel jvgu lbh sbe abg ynhtuvat.
UBJ NER LBH ABG YNHTUVAT? GUNG JNF *PRAFBERQ* TBYQ!
legit the best mission in the game, i love his name (not mentioning it because when you see it… it’s amazing)
It’s lie down and stare at the roof for three hours before drifting off to sleep time. Good night, folks! 😀
Good luck with that DC!
I fear I’m still a few hours away from any kind of rest.
Edit: spelling
It would appear I’m attracted to those that leave. I guess it doesn’t help that I live in a rather transient place 😛
Anyway, Miss Deutschland and I had the most AMAZEBALLS chat tonight. Nothing untoward, and no expectations of romantic endeavours. Perhaps platonic attraction fits better.
She’s Christian, yet hasn’t read the entirety of the Bible. I found this odd, as I am not, and I have.
And so ends another night in Aleph’s world. Happy, intoxicated and enlightened.
Above all else, I love the stories individuals are able to share.
People truly are beautiful.
The Binding of Isaac (and its DLC) is on sale on Steam! Everyone go buy the game now, it’s so awesome!
Sort of like a randomly generated Zelda dungeon crawler with shoot em up kind of mehanics. I picked it up randomly when it was on sale during the Steam sales and it caught me by surprise. I’ve got over 52 hours in it and it’s the Steam sale game I’ve played the most.
Wattaya waitin fer?
Hey fronds, I’m having internet problems, and I was wondering if anyone could be of assistance. This is also known as a disclaimer that the rest of my post will be monumentally dull. Or in fact, completely pointless, as I have solved my problem, but I refuse to delete this in its entirety, because shut up.
So, my net last night was working as well as it ever does(that is to say, fine most of the time), however when I turned it on this morning, there was a slight issue. It refuses to connect to the internet. More accurately, it seems to refuse to accept that there’s an ethernet cable plugged into it.
I’ve tried switching cables, disabling and re-enabling the device, updating the drivers(they were up to date so I also tried repairing them), turning everything off and on again, swearing at my computer, threatening my computer, and finally weeping at my computer.
In the device manager it says that my ethernet porty thing is working fine, and the computer does understand the internet, as I managed to tether my phone to it(thus how I could try fixing the drivers). I checked my ethernet port, and it looks fine(no broken pins). Weirdly, it did this a few weeks ago, but changing to a new ethernet cable fixed it, so I have no idea.
I think my mobo(It’s a gigabyte one, only one ethernet port on it) may be minorly borked, but if anyone has any other ideas, they would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Edit: Guess who’s a colossal nong? *Trumpets* It’s me! How silly of me, I forgot to check that my router actually had power. Hilariously, it didn’t!
Of course, apparently now it’s having issues connecting to the internet, but meh, I’ll worry about that later.
have you tried going to commandline and do a ipconfig /all ?
do you get an IP Address?
try doing a ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
to see if that works.
could be the computer forgetting to renew it’s DHCP lease, i have had that issue a few times
Hmm, that worked like a charm. Not that I really had any idea what I was doing, but it worked amazingly! Cheers Pixel!
Reposted from twitter, because it might be worth a laugh or two, or something…
I had another one of those weird dreams where I was a girl again last night. This time I was doing ballet around the house…
I had on the most beautiful light blueish, silvery/shiny, slightly pearlescent dress. It was so light and flowy.
I also had on pale blue eyeliner and had slightly blue tinted glitter gel on my arms.
Wait, that’s not to say I’ve ever used glitter gel on myself before IRL. Don’t be ridiculous! Ha ha ha…ha…ha……ha.
Man, I still remember what that stuff smells like, and I haven’t used it for years…
Also, have I ever told you how overrated man cards are? 😛
I have an aunt that is a psychologist. Maybe I should pay her a visit sometime… 😛
Two and a half hours to the grand final…
Or twenty six, depending on which code you follow…
I am awake!
Kind of.
Actually, I’ve been really, really tired since Saturday last week. I have no idea why and should probably go see my Doctor.
After a nap
I’ve been rather tired this week too. Although that’s probably due to all the late nights and early mornings I’ve had recently…
Also, being tired does weird things to my brain… 😛
i dunno, i did just find this one
http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r611/PurplePyro23/LICH.gif
#dota2jokes
So, I went to a Grand Final BBQ today.
It’s usually a great day with a bunch of old mates. Football on the telly that few of us pay much attention to, a BBQ, and a few friendly drinks, then after the game the instruments come out and a good old jam session is enjoyed by all. Then dinner, more music and a few more drinks.
But today, someone I’ve never met has just broken up with their missus, and the remedy was declared to be alcohol. They were all drunk by noon! I’m just not in the mood for that kind of gathering today. When the wives and girlfriends all decided they’d had enough and headed back to have their own party an another house, I decided to leave too.
So now I’m home again.
Luckily the women took all the cars, so nobody’s driving home drunk tonight.
I might go back in a few hours to see how the guys are going, but probably won’t bother, as I’ll just end up playing taxi to a bunch of obnoxious drunks.
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Sounds like a plan! I’m not one for drinking which some people find really, really, weird
Welp, I might’ve gone overboard. I posted this on Adventure Gamers, but thought I might as well post it here too. Non-sensical rambling, quickly written… but… *shrug*
ANNA’S QUEST REVIEW:
Boarding the anticipation band wagon can be perilous at the best of times. When the promise is met, there’s no better feeling — finally playing and loving something that’s been a long time coming. There’s also a very real risk of something buckling under the weight of expectations. That’s the price you pay for riding, I guess. One of those risks you take. Anna’s Quest is a game I’ve been following for a long while now. (Since it was Anna’s Room in fact, revealed on the old Adventure Gamers forum.) In that time I’ve gotten to know the developer a little better. In some ways this makes prospects a whole lot scarier on the anticipation front. I want this to be great, but what if it wasn’t? What if I didn’t like it? I’m happy to say that ol’ waiting predicament has paid off!
Anna’s Quest is a traditional hand drawn, point-and-click adventure of a welcomed kind, one with a sense of charm and old school nostalgia. Saying the art direction is beautiful would be an understatement. It’s just so damn pretty looking: clean, sharp and colourful. A comparison that constantly came to mind as I played was definitely Curse of Monkey Island and not just in art direction, an influence found in the interface too. Those familiar with LucasArts’ adventures of the late ’90s will know what to expect, a collection of simple and intuitive contextual icons. (Examine, take and talk.) Like the beloved kick icon in Full Throttle, Anna’s Quest has a unique one too — telekinesis — an interesting hook pivotal to the story itself.
The game pretty much hits the ground running, with our protagonist Anna already in all kinds of trouble: captured in a fortified tower surrounded by woods, experimented on by an old hagged witch — truly the makings of bed time reading at its finest. This story book feel isn’t coincidental either, a stylized presentation established almost immediately in a sepia-toned opening cutscene. (Not to mention in the free, playable prologue that complements the game.) There’s something warm and endearing about it, I’ve got to say. A premise that’s simple and executed with an expert precision. I appreciated how well realized the world and lore of Anna’s Quest felt too, something helped by a generous supply of hot spots!
Ever since my formative adventure gaming years I’ve had a thing for exploring a game’s world to the fullest. Sure, you can have elaborate backgrounds with plenty of detail, but it means nothing if a character has little to say. (I’m looking at you Syberia. *shakes fist*) Hearing a character’s unique thoughts and point-of-view of their surrounds adds a whole damn lot to the setting. It’s fun to get an insight into our hero’s noggin as well, what makes ’em tick and all that. (One of the reasons I love the Gabriel Knight games so much.) Might seem pretty minor, but it’s something I really do appreciate and something Anna’s Quest happens to do well.
I like the characters too, all likable and funny. There was a goofy smile plastered across my face almost the entire time through at the dialogue, an occasional line or two that would make me laugh out loud like an idiot as well. For the most part, the voice acting serves the small ensemble nicely. (There’s a little inconsistency in the sound quality, but the performances are excellent.) This won’t be an issue to some people, but I would’ve appreciated the ability to turn the subtitles off. Often when I’m playing a game with subtitles no matter how much I’m enjoying it, I feel the need to read the text instead of watching the animation and listening to the actors. Unfairly makes the voice acting seem slow as a by-product. Just something to keep in mind.
The puzzles are the kind I appreciate, inventory based and occasionally abstract. Anna’s Quest does a good job of giving you subtle hints in the dialogue too. There’s enough advice given to help you out if you’re stuck, but not enough to hinder that feeling of satisfaction at successfully solving one good and proper. From time-to-time the game will stop you from getting one step ahead of a puzzle, for better or worse. (For example if you try to get an inventory item before you’re supposed to or have reason to you will be stopped.) This makes a lot of sense story wise, but unintentionally gives the impression you’re on the wrong path. These instances were really the only time I found myself properly stumped.
The length of the game itself is relatively short, a couple of hours at most depending on how fast you get through the puzzles. (Though a couple of hours I’m very glad I took.) It’s worth noting that Anna’s Quest is the first volume in a longer series, so story points will be left open and not resolved. There’s enough of a self-contained story to keep this installment satisfying enough, but I warn you now that you’ll certainly want more by the time the credits roll. (Ain’t that the rule, though? Always leave ’em wanting more.) There’s plenty of clues to character origins and I’m sure a little foreshadowing in there too. Honestly can’t wait to see what’s coming up next.
For such a small team, they’ve done an incredible job keeping the production values high. The score is stirring and mysterious too. (With a little bit of music box thrown in to set the mood.)
Anna’s Quest is not without a note worthy flaw, though, specifically the 4:3 resolution. To me it seemed a little out-of-date, especially on a large wide screen monitor. It looks incredibly good, even stretched though and you have the option to play full screen with black borders. You can’t really fault the game too much, just worth noting. In some ways I think it’s an ideal candidate for iOS and Android platforms. Also the lack of any auto-save makes the ol’ adventure game chest nut to save early and save often note worthy. (I’m only mentioning this because of a one off technical problem I had that skipped all the dialogue, but otherwise it ran perfectly.)
You might be wondering why I wrote such a long, detailed write-up. Truth be told it was to show my appreciation for such a cool little indie project, a kind that I hope to see more of side-by-side with the current big titles on the horizon. The game is truly a labor of love, that much is obvious. I can’t recommend it enough if you’re even remotely interested!
I have loved many adventure games over the years, and I was already looking forward to playing Anna’s Quest when I have the time.
Your review has just pushed it right to the top of my list!
Thank you D.C !!!
Sughly’s done good! 😀
Now to log off and watch TV before I get too self-concious and delete it. 😛
Oh, man. The new Ninja Turtles series is getting some pretty good reviews! http://au.ign.com/articles/2012/09/28/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-rise-of-the-turtles-review
Page get suckas!!
Also help me Im relapsing back into WoW, I just love being a rolly polly panda who takes half fall damage cause im bouncy. *sigh* I’ll probably get sick of it when I reach outlands cause its the weakest part of the game now.
I can live with that. 😀
Woo finished FTL!
Special mention goes to Charlie the Rockman whom I forgot to teleport back off the flagship in the first round.
Meat was funsies but Cards Against Humanity is super amazingly funsies x1000^5. A big, big thank you to Splicer (and family!) for letting us use his crib and being awesome. Also thanks to Inquis and Neg0 for giving me lifts 🙂 and Jordi, Beav and Pip for offering.
Didyou see D.C.? I exist! (or was I Photoshopped in?). CONSPIRACY. Go to a meat you doofus! And don’t be silly and delete your Anna’s Quest review!
For those of you who are Borderlandsing but aren’t really on Twitter, Randy Pitchford has been Tweeting SHIFT (Gearbox’s club) codes lately which give you a Golden Key when redeemed :D. Codes are only active for 2 hours though so you have to get in quick!
You can sign up to SHIFT in the Extras section of the main menu and that gives you a Golden Key. You can also redeem codes from here too. Now there’s no need to wait with your Key now that there’s so many floating around! Also less regrer if you accidentally used yours too early 😉
Here’s what has just been Tweeted. Only redeemable for 2 hours though!
@DuvalMagic:
WinPC: 5BWB3-JWZRS-RT3JJ-BTJB3-RRJKH
X360: 53KTT-KSJ5F-36XTF-KXTBB-XTCRC
PS3: 53KTT-KSJ9B-69TWB-STWBB-XTC6B
Pew pew pew
Man, TAY’s been slow this weekend. You’d think there was a Grand Final or meat on or something. *shrugs*
I can hear NFL sportspigskin in the background!
I think someone has done something to the benefit of one team, and to the detriment of the other.
I understand sports.
runhome
I was all kinds of excited for Aliens: Colonial Marines before, but after playing Borderlands 2 I can’t wait. Gearbox are awesome. I hope it’s a little more focused on an individual story and single player set pieces, though. That’s probably my only criticism with Borderlands 2, it felt like you were missing out unless you were playing co-op. (Plus you got the impression things would’ve been designed differently if it was just a single player game.)
Everyone’s levels are either too high or low. Plus I really do have Borderlands 2 fatigue. 😛
You’re late 30’s aren’t you? Mr. Nob and Trjn are in there and Blaghman is mid-late 30’s 🙂
Axton, Level 34, alas. Though I doubt I’ll play co-op until atleast the DLC is released now. Enjoyed my stay on Pandora, but am happy to be free of it for a little while. 😛
That’s something I love about Uncharted, just so damn colourful but realistic at the same time. You don’t need to strip a world of colour to be gritty and realistic. 😀
Yeah, I was thinking about it this morning. I’d love to see a war-time shooter with a hell of a lot of colour
Spec Ops had some extremely beautiful locations from time-to-time. I’m usually not a fan of war shooters at all. Some of my most anticipated games of next year are really crazily colourful, though. BioShock Infinite and The Last of Us. Good to see the triumphant return of colour! 😀
Also, I know we’ve been rambling about Borderlands 2 for a week now, but it is breathtakingly pretty too.
I’m not a huge fan, but when Gears 3 had some greenery I was pleasantly surprised.
I would love to make a game =P I guess I can put it on my stack of ideas
The problem here is that by adding colour to the games it lightens the mood and sets a different atmosphere that isnt as imposing. As such the “dis is serius ” and gritty and a mans game tone they’re after and appealing to would be lost.
Max Payne 3 was pretty damn colourful and I’d say gritty was an understatement. 😀
At the same time, the french chateau is one of prettiest locations Uncharted has ever done. 😛
Too bright and shiny for my liking :P. Like I don’t know what it was but for the areas that didn’t have shadows it was extremely bright and almost blinding :/
I liked that morning sunlight feel. 😛
Brown games(shooters or otherwise) have their place but being overdone is what makes them boring to me. However, if a brown game does something cool gameplay-wise I can ignore the graphical style e.g the variety of weapons in Resistance 3 and the regenerating health/health packs combo made the game fun.
I actually believe that many developers this generation dropped the ball by adopting a ‘realistic’ graphic style when bright colours pop in High Definition. It’s not the browns and greys that are best in HD it’s the greens. yellows, blues etc. For example, to use another insomniac franchise, Ratchet and Clank: A crack in Time looks stunning with all the colour in the world and characters.
This video by Jim Sterling explains the point better: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/5770-The-Best-Looking-Game-of-This-Generation
Other notable games:
De Blob 2
Rayman Origins
Mirrors Edge- Very little colour but the use of contrast was fantastic.
Actually this is one of the things that has me excited for the Wii U. Nintendo has a range of colourful franchises and they should look fantastic in High Definition. Imagine Kirby Epic Yarn in HD *drool*
Hang on, what? Mirror’s Edge has heaps of color.
Best looking game this generation I’d have to say is probably still Uncharted 2. Best looking game last gen was Wind Waker by a long way. Good art style lasts, cutting edge ‘realistic’ graphics date really quickly.
Yeah, Uncharted 2 was insanely beautiful. Never got a chance to play Wind Waker. 🙁 I think the Mass Effect games all have some stunning places too. First time I saw Omega in ME2 and the Citadel in ME3 blew my mind.
I didn’t mean Mirror’s Edge had no colour just that it had few of them but they were used really well.
Rainbow shooter then D=
Why do you want to shoot rainbows? What did they ever do to you!
No, your guns shoot rainbows out of them!
Haha! That could work. An ultra violent version of deBlob.
Or shooting in rainbow coloured worlds.
Mario x violence
😀
So Sydney have the AFL title and Melbourne have the NRL?
Ha! Butthurt aplenty.
I dunno what’s wrong with me, I just feel like making a game.
Unfortunately, it’s beyond my capabilities
So the new Resident Evil movie was fun. Not as good as the previous one. Although maybe that had something to with the lack of the eye candy that was Wentworth Miller. 😛
Well she was practically naked for a fair amount of time. I sometimes think these movies are just a vehicle for Paul Anderson to say “Look guys, look how hot and badass my wife is!” 😛
He’s not the only one. Len Wiseman does it with Kate Beckinsale. Tim Burton does it with Johnny Depp. So on and so forth, it’s a long tradition.
Rob Zombie & his wife Sherri lol.
I lol’d at the Johnny Depp one, nice one Blaghsy,
I just had one of Shane’s patented hashbrown/melted cheese dealies. Maybe I should nom him for community kudos for bringing this into my life. 😛
Wish I had patented them, man! 🙂
Noms not necessary, because then I’ll feel twice as guilty about your upcoming heart attack!
So, what do we think will happen to Graham at the judiciary?
To me, it should be a $3000 fine and he should miss the first four games of 2013.
Minimum.
Make his jersey read Holyfield from now on.
He’ll miss a few games but everyone is soft on footy players. Tribunal, media, law and the public.
Found this while looking around.
Verily, did I chortle. 😀
Agreed! There’s a group photo on Splicer’s twitter feed too for those who haven’t seen it. 😛
HEY GREEN DAY!!! YOU CAN WAKE UP NOW.
Although I’d probably prefer it were they to remain asleep.
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